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What's Not the Matter With Richard Prince
by Noah Dillon
A screenshot of one Instagram post by Richard Prince, including commentary by other users.
Richard Prince has recently attracted a fair amount of performative, high-decibel anger for his new work. In May, at the Frieze Fair, he showed several pieces from his Instagram series — unique pigment prints on canvas made from screenshots, taken by the artist, of other people's pictures on the photo sharing app Instagram. They typically include a comment by Prince, typed in below the photo, as signature and alteration. Artcritical contributor Kurt Ralske wrote a really insightful essay about the work last fall, when it was shown at Gagosian's Madison Avenue location. A new exhibition of the series opened at Gagosian's Davies Street location in London on June 12. A show called "Original" closed at the Madison Avenue location on June 20. Similar to his earlier paintings, such as Nurses or his Eden Rock series, these are the covers of pulp novels — illustrators' original cover art framed with the book for which it was produced. They've attracted far less scrutiny and heat than his Instagram images.
Richard Prince, Untitled (original), 2010. Original illustration and paperback book, 46 × 37 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Gagosian Gallery.
Both new series, and much of the rest of Prince's oeuvre, use a similar operation. He takes preexisting material, without permission, and reproduces it with his name attached. He often changes very little (if any) of the original matter. That maneuver has a very long lineage, as many art admirers will recognize, in Prince's career, his contemporaries, and in the generations that preceded him: Sherrie Levine, Andy Warhol, Marcel Duchamp's Readymades, the codified iconography of various cultures — and etc.[1] It can often be difficult to distinguish between convention, appropriation, plagiarism, and homage. Repetition, reproduction, iteration, also at play here, have similarly long genealogies in Lucas Cranach, the Dadaists, Warhol again, Louise Lawler, Robert Gober, and so many others. Those are obviously histories of which Prince's detractors are either unaware, or that don't carry weight.
In recent weeks, media outlets fleetingly percolated at the commotion around Prince, including not only the fine-arts press, but also FOX News, the BBC, Bloomberg, Wired, blogs, etc.[2] A flood of angry Instagram and Twitter users has periodically swamped the comment threads of Prince's online accounts. Many (if not all) of those complaining about Prince's work also routinely use repurposed, appropriated, or otherwise copied images. A vitriolic audience has discovered Prince exactly when he may be most relevant, his discipline now woven into daily life, and they are not happy about it.
In response to images of Prince's Instagram paintings posted to his social media accounts, viewers accused him of theft, called for lawsuits, encouraged suicide, or simply asserted that he sucks and that his work augers the death of creativity. Users complained that the images were stolen, that the original creator is entitled to compensation, that the works shouldn't carry a $100,000 price tag, and even that it is wrong for any artist to receive any money for their work. These images have previously been called sexist, in an artnet article by Paddy Johnson, and by others. Unsurprisingly, those who have had their likeness appropriated have been called victims, a demonym often flogged by enraged interlopers, whether it's warranted or not.[3]
Installation view of "New Portraits," at Gagosian London, Davies Street, 2015.
There are a lot of reasons why these complaints lack merit. To begin with, any image posted on Instagram is subject to the terms and conditions set by Instagram and agreed to by anyone who uses the app. The company exercises some control and can prohibit certain pictures that it deems offensive, or that violate copyright law. All this stuff is in the terms of use.[4] And Instagram is already making money with targeted advertising, leveraging user data and attention for product placements.[5] So whether Prince makes paintings or not, someone else is being enriched by the labor and intellectual property of the app's users. Instagram and other apps basically make a leisure activity of unpaid work, producing data.
Further, Prince's paintings fall under fair use provisions of copyright law. The image on Prince's canvas may include the poster's original photo, but it is significantly different. For one thing, it's pixilated and printed in large scale on canvas by Prince, rather than existing compactly on anyone's smartphone.[6] Moreover, it isn't just the original photo, but the entire textual and iconographic layout, including the frame created by Instagram and comments added by other users. His commentary acts as both a kind of intervention, final authorial word, signature, and as a type of contextualization, not unlike the signature of "R. Mutt" on Duchamp's Fountain (1917).
Even minimal alteration or change to the, like, aura of the work can be sufficient. In a 2009 lawsuit, Cariou v. Prince, photographer Patrick Cariou sued Prince for infringement when his documentary photographs were reproduced with minor alterations. Cariou won, initially, and received a settlement, but the ruling was overturned on appeal. The appellate judge found that reasonable observers could distinguish Prince's work from Cariou's original. And likewise, we — viewers — can tell the difference between a digital photograph and a photograph printed on canvas with a lot of extra visual information.
An Instagram post by Selena "Missy Suicide" Mooney, comparing Richard Prince's $90,000 copy of her $90 original photo.
Unlike even Cariou, it strains credibility to imagine that Prince is depriving Instagram users of income. It seems safe to presume that very few users post images for free and also expectation remuneration. Those who are interested in printing out their images (or screenshots of their images with the additional framing devices and comments, as Prince has done) are still free to do so and to sell them on an open market. Selena "Missy Suicide" Mooney, co-founder of the softcore erotica website SuicideGirls, did just this after one of her models found a Prince-appropriated image of herself for sale at Frieze. In a publicity stunt, Mooney sold exact replicas of Prince's work for $90, one-one thousandth of the reported price of his originals. All proceeds from her sales were pledged to a charity.
Artcritical contributor David Carrier and I came to the same realization. Carrier explained that this situation is what the scholar and philosopher Arthur Danto called "indiscernables." The original and the artist's copies are related but dissimilar, and they're not in competition with one another. Warhol's Soup Cans don't compete with Campbell's Soup Company or its advertisements. Early in his career Prince also photographed advertisements, such as cowboys pictured in ads for Marlboro cigarettes. Prince and the ad photographer operated in separate markets, and in fact the ad photographer had already been paid (probably well) by the time Prince copied his or her work. So it also goes with Mooney's models, and with many of the other celebrities pictured on his canvases.
Importantly, the artworks are valuable neither because they're novel nor because they're from a photo app, but because they're being offered by Gagosian as artworks by Richard Prince.[7] Here is one issue of sexism, which is different from the one proffered by Johnson and others. Johnson's critique is that Prince's Instagram paintings often reproduce objectifying images of women and his signatory commentary is interpreted as snide and silencing, which is probably true.[8] There is, I think, a clearer and more essential issue of sexism here: although there are several male artists who could plausibly produce and sell this kind of work for very high prices, there are comparatively few women who could command these prices for this product — maybe Lawler, Levine, or Cindy Sherman. These perseverating structural inequities in the art world are sexist, whether or not Prince's particular images are or not.
Headline from a Huffington Post article on Prince's work and its recent attention.
Ralske notes that Prince is essentially printing money, and this kind of split between the exorbitant amounts commanded by eminent artists, compared to the fractional prices achieved by everyone else in the long tail, is another kind of institutional inequality. The market's stratification is matched (created) by the shrinking number of increasingly wealthy oligarchs able to compete with one another in a poorly regulated marketplace. It's also a reflection of growing inequality generally, globally. This is art as commodity speculation. It seems unlikely that collectors are spending so much money strictly for the image posted by the quoted Instagram user. If they wanted these images, many of which are casual selfies, they could likely buy them directly from the user for almost nothing, or they can see them on Instagram for free — both on Prince's account and on the accounts of those he copies.[9] They can print, download, or copy the images, and Prince himself has encouraged aggrieved users to do so. What he's doing doesn't have to be unique.
Commentary from patrons of FOX News, reacting to coverage of Richard Prince's Instagram paintings in the popular press.
Nonetheless, many criticisms expect Prince to be unique, but only in the way some people imagine art should be.[10] Complaints of unoriginality and deskilling or laziness here center on the fact that the images aren't manually mimetic, that is: Prince hasn't copied a likeness by his trained hand, that he cheated by using a tool. The anxiety of easy art has coursed through culture for a few hundred years, at least.[11] The fear that art is a facile con job remains potent and perennial. Which is not to say that no lazy art exists; we're awash with it, as no doubt we've always been. But bad art's poverty rarely has to do with technical issues, since some of the worst artworks can be supremely executed, just as certainly as they can be craftless junk abstractions. Or they can be copied images from the Web.
Given the digital platform from which Prince's Instagram paintings spring, one might call them "vernacular." Non-attribution, anonymity, and copying are endemic to the Web, and there is little practical distinction between Prince's paintings and a retweet, a circulating image macro, or the re-enactment of a viral video, such as 2013's briefly popular Harlem Shake craze. Even beyond the Internet, copying and stealing are deeply embedded in culture generally and historically. In 1976, Richard Dawkins coined the word "meme," a term now often confused with image macros found all over the Internet.[12] But what Dawkins meant by the word is far broader: it's any information that spreads through culture, from Shakespeare's neologisms to articulated human rights to miniskirts to a catchphrase. Lawrence Lessig, in his book Free Culture (Penguin, 2004), asserts that civilization absolutely depends on elaboration and copying to spread ideas and share information. Prince's use of Instagram — a medium that explicitly encourages widespread reproduction — points to this engagement with culture, which is exactly what so many of the app's users find engaging.
Richard Prince, Untitled (portrait), 2015.
Inkjet on canvas,
65 3/4 × 48 3/4 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Gagosian Gallery.
It's worth asking, as Johnson indicates, how in an age of easy copies an artist can sell copies for such high prices. She writes, "Copy-paste culture is so ubiquitous now that appropriation remains relevant only to those who have piles of money invested in appropriation artists." Peter Schjeldahl also touches on this, writing that the invention of Instagram art was nigh inevitable, but the appeal of Prince's paintings is brief and that they don't need to be seen in person to be understood.
However, many people engaged fully in copying and pasting, but only tangentially engaged with the art world (if at all), misunderstand them. Everything in this essay till now is probably a pedantic description of well-trod ground for art cognoscenti, but perhaps dubious to everyone else. So one big, obvious problem of Prince's work is not even specific to him: the sharp division between the business of art and everything else.
How did it come to be that in the 20th and 21st centuries, artists such as Joseph Beuys and Duchamp made strong arguments that anyone can be an artist and that anything can be art, and yet that knowledge has remains locked in a domain of specialists and insiders? Has the domain been made smaller and smaller? As with complex financial tools used by bond traders on Wall Street, the growing amount of money spent on art appears to have cleaved a small echo chamber for knowledge reserved as arcane and valuable, whether it truly is or not. And as with financial markets, the disparities of pay are masked by more inane questions about whether artists should be paid at all, instead of looking at how a system works that rewards a few people greatly and the vast majority very little.
An Instagram post by model Doe Deere, whose image was reproduced by Prince without permission.
Is the dictum that anybody can be an artist resisted by those anybodies who still believe that only special, innately talented people make art? Although a pretty broad definition of art probably predominates, if you tell people that what they do can be art, they apparently reject the notion, or at least if it's done for large sums of money by someone using what many lay people dispense freely, even compulsively, online. They don't seem to want copying weighted by that significance, as if the process could be tarnished by (or could tarnish) a world that they've likely been told they don't understand and can't participate in, and where the financial stakes are alleged to be very high. Art is special, but the wide popularity of Instagram seems to designate the service as vulgar and, by transference, anything that exists on it. Consequently, Prince's amateur critics implicitly (sometimes explicitly) urge that we should regard with suspicion a person who attempts to make it a space where art might occur, where it can become self-reflexive, critical, ambivalent, tricky — "It's just Instagram," as if that means activity there doesn't matter.
Even if this is the dullest, worst art ever made, why banality should raise such visceral anger is inexplicable. At heart, beyond all the rhetoric of victimization and copyright and redundancy, this resistance seems to be the concern: art is culture and culture is serious. The subtext of "Your copies are taking away their photos," sounds like "You're taking away our fun." The worry is not that Prince is copying, but perhaps that his copying impinges upon one's own, and one's control over rebuttal, deletion. And it does so with art-world forces that appear to expensive and separate the image from everything else. In which case, although the reactionary fury is dumbly vented, the underlying angst about the social role, monetary value, and intellectual boundaries of art is a real problem. Unlike art history and copyright and sexism and techne, the cause and the solution for that problem is much more difficult to resolve or even describe. One can hope that the wider audience and frothing attention paid to work like Prince's might initiate that conversation.
[1] I can only think of one ancient culture known for prizing ingenuity over tradition in its official artworks: Mayan scholars routinely invented new ways of writing their hieroglyphics, rather than hewing to any particular convention. Others might exist — I'm not sure. Originality and authorship just weren't very big concerns for much of art's history.
[2] In the remainder of this piece I describe Prince's detractors, meaning his critics outside the professional arts. Later discussions of writing by critics who thoughtfully wrestle with and place Prince's work in context, such as Paddy Johnson, Kurt Ralske, and Peter Schjeldahl, are exceptions and not the focus of this essay.
[3] Conversely, some fans have begged him to use their images in his work.
[4] Users who don't want such censorship can use another service with more amenable terms.
[5] Additionally, in 2012 Instagram included language in a new Terms of Service agreement that appeared to provide them rights to all content on their servers, which could be sold to third parties without compensation to the user. After much outcry, Instagram removed the clause and stated unequivocally that it was not their intention to sell users' images and data. But they retained language that prohibits users from bringing class action lawsuits against them, leading some business journalists to speculate that the company may be protecting itself from angry users should they revert to that policy again in the future. In short: Instagram may someday sell images and other data stored on their servers. Facebook (Instagram's parent company), and other platforms, similarly claim rights over user content stored on their servers.
[6] This might be part of the worry, since it makes the image no longer vaporous and passing, takes away the possibility of deletion, should its original author reconsider it in the future.
[7] In this, too, one sees another real problem on the periphery of Prince's work. Many of those angry at Prince (presumably art neophytes, but who knows) might object to the high price. A friend of mine, a professional artist, remarked that the $90,000 pricetags seemed surprisingly low. Those sums seem to both justify their status as art for the market, and cast doubt upon it for those ignorant of its operations.
[8] Such assertions seem perhaps plausible, I don't know. I'm not sure how earnest or spiteful Prince is. His comments are usually too cryptic for me to parse, though the flavor can be lecherous or juvenile. However, I assume I've got a blind spot in this regard.
[9] There's not much of a market for self-portraits such as these, even including the outlier case of Kim Kardashian's recent book of selfies, Selfish (Rizzoli, 2015)
[10] While they complain about printed screenshots of amateurs and living celebrities, Prince's scolds are seemingly indifferent to the artist posting images Burl Ives or Barbara Billingsley copied from movies, and his critics may do likewise on their own Instagram feeds.
[11] Earlier in Western culture, Socrates worried conversely that the implementation of original writing would ruin culture by weakening memory and tradition. While once culture was feared corruptible by invention, it is now imagined to be corruptible by non-invention. And yet culture persists.
[12] Image macros are the popular pictures with funny text appended in block letters, such as cats talking in a juvenile dialect.
A screenshot of one Instagram post by Richard Prince, including a snapshot of his work and commentary by other users.
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Certainly, there is precedent for Prince's work, and it may not be breaking any copyright laws. This doesn't make his work interesting. Making art about "whose art is it anyway?" is about as relevant as the idea of shocking viewers by including images of popular culture or pornography in the work. Someone ride that dead horse out of here…please! More than anything, Prince's work is intentionally obnoxious, because it pays to piss people off. Sadly, he also has to piss on the careers of other artists in the process…people less successful, who aren't millionaires (Cariou vs. Prince).
Noah Dillon
Who ever said anything about interesting? Who said his work is a matter of questions solely of authorship? Who said anything about intentional shock? I'm annoyed by people doing things all the time, often things that don't earn them any money and may cost them a lot, so I don't buy your claim that "it pays to piss people off." It pays to have a brand and a big gallery, and sometimes a gimmick, too. And, as you can tell by the essay, I don't see any evidence that Cariou's career has been "pissed on," whatever that means.
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Noah Dillon had a very thought provoking response because he
analyzed both sides of the controversy closely, successfully addressing
rebuttals. He made a very insightful remark when he identified Prince's
comments on the portraits as both a signature as well as an altercation to make
the work more original. He also acknowledges the fine line between accepted
appropriation and plagiarism. Although he addresses counter-arguments to his
opinions, he also makes several debatable statements.
Dillon makes a tu quoque fallacy when he dismisses the
public's critique that Prince should not be appropriating work by arguing that
most people appropriate images in their everyday lives. Just because people may
appropriate ideas and photos themselves does not mean that they cannot identify
it as a problem in someone else's work. The difference that the average person
does not sell their appropriated work for $100,000.
Dillon also claims that it is acceptable for Prince to use
selfies from Instagram based on the logic that Instagram is already "making money with targeted advertising, leveraging
user data and attention for product placement." The fact Instagram makes money
off of data from its own users does not give Prince the right to rip off of the
selfies of Instagram users. Instagram users agree to Instagram's use of their
data in exchange for using their platform, while Prince is simply taking their
images to make money for himself.
Dillon also argues that the
selfies that Prince is using do not count as the original image because he
includes the Instagram layout as well as incorporating the comments of other
users. However, this is actually even more appropriation because not only is he
taking the user's photo, but also Instagram's layout and the words of other
users. He is technically stealing from more people, and he is not creating
anything original because he still doesn't not make any structural changes to
the design. Dillon makes a good point when he says that we can discern the
actual print from the photograph on the phone because they are in such
different forms, the image is still the same. Changing the format of the image
does not drastically alter the image itself enough to consider it as
"transformed."
Dillon also mentions that
Prince is not depriving the people in the photos of any income to justify the
profit that the artist makes. Yet these users would most likely accept income
if they could get it. Unfortunately, they are not famous artists, so they do
not have the opportunity to get paid for the images that they produce. The fact
that they are unable to acquire currency for their photos does not mean that
Prince gets to take them and profit off of them. In rare cases, the users are
able to profit off of the prints that Prince creates, as described in Hannah
James Parkinson's article "Instagram, an Artist and the $100,000 Selfies
– Appropriation in the Digital Age." However, when
the SuicideGirls made money selling prints appropriated from the photos that
Prince appropriated from their Instagram, they did so because they were lashing
out as a response to feeling like Prince had committed a "violation." They were
angry that he had used their images without permission, and shocked that people
would pay so much for them.
Finally, Dillon compares Prince's methods of appropriation to
a retweet, yet the entire concept is completely different. With a retweet, you
put another person's words as well as their username onto your own account,
clearly labelled as someone else's idea, then you can comment on it, but your
comments appear as a separate entity on top of the retweet to separate the
voices. Even if this retweet is retweeted by other people, the original user is
still preserved and credited. Tweets are also meant to be shared and reposted.
Prince, on the other hand, takes a personal image without permission and alters
the comments on the image, changing the meaning of the portrait. Then he sells
the image and profits thousands of dollars, making it a profitable act rather
than one of sharing for him.
I find this extremely interesting and I'm grateful for your critical feedback. However, predictably, I disagree.
I think you place far too much emphasis on transformation being a necessary step in the production of art. Duchamp's Fountain is essentially untransformed, and his In Advance of the Broken Arm and Bottle Rack are wholly untransformed. Nonetheless, these are cornerstones of contemporary art, and of Prince's work specifically. I think you also undervalue the transformative step of Prince printing out the images on canvas. That's a very different beast from a digital image in a scroll—one that can be deleted, appended with more text, hidden, placed in various contexts with juxtapositions from other feeds and ads.
I am hesitantly supportive of your identification of a tu quoque fallacy. I think I have some rebuttal, but I'm having trouble pinning it down. I may have nothing.
I would certainly say that just because a viewer calls this a problem (especially when they conflate moral or ethical and legal problems) doesn't mean that Prince's appropriation is a problem. And I think that their hypocritical tolerance of this kind of appropriation on their own part, while perhaps not providing a defense for Prince, does seem to me to lead to the logical inference that it's not as harmful as they claim. Or that the accusations of the "harm" is more a vocalization of disparities in wealth and contemporary art as a shared and accessible cultural object than anything else, which concerns are extra-aesthetic.
You're right, Instagram making money off of users' posts doesn't give Prince the right to reproduction. However, it is contrary to the blanket statements that no one should be profiting off of the work of the posters.
Along with the issue of transformation, my most strenuous disagreement is with the claim that Prince is depriving users of income. First, again, they may still print and sell their images. Second, many of his subjects are celebrities who already profit from their own likenesses. Third, although the economic disparity between Prince and most other artists is horrific and deeply problematic, that's not his fault. He has very little control over whether his art can be valued at $100,000. This move, printing out Instagram posts, was inevitable in contemporary art, and someone may have even preceded Prince. However, he's an established artist, and Gagosian is a preeminent gallery. Together they can get $100,000 per. Obviously that hasn't deprived the Suicide Girls from charging money, and they could probably have charged more. It doesn't prevent any of his other subjects from selling their images or likenesses on the open market. And that many of his subjects are not so valuable is not his fault either. That disparity and those different markets (Gagosian vs. Clic Gallery or whoever) is not Prince's fault and is not an argument against his propriety in making this work. These are different markets and are not competitive or exclusionary. It's true that most of these people would not be able to obtain $100,000 per image, but they can obtain some price. (Prince couldn't always get that much money. It's not an instantaneous thing.) They currently chose to also offer their work for free in an altered form on Instagram. But that doesn't mean they can't seek to sell their work.
Finally, the original poster is also here credited. Their name is featured prominently. Instagram does not dissuade people from posting copied, unattributed content.
A friend brought another, and I think more powerful, criticism to me: the image of Brooke Shields in Prince's Spiritual America is an image created, essentially, without the consent of a child, and now repeated without the consent of the original photographer or the subject. Although the original image is probably very difficult to find at this point, I saw a print of Prince's reproduction in the Whitney recently. There seems to be something like harm to the subject who has had control of their likeness removed so publicly. This has nothing to do with money or copying per se. I think it's much more specific. It's similar to revenge porn or embarrassing photos shared publicly. And I think his freezing of the conversation with his comments adds to this. This, it seems to me, is a legitimate ethical issue in his work. The money, I think, is irrelevant, as is appropriation and alteration. It's much more intangible and difficult to deal with if we also stipulate that free speech and the boundaries of artistic production are as broad and free as they seem on paper.
Elias Van Der Groetz
I totally disagree. Still it's a beautiful eyecandy.
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Summer Coding Camp Will Empower Local Students to Learn Computer Science
Free program will teach students programming skills and how to prepare for a career in the growing technology industry
By Sarah Nightingale on April 12, 2017
UCR's CS For All camp will showcase programming and other areas of computer science to local high schoolers. iSTOCK
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (www.ucr.edu) — From creating the latest smartphones to making self-driving cars, tech jobs are among the highest paying and fastest growing in the U.S. economy. There are currently 500,000 open jobs in computing, but the number of computer science graduates falls short—just 50,000 each year, and, of those, only one in five are women.
A new program created by the University of California, Riverside and Riverside Unified School District (RUSD) aims to introduce coding and computer science to local high school students and promote diversity, and notably female participation, in these fields. The program is inspired by CS For All, an initiative developed by the National Science Foundation and U.S. Department of Education to empower all American students to become active citizens in our technology-driven world. The program will launch this summer, providing free one-week courses to 80 high school students from RUSD. The intensive courses will run twice, from June 19-23 and from June 26-30. Applications are due by April 26 and students can apply online or by calling 951-790-2633 (English speakers) or 951-878-0411 (Spanish speakers).
Angelov Farooq, founding director of the UCR Center for Economic Development and Innovation in the Office of Research and Economic Development and a member of the RUSD Board of Education, is leading the effort. He said similar programs in other parts of the country have been shown to increase the number of students, particularly girls and underrepresented minorities, who study computer science and go on to earn undergraduate degrees in the field.
"We have to emphasize technology and coding as an attainable career path for all students and encourage diversity in these fields because these are future-proof fields that will continue to grow and offer a wide spectrum of fulfilling and high-paying jobs," Farooq said.
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Farooq said he is particularly concerned about the lack of women from underrepresented and low-income families in the technology industry, a loss that would be acute in the Inland Empire. Today, less than 5 percent of all bachelor's degrees in computer science are awarded to minority women.
During the program, attendees will get a hands-on, intensive programming experience, including building apps from scratch, touring engineering labs, and meeting with computer science professors in UCR's Bourns College of Engineering.
"This is especially a great opportunity for girls to learn a new skill, be introduced to different fields in computer science, and make new friends, all in a comfortable environment," said Kelly Downey, a computer science lecturer and lead instructor at the camp. "I am excited to teach the next generation of problem solvers computer programming skills that they can use in inventive and creative ways."
Downey said at the end of the week, participants will walk away with new programming skills, a portfolio of apps they made, and an excitement for what can be done in the field of computer science. For more information, visit the CS For All website.
The University of California, in accordance with applicable Federal and State law and University policy, does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, pregnancy, disability, age, medical condition (cancer-related), ancestry, marital status, citizenship, sexual orientation, or status as a Vietnam-era veteran or special disabled veteran.
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Ann-Marie did a comprehensive design and build development on our urban garden a number of years ago.
Right from the start, the design phase was thorough, enjoyable and time was spent discussing ideas, laughing and having just one more glass of wine. From 3 initial concepts, we settled on an idea that we have kept to this day.
At all times, Ann-Marie kept us informed and the build phase was completed ahead of schedule by a well-chosen contractor who were hard working, fun and above all honest. We were constantly kept up to date and the end result was a testimony to the hard work put in by Ann-Marie.
We love our garden, it is a great place for summer parties and we treat it like an extra room in the house. We are very pleased we went the extra mile to have Ann-Marie help us with it, even if it did empty the cellar a bit. Now where did I put my glass…………………….?


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Hansjörg Brücker is 37 years old and an enthusiastic runner. One day he suddenly notices a problem with his heart. The diagnosis is atrial fibrillation. He struggles for many years to get back his quality of life. Ultimately, he puts his cardiac arrhythmia behind him thanks to catheter ablation.
It struck in the middle of a training session: Hansjörg Brücker goes running as many as seven times a week, covering distances from 5 to 21 kilometres per run. Sometimes he even laces up his running shoes more than once in a single day. He's a healthy, energetic man at the peak of his life and who regularly competes in half-marathons – not exactly the poster child for heart disease.
Despite this, in late 2000 he suddenly felt short of breath, as if his heart had begun to sputter.
"I had no idea what it could be," Brücker recalls. "At first I thought that this rapid heartbeat might have something to do with my circulation." The odd trouble quickly went away again, but still occurred sporadically in the weeks that followed.
Brücker visited his family doctor, who performed an electrocardiograph, leading to the atrial fibrillation diagnosis. Further examinations, including with specialised cardiologists, confirmed the conclusion.
While it never limited the security officer's ability to go about his work, and he could continue with his sport each day just as before, he still had a growing uneasy feeling that a new episode of atrial fibrillation could occur at any time. "There was always this sense of uncertainty that it could happen though," says Brücker, who is now 54.
As a permanent solution to the problem, in 2004 a catheter ablation was discussed as a treatment option. "There had been a great many medical advances during these years," explains Brücker. Sclerotherapy in the tissue regions responsible for the signals had become a more and more realistic solution to permanently treating the atrial fibrillation. He contacted Hirslanden Klinik Aarau and met Dr. med. Sven Reek from the Hirslanden Medical Center. The doctor would supervise the course of Brücker's treatment in the subsequent years.
In 2007, the operation was finally performed: Brücker looked forward to the operation with a sense of calm; he felt well informed and placed his trust in the doctors and the technique. The ablation procedure itself was performed without anaesthesia. "I was given a sedative," said Brücker, "because you are of course a bit tense.
But the procedure did not yield the desired outcome: the tissue that responsible for the undesired impulses could not be adequately isolated or had regenerated after the sclerotherapy. A second catheter ablation was necessary.


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Celebrate this Mother's Day in Ajmer with surprise gifts of cakes, flowers, chocolates and much more! Happy Mother's Day!
In the month of May, India will celebrate mother's day and so will Ajmer a very important city of India in Rajasthan. We at India Cakes want to ensure that this mother's day your feelings for your precious mother don't remain unexpressed.
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Send us your message or your photo, and we will place it on your chosen gift so that when your mother opens her gift, she will not only be surprised but overwhelmed with sweet emotions of those bygone days.
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8. Use a brush to groom the fun fur around the neck. The same instructions work for Mrs. Claus.


At Greenwood Academy we take voluntary work and enrichment seriously. The enrichment programme together with the many extra-curricular activities available in school, provides you with opportunities to complement your main programme of study and your personal development. Greenwood students are encouraged to take responsibility within school; working alongside tutors and subject teachers offering in-class support. Students willingly volunteer to support school charity events, parents' evenings, open evenings, induction days etc.
Drama and music have a particularly high profile in the academy and many of our sixth form students have regularly taken leading roles throughout the their school life. We encourage you to pursue sporting interests and complete the Duke of Edinburgh Award scheme.
If you want to apply for this course, you will need to contact Greenwood Academy directly.


Kwanza Osajyefo, Tim Smith 3, and Jamal Igle's creator-owned title Black has been optioned for film by Studio 8, according to Deadline. Recently published by Black Mask Studios after a successful Kickstarter campaign, Black Mask concerns a world where only black people possess superpowers.
Studio 8's Jon Silk will produce the film, alonside Osajyefo, Smith, and Black Mask's Matt Pizzolo.
No further details or projected release date for Black were reported.
Last February A new series titled Black explores the science fiction superhero paradigm and delves headlong into issues of race and also simply being an everyday person. Created by former DC editor Kwanza Osajyefo and artist/designer Tim Smith III, Black will be a six-issue series beginning later this year illustrated by Jamal Igle with covers by Khary Randolph.


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How do I keep track of when to follow-up on open invoices? Or a more simple way to put it, 'How do I manage accounts receivable'? This was a question from an accounts receivable manager who was trying to monitor contact with multiple customers.


Industrial Relations Minister Grace Grace has launched the 2019 Safe Work and Return to Work Awards.
Ms Grace said nominations are now open for the annual awards, with entries due by Friday, June 21.
"These awards put a spotlight on the leaders in work health and safety who challenge the norm," Ms Grace said.
"If you have made your workplace safer or helped a workmate get back on the job quickly and safely, then now is the time to share your story with all of Queensland.
"It doesn't matter what industry you are in, where you operate, or how big or small your workforce is. We want other businesses to hear about your successes and see if they can make their own workplace safer or get injured workers back on the job faster.
Ms Grace said a major new category has been added to the list in 2019, called Best demonstrated healthy and safe work design.
In 2018, Christmas Creek Cattle Company at Rolleston took out two major awards – Best solution to an identified work health and safety issue (small to medium business), and Best demonstrated leadership in work health and safety.
"By thinking outside the square, this company used existing culverts under the road to safely move livestock from one property to another, avoiding dangerous highway crossings," Ms Grace said.
Last year, Nerang based P.T. Automation Solutions took out the award for Best solution to an identified electrical safety issue after finding maintenance technicians were at risk while undertaking fault finding and analysis activities on switchboards.
"This company started using QR codes to access as-built and updated installation, operations and maintenance manual documentation," Ms Grace said.
The winners will be announced by Safety Ambassador Shane Webcke in October, during Safe Work Month.
More details are available at worksafe.qld.gov.au.


Chinese tourism around the world is experiencing a boom: the numbers of tourists are increasing and the types of tourism diversifying. But Australia will need a more culturally sensitive approach than the catchy advertising of old to capitalise on this emerging market.
Australia is competing for this market. It's not the only country that is trying to benefit from Chinese tourism; in fact Australia is only attracting 1.5% of Chinese outbound travel (rank 15 in the world). However, China is now Australia's largest visitor market.
The increase in Chinese tourists is set to continue. Arrivals in 2015 grew by 22% compared with 2014, and in Queensland the growth rate was even higher at 30%. In 2015, the amount that Chinese tourists spent in Australia amounted to A$6.2 billion, 21% of all money spent by overseas travellers, an average of $6,489 per person).
It is not surprising that Government is investing to maximise the economic benefits from this market – especially against the background of a declining resources sector.
A recent Goldman Sachs report on the Chinese tourist boom finds that Chinese outbound tourism has risen from only 10 million in 2000 to over 120 million travellers in 2015. This is expected to growth to 220 million by 2025 (although this includes visits to Macau and Hong Kong).
Expenditure by tourists will grow from US$290 billion to $450 billion in 2025. At present only 4% of Chinese own a passport, predicted to grow to 12% within the next 10 years.
The Chinese traveller is evolving. Until recently most used travel packages, but over the past few years they are becoming more experienced independent travellers. This means that they want interesting and culturally appropriate experiences.
Chinese millennials, a young generation that is well-educated, speaks English and is highly connected through the internet, has attracted particular interest from the tourism industry. Chinese tourists use digital media to plan for their travel but they use different types compared to Australian tourists. Over 90% of Chinese internet users engage in social media, in particular WeChat and SinaWeibo. Weibo, for example, is used daily by over 50 million bloggers.
Australia needs to ensure that the "tourism experience" is what Chinese people want. Some other destinations offer better deals, such as the no-visa policy that the Maldives and Fiji have introduced. Open borders encourage more travel.
The tourism industry in partnership with government is busy addressing this. For example, tourism businesses are enhancing their knowledge of digital platforms, learning about Chinese social media channels, and creating Chinese language web pages. Tourism operators are also adjusting their experiences specifically for the Chinese market, to improve the food and dining experiences and to offer more in Mandarin and other Chinese languages.
Going further, there is the potential to attract more Chinese brands to Australia, including Chinese-owned hotel chains that offer very different experiences from traditional Western hotels, Chinese clothing brands, and entertainment experiences that are popular in China. This will improve the satisfaction of Chinese tourists.
But it's not all a one way street. In order to share the benefits of Chinese tourism it has to be linked to other investment. Often Chinese visitors will holiday in Australia and on their trip look for information about an investment property or business or perhaps investigate schools or universities as places for their children to attend.
Australia can also benefit in terms of protecting its natural environment. One of the main attractions for Chinese tourists is the clean and green environment and native animals.
Chinese visitors could be actively engaged in nature conservation activities. As Chinese travellers become more independent, Australia has opportunities to entice a proportion of them "off the beaten track" to engage with local culture and the environment as well as contributing to economic activities outside the main tourist centres.
Now is the time to plan for how the vast Chinese market can generate the greatest overall value to Australia. This could be by targeting young millennials, luxury travellers, environmental or cultural special interest markets, or any other sub-group that generates benefits beyond the sheer numbers. Planning means we can target particular market segments to maximise the return for Australia.
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The position of EFCC Chairman would have been most appropriate for President Muhammadu Buhari, Instead of presently being Nigeria's President. He would have served the nation better in that position than as the President of the country. I must commend him for his time as PTF Chairman under Late General Sani Abacha.
The federal government have lost it. APC in Lagos is making us proud but the one at the center seems to have lost the direction to every area of economy recovery. Under normal circumstances, we should call for the President's resignation.
Let us forget about APC, PDP or Kakawa Party for now. While seeking for the need to evaluate what has happened to the economy since the coming of this present administration. Many people are hungry, even their relations and friends abroad have been changing phone numbers because they are tired of the demands back home.
If the state of the economy continues like this in the next one month, I strongly believe President Buhari should resign.We don't have to beg him to do that. Lets consider objectivity above party affiliation.


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NEW HOPE, Ala. - The New Hope Children's Clinic is hosting their third annual Growing Hope Gala Fundraiser Nov. 1 at 6:30 p.m. at the Huntsville Botanical Garden Arbor Room.
The NHCC is a non-profit, school-based health clinic that offers medical care for local children.
There will be entertainment, food, a cash bar, and live and silent auctions at the gala.
To make reservations, visit http://newhopechildrensclinic.org/.
Attendees are encouraged to wear their best costumes to the event.
Tickets are $65 a piece, two for $120, or four for $240.


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There are many different ways to create lockout/tagout procedures. Some are simple and quick to create, while others provide more details and useful information. Each style has its own merits and it is important to consider each before deciding what will work best within a facility.
So why are graphical lockout/tagout procedures becoming so popular? Looking at the sample procedures below, it's easy to see some of the obvious reasons most companies are moving in that direction.
Lockout/tagout is used to protect workers from the unexpected re-energization of equipment. Hazardous energy sources are isolated during servicing in order to help prevent injury. However, it is sometimes difficult to determine when a machine must be locked out and when servicing can be safely accomplished without lockout.
Safely avoiding lockout/tagout requires employees to be trained in proper safety practices. Employers are responsible for identifying tasks that can be safely accomplished by different means and making sure their employees follow rules and procedures.
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Lockout/tagout procedures are written steps used for affixing lockout or tagout devices to energy isolating devices to bring a machine to a zero-energy state. By using a lockout/tagout procedure, employees can help protect themselves from unexpected re-energization or release of stored energy.
Deviation from the written lockout/tagout procedure is strictly prohibited under OSHA's Control of Hazardous Energy standard. Lockout/tagout procedures must also be written to fully de-energize the system and bring the machine to a zero-energy state.
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Lockout/tagout procedures are required by OSHA, but there are many other benefits to having good procedures.
Eliminating paper and going digital is a growing trend in industry, and lockout/tagout programs are no exception. Digital programs take many forms and offer many benefits to a company. While the initial setup takes some time, the long-term investment opportunities are great.
Lockout/tagout accidents occur when employers fail to implement and enforce a lockout/tagout program and when employees fail to follow the procedures and guidelines outlined in the energy control policy.
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Not having a lockout/tagout procedure exposes your company to possibly up to $70,000 in fines for each piece of equipment! Adjust the controls and submit for an estimate of your total risk.
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Advance Australia FAIR Ask: What Can I Do for Australia?
Once in a BlueMoon something mind-blowingly magical, revolutionary, mystical, cosmic, gargantuan, joyful, progressive, magnificent and life-affirming happens.
May 18 has a rare Blue Moon whose energies may combine with ours to help create a positive foundation for our current situation and our children's future grandchildren.
These energies move in strange ways!
Awakening symptoms may include ringing in the ears. sleeplessness etc - We are being recalibrated by intense incoming waves of energies from the Sun and Cosmos.
ABC TV Post Election Roundup
- a clear message from Sal to
"Stay in your heart - no matter what."
CONGRATULATIONS to the victors LNP and condolences to the other almost half of us who voted other than LNP and minor conservative parties. I urge you to accept the choice of the majority of Australians and let's get behind the government with positivity, cooperation and progress.
It's not the outcome I and so many others worked so hard for. I did my best for a Labor victory and will now refocus and reset where I'll put my energies for most effective outcomes.
These critical years from 2019 to 2022 form the next phase of Australia's LNP Federal Government.
I'm devastated and disappointed for Australia with the results of the federal election. If you are feeling similar please feel your feelings and deal with them appropriately.
Bottom line - money, fear and ignorance of the real issues won the election.
We had a genuine opportunity to spring well beyond the love of money, fear of difference, and to overcome apathy and ignorance.
We can continue working to restore the environment, improve education, be peacekeepers and become more awakened, compassionate and humane.
Politicians are human. Like us, they have their virtues and incapacities, strengths and weaknesses. If we're lucky they are visionary, innovative, progressive, humanitarian, kind and fair. Let's do whatever we can to bring out the best in them.
My response on Facebook
It was rigged insofar as billionaire Clive Palmer UAP spent $70 MILLION on in-your-face election ads giving preferences to LNP and One Nation similarly - to buy the rights to ensure their personal interests - watch for LNP expansion of Clive's mining interests and adherence to Pauline's xenophobic policies. Sweetheart deals.
HOWEVER, I feel it goes MUCH further than this. My heart hurts for people. They are not 'sheeple'. They can't do any better. As a species, we've been cut off from Divine Source (not archaic religiosity)rather a disconnect from The Field of All That Is. Only a small percentage of humans have a connected spiritual life and understand The Field of Manifestation. Since the beginning of time, we have been dumbed down to be unquestioning slaves to the system designed by the rich and those who truly have power over us.
Intelligence is not the issue. Many brilliant people have not yet opened spiritually and thus have no remorse in inventing bigger and better weapons or destroying the environment for short-term profit.
Labor had IDEAS, FRESH IDEAS, RADICAL IDEAS and new ideas are rejected by a mob conditioned to obediently toe the line.
The vast majority of humans are shaped by the patterns of their ancestors, TV and newspaper propaganda, their addictions and their sport, their need for money as a means of buying the basic security of food and housing - denied all except a tiny percentage of their real abilities.
We are born forgetful and immediately shaped by submissive parents and teachers, blind to the Greater True Reality.
I did all I could to help shine a light on the workings of The System and had hoped for a more enlightened Federal Parliament at least. Sadly, the Conservative Manifesto is too ingrained. Automatic. Habit.
The KEYS: NOURISH YOUR INNER SPIRITUAL LIFE
FIND YOUR WILDNESS and FREEDOM
Only ONE MONTH do do our inner work
for a very significant
Winter/Summer Solstice on June 22
What Is YOUR Vision for the Years to 2022?
Let's consider these next 3 years under a LNP Government and ask ourselves: What can I do to support good governance and help progress ourselves, our loved ones, our local community and Australia? Do I wish to refocus my energies and talents? How best to use my skills and abilities?
As I See It - Some Major Problems to Be Addressed During This Term of Office
Climate Crisis - extremes of weather, earthquakes, droughts, volcanic activity, deforestation
Extreme Poverty Worldwide - At least 80% of humanity lives on less than $10 a day
Diaspora - Huge movement of populations due to violence and war, extreme climate, lack of food and water
Mass extinction of nature's species mostly due to the decimation of their habitat and destruction of ecosystems
Warmongering leadership in some countries due to xenophobia, religious intolerance, corruption and greed for resources and profit
The proliferation of nuclear, radiological, chemical, biological and other weapons
White collar and corporate crime and corruption, pedophilia, human trafficking
Plastics, pesticides, industrial and fossil fuels pollution
Unemployment, homelessness and housing crises
Shock, fear and anger due to extreme and secret revelations finally becoming public
I'LL BE DOING EVERYTHING I POSSIBLY CAN TO BE A PART OF THE SOLUTION
I have often written about some solutions as I see them.
These can be found in my Archives in the right hand column.
Barely glowing souls like Palmer will do that too when he gets his bribe approved for 'his' mega coal mine. As we know he doesn't pay his workers what's due to them. Now he has so much power - behind the scenes - as his wealth couldn't buy him a senate seat.
It's seems that so many don't understand that the beauty that drew them to Queensland could become a toxic rubbish dump in short order and the tourism that so many rely on could die.
People will make their assessments of this result and the results of this result. I was hoping for more compassionate stewards. The Great University of Earth is about learning largely through challenges, disappointments and betrayals. Australia and the world in general are set to LEARN A GREAT DEAL in this time period from 2019 to 2022.
We have to find better ways than them and us mentality that we all know so well. Magic Happens when we become self-governing and commit our skills and services to the good of humanity.


Okay, I have bravely (foolhardily?) put together a resource list of 100 popular Christian bloggers, as measured by Facebook fans.
Adrian Warnock's list introducing us to the top Christian bloggers, as measured by Twitter followers, was very helpful in highlighting interesting new Christians, and I hope my list will be similarly useful.
I define a Christian blog as one with engagement with Christ and with faith as a principal preoccupation—rather than a blog written by a Christian which is principally about homemaking, home-schooling, parenting, frugality, books, writing, personal development, or one's personal life. I have also tried to focus on blogs largely written by an individual, rather than a consortium of bloggers.
Please let me know if I have left you—or your favourite blogger—out. At this point, I guess I am looking for bloggers with at least 400 Facebook likes.


Pursuant to section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Public Law 92-463), as amended, notice is hereby given that a meeting of the Leadership Initiatives Advisory Panel (International Section) to the National Council on the Arts will be held on March 13, 2000. The panel will meet from 9 to 9:30 a.m. in Room 716 at the Nancy Hanks Center, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. 20506.
This meeting is for the purpose of Panel review, discussion, evaluation, and recommendations on financial assistance under the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965, as amended, including information given in confidence to the agency. In accordance with the determination of the Chairman of May 12, 1999, these sessions will be closed to the public pursuant to subsection (c)(4),(6) and (9)(B) of section 552b of title 5, United States Code.


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Belongs to the peptidase M16 family. UQCRC2/QCR2 subfamily.
IHC image of ab14745 staining in human heart formalin fixed paraffin embedded tissue section, performed on a Leica BondTM system using the standard protocol F. The section was pre-treated using heat mediated antigen retrieval with sodium citrate buffer (pH6, epitope retrieval solution 1) for 20 mins. The section was then incubated with ab14745, 1µg/ml, for 15 mins at room temperature and detected using an HRP conjugated compact polymer system. DAB was used as the chromogen. The section was then counterstained with haematoxylin and mounted with DPX.
Overlay histogram showing HepG2 cells stained with ab14745 (red line). The cells were fixed with 80% methanol (5 min) and then permeabilized with 0.1% PBS-Tween for 20 min. The cells were then incubated in 1x PBS / 10% normal goat serum / 0.3M glycine to block non-specific protein-protein interactions followed by the antibody (ab14745, 1µg/1x106 cells) for 30 min at 22°C. The secondary antibody used was DyLight® 488 goat anti-mouse IgG (H+L) (ab96879) at 1/500 dilution for 30 min at 22°C. Isotype control antibody (black line) was mouse IgG1 [ICIGG1](ab91353, 2µg/1x106 cells) used under the same conditions. Acquisition of >5,000 events was performed.
Mitochondrial localization of complex III visualized by immunofluorescence using anti-complex III subunit Core 2 mAb 2E3GC12FB2AE2 (ab14745). Cultured human embryonic lung-derived fibroblasts (strain MRC5) were fixed, permeabilized and then labeled with ab14745 (0.5 µg/ml) followed by an AlexaFluor® 488-conjugated-goat-anti-mouse IgG1 isotype specific secondary antibody (2 µg/ml).
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Are antibodies tested for WB expected to work with BN-PAGE method and is it guaranteed?
As always, Thank you for your kind suppot.
These have been tested in blue native gel. These antibodies are also frequently referenced in the literature for Blue Native. An example is a paper attached showing these in BNPAGE.
The other antibody, ab55521 has not been tested in blue native gel. We do produce many products in house, but also source many externally. Therefore all our antibodieswill have been tested in different ways. Therefore, if an antibody has been tested in western blot, this does not mean it has also been tested in blue native gel. In this case, if you have the same question regarding any of our other antibodies, please do not hesitate to contact us again and we will be happy to confirm the information for you.
I hope this will be helpful to you. If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to let me know.


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