Online education offers new skills, careers
Online Education: With the national unemployment rate still hovering in double digits, many laid off workers are turning to online education as a tool to acquire new skills and become more appealing to prospective employers. At online universities across the nation, enrollment figures are increasing drastically in the New Year. As …
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Online education offers new skills, careers
(Careers.org translation in italics) Muhammad Ali: “The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.” (Our take: Seize the power of experience) Jennifer Aniston: “I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would ..
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You can learn a lot about business from a celebrity
Students from the United Arab Emirates, China, and South Korea are enrolling at Canadian schools offering continuing education in large numbers. According to Canada’s Embassy newspaper 1.78 million international students in Canada spent C$6.5 billion in 2008 alone. The stimulus prompted by the influx of international students has surpassed the revenue …
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Middle East students turning to Canada continuing education
Jump to the full entry & travel map Memphis, Tennessee, United States Hi All!! Spent 3 days in Memphis. Visited Graceland (Elvis Mansion). Did an audio tour through his Mansion, his museums, his two private jets and his car museum
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Memphis & the King! — Memphis, Tennessee, United States
Filed under: Beauty , News , Makeup Celebrity makeup artist Roxanna Floyd. Courtesy Photo Celebrity makeup artist to mega stars like Whitney Houston, Halle Berry, Mary J.
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Roxanna Floyd, Celebrity Makeup Artist and Fashion Fair Creative Director, Dead at 49
What’s variously called the “ cognitive capitalism ” model, or Paul Romer’s New Growth Theory, assumes that technological progress and increased efficiency will lead to “economic growth” in the sense of the total volume of monetized economic activity.
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Abundance Creates Utility But Destroys Exchange Value
Filed under: Celebrity , Red Carpet In honor of the Oscar Nominations for 2010, we figured we’d do a little fashion flashback to see what the red carpet was like ten years ago. After all, many of today’s big stars were still rising stars in 2000. Penelope Cruz , nominated this year for ” Nine ,” was still building her acting career in 2000, having just wrapped one of her first major films, “All the Pretty Horses,” with Matt Damon
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Oscar Nominations 2010 Fashion Flashback
Illustration: Pat Pauly Water, Earth II 2008 I have chosen three pieces to represent the textile artwork of Pat Pauly. They are all part of a series she has entitled Water, Earth and are a good indication as to the techniques that Pauly has imbued her work with. Pauly’s use of a bold, but confident colour palette is strikingly made apparent in these pieces.
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The Tensions of Nature as Seen by Textile Artist Pat Pauly
I had my overnight with the “famous” guy last night. In his case, famous means: well known in his circles, and maybe you’ve seen him once or twice in a magazine or on TV. In the interests of keeping his identity anonymous, there are some things I would like to say in this entry that I’m going to have to leave out. He’s an esteemed (according to one description of him that google brought up) antique collector/dealer, or at least enough so that if I mentioned certain pieces/collections he had, someone in the antique world might figure out who he is. I realize my blog isn’t really at the level yet that he would have to worry, but who knows, maybe it will take off overnight and I’ll suddenly be outing my johns. I’ll save that for my multi-million dollar, Heidi Fleiss book deal. Until then, he’ll just be known as “antique man.” We talked a lot on the phone beforehand. He was very talkative (on the phone and in person), which I liked. After setting up our meeting and then confirming a couple times via text and phone, I arrived around 8pm. He met me at the door with a beautiful bulldog, who seemed very friendly. He was probably in his 50s (the man, not the dog), but wasn’t terribly out of shape or bad looking. Just looked his age. He led me into his apartment, which was beautiful, although a little cluttered, which seems to be the antique collector’s way. His fireplace was going, which was very nice. I later learned that the building used to be owned by a famous couple… who I shouldn’t mention. I truly wish I could be more specific, but just know, the apartment and the things he had in it were simply beautiful. We made small talk as he grabbed a bottle of Prosecco and poured us both a glass. He told me that I looked different from my pictures, which I’ve been told before. I need to go through all my picture options with my roommate sometime. Although nobody has been disappointed (they say I’m better in person) I don’t want to misrepresent myself. He said I looked a little more… mature? I also am a little scruffier than my pics make me out to be. As he came back from the kitchen he grabbed me and went for the mouth. We made out for a minute, then headed over to the sofa where we lounged, chatted, listened to some music, and fended off his dog, who was pretty nippy. I think he was jealous of the attention that I was getting that was usually his. We listened to a lot of music… jazz mostly. We had talked on the phone about some hard to find CDs he had gotten that he was excited to play for me
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heaven knows, anything goes.
UST Global, a new-generation pioneer in IT and BPO services was honored to have Her Excellency Mrs. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, President of the Republic of Philippines inaugurate its new Manila offshore development center on the 2nd of February 2010
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UST Global’s New Manila Center Inaugurated on February 2, 2010
Illustration: Elizabethan Ornament from Owen Jones The Grammar of Ornament 1856 The chapter dealing with Elizabethan Ornament in Owen Jones 1856 The Grammar of Ornament was actually written by John Burley Waring which is not unusual as a number of the chapters of the book were written by various friends, critics, and experts who Jones knew or was in contact with. Waring himself saw the Elizabethan period of ornamentation as being part of a great continuation of an English style that had seen its formation in the gothic medieval period and was to continue to develop through
Chris Ofili at the Tate BritainThe Chris Ofili mid career survey at the Tate Britain reveals a sexually charged and scatalogical body of work reminiscent of Gilbert and George’s The Naked Shit Pictures . This survey contains overlooked sensations and under-exploited materials. The energies driving the early works have been tamed and the latest works are in an amorphous state of disarray
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Chris Ofili at the Tate Britain
Illustration: Helene Davis Black Rain Probably the most fundamental and guiding principal that colours, literally, the work of textile artist Helene Davis is that of her passion for hand-dyed fabric. Davis, after using bought quilting fabrics for a number of years, moved into the process of hand-dying her own fabrics, making each quilting project a much more personal and individual process.
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Helene Davis and Hand Dyed Artwork
Illustration: Dorothy Liebes sample of a room divider 1952 Early in her career, while studying art and anthropology at college, Dorothy Liebes bought her first small portable handloom and was able to teach herself the art of weaving. This early start into the world of craft textiles was eventually to lead Liebes into a full time textile career. After a few years into a career of teaching, Liebes took the decision to both study textile design and then to become a textile designer
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Dorothy Liebes Artist Weaver
You have to start somewhere. Your career might begin in childhood when a parent praises a class assignment and hangs it on the refrigerator. You move on to making work for family and friends and it gets seen in private homes.
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Know when it’s time to move on to new exhibit venues
Illustration: Doukhobor woman spinning 1907 The Doukhobor were and in many respects still are, a religious community, originally from Russia, who fled persecution to find a new life in Canada in the very late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Textiles were always seen as being an important and fundamental part of the community’s life.
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Spinning and Weaving in the Doukhobor Community
Illustration: Untitled 1 by Marion Coleman 2007 These four abstract textile art pieces by Marion Coleman, are all linked through a series of commonalities, colour, texture, and pattern. However, probably the most obvious and noticeable link is that of her use of patterned textiles. In these particular pieces, she uses a mixture of locally American sourced textiles and perhaps more importantly, a generous supply of African sourced textiles
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The Abstract Finesse of Textile Artist Marion Coleman
Illustration: Pompeian Ornament from Owen Jones The Grammar of Ornament 1856 Owen Jones felt little need to spend too much time discussing the subject of Pompeian ornament in his 1856 book The Grammar of Ornament . In fact only three plates are included in the chapter, two from a book dealing with the interior decoration of both Pompeii and Herculaneum produced by Guillaume Zahn in 1828, and another on a series of mosaics that Jones sketched while at the Museum of Naples
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Owen Jones and Pompeian Ornament
Illustration: Washoe burden and trinket basket The Washoe people originally lived a nomadic lifestyle around the shores of Lake Tahoe and the surrounding area in what is now the border area of California and Nevada. The Washoe have always been adept at weaving the indigenous plant life around them such as reeds, ferns, and sagebrush, into all aspects of their nomadic lifestyle. To be constantly on the move produces a honed strategy as far as the domestic and personal necessities of life are concerned
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Washoe Basketry
Career Education: Texas refuses to apply for federal Race to the Top education reform aid. Governor Rick Perry and Education Commissioner Robert Scott recently announced their decision for Texas to remain autonomous in issues regarding education. This may come as a surprise initially to many, since the federal government is offering … Originally posted here: Texas chooses not to enter ‘Race to the Top’ competition
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Texas chooses not to enter ‘Race to the Top’ competition