Public Interest Warning Memo
NATPUDAN INDUS LADIES MEMBER Public Interest Warning Memo To: COIMBATORE CORPORATION AUTHORITY From: NATPUDAN, INDUS LADIES MEMBER CC: REFER TO MEMO – ALL CONCERNED ARE ADDRESSED SEPARATELY Date: March 20, 2010 Re: ADVISE TO UPHOLD THE CITY’S & STATES’S REPUTATION IN THE COMING WEEKS AND REQUEST TO CONTINUE DOING SO FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMON FOLKS ANTI CORRUPTION SQUAD: Be on red alert, the visiting personality has a knack of smelling & blowing all corruption activities, out of proportion and would lead to series of serious investigations on the failure of the department to control these activities. POLICE DEPARTMENT: Arrest all suspicious elements as you would do during a VVIP’s visit and make sure that there is absolute peace & calm prevailing in the city. Personnel will be rewarded for up keeping the city / state’s reputation in the coming 26 th August Independence Day celebrations.
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Public Interest Warning Memo
According to statistics, the vast majority of expatriates who leave their postings early cite “family adjustment” as the main reason for their return. And while the definition of “family adjustment” is very broad and can contain a lot of different issues, for the purpose of this blog post I’d like to focus on just one. The spouse/partner career issues come up both in statistics and in my own practice of coaching expatriate spouses.
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3 Things Expatriates Need to Stay in Their Post
RSA, The Security Division of EMC (NYSE: EMC), today announced the appointment of Amitabh Jacob as RSA Channel Manager for India and SAARC. In this role, Amitabh is responsible for fostering and managing RSA channel relationships as well as empowering channel partners to go to market with effective information-centric solutions from RSA that meet customers’ needs.
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RSA Appoints Amitabh Jacob as RSA Securworld channel Manager For India And SAARC
Illustration: English crewelwork Crewelwork, or perhaps a more technically accurate phrase would be crewel embroidery, is a distinct technique of embroidery that has a long history in Europe, and in England can trace its history back to the construction of the Bayeux tapestry and beyond. Although crewelwork often used outlined compositional aids in order to guide the stitching, it could equally be constructed without any guides, or only basic and roughly drawn guides, allowing the crewel worker an element of creative freedom, adding details as they progressed.
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English Embroidered Crewelwork
Illustration: Brenda H Smith Strata 3 2006 The textile artwork of Brenda H Smith deals largely with the landscape settings and environment of her native northern Arizona. Through a system of colour tones, textures and pattern, she is able to breathe life into the textile medium that she uses, infusing it with the in-depth characterizations of the environment that she experiences around her. Illustration: Brenda H Smith Betatakin 2007 One of the themes of Smith’s work and the one I have chosen to highlight in this article, is that of geology
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Brenda H Smith and the Strata of Landscape
It’s been way too long since I did something frivolous here on MAN, so… this week I’m kicking off a mostly silly, substantially whimsical, still-about-art pseudo-endeavor.
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The Greatest Living American Abstract Painter Tourney-ish
ESPNcricinfo in association with General Motors India launches “Legends of Cricket”, a series of videos portraying 25 of the greatest-ever cricketers to have played the game. Starting 15th March, ESPNcricinfo will upload one video every alternate week for the next 50 weeks on www.cricinfo.com Handpicked by a distinguished panel of judges that include former players, commentators and cricket writers, the videos capture historical, awe-inspiring moments delivered by stalwarts of cricket. From Sir Bradman to master blaster Sachin, Sobers to Imran, these are players from all ages and from all parts of the world who have kept cricketing fans on their feet asking for more.
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Relive the greatest moments in world cricket through ESPNcricinfo’s “Legends of Cricket”
Illustration: Frantisek Kysela Czechoslovak National Handicraft tapestry 1925 Frantisek Kysela is a well-known Czech fine art painter whose major working career was during the 1920s and 1930s, he died in 1941.
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The Czechoslovak National Handicraft Tapestries of Frantisek Kysela
Illustration: Richard Riemerschmid 1903 Richard Riemerschmid is well known as a pioneer of both the Modernist movement and within that, of well-designed mass-production furniture. Riemerschmid was trained as a fine artist, but as with many creative individuals during the latter nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries, he was proficient in a number of decorative and design disciplines from architecture to textiles. The rug shown in the illustration above was produced by Riemerschmid in 1903.
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Richard Riemerschmid and Rug Design
GSS America signs a Memorandum of Understanding with BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus GSS America, a publicly traded company in India with global presence and specializing in providing Manages IT Services today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with BITS Pilani to set up a ‘Center of Excellence’ at their Hyderabad campus. The objective of the partnership is to create 360 degrees collaboration between GSS America and BITS Pilani to offer a platform for service alliance for the long term benefit of the BITS students.
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GSS America collaborates with BITS Pilani to set up a ‘Center of Excellence’
Just a small note to draw your attention to the new pages now on offer with The Textile Blog. The red links above are to some new pages recently added that deal with upcoming articles that will be featured on the blog, interesting web and blog links and a number of current textile based exhibitions across the globe. All of these pages will be constantly updated and more will be added shortly, including a temporary link page to a number of textile degree show sites that will be available on the net, so anyone who has a degree show coming up and has some form of web presence, whether website or blog, please contact me and I will be happy to place a link on the degree show page including all dates and venues.
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New Textile Blog Pages
Illustration: A H Mackmurdo Peacock 1882 Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo is well known for his furniture design, much of which was produced initially through the company he set up with Selwyn Image in 1882, the Century Guild of Artists. The Century Guild was an important step in the history of the English Arts & Crafts movement.
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Textile Design Work of Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo
Import Export is not a get rich quick scheme! But for those who have a passion for global trade and are excellent judges of market trends as well as accomplished sales persons the opportunity for a successful career is there for those willing to take the plunge.
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How to Get Started in the Import Export Business – Basics For Beginners – Startup Guide – Part 1
Illustration: Owen Jones Middle Ages Ornament from his The Grammar of Ornament 1856 Interestingly Owen Jones called the colour plates dedicated to the chapter dealing with medieval ornament in his 1856 book The Grammar of Ornament , as Middle Ages , while he entitled the chapter itself as Medieval Ornament . Some see both titles as meaning the same era while others are more particular.
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Owen Jones and Ornament of the Middle Ages
In 1971, Guggenheim curator Edward Fry planned a Hans Haacke exhibition. Just before the show was set to open, the Guggenheim canceled it. Why?
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Critiquing the void — and the rest of the Guggenheim
Illustration: Walter Crane Alcestic Frieze 1876 Walter Crane was a prodigious and prestigious artist, designer and illustrator. He produced design work for textiles, carpet, ceramics, stained glass and wallpaper.
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Four Decades of Wallpaper Design by Walter Crane
Illustration: Various forms of Philippine basketry 1913 The Philippines is a diverse and varied archipelago made up of hundreds of islands with dozens of mutually exclusive and overlapping cultural heritages. It is no surprise then that basketry within the islands is a craft skill that is both as varied and individual as the islands and the cultures that inhabit them.
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Basketry of the Philippines
Illustration: Traditional Cretan embroidery The embroidery work produced on the island of Crete has many influences as designated by its strategic trading and cultural position in the eastern Mediterranean, situated as it is between the Asian, African and European mainlands.
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The Embroidery of Crete
Whenever you have an exhibit opening or similar event, you can’t expect to send one thing in the mail and have an impact. People typically have to see the same information multiple times—in multiple ways—before they will act on it. Here are 7 steps you can take to get the word out early and often.
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Art Marketing Action + Podcast: Get the Word Out Early and Often
The illustrations shown in this article are from the 37 steps exhibition, which is on at The Changing Room in Stirling, Scotland until March 28 2010.
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Gillian Cooper and the 37 Steps Exhibition