Tourism Ministry To Promote MACS To Singaporeans
The Tourism Ministry will aggressively promote the Malaysian Automated Checkpoint System (MACS) to Singaporeans. Its minister Datuk Seri Dr Ng Yen Yen said MACS which was introduced by the Immigration Department was expected to attract more tourists from the republic. “Singaporeans with MACS stickers benefit from automated immigration processing, faster access ..
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Tourism Ministry To Promote MACS To Singaporeans
by Debra Miller I’m posting a quick holiday reminder about some of the terrific plays in Philadelphia this month. As you probably already know, with the present state of our economy, many of the small theater companies in Philadelphia are in extra need of support. I have seen several outstanding productions in December, some sold out, but some with half-empty audiences, so I’m hoping that all of you can find the time to attend one or more of these, to keep the theater companies going strong in this time of recession. Check out their websites for tickets; you’ll be glad that you did! “Just Married” scene with the cast of actors and puppets from Scapin, Lantern Theater Company; photo by Jeffrey Stockbridge Scapin – Lantern Theater Company (at St. Stephen’s Theater; ) – hilarious and inventive reinterpretation of Molière, set in Venice, using hybrid human/puppets; even the Inquirer raved about this one! Great fun for all ages–kids will love the magic and slapstick, adults will get the clever gags and sophisticated humor, and everyone will appreciate the witty set design of Nick Embree and the unique puppetry of Aaron Cromie. This is not to be missed; I saw it twice. Extended through 1/10.
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Theater for the Holidays!
Brian Biggs is easily one of my favourite children’s illustrators and I’ve been eagerly following his forays into screen printing (snagging a swell robot print along the way), so his most recent blog post is a real treat. Brian shares a bit of his process, and walks us through the steps it took for him to take this: …and turn it into this: Posted by John Martz on Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog | Permalink | No comments Tags: Brian Biggs , colour separation , printmaking , process , silkscreen
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Brian Biggs: step-by-step screen printing
23 : Chanel & Cartier & Mont Blanc Shopping Spree + Japanese Sashimi Buffet at Chinese Swimming Club 24 : Candlelit Dinner under the Nightsky + Parma Ham with the Sweetest Melons + Dance! + 1819 + M Bar + Bak Kut Teh at 4 am 25 : Christmas Dinner with Family (see next post) + Rockin Around the Christmas Tree is the 2009 Xmas Song + Virgin Trip to Mustafa + Kid in a Candy Store 26 : Movies Day + Post Xmas Party at St James 27 : Sunday Brunch with the Brunch Bunch + Hawker Fare Feast at ECP + Gym Bunnies 28 : Visit to Mimolette, Dempsey House and Au Petit Salut + Hearty Dinner at Spize Cafe Other News I think I ate at least two tubs of ice-cream over the week. Paul and Tiffany rented an apartment in the same Condo as Bunny. I foresee many boardgames nights for bored couples.
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Christmas Weekathon
This article was originally published in the Mid Island Midweek as “ A clever way to master the art of re-gifting. “ This time of year we are bombarded more than usual with commercials and ads enticing us to buy, buy buy. Seems that if you don’t buy something for someone then you are incomplete
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"Re-gifting" Antiques: A Clever Way to Stay out of the Red.
Back in October, Jess asked Gov Gab readers what they thought about Congress expanding the first-time home buyer tax credit . If you remember, the first-time home buyer tax credit gave up to $8,000 to a buyer who has not owned a primary residence during the three years up to the date of home purchase. The credit was due to end this month
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Home Buyer Tax Credit Extended
Chris Ofili Foreword by Peter Doig, conversation with Thelma Golden, contributions by David Adjaye, Carol Becker, Okwui Enwezor, Cameron Shaw and Kara Walker hardcover, 272 pages, 200 color images and b&w drawings, 2009 $85 Rizzoli New York This gorgeous coffee table book about the works of Afro-British artist Chris Ofili is a love affair from start to finish. Great photos of the works — in situ in gallery spaces and in amazing closeups of the rambunctious details — make for hours of satisfactory page-turning
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Book-stravaganza 2 – Monographs and show catalogs
Resolutions: Learn PHP, CSS Read 26 books this year Study for and kick ass on the GREs Relearn how to sight sing Learn to cook Chinese food Blog once a week Read (industry) news three times a week Keep up with Google Reader Get through entire Spanish book When in forward bend, be able to bring elbows to ground
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Jump-starting 2010: Resolutions
Site Of The Day: So, in case you’ve been living in a cave in Turkmenistan for the past day and haven’t heard the news, BlogCatalog has been named the Site of the Day by Top Site Tally . In recognition of this award, we have prepared a few words: BlogCatalog: We’d just like to say thank you first and foremost to our families for standing behind us no matter what, and… Kanye: BlogCatalog, I’m really happy for ya and I’m a let ya finish, but Facebook has one of the best websites of all time
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If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a photo blog is worth a few million at the very least. Photo blogs are widely used by amateur and professional photographers, travel bloggers, artists and many others as an easy way to share their work with millions of viewers worldwide. Attractive, contemporary and often minimalistic blog themes are used to frame the shots and make them stand out on the page.
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Blogs Worth A Thousand Words
First of all, please let me introduce myself: I'm the blogger who dropped off the face of the earth for a couple of weeks there (again). Busy times in the pages of ye olde dinosaur, the newspaper, where I finally finished a two-part series on China and reviews of winter shows at the Oakville Galleries and the Power Plant (the first part, anyway, on “Nothing to Declare,” the fun and engaging Canadian sculpture show; part two, on Michael Snow, will be this weekend.) Keeping ever busy, I endured a white-knuckle drive up to Owen Sound yesterday to the Tom Thomson Gallery, where I saw Steven White's very good sculpture show, The Combine Project.
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Here’s a little shopping secret for you: when you sign up for sale email alerts, you know about hot fashion sales before everyone else does. Rather than sign up to receive the email newsletters of various retailers and wind up with many emails in your inbox, you can instead sign up for sale alerts through a third party provider and receive the bargain information of all your favorite retailers in one email
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Fashion in Your Email Inbox
I can imagine that few experiences could be as simultaneously flattering and unnerving as having your portrait done. For one thing, it's a complete surrender of agency as to how you're represented to the artist, but at the same time, it's ego-stroking to be considered important, interesting or visually compelling enough to have it done in the first place.
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Shot through the heart: Viktor Mitic’s "Dealers" opens tonight
The American Association of Museums’ code of ethics says that member museums must ensure that “programs are founded on scholarship and marked by intellectual integrity.” Yesterday, in a Q&A here on MAN, New Orleans Museum of Art director E. John Bullard admitted that NOMA’s installation of a Disney marketing display-cum-exhibition in NOMA’s galleries was not founded on scholarship and that intellectual integrity was not a consideration. Bullard said that NOMA’s new exhibition, ‘Dreams Come True,’ originated with the Walt Disney Co.
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Disney markets at NOMA: A major museum error
at the Cisneros Foundation brunch This was the fifth time I’d gone to ABMB ( Art Basel Miami Beach ) and the multi-ring circus that includes the peripheral art fairs, local museums, collectors who run private museum spaces, temporary public projects and various lectures, performances, film showings and parties. I decided to take it easy and be guided by the interests of several friends who were also in Miami for the events, spending two days with tv news producer, Jake Haselkorn, who’s spent the past 20 years covering Asia and my good friend, Berta Sichel , Director of the Film Department at the Reina Sophia Museum, Madrid, as well as meeting up with Artblog’s Roberta and Libby for a day. The following are random snapshots rather than any attempt at a synthesis
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Art Basel Miami Beach and Associated Art in Miami
On November 17, 13,200 bloggers from across the globe participated in BloggersUnite: Fight For Preemies . Their posts about the rising rates of premature births raised the awareness of approximately 3 million readers. Through a mix of sobering facts, statistics and moving personal accounts, these bloggers poignantly illustrated the impact premature births have on both the individuals involved and on our society as a whole.
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Fight For Preemies: 13,000 Blog Posts Reach 3 Million Readers
As of December 1, 2009, new FTC guidelines went into effect requiring bloggers to disclose any time they are compensated for endorsing or reviewing products or services. Bloggers should now be disclosing any time they receive payment, free products or services, or perks in return for a post on their blogs. Also any relationship with a company or organization that can be viewed as creating a conflict of interest should be disclosed
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Bloggers Must Comply With FTC Disclosure Guidelines
Last week I wrote about help for people struggling with their mortgages and it got me thinking that there’s a lot of financial struggle that goes on before you lose the house. The evening news gives us the big stories of foreclosures and credit card debt, but those stories don’t mention the other necessities like the electric bill, or that tank of oil you need to heat the house. Did you know that there’s a government program that will help pay for your heating costs
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Help With Bills
Despite apparent industry subterfuge and a last-minute effort by councillor Norm Kelly to yank out most of its teeth, the billboard tax levy bylaw passed virtually intact today. The end result is it'll generate an additional $10.4 million annually; communtiy groups had hoped it would be officially directed mostly to community art initiatives, but as it stands, it just enters the general revenue stream. Allotment will get more specific in the 2010 Budget Committe, but hey, it's a start.
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It was almost exactly eight years ago that I decided to move back to Canada as I had just accepted the position as the Director of the Canadian Craft & Design Museum in Vancouver. The museum was hidden in a courtyard at the corner of Georgia and Hornby across the street from the Vancouver Art Gallery . I was aware of some of the problems the institution had experienced over the years, and was not unaware that there were probably deeper issues than they were willing to divulge, as they were unable to cover the costs for me to fly to Vancouver for my interview
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What is it about Craft? The Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery Faces an Uncertain Future