Security Cameras Eliminates Problems at the Source
They say that prevention is always better than cure. This is true because if you just prevent that problem, it will stop only at that particular time but it will go back and bother people again. However, if you cure the problem or eliminate it at the source, it can be gone for good.
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Security Cameras Eliminates Problems at the Source
Someone is going out of his or her way to make sure tree trunks and sign stakes are kept warm and stylish this winter. I first heard it in a brief story on NPR : Some graffiti artist is plastering trees and public spaces in West Cape May, New Jersey with . .
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What’s to love about the guerrilla knitters
The popular Comedy Central show “The Colbert Report” aired a satirical news piece about the web site SurvivalSeedBank.com on March 10, 2010. Colbert referenced a DomainTools whois record to highlight the creation date of the domain name and showed a screenshot of the record itself.
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Colbert Report uses DomainTools Whois record
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
~2 Bangaloreans among the Winners.~ In a glittering ceremony attended by dignitaries from across the country, IBN18 India’s leading No 1 News Network in partnership with Reliance Industries Limited India’s largest private sector enterprise honored 24 Real Heroes of India.
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CNN-IBN & RIL applaud 24 Real Heroes from across India
News is slowly trickling out of the White House following today’s big summit between President Obama and pro-immigrant organizations. Ali Noorani, executive director of the National Immigration Forum and chair of the Reform Immigration for America Campaign, was one of…
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Reaction to Obama meeting on immigration reform
Several weeks ago I received a copy of “Gerhard Richter: A Life in Painting,” by Dietmar Elger and translated into English by Elizabeth M. Solaro. It appeared to be a Richter biography.
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‘Authorized biographies’ for artists?
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
The International Trade Center (ITC) is pleased to announce the launch of a new web portal, artisanconnect.net, dedicated to supporting trade in crafts from developing countries. Artisanconnect provides organizations and individuals involved in supporting handicrafts and artisans around the world with information on markets, design and production development, materials and techniques, and projects
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artisanconnect – a new website
Now that the east coast has finally started to warm up, the sun is shining, birds are chirping…allow me to bring some gloom and doom to your day. It looks like the cost of obtaining / renewing a passport is going to go up. The State Department is proposing a fee hike that would raise the cost of applying for a passport from $100 to $135, and renewal cost would increase to $110 from the current $75
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Passport Cost Increase
I’m a huge fan of Alice in Wonderland. And in the recent Dinner and Dance (Movies theme), I decided to be the White Rabbit! Well, the real reason is that I was lazy and I happened to have a pair of bunny ears lying around my room.
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Chasing the White Rabbit
Introducing Sean Coleman, fellow blogcatalog blogger known as Scole . Sean loves music! He writes about it on his blog called “pod”. Why did he call it pod?
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Finding My Tribe Online… Music Lovers!
The most basic international trade laws relate to tariffs and subsidies and other forms of trade protection which unfairly advantage particular countries in trade relationships. The World Trade Organisation was established in 1995 and represents the most important development in the history of international trade law.
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Law and International Trade
I got mine, did you get yours? It’s March and the Census Bureau is in full gear making sure census forms are delivered to every home in the United States and Puerto Rico. The good news is that it’s easy – when you get your form, just answer the 10 questions and mail the form back in the postage-paid envelope they provide (the form cannot be completed online).
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Census 2010 Forms
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
A major backlash has greeted news in America that a government department is planning to severely tighten rules surrounding the shipment of small battery-powered items of electronic equipment. Many experts have said that this is going to cause serious problems for customers and that a lot of repacking may well be necessary.
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Outcry Over Proposals to Restrict Carriage of Electronic Items
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
Totally blew @ johntunger interviewing @ chrisguillebeau RATS! Now subscribed to the Art Heroes on iTunes. Yippee! GYST software for artists new version ready next week. $50 off right now Artist shares her experience “handling” art teachers at a workshop with two disruptive personalities via @ MaryRichmond Planning an open studio?
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@abstanfield Tweekly
After Monday’s post about implementing a policy for answering questions , Julie Thompson commented: I get the same questions over and over, but this happens much more often when I do a show, not so much in my inbox.
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Answering the same question over and over again (gracefully) in a face-to-face conversation
I’m not the kind of person to be the first in line to buy the newest technology right when it hits the store shelves. I’m more of a “sit back, observe, and collect data” kind of a person. I like to let the masses do the leg work for me and then reap the benefits of getting lots of opinions on features and the pros/cons of the available products
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Standard vs. Smart Cell Phones