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GREENVILLE – Deeply rooted in a tradition of arts, this segment of the Delta community has again embraced its artists and supporters.

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. – St. Augustine is the Nation’s oldest city, but visitors to this historic destination and the luxurious resorts of Ponte Vedra will find plenty that’s “new” to enjoy for spring and summer 2009. In addition to rediscovering the Old World charm and seaside elegance found in this unique destination on northeast Florida’s sunny shores, visitors will be adding lots of new discoveries to their “must-do” lists. Attractions: With more than 60 historic sites, impressive museums,

Hidden in Plain Sight I ran across this information today and thought I would share with all of my West Coast esoteric minded brothers. AMORC , the Rosicrucian esoteric tradition out of San Jose, California, is hosting a Conference in 2010 at Rosicrucian Park in San Jose, and has an open call (and invitation to scholarly Masonic brothers) to participate by proposing papers or by attending the Conference. Full info is below, or you can follow the link here to their micro site . Comp

In this morning’s NYT, there appeared this op-ed , which trots out the old, well-beaten horse that the academy is hopelessly irrelevant and poorly tuned to producing the kind of graduates “we” need, where “we” is defined as something like “people who do really important things, like closing down plants that manufacture widgets, or blowing mind-numbing sums of money in hyperinflated credit markets.” Essentially, the author, Mark Taylor, chair of religion at Columbia, argues that the system of

Painted wall in Geneva, Switzerland during the G8 summit in Evian 2003. Cities are described in all kinds of ways. They can be understood in geographical and political terms. They can be seen as sites of production and financial centres. Often they are pictured as architectural artifacts, with large infrastructures and constructions. Anthropologist Arjun Appadurai has described them principally as cultural entities that emerge at junctions of a multitude of flows or “scapes:” mediascapes,

International Sales Best Practices T oday Jeffrey Gitomer’s Principle of Sales Greatness is another great tactic to get more international sales. Let’s see how it fits in with one of the cross-cultural communication tips we covered last month. International Sales Success Most people will acknowledge that creativity is important in business success… and even in successful sales. But most people believe they cannot do anything about their own level of creativity. That is a pity because

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by Bobbie McKee Fashion design is an applied art dedicated to clothing and lifestyle accessories created within the cultural and social influences of a specific time. Italian fashion had been playing a major role in the fashion world. This time let’s not just fallow the fad, let’s learn Italian fashion and its roots. Italy and fashion have a very unique and special relationship. Dolce & Gabbana, Versace, Armani, Gucci, Versace. All these names are Italians. All of them are famour desi

My facebook frienders are probably sick of this by now, unless they’re facebooking and twittering and orkut etc. in which case they’re used to information redundancies. Anyway, since some of you expressed an interest in the grant we’ve just been awarded, and it is a little involved, I thought I might throw some information up here, FYIshly. First, this is an interdisciplinary collaborative grant, awarded by Vanderbilt to Jonathan Neufeld–a philosopher of aesthetics and music –and myself. An

Entropy ≥ Memory . Creativity ² originally uploaded by jef safi . What delights me about the current evolution of marketing is how focused it is on people, passion and the customer experience, all highlighted in today’s Links of Note . A truly memorable customer experience isn’t possible without people. Right? People who put their heart and soul into delivering or sharing or communicating a message/product/ service. They relentlessly pursue a vision with passion to create an overall exp