This newsletter is dedicated to Arthur (Andy) VanGundy who passed away May 5, 2009 Dr. Arthur (Andy) VanGundy, was a pioneer in business creativity, a friend, colleague, and my co-author of Orchestrating Collaboration at Work. He died May 5, following heart surgery. I posted some of my memories of Andy on my blog and would [...]
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THE MID-HUDSON VALLEY CREATIVE ECOSYSTEM IN A TIME OF CRISIS The impact of the financial crisis on the region’s arts community, and strategies to promote recovery By Harvey Seifter and Judy Levine This study describes what’s happened to the arts in the mid-Hudson Valley of upstate New York since the economic crisis began, and offers recommendations [...]
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Most people think of bacteria in terms of infections and disinfectants. Erich Schopf, a bacteriologist at the University of Vienna, thinks of colour, and actually paints with bacteria! The fact that bacteria use pigments to protect themselves against UV radiation gave him the idea to use them as paint. He gathers his raw material from the ground, [...]
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Ongoing Events Feed your body, mind and spirit Vancouver Farmers Market Vancouver Farmers Markets (otherwise known as Your Local Farmers Market Society) is about people who love fresh food at festive gatherings. With the initial goal in 1995 to create the fun and value of weekly Farmers Markets in urban settings, the Society and the [...]
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Images from Art Institute of Chicago; Metropolitan Museum of Art ARTISTIC LIMITATIONS Cataracts forced Mary Cassatt to stop working years before her death in 1926. She painted “Young Mother Sewing” in 1900. More Photos > For Claude Monet, 1912-22 was a watershed decade. He was perhaps the most successful artist of his time, and his genius had already [...]

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