Beauty Encounter Rolls Out New Brand and Website.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-13 October 2008-Beauty Encounter Rolls Out New Brand and Website(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Beauty Encounter, an online source featuring all things beauty and specializing in hard-to-find niche products, has launched its new brand identity and newly designed website, BeautyEncounter.com. According to...

Think before you speak.
Our assumptions could lead to major communication problems. Prachi Rege attends a seminar on general semantics, a theory that makes us aware of our behaviour thereby setting a base for effective communication. The daily experiences that you undergo do not or rather cannot include everything under the...

2 pennies for columnist's thoughts.
Byline: Bill Fortier COLUMN: SOUTH COUNTY NOTEBOOK It's time for your loyal scribe to put in his two cents' worth. And this time it really is two cents' worth, as a check for that amount recently came in the mail. Yours...

Sing me a poem.
WORLD Poetry Day came and went last Tuesday the 21st with little or no poetry. As usual, the world was bombarded with too much noise, too many words, speeches, press releases, headlines, advertising slogans, problems, a slew of scandal, controversy, violence, and destruction to pay attention. If...

Attitudes.
AMONG the major factors contributing to the health of the dance world-at least the American dance world, although surely, if only by ripple effect, internationally--is The New York Times. Of course, The New York Times is a huge fish in the ever-diminishing pool of print journalism, and still has...

Go fly a kite!
Have you heard that from someone trying to get rid of you? Maybe you should listen to them; lots of great fun and wonderful accomplishments have come from the simple act of flying a kite. Chinese legends claim that the first use of a kite was by...

Sold American: The Story of Alaska Natives and Their Land, 1867-1959.
SOLD AMERICAN: THE STORY OF ALASKA NATIVES AND THEIR LAND, 1867-1959. By DONALD CRAIG MITCHELL. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2003. ISBN 1-889963-36-4. Rev. ed. (Originally published by University Press of New England, 1997.) 544 p., map, b & w illus., bib., index. Softbound. US$29.95. For decades...

The big smear: knowing that The John Birch Society could foil their plans, the architects of America's engineered decline have long targeted this patriotic group for defamatory smears.
In the parlance of the Internet age, the word "meme" refers to a self-replicating idea, phrase, or concept that spreads through a population like a virus. Memes can be playful pieces of trivial slang, advertising slogans as indelible as they are annoying, or innovative expressions that usefully add to...

Recruiting distance learning: eArmyU program helps keep soldiers educated.
THE LAST MAN WAS DRAFTED IN the United States in December 1972. This gave rise to the Modern Volunteer Army (MVA) Program, which was designed to strengthen professionalism, enhance U.S. Army life and develop a modern accession system. To ensure a quality and trained force, MVA advertising moved through...

Facilitators' notebook.
Need help with some different ways for facilitating your group? Well read on! The following highlights three different resources that may be used as to help promote communication and insight for individuals and within groups. They may be used to encourage reflection, for "debriefing" or processing activities,...