| Works by portrait artist Ruan part of showcase
As one of about 20 Leon Loard Commissioned Portrait artists, Jie Ruan spends his time doing what he loves -- painting, traveling to new places and meeting people. "I enjoy getting to know the subjects because that is what doing portraits is all about. It's about the people," said Ruan, who was born and raised in Shanghai, China. Before leaving China almost 20 years ago, Ruan studied in the prestigious China Academy of Fine Arts, and later was appointed to work as a professional artist at the Shanghai Oil Painting and Sculpture Research Institute. Leon Loard president Arnold McRae said he is pleased such an accomplished artist is on the team of artists who create original oil portraits. "Jie is quite a talent," McRae said of the portraitist, who will be one of several artists showcased at the new gallery in the A&P Lofts in Cloverdale.
Five ‘don’ts’ when attending business networking events
Networking mixers can be a fabulous way to efficiently and effectively develop relationships and grow your business.
However, knowing what to do is essential. There are a number of articles out there with ideas on what to do. Knowing what not to do can be, and often is, even more important.
1. Don�t sell. First of all, more than 90 percent of the people in this world do not like to be sold to, and when they are in public, they like it even less.
The biggest reasons I come across as to why people don�t like networking mixers or events is that a) they are worried they are going to be accosted and sold to or b) they walk in wanting to sell and don�t have success.
Obviously, these two things are diametrically opposed to one another, so both parties will be unsatisfied.
Full Sail Announces University Status
Today, Full Sail Real World Education marks another landmark in its history by announcing that it has been awarded University status by the Florida Department of Education's Commission for Independent Education (CIEICU) and its national accrediting body, the Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges of Technology (ACCSCT). Effective immediately, the new name of the institution will be Full Sail University. .
Jim Saksa | The Frankenstein on 40th Street
Yesterday was Easter Sunday, and across the world most Christians (and Jews for Jesus!) celebrated the resurrection of Christ.
It's a celebration of renewal and rebirth, purposely scheduled to coincide with the advent of spring. Around this time in the liturgical calendar, Christians examine their lives and their faith in an effort to renew their connection with God.
Penn's doing some renewal of its own right now, but this renewal is most decidedly not spiritual - it's urban. But the latest project west of campus - the Campus Inn hotel on 40th and Pine streets - is less a holy resurrection of a dead and dilapidated building and more an unnatural, unwieldy creation of Frankenstein's monster - a grotesquely large beast despised by the local townsfolk. Like Dr.
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