Tag: advocacy

Travel by Air for Cats

Lest your imagination be forming mental pictures of trapeze-flying circus cats, I’ll hasten to add that I am referring to air travel by cats aboard commercial flights. Flying for cats (and dogs) has become much safer in recent years. …

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Travel by Air for Cats

Art, science and politics | Filipino Voices

Professor Flor Lacanilao has thrown in his bit on the national artists fiasco. He writes in a post for a Pinoy scientist blog The naming of National Artists.

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Art, science and politics | Filipino Voices

Could Bloomberg Lose? Should Arts Groups Ponder the Great “What If …

The mayor contributed to more than 1200 organizations promoting arts , education and health care, like Johns Hopkins Medicine; the Robin Food Foundation, an antipoverty group; and Stand Up to Cancer, a research organization in Pasadena, …

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Are There Too Many Arts-Related Studies? And What If There Are …

Judith H. Dobrzynski, on her blog Real Clear Arts , may have muddied the otherwise clear waters when it comes to the utility and especially the validity of arts reports, studies and statistics

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Are There Too Many Arts-Related Studies? And What If There Are …

Court Orders Internet Pagejackers to Return Ill-Gotten Gains

A federal court has held three Internet pagejackers in contempt and ordered them to return more than $555,,000 in ill-gotten gains for flouting a previous court order that barred them from deceptive business practices.

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Court Orders Internet Pagejackers to Return Ill-Gotten Gains

Theatre North Carolina: Arts Advocacy – Dancing with the Stars …

I recently joined the communications committee for ARTS NC, this state’s arts advocacy organization. I was invited to the ARTS NC Board retreat today for my first meeting with the rest of the committee. The retreat was up in the…

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Theatre North Carolina: Arts Advocacy – Dancing with the Stars …

Creativity and Contemplative Practices at CHI Movement Arts Center …

For those dancers in attendance, Huang’s workshop at the CHI Movement Arts Center (home of Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers) is an opportunity to explore new movement qualities, even injury prevention, but it is also a window into Asian aesthetics, …

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Creativity and Contemplative Practices at CHI Movement Arts Center …

Autism – Change.org: Monday Autism News Potpourri

Thumbs Up: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities was signed on Friday as planned. Here’s print coverage from USA Today and (ironically non-captioned) video cover…

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Autism – Change.org: Monday Autism News Potpourri

Arts and Business Council of NY Touts “Lifeline” Program for Needy …

There are a few action items in the latest email blast from the Arts and Business Council of New York, which is a division of Americans for the Arts . The action item perhaps most vital for the arts sector is the Lifeline program. …

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