Curtain Up On Wi’s Ladies
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on September 29, 2008
When the ladies of the Rylstone and District Women’s Institute decided to bare all for a cheeky calendar, the idea was to raise a few hundred pounds to buy a sofa for their local hospital.
Photographed in the women’s kitchens and living rooms, the Alternative WI Calendar was tasteful nudity, Jam and Jerusalem style, with the [...]
Curtain Drops After Ants’ Final Act
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on September 29, 2008
A Brazilian ant colony leaves some members out in the cold each night literally. Tasked with closing the nest door from the outside, these ants complete their final mission and wander off, never to be seen again, researchers report in the November American Naturalist.
Self-sacrifice for the sake of the colony isn’t unusual in social insects [...]
Curtain Rises On Wimax
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on September 29, 2008
Baltimore usually isn’t considered a technology mecca. But many people in Silicon Valley, and other high-tech centers, will be watching closely to see what happens after Sprint Nextel Corp. flips the switch on a new wireless network Monday.
The service is a milestone in the gestation of WiMax, a technology that chip giant Intel Corp. and [...]
Teen Center raises curtain for new theatre group
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on September 24, 2008
“The skits focus on underage drinking and DUI prevention,” said Teen Center Project Coordinator Melissa Peterson. “The theatre group focuses on peer education and influencing peers to make healthy choices.”
One of the skits, “Tragedies,” was completely written by the all-teen theater group. Another skit, “Party Time,” was already written, but the group changed some aspects [...]
Australian Teen Choir To Raise The Red Curtain
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on September 24, 2008
The touring choir performed will perform at a variety of high profile public events in Dublin, Dundalk, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and London before going to Hanoi. The choir will be hosted by and present shared concerts with local school groups and choirs in each destination.
The choir has delighted audiences across Australia and around the world with [...]
Blooming Swansong Brings Curtain Down
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on September 24, 2008
One of the speakers on the last morning of the Labour conference was a young woman called “Tulip” whose very name brightened a grim dark hall and a grey autumn day. This was in a section of the agenda entitled “Building Strong Communities”, a name that evidently concealed a debate in so far as the [...]
Alice in Wonderland behind the Iron curtain
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on September 24, 2008
A new world lurks in Leila Ataya’s acrylic canvases. The Russian artist has dipped into her own background for her latest solo exhibition, “Long Story about Life”. “Most of my current works depict a magical world, where illusion and reality blur,” she says.
“The represented world is like a fly-agaric; so bright, attractive and beautiful, but [...]
100% of TCG Project Managers Now PMP Certified
Filed Under Curt Hennig | Posted on September 23, 2008
TCG achieved yet another milestone this week: every single one of our project managers is now Project Management Professional (PMP) certified by the Project Management Institute. Nina Preuss crossed the line (in a good way) — good job, Nina! You can read about it .
At TCG, we are committed to the best practices captured in [...]
Curtain Comes Down On Budget Farce In Sacramento
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on September 21, 2008
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and lawmakers know this crisis is coming. But Republicans and Democrats remain hopelessly divided on taxes and spending. They booted the can down the alley, as Schwarzenegger would say, on this budget, and are showing no stomach for the next one.
To head off next year’s fiasco, House Speaker Karen Bass, D-Los Angeles, [...]
Documentary highlights Comstock architecture
Filed Under Shower Curtain | Posted on September 17, 2008
Get a peek at the architectural past of Virginia City when the Nevada Historical Society shows “Behind the T-Shirt Curtain” for free at noon on Monday as part of its High Noon film series.
Among scenes in the film are of the vault of the historic courthouse where the original records were kept, the old jail, [...]