The Centurion Emerging Designer Awards gives 3 up-and-coming designers the opportunity to introduce themselves at Centurion, in a shared space at the event Jan. 30- Feb. 1, 2011 in Tucson, Arizona

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Centurion Emerging Designer Awards application deadline July 30th

Although the current unemployment rate still hovers at around ten percent, the Senate last week failed to end debate and pass a measure to extend unemployment insurance (UI) and other workforce development provisions on behalf of the millions of Americans still out of work.

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More than 1 Million No Longer Receive Unemployment Insurance

AIM is a staple of life when you live and work on the internet.  There are quite a few different IM services out there, but AIM is the most widely used.  It’s gotten to the point where a good 90% of the conversations that I have with people in the industry are through AIM.  It’s quicker than picking up the phone, and for the most part it is less intrusive.  If they are in the middle of something they can get back to me when they are available.  It’s also nice to see your buddies login every morning, letting you know that you aren’t alone in what can be a very isolated industry. That being said, there are some AIM users that tick me off.

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Affiliate AIM Etiquette

Agnes Martin in the early 60′s, photo by Peter Moore “To feel confident and successful is not natural for the artist. To feel insufficient, to experience disappointment and defeat in waiting for inspiration is the natural state of mind for an artist

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Agnes Martin

I’ve been doing a huge amount of reading, working on my dissertation proposal. To help figure things out, I’ve put words and phrases up on the wall but everything is still a haze.

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these words from my studio wall

On the 15th June 1920, three black circus workers were attacked and lynched by a mob in Duluth, Minnesota. Rumors that six African Americans had raped a teenage girl gave rise to a mob of five to ten thousand locals

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Postcard of the Hanging

One of the toughest ongoing questions for affiliate marketers is, “How do I know when I’ve spent enough money testing an offer?”  Everybody has a different approach. There are a couple of truths that we need to look at. It is very rare to find a campaign that is profitable right out of the gate

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Testing Offers 101: From Red to Green

Here is something I found someone used to get Twitter Backlinks and I thought I’d share it with whoever is interested in wanting to get more backlinks. I don’t believe I said that, of course everyone wants backlinks especially if it’s this easy and with so much talk about Google Caffeine, what you’re going to do can only help you

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Quick, Easy Twitter Backlinks Trick For You

How can older workers prove age discrimination when they are part of a reduction in force? The best way to prove any kind of employment discrimination is to focus hard on the explanations provided by the company. This is even more important when an employee is part of a group termination.

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Proving Age Discrimination in Workforce Reduction Cases

At a Churchill Club event in Mountain View, Calif., All Things Digital’s Kara Swisher talks to David Kirkpatrick, author of “The Facebook Effect,” about why the company is now the No. 1 social network