A Dance to the Music of Time – by Nicolas Poussin

The famous painting by Nicolas Poussin in the 1630s, which also inspired the novels of the same name, A Dance to the Music of Time. I’m not a big fan of Renaissance painting, nor this one, but the them creates endless thoughts in my mind. “the music of time” “dancing around time” “is time’s music a …

Anglophiles rejoice, another British epic – Anthony Powell’s novels, A Dance to the Music of Time

Seven Reasons to Read A Dance to the Music of Time In the fall of 2009, I left the United States to spend a school year teaching English in China. There were many things to do before leaving, but one of the more pleasurable was choosing which books would see me through the year. When …

Anglophiles rejoice, another British epic – Anthony Powell's novels, A Dance to the Music of Time

Seven Reasons to Read A Dance to the Music of Time In the fall of 2009, I left the United States to spend a school year teaching English in China. There were many things to do before leaving, but one of the more pleasurable was choosing which books would see me through the year. When …

“Everything is connected” – Ban Ki-moon urges the developed world to innovate sustainably

Speaking at Davos this year: The Secretary General of the UN has told industrial leaders they have a social and moral duty to innovate, in the drive to turn around the global financial crisis. Ban Ki-moon said that many countries were calling for the economy to be revitalised, social inequality to be addressed and the …

"Everything is connected" – Ban Ki-moon urges the developed world to innovate sustainably

Speaking at Davos this year: The Secretary General of the UN has told industrial leaders they have a social and moral duty to innovate, in the drive to turn around the global financial crisis. Ban Ki-moon said that many countries were calling for the economy to be revitalised, social inequality to be addressed and the …

National Signing Day – February 1st – get your fax machines ready

Today is NLI 2012 and unless you’re a crazy fan of college football you didn’t know that! NLI stands for National Letter of Intent and the first day a recruit can send this in is on February 1. The letter binds the student to school, they cannot switch without incurring stiff penalties, and the school …