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Gwen Stefani true personality. She is coquette, creative and free

American singer Gwen Stefani is the co-founder and lead vocalist of the ska band No Doubt. However, as a solo artist, she has won several music awards, including a Grammy Award, a World Music Award, an American Music Award, a Brit Award, and two Billboard Music Awards. Also, in 2003, she debuted her clothing line L.A.M.B. and expanded her collection with the 2005 Harajuku Lovers line. What is the secret of such a strong personality? She is coquette, creative and free! Our quotes of the day are by Gwen Stefani. Listen to her!

Gwen Stefani

Coquette: “If I wasn’t even famous or had any success, I would still wake up and put tons of make-up on, and put on a cool outfit. That’s always been who I’ve been my whole life, so that’s never gonna change. I love fashion. I love getting dressed up. I love Halloween, too.”

Creative: “My songs are basically my diaries. Some of my best songwriting has come out of time when I’ve been going through a personal nightmare.”

In 2006 Stefani released her second studio album The Sweet Escape. The album produced two successful singles: “Wind It Up” and the album’s title track “The Sweet Escape.”

Free: “I’d like to have no rules and eat what I want, but I’ve learned over the years that I’m so disappointed when I can’t wear the clothes I want to wear.”

Billboard magazine ranked Stefani the 54th most successful artist and 37th most successful Hot 100 artist of the 2000–09 decade. Wooow! VH1 ranked her 13th on their “100 Greatest Women in Music” list in 2012. What do you think about Gwen Stefani? Everybody loves her! And you? Tell us your opinion now!

Enjoy your day, Yareah friends. Art is everywhere and up to you!

“Life is short and you’ve got to get the most out of it.” Gwen Stefani.

A rare Francis Bacon self-portrait is set to come to auction for the first time in May

A rare Francis Bacon self-portrait is set to come to auction for the first time in May, having remained in the same private collection since soon after it was painted over forty-five years ago.  Widely acknowledged as the finest self-portrayal Bacon ever produced,Two Studies for a Self-Portrait (1970) will lead Sotheby’s Evening Auction of Contemporary Art in New York on 11 May 2016, with an estimate of US$22-30 million.

Francis Bacon, Two Studies for a Self-Portrait (1970), estimate $22-30 million

While Bacon is renowned for capturing the tortured psychological depths of human existence in his portraits, the overwhelming positivity of Two Studies for a Self-Portrait renders this work almost unique in the artist’s oeuvre. Here we see an elated Francis Bacon on the cusp of his career-defining retrospective at the Grand Palais in 1971 (Bacon was only the second living artist, after Picasso, to be afforded this honour), and in the throes of his relationship with George Dyer, whose suicide a year later was to haunt Bacon (and shape his art) for decades to come.

Little known to the public eye, Two Studies for a Self-Portrait has been exhibited only twice before – first at the acclaimed 1971 Grand Palais retrospective and then most recently at Marlborough Fine Art Small Portrait Studies exhibition in London in 1993. However, perhaps the work’s iconic status lies in the fact it was chosen to adorn the cover of Milan Kundera and France Borel’s definitive book Francis Bacon: Portraits and Self-Portraits, confirming its position at the absolute zenith of Francis Bacon’s most significant and enduring body of work.

“Two Studies for a Self-Portrait goes straight in at number one of all the paintings I’ve handled in my career. Discovering a work such as this is like finding gold dust  To my mind, the painting is worthy of a place alongside the very finest self-portraits of Rembrandt, Van Gogh and Picasso. It’s certainly among the greatest self-portraits ever offered at auction.” – Oliver Barker, Senior International Specialist in Contemporary Art

A masterpiece of self-analysis, Bacon’s dramatic brushstrokes, Impressionistic palette, use of corduroy fabric, and exigent marks recount the story of this work’s creation as the artist brushed, smeared and lifted the paint in his drive to define his likeness. Photos of the artist’s Reece Mews studio in London show radiant pink, red, blue, and white hues smeared across his studio door, echoing those used in Two Studies for a Self Portrait as the artist scraped clean his brush as he reworked, and layered this canvas.

Bacon created only two other self-portraits in this dual format. One of them, Two Studies for a Self-Portrait (1977) sold at Sotheby’s in February 2015 for £14.7m ($22.4m).

2016 is set to be a red-letter year for Francis Bacon with exhibitions of his work planned at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco (sponsored by Sotheby’s), at Tate Liverpool, and at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. The most significant publication on the artist for 30 years, Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné, edited by Martin Harrison, is set to be released in the next few months and is expected to reveal no fewer than 100 unseen works by the artist.

Pocket App CEO gives back to UK’s budding entrepreneurs

Paul Swaddle, CEO, Pocket App

Mayor’s International Business Programme Mentor, Paul Swaddle, leads App Development Conference for University of Kent’s young entrepreneurs

London, 17th March 2016 – Paul Swaddle, CEO of Pocket App, the UK’s largest independent app developer, joined a shortlist of prestigious app development industry pioneers in speaking at the University of Kent’s App Development Conference on Wednesday 16th March.

Paul Swaddle, who recently also joined some of the world’s most experienced and successful entrepreneurs as a mentor in the Mayor’s International Business Programme, a new initiative launched by the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson MP, to help the capital’s high growth firms break into new international markets and grow their existing operations overseas, spoke in front of 100 students at the university’s famed Templeman Library about the intricacies of the app development industry.

The university has witnessed a seismic shift in the number of students interested in starting app-based businesses and software developments, with every 1 in 3 business ideas at the university focusing on, or in some way incorporating, digital software. The App Development Conference was a half-day event curated by The University of Kent’s Hub for Innovation and Enterprise and the University’s School of Computing, and consisted of a series of speeches and workshops conducted by the app development industry’s most successful entrepreneurs and thought leaders. The goal of the conference was for these figures to provide the budding student entrepreneur population with knowledge, insight and confidence to go forward in app development with high aspirations.

Paul Swaddle, CEO and Co-founder of Pocket App commented, “It was great to be invited to speak in front of so many ambitious, young entrepreneurs. This generation clearly realises that mobile is now a central component of any entrepreneur’s business plan, regardless of whether or not your business is primarily app-focussed. The words ‘digital’ and ‘app’ are no longer niche terms and are now highly relevant to most successful businesses; it’s very encouraging to see that the students here clearly appreciate that. You only have to look at the recent high profile sales of mobile app developers such as Mubaloo, The App Business and ArcTouch, which all went for substantial amounts of money, to realise that organisations are switching towards a more digital mindset and valuing how the best technology can be a key way to differentiate themselves from their competitors.”

The introductory and interactive conference also aims to provide opportunities for the aspiring mobile entrepreneurs to work alongside leading external developers to grow their ideas.

Paul Swaddle, who is well versed in providing critical feedback on the app development market following his appearance as a guest judge in the final of the BBC’s hugely popular series, The Apprentice, continued, “I would love to work alongside some of these young people to help bring their ideas to life and, if possible, develop those ideas into a product that can be taken to market. At Pocket App, we pride ourselves on our ability to not only collaborate with large blue chip organisations, but also to provide the consultancy and advice that these young entrepreneurs need to continue their mobile journeys.”

Free HR Workshop Taking Place in Reigate for Businesses

Hazel McCallum

Constantly plugged in, turning up late and then leaving at the drop of a hat… does this sound like a familiar challenge for managers? Younger employees have an amazing passion and energy, but they sometimes lack the necessary practical performance skills of people with years more experience.

Are the benefits of an established and age-diverse workforce being compromised by the younger generation of team members?

This is where Hazel McCallum can help. The founder of Coulsdon-based Moving On Up Coaching, Hazel is a passionate and experienced business coach. She is delivering a workshop entitled Generation Wise in partnership with Kevin Horlock, an experienced performance coach.

The free workshop is taking place on Wednesday 6 April 2016 from 09.00AM until 11:00AM at Reigate Town Hall, Reigate and Banstead Borough Council, Castlefield Road, Reigate, RH2 0SH.

The event is aimed at HR professional across all businesses, particularly those employing staff under 30, including apprentices and graduate trainees. Speaking ahead of the event, Hazel said, “Generation Y – the under 30s – and Generation Z – the school leavers – are a strong asset to every workforce, but their challenges to the old rules can shake the confidence of business owners. This event will be a productive and educational insight into how you can harness the strengths of these employees in the right way, whilst keeping your sanity!”

This interactive and informative event will help managers discover how to develop their younger employees into highly productive team players with a focus on what drives young employees, the skills needed to capitalise on their range of strengths and how combining all of this will help your business to grow.

On the agenda is key advice for developing communication techniques and coaching styles. These will help manage and strengthen relationships and enhance emotional intelligence.

Hazel specialises in helping people to perform at their peak without getting burnt out and has a special interest in the inter-generational workplace that is currently emerging and posing unique challenges. She also specialises in stress management, emotional intelligence and developing interpersonal skills. Moving On Up Coaching offers a personal, interactive and authentic approach to developing these areas.

Hazel has worldwide experience in a range of sectors including health, construction, the Civil Service, financial sector and education, both in the UK and globally. Hazel has also written an e-book entitled ‘Managing the Stress Epidemic’ which can be downloaded from this link and latterly a White Paper entitled “Work Related Stress. Why is it a problem and what can you do about it?”

With a business career spanning over 44 years, Kevin has managed and developed people in diverse environments. He has held senior leadership positions and coaching roles in the public sector, as chief executive of various registered charities and for the last 15 years in the private sector, where he developed his own businesses, recently selling a franchise which he had successfully tripled in value over 4 years.

To register for the free event, please visit https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/managi...…

Links

Moving On Up Coaching: http://movingonupcoaching.com/

Generation Wise Event: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/managi...…

Moving On Up Coaching Twitter: https://twitter.com/HazelMcCallum1

TV Shows Today, March 17: Vikings, Scandal, How to Get Away With Murder

Our Top#1 TV Shows Today is for a great series, Vikings. Today’s episode: Promised. Season 4. Episode 5. 10:00 pm. HIST. From Wikipedia: Vikings is an Irish-Canadian historical drama television series written and created by Michael Hirst for the television channel History. Filmed in Ireland, it premiered on 3 March 2013 in Canada and the United States.

Our second choice is for Olivia Pope and her gladiators. Scandal. Today: I See You. Season 5. Episode 14. 9:00 pm. ABC.

And our last recommendation is for How to Get Away With Murder. Today’s episode: Anna Mae. Season 2. Episode 15. 10:00 pm. ABC.

We hope you enjoy the shows. Have a very nice day, dear friends.

TV Shows Today, March 17 Video: Scandal 5×14 Promo “I See You” (HD)

Famous Birthdays Today, March 17: Tamar Braxton, Hozier, Rob Lowe, Rob Kardashian

Our Top#1 Famouys Birthdays Today is for the R&B singer, Tamar Braxton. She was born in Severn in 1977 and, from Yareah, we wish her and her famous family all the best in this special day. Congrats and happy birthday, Tamar Braxton!

Famous Birthdays Today, March 17: Tamar Braxton in December 2013. Source: Wikipedia. Author: Marco2932

I never had plastic surgery. I had a nose procedure done because I had to. I had no cartilage in my nose; I have a piece of cartilage from my ear put into my nose. I had a medical procedure done. I have no plastic in my nose.

Tamar Braxton

Anybody with skin issues knows that that’s a very sensitive subject, and that’s why I’ve never shared that I have vitiligo because I do.

Tamar Braxton

More famous birthdays today, March 17: Rob Lowe, who appeared on the popular 1985 film St. Elmo’s Fire, born in Charlottesville in 1964; Rob Kardashian, Reality star born in 1987; and the singer known as Hozier.

Happy birthday to all of them. Have avery nice day, dear friends.

Famous birtdhays today, March 17 Video: Tamar Braxton – Angels & Demons

Sundried EHOH Could Help You Live Longer

Sundried Workout at Work

EHOH stands for Every Hour On the Hour and is an emerging fitness trend developed by www.sundried.com to combat the dangers of sitting at work and living a sedentary lifestyle.

Studies have suggested there was a link between prolonged sitting and being overweight, type 2 diabetes and a slower metabolism. We spend, on average, 7 hours a day sitting down.

⅘ people in the UK have an office job where they are predominantly sedentary. Sundired’s EHOH proposes that every hour on the hour, your office gets active. Spending 5 minutes an hour exercising can help prevent the negative effects of sitting.

Despite concerns from business owners that EHOH will encourage distractions at work, Sundried propose exchanging an hours lunch break, for half an hours break and 6 5 minute exercise intervals spread throughout the day, every hour on the hour.

Research has shown that employees return from workouts refreshed and better focused on their jobs. Time lost on exercise is made back and more in terms of improved productivity.

A study by the Journal of Occupational & Environmental Medicine found that incorporating just 2.5 hours of exercise per week into the workday led to a noticeable reduction in absences.

Examples of EHOH routines, from desk dips to burpee’s are available onhttps://www.sundried.com/blogs/training/tagged/ehoh

Sundried is an active lifestyle brand, empowering and encouraging the population to get out there and share their vision to make exercise an integral part of everyday life through premium leisurewear collections, fitness wearables and extensive training knowledge. Inspired by the outdoors Sundried and has grown from it’s roots with Triathletes to become the holistic brand it is today, with ethically produced products and charitable donations made with every purchase. Sundried activewear is designed to perform in all weather conditions using advanced technology and materials tested by UK Triathletes. The Sundried collections are sold exclusively through associate Personal Trainers selected by the company for their vast knowledge and passion for success or directly via their website www.sundried.com.

Mach 2016, Stand 5971 – Finishing Techniques Becomes Fintek

See Fintek stand 5971 at Mach 2016

Super fine metal surface finishing experts to the aerospace, autosports and precision engineering industries, Finishing Techniques, are using Mach 2016 to launch their new web site and Fintek branding. Recent customer research has shown that the Fintek brand has become synonymous with high levels of customer service, metal part finishing problem solving and quality.

Manging director and founder, Jonathan Dean, explains, “For more than 35 years we have been solving metal finishing problems for precision engineers, manufacturers and jewellery makers. The Fintek brand has been predominately used within the subcontract services’ business and Finishing Techniques for machine sales. As part of our growth strategy we conducted customer research and they said they liked the Fintek brand, so going forward we will promote sub-contract services and machine sales under this one brand.”

The company has been the UK official agent for Otec Präzisionsfinish GmbH since 1997. Since that time Otec machine technology has transformed areas previously dominated by traditional vibratory and manual finishing processes. Fintek offer Otec equipment along with a full service to help manufacturers find the right combination of machine, media and process time to achieve the required surface finish for their part. This is backed by ongoing consultancy, preventative maintenance and if needed the full worldwide expertise of Otec.

The Fintek stand 5971 at Mach will focus on both machine sales and the company’s extensive sub-contract capability. Jonathan added, “Capital investment in equipment may not be the best option for some companies and with our in-house capability we can solve their surface finishing problems – prove the process and quality – for anything from single parts to mass-production finishing and everything in between.”

Visitors to Mach who may have doubts about how to achieve the best surface finish for their manufactured parts should really stop by stand 5971 and tap into the company’s expertise, they are happy to conduct free trial part processing post show.

New Fintek web site: www.fintek.co.uk. Mach 2016: www.machexhibition.com

TV Shows Today, March 15: Limitless, NCIS, Rizzoli & Isles

Well, it’s Tuesday and we have great shows to watch. First, we recommend Limitless. Today’s episode: Bezgranichnyy. Season 1. Episode 18. 10:00 pm. CBS. From Wikipedia: Limitless is an American dramedy television series.[2] It stars Jake McDorman as Brian Finch, who discovers the power of a mysterious drug called NZT-48 which opens the full possibility of his brain and gives him perfect recall of everything he has ever read,

Our second choice is for NCIS. Today: Scope. Season 13. Episode 18. 8:00 pm. CBS.

And our last recommendation is for Rizzoli & Isles. Today’s episode: A Shot in the Dark. Season 6. Episode 18. 9:00 pm. TNT.

We hope you enjoy the shows. Have a very nice day, dear friends.

TV Shows Today, March 15 Video: Limitless 1×18 Promo “Bezgranichnyy” (HD)

Birthdays Today, March 15: will.i.am, Connor Ball, Alia Bhatt, Eva Longoria

Born William James Adams, he’s well known as a singer with The band Black Eyed Peas. He’s known as will.i.am, he was born in Los Angeles in 1975 and, from Yareah, we wish him and his family all the best in this special day. Congrats and happy birthday, will.i.am!

Famous Birthdays Today, March 15: will.i.am, Hollywood, CA on August 14, 2012 – Photo by Glenn Francis of www.PacificProDigital.com

You can rule ignorance; you can manipulate the illiterate; you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics.

will.i.am

When you follow your heart, you’re never supposed to do things because of what you think people might say. You do it for the opposite reasons.

will.i.am

More famous birthdays today, March 15: Connor Ball, bassist for the band The Vamps, born in Scotland in 1996; Alia Bhatt, Bollywood star; and Eva Longoria, actress born in Texas in 1975.

Happy birthday to all of them. Have a very nice day, dear friends.

Famous Birthdays Today, March 15 Video: The Black Eyed Peas – I Gotta Feeling