Agora Gallery

About the Gallery

The late Miki Stiles, MFA established Agora Gallery in 1984 to provide an opportunity to artists who are entering the New York art market. As an artist she faced many hardships while attempting to exhibit her art and wanted to help her fellow artists in their struggle. Ms. Stiles was a visionary who founded the gallery on the principle that all artists, particularly emerging artists, are in need of enhancing their artist biographies/CV through gallery representation and exhibitions, in order to advance their artistic careers. Today Agora Gallery is a fine art gallery located in the heart of New York City’s Chelsea art galleries district, close to the Chelsea Museum of Fine Art and the DIA Center for the Arts (map and directions). The gallery is famous for showcasing a spectacular array of talented artists from around the world and around the corner, and for providing quality and original art to a discerning collector base. Agora Gallery is dedicated to serving both artists and collectors, and offers a wide spectrum of art programs, including: Exhibitions - A dynamic schedule of collective and annual fine art exhibitions, open to the public and featuring the work of our talented artists. The Chelsea International Fine Art Competition – an annual fine art competition with entries from around the world that are juried by experienced prominent art experts and museum curators. The gallery introduces the juror-selected artists to the New York Art scene, through an exhibition promotional activities both online and in print. ARTisSpectrum Magazine – a bi-annual fine art magazine that is distributed to museums, galleries, art institutions and art schools around the world. It provides artists, collectors, museums, galleries, art organizations and enthusiasts with access to the work of internationally talented emerging and mid-level artists as well as feature articles, reviews and interviews. Social Media Initiatives – as part of its commitment to bringing information to artists, Agora Gallery runs an artists' blog, which offers advice for artists, up to date news of Agora Gallery exhibitions and events, and stories from all over the art world. Artists and collectors also stay in touch with the gallery on the Agora Gallery facebook page and are provided with the latest news via the gallery's Twitter feed, @Agora_gallery. Art-Mine.com – one of the most comprehensive resources available worldwide to locatefine art for sale from emerging and established artists. You are invited to learn more about Agora Gallery's experienced and knowledgeable staff or view photos of the gallery.

Walk off the Earth

History

Walk off the Earth is a Canadian indie band formed in 2006 in Burlington, Ontario. They have gained success around the world by making low-budget music videos of covers and originals. The band built their fan base independently with no help from record labels, booking agents or management. On February 7, 2012, the music industry publication Crazed Hits reported that the band had signed a recording contract with Columbia Records. The band is best known for their covers of popular music on YouTube, making use of uncommon instruments such as the Ukulele and the Theremin, as well as looping samples and Auto-tune technology.

Career

The band's first success came from covering the songs of The Gregory Brothers. The video of their cover of Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to Know" became rapidly popular on YouTube in early 2012, gathering over 80 million views in two months and received positive responses from both Gotye and his co-singer on the song, Kimbra. In the video, the five musicians are shown playing a single guitar. The band has also covered "Someone Like You" by Adele, "Party Rock Anthem" by LMFAO, and dozens of other tracks


Members

• Gianni Luminati - Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass, Ukulele, Banjo, Kazoo, Keys, Drums, Vocals, Theremin, Beatbox, Xylophone, Cigar Box Guitar, Cigar Box Ukulele
• Ryan Marshall - Guitar, Ukulele, Vocals, Trumpet
• Mike Taylor (Widely known as "Beard Guy" and "Beard Man") – Keyboards, Vocals
• Joel Cassady – Drums, Cigar Box Guitar
• Sarah Blackwood - Guitar, Electric Guitar, Kazoo, Ukulele, Banjo, Bass, Vocals, Piano, Glockenspiel, Tamborine, Cigar Box Guitar

Sources :

http://www.walkofftheearth.com/

http://www.facebook.com/walkofftheearth

http://www.youtube.com/user/walkofftheearth

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walk_off_the_Earth

Little story

While a cuckoo clock was faling an the man wearing a dress,Santa Claus flew over icon of St.Cristopher on a broken chair.And right now I`ll bite ones`s my tongue.

Andrew

Tomoeow I will go to
zoo.there we have
monkeys also like
bananas are very
tasty thing are in my
house was designed for monkeys to live
in a meadow of sunflowers which left him
hunhry as a
lion is a big
cat was very
pussy cat
dolls were very
pretty girl was plaing in the
yard with children

The National Football League

The National Football League 

The National Football League (NFL) is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league globally. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing its name to the National Football League in 1922. The league currently consists ofthirty-two teams from the United States. The league is divided evenly into two conferences – the American Football Conference(AFC) and National Football Conference (NFC), and each conference has four divisions that have four teams each, for a total of 16 teams in each conference. The NFL is an unincorporated 501(c)(6) association a federal nonprofit designation, comprising its 32 teams.

The regular season is a seventeen-week schedule during which each team plays sixteen games and has one bye week. The season currently starts on the Thursday night in the first full week of September and runs weekly to late December or early January. At the end of each regular season, six teams from each conference (at least one from each division) play in the NFL playoffs, a twelve-team single-elimination tournament that culminates with the championship game, known as the Super Bowl. This game is held at a pre-selected site which is usually a city that hosts an NFL team.

The NFL is the most attended domestic sports league in the world by average attendance per game, with 66,960 fans per game in 2010–11.^[8] Although not as frequently as the other major professional sports leagues in the United States, the NFL still is not immune to labor disputes, such as the players' strikes of 1982 and 1987, and more recently a lockout in 2011, though the latest did not result in the cancellation of any regular-season games.

Season structure

Since 2002, the NFL season features the following schedule:

a 4-game exhibition season (or preseason) running from early August to early September;

a 16-game, 17-week regular season running from September to December or early January; and

а 12-team single-elimination playoff beginning in January, culminating in the Super Bowl in early February.

Pro Bowl

The Pro Bowl, the league's all-star game, has been traditionally held on the weekend before the Super Bowl. The game was played at various venues before being held at Aloha Stadiumin Honolulu, Hawaii for 30 consecutive seasons from 1980 to 2009.

However, the 2010 Pro Bowl was played at Sun Life Stadium, the home stadium of the Miami Dolphins and host site of Super Bowl XLIV, on January 31, the first time ever that the Pro Bowl was played before the championship game. The game returned to Honolulu in 2011 and 2012, though both games were still played before the Super Bowl.

Teams

The NFL consists of thirty-two clubs. Each club is allowed a maximum of fifty-three players on their roster, but may only dress forty-five to play each week during the regular season. Reflecting the population distribution of the United States as a whole, most teams are in the eastern half of the country; seventeen teams are in the Eastern Time Zone and nine others in the Central Time Zone.

Most major metropolitan areas in the United States have an NFL franchise, although Los Angeles, the second-largest metropolitan area in the country, has not hosted an NFL team since 1994.

The Rams and the Raiders called the Los Angeles area home from 1946–1994 and 1982–1994 respectively. On August 9, 2011, the LA City Council approved plans to build Farmers Field which could be home to an NFL team. It is unknown which team, if any, will move to the venue.

Unlike Major League Baseball, Major League Soccer, the National Basketball Association and theNational Hockey League, the league has no full-time teams in Canada, although the Buffalo Billsplay one game per year in Toronto. There has been discussion of possibly bringing the NFL to Toronto, the largest city in Canada. In addition, as of 2012, the St. Louis Rams will begin hosting one of its regular season games in London, England as part of the International Series, making the NFL the first U.S.-based sports league to have one of its teams establish a home stadium outside North America.

The Dallas Cowboys are the highest valued American football franchise, valued at approximately $1.6 billion and one of the most valuable franchises in all of professional sports worldwide, currently second behind English soccer club Manchester United, which has an approximate value of $1.8 billion at current exchange rates

Sources :

http://www.nfl.com

http://espn.go.com/nfl/

http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/news/sports/profootball/nationalfootballleague/index.html

http://bleacherreport.com/nfl

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Football_League