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Biography of America, A "Slavery" While the North develops an industrial economy and culture, the South develops a slave culture and economy, and the great rift between the regions becomes unbreachable. Professor Masur looks at the human side of the history of the mid-1800s by sketching a portrait of the lives of slave and master. D
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Biography of America, A "Coming of the Civil War" Simmering regional differences ignite an all-out crisis in the 1850s. Professor Martin teams with Professor Miller and historian Stephen Ambrose to chart the succession of incidents, from 'Bloody Kansas' to the shots on Fort Sumter, that inflame the conflict between North and South to the point of civil war. D
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Kimchi Chronicles "The Chicken Chronicles" Beginning in Andong, the spiritual capital of Korea, Marja participates in the area's festive masked dance ritual and learns about the local salted mackerel before getting into jjimtak, Andong's real specialty. Along Chicken Alley, Marja and her adopted cousin April sample tons of the spicy stir-fry made with chicken, noodles and vegetables. Next Marja hits up Chuncheon for dakgalbi, their famous chicken dish flavored with gochujang, the red pepper paste that informs nearly every Korean dish. D
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TMZ has obtained photos of Chris Brown's rented Lamborghini at the police impound yesterday -- and it appears to have been dusted for fingerprints.
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Fantasy whiz Nik Bonaddio, proprietor of sports analytics firm numberFire, has weighed in with the first realistic prognostication of what fantasy players might expect from Manning, provided his surgically fused neck can hold up to the rigors of a full 16-game NFL season.
The $18 million answer? Bonaddio says we can look for 409 completions on 598 passes, amounting to 4,398 yards, 32 scores, and 15 picks.
That would be fairly comparable to Manning's final four seasons in Indy and would place him as the fifth-ranked fantasy QB heading into next year, just ahead of Cam Newton and behind only Drew Brees, Aaron Rodgers, Tom Brady, and (wait for it) brother Eli.


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Thirty Referees to Receive Expert Training from FIFA During 2011 Development Academy Finals Week
Former FIFA Referees to Provide Instruction and Mentoring Throughout the Event
The FIFA Member Association Course for referees highlights this year's referee instruction during Development Academy Finals Week that kicks off July 9 in Milwaukee, Wis. For the first time, the course will occur concurrently with Finals Week as 30 referees will receive instruction and training in the morning and then officiate matches in the afternoon.
Two experienced former FIFA referees, Peter Prendergast and Ramesh Ramdhan, will teach the course, providing U.S. Soccer referees working in the Development Academy with expert insight and mentoring. Prendergast, a native of Jamaica, has officiated at several major international tournaments including the 2002 World Cup. Ramdhan, who began his international career in 1979, is a former FIFA referee from Trinidad and Tobago who officiated at the 1998 World Cup.
As part of the program, the referees will first participate in FIFA fitness testing in order to gain a better understanding of the international standards and requirements. For the remaining days, the referees will receive classroom educational instruction and on-field practical training totaling approximately 20 hours.
"We are fortunate to have the opportunity to offer a FIFA Member Association course to our developing referees," said Herb Silva, Director of Professional Referee Development at U.S. Soccer. "By receiving training and evaluation from former FIFA officials, our young referees will gain valuable practical knowledge and at the same time get a picture of what it takes to officiate at the highest level."
The inclusion of the FIFA Member Association Course has allowed the Development Academy Finals Week to expand their referee pool. Last year, only 16 referees participated in the event, while this year a total of 30 will be present.
Of these 30 referees, 27 are male and three are female coming from across the United States. Eight of the referees are center referees - including two females with experience officiating WPS matches - who have been specifically identified by U.S. Soccer as having potential for accelerated progression into the professional ranks. The remaining 22 referees were recommended by their state associations or identified at the Development Academy Playoffs for quality performances.
Six of the referees are repeat participants in Finals Week. The referee group will also receive mentoring from experienced MLS referees Alex Prus and Abbey Okulaja throughout the event.
"The Academy was designed to identify and develop those candidates that have the potential for a professional career," added Silva. "Finals Week is another great mechanism to help advance their progress."


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55 Ways to Bring Open Source into Education
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While some educators have been quick to grasp the potential and promise of open source software, many others have been hesitant to stray from the comfortable zone of commercial applications. Yet that's changing.
More teachers and institutions are now participating with organizations like SchoolForge, the Open Source Education Foundation, and Open Source Schools. These educators are beginning to see that the open source philosophy has the power to transform education in several key ways.
First, schools can use open source apps to replace costly commercial software and free up resources for other purposes. For example, openSIS performs the same tasks as closed-source school administration programs (scheduling, grades, report cards, attendance, etc.) while reducing total cost of ownership up to 75 percent.
Second, open source applications are changing the ways students and teachers interact, as applications like Moodle make eLearning simple an affordable. Some institutions, notably MIT and UC Berkeley, have taken the concept of open source distance learning one step further. As members of the OpenCourseWare Consortium, they've made the content of some courses available for free, so that anyone in the world can benefit from their expertise.
Finally, open-source software gives educators more options than ever before. Today, instructors have dozens, if not hundreds, of options for free and open source applications that help them present lessons on everything from learning the ABCs to modeling the complex interactions of molecules during biochemical processes.
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The list below provides just a small sampling of the open source applications available to help educators teach and inspire their students.
Just added to this list: Open source educational apps by KDE (see entries #50-55).
1. openSIS
The "Open Source Student Information System," or openSIS, claims to lower a school district's total cost of ownership by 75 percent when compared to comparable commercial systems. It includes student demographics, contact information, scheduling, grade book, reporting, report cards, transcripts, health records, attendance, a built-in parent portal, and advanced security features. Operating System: Windows, Linux.
2. Stellarium
Downloaded more than 7 million times, Stellarium is one of the most popular open-source education apps available. With this app, you can input coordinates for any point on earth and view the night skies for any particular point in time. It's so accurate, it's even used to power many planetariums. Operating System: Windows, Linux, OS X.
3. Celestia
Like Stellarium, Celestia lets you view the night skies from earth, but it also lets you fly through 3D space to any place in the known universe. When possible, it uses actual photographs of planets, asteroids, and other objects, so that you can see what they really look like. Operating System: Windows, Linux, OS X.
This app lets researchers analyze, simulate, and visualize the paths of objects that have been launched into space. It's currently being used by the European Space Agency and a number of international universities. Operating System: Windows, Linux, OS X.
5. ByoDyn
Scientists building models of biochemical networks or pathways can use ByoDyn to estimate and analyze the parameters underlying these processes. In addition to the downloadable version, it can also be accessed online as a Web app. Operating System: Linux, OS X.
6. Jmol
This java-based app lets students create diagrams of atoms, molecules, macromolecules, crystals, and more. The site includes a handbook and tutorials for helping you learn how to use the software. Operating System: OS Independent.
7. ProtoMol
ProtoMol is a framework for molecular dynamics simulation. It's designed to be highly flexible, easily extensible, and to meet high performance demands. Operating System: Linux, Unix, Windows.
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8. iTALC
Short for "intelligent teaching and learning with computers," iTALC makes it easier for teachers to interact with students using PCs in the classroom or those joining from home via a VPN connection. With it, you can view a snapshot of every screen in the class, show students a demo from your screen, lock workstations (so students have to pay attention to you), send text messages, and more. Operating System: Windows, Linux.
9. Mando
Mando lets you create an interactive whiteboard. If you have your computer connected to a camera and a projector, you can use your laser pointer to control the computer in front of the class, just as you would use a mouse at your desk. Operating System: Linux.
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Winner of several awards, Archon simplifies the process of creating a searchable Web site to house archival materials. Administrators can input or edit information via Web forms, and the software automatically uploads and publishes the data. It's currently being used by more than 40 universities, zoos, historical societies, and other institutions. Operating System: OS Independent.
11. Fedora Commons
Fedora Commons allows you to manage, preserve, and link different types of digital content. For example, you can use it to create an archive of video, audio, and text files on a particular topic which users can then search or comment on. Operating System: OS Independent.
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It's weekend and what better way to celebrate the weekend than with a cocktail or two in some great company. The fruity drink also doubles up as a dessert because it's made with raspberry sorbet. Serve in chilled glasses with a sugar rim and orange peel.
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The New Orleans Photo Alliance announces the call for entries for "The American Dream" Juried By: Deborah Willis
Entries must be submitted by December 14th, 2009
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"The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement…It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are, regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position."
James Truslow Adams, THE EPIC OF AMERICA, 1931.
What does the American Dream look like? How is it now defined? Has it been realized? The New Orleans Photo Alliance is seeking contemporary photographs that explore these questions and more about The American Dream. Dr. Deborah Willis, chair of the Department of Photography and Imaging at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and one of the nation's leading historians of African American photography, will jury this exhibition.
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Filmmaker and actor Farhan Akhtar admits that films influence the general public, but says more than the sleazy item songs, what impacts is the way the hero romances his on-screen love interest. "I do believe that films do have an influence. More than the item songs phenomenon, it is in the way
our heroes romance our women. I think that's a very crucial thing and it has changed over the years," the 39-year-old said.
Farhan Akhtar was speaking on Thursday during One Billion Rising, a global campaign to raise awareness about gender-based violence across 200 countries.
Love on screen has become more open and bold, and this is something that worries Akhtar. "You know there was a time when it was hidden. Then it became very sincere and romantic, and now it has gone into a (different) phase," he said.
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Thabo Sefolosha made a career-high 5 of 7 3-pointers and the Oklahoma City Thunder routed the Phoenix Suns for the second game in a row 97-69 on Sunday night.
The 28-point blowout followed a 127-96 Thunder romp over the Suns in Oklahoma City on Friday night.
Russell Westbrook scored 24 points in 28 minutes in the Thunder's 10th straight victory over Phoenix, the longest active streak for any Suns opponent.
Sefolosha added 20 points, two shy of his career high. Kevin Durant scored 18, 11 below his NBA-leading season average (29.1), in limited duty in the Thunder's fourth straight win, none of them by fewer than a 21-point margin.
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SAVANNAH, Ga. — Steve Johnson is telling a story about doing some Christmas shopping with his wife a few years back. Johnson, deputy administrator of the EPA, had discovered a compact disc player his children wanted from Santa Claus on sale at a local discount store. The sale was one of those after-Thanksgiving blowouts that start at 3 or 4 in the morning.
"In our household, if you believe in Santa, you get a present," he said. "So our adult children… they really believe in Santa. Our two younger children had decided they wanted these compact stereos."
Johnson and his wife went to the store and got in line, waiting for it to open at 3 or 4 a.m. But when they went to the area where they had spotted the compact disc players prior to the sale they were no longer there. When they inquired, a clerk told them they had moved those stereos, but they had another brand they could substitute.
"The box we had been looking at was this big," said Johnson, making a cube about 18 inches wide with his hands. "The new boxes were this big (much bigger cube). Now, if you're a kid, would you rather get a box this big (smaller cube) or this big (bigger cube)? Bigger is better, right?"
Johnson put two of the bigger, better boxes in the shopping cart, paid for them at the store counter and took them to the car while his wife did some more shopping.
"I got out to our small car and started trying to figure out how to get the boxes in the trunk," he said. "That's when I saw the writing on the side that said 'Each box contains two stereos.' And I had just paid for two."
What followed, he said, was a debate between "the devil on one shoulder and the angel on the other." Even though it was 3 a.m. and pitch dark, Johnson decided to take the boxes back inside the store and "do the right thing."
That's when the real fun began. When he tried to re-enter the store, he was confronted by a security guard who informed him he couldn't return the items because the sale prices were final. Johnson tried to explain, but the guard wouldn't listen and just kept repeating the words "no returns."
Johnson said he was about to give up and return to the car when someone distracted the guard, giving him a clear path to the customer service counter. When he tried to tell the assistant manager his problem, she interrupted him.
"I saw that guard outside tell you not to bring these boxes into the store," she said. Persisting, Johnson told her he had only paid for two stereos, not four. The assistant manager shot back: "We don't make those kinds of mistakes."
With the angel telling him to keep trying and the devil asking why he was even bothering, Johnson spotted the clerk who sold him the stereos and approached him with the cart.
"The clerk was very apologetic and told me I could return them at his register," said Johnson. "He said he appreciated me bringing them back because if the other two stereos had come up missing, he probably would have lost his job."
Speaking at the 50th annual meeting of the Southern Crop Production Association in Savannah, Johnson, who added some embellishments to his version, said his Christmas story really serves as an illustration of what the current leadership is trying to accomplish at EPA.
"EPA is in some ways the guard at the door, in some ways the manager and in some ways the assistant manager," he said. "EPA does have a role to fill. There is the gun and badge; there is the organization; there is a need to make the operation run smoothly, effectively and appropriately.
"But when EPA really gets in the way of doing the right thing, we're in the wrong place."
Johnson was sworn in as deputy administrator of EPA last July after 20 years of rising through the ranks at the agency. Many of those years were marked with intense struggles between the agency and manufacturers over pesticide registrations and regulations.
Although Johnson, who served as deputy director of the Office of Pesticide Programs before becoming deputy administrator, was considered to be an agency official who would at least listen to farmers and manufacturers, his superiors often seemed determined to make manufacturers' and farmers' lives as difficult as possible.
The change in attitude at EPA in recent years, including the naming of Johnson as deputy administrator, led the CropLife America Political Action Committee, the political arm of the organization representing crop protection chemical manufacturers, to make its first ever endorsement in a presidential election — in favor of the Bush-Chaney ticket — this year.
"When you think about the last four years and what we were trying to accomplish, certainly at the administrator level, one of the themes has been that there really is a better way of environmental protection," said Johnson. "The days of the guns and badges are over, and what we're seeing over the past few years is what I have to think are better ways of doing business."
Johnson said this new way of doing environmental protection has four cornerstones:
• Technology: "We know and you are aware that your companies are investing in technology. That technology might be new products; new delivery systems; or it might be biotechnology. Technology is one of the fundamentals of new environmental protection."
• Market incentives: "In my history and when (current EPA Administrator) Mike Levitz was governor of Utah, we saw again and again that when you bring market forces to bear on many of these issues, it worked much better than through litigation and regulation.
• Collaboration: "We have found that if we can collaborate on a particular issue, the issue will be resolved faster and cheaper and, in our experience, in a better way.
• Results: "You know as business leaders that talk is cheap, and if you don't deliver the results, then you as a company or as an organization won't survive.
The new way of doing environmental protection doesn't mean that EPA will always agree with all of its constituents, he noted.
"In our decision-making in various areas, we have sometimes had to agree to disagree. But when it is getting in the way of doing the right thing for the American people, then we aren't doing the right thing."
The burden isn't entirely on EPA, however.
"Likewise, you have a similar responsibility because there are days and times when you have an angel on one shoulder and the devil on another," he said. "After all, situations are rarely cut and dried. And so your responsibility is also to do the right thing.
Speaking on Nov. 1, Johnson said he hoped SCPA members "did the right thing" in the next day's elections. "But, more importantly or as importantly, as you carry out your day-to-day business, I hope that you help EPA make sure it does the right thing."
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During challenging times, you must focus on your team's strengths. What can your personal training team do to drive up the company's non-dues revenue? If your team members realize that their efforts help the club's bottom line, you can expect improved performance. If they know that you believe in them and they have the ability to deliver their strengths, they'll be more focused and motivated. Here is what you can do:
Devote daily time to EMPOWER your team:
1. Education: Make those around you better. Challenge your staff to continually learn the most current industry trends, training techniques and scientific research. This takes place only when you provide an environment that includes the necessary materials, such as industry trade journals, videos, monthly fitness publications, online webinars, Web site training tools and team-training workouts.
2. Motivation: Show them your passion and learn what drives theirs. One of the best ways to motivate your staff is to determine how they like to be rewarded and recognized for a job well done. One thing that has worked for my staff is to ask them to share some of their favorite things (candy, restaurant, sports team, flower, musical group), then reward employees with them for a job well done. Dig a little deeper and connect with them on an individual level (birthday, anniversary, hobbies and children's names).
3. Preparation: Prepare like you are the busiest/most successful club in town. Press forward like you are expecting your business to spread like a sneeze. Challenge your staff to create new and exciting programs. Take the time to market your business in new ways, such as through social networking and local networking with businesses and like-minded groups.
4. Opportunities: Deliver opportunities to grow with lectures and classes. Ask each of your staff members to develop an area of interest (diabetes, weight-loss support, marathon training) and have them deliver their findings to your club members. This can be done through lectures, incentive programs, small group trainings and train-the-trainer meetings.
5. WOW Factor: Teach your trainers to treat their clientele like kings and queens. Make clients' sessions the best part of their day. Here are some ideas: greet them like a long-lost friend, give them something new every session, use goal-setting sheets, make them part of your family, give them a water bottle or protein shake, give them 100 percent focus, and finish with a hands-on stretch.
6. Expectations: Your staff must know what is expected of them. Make sure that your staff has defined expectations. Work with them during the slower times to define new goals and to develop new roles and strategies to reduce job confusion and lack of focus. Remember the quote: "Success is a decision, and it requires action."
7. Reward: Look for little reasons to recognize and reward your staff. Take time to notice the little things that your staff accomplishes to make your club stand apart from the competition. Did they help a member get to their car? Did they sit with an elderly client in the lobby? Did they pick up the weight room area? Did they handle a customer complaint with confidence? Be sure to reward this behavior in front of their peers.
Take the time to EMPOWER your personal training staff. More than anyone else, the boss creates the conditions that directly determine people's ability to work well and effectively. During challenging business times, your leadership and ability to EMPOWER is the glue that holds your team together.


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Although dozens of aftermarket turbo setups are available, we felt that upgrading our single turbo would be sufficient to realize the power potential we now have after installing our Diablo Sport Predator programmer and TS Performance box (see "Power Atop Power," page 50).
We called up the guys at ATS Diesel Performance and told them about our towing plans and horsepower expectations (10,000 pounds and 450-500 horses), and after comparing a few systems the Aurora 2000 turbo with the two-piece manifold seemed like the perfect match for our '06 Dodge Ram 2500. With the added boost coming from the new turbo, we also opted for ATS's Arc Flow intake that would help deal with the increased air now passing through the intercooler.
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This is a bonding course for teachers through Art-making. They explored use of various mixed media with recycled materials creating our iconic HDB flats in relief forms with vibrant colours.
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Mixed Media Relief Art (Teachers' Workshop)
Park View Primary School
This is a bonding course for teachers through Art-making. They explored use of various mixed media with recycled materials creating our iconic HDB flats in relief forms with vibrant colours.
This is a bonding course for teachers through Art-making. They explored use of various mixed media with recycled materials creating our iconic HDB flats in relief forms with vibrant colours.
Posted by Lau Sheow Tong at 10:14 PM
Track Record
A company that runs Art & Design
projects/courses in Singapore with aim to support visual art education and
various art collaborative projects within our community. Trigger
Creations is its series of Art Educational Programmes (AEP) endorsed by
National Arts Council (NAC).
These courses (2017 - end 2018) include:
Masks (Cultural)
Relief Art (Clay/Plasticine)
Paper Mache (Figurines)
Food Images in Mixed Media
Paper Sculpture
Cubist Faces
Our Homes, Our Community is its officially approved
PAL programme for lower primary levels (P1/P2) endorsed by MOE PAL Unit.
All art education courses could be customised and tailored according to clients'
needs and our trainers are MOE/NAC/AMIS registered.
Client List:
with Public/Private Organisations/NGOs/VWOs
01. Adventist Nursing & Rehab Centre
(WeCare Arts Fund: Relief Art)
02. Big Heart Student
Care @ Bendemeer PS (WeCare
Arts Fund: Fabric Art)
03. Big Heart Student
Care @ Concord PS (WeCare
Arts Fund: Paper Sculpture)
04. Big Heart Student
Care @ Fuchun PS (Cultural Masks)
05. Big Heart Student
Care @ Kheng Cheng PS (WeCare
Arts Fund: Cultural Masks)
06. Big Heart Student
Care @ Mayflower PS (WeCare
Arts Fund: Paper Sculpture)
07. Big Heart Student
Care @ Princess Elizabeth PS (WeCare
Arts Fund: Fabric Art)
08. CDAC @ Jurong West
(WeCare Arts Fund: Clay Art/Pottery)
09. Charis
Student Care Centre @ Marsiling (WeCare Arts Fund: Mural Painting/Installation)
10. Calvary Community
Care (WeCare Arts Fund: Fabric
11. CARElderly Seniors
Activity Centre @ Circuit Rd (WeCare
Arts Fund: Fabric Art)
12. Care Corner
Seniors Services Ltd @ Toa Payoh (WeCare
Arts Fund: Clay Art/Pottery/Batik)
13. Care Community Services Society
(WeCare Arts Fund: Fabric Art)
14. DFS Singapore (3D Paper
Sculpture in theme of Cultural Masks for publicity purpose)
15. Esplanade (Paper
Sculpture course for parents/children @ Octoburst 2016)
16. Fernvale Gardens Special
School MINDS (NAC-AEP Progs.: Plasticine/Clay Relief Art)
17. Filos Community Services
(WeCare Arts Fund: Fabric Art)
18. GoodLife! Monfort Care (WeCare
Arts Fund: Water Colour Painting)
19. ITE College Central
(NAC-AEP: Paper Mache/Food Images/Cubist Faces/Cultural Masks)
20. ITE College West
(NAC-AEP: Cultural Mask for Visual Arts Show Event 2016)
21. Jurong Health Service with
LHPS/JWPS/ZHSS/YISS/C&C - The Garden Project (Paper Sculpture/Mixed
22. Lee Kong Chian Gardens School
MINDS (NAC-AEP: Paper Mache)
23. Moral Student Care Centre
Bukit Panjang (WeCare Arts Fund: Paper Sculpture)
24. Morning Star Community
Services (WeCare Arts Fund: Paper Masks)
25. NAC Community Art Programme
with National Library Board (Paper
26. NAC Community Art Programme
with Tampines Changkat CC (Animal
27. National Gallery Singapore (NGS) –
Education Division (Artwork Interpretive Writing; Publicity Art Talks for Liu
Kang's exhibition 2012; Publicity Art Talks for NGS Opening 2014/2015; Inhouse
Art Tours & Workshops 2016/2017; P4 MBL Tours 2018)
28. National Library Board
(Holiday/Weekend Art progs @ libraries islandwide: Marker/Col. Pencil
Rendering; Fashion Illustration; Pop Art Collage/Mixed Media; Paper Sculpture;
Relief Art; Art Talks)
29. New Life Children &
Student Care (WeCare Arts Fund: Clay Relief Art/Clay Figurines)
30. Palelai Temple (Art Enrichment progs
for children – Water-col/Mixed Media/Paper Sculpture/Fabric Art/Clay Relief)
31. Tembusu
Seniors Activity Centre (Fabric Art)
32. Xin Yuan
Community Care (Clay Relief Art/Fabric Art/Paper Mache/Mixed Media Painting/Paper
Sculpture/Mosaic Art)
for Teachers
Art Appreciation (Local Artists & Art Styles)
Evergreen Secondary School
Raffles Girls' Primary School
Victoria JC
Yishun Town Secondary School
Fashion Illustration/Design
Da Qiao Primary School
Bedok West Primary School
Griffiths Primary School
New Town Primary School
Westwood Secondary School
Mixed Media Painting
CHIJ (Toa Payoh) Secondary School
*organised by its Art department (The Art Studio)
Da Qiao Primary School
First Toa Payoh Primary School
Loyang Primary School
Queenstown Secondary School
Park View Primary School
*Teachers' bonding workshop for whole school
Unity Secondary School
Zhonghua Primary School
Woodgrove Primary School
Paper Sculpture
Beatty Secondary School
Boon Lay Garden Primary School
Chong Zheng Primary School
Da Qiao Primary School
Damai Primary School
Dunearn Secondary School
Evergreen Secondary School
First Toa Payoh Primary School
Fuchun Secondary School
Griffiths Primary School
Holy Innocents' Primary School
Hong Kah Secondary School
Junying Primary School
Junyuan Primary School
Loyang Primary School
Paya Lebar Methodist Girls' School
Peicai Secondary School
Serangoon Secondary School
Si Ling Secondary School
St Stephen's School
Yishun Secondary School
Yu Hua Secondary School
Zheng Hua Secondary School
Zhonghua Primary School
PAL Programme Consultation/Training
Keming Primary School
Plasticine Relief
North Spring Primary School
*Teachers' workshop in-school
Pop Art
Boon Lay Garden Primary School
CHIJ Primary (Toa Payoh)
Chongzheng Primary School
Damai Primary School
Da Qiao Primary School
Holy Innocents' Primary School
Junying Primary School
Junyuan Secondary School
Loyang Primary School
Hillgrove Secondary School
Unity Secondary School
Yishun Primary School
Relief Art/Mixed Media
Boon Lay Garden Primary School
Coral Primary School
Griffiths Primary School
Junyuan Primary School
North Spring Primary School
St Stephen's School
3D Paper Sculpture
Bishan Park Secondary School
New Town Primary School
Northbrooks Secondary School
Courses for Secondary Schools
01. Ang Mo Kio Secondary School
(Enrichment Progs: Installation Art; Mixed Media)
02. Bedok North Secondary School
(Enrichment Prog: Installation Art)
03. Bedok View Secondary School
(Enrichment Prog: Reference & Ideation for Art-making)
04. Bishan Park Secondary School
(NAC-AEP Prog: Pop Art)
05. Boon Lay Secondary School
(NAC-AEP Prog: Pop Art)
06. Bukit Merah Secondary School
(NAC-AEP Progs: Paper Sculpture; Paper Mache; 3D Paper Art)
07. Canberra Secondary School
(NAC-AEP Prog: 3D Paper Sculpture)
08. Chua Chu Kang Secondary
School (Enrichment Progs: Fashion Design/Clay Relief/Cubism/Paper Mache)
09. ClementiWoods Secondary
School (Enrichment Prog/NAC-AEP: Paper Sculpture/Relief Art)
10. Damai Secondary School
(Enrichment/NAC-AEP Progs: Fashion Illustration; Caricature/Cubist
Illustration; Paper Sculpture; Cultural Masks; Relief Art; Clay Art)
11. Deyi Secondary School
(Enrichment Prog: Local Artists & Art Styles)
12. East View Secondary School
(NAC-AEP Progs: Images of Food/Cubist Faces/Paper Sculpture)
13. Fairfield Methodist Secondary
School (NAC-AEP Prog: Cultural Masks)
14. Geylang Methodist Secondary School
(NAC-AEP Progs: Local Artists & Art Styles/Cultural Masks)
15. Guang Yang Secondary School
(Enrichment Prog: Cartooning Workshop)
16. Hillgrove Secondary School
(Enrichment Progs: Batik Art/Paper Sculpture)
17. Hua Yi Secondary School
(NAC-AEP Prog: Caricature/Cubist Faces)
18. Holy Innocents' High School
(NAC-AEP Prog: Food Images in Mixed Media)
19. Hwa Chong Institution
(NAC-AEP Prog: Paper Sculpture)
20. Kranji Secondary School
(Enrichment Progs.: Mixed Media/Chinese Painting)
21. Nan Hua High (Enrichment Progs:
Wire Sculpture/Fashion Illustration/Cartoon/Paper Sculpture/Abstract 3D Paper
Art/3D Paper Art)
22. National JC Boarding School
(NAC-AEP Prog: Cultural Masks)
23. Naval Base Secondary School (NAC-AEP
Progs: Local Artists & Art Styles; Mixed Media Painting; Cubist
Illustration; Cultural Masks; Paper Sculpture)
24. Northbrooks Secondary School
(NAC-AEP Prog: Cultural Masks)
25. Pasir Ris Secondary School
(NAC-AEP Prog: Cultural Masks)
26. Regent Secondary School
((Enrichment Progs: Local Art Series)
27. River Valley High School
(Enrichment Prog: Water-colour Painting)
28. Singapore Chinese Girls'
Secondary School (Enrichment Progs: Local Art Series; Linoprint)
29. Singapore Sports School
(NAC-AEP/Enrichment Progs: Caricature Illustration; Images of Food; Cubist
Faces, Paper Mache Figurines; Cultural Masks; Paper Sculpture; Clay Art; Food
30. St Hilda's Secondary School
(Enrichment Progs: Paper Art/Wire Sculpture/Figurine Painting)
31. Tampines Secondary School
(Enrichment/NAC-AEP Progs: Fashion Design as EM for NT/NA; Local Art &
Artists; Relief Art)
32. Tanjong Katong Girls' School
(NAC-AEP Progs: Mixed Media Painting; Pop Art; Images of Food; Cultural Masks)
33. Temasek Secondary School
(NAC-AEP Progs: Mixed Media Painting; Enrichment Prog.: Fashion Illustration)
34. Queensway Secondary School
(NAC-AEP Prog: Mixed Media Painting)
35. Woodgrove Secondary School (NAC-AEP
Prog: Mixed Media Painting)
36. Woodlands Secondary School
(NAC-AEP Prog: Paper Sculpture/Food Images)
37. Yuhua Secondary School (NAC-AEP
Prog: Collage/Mixed Media)
38. Yusof Ishak Secondary School
(NAC-AEP Prog: Artists & Art Styles)
39. Yuying Secondary School (NAC-AEP
Prog: Cultural Masks)
40. Zhenghua Secondary School
(NAC-AEP/Enrichment progs: Fashion Illustration/Images of Food/Linoprint/Relief
Courses for Primary Schools
01. Aitong Primary School
(AMIS/Enrichment Progs: Mixed Media 2D/3D; Paper Sculpture; Acrylic Painting;
Col-pencil Rendering)
02. Bendemeer Primary School (AMIS
Progs: Mixed Media/Collage in Pop Art Style; Animal Puppets; Clay 3D/Relief Art;
Fabric Art)
03. Bukit Timah Primary School (AMIS
Progs: Mixed Media/Paper Sculpture)
04. Canossa Convent Primary
School (NAC-AEP Prog: Cubism)
05. Changkat Primary School
(AMIS Prog: Graffiti Mural Painting)
06. Clementi Primary School
(Enrichment Progs: Local Art/Mixed Media/Cubism/Post-impressionism)
07. Concord Primary School
(Enrichment Progs: Mixed Media; Recycled Art, Relief/3D Art)
08. Coral Primary School (AMIS
Progs: Relief Art on Peranakan Houses; Mural Painting/Installation; Peranakan
09. CHIJ Primary (Toa Payoh) School
(NAC-AEP/AMIS/Enrichment Progs: Collage/Paper Sculpture/Mixed Media/Relief
Art/Paper-cut/Masters' Series; Mural Painting/Installation; Chinese Painting)
10. Da Qiao Primary School (AMIS
Progs: Mixed Media Art)
11. Damai Primary School
(NAC-AEP Progs: Paper Sculpture/Mixed Media – Images of Food)
12. East Coast Primary School
(AMIS/NAC-AEP Progs: 'Paper' Art; Mixed Media)
13. Edgefield Primary School (AMIS
Prog: Relief Art)
14. Elias Park Primary School
(Enrichment Prog.: Mixed Media/Cubism)
15. Endeavour Primary School
(NAC-AEP/AMIS Progs: Relief Art; Mural Installation/Installation; Collage Mixed
16. Eunos Primary School (Enrichment
Progs : Great Masters' Series; Relief Art; Basic Art Renderings; Nanyang Art;
Mural Painting; Paper Mache; Paper Sculpture; Papercraft)
17. Frontier Primary School
(NAC-AEP Prog: Figurines in Paper Mache)
18. Greenwood Primary School
(Enrichment Progs Art club: Singapore Art/Mixed Media; P3 Fabric Art/Relief
Paper Sculpture)
19. Griffiths Primary School
(AIS/NAC-AEP/AMIS Progs: Various Art courses for both curriculum &
enrichment programmes P1 – P6/Mural Painting/Installation)
20. Haig Girls' School (Enrichment
Progs: Paper Sculpture; Mixed Media 2D; Figurines in Paper Mache; Appropriation
of Local Artists' Work - TimeOut)
21. Horizon Primary School (Enrichment
Prog: Paper Mache)
22. Hougang Primary School
(AMIS/NAC-AEP Progs: Relief Houses in Collage Mixed Media; P3 Paper Sculpture)
23. Hong Wen School (AMIS
Prog: Cubist Still-Life)
24. Innova Primary School
(NAC-AEP Prog: Fabric Painting)
25. Junyuan Primary School
(AMIS/NAC-AEP Progs: Various Art courses for both curriculum & enrichment
26. Jurong West Primary School
(AMIS Prog: Water-colour painting/ Acrylic Painting/ Relief Art)
27. Kranji Primary School
(Enrichment Progs: Scrapbooking; Paper Sculpture)
28. Lianhua Primary School
(Enrichment Progs: 3D/Relief Recycled Art/Paper
Sculpture/Relief Art/Mixed
Media Painting/Fabric Art/3D Claywork/Cartoon & Manga/Paper Mache)
29. Loyang Primary School
(NAC-AEP Prog: Paper Sculpture)
30. Marymount Convent School
(Enrichment Progs: Mixed Media/Recycled Art/Clay Relief/T-shirt Painting)
31. Mayflower Primary School
(Enrichment Progs: Appropriation of Local Artists' Work – TimeOut)
32. Maris Stella High (Pri)
School (Enrichment Prog for Art Club: Faces in Cubism)
33. Mee Toh School
(AMIS/NAC-AEP Prog: Clay Relief Art; Clay Plates)
34. Nan Hua Primary School
(Enrichment Progs: Painting/Mixed Media/Chinese Painting/Relief Art/Paper
Sculpture; NAC-AEP Prog: Cubist Faces)
35. New Town Primary School
(NAC-AEP Prog: Clay Relief Art)
36. Ngee Ann Primary School (AMIS/Enrichment
Progs: Cartooning/Manga/Collage/Mixed Media/Clay Relief/Paper Mache/Paper
37. North Spring Primary School
(AMIS Prog: Wire Sculpture)
38. North Vista Primary School
((AMIS/Enrichment Progs: Paper Art; Paper Sculpture; Mixed Media; Relief Art;
Clay Relief)
39. Opera Estate Primary School
(NAC-AEP/AMIS Progs: Paper Mache)
40. Park View Primary School
(NAC-AEP/AMIS Progs: Mixed Media; Relief Art; Recycled Art; Paper Sculpture;
Cubism; Fabric Art)
41. Pasir Ris Primary School
(Enrichment Progs: Paper Art; Paper Sculpture; Mixed Media)
42. Peiying Primary School (AMIS
Progs: Collage; Mixed Media 2D; Cubist Faces)
43. Poiching Sch (NAC-AEP
Prog: Paper Mache Figurines)
44. Punggol Primary School (AMIS
Progs: Great Masters' Series: Post-Impressionism/Chinese Painting)
45. Punggol Cove Primary School
(NAC-AEP Prog: Faces in Cubism)
46. Raffles Girls' Primary School
(Enrichment Progs: Paper Sculpture/Mixed Media)
47. Qihua Primary School
(NAC-AEP Prog: Paper Sculpture)
48. Queenstown Primary School
(NAC-AEP/Enrichment Progs: Relief Art/Paper Sculpture/Mixed Media/Paper Mache/Chinese
49. Rosyth Primary School (AMIS
Progs: Mixed Media using recycled materials)
50. Seng Kang Primary School (AMIS
Progs: Relief Art in Plasticine)
51. Sembawang Primary School
(NAC-AEP Prog: Faces in Cubism/Clay Relief Art)
52. Siling Primary School
(AMIS Prog: Collage/Mixed Media)
53. Singapore Chinese Girls' Primary
School (AMIS/NAC-AEP Progs: Paper Sculpture; Mixed Media; Recycled Art)
54. St Anthony's Cannossian Primary
School (Enrichment Progs: Paper Sculpture/Wire Sculpture/Emboss
55. St Margaret's Primary School
(AMIS Prog: Mixed Media Collage)
56. Tao Nan School (AMIS/NAC-AEP
Progs: Collage/Mixed Media/Paper Sculpture/Artists & Art
Styles/Cubism/Relief Art/Fabric Art/Print-making/Clay Figurines)
57. Townsville Primary School (Enrichment
Progs: Water-col painting/Col-pencil rendering/Paper Mache/Clay Figurines/Paper
58. Unity Primary School
(AMIS Prog: Fabric Art)
59. West View Primary School
(NAC-AEP/AMIS Progs: Images of Food/Cultural Masks/Paper Mobiles)
60. Whitesands Primary School (AMIS
Prog: Mixed Media; Cubism)
61. Woodgrove Primary School
(AMIS/NAC-AEP/Enrichment Progs: 3D/Relief Recycled Art/Paper Sculpture/Relief
Art/Still-life/Mixed Media Painting/Fabric Art/Claywork/Paper Mache/Batik
Painting/Water Colour painting)
62. Woodlands Primary School
(NAC-AEP/Enrichment Progs: Relief Art; Recycled Art; Mixed Media Collage)
63. Xing Hua Primary School
(PAL Prog P1: Our Homes, Our Community)
64. Yang Zheng Primary School (AMIS
Prog: Mixed Media)
65. Yumin Primary School
(AMIS/NAC-AEP Progs: Mixed Media; Paper Mache; Recycled Art; Paper Sculpture;
Clay Relief Mural)
66. Zhonghua Primary School (AMIS
Prog: Semi-3D Art using recycled materials)
67. Zhenghua Primary School (NAC-AEP
Prog: Mixed Media Art)
SYF 2017 Work with Certificates of Recognition
In. Visible. City (Cat A
My Robot Dolls (Cat A –
Uniquely Singapore (The
Peranakans) (Cat A - WOODGROVE PRIMARY
Love Our Pets (Cat A -
Food Everywhere! (Cat B
Butterflies in Paradise (Cat B –
Wonders of Nature (Cat C -
Selected SYF 2015 Work with Certificates of
The Three Little Merlions (Cat B - LIANHUA
Head, Heart, Hand (Cat B – (WOODGROVE PRIMARY
Home is Where the Heart is (Cat B - EUNOS PRIMARY
Moulding Singapore Together (Cat C -
Selected SYF 2013 Work with Certificates of
Our Neighbourhood, Our Home (Cat A
Our Art Buildings (Cat A – (WOODGROVE PRIMARY
A Land of Flowers (Cat A - EUNOS PRIMARY
Every Child An Artist (Cat C - EUNOS PRIMARY
The Three Little Artists (Cat C - SEMBAWANG PRIMARY
Awards Achieved (SYF Art & Crafts
Exhibition 2011)
Silver (Griffiths Primary School)'Our Symphony of Flats'
Bronze (Concord Primary School)'The Strong Foundation'
Bronze (Eunos Primary School)'Houses in Harmony'
Bronze (Elias Park Primary School)'Multifaceted Portraits of Singapore'
Our Trainers
Sheow Tong
He is the founder of Composite Art & Design who has an extensive track
record in Art education from primary to tertiary levels. As an Art teacher with
Ministry of Education from 2000 to 2006 (April), he has taught at both primary
and secondary levels. While managing his company from 2006 (May) to 2015, he
was also lecturing at Temasek Polytechnic (Design Integrated Studies), LaSalle
College of the Arts (Fine Arts/Arts Management) and First Media Design School
on part-time and consultation bases for various Arts and Design modules. As a
teachers' trainer with World Prime Arts Education (2007), he has had conducted
various Art workshops specially tailored for teachers from MOE such as Art
Interpretation for Study of Visual Arts, Fashion Illustration, Mixed Media
Painting etc.
As a practicing Artist, he has had exhibited his work at prominent local
galleries such as Utterly Art ('Lucky Cat', 'Fantasy of Luck') and Sunjin
Gallery ('Emerging Talents: 5 Artists for the Future', 'Sweetalicious').
Currently, his works could be viewed online at https://www.pinterest.com/lausheowtong/.
He holds a Master in Fine Arts (2007) from LaSalle College of the Arts
(validated by Open University, UK), a Post-graduate Diploma in Education (2000)
from National Institute of Education and a Bachelor in Arts from National
University of Singapore (1996).
Sharina d/o Azlan
Sharina is currently a part-time lecturer with LASALLE College of The Arts
Faculty of Foundation Studies since 2006 and has also been delivering
customized primary level art programs to various primary schools.
Prior to this she has done painting commission projects, collaborated on
murals, set product styling for design companies and participated in various
group exhibitions.
She graduated from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Bachelor of Arts
(Fine Arts) with Distinction and a Diploma in Visual Arts (Painting) with High
Distinction from LASALLE-SIA College of The Arts. She was awarded LASALLE-SIA
College of The Arts Outstanding Student Award in 1997.
Saiful Abu Bakar
Saiful is currently an art educator teaching visual arts from primary to
tertiary levels.
Prior to this he has done painting commission projects, collaborated on various
residential, commercial and institutional murals and participated on group
exhibitions such as LaSalle College of the Arts (The Very Hairy Belly Jelly
Show), the now defunct Furor Space - Independent Space for the Arts (Thoughts
versus Actions) and Asian Civilisation Museum (Seeing is Believing).
He graduated from LaSalle College of the Arts with a Diploma in Visual Arts
(Painting) in 2006.
Bridget Tay Liang Xuan
Bridget Tay is a practicing Singaporean artist who graduated with a MFA in
Fine Arts from Lasalle College of the Arts.
With a formalistic education in Fine Arts, her professional practice is
advantage in educating the young in Fine Arts. She currently teaches various
Artforms from primary to secondary levels and assists in co-teaching for
selective Fine Arts modules at Lasalle College of the Arts.
As a practising artist, her formal concerns of work looks at the idea of
painting and the physicality of the medium. Abstract in nature, Bridget's works
resembles a spiritual epiphany achieved through certain genres of music.
Karen Pang Yin
She is currently a
freelance Art Educator teaching ceramics and visual arts in primary schools.
Prior to this, she
was an Art Director for a design house for over 18 years, overseeing client
management, design conceptualisation and final production.
Her professional
and personal art works are of modern contemporary style. Blending functionality
and aesthetics are part of her design and creative goals.
of her ceramic works have been selected for Ngee Ann Kongsi Foundation Exhibitions.
She holds a
diploma in Graphic Design from LASALLE College of the Arts.
Jacqueline Sim
Jacqueline has been an art educator since 2006
delivering customized art programs to students of varying capabilities and
Aside from teaching in-school, she is a also a long-term volunteer with
Singapore Association for the Visually Handicapped of different age groups.
Besides creating specific art programs for them, she is also a befriender who
brings joy to them.
She graduated with a BA in Fine Arts from Lasalle College of the Arts.
Sunarti Abdul Samat
graduated with 2nd class honours in Fine Arts from Lasalle College
of The Arts. Her passion for visual arts started from an early age, and she is
interested to experiment with various mediums in her artmaking. Since her
diploma days, she has started conducting art courses for primary and secondary
schools such as printmaking, painting, craftmaking and illustration. She
believes in imparting Art knowledge and skills to the young, hence, she took a
1 year part-time course in Specialised Diploma in Arts Education from NIE
INTERNATIONAL and also completed a certificate in Creative therapy in handling
children with special needs.
also have the passion in photography, as a side line,. During her free time,
she does model and landscape photography and also explore in new composition in
photography to widen up her skills.
from teaching, Sunarti is also interested in performing arts and photography.
She does commission wedding photography and works part time at Esplanade as
production crew doing lightings and staging.
Lydia Thio
Lydia is an experienced art educator
who has been teaching art for almost 9 years. She graduated from Temasek
Polytechnic, School of Visual Communication in 2000 and has joined the design
industry for several years prior to art teaching.
She has experience in teaching the
following artforms to both primary and secondary students:
Relief Art; Mixed Media; Batik
painting; Print-making; Clay-work; Acrylic painting and Illustration.
Lydia enjoys working with the
children and believes that they should be exposed to different art-forms in
generating their interest in Art.
Patrick Choe Kok Fai
Patrick has been an AMIS/MOE-reg trainer since 2009. He started teaching
art classes on printmaking and silk-screen printing with MOE schools in 2007.
Thereafter after getting his registration as an AMIS/MOE-reg trainer, he has
conducted classes in various Artforms such as Paper Mache, Clay Art and
drawings. By 2014, he had conducted Art lessons in no fewer than 15 primary
He attained his Art qualification in Printmaking from Nanyang Academy of
Fine Arts.
Joyce Long
Joyce is
a currently an experienced art educator teaching visual arts at several
schools. Her extensive experience in teaching various schools has equipped her
with excellent skills in classroom management and the ability to connect with
students in schools. She has been in the Art industry for almost 9 years and
she is experienced in teaching in any art forms ranging from acrylic painting,
drawing, print making, chinese painting, batik art, clay work, paper mache,
relief painting, mixed media to wiring sculpture.
As a teaching artist, she completed a Certificate in Western Art from Nanyang
Academy of Fine Arts. She is now pursuing Specialist Diploma In Art
Education from National Institute Of Education International which collaborates
with National Arts Council. Apart from that, she is practicing Chinese painting
and Chinese calligraphy at The Chinese Calligraphy Society of
Yong Tai Si
Tai Si
has more than 15 years of experience in the art industry. She taught art for 10
years, mostly at LASALLE College of the Arts; and did conservation at a private
studio in the last 5 years. She decided to returned to teaching in 2016.
conservation experience exposed her to the richness of the art collection in
the region and gave her an understanding of the art industry from a different
perspective. In addition, she randomly does freelance projects including
mosaic, murals, window dressing, illustrations and outdoor art
Tai Si
has a Degree in Fine Art from RMIT (conducted at LASALLE College of the Arts)
and a Degree in Business Administration from National University of Singapore.
She practised as an artist from 1999 to 2004 and hopes to return to it when her
parental duties ease.
Jocelyn Teo Pei Hui
has been a Graphic Designer for more than 10 years. She has conducted numerous
Infocomm and Digital Media trainings in both Primary and Secondary schools as a
Part-time instructor for more than 4 years. With an interest and passion in
training, she loves and looks forward to impact her skills and knowledge to
students in the hope of enriching them with subjects outside the text books and
nurture creative thinking through art and design. During her tenure at Crescent
Girls' School as a full-time trainer, she assisted in various school initiated
projects such as MANGA drawing programme (where selected works were published
as manga comic), and also partook as an Art Instructor for Singapore Philatelic
Museum's "100 years of Picture Postcards Art Workshop Appreciation" in
1998. She
graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Multimedia Arts - Second Class Honours
(Upper division) from Middlesex University (with SAE Institute
Phar Jie Yi, Christina
Jie Yi is a freelance art instructor who has taught
children from pre-school to secondary level since July 15. Courses she has
taught include traditional painting, drawing, oil pastels colouring, 3D
sculptures, mixed media art to digital media such as photography and stop
motion etc.
Besides teaching in preschools and MOE schools, she has had also
facilitated in student care centres and public workshops at National Library
Board (NLB). Jie Yi has participated in various Arts public events like: Mount
Faber Safra Halloween Night 2015, Pasir Panjang Private Estate Association's 18th
Lantern Night Festival and etc.
She holds a Degree in
Bachelor of Business (Marketing) from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
Pavanarani (Rani) Verma
Pavanarani is a Fine Artist & a freelance
Art instructor based in Singapore with experience in Fashion Design, Jewelry
Design, Picture Book Illustration and Fine Art Painting.
She is a North-East Indian who was born in
Thailand, and grew up in Singapore where she did her Art & Design education
in LASALLE (Singapore) and University in Parsons School of Design (NYC, USA)
where she obtained her Certificates & Degrees in Foundation of Arts,
Fashion Design & Fine Arts. She has worked, lived and created art in
Thailand, India, Singapore, USA and Japan.
Thong Siew Ping (Jenie)
Jenie is currently a freelance
illustrator & art educator teaching visual arts from primary to secondary
Prior to this she has done
customised illustrations projects, collaborated on murals, and participated in
pre-schoolers arts & creative programmes.
During her formative years, Jenie
had received many accolades in her art and creative classes. After getting her
diploma in Business Administration she decided to pursue her passion and
obtained a Certificate in Basic Visual Communication from NAFA (Nanyang Academy
of Fine Arts).
Sheau Shih Claire
Claire has been engaged in art and heritage-related work since
graduating in 1999. Her experience in art education began as a full-time art
teacher for Woodlands Ring Secondary and as a part-time lecturer with LASALLE
College of the Arts.
Her practice as Painting Conservator and Artist for the past 10 over
years has exposed her to a wide range of art techniques, materials, and ideas.
She has exhibited her works in Singapore, Switzerland, France, China, the
Philippines and Australia. Some of her notable projects are commission project
with Land Transport Authority (since 2014) and the completion of the inaugural
Art Incubator Residency in Singapore and resulting exhibition "TRACES" at ICAS,
Claire has a Masters in Fine Art from RMIT (2003) and a Bachelor
Degree in Fine Arts from LASALLE College of the Arts (1999).
Angie Chua Bee Geok
Angie graduated with a Diploma in
Visual Communication from Nanyang Academic of Fine Arts. Prior to teaching she
has been a graphic design for more than10 years. She has experience in various
printmaking techniques, painting, ceramics, mixed medium work and
installations. She has been teaching visual arts in government schools and
pre-school for more than 5 years.
She is passionate about teaching
and she hopes to inspire students and assist them in developing their creativity and self-expression
through various art forms and media.
Tan Ching Ching
Ching holds a Specialist Diploma in Arts Education from National Institution of
Education (International), and a Certificate in Western Art from Nanyang
Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA).
has conducted various workshops in-school as well as for Very Special Arts
Singapore. She is also currently a PA trainer conducting Art classes for
children. She is passionate about teaching and always keen to teach and learn
various Art forms.
Lee Swee Theng
Ranae Lee is a visual
arts educator who holds a Bachelor's degree in Printmaking and a Masters of
Education (Special Education). She has over fifteen years of teaching
experience that ranged from visual arts workshops to historical/cultural tours
of Singapore's history and heritage. She has conducted visual art workshops in
drawing, painting, printmaking and mix-media for children and youth, including clients
with special needs. Since 2015, she has also participated in various community-led
visual arts workshops.
Justin Lim Sui Hsien
Justin is a visual artist who is currently teaching fine art and design
for several institutions and vendors in Singapore. He has also conducted
private art workshops for adults, teenagers, corporate companies and aspiring
artists. He graduated with Diploma and BA (Honours) from LASALLE College of the
Arts, Singapore in partnership with Goldsmiths University of London.
He was a recipient of
the inaugural IMPART (Artist) award and the Winston Oh travelogue sponsorship
(Research). Justin has been actively exhibiting his works in group shows including
Art Stage Singapore.


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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – Tennessee Tech football coach Watson
Brown and his staff had a rather small target to aim toward in
signing recruits during this off-season, and the veteran coach
feels like they've hit the bulls-eye, again.
"It was a much smaller number that we could sign this year, and a very position-oriented group," Brown said. "It was a broad range, but it was just one or two guys at this position or that position, and we feel like we've signed an outstanding group, one that really fills our needs.
"This is a quality class," he added.
With so many top quality signees in the past couple years who will be returning in 2013, Brown and his staff had only a handful of spots available when searching for the 2013 Golden Eagle recruits. He was highly pleased with the addition of the 17 young men who submitted their paperwork Wednesday, the first day of the NCAA's national signing period.
"We needed a couple offensive and defensive linemen, we
wanted to sign a couple linebackers," Brown said. "We
did not take many secondary guys, we didn't look at
receivers, but we wanted athletes, two-way guys where we can pick
where they would be better off. We wanted another quarterback, a
punter/kicker who will come in and compete."
Brown said his staff was also looking for two-way athletes who can line up at tight end or defensive end, and the signing class includes a couple.
"We're getting a couple of those kind of guys," Brown said. "Guys who can play a lot of places."
Overall, Brown feels the 2013 signing class will send the Golden Eagles into the future with solid personnel.
"I think so, and we're not through yet," he
said. "The plan has gone well. We've filled the needs
we have for the next few years with few scholarships."
Included in the 17 signees are several local players who are familiar in the area for their success.
"I think this was our best year locally," Brown
said. "We had two from Livingston (Creed Hayes and
Brock McCoin), one from Rockwood (Hayden Freels), one from
Gordonsville (Tyler Coen). There were some really good
players in the area this year, and we don't want to let those
get away. We work really hard to take care of the home base and
we've signed some high profile kids in the area."
A capsule look at each of the 17 signees Wednesday:
Josh Belhu – LB, 5-11, 230, Mt. Juliet,
Tenn. / Mt. Juliet HS
In the past two seasons, Josh Belhu has played key roles on both side of the line of scrimmage for Mt. Juliet High School, helping the Golden Bears produce a combined 24-3 overall record and reach the TSSAA semifinals both seasons. As a senior team captain, playing in 12 games at linebacker, he managed 139 total tackles, with 64 solo stops and 65 assists. He also had seven tackles-for-loss, three sacks, six passes defended and 12 quarterback hurries. He was named all-district as an offensive guard during his junior season, and three times was selected the Wilson County Player of the Week.
Click here to link to Josh Belhu's video
Brady Bose – DL, 6-4, 285, Ashland City,
Tenn. / Cheatham County HS
A two-way player at Cheatham County High School, Brady accepted team and district honors on both sides of scrimmage during his career with the Cubs. He helped the team post a 12-1 record and advance to the TSSAA playoffs after capturing the District 11-AA championship. On offense, he won the Best Receiver Award as a junior, and also captured Hardest Hitter and Offensive MVP honors while being voted team captain. His senior year netted seven catches for 122 yards and four touchdowns. Bose was named 11-AA Most Valuable Tight End as a junior and senior, and all-district as a defensive lineman as a senior. He was selected for the Tennessee East/West All-Star game and voted first-team all-state as a defensive end by the Tennessee Sportswriters Association. He made 33 total tackles as a senior with six tackles-for-loss and seven sacks.
Brady Bose's video:
Robert Hill Bronson
– LB, 5-11, 205, Brooksville, Fla. / Hernando
A standout athlete at Hernando High School in Brooksville, Fla., Bronson was a two-time team Defensive MVP as a linebacker and finished second all-time in quarterback sacks for his team behind Philadelphia Eagles All-Pro Jerome Brown. As a senior, he had 90 total tackles with 10 quarterback sacks and 27.5 tackles-for-loss. He caused four and recovered three fumbles and also blocked a punt. His post-season awards included All-North Suncoast and All-Suncoast, as well as third-team Florida 6A All-State. In addition to football, he also lettered in wrestling, track, soccer and weight-lifting. He was third in the region in wrestling and a state qualifier in weight-lifting.
Robert Hill Bronson's video:
Trey Burks – RB, 5-9, 185, Tullahoma,
Tenn. / Tullahoma HS
A 1,000-yard gainer during his senior year at Tullahoma High School, Burks was named the All-District 8AAA runningback for the Wildcats when he posted 11 touchdowns and 1,001 yards on 42 carries. He also caught 17 passes for 340 yards and five touchdowns. On the defensive side, he had 30 total tackles and one interception. He was named to the Southern Middle Tennessee all-area team.
Trey Burks' video:
Michael Cain – DL, 5-9, 295, Nashville, Tenn. / Whites Creek HS
Twice named the Nashville Metro Lineman of the Year and ranked
No. 4 in the nation by National Underclassman Combine, Cain was a
two-time all-state selection while playing at Whites Creek High
School. He put up sensational numbers for the Cobras, including 175
career tackles and 150 tackles-for-loss with 30 quarterback sacks.
He was a three-time All-Metro selection.
Michael Cain's video:
Jordan Carroll – DE, 6-3, 245,
Birmingham, Ala. / Briarwood Christian HS
An all-county selection and team captain, Carroll also earned a spot on the All-Over the Mountain honor squad at Briarwood Christian High School, helping the team to its 20th consecutive state playoff appearance. He posted 104 total tackles for the Lions, including 41 solo stops and 63 assisted tackles. He also had nine quarterback sacks and 16 tackles-for-loss.
Jordan Carroll's video:
Tyler Coen – OL, 6-3, 255, Gordonsville,
Tenn. / Gordonsville HS
Voted as Tennessee Mr. Football Class A Lineman and the Upper Cumberland Defensive Player of the Year, Coen was also a first-team TSWA All-State pick as an offensive lineman. A team captain he was also named All-Region 4A for the Tigers, who finished 14-1 and captured the TSSAA Class 4A state title in Tucker Stadium. As a senior, he finished with 88 tackles, including 16 tackles-for-loss and six quarterback sacks. For his four-year career, Coen posted 289 tackles, with 12 sacks and 37 tackles-for-loss.
Click here to link to Tyler Coen's video
Hayden Freels – TE/DE, 6-4, 215,
Rockwood, Tenn. / Rockwood HS
A four-year letterman in both football and baseball along with two in basketball, Freels is a versatile athlete who can use his strength on either side of scrimmage. He was named All-State as well as Defensive Player of the Year while posting 68 total tackles, eight sacks, eight tackles-for-loss in the defensive line. As a tight end, he had 24 catches for 317 yards and two touchdowns for Rockwood High School.
Click here to link to Hayden Freels' video
Maleek Hall – ATH 5-11, 188, Clarksville,
Tenn. / Kenwood HS
An elusive runner, Hall set school records as a senior at Kenwood High School for most rushing yards with 1,550 and most all-purpose yards with 2,150. A four-year starter and three-time all-region pick for the Knights, he was named the Offensive Player of the Year when he had 100 carries for 1,550 yards and caught 63 passes for 600 yards. He ranked first in the state for average yards per carry, gaining 9.0 per try. He ranked eighth in Tennessee for all-purpose yards.
Maleek Hall's video:
Creed Hayes – ATH, 5-9, 180, Livingston,
Tenn. / Livingston Academy
A four-time all-district selection and two-time District 7AA Running Back of the Year, Hayes also grabbed back-to-back Upper Cumberland Offensive Player of the Year awards and was named All-State as a senior for Livingston Academy. For his career, he piled up 4,248 rushing yards and 58 touchdowns, highlighted by 1886 yards and 26 scores as a senior for the Wildcats. He established a school rushing record of 1,517 yards as a junior before eclipsing that total in his senior season.
Creed Hayes' video
Jonathan King – K/P, 6-0, 160, Knoxville,
Tenn. / Farragut HS
Named the National High School Player of the Year and an All-American by Ray Guy ProKicker.com, King is a combination kicker from Farragut High School who averaged 46.9 yards per punt and made six of nine field goal tries as a senior. For his career, King was 27-for-43 on field goal tries and made 55-for-56 PATs. He was named the 2012 Tennessee Mr. Football Kicker of the Year.
Jonathan King's video:
Brock McCoin – QB, 6-2, 180, Livingston,
Tenn. / Livingston Academy
Twice named the Upper Cumberland Playmaker of the Year, a four-time All-District 7AA selection and a TSWA All-State pick while directing the Livingston Academy offense, McCoin passed for more than 4,000 career yards and accounted for more than 6,000 yards of total offense as a Wildcat. As a senior, he completed 63 percent of his tosses for 1,536 yards and 17 touchdowns with only two interceptions, and also rushed 110 times for 820 yards and 14 scores. He finished with 4,022 career passing yards for 45 touchdowns and 13 interceptions, and accounted for 60 touchdowns.
Brock McCoin's video:
Charles Rutledge – OL, 6-5, 250, Decatur, Ga. / Columbia HS
A three-year starter on the offensive line and a four-year
letterman at Columbia High School, Rutledge anchored the offensive
line for the Eagles. He was selected to play in the Dekalb County
All-Star game and earned All-Dekalb County honors. An outstanding
athlete, he was also a member of the basketball team that has won
two of the last three state championships.
Click here to view Charles Rutledge's video
Gage Terry – OL, 6-3, 294, Charlotte, Tenn. / Creek Wood HS
A four-year starter on both the football and baseball teams at
Creek Wood High School, Terry was a three-time all-district
selection in football and twice chosen as team captain. A lineman
on both sides of scrimmage for the Red Hawks, he led the team to
three playoff appearances in his four seasons. A two-time
All-District 11AA pick, he is also a two-time MVP Lineman who
graded out over 90 percent. He was chosen the 2-12 Tennessee Impact
Player of the year, and picked to play in the Down Under Bowl.
Gage Terry's video:
Trey Thompson – LB, 6-1, 210, Cincinnati, Ohio / LaSalle HS
In four seasons, Thompson piled up over 200 career tackles as a
starter at linebacker for LaSalle High School. A versatile athlete
who lettered in football, baseball and basketball, he had 90
tackles in his senior season along with five quarterback sacks and
one interception.
Click here to link to Trey Thompson's video
Jerquin Vines – CB, 5-10, 180, LaFayette, Ala. / LaFayette HS
A four-year starter at wide receiver and cornerback, Vines was a
first-team All-State selection for LaFayette High School while also
earning first-team all-area honors. A team captain, he was a
two-way threat for the Bulldogs. On offense, he caught 43 passes
for 911 yards and 16 touchdowns, and also had 20 carries for 245
yards and two scores. On defense, Vines had 54 total tackles, six
interceptions, 10 passes defended and forced four fumbles. He
returned two interceptions for touchdowns, and piled up 207 yards
in return yards. He finished his senior season with 1,575
all-purpose yards and 20 touchdowns.
Jerquin Vines' video:
Dametris Watson – OLB/TE, 6-4, 235, Hendersonville, Tenn. / Beech HS
Valuable on both sides of scrimmage, Watson played outside linebacker and tight end for Beech High School as the Buccaneers rolled through a perfect 15-0 season on the way to winning the TSSAA Class 5A state championship in Tucker Stadium. Watson caught 28 passes for 537 yards and eight touchdowns, and on defense he made 68 total tackles with one quarterback sack, two interceptions and three recovered fumbles.
Click here to view Dametris Watson's video
Tennessee Tech's 2013 Football Signees
|Hometown / High School
|Josh Belhu
|Mt. Juliet, Tenn. / Mt. Juliet HS
|Brady Bose
|Ashand City, Tenn. / Cheatham County HS
|Robert Hill
|Brooksville, Fla. / Hernando HS
|Trey Burks
|Tullahoma, Tenn. / Tullahoma HS
|Michael Cain
|Nashville, Tenn. / Whites Creek HS
|Jordan Carroll
|Birmingham, Ala. / Briarwood Christian
|Tyler Coen
|Gordonsville, Tenn. / Gordonsville HS
|Hayden Freels
|Rockwood, Tenn. / Rockwood HS
|Maleek Hall
|Clarksville, Tenn. / Kenwood HS
|Creed Hayes
|Livingston, Tenn. / Livingston
|Jonathan King
|Knoxville, Tenn. / Farragut HS
|Brock McCoin
|Livingston, Tenn. / Livingston
|Charles Rutledge
|Decatur, Ga. / Columbia HS
|Gage Terry
|Charlotte, Tenn. / Creek Wood HS
|Trey Thompson
|Cincinnati, Ohio / LaSalle HS
|Jerquin Vines
|LaFayette, Ala. / LaFayette HS
|Dametris Watson
| 235
|Hendersonville, Tenn. / Beech HS


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November 12, 2013
The 120th Monon Bell Classic between Wabash College and DePauw University takes place Saturday, November 16 at Blackstock Stadium in Greencastle, Indiana.
Tickets for the Wabash side of the field are sold out.
The tailgating lot for Wabash fans attending Saturday's contest will be the DePauw Intramural Fields just off Walnut Street. The lot will open at 9 a.m. Fans are reminded to avoid blocking streets and entrances by trying to line up early to gain entrance to the lot. Blackstock Stadium is a 10- to 15-minute walk from the Intramural lot, so fans are also asked to plan accordingly for timely entry into the facility for Saturday's 1:07 p.m. kickoff. No alcoholic beverages will be permitted inside Blackstock Stadium.
Entrance to the Stadium will be off South Madison Street behind the main stands on the visitor's side of the field. Gates open Saturday at 11:30 a.m.
For those not attending the game, live coverage on AXS TV begins at 1 p.m. Rich Cellini and Paul Maguire will handle the announcing duties. Matt Hudson '10 and DePauw alumnus Brad Wochomurka will serve as sideline reporters. AXS TV is available on cable providers such as AT&T U-verse, Charter, Comcast/Xfinity, Insight, Suddenlink, and Verizon FiOS in addition to DirecTV (Channel 340) and DISH Network (Channel 167).
More than 60 alumni viewing parties are planned throughout the country. All parties will be pay as you go from the menu and will be family friendly unless otherwise noted in the details. Information regarding the alumni parties can be found here.
A commemorative DVD will be also available for purchase from the Wabash Bookstore in early December, will include the AXS TV broadcast and two hours of additional content. Special features will include photo galleries from this year's game along with historical images from the rivalry, a video of the song "Ballad of the Monon Bell," and "Monon Memories" — highlights from various games throughout the 120 clashes between the two schools.
Wabash will receive 150 copies of the DVD to sell. An announcement will be made in December when purchases of the DVD can be made through the Bookstore's web site or in person during normal business hours. DVDs of previous games are currently available from the Bookstore in limited supplies.
Wabash and DePauw will meet for the 120th time on Saturday. The Little Giants lead the series 57-53-9, making it the closest rivalry played more than 50 times than any other in the nation. Last year Wabash took a four-game lead in the overall series with a 23-0 victory at Hollett Little Giant Stadium. The Little Giants lead series 38-37-6 since the Monon Bell was added to the rivalry in 1932.


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Archiso (日本語)
ArchisoとはArch LinuxをベースとしたライブCD、及びライブUSBを構築するためのbashスクリプトの小さなセットです。とても汎用的なツールなので、レスキューシステムやインストールディスク、ライブCD/DVD/USBも作成することができます。Simply put, if it involves Arch on a shiny coaster, it can do it. Archisoの全てはmkarchisoです。全てのmkarchisoのオプションは使用方出力(manページ?)でドキュメント化されているので、ここでは直接その使用方法をカバーすることはしません。代わりに、このwikiの記事では、あなた自身のライブメディアをすぐに作成するためのガイドをします。
Before we begin, we need to install archiso from the official repositories. Alternatively, archiso-gitAUR can be found in the AUR.
Create a directory to work within, this is where all the modifications to the live image will take place:
~/archlive should do fine.
$ mkdir ~/archlive
The archiso scripts that were installed to the host system earlier now need to be copied over into the newly created directory you will be working within. Archiso comes with two "profiles": releng and baseline. If you wish to create a fully customised live version of Arch Linux, pre-installed with all your favourite programs and configurations, use releng. If you just want to create the most basic live medium, with no pre-installed packages and a minimalistic configuration, use baseline.
So, depending on your needs, execute the following, replacing 'PROFILE' with either releng or baseline.
# cp -r /usr/share/archiso/configs/PROFILE/ ~USER/archlive
If you are using the releng profile to make a fully customised image, then you can proceed onto #Configure our live medium.
If you are using the baseline profile to create a bare image, then you won't be needing to do any customisations and can proceed onto #Build the ISO.
Configure our live medium
This section details configuring the image you will be creating, allowing you to define the packages and configurations you want your live image to contain.
Change into the directory we created earlier (~/archlive/releng/ if you have been following this guide), you will see a number of files and directories; we are only concerned with a few of these, mainly: packages.* - this is where you list, line by line, the packages you want to have installed, and the root-image directory - this directory acts as an overlay and it is where you make all the customisations.
Installing packages
You will want to create a list of packages you want installed on your live CD system. A file full of package names, one-per-line, is the format for this. This is great for special interest live CDs, just specify packages you want in packages.both and bake the image. The packages.i686 and packages.x86_64 files allow you to install software on just 32bit or 64bit, respectively.
I recommend installing "rsync" if you wish to install the system later on with no internet connection or skipping downloading it all over again. (#Installation)
Adding a user
There are two methods to creating a user: either by adding the relevant useradd command to rc.local, or by copying over (and modifying) /etc/shadow, /etc/passwd, and /etc/group. The latter method shall be discussed here.
Copy your /etc/shadow, /etc/passwd, and /etc/group from your host system to the /etc/ directory of the new live system (which should be ~/archlive/releng/root-image/etc) e.g.
# cp /etc/{shadow,passwd,group} ~/archlive/releng/root-image/etc/
Adding files to image
The root-image directory acts as an overlay, think of it as root directory '/' on your current system, so any files you place within this directory will be copied over on boot-up.
So if you have a set of iptables scripts on your current system you want to be used on you live image, copy them over as such:
# cp -r /etc/iptables ~/archlive/releng/root-image/etc
Placing files in the users home directory is a little different. Do not place them within root-image/home, but instead create a skel directory within root-image/ and place them there. We will then add the relevant commands to the rc.local we are going to create to copy them over on boot and sort out the permissions.
First, create the skel directory; making sure you are within ~/archlive/releng/root-image/etc directory (if this is where you are working from):
# cd ~/archlive/releng/root-image/etc && mkdir skel
Now copy the 'home' files to the skel directory, again doing everything as root! e.g for .bashrc.
# cp ~/.bashrc ~/archlive/releng/root-image/etc/skel/
Inside the root-image/etc/ directory, create the rc.local file, and make sure you make it executable:
# cd ~/archlive/releng/root-image/etc && touch rc.local && chmod +x rc.local
Now add the all of following to rc.local, replacing 'youruser' with the user you specified earlier.
# Create the user directory for live session if [ ! -d /home/youruser ]; then mkdir /home/youruser && chown youruser /home/youruser fi # Copy files over to home su -c "cp -r /etc/skel/.* /home/youruser/" youruser
The default file should work fine, so you should not need to touch it.
The aitab file holds information about the filesystems images that must be created by mkarchiso and mounted at initramfs stage from the archiso hook. It consists of some fields which define the behaviour of images.
# <img> <mnt> <arch> <sfs_comp> <fs_type> <fs_size>
- <img>
- Image name without extension (.fs .fs.sfs .sfs).
- <mnt>
- Mount point.
- <arch>
- Architecture { i686 | x86_64 | any }.
- <sfs_comp>
- SquashFS compression type { gzip | lzo | xz }.
- <fs_type>
- Set the filesystem type of the image { ext4 | ext3 | ext2 | xfs }. A special value of "none" denotes no usage of a filesystem. In that case all files are pushed directly to SquashFS filesystem.
- <fs_size>
- An absolute value of file system image size in MiB (example: 100, 1000, 4096, etc) A relative value of file system free space [in percent] {1%..99%} (example 50%, 10%, 7%). This is an estimation, and calculated in a simple way. Space used + 10% (estimated for metadata overhead) + desired %
Boot Loader
The default file should work fine, so you should not need to touch it.
Due to the modular nature of isolinux, you are able to use lots of addons since all *.c32 files are copied and available to you. Take a look at the official syslinux site and the archiso git repo. Using said addons, it is possible to make visually attractive and complex menus. See here.
Login manager
Starting X at boot time was done by modifying inittab on sysvinit systems. On a systemd based system things are handled by enabling your login manager's service. If you know which .service file needs a softlink: Great. If not, you can easily find out in case you're using the same program on the system you build your iso on. Just use
# systemctl disable nameofyourloginmanager
to temporarily turn it of. Next type the same command again and replace "disable" with "enable" to activate it again. Systemctl prints information about softlink it creates. Now change to ~/archiso/releng/root-image/etc/systemd/system and create the same softlink there.
An example (make sure you're either in ~/archiso/releng/root-image/etc/systemd/system or add it to the command):
# ln -s /usr/lib/systemd/system/lxdm.service display-manager.service
This will enable LXDM at system start on your live system.
Build the ISO
Now you are ready to turn your files into the .iso which you can then burn to CD or USB: Inside the directory you are working with, either ~/archlive/releng, or ~/archlive/baseline, execute:
# ./build.sh -v
The script will now download and install the packages you specified to work/*/root-image, create the kernel and init images, apply your customizations and finally build the iso into out/.
Using the ISO
Just burn the iso to a cd. You can follow CD Burning as you wish.
You can now dd the iso file onto a USB using dd, an example of which:
# dd if=~/archlive/releng/out/*.iso of=/dev/sdx
You will have to adjust accordingly, and make sure you choose the right output file! A simple mistake here will destory data on your harddisk.
Grub4dos is a utility that can be used to create multiboot usbs, able to boot multiple linux distros from the same usb stick.
To boot the generated system on a usb with grub4dos already installed, loop mount the ISO and copy the entire
/arch directory to the root of the usb.
Then edit the
menu.lst file from the grub4dos (it must be on the usb root) and add this lines:
title Archlinux x86_64 kernel /arch/boot/x86_64/vmlinuz archisolabel=<your usb label> initrd /arch/boot/x86_64/archiso.img
Change the
x86_64 part as necessary and put your real usb label there.
Boot the created CD/DVD/USB. If you wish to install the Archiso you created -as it is-, there are several ways to do this, but either way we're following the Beginners' guide mostly.
If you don't have an internet connection on that PC, or if you don't want to download every packages you want again, follow the guide, and when you get to Beginners' guide#Install_the_base_system, instead of downloading, use this: Full system backup with rsync. (more info here: Talk:Archiso)
You can also try: Archboot, GUI installer.


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