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Golf Course (within 2 miles), Bicycle Rental, Playground
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Just 2 minutes' walk from the waterfront and the American Wharf, Malau Lodge features free Wi-Fi and free continental breakfast.
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Offering a restaurant and a communal veranda, NOA Guest House is located in Nuku'alofa. It features private rooms, a shared kitchen and lovely gardens.
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Located just metres from a beautiful beach, Keleti International Resort offers free Wi-Fi, a restaurant and a bar. Guests enjoy a children's playground, a tour desk and a gift shop.
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Offering free WiFi, included continental breakfast and free use of bicycles, Villa Lodge is located 1 km from central Nuku'alofa.
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- Excellent staff, very friendly, great knowledge about the town & country - Everything was easily arranged including tours, boat trips and car rental for very good price ("We need a car today" "Ok, it's xx TOP and it will be here in 10 minutes") - Building is well kept, nice and clean - Location within walking distance to town or 5 TOP taxi ride. - Wifi available to check emails etc.
This is staying with a local family at its best. Saia and his daughter Olini do everything possible to make sure you enjoy your stay with them. The room was basic and we shared facilities but this was never a problem as there are so few of you staying. The breakfast was ample and the wifi free. Their inside knowledge meant we saw many things we wouldn't have done elsewhere and we made a life long friend.
Outstanding customer service by very warm, flexible and friendly owners. Facilities are excellent. It is overall a very clean and welcoming environment with very artistic displays of art and floral arrangement. Everything from water bottles, wi-fi service to free healthy breakfast are provided and it sure is value for money. The location is excellent as it has easy access to Nuku'alofa and it is right next to Vaiola Hospital. Room is quiet and always provides a very comfortable bed and a good night's sleep. The balcony provides a very aesthetic and calming view of the Fanga'uta lagoon especially at night. Overall, I am a very haapy and pleased customer and would, with no hesitation, highly recommend this accomodation to prospective customers looking for accomodation in Tonga. Malo Saia and Olini for your fantastic hospitality.
None really! I love every moment spend here at Olini Lodge.
sia was a great host loved talking to him he is very good with his guest and shows them around and takes them to exciting places with out any charge .
You feel home away from home! The best choice I made in my trip. Extremely friendly people and a wonderful island. I wish I could have staid longer. The lodge and the owner are lovely and try to make your stay so beautiful that you don't want to leave. I definitely would have liked to stay and I will surely come back! By the way: only place that offers free Internet. Thank you for making my stay a wonderful experience.
The host and his daughter Olini will bent over to make you feel welcome and at home. Tea/coffee, snacks and good advice on what to do in Tongatapu is always available. They share Tongan culture with open hearts. This small b&b was planned for a stopover before an international flight but it was certainly one of our highlights in Tonga.
Olini and her father Saia made us feel so welcome. Saia is a fantastic ambassador for Tonga. The guesthouse is on the main road into town and we enjoyed getting on and off the local buses into town and back for less than $1. Having access to the laundry and kitchen at any time was great. Eating breakfast at the same huge square table with the biggest lazy susan ever, was a good way to meet and interact with guests from around the globe. Olini Lodge is owned and managed by Tongans. I give it my highest recommendation.
What we didn't like about Olini Lodge was leaving! We arrived as strangers and felt we left as friends.
Welcoming atmosphere, comfy rooms, good breakfast. Sia happy to take us or drop us anywhere and charged very reasonable prices. Tour was great.
Our host Saia met us at the airport and gave us a very warm welcome on our first visit to Tonga. He is a great ambassador for Tonga. We enjoyed chatting to the other guests over a lovely breakfast.
Saia and Olini are the perfect hosts. Saia's was attentive, helpful, generous with his time, energy and advice. We loved his sense of humour and happy spirit. He greeted and treated us like old friends. Thank you for making our first trip to Tonga so wonderful.
Noise from road could be loud at the weekend.
my husband and I stayed there for 1 night for transit to Auckland. The room we booked has bathroom and is very spacious. We asked the owner, Saia to help look for a half tour for us and finally he brought us to blow holes with reasonable price.
Owner is very friendly and helpful. Rooms are clean and breakfast is superb!
The owner really wants you to enjoy his country and learn about his culture ... way more than making a profit. Enjoy his humor and his stories. Let him take you on a tour of the island instead of paying a well advertised tour company. You will get a more interesting tour and will pay far less for it.
I don't have any complaints.
The owner's very friendly and helpfull
The place needs a good clean from top to bottom! Overpriced
Very friendly and welcoming staff
Couldn't stay long enough
Saia is a fantastic host ... attentive, considerate, and entertaining. The facilities are clean, well kept. Saia is rightly proud of his guest house.
Location a bit noisy on the main road into town. Rooms need reading lamps.
What an amazing place! And Siai is the best Host! Absolutely recommend it. And.. will be back as soon as possible! Siai took us on a great tour of the island... seen things that are definitely off the beaten track!! AWESOME.
Olini's host Siaia is devoted to being the best possible host ever at this lodge. He loves meeting new people, young or old, and seems to gain great pleasure out of introducing each one of his guests to all the best places in Tongatapu. Anything a guest wishes to see or experience, Saia can find a way to accommodate.
I agree with Peter. The worst part is that the holiday in Tongatapu was all too short, and we had to return back home to winter and work.
Siosaia is a great host and well connected in Tonga. There is no stress at all staying at Olini!
Vegan friendly breakfast, amazing hospitality, great intro to Tonga
Leaving Olinis to return home to Australia
Saia is a wizard who captivates you and wins your heart within first minute of conversation. Not only that he picks you up from the airport and makes you feel like home, he drives you around the island to attend parties and beyond all he is an excellent guide. He brings you to some places nobody was before. The daughter Olini is very kind and helpful. I had an excellent time. I am sure I will come back. Thank you!
The mosquitoes are a real overkill especially if you are a "palanga". Comfort can be improved by installing ultrasound devices instead of using chemical spray.
The place is great and the staff are super friendly! Saia is awesome and really he and his family really makes the place.
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Olini Lodge is a true home from home. Our host Sia was so welcoming, making sure everything was just right for our trip to this beautiful island. Definitely recommend Olini Lodge if you wish to learn about the real Tonga.
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The owner Saya is a great host. He takes great care of all guests like family. We were only with him for three days but felt as if we have known him and his family a lifetime. He will make sure that your experience in Tonga is the BEST!
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on Jul 16, 2007 at 5:53 pm
Here's an early filter:
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a resident of Charleston Gardens
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Hopefully there will be more candidates running so that we will actually have some kind of real choice.
As a filter my question is how does the candidate feel about the Stanford Hospital rebuilding. I also am very interested in the filter that Winston brought up as well.
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on Jul 17, 2007 at 12:16 pm
real choice? what does it mean when you have nine people, five of which have to agree to get anything done? it's government by majority consensus, with nine 'mayors' making promises that can't be kept...very inefficient, very "yesterday", and very boring...
a resident of Midtown
on Jul 17, 2007 at 12:56 pm
bring back the yacht harbor and sell the utilities to PG&E and you have my vote.
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on Jul 17, 2007 at 1:21 pm
Good to see there is a candidate who's not part of the Chamber of Commerce.
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I think it's amusing that people want to know how the candidates stand on issues. What we need is CANDIDATES period.
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As a clinician with a special interest in fertility and pregnancy nutrition, two of the most common questions my patients ask are:
I'm going to answer these questions in this article. But before I do, let's first take a moment to discuss the importance of proper nutrition for fertility and pregnancy.
Numerous factors determine our health as adults, including nutrition, exercise, lifestyle and genetics. But recent research suggests another powerful influence on lifelong health: our mother's nutritional status during (and even before) her pregnancy.
In fact, some researchers now believe the 9 months we spend in the womb are the most consequential period of our lives, permanently influencing the wiring of the brain and the function of organs like the heart, liver and pancreas. They also suggest that the conditions we encounter in utero shape everything from our susceptibility to disease, to our appetite and metabolism, to our intelligence and temperament.
The theory that the nutritional environment we encounter in the womb determines our lifelong health is known as the Developmental Origins Hypothesis. It was first proposed by British researcher David J. Barker in the 1980s to explain a seeming contradiction: as British prosperity increased, so did heart disease. Yet geographically, the highest rates of heart disease were found in the poorest places in Britain. Barker found that rather than smoking, dietary fat or some other lifestyle cause, the factor that was most predictive of whether an individual would develop premature heart disease (before the age of 65) was their weight at birth (PDF).
Barker found that infants carried to full term with birth weights between 8.5 and 9.5 pounds had a 45 percent lower risk of developing heart disease later in life than infants born at 5.5 pounds. (They also had a lower risk of stroke, a 70% lower risk of insulin resistance and a slightly lower risk of blood pressure later in life.) As the chart below demonstrates, the risk declined in a linear fashion between 5.5 and 9.5 pounds, but started to increase again as birth weight rose above 9.5 pounds.
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These studies – and many more – have made it clear that the mother's nutritional status leading up to and during pregnancy affects her baby's health not only at birth and during early childhood, but for the rest of his or her life. This leads us to the obvious conclusion that proper maternal nutrition is crucial for boosting fertility and ensuring lifelong health for our children.
If you listen to the mainstream authorities, they'll tell you the best diet during pregnancy is one that's rich in whole grains and low in fat and animal protein. Some of my patients have even been told by their previous physicians or nutritionists that it's dangerous not to eat grains during pregnancy!
Sound familiar? This is the same misguided advice dietitians have been giving to the general public for decades – and it's just as wrong for aspiring parents and pregnant moms.
Let's break out that trusty analytical tool called "common sense" to combat the notion that the Primal Blueprint diet isn't safe during pregnancy, and that it's somehow dangerous not to eat grains during pregnancy. If that were true, we wouldn't even be having this conversation. Why? Because humans have eaten a paleolithic diet (without grains) for the vast majority of our evolutionary history.
Imagine the timeline of human existence as a football field (100 yards from end-zone to end-zone). If you started walking at one end of the field, the first 99.5 yards would represent all of human history up until the last 10,000 years. During those first 77,000 generations of human history, we survived and thrived on a paleolithic diet. It's only in the last one-half yard that agriculture was developed and humans started regularly consuming grains.
Perhaps the more appropriate question is whether the Standard American Diet is safe. Infertility rates are already high, and they're increasing at an alarming rate. 1 in 7 women today have trouble conceiving, and a recent study in the U.K. predicted that number could more than double (to 1 in 3) by 2020. While there are probably several reasons for this dramatic increase in infertility, the Standard American Diet is almost certainly one of the most important.
The Primal Blueprint diet is an excellent starting place for those wishing to conceive, or for women who are already pregnant or nursing. But within the context of the Primal Blueprint diet, there are certain foods and nutrients that are particularly beneficial during these periods.
Traditional cultures have known this for millennia. That's why they have sacred fertility foods they feed to mothers-to-be and even fathers-to-be. These include nutrient dense foods like fish eggs, liver, bone marrow, egg yolks and other animal fats. For example, the Masai tribe in Africa only allowed couples to marry and become pregnant after spending several months drinking milk in the wet season when the grass is lush and the nutrient content of the milk is especially high.
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Malaysian Muslims rallied on Friday to protest against Christians using the word "Allah" for God after a spate of attacks on churches that threatened to stoke racial and religious tensions.
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Anybody familiar with Nazi Germany will be familiar with Himmler, Speer, Bormann and such but few have ever heard of Hans Kammler. Kammler was a General in the SS, rather an accomplishment any way you look at it. Kammler "was regarded by many in the Nazi hierarchy as the most powerful man in Germany outside the Cabinet." (Blunder! How the U.S. Gave Away Nazi Supersecrets to Russia, by Tom Agoston, Dodd, Mead & Co.)
Kammler, whose position of authority was directly under Himmler, was in charge of Hitler's most secret projects, specifically projects such as the world's first jet engines and rockets. He had over 14 million people working for him, mostly building underground factories. Agoston said his projects were equivalent to being in charge of building the Great Pyramids or the Coliseum in Rome. Speer said that he believed that Kammler was being considered to take his (Speer's) position.
Albert Speer, in his book Spandau, The Secret Diaries brags that it was he who ordered Werner Heisenberg to stop building an atomic bomb and concentrate on a "uranium motor" for aircraft. Towards the end of the war, Hitler even made Göring and Speer subordinate to Kammler. Eisenhower admits in Crusade In Europe that the Nazis were within 6 months of developing advanced weapons that would have changed the outcome of the war.
Hans Kammler
General Dr Hans Friedrich Karl Franz Kammler (August 26, 1901 – April 1945?) was an engineer and high-ranking officer of the SS. He oversaw SS construction projects, and towards the end of World War II was put in charge of the V-2 missile programme.
Kammler was born in Stettin, Germany. In 1919, after volunteering for army service, he served in the Rossbach Freikorps . From 1919 to 1923 he studied civil engineering in Munich and Danzig. He joined the NSDAP in 1932 and held a variety of administrative positions when the Nazi government came to power, initially in the Reichsluftfahrtministerium (RLM - Aviation Ministry). In 1940 he joined the SS, where from 1942 he worked at designing facilities for the extermination camps, including gas chambers and crematoria. Kammler eventually became Oswald Pohl's Deputy in the WVHA (Reich Administrative and Economic Main Office), which oversaw Amtsgruppe D (Amt D), the Administration of the concentration camp system, and was also Chief of Amt C, which designed and constructed all of the concentration and extermination camps. Following the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943, Heinrich Himmler assigned him to overseeing the demolition of the ghetto in retaliation.
Kammler was also charged with constructing facilities for various secret weapons projects, including manufacturing plants and test stands for the Messerschmitt Me 262 and V-2. Following the Allied bombing raids on Peenemünde in "Operation Hydra" on August 17, 1943, Kammler was assigned to moving these production facilities underground, which resulted in the Mittelwerk facility and its attendant concentration camp complex, Mittelbau-Dora, which housed slave labour for constructing the factory and working on the production lines. He was also assigned to the construction of facilities at Jonastal and Riesengebirge for nuclear weapons research and at Ebensee to develop a V-2 derived ICBM.
In 1944, Himmler convinced Hitler to put the V-2 project directly under SS control, and on August 6 replaced Walter Dornberger with Kammler as its director. From January 1945, he was placed as head of all missile projects and just a month later was given charge of all German aerospace programs as these came under SS authority as well.
In April 1945, Kammler disappeared. Some reports suggest that he was assassinated by a member of his staff, acting on orders from Himmler not to allow personnel with detailed knowledge of the rocket programme to fall into Allied hands. Others indicate that he may have been killed in action or committed suicide somewhere around Prague. The fact that his exact fate is unknown and that his body was never recovered led to some speculation that he continued his work in the United States after the war, where it is alleged he worked on anti-gravity and other advanced devices.
Agostan's book details all FOUR of the supposed death scenarios of Hans Kammler. These may well have been simply misdirection.
A recent (2001) book by Nick Cook, The Hunt for Zero Point investigates the possibility that Kammler was brought to the United States along with many other German scientists as part of the program known as "Operation Paperclip" (Christopher Simpson, Blowback).
There are no known facts that support this theory. There have been no "Kammler sightings" since the end of the war, contrary to the cases of other Nazi war criminals such as Bormann and Mengele. In addition, Kammler was not a physicist or rocket engineer. He was primarily an administrator and as such would have few skills of value to the Americans.
There is a trail of evidence that indicates in the closing days of the Reich that Kammler used a long-range multi-engined aircraft to ship a large body of research material and prototypes out of the Reich. The book documents much of this evidence. References to Kammler in the official literature relating to the Nuremberg trials have been deleted. In fact, despite the knowledge that Kammler was, in many ways, number three in the Nazi hierarchy in 1945, his name only comes up once, in an indirect reference by Dornberger, during the war crimes trials, including the trial of his subordinates in December 1957 in Arnsberg, Westphalia.


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TrynEx International, the manufacturer of SnowEx, TurfEx and SweepEx product lines, has moved into a new, state-of-the-art plant in Madison Heights, Michigan. The facility positions TrynEx for future expansion, and it allows the company to set up a lean manufacturing system through a partnership with the Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center (MMTC).
Much larger than its previous building, TrynEx's new 130,000-square-foot, world-class facility allows plenty of room for development and growth. It also contains multiple new features to improve the assembly and shipping processes. These include flexible lean manufacturing lines, ergonomic tooling, and a pick-and-pack order fulfillment system. Furthermore, the building includes a training center for staging corporate meetings and forums, making it more guest-friendly for visiting dealers and OEMs.
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Likes: I ordered GAM010 in black leather with a black roughout seat and that is exactly what I received. It is a comfortable, lightweight saddle, very easy to lift on and off my horse. The saddle fits my paso fino very well-it doesn't move or shift. The stirrups hang straight and there is no resistance in the fenders so there is no breaking in period!
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It is amazing how art has changed through the last several decades, much less, over the last several centuries. It used to be that art was a form. It was something that required a canvas, a palate of colors, and typically paint.
Now, however, art in the media presents itself in a totally different light. It still shares many of the same components of the olden day art forms, but is typically constructed using a computer and vector images and graphics.
One may arguably say that art in the past was more complex, and one may say that today's art is more difficult. However you want to look at it, it is all still considered art. It is amazing to take a look at how much art has advanced over the last, say 50 years. From hand drawn, or hand painted images, to what we see today, with graphically designed images that are representative of what depicts near real life images, it is awesome to see the sheer growth.
In the media, cartoons have gone from being drawn by hand, to being made by computers as well. Anime, as it is referred to is so lifelike, it is almost uncanny. There is no telling what the next generation of art will look like. For now, we can only dream of how art will look in yet another 50 years!
When my husband and I got married and bought our house, we decided that we needed some well placed pieces of artwork on the walls to brighten up the place. We had already purchased a few odd, inexpensive pieces to add some color and life to our ho-hum living room. Now we agreed we should make an investment by purchasing a professional piece of artwork. There was an art gallery we liked a lot that was not too far from our house so we decided to go and see what they had to offer.
We roamed through the gallery admiring many paintings by several different artists. We finally agreed on one piece that had a frame which matched our décor and loads of color in the picture. The artist was Schluss, an Israeli artist, and his painting was exactly what we were looking for in terms of style, color and price. My husband and I could not wait to hang it up on our newly painted wall. We paid for the piece, got our certificate of authenticity and brought it home. I remember staring at it after we hung it up and feeling so proud that we made a smart investment—something that will one day double, triple or quadruple its worth.
Nearly ten years later, after watching a show about art, I thought maybe it was time to get my painting appraised to see what its current value was. I went back to the gallery where I had made my purchase, showed them my certificate and gave the owner some additional information about the piece. Well, there was good news and bad news. The good news was that my artwork had not lost any of its value. On the other hand, it was priced exactly what I paid almost a decade ago. So much for making a smart investment, I thought. When I told my husband, he laughed. He told me ahead of time that it probably did not increase much and, if it did, by a very small amount.
I am not disappointed about making the decision to invest in a piece of artwork. Perhaps my particular piece is not as valuable as others. Maybe it will increase after the artist is no longer living. Or maybe I don't know how to choose a work of art for investment purposes. In any case, what I do have is a beautiful picture that complements my home and provides just a bit of culture to my family. I guess that is the true value of any art.
They say you don't learn to appreciate things in life until you are older. I can definitely agree with that—especially when it comes to art appreciation. I always loved art as a kid. All the painting, coloring, finger painting, sculpting and drawing were tons of fun. But nothing I made was a masterpiece (except in the eyes of my parents). As I got older, I enjoyed art less. Since I was never really good at it, I figured there was no point in continuing something that produced mediocre results at best. I would look at famous works of art and just shrug my shoulders and walk by. Art galleries and museums held very little interest to me as well. But that all changed once I became a parent.
My daughter loves art. She, like her mom, is not very good at it, but she tries, and that is all a mom can ask for. She loves every type of art too—molding and sculpting, sketching and drawing, painting and coloring. Her love of art prompted me to enroll her in a fancy art class where every week they experiment in a different medium of art. She cannot wait to show me what she did and how she did it. Her enthusiasm, I admit, is infectious. It is that appreciation that she has for art that has now rubbed off on me.
I have now become the mom who whisks both my children to the nearest art gallery to view the works inside. My daughter especially loves looking at the bright colors that the artists use as well as the "cool" designs they make. She marvels how the artists interpret people in different ways putting their faces in odd, sometimes contorted poses. She shows me the beauty of the art through her eyes and I have learned to appreciate it once again. My son, at only two and a half, even looks and asks what the paintings are, and names the colors in high excitement as we gaze at the pictures.
My mother always told me that when I became a mom, life and all it has to give, comes full circle. I just never expected that an appreciation for art would be one of those things.
The United States education system is constantly under scrutiny. And with the inception of the No Child Left Behind law, schools are under more pressure to have students meet certain standards. If they do not, then vital funding is lost. What this means is that many classes that are considered nonessential will be cut from a child's education. Classes like music, physical education and art will no longer be part of the curriculum. While the emphasis should be on the reading, writing and arithmetic, the importance of nonacademic programs should not be overlooked.
Art is one of those nonacademic subjects that needs to remain part of a child's education. For one thing, kids need a creative outlet and art provides them that. They can paint, draw, color or sculpt their cares away even if it is just for a half hour. For some kids, art is something they excel at—more so than the reading and the math. There is nothing better than building a child's confidence than by giving him or her a chance to shine at something he or she is great at. Finally, art is culture. Many kids do not get exposure to any type of culture. Why can't art do that for them? Let kids know there are so many wonderful things in the world and art is one of them.
For some troubled kids, art can be a source of comfort and security. Having the opportunity to draw, sketch or mold whatever comes to mind is expressive freedom and for a child who is having problems, art may be the outlet he or she needs to say what is on his or her mind. Kids who are having difficulty with certain motor skills may use art as a way of therapy. Simply holding a crayon or a paintbrush is challenging enough for them, but knowing they can create their own piece of art may be what motivates them to try harder.
It is easy to write off art and other extracurricular classes as irrelevant, but it is not doing today's students any good. Without exposing them to a little bit of culture and an even greater amount of creativity, schools are depriving students of having a well-rounded education. After all, everyone wants their children to be the best they can be whether it is in reading, writing, math or art.
Art is all around us, in varying mediums and concepts. Art appeals to each one of us on a different level, you may be young or old, male or female, we describe or see art in differing ways. As an adult we may be more inclined to have a love for contemporary art where a child will be drawn more to modern art. Modern art is exploding with primary colors. Bold, big shapes that catch the childs eye. Allowing your child to explore modern art is a way to enforce learning by counting objects they see to learning colors presented in the piece.
A great way to spark interest in leaning about art is to look at works of art in a book or even online then go visit a museum. Show your child modern art in person.
As you stumble across works of art that you child seems to find interesting dont just pass by saying, oh thats nice. Take the time to engage your child. Talk about the piece. Ask questions about what is used in the picture. Are their different colors, what art they. Do you see shapes? How many shapes? Can you name them? Take what the art has and use that to explore the piece. If your child isnt keen on looking at art, to them it may be boring but with a few questions it will then become a topic of discussion if you take the time to ponder over the work.
You know your child. Find a piece of art you know will appeal to them and start asking questions or talking about what you see and before you know it you are teaching your child about modern art.
Many new businesses start and fail each year. Entrepreneurs have great ambitions of a flourishing business, but many of them fail to do one of the most important parts of the start up process: creating a business plan. A business plan is more that just words on a piece of paper, it's the skeleton of your business, and a strong one will help to build a strong business. Here are some reasons a business plan is important:
# A business plan outlines your basic goals and aspirations with the business. It describes the product or services you are going to offer, and the markets where you will promote them. It shows any research that you have done on your particular industry and why you think your business will be a good addition.
# A business plan shows how you're going to set up your business, from the day to day operations to the financial side of the business, too. Even if some of the things may seem like minor details, go ahead and include them. Later on, you may be glad you thought ahead about how to deal with issues that might come up.
# A good business plan also includes ideas about expansion, or changes that might occur in the business with market changes.
Finally, a business plan may determine for you if a business is even worth starting up, after you look at it all on paper. The old saying "failing to plan is planning to fail," holds true here – a good business plan is going to be a strong start and foundation for your business, and will be a good reference point as your business grows.
All through elementary school, middle school, and even some high school, I remember having the best projects. Whether it was a poster of the French and Indian War, building a bridge made out of balsa wood or creating a science experiment, mine were always top notch. The reason for this was because my father was an architect who could easily sketch a plan on a piece of paper and bring it all the way to the finished product without blinking. And what productions they were. Of course, for dad, the bigger the better and all my projects had to be perfect—there was no skimping, coloring outside the lines or quitting before the project was passed completion. As good as my father was at anything artful, I was horrible.
It certainly was not easy growing up with a father who could create just about anything—and he did. For my sister's graduation from elementary school, he created an exact replica of the Statue of Liberty that stood about seven-feet high. I remember watching him make it over a period of a few months. It was truly inspiring. I also remember him creating all the background scenery for every talent show, recital and play my sister and I ever did. He even made many of our Halloween costumes. I do have fond memories of all of this, but it was also frustrating every time I was in art class and the art teacher would see my stick figure people and the one Smurf I knew how to vaguely draw (although now that Smurfs are popular again, my daughter finds my drawings quite impressive). The teacher knew who my father was and was quite familiar with his work which made my artwork seem very amateurish.
As I got older, I often joked with people that I did not get the "art" gene. My sister got some of it, but neither one of us are even close to the artistic abilities that our father has. Now my dad has found a new life in school projects once again. My daughter has now become his new muse. Luckily, she loves art and I enrolled her in real art classes. Maybe this art thing skips a generation. Time will tell. For now, I am hoping that stick figure people become popular because I have those down pat!
We have probably all been there before—we visit an art museum or gallery, walk around and look at all the sculptures, paintings, watercolors, drawings and more only to find that one piece that just does not seem to make any sense. We stare at it, tilt our heads thinking a different angle will help us understand it and then we just shake our heads. Yes, some art is, to say the least, inartistic. The question then becomes, how do these pieces wind up in upscale galleries and prestigious museums?
I often wonder if the artist was having a bad day or just lost the will to finish the piece and left it as is thinking half a would-be masterpiece is better than a never-will-be masterpiece. Perhaps the painter or sculptor purposely made such an odd specimen of art out of spite or to make some type of statement that no one but he or she gets. Whatever the reasons may be, I am still convinced that some of it is just not art.
My thinking is somewhat traditional when it comes to art. I believe it should have some sense of beauty with a hefty dose of thought-provoking creativity. But it should not be the type of thing I would look at it and then think that I could do the same thing—or better. Randomly splashing a wet paintbrush on a canvas or putting together metal pieces to make a dog does not inspire me nor does it do much in the way of provoking thought—at least not intelligent thought. What it does do, however, is make me stop and think that this artist is taking advantage of his or her status. Since most artists who are in galleries and museums are pretty successful at what they do, maybe they feel that anything they create, no matter how sloppy or inartistic, will be looked at with awe. I am thinking there is probably more shock than awe with some of these so-called works of art.
For now, I will just have to accept the fact that art is very subjective and what I view as art, someone else may not. By the same token, some people think the more absurd something is, the more artful it is. I guess any way you look at it, it prompts an immediate response from those looking at it—and that is probably what the artist had in mind in the first place.