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Michael Volpe Thoughts and opinions including the odd review of places. My views are expressed here. They are nothing to do with Opera Holland Park. Inappropriate comments will be removed, including my own. "Noisy at the wrong times" new edition published in September 2015 on Two Roads
OBERTO conference paper
A (very slightly) edited version of the talk I gave at the recent - and very interesting - OBERTO conference at Oxford Brookes University. The day was full of far more interesting and scholarly papers than mine; I was just the end-of-the-day entertainment!
Reassessing audiences and the "not for us debate"
I tend to approach opera from an instinctive point of view. Instinct is really something people like me have almost always survived on. I read a piece recently in which Kasper Holten, asked whether he was making the right decisions on repertoire, said that in the end, we can really only act on our instinct and our taste. After all, whilst scientific approaches to marketing and running our businesses has a place, if that was the only answer we would all surely be millionaires. So, often, instinct is our greatest tool. And after 25 years of doing this and meeting thousands of opera goers, instinct and experience is something I need to pay attention to. Right now, my instinct is very much that we are perhaps looking in the wrong places and focusing on the wrong things as we struggle to maintain opera's vitality.
Back in June, I wrote an article in The Sunday Times about opera and the problems with various socio-economic groups and their take up of live, theatrical arts. A couple of weeks later, Sajid Javid, MP, the culture secretary, referenced the piece in his maiden speech on his new portfolio. Soon afterwards, his shadow, Harriet Harman made an almost identical speech but attracted much opprobrium by referencing socio-economic stereotypes in the opera house. When the Arts council recently announced its new funding programme, much of the money was attached to demands; broadening audiences and encouraging opera houses and theatres to reach out to more people (mainly by telling them to go to the cinema). Everybody is up in arms about this constant scrutiny because everybody is, to coin a London phrase, "knocking their pipe out" trying to do just that. We spend millions in the UK trying to get people to make the arts a key part of their lives and millions more are spent on education programmes that go into schools or hospitals or care homes. We bang this drum constantly yet the impression exists among policy makers that we still don't do enough, that opera or theatre is elitist, expensive.
I don't want to bore you by listing the countless schemes or cheap ticket programmes that we all know about. We are a little obsessed with the social make up of our audience, sometimes correctly. My greatest concern is that there is a huge untapped audience out there and there IS a problem. It's not the one Mr Javid or Mrs Harman thinks it is. Neither is it the one that mono-dimensional media coverage of high arts would have you believe it is, or the ramblings of artists like Katherine Jenkins who love to reinforce the concept of a posh folks' private members club. No, none of that is the problem because you can get an opera ticket or a theatre ticket or a gallery ticket or a Proms ticket for tuppence ha'penny if you want one.
The problem is the potential audience itself. We sometimes refer to this potential audience "ordinary people" or the "working class" because we all appear to have a reference point in our minds for what that means. And in the context of the arguments around elitism, this appears to be the audience we ought to be chasing (as though anybody else doesn't really count but let's put that idea to one side for a moment). If like me, you recoil a bit when you hear the term "working class", please just tolerate it for the purpose of this discussion. But what we are in fact talking about is basically the great majority of people in the country; educated mainly in comprehensives, often professional, vocational workers or tradesmen, living moderate lives. These are the people, we are told (debatably) that opera has not made any great impression on and it is true that so many have never been to the theatre in their lives. Think about that for a moment...
I seem to be the "go to" person to prove opera is not elitist because, I suppose, I have a London accent, like football and have tattoos. What better way to demonstrate that opera has a universal appeal? What better way to show that we can all find revelation and gratification in Verdi and Mozart? Of course, I am not actually your average working class convert who stumbled upon opera one day and ended up managing a festival. I will tell you why in a moment.
(In the open floor discussion later, it was proposed, by me in fact, that we shouldn't actually have such articles circulating since asking the question "is opera for toffs?" constantly reinforces the concept that there is a problem, but I digress)
When I wrote the article for the Sunday Times, I told the story of a friend of mine who grew up on the same Fulham estate as me. I had invited him to a performance and as a result of that he had discovered within himself a huge desire to explore more and began going to the theatre, he had even started to ask me for book recommendations. It was a real "Educating Kenny" scenario. He had never even imagined that theatre or opera or virtually anything beyond popular culture was within his reach intellectually or even socially. He still feels reluctant to tell his mates in the pub that he visits theatres, like a dirty secret.
The issue is further complicated, I believe, by the voracious advance of the digital age and the way in which our emerging adult population is learning to perceive their entire world through a screen and thus the concepts of live, non-digital, emotionally human, collective experience is, (beyond the massive sleep in a field, wallow in the mud rock festivals), utterly alien to many. Big Brother is upon us in the form of technology and those who determine how the world operates follow the dollars not the tears - unless every tear, as the late Lord Attenborough once said of his films, is attached to a dollar.
I assume we have all considered at length why opera audiences are generally middle class and monied - because, let's face it, despite all of our efforts, some of which are successful to a greater or lesser extent, this is largely the case. I think it is simple. Education, or more specifically, the kind of education they had. I am tempted to stop there. That's it. Not much more to be said you might think. Why my own experience is relevant is also why what I have just said is actually, awfully, depressingly true.
I am not trying to play that game of proving I am more working class than you, honestly. The point is that when I was eleven years old, as a consequence of a set of circumstances and fortune, I was plucked from my inner city estate and single parent family and dropped into a world that today is beyond most who are like the child I was. To cut a very long story short, I ended up at a school that was dubbed the "poor man's Eton" and it was called Woolverstone Hall. The school was a boarding school for underprivileged London boys and was specifically set up to prove that if you gave us the same educational opportunities as those with money, you would see remarkable results. There were lots of people like me in the school, we were the majority in fact, and a major aspect of school life was our cultural education. There were lots of anachronistic rules and traditions at the school that seemed as if from another planet. THOSE were in fact the biggest challenge for us all; rules, doing what we were told, accepting corporal punishment without trying to burn the housemaster out of his home! But what didn't feel weird or way out or extraordinary was the fact that we sang Handel in choirs, sang proper hymns in assembly, studied Chaucer and Shakespeare, performed in plays and studied the great composers in music lessons. Kids like me didn't turn a hair when the school mounted Der Freischütz. We still loved and were encouraged to express our love of popular music in the form of rock concerts too, and soon everything seemed to come from the same cultural pot: it didn't matter, never felt unusual and importantly, nothing was ever introduced with particular fanfare. There was a sort of shrug of the shoulders. It was normal. And I should remind you that we were an apparently very challenging group of children.
And that is the experience of many who attend public schools and I suppose you can in one sense argue that consequently, opera is associated with money! But why is it that kids who attend our state schools, particularly those in cities, remain so allergic to the higher forms of culture? We spend millions collectively in outreach programmes, yet whilst youth culture is vibrant in the UK, our young people remain among the most culturally one dimensional in the world. The way in which young people absorb their entertainment is massively controlled and one imagines schools, and the teachers who generationally are from a similar system, perpetuate the lack of a wide and testing cultural education. We must all have stories of struggles to even get educational projects into schools because the interested teachers seem to be rare.
Of course, none of what I am saying is a revelation because we all know that it starts with exposure and education. And this is why I have become pessimistic about not just the future of live opera, but also that of other forms of culture; the task of reversing the concept of threadbare, caricatured, token cultural education is a massive, almost unimaginable one. And alongside that, the digital world is taking over and I think the cultural world is, to coin another phrase from my youth, pissing on its own shoes in this regard too. Making opera more available from the comfort of an armchair is fine but overwhelmingly, the consumers of the digital broadcast are already converts and they often go - or used to go - to theatres too. Some have indeed used cinema to supplant their theatre-going but price may be a factor here as well as access to theatres in more remote communities. We can go on and on with this you know, we can find all manner of ways to spread the theatrical experience in two dimensional media. But a) we are a live art form and b) too many people think it is another world, not for them. Our chances of converting someone to opera are immeasurably improved by getting their behinds on a seat, in a theatre.
So I imagine you are all waiting with baited breath for me to offer a solution? I have one but I am certain it is unachievable: starting from the age of five years old, all children should experience three hours a week where they explore and listen to classical music, theatre (both classical and modern) and yes, opera. They should have their curriculum filled with higher expectation and aspiration. They should also have no access to digital devices until the age of 25! It could also be argued that we shouldn't expect or assume that the list of culture I just gave is an automatically appropriate thing for kids these days; culture changes, it moves on. I would contest that it is still appropriate to share it with them, that it informs all cultural choices through life. But we all know this is never happening anyway. So what else can we do?
For opera and the arts in general to flourish as we would like, to ensure new audiences come through, we do need to continue outreach and make seats accessible from a monetary point of view, and we should avoid dumbing it down or sexing it up, trying to appeal to what we think are "modern" likes and dislikes; if we try to meet them on their terms or mould opera into something we think will appeal, we will lose. We shouldn't be running scared of our shadow. But most of all we need to appeal to a huge portion of our society who are simply ensnared by the old stereotypes or are simply afraid of the arts, even though they may be curious. Above all, we must not try to make opera extraordinary - we need to make it ordinary. Stop chasing twitter counts and controversy in order to demonstrate how relevant and hip opera is. We may attract some transient fame but we won't convert a single Take That fan. Rather than make opera stand out, it needs to become another, ordinary part of our cultural offer to a nation of people who have learned to enjoy everything and understand how immeasurably powerful it can be in a live context - that is where and when they learn how extraordinary it can be. I would posit the theory that there is an enormous natural capacity for opera and music drama among the UK population, that people are immensely capable of enjoying the operatic art form because they are melodramatists and emotional by nature, they understand the concepts of drama and how music heightens it. We have seen how popular certain "crossover opera" singers can become. We all remember the Nessun Dorma phenomenon.
Our focus is very much on marketing, access, digital expansion and social media, being progressive, aggressive even. A lot of it is good work and some of it enjoys success but for me, the problem is that largely, we are casting seeds onto barren ground. How much more successful would our efforts be were our twenty something population to be familiar and comfortable with the concept of opera? Able to make choices based on what they like or dislike as opposed to being invited into a world that is surreal and alien? I always said that my school's greatest achievement was not the education it gave me but that it convinced me before it started that it was worth having an education at all. I feel there is something of that in our attempts to persuade people to come to the opera.
We need people who come from all - or "ordinary" - communities to evangelise and educate, we need to present the art form in wholly unexpected places and media, without caricature or pop stars, we need to make a massive effort to bring opera into mainstream life, addressing directly not only people's misconceptions of the art form but their misconceptions of themselves.
Nick W 17 September 2014 at 12:15
This is excellent and sounds absolutely right. Cheap tickets and access schemes will do little if the will to attend is not there. Curiosity is just not enough as self-censure and the 'what will my mates think?' effect will squash any 'might give that a go...' impulse. And it is often an impulse which starts off a love.
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Learning sociology gives me a new perspective in seeing how the world works, and it also lets me care more about the vulnerability in the society. Thank you to my sociology teacher, Richard Driscoll, who gave me lots of inspiration such as filming the dancing in the park, which is interesting to British people, and recommenced lots of sociological books about the elderly.
By listening to his advice, "The Definition" eventually divides into two parts: one is about the elderly in nursing home and the other is about people dancing in the park. Also, there is many interviews in the documentary to give a more well-rounded perspective.
I would like to thank my Math teacher Michael Jin and my friend Franchaska, who helped me with the voice over. Also, thanks to my family members, especially my dear grandmother, who gave me lots of insights related to the issue of elderly.
I made this documentary just before the deadline, thus it's not so perfect. I'll probably elaborate some shots and reedit it in the future.
If you are interested, you can click the link below and watch it.
Teng Xun Video:https://v.qq.com/x/page/u0862usad2v.html
Bilibili:https://www.bilibili.com/video/av38188271?from=search&seid=10452775157822232568
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=i1ZM5_SN6ss


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I'm new around here, I've been searching for a long time and I finally decided to get a lumia 920 (best smartphone for what I've seen), my expectations are high and I shall be receiving it by the end of this weekend, so, there's anything I should know about it? Will be my first time with a wp, I currently own a blackberry 8520 (have 2, nice phone btw).
is the lumia 920 all the things that everybody says about?
Congratulations. It is the flagship device of windows phone and considered by many to be one of the best smartphone out there right now. Its a stunning looking device, you'll appreciating the design and build quality when you get it. Just make sure you run phone software updates when you get it because there will be one or two. Make sure you take advantage of Nokias exclusive apps like CNN news, Parking mania as well as the pre-loaded Nokia drive, maps and city lense. Also, if you are a music fanatic and use your phone for listening to music you have the right phone. Make sure you check out Dolby SRS, you can customise the EQ and the sound quality is stunning and the supplied earphones are great. The rest you'll learn as time goes by. Enjoy!
Coming from an 8520 the 920 is gonna blow your mind. Do be aware that its a totally different type of phone, and totally different type of software.
The camera is amazing, and so is the screen. The battery will be a shock to you. Its a great battery, but the 8520 is a low power phone, so bear in mind you will be charging this more often.
Get a qi charge pad.
that's nice! I've been checking for loads of important apps in these days and made a list (8 or 9) with the ones I want, I'm didn't know about some apps you said, thanks for the info!, and yes, I'm a music fanatic fan, guess I'll be enjoy it very much, soon as I get it I will update it, thanks!
hahaha thanks!, I hate android (hate how things are displayed, have a razr, good phone actually), and bored from iOS, I love the 8520, it's simply and funcional, I'm looking for a loooooong time for a smartphone that really made me want to switch phones, and I finally found, the lumia 920 was the one able to do it!, high expectations!
In my country (brazil) the 925 is going to arrive only at november, I'm too ancious for waiting for that time, I got a 920 because I was very excited, and still I am, waiting for the phone, I was in doubt between the black or white, but I found black more discrete, and the grey color isn't offered in my country (only red,yellow,black and white), hope we enjoy it very much!
EDIT: I have one doubt, these nokia apps, such as nokia lens or nokia maps, comes pre-installed in the 920? or do I have to install it from the windows app store?
Some of those apps do come pre-installed. Regardless, you can easily get them from the store!


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My name is Nilrem Visigoth. I'm a Vampyre from Puerto Rico. I've been in the Vampyre community for three years, using the Vampire archetype as a eclectic spiritual philosophy. As a child, the concept of vampires from a fictional and mythological standpoint always fascinated me and spoke to me on a profound level. Later on, I decided to search for communities with congruent views as mine and that's when I stumbled upon the Vampyre subculture and made a few friends who share similar views with me.
In Puerto Rico, unfortunately the community is very small and a stagnated swamp filled with child-minded individuals and abusers. Only my best friend and I remain genuine. It doesn't stop me from keep going on and reaching my goals. Recently, I stumbled upon this forum and I was interested in interacting with others. I hope to learn a lot and have good interactions.
My reading interests are: Philosophy, Occult, Metaphysics, Horror and Mythology. I practice Kendo, Asana Yoga and Energy manipulation.
Welcome to the community Nilrem. I hope that you have a nice time around here, share your views and can also learn from the wealth of knowledge that's stored in these pages.
Come on in and welcome to the group.
Hello, I hope you stay for some good discussions.
Generally, we use the term "vampire" to describe non-human souls inhabiting in human body, a complex and profound concept, and "Vampyre" when we talk about fantasy and nonsense.
I would like to ask you out of consideration for a fellow born and raised Puerto Rican not to throw out a generalizing belittlement. There is more than just the community. There are also stragglers, but I have to say that being from PR myself, I felt identified in your statement.


As-Salamu Alaykum, is the Muslim greeting and means peace be with you. In Ibiza there is a sizeable Islam community and recentlly I had the pleasure of welcoming a South African Muslim family to the island. Ibiza has a rich history and culture and Islam had a strong presence in the Balearic's from 900AD, when they were conquered by the Moors. They brought prosperity and peace introducing new irrigation and agricultural farming techniques, which are still in operation today. The Moors ruled for over 300 years, until the Catalan Conquest in 1235. According to island legend the Moors were betrayed by a jealous brother of the King, who allowed the Catalans to sack the city by showing them a secret gate located where the tiny Chapel Of Saint Ciriac stands in Dalt Villa today.
Ibiza has a Mosque located at 36, Carrer De Navarra, in the Figueretas area of Ibiza town, where daily prayers are practiced. Muslims pray five times a day known as the Salah and this is obligatory for all Muslims. Set times for prayers are dictated by the movement of the sun and Friday prayer, the Jumu'ah, is considered a holy day, similar to Sundays for Christians. Muslims differ in how they interpret the Qur'an, some are very conservative with regards to alcohol and Halal food and others adopt a more liberal stance enjoying a drink or two and eating non Halal food called mashbooh, meaning questionable. As long as they stick to the five fundamental pillars of Islam, it is up to each Muslim how they live their life. Halal is a broad word describing any action or object that is permissible under Islamic Law. Halal ensures that animals are slaughtered with respect and mercy so that they do not suffer.
Contrary to popular belief, Muslims know how to party. They are fun loving and enjoy all aspects of modern day culture. Mannerly, respectful of different cultures and with a strong family ethos they are a content and self assured people. My Muslims guests were quiet happy to attend the David Guetta Opening party at Pacha (in Hijab) and the Space Opening party and really enjoyed the whole experience. They also enjoyed a cultural trip around the island, viewing sites with Muslim culture and background. We visited Balafia, a small hamlet of five houses just outside the tiny village of San Lorenc, where the islands oldest houses still exist today. The Muslim Houses at Balafia are living history, as all of them have people still using them as homes. There is an ancient Moorish water well still working and the whole area has a special atmosphere about it.
We also visited Dalt Villa where the narrow streets and organic urban layout are very similar to Islamic cities across the Mediterranean. Within the walls of Dalt Villa, can be found the Casa De La Curia, which houses the Madina Yasbisa, an impressive Museum that reflects Ibiza under Islamic rule.Intact remains of the old Muslim City wall of Ibiza, that were discovered in 2001, are displayed within the Museum. The wall is different from the brick renaissance walls of the Catalans, as it was made by compacting mud and clay in a technique known as matting. Ibiza has experienced many different cultures and religions invade its shores down through the centuries and Islam has contributed greatly to the islands personality.
Ibiza welcomes everybody as one, without bias or ignorance, it is what makes the island such a special place. My Muslim visitors had their eyes opened by Ibiza and its rich Islamic heritage and I was in turn impressed by the pleasant and good company of new friends. I hope that the Assalaam-O-Alaikum, which means goodbye in Islam, will not be the last time that I use the phrase.
Correction…..I misread your post and had it in my head they were from a North African country, where atheism is almost unheard of.
What a sanitised version of a most violent, peodophilic, sexist and seperatist religion! Written by a man of course.
The word on the street in Ibiza is that we're sick to death of the looks of disdain, the rudeness from over-haggling, the sharp contrast between ways of life, the painfully obvious contrast between clothing, the colonising of areas, the threat of more mosques, the over-represenation of muslims in Spanish prisons (70%!!!), etc….
May I suggest you see 'muslim' as someone who follows the religion called Islam and not as someone who was born into a muslim family or country. It's not in the blood….it's something someone chooses to live their life by or not.
Your recent visitors do not sound like they adhere to the religion. Unfortunately for them atheism is unheard of in their country so they don't realistically have that option.
I find it deeply worrying that someone can promote very liberal lifestyle choices and at the same time promote Islam. I think it's great to welcome people but not religions that conflict with the local way of life. Yes, come and live amongst us but please drop the old ways and stop looking at us as thought we're filth.
One major point you and all others who discuss Al Andalus, which is what muslims call Spain (and always will as once muslim always muslim and they intend on getting it back), is that when they last took over the local population were also deeply religious….'people of the book' as the muslims called them. They were therefore allowed to live, albeit with 'dhimitude' status (please look that up and then decide whether muslim immigation is a good thing). However, this island is no longer a deeply religious island full of pious little things obedient to 'god'. This island is now full of the people your blog mostly appeals to. Those people would not have been tollerated back in the 'golden era' of Islam.
Do you really think the muslim women in the long gowns and headscarves think the skimpily dressed young ladies are of equal status? Do you really think those women are likely to attend any of the house music events you regularly promote?
Given the birth rate differential and constant muslim immigration, these issues need to be dealt with. This is no longer just a matter of 'cultural enrichment' or chats about old houses or irrigation systems. I don't care less about houses……I care about people and we are heading for a clash of civilisations.
My question to you is this…..are you here to promote liberalism, freedom, equality of the sexes, freedom of thought, freedom of expression, etc, or are you here to promote the Islamisation of the most liberal place on earth? You can do one or you can do the other but you cannot faithfully do both….and time will make your diplomacy harder.
I certainly worry for the young muslims girls born and raised in Ibiza who will suffer this differential the most in the form of forced marriages and honour killings if they decide to live and dress like their mates from school when they turn adolescent. Already a mosque has been closed due to a cleric beating the koran into the kids. They don't want them to assimilate and lose their muslim indoctrination. Their big agenda is to Islamise the place and the offspring are the main weapon for now. That is, of course, all written into the Koran.
May I suggest you publish this comment to prove to me that you do believe in free speech/expression? Your post was very one-sided. This island deserves better.
Thanks for your opinion. I wrote the blog as an experience I had with people not religion or sectarianism. The lady attended the opening party of David Guetta in full head dress and not once did I hear any of the group complain or use derogatory words towards other clubbers.
There are bad eggs in every walk of life…its human nature.
I deal with people the way I find them, as individuals, not because of their skin colour or religion.
I will not defend any religion…..I will however respect a persons culture or beliefs and their right to live their lifes freely.
Comments have a much better chance of been published when non abusive language and swear words are not used. Comments posted by named contributors will also be preferred over Anonymous postings.
Perhaps you should sample the delights of an Islamic Country, or perhaps holiday in an Islamised ghetto bestowed upon us by our ghastly politicians in Western Europe, in order to come to realise just what a totalitarian political system, from cradle to grave, the alleged "religion" of Islam is.
I fully understand that the Spanish area of Andalusia was conquered presided over via Muslim rule in the distant past, but coming to realise that Ibiza has now also submitted to the European unions politically correct doctrine, in ushering in a so called middle eastern "faith" that refuses to be reformed in any way shape or form, claiming that the Koran is the pure word of "God", proves once again that a new dark age is coming, and the only "raves" to be heard in fifty years time in Ibiza, will be from countless minarets calling the people to their early morning prayer.
Thanks for your comment. As I stated earlier I can only write about my experiences in Ibiza. The family I met were lovely and I would consider myself an ok judge of character.
I cannot comment on the Islamic community up close and personal as I have not experienced it yet. If I do I will relate my experience good or bad.
Once again thank you for your constructive comment…..
Hi i have been visiting the Island for 6 years now and never knew there was halal meat. Thanks for this usefull post i am going back for closings and will confirm this then. As for the previous posts i think that it is good that some muslim people are habiting the island as it is a very special place and some diversity is always good.
You are welcome. Enjoy Ibiza.


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So far I had an issue with MySQL Expensive Queries and I found a way how to determine which PHP Application is querying large amount of data which we don't need.
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A comprehension of site control once in a while alluded 대출 to as "point security," is significant concerning the seller's expected use for the property and turns out to be critical in the event that a showroom demonstrates not to find success. [A "point" is where a producer or merchant (hereinafter alluded to mutually as "maker" or "plant") either has or needs a dealership.]
As made sense of beneath, there are many types of site control. There is a differentiation, notwithstanding, between site control as it applies to non-showroom genuine property and site control in regards to new vehicle sales centers. As a result of the many structures and in light of the differentiation regarding vehicle sales centers, it would be inappropriate to sum up that site control essentially is either fortunate or unfortunate. Each case should be evaluated exclusively.
A right of first refusal quite often cools a land proprietor's capacity to sell the land. The hypothesis being that an imminent outsider buyer wouldn't be as effortlessly leaned to invest the time, cash and energy expected to make a proposal for land, realizing the inhabitant has the privilege to acknowledge the deal and get the advantage of the outsider's exploration and bartering when the optionee practices his choice.
On account of an offer of a vehicle showroom, that assertion is seldom evident.
While site control had been around for quite a long time, the flood in land costs, during the 1970s and 1980s saw numerous metropolitan vendors selling their offices for what appeared then to be cosmic totals. Properties that vendors bought, or built for two or three hundred thousand bucks during the 1940s, 50s and 60s were, by the last part of the 1970s, selling for millions.
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"Art for art's sake" is the usual English rendition of a French slogan, "l'art pour l'art'," which was coined early in the nineteenth century by the French philosopher Victor Cousin and became a bohemian slogan during the nineteenth century. Although Théophile Gautier (1811 – 1872) did not use the actual words, the preface to his novel Mademoiselle de Maupin (1835) was the earliest manifesto of the idea that art was valuable as art, that artistic pursuits were their own justification, and that art did not need moral justification and was even allowed to be morally subversive.
1 Art for Art's Sake
2 English Aesthetic Movement
3 Art and the Industrial Revolution
4 Post-Modernism and Art for Art's Sake
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The concept was adopted by a number of French, British and American writers and artists, and by proponents of the Aesthetic Movement such as Walter Pater. It was a rejection of the accustomed role of art, since the Counter-Reformation of the sixteenth century, in the service of the state or official religion, and of Victorian-era moralism. It opened the way for artistic freedom of expression in the Impressionist movement and modern art. The slogan continued to be raised in defiance of those, including John Ruskin and the more recent Communist advocates of socialist realism who thought that the value of art lay in serving some moral or didactic purpose. The concept of "art for art's sake" continues to be important in contemporary discussions of censorship, and of the nature and significance of art.
The concept that art needs no justification, that it need serve no purpose, and that the beauty of the fine arts is reason enough for pursuing them was adopted by many leading French authors and in England by Walter Pater, Oscar Wilde, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Arthur Symons. The term appeared in the works of the French painter and art critic Benjamin-Constant. Edgar Allan Poe (1809 – 1849), in his essay "The Poetic Principle," argued that:
We have taken it into our heads that to write a poem simply for the poem's sake [ … ] and to acknowledge such to have been our design, would be to confess ourselves radically wanting in the true poetic dignity and force:—but the simple fact is that would we but permit ourselves to look into our own souls we should immediately there discover that under the sun there neither exists nor can exist any work more thoroughly dignified, more supremely noble, than this very poem, this poem per se, this poem which is a poem and nothing more, this poem written solely for the poem's sake.[1]
The American painter James McNeill Whistler (1834 – 1903), who was averse to sentimentality in painting, commented that,
Art should be independent of all claptrap —should stand alone [ … ] and appeal to the artistic sense of eye or ear, without confounding this with emotions entirely foreign to it, as devotion, pity, love, patriotism and the like. (quoted in Smithsonian Magazine (Apr. 2006): 29)
English Aesthetic Movement
The slogan "art for art's sake" is associated in the history of English art and letters with the Oxford don Walter Pater and his followers in the Aesthetic Movement, which was self-consciously in rebellion against Victorian moralism. It first appeared in English in two works published simultaneously in 1868: Pater's review of William Morris's poetry in the Westminster Review and in William Blake by Algernon Charles Swinburne. A modified form of Pater's review appeared in his Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873), one of the most influential texts of the Aesthetic Movement. In his essays, Pater declared that life had to be lived intensely, following an ideal of beauty.
The artists and writers of the Aesthetic movement asserted that there was no connection between art and morality, and tended to hold that the arts should provide refined sensuous pleasure, rather than convey moral or sentimental messages. They did not accept John Ruskin and Matthew Arnold's utilitarian conception of art as something moral or useful. They believed that art need only be beautiful, and developed the cult of beauty. Life should copy art, and nature was considered crude and lacking in design when compared to art. The main characteristics of the movement were suggestion rather than statement, sensuality, extensive use of symbols, and synaesthetic effects (correspondence between words, colors and music).
The concept of "art for art's sake" played a major role in Oscar Wilde's only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Art and the Industrial Revolution
The concept of "art for art's sake" was a European social construct and was largely a product of the Industrial Revolution. In many cultures, the making of artistic images was a religious practice. In medieval Europe, art served primarily to ornament churches and palaces until the rise of a middle class created a demand for decorative art, illustrations, portraits, landscapes and paintings that documented what objects looked like. The Industrial Revolution brought about drastic changes which created serious social problems, such as the concentration of large numbers of people in urban slums, which caused people to question traditional values and reject romanticism.
While the academic painters of the nineteenth century felt an obligation to improve society by presenting images that reflected conservative moral values, examples of virtuous behavior, and Christian sentiments, modernists demanded freedom to choose their subject matter and style of painting. They were critical of political and religious institutions which they felt restricted individual liberty. Increasingly, artists sought freedom not only from the rules of academic art, but from the demands of the public, and claimed that art should not be produced for the sake of the public but for its own sake. The concept of "art for art's sake" was also a challenge to conservative middle-class values, which still demanded that art have meaning or a purpose, such as to instruct, moralize or to delight the viewer. These progressive modernists adopted an antagonistic attitude towards society and came to be characterized as the avant-garde, those who stood at the forefront of a new age of art and culture.
Post-Modernism and Art for Art's Sake
The First World War signified a failure of tradition, and also demonstrated that scientific and technological progress would not automatically create a better world. A new cultural movement, Dadaism, began in Zürich, Switzerland, during World War I and reached its height from 1916 to 1920. Dadaists declared that modernist art had also failed, and rejected all prevailing artistic standards through anti-art cultural works. The Dadaist movement included public gatherings, demonstrations, and the publication of art and literary journals, and influenced later artistic styles and movements such as Surrealism, Pop Art and Fluxus.
The concept of "art for art's sake" remains important in contemporary discussions about censorship and the nature and significance of art. Art has increasingly become a part of public life, in the form of advertising and of print and film media which is available to all members of society. Computer animation, graphic arts software and other new technologies allow the production of art which, though still original, is produced mechanically rather than manually by the artist. Performance art involves the participation and input of an audience and is beyond the control of an individual artist. These developments have triggered debates over the definition and requirements of "art," and the role of the artist in society.
Patronage of the arts is increasingly in the hands of government or civic institutions which have an obligation to the society which they serve, and which are controlled by officials and politicians who are not necessarily able to appreciate art themselves, or who may be conservative. This raises questions of whether the government has the "right" to impose restrictions on artistic expression, or to enforce specific moral values. If artistic freedom requires economic independence, is it a privilege of the wealthy?
The Latin version of the slogan, "ars gratia artis," is used as a slogan by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and appears in the oval around the roaring head of Leo the Lion in their motion picture logo.
↑ Edgar Allan Poe. "The Poetic Principle", The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe, vol. III, 1850), 1-20. Retrieved July 16, 2007.
Bell-Villada, Gene H. 1996. Art for art's sake & literary life: how politics and markets helped shape the ideology & culture of aestheticism, 1790-1990. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 0803212607
Brookner, Anita. 2000. Romanticism and its discontents. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 0374251592
Ellmann, Richard. 1969. Oscar Wilde; a collection of critical essays. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. ISBN 0139594787
Pater, Walter, and Donald L. Hill. 1980. The Renaissance: studies in art and poetry: the 1893 text. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0520033256
Prideaux, Tom. 1970. The world of Whistler, 1834-1903. New York: Time-Life Books.
Prettejohn, Elizabeth. 1999. After the Pre-Raphaelites: art and aestheticism in Victorian England. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. ISBN 0813527503
Prettejohn, Elizabeth. 2007. Art for art's sake: aestheticism in Victorian painting. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300135497
Seiler, R. M. 1980. Walter Pater, the critical heritage. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. ISBN 0710003803
All links retrieved April 15, 2016.
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy entries:
Ethical Criticism of Art.
Art and Epistemology.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Paideia Project Online.
Project Gutenberg.
Art for art's sake history
History of "Art for art's sake"
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Crocodiles live naturally in tropical areas. They need their stomach to be above a certain temperature in order to digest their meals, so captive crocodiles outside of the tropics always have a warm place to retreat to (heat-lamps or buried heat-cables) after feeding. Two species are found in Australia – the big salt-water crocodile (found from India through Southeast Asia to Australia, the biggest crocodilian in the world, and one of the few Australian native animals to see humans as prey), and the much smaller freshwater (or Johnstone) crocodile, found only in Australia, but with a closely-related one in New Guinea.
NOTE: Seriously, there have been a number of visitors eaten in the past. Large crocs can be well-concealed near the edges of rivers, and they have the strongest jaw pressure of any living animal and powerful tail muscles to propel them suddenly from the water to grasp their prey. Do NOT sit or stand next to any body of water that may harbour a croc, and don't even think about swimming there!
Hartley's Crocodile Adventures (Far North Qld): large wildlife park, crocodiles seen resting on bank of moat as you cruise through the park. Both species.


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Dubai, United Arab Emirates, March 24, 2020: Although cancelled or delayed business trips emerged as the most visible initial impact of the virus, declining sales is expected to be the greatest commercial woe in the future
As Coronavirus takes a toll on global and regional economies, YouGov ran a survey among 220 working professionals belonging to the senior management in various companies (senior business managers and above) between 9th- 15th March to understand the impact of the pandemic on their business and the overall economy.
Four in five (79%) of the surveyed business professionals claimed the Coronavirus had a large or moderate impact on their business. 13% said the impact was minor and only 6% claimed to have no impact at all. Working residents within the income bracket of AED 20,001- 40,000 were more likely to feel the effect as compared to other income-group professionals.
Among the top ways in which the outbreak has affected their business was cancellation or postponement of business trips or external appointments, as said by 47% of the respondents. Almost as many claimed (43%) to introduce hygiene measure and supplies in the company.
Many indicated there was a drop in sales (42%) and sensed insecurity and safety concerns among employees (42%). Roughly a quarter said they were facing HR-related issues such as- increased work from home (29%) and rise in employee sick leaves (24%). Another quarter (25%) were facing interruptions to the supply chain. One in five reported reduced operating hours (20%) and almost as many suffered office or store closures (18).
On a slightly positive note, 7% said they witnessed increase in sales as a result of this outbreak.
The data suggests further disruption on the horizon with four in five respondents (80%) saying the virus is very likely or fairly likely to affect their business in the future. Those aged 45+ were much more likely to say this as compared to their younger counterparts (89% saying this).
One in six (17%) of all respondents, however, feel it's not likely or not very likely to have a future impact on their business.
Although during the time of the survey, cancelled/ delayed business trips or appointments emerged as the biggest visible impact of the virus (said by 47%), declining sales is the greatest commercial woe foreseen by people in the future. A notably higher proportion (48%) are expecting to see decrease in sales in the future compared to those already seeing such a decline.
One in three feel there will be difficulty in communicating with foreign partners (32%) and just as many expect further interruptions to the supply chain (30%).
A slightly higher proportion than the ones who said this now believe there will be reduced operating hours (23%) and office or store closures (20%).
There are few (10%) who look at this as an opportunity and feel there will be increase in sales in the future.
Not only do UAE professionals see a bleak future for their businesses but most of them (88%) feel the Coronavirus will have a large to moderate impact on the country's overall economy. One in ten (10%) however, reckon the impact will be minor or none at all.
YouGov will continue tracking the impact of the virus on the business community and release new data next week.
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The Jayoti Vidyapeeth Women's University, Jaipur is a member of the National Mission on Education through ICT (NME-ICT), Ministry of HRD, Govt. of India. It was established in the year 2008, by an Act of State Government.
It is one of the leading University in the World with knowledge and capabilities in the area of the Community Development based Education with a mission to provide "EDUCATION FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT leading to women empowerment and awareness of Women Rights and Law to all the people".
The University has also established the Faculty, Directorate of Distance Education (DDE) which is recognized by Distance Education Council & tripartite Committee of UGC, AICTE & DEC for running the courses in Distance Education mode.
This univerdity provides only Under Graduate courses for Arts, Commerce and Computer Applications.


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Муниципалитеты

 Ампуэро
 Арредондо
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 Рамалес-де-ла-Викториа
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é um astrônomo japonês.

Ele se especializou na descoberta de asteroides. O asteroide 10633 Akimasa foi assim nomeado em sua homenagem.

É também o autor do livro Ehime hoshizora no yume 88wa.

Ligações externas

Nakamura, Akimasa
Pessoas do período Showa
Pessoas do período Heisei
Nascidos em 1961


The French Alpine village of Méribel is located at the end of a long zig-zag mountain road from Moûtiers. The road climbs up through the lower villages, snaking its way up the v-shaped valley.
Budget carriers fly into Chambery airport.(1.5 hours from Meribel).
International to Geneva. This is the closest international airport to Meribel.
Meribel has their own Altiport that welcomes arrivals by private plane or helicopter.


Every year at around this time, we get word that Amazon will at long last launch a smartphone of its own to go along with its popular Kindle Fire line of tablets. However, CNBC points us to a new Wall Street Journal report that claims Amazon's smartphone will at long last be announced in June and will have a screen capable of displaying 3D images without having to wear any glasses. The Journal's sources say that the phone will be able to display 3D images by employing "retina-tracking technology embedded in four front-facing cameras, or sensors, to make some images appear to be 3-D, similar to a hologram." We heard about Amazon testing out a 3D smartphone last year and now it looks like Amazon is ready to take the wraps off it. The Journal says that the phone will start shipping by the start of September.


Keeping three small children quiet and obedient during church is a daunting task! Getting them ready for church on a school night, feeding them, getting to church on time is even more daunting!
In our first year back to Maryland, we resolved to attend Sunday morning church service and that is basically all we managed. We had good intentions for Sunday night and Wednesday night but frankly speaking, the amount of energy it takes to get 3 kids ready for church on a school night and keep them up past their bedtime was simply too overwhelming.
Consistent and regular attendance shows your children this is important.
The effort is worth it in terms of meeting with other Christians mid-week and getting that spiritual boost that comes from fellowship.
It becomes easier over time.
They have children's church on Wednesday night so I can dispose of the 2 oldest for 1.5 hours! Violette will probably stay with us until she's 3 but that's only one more year.
We did one Wednesday night recently and despite having Violette cry all day from shots and a bee sting and worrying about how she'd do - she simply fell asleep in church and we had a most enjoyable evening! This just goes to show most of the anxiety pre-church is just worries for nothing. Doesn't Philippians 4:6 say "Do not be anxious about anything"? Maybe it's time to put this to use and see what Wednesday church can do for our family.
So there, it's in writing! Now we must make it happen!
Thank you Food Lion clerk, for showing me what a great family I have!
This week at the grocery store I used my debit card only to have it immediately declined. "Oh dear", I told the clerk, "I had to report that stolen last night. Let me use another card."
She quickly listed the many ways she protects her funds including a receipt email for every purchase because you never know when someone might "borrow" your card and bring it back without you knowing it. I must have looked confused because she added, "brothers, they've been stealing from me since I was old enough to get birthday cards".
Wait, what?!? Your brothers STOLE from you and still do on a regular basis? What kind of crazy family did you grow up in?!?
I grew up with two brothers and both are meticulous and honorable with money. We were so respectful of each other's piggy banks that we wouldn't even dream of taking from each other or our mom's wallet.
Unbelievable, yet another persons reality. So thankful for my smart honest brothers!!!


Electric Vehicles (EVs) have been a hot topic in Hawaii in recent months. There was an EV Life blog in the newspaper and feature articles in a local magazine and on a local television station. There have been discussions about the drive, the car's styling, driving range, car prices, state rebates, federal tax credits, electricity rates, charging stations, and more.
But the one thing I didn't consider, until I read an article in the Hawaii Reporter, is the effect of EVs on gas taxes. With more EVs on the road and (ideally) fewer gas vehicles, there will be less gas pumped – and less gas taxes collected.
How will lower gas tax collections affect the budget for road repairs and maintenance?
In an article titled "Vehicle-Mile Pricing: an Idea Whose Time Has Come, but How?" Randal O'Toole, a public policy analyst and Cato Institute Senior Fellow, has an answer: vehicle-mile pricing. He suggests eliminating gas taxes and replacing it with vehicle-mile fees, on a state-by-state basis. O'Toole cites an Oregon test system, which has people pay fees when they pay for gas, based on data from a GPS unit on their car. EVs could pay fees when they go to a recharging station.
* Hawaii leads the nation in electric vehicles, with 422 EVs sold in 2011, or 1.2% of all car purchases; compared to the national level of 17,345 EVs or 0.1% of all car purchases (Sustainable Business. 6/16/12).
* Hawaii leads the nation in electric vehicle charging stations, with one charging station for every 5,500 residents (Pacific Business News, 3/29/12).
Pro: All drivers pay fees for actual miles driven (instead of gas taxes).
Con: None that I can think of.
Con: It could reduce the maintenance of rural roads. It infringes on privacy (even if no data is sent, GPS systems can be hacked). It's hard to implement, hard to calculate, and hard to audit.
Pro: Vehicle mile fees can reduce vehicle miles traveled, reduce congestion, encourage public transportation, and reduce urban sprawl.
Con: It could raise the costs of public transportation. It could reduce urban sprawl (it is both a pro and con, depending on how you feel about cities and suburbs).
Pro: EVs and fuel-efficient cars pay the same fees.
Con: It could reduce the incentive to design, manufacture, and buy fuel-efficient vehicles.
Pro: Fees are transparent (not hidden in the price at the pump).
Con: Fees are harder to calculate fees or spot an error, especially if different roads have different fees.
Of course, the whole vehicle-mile fee idea depends on 1) repealing federal and state gas taxes, and 2) implementing the technology to accurately and securely track vehicle miles (and possibly roads), transmit the data, and calculate the vehicle-mile fee. Government is always eager to add new taxes, but unwilling to repeal taxes.
Do you think vehicle-mile pricing is a good idea? What other considerations are there? How can we pay for our roads and highways?
Earlier this month, on a beautiful Sunday morning, my son and I went on the Hui 'Ilio Dog Walk. The dogs were well-behaved, greeting each other politely, with only a few growls. They were eager to meet other dogs. People greeted each other with smiles; our dogs gave us a reason to talk with each other.
The dog walk was a friendly affair. It started casually, no one jostling for position, everyone walking at their own pace. There was no pressure to finish first. Everyone had fun. We were there for our dogs and to support the dog park.
* About health: Go for short walks. Enjoy your food. Drink lots of water. Get * lots of rest.
* About living: Stick your head out the window. Get outdoors. Smell the plumeria.
* About relationships: Be loyal to your family. Be happy when you see friends. Share your toys.
* About education: With discipline and treats, everyone can learn.
* About money: Friendly smiles and tail-wags are free.
* About politics: Everyone is potentially a friend.
* About personal responsibility: Clean up your own mess.
If you have a dog, what have you learned from your dog? What can pets teach us?
When I browsed through the proposed bills in the 2012 Hawaii legislative session, I was amazed by the number of tax credits being debated. Tax credits reduce the amount of tax you owe (unlike a tax deduction, which reduces the amount of taxable income).
Businesses wanted tax credits for everything from business relocation and high technology, biofuel production and ethanol facilities, hotel construction and medical research, to hiring and telecommuting. Individuals were less greedy (or had fewer lobbyists), but still wanted tax credits for things like college savings, electric vehicles, and parenting classes.
The intent is good (maybe): tax credits can help promote fledgling industries, encourage "good" behavior, and support "good" business practices. But in reality, they are also hand-outs to "favored" groups, often help only the wealthy (those who make enough earned income to take the tax credit), and make the tax code unnecessarily complicated.
1. No tax credits for personal choices, like parenting classes and college savings. Government should not influence or reward the personal choices we make.
2. No tax credits for buying things, like historic homes, energy efficient appliances, electric vehicles, and solar panel systems. Government should not influence our buying decisions, reward us for spending money, or require us to buy anything just to live.
3. No tax credits for private business activities, like hotel construction, small business investment, and new construction and renovation. Government should not reward "favored" businesses.
4. No tax credits for private business practices, like hiring, telecommuting, corporate mentoring, and wellness programs. Government should not influence or reward business decisions that would not be considered without the tax credit – unless the business practices are required by the government.
1. A flat income tax rate. We need one tax rate for all levels of income, with a reasonable deduction for dependents, the elderly, and the blind and disabled. A progressive tax, where the more you earn, the more you pay, may sound fair; but that depends on your definition of "fair." Plus, a progressive tax is hard to figure out and makes it easy to justify tax credits.
2. A minimum tax for low-income families. Everyone should pay a small amount for state services, because we all benefit from public projects. This could be in the form of a residency fee.
3. A 3-year, reduced tax rate. To encourage new businesses and companies that engage in research and development, we could offer a limited-time lower income tax rate.
4. Tax-free health, education, and retirement plans. To encourage personal responsibility, we should allow health, education, and retirement savings plans to grow tax-free. Withdrawals for approved expenses should also be tax-free.
What do you think about tax credits? Have tax credits made you buy something that you would not have bought otherwise? Would taking away tax credits change how you spend your money?
My son just finished Kindergarten at a Honolulu public school. I put away his report cards, the parent newsletters, the lunch menus, and the PTO fliers.
1. Create studying routines. Kids like to know what to expect. On the way home from school, I reminded him of the things we needed to do: write one or two sentences in his school planner; finish his homework (if he has any) or pages in a workbook; do a coloring page or craft project (for birthdays or thank-yous); and two or three online practice math tests. I also let him make some decisions, such as what task he wants to do first, and what rewards he wanted for finishing his work.
2. Praise hard work. I praised him for his hard work, for finishing the task, and for not giving up – not just for being "smart." I stressed that it's okay to make mistakes and reminded him that we can't quit.
3. Use humor to deal with frustration. When kids get frustrated, I've found that humor can really help. Sometimes I made silly noises when he got the right answer – or the wrong answer. Sometimes I raced him to see if he could answer the math word problem before I could read it. If he finished a worksheet that was difficult, I sometimes filled the page with stars or happy faces. If humor didn't work, a short break (playing with toys or eating a snack) gave both of us a chance to calm down and try again.
4. Start a field trip journal. To encourage him to remember events and write in sentences, we started a field trip journal using story-writing paper (a blank space at the top and lines at the bottom). After every special event – a birthday, a museum visit, a festival, a kids workshop – he drew a picture and wrote a sentence or two describing what he did that day. I helped with prompts and spelling, but I tried to let him choose what he wanted to write.
How do you motivate kids to study hard? What are your best tips to build good study habits?
Her story is compelling: she was an art therapist, and when her daughter Hannah was born, she filled the nursery with little clay plaques with inspiring messages – life lessons for her daughter and gentle reminders for herself, like "Believe in yourself" and "Let your dreams take flight." Her four sisters loved the plaques, and asked to give them to their friends as gifts. Soon their friends wanted to buy more plaques to give away to their friends, and a basement art business was born that led to art fairs, gift shops, and a thriving business in a converted barn in Maryland.
"Living Artfully: A Heart-full Guide of Ideas and Inspirations That Celebrate Life, Love, and Moments That Matter" (2006) by artist and author Sandra Magsamen inspires us, gives us tips to express our creativity, and reminds us to play. Her writing is relentlessly cheerful, positive, optimistic, and encouraging. She is definitely writing for a female audience in America, with cultural assumption about shared experiences and traditions.
"To live artfully is to live life fully, with meaning and a purpose – to bring beauty into being" (page 4), Magsamen says passionately.
The book is divided into seven chapters full of personal stories, colorful graphics, handwritten notes, and artful ideas, starting with each of us, and spreading outward in a widening circle of family, friends, neighbors, and community.
1. Messages from the heart: making connections. Art expresses who we are, adds meaning to our lives, and gives us an opportunity to play.
2. Imagine the possibilities: rediscovering your creative power. Give yourself permission to be you, think of yourself as creative, be innovative, play, use your imagination, and make friends.
3. Everyday art: creating moments that matter. "It is the little things in life that make living so grand" (page 70), Magsamen reminds us. Take time to write special notes, create brag books, congratulate others, and just have fun.
4. Home is where the heart is: making your home a reflection of you. Surround yourself with the things you value and love and that comfort you. Everyone needs a room or space for quiet and rest.
5. Celebrate life: artful ways for special days. The best gifts are "the people and experiences in our lives" (page 134). Create new reasons to celebrate!
6. Happy holidays: new ways for the big days. Simplify celebrations, share the cooking, decorate together, create gifts with meaning, and focus on spending time with the people you love.
7. You make the world a better place: making your mark on the world. Kindness is contagious; and simple acts of kindness require little effort.
Just reading the first chapter inspired me: instead of buying holiday decorations last year, I made my own cardboard cut-outs of Santa, a reindeer, a gingerbread man, and a surfing menehune (elf) using pens, paints, and a utility knife. This spring I even signed up for a ceramics class at a community park. And I enjoyed it!
Find out more about Living Artfully on her website, www.sandramagsamen.com.
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Measles exposure found in new, third location in Hattiesburg
The virus lingers in a room where a person with measles has been for up to two hours.
Measles exposure found in new, third location in Hattiesburg The virus lingers in a room where a person with measles has been for up to two hours. Check out this story on clarionledger.com: https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2019/04/23/measles-exposure-found-new-third-location-hattiesburg-mississippi/3552688002/
Harold Gater, Mississippi Clarion Ledger Published 2:47 p.m. CT April 23, 2019 | Updated 2:51 p.m. CT April 23, 2019
A new location has been added in an investigation into an out-of-state traveler who was contagious with measles while in Mississippi, the Mississippi State Department of Health announced Tuesday.
On Friday, State Health Officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs confirmed a Tennessee man who had contracted the infection visited Hattiesburg last week. Dobbs named two restaurants the man visited and the time frames of the visits. A third location has been discovered.
Previous locations
• Subway Restaurant inside the Circle K, 4050 U.S. Highway 11 in Hattiesburg
• Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers, 3509 Hardy Street in Hattiesburg
10-11 p.m.
• Turtle Creek Mall Food Court, 1000 Turtle Creek Drive in Hattiesburg
12-2 p.m.
Anyone who visited the locations during the specified dates and times could have been exposed to measles, according to state health officials.
Officials said to make sure vaccinations are up-to-date. They said to check for symptoms, and if symptoms occur, be sure to call a doctor or emergency room. Officials said before you go to make sure the facility can make proper arrangements to avoid further spread of the illness.
Measles is a serious respiratory disease of the lungs and breathing tubes that starts with a high fever, followed soon after by a cough, runny nose, and red eyes. On the third to seventh day of the illness, a rash of tiny, red spots will appear. The rash starts at the head and spreads to the rest of the body. Symptoms usually appear about eleven days after exposure with a range of seven to twenty-one days.
Measles spreads when an infected person breathes, coughs or sneezes. The virus lingers in a room where a person with measles has been for up to two hours. Measles can lead to pneumonia, encephalitis (swelling of the brain), and death.
Young children are at higher risk for complications, especially those under twelve months old who are too young to receive the measles vaccination.
For more information on measles, visit HealthyMS.com/measles.
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