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Beauty and the Beast: Modern Disney vs. Classic Disney
Author's Note: This article is a combination of the articles "Favored Fairytales: Beauty and the Beast" and "Live Action Beast and the Beast: A Review" which can be found in their original form on The Cat's Cradle (kvclements.com)
Like most kids in middle-class America, I was raised on Disney films. Some I always felt lukewarm about, and some that used to be favorites no longer appeal to me, even though I can appreciate the talent and artistry that went into making them. I never liked Sleeping Beauty and I was always ambivalent about Snow White and Cinderella. But others, like The Lion King and Mulan, have withstood the test of time to remain favorites. When I was a kid, The Little Mermaid was my favorite, hands down. But now, as an adult, a different film has risen to the top of the list: Beauty and the Beast.
While I enjoyed Beauty and the Beast as a kid, I don't recall it grabbing me the way it does now, probably because it is very focused on a burgeoning romance. As I've grown, I've come to identify more strongly with bookish Belle than with rebellious Ariel. And, unlike so many other Disney films, the prince and "princess" actually spend a great amount of time together before they marry and dance off into their happily ever after. It's a far more realistic development of a relationship than, say, Cinderella or Snow White who spend approximately ten minutes with their groom before marrying him. The "love at first sight" trope is one that I really dislike, even though I understand its narrative use in fairy tales.
Beauty and the Beast is one of the few stories that revolves around two people in extraordinary circumstances learning to live, and eventually fall in love, with one another. Call me a helpless romantic, but I really enjoy that kind of story; it has far more substance than the typical perfunctory, "And then the prince found the princess and married her and they lived happily ever after, the end." I do so love romantic redemption stories.
Apparently I'm not the only one fascinated by Beauty and the Beast; there are numerous iterations of it in both literature and film. Not only do you have the subtle variations that come with different translations, but there are more drastic modern interpretations that take the basic idea of a beauty taming a beast with love and then play with it.
So when I heard that there was going to be a live action version of the film being released in 2017, I was intrigued. Hopeful, even. What kind of depth would be imparted to the characters, as told to a modern audience? What new spin would be placed on a "tale as old as time"?
Unfortunately, what I ended up seeing was an inferior carbon copy of the original 1991 animated film.
I cannot express how much this disappoints me. Don't get me wrong; the movie isn't bad per se. I don't feel like I should demand my money back or that I wasted my time. It's competently done. The singing (for the most part) is good, the CGI passable, the sets rich and ornate (albeit over-Baroqued), the costumes were pretty, and the talking furniture were the most compelling characters on screen. There are some good moments between Belle and her father, both Gaston and LeFou were entertaining, and some of the plot holes from the animated film were explained (like how Gaston knew where the castle was, what happened to Belle's mother, and why no one seemed to know that a giant, impossible-to-miss castle was sitting within a day's ride of the village).
But there were so many things they could have done to enrich the characters, to deepen the story, to offer something new. The emotional depth of the animated version was mostly lost in the translation to live action, and what backstory there was felt pasted in as an afterthought rather than integrated into the film.
While I could go on at length pointing out all the flaws of the film, I want to focus on three main points whose poor execution crippled the live action film:
While I liked Emma Watson as Belle and Dan Stevens as the Beast, I didn't feel any chemistry between the two of them, which is crucial in a film where one of the romantic partners isn't even human! (The romance between the wardrobe and the harpsicord was more compelling and believable than between Belle and the Beast.) There are two key reasons for this: First, time. In the animated version, Belle spends at least a month (perhaps longer) at the castle before returning to her father. In the live action version, she's there about a week. That is not enough time for a romance to blossom. I know that fairy tales play fast and loose with realism, but for a film made with modern sensibilities, it was less realistic than the one from 1991. Second, stolen lines. So many lines that should have been said by a main character are said by furniture instead! In the live action version, the Beast never admits that he loves Belle; Cogsworth says it for him! That is a key moment for him, a turning point in his life and story arc, and it was taken from him. Why? What was the rationale behind this decision? Darned if I know.
Nearly all of their interactions feel like they are saying the lines because that's what the script says, not because the characters actually feel those emotions. The only exception was when the Beast introduced Belle to the library. That was the only scene between them that felt genuine. The film tried to make up for this lack by tacking on backstory that is either never explored in more detail or is woefully executed. Their little "bonding moment" in Belle's old home (which, by the way, would have been burned to the ground if the plague had visited) was completely inadequate. The Beast's backstory would have been interesting… if they'd actually done anything with it.
I expected, especially in a modern film, for us to spend more time with Belle and the Beast as they get to know one another, but instead, we actually got less screen time with them than in the original. Heck, we get more time with the talking furniture than with the main characters! (I almost wish that the film had drawn further from the original fairy tale where the servants are invisible or wraith-like rather than objects so they wouldn't eat up so much time with comedy. But that wouldn't sell more toys, now would it?) A lot of valuable time that should have been spent developing the relationship between Belle and the Beast was sacrificed for the sake of the musical numbers, which are okay in animated films, but I loathe in live action ones. (Especially when we already know these songs and, quite frankly, saw them done better.)
As a particularly painful example, the Beast should not have sung when Belle left. His single roar of anguish in the animated version was far more moving to me than the musical number we had to endure in the live action. Not because Dan Stevens sang poorly, but because it undercut the drama of the scene and the feel of the character. A short duet with Belle is about as much as the Beast should have sung, if singing had to happen at all. And it didn't need to.
The film couldn't seem to decide if it wanted to be a live action cartoon or a more realistic tale of love and drama. In the beginning of the film, especially with the opening song and Gaston's presentation, it feels like the former. Gaston feels especially flat and cartoonish, and not nearly as menacing as he turns out to be in the animated version. But then the interactions with Belle and her father or with Belle teaching the little girl to read feel so realistic and human that it's jarring. The movie flips like this throughout. It needed to be one or the other but tried to be both and, in my estimation, failed.
So why did all of this happen? How could such a classic story be butchered in such a fashion? I think that it probably came down to fear. Because the live action Cinderella and Jungle Book didn't do very well, Disney got scared and decided they would just remake the version of Beauty and the Beast everyone knows and loves, just with real people. Personally, even though the live action Cinderella isn't a great film, I found it more compelling than this version of Beauty and the Beast. I wish they'd decided to do something more like Ever After, which is clearly Cinderella, but with its own unique spin. At least then we would have had something new to watch. And this wouldn't have been beyond Disney's capabilities. In 1987, a live-action television show called Beauty and the Beast aired with its own unique take on the fairy tale, transporting it to then-modern New York. "Belle" is a district attorney named Catherine, played by Linda Hamilton. "The Beast" is a lion-like man named Vincent, played by Ron Perlman, who dwells in a shadowy realm of tunnels and sewers beneath New York. (Vincent's makeup and costume are simply stunning.) And while often cheesy, it still held more genuine emotion than its more modern CGI-saturated cousin.
In conclusion, and in my humble opinion, the 1991 animated version of Beauty and the Beast remains the best iteration caught on film. The 1987 TV show is a treat if you can get past the '80s camp and fashion sense. For your literary palate, I've also included a list of excellent books that have presented their own various versions of this classic fairy tale:
Beauty and the Beast by Mercer Mayer Heart's Blood by Juliet Marillier
Beauty by Robin McKinley
Stolen Songbird by Danielle L. Jensen
Of Beast and Beauty by Stacey Jay
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sara J. Maas
The Fire Rose by Mercedes Lackey
Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge
The Quantum Rose by Catherine Asaro
Beauty and the Werewolf by Mercedes Lackey
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Happy Wednesday Hump Day — also known to us as Celebrity Baby Bump Day. We have rounded up the cutest pregnant celebrities of the week, starting with Kerry Washington, who looked fabulous in a floral dress. Pregnant Blac Chyna showed off her growing baby bump, while pregnant Liv Tyler posted a beautiful snapshot. Behati Prinsloo, Candice Swanepoel, Holly Madison and Ali Fedotowsky round out our list of the most buzzworthy baby bumps of the week.
Liv Tyler
Liv Tyler showed off her bare baby bump in this gorgeous photo she posted on her Instagram page with the caption, "Me and my babies." The 38-year-old actress and her fiancé David Gardner are expecting their second child together any day now.
In the photo, Tyler is holding her 15-month old son Sailor against her stomach. The Lord of the Rings star also has an 11-year-old son named Milo from a previous relationship.
Kerry Washington
Pregnant Kerry Washington looked gorgeous as she showed off her baby bump in a floral gown at the SAG-AFTRA Foundation golf fundraiser. The Scandal star is expecting her second child with her husband, former NFL player Nnamdi Asomugha. They are already parents to a 2-year-old daughter named Isabelle.
Washington, who is expecting baby No. 2 in September, won't be returning to TV until 2017 because of her pregnancy — which confirms the fact that Olivia Pope will not be pregnant in her popular political thriller.
More: Blake Lively showed off her baby bump on the red carpet
Blac Chyna
Blac Chyna posted a picture of her growing baby bump in a form-fitting green dress. The 28-year-old and her fiancé, Rob Kardashian, are expecting their first child together. Chyna and Kardashian just inked a reality TV show deal with E! Entertainment called Rob & Chyna, so they are reportedly keeping all baby news mum until their show airs.
One thing Chyna is opening up about is her pregnancy weight gain. She said in a Snapchat video that she planned on gaining "100 pounds this pregnancy." She said she planned on "tearing it up" and that she will "snap back" after their baby is born.
Next up: Behati Prinsloo totally copies Candice Swanepoel's pregnancy photo

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ENCINITAS — Despite objections by some neighbors, City Council denied an appeal of the Planning Commission decision allowing a major expansion of Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas on May 13.
The 4-1 vote clears the way for the hospital to begin construction on what it calls a "long-awaited" project. "With triple-digit population growth it is no surprise that the hospital needs to expand," Ron MacCormick, the Scripps Memorial chief of staff, told the commission at its April 3 meeting. "This is truly for the greater good."
The plan calls for an expansion from the current 333,380-square-foot facility to 874,692 square feet on the 28-acre hospital campus. Hospital officials have said that the current facility does not meet the demand for services.
Built in the 1960s, the aging hospital has not been able to accommodate the growing need for services according to officials.
The five-phase expansion includes a parking structure and medical office buildings, increasing the size of the emergency department, reconfiguration of the main entryway on Santa Fe Drive with new lanes and gates, a roof-top helipad atop a three-story critical care building and a three-story acute care building.
The hospital is bordered by Devonshire Drive to the west, I-5 to the east and Santa Fe Drive to the south.
During the last phases of construction, two buildings would reach 59 feet above grade level, making them the tallest in the city. In phase four of the construction, a westward expansion of the main hospital building with a three-story, 78,000-square-foot critical care building is planned.
Councilwoman Teresa Barth said she voted against the motion because it did not take the long-term impacts on the neighborhood into consideration. She stressed that she was not opposed to the expansion project itself.
Barth proposed an alternative motion that would have made minor changes without holding up the project. "I felt that my motion to approve the Scripps Master Plan with two minor modifications was a fair compromise," she said after the meeting. "The two changes would not have delayed the project or cost Scripps any additional funding but would have addressed the neighbors' concerns."
Barth's motion would have removed the requirement for an assessment district — additional fees on property taxes — for the neighboring property owners so that if the $175,000 Scripps is required to pay for traffic calming along Devonshire is insufficient, then private neighborhood property owners would not have to pay the additional cost. The city is responsible for determining the impacts of the increased traffic on the neighborhood and would have been responsible for covering any additional costs for traffic calming measures.
"The impact of a regional hospital should not be financially shouldered by one neighborhood," Barth said. Staff assured the council that the funds would be sufficient for measures taken currently. However, Barth said her motion was forward-looking. "This may not be enough money in 15 years."
Another point of contention with the surrounding neighbors was the timing of constructing a privacy wall along Devonshire Drive between the neighborhood and the hospital. "The way the conditions read are too open ended," Barth said. "I wanted it to be time-certain."
Scripps is not required to build the wall until at least 18 months after the time the traffic impacts to the neighborhood occur according to the approved plans. Gina Renteria said she supports the hospital expansion project, but with reasonable conditions. The Devonshire Drive resident asked the council to require Scripps to build the wall before undertaking construction, banning residential street parking by hospital visitors and eliminating lighted toll booth structures.
Deputy Mayor Dan Dalager had little to say about the impacts to the neighborhood. "I think it's a good plan," he said. "I think it's what we've got to do and I'm going to vote for it."


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Something is going on with Adebayor — well maybe. According to the World's Least Reliable Newspaper, the boss is being somewhat tight lipped about it but loosened up enough to say that Adebayor was benched for the first half of the Twente match not because of normal rotations but because of some other reason.
Something about this story stinks of "The Sun Made This Up To Rile Arsenal Fans." I watched the Twente game (with a nice draft Pilsner Urquell at Doyle's no less) and at half time Adebayor came out and had a kick around with the sprinklers. He looked far from sad, he looked, well, he looked like a little kid. Someone who loves playing football. Which is how all sports stars should be. I thought it was a great sign.
Sure, there are a few Arsenal fans who boo him (the most obvious person in any crowd is the asshole) because of what happened this summer but really those people need to get over it and get over themselves. Which is basically the only actual quote I see attributed to Wenger not printed in the World's Least Reliable Newspaper
In Adebayor's case, he made maybe a little PR mistake. But, for what is really important – the way he practiced, the way he worked, the way he behaved on a daily basis – it is credit to him. And I think we have to be intelligent enough, the fans as well, to support him. Yes, some of them [have reacted]. But I think the majority are behind him.
I like that Wenger insults the booing fans intelligence. But really, why on earth would you pay £100 to watch a match and boo your own player? There are plenty of people on the other team to boo! Like today, boo Nicky Butt. Boo Joey Barton in absentia. Boo Kevin Keegod for having horrible 70's hair in this photo.
There's so much more important things to boo, folks. At worst, Ade was a tool this summer, at best he was screwed by the English press: get over it.
Especially today, Arsenal have a stern test ahead of them today and they need all the home support that you can muster. I'm not suggesting that they should go Fenerbahce on Newcastle, just that it would be nice to hear some full-throated cheers. Because this Newcastle team is not the emotional and physical shambles that they were last year.
Already Newcastle have been to Old Trafford and held a despoiled Manchester United to a draw and today, I fully expect Michael Owen, Nicky Butt, and Obafemi Martins to come on and give Arsenal a good game. With Butt in the midfield, stepping on ankles, Owen's pace up front, and the random flashes of brilliance by the mercurial Martins I can easily see Newcastle going home with points. Especially if you combine their positives with our negatives.
One of the glaring negatives right now is injuries. Well, actually I see it as good/bad news: there haven't been any changes since last week which means that Diaby, Silvestre, and the others are still out, but it also means that no one picked up a new injury!
Silvestre has a hard date set for his return (September 13, away to Blackburn) but worryingly Abou Diaby does not, reportedly "another couple of weeks." While Silvestre's injury is termed a "thigh complaint" Diaby's is called a full-blown "thigh injury." He and Rosicky are actually expected to return around the same time-ish: knock on wood.
All this really means for us is that Arsene will use the same 18 as we saw against Twente except that there will be some rotation. Baring late injury/illness I expect the following:
Sagna Toure Gallas Clichy
Cesc Denilson Nasri
Walcott Adebayor van Persie
Yes, I think Wenger is playing three up front. Every time I've seen Walcott on he's essentially playing a forward role so that's where I'm putting him. I suppose I could have done a half space and put him between the strikers and the midfielders but I'm lazy and that's what you get.
Newcastle will have to look at Arsenal's recent results and our injuries and be thinking that they could catch us unawares. Thus, the boys will have to be on their toes and put in the same whole-hearted effort that they did on Wednesday. Let's see it.
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The Chinese government is employing a unique strategy to reduce the threat of terrorism in its historically unstable Tibet and Xinjiang autonomous regions. By providing new jobs and better housing, the government has managed to quell the threat of separatism.
by Caleb T. Maupin
Part 2 - Terrorism down, standard of living up
But that was three years ago. What has happened since? Has Xinjiang gone the way of Iraq, Libya and Syria? Is an insurgency blazing across the countryside?
Not at all. Three years after the Kunming attackers carried out what has been called "China's 9/11," Xinjiang is actually more peaceful than before. What prevented the region from descending into chaos? Although China has stepped up its policing and security measures in the time since the attacks, a different factor has actually been more prominent in halting unrest and maintaining peace.
"An average of two new textile factories were set up in Xinjing every day last year. We expect to see more this year," said Yin Xiaodong, director of Xinjiang's textile industry management office. Xinjiang now has more than 1,800 textile factories, with 112,300 people working in textile mills. The Chinese government said it expects another 100,000 textile industry jobs to be created this year.
Rural Uyghurs who join China's industrial workforce are likely seeing significant improvements in their standard of living. The wages of Chinese industrial workers are closely regulated by the state. Between 2008 and 2014, the average wage of China's industrial workers increased by 71 percent. Business owners have complained about what they consider to be extreme workplace protections and wage controls. MarketWatch quotes Yang Keng, the owner of a major Chinese real estate company as saying "China, as a developing country, has adopted labor laws of a European welfare state. The motives are good but businesses have been hurt."
The Chinese central government has also announced plans to develop new roads and railways in Xinjiang. In 2017, roughly 170 billion yuan (24.8 billion dollars) will be used to build new roads in the historically impoverished region. Another 8.1 billion yuan (1.18 billion dollars) will be used to build new railways. The Chinese government is also researching the possibility of building a high-speed railway that will connect Xinjiang's capital of Urumqi to a land-port on the Sino-Kazakh border.
It is believed that the development of industry and infrastructure in the region has diminished the threat of separatist terrorism by giving impoverished Uyghurs more job opportunities and a better quality of life.
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It seems that Taiwan and South China Sea are being used only as a pretext by the US to provoke China continuously. The US ultimate geopolitical interest resides in the Chinese mainland, close to the Russian borders.
According to a scenario, the US starts a war that ends quickly, changes the regime in China, puts its puppet, and probably, break China (as they want to do with Russia), using disputed provinces as a pretext (e.g. Tibet, Xinjiang - No surprise that, recently, China responded instantly to Trump, saying that the 'one-China' policy is not negotiable).
The US-friendly regimes will repay the US dollars that they will receive for their 'color revolutions' by allowing US military bases in their territories. With China dissolved and on its knees, Russia will be fully encircled and left with no major allies. It will be the next target.


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The S-Works Epic Burry Stander Specialized Edition is something very special, it is a bike dedicated to the Wold Cup and Olympic mountain bike competitor who was tragically killed during a training ride on January 3, 2013.
That may be the best looking mountain bike I've ever seen. Specialized in addition to the gold colorway included some details that make this special.
Specialized is donating $50,000 from sales of the limited run of 150 bikes to Burry's beloved charity songo.info. More info can be found at Specialized.


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Energy Conservation Update
The March 9 edition of Session Weekly from Minnesota House of Representatives includes a short piece on Representative Kalin's H.F. 1221 on energy conservation. I recently wrote a post about the decoupling portion of this bill.
The bill has been approved by the House Energy Finance and Policy Division. Its next stop is the House Finance Committee.
The bill represents an expansion of the state's current conservation improvement program, which directs utilities to invest money in programs and initiatives that encourage energy conservation among their customers.
Kalin called the 1.5 percent goal both "aggressive" and "doable." Representatives of utility companies, however, said they would have a tough time meeting it, and that it might result in higher gas and electric prices.
Mike Bash, chief financial officer of Connexus Energy, said it didn't make sense to put the onus for energy conservation on the utility companies when customers are responsible for gas and electric demand.
"We're not at our customers' shoulders when they're at Best Buy buying that new plasma TV. We're not at their shoulder when they're at the hardware store deciding which light bulb to buy. We're not there with their builder at their new home deciding what appliances to put in," Bash said, adding that his company will have to raise its rates anywhere from 6 percent to 10 percent if the bill passes.
Sheldon Strom, executive director of the Center for Energy and the Environment, disputed the notion that the bill would increase energy prices, arguing that having to build new power plants to meet energy demands would be much more expensive than conservation.
In the same pattern of testimony from the Renewable Energy Standard, utilities largely said that 1.5% is too big a conservation goal. Some suggested they thought they could meet 1% but even that would be stretch.
When discussing why utilities are required to do the conservation (in response to Bash's question above), someone noted that energy companies are trusted by consumers and are therefore posed to offer the best programs to reduce demand. From a philosophical point of view, I wholly agree that customers should be the targets and not the energy companies themselves, but I think this plan is more practical.
That being said, one utility testifier made the salient point that they may offer a customer hundreds of dollars in rebates for efficient appliances, only to see them purchase a bigger TV or something else that will nullify the conservation. It left me thinking that education has to be the ultimate answer.
When discussing potential costs, testifiers for the utility companies stressed that this could raise rates and that there is no linear relationship between conservation and money spent. Thus, conserving 2% may cost more than twice as much as conserving 1%.
While that makes intuitive sense (CFLs are cheap, but only take you so far) some of the testimony seemed over the top. Some of the testifiers used cost estimates extrapolated from what they are currently achieving. However, their current requirement is a spending requirement - not an efficiency requirement. Thus, there undoubtedly ways for the utilities to be more efficient with their conservation dollars.
The worst moment came when one of the utility testifiers showed what other states are doing and insinuated that Hawaii's incredibly stringent conservation requirements are responsible for their sky-high $.22/kWhr cost. As one Representative pointed out, this is a meaningless comparison because Hawaii has to pay exorbitant energy costs due to its isolated location.
I thought the best moment came when some of the more conservative members of the committee were complaining that this bill goes too far. Another member noted that the Leg has been moving increasingly toward performance standards in all aspects of policy and that this is nothing more than a step in that direction.


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Saturday, February 6, 2010
Instant Dosa
Rice Flour : 1 Cup
Maida (All purpose Flour) : 3/4 Cup
Wheat Flour : 3/4 Cup
Mustard + Jeera : 1 tsp
Onion : 1 medium size
Ginger paste : 1 tsp
Curry leaves : 1 string
Coriander Leaves : 1/4 bunch
Salt according to your taste
Oil : 1/2 tbsp
Mix the three flours with salt by adding water to it. Keep aside.
Now on the dosa pan or seperate pan add oil. Once it is hot add mustard + jeera seeds.
Once they splitter, add curry leaves, onion and ginger paste.
Fry till onions are transluscent.
Now add this to dosa batter with coriander.
Add water more, i.e it should be thinner than regular dosa batter.
Now heat the dosa pan, pour dosa batter from outer to inner side. Pour few oil drops round the dosa.
After sometime flip the dosa and cook the other side.
Crispy Instant dosa is ready to have with coconut chutney.
Posted by Rekha A at 7:00 PM
Labels: Breakfast (Tiffin), Dosas
7 Comments:
- Sook said...
I need to find some rice flour to make this. Yum!
- February 6, 2010 at 10:40 PM
- Tina said...
Yummy and delicious dosa...
- February 9, 2010 at 5:56 AM
- TREAT AND TRICK said...
This instant dosa looks great and yummy.
- February 11, 2010 at 7:38 AM
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- March 18, 2010 at 2:22 AM
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- May 6, 2010 at 7:25 AM
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Sacred Heart Children's Hospital is seeking a board-certified pediatrician to continue the growth of care for patients with medically complex and palliative-care needs. Sacred Heart Children's Hospital provides comprehensive and coordinated care for children with complex medical needs in a consultative model, in collaboration with community and specialty providers. The lead physician will be responsible for strategic planning, operational leadership and the direction of care coordination services, as well as providing medical consultation to children with complex health care and end-of-life needs.
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That is to ask: Why has there been so much interest in cultural evolution in the last two decades or so? It seems to me that a lot of this thinking is just messing around, seeing if evolutionary ideas can somehow be attached to cultural phenomena in a coherent way. It seems more motivated by a desire to extend evolutionary thinking than by a desire to understand culture. And it's not obvious to me that anyone has actually explained anything in this process, not so far.
In particular, has anyone used some theory of cultural evolution to explain some phenomenon of culture as well as, and ideally, better than competing non-evolutionary accounts? It's not at all obvious to me that the answer to that question is "Yes."
Note that I don't exempt my own efforts from this criticism, which is why, on the whole, I've devoted more time to examining and analyzing cultural phenomenon than I have conceptualizing cultural evolution. In particular, I've spent a lot of time thinking about popular music in America, and the interaction of African-derived and European-derived styles (see, e.g. this longish paper) and, more recently, I've been looking at graffiti, which I'll address later on.
One caveat: A lot depends on just what one means by cultural evolution. If one is just using 'evolution' as a substitute for 'change,' then the question has little meaning. It seems to me that much of memetics is like this, with the added innovation of attributing agency to the memes, rather than to people.
And then there's gene-cultural coevolution (GCCE). Those folks may well have succeeded in coming up with useful explanations, e.g. lactose tolerance. But it's not at all clear to me that GCCE can work with the kinds of phenomena that most interest me and that do constitute a great deal of cultural activity. As I've explained here, it's not clear to me that GCCE has anything to say, for example, about something like the growth of graffiti in the last 40 years.
Graffiti 1
By 'graffiti' I don't mean any writing on walls, but the specific practice that originated on the East Coast of the USA in Philadelphia and New York City in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The practice seems to have been pretty much confined to those cities by the early 1980s. But it had gone world-wide by the start of the current millennium. How did that happen? And why?
I don't see that GCCE has any tools to answer that question. The spread is too fast for any biological changes to have been involved. Whatever's going on has been going on purely within the cultural sphere. There are obvious things to point to concerning how it happened: 1) Press coverage of early graffiti made the activity more visible. 2) When graffiti became associated with hip-hop, it followed hip-hop in its spread through world pop culture. 3) Photography, books, and films (Style Wars, Wild Style) spread the word. 4) The emergence of the world-wide-web created a new means by which photos of graffiti could made instantly available around the world.
But none of that explains why the practice spread. What made graffiti so attractive to so many people in so many different places around the world? And why has it been, on the whole, so conservative, so that the themes and motifs that originated in the East Coast of the USA in the late 1970s and early 1980s are showing up in Japan in then 2000s? On one level that question answers itself. If the designs changed rapidly, so that putting any old design up on the walls counted as graffiti, then the activity would loose its identity, its genealogical connection with those first writers in New York City and Philadelphia. It would just be painting on walls, illegally. Big deal.
The genealogical connection IS important. Why? Note that, while stylistic conservatism maintains that identity, we also have to allow for the identity of individual writers within the tradtion. The tradition has to have enough internal variety to allow for that.
There are ways of talking about those questions, and you'll find some of them in the literature, but the question I'm asking is this: Can a strong theory of cultural evolution do a better job of accounting for this spread than any other theory? If so, what would that theory look like?
One thought that keeps hitting me is this: While we tend to think of evolution, whether biological or cultural, as being about change, it is also about stability. In fact, it seems to me that stability is the first requirement. Change is just a side-effect of the mechanisms that maintain stability. The ability to inherent a learned behavioral from one generation to the next is, almost by definition, about stability. The behavior has to be stable.
So, what kind of model do we need to account for that? I'm inclined to think that we're looking for a modestly detailed model that is within range of neural mechanisms as we currently understand them. Imitation is often invoked here and, sure, imitation is one process. But how does imitation work, at the level of the nervous system, sensory organs, and motor system?
Babbling and Imitation
You hear someone vocalize. Fine. You want to vocalize the same way. How do you derive motor signals from the auditory record of what you've heard? We pretty much know that we're not born with an innate auditory-to-vocal transform generator. Rather, infants spend a great deal of time babbling in order to gain control of vocalization in a way that allows them to match adult vocalizations.
What's the babbling infant doing? Perhaps it is generating random variations in its motor signals so as to produce various sounds. When it hears a sound that (more or less) matches a sound it picked up from some other humans, the infant is pleased, and attempts to repeat it. And so it has, in effect, selected a particular motor routine based, not on the motor impulses themselves, but on the subsequent sound.
That seems to me the right kind of story, though I haven't got the foggiest idea if it will hold up upon more careful development. The point is that we're now looking at the inner mechanisms of the process of imitation rather than simply taking imitative capacity for granted – as the memeticists do. And the first thing is simply to get more or less reliable imitation going. We can worry about change later, but we'll be looking for it in the workings of this mechanism under as yet unspecified conditions.
And so it goes for other modalities. You see someone perform some action, such as thread a needle. How do you derive motor signals from the visual record of what you've seen? You see a design that someone's painted. How do you derive motor signals from the visual account of what you seen? These things don't seem at all obvious to me. But it seems to me that there has to be some motor fussing and fidgeting on a more or less random basis.
Graffiti 2
What, if anything, would such a model tell us about graffiti? I'm not sure. I'm not inclined, for example, think that spray-can technique is simple and obvious. I've seen noticeable differences in can control on the many walls I've photographed. But it's not obvious to me that you need to apprentice under someone to get good can control. It helps to get tips on paints and spray-tips, but the tricky stuff you're just going to have to figure out for yourself regardless of your access to other writers.
No, if we're going to look for an account of the conservatism in design motifs, we're going to have to look elsewhere, to the dynamics of the graffiti community. If Japanese writers use New York styles and techniques, that's a matter of the social and psychological dynamics of graffiti culture, not can technique.
But that, I suspect, is where the deep action lies. That's where we're going to have to go if we want to gain substantial understanding of cultural evolution. Notice, however, that we're dealing with the transmission of cultural practices across cultural boundaries. Is that where we get interesting change through a mechanism that is inherently conservative (imitation)?
Enough. I'm babbling.
Questions, questions.
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Seven speed gearbox in premium Audi Q5
Audi is pushing the sports car angle with its new Q5 compact SUV announced in Europe this week. The Q5 will arrive here early next year. Audi says the vehicle combines "the dynamism of a sports sedan with highly variable interior and versatile options for leisure-time and family use." It has, quattro permanent all-wheel drive, a seven-speed S tronic dual-clutch transmission and the Audi drive select control system. The car is 4.63 metres long and 1.88 metres wide, and at 1.65 metres high has a low profile for a SUV. Audi aerodynamicists have achieved a low drag coefficient of 0.33. The car's front end is dominated by expressive headlights on both sides of the large single-frame grille. As an option the lights can be outfitted with bi-xenon lamps and LED daytime running lights.
The wraparound tailgate – made from aluminum just like the bonnet – gives the Q5 a family link to its older and bigger brother, the Q7. The 2.81-metre wheelbase creates a roomy interior which will accommodate five people in ergonomically designed seats that can be flexibly arranged. Interior trim accents include aluminium, exclusive woods, chrome, leather and Alcantara as well as a large selection of optional design packages. The Audi Q5 comes standard with an electromechanical parking brake, an intelligent chip key, a climate control air-conditioning system and a display screen in the instrument cluster depicting, among other things, the recommended ideal gear for efficient driving in any given situation.
In Europe Audi is offering the Q5 with three engine variants – one petrol and two turbodiesels. The 2.0 TFSI is a four-cylinder with turbocharging, petrol direct-injection and the Audi valvelift system for variable control of valve lift. Peak torque of 350Nm is available at 1500rpm and remains constant up to 4200rpm. Maximum power is 155kW and the Audi Q5 2.0 TFSI sprints from 0 to 100kph in 7.2 seconds. Top speed is 222kph. Audi says the petrol Q5 is capable of achieving fuel consumption of 8.5 litres/100km.
The 2.0 TDI turbodiesel motor delivers 350Nm of torque between 1750 and 2500rpm, and maximum power of 125kW. Audi says average fuel consumption is 6.7 litres/100km and the car will hit 100kph in 9.5 seconds, and reach a top speed of 204km/h.
The most powerful engine in the line-up is the 3.0 TDI V6 diesel. Maximum power is 176kW, with 500Nm of torque available between 1500 and 3000rpm; 0 to 100kph takes 6.5 seconds, top speed is 225km/h, and ASudi says the V6 diesel can deliver fuel economy of seven litres/100skm. The 2.0 TDI runs a six-speed manual transmission, but the other models use the S tronic twin-clutch seven speeder.
It can shift gears in a fraction of a second, and drivers can let the seven-speed S tronic shift automatically or select gears manually, using switches on the steering wheel. The car's differential is located in front of the clutch, directly behind the engine. That made it possible to move the front axle much further forward, creating a long wheelbase and optimum distribution of axle load. In normal running conditions, the transfer case distributes the power to the front and rear axle in a 40:60 ratio. When needed, the quattro driveline can deliver up to 65 per cent of the power to the front axle and a maximum of 85 per cent to the rear axle. The Q5's electronic stabilisation programme (ESP) has been re-designed and enhanced. A sensor "tells" the ESP if a roof rack has been mounted, causing the Audi Q5's centre of gravity to be shifted higher in keeping with a roof load of up to 100kg. If a roof rack is present, the ESP engages earlier. The Q5 can tow up to two tonnes, and has standard hill descent control system which operates under 30kph. It can climb a 31-degree incline, has 200mm of ground clearance, and can ford water up to 500mm deep. The Q5's Audi drive select systems has an electronic controller for the shock absorbers, and a dynamic steering feature which continuously varies the steering ratio and the power steering assistance depending on vehicle speed. At the limit of adhesion, the dynamic steering, in conjunction with the ESP, stabilises the Q5 by making instantaneous steering interventions.
Standard and optional equipment includes a Bluetooth telephone, a DVD drive, a TV tuner, an intelligent speech control system, an iPod interface and a top-of-the-line sound system from the Danish specialists Bang and Olufsen. Optional equipment also includes the Audi parking system with rearview camera, and Audi side assist, which warns of hazards when changing lanes. Additional high-tech extras for the Audi Q5 include the advanced key for keyless access to the vehicle, a tyre pressure monitoring system, the large panoramic glass sunroof with additional tilting function, the triple-zone climate control system, sun blinds for the rear side windows, the dynamic cornering light system known as Audi adaptive light, an electric tailgate and a swiveling trailer hitch. New Zealand pricing and specifications are yet to be finalised.


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What's new in CLZ Comics for Android?
CLZ Comics (Android)
v4.5.8: Further improvements to the Add Comics screen
November 21st, 2017
In today's update for the CLZ Comics app, we have made further tweaks to the Add screen, to make it clearer than previous versions:
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- Color high-lighting: Comics already 'on wish list' now have an orange title, comics already "in collection" show up with a blue title.
- Clearer result entries for Add By Barcode searches, especially in cases of multiple results.
Fixes in this update:
- After restarting the app an empty details template could sometimes show.
- Duplicate comic credits after updating coming from CLZ Core.
- After restarting the app it would sometimes repeatedly scroll to the last added comic.
- Small CLZ Cloud sync tweaks.
- After changing the sort order the list could sometimes scroll to a random position.
- After manually typing a barcode in the add by barcode screen you weren't able to search another one.
- Sorting not working within a series folder in the main screen.
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Baywatch is a 2017 American action comedy film directed by Seth Gordon and based on the television series of the same name. Written by Mark Swift and Damian Shannon, the film stars Dwayne Johnson, Zac Efron, Priyanka Chopra, Alexandra Daddario, Kelly Rohrbach and Jon Bass. The plot follows lifeguard Mitch Buchannon and his team, who in an effort to save their beach have to take down a druglord.
Principal photography began on February 22, 2016, in Florida and Savannah, Georgia. The film was released in the United States on May 25, 2017, by Paramount Pictures, grossed $177 million worldwide and received negative reviews from critics.


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These media sources are slightly to moderately conservative in bias. They often publish factual information that utilizes loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by using appeal to emotion or stereotypes) to favor conservative causes. These sources are generally trustworthy for information, but may require further investigation. See all Right-Center sources.
Factual Reporting: HIGH
Notes: The Republican-American, is a family-owned newspaper based in Waterbury, Connecticut. Has a right-center editorial bias, but reports news factually. (D. Van Zandt 8/28/2016)
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Navistar International Corp. said Monday (Nov. 5) it sold 763,534 shares to underwriters of a previous stock offering, raising more than $14 million for Navistar's general fund.
The Chicago Tribune reported that the sale, at $18.75 per share, increases to 80 million its common shares outstanding.
Last month, the Lisle, Ill.-based truck-maker sold 10.7 million common shares at $18.75 per share, raising $192 million after discounts and expenses.
Analysts have raised concern's about the company's cash for months. Navistar spent more than $700 million developing an engine that does not meet 2010 federal emission standards.
Navistar changed course after reporting a second-quarter loss of $172 million. Last month, it completed a deal to sell diesel engines from competitor Cummins Inc. in its heavy duty trucks. It will also use Cummins' technology to make engines that meet federal requirements.


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No Individual Raindrop Ever Considers Itself Responsible for the Flood
Our first clue was the puddle of water in the side yard of my mother's house.
See, 'cause puddles never form there.
But the winter of 2009-2010 had been a busy one, meteorologically speaking; and late March had featured a "perfect post-storm", if you will: a ferociously rapid spring melt … an exceptionally heavy and protracted rain event … and a nearby gravel pit that historically has acted as a catch basin for water runoff in the neighborhood wherein I grew up. The gravel pit usually is about half full of water, except in summer when it's nearly empty. That March, following the melt and the rain, it was half full … then three-quarters full … then full.
Then, more than full.
Our next-door neighbors, who lived in the house between ours and the gravel pit, have occasionally done battle with the pit's overrun, and they prepared to being doing so again. It didn't take long for the water's edge to creep up their side yard, make contact with their basement foundation, and become one with their basement. Nasty, but we'd seen that happen before.
Except I don't remember the water level ever filling their basement. That was a new one. We offered them whatever help they thought we could provide, but it looked as if sump pumps and rags were not going to be nearly enough.
There, but for the grace of…, we thought.
And then the water's edge kept moving.
And that puddle in our yard appeared. And grew. And reached around to the backyard.
And it was as if Mother Nature looked at my mother's property, and said, "okay … you dared think it couldn't happen to you? It's on."
So, over the course of the last week in March, various family members joined my mother in her every-two-hours, twenty-four-seven, i.e. get no more than two hours of sleep at a time before we go check the basement and run the pumps again, Sisyphean rear-guard action. Tiptoe down the basement stairs, note the inch or two of newly-acquired water, slip on the wading boots and fire up the pump again. "Rinse and repeat" became a slightly cruel catchphrase.
(Two subplots from this time in our lives, one having to do with the suspected root cause of the extra runoff water's being deposited in that particular catch basin, and the other having to do with the great lengths to which members of that neighborhood had to go just to convince the Town that this was maybe something for which it shouldered just a bit of the responsibility … will be set aside, just now.)
The "Easter miracle" that year, for my family which is rather laden with churchly responsibilities … was that when the flood waters rose well past the point of nuisance, it was the Saturday morning before Easter, and not on Easter Sunday itself.
About 5:30 in the morning, that first Saturday of April, I tiptoed down those stairs and noted that the water level wasn't an inch or two, nor was it a few inches, as had been the case for the previous day or so. It was most of a couple of feet. I even thought I could see it actively rising before my eyes; although this may have been one of the side effects of sleeping for 120 minutes in a row, max, for a night or two.
And then we figured out that, at the rate it was going, by mid-morning the water level would reach the basement electrical outlets … and that would be an uncommonly bad thing.
Time to shut the power off. Therefore, time to consider "transferring the flag". Having family living nearby is a good thing anyway – a place to go to regroup – but especially when you look at your thirteen-step staircase from the kitchen to the basement and only see the top five steps.
Long story short, the water level didn't eventually get all the way up that set of stairs, although it got close. And although much of the side and back yards had ponding water on top of them, our house sat on a faint incline that ensured that the lake would not engulf the house from all sides.
Spoiler alert: we didn't lose the house. In the last five years, we've watched with great suspicion when the piles of snow gave way to not being piles of snow anymore (particularly this past winter in New England, which featured levels of snow that I couldn't come close to seeing over) … and we've worried, when the rains have come with extra-special intensity. But so far (knock on whatever dry wood is handy), we've not seen a repeat of spring 2010. Climate change may have something to say about this in the future, but up through this moment, so far we've lucked out.
So, this morning, I looked at photos of the flooding in Texas … the vast, sweeping plains of muddy water covering whole neighborhoods and and businesses and highways! … and thought, I would like to be able to say that I have some idea of what must be going through the minds of some of my friends and colleagues who live out there. I would like to … but I probably don't.
I have been only half-joking when I've described to people what it was like, that April morning, when we realized that we'd have to "transfer the flag". At that moment, my imagination was working on sleep-deprived overdrive, and I thought there was a real possibility that we might lose the house, the house I grew up in. The half-joking part has been when I've said to people, "I went through the seven stages of grief in about nine seconds."
I can't, therefore, begin to imagine what it must be like to see your entire street, neighborhood, town … engulfed. With no high ground to go to, because it's Texas. With no real expectation that your life might be flooded out, because you live in a landlocked area, unlike, say, those folks who live in houses in coastal-facing towns, which look great in the summer tourism season but can be just a wee bit vulnerable when the tides rise and the storm surge surges and you start wishing you'd chosen to live somewhere other than on a scrap of land that the ocean would now please like to reclaim.
What in the world kind of rainstorm dumps seven or nine or twelve inches of water on a town, overnight?
(Meanwhile, much of California is asking Texas, could we maybe take some of that stuff off your hands?; or perhaps loftier questions like, are there still makers of public policy who don't think climate change is a terribly high priority? Yeah – the same ones who blame disaster-storms on local sin. A post for another time.)
Small comfort to the people of Austin, and Dallas, and Houston, many of whom may not have anywhere to go like my mother had … but one does occasionally look at one's own problems and feel forced to admit they're not as big as all that.
Similar small comfort, but I'm pretty sure I'm not the only person here in Drys-ville who are sparing a thought or two or twelve for the lower Midwest today.
And looking ahead to the storms that are forecast for this weekend, as well. Good Lord.
Essential Personnel Only
In my career as a music educator, I think I've heard it all.
Which is a foolish statement, since I'm not done yet. But, specifically, I've heard lots of variations on the theme, "well, music isn't as crucial a subject as language arts, or math."
Occasionally, this has come in the form of sympathy, where if there are cuts to be made to public school budgets, we music teachers (along with our colleagues in the art room, theatre, home ec kitchen lab, shop, etc.) work under the anticipation that we'll be amongst the first to be let go. "We're always on the bubble," I have murmured.
Sometimes, this comes in the form of a version of … well, I don't know if relief is the right word, but the usual quote is, "well, you don't teach MCAS subjects, so you're not quite as stressed out as those who do, right?" – MCAS being the local Commonwealth of Massachusetts (God save it!) acronym, and also pejorative term for, standardized tests. I have been known to half-joke, "if they ever decide to pilot a music-MCAS, I'm going into insurance." Give or take a fine-arts course requirement, I always saw as a luxury the relatively large percentage of students who were in my music classes because they wanted to. Because they enjoyed it. Because they got something out of it … and frequently reported that in retrospect, those classes turned out to be really important in their development as well-rounded humans.
As often, music teachers hear (or overhear) the ol' "music isn't as crucial a subject as language arts, or math" refrain [and if you studied music, you know why calling it a refrain is exactly accurate!] in the context of what is considered important in education, and what is not.
In the last three decades, it's been discovered that A Nation was At Risk, and that we must Leave No Child Behind, and that we must Race To The Top, and that we must ask whether our children is learning.
Amidst that environment, forces from within and, increasingly, outside of the sphere trained education professionals have emphasized that we must prepare our children for their inevitable role as cogs in the great works of a strong, competitive American workforce. Must remain economically competitive, first and foremost, after all.
No doubt, it's important for people to be able to write well, to read well, to perform math well. If you ask me, randomly, out of nowhere with no warning, what are the important skills for children to develop so they can function in our society, I admit that I'll autopilot back to the "readin', writin', and 'rithmetic" thought.
Nonetheless, in this space, I have previously written a sufficient number of posts that if you're a regular reader, you get the idea: it's important for children to have access and exposure to the fine arts. Never mind the various studies that line up musical participation with higher test scores, and other very fine but arguably extra-musical benefits. That's fine. But as Wynton Marsalis, one of America's most well-known advocates for music education, has noted many and oft: Americans are in danger of losing their culture. We as arts educators are fighting to keep our population aware of the existence (never mind the effect) of Aaron Copland, Louis Armstrong, Madeleine L'Engle, Ansel Adams, Al Hirschfeld, Martha Graham, and Duke Ellington (for openers).
So, no news there.
Having spent some time as a teacher, and (happily) having been a student of some positively stellar teachers throughout my life, I have come face-to-face with the requirements of the profession. Comprehensive knowledge of subject, yes; but, equally, comprehensive knowledge of the craft of teaching, ability to work with children (never mind all the different kinds of children that come from all different backgrounds and bring all kinds of different baggage), and – something you can't quantify in a test or from looking at a resume; you have to see it in action to know you're looking at it – utter love for the activity and its participants.
A long-standing friend of mine heads a major university's undergraduate teacher training program, and he blogs nearly constantly – and eloquently indeed, backing up his assertions with an almost ridiculous amount of research – about the daunting list of qualities that is required of teachers to be good teachers. He has also struck me as something of a ferocious guard dog to the profession, when he has written about the additional responsibilities that are increasingly being required of teachers once they enter the public-school teaching, thanks to (to be frank) the meddling of policy-makers whose "ed reform" philosophies appear to be motivated by factors having more to do with profits than with any kind of genuine care and concern for our children. He's an often delightful thorn-in-the-side of people who really ought to get themselves gone from our game.
And he writes with the aforementioned utter love for the teaching profession, and concern for the young people that he and his colleagues are trying to prepare for that career. And he's bugged, to put it mildly, by the environment that those new teachers are likely to get thrown headlong into. But he's fighting the good fight, no matter how uphill it may be getting.
And then this sort of thing happens.
The headline read, "Late Night Budget Action Dilutes Teacher License Rules".
"Anyone with a bachelor's degree could be hired and licensed to teach sixth- through 12th-grade English, math, social studies or science in Wisconsin under a provision slipped into the state budget proposal by a Republican lawmaker", wrote the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. "And any person with relevant experience — even a high school dropout — could be licensed to teach in any other non-core academic subject in those grades, according to the provision." [The emphasis is mine. Read on.]
This provision was approved as part of a K-12 education budget package by the Wisconsin legislature's Joint Finance Committee last week in a vote that took place at 1:30 in the morning.
The measure's chief legislative proponent claimed that its purpose was to help rural schools find and retain qualified teachers in hard-to-fill subjects. The executive director of the Wisconsin Rural Schools Alliance riposted that the measure "totally destroys any licensure requirements that we have in Wisconsin."
In an interview, the Wisconsin legislator said that the idea was "to help schools fill specific niche areas, not to help people bypass a four-year degree and some kind of formal teacher training." [The emphasis is again mine. Continue, please, to read on.]
A spokeswoman for the state teachers union said that teaching requires more than subject-matter expertise; and that a teaching license provides some assurance that the person has received training in how to teach children.
But then I read this summary of the news story offered by Wisconsin Public Radio's news website. And it may have been just an unfortunate turn of phrase … but words matter, particularly in the journalism business, and I don't think the single word that got my attention is insignificant. I think it reflects to presumption of far too many people, inside and outside of the education profession:
"Last week, a provision was placed in the state budget by a Republican lawmaker to allow anyone with a bachelor's degree to be licensed and hired to teach core academic subjects. Under the same provision, no education would be needed to teach non-essential classes in middle and high schools." [The emphasis is … everybody sing along … mine.]
I'm quite certain that amongst those non-essential classes … is music.
This is the uphill battle that arts educators have fought forever, and fight right now, and likely will have to continue to fight.
If it doesn't help you in the world of the global competitive workforce … if it doesn't get you ahead in the business world … if it doesn't have a direct effect on The Economy … well, then it's not essential. Ed reformers insist. Legislative lobbyists insist. Dear Lord, even public radio (on purpose or not) parrots the terminology that relegates any subject having to do with art, culture, or anything else that isn't standardized-testable, to the academic underclass of non-essential.
Non-core academic subjects. Niche areas. Non-essential classes.
These people.
I'm Right, I Presume, Part 2: Addendum
[Ed. note: I got to rather uncharacteristically foaming at the mouth about one tiny little detail of Tuesday's blog post, the one about the father writing the letter to the principal about school attendance policies.
[I almost, almost posted the following text to my Facebook page after having seen a number of my friends, whom I love dearly, linking to the original article about the letter, seeming to agree with the article's assessment: that the father had written the Best Letter Ever.
[Characteristically, I sat on my post for awhile, as usual not wanting to fly off the handle. I thought further about it.
[And I'm still as cranky as I was. So. You be the judge…]
All right … I would like to offer an open letter …
To the 15-seconds-of-fame father, the author of that now-viral letter to the school principal which is now being lauded in some quarters as a righteous stick-it-to-the-schoolmarm smackdown, etc etc etc, blah blah blah, Buzzfeed headline uber alles (with apologies to those of my fine FB friends who are linking to it):
Sir, my particular beef with you, in this moment, is separate from the attendance policy issue. In your letter, you wrote,
"I can promise you [our children] learned as much in the five days we were in Boston as they would in an entire year in school" …
… and then, shortly thereafter, you wrote,
"We appreciate the efforts of the wonderful teachers and staff and cherish the education they are receiving at [our children's] Elementary School."
On behalf of teachers everywhere who are frankly getting it done in spite of challenges that both have and have never been seen before, I say this: you can either say the first sentence, or you can say the second, but damn it, you can not say them both in the same letter without being revealed as a hypocrite.
If you can't keep yourself from hurling snark at the professionals who are educating your children, then pull your kids out of school, set up a GoFundMe account and open the Montgomery County Academy for the Blessed.
I'm sick and tired of hearing abuse come out of the mouths and keyboards of people and thinktanks who know everything they need to know about educational practice because they went to school when they were kids.


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Fusion Child Care
Fusion has succussfully passed the Ambition Bronze Quality Mark as well as winning the CACHE Apprenticeship Employer of the Year 2014/2015
They received lovely glass engraved award and attended the CACHE roadshow to collect their award with guest speakers.
They were nominated by North Herts College by Samantha Bradfield (the tutor) for going above and beyond what was expected of Fusion as the Employer in supporting their Apprentice.
Congratulations to Fusion!


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Published by Clarion Books on January 9th 2018
Genres: Young Adult
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback
Source: the publisher
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The only thing 17-year-old Jane Sinner hates more than failure is pity. After a personal crisis and her subsequent expulsion from high school, she's going nowhere fast. Jane's well-meaning parents push her to attend a high school completion program at the nearby Elbow River Community College, and she agrees, on one condition: she gets to move out. Jane tackles her housing problem by signing up for House of Orange, a student-run reality show that is basically Big Brother, but for Elbow River Students. Living away from home, the chance to win a car (used, but whatever), and a campus full of people who don't know what she did in high school… what more could she want? Okay, maybe a family that understands why she'd rather turn to Freud than Jesus to make sense of her life, but she'll settle for fifteen minutes in the proverbial spotlight. As House of Orange grows from a low-budget web series to a local TV show with fans and shoddy T-shirts, Jane finally has the chance to let her cynical, competitive nature thrive. She'll use her growing fan base, and whatever Intro to Psychology can teach her, to prove to the world—or at least viewers of substandard TV—that she has what it takes to win.
I received this book for free from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.
First of all, I loved reading a book set in Canada. A big plot point is the age of legal alcohol consumption, which in Canada is 18. It really brought back my own high school days. I grew up in Southeast Michigan, only about 45 minutes drive from Ontario, Canada. This was back before a passport or special license was required to cross over the border and my classmates would drive up to Canada where they could legally imbibe. It's nice to know that the lengths people will go through to drink legally haven't changed since I was in high school.
Jane Sinner might be one of my favorite characters in all of literature. She's deep and layered and interesting. She also makes some of the stupidest decisions ever. She made me so angry throughout this book because she did stuff that you look back on and kick yourself for years. Just like I do.
This was a book that I ranted and raved to my husband about how angry it made me. Usually I read and when he asks me about books I answer with one or two words. This book, I yelled about it for almost an hour. He's still asking me about how it turned out and if I feel anything about it 2 weeks later. Jane Sinner made me feel things. They might not have been pleasant but that's ok.
This book should be a must read.
About the Author
Lianne lives in Vancouver, BC. A mere three years of working in the film industry has left her far more jaded, bitter, and misanthropic than she could have dreamed possible. Having worked on one too many made-for-TV movies featuring the mild romantic antics of generically attractive white people, she's taken it upon herself to push back with some pretty substandard stories of her own.
Besides books, her three great passions in life are cats, craft beer, and camping. When she's not working, Lianne likes to take off, eh in her '83 camper van. She maintains a steady hate/ love relationship with hiking, but is always up for exploring British Columbia- whatever it takes to find a nice spot to set up her hammock. Her hammock is her favorite place in the world.
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Vera Cruz Amethyst
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For what and How Does One Use it?
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For what and How Does One Use it?
Amethyst crystals make powerful visualization assistants and help to manifest these visualizations into 3D reality! When placed beside one's head, Amethyst crystals are very good for drawing out EMF type radiation that generally gets stored in that part of the body. It is very good for keeping our mind in a balanced and soothed state. Amethyst likes to be cleansed in water/saltwater and Earth.
Amethyst works particularly well with Rose, Clear, Smoky, and Citrine Quartz. Amethyst also combines in a natural state with Citrine, this is called Ametrine.
Amethyst is a beautiful energy that brings to mind the term, still waters run deep. There is much more to this crystal than a mere glance may suggest!
It is one of the three "default" crystals I keep in my healing kit bag, along with Clear and Rose Quartz.
Note: Some Amethyst can and does fade under direct sunlight. With this in mind, it is best to play it safe and position Amethyst crystals with care.
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First world problems are harder, mer world problems are harder. At least, that's the premise of the Mer World Problems coloring book by Theo Nicole Lorenz. A few of the pages are available online, but the full experience can be bought on Amazon and CreateSpace
Lorenz describes the project this way on the back of the book:
Mermaids might seem to have it all, with their shiny tails and fancy seashell castles, but life under the sea is full of difficulties. This coloring book features 20 examples of the most pressing issues mermaids face, including socially inept sea turtles, barnacle breakouts, interpersonal issues with fish, lack of wifi, and more.
Here are a few pages that you can print out and color on Lorentz's website.


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(ii) Industrial Disputes Act, 1947
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