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Disney's Beauty And The Beast reboot begins impatiently, making immediately clear the connection between inner and outer beauty (a book version was published in 1991, and is filed in the Lennoxville Library in C-134): A rich prince, visited by an ugly woman, orders her away: "Be gone, you foul beggar, and look not at my mirrors on the way out, lest they crack in horror!"
"My lord," the woman says, "do not be fooled by my outward appearance. For beauty is found within all things."
"I see," replies the prince. "Then find beauty within someone else's house." He turns to his servants. "Take this old bag of bones away, I say!"
The woman responds with a curse: "I have seen that there is no love in your heart. That makes you no better than a beast — so you shall become a beast! ….The only way to break it is to love another person, and earn that person's love in return."
Disney published a French version, as well (La Belle Et La Bête, 1993, in C-44): "Les années passèrent, et la Bête sombra dans le désespoir. Elle ne croyait pas que quelqu'un puissent l'aimer un jour."
The modern original was given to us by the French writer Madame Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve, in 1740. It's different in the details, beginning with a rich merchant suddenly falling into desperate poverty.
One day, lost, the merchant enters what appears to be an enchanted castle. This version is from yet another French writer a few decades later, who liked it so much she snagged it for her own: « Il y trouva un bon feu et une table servie où il n'y avait qu'un couvert. Il s'approcha du feu, sécha ses vêtements, puis, pressé par la faim, se mit à table et fit honneur au souper. Devenu plus hardi, il sortit de la salle et traversa plusieurs grands appartements magnifiquement meublés. A la fin, il trouva une chambre où il y avait un bon lit, et, comme il était minuit passé et qu'il était las, il prit le parti de fermer la porte et de se coucher. »
Come morning, the merchant recalls that his youngest daughter, Beauty asked for a rose when he returned from his travels.
Seeing a bush, he steals a rose.
A monster appears.
Writer Marilyn Helmer takes up the tale: "Ungrateful wretch!" thunders the Beast. "I gave you food and shelter and you thank me by stealing the thing I love most."
Terrified, the merchant beggs for forgiveness. "I took the rose for my daughter, Beauty. In all the world, there is nothing I love more than her."
"Since you have taken what I love, you must give me what you love," growls the Beast. Helmer's version is also marvelously illustrated (by Kasia Charko), and can be found in Three Tales Of Enchantment (2001, in C-134).
It is agreed that the merchant's daughter must live in the castle. Otherwise, the merchant pays with his life.
Beauty agrees to the bargain. But after many months of conversation and courting, she truthfully tells the Beast that she does not love him, and he allows her to leave.
Carol Heyer writes and illustrates Beauty And The Beast in yet another lovely retelling (1989, in C-66): After spending many days with her family, Beauty dreams that Beast is dying. "Even though his looks are frightening, he is a kind and gentle creature. I would never forgive myself if he died because of me."
She returns to the castle. "Beauty knelt beside Beast and gently touched his heart. It was still beating. 'Oh Beast,' she cried, 'can you ever forgive me?'"
Beast whispers: "Remember, I told you I would surely die without you."
"I am here now," she said, "and I will never leave you again."
Walter Wick is an artist who offers a powerful portrait of the two together, in an artwork titled "Beast at peace in Beauty's arms."
Inspired by 11 classics, Wick and his team build dioramas, 3-D creations of wood, paper, paint and toys, fabulous little sets filled with unexpected detail. Shorts poems point out the carefully placed objects snuck into each work, as with Beauty and Beast: "Can you see what I see? A pelican, three ships, a whale, a lizard with a curly tail…" All this in Can You See What I See? Once Upon A Time: Picture Puzzles To Search And Solve (2006, C-138, with thanks to Lilian Rider, who bought this book as part of the library's annual Adopt A Book campaign).
Beauty's love, freely offered, breaks the curse and returns Beast to his human form.
And who has not, through love, watched a face transform?
The Lennoxville Library hosts a special English-language telling of Beauty And The Beast on Saturday, October 31, at 10:30 a.m. It's free, and aimed at children aged 5 to 11. Costumes are encouraged!
In the meantime, the Bishop's University's Drama Department offers a family-friendly Beauty And The Beast on stage at the Turner Studio Theatre through October 25 (call 819-822-9600 ext. 2223 for details). You can't ever get too much of this fabulous fairy tale.
— Eleanor Brown, October 23, 2015


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Throwing stuff at the internet to see what sticks
Tuesday, January 15, 2008 Digging Out Part II
Last weekend I installed a wall bracket for the TV in my study, partially to hep ralize Trash's vision for the room and partially to make recapping more ergonomic. The bracket comes with four huge wood screws that are designed to go through the sheetrock (or plaster, in our case) and anchor themselves into the stud behind them.
Under the impression that wall studs are generally sixteen inches apart, I marked four little circles to drill the pilot holes. I am proud to say that I only drilled one hole before realizing that I wasn't anywhere near a stud. Reaming the end of a bent hanger around inside the hole didn't help me locate one.
Now, I'm not sure about this, but I think I own a stud finder – one of those handheld electronic devices that you hold up to the wall and it magically tells you of there's a stud behind that spot. But after rummaging around in my tools on the basement storage shelves for several minutes, I eventually gave up and returned empty-handed. And I located the stud the old-fashioned way: by tapping on the wall with a hammer until I found a spot that sounded less hollow. Only drilled two dud holes in the wall in the process, too. So the job got finished, at least.
But I realized that what I really need is…wait for it…a stud finder finder.
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Once Excavator figured out that we humans, at least, meant him no harm, his kittenish exuberance came to the fore. We had forgotten what that's like.
I sensed that we had made a breakthrough when, at bedtime last Thursday, I hauled him out of the back of our closet without having him hiss at me even once. Then, when I got in bed, I put him on my chest, and he commenced purring. That's what he did all night, in fact. I know this because Trash and I were awake for most of it.
He and I bonded for a while. And then he and Trash bonded for a while. And then all three of us bonded for a while. And then just he bonded, because Trash and I were trying to get to sleep. His bonding, however, made that difficult.
Some kittens' idea of bonding is a little kneading and snuggling, Excavator's, we are learning, is roughhousing. What this means is that you gently stroke his fur, and he responds by wrestling with your hand, kitten-sharp claws and teeth out just enough that you constantly feel their points. It's a bit like petting a squirming cactus.
And then you stop petting because you're dozing off, but he's still working your fingers, alternating between licking them and tickling them with his claws and brushing them with his teeth. You just sort of lie there and tolerate it, pulling your fingers out of his mouth every minute and a half or so, just when you feel a set of pointy molars about to chomp down for real. Then you sleep with your hands under the covers.
And that's when he comes for your face. I remember this phase with Turtle, and the untold number of nights I spent sleeping with my face under my pillow. But at least Turtle kept her teeth out of it.
After a long, long while, Excavator settles down, and takes his Howitzer-fire purring downrange to curl up between our legs. And then this…this is when you hear the other bedroom door open and shut, and the sound of sock-clad feet padding down the hall to your room, and the approach of a three-year-old who wants to climb in bed with you. Which he does, and then thirty seconds later he announces, "I want to go back to my bed," like, who's stopping you, Sparky? But of course he wants a ride, so by the time two boys get out of the bed and one comes back, the boy who stayed the whole time -- specifically, the small, black, fluffy one -- is all excited again. And by the time he's settled back down, the three-year-old is back, and this time he has to pee.
Not since M. Small was still M. Tiny have Trash and I endured such a wretched night's sleep. In between our two young boys tag-teaming us through the wee hours, and my fitful dreams about a whole chapter I forgot to include in my book (not that I can remember a word of that chapter now) and about an awkward double date Trash and I were having with John Krasinski and Jenna Fischer (I'm spending way too much time weecapping The Office lately), I could barely stir at eight a.m. Which was doubly unfortunate, since I was supposed to get up at seven.
At one point I actually said to myself, "If we hated sleep this much we would have gotten another baby." Completely forgetting to take into account the fact that we kind of had.
As of this writing, Excavator has settled down a bit. Like, if you try to avoid his attentions by creating an airtight seal around your head using your blanket and your pillow, he'll stop trying to pry his paws in there after no more than a half hour or so. It's nice to see him mellowing out, but I'm already starting to miss the days when he was more kittenish. Except when I'm sleeping, obviously. posted by M. Giant 7:22 PM 6 comments
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This is exactly the reason that we long ago started kicking the cats out of the bedroom at night. Well, it started with this, but now that they're old, it's because they decide they are hungry at 4 or 5 am and start knocking stuff off shelves.
By dancing_lemur, at January 16, 2008 at 3:49 AM
As the humans in a family of a similar cat, I don't know if it will give you hope or dread to hear that some cats don't ever completely outgrow this phase.... Our Chloe will be six in April and still attempts to disrupt our sleep repeatedly on a nightly basis. Lock her out of the bedroom? She'll yowl in the hall like she's being given a full-body wax, and that just keeps the kiddo up, too. No sense in having more cranky Smiths than we need to come the 6am alarm!
By Heather, at January 16, 2008 at 1:24 PM
Pictures??? Please?
By January 16, 2008 at 1:57 PM, at
Our cat spent the better part of his childhood methodically destroying every single paper-based article in our house. Once that mission was completed, he developed an annoying tendency to howl loudly while knocking things off shelves. We kept thinking he would grow out of it, but he is now 6 years old and I still have to block off our bookshelves with clear vinyl and thumb tacks.
By GhostGirl, at January 16, 2008 at 4:20 PM
I second the picture request!
By Sweet Crafty Lady, at January 17, 2008 at 8:29 AM
I'm such a sucker for punishment, because this makes me want a kitten!
By Williams Family, at January 17, 2008 at 9:47 AM

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Some may see this forum (Chronotrader) as a place for scammers but honestly I kind of enjoy the lack of certain rules and whatnot like some other forums. Just make sure your a$$ is covered and have fun out there.
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"How come all your friends are so weird ?" I asked my wife that question,oh, more than twenty years ago now.
She thought about it for a minute or so.
"Your friends aren't ?"
"Nope… completely normal."
"I just think it's because you don't know them well enough. What do you talk about anyway ?" I don't know whether she was just being defensive or whether she really wanted to know.
But she had me there. Most of the time I spent with my friends we were playing a sport, and after playing we would have a beer, rehash the game and cut each other up in a good- natured way. Sometimes we would have more than two beers and hope that we weren't stopped by the police on the way home. If I was at work with my colleagues we would talk about work. To dig into what was going on in someone's life, their home lives and thoughts about things, didn't interest me a whit.
Yes… I really am that shallow.
So when my wife mentioned that she thought that one of her friends might be bulimic and that another one confided to her that she had been sexually assaulted by her stepfather I looked at her as if she had just been beamed down from the Starship Enterprise. Such confidences had never entered my sheltered eardrums. And if they had I probably wasn't listening. And as isolated as I have been from the real world of the people's lives that swirl around me I feel it is only getting worse.
As Don Cherry might say, "Listen up, you kids out there." Growing up I not only knew everyone on my street but I knew of everyone in a radius of at least a kilometre from my house. We'd meet in the parks, walking to and from school and at the community events that always seemed to be happening during those baby boom years. Kids would be ringing our doorbell at all hours to come out and play and there was always a game of pickup road hockey, baseball or soccer going on somewhere nearby. And the only indoor diversions were game shows and soap operas on our black and white televisions. We'd always have some kid over for lunch without phoning his mother for permission, and as far as I remember she never worried about him getting sexually molested while eating his peanut butter and jam sandwich. Now I would be hardpressed to give you the first names of half the people on our block of less than twenty five houses. Some of the adults say hello to me as I walk by with my dog and others pretend not to see me as they text their children not to go out or answer the door while they're home alone.
Which when I think about it doesn't make me all that much different. No one rings our doorbell any more unless it's the nice Portugese Jehova's Witness lady who drops off the 'Awake' magazine every second Saturday morning that I pretend to read or else some student painting business solicitor who looks at our front verandah, shakes his head sadly and advises me to hire him before the city inspectors condemn the place.
Maybe it was ever thus. I'm probably like all the other old guys who used to annoy me with their stories about working for less than a dollar a day or starting up the wood stove before the teacher arrived in the morning at their one room country schoolhouse. Maybe Neanderthal men drew a line down the middle of their cave and threatened to club their neighbour Grok if he ever dared to set one foot over the boundary line. Or maybe cabin fever has driven me mad after another winter so cold even I can't say it was nothing compared to what I used to endure on the outdoor rinks when my feet froze so badly that I would roll on the living room rug and holler until my father would blow cigarette smoke out his nose and tell me to stop acting like such an idiot.
I'm going to get off the keyboard right now and go across the street and ask my neighbour what his name is.


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In celebration of Queen Elizabeth's 90th birthday on April 21, those close to her sat down with ITV to look back fondly on their memories together. Kate Middleton, who joined the royal family in 2011, shared an anecdote about her first Christmas with the Queen and her struggle to find the perfect gift.
In an interview to be included in "Our Queen at Ninety," the Duchess of Cambridge said she was completely stumped as to what to get Queen Elizabeth II that Christmas. After racking her brain she decided to keep it simple — opting to gift her with something her own grandparents would enjoy. Middleton, 34, said that she felt a homemade gift was her best bet, though she knew it "could have gone horrible wrong." The Duchess got in the kitchen and whipped up her granny's chutney. Much to Middleton's surprise Queen Elizabeth II was a big fan of the recipe, which later was featured in Pippa Middleton's 2012 cookbook.
"I was slightly worried about it, but I noticed the next day that it was on the table," the Duchess said. "I think such a simple gesture went such a long way for me and I've noticed since she's done that on lots of occasions and I think it just shows her thoughtfulness, really, and her care in looking after everybody."
In addition to the airing of "Our Queen at Ninety," Queen Elizabeth II will be treated to a special luncheon in celebration of her 90th birthday. On June 12, nearly two months after her actual birth date, a Patron's Lunch will be held. The event is being organized by the Queen's grandson, Peter Phillips, and will feature 10,000 guests. Attendees will be treated to a picnic-style lunch inside custom baskets — or hampers — created by Marks and Spencer. The brand tweeted a photo of the custom basket, which features bright blue accents, on March 21. According to their most recent message the basket will be filled with "the very best of British produce and ingredients.
We're excited to reveal our hamper for @thepatronslunch, showcasing the very best of British produce & ingredients pic.twitter.com/18gQk2LxiB
— M&S (@marksandspencer) March 21, 2016
"Our Queen at Ninety" was announced on Feb. 1 by Entertainment Tonight. The publication reported that the two hour special would feature interviews from members of the royal family, including Middleton. "Our Queen at Ninety" serves as the first television interview the Duchess has done since 2010 when she and Prince William got engaged.
The TV documentary airs Sunday, March 27 at 8 p.m. GMT in the United Kingdom on ITV.


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Start Collecting Data Today
Yes, it's that simple. You can start collecting today. Below is a listing of protocol measurements that align directly to the campaign.
Along with tree height measurements, the campaign will focus on using multiple data collection protocols to complement the tree height measurements. It is recommended that students measure tree height with other protocol measurements, in order to allow for a more complete look into why trees play such an important role in our ecosystem.
What is a tree? A tree is a woody perennial plant, typically having a single stem or trunk growing to a considerable height and bearing lateral branches at some distance from the ground.
- Trees measured should be at least 5m (16.4ft) tall; BUT, if a tree is newly planted and you want to track its growth over time, please feel free to measure it's tree height even though it may be under 5m tall.
- Trees measured should be isolated trees or the tallest trees in a large grouping of trees.
- In order to be able to best compare the GLOBE tree height data to the ICESat-2 tree height data, we recommend taking tree height measurements of many trees in one area.
Below is the recommended suite of protocols.
Main Protocol
Biometry Tree Height (CLICK HERE TO SEE THE TREE HEIGHT MEASUREMENT TUTORIAL SLIDES)
Complementary Protocols (Used as supplemental measurements as to why there might be changes in tree height over time)
Baseline Protocols (Used to establish the location environmental conditions at a study site)
The objective of taking these protocol measurements is to allow for students to have multiple data layers to allow for inter-comparison of data that is relevant to measuring and understanding tree height.


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In a rare joint initiative, employers and unions have written to Minister for Employment Michaelia Cash urging an end to future four yearly award reviews.
Currently, all modern awards are subject to an automatic review every four years; a mechanism programmed into the Fair Work Act 2009 by then Minister for Workplace Relations, Julia Gillard. The first of these automatic reviews is currently underway, re-examining the 122 modern awards made following the commencement of the Act in mid-2009.
This massive exercise has been ongoing for three years and is set to continue well into 2017, if not beyond. The review has seen a substantial reopening of completely settled and accepted provisions in awards, as well as the making of new claims by both unions and some employer representatives.
The Fair Work Commission has also sought to change awards on its own initiative, even where neither unions nor employers identified any problems with the modern awards created as recently as 2010.
The award review has cost employers, unions and the public dearly, consuming substantial time, energy and financial resources, for what is universally considered little or no gain.
Resource industry implications:
This is has been a challenging process for AMMA and its members. While the substantial bulk of employment in the resource industry is governed by enterprise agreements rather than awards, these agreements are tested against awards, and in some key areas directly replicate or call up award terms.
The industry spent more than $1 million getting key awards such as the Mining Industry Award, the Hydrocarbons Industry (Upstream) Award and various maritime awards right in the first place, and with neither employers nor unions seeking change, has consistently questioned the need for any review so soon after the modern awards were finalised in 2010.
Unless some action is taken to arrest this flawed process, a second award review will need to start prior to, or very shortly after, the current review being completed. This would be a nonsensical outcome, and would damage all participants, employer, employee and union, not to mention the further waste of time and taxpayers' money by a Fair Work Commission compelled to undertake a further review.
An agreed solution:
AMMA therefore strongly supports its national peak business body, the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, joining forced with the ACTU and Ai Group to call for future four yearly reviews to be abandoned.
As ACCI chief executive James Pearson has emphasised:
"Under the Fair Work Act as it stands, another four yearly review will commence shortly after the current one concludes,… repeating a continuous cycle of reviews that is unsustainable and would place considerable demands on the resources of the parties and the Fair Work Commission."
From the union side, ACTU secretary Dave Oliver indicated the four-year award review had become a "very labour intensive process…" and that "(unions are) supportive of ending it on the basis that we're still we're still able to maintain and improve awards."
The joint call comes after the Productivity Commission (PC) recommended the termination of the award review process in its late 2015 recommendations for reform of Australia's workplace relations framework. AMMA specifically asked for such a recommendation in its submissions to the PC.
Ending the four yearly reviews will require amendment of the Fair Work Act 2009, which at the time of writing is under consideration by Minister Cash.
For more information on Modern Awards issues, contact AMMA's policy team via 1800 627 771 or [email protected]


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About The Boy Who Defeated Cancer:
This is a book about Adam, a child with cancer, and how his life has been changed after cancer. The book shows that as there are bully classmates also there are good and supportive friends. The Book puts the spot of the positives which enable him to get recover.
If you have a child or know a child with cancer this book for you and him.
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My name is Abdou (Papa Abdou is my Writing name) I see positives in everything, love to give all the globe some of my positive energy especially small kids all of them not only who passes now with a hard test in his life, and my supreme enjoy is making books for them.


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Meet Mitra, my Bluetooth speaker. In Sanskrit, the word mitra means friend.
Months back, I decided to name my little speaker, in an effort to make better acquaintance with it. Since the speaker comes equipped with a female voice, which sees fit to tell you when it's turning on and off or when it's looking for a connection to whatever electronic device you're attempting to pair it with, and also when the connection has been lost, I named her Mitra. Mitra can also speak a handful of languages in which to tell you said announcements. Since my personal preference is not an option: a silent/non-talking mode, I came to realize that I needed to find a way to enfold the speaker into my mindfulness practice, because I found the voice jarring, unpleasant, and annoying.
Did I mention that there's also no controlling the volume of the Bluetooth voice? And, to top if off, the speaker has a mind of its own. It randomly turns itself off for no good good reason and disconnects itself from my laptop on its own volition – making sure to announce at top volume about its decisions as it goes about its business.
It's not ideal.
So, I named her Mitra, to remind myself that making friends with whatever it is that I find disagreeable, is what the essence and aim of cultivating a mindfulness practice is all about.
Another thing I did was to set Mitra on the Portuguese setting, as I find that it's the most lovely sounding language she speaks.
Mitra and I hang out everyday. So, it behooves me to make friends with her is the way I figure it.
Regarding her as a friend helps me to not get frustrated with her when she acts up in a way I deem incongruent with my worldview. As it happens, she's temperamental – just like me and every other person I know.
It may sound silly but I find this practice of befriending inanimate objects incredibly useful in my practice (I've got other ones, too). I talk with her just as I would a real friend, and it helps me to develop more patience and understanding as a result. Making friends with my Bluetooth speaker is an action I take in order to reduce my own suffering – however trite and mild that suffering might be – and it works great!
As the Buddha said: With our thoughts we make the world.


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