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3 Photography Tips for Beginners
Now that everyone has a camera in their pocket at all times, many people fancy themselves a photographer. If you are someone looking to up-level your skills, here are a few tips on how to improve your photographs. You can use these tips with a camera phone, or any camera you might have when you are just starting out:
Know how to hold your camera. Usually, you won't be using a tripod unless you are in low light conditions. Grip the camera with both hands and place the left hand beneath the len...
Mixed Media Art Projects: Painting on Photographs
Mixed media art encompasses an infinite amount of techniques – you can mix absolutely any two mediums into one piece, and it is considered mixed media. This could include different types of paint, cutting out pictures from magazines, combining crochet and embroidery, or anything else you can think of. One great beginner project for people who are new to mixed media is painting on top of photographs.
To source the photographs, you can find old pictures at thrift stores, take your own, or you c...
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Andrew Haag to Showcase Top Artists and Exhibits 2022
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LOS ANGELES, CA, December 13, 2021 /PRSearchEngine/ — In 2022, Andrew Haag Photography & Design is set to host a showcase blog series featuring the top artists and art exhibits in the world. Featuring a unique array of styles, genres and mediums, Andrew Haag's series will have something for every art collector and design enthusiast to enjoy!
Kicking off 2022 right, Andrew Haag Photography & Design will be sharing his artist and exhibit p...
Artist Spotlight: Cindy Sherman
Born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey in 1954, Cindy Sherman is a conceptual artist and photographer whose work mainly focuses on self portraits. According to the MoMA, "she is recognized as one of the most important and influential artists in contemporary art." When she attended college, she initially pursued painting and even failed a required photography class, but went on to pursue conceptual photography.
Sherman's work often involves her as the model dressing up in various costumes. Her breakth...
What is Postmodern Art?
Postmodern art has its roots in Dadaism – a movement in the early 20th century that rejected the art establishment and made nonsensical pieces. Younger artists in the 1950s began to feel that the mainstream abstract expressionist art didn't speak to their lives in any meaningful way, so postmodern art began as a reaction against modern art.
Previous art movements aimed for a form of pure expression that was free of context, whereas postmodern art is highly contextual. Modern art was seen by m...
Women in Art : Hilma af Klint
Hilma af Klint, born in Sweden in 1862, was a pioneer of abstract art. She made abstract work years before other well-known artists of the 20th century such as Wassily Kandinsky. Art historians now recognize her as the first artist to create work in the abstract style.
When she was twenty years old, she attended the Royal Academy of Fine arts in Stockholm. She graduated in 1887, and went on to be the secretary for the Association of Swedish Women Artists. Klint also was in a group called "The...
What Are the Principles of Design?
If you're interested in graphic design, it's easy to want to immediately jump in and start on a project. Before you get knee-deep in trying to learn how to use all of the Adobe programs, it's important to understand the fundamentals of design. Even though it may sound boring, using these principles will help you make sure that your designs are successful in whatever project you're taking on.
There are eight basic principles of design
Balance. This is the distribution of text, shapes, images, ...
What is the Difference Between Graphic and Visual Designers?
Whether you're considering a career path in the design field, or you need to hire a designer for a project, there's a lot of different fields to choose from. The skill sets often overlap, but there are some key differences between graphic designers and visual designers.
Graphic designers have to communicate one specific idea to customers using text and images. This job has existed since the advent of the printing press, so traditionally graphic designers have worked in print-based media such ...
3 Mixed Media Artists of the 20th Century
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Spanish
Many know Picasso as the famous Surrealist painter, but he also pioneered the use of collage as an accepted fine art medium. Collage – which comes from the French verb 'coller, meaning 'to glue or stick' – found its beginnings during this time. His 'cubist collages' inspired many artists in the Dadaist, Surrealist, and Pop Art movements. Picasso is famous for his oil paintings, but he also worked with ceramics and sculpture, printmaking, and he even was a th...
3 Art Exhibitions to Check Out In L.A. Before They're Gone
As a photographer and designer based in California, Andrew Haag loves exploring the latest art exhibits and events in the local area. In this first installment of his art showcase series, Haag covers 3 must-see L.A. art exhibitions to check out this fall.
1. Immersive Van Gogh – 6400 Sunset Blvd, Hollywood, California.
Designed by Massimiliano Siccardi, fans of Vincent Van Gogh will be amazed by this immersive attraction. Surround yourself with Van Gogh's iconic works like you've never seen t...
Andrew Haag to Showcase Art Shows in CA
LOS ANGELES, CA, August 13, 2021 /PRSearchEngine/ — In September 2021, Andrew Haag is set to host a showcase featuring upcoming art shows in California. Aiming to shine a spotlight on smaller artists, Hagg's series will offer a sneak peek into the local art world from an amateur perspective. Submissions are welcome!
Whether you're looking to make your break into the California art scene — or just want something to do with your friends and family — Andrew Haa...
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Photography & Design offers instructional courses and artist feedback to entry level mixed media artists, photographers and graphic designers.
Andrew Haag is the creative mastermind behind Andrew Haag Photography & Design, a passion project the mixed media artist has developed over the years.
Both in photography and graphic design, Andrew Haag is completely self-taught. Taking on a DIY approach early on, Haag has always appreciated the unique lessons that arti...
Today, Andrew Haag is an expert in entry level photo editing software, such as GIMP and Luminar. But this wasn't always the case… Haag had to embark on quite the research expedition to acquire his expertise. It is thanks to the thousands of photographers, photo editors and visual artists who've produced photo editing tutorials on platforms such as YouTube and Twitter, that this film photographer turned digital artist found a way to thrive in the transition fro...
Andrew Haag Visual & Graphic Design
Andrew Haag is a graphic designer who creates logos, digital illustrations and other visuals for clients across all industries.
True to his mixed media style, Andrew Haag's professional projects specialize in emphasizing ideas in a hyper realistic collage format. Even in his fully digital works, Haag adds a collage atmosphere to his projects by using texture packs, overlays and assets in the editing process. His clients often appreciate and even seek out his collage style blend. As a graphic ...
Andrew Haag Digital Photography
Andrew Haag is a freelance digital photographer who specializes in portrait photography. Haag is currently offering professional headshots and family photo packages.
Whether he's creating work for a client or simply expressing himself, Andrew Haag always views his photography as an artistic process. In his experience, even a professional headshot can use some creative flare! From professional headshots to family portraits, each of Haag's photos tells a story, either constructed creatively or ...


A solitaire is a really old number of card games. Playing classic solitaire is really quite uncomplicated. It is actually rather simple to play classic solitaire. Although it appears simple, there's actually much to classic solitaire. Traditional solitaire is a huge method to pass the moment. It's also believed that playing Solitaire is a great exercise for the mind and a great deal of individuals are making it a daily habit to play a minumum of one game of solitaire per day. Solitaire (also called Patience) is among the most common single-player card games on the planet.
The secret to understanding classic solitaire is to be certain that you realize that the cards have to be suited according to numerical purchase. There's no secret to classic solitaire, the objective is straightforward. It's possible to play Solitaire both offline and on the internet. Spider Solitaire is an easy game. Spider can be played in various difficulties. Spider is a kind of Patience game.
Often it is tough to win the game. This enjoyable game has existed for at least 200 decades. Should you do, you will love this game. In case you like to play Solitaire Card games and you prefer to play for free then you're at the appropriate place. Whenever you finish a stack like this, it's removed from play. In some traditional solitaire variations, a player is simply permitted to go through the deck once, or they are permitted to reveal three cards at the same time. In classic solitaire, he is not allowed to move a card out of the suits once it is placed there.
Based on the way the cards are drawn, most games can be quite difficult to win. Once all the cards are handled on the board, the next thing to do is to have a look at the deck. On the opposite side of the coin, the cards you've dealt will cover the sequences that you've already made, which means that you need to sort them from the tableau to continue the card sequences. The remaining 50 cards are set in a stock at the base of the screen. They are placed in the stock at the top left of the screen.
It's possible for you to carry any card or any group of the identical suit to the totally free cell. Should you need some extra cards, go right ahead and click from the deck below. If you would like additional cards to be dealt, simply click the deck in the top left corner.
Once you can't earn any move, you can click the stock to draw another card to each column on the tableau. Playing home computer variant of the game you may cancel the move in case you have made a mistake or need to find out what cards continue to be in the closed stacks. When you've got no more moves you'll be able to make on the tableau, then you may click the stock in the top left corner. Once you can't make more moves with the present face up cards, you can select cards from the stock.


With the spring comes the sun.
With the sun comes the warm days.
With warm days comes the icy rivers of melted snow.
With the rivers come the rain boots.
With the boots come the outdoors.
With the outdoors come the shorter nights.
And with the shorter nights one must catch their last few weeks of Aurora B.
This time of year you might think, "no more Aurora Borealis," but quite the opposite has been our experience. On a clear night, those lights leap across the sky like a troupe of elegant modern dancers.
This is beauty. Truly. In its rawest form. Untouched. Unchanged. Untamed.
Every time is different, unique, beautiful, and tells a colorful -vibrant- story.
And if you watch long enough, you can almost hear the music that the colors and movement play in tandem with nature as they twirl, sway, and swirl across, around, and through each other.
So often I feel like we, as humans, take naturally beautiful things and change them, tame them, and the rawness of what makes them beautiful is lost. We apply our own "standards of beautiful" and that lovely thing is then changed into something it was perhaps never meant to be.
I have been wrestling with this idea a lot lately, as an artist and as a woman.
First- as an artist, my job is to create, and so often I draw from beautiful things. But- when do I leave things as they are, like Aurora- put down the camera and capture the moment in my heart, mind and soul- and then later write a play about adventuring into the sky!
Second- as a woman, I feel as if I so often look on IG and compare myself to a certain "standard" of beauty when in reality- I have a partner who tells me every day I am beautiful.
Is the makeup and the internet "beauty in the rawest form," or is it the moments when Jason and I cook together and laugh about burning the tofu?
Thank you, dear Aurora, for showing me such beauty and for giving me such a stirring in my soul.
i have not experienced the aurora b, but I can only imagine how it impacts you when you see it. When nature shows us something amazing we don't ever forget and it can be life changing.
I love what you said about comparing yourself to other people on social media. It's so easy! But being reminded every day that you are beautiful is a great way to dismiss that.
Oh I'm so glad !
I can't imagine how awe inspiring it must be to see such a beautiful thing. I hope to see it one day!
I imagined it to be beautiful, then I saw it- and it blew my mind. I hope you get to see it one day too! It's gorgeous in AK, but I hear it's also really beautiful in Iceland! I would like to take a trip there one day too.


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My strongest memory is not a memory. It is something I imagined, then came to remember as if it had… - Tara Westover, Educated: A Memoir.
HarperCollins Reveals Structure of New Collins Division
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New York, NY/01/05/05—HarperCollins Publishers has outlined the structure and mission of the company's newly established U.S. Collins Division, in addition to announcing two key appointments. In December, HarperCollins announced the creation of this division under the direction of Joseph Tessitore, President of Collins. Now, building on Collins' immense international brand appeal, efforts are well underway to create the leading American category trade publisher.
"The Collins name is synonymous with the very best in reference and series publishing in much of the English-speaking world," said Brian Murray, Group President of HarperCollins Publishers. "We will now bring this stellar reputation to bear in the United States, creating new opportunities for our authors as we introduce the Collins brand to American consumers."
"The launch of Collins embodies all of our Publishing+ initiatives," said Jane Friedman, President and CEO of HarperCollins Publishers. "Drawing on what we've learned over the last year from our Publishing+ program, Collins will apply best practices in direct to consumer marketing, new business development and consumer branding to achieve its goals and help guide consumers to the high quality, authoritative books they want and need."
Beginning in Fall 2005, Collins in the U.S. will be comprised of five imprints including Collins Reference, Collins Wellness and Collins Lifestyle (formerly HarperResource), Collins Business (formerly HarperBusiness) and Collins Design (formerly Harper Design), all with the mission to empower consumers to Live More, Do More, Learn More. The launch list will feature 125 titles.
"By combining the backbone of the Collins reference line in the U.K. with powerhouse authors and franchises in the U.S. such as Jorge Cruise, Jack Welch, the World Poker Tour and much more, the Collins Division will deliver a category publishing program unrivalled in both authority and consumer appeal," said Tessitore. "Add to this potent formula our thriving backlist headlined by Bill Phillips, Jim Collins and Peter Drucker, and you'll see that Collins hits the ground running."
George Bick, Senior Vice President of Sales for Morrow/Avon, has been promoted to the newly created position of Senior Vice President, Director of Sales and Associate Publisher, Collins. Working closely with Tessitore, Bick will play an integral part in the planning, strategic development and sales of Collins in the U.S. for the Fall 2005 launch and beyond. He will report to Josh Marwell, President of Sales for HarperCollins Publishers.
"George's excellent relationships with our key accounts, fine-tuned attention to detail and outstanding salesmanship have made an enormous and valued contribution to the company's success over the past five years," said Marwell. "In addition, he played a key role in the Collins Publishing+ initiative, which created a vision and roadmap for getting this program started. His passion and dedication for bringing this vision to life will be invaluable."
Philip Friedman will join the Collins Division as Vice President and Publisher, Collins Reference on January 18. Friedman comes to HarperCollins from Oxford University Press where he led Project Torch (The Online Resource Center in the Humanities). Prior to that he managed Scholastic's Library Publishing Division where was responsible for Grolier, Franklin Watts and Children's Press. He has also held senior editorial and publishing positions at Macmillan, Simon & Schuster and Arco. Phil Friedman will report to Tessitore.
"Phil is a very experienced publisher recognized for high quality and market focused reference and non fiction books," said Tessitore. "He will be a great addition to Collins and will help guide its publishing program with innovative title development."
HarperCollins is one of the leading English-language publishers in the world and is a subsidiary of News Corporation (NYSE: NWS, NWS.A; ASX: NCP, NCPDP). Headquartered in New York, the company has publishing groups in the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and Australasia. Its publishing groups include the HarperCollins General Books Group, HarperCollins Children's Books Group, Zondervan, HarperCollins UK, HarperCollins Canada, HarperCollins Australia/New Zealand and HarperCollins India. You can visit HarperCollins Publishers on the Internet at http://www.harpercollins.com.
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Why Precinct Chairs in Tarrant County, Texas Object to Dr. Shahid Shafi's Appointment to Vice Chair of Local GOP
By Amil Imani - on December 8, 2018
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When Darl Easton, the Tarrant County, Texas Republican Chairman, appointed a devout Muslim, Dr. Shahid Shafi, as vice chair, some party members raised concerns. Why? These are some of the Tarrant County Precinct Chair John Fowler's concerns with Dr. Shafi's in a leadership position in the Tarrant County GOP:
ABORTION. When running for the city council, Shafi would not say he was pro-life. In fact, he would dodge the question about abortion by saying he had never thought about it. When he was appointed to the position of vice chair in July of this year, he was asked by one of the precinct chairs at the meeting where he stood on abortion, and he said he didn't know. He has been endorsed by the Texas Medical Association (TMA). Texas Right to Life has documented TMA's opposition to pro-life legislation going back to at least 2003, including support of the infamous Texas death panel law. See "Texas Medical Association Protects Abortionists" on the Texas Right to Life website for more details.
GUN CONTROL. Shafi pushed the city council to adopt a resolution in support of an anti-Second Amendment, gun control group ("Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America"). Then when questioned about it, he refused to explain his actions, much less deny the report — despite being repeatedly requested to do so by a pro-Second Amendment precinct chair who served on the board for Open Carry Tarrant County, a pro-Second Amendment group.
NO SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL. Shafi has consistently refused to publicly state his support for the nation of Israel, in accordance with the Republican Party of Texas (RPT) platform planks no. 207 and 208. Anyone who truly supported the nation of Israel and was in line with our party platform would gladly make such a public statement.
WORKING WITH DEMOCRATS. Shafi has involved himself with Democrats in local politics in Democrat controlled Dallas County. In 2012, he gave $1,750 to a very small IRS § 527 PAC for the purposes of helping a candidate in Dallas County. Democrats gave the most money. The PAC hired a Democrat running for office (who was supported by Planned Parenthood, the LGBT groups, the labor unions, and the state Democrat Party) to help them locally. Further, the then "alleged" head of the Muslim Brotherhood for north Texas also gave $500 to the PAC. Dr. Shahid Shafi was working with Democrats and supporting the same thing as the Muslim Brotherhood.
CONTACT WITH TERRORIST GROUPS. Shafi has had contact with known front groups for the international terrorist group, the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), in violation of RPT platform planks nos. 177 and 281. In 2015, he attended an Iftar dinner held by Dallas Democrat Mayor Mike Rawlings, which was also attended by two MB front groups, the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA).
SUPPORTED BY CAIR. In August 2018, CAIR came out in support of Dr. Shafi in the matter before us. Despite receiving the support of a group BANNED by the RPT's platform in TWO platform planks (nos. 177 and 281), Shafi has neither renounced CAIR's support nor denounced them for their ties to international terrorism, or for having MULTIPLE leaders convicted on federal terrorism charges and sent to prison.
DECEIT REGARDING SHARIA LAW. During his last city council race, Shafi was asked by a Republican activist if he would denounce Sharia law if elected, and he said, "I don't understand the question." When asked again, he said, "I don't know what you're talking about." When asked a third time, he said, "I don't know what Sharia is." In light of these answers, one must remember that he is a practicing Muslim who grew up in Pakistan, one of the strictest Sharia-controlled countries in the world. However, two times in July, when asked about Sharia law, he knew exactly what Sharia was . . . but claimed he did not follow it.
Furthermore, he has said his mosque does not practice Sharia law, when in fact it does. The constitution and bylaws of the mosque requires the imam to have a deep understanding of Islamic law, and the mosque has created and operates a Sharia court. This violates principle of plank 68 (American Law for American Courts): "No foreign law or international edict shall preempt the United States Constitution or the Texas Constitution, or be used as the basis for any decision, except required by contract between the individual parties." [emphasis added]
Yet Fowler said this about Easton, the man who appointed Shafi to his position:
Darl Easton has engaged in a campaign of defamation against those who question his appointment of one who embraces Political Islam to the second-highest position in the party. He has done this in order to deter members from speaking their conscience in this debate. The tactics used within the Party are identical to those used by the leftist media and the hard-left members of the Democrat Party. They do not debate the issue of the incompatibility of Political Islam. They merely use ad hominem attacks of "racist," "bigot," and "Islamophobe," in order to silence dissent.
While leftists, paid-for media and some politicians sanitize and misguide the public on the true nature of Islam, I proudly speak the truth. Truth should never be sacrificed at the altar of any goal. I firmly believe that truthfulness is indeed the foundation of all virtues.
Muslims are Islam's locomotive; they take the wrecking-ball and Islamic train on its demolition course. Islam and democracy are incompatible. This is one of the reasons why a group of concerned members disagreed with Shafi 's appointment.
According to the cardinal rule of Islam, non-Muslims are kefirs (infidels). So the kefirs are fair game to be maltreated, plundered, taken as slaves and slaughtered. Frankly speaking, no one can be a devout Muslim and an American at one and the same time, and here's why. Because all Muslims believe that there is no god but Allah and Muhammad is his messenger. To devout and knowledgeable Muslims, the United States Constitution is just human law, as opposed to Sharia, which is divine law. A Muslim is, first and foremost, an Ummahist — a citizen of international Islam. The Pledge of Alliance says, "one nation under God," while a Muslim is required to live in the Ummah under Allah. So when a Muslim takes the "Pledge of Allegiance" to preserve, protect and defend the US Constitution, he is either ignorant of the implication of his pledge, or is a willful liar. Sadly enough, taqiyah — lying, or dissimulation — is not only condoned, it is recommended to Muslims in their scripture. Hence a Muslim can and will lie without any compunction, whenever it is expedient.
Respect for the rule of law, as it is understood and practiced by civilized people in the West, is for the devout and knowledgeable Muslim who is committed to Sharia an instrument of convenience to be used to advantage, and to be violated when it is not. A Muslim believes in a different law — Sharia, a set of Stone Age rules.
While I praise the Tarrant County GOP in its stand for religious freedom and our Constitution, I caution them not to be politically correct and call those who voice contrary views a bunch of racist, bigots, alarmists and hatemongers.
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by Sarai Vega April 11, 2017
With local elections right around the corner, if you're like most Dallasites, you want the best of the best to represent us and our beloved city. This is no easy task. It takes someone who is not only accomplished and experienced, but also someone who is committed to bettering our community. Someone that embraces our city's diversity, who can be the voice not just for Latinos, but anyone from all walks of life and backgrounds. According to Monica Alonzo, with her lifelong history in politics, numerous recognitions, and several city and state and office appointments, she intends to continue doing just that.
IDFW: Please tell us a little about your background politics and public service.
Monica Alonzo: I've been involved in politics since I was 11 years old. My first out-of-town campaign I did as a volunteer was when I was 15. I did a statewide campaign when I was a little bit over 18. I had the opportunity to not only serve the City of Dallas in the capacity that I have now, but I have been able to serve the neighborhood as a Precinct Chair and other areas as a State Democratic Executive Committee member. There are 31 senates and every senate district has two representatives. I was one of the 23rd senatorial district, which is huge because it is a statewide position. I was also a coordinator for the Clinton campaign back in '92 for the '93 election. I served as one of the volunteers to help with the Hispanic Gala for the '93 Inauguration in Washington DC. I am a member of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials. Currently I am councilmember for District 6 as well as the Mayor Pro-Tem for the City of Dallas. A Mayor Pro-Tem is basically the vice-president of the president when the president is not in. This is my third term in a fourth term consecutive process. We won in 2011 and in 2013. At that time I was unanimously voted in as the Deputy Mayor Pro Tem for the City of Dallas. In 2015 we ran with 3 opponents and I won with 82% of the vote. Then after we got sworn in, I was nominated and elected by the council unanimously again as the Mayor Pro Tem for the City of Dallas. So, we earned that position.
IDFW: What's your main goal for the City of Dallas?
MA: That we will ALL be able to not only respect each other, but to also include, inform and invite everyone. To treat everybody the same. My second goal is to ensure that everyone is a part of and feels a sense of ownership with this city. This city hall belongs to you. You are the one that runs this.
IDFW: As a Latina in public office, did you ever have roadblocks?
MA: I am very proud not only to be a mujer, but to be a Latina, a mother, a sister and especially a daughter and to be able to share that with all the mujeres and that it can be done. My mother taught me two things. First, the only way you're going to know something is if you ask. It doesn't cost you anything. This is very important if you ever want to get to where you want. Second, she taught me -in Spanish- De todos modos el mundo va a rodar. Y hay que rodar con el. That's exactly where I've been working from to be able to get to where I am. It took me over 22 years to decide to run for a position. For the most part, it was because for a long time, poli- tics was considered a "man's world". I proved them wrong in many instances. In order for us to make a difference, it starts at the table. We have to be at the table to be a part of those decisions. We need to make sure we have minorities and Latinas that can speak for our communities. We need them to be representatives for our city, to be in public office positions, and also in management roles. We have the same education and knowledge as everyone else, so why are we not being considered? We need the talent and experience to be a part of the decisions being made.
IDFW: What do you love most about Dallas?
MA: The engagement with the community. Getting the opportunity to meet people who has been here for a very long time. For example, we recently lost a great man, Felix Lozada Sr., whom we named the Gateway after. At his age, he still rode a bike, golfed and danced. He continuously fought for the community. Those are the people that give me that encouragement. I can tell you that has given me more strength to carry on as a representative of this community. I value their experiences and their ways of living and how we can better help them. Also, this is where my daughter was born, all the work I've done has been to give her a better life.
IDFW: What would be your advice for someone who wants to serve in public office?
MA: If you want it, go get it.
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There's a kind of formula for writing a novel meant for a teenage girl.
You start with a plucky young girl. It's the author's job to make sure this young girl is likable enough to hook a reader. She needs to be pretty enough, or brave enough, or smart enough, or sad enough, or everything enough that it is believable that someone would fall for her, and then once that's proven, then the hot (sometimes immortal) love interest shows up.
And when you read a lot of these books over and over and over, that equation becomes ingrained into your head, and you start to think it's true.
If you are good enough then love happens, and if love hasn't happened, then you aren't good enough.
With my Theatre background, part of the training you get is knowing what roles you can believably play. I knew I could play goofy, or funny. I could play creepy or ancient or smart, but I believed, and I was taught by cast list after cast list, that I couldn't play a love interest.
It's sad when you don't believe you are good enough to be the heroine of your own life.
I had a list of reasons why the boys didn't like me. I thought I was too heavy, so I lost weight. I had bad hair, so I invested time and money in a hair straightener. I got a job, and started buying clothes from non thrift stores. I stopped singing in the halls, stopped laughing too loud at inappropriate jokes, I stopped doing everything I knew was wrong with me, but nothing really changed as far as boys went, mostly because I was so sad, and empty, and just a cardboard character of someone I thought I was supposed to be. And then when they did like me, I hated them, because they liked a lie, and not me. I hated the fact that I wasn't myself and that they liked me that way.
And then one day, Halloween my second year of college, I decided to dress up as a Family Studies major. I borrowed my roommates clothes, I straightened my hair, and I told every person I saw that I was a Family Studies major because I thought it was hilarious, and then I got asked out by three different guys and I said screw you, I am who I am.
That was the day I stopped straightening my hair. That was the day I stopped walking around in costume, and that was the day I decided to stop letting what boys think of me determine my worth.
That was the day I decided that my life was enough.
But I had spent so long hating parts of me that were authentic, and liking parts of me that weren't. I had spent so long listening to other people's opinions on life, and not enough determining my own. I wanted to be my authentic self, but I had no clue what that even was.
I could give you ten pages about the characters I was playing, but I couldn't give you a paragraph about who I was.
And so, my second year of college, while my roommates all went on dates, I put boys far from my mind, and I focused on me, on what my life would look like, and what would be enough for me.
I could have chosen anything. I had the freedom that comes from distance and age. I could see a thousand paths in front of me. But I chose one thing, and everything else fell into line.
When I learned who I was, and Whose I was, I was set free of enough. I knew I was a character created by a loving God, and this Author and Finisher (editor) of my faith had made me to be me. He had set a path and a story just for me, and I was just starting it. I thought the next step on that path was serving a mission for my church, and although I was scared to leave everything I'd known, I was so excited to set this self I'd chosen into stone, and share this knowledge that had set me free.
So I prepared to serve my mission. I bought the clothes, (costumes are important) I got the shots (needles are evil, evil, little things), and I studied the books and scriptures that I would need to learn. I knew was preparing myself for something. All I had to do was wait for my twenty-first birthday.
On my twentieth birthday, I was home for the summer. I was working four jobs at the time, earning the money I'd need to pay for rent and food for the entire year, (The scholarship I'd earned payed my tuition, high five fifteen year-old self.), but I had my birthday off.
That night there was the most beautiful sunset I've ever seen in my life. These orange and pink streaks filled the whole sky, and I wasn't content to stay indoors. I wanted to see the whole of it. So I walked out of my parent's house and into the Junior High School field that was just behind it, singing the hymn For The Beauty of The Earth at the top of my lungs as I went. I sat down on the wet grass and watched that sunset fade and the stars pop out, and I felt so content with being alone on this beautiful earth. I felt so grateful for my life.
I stopped singing because I only knew the words to the first verse, but I stayed out there for at least a half an hour. I just breathed in my life, and the stillness of the night settling. Maybe it was the melancholy of spending a birthday alone, not waiting for someone, just being someone, but I changed from feeling proud that I was alone, to aware and sad that I was alone.
I missed someone, and I didn't know who. It was the person I would dance with to Louis Armstrong's greatest hits when I was alone in my dorm room. It was the person I closed my eyes and pretended I was resting my head on their shoulder when I was leaning back on my parent's couch. It was the person I was singing to.
I missed feeling like I was home. And I was so tired of being homeless.
I didn't know it, but I was finally ready to fall in love.
And just like a hero in a story, once I'd proved that I was enough for the only reader of my life (me), my handsome love interest appeared.
Not two days after my twentieth birthday, Darren flew home from his mission.
*Now this isn't to say I don't still struggle with feeling like I was enough. When I was engaged, I showed one of my sort of friends my ring, and she looked me up and down in confusion. I could basically read her thoughts, because we thought it at the same time. She was much prettier than I was. She was much more enough than I was. And there was this "truth" that the prettiest ones go first. And that's crap. Love happens when love happens. You fall in mutual weirdness and call it love. That has nothing to do with pretty.
** Nothing wrong with a Family Studies major. When I had my bridal shower I unwrapped all these presents, and I had no idea, (Toilet bowl cleaner? What?! I just fell in love, how does that mean I need to start cleaning toilets?) that I'd be expected to cook (Wait? Cook books, and Pyrex dishes?! I thought this was a love thing. I thought I could be anything I wanted to be. When did falling in love mean I had to clean toilets and make casseroles?) and I really wished that I had taken a few classes, especially on child raising, because I really flounder some days.
But I know where to look when I'm feeling like I'm not enough.


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Why does Playmobil still have Historic themes, but not LEGO?
By Lego David, September 25, 2021 in LEGO Historic Themes
Country: England / UK
6 hours ago, ArneNielsen said:
Though I must say, that most kids I know have both LEGO and Playmobil, and they happily mix them together when playing.
Yeah, I used to do the same decades ago. Lego was mainly for the bricks and wheels, playmobil and old plastic soldiers for figures, cheap farm buckets for animals, ... everything got mixed up. My kids do the same now although they have way more minifigs than I had (and they were fixed arms/legs ones).
1963maniac
On 9/27/2021 at 3:36 AM, Cwetqo said:
You checked wrong.
Nice is the way we communicate here. So. I'll excuse you this time. But I'm on a different continent than you with a totally different marketplace. Take that into consideration next time. Thank you.
Cwetqo
Didn't heed the Waarning
LEGO Ambassadors
Sorry, did not know that selection is so limited there.
leafan
Big G Baller
On 9/30/2021 at 9:27 PM, Cwetqo said:
It's not: https://www.playmobil.us/shop-online/shop/history
And there are more.
Alexandrina
Wait wait wait... Achilles and Patroclus? Ulysses and Circe?
Dang. If I'd been a Playmobil collector rather than a Lego collector I could've started a Madeline Miller collection!
Faefrost
Fire Policefighter
On 9/26/2021 at 12:32 PM, Lyichir said:
I think one aspect of Playmobil that can be a bit confusing in this respect is that from my experience, Playmobil sometimes tends to be available for much longer than Lego, which usually sells through older product in a year or two. Growing up in the U.S., Playmobil tended to be stocked more in independent toy stores which were under comparatively less pressure to cycle through new products (and thus often had a wide selection of playsets dating back years), whereas in big chain toy stores like Toys R Us (when they were around), only a small aisle of some of the newer Playmobil playsets and figures tended to be available (and it was rare to see it at all in big box stores like Wal-Mart or Target). Then again, that may just be a factor of how comparatively niche Playmobil is here compared to Europe.
Play mobile has to keep products available for much longer than Lego. This is due to the differing nature of their tooling costs. As a building set maker Lego's tooling costs are mostly in fairly universal elements. Which can be amortized across multiple products and product lines. You will almost never see unique tooling from or for a single set. Whereas with Playmobile almost every set has some unique tooling. So they have to stretch out the shelf life of a given product to fully amortize the tooling costs.
Samus Aran
Country: Vedic Russia
20 hours ago, leafan said:
Is Athena there ?
On 10/3/2021 at 8:52 AM, Samus Aran said:
No, but they have Aphrodite!
They have many others too. Just click the link and scroll down.
If you have a friend in the UK or Europe however....
https://www.playmobil.co.uk/athena/9150.html
Edited October 4, 2021 by leafan
TheLegoDr
Yellow Panel Expert
Now I want to buy Playmobil... c'mon LEGO give us some Historic sets!
evancelt
Duplo Pirate Castle
I loved both Playmobil and LEGO as a kid so when it came time to get post-DUPLO toys for my kids (three kids 7 and under) I tried out some cheap Playmobil sets and broke out some of my classic LEGOs. They were so much more creative with the LEGO bricks! Playmobil was great for roleplaying, but didn't give them the freedom to totally design the world.
23 hours ago, TheLegoDr said:
Seriously, they could crush it. They've given us glimpses with CMF's and the underwater setting of 7985 City of Atlantis set. Historical or mythological.
Poco Lypso
Only playmobil and lego know why - maybe they just split the market. Lego took the mech-ninja theme and playmobil historic stuff :)
While I don't have much hope for more historic sets in the near future, I hope lego will cater to us and produce more mini-figs from time to time.
Kim-Kwang-Seok
Even before the complete take over of licences/blockbusters and cinematic universes, Lego's "classic" themes failed or at least weren't that profitable. Among them being Galaxy squad, pirates and castle. The latter two were pretty conservative and could have used more creativity/detail and personality like we get with Ninjago. "Lone Ranger" portrayed - though being a licence - a pretty classic western scenario and according to the word failed pretty badly.
I think Lego is on the right track by using existing themes for new interpretations of classic themes. And if a medevil wave of Ninjago and some Creator sets works have success - then they'd get motivated into doing an independent theme.
I think it might be also a factor that Lego is simply too expensive to successfully start a new project. Playmobil also ain't cheap but from them or other brands you get quite a lot for your money anyway. If buy a decent castle from Lego, you gotta grab deep in your pockets.
The solution I think would be an inclusion of more bricks per set, especially location based sets. From alternative "Lego" brands you get an awesome huge dinosaur for 50€ while you'd pay 200€ from Lego.
On 10/6/2021 at 10:36 AM, Kim-Kwang-Seok said:
Even before the complete take over of licences/blockbusters and cinematic universes, Lego's "classic" themes failed or at least weren't that profitable. Among them being Galaxy squad, pirates and castle.
What sales records are you taking that information from? I hear that said a lot but nobody seems to have any hard proof of it.
"Lone Ranger" portrayed - though being a licence - a pretty classic western scenario and according to the word failed pretty badly.
That wouldn't surprise me, but it was based on a film is was factually, a massive flop. Also, Western, outside of America, isn't that popular (even though I personally like it).
Those days of Clint Eastwood and John Wayne being household names are long gone.
Back to the OP; Lego could approach this in so many ways, from licensing a magazine series on world history (with a free minifig included on every issue), to releasing a full theme of educational historical sets; but they choose not to.
For a long time I held off buying Playmobil, but the options are just too good, and it's pretty cheap by Lego standards. My boy doesn't care if it's Lego or Playmobil, so why not.
46 minutes ago, leafan said:
They already do an educational magazine - at least in some countries - LEGO EXPLORER. The third issue was on medieval history.
My kids have had a few of them, and it is quite nice that they change the subject matter so they can inspire different things and do not get stale. They have had robots, castle, deep sea, space, birds, insects... This is probably far more interesting and educational than only history along the lines of this is what a castle looks like, this is what another castle looks like, this is what yet another castle looks like, ... Of course they could change eras, but that would mean disparate figures that don't necessarily go together like random ones in the CMFs (if they did figures instead of polybag builds with the magazine).
5 hours ago, leafan said:
if those days are gone though: why does it work with Playmobil but not with Lego? And you could also say the same with any other "classic" theme, once Lord of the rings, GoT or whatever is "out" for some time. Anyway: LR was still a "classic" line up of sets. Could not have been more classic. Could have brought out every set without big changes and noone would have noticed
....I dont have numbers! Maybe I'm wrong. Just the fact that those relaunches were shortlived and Lego didn't continue something similar afterwards. Like with NK they didn't seem to have had enough trust for a purely medevil theme.
Other than this my own experience was that many sets of those themes were heavily on sale - comparable to the last HS or NK waves, where you could see them sets like 50-80% off. As I travel due to my work throuout Europe and visist many shops when I can; that's not nothing but of course it's no objective number.
What I find sad is, that Lego and the community seem unable to establish communication, where we could get proper answers to this kinds of questions. Maybe I'm wrong and they would say "we want to do something different". As it's a huge pile of money though - I assume if they don't produce it, they don't see money in it.
6 hours ago, MAB said:
Yeah I already know about that as I'm in the UK, and it's not exactly what I had in mind. A magazine tied into true history with an associated minifigure.
1 hour ago, Kim-Kwang-Seok said:
It doesn't - whilst Playmobil does a bit of Western, it's not common like the other Historical eras are. LOTR and GoT are franchises, and can go out of date too; but comparing that to how Western is now irrelevant to most is a bit disingenuous. One hasn't been popular for 35-40 years, the other is very recent in comparison.
At the end of the day, if anyone is mainly into Lego for the historical themes; it wouldn't hurt to expand your horizons a little and buy a Playmobil set. Waiting for TLG to release more is not going to be fruitful.
Aimed at kids? The market is already pretty full with LEGO magazines/comics. And the figures given with them tend to be ones from retail sets anyway, so I doubt they would actually provide anything new.
10 hours ago, Kim-Kwang-Seok said:
Lone Ranger wasn't Classic. It was tied to a movie, and so had scenes from the movie. I thought they sold reasonably well at the time, and especially when put on 20 or 33 percent discount. They were cleared once the movie disappeared from cinemas, like most one off themes tied to a contemporary movie release.
Aimed at kids? The market is already pretty full with LEGO magazines/comics. And the figures given with them tend to be ones from retail sets anyway, so I doubt they would actually provide anything new.
Either kids or kids/adults. Right off the top of my head - a tie in with Horrible Histories.
Some of the magazines have exclusive minifigures. I'm pretty sure that the old Nexo Knights one had some. Doesn't cost much to make a new print.
Lyichir
None of the magazines have had any exclusive prints to my knowledge. The few that have had "exclusive" minifigures are generally variants of ones from sets (for example, a Ninjago ninja with a different mask or armor than the one they appeared in sets with) using a mix of already available parts. Some of the repurposing for figures, weapons, etc. can be quite interesting, but it's not really a source for brand-new minifigures. Nor would that be likely to be the case in the future—given that magazine gifts are essentially free with the purchase of a magazine, there's likely not a lot of profit margin for Lego there (with the benefit to Lego being more about encouraging kids to pick up other sets that Lego already makes a higher profit on).
williejm
1 hour ago, Lyichir said:
Yeah, they're only exclusive in the way the figures are configured - none of the parts or prints are ever unique.
On 10/2/2021 at 5:57 PM, Alexandrina said:
You and your agenda 😂
TeriXeri
Nexo Knight magazine had a few rarer parts only seen in 1 set, but I don't think it had entirely unique parts (unlike some of the Nexo Knight books that were released, one had Semi-Stone Clay exclusive to that book)
Edited October 8, 2021 by TeriXeri
8 hours ago, TeriXeri said:
Many of the cyclopedia had unique minifigs with unique prints. Green Ninja ZX, electrosuit Batman, Luke and Han with medals, two Harry Potters, toy soldier.
Lego David
Country: Romania
On 10/7/2021 at 6:42 PM, leafan said:
The idea that the Western Genre was only popular in America is a myth. You might think that way since the setting is in America, but the truth is, Westerns used to be one of the most popular movie genres in both America and Europe.
If that weren't the case, we probably would never have gotten to see the legendary Spaghetti Westerns.
I do believe Western as a genre is still widely recognized and appreciated by the masses, its just the stream of recent mediocre Hollywood titles that have failed that gives the impression that the Western genre is dead. But meanwhile, Western Videogames such as Red Dead Redemption 2 still manage to defy all expectations by making more money in its first weekend of release than Avengers: Endgame did.
Sure, the days of Clint Eastwood and John Wayne may be long gone, but despite that, the Westerns Genre has still never quite fully disappeared from the public mind.
2 hours ago, Lego David said:
I love a good Western as much as anyone, but Red Dead seems to be an exception, with mitigating circumstances. Namely: it was an eagerly awaited follow-up to a hugely acclaimed game from a decade ago, released by a studio that had a track record of producing great games, and it was itself getting very consistent excellent press. ANY game that hyped would do just as well. (It's also a bit disingenuous to say "Western Videogames such as Red Dead" - it's just Red Dead, really, there aren't any other Western games that are making mad money.)
The problem with the genre (problematic tropes aside) is that recent acclaimed Western movies have tended to skew towards a much more mature audience than the children who are Lego's main audience. Films like Django Unchained, The Hateful Eight and Bone Tomahawk were widely acclaimed and very popular (disclaimer: I have no idea how Bone Tomahawk did in cinemas) but their contents are widely inappropriate for a Lego set, and they're doing nothing to build an appetite for Westerns among Lego's target audience. Combine this with the other side of the issue: there's no single large-scale set indicative of the entire genre that could be released to target the adult fans of the genre.
As an anecdote for the decline of the genre's popularity, at least in the UK: the famous PSA film "Apaches" was released in 1977 and depicts children playing 'Cowboys and Indians' on a farm. This, evidently, was partly down to it being a popular game to play. I grew up a quarter of a century later and literally never encountered anybody playing 'Cowboys and Indians'. We played similar games, but usually with Star Wars characters. I imagine the current generation play Avengers too.
In any case, Western is undeniably not a popular genre in the UK right now. We have no TV shows and it's very rare that a film in the genre gets widely promoted here, and it's without fail the smallest genre section in HMV too.
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Q: Data types with holes So if I have two data types which are mostly the same, I can write them like this:
data A t = A1 | A2 | A3 | A4 (B t)
data B t = B1 | B2 | B3 | B4 t

type AX = A X
type AY = A Y

Now it's easy to write functions over AX and AY, or 'A t' if they don't care.  But then how do I write a conversion?
convert :: AX -> AY
convert (A4 (B4 x)) = A4 (B4 (xToY x))
convert ax = ay -- type error

So now I need to write all the other cases out by hand, even though none of them depend on the type parameter.  What's worse, while I can match a constructor without depending on the arguments with 'A {}', that's not possible if I need those arguments to reconstruct the data.
Is there a nicer way to do this?  I feel like GADTs should be able to express this but it's hard to see how to eliminate the type variable from the terms that don't depend on it.  I think I'd have to have separate types for A1 A2 etc. and then I'd lose the closed-ness and case checking... besides I don't want to write Show, Eq, and Typeable by hand!  The only other way I can think of is to rearrange the whole structure to isolate the changing part i.e.
data A t = Independent | B4 t
data Independent = A1 | A2 | ...

But this makes every other use of the data awkward for the benefit of one conversion function.
Of course, yet another option is to forget about type safety and include 'B4 (Either X Y)' and put in some nice runtime errors for when it has the wrong value.
Maybe there's a better way to approach "almost the same" data types?
Update: so I worked around by writing a pseudo-fmap:
convert :: (a -> b) -> A a -> A b

Which at least allows me to separate the conversion part and the packing-unpacking boilerplate.  I guess a sufficiently advanced bit of TH could probably generate one of those for me.  I'm still curious about other approaches though.  I feel like this way is still not precise, because it allows the hole to be filled with anything while what I really mean is exactly one of two things.

A: It seems like basically what you want is for A and B to be Functors. Fortunately, you can allow Haskell to derive the obvious Functor instances for these types, using -XDeriveFunctor. Then, use this code:
data A t = A1 | A2 | A3 | A4 (B t) deriving Functor
data B t = B1 | B2 | B3 | B4 t deriving Functor

...
convert :: AX -> AY
convert a = fmap xToY a

Here's a sample GHCi session after adding some dummy definitions for X, Y and xToY, as well as having everything derive Show:
*Main> convert $ A4 B1
A4 B1
*Main> convert $ A4 (B4 X)
A4 (B4 Y)
*Main> convert $ A2
A2

Update
If you really want to only allow A and B to be "filled" with things of type X or Y, you could constrain them like so:
class XorY t where

instance XorY X
instance XorY Y

data XorY t => A t = A1 | A2 | A3 | A4 (B t)
data XorY t => B t = B1 | B2 | B3 | B4 t

Of course this will preclude the possibility of making A and B Functors, so the trick outlined above won't work any more.

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Why We Need a Fair GED Test in Washington State
In January 2014 Washington state quit using afair GED test, (fair as in it hadhad been normed to the abilities of real high school grads) and adopted the draconian Pearson GED, to align with our state's K-12 system's adoption to common core, or "College and Career Readiness Standards". As a result of this change in tests, since January 2014, approximately 25,000 students in our state who otherwise would have earned a GED have been unfairly deprived of one. Without this certificate, these 25,000 young adults cannot get a good paying job or attend college. Without hope, about 10% of students who would have earned a GED with the former test, wind up in prison - at a cost to state tax payers in our state of more than $100 million per year. Please help us end this ongoing crime against our these low income and minority students by sharing this article with other parents, teachers and concerned citizens.
From 2010 to 2013, an average of 14,000 young adults per year passed this GED test in Washington State – allowing them to seek better opportunities with employers and qualify for better college opportunities. However, in January 2014, a multinational for profit corporation called Pearson, took over the GED name and changed the GED test to an unfair test that was not related to the academic skills and abilities of the average high school senior. The Pearson GED test, currently the only GED test students can take in Washington State, was substantially more difficult to pass than the prior GED test. In fact, the Pearson GED test is so difficult to pass that almost no one in our state legislature can pass it. As a result, the number of students who passed the new Pearson GED test in 2014 in Washington State fell to only 2,850 – a decline of more than 11,000 students from the average of previous years. The number rose only slightly in 2015 to about 4,000 students. Thus, in the 2 years and 6 months since Pearson took over the GED test, more than 25,000 students have been unfairly deprived of a High School Equivalency Certificate here in Washington state.
I became aware of this tragedy in March 2014. Together with my wife, Elizabeth Hanson and several other Adult Education instructors, we formed a group called Restore GED Fairness to expose the crime being committed by Pearson and let educators and students know that there were fairer alternatives to the Pearson GED Test. You can learn more about our research by visiting our website: https://restoregedfairness.org/
Below is a table of the benefits of two other High School Equivalency tests over the Pearson GED test.
Here is what one GED Instructor said about the Pearson GED Test:
"The students I work with, for the most part, want to get a job at Home Depot and Walmart. Hopefully they will (achieve higher aspirations) when they get their lives back on track. But right now, most of them just want a job. There needs to be a fairness where we don't expect so much more of a GED student. The vast majority of high school graduates would never come close to passing the (unfair Pearson) GED test." John Grosvenor Portland Community College GED Instructor
Here is what a student said about the Pearson GED test: "The math is ridiculous. There is no way that that test is normed to high school. It's worded in such a complicated high-level thinking that you spend a huge chunk of time reading and rereading the question just to figure out what the equation should be." Oregon GED Student
Source: https://portlandtribune.com/wlt/95-news/292859-169366-oregon-ged-students-still-struggling
We also wrote bills and worked with educators in several other states to pass laws to provide students with a fair alternative to the Pearson GED Test. We succeeded to get a fair GED test in about two dozen states. Currently 24 States offer students a fairer high school equivalency test option (20 states offer the HiSET test, 4 states offer the TASC test). Unfortunately, we were not successful in getting a fair GED test in Washington state. Washington is one of 26 states that still force students to pass the unfair Pearson GED test.
We submitted bills to the Washington legislature in the 2015 and 2016 legislative sessions. One of our bills, Senate Bill 5676 was passed unanimously by the Senate Higher Education committee on February 19, 2015. However, its companion bill was blocked in the House Higher Education by Chris Reykdal - who is currently running for Washington State Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Why did Chris Reykdal block a bill that would have helped tens of thousands of low income and minority students have access to a fair GED test?
It is hard to imagine that anyone could possibly be so corrupt and ruthless that they would oppose allowing students to have access to a fair GED test. To understand how this happened, we need to go behind the scenes and expose how Olympia really works. While Reykdal is a member of the state legislature, his real job is to represent the State Board of Community and Technical Colleges in Olympia. More commonly called the SBCTC, this group of a couple hundred highly paid administrators was created by the State legislature to remove supervision over our state colleges from our elected Superintendent of Public Instruction and place it in the hands of a group of unelected bureaucrats. The SBCTC is therefore a clear violation of Article 3, Section 22 and Article 9, Section 2 of our State Constitution. The point of this fake organization is not to help our kids or colleges, it is to help wealthy corporations such as Pearson infiltrate and privatize our colleges.
The single most powerful person in Olympia is also the richest man in the world, Bill Gates. One of Bill's primary goals is to privatize and take over our public schools. This is why Bill has spent millions of dollars on fake Astroturf groups such as Stand for Children and the League of Education Voters. Bill spent even more billions promoting fake charter schools, fake online schools such as K12 INC and fake learning standards called Common Core. I documented the relationship between Bill Gates and all of these scam ed reform programs in my book Weapons of Mass Deception, which you can read online at the following link: https://weaponsofmassdeception.org/
Bill Gates not only wants to privatize our public schools, he also wants to privatize our colleges. He has therefore "given" millions of dollars to the SBCTC in order to "influence" their policies. Bill Gates has bought not only many members of our state legislature but also the Washington State Board of Community and Technical Colleges (SBCTC) – who have been given more than $13 million in grants and bribes by the Gates Foundation.
This is why the SBCTC and Reykdal are such strong supporters of Common Core and the Common Core SBAC Test and the Common Core Pearson GED test. Now that he is running for State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Reykdal claims he is against requiring the Common Core SBAC test for graduation. However, all one has to do is spend 10 minutes reading Reykdal's SBAC bill, House Bill 2214, to realize that his bill is the exact opposite of his claims. http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2015-16/Pdf/Bills/House%20Bills/2214-S.pdf
Reykdal has said repeatedly at televised SPI Candidate forums that House Bill 2214 - a bill of which he was the prime sponsor - "delinks the SBAC test from graduation" and "guarantees the right of students to opt out."
In fact, House Bill 2214 requires passage of the SBAC 11th Grade test in order to graduate from high school. Students who fail the SBAC 11th Grade Math test - or opt out - (which is about 44,000 students per year or half of all 11th graders) are required to take and pass an additional advanced math course during their Senior year that is harder than any previous math course they have passed before then. So if they passed Precalculus during their Junior Year, they would need to pass Calculus during their Senior Year in order to graduate. No other state is the nation has such draconian graduation requirements.
To add insult to injury, Chris Reykdal's bill does not provide school districts with even one extra penny to hire the hundreds of additional math teachers required so the 44,000 Seniors will be able to pass the extra math courses needed to graduate. Instead, teacher pay is so low that half the school districts already do not have enough qualified math instructors. To make matters even worse, if a student opts out of the 11th grade SBAC test, they are punished with a score of Zero that goes on their permanent record AND they are required to take additional courses in both Math and English during their Senior Year in order to graduate - even if they had already completed all of the Math and English course requirements! Reykdal has the audacity to call this protecting the rights of students to opt out!
Here are the high school graduation requirements of House Bill 2214 beginning with Line 33, Page 4: "Beginning with the graduating class of 2017, a student must earn... a score of level 3 or level 4 on the high school (SBAC) English and mathematics assessment."
Page 5, Line 12 requires students to take the SBAC test at least once: "A student... must have taken, at least once, the high school English and mathematics assessments."
On Page 6, Line 20, Chris allows students who opt out of the draconian SBAC test to take "other options." But the other options are the SAT test or the ACT test. Even then, students must still achieve a score equivalent to the SBAC test or it is off to the salt mines!
On Page 8, Line 12 Chris forces students who fail or opt out of the SBAC test to take and pass "rigorous" courses harder than any previous course they have ever passed in order to graduate from high school: "A course shall be deemed rigorous if it is at a higher course level than the student's most recent coursework in the content area in which the student received a passing grade of C or higher."
So if a student passed Precalculus during their Junior Year, but failed the unfair SBAC test or opted out of the test, they would need to pass Calculus during their Senior Year in order to graduate. No other state is the nation has such draconian graduation requirements. It is shocking that Reykdal has the audacity to claim that this draconian requirement - giving students who opt out a ZERO - is somehow protecting the rights of students to opt out.
Here is the administrative chart of the SBCTC. Note that Reykdal has only one boss, the SBCTC Director Marty Brown. Also Reykdal has no employees.
Common Core basically started in 2009 when Bill Gates realized that the best way to cash in on our schools was to create a set of national standards and national tests:
Bill then hired a couple of Wall Street consultants to write his Common Core standards. Unfortunately, this flunkies were not teachers and knew nothing about child development. As a consequence, they did a terrible job and their Common Core standards were opposed by hundreds of child development specialists from across the US.
Common Core also ignores the social and emotional needs of our kids.
The Common Core test, called SBAC, unfairly labels 3 out of 4 low income children as failures.
Common Core is a Corporate Cash Cow
While Common Core has been a disaster for students, it has generated billions in profits for the corporations selling Common Core books, Common Core tests and Common Core computers:
The bill to adopt Common Core in Washington state, House Bill 1450 was approved by the legislature during the last week in June 2013. House bill 1450 formally authorized both the fake Common Core standards and the unfair SBAC Common Core test. http://app.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=1450&year=2013
There was a fiscal note for HB 1450 indicating that the cost would be more than $200 million to the General Fund State budget (this did not include cost to local school districts that I estimate to be more than one billion dollars). The $200 million was nearly all to pay for a "contract" to some un-named group to do the SBAC test (which did not actually exist when it was voted into law). Here is the link to the HB 1450 fiscal note: https://fortress.wa.gov/binaryDisplay.aspx?package=33558
This extra $200 million in Washington state funds is despite the fact that about $200 million in federal Race to the Top funds were used to create the SBAC test. So SBAC was and continues to be a major financial scam. SBAC is not only the worst most unfair test ever created, it is also the most expensive test ever created!
Reykdal voted in favor of bringing Common Core and the SBAC test to Washington State. But this was just the beginning of the billionaire Common Core attack on our schools. On March 8, 2013, Reykdal also voted for House Bill 1686 to replace our former GED test with the Pearson GED test. Naturally, this bill was passed at the request of Reykdal's employer, the SBCTC. http://app.leg.wa.gov/DLR/billsummary/default.aspx?Bill=1686&year=2013
To be clear, Reykdal is not the only supporter of Common Core and the unfair SBAC test and the unfair Pearson GED test in Olympia. The current Superintendent of Public Instruction, Randy Dorn, also gets millions from Bill Gates and also is a cheerleader for Common Core. This is why Randy is backing Chris Reykdal - to continue the Gates takeover of our public schools and colleges and to protect Bill Gates pet project, Common Core and the SBAC test.
Why there was a need to make the GED Test much harder at the same time as the SBAC Graduation Test was being made much harder?
To understand the relationship between the Common Core GED test and the Common Core SBAC test, we have to understand the real purpose of Common Core. It is not to help kids get Career and College ready. No test and no set of standards can get kids career or college ready. Only lower class sizes can do that. Instead, the real purpose of Common Core is to fail as many students as possible in order to deceive parents into thinking our schools are failures - with the hope that parents will then turn against our public schools and allow them to be taken over by private for profit corporations like Microsoft. So this is all about greed and increasing corporate profits. The Common Core standards are deliberately not age appropriate because they are intended to get kids to hate school. The SBAC test questions are specifically written to be confusing and fail as many kids as possible. The SBAC test must be a graduation requirement or the students would quickly lose interest in passing it. But here is the problem with this plan: If there was still a fair GED test, the kids would quickly learn to take the fair GED test instead of the unfair SBAC test. So the real point of the unfair Pearson GED test was to close the escape route before introducing the unfair SBAC test.
This then was why Reykdal had to block our GED Fairness bill in the House in 2015. It was to prevent high school students from having a fair option to the draconian SBAC test in 2016. Tens of thousands of struggling students were sacrificed in order to protect the Common Core SBAC test gravy train.
GED Marketplace... Turning Personal Tragedy into Pearson Profits
Pearson makes hundreds of millions of dollars in profit by deliberately and unfairly maximizing the failure rate on the Pearson GED test. If you go to the Pearson GED Test Prep store, called the GED Marketplace, you will see dozens of Pearson GED test prep products for sale. http://www.gedmarketplace.com/
Click on GED Test Prep in the left side menu to reach this page:
http://www.gedmarketplace.com/Articles.asp?ID=252&category=testprep
Pearson offers 73 products to prepare for the Pearson GED test. Those who fail the GED test, and parents of those who fail the GED, are likely to order many of these products in a desperate attempt to pass the Pearson GED test. Some of the items are not sold but rented by the month. For example, the first item costs $50 per month. There are 30 products on the first page with a total price of about $1,000. The total for all 73 Pearson GED test prep items is about $2,000. Pearson profit from the GED Marketplace is about $500 million per year!
How much will the Pearson monopoly - destroying the lives of 25,000 mostly low income young adults per year - cost Washington State tax payers?
High school dropouts who do not get a GED are as much as three times more likely to commit a crime as those who do have a high school diploma or GED. Here is a quote from a recent study: "Nearly 1 of every 10 young male high school dropouts was institutionalized versus fewer than 1 of 33 young male high school graduates." "The Consequences of Dropping Out of School, Joblessness and Jailing for High School Dropouts" October 2009
The Role of the GED in Breaking the Cycle of Poverty and Prison
Poverty creates prisoners and prisons in turn fuel poverty. Once a person has been incarcerated, the experience limits their lifetime earning power and their ability to climb out of poverty even decades after their release. This sets up a vicious inter-generational cycle of poverty and prison. Over one third of prison inmates—37 percent in 2003—do not have a high school diploma or a GED certificate. With a prison record and no certificate, few jobs are available.
In 2002, the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics reported that 67% of inmates released from state prisons in 1994 committed at least one serious crime in the three years following their release. A GED certificate is a "last chance" to break this cycle of poverty and prison.
Offenders under the age of 21 who earned their GED diploma were 14% less likely to return to prison within three years. Without a GED to help them get a job, 54% of young offenders return to prison within three years. http://www.passged.com/media/pdf/research/The_Effect_of_Earning_a_GED_on_Recidivisim_Rates.pdf
Calculating the Cost to Tax Payers of 25,000 mostly low income young adults not being able to pass the GED due to the Unfair Pearson Test
Given that having a GED has resulted in a 14% drop in committing crimes and given that the prison population passes the GED test at the same rate as the non-prison High school drop out population, we can predict that had 25,000 low income young adults been given a fair chance at passing the GED test so they could get a decent job of go to college, the rate in this group committing crimes would be 14% less. This would be about 3,500 fewer low income young adults committing crimes and going to prison in Washington State. According to a 2012 study, the annual cost to Washington State tax payers to house and feed a single prisoner is over $50,000. This does not include the cost to victims from crimes, the cost in police to catch law breakers and the cost to courts in legal fees. Assuming a one year jail term, the cost of 3,500 extra prisoners is at least an additional $100 million per year. Washington State had an average daily prison population of over 16,000 in 2012. Most did not have a GED certificate. Adding another 3,500 prisoners represents a 12% increase in the prison population and in the cost of prisons which is currently just under one billion dollars per year. http://www.vera.org/files/price-of-prisons-washington-fact-sheet.pdf
The Poverty to Prison Money Machine
Putting Pearson profits above the need of students who need a GED certificate is despicable enough. But there is an even more sinister aspect of preventing high school drop outs from getting their GED - the billions of dollars to be made running private prisons – filled with young men who failed to pass the GED test.
Poverty to Prison Pipeline... America's new growth industry
According to a 2011 ACLU report called "Banking on Bondage", the United States has 2.3 million citizens behind bars, more than any other nation. The United States has less than 5 percent of the world's population. But it has almost a quarter of the world's prisoners. It hasn't always been this way. Up until 1970, the US was at the world average of one in one thousand citizens being locked up.
https://www.aclu.org/files/assets/bankingonbondage_20111102.pdf
Then the billionaires began their takeover of our media and our State legislatures and national Congress. One of their first actions, besides taking over our public airwaves and getting rid of the "Fairness Doctrine" was to pass laws putting many more people behind bars. This "war on the poor" movement really took off after the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980. Many States now spend more on locking people up in prisons than on funding higher education. Here is the graph for the State of California spending on both as a Percent of State General Funds:
Spending on Prisons ( Green) compared to Spending on Higher Education
"Since 1980, higher education spending has decreased by 13 percent in inflation adjusted dollars, whereas spending on California's prisons and associated correctional programs has skyrocketed by 436 percent. The state now shells out more money from its general fund for the prison system than the higher education system." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/06/california-prisons-colleges_n_1863101.html
On reason states have had to cut support for higher education and raise tuition has been to pay for all of the prisons. The rise in tuition has led to an explosion in student debt. Both prison spending and student debt hit $1 trillion dollar milestones in 2012.
What is the real harm with high stakes high failure rate testing?
A2013 study found a significant relationship between high-stakes testing and the school-to-prison pipeline, with students who fail high stakes testing exams 12 percent more likely to face incarceration.
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=10458
This is a 12 minute video on High stakes test failure linked to winding up in prison
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sWw9Y77y5A
The School-to-Prison Pipeline Exposed, a new study has revealed that in states that use high-stakes exit exams, students who fail these tests were more than 12 percent more likely to face incarceration and had lower graduation rates than states without exit exams. Meanwhile, the study found no consistent effects of exit exams on employment or the distribution of wages.
"This school-to-prison pipeline is a catastrophe in communities across the nation, and it's being fueled by this high-stakes testing regime. We are the only country in the world that is so obsessed with these high-stakes standardized tests."
Jesse Hagopain, Teacher Garfield High School, Seattle Washington
What happened to Senate Bill 5676?
Given that the Pearson GED monopoly cost Washington State taxpayers more than $100 million dollars per year in additional prison costs per year, one would think that our State legislature would quickly approve of a fairer and less expensive high school equivalency test option like the HiSET test. However, the wealth and power of Bill Gates is more important to corrupt legislators than protecting either our students or our tax payers. So this is a lesson not only about Reykdal blocking our GED Fairness bill, it is also a lesson about how greed and corruption are currently controlling our entire state legislature. This was the real reason that Senate Bill 5676 was not passed in 2015.
We will continue our campaign for a fair GED test in Washington state. Our plan is to travel across our state exposing this problem. But our efforts will not do much good as long as Bill Gates is allowed to use his billions to control our state legislature. What we really need is a more honest state legislature which will require that in the 2016 election more honest people are elected to the state legislature. We hope you will join us! See our website for additional information on our efforts to restore GED fairness in Washington state and across the US: http://restoregedfairness.org/
Candidate for Washington State Superintendent of Public Instruction


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When she and her husband John found themselves working close to 14 hours a day, seven days a week for J&J Health Enterprises, the umbrella corporation that encompasses the fitness center and The Preventive Health Institute on Cleveland Avenue, they decided to downsize, Jeanne Rhodes said.
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