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Should a dropdown list be automatically closed when you leave current object and navigate to another, or should it remain opened until you open next dropdown list?

  1. Dropdown closed when mouse leaves

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    @DimitraMiha: "when the user goes to another object because that means that the user wants to do another action" - or they want the cursor out of the way to read the content of the dropdown. – O. R. Mapper Apr 21 '17 at 11:11
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    I can only say that I usually find it annoying when drop-down lists/menus close when the mouse moves out of the menu. For one thing, I seldom move the mouse (or in my case, trackball) in a perfectly straight vertical line, so the cursor may wander outside the menu going from A to B, closing the menu and making me start all over again. – jamesqf Apr 21 '17 at 19:00
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    Fast close on mouse-out is one of the most user-hostile ways a dropdown can act. Other people here are being far milder about this than I would be. There are other ways to let a user conveniently close a dropdown. – Veedrac Apr 21 '17 at 22:59
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    Close on mouse-out could even be an accessability issue… mice have high point accuracy but low path accuracy, which is why they aren't usually good for drawing. Even after decades of constant use i still accidentally close these things all the time. – StarWeaver Apr 22 '17 at 7:50
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    @Poly, same as the right-click menu: click anywhere else. I don't think many users will have a problem with this. – user69458 Apr 22 '17 at 15:53

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For consistency, the behavior should be based on the calling action; click or hover.

If you are opening the dropdown on click, let the user toggle and close it, or close the previous dropdown when user clicks on another thumbnail.

If you are opening the dropdown on mouse-over, close it on mouse-out.

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    As an addition to this, I would suggest having it fade out allowing recovery before its gone. I can't count the number of times I have slipped off a dropdown multiple times in a row. – Daniel Vestøl Apr 21 '17 at 15:39
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    I would suggest caution for fade out depending on what the dropdown covers. I recall being frustrated waiting for dropdowns to disappear so I can get at what they are covering. And if the timing isn't quite synched to the rendering having it pop back up after I believe it is fully faded out, and then having to wait again. – wwarriner Apr 21 '17 at 16:33
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    Simply don't use dropdown-on-hover! Those things are awful! Showing options on hover can work, but you shouldn't be asked to navigate a mouse maze to make them show up! – Veedrac Apr 21 '17 at 23:01
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    And whats about touch devices? They habe no on-hover? – FrankL Apr 22 '17 at 7:13
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    One addition to this; if you're going to show/hide on hover, make sure your detection area is reasonable, especially for the mouse-out event. In particular I've encountered some very poor implementations where if you weren't extremely careful in mousing through the caret at the top of the box the entire menu would disappear on you when you went to click on one of the items. If you don't know how to have a detection area that's larger than the menu itself, don't show/hide menus on hover. – aroth Apr 24 '17 at 3:30

The answer to this question is part of a more general UX rule: moving the mouse (without a button held down) is not input, and applications should not respond to it by taking any nontrivial action. Trivial actions include things like adding/removing underline, changing color, or performing a small, spatially isolated animation to indicate clickability. Showing or hiding information/UI elements is nontrivial, and really annoying to users who move the mouse cursor (which might be oversized for accessibility reasons!) off the top of the text they're trying to read so that they can read it.

Added (since the comments seem to be generating debate over what is "trivial"): My intent is that an action/reaction to mouse movement is trivial if:

  1. Omitting it entirely would not remove information or limit the ability to interact with the interface, and
  2. Presence of the action does not disrupt or interfere with ability to read or interact with the interface.

Mouseover dropdowns/menus (and also tooltips) fail both criteria if they can't also be activated by clicks, and fail the second one either way unless you arrange for them to appear in a special area where they don't obscure other content.

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    This isn't quite a blanket rule. Ever heard of mouseover text? – Wildcard Apr 22 '17 at 2:34
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    Well, I disagree strongly. It's a way to find out more about an unfamiliar UI without doing something (clicking) that you can expect to trigger some actual action. However, it should have a reasonable delay; most do. Check the mouseover on SE itself. And note that when you enter "mouseover mode" there is no delay on switching from item to item. This is great UX IMO. – Wildcard Apr 22 '17 at 2:41
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    Survey more newbie users. I work with such a lot, and I think you'll find that they hover over a button wondering if it's the right one, and look at the cursor, so mouseover text informs them right where they need it. And that most of them have never noticed the link preview area in the browser, or don't know what it is. Newbie users don't necessarily see every section of the screen the way advanced users do. They only see the narrow part they're looking at. Toolbars seem to be a bewildering array of random icons. – Wildcard Apr 22 '17 at 2:46
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    @Wildcard: Actually, I would classify tooltips (which always have a delay before they show) as trivial actions. They are hints, and nothing more, and if you rely on them for anything more than a non-trivial reason, then you're doing something wrong. (I would also say they're great UX, because they're the ultimate in contextual help: they show up exactly when users need help, but stay out of the way otherwise.) – user69458 Apr 22 '17 at 16:04
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    @FighterJet - You may classify tooltips that way (and I might agree with that classification), however according to how this answer is written that classification is incorrect. Tooltips will often obscure text and other components on the page, and thus fail the "does not disrupt or interfere with ability to read or interact with the interface" test suggested in the answer. Which means (according to the answer) that tooltips should only be activated by click. Which I think is awful UX, and a good example of why this answer is just plain wrong. – aroth Apr 24 '17 at 3:43

I honestly think that hover menus are bad UX entirely.

I suspect the only reason they exist in the first place is that they are easier to implement in pure CSS, so the developer can get away with something the user doesn’t necessarily want.

Here are some points to consider:

  • Most operating systems wait for a user click before activating a menu. The hover menu goes against a well established pattern.
  • The operating system has menus in a separate part of the window, where their behavior is anticipated. Hover menus are part of the content, and compete with the rest of the content.
  • Users routinely use a mouse without any intent, or simply to follow their eyes. The hover menu disrupts this behavior, often obscuring content which the user was looking at.
  • Touch devices, at this point in time, do not include a true hover action. Hover menus represent a different behavior between desktop and touch devices. In fact, they often behave as click menus in this context.
  • Non-sighted users will not experience the hover menu at all, which is a small mercy.

While a web application is not exactly the same as a desktop application, there are conventions and prior experiences, as well as expectations, to accommodate.

Click (or touch) activated menus are, these days, easy enough to implement with a few lines of CSS and (non-jQuery) JavaScript.

The short answer is a dropdown should be activated deliberately and deactivated deliberately. This is not with mouse move, but with a click or a touch.

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    You can actually do clickable dropdowns entirely in CSS and HTML: jsfiddle.net/pq0mxvj2. – Yay295 Apr 24 '17 at 17:44
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    @Yay295 The problem is that :checked doesn’t work with Certain Legacy Browsers™. You can also use :active but that doesn’t work well on touch devices. – Manngo Apr 24 '17 at 21:00
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    :active elements are only active while you are clicking them; it doesn't work well on any device. Chrome and Firefox have supported :checked since version 1, and IE since 9, meaning less than 0.5% of people browsing the web are unsupported. – Yay295 Apr 24 '17 at 21:18
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    @Yay295 not that that doesn't mean 0.5% of your users would be unsupported. – Tim Apr 24 '17 at 22:20
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    Your list need one more point: "It's super, super annoying when the drop down disappears and have you have to align and move your mouse juuuuuust right to actually click anything in the drop down/pop up." – jpmc26 Apr 25 '17 at 3:47

I agree with DPS's answer, however I'd opt for explicit behaviour - thus clicking to open and clicking (or pressing Esc) to close.

Why not "on-hover"?

If the user opens the dropdown and makes a more generous mouse move (move away the cursor to read all the options) - the menu disappears increasing the annoyance.

There is something else I'd like to mention - when the dropdown appears, it is placed bottom-left to the mouse cursor. In my opinion it should be placed bottom-right. The user follows the mouse pointer and in majority of cultures we tend to process the information from left to right. If the user is focused on the mouse pointer, they expect the menu to appear to the right, so their data processing flow is not disturbed.

Having the above in mind - if you go for "on hover" option, it is very easy to move the cursor away from the dropdown and by this close it.

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    I would have the dropdown appear to the right, just so it doesn't completely cover the object it's applying to. – Harrison Paine Apr 21 '17 at 15:36
  • Or move the menu icon to the left so the dropdown still covers the object it applies to. – Daniel Vestøl Apr 21 '17 at 15:41
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    The other benefit to explicit behavior is, of course, that it works on touch-only devices (think phones and tablets). We do not know enough about the OP's scenario to know if that matters, but I like to keep it in mind whenever possible. – DocMax Apr 21 '17 at 19:29
  • Good point about placement, +1. On both Mac and Windows context menus (for right clicking) appear bottom-right to the mouse cursor, unless you are right up close against the right hand side of the monitor—in which case Mac puts dropdown bottom-left from the mouse cursor, and Windows puts dropdown bottom-right as far as they can so it ends up flush against the right side of your screen, with the cursor near the center of its top. (I think the Mac behavior is cleaner, personally.) – Wildcard Apr 22 '17 at 2:33
  • @Wildcard: the Mac behaviour when cursor is near the right-hand edge of the screen is application-dependent. E.g. (at least in OS X 10.9, on the computer I’m using now) the Finder gives what you describe as the Mac behaviour, while Safari gives what you describe as the Windows behaviour. – PLL Apr 22 '17 at 10:22

...Or you can consider changing the design altogether. Personally I think it's not a good idea to hide functionality under three dots.

Show actions on hover

You can remove click/hover altogether by showing actions straight on hover. I'd argue it's better since you save the click (I'm not showing move/rename for brevity).

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Show actions in the main screen

If design allows, actions can always be visible on the main screen. If you think that icons are vague, you can add tooltip or change layout to show icons with labels.

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  • For simplicity, you can allow renaming by clicking on the title. – BonsaiOak Apr 23 '17 at 15:46
  • Underrated answer of the day! – Feathercrown Apr 27 '17 at 20:05

You might consider adding a way for the user to close the drop down. This way there is no confusion on how to close it and no annoyance of accidentally closing it by moving the mouse out of the area.

Windows style drop down with close button.

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    Nice, simple and usable. No gratuitous code. Don't forget that the average user doesn't care about how clever things are, they just want them to work. – dougal 5.0.0 Apr 25 '17 at 6:22
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    I would agree with this if it didn't look so bad. Not trying to knock on your design at all because it's not your fault; the x just looks so out-of-place in this menu for some reason. – Chase Sandmann Apr 25 '17 at 17:05
  • @ChaseSandmann it only looks out of place because of the colour its been given in the example. But I guess that was to highlight it as an addition rather than to suggest actually making it that colour. Make it a more subtle grey and it would look fine. – Simba Apr 27 '17 at 13:15
  • I went ahead and edited the close button to mesh a little better with the given example. – BlueMeanie Apr 27 '17 at 15:58
  • This looks a bit like a delete option of the first item in the list. – user23013 Apr 28 '17 at 6:30

I happen to find that behavior quite annoying, especially with nested menus, on YouTube on a HTPC. The remote mouse is easy to get off track and wham I have to start over. Anyone with less than perfect dexterity will find this to be annoying.

Please don't make the precise path of the pointer a necessary part of the UI. Some people have mobility issues, some have less than idea pointing devices, some are in a moving vehicle, etc.

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    +1 for the mobility issues. Don't expect all users to be able to produce perfect pointer movements – frozenkoi Apr 25 '17 at 23:05

Apart from what DPS answered, which talks about consistency, I would suggest you go with the click instead of hover. It seems like you have a grid layout, and am sure you don't want to annoy your users popping up the action menu when they move the mouse over these grid items.

It is better to keep it explicit, only when the user tries to click on the action button. One more thing you can do here is that change the icon so that it is clear that he needs to click back to toggle it, something like:

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Make sure that it should collapse if user clicks elsewhere on the page (this also includes the users who try to click on the action menu of another image)

Another thing you can try out is to have common action buttons and let the user select the images on long click. The only thing which might be an issue over here is the move option. I'm not sure what functionality you have in place there(i.e is it draggable, click sort and so on)

You can smoothly animate these icons once the user selects >= 1 image in the grid.

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I'd say: click on ... to open, click on anywhere but the dropdown menu to close. Once we click the open button, we tend to move away and going back and pressing it again can be exhausting. There's also a danger of pressing the first item on the dropdown list. I've seen the open/close on hover performing so badly that I think shouldn't be an option. What happens is that the dropdown disappears once you start moving from the ... button towards the menu.

  • Mouse-over,mouse-leave events to open-close a drop-down menu is in general not a good idea.
  • Preferably click or touch events should open-close a drop-down menu.

To be more specific... In the example you provided in your question where the drop-down opens above an image element one thing you could do is lower the opacity of the menu (e.g. to 20%) if the user moves the mouse out of the menu-box. In that case you will have in your hands a partially transparent menu so that the user could still view the element below the menu.

Immediately closing such a list even if the mouse is a pixel out of its region for a split second - especially with dropdowns where the region changes due to submenus (which also means your user has to repeat a whole navigation chain in the worst case) etc. - tends to be very susceptible to spurious mouse movements (aggravated if: bad mouse skills, a mouse set up for speed not precision, a vibration-rich work environment, small size of UI elements).

Letting the opened menu stay forever can end up in a user being confused about how to close a menu that is covering content or other UI elements.

Delays and some hysteresis between activation and deactivation regions will probably follow the principle of least astonishment best...

Mobile or not?

Some years ago, when the only input was using the mouse (or pressing the Alt key... nobody really expected that) a mouse hover was a good option.

But not anymore.

The minimized design you are using implies that the design is intended for a small device, so there is no real mouse hover.

My opinion is click to open and click to close.

A timer?

But you also could include a timer. If no input is made in some seconds, that menu could collapse.

Some problems with the mouse out

  • Evident problem with a mobile device.

  • A desktop user could have issues, for example with a defective mouse that moves the mouse pointer like crazy (I had some cheap mouses sometimes)

  • Some laptop pads can be tricky to use. A mouse hover/out needs more skill from the user.

  • One additional problem thinking on a mouse hover - mouse out approach is that the user could need to move the pointer for some reason, but still needed that menu open. A screen capture? Working in another window?

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    I disagree on the timer idea. "If no input is made in some seconds, that menu could collapse". This will inevitably lead to (1) the menu closing before some users could read all the options, (2) the menu closing right as the users was about to click an option and instead the user clicks the item (3) there's no clear reason on why the menu is closing. – frozenkoi Apr 25 '17 at 23:08

Once mouse leaves, everything goes away

This is simple logic, and working with prototypes would show it immediately. Using your same caffe images, we can do a simple analogy. Let's say you go to caffe1, then open the menu and order something. You leave and go to caffe2. Where at it.... would you expect to see caffe1 menu or caffe2 menu? What would you think if you see caffe1's menu instead of caffe2's?

Well, as tou can see the answers are obvious, and they're based in layout construction principles. They not only apply to your example, but they apply to everything. Think of a terrain (layout) where you build a house with different rooms. Some might be similar, but they all will have special characteristics and possibilities: you'll have a kitchen, a bathroom, a dining room, a laundry, etc. All of them with different possibilities. You'll be able to cook in the kitchen, but you won't be able to do it in the laundry.

This is known as plane and dimensions building, where you have different planes and different dimensions which are related to physics and how we perceive the world around us (hence, while it only applies to your specific case in a tangential way, it includes time dimensions)

Material Design uses this metaphor of sheets of material with dimensions and depths (although contrary to popular belief, they didn't invent it). And it's really easy to implement: simply start with a blank sheet of paper. Then add elements as needed. Use post-it or cut from other pieces of paper. You'll create prototypes where you'll be able to see how each element connects, and more important, how they doesn't connect.

Hover vs Click

If this is responsive, go with click, bar none. There's no hover behavior on mobile, so building hover based behaviors is a waste of time. However, if this is adaptive, you can have a hover behavior for desktop (better for discovering) and click behavior for mobile. However, click to open and click to close is not needed, it's more effort and friction with no gain at all. Just do this:

  • Desktop (adaptive): on mouse leave, close menu.
  • Mobile (responsive): on click (menu2), close menu 1

This way you save a click and avoid to have unnoticed menus open when you're in a completely different property

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    The problem with your analogy is that moving the mouse does not signal intent to perform an action like walking between rooms does, and that while using the mouse, it has a precise point, but an imprecise path. So if you accidentally wander out of the menu a pixel or two while going to click a menu item, then bam, it's gone. – user69458 Apr 22 '17 at 16:10
  • There is unfortunately no mouse in all cases nowadays – eckes Apr 22 '17 at 16:24
  • @FighterJet, if you're over an object, you're over an object. If you're not, you're not. That's precisely the idea of on_hover. If you move away, you're doing an explicit action to move out. Otherwise we'd be in an scenario where every hover behavior should be permanent "just in case". All this being said, do a Google search for mouse hover intent and you'll find how to solve even this "problem" you mention (keep in mind I didn't go deep into implementation since this is not an implementation forum) – Devin Apr 22 '17 at 17:48
  • @eckes, hence why I mentioned different scenarios for desktop and mobile (which obviously don't use a mouse) – Devin Apr 22 '17 at 17:49
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    One of the things you need to consider is people with physical limitations like shaking hands, that need to place the pointer (through involuntary and/or imprecise movements) and then can press a button. If the menu goes away due to those involuntary movements, the menu is unusable for those users. Even 'regular' users can move the mouse when they sneeze, or if there's dirt in the mouse's ball or optics. – frozenkoi Apr 25 '17 at 23:12

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This question may sounds weird but I was wondering myslelf if the two sections at the left and the right of an UI had a special name (like header or footer for the top and the bottom parts).

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I think about "banners" but it doesn't sound specific to the left/rigth positioning. Do you know what's the name of these elements ?

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    Left-hand column / Right-hand column? – JonW Apr 30 '14 at 11:51

I have always seen those referred to as left or right sidebars, but I don't think there's necessarily a standard name for them like there is for header and footer.

  • They were always called sidebars and nowadays you have the <aside> Tag which makes sense – Mathijs Segers May 1 '14 at 11:36
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    It's my understanding that the <aside> tag has nothing to do with sidebars- it's more meant to be a side note within an article. – Leslie P. Apr 13 '16 at 13:35

It used to be called as sidebars and still is by some graphic/web designers, but nowadays people calling them more technically as "aside" and I guess that could be due to HTML5... not sure! Hope it helps

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I have a case where I need to show bunch of numeric values like (2000000, 345.6, 2, 657, 567) as a mobile app tile without making it look cluttered and also allows user to easily scan the data. (among the listed numbers 2 of them are more important than the others)

Also table is not an option as in mobile I am not able to fit all my data in single row.

I have come up with 2 options but they are not that good! Please take a look and give your feedback.

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    Maybe an easy question, but do the exact numbers matter or can you round it up and hide the exact number behind an icon? And did you do user research to understand which param is most important to show first? – Max de Mooij Jun 17 '16 at 22:20
  • Is a table definitely not an option? because the two most important values could be on the left of the row so are always in view and the other less important labels could be to the right of them. If the screen is narrow the table becomes scrollable horizontally but at least the primary labels on the left will always be in view - does this sound like an option or do ALL labels need to be visible at all times? – Dave Haigh Jun 18 '16 at 13:40
  • @MaxdeMooij: I can't use icon for a numbers as it can be any value.. and it is important to show the exact number even with decimals.. Think of of it as your bank/telephone statement but here you have to make a decision based on the data to select item/s – Pratik Shah Jun 18 '16 at 13:57
  • @DaveHaigh: our UX research concluded that 3 Params have the same importance and are decisive for selection. Also there are bunch of other Information we need to show (for individual item/row) if they want to take a deeper dive.. So I guess table is not an option in that case.. Also some labels are itself a value.. (let's say they change based on a scenario) so can't replace it with icons.. I have been giving a lot of thoughts for this.. but can't think of anything else but an expanded card layout.. – Pratik Shah Jun 18 '16 at 13:59
  • @PratikShah The things you've mentioned are pretty important for the type of solution. Indeed you'll have to work with cards, I think. I don't know the case, so I can't design a possible solution. Once you've iterated enough with drawings and wireframes and you can pick the most fitting one, I think you can fix a lot in the design stage. – Max de Mooij Jun 18 '16 at 17:52

What do you dislike about Tile 2 that you've designed? I redesigned it a litte bit:

tile 2 redesigned

If you want users to scan the data, you can use bars so they can quickly see what params are large and what are small. (also keeping the exact number for further deailed inspection)

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(I had to randomly suppose what values are large or small in this example)

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In this last example, the brightness of the bar too indicates how small is the number. You could use all bars in the same color, making their size be the only visual indication of the value.

You can use colour scale instead (but not all the rainbow colours). The tile coulour indicates how large is the main param (red = high, yellow = medium, blue = low). The other params follow the same rule:

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This way, user can (hopefully) spot desired patterns, for example "I need a red tile but with blue square at the left".

It might also be useful to sort the tiles according to the params values!

  • Thanks for the effort! And colors do help spotting the Param but these are scientific readings and few params need color coding to indicate their respective boundaries for categorizing them.. so allocating colors to each Params may not help.. it will create confusion. – Pratik Shah Feb 14 '17 at 9:08
  • Also regarding your above 2 ways.. there isn't any defined MAX value.. there is always current MAX.. which will keep on changing based on experiment.. I don't want to use boring table and wanted to use cards as number of params are still manageable.. Appreciate it! Thanks you for taking a time for this. – Pratik Shah Feb 14 '17 at 9:14

Can't you group the diffrent priority of values? One tile with the both important values and one tile with the rest.

Maybe with different colors you can build relations between the numbers.

  • the thing is all the params in a row are related to a particular thing. So can't do that. – Pratik Shah Feb 18 '16 at 12:36

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2015 Film Essays

The Moreau Files: ‘La Notte’

With ambivalence and ennui, Michelangelo Antonioni targeted the institutions of modern Italy, reserving both contempt and awe for his bourgeois subjects. In La Notte he examines the fledgling relationship of Giovanni (Marcello Mastroianni) and Lidia (Jeanne Moreau) during the span of a single day. The couple has long settled into a mood of ambivalence and contempt, staying together out of habit more than anything else.

The difficulty in discussing the work of Antonioni is that his characters thrive on contradictions, and are often pursuing goals and hungers that will ultimately leave them empty. All that they endeavor seems to be a pointless interlude in the face of a world crumbling under the weight of their own mortality and man-made destruction. His upper class characters, with their abundance of leisure time and mobility, are plagued by the fear of their futility, and a crippling fear of truly living. La Notte, in particular, portrays a lavish upper class who thrive on sin and decadence. The party that they attend is over the top, but nonetheless does very little to inspire any life in his characters.

Yet, as an embodiment of the same contradictions that plague his characters, Antonioni reveres his characters as much as he is critical of them. In spite of their languid ennui and selfishness, beauty holds utter importance in his work. His characters are effortlessly stunning, gliding through life like Grecian statues. Aristotle argued “Virtue aims at the beautiful” in the Nicomachean Ethics, and perhaps Antonioni holds that idea in the back of his mind, ironically toying with the idea that beauty is somehow related to morality. There is something genuinely alienating about the beauty of the characters, they are no longer relatable or aspirational, instead they exist as abstractions of the ancient Gods.

Jeanne Moreau and Marcello Mastroianni

Yet, these characters are very mortal. This is a particular concern for the ageing Lidia, who is faced with the younger Valentina (Monica Vitti), a woman attracting the attentions of her husband. Valentina is a different point of fascination for Giovanni, not just a fling, but the promise of a new life. While she is charming, it is her beauty and youth that attract him. Lidia is still beautiful, Moreau has never looked better – she is elegant and elusive. Yet, the age that she does carry in her face hints at a life lived and habits formed. The appeal of the younger woman is not just her beauty, but how she is somehow further from death.

In spite of the seeming painful drone of living, there is nothing more terrifying than death in Antonioni’s world. Beauty, decadence and leisure are just ways of forgetting the end, but they bring little joy to life. La Notte is a film very much about resignation, resigning to the fate of the monogamy and perhaps the inevitability of death.

Justine Smith lives and writes in Montreal, Quebec. She has a bachelor’s degree in Film Studies, and a passionate hunger for all kinds of cinema. Along with writing for Vague Visages, she is the film editor of Sound on Sight and a freelance writer.

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Mackintosh Chair Motif on Romanian Provincial Art Nouveau Doorway

Romanian 1900s provincial Art Nouveau doorway, Targoviste (©Valentin Mandache)

Targoviste is the medieval capital of the principality of Wallachia, located some 80km north-west of Bucharest. The meaning of the town’s name in old Romanian language is that of  “market town”, a true reflection of its medieval and early modern economy, until the advent of the oil industry in the inter-war period that changed its character. The city, at the turn between the c19th and the c20th was a picturesque provincial town, very proud of its heritage and legacy as the former capital, somehow like Winchester in England, if I can draw that parallel. The Art Nouveau style has some echoes in the local architecture, elements of which being displayed by a number of houses in the city centre. The doorway above adorns the side entrance of one of those picturesque buildings. What struck me the most in this obvious provincial design was the suggestion there of a Mackintosh chair motif, namely the famous oval topped back of an Argyle chair designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh at the end of c19th. This doorway may date from the 1900s, most probably repaired a few times since then in various degrees of refinement, and it shows the possible diffusion of this motif in a near vernacular form to this quite remote corner of Europe. The doorway may also be a more recent creation in tone with the rest of the Art Nouveau elements embellishing that house. A proper dating of it can of course be confirmed only through archive research.

I endeavor through this series of daily articles to inspire appreciation of the historic houses of Romania, a virtually undiscovered, but fascinating chapter of European architectural history and heritage.

If you plan acquiring a historic property in Romania or start a renovation project, I would be delighted to advice you in sourcing the property, specialist research, planning permissions, restoration project management, etc. To discuss your particular plan please see my contact details in the Contactpage of this weblog.


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Home renovations: When should you remove a wall?

First steps is to find out whether there are any structural or mechanical elements running through the wall in question

In this West End apartment, designer Kendall Ansell removed a wall blocking the kitchen from the living area, shifted the cabinetry to the back wall and installed an island. This opened the space, created better flow and provided more storage. Janis Nicolay

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When it comes to renovating a space, sometimes it’s clear the best option is to demolish a wall—or more than one. That can be the case even in a condominium or an apartment

Kendall Ansell, principal of Kendall Ansell Interiors, says her first step as a designer is to go online and see whether any other suites in the same building have attempted the feat before. That will indicate whether there are any structural or mechanical elements running through the wall in question.

“Once you start talking about beam spans and loads, whether you can recess the beam in a ceiling, do you need a post, how to reroute mechanical or other systems…. it’s all possible with money,” she says. “But it’s about asking about the client’s vision, about whether spending that $40,000 to $75,000 will improve their quality of life.”

That having been said, in other cases, the cost and scale of eliminating a wall is much smaller. It starts with taking a sledgehammer to drywall and framing and rerouting the power.

For a recent project, Ansell and her client decided to remove a wall blocking off the apartment’s kitchen from the main living area. By shifting the cabinetry to the back wall and building a kitchen island instead, they created flow and storage much more in keeping with the client’s hope for a bachelor hangout. The microwave and oven were neatly tucked into the island, making the kitchen sleeker, yet still convenient to cook in.

Changing how the kitchen was accessed also allowed for the creation of a feature wall of cabinetry around the recessed refrigerator. The doors hid a washer and dryer, and concealed more storage. A variety of short shelves and little ledges were handy spaces to display special items or set down a drink glass.

Ansell says a renovation project—even one involving demolition—in an apartment building isn’t necessarily more difficult than one in a single-family house.

“Every building has restrictions around noise and the hours of work allowed,” she says. “If you work with your contractor to tighten up the timeline to get the noisy things done in one or two days, and then make sure you’re on top of cleanup afterwards, it’s no big deal.”

Ansell adds it’s important to get a permit for work in a condo or apartment because it provides peace of mind during resale.

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Coastal Waters

Depicting the aerial perspective of the ocean and sand banks off the coast of Australia, ‘Coastal Waters’ takes your mind to that peaceful place and is a dramatic focal point to any space.

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The Great Chesapeake Bay Schooner Race Is In Town

Dashing out on my kayak between errands today paid off: that there’s the Liberty Clipper, getting ready to berth in Baltimore before Thursday’s start of the Great Chesapeake Bay Schooner Race. Back in 1997, when I covered the race with late photographer Sam Holden, we sailed on this schooner as guests of owner, Greg Muzzy. It was a dramatic excursion, with actual blood on the decks. Here’s Sam’s photo of me – he’s reflected in my sunglasses – looking as if I’d just seen the Buddha:

The weather is so prime today that presumably most of the arriving schooners are still sailing, but a few are around. Too bad they don’t berth in Fells Point anymore.

Lynx, out of Portsmouth, NH, has some lovely detail:

Celebrating Betsy Toland (1937-2019)

I just now pulled a jacket out of my closet to wear to my friend Betsy Toland‘s memorial service, and tucked in the inside pocket was this: the order of worship for my friend “Big Charlie” Lord (1935-2016), whose service was held days before Trump won the election.

On the cover of the program are Charlie’s words, set down a decade earlier: “My faith affirms my prayer that one day we will find a path to reconciliation in this country, a day when every individual, regardless of economic class, race, gender or sexual orientation will be cherished and supported by every other individual.”

I think Betsy would wholeheartedly agree, and it reminds me how wise it is to hear and listen to our elders. Betsy has been a strong and valued guide to many, and, like Charlie, will be remembered long and well.

Temporary Treatment of Possible Lyme Disease

Until tomorrow’s visit to the Doc: 600 MG Ibuprofen, plenty of water, some eucalyptus-y CBD stick, and home-steeped lavender oil. Symptoms, 2+ weeks after a mystery bug bite: fever, nausea, headache, chills, slight joint pain, mild vertigo, generalized lethargy. Feeling tolerably unwell, but second-guessing the choice of 12 Monkeys for bed-based entertainment while dinner cooks downstairs: bean soup, home-baked bread, and salad.


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Film Review: ‘The Dirt’

A Mötley Crüe biopic revels in their bad-boy antics, raising the question: Is there anything left about sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll that isn't cliché?

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Douglas Booth, Colson Baker, Daniel Webber, Iwan Rheon, Kathryn Morris, Pete Davidson, Rebekah Graf, Alyssa Marie Stilwell, Tony Cavalero, Max Milner, Trace Masters.
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Mar 22, 2019

Official Site: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800325/

A long time ago, the words sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll carried a hint of danger. The lifestyle did, too, but I’m talking about the phrase. It used to sound cool (back around the time the word “cool” sounded cool). But sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll has long since passed into the realm of vintage American catch-phrase banality, like “How’s that workin’ out for you?” And “The Dirt,” the new Netflix rock biopic about the sordid, squalid saga of Mötley Crüe, the royal hair-metal sleaze gods of the ’80s and ’90s, is a movie that reflects the new harmless status of that phrase.

The Dirt” boils over with sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll, whether it’s Vince Neil (Daniel Webber), the snaky leader singer of Mötley Crüe, acting like a horny jackrabbit as he enjoys a backstage boink with every woman who comes near him, including the girlfriends of his bandmates (no one is safe), or Nikki Sixx (Douglas Booth), the band’s founder, bass player, and most haunted character (his suburban boyhood is presented as a heavy-metal-video version of Dickensian child abandonment), self-medicating by descending into a $1,000-a-day heroin habit, or Tommy Lee (Colson Baker), the group’s blinkered drummer, devolving from a blissed-out wild child who actually adores his stuffy parents into a hotel-room-trashing zombie who vomits all over a pole dancer.

A lot of the anecdotes and details come straight out of Neil Strauss’ 2001 book “The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band,” a compendium of tales from the rock ‘n’ roll underbelly that served as the basis for the movie. “The Dirt,” as its title implies, is out to hook us by looking under rocks and reveling in all the too-dirty-for-prime-time stuff that most music biopics leave out.

The trouble is, most of that bad behavior is now so iconic and cliché — the mountains of cocaine, the wrecked hotel rooms, the sloppy swigs from Jack Daniels bottles that get smashed on the floor, the groupies (literally) under the table — that in “The Dirt,” the behavior ends up seeming as innocuous as the old homogenized version used to. That’s what happens when there’s nothing to characters but sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll.

In “The Dirt,” the four members of Mötley Crüe are recognizable as a certain type of leather-and-spandex trashed Sunset Strip bad boy, but in the movie none of them ever becomes a character you can’t take your eyes off. We’re just watching four fresh-faced actors in hair-metal wigs act out some of the greatest hits of rock debauchery as if they were exhibits in a rock ‘n’ roll wax museum.

Great rock biopics, and there have been a few (like “Sid and Nancy” or “Get On Up”), are as full-bodied as any other drama; just because the subject is rock ‘n’ roll, or pop or punk or soul, doesn’t mean that the storytelling needs to cut corners. But mediocre music biopics always have way too much on-the-nose fakery — like that moment early on in “Bohemian Rhapsody” when Freddie Mercury gets up on a club stage with the band who will be Queen, and his mike stand is all messed up, so he knocks one half of it away and comes up with his whole half-a-mike-stand-as-medieval-goblet signature stance in the first 30 seconds of the band’s first gig. That’s the kind of “1970s Rock for Dummies” groaner that lets you know a movie is signposting instead of getting the real story.

As beloved as “Bohemian Rhapsody” was, many Queen fans, including me, found it to be little more than a glorified version of a VH1 original movie, like “Hysteria: The Def Leppard Story” or “Too Legit: The MC Hammer Story.” And judged on that scale, “The Dirt” isn’t even the glorified version. It’s just a thinly written (by Rich Wilkes and Amanda Adelson), generically staged (by Jeff Tremaine, director of the “Jackass” films) VH1-style sketchbook of a movie — which is to say, it’s a Netflix film, with zero atmosphere, overly blunt lighting, and a threadbare post-psychological telegraphed quality that gives you nothing to read between the lines. It’s all on the sensational surface, yet you never completely buy the reality of the settings: the dingy rock clubs and strip bars, the dressing rooms where the halter tops slide off and the lines of coke go up in smoke.

In “The Dirt,” words like “rad” and “gnarly” sound as though they’re being tossed around by 8-year-olds. During Mötley Crüe’s first show, to signify how rebellious the band is, they respond to hecklers by beating up members of the audience — but there had never been any sort of indication that they were bruisers. Pete Davidson pops up as “Tom Zutaut, from Elektra Records,” and he’s unconvincing as even the most green A&R executive. The breathless narration, most of it delivered by Nikki Sixx (the film’s nominal main character), is always telling us too much: “Elektra Records signed us to a five-album deal. We got a fat cash advance, which meant better drugs and bigger parties. We were the kings! I mean, look at this place — everyone wanted to party with us!”

In the ’80s, metal acquired a new sort of raucously porny f—k-it-all swagger. In “The Dirt,” when the band is auditioning Vince, who is Tommy’s old chum, for lead singer, they have him perform “Live Wire,” which was the band’s first single (another overly on-the-nose scene), and when they jack up the speed of it, we hear the power of Mötley Crüe. They were the first major metal ensemble to incorporate the ferocity of punk, and that, mixed with Vince Neil’s knockoff of Bon Scott’s knockoff of Robert Plant, with a sprinkling of the sonic propulsion of “Detroit Rock City,” created the Mötley Crüe sound: a spiky surge of male hormonal fury.

The movie channels that fury well enough, and there’s one scene that entertainingly ushers us into the sex-drugs lifestyle in an innovative way. We hurtle through 24 hours in the life of a touring rock musician, seen entirely from Tommy’s POV, starting with the moment he gets a 5:00 p.m. wake-up call (yes, that’s p.m.), handcuffed to the bed, with no memory of what he did the night before, and then goes out to the evening’s show, which includes his drum solo in a giant spinning steel cage, followed by the revel that starts with a groupie’s offer the moment he gets backstage, and then the midnight plane ride (with a personalized drug regimen dispensed to each band member), and then the arrival in a new city where they immediately head off to a strip club, which is just the appetizer for some rockin’-the-halls mayhem back at the hotel, which leads to the next 5:00 p.m. wake-up and the reveal of how he got handcuffed…

How are the actors? I can only give you the dual answer that’s there for every middling rock biopic: They’re fine, and also not good enough. Douglas Booth, as Nikki, plays his damaged soul as well as the script allows (which is not very), but he lacks Nikki’s snarl. If anything, he looks more like Freddie Mercury (and more like Freddie than Rami Malek did). Daniel Webber, as Vince, is the closest visual match, and he captures how a lead singer lives in his own bubble, but he lacks Vince’s down-and-dirty joi de vivre. Machine Gun Kelly, billed here as Colson Baker, makes Tommy a compellingly cracked metal-head flower child, but he totally lacks Tommy’s biker edge. Iwan Rheon, as Mick Mars, the group’s dyspeptic straight-shooter (he guzzles vodka but stands outside the perpetual party, mostly because of a degenerative back condition), at least has a role to play, maybe because he’s the only one not defined by his bad behavior.

Can Nikki get off heroin? Will Vince, after too much fun, embrace the role of husband and father? (Tragic things keep happening to him, which the film implies are karmic payback.) Will Tommy find love after Heather Locklear (Rebekah Graf)? The questions that frame “The Dirt” don’t add up to a dramatic texture. The film’s only driving issue is, How deep will Mötley Crüe fall into sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll? We already know the answer: not far enough for what they do to look like anything but a rerun.

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Reviewed online, March 21, 2019. MPAA Rating: Not rated. Running time: 101 MIN.

Production: A Netflix release of an LBI Entertainment, 10th Street Entertainment, Netflix production. Producers: Rick Yorn, Erik Olsen, Allen Kovac. Executive producers: Rick Yorn, Chris Nilsson, Steve Kline, Ben Ormand, Michelle Manning.

Crew: Director: Jeff Tremaine. Screenplay: Rich Wilkes, Amanda Adelson. Camera (color, widescreen): Toby Oliver. Editor: Melissa Kent. Music: Paul Haslinger, Mötley Crüe.

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"I think that the number of novels, songs, and paintings done since 1950 that anyone will still care about 200 years from now is somewhere in the vicinity of zero. Not exactly zero, but close. I find a good way to make this point is to ask anyone who disagrees with me to name a work that will survive — and then ask, "Seriously?" Very few works indeed can defend themselves against the "Seriously?" question."

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Has anyone else noticed that Whole Foods seems to be increasingly less vegan-friendly? I have several different examples of this, but on a recent trip to the Lamar store I was super annoyed that the baked-goods case only had a couple of things labelled as vegan, even though I know in the past some of the items (like the oatmeal-walnut scone) had been vegan. The employees I asked about it were confused/confusing, so I emailed the bakery manager and here is my response, FYI:

Hello Ms. Caswell,
        Thank you for sending me your concerns and feedback.  We strive daily to make our
bakery the best with a wide variety of products for our guest.  The Walnut scone is
vegan and I will update the sign immediately.  Other options that are vegan are:
Lemon Blueberry Scone, All 3 flavors of Turnovers, Big John Cookies, Vegan
Chocolate Chip Cookie, Ronnie's Cookies and of course all the donuts.    I will
follow up and ensure that these are properly labeled.  As for the Muesli stick,
unfortunately our bake house is no longer making that item.  I will send your
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wow the turnovers are vegan? yeah i've been feeling the same way about the stuff that's at the domain location. i wonder if the turnovers and other things unlabeled there are also vegan
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I've noticed labeling problems at many Whole Foods in the last year or so.  Almost every time the ingredients are the same (still vegan), but the items are mislabeled.  Dallas Whole Foods are worse than Austin for that kind of thing.
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i work at the downtown whole foods.  if you look at the ingredients on all their summer pies like blueberry, cherry, apple there appears to be no animal ingredients, but they aren't labeled vegan.  If you're interested in a pie I would ask someone in the bakery department if they're truly vegan because maybe there is some reason why they don't label them vegan.  The pecan pie definitely isn't vegan though.
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This seems similar to something I dealt with years ago when the downtown WF brought back their line of vegan doughnuts. (Remember those pre-Red Rabbit days?) Anyway, all of them had vegan ingredients listed, but only some of them were labeled as such. When I asked the baker, he confirmed that all of them were indeed vegan, and said that they did that intentionally because they didn't want to scare away the omnivores. This may not be the case this time, but it is a possibility.
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I emailed the Domain Whole Foods a month or so ago (and never got a response), encouraging them to just put a 'V' so we'd know and other folks would be none the wiser.
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WFM does seem to be increasingly less vegan-friendly.  They got rid of the vegan cafe. The Greens, Beans, & Grains area used to only have one non-vegan option and three vegan options for the protein; now it's three non-vegan options and one vegan option.  They make labeling mistakes all the time on the salad and hot bar with things labeled as vegan that shouldn't be and things that are vegan not labeled as such.  They also put meat dishes on the hot bar right next to vegan ones, which results in a lot of cross contamination.  (The salad/hot bar in WFM Las Vegas keeps vegan items on a separate bar.  Plus they have a lot more options!)

As for the donuts, I'm not sure I trust WFM about them any more.  Last December, they alternately had the fritters labeled as vegan and on other days as non-vegan (with a label that showed they contained milk and eggs).  It varied day by day, going from vegan to non-vegan back to vegan then to non-vegan again.  I was never given an adequate explanation about this, although someone said that WFM claimed the donuts were all still vegan.  Then, why did they have a sign on some days showing that they contained milk and eggs? Here's the pic that I took:

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THANH HOA (VNS) — Hundreds of residents in the central Thanh Hoa Province's Xuan Bai Commune have gathered to protest the takeover of a road in the area by a hi-tech agricultural project.

Police were yesterday on the spot to keep order and security as local residents prevented workers from breaking up the road.

Last year, Thanh Hoa Province People's Committee let out about 921,000sq.m of land in Xuan Bai Commune to Lam Son Sugar Joint Stock Company to develop a hi-tech agricultural project.

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- Nothing is more political than trying to depoliticize history
Many were shocked this week by Le Devoir's story that an Education Department committee suggests teaching a more unifying, less conflictual history of Quebec.
But the fact is the document's approach is in perfect keeping with two ideas that already permeate the way history is taught here. The first is the questionable but popular pedagogical theory that students must be encouraged to build their oven learning experience.
This requires a more egalitarian vision of the teacher-student relationship in which the former accompanies the latter in his "situation of learng". So, too many facts taught within a defined framework risk disturbing this process.
Or as Laval University professor Jean-François Cardin - one of the committee's experts - put it on Radio-Canada:
"Instead of handing on an already established historical memory, new programs invite students to build their own comprehension of history, be it the conscription crisis or the October crisis - a tendency we find in other history programs in the Western world."
The other idea or, trend that this committee's work reflects is more political. It started in the years that followed the 1980 referendum when the Education Department quietly began to deemphasize the politically charged French-English conflicts and chose to focus more on the socioeconomic aspects of history.
The idea got a boost in a 1996 report ordered by the Parti Québécois government. The committee that produced the report - headed by historian Jacques Lacoursière - surprise many by ditching the concept of a national history of Quebec. Instead, it suggested that each student be taught to "construct his own historical knowledge, according to his needs or that of his group."
The present committee's suggestlons of a less conflictual history take these two trends even farther by trying to align Quebec's history programs with the approach that dominates educational systems in English Canada.
In the ROC, instead of simply adding the more multicultural aspects of Canadian history to a central corpus composed mainly of the long list of French-English conflicts that shaped Canada and Quebec, multiculturalism became the main prism through which the Canadian history is seen.
This is a political choice that aims to foster a more unifying, less conflictual history, with less focus on conflicts with Quebec and francophones, and more focus on Canada's multicultural makeup. The larger goal is to form citizens who are sensitive to their national identity and unity.
This historical vision sees Canada as one nation comprising a number of ethnic or linguistic groups, including francophones, but preceded by the aboriginals referred to as the First Nations.
If Quebec takes its inspiration from this approach and ignores a number of important French-English conflicts, it would be virtually espousing the same vision. Would Quebec's history then be presented as that of a nation, or as that of a sub-group within Canada?
If that's the case - and the Lacoursière Report has already refused to refer to the "national history of Québec" - it would be a very political choice for the Education Department and the government to make.
If this committee does want to de-emphasize even further the teaching of such nation-forming conflicts, as the Conquest, the Union Act of 1840, the crushing of the 1837-38 Patriote rebellion, the 1917 conscription crisis, the unilateral patriation of the constitution or even the failed Meech Lake Accord, this would constitute historical revisionism, if not outright propaganda.
Nothing is more political than trying to depoliticize history. The history of nations is the tale of conflicts - political, economical and sociological. Removing the factual content of conflicts would be pure manipulation.
This would produce citizens devoid of true historical knowledge. History must be taught with conflicts and all, leaving students free to use this knowledge to help them make their own political choices.
For now, Education Minister, Jean-Marc Fournier says it's just a document. But it has been in the works for two years already. If it's left as is, it will form the basis of a new history program, student manual and teacher's guide.
This week, Fournier appeared surprisingly uninformed about the document's content or the experts who contributed to it. Maybe he should take more interest in what his bureaucracy is concocting.
Unless it's simply churning out what the government truly wants history teaching to become in Quebec.

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The residents of a small town organize a team to track down a killer on the loose. The town's entire male population joins the hunt, save one jittery youth (Harold Lloyd) who wants nothing to do with a murderer.grandmas boy poster He instead retreats to his grandma's house. She tells him a fantastic story that rouses his confidence, and hands him a talisman that supposedly holds the power of bravery. Unaware he's been given an ordinary piece of wood, the young man decides to chase the criminal by himself.

Director: Fred C. Newmeyer
Cast: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Anna Townsend
Genre: Comedy
Runtime: 60min
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Grandma's Boy holds the distinction of being Harold Lloyd's first feature length movie. Although some sources give that honor to 1921's A Sailor-Made Man, I disagree. That movie runs only 46 minutes, which is rather long for a short, but still nearly 15 minutes shy of feature length. Grandma's Boy clocks in at just under an hour, making it, by today's standards, Lloyd's first true full-length movie. He would never again star in a short film.

grandmas boyGrandma's Boy was originally intended as a sort of drama. Harold wanted to stretch himself as an actor and to focus a bit more on character development. He plays his usual Glasses Guy but he's more meek and cowardly than ever. He lets the neighborhood bully walk all over him and monopolize his girl's attention. He is afraid to shoo away a tramp that has made himself at home in Harold's Grandma's yard. The feisty old lady has to do it herself.

When this same tramp commits a robbery and shoots a man, a posse is formed to catch him. Harold is made a deputy but is so scared of his own shadow that he spends the night cowering under his bedcovers. His Grandma tells him a story about his grandfather's exploits during the Civil War. She tells him his Grandfather was also a coward but was given a lucky amulet by a wizened old crone that gave him special powers. She then produces this same lucky charm and gives it to Harold. I'm sure you can guess where the story is headed from there.

Grandma's Boy does contain humor but the sight gags are less frenetically paced than in most Lloyd movies. In one scene the bully pushes Harold into a well, ruining his best suit. His Grandma gives him his Grandfather's suit from 1861, which he proudly wears to call on his girl.grandmas boy During the flashback story set during the War Between the States, Harold plays his Grandfather. He looks exactly like Harold only with sideburns. The actor playing the bully is a Union General in a scene where Harold's Grandfather must steal some secret plans.

Why is it that in movies about the Civil War they are almost always shown from the point of view of the Rebel Army? Lloyd's Grandfather was a Confederate soldier as was Buster Keaton's character in The General. Neither actor was from the South. Perhaps it is more romantic to be on the losing side?

On an historical note, I find it interesting that Anna Townsend, the actress that plays Harold's Grandma, actually lived through the Civil War years. She was born January 5, 1845 in Utica, New York. That's the very same year in which Scarlett O'Hara was supposed to have been born. Anna Townsend was a spry 77 when she made this movie. She appeared in several other Lloyd comedies, always specializing in funny old lady parts. She died in 1923.

Grandma's Boy is not Harold Lloyd's funniest movie but it tells a sweet story and has plenty of heart.