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Frequently Asked Questions
- How many foundations publications are there? What domains of development do they cover?
- Which children are addressed by the preschool learning foundations?
- Why are the foundations organized by age rather than along a continuum across ages three, four, and five?
- Who was involved in the development of the California Preschool Learning Foundations?
- How will teachers and directors obtain training on the foundations?
- When will the preschool learning foundations be required?
- How does the Desired Results Developmental Profile© relate to the foundations?
- Are the preschool learning foundations part of the Federal Program Monitoring/Contract Monitoring Review process?
- How will the state monitor if children are meeting the foundations?
- What is the role of "play"? Is there balance between child-initiated and teacher-directed practices?
- How do the preschool learning foundations relate to the K-12 system?
- How are foundations aligned to California's content standards for kindergarten?
- Will foundations be used to keep track of children's progress?
- What type of programs will be required to use them?
- Will the foundations require that teachers focus on teaching skills so children can pass a test?
- Will the foundations be adopted by the State Board of Education (SBE)?
- Will the state require programs to use one commercial curriculum?
- How do the Preschool Learning Foundations relate to the Prekindergarten Learning and Development Guidelines? Will the Prekindergarten Learning and Development Guidelines be revised?
- How do the English-language development foundations relate to the Preschool EL Resource Guide (Title: Preschool English Learners: Principles and Practices to Promote Language, Literacy, and Learning)?
- How does one determine whether a child is an English learner?
- How does one assess and monitor children's progress on the preschool English-language development foundations?
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There are 3 volumes of the preschool foundations, covering 9 domains. The California Preschool Learning Foundations, Volume One covers Social-Emotional Development, Language and Literacy, English-Language Development, and Mathematics. The California Preschool Learning Foundations, Volume 2 covers Visual and Performing Arts, Physical Development, and Health. The California Preschool Learning Foundations, Volume 3 covers the domains of History-Social Science and Science.
The preschool learning foundations define age-appropriate expectations about what children should know and be able to do at around 48 and 60 months of age. These ages are meant to describe children at the end of their first and second year of preschool. The preschool foundations include research-based approaches aimed at all preschool children, including
Why are the foundations organized by age rather than along a continuum across ages three, four, and five?
The foundations for social-emotional development, language and literacy, and mathematics focus on 48 and 60 months of age because they correspond to the end of the first and second years of enrollment in preschool. It is essential for teachers and parents to understand what children should know and be able to do at specific ages so that they can provide appropriate support. English learners enter preschool with different levels of experience with English, as well as with varying skills with their primary languages. The English-language development foundations describe what children typically demonstrate at three different levels of successive English-language development; beginning, middle, and later. Each of the foundations describes the competencies - knowledge and skills - that all preschool children typically attain in high-quality preschool programs. In addition, teachers need to know where each child is on a continuum of learning throughout the child's time in preschool.
Early childhood education researchers, college faculty, program directors, site supervisors, teachers, and other stakeholders were involved in the process of developing and reviewing each volume of the foundations. Each publication of the foundations was developed over the course of several years using an inclusive and deliberative input process, including many statewide stakeholder meetings, public input sessions, public hearings, and public comment through the California Department of Education's (CDE) Web site. Input from the various review opportunities was considered and incorporated as appropriate. For a complete list of those involved in the development of the foundations, please refer to the Acknowledgments pages in the front of each volume of the foundations.
The California Department of Education's Child Development Division (CDD) sponsors a variety of training opportunities aimed at a variety of early childhood professionals.
For teachers and administrators working in programs with preschool aged children, the California Preschool Instructional Network (CPIN) provides in depth training on all nine domains of the foundations and framework as well as onsite technical assistance. Information sessions, trainings, and other professional development opportunities provide an overview of what the foundations are, and also more focused training on specific foundation domains and practical application in early learning settings. For program directors, preschool teachers, and family child care providers, check with the California Preschool Instructional Network (CPIN) to find the professional development opportunities in your area.
For college faculty, visit the California Faculty Initiative Project . The Faculty Initiative Project offers opportunities for college faculty to learn about the Preschool Learning Foundations and has created instructional guides that facilitate integration of content on the foundations into unit-bearing coursework.
For specific training for family child care home providers, check with UC Davis, Center for Excellence in Child Development about their Family Child Care at Its Best Series .
California Early Childhood Online (CECO) provides free, easy-to-use online modules that provide an overview of the preschool foundations. The domains of all three volumes of the foundations will be available by January 2014.
The preschool learning foundations are not required in the same sense to which K-12 standards are. They have been developed to inform the early childhood field about the knowledge and skills that young children are expected to display with appropriate support. Training opportunities allow educators to consider how knowledge of the foundations will inform their curriculum planning for groups of children and individuals and affect their setting's learning environments. The Desired Results Developmental Profile© Preschool 2010 (DRDP–PS 2010), the child observational assessment tool, is aligned with the California Preschool Learning Foundations, Volume 1. California State Preschool Programs are required to use this foundations-aligned instrument.
The California Preschool Learning Foundations, Volume 1 focuses on four domains: social-emotional development, language and literacy, English-language development, and mathematics. The foundations provide early childhood educators, parents, and the public with a clear understanding of the wide range of knowledge and skills that preschool children typically attain after the first and second year of participation in a high-quality preschool setting. The Desired Results Developmental Profile – Preschool 2010 (DRDP–PS 2010) is a child observational assessment tool that is aligned with the California Preschool Learning Foundations, Volume 1. The DRDP–PS 2010 provides teachers with a means to assess children's learning along a continuum of four different developmental levels. The foundations and the DRDP–PS 2010 are used together to plan the environment, play, learning activities and instruction to meet the needs of the children and provide a high-quality preschool experience.
Are the preschool learning foundations and frameworks part of the Federal Program Monitoring/Contract Monitoring Review process?
The Federal Program Monitoring/Contract Monitoring Review (FPM/CMR) process uses the foundations-aligned DRDP-2010.
How does the state monitor its funded programs to determine if programs are appropriately applying the content of the foundations and framework, ensuring ongoing program improvement?
The CDD will continue to monitor programs through the use of the FPM/CMR system. Programs can track children's developmental progress by utilizing the Desired Results Developmental Profile (DRDP 2010).
What is the role of "play"? Is there balance between child-initiated and teacher-directed practices?
Play is integral to all children's learning and development. Teachers should provide ongoing appropriate activities for children that encourage learning through play. Early childhood research suggests a balance between child-initiated and teacher-directed activities that are purposeful and intentional. The social-emotional development foundations provide guidance on the role of play in children's learning.
All too often, children entering school for the first time as kindergarteners are already lagging behind their classmates. This disadvantage, called the school readiness gap, can affect them socially and academically long past kindergarten. Studies show that closing the school readiness gap will help to close the achievement gap. High-quality preschools, in combination with preschool learning foundations and frameworks, can help achieve that goal. Those preschool programs that strengthen children's school readiness operate with a depth of understanding about what children need to learn before they start school. The foundations and the aligned DRDP 2010 will provide the detail and a developmental continuum to assist quality programs prepare children for K-3.
The language and literacy (L&L), English-language development (ELD), and mathematics foundations have been closely aligned to the kindergarten content standards, with a few intentional exceptions. The L&L foundations use similar strand names as the kindergarten content standards (Listening and Speaking, Reading, and Writing). But, due to the importance of language development for preschool children, the strands have been reordered to begin with Listening and Speaking. Both the preschool ELD foundations and the kindergarten ELD standards acknowledge the broad variability in English-language development among children, and thus provide a developmental progression that allows teachers to adapt their instruction for individual differences. The preschool ELD foundations are also organized around strands and substrands similar to those in the kindergarten ELD standards. The preschool mathematics strands are Number Sense, Algebra and Functions (Classification and Patterning), Measurement, Geometry, and Mathematical Reasoning. It was determined that Patterning fit best in the preschool Algebra and Functions strand, rather than in the kindergarten strand of Statistics, Data Analysis, and Probability, since Patterning sets the foundation for later algebraic thinking. The preschool mathematics domain does not include foundations related to Statistics, Data Analysis, and Probability.
The foundations should not be used as a tracking tool, since they are not an assessment. Foundations should be used by teachers and parents to guide expectations, instruction, planning, and professional development so that all children can be ready for school.
The foundations are currently being used by all of the Child Development Division's state-funded programs for preschool-age children. They are also available for use in any other preschool program. The foundations describe the wide range of knowledge and skills that all preschool children typically attain in high-quality preschool programs.
Programs should provide high-quality, age-appropriate preschool experiences for children. The foundations, as well as the examples listed in the foundations publications, are not provided as discrete skills. They describe children's typical knowledge and skills that teachers need to plan for in the design and delivery of comprehensive lessons. Guidance will be provided in the preschool curriculum framework publications on instructional strategies to ensure optimal learning and development for all children.
The State Board of Education oversees and adopts policies, regulations, and guidance for kindergarten through grade 12. Preschool education is not under the jurisdiction of the SBE, but is by statute and regulation the responsibility of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction. The State Superintendent of Public Instruction has approved the foundations, because he oversees the work of the Child Development Division at the California Department of Education.
The California Department of Education does not approve texts, materials, or particular curriculum for preschool programs. These are all local decisions. The curriculum framework will provide guidance for using the foundations in program planning, instructional strategies and professional development.
How do the Preschool Learning Foundations relate to the Prekindergarten Learning and Development Guidelines? Will the Prekindergarten Learning and Development Guidelines be revised?
The foundations describe competencies – knowledge and skills – that most children can be expected to exhibit in a high-quality program as they complete their first and second year of preschool. The foundations provide teachers with a view of what children can do at around 48 months of age and at around 60 months of age. The Prekindergarten Learning and Development Guidelines (2000) present a broad picture of high-quality programs that can be implemented to meet the needs of California's diverse preschool settings. The Prekindergarten Learning and Development Guidelines will be replaced by the California Preschool Program Guidelines, now in production and due to be released in 2014. The California Preschool Program Guidelines will provide guidance to administrators on how to develop high-quality preschool programs to support children's optimal learning and development. This new publication is aligned with the preschool learning foundations and includes two featured chapters: 1) Dual Language Learners, and 2) Using Technology and Interactive Media with Preschool Aged Children.
How do the English-language development foundations relate to the Preschool English Language Learners (PEL) Resource Guide (Title: Preschool English Learners: Principles and Practices to Promote Language, Literacy, and Learning)?
The English-language development (ELD) foundations describe what children typically demonstrate at three different levels of successive English-language development. The Preschool English Learners Resource Guide reinforces the information in the introduction to the ELD foundations, and includes additional material about family and community language practices, simultaneous second language acquisition, and supporting the English-language learner with special needs. The four stages of successive or sequential second language acquisition found in the EL Resource Guide (home language, observational/listening, telegraphic/formulaic and fluid stages) are approximately "parallel" to the three levels in the ELD foundations: beginning level -home language and observational/listening stage; middle level -observational/listening and telegraphic/formulaic stages; and later level –fluid stage. The guide includes information on creating a supportive classroom environment, strategies to strengthen children's language acquisition, as well as the crucial role of the family in the education of children whose home language is not English.
The California Department of Education has not adopted or recommended a formal process or instrument to determine who is a preschool English learner. English learners are children whose families use a language other than English at home and whose primary or first language is a language other than English. Families are the best source of information concerning preschool children's early experiences with language learning. If the family reports that a preschool child's primary language is other than English, the child is considered an English learner, that is, a dual language learner.
English learners enter preschool with different levels of experience with English, as well as with varying skills with their primary languages. For example, a three-year-old English learner may begin preschool after attending a childcare program for twelve months where the adult teachers and some children speak English. This child may already know some English vocabulary and may be able to communicate in English using simple phrases. In contrast, a four-year-old English learner may enter preschool after being cared for only at home by family members who speak a language other than English. This latter child may begin preschool trying to communicate with adults and other children using the primary language. It is important to note that, regardless of children's prior experience with English, they learn English at different rates from one another. In addition, individual children's progress in one area of learning may occur at a different rate than in other areas of learning.
Does the CDE provide guidance on how to assess and monitor children's progress on the preschool English-language development foundations?
The Desired Results Developmental Profile© - Preschool 2010 (DRDP–PS 2010) is aligned to the California Preschool Learning Foundations, Volume 1. As part of alignment, four measures were developed that focus on the English-language development (ELD) of children whose home language is not English. These measures allow preschool teachers to observe and track children's progress in reaching the competencies described in the preschool ELD foundations. English learners may demonstrate their competence in any of the DRDP measures using their home language or English.


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FROM THE EULA: "Players not wishing to be bound by that license can uninstall the software and return it for a full refund."
FROM BEST BUY (and I assume other retailers)
Non-Returnable Items:
•Non-defective, opened computer software, movies, music and video games
Does one return the software to Blizzard for the refund?
Is Best Buy just in this practice?
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I believe you call them and then ship it back to them.
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Someone mentioned the 800lb gorilla earlier, but if you ask me, this is a 950lb gorilla right here. All EULA's I've read have a line in it about returning the software for a full refund if you don't wish to be bound by the terms of it, but no retailer I know of will accept such software for a refund. Nasty catch-22 if you ask me.
In Australia (which has real consumer protection laws, unlike certain other countries) you can return opened MMO's back to the retailer and they have to give you a refund (I can't remember off the top of my head whether this is one month or six months from purchase). I returned a boxed copy of WAR because someone had already used the activation code in it.
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Federal information security workers haven't arrived at a consensus about what poses the greatest threat to their networks. State-sponsored attacks were most commonly cited as the leading threat, at 34 percent, but insider threats were named by 26 percent. Other major threat categories included cyber crime and "hacktivists" who are looking to penetrate government systems for political purposes.
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MECA Offers $12,000 Scholarships to Local Graduates
Posted: 2011-01-20
In 2010, Maine College of Art completed its vision to bring all academic and studio facilities under the roof of the Porteous Building. In appreciation of the local community that was instrumental in achieving this goal, MECA has created the Portland Area School Scholarship (PASS) for selected area high schools.
For any graduate of the selected schools who qualifies for admission to the undergraduate program at Maine College of Art, the College will provide a guaranteed $12,000 scholarship each year for four years or until they complete the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, provided they maintain good academic standing.
Eighteen years ago, Maine College of Art purchased the Porteous, Mitchell and Braun department store with the ambition to transform it into a vibrant campus for art and design. This past year, MECA completed their consolidation goals, bringing together all academic and studio facilities under one roof, providing students with five floors and 200,000 square feet of contiguous space in the heart of the Arts District. With MECA as the anchor, the Arts District is filled with galleries, performance spaces, studios and creative businesses. It is a national destination for arts and culture.
This scholarship is open to any graduate of the selected high schools, regardless of when they graduated or if they are transferring from another institution. There is no limit to the number of graduates who can take advantage of this offer. With an estimated Fall 2011 tuition of $29,000 this brings the initial tuition cost to approximately $17,000. Students who are eligible can also apply for federal and state aid to further reduce their tuition costs.
"Now, more than ever, students choose a college based on a sense of place," notes MECA President Don Tuski. "In addition to the rigorous arts education that students receive within our walls, they also have easy access to the vibrant creative community in the Portland area. We are so fortunate for this extended campus. This scholarship is an expression of our appreciation."
Selected schools include: Cape Elizabeth High School, Casco Bay High School, Catherine McCauley High School, Cheverus High School, Deering High School, Falmouth High School, Gorham High School, Greater Portland Christian Academy, Greely High School, North Yarmouth Academy, Portland Arts & Technology High School, Portland High School, Scarborough High School, South Portland High School, Waynflete, Westbrook High School, Windham High School, and Yarmouth High School. These schools represent institutions within the Greater Portland area that are recognized by the State of Maine to award high school diplomas. Based on enrollment growth, the aim is to expand the list of selected schools. The first scholarships will be awarded for students entering the BFA program in Fall 2011.
In addition to new students, the scholarship applies to currently enrolled MECA BFA students who are graduates from the selected schools.
To qualify for the PASS, applicants need to submit an application and have a portfolio review with an admissions counselor. Contact the Admissions Office at firstname.lastname@example.com or by calling 800.699.1509. The next Admissions Open House is scheduled for February 26.
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East Village at a Glance
East Village is a neighborhood that is located north of the Lower East Side of Manhattan. The East Village neighborhood is known for its diverse community, vibrant nightlife and artistic sensibility. Many of the apartment renters are college graduates and because of this the bar scene is large in this neighborhood. East Village has one of the highest concentrations of bars in the city and could be ideal for people who want to relieve after a long day at the office. East Village is also known as the birthplace of punk rock and the Nuyorican literary movement. This Manhattan neighborhood is known as the home of many historical artistic movements. East Village is home to many buildings that are owned and maintained by New York University. Many of the buildings are now dormitories for undergraduate students enrolled in New York University. Additionally, another selective college is located in the East Village. Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art is located in East Village. Like many other neighborhoods in Manhattan, East Village has a couple of parks located nearby. Tompkins Square Park and East River Park are located nearby if individuals would like to spend time away from the hustle and bustle of New York City. East Village is great for businesses looking for office space with many attractions nearby, either for business purposes or just to take a small break. The East Village is also home to many smaller vibrant communities. The smaller communities are Alphabet City, Loisaida, St. Marks Place and the Bowery.


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The long awaited Audi A9 has been in limbo for the past couple of years with Audi seemingly taking its time to unveil its new flagship sedan. And that's after word spread out that the German automaker trademarked the A9 and S9 names last year.
But there appears to be a groundswell of movement in Ingolstadt these days and according to Auto Motor und Sport, the A9 is expected to be launched in 2016.
Circle those calendars, fellas.
The date of the A9's launch has changed multiple times, but the latest timetable seems to point to a more concrete expectation as to when the luxury sedan finally comes out and smiles to the cameras.
Another interesting tidbit surrounding the A9 involves the platform it's going to use, which apparently is the same one that will underpin the next-generation Q7 . Now, that's interesting, considering that the Q7 is a pretty large SUV.
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By DON DARE 6 On Your Side Consumer Investigator
SEYMOUR (WATE) - A woman in Seymour has been hounded by a collection agency for months, despite never missing a loan payment for almost two and a half years. She contacted 6 On Your Side, who got in touch with the loan company.
For seniors living on fixed incomes, paying for dental care often comes out of their own pockets. If they don't have the means to pay for something like false teeth, they have to borrow the money.
At some dentist offices, Care Credit is offered. It's a health care credit card which provides a variety of payment options from six to 60 months.
Seniors dependent on Social Security receive their checks in the beginning of the month and sometimes at the end of the month, they're short of money.
Every morning when Therese Yarema starts her day, she has to tighten her loose fitting false teeth. She bought the new set of dentures in May 2011.
Living on a fixed income, she borrowed $2,826 from Care Credit for her teeth. The annual interest rate is 27 percent, according to the loan papers.
"They approved the loan and they told me the payment would be $68 a month," said Yarema.
Mrs. Yarema maintained a record of every payment.
"I have been paying every month," she said. "I haven't missed a month."
Her monthly $68 bill to Care Credit is due on the 27th of the month, but her $1,123 monthly Social Security check doesn't arrive until the beginning of the month.
"So I called them and asked, 'Can I change the date from the end of the month to the beginning? Then, I wouldn't be late all the time with the payments.' They said, 'No problem,'" she said.
However, it was not taken care of. A collection agency has gone after her and warned in a letter that she was severely delinquent in her payments and needed to pay $95 a month for three months.
In May, her first payment to collection was $95.
"They called me up a couple of times saying 'If you pay this it would be all cleared.' So, I'd pay it," Yarema said.
Reluctantly, she sent nearly $300 to the collection agency and continued to pay her $68 a month.
In her personal notebook, she wrote recently that the debt collector started calling again. Apparently, since no one at Care Credit could help, she called 6 On Your Side.
"I want my account to be paid after the fifth of the month, because I get my check on the third. Then I'll just continue to pay the $68 until the loan is paid," said Yarema.
A week ago, 6 On Your Side wrote an email to Care Credit's media center, outlining the problems Mrs. Yarema has come up against since last spring. Their response was quick.
"They say they had heard from you," Yarema told 6 On Your Side.
She heard from a corporate officer who said he would attempt to resolve the payments she made to the debt collector.
"It was a mistake. He would try to correct it. He was sorry and apologized," Yarema said. She said she will now be able to make her payment after the beginning of the month and not have to worry about going to collection again.
Sometimes dealing with customer service with a big company can be frustrating. Yarema says it was often difficult for her to clearly understand what the customer service representatives were saying.
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Two sequential asks from my inbox (put in order):
Hi, there. I would like to ask some questions about your views as a Pro-choicer. I don't have a clear position on abortion due to some information that I need to have. 1) What influenced your Pro-choice views? 2) When do you believe human life starts? 3) Is abortion safer than childbirth? Number 3 is a really important question because of cases of rape. If a woman got pregnant from rape, I don't know if going through the abortion procedure or child birth would be worse. (Browned Eyed Girl)
To be continued… In cases of rape, I need more information if abortion is a benefit for rape victims. Would it be painful to go through the procedure? A friend of mine told me that his views on abortion in cases of rape was instead of aborting the fetus, it is better to torture and kill the rapist instead (he hates rape). I would be glad to have your reply. (Brown Eyed Girl)
I've been neglecting this ask for a long time because it annoys me. I believe I made it clear that I don't really want to use this blog to debate or discuss or talk about myself, so I don't know why you're asking me any of this. I don't want to talk about it because it doesn't really matter what I think in this context. What has been really bothering me about this, though, is how badly she misses the point in the second ask.
Brown Eyed Girl, have you ever read a book called The Handmaid's Tale? It's a pretty good book that's popular in pro-choice circles. Basically it's about a horribly sexist dystopian society where certain women are used to breed babies like animals. One of the reasons why the women in that society put up with it is because they are taught that they are actually given greater freedom than women were back when the world was egalitarian. In one scene, a group of women are given a man whom they are told is a rapist (he's actually a political dissident) to basically torture to death. They are told that this is better than the way it used to be.
That's a false dichotomy and a seriously messed up way of looking at the world. Would you rather live in a society where you got to torture rapists or a society where you didn't get raped in the first place?
Your friend seems to be under the impression that abortion after rape is used as some kind of revenge. That doesn't make any sense! The reason why rape victims don't want to be forced to have their rapists' child is because that's further violation of their body and makes the rape something they have to be reminded of every single day. Killing the rapist does not stop that from happening.
Rape victims don't want abortion because of revenge. They want them because they want their lives back. Anyone can understand that. Your "friend" who "really hates rape" seems like he has a fundamental lack of ability to empathize with rape victims if he can't get that.
And he's really not too bright if he doesn't understand that childbirth is painful. You asked me if abortion is painful and deadly as if you forgot that childbirth is inherently painful and deadly. (And yes, it is more likely to kill you. The pain comparison is a matter of personal opinion.)
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PETA steps into horse meat row with outdoor ad
PETA is planning to exploit the public disquiet around the horse meat crisis engulfing the food industry by running an outdoor campaign urging to people to extend their compassion to all animals and not just horses.
The animal welfare organisation is preparing an outdoor campaign promoting veganism. It features an animal that is a cross between a horse and a cow and reads: "If you wouldn't eat a horse, why eat a cow? Go vegan."
Mimi Bekhechi, associate director at PETA, says: "Brits who say 'neigh' to horse meat do so because they find ponies loveable, but lambs, pigs, chickens and others are killed for food without many people so much as batting an eyelid or considering their ordeal.
It follows the latest discovery that some Findus branded products contained up to 100 per cent horse meat DNA. Industry experts have urged supermarkets and food manufacturers to take steps to reassure customers over the quality and safety of food products or risk a widespread decline in confidence.
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I was hoping for something much, much braver (I wrote about this yesterday - http://interacter.wordpress.com/2013/02/10/horsemeat-trust-vacuums-and-business-as-war/ ).
There seems to be a real lack of Challenger thinking at the moment, and I can't work out why.
The PETA work is OK. Nothing more, nothing less.
And perhaps asking people to go vegan is too great a step. Vegetarian is, at least for some, a halfway house and much more achievable for the newly converted...
One of the reason's people don't want to eat horses is because they are not raised for human consumption. They are given medication and fed based on their own survival, without the idea of being consumed by humans. Cows, chickens, lambs, pigs are raised with the idea of being eaten by food - even if there are plenty of shady raising practices.
Not to mention the whole absurdity of the case is focused on the lie that is beef-labeled horse-filled patties. Not the ethics of eating horse.
I'm not sure that you are correct for the most part Steve.....most people just DON'T think about what they eat and where it comes from. We find the idea of eating horse culturally offensive, rather than what medication they might have been given pre-slaughter.
Personally I feel that we are hurtling towards our own demise through our greed for food and money and are doing our damnedest to destroy the planet and its inhabitants....but that's a bigger argument........
I have no issue with other people eating horse meat. I don't want to eat it, but I grew up around horses so to me it's like eating the family dog.
The big issue here is not knowing what you are eating. If it says beef, that is what should be in it!


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Ya aren't right. Neither is Wrynn.
Sorry, you can't be rightful in carrying out a grudge. The fact is that if the Horde was the right kind of civilization to make amends for what their fathers and mothers did, Thrall would make them. He can't, because they would revolt and wreak much greater havoc on the Alliance than the Alliance could probably handle. We see part of this with Garrosh, who fans the flames of a hatred bred into most of the orcs and trolls, instilled in the Forsaken and learned by the blood elves.
Unlearning the hatred, becoming a peace-loving people, will take time. Not Antagonism. Wrynn's basically ready to destroy a huge bunch of innocent people because of an extremist faction--that was destroyed by the grace of Sylvanus and Thrall--and because he doesn't see how the New Horde isn't the Old Horde. Wrynn's pretty stupid.


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Over in Iowa, the hot topic is the resurgence of social conservatives in the budding Republican caucus season.
Not so much in Georgia.
Social conservatives here have had a rough few years getting anti-abortion bills through the Legislature. This year, they have been reduced to one: SB 210, sponsored by state Sen. Barry Loudermilk, R-Cassville, would make it easier to sue abortion providers.
Pro-life forces have long suspected that many of the state restrictions imposed on physicians who perform abortions – parental consent for women under 18 among them – are routinely ignored. Enforcement by the state is nearly non-existent, they claim.
SB 210 would allow another avenue for enforcement, through civil suits.
Pro-life forces have been concerned enough with the friction between certain portions of the Legislature and Georgia Right to Life, the state's preeminent anti-abortion group, that they have asked former state GOP chairman Rusty Paul to help smooth the way for SB
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Monthly Archive for August, 2009
GOP gubernatorial candidate talks of "hunting" Obama
America elected an African-American president and an Idaho Republican gubernatorial candidate "joked" about issuing $11.50 tags to hunt down the president. GOP gubernatorial candidate Rex Rammell's repeated "jokes" about hunting President Barack Obama has received national play in the mainstream media and on the Web that included praises in right wing and racist blogs. Rex […] [Read More]
Danger: iPhone exposes user names & passwords
The iPhone and Snow Leopard opened an old chapter of my career. Yes, I used to be a "white hat" hacker. I used to write code on how to use Java as a blunt hacking implement. I broke into financial institutions, television networks and even federal agencies – with the client's full consent and permissions. […] [Read More]
Apple privacy score – Snow Leopard – 10, iPhone – 0
Apple's SnowLeopard is coming tomorrow Friday, August 28 and the reviews on the pre-release is all good – Better performance, much better security protections and improved privacy features. So why are the security and privacy features on the iPhone lagging behind? Four days ago I wrote about privacy concerns related to Apple's iPhone and I […] [Read More]
iBigBrother? iPhone privacy issues may interest FCC and FTC
Last week I wrote about my privacy concerns about the Palm Pre and I said I would check my iPhone (yep… the one with the worthless battery life) and see if there were any similar privacy issues. Take a guess. [GEEK ON]On the Palm Pre you can go to the command line and "remark out" […] [Read More]
Is the Associated Press building a spy machine?
I just came across an interesting "confidential document" from the Associated Press. It was about their grand plan to put the Internet genie back in the bottle. As I read the memo, I cracked up. It was simply a poorly crafted business and technical strategy to roll back the Internet through some clunky time machine. […] [Read More]
UPDATE: Hurricane Bill & social media… this is not a test
One of my startups is being put to the ultimate test by a threesome: Ana, Bill and Claudette — and it's not going to be fun. When we started Emicus.com, our focus was to prevent the horrors of Hurricane Katrina from ever happening again. We were ambitious – in fact extremely audacious because we believe […] [Read More]
How to fix Palm Pre's disregard for your privacy
Big companies do really dumb things – like totally disregard your privacy and your rights as a consumer. A few weeks ago, Amazon went and deleted an electronic book from the Kindles of their customers without asking permission. This is like Apple going into your iPhone (I got rid of my iPhone because of useless […] [Read More]
Intuition and instinct in a "box"
Earlier this week I wrote about one of my favorite big brain events – Supernova, an uber-cool series of mixers culminating in a big event this coming December 1- 3 in San Francisco. Next week, San Francisco will host another big brain event – Futur(9). If you ever wondered how Volkswagen goes through the design […] [Read More]
Gigabytes, terabytes, petabytes and the battle for "you"
I attended a mixer sponsored by Supernova founder Kevin Werbach that wes held in Wharton's San Francisco location that featured John Seely Brown (aka JSB) and John Hagel of Deloitte's Center for the Edge research group. I went because Supernova is known to be a great network of people who are the cutting edge of […] [Read More]
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And now, they're coming for your Social Security money - they want your fucking retirement money - they want it back - so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street. And you know something? They'll get it. They'll get it all from you sooner or later. Because they own this fucking place. It's a Big Club: and you're not in it.
—George Carlin
— Kaiser Family Foundation polling data (PDF link).
On the bright side, 56% of Americans that, uh, actually knew something had transpired in this area prefer that lawmakers "move on to other national issues" rather than "continue to block the law from being implemented." So there's that…
(Source: Washington Post)
I'm not sure how many times the Republicans have to say the same stuff, plainly and in modern English, before it begins to sink in to the minds of those in the media that they, the Republicans in Congress, want Obama to fail in his bid for reelection and to achieve that goal, they need the American economy to fail.
You, as a GOP House mover-and-shaker (aka Tea Klan fanatic), are faced with the newly rising popularity of Obama (e.g. he's in the 50s for the first time in a while), the first positive news on housing starts in a long, long time (driven more or less entirely by huge demand for apartments, since vanishingly few folks can qualify to buy houses anymore, at least not considered relative to the bubble excess and the fact that home foreclosures are still relatively high), a suddenly more optimistic public attitude re: the economy, and none of your own GOP candidates for the nomination are exactly setting the woods on fire, and may well be instead burning down the house relative to your broader chances both up- and down-ticket come 2012.
All that considered, do you, the rank and file Tea Klan fanatic, feel comfortable handing that same Obama you want to fail a sure-fired way to boost the economy even more as 2012 rolls along? Or do you want to apply the emergency brakes? With this most recent nonsense, I think no sensate being could still deny that we have our answer.
Now, of course, there is some subtlety to their position. They don't want the extension of this particular tax break because it a) doesn't help their prime audience in any way (aka the 1%), because those folks either don't draw traditional paychecks and/or said pay is a relatively tiny fraction of their entire portfolio, so they could care less and won't notice either way b) it legitimately does help the broader economy and quickly since we're in an aggregate demand slump and this is cash in the pockets of the 99% who actually create that aggregate demand in, uh, aggregate, and c) is a quick and relatively easy way to sand the gears of the economy, and they think they can sell it to their crazed idiocratic supporters through ever-willing conduits like FOXnews and the Wall Street Journal (The latter of which is already overboard) using such time-honored tools as goalpost moving and poison-pill additions. No one will ever know, and if they do, we can convince them to blame "Democrat leaders in the Senate." Who, for once, have grown a pair and are doing their part to (rightly) hang this on the GOP. They even have a "Tea Klan tax hike" style meme going. It's like they've finally gotten hip to the way the other side messaged in, oh, 1992.
But frankly this is a pretty simple calculation for the GOP. Braveheart and all the rest are just window dressing that, as usual, the MSM is lapping up. The real story, the one far too shrill to actually report: Anyone or anything getting in the way slowing the economy can kindly go die in the streets. Tax proposals benefiting the 1%: always welcome. Wedge issues that reliably bring this or that fractional percent of old white voters to the polls in November: always welcome. Anything that might actually help the economy and, by extension, Obama: forget about it. And they have.
TNR's Timothy Noah has a nice piece up detailing polls that show the general public largely gets that it's the GOP being more obstructive, more extreme, and (even among Republicans) ultimately less popular and more deserving of being shown the door. But then Noah writes the funniest thing I've read in a while:
I hope the "objective" press reports these findings accurately, and doesn't bend itself into a pretzel trying to portray this poll as mere generalized disgust with partisan bickering in Washington.
What color is the sky in your world, Tim?
Reblogged to note that an identical poll that instead targeted only Democratic "strategists" would produce the inverse result. They see none of these as "winning" issues, and plainly have no desire to get out of the defensive crouch on any issue of genuine importance, much less any of these. This is why they fail.
Apropos of this post:
The [NBC/WSJ] survey — which was conducted Feb. 24-28 of 1,000 adults (200 reached by cell phone), and which has an overall margin of error of plus-minus 3.1 percentage points — also listed 26 different ways to reduce the federal budget deficit.
The most popular: placing a surtax on federal income taxes for those who make more than $1 million per year (81 percent said that was acceptable), eliminating spending on earmarks (78 percent), eliminating funding for weapons systems the Defense Department says aren't necessary (76 percent) and eliminating tax credits for the oil and gas industries (74 percent).
The least popular: cutting funding for Medicaid, the federal government health-care program for the poor (32 percent said that was acceptable); cutting funding for Medicare, the federal government health-care program for seniors (23 percent); cutting funding for K-12 education (22 percent); and cutting funding for Social Security (22 percent).
So, the approach I laid out for the Democrats is not only popular, it's the most popular. Well, that and people just have no fucking idea about earmarks and their relative proportion of the federal budget. Add that to the striking unpopularity of the GOP's putative positions and you have a multifaceted issue about which you can be sure that The Democrat will make not one peep, will grudgingly accept the whatever the GOP's demands are, and will be roundly slaughtered by voter fury about come 2012 but interpret said slaughter as implicit approval of the GOP message and most definitely not anything to do with The Democrat's utter fecklessness. Optimism!
By 47 to 45 percent, Americans say Obama is a better president than George W. Bush. But that two point margin is down from a 23 point advantage one year ago.
"But that doesn't mean that Americans regret their decision to put Obama in the White House in 2008. By a 50 to 42 percent margin, the public says that Obama has done a better job than Sen. John McCain would have done if he had won. And by a 10-point margin, Americans also say that Joe Biden has done a better job than Sarah Palin would have done as vice president," adds Holland.
Well, I guess there's that. Of course, we also know that only 60% of Americans can correctly identify Biden as the Vice President. Which means Team Obama is in good graces with about half the folks that have any idea who's actually serving. Go Democrats!
— Public Policy Polling
But, then again, the real problem come November will have been that the "professional left" failed to quit whining and buck up.
Great moments in polling (PDF link).
American politics "seem to be getting worse because, sorry to say it, people get stupider and stupider every election cycle." - Bill Maher
See, I would simply say "This is why we fail."
Obama should have, at every speech (or, at the very least: every other speech) beaten home the essential failure and utter depravity of the previous administration and its numerous supporters and enablers in the Congress. People shouldn't be able to hear the word "Boehner" (as just one example) without thinking of failed policy and economic destruction.
Instead, we got "small-ball, make-nice, compromise on everything and the GOP will come on board." Boy, that worked out well. Boehner can come right out and say he wants to continue (or resume) Bush policies exactly as before without the least fear; quite the contrary: he's treated as a big thinker. This is why we fail.
[…] I think Gallup did this on purpose to tell Washington DC to get off Gallup's nuts about the generic ballot.
Democrats and Republicans are now tied in Gallup's weekly tracking of voter preferences, just a week after Republicans took an unprecedented l0-point lead.
I think we just need better cross-tabs. "Among likely voters who are sure Obama is a US citizen…" and "among likely voters who believe Iraq attacked America on 9/11" would be two very interesting ones. That or sample size needs to go up considerably. When you have subgroups as dutifully uninformed as we do, you have to make serious allowances or change your methodology.
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Heath Ceramics Mosaic Workshops
We have been looking for an excuse to pay another visit to Heath Ceramics' Sausalito factory. And now we just might have it: Heath staffer Lisa Bookstein is kicking off a series of mosaic workshops later this month.
Participants walk away from the two-day, seven-hour workshop with new skills and a 12"x12" mosaic stepping stone. More details, including workshop dates, can be found here (note: the link is a PDF).
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Thier home was in a fairly recent magazine spread - I think Sunset or Dwell (?). Anyway, it was amazing to see how they used their tiles - it was such a cool space.
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The Dennos Museum Center hosts the Community Cinema Series presented by WNMC Television. Held in Milliken Auditorium, Community Cinema is offered once per month, Sept.-June.
Today's film: The Island President. President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives' low lying nation is threatened by rising sea levels.
Community Cinema is a community outreach project of CMU Public Television and the Dennos Museum Center. All films are shown at 7pm free of charge. These screening events are part of the ITVS (Independent Television Service) Community Cinema program.
In association with the Community Cinema series the Dennos Museum Center's galleries are open free of charge from 5-8pm on Community Cinema evenings courtesy of CMU Public Broadcasting.


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Pierce of Texas/Haynes of LouisianaUpdated September 20, 2002
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|I am researching decendents and ancestors of Mike Pierce (b. abt 1839 in Miss) and settled in Harrison county Texas in the mid-1800s. Mike Pierce married Mary Cole (b. abt 1844 in Tx). Their children were Reuben, Quitman, Mike Jr., George, Ellen, Mary Jane, Eugenia (Jennie), Seanie, and Ophelia. One of their descendents may have moved to Nebraska prior to 1930.
My great grandmother Eugenia Pierce b. abt. 1880(dau of Mike Pierce) married Henry Haynes (b. abt. 1872) in Texas in 1897. Eugenia and Henry Haynes lived in Caddo, Louisiana. Their children were Frank, Orestus, John Henry, Velta, Taylor, George, and Mary.
Henry Haynes had one sister, Sally and three brothers Sam, George, and Fred. I am also researching Haynes descendents and ancestors.
Mike Pierce had a brother Richard Pierce(aka Dick b. abt. 1841)who also relocated to Texas. Mike and Richard's mother was Lenso (aka Suny aka Susie) Young b. abt. 1801 in Georgia.
According to family history, Mary Cole (wife of Mike Pierce)was the descendent of a slave overseer and a slave, Jane. Mary Cole had three younger half siblings born to her mother Jane and stepfather Adam Harris (Harrison). Her siblings were Adeline Harris, Annie Harris, Emma Harris, and George Harris. Adeline m. Charles Pierce; Emma m. Mose Amos; Annie m. Robert Moseley, and Tony Phillips?; George Harris m. Sarah.
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An Incentive Compatible Conjoint Ranking Mechanism
AbstractA simple method for making ranking-based conjoint analysis incentive compatible is proposed. The incentive compatible mechanism involves people purchasing a product profile with a probability proportional to its assigned rank. In an empirical application related to consumer preferences for beef attributes, we find that the forecasted market share for a new pasture-raised steak obtained using incentive-compatible rankings was significantly greater than that implied from traditional hypothetical conjoint rankings. People's rankings of ground beef products were not affected by the mechanism or by information about pasture-raised beef. Copyright 2008, Oxford University Press.
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