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199 responses to “Sandbox – 3oct19”
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Our Mediterranean climate is political? No wonder you deny climate change. You and Todd don’t even know how to define it, much less what drives it.
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Fish, yes what you say is accurate. That has always been my position on “global warming”. All about politics not science. I just like to tweak the true believers and the mindless trolls like Jiggy-Pooh. What is funny to me though is the true believers call cold “weather” and hot “climate change”.
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Posted by: Jig Wiggly | 04 October 2019 at 07:50 AM
Must be in line for some of those sweet, sweet climate change carbon credit dollars……
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Trump is drawing a line in the sand, and saying “DARE YA”!!!”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/03/report-white-house-prepares-letter-daring-nancy-pelosi-to-hold-impeachment-inquiry-vote/
A line the Queen of the DAMNed won’t Cross. Vampires burst into flames in daylight.
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And now for something completely different… the science behind reading. How to teach it?
25 years ago, in Nevada County, the answer was unequivocal… Whole Language Learning. And the local source was Terry McAteer and a select group of administrators like John Byrrum, Superintendent of the Grass Valley School District.
Education Week, a national publication, has gone on the record, finally, regarding how children best learn how to read, and it isn’t ‘see and guess’… it’s phonics.
https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.edweek.org/ew/issues/how-do-kids-learn-to-read.html?cmp%3Deml-enl-eu-news1-rm%26M%3D58947657%26U%3D1613020%26UUID%3D0e2097d8f7ed5287b6f681588754f94c&sa=D&source=hangouts&ust=1570257072747000&usg=AFQjCNENnpQ_MvN6ikSaU1-ItwEZQysCiA
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Posted by: Gregory | 04 October 2019 at 08:57 AM
Everything old is new again!
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Double posting is new again!
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Ouch. Here’s a cleaned up link
https://www.edweek.org/ew/issues/how-do-kids-learn-to-read.html
McAteer also pushed Outcome Based Education and Whole Math, aka Fuzzy Math. In short, he was a disaster.
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Synoptic and topical. In science and engineering we study time and space-varying processes – e.g. weather and climate over the years and the globe – and find the terms ‘topical’ and ‘synoptic’ useful to distinguish between types of processes and their representative data. Topical (“of immediate relevance, interest, or importance owing to its relation to current events”) is used to characterize short term or small area/space variations. Synoptic (“affording a general view of a whole; manifesting or characterized by comprehensiveness or breadth of view”) is used to characterize variations for the longer term or over larger areas. An easy example is fitting a trendline to a sequence of wiggly data. The wiggles are topical, and the trendline is synoptic.
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Gregory- I believe the best way to understand how kids learn a language is to learn one yourself. I can’t imagine reading, out loud, understandable Spanish without phonics. It still riles me to this day remembering our kids being sent home with lists of words to memorize.
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In other news…..
California Forced to Subsidize Natural Gas Plants to Prevent Widespread Blackouts
“But while renewable energy boosters may gush about all of the government mandates in California, they conveniently ignore the fact that the state is also making payments to natural gas operators to make sure the power doesn’t go out when the wind isn’t blowing and the sun isn’t shining.
These payments aren’t necessarily subsidies, per se, but increasing amounts of wind and solar on the California grid are causing real reliability concerns, so grid operators in California now need to issue contracts that pay natural gas plants to prevent them from closing, ensuring the Golden States has enough reliable electricity available when renewables aren’t showing up to work.”
https://www.americanexperiment.org/2019/10/california-forced-to-subsidize-natural-gas-plants-to-prevent-widespread-blackouts/
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Survey: Family Health Insurance Now Averages More Than $20,000 A Year
The average family has spent tens of thousands of dollars in higher health insurance premiums because Obamacare has not met Obama’s pledges.
https://thefederalist.com/2019/10/04/survey-family-health-insurance-now-averages-more-than-20000-a-year/
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Phonological or phonetic languages and regular word reading. “A regular word is a word in which all the letters represent their most common sounds. Regular words are words that can be decoded (phonologically recoded).” Estonian is phonological language; almost uniformly in its lexicon, each letter in the Estonian alphabet says its ‘name’ in the word in which it resides. Therefore, kids first learn the alphabet, and then become almost instant readers by slowly saying the letter sequence of a word which then audibly reveals itself. This process then reverts to the usual pattern recognition of words and phrases that proficient readers in all languages achieve. Bottom line, Estonian kids take about a week to become readers, and teaching kids to read per se is not a major curriculum element in Estonian schools; expanding vocabulary and understanding become the main pedagogical objectives in producing literate kids who exit kindergarten already knowing how to read.
Estonian is my native language (one three Finno-Ugric languages of Europe – Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian), and I rapidly learned German and then English as my second and third languages. Learning the succeeding languages is a lot easier when your native language is phonological and already grammatically more complex than the next language. (Finno-Ugric languages have 16 cases, thereby making them very information efficient languages – a lot of meaning using the fewest characters, and best learned at your mom’s knee.)
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First they came for company cafeterias. Then they came for Uber and Lyft. Nowthey are coming for food delivery to the door.
“Apparently, the council believes that Grubhub needs to be limited because it is bad for NYC’s restaurant businesses.
“Yep — innovation be damned. To hell with the future, to hell with progress, and to hell with technology. Sure, being able to order anything from sushi to pierogies at 3 a.m. on a Wednesday and eat it in your pajamas while watching reruns of Forensic Files might be one of the only, like, four reasons left to live in this stinking, godforsaken, tax-grabbing hellhole, but let’s just do away with it, anyway!”
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/10/nyc-is-now-going-after-food-delivery-services/
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So, per George @ 9:18, Todd is actually correct that the seasons are a form of short term, recurring climate change- topical as it were.
Alas, that’s not the quasi-imaginary climate change the noise is all about…
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L | 04 October 2019 at 10:24 AM
Thanks for someone finally getting it. What cracks me up is these terms and words were created by people and like a lie, told over and over again they become part of the believed vernacular.
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Learning Spanish after learning to decode English isn’t the same thing as learning ab initio to read English. For example, you have to learn the alphabet and the sounds of letters, singly and in various combinations.
I remember reading out loud in class in the 1st grade, sounding out the words to make the sounds that I just knew was a word that I already knew the sound of… I just had to get the letter sounds strung together correctly and in the right rhythm.
I expect that the time even Estonian children take to learn the names of letters is much longer than a week.
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Todd 1024am
Absolutely everyone “got it” immediately.
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Gregory | 04 October 2019 at 10:52 AM
No and you certainly did not.
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And that Martinez fellow seems to be shredding your points. Get over there and defend them.
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“L” 1024am
About the “quasi-imaginary climate change”… there was/is real climate change behind it. Besides the basic Milanković cycles that drive climate, there was a change in the 1930’s … that we weren’t even set up to observe directly… cosmic rays that drive the formation of cloud condensation nuclei took a nosedive when the sun acted up to an 8000 year maximum that lasted until about 12 years ago.
IF a grand solar minimum is on the way, there will be hell to pay by the Democratic Party ruling class as the peasantry revolts.
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Climate accounts for seasons (the position of the earth in relation to the sun). Seasons do not take into account the climate. To suggest they are one in the same is moronic. But what would you expect from a moron?
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According to my readings, I think that the more broadly held and common understanding of the notion of ‘climate change’ puts it into the synoptic category of earth’s atmospheric processes.
Gregory 1046am – Not true. There are various sing-song poems and ditties that make alphabet learning very easy (common Estonian has only 24 letters). We have to remember that kids’ brains are sponges, especially for learning sights and sounds. And the reading they ‘instantly’ learn is at the level of the language they already know. As their language expands, so does (automatically) their ability to read their expanded language.
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Posted by: Jig Wiggly | 04 October 2019 at 11:15 AM
But what would you expect from a moron?
A lot of gratuitous carbon spewing foreign air travel, a decidedly mediocre academic career in an absolutely useless…..ahem…..discipline, and/or a company website that is left unfinished or is always down……and this while constantly acting as pseudo intellectual poseur.
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Time for the chi coms to join the world –
https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2019/10/03/study-chinese-cargo-ships-dump-73-trash-atlantic-ocean/
😉
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Looks like the authorities finally got Jiggy-Poo’s uncle.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-reports-on-samuel-little-serial-killer-who-confessed-to-murdering-93-women-2019-10-04/
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Well bless her little heart.. AOC wants to invest in zero-carbon aircraft for us to travel in… Now ain’t that special?
SBC better help “council” all the aircraft manufacturers businesses on how to achieve that plan.
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So George… very easy, meaning they learn all those rhymes in the same week they learn to read?
No… like in the USA of my childhood, there is a period of inculcation where children learn rhymes, songs and other wordplay… and letters used in the common language.
Another interesting European language is Serbian… it can be written in Roman and Cyrillic alphabets and sounds the same when either is read.
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Walt 1157am
I predict the carbon-free airplane will be a reality once the flux capacitor is melded with a good dilithium crystal reactor core.
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Posted by: Gregory | 04 October 2019 at 12:35 PM
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JW @ 11:42- wrong again. The seasons absolutely do “take the climate into account” by becoming longer or shorter, more or less severe (extreme) in accordance with the underlying slow change of climate.
Greg @ 11:12- Exactly why I used “quasi-imaginary”. Climate has recently warmed, so it’s not imaginary. What’s imaginary is the catastrophic consequences predicted.
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Sorry JW, I meant 11:15.
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L, seasons are dates on a calendar prescribed by the earth’ position relative to the sun. I can tell you the first of fall 500 years from now without taking climate into consideration.
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Gregory 1229pm – You know best.
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gr 104pm
It’s a well known fact that God created whisky to keep the Irish from ruling the world… it’s unclear to me what’s holding Estonia back.
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JW @ 1:03 Now, that wasn’t even stupid.
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Don’t tell me the date Fall begins 500yrs from now, tell me the date of first Frost next year. Start with baby steps, eventually you might get it.
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So it begins-the inevitable Trump Dump from within the Republican party. Tweets from Mitt Romney, our hosts favorite Presidential choice for 2016:
“By all appearances, the President’s brazen and unprecedented appeal to China and to Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden is wrong and appalling.”
“When the only American citizen President Trump singles out for China’s investigation is his political opponent in the midst of the Democratic nomination process, it strains credulity to suggest that it is anything other than politically motivated”
https://twitter.com/MittRomney?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1180151213993730049&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffpost.com%2Fentry%2Fmitt-romney-trump-impeachment_n_5d976f1ee4b0f5bf7974244d
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And from Fox News Anchor Chris Wallace:
“The breaking news to me, today, is … Fox has gotten a hold of the 11-page statement, opening statement by Kurt Volker yesterday in a closed session. He of course was the special envoy from the administration to Ukraine. He was very involved in all of this. This 11-page opening statement is quite devastating to the president and Rudy Giuliani’s case.”
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Gregory 111pm – Vodka.
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The face of the latest hoax –
https://www.foxnews.com/media/washington-post-awards-adam-schiff-four-pinocchios-for-false-comments-about-whistleblower
😉
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Please check today’s Ruminations update re Trump’s impeachment proceedings.
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Nope,, don’t have a smoking recipe for Proggys chow.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/larouche-eat-babies-aoc-town-hall
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From the campaign trail
My Gal Tulsi Gabbard will be in the next debate. California’s Gal is sinking…..
https://www.theblaze.com/news/watch-kamala-harris-rhetorically-asks-whether-america-is-ready-for-her-presidency-crowd-shouts-back-no?
Bernie had a heart attack. It would be unseemly and despicable for me to wish for his death or call him unfit like so many vile unhinged Lefties did when Dick Cheney had his heart attack. I won’t go there. It’s not who we on the sunny side of the street are.
Hey, Cheney shot a Republican lawyer in the butt and they still wished his death…and the usual calls for Dick being imprisoned for crimes against humanity and, of course, the usual treason charge.
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Who is the International Man of Mystery? No, not Austin Powers, but the Maltese Professor. And why do Attorney General Barr and John Durham looking for him?
“So Barr, in the company of John Durham, his lead investigator on these matters, was in Rome talking with several people high up in Italian intelligence. They are supposed to have played for him a tape recording Mifsud left before he disappeared.”
“Wow. That recording might tell us a lot. Roger sums up:
“If it turns out the professor was a U.S. agent or one allied to the U.S., planted to suck in the naive Papadopoulos, to make him run back to the mothership and blabber about something that wasn’t true in order to hang Trump, it is one of the greatest and most evil stories of our times.
“Why did Mifsud disappear? Where did he go? And who does he think may want to kill him? At this point, we can only speculate.”
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/10/where-is-joseph-mifsud.php
Original source PJ Media.
https://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/the-joseph-mifsud-story-the-great-movie-hollywood-will-never-make/
Exit question: Why is John Brennan suddenly so disinterested in the Russian probe…and the Ukrainian probe????
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Flat-Out False”: WaPo Calls Out Adam Schiff For Lying About Whistleblower
Hey everybody……a politician is lying…..Punchy must be outraged!
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/flat-out-false-wapo-calls-out-adam-schiff-lying-about-whistleblower
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!!!!!!!!!!BREAKING NEWS!!!!!!!!!
DNC headquarters has been EVACUATED!!,, A strange package was delivered to their front office. Upon closer inspection by unnamed authorities it was found to be a copy of the U.S. Constitution. Something they have NEVER seen before.
DNC officials demanded it be removed and destroyed for the good of Liberal wellbeing.
An emergency shipment of playdoh and puppy and kitten videos was sent by armed escort to ease the panicked individuals.
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Good one, Walt.
It is against the law to give aid an illegal alien. Sometimes the law is enforced.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/03/two-illegal-aliens-convicted-for-helping-the-illegal-alien-accused-of-murdering-ron-singh/?
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Those mutha mullahs are cursing for a bruising! –
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2019/10/04/60-dead-in-iraq-protests-witness-claims-shots-fired-by-iranians-speaking-in-farsi/
😉
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In just six months:
More Than 500,000 Central Americans Illegally Enter Mexico in First Half of Year
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/10/02/more-than-500000-central-americans-illegally-enter-mexico-in-first-half-of-year/
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Love this one. The laws apply to thee, not to thy betters. Poop City already has an Endangered Species Act exemption to not divert water from Hetch Hetchie to help our furry friends and fishies. Frisco wants ALL the water. Ok. Poop City already has an exemption to our own CA clean air act.. Now, the Fed’s say Sanctuary Poop City is in violation of the Clean Water Act. Quick Botox Queen, fix that one as well!
“EPA Issues Violation Notice to San Francisco”
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/california/EPA-Issues-Violation-Notice-to-San-Francisco-562026671.html
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I’m sure our resident LIBS are more than happy to pay big bucks for fuel. It it serves their Master Gavin,, “Please Sir,, can we pay even more?”
https://www.theunion.com/news/nevada-county-gas-prices-higher-than-state-national-averages/
The highest price per gallon in Grass Valley and Nevada City — at $4.29, a full dime higher than the rest of stations — was sold at Chevron on Sacramento Street in Nevada City. Chevron’s three other stations in the area — at McKnight Way, South Auburn Street, and at the Idaho Maryland roundabout, — charged $4.19 per gallon.
Ain’t it GREAT? Special gas just for us in Ca.
Our Proggys can always fill up on the high test.. It will make them feel better.
OK kids,, write your letters to Dear Leader Gavin to say Thanks. It’s all worth it.
Now your ECO kids can hoof it to school since Dad can’t afford the trip anymore..Oh.. LIBS are flush with cash. What am I thinking???🤦♀️
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