California, What's it all about?

[Riverwind (imported)]

As a life long California Native the answer is really quite simple!

WE ARE VERY SPECIAL!

Canada has fires? Gee:D I thought only California had fires!!!!

As a California Native we know you are very special.

River

[chilliwilli (imported)]

California special??? Special Education maybe. The way that elementry children are taught and how the class is structured was piloted by Stanford in the seventies. Now all children are put in "pods" in elementry ratherthan rows.

Never would have made it in Ohio!

chilli-

[moi621 (imported)]

California special??? Special Education maybe. The way that elementry children are taught and how the class is structured was piloted by Stanford in the seventies. Now all children are put in "pods" in elementry ratherthan rows.

Never would have made it in Ohio!

chilli-

I was a victim of California Progressive Education of the '50's where phoenetics was never taught and words were to be read like Chinese symbols.

I credit that with being a slow reader today.

[IbPervert (imported)]

I was a victim of California Progressive Education of the '50's where phoenetics was never taught and words were to be read like Chinese symbols.

I credit that with being a slow reader today.

I was a product of the whole new math bit...this means I have a very difficult time doing basic bath but can handle Algebra and trig with no problems (unless basic math is involved)

[moi621 (imported)]

I was a product of the whole new math bit...this means I have a very difficult time doing basic bath but can handle Algebra and trig with no problems (unless basic math is involved)

But at least you can preform arithmetic tasks equally well whether using

a base 10 system, binary or even a base 7 system.

New Math like less well advertised, New Biology = same problem.

No one really teaches Math or Biology but, only about them from a distance.

Gone are Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species.

Biology void of Nature.

Math void of Numbers.

Reading void of Phonetics.

What next?

Chemistry void of elements and compounds?

Physics void of forces, space and time?

Stay tuned, it is probably being designed right now.

And let's give Ebonics a chance.

Moi

[sag111 (imported)]

As for California being special wellllllllll not so fast here on this one.If you want a place that is special go to Canada BC and you will see Gods country not some over blown state full of hot air and smog.Vancover and Vancover island are the most wonderful place I have been to.So if you live in BC dont even take a second look down south it isent worth it.I seen the fires in Canada because I watch all fires in the west as I hate there distruction.Why wasent the fire we had just out of Sacramento last week mentioned.We lost over 60 homes in about 5 hours last Sunday and all the news could say was poor LA.

[moi621 (imported)]

As for California being special wellllllllll not so fast here on this one.If you want a place that is special go to Canada BC and you will see Gods country not some over blown state full of hot air and smog.Vancover and Vancover island are the most wonderful place I have been to.So if you live in BC dont even take a second look down south it isent worth it.I seen the fires in Canada because I watch all fires in the west as I hate there distruction.Why wasent the fire we had just out of Sacramento last week mentioned.We lost over 60 homes in about 5 hours last Sunday and all the news could say was poor LA.

Oh, Yes!

We read about BC everyday in the newspaper.

Oh, sorry, that's the comic strip.

I agree on what is, God's Country but I call it, Redwood National Park, Avenue of the Giants, Eureka / Arcata and some of the best rated weed in the world. But, we don't read much about that part of California either. And I never heard of BC weed .

So the question is, not that there are better examples of, "God's country", but why California, land of dreams, is so news worthy world wide.

Moi

[chilliwilli (imported)]

As for California being special wellllllllll not so fast here on this one.If you want a place that is special go to Canada BC and you will see Gods country not some over blown state full of hot air and smog.Vancover and Vancover island are the most wonderful place I have been to.So if you live in BC dont even take a second look down south it isent worth it.I seen the fires in Canada because I watch all fires in the west as I hate there distruction.Why wasent the fire we had just out of Sacramento last week mentioned.We lost over 60 homes in about 5 hours last Sunday and all the news could say was poor LA.

Huh...maybe all the Sac McMansions were bank owned and unoccupied? Workin' for the state just ain't what it used to be.

chilli-

[gareth19 (imported)]

But at least you can preform arithmetic tasks equally well whether using

a base 10 system, binary or even a base 7 system.

Reading void of Phonetics.

What next?

Chemistry void of elements and compounds?

Well, neither the eidetic [ajdɛdɨk] (look-say) nor phonic [fɑnɨk] (sound out) approach works for English reading because the orthography is morphological rather than phonetic. Phonics, which is the name given to the reading strategy, is as different phonetics as astrology is from astronomy. And yes modern chem classes spend far more time on thermodynamics than they do on the minutiae of elements, compounds, and their properties.

BTW the California fires are a big deal to you if all you can see from your window is the fire behind Mt. Wilson. The planes have been dumping retardants (CA has lots of those in political office) all day. This fire has the potential to take out the largest concentration of communication antennas in the country which will effectively silence the second city of the most powerful country in the world; it is dangerously close to JPL and the NASA complex that oversees most of the world's space exploration and one of the world's largest telescopes and astronomical observatories. Mt. Wilson (jointly operated by Cal Tech and the Smithsonian I believe) is safe, but the smaller observatory near Mt. Vetter may very well have burned. The Vetter watchtower, has definitely burned, and I don't like to think of any grand old thing of 70 years going away like that.

[moi621 (imported)]

Well, neither the eidetic [ajdɛdɨk] (look-say) nor phonic [fɑnɨk] (sound out) approach works for English reading because the orthography is morphological rather than phonetic. Phonics, which is the name given to the reading strategy, is as different phonetics as astrology is from astronomy. And yes modern chem classes spend far more time on thermodynamics than they do on the minutiae of elements, compounds, and their properties.

Sez U !

I believe in another school called, "Creative Spelling".

Seriously, which one works best on, slow readers or dyslexics?

BTW the California fires are a big deal to you if all you can see from your window is the fire behind Mt. Wilson. The planes have been dumping retardants (CA has lots of those in political office) all day. This fire has the potential to take out the largest concentration of communication antennas in the country which will effectively silence the second city of the most powerful country in the world; it is dangerously close to JPL and the NASA complex that oversees most of the world's space exploration and one of the world's largest telescopes and astronomical observatories. Mt. Wilson (jointly operated by Cal Tech and the Smithsonian I believe) is safe, but the smaller observatory near Mt. Vetter may very well have burned. The Vetter watchtower, has definitely burned, and I don't like to think of any grand old thing of 70 years going away like that.

Yes they do deserve full coverage on your local news.

But, they are used as smokescreens in distant places to hide the the real news. Such natural smokescreens sure make life temporarily easier for the Offices of Propaganda around the world. I guess Russians are hearing more about the fires then their usual news such as crop production reports.