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Is it beneficial for a developer to become a 'scrum master'?
Is this an official certification or just someone who specializes?
What are the steps towards becoming one?
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Is it beneficial for a developer to become a 'scrum master'?
Is this an official certification or just someone who specializes?
What are the steps towards becoming one?
Speaking as a developer who was trained up as a scrum master I'd say that if you are serious about using agile, and the people around you are too, then it's well worth training up. A scrum master should know how the agile process works, which meetings are required, what peoples' responsibilities are etc It's your job to make sure the agile process flows smoothly and to correct it when it doesn't. I couldn't have done my job without some guidance, but equally you may find that online resources are good enough.
I was lucky in that my company paid for me to be trained and certified by the Scrum Alliance, but I believe there are numerous places you can be trained. My training consisted of a two day seminar with a exam afterwards - it wasn't taxing, and you'll have to reread a lot of the training material as there's a fair amount to take in.
There are official Scrum training courses as well as assessments and certifications that cover various roles in scrum - Scrum Master, Product Owner, development team member. For these, it's simply a matter of optionally taking a course, reading the recommended material, working through the assessments, and then paying to take a certification exam.
I'm not sure how beneficial formal training is. There are plenty of resources out there for Scrum, including the Scrum Guide and countless books on the subject. Also, these certifications and training is only useful for as long as you are in an environment that uses Scrum. I would recommend learning about Scrum and how to function in various roles in a Scrum team, but I think you could do that very well with self-study, asking the appropriate questions to the right people, and spending time working on a Scrum team.
I personally believe it's far more valuable to understand a variety of process models and methodologies, their strengths and weaknesses, and process improvement methods/techniques rather than to focus on one particular model or method. The ability to tailor processes to meet the needs of your organization, project, and team is far more important than spending a significant amount of time learning a single methodology. After all, if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
tl;dr: The Scrum Master is a Facilitator -- it does not denote mastery of anything.
Is this an official certification or just someone who specializes? What are the steps towards becoming one?
There is an official "Certified Scrum Master" designation. It is an introductory course managed by the scrum alliance. If you take the course and pass the test, you will be a "Certified Scrum Master".
Is it beneficial for a developer to become a 'scrum master'?
I don't think that it is. The Scrum Master role is an important part of a team, but is not a technical role -- the scrum master is the guy who leads the meetings and makes sure everyone is on the same page. It's more of a facilitator role. It's probably useful if you want to go into coaching, but not necessary if you are a developer.
A scrum team needs to have a scrum master, and is best served by having an experienced one. The CSM certification does not guarantee quality of the Scrum master. Sending a guy to take the CSM course and than assuming he'll be able to lead you to scrum victory is a crazy bet.
CSM Certification is like CPR Certification -- you know the basics, but you're not an expert.
I'd agree with Thomas on the generalities, but focusing on the scrum master role itself there's an important point to note. It is not a technical role. We discussed this a little on the scrum master training I attended recently, If you want to write code then on paper 'being a scrum master' probably not for you.
That said, in practice It seems people wear many hats. I'm a defacto scrum master on my team but I'm still involved with the actual product delivery.
Also worth noting The basic scrum master certification is a minimal effort affair, a short training course/series of workshops and on online 'exam'. So it may be worth doing just for an understanding of the framework itself.
It is beneficial for a developer on an agile team to understand the scrum master role. A cohesive agile team is built on trust. If, as a developer, you understand that the scrum master is a mentor, a facilitator and a protector of the team, you will be more likely to engage them in meaningful ways.
A developer talented in seeing the big picture, finding nuggets of gold in a mountain of dirt, and who enjoys mentoring will be a great scrum master candidate. It's my experience that the best scrum masters are naturally talented in these areas. Training will not make you a scrum master but may help hone your skills.
Is it beneficial for a developer to become a 'scrum master'?
I would say it's often not beneficial. While a developer-as-scrum-master understands the working conditions of those in the trenches, management/the boss/the client may see complaints from this person not as, "the scrum master advising management what should be changed" but, "grumpy Bob just has a chip on his shoulder because he had to work late Friday - ignore him".
For this reason I think this separation of concerns is important, especially when/if the management/client/boss has a hard time knowing if Bob is wearing his "Bob the solitary programmer hat" vs his "Bob the Scrum master, facilitator for the team, hat".
Because, if it's perceived that complaints from the team are actually complaints from Bob personally, it poisons the well: every point Bob tries to bring up to management will be dismissed because Bob's (obviously, to management's eyes) a troublemaker.


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Changes send clear signal Shearer intends to reclaim Opposition rather than leave it to Greens and NZ First.
It was the week in which the good ship HMNZS Annette King snared that precious second wind in her sails and sallied forth. The rise of Annette King back into the health portfolio and onto the front bench got the predictable reaction about Labour recycling one of the same old faces. King is 65 and has been an MP since 1984, with a 3-year break between 1990 and 1993.
One young political onlooker from the left of the spectrum tweeted that one thing that could never be said about King was that she would "bring youthful exuberance and new ideas to Labour's frontbench". He added he was born seven years after King became an MP in 1984.
Apart from the arrogance of such a statement, he conveniently ignored the fact that it was from King that Labour's one new idea of the term so far came: its affordable housing policy, while we are still waiting to hear the new ideas of the younger MPs such as Jacinda Ardern.
It is an odd characteristic of New Zealand politics that defeated political parties must prove they have "rejuvenated" by performing a public execution of all those associated with the era which has ended. Indeed, others who had been around for less time than King found Shearer had programmed Goneburger Street into their SatNav machines.
Shearer did take steps to insulate himself from criticism that his reshuffle did little to renew the party, balancing out the promotion of King with the demotion of other old hands in Trevor Mallard and Lianne Dalziel and bringing in three of the 2011 intake into his shadow cabinet.
But he also showed he recognised the value of experience and was basing his decisions on competence. Opposition reshuffles are a balance of hoping to impress voters with a look at an alternative Government while still mounting an effective enough Opposition to actually get there. King is one of the few MPs who can do both equally well.
The reshuffle marks a watershed moment in Labour's time in Opposition - the changes to put Chris Hipkins into education and King into health send a clear signal that Shearer intends to reclaim the Opposition rather than leave it to the Greens and NZ First. So for perhaps the first time since it lost government in 2008, the Labour team has started looking and talking like an Opposition party.
King was first out of the blocks. She announced she was going hunting - for stories. The stories she is looking for are the stories that will embarrass the Government in the health portfolio, the stories of patients and workers who have somehow been treated unfairly by the Government's health policies. King will target areas that affect family health: dentistry, diabetes and the like. Midwifery services was the first example she came up with this week.
They are the kinds of stories that Tony Ryall himself used to great effect when he was Opposition health spokesman so he knows how devastating they can be.
King has a better chance of achieving this than her three predecessors in the role, although even she may find it difficult. Part of Ryall's success was his recognition that the sector was suffering from reform fatigue. So his changes have been incremental and tightly focused rather than broad sweeping reform.
He set targets in the areas which had been political hotspots and made sure he achieved them. Emergency Department waiting times, elective surgery waiting lists, free after hours doctor visits for children. King's mission is to find the overlooked holes and turn them into hotspots that will be very uncomfortable for Ryall. Her job is to again make health the election year hot potato it always had been before Ryall neutered it for National.
It is little wonder that after four long years of failing to get a hit in health, Shearer has opted for experience. King escaped the same fate as her "Clark-era" colleagues because what matters is not the length of time a person has spent in Parliament, but whether they suffer from that common affliction of longevity: staleness.
If King's crusts started curling a bit during the almost obligatory period of reflection after she and Phil Goff stepped down from the leadership following Labour's trouncing in 2011, it didn't take her long to iron them down again.
The reason for her promotion was, as Shearer put it, because she was "formidable". She may be Clark-era and, before that, Mike Moore-era, but as King also put it, in a tongue-in-cheek boast when asked why she wanted to stay on, "I just keep getting better and better."

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woohoo, fifth episode title is up. hmm, France, nice location they are going
Quote from: Evan_Weinstein on February 28, 2010, 10:20:05 AMwoohoo, fifth episode title is up. hmm, France, nice location they are goingBeaches of Normandy?
ummmm.... wrong thread... belongs in Ep. 4 thread... this is Ep. 5
Maybe this helps: (not the dates, just the location)QuoteDate: Saturday 17th October 2009Fort SeclinGreat War Event at Fort Seclin nr Lille France. 17 & 18/10/09copied from here http://www.thegreatwarsociety.com/Info on Fort Seclinhttp://www.cheminsdememoire.gouv.fr/page/affichelieu.php?idLieu=1163&idLang=enThis needs a lot more "TAR Detecting", but I'm not very good at it (see screen name ) « Last Edit: January 23, 2010, 02:03:05 PM by 2old4tech »
2old4tech,When I saw the video, I have a new appreciation for the probability of Fort de Seclin being the right place. It could well be that place, as few places in France are a permanent and living museum. I think here are some great ideas for tasks:1. Dressing up as soldiers and marching (playing the British, French or German soldiers does not look difficult and I think the probability of another Andrew/Dan marching trials/tribulations is low)2. Find an object in that museum (I am recalling Amazing Race Asia 3 - the Miniatures Museum in Taipei)3. Dig trenches I am honoring your find with a map of the south side of the greater Lille area(see lowest pane) showing Seclin about 10 miles south of the center of Lille, just west of Route National E17/A1. Look to the left of the circled H. That is maybe a 20 minute drive from the train station to Seclin. With left-hand drive like in the U.S. and signage that is eminently readable there is no reason why AR16 teams could not go to self-drive vehicles which they then take on to Charles de Gaulle airport. Map of Area near Seclin France in bottom paneI would also like to furnish directions from Seclin to CDG airport, which is 16 miles northeast of the center of Paris. It is quite simple:1. Get on the A1 toll road south to Paris for approximately 175 km. Take the exit 6-Roissy-en-France.2. Do a zig-zag left/right/left/left/right/right/left/right for the next 8 km. « Last Edit: January 23, 2010, 09:29:57 PM by apskip »
Anyways... Next week on the Amazing Race, they dress up as soldiers. Probably they have to do a trench exercise. And there is a Blind U-Turn.
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Newly-elected Bellevue City Council member Kevin Wallace has released plans for a light-rail route that would utilize the BNSF rail corridor and keep trains out of the city's central business district.
Wallace's plan, dubbed the "Vision Line," would place Sound Transit's East Link tracks along the BNSF corridor through South Bellevue and along 114th Avenue Northeast to serve downtown.
The Vision Line aims to protect residential homes and downtown businesses. But it adds another option to a growing list of alternatives for Sound Transit's East Link light rail project.
Wallace is asking that Sound Transit consider his plan as part of the East Link environmental-review process.
"What I've come up with will provide as good a ridership as any other alternative at a much lower cost," he told The Reporter.
The city council already recommended a route that would run along Bellevue Way Southeast and 112th Avenue Southeast before moving through a downtown tunnel below 108th Avenue Northeast.
Sound Transit voted in May to focus on those same routes, along with a highly controversial downtown surface line along 108th Avenue Northeast and 110th Avenue Northeast that critics say would disrupt business and increase traffic congestion.
The agency recently added another downtown option: one that would place surface tracks or a tunnel along 110th Avenue.
Wallace contends that all tunnel options will be too expensive.
Sound Transit estimates that a tunnel on 108th Avenue Northeast would cost $500 million beyond what voters have approved for East Link. The agency has said that Bellevue will be responsible for coming up with the additional funds.
There are no estimates yet on how much a tunnel along 110th Avenue Northeast would cost, although that structure would be roughly three blocks shorter than the 108th Avenue tunnel option.
Many residents in the Surrey Downs and Enatai neighborhoods support the Vision Line because it utilizes the abandoned BNSF rail corridor instead of the Bellevue Way/112th Avenue Southeast route. This would keep light rail away from their homes.
Residents living near the BNSF line oppose Wallace's plan because it brings the trains through their neighborhood.
The Vision Line includes light-rail stations at at:
• The Wilburton Park and Ride near the intersection of 114th Avenue Southeast and Southeast Eighth Street
• Northeast Sixth Street and 114th Avenue Northeast
• Near the hospital district, on Northeast Eighth Street
Those who oppose an East Link line along the BNSF corridor say a station at the Wilburton Park and Ride would increase traffic backups near the intersection of Southeast Eighth Street and 114th Avenue Southeast, an area that is already highly congested during rush hour.
Wallace says issues like that can be addressed.
"We need to stop finding ways that we can't do the Burlinton Northern corridor, and start finding ways that we can," he said.
Bellevue Mayor Grant Degginger said he has questions about Wallace's plan as well. Among them, he wants to know how people would get from the Vision Line's Northeast Sixth Street station to the Bellevue Transit Center.
Wallace proposes building a moving pedestrian walkway between those two points. The area could be covered with some form of canopy, he said.
Degginger says creating this type of walkway might increase costs to the point where they are roughly the same as building a tunnel option.
"Ultimately, what we want to do is compare the costs of Kevin's idea with the cost of a tunnel and other alternatives and see what choices are best," Degginger said.
The mayor also said he is concerned that a route along 114th Avenue Northeast might constrict any future expansion of I-405.
Wallace developed his Vision Line concept with financial backing from local stakeholders, including some representing downtown business interests.
This article was originally published in the Bellevue Reporter on November 16, 2009.


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We know this for sure: Bernie Madoff was running a Ponzi scheme and not really investing his clients' money. So the strategy he professed to use—split-strike conversion—is bunk too, right? Well, not exactly.
While the split-strike conversion strategy, sometimes called a collar, is a bit complex for the average investor, it is a viable strategy. In fact, it's so legit that it's typically included in options texts. The premise is to reduce the volatility, provide consistent returns, and protect against losses. As it turns out, you can invest like Bernie and not go to jail. Read on to find out how his infamous strategy works.
Split-Strike Conversion: Step by Step
- Buy shares of companies to create a portfolio that represents a major index like the S&P 500. There's no need to buy the entire index, just 25 or 30 of the firms that move very closely with the overall index, preferably with high dividend payouts.
- Sell call options at a strike price above the current index. While this will limit gains, it will also generate cash.
- Buy put options at the current index value or very close to it using the call option premium cash. These will pay off if the index falls, thus limiting or preventing losses.
The (Legal) Outcome
A split-strike conversion strategy can have several outcomes—none of which involve jail time:
- The market moves up big and the call options that were sold get exercised. In this case, you would have to pay a cash settlement to cover the loss, but the portfolio gains a similar amount. You still gain the premium, which is profitable, just not as profitable as it could have been.
- The market moves down big and the put options you bought pay off. Here, you'll still have your portfolio, but the value will be lower. However, because the put options paid off, that gain offsets some of the portfolio losses and you get to keep the money generated from writing the call options. This can also be profitable. If it's not, it will at least limit any losses.
- The market doesn't move big at all and the money generated from writing the calls covers the purchase of the puts and the stock portfolio generates dividends. Again, the outcome is positive.
Why It Failed for Madoff
If this sounds really good to you, then you can understand why it sounded so good to Madoff's investors. When you have a good story about your strategy and back it up with consistently positive results, it's a convincing presentation. It's no wonder his business grew so large.
But there are other potential outcomes where this strategy can lose money. For example, if an investor buys put options near the current market price, the expense would be much higher than the future call options. He would thus either have to buy significantly more call options to generate enough cash to buy the put options, or leave some of the portfolio unprotected. If the investor buys out-of-the-money puts, which would be cheaper, and the index slowly drifted downward with moves that didn't trigger the put options, the result would be a loss.
Talking about the strategy can make it sound like a sure winner, but actually executing it is easier said than done.
One of the main reasons Madoff's strategy wouldn't have worked for him, in reality, was that the size of his fund was so large, the volume of options trading would have had a great impact on the market. There would have to be enough demand for the call options and enough supply of the put options to equal the size of the portfolio. With billions to invest, there just aren't enough counterparties willing to take the other side of the trade for him to work the strategy at any reasonable price. Also, all that trading would have generated significant costs, eating into returns.
The Bottom Line
Bernie Madoff's infamous bust has given the split-strike strategy a bad rap. In fact, the strategy is sound. Madoff used his double talk to make investors believe it could generate the above-average returns they believed they were getting. It was a hoax. Madoff could never have generated the returns he said he did with this strategy, nor could he have used it with such a large fund.
Madoff could have used this strategy, generated returns for his clients, and avoided breaking the law, but it wouldn't have been as profitable (for Madoff!) and the fund never would have grown to the size that it did.


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In the midst of a staff meeting, I decide to write an angry poem in order to retain my sanity:
Recipe Book
They hand me stacks of binders
and I put on my blinders
to the chart and the graph
of our golden calf
so we can find who's best
on the standardized test
They make me take it
I try to make it
But when I break it
I have to fake it
If I could . . .
Create it
And relate it
They couldn't rate it
So they would hate it
I feel like . . .
Picasso with a coloring book
A chef as a short-order cook
Plato on a worksheet
Louie Armstrong with a techno beat
Until then we're . . .
Academic androids
feeding children steroids
while the data whores
with their testing scores
are pimping out each brain
students go insane
from the indoctrination,
with no emancipation
Standardization can feel overwhelming. How do I, as a teacher, make any difference in a battle against standardization? I think the answer involves being part sage and part lunatic.
The sage is the one who calmly reshapes the system, gaining the respect of the power brokers and deal-makers. The lunatic, by contrast, rages against the system, speaking out boldly against what he or she sees as inhuman and unjust.
Sage Approach
- Communicate Results: I hate the tests. However, I recognize that standardized teaching occurs at such a low cognitive level that authentic learning will almost always lead to higher test scores. People thought I was crazy for using customized and authentic learning strategies until they saw the test results. It gave me a bit of a "free card."
- Be Sneaky: When told to create a word wall, I used the word "asinine" next to "standardized tests." When told I had to use the math book, I had students examine the pseudocontext of the word problems.
- Use Their Language: I learned to talk about data as I explained the authentic assessments. I learned to structure customized learning into lesson plans under "enrichment" and "intervention." I learned to find the standards that fit with differentiated instruction. In other words, I found a way to do what I wanted to do and use standardized language to explain it.
- Decide When To Conform: I tell my administration each year that I will not write referrals. I will refer to procedures are "shared rituals" and I will work within a philosophy of "the freedom to learn." My class runs smoothly, precisely because I abandon the system of punishments and rewards. However, I also recognize that I have to grudgingly follow silly rules like shirts tucked in, straight lines and silence during tests. I explain to the students why I disagree with these rules and why I choose to conform on some of the small things. I use the following litmus test: Will this ruin learning? Will this dehumanize students?
- Find Common Ground: Often the proponents of standardization are not mean-spirited people who hate kids. Instead, they want students to thrive and fear that a progressive approach will water down standards. A sage is able to build a bridge between traditional reformers and authentic reformers so that people see a rational side to our argument.
Lunatic Approach
- Reconfigure your class: I use groups, allow for movement and create specialized centers that students can go to at any moment. My students paint classroom murals and works of art on classroom canvases. All of these are small, subtle steps toward humanizing our classroom environment.
- Teach the Reality of Tests: I tell my kids about the rigged system they are up against. Many of them have written letters speaking out against these injustices.
- Speak Out: I talk to parents, district office representatives and the larger blogging community about my feelings regarding standardization. I've written a book and a guest article for the Washington Post blog.
- Be Bold: When people told me that students needed to hand-write all drafts before using our classroom blog, I defiantly refused. When a curriculum specialist once told me that we couldn't do a documentary, because it wasn't "real learning," I told her I would rather lose my job than give up the project. There is a time when teachers need to stand up and say, "Okay, write me up. Fire me. Go ahead. This is too valuable of a learning experience to give up."
- Provide an Alternative: While it's easy to bust on professional development, the lunatic can articulate a crazy vision of a better method of teacher learning (such as a PLN). Similarly, a teacher who hates standardized tests needs to have a list of alternative assessments that work better. In a Waiting for Superman world, it's key that we create a non-standard, alternative story that will be more compelling, authentic and inspiring than what's currently being peddled by the press.
John T. Spencer is a teacher in Phoenix, AZ who blogs at johntspencer.com. He recently finished two books, Pencil Me In, an allegory for educational technology and Drawn Into Danger, a fictional memoir of a superhero.


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New Welfarism Fails on its Own Terms
Dear Colleagues:
The abolitionist approach maintains that ethical veganism is a moral baseline; it represents the recognition of the moral personhood of animals and the rejection of the notion that animals are commodities for human use. Ethical veganism is an essential component of a commitment to non-violence.
The new welfarist approach rejects veganism as a moral baseline. Indeed, new welfarists regard it as "fanatical" and as a matter of "personal purity" to maintain that veganism is anything more than a way of reducing suffering. In this sense, veganism is no different than consuming "happy" meat/animal products or being vegetarian and treating animal flesh as morally distinguishable from other animal products.
In my last Commentary and in my writing, including other essays on this site (see, e.g., here), I have explained that new welfarists, like classical welfarists, regard animal suffering as morally relevant but they do not regard nonhuman animals as having an interest in continued existence. Therefore, they do not see the use and killing of animals as per se morally objectionable as long as animals have a reasonably pleasant life and a relatively painless death.
The abolitionist approach maintains that animal advocates should be ethical vegans and should engage in creative, non-violent vegan education. The new welfarist approach maintains that advocates should promote welfare reform that they claim will reduce suffering.
But even on its own terms, the new welfarist approach does not work.
Consider this excerpt from The Animal Activist's Handbook, by Matt Ball (of Vegan Outreach) and Bruce Friedrich (of PETA):
Every year, the average American consumes about one-tenth of a cow, one-third of a pig, one turkey, thirty-five chickens, and about fifty aquatic animals (mostly shellfish). She or he is also responsible for the output of one laying hen and one-thirtieth of a dairy cow. Based on the raw numbers alone, the best incremental step a meat eater can take for animals is to stop eating birds. And that's how we talk with people: we focus on cruelty to birds first. Once they've seen they can make a step, it's much easier for them to move on to stop eating pigs, fish (especially farmed fish), eggs, cattle, and then dairy.
Few people adopt a vegetarian diet overnight. If we help more people change by accepting incremental evolution–preferably by no longer eating birds and fish first, then pigs, then cattle–we can help spare many animals tremendous suffering. Since most people will otherwise go about this the other way (giving up cows and pigs first) we do a real service to animals by focusing on cruelty to factory farmed birds first.
Ball and Friedrich argue that welfare campaigns that highlight the "cruelty to factory farmed birds," will "spare many animals tremendous suffering."
This position is problematic for at least three reasons.
First, let us talk about the matter of practical psychology. Although it is certainly admirable that Ball and Friedrich want people to take poultry seriously, the notion that people who are eating cows and pigs are going to develop a moral concern about poultry is simply unrealistic. Unfortunately, most people have a pretty low opinion of poultry. Many people are almost hostile toward poultry. If the background of the infamous Sarah Palin interview was a cow being slaughtered and not a turkey, the public reaction would have been far different. So even if you think incremental welfare reform is a good idea, this approach simply misses a very large boat.
Second, let us assume that a person does give up eating poultry completely. She may eat more fish or consume more eggs or other animal products and any offset to suffering will be counterbalanced accordingly. The new welfarist position assumes that for every animal product that is not consumed, those calories will be replaced by plant foods. There is absolutely no reason to assume that.
Of course, in the real world, an incremental welfarist approach will, if anything, lead people to eat less beef and pork and more poultry, eggs, cheese, dairy, etc. And this is precisely why the incremental welfarist approach leads to an increase in overall suffering.
Third, the new welfarists assume that a campaign focused on cruelty to factory farmed birds will result in people stopping eating poultry.
Why on earth would the new welfarists assume this?
Is it not more likely that these welfarist campaigns will result in consumers seeking out one of the "happy" meat alternatives promoted by PETA and Vegan Outreach? Both groups, along with other new welfarist corporations led by Peter Singer, support the Animal Compassionate standard of Whole Foods. We have been told that there are "no differences of opinion about how animals should be treated" between PETA and Kentucky Fried Chicken as long as poultry are gassed and not electrically stunned. Or how about those wonderful animal products that have the Certified Humane Raised and Handled label supported by the Humane Society of the United States, ASPCA, and other groups?
Isn't the explicit goal of these labeling programs to make consumers feel more comfortable about consuming animal products? That is a rhetorical question. Of course that is the goal.
So why do the new welfarists think that campaigns about factory farmed birds will stop people from eating poultry when the new welfarists are right there offering them a "happy" animal product? Isn't it more likely that consumers will move into the "happy" meat market that the new welfarists have created?
And anyone who believes that the "happy" meat promoted by these new welfarist organizations really result in reduced suffering probably also believes in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. The difference between a conventional battery egg and a cage-free egg is—at most—the difference between being tortured with electrical shocks while strapped into a padded chair rather than a chair without padding.
In sum, the new welfarists reject veganism as a moral baseline because they are concerned primarily with suffering. But their proposals for incremental welfare reform will not achieve a reduction in suffering.
New welfarism fails according to its own terms.
Go vegan. It's easy; it's better for you and for the planet; and most importantly, it's the morally right thing to do.
Gary L. Francione
© 2009 Gary L. Francione


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Wednesday, Oct 22 2008, 11:45 AM
Green Bay — Packers coach Mike McCarthy and his wife, Jessica, welcomed a new addition to the family Wednesday morning.
According to the Packers, Jessica McCarthy gave birth to Gabrielle Kathleen this morning. Mother and daughter are resting at a Green Bay hospital.
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While "THE MOST IMPORTANT SOCCER GAME TO EVER HAPPEN" might have already come and passed, even most less-than-casual soccer fans realize there are at least two more games for the good olde U-S-of-A in the 2010 FIFA World Cup … and probably a couple/few more, but that's just our opinion. This means there's still plenty of time to do the whole "national pride" thing and cover yourself in Red, White & Blue from head-to-toe … and thankfully the RSL Team Store at Rio Tinto Stadium is here to help you do just that.
Whether you're looking for things to wear (jerseys, scarfs, hats and t-shirts) or things to wave/display/throw at your TV in angst (such as flags, wall clocks, coffee mugs, and more) the RSL Team Store has got your U.S. Men's National Team merchandise needs covered. If you're looking to expand your global cheering horizons, no problemo, as a limited number of Argentina, Germany, and Spain kits are in stock, as are the mini and Size 5 Jabulani replica balls and the FIFA World Cup sticker packs and albums (collect all 640!).
For more details or to have any of your RSL and US MNT gear questions answered, just dial up the RSL Team Store Hotline at 801-727-2888. Or you can just swing on by the RSL Team Store during regular hours, 10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. from Monday-Saturday.


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Ever wondered why those slimy green Pigs in Angry Birds are hoarding all those bird eggs? Does that even make sense? Well, Dorkly has recently posted a hilarious video that attempts to give us an insight as to why those bloody birds don't just fly and reason behind the egg stealin'. It's even more funny that the last Angry Birds Peace Treaty video. If you want a good laugh, check out the full clip after the gap.
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Earth formed 4.54 billion years ago. But we've never found any rocks remaining from the time when our planet formed. Until now. A piece of ancient mantle is revealing Earth's oldest secrets.
The mantle is the rocky, solid layer between the Earth's crust and its outer core. It's by far the biggest part of the Earth, accounting for a whopping 84% of its volume. The mantle isn't a uniform layer- it's got countless pockets and reservoirs, each with their own unique chemical composition and each dating back to a different period in Earth's ancient history.
Geologists have hypothesized that primordial Earth (along with the other planets) shared the same basic chemistry as chondrites, which are the oldest and most common meteors in the solar system. There are many different varieties of chrondites, but they all have chemical compositions that closely resemble that of the Sun. This has all given rise to the so-called chondritic model, which predicts that a sufficiently ancient piece of the Earth's mantle should have a Sunlike ratio of helium, lead, and neodymium isotopes.
However, there are two problems with this. First, we hadn't been able to find an old enough piece of the mantle to test the theory. Second, researchers determined a few years ago that the overall ratio of neodymium isotopes on Earth was too high to support a chondritic model. That meant geologists had to recalculate the initial chemical composition of our planet as it formed.
Of course, adjusting the numbers to solve the second problem provided a new opportunity to tackle the first. Geologists had been searching for remnants of the ancient mantle in locations that had neodymium levels that fit with the old model, not the new one. They had been looking under the wrong rocks all along, and the recalculated chemical composition took a team of researchers above the Arctic Circle to Canada's remote Baffin Island, and they soon found just the rock they were looking for.
Well, technically, it wasn't a rock - the original rock had melted about 62 million years ago when it came into contact with magma, which was then ejected from the mantle onto the island surface in a burst of volcanic activity. Fortunately, when magma melts rock, it takes on the same isotopic composition, so preserved lava is a perfect proxy for the original rock.
The geologists studied these lava samples and confirmed the pieces had exactly the right ratios of helium, lead, and neodymium, placing the formation of the original rocks at anywhere between 4.55 and 4.45 billion years ago. Considering the older side of that range lies before the formation of Earth itself, it's safe to say those rocks are pretty damn old. Let's split the difference and call it 4.5 billion years old, which is easily the oldest piece of Earth's mantle ever discovered. (Perhaps most amazingly, it spent 99.86% of its existence as a relatively unchanging part of the mantle before finally being ejected 62 million years ago, which is the geological equivalent of last week.)
So what does this tell us about the formation of Earth? First, this discovery supports the argument that the Earth's neodymium ratios are too high to support the chondritic model.
So what's the alternative? Research leader Matthew Jackson suggests the ancient Earth might have gone through a traumatic geological event where its entire crust was extracted and buried deep underground. The ratios found in the original crust and the piece of the mantle recovered on Baffin Island would then add up to the traditional chondritic model. It's a possibility, although it could be hard to find empirical data to prove or disprove that idea.
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I am trying to lose lbs and I was told that if I eat rice I will feel fuller faster. So is this true? Is it healthy to eat rice everyday? Are some kinds or rice really better than others? Are there a lot of calories or carbs in rice?
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I was a little disappointed with this tea. It smells delicious, so it was quite a let down the first time I drank it. It's not as sweet as I expected and definitely does not even remind me of nutella. I'm a little new to tea so I tried various different temperatures and steeping times to no avail.
However, while it's not that great on its own it's pretty delicious if you add sugar and cream. It tastes almost like a light coffee.
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A North Texas man said he was warned about a Houston airport shooting just seconds before the first shot was fired.
Carnell Marcus Moore, 29, of Beaumont, Texas, shot himself in the temple with a 40-caliber semi-automatic pistol Thursday afternoon after shooting twice into the ceiling at a ticketing area at Bush Intercontinental Airport.
Carnell Marcus Moore, a Granbury man who was traveling to Houston for a funeral, said Moore told him to leave while the two sat behind one another.
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"I heard a voice come from behind me and say, 'Excuse me, sir,'" Hart said. "[He] sounded very polite, and I looked and didn't see anyone sitting next to me, so I turned around to him and said, 'Are you talking to me?'"
Hart said he turned around after Moore, who had a "kind of a blank stare" and an evil grin, didn't answer.
"Then I heard a voice, a voice from God, that said, 'Turn around and don't let this drop,' so I turned back around and said, 'Can I help you?' And, in a deep voice, he said, 'You need to leave.'
Hart said he decided not to question the man anymore and walked over to the restrooms, where his wife was.
Then he heard one gunshot and then another. Hart said he saw the man shoot himself in the temple.
"It all happened pretty fast," he said. "I'm just amazed. I feel so blessed to be alive here today. From what I hear, he had an assault rifle as well as a pistol. I think he came with the intention of taking other people with him and, for whatever reason, God didn't give him permission to do that."
Investigators say that a suicide note indicated that Moore had no plans to hurt others.
Houston police Sgt. Brian Harris said Moore had a bag containing an AR-15 rifle with ammunition. That gun was not fired and not removed from the bag, which also contained a Gideon Bible and the suicide note, Harris said.
"'Here in the last hour, I yield to mercy when this could have turned bad,"' Harris said, reading some of the contents of the note signed by Moore.
A Department of Homeland Security special agent who confronted Moore in the terminal also shot and wounded him in the shoulder when he refused to drop his weapon. Harris said Moore's head wound was the fatal gunshot.
"At this point, we know what this was and what it wasn't," said Harris' partner, investigator Fil Waters. "And what it was, was a desperate act committed by a confused young man who has apparently lost all hope."
Houston Police Chief Charles McClelland said it is not illegal for people to carry firearms in public areas and that Moore had not breached secure areas of the airport.


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6th day of Muslims "youths" violence in Denmark at 'CARTOONS JIHAD'
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Groups of youths torched schools and cars in a sixth consecutive night of violence across Denmark, mostly in immigrant neighborhoods, police said Saturday. Forty-three people were arrested.
The spate of vandalism started last weekend and some believe it intensified with the reproduction of a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad in Danish newspapers Wednesday.
The unrest spread across Denmark, with youths torching dozens of cars and buildings and lobbing rocks at police and firefighters in Copenhagen, Aarhus, Ringsted, Slagelse and other cities, officials said.
Danish youths riot for sixth night Sydney Morning Herald
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Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: Allen has some thoughts on the NFL's crackdown.
Jared Allen joined KTAR in Phoenix to discuss the punishments handed down for the Saints' bounty scandal, whether he thinks Sean Payton will stick to the restrictions placed on him, what he thought of the Gregg Williams audio, how he looks back on a 2009 playoff game against New Orleans and the broad changes being made across the league.
If he thinks Sean Payton will abide by the terms of his suspension:
"I like Coach Payton, honestly. … I was shocked to hear that went on under his watch. I've never known him to be that type of guy. And honestly, I think he'll take the punishment like he's supposed to, I really do. And really, with Joe Vitt taking over, it's the same show. It's his ship, it's his coaches, they know what's gonna run. I think, personally, more importantly, they need to get Drew (Brees) back there, because then you got some continuity and some familiarity at the most important position. So yeah, I don't know how you enforce it, but lucky for me, I just get to go play."
If he was shocked by the Gregg Williams audio clip:
"Yeah, you know, I was a little shocked. … Don't get me wrong, you get some coaches that are rah-rah guys. Other coaches are just like, 'Ya know, go out and do what you're supposed to do.' So for us, we know Gregg. … We watch some film and put ourselves in situations - we don't really get a rah-rah speech. But to hear someone call a player out by name - I can remember coaches getting fired up … and that's one thing– but, yeah, to say, 'We're going to target this dude's head or take out his knee, his ankle's busted up' - yeah, that's a bit aggressive in my book. I guess my beef with the whole thing is, when someone takes somebody else's career into their own hands, you're ultimately taking food away from that guy's family if it's a career-ending injury. And to have that kind of God complex that where you think you can control taking a dude's knee out and be cool with it? For me, that's a bigger issue than just saying we need to go out and hit somebody and you can get (a reward) for a good play or something like that. That's one thing, but to promote injury, that's a different story."
On how he looks back on the hits Brett Favre took in the 2009 NFC championship game:
"Yeah, that high-low was pretty vicious, but here's the deal. I think what people get caught up in - and obviously the Saints were wrong in what they did and they're being punished accordingly - but the way I look at it, you can't cry over spilled milk. They won the game, we had our shots and we blew it. But their Bountygate had nothing to do with our five turnovers. … But I think, you look at those hits on Favre, and you look at that stuff - all you've gotta do is throw a flag. You can hit a guy like - they didn't put him out of the game, he stayed and finished the game. If the refs called those flags, after about two or three personal fouls and 30, 45 yards of field position, those tend to slow down. Because at the end of the day, that's great - you wanna hit people hard, you wanna pay people to cart people out - but you wanna win games."
On the severity of the sentences doled out by the league:
"I think they had to act this strictly to put the integrity back in the game."
If he thinks this is the dawn of a new era as the league attempts to make the game safer:
"Let's not pretend they're making it safer for everybody. It's safer for offensive players. I mean, a wide receiver or tight end can still motion from the outside in on a pass play and just absolutely blindside a defensive end across the formation. … We can still hit running backs pretty much any which way we want. So I think there's an emphasis on - obviously there's no more headshots, they talk about concussions. I think there's a bigger problem because of these so-called concussion-proof helmets. Guys kind of throw caution to the wind. I've been rocking the old-school Riddell for a while and I just know it's limitations, you know what I mean? So I don't know, I mean, we've had a lot more head injuries, and maybe they're just getting reported I feel like in the last few years. We all sign that contract knowing the risk, so I don't know. Guys are gonna find a way to hit people. I mean, that's what this sport's about. Guys are gonna find a way to make plays, and we can limit it all we want, and you just gotta hope guys use good judgment at that time and nothing's done maliciously."
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This was my $35.00 foreclosure sale purchase. It cleaned up pretty well. Basically, a day or so to strip it and then very light sanding followed by some small veneer repairs ala Steve and three coats of blonde shellac. Not bad for the money.
And then there's our recent acquistition of this artwork. It's a printed canvas reproduction of a work by Henri Rousseau named "Surprise." We found this UK company that has rights to many works in the National Gallery in London and selected this one because we really like it. I like Rousseau and it has a kind of primitive look that suits our style.
Steve used to work in a gallery back in the day and so we bought stretchers and he stretched it. Voila, a large artwork. Purchased with last summer's yard sale money.
So, we manage to do some little things to spruce up, but we are definitely a far cry from the past several years. But really, most DIYers can't sustain that super high level of project work.
We are trying to decide what to do this spring and summer. We may screen out wood floors to clean them up without sanding them down. If we do, I'll definitely post that.
We are planning another outdoor adventure this summer. This time to Yellowstone & The Tetons. That is our main indulgence this year.
And in case anyone wonders how Billie and Mojo are doing, they are just fine. Looking forward to spring and the end of the dastardly ice melt everywhere preventing their enjoyment of long walks.
What keeps me busy now that I'm not blogging so much? Well, the ever-present day job does take it's piece. And then there's my new mission, which is bringing a Farmers' Market to Rogers Park.
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Locate the total liabilities from the balance sheet. Locate the total stockholder equity from the balance sheet. Divide the total liabilities by the total stockholder equity. This calculates the debt to equity ratio.
Locate the previous year total revenue from the prior year income statement. Locate the current year total revenue from the current year income statement. Subtract the previous year total revenue from the current year total revenue. This calculates the dollar growth in revenue.
Read the income statement from the current year. Locate the gross profit and total revenue. Divide the gross profit by the total revenue. This calculates the gross profit percentage. Multiply the gross profit percentage by the dollar growth in revenue. This calculates the increase in equity.
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Greetings all,
I am a relatively new Linux user. My company uses CentOS for most of our Linux installations. I had an available laptop so i decided to install CentOS on it. I like the look and feel of Xfce and want to install it on CentOS, but i am unsure how to do this. I have the X11 window, and i can start firefox and download the files for installation, but I am not sure how to install the app. Someone suggested that i run
yum install xfce4
but that doesn't work.
Can anyone offer any assistance?
Thanks much
Maybe the group xfce4 is not in the repository. You can also try 'yum install xfwm4' (xfce window manager only), if this also fails, then there are probably no xfce packages known by the repo's you've installated. (I have absolutely no experience with YUM...).
You probably have a quicker (and better reply) when you try the CentOs forums.
This is intended (and tested) for clean install with CentOS5 (assumes installed only "base" from CD1)
Create install.sh file as follows:
echo "---- Update the system (note: if kernel is updated you will have to reboot)"
yum -y update
echo ""
echo ""
echo "---- Ensure fastest mirror plugin is installed"
yum -y --enablerepo=extras install yum-fastestmirror yum-plugin-fastestmirror
echo ""
echo ""
echo "---- Install X Window System..."
yum -y groupinstall "X Window System"
echo ""
echo ""
echo "---- Install X Window library dependencies..."
yum -y install `yum search libX*-devel | grep base | awk "{ print \$1 }"`
echo ""
echo ""
echo "---- Install other dependencies... "
yum -y install vte-devel gcc gcc-c++ autoconf automake gettext gettext-devel libtool pkgconfig intltool libSM-devel startup-notification-devel libpng libpng-devel libjpeg libjpeg-devel libxkbfile libxkbfile-devel python python-devel dbus dbus-devel libXpm libXrender libXcomposite libXdamage libXfixes gdm cups cups-devel cdrecord cdrdao mkisofs perl-XML-Parser libxml2 libxml2-devel alsa-lib alsa-utils alsa-lib-devel libXinerama hal-devel dbus-glib-devel libusb-devel pcre-devel
echo ""
echo ""
echo "---- Install RPMForge repo (for taglib), and taglib itself"
rpm -Uhv http://apt.sw.be/packages/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
yum -y install taglib-devel
echo ""
echo ""
echo "---- Download installers in /usr/src directory.... "
cd /usr/src
wget http://www.us.xfce.org/archive/xfce-4.4.0/installers/xfce4-4.4.0-installer.run
wget http://www.us.xfce.org/archive/xfce-4.4.0/installers/xfce-goodies-4.4.0-installer.run
wget http://www.us.xfce.org/archive/xfce-4.4.0/installers/Thunar-Bundle-0.8.0-installer.run
wget http://www.us.xfce.org/archive/xfce-4.4.0/installers/Thunar-0.8.0-installer.run
chmod +x xfce4-4.4.0-installer.run
chmod +x xfce-goodies-4.4.0-installer.run
chmod +x Thunar-Bundle-0.8.0-installer.run
chmod +x Thunar-0.8.0-installer.run
echo ""
echo ""
echo "---- Done."
echo "You must go into graphics mode (telinit 5 or better reboot in case of kernel update occured), and from the default WM (twm on clean install) start installers from /usr/src ."
chmod +x the file, run it. It will install all dependencies and download installers for XFCE 4.4.0 .
Reboot in graphics mode (restart and telinit 5 if your default initlevel mode is not 5), run the installers (eventually from twm if no other environment is installed). All should compile cleanly.
Optionally, you may want to follow these steps after installation:
- Remove unnecessary *-devel packages to free disk space (this however will keep the kernel and gcc devel packages):
yum remove `yum list *-devel | grep installed | grep -v kernel | grep -v libstdc | grep -v glibc | awk "{ print \$1 }"`
- Download fonts and fix font bytecode rendering:
Create a file with the following content, chmod +x and run it:
cd /usr/src
wget http://www.osresources.com/files/centos-windows-fonts/msfonts.tbz
yum -y update freetype
yum -y install gcc-c++ rpm-build xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-devel xorg-x11-devel automake autoconf libtool zlib-devel libX11-devel
echo "---- Wait..."
mkdir -p /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
ARCH=`uname -i`
FILENAME=`yum list freetype | grep installed | awk "{ printf(\"%s%s\",\\$1 \\$2,\".src.rpm\") }" | sed "s/.$ARCH/-/"`
rm -f $FILENAME
wget ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Client/en/os/SRPMS/$FILENAME
rpm -Uvh $FILENAME
sed -i 's/%define without_bytecode_interpreter 1/%define without_bytecode_interpreter 0/' /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/freetype.spec
cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
rpmbuild -ba freetype.spec
cd /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/$ARCH
rpm -Uvh --force *
cd /usr/src
mkdir /usr/share/fonts/TTF
tar xvjpf msfonts.tbz -C /usr/share/fonts/TTF/
rm -f msfonts.tbz*
echo ""
echo ""
echo "---- Done. "
echo "---- Make sure the directory /usr/share/fonts/TTF is listed as <dir> in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf !"
echo "---- Also, to avoid reverting at the next update, add/change the following line in /etc/yum.conf, [main] section: 'exclude=freetype freetype-demos freetype-devel' "
echo ""
Then you may need to fix your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and eventually install video drivers.
If you want to install the XFCE 4.4.1 version, just change the links for downloading installer appropriately. I think XFCE 4.4.1 will work with most goodies installed using 4.4.0 goodie installer, but I am not sure whether it is stable.
The only problem I noticed is thunar settings option from settings manager cannot be launched - complains something about d-bus. I do not know how to fix that.
Anyone working on rpms? I've emailed the person that created the rpms for CentOS4 and gotten no reponse and I emailed the person that created the rpms for Fedora and the email bounced. We use XFCE at work but we have multiple machines using it that are different and need to be installed as simple as possible vi a script. The GUI stops us in our tracks because it's intereactive. If RPMs were in the works I'd be willing to help build them and test if needed.
I wrote
The only problem I noticed is thunar settings option from settings manager cannot be launched - complains something about d-bus. I do not know how to fix that.
The missing library is dbus-x11:
yum -y install dbus-x11
I am running XFCE 4.4.1 with goodies 4.4.0 (installed using 4.4.0 goodie installer) and it is rock stable for now (installed it on several machines using the script above).
I will also be happy to see it as rpms.
Unfortunately I do not know how to do it.
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November 7, 2008
AAVSO ALERT NOTICE 301 (May 21, 2003)
OBSERVATIONS REQUESTED: 1041-59 ETA CAR and 2349+56 RHO CAS
EVENTS: Possible optical brightening of eta Car over next few months; Possible optical fading of rho Cas over next few months
Eta Carinae is one of the most interesting stars in the sky. According to predictions, 2003 could be a very exciting year for observing Eta Car. Below is a list of resources and information that can help you with your observations.
October 19, 2012: Dr. Noel Richardson (Universite de Montreal, formerly at Georgia State University) has requested monitoring of the Small Magellanic Cloud eclipsing binary HD 5980 (in Tucana) as part of a multiwavelength campaign he is coordinating to study this unusual system. Dr. Richardson writes:
September 10, 2012: Dr. Noel Richardson (Georgia State University) has requested that the observing campaign on the luminous blue variable prototype S Dor (AAVSO Alert Notice 453, AAVSO Special Notice #280) be continued through the 2012-2013 observing season.
July 26, 2012: The luminous blue variable (LBV) HDE 269006 = R71 in the Large Magellanic Cloud is brightening and is currently at V magnitude 8.3.
Observations in the AAVSO International Database going back to 1987 show HDE 269006 at visual magnitude ~10.8 until 2006, when it began to brighten, reaching magnitude ~8.5 in late 2009. It then declined to ~magnitude 9 by late 2012, where it has been since then.
May 9, 2012: We have been informed by Dr. Noel Richardson, Georgia State University, that the UV spectroscopy observations of S Dor to be made with the Hubble Space Telescope have been scheduled for
2012 MAY 11 from 21:21:55 UT to 23:55:04 UT.
During the 24 hours prior to and following the HST observations, as well as during them, please increase your visual/BVRI (or as many of these filters as you can) coverage from once per night to twice per night. Afterwards, please return to nightly observations until further notice.
February 23, 2012: Dr. Noel Richardson, Georgia State University, has requested monitoring of the luminous blue variable (LBV) prototype S Doradus as part of a multiwavelength campaign he is coordinating to study the photosphere of this star. At present the observations planned include:
1. UV Spectroscopy from HST
2. Optical spectroscopy from CTIO and an amateur in Australia
3. Near-IR Spectroscopy from SOAR (pending approval)
4. Mid-IR photometry from Gemini (pending approval)


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Vegan, Soy-Free & Gluten-Free Macarons? Yes, Please!
All right fellow sugar fiends, get ready for a sweet omnom drool session! 😉 I love sugar and I luuuuuuure French macarons, so when I discovered Feel Good Desserts made a vegan version, I FA-LIPPED out! And you know what? They're not on vegan, they're all-natural, gluten-free, soy-free, and refined sugar-free!
If you've never had macarons before, you gotta try these Parisian specialty cookies STAT. They are made out of finely ground almonds, and they have a crunchy yet delicate outer shell with a soft almond meringue inside. Feel Good Desserts' vegan macarons are filled with either a decadent cream or a chocolate ganache—biting into one of these is like tasting a slice of heaven. You HAVE to treat yourself to some of these—you'll thank me later (and feel free to thank me in the form of macarons). 😉
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Such a shame, they contain palm oil. That's an ethical vegan dealbreaker. Luckily, Sweet Maresas macarons are vegan *and* palm-free. They are pure heaven to eat, and their ingredients don't kill orangutans.
I honestly hated them. I bought the "fruity" pack at my local Viva la Vegan Grocery store here in so cal and I was so disappointed. They tasted like I was biting into some kind of sugar taffy. I know I shouldn't of expected them to taste like the real thing, but they tasted far too "vegan". Maybe the chocolate pack will taste better.
Oh my gosh how amazing these look!! I actually just ordered some vegan macaroons from Lagusta's Luscious in NY. I am VERY excited for their arrival!