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Teaching Your Passion: Preschoolers and the WNBA
Read about a preschool teacher's experience introducing one of her passions to preschoolers in the April/May 2013 issue of Teaching Young Children.
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Clearly Eric got the message when he went to see the Mystics, but is there any way to teach gender equality in terms of sports performance if you can't take the children to see a game with women athletes? Does it work to watch videos, like Sam Gordon for instance? Or even Billy Jean King and Bobby Riggs?
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This is an excellent question, thank you! In terms of gender equity in sports, I believe that falls into the category of making sure we as early childhood educators are creating an anti-biased curriculum with all children. One of my favorite words I use in workshops in creating an environment for all children is "infusion". The idea is, when speaking about women in sports here, is that the opportunities for both genders to see women participating in a variety of sports is part of the every day curriculum, not just something they see during the WNBA season. The books, the materials, the posters on the walls are inclusive of both boys and girls participating in sports. In the London Olympics last year, for the first time. all participating nations had female athletes taking part. In the classrooms where I coach and mentor, I suggested to the teachers to make sure there were articles and photos posted of both the men and women's' trials and triumphs. The USA won 46 gold medals in the Games, more than any other nation. Women won 29 of them.
I just took a group of over 100 preschool children to the Washington Mystics preseason game against the Brazilian National Team. One group of children wore t-shirts they made to the game. Each child chose a certain player whose name they put on their shirt. Not one child objected to wearing a shirt with a women's name on it. I credit this to the teachers in that classroom who, as both positive women role models, and having a curriculum that embraces infusion of strong images of ALL children in their curriculum, made a difference in these children's perceptions.
An excellent resource you may consider looking over is Tucker Center for Research on Women and Girls in Sport; http://www.cehd.umn.edu/tuckercenter/. They have a video called, "Throw Like a Girl: A Revolution in Women's Sports" which is worth watching. There is also the National Association for Women and Girls in Sports, http://www.aahperd.org/nagws/, and the Women in Sports Foundation, http://www.womenssportsfoundation.org/home/programs, for resources.
And yes, I still use Youtube videos when asked questions about many topics, including women in sports. This past year one of the children asked me if a girl can dunk and I was able to show Brittney Griner, the number one WNBA draft choice this year, dunking in MANY videos!
Though we have come a long way with Title IX celebrating its 40th anniversary last year, we still have progress to make in order to have true equity in sports. Again, thank you for the question and hopefully you will watch some of the WNBA games this year and share them with children around you.
I loved your article and the many suggestions for sharing your passion! It has been found that the trait of "resiliency" is of great importance in young children in dealing with what life brings to them. I am wondering about your thoughts in regard to using the sport of basketball-or any other skill for that matter-to help develop resiliency, especially if one's passion is something a person truly does not have the talent or skills for.
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I do agree wholeheartedly that developing resiliency is an important trait for young children. In looking over what has been researched and written about developing resiliency in young children, one of the most important pieces related to creating resilient children is "building a secure bond with a caring adult." The importance of that connection to an adult is something that can create a source of strength that children can rely on. In addition, another big piece is helping young children believe that are competent and capable. Many of the pieces that contribute to building resilient children are actually many of the same things that support healthy development for children.
In my experience working with young children around women's basketball, I have found that it contributes to children in positive ways that lead to the trait of resilience. It is not all about the skills of playing basketball per se (though certainly many children become involved in the actual playing), it also involves learning about sportsmanship, giving back to the community, health, nutrition, believing in your own strength and abilities, as well as positive, strong women role models in the community for the children.
In addition, sharing with children something we feel passionately about AND connecting it to young children's lives is one avenue to build strong relationships. When a teacher who loves music sings and does activities with children around music it feels different than just listening to a cd. When a teacher who loves gardening does projects with children around planting, it is much more meaningful than if we all just plant seeds in a cup. And then when a teacher notices what captures each child and tries to extend their ideas and experiences, it directly contributes to a child seeing themselves as competent capable learners. If you are interested in further resources on resiliency or teaching from your passions, feel free to contact me. Thanks for your question!
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Help us think about the genesis of such a project. Do you "introduce" your passion topic as a new theme/investigation, or share it as part of relationship-building in daily life and THEN pursue it more widely as children's interests suggest? Thanks for the inspiring article!
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There are different ways that I as well as the teachers with whom I work have introduced their passion topic. I believe that teachers can and should share who they are in the relationship-building in the daily life of a classroom. The idea of using biography boards I learned from visiting Hilltop Children's Center in Seattle, Washington was one way families and children learned about the people who worked at the program. On my biography board there were not only pictures on my family, there were favorite basketball players, beach pictures, animals and more. When I taught there would always be a current photo of my favorite NCAA team, University of Maryland Women's Basketball team, the Terrapins and the WNBA team, the Washington Mystics. There was a permanent small basketball net installed in the classroom as well as an autographed basketball. Just as we hopefully surround children with pictures and items of people and things they love, I believe strongly in the "bringing yourself to work" idea. Children naturally asked questions about those things we as teachers shared in the classroom which could then prompt the discussion of a topic.
Sometimes the topic is introduced as a special event to invite children's interest. One teacher who is very much into environmental awareness used Earth Day as a way to introduce recycling and caring for their own school ground surroundings. Interesting questions evolved from this, including one on "how do you know what is trash?"
In addition, depending on your passion, it can be a theme or investigation that expands even to a year -long topic. For example, caring for animals was always an ongoing topic of investigation in our classroom as we had animals that needed attention and, as David a three year old would say, needed "love". The passion for children understanding about nature, pets, and caring for animals was an easy one to maintain because the teachers cared deeply too.
I hope this gives you some ideas to start. Let me know if you need further ideas. Thanks for the question!
The one thing I see in sports at times is lack of decorum or sportsmanship. What is being taught or can be taught at this young age about sportsmanship in the game of basketball? This too would carry over to their lives not only the game but at home, in school, and in life.
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As part of a donation program, I sponsor classroom's attendance at a local Washington Mystics game—the women's professional basketball league, the WNBA, discussed in the article. We talk with the children and tell them they will see one team win and another team lose. We encourage the children to pay attention to the player's reactions when dealing with disappointment about not making a shot to actually losing the game. Children comment that the players actually shake hands at the end of the game instead of, as one child put it, "getting mad". These first hand experiences help children learn about how others deal with sadness, disappointment, frustration as well as joy, excitement, and enthusiasm. A big piece of teaching children how to behave is to first let them learn about the range of expressing feelings in appropriate ways. In addition, we coach the children ahead of time that we do not boo the players as they all are trying to do their best. Instead, they learn encouraging cheers and how to say "good job" to the opposing team. We hope all this contributes to children learning some of the basics of good sportsmanship. Like we tell them, it is okay to be disappointed and sad you lost the game. How can you best express the feelings and gather the energy to try again the next time. Thanks for the question!
Playing Basketball w/o Equipment
We've just begun our balls study. I'd like to get the children connected to the game, but we don't have preschool size equipment. I'd appreciate your ideas on inexpensive ways to have a "real" basketball game.
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When I first read your question, it reminded me of my very first basketball hoop I created as a young child—a wire hangar bent the best way I could into a circle and a pair of my mother's nylons I made into the net!! One way to begin is to obtain a ball for the children to use and learn how to dribble. We have used regulation size basketballs from the WNBA and NCCA teams. Check with your local teams to see if they would donate at least one to your classroom. We have also used small nets that hang over the back of a door and let children practice shooting with a mini-basketball. Last but not least, one teacher was very creative and made a miniature court on a piece of paper, created players with different sized figurines and they used ping pong balls for basketballs. Take a look at the article as there are a couple good pictures of ways teachers have made up for not having a preschool sized hoop. When I taught at my preschool, we lobbied to get an adjustable hoop installed outside on the playground so all children could play. Have fun!
Teaching preschoolers how to play basketball
I think teaching preschoolers the game of basketball is a great idea! To me, basketball by far is one of the few safe sports for children. Sure, every sport has it's risks, but it's one game where the players don't need protection gear! There is no reason for direct, physical impact against other players. No head injuries!! Basketball helps young children develop hand and eye coordination, gross motor skills and teamwork. Everyone gets to play, and everyone needs to run! That's perfect exercise. You don't always make the shot, but that's okay. You keep trying.
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Certainly that is one of the reasons fouls are called in basketball to prevent injuries! It is an interesting topic of conversation I've had with my preschoolers that basketball players can be called for a foul if they accidently or on purpose hurt another player. It is an active, engaging sport that so many children can participate in with joy. I agree that basketball can be a safe sport, yet certainly the energy and the players from the WNBA and NCAA play can lead to unfortunate injuries. There certainly has been more attention given to protecting players which is a real positive. I love the sport and you are right, everyone can play, run and shoot! Have fun and enjoy the game with the children!


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The point of this thread is to be a comprehensive summary of the available javascript libraries - but with a twist.
Most threads I've seen thus far with regards to libraries are:
Inevitably, responses to these threads are short "jQuery rulz" or "Prototype is too big" or "You can't forget Mootools" responses that end up falling short of what the OP is typically looking for.
Let's break out of the mold and make this thread different. Each response should contain a comprehensive summary of the poster's experiences with their favorite library. Try to include things like:
That should be a good list to work from, but is by no means complete. As the thread gets bigger, I'm certain we'll end up with a huge compendium of solid, real-world experiences for just about all of the libraries out there!
I'll post the first response to demonstrate what I mean. Hopefully this can become a good resource for people new to the world of javascript libraries and possibly point them in the right direction in making a choice.
I'm currently using Prototype for my project(s).
Before getting into the "why I chose prototype" section, let me provide a little bit of background for the project I'm working on.
My employer currently utilizes a CMS that they inherited from the late 90's. The system, although antiquated, does the job for which it was intended and has been doing so for awhile. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it", right? As the needs of our business has changed over time, so has the needs of the CMS. For many years, the Web 1.0 methods have worked fine:
Recently, however, the change requests from our business partners have become more and more complicated. Web 1.0 model wasn't going to work. We had to build several "Rich Interfaces" to enable some of the more complicated business requirements.
For example, the business needed a means to create ad-hoc surveys - with the ability to search for and reuse questions/answers from other surveys, the ability to copy questions/answers and edit them as 'new', and create new questions/answers on the fly. A Web 1.0 application to locate, assign, and save these surveys would have been too bulky and required way too many clicks to get around.
There were additional requirements such as the ability to create/read/update/delete various tree structures (and nest them) for navigation of certain learning materials.
Based on these requirements, we were faced with a couple of choices:
As most IT folks know, rolling your own is time consuming. In addition, the accounting folks NEVER want to pay for all that development time. Option 2 was our choice, so we did some research. There are many many other libraries out there that we looked at, but only a few were given a more thorough review (listed here in alphabetical order):
I'm not going to express in any great detail how each library "stacked up", but here's a very short list:
While the eye-candy was important, we really needed some heavy-hitting on the client-side to process a lot of data. For example. One feature in our survey tool was the ability to create/edit questions. We created a question 'class' and bound it to certain icons' click events:
var Question = Class.create();
Question.prototype = {
initialize:function(id,params) {
//some initialization stuff
Event.observe($('q_icon' + id),'click', this.clickFunction.bindAsEventListener(this));
clickFunction:function() {
//do stuff to this object's params
When a question was created, we did something like this:
var something = new Question(numericId,{
"txt":"What is your quest?",
"We seek the holy grail",
"To find a shrubbery",
"I want to be in grave danger",
"To discover huge tracts of land"
Anytime the 'edit' icon was clicked, for example, the closure to the question object would allow us to directly edit that object's parameters without having to search for it in the DOM or elsewhere in some 'master' object.
While prototype's Ajax.Request object isn't any more grand than the others, we do enjoy the Ruby-esque means to loop through the returned JSON from searches:
returnedArray.each(function(result) {
//do stuff to display results and build objects
Beyond the client-side processing of objects, we don't need any animation, so a simple $('elementName').hide() or .show() is sufficient.
For implementation, our first hurdle was the download. Prototype is pretty big. After we minified it and enabled gzip on the server, it was reduced to around 30KB; much more palatable and kept the bosses happy (we pay for bandwidth)
The second hurdle was the learning curve. Many developers would consider JavaScript to be a toy language meant for rollovers and alert boxes.
I think the biggest benefit to using prototype is now our code has some commonality. Everyone on our team knows how to use .each, $(), and just about every other method/extension that prototype provides. The common code base makes it a lot easier to read each others' code (especially if someone is on vacation) and there's no bickering over which library is better. While it's great that jQuery would do better for feature A and YUI has a better widget for feature B and mootools has a cool accordion; it's far less hassle when everything is based on a single library.
If you're trying to decide on a library, I recommend prototype for the following cases:
I've purposefully avoided bringing in Scriptaculous to this discussion because we've considered it more of a 'fringe benefit' to Prototype rather than an integral part of our needs.
There you have it - my reasons for (currently) using prototype.
It's called jQuery UI: http://ui.jquery.com. It's more than just graphical extensions, it's a library of widgets that allow you to rapidly build rich internet apps.
Hi there,
I am a huge fan of jQuery and Dojo. I am working a lot with Dojo right now.
One issue I have with prototype is that it rewrites some of the global namespace - such as array. When you use prototype you get their arry - not a plain old javascript array - and you have no choice.
One thing I like about Dojo and jQuery is that they respect the global namespace - for when you just want JavaScript, but both offer powerful features. As I'm working with Dojo's object oriented architecture to create some fairly robust apps - I am liking it more and more.
The coolest thing is Extjs.. i know it's a resource killer but they have there something amazing
The X Library.
I didn't consider any other libraries. X is my own library so I'm more comfortable with it than with someone else's. That's not to say that I don't make use of other people's open-source code - I do when the need arises. And of course, I do study the source code of other libraries .
Recently I developed a fully Ajax enabled "Dashboard" type application (think "google analytics") for my employer, and X has served me extremely well in this project. I didn't have any real problems in using X to do this but it did reveal some areas where X could be improved.
If you are looking for syntactic sugar or lots of UI objects or OOP support - then X is not for you. X is a straight-forward, function library. It is very small, extremely cross-browser, and robust (I've been developing it since 1999). The "core" DHTML functions provide a great foundation upon which to build your own objects. You don't have to include the entire library into your project - I provide a utility that searches your project files and creates a custom X library file containing only the functions used in your project.
BTW... if you are the copy-n-paste type, then X is definitely not for you
I absolutely love YUI, with all of the extensive documentation, and proper implementation of design patterns, and emphasis on OO and event driven approach to JavaScript. To me, YUI is a whole JavaScript resource and coding philosophy.
Now if you just want a really great collection of scripts that require less engineering prowess ... I'd go with JQuery, hands down. Different tools for different teams.
To me, YUI is for a serious engineering team and pairs great with a Java/MVC backend. JQuery will be a lot more reasonable to PHP and probably a lot of .Net developers as well, who are more scripters/coders than engineers per se.
I would generally avoid Dojo or Prototype, or Rico.
Best Library Ever.http://berniecode.com/writing/animator.html
A good overview of available JS libraries: JSDB.io


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"I wasn't thinking it was the last out at the end of the no-hitter. I was just running on adrenaline the last couple of innings. My mind kept wanting to go into pitching mode."
"Believe me, I was thinking about where he was with the pitch count. But he was under control and even got better with his delivery and command. He had that 'eye-of-the-tiger' look."
"You don't see it very often. He probably threw 40 pitches in the bullpen before the game and eight between innings, so it adds up to around 200. For him to continue to execute pitches was remarkable."
"To be honest with you, I thought that was a hit off the bat. Hunter comes flying in out of nowhere and makes the Superman catch. It was hard not to feed off the excitement that that caused."
"We just couldn't get anything going. The team's ticked. We're not swinging the bats. We're not pitching. We're not playing the way that we can play. There's no doubt about that, we're not getting it done, bottom line."
"In Cuba, there wasn't much press. Here, I have a lot of press on me, and it's not something I really like. Maybe they don't understand the situation I'm in. I'm not bad, I just don't like the press and I don't like the fame. I'm having fun and I want my team to get the attention. There are a lot of guys in the bullpen or in the dugout waiting for their turn to talk. It's not that I don't want to give an interview, I just don't want all the press all over me."
"It's everywhere we go, and it's every time he steps his foot in the locker room. It's like bam, bam, -bam. He just wants to go play. We have to give him a little bit of a break. We have to look at it a little bit from his side. He's coming from a different country, just gets to the big leagues and it's like 'wow.'"
"I've been an aggressive player since I was a little kid, and I thank my father and all the trainers who worked with me over the years for that. It's my style. But in this game, I'm learning you have to let guys like Hanley Ramirez and Adrian Gonzalez do their jobs. I feel bad about messing that up sometimes, but they help me when I make errors. That's something I'm working on. I'm always going to give maximum effort, but I'm realizing I have to be calmer."
"I don't mind a guy playing with a little attitude, honestly. I played with Rickey Henderson, he was a guy who irritated a lot of people, but he was a pretty good player."
"You just never know. I think Vegas lost a lot of money today if they saw our lineup and the guys we ran out there. But you can't judge and handicap heart and putting the ball in play."
"It's been a while. In Triple-A I got three starts in center field. I took fly balls and had early work (in the outfield) every day in Triple-A, but up here I really wasn't doing it because of the way the roster was set up—there were so many outfielders, it seemed impossible (he would play outfield)."
"I remember it happened to us in San Francisco in 2002. We lost every outfielder. We lost every one of them. We lost Barry [Bonds], we lost [Tsuyoshi] Shinjo, we lost Kenny Lofton. We lost all of them. I was wondering, 'What the heck is going on?' … My dad told me don't think worse because it can get worse. I remember saying at that time, 'This can't get any worse than this.' Bam! We lose another one."
"I think that we're lucky that the All-Star break is around the corner where you can use those four days. If we were in the middle of a 19-day stretch or something like that, it would be a lot tougher to deal with the injuries, but with the four days of the All-Star break, I think it comes at the right time, if there is such a thing. I think if it's in the middle of a long stretch, it would be a no-brainer to say 'We're going to have to DL somebody.'"
"Bobby [Cox] was not afraid to put them in there when they came up here, and we'll keep that tradition going."
"We have to stay true to our vision. If you start trying to take shortcuts and rush prospects through the system, you end up shortchanging their development. We wish we could speed these things up a little bit."
"One thing that will separate us as a farm system is the numerous potential impact guys we have. We've had some depth for a while, but now there are a handful of guys we can look at and say, 'If we do a nice job helping them reach their ceiling, they could be potential impact players in the big leagues.' We need those guys to get to where we want to go. It's nice to look at that, but we have a long ways to go."
"You have five, six, seven guys who have tremendous bat speed and athletic ability. It's nice to know a year has gone by and we have a lot of guys getting really close, and signing a kid like this, the best hitter in college baseball, is just another piece of the puzzle."
"I expect a lot out of myself. I probably put higher expectations on myself than most people do. I go out there every day and expect to do great. I wasn't shocked at all. I know I have the talent in me to do great things on the field. I've been blessed with great, great skill in this game, and I did have a great year."
"We're pretty excited about these guys, but these guys are pretty far away right now. We all know what happens to prospects. Yeah, it'd be awesome to see all four of those guys and more up in the big leagues in a couple years. But history tells us that is probably not going to happen. There's no doubt they're really exciting and they have tremendous potential, but none of them have played past Double-A yet. That's something that's not lost on any of us in the front office. We keep a level head about where they are, and as excited as we get, we always remember that."
"That's the main goal, that's what the organization talked to us about before we signed. To be a championship team, to be a World Series champ, that's what we're all looking forward to. It's a process, and we're just trying to work hard right now to get there as fast as possible … It's coming, it's coming. Sooner or later, we're coming."
"I'm definitely being careful, making sure my legs are under me and slowly working into it instead of going all out. Sometimes your instincts take over and you have to make a move that your body's not ready for."
"When you get a player like that who can add value, not only when he's at the plate but on the basepaths, but also when he's out there at second base, those are the types of guys we feel we need to have and have long term. Removing some of the uncertainty for him and for us at this point makes sense."
"People said don't play him against left-handers. Well, I feel like this guy can get big hits against left-handers and guess what? He has. He still has presence against left-handers, which helps the other guys. You have to stick with guys. If you react off everybody else, you're going to have guys in and out of here daily. You have to have a little faith every now and again. But you have to have reasons and indicators to have that and I had plenty of those."
"For me, it's more important to have the ring, especially since I signed as a free agent here, and I tried to get a ring here for the city of Chicago. The Hall of Fame, maybe when I get retired, I can see my numbers and what I did in the big leagues, and maybe my kids and my family can be proud."
"That's bogus, the way I look at it. In batting practice every single day, we have rounds where all we try to do is hit home runs. People always say a bunch of bogus stuff: 'It messes up your swing.' Ah, no.'"
"I didn't just say, 'OK, I think I'll be good now. I'm tired of [stinking]. Everybody's like, 'What's your secret?' I've always been a good hitter, I've just never been a good hitter at the big league level. What no one is talking about is how much pressure was really on me last season, because if I hadn't performed last year, it probably would have been my last shot."
"He's a few years older than me, but we grew up a few minutes from each other. Growing up, everybody kind of strived to be like him. He was kind of the first high Draft pick out of our area, and I really credit him for a lot of scouts discovering that area. This was kind of before a lot of the showcases where you could be seen. You had to go get seen. He was that first one, that first-round pick. I remember the day he got drafted. They announced it over the PA system, 'cause we were still in school. The excitement, the buzz around him made me work harder."
"I was still going to school, still substitute teaching, doing all of that, and I was coaching, too, so that kind of passed the time, kept me busy. We were on spring break with the high school team, so that kind of occupied my mind, but the week after spring break, I said 'Hey this might be it for me, but there's a chance I might come back.' The high school coach was like, 'You're not coming back.'"
"We were very touched. My gosh, he'll think of him every day when he picks up his son. There's not too many things that you can do that are more meaningful than that."
Andrew Koo is an author of Baseball Prospectus. Follow @akoo
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Didn't know about the Jered Weaver quote - he's what you would want in a teammate.
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Yes, the title is quite ironic. Virtual files. Isn't any file virtual? Anyho.
Say that I write a file format used for 3D models, which combines the 3D files with the textures, AO, ...
How would I be able to read that file without have to create temporary files out of that.
Basically: 5 files into 1 file to write to read: load them all during runtime while not having to create 5 actual files (so some sort of buffer system)
EDIT: Forgot to mention which language, dumb me.. It's C++
Why would you need to create temporary files? Just read the file into one big memory buffer, then set up pointers to the individual resources within that, and access them as you please.
Yes, that was my question.
I have never had that much experience with file streaming, and I didn't know that that was possible.
But now that I think of it.. Thank you
You can actually manage the whole harddisk from your own program just out of one file, set up access pointers, defragment, find writable positions... thats how sparse voxel octrees work, being able to find all the exact information out of one file so it quickly streams. You can do the same thing with ram, just allocate it all into a single static buffer, then manage the internals yourself with your own code.
So basically write it all into one file And then when reading, read it into one buffer, and then (possibly) Set up multiple pointers pointing to positions in the buffer which represent beginnings & endings of files within the "master" file.
Or am I mistaken?
You could do it like that, but think, how are you going to reduce access times from just iterating through the list of files until you hit the right string comparison? Remember, this is how all "file packs" or "file wads" (like from doom) work, but you need to be able to extract the right information as quick as possible.
If you wanted to release a game, its good to do, its tacky (carmageddon was sold with about 10 million separate files in the program hehe) releasing a game with all the media in separate files people can just import into editors so simply, if you pack them all away you can add compression whilst copy protecting your media, visual studio can pack media in with the exe file, also.
[EDIT] actually, if you just wanted to load the whole thing, what reedbeta said would be all you need to do, but if you wanted to say load each level one at a time, you need the extra searching pointers.[EDIT]


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Aphid populations are present in low numbers in some wheat fields, but have reached or exceeded threshold levels in others. Most economic infestations have been found during the past 2-3 weeks in Western and Southwest Missouri fields. Aphid numbers vary greatly between fields, so be sure to look at each field before applying insecticides.
Although five species of aphids are often found in Missouri wheat fields (greenbug, bird-cherry oat, corn leaf, English grain, yellow sugarcane), at present the bird cherry-oat aphid is the one species causing problems. Because this aphid species tolerates cold conditions, it can overwinter in Missouri wheat fields. Damage from bird cherry-oat aphids may occur throughout the growing season, even during winter months.
All species of aphids found on wheat damage plants by removing plant juices using their piercing-sucking mouthparts. The bird cherry-oat aphid and greenbug are the most damaging species because in addition to direct damage caused by feeding, they also transmit the viral plant pathogen yellow barley dwarf (BYD). All five aphid species reproduce parthenogenically which means they produce several generations of living young, mostly females, which are pregnant when born without mating. Occasionally males will be produced, but several generations of aphids may occur without mating taking place.
- Bird cherry-oat aphids are medium sized aphids with olive colored bodies and reddish-orange patches on back at base of cornicles (tailpipes). Antennae, eyes, and tips of legs and cornicles are black in color.
- Greenbug aphids are small pear-shaped aphid, 1/16-inch in length. Pale yellow to pale green in color with black legs, cornicles, eyes, and a predominant dark green line running down the length of the back.
The bird-cherry oat aphid and greenbug are often serious pests of small grains including wheat. Whereas the bird cherry-oat aphids may be present throughout the growing season, the greenbug usually does not overwinter in Missouri, but instead migrates into the state each spring during early season movement of storm fronts from more southern and western states. Similarly, bird cherry-oat aphids may occur over the entire plant and often be at ground level during periods of cold or windy weather. In contrast, the greenbug is generally found in colonies on leaf surfaces whenever present on the wheat plants.
Thresholds are based on the average number of aphids present per foot of row depending on plant height and stage of growth. There is much controversy as to appropriate thresholds for each of these aphid species. The use of high performance wheat varieties, the high price of wheat sold for grain, difficulties in finding certain aphids during scouting, recent research in Missouri, and many other factors suggest that our traditional thresholds are no longer suitable. With this in mind, our current recommendations for control of bird cherry-oat aphids and greenbug in wheat are as follows.
Bird cherry-oat aphid thresholds: Treatment is justified if 12-15 or more aphids are present per foot of row during the seedling stage in the fall through head formation the following year.
Greenbug thresholds: Scout several locations in the field to determine number of aphids present per linear foot of row. Treatment is justified if the average number of greenbug per linear foot of row are 50 or more greenbug on wheat with less than 3 tillers, 100–300 aphids or more on 3-6 inch height wheat with 3 or more tillers, or 300-500 aphids or more on 6-10 inch height wheat prior to harvest.
Regardless of aphid species present, producers should consider the number of beneficial insects present (examples: adults and larvae of pink ladybugs and other species of ladybird beetles, parasitic wasps), the stage and condition of the wheat plants, and whether the wheat is under additional stressors such as drought. The presence of high numbers of beneficial insects will increase the threshold and reduce the need for insecticides, whereas, increased stress on plants will call for lower thresholds as stressed plants are less able to withstand aphid infestations. If economic threshold levels of bird-cherry oat aphids have been reached or exceeded, use one of the following recommended insecticides. Insecticide efficacy will be greatest on days when temperatures reach 60 degrees Fahrenheit or warmer.
INSECTICIDE RECOMMENDATIONS 2012 - WHEAT Aphids
|GREENBUG APHID - Schizaphis graminum (Rodani)
BIRD CHERRY-OAT APHID - Rhopalosiphum padi (L.)
ENGLISH GRAIN APHID - Sitobion avenae (Fabricius)
CORN LEAF APHID - Rhopalosiphum (Fitch)
YELLOW SUGARCANE APHID - Sipha flava (Forbes)
|Comments: Greenbug Aphids tend to be occasional problems on winter wheat in fall of year and again the following spring when winged aphids migrate into the state from more southern locations. Treatment is justified if 25 to 50 or more aphids are present per linear foot of row during early seedling stage (1 or 2 tillers present). Later stages of wheat rarely require aphid control. Other control strategies include use of greenbug resistant wheat varieties and preservation of beneficial insect populations by avoiding nonessential insecticide applications.
Bird Cherry-oat Aphid has increased in importance in Missouri wheat during the past few years. This insect builds in numbers during fall and may transmit barley yellow dwarf virus to wheat plants during this period. It has been found overwintering in Missouri wheat fields and builds in numbers the following spring. Economic damage is mainly caused by the barley yellow dwarf virus although this aphid does suck plant juices from wheat plants by using its piercing sucking mouthpart. Recent Missouri wheat trials indicate that both fall and spring populations of this aphid can cause substantial yield reductions in some years. Based on these data, the economic threshold for bird cherry-oat aphids is to treat when 12 to 25 aphids or more per linear foot of row from seedling emergence in the fall to heading of plants the following year.
English Grain Aphid does not transmit barley yellow dwarf so damage to wheat is only through feeding which removes plant juices. The economic threshold for this aphid is to treat when populations of 100 or more aphids per tiller are present.
Corn Leaf Aphids and Yellow Sugarcane Aphids rarely reach damaging levels due to heavy mortality of these aphids from biological control agents. Corn leaf aphids are capable of transmitting the barley yellow drawf pathogen.


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- Solve addition problems to 100 by counting on in their heads.
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- Solve multiplication problems using skip counting in twos, fives, and tens.
- Solve division problems by equal sharing in ones, twos and fives.
- Find simple fractions of regions.
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- Identify all of the numbers in the range 0-100, at least.
- Say the forwards and backwards number word sequences in the range 0-100.
- Order numbers in the range 0-100.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator Rajiv Shah will travel to Johannesburg, South Africa, from June 29-30 to attend the Partnership for Newborn, Maternal and Child Health (PMNCH) Forum and to launch the first-ever Every Newborn Action Plan that was recently endorsed at the World Health Assembly. Dr. Shah will launch the Every Newborn Action Plan in collaboration with UNICEF, and the World Health Organization, in partnership with PMNCH, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, USAID, and several other global organizations and constituents
From Johannesburg, Shah will join Dr. Jill Biden in Zambia. As announced on June 24 by the White House, Dr. Biden will travel to Zambia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Sierra Leone from June 30 – July 7, 2014. Administrator Shah will travel with Dr. Biden in Zambia, along with Catherine Russell, U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues.
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THIS week marked a milestone in the life of Luca Railton as the ten-year-old was able to stand with both his feet flat on the ground for the very first time.
Luca, who was born with no bone in his right knee, no right tibia and only a partial left tibia due to a rare condition called bilateral tibial hemimelia, had never managed the simple task which most of us take for granted until he underwent life-changing surgery in Florida.
It heralded a happy turn in the Cricklade schoolboy's young life, who just a few months ago faced having his right leg amputated.
His mother Teresa described watching her son standing on his feet on Wednesday as a dream come true for her and husband Alex.
"Today we saw our Luca take his first steps with both feet flat on the ground," she said. "Luca has never been able to do this due to not only the feet being in the wrong position but the fact he wore callipers to support his legs.
"Our brave boy, with the help of his amazing physiotherapist Dayle Jackson Federico, took his first steps bare feet on the ground with his walker.
"Alex and I have been waiting for this moment for so long. Dr Paley and the PT team are making our families dream come true.
"We have a long way to go but this is such a major milestone for Luca. Over the coming weeks, with the help of the amazing physiotherapists, Luca will get stronger and begin to take more steps.
"This will then help the surgeons to establish if the lengthening needs to happen."
Luca underwent a second procedure on May 28, almost two months to the day after a first operation in March.
This time around the surgery did not go exactly to plan as no steps were made by his surgeon, as initially expected to try to lengthen his leg.
But despite this, Luca made a much swifter recovery than he did following the first operation.
Bilateral tibial hemimelia affects just one in a million people.
A few months ago, Luca was told by NHS doctors they would have no other option but to amputate his right leg or fuse it straight.
But American surgeon Dr Dror Paley told the family he could save Luca's leg.
Teresa and Alex spent the following months raising the £135,000 needed for the operation. They have so far collected nearly £100,000.


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Biochar has the potential to increase crop yields and nutrient value, conserve water, combat climate change, and reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, according to the U.S. Biochar Initiative (USBI). The problem is that relatively few people have heard of biochar, a form of charcoal that can help restore soil carbon, filter stormwater runoff, and reduce greenhouse gasses.
Farmers, foresters, researchers, biochar producers, entrepreneurs, and environmentalists will convene in Amherst, Mass. on October 13-16, 2013 to learn more about biochar and share the latest research and application techniques with their peers. The 2013 USBI North American Biochar Symposium, titled "Harvesting Hope: The Science and Synergies of Biochar," will take place on the UMass Amherst campus and include farm tours and a "carbon negative" banquet of delicious foods grown with the help of biochar. The conference is sponsored by USBI.
"The biochar industry is turning waste into 'black gold' for agriculture," stated conference director, Karen Ribeiro. "Biothermal energy companies are extracting the biochar as a byproduct and selling it. Farmers are enriching their soil by adding biochar. The biochar-enriched soil is sequestering carbon, which can reverse the carbon build-up in the atmosphere," she added.
"The biochar movement is heating up," Ribeiro said. "Biochar producers are reaching a point of profitability. Everyone wants biochar to scale up faster, from the gardener who's creating their own biochar in a cookstove to companies like Cool Planet Energy Systems, which has attracted investors like BP, Google Ventures, and ConocoPhillips." She added, "The symposium is a space where activists and investors can find common ground."
The conference will feature keynotes by Congressman James McGovern and renowned author Frances Moore Lappe, as well as a plenary with international biochar authority Johannes Lehmann of Cornell University. Activities will range from an introductory half-day workshop for farmers and gardeners on Sunday, Oct. 13, that is open to the public to presentations from scientists and researchers from around the globe.
"Expanding the use of biochar can simultaneously help address food security, conserve water and reduce our dependence on fossil fuel," said Ted Wysocki, chair of the Pioneer Valley Biochar Initiative, which is hosting the conference. "We need to get more people and companies involved. So in addition to the tracks on the science and benefits of biochar, policy and community engagement, and feedstocks and production, we've got an entire track focused on scale, sales and marketing," Wysocki said.
Attendees won't just be talking about biochar, they'll be chewing on information at a "carbon negative" banquet on Monday, Oct. 14, from 5-9 p.m. at UMass, which is also open to the public. "Our 'Biochar Banquet' will feature delicious local produce grown in biochar-conditioned soil, as well as a variety of local meat and 'adult beverages' enhanced by biochar," Wysocki explained.
The public is also invited to a free Video Lounge featuring Ted Talks, feature films, and select YouTube videos on Oct. 14 and 15, from 10 a.m.-10 p.m., and on Oct.r 16, from 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
To view the conference schedule, visit http://scholarworks.umass.edu/biochar/2013/. To register, go to http://symposium2013.pvbiochar.org/register.


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Should Eugene allow skateboards on city streets?
EUGENE, Ore. - Skateboards on city streets.
Electric bicycles on paved off-road paths.
And no riding or skating on city sidewalks.
Those three proposal are up for discussion Monday at the Eugene Public Library.
Bicyclist Elizabeth Miller isn't sure she'd want to share the roads with people on skateboards.
"I would be concerned about skateboarders only because when I've biked by them, they tend to step out really wide and I've almost gotten hit by them unexpectedly," she said. "As a cyclist I'd probably be pretty worried about it."
Lee Shoemaker, the bicycle-pedestrian coordinator for the City of Eugene, said they're considering this proposal to give skaters one more way to get to the new W-J Skatepark once it's open.
Police aren't entirely sure yet how such a change would affect their work.
"If we allow them to operate in the street, we have a bit of a quandary," said Lt. Doug Mozan with the traffic enforcement division. "If a skateboarder violates a vehicle law, how do we hold them accountable?"
The City of Eugene will hold a public open house on Monday, Nov. 18, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at the Eugene Public Library Bascom-Tykeson Room, 100 W. 10th Ave., on the three proposed changes to City bike and skateboard laws.
The session will include a staff presentation followed by questions and comments from the public.
Proposal 1: Allow electric assisted bicycles to be ridden on off-street shared use paths. Currently, city code does not allow electric assisted bicycles to be ridden on off-street shared-use paths with the electric assist device engaged although electric bikes are considered bicycles under state law. Eugene's prohibition is inconsistent with other cities in Oregon. Electric assist bicycles are increasingly popular because they allow users to travel for longer distances, carry more cargo on their bikes, and to get an extra boost when needed.
Proposal 2: Expand the downtown bicycle and skateboard "no sidewalk riding" zone to cover new areas where pedestrian safety concerns have been expressed by the public. Several alternative zones will be presented for consideration inside the area bounded by 6th Avenue, High Street, 13th Avenue and Charnelton Street. This proposal is intended to improve public safety in high-pedestrian areas.
Proposal 3: Allow skateboards to be ridden on city streets. Currently, skateboards cannot be ridden in the portion of a street designated for automobile traffic, except when crossing a street in a crosswalk or at a right angle. Skateboarding is currently completely prohibited in areas of downtown Eugene and near the University of Oregon, where it is also banned on the sidewalks. This proposal would make skateboarding a more viable transportation option especially in areas where it is illegal to ride in the street and on the sidewalk. Skateboarding is increasing as a travel option, and the new WJ Skate Park will generate more demand for skateboarding from current residents and visitors from out of the area.
The public input received at the open house will be used to help determine what changes to the code will be recommended to the City Council in 2014.


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