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Pests and pesticides
Information about how to deal with common household pests like spiders, bedbugs, carpenter ants, silverfish and firebrats.
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Are pesticides safe?
Pesticides are made from both man-made (synthetic) and naturally occurring (biochemical) active ingredients. For example, the lawn care product 2,4-D is synthetic, while a pesticide with acetic acid (found in vinegar) is biochemical.
Cosmetic pesticide bans
When people talk about using pesticides for "cosmetic" reasons, they usually mean using pesticides to make lawns look good.
Homemade pesticides
Preparing, storing, and using homemade pesticides can be dangerous to your health and the environment. Any pesticide should be used carefully, whether it is store-bought or homemade.
Insect repellents
Insect repellents (often called bug spray) can help protect you from mosquito and tick bites. Insect bites can cause several health problems, from itchiness and irritation to potentially serious diseases.
Pesticide spray drift near homes
Pesticide spray drift happens when a pesticide stays in the air long enough to drift off the area being sprayed and onto other areas by accident. Pesticides commonly sprayed include herbicides, insecticides, and fungicides. Spray drift near your home could come from pesticides being applied to lawns, gardens, parks, or nearby farming areas.
Pesticides and food safety
To be healthy, we need to eat a variety of foods, especially fresh fruits and vegetables. Pesticides play an important role in making sure there is enough food for everyone, by protecting food and crops from pests (insects, weeds, and fungal diseases).
Using pesticides on your lawn
You do not have to use pesticides to have a healthy lawn.
Use pesticides safely
If you choose to use a pesticide in or around your home, you are responsible for using it safely.
Pest control tips
Ants may be black, brown, red or yellow and can create new colonies by a process of swarming or budding. The appearance of winged queens and smaller winged males means that swarming is taking place.
Aphids are small, soft-bodied, pear-shaped insects that have long antennae and a characteristic pair of cornicles (short tubes) extending on either side of their abdomen. Their translucent bodies are most usually green, red, brown, yellow or white.
Bats are flying creatures of the night, not much bigger than a house mouse. Bats can live up to 10 years. The wingspan of the two most common Canadian species, the little brown bat and the big brown bat, ranges from 20 to 35 cm (8 to 14 inches) although some can be larger.
They will feed on both people and pets. Bedbug bites may not be noticed right away because bedbugs typically feed at night when people are asleep.
Blacklegged (deer) ticks
Use pictures to identify blacklegged ticks from American dog ticks. Also learn how their appearance changes during and after feeding.
Carpenter ants
Carpenter ants construct nests by burrowing into wood. Because of their preference for moist, decaying wood, their presence in a home can signal a moisture problem, or wooden structures suffering from decay.
Centipedes, millipedes, sowbugs and pillbugs
Although unattractive and considered a nuisance, especially when found indoors, these creatures are not harmful.
Chinch bugs
The hairy chinch bug is a common species of chinch bug in Eastern Canada. Hairy chinch bugs, with their piercing-sucking mouthparts, feed on the sap of grass plants.
Clustering flies
Homeowners are often bothered by the appearance of sluggish flies in their homes in late winter and early spring. These flies are collectively called "clustering flies" but may actually be any of the three most common types of flies.
Cockroaches have been an insect pest for about four million years with more than 3,500 species that exist worldwide.
Despite their scary appearance and reputation, earwigs are not directly harmful to humans. In fact, they are often beneficial, acting as scavengers of decaying matter and predators of insect larvae, slug eggs, aphids, and other garden pests.
Fleas are not just an annoyance, some people and animals suffer allergic reactions to flea saliva resulting in rashes. Flea bites create a small, hard, red, itchy spot, slightly-raised and swollen with a single puncture point at the center.
Gypsy moths
Gypsy moths are a concern because the larvae feed voraciously; mostly on the leaves of deciduous trees, but also on some conifers. During the larval stage, a gypsy moth caterpillar can eat an average of one square metre of foliage.
Ladybugs are among our most beneficial insects. They are voracious and efficient predators of insect pests. A single one will consume thousands of insects pest in its lifetime.
Moles and voles
Moles are insectivores. Most do not eat plants, but feed mainly on earthworms, insects and grubs. Voles resemble house mice, but have a shorter tail, a rounded muzzle and head, and small ears.
Mosquitoes are aquatic in their immature stages, and must have still or very slow-moving water in which to develop. The entire lifecycle from egg to adult can take less than 10 days when the temperature is favourable.
Pigeons tend to breed and roost in groups. The largest problem that they cause is the amount of feces they produce. It is the accumulation of pigeon feces that may pose a health hazard to the general public.
Rats and mice
Scampering and scratching sounds in the walls of your home at night, signs of gnawing or chewing, or damaged food packages can mean you have an infestation of mice or rats.
Silverfish and firebrats
Silverfish are covered with shiny silver scales that give the body a metallic sheen. Silverfish and firebrats are nocturnal insects that are commonly found in attics, basements, bathrooms, wall voids, subfloor areas and cracks or crevices.
Slugs and snails
Slugs and snails are molluscs, as are oysters and clams. They are similar in structure except that the snail is protected by a hard, calcareous shell that makes it less susceptible than slugs to dry conditions and sun exposure.
Spiders commonly found in Canadian homes include house spiders, wolf spiders, cellar spiders, fishing spiders and, much more infrequently, black widow spiders.
Tent caterpillars
The three most common types of tent caterpillars in Canada are the Eastern tent, the Western tent and the Forest tent caterpillar. Tent caterpillar outbreaks are periodic but do not happen on a regular cyclic basis because they largely depend on several environmental and biological factors.
Wasps are medium-sized insect pests 10 to 25 mm, and are easily recognized by the bands of black and yellow or white on their stomachs. However, many other types of harmless wasps look similar and can be mistaken for pests.
White pine weevils
The white pine weevil causes extensive damage to many types of evergreen trees. These beetles are dark brown with white and tan patches on their backs and a prominent hooked snout of the weevil.
White grubs
White grubs are the larvae of certain beetles, such as June beetles and chafers. Grubs are one of the most difficult lawn pests to deal with. Grubs are white or yellowish and have fleshy, wrinkled, C-shaped bodies with tan or brown heads and six spiny legs.
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I'd like to build a welding table to weld augers.Any ideas?
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Need help welding helical flight.
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Grain augars?
JUst curious as to what type of augars and if so where can you get material to build your own grain augars.
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One source is these people. http://www.rfsaugerflighting.com/
They have been around for a few years, I remember them advertising in farm magazines and newspapers back in the '80's. Unfortunately, have no personal experience with them, just never had occasion to deal with them.
You can also order helical (continuous) or sectional flights thru many bearing supply/power transmission dealers, find one that deals with Martin Sprocket or Screw Conveyer Corp. or similar. Usually what I do.
To answer the original question, if you plan to build many of these, you need a rack, not a table, that will hold the center pipe high enough to fit the flighting on it. Also a way of stretching the helicoil so it tightens up on the pipe before welding. I still build them occasionally, but just do them on the ground or the back of the truck, nothing fancy.Obviously, I'm just a hack-artist, you shouldn't be listening to anything I say .....
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Any ideas on augar making you have come up with not posted?I'm intrested in this idea of building them yourself. Any thoughts you have please share.


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I recently put a new muffler on my truck, but the welds are hideous. The pipe is so thin that it's hard to make an effective weld without burning through. Any advice is appreciated since I'm doing it all over again when I get some larger pipe to use.
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You aren't going to get an answer on here if you don't tell what type of welding equipment and setup you are using. Not because we're mean, but because it is impossible.
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They are horrible looking because usually the metal / joint was horrible to begin with. The best advise I can give you is welcome to welding 101. Practice is the only thing that will make it look good.
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Schooling must develop in the students the capabilities required for being engaged in a life-long process of learning.
We are at a very critical juncture in history. We have resources available to us unimaginable in the past- financial resources, knowledge, technology, human resources, wealth of experience etc. We are also facing crisis very unique to our age. Everything we thought we knew about ourselves and our universe is constantly evolving and/or changing.
The most important role schools can play now is to prepare individuals who know how to learn and who take ownership of their own learning and development of the society around them. The schools themselves need to be in the process of constant learning and they also need to learn to create environment where individuals can learn to learn- both individually and collectively.
The question to ask ourselves are: what changes are required in the structure of schools? How can schools start focusing more on capacity building rather than information accumulation? What kind of environment encourages ownership in learning? How can schools be themselves involved in learning?
Nov 12 2013: I believe human curiosity is innate and that provides an impetus to spend our lives wondering and questioning - some more than others - and, hopefully, enjoying a lifetime of learning through those processes.
As for effective and relevant reform, the very first thing to do is scrap the outdated employment mandate that is at the core of virtually every school curriculum on the planet. Instead,replace it with one that works with each and every student to first identify their strengths, weaknesses and personal interests and then work within that framework of knowledge to support each and every student in finding their own level of achievement and participation within their respective communities.
In other words, if we fully and sincerely invest the time, resources and money in our children's innate curiosity then who knows what wonders they might manifest?
Nov 13 2013: I completely agree that by nature human beings have thirst for knowledge. However, this potential needs to be nurtured and we need to learn how to learn in a systematic way. Science has a lot to offer in teaching us the methods of inquiry.
I also agree that the economic activity have taken a central place in human existence and the "employment mandate" which drives economic activity has become the very driving force of our education system.
How does a teacher identify strengths, weaknesses, interests and talents of students? What is the process?
Nov 13 2013: Of course what I envision fist requires a sincere commitment of resources in every sense of the word so this is all fanciful at best.. Having said that, I feel the basic teacher requirement would be the ability to establish rapport - meaning good listening and communication skills - and all the rest should follow.
As usual class size will always be an issue, but only for the bean counters. To adequately assess the WIST - weaknesses, interests, strengths, talents - of individual students an ongoing rapport is required and a continuity of connection between the teacher and the student. In other words, a tutoring structure with 1:1 interactions with whatever number of students a teacher finds they can manage, sometimes in small groups, sometimes 1:1 . I suspect the limit would be in the 8:1 or 10:1 range since these numbers have been found to work well in support and therapy groups.
There is a wealth of information regarding the ages and signs of changes in the student such as mental, psychological and reasoning development that can used to prepare for subsequent stages of learning as well as identifying and facilitating the students' current WIST.
A huge barrier will probably be the home where the attitudes and behaviour of parents and siblings can have unexpected consequences - prejudices, abuse, neglect, ridicule are just some of all too common familial issues - that will impact upon both a teacher's and a student's learning processes.
Other factors such as diet, exercise and learning environment are also relevant but I suspect not as important as the above.
but if all those concerns can be properly addressed then the student will probably be the teacher as much as the designated instructor.
Nov 13 2013: Class size is certainly an important area. Now a days with schools becoming a big source of business the classrooms are stuffed with 40-50 students. All that can happen in such classroom structure is accumulation of information. Such large numbers also restrict the relationship between the teacher and students. Only a few get to actively participate and the rest remain passive listeners at best. Small numbers, as you mention, allow for close relationship which is very important for learning. In small numbers, students learn from each other and not just from the teacher.Nov 13 2013: I feel that many people have difficulty overcoming a certain obsession with conformity. Many people think that is the real purpose of school--it's to make us all alike, get along with each other, follow the rules, do things the right way and also get the same basic knowledge before we get to "go out in the world." Why? There is ample evidence that there is more knowledge left to discover and create in the world than what we already know. Why do we place these limits on youth?
Why do people have to wait to finish school to contribute to society? There are many examples of very young children contributing to society but we pathologically overlook that. We choose to value conformity and certainty instead.
This obsession with conformity coupled with our pathological fear of uncertainty makes it a huge challenge to overcome. I have encountered many young parents who have a strong sense of the inadequacies of the education they grew up with and they express a desire for something different and more relevant for their own children. But when it comes down to allowing a really different path to be taken, even those parents tend to retreat back into what's familiar--usually citing a fear that their kids won't get what others are getting or what they need. It's a tough one. And this is just at the level of everyday individuals....If we get to the power-brokers and those who control all the funding then we have a whole other set of challenges to overcome.
Schooling as we know it is rapidly becoming irrelevant. Maybe we should just let it fade so that alternatives can rise up?
Nov 14 2013: Contributing to society must in fact be part of the education as only then will the students be truly able to evaluate their understanding and develop their capabilities to contribute to the betterment of society. Contributing to society and individual development must happen simultaneously. For this to happen, the structure of schools, as they exist today, must certainly fade away and be replaced by new structures.
However, many of the individuals who will bring about such changes are still participating in the current system of education and therefore they too cannot be overlooked at the moment and we must try and do whatever we can to salvage their development.
Perhaps as more and more courageous people take the new path we will reach a tipping point that will then slowly make the current system of education obsolete.
Nov 14 2013: Actually I think the current system is already obsolete. I feel that maybe some evolution is happening only because these kinds of ideas we are talking about are becoming more acceptable in the mainstream. We are not the lunatics we used to be. So maybe little by little new structures will become more prominent and more widely accepted. It's probably inevitable but I just wish it could all happen more quickly.
About the contribution to society issue...I totally agree it needs to be part of education. What bothers me a lot is that adults don't really take that sort of involvement by younger children seriously. We often go in with the assumption that we have to decide what the contribution will be and we have to structure everything for kids; we have to choose for them because, well, they are just kids after all. It's well-intentioned, but I feel it's also wrong-headed. This is one of the barriers to real change.
We adults have to open ourselves up to the possibility that even very young children can chart their own course when it comes to learning and contributing to society. It's amazing what can happen when we don't tell kids what and how to think all the time. Thanks Shahzad for bringing up the idea....Nov 13 2013: The rabbit saw the certificate, he at once ran out of the scene to save his life.And during the process of giving and taking the certificate the busy wolf could not notice what had happened.
The hungry wolf again went to the lion and narrated the whole incidence and asked him "How do you prey your food?","What do you do when certificate is demanded?
The lion said "When I pounce on my prey with my paws fiercely, that is the proof itself that I am lion"."My Action itself is the certificate of myself"
Nov 13 2013: I completely agree with you that degrees and certificates have become much more important than learning. Could you please elaborate on what this story conveys?Nov 13 2013: Hi Dear Alam:).I am glad to see a topic which is aboutchildren's life-long learning.
But to be honest,the fir st thing we should be aware:most of learnings only work in childhood.If people missed the period to learn,they will lose learning whole life.For the point,I am intersted in observing children learning,and of course I do observe adults learning too,as well as myself:).
Another thing we need to be aware of learning materials to help children to shape their values in life.It is very important.It deserves to keep on searching how,what for that.
It is always good to keep discussing the topics about education.The much you do the better we will know.Thank you.
Nov 13 2013: No doubt, education is such an important topic that we certainly need to "keep discussing the topics about education".
Certainly, when learning starts at childhood the results are very different and a lot of habits of learning and patterns of behavior do take shape in early childhood. However, to get good teachers for the children right now we have to work closely with youth who did not get a good foundation in childhood.
I have been working with junior youth and youth for the past 10 years and believe that a lot can still be done with them.
Education imparting values is certainly a very important area and one with a lot of controversies. Another challenge is also integrating the education of values with the education of sciences and arts. Would you like to expand on what kind of values are important to learn and how can they be learnt?
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Nov 12 2013: Curiosity is part of human nature. Schools don't need to teach children to learn -- they need to allow it.
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That said, if the sole purpose of school were to encourage learning, it would have to be completely redesigned. Mandatory courses, schedules, age-based sorting would all have to go. It would be like an academy in the ancient sense, or a noisy library, where students come to learn and socialize and collaborate and take elective classes without any official structure. In fact, there are schools like this today -- search up "Sudbury school" and "Democratic free school" on Wikipedia.
(In an ideal situation, any degree of compulsory attendance (even, for example, being required to spend a number of unscheduled hours per week at school) would be unnecessary. From a young age children could be socialized into the "culture of learning," being sent by their parents to some kiddie-academy, so that when they are older they will go to the real academy -- which would contain a few outlets of entertainment, not just studying -- voluntarily.)
However, the main purpose of modern schools is not to enlighten individuals, but to benefit the national economy. This purpose hasn't change since the Industrial Age, when compulsory state education was first conceived. The meaning of "benefit the economy" has changed slightly, as businesses of the Digital Age value creativity more than those of the past. Nonetheless, it's clear that public schools exist primarily to accustom individuals to a working life.
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Nov 13 2013: How can the schools "allow" learning? What does it mean in practice? Also what should be the "purpose of learning"?
Nov 13 2013: The purpose of learning is to make sense and understand--then it's up to the learner how and when to use their knowledge.
You might check out the work of Harvard Project Zero and Making Thinking Visible for examples of what all this means in practice.
Alot of those ideas are connected with the practices of early childhood education in Reggio Emilia, Italy. It's amazing and has been up and running for over 50 years--check it out. I went there once and amazed at how culturally ingrained the idea of the child as competent as a learner and a social being is in their city. Their practices have been adopted by others around the world and so there is a lot written about it.Nov 13 2013: Teaching kids to learn is absurd, given that the urge to learn is natural; allowing learning means not doing anything beyond encouraging it, providing access to educational resources, and occasionally guiding the learner's inquiry.
Obviously, not all children are eager learners -- that can be knocked out of them through political or religious indoctrination, or by the coerciveness of schools that force in-depth studying of subjects that may not interest them, among other things. But systematically teaching kids to learn is unnecessary if they have access to information, some interaction with adults, and an social environment that embraces intellectualism.
Fritzie -
Nov 12 2013: There is a lot written on this question, as the primacy of equipping students for lifelong learning is pretty much universally accepted- that the focus of schools should be on such capacity building more than the shoveling in of facts. I do understand that in some countries shoveling in those facts remains peculiarly popular.
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Two resources in which you will find excellent ideas are Bransford's How People Learn and the Cambridge Handbook of the Learning Sciences.
As you are in teacher training, I think these would be a great place for you to start!
A really fast response is to model and engage students from the earliest grades in inquiry, finding things out for themselves, thinking about the credibility of sources of information, taking notes and recording questions and ideas followed by pursuing those questions, and so forth. Students need to learn how to think about questions and problems rather than believing that the way you learn is to ask someone in authority to tell you the answer. One learns this by having questions posed and being expected to think and try to formulate possible answers, getting constructive feedback and advice on which areas of inquiry and argument need to be considered more critically and so forth.
Nov 13 2013: Thank you for the resources. I have started reading Bradford's How People Learn.
As you mention, "students need to learn how to think about questions and problems". How important is "praxis" in learning or can we say that understanding can take place through theoretical inquiry and arguments only? What does this mean for the process of learning?
Fritzie -
Nov 13 2013: People learn in the context of application. But if you are in teacher training, I expect you know this.
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You will find this covered well in both these references.Nov 20 2013: Programs:
Tai Chi
Wing Chun
Intricate dances of the world
Bring a grandparent to school dayNov 20 2013: Shazad, I really liked the list of things your father has taught you....these words of advice are foundations for success. Reading the posts, I felt the need to talk about the issues around competition in our education system and in life. I wonder if this concept is found in intrinsic and extrinsic motivation and how important it is that children develop intrinsic motivation in all areas of life. I find that this is sadly not the way society is though when success is measured by your material possessions or financial standing. I wondered what your thoughts are on the importance of developing intrinsic motivation in our young children and how this can be best achieved in today's fast paced and competitive society. It's something I struggle with in my teaching career on a daily basis.
Nov 21 2013: As you mention, developing intrinsic motivation in our students is very important. I think competition can sometimes limit our growth. We can become content with being better than others rather than striving to developing our potential to the fullest. It can also diminish the joy of learning if we constantly compare ourselves with other's potential. Also, motivation that comes from being better than others starts developing certain traits in us that are harmful- jealousy, self-righteousness, pride and we also becoming prone to using wrong methods to becoming better- cheating.
How this can be done is also something that I am constantly learning as well. The consciousness of why they are learning is very important in this regard. If one is learning and developing capabilities to contribute to the advancement of civilization than one is motivated to continuously develop and finds joy in other's development as well.
We human beings are attracted to beauty and order and this too can be a great motivation. When we read a poetry and learn to appreciate it's beauty we becoming motivated to understand different poetry and it's depth. Scientists are motivated to understand the order in the universe and being able to understand the diversity and order in the universe gives them joy and fuels their motivation to go deeper and find more order. Mathematics is all about representing the order and beauty in universe through beautiful equations. Sociologists are motivated to understand the order in our chaotic society and it's processes. Understanding is a joyful process and helping students find their motivation in these things in very important.Nov 21 2013: Hi, Erina and Shahzad
I'm not in any way professionally involved in education, but I love to read and think about general concepts regarding human behaviour. One of my general methods of approach is to simplify "problems" and search for analogies in other areas.
Erina wrote: "I wondered what your thoughts are on the importance of developing intrinsic motivation in our young children and how this can be best achieved in today's fast paced and competitive society."
...and I immediately had to think about the process of development shown by young primates.
Young primates (and others species) Are initially occupied with two things: getting food and exploring the world. So to me, curiosity is an intrinsic motivator for a major part of their behaviour. They are not being educated at all except for two things: avoiding danger and knowing their position in society. Nobody is forcing them to learn how to crack a nut or how to use a stick as a tool. They learn those things in a later stage, when THEY are ready to learn those skills. And they learn it, just by being curious (or hungry)...
I think, that today's society is forcing the pace for the average youngster to develop. I think that we suppress their intrinsic motivation factor called curiosity through the method of reward and punishment.
As far as I know, the only occurrence of deliberate punishment (bullying) by primates is to establish a hierarchy. As far as I know, the only occurrence of rewarding , done by primates, is to confirm a hierarchy.
So today's schools are primarily occupied with...
...forcing youngsters to act as we have learned from our own parents and teachers.
I agree Shahzad, it is time to change the system.
p.s. I love this spelling control tool ;-)Nov 17 2013: Shahzad,
In one of your comments you mentioned competition. You always compete with yourself but use others for an external ruler. That is why you want to be with other students as good or better than you to let you push yourself. I went through grades 1-12 with roughly 35 friends, one won the Science search (then called the Westinghouse) for the entire Nation. The college I went to in its entire history, there were 32 with 4.0 at graduation, 33rd was in my class and in the same major. Same thing happened in grad school.
My father said three things to me
1. do your best
2. always know that there is always someone better
3. never give up.
Nov 17 2013: It is very important to vie with oneself and become better today than I was yesterday and to understand more (depth and breadth of learning) today than I did before. We learn together with others- learn from them as well as contribute to their learning. Striving to help others advance is an inseparable aspect of advancing oneself. It is in this sense that I think competition ie becoming better than others, does not contribute to learning.Nov 15 2013: Is competition, in any form, good? Is becoming better than others a motivating factor for advancing in our learning? What would be more fruitful- competition or cooperation? Do we all live in families where every member is competing for more resources, more care, more love, more attention etc? Can we imagine societies where competition doesn't exist? Can we visualize sustainable development and competition coexisting? Can we at end fight poverty and at other end encourage competition (survival of the fittest)? Can we learn to cooperate in all human endeavours? Should schools help students learn to create environment of cooperation and maintain it?
Nov 15 2013: When I read your remarks, it seems as if you like to put competition opposite of cooperation. I like to think that humans, individually and as a society, act as a dynamical system that contain both those entities. Intuitively, I think that they are both necessary assets. Competition started as a survival tool that put humans at their current place in the biological hierarchy. So did cooperation.
Do you prefer water over fire?
The only point that I tried to make in my previous post was the fact that modern society – especially in schools - does not seem to recognize the fact that competition has become the main motivating force for children to learn things. As a result, it seems that competition is incorporated in about every aspect of life, also in circumstances where competition is harmful.
Lack of recognition is the keyword. Not competition.Nov 15 2013: Ten questions in seven lines. I like that!
Is competition, in any form, good?
- Only when you are aware that you compete. Only when you are aware of the consequences for the looser.
Is becoming better than others a motivating factor for advancing in our learning?
- Yes.
What would be more fruitful- competition or cooperation?
- Water or fire?
Do we all live in families where every member is competing for more resources, more care, more love, more attention etc?
- Yes! In general this happens until a member of that family recognizes this situation and points out that sharing an cooperating is a better solution.
Can we imagine societies where competition doesn't exist?
- Personally I cannot. I love playing chess! ;-)
Can we visualize sustainable development and competition coexisting?
- I'm now thinking about things like "the solar car challenge"
Can we at end fight poverty and at other end encourage competition (survival of the fittest)?
1. The definition poverty contains a subjective component. It is only meaningful, in relation to wealth.
2. Competition does not need to be encouraged. It is omnipresent
3. I think that we – as humans – should be aware that survival of the fittest was a useful asset to have in the prehistory, but that we don't need this anymore today in western society.
Can we learn to cooperate in all human endeavors?
- Yes, when we are aware that we need to cooperate. There is hardly a limit to the process of learning.
Should schools help students learn to create environment of cooperation and maintain it?
- Yes, I think that cooperation is a powerful tool.
ps. I assume that your questions were to provoke my cooperation and not to challenge me ;-)
Nov 15 2013: Thank you for not seeing my question as me challenging you and that was certainly not my intention and I apologize if it seemed that way. I think competition and cooperation are important concepts to reflect on as they influence what we are learning and how.
I completely agree with you that we do not need competition anymore in any society (not just western) and that cooperation is a powerful tool.
In the context of learning, the question we need to ask ourselves is whether we still need to continue to learn to compete with the other species to ensure our survival. If yes, then we should not worry about the animals and plants that are getting extinct because of unbridled human activity. But if no, then we need to do away with it in all forms (don't know about sports). Competition in the past might have been a survival tool but I think the only survival tool for our future is to learn to live in harmony with nature.
As far as this discussion is concerned let us not talk about sports as I too enjoy chess. Not because I like winning but because it tests my mind and makes it more sharp.
- competition and cooperation to me is not like water and fire but like water and slow poison.
Nov 16 2013: I feel like being distracted from your initial topic and the question you put down in the title page:
"The question to ask ourselves are: what changes are required in the structure of schools? How can schools start focusing more on capacity building rather than information accumulation? What kind of environment encourages ownership in learning? How can schools be themselves involved in learning?"
Reading these questions I noticed that you did not to mention the role of schools regarding education in social behavior. I initially – accidentally - skipped a few steps in the effort of stating my point. I jumped to details. I will rephrase my point of view:
I think that education in general - and at all levels - should simultaneously pay attention to (and educate in) the social, moral and ethical aspects of the areas of interest.
As a result of better social education we can avoid that today's students will spoil toxic waste on shores of developing countries by the time they are CEO of a chemical company. We can avoid that today's students in finance, economics or whatever, will deforest complete countries and annihilate fauna when they finally hold key positions in business society.Nov 21 2013: Dear Rene, I completely agree with we must pay attention to the social, moral and ethical aspects and in fact they must be integrated into the study of sciences and arts. This will ensure that the solutions we implement in one sphere does not end up harming the other aspects of life.Nov 14 2013: Intriguing questions.
I think that both schools and the average parents are mainly preparing kids to take part in a rat race called "living on this planet". I think that this rat race is caused by our biological habit to establish a hierarchy. To me, this is the equivalent of fighting your way to a place in the pecking order. Having said this, I think that there is nothing fundamentally wrong with hierarchy in society or at schools.
However: I think that hardly anyone on this planet is AWARE of the fact that he is participating in this competition on a daily basis. It has become a natural habit, taught to generations of children by generations of parents and teachers.
I think that we have to teach children that there is competition and there is a hierarchy to be established, but that they have a choice, as adults, when to stop the competition. It should be enough for grownups to choose do the life they like and to choose the profession they are good at. You don't need to dramatically change school systems to do this.
We, ourselves should be aware when we are competing, and we should be aware that competing is OK as long as it is voluntary. This world is big enough to support all of us. (I hope)
In the case of changing education systems, I think that we need consensus about the cause first. If we don't find the real reason why things have to be changed, we might just be curing symptoms.
Nov 14 2013: "We, ourselves should be aware when we are competing, and we should be aware that competing is OK as long as it is voluntary." People need to realize that the quest to obtain status is a game, and that those who choose not to play aren't necessarily losers. Without that awareness any system wherein status is determined by wealth, occupation, influence, etc. is a religion.
Nov 15 2013: Or better yet, we need to learn to change the game and it's rules so that competition and the habits of thoughts it promotes may die out and be replaced by cooperation and habits of thoughts that promote cooperation.Nov 14 2013: Naturally, it is important to set directions for schooling, but presently a more important question is not WHAT, but HOW. There is a superfluity of well-tailored ideas for schooling, but no one came up with specific solutions.
As you described it, knowledge has a cumulative character. This is why schooling and parenting are processes that happen over a longer period of time, or - to be more precise - we learn unendingly till our last breath. I guess it would be much easier if we could profile schooling from the early stage. In this way we could sustain a healthy deal of interest in the subject and educate better specialists.
Let's be honest, with our current pace of informational flow, it is impossible to be an erudite. We need to give up some of the general knowledge and dedicate our efforts and time to more specific subjects. I still believe intelligentsia proper is characterized by at least basic knowledge in the most fundamental areas, but it will be increasingly more difficult.
Nov 15 2013: Every "what" will have a different "how". Unless we have some understanding of what the purpose of schooling must be we cannot even start thinking of how schooling must be. I completely agree that schooling is a process and that our understanding of how and what must constantly evolve and advance. But right from the beginning we need to simultaneously talk about what and how of schooling. Without destination we cannot set direction and means of getting to destination. But again education is a process with no end but we still need to constantly ask ourselves, "what am I educating myself for"?
Nov 15 2013: Certainly, we need to have some kind of background to implement the system into the bigger picture. Without a shadow of doubt, a theoretical foundation is essential. However, there are many WHATs already, but almost no HOWs. This is what I was trying to highlight.
Schooling itself encompasses many complex process, covers vast areas and employs a plethora of efforts and people, so tweaking the mechanism is not easy. Of course we can speak of more localized teaching endeavours, but since you pose more general questions, I think we should consider much wider contexts. Shaping the attitude of a prolonged learning process is multi-level and cannot be done in separation.
Hence, the knowledge transfered during class must be not only attractive and fascinating, but also applicable and fathomable, mainly to create a chain of interdependencies between knowledge and life to enunicate the significance of the latter in our existence. Now imagine our contemporary school and its financial potential, let alone teachers who are very often unsuitable for the position and they have little idea how to handle the whole thing.Nov 14 2013: Investigation of reality is a collective process. Social learning or collective generation and transmission of knowledge across generations — is a defining characteristic of our species. "Learning" in schools must also be a collective process. What would this mean in practice?Nov 13 2013: I would like you to read and enjoy this story :
The story goes like this ...
Once upon a time a forest in the far away place got infected with the disease of Degrees and Certificates.The disease spread like wild fire and every creature in the forest got infected with it.
One day a wolf in the forest was very hungry and in search of the food she started to wander in the forest.While she was still searching she saw that a rabbit was sitting at the bottom of the root of a big tree.She quietly approached the tree and as she was about to pounce upon the rabbit. The rabbit became alert and immediately fired her couple of questions.How should
I know that you are wolf ? Do you have a certificate to prove that you are wolf?
After hearing the questions the wolf stopped and asked the rabbit. What do you mean ?
The rabbit said "Do you have a certificate to prove that you are a wolf?"
The wolf said "No".
The rabbit then said "Are you sure that you are wolf, you may be something else."
The wolf got so much confused that she started to think "Am I a wolf or something else?"
Now she was thinking that who will certify and give the certificate, that she is a wolf.If she cannot be proved that she is really a wolf then she will have to remain hungry and end her life.
While she was thinking that who will give the certificate , at once the idea came to her mind that Lion is the king of the forest.
Then she went to the Lion and narrated the whole episode to him.
After listening to the who story, the lion said , I will certify and give you the certificate that you are wolf.
The wolf recieved the certificate from lion and again went to the rabbit.
She thought that the rabbit might have ran away to save his life. But the rabbit was honest and was waiting for the wolf.
The wolf handed over the certificate to the rabbit.
Continue ....


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Singapore - Sunday Family Lunch at Lao Beijing (老北京食堂), Tiong Bahru Plaza
Sunday family lunch at Lao Beijing, one of the Tung Lok Group's more successful brand. What we had:
- Starters were soy-braised tofu & jellyfish, plus thinly-sliced stewed pig's ears & tongue in aspic. Both were delicious.
- Double-boiled minced pigeon-meat soup. This is a trademark dish of the Tung Lok Group - I first tasted this dish over 2 decades ago at the Charming Garden in Novotel Orchid Hotel, Dunearn Road - the first restaurant run by the Tjioe family which then expanded to become the successful islandwide Tung Lok restaurant chain which we know today.Still one of the best Chinese soups in town.
- Xiao Long bao: give the ones here a miss - a bit too bland :-(
- La mian in a spicy minced pork soup. Not very good here - the version by Crystal Jade La Mian Xiao Long Bao chain beats the hell out of the bland rendition here.
- The famous sweet-sour-flavored "squirrel-shaped Mandarin fish" (松鼠桂鱼) - beautifully-prepared here, and not too sweet as those I tried in Shanghai or Suzhou (authentic Mainland Chinese tastes do *not* suit Singaporeans). Loved this dish.
- Pan-fried & steamed meat buns. Good but not particularly memorable.
- Stir-fried long beans with minced pork & garlic. Standard rendition here.
- Stir-fried egg-white with fish, dried scallops & lump-fish roe. Very well-executed here, with firmer texture than those I'd tried elsewhere.
- Dessert: Double-boiled snow-frogs' glands with red dates & wolf-berries, and lemongrass-scented jelly.
I've always enjoyed my meals at the Tung Lok Group's stable of restaurants, and this lunch at Lao Beijing was no exception.
Address details
Lao Beijing (老北京食堂) @ Tiong Bahru Plaza
302 Tiong Bahru Road
#02-12 Tiong Bahru Plaza
Tel: +65 6376 4466
I usually go to the Lao Beijing branch in Novena Square. I find Tiong Bahru Plaza to be more cluttered and noisy, and will only go there in the past if I'm visiting Loy Sum Juan Cantonese restaurant, but it has moved back to Chinatown (now at Murray Street, where as it was in Pearl Centre before the Tiong Bahru location).
I sometimes also try Rajah Inn, which moved in here from Golden Mile Complex. Indonesian-influenced Asian food ;)
re: huiray
I was in China once and saw how/where they harvested these glands, The snow frogs lived in Northeast China and at a certain time of the year, these frogs crawled up the trees and died there (after spawning). The harvesters will come and pick the dehydrated, blackened frogs' carcasses off the trees, bring them back to the villages where the workers will remove the dried up "glands" from the dry carcasses.
Even a small portion of the dried stuff will expand a few dozen times its volume when put into a basin of water to rehydrate. I didn'tknow what else went in there as my wife and I both don't speak Mandarin and we couldn't understand what our guide was saying.
re: racer x
Also some medicinal benefit depending on if you subscribe to that idea or not.


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Why she always lying though?
Telling me them diamonds
When she know they rhinestones
She got a light-skinned friend, look like Michael Jackson
Got a dark-skinned friend, look like Michael Jackson
I played Ready for the World
She was ready for some action
My dogg said you ain't a freak
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You gon' take your pants off
I'mma play this Gladys Knight
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A judge ordered this week that a Leonardtown woman remain in jail in lieu of $50,000 bond on charges alleging she repeatedly struck two young children last weekend at a residence in the town, before she ran outside as a witness called police.
Linda R. Pearson, 21, was charged with two offenses of second-degree child abuse and second-degree assault from Saturday's incident, and court papers state that law officers responding to the scene found bruises on the two toddlers.
Pearson also was charged with resisting arrest and disorderly conduct. Police took her to a hospital, where her screams were heard throughout the emergency room, and she struck one nurse in the face while "kicking her feet wildly," according to a statement of probable cause filed by St. Mary's sheriff's deputy Matthew Pleisse.


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Softball releases 2004 schedule
Tuesday, September 09, 2003Johnson City, Tenn. (Sept. 9, 2003) -- East Tennessee State's softball team has released its schedule for the upcoming 2004 season. The Buccaneers, who finished 2003 with a runner-up finish at the Southern Conference Softball Championships and a 28-26 record overall, will open their 2004 campaign with a home doubleheader against Mars Hill on Feb. 13. "We are obviously excited about the upcoming season," said head coach Amy Fuller, "especially considering what we have to build off of from last year." The Bucs also travel to a few early-season tournaments before getting into the bulk of their conference season. ETSU has entered tournaments at UT-Martin, the Rebel Games in Kissimmee, Fla., Winthrop, and Virginia Tech. A trip to Knoxville is also part of the 2004 schedule, when the team meets Tennessee on Feb. 25. Southern Conference action gets underway on Mar. 27, when the Buccaneers go to Boone, N.C. to face Appalachian State. Conference newcomer Elon will be the first SoCon team to come to Johnson City, when the Phoenix arrive for a three-game series beginning April 3. Other home contests that appear on the 2004 schedule are games against non-conference opponents Radford and Tennessee Tech and SoCon foes College of Charleston and Furman. ETSU will also participate in this year's State Line Classic, a one-day event that will feature the Buccaneers along with Virginia Tech and Radford. The Classic will be played in Bristol on April 21, with game times still to be determined. The Buccaneers, who landed a total of four players on the 2003 All-Southern Conference first and second teams, return all but one player from the last year's roster and all nine starters. 2004 schedule
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Movements of people toward greater self-governance sometimes struggle to gain lasting hold, but there is a determination in the human spirit that drives these movements toward freedom. And it often takes multiple attempts at revision to eventually get it right.
http://www.montpelier.org/blog/parting-shot-south-yardAs we approach Thanksgiving, we thought it would be fun to share with you an appropriate find for this time of year when "sumptuous" feasts are on everyone's mind. As mentioned in a previous post, we are completing our excavations in the South Yard where we just recently located a linear trench that is 2.5 feet wide and runs for at least 12 feet.
Visitors to Montpelier during James Madison's retirement vividly described the Drawing Room as museum-like and full of curiosities. Among these curious items was an "electrical machine," likely intended as a party novelty to convey scientific principles and encourage socializing. Considered cutting-edge technology in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, electrical machines, also referred to as a "philosophical instruments," were used to demonstrate emerging theories of electricity.
The first of several carpet installations at Montpelier was laid on Friday, October 28. The Dining Room floorboards are once more covered with the installation of a Brussels weave carpet. In the nineteenth century, elegant carpets conveyed status, provided warmth during cool weather, protected floorboards, and enhanced the overall appearance of a room by thematically linking furnishings.
If you saw Richard Brookhiser's recent appearance on "The Daily Show," you might have been surprised to hear him say that James Madison was 5′6″. The height of America's fourth president is a recurring topic of interest to visitors and readers. So, how tall was Mr. Madison?
James Madison, like many of his peers, was a man dedicated to knowledge of geography and history. In an August 1822 letter to William Taylor Barry, Madison wrote: "A knowledge of the Globe & its various inhabitants, however slight, might moreover create a taste for Books of Travels and Voyages, out of which might grow a general taste for history, an inexhaustible fund of entertainment & instruction."
This fall, visitors to Montpelier will witness another significant change to the Madisons' Drawing Room. The curatorial team, with the expertise of historic textile consultant Natalie Larson, have identified and crafted historically appropriate red curtains—just as Dolley wished.
Throughout the Madisons' retirement years (1817-1836), visitors to Montpelier were often surprised "at seeing [Madison's] negroes go to church [on] Sunday. They were gaily dressed, the women in bright-coloured calicoes; and, when a sprinkling of rain came, up went a dozen umbrellas."1 This past Sunday, visitors to Montpelier also donned their much-needed umbrellas to pay homage to the generations of enslaved African Americans who lived and labored at Montpelier.
The summer has flown by and in the archaeology department we have made much progress in our excavations in the South Yard. We have completely uncovered the two southernmost slave quarters in the South Yard and have redefined our understanding of these buildings.
The seating furniture that populated Montpelier during James and Dolley Madison's retirement varied from high-style French chairs in the Drawing Room and painted fancy chairs in the Dining Room to the furniture of D. C. cabinetmaker William Worthington that Madison retained after his second presidential term.
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Luke Bryan seems to be around every corner this week, leading to Wednesday's 47th annual CMA Awards on ABC.
Bryan popped up at Dierks Bentley's Miles & Music for Kids benefit on Sunday night. Monday, he was at the ASCAP Country Awards when his song "Drunk on You" tied for song of the year. Tonight, he is set to perform at the BMI Country Awards, and Wednesday, he will perform an early-morning concert live from Bridgestone Arena on ABC's "Good Morning America."
The entertainer of the year nominee will be back in the spotlight again Wednesday night when he kicks off the awards show, which airs at 7 p.m. live from Bridgestone Arena, with his recent No. 1 hit "That's My Kind of Night." Bryan will return later in the show for a second performance, the television debut of his new single, the ballad "Drink a Beer."
The song deals with loss of a loved one and Bryan will dedicate the performance to his brother Chris, who died in 1996, and his sister Kelly, who passed away in 2007.
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ccome on parents lets be more proactive so our kids have people their own age to play with
Come on parents lets make this big so our kids have other kids to play with in the spring
Back in 1998, right before we made Heave H.O.E. with PBS, my professional Frisbee partner Doug Quam and I created a 30 minute Frisbee school assembly program. We choreographed it to 7 songs, for seven unique acts. We did our very first "trial" run for a school in Bozeman MT, and It was the one my two boys were in at the time, and the one Doug had attended when he was a little tyke. Local NBC news caught wind of the event, and came with cameras to do a story.
Below is the news story that resulted, (and we added a trailer for Heave H.O.E. at the very end). A very funny clip in the news story tho, is related to this forum thread, because the little boy who says "I'm not going to play Frisbee".. is guess-who's-son?... Yup, mine
Since this very first school assembly "demo".. Doug and I took a year to retool and polish the School assembly program into a rare gem, which has now gone coast to coast, and continues to do so. We have a standing offer to travel for the full school year starting in the West coast in Fall and ending in the East coast by Spring for over $40k to each of us. However, that is a bit too much for us to commit to with family needs and such at home.
More about my boys and a couple stories about their development in the world of Flying Disc sports.. later.
I just thought you all might get a kick out of seeing the very first Motodom.com Heave HOE school assembly, and a son's typical reaction to Father's skills, and the knowledge of where we have taken this. School administrators have come up to us afterwards and exclaimed about the excellent messages, and how they are going to start revving up the disc play and specifically getting started with disc golf! We leave each school with copies of Heave HOE on DVD, and a 10 day PE lesson plan along with enough original Wham-O Frisbees to get started fast.
Here's a pic of what we saw coming out to one do of our more epic school assemblies, the first time we performed in front of a high school of 1000 kids where both sides of the gym were packed like this one side you see below.
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this is awsome would love to know how i can get involved and what it would take to get you into my sons school. He is in 3rd grade in michigan and i know he would love to see something like this.
You got us thinking about your involvement potential. Let me make a list of the schools in your general area, who requested a Motodom.com Heave H.O.E. school assembly , that we just could not align with on dates in the past, and maybe you (or others through these forums(!) will have some ideas about new schools to fill in the calendar around a certain time you'd like. Schools in the vicinity around your son's school may say yes, and all of a sudden, we are on our way there!
Be right back! ,,,OK. known destinations for 1 school assembly, or a full day....
Troy OH -Best Date unknown.
Toledo OH -Feb, March, May
Naperville IL -end of May - full day
Shepard MI -Best Date unknown.
Dearborn MI -early June
If you want to organize with anyone of these contact about possibly scheduling a week, for 2011 or 2012.. I'll send you these names. If you can tell us a week where about 6-8 schools want the visit, (and we can drive between them), then we will reserve the dates to their liking.
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