In an attempt to be an academic while not in school, I'm going to make use of my journaling and note taking skills and see if I can't use this blog as a place to jot down thoughts as I read various books.
To see how this works out, I'll start with the book I am currently reading: *The History of Sexuality: Volume 2: The Use of Pleasure* by Michel Foucault.
Last week I finished reading (for the second or third time) his *History of Sexuality: Volume 1: An Introduction*. Maybe if I get really ambitious I will try to transcribe some notes from volume one — we'll see how this first experiment works out.
Read all posts relating to History of Sexuality: Vol. 2: The Use of Pleasure.
Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality: Volume 2: The Use of Pleasure. Trans. Robert Hurley. New York: Vintage Books, 1985. Trans. of L'Usage des plaisirs. Paris: Editions Gallimard, 1984.


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Destiny 2 is set to launch on PC later today, delivering the series to PC for the first time outside of August's Open Beta. Whenever a game launches, especially on PC, issues often come to light, aggravating some day-1 purchasers while also acting as an effective "stay away" sign for the game when it is discussed on forums and social media.
Bungie is being proactive with their release of Destiny 2 by delivering a list of known day-1 game issues, as well as some fixes for these issues if/when they occur, which will help players to have a better in-game experience.
This list includes issues with SLI, HDR, login/disconnect issues and even issues with multi-screen display configurations. Thankfully Bungie has included fixes for most of these issues.
With the release of Destiny 2 on PC the PC version of the game will be receiving an update called Hotfix 1.05, which fixes several issues that are present in the PC version's early builds. Both AMD and Nvidia have released GPU drivers that offer performance optimisations for this title, so we recommend installing these before playing the game yourself.
- SLI, HDR, and VSYNC: Players may experience some rare issues when enabling SLI, HDR, or disabling VSYNC in some non-native resolutions. For the best experience, players are encouraged to use these features while running at their display's maximum available resolution.
- Saxophone Errors when Launching: Players may erroneously encounter Saxophone errors when launching the Destiny 2 application directly from the .exe file. Players who encounter this issue must close the application and relaunch through Blizzard's Battle.net app.
- Idling to Title Screen: In some activities, players who are returned to the title screen due to idling may be unable to log back in. Players who encounter this issue must close and relaunch the Destiny 2 application.
- Login after Disconnects: A generic error code may appear to players who lose internet connection, which may block an affected player from logging back in even after reconnecting. Players who believe they are encountering this issue should close the Destiny 2 application and relaunch.
- Buffalo Errors on multiple PCs: Players may encounter Buffalo errors when logging in to Destiny 2 on multiple PCs at the same time. To prevent this issue, players must ensure that they are logged out of Destiny 2 on any PC that they do not currently intend to play on.
- Cursor in Tri-Monitor Configurations: Changing resolution between 5760x1080, 4080x768, and 3072x768 may trap the mouse cursor in the right-most monitor. Players who encounter this issue should ALT+TAB out of the Destiny 2 application, then back. Players may also toggle Windowed Mode by pressing ALT+ENTER.
- Tri-Monitor Depth of Field: DOF effects may be overly aggressive on some tri-monitor configurations. Players who encounter issues with DOF can disable this feature in the Graphics Settings.
- Windows 10 Game Bar: The Windows 10 game bar may not work in Fullscreen Mode. Affected players who wish to use this feature should use Windowed or Windowed Fullscreen Mode.
- NumPad Binding: Players are not able to bind controls to most NumPad keys.
- IME in Fullscreen: Players who are running Input Method Editors may encounter a black screen or delay when inputting characters in Fullscreen Mode. For the best experience, these players are encouraged to play in Windowed or Windowed Fullscreen Modes.
- Closing Application: When closing Destiny 2 on PC, players must close the application via mouse input. Controllers cannot select the in-game button to close the Destiny 2 application.
- Corporate and University Networks: Some players may be unable to play Destiny 2 on corporate or university networks. Players who encounter this issue must contact their IT department, to meet the connectivity standards outlined in our Network Troubleshooting Guide.
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An essay revealing the fact that progressives haven't progressed much in over a hundred years.
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Richard Koss
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OVER A HUNDRED YEARS LATER -
NOTHING NEW ABOUT PROGRESSIVES
Today's modern liberals prefer to be called "progressives" as if they were the new architects of a re-birth in thinking and change taking place within our society and culture.
Over one hundred years ago, the progressives of that era championed the same ideology, castigating moral doctrine and religion, while advocating a transformation to a total secular society. Their focus, as it is today, was on individual rights and total uninhibited behavioral freedom, exempt from judgement of moralists, especially the clergy and its moral doctrines. Their reverence was limited to science and scientific theory as they ridiculed and satirized the concept of morality and those whom they categorized as moralists.
While researching the philosophical views of the writers of more than a century ago, I became interested in the writings of G.K. Chesterton, the legendary English journalist, novelist, and philosopher during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. " His contemporaries, to name a few, were George Bernard Shaw, H. G, Wells, Rudyard Kipling, G.W. Foote, and Henrik Ibsen.
In Chesterton's numerous essays, especially one entitled "Heretics," he thoroughly dissects the writings and thinking of the modern progressives of his era.
Ironically, the primary deficiency or "Achilles' heel" in the thought process of the progressives of his era still exists today in the world of modern era progressives. My purpose in writing this essay is to describe the fallacies of those who call themselves progressives and doubt, as did Chesterton, whether they even understand the meaning of the word progress.
Progressivism or the progressive movement rose to prominence between 1880 and 1920. In England and the rest of Europe, progressivism focused primarily on social and socioeconomic issues. In America, it became more expanded into the world of politics. The word progress taken literally, is easy to define in terms of scientific, medical, and technological advances. Significant progress has taken place in the last hundred years in science and technology and despite the risks, the rewards have been greater, most of us would agree. However, with regard to socioeconomic, cultural, and political progress, men cannot agree on the definition of progress any more than they could over 100 years ago. To paraphrase Chesterton, progressives are the least progressive of all of us because their ideas of progress and change are measured and defined in opposition to any precise moral standards. Progress by its very name indicates a direction; and the moment we are the least doubtful about the direction, we become in the same degree, doubtful about progress.
As Chesterton took on these progressives in his writings, debates, and in his role as a journalist, he earned his endearing title as the "apostle of common sense." Much of modern day idealism espoused by modern day progressives is derived from late nineteenth and early twentieth century philosophers. Henrik Ibsen was one of these men whose works were embraced by those who were part of the progressive movement over a century ago. I will borrow from Chesterson's analysis of Ibsen's philosophy and the writings of those who admired him. My own personal analysis could never approach the common sense, logic and clarity with which Chesterton makes his case.
Ibsen's writings throughout contained a certain vagueness as well as a doubting attitude towards what is really wisdom and virtue in this life. This vagueness contrasts remarkably with the decisiveness with which he pounces on something he perceives to be a root of evil like some convention, some deception, or some ignorance. George Bernard Shaw summarized his admiration for Ibsen's teachings in the phrase " The golden rule is that there is no golden rule." In Shaw's eyes, this absence of an enduring and positive ideal, this absence of a permanent key to virtue, is the one great Ibsen merit. Chesterton argues that this omission good or bad, leaves our human consciousness with very definite images of evil and with no definite image of good. Just as the image of darkness is quite visible to all of us, light has become a vast, mysterious, indefinite, ever changing state of which we cannot speak. Among the modern era progressives of today like their predecessors of the past century, there is no attempt to answer the question of what is the right life and what is really the good man. Progressives of both eras have come beyond question to the conclusion that there is no answer to these questions. Chesterton wrote about Ibsen: "Ibsen himself, is among the first to return from the baffled hunt to bring us these tidings of great failure."
So having concluded that the problem of what is good cannot be solved, progressives resorted to the use of popular phrases and ideals, expressing a fondness for words such as liberty, progress, and education, all of which are mere dodges to avoid discussing what is good. Today, these phrases and words are still very much in use by progressives.
Chesterton relentlessly exposed these camouflaged phrases and words as dodges in order to shirk the problem of what is good. The modern man says: "Let us leave all these arbitrary standards and embrace liberty." This is logically rendered, " let us not decide what is good, but let it be considered good not to decide it." Now he says, "Away with your old moral formulae; I am for progress." This logically stated means, "Let us not settle what is good, but let us settle whether we are getting more of it." Yet another modern man exclaims, " Neither in religion nor morality, my friend, lie the hopes of the race, but in education." This clearly expressed means, "We cannot decide what is good but let us give it to our children."
Progressives then and now believe that society's cure for its misfits and evil doers lies in science and social engineering, not in morality. Alcoholism, drug addiction, and sexually transmitted diseases, should be treated by science and medicine. A century ago, the progressives were arguing that showing a man pictures of a diseased liver or organs affected by syphilis would do more to stop him from drinking and sexual promiscuity than any moral argument. After a century, evidence shows that fear of disease, death, and depression has little effect in curing most addictions.
Progress, properly understood, has a most dignified and legitimate meaning. But as used in opposition to precise moral ideals, it is ludicrous. Chesterton truly believed that no one has any business to use the word progress unless he has a definite creed and a cast-iron code of morals. Nobody can be "progressive" without being doctrinal.
The final point to be made as evidence that there has been no change in the thinking of progressives in well over one hundred years comes directly from the words of Chesterton: "I do not say the word progress is unmeaning; I say it is unmeaning without the previous definition of a moral doctrine. " ….. Without such a precise moral doctrine, we move in an uncertain direction which gives us only the sensation of progress. " But it is precisely about the direction that we disagree. Whether the future excellence lies in more law or less law, in more liberty or less liberty; whether property will be concentrated or re-distributed; whether sexual passion will reach is sanest in an almost virgin intellectualism or in full animal freedom; whether we should love everybody with Tolstoy, or spare nobody with Nietzsche; these are the things about which we are actually fighting most. As for this "progressive" age, it is, moreover, true that the people who have settled least what is progress are the most "progressive" people in it."
Words spoken well over a hundred years ago. And today the things about which we are fighting most have not changed at all.
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Q: opencv java - Is it possible to remove background from static image I am trying to remove background from an image. These are the images of x-ray objects. Since these are static still images, is it possible to remove the background from static image?
Is yes then what is the best way?
Your answer is highly appreciated as I have spent days trying to figure it out and haven't found any possible solution
Thanks,
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Q: ServiceStack - how to host multiple versioned endpoints in one service? Where I was
I'm trying to convert some WCF services to use ServiceStack instead. For the most part it's achieving what I want but there's definitely differences. eg with WCF I had something like:
interface IMethod1{ ResultDTO Method1(InputDTO input); }
interface IMethod2{ ResultDTO Method2(InputDTO input); }
interface IMethod3{ ResultDTO Method3(InputDTO input); }

interface IMyService : IMethod1, IMethod2, IMethod3

then implement with:
public class MyService : ServiceBase, IMyService { /*  ... */ }

Where I'm at
With ServiceStack it's more like:
public class Method1{
    // parameters for method as properties
}
public class Method2{
    // parameters for method as properties
}
public class Method3{
    // parameters for method as properties
}

I've tried various thing and the latest dead-end I've hit was with:
public class MyServiceHost<T> : AppHostBase
{
    public MyServiceHost(string version)
        : base("My Service v" + version, typeof(T).Assembly)
    { }

    public override void Configure(Funq.Container container){
        Routes.AddFromAssembly(typeof(T).Assembly);
    }
}

protected void Application_Start(object sender, EventArgs e) {
    new MyServiceHost<Foo.Bar.V0101.MyService>("1.1").Init();
    new MyServiceHost<Foo.Bar.V0102.MyService>("1.2").Init();
    new MyServiceHost<Foo.Bar.V0201.MyService>("2.1").Init();
}

where it complains that AppHost has already been initialised.

Where I want to be
I want to expose something like this:
http://www.sandwich.com/example/v0101/sandwichservice.wsdl
http://www.sandwich.com/example/v0102/sandwichservice.wsdl
http://www.sandwich.com/example/v0201/sandwichservice.wsdl

or
http://www.sandwich.com/example/sandwich_v0101.wsdl
http://www.sandwich.com/example/sandwich_v0102.wsdl
http://www.sandwich.com/example/sandwich_v0201.wsdl

ideally hosted in the same service process.
So is there a simple answer I'm missing or am I approaching the whole thing fundamentally wrong? Or in a nutshell: using ServiceStack, is it possible to and how can I expose multiple endpoints and WSDLs for versioned web services in the same host service?

A: See this answer for recommended versioning strategies with ServiceStack.
You can't expose multiple versions of SOAP/WSDL's in ServiceStack, you're encouraged to evolve the same DTO's which means there are no previous type versions to create an older version of the WSDL. You would need to host older versions of ServiceStack project for the auto-generated WSDL to match up with older types.
You could also take a snapshot of a WSDL and host it statically, but whether a new SOAP endpoint accepts a client sending an old SOAP version is up to .NET's WCF Message class doing the parsing. But as SOAP is a brittle format, YMMV.


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Q: Tabulator on cellClick function not firing in tabulator I am new to tabulator and having a problem I am trying to run a function on cell click. However the function is not running on clicking the cell or checking the check box.
Here is the tabulator column:
const columns10 = [
    //define the table columns
    {
      formatter: "rowSelection",
      hozAlign: "center",
      cellClick: function (e, cell) {
        {
          hrCheckChangeBatch(cell);
        }
      },
    },

    {
      title: "Coil ID",
      field: "COIL_ID",
      headerFilter: "input",
      headerFilterPlaceholder: "search...",
    },
    {
      title: "Source Plant",
      field: "SOURCE_PLANT",
      headerFilter: "input",
      headerFilterPlaceholder: "search...",
    },
    {
      title: "TDC No",
      field: "TDC_NO",
      headerFilter: "input",
      headerFilterPlaceholder: "search...",
    },
    {
      title: "Quality",
      field: "QUALITY_CODE",
      headerFilter: "input",
      headerFilterPlaceholder: "search...",
    },
    {
      title: "GRADE",
      field: "GRADE",
      headerFilter: "input",
      headerFilterPlaceholder: "search...",
    },
    {
      title: "THICKNESS",
      field: "THICKNESS",
      headerFilter: "input",
      headerFilterPlaceholder: "search...",
    },
    {
      title: "WIDTH",
      field: "WIDTH",
      headerFilter: "input",
      headerFilterPlaceholder: "search...",
    },
    {
      title: "Ord Edge",
      field: "ORDER_EDGE",
      headerFilter: "input",
      headerFilterPlaceholder: "search...",
    },
    {
      title: "Cast",
      field: "CAST",
      headerFilter: "input",
      headerFilterPlaceholder: "search...",
    },
    {
      title: "Mass",
      field: "MASS",
      headerFilter: "input",
      headerFilterPlaceholder: "search...",
    },
    {
      title: "Status",
      field: "STATUS",
      headerFilter: "input",
      headerFilterPlaceholder: "search...",
    },
    {
      title: "Yard",
      field: "YARD",
      headerFilter: "input",
      headerFilterPlaceholder: "search...",
    },
    {
      title: "X",
      field: "X",
      headerFilter: "input",
      headerFilterPlaceholder: "search...",
    },
    {
      title: "Y",
      field: "Y",
      headerFilter: "input",
      headerFilterPlaceholder: "search...",
    },
    {
      title: "Balance",
      field: "BALANCE",
      headerFilter: "input",
      headerFilterPlaceholder: "search...",
    },
    {
      title: "Order ID",
      field: "ORDER_ID",
      headerFilter: "input",
      headerFilterPlaceholder: "search...",
    },
    {
      title: "Item",
      field: "ITEM",
      headerFilter: "input",
      headerFilterPlaceholder: "search...",
    },
    {
      title: "CR TDC",
      field: "CR_TDC",
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LECThe LCS is the preeminent League of Legends esports league in Europe. It is comprised of 10 teams who will face off against every other team.
LCSThe North America League of Legends Championship Series (NA LCS) is the preeminent League of Legends esports league in North America.
LCKLeague of Legends Champions Korea (LCK) is the ultimate League of Legends esports league in Korea. The LCK features ten teams facing every other team twice over the course of the split.
LPLThe Tencent League of Legends Pro League (LPL) is the premier League of Legends esports competition in China. The LPL features 12 teams split into two divisions of 6 teams each.
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Vitality vs Fnatic: Facing up to expectations
Author:Jack Stewart, 11 July 20191
Vitality are clawing their way back up the standings, but Fnatic are still hard to reach.
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We're already approaching the halfway point of the LEC Summer Split and it's been interesting to see how teams have lived up to expectations. You could argue that biggest surprises so far have been Team Vitality and Fnatic, though for very different reasons.
Both teams came into the split with the same goal: Redeem themselves following their performances in the Spring Playoffs. Team Vitality hardly put up a fight when Fnatic breezed past them 3-0 in the opening round, while Fnatic themselves were later frustrated by a semi-final loss to Origen.
Despite those results, there were high hopes for both teams coming into this split. Last year's World's finalists Fnatic still had a roster packed with talent and without a rollercoaster start, you had the feeling they could be dangerous with momentum on their side. Meanwhile, Vitality had also impressed at Worlds last year and after spending time in China scrimming with Royal Never Give Up, many felt the team could challenge Europe's best once again – Andy "Vedius" Day even put Vitality up high with an A-tier rank along with Origen and above Fnatic in his pre-split rankings due to the meta.
So far, Fnatic have completely exceeded those expectations while Vitality have struggled with the pressure. However, both teams battled to 2-0 records in Week 3, though the teams were in opposite scenarios.
Fnatic took down G2 in convincing fashion for a crucial win that gave them sole possession of first-place. Most people expected Fnatic to recuperate this split but the rate of their improvement has been remarkable; nobody would have seen them coming close to G2's level this soon.
This hasn't been the start to Summer that Vitality hoped for.
Meanwhile, Team Vitality had to wait until Week 3 to secure a win after opening the season with losses to Origen, Splyce, Rogue and G2. While most of those were tough match-ups, the nature of the losses had Vitality fans concerned. Still, the team bounced back in Week 3 with wins over Excel and SK Gaming which will be an important confidence boost for the team going forward.
Those wins came at the perfect time too as it gave the team positives to take into the two-week break for Rift Rivals. With a solid base to work from, Vitality can finally progress and begin to climb back up to the level we know they can reach.
While Vitality's heroics at Worlds last year may come to mind, it's easy to forget that for the majority of the Spring Split, Vitality were above Fnatic in the standings. In fact, at one-time Vitality were in contention for a top two spot while Fnatic were fighting to qualify for the Playoffs.
Of course things have changed a lot since, but that means things can still change now. If Vitality really want to return to the top then they will have to start building momentum – but a game against Fnatic is a massive obstacle to try and overcome. However, Vitality have never been scared of an opponent and that won't change this week.
The match-ups to watch
Cabochard vs Bwipo promises to be an explosive laning phase.
Most eyes will be on the top-lane with heavy hitters Gabriel "Bwipo" Rau and Lucas "Cabochard" Simon-Menslet squaring off. Last split, Cabochard was the main man for Vitality as his dominant performances almost single-handedly won the team a lot of their games.
That was why the Frenchman was voted as the best top-laner in the league during the All-Pro Team vote but Bwipo will be eyeing that spot for Summer. The Belgian was inconsistent in Spring, with overextending being a recurring issue, but he has since returned to the top form that saw him overtake Paul "sOAZ" Boyer as the starting top-laner last year.
Bwipo's monstrous performance against G2 was a large factor in the team's win as he dominated Rasmus "Caps" Winther in lane and managed to outplay any ganks with help from Mads "Broxah" Brock-Pedersen.
Speaking of Broxah, the jungler had one of the best performances of his career in that same match. The Dane has been in impeccable form so far this split and has emerged as an early contender for the Summer MVP vote. It has been an incredible recovery, especially considering Fnatic promoted academy stalwart Daniel "Dan" Hockley to offer him a second perspective but more importantly, competition for his place.
With his current form, there might not be a jungler in the LEC who could displace Broxah from the starting line-up at the moment. If Vitality want any chance of winning, it will be crucial that Lee "Mowgli" Jae-ha is able to shut him down. Fortunately for Vitality, that's the Korean's speciality as he loves to invade early and track his opposing jungler – effectively removing both of them from the game at times.
That would then leave the game in the hands of the laners and it's likely that the bot-lane will have a particularly big impact. Amadeu "Attila" Carvalho has never been shy to make his feelings heard and show his confidence in his own abilities. Coming up against Martin "Rekkles" Larsson will be a challenge that he relishes.
However, the lane will likely come down to the support match-up, as Jakub "Jactroll" Skurzyński will have to step up and find some consistency. Especially considering Fnatic support Zdravets "Hylissang" Iliev Galabov has been in scintillating form. You only have to look at his Pyke plays against G2 to see how confident he is right now.
The Bulgarian is extremely aggressive, having the most kills (11) and highest first-blood rate (60%) of all supports in the league. Meanwhile, Jactroll currently has the joint-most deaths (23) of all players in the league this split.
We've seen in the past that Jactroll has the ability to carry games and he will have to find that kind of form if he wants to stop Hylissang from taking over the game. Both supports are known for Thresh so perhaps that will be a contested pick to look out for.
Can Vitality return to form and reach the Playoffs? Will anybody be able to stop Fnatic? Let us know what you think in the comments below!
Jack is an esports writer from the UK and a Nami one-trick since season four. When he's not losing his promos to gold, you can find him playing squash or a host of couch co-op games. You can follow him on Twitter @Ginjured
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Our early childhood program provides children with a calm and joyful experience filled with magic and reverence. Each child's developmental journey is met with love and interest, and the overall environment nourishes the children physically, emotionally, socially and spiritually.
Children thrive when their lives are rhythmical - they can count on events to unfold in a predictable way and with this sense of security comes the opportunity to engage in their play and work with confidence. New skills, both physical and social, develop as the child encounters a familiar, dependable environment, tailored to their needs. These principles guide the organization of our classrooms each day, week, and year, and allow children to fully experience the turning of the seasons, their own growing competence, the joy of friendship and our rich festival life.
The first three years of a child's life are full of a phenomenal amount of growth and learning. Roots and Shoots classes offer support and guidance for families as they begin to establish routines that encourage the healthy development of the growing child. These classes provide a place, week after week, for children to enrich their world beyond their family circle.
Open enrollment for the fall 2018 Roots and Shoots program has begun. Contact Donna Stusser, at 707-575-7194 ext. 129, to discuss class availability. Click here to download the 2018-19 Blossoms & Sweet Pea application. Click here to download the 2018-19 Schedule and Payment Form.
The Blossoms classes at Summerfield Waldorf School and Farm are designed to help young children (2 1/2 - 3 years of age) to mature socially while meeting their changing needs as they transition into the early childhood years. Parents or caregivers will accompany their children for the first few sessions of the school year; then, as the children become more comfortable and confident in their surroundings, adults will be encouraged to transition out of the classroom setting. Like in the Sweet Pea class, the children's day will follow a natural rhythm of circle time, indoor play, organic snack and outdoor activity. This class offering, held in Summerfield's unique Waldorf early childhood setting, is the perfect opportunity to provide young children with a healthy dose of socialization and enrichment.
Summerfield's preschool program strives to make the transition from home to school as gentle as possible by creating a classroom setting that feels homelike. At the age of three, children are just beginning to interact with their peers and they naturally imitate the world around them. It is through active play with each other and work with their teachers and peers that preschool children develop a foundation for future learning.
The Rosebud Preschool "home" is designed to provide opportunities for the young child to recreate the activities of daily life that they witness every day. We have a bustling Sunshine Kitchen, with plates, pots and pans. Seashells and river stones serve as inspiration for many meals. Wooden stands, boards, play cloths and clips allow for construction projects of all kinds. Welders and electricians can fix any malfunctions that might arise! Kings and queens can adorn themselves with silks and crowns. The cozy corner allows little mothers and fathers to care for their "babies" with devotion and love. Less formed play things - like wool roving - have limitless potential for inclusion in play: frosting for your cupcakes anyone? Our toys are made of natural materials that are inviting to the touch; they stimulate the imagination, which in turn creates valuable play.
On bun day, our morning work includes the grinding of wheat, and the kneading of dough. On rice day, we stir and mix our sesames seeds to season our grain. Farm day chores include feeding the chickens and combing the bunnies' soft, velvety coats. Every day the table must be set with our placemats, napkins and china cups. Our room is kept tidy and seasonally decorated too. We are joyfully busy with the care of our home at school.
Our outside play yard is blessed with many trees, a garden and pathways that wind from the sandbox to the swings and back to the wooden gate. There are flowers to care for and a wooden house that might be a carpentry shop, a horse barn or a bakery on any given day. Our big chair swing, our rainbow hammock and many leafy branches for climbing insure that we have plenty of space for quiet and reflection when needed. Tools for gardening, hauling, watering, raking and sweeping are always at hand. Our slide allows for lively games of train ride and sledding and our basket with pulley makes it possible to transport all kinds of treasures to the top of our play house!
Like traditional Waldorf Kindergartens, the Rosebud Preschool follows a rhythm of the day, week and year. Seasonal festivals such as our Harvest Tea and May Day Dance are favorites; birthday celebration days include special bouquets of flowers, a slightly sweet treat with our morning meal, and a wee gift for the celebrants. Language is joyfully developed through songs, circle games and stories. We sing sweet tunes throughout the day: during our morning greeting, at circle time, on walks, while working, and to bless our meal. Through storytelling and puppet shows, the child's world expands and the imagination is kindled. Through all of their experiences at the Rosebud Preschool, the children come to know that the world is a good place to be and that we are ever so happy that they are here!
The preschool hours are from 8:30am to 12:30pm, with aftercare available until 3:00 p.m.
Our three rhythmical kindergartens, serving children from ages four to six, aim to support the healthy development of the young child in a nurturing, non-academic setting, through imitation, movement, imaginative play, story and the work of daily life.
Young children thrive on a rhythm that they can count on, with plenty of inbreath and outbreath, in order to blossom and to develop new capacities. This principle guides the organization of the day, the week, and the year. In the kindergarten a rhythmic structure is created that moves daily between focused group activities and individually initiated activities, including circle time, creative free-play indoors and out, eating meals together while working on our finest, golden manners, clean-up time, and story time. Weekly activities include a visit to our Biodynamic farm, painting, drawing, eurythmy (an art of movement) and practical skills. Kneading dough, chopping vegetables, sewing, finger knitting or working in the wood shop with industrious and capable hands to saw, rasp or sand are some of the weekly tasks the children enjoy. For the older children in the kindergarten, this 'real work' meets the transformational changes happening within.
The essential path for learning and growth for the young child is through imitation; therefore, the activities offered and modeled in the Kindergarten are worthy of imitation. During circle time, the children imitate the teacher's singing, spoken words and gestures through a seasonal movement story that develops fine and gross motor skills as well as bilateral and cross-lateral movements, all necessary steps that are precursors for the child to later move to the next stages of abstract thinking in the grades. Also, through imitation and doing, the children help with the daily life of the kindergarten, with myriad activities such as sweeping, peeling carrots or setting the table with placemats, napkins, cups and water pitchers that they carefully pour.
Every morning the kindergartners take a daily walk around the school and farm. When autumn is upon us, a carpet of golden leaves blankets the ground and the golden corn rustles in the tall stalks as we walk about the land with the children. In our daily walks we are able to see, smell and feel the small changes each day that herald the coming of the seasons and allow us to sense completely the turning of the year without speaking about it. Of great importance, while we walk this bilateral coordination movement fosters the healthy development of the brain and the essential myelination of the bridge between the right and left halves that will later be crucial for reading, writing and logical thinking.
The environment in the kindergarten is carefully created and invites imaginative play. In the words of Rudolf Steiner, through imaginative play, 'everything depends on the inner work' of the child. Through the transforming of natural and unformed materials into fire trucks, gnome caves, rockets to visit the man on the moon or kitty and doggy homes with cream and fish for the dogs and cats to eat, the children are doing their necessary work through their play. The chairs from the lunch table come out into the playroom to become an airplane with pilots at the controls and stewardesses serving drinks and food. The room is alive with transformation. Our outside play yard finds children climbing trees, galloping about the yard wearing horse harnesses, digging in the sand and soil with shovels, and building houses, restaurants and bakery shops.
The stories told in the kindergarten are traditional fairy and folktales from different lands and cultures that help to develop a rich vocabulary and a facility with language. The spoken story evolves over the course of three weeks into a puppet play and then a children's play with the children waiting with excitement to be, among many other roles, the strong and silent bear, the dragon with it's great tail, the rooster that crows at the well or the brave lass who travels with her llama through forests and over mountains in search of the magic water at the end of the world. This unfolding of the story with the children strengthens memory skills and listening capacities that will serve the child later in the academic setting.
On our Biodynamic farm, the children can be found walking between the tall corn paths or running down the apple row. After the hard work of picking apples the children help the farmer to press sweet cider to drink. Yumm! Later we may feed the chickens, collect eggs, comb the soft bunnies or harvest potatoes, corn, brussel sprouts or even the overly-mature plants for the animals like the giant cabbages that we throw with strong arms over the fence to the sheep and cows. There is always good work that needs doing!
The kindergartens often have children with cultural heritages from many lands. In the play yards in the morning as the children are saying goodbye to mamas and daddies, a mix of languages may be heard such as Chinese, German, French, Portuguese, Danish, Norwegian, Russian or Spanish. Sometimes a family might bring a special story, feast or festival from their land such as the Good Luck Dragon that paraded through the yard at Chinese New Year with sweet oranges for the children or the yummy latkes and lighting of the menorah that lit our way in the dark of winter. Some other festivals that are celebrated in the kindergarten year are Michaelmas with the capes of golden light and the eating of the dragon bread, the quiet walking of the candle-lit Advent Spiral or the flower bedecked dancing around the maypole high during the May Faire. These seasonal festivals foster community and mark our rhythmic passage through the turning of the year.
The kindergarten day begins at 8:30 and ends at 12:45 with a nutritious snack and a warm, healthy lunch. Each week we use seasonal vegetables, fruit or yogurt from our very own farm! Our aftercare program begins at 12:45 and is well-loved by many parents and children. The children have a quiet rest with the classroom assistant who will sing or play quietly on a lyre. Then the children go outside to play and have a nourishing snack. Pick up for aftercare is at 3:00 or a child may stay for cozy, late aftercare that runs until 5:30.