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Harrison plays hero as Bucs rally past Nationals
PITTSBURGH -- It began as a duel between Gerrit Cole and Stephen Strasburg. It ended as a duel between Matt Williams' gut and Josh Harrison's heart.
Harrison won that battle of wills, as he has been taking everything all week, and as a result, the Pirates won a fourth straight game, 3-2, over the Nationals at PNC Park on Saturday night.View Full Game Coverage
PITTSBURGH -- It began as a duel between Gerrit Cole and Stephen Strasburg. It ended as a duel between Matt Williams' gut and Josh Harrison's heart.
Harrison won that battle of wills, as he has been taking everything all week, and as a result, the Pirates won a fourth straight game, 3-2, over the Nationals at PNC Park on Saturday night.View Full Game Coverage
Harrison ripped the tie-breaking single off Strasburg with two outs in the seventh inning, after coming to bat on Williams' invitation. With a runner on second and two outs, Washington's rookie manager had obeyed his gut feeling -- and baseball convention -- by choosing to intentionally walk Travis Snider to get to Harrison.
"That's a baseball play. You see it all the time. So there is no grudge there," said Harrison of an intentional walk setting up a force at any base. "You don't look at it as a negative situation, but think, 'The pitcher's in trouble. This is good.'"
Harrison's clutch hit was simply the last stroke that turned this Memorial Day Weekend game into more than just one of 162.
It was already special, with two No. 1 Draft choices locking horns on a fabulous late-May evening on the bank of the Allegheny.
"A sold-out Saturday night. A beautiful day. You couldn't ask for anything more," Cole said.
The setting and the trappings were magnificent. As were the principals, who staged a worthy opening act to the end-game dramatics.
In the first of presumably many meetings, 2009 draftee Strasburg got the better of 2011 draftee Cole -- barely -- in front of a sellout crowd of 38,889 and a national TV audience.
Given the situation, the electric atmosphere -- and the outcome, following last season's blueprint -- Pirates manager Clint Hurdle allowed that, just maybe, this was the first time 2014 really felt like 2013 redux.
"As you start playing a little bit better, get some traction at home, the crowd is alive, the guys are feeling better about themselves," Hurdle said. "So yeah, you could throw it back to last year from that lens. I liked the fact we were down, we tied it up. We were down again, we come back and we battled and got through it with the bottom of the order."
The Bucs rallied into the lead in the seventh, which began with Strasburg ahead 2-1 and Russell Martin singling. Starling Marte doubled him to third with one away and pinch-hitter Jose Tabata's sacrifice fly delivered Martin with the tying run.
Although he had only three prior at-bats against Strasburg (two of them ending in hits), Tabata is quite familiar with the righty, the two of them having crossed other paths, such as in the Arizona Fall League. After Strasburg fell behind him 2-1 on a trio of fastballs, Tabata had an idea of what would be next.
"'OK, now I've got to be ready for the breaking ball.' That's what I was telling myself," Tabata said. "And he threw the breaking ball, so I was ready for it."
After Strasburg delivered two balls to Snider, also pinch-hitting, Williams ordered the intentional walk of the lefty hitter -- with Harrison, the Pirate of the moment, on deck.
Predictably, Harrison ripped the go-ahead single up the middle, scoring Marte for the 3-2 lead.
When that went into the books as the final score, the Nationals found themselves with a losing record for the first time this season.
"It's tough," Strasburg said. "We are pressing pretty hard. We are trying to get back on track. It is what it is. You have to keep grinding."
Sometimes, these things live up to the billing. History, not hype.
Strasburg pitched cleaner. Cole pitched grittier. In the six innings they shared, Cole had to deal with 10 baserunners, Strasburg had half as many. Yet the Cole Train pulled into the depot trailing only 2-1, a nice setup for The Vulture Club.
"I wasn't as efficient as I wanted to be in the middle of the game, but at the same time, I wanted to limit the damage as best as I could," Cole said.
In his six innings, Cole allowed five hits and two runs, with seven strikeouts and three walks, and also two hit batters. In his seven, Strasburg was charged with seven hits and three runs, walking two and fanning seven.
The victory went to Jared Hughes, one of the high-flying and low-swooping members of The Vulture Club, who picked up his third win after blanking the Nationals in the top of the seventh.
"The way the bullpen was able to finish it up," Hurdle said, "it was limited drama from the time Cole exited the game."
Jeanmar Gomez sailed through a five-pitch eighth, then Mark Melancon worked a perfect ninth for his ninth save.
This was the first such top-tier National League duel in nine years. On May 16, 2005, the Mets' Kris Benson met the Reds' Paul Wilson. Benson had been the Bucs' No. 1 pick in 1996, while Wilson had been the Mets' No. 1 pick in 1994 -- so you should be suitably confused by now.
The first threat, in the third, belonged to the Nationals. Unflinching Nate McLouth was hit on the right knee by 96 mph of horsehide and stole second before Anthony Rendon, winning an 11-pitch duel, walked with two away. Cole froze, and iced, Jayson Werth with an 87-mph changeup for the third strike and out.
Ian Desmond made an indelible mental note of that change. Because the next time he saw it, thrown to him on an 0-1 count with one out in the fourth, he sent it into the left-center seats for his ninth homer of the season and a 1-0 Washington lead.
Neil Walker erased that with his 10th homer into the Nationals' bullpen with one out in the fourth, but the tie couldn't survive Cole's search for an elusive third out in the fifth.
He got the first two right away. Then Rendon singled, stole second ahead of a walk of Werth and scored as Wilson Ramos knocked a 97-mph heater into short right, too deep for Walker and too shallow for right fielder Harrison.
"He was able to fight off that pitch in on his hands. It was nowhere near a strike," Cole said. "Pretty much where I wanted it. But you've got to keep making pitches, you can't beat yourself up."
Much better to beat the guys in the opposite dugout.
Tom Singer is a reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog Change for a Nickel. He can also be found on Twitter @Tom_Singer.


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James Chapman is a man on a mission. Better known by his creative alter ego Maps, he could have chosen the ready made path towards generic predictability after the success of 2007's debut long player We Can Create, Mercury nomination and all. Instead, he's replaced his entire band, turned his back on the guitar completely and embraced a more synthesised direction with new record Turning The Mind. So far, having received mixed reviews ranging from those heralding his brave change in direction to the more damning indictment of career suicide at the other end of the scale, Chapman has at least ensured no one can ever accuse him of standing still or churning out repetitive clones of past glories.
With a three-week tour of the UK imminent, DiS caught up with Maps' main man in a buoyant, forward-thinking mood only too happy to sever ties with that celebrated his rise to prominence two years ago…
DiS: Hello James, what are you up to today?
James Chapman: I'm just waking up…
DiS: A bit of a heavy night then I take it?
JC: No not really. I didn't sleep too well last night. I kept having nightmares and woke up all sweaty and horrible...I've just had some Weetabix and hopefully that's sorted me out!
DiS: Your new album Turning The Mind, out last week (28th September), has received mixed reviews so far.
JC: I've not really seen many bad ones to be honest apart from in the NME, and even then it wasn't a complete annihilation or anything. I don't read too many reviews if I'm honest. The label [Mute] tend to send me the good ones. I didn't even read the NME one. I just looked at the score on the bottom and thought there's no point really. It just knocks you back a bit...
DiS: I was surprised at that particular one though bearing in mind NME have been fairly supportive of your work in the past.
JC: I dunno...I really don't want to say too much about it because I don't know the guy who wrote the piece, but from what people have told me it doesn't sound like he actually bothered to listen to the record.
DiS: To me, Turning The Mind represents a bold move after We Can Create. What was different about the way you approached making this album compared to its predecessor?
JC: This album is quite different from the first in many ways. For We Can Create, I had a huge back catalogue of around fifty or sixty old demos to choose from, some of which dated back to when I was eighteen or nineteen years old. We were quite spoiled for choice but eventually narrowed it down to what we thought were the best of the bunch. With Turning The Mind I wanted to start from scratch. I wrote everything on the record after we'd finished touring We Can Create…there was no way I was going to use any leftovers that didn't make the first album on the new one. After all, there's a reason why they weren't considered good enough for We Can Create! All the songs on the new album reflect what I'm doing now and I find that quite exciting because it shows exactly where Maps are at this point in time.
Video:Maps 'I Dream Of Crystal'
DiS: You worked with Tim Holmes from Death In Vegas on this record. How did that come about and what was he like to work with?
JC: He was fantastic to work with. He's always been someone I've been fascinated by. I'm a bit of a geek when it comes to reading through credits and stuff on albums and I always saw his name on things like Chemical Brothers albums and wondered who he was, and then Death In Vegas came around and I started to pay more attention to his work. He always seemed to take the back seat behind Richard Fearless, but when I met him I thought he was such a nice guy, and we're into exactly the same music so we ended up making mixtapes for each other and generally had a great time.
DiS: Do you see yourself collaborating with him again in the future?
JC: I'd love to, if he wants to of course! We became really good friends during the making of Turning The Mind and I can honestly say he's the best person I've ever worked with. Its not often you click with someone straight away but me and Tim seemed to strike up that bond instantly, so if the opportunity came I'd definitely like to do something with him again.
DiS: Turning The Mind seems to be a much darker album lyrically than We Can Create.
JC: Yeah, I'd go along with that. It's definitely a lot more personal. The lyrics on the first album were quite abstract and there wasn't really a lot of me in there. Most of the songs had an ambiguity about them so they could be read in a lot of different ways whereas here the lyrics are a lot more to the point. Mind you, even though the lyrics have a darker side I still seem to keep on writing happy music! I guess that's something I'll always do, regardless of the subject matter.
DiS: Is it difficult to listen back to the record now particularly if certain songs represent an unhappy or unsettled period in your life?
JC: I don't find it hard to listen to at all. The song 'Chemeleon' for example is like...psychological bullying. Its like that Bob Dylan song 'Positively 4th Street' where he's just slating this guy. I just wanted to get it all out of my system, and 'Chemeleon' is a really cathartic song for me. I'd had enough of putting up with shit from a certain person and listening back is actually a fairly enjoyable experience! A lot of the songs are about mental states not just from my perspective, but other people around me too, so again I see them as being edgy rather than difficult to listen to.
DiS: Does it concern you that people are going to analyse the lyrics more on Turning The Mind than your first record?
JC: It doesn't bother me. I'm always happy to talk about the lyrics. I knew I'd be doing interviews around the album's release date and I knew this would keep cropping up, but at the end of the day if I didn't want to talk about the songs I wouldn't have written them like that in the first place. People are always going to read or hear lyrics and wonder what I was thinking or who a certain song is about, so I'm not worried about that at all really.
DiS: Was it a conscious decision to make a record without any guitars on it whatsoever, or did that just develop naturally over time?
JC: It was a conscious decision really because I felt the whole thing was getting to a point where I didn't want it to be, especially with the live band. It was almost like we were perceived as being just another indie guitar band which is something I never wanted or expected Maps to be seen as. I had to be a bit of a bastard and lose a few people from within the band and start over again, because I wanted to get back to what I originally set out to do, which was to make electronic music. I'm a lot happier with the live set up now because it's more in line with how I'd visualised Maps to sound. I'm not saying it always will be like this, but it fits in with what I'm listening to musically at present, more techno-based music than guitars for starters.
Video:Maps 'Don't Fear'
DiS: I have to say, having seen your performance at this year's Dot-To-Dot Festival in May it almost felt like I was watching a different band to the one I saw on the We Can Create tour a year or so earlier.
JC: That was one of our first shows in our current format actually, so apologies if we didn't seem like we knew what we were doing back then! Now though, we've really upped our game. We're playing as a two-piece, just me and August Jakobsen. I think we were playing as a three-piece when you saw us in May, right?
DiS: Yeah that's right.
JC: Well Sefa (Steer) the other keyboard player left soon after, and we played several festivals just with me and August and the response was really good. Places like Latitude and Bestival. The stuff that influenced the album is coming across in our live shows now, so I'm pleased people are finally getting to see what Maps is really all about. We've been working hard to put together a really tight set and it's sounding really good now.
DiS: In terms of the live set, will it be purely Turning The Mind based or will there be a mix of material from both records?
JC: No, we've put a fair few of the older songs in there, but they've been revamped a bit to make them fit in with the newer stuff. They're not unrecognisable – that would be just silly. I find it really annoying when bands play their old material in a new style, almost as if to say we've changed for the sake of change. We're still doing 'It Will Find You', 'Back And Forth', 'You Don't Know Her Name' and one or two others. I mean, the main reason for this tour is to promote the new record so the set will be heavier with Turning The Mind material.
DiS: It's interesting that you mentioned earlier about techno being a major influence on Turning The Mind, whereas We Can Create seemed to be welcomed with open arms by the shoegaze contingent. Do you see the new record as a deliberate attempt to distance yourself from that genre?
JC: I want to get away from the whole shoegaze field if I'm honest. I got pretty tired of it after a while. I never understood why we were thrown in with all that...I guess it comes down to the live show again really. When I was recording We Can Create I never thought of it as a shoegaze record. I know people like to pigeonhole everything but to me it was nothing more than music that was coming out of my head at that time. I do love a lot of stuff from that whole shoegaze era and it was cool to be linked with some of it for a while but I really don't want Maps to be linked with that any more as it isn't what I'm about. I don't really listen to that kind of thing much these days.
DiS: Your last album was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize. Do you feel under any pressure to have to repeat similar levels of acclaim with this one?
JC: I'd love to be nominated again to be honest! To me, this album is far superior to We Can Create, and obviously the record company want it to sell – so do I actually as that would give me the opportunity to make a third album – and I suppose anything that can contribute towards that is great. I guess it's just a case of wait and see really…
DiS: Finally, you're also renowned for remixing other artists. Do you have any plans to remix anyone in the future?
JC: Not at the moment, but there's a lot of great remixes coming out soon of my stuff. The next single is going to be 'Die Happy', and Maxime Dangles has done an amazing job remixing it, almost like DFA in fact. A Place To Bury Strangers have also done one that's quite wild. It sounds like The House Of Love only faster. There are plenty of people I want to work with, a whole list I guess, so we'll see what happens.
DiS: Who would be at the top of your wishlist?
JC: At the moment I'd have to say Deadmau5. I'm probably a bit of a latecomer to his work but I'm loving his recent album, so he'd definitely be at the top of any wishlist.
Maps will be touring the UK in October and November, calling in at the following venues:-
17 Oxford Shelter show (venue TBC)
22 Edinburgh Electric Circus
23 Manchester The Warehouse Project
24 Southampton Joiners
25 Birmingham Hare & Hounds
26 London Cargo
28 Bristol Start The Bus
29 Cambridge Portland
30 Brighton Digital
31 Nottingham Bodega
1 Norwich Arts Centre
4 Sheffield Fusion
5 Newcastle Other Rooms
6 Glasgow Nice N Sleazy
7 Liverpool Bumper
The album Turning The Mind is out now on Mute Records.

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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 139 diseños de 28 diseñadores freelance.
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NORFOLK, VA--The
Norfolk Best Western was gripped by controversy late Saturday, when
DJ Tim Doblewicz played the randy Clarence Carter hit
"Strokin'" at the Schuller-Randolph wedding reception,
upsetting a number of the event's more reserved guests.
"The energy on the dance floor was really high, and I wanted to
keep it going with another fun one," said Doblewicz, a part-time
employee of Norfolk-based Funtime Dee-Jays Unlimited. "I was
considering doing 'Electric Slide' or maybe even 'Y.M.C.A.' one more
time, but instead I decided to go with 'Strokin'.'"
"I honestly never expected it to cause any trouble,"
Doblewicz said of the moderately salacious 1986 song, in which Carter
boasts of stroking it to the east, stroking it to the west, and,
ultimately, stroking it to the woman that he loves the best.
Because an overwhelming majority of those on the dance floor
responded to "Strokin'" with cheers, Doblewicz said he
"had no idea" that the song had created a stir until
several minutes later, when he was approached by the bride's father,
Warren Randolph.
Randolph asked Doblewicz to "keep it clean from now on,"
informing him that the song had bothered some of the guests.
Particularly disturbed, Randolph said, was 81-year-old grandmother of
the bride Loretta Munns, who demanded that Doblewicz be
"dismissed this very minute."
"I could not believe that someone would play that type of song
at an event celebrating the sacred union of two people before the
eyes of God," Munns said. "A wedding reception is not the
place to be stroking it to the east, west, south, or any direction whatsoever."
Munns was not the only attendee upset by "Strokin'."
"I don't ordinarily dance, but Warren dragged me out to do the
Chicken Dance," said Eileen Swearingen, 76, the bride's great
aunt. "Well, that was fine, but after that song ended, a very
dirty one came on. I couldn't make out all the words, but at one
point, the man sang, 'When I start makin' love, I don't just make
love--I be strokin'.' I tried to get off the dance floor and back to
my table, but I could barely fight my way through the crowd. It was awful."
Badly shaken, Swearingen informed husband Warren and several others
seated near her at table seven that she does not know if she will
ever set foot on a dance floor again.
Richard Almond, a longtime friend of the groom's family, was dancing
with his five-year-old daughter through most of "Strokin'."
It was only upon hearing the line, "Have you ever made love in
the back seat of a car?" that Almond realized Carter was saying
"strokin'," not "smokin'." A red-faced Almond
immediately left the floor, daughter in tow.
Immediately following the "Strokin'" debacle, Doblewicz
attempted to win back offended guests with Buster Poindexter's
"Hot, Hot, Hot." He managed to generate a conga line with
the wholesome, crowd-pleasing 1987 hit, but the damage had been done.
"How could [Doblewicz] have possibly thought that awful
'Strokin'' song was appropriate for a wedding?" asked Almond,
mid-conga. "He was deliberately pandering to the lowest common
denominator at this party."
Despite the uproar, Doblewicz was not without his supporters. As
"Strokin'" played, several key members of the wedding
party, including best man Chad Wilens and brother of the groom Jordan
Schuller, began lowering themselves to the floor, limbo-style.
Bridesmaid Tina Elson then lifted up the bottom of her teal taffeta
gown and, with Schuller leaning back on his knees, straddled his
torso and danced for several seconds directly over him.
Few of the offended guests could have anticipated the provocative
song from Doblewicz, who started out the evening with such popular
romantic ballads as "Because You Loved Me" by Celine Dion
and "Wonderful Tonight" by Eric Clapton. After the
appetizer buffet was served, Doblewicz began to pick up the tempo
with such participatory favorites as "Macarena,"
"Chicken Dance," and "Electric Slide"--a tactic
wedding DJs call "filling the floor." Then, to keep guests
dancing, Doblewicz transitioned into a string of uptempo, feel-good
hits, including The B-52s' "Love Shack," Wild Cherry's
"Play That Funky Music," and Kool & The Gang's
"Celebration." It was during this stretch that Doblewicz
made the fateful decision to play "Strokin'."
"The truth is, I thought the crowd could handle it," said
Doblewicz, who veered sharply from his planned playlist following the
"Strokin'" incident, shelving such potentially
controversial fare as AC/DC's "You Shook Me All Night Long"
and Billy Idol's "Mony Mony." "But they couldn't, so
it was back to 'Boot Scootin' Boogie.' Oh, well."
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2001 Onion, Inc.
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Ask A Biologist
Units of interrelated articles, activities, quizzes, comic books, and experiments. Resources featured include online bird finder application, podcasts, comic books, and the "Ask a biologist" feature where students ask a biologist their life-sciences questions. Teacher toolbox: Lesson builder. Find resource based on activity type and grade level.
|Biology, Ecology, Language arts
Citizen Science
List of citizen science opportunities in and around Arizona. Based on empirical observations. Present opportunities for interdisciplinary projects. Small scale observations are shared with a broad audience via computer. Data has potential to be used in projects of national importance. Superb platform for pairing internet learning with life sciences or geography. Option to build your own dataset for custom computer modeling or GIS applications. Educator's Clearinghouse: Enter search criteria to find projects in the National Phenology Network's database.
|Astronomy, Botany, Climate, Earth sciences, Ecology
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
Galleries of photos with information on hundreds of species. Games and lesson plans.
|Botany, Ecology, Zoology
Teacher Video Gallery
Hear from professional educators in their own voices. These videos introduce engaging, instructive programs that may find their way into your classroom.
Educator Kerry Schwartz describes how Project WET (Water Education for Teachers) challenges students to explore water use, sources, and systems through field trips and personal projects.
Dr. Nadja Anderson explains how the BIOTECH Project brings hands-on genomics into the classroom—and what it means for teachers.
Top Pages for Students
Not sure where to start? We've compiled a list of our favorite site features here. These pages provide maps, timelines, games and videos that can be worked into a lesson or can give students a chance to learn on their own.
Farming and Ranching
infographic: economic breakdown of agricultural industry by product; downloadable charts: products by season; finder's guide: community farmers markets
Get to know the products of the second largest industry in Arizona. Find what's growing, when it's ripe, find farmers markets, and discover why Arizona's climate creates unique farming opportunities.
Ancient Arizona
slideshow: Arizona geography back 2.5 billion years; interactive map: Ancient Volcanoes; videos: Superstition Mountains and Ancient Processes; lesson plan: Petrified Forest (Grade 3)
Describes properties of earth materials, explains how fossils are formed. Explores earth processes like volcanoes and tectonic shift.
|Earth sciences, Geology, Paleontology
Research Observatories
Interactive star hunt: WorldWide Telescope app is a vitrual telescope offering guided tours and self exploration of the cosmos; video: astronomy opportunities in Arizona; tabbed pages: explore all major research observatories in Arizona and their telescopes with links to virtual tours of Kitt Peak National Observatory and the U.S. Naval Observatory; interactive map: observatory layer on the Recreation and Cultural Sites map
Arizona houses some of the most advanced telescopes in the world! Explore all five of Arizona's research observatories-- observatories that have pioneered work in astronomical collaborations, dark matter discovery, planetary and atmospheric science and many types of astronomy.
|Astronomy, Earth sciences, Physics
American Indian Tribes and Communities in Arizona
Graphic: Information on 22 American Indian Nations; PDF: American Indian Tribes and Communities; map: image of tribal lands and Arizona's American Indian Reservations
Explore a brief introduction to the culture, ancestry, and location of Arizona's 22 American Indian Nations.
|Arizona history, Civics, Early civilizations, Language arts, Social studies
100 Years of Arizona Music
Lesson plan: I Am Arizona Music; timeline: Arizona's musical events; video: interviews and performance footage of waila, mariachi, Yaqui and Navajo artists on branch pages
Experience Arizona's history through music with videos, interviews, and audio clips! Trace the development of Tohono O'odam waila music, Arizona's unique take on Latin music, including "Chicano Music" and the International Mariachi Conference. Explore Arizona's contribution to "cowboy music" and more.
|Arizona history, Language arts, Physics, Social studies
A History of Water Management in Arizona
comprehensive timeline: History of Water Management in Arizona by the Arizona Department of Water Resources.
How did water shape Arizona's history? Tell the story of Arizona through water use and legislation. Use the timeline as a reference for specific laws, dates, or events.
|Arizona history, Civics, Earth sciences, Ecology, Geography
Hohokam Canals: Prehistoric Engineering
video: Site tour with Jerry Howard, curator of the Arizona Museum of Natural History; map: prehistoric and modern day canal systems; history: Jack Swilling, founder of Phoenix, learning button: Hohokam lesson plan for grades 3–6
|Arizona history, Astronomy, Early civilizations, Earth sciences, Language arts
Solar in Action
video: types of solar installations; how solar energy works; interactive map: passive and active solar installations in AZ; lesson plan: 6–8 grade passive solar group activity; teacher aid: K–12 energy-oriented supplementary curriculum resources from the Salt River Project;
With a 333% increase in solar installations in 2011, Arizona boasts some of the largest and most exciting projects in the U.S.
|Earth sciences, Physics
Exploring Energy
interactive diagrams: SunsiteFunsite—general solar energy information, text, glossary, educational activities for students; activities and worksheets: photovoltaic, solar thermal, and chemical energy; pages/games: TEP's Energy Efficiency World—EcoRacer introduces renewable energy sources; Stop the Guzzler helps students understand how they can save energy at home. Campus Metabolism: Advanced information displays help dissect energy use; EIA Energy Kids
Interactive diagrams and learning pages build knowledge of what energy is, how it works, types of energy. Games introduce types of renewable energy and teach the basic concepts of home energy saving. Puzzles broaden learning; timelines and bios of energy pioneers offer history of energy.
|Chemistry, Earth sciences, Physics
Arizona Habitats
interactive map: Arizona Habimap; games: Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum and National Geographic; video: Physiographic Provinces; lesson plan: Arizona Raptors
Search the map for in-depth inquiry about wildlife, climate, and habitat. Understand the relationships among organisms and their environment. Identify wildlife, compare habitats. Compare food chains, adaptive behaviors.
|Climate, Earth sciences, Ecology, Geography
Women and Culture in Copper Country
videos: U of A professor Anna Ochoa O'Leary
U of A professor Anna Ochoa O'Leary discusses women mining and the fusing of numerous cultures.
|Arizona history, Social studies
Mineral History Timeline
interactive timeline: Mining History Timeline; video: 1927 Mining Equipment
History of science as a human endeavor. Interactive timeline shows 400 years of Arizona's development through mining in a fun, visual format.
|Arizona history, Social studies
Rock Products: Building Arizona
game: Cement Plant Tour; information graphic: Industrial Minerals Everyday Uses, PDF
Learn about Arizona's types of quarries, the importance of rocks and gravel in building, infrastructure, and household products.
|Chemistry, Geology
Buffalo Soldiers
slideshow: History of the Buffalo Soldiers in Fort Huachuca; video: 93rd Division in World War II
Follows history of Buffalo Soldiers in Fort Huachuca and their role in maintaining peace at the U.S. Mexico border from 1892 through World War II.
|Arizona history, Civil rights, World War I, World War II
Arizona Facts
video: Living State Symbols; trivia: State Facts
Collect and test your knowledge of Arizona trivia.
|Arizona history, Geography
Biofuel Development
videos: Sweet Sorgum, Introduction to Tubes in the Desert, Sustainable Algal Biofuels Consortium (SABC), Cyanobacteria for Solar-Powered Biofuels, Algae Energy
Learn the principles of creating energy efficient biofuels from algae and other resources, and Arizona's leadership role in developing these technologies.
|Biology, Chemistry
Arizona Timeline Map
interactive map: Timeline Map from 1775 to 2012.
Hands on experience of Arizona's history from 1775 to 2012.
|Arizona history, Civics, Geography
Visualize it!
Interactive maps and video tours are fun and engaging ways to present information. Now students can learn to create their own!
The Arizona Experience has teamed up with leading-edge software creators to help bring data visualization applications into classrooms.
Worldwide Telescope
Worldwide Telescope (WWT) is a data visualization application that allows users to explore the Earth, the solar system, and the Milky Way. Developed by Microsoft Research with the software name Layerscape, this program places the user in control of a virtual camera that can be instructed to view runtime-generated three-dimensional scale models of planet Earth and other bodies in the solar system, as well as panoramic composite images of Mars and the moon. View the night sky as seen from Earth, then zoom in for a closer look at nebulae and constellations, or check out a map of cosmic microwave background radiation.
Though WWT-Layerscape has been touring the cosmos for several years, it has recently turned its sights toward Earth, using Bing Maps to create a virtual globe in the style of Google Earth.
WWT-Layerscape allows you to share what you see by creating guided tours: self-contained multimedia presentations in which you direct the camera. These tours are structured much like presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint: they are built from slides and may contain images and sound to go with animated camera movement.
Classroom Use
In the classroom, Worldwide Telescope facilitates learning in three different ways. At its most basic level, Worldwide Telescope allows students to explore and learn about the Earth and sky. Additionally, Worldwide Telescope provides students with a platform to construct multimedia presentations, allowing students to learn how to transform data into an informative product. Finally, students using Worldwide Telescope learn about the importance of data management and the relationship between data, data visualization, and data applications.
"Flythrough" style tours with a movable camera are not the only option this software offers. Static maps with events occurring as a time function create powerful visualizations with a relatively small amount of data.
Download earthquake data set in comma-separated values (CSV) format.
Please note: this data and this tour are used for instructional purposes only and do not represent the most current information on Arizona earthquakes. Earthquake data is compiled from the Arizona Geological Survey and Northern Arizona University hazard viewer.
WWT-Layerscape Tutorials
PowerPoint tutorials and guides can help you understand and implement this free technology.
"Creating Tours in Worldwide Telescope" is a short instructional booklet with an introduction WWT-Layerscape and the principles of creating a basic tour.
Open "Creating Tours in Worldwide Telescope"
Microsoft Research is developing a series of comprehensive PowerPoint guides for WWT-Layerscape. Session A helps you create, transfer, and play with data in WWT.
View "Layerscape Workshop Session A" PowerPoint presentation.


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The Division of Developmental Disabilities
provides a comprehensive array of
services to individuals and their families in the state through contractual arrangements
with community agencies, five regional community services offices and three comprehensive support services teams. The division's central office staff provide oversight and support in
planning, service coordination, service delivery, children's services, fiscal operations, contracts,
eligibility determination, monitoring quality enhancement of services, and the monitoring and
certification of all community agencies that provide services to individuals with intellectual
The Office of Administrative and Fiscal
Operations is responsible for
providing fiscal and technical
assistance to the division in
matters such as budgeting,
revenue projections, contracts
and purchasing. Because of the
complex regulations and need
for accountability, the assistance
provided by AFO is invaluable to
individuals, family members and
the department.
The Office of Psychological and Behavioral
Services was established
to provide education, training and
professional support to community
providers. Three regionally-based
comprehensive support services
teams provide medical and
psychological care for individuals
with special needs. PBS coordinates
the implementation, training,
and monitoring of behavioral
and psychological services in the
community agencies.
The Office of Quality and Planning is responsible
for ensuring that optimally safe,
efficient and effective care is
provided by community agencies.
QP certification teams require that
program standards are maintained.
The Office of Self-Advocacy Services is directed by a consumer who
is able to provide leadership and
support in self-advocacy and self-determination
initiatives statewide.
SAS also encourages individuals to
participate in civic activities and
become contributing citizens in
their communities.
The Office of Supported Employment plans and
coordinates all initiatives that
address expanding employment
opportunities to consumers served
through the division, including
training and technical assistance.
The office also writes and manages
grants that fund employment pilot
projects throughout the state,
and takes the lead in expanding
collaboration with other state
agencies and organizations so
individuals are more successful
at obtaining and maintaining
competitive employment.
The Office of Systems Management was established to oversee and
promote the development and
use of the Alabama Division of
Intellectual Disabilities Services
Information System within the
division and community providers.
ADIDIS provides more efficient
tracking of billing, ensures
compliance with contracts and
standards, and provides valuable
data for future planning. ADIDIS
also provides technical assistance
to support division action on a
wide range of topics including the
waiting list, outcomes measurement
and supportive employment for
consumers. In addition, ADIDIS
manages the coordination of child
and adolescent services.
The Office of Waiver Service and Case Management oversees the
state Medicaid waiver programs
that provide support services
to persons with intellectual
disabilities. The office also
manages the call center, intake,
information and referral services,
and the supervision of five regional
community services offices that
develop and coordinate services
and supports statewide.


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Jamieson to compete against all-star drivers for $25,000 first prize at Vernon Downs on Aug. 25 & Tioga Downs on Sept. 2
Canada's superstar is heading south of the border.
Top Canadian driver Jody Jamieson has been named the sponsor's exemption and will be the ninth and final competitor in the 7th Annual Tioga/Vernon All-Star Drivers' Championship.
Jamieson will be competing in his third straight Drivers' Championship. He accomplished an unprecedented double in 2011 when he won both the Tioga/Vernon Drivers' Championship and the World Driving Championship.
Currently, Jamieson is the top-money winning driver amongst Canadian based drivers with nearly $4 million in earnings. Earlier this year, he piloted Warrawee Needy to the co-fastest race mile in harness racing history with a 1:46.4 win at the Meadowlands Racetrack in New Jersey.
"Jody has always been highly supportive of all the initiatives to help promote the sport at the Meadowlands, Tioga Downs and Vernon Downs," said Jason Settlemoir, VP of Racing and Simulcast. "He's one of harness racing's best representatives and we also feel that it's appropriate to have the leading Canadian-based driver competing in North America's premier driving event."
The first round of the event takes place at Vernon Downs during a special Sunday night of racing on August 25 with a 6:45 p.m. first race post time. The leader after the Vernon round will receive $10,000. The drivers and their accumulated points will then head to Tioga Downs on a special Labor Day card, September 2, with a 1:30 p.m. post time. The overall winner of the event receives $25,000.
The Vernon Downs leg of the challenge shares a card with the $700,000 Zweig Memorial Trot featuring Hambletonian champion Royalty For Life racing on his home track. The Tioga Downs leg of the challenge shares a card with the $400,000 Cane Pace, opening leg of the Pacing Triple Crown. The Cane is expected to feature a long-awaited showdown between top-rated 3-year-olds Captaintreacherous and Vegas Vacation.
In addition to the racing on the track, fans will be treated to a variety of giveaways and promotions including the annual bobblehead giveaway and t-shirt giveaway while supplies last and drawings to win iPads and laptop computers. There will also be pre-race autograph sessions with the drivers on both days of the event.


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People, let me tell you something. My daughter is 14. And there are times when I wished both of us lived on another planet. As in, together. As in, far, far away from everyone who thinks teens are by nature a subspecies from hell.
And guess what. There are times when, in a manner of speaking, we do.
Last week, for instance. In the mountains of East Tennessee, thirty-three unschooling teens, a half-dozen counselors, a handful of parent-volunteers, and the awesome Laura and Scotty Bowman, director and camp chef, all gathered for the first ever East Tennessee Unschooled Summer Camp at Buffalo Mountain outside of Johnson City.
It was our own private Jupiter. Or moon thereof. An unschooler's moon.
Now, I knew this was going to be a different sort of camp than the one I attended when I was fourteen. The one with the bland meals in the big mess hall, and Reveille at sunrise, and mandatory Vespers on Wednesday, and forced bonhomie, and too-bad-for-you-if-you-don't-like-hotdogs, and adult staff hovering everywhere, keeping the
And I was right. This camp was nothing like that.
First of all, there were only a few rules. Like, no food in the cabins, morning and evening check-ins, hiking partners for hikes, quiet hours after 11 p.m.
But no lights-out-by-whenever, so night owls were free to stay up as late as they liked, as long as they got up for morning check-in. And instead of Reveille blaring over the camp loudspeakers at dawn, those who needed help waking up were serenaded at their cabin door by counselors singing Bohemian Rhapsody. And they were free to return to bed after check-in. Take that, Camp Arthur G. Hough.
There was a schedule of activities listed daily on a whiteboard. They were led by the counselors, by the campers, and by Laura. They were all optional. You could go to a few, or all of them, or none of them. But they were all so intriguing, how could you not go? And so the lodge was full of kids taking part in discussions of the Myers-Briggs personality types, of college, of long-distance friendships, of relationships with siblings. They met up for hikes to the waterfall, and kayaking, and swimming, and the zipline. They showed up for a couples-dancing workshop, a belly-dancing workshop, a zine-making workshop, and a two-hour soapstone carving workshop that ended up lasting two days as everyone kept going back to do one more.
And then there was the spontaneous stuff, like the ever-morphing games of Werewolf that grew to encompass nearly the entire camp. And the music jams, the walks along the creek, the late-night conversations in the lodge.
There was good food, much of it locally sourced, almost all of it made from scratch. Muffins from recipes, not from boxes. Lasagne noodles rolled out on a pasta machine. Fresh vegetables. Meals were served at set times, but there was always a big bowl of fruit and chips and granola bars on the counter, and shelves in the kitchen where campers could stash their own snacks for between-meal noshes. The kitchen never closed, and there was a late-night staffer whose job was to stay up until the last camper wandered off to bed.
Parent volunteers had rooms in a building down the way a bit, nearby but not exactly central to the main area, so we could stay out of the way if we wanted to and still remain accessible if our kids needed us, or needed a cool place to hang out or sleep, since our rooms were air-conditioned and theirs weren't. A couple kids took advantage of that option, and nobody shamed them, or suggested they toughen up, or accused the parents of mollycoddling. The kids were hot, the rooms were cool, sleep was needed. Needs were met. Would that the whole world could work so well.
And when I say "people" I mean all of us. The kids, the counselors, the parents, the staff, everyone. With each other.
That's the gift of unschooling.
I will say with complete confidence that not one of the parents at that camp wishes our kids were on another planet. Not one. Is it because our teens are exceptional? Well, sure they're exceptional. They're unschooled. Which means all of the schooly stuff that comes between kids and their parents, between kids and their passions, all that stuff that gets in the way of kids figuring out how to relate honestly with one another, how to respect themselves and others, and how to respond to the needs of their bodies and their minds and their imaginations, all of that stuff that gets mediated by school and by the institutionalized thinking that supports the schooling paradigm, is absent. It isn't even a part of the atmosphere.
In the words of fellow unschooler Sara McGrath, unschooling "gets schooling out of the way so various unique, dynamic personal, creative ways of growing up, living, participating and contributing to communities can develop." Places like ETUSC are the result of what happens when you do just that: get school out of the way, out of your life, out of your kids' lives, out of your mode of comprehending the world and your own place in it.
You have a whole new world.
And a most excellent planet. Or moon. Either way.


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Gen. David Petraeus travels to Capitol Hill this week, eager to convince an increasingly skeptical American public that the Afghanistan war is worth the effort – and that it is going well, too.
As he appears in Washington, nearly two-thirds of Americans no longer believe that the Afghanistan war "has been worth fighting," according to a new Washington Post/ABC News poll. Moreover, there are distinct differences emerging between US commanders' appraisal of US progress on the ground and that of US intelligence officials.
Some are particularly striking. Petraeus, the commander of US forces in Afghanistan, tends to point to "uneven progress" that remains "fragile and reversible," a description he used frequently for Iraq as well. In testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee Tuesday, he said there had been "significant" progress on the ground in Afghanistan.
"The momentum achieved by the Taliban in Afghanistan since 2005 has been arrested in much of the country and reversed in a number of important areas," he added. He is expected to repeat these assurances before the House Armed Services Committee Wednesday.
Difference of opinion
Yet this view stands in contrast to the assessment that Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and Lt. Gen. Ronald Burgess, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, provided in their Senate testimony last week. Burgess, for his part, noted that while the Taliban is under more pressure than ever before, the insurgent group is resilient and tenacious, and that its influence remains pervasive throughout much of the country.
Although the Taliban have taken "tactical losses, they continue to maintain influence over much of the local population, particularly outside urban areas," he told the committee.
While US troops have had some tactical victories in the east and removed "several key leaders from the battlefield … this does not appear to have affected their operational capacity, which included conducting several high-profile attacks against [NATO] bases in 2010," Burgess stressed.
Sen. John McCain, the Senate Armed Service Committee's top Republican, pointed out these contrasts in testimony Tuesday. Petraeus responded: "With respect, I have tried to avoid what might be labeled optimism or pessimism," he said, "and have tried to provide realism."
Petraeus not alone
He is not the only military commander on the ground whose assessments have differed from those of US intelligence officials. In a Pentagon briefing earlier this month, Maj. Gen. Richard Mills, commanding general of US troops in southwest Afghanistan, told reporters that the Taliban is "short money – there's no question about that – both from his lack of drugs to sell and from his other fund-raisers that have … been unsuccessful."
Mills added that "a number of programs that the government of Afghanistan [has] instituted I believe has had a dramatic impact on the amount of poppy."
Burgess, however, had another take on Taliban finances. He attributed the drop in poppy yield to a disease in the south, and he suggested that farmers made up the difference by charging more for poppy to make up for the decline in opium yields. While the Taliban have experienced some financial constraints, he added, "They have remained able to sufficiently fund fighters through various funding streams."
Mills's testimony also contrasted with that of National Intelligence Director Clapper on the subject of so-called "alternative livelihood" programs that help farmers switch from poppy to legal crops.
Mills said the Afghan government "has a very effective crop-introduction program in lieu of poppy … that has proven to be very, very popular."
Clapper differed. "Alternative livelihood programs designed to encourage Afghan farmers to end poppy cultivation will not significantly discourage farmers from planting poppy in 2011," he told the Senate committee, "primarily because a lack of security impedes their implementation on a large scale."
It is this security that remains paramount – and elusive – for US troops. On this point US military and intelligence officials are in agreement. Petraeus told the committee that "much difficult work lies ahead" for US troops.
Burgess agreed in an even more blunt assessment. "Afghanistan," he warned, "will experience record levels of violence through 2011."


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The Machinery Journal blog is your place to find the latest machinery updates, industry news, and interesting tid bits.
From the Machine Finder blog, there are some interesting details of five parts built into every John Deere round baler to make your hay season more successful:
Diamond Thread Baler Belts: With four protective layers of nylon and polyester fabric, these belts are resistant to curling, yet flexible enough to lift the crop off the pick-up teeth and roll tight, uniform-density bales. The Diamond Thread is a self-cleaning belt that keeps dirt away in order to prevent bale slip. Once these belts reach the end of their service, a built-in wear indicator will let you know that it's time to change the belt.
Plate Type Belt Splice: Thanks to the components of a closed loop locking system, Deere's Plate Type Belt Splice provides the strength and durability for handling the heaviest of loads consistently. When paired with the Diamond Thread Baler belt, this splice makes even the toughest harvest season and haymaking manageable.
Round Baler Chain: Oftentimes people can overlook the intricate parts of a baler, but parts like the Round Baler Chain are essential pieces to the preventative maintenance of John Deere balers. A Round Baler Chain from John Deere is built to last and requires minimal maintenance once it has been linked to your machine.
Factory-Installed Grease Banks: The convenient grease banks of John Deere balers allow you to easily grease your machine more quickly. You will spend less time greasing your machine prior to haymaking and will be able to get into the field faster for a productive day of baling.
Cam Clutch: In Deere's newest Premium baler, PTO is protected by Cam-clutch to ensure the driveline runs cooler when slipped, is totally maintenance-free, and informs the operator when the driveline disengages.
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Agriculture is full of mind-spinning new products, technology and trends that promise big changes for Midwest crop farmers. The editors at Farm Industry News have pulled together an informal list of the people, products, ideas and trends that may make your operation more efficient and more profitable in the future. Check out "what's new and what's next" to help you get ready for this new era of high-stakes farming.
Autonomous tractors
Tractors that drive themselves with a computer in control are nearly here. Some equipment manufacturers have experimented with driverless tractors but have not taken them beyond the research stage. The big problem is that the tractor must sense when a person, animal or object is near and stop or move around it. There is little room for error. But guidance technology has advanced a great deal in the last few years. Autonomous tractors can't be far away, especially for tedious fieldwork.
So much has already been said about biofuels that is seems a bit redundant to say anymore. But rest assured, biofuels will continue to be critical in the next decade, and it will take all kinds to fulfill our massive fuel demand — from ethanol and biodiesel to canola and sunflower oil.
Biomass harvesters
For years, the problem has been how to get rid of excess crop residue so it doesn't affect crop emergence. Now, alternative fuel makers have another use for biomass, and equipment companies are scrambling for ways to handle it. The key question for manufacturers is if they should modify existing equipment, develop new prototypes or design totally different machines to collect biomass. Growers can expect to see biomass machines that look a lot like the windrowers and choppers of days gone by but with a new name and higher price tag. It turns out that alternative fuels may keep more than just farmers in business.
Controlled traffic
Just how much does compaction affect your crop yields? It may be a lot. University studies show that the weight of today's supersized machinery is compressing the soil like cold-press coffee. Compacted soil robs a crop of potential yield. Innovators like Iowa farmer Clay Mitchell started experimenting with "controlled traffic." He found that by strictly following the same wheel tracks in his fields, he could keep soil compaction to a minimum and reduce the overall area being compacted. Now the term "controlled traffic" is starting to pop up at different ag conferences. It is considered an innovative way to limit compaction to designated areas between the crop rows, leaving the soil between the wheels just as light as Mother Nature intended.
Drought-tolerant crops
Seed geneticists found the easy traits first, and now they are working overtime on the tough ones. Drought tolerance will be the mother lode, though, for the first seed company to master this tricky set of genes. The winner of this race will have products in high demand. The major seed companies all expect to produce drought-tolerant hybrids and varieties in the next decade.
E Premium tractor
During a snowstorm when the electricity goes out, an owner of the new John Deere 7430 E Premium tractor can pull up to the house and plug in an electrical cord for power. This new tractor is a change in direction for the equipment industry. The tractor generates electricity to run auxiliaries like air conditioning and will operate implements that are redesigned with electric motors. Without all the extras draining its power, the diesel engine can maximize its performance and save fuel. A side benefit of the tractor's generator is the ability to run power equipment wherever the tractor can go. The E tractor is scheduled for sale in Europe only.
Fleet management
As the average farm gets bigger, farm owners are finding they need a more sophisticated way to keep track of vehicles than driving around in their pickup to see why Larry hasn't showed up at the elevator. Large commercial growers will start adopting the technologies used in commercial trucking businesses to monitor and manage fleets from a single computer screen. The fleet management technology, called telematics, includes vehicle-tracking devices and software that show where all vehicles are located at all times.
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Global warming
After the next election, expect to see more support for efforts to reduce global warming. This should include the promotion of carbon credits and the Chicago Climate Exchange. Farmers can take a leading role in this effort by farming with carbon-sequestering practices like minimum-tillage and receive payment for their efforts. The Climate Exchange is a trading system that handles the carbon credits. Although it is voluntary here, some countries enforce carbon emissions levels, and companies will purchase offsetting carbon credits if their emissions are too high. Time will tell if this becomes a mandate in the U.S.
Hydrogen fuel
The hydrogen fuel industry is growing out of its infancy and into a stage where ethanol was about 10 to 15 years ago. Auto manufacturers including Honda, Toyota, BMW, GM, DaimlerChrysler and Volkswagen are working on hydrogen internal combustion engines and fuel cell vehicles. BMW just built a small fleet of high-end hydrogen cars and presented one to California Governor Schwarzenegger.
Plenty of work is ahead. The hydrogen industry must work on energy-efficient ways to obtain hydrogen. Hydrogen gas may be produced from renewable sources like methane, ethanol, biomass and water or separated from water with electrolysis that is powered by wind and solar energy.
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Anyone shopping for new farm equipment should by now be aware of this acronym. It is loosely used to indicate compliance with the International Standard Organization (ISO) 11783 standard that allows different brands of electronic devices on farm equipment to easily communicate with each other through one common connection.
Farm machinery manufacturers have been working on this standard since 2001. But it wasn't until recently that consumers started to see the results of this industry-wide effort. A record number of companies launched ISOBUS equipment in 2006, according to William Rudolph, North American ISOBUS Implementation Taskforce and TeeJet technical director. Expect to see even more companies offering products that meet this standard.
Here are some tips from Rudolph to ensure you buy up-to-date electronic equipment:
When you purchase your next tractor, make sure it is ISOBUS compatible.
Purchase ISOBUS-compatible implements that come with an ISOBUS monitor (if you don't already have one).
Purchase an ISOBUS monitor in conjunction with your first ISOBUS-compatible implement so you can use the same monitor with future implement purchases.
Visit this Web site for a list of manufacturers of ISOBUS-compliant devices: http://www.isobus.net/isobus_E.
Implement steering
In the past, the only wheels worthy of automated steering were those on a tractor or combine. But what about the wheels on the implement? Farmers who farm hillsides can attest that it is hard to keep their implements following in the exact same path as the tractor. The new implement steering systems keep implements on course by putting sensors and actuators on the implement wheels so they follow exactly in line with the tractor that is pulling them. The fastest payback for this technology comes from using it in applications where accuracy is important, such as strip-tillage and drip irrigation. However, the adage in the industry is "accuracy is addictive." Once farmers get a taste of it, they won't want to give it up regardless of the payback.
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Internet in the cab
Growers don't have to forsake the cyber world just because they are in the field. Raven Industries proved this by launching a Viper with Internet access. The new task controller is the first to bring cyber digital waves to corn and soybean fields across the Midwest. The company uses the same card technology that is in a cell phone for the Viper. Or growers may use a USB WiFi adapter. Expect other companies to piggyback on the same technology, bringing competition into this new field.
Joint ventures
Agricultural companies have teamed up in joint ventures to become more competitive in a dog-eat-dog world. They chose partner companies with different strengths to produce a better product. Seed and chemical companies started this model, and now electronics and iron makers are following. Here are some of the partnerships that have occurred in the past few years:
Ag Leader/Kinze
AutoFarm/Raven Industries
Case IH/Trimble
CNH Global/Shanghai Tractor & Internal
Combustion Engine
Monsanto/Dow AgroSciences (8-stack hybrid)
Pioneer Hi-Bred/Syngenta (germplasm)
DuPont/Beijing Weiming Kaituo Agriculture
Biotechnology (gene discovery)Monsanto/Valent (rewards program)
Bayer CropScience/Soygenetics
Bayer CropScience/Stine Seed
DuPont/Syngenta (Greenleaf Genetics)
Leica Geosystems/Rinex Technology
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Professor Gary Krutz was tired of having to replace tires on his daughter and son-in law's car after 10,000 miles of use. So Krutz and graduate research assistants at Purdue University developed a "smart" tire that senses problems before it goes flat or loses air.
Krutz says traditional tire sensing systems detect low air pressure or unbalanced pressure between tires but fall short of alerting drivers of problems unrelated to improper inflation. The smart tire uses the concept that the entire tire is the sensor. Measurements are taken on the tread and the layers beneath it to detect damage caused by cuts, punctures, manufacturing defects, rubber hardening, over-deflection, impact, or improper mounting or repair. Signals are sent to on-board computers for processing.
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Land management
The average age of the American farmer is mid-50s, and this has major implications for the future of farmland. More land will roll to family members who are not farming. These non-farming landowners will turn over the land management to professionals. As a result, professional land management firms, rather than individual farmers, will become the new major decision makers for inputs and renters.
Cargill spun off the fertilizer company called Mosaic in 2004. A hot world market for fertilizer has helped propel Mosaic stock from $15/share in 2004 to $94.34/share at the end of 2007. In fact, the Minneapolis-based company was the top earner of a local stock index with a 342% increase in price during 2007. With the fertilizer shortage continuing indefinitely, Mosaic is sure to keep climbing upward.
The availability and price of nitrogen fertilizer will continue to be an enormous factor in the profitability of corn. All efforts will focus on precisely applying nitrogen at the optimum time to promote corn growth because N will not be a low-priced option in the near future.
On-the-go sensors
Expect to see new developments with on-the-go sensing from vehicle-mounted devices that help regulate the application of seed, fertilizer and chemicals. "A fertilizer spreader might be able to have a sensor at the front that will test, say, soil pH every few feet and change the rate of lime application as the spreader passes over that point," says Marvin Batte, Ohio State University.
On-the-go sensing technology has been around in other forms, including nitrogen sensing, since the 1990s. Examples include GreenSeeker, Norsk Hydro (Yara) N sensor, and Crop Circle, which all measure the greenness of leaves for variable nitrogen application.
Precision guidance
Automated steering systems with GPS will fully populate the ag equipment business in the next decade. The early adopters in farming already successfully implemented precision guidance systems. Now the masses will join. Most tractors and combines are manufactured with the ability to handle GPS-directed steering systems.
Quad stacks
Quad stacks were the latest in the explosion of stacked traits in corn and soybean seed. Recently, Monsanto and Dow AgroSciences trumped the quad stack with an eight-gene stack. This new multiple-stack product could be called an octostack, but the two companies opted for the name Smart Stax.
With its endless list of new features, the new stacked-trait seed is beginning to sound like a new car. In the future, maybe the seed companies will have to create seed with standard, deluxe and premium packages of stacks.
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Remote sensing
Remote sensing technology is not new but is getting a face-lift. Instead of a week to turn around satellite photos, the new Optigro from John Deere takes only two to three days. As a result, growers can quickly react with rescue operation plans before too much crop damage occurs. The images help show crop stress, pests, weather damage, and low nitrogen and moisture levels.
Robot rally
Instead of sitting around a conference room talking about automated machines, a group of agricultural engineers staged a robot rally as part of the Precision Ag Conference held last summer. Robots with names like AgAnt and Agbo were demonstrated. Sure, these robots may not look as posh as the lifelike androids shown each year at Las Vegas electronic shows, but these field versions promise to be more productive, volunteering for the most mundane tasks like weeding and tilling. The University of Illinois is one hot spot for the research. Tony Grift and his university team just received a $300,000 grant to develop one of these androids for the field.
Remote diagnostics
General Motors did it for cars with OnStar and now you can get the same immediate service response in your tractor from Leica Geosystems. Leica's service is a remote diagnostic system called the Virtual Wrench, which is a feature on the company's autosteer guidance system. The Virtual Wrench lets the folks at Leica tap into its real-time kinematic (RTK) system 24/7 and fix it at the touch of a button from their headquarters in Englewood, CO. So a farmer in a tractor cab with the autosteer system (called mojoRTK) can push a button on the system's small console and get a live technician to respond, just like with OnStar.
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A new word has been added to the vocabulary. Pronounced sen-SORE-icks, the term is used to describe the sensor industry. Sensorics may not be a word you've heard of, but it's a hot topic among rocket-science types like those at the University of Illinois who are studying how to use sensors to make smart equipment. Sensors and sensorics have become such a big topic that an entire conference last year was devoted to this area of research.
Smart implements
Tractor cabs have been equipped with electronics for decades. But now the implements pulled behind them are getting hardwired, too, to give them just as much intelligence. Sensors are being added to every moving part of the implement to help it track and operate in the most optimum way. The sensors log information like ground speed, depth of tillage, number of seeds planted, and amount of fertilizer applied.
Conferences on strip-till were packed last year showing that interest in this form of minimum tillage is high. No-tillers like it because it provides them a more aggressive way to get rid of residue, and even conventional tillers are interested because of potential fuel savings. Shortline manufacturers led the relatively young strip-till equipment market. But recently, major manufacturers like Case IH-DMI and John Deere have joined in, which some say adds to the validity of this tillage method.
Tier 4
With Tier 3 diesel emission standards now in effect for large row-crop tractors, manufacturers are already working on engine designs to meet Tier 4. This next tier, to be fully phased in by 2015, calls for an even greater reduction in the amount of soot and nitrous oxide allowable in diesel exhaust. "The way I describe it is if you drove through a large city on a smoggy day with a Tier 4 engine, the air coming out of the tractor would be cleaner than the air coming in," says Jim Wienkes, John Deere tractor engineering manager.
Getting the engine and tractor to meet the new Tier 4 rules is difficult. "If the engineering challenge to meet Tier 3 was a factor of 1, Tier 4 is going to be a factor of 3," Wienkes says. Engineers have several methods they can use to create cleaner-burning engines, but each has its own set of trade-offs. Expect to see Tier 4 engines available on some 2009 tractors.
The track market for tractors is alive and well and John Deere wants to make sure we know this. Deere launched a new type of track last year that it says will put it back on the map in the world of tracks. The new track system combines the benefits of a quad track with a two-track setup. After-market companies are putting the same concept to work on other brand vehicles, hoping to achieve high flotation levels.
Utility vehicles
Once considered glorified golf carts, utility vehicles have undergone a metamorphosis. Just look at the makeover of John Deere's Gator. The new XUV now fits into the category of "sporty" UVs that includes the Yamaha Rhino, Polaris Ranger and Arctic Cat Prowler. Even Kawasaki has added a new, powerful UV to its lineup with its 750cc Teryx. With the farm population aging and the price of pickups increasing, more growers are willing to pop for a $10,000 UV because it more closely mimics a pickup than an ATV does. The UV can head to the field with passengers or pull plenty of weight. And the operator doesn't have to swing a leg over the back end to get on it. UVs will be the new ATVs of the next decade.
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Variable-rate technology
We know you've been hearing about VRT for years. But now the technology is getting very precise with rate control by the nozzle and planter row. The majority of growers haven't used VRT, but they probably will in the next decade. (See " Precision payoff," February 2008)
Vegetable-oil engine
Imagine dousing your salad with the same oil that you put into your tractor for diesel fuel. What may sound crazy now is much closer than you think. In Europe, Deutz developed the first diesel engine that runs on rapeseed (canola) oil. Farmers can raise their own rapeseed, run it through a rapeseed mill on the farm, and put it in a fuel tank for the tractor. A tractor from Same Deutz-Fahr and one from Fendt are equipped with the new vegetable-oil engine. In addition, Deutz is testing engines with soybean and sunflower oil.
There also was a tractor several decades ago that could use fuel oil. That just proves there are few new ideas — just recycled ones.
Virtual terminal
Office workers wouldn't think of having to deal with multiple computers on their desktop. But that's what farmers have had to deal with for years, says George Huber of Trimble. One tractor cab could be populated with as many as a half dozen different monitors if different brands of electronics were used. The cab clutter was coined "monitor wallpaper," by Marvin Stone of Oklahoma State University. Finally, the wallpaper is coming down, thanks to advancements in electronics. The industry is moving toward a do-all screen called a "virtual terminal" that can be used to monitor the tasks from many brands of task controllers.
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What's old is new again when it comes to windmills and wind power. Wind farms with dozens of enormous steel windmills are cropping up all over the Midwest. And it's becoming trendy for eco-friendly colleges and businesses to put up their own windmills to produce power. But just a few individual farmers have had the courage to put one up. Wind power to generate a farm's energy needs makes a lot of sense and hopefully more farmers will get on this bandwagon.
Wheat as a crop lost plenty of ground in the last decade, but in this next one we may see a renewal for this major world staple. A growing demand and decreased acreage created a healthy market. U.S. growers were surprised to see wheat move into the $5 to $6/bu. range last year. There's nothing like money to attract more money. So crop protection and seed companies should start investing more dollars for new and better products to sell to wheat growers who should have more money now to buy them.
A new category of machine came to the U.S. in 2007 when German harvester family Claas decided to bring its superman tractor to our shores. This "tractor" is geared to the very large crop operation or a municipality that needs snow removal, road excavation and other big utility jobs. Think skid-steer loader meets 330-hp 4-wd and add in the octopus thrill ride to get an idea of the Xerion's versatility. The entire cab pivots to face behind and run implements from that direction. It crosses many classes of equipment.
Young farmers
With the farm population aging, more strategies, such as joint buying, should be devised to help young farmers. With joint buying, a farmer buys most of his/her farm equipment with other farmers under an LLC (limited liability corporation). The equipment is shared. Joint buying may create scheduling and maintenance headaches when everyone needs to plant at the same time. But it may help keep the next generation of farmers in business. Distributing the cost of equipment across several owners will help a young farmer's bottom line.
Zhang, Qin
Qin Zhang's name is synonymous with mechatronics, the science that integrates "mechanics" and "electronics" to create off-road machinery with a "brain." Here are some applications this ag engineering professor at the University of Illinois envisions for the future in off-road equipment:
Automated navigationVehicles can drive themselves with the help of "intelligent obstacle avoidance."
Active rollover prevention systemStill in the early stage, this system aims to protect both the operator and equipment by preventing rollovers from occurring in the first place. It does this by measuring slope and disabling the vehicle when it gets too steep.
Programmable E/H control valveControl-actuating components can be programmed like a computer to perform different applications.
Smart machine health monitor or "predictor."An automated maintenance system checks equipment health and predicts remaining life so repairs can be made before breakdowns occur.
Vision-based side-dressingA vehicle-mounted camera, equipped with vision sensors, assesses crop growth conditions and then varies the amount of fertilizer applied based on those conditions.


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Document management software, which falls within the larger category of content management systems (CMS), helps business users digitally upload, track and archive documents while keeping them secure. Many document management systems include workflow tools to manage the life cycle of specific documents, such as articles or legal contracts.
According to the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM), 75 percent of companies use more than one document management solution. This reflects both the scale of information companies today must oversee, and the diversity of available solutions.
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Document management software provides organizations with the following functionality:
Organizations that frequently use and/or maintain records containing sensitive personal information, such as those in the medical or financial industries, may benefit especially from document control software. These solutions can help ensure industry-specific document compliance while providing the appropriate users with quick, reliable access to records.
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Document management software is also helpful for companies seeking a way to implement rules-based workflow processes, such the review and approval of documents prior to publication and/or release.
Document management software is a broad category that covers many different applications. Many of these applications can be sold either as stand-alone products, or combined together in a comprehensive integrated suite.
|Document capture and imaging
|Uses imaging technology to digitize printed documents. These applications are often integrated with document readers and search features.
|Assigns metadata (e.g., properties such as author and file format) to documents in a library or archive to make them searchable.
|Allows users to draft, edit and distribute content via workflow tools and role-based permissions.
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|Secures records by classifying and archiving sensitive data.
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|Automates the documentation and management of cases, including approvals, role permissions and other necessary steps.
|Contract management
|Facilitates the workflow for creating and revising specific types of contracts (e.g., mortgage contracts).
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Buyers evaluate document management software for many different reasons, but most fall within one of the following common scenarios:
Digitizing company documents. Organizations looking to go paperless by digitizing paper records often seek a stand-alone document imaging application to help upload these records quickly, without having to manually scan them. Imaging applications are sometimes part of a larger integrated suite that offers additional tools for the tracking, storage and retrieval of these digital records.
Securing sensitive records. Companies in certain industries are subject to government regulations that mandate how records are stored and accessed. These regulations often require organizations to keep both historical and current documents in a digital format, and to limit who can access them. These companies often seek document management applications that are designed to aid compliance, and include features such as audit trails and role-based permissions. Companies should also consider a virtual data room which offers more features and protections that standard document management systems lack.
Organizing file systems. Many companies have difficulty finding and accessing files. For example, documents may be stored across multiple locations, including network drives, individual desktops and Web-based file sharing platforms (e.g., Dropbox), which in some cases may violate company policies. These buyers seek to unify document storage so employees can access documents both easily and securely.
Many larger organizations often seek Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions, which are more comprehensive systems that often include records and digital asset management applications, among others.
Seeking an industry-specific solution. Certain companies require solutions that are tailored to the specific document life cycles in their organization and include case or contract management tools. Document management software helps automate and track the unique workflow of these records to improve efficiency while ensuring no step is missed.
Web-based solutions become increasingly available. According to Gartner, while on-premise document management systems continue to dominate the market, Web-based solutions (e.g., M-Files, Acquia and Spring CM) can help supplement it. These solutions offer benefits such as remote access to documents, added security via cloud-based data backup and the elimination of added technology and hardware costs.
Collaborative tools become more popular. An increasing number of document management solutions are beginning to incorporate tools that facilitate greater collaboration between users. These tools enable multiple employees to work on shared documents, share files and communicate via social tools within the same platform, thus changing the way teams are able to work together with records.
Emergence of mobile document management solutions. A decade ago, it was unimaginable that companies could create and edit documents on mobile devices. Today, however, the widespread prevalence of smartphone and tablet technology has led many document management software vendors to offer mobile apps that allow users to access and edit content remotely.


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Claude "Bob" Pettitt passed away Dec. 25, 2012, at the age of 88 in Dayton, Ohio. He was formerly of Grand Island.
He was born on Jan. 22, 1924, and departed this life at home, with his beloved wife and sons by his side. Preceding him in death were his mother Anita Arnold Pettitt, father W.W. Pettitt, brother John W. Pettitt and former wife Doris (nee Hansler) Pettitt. Bob is survived by his cherished wife of 35 years, Dolores (nee Rafe) Pettitt; sons: Robert (Linda), Brian (Barbara), Jeffrey (Deborah); grandchildren: Shawna Mann (Michael), Michelle Cox (Jeremy), Robert W. and Marie Pettitt; and great-grandchildren: Ashleigh and Austin Mann. He is also survived by Dolores' children, whom Bob treasured and loved as his own: Paul Rafe, Michael Rafe (Denise), Debra Taber (Keith) Laurie Hicks (Roger), Michele Rafe (Armand DeBan), Patricia Quarles (Paul), Mark Rafe (deceased), 21 grandchildren, Autumn Rollings (deceased), and 14 great-grandchildren.
Bob proudly volunteered to serve his country as a United States Marine serving aboard the battleship U.S.S. Massachusetts in the African and Pacific theaters during World War II. He was a life member of VFW Post 2800 where he served as quartermaster, in addition to being a life member of AMVETS.
A memorial service with full military honors was held in Dayton on Jan. 5.
The family would like to thank the staff of Hospice of Dayton for their concern, compassion, and excellent care. Donations may be made in his memory to Hospice of Dayton, 324 Wilmington Ave., Dayton, Ohio 45420.


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Why is the sky so blue and clear?
Why is the robin's song so dear?
Why is the sun so warm and bright,
Filling the earth with glorious light?
Why are the fields so green today?
Why do the clouds all float away?
Why does my heart with gladness sing?
Only because it's spring!
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Every team's evolution from doormat to contender has that defining moment when somebody grabs the team by the scruff of the neck and shakes it awake.
That moment for the 1969 Mets came on this date when manager Gil Hodges walked out of the dugout and strolled out to left field, where he removed Cleon Jones.
The Mets lost the first game of a doubleheader, 16-3, and were getting pasted in the second, 8-0, when Johnny Edwards doubled past Jones.
It was reported at the time Jones had sustained a leg injury, but it later surfaced Hodges was angry at Jones for not hustling.
On the 40th Anniversary of that team, Jones recalled the incident as a galvanizing moment. Jones also said Hodges was his favorite manager.
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For most people in the Western world, going to the dealership is like going to the dentist. The visit is considered a success as long as it is quick and painless. At Volkswagen dealerships in China the expectations are higher -- and the perks are much better.
VW sales boss Christian Klingler, during the Geneva auto show this week, talked about how Europe's largest automaker meets customer demands very differently at its 20,000 global dealerships.
In China, customers waiting for their cars are offered drinks and snacks. Depending on the dealership, they also can watch a movie in an on-site theater or get a massage.
That's pretty exceptional, especially for a Western customer who rates the dealership experience highly if the car comes back freshly vacuumed.
Klingler provided another example on how the sales experience is different in China. He said that when the customer takes ownership of the car there is a full-blown celebration in the dealership complete with loud and appreciative applauds from the staff.
Elsewhere, before the owner takes the keys in India, the car is blessed by a priest to assure luck and safety.
In Turkey, a customer is allowed inside the maintenance area to get a first-hand look at the work being done on the car. The customer is allowed to ask questions of the technician during the process.
In Japan, a VW Group salesperson goes to the customer's home to discuss which car would be best. Klingler said most of the company's car sales are completed in the customer's home.
The VW Group sales boss used the examples from around the world to show how VW Group has adapted to meet the desires of each market. The end goal for VW Group is to become the world's No. 1 brand based on customer service -- and unit sales -- by 2018.
Feeding, entertaining and pampering a customer is definitely the right way to get to that level.