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In his local farming community, Brad Williams is known as an innovator. So when the local Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) office suggested to Williams that he could save water, reduce irrigation and fertilizer costs, and get a boost in his yields through the use of something called a "surge valve," the Missourian's polite response was predictable: "Show me," he said.
That was more than six years ago. Now, Williams is a true believer in the economic power of conservation. He sees the proof in his cotton yields during the growing season and on his farm's bottom line throughout the year.
For Williams, the eye-opener came when he tested two different irrigation techniques on adjacent cotton fields shortly after deciding to give the surge valve a try. On one field, he used a traditional furrow irrigation system. On the other he used a surge valve he borrowed from his local soil and water conservation district.
True to his previous experience, the water in the traditional furrow irrigation field never made it to the end of the rows even after 36 hours of irrigating. But after only 24 hours using the surge valve system, Williams was amazed that most of the rows were completely and evenly watered.
"At that point, I didn't have to run any more tests, "Williams said. "I was sold right then and there."
John Hester, an irrigation specialist with the NRCS in Dexter, Mo., said the surge valve acts as a butterfly valve that directs water to one section of a field, then switches to another field and back, at timed intervals. By alternating the application of water from one section of the field to the other, the sandy soils of southeastern Missouri are allowed to "seal," which prevents the next surge of water from draining through the same area of topsoil. The end result is that the water can be evenly distributed throughout the rows with a minimum amount of water lost to deep percolation.
Hester said studies conducted on several Missouri furrow irrigation farms demonstrate the value of surge valves. "Those studies show that using a surge valve resulted in a 20 percent to 50 percent water savings, and reduced deep percolation and runoff," he said. "The conservation benefits of that technology are significant."
But from a producer's perspective, Williams needed to know if using the surge valve would pay.
"My first priority," Williams said, "was to help myself financially — to stay in business."
With the cost of each surge valve at more than $1,300 (he needed a total of 10 for his entire farming operation), Williams would not have been able to afford the cost — despite the obvious benefits.
Fortunately, conservation cost-share assistance was available through the USDA. At that point, Williams said, the decision became "a no- brainer."
In Missouri today, producers can apply for cost-share through the Environmental Quality Incentives Program. "Thanks to that program, more than 40,000 acres of irrigated land now utilize surge valves in southeast Missouri," NRCS' Hester said.
It didn't take long for Williams to witness the positive impact conservation was having on his family's Century Farm. "The first, and most obvious benefit, is the reduction in my pumping costs," he said.
"Second, my fertilizer costs are lower because less of it leaches out in the new irrigation process. And finally, we've noticed a slight increase in yields, because I'm not over-watering some areas and under-watering others."
And if those benefits weren't enough to make him a believer, Williams was able to realize a significant reduction in labor costs.
"Because of the increase in irrigation efficiencies, I'm personally spending less time in the field, and my paid labor costs are down as well."
As critical as the bottom line is to his business, Williams also knows that the benefits of irrigation water management transcend pure economics, resulting in numerous benefits to the environment.
"I'm using less fuel in pumping water," he said. "Less fuel use means fewer emissions into the atmosphere. And because I have better irrigation control, there's less runoff and leaching of fertilizers and herbicides — all of which lead to better water," Williams said.
The 2002 farm bill could provide additional incentives for cotton producers and others to invest in conservation systems. "Depending on the identified local resource priorities," said NRCS Chief Bruce I. Knight, "cost-share and incentive payments may be available to help producers offset the costs of installing and maintaining conservation systems, including irrigation water management systems."
But even with the authorization increases in farm bill conservation programs, Knight said, conservation demands still outpace available program funding, so natural resource priorities and cost-share rates will have to be decided at the state and local levels.
"Most of the decisions regarding conservation priorities and cost-share rates will be determined by the state conservationists, with advice from state technical committees and local working groups," he said.
Ron Nichols is a writer for USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service.


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January 19, 1997Time Travelers
By MICHAEL UPCHURCH
The characters in William Boyd's stories journey to exotic locales -- some of them in the mind
By William Boyd.
177 pp. New York:
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t isn't possible to discuss ''the world of William Boyd'' as you might that of Barbara Pym or Raymond Carver. The reason? Mr. Boyd's fictional landscapes are far too diverse in character to be classified as a single imaginative entity. Consider, for example, the dozen or more that are on display in his provocative new collection of stories.
Ranging in setting from Hollywood to London to an imaginary Brazil, and in time from World War I to the present, the book highlights Mr. Boyd's pleasing variousness as a writer. He is at once as playful as the most perverse metafictionist yet as passionate as the lushest writer of romance. He has a taste for ambiguity and, at the same time, a frank appetite for slapstick (no longer as broad, thankfully, as in his early novels ''A Good Man in Africa'' and ''Stars and Bars''). This quality of miscellany may occasionally raise questions about whether he has any cohesive identity as a writer. Yet the very discontinuities that he explores -- of personality, of locale, of subject matter -- are what he is all about.
The title story draws on Mr. Boyd's screenwriting experiences, portraying a West African film director, Aurelien No, who in ways both farcical and sublime remains blissfully impervious to the machinations of Hollywood agents, actors and producers. It helps, perhaps, that upon his arrival in Los Angeles, Aurelien rarely strays more than a few blocks from the airport. It also helps that, with his almost mystical cinema verite approach, he is unperturbed by minor annoyances like a boom mike dropping into the frame: ''Oh, I don't worry about that sort of thing. . . . It adds to the verisimilitude.''
Aurelien's escapades give Mr. Boyd an excuse to serve up a feast of quips about Hollywood, most of them beginning, ''I have a theory about this town.'' But his wit is sharpest in creating an untarnished soul who slips through a byzantine power structure in so serendipitous a fashion as not to be touched by it at all.
In other stories, the protagonists don't get off so lightly. Wesley Bright, the hapless hero of ''Never Saw Brazil,'' develops a whole fantasy life, complete with shape-shifting alter ego, inspired by Brazil's chorinho music. But instead of enhancing his workaday London existence, Wesley's musical obsessions riddle it with pitfalls. His dissatisfaction with his life and his name (''It was like being condemned to wear too-small shoes all the time'') is sympathetically portrayed -- and perhaps reveals something of Mr. Boyd as well. Both author and character, it would seem, can't help going to exotic locales -- in their dreams, if not always in reality.
The story called ''Cork,'' which takes place in Lisbon, sets up yet another sort of conflict: between a pragmatic young British widow, who is the proprietor of a cork-processing factory, and her husband's former office manager, with whom she embarks on an affair. Her lover will meet her only once a year, however, and he insists that their encounters be pseudonymous masquerades. For him, this role playing is indispensable: ''You see, because I am nothing, I can imagine anything. . . . If I were something, I would be unable to imagine.'' Yet for the widow their relationship's circumscribed nature -- which has as much to do with her lover's private circumstances as his predilections -- is agony. The most vital thing in her life has neither a time nor a place in which to exist.
Punctuating the story are excerpts from a monograph on the peculiar traits of cork trees, especially their vulnerability to disease. This is vintage Boyd, entwining a seemingly dry scientific treatise into his tale in such a way as to heighten the passion at stake. As it turns out, the rare character of cork -- ''lightness, impermeability, elasticity'' -- and the unusual nature of the threatened love affair have much in common.
''Loose Continuity,'' perhaps the collection's strongest story, again uses scientific parlance (about the paths meteors take through planetary atmospheres) as it contrasts a designer's strife-torn love life in 1930's Germany with her unexpected professional success in 1940's Los Angeles. Hardly able to connect the two worlds, or her two selves, she stands in awe at the chancy trajectory that has led her from one to the other.
The collection's range is also clearly demonstrated by the sobering ''Transfigured Night,'' in which the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein takes stoic measure of World War I's catastrophes and his own family's history of suicide; by ''The Dream Lover'' and ''Alpes-Maritimes,'' which pick up where Mr. Boyd's earlier story ''Gifts'' (inspired by his student days at the University of Nice) left off; and by ''The Persistence of Vision,'' in which a painter's trained eye transforms a jittery marital history into a seamless -- though mutable -- sequence of images.
Many of the stories' startling contrasts in texture are explained by the author's fascination with different means of perception -- whether the camera lens, as in the title story, or the painter's selective eye, in ''The Persistence of Vision,'' or a pocket diary in the pithy jeu d'esprit ''Lunch'' (which could have been written by Donald Barthelme). Whatever the refracting device, Mr. Boyd's ability to zero in on ordinary human foibles and woes -- daydream delusions, cultural dislocations, emotional smash-ups -- is swift and sure.
Only two pieces fail to come to life: ''N Is for N,'' a commissioned piece for an illustrated alphabet by David Hockney, and ''Hotel des Voyageurs,'' an elusive vignette that takes its inspiration from a passage by Cyril Connolly.
Mr. Boyd's eclectic erudition is evident throughout the book, though rarely in an obfuscating way. Even if you don't get his ''in'' jokes -- for instance, the title story's comparison of Aurelien No's cult director status with that of J. J. Todd, the film maker protagonist of Mr. Boyd's novel ''The New Confessions'' -- his eccentric wit and restless intelligence exert a powerful appeal.
Michael Upchurch's latest novel is ''Passive Intruder.''
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Kahler has been a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2012–2013) and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University (2007–2008). He was senior fellow for international political economy at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York (1994–1996). He is a member of the editorial boards of Global Governance and Global Summitry. Kahler was founding director of UC San Diego's Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies, and its international studies program.
He has published widely in the fields of international politics and international political economy, including articles and books on global governance, international financial institutions, and Asia-Pacific regionalism. His current research projects include the development of institutions of complex governance and the changing role of emerging economies in world politics and global governance.
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In this The English We Speak podcast: Feifei and Finn are at the cinema and she asks him about who the actors in the movie are. Finn answers that he has his finger on the pulse. Is he nervous about something? Find out more with The English We Speak.
(Finn and Feifei are in the cinema; the film is about to start)
Finn: Hi, I'm Finn. This is The English We Speak. And this is Feifei.
Feifei: Hi. I hope you can hear me. This cinema is very crowded! I've never heard of this movie… and who are these actors, Finn?!
Finn: Well, Feifei, when it comes to the best new actors, I have my finger on the pulse.
Feifei: Finger on the pulse? Oh, don't do that here, Finn. You mean you touch the wrists of all these film actors? Where is your British reserve?!
Finn: No. I am not going to touch anybody's pulse or wrists and my fingers are here, in my popcorn. In English, 'to have your finger on the pulse' means: to be familiar with the latest trends and developments.
Feifei: Ahhhh, that's a relief.
Finn: You might hear the expression 'to have your finger on the pulse' or 'to keep your finger on the pulse'. Let's hear some examples.
- You have to keep your finger on the pulse of consumer trends if you want to succeed in business.
- How do I manage to dress so well all the time? I buy this fashion magazine every week because it really has its finger on the pulse.
Feifei: Ah I see. So this expression is about keeping up-to-date with trends.
Finn: Yes it is.
Feifei: Finn, I've been looking at the poster of the film while we wait for the door to open and… this film…
Finn: 'The City That Never Sleeps'. Yes?
Feifei: There is a picture of a zombie on the poster… and… what is that in the corner? A dead woman! Is it a horror movie, Finn?!
Finn: Calm down. It is a great movie. Full of blood and suspense. It will be a thrill!
Feifei: Oh. I don't like that, Finn! I really don't like that! I get really upset when I watch this sort of movie. My heart races… here, put your actual finger on my actual pulse… Here.
Finn: Oh, OK, OK, sorry Feifei. Your heart is beating very fast. I didn't know you had a problem with horror movies. Let's go and watch a musical then.
Feifei: 'The Sound of Music'?
Finn: Go on then!
Feifei: That's much nicer! Bye.
Finn: Bye.
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FAQ 2. Do Staffing Firms Plan to Offer Health Insurance Coverage to Their Temporary Employees?
Yes. Historically, staffing firms have faced challenges in providing health insurance coverage for temporary employees because of the high turnover and insurance carriers' fear of adverse selection. But the law's guaranteed availability rules and the flexible minimum essential coverage requirements mean that staffing firms likely will have ACA-compliant insurance products to offer their temporary employees in 2015.
ASA surveys show that most staffing firms intend to offer their full-time temporary employees at least minimum essential coverage. Staffing firms employing higher skilled, higher-paid contract employees generally should be able to offer major medical plans that are both affordable and satisfy the minimum actuarial value test.
Important Note
Some staffing firms may offer plans covering preventive and wellness services that only provide minimum essential coverage. Such plans are relatively inexpensive and are designed to be affordable to temporary employees, but they do not provide minimum actuarial value.
An employee needing broader coverage could therefore seek subsidized health insurance coverage through a public exchange—which, if granted, would subject the staffing firm to a $250 monthly excise tax with respect to that employee.
Regardless of the Coverage Offered, the Great Majority of Staffing Firms Will Incur Significant New Costs
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- their full-time status and tenure,
- their wage rates,
- the type of health insurance plan offered to them, and
- how many participate.
Source: American Staffing Association, Oct. 9, 2013
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47-year old busy mom Judy Sarnocinski of Aston, Pa. is tired of, well, being tired.
"In the morning I'm exhausted, and then during the day I'm exhausted around, you know, between 12:00 and 2:00 I can barely keep my eyes open," she said.
Judy says bedtime doesn't seem to be her problem. Instead, she thinks restless nights of tossing and turning plus a 6:40 a.m. wake-up call is what leaves her feeling sluggish throughout the day.
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She hopes this watch holds the answers to a better night's z's.
"I think I'm a very light sleeper," she said. "I'm hoping this is going to help, at least keep me in tune to my body and what's going on."
Company founder Lee Loree calls SleepTracker a lifestyle improvement device.
He says waking up alert has little to do with the amount of sleep you get. Instead it is about waking up at the right time.
"If you wake up at a good time in the morning in a state that your body wants to naturally get up, it makes it easier to get up and feel more refreshed throughout the day," he said.
Loree says the SleepTracker collects data based on motion to determine sleep cycles: deep, interrupted and light.
The SleepTracker alarm will then wake you up during a light sleep state within a 20-minute window of your normal wake-up time.
"You are in a light stage, and you were virtually awake anyway so it is much easier to transition from being asleep to awake," said Loree.
And that helps fight the groggy feeling during the day.
"We wake up when our alarm wakes us up and sometimes we are in dream sleep and sometimes we are in deep sleep and that feels terrible," said sleep specialist Dr. Joanne Getsy of the Drexel Sleep Center.
Dr. Getsy says you WILL feel the benefits of waking up during the light sleep stage.
However, she says most people feel sluggish because they cheat themselves from a good night's rest.
"It doesn't replace the fact that we all need 7 to 8 hours of sleep on a nightly basis," she said.
Dr. Getsy says sleep monitors can't replace a solid night's sleep. But they can be a useful tool for better understanding your own sleep patterns.
As for Judy, "my body woke at a different time than I am used to," she said.
As it turns out, Judy isn't a light sleeper after all. And the new wake-up time helped.
"I felt more rested," she said.
There are also inexpensive apps that can be downloaded to your smart phone that claim to monitor your sleep cycles.
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Police: Woman arrested after stealing $1.6K worth of video games, leading officers on pursuit
COLUMBUS, Ind. – A Columbus woman was arrested on Wednesday after police say she stole video games and led police on a vehicle pursuit.
According to the authorities, officers were sent to Best Buy at the 1300 block of N. National Rd. after Stevie Hammond Badger, 31, fled with $1,600 worth of video games.
When they arrived, they located Hammond Badger outside of the parking lot and began a vehicle pursuit.
The pursuit lasted several minutes in town and Hammond Badger allegedly drove through two yards during it. The police called off the pursuit and went to Hammond Badger's residence later in the afternoon.
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She then was greeted by hugs from the relatives of the victim as she left court moments later.
"I am so sorry for any heartache I caused anyone. I just pray for your forgiveness," Katharine Webb told the relatives of Jerry S. Brown Jr. as she stood before state Supreme Court Justice John Brunetti for sentencing.
Brunetti then sentenced Webb to five years' probation and 300 hours of community service as agreed to in a plea deal.
Webb, 22, of 443 Otisco Road, pleaded guilty May 23 to a felony charge of criminally negligent homicide in the November crash.
She originally was charged with a more serious count of second-degree vehicular manslaughter, accused of causing Brown's death while driving drunk.
But Senior Assistant District Attorney Chris Bednarski said the prosecution would have had difficulty proving Webb was legally intoxicated at the time of the crash. Witnesses said she gave no indication of being intoxicated before the crash and her blood-alcohol count was 0.08, right at the limit for being charged with drunken driving, the prosecutor said.
While Webb did not plead guilty to an alcohol-related charge, Bednarski said alcohol played a factor in the crash. Road and weather conditions were clear and dry at the time, he said.
According to authorities, Webb was coming from a party in Tully and heading to a bonfire when the SUV she was driving struck a guardrail and overturned on I-81 in Tully about 2:15 a.m. Nov. 5.
Brown, 29, of 57 Warren St., Tully, was ejected.
In court, Bednarski gave Webb credit for accepting responsibility and for showing remorse over Brown's death. But he said her remorse could not change that he was killed and his young son was left without a father.
Webb began openly crying as Bednarski said he hoped that as she marked key points in her life that she would remember Brown is not alive to mark the same kind of moments.
Brunetti agreed to the plea deal after being told Brown's family was satisfied with the no-jail resolution.
Members of Brown's family - identified by the prosecutor as Brown's father and step-mother, grandmother and the mother of his son - all were present but opted not to address the judge.
But Webb warmly hugged the relatives as she left court with defense lawyer Randi Bianco.
Bednarski said he'd never seen the family of a fatal crash victim react so warmly to a defendant leaving court at a sentencing. But he also said he specifically made the comments that appeared to prompt Webb's tears in court.
He said he wanted her to remember for the rest of her life that she is able to enjoy life and its many gifts while Brown "is not enjoying anything."


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By Dan Chilton and Bhavik Desai, NetApp Solutions Performance Engineers
In our last Flying Through Clouds installment, we covered establishing the right performance methodology and compared that to establishing a flight plan. As you think about deploying and provisioning for new and/or existing applications, the key thing to do especially if the task is going to be repeated quite a few times is to standardize. Consistency breeds predictability. Standardizing on a consistent set of practices and processes takes the guess work out of a complex set of tasks like provisioning and deploying applications in a datacenter.
The Southwest Airlines Way
A great example of how standardizing has helped an organization is Southwest Airlines. The airline industry is a commoditized market where most of the major airlines are operating at a loss. Southwest Airlines is the most profitable airline in the US. A big reason of that is they have embraced standardization in pretty much everything they do. They fly one big plane, the Boeing 737.
This simplifies complexity in their processes and helps them standardize on things like parts inventory, pilot training, and plane maintenance. From the pilot to the baggage handler, everyone is trained on single standard equipment which also helps in knowledge management. Standardizing on equipment and processes helps them drive higher operational efficiency in running their business.
NetApp on NetApp
Provisioning and deploying IT services in a datacenter is a complex task. Let me share with you an example of how NetApp IT standardizes these tasks. For each service platform that Dan identified in the previous blog, NetApp IT has a set number of storage controllers and disk shelves that fit into one complete rack or half rack.
So when the time comes to deploy a new service platform due to reaching the thresholds of performance or capacity of the existing platform, they just deploy a new service platform with the standard configuration and add it to the existing environment. Leveraging the flexibility of clustered Data ONTAP, they can then provision new applications or move existing applications to the newly deployed platform seamlessly. Since the hardware is standardized, even provisioning of aggregates and volumes for every service platform is automated using OnCommand Workflow Automation and follows the same process every time a new platform is deployed.
Making the Transition: From Incubator to Live Nodes
Managing the transition of applications from 7-Mode to clustered Data ONTAP can seem daunting at first. NetApp is NetApp's customer #0 for clustered Data ONTAP and we have been going through this transition ourselves for several years. When moving workloads from 7-Mode to clustered Data ONTAP, NetApp IT follows a set of procedures that we would love to share with you now. The clustered Data ONTAP setup has 2 nodes, which serve as incubator nodes for incoming workloads from 7-Mode. The workloads go live on the incubator nodes and stay there for 24 hours where they are monitored, with the help of OnCommand Insight. After checking the water levels, the workloads are moved to a service platform that can provide the SLO required for the application. This ensures careful consistent deployment of workloads on clustered ONTAP followed by easy migration to the appropriate service platform. It's working well for us and we believe it can work for you, too.
Having a process in place like what I described above, combined with the power of Clustered Data ONTAP and tools like Workflow Automation and OnCommand Insight, allows NetApp IT to deliver superior services to stakeholders and helps IT become an enabler to the business.
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April 25, 2014
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On Wednesday night, we teamed up with develop.idaho for a Boise Mixer & Startup Showcase, and it was a fun night! It included the Best Pitch award determined by our live SMS poll and the pre-event Reader's Choice online poll. Here are the winners:
Boise's Hottest Showcasing Startup – Best Pitch
RetroLux – RetroLux helps lighting contractors and suppliers win deals profitably, increase productivity, manage jobs and clients, order products online, and collaborate with team members. Retrolux attempts to fundamentally change the age-old question: how many people does it take to change a lightbulb? By providing a mobile data entry and product management solution, they have reduced both travel and data entry soft costs. Their integrated and consolidated database reduces product look-up time as well as errors and omissions from repetitive data entry. Long-term project tracking improves business and sales analytics while automatically notifying project stakeholders of new opportunities and needs.
Boise's Hottest Showcasing Startup – Reader's Choice
Salmon Social Inc. – Salmon Social is an upcoming feature #documentary film following the creation of a social media app. The fun began March 2, 2014.
Congrats to both winners, and thanks to the rest of the showcasing startups, all our attendees, and our cohosts at develop.idaho!
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The Popcine is a legendary creature inhabiting the Dereden Isle. It was rumored to be a fearsome and wild beast, but is actually quite friendly. The Gropaga Sure Ill Draw That was ordered by Inglip to sketch the Popcine; an order he fulfilled.
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Tank Trap was a classic Helen of Toy War Game that featured 3D G.I. Toy Soldiers by GIANT, a large "Battlefield" Playmat, and among other accessories, the infamous "Exploding Tanks."
The dual Comic Ad above features both Tank Trap and another Helen of Toy War Game called Task Force (Task Force details can be found on our Main Comic Book War Game Page.) The Ad was found in a "Battlestar Galactica" Marvel Comic from 1979.
Note that these later Helen of Toy Ads offered a "Free Chess Game" premium (actually just a printed piece of paper - you cut the pieces out yourself), promised 48 hours processing time, and claimed to be shipped in "Handsome Simulated Book Form" (actually just a flat, plain white, cardboard box - see image below.)
The images below from top to bottom feature:
- Close up view of some of the GIANT G.I. figures that came with the Tank Trap and the Woods Edge War Games. Note that some are Gray "Germans" and some are Green or Olive "Americans." It seems that the games came with one green army and one gray army.
- Close up top and bottom views of the ever-popular "Exploding Tanks." Tanks consisted of two hard plastic halves which were held together by rubberband tension and were triggered by the slightest touch (see freeze-frame "Action Shot" below of Tank Exploding!)
- A nearly complete Tank Trap Game with Original Box spread out on a table with Helen of Toy Flyer/Catalogs which advertised their other games.
The game below shows 64 COMBAT MEN and 6 TANKS (3 olive green, 3 gray) set up on the 12 1/2" x 25 1/2" BATTLEFIELD Playmat per directions at the start of a game. To the left of the Battlefield are 6 "EXTRA TANKS" (3 light green, 3 gray, not actually used in the game), 1 TANK BARRIER (the long thin wire to left of mat?), 25 TANK MINES (all on a perforated red paper card made up of smaller square "Mines"), the "Simulated Book Form" BOX, and the paper "FREE CHESS GAME." To the right are the H of T catalog flyers which were normally included in game boxes.
Not shown is the Spinner for the game which was called the "HEADQUARTERS COMMANDER."
This web site has obtained an original copy of the Tank Trap Directions. Please follow the link below to view the directions.


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It's Not Fair if She Gets More Cookie Than Me
Lesson 1 of 5
Objective: SWBAT determine if a whole is divided into equal parts.
Big Idea: First Graders know when something is not fair and unequal parts are NOT FAIR! This is an introductory lesson to fractions and opens up a discussion to how wholes can be divided.
Rev Them Up
Mathematically proficient students need to be able to construct arguments, explain their thinking, and critique the ideas of others. (MP3). First Graders become more mathematically proficient when they are able to have these rich mathematical discussions with their peers. Today's lesson is introducing the idea of fractions and how to divide pieces into equal/not equal pieces. I know from past experience that my students will disagree about how to divide some shapes in particular and how to divide shapes equally in general. This disagreement will force them into providing explanations for their thoughts and having to consider their friends' point of view. I need my students to learn how shapes and quantities can be divided into equal shares and be able to distinguish what is equal and not equal. This requires them to discuss with others what they are seeing and how they think it fits into one category or another. (1.G.A.3). Today's lesson will allow my students an opportunity to discuss with their fellow classmates about how to divide a shape into equal parts and whether a shape is divided equally or not. This will be a rich learning opportunity by allowing them the chance to discuss their math thinking using verbal and concrete representations.
I will pre-fold construction paper shapes and have students cut exactly on the creases. Some of these folds will provide shapes that divide into equal pieces and some into unequal pieces. I will use the following instructions:
Students I am giving everyone a piece of construction paper that has been folded. Please use your scissors to cut right on the crease that I made when I folded it. Don't add any new folds and make sure you cut each crease I put in it. When you are done lay your pieces on your desk and try to put your "puzzle" back together by moving your pieces around until they fit into their original shape.
I will use butcher paper to create a large anchor chart and pre-label it "Equal" and "Not Equal" with a line drawn down the middle. I will hang the anchor chart on the chalkboard and begin a discussion with my students for them to help me decide if their shapes divided into equal or not equal parts. I will encourage my class to discuss with each other and me;
- Are your parts the same? Equal?
- Is one part bigger or smaller than another?
- If you shared your parts with friends, would everyone get the same amount?
As the students decide where their shapes belong I will glue them on our chart in the proper category.
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Whole Group Interaction
I will read the totally engaging children's book If You Give A Mouse A Cookie by Laura Numeroff. My students just had an experience during our previous lesson section learning how shapes can be divided into equal pieces. I got this great idea from Adventures in First Grade blog. I am conducting a read aloud with this book to create a hook to the "cookie." When I am finished with the read aloud I will ask them:
- What is your favorite cookie? (oatmeal, chocolate chip, etc.)
- If you wanted to share a cookie with friends what would you do? (break it apart, cut it, get more)
- Would you give everyone the same amount? ( yes,no, I'll try to)
Now I want to plant a seed of knowledge with my students that fractions represent quantities, not just parts of shapes. I just want to give a small amount of time to this idea because it is actually a concept that does not come to fruition until 3-4th grade. To introduce the idea, I use quantities of cookies rather than the shape of the cookie:
- Students if I wanted to share some cookies with my husband and I only had 4 cookies, how many should we both get? (You would get 2 each.) Why? (Because you need to get the same to be fair.)
- How would we represent this fraction on a number line?
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Independent Practice
We are going to build our little friend the "Mouse" and I am going to give you two of his paper cookies. I want you to imagine that you are sharing one cookie with one friend and the other with three friends. Cut the cookies to show me how you would divide them. You will be gluing the parts on your paper with you mouse. Remember we are not robots and cannot do things exactly perfect. Try your best to divide your cookie with your friends equally.
I will fold a brown sheet of construction paper in half (hamburger fold) and cut a large half heart out of it. I will provide my students black strips for whiskers, googly eyes, pink pom pom for a nose, and little brown hands. Please look at the example in the resource section. My students will build their mouse and then come get their cookies. One cookie they cut to show me they are sharing it with one friend. The other cookie they will cut to show me they are sharing it with three friends.
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Lesson Closure
I want to check my class to see what they understood from today's lesson on equal and non-equal parts. I will ask students to answer questions pertaining to whether two shapes were divided equally or not. They must tell me why or why not they say it is equal. Print the exit ticket from the resource section. This exit ticket will allow me to know who understood the concept of equal and whether I need to reteach the topic.
When I am short on time, but still need to conduct a quick discussion, I ask verbal questions and let the hands shoot in the air. Then I tell my class I am going to pick 3 students to answer. This allows everyone to think about the question and listen to their classmates share ideas. I hate it when I do not have time to call on everyone, but even if they just get to listen to their classmates share, it allows them an opportunity to process and compare that information to what they already know. Today, I am going to have students respond on paper. This is still a fast method to complete a closure activity and students will answer a particular question or describe their new ideas on it.
After all this hard work on cookies and enticing them with the great children's literature, I cannot end today's lesson without bringing out some real cookies. When they turn in their response I am going to give each student a soft chewable Chips Ahoy! cookie. I will ask them to try and divide into 2 equal shares and allow them to eat both. Don't forget to check for allergies in your room.


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By Brad Cox
Big 12 Campus Correspondent
On Jan. 18, Texas A&M senior Kiley Finstad was one step closer to completing her journey.
Before the Aggies' game against Oklahoma that day, the guard was given what she had been waiting for - a scholarship.
Finstad was a standout basketball player at Meridian High in Cranfills Gap, Texas. After graduating in 2004, she was a three-time district most valuable player, a first team all-state selection, and a McDonald's High School All-America nominee.
She began her collegiate career at Redlands Community College in El Reno, Okla. In two seasons with the Cougars, she was named an all-region and all-conference selection. She also helped Redlands to No. 8 national ranking and a regional championship in 2007.
After her time at Redlands, Finstad was ready for something different. She came from a family of Aggies and had always wanted to attend A&M since she was a child.
"I got offered to play at some smaller colleges, but I ultimately decided that I didn't want to go to school just for basketball," Finstad said. "I wanted to get a good education. I really wanted to go to a bigger school"
When Finstad arrived on campus, she still had the drive to play basketball. After meeting with the A&M coaching staff, she tried out for the walk-on team.
She did not make the team, but the staff was impressed with what they saw. A&M head coach Gary Blair told Finstad to attend team practices to see if she could keep up.
After a few practices, Finstad found herself playing with the men's practice squad. She was the only woman on the team.
"I was sitting there watching the practice and I guess they needed an extra person to do some drills and he was like æhey, you over there, what can you do? Go get her a jersey,'" Finstad said. "They threw me a jersey and sent me out there. I kind of got thrown into it."
Finstad said it was fun being the only girl on the practice team. The group competes against both the men's and women's teams during practice. Finstad said the women like to play against men because they compare to what the Aggies would face in Big 12 play.
However, when playing against the men, Finstad went toe-to-toe with guys like Bryan Davis and Josh Carter.
"They tried to give me a hard time," Finstad said. "We have an unspoken rule that what happens in the gym stays in the gym, and you don't want to go off bragging about the guys. Sometimes they get their stuff handed to them but they want to keep that on the down low. We try not to rub it in too much."
After joining the practice team, Finstad continued to take her role head on. She said two other girls had been given a similar opportunity to attend practice but not be on the team, but they had decided to not stick with it.
Finstad said she was used to playing basketball everyday while in junior college and since she did not know anyone at A&M, playing with the practice team afforded her the opportunity to meet people.
"I just stuck with it and I think [Blair] liked it," Finstad said. "He could count on me, I was dependable. I think that's what he looks for in a teammate."
Finstad made her A&M debut against Stephen F. Austin on Jan. 3, 2008. Despite playing one minute and missing a field goal, but she had taken an important step toward reaching her goals. During the 2007-2008 season, she ended up playing in a total eight games.
After returning for her senior year, she reached her ultimate goal - a scholarship. Blair approached her before the Jan. 18 game against Oklahoma and told her she would be on scholarship for the remainder of her career.
"It was extremely rewarding," Finstad said. "It has been one of the hardest things I've ever done in my life, and step-by-step it has really been a slow process. I set tiny goals and I've worked to achieve those goals one at a time. That was the main goal and I wasn't sure how I was going to get there, but once I was finally there I was like æWow, I did it, I set a goal and I stuck with it and I didn't give up and I'm where I want to be.'"
In 2008-09, Finstad has played a total of six minutes through seven games. She said that even though it's difficult not getting much playing time, she's happy.
"It's hard, but at the same time I had my two years of playing," Finstad said of her junior-college career. "I could have gone to a smaller school and I could have been the star and I could have played a lot, but not everyone can come to Texas A&M and play for the once-third ranked team in the nation. That was more important than me being a superstar."


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Hi Ya'll!!!
Its Kim B, here, I have created this card to celebrate fall.
Why not send a card just to send a card to a special person.
Using Stamptangle Pumpkin Small, I created this CAS card perfect for that special friend or relative.
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Empowering Young People to Make Choices for Life
"Human beings are utterly amazing, we have a staggering capacity for love and achievement, sometimes, we just need someone to tell us we can." Valerie Ender
Who we are
Gateshead Youth Council (GYC) is an organisation which has been in existence since 1979. We are youth centred, youth focused and youth led.
We target young people aged 11-25 and carry a broad remit which is reflected in the diverse range of youth issues and activities that we are involved in on a local, regional, national and international basis.
We are a registered Charity with a voluntary Board of Trustees and Chairperson. Our Board is made up of range of professionals and people who have been part of GYC projects in the past.
What we do
At GYC we develop projects and services in partnership with young people, such as Gateshead Youth Assembly, and we involve ourselves in issues concerning Young People.
Our aim is to be a channel for organisations representing young people to express views and opinions collectively to Local Authorities or Government on issues concerning them. We also encourage those working with young people to develop skills, share resources and broaden experience to assist their community and organisation. GYC is an organisation, which responds directly to the issues of organisations and young people in order to fulfil their needs.
How we do this
By giving Young People the opportunities and support needed to design, deliver and evaluate their own projects and ideas, whether large or small. Every project at GYC is delivered as a partnership between adults and Young People, with Young People having an equal role. We provide training and expertise, allowing Young People to learn, develop and then disseminate this to other Young People, most of our training is written and delivered by Young People who have already been through the GYC process.
We support Gateshead Youth Assembly to research, design and deliver their own Social Action projects and also work with Asylum Seekers and Refugees settling in Gateshead by supporting parents to develop their language skills and engaging with the young people to develop their own projects.
Why bother?
Well, we think Young People are given a rough ride and frankly don't deserve it. Young People are amazing individuals who, with support, encouragement and opportunity can achieve great things. The skills Young People develop while working on their projects are the soft skills that employers seek, the everyday things we often take for granted but aren't part of a school curriculum.
We did a little bit of brainstorming recently, and by little, we mean little, this was five minutes worth. Imagine if we had more time?
What are the benefits to being involved in a GYC project?
●Developing a 'can do' attitude.
●Learning to problem solve.
●Developing resilience.
●Learning and developing life skills.
●Developing political awareness.
●Start to understand civic society.
●Develop civic responsibility.
●Learning about citizenship.
●Developing awareness off community ownership/leadership/responsibility.
●Increased self esteem.
●Increased self confidence.
●Developing critical thinking skills.
●Learning to recognise and challenge inequality and stereotypes.
●Experience of people from different social groupings.
●Learning to work with people from different groups to achieve common goals.
●Develop an awareness of others, their feelings, needs, qualities and limitations.
●Recognising and appreciating all of these differences.
●Developing empathy with others.
●Developing mindfulness about self and others.
●Practice effective decision making.
●Learning to negotiate.
●Developing communication skills.
●Developing research skills.
●Developing skills in presenting self and ideas.
●Working with people in positions of power.
●Understanding power structures, how they can be a struggle to comprehend.
●Developing awareness of how power structures can affect self and others.


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FuelCell Energy and Inland Empire Utilities Agency (IEUA) have brought online a 2.8 MW fuel cell power plant to provide almost all of the baseload power need of a wastewater facility in southern California.
The plant converts waste biogas generated at the Regional Plant 1 Facility into electricity and heat in a combined heat and power configuration that is carbon neutral, FuelCell Energy says. The heat from the fuel cell plant is supplied to the anaerobic digester. The biogas produced by the digester is then cleaned and used to fuel the power plant.
Using the on-site biogas as opposed to using directed biogas out of a pipeline makes the setup more economical and energy efficient, according to the company. The virtual absence of pollutants from the fuel cell power generation process removes future clean air regulatory actions as a risk factor. The CHP configuration also cuts fuel costs and emissions by eliminating the need to generate heat from another source, FuelCell Energy says.
On-site wind and solar arrays installed by IEUA provide the rest of the facility's power needs.
The fuel cell power plant is owned by UTS Bioenergy/Anaergia, a project developer and investor. The electricity and heat will be sold to IEUA under a 20-year power purchase agreement.
IEUA serves about 850,000 residents in San Bernardino County, California. The utility agency's energy management plan sets a target of becoming grid independent by 2020.
In March, FuelCell Energy and Air Products announced they are working to develop fuel cell power plants that can simultaneously produce hydrogen, Environmental Leader reported. The two companies are already working together on a three-year hydrogen production project in California, which began in 2011. Under subcontract to Air Products, FuelCell Energy is operating a DFC power plant at an Orange County Sanitation District wastewater treatment facility near Los Angeles.
Pike Research's Fuel Cells Annual Report 2012 says the industry has expanded at a rapid pace, posting a compound annual growth of 83 percent from 2009 to 2011. The report forecasts the fuel cell industry — including all applications in the stationary, portable and transport sectors — will reach $15.7 billion by 2017.


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