INPUT ARTICLE: Article: For farm hands or employees younger than 16, familiarize yourself with OSHA labor standards regarding child labor. Some jobs involving heavy machinery are too dangerous to be performed by less experienced workers. "HO/A #1 The FLSA prohibits youth under 16 years of age from operating a tractor of over 20 PTO (power-take-off) horsepower, and from connecting or disconnecting implements or parts to such a tractor." In some places, it's necessary to obtain a registration to drive your tractor on the road (the UK and Australia, for example) while many other regions forego registration as long as your tractor displays reflective caution tape and is clearly visible. For heavy-duty weed control and maintenance of rough areas of your property, it's useful to get a mowing attachment to eliminate invasive weeds and brush. Most Kubotas and other common smaller tractors have a wide variety of attachments, including buckets that will make your tractor into a kind of small-scale backhoe. You can haul brush and other junk around your property. Follow proper driving safety when adding a bucket. Never drive with the bucket in full "up" position, but always remember to raise it into the drive position so it's not dragging in the mud. If you've got a row to hoe, the job is much easier with a cultivator to break up the dirt and help plant your crop. If you're using tractor attachments, you'll need to be especially careful to drive extremely carefully and use the guidelines outlined in the owner's manual for each implement, attachment, or device. Make sure that heavier attachments are outfitted with independent brakes in good working condition, and learn to use them. Make sure to follow proper safety precautions while hitching your tractor to wagons or other farming implements: Make sure that the area in front and behind, making sure especially that no one is behind the tractor Back the tractor up slowly Practice a safe stop, applying the emergency brake Put the transmission in neutral Dismount the tractor and hitch up

SUMMARY: Make sure all operators are trained and familiar with the tractor. Outfit your tractor with a mowing attachment. Attach a tractor bucket and learn to use it. Use cultivator attachments on larger tractors to plow for planting. Make sure any attachments heavier than the tractor itself have independent brakes. Hitch all attachments properly.

INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Multiples of ten and one hundred are much easier to add together! Multiples of ten are easier to manage, but using hundreds can be helpful for larger numbers. Always round up because it's easier to keep track of how much you're adding to your original numbers as you round. Here's an example problem: 423+678. You'd round it like this: 430 + 680 or 500+700. You'll need to take away the numbers you added when rounding. You can count off these numbers or simply add them in your head. Hold onto this number. In the problem listed above, you'll count out 7 places for rounding 423 to 430 and 2 places for rounding 678 to 680. Add 7+2=9. Since you rounded, it's easier to calculate this total in your head. However, this isn't your final answer! For the problem above, you'd add 430+680=1110 You can use simple subtraction or count backwards from the sum of your rounded numbers. This will give you your final total! To solve the problem above, you'd subtract or count back 1110-9 =1101. When you're adding several numbers together, you may find it easier to pair numbers together to create round numbers that end in "5" or "0," then add those round numbers together. For example, let's say you're adding 1+8+2+7+3. You could add 8+2 = 10 and 7+3=10. That leaves you with 1+10+10=21. Break the number apart into just tens and ones. For example, 42+35+17 would become two problems: 40+30+10 and 2+5+7. It's easy to add 40+30+10=80. Next, you'd just need to count 2+5+7=14. Finally, add your two sums together to get a final sum of 80+14=94. You can also do this with numbers in the hundreds. You can break the number down into just the hundreds, just the tens, and just the ones. However, using one of the other techniques may be easier when adding big numbers.

SUMMARY: Round all of your numbers to multiples of ten or one hundred. Count out how many numbers you added when you rounded. Add the two rounded numbers together in your head. Subtract the number you added when rounding. Add the numbers in sets, then add the set totals together, as an alternative. Add the numbers by places if that's easier for you.

INPUT ARTICLE: Article: There might be just a handful of people who you have a hard time empathizing with, such as an annoying classmate or a nosy family member. It is also possible that you find it difficult to empathize with an entire group of people, such as women, Protestants, or Canadians. Try to pinpoint all of the people who you have trouble empathizing with, even if your list is long. Write out your list of people and/or groups of people. Now that you have identified the groups or individual people you cannot seem to empathize with, consider why that is. What is it about these particular people or groups of people that seems so alien? Do they make you feel angry, afraid, confused, or something else? Write out your reasons for feeling alienated from these people or groups of people. After identifying your reasons for feeling alienated, try to think about what you have in common with that person or group of people. Even if your lives seem completely different, you probably share some important goals and interests. For example, you might feel very different from someone who comes from a different country and religious background than you, but you probably both care about your friends and families, appreciate basic human rights and freedoms, and want to be successful. Focus on these common interests and this may help you to feel empathy for the person or group of people you have identified.

SUMMARY:
Identify people who you find it hard to show empathy for. Ask yourself why it is difficult for you to empathize with certain people. Look for common ground with people who are different from you.