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Former State Superintendent Nancy S. Grasmick will soon be back on the national stage, where she will host a handful of high-profile figures to discuss the future of public education.
The longtime state education leader--who retired in 2011--will be launching a speaker series at Towson University on Thursday, Jan. 17 when she will interview renowned surgeon and neurologist Benjamin Carson and prominent research scientist Dr. Martha Denckla, the university announced in a release. The event, which starts at at 4 p.m. in Towson's West Village Commons, is free and open to the public.
The discussion with Carson and Denckla will focus on "How Students Learn: An Inside Look at Neuroscience," the university said, and will kick-off a six-part speaker series called Preparing for Public Education in the 21st Century: Signature Forums, a forum the university said is designed to provide a "unique opportunity for education stakeholders to interact with national experts."
In a release, Towson officials said the topics slated for discussion in the series will be hot-button issues, and ones that "represent the newest thinking in education for the 21st century, as well as important research relevant to education settings."
Former Baltimore City Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III will headline the second installment of the speaker series on March 25, where he will discuss school safety.
Grasmick retired in June 2011 as the longest serving superintendent in the country. In March 2012, she was appointed a Presidential Scholar for Innovation in Teacher and Leader Education at Towson University to help orchestrate a broad overhaul of the programs at the university that now trains more teachers than any other in the state.


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Star center Marc Savard let out a lot of emotion after he scored what proved to be the game-winning goal Thursday night against Ottawa.
A double-fist pump and a long glide toward the boards with one knee bent punctuated the Boston Bruins veteran's dramatic score in the 2-1 win at TD Banknorth Garden. A little more pizazz in Savard's celebration and he could wind up offending well-known fan Don Cherry.
"I was excited. At a time like that when it's 1-1 and you get a goal, it's exciting. But I try to keep them calm otherwise," Savard said today after the Bruins practiced at Ristuccia Arena.
So the host of "Coach's Corner" should continue to love Savard, who assured TheBruinsBlog.net that there won't be any Alexander Ovechkin-like choreography going on any time soon. Here's a clip that proves the Cherry-Savard love fest from last year:
With Phil Kessel expected to be out of the lineup until early next week, Savard — one of the league's premier playmakers — is probably going to have to stay in a more aggressive mindset when it comes to shooting the puck and might need to execute a few more post-goal celebrations.
"I think it's more of a necessity knowing I've got to shoot, because he's our top goal guy and he's not out there to look for. I think I just try to put pucks to the net," said Savard. "I think with the addition of (Mark) Recchi too, maybe the last couple games, especially on the power play, I don't usually shoot off the wall and I've been getting some shots. So that helps out."
It should be noted that statistics prove Savard's more aggressive shooting when he doesn't have the speedy Kessel to look for. Savard has averaged 3.1 shots per game in 10 Kessel-less matches this season. However, for the season he has averaged just 2.6 shots per game after averaging 2.65 in 2007-08.
When the season started with Savard scoring five goals in the Bruins' first three games, there was a lot of talk that the fancy passer might add sniper to his resumé. But while his shots total hasn't increased, he has still managed to set a Bruins career-high with 24 goals.
"I guess (it's bad) in a way," responded Savard when asked if his shots average staying the same was a negative because of his early-season statement that he wanted to shoot more. "But I always end up with the same. There were a couple of games there when I wasn't scoring and I was only having like one shot or no shots, so that was a stretch that kind of hurt the shot total."
With Kessel out, Savard might get into a habit of shooting more. And that would be a boost to his bottom line and the Bruins'.


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As Dustin Grosz steps into the president's role at Star Trac, one of his top priorities is to streamline the company's product offerings.
Grosz, who resigned his position as CEO of Stairmaster to take on his new role after Mike Leveque resigned earlier this month, said in a statement from the company that he will streamline the business, which has grown complex in the last few years due to product portfolio expansion. The streamlining process will include shifting the Irvine, CA-based company from manufacturing products to managing a global supply chain.
Kevin Corbalis, executive vice president of marketing and product development at Star Trac, explains that this means Star Trac won't offer as many "sister" products as it has in the past. Grosz will evaluate which sister products, or those of the same model with different options, are not selling as well and will end production of those.
"We might have three or four options for a hotel buy, and in general, no one buys the lowest of the low end," Corbalis says. "So we've had SKUs (stock keeping units) in stock of those lower-end models, and they don't move. Why carry it? The value is in those higher-end models. So it's about rationalizing that value stream. If you are into the right mix for the customers, that's all you need to sell. You don't need to have a small variance of that."
Star Trac will streamline its supply chain by continuing to outsource much of its manufacturing, Corbalis says. The frame welding, integration and quality assurance tests that were done at its plant in Irvine will now be done at Land America Health and Fitness Co., in Xiamen, China, and the Irvine plant has become a warehouse with some of the permanent staff moving to Star Trac's Murrieta, CA, plant, which will continue to make Star Trac's Impact selectorized strength line. Michael Bruno, who purchased Star Trac last year, also owns Land America, where much of the company's equipment is now manufactured, although Star Trac has partner factories around the world that will continue to do turnkey production for it.
"I've taken part of my U.S. team and moved them to China, and they are involved in the manufacturing , build, control and quality assurance checkpoints," Corbalis says, adding that most of those employees were quality- and product-oriented engineers. "So we transplanted what we had here, and we've moved that expertise over to Land America."
Consolidating much of the production and warehousing at Land America helps Star Trac logistically in how it fulfills orders, Corbalis says.
U.S. customers should not be concerned about lag time in order fulfillment now that much of Star Trac's production is overseas, Corbalis says, because Land America has been manufacturing much of Star Trac's equipment for years. When Star Trac bid out the production of its luxury strength line several years ago, Land America won hands down, he says, and that made moving other product lines there easier.
"They've been remarkable," he says. "To be able to leverage that facility and capability that much more to our advantage only helps us and our customer base. We are a global company. We sell around the world. Having a centralized location to consolidate and ship from that has enormous manufacturing capability is a great thing.
The streamlining process will also include a company-wide effort to strengthen the customer service department.
"Being profitable will allow us to deliver on our brand promises and ultimately help us win back customers by providing better customer service," Grosz said in a release. "We need to grow revenue in a way that benefits Star Trac as a company, but that also benefits our customers."
In November, Star Trac entered into an Assignment for the Benefit of Creditors, a common law business liquidation mechanism that is an alternative to a Chapter 11 or Chapter 7 bankruptcy filing.


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Ed Booth returned home this week from the bayou
country. But his mission to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina goes on. Wayne Barnes of Portsmouth, a close friend of Ed, is in Pensacola and continuing the daily trips with Ed's truck to the distribution centers in the devastated areas.
In addition to handing out individual and family aid, Wayne is setting up "kids' connections" with a school or schools down there. Ed told us, "One school in New York is sending individual boxes of school supplies. The Jamestown kids are sending money, and that's best. (The Jamestown School kindergartens sent Ed $718.) We can be sure it all goes to help kids in need. One comment I heard is that a community doesn't really start to return to normal until the schools are up and running. We will find one for the Jamestown kids and hopefully they can communicate with each other over the Internet."
We asked Ed if he could sum up his feelings and reactions to what he has witnessed during the past few weeks in Mississippi and Louisiana. He replied, "Ever since I got here, I've run into the same problem over and over. How do I take what is in front of me and put it into words for you? How do I take the sights and sound and smells . . . and people's words and emotions . . . and fit them into little flat black words? I've mulled things over and tried to organize my thoughts during my interminable route I-10 cruises, and yet, every night, I go to sleep feeling like I've failed to convey."
Ed went on to say, "There is an enormity here of colossal proportions. There is truly staggering loss. 'I've lost everything' is heard many times a day. People are sleeping in cars . . . asking us for tents. Literally millions of southern yellow pines are snapped in half or uprooted. Hundreds of thousands of jobs are gone . . . jobs for real people . . . the very people who are coming into the distribution areas.
"My sister Jude (Ed has been working out of her home in Pensacola) met a little girl yesterday. She was there with her mother and her grandparents. Jude gave her some toys that my grandneices Emily and Aly bought for them. They were living in one house that belonged to the grandmother's sister. Altogether there were five families in the house. The house was damaged and leaning a bit. Most of them only had the clothes they had on. The grandfather said that their mobile home was completely destroyed. The grandmother said it was the first time in her life she had to say she was homeless. We gave the grandmother $300 and she cried and hugged Jude. These people have been dealt a terrible blow and they, collectively, are probably 10 years from having a Christmas."
Ed continued to relate his observations, "Down here there are parishes . . . counties to us. Many of them have lost their entire fleet of police cars . . . all their schools . . . all their public works equipment . . . all their government buildings . . . most of their residents . . . and any hope of collecting any tax revenues from anyone. They can't pay their employees. There's no insurance to collect. There might not be many inhabitable buildings within their boundaries. It's difficult to concieve of a plan to re-create these towns.
"Bay Saint Louis was clobbered. Much of its housing stock is gone . . . many business no longer exist. The million dollar houses on the water, built atop 30 foot tall piers, are gone, and there is not a stick of wood on the properties. These houses show up two blocks inland, in the form of boards and bathtubs, Sheetrock and baking sheets. Hurricane leftovers are everywhere.
"Brian Williams (NBC news anchor), et al, can't convey this story either. Not in three minutes between 6:30 and 7. Not about Bay Saint Louis. It's too far from New Orleans, too far from the cameras and the helicopter photo ops. Katrina has damaged 90,000 square miles . . . an area about the size of Missouri or 50 times the size of Rhode Island. Many are in need. Some may be being ignored. Some may not have been heard. But make no mistake, there are many hundreds of thousands of people who will be in need for a very long time. They are not insured. They are not politically significant. They do not speak in an organized and loud voice. They are, without doubt, completely disenfranchised.
"FEMA still has no real presence at Mr. Ed's in the WinnDixie Shopping Center in Bay Saint Louis."
Welcome back Ed, you've made a big difference to a lot of people.
If you'd like to help the Katrina victims directly, send your check made out to Ed Booth to Ed at 37 Lee Ave., Newport, 02840. If you prefer to use Paypal on the computer, Ed's e-mail address is edbooth1@cox .net. Pictures and text of his activities can be seen on dbooth.net/ed.
Many kudos to the more than 150 teenagers who gathered at the Portuguese American Citizens' Club last Friday night and donated $2,006 for the victims of hurricane Katrina. The youngsters came from Jamestown, North Kingstown, and Newport to enjoy heavy metal music complete with a mosh pit and crowd surfing.
Also on hand were six of the relocated victims from New Orleans now living in Middletown. They were the guests of honor for the evening.
The evening was planned by Beth Weibust.
Two bands provided the music, Demassek with Ryan Weibust, Pete Booth, Antone Silvia, Logan Hilland, and Dods Stevenson, and Rhode Kill with Nolan McCaffrey, Nick Lane, Pat Tiernan, John Walker, and Ethan Flynn. The hall was provided gratis by the PAC and the music donated by the two bands. "It was something they wanted to do," Beth said. She said that in addition area businesses provided prizes for a raffle. "The ones that generated the most excitement were a Volcom Pennywise Surfboard donated by Volcom and two electric guitars provided by Pete and Antone of Demassek. Jamestowners Tom Stacom won a guitar and KC Barret, the surfboard.
Beth said she spoke to one of the victim who's name happens to be Katrina who seemed, along with the others, overwhelmed with the turnout and the generosity. "She said that she liked the area so much she would return every August. Some hoped to be back in New Orleans within a month," Beth said.
Commenting on the evening generally, Beth said, "What struck me as being the best of the night was seeing so many of the youth in Jamestown together, with so many parents and adults all having a wonderful time. The night belonged to the kids and the bands and the guests from New Orleans and the adults let it happen watching closely, on alert but not needing to step in or interfere.
"There were many parents behind the scenes working the raffle table, cleaning up, etc., but it was really all about the kids and the donations.
"Like so many other times, I was proud to be a Jamestowner, proud of our kids, proud of the parents, and touched by the overwhelming care and generosity of all involved." Great job, everybody!!!
Doreen Dell sends many happy returns to David Verrier who was 50 on September 16. Friends and family surprised him with a birthday cookout. Lotsa hugs for David.
Doreen also wishes good luck to Maegan and Michelle Anacko, who have started nursing classes at CCRI.
Memo to the Jamestown Moonbathers: All American flags should be at full staff as of sundown last Tuesday.
Dr. Joshua Hatch of the Jamestown Animal Clinic asks us in his Pet Tip of the Week to help those others victims of Hurricane Katrina.
"We have seen the heartbreaking news coverage of people and animals suffering in the after effects of Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf of Mexico. Many different organizations have set up relief funds and many are pledging to match donations from the public.
"A few good resources for those who want to specifically help the animals, pets and pet owners affected by the hurricane include the American Veterinary Medical Association Web site www.avma.org and the American Society for the Protection of Cruelty to Animals Web site www.aspca.org.
"Also, do not forget about our local shelters and SPCA centers, many of which are taking in displaced pets from the Gulf Coast and would greatly appreciate your time and/or donations." WOOF!!
"Give me ? more, only ? more, let me stay, let me stay in your arms."
A 9-hole scramble format will be the feature of the 4th annual David Kearney memorial Golf Tournament Saturday, Oct. 1, at the Jamestown Country Club with registration at 10:30 and a shotgun start at 11 a.m.
The fee is $45 per person, which includes a 9-hole tournament and barbecue lunch following the competition.
Proceeds will benefit the Jamestown Medical Fund. If you need to talk to someone about it, call Kathleen Kearney, 423-2925. FORE!!
The publicity committee for the Jamestown Community Theatre's production of "Honk!" is: newspaper, radio and television, Carol Baldwin and Michael Larkin; local features and articles, Mary S. Wright; newspaper advertisements, Fred Glomb; poster, ad and ticket designs, Cynthia Antonelli; photographs, Kate Petrie.
B.J. Whitehouse was birding at Sheffield Cove last Saturday morning when he noticed "a number of folks at Mackerel Cove hoisting trash bags." It turned out upon closer investigation that employees of Amerprise Financial Company had volunteered their time through the R.I. Audubon Society to clean our beaches as part of a coastal cleanup day.
B.J. said that Deborah Tobey of the Audubon Society told him that its Coastal Cleanup Day is the third weekend in September. She added that Jamestowner Janet McGuire was part of the cleanup crew that day.
"It's nice to know that folks are concerned about our environment and our beaches. Thanks to all who helped clean up the beach," B.J. said.
Grand Knight David LeDoux of Jamestown's Knights of Columbus Council #9197 tells us that James Wermuth, who has been restoring St. Mark's "Our Lady of Fatima" statue this past summer, believes that the project is very special.
"Many of his restoration jobs are on museum and estate pieces that appreciative eyes may never fall upon," David said. He added that Wermuth told him, "I have had a wonderful time working on this statue. Many people have approached me as I work and have expressed great enthusiasm for the renovation. I am proud to have been selected to perform this important job and to have my work on display in such a prominent location."
David said that Wermuth has already spent more time than he was contracted for "and is gladly providing it 'gratis.'"
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Jamestown Boy Scout Troop 1 held a Patrol Leaders Council at the library Saturday afternoon. The troop members and Scoutmaster David Volpe discussed activities for the upcoming year, including troop meetings, camp-outs, games and competitions, skills to develop and merit badges to earn, plus the high adventure trip for next year.
Attending were: Senior Patrol Leader Brian Volpe; Assistant Senior Patrol Leader Drew Matley; Patrol Leaders Ross Bohensky, Tom Munro, Nathaniel Hopkins and Shane Farrelly; Quartermaster John Chase; Scribe Kyle Wright; Librarian Dylan Walsh; Historian Madison Hansen; Musician Quinn Earley; OA Representative Zach Volpe; Instructors Michael Brendlinger and Devon McMaster; Guides Matt Bernardo and Sal Morenzi; and Junior Assistant Scoutmaster Adam DiLuglio.
Rhode Islanders 67 years ago today emerged from their homes on a beautiful day to gaze at the horrific destruction caused by the Great Hurricane of 1938 the day before.
Today is the autumnal equinox.
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Maesta igitur cīvitās ac prope inops cōnsiliī comitiōrum diē in campum dēscendit.
Therefore the gloomy (state)citizens, and the almost lack of ideas from the commitee, during the day descended onto the plain.
That makes no sense. The lack of ideas didn't go down into the the plain. What is 'ac' doing there? Can ac mean 'because of'? The citizens, sad because of the lack of ideas... but I don't think it does.
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My definition of standard line length is between 24M to 27M and only because all of my kites over the past few years have all come with between 24M to 27M lines on 50 cm bars. I am thinking about going to 20M as a line length but no lower.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The U.S. Department of Agriculture is adding more than $300 million to the massive amount of financial assistance federal agencies have doled out in response to an unusually intense year of natural disasters, officials announced Wednesday.
The money, from three emergency funds administered by the USDA's Natural Resource Conservation Service and Farm Service Agency, is more than double the $136.6 million paid from the funds a year ago. It will go toward repairing farmland and associated property damaged by flooding, tornadoes, hurricanes and wildfires.
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack said natural disasters impacted 55 million acres of farmland nationwide in 2011.
"There have been years that have had more intensive damage in a particular geographic area, but what's unique about last year is that virtually every part of the country was affected," Vilsack said.
The most aid is headed to Utah and Missouri, which combined will take in more than $110 million, or more than one-third of the total announced Wednesday.
States rely on local conservation and farm service offices to approve fund applications, which are then forwarded on to the national USDA offices. Vilsack spokesman Matt Herrick said each state largely received the money it requested.
Utah asked for $60 million to deal with two rounds of flooding, including in the southern part of the state in December 2010 and spring flooding that inundated farmers in northern and central Utah following a record snowpack, said Bronson Smart, state conservation engineer for the conservation service.
Smart said state and county officials had received tens of millions of dollars from the conservation service to fund dozens of projects following similar flooding disasters in 2005, and have since learned the value of seeking help from the emergency funds.
"Our counties and cities have come to rely on us quite a bit," Smart said. After the 2005 flooding, "we spent $80 or $90 million ... People saw that these were good investments."
Missouri suffered months of flooding along the Missouri River after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers authorized unprecedented releases from reservoirs in the northern river basin all summer to deal with unexpectedly heavy rain in May and above-average mountain snowpack. Farmers in the Missouri Bootheel, meanwhile, saw their crops swamped when the Army Corps of Engineers exploded a levee to relieve water pressure on an upriver town in Illinois. The intentional breach sent water cascading over thousands of acres of prime farmland.
Missouri will receive around $50 million, of which $35 million will come from the watershed program and the rest from the conservation fund. That's in addition to millions of dollars Missouri already has received in aid from such agencies as the Federal Emergency Management Agency and Corps of Engineers.
Harold Decker, assistant state conservationist for water resources in Missouri, said most of the watershed money will go toward clearing and redeveloping drainage ditches filled with silt and debris by flooding on the Missouri and Mississippi rivers.
"Without that work, those systems aren't going to function," Decker said. "If ditches aren't draining properly, it retards plant growth and the drainage of the plants and lowers production."
Slightly more than $215 million of the total aid announced Wednesday comes from the Emergency Watershed Program, about $80 million will come from the Emergency Conservation Program and nearly $12 million is from the FSA's Emergency Forest Restoration Program.
The money is distributed based on local agencies' applications and ability to pay 25 percent of the cost of requested projects, according to the USDA. Paying the balance could prove to be the difficult part for hard-hit communities already struggling to recover from disasters and the economic downturn.
In New York, which is set to receive $41.8 million — including about $37.8 million in watershed funds — money is earmarked for repairing erosion and other damage left behind by back-to-back late summer tropical storms Irene and Lee.
Dennis DeWeese, acting state conservationist with the conservation service in New York, said 51 communities have asked for assistance and damage assessments have been completed for 15. The agency's staff of 25, mostly engineers, had visited 160 sites by the end of last week and is continuing work that may extend into the Adirondacks.
But he said it will be difficult to ask already cash-strapped towns and villages to pay their share.
"A lot of these municipalities are overwhelmed," DeWeese said.
In addition to flooding, 2011 was a big year for tornadoes, including record outbreaks in the South and a monster storm that leveled a large portion of Joplin, Mo.
Alabama is scheduled to get just more than $6 million in assistance for tornado recovery, followed by nearly $2.1 million in Georgia.
Alabama's allocation is due in large part to losses in the poultry industry, said state deputy commissioner of agriculture Brett Hall. Chickens died when their houses blew away or during of power outages following the storms, he said.
Vilsack said the emergency money is being used to help agricultural interests beyond what is covered by crop insurance. He said the USDA paid out $8.6 billion in crop insurance payments last year, and $17.2 billion over the past three years.
Associated Press writers Josh Loftin in Salt Lake City, George M. Walsh in Albany, N.Y., and Bob Johnson in Montgomery, Ala., contributed to this report.


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Take a Step Back in Time. Visit the John Deere Historic Site
The story of John Deere , blacksmith and inventor, closely parallels the settlement and development of the Midwestern United States, an area that 19th century homesteaders considered the golden land of promise. Since 1837, the full story of John Deere the company is one of people, places and products that reflect our core values of integrity, quality, commitment and innovation.
1837 John Deere fashions a polished-steel plow in his Grand Detour, Illinois, blacksmith shop that lets pioneer farmers cut clean furrows through sticky Midwest prairie soil.
1838 John Deere, blacksmith, evolves into John Deere, manufacturer. Later he remembers building 10 plows in 1839, 75 in 1841, and 100 in 1842.
1843 Deere and Leonard Andrus become "co-partners in the art and trade of blacksmithing, plow-making and all things thereto…"
1848 The growing plow business moves to Moline, Illinois, 75 miles southwest of Grand Detour. Moline offers water power and transportation advantages. Deere chooses a new partner, Robert N. Tate, who moves to Moline and raises the rafters on their three-story blacksmith shop by July 28.
1850 Company called Deere, Tate & Gould.
1852 Deere buys out his partners. For the next 16 years, the company is known variously as John Deere, John Deere & Company, Deere & Company, and Moline Plow Manufactory.
1853 Sixteen-year old Charles, Deere's only living son, joins the firm as a bookkeeper following graduation from a Chicago commercial college.
1858 The business totters during a nationwide financial panic. Maneuverings to avoid bankruptcy shuffle ownership and managerial arrangements. John Deere remains president, but managerial power passes to 21-year-old Charles Deere. He will run the company for the next 49 years.
1861 Civil War begins. Midwest farmers and their suppliers prosper during the war years as Army demand and European crop failures boost crop prices. Large-scale Midwest farming develops during the war. Farm machinery improves, enabling expansion even by small farmers.
1864 John Deere obtains the company's first actual patent for moulds used in casting steel plows. Another follows in a few months and a third the next year.
1868 After 31 years as a partnership or single proprietorship, the concern is incorporated under the name Deere & Company. There are four shareholders at first, six within a year. Charles and John Deere control 65 percent of the stock.
1869 Charles Deere and Alvah Mansur establish the first branch house, Deere, Mansur & Co., in Kansas City. A semi-independent distributor of Deere products within a certain geographic area, it is the forerunner of the company's current farm and industrial-equipment sales branches and sales regions.
1873 The Panic of 1873, triggered by failure of a New York banking house, begins the depression of the 1870s. John Deere is elected mayor of Moline and serves two years.
1875 Gilpin Moore develops the Gilpin Sulky Plow. It takes the farmer off his feet, puts him on a seat, and becomes one of the company's most successful 19th-century products.
1876 Noting sagging business prospects and skyrocketing bad debts, the company institutes a ten-percent wage cut. A brief strike ends and workers return to work on the company's terms. The "leaping deer" trademark is registered.
1877 Deere & Mansur Company is formed in Moline to manufacture corn planters. A separate organization from the similarly named Kansas City branch, it will become part of Deere & Company in 1909.
1878 The Gilpin Sulky Plow defeats 50 other plows in a field trial at the Paris Universal Exposition, winning the first place Sevres vase valued at 1,000 francs. Unit sales the following year rise to 5,198, and reach a height of 7,824 in 1883.
1880 Wagons enter the product line early in the decade, soon followed by buggies. By century's end, company catalogs will feature Old Hickory, New Moline, and Mitchell wagons, as well as Derby, Red Star, White Elephant, Victoria, Goldsmith, and Sterling buggies.
1882 Deere & Mansur Company corn planters, employing an innovative rotary planting mechanism, turn a $48,000 profit.
1883 The five best-selling products between 1879 and 1883 are walking plows, Gilpin sulkies, cultivators, shovel plows, and harrows. Walking plows account for more unit sales (224,062) than the other four combined.
1886 John Deere dies in Moline at 82.
1888 Steam tractors appear on American farms during the 1880s. Deere makes gang plows that tractors can pull, but not the tractors. The "Steam Age" lasts about 30 years, until the "snorting, puffing giant" is replaced by the gasoline tractor.
1890 Deere's board recommends selling the company. A British syndicate and other suitors appear, but deals fall through, and the company remains independent. The Sherman Antitrust Act passes. Among other things, it makes price-fixing through trade associations illegal.
1892 Charles Deere's daughter Katherine marries William Butterworth, who will succeed Charles as the company's CEO. Charles' daughter Anna marries William D. Wiman. Their son, Charles Deere Wiman, will succeed Butterworth.
1893 The Panic of 1893, touched off by a New York stock market crash, begins the worst depression of the 19th century.
1894 A bicycle craze grips the country. Branch catalogs push the Deere Leader, the Deere Roadster, and the Moline Special. The fad fizzles in a few years. (In the 1970s, the company returns briefly to the bicycle business.)
1895 The Furrow debuts. It grows into one of the world's preeminent farmer's magazines.
1903 George Mixter, plow-factory superintendent, persuades the company to install extensive environmental controls in the grinding room.
1907 Charles Deere dies. William Butterworth, his son-in-law, becomes CEO. The company establishes a non-contributory pension plan for employees with 20 or more years of service who have passed age 65.
1910 Directors launch a major reorganization. Its goal is a consolidated entity controlled by the Deere & Company board. The plan unifies factories and branches, anticipates acquisitions, and centralizes accounting and financial planning.
1911 For the first time, the company issues 400,000 shares of preferred stock. The shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange the following year.
1912 The modern Deere & Company emerges. It consists of 11 manufacturing entities in the U.S. and one in Canada, and 25 sales organizations—20 in the U.S., including an export department, and five in Canada. The company also operates a sawmill and owns 41,731 acres of timberland in Arkansas and Louisiana. Harvester Works built in East Moline.
1918 Deere buys the maker of Waterloo Boy tractors. The tractor will become its basic product. Though 5,634 Waterloo Boys are sold this year, Ford Motor Company sells 34,167 Fordson tractors. WWI ends; of 1,611 Deere employees who served, 37 died.
1919 Labor turmoil spreads throughout the country. A bitter three-month strike over union recognition breaks out in Waterloo, the most serious employee relations strife Deere has so far experienced. The strike ends with Deere remaining non-union.
1920 The economy nosedives. Farm bankruptcies skyrocket as the "Golden Age" of agriculture ends. Famous names, including General Motors, withdraw from the tractor field. The FTC accuses implement makers of price-fixing.
1921 Bad times continue. As business shrinks, extensive layoffs follow. Waterloo Boy tractor sales plummet incredibly, to 79 from 5,045 the previous year. Wages of those still working are cut at least 10 percent.
1923 Deere launches the Model "D". A success from the start and the first two-cylinder Waterloo-built tractor to bear the John Deere name, it would stay in the product line for 30 years.
1925 Design begins on the "GP" (for General Purpose) Tractor, the Deere answer to the IH-Farmall.
1926 Farm surpluses in the 1920s increasingly become an issue.
1927 The company produces a combine, the John Deere No. 2. A year later, catalogs advertise the John Deere No. 1, a smaller, more popular machine. By 1929, the No. 1 and No. 2 are replaced by newer, lighter-weight versions.
1928 William Butterworth is elected president of the US Chamber of Commerce. Primary company managerial authority passes to Charles Deere Wiman.
1929 The "GP" Wide-Tread, a row-crop tractor, enters the market. It is the first Deere tractor with a tricycle front to fit between two crop rows, and rear axle wide enough so wheels can straddle two rows.
1930 Consolidations leave only seven full-line farm equipment companies: John Deere, IH, Case, Oliver, Allis-Chalmers, Minneapolis-Moline, and Massey-Harris. Deere and IH dominate most product categories.
1932 The Great Depression hardens, forcing massive layoffs, pay and pension cuts, shortened hours, and a temporary end to paid vacations. A 1920s savings innovation, the Thrift Plan, eases the burden for some employees. John Deere continues group insurance for the unemployed, lowers rent in company housing, and starts "make work" projects.
1933 Business is almost at a standstill. Sales plunge to $8.7 million. Though it is losing money, the company decides to carry debtor farmers as long as necessary, greater strengthening farmer loyalty.
1934 Despite the Depression, the company emphasizes product development. The Model "A" Tractor enters production. A similar but smaller Model "B" follows in 1935. They become the most popular tractors in the company's history, remaining in the product line until 1952.
1935 John Deere, strong in wheeled tractors, and Caterpillar, dominant in tracked tractors, join forces to sell each other's products, especially in California. Strong at first, the link weakens with time, breaking finally in the mid-1960s.
1938 Industrial designer Henry Dreyfuss, working with Deere engineers, streamlines the "A" and "B" Tractors. Henceforth, concern for attractive design joins traditional utilitarian values as hallmarks of John Deere products.
1939 WWII begins. Model "L" Series Tractors, built at Wagon Works in Moline, 1936 to 1946, enjoy an enormous boost in sales after Henry Dreyfuss' styling.
1940 Mechanization advances. American farms grow larger; the farm labor force shrinks. As the decade dawns, some 1.6 million farm tractors are in use, almost double the 1930 total.
1942 Charles Deere Wiman accepts a commission as an Army colonel. Burton Peek succeeds him as interim company president. Before returning to Deere in 1944, Wiman briefly directs the farm machinery and equipment division of the War Production Board.
1943 Deere makes military tractors, ammunition, aircraft parts, and cargo and mobile laundry units during the war.
1945 Traditional company paternalism ebbs as John Deere factory workers endorse unions. Collective bargaining over wages and working conditions replaces a 105-year-old pattern of dealing with workers individually.
1947 The new John Deere Dubuque Works builds the Model "M" Tractor. Two years later, equipped with a tracked undercarriage, the "M" becomes available as a crawler, called the "MC." This will herald the Worldwide Construction Equipment Division. When a front blade is added, it becomes a bulldozer.
1948 The Deere Des Moines Works beats swords into plowshares. A former ammunition plant acquired from the government, it turns out cotton pickers and cultivating tools. Eventually it will also build plows.
19481949 Deere's first diesel-powered unit, the Model "R" Tractor, enters production.
1953 The Model 70 is launched as the largest row-crop tractor to date. Initially available with gasoline, all-fuel, or LP-gas engine, it will become the first diesel row-crop tractor.
1955 William A. Hewitt is elected president and later CEO following the death of Charles Deere Wiman, his father-in-law. He will direct the company for the next 27 years, the last representative of the Deere family to do so.
1956 The firm steps toward becoming a multinational manufacturer. The company decides to build a small-tractor assembly plant in Mexico and buy a majority interest in a German tractor and harvester maker with a small presence in Spain. In the next few years, it will move into France, Argentina, and South Africa.
1958 The John Deere Credit Company, financier of domestic purchases of John Deere equipment, begins operations.
1959 The company brings out the 8010, a diesel-powered, 215-horsepower, 10-ton Goliath – the largest tractor it has ever built. Only a few are sold. Soviet Premier Krushchev visits the Des Moines Works.
1961 A new tractor and implement manufacturing plan nears completion in Rosario, Argentina. In Saran, near Orleans, France, construction starts on a new engine factory. In Moline, construction begins on the Deere & Company Administrative Center.
1962 John Deere marks its 125th anniversary. Construction begins on a product-engineering center at Dubuque, Iowa. Company buys a majority interest in South African Cultivators, a farm implement firm near Johannesburg.
1963 John Deere surpasses IH to become the world's largest producer and seller of farm and industrial tractors and equipment. The company ventures into the consumer market, deciding to produce and sell lawn and garden tractors plus some attachments such as mowers and snow blowers.
1964 The Deere & Company Administrative Center opens. Designed by Eero Saarinen, it will win many architectural awards. Goals of the company and the principles behind its basic policies and procedures are outlined in the "Green Bulletins."
1966 A banner year. Total sales surpass $1 billion for the first time. Earnings reach a high of $78.7 million. Farm equipment sales set a record for the fourth straight year. Industrial equipment sales notch their largest ever year-to-year increase. Lawn and garden equipment sales rise 76 percent. Worldwide employment hits a record.
1967 The first industrial equipment sales branch opens in Baltimore.
1969 Overall sales level out due primarily to a downturn in farm equipment sales. Overseas operations expand but do not produce profits. The John Deere Insurance Group is created.
1970 Deere reorganizes its management structure to reflect growing diversification. Three operating divisions emerge: Farm Equipment and Consumer Products, U.S. and Canada; Farm Equipment and Consumer Products, Overseas; and Industrial Equipment, which has worldwide responsibilities.
1971 "Nothing Runs Like a Deere" advertises snowmobiles, a new product of the John Deere Horicon Works. The slogan lasts far longer than the snowmobile line, which is sold in 1984.
1972 Four new "Generation II" tractor models with operator enclosures—Sound-Gard bodies—reach the market. Farm equipment sales exceed $1 billion.
1974 Unprecedented demand for John Deere products, especially farm equipment, continues, but capacity and other shortages appear. Inflation increases costs. The company starts its largest expansion program. More than $1 billion will be spent on new facilities by 1979.
1975 The John Deere Davenport Works, located in Davenport, Iowa, comes on-line, manufacturing industrial-equipment components.
1977 Agreement with Japanese manufacturer Yanmar authorizes sale of small tractors under the John Deere name. An updated Product Engineering Center is established in Waterloo.
1979 Employment reaches an all-time high of 65,392. Sales top $5 billion, earnings $310 million, both records.
1980 A 4-row cotton picker, an industry first, is introduced. Field tests indicate it will increase an operator's productivity by 85 to 95 percent.
1981 The John Deere Tractor Works in Waterloo becomes fully operational. It wins an award for excellence in using computers in U.S. manufacturing.
1982 Robert A. Hanson succeeds retiring Chairman William A. Hewitt.
1983 Severe recession following rampant 1970s inflation crimps the need and ability of farmers and builders to invest in new equipment. Difficult business conditions continue through most of the decade.
1985 John Deere Health Care, Inc. is formed. Its subsidiary, Heritage National Healthplan, grows by century's end into a health-care provider for more than 700 employers and over 400,000 members in five states.
1986 A 163-day labor strike in the United States severely impacts production. Employment at year's end totals 37,481, down 43 percent from the 1979 high of 65,392. For the remainder of the century, employment will remain below 40,000.
1987 Deere celebrates its 150th anniversary. Continued low farm income and lower Deere sales lead to a net loss of $99 million.
1988 The economy rebounds after six years of recession during which weaker farmers, dealers, and equipment companies go out of business. Deere & Company sales soar 30 percent from 1987. Profit, following two years of losses, exceeds $315 million, a record. A joint venture is formed with Japanese company Hitachi to assemble excavators in the United States.
1989 Funk Manufacturing Company, maker of powertrain components, is acquired.
1990 Hans W. Becherer, president since 1987 and CEO since 1989, is elected chairman upon the retirement of Robert Hanson.
1991 Lawn-and-grounds-care equipment operations in the U.S. and Canada become a separate division. Since 1970 they had been part of the farm-equipment operations. The company acquires SABO, a European maker of lawn mowers.
1992 A program is launched to encourage installation of rollover protective structures and seat belts on older tractors. In 1966, John Deere introduced the first commercially available rollover protective devises for farm tractors, later releasing the patent to the industry without charge. The company establishes eight Strategic Business Units for the first time.
1993 New 5000, 6000, and 7000 Series Tractors drive up market shares in North America and Europe. Among 20 contenders in Germany, Deere moves from third to first place in tractor sales. Lawn-and-garden-equipment sales top $1 billion for the first time.
1995 Deere's strong performance "shows that Deere & Company has become a new company in every important sense," according to the Annual Report. Among reasons cited: product technology leadership, strong emphasis on quality, and improved cost structure and asset management.
1997 Overseas sales top $3 billion, more than the company's entire sales total prior to the mid-1970s. The company obtains an equity position in a Chinese combine company. The John Deere Pavilion, with equipment exhibits and interactive displays, opens in downtown Moline.
1998 Despite late-year weakness in the farm sector, agricultural-equipment sales hit a record. Company net earnings reach $1 billion for the first time. Cameco Industries, producer of sugarcane-harvesting equipment, is acquired. Work begins on a new tractor-manufacturing facility in Pune, India.
1999 While challenging by financial standards, 1999 is a breakthrough year for John Deere. Not only does the company record a meaningful profit in the face of a major downturn in the farm economy, but the actions of recent years to create a more-resilient world-class enterprise successfully faced their first severe test. Special Technologies Group is formed.
2000 Hans Becherer reaches retirement, and Robert W. Lane is elected CEO. Deere acquires Timberjack, a world-leading producer of forestry equipment. A new tractor plant is opened near Pune, India. Credit offices are established in Argentina and Brazil. Deere is granted banking license in Luxembourg, allowing John Deere Credit ability to finance equipment throughout Europe.
2001 John Deere Landscapes is formed through acquisitions of McGinnis Farms and Century Rain Aid.
2003 Through agreement with The Home Depot, riding mowers are sold in the mass channel for the first time in company history. John Deere-branded Deere's small/diverse supplier programs received a first-ever rating of "highly successful" from the U.S. Department of Defense. Driven by gains in Deere's Commercial & Consumer Equipment and Construction & Forestry Divisions, the company's earnings double for 2003; equipment sales grow 14 percent.
2004 Record full-year earnings of $1.406 billion are more than twice the level of 2003 earnings. Deere & Company announces plans to build a new tractor factory in Montenegro, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The facility is expected to be in full production by the second half of 2006.
2005 Deere & Company opens a seeding-equipment assembly operation in Orenburg, Russia, and establishes a dealer network. The company additionally announces plans to build a new engineering and information-technology support center near the John Deere joint venture tractor manufacturing facility in Pune, India. John Deere invests in wind energy projects in the rural United States and establishes a new wind energy business unit managed by John Deere Credit.
2006 Growing global market presence helps drive earnings to record $1.69 billion; Chairman & CEO Robert W. Lane named "CEO of the Year" by Industry Week magazine. John Deere Landscapes becomes the number-one wholesale distributor of irrigation, nursery, lighting and landscape materials in the United States. John Deere Tianjin Works, a new transmission factory in Tianjin, China, opens.
2007 Deere & Company stockholders approve a two-for-one stock split, increasing the number of common shares to 1,200 million shares. A new tractor manufacturing facility is acquired in Ningbo, China. Deere & Company completes its acquisition of LESCO, Inc., a leading supplier of lawn care, landscape, golf course and pest control products. John Deere is chosen by Ethisphere magazine for its list of the World's 100 Most Ethical Companies.
2008 Deere & Company enters into joint ventures with construction equipment manufacturers in China and India. Deere announces plans to build a distribution, replacement parts and training center in Russia, a European Technology & Innovation Center in Germany, and a marketing office in Kiev, Ukraine. John Deere Water business expands with the company's acquisition of irrigation products manufacturers T-Systems International and Plastro Irrigation Systems.
2009 Samuel R. Allen is named John Deere's ninth chief executive officer. A new global operating model combines the technology, expertise, experience, channels and investments of the Worldwide Agricultural Equipment Division and Worldwide Commercial & Consumer Equipment Division into a single unit called the Agriculture and Turf Division. A joint venture in India is formed with Ashok Leyland Limited to manufacture backhoes and four-wheel-drive loaders.
2010 John Deere expands the company's presence in Europe and CIS markets by adding new facilities. The European Technology Innovation Center (ETIC) opens in Kaiserslautern (Germany) to become a European epicenter for the development of intelligent solutions and advanced engineering projects. In Domodedovo, South of Moscow (Russia), John Deere inaugurates an assembly plant for the manufacturing of large horsepower tractors, combines and for construction & forestry equipment. The new facility also accommodates John Deere's Eurasian Parts Distribution Center.
2011 With the opening of a new deconsolidation and packaging center in Bruchsal John Deere adds efficiency and capacity to its spare parts services. Recognizing the rapid growth of John Deere's equipment portfolio the center helps to improve the handling and fast delivery of dealers orders
2012 John Deere celebrates its 175th anniversary. Open house and family days in many John Deere facilities commemorate the company's long and successful history. The year concludes with sales of $ 36.2 billion and an income of $ 3.1 billion.
2013 John Deere's Region 2 (Europe, CIS, Northern Africa, Near & Middle East) celebrates a major product launch of its Agriculture & Turf Division in Berlin and Brandenburg (Germany). Deere& Company concludes a record year with sales of $ 37.8 billion and a net income of $ 3.5 billion US-$.


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Tumor stem cell targeted therapy with mTOR Inhibitor RAD001 and hedgehog signaling inhibitor Cyclopamine reverts chemoresistance towards 5-Fluorouracil in human pancreatic carcinoma cells
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Introduction: In the present study, we aimed to identify and to eliminate putative cancer stem cells (CSC) within different human pancreatic cancer cell lines as well as within 5-Fluorouracil-resistant pancreatic cancer cell lines established in our laboratory.
Material and methods: Pancreatic CSC were identified and characterized by flow cytometry, using Hoechst 33342 dye staining. CSC from 5-FU-resistant cell lines were isolated by high-speed flow cell sorting (MoFlo) and the CSC self-renewal pathways were further analyzed by RT-PCR and Western blotting. Isolated CSC within 5-FU-resistant cell lines were exposed to the cancer stem cell targeted therapeutics (RAD001, Cyclopamine) and stained for Propidium iodide and BrdU. Furthermore, isolated CSC as well as non-tumorigenic cancer cells within 5-FU-resistant cell lines were orthotopically xenografted in nude mice and the efficacy of stem-cell-targeted therapy in combination with 5-FU was investigated.
Results: Flow cytometry analysis revealed a significantly high amount of CSC in all chemotherapy-resistant cell lines. Combined 5-Fluorouracil IC50 and cancer stem cell targeted therapy resulted in the reduction of tumor cell proliferation independently on 5-FU–chemoresistance status, as detected by Propidium iodide and BrdU staining. In vivo the combination of 5-FU with cancer stem cell targeted therapeutics RAD001 or Cyclopamine significantly decreased the tumorigenic potential of CSC derived from 5-FU-resistant cell lines and dramatically reduced primary pancreatic tumor volume and weight.
Conclusion: Our results demonstrate that chemotherapy-resistant cancer cells contain the increased CSC population (as compared to their parental sensitive cells) that is highly resistant to standard chemotherapy but not towards CSC-targeted therapy in vitro and in vivo. The further characterization of such cells might therefore lead to the development of new molecular and pharmaceutical therapeutics and better anti-cancer strategies.


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The Nook was released less than one week ago and the device has already been hacked. Our friends over at nookDevs tore down the device and discovered the operating system was being stored on a standard microSD card. They popped the SD card into a reader on a computer and made the necessary edits to the file system to obtain root access and enable ADB.
Now that a system dump of Nook operating system is available, it should be easier to exploit. I expect we could eventually see an easier hack that does not require tearing down the system.
Since gaining root access, the devs have been able to launch applications on the e-ink display including the terminal emulator. Since the Nook has a GSM SIM card and WiFi adapter, it will be interesting to see what kind of tethering hacks can be produced.
The Nook gets free unlimited data on AT&T's 3G network, but surely they have it walled in somehow.
Devs are currently working to backport applications from the stock Android install. Hopefully we should have some screens of the web browser by tomorrow. It will be interesting to see what other cool hacks can be done with the OS.
The internals of the Nook included:
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Broken dinnerware and some pretty old leftovers figure in our Geo Quiz.
So where did the young Beowulf take on Grendel, the man-eating monster?
"After they fall asleep, Grendel enters the hall and attacks, devouring one of Beowulf's men. Beowulf has been feigning sleep and leaps up to clench Grendel's hand. The two battle until it seems as though the hall might collapse. Beowulf's retainers draw their swords and rush to his aid, but their blades cannot pierce Grendel's skin. Finally, Beowulf tears Grendel's arm from his body at the shoulder and Grendel runs to his home in the marshes to die." (WIKI)
The archeologists say it was in Denmark's earliest royal capital, a few miles west of Copenhagen.
Tom Christensen leads the archaeological team investigating a site in Lejre, Denmark. It's the answer to our Geo Quiz. And it may be the location of the great royal feasting hall that figures in the English epic. Christensen, curator of Denmark's Roskilde Museum, says the site fits the description in "Beowulf."


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Monday, November 19, 2007
Why discuss group differences?
Whatever dysfunctional places (or people) do appears uniformly bad, while whatever the most functional places (or people) do looks almost exclusively good.
That's great for elites, and for morally elitist nations. I'm successful, or our country ranks high on the HDI, and thus whatever suits our tastes is best.
Squelching discussion on group differences negatively influences popular opinion and makes for bad public policy. Try comparing the policies popular in Massachusetts with those in Mississippi. There is no capital punishment in the Bay State, but the Magnolia State allows for it. And in which state do more murders occur? Indeed, it is in places where homicide rates are relatively high that capital punishment is practiced most often!
Quasi-socialism hasn't brought down the Scandanavian countries, which function well with their generous public safety nets and social liberalism. Demographic changes, not the inconstancy of their economic and social systems, are finally challenging their idyllic existences. So quasi-socialism is generally preferable to the free market, then?
There are apples to apples comparisons that give reason to think otherwise, as in East Germany vs. West Germany before the fall of the wall, and North Korea vs. South Korea today. But situations where comparisons approach ceteris paribus such as these do are rare.
Take religiosity and social pathology. A couple of years ago Gregory Paul wrote a paper purporting to show that piety leads to all kinds of negative social outcomes in the developed world. The primary example of this phenomenon in action, of course, is the US.
Except that when the behavior of American blacks and Hispanics were adjusted to the white average, the US fell in with the rest of the pack on everything (abortion rates, infant mortality rates, criminality, teen births rates, life expectancy, etc). Race is the reason for the divergence (something that should be kept in mind when the status of healthcare in the US is compared with that of other developed nations). Dogmatic piety may well be beneficial for many of those on the left side of the bell curve, where a religiously-informed worldview is vying with the lifestyle of the soul survivor. This even as religiosity inversely correlates with benefits like greater intelligence.
Or take the glorification of unmarried motherhood in the media, as evidenced by glowing profiles of popular actresses like Bridget Moynahan. But the divas are exceptional. For the vast majority of children whose parents go their separate ways, life is a lot rougher than it would otherwise be, with higher rates of poverty, lower levels of parental involvmenet, less discipline and less physical security.
It seemed a perpetual argument I'd have with friends who were drug users and drank regularly in high school and college. "That stuff isn't good for you." "I toke up and I got a full-ride." "Yes, you did so in spite of these things. You'll perform even better if you are more abstentious."
Beyond the realization that groups are not fungible lies the realization that uniform proscriptions cannot always optimally treat a diverse set of patients. Not all kids will benefit from taking ritlin, nor will all countries function at their highest levels under democratic principles. A libertine society may allow for the maximization of happiness in the Sweden of two decades ago even as it will maximize suffering in contemporary Haiti.
It is the difference between looking at what the 'best' do and then trying to mimic that, and figuring out what actually works best given the circumstances.
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The dam is about to burst. I hope the discussion goes forward to what environmental differences will allow everyone to function best.
Robert Lindsay has pointed out that African-American men in prison have lower death rates (controlling for age) than African-American men who are not in prison. He also points out that heavily black Cuba does better than many other heavily-black nations.
As a white guy, I find the criminality gap far more disconcerting than the IQ gap. In the Bell Curve, Murray and Hernstein briefly discuss what they thought was a coming social structure: custodial democracy. Roughly, the very bottom have their lives managed to a far a greater extent than they do today.
A custodial system for children was vilified when Newt Gingrich tentatively suggested boarding schools might be a better place for raising children than crack houses.
I've been trying to come up with liberal solutions for problems, arguendo that HBD is true, and I haven't come up with any. This does not mean there are not any, it may just mean that I'm a conservative.
Beyond picking up the white man's burden again, is there anything to do?
- Audacious Epigone said...
Thanks for that refresher.
Well, positive and negative eugenics, is one place to look. Micronutritional supplementation and breast-feeding are others.
Nationally, though, the institution of a merit immigration system. Drop the emphasis on 'proficiency' (NCLB) and tailor toward more vocational schooling for the less endowed. Also, get them in the workforce sooner.
Coming from the left, the best I can come up with I've argued for some time: Eugenic incentives will reduce the wealth gap. If a wealthy guy spread his money across five kids instead of one, each preppie is less affluent. If Joe Dirt has one instead of five, that one is better off than each of the five would've been. Also, a larger relative supply of high-IQ people means more competition among professionals and thus lower wages (and fees), while a more restrictive supply of labor means higher wages for those laborers.
Yeah, those are good solutions, but they aren't liberal. As the voting public becomes more minority, unless white nationalist backlash makes total voters more Republican, anything will have to be sold from a Democratic perspective.
While liberals now calling themselves Progressives, I doubt they will go with the original Progressives' notions of eugenics. Though we can hope for some programs with eugenic effects, but not eugenic rationales.
- MensaRefugee said...
The dam is about to burst.
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Thing about Dams bursting is they burst in spades. I first came across this historical factoid in Ethnic Groups in Conflict" by Donald Horowitz .
It is useful to reflect on why this is so perhaps with a hypothetical example.
What is the problem with HBD? Why are people angry at blacks and liberals? It all boils down to unearned privileges. Liberals have given blacks unearned privileges.
However, it is not just blacks who have gotten unearned privileges - women have got reams of it too.
So women (or at least feminists) have a vested interest in maintaining a worldview and political structure and philosophy that allows groups to receive unearned privilege.
What does this mean for "the dam is about to burst"? Well it means they will be strongly against it. It is irrelevant whether there is some shady backoffice politics where all of this is figured out, or whether it arises naturally as a group feels threatened - one does not need to be a Ph.D in Physics to know something will happen when a unstoppable object hits a massive stationary object. We know we are in for fireworks. A physicist may know it will be 2 parts light, 5 parts sound and 3 parts explosion - but the primitive intuition of the everyman is not negated by this, only refined.
Of course this also means if the dam bursts vis a vis HBD, then womens status in society will take a stumble back to their rightful position. It means there will be backlash against women as well.
So how things work is, once unearned privileges are granted, various groups get on the gravy train, consciously or unconsciously. And like a virus they multiply to take maximum advantage of the opportunity. So when things get back to 'normal' it tends to happen extremely quickly rather than being a gradual change because of the buildup of resentments. An economist would say (or as Horowitz put it) the incentives went from antagonism to either complete peace OR total war (in referring to the eventual war in Lebanon after decades of peace).
Just wanted to throw that muse out there, and maybe ill get around to writing about it on my site someday :/
- Audacious Epigone said...
The last of my suggestions doesn't have to be billed as a eugenic solution. Instead, push it as a means of attenuating the wealth gap. To give poorer kids a better chance, we are going to encourage family planning on the part of their parents. As a way of breaking up the big estates of the affluent, we are going to try to incentivize them to have more children, thus spreading that wealth out and getting at its unfair concentration!
Yes, you should expand your thoughts into full posts. I enjoy reading them but they are too few (however, quantity and quality often trend in opposite directions).
The question is, does the figurative dam burst before there are so many different groups, so entrenched in their seats on the gravy train, that rather than a bang the effect is just a whimper?


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Hello guys, i need your help, i will be travelling for europe (spain, france, north italy) in Octuber.
I want to buy a race board in this trip.
Could you please send me the lists of shops that i request for the race board?
Which of the Venturis does your buddy have?james wrote:the RRD has a single concave to flat that actually takes some of he harshness out of chop at least intitially and made it a little easier to reach with across the wind, the Temavento is flat all the way through,and is a little more technical across the wind but easier/better upwind( for me) i am talking about feeling the reverberations through the board as it hits slows down and then you have to accelerate it.
I have also done some comparative sailing with a friend of mine, Gonzo, who has the Naish venturi with std fins, my Temavento was set with a 36cm choco rear fin and North G10 40 cm fins.
i was on a 12m slingshot Rally and he had a 13 m Ozone edge, upwind the Temavento was faster and pointed upwind higher, by a very decent margin, we then swapped boards and the same result was achieved this time Gonzo had his GPS on and there was a clear 8-10 degree advantage upwind riding the Temavento.
across the wind and down wind speed was comparable, gybing and taking really is very easy on the Temavento
the Temavento and the RRD have been used with the same fin set and same kites from 17m -9m
I think it sounds like something is a little off. 8-10 degrees sounds like a lot. I have seen this board go toe to toe against really good riders on north..agura..rrd...and it is definitely not 8-10 degrees.james wrote:he has the 70 full size one,
the front fins are noticeably further back on the Venturi compared to the Temavento and the North 2012 green board, that could be a factor in the upwind performance and yet what helps it be easy on a reach.
although he is now running straight 42 and 38 cm fins in it rather than the standard 37.5 so it will be good to see what happens next time we run.
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This book briefly outlines our current knowledge of how the Sun works and its effects on Earth and the solar system. Learners will read about space weather, solar variability, the heliosphere, Earth's magnetosphere and upper atmosphere, as well as... (View More) the solar mysteries that scientists are still studying. (View Less)
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This iOS app for iPhone, iPad and iTouch, allows families and educators to investigate and learn about the Sun at home, at school, or anywhere. It provides 13 free, easy to use, hands-on activities, plus live images of the Sun from NASA's SDO... (View More) satellite, videos of the Sun, and more. Each activity includes material lists, step-by-step instructions, and detailed explanations. Some of the activities and media pieces are also available on the project website. The activity materials are widely available and inexpensive. (View Less)
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This afterschool curriculum includes six lessons plus supplementary materials (e.g., videos, PowerPoint presentations, and images) that explore how light from the electromagnetic spectrum is used as a tool for learning about the Sun. The curriculum... (View More) is designed to be flexible to meet the needs of afterschool programs and includes recommendations for partial implementation based on time constraints. It was specifically designed to engage girls in science. (View Less)
This is a collection of outreach resources about the Sun that are meant to be used in informal education settings. This toolkit was originally designed for NASA Night Sky Network member clubs and the Astronomical Society of the Pacific's Astronomy... (View More) from the Ground Up network of museum and science center educators. The toolkit includes background information about the Sun, magnetic fields of the Earth and Sun, and space weather, activity suggestions, and detailed activity scripts. The themes of this toolkit address both the constant nature of the Sun as a reliable source of energy and the dynamic nature of the Sun due to its changing magnetic fields. The activities and related materials in this collection include The Sun in a Different Light - Observing the Sun, Explore the Sun cards, Magnetic Connection, the Space Weather PowerPoint, Protection from Ultraviolet, and Where Does the Energy Come From cards. These activities can be done separately or as a group as part of an informal education event. Institutions that are not part of the Night Sky Network will need to acquire the various materials required for each activity. (View Less)
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This is an activity about magnetism. In this activity, polystyrene spheres and several strong neodymium magnets are used to represent the Sun and Earth and their distinct magnetic fields. Participants construct and use a field detector to predict... (View More) where the magnetic fields are on the Sun and Earth, and use field bits, which is the term used in the lesson plan, made from the closed staples to form loops and trace the invisible magnetic fields of the Sun and Earth. The activity is designed to be used in an informal public outreach setting, for example as a stand-alone station in a family science day event. It can also be modified for use as a simple classroom demonstration. There are background information sheets provided that can be printed to go along with the activity station. This activity requires two polystyrene spheres, 8 neodymium magnets, epoxy adhesive, wire clippers, needle nose pliers, and acrylic paints, along with other easily obtained materials. (View Less)
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Boston will receive a $3.25 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to foster collaboration among the city's school system, charter schools, and parochial schools, the foundation plans to announce Wednesday.
Boston will be one of just seven US cities to receive a grant. The money will allow Boston to build upon a historic partnership launched last year to bolster the quality of education for all the city's students, regardless of what kind of school they attend.
"This grant will help deepen a relationship that is going to help all our city's children," Carol R. Johnson, superintendent of the Boston public schools, said in a statement.
The grant will pay to train teachers and administrators on instructional techniques for students who are not fluent in English. It also will be used to identify and expand efforts to accelerate the performance of black and Latino boys and to simplify the process for parents to enroll their children in school.
Boston's 128 city-run schools and 16 charter school operators entered into a compact last year, part of a campaign by the Gates Foundation, to work on a number of issues together. The city's 22 Catholic schools subsequently signed on to the agreement in the spring.
Together, those institutions educate about 88 percent of school-age children in Boston.
"This is a wonderful opportunity for charter schools and [the Boston public schools] and now parochial schools," said Kevin Andrews, chairman of the Boston Charter School Alliance and headmaster of Neighborhood House Charter School in Dorchester.
"I'm excited in a very positive way that we are helping to make change in the city of Boston."
The compact has already led to some unique collaborations over the past year.
For instance, teachers and administrators from Jeremiah E. Burke High School, Boston Collegiate Charter School, and Cristo Rey High School have been working together to align their courses with a new set of national academic standards for the teaching of English and math.
Boston will see more of these kinds of partnerships in coming years, under the Gates grant. Three schools in Brighton — Conservatory Lab Charter School, Edison K-8, and St. Columbkille Catholic School — plan to share in professional development, techniques of analyzing student data, and other initiatives.
"Catholic schools joined this compact to share our best practices and learn from our public and charter school peers," said Mary Grassa O'Neill, superintendent of schools for the Archdiocese of Boston.
"We believe it is essential for all students in the city of Boston to receive a rigorous education, and collaboration among schools is crucial in this endeavor," she said. "This partnership helps to ensure a bright future."James Vaznis can be reached at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @globevaznis.