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Grizzly G0514X3 - 19" 3 HP 3-Phase Extreme Series Bandsaw
- Motor: 3 HP, 220V/440V*, 10A/5A, 3-phase, TEFC induction, 60 Hz, prewired 220V
- Precision-ground cast iron table
- Table size: 26-3/4" x 19" x 1-1/2" thick
- Floor to table height: 37-1/2"
- Cutting capacity/throat: 18 1/4"
- Maximum cutting height: 12"
- Blade size: 143" long
- Blade sizes available: 1/8" - 1-1/4"
- 2 Blade speeds: 1700, 3500 FPM
- Wheels: fully balanced cast iron with polyurethane tires
- Wheel covers: pre-formed, hinged steel
- Blade guides: dual ball bearing with full enclosure protection
- Bearings: sealed and permanently lubricated
- Overall size: 76" H x 36" W x 32" D
- Approximate shipping weight: 456 lbs.
- Blade tension indicator
- Micro-adjusting gear table
- Height scale measurement
- Fence with scale and magnifying window
- Deluxe cast iron fence with extruded aluminum re-saw fence
- Miter gauge
- 4" dust port x 2
- Table tilt: 10° left, 45° Right
- Quick-change blade release/tensioning
- Rack and pinion upper guide adjustment
- Includes 3/4" 6-TPI blade
Made in an ISO 9001 factory
440V operation requires purchasing additional components and installation by our technicians. Please call customer service at (570) 546-9663 for more information.
G440VG0514X3 440V conversion kit required for those wanting to use this saw on 440V power!
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Common Questions and Answers about the G0514X3:
Q: How does the foot brake work?
A:The foot brake shuts the motor off while simultaneously transferring the force you apply to the pedal to a brake shoe inside the lower wheel pulley, which slows and stops the wheels faster than they would ordinarily.
Q: What is the advantage of having double ball-bearing blade guides over singles?
A:Double ball-bearing guides don't provide any advantages for 1/2" or smaller blades, but they do provide a much greater level of support for 3/4" and wider blades. This is important if you're planning on doing a lot of resawing or other straight cutting where a high degree of accuracy is needed.
Q: What are the benefits of having a rack-and-pinion table tilt?
A:The main benefit is simply ease-of-use and precision adjustability. Without the rack-and-pinion, you would have to muscle the large cast-iron table into a precise position, and then try to hold it in place while you tighten the locks-not an easy task. Another added benefit of this design, however, is the additional stability and support the rack post provides to the back-end of the table.
Q: What is the benefit of having cast-iron trunnions over aluminum trunnions?
A:Cast-iron trunnions give the table a more solid, robust support system, allowing it to better resist any flexing or twisting that may occur from really heavy workpieces being set on the table, especially on the outside ends of the table around the blade slot.
Q: What is CSA? What does "CSA Certified" mean?
A:CSA (Canadian Standards Association) is an organization based out of Canada that is very similar to UL (Underwriters Laboratory) in the USA. Like UL, CSA provides two primary services. First, they develop Canada's minimum standards for the design, construction, and safety of a wide variety of products that are commercially sold in that country. These standards are completely voluntary and not a requirement for all products sold in Canada. Second, CSA acts as an NRTL (Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory), which is essentially a 3rd party testing agency that has their own engineers/inspectors test and evaluate a product to ensure that it meets the requirements established in the applicable standards document for the primary market where the products are sold. In Grizzly's case, this is the USA and Canada, so many Grizzly machines are certified (usually by CSA, UL, or ETL) to meet both CSA (Canada) and UL (USA) standards. So, although CSA produces their own standards, any NRTL (such as UL, ETL, TUV, etc.) can also certify the same products to the CSA standards. The reason why one NRTL is used over another typically just boils down to a business decision by the company paying the NRTL to test/evaluate their products. An important part of any NRTL certification, besides the initial testing/evaluation, is the ongoing compliance requirements necessary to maintain the certification. This involves both regular and random product checks by the NRTL's inspectors or engineers at the factory or on the consumer level.
FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions):
Q: What are the pros and cons of Cast Aluminum versus Cast Iron Wheels?
A:The heavier mass and weight of cast-iron wheels reduces vibrations and creates a flywheel-effect, which helps the blade maintain a consistent speed during heavy cuts and when resawing. The drawbacks to this added weight and mass are that it requires more energy from the motor to get the wheels and blade up to speed; and unless the saw is equipped with a brake, it also takes longer for the wheels to come to a stop after the saw is turned off. Aluminum wheels, on the other hand, are much lighter and require less time and energy to get up to speed and bring to a stop, which is why they are ideal for many hobby saws and those that will mainly be used for general-purpose rip cuts and crosscuts, such as with 4/4 (1") or thinner stock.
Q: What are the differences between ball bearing, block, and disc (a.k.a. "Euro style") guide blocks?
A:The main differences between blade guide types can be boiled down to four factors: (1) amount/quality of support, (2) amount of blade friction created from that support, (3) ease of set-up and adjustment, and (4) durability and maintenance frequency. Ball-bearing guides offer the best all-around balance of these four factors. Although they don't provide as much contact area for support as block or disc guides, they do maintain constant contact with the blade without greatly increasing friction. They are also the easiest to set up and tend to be the most durable. Disc guides provide the highest amount of contact area for support, but as with guide blocks, they must be positioned 0.004" away from the blade, which requires some type of gauge to be used for proper set up. Whereas some disc guides are fixed, similar to block guides, our Euro-Style disc guides spin with blade contact, which greatly reduces friction and the need for regular resurfacing. Block guides offer excellent support, but unless they're made from specialized materials to reduce wear or friction, they tend to fall behind the other guide types in all other categories.
Q: Can a wood bandsaw cut metal or vice versa?
A:The proper cutting speed for the majority of ferrous metals is under 300 FPM. The proper cutting speed for the majority of wood cuts is over 3000 FPM. Trying to cut metals on a wood bandsaw--at speeds 10 times faster than they should be--is dangerous and will likely result in a broken blade, damage to the bandsaw, and a really horrible cut. Cutting wood on a metal bandsaw is possible, but it would be tedious and slow, and likely would not produce a decent quality of cut. In addition, bandsaw blades for cutting wood are designed much differently than bandsaw blades for cutting metal. With that said, there are some soft, non-ferrous metals (such as aluminum) that can be cut at around 1500 FPM (if using the correct blade type). Although some of our wood bandsaws operate at approximately this same speed, the other components of these saws weren't designed to handle the metal chips and swarf that would be produced by the cut, which would likely result in minor damage to the machine and void the warranty. The bottom line is this: Always buy the right machine for the job!
Q: Can I still use my bandsaw without connecting it to a dust collector?
A:Yes, this is possible, but we don't recommend it. Without using a dust collector, the dust will quickly pile up in and around your machine, resulting in additional cleaning time later. Besides making a mess, fine dust can be harmful to your respiratory system. It is a better choice to connect your bandsaw to a properly designed dust collection system that at least pulls the recommended minimum CFM from each dust port on the machine.
Q: Which saw is best for resawing?
A:The key specs for resawing are the maximum cutting height and a larger motor size. Due to the amount of material being cut at one time, resawing puts a lot more strain on the motor than other types of cuts, so generally speaking, the more power the better. If you're using the proper blade type (a hook-type blade with few TPI) and a modest feed speed, you can get by making the occasional rip cut using a 1 HP-2 HP motor. Otherwise, if you plan on making regular resawing cuts, you'll get the best results with a 3 HP or larger motor.
Q: What type of blade do I need for resawing?
A:Generally speaking, you'll want to use a wide blade (1/2" or larger) with "Hook" style teeth (or "Positive Claw" on Timberwolf blades) and a low number of teeth per inch (TPI). A wide blade helps ensure cuts are straight and the Hook style teeth have large gullets for removing material as the blade passes through the workpiece.
Q: My bandsaw blade came with a tag on it that said "Recommended for cutting wood or soft non-ferrous metal." Does this mean I can cut metal with my wood bandsaw?
A:Just because the blade is recommended for both wood and soft, non-ferrous metal (e.g. aluminum, copper, etc.), it doesn't mean your wood bandsaw is suitable for cutting both types of material. It is important to keep in mind that the blade you bought may also be used on other types of bandsaws, such as our G0640X or G0621X, which are specially designed to cut both wood and metal.
Q: How do I know what type of blade I should buy?
A:Blade choice is typically determined by the type and purpose of cut, the hardness and thickness of wood, and the desired trade-offs between cutting speed vs. cutting quality. In general, a wider blade is preferred for cutting straight lines because the blade tends to wander less, and a narrower blade is preferred for cutting curves because it has a much tighter minimum cutting radius. The two main types of blade teeth are "Hook" and "Raker". Hook teeth tend to cut faster and leave rougher results, while Raker teeth tend to cut slower and leave smoother results. There are additional types of teeth, such as Skip, Positive Claw, or AS-S, that are essentially modified versions of the Hook or Raker tooth shapes, but with slight changes to the cutting angle, gullet-to-tooth ratio, tooth set, etc. to provide unique advantages for special types of cuts.
Q: What is the purpose of the pin that fits in the blade slot opening at the end of the table?
A:All bandsaw tables are inherently weaker on the outside half of the table. This is due to the slotted opening that allows the blade to pass through the table during blade changes. The table pin helps reinforce the two sides of the table around this slot, so they remain aligned with each other and keep the table flat. For this reason, it is extremely important to always keep the table pin firmly installed, unless you're changing blades.


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A force from the right side, Lauren (Moulton) Marshall ranks as one of the top hitters on the volleyball court in Valparaiso University history, and on Saturday, February 4, she will be inducted into the Valparaiso University Athletics Hall of Fame.
The 2004 Mid-Continent Conference Player of the Year, she helped lead the Brown and Gold to three Mid-Con titles as well as three NCAA Tournament appearances.
A three-time All Mid-Con selection, including twice as a member of the First Team, Marshall still holds the school's career hitting percentage record at .280. She also still ranks in the top five all-time with 1,195 career kills and 404 career blocks.
As a rookie she was named to the Mid-Con All-Freshman Team and was also selected as Valpo's female Newcomer of the Year by SAAC. Marshall was a three-time member of the Mid-Con's All-Academic Team as well.
Marshall currently is a senior designer for DuPage Credit Union.
The Valparaiso University Athletics Hall of Fame Induction Banquet will be held on Saturday, Feb. 4 in the Community Room of the Christopher Center on campus. The banquet is slated to begin at 3:30 p.m. The inductees will also be honored at halftime of the men's basketball game against Wright State that same evening which tips off at 7:05 p.m.
Athletics-Recreation Center (ARC)
1009 Union Street
Valparaiso, IN 46383
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By Jo Lynn Orr
Kathy Bryson grew up as a "third-culture kid"—a child who travels back and forth between rich and poor cultures without fully belonging to either one. In the 1970s, Bryson's missionary parents moved the family from Alabama to a remote village in the Bolivian jungle to help some of the poorest people in the world. Bryson has no regrets about her upbringing; in fact, her mission is to give others a taste of the same experience.
School of Public Health. She is now the international director of Servants in Faith and Technology (SIFAT), an organization in Lineville, Alabama, founded by her parents, Tom and Sarah Corson, to train people to help themselves using available resources—and to show volunteers from the United States how they can help people in the developing world."Those of us living in first-world countries tend to think that material success brings happiness, but that's not always true," says Bryson, a 1996 alumna of UAB's
Building Bridges
SIFAT training at the local level focuses on a community's assets. "In other words," Bryson says, "what do the people have in addition to poverty? For starters, they have incredible social networks and—usually—green leaves. There are special techniques for extracting and maximizing protein from leaves to get vitamin A, which helps children ward off disease. Communities usually have mud and straw that are readily available and don't cost a dime. Those can be used for fuel-efficient cook stoves."
Malnutrition in children is one of the deadliest health issues developing countries face, Bryson says. "A large segment of children on the planet are going to die from malnutrition. An adequate intake of vitamin A would help kids overcome the onslaught of environmental hazards and lack of sanitation that many of them live with."
SIFAT also acts as a bridge between academia and people living in communities who could use their services. "We offer a two-week training session each May in which academics and community members from other countries have a chance to interact and then actually work together on projects," Bryson explains. "We have an interesting mix of people during those two weeks. There could be someone working on an advanced degree in public health who hopes to go into development work internationally as well as a grassroots community leader from a tribal group in Guatemala," Bryson explains. "We've had church and community leaders from 87 countries receive training here."
The organization also collaborates with the UAB Sparkman Center for Global Health, directed by Craig Wilson, M.D., on field training, and the center provides scholarships for five UAB students to receive special training at SIFAT each year. (See "The Right Stuff.")
Bryson, who earned a master's degree in maternal and child health at UAB, says she is grateful for that training. "It gave me concrete analytical skills which have proved invaluable in opening doors at ministries of health in developing countries. Having an M.P.H. is sort of like having a union card—it's an official credential that validates your activities. The skills I learned have also helped me to be a more astute advocate for the public health needs and concerns of the poor."
Life Lessons
At its 176-acre training facility, SIFAT also offers summer youth camps that attract as many as 150 kids from all over the United States, Bryson says. "They spend the night in a specially constructed 'global village' and 'urban slum' in order to gain insight into the uncertainty and squalid conditions that many people throughout the world confront on a daily basis," she explains.
Part of the training includes finding and then boiling drinking water. The experience also engages students in some form of work, such as weeding, for which they get paid to scale. "Then they go to the village store and purchase food, which can be just a handful of rice," Bryson explains. "The program uses pesos and other currencies from different countries to make the experience as real as possible. We also have people at the store speak in different languages. It's not unusual for campers to say things like, 'This isn't fair. I'm hungry.' But the experience lasts only 24 hours. Then we bring the campers back to the world of creature comforts. At that point, most everyone eats everything offered in the cafeteria, and there are no more complaints about food."
Bryson says the camp experience can be life-changing. "We have had people who went through the camp as kids come back as adults and bring their kids," she says. "They want them to learn to cook with solar energy and make fuel-efficient stoves using mud and straw as fuel."
The primary goal of the summer youth camps is to help kids who have grown up with every imaginable advantage to see how their lifestyles compare with those of most kids on the planet. "We want them to go back to the real world with a challenge to help those less fortunate in some way," Bryson says. "We want the camp experience to be a wake-up call for American youth to get them involved in the needs of the world."


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A report issued Friday by ETF Securities says that record outflows tied to a boost in interest rates, decline in gold prices and related factors led to large outflows from commodity-focused exchange-traded products from March to June.
As a result, assets in commodity focused ETPs dropped $49 billion during the second quarter to hit $127 billion, the lowest level since Q2 2010.
On the upside, the report's authors note, gold ETP outflows–which peaked in April–moderated in May and June. "The moderation may indicate that the worst of the gold ETP selling is now behind us," they stated.
For investors looking for a bright spot, ETF Securities points to platinum, which had $712 million of inflows in the second quarter due to concerns over growing supplies.
"The outlook for most commodity flows and prices will likely turn on perceptions of whether the recent liquidity squeeze and growth scare in China is temporary or the start of a larger trend," explained Michael Langerup, Edith Southammakosane and their colleagues. "Gold and silver will likely remain beholden to views on the Fed's intentions and the direction of real interest rates. On both counts we believe investor reactions have been overdone."
Gold Hit
Gold ETPs had close to $19 billion of net outflows in Q2, the largest quarterly outflows since the first gold ETP was created in 2003.
Gold ETP assets declined by $48.9 billion during the period.
"More than 60% of the fall in gold ETP AUM was driven by gold prices dropping by over a fifth," the report stated, as real interest rates rose, the markets adjusted to expectations of a drop in Fed bond buying and the U.S. dollar strengthened.
Other Metals
ETPs focused on platinum had $712 million of net inflows in Q2. Supplied remained tight, and there were rising concerns about future supplies in South Africa, where labor disputes and power shortages have been a concern.
Palladium saw strong inflows in April and May, which reversed in June when China's growth came into focus
Copper ETPs had $67 million of inflows in May and June tie to fears that accidents at mines in Indonesia and the United States would hurt global supply. Concerns over slowing growth in China contributed to outflows in April of $137 million
Zinc drew $13 million of net inflows during the quarter.
Agriculture, Oil
Agriculture ETPs had net outflows of $108 million in Q2, which reversed most of the Q1 inflows. The outflows appeared to be related to rising supply expectations for grains and soybeans after record planting.
"As we saw last year, severe drought conditions can quickly change these expectations, and flows into these products are likely to be sensitive to weather conditions over the course of the summer," ETF Securities noted.
Tightening West Texas Intermediate oil-supply conditions led to a slowdown in outflows from oil ETPs to $170 million in Q2 vs. outflows of $848 million Q1. There were signs that U.S. oil inventories peaked early in the most-recent quarter, which provided a tailwind for prices.
Gold prices were the main factor in the Q2 drop in commodity ETP assets, as investors sold into the price declines and exacerbated outflows.
Concerns over possibly austerity moves in China, along with shifts in U.S. Fed policy, dominated investor thinking.
"In our view, both the fall in gold price and investor selling of gold ETPs is overdone," the ETF Securities experts stated. "We believe the recent sharp rise in real interest rates has been excessive given the macro environment, and any unwind should help support the gold price and gold ETP flows."
If bumps in China's growth story turn out to be temporary, for instance, prices for platinum, palladium and copper could improve along with inflows.
"The current soft patch in agricultural ETP demand could turn very quickly if drought conditions we saw last year in the US return," the report concluded. "Moreover, agriculture has a relatively low correlation with the business cycle, which may attract contrarian investors looking for uncorrelated assets."


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Adventures are kind of a big undertaking to write, but I've got five PS adventures just lying around rn (my pool of con games), and I'm probably going to write another 2 before PaizoCon next year, so if we *want* to include adventures either in the issues or, if that would make them too long, alongside the issues, we probably could?
The adventures I have on hand, already written, are:
1. Celestian's Compass, a 5th-level MacGuffin search for 5 clueless in Sigil
2. Celestial Intrigue, an 11th-level social adventure for 5 celestial warriors in Plague-Mort and the Abyss
3. Ouroboros Killer, a 7th-level investigation/chase for 5 Mercykillers/orderly allies of Mercykillers/Anarchists who have infiltrated the Mercykillers.
Plus two weirder ones:
4. Metal Gol, a 9th-level stealth dungeon crawl for 3 Revolutionary League agents that spoofs Metal Gear Solid. I could strip the MGS references out, but it would become a much less fun adventure if I did.
5. Lethe We Forget, a 10th-level social investigation for 2 amnesiacs who wake up at the banks of the Styx; I could scale this up to a more normal-sized party, but the amnesiac angle might become unmanageable with more people playing.
The adventures I'm planning on writing over the next year:
1. Untitled 1, a social murderhoboventure for 5 members of a gang in Torch
2. Untitled 2, open to suggestions
For the issues we have planned already, I'd say that thematically Celestian's Compass would be the best one to go in or with the Sigil issue, because 1) it's a great introduction as the PCs are clueless and 2) it plays the most on core Sigil themes (features Harbinger House).
For issue 2, I don't have anything that takes place on Mechanus or features the Guvners, but Ouroboros Killer has the PCs as Mercykillers bringing a criminal to justice. Alternatively, Untitled 2 could become a bureaucratic social adventure.
For issue 3, I don't have anything that takes place on the Upper Planes, but Celestial Intrigue has the PCs as agents of Celestia battling evil on their behalf. It takes place almost entirely in The Abyss, though, so it might be more suited to an Evil/Abyss adventure. Untitled 2 could be the inverse, with an all-evil party struggling to navigate Elysium and complete some sort of evil mission there.
Let me know what you guys think. I'm leaning toward a "Planewalker Adventures" series, physically separate from the Zine but considered conceptually to be a part of it, being a cool idea.


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10006 Clement A. Lounsberry
This collection contains information about Indian boarding schools in the state. Items like head counts and other basic counts of the school are included. This collection also has information about the annuities given to the Lakota in the late Nineteenth Century.
10046 Dana Monroe Wright
In Box 7 Folder 1 of the Dana Monroe Wright Papers, the subject is Fort Totten Indian School. There is a yearbook from 1913. It describes the purpose of the school and the different classes offered.
10093 Fort Stevenson Indian School
These records contain the Fort Stevenson Indian School records. The information in the book contains the students' English names, their Indian name, behavior, academic ability, and school activities. If the student behaved badly, the records document the punishment the student received.
10924 Northern Plains Conference of the United Church of Christ Records
Two important missionaries, Charles L. Hall and Harold Case, worked on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation with the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara people. Boxes 5 and 6 of this collection contain histories of the missions, schools, and the reservation.
11113 Lydia Frerking Schneider - Bismarck Indian School
This collection consists of photographs and yearbooks from the Bismarck Indian School. The yearbooks are from the 1930s. During this time, the school only educated girls. The yearbooks contain history of the school, information about what the normal school day was like, and other activities during the school year.
20708 C.H. Kermott
Many Indian boarding schools were mismanaged. C.H. Kermott was a physician at Fort Totten. He heard of mismanagement happening at the school and then sent letters to people to inform them of the mismanagement. The folder also contains translation of common Indian words.
31857 SHSND Education and Intrepretation Division Indian Boarding Schools Oral History Interviews
This oral history project contains interviews with American Indians who attended boarding schools growing up.
50168 Fort Berthold Mission School Collection
The Fort Berthold Mission School rules for the students.
Barrett, Carole, and Marcia Wolter Britton. ""You Didn't Dare Try to Be Indian": Oral Histories of Former Indian Boarding School Students." North Dakota History, Spring 1997: 4-25.
This entry contains the transcript of an oral history project based on Indian boarding schools in North Dakota. The Native Americans surveyed spoke about topics like discipline, health, a normal school day routine and other various topics.
Gipp, David M. "Education for the First Americans: A Personal Perspective." North Dakota History, Spring 1997: 2-3.
This article is a recollection from David Gipp who attended Indian boarding school and now is the president of a tribally operated college. He gives his views on what was wrong and right with Indian boarding schools.
Hultgren, Mary Lou. ""To Be Examples to...Their People" Standing Rock Sioux Students at Hampton Institute, 1878-1923." North Dakota History, Fall 2001:23-37.
This article provides insight to life at an Indian boarding school.
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Ice-T Joins Hollywood Gun Control Debate
Following the horrific movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado during a midnight screening of "The Dark Knight Rises" Friday, debate has been opened over the nation's gun control laws.
Several members of Hollywood have joined in on the debate, including "Seinfeld" star Jason Alexander and most recently Ice-T.
The "Law and Order" actor and former rapper revealed his thoughts in an interview over the weekend and denied the connection between gun control rights and the Aurora massacre.
"It's legal in the United States," started the rapper, also known as Krishnan Guru-Murthy. "United States is based on guns."
"The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny," said Ice-T, according to Mediaite.com. "Not to hunt. It's to protect yourself from the police."
The self-proclaimed "Godfather of Gangsta Rap," Ice-T added, "If somebody wants to kill people, they don't need a gun to do it."
Alternately, "Seinfeld" star Alexander took to Twitter with different sentiments following the events in Aurora.
"More innocent lives taken," wrote the actor. "Peace and prayers to the families."
He then questioned the firearms that the Aurora shooter allegedly used during the massacre.
"I cannot understand support for legality of the kind of weapon in this massacre," Alexander wrote on Twitter. "It's a military weapon. Why should it be in non-mil hands?"
Alexander's post spurred outrage, and he later clarified his thoughts in an extended tweet.
"Clearly, the angry, threatened and threatening, hostile comments are coming from gun owners and gun advocates," wrote the actor. "Despite these massacres recurring and despite the 100,000 Americans that die every year die to domestic gun violence - these people see no value to even considering some kind of control as to what kinds of weapons are put in civilian hands."
"Military weapons … belong in accountable hands, controlled hands and trained hands," explained Alexander. "They should not be in the hands of private citizens to be used against police, neighborhood intruders or people who don't agree with you."
The Aurora shooting left 12 people dead and 58 people injured. A suspect, 24-year-old James Holmes, is being held in custody as the investigation continues.


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Celebrating Abraham Lincoln's birthday in Mount Pulaski
'Fox' Ellis to portray William Herndon, Lincoln's law partner
Saturday, Feb.
9, at Mount Pulaski Courthouse
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[January 18, 2013]
PULASKI -- On Feb. 9 at 11 a.m., William Herndon, Abraham
Lincoln's law partner, will be portrayed in Mount Pulaski by
acclaimed storyteller, author and educator Brian "Fox" Ellis, from
Peoria. This is a rare opportunity to enjoy a unique look at Abraham
Lincoln through the eyes of his law partner.
Complimentary servings of Mary Todd Lincoln's cake will be provided
throughout the day, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
In the afternoon from 1 to 3:30, there will be multiple
activities for children. Craft supplies will be available for making
cards, bookmarks and pictures for Lincoln's Birthday or Valentine's
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The previous day, Feb. 8, two other historic individuals associated
with Abraham Lincoln will be portrayed by Ellis at the Mount Pulaski
schools. For students of the Mount Pulaski Grade School and Zion
Lutheran School, Mr. Ellis will portray Austin Gulihur, one of
Lincoln's boyhood friends. Fourth-graders will begin the morning
program with a presentation of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. In the
afternoon, for the Mount Pulaski High School, Ellis will portray
American poet Walt Whitman, who was a contemporary of Lincoln and
wrote poems in praise of him soon after the president's
The funding for these events has come from the Tomlinson Trust, the
Abraham Lincoln Tourism Bureau of Logan County and the Mount Pulaski
Courthouse Foundation. Mary Todd Lincoln's cake will be donated by
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Politicians' inaugural speeches and swearings-in tend to fall into the "little noted nor long remembered" category of public speaking, but a momentary stumble in California Governor Jerry Brown's oath of office yesterday was covered all over the news--in part, I think, because he made a humorous speaking save without turning the joke on himself.
As you can see in the few seconds of video, above, Brown stammered on the "m" when he was swearing that he had "without any mental reservations" about taking the office. Laughter sprang up from those around him on the dais and in the audience--no doubt because one might well have reservations taking that office during tough economic times. Brown recovered immediately, assuring everyone, "Really, no mental reservation."
The sincere and tongue-in-cheek tone saved the day, made the news and offers you a good example of how to turn a speaking stumble into a joke without making it a joke about yourself. We've talked here before about how self-deprecating humor can work against you as a speaker and undermine your credibility unnecessarily. In this case, Brown's long experience in speaking and politics helped him recover quickly (this really was the work of a few seconds), but you can keep it in mind when you need a quick save that doesn't throw you overboard.
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Sammy Kershaw, 61, and longtime girlfriend Mendy Gregory welcomed a baby girl, Natelia Mae Kershaw, to their family on Sept. 11 in Lafayette, La.
The birth of Natelia, who weighed 7 pounds, marks the sixth child for Sammy, who is also the father of daughters Emily, Erin and Sammie, as well as son Brandon and stepson Ryan.
Mendy and I , we are proud to welcome our sweet little girl Natelia Mae Kershaw born September 11, 2019 at 10:39 pm. She weighed 7 lbs. And 19 inches long. We are just as happy as can be. Just as her name means, she is truly a gift from God.
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Well, Lope tends to be very strict in his conservative readings of text. I have trouble reading his grammars and parse trees, but *as far as I can figure it out*, the problem is that the question mark comes after the display, not have the sentence that sets up the display (which is a question all right). That is, he would insist on 'mi ken ala ken toki e ni? tenpo pini lili la mi open kama sona e toki pona.'
The theological ground here is that tp has no subordinate clauses (we skip over 'la', which is strictly coordinate) and so the second sentence is not part of the question, but an add-on, the referent of 'ni'. This isn't strictly a part of grammar (well, it is in Lope's system, which has a lot of punctuation rules built in), but of punctuation conventions. I think that the community would generally do things your way, but there have been a number of complex cases, where the display (what the 'ni' points to) are also long and complex, where disputes have arisen. Another way of putting this is that there is a dispute about just what is a sentence in tp. (I tend to set the 'ni' referents aside for separate analysis and then stick them back into the original sentence after the colon but preserving the original final punctuation. Lope would reject all of this out of hand, but it does cover most community usage pretty well.)


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President & CEO, National Women's History Museum and a leading advocate for integrating women's history into American culture.
President & Chief Executive Officer, National Women's History Museum (NWHM)
As president & CEO of the National Women's History Museum, Joan Bradley Wages leads the 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to educating the general public about the diverse historic contributions of women and raising awareness about the critical need for a national women's history museum in our nation's capital. As one of NWHM's founding board members, Joan has been a passionate and tireless champion of this effort for nearly 20 years. In addition to overseeing the Museum's Development, Programming, Events, Communications, and External Affairs efforts, she has been lobbying Congress to pass current legislation which would establish a bi-partisan Congressional Commission to produce a feasible plan for the Museum including its governance, organizational structure, fundraising, location and operations.
Joan has championed women's issues on and off Capitol Hill throughout her career. As a registered lobbyist, she worked with legislators and women's organizations to effect positive change on a host of issues. It was therefore no surprise when she teamed with a small group of women to advocate for the transfer of The Portrait Monument (a 7-ton statue depicting the founders of the U.S. Suffrage movement) from the Capitol Crypt to the Rotunda, where it stands today. Joan was instrumental in the development and passage of the legislation, as well as in raising the funds to cover the cost of the move. The project was expected to be short term and Joan scoffed at the suggestion that the next project was to build a National Women's History Museum on the Mall. That was in 1996 and she's never looked back.
Prior to joining NWHM, Joan served as president of Cash, Smith & Wages, a government affairs consulting firm. With proven expertise in state and federal legislation, national grassroots lobbying campaigns, lobbying federal agencies to influence the regulatory process, and political campaigns, Ms. Wages' legislative accomplishments include passage of the Family and Medical Leave Act, as well as the smoking ban on aircraft, numerous aviation security measures and Delaware legislation to prevent the take-over of corporations by corporate raiders.
Joan began her career in the airline industry as a flight attendant for Trans World Airlines. She then went on to serve as Director of Customer Service and eventually public relations, spokesperson and lobbyist for the Independent Federation of Flight Attendants.
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Ms. Wages holds a B.A. from Auburn University and an MA in Philosophy from Columbia Pacific University. She currently resides in Alexandria, Virginia with her two Japanese Chins – Emchi (short for Empress of Chin) and Suzu.
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It may not have made headlines like 3D TVs or tablets did at CES this year, but SanDisk, who thankfully skipped a booth for a quiet back-hall private meeting room this year, introduced their new 128GB compact flash cards which for the time being claim the 'king of the castle' crown. Not only do their Extreme Pro CF cards feature gargantuan capacities, but they're also now the fastest CF cards on the market with up to 100 megabytes per second write speeds thanks in part to their UDMA-7 interface. The kicker? (You knew this was coming.) Available in the latter part of Q1 2011 for $1,499.99.
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International Builder and DC-based Subsidiary Agree to Pay $270,000 to Settle Stormwater Violations at Construction Sites
Release Date: 08/29/2012
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(PHILADELPHIA, August 29, 2012) Turner Construction Co., an international builder based in New York City, and its subsidiary Tompkins Builders, Inc. of Washington, D.C., have agreed to pay $270,000 in civil penalties for alleged violations of federal stormwater regulations at construction sites throughout the mid-Atlantic region, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today.
On August 27, 2012 EPA filed two Consent Agreements and Final Orders alleging that Turner and Tompkins violated their Clean Water Act permits allowing for the discharge of stormwater from construction sites, and in other instances discharged construction stormwater without permits. The alleged violations occurred at 17 construction sites the companies operated in Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C. Fifteen of these sites are located in the Chesapeake Bay watershed and two are in the Delaware River watershed (see attached list of construction sites).
Turner and Tompkins operated these sites for clients including federal and local governments, the Department of Defense, universities and other organizations. A construction project at Prince George's Community College Center for Health Studies is among them, in which case unfiltered basin water flowed, absent a permit, to the storm sewer system that discharges to the Western Branch of the Patuxent River.
In the mid-Atlantic region, Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania are authorized to issue CWA stormwater permits with oversight from EPA; stormwater permits in the District of Columbia are issued by EPA.
In general, the permits in this case required the companies to install controls to prevent pollutants, such as sediment, debris, and chemicals, from being discharged in stormwater into nearby waterways. These controls may include common-sense safeguards such as silt fences, phased site grading and sediment basins to prevent construction contaminants from polluting waterways.
EPA's complaint includes allegations that at various sites the companies failed to:
- ˇPerform or properly document required site inspections;
ˇMaintain structures and controls designed to prevent polluted stormwater from reaching streams; and,
ˇObtain CWA permits prior to beginning construction.
EPA worked closely with state and local environmental agencies to detect and resolve these violations. State and local personnel conducted numerous field inspections, and the agencies shared technical and legal expertise. EPA required Turner and Tompkins to provide extensive documentation concerning their construction activities at numerous locations.
In addition to paying civil penalties, Turner and Tompkins entered into an earlier settlement requiring the companies to implement a program to assure future compliance with federal construction stormwater requirements.
As part of the settlement, the companies did not admit liability for the alleged violations. To view a copy of the consent agreement http://www.epa.gov/reg3wapd/npdes/enforcement.html.
To learn more about EPA's stormwater management program, http://www.epa.gov/npdes/stormwater.
Turner/Tompkins Construction Sites where stormwater violations occurred:
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|Langley Air Force Base Hospital Addition
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He walked the stage, stopped at the end, and paused. A slight grin on his face. You could tell he was about to say something clever. Or, at the very least, something he thought was clever. He was going to put a charge in the conference audience, most of which were idly sifting through email.
"And of course, we can't all sell our companies for $320,000 per device sold."
He then paused for the slight audience reaction that followed.
The conference attendee sitting next to me glanced up from his email and let out a hyena-like cackle, clearly satisfied with the jab. Then he went back to typing. He had more email to catch up on, I suppose.
The speaker, an executive from Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO), had just taken a dig at Nest. It's a company famous for its "learning thermostats." Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) bought Nest for $3.2 billion earlier this year, an eye-popping price for a company founded in just 2010 that only had two products. His comment implied – an incorrect – astronomical sum Google was paying for how many devices Nest had sold.
I realized that no one here was rooting for Nest. At least, not anyone I met.
They weren't from the New Silicon Valley.
Nest, the newest entrant in an old market
I was in my second day at last month's conference called Connections put on by Parks & Associates. It's billed as "The Premier Connected Home Conference" and was held in San Francisco.
It was far from the first time there that I'd witnessed someone roll their eyes, shake their head in astonishment, or scoff at the mention of Nest. The reason was simple: Nest had stolen the industry spotlight.
The media loves the story of Nest. It's a company that builds connected home products, and was founded by the man known as the father of Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPod. Its products are sleek and free of buttons while most existing home thermostats, well, suck.
Perhaps just as importantly, Nest targets selling a benefit as much as a product. The company targets not just saving money from its learning thermostats, but also helping the environment. Nest's monthly energy reports sent to its buyers don't even lead with their own home's energy savings; instead the amount of energy all Nest thermostats have saved globally since their October 2011 launch is featured prominently.
Nest has an astounding amount of buzz; in fact, searches for the company recently passed the term "home security." Nest may be a serious player in a trend like 'The Internet of Things,' but its search popularity surpasses even that much-hyped trend.
Yet, in the opinion of the established "smart home" industry – both the old guard of Silicon Valley and companies outside the Valley -- Nest was just one small entrant in a market that didn't need inventing. Nest wasn't creating some vision of a new, better, connected home, it was merely a small fish in a home products pond that is already very big, and getting larger.
After the conference ended for the day, I planted myself at a standing table and chatted with a banker focused on mergers & acquisitions in the space. I asked him about Nest and got the now predictable eye roll.
A woman stopped by the table to chat about The Motley Fool, noticing the unconventional company name on my conference lanyard. She'd been working at an industry trade publication that focused on home automation for the past 20 years.
The past 20 years! This wasn't some fly-by-night industry. Nest may have captured the imagination of the media, but the connected home was far from a new idea. It is decades old!
The next battleground
Take ADT (NYSE: ADT) for example. It's the current leader in home security and pulled in $3.4 billion worth of sales in the past 12 months. It has 6.5 million residential customers representing 25% market share in the United States. It has a vast sales network, and heavily promotes its Pulse app to handle full home automation services like remote security, video monitoring, lighting and thermostat control.
In a highly profitable industry, ADT is the gold standard.
Then there are established hardware players like Honeywell (NYSE:HON). Its home products like thermometers and HVAC systems sit in its "Automation and Controls Solutions" business, which brought in $16.6 billion last year. Philips has impressed with its connected Hue light bulbs. General Electric (NYSE:GE) has its own line of smart appliances.
There are some very large and well-established companies competing for future smart home riches.
Yet, Google didn't shell out billions for any of the existing industry players. Rather than buy ADT to acquire its 6.5 million customers and 25% market share, it'd rather start over from scratch. It'd rather build its own vision of what the connected home would be by placing a bold $3 billion bet on Nest.
Google didn't want the baggage; it wanted a fresh start. There's already a thriving and profitable model for addressing home security and home automation, but Google wants nothing to do with that decades-old, reliably profitable model of thousands of local salesmen. ADT employs 17,000, Nest employs less than 500.
It wanted to forge its own new way of approaching the market. To do so, it was willing to spend billions on an unproven company, and would be willing to lose billions more as it funded Nest to make an impact.
In part because of that decision, smart, connected homes have become the latest battleground technology in the New Silicon Valley.
A new, more arrogant Silicon Valley
Since venture capitalists and computer firms began pouring in during the 1970s, Silicon Valley has been about technological upheaval. While the Valley was left battered and bruised during the fallout of the first Dot-com crash, it has come roaring back across the past decade with a new identity.
The identity was shaped by some of the greatest business success stories this country has ever seen, such as Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) ushering in social networking at a scale that connected the whole planet. Google using "don't be evil" as its corporate mantra while it grew to become one of the world's most powerful companies. Apple bringing mobile phones – an enormous market that had been largely free of Silicon Valley's influence – to its knees on its way to becoming the world's most valuable company.
The first Dot-com bubble was rooted in establishing the Internet, the New Silicon Valley is about technology conquering the world. It's global. It's swift. It's relentless in targeting new industries.
Technology, after conquering mobile and putting a computer in everyone's pocket, was expanding to take on any industry it felt was not bettering the Earth. It was looking established, profitable industries in the eye and threatening to wring out their bloated models, to disrupt their comfortable, fat profit margins.
Windows from Microsoft is increasingly irrelevant. From a monopoly a decade ago, when you factor in smartphones and tablets, less than 20% of computers now run on Microsoft software. No self-respecting start-up would use Oracle's expensive systems when salesforce.com offers cheaper cloud-based alternatives. Even IBM finds itself falling behind in the cloud computing battle.
Cheaper, easier: say goodbye to your profit margin, old world
My time at Connections was a face-to-face encounter with an industry confronted by the New Silicon Valley. Home security and automation products have generated tens of billions of dollars in operating profits, but the New Silicon Valley was now telling them their business was being disrupted.
It wasn't just Nest either. Dropcam was raising nearly $50 million to offer low-cost security cameras; on Friday Google bought it for $550 million. Apple recently unveiled its new Home Kit framework, which provides a management system for a whole range of automated home products. Hundreds of millions is going to start-ups in the field.
All the new Valley solutions remove the need for expensive professionally installed systems. They are -- by and large -- cheaper and easier to use. If they charge a monthly fee, it was a fraction of what incumbents like ADT or AT&T charged.
The threats to the existing industry were obvious, but the incumbents went to great lengths to dismiss the newer entrants attracting buzz. Their attitude was that of a parent, letting a kid run himself out screaming for attention, while they handled the real responsibilities of the industry.
The battle against the new Silicon Valley
The dismissal of the New Silicon Valley is far more reaching than my time spent at Connections, however.
At its most extreme, the New Silicon Valley is critiqued as industry-members acting as missionaries of a new religion of technology. Google the term "cult of disruption" and you'll find nearly a million results.
The belief that other entrenched industries are somehow inherently evil, and only an industry like technology can use its disruptive holy water to make the world a better place is something that has not surprisingly united targeted industries. If you were a cab driver, would you like Uber's CEO's characterization of cabs as "evil?" No one wants to root for the brash upstart, especially when their approach is both loud and at times arrogant.
It's why conference attendees scoffed at Nest. They had been building the ingredients of the smart home for decades, yet Nest designs one sleekly designed product, espouses a product to better the world, sells a few hundred thousand devices, and suddenly the media marginalizes an industry selling hundreds of millions of home products a year. Suddenly, they are the roadblocks to Nest bettering the world.
HBO's newest show, Silicon Valley, relentlessly lampoons New Silicon Valley's White Knight mentality and incomprehensible start-up jargon.
It has become HBO's newest hit show.
Yet, the biggest blow against the New Silicon Valley came last week, when The New Yorker ran a cover story called "The Disruption Machine." The article targeted the messianic tone of the New Silicon Valley by sub-titling the article "What the gospel of innovation gets wrong." The article essentially argued that Silicon Valley's hallowed theory of disruption is wrong, and that examples of disruption from the seminal book on the subject – The Innovators Dilemma – weren't even accurate. Companies being "disrupted" in the book, originally published in 1997, turned out to be wildly successful.
Disruption is at the core of the New Silicon Valley, it's the lifeblood of its ambitions; the theory that explains why high-technology companies can conquer multi-billion dollar industries like the smart home market.
While The New Yorker piece will likely be read by fewer people than your average BuzzFeed article about cats playing with toys, it became the source a rallying cry for Silicon Valley's elite to defend disruption on – where else? -- Twitter.
Missing the mark
While The New Yorkers' article led to impassioned defenses of disruption from some of Silicon Valley's most influential figures, the most interesting aspect of the article isn't putting disruption on trial. Instead, it's a useful conversation-starter to talk about what disruption really is, what kind of effect Silicon Valley's most ambitious firms will have as they pursue new industries.
The reality of disrupting existing industries falls somewhere between wide-eyed 25-year-old entrepreneurs speaking of disruption's awesome powers in hushed tones and The New Yorkers' view of disruption as a broken theory.
Overall, disruption is a model based on hindsight. It's a generally useful way of understanding why seemingly entrenched companies fall. It's far from perfect, and far from always being predictive. While Disruption has become the battle cry of the New Silicon Valley – and the name of TechCrunch's annual start-up event – the truth is it's often painfully slow.
As an example, let's put some figures behind one of the great technology disruption stories of our time: Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) battling bricks-and-mortar retail. There is ample evidence Amazon has begun chipping away at many retailers, Best Buy being a prime example.
Yet, since Amazon's founding in 1994 it has produced a total of just $2.2 billion in profits. Over 20 years, its revenues have grown by $74.4 billion.
Over that same time frame, the world's largest retailer – Wal-Mart – has booked $192.4 billion in profits. Its revenues have grown by $408.4 billion. That leaves Wal-Mart with 87X the profits and over 5X the sales growth of Amazon.
If this is what disruption looks like, count me in on being disrupted.
The author of The Innovator's Dilemma, Clayton Christensen, noted how drawn out disruption can be in a recent interview with BusinessWeek. He noted "disruption doesn't happen overnight," while explaining how it took over 52 years for the nation's 316 department stores to be cut down to less than 10.
The problem here is that when disruption became the rallying cry for the New Silicon Valley, the term "disruption" became turbo-charged to fit the Valley's own ideas of what it should mean. The billions of dollars flowing into Silicon Valley start-ups, the press following each new idea, all benefited from the idea that disruption was something more immediately powerful, more world-changing, than the sometimes dull academic roots the term came from.
The New Silicon Valley – Results may be slower than expected
So, if disruption is often less glamorous and slower-moving than advertised, does that mean ADT and its peers in the old guard of the smart home are safe?
Not quite. Let's look at another industry in the throes of disruption from the New Silicon Valley: the cab industry. It's an industry that shows the New Silicon Valley at its most ruthless, efficient point, but also the challenges in living up to expectations it has created.
Cab-killer Uber recently raised $1.2 billion at an $18.2 billion valuation, among the highest ever for a venture-backed company. Uber being valued at more than $18 billion is already higher than the entire United States cab market ($11 billion). Globally, that market is larger, possibly as high as $100 billion.
Uber captures anywhere from roughly 5% to 27% of fares coordinated in its app from a mix of taxis, private cars, and luxury "black cars." Running the numbers, their capturing the vast spoils of the cab industry is already priced in as a start-up company. The funding round of Uber implies it has already won the cab market and has larger opportunities ahead.
Cabs are a business with little historical effect from the furnace that is free-market competition. Startup ride-sharing competitor Lyft recently cut prices by 20%. How many times have you ever seen cab fares go down?
Yet, the competition is inherently unfair. Uber now has a billion-dollar war chest. Lyft doesn't yet take any commissions for rides booked on its app. In both cases – and among a number of other funded companies in the field – cabs are seen as a land grab. The time to make money isn't now; instead all companies are looking to build out user bases, with an eye to vast future opportunities.
The same regulations that fostered the cab industry were pulled away so rapidly; it's not surprising cabs were deeply pressured. It has been an industry simply unprepared for rapid change. An ideal candidate for the kind of disruption the New Silicon Valley drools over.
But, the next opportunity cited by many for the cab industry is logistics, operated by companies like UPS and FedEx. These are companies that – unlike the cab industry – have spent years cutting their teeth in fierce competition and won't be such easy targets. Uber proponents will note the global logistics industry is a $4 trillion industry, and they could do well by serving a portion currently underserved like fast, local delivery.
They might do very well, but we saw how slowly Amazon has had to chip away at its own trillion-dollar industry, retail. Attacking such a competitive market is often a long slog. One that has a far longer timeframe than the holding period of most Silicon Valley venture funds.
Cheap money and exponential growth
The basic premise of Clay Christensen's disruptive innovation is that incumbents are unable to properly compete with new threats, because doing so would compromise their existing sales and profits.
Today, a couple key areas are driving the conversation on disruption. First is the exponential effect of technology across the past 20 years. The second is how "cheap" money is itself. Both are playing a huge part in the looming battle over the smart home.
Let's first look at exponential technology increases across the past 20 years. In 1994, the average computer cost roughly $2,300. Today, smartphones can be had for as low as $50. The result is that the worldwide market for technology services has moved from hundreds of millions of people to several billion. If you have a technology idea, it can be sold to a far larger market.
At the same time, advances in networking, broadband infrastructure, and the declining cost of servers has enabled cloud computing. That has had the same effect on building companies that cheap smartphones had on more people owning technology.
Think about a messaging service like WhatsApp. Between April and August 2012, it went from handling 2 billion to 10 billion messages per day. In the late 1990s, building the technology infrastructure to handle such a change would have required tens of millions of dollars in servers and new employees to manage the startling growth. Today, it merely requires capital from a VC and requesting more space from their cloud-computing operator. We're in a vastly different world than the Dot-com Bubble.
Later in my trip to Silicon Valley, I met with a company named Orange Chef. It started by making plastic bags to protect iPad screens while cooking. Later, its small team of three people decided to make a decidedly ambitious cooking pad that connected to an iPad app. Venture capitalists told them the product would take 18 months to design, manufacture, and secure retail placement. They finished the product in six months, without venture financing, and secured an exclusive retail deal with Williams-Sonoma.
Think for a moment about the smart home space. Companies like Nest and Dropbox launched with modest sums of venture capital, and sleek hardware in relatively high volume. The software services, their apps, and all infrastructure could be housed cheaply in the cloud. Thanks to the growth of the smartphone industry, all the processing and sensors inside the devices had become much cheaper. Startups are no longer limited to apps or websites, they can make hardware as well.
The shelves of Home Depot are suddenly as open to a Nest as they are to a company like Honeywell.
Thank Ben Bernanke
The second trend of "cheap money" may be even more important.
In the venture space, low interest rates have left large institutions scrambling for returns. If you're a pension with a targeted return of 8% a year, yet the government debt that might be half their portfolio is yielding less than 3%, if you want to increase your returns you need to increase your risk. That means investing more directly in smaller, privately held companies.
Silicon Valley venture firms didn't headline the latest round of funding that gave a billion dollars to Uber, but instead staid Wall Street institutions like BlackRock, Wellington Management, and Fidelity led the round.
Cheap money is pouring in from Wall Street. The recently departed Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke could claim another title: chief disruptor of the United States. The Fed's decision to keep money cheap is helping fuel the boom in disruption.
Aside from start-ups, the situation also affects how larger technology companies operate.
Consider ADT and Google. Low interest rates have led ADT to load up its balance sheet with debt. In the past year, the company has repurchased $1.7 billion worth of its own shares. Today, the company has $4.4 billion in net debt, against $349 million in profits and $3.4 billion in sales.
By contrast, Google has $62.3 billion in sales, sees profits of $13 billion, and has $51 billion in net cash. There are few calls for Google to return its cash to shareholders or take on huge amounts of debt. Investors in growing technology companies like Google want money to go toward growth rather than returned to them.
ADT's capital efficiency is a sound way to run a business – assuming your competitors are playing on a level playing field. In the case of ADT, they aren't. While cheap money encourages a company like ADT to load up on debt – reducing its ability to handle risk and new competitive threats – that same cheap money only encourages companies like Google to take more risks.
That leaves a competitor like Google free to spend billions competing for a targeted market like smart homes. Google has no focus on what the returns on the capital its spending on a market like smart homes will be in the next five years, merely that there is a huge opportunity for profits down the road. Even if Google ramps spending in the space, earnings weakness in tech companies is more often forgiven than not if revenue growth is strong.
ADT doesn't have such luxuries. On Jan. 30, the company issued earnings that disappointed investors. Three days later, its stock had fallen 24%. The company has to be very focused on hitting expectations and providing consistency.
Google and its smart home peers don't need to necessarily "kill ADT" by any means either, merely decreasing its sales by 15% could destabilize its dividend payment and make its debt load increasingly burdensome. Their model runs in direct contradiction to the stability ADT prefers.
The next iPhone moment?
I walked out of the Connections conference and stared across the Bay. It was a gorgeous day, the California sun moderated by an ocean breeze. It felt like how a movie tries to make you feel.
Maybe the New Silicon Valley could fix that -- Facebook had just invested $2 billion in a virtual reality company.
I thought, "maybe it's the weather." When you're in a place this nice, everything feels better. The possibilities look endless when you're cruising down a California coastal highway.
I couldn't stop thinking about the conference. The interplay between an established industry making billions of dollars, and the upstarts from Silicon Valley offering sleeker, cheaper, and better products.
My mind kept drifting back to 2007 and another industry: mobile. That year, the iPhone was announced into an industry that collectively shrugged its shoulders. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said, "there is no chance the iPhone is going to get significant market share." Research in Motion CEO Jim Balsillie dismissed the iPhone for its lack of a keyboard.
At the time, 1.3 billion mobile phones were already sold a year. By Apple's own admission, it wanted just 1% of the market. It was just a small fish in a growing pond.
Yet, it introduced a new paradigm. It was an Earth-shattering moment -- Apple had shifted the power from carriers. Its phone had no AT&T logo on it, no pre-installed apps. The market was especially ripe for disruption because no one liked the existing products, phones were built to serve the carriers rather than delight customers. Add to that the fact many customers were on contracts where they could upgrade their phones every two years, and this was a market ripe for rapid disruption.
My time at the conference, the dismissal of Nest, and the new group of products felt so familiar. Was this connected home conference a repeat, just shifted to a new market, of what happened in 2007?
Like phones, no one loves products like thermostats and other devices in their home. Yet, we spend thousands decorating and beautifying our houses. It makes sense that people would rapidly adopt products that are not only technically superior, but also look better. This market isn't technology making a blind leap into a new market, and it actually reinforces existing strategies. This isn't the kind of disruption that takes decades, in fact, it's the kind that's potentially very rapid.
Google has informed the SEC it may sell ads on devices like thermostats. It has spent nearly $4 billion buying smart home companies in the past six months. Apple still makes the vast majority of its profits from the iPhone, so wouldn't making the iPhone the remote control to your home only strengthen the grip of the products on people's lives? Both companies have tens of billions in cash ready to win the battle, and will relentlessly pursue their own paths to control.
Wouldn't you rather have the remote control to your home and life built by Apple than ADT? Disruption as a model for the future isn't always a perfect predictor, but it does seem like the ingredients are in place for this market.
The New Silicon Valley may be brash, it may be arrogant, but in the case of the smart home, it looked to continue its winning streak.
The conference ended; a colleague and I could head back from the center of the world's change to the world's area most resistant to change: Washington D.C., where our offices were located.
He asked me, "So, do you think Nest or any of these companies are going to disrupt what's going on in the connected home."
"Probably," I muttered, as I reserved an Uber on its iPhone app. Cabs, well, they just suck.


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When I was asked by a prestigious Italian news magazine to write a letter to my daughters – to be published in the first edition of the year – writing about the future, I was not exactly sure of what the content could be. Without worrying too much I accepted, as I consider it a privilege the fact that they had asked me. An astronaut is not an author, but it is important to get out of your comfort zone, and to confront the unknown.
So, between experiments (for which I was the guinea pig) and training sessions – while I was running, swimming and gritting my teeth through strength tests – I thought about my little daughters: how to express something valuable and at the same time comprehensible, now, and in ten or fifteen years, that would not lose value, but rather intensify it with experience?
After two weeks – during which time I was often contacted to know if I was still interested in the collaboration – I understood I was trying too hard to use my brain, and that I was looking for something, as often happens, in the wrong place. Two days before the deadline I sat down at the desk in my hotel bedroom, in a foreign country, on a cold-yet-clear autumn night. I stopped thinking, and I began to write.
To Sara and Maia
The world is incredibly beautiful. Maybe I had forgotten, but I saw it from afar, and now I have proof. But even from up close it can be wonderful, if looked upon with the right set of eyes: eyes like yours, that observe with the gift of curiosity, illuminated by the light of wonder. Eyes that still believe in enchantment, without shame – eyes that understand with no need of explanations.
This is the only world we have, and it contains something extremely precious: our future. Every future is as big as the entire world. The future, just like the world, does not belong to you, yet it is in your hands. It is unique, but it is never the same. It may seem infinite, but it is only infinitely fragile.
I wish I could show you the way to your future, but that is not the role of a father. What I really want to give you instead is the map containing all the roads, so that you can choose your own way.
You are still too young to understand this, but you children are so much richer than us, the grown-ups. You have at your disposal such a capital that the richest of men envy you: time. Recently you started going to school, and without knowing it, you have started investing this treasure of yours, letting it grow by transforming it into knowledge, into experience, into memories. This is the only luggage you may take along with you, while you travel following that map that I would like to give you.
Soon enough you will encounter the first problems, the first challenges: at every junction on that map you will have to depend on what you took with you to choose a road to go down. Initially, there will be no difference: many roads will take you to the same destination and the only thing that changes will be the view, or maybe the distance.
But, sooner or later, the road you choose will diverge from the previous one, irreversibly, and there won't be many chances to go back. This I have learned: you will have enough time to choose your road. Sometimes, you will discover that the road did not exist until you made the first step. It does not matter. What really matters, the only thing, is that you love to walk. Choose what you love, love what you choose.
And if the going gets rough, when obstacles seem insurmountable, when there is no light to clear the way, remember that at times, you need to be lost in order to find yourself.
Embrace difficulties: they will enrich your road. Look for challenges: they will strengthen your step.
Finally: you will have fellow wayfarers who will at times follow your road, at others stray away, to come back or to forever disappear. You will love their company, you will miss them when they are gone. And if they take with them part of what you carry along, look really well: you will find that nothing is amiss, and that you now have even more.


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Moon over Courthouse
The Moon brightens the daytime sky over Courthouse Butte in Sedona
From Sedona
Early Snow
Early snow on Humphrey's Peak
Sunrise in the Valley of Fire
The sun rising over the peaks
Toadstool erosion formations in Grand Escalante Utah
Snowy Peak
The Wheeler Peak Wilderness in the Taos Mountains offers some commanding peaks
Waterfall Ice Cave
A waterfall ice cave, looking almost otherworldy. Difficult photo to get, and the colors are so surreal. It's hard to believe it's really like this.
Weathered Sandstone
A dramatic outcropping of weathered sandstone in the Valley of Fire, Nevada
Deception Falls
Deception Falls, WA
Coral Dunes
Second Dune at the Coral Dunes Park near Kanab Utah looking fabulous in the setting sun
Fiery Sunset
A vivid and fiery sunset brought about by a wonderful atmospheric condition
Red Rock Tower
A massive tower of windswept red sandstone in the amazing Valley of Fire, Nevada
Sandias Mountains
The Sandias sliding by on my way to Taos
Rock Ledge on First Dune
The rock ledge on First Dune that started it all at the Coral Sands park
Hiking the red hill 9
Hiking the red hills of Nevada
Moon over Sedona 4
The moon setting right in a beautiful Sedona rock formation. Timing and location are everything
Sandstone Upthrust
The geological pressures involved in producing such an interesting and complex formation are just beyond imagining. The area around Lake Mead in Nevada has fascinating geology
Sandstone Bear
To me, this beautiful eroded formation has the appearance of a giant snarling bear
Spaceship Rock
Another lovely Sedona formation known oddly as Spaceship Rock.
Eroded Sandstone Path
The eroded sandstone follows the path of the flash floods so common in this area
Looming Butte
A section of Red Rock looms majestically against the sky
Through the slot cañón
This extremely narrow slot cañón is no place to be during a flash flood!
Sedona Snow
A Snowy Vista framed by vibrant greenery
Aspen and Pine
The contrast between the flaming golden Aspen and the dark green Pine is part of the beauty of this mountain region
Snow and dormant trees dot this ridgeline that rises above a bright verdant orchard
Bell Rock
Bell Rock, one of the best known Sedona rock formations.
Colored Layers
The brightly colored layers of sandstone leading to a wind and rain carved slot canyon in the Valley of Fire
Gold and Black 3
The aspens in full glow against the nearly black volcanic rock and golden grass produce a patchwork of color
Touch of Fall
The aspens beginning to turn and producing bright spots of color on the mountains under the moody monsoon skies of Fall
Fall is Coming
Snow on the peaks of Sedona peeking above the woods
Black Canyon Trail 1
Series of shots showing some of the beautiful Black Canyon Trail
Sandstone Spires
Sandstone and red rock spires rise sharply from the ground in Sedona's Secret Wilderness
Riding by Courthouse
Riding by Courthouse in Sedona
Red Rock Cañón
Beautiful descent into the red rocks of the Valley of Fire
What a Sky
Reprocessing of one of my early digital shots of a vibrant Arizona Sunset
Courthouse End
Passing the tail end of Courthouse, one of Sedona's most breathtaking formations
Seven in the golden aspen
Nothing like a Fall ride!
Trickling Waterfalls
For a brief period after a rainfall, you can see and hear lots of tiny waterfalls pouring down the sides of the giant sandstone and limestone buttes
Monterey Coast
Monterey Coast, always beautiful, always cold.
A shot of the mountains near the Paria set in Grand Escalante Utah
Humphrey's Peak
Humphrey's Peak quite short on snow for December
Mountain Sunset
Sunset over the Mogollon Rim
Forest Path 2
An attempt to convey the feeling of riding the Stagecoach Trail in a few pictures. 2/6
Grand Escalante
Grand Escalante, view of a mountain range rising over 1,000' above the dunes. Truly a sight to see.
First Light
First Light breaks over the desert
Tracking Dinosaurs
Carefully surveying the wide sandstone deposits of a 100 million year old oasis looking for the dinosaur prints preserved in the fragile sandstone of Grand Escalante.
A touch of flocking
Brilliant blue sky and bright white snow mix with the trees themselves to produce the ideal winter conditions for my shots
Wheeler Peak Wilderness
The Wheeler Peak Wilderness in the Taos Mountains
Courthouse Butte
The incredibly beautiful Courthouse Butte. One of the great landmarks of Sedona