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Unlikely Vessels
Contributed by Steve Kinnard on Apr 25, 2017 (message contributor)
Summary: God uses regular people to accomplish great things
Scripture: Matthew 1:1-10
Unlikely Vessels
An Unlikely Hero
Only 12 survivors were pulled from the rubble of the World Trade Center after the towers fell on Sept. 11, despite intense rescue efforts. Two of the last three to be located and saved were Port Authority police officers. They were not discovered by a heroic firefighter, or a rescue worker, or a cop. They were discovered by Dave Karnes.
Karnes hadn't been near the World Trade Center. He wasn't even in New York when the planes hit the towers. He was in Wilton, Conn., working in his job as a senior accountant with Deloitte Touche. When the second plane hit, Karnes told his colleagues, "We're at war." He had spent 23 years in the Marine Corps infantry and felt it was his duty to help. Karnes told his boss he might not see him for a while.
Then he went to get a haircut.
The small barbershop in Stamford, Conn., near his home, was deserted. "Give me a good Marine Corps squared-off haircut," he told the barber. When it was done, he drove home to put on his uniform. Karnes always kept two sets of Marine fatigues hanging in his closet, pressed and starched. "It's kind of weird to do, but it comes in handy," he says. Next Karnes stopped by the storage facility where he kept his equipment he'd need rappelling gear, ropes, canteens of water, his Marine Corps K-Bar knife, and a flashlight, at least. Then he drove to church. He asked the pastor and parishioners to say a prayer that God would lead him to survivors. A devout Christian, Karnes often turned to God when faced with decisions.
Finally, Karnes lowered the convertible top on his Porsche. This would make it easier for the authorities to look in and see a Marine, he reasoned. If they could see who he was, he'd be able to zip past checkpoints and more easily gain access to the site. For Karnes, it was a "God thing" that he was in the Porsche, a Porsche 911 that day. He'd only purchased it a month earlier it had been a stretch, financially. But he decided to buy it after his pastor suggested that he "pray on it." He had no choice but to take it that day because his Mercury was in the shop. Driving the Porsche at speeds of up to 120 miles per hour, he reached Manhattan after stopping at McDonald's for a hamburger in the late afternoon.
His plan worked. With the top off, the cops could see his pressed fatigues, his neatly cropped hair, and his gear up front. They waved him past the barricades. He arrived at the site, the pile, at about 5:30. Building 7 of the World Trade Center, a 47-story office structure adjacent to
the fallen twin towers, had just dramatically collapsed. Rescue workers had been ordered off the pile it was too unsafe to let them continue. Flames were bursting from a number of buildings, and the whole site was considered unstable. Standing on the edge of the burning pile, Karnes spotted … another Marine dressed in camouflage. His name was Sgt. Thomas. Karnes never learned his first name, and he's never come forward in the time since.
Together Karnes and Thomas walked around the pile looking for a point of entry farther from the burning buildings. They also wanted to move away from officials trying to keep rescue workers off the pile. Thick, black smoke blanketed the site. The two Marines couldn't see where to enter. But then "the smoke just opened up." The sun was setting and through the opening Karnes, for the first time, saw clearly the massive destruction. "I just said 'Oh, my God, it's totally gone.' With the sudden parting of the smoke, Karnes and Thomas entered the pile. "We just disappeared into the smoke and we ran."
They climbed over the tangled steel and began looking into voids. They saw no one else searching the pile the rescue workers having obeyed the order to leave the area. "United States Marines," Karnes began shouting. "If you can hear us, yell or tap!"
Over and over, Karnes shouted the words. Then he would pause and listen. Debris was shifting and parts of the building were collapsing further. Fires burned all around. "I just had a sense, an overwhelming sense come over me that we were walking on hallowed ground, that tens of thousands of people could be trapped and dead beneath us," he said.
After about an hour of searching and yelling, Karnes stopped.
"Be quiet," he told Thomas, "I think I can hear something."
He yelled again. "We can hear you. Yell louder." He heard a faint muffled sound in the distance.
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OpenXava needs a business model
OpenXava needs a business model
September 29, 2011
OpenXava exists for ten years now, without any business model around it, that is, OpenXava has not generated money by itself for now. The way OpenXava has survived so many years is by sponsorship. In the first years I, Javier Paniza, personally using my own computer, in my home and in my own spare time created OpenXava and developed the most important part of it, just for fun. Afterwards, the company where I work, Gestión 400, developed all its Java line of product using OpenXava, in this way Gestión 400 takes over the sponsorship role.
The Gestión 400 sponsorship works in the following way: when a Gestión 400 customer ask for some new feature or complains for some bug in some application, if this feature/bug is a generic one we implement/fix it in OpenXava. In this way, we improve continously OpenXava and at the same time we give service to Gestión 400 customers. Really, this method works pretty well, allowing to OpenXava grows in the last several years.
However, today in 2011 OpenXava is no longer an inner tool used by Gestión 400, but a very popular framework used by many companies and individuals around the globe, so the sponsorship model starts to show some shortcomings, for instance:
- Many interesting new features and bug fixing requested by the community are ignored. Sometimes the members of the community can add the features or fixing the bugs by themselves, but many times they have no the needed expertise to do so. I think the OpenXava has to meet the neededs of all its users.
- Major technological improvements. For example, things as a Vaadin UI generators, support for other inheritance strategies for JPA entities, etc. are suggested by the community as interesting improvements, but it's for sure that no Gestión 400 customer will ask by any of these features.
For all these, I think that is very important creating a business model around OpenXava in order to server better to the community, to grow technologically and to asure its own survival.
What type of business model? We'll begin offering professional support and training. Afterwards, we'll sell commercial plugins for OpenXava applications. Anyways, we are ready to adapt to the needs and preferences of the community.
In any case, we'll will maintain the level of functionality and robustness of OpenXava, and we'll never change its licence. In fact, I cannot change OpenXava licence, because it is a LGPL project with more than 50 authors. OpenXava is not mine, so I cannot sell it.

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African American Islam
Herbert Berg
The first Muslims arrived in the American colonies and later in the United States as African slaves. Although a few and noteworthy Muslim American slaves left written records of their lives, Islam was largely extinguished by the white slave owners. Sectarian and racial forms of Islam were introduced into the United States, particularly within urban African American communities, by Ahmadiyya missionaries and the Moorish Science Temple. The rise of the Nation of Islam under Wali Fard Muhammad and Elijah Muhammad and its bifurcation under the latter's son, Warith Deen Mohammed, and Louis Farrakhan deserve special attention, as do the initial appeal of the Nation of Islam's racial formulation of Islam and, decades later, the willingness of most of its members to move to Sunni orthodoxy after Elijah Muhammad's death. The second major, though not entirely separate, strand of Islam in the United States, though often interacting or competing with the first, comes from Muslim immigrants. This group brings unique issues, such as living in a largely Christian society, competing with the Nation of Islam, refuting stereotypes in the media and popular culture, finding a political voice, and coping with post-9/11 Islamophobia, all leading to the consideration of the prospects for a uniquely "American Islam" that reflects U.S. pluralism and (supposed) separation of "church and state."
African Americans and Religion
Sylvester A. Johnson
Beginning with trans-Atlantic slavery, which forced hundreds of thousands of people into what is presently the United States, religion among African Americans consistently featured a complex of efforts toward innovation, preservation, and agential intervention rooted in efforts toward survival against structures of racial domination. Social factors including slavery, black responses to a range of political conflicts, influences of immigration, and the varieties of genealogies that have constituted religious formations among African Americans contributed to the creation of formal Christian denominations, intentional communities of Orisha, and transnational movements of Islam. Also important are the insurgent challenges that African Americans have proffered as a rejoinder to social oppression. But this progressive tendency has been paralleled by sharply conservative religious formations that check any easy generalization of African American religions as being predisposed toward social justice movements. Also important are social sources of autonomous church formation, the role of Black Nationalism, anticolonial forms of religion, and Yoruba revivalism of the mid-20th century.
American Buddhism during World War II Imprisonment
Michihiro Ama
American Buddhism during World War II imprisonment refers to the Japanese American Buddhist experience between 1942 and 1945 when persons of Japanese ancestry, commonly known as Nikkei Amerikajin, were imprisoned. A discussion of the Nikkei Buddhist experience includes the experiences of Euro-American convert Buddhists who supported them during the imprisonment period.
Immediately after the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested and interned Japanese Buddhist priests and other leaders of Japanese communities in the United States. In March 1942, the Western Defense Command designated the three West Coast states (Washington, Oregon, and California) and Arizona as Military Area No. 1, from which all persons of Japanese descent, and alien Germans and Italians, were forcefully removed. Following Executive Order 9066 signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the US government removed approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans from the aforementioned military zone and incarcerated them in relocation centers built throughout the continental United States. During that time, the Nikkei community consisted primarily of the Issei, the first generation of Japanese immigrants, and the Nisei, their American-born children. As Tetsuden Kashima defines, the word "internment" refers to the imprisonment of enemy aliens, such as the Issei Japanese nationals, by the Department of Justice and the US Army, while the term "incarceration" refers to the confinement of the Nikkei, including a great number of the Nisei American citizens, by the War Relocation Authority. The word "imprisonment" designates the entire process consisting of internment and incarceration.
The study of American Buddhism during World War II is still in its early stages. Finding records and documents related to this subject from the large collections on Japanese American imprisonment is not an easy task. While the National Archives in Washington, DC, maintains the majority of primary sources dealing with Japanese American relocation and incarceration, other institutions, such as the Japanese American National Museum, the University of California-Los Angeles, and museums built around the sites of internment camps, also preserve records. Some of the primary sources are written in Japanese and are located in Japan, which is another stumbling block for researchers who do not read Japanese. Duncan R. Williams's forthcoming book, American Sutra: Buddhism and the World War II Japanese American Experience, however, will change the current state of scholarship on Japanese American Buddhism during World War II.
The forceful relocation of Japanese American Buddhists served to weaken their long-standing efforts to make their ethno-religious practices accepted by America's general public. Mass incarceration, however, forced the Japanese American Buddhists to further Americanize their religion, generated a set of new Buddhist practices, and gave them opportunities to reflect on their national identities. Buddhist faith and cultural practices associated with Japanese Buddhism contributed to ethnic solidarity, even though the Japanese American community was divided over the issue of US patriotism. During the postwar period, Japanese American Buddhists initiated a campaign to improve their image in the United States and to honor the Nisei Buddhist soldiers who fought during World War II. The formation of American Buddhism was closely connected to the development of US political ideology.
American Protestant Foreign Missions after World War II
David C. Kirkpatrick
After the Second World War, the drama of Protestant missions featured a diversifying cast of characters. Local actors in the Global South, alongside reform-minded missionaries from the North, revised the mission script. At the level of conciliar discourse, this can be seen in perhaps two primary ways: a widened table of leadership and a widening of the Christian mission itself. An increasingly diverse Protestantism shifted the trajectory of missions toward national control and social Christian emphases. Yet, these shifts in method and theology produced strikingly divergent results for mainline Protestantism and Protestant evangelicalism. For the former, the story was largely one of global dissolution, at least institutionally. Organizations such as the World Council of Churches (b. 1948), which represented the soaring hopes of the ecumenical movement, fractured under the pressure of radical student protests, postcolonial resistance, and declining donations from disillusioned churches in the 1960s and 1970s. Seen in a different light, however, mainline Protestant mission was the victim of its own advance, both abroad on so-called mission fields and at home in the United States. In many cases, mission schools directly contributed to the growth of nationalism through their curriculum and educational methods. Backlash against missionary leadership and control often centered around these educational institutions. In the North, while the institutions of mainline Protestant mission have largely declined, their progressive values are widely assumed today within wide swaths of American life in particular—especially within universities, mainstream media, and the Democratic Party.
For Protestant evangelicalism, the mission story is largely one of global diffusion—explosive demographic growth, especially among those practicing Pentecostal forms in the Global South, and a rapid expansion of mission and relief organizations. Within a context of increasing diversity, evangelical mission agencies, rather than sidelining traditional Protestant mission approaches, constructed new forms of evangelical mission and social Christianity. This reshaping of global evangelicalism was the result of a multidirectional conversation often led by Latin Americans. Indeed, an entire generation of theologians, shaped by the global Cold War, rejected the importation of traditional mission methodologies. As Latin Americans shifted to postcolonial social Christianities, they pulled many in global evangelicalism with them. In terms of theological methodology, they synthesized the pursuit of justice with the evangelical offer of personal salvation. While the vast majority of Christians lived in Europe and North America in 1910 (the year of the epochal Edinburgh World Missionary Conference), in 2010 the vast majority of Christians lived in the Global South. Thus, at the level of conciliar discourse, the evangelical table of leadership and theology increasingly reflected its demographic center located within contexts of poverty, injustice, and widespread inequality.
American Religious Empire and the Caribbean
Andrew R. McKee
America has been closely linked to the Caribbean since at least the Age of Revolutions. Across the Atlantic World, revolutions in France, Santo Domingo, and the eastern United States drastically changed interlocked understandings of citizenship, religion, and freedom. From the 19th century onward, imperial views and laws about religions developed from prerevolutionary era roots. The dominant understandings of Caribbean religious history are those of migration, diaspora, syncretism, and diversity. Studying how the American religious empire worked to regulate and control the religious practices in the Caribbean shows how the distinct religions associated with the region—Obeah, Santeria, and Vodou, for example—developed. It is impossible to study the Caribbean without centering on the processes of Anglo-European colonization and the forced migration of enslaved peoples predominantly, but not only, from Africa. Labor and economic concerns underline nearly every Caribbean religious culture that exploded in the region from the colonial period onward.
Christianity in Hawaiʻi
Ronald Williams Jr.
On January 17, 1893, Her Majesty Queen Liliʻuokalani, sovereign of the Hawaiian Kingdom, was overthrown in a coup de main led by a faction of business leaders comprised largely of descendants of the 1820 American Protestant mission to the "Sandwich Islands." Rev. Charles Hyde, an officer of the ecclesiastic Papa Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian Board) declared, "Hawaii is the first Country in which the American missionaries have labored, whose political relations to the United States have been changed as a result of missionary labors." The actions of these "Sons of the Mission" were enabled by U.S. naval forces landed from the USS Boston the evening prior.
Despite blatant and significant connections between early Christian missionaries to Hawaiʻi and their entrepreneurial progeny, the 1893 usurpation of native rule was not the result of a teleological seventy-year presence in the Hawaiian Kingdom by the American Protestant Church. An 1863 transfer of authority over the Hawaiian mission from the Boston-based American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) to the local ʻAhahui ʻEuanelio o Hawaiʻi (AEH) (Hawaiian Evangelical Association) served as a pivotal inflection point that decidedly altered the original mission, driving a political and economic agenda masked only by the professed goals of the ecclesiastic institution. Christianity, conveyed to the Hawaiian Islands initially by representatives of the ABCFM, became a contested tool of religio-political significance amidst competing foreign and native claims on leadership in both church and state. In the immediate aftermath of the January 1893 overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom government, this introduced religion became a central tool of the Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) struggle for a return of their queen and the continued independence of their nation.
Native Christian patriots organized and conducted a broad array of political actions from within the churches of the AEH using claims on Ke Akua (God) and Christianity as a foundation for their vision of continued native rule. These efforts were instrumental in the defeat of two proposed treaties of annexation of their country—1893 and 1897—before the United States, declaring control of the archipelago a strategic necessity in fighting the Spanish/Filipino–American War, took possession of Hawaiʻi in late 1898. Widespread Americanization efforts in the islands during the early 20th century filtered into Hawaiʻi's Christian churches, transforming many of these previous focal points of relative radicalism into conservative defenders of the American way. A late-20th-century resurgence of cultural and political activism among Kanaka Maoli, fostered by a "Hawaiian Renaissance" begun in the 1970s, has driven a public and academic reexamination of the past and present role of Christianity in this current-day American outpost in the center of the Pacific.
Civil Religion in America
Raymond Haberski, Jr.
Civil religion in America has no church, denominations, or institutional center, and it cannot be traced to a single origin story. And yet, it operates as a religion in ways familiar to Americans—it has priests and pastors, altars and sacrifices, symbols, institutions, and liturgies. So, what, then, is civil religion? The term originates with the 18th-century French philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), who proposed that the French nation needed a civil religion to replace the "unholy" alliance between the Catholic Church and the monarchy. Rousseau explained in book 4 of his Social Contract that he hoped a "purely civil profession of faith" would satisfy what he viewed as the popular need for something to believe in, to give one's allegiance to, and even to give up one life's for—a transcendent, unifying point of reference that existed beyond politics and in place of a denominational (most likely Christian) church. Thus, in philosophical terms, civil religion is the appropriation of religion for political ends. The American version of civil religion, though, differs from Rousseau's idea by incorporating the nation's Christian heritage more deeply into an understanding and judgment of America.
In the American context, civil religion had to accommodate the country's variety of faiths and Enlightenment rationalism, but was just as deeply influenced by the power of popular and elite religiosity to order American life. Thus, American civil religion has echoed Protestant values and assumptions, while enshrining the mythic nature of the Puritans, founding fathers, and common people who gave their lives in wars and conquest. Moreover, while Americans do not pray to their nation, they have no trouble praying for their nation; they see presidents and preachers as both serving in capacities that minister to the people in times of crisis, and they invest sacred meaning in events and documents to help them imagine that America is as much an idea as it is a place. Over time, American civil religion has also provided a narrative for a set of ideals, statements of purpose, and symbols to which all Americans, in theory, can appeal.
Sociologist Robert N. Bellah (1927–2013) explained in a famous and significant essay titled "Civil Religion in America," for the winter 1967 issue of the journal Daedelus, "American civil religion is not the worship of the American nation but an understanding of the American experience in the light of ultimate and universal reality." He contended that Americans could call upon not only a common creed of ideals but also their civil religion to evaluate their nation's actions. In parlance that became popular following World War II, the United States was a nation "under God," meaning, as Bellah argued, "the will of the people is not itself the criterion of right and wrong. There is a higher criterion in terms of which this will can be judged; it is possible that the people may be wrong."
Civil Rights Movements and Religion in America
Paul Harvey
In the civil rights movement of the mid-20th century, black Christian thought helped to undermine the white supremacist racial system that had governed America for centuries. The civil rights revolution in American history was, to a considerable degree, a religious revolution, one whose social and spiritual impact inspired numerous other movements around the world. Key to the work was a transformation of American religious thought and practice in ways that deftly combined the social gospel and black church traditions, infused with Gandhian notions of active resistance and "soul force," as well as secular ideas of hardheaded political organizing and the kinds of legal maneuverings that led to the seminal court case of Brown v. Board of Education.
The civil rights movement had legislative aims; it was, to that extent, a political movement. But it was also a religious movement, sustained by the religious power unlocked within southern black churches. The historically racist grounding of whiteness as dominant and blackness as inferior was radically overturned in part through a reimagination of the same Christian thought that was part of creating it in the first place. In similar ways, the Mexican-American farmworkers' movement drew on the mystic Catholic spirituality of Cesar Chavez and brought to national consciousness the lives and aspirations of an oppressed agricultural proletariat that lacked the most elementary rights of American citizens.
American civil rights movements drew from, and were in part inspired by, the ideas of Mahatma Gandhi and the Indian independence movement. Gandhi's movement deeply influenced black Americans who visited India from the 1930s to the 1950s and who brought home with them a mixture of ideas and practices deriving from sources as diverse as Gandhi and the 19th-century American progenitor of nonviolent civil disobedience, Henry David Thoreau. American civil rights movements subsequently became a model for any number of freedom movements internationally, notably including the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa. There, religious figures such as Desmond Tutu became international symbols. Also, the black American freedom struggle based in the American South moved protestors in places as diverse as Czechoslovakia under Soviet domination and Chinese students staring down tanks in Tiananmen Square in 1989.
In the post–civil rights era, some suggested that America had moved into a "post-racial" era, despite the overwhelming statistics documenting racial inequality in American society. Thus, activists who have mined the connection between religion, civil rights, and social justice will have plenty of work to do in the future. The struggle continues through such contemporary venues as the #blacklivesmatter movement.
Class and Religion in America
William A. Mirola
Scholars pursuing questions on the links between religion and social class typically examine several distinct sets of dynamics. A main research focus has addressed how religious beliefs, behaviors, and experiences vary across different social class contexts. Studies in this tradition draw on quantitative and qualitative data to illustrate such differences. Statistical studies have demonstrated economic and educational differences in patterns of an array of religious beliefs, religious service participation, and other religious behaviors, and especially social and political attitudes on everything from gay rights to gun control to political party preference. Qualitative work typically delves into the lived religious experiences of individuals from different classes as well as examining the ways in which religious expression is itself shaped by class cultures.
A significant portion of this type of research examines how religion impacts the life and work experiences of those at the bottom of the class hierarchy, the working and nonworking poor. Here the way that faith shapes how poor people view the challenges of their lives and their views of the larger society are particularly central concerns. Addressing a second related set of questions, researchers also examine how participation in religious communities contributes to forms of social mobility in terms of socioeconomic status indicators. Statistical analyses dominate in this area, illustrating how denominational affiliation and measures of religious belief and practice predict views regarding income and wealth accumulation, educational attainment, and occupational choice. Another distinct area of scholarship examines the role religion has played in shaping the history of capitalism and the dynamics of the traditionally understood industrial working classes and the organized labor movement. Here, too, scholars examine how working-class individuals use religion as a way to understand their work and the evolution of global capitalism. Labor historians in particular have examined historical and contemporary instances in which religious leaders and organizations play active roles in industrial conflicts.
Whichever route one takes to explore religion and social class, studying their intersections has been of longstanding interest to social scientists, historians, religious studies scholars, and theologians for more than a century. This article bridges these approaches and provides an overview of their complex intersections in contemporary social contexts.
The Cold War and American Religion
Dianne Kirby
American propaganda cast the Cold War as one of history's great religious wars, between the godless and the God-fearing, between good and evil. It was a simplistic depiction that was supported and promoted in the highest echelons of government and by the leaders of America's key institutions. During the course of the presidencies of Harry S. Truman and Dwight Eisenhower, U.S.-Soviet rivalry was transformed from a traditional great power struggle into a morality play that drew on firmly entrenched notions rooted in the American past, above all American exceptionalism and its sense of mission. Truman made religion America's ideological justification for abandoning America's wartime cooperation with the Soviet Union. Eisenhower used religion to persuade the world that America was a force for good in the international arena. The resulting anti-communist crusade was to have profound consequences for Christian America, contributing to both religious revival and religious repression in the early Cold War period. Over time it caused irrevocable alterations to America's religious landscape. The anti-communist dynamic unleashed embraced anti-liberalism and was a factor in the rise of the Christian Right and the decline in America's mainstream churches. In addition, the image of a godless and evil enemy dictated an irreconcilable conflict that precluded the very modes of diplomacy and discourse that might have helped avoid the worst excesses, costs, and consequences of the Cold War.


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Here is a beta of 3.9 to try on Linux. I tested it on Ubuntu 9.04,
Unzip and place this under the usr/share/bibleanalyzer folder, replacing the 3.7 files (you may want to just move them to save). You can start normally with the desktop icon, but if you installed with the 3.7 .deb file Bible Analyzer should be registered with Terminal so you can type bibleanalyzer in it and see any errors that may occur.
The modules need to be in the home/USER/.bibleanalyzer/Modules folder (this is hidden by default). The config.ini, notes.use, and prayer.lst files are there too. If it gets to where it won't start, delete the config.ini file and try again.
Let me know what you find.


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Fri, 07 January 2011 at 2:50 pm
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And the Tony for Best Pecs Goes to...
There are three major Broadway shows right now that feature hunky shirtless stars. WSJ's Stefanie Cohen joins Lunch Break with a look at who wins the pec-off. Photo: Joan Marcus.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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NEW LONDON, Conn. – The U.S. Coast Guard Academy used a 15-4 run during the final five minutes of regulation to secure a 77-56 victory over MIT in a NEWMAC women's basketball game on Tuesday night. Sophomore Sabrina Drammis (Hilton Head Island, S.C.) paced the Engineers (2-3, 1-2 NEWMAC) with 18 points and five steals in addition to registering seven rebounds and two assists.
Senior Rachel Hunt (Arlington Heights, Ill.) generated 14 points, eight rebounds, and two blocks coming off the bench while sophomore Maya Ramachandran (Fremont, Calif.) tacked on eight points for MIT. Junior Mari Kordell (Ijamsville, Md.) notched seven points and three assists as classmate Michelle Battipaglia (Katonah, N.Y.) chipped in four points and four rebounds.
The Bears scored the first five points of the game and eventually held a 17-8 advantage midway through the half. The Engineers narrowed the gap to four (23-19) on a Drammis layup with 5:39 on the clock, but Coast Guard rattled off eight unanswered points during the next 1:31 to claim its largest lead of the half. MIT responded by closing the frame with a 14-4 run that saw it enter the intermission trailing, 35-33. Drammis accounted for six points during the rally as her steal and layup with 24 seconds to go resulted in the halftime score.
The hosts gained some breathing room early in the second stanza courtesy of a layup and two free throws; however, Hunt's three-point play cut the Engineers' deficit in half (39-36) at the 16:55 mark. The Bears produced a seven-point spurt over the course of the next 90 seconds, but MIT battled back to come within five on two occasions, the last on sophomore Durva Bhandare's (North Brunswick, N.J.) three-pointer that made the score 50-45 with 12:03 left to play. Coast Guard gradually reestablished its double-digit cushion; however, the Engineers stayed within striking distance as Drammis's put-back brought them within 10 (62-52) with 5:33 remaining. The Bears then replied with their game-ending run to capture the victory.
Next up for MIT will be a home game against local foe Simmons College on Wednesday, Dec. 4.


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How about....... a nice proper remake of how this series should have been.........although I heard that the previous idea wasnt that much better than the one actually shown.
And yes, Lelouch's character is everything to the success of CG. If suzaku was the protagonist it wouldnt be anything special because suzaku is made as a stereotypical anime male lead(at least thats what i heard as well,IMHO i think its true) but is not the lead character. Lelouch is unlike a main character we've seen before. Little or no angsty moments, kind at heart, and perceives battle in another way than most male anime leads.
Therefore, they(sunrise) have two choices if they "milk" CG more. They can either just do OVAs without Lelouch, or do a remake of 2nd season which really was a tad bit rushed. Of course, the two previous choices banks on the fact that lelouch IS dead. If, for w/e reason lelouch is alive then there must be a reason for it, and that reason I believe is R3
|2008-10-14, 20:02
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I don´t think is crap... the girl just developed it thanks to the blindness, you ask a question touch somebody´s hand if it tenses, or feels a bit wet he is lying... it could even apply to logic... Does it says is a special power?
Then remeber... the girl broke the geass by her will... she can almost do anything...
|2008-10-14, 20:23
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They could have, but time was limited. They had to rush alot of stuff to give a somewhat ok ending with an epilogue.
Remember they started off with too many extra characters so they really couldn't spend that much time developing all of their backgrounds. Still they made it still entertaining in my eyes and pulled the ending off somewhat satisfactory.
|2008-10-14, 20:29
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But the other thing...
The girl... developed a supernatural power... to not only detect LIES... but to see into people's hearts... through blindness... And she used it... on a supposedly dying person... who hardly has ANY other body reactions cause he's supposedly just dying... to reveal his master plan...
Up there, on the wheelchair!
It's a mecha. It's a flying fortress. It's Super Nunnally!!
Faster than a Geass activation... More powerful than a score of Geass users... Able to discern the most detailed plan with a single touch... This amazing girl from Planet Plothole, the girl of miracles... Super NUNNALLY!!!
Please, God, no... just no...
|2008-10-14, 21:25
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I don't know what the big deal is. They made it clear several times in the second season that she could tell when people were lying by holding their hand. Then she was able to use it in the end to know that Lelouch wasn't really a bad guy. It's not nearly as big a stretch as Geass and humanoid weapons, but this is the thing you find unbelievable?
|2008-10-14, 21:34
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I kinda feel as if the creators are giving non-convincing explainations to fuel the "so is Lelouch really dead/alive?" debate.
|2008-10-14, 21:36
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I dont get with the big deal with Nunnally is either.. no one seemed to care when Suzaku was dodging Machine gun BULLETS in R1.. oh wait people did..
so basically its just another inconsistency.. who cares? that's why explanation we got to live with it..
and after reading all that information regarding Lulu's fate.. I (myself) can finally say
R.I.P Lelouch
I also find it funny how they went and actually explained the scene with Nunnally.. it was after all, one of the key points in the "he has a code theory"
|2008-10-14, 21:36
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Personally, I don't think Nunnally saw any of the scenes we saw when she touched Lelouch's hand--I think the displaying of those scenes was symbolic of her realization: after all, how else could we really believe she figured out what Lelouch had actually done?
|2008-10-14, 21:37
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That's because Geass and the mechanoid weapons were established(although lack of background on the Geass is another big plot-hole). However they gave Nunnaly an ability that is not established or given insight into the story. We see that she can detect lies, not read memories. So now the producers make the jump that she could see memories all along and previous incidents where nothing of the like happens. This is what we call a plot hole. If they had shown her having flashes of Lelouch or Suzaku or w/e that assistant's name was then it would be alot more believable than the producers saying after the show is over, oh btw she can read hearts despite we never really expanding on it. Lie detection is more established in fiction with blind superheroes or people than emotion reading or w/e you call it.
|2008-10-14, 21:40
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Location: NJ
Age: 40
I don't think she was reading his memories. The flashes of his memory was more for the audience to know what she realized when she touched his hand. Then the other part was just Lelouch's life flashing before HIS eyes, not something she was seeing.
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|2008-10-14, 21:46
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When Lelouch died his life flashed before him, and Nunnaly saw that, and in particular Zero Requiem which is what Lelouch was thinking about as he died.
It makes a lot more sense than she was able to use her lie detecting powers on a dying man.
|2008-10-14, 21:46
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Well the life flashing before his eyes would be kinda redundant since he just replayed those scenes right before Suzaku stabbed him. According to the official website(or mobile website) they indicate that she did see what happened. Ah yes and where did she get those magical powers from?? Geass, no and being blind does not grant you magical powers. Possibly heightened senses( which could be used to tell if someone is lying) if you believe american comics but thats about it.
|2008-10-14, 22:01
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Age: 34
she could sense that the events that had just happened (zero killing him) were not a surprise and that he was not sad or pained or angry about it
she could sense that he was happy (probably) despite dying
she could probably connect the dots from there (kallen did with less)
all she would have needed was to keep some hope in her heart that he wasnt really the monster that he seemed to be
|2008-10-14, 22:34
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Location: New York
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Eh. Who said they were consistent in the first place? lol
It was just a artistic device to illustrate the point that Nunnally was able to understand at the end. Its nothing to fret over. It could have been worse for all we know.
|2008-10-14, 22:38
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Age: 34
they couldent just have nuannly go "so that was what he was all about" since they did it with kallen already
they needed another way to get it across
nunnaly wanted the damocles to be what lelouch had become
a symbol of hate
|2008-10-14, 23:01
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1.) Asks about the congratulation messages written hanging on Tamaki's wall in his bar. Somebody might have already known about this, but Tamaki's VA, Tanaka Kazunari, wrote his own congratulation message to his character, Tamaki, saying, "To the Handsome Tamaki". LOL
2.) About Xingke's noticeable absence in the wedding pic of Ougi and Villetta, still in Tamaki's bar. They offer no explanation, just this, "Why wasn't he at the wedding, despite his precious Tianzi being there? Could it because he had a violent coughing fit?"
3.) The the image of Suzaku and Arthur in Kallen's room - Original Picture by Sakurai Takahiro O_o
4.) Talks about the message on Suzaku's gravestone, which was "Here lies a consummate and invaluable knight to his highness". Suzaku has supposedly fallen in battle by the defeat of the Lancelot. He was the accomplice of the Atrocious Emperor Lelouch, but someone had his grave made.
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As promised, Jerry Manuel is sitting his Killer B's: Jason Bay, Carlos Beltran and Rod Barajas are all on the bench for tonight's game at Los Angeles.
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FAIRFIELD -- "Hi, this is NASCAR driver Parker Kligerman calling on behalf of my company, Nootelligence. We are a two-ounce brain supplement, and we'd love to talk about getting into your retailer or distributor."
This is Parker Kligerman, in between racing teams, working the old 9-to-5 shift at his Fairfield office on Post Road. Well, the 9-to-whenever shift. Kligerman wants to be clear on that. Because there's much work to be done, and these are long days.
This is Kligerman: A 23-year-old race car driver from Westport, one of the rising stars in his sport. This is Kligerman: Square jaw, parted blonde hair, checkered dress shirt tucked into dark skinny jeans. A natural behind the wheel and in front of a camera.
Kligerman dissects the business world as if he studied it at NYU. Sometimes he sounds like a professor. Actually, he never went to college; he became a professional racer at age 19.
He's been in the office for a few weeks now, every day, working with his two high school friends, Ian O'Connell and Jeff Moss, to push the product they created about a year ago.
Kligerman wants to be clear again: Nootelligence isn't an energy drink. No, this is a two-ounce nootropically-based supplement. A neuro-enhancer aimed at improving focus without the jittery side effects.
That's all part of the sales pitch, which, as of Wednesday, is Kligerman's primary responsibility.
His first call was to a gas station chain in Indiana. He got straight through. Got the retailer to agree on an email proposal and a sample.
O'Connell, the co-founder of Nootelligence, got a bunch of voice mails.
"I looked at him," O'Connell said, "and I told him, `You're doing all of the calls."
* * *
Parker Kligerman grew up in Stamford, moved to Westport in the sixth grade and already had a deep fascination with racing.
He remembers the start of it: When he was 9 years old and his family got cable television, he found the Speed channel and was mesmerized by the Go Karts.
It wasn't until four years later that his mother and aunt took him to buy a Go Kart as a "birthday-slash-Christmas" present. His dad, who had little interest in racing, wasn't thrilled. (In fact, Kligerman says his father stayed for only 20 laps of the Daytona 500 this past year; it's worth noting that Kligerman was involved in a wild three-car crash during practice at Daytona).
Kligerman got his start at the Norwalk Karting Association. Races were held every Saturday at Calf Pasture Beach. Two years into it, he won Mechanic of the Year.
"I was the only kid ever to win it because every other kid's dad worked on their stuff," Kligerman said.
Shortly after, Kligerman asked his father to help him with cars.
"Just for one year," Kligerman told him. "I'll make the rest."
Dad agreed, and Kligerman went to Skip Barber racing school, won his first two races at Lime Rock, and then, as a 15-year-old, enrolled in the Formula TR Pro Series in California. He missed school sometimes, and at Staples High he became known as "the kid who races cars."
"When you would go over to his house in high school, he was always on (simulated) racing," O'Connell said. "Parker would be on it, and he'd be whipping around the track."
Kligerman didn't talk much about his hobby because he didn't think many classmates would be interested. After all, this was Westport, Connecticut. Not quite a NASCAR hotbed.
"In racing, I don't want to say it's incestual, but there's a lot of nepotism," said Kligerman, whose family has no history in auto racing. "Families upon families and generations and very few interlopers. That's just who's in it."
Kligerman graduated from Staples in 2009, already well on his path to crashing the tight-knit NASCAR family. His friends would head to college: O'Connell to Boston University, Moss to NYU. Kligerman would join Penske Racing as a developmental driver. He'd win nine races in the ARCA series, debut in the Nationwide Series in October 2009, and then join Brad Keselowski Racing the following year.
After parting ways with Keselowski in 2012, Kligerman made his Sprint Cup debut this past November for Swan Racing. He finished 18th, the best result for Swan in 2013.
* * *
This is why Parker Kligerman is in the Nootelligence office and not on the track: Business.
Swan Racing, which had expanded to two cars in its second season, against Kligerman's wishes, was forced to fold in late April due to lack of sponsorship funding. His teammate, Cole Whitt, brought his No. 26 car in a merge with BK Racing. Kligerman's No. 30 car was sold off to Xxxtreme Motorsports, which already had a driver.
Kligerman came home for Easter and hasn't left.
"When you build a Cup team, Cup is a process," he explained. "You don't walk into Cup and spend a lot of money and win. Red Bull racing spent $50 million per year on two cars every year for five years and won two races and made the Chase once.
"You don't just show up and spend money. It's just like NFL. It's a building process. It's maturing. It's building with people, and everything adds until you finally have something that's worth anything. Look at the Seattle Seahawks."
"(Swan Racing) was doing that in 2013," he added. "In 2014, going to two cars broke the back. It wasn't very solid, and so we are where we are."
Since Swan Racing folded, Kligerman has had opportunities to join other Sprint Cup teams, but he's turned them down. As he put it, they were rides that were surviving, not thriving.
"I'd rather survive here than never have a chance to thrive on the race track," he said. "... When the right Cup ride comes along, I'll be ready."
Here's the deal at Nootelligence: O'Connell, one of Kligerman's best friends at Staples, took prescribed ADD medication all through college. The side effects bothered him. As a senior, a finance major unsure of his future, O'Connell discovered nootropics, legal cognitive-enhancing supplements available in bulk powder and pill form. He mixed the powders, found it supremely effective and wondered, "How come I don't see this on the market anywhere? How come there are only caffeine shots?"
O'Connell told Kligerman about his idea, and his friend saw the potential in it. They co-founded the business in the summer of 2013, Kligerman handling the name and the design of the bottle, O'Connell and Moss taking care of the product.
Here was the deal Thursday in Fairfield: It's three guys with their laptops in a newly leased, somewhat disheveled office space. There are about a dozen seltzer bottles clustered on the table near O'Connell's computer because, well, O'Connell can't get enough seltzer. Kligerman is polishing off a vanilla milkshake. They've spent the entire day preparing for a presentation they'll make to a distributor. They still need to plan social media strategy. Vital for business, Kligerman says.
They've gone door-to-door in the area. Nootelligence is in stores on Post Road, on the Fairfield University campus and on the NYU campus. They recently picked up 30,000 bottles from the manufacturer in New Jersey.
Kligerman drinks one of them as he flips through a notepad filled with his ideas.
"Between Ian and myself and Jeff, there are a lot of decisions in terms of `how fast do you want to grow?'" Kligerman says. "That's one thing, you want to grow fast enough so the general public knows you're there and can become a leader, but at the same time, don't grow so fast that you can't keep up with it."
* * *
When you talk to Parker Kligerman, you think Nootropics -- this start-up business -- is his life. He's so consumed with the subtlest of details: the bottle, for example, is rectangular, not circular like a five-hour energy drink or any of the knockoffs. That's key.
"Groundwork in this industry is really important," he said. "Just pounding the pavement around here. The more stores you're in, the more distributors see it at these places, and you'd be surprised. They might see it and say `what's that?' And this distributor might be doing 4,000 more stores around the Northeast. Just because you're in that store, you might get that distributor."
He's an entrepreneur, completely invested in understanding this market, yet he's also Parker Kligerman the NASCAR Driver, a card he's not afraid to pull on sales calls. Although he's been removed from racing since April 23, he hasn't really left.
"Right now I'm driving a lap -- say it's Texas ," he said from his swivel chair. "I'm talking to you and I'm having this conversation but in my head somewhere I'm in a race car ... It's always in your mind. It's always going. Jeff Gordon said he can't turn it off. That's the scary thing. As a race car driver, you can't not think about driving."
When news leaked of Swan Racing's restructuring, Kligerman received texts like "Are you OK?" If he isn't, it doesn't show. He says there's an opportunity -- he can't yet disclose the details -- that will take him out of the Nootelligence office for about a week. He says any driver, even Jimmie Johnson, would agree: "If you could have one year where you could drive a ton of different race cars and then come back (to the Cup), you'd take it in an instant."
"As a race car driver, you want to do something different."
For now, Parker Kligerman will keep making his sales calls, waiting for the right one to come his way.
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The Los Alamos Lads of Enchantment, the local chapter of the Barbershop Harmony Society announced that Jonathan Friedman was appointed as the new musical director of the chorus, July 26.
Friedman is new to the area and the chapter and brings 28 years of barbershop singing, craft and directing to the chapter.
Friedman recently said, "Our chorus has great potential and is loaded with very talented and motivated performers. Believe in yourselves. All I ask is for your attention, attendance, discipline and trust.
"Together, we can look forward to great times of harmony and fellowship."
Friedman previously gave vocal direction to the Tacoma Totemaires Barbershop Chapter in Washington state and organized the Temecula Wine Valley Harmonizers in California.
Friedman succeeds longtime choral director Stan Bennett, who helped found the Lads of Enchantment chorus 20 years ago and has served as its director since its inception.
Bennett decided to "take a break" and pursue his other passion — singing as a bass in the chorus and with Four Praise Quartet.
Friedman will lead the Lads' Annual Show Oct. 26 and 27.
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I usually hand-stamp cards but this year I waited until the last minute and because we have been so busy here at DiaperShops I just didn't have time. A couple of days ago I left the shop mid-morning and ventured over to our local Walgreens to get a card. In the process of pulling and putting back numerous cards I pulled one out that had a big shipping vessel with cargo on it.
The front said, "Happy Mother's Day" (of course)...I opened the card and it said "Your next diaper order has arrived." Wow- now isn't that fitting for Kelly- aka, The Cloth Diaper Whisperer to find. It made me chuckle and laugh to know that there are so many of us that have discovered cloth diapers, hybrid diapers, or eco-friendly diapers.
Did you know..
1) Over 20 billion disposable diapers are sent to landfills each year. (http://engr.oregonstate.edu/momentum/k12/apr04/index.html)
2) That the average baby goes thru a minimum of 6000 diaper changes.(http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2064133/cloth_diapers_vs_disposable_diapers.html?cat=25)
3) Disposable diapers are the third largest single consumer item in landfills, and represent about 4% of solid waste. In a house with a child in diapers, disposables make up 50% of household waste. (Link, Ann. Disposable nappies: a case study in waste prevention. April 2003. Women's Environmental Network)
4) Over 300 pounds of wood, 50 pounds of petroleum feedstocks and 20 pounds of chlorine are used to produce disposable diapers for one baby EACH YEAR.
(Lehrburger, C., J. Mullen and C.V. Jones. 1991. Diapers: Environmental Impacts and Lifecycle Analysis. Philadelphia, PA: Report to The National Association of Diaper Services (NADS).)
5) No one knows how long it takes for a disposable diaper to decompose, but it is estimated to be about 250-500 years, long after your children, grandchildren and great, great, great grandchildren will be gone.
(Link, Ann. Disposable nappies: a case study in waste prevention. April 2003. Women's Environmental Network.)
[Some of the facts above were found at the Real Diaper Association's website.]
The Real Diaper Association, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization, provides support and education to parents all across the U.S. for the use of simple, reusable cloth diapers. The goal of the Real Diaper Association is to put more U.S. babies in cloth diapers. To do this we aim to create a cultural shift in understanding cloth diapers-their environmental impact, their ease of use, their accessibility, and their acceptability. The Association will help parents understand that cloth diapers are real diapers.
The awareness of "alternative" diapering options has increased greatly over the past 2 years and honestly I think this is because of the green movement and the state of the economy. It will be great to someday convert some of the 95% of parents who use main-stream disposable diapers to more eco-friendly diapering options.
Happy Mother's Day everyone and just know that by using cloth diapers or other eco-friendly diapers you truly are making a difference to "Mother Earth"- one diaper at a time.
By: Kelly, aka "The Cloth Diaper Whisperer"
7 comments:
- Winkydinks said...
OMG, this is actually the card I received for Mother's Day! lol. My dh wrote "I think your last ship has come in"...my youngest is potty trained now, no more fluff!
- May 9, 2010 at 11:33 AM
- K said...
I actually found a cloth diaper card for expecting mothers! They discontinued it unfortunately.
-Kim R.
- May 9, 2010 at 1:06 PM
- Fontaine said...
Happy Mother's Day!
- May 10, 2010 at 1:25 AM
- Jess said...
I really like all the info in this post. I wish more people were aware of all the facts, I think it would easily win people over to the "Cloth Side" , lol.Thanks for being so informative.
- May 10, 2010 at 2:12 PM
- parentingaling said...
Thanks for all the info - it is tempting, but I sometimes wonder whether the electricity and water used in washing all the diapers doesn't have a serious negative effect on the environment also.
- May 11, 2010 at 5:58 AM
- thejepps said...
Funny, I saw that ship as one of those barges that carry garbage to landfills! Guess that's what I think of disposables!
- May 13, 2010 at 7:49 AM
- Ellie Tat said...
Hi, I am trying to find the publication you have mentioned in your post: Link, A. (2003) Disposable nappies: a case study in waste prevention. Women's Environment Network. Do you know where I can download it from? Thanks
- October 10, 2010 at 5:51 AM


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Modern Classics: The Patrick Townsend Orbit Chandelier
While many of the 'modern classic' designs we've been spotlighting come from the middle of the last century, there are a few more recent designs that we feel have already earned the right to be called classics. Among them: Patrick Townsend's Orbit Chandelier.
If the Orbit reminds you a bit of a string of Christmas lights, the resemblance is intentional; the design is the result of "pulling apart and exploding the string light", creating a delicate net of light that strikes a pleasing balance between the structured and the haphazard. The design utilizes a combination of tension and compression, similar to a suspension bridge. It's a creative and lovely re-imagining of the idea of the chandelier.
1 & 2. I love these contrasts — the black wall and the white chandelier, the texture of the rug vs. the smooth modern lines of the fixture. Perfect. Home of Sarah Yates, from her blog, A House in the Hills.
3. Love the contrast with the very traditional floral paper in this dining room from Design Manifest.
4 & 5. The dining room of blogger Victoria Smith of SF Girl by Bay. I love the soft girliness of the pink with the modern shape of the chandelier.
6. In a Brooklyn home from Dwell.
7. The Orbit chandelier in black, from Townsend Design.
8. In the Brooklyn apartment of Johanna Methusalemsdottir, from Freunde von Freunden.
9. In a rustic Charleston kitchen from Dwell.
10. In a lovely modern Christmas setting from Sitting in a Tree Events. The laciness of the chandelier almost makes it seem like a Christmas decoration itself.
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Gifford previously hosted "Live With Regis and Kathie Lee" for 15 years, but left in the year 2000. "Today" is on a ratings surge lately -- February sweeps was its second-best since 2004.
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The company that helped pioneer the multiple-brand strategy in ag marks its 10th year by divulging past strategies and future plans.
Few ag machinery companies have grown faster in 10 years' time than AGCO. Since the company was formed in 1990, its annual revenue has increased from $2 million to more than $3 billion and it has acquired 17 brands.
All of those brands remain profitable, a track record that is unusual in today's business climate, according to Robert Ratliff, AGCO executive chairman. "Eighty-five percent of acquisitions fail," Ratliff says. "None of ours has failed."
To celebrate its 10-year anniversary, the company brought in a panel of dealers representing 2,200 of its dealers nationwide, 25 investment analysts and 20 members of the press to headquarters in Atlanta, GA, to share its business philosophies and plans for the future.
What's in a name? Ratliff stands behind a podium and projects on screen four basic philosophies that have accounted for the company's success in the past 10 years.
The first and most basic one was to build a multiple-brand distribution network, a concept borrowed from such automotive companies as Ford and GM. Under this approach, AGCO retains the names and identities of the brands it purchases while maintaining a larger dealer network and participating in multiple markets.
"We are most proud of our ability to be the product consolidator - putting all of these businesses under the AGCO umbrella and yet maintaining the history of each of these brands," Ratliff says.
Dealer profitability is another major philosophy of the company. "This should lead all of our decisions," Ratliff says. "If our dealers aren't profitable, we can't be either." Key factors in maintaining profitability are good inventory management and proper turnover rates. To that end, AGCO was able to warn its dealers of a downturn 60 to 90 days ahead of time in the third quarter of 1998 so that they could get their inventories in line, unload excess used equipment and collect their receivables, according to Ratliff.
A third successful philosophy is horizontal production. AGCO outsources 75% of its components. "We buy from major suppliers," Ratliff says. "That requires less capital so we can use the dollars in new product development."
New product development is the fourth philosophy critical to AGCO's success. The company develops common product platforms to reduce costs and capital requirements but differentiates those products through features, financing and promotion. With a common platform, it is able to transfer the leading technology of one product to other products as market forces dictate. For example, the company plans to transfer the continuously variable transmission (CVT) available on its Fendt tractor - billed as the most technologically advanced tractor in the world - to other tractors in coming years.
Surviving the markets In 1998, AGCO's sales dropped sharply, as did those of many other ag machinery makers, due to slumping commodity prices and export sales. Industry unit sales of tractors with more than 100 hp were down 8% in 1998 and 27% in 1999 while combine sales dropped 4 and 47% during the same time frame.
In response to this lower demand, AGCO was forced to close all but two of its manufacturing plants in the U.S. to reduce excess production capacity. Ratliff says this effort alone will save the company $20 to $25 million in costs annually, a savings it can redirect to its product development and research efforts.
However, AGCO is optimistic about the future. "We've hit the trough," Ratliff says. "There are signs that exports are picking up." As a result, the company projects unit sales to be down only 0 to 5% for year 2000.
What's ahead? Ron Hess, vice president of marketing for AGCO brands, projects a 12 to 13% growth in unit sales of tractors and combines, possibly in two to three years. So will AGCO rely on past strategies, such as rapid acquisitions, to get there? Hess responds, "The company will seal activity and grow in strength and distribution. This might involve fewer [dealer] numbers."
He says the company will be more selective in its dealers, increase training and employ higher dealer standards. For example, AGCO is developing rating systems that rate dealers on everything from service, parts and facilities to market share, and then assign incentives based on each dealer's ratings. "For example, if you sell a unit, you may typically get 2%," Hess explains. "But if you are rated higher, your incentive may be 4%."
Hess says parts and after-sales service will be critical to AGCO's continued growth, just as they are in the automotive industry. "If you buy a Lexus, for example, you just expect good service," he says. "With our Fendt tractors, you pay a 20% premium. So we'll step up service and maybe use our Hesston, KS, facility for training."
New products coming Continued product development will also remain key to that growth. The company gave us a sneak peak at these 10 new products scheduled for release this fall and beyond:
New compact tractor models in the AGCO and Massey Ferguson lines will be available this fall. Demand for these under-50-hp tractors is being driven by what the industry refers to as "sundowners" - dual-income couples who live outside of town but who hold jobs in town and farm on a small scale on the evenings and weekends.
A new implement control feature will be added to Fendt tractors. This feature, currently available only in Western Europe, will allow for the control of the implement through the tractor terminal.
The new CVT, currently available only on its Fendt tractor, will be available on other select AGCO tractors as early as 2002 to boost in-field efficiency, productivity and fuel economy.
Fieldstar, AGCO's yield and input application mapping system, will be expanded to sprayers in 2001 and hay products after that.
Currently, this precision farming technology is available only on its combines, tractors and planters.
New row units will be available on large models of 8000 series White planters by spring 2001 and on all of the planters in 2002. The new units will feature more than 20 improvements over the previous 6100 series they replace, according to AGCO's Joe Bozung. These include a repositioned release point on the seed disc to reduce seed bounce at higher speeds and improve planting accuracy; removal of the side sheet metal to make the unit more accessible when changing seed discs; a hopper meter that can be removed with a simple hand adjustment; a new hopper bottom with an increased angle to improve seed flow; and a wider throat to improve flow of big seeds.
A new Willmar sprayer, available this fall, will allow growers to cover more acres in an hour. It features a totally new design, road speeds that are higher than those of any other unit commercially available and a 1,200-gal. tank, which puts it equal to the largest units on the market, according to Daryl Patten, general marketing manager for Willmar Spra-Coupe. "It is designed more for the custom applicator than for farmers, but large farmers would have interest in this, too," Patten says.
The Spra-Coupe sprayer will have a new, wider boom. The boom will span 80 ft. versus the 60 ft. of the previous boom and will be the first one of that size in the 300- to 400-gal. sprayer category, Patten says.
A new Massey Ferguson 7500 articulated loader, identical to the Willmar Wrangler model 4500, will be distributed in the ag market. The loader is designed to load pallets and move chemicals and other materials while offering easier access and better visibility, reach, lift height and clearance than a skid-steer loader. Four bucket sizes will be available.
A precutter option on Hesston big square balers will be in limited production this year and full production next year. The option is designed to shorten the chop to make the crop easier for cows to digest.
AGCO's Gleaner R62, MF 8780 and 8780 XP built for this fall will be powered by a 285-hp Cummins engine to increase productivity.
Dexter Schaible, AGCO's senior vice president of worldwide engineering and product development, is a tough man to reach. He spends 50% of his time in Europe and 50% in the States, overseeing development of all new products produced at any AGCO factory. We were able to snag him for 10 minutes at the company's recent open house and ask what he sees happening in the farm equipment industry in the next 10 years. Here's what he had to say.
AGCO just celebrated its 10-year anniversary as machinery maker and has come out with numerous innovations in that time. What do you see for the next 10 years?
It is getting to be where size of the implements and horsepower are close to being maxed out. I see the future as more electronic. All of our equipment is going to get a whole lot smarter. A key example of that is our new Fendt tractor. Our models in Europe are equipped with a tractor management system that allows the operator to be more efficient because he does not have to determine the capacity of the implement he is pulling. This can be programmed in with the pairing of Fendt's continuously variable transmission [CVT] and its electronically governed engine. This feature will be available in the U.S. in the next two to three years as CVT and electronic engines come together.
What changes do you see coming in combines?
Combines in Europe have electronically governed engines and can be run at the speed of full capacity with a cruise control feature, which monitors the load in the cylinder and varies speed of the combine according to that load as it is going down the field. This feature will be coming to North America as well.
Will combines increase in horsepower?
We're at Class 7 now (300 to 340 hp). There will be a Class 8 (350 to 400 hp). So I believe that combine power will go to around 400 hp in the future, and the rest of the combine will have the capacity to match that horsepower. But the basic concept of the combine won't change. It will still be rotary or conventional.
What other changes will we see in tractors and combines?
In the next five to 10 years, you'll see more features to improve operator comfort. In tractors, these include front suspension and cab suspension. I also think you'll see more tracked-type tractors in the over-300-hp class in our lines. I think you'll see the market for that grow.
Is that because of soil compaction?
Compaction and, more importantly, efficiency to the ground. At 225 PTO hp, we are reaching the limit of a wheel tractor in terms of getting that power to the ground so that it becomes more efficient.
Finally, what changes do you see coming for farm implements?
I do not have a good feel on how implements will change, but I do know that implements will become more efficient when we have smart tractors.


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Opinion: He Wants Your 401(k) Now
Assistant OpinionJournal.com editor Allysia Finley on President Obama's attack on savers.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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