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In this article, let's take a look at Deere & Company (NYSE:DE), a $31.03 billion market cap company, which is the world's biggest producer of farm equipment, as well as a large maker of construction machinery and lawn and garden equipment with a brand name that has been in the industry for 175 years.
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Deere faces a fierce competition from CNH Global (CNH) and AGCO Corporation (NYSE:AGCO), although none of them have the size of Deere. This giant is immersed in a cyclical industry because of the uncertainty of farming yields and crop prices. But unlike its competitors, the firm enjoys a considerable profitability during market downturns, due to its geographically diversification operations and well-established efficiency.
Deere focuses on hold its leadership position and so makes efforts in the equipment technology. As an example, the company has invested about 4% of its revenue in R&D annually during the past five years, compared with 3% at AGCO and CNH.
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Key areas
The growth in population in countries such as China, India, and Brazil will require more agricultural equipment in order to improve crop yields. As a consequence, the company has launched several new tractor products in Brazil, enjoying a market share growth as well as gains.
Payment History
Since 1937, Deere has a dividend policy showing its commitment to return cash to investors in the form of dividends as it generates healthy cash flow on a regular basis. Although the current dividend yield is not too high, currently at 2.5%, it can improve in the future allowing higher shareholder´s returns.
Revenues, Margins and Profitability
Looking at profitability, revenues dropped by 8.8% and led earnings per share decreased in the most recent quarter compared to the same quarter a year ago ($2.65 vs $2.72). During the past fiscal year, the firm increased its bottom line by earning $9.08 versus $7.64 in the prior year. For the next year, Wall Street expects a contraction of 6.7% in earnings ($8.48 versus $9.08). This is a sign of weakness that should (should not) worry investors.
Finally, let´s compare the best measure of performance for a firm's management: the return on equity. The ROE is useful for comparing the profitability of a company to that of other firms in the same industry.
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Industry Median
The company has a current ROE of 34.46% which is higher than the one exhibited by its peers and the industry median. In general, analysts consider ROE ratios in the 15-20% range as representing attractive levels for investment. It is very important to understand this metric before investing and it is important to look at the trend in ROE over time.
Relative valuation
In terms of valuation, the stock sells at a trailing P/E of 9.3x, trading at a discount compared to an average of 18.4x for the industry. To use another metric, its price-to-book ratio of 2.9x indicates a premium versus the industry average of 1.71x while the price-to-sales ratio of 0.9x is below the industry average of 0.97x.
As we can see in the next chart, the stock price has an upward trend in the five-year period. If you had invested $10.000 five years ago, today you could have $22.673, which represents a 17.8% compound annual growth rate (CAGR).
Final comment
In the upcoming years, this sub-industry will face a strong demand due to an increase of construction projects in emerging markets as well as government stimulus to develop urbanization in countries like China. As a consequence, Deere is investing hard to increase its market share in countries like Brazil where the value of agricultural production is expected to rise.
Moreover, the stock's relative valuation and the return on equity that tremendously exceeds the industry average make me feel bullish on this stock.
Hedge fund gurus like David Dreman (Trades, Portfolio), Steven Cohen (Trades, Portfolio), Scott Black (Trades, Portfolio), John Buckingham (Trades, Portfolio) John Keeley (Trades, Portfolio), Joel Greenblatt (Trades, Portfolio), Jean-Marie Eveillard (Trades, Portfolio) and Francisco Garcia Parames (Trades, Portfolio) added this stock to their portfolios in the first quarter of 2014.
Disclosure: Omar Venerio holds no position in any stocks mentioned


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Prices for Paintings by African American Artists and Their Contemporaries: Does Race Matter? (Revision of Working Paper No. 2006-06)
This paper investigates the extent that economic markets have incorporated mainstream artistic acceptance of African American art. Price levels and movements for paintings by African American artists versus their white contemporaries are compared using auction data from 1972 to 2004. Means in the aggregate as well as individually are found to be significantly lower for African American artists in almost every case. Hedonic regressions are used to refine the statistical analysis by controlling for factors characterizing the painting and auction environment. In the regressions significant differences persist between the two groups with African American artists experiencing lower price levels but higher price appreciation throughout the period. The price gap thus appears to be narrowing indicating a possible convergence of economic reality and artistic appreciation. In addition, the higher investment returns for paintings by African American artists made them a relatively profitable art niche in recent years and possibly for the future since economic values have not completely converged for the two groups.
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Let's face it; insert the word "public" in front of any number of nouns and you end up with something that sounds vaguely substandard, even unpleasant to some ears: public health, public housing, public transit, public pool, public washroom.
You can actually see it – maybe even smell it: peeling turquoise paint, probably containing lead, broken windows, graffiti, smells like bleach and pee.
Bad people who sell drugs can't be far away.
(And before you say it, I am in no way implying anything negative about my full-time employer, the CBC, which, while it is often referred to as "the public broadcaster," I am very proud to work for, and which is not only not substandard, but hardly ever smells like pee.)
Since the Wikipedia blackout was lifted, I have learned that the word "public" comes from the Latin word for "toilet."
Who knew?
I thought it came from "populous," for "the people" – specifically people who share a common interest.
Then there is the word "community," which includes people who not only share a common interest, but interact as a result of that interest. Think commune, communist, communion.
For me, it brings to life visions of cotton-clad hippies in wire-framed glasses scratching their beards and exchanging cleanse recipes. Or middle-aged women who haven't cut their hair in 12 years and yet, strangely, have a cultish affection for Burt's Bees hair products.
So imagine my surprise when I set eyes upon my neighbourhood's new community centre, which opened to the public this week.
Growing up, I learned quickly that community centre meant "place where people with no money go." I have a faint recollection of viewing a tattered 16 mm print of The Ghost and Mrs. Muir at the Sandy Hill Community Centre in Ottawa. I remember little more than the mayhem: the shouts of children in a darkened room, the "shushes" of mothers, the clickety-clack of the rickety old projector. And that we apparently won the door prize: a large box of individually wrapped mini bags of Hostess potato chips, which my parents rationed over several months.
The community centre was the place where pottery met poverty.
Where unwed teenage mothers on welfare congregated to learn how to do the impossible.
Where disaffected young people in faded Adidas T-shirts and tattered wide-leg jeans played Ping-Pong and pool until closing time.
Physically they were unremarkable, squat buildings fashioned of the kind of brown brick that would have made architects of Soviet-era housing projects nod with familiarity.
Emotionally, they should have been full of hope and optimism, given their stated goal. But often sadness and desperation hung in the halls. It was a place for people with no place to go.
My new community centre (mine, because I've already taken ownership) opened this week at Trout Lake. It has taken more than two years to build and has been much anticipated by the community which witnessed the demolition of the squat, brick prototype mentioned above.
My new community centre is vast and beautiful, all curves and asymmetrical lines, carved of concrete, glass and aluminum, with an entrance that practically begs you to come inside.
The interior is airy and open, offering mountain views from many of the rooms, and views of John Hendry Park from others. At night, the lights of Grouse Mountain shimmer in the distance as you exit.
It is the latest in a new wave of grand community centres that have up sprung up across the city.
Four years ago the Sunset Community Centre opened its doors to murmurs of, "This is a community centre?" Bing Thom designed the building; its undulating roof is supposed to mirror the topography of the park in which it is located.
The new Creekside Community Centre, a 2010 legacy project on the former Olympic Village site, may not be quite as architecturally stunning, but it is a LEED platinum building, and it's hard to beat the location.
The Hillcrest Aquatic Centre, also leveraged out of hosting the Olympics (though not cheaply), is attracting visitors from across the Lower Mainland. Not a surprise: It is spectacular.
You can argue that priority has been granted to centres that grabbed Olympic money the fastest, or that politics has somehow influenced how quickly certain community centres will make it to the capital plan.
You can be cynical about a lot of things in this city, but walk through the doors of one of the new facilities, and some of that cynicism will surely melt away.
Are a handful of pretty community centres enough to redeem the idea of "public," so that the word no longer conjures up visions of the substandard? It's a start.
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MOVIE SYNOPSIS [ General Audiences ] Under the unique direction of Rob Underhill, this full movie with audio in English (original language) was premiered in 2014. This movie, whose libretto belongs to Rob Underhill, Al Julian and Paul Julian, is an original production of USA. You can watch Fever Dreams online on TV cable or theaters with original audio in English at different dates. This film premiered in theaters in 2014.
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Drama, Terror, Thriller.
62-minute film (full movie) directed by Rob Underhill.
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Screenplay written by Rob Underhill, Al Julian and Paul Julian.
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Democrats are now running neck and neck with Republicans on the generic ballot for this November's midterm elections, according to a George Washington University battleground poll released Tuesday.
Forty-three percent said they'd vote for a Republican, 43 percent for a Democrat, and 14 percent were undecided, the poll found.
Republican pollster Ed Goeas and Democratic pollster Celinda Lake released their survey at a breakfast hosted by The Christian Science Monitor.
"This race could be very, very competitive," Goeas said, but added, "I view this data giving the edge even more to Republicans."
Among people who say they're extremely likely to vote, Republicans had a 5-percentage-point advantage.
"The biggest challenge for the Democrats is turnout," Lake warned, calling it "really dramatic this time."
The pollsters pointed to the recent special election in Florida's 13th Congressional District. Voters elected Republican candidate David Jolly by a few percentage points in a highly competitive race against Democrat Alex Sink.
"Both parties are universally despised," Lake said. "The best thing the Republicans have going for them is how much the Democrats are hated. The best thing the Democrats have going for them is how much the Republicans are hated."
The difference between the two parties, she said, is that Democrats are united and happy with President Obama, and Republicans are much more divided.
Democrats have the edge on several crucial issues, according to the survey. Forty-three percent said they believed Democrats solve the nation's problems better than Republicans, compared to 35 percent who gave the edge to Republicans. The poll found Democrats did better than Republicans on standing up for the middle class, and championing Social Security and Medicare.
Republicans, by contrast, had the advantage on fiscal issues. Nearly half of the public said the GOP could deal with the economy, federal budget and taxes better than Democrats, the poll suggests.
"It's a tale of two cities," Lake said. "The challenge for the Democrats, I think … is [they] need to articulate a strong economic agenda."
A number of other key factors, however, could hurt Democrats' chances, including ObamaCare, the influence of the Koch brothers and Obama's low approval ratings.
ObamaCare will be an important factor in the midterms, the pollsters said. Their survey found 53 percent of the public opposed the healthcare law compared to 43 percent who favored it.
Messaging about the billionaires Charles and David Koch has also not helped the Democrats, the poll found. Fifty-two percent said they had never heard of the brothers, who largely donate to conservative groups.
Obama also received a 44 percent approval rating in the survey, compared to 53 percent who disapproved of his job as president.
"Democratic candidates will be facing the wrath of voters over the policy stumbles of the Obama administration, but they will not enjoy the advantages of having a presidential turnout operation to aid their campaigns," Goeas wrote in his analysis of the poll.
Lake, meanwhile, said "the untold story" about this year's elections, compared to 2010, is that moderate Republicans aren't getting knocked off in their primaries by Tea Party types.
Tying the legalization of marijuana possession to voters' ballots could also have an effect on turnout, the pollsters found. Seventy-three percent approved of legalizing medical marijuana and 52 percent approved of decriminalizing possession of the drug.
Thirty-nine percent said they would be more likely to turn out to the polls if a proposal to legalize pot wound up on ballots, the survey indicated.
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Boerne ISD cage teams in thick of districts' playoff mix
Published 5:03 pm, Tuesday, January 14, 2014
The Boerne High School boys and girls varsity basketball teams both held down first-place in District 27-3A heading into the week, while the Boerne Champion boys and girls cage teams remained in the thick of the playoff mix in 27-4A.
The Boerne High boys extended their league winning streak to 41 games with last Friday's 56-44 district-opening victory at Bandera. Earlier this season, the Greyhounds had to overcome a 10-point, fourth-quarter deficit to pull out a one-point overtime win over the Bulldogs at the Hondo Tournament.
This time, the Hounds found themselves trailing by 10-points at halftime with their district winning streak squarely on the line. Whatever BHS head coach Kimble McHone said during intermission seemed to light a fire under his rebuilding team.
The Hounds took the lead with a 20-9 third-period run and out-scored Bandera 20-12 over the final eight minutes. Senior forward Jake Moore led Boerne with 20 points. The Hounds played at Canyon Lake on Tuesday and will entertain Navarro tomorrow night.
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The Boerne High School girls basketball team (17-7, 3-0) partially avenged last season's only district loss with a 50-42 victory at Fredericksburg last Tuesday. All-state forward and two-time district MVP Avery Queen left the game early in the second quarter with an injured ankle after scoring 9 points in the first period. Senior guard Devon Branch helped make up for Queen's absence with 16 points and 11 rebounds.
"Finishing there without Avery for almost three quarters shows how good the rest of the team is," BHS head coach Amy Ruede said.
Queen did not play in Boerne's 50-45, home court victory over Bandera on Friday. Queen's injury is not believed to be serious.
The Champion boys and girls basketball teams both lost third-place showdowns with Buda Hays last week, but bounced back with wins over Seguin that kept both CHS teams firmly in possession of their leagues' fourth and final playoff seeds.
Senior forward Jake Moore led the Charger boys (15-5, 3-2) with 20 points in the 45-33 loss to Hays. The Chargers played first-place Alamo Heights on Tuesday and will host Kyle Lehman tomorrow night.
Senior guard Amanda Willoughby led Champion with 9 points in the Lady Chargers' 46-36 loss to Hays and set the pace again with 13 points in Champion's 36-26 win at Seguin.
The Boerne Champion boys and Boerne High School girls soccer teams are both off to winning regular season starts, while the Champion girls were still looking for their first win of the season heading into the week. The Boerne High boys played their first regular season game on Tuesday against visiting MacArthur.
The Charger boys went 2-1 at the New Braunfels Tournament, opening with a 1-0 win over Corpus Christi Ray, dropping a 1-0 decision to Smithson Valley and finishing with a 3-2 win over Taft.
Both the Chargers and Greyhounds are at home today to begin co-hosting the annual Hill Country Shootout tournament at Boerne ISD Stadium. Tournament play continues through Saturday.
The BHS girls soccer team went 2-1 at last weekend's Northside Tournament. The Lady Greyhounds fell 4-2 to Roosevelt in the first match, but returned with a 4-2 win over Brennan and a 3-1 victory over Southwest. The Boerne girls play Medina Valley tomorrow morning in the first round of the SAISD Tournament.
The Boerne Champion girls went 0-3 at last weekend's Northside Tournament; falling 3-2 to Taft; 2-0 to Humble Atascocita and 5-1 to Churchill.
The Lady Chargers are to play today in the North East Tournament with an early afternoon match against Laredo United at Comalander Stadium.


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The Travel Issue
A few days ago, having just returned from a tiny Indonesian island far off the beaten track, Adam Blakey sent me this e-mail:
Pharmecuticals Joelo, man made pills mate. Those f–king guys you sent me away with are walking f–king chemists and thank f–k they are too cause we damn near went to hell and back on that little journey – Hump is at the doctors right now getting a giant cratered secondary infection in his leg tended too (he almost died, not really but you should see this dripping hole dude, you could fit a baseball in it), I almost snapped my foot off and spent the three best days of waves sitting on the beach covered in flies, flies everywhere, more flies FAAAARRRRRKK!> So anyway now we're all addicted to Beetle Nut and after 30 hours in torrential rain in howling onshore wind on a 20 foot tin cup with no shelter going three knots an hour I'll pretty much stick any pill you can spare into any hole that isn't already crammed full of em. In otherwords, a truly sick trip. Feral as can be and a ripping story to back it up. I'm flying back to Oz tomorrow so give me at least 48 to finish it up with the New Guinea piece and get em over to you. (…) Those guys Travis Brett and Timmy are awesome and even though I was one Aussie stranded with four seppos on a rock with no beer, no music, no women and no where to even do a shit without half the village coming out to watch – I survived. I love you mate, we gotta get these things going on more often. Blako XX
We sent Adam to tag along with American surf hobos Timmy and Ryan Turner, Travis Potter, and photographer Dustin Humphrey–a close-knit group of guys from Huntington Beach, California who now spend as much of their time as possible in Indo–on a voyage into the abyss. Adam's companions have a reputation for being travelers who place little or no value on luxury, and who instead pride themselves on how few frills they can endure. The group is more interested in discovery, one of the key components to surf travel, and anyone who's ever gone searching remote corners of the world for things no one's ever seen can tell you that there's never a Four Seasons close by. The road to discovery is never paved, always treacherous, and typically worth every case of amoebic dysentery picked up on the way.
This issue, like the lives of professional surfers and surf journalists, is about travel. But it's not about safe, packaged vacations to surfing's meccas as much as it's about sketchy taxi rides, forged travel visas, and first-surfs. It's a look at the past and present of surf adventure, and our hope is that with a little inspiration you will become part of its future.
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Back in the day, Janet Goldman was an honest-to-goodness flying superhero, the far out Go-Go Girl. But Go-Go Girl eventually hung up her costume - well, put it away in a dresser drawer - and now her teenage daughter, Lindsay, has inherited Mom's flying powers, donned her old costume, and become the teenage superheroine sensation Go Girl! Now she's fighting crime and righting wrongs...with an occasional leg up from the now semi-retired Go-Go Girl. Pouring the classic charm of comics of the past through a subtle modernist filter, series creator/writer Trina Robbins and artist Anne Timmons have crafted an all-ages delight, garnering critical praise and a coveted Lulu Award. The GoGirl! collection includes pinups by Barb Rausch, Steve Leiber, Lea Hernandez, Sergio Aragones, and others and bonus features, including material never before seen in the GoGirl! series.
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PENTICTON -- Canada Customs got lucky last week when an officer spotted what appeared to be invasive mussel species attached to a boat crossing the Osoyoos border headed for Lake Okanagan.
Legally, customs officers have no authority to hold travellers back from crossing the border if their watercraft is infested with mussels. They got lucky when the driver agreed to pull over for further inspection and wait for conservation officers to arrive and complete a full decontamination procedure.
A customs officer familiar with the Don't Move A Mussel campaign recognized the mussel attached to the boat and had the driver pull over for further inspection. The officer notified B.C. Conservation Officer services who confirmed the suspicion and took action.
The invasive species has not been found in B.C. waters before, but since border officers have no legal authority to stop infested watercraft, uncooperative drivers can drive into the province and risk contamination of waters.
The Okanagan Basin Water Board, who issued a press release yesterday about the incident, estimate the species would cost $40 million a year in damage to ecosystems across the province if they were to invade.
Coincidentally, B.C.'s Legislative Assembly was discussing proposed mussel legislation the day before Canada Customs stopped a boat from coming across the Osoyoos border.
There is currently no federal legislation that says customs and border officers have to inspect watercraft for live or dead mussels before they cross the U.S. border into Canada. However, the Water Board has been urging federal authorities to set regulation in place since 2011. The federal government is also sitting on legislation that would require inspection stations at the Canada/U.S. border.
B.C. Legislature is in the process of drafting an early detection response plan that will be complete this spring. They are also working on other initiatives to ensure awareness and education so that there are no oversights by the public or concerning officers.
Invasive mussels pose a threat to hydro, freshwater ecosystems, fisheries, and agriculture irrigation and other water sources, among others.
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Artist Paul H. Paulino, with experience in look dev on films such as Independence Day: Resurgence and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, writes about his journey into the world of visual art in this amazing, must read article!
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In order to draw believable subjects I had to spend a good amount of time collecting references and doing research for each theme. When I did that I began expanding my visual library and creativity skills without even noticing it. I studied a variety of patterns, forms, and colors that I had never noticed before.
In other words, I could say that I finally learned to see and leave preconceptions behind. Instead of imagining how a bird looks in real life, I was able to do research and understand it. And that doesn't mean having a perfectly rendered drawing. If you can capture the essence of the subject with a quick sketch, you already learned a lot. It's all about visual communication."
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Masters of Sports Management Programs near Buffalo
A Masters in Sports Management degree may be a great academic graduate program for students who wish to combine their passion for sports with a solid education in business administration. If you aspire to a career in a sports-related field, completing and excelling in a sport management degree program may give you an edge in the competitive sports industry. Masters in Sports Management programs train professionals in different sectors of the sport's industry by teaching specific management skills. One can also use a masters in Sports management degree as a springboard to further doctoral level management degrees.
Essentially, sports management, or sports administration, is the business of sports. Sports management as an industry is concerned with the operation and organization of enterprises focused on generating revenue from athletic competition or events. A masters in sports management degree program helps students learn techniques for handling public relations, negotiating contracts and formulating long-term business strategies by zooming in on topics and issues related to running sports-based business.
Students should be aware that there are a variety of different degrees to pursue, whether a master of arts, master of science or masters of business administration. These may all have differing courses and formats. Generally, a masters in sports management degree involves the study of business administration related subjects in marketing, accounting and organizational behavior. Sports managers represent athletes, as well as promote sports events and spectator sports.
Admission to a masters in sports management program requires that applicants possess a bachelor's degree, preferably in a related field, like marketing, finance or business administration. Some sports management graduate programs have students submit scores from the Graduate Record Examination (GRE).
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If there is one thing that I have found a bit annoying early in this caucus season, it's the countless lists of "must have" Iowa operatives and politicos that numerous local and national journalists have put together. These lists are only as good and diverse as the reporter's sources. Many times, it's obvious that a reporter talked to just a couple of the "usual suspects" in generating their list of Iowa "must haves."
The other problem with most of these lists is that they treat an activist the same way as they treat a hired gun. Earlier this week, Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post provided the latest Iowa list when he created his "Top six free agent Iowa GOP operatives in 2012" list. Cillizza's list was confined to just operatives, so that's a good start, but there is a big difference in what someone like Marlys Popma brings to a campaign and what Doug Gross provides.
Popma, who has been involved in and run a number of caucus campaigns, would likely run the day-to-day operation of a caucus campaign. Gross, on the other hand, has no interest in helping a field staffer to do their job, make sure a certain amount of phone calls are made, or recruit precinct leaders. Gross cares about shaping campaign strategy and can be used to make inroads with the media. The two are sought after operatives, but they don't belong on the same list.
Another good example from Cillizza's list that illustrates this point is Nicole Schlinger. I worked for Schlinger for seven years and understand what she brings to a campaign. Her company, which now has a greater focus on telemarketing than when I worked there, can help a campaign with their voter contact program. She is also equipped to organize campaign event and turn people out.
Schlinger provides a unique service to the candidate who secures her services, but just because she's on someone's team doesn't mean she can deliver votes on caucus night. Schlinger, who was paid tens-of-thousands dollars a month by Romney and helped her candidate win the Iowa Straw Poll, but she couldn't get Romney a victory in her home county or even in her own precinct when the caucuses rolled around. Huckabee beat Romney 42 percent to 20% in Poweshiek County, those results mirrors what happened in Schlinger's own precinct despite her dozens of employees and volunteers being encouraged to caucus for Romney.
With so much interest in all of these lists, I thought it was time for TheIowaRepublican.com to generate one of our own. Ours is a bit different. Instead of lumping everyone together, we will break down the top ten people in different categories over the next few days. The following are the categories we have selected.
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Iowa Campaign Managers:
These are the people who run the day-to-day campaign operations, develop an Iowa strategy, teach campaign staff, and often times speak on behalf of the campaign and candidate to the Iowa media. A good campaign manager understands the intricacies of the caucus process and Iowa politics.
The untold story of the 2012 caucuses in Iowa is that Iowa is experiencing a significant brain drain when it comes to political talent. With a Republican occupying the governor's office for the first time in twelve years, a lot of the state's Republican talent now works in state government.
For instance, Jeff Boeyink, who managed Branstad's 2010 campaign, is now his Chief of Staff. Chad Olsen, who ran the RNC's successful Iowa Victory operation, is the executive director of the Republican Party of Iowa. Those two names would have been at the top of some candidate's lists. So, too, would have been Matt Strawn's name if he hadn't taken on another term as state party chair.
Below is our list of potential Iowa Caucus Campaign Managers
Gentry Collins: Collins has served as the Executive Director of the Republican Party of Iowa, campaign manager for two statewide campaigns (Doug Gross and Mitt Romney), and has served stints in leadership roles at the Republican Governors Association, Republican National Committee, and McCain's 2008 general election campaign. Running an Iowa campaign probably isn't on Collins' to-do list since he's been involved at the national level, but since he took the role four years ago with Romney, it would be a mistake to leave him off the list.
Chuck Laudner: Laudner was the campaign manager for Iowa for Freedom, the campaign which took a lead roll in ousting three Iowa Supreme Court Justices in last fall's retention elections. Laudner didn't need that campaign to prove his conservative credentials. For years, he has been Congressman Steve King's right-hand man, where he has been involved in King's campaigns and also served as his Chief of Staff. Laudner also was the Executive Director of the Republican Party of Iowa during the last caucus cycle. Laudner might be the best conservative organizer in the state. The only question is whether or not there is a candidate that interests him.
Eric Woolson: Woolson is now off the market as he has signed on with Tim Pawlenty's campaign. Woolson has been a fixture in Iowa politics for years and has worked his share of caucus campaigns. Most recently, he served as Mike Huckabee's 2008 campaign manager. His strength is communications, but Woolson proved in 2008 that he was able to do more than just deal with the media.
Marlys Popma: If you want to know the ins and outs of the caucuses, Popma would be a good person to talk to. She is one of the rare people who gets excited about teaching people how the caucuses work. When the Republican Party of Iowa put together a caucus training video in 2007, Popma was there lending a hand. In the last few cycles, she has worked for Jim Nussle's 2006 gubernatorial campaign and then John McCain in 2008. Those are two establishment candidates who were also perceived as being the frontrunner in those election cycles. Popma has worked numerous caucus campaigns, including managing Gary Bauer's 2000 caucus campaign. She has also led the Republican Party of Iowa's caucus to convention process as well as serving as its executive director.
Bob Haus: Having worked for Phil Gramm, Steve Forbes, and Fred Thompson, Haus is a caucus veteran. In 2007, he didn't sign on with a candidate until he joined Fred Thompson's effort that fall. That campaign ended up not being much to write home about, but that's more of a story about a missed opportunity than the error on the part of the people who worked on his campaign.
In recent years, Haus has become more of a local media consultant having produced TV and radio ads for Miller-Meeks in 2008, and Rob Gettemy and Steve King in 2010. Last cycle he also took an active roll in Brad Zaun's congressional campaign. Since the last caucus cycle, he's done work in three of the state's five congressional districts, which means he has a good grasp on Iowa politics.
Matt Gronewald: While he has not managed a caucus campaign, he does deserve a mention because he's worked on a caucus campaign before (McCain 2008), and he is also the guy who led the Iowa House campaign effort for the past two cycles. With Republicans gaining control of the Iowa House after picking up 16 seats, Gronewald has a handle on who some of the good, young staffers are, and even more importantly, he has existing relationships with a lot of new legislators.
Drew Ivers: Ivers has been involved in Iowa politics for a long time. Ivers, who managed Ron Paul's Iowa caucus campaign in 2008, has continued his reemergence into party politics by becoming a member of the Republican Party of Iowa's Central Committee and the head of the Campaign for Liberty group here in Iowa. In 2008, Paul's Iowa caucus campaign was thrown together on the fly. Even so, Ivers knew what he was doing, and he just needed more time. This time around, Ivers will not have to fight the clock.
Bill Salier: Many Iowa conservatives still have fond memories of Salier's 2002 U.S. Senate primary campaign. Salier proved to be an exceptional campaigner, and if he had run in the current political climate, there is no doubt he would have been the Republican nominee. The problem with Salier is that his political involvement is very erratic. Until he led Tom Tancredo's campaign in Iowa, Salier was on nobody's radar except for collecting petitions on the gay marriage issue. He proved to be a good surrogate for Tancredo, but it's still to be seen whether or not he can be a grassroots organizer. Yet, paired with the right candidate, Salier could give someone a big boost.
Christopher Rants: As proof that there is a brain-drain in Republican politics in Iowa, I had to get a bit creative to get to ten names. I have no idea if Rants would even consider running a caucus campaign, but if he did, it would turn some heads. Rants understands the good and the bad of Iowa politics better than most. During his gubernatorial campaign, Rants proved that he wasn't afraid to take shots at his opponent when the opportunity presented itself. That is a necessary trait to have in politics, and Rants has it in spades. It doesn't take much of an imagination to see Rants pulling the strings in Iowa for a candidate like Mitch Daniels or someone who will make policy the foundation of their campaign.
The Unknown: In every caucus cycle, someone who nobody expected to run a statewide campaign emerges and impresses people. In 2008, it was a guy like Ivers who was not on anybody's radar in 2007. Even Eric Woolson wasn't considered to be a campaign manager when he signed on to Huckabee's campaign; he was just a press guy. Then, the proved everyone wrong. It's also always possible that some candidates will bring in talent from other states, while other talent may emerge before our very eyes.
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For the first 10 years of her life, Lily Casey Smith, the narrator of this "true-life novel" by her granddaughter, Walls, lived in a dirt dugout in west Texas. Walls, whose megaselling memoir, The Glass Castle, recalled her own upbringing, writes in what she recalls as Lily's plainspoken voice, whose recital provides plenty of drama and suspense as she ricochets from one challenge to another. Having been educated in fits and starts because of her parents' penury, Lily becomes a teacher at age 15 in a remote frontier town she reaches after a solo 28-day ride. Marriage to a bigamist almost saps her spirit, but later she weds a rancher with whom she shares two children and a strain of plucky resilience. (They sell bootleg liquor during Prohibition, hiding the bottles under a baby's crib.) Lily is a spirited heroine, fiercely outspoken against hypocrisy and prejudice, a rodeo rider and fearless breaker of horses, and a ruthless poker player. Assailed by flash floods, tornados and droughts, Lily never gets far from hardscrabble drudgery in several states—New Mexico, Arizona, Illinois—but hers is one of those heartwarming stories about indomitable women that will always find an audience. (Oct.)
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In her riveting memoir about her hardscrabble childhood, The Glass Castle (2005), Jeannette Walls described being severely burned while boiling hot dogs when she was three years old.
"I used to think being burned was my earliest memory," Walls says during a call to the home she shares with her husband, writer John Taylor, in Culpepper, Virginia. "But I also remember going to a cafeteria with [my grandmother] Lily and her standing up, pointing to me, and shouting to the entire place: SHE'S ONLY TWO YEARS OLD AND SHE'S DRINKING FROM A STRAW! SHE'S A GENIUS!"
The loud, irrepressible and ever-resourceful Lily Casey Smith, who in later years took pleasure in brandishing both her "choppers" and her pearl-handled pistol in the air, is the subject of Wall's captivating new "true-life novel," Half Broke Horses.
Lily grew up in the vast, still-unpopulated reaches of the Southwest. As a child she helped her rancher father break horses. In her teens, she left home to become an itinerant schoolteacher, riding 500 miles to her first job on horseback. She later lived for a while in Chicago, where she worked as a housekeeper for a wealthy family and was seduced and wedded by a bigamist. Chastened, she returned to the Southwest and married Big Jim Smith, and together they managed a spacious ranch in Arizona. Hers is a story that evokes an American way of life that no longer exists. Lily died when Walls was only eight but her she left an indelible imprint on her granddaughter.
"She was a leathery woman and she would just pick you up and toss you in the air. She'd always yell. She'd enter a room and say HERE I AM! She loved to dance. Every time we'd go someplace where there was music, she'd just grab some guy from his seat and start dancing with him. She was always driving us around in this great big station wagon. She thought she was a brilliant driver but she was really quite reckless. There were always cars sort of crashing and screeching around us. But for all her sort of wild recklessness, she was very orderly," Walls remembers.
"She had all these rules and was very bossy. My mother and she would clash very badly. My father and she would clash even worse. When I was growing up, my mother told me on a regular basis that I was just like her mother, and I don't think she meant that as a compliment. Lily glommed onto me at an early age. She sensed a kindred spirit. She was a lot tougher and ballsier than I ever was, but I do think we're similar in a lot of ways."
Among the obvious similarities are Walls' own loud, embracing laughter, a gift for storytelling and the sort of indomitable spirit that enabled Walls to overcome the dysfunctional childhood she describes in The Glass Castle.
These similarities explain why Walls found it so easy to slip into Lily's unusual voice in Half Broke Horses. "I remember Lily so vividly," Walls says. "I found it was much easier when I wrote in her voice than when I wrote in third person trying to capture her voice. When I was writing in the third person about Lily, I was just writing in my own voice." As she explains in an author's note in the book, Walls' decision to tell this story in her grandmother's distinctive voice rather than as an objective historian is one of the reasons she decided to call her book a "true-life novel."
"I'll bet most people in America have similar ancestors," Walls says. "The details might be different but the overall story is the same—some tough old broad or tough old coot who came to this country and did what had to be done to survive. I think most people are tougher than we realize and that we have this inner strength and resilience that we're not aware of. One of the ways to get in touch with that is to look at our ancestors."
But for Walls, writing Half Broke Horses was also as least as much about gaining an understanding of her own difficult, free-spirited mother, Rose Mary Smith Walls, as getting in touch with her ancestors. "When I was on book tour," she remembers, "readers of The Glass Castle would often ask me why, with a college education, my mother would choose the life she did. At the time I didn't know the answer. But writing about your parents and your ancestors is like going into intensive therapy. You really get at the roots. I now see that the time when she was growing up on the ranch without electricity and running water was the idyllic time of my mother's life. She's always tried to recreate it, the wildness and lack of discipline. Her life is very much a search for that freedom she had as a child."
Now at age 75, Rose Mary is living in a mobile home a hundred yards away from her daughter and son-in-law, surrounded by the menagerie of rescued dogs, feral cats and horses her daughter and son-in-law have collected since abandoning a tony life in New York City for a semi-rural one in northern Virginia. Rose Mary's vivid stories of her childhood and about her parents' lives in the Southwest 50-some years ago helped define her daughter's new book.
In fact, Walls interviewed her mother extensively for Half Broke Horses. She says with deep satisfaction, "My mom gave me these stories without reservations." And, she adds, "She is not a normal mom, whatever the heck that means. But she's a fascinating woman and she's given me a great deal of joy."
Among the most moving stories Rose Mary shared "so passionately and tenderly" with her daughter was the story of half-broke horses, the wild horses captured on the range that were only half broken by her father's ranch hands. "Hearing her describe their plight and the love and affinity she had with these creatures that don't belong anywhere really struck me," Walls says. "Mom really does see herself that way, as a creature who is a little too wild for civilization but broke enough, civilized enough, that she can't survive in the wild."
Reflecting on the experiences of her grandmother and mother, Walls says, "It's a bit of an anachronism, but there's a lot to be said for the tough pioneer spirit and the untamed wilderness. I think it's important that we don't forget our roots. And our own half-brokeness."
Half Broke Horses is Walls' evocation of that American legacy.
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