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Child Gender Modeling and Family Instability

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Preface to this article: Since publishing this article I have been accused of agreeing with Mark Regenerus’ conclusions because I did not repudiate all the data in the New Family Structures Study which is the subject of the article. I do not agree with his conclusions. Also I have been accused of looking to find fault in the study where none exists from anti gay people. I therefore feel the need to state even more clearly what I think about this study. I believe that the study raises valid questions that deserve consideration however the study is very inconclusive as to proving whether a committed gay couple can or cannot raise a child. Anyone who wishes to use it to prove that gay couples are unable to raise well-adjusted kids, needs to realize that much of the same-sex data in the study concerns households where there was family instability, trauma from breakup and extra marital affairs. Also the study is totally counter to most other studies on the same subject which immediately calls Professor Mark Regenerus’ conclusions into question.

Because the data set is larger than other studies, weighted with many factors well organized, and due to the fact that after careful review the University of Austin validated the science I am not prepared to invalidate the study simply because it doesn’t conform to PC norms. I can even see where some of the data may be helpful in same-sex parenting for instance in helping to define the role of the donor or surrogate in child rearing. I do however believe that the data is limited, and needs to include more variables and does not take into consideration enough factors concerning stable gay relationships influences on children.  More research must be done about committed stable gay relationships.

Quantum POP will publish more articles concerning studies on childhood development as they appear, including same-sex parenting. I hope to see more studies on all types of stable family units raising children. I personally believe that when more data is gathered from more research we will find that the childhood development that leads to the greatest social adjustment and happiness will be a childhood featuring a stable family core with a foundation where role model diversity is positive, wide and accessible. I personally believe that all things being equal, a stable same-sex family unit, which includes more diverse influences of  role models, hetro, gay, male, female as well as racial, economic and other factors etc are likely to produce better results than a comparable opposite-sex stable family with limited positive diverse role model influences and visa-versa.

But do I know this for sure?  No I do not. What I do know is that rejecting data out of hand only because it is not what I want to believe, will not increase my understanding. I also know a good parent of any kind is always better than a bad one. Also, if we are trying to raise children into loving, caring, tolerant adults then immediately thinking the worst and hating people who have questions and/or lifestyles that threaten our sense of self, may not be good role modeling anyway.

Daniel Taylor

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Once again, scientific data is dragged through the mud of social advocacy and prejudice.

Professor Mark Regnerus’ “New Families Structure Study” does nothing more than confirm what most people instinctively know. Namely that access to and a lack of intimate non sexual (meaning directed at the child) proximity to both sexes during childhood affects overall development as an adult.This should not be controversial on the face of it. Unfortunately the Gay, Lesbian, Bi-sexual, Lesbian (GLBT) advocates of gay child rearing, act as if they wish us to believe otherwise. The differences between the two sexes and the obvious benefit of having as much constructive intimate childhood exposure to both should be as obvious to GLBT, as the fact that homosexuality is a vital part of nature from plants and animals to the human experience should be to everyone in general. If anyone wishes to understand more of the scientific documented differences and current studies concerning the difference between the sexes, then go to this site which does nothing but publish studies of the sexes and have your eyes opened.

http://www.bsd-journal.com/ .

The current news making article last week, published by this site involves the difference between how human male and female eyes see.

Then there is the anti gay crowd who wish to ignore previous studies and lump all their assumptions about the dangers of homosexuality into this study and say it proves something that it does not. Namely that gays aren’t as good at parenting as opposite sex couples. If you are one of those that think that homosexuality is unatural and you are suffering from homosexual atheism check out;

http://www.news-medical.net/news/2006/10/23/20718.aspx .

When both side have finished their assignments then I thank you. Pleasel meet back here and continue reading this article.

The controversy always arises when statistics seem to challenge attempts by one group or another to assign a sociological advantage to differences that occur commonly in nature. Such a set of stats was recently arrived at by the New Families Structure Study. To read this controversial study, please do yourself an educational favor and go to;

http://www.prc.utexas.edu/nfss/people.html

To read Professor  Mark Regnerus’ conclusions you must read  his article here.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0049089X12000610

Quantum POP has concluded that the study may be helpful in decisions for children who are the victims of family structure dissolution. It is not at all conclusive as to the benefits of stable same-sex parent relationships within a personal social network structure. We would define a personal social structure network, as one where the child has some degree of intimate, non sexual access, to adult family and friends for role modeling, according to the parents values and perception of the child’s needs.

The study deals with adults age 18 to 39 who experienced any kind of child rearing outside of the Intact Biological Family (IBF)) model and compares their answers to questions with the answers from participants who grew up in the IBF. Most of the participants who grew up outside of the IBF in this study were victims of family dissolution. They experienced divorce, or extramarital affairs, and other traumatic events which resulted in the breakup of the IBF. But there were some who were not affected so much by the events that led to their non IBF experience, as they occurred before the age of 3. all these were then lumped together and sorted.

So the categories are

IBF (intact bio family) GF (gay father) Adopted by strangers Divorced late (>18) Stepfamily Single-parent All other

The study compares all the categories to each other and finds percentages of behavior that may not be healthy. For instance drinking to get drunk frequently mostly is not healthy. As you might expect the IBF raised adult has the least frequency in this. The most frequency is gay father raised adult children, however those raised by lesbian mother do much and are affected by this only a bit above IBF. It is important to understand that often in this study the gay father or mother did not live in the home after their homosexuality became an issue in the family unit. Therefore the problems experienced by the participants in this study, may have had less to do with their same sex relationship and more to do with the family dissolution itself.

Lesbian Mothers (LM) fare worse than all other non IBF categories in most of the statistics from the study. Frequency of arrest among adults raised by LM’s is one example of this. This appears to be a damning statistic and needs to be considered further without a doubt. So let us consider. Many police when confronted by someone who’s mannerisms and attitude is unfamiliar may ask a lot of questions.The LM’s childhood experience may lead them to equate the amount of questions and attitude of police with harassment due to anti gay attitudes experienced during childhood. They may then cop an attitude. Police do not like attitude and see it as a potential danger. A child from a stable IBF or otherwise stable family may exhibit characteristics more familiar to police. Though they may be just as guilty as LM raised person they may be let go without a search of records or property leading to less arrests.This study cannot consider this variable. Another missing variable in this stat is simply, seriousness of the crime. Are we talking murder, robbery extortion here or are these arrests more like, failure to appear for traffic citation, small amount of marijuana? This makes a big difference.

There are many other variables which we need to consider in these studies, which begs the need for more studies. Realizing that differences in nature are more often than not advantages. Quantum POP would like to see studies of planned families of different types, that remain intact until age 18. We would like to know what the advantages are of exposure to all types of constructive romantic behavior in a stable nurturing environment with regards to human childhood development. There are probably advantages to both homo and hetro influences in the development of happy productive people.The contributions to our culture by same-sex individuals is certainly well documented. The Gay inclusive culture and the contributions of the ancient Greeks and Romans have had a profound effect on our US System of Government.

What we need to do is avoid the paranoid obsession to move on thinking all of the facts on human sexuality already are known to our advantage because as this study indicates, there is much more to discover. It is time to enjoy this social discovery for the sake of the children. Flying on prejudice through a subject like human sexuality, is a little like flying over Yosemite valley and saying we know all about Yosemite. This one thing seems to hold true in life more often than not. Prejudice without science only creates problems. Science is still one of our best tools to solve problems. Unscientifically speaking, the consideration we place in childhood social development, will develop us as a species more than anything else. Children are the life we create for ourselves and leave for the future.

Rust never sleeps: Observations of electron hopping in iron oxide hold consequences for environment and energy

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Benjamin Gilbert, has led a research team to a scientific achievement in the area of energy research.Benjamin Gilbert is a geochemist with Berkeley Lab's Earth Sciences Division and a co-founder of the Berkeley Nanogeoscience Center. The teams research was made possible through advancements in ultrafast pump-probe X-ray spectroscopy.  This multi-institutional team has directly observed electron hopping in iron oxide particles, a phenomenon that holds huge significance for a broad range of environment- and energy-related applications.

Hero Neil Armstrong’s Final Journey into the unknown

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His movie star good looks should have propelled him into the spotlight. But this hero believed anyone on the Apollo team could have been the first on the moon and so shunned his well deserved personal glory, chalking it up to the luck of the draw.

Looking like a character out of 2001 A Space Odyssey we see Neil Armstrong suited up for glory. His attitude was that he wanted to do great things for the US because that is what Americans do, and they do it simply because they can. And because they can do it then morally they should do it.

Somebody had to be the first to walk on the moon he said. It just so happened that his number came up. It was for this reason and his natural humility that he refused to profit personally from his feat, although he got plenty of offers. This is an act of selflessness unheard of and possibly unthinkable in this day and age. No Armstrong astronaut action toys for him. No story books, coffee mugs, posters and designer clothes with his brand name on them as is the normal path of persons who crowd the limelight today.

We have two memorable famous quotes from Mr. Armstrong that almost everyone in America and the world are familiar with. “The Eagle has landed and “One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

The fact that the Eagle landed seems so matter of fact today. Inevitable. Of course the Eagle landed we say. It was all thought out in a clinical scientific fashion like a routine appendectomy. But on that day for several critical minutes, the Eagles success was anything but inevitable. The landing area that was expected to be smooth and Eagle friendly, turned out to be strewn with boulders and there was no visible safe landing area anywhere around.

Then with less than a minutes worth of fuel remaining before the eagle would be forced to crash, the communication with the Eagle which had been spotty as it got closer to the moon’s surface, went suddenly dead.  It was Neil Armstrong, piloting and keeping his cool, that spied an area big enough and close enough for a landing possibility. It had to be there and it had to be at that moment and with only seconds of fuel left, controlling the craft by hand he made the landing that saved the mission and his life and fulfilled a dream.

For years no one knew of how dire and how close to catastrophe that first attempt to land on the moon had been. It was only after the a few years and the Apollo program was finished that the stories came out and I learned how close we were to failure. I wonder if I had been the one in that strange place on that day of reckoning if I would have been able to stay cool and perform as perfectly as Neil Armstrong? I wonder if I had done so would I have been as humble as he?

When it was time to  launch the Eagle from the moon and reunite with the Apollo space craft, there was vast uncertainty at NASA as to whether or not the Eagle engines would fire. Even though it had been test fired on earth over 250 times without a problem, because this was the moon and not earth, because of the lack of oxygen on the moon, there would be only one attempt possible, to fire the engine successfully. There would be no second try. If the engine did not fire the first time there would be no second chance and the astronauts would die there and never return to earth.

A speech had already been prepared for President Nixon  in case the feared failure of the Eagle to launch became true. Fortunately that too went off without a hitch and the courage of all three astronauts was rewarded with overwhelming success.

I believe Neil Armstrong would want to be remembered at his passing as one of the ones who did it because they could, So in his memory, let all of us in the US and the world who aspire to the highest calling of their nature and hold their ability to accomplish all they can dear, give all props and kudos to the men and women of Apollo and NASA whose quality of humanity made a man on the moon a reality.

We are so proud of you Neil Armstrong and all the Apollo team on who’s achievements we ride into the future.

A new dawn for science, God particle found – Tech News – IBNLive

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Geneva: Scientists working at the world’s biggest atom smasher near Geneva have announced the discovery of a new subatomic particle that looks remarkably like the long-sought Higgs boson.

British physicist Peter Higgs arrives for a scientific seminar to deliver the latest update in the search for the Higgs boson at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Meyrin near Geneva, Switzerland. AP Photo/Denis Balibouse, Pool

Sometimes called the “God particle” because its existence is fundamental to the creation of the universe, the hunt for the Higgs involved thousands of scientists from all over the world.

What is the God particle anyway?

School physics teaches that everything is made up of atoms, and inside atoms are electrons, protons and neutrons. They, in turn, are made of quarks and other subatomic particles. Scientists have long puzzled over how these minute building blocks of the universe acquire mass. Without mass, particles wouldn’t hold together and there would be no matter.

Scientists are now slated to keep probing the new particle, Higgs Boson, until they fully understand how it works.

A new dawn for science, God particle found

One theory proposed by British physicist Peter Higgs and teams in Belgium and the United States in the 1960s is that a new particle must be creating a “sticky” field that acts as a drag on other particles. The atom-smashing experiments at CERN, the European Center for Nuclear Research, have now captured a glimpse of what appears to be just such a Higgs-like particle.

Why is this important?

The Higgs is part of many theoretical equations underpinning scientists’ understanding of how the world came into being. If it doesn’t exist, then those theories would need to be fundamentally overhauled. The fact that it apparently does exist means scientists have been on the right track with their theories. But there’s a twist: the measurements seem to diverge slightly from what would be expected under the so-called Standard Model of particle physics. This is exciting for scientists because it opens the possibility to potential new discoveries including a theory known as “super-symmetry” where particles don’t just come in pairs — think matter and anti-matter — but quadruplets, all with slightly different characteristics.

How much did it cost?

CERN’s atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider, alone cost some $10 billion to build and run. This includes the salaries of thousands of scientists and support staff around the world who collaborated on the two experiments that independently pursued the Higgs.

Were there any practical results from the search?

Not directly. But the massive scientific effort that led up to the discovery has paid off in other ways, one of which was the creation of the World Wide Web. CERN scientists developed it to make it easier to exchange information among each other. The vast computing power needed to crunch all of the data produced by the atom smasher has also boosted the development of distributed — or cloud — computing, which is now making its way into mainstream services. Advances in solar energy capture, medical imaging and proton therapy — used in the fight against cancer — have also resulted from the work of particle physicists at CERN and elsewhere.

What’s next?

“This is just the beginning,” says James Gillies, a spokesman for CERN. Scientists will keep probing the new particle until they fully understand how it works. In doing so they hope to understand the 96 per cent of the universe that remains hidden from view. This may result in the discovery of new particles and even hitherto unknown forces of nature.

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This Day in Science History – July 5 – John Northrop

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July 5this the birthday of John Howard Northrop. Northrop was an American biochemist who perfected a method to isolate and crystallize enzymes. This allowed him to examine the chemistry and structure of several enzymes and earned him part of the 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Using these methods, Northrop was first to isolate a bacteriophage or anti-bacterial virus and identify it as a nucleoprotein.Northrop’s research greatly advanced the understanding of the chemical nature of enzymes and proteins. Find out what else occurred on this day in science history.

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Old Battery Gets A High-tech Makeover – Science News

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Redesigned nickel-iron battery gives modern lithium-ion devices a run for their money.

By Devin Powell

 Web edition : Tuesday, June 26th, 2012
A rechargeable battery patented by Thomas Edison more than a century ago is staging a comeback. The nickel-iron battery may yet prove to be a viable power source for electric cars, as the inventor had intended.

Thanks to a redesign, Edison’s battery can now store almost as much energy, gram for gram, as the lithium-ion battery in Nissan’s all-electric car, the Leaf. But the redesigned battery charges faster and promises to be cheaper and safer, researchers report online June 26 in Nature Communications.

“People abandoned this type of battery in the 1970s because there were better batteries at the time,” says Hongjie Dai, a chemist at Stanford University. “We have made the Edison battery interesting again by drastically increasing the ability to charge and discharge it.”

Edison’s original design, patented in 1901, calls for two metal electrodes. A mixture of iron compounds and carbon gives off electricity that flows to a sheet of nickel, discharging the battery. Though hardy, it didn’t usher in the revolution in electric cars that Edison had hoped for. Ultimately it was eclipsed by other technologies, including the lithium-ion battery, that stored and delivered more energy.

To resurrect Edison’s battery, Dai and colleagues reshaped its electrodes at nanometer scales. Instead of simply mixing iron and carbon, the researchers grew iron pellets on top of atom-thick sheets of carbon chicken wire called graphene. Tiny plates of nickel perched atop carbon tubes formed the other electrode.

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HOLISTIC PHONE APP BASED ON CHINESE MEDICINE

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Under the heading of; What is Medicine? comes the story of, Chinese doctors along with research specialist Dong Xu and Digital Biology Laboratory from the University of Missouri, combining good old fashioned Information Technology (IT) computer technology with traditional Chinese medicine to invent a phone app for symptom diagnosis. Tongue diagnosis.

Inventor, Research Specialist, Developer DONG XU

WHO IS DONG XU???

Dong Xu s none other than the Chair, Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Bioinformatics, for the National Center for Soybean Biotechnology. His  group Digital Biology Laboratory worked on the app. Their web site is at http://digbio.missouri.edu/ .

But that’s not all he is he also just happens to be the James C. Dowell Professor and Chair of Computer Science Department, with appointments in the Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center and the Informatics Institute at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1995 and did two-year postdoctoral work at the US National Cancer Institute. He was a Staff Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory until 2003 before joining University of Missouri. He is a member of the Editorial Board for “Current Protein and Peptide Science” and “Applied and Environmental Microbiology”. He is a standing member in the NIH Biodata Management and Analysis Panel.

They say that those who don’t do it, teach it. Dong Xu seems to be chewing gum and walking at the same time pretty well I’d say. Now with his latest Information Technology developement, the tongue diagnosis phone app, getting considerable press he is a Xu in to be a household word in no time. If proven to be accurate over time and consumer use, the medical phone app will probably ignite even more interest in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and other “Holistic” approaches to healing. Where TCM approaches can Ayurvedic medicine be far behind. What kind of IT applications will it bring about?

The Chinese doctors and the team of researchers at the Digital Biology Laboratory at the University of Missouri concentrated on diagnosing Gastritis. They had to program then all of these different data streams into the graphics parameters that would be able to be accurate despite any graphics anomalies between different webcam or camera phone types used in taking the picture of the tongue.,

The different data streams were based on TCM. For instance Data stream 1 will call it;

The stomach which is affected by Gastritis is located near the center left of the patient’s tongue. Particular attention was paid to the data in that part of the tongue and weighted in the overall analysis. The color of the coating of the tongue was also important. Look at the normal tongue. It has no coating. The appearance of coating and the color of it is a way of discerning the quality of energy. The goal of TCM tongue diagnosis is to track the energy or Zheng as it is called to determine emerging trends of health in the body and take correct action to maximise the benefit and head off problems. This is a tongue of healthy Zheng. Call it Data stream 2

Hot Zheng

This is a hot Zheng tongue.

The two main characteristics of the tongue in TCM ZHENG diagnosis are the color and the coating. The color of the patient’s tongue color provides information about his/her health status. For example[ 13] dark red color can indicate inflammation or ulceration, while a white tongue indicates cold attack, mucus deposits, or a weakness in the blood leading to such conditions as anemia [12]. Moreover, a yellow tongue points out a disorder of the liver and gallbladder, and blue or purple implies stagnation of blood circulation and a serious weakening of the part of the digestive system that corresponds to the area of the tongue where the color appears.

Cold ZhengTongue

So all these data streams were analyzed and before you know it the app was begun. Now we hope an app can diagnose a whole range of health issues. We may see apps for specific conditions until this research gets more developed.

If you like discovery, science, art, invention and innovation. If you like pictures of tongues then you probably liked this article. Here is hoping your Zheng a healthy Zheng.

 

 

IF YOUR DREAMS DON’T SCARE YOU THEY AREN’T BIG ENOUGH

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The goal of education in the 21st century must be to develop individuals who are able to create an economy of purpose as well as profit. People with the skill and confidence to replace the impossible with the I’m Possible.

1st Annual Penny Conference by Skillshare

These were the closing remarks of the final speaker at the 1st annual Skillshare Penny Conference, founder of Pencils of Promise Adam Braun The Brain. Or maybe The Heart. Anyway he ought to know about scary big dreams. His dreams might scare a lot of people. He wants to eliminate the barriers to a formal education for approximately  67 million children in our world, who can not even spell their own name. I mean when these kids find out what is going on what are they gonna do then.

Adam Braun

What is scarier however is, he has a plan. And what is more it just might work. It goes like this. $25 educates a child $10,000 builds a classroom. Set up the classrooms in the schools in each community so that they are owned by the people of the community. This begins the process to the end of ignorance.

And what will be taught in these $10,000 classrooms at 25 bucks a kid? This. Find your purpose and develop the skills you need by practicing the skills you learn and apply them to that purpose. When you can do that you can start to dream those scary big dreams with a bit of confidence.

The theme of this years Penny conference was; How will we rebuild education for the 21stcentury, What will it look like. How will we build it together? The conference was sold out at the The Times Center venue located at 242 W 41st St New York, NY 10036

The conference kicked off with an opening overview speech by Skillshare Co-Founder and CEO  Michael Karnjanaprakorn.

Michael Karnjanaprakorn

The idea of the Penny Conference he began is to emulate what were called the Penny universities of 18th cebntury. It seems that in the “Age of Enlightenment” of the 1700′s there was such a thirst for knowledge that people would go to coffee houses, pay a penny and talk to whoever else was there and exchange knowledge and expertise so as to better solve the problems of their communities. Skillshare is a teaching and learning exchange and it has a slogan; . Learn anything from anyone, anywhere.

He went on to explain the underpinnings of Skillshare’s strategy for creating a 21st century learning system to replace todays educational system. First it is important to understand the difference between learning and education. Education is earning degrees and satisfying a curriculum and learning is satisfying curiosity. Curiosity asks how do I do that. Earning an educational degree asks how do I tell the teacher the information they want to hear. Education tries to eliminate mistakes but learning is about making mistakes and then learning how to get it right. Education is a formal school setting but learning can happen anywhere.

In a learning environment, once a thing is learned it can be applied and taught to another and in teaching it the student will begin to teach the teacher through the questions asked and approaches the student will take that may never have occurred to the teacher alone.

On a personal level what is possible at Skillshare? Their top student took 70 classes, (and that is a lot of classes) and paid only $2279 dollars, One of their top teachers made $10,000 teaching 1 course. Now this is only their first year in operation but things are going so well that General Electric will be helping to create a school with them this year.

Tony Wagner

The next speaker Tony Wagner further defined Skillshares goals and strategy for education re invention in the 21st century. He is currently the Co–founder of Change Leadership Group. He is also a fellow at Harvard University so he knows a bit about formal education. His thesis. the education of the past which has given rise to the present education system we have today is based on knowledge scarcity. The idea that information is hard to get and must be formally dispensed by gatekeepers that have it to give. This however is not true in the 21st century. Knowledge is free. We can get information everywhere on the net and learn anything we want to know if we look long and hard enough. Knowledge is being updated many times everyday. Even new elements have been added to the periodic table in the last 4 years. What you learned in school 4 years ago has already been added to and modified.

In order for 21st century education to be effective it must foster these skills abilities.in people. Critical thinking,

collaboration

agility

initiative

curiosity

information gathering and use

entrepreneurship

Another very interesting thing that he said was that when people were surveyed and asked what teacher did they remember that stood out for them and was significant, it turns out that those teachers were not the mainstream teachers but usually the outliers. The ones outside the mainstream of teaching, Those without tenure etc. He also echoed the importance of making mistakes as fundamental to the learning process. saying in effect that mistakes are the hallmark of innovation and invention.Learning in the 21st century must teach how to turn mistakes into knowledge.

For the complete conference speeches go check out the Penny Conference page on Livestream.

More tomorrow on this important conference.

 

Fastest Inventor at the Boat Show Award

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Quantum POP is proud to present our virtual nautical award (The Nautie) for the Los Angeles Boat Show inventor who caught our eye. Actually a family of inventors. Russ, Ron and Chad Hill. We are talking about the Hill family of Hill Marine’s Signature Propellers.

At the Los Angeles Boat Show, famous boat racer Ron Hill told us how he, his father and his son have made life in the fast lane, the stuff of invention.

This is the story of how love along with raw courage and nerve, created perhaps the best marine propeller available. It is about the family that honed that stuff of dreams into a state of the art, present day, marine industry standard

Really?

Yes.! And it’s all true.

Ron Hill began his racing career in 1955 at age 11 and halfway through his first season he was featured on the Mickey Mouse Club newsreel. But his career was no Mickey Mouse affair. He began moving up in the ranks and in class and began winning trophies.

  

Ron and his father who was a house painter by trade, traveled throughout the country during the summer. In the winter they would work on the boats. When they examined the propellers during and after the racing season, they noticed that they wore in certain places. This would cause the loss of thrust. So they began the habit of running a new propeller putting lipstick on it and seeing where the water was causing wear. They would examine it and bend pound and grind it into a better shape.They learned to craft it to conform to the motion of its rotation in the water, in order to maximize the physics of power and speed through the shape and curve of each blades angles individually.

Ron’s propellers, guided by his skill and courage, thrust him into the winners circle throughout his adult years. He raced on TV, ch 5 KTLA, ‘Speedboat Rodeo” for thirtynine weeks in a row out of Marina Del Rey. Early TV pioneer broadcaster Dick Lane was the announcer. http://www.boatracingfacts.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-7853.html

http://www.boatracingfacts.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-1463.htm  

As he was winning races he stayed in the business and began paying for his expenses by making and selling propellers to others. Back then race teams only raced for trophy’s so the money had to come from somewhere. He was also going to college and when he graduated he began a teaching career that lasted 38 years. During that time he stayed in racing, driving till 76, all the while making and selling his propellers at each race. His love and marriage in 69  became a further catalyst for his love of propulsion when his fraternity brothers informed him in no uncertain terms that he needed to do something else with his time besides going out with them to the bars he frequented when he was single. You see I told you this was a love story. As a result his marriage and the propeller business took off. He began working on them in his garage and  selling them at races and boat shows. From this the seed of Signature Propellers was planted.

Ron got out of racing in 1976, but with the following he had gathered with his reputation continued the propeller business, selling them at the races.

Meanwhile, Ron’s son Chad Hill began his racing career at age 9. At age 17 he was the youngest Formula One driver in history, a title that still holds true today.

When Chad wanted to start a propeller business with the sponsor of his boat races to build up some cash flow Ron turned the operation of the business to him. At age 17 he was the youngest Formula One driver in history, a title that still hold today.

When the sponsor was killed in a boat racing accident they decided to get out of the racing business altogether but continue the propeller business.

 In 1995 Chad founded the new Hill company Hill Marine.Com Inc. and began specializing in custom-made high performance propellers for all drive applications Things began to go well. Unfortunately little known to our hero’s, terrorists were afoot and after 9 11 the company went bankrupt. Chad began teaching soon after that and left the profession in June 2011 after 5 years. Propellers and Hill Marine would have become a thing of the past but for the invention of the internet. Yes dear friends. The vastness of the world-wide web was there to rescue our intrepid pioneers. When Ron began to sell off the inventory on ebay, he found much to his amazement that the propellers that he was selling for little over $100 before were now selling for $400 or more in Jamaica and elsewhere. Because of their new-found success, father and son like Ron and his father Russ Hill before him were selling custom propellers. Now they began developing their own manufacturing process to cast their blades. Hill Marine now sells to over a dozen different boat manufacturers. They have built record holding propellers for several classes of boat racing including offshore, inboard, V-drive and outboard tunnel boats

10 years ago they developed the 2 by 4 propeller. 2 props of 4 blades each that rotate in opposite directions. The front prop rotates counter-clockwise and the rear prop rotates clockwise. The front prop delivers the power and the rear propeller delivers the speed. Testing has shown that the Hill propeller delivers 10% more speed than any other propeller in its range with better gas mileage and better. They are selling to over a dozen manufacturers. Recently a large diesel manufacturer approached them to build custom propellers for their motors. Later Volvo and others. They have added distribution recently at the Amsterdam boat show increasing their European position. And the developments just keep on coming. Ron and Chad still go out to Irvine lake to test their designs. Often taking out their boat with a grinder and other tools on board and modifying and adapting their designs to fit the needs of different manufacturers. manufacturers like dealing with them because they can bring a state of the art propeller from concept to productions quickly, often in 6 weeks. Other manufacturers can take over a year and still not be finished.

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Champion Boat Racer Ron Hill

Inferno Designer Sunglasses Creator Justin Noel

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While we were at the LA Boat Show we found a designer who makes some of the best looking men’s and women’s designer sunglasses we’ve seen. Justin’s sunglasses seemlessly weave the needs of an outdoor sport goggle with the style of a fine pair of custom sunglasses, without blinking an eye.

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Polarized lenses that darken in sunlight and turn clear for indoor use. Removable foam inserts, protect eyes from rain and wind. Justin describes them as a helmet for your eyes. When you are out of doors these features come in handy and define what it takes to be custom sport sunglasses. The sturdy light weight frames bend to fit your face and can be adjusted over and over again without breaking.

Inferno’s come with a lifetime guarantee. Scratch the lens and it is only $50 not the usual $100 at other dealers. If you like rugged sports with urban style, these glasses may be the perfect fit. And if you like wholesale designer sunglasses then Justin suggests you come to one of the many trade shows Inferno will be attending this year. To find out where inferno will be next, simply send an email to;

justin@infernousa.com