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Colonel Louis H. Jordan, Jr., is the Deputy Director of the Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, Carlisle, PA. His assignments include Flight Operations Officer, Company Executive Officer, Asst S3 Air, Asst S3 and Brigade Adjutant in the 42d Infantry (RAINBOW) Division New York Army National Guard. He served as Battalion S3 for 3-140 Aviation (CH-47D), 66th Aviation Brigade, I Corps in Stockton, California. Colonel Jordan has served at the National Guard Bureau as Deputy Division Chief for the Aviation and Safety Division. After serving at the national level, Colonel Jordan commanded the Aviation Support Battalion, Western Army National Guard Aviation Training Site in Marana, Arizona. In 2005, he was selected to be the Brigade Commander for the Western ARNG Aviation Training Site. In 2008, he was selected to command Joint Task Force Raven, the aviation task force for Operation Jump Start along the southwest border in Arizona. Colonel Jordan holds a B.A. in sociology from Fordham University, a master's in strategic studies from the U.S. Army War College, and certification in Strategic Planning from the American Management Association.
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Cyber Infrastructure Protection: Vol. II
May 03, 2013
Edited by Dr. Tarek N. Saadawi, COL Louis H. Jordan, Jr, Dr. Vincent Boudreau.
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This book is a follow-on to our earlier book published in 2011 and represents a detailed look at various aspects of cyber security. The chapters herein provide an integrated framework and a comprehensive view of the various forms of cyber infrastructure protection.
Arms Control and European Security
August 10, 2012
Edited by Dr. Stephen J. Blank, COL Louis H. Jordan, Jr.
Is the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe Treaty dead, or waiting to be reborn? These three papers from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Russia illuminate the complexities and dilemmas facing any attempt to raise the vexed issue of conventional arms control in Europe.
Cyber Infrastructure Protection
May 09, 2011
Edited by Dr. Tarek N. Saadawi, COL Louis H. Jordan, Jr.
This book answers several essential questions: What is cyberpower; how do we deal with emerging threats in cyberspace; what are the lessons that have already been learned; and where are the current cyberspace vulnerabilities?
SSI articles, editorial, and briefs by COL Louis H. Jordan, Jr
Op-Ed: Thinking Inside A New Box: The Coming of the New Age of Mutualism; The End of Another
February 11, 2013
Op-Ed: Where Do We Go From Here?1
May 03, 2012
Op-Ed: Zen and the Art of Social Selfishness
March 04, 2012
Colloquium Brief: Cyber Infrastructure Protection
December 19, 2011
Predictions, Observations, and the Free Lunch
January 10, 2011
Counternarcotics Operations in Afghanistan: The COIN of the Realm
April 06, 2010
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Wednesday, May 19, 2010
The Great Divide?
You know, the team predicted by most to finish in the basement of the AL East? Behind the Orioles? The Baltimore Orioles? It's still early to predict - yet having passed the quarter-pole, not unreasonably early - but I think it's safe to say this team will exceed expectations. Let's face it - it's a fun team to watch. Exciting young arms. An offense that relies on the long ball. A manager we all love to hate (OK....not as much fun). It seems to be a good group, and you can sense a camaraderie within the dugout.
And yet, an all too familiar phenomenon is occurring once again down at the 'dome. The fans have turned on one of their own, and it's not sitting well with The Player (h/t Ricciardi) or his teammates.
And why should it? Lyle Overbay has been on the receiving end of vitriol not seen since the '09 version of Vernon Wells. You all remember '09 Wells, don't you? The cat on the $20M contract (the nerve!)? The dude who fished for sliders down and away and seemingly enjoyed popping up a good fastball? "GODDAMNIT!" That Vernon Wells? Remember him?
If you're confused, it 's the same Vernon Wells who was among the team leaders in most offensive categories for the better part of a decade before '09, and has re-emerged as such this season. The same Vernon Wells who will hold most of the Jays major all-time offensive records given another season or two in uniform. And yet, the combination of awful season and untradeable contract left the fans calling for blood. It was hard to watch, man. And while I understood the sentiment - I did watch about 150 games last season, y'know - I could never understand the hostility. While I can't track down the exact quote (but I swear I'm not making this up), I recall a line from Wells that left me uneasy: "I can forgive, but I won't forget". Or something along those lines. Stone cold.
And here we are again. This time, Lyle Overbay feels the wrath. Perhaps on a smaller scale (have you seen the crowds? Heyo!), but on the receiving end nonetheless. And Lyle is none too happy about it:
Overbay, jeered after making two errors on the same play in Monday's 8-3 loss, silenced his critics by driving in three runs, including an RBI double in the first. The game drew 27,981, Toronto's biggest crowd since opening day.
Overbay refused to answer questions when approached after the game.
"I'll make it easy on you guys," he told a media crowd waiting at his locker. "No comment."
Evidently, neither are his teammates:
"I've been there and done that," Well said of being booed. "For me to go through it is completely different than watching someone else go through it. I can deal with it. It's tough for me to watch someone else go through it, but he's handled it well and he's going to come out of it a better person. I know I did. You learn a lot from your struggles. But like I said, it would be nice to come in here and have it feel like a home park and be supportive, no matter what," Wells said.
Lest you think I'm just a total shill for the players - I'll repeat: I understand the sentiment. I really do. Overbay has had an awful 2 months to start the season, just as Wells was awful for most of 2009. Fans are clamoring for change, and they see Brett Wallace slugging in Vegas. Buying a ticket to the game gives you the right to express your feelings however you see fit.
But that doesn't necessarily make it right.
Likewise, Overbay could probably have handled today's post-game better. It can't be an easy thing to throw your hands in the air and say "you know what? I've been lousy. The fans want more. I get it. All I can say is that I'm trying." Instead, Overbay's comments only serve to create an even bigger "story", and perhaps drive a deeper wedge between the fans and the players - because you know that lockerroom is tight.
It shouldn't be this complicated. The Jays are playing good baseball. They're exceeding expectations. They're fun to watch. Alex Anthopoulos has the club headed in the right direction. Wallace will be here soon enough, and in no more than 120 or so games, Lyle Overbay will be on his merry way.
In the meantime, can't we just get behind them?
21 comments:
- bkblades said...
Agreed on Lyle's handling of the situation is just going to elicit more jeers and vitriol. I don't necessarily blame Overbay for feeling betrayed, especially since he was inexplicably platooned for Kevin Millar. However, in such a fickle city like Toronto, Overbay's non-response is probably the worst way to garner favour. Maybe he truly doesn't care, but somehow, I doubt it.
- May 18, 2010 at 11:52 PM
I agree. Fans need to get behind the whole team!!
- May 19, 2010 at 12:01 AM
- Tony said...
I agree with the majority of the sentiment here, but I can't recall seeing Jordan Bastian as out of joint from a player brush-off before. That says something to me. I just don't know what.
- May 19, 2010 at 12:47 AM
- dlbrows said...
Bastian is king, he puts out solid stories and seemingly writes non-stop. Buuuuuuuuuuut kind of baby when it comes to this stuff. You don't need Overbay to say shit to write the story he already has written.
Anyway, the sad part of all this is for a player to come through it a "better person" I'm guessing you have to take on an attitude of home fans = away fans. Just don't care what they say. Which sucks.
Maybe I'm a little bit of a wiener but I still like to think players see their fans as apart of the team is some far-stretched way. But teammates don't boo each other and in Toronto only a select few get that unconditional support; Halladay, Gilmore, Pinball Clemons. All others get thrown under the bus.
And Vancouver is just as bad, so don't think I'm getting my TO-hate on. But I guess most cities are like that, save Winnipeg. Winnipeg is just grateful.
Winnipeg Blue Jays. Doesn't sound bad to me. Canwest Park is small but it's a great place to watch a game. :)
- May 19, 2010 at 1:07 AM
- Dark was the night... said...
That's quite a different article from yesterday re - Overbay. It isn't Overbay's fault he hasn't been benched or at least given some time off throughout this.
But he has stunk. Nothing that happened today changes that. So no comment was the right answer. Tell me you told me so Overbay when you have 10 games like this.
- May 19, 2010 at 2:39 AM
- Andrew Forsyth said...
Sure fans are entitled to their opinions and their owning a seat for a game means they can vocalize them. However, there is never an excuse for booing one of your own players at home. They may have bad games, they may have bad seasons, but few of them ever truly give up- the majority of them love playing too much. Leave the fans in Montreal to be the ones that boo their goalies after a shitty game. It's time for Toronto to wake up and start supporting a team. For god's sake, be happy that you have a team to watch while the rest of the country tunes into Sportsnet.
- May 19, 2010 at 3:24 AM
- William said...
I can understand the fans' reaction. Overbay has been awful. Can also understand Overbay's reaction. He's human. It hurts. Got to understand that. But it's a bad situation on what has become a fun season for the Blue Jays and their fans.
The Blue Jays need to do better in PR and in getting people to come out and watch this team.
- May 19, 2010 at 7:45 AM
You make a lot of good points, Ack, but people can't be expected to be emotionally and financially invested in something as pointless as the outcome of a professional sporting event (assuming you're not also betting on it) without also expecting all ranges of emotional response.
Jays bloggers who want it their way (no doing the wave, no booing, no fighting, no cheering, no drinking and then acting drunk, no free stuff, no tickle fighting, no gum chewing, no pomade in your hair, no signs, no ordering food that must be passed over them, no Nickelback, no Fred Durst, no lame-o fans from other provinces who are so uncool...) should really do the public a kindness and sit in the same section, so we can sit as far away as possible.
I follow this team and I do the wave. I also want the Jays to load up this season (without trading prospects, just taking on salary). I want all the things that fun-suckers like Wilner loathes. I'm not running the team and I have to be rational in all areas of my life except the Jays, so I won't be. The last few days have me convinced there might not be anyone less fun to see a ballgame with than a Jays blogger.
- May 19, 2010 at 8:25 AM
- Ted Rigby said...
I'm a big Overbay detractor, he's underwhelmed not just this season but really ever since 2007. My hate isn't due just to the fact that he's bad, but now he's got a history of mediocrity, so playing even worse this season, makes him the easy target to lash out at.
If Jays fans were wanting to just rip on the players doing the worst, Aaron Hill has very similar numbers to Overbay thus far (even considering his games missed) but his reputation from last year will keep him out of the doghouse... as long as Lyle's around at least.
- May 19, 2010 at 9:09 AM
- MC1 said...
Shouldn't you jeer/boo a guy who makes 2 errors in an inning?
- May 19, 2010 at 9:41 AM
- The Ack said...
@ HBallfield (and in general)....I get what your saying, but I think you're confusing the (my) issue a little. Do all the things you want to do at a game to max your enjoyment. I just happen to think it's in poor taste to scream at a guy that you think he's a sack of shit. The rest, I don't care about. But that's just me.
And hey, feel free to shoot me an email address and I can let you know where not to sit when I get to town...
- May 19, 2010 at 9:52 AM
Rigby – a few morons DID boo Hill last week. It was sad.
Ballfield – As someone who detests the wave, I will say there is some validity to some of your other points. Doesn't apply to Ack & Tao, though.
In general – I've never been an Overbay fan. I look forward to the days another player mans first base. BUT this booing nonsense so early in the season is retarded. Newsflash: many Toronto sports fans are retarded.
- May 19, 2010 at 11:04 AM
I would like to make a slight tweak to Ack's statement: "it's in poor taste to scream at a guy that you think he's a sack of shit" THAT IS ON YOUR TEAM.
Feel free to heckle Papelfucker all you like.
- May 19, 2010 at 11:05 AM
- Darren Priest said...
Most of my vitriol is misplaced posting it here, Ack. My Y-fronts are in a bunch mainly because of DJF, Wilner, and so forth. They just piss me off -- and yet, I read on. I must like being angry.
My summer plans at this time don't include Rogers Centre. I was there last summer and it's a significant jaunt. The plan is to try to see the Jays in Boston if I can swing it.
I didn't boo Wells last summer when I had the chance. A lot of people around me did, but Niemann was out-dueling Doc -- hardly anyone was getting on base that night.
I post as Holden Ballfield sometimes because I think it's such a clever handle or when I want to hide. Can we still be friends?
- May 19, 2010 at 11:30 AM
- The Southpaw said...
There's a noteable difference in "not being an Overbay fan" (which I'm not, particularly, by the way) and "let's rip into his ass because he's slumping"
We should all know by now what O'bay's talent level is, and being unhappy he's not producing at that level is justified - but thinking he's an easier target just because he isn't capable of being Delgado is kinda silly.
- May 19, 2010 at 12:02 PM
Here here Southpaw & Priesty (can I call you Priesty?). I will be your friend as long as you don't boo me for not doing the wave.
- May 19, 2010 at 12:51 PM
- Peter D said...
Here's a hypothetical question, which would be better?
1. The Jays current situation with early season success, yet struggles from Lind and Hill.
2. The Jays having a record 17-24 with Lind and Hill knocking the piss out of the ball and no thoughts of the organization straying from the rebuilding course of action.
- May 19, 2010 at 1:22 PM
- The Ack said...
@ Holden Priestfield....Revealed! We're cool, Priesty. I don't get worked up about commentary criticisms. With exceptions, of course..
@ Peter D....moot point, I think, because I don't think AA will be swayed from his original vision despite a winning record. Maybe if the Yanks and Rays were struggling along with the Sox, but they aren't.
- May 19, 2010 at 1:35 PM
- Darren Priest said...
I'm always geeked by player movement (other than the bowel variety of course) rumours, so I would love to see AA acquire somebody. As I said earlier, though, I wouldn't want to see him move our best prospects, but if someone wanted to dump salary and maybe take Frasor and/or Overbay, I'd be all over a rental. The WS Jays had a few rentals.
Speaking of Rentals, why not make this the next Rock Out?
- May 19, 2010 at 4:46 PM
- Leaker19 said...
It's tough to watch the death of a dream. So long, Ruiz. After the end of '09, I was looking forward to seeing what he did 2010. Good luck in Japan.
Contract years are usually good for guys, but it hasn't helped Lyle. Someone said somewhere that Overbay is playing like a guy who thought he was going to be somewhere else. I think that is true, it looks like he is mailing it in. He is the king of the half-hearted swing this year. His bat looks slow. Fouls off pitches 85 and slower to the left side. Geez, Lyle, were you a little late on that 83 MPH slide piece?
I have no problems with booing your own. They're professionals, it's the downside of doing it for money. Lyle has been stealing for the last 3 plus seasons, no matter what his teammates think of him.
- May 19, 2010 at 9:28 PM
It's a good thing Lyle doesn't play for the Phillies. He would never survive that environment.
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Writing from South Carolina, when I first heard about the 2009 scandal involving my state's governor, Mark Sanford, cheating on his wife with an Argentinian mistress, it immediately depressed me. In his thorough fiscal conservatism—including being a lone voice amongst governors in standing up to President Obama's so-called "stimulus" spending—Sanford was one of the few Republicans dedicated to reining in government spending. Even before the scandal, I worried that Sanford's successor would be just another conventional big government Republican. Post-scandal, I worried that Sanford might be forced him to resign thus making way for some handpicked GOP hack. Scandal or no scandal, Sanford's ultimate fate concerned me precisely because I did not want to see one of the few Republicans serious about limiting government banished from the political stage.
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It looks like Wrestlemania-quality matches have come six weeks early.
In a stellar half-hour main event match, John Cena defeated CM Punk and will (still) go to Wrestlemania and face The Rock in a rematch, this time with the WWE title on the line. The match had everything -- great storytelling, athleticism, the crowd was loud and invested, both men painted a great picture with false finishes. We even saw John Cena deliver what was once known as a "Batista Bomb" and CM Punk deliver a pile driver (a move thought to be banned by WWE but smartly used in the match in the place of a "signature" move).
If you didn't see this match, it's more than worth your time to check it out.
So with Cena and Rock tied up, who does Punk face from here? All signs point to the Undertaker, who made a surprise return at a WWE live event at Waco, Texas, teaming with Sheamus to defeat Wade Barrett and Damien Sandow. I can't believe certain fans would actually complain that Undertaker would return at a live event -- it's a surprise reward for loyal WWE fans who attend live events, and even though he didn't appear Monday night, it likely spiked interest for this episode of RAW. Not to mention, it adds gasoline to the fire of speculation that he will return and compete at Wrestlemania.
** Jack Swagger had a very busy and noteworthy week: After being arrested for a DUI/possession of marijuana, and along with Zeb Colter appearing one of the greatest response videos ever made by WWE (this one to Glenn Beck), the "Real American" was on RAW as part of an interesting Miz TV debate with Alberto Del Rio.
I'm enjoying this back and forth and am already interested in this match at Wrestlemania. I'm also interested in seeing if Swagger's DUI will simply be swept under the carpet with no official response. According to WWE's wellness policy on the corporate website, this kind of offense is subject to either termination or a suspension (much like Rob Van Dam, who faced a similar situation in 2006 while both WWE and ECW champion).
** Triple H returned to RAW to beat up Brock Lesnar, and Lesnar got color. A lot of it. He was gushing blood, and the action continued. I'm actually curious how WWE will handle showing these scenes in future video packages leading up to Wrestlemania (likely in black and white). This was a hot start to an overall entertaining episode of RAW.
** Donald Trump will be inducted into the "celebrity wing" of the WWE Hall of Fame. Anyone who has issue about this wing please read this blog I wrote about a year ago. With Trump's induction, this looks to be the most stacked Hall-of-Fame class in WWE history. The Class of 2005 (Hogan, Piper, Sheik) is up there as well.
** Mark Henry beat the Great Khali. Mark Henry needs something else ASAP.
** Speaking of something else, Ryback beat Dolph Ziggler pretty soundly.
** All signs point to Sheamus facing Wade Barrett at Wrestlemania. Remember Wrestlemania 18, when Edge and Booker T were fighting over a shampoo commercial? Well, these two are fighting over a movie role. I suppose stranger things have happened.
** R Truth beat Cody Rhodes.
** Kane had one arm behind his back and Daniel Bryan had a bag on his head blindfolding him (a la Wrestlemania 7 Jake Roberts vs. Rick Martel), but they still beat the Prime Time Players. What does that say about PTP?
** Randy Orton and Sheamus got the better of the Shield as Randy Orton RKOed Seth Rollins. I wouldn't mind seeing The Shield capturing the tag titles in the near future.
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Steve Bierfeldt managed to stay out of jail after defying screeners thanks to his taping their abuse on his cell. Now John Tyner, 31, of Oceanside, Calif., may avoid not only prison but a fine of $10,000 as well thanks to the same tactic.
Mr. Tyner had hoped to fly from San Diego International Airport this weekend but avoid the TSA's carcinogenic strip-search machines. So this software programmer checked the TSA's website with the list of airports it has inducted into its national peepshow. He didn't see San Diego's name there (though the catalog has since been updated to include it). Accordingly, he packed his bag and headed for the airport …
… where the porno-scanner he had tried so hard to avoid lurked after all. No wonder he "balked" when a screener ordered him through it, "opting for the traditional metal scanner and a basic 'pat down'" per the TSA's website. But though the TSA continues to call its molestation "pat-downs," an ex-cop labels that a "lie" and says the TSA should 'fess up to what it's actually inflicting on us: "TSA agents are using … the front of their hands to search passengers' entire bodies.... In police work, that's called a custody search that includes everything short of a cavity search."
So when Mr. Tyner's assailant described this sexual assault to his victim, including a "groin check," Mr. Tyner objected. Vehemently. As any red-blooded man would. In fact, he warned his attacker, "You touch my junk and I'm going to have you arrested."
The TSA refuses to tolerate many things. One is uppity passengers. It expects us to accept our status as serfs, admit our total ignorance of security, and trust our omniscient overlords at the TSA to protect us. This requires our playing along with the fiction that the TSA is all about security, not tyranny. If the agency's witches and warlocks mutter their incantations, stir the cauldron, and read the tea leaves to decree that "touching" passengers' "junk" will defeat al-Qaeda, our job is to present our "junk." And cheerfully.
For Mr. Tyner to assert instead, "I don't understand how a sexual assault can be made a condition of my flying" sorta undermines the whole charade. It calls the TSA's perverts what they are — sexual predators who belong in prison, not infesting airports to pester us. It also lets Our Rulers know that though they've deliberately confused groping with fighting terrorism, we haven't. And so Mr. Tyner's "threat triggered a code red of sorts as TSA agents, supervisors and eventually the local police gravitated to the spot where the reluctant traveler stood in his stocking feet."
Now ensued lengthy discussions about whether Mr. Tyner was free to leave the airport or whether the goons would first get a shot at him — after all, he "may have an incendiary device and whether or not that was true needed to be determined." Notice the leaps in what passes for logic at the TSA: because a man objects to molestation, and frequently says so, he may be a terrorist. But then these are the same geniuses who steal our liquids and gels because they might be explosive, then pile them in bins at checkpoints where hundreds of hapless passengers wait.
Eventually, Mr. Tyner's captors agreed to release him, though not without a parting shot: "one told him that if he left he would be subject to a civil suit and a $10,000 fine." Mr. Tyner "looked him in the eye, and said, 'then I'm leaving.' He replied, 'then we'll bring a civil suit against you,' to which I said, 'you bring that suit' and walked out of the airport." He went home to blog about his ordeal and post the tape he'd made on the Internet. Both have "gone viral."
The TSA's employees are not known for their smarts or erudition, so I hesitate to assume Mr. Tyner's assailants were literate, let alone that they peruse court cases. But in US vs. Aukai, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that once passengers enter the checkpoint, we are no longer free to change our minds about flying. We may not leave. In effect, we become the TSA's prisoners. Meanwhile, other courts have ruled that when we buy an airline ticket, we agree to whatever Our Rulers decide to do to us — which now encompasses sexual assault.
Mr. Tyner was plucky and lucky. The rest of us may not be. The best weapon of all against the TSA? Don't fly. Boycott aviation until Congress abolishes this vile agency.
Becky Akers, an expert on the American Revolution, writes frequently about issues related to security and privacy. Her articles and columns have been published by Lewrockwell.com, The Freeman, Military History Magazine, American History Magazine, the Christian Science Monitor, the New York Post, and other publications.
Related articles:
Our Homeland Security and TSA Rulers Demand Gratitude for Groping Us
Getting Rich From the TSA Naked Body Scanners
Ron Paul on TSA Abuse: "Enough Is Enough"


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Art Worthy of a Hard Look
The most memorable exhibitions of 2013 ranged from close examinations of a single aspect of an artist's oeuvre to broad overviews. Some placed familiar works in informative contexts. Others were surprising. Some were all of this, all at once. All demanded that we look hard and rewarded that attention by enlarging our understanding.
At the Morgan Library & Museum in New York, "Degas, Miss La La, and the Cirque Fernando" centered on Edgar Degas's unforgettable "Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando" (1879), a sturdy young woman in a brief white costume dangling, midair, against a complicated rose and blue-gray architectural setting. The modest-sized painting was accompanied by Degas's vivid preparatory studies, along with photographs and memorabilia of the legendary performer herself. The mysterious image was clarified, but the power of Degas's extraordinary invention remained undiminished.
At the National Gallery, Washington, "Tell It With Pride: The 54th Massachusetts Regiment and Augustus Saint-Gaudens ' Shaw Memorial" similarly revealed the history of a celebrated work. The enormous gilded-plaster relief is a version of the bronze monument, installed in Boston in 1897, honoring the first African-American regiment and its young, white colonel, Robert G. Shaw, the martyrs and heroes of a brutal Civil War battle. The potent sculpture was illuminated by photographs of the soldiers, officers and abolitionist supporters of the regiment itself, plus period documents and, most strikingly, Saint-Gaudens's study heads for Col. Shaw's African-American troops. Each was a distinctive individual, like the original proud volunteers, staring from their photographs, eager to defend the Union.
"Léger: Modern Art and the Metropolis," at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, also focused on a single work—Fernand Léger's vast improvisation on the man-made environment, "The City" (1919)—as paradigmatic of the effect of modern urban life on early 20th-century artists. Paintings and sculptures by Mr. Léger and his colleagues, film clips, music, stage sets and architectural models reflected the influence of such new phenomena as electricity, moving pictures, automobiles and advertising, metaphorically expressed through geometry, fragmentation and a machine aesthetic. The energy of these works was a tribute to faith in the idea of progress.
"Hopper Drawing" at New York's Whitney Museum of American Art presented a wealth of this laconic artist's early illustrations, unglamorous nudes, vigorous urban and seaside views, and probing studies for his best-known paintings, some of which were included, like punctuation. The intimate, plain-spoken drawings showed us Hopper learning the particulars of a coffee urn, studying the posture of a man at a lunch counter, discovering the details of a movie theater. After these revelations, Hopper will never look the same again.
Among the most impressive events of the past year was the opening of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's newly reinstalled galleries for European Paintings 1250-1800. Under the direction of Keith Christiansen, chairman of the Department of European Paintings, the arrangement of the vast, lavish collection was completely rethought for the first time since 1972. Space once used for temporary exhibitions was reclaimed. Sequences and relationships among groups of works are now more logical and informative. Many more paintings are exhibited. Among the thrills: seeing all five of the Met's Vermeers together, documenting his entire career and all of his types of pictures. But just about everything looks terrific.
"Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity," also at the Met, was a happy surprise. Though the title suggested an expedient crowd-pleaser, the show was, in fact, spectacular. A dazzling selection of major Impressionist paintings underscored how important—and transgressive—it was for forward-looking 19th-century artists to depict people in up-to-the-minute clothes. By painting their subjects in current fashions, the Impressionists and their colleagues declared their modernity, building visible evidence of the contemporary into their work. The message was reinforced by the actual period fashions on view, closely related to those in the paintings.
For sheer gorgeousness, it was hard to beat "Gravity and Grace: Monumental Works by El Anatsui," at New York's Brooklyn Museum, an installation mainly of large recycled-metal "tapestries" by the Ghanaian artist, who works in Nigeria, with a few of his (less interesting) earlier works in wood. The large, shimmering, casually installed assemblages, each different in hue, shape or density, made clear the variety of El Anatsui's approach. Recent, more "sculptural" works made of golden milk-can tops pointed to things to come.
"Caro at the Correr Museum," part of the 2013 Venice Biennale, offered a modest, well chosen, beautifully installed overview of this extraordinary sculptor's long career, from linear painted-steel works made in the 1960s to a potent recent piece incorporating massive steel and colored Plexiglas. We could follow Anthony Caro's restless, lifelong self-questioning, never settling for the expected, in his quest to "make sculpture real." Mr. Caro's death in October, at age 89, made the sequence of sculptures in the elegant rooms of the Museo Correr a poignant tribute to an endlessly inventive 20th-century giant.
"S.A.C.R.E.D.," Ai Weiwei 's solemn installation in the 17th-century church of Sant' Antonin, was another high point of the Biennale. Six dark, steel oblong boxes contained weirdly naturalistic tableaux of Mr. Ai's detention, visible only if we peered through a sliding hatch to become both witnesses and complicit in the distressing story. The power of the piece was completely unexpected.
" Lois Dodd : Catching the Light," at the Portland Museum of Art, Maine, surveyed the evolution of this octogenarian poet of the commonplace. Ms. Dodd's deceptively simple images of vernacular buildings and landscapes seduce us with subtle, evocative light, then slowly yield up their true spatial complexity, intelligence and pictorial rigor. If Ms. Dodd were Japanese, she'd be a living national treasure.
—Ms. Wilkin is a critic and independent curator.
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Billionaire to build a new Titanic
An Australian billionaire has announced plans to build a new version of the Titanic, 100 years after the original sank after hitting an iceberg.
Titanic II is expected to make its maiden voyage from England to North America, the old Titanic route, in late 2016.
"It is going to be designed so it won't sink," mining and tourism tycoon Clive Palmer told reporters. "It will be designed as a modern ship with all the technology to ensure that doesn't happen.
The original Titanic, the largest liner in world when it was launched and dubbed "virtually unsinkable" at the time, sank after hitting an iceberg on April 15th, 1912, killing 1,517 passengers and crew.
Mr Palmer said his new shipping company, Blue Star Line Pty Ltd, had signed a memorandum of understanding with the Chinese state-owned company CSC Jinling Shipyard to build Titanic II.
The original ship was operated by the White Star Line. The design work has started for the new Titanic, which will have the same dimension as its old version with 840 rooms and nine decks.


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"I realized I had a lot of catching up to do academically, and LaGuardia proved to be the place to get up to speed," said Tavarez, who came to the united States when he was 16 years old. "I literally learned how to put sentences together, how to put paragraphs together, what an argument was."
Once at the school, Dr. George Sussman convinced Tavarez to consider history as a field of study. Later, Dr. Joyce Zaritsky hired him to tutor students in world history, which encouraged him to become a teacher.
"It was at LaGuardia that I met really wonderful professors who helped me," he said. "With their support and encouragement, I regained my confidence and passion for education."
He transferred to City College in 2009 with a 3.89 grade point average. Tavarez took two trip to the Dominican Republic where he did research for his senior thesis on Haitian political culture and the independence of the country.
In 2010, he received his bachelor's degree in history and was awarded a full five-year doctoral fellowship at Princeton.
"I think I made it to Princeton, not because of how smart I am, but because I had professors who made me aware of what it takes to get into a prestigious institution, and who worked with me in the process," he said.
Tavarez is now in his second year at the Princeton and is doing his pre-dissertation research on the Spanish Enlightenment and the Spanish American revolutions. He will be returning to Spain to continue his research at the Madrid archives and the Archivo de Indies in Seville, where he will be studying colonial Spanish-American documents.


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Each academic department and administrative office at Clark must select an individual who is responsible for maintaining the content on their official web site. Generally, the Web Content Manager or WebCM is a staff member within the department.
Existing Content/New Content
Web Content Managers are only responsible for editing existing content and keeping it up-to-date. The creation of new content should be discussed with University Communications and templates can be created for you prior to beginning any new content project.
Getting Permissions
All Web Content Managers must undergo a short introduction to the Clark template with Anne Gibson, the Web Editor in University Communications.
Most WebCMs use Adobe Contribute which is managed by ITS.
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Greeting guests outside the historic and beautiful Victoria & Albert Museum in London is a gorgeous white canopy made from recycled traffic cones! Installed as part of Heatherwick Studio's "Designing the Extraordinary" exhibition, the white cones are arranged in hanging points, creating a three-dimensional marquee over the museum's Cromwell Road entrance. The piece is part hanging sculpture and part canopy, protecting visitors from the London rain.
Heatherwick Studio's arched traffic cone canopy hangs like a chandelier, adorning the ornate Victorian stone façade of the South Kensington Museum. The site-specific installation was designed in conjunction with UK-based stainless steel solutions group S3i. S31's oxidized steel frame holds the strings of stainless steel wire rope which support the structure, creating a curvilinear field of hanging cones. With each corner held taut, the canopy dips in the center, like architectural hanging chain models.
Protruding toward the ground and fanning in every direction, the traffic cones are transformed from their utilitarian purpose into plastic stalactites. Instead of safety orange, Heatherwick painted the 208 cones white. Retaining one safety detail, each cone is wrapped with a reflective band that glistens in the sunlight. The installation casts a mosaic of diamond shadows on the ground and against the museum's grand entrance.
With the simple yet eye catching installation, Heatherwick takes a common object out of its usual environment, removing it from its utilitarian context and exploring new possibilities for the object's design. "Designing the Extraordinary" is a special exhibition on display at the Victoria & Albert Museum until September 30th.
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WHAT IS IT? The Moto-Tek Duce stand eliminates the need to lift your bike up after a moto.
WHAT'S IT COST? $109.95--(818) 592-0735 or www.moto-tek.com.
WHAT'S IT DO? Moto-Tek doesn't get half the credit they deserve. There have been bike stands on the market since the late '60s. They have come in every shape, size and configuration imaginable. From as far back as the Mark Charles Stand, inventors have been trying to come up with new ways for riders to hold their bikes up in the pits (or garage). You would think that after 40 years of brainstorming on bike stands, every thing that could have been invented would have been invented.
Imagine our surprise when we stumbled upon Moto-Tek's totally different take on bike stands. It isn't just a stand that you put your bike on top of, but you can also roll the front wheel into it and walk away. As an added bonus, you can put it in the front of your truck bed and use it as a wheel chock. The original Moto-Tek stand was called the 3In1-Stand. It was constructed out of powder-coated steel and retailed for $169.95. It worked very well, but was heavy, hard to ship, and not adjustable for the new breed of wide front tires.
Enter the Duce. Made from lightweight 6061-T6 aluminum, it can be broken down for shipping (lowering S&H fees) and has adjustment for wider front tires.
WHAT STANDS OUT? Here's a list of things that stand out with Moto-Tek's Duce stand.
(1) Center stand. When flipped up on its sturdy tripod legs the Moto-Tek Duce stand can be used as a traditional bike stand. It is the exact same height as the most popular bike stands and comes with a pressure-bonded rubber top deck (which paradoxically is sometimes not on the top).
(2) Front wheel stand. The MXA wrecking crew is lazy. When we come in from a tough moto we don't always have the strength to lift our trusty but rusty 230-pound scoot up on the stand. That's where the Duce's greatest charm comes into play. Unlike any other motocross stand (save for the 3IN1-Stand), you can use the Duce stand without picking your bike up. No lifting. No grunting. And no standing there for ten minutes waiting for the strength to return to your arms. You just drive your front wheel into the front loop of the Duce stand and then walk away. It is almost idiot-proof.
(3) Hauling. The Duce is narrower than a conventional bike stand, but it has a wider stance, which means that takes up more room in your truck bed. The trick to hauling the Duce stand is to flip it against the front of your truck bed and roll the front wheel in before hooking up the tie-downs. It doubles as a wheel chock and a bed strengthener.
(4) Price. Thanks to its modular construction and simpler design, the Duce stand is $50 cheaper than the 3In1-Stand.
WHAT'S THE SQUAWK? Two quibbles: (1) When being used as a front wheel stand it is best to place it on level ground. (2) When using it as a conventional stand be sure to put the loop end away from the side you lift your bike from (typically the left side). The loop end sticks out farther than on a regular bike stand.


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This page lists vendors that offer various kinds of forensic training.
Open for everyone
- AccessData Training
- Armor Forensics (NTI - Forensics International)
- ASR Data Training
- BlackBag Tech Training
- Certified Computer Examiner BootCamp
- Certified Steganography Examiner Training
- CPR Tools Training (Basic and Advanced Data Recovery)
- Computer Forensics Training Center On-Line
- e-fense Inc
- FBI Screencast Training
- For-Sec Vendor classes, Cellphone/PDA seizure, and CFR 26 rules classes
- Guidance Software (EnCase) Training
- InfoSec Institute
- Linux Data Forensics Training
- Maresware Training
- Mobile-Forensics.com (Research Forum for Mobile Device Forensics)
- Mobile Forensics Training (Mobile Forensics Inc. Training)
- Paraben Forensics Training
- Steganography Analysis and Research Center / Backbone Security
- Technology Pathways Pro Discover Training
- Vigilar
- WetStone Technologies Investigator Training
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"Dionaea is meant to be a Nepenthes successor, embedding Python as scripting language, using libemu to detect shellcodes, supporting IPv6 and TLS" (taken from Dionaea homepage). Besides being the most interesting project for trapping malware exploiting vulnerabilities, Dionaea supports a really cool feature which allows it to log to XMPP services as described here. TIP now exploits this feature receiving and storing such logs (really thanks to Markus Koetter for his help and support). Just an example of what happened today…
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England v New Zealand: Joe Root hits maiden Test hundred
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|Second Test, Headingley (day two, close):
|England 337-7 v New Zealand
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Joe Root thrilled his home crowd with his maiden Test century to put England in a solid position against New Zealand at Headingley.
The 22-year-old, playing only his sixth Test, put on 124 for the fifth wicket with his Yorkshire team-mate Jonny Bairstow.
Root became the first Yorkshireman to score his maiden Test century at Headingley and the 11th youngest England centurion of all time before falling to the first delivery with the new ball for 104.
Bairstow soon followed after a fluent 64 and Stuart Broad made a duck as England threatened to undo much of their good work before Matt Prior's quick-fire unbeaten 38 took them to 337-7 at the close on day two.
The hosts, who lead the two-match series 1-0 following a 170-win in the opening Test at Lord's, will be looking to push on towards 400 on Sunday before picking apart the Kiwis' fragile batting line-up.
England had lunched on 67-3, with Jonathan Trott and captain Alastair Cook falling in successive balls before the interval after Nick Compton had gone early for just one.
Ian Bell added 30 in a partnership of 79 with Root, but it was the combination of the young Yorkshire pair that really transformed the mood among the colourful Headingley crowd.
Scoring heavily square of the wicket on both sides, Root reached his fifty off 90 balls and accelerated into the nineties after tea.
Then came two heart-stopping moments.
On 92, a Bairstow drive deflected off bowler Neil Wagner and on to the stumps at the non-striker's end, but fortunately Root had not strayed far from his crease and grounded his bat in time.
Shortly afterwards, he survived an appeal for a catch down the leg side, with New Zealand using up a review to establish that the ball merely brushed Root's pads.
To his credit, Root retained his composure and advanced from 94 to his hundred in the space of two balls, punching the air in celebration as the crowd rose to its feet to toast the local hero.
New Zealand needed a spark and they found one in Trent Boult with the new ball in his hands.
Root, perhaps switching off momentarily after reaching three figures, chased a length ball and nicked to the keeper.
Bairstow, who struck eight fours in an innings which mixed timing and power, mis-judged an attempted leave and toe-ended a catch behind.
A Broad inside edge from the first ball of Boult's next over gave McCullum - keeping wicket in the absence of the injured BJ Watling - his fifth catch.
The momentum almost shifted further in New Zealand's favour, but Doug Bracewell put down a tough chance at midwicket to remove Prior for 21 and the England wicketkeeper, in tandem with Graeme Swann, ensured the hosts finished the day in the ascendency.
After rain washed out Friday's first day, Headingley was bathed in sunshine on Saturday morning as cricket fans - many in fancy dress - streamed in through the gates.
England won the toss and chose to bat but were swiftly one down as Compton followed an away-swinger from Tim Southee and was caught by the agile Dean Brownlie at third slip.
After back to back centuries in New Zealand, Compton has scored 45 runs in his last five Test innings.
Cook and Trott looked to be bedding in for a long partnership only for England's steady progress towards lunch to be checked by a double-strike.
Trott drove expansively at a tempting ball outside off stump from Wagner and was caught behind and, from the first ball of the next over, Cook's lack of footwork proved his undoing as he nicked to third slip.
Bell successfully reviewed an lbw appeal on 12 but succumbed meekly for 30 when he feathered part-time spinner Kane Williamson through to the keeper.
At 146-4, England needed a partnership of substance, which Root and Bairstow duly delivered to the delight of their adoring public.


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Storage vendors need to start thinking about security
Everyone--except storage vendors--is concerned about security these days. Here's how to get them thinking in the right direction.
Enterprise Strategy Group
Published: 12 Apr 2004
Storage vendors range from multibillion-dollar market leaders such as EMC, NetApp and Veritas, to startups such as AppIQ, Data Domain and Sepeton. While all vendors provide some level of security protection, most of their attention is focused on developing products with higher performance or lower operating costs.
In the past, limited storage security was acceptable when applications and data lived within the four corporate walls--but this is no longer the case. Since the mid-1990s, companies have opened their systems to outsiders via the Internet in order to exploit revenue opportunities, improve business efficiencies and reduce costs.
In addition to Internet-based threats, corporate employees also present a distinct security risk. According to the 2003 Computer Security Institute/Federal Bureau of Investigation survey, 77% of respondents believe that disgruntled employees are a likely source of attack.
As security concerns increase, storage security laissez faire is no longer acceptable. Storage vendors must enhance security to address:
- Enterprise security policies. To meet the security challenge, many companies are adopting standards for things such as password management, secure communications and delegation of administrative tasks. Storage products that can't be configured to meet these standards will be eliminated in favor of those that can.
- Regulatory compliance. Government mandates such as California SB 1386, Graham-Leach-Bliley, HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxley have an implied or explicit security component.
- Existing storage security woes. Problems include insecure Fibre Channel (FC) switch configurations, open-management interfaces, clear text data in flight and at rest and a lack of authentication.
- Future storage initiatives. Over the next few years, storage innovations such as information life cycle management (ILM) and iSCSI will intertwine storage and IP networks. New processes will automate the movement of information over the Internet, exposing storage to worms and viruses. To take advantage of storage innovations, companies must improve storage security. After all, if an ILM implementation is attacked, critical data could be compromised or lost, resulting in noncompliance and business interruption.
Demand storage security
Storage vendors have traditionally eschewed security because users never asked for it. Why? Until recently, most storage was configured as direct-attached storage (DAS), therefore users could rely on server security to address any storage concerns. Now, however, storage networks are introducing numerous security vulnerabilities that warrant user attention. Because storage area networks (SANs) house vital information, storage managers should include security as a must-have purchasing criteria. In addition, these security demands should go beyond product features/functions and include vendor security knowledge and support.
Beginning immediately, users should include security functionality in their storage hardware, software and networking vendor qualifications. Security demands should focus on three areas: storage architecture, storage management software and security processes.
Secure storage architecture
The basic problem with storage hardware is that it was never designed with security in mind, neglecting basic security tasks such as authentication, encryption and password management. These security lapses leave your typical FC SAN, storage subsystem or network-attached storage (NAS) box open for attacks. It doesn't take much skill to log into systems through default passwords or change a FC zone by spoofing a world-wide name (WWN).
Some storage vendors have done a good job of addressing these shortcomings. For example, the Brocade Secure Fabric Operating System is a hardened version of the standard management environment. The Secure Fabric OS authenticates switches in a fabric, enhances zoning for security and locks down switch administration to impose policies and rules.
While Brocade's implementation is good, it is only applicable in a Brocade environment; introduce a Cisco or McData switch and you need another security model. Ultimately what's needed here are security standards that enable heterogeneous storage security. For example, all devices (HBAs, FC switches, storage and tape subsystems) should be set up in trust relationships supported by strong authentication through existing standards such as Kerberos, PKI or RADIUS. Heterogeneous support is the precise goal of SNIA and the ANSI T.11 committee through their support of the Fibre Channel Security Protocols (FC-SP). Users should make sure that their storage vendors are participating in the standards committees or, at the very least, plan on supporting the standards when they are ratified.
Storage management software
Storage tools suffer from a couple of common problems. First, many systems store password files in clear text so anyone who hacks into the system can read the entire password file and gain legal access. Many storage management servers also allow communication through insecure protocols like HTTP, FTP and Telnet. Anyone sniffing the wire during these management sessions can learn passwords, configurations, even view critical data. Finally, many servers are configured in an insecure fashion allowing unnecessary services and default configurations to create easy targets for the bad guys.
Storage management software vendors must simply adhere to standard security best practices common throughout the enterprise. For example, when configuring Linux, Unix or Windows storage management servers, vendors should have support capabilities to help customers harden host-based operating systems (i.e., turn off unnecessary services, change default passwords, select most-secure OS options, etc.). Vendors should provide documentation and support for secure operating system configurations based upon the Center for Internet Security (CIS) guidelines.
Storage software should also provide strong management of passwords by limiting the number of log-in attempts, storing passwords in an encrypted file and mandating password character length. And management sessions should use secure protocols like SSH and SSL.
One other point to note--if you plan on encrypting your backups, check the encryption algorithm used. Many backup vendors support the Digital Encryption Standard (DES), a 56-bit encryption method introduced in 1976. The problem with DES is that in January 1997, RSA Inc. issued a challenge, with a prize of $10,000, to crack DES. Computers participating in the challenge aimed to try every possible decryption key to crack DES--over 72 quadrillion (72,057,594,037,927,936). What does this mean? If you're protecting your tapes with DES encryption, it wouldn't be that hard for a sophisticated hacker to run a brute force attack and gain access to your data. Make sure that your backup vendor can either support a more modern encryption algorithm like 3DES or AES or they can configure their systems to support a third-party encryption solution from companies such as Decru or Kasten Chase.
Security processes
Security expert Bruce Schneier often says that "security is a process, not a product." Storage vendors worth their salt will live up to this truism by supporting customers with security skills and processes that supplement their product offerings. Security should extend to account management, professional services, product documentation and customer support.
When a storage vendor shows up at your door, do they ever ask questions about your security requirements? From now on, demand that they do. Vendors should consider security in all their plans. As part of this process, the vendor should test against known storage security vulnerabilities.
Bottom line
Choose vendors who enhance security rather than hinder it. By insisting on security, vendors will recognize that it's essential to users, which should lead them to offer more secure products.
Related Resources
- A guide to hybrid flash storage arrays –ComputerWeekly.com
- Containers and storage 101: The fundamentals of container storage –ComputerWeekly.com
- Hybrid Flash: The Essential guide –ComputerWeekly.com
- NVM Express, NAND Flash Energize Storage Vendors –SearchStorage.com


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"The leads are weak," Jack Lemmon's character, Shelley Levene, tells Alec Baldwin in "Glengarry Glen Ross."
The lightbulb. Bubble wrap. The Post-It. The iPod. The Snuggie. Facebook. Twitter. These inventions, products, and businesses all started with an idea. An idea that to anyone other than its creator(s) may have seemed like an insane thing to invest much time, money, or effort in bringing to fruition. But for the masterminds behind these great ideas, the risk paid off, and so, too, can your next great idea.
Now, you might be thinking, I am not going to come up with today's equivalent of the lightbulb. That's fine, says Jim Kukral, author of "Attention! This Book Will Make You Money: How to Use Attention-Getting Online Marketing to Increase Your Revenue" (Wiley, 2010, www.attentionthebook.com). You don't have to. Great ideas come in many shapes and sizes-—whether it's something as small as a new logo for your business or something as big as rolling out a brand new product. What's important is that you give your best ideas a shot at life.
"Great ideas are like gold," says Kukral. "Everybody hopes to find them buried under the floorboards in their house. But just like finding gold, you often need a treasure map. In fiscally constrained times such as these, ideas are what matter most. Businesses live and die from the ideas they come up with. Great ideas get attention and bring people through the doors. The tricky part is figuring out how to find them."
So what does a great idea look like in practice? Kukral highlights Peter van Stolk, founder of Jones Soda Co., as a business owner who wasn't afraid to take his great idea and run with it.
Van Stolk took his $20 million business to $42 million in four years by coming up with an idea that generated $25 million in free publicity. Jones Soda was a small Seattle-based beverage company competing against Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola. Combined, those two monoliths spend a billion dollars a year on advertising.
So how did van Stolk and Jones Soda compete? In 2003, van Stolk had the idea to create a "Turkey & Gravy"-flavored soda to be released around Thanksgiving. Soon his brand began to get mentioned in the national media, and his product began to sell out.
"Peter had the idea in his car one day, and he acted on it," says Kukral. "Ever notice how you get your best ideas when your mind is not trying to come up with them? Think about it. How many ideas have you thrown away on the treadmill or in the shower that you should have tried that could have earned you millions?
"Everyone has great ideas," he adds. "The problem for most people is realizing that even the most silly or outrageous idea they come up with could in fact work. Generating ideas—-useful ideas-—is a skill, and, like any other skill, it can be learned. The more you practice, the easier it will be to come up with ideas whenever you need them."
In "Attention!" Kukral teaches readers how to unlock their brains and start generating amazing ideas that will skyrocket sales, load businesses with leads, and create a powder keg of publicity. Here are a few of Kukral's suggestions on how to generate killer ideas to jump-start your venture:
"I keep up with my great ideas on a Word document that I've uploaded to Google Docs," says Kukral. "This document holds some of the most creative thoughts I've ever had. I've never shown it to anyone, nor will I, as it contains ideas that might seem silly to other people, but I value it greatly as a place where I can think freely and creatively without criticism.
"That's truly the key to coming up with great ideas," he adds. "You need to free yourself from worry about what other people might say. If you have a place where you can brainstorm and record some of your most outrageous thoughts for getting attention without having to worry about someone else laughing at you, then you'll find that it's much easier to be creative, and, well, outrageous. And before you know it, your great ideas will be boosting your business."
Jim Kukral is the author of "Attention! This Book Will Make You Money: How to Use Attention-Getting Online Marketing to Increase Your Revenue" (www.attentionthebook.com). For more than 15 years, Kukral has helped small businesses and large companies such as FedEx, Sherwin-Williams, Ernst & Young, and Progressive Auto Insurance understand how to find success on the Web. A professional speaker, blogger, and Web business consultant, Kukral also is an adjunct professor for The University of San Francisco's Internet Marketing Program.