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According to an email acquired by the Los Alamos Monitor, there could be even more cutbacks at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Serving Our Country (SOC), which provides security to LANL, will possibly eliminate 31 positions in a restructuring that is still under negotiations. The email indicated that SOC was pursuing voluntary separation packages for the lost positions.
Lab spokesman Fred DeSousa said the proposed cuts are not part of the 80 contractor positions cut by LANL last month.
He referred inquiries to SOC spokesperson Liddie Martinez, who was traveling to Washington D.C. and unavailable for comment.
According to an internal email from SOC General Manager Kenneth Freeman, "On July 13, 2012, SOC received direction from LANL to implement a number of physical security changes.
"The direction SOC received was formulated by LANS using the NA-70 Deep Dive Review conducted in January of 2012.
"Attached you will find a letter from SOC's Contract Administrator explaining what recommendations LANS accepted; and what LANS have directed SOC to complete. The total, at this time, of bargaining unit personnel that will be lost is 31."
Due to security concerns and to protect the anonymity of the source that provided the email, the Los Alamos Monitor agreed not to document the letter that lists the physical security changes included in the Deep Dive review recommendations that were accepted by LANS, LLC.
SOC organizes its workers in a hierarchical, military-style structure, with supervisors carrying such ranks as major, captain, and lieutenant. The lowest-level guards are unionized, nonexempt, and wear uniforms. Field supervisors also wear uniforms and must maintain the same certifications as the lowest level, including training as first responders, on respirators, and on hazardous materials. They also need some supervisory experience and training in leadership, management, and administration.
According to its website, "SOC is the global leader in full-service security management. With extensive human and technical resources; a domestic and international footprint; and the necessary depth of know-how and experience - we are able to support and achieve our clients' objectives in any corner of the world. We provide security services for individuals, domestic facilities, nuclear power plants, and military bases.
"We provide logistics services worldwide. We have a wide breadth of operations and maintenance (O&M) capabilities. We train military, police, and corporate personnel in the latest techniques and force protection strategies including personal weapon handling, off-road vehicular maneuvering, planning/executing convoy operations, and a full range of requirements from the military and SWAT Teams.
"Our customers include the United States Departments' of State, Defense, and Energy; other government agencies; and numerous commercial companies and individuals. SOC continuously provides security from the front lines in most of the difficult regions of the world and at home in our own backyard."
SOC, which has 550 to 600 employees, and LANS, LLC signed a $251 million contract with a term of three to five years, Freeman told the Los Alamos Monitor in January 2011.
Despite the contract's shorter term, scaled back scope of work and lower dollar amount, SOC, which announced no layoffs at that time.
"We went through a transition period the last few weeks of 2010, based on a transition plan approved by LANS (Los Alamos National Security), and it was much less painful than we had anticipated it would be," SOC's Freeman said in 2011. "No one was separated from the company involuntarily."
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Thelma May Morehead
Thelma May Morehead, 72, of Maidsville, W.V., formerly of Mt. Morris, Pa., died at 10:19 a.m. Thursday, December 20, 2012, at home.She was born Tuesday, August 20, 1940 in Yatesboro, a daughter of the late Dorsey VanHorn and Berdella Goldstrohm VanHorn.On June 6, 1959 she married Gary L. Morehead Sr., who preceded her in death on October 16, 1993. Mrs. Morehead was a member of the Gospel Tabernacle Assembly of God in Mt. Morris. She loved spending time with her family and was a homemaker.She is survived by five daughters, Carole (Stanley) Toothman of Fairmont, W.V., Robin L. (Rod) Shriver of Morgantown, W.V., Melissa (Brian) Phillips of Spraggs, Lisa (Shawn) Matthews of Maidsville, W.V., and Tina (Michael) Bryan of Morgantown, W.V.; three sons, Gary (Laura) Morehead Jr. of Mt. Morris, Jeffrey (Kimberly) Morehead of Morgantown, W.V., and William (Rose) Morehead of Waynesburg; 20 grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; a brother, Clint VanHorn of Home; and several nieces and nephews.In addition to her parents and husband, she was preceded in death by a sister, Blanche Snyder-Roberts; and two brothers, Robert VanHorn and William VanHorn.A funeral service for Thelma May Morehead was held at 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 23 at the Mt. Morris Gospel Tabernacle Assembly of God Church in Mt. Morris. Officiating were the Rev. Fred Tomlinson and the Rev. John C. Jackson. Burial followed in Cedar Grove Cemetery, Mt. Morris.Friends were received at Milliken and Throckmorton Funeral Home, Inc. in Mt. Morris, operated by Daryl L. Throckmorton, owner/director, on Saturday from 2-4 and 6-8 p.m., and on Sunday afternoon at the Mt. Morris Gospel Tabernacle Assembly of God Church from 1 p.m. until the time of service. More information is online at www.milliken-throckmortonfh.com.
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• Government censors newspapers, establishes new press court.
• Two journalists jailed without charge; one missing after being abducted.
8: Newspapers banned for periods beginning in May due to their coverage of unrest in the south.
Continuing a steady years-long decline, Yemen became one of the most repressive countries in the region for the press. Journalists covering clashes in the country's restive south faced severe restrictions. Government repression reached its peak in May, when at least eight newspapers that had covered violent protests were barred from distribution, several papers faced criminal charges, and one paper came under direct attack from state security agents. Government officials established a special court for perceived news media offenses.
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The Sana'a-based government sought to tamp down longstanding tensions in the country's south, where demonstrators protested policies they saw as marginalizing the region's residents and denying them public services. In late April—around the anniversary of the 1990 unification of north and south—conditions boiled over as government troops clashed with armed protesters. Following its past practice, the government moved aggressively to control the flow of information. An armed group believed to have acted on behalf of authorities burned more than 16,000 copies of the popular daily Al-Ayyam on May 1, Bashraheel Bashraheel, the paper's general manager, told CPJ. Two days later, military authorities prevented distribution of the paper, he said. By May 4, security forces had surrounded the paper's production plant and effectively barred it from publishing, Bashraheel said.
The Ministry of
Information expanded its suppression of the news the same day, barring the
sales of Sana'a-based Al-Masdar, Al-Ahali, Al-Diyar,
Al-Mustaqila, Al-Nida, Al-Share, and Aden-based Al-Wattani and
Al-Ayyam, according to press
reports. All had covered unrest in the south in ways that were critical of the
government. Information Minister Hassan Ahmed al-Luzi argued that the papers
had violated the country's press law by publishing articles that threatened
national unity and "spread hatred and enmity among the united people of
President Ali Abdullah Saleh sent a similar message when he addressed parliament on May 6. "If there is room to talk in the press then you have to publish kindness, love, and brotherhood. If there were mistakes in development or security or the judiciary, criticize those mistakes and there would be no objection, there is room for that. But the unity, freedom, democracy, revolution, the republic, and the constitution are national invariants that cannot be crossed," he was quoted as saying in the state-run newspaper Al-Thawra.
Al-Ayyam remained shut in late year. The other newspapers resumed publication but faced sporadic censorship and harassment, according to local press reports. Authorities also took court action against several of the same newspapers in May. The Ministry of Information filed criminal complaints against Al-Masdar, Al-Wattani, Al-Diyar, Al-Nida, Al-Share, and Al-Ayyam on charges of inciting hatred and harming the unity and the interests of the country. The cases were pending in late year. Under the press code, editors of the papers could face up to one year imprisonment.
Government hostility
against the press reached its peak on May 13 when security forces carried out
an armed raid on the offices of Al-Ayyam in
Amid protests from
journalists and human rights advocates, the country's High Judicial Council established
a special court in May to try cases related to media and publishing offenses,
according to local press reports. More than 150 cases, some dating to 2006,
were immediately referred to the Press and
Mawari, who was tried in absentia, told CPJ that he discussed the "devastating impact" of a president who "prefers to see journalists taken to court instead of those involved in corruption." He called the verdict a "message aimed at terrorizing journalists and preventing them from writing about the president." Al-Masdar said it would appeal the verdict. Yemeni journalists questioned the legitimacy of the press court, saying the constitution makes no allowance for the creation of exceptional courts. They also said the professional bans handed down by the court were not grounded in Yemeni law.
Two journalists were in
jail when CPJ conducted its annual census of imprisoned journalists on December
1. Security forces detained Fuad Rashid, editor-in-chief of the news Web site Mukalla Press, on May 4 in the southern city of
Salah al-Saqldi,
editor-in-chief of the Gulf Aden news Web site, was seized by security forces
during a raid at his home in Khour Mikasr in
Another journalist
critical of the government disappeared. Muhammad al-Maqaleh, editor of Aleshteraki, a Web site affiliated with the opposition Socialist Party, was
kidnapped by unidentified men on September 18, according to news accounts.
Witnesses quoted in local news reports said that armed, masked men intercepted
al-Maqaleh's car in Sana'a, dragged him into their vehicle, and sped away. The
week before, al-Maqaleh had posted an article condemning military airstrikes
that killed 87 people and injured more than 100. The victims were internal
refugees, having escaped ongoing fighting in
Facing civil unrest not
only in the south, authorities were acutely sensitive to any coverage they saw
as critical of government actions. In July, the government launched a military
operation against fighters with the Al-Huthi, a Shiite tribal group, in Saada
region, northwest
Al-Jazeera, which devoted
extensive coverage to social unrest, was singled out by government leaders for
criticism. "The Al-Jazeera channel has become a source for criticizing Yemeni
society," Masaad al-Lahibi, a member of parliament, was quoted in local press
reports as saying in July. "It airs what is being provided to it by forces that
are against
The station reported several cases of
harassment and attacks. On June 22, for example, masked men stoned the
Government repression also
targeted critical news Web sites. The newspapers Al-Masdar, Al-Tagheer, and Al-Share'
said in May that their Web
sites had been briefly blocked domestically. Arafat Mudabish, editor-in-chief
of Al-Tagheer, told CPJ that he believed the site was
targeted because of its coverage of the southern unrest. Mukalla Press, based in the southern
International reporters descended in late year to cover the government's response to the local branch of Al-Qaeda, which had sponsored a failed Christmas Day attack on a U.S.-bound airliner. Amid the country's considerable civil unrest, Al-Qaeda's activities had drawn little domestic coverage during the year.


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Co-sponsored by the McGregor Visiting Artist/Scholar Fund, The Guerrilla Girls have been stirring up audiences with presentations and workshops in full jungle drag. They have appeared at schools, museums and organizations of all types, in almost every state in the U.S. and on almost every continent.
The performance lasts about an hour and a half, followed by a question period. The Guerrilla Girls take the audience through how they came up with some of their more than 90 posters, books (Confessions of the Guerrilla Girls and The Guerrilla Girls Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art) and actions about discrimination in art, film, politics, etc.
In their performances for 2004-05, they will also be performing skits with the audience and sharing excerpts from their new book entitled, Bitches, Bimbos and Ballbreakers: The Guerrilla Girls Illustrated Guide to Female Stereotypes.
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Part 1 of the EcoVia design post can be found below.
The simplest of these is known as a crank-rocker (actually crank, connecting rod and rocker) mechanism in kinematics and historically as a treadle mechanism. It can be made very rigid, since there is only one link between the pedals and the frame. It also has a fixed range of motion with built in decelerations and accelerations at the ends of the stroke. The literature seems to suggest that this type of reciprocating motion produces more power than levers pulling chains over one-way clutches. Recall the latter approach was used in the Pedicar. (Refer to "Pedicar Technology", below.)
My implantation of the treadle mechanism for the EV2.2 was a bit different from previous embodiments. I fabricated a pedal that would allow connections to both sides of the pedal's axle. The second connection was formed by brazing a bolt to the pedal's steel dustcap. The pedal mounting was reversed with the normal thread being mounted outboard of the pedal. The rocker link was connected to this thread. The other end of the rocker was supported by a pair of Igus bushings, which, in turn, were held by a tube that was brazed to a rectangular frame that surrounded the front wheel. This frame did dual duty, since it also contained the pivots that would hold the front tilting faring. As result of the outboard location of the rocker links, they did not interfere with the front-wheel's ability to turn. The other, inboard end of the pedal was attached to a bent connecting rod whose other end was attached to a conventional crankset with the arms shortened. The connecting rod was bent to clear the top of the tire. The entire mechanism was very compact and it positioned the rider's feet in a low and very comfortable position.
EcoVia 2.3
In addition to lowering the bottom bracket, I changed the lower mounting position of the shock to raise the seat and I moved the seat back forward by adding an extra bend near the top. The result, while not being as ideal as the Avatar 2000, was a great improvement, enough to make the EV2.3 comfortable to ride.
Below are two pictures of the vehicle leaned over.
Below is a detail of the seat. The lever on the rider's left engages the motor. The lever on the rider's right engages the lean lock.
The faring tips forward to allow for the rider to get into the vehicle.
2. Because of the compact and streamlined faring , the EV could attain higher speeds.
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I have a thing for Polar bear. I just love them so much. I collect polar bear stuff, from stuffed animal, fridge magnet, keys chain, pajamas, note holder ,wallpaper, now their stamps! Mimi and Polar bear stamp is so precious, and great for christmas and friendship card.
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In honor of African American History month, we're featuring the International Review of African American Art (IRAAA) as the journal of the month for February. IRAAA is the only periodical spanning the history of African American art from early and modern to contemporary. The journal is published by Hampton University Museum on a quarterly basis. Founded in 1868, the Museum is the oldest African American museum in the United States featuring collections with over 9,000 objects including African American fine arts, traditional African, Native American, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Island, and Asian art.
Volume 24, no. 3b is a special issue of the journal published in conjunction with the Dianne Whitfield-Locke and Carnell Locke Collection: Building on Tradition exhibition at the Hampton University Museum. The issue acts like an exhibition catalog and features essays and full-color reproductions. Stop by the library to view this beautiful journal, and browse the back issues on display!


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Hey everyone,
As promised, something a little different this time. We learn a lot from the mistakes of others, to be sure, but we can learn from their successes as well. There are many great maps out there which inspire me to keep going, to keep making myself better. And, of course, there's something to be said for looking at things that are beautiful.
So, today I'll make a few comments about one of my favorite maps, which I fell in love a couple of years ago when an instructor of mine used it on his intro cartography syllabus.
This is a map of Kenai Fjords National Park, in Alaska, by Tom Patterson, one of the masters of creating terrain relief. Not only is he great at it, but he has a website which helps explain his techniques to anyone interested: Shaded Relief. You can also find some nice, freely available, premade relief images for the entire globe.
The most obvious great thing about this map is the relief. I've provided a detail above, but you should click on the first image, which takes you to the National Park Service map viewer, and browse around the image in detail yourself. This is not just some quick, automatically generated terrain relief that you put together in ArcGIS. Those can look decent, but the Kenai Fjords map is a huge step beyond what most people do. I am not sure as to the exact details of its creation, but he has clearly done a lot of manual work here, airbrushing in Photoshop or some similar program, carefully choosing his colors to show shadows, vegetation patterns, etc. The detail is incredible. I mean, you can even see a fine snow texturing on the top of the ice/snow dome and the glaciers. And small mountain peaks poking up through the snow. This thing is just one or two steps removed from a photograph — just far enough away from one that it doesn't have that weird mismatched feeling that I get from looking at satellite photo that have been labeled with simple symbols and clean type, as though there are 1000-foot-high letters on the ground. He did his job well, and that means that you don't notice most of the effort he had to go to. It looks right, it looks natural — nothing sticks out as being obviously wrong or feeling artificial. He even carries the relief into the water, so that the land doesn't look like it's sitting on a flat plane.
I will speculate, however, that the beauty of this relief is probably helped out a bit by the fact that the actual terrain of this region in Alaska is, itself, beautiful and interesting (applying this same technique in Kansas would likely produce something less stunning). Nonetheless, it would be easy to fail at doing justice to such terrain.
The labeling and other symbols on the map are still clear, despite what goes on underneath them — they're not overpowered by the terrain relief. I also like the parts which show how the glaciers have receded in the last century. This is not just a pretty map — it's a functional one that conveys data.
As I'm writing this, I'm finding it's a lot more challenging to pick out what's good about a map than it is to discuss what's bad. This, again, links to what I said above about how, when things are well done, they're harder to notice. A bad color scheme sticks out. A good color scheme draws little attention, because it just feels like it's suppose to be that way. Likewise with the text — above, Mr. Patterson does a fine job of separating text styles. The type used for glaciers looks different than the type for islands and the type for the ranger station, because those are all different classes of things. It looks good, but you don't think about it because it's generally what you're supposed to do.
As I do more of these posts, I hope to get better at pointing out the good side of things, as well. It is, in fact, one reason that I am engaging in this exercise. Meanwhile, I encourage you all to chime in about your favorite (or, if feeling critical, least favorite) parts of this map in the comments section. And keep sending me maps you like (or don't), and tell me why.
I'm flying out to California next week to attend the annual meeting of the North American Cartography Information Society. I may be off the radar for a bit, but I hope that I will have a chance to meet some of you there.


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Stratosphere Group necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 213 diseños de 38 diseñadores freelance.
Stratosphere Group
We are a start-up management consultancy group that will also be venturing into a couple of new business ventures in the not too distant future within the medical industry. We plan to be extremely innovative, with a technology focus and pride ourselves on assisting businesses with the implementation of our planned strategies.
Target audience - small to medium size businesses looking for growth and to be mentors in regards to business strategy.
We need a logo that is clear, sophisticated and innovative. We need to make a professional impression but still don't what a stamp of "boring management consultants". The Stratosphere word needs to be the main word with 'Group' being small and possibly in capital letters below. The 'Group' word we would also like to be able to easily interchange with 'Consulting'.
• International design
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• Feeling of "innovation and implementation"
• Needs to work on a white or black background
• Logo can be anything really. Whilst the Stratosphere name came from an idea for a new business involving doctors on commercial flights, this is not important in regards to this logo.
• Type the "Group" in smaller font and possibly in capital letters below and possibly grey?
• The word "Stratosphere" is most important to communicate
• Feeling of web 2.0 (modern, easy to read, intuitive)
• Design must be given in black and white design as well as one full colour
• Must be able to be used for both print and web media
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• No clipart, istock or cartoons
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BRANDON — Many of the 16 people who attended the Nov. 17 meeting of the Otter Valley Union High School board voiced their support for Brandon Police Officer Anne Bandy and the position of School Resource Officer (SRO). The board is expected to cut the position in its 2011-2012 budget, netting a savings of $38,000.
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It isn't just the widening international scope of the fashion industry that makes clothing design everybody's business these days. It's the shows, which are ever more fantastic, and the press coverage of them, which is ever more hysterically serious. It certainly isn't the clothes. If you look around at what men and women are actually wearing in the big fashion cities–Paris, Milan, London, New York–you'll see very little evidence that runway fashion has any impact at all. The extreme garments created for the shows may be worn, occasionally, by people in fashion, showbiz, or society. But the only way the public has of relating to these items is to gasp at them and applaud them, swoon over them and deplore them, laugh at them and compare them–and it's not even the clothes that evoke these responses, it's their likenesses transmitted by the media.
On television, we see close-up interviews with designers babbling tensely just before the show and gasping with relief and fatigue afterward. This lets us know how epic the designer's personal ordeal has been, how heroic his endurance. The other epic elements of the show are insistent music, striking lighting, and a piquant setting, perhaps a skating rink. But these are beside the point. The central focus of everything is the bevy of unbelievable models and the way they work. Clothes, no matter how outrageous, don't register by themselves. It's the girls parading around in them that make the show, dazzle the audience, magnetize the cameras, and entrance the world. Them, and the obscurely thrilling knowledge that they are paid enormous sums to do it.
I n Paris last week I attended the Vivienne Westwood fashion show. Several palatial chambers and corridors in the 18th century Hôtel Crillon were given over to the operation; they were packed with rows of golden chairs leaving a serpentine passage for the parade, and surrounded by banks of lights and ranks of camerapeople. The audience was an untidy mix, milling and chattering in several languages and photographing each other during the long wait, some dressed in startling Westwoody costumes. A tape of Baroque music began, the mumbling stopped, and on came the procession of ravishing visions. They passed inches from me, stalking and swaying, pausing occasionally, casting friendly looks on one and all. They were very young and very slim, 6 feet tall and distinctively beautiful, each wondrously clad in a wide range of strong colors and textures that were cut and fitted or draped and buttoned to mold the body and occasionally expose the bosom or upper thighs. (In this show, Westwood again demonstrated her talent for employing authentic historical styles to achieve shockingly modern erotic results.) The girls all had fluffy, multicolored piles of hair and bee-stung lips and wore very high-heeled boots or shoes, so they looked like a team even though each costume was different.
Such ensemble work is crucial at fashion shows. On television the camera rests fleetingly and incompletely on a single outfit. But in life the important thing is the mesmerizing sequence of models. At the Marc Jacobs show for Louis Vuitton, the girls all had bare legs and flat mules and their hair hung down perfectly straight. They wore no makeup at all. The clothes were unshaped and the colors restrained. But everybody was 6 feet tall and slim, very young and very beautiful, and paraded with the same pleasing, well disposed manner and well paced gait through the perversely austere production.
A t Lanvin, there were many nipples visible through transparent fabrics. At Guy Laroche, there were glittering red sheaths below huge wigs. At Issey Miyake, there was stiff fabric sculpted around the bodies, as always. At Jean-Paul Gaultier, everybody was muffled up in boots and long skirts with caps and sweaters, hoping to suggest the Left Bank in 1948. Through all such intensely concocted efforts, year after year, set ablaze by fierce lights and lashed at by loud music, rows of tall, beautiful, amiable young women stride and pause and turn, obligingly decked in strands of rope, piles of feathers, patches of metal, mountains of taffeta. Every once in a while, one or another will endearingly stumble.
It wasn't always like this. Mannequins have paraded in designers' collections since the turn of the century, but until World War II their status was low and so was their pay. They were employees at individual designers' studios, and their job was to resemble store-window dummies or the sketchy figures in fashion drawings. The sexual charms of prospective customers were on no account to be upstaged by those of the model. Mannequins were nameless, their standard good looks as uninteresting as possible, their erotic selves effaced. At Paquin around 1913, models wore flesh-colored coverings on arms, back, and bosom when they showed décolleté evening wear, so their bare skin wouldn't be distracting.
I t has remained true that the fashion model's only job is to appear in clothes; indeed, in the atmosphere in which they shine as individual stars, it's all the more important that they have no other distracting talents. The appeal of these female platoons is ancient, potent, and forbidden. They are like rows of whores or slaves, odalisques or concubines, servants in Astarte's temple, Satan's demons as myriad sirens. They don't offer intricate performances that took years of severe training to perfect; they don't sing, speak, or chant; they don't earnestly appear for a cause; they aren't eagerly joining in a festival. They have no will. They parade their fresh charms in seductive, borrowed plumage for our judgment, but only for the greater glory of the sultan, the high priest, the whoremaster, the ringmaster, the devil himself, the designer and his backer who have bought them as toys to play with. It's one of the oldest erotic fantasies, recurrent in legends and fictions of many kinds, lending itself well to traditional ballet and cabaret–see Scheherezade, La Bayadère, Les Folies Bergères, the Copacabana.
We don't allow ourselves to perceive fashion shows as variations on this particular theme, because it would force us away from the comfortable notion that fashion is the mirror of our time. But we do know that deep beneath our surface approval of the wholesome worldwide tide of luxury commerce that keeps the fashion business afloat–boosting economies, promoting employment and cultural exchange, enriching the media with new material and the visual arts with new scope–it is all about sex of a very old-fashioned and dirty-minded kind. What we secretly like about fashion is seeing it perennially exposed in daring, costly, ridiculous, delicious, televised runway shows full of mobile, passive, perfect girls. Anyone looking for a further proof of the return to barbarism at the end of this millennium could probably find it there.


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Christmas, they say, is about giving. And it's about this time each year that I am repeatedly asked for recommendations of gifts for wine lovers. This is yet another reason I love Christmas—endless stupid premises. Here, then, are the HoseMaster of Wine™ Gift Ideas for the Wine Aficionado in your life. In the St. Nick of time.
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Growing up in Johnson City, Tennessee, Messrs Jef and Justice Joslin always knew that there was something else out there for them. So, in late 2011, with one brother fixed on a career in music and the NFL beckoning for the other, they packed their belongings into a Toyota SUV and drove 35 hours cross-country to find their own version of the California dream.
"Growing up, that West Coast thing had always been an allure to me," explains Jef, the older of the two brothers at 27. "I'd always loved the Beach Boys. That rich, melodic sound - it seemed like the soundtrack to a lifestyle that I aspired to. I was just drawn to it." It was a job at a branch of Guitar Center in Atlanta, Georgia that gave the musician the opportunity he needed. "I just found a branch in LA near where I wanted to live, and hit up my manager for a transfer. Easy as that," he laughs. "Justice was trying out for NFL combines at the time, and I was like, "Dude, just come out with me.'"
Nearly two years later, Jef's music career is gathering pace, and Justice has shifted his focus from football and is making his way as an actor and model. Other than that, though, it seems little has changed. "When we first arrived, we'd sleep on the floor and eat black beans and rice. But we had surfboards," says the younger brother. "And we're still pretty easy to please now," adds Jef. "Having the beach out the back door is all you really need. You can always go to the water and watch the sunset, and it doesn't cost a thing."
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Alex Toscano (23) of Duluth East tries to fight his way through the Moorhead defense during the 'Hounds 5-1 victory. Photos by Tim Kolehmainen.
After Duluth East lost to Breck in the quarterfinals of the Schwan Cup Gold tournament the day after Christmas, coach Mike Randolph had a message for his team. And it took a good hour to deliver it.
The 'Hounds had a closed-door meeting in which Randolph aired his feelings on the season. East, which was a preseason top-10 team despite graduating its powerful top line of a year ago, had lost three of its past five games to fall to 4-3-0 on the season. The 'Hounds were struggling to score goals and had what Randolph felt was a lackluster effort against the Class 1A Mustangs.
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East (8-3-0) has won its past four games by a combined 18-4 score against four of the best programs in the state – Edina, Minnetonka, Blaine and the latest victim, Moorhead, in a 5-1 victory Saturday, Jan. 5 at the Moorhead Sports Center. Already a stout defensive team, the 'Hounds have begun to put the puck in the net with regularity.
"That Breck loss was the game that turned it all around," said senior forward Jack Forbort, who had two goals and an assist against the Spuds. "We got talked to for an hour after that game. We all just figured it out and we all started doing our roles and it's all going well now."
The 'Hounds, who had less than 24 hours to regroup after the Breck loss, had as sudden a turnaround as one could imagine.
"What's happened?" asked Randolph when posed the same question. "We had a long, heart-to-heart talk with the team and told them they need to have a heart-to-heart talk with themselves and their teammates about why we weren't showing up."
"We just weren't ready to go and we weren't ready to compete and because of that, we got beat," said Randolph. "The nice thing is that it tells these guys that they can play with anybody and beat anybody, but they can also lose to anybody.
"That will be a message thrown at them throughout the season."
It's also helped that the 'Hounds have begun to get scoring from its top line of Forbort, Alex Toscano and Ryan Lundgren. After playing the shadow of last year's All-State trio of Jake Randolph, Dom Toninato and Trevor Olson, the 'Hounds new top line is finally living up to its role as a go-to group.
"Guys are starting to understand their roles," said Randolph. "Our top line is our top line and our top line has to be our top line. They have to do the majority of scoring because they get the opportunity."
Even with Lundgren missing the Moorhead game due to illness, the top unit still clicked with defenseman Phil Beaulieu up on a wing for the night. Beaulieu and Toscano each assisted on Forbort's two goals. Forbort took over the scoring lead on the team from Toscano, with defensemen Meirs Moore and Beaulieu and forward Lundgren right behind.
"Keep doing what we're doing," said Forbort of what has been clicking since that closed-door meeting. "Every line is providing right now and that's just great."
The 'Hounds have been stingy defensively right from the start. They've given up more than two goals just once all season (a 5-2 loss to Centennial on Dec. 18) and two of their losses have come in low-scoring games in which they've been shut out (1-0 to Wayzata on Dec. 8 and 2-0 to Breck on Dec. 26). But the goals hadn't come consistently until the past week.
"It's nice to see us be able to put the puck in the net," said Randolph. "We've been very, very consistent for 12 periods now. And that's what we were looking for."
Duluth East's Jack Forbort (27) scored twice and added an assist.
Jack Forbort scored twice and added an assist as No. 6AA Duluth East continued its recent domination with a 5-1 victory over Moorhead Saturday, Jan. 5 at the Moorhead Sports Center. The Greyhounds (8-3-0) have now won four straight games against teams ranked in the top-20 by a combined 18-4 score.
Both teams were short key members due to illness. Moorhead (7-6-1) was missing third and fourth leading scorers (Aaron Herdt and Nick Uglem) and Duluth East's fifth leading scorer (Ryan Lundgren) was also out sick. The absences caused some line juggling, but the 'Hounds still clicked.
Tony Uglem scored just 35 seconds into the game to give Moorhead an early lead, but it was all East the rest of the way. Nick Altmann and Forbort scored in the first period to give the 'Hounds a 2-1 lead. In the second, Meirs Moore, Jack Kolar and Forbort pushed the lead to 5-1.
Jacob Dittmer started in goal for Moorhead before being replaced midway through the second period by Peter MacFarlane. Dittmer made 17 saves on 22 shots, while MacFarlane stopped all 19 shots he saw the rest of the way.
Dylan Parker earned the victory in goal for East with 18 saves.
1. Jack Forbort, Duluth East
Forbort came up big offensively for the 'Hounds, scoring a pair of goals and adding an assist. His tipped goal midway through the first period proved to be the game-winner and he capped the scoring with a rifle right under the crossbar midway through the second period.
2. Andrew Kerr, Duluth East
According to coach Mike Randolph, Kerr is one of those rare players who loves to hit. He comes out of the corners with a big grin on his face – and the puck on his stick more often than not. Kerr again threw his body around to the detriment of the Moorhead forwards, and also picked up two assists.
3. Meirs Moore, Duluth East
Moore is the 'Hounds' quarterback on the ice, not only on the power play but also in 5-on-5 situations. He got the breakout going with either a pinpoint pass or a rush up ice from his defensive position. Moore scored East's third goal early in the second period.


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I believe that biography can be a useful tool for understanding complex organizations from a variety of perspectives. In many cases, certain people have been able to achieve considerable success despite complicated organizations and multiple internal and external challenges. By examining the lives of these people, it is often possible to take what these people have done and apply it to organizations today. This can become a powerful teaching tool.
I believe Julius Caesar is such an example. He lived a remarkable life and is probably the person most responsible for the destruction of the Roman Republic and the birth of the Roman Empire even though the death of the Republic would have probably happened at the hands of someone else had Caesar not been around. Although he was never technically emperor, his was the first of what would be a long line of military rulers who brought Rome to greatness and then centuries later to an eventual decline and fall. Caesar accomplished one of the most impressive feats in human history by doing this and as a result is one of the most written about men in history.
I believe that we can classify Caesar as a middle range leader. He was always scanning his environment and using the most appropriate strategy necessary to solve a problem. In many cases, he would appear to be subscribing to the theory X model postulated by Mac Gregor (1960) but in other cases he was showing characteristics of someone following Theory Y. Caesar's choices were contingent on the situation.
I think a good illustration of this is in how Caesar ran his campaigns in the Gallic Wars and later during the Great Roman Civil War between him and the forces of the Roman Senate. Roman legions were tightly structured. They were drilled in formation and tactics so that every legion and Roman soldier could accomplish tasks in the same successful way. Taylor (1911) argued for this approach in his approach to leadership via scientific management. He believed that every task should be measured and made uniform so that employees could have the most productivity. This was the same of the Roman legions. They were uniform in behavior and this resulted in continued victories over barbarian armies in Gaul and over lesser trained Roman legions during the civil war.
However, at the same time, Caesar recognized that he could not tightly regulate the behavior of his generals. Communication took weeks in many cases. Caesar's generals did not have time to wait for his orders as they often had to make quick tactical decisions in the midst of battles and in suppressing guerrilla engaged in harassing supply lines. As such, Caesar empowered his generals to act. This is a transitional theory method of management which allows employees to motivate themselves and trusts them to make the right decisions. It is also shows that he understood what Kotter and Cohen (2002) listed as one of the steps in their change management approach to empower action.
This use of two very different organizational approaches is very instructive today. Caesar successfully regulated the behavior of his soldiers while at the same time was more open and supportive of the leaders of his legions and allowed them wide latitude in making decisions. There may be situations when a leader needs to do this today. For example, a leader in a fast food restaurant may need to make sure that the average workers do all tasks in the same way. The preparation of the food should not vary and the procedures for opening and closing, taking orders, etc. should be uniformly standard as well. At the same time, the managers in the restaurant need to have the ability to make quick decisions when dealing with personnel problems and customer complaints. Both the classical scientific management approach and the transitional theory approach to management can be used in the same organization.
Caesar also understood the role of informal power in an organization. Barnard (1938) wrote that power was not always top down as represented on the organizational chart. Often times, informal leaders without line authority had a great deal of power in an organization. For example, the office manager may be in charge but it may be his secretary who actually rules. Caesar recognized this early on in his career by his cultivation of the support of Crassus. This man had no formal power in the Roman Republic most of his career. Yet, he was considered by many to be the most powerful man in Rome because of his vast fortune and the fact that many politicians owed him huge amounts of money. Crassus responded to Caesar's overtures favorably and it may well have been his support which keep Caesar from falling to political enemies in is early career.
Leaders today can learn from this. If a leader needs support, he would be well advised to look for people like Crassus in his organization. Who does not appear on the organizational chart but holds power? Are decision made in the staff lounge which may hinder a leader? It is very important for the leader to find out who wields the actual power in an organization and gain their support.
Another area that Caesar understood well was the culture of the Roman state. It had flourished for almost 500 years before Caesar took power. As such, it had developed a complex set of traditions that were not to be trampled upon. As Deal and Peterson (1999) noted, every organization has a long past which has shaped its vision, purpose and values, rituals and ceremonies, stories and history, and artifacts and architecture. This was true of the Roman Republic as well.
As such, Caesar did not visibly change the Roman Republic when he took charge. He refused the title of king. He kept the Roman Senate intact (stuffed with his supporters of course) and he kept the appearance of the system of rulership of having two annual consuls intact. The pomp and ceremony of the Roman Republic stayed intact even after the Republic ceased to exist. Caesar successfully connected his changes to make them appear to be a continuation of the past and as such he made use of the existing culture of Rome to change it dramatically.
Getzels and Guba (1957) wrote that successful organizations often have areas that die out and are then reborn. This as well can be seen in Caesar's restructuring of the Roman state. Many of the institutions of the state (the Senate and the consulship for example) literally died and were reborn as the same entities with new roles. This regeneration may have been bad for democracy but it was highly successful in allowing one man to rule the state for centuries to come. As such, it can be seen as a successful example of what Getzels and Guba were referencing brought about by Caesar's actions.
I think Caesar's organizational changes to the Roman state are instructive to leaders today. Both Deal and Peterson (1999) and Getzels and Guba (1957) have points that are important to ponder today for leader's and studying Caesar can help them understand. How can a leader alter an organization and yet recognize that the culture of the organization values its past, its ceremonies, its rituals, and other expressions of what the organization has become over time? Caesar shows that change is possible and the best way to do this is to make the changes mesh with and seem to be a continuation of where the organization has grown over time.
I also believe that Caesar made good use of strategies that Machiavelli (1532) would advocate for 1500 years later in The Prince. Caesar was a forgiving man with countrymen. He tried to communicate for buy-in to get his fellow Romans to accept his rule. To do so, he would forgive those who took up arms against him and allow them to serve him. He often pardoned rebel senators as well often right after he had defeated their troops in battle. By doing so, he did a good job of turning enemies into supporters.
However, Caesar did have his limits. He was willing to kill unrepentant enemies. Caesar in many cases acted in a way that Machiavelli (1515) referred to as "entering into evil." At some of the final battles of the Roman Civil War, he refused to accept the surrender of his staunchest enemies and he had them killed instead. Caesar believed the war would never end unless he removed certain people who could not accept the new organizational order of the Roman state. Several of Pompey the Great's sons meet their fate in this manner. However, after "entering into evil" he left it as quickly as possible and returned to his policies of keeping the peace with his former foes.
Although it is inappropriate for leaders today to kill opponents, there are examples here that can be used by leaders. Caesar can be useful in understanding this Machiavellian idea. If all other options fail, and the organization is in danger, when is it appropriate for the leader to do something that they might not normally have done and might even be considered to be wrong? And, if the leader chooses to "enter into evil," how does he get out of it as soon as he can?
Thousands of years have passed since Caesar lived. Yet, I feel he is a good example of a leader who understood his organization well and was willing to use multiple perspectives to achieve his desired ends. While I do not claim that Caesar was a moral man by today's standards, I do think he was a successful man and his actions can be very instructive to leaders today.
Barnard, C. (1938). The functions of the executive. Boston: Harvard University Press.
Deal, T. and Peterson, K. (1999). Shaping school culture: The heart of leadership. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Getzels, J. and Guba, E. (1957). Social behavior and the administrative process. School review, 65, 423-441
Kotter, J. P. & Cohen, D. S. (2002). The heart of change: Real-life stories of how people change their organizations. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press.
McGregor, D. (1966). The human side of enterprise.
Machiavelli, N. (1515). The Prince, Retrieved 9 January 2007, from http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/m/machiavelli/niccolo/m149p/chapter6.html.
Taylor, F. W. (1911). The principles of scientific management.
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Thursday, April 19, 2007
Using Caesar to Teach About Leadership
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- twofistedslopper said...
Excellent essay.
I really enjoyed this essay, and in fact, I'm going to pass the link to several I know. Thanks for a fine read.
Hal Brown
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This seminar will deal primarily with current constitutional, statutory and other problems related to elections. It will focus on such matters as the constitutional structure of our electoral process, women's suffrage, voting and wealth, race, the Voting Rights Act, gerrymandering, voter registration and voting, including current controversies about voter IDs, early voting etc., and campaign finance. There is no exam, but a term paper is required. Registration is limited to 15 students.
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Mark Fernandez, Ph.D., history professor at Loyola University New Orleans, was recently named the seventh annual Woody Guthrie Fellow through the BMI Foundation, Inc. Fernandez was also named a Louisiana Historical Association Fellow for his extensive publications on Louisiana's history and culture and his service to the LHA.
The Louisiana Historical Association, which allows for a total of only 35 fellows, recognizes the outstanding accomplishments of members and other scholars by honoring those who have made remarkable contributions to Louisiana's culture, literature and history.
In addition to being a widely-published author on Louisiana history, Fernandez also served as LHA president in 2010, founded the association's Standing Committee on Teaching History and served for many years on the board of the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival.
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Between your new regimen of daily workouts, volunteering, painting or whatever else you've resolved to do more of in the New Year, make time for a few tech-centric resolutions.
They're low impact and will keep your memories and online identity safer, your mind sharper and your friendships healthier.
Here are six you can do right now. You'll thank yourself later.
Back up your stuff
Back up your files. Do it now, do it often, do not put it off until your hard drive suddenly and unexpectedly perishes or until your laptop is stolen from a cafe when you run to the bathroom.
Everyone will have different backup needs, but for the most basic computer backups there are a few basic options. You can use an external hard drive or a cloud service. There are services like Carbonite, which will automatically back up photos, music, documents and emails for an annual fee. If you have an Apple computer, turn on Time Machine and it will backup your files to the drive of your choice in the background.
You also can use a cloud storage service like Dropbox or Google Drive to save a copy of select files. A nice Dropbox feature is that it can automatically save new photos from connected cameras or smartphones to the cloud.
Turn on 2-factor authentication
Hopefully by now you know and follow all the best practices for protecting your passwords: Avoid dictionary words; use multiword pass phrases; don't use the same password across multiple sites; keep it memorable but not obvious. But strong passwords aren't enough to keep you completely secure. When it comes to your important online accounts, one of the most effective security measures you can take is turning on two-factor authentication.
Two-factor authentication requires you to confirm your identity with two separate things. Typically it's something you know, like a password, and something you have, like your cell phone or a key fob. For example, when you try to log in to a Gmail account from an unrecognized location, Google will text you a code you need to enter.
Start with your e-mail accounts, which can be used to gain access to your other online accounts. Gmail and Yahoo both offer two-factor authentication, but Outlook currently does not. Cloud storage services with two-factor include Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft's Sky Drive. Apple's iCloud does not yet offer it. Facebook has its own two-factor feature called login approvals.
Two-factor can be a hassle to use and will take some getting used to, but it's a small inconvenience to avoid the much larger, more devastating inconvenience of being hacked.
Scan old photos
We all have them. The stacks of old photos hidden in boxes under the bed or collecting dust in basements. If you don't have digital copies of these gems, stop stalling and start scanning. Natural disasters, floods and fires can wipe out film memories in an instant. To scan your images, get a flatbed scanner and place multiple images on the bed at a time. You can crop and retouch individual pictures later.
If manually scanning in each old photo sounds like too big (or boring) of an undertaking, you can hire a company to do it for you. Many local camera stores offer bulk-scanning services and will return your originals along with high-resolution TIFFs or JPEGs on a CD or hard drive. And you can store copies of your photos online in case your laptop crashes (see resolution No. 1).
If you're comfortable sending your photos away, the best option is using a company that specialize in bulk photo scanning. They'll even do light retouching and repairs for older pictures, videos and slides. Check out ScanDigital.com or ScanCafe.com.
Step away from the smartphone
If you spend most of the day with your nose buried a smartphone, tablet or computer, make an effort to break out of the digital world and interact more with the humans around you in 2013. Don't habitually check your online social networks while hanging out with your flesh-and-blood friends.
On a date? Don't even think about texting. (Unless the date is going horribly and they're in the bathroom and you need to arrange an emergency extraction.)
Attempt to live in the moment instead of just documenting the moment on Instagram. Yes, that sunset will look stunning with the Valencia filter, but it will look even better through your own eyeballs.
There's a time and a place for texting and e-mailing and checking Twitter. But this year, let's try to leave the screens in our pockets and bags more often and engage with the world around us.
Read the TOS and check privacy settings
Terms of service are long, boring documents filled with impenetrable legalese. But before you upload content or share personal information with a site, take a few minutes to read over its terms of service -- and any privacy agreements -- so you have a better idea of who owns your data and what the company can do with it. Start with the biggies you're probably already using such as Google, Facebook, Instagram, Yahoo and Twitter.
Next, take a trip to your privacy settings. Even if you had your settings just the way you wanted them a year ago, the company could have updated the controls and left some of your information exposed.
Learn something new online
Tech resolutions aren't all preventative measures to avoid doom and gloom. You can also embark on fun, self-improvement projects. Quality classes are free and plentiful online. There are courses for every age, interest and attention span, from major universities and organizations.
Pick up a language, learn how to code at Codeacademy or just be inspired by the best Ted Talks. Apple's iTunes U is stocked with videos and podcasts of classes, as well as supporting materials like worksheets and ebooks. You can access them from a computer or download the ITunes U iPad or iPhone app. The YouTube Education channel has instructional videos on math, business, language and the other usual suspects, including fun experiments you can try at home. Check out the Spangler Science channel and prepare to simultaneously mess with and impress your kids.
Coursera offers free college courses from big name universities including Princeton, Emory, Stanford, Johns Hopkins and Columbia. Get the knowledge without the student loans (or course credit, unfortunately).