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Lunch: Special Evening Edition as Michael's Celebrates 20 Years
As much as we enjoy observing the social customs of the various media tribes during our Wednesday lunches at Michael's, we jumped at the chance to mingle with the natives last night as they roamed free from the pecking order in the dining room. Michael McCarty threw himself quite a blowout to celebrate 20 years at 55th & Fifth, and a few hundred of his closest friends came out to mark the occasion.
By the time I arrived a little after six there was a line out the door where I crossed paths with my good pals — and Michael's stalwarts — Lisa Linden and Nielsen's Gerry Byrne. "I thought I'd get here early and beat the crowd," Lisa told me. Nothing doing as we inched our way into the packed dining room. A camera crew from LX New York was there as the man of the hour personally greeted each guest at the door with a slap on the back (for the guys) and air kisses (for the gals). Michael's wife, the talented artist Kim McCarty, whose artwork adorns the restaurant's walls, beamed with pride. Just another fabulous night out in New York …
Here's a rundown of the 'cool kids' who finished their homework in time to make it out Wednesday night.
Glamour editrix Cindi Leive (loved the leopard!) was chatting with attorney Lorie Almon ("She knows everybody!") about next Monday night's Women of the Year awards. Thanks for the invite; we can't wait. When I asked Cindi what keeps her coming back to Michael's she told me, "I like the food; I don't even have to look at the menu. And I get to see people in my world, so I can check off that box. I'm a creature of habit." Makes sense to us.
The fabulous fashionista, Fern Mallis sailed by, and I just had to ask her whether she'd heard if there was going to be another season of her reality show, The Fashion Show with Isaac Mizrahi. No word yet from Bravo, says Fern. Stay tuned.
I stopped by the bar to say hello to HarperCollins' David Hirshey and my old friend Michael Solomon, and we got into a lively discussion about our mutual obsession with Mad Men. The show's season finale airs Sunday, and we're all on the edge of our seats wondering if desperate housewife Betty will leave her unraveling husband Don Draper for that irksome Henry Francis. We decided that if it were up to us the couple would stay together unhappily ever after, but chances are series creator Matt Weiner has something else in store. Michael, who I got to know when we were both working for TV Guide, now toils for The Daily Beast as features director. After some catching up, we had a nice OTR chat about the good old days when people could still make a living as print journalists.
When I bumped into Investigation Discovery honcho Henry Schleiff, I offered my congratulations on his network's new show, On the Case with Paula Zahn, which is garnering some good reviews. Kudos!


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"Morning dawns... People are moving. It's a little frightening, but still: Start running. My duty: Don't forget who you love most. It hurts, but I'm looking from this place at the desert's dawn.
Open that door. In the time that's left, take a deep breath. Lift your eyes stare straight ahead. Give your last kiss and start running. Truth is a wind. The dark is being torn away. Your heart is stopping. The roads are splitting. Destiny's Star has decided... Your choice is the white ROUTE. We soar to the future... Don't be mislead..."
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Expedition Photo of the Day: Arrow Crab
These nocturnal crabs resemble underwater daddy long-legs, with purple-tipped limbs up to three times the length of their abdomens. Despite their gangly appearance, they are surprisingly agile.
This feasting crustacean was captured on film on our oil spill research expedition off the coast of Panama City, Florida.
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Day 6: Back to Reality
Here's your expedition update for today, from Oceana's senior campaign communications manager Dustin Cranor:
News flash – the oil in the Gulf is not gone.
Although there have been lots of media reports that the oil in the Gulf is "gone," two new scientific studies were released today that give a different -- and less rosy -- picture.
First, independent scientists estimate that as much as 80 percent of the oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill is still in the Gulf. Even if it's only 50 percent, that's a lot of oil. Second, and even more disturbing, scientists discovered oil from the spill on the seafloor of Desoto Canyon, which means that oil could be in shallower waters where vulnerable habitats exist.
Oceana believes that the worst of the oil's impacts are yet to be seen. As part of our effort to document valuable and vulnerable habitats, we took advantage of our location and dove not too far from the same beach that President Obama recently visited in Panama City.
On this nearly 90 foot dive, Oceana's divers spotted tiny corals, arrow crabs, hermit crabs, flatfish, soapfish and butterflyfish, all species at risk from the effects of oil spills. What many do not realize is that there is simply no effective way to remove oil from coral.
Look at some of the incredible creatures our divers spotted:
Day 5: Diving into the Unknown
Here's your daily expedition update from Oceana's senior campaign communications manager Dustin Cranor:
The Oceana Latitude faced rougher seas today as it reached The Florida Middle Grounds off the West Florida Shelf in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico, roughly 100 miles from shore. This is another area that was apparently spared the impacts of oil drilling, at least this time.
Oceana chose this location for its next diving operation because it's a very important and popular fishing area sitting amongst a complex and vulnerable seafloor habitat, including deep sea corals. Although it's a popular fishing area, there is little information about the seafloor itself, due to its distance from shore and depth from the surface.
Our first dive site was nearly 100 feet deep and provided a great opportunity to document large hogfish and angel fish as well as sponges and sea fans.
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Day 4: Diving at Egmont Key
Here's your expedition update for today, from Oceana's senior campaign communications manager Dustin Cranor:
After nearly 30 hours in commute, we finally arrived to Tampa.
The crew took off early this morning on the Oceana Lat-Long, the Latitude's 28-foot tender, to dive at Egmont Key at the mouth of Tampa Bay. Egmont Key, a national wildlife refuge only accessible by boat, was home to Fort Dade during the Spanish-American war. Although this island was once capable of protecting our coasts from offshore invaders, it's no defense against oil.
Here's support diver Soledad Esnaola:
Soledad Esnaola Second Oceana Dive Operation Egmont Key from Oceana on Vimeo.
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Day 3: Sailing to Tampa
Here's your expedition update for today, from Oceana's senior campaign communications manager Dustin Cranor:
The Oceana Latitude sailed all night and day to reach our next destination, Tampa.
The long commute allowed the crew to review and prepare photos and video from the dive operation off the coast of Key West. Although the conditions were not ideal, our specialized divers were able to capture some beautiful underwater landscapes. And while in commute, we were entertained by yet another dolphin sighting. This time, we have it on video for you.
Dolphin Sighting Onboard Oceana Latitude, Headed to Tampa, FL from Oceana on Vimeo.
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Day 2: 'Diving in Milk'
Your daily expedition update from Oceana senior campaign communications manager Dustin Cranor:
The Oceana crew set off for their first dive operation at the Western Dry Rocks off the coast of Key West yesterday morning.
The diving conditions at this first location were far from ideal. Recent storms stirred up the water with sand and mud, leaving the divers with limited visibility of only three to nine feet. Support diver Soledad Esnaola described it as "like diving in milk." The site was approximately 50 feet deep and a majority of the coral was covered in sediment. Despite the poor conditions, underwater videographer Enrique Talledo spotted a six-foot green moray eel.
The second dive took place at the Western Sambo Reef, which offered much better visibility of approximately 25 feet. After diving in many different environments all around the world, Oceana's divers found the reefs to be mostly dead or dying, with little biodiversity, very few fish and no invertebrate life. It was far from what they expected to see on a Caribbean reef. They did catch sight of a 10-inch yellow stingray, a three-foot wide brain coral boulder, grey angel fish, yellowtail snapper, small sea fans and wrasse, small cigar shaped fish.
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Day 1: Playful Dolphins and Baby Fish
Here's your expedition update for today, from senior campaigns communications manager, Dustin Cranor:
The Oceana Latitude is now anchored off the coast of Key West for the first leg of its two-month expedition.
On our long voyage from Fort Lauderdale, we spotted a lot of sargassum floating on the surface of the water. It's sad to imagine that this floating seaweed is at risk in the Gulf of Mexico because it provides essential habitat for marine animals in the open ocean.
We also had our first interaction with something other than flying fish. As we made our way into shallow waters, dolphins begin surrounding the bow of the ship. They continued entertaining the crew by swimming and eating small fish around the boat for hours.
Oceana also took part in the first activity of the expedition, catching and examining small fish. After allowing the fish traps to soak in the water, Oceana marine scientist Margot Stiles quickly identified several small critters, including baby lobsters, shrimp, crabs and squid.
Here's Margot:
Margot Stiles Describes Oceana's First Activity on Gulf Expedition, Examining Baby Fish off Key West August 12, 2010 from Oceana on Vimeo.
And They're Off!
I'm happy to report that the Oceana Latitude officially set sail yesterday evening for the Gulf of Mexico out of Fort Lauderdale!
The first stop will be Key West, where the Oceana crew will work with the ROV and specialized divers to document bottom habitat and other marine life that could be in danger if oil is captured by sea currents and transported towards southern Florida or if another oil spill occurs in this area in the future.
Here's Oceana chief scientist Mike Hirshfield:
Dr. Michael Hirshfield about Oceana Latitude Setting Sail from Oceana on Vimeo.
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Testing Out The Latitude
The Oceana Latitude is making its final preparations for eight weeks on the water. We got this dispatch from our trusty senior campaigns communications manager, Dustin Cranor:
Good news. The satellite internet and phone system is back up and running.
The crew took advantage of the day by spending time testing a majority of the equipment onboard the Oceana Latitude.
Matthias Gorny, from Oceana's Chilean office, launched the ROV from the vessel to assess its standard operating procedures, including ensuring that its seals were working properly. The Longitude, a 42 foot boat adapted for Oceana's research needs, was also deployed for at sea testing.
I'm happy to report that everything worked as planned.
Click here to see a slideshow of photos from the preparations, including a visit from Spanish model Almudena Fernandez.
Video Tour of the Oceana Latitude
The crew aboard the Oceana Latitude is just about ready to set sail in the Gulf of Mexico to investigate the long-term impacts of the oil spill. Oceana marine scientist Margot Stiles is on-board making last minute preparations; here she is to give you a behind-the-scenes look at the crew's home away from home for the next two months:
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Hancocks & Co. was founded in 1849 and continues to this day as one of London's leading jewelers. Very early in its inception, Hancocks was awarded a royal warrant from HRH Victoria who became a devoted client. It is known to have some of the finest jewelry available to this day.
The Three Graces is please to present a magnificent Holbeinesque pendant created by the prestigious Hancocks of London. Holbeinesque jewelry is directly influenced by the Renaissance in terms of overall shape and decoration.
Following in that tradition, the 14k to 18k yellow gold pendant is oval and suspends a lozenge shape drop. Each section is set with a cabochon moonstone surrounded with a border of superlative polychrome champlevé enamel on both the front and reverse.
The moonstone set within the central element is a very unusual cut as a six sided polygon cabochon banded by a thin gold bezel. Its surround is a variety of emerald green, cobalt blue and touches of white enamel floral motifs interspersed with six (6) gorgeous old mine cut diamonds of approximately .25 carats each and cut very deeply for a total estimated diamond weight of 1.5 carats.
The drop is set with a four-sided moonstone cabochon mirroring the lozenge shape and surrounded with a curvilinear perimeter of red and green enamel punctuated by a small triangular cut diamond at the most southern point. The surmount is an oval of alternating cobalt blue and burnt sienna hued enamel sections.
Thee reverse is completely decorated in enamel with designs of Tudor roses and leaves encircling the entire perimeter of the central element. If you look closely you can see the metal work underneath the enamel – almost as if a guilloche.
For very similar examples, please refer to page 52 of "The Master Jewelers" by A. Kenneth Snowman.
Measurements: 2-7/8 inches (7.6 cm) in length including added removable top "O" fitting and 2-11/16 inches (6.7 cm) without by 1-1/8 inches (3 cm) at the widest. Weight of 18.2 grams (11.7 dwt).
Condition: Excellent; a few natural inclusions in both moonstones; tiny chip on the back of small moonstone. Enamel is in superb condition. The top ring is possibly later, clicks open and is quite beautifully made; the gold color is a bit more rose when viewed closely and can be easily removed if so desired.
Date & Origin: Circa 1870 and is English in origin from Hancock of London.
Overall Scale: Large
Note: All diamond weights are approximate as the stones have not been removed in order to preserve the integrity of the setting.


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Myths on Fire
by James Ostrowski by James Ostrowski
In World on Fire, Yale law professor Amy Chua fails to prove her thesis that "the global spread of markets and democracy is a principal, aggravating cause of group hatred and ethnic violence throughout the non-Western world." World on Fire does, however, present convincing evidence for a somewhat different thesis: that modern democracy is no solution to long-standing ethnic, religious and racial conflict. This book also leaves no doubt that racial, ethnic and religious divisions will be a force in world politics for some time to come, contrary to what the wishful thinkers of the world would have us believe.
World on Fire focuses on the phenomenon of "market-dominant minorities" and the social and political problems that revolve around them. Examples include: the Chinese in the Southeast Asia, Lebanese in South America, Jews in post-communist Russia, and miscellaneous market-dominant minorities in Africa. Freeing up these economies tends to increase the wealth of these commercially-savvy minorities. Democratic pressures then eventually lead to a political backlash, often violent.
There is little doubt that democratization has tended to lead to backlashes against economically-successful minorities. Democracy is a system in which the majority and its manipulators get to force their will on minorities. Thus, coercion against minorities is an inherent part of democracy. As I argue elsewhere, many civil wars have resulted from the desire of a minority ethnic group to secede from a state controlled by a hostile ethnic majority.
Chua's thesis that "free markets" lead to or cause violence, is problematical. She must prove that the free market — peaceful trade — leads to its opposite — violence. One of her problems in this regard is lack of a consistent definition of free markets. She admits this is difficult to define but repeatedly uses words that suggest she is speaking of very free markets indeed — the type libertarians support: "raw, laissez-faire capitalism," "unrestrained, laissez-faire," "raw, globally-oriented free market policies," "laissez-faire market conditions." The problem is that when we look at the actual economies in these countries after alleged "free market" reforms, we see not free markets but mixed economies and crony capitalism. The author herself spells this out, thus creating a disparity between the labels she uses and the realities she describes. Moreover, this disparity is critical to understanding the hostility directed at dominant minorities.
For example, Chua writes that Chinese businessmen in Burma benefited from crony capitalism and shared the proceeds with the junta. In Indonesia, "Chinese plutocrats accumulated great wealth by exploiting their corrupt ties with the increasingly hated Suharto." In Mexico, according to Chua, the main beneficiaries of privatization were the President and his cronies including Lebanese businessman Carlos Slim. If shrewd minorities get rich through political pull, that can engender ethnic hatreds that have nothing to do with free markets. Also, in true free markets, great fortunes cannot be made without also improving the living standards of the masses. Better living standards militate against ethnic violence. Crony capitalism of the type that is common in the third world is a zero sum game or worse. Thus, Chua fails to prove that the free market caused these ethnic backlashes. (If she is saying that crony capitalism — which allowed financially-savvy ethnic minorities to get rich quick through corrupt privatization schemes — exacerbates ethnic tensions, she is on firmer ground.) Chua does deserve credit for placing greater emphasis on democracy, rather than markets, as a stimulus to retaliation against market-dominant minorities: "Adding democracy to markets has been a recipe for instability, upheaval, and ethnic conflagration."
There is an additional problem for Chua which she makes no effort to ignore. These ethnic hatreds precede the state capitalism or crony capitalism that came later. Certainly, Jewish and Chinese minorities have been attacked for centuries in various countries. In other cases such as the Spanish in South America, a minority is resented because it gained its economic advantage through invasion and confiscation. If such resentment continues today under "markets," how can we say that markets are a cause of the hatred and violence?
Also, in many cases, the same minorities that did well for decades or even centuries also did well under crony capitalism. Thus, it seems that in many countries, certain ethnic minorities simply outperform the majorities in any system and are hated for it, and they tend to be subject to retaliation even under modern democracies. Again, the main lesson of the book is that, contrary to what the Enlightenment mind would like to believe, ethnicity, race and religion still count in politics, and democracy does not, contrary to popular and academic belief, assuage these tensions.
There are two important and timely ramifications of these truths. First, poor, economically-unsuccessful majorities tend to use their voting strength, and their physical strength, to beat up on economically-successful ethnic minorities. Thus, those who advocate virtually unlimited immigration into the United States, which eventually will lead to just such a prospect here, should tell us why they desire such a dismal American future. This is a practical and empirical argument against open immigration that transcends the theoretical debate among libertarians over open borders.
Second, given that democracies allow ethnic majorities to beat up on ethnic minorities, it is critically important to support the right of ethnic and religious minorities to secede and form their own nations. Secession turns out not to be a crackpot 19th Century doctrine, but a sophisticated modern theory vindicated by a large body of contemporary scholarship of which World on Fire is merely the latest example.
The fact that the federal government of the United States is on the wrong side of this issue is currently causing chaos and the killing of American troops in Iraq, an artificial country created at gunpoint by American ally Great Britain, maintained by Saddam at gunpoint and now patrolled by Americans who presently hold three captive nations: the Kurds, the Sunnis and the Shiites.
January 28, 2004
James Ostrowski is an attorney practicing in Buffalo, New York. See his website at http://jimostrowski.com.


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If I can't find covers, I believe I will just try making my own inserts and placing them in my Depends to lengthen their life-span. What material of inserts have you found to be the most absorbent? Thank you so much for all of your help.
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punkrockabye:In all seriousness, I just sent DH for some Depends. I have a horrible cold and all I am doing is sneezing and coughing and peeing through those giant Poise pads every hour. It's completely miserable.
Oh, sweetie. I'm sorry that you're sick. Back in my day, we referred to sneezing and peeing as "snissing," but you young ones probably have a new term for it.
Thank you to all the other ladies for all of the help and suggestions. I guess I need to have my granddaughter teach me how to use Google more effectively.
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Bio-magnetic content and special magnets within the gears of the twin-gear design supply positive ionization to the minerals of the fruits and vegetables which prolongs the freshness of your juices, therefore delaying oxidation for up to 48 hours! You can then store your healthy juice drinks for later enjoyment without fear of vital nutrients being depleted.
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Shortly after the NRA show, I contacted Brian Sain, founder of AmericanSnipers.org, for an update on his organization, and for the SOF'ers who are not acquainted with AmericanSnipers.org, I asked him to summarize the history of said organization. RKB
1. Provide a summary of the history of your sniper support organization.
The entire crew at americansnipers.org (formerly known as "adopt a sniper") are either active or retired SWAT or military school-trained snipers.
The attacks on 9/11 are still very vivid to all of us, and we felt helpless, standing on the sidelines, watching the war being fought by friends and family.
In 2003, as the first push in Afghanistan cooled down and the war in Iraq heated up, several SWAT/military sniper friends deployed overseas. We learned that they were lacking mission-specific gear that their units could not or would not provide.
We decided to act. Several of us began taking operational items out of our own gear bags and raising funds locally. We tongue-in-cheek "adopted" the snipers, thus the name of the initial organization.
After helping our friends, we had a small surplus of gear left over that we sent it to other snipers who were in desperate need.
We correctly assumed that the problem must be much, much larger than we initially thought. So using our sniper contacts in the US military, we embarked on a full-on effort to supply every operational sniper and designated marksman with as much gear as we could accumulate regardless of service branch, provided the snipers verified their credentials as such and established a legitimate need.
2. Provide the number of snipers assisted since the inception of americansnipers.org.
It is difficult to quantify to the man, but since 2003 we have supported snipers and designated marksmen in close to 600 different units of varying sizes in all branches of the US military.
3. Provide total, more or less, amount of equipment sent to snipers....like how many scopes, drag bags, knives, etc.
It is difficult to quantify, as some people send gear, some send money and some send homemade goods. Every dime goes toward gear purchases, fundraisers or shipping for same. We are a project of the 501c3 .org , which is a networking site for operational snipers worldwide.
4. Has your mission changed to any degree since the organization started?
Yes, somewhat. In every war, the mission of the sniper is forgotten—that is, until snipers are needed once again. Commanders and staff officers eventually realize the value of their snipers as a force multiplier, and once again they start supporting them—until they don't need them anymore. It is a vicious cycle. It has been said that no one loves a sniper, except another sniper.
Some commanders have started to get their school-trained snipers the gear they need. The situation is better in some units, but in other units it has remained tough. The gear a sniper needs is expensive. By the time the unit's available funds trickle down to the snipers, there is very little of it left.
5. Are you focusing on assisting squad designated marksmen more than school-trained snipers?
If they are assigned to a mission that involves a rifle that should be equipped with telescopic sights, we help them (regardless if they are school-trained snipers or not). Some designated marksmen have killed more of the enemy than school-trained snipers have. We do not put self-imposed limits on the killing of our nation's enemies by adding to the silliness of inter-service rivalry.
6. Describe how squad designated marksmen are being incorrectly utilized and under-equipped and why.
Technology is great, but it does not take and hold ground. Wars are won by men who are skilled with a rifle. The US Army and Marine Corps officially stopped using the M14 rifle in the early 1970s. However, they have re-discovered that the M14 is not as sensitive to the desert environment as the M16, and that 7.62mm ammunition is more potent than 5.56mm.
The M14 (or a modern system equivalent) still has a place on the modern battlefield so they have been brought out of mothballs to fill a specific need. However, the weapon system is over 35 years old and the ancillary equipment needed to make them a modern system is often unavailable to individual units.
We spend many thousands of dollars updating these rifles with Sage stocks, US government-issue magazines, Leupold riflescopes, Badger Ordnance rings and Smith Enterprise mounts. Not to mention the vast quantities of rifle cleaning equipment snipers need that is not issued to standard infantrymen.
Regarding the mission, very few commanders have had any sniper training. Due to years of large-scale, conventional land warfare tactics taught in the officer training establishment, sniper employment and unconventional warfare are not big in the curriculum. It is usually not until one or two snipers kill more of the enemy than an entire unit over the course of a deployment that their value is understood and their needs are recognized.
Since our inception, it has been (and will remain) our single-minded goal to help them in that endeavor.


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Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon are all returning in Sex and the City: The Movie, out May 30th.
Will you too "Get Carried Away"?
Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon are all returning in Sex and the City: The Movie, out May 30th.
Will you too "Get Carried Away"?
no i won't get carried away. never understood the appeal to that show
I can't wait to go see it.
That show is great because of the dynamics between all 4 girls. Carrie shouldn't be on the poster alone. This is gonna piss Samantha off all over again!
ill wait for it to be on dvd
i cant wait to see this movie!
THE HANNAH MONTANA 3D MOVIE PREMIERE IS TOMMOROW, THURS the 17TH in LOS ANGELES AND MILEY, THE JONAS BROTHERS, ASHLEY TISDALE,AND OTHERS WILL BE THERE!
Where are the other girls?!!! This is not the Sarah JP show! So disrespectful to the others!
No, I won't. I'll wait for this movie to come out on DVD.
Not feeling the poster. Definitely won't be checking this one out
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The slogan (or I should say the slogan used with the cover art) makes no sense. It says, "Get Carried Away," but it does not show Carrie doing anything that could possibly lure us. Plus, her picture looks bland. The poster concentrates more on the title than say her, thus, the slogan becomes absolutely meaningless. It's not interesting. It looks very cheap. For a professional movie poster, I give it a D. As you can see, I take photo shop very seriously.
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Shinny Poster! – No getting "Carried" Away over them tho.
No thanks, I don't get the appeal of horse face SJP. Her acting is annoying.
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Loves it! I am dying to see that movie. I am into season 5 for I believe the 3rd or 4th time now, I could watch the entire 6+ seasons over and over again and never get sick. So excited!
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For all my beloved frnds especially those who
have lost their any loved one. I am really moved by death of my friend Arjun
Sen. Its like sumtimes I am normal and sumtimes I
am really very sad. Just can't forget how heart
broken his parents were today. Nowdays just by
seeing face or eyes of someone for seconds or by
just imagining his/her situation for seconds, I get a deep look at that person's pain. Friends today I really wish that may God
distribute my days of life and add them to you all's
life. But still if ever such tragedy happens with any
of my friend I promise I wuld try my best to be
always there for your parents and family no
matter where in world they are. I knw it sounds difficult but I wuld surely do my best. Many of my friends have lost their father or
mother or sister or relatives. I can just imagine
what pain my friends would have gone through
by facing the reality that there is just no way and
no hope that they would again see and talk to
that person again ever in THIS life. Absence of hope in life is just so painful. Arjun's loss is my first loss of friend himself. It
would be so painful for him to see his family and
friends cry for him but he can do just nothing
about it. Feeling helpless for not being able to do
something important is also very painful. Friends I may not be able to always say, I care, but
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very strongly believe that we are here on earth
just on sum mission or a task or may be to give a
test. May be God sends us here on earth to test us
that how honest and kind and selfless and caring
life we live here on earth. We then go back home then. Our home is up there with God. There just all
of us are a giant family. We keep on visiting earth
with some of our family members of heaven. Our
that family members of heaven might be here on
earth be our farther, mother, brother, sister,
friends, life partner, relatives. We die. We again go up. We again come back with some other or same
family members of our giant heavenly family.
Coming on earth from heaven is like our daily
schedule of going to school, college, office from
our home and then coming home back in evening. Friends understand and believe in this life cycle.
My friend Arjun and your beloved ones who have
left u are at our home up in heaven with our giant
family and we all would meet them when we too
return home in evening. I have prepared a list of deceased loved ones of
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Written by C.N.
Introducing Leighton Vila, Another New Contributing Author
Hot on the heels of my earlier announcement about the first of Asian-Nation's new contributing authors, I would now like to introduce Leighton Vila.
Leighton Vila is a Ph.D. Sociology student at Virginia Tech. He studies Asian American identity in the Pacific and U.S. South. His research interests include Colonial Mentality, Mental Health, and ethnic "Authenticity." He has presented on Filipino Ghost Stories, Hawaiian Authenticity, and Asian Americans in the Hip Hop Scene.
Welcome aboard to Leighton — I am very happy you're a part of the expanding Asian-Nation team and I and my readers look forward to reading your posts!


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"Does it matter how my VC structures his own firm internally? Why should I care whether he's doing all the work or whether he's delegating it to junior staff?"
When you see the picture below, what's your first thought?
"Org chart," right? The above "pyramidal" organization structure – in which the senior people at the top of the organization have a larger number of junior people working for them at progressive levels downward in the organization – is so pervasive that "pyramidal" and "organization chart" have become almost synonymous. In the typical organization, rather than doing all of the work themselves, senior people hire more junior people and delegate work to them, enabling the senior people to leverage their time. The junior people often focus on a subset of the organization's overall work, building specialized skills in that subset. In short, hiring people and delegating to them makes the organization more efficient and more effective.
Almost a decade ago, during my MBA era, I worked as a junior employee at a VC firm here in Boston. My first morning at the firm, I walked into the office, looked around, and realized that the four general partners who had started the firm in the mid-1980s had gone more than a decade before hiring any junior people (analysts, associates, principals, etc.) to help them. As the summer progressed, I saw that my firm was not alone; although there were some exceptions, many of our peer VC firms had a similar top-heavy structure.
This sparked a question: If a pyramidal structure is effective (and pervasive) in non-VC organizations, why do many VC firms avoid it?
When I started my PhD program, I looked to the academic literature for some answers. I quickly found that past research on venture capital (produced by academics at HBS, Stanford, University of Chicago, and other schools) had focused on the VC's role as capital provider or "financier," to the exclusion of any attention to VCs' internal organization-building decisions — what I ended up calling the decisions made by "The Venture Capitalist as Entrepreneur." (I did find some research that suggested that the non-pyramidal structure did exist at some point in other professional-services industries.) And yet, as I had seen during my time in VC, VCs' internal decisions can have fundamental implications for how well those VCs perform as capital providers, and for the level and type of support they can provide to their portfolio companies.
For my dissertation, I focused on these "inside VC" issues, trying to understand and analyze how VCs make their own decisions about how to structure and build their own firms, and whether those choices had important implications for them and their portfolio companies. The core paper from the dissertation is forthcoming in Organization Science (no, academic journals do not operate on Internet time :->). Given my recurring theme (e.g., here and here) about the importance for founders of understanding what goes on within their VCs' firms, it's time to discuss that research. In my next series of posts, I'll outline my findings and their implications.
In the meantime, though, I would love to hear from founders and VCs:
- Why did your VC firms adopt a non-pyramidal structure?
- What are the pros and cons of having such a structure?
- From your experiences, are there tasks that non-pyramidal firms can do better than pyramidal ones, and ones they do worse?
Update: For the later posts in this series, see The Costs Versus Benefits of Junior Hires, Synthesis of Comments, and Other Factors, and Performance Implications.


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August/September 2010
Focus on diversity
Native Americans forge great careers
in technology
These very successful techies include Tlingit and Alutiiq Alaska Natives and two Chippewa, plus Lakota, Comanche, Cherokee, Washoe and Muscogee Creek Native Americans
"Individuals have more opportunities and career choices when they get higher degrees." � Judit Camacho, SACNAS
By Laurel A. McKee Ranger
Contributing Editor
Many Native Americans are doing valuable and interesting technical work today. Some are working within their own tribes or groups, some in the great world of corporate America, some combine both arenas. Here's what ten Native techies are doing.
Alaska Native Michael Paulsen: a flourishing career at Chenega Corp
Michael Paulsen is a desktop support technician 2 at Chenega Federal Systems, a subsidiary of Chenega Corp (Anchorage, AK), an Alaska Native corporation.
Chenega Federal provides professional services to the federal government.
"I've handled problems with email, .pdf files, viruses, worms, spyware, malware and just people having trouble viewing MS Word documents," Paulsen reports.
"I also make sure our network servers are up and running."
Paulsen is a descendant of an original Chenega shareholder and an active participant in the Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program (ANSEP) of
the University of Alaska-Anchorage. He started with Chenega in the summer of 2007 after hearing about it
at the University of Alaska. "I was working full time for Smith Cable Systems and going to school full time. I didn't know Chenega Corp offered internships until I started school," he says.
Today he's in a computer systems and EE program at U Alaska, going to school fulltime and working twenty hours a week. He expects to graduate in 2011.
Paulsen is a member of the Alutiiq tribe. His father is Alutiiq and his mother is Irish and Blackfoot.
After finishing high school in 2001 Paulsen joined the Marine Corps and was stationed in Okinawa. He worked as a radio operator and began learning the basics of setting up and maintaining communications networks.
He was also stationed at an airbase in northern Iraq for a time. "We were in quite a few combat situations. I was a reconnaissance Marine," he explains.
In 2005 Paulsen returned to Anchorage and started working for Smith Cable Systems (Anchorage, AK) as a digital phone installer. "After the Marines I knew I had an interest in telecom," he says.
Paulsen says Native American culture plays a big part in his life. "Chenega Corp is helping me with school both academically and financially. Getting my degree will help me give back to the greater Chenega community.
"ANSEP at the University of Alaska is a very tight-knit group," he adds. "We know everybody and we have presentations about jobs and other topics of interest."
ANSEP hosts potlatches as well. "At one event they gave away seal-hunting goggles. They said we'd need them because every student's future is so bright," Paulsen says with a laugh.
Paulsen believes his Marine background has made him team-oriented, adaptable and probably an overachiever. "Holding back is the challenge for me. I have tons of ideas as far as engineering goes!"
He has also had an ANSEP award for high grades at college, and last year he received a Chenega Employee of the Year award. Brad York, program manager at Chenega Logistics, LLC, another Chenega Corp subsidiary, says, "Since Michael Paulsen began as an IT intern for Chenega Federal, he has excelled in projects related to network engineering, security and database development. Today he's a highly productive addition to our team, working alongside some of our most advanced IT engineers."
Chippewa Sherry Comes: Distinguished Engineer and CTO at IBM
Sherry Comes' grandmother was a Chippewa from the Canadian border. This, she says, "is how I relate to my identity. When I was asked to represent the Native community here at IBM I felt very honored."
Comes joined IBM (Armonk, NY) in 1999 and is now a Distinguished Engineer and chief technology officer (CTO) for complex system integration there. She has had a twenty-seven-year career as a professional IT consultant: "I began consulting even before I graduated from college," she says. "I've always had two or three jobs going on at the same time."
In her current post Comes travels all over the world to meet with clients. When she isn't traveling she works out of her home in Castle Rock, CO. "I initially came on board as an IT architect and I continued doing that through the mid 2000s," she explains.
During that time she got a patent and did a study on complex systems integration. About 2007 she was asked to become a chief technology officer, and last year she was asked to join the senior leadership team for the financial services sector. "Now I put together complex systems integration solutions for banks and large financial organizations. I call on IBM Fellows and research scientists from around the world to join the team," Comes says.
She began her career with the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR, Boulder, CO) in 1985 and got her BS in CS applications from the University of Colorado in 1987. She worked as a Unix systems and network administrator, managing NCAR's computing environment until 1992 when she moved to Tandem Computers (Austin, TX).
Her work at Tandem, a mix of Unix systems and network admin, led to a year at AMD (Austin, TX) as a senior systems engineer. In 1994 she returned to Colorado as an independent consultant, working as a senior Unix systems admin and tech team lead. Three years later she moved to lead Internet architect and tech manager at U.S. West Communications (Denver, CO), adding even more technical and managerial skills to her toolkit before joining IBM.
Today Comes works on as many as six projects at once. "Each one is like starting and running a new company. These are for some of the largest financial institutions around, sited around the globe," Comes says.
Besides her career, Comes has her family: adopted boys of six and ten years old. One of the children, of Mayan Indian heritage from Guatemala, has neurofibromatosis (NF), a progressive, debilitating disorder. Comes started an online gourmet food and gifts company, CoffeeCakes.com, in 1997, and dedicates some of the profits to help find a cure for NF. She also volunteers with NF, Inc, the national organization. "It's a lot to do, but I love the challenge," she says.
Affinity at IBM
Michele A. Morningstar is a member of the Oneida nation. Since 2001 she's been program manager for the North America IBM integrated services team, Native American/Canadian Aboriginal, and diversity network groups and diversity councils, as well as other IBM diversity groups and councils.
Morningstar keeps in touch with AISES and the American Indian College Fund, as well as with the IBM Native Diversity Network (INDN). "INDN supports outreach to Native communities and provides peer to peer mentoring, cultural activities and skills development and also brings in speakers," she explains. "We also have a program to mentor and develop young Native people.
"There's so much going on both internally and externally!" says Morningstar. "I can honestly say that I love my job!"
Lakota Donna M. Holsworth is a senior system developer at BNSF
Donna M. Holsworth is a senior system developer and QA test lead at BNSF Railway (Fort Worth, TX). She's part of the "movement planner" team, a rail-industry-first system that can proactively determine "best" train movements across the railroad based on network velocity, train priority and performance against active train schedules. It essentially provides a mathematical solution for planning the movement of trains across the network.
"We are currently in pilot with the movement planner across 800 miles of track in our Montana division," Holsworth notes.
Holsworth graduated from Western Dakota Technical Institute and Black Hills State College in the Black Hills of South Dakota. A Lakota, Holsworth was born on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in Shannon County, number eight in a family of twelve children. "Even today Shannon County is the poorest county in the country," she says. "I admire the perseverance of my parents and older siblings to get us all educated!"
Her family can trace its lineage back to the chiefs of the Brule and Oglala bands. "The Lakota were the last tribe put on a reservation, and so history is really alive there," she says. "My children know who they are and my grandchildren do as well!"
Holsworth's love of computers was sparked when she took a job as a keypunch operator for a circuit-board company right out of high school. "I had to feed cards into a huge computer. It turned the cards I punched into orders and inventory reports, and that captured my interest."
After she got married and had a family she worked fulltime as customer service manager for a trucking company and started going to evening classes. "I knew that education was my steppingstone into IT."
In 1984 Holsworth and her husband both moved to jobs in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. Holsworth was in American Airlines' IT department and was sent for classes and training.
In 1999 she was recruited by Sabre Holdings (Southlake, TX), a company that provides flight-scheduling technology to airlines. "After 9/11 that business came to a grinding halt and I was laid off, but that downturn made me extend myself," she says. She was hired by Accenture in 2002, and in 2004 BNSF recruited her.
"This is a company that people never want to leave," she says. "BNSF values its employees."
As a member of the Council of Native Americans executive board at BNSF, Holsworth has become involved with AISES and is mentoring young Native Americans. "Some of the best and brightest future engineers, scientists and IT pros can be found right in the center of the AISES activities," she says.
Holsworth has been on the council for six years now, and "I definitely feel I've come home," she says. "At Fort Worth headquarters the hallways are alive with Native American artwork that was originally painted for rail passenger terminals in the early 1900s!"
Comanche Robert Lamb: at AT&T, helping customers solve business needs
Robert Lamb is director of contact center consulting services for AT&T (Dallas, TX), the telecom, consulting, wireless and broadband company. "We develop holistic strategies that help our customers solve business needs. I also work with our consultant teams to help them deliver services," Lamb says.
Lamb has a 1987 BA in business management from Purdue University (Hammond, IN) and a 1993 BA in telecom from the University of Wisconsin. While getting his Purdue degree he worked fulltime for Guarantee Reserve Life Insurance (Hammond, IN) as a supervisor in the mail and call center department. Armed with that first BA he became a telecom manager with Turtle Wax (Chicago, IL), and in 1997 he moved to GE Capital (Danbury, CT) as a telecom manager and call center specialist. In 2000 he took a contact center sales support job with SBC (San Antonio, TX). SBC was acquired by AT&T in 2005. "By 2002 I was promoted into systems integration and then in 2006 I was promoted to my current position," he says.
Lamb never knew about his Native American roots until he was doing genealogical research for his parents' fiftieth wedding anniversary. "I found that a significant part of my father's family was Comanche. He grew up in north Texas in Comanche territory. It turns out I'm a quarter Comanche," Lamb says. In recent years he's worked to learn more and more about the Comanche. "I want to know what my ancestors dealt with," he says.
Lamb always enjoyed math and computers, and actually started in programming at Purdue, but, "I'm a people person so I switched into business management," he says. "But I always wanted to go back into technology. Contact center management gave me the opportunity to work with both technical and people relationships."
Lamb is the author of Impacting Your Bottom Line Through the Contact Center, a book on cutting expenses via good customer management. He's a member of the Intertribal Council of AT&T Employees (ICAE) and has worked on their recruiting drives. He's also spoken for ICAE at the Houston Council for Diversity.
In his spare time Lamb loves to play the guitar and drums. He and his wife Kathleen give time to a Christian music ministry and support the Star of Hope homeless shelter in Houston.
Cindy Brinkley, AT&T SVP of talent development and chief diversity officer, says that at AT&T, talented and diverse people from all backgrounds, including Native American professionals, are essential to the way the company does business. "A commitment to diversity and inclusion is engrained in our culture; it's a business imperative," she said. "By recognizing and valuing our differences, we gain a competitive advantage. At AT&T, people like Robert are what make us who we are."
Chippewa Mark A. Fairbanks is a lead test engineer at 3M
Mark A. Fairbanks is a Chippewa of the White Earth band. He was raised in a suburb of Minneapolis, but his father grew up on the reservation, and Mark still visits relatives there.
As a history buff, he enjoys learning about the Chippewa and Native American culture. "I look at nature to find the most efficient solutions when possible," he declares.
Fairbanks is lead test engineer for the Interam automotive business unit of 3M (St Paul, MN). His lab is located about fifteen miles from 3M HQ, and he's officially listed as manager of the plant. "That's because I get things fixed and obtain permits," he explains. "There are only four of us out here at the lab, so I'm also doing the job of facilities manager, but testing is my real work. The rest of it just ensures that the lab is open and safe."
Fairbanks' team does accelerated durability testing to make sure that 3M's Interam Mat Mount material, used in diesel particulate filters and catalytic converters, can withstand the high temperatures and vibration it's likely to encounter in operation. "We develop tests here that are accepted by the automotive industry. A lot of times we're dealing with temperatures of up to 2,000 degrees F, and we need to understand the robustness of what we're selling." Fairbanks also has responsibility for another lab at corporate HQ.
He began his career with a 1983 associate degree in general education from Anoka Ramsey Community College (Coon Rapids, MN) and a 1985 diploma in diesel truck and trailer mechanics from North Hennepin Technical Institute (Brooklyn Park, MN). He began as a mechanic for a privately owned bus company, but decided he wanted to go back to school. At the time he was working with a group of engineers, and "They suggested I should get an ME degree because I liked to troubleshoot," Fairbanks says.
He already had a wife and young child, so he worked fulltime and went to school at night for several years, until 3M gave him a minority engineering scholarship. In 1996 he completed his BSME at the University of Minnesota and started with 3M as a design engineer, providing design, documentation and fabrication support for capital equipment.
By 2000 he was providing technical service and application engineering support for General Motors and Delphi applications. He moved into the Interam material testing group in 2004 and became lead test engineer in 2007.
"I am past co-chair of the 3M Native American council and I still attend regular meetings," he reports. "We bring in speakers, do a lot of recruiting, attend AISES, and go out to talk to students at local schools. I try to get the kids interested in science," he says.
Cherokee Jonathan K. Stanford: info security at BPA
Jon Stanford is chief information security officer (CISO) at the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA, Portland, OR), a U.S. Department of Energy power marketing organization. He is in charge of cybersecurity at the federal agency, reporting to the CIO. "By law all agencies have to ensure that they have information security assurance in place," he explains.
Stanford develops info security strategy and policies for BPA. He has fourteen direct reports, including several contract staff. "I oversee the performance of security officers and control assessors and make sure control tests and risk assessments are being done properly and on time," he explains. He's also directly involved in several national initiatives related to government and electric industry security standards.
Stanford has been in this job for about two years. He joined BPA in 2002 as a senior cybersecurity manager for the BPA transmission services organization. At that time BPA had three IT groups, one each for corporate, transmission services and power services. When IT was consolidated in 2005 Stanford became the info security lead. He was promoted to CISO in 2008.
He was born in Oklahoma, but moved around the country a lot as a kid because his father was a career U.S. Marine. His mother's Cherokee ancestors came from eastern Tennessee and North Carolina to western Arkansas and Oklahoma in the early 1800s with a group of Cherokee known as the Old Settlers. Stanford can document his Cherokee ancestry to well before the Revolutionary War.
"My great-grandmother had a wealth of knowledge about the culture and family history," he says. "Luckily my mother and aunt wrote it all down. I was even able to learn some Cherokee from them."
After spending two years studying CS and engineering at the University of Arkansas, Stanford went out to California to work in architecture and engineering. In 1992 he moved to Portland, OR and worked for the Portland Water Bureau and then the Police Bureau as a senior network systems engineer and forensic support specialist. He stayed with the bureau until 2002 when he joined BPA.
In 2000 he and an associate started CrimeDex, a criminal fraud data-sharing network focused on financial crimes. Along with his partner, he continued growing the company on a part time basis until they were eventually bought out in 2007.
In 1995 he began earning credits from Excelsior College (Albany, NY), part of the State University of New York. In 2007 he finished grad studies in strategy and policy at the U.S. Naval War College (Newport, RI), and went on to graduate from the "executive leaders" program at the Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense and Security (Monterey, CA) in 2009. He has many info security professional certifications.
Stanford has always had a strong affinity for the technical side of things. "I'm a designer and inventor at heart. I've always been interested in what makes things work," he says. His job at BPA is a perfect fit. "The electric grid operations side of the house involves engineering and I have an engineering background. It's been a great avenue for me and I am very grateful for the opportunities I've had here."
He's also eager to give back to the Native American community. "I have a strong sense of who I am and I'm very proud to be an American Indian. Not all Native American kids know what options are available for their lives, so folks like me need to reach out to them.
"My background gives me a great sense of pride and identity, and I feel we have a unique duty to perform."
Tlingit Richard Shupe is a LAN admin for King County
"We protect and improve streams and wetlands, minimize flood hazards, help citizens resolve drainage problems and support a number of environmental programs. During the flood season I lend my support by volunteering in the flood warning center," says Richard Shupe, a LAN admin at King County Water and Land Resources Division (Seattle, WA). Shupe says that the division's mission also includes work to "protect health and water quality, preserve open space, working farms and forests, ensure adequate water for people and fish, and protect and restore habitats." His job as a LAN admin involves working with a team of LAN admins and other IT pros to update and maintain some twenty-five servers and 450 computers. Most of the work he does is in Microsoft Windows; his workgroup is currently rolling out Windows 7.
Shupe was recruited for the job in 1994 through the Seattle Indian Center, where he received some initial training; King County provided the rest. "I took some computer courses at Bellevue County College," says Shupe. Before taking the job at King County he worked in construction for twelve years, and "I still work in construction on the weekends sometimes. I like to get my hands dirty," he admits.
He was originally drawn to computers when he began at King County as an office assistant in 1994. "One day I had problems with a computer and was on the phone for hours with a technician trying to fix it. After that I decided to study computers myself."
Shupe grew up in Seattle, WA, but his mother is from Angoon, AK. Shupe is a member of the Deisheetaan (Raven Beaver) Clan. His uncle, a clan chief, taught Shupe traditional clan dances and songs.
His Tlingit heritage is tremendously important to him. He dances with the Xudzidaa-Kwaan dancers from Angoon, makes drums, and is learning to do Raven's Tail weaving. He began learning the Tlingit language in 1994, and takes part in "Canoe Journey," a Washington State Native event. "I've done it since 1988 and it's awesome," he says.
"I live my life as a Tlingit," Shupe declares. "I walk softly. We have songs, some of them thousands of years old, that we sing to balance things. If you hurt anything in life, you have to fix it to restore balance."
As a result, Shupe tends to be very flexible in his life and work. "I don't just say no, I try to reach a compromise. I enjoy helping people."
Muscogee Creek Dr Bruce Murdoch: radiation specialist at Argonne
Bruce Murdoch, PhD is principal industrial hygienist at Argonne National Laboratory (Argonne, IL), an R&D lab contracted to the Department of Energy. Dr Murdoch explains that industrial hygienists were established as a professional guild in the 1930s to study illness from workplace exposure to chemicals, radiation and other physical factors.
"I specialize in radiation and I'm manager of the non-ionizing radiation program," he says. "I'm also the laser safety officer responsible for the application of research lasers across the lab. I develop training for employees, give safety-training classes and interact with department heads and scientists."
Every year Murdoch trains 200 people in basic laser safety. He inspects and approves individual labs and issues laser permits. "On the radiation side I develop lab safety policies and maintain guidelines. We're also called for advice on safety measures."
Murdoch received a BA in physics from Carleton College (Northfield, MN) in 1962 and an MA in physics from Rice University (Houston, TX) in 1967. In 1975 he got his PhD in nuclear physics from Utah State University.
He's been at Argonne for seventeen years. Before that he spent several years as an electronics engineer for Goodyear Aerospace, working in military radar development. After finishing his PhD he did research at the Universities of Manitoba and British Columbia, then went into oilfield measurement services for Schlumberger, NL Industries and Baker Atlas, all in Houston, TX, developing well-logging instrumentation using nuclear techniques.
He learned about his current job when Argonne advertised in a physics journal. "They brought me in for an interview and I convinced them that I could do the job even though I'd never done it before. I became a certified health physicist and now I'm also a certified laser safety officer," he says.
Murdoch grew up around Oklahoma City. His father was a dentist in a public health clinic in a mostly Native area.
Although he knew his grandfather was a Muscogee Creek, Murdoch was not much involved in his heritage until about fifteen years ago. "My father and his siblings were discriminated against and they didn't talk about being Indians," he explains. "It turned out my father's dad was on the Dawes Roll in 1906 as a member of the Muskogee Creek Nation. I've registered with the tribe now and so has my son."
Since first exploring his roots, Murdoch has developed a strong cultural awareness and appreciation. "I attend regional stomp dances every year. It's exciting. I feel a spiritual connection to it." He has also spent time researching the family. "We went to a museum in Oklahoma, and there was a very graphic account of my great-great grand-
father in the 1830s on the Trail of Tears."
That great-great grandfather ultimately became a doctor, the first in a tradition of Murdoch family careers in medicine.
As an industrial hygienist, Murdoch is also working to keep people safe. "In my kind of job, scientific background is extremely important," he says. "I understand what the scientists are doing, and they respect me."
Washoe Curtis Keliiaa: cybersecurity at Sandia
At Sandia National Laboratories (Albuquerque, NM), which has U.S. nuclear stockpile stewardship, Curtis Keliiaa is a senior member of technical staff and a cybersecurity systems officer. He works on concepts of planning and road-mapping for cybersecurity, and supports high-performance computing and networking. His work fits the science, technical and engineering missions of Sandia.
Keliiaa finished an electronics program after high school, and attended college until family responsibilities became a priority. He does not have a college degree, but a thirty-year career in IT provides him with very valuable experience. With his children raised and through college, he continues to pursue an advanced degree.
"I've done a lot of systems architecture and broad network design with a strong focus on cybersecurity. I've ended up with a very strong systems background," he says. He's a certified IS security professional.
In 1979 Keliiaa started as a technician for an office automation company in Boulder, CO. The company grew from 250 to 10,000 people, and Keliiaa went from bench technician to hardware product test engineer. He earned many industry certifications along the way.
In 1987 he relocated to his hometown of Albuquerque, NM, and began at Sandia as a contractor working on key information systems. In 1999 he became a network engineer in the telecom ops department. He researched next-gen policy-based network management, published reports, worked with industry leaders and participated in an industry network application consortium.
Keliiaa is a Washoe tribal member. He speaks some Cherokee and his mom, a Cherokee, grew up just outside Tahlequah, OK, the Cherokee capital. She went to Chilocco Indian School in Oklahoma and graduated from the commercial program of Haskell Indian Nations University. Keliiaa's father, who was half Washoe and half Hawaiian, went to Stewart Indian School in Carson City, NV and graduated from the University of California at Berkeley.
"My dad was a B-29 pilot and flew eighteen missions during World War II," Keliiaa notes with pride. Both his parents had "distinguished careers with the Bureau of Indian Affairs," he reports.
"They are really my inspiration," he says. "I derive strength from my family and the Native culture. It has a lot to do with my work ethic, whether it's building a better network or a more secure one."
Since joining Sandia, Keliiaa has held positions of increasing responsibility. By 2004 he was in the advanced networking integration group, focusing on high-performance computing and special projects. Then he became project lead for Sandia strategic business continuity planning. He was nominated for an assignment in Washington, DC, where he became deeply involved with national cyber-risk management and the development of safeguards and countermeasures.
"Since the fall of 2008 I've been back at Sandia," he explains. "Now I focus on big-picture 'system of systems' risk management and support strategic cyber planning and initiatives, including secure advanced simulation and computing capabilities." Keliiaa participates in Sandia's American Indian outreach committee, which hosts an annual Dream Catcher science program.
"The variety of roles and responsibilities has made me appreciate all the great work going on at Sandia. Each day still brings something new,"
Keliiaa says.
Laurel McKee Ranger
is a freelance business writer headquartered
in Randolph, NJ.
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