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It's hard to resist the opportunity to sample secret sauce ingredients for executive success. So, when invited, I was happy to taste the morsels in Karen Wright's new book, The Complete Executive: The 10-Step System for Great Leadership Performance, and share some of them here.
Everyone wants them–recipes for fixing things like:
- Problem employees
- Broken work methods
- Complaining customers
- Stalled careers
Recipes work when we're cooking: The same combination of ingredients produces the same outcome each time. It's different,though, when we're trying to put together the right behaviors to produce career success.
Invest in good ingredients.
Careers grow when we combine the right ingredients in the right way at the right time, folding them together until they blend to meet expectations.
Our career goals may be either modest or bold. Achieving them means understanding the knowledge, skills, and experiences (the ingredients) required and then systematically assembling them.
In her new book, The Complete Executive: The 10-Step System for Great Leadership Performance, Karen Wright, career coach and founder of Parachute Executive Coaching, identifies 100 practices for successful executives.
These practices will help you succeed where you are right now and/or position you to move up, while maintaining a balanced, satisfying life.
Wright describes the foundation for achieving leadership completeness this way:
The individuals who consistently thrive in the face of the extraordinary expectations of high-level leadership are the ones who have found the optimal combination of habits, practices, and personal discipline that sustains and strengthens them across all dimensions of their lives.
Her 10-step system covers everything from health and fitness to business basics and fun. She makes this especially striking point about leaders:
Someone who fully engages in building positive relationships at work probably places similar value on them outside the office. Similarly, if an individual is difficult to get along with or get to know at work, she is likely the same in her personal relationships.
Who we are goes with us wherever we go. Everyone sees how we conduct ourselves and makes a judgment. When folded together, those judgments start to form our personal brand, our career currency.
Relationships matter.
The complete executive, as Wright notes, needs to place high value on building and maintaining healthy and mutually satisfying relationships.
She explains that it starts with our primary relationships (i.e., life partner or single-hood), children, extended family, neighbors, friends, and community. Then it expands to our business competitors, peers, and direct reports. For leaders to be complete, Wright reminds us that they need to invest in relationships that represent all aspects of their lives.
We often think that networking is the best way to expand our relationships. Wright debunks that notion with this compelling perspective:
'No executive at a high level does anything called networking.' What they do is focus on building a valuable network. 'It will grow through connections with the people you know through your kids, your parents, your siblings, and your other family members. You just never know when a connection in your network will lead you to another, helpful one, creating potential future business value.'
It's all a matter of building on relationships that form naturally from your life and your work. To this Wright adds:
Contributing to your network is what makes it strong. If you only take from your network, it will be too weak to support you when you need it.
The book lists these relationship building sources that you can tap: alumni associations, lunches/casual meetings, club memberships, professional associations, and social media sites like LinkedIn.
Wright acknowledges that relationships ebb and flow. We learn along the way which ones are sincere and fruitful and which are not.
Intuition as ingredient
There's a leader in all of us whether we're atop the business organization chart or not. Reaching our full leadership capabilities is an ongoing process.
Wright's practice #100 is intuition: An effective leader will state:
I recognize when my intuition is engaged, and I value and reflect upon the messages it sends me.
She finishes by quoting Albert Einstein:
The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, and the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why.
We all need to give our intuition a chance to work its magic for us. Hey, if it worked for Einstein, who can argue!


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Major Section: RELEASE-NOTES
Acl2 now allows ``complex rationals,'' which are complex numbers whose real parts are rationals and whose imaginary parts are non-zero rationals. See complex.
A new way of handling force
d hypotheses has been implemented.
Rather than cause a case split at the time the force
occurs, we
complete the main proof and then embark on one or more ``forcing
rounds'' in which we try to prove the forced hypotheses.
See forcing-round. To allow us to compare the new handling of
with the old, Version 1.5 implements both and uses a flag in
to determine which method should be used. Do
(assign old-style-forcing t)
if you want force
to be handled
as it was in Version 1.4. However, we expect to eliminate the
old-style forcing eventually because we think the new style is more
effective. To see the difference between the two approaches to
forcing, try proving the associativity of append under both settings
of old-style-forcing
. To get the new behavior invoke:
(thm (implies (and (true-listp a) (true-listp b)) (equal (append (append a b) c) (append a (append b c)))))Then
(assign old-style-forcing t)
and invoke the thm
command above
A new :cases
hints allows proof by cases. See hints.
and encapsulate
now restore the acl2-defaults-table
when they complete. See include-book and see encapsulate.
The guards on many Acl2 primitives defined in axioms.lisp
have been
weakened to permit them to be used in accordance with lisp custom
and tradition.
It is possible to attach heuristic filters to :
rules to
limit their applicability. See syntaxp.
A tutorial has been added; see acl2-tutorial.
Events now print the Summary paragraph listing runes used, time,
etc., whether they succeed or fail. The format of the ``failure
banner'' has been changed but still has multiple asterisks in it.
also prints a Summary, whether it succeeds or fails; but thm
not an event.
A new event form skip-proofs
has been added; see skip-proofs.
A user-specific customization facility has been added in the form of a book that is automatically included, if it exists on the current directory. See acl2-customization.
A facility for conditional metalemmas has been implemented; see meta.
The acceptable values for ld-skip-proofsp
have changed. In the old
version (Version 1.4), a value of t
meant that proofs and local
events are to be skipped. In Version 1.5, a value of t
means proofs
(but not local
events) are to be skipped. A value of '
means proofs and local
events are to be skipped. There are two
other, more obscure, acceptable values. See ld-skip-proofsp.
In order to turn off the forcing of assumptions, one should now
disable the :
of force
(rather than the
of force
, as in the previous release); see force.
The macros enable-forcing
and disable-forcing
make it convenient to
enable or disable forcing. See enable-forcing and
see disable-forcing.
The new commands :
and :
print the rules created by an event or
command. See pr and see pr!.
The new history commands :
and :
will replace a compound
command such as an encapsulate
or include-book
by the sequence of
events in it. That is, they ``puff up'' or ``lift'' the subevents
of a command to the command level, eliminating the formerly superior
command and lengthening the history. This is useful if you want to
``partially undo'' an encapsulate
or book or other compound command
so you can experiment. See puff and see puff*.
Theory expressions now are allowed to use the free variable world
and prohibited from using the free variable state
See theories, although it is essentially the same as before
except it mentions world
instead of state
. See world for a
discussion of the Acl2 logical world. Allowing in-theory
events to
be state-sensitive violated an important invariant about how books
keys and values now are allowed to use the free variable world
and prohibited from using the free variable state
. See the note
above about theory expressions for some explanation.
The macro for minus, -
, used to expand (- x 3)
to (+ x -3)
and now
expands it to (+ -3 x)
instead. The old macro, if used in the
left-hand sides of rewrite rules, produced inapplicable rules
because the constant occurs in the second argument of the +
, but
potential target terms generally had the constant in the first
argument position because of the effect of commutativity-of-+
A new class of rule, :linear-alias
rules, allows one to implement
the nqthm package and similar hacks in which a disabled function is
to be known equivalent to an arithmetic function.
A new class of rule, :built-in-clause
rules, allows one to extend
the set of clauses proved silently by defun
during measure and guard
processing. See built-in-clauses.
The new command pcb!
is like pcb
but sketches the command and then
prints its subsidiary events in full. See pcb!.
class rules may now specify the :
See rule-classes and see loop-stopper.
The rules for how loop-stoppers control permutative rewrite rules
have been changed. One effect of this change is that now when the
built-in commutativity rules for +
are used, the terms a
and (- a)
are permuted into adjacency. For example, (+ a b (- a))
is now
normalized by the commutativity rules to (+ a (- a) b)
; in Version
1.4, b
was considered syntactically smaller than (- a)
and so
(+ a b (- a))
is considered to be in normal form. Now it is
possible to arrange for unary functions be be considered
``invisible'' when they are used in certain contexts. By default,
is considered invisible when its application appears in
the argument list of binary-+
. See loop-stopper and
see :DOC set-invisible-fns-table.
Extensive documentation has been provided on the topic of Acl2's ``term ordering.'' See term-order.
Calls of ld
now default ld-error-action
to :return
rather than to
the current setting.
The command descriptor :x
has been introduced and is synonymous with
, the most recently executed command. History commands such as
print a :x
beside the most recent command, simply to indicate
that it is the most recent one.
The command descriptor :x-23
is synonymous with (:x -23)
. More
generally, every symbol in the keyword package whose first character
is #\x
and whose remaining characters parse as a negative integer
is appropriately understood. This allows :
where :
(:max -10)
or :
(:here -10)
were previously used. The old forms
are still legal.
The order of the arguments to defcong
has been changed.
The simplifier now reports the use of unspecified built-in type information about the primitives with the phrase ``primitive type reasoning.'' This phrase may sometimes occur in situations where ``propositional calculus'' was formerly credited with the proof.
The function pairlis
has been replaced in the code by a new function
, because Common Lisp does not adequately specify its
Some new Common Lisp functions have been added, including logtest
, integer-length
, make-list
, remove-duplicates
, string
, and
. The source file /slocal/src/acl2/axioms.lisp
is the
ultimate reference regarding Common Lisp functions in Acl2.
The functions defuns
and theory-invariant
have been documented.
See defuns and see theory-invariant.
A few symbols have been added to the list *acl2-exports*
A new key has been implemented for the acl2-defaults-table
. See set-irrelevant-formals-ok.
The connected book directory, cbd
, must be nonempty and begin and
end with a slash. It is set (and displayed) automatically upon your
first entry to lp
. You may change the setting with set-cbd
See cbd.
will undo the last :
. See oops.
Documentation has been written about the ordinals. See :DOC e0-ordinalp
and see :DOC e0-ord-<
. [Note added later: Starting with Version_2.8,
instead see o-p and see o<.
The color events -- (red), (pink), (blue), and (gold) -- may no
longer be enclosed inside calls of local
, for soundness reasons. In
fact, neither may any event that sets the acl2-defaults-table
See embedded-event-form.
See ld-keyword-aliases for an example of how to change the exit
keyword from :
to something else.
The attempt to install a monitor on :
rules stored as simple
abbreviations now causes an error because the application of
abbreviations is not tracked.
A new message is sometimes printed by the theorem prover, indicating that a given simplification is ``specious'' because the subgoals it produces include the input goal. In Version 1.4 this was detected but not reported, causing behavior some users found bizarre. See specious-simplification.
rules are no longer always required to specify the
and :controller-alist
fields; those fields can be defaulted
to system-determined values in many common instances.
See definition.
A warning is printed if a macro form with keyword arguments is given
duplicate keyword values. Execute (thm t :doc nil :doc "ignored")
and read the warning printed.
A new restriction has been placed on encapsulate
. Non-local
recursive definitions inside the encapsulate
may not use, in their
tests and recursive calls, the constrained functions introduced by
the encapsulate
. See subversive-recursions. (Note added in
Version 2.3: Subversive recursions were first recognized by us here
in Version 1.5, but our code for recognizing them was faulty and the
bug was not fixed until Version 2.3.)
The events defequiv
, defcong
, defrefinement
, and defevaluator
been reimplemented so that they are just macros that expand into
appropriate defthm
or encapsulate
events; they are no longer
primitive events. See the documentation of each affected event.
The defcor
event, which was a shorthand for a defthm
established a corollary of a named, previously proved event, has
been eliminated because its implementation relied on a technique we
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Kingdom of Lesotho
Area: 30,355 sq. km. (11,718 sq. mi.), about the size of Maryland.
Cities: Capital--Maseru (173,700). Other cities-- Leribe (35,000), Mafeteng (32,900), Teyateyaneng (22,800), Mohale's Hoek (18,400).
Terrain: High veld, plateau, and mountains.
Climate: Temperate; summers hot, winters cool to cold; humidity generally low and evenings cool year round. Rainy season in summer, winters dry. Southern hemisphere seasons are reversed.
Nationality: Noun--Mosotho (sing.); Basotho (pl.). Adjective--Basotho.
Population (2007 est.): 1.88 million.
Annual growth rate (2004 est.): 1.4%. (Note: the population growth rate is depressed by an HIV/AIDS prevalence rate estimated to be at approximately23.2%.)
Ethnic groups: Basotho 99.7%; Europeans, Asians, and other (including Xhosa) 0.3%.
Religions: 80% Christian, including Roman Catholic (majority), Lesotho Evangelical, Anglican, other denominations; other religions include Islam, Hindu, indigenous.
Languages: Official--Sesotho and English. Other--Xhosa.
Education: Years compulsory--None. Literacy (2003 est.)--84.8%. Lesotho has free primary education (grades 1-7).
Health: Infant mortality rate (2004 est.)--85.22/1,000. Life expectancy (2004 est.)--36.81 years.
Work force (2001 est.): 704,000.
Type: Constitutional monarchy.
Constitution: April 2, 1993.
Independence: October 4, 1966.
Branches: Executive--monarch is head of state; prime minister is head of government and cabinet. Legislative--Bicameral parliament consists of elected Assembly and non-elected Senate. Judicial--High Court, Court of Appeals, Magistrate's Court, traditional and customary courts.
Administrative subdivisions: 10 districts.
Political parties: Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD), All Basotho Congress (ABC), Basotho National Party (BNP), Lesotho Peoples Congress (LPC), National Independent Party (NIP), Basutoland African Congress (BAC), Basutoland Congress Party (BCP), Lesotho Workers Party (LWP), Popular Front for Democracy (PFD), Marematlou Freedom Party (MFP), Christian Democratic Party (CDP), Kopanang Basotho Party (KBP), National Progressive Party (NPP), New Lesotho's Freedom Party (NLFP), Sefate Democratic Union (SDU), Social Democratic Party (SDP), United Party (UP).
Suffrage: 18 years of age.
Central government budget (FY 2003-2004 est.): Revenues--$560 million. Expenditures--$599 million.
GDP (2003): $1.43 billion.
Annual growth rate (2007): 7.2%.
Per capita GDP (2007): $850.
Average inflation rate (2008): 12%.
Natural resources: Water, agricultural and grazing land, some diamonds and other minerals. Lesotho is an exporter of excess labor.
Agriculture (2007 est.): 17% of GDP. Products--corn, wheat, sorghum, barley, peas, beans, asparagus, wool, mohair, livestock. Arable land--11%.
Industry (2007 est.): 47% of GDP. Types--apparel, food, beverages, handicrafts, construction, tourism.
Trade (2007): Exports--$437 million; clothing, furniture, footwear and wool. Partners--South Africa, United States, Botswana, Swaziland, Namibia, EU. Imports--$661 million; corn, clothing, building materials, vehicles, machinery, medicines, petroleum products. Partners--South Africa, Asia, EU.
Fiscal year: April 1 - March 31.
Economic aid received (2007): $350 million. Primary donors--U.S., World Bank, IMF, EU, UN, U.K., and Ireland.
More than 99% of Lesotho's population is ethnically Basotho; other ethnic groups include Europeans, Asians, and Xhosa. The country's population is 80% Christian, the majority of whom are Roman Catholic. Other religions are Islam, Hindu, and indigenous beliefs. Sesotho and English are official languages, and other languages spoken include Xhosa.
Lesotho gained independence from Britain on October 4, 1966. In January 1970 the ruling Basotho National Party (BNP) appeared set to lose the first post-independence general elections when Prime Minister Leabua Jonathan annulled the election. He refused to cede power to the Basotho Congress Party (BCP) and imprisoned its leadership.
The BNP ruled by decree until January 1986 when a military coup forced them out of office. The Military Council that came into power granted executive powers to King Moshoeshoe II, who was until then a ceremonial monarch. In 1990, however, the King was forced into exile after a falling out with the army. His son was installed as King Letsie III.
The chairman of the military junta, Major General Metsing Lekhanya, was ousted in 1991 and then replaced by Major General Phisoane Ramaema, who handed over power to a democratically elected government of the BCP in 1993. Moshoeshoe II returned from exile in 1992 as an ordinary citizen. After the return to democratic government, King Letsie III tried unsuccessfully to persuade the BCP government to reinstate his father (Moshoeshoe II) as head of state. In August 1994, Letsie III staged a coup which was backed by the military and deposed the BCP government. The new government did not receive full international recognition. Member states of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) engaged in negotiations aimed at the reinstatement of the BCP government. One of the conditions put forward by the King for the return of the BCP government was that his father should be re-installed as head of state. After protracted negotiations, the BCP government was reinstated and the King abdicated in favor of his father in 1995, but Moshoeshoe II died in a car accident in 1996 and was again succeeded by his son, Letsie III. The ruling BCP split over leadership disputes in 1997.
Prime Minister Ntsu Mokhehle formed a new party, the Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD), and was followed by a majority of Members of Parliament, which enabled him to form a new government. The LCD won the general elections in 1998 under the leadership of Pakalitha Mosisili, who had succeeded Mokhehle as party leader. Despite the elections being pronounced free and fair by local and international observers and a subsequent special commission appointed by SADC, the opposition political parties rejected the results.
Opposition protests in the country intensified, culminating in a violent demonstration outside the royal palace in August 1998. When junior members of the armed services mutinied in September, the government requested a SADC task force to intervene to prevent a coup and restore stability. A military group of South African and Botswana troops entered the country in September, put down the mutiny, and withdrew in May 1999. Looting, casualties, and widespread destruction of property followed.
An Interim Political Authority (IPA), charged with reviewing the electoral structure in the country, was created in December 1998. The IPA devised a proportional electoral system to ensure that there would be opposition in the National Assembly. The new system retained the existing 80 elected Assembly seats, but added 40 seats to be filled on a proportional basis. Elections were held under this new system in May 2002, and the LCD won again. For the first time, due to the inclusion of proportional seats, opposition political parties won significant numbers of seats. Elections were held again in February 2007. Nine parties hold all 40 of the proportional seats, with the governing party-aligned National Independent Party (NIP) having the largest share (21). The LCD has 62 of the 80 constituency-based seats, and All Basotho Congress (ABC) holds 17.
The Lesotho Government is a constitutional monarchy. The Prime Minister, Pakalitha Mosisili, is head of government and has executive authority. The King serves a largely ceremonial function; he does not actively participate in political initiatives.
The Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) controls a majority in the National Assembly (the lower house of parliament), with All Basotho Congress (ABC), the National Independent Party, and the Lesotho Workers Party among the 9 opposition parties represented. The upper house of parliament, called the Senate, is composed of 22 principal chiefs whose membership is hereditary, and 11 appointees of the King, acting on the advice of the prime minister.
The constitution provides for an independent judicial system. The judiciary is made up of the Court of Appeal, the High Court, Magistrate's Courts, and traditional courts that exist predominately in rural areas. All but one of the Justices on the Court of Appeal are South African jurists. There is no trial by jury; rather, judges make rulings alone, or, in the case of criminal trials, with two other judges as observers. The constitution also protects basic civil liberties, including freedom of speech, association, and the press; freedom of peaceful assembly; and freedom of religion.
For administrative purposes, Lesotho is divided into 10 districts, each headed by a district administrator.
Lesotho held its first post-independence local government elections in 2005 using a quota system that reserved one-third of electoral divisions for women candidates. In these elections, 53% of the victorious candidates were women. Locally elected officials attended post-election training while regulations for local governance were drawn up by the National Assembly and infrastructure was created.
Principal Government Officials
Head of State--King Letsie III
Prime Minister--Pakalitha Mosisili
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Home Affairs and Public Safety--Archibald Lesao Lehohla
Minister of Defense--Pakalitha Mosisili (also Prime Minister)
Minister of Foreign Affairs--Mohlabi Kenneth Tsekoa, MP
Minister of Education and Training--Dr. Mamphono Khaketla
Minister of Natural Resources--Monyane Moleleki, MP
Minister of Local Government--Pontso Sekatle
Minister of Justice, Human Rights and Rehabilitation, Law and Constitutional Affairs--Mpeo Mahase-Moiloa, MP
Minister of Finance and Development Planning--Timothy Thahane
Minister of Tourism, Environment, and Culture--Lebohang Ntsinyi
Minister of Public Service--Semano Sekatle
Minister of Trade and Industry, Cooperatives, and Marketing--Popane Lebesa
Minister of Communications, Science, and Technology--Mothojoa Metsing, MP
Minister of Health and Social Welfare--Dr. Mphu Ramatlapeng, Senator
Minister of Employment and Labor--Moses Refiloe Masemene
Minister of Agriculture and Food Security--Lesole Mokoma, MP
Minister of Gender, Youth, Sports, and Recreation--Mathabiso Lepono
Minister in the Prime Minister's Office--Dr. Motloheloa Phooko, Senator
Minister of Public Works and Transportation--Ts'ele Chakela
Assistant Minister of Trade and Industry, Cooperatives, and Marketing--Khotso Matla
Assistant Minister of Education and Training--Malijane Norah Maqelepo
Assistant Minister of Agriculture and Food Security--Ramootsi Mokone Lehata
Assistant Minister of Sports, Gender, and Youth Affairs--vacant
Assistant Minister of Home Affairs--Lineo Irene Molise
Assistant Minister of Labor and Employment--Matanki Mariam Mokhabi
Ambassador to the United States--David Mohlomi Rantekoa
Permanent Representative and Ambassador to the United Nations--Lebohang Fine Maema
Lesotho maintains an embassy in the United States at 2511 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008 (tel: 202-797-5533). Lesotho's mission to the United Nations is located at 204 East 39th Street, New York, NY 10016 (tel: 212-661-1690).
Lesotho's economy is based on water and electricity sold to South Africa, manufacturing, earnings from the Southern African Customs Union (SACU), agriculture, livestock, and to some extent earnings of laborers employed in South Africa. Lesotho also exports diamonds, wool, and mohair. Lesotho is geographically surrounded by South Africa and economically integrated with it as well. The majority of households subsist on farming or migrant labor. The western lowlands form the main agricultural zone. Almost 50% of the population earns some income through crop cultivation or animal husbandry, with over half the country's income coming from the agricultural sector.
Water is Lesotho's only significant natural resource. It is being exploited through the 30-year, multi-billion-dollar Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP), which was initiated in 1986. The LHWP is designed to capture, store, and transfer water from the Orange River system and send it to South Africa's Free State and greater Johannesburg area, which features a large concentration of South African industry, population, and agriculture. Completion of the first phase of the project has made Lesotho almost completely self-sufficient in the production of electricity and generated approximately $24 million annually from the sale of electricity and water to South Africa. The World Bank, African Development Bank, European Investment Bank, and many other bilateral donors financed the project. Lesotho has taken advantage of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) to become the largest exporter of garments to the U.S. from sub-Saharan Africa. Exports totaled $437 million in 2007. Employment reached 40,000. Asian investors own most factories.
Lesotho has received economic aid from a variety of sources, including the United States, the World Bank, Ireland, the United Kingdom, the European Union, Germany, and the People's Republic of China.
Lesotho has nearly 6,000 kilometers of unpaved and modern all-weather roads. There is a short rail line (freight) linking the capital city of Maseru with Bloemfontein, South Africa that is owned and operated by South Africa (the half-mile trunk inside Lesotho is operated by Lesotho Flour Mills, Ltd.). Lesotho is a member of the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) in which tariffs have been eliminated on the trade of goods with other member countries, which include Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, and Swaziland. With the exception of Botswana, these countries also form a common currency and exchange control area known as the Common Monetary Area (CMA). The South African rand can be used interchangeably with the loti, the Lesotho currency (plural: maloti). One hundred lisente equal one loti. The loti is at par with the rand.
According to recent estimates, the HIV/AIDS prevalence rate in Lesotho is about 23.2%, one of the highest rates in the world. The United Nations estimates that this rate will rise to 36% within the next 15 years, resulting in a further drop in life expectancy. According to the Lesotho Bureau of Statistics, in 2001 life expectancy was estimated at 48 for men and 56 for women. Recent statistics estimate that life expectancy has fallen to an average of 36 years.
In 1999, the government finalized its Strategic Plan on HIV/AIDS, a diagram for addressing the education, prevention, counseling, and treatment needs of the populace. In 2000, Lesotho declared a national emergency as a result of the HIV/AIDS crisis. In 2003 the Government of Lesotho hosted a SADC Extraordinary Summit on HIV/AIDS. In 2005 legislation was passed to create the National AIDS Commission to coordinate society-wide anti-AIDS activities, which was following by the launching of a national "Know Your Status" campaign aimed at achieving 100% testing and counseling of all Basotho.
The donor community is collaborating with the Government of Lesotho in a massive effort to address the HIV epidemic. Key international stakeholders include components of the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), UN agencies, Irish AID, other international donors, and dozens of non-governmental organizations.
The security force is composed of the Lesotho Defense Force (LDF--estimated 5,000 personnel) and the Lesotho Mounted Police Service (LMPS--estimated 3,000-4,000 personnel). The LDF consists of an army and an air wing. The LDF reports to the Prime Minister (who is the Minister of Defense and National Security), while the Lesotho Mounted Police Service reports to the Minister of Home Affairs. There also is a National Security Service (NSS) for intelligence, which is directly accountable to the Prime Minister. Relations between the police and the army have occasionally been tense, and in 1997 the army was called upon to put down a serious police mutiny.
Lesotho's geographic location makes it extremely vulnerable to political and economic developments in South Africa. It is a member of many regional economic organizations including the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the Southern African Customs Union (SACU). Lesotho also is active in the United Nations, the African Union, the Nonaligned Movement, the Commonwealth, and many other international organizations. In addition to the United States, South Africa, China, Libya, Ireland (Consulate General), and the European Union all currently retain resident diplomatic missions in Lesotho. The United Nations is represented by a resident mission as well, including UNDP, UNICEF, WHO, FAO, WFP, and UNAIDS.
Lesotho has historically maintained generally close ties with the United States, European Union member states, and other Western countries. Although Lesotho decided in 1990 to break relations with the People's Republic of China (P.R.C.) and reestablish relations with Taiwan, in 1993 the nation restored ties with the P.R.C. Lesotho also recognizes Palestine as a state, was a strong public supporter of the end of apartheid in South Africa, and granted a number of South African refugees political asylum during the apartheid era. Resident diplomatic missions include the United States, Ireland, the European Union, South Africa, China (P.R.C.), and Libya.
The United States was one of the first four countries to establish an embassy in Maseru after Lesotho gained its independence from Great Britain in 1966. Since this time, Lesotho and the United States have consistently maintained productive bilateral relations. In 1996, the United States closed its resident bilateral aid program in Lesotho. In 2007, however, the Government of Lesotho signed a compact with the Millennium Challenge Corporation to provide $362.5 million in support over the next five years to develop Lesotho's water, healthcare infrastructure, and private sector. An in-country program to support the President's Emergency Program for AIDS Relief was established in 2005 and also includes representatives of U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Centers for Disease Control. The Peace Corps has operated in Lesotho since 1966. About 90 Peace Corps volunteers concentrate in the sectors of health, agriculture, education, rural community development, and the environment. The Government of Lesotho encourages greater American participation in commercial life and welcomes interest from potential U.S. investors and suppliers.
Principal U.S. Officials
Ambassador--Robert B. Nolan
Deputy Chief of Mission--Elizabeth Power (Arrival December 2008)
Management Officer--Craig Anderson
Consular Officer--Karla Brown (Arrival October 21, 2008)
Public Diplomacy, Economic, and Political Officer--Sara E. Devlin
General Services Officer--Christian "Kit" Redmer
Information Management Officer--Norman Bates
Regional Security Officer--Kimberly K. Jones
Director, Peace Corps--Ted Mooney
The mailing address of the U.S. Embassy is P.O. Box 333, Maseru 100, Lesotho. Tel: (266) 22-312-666; fax: (266) 22-310-116. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com.


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LOS ANGELES -- Long before Brad Ausmus was a managerial candidate in Detroit or anywhere, and before his retirement as a player, he was a manager at Dodger Stadium. He was a reigning veteran on the Dodgers roster, and then-manager Joe Torre had a tradition of letting players manage the final game of the regular season if it didn't mean anything. Thus, in Ausmus' two seasons as a Dodger in 2009 and '10, he managed two games.
"One year we had already clinched a playoff spot," Ausmus said, "and then the following year we were completely out of it."
He'll leave Dodger Stadium on Wednesday night having managed two more games here. These ones, however, have his name on them, and they could play a big role in determining whether the Tigers can carry their Opening Week momentum deeper into the month.
Activated off the 15-day disabled list on Wednesday, Josh Beckett, who came through his Sunday side session without any issues in his sore ankle, will make his 2014 debut against a familiar opponent.
Beckett and Anibal Sanchez were traded for each other between the Red Sox and Marlins nine years ago, a megadeal that included current Dodgers shortstop Hanley Ramirez. Sanchez and Beckett have never faced each other, though they faced their former teams over the years.
This will be their chance, and they'll do so in a matchup that could prove to be a World Series preview.
Sanchez has pitched stingier against the National League in Interleague Play since joining the Tigers than he did as a Marlin, allowing eight earned runs on 27 hits over 32 innings in five Interleague starts last season. He walked just four batters while striking out 43. He's winless in four career meetings with the Dodgers.
Tigers: Hunter questionable with bruised left knee
Torii Hunter is expected to be a game-time decision for the Tigers, after suffering a left knee contusion while sliding into the low wall down the right-field line in pursuit of a foul ball Tuesday night. Ausmus sounded inclined to rest Hunter unless he reports serious improvement, noting the extra off-day Thursday could give him two days to heal up for Friday's series opener in San Diego.
"My inclination is to give him [Wednesday] off because of the off-day, unless he came in and said that he felt great, that there's no pain at all," Ausmus said.
That appears unlikely, given the swelling in Hunter's knee, but he isn't ruling it out.
"My knee swelled up on me," Hunter said. "They actually got some of the swelling down. [Wednesday] I'll come into the clubhouse and if it feels good, I think I'm going to play. But I'm going to play it safe."
If Hunter can't play, either rookie Tyler Collins or veteran utility man Don Kelly will get the start in right.
Dodgers: Puig still sidelined by thumb injury
Yasiel Puig was not in the lineup for the second game in a row Tuesday night because of a left thumb injury, but manager Don Mattingly said the outfielder "is still kind of day to day" and might be available in some capacity if he can't start.
Mattingly said Puig, who also missed Sunday's game against San Francisco, was going to be fitted with a splint so he could do baseball activities.
"He's going to hit inside, and he can throw," the manager said.
Worth noting
• Austin Jackson's second-inning home run Tuesday extended the Tigers' home-run streak to six straight games, their third such streak to open a season since 1914. They had similar streaks in 1958 and 2004.
• Ausmus left open the possibility of a second consecutive start for Andrew Romine, who has been platooning with Alex Gonzalez at shortstop and had a solid game on defense in Tuesday's opener. If Romine starts, he'll have done so in four of Detroit's first seven games.
• Carl Crawford's game-winning double in the 10th inning Tuesday night was his 10th career walk-off hit and his first since May 19, 2011, a bases-loaded single that also beat the Tigers. Crawford was with the Rays at the time.
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Simplicity: The next design battleground
Consumers crave it.
The most successful brands have it.
You probably need more of it.
We're talking about simplicity in your online customer experiences.
Always a virtue, simplicity is fast becoming a necessity in our increasingly mobile, multi-screen, and distracted world.
Let's take a look at the numbers:
- Tablet PCs will outsell desktop PCs next year and laptop PCs by 2016 [Source: Microsoft and DisplaySearch]
- Mobile internet usage is projected to overtake desktop internet usage in 2013 [Source: Gartner]
- 71% of mobile browsers expect web pages to load almost as quickly or faster as web pages on their desktop computers [Source: Gomez]
- 90% of all US media consumption now takes place across a combination of phone, tablet, computer, and TV screens [Source: Google]
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The business value of simplicity has long been understood. Fewer choices, shorter paths, and simpler messaging lead to higher conversion rates in study after study. Examples of simplicity's triumph are all around us: Mint.com in personal finance; Apple in electronics; Google in search. Yet simplicity has remained an elusive ideal for most organizations.
The rise of mobile is forcing our hands and changing the way we design websites and software forever, with mobile and desktop design standards converging toward a more streamlined aesthetic. HTML and apps are becoming indistinguishable. Last September, USA Today pushed the envelope with a new website that looks and acts like an iPad app.
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If your organization is struggling to achieve simplicity, here are some simple techniques that can help you cut through the clutter:
- Start with your site traffic. A look at your site traffic is probably the best and fastest way to understand what your customers most value and what they can do without. Which of your content and features are getting the most attention? Which are being ignored? What are the top user paths? Which content is searched for the most? You'll likely find that the 80/20 rule—where a small sub-section of your content sees the majority of activity—applies.
- Try mobile first. The emerging practice of "mobile-first," whereby companies organize their business around mobile as their primary channel, is gaining in prominence (Google declared itself a mobile-first company in 2010). Whatever you think of mobile-first as a business practice, trying it out as an experiment can help you boil down your offerings to their most bare and useful essence.
- Get more objective. Designers, developers, and even executives can frequently get too close to their online initiatives; clinging tightly to pet features and the status quo. Install a decision-maker who knows your business and customers well, but who isn't involved in the day-to-day of design and development. That person will have the objectivity to ask hard questions and, when necessary, slaughter the sacred cows.
- Test, test, and test. There's nothing like the feedback of real users to break your internal logjams and provide clarity about what's valuable to them. If budget or timeline are concerns, testing informally with friends and family can still produce valuable insights. And it's better than no testing at all.
It's Time to Get Ruthless
Ruthlessly simple, that is. We're moving quickly from a world where we stuffed in all the features we could, to one where we must strip away everything we can. The future belongs to those brands that can specialize, synthesize, and consolidate for a faster-moving and more distracted audience. Only the most disciplined will prevail.
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Somewhat simplified view on the value of simplicity. Also the road to simplicity should be different in my opinion. Many simple solutions are too simple to be useful. Simplicity is not a goal, but supporting target groups is. Simplicity is not the reason for the succes of these companies: design is (making the right choices). Start by understanding target groups. Test your understanding with prototypes and test them with users that represent your target groups. You might get the wrong input from family and friends. Site traffic will only give you data of usage within a certain solution, and it doesn't tell you why your users behave that way. Trying mobile first only works if your target group needs to be supported with mobile devices. Otherwise you might throw away the support of overview. Starting with your 1 and 2 might explain why you need to do 4: test test and test. So, becoming ruthless is not a good idea, but delivering what target groups need is.
Mazurka, thanks for the great observation. I don't envy the person who tries to write that follow-up article! Organizations really struggle to follow through on simplification. Everybody agrees to it in principle, but then the individual exceptions start rolling in and before you know it, you're back to complexity.
I have been thinking about many of these things for a while, nice article and to the point. I would like to see a follow up article, how to actually convince clients, managers, bosses etc to adopt all or some of these approaches. I mean really adopt them, not show some interest, or maybe even try it out just to fall into old habits a week or a month later.