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Elmer LeRoy Baker, author of "Gunmans Territory".
No full textElmer LeRoy Baker, author of "Gunmans Territory"
So many worlds : invention, management, philosophy, and risk in the life of Leroy Hill
No full textAn entrepreneurial and engineering genius, Leroy Hill left his mark on 20th century aviation. But that was just the beginning.As a gifted Berkeley engineering graduate in the late teens, Hill succeeded in reengineering the famous "Liberty Engine" of World War I to fit into the legendary fighter DH-4, or "Flying Coffin." In the late 1920s his passion for aviation brought him to a new marketplace as twelve-year president of Air Associates -- that remarkable aviation catalog of everything from plane parts and repairs to whole aircraft. Later, in World War II, he founded the company that manufactured and distributed all the hose-clamps for the popular P-51 Mustang Fighter.A true entrepreneur, Leroy Hill was involved in sixty different companies either designing new technologies or marketing improved versions of the old. Politically, he was a lifelong anti-union activist working in the most unionized industries in the nation. Though he marched lockstep with no one, Hill remained to the end of his life a hardbitten opponent of big government who championed many conservative movements of his day.From Leroy Hill's substantial archives, including his voluminous diaries, author Craig Miner has distilled the heady public and private dynamics of an extraordinary life
Portrait from See Tupelo magazine: Leroy Belk, Lee County Superintendent of Education.
No full textnotation reads: Leroy Belk Lee Co. Superintendent of Educationhttps://egrove.olemiss.edu/miles/1053/thumbnail.jp
AAC LeRoy Canada Western Red Spring wheat
No full textAAC LeRoy (BW1049) is a hollow stemmed, awned, high-yielding Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) wheat suited to the growing conditions in western Canada. AAC LeRoy was 10% higher yielding than Unity, the highest yielding check in the Central Bread Wheat Cooperative registration trials (2015–2017). Within the same test, AAC LeRoy was 13% higher yielding than Carberry, a popular CWRS wheat variety across the Canadian Prairies. AAC LeRoy matured 2 d earlier than Carberry and 1 d later than Unity, the earliest maturing check suited for eastern prairie growing conditions. AAC LeRoy was 6 cm shorter with better stem strength than Unity. The lodging score for AAC LeRoy was lower than the mean of the checks. The test weight of AAC LeRoy was similar to the mean of the checks. Over the 3 yr of testing (2015–2017), the 1000-kernel weight of AAC LeRoy was higher than all of the checks, with a grain protein content 0.6% units lower than Carberry. AAC LeRoy was rated as moderately resistant to Fusarium head blight (Fusarium graminearum Schwabe), leaf rust (Puccinia triticina Erikss.), stripe rust (Puccinia striiformis Westend.), and stem rust (Puccinia graminis Pers. f. sp. tritici Erikss. & E. Henn), including the Ug99 family of stem rusts. It also had a resistant reaction to loose smut [Ustilago tritici (Pers.) Rostr.] and an intermediately resistant reaction to common bunt [Tilletia caries (DC.) Tul. & C. Tul.]. AAC LeRoy was resistant to orange wheat blossom midge (Sitodiplosis mosellana Géhin). AAC LeRoy was registered under the CWRS market class.The accepted manuscript in pdf format is listed with the files at the bottom of this page. The presentation of the authors' names and (or) special characters in the title of the manuscript may differ slightly between what is listed on this page and what is listed in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript; that in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript is what was submitted by the author
Resisting the author: JT LeRoy's fictional authorship
No full textIn the last decade, the interest in the relation between author and text, author and autobiography, seems to have grown. In my article, I use the story of the author JT LeRoy as a framework to analyse what this growing interest means for our understanding of the word "author." JT LeRoy’s work was considered to be autobiographical or, perhaps, autofictional. However, the authorship of LeRoy appeared to be based on a hoax; JT LeRoy proved to be a fictitious persona, made up by the writer Laura Albert. How does the unmasking of an author influence the reception of his/her work? And what does it teach us about the relation between reader and text, reader and author? In my article, I attempt to answer these questions, and, furthermore, I discuss how LeRoy’s mixed gender relates to the question of the dead male author and the hyped "constructed" female author
Ex-Gov. LeRoy Collins of Florida urged Mississippi Broadcasters to speak out
No full textLeRoy Collins, former governor of Florida and president of the National Broadcasters Association, urges Mississippi broadcasters to publicly defend James Silver\u27s right to free speech; Source: Jackson Daily News; Unknown datehttps://egrove.olemiss.edu/jws_clip/1181/thumbnail.jp
The missing body of J. T. Leroy
No full textAn essay about the corporeal dimensions of the writings and biography of author J. T. Leroy, who was discovered to be a pseudonym for writer Laura Albert. The text considers this unique literary hoax in its implications for identity politics and the role of subjectivity in post-fordist labour
Hugh LeRoy : The Arc & The Chord
No full textThe author describes LeRoy's outdoor wood installation and how it changes with exposure to the natural elements. Biographical notes
Employer Branding and Employee Engagement at Agency Leroy
No full textThe objective of this study is to explore different ways in which Agency Leroy (“Leroy”) can both attract the best employees and also retain them. This is achieved by explaining how companies can use employer branding for attracting the right people and how employee engagement helps to keep the right people in the company. Leroy is aiming to gain more clients abroad and Sweden is one of the most natural sources of foreign clientele. Due to this, this thesis also explains what a company should consider when doing business with Sweden. This study was conducted during January 2015 - April 2016.
The theoretical framework introduces different theories in employer branding and employee engagement. The common message among these theories is that a company benefits tremendously from doing these two things right. This thesis presents the basics of employer branding and employee engagement, how companies stand to benefit from them, how an employer brand is set up, how internal and external factors affect the employer brand and what a company should consider when addressing generation Y. Understanding some key factors regarding generation Y is important for Leroy, since many of their new-hires belong to this generation. The chapter regarding employee engagement explains what the employees are looking for and how a company can motivate them.
The study was executed with action research and the data was collected using qualitative research methods. The author conducted fourteen face-to-face interviews at Leroy during the summer of 2015 and five expert interviews during the winter of 2015 - 2016. These experts were people working closely and intensively either on employer branding and/or on employee engagement matters. The interviews at Leroy focused on the driving factors of existing employees and what kind of people would fit the organization. In general, employees at Leroy are looking for challenges, autonomy and personal development. Leroy began implementing the first recommendations of this study already while the study was in progress. The company participated in a workshop where they came up with different key words that would describe Leroy as an employer.
In conclusion, the research objective was achieved. One of the most important findings was that employees of Leroy are passionate about the work itself. The company can motivate the employees with different work-related matters and in doing so get better results from them. Also, Leroy should seek to maintain the “family” style of the company, wherein the employees feel safe and believe they can trust the leadership. The literature review of this study includes several practical recommendations that Leroy could employ in order to attract and retain the right talent. One of those recommendations is to look carefully through the results from the interviews in this study to seek out driving factors for existing employees. This thesis also covers some very practical guidelines for companies entering the Swedish market that should ease dialogue between different cultures, as well as help new-hires at Leroy understand Swedish business culture
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