Joint Logistics Managers, Inc.

Joint Logistics Managers, Inc. JLMI is a dynamic, minority, woman, and service disabled veteran owned corporation that became operational in 2000. This page represents a corporate office.

In 2010, we graduated from the Small Business Administration's 8(a) program.

Wednesday's Words of the Day . . . Students of history know that parts of Spain were not always ruled by the Spanish. Th...
05/19/2021

Wednesday's Words of the Day . . .

Students of history know that parts of Spain were not always ruled by the Spanish. The Moors, North African tribes of Berbers and Arabs, crossed the Mediterranean Ocean, and conquered and held sway over much of the country for nearly 800 years up until the 14th century.

Under their tutelage -- state-of-the-art governance, public amenities and architecture was created that gave testament to one of the world’s most advanced cultures in a period known as “The Golden Age of Islam.” Today, some of Andalusia’s most popular tourist destinations are Islam-influenced towering fortresses and mesmerizing mosques including the world-famous Alhambra in Grenada.

Arab: a member of the peoples originally from the Arabian peninsula
Held sway over: dominate
Tutelage: authority over
Islam: religion revealed by Muhammad as prophet of Allah (God)
Andalusia: southernmost province of Spain
Mesmerize: captivate, grab attention

05/17/2021

Here's a bit from my bike ride Saturday. Excuse the production values on my first "feature film." A very low budget affair indeed. But, man did I have fun.

Saturday’s Century Ride, 103.4 miles from Richmond to Jamestown and back, proved a humbling experience for avid cyclist ...
05/17/2021

Saturday’s Century Ride, 103.4 miles from Richmond to Jamestown and back, proved a humbling experience for avid cyclist and JLMI Finance Manager Steve Guthrow. Turned out to be an absolutely beautiful Armed Forces Day ride that showcased Virginia’s Capital Trail.

Most importantly, more than 40 charitable souls stepped up big time to support Steve’s fundraiser with an amazing total of $2,145 for Feed More, one of Central Virginia’s most effective charitable food distributors.

Every single member of the JLMI corporate team contributed …. an amazing benchmark for any business. Great job everyone !!!

Wednesday's Words of the Day . . .Neuroscientists recently began studying a bizarre phenomenon in certain parts of the w...
05/12/2021

Wednesday's Words of the Day . . .

Neuroscientists recently began studying a bizarre phenomenon in certain parts of the world – rats attacking cats in what could best be described as brazen su***de attacks. Nature seems to be guided by design, so the scientists reasoned there was purpose at play. Cutting to the chase . . . it was uncovered that a parasite, the toxoplasma, was essentially turning the rats into zombies and manipulating them to launch hopeless melees that would result in certain death.

The invading organism was commandeering the rodent’s brain and doing two key things – switching the fear gear into the “off” mode and, more hideously, making the cat appear sexually attractive to the rat. Not a good combination. What does the plasma gain from the rat’s quietus? Turns out that the toxoplasma can only reproduce in the feline stomach despite spending much of its life cycle hitchhiking with the more widespread rodent population. Rat attacks cat, cat eats rat . . . you get the picture.

Toxoplasma has already been linked to schizophrenia in humans and is considered extremely dangerous for certain people. The full ramifications to the human race have not been fully explored, but it does raise some possibilities given the inexplicable actions many of us seem to undertake at times.

Brazen: bold
Melee: confused fight
Commandeer: take control
Quietus: death
Ramification: consequence of an action or event

Wednesday's Words of the Day . . .Ever since the 1600s, the world has pondered the genesis of the magical sound of the S...
05/05/2021

Wednesday's Words of the Day . . .

Ever since the 1600s, the world has pondered the genesis of the magical sound of the Stradivarius violin. Antonio Stradivari’s productions centuries ago are so revered today that they fetch well into the tens of millions of dollars each at auction.

In 1999, during such an auction, claims surfaced that The Messiah, one of the most famous of the violins, was a forgery. Specialists in age-dating wood were consulted to verify its authenticity. In establishing that pedigree, the experts noted that the ring thickness of the spruce wood-facing of the violin was remarkable slight, resulting in a dense wood.

This makes sense and corresponded with the “mini ice age” the world was experiencing at that time. Tree growth, especially in the chilly Italian Alps where Stradivari honed his craft, could be expected to be minimal. The denseness of the Stradivarius wood, it is now being surmised, produces a haunting sound that defies replication.

Genesis: beginning
Forgery: a copy of an original artwork
Pedigree: line of descent
Surmise: to believe without evidence to a certainty
Replicate: create a copy

Wednesday's Words of the Day . . .The potential for 3D printers is Brobdingnagian – from providing necessary items to as...
04/28/2021

Wednesday's Words of the Day . . .

The potential for 3D printers is Brobdingnagian – from providing necessary items to astronauts in space to medical instruments for surgeons in the remotest parts of the world. This up-and-coming technology may even break the creative logjam and homogeneity within the automobile industry.

The Strati, black car pictured, is the first 3-D printed car. The electric two-seater, printed in just 40 hours, has some rough edges but could indeed be the wave of the future. Another cool thing -- it is completely recyclable. Instead of one-size-fits-all vehicles, the 3D process could produce extremely unique vehicles to accommodate some in our society. It could also provide low cost vehicles made from mass-produced rather than scarce resources like certain metals that are today manufactured in an assembly-line process.

The Strati is printed from carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic -- a versatile, strong and relatively cheap material that could enable some new approaches to safety that could help counteract the negative connotation of a plastic vehicle. Currently, these 3D vehicles can only attain a speed of roughly 40 mph and the Strati needs a charge each 120 miles, but we’re just at the vanguard of this revolution.

Brobdingnagian: gigantic; named from town in Gulliver’s Travels, story by Jonathan Swift
Homogeneity: quality of being all the same
Connotation: idea or feeling that a thing invokes
Vanguard: leading edge of a movement

Wednesday's Words of the Day . . .In the business realm, being called a lemming is not exactly considered a laurel of ac...
04/21/2021

Wednesday's Words of the Day . . .

In the business realm, being called a lemming is not exactly considered a laurel of accomplishment. The term typically denotes a member of a crowd with no originality or voice of their own. This saying sprouted from stories over many years that North American lemmings would leap off cliffs to kill themselves en masse. In reality, these herd animals migrate to new territories when colonies become overcrowded and will occasionally travel through water to reach new homes.

There is one type of lemming, however, that might make a better business role model. The Norwegian lemming, its bright colors differentiating it from its brethren and allowing it to stand out conspicuously against its snowy Scandinavian domain, is not the lemming of lore. This plucky fellow will not hesitate to stand up for itself even against much larger animals including anyone brave enough to try to film them.

Laurel: symbol of victory; adornment of praise
En masse: in a group, all together
Scandinavian: geographically -- Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Iceland
Plucky: determination in face of difficulties

Wednesday's Words of the Day . . .Nowhere is Africa’s majestic wildlife better viewed than the world-renowned Ngorongoro...
04/14/2021

Wednesday's Words of the Day . . .

Nowhere is Africa’s majestic wildlife better viewed than the world-renowned Ngorongoro Conservation Area in Tanzania. This huge crater is actually an extinct volcanic caldera in the Great Rift Valley. The depression measures 10 miles across and features heavily forested escarpments that rise 2,000 feet above the caldera’s floor.

Inhabiting the grasslands of the crater are elephants, black rhinoceroses, leopards, buffalo, zebras, warthogs, wildebeests, gazelles and the densest population of lions in the world. Lake Magadi, a shallow soda lake at Ngorongoro, hosts great flocks of pink flamingos.

Caldera: large bowl-shaped volcanic depression
Escarpment: steep slope at the edge of a plateau
Soda Lake: small body of water with heavy concentration of sodium

Wednesday’s Words of the Day . . .The greatest golfers on Planet Earth will gather this weekend to do battle in Georgia....
04/07/2021

Wednesday’s Words of the Day . . .

The greatest golfers on Planet Earth will gather this weekend to do battle in Georgia. From beginning to end, the Augusta course offers some of the most deceptively challenging holes you will find anywhere.

For a golf hole that does not hide its challenge, check out the Legend Golf & Safari Resort in South Africa and its 391-yard bonus hole. Not all Par 3s play the same but this is ridiculous. Players must take a helicopter ride to the tee box, a mere 1,200 feet above the green onto the pinnacle of Hanglip Mountain. It takes 30 seconds for a shot to reach the ground below, and strategically placed spotters are required to locate your ball. Good luck.

Deceptive: giving a misleading impression
Pinnacle: high, pointed piece of rock
Strategic: planned with a specific purpose

Wednesday's Words of the Day . . .“No one wants to see me die, but nobody wants to miss it if I do,” once commented Bob ...
03/31/2021

Wednesday's Words of the Day . . .

“No one wants to see me die, but nobody wants to miss it if I do,” once commented Bob Knievel (last name pronounced ca-nee-vil) to a friend. Way back in the early 1970s, way before America knew what a reality show was, there was showboat extraordinaire “Evil” Knievel commanding the adoration of millions of fans.

No obstacle was too formidable as his motorcycle bounded over rows of cars, buses, a wild animal or two and even the famous Caesar’s Palace fountain in Las Vegas. Someone once flippantly asked the daredevil, “What next, the Grand Canyon?” Evil did not hesitate by creating one of the most indelible spectacles of the period as he attempted to cross the Snake River Canyon (he couldn’t get permission to jump the Grand Canyon) on his Skycycle X-2. The stunt seemed destined to cost Evil his life as the rocket plummeted into the river below, but he miraculously emerged with just a few scratches.

Although renowned for his bravery it was really the sketchiness of his motorcycle landings, often resulting in bone-shattering agony, that drew the attention of the public and resulted in his notoriety, predominantly on ABC’s weekly Wide World of Sports television show.

Extraordinaire: remarkable in particular capacity
Formidable: inspiring fear or respect
Flippant: jokingly
Indelible: not able to be forgotten

Wednesday's Words of the Day . . .Excuse my thoughts of summer . . . Sand castles are no longer the province of the week...
03/24/2021

Wednesday's Words of the Day . . .

Excuse my thoughts of summer . . .

Sand castles are no longer the province of the weekend wader at your favorite aquatic hotspot. With more than 20 big-time competitions throughout the world, competition is ferocious to see what gritty tableaus can be created with bucket, shovel and water.

One of the top contests out there is actually sponsored by the American Institute of Architects, whose members presumably know a thing or two about building real structures. The challenge is held Galveston Texas each summer (back on in 2021 after the 2020 competition was cancelled) with winners in a variety of exciting categories taking home the coveted Golden Bucket award.

Province: area of specific responsibility
Ferocious: savagely fierce
Tableau: group of figures representing a story
Presumably: asserting a likely condition

Wednesday's Words of the Day . . .This is the transcript of a radio conversation between a U.S. naval ship with Canadian...
03/17/2021

Wednesday's Words of the Day . . .

This is the transcript of a radio conversation between a U.S. naval ship with Canadian authorities off the coast of Newfoundland in October, 1995. Radio conversation released by the Chief of Naval Operations 10-10-95.

Americans: Please divert your course 15 degrees to the North to avoid a collision.

Canadians: Recommend you divert YOUR course 15 degrees to the South to avoid a collision.

Americans: This is the Captain of a US Navy ship. I say again, divert YOUR course.

Canadians: No. I say again, you divert YOUR course.

Americans: This is the aircraft carrier USS Lincoln, the second largest ship in the United States Atlantic fleet. We are accompanied by three destroyers, three cruisers and numerous support vessels. I demand that YOU change your course 15 degrees north, that's one five degrees north, or countermeasures will be undertaken to ensure the safety of this ship.

Canadians: This is a lighthouse. Your call.

There is no hard evidence that this incident actually occurred. But that has not kept the tale from going viral and becoming urban legend even before those terms came into common usage. It often finds its way into motivational speeches and church sermons across the land and you may yet encounter the story in your life. It is a great parable either to stress the importance of flexibility in life and business or illustrate the futility and irrationality of self-importance.

Newfoundland: Large island off the eastern coast of Canada
Urban legend: humorous or horrific story circulated as though true
Parable: simple story used to illustrate moral or spiritual lesson

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