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DOVER- The luck o' the Irish was shining on one local firefighter on Nov. 10 as he took time to sign copies of his memoir, Danny Boy, a story of his younger years living in northern Texas.
Greeting patrons as they walked in, Kristin McCullough, wife of author Don, was proud of her husband of five years as he enjoyed the greetings of readers and friends in the cozy setting of the Irish pub.
"Kelley's Row seemed to be a good fit for it," she said.
"It's all new to us. It's new and it's exciting," she said. "It's been great."
His memoir, based on his life during the late 60s in Texas, is the first book McCullough has written, but it won't be the last.
Ginna Schonwald, of Barrington, stood in line in the upstairs dining room of Kelley's Row to have her friend of about 20 years sign her copy of the book.
She read through an early manuscript of the memoir and said she likes it very much.
"It's a very enjoyable read," she said.
Frank Avelliino, of Dover, used to work with McCullough in the Dover Fire Department and said he was excited to read about what his friend was like in his formative years.
Sitting at the bar reading through the book, Leigh Alexander, of Dover, said it was a great look into McCullough's childhood.
"He did a good job capturing some memories from when he was a kid," he said. "It's making me think back and remember some memories from my own childhood."
McCullough said he had a few different working titles as the memoir started out, but it was his wife who came up with the final name of "Danny Boy" since he has a large Irish family.
"It's been a great ride. It feels good today," he told someone as he signed a message in the cover of their book.
McCullough said writing the book, which he did while recovering from a motorcycle accident in 2010, was "the experience of a lifetime."
The coming-of-age memoir is a story he said has always been inside him and though he never actually intended for it to be published, it was something he had always promised himself he would write.
In the time he was on leave from work recovering from the accident he wrote 63,000 words, showed the script to his wife and she encouraged him to get the manuscript published.
It was a two year journey of constant rewrites, he said. "I'm not a trained writer. I'm a story teller."
Being in the fire services where a tradition of oral history telling exists, McCullough said he is surrounded by story tellers in his work.
McCullough has also written a children's fiction book that deals with the subject of grief, he said, and is currently working on writing his next memoir.
He said he also wants to write more about a part of his life when he said he was "pretty lost."
"It's about being found and being happy," he said.
Though not a trained writer, he said being in the heart of the creative space, for him, is sacred.
"That sacred space of creativity for me is just a great place to be in for a little while," he said.
Fire Capt. McCullough releases first novel
DOVER- The luck o' the Irish was shining on one local firefighter on Nov. 10 as he took time to sign copies of his memoir, Danny Boy, a story of his younger years living in northern Texas.


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On January 31, the Sabin Vaccine Institute's Pneumococcal Awareness Council of Experts (PACE) joined with Aga Khan University to host Childhood Pneumonia & Meningitis: Recent Advances, a one-day symposium in Karachi, Pakistan that brought together regional infectious disease experts to discuss opportunities for pneumococcal disease prevention throughout South Asia and the Middle East. The event featured Dr. Ciro A. de Quadros, PACE Co-chair and Executive Vice President of the Sabin Vaccine Institute and Dr. Zulfiqar Bhutta, PACE member and Head of Maternal and Child Health at Aga Khan University, and among other notable guests.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture updates its ag census every five years and is preparing to send farmers new surveys in December. One trend to watch is the growing number of small farms. They are easy to miss and some would rather not be counted.
The Census of Agriculture is a comprehensive snapshot of the farming industry, nationwide, down to the county level. It can tell a lot about farming in Nebraska. In 2007 the average farm was 953 acres and worth $1.1 million. The average farmer was 56 years old and 58% also worked off the farm.
The ag census is especially important for following what's happening with small farms. Dean Groskurth, director of the Nebraska field office of the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), said the USDA constantly checks in with farmers who raise major commodities like corn, cattle, hogs, and wheat. Specialty crops receive much less attention.
"The good thing about the census is that we can get those commodities that aren't generally surveyed by each particular state in the country," said Groskurth.
Photo by Grant Gerlock, NET News
Justin Jones hopes to expand his fruit and vegetable farm to three or four acres next year. That may seem small, but his business is part of a trend. The U.S. added 110,000 farms under 50 acres from 2002-2007.
Graphic courtesy USDA
A sample page from the 2007 survey. The Census of Agriculture was first conducted in 1840 in 26 states. Today it covers more than 3 thousand counties in 50 states and several U.S. territories.
Justin Jones, 34, grows vegetables to sell to a food coop in Lincoln. On a recent cold evening, his hillside farm was bathed in sunlight. Even as winter sets in, Jones was busy planting garlic and harvesting some hearty broccoli still standing after some frosty nights.
"You know there's still enough sun and the days are warm enough that it's going," Jones said as he reached down to pull back the leaves from a dark, green head of broccoli. "Look here's one almost as big as my hand. That'll get cut."
Three years into his new business, Jones fits in with a trend over the past couple ag censuses. An increasing number of small farms have started up to grow food for local consumers. Nebraska added 1500 farms under 50 acres from 2002 to 2007. Even in that group, Jones would be on the small side.
"Last year I think it was about an acre and a half, total," Jones said. "And I know that doesn't sound like very much, but when you grow specialty crops like this or high value crops I guess you might call them, you can actually do pretty well on that much ground."
Jones might reach three or four acres next year. A quarter-acre of muskmelons. Some potatoes and broccoli. He recently planted some raspberries and hazelnuts.
But for the purposes of the census, little land is necessary. The USDA counts as a farm any place that has the potential to sell more than a thousand dollars of agricultural products. It doesn't matter if it's in the city or the country, on one acre or a thousand.
"They may only have a handful of chickens and maybe a few goats and a few acres of hay," said Renee Picanso, head of Census and Survey Division at NASS. "We still need to get that data counted."
Picanso said small farms are harder to track than large row crop operations. The USDA builds lists of names and addresses through farmers markets, community groups, and extension offices. But even when they do receive a questionnaire, Picanso said small farmers are less likely to fill it out.
Judith McGeary believes they have good reason.
"It can get very intrusive when the government wants to know all kinds of things about your farm," said McGeary, executive director of the Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance.
The USDA is required by law to protect farmers' identities, but McGeary, who also raises sheep on a small farm near Austin, Texas, said the small farmers she hears from are still skiddish. They feel like questions about the size of their farm, what they grow, how they grow it, and how much money they make are an invasion of privacy.
"I understand the use of the aggregate statistics and you can probably make an argument for any given question why that aggregate statistic could be useful in some context or another, but that's not much comfort when you're the individual farmer handing over your information," McGeary said.
McGeary said she tells members of her group to fill out as much of the census as they're comfortable with to avoid follow-up mailings and phone calls.
USDA's Renee Picanso cautions census data helps direct the flow of funding out of Washington and it informs policy decisions on things like the farm bill and disaster relief.
"If we don't have the most complete and accurate data, those decisions are still going to be made," Picanso said. "They will just be made on data that is not 100 percent complete."
Back on his small vegetable farm, Justin Jones should be counted in the ag census for the first time this year. But the census and government programs do not seem to mean much to him. He's thinking more about building up the soil and growing his business.
Three million ag census surveys will be mailed out nationwide starting December 18th. Look for the results in early 2014.


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|19th March 2003, 06:40 AM
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Multi purpose multi channel gainclone PCB: Team project - group buy
Multi purpose multi channel gainclone PCB: Team project - group buy
Whos interested in a flexible PCB design and group buy, useable for either:
- a cost and time effective active 3 way (or 4 way) power amp, or
- a home theatre power amp, with say two (or more) channels bridged to drive a single sub.
Even entry level eg Marantz integrated home theatre receivers have pre-outs on all channels. It wouldnt take much of an amp to better most built in power amps (or get similar or a little better quality to many HT dedicated power amps, for fewer $ even than second hand).
IMO its not worth spending too much on HT power amps. Better to put the money into speakers or other things.
The opamp based stereo power amps the commercial Gaincard and Monarchy Audio SM-70; Linkwitzs simple diy design based on the National Semiconductor LM3886, the Gainclone and variations, etc:
Better than eg many Rotel etc amps, certainly the Rotel home theatre power amp.
The Monarchy has been rated by some better than Aragon!
Simple, cheap, not "SOTA but very good, especially for the cost and ease of construction.
Big attractions are:
- Depending on design, components total only 9-12!
- Dependent on components, *total* cost of a gainclone 2 channel power amp, is around $US 40-60.
The other day at Madisound Doug posted about the 8 amps needed to drive the active 3 way Linkwitz Orion.
To drive this, the mid and tweet each get an amplifier, and each of the two woofers get a channel an 8 channel amp.
Other DIYers are doing other active 3 ways (Im considering the Linkwitz Phoenix, and my own active 3 way).
Dougs suggestion was combining 8 channels of power amplifier based on the LM3886, with SLs Orion filters with the eight 3886s all onto ONE board.
SL doesn't think there would be much demand for a specific unified board.
(Im not an amp designer, and not (just yet) an amp builder).
Some opamps (including the LM3886) are bridgeable.
There are newer opamps (eg the TDA 7293) that sound better.
Although the trigger for my idea was a post on Madisound, diyAudio seems to be the place for this. Need to agree:
(A) Number of channels (maybe 10 is better) and how much flexibility about what is bridgeable, to make either:
1. Stereo 3 way with more grunt in the bass,
2. For the more ambitious, a stereo 4 way
3. Stereo 3 way with dual subs (much the same)
4. 5 channel with all channels bridgeable
5. 6 channel with double power to the L/ R/ C and sub.
6. Etc
(B) The chip & design
Exact design, the power supply, how many power supplies, etc.
Multiple power supplies, maybe 4? 5? would be good.
(C ) Who to do the group buy - mailout. I would be prepared to do this.
Im in Australia, so freight would be a little higher (though weight will be low).
Aksa boards are locally made, so this should be competitive. And eg for our US participants, the USD is worth about $A 1.70!
Dependent in interest or opinion, it could be posted at the DIY section of AVS:
(would boost economies of scale)
As we sometimes say here, whatya reckon?
NB: I only get the chance to check the site 2-3 times a day.
|19th March 2003, 09:18 AM
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Hi Rick,
Isn't the idea behind the gainclone to do p2p wiring rather than PCB?? Also everyone interested in this group buy would need to decide on what spec, chips, topology, parts etc. to use.
I have just received my LM3875 samples from NS (Thanks NS - I will be paying for more NS parts on another project) and keen to get my gainclone going.
I'm looking for a home theatre amp with the following specs:
- As high as possible 2 channel quality
- 3 x surround sound using similar but lower quality parts to keep the costs down.
- Based on the Peter Daniels tweaked up recipe.
A group buy on the components as well as the PCB would be useful. I am also based in Australia and having a tough time sourcing components like Riken resistors, Alps pots & Black Gate caps without paying ridiculous prices in US$$$$. There is a group buy on Black Gate on this site's WIKI but it seems to be dead.
|19th March 2003, 11:50 AM
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p2p. Peter Daniels tweaked starting point
Although maybe_ all gainclones are p2p, I dont think this is critical to sound quality.
Anyone feel free to correct me.
It is sensitive to quality of components. Short distances are beneficial so circuit design should be done carefully.
I expect this project to take a while to get going. If youre in a hurry, component selection will realistically take a while, preceded by circuit design.
Peter Daniels tweaked recipe would be a good starting point. I hacvent followed recent gainclone threads. Do you have a quick or direct link
|19th March 2003, 12:38 PM
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Re: p2p. Peter Daniels tweaked starting point
Plus, P2P allows a lot tigther layout.
Ask Jonathan Carr.
|19th March 2003, 02:08 PM
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Not Really.. Make use of some fine SMD resistor in 1206 house, Double sided board and you can place a circuit board on top of your output terminal's.
A benefit is no microphonic effect! Just my thoughts
|19th March 2003, 02:39 PM
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With a carefull layout and attention to detail, PCB may produce satifying results as well. I'm in a process of building my commercial GCs, which are p2p, but it is really time consuming task and when I imagine countless orders coming in, I don't know how I would manage with a demand.
|19th March 2003, 03:39 PM
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I never liked the idea of pcb for gainclones until recently. I realized that pcb's make it easier to connect both channels in the exactly the same way (length of connections) and ensure good connections. Also, the components can be mounted very rigid to the board. As long as the feedback resistor is soldered directly to the chip and the pcb is as SMALL as possible I do not see a problem. The original gaincard also uses a very small pcb and sounds great!
Though I wouldn't use pcb's larger than say 5x5 cm...
|20th March 2003, 04:37 AM
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The man's a freakin* genius!
The man's a freakin* maniac!
The man's a freakin* glutton for punishment!
Ah what the hell, I'll take 10 channels. Out of small seeds may come the patter of little Krell feet.
|21st March 2003, 01:38 AM
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integrated stereo amplifier
Thanks Nisbeth, though this is an integrated stereo amplifier . .
I was thinking that much of the very recent learning/ development that has been done by gaincloners (eg Peter fedde and others) could be translated without a huge effort into a multi-channel.
If someone here doesn't do it, I'll bet London to a brick that someone will. If I had the experience and time to do the design.
Doug thinks that the audio community regards projects such as this with distain. He's proably right. But I think they will be proved wrong, when it's done and listened to.
Whoever does it first (and well) would win a lot of kudos, and if they did it commercially, I suspect a lot of moola. I wish it could be me!
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Sunday, February 28, 2010
The Better To Grab You With
9 comments:
- Pam Morris said...
looks great! I wasn't sure about the bony things sticking out of her shoulders (in the last pic) but it looks fantastic...should have known better than to doubt your exquisite artistic sensibilities!
- February 28, 2010 at 6:08 PM
- Rot said...
: )
- February 28, 2010 at 6:17 PM
- Jay's Shadow said...
I like how you just took a store bought skull and turned it into a creepy masterpiece. Just wonderful!
(Maybe I should just send you my bucky torso and let you have your way with it....)
- February 28, 2010 at 6:40 PM
- JHMDF said...
The hand took it to another level. Gonna look great with her cloak.
- March 1, 2010 at 1:07 AM
- NoahFentz said...
I really really appreciate that you are posting these progress pics of this witch. Its like a birth of a child and watching them grow....
Does this mean there might be a How To page in the future? I would even settle with a progress page...LOL
- March 1, 2010 at 7:23 AM
- Rot said...
Perhaps... ; )
- March 1, 2010 at 7:38 AM
- The Gill-Man said...
Coming along quite nicely! I echo Noah's desire for a "how to"! In fact, I'm game for such a demonstration for pretty much ANY of your creations!
- March 1, 2010 at 2:48 PM
- Unknown said...
Great job! You should maybe consider turning that arm into a marionett type of pupet arm. By the way is this the skull you use for groundbreakers? Because I am having a lot of trouble with finding a base for my groundbreakers' heads. This wraping-a-styrofoam-skull-in-tin-foil-and-macheing-it thing isn't working so well. It takes too long and it's a pain. Any suggestions? Anyone? Everyone.
- March 1, 2010 at 9:08 PM
- Rot said...
My current groundbreakers have heads that started out as a mache coating on a plastic skull...I peel it off when it's dry and then re-build it to get corpse-like features. It's not the best detail when it comes off, but it's a good starting point and way better than starting from scratch.
I'd recommend a plastic/foam skull to anyone building a groundbreaker. Save the mache mold for later experiments. It can be very frustrating to work with a mold with limited features.
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Location: Downtown Prescott - corner Montezuma & Goodwin Streets
Event Date: Sat Jul 23, 2016 thru Sun Jul 24, 2016
We hope that all of our event participants, guests, members of the public and "just everyone" had as much fun and got as much out of our 11th Annual Shootout on Whiskey Row as the members of the Prescott Regulators & Their Shady Ladies did. We could not have asked for a more perfect weekend (except maybe it was a little "hot").
It was our privilege to announce our new scholarship program to people in attendance and present our first $2,000 contribution to the Yavapai College Foundation who will be administering this scholarship for us. We are committed to benefitting our local veterans and their families as they work on their higher education goals.
On Saturday the Prescott Long Riders, a group of about 40 equestrian riders, came through town and right down Whiskey Row flying flags and looking sharp in their identical red shirts. This trail ride was to bring recognition of the National Day of the Cowboy which is part of this 2-day Shootout weekend. The group was led by Mayor Harry Oberg waving to the crowd of spectators along the street.
The 2-day re-enactment competition was top notch. The four participating groups are the "best of the best" and come from Arizona and California. The results of this competition is as follows:
First Place: Guns of the Roundtable from Riverside, California
Second Place: Guns and Garters from Running Springs, California
Third Place: The Arizona Ghostriders from Tucson, Arizona
The Paul Narwold People's Choice Award: The Boothill Express from Mesa, Arizona
The awards for acting in the re-enactments was very challenging as there are so many competent, funny, and capable participants. Here are the winners:
From the Guns of the Roundtable: Melanie Caldwell
From Guns and Garters: Charles Meyerett
From the Arizona Ghostriders: Arizona Red
From The Boothill Express: Daryl O'Neal
And….the Best Overall Actor: Daryl O'Neal from The Boothill Express
The participants in the costume contest were decked out in their finest "old west" (late 1800's) finery. Watching these individuals always inspires re-enactors to continue to work on their costuming.
And what about the western dance on Saturday evening. The dance "floor" (dirt?) was full throughout the evening with spectators sitting on hay bales and in the bleachers.
The Prescott Regulators & Their Shady Ladies, Inc. was also pleased to present Honorary memberships to Craig & Sandy Brown, Mayor Harry Oberg, Mike & Mindy Weisman, Mike & Kelly Johnson and Shorty & The Wild bunch. These individuals have contributed significantly in supporting the group and have earned this honor.
Our group also awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award to Dee & Dinky Payne from Guns and Garters. This couple has gone out of their way to answer any call for "help" from us, and has brought their group to many, many events when the Prescott Regulators called out for assistance.
Finally, to all of the vendors and other individuals who added such interest to our event we thank you. This may have been our merchandise vendors, participants in our children's area, other local nonprofit groups who shared their organization's information and the food vendors who were fabulous. Our own group also had a terrific raffle booth, information booth and our merchandise booth with some great Prescott Regulators merchandise.
Please remember to think about the 12th Annual Shootout on Whiskey Row to be scheduled in July of 2017. As always, it will probably be bigger and better than ever before!
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The eye-catching signs are hard to miss in subway stations across New York City. Headline "I Love My Boo," they show young Black and Latino men "booed up," or embracing their significant other -- in this case, another young brotha or papi. The campaign, developed by the GMHC, fights homophobia, increases visibility of gay men of color and encourages safe sex.
"It's about being responsible, getting tested, knowing your status, talking to your partner," says Francisco Roque, GMHC's director of community health.
Younger Black MSM Are Hit Hard -- and Often Unaware of Status
The messaging is timely. A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study tested 8,153 gay and bisexual men -- men who have sex with men, or MSM, in public health jargon -- in 21 cities participating in the 2008 National HIV Behavioral Surveillance System. Nearly one in five tested HIV positive, and nearly half did not know their status.
Among African American MSM, the rates are much higher: 28 percent tested HIV positive, compared with 18 percent of Latino and 16 percent of white gay and bisexual men. Black MSM were also least likely to know that they had HIV: 59 percent were unaware, versus 46 percent of Latino MSM and 26 percent of white MSM. Lack of awareness among younger HIV-positive Black MSM was particularly startling. Under age 30, 71 percent of Blacks were unaware that they were infected.
In New York City, the overall HIV incidence among MSM was 10 percentage points above average, at 29 percent. And recent studies show HIV spreading there at three times the national average, with Black MSM "particularly at risk."
"There Are Brothas Who Wear Condoms -- and There Are Those Who Don't"
"We want to celebrate [the] community and find ways to empower Black and Latino men," says Roque of the latest "I Love My Boo" messaging (there was a previous campaign in 2008). "It's a social marketing campaign, tied into Facebook, and men can post pictures of their boos, to make it interactive. ... That's how we encourage testing and conversations about HIV/AIDS and sexual health."
Many challenges exist.
"This is what it boils down to: There are brothas who wear condoms, and there are those who don't," says New York City-based radio host and activist DJ Baker. Baker, who has been positive for 17 years, is well connected in the city's gay hip-hop scene and often discusses HIV/AIDS issues on his popular Da Doo-Dirty Show. "Many dudes are starting to develop reputations for preferring to do it raw," he adds, using slang for unprotected sex. "From what guys are saying, more brothas are getting tested. But many still are not. And many will not share their status if it's a hookup [not a relationship]. That means you have to have 'the conversation' and be responsible."
"I Love My Boo" poster model Derrick Briggs, a 29-year-old Brooklyn, N.Y., activist and promoter, agrees. "Young men of color still have difficulty having that difficult conversation with strangers and/or lovers. More brothas are aware of the consequences but aren't always practicing safer sex."
"We're still uncomfortable discussing testing and our status, even when the other partner is HIV positive," Baker says. "It's the stigma."
Going Beyond Testing
"We need to start thinking more holistically," says Kirk Grisham, a 25-year-old researcher at Columbia University who is also an HIV/AIDS activist and writer. "We need to go beyond testing and provide tools and knowledge so that gay youth will act appropriately." Grisham tested positive in July 2009 and wrote an essay for ColorLines that has caused a buzz: "I Am HIV Positive and I Don't Blame Anybody -- Including Myself."
Just telling young gay and bisexual men to use condoms "isn't working," Grisham says. "And new research shows that Black men are using condoms," he adds. "Sure, we need to talk about concepts such as 'risk and safety' -- but also domestic violence, racism, poverty and self-esteem -- to empower young Black gay and bi men."
Briggs says the decision to pose for the campaign was not easy: "But I wanted youth to know they're not in this fight alone. And it's important to see a campaign displaying two regular-looking men loving each other."
Rod McCullom has written and produced for ABC News and NBC, and his reporting and analysis have appeared in Ebony, The Advocate, ColorLines and other media.


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The closest populated place is that of Montopolis that is2.78 miles far from Boulevard Church.
Boulevard Church is also 2.79 miles far from the closest airport or heliport, the Bergstrom ARS Airport .
The weather forecasting are available for the town of Del Valle , that is 3.40 miles far from Boulevard Church .
The Zip Code of Boulevard Church is 78617.
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The Art of Giving: the Key to Effective Networking
November 19, 2009 at 7:03 pm 20 comments
With Thanksgiving and all the other holidays approaching, I though it would be an appropriate time to talk about a central tenant of effective networking – the "Art of Giving."
An acquaintance of mine who is currently "in transition" (don't you just love that euphemism!) recently called me to get together for coffee. Our meeting consisted mostly of him sharing the trials, tribulations and frustrations of his job search with me, him showing me his résumé for a critique, and him asking me for advice on who he should talk to, how to reach them, and how to answer certain application and interview questions. When the meeting ended, I had the distinct impression that it had been a one-way conversation … and when he asked if he could keep in touch, I politely said "sure" but privately thought "this guy just doesn't get it!" The missing element in his approach to me was any attempt to give back or even ask if there was anything he could do for me. He was so wrapped up with his own problems and challenges that he made the meeting entirely about himself.
Now don't get me wrong … I enjoy advising and counseling job-seekers, and I derive a great deal of satisfaction from helping others. However, if he thought that our meeting was supposed to establish a mutual networking "connection," this guy totally missed the boat. He took, but did not give. Networking needs to be a 2-way exchange where both parties feel they are benefiting from the relationship. Otherwise, there's a danger that one person will simply feel that they are being used.
Make your meetings about the other person. This principle of focusing on giving as much as receiving doesn't just apply to job-seeking. It crosses over into consultative sales calls, prospecting for leads, business networking, and almost every imaginable social and interpersonal relationship. It's important to ask "How can I help you?" Explore the other person's needs, challenges, or issues of importance. Look for ways to help solve their problems. Above all, be a good listener. Then extend yourself and give!
So, how can a job-seeker help an employed person or a decision-maker they are meeting / networking with? The simple act of asking "Is there anything I can do for you, or anyone I can introduce you to?" is a great way to start. Offer to introduce the other person to contacts in your network that are appropriate to their position. Offer to write the person a LinkedIn recommendation. Ask if there any challenges they are facing that you might be able to help with. Offer to lend your specific expertise in any way you can. It may turn out that you actually can't help them … but as it is often said regarding gift-giving, it's the thought that counts!
Following up with your contacts through regular emails or phone calls is a critical part of effective networking – but again, remember to make those follow-ups as much about giving as taking. Don't just remind the person that you are looking for a job and ask for their help. Follow-up with introductions you can make that might help that other person. Send them articles that might be of interest to that person based on your conversations. Send them links to websites or blogs that connect to their specific interests, needs or challenges. GIVE BACK!
In the end, the more you give, the more you'll receive. (Sounds kind of like a Beatles lyric, eh?!) It's really true: the people who take the time to help and give to others are the ones who are the most likely to receive the type of help, introductions, and insider tips that they are seeking, which will ultimately help them achieve their goals.
Entry filed under: Advice for Job Seekers. Tags: job-seekers, networking, unemployment.
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I love you, Michael. You're right on…you get it! What can I do to help YOU? If you don't mind, I'm sharing your message with others….
Happy Thanksgiving! And YOU are the blessings I thank God for.
Michael – Excellent posting. Sometimes it seems crazy reaching out and focusing on helping the other person but you know, good things come back to those who behave unselfishly. We're all in this together.
Well put, Michael. It truly is important to give back and it reinforces the business relationship.
Michael, you really do get it and you have a wonderful way of sharing your wisdom. I've referred scores of people to your musings.
Regarding the euphemism "in transition," I prefer to use "pre-employed." If a car can be pre-owned and a mortgage can be pre-approved then we can certainly be "pre-employed!"
Dead on comments and, in my networking experience, most people either don't know the optimal networking steps or don't execute them. And of course the most important step is to make a good impression by being a listener and a giver.
That being said, it is important to remember that some people will act quite a bit differently when they no longer have their regular working routine and regular paycheck. In fact, they may be more ready for counseling than networking!
Michael, great article! I concur 100% with your posting. In my search, I have found that perhaps only 30% of the unemployed I meet truly understand that it should be a "give first" conversation.
Employed people are being asked to network "ad nauseum" and many employers have curtailed their ability and time help others. With these individuals especially…you need to show them value before asking for help.
Excellent posting. Your comments are on target for anyone doing networking for job search. I'll be recommending your blog to others so they can better understand the "mutual benefit' that is so critical to creating and maintaining a network.
I read most of your blog, Michael. Thanks so much. I'm taking in all the advice I can.
Thanks for the informative posts Michael.
Michael: Thank you for this type of "always timely" post. It was very pertinent, especially for me. Just today, in my networking discussions, I nearly got carried away with my own story – – twice! I finally shut up and was happy to hear what the other person had to share and how I might help them. Thank you for this uncommon wisdom, and Happy Thanksgiving to all.
Hi Michael, very pertinent post. Only mutually beneficial associations can be of a long term nature. Sometimes even an effort at trying to help the other person in genuine thought can be enough.
Michael, you are right on about giving. Networking starts to really work when you stop worring about your own situation and start being truly interested in the other person.
Thanks for the great perspective.
Michael, Thank you for your 'Right On' article. SO very appropriate at this time, but also very meaningful and thought provoking. I have been in situations with a 'friend' and all that person did was talk about herself. Such a contrast to a genuine friendship where both are helping each other.
Thanks again. Keep writing.
Wow people, it is Thanksgiving Day! I'm enjoying my extra day off, and I am planning to doing something fun that'll probably involve a car trip and seeing something new in Sun Lakes I haven't seen yet.
You write something new at Thanksgiving?
Thanks for a well written commentary on our social networking. There's good advise for everyone here.
In a previous position with the Convention & Visitors Bureau of Greater Cleveland, my responsibilities included teaching networking to our members. It was amazing to see that those who "got it" were or became the successful businesses.
My Dad gave me a book to read prior to my interviewing for my first sales position: Dale Carnegie's "HOW TO WIN FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE". It still applies 60 years later.
Hi Michael:
You are a great writer and and your articles are so true. It is more important to give then take. I have always believed in giving and thinking of others before myself. I wish you a great Thanksgiving.
Best Regards,
Nancy Marinin
Great advice for networking in person! Your post actually gave me some ideas in regards to what I can say in invitations to add LinkedIn connections that I don't know. I read another discussion today regarding this topic and I was having trouble verbalizing "what I can do for you" since I am a "newbie" to LinkedIn and to networking, in general. Thanks for sharing.
Michael, great article. And great reminder to all of us of the importance of networking being a 2-way street. As someone who is currently spending a lot of time networking and simply reaching out to my contacts to hear the latest buzz on industry news, including possible job opportunities, the importance of your message ("return the favor") is very timely and relevant.
Michael: I have been reading all your articles. They are all wonderful. I came to know the significance of effective networking and effective job search. They are not only useful for job search, but also for professional and personal growth. I have been learning a lot from articles and trying to follow them. But, as Teresa said, I am also having trouble with "what I can do for you" as, I am also new to networking. Thank you very much for enlightening us on effective networking.
…and be so good they can't afford to deny you. Bob Koveleskie
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|I have a floresent I use in the car when on inside stuff. Won't burn carpet or seats after a while. No more pain the *** to use than any other. Outside the car I use an incodesent in my drop light( aptly named as we all know). They are a lot brighter and outside the car I don't worry about heat. I have a stash as we changed all the lights in the house to CFLs. I'm going to try a CFL in it when I run out of regular bulbs.
|Irelands child
|I can see where you're coming from with the heat, They always seem to fall on my arms when my hand is stuck somewhere where I can't move my arm quickly. I'm sort of hesitant to use the CFL bulbs because I believe when they break they release mercury vapor, don't they?
|I haven't broken a CFL - (Yet). Research continues. The Rough Service bulbs do last longer but cost more. The reason I tried the CFL in the first place was to avoid heat and glare. There is no perfect soulution as far as I can see - but natural sunlight is hard to beat - except at night, or when it is snowing.
Shop Lights
I have tried the "tuff bulbs" - they seem to have a stronger filament and don't go dark as readily as the "normal" ones, but are still prone to breaking/shattering as easily as the regular ones.
I had one let go when a drop of cold water fell on the bulb when I was under a vehicle and I got glass in my eye and had to have my wife take me to hospital to get it all out
Now I use nothing but the "safety" style which are covered in a thin film of clear rubber. Even if you smash the bulb, it is all contained in the rubber covering - no flying glass.
These are also a "tuff bulb" and last a LONG time in my drop lights, while making me feel a lot safer - glass in the eyes is NOT a fun thing!
|So those compact fluorescents won't break from normal falls? I've never tried them. I just use regular household incandescent bulbs in mine. I go through quite a few of them, there seems to be no rhyme or reason to when they fail, I've dropped them from 4 feet and they've been fine and they've broken when dragging them out from under a car. Has anyone had luck with those high impact bulbs? I've never invested in them, are the worth it?
|I've been having good luck with a regular old "trouble" light (very well named, indeed). I have been using the CFL "Tasty-Freeze" bulbs intended for household use. I have been neither extra careful or extra rough on them, and they are holding up well. Yes - they still rotate and shine in the face, but on the other hand, they don't burn your arm.
|Old Rotor Flap
Two cents worth...... yeah, I know, not much.
I equate the LED work lights to the LED Christmas tree lights. They have a lifetime warranty on the cute little LEDs, but no warranty, none, ziltch, nada, on the cheap chinese wiring or any circuit boards. It's not the LEDs that will fail, it's everthing around them.
I buy LEDs from Hong Kong. 3mm LEDs are $.99 a hundred plus postage and the gal I buy them from throws in the resistors for 12 volt applications. I send her twenty dollars cash to avoid exchange, customs hassles.
|Joe G
I have used several LED lights, some cheap and some quite expensive, and I don't really like any of them because they tend to have a very narrow beam.
I find that fluorescent lights are better in most situations, especially when I'm working under a dashboard, if there's room for it. Otherwise I use a head strap with a 2 AA Maglite.
I really do not like the old standard incandescent drop lights, but I use this type a lot:
|4 Jaw Chuck
I gave up on shop lights, even the LED ones are so cheap they don't last long. I have a set of safety glasses with swivelable LED's on them that are really great, I use them all the time because they point where I am looking and are very bright. The fact they protect my eyes at the same time is a bonus, amazingly I haven't broke them in 2 years and are still on the first set of batteries!
I guess the fact they are on my head means I don't bang them into things.
Led safety glasses
All kinds of different styles, watch out how much you pay for them...I have seen them for as much as $40 but you can find them for $10 if you look around.
I'm with M&M my fluorescent has given a couple lifetimes of service. It's not the brightest, most stable, handiest light there is but it works most of the time. If it is too cold to light, it is probably too cold to be out in the garage anyway.
Now the LED's....haha the first 40 led lasted about 4 drops on the floor. Got a warantee one that lasted a few weeks of gentle handling then fell apart. The 3rd one is now dead in the corner by the trash can after about 2 months of carefully placing it just right so it would stay lit. Then put it on the charger after 4 hours of use at best.
My standard lightbulb destroyer actually still works after a millennium of years. It usually eats a bulb every other day of use but it is sometimes nice to have the extra heat on the floor when it is cold. I just have to sweep up the broken glass at the end of the day. haha
I use a Craftsman electric flourescent light with folding hanger swivel hook and magnet very often.
Not that I really like it. . .
I don't like the folding swivel hook as it will not hold a fixed position.
I don't like the WEAK magnet as it has fallen almost as many times as it's been mounted using the magnet.
I dont like the switch position as I've turned it off almost as many times as I have had if fall because of the weak magnet.
I don't like it being limited by the cord in the way, I have moved it and had it fall because the cord happened to be in the way too many times.
I like that it's almost indestructible, I have driven over it twice, unintentionally, dropped it way too many times, thrown it a couple times more than I should have, and that with all this happening- I haven't had to replace a bulb because roughness on the light caused the element to cease working because it isn't incadescent.
I like it for several applications but would also like very much to add a cordless handheld LED to my tool collection.
|Irelands child
History with me and fluorescents is NOT good. I break 'em, no matter what the size. Sometimes they don't even make it home With the exception of the usual 4' ceiling versions, they are expensive. The heavy service bulbs, same thing. IMHO, the LEDs are the only way to go
Dave W
|I have a 40 bulb led.. cordless.. great lite and batteries last for up to 8 hours.. thing that sold me was when i asked salesman if it will break when i drop it,, he told me to throw it up in the air... it hit the roof (2 stories tall) then the ground,, and it was still on.. 3 years now ,, and it still works great..
I hope I'm not violating any rules by posting a link.
I have one of these at work & love it.
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Bowden is a big [6-3, 220] righty starter with a top-of-the-rotation ceiling, but likely projects as a solid third starter at the major league level. He is an advanced pitcher for his age, but still has some room for improvement. He has an arsenal of three pitches that could be big-league caliber: a 93-94 mph four-seam fastball which tops out around 95 mph, a very good 12-6 hard breaking curve, and a developing circle changeup with plus potential. His main pitch, the four-seamer, has a late, heavy sinking movement, and he generally keeps it down in the zone. ... His mid-70s curve is pretty sharp and he keeps hitters at bay with it. However, he can telegraph his curve on occasion. Secondary stuff is really coming along in 2008. Overall, Bowden has an excellent command of the zone. ... Delivery is somewhat unconventional, almost 3/4 style, with a leaning motion while dropping his head a bit -- but he's able to maintain it throughout his outings, so the Sox won't mess with it.Bowden began the season in Portland (AA), where he made 19 starts. In 104.1 innings, he allowed only 72 hits and 24 walks, while striking out 101. His ERA was 2.33. Opposing batters hit .196.
He was promoted to Pawtucket in mid-July. In seven AAA games (six starts), he has allowed 40 hits in 40 innings. He has kept his command, walking only five and fanning 29. He has a 3.38 ERA, and opponents are batting .261. In three of his last four starts for the PawSox, he has pitched six innings and allowed only one run.
This move seems no more of a crapshoot than throwing David Pauley out there. Why not let Bowden get his feet wet? With rosters expanding two days later, he'll stay with the big club through the rest of the season. Sox Prospects has his Boston ETA as mid-2009, but the 2010 rotation seems like a safer bet.
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Skinny Coconut Shrimp Recipe
Golden baked coconut encrusted shrimp with a sweet and spicy apricot dipping sauce. Set these out on a platter in front of some hungry guests and I guarantee they will disappear!!
"The best coconut shrimp I ever had" to quote my husband, that's how good these are, and he didn't even touch the dipping sauce! These will absolutely be making an appearance at my Christmas Eve dinner this year.
I tried these using all egg whites but the crumbs stuck better with a whole egg, as for the flour, you will only use about 1 tbsp worth so that is what I calculated.
Skinny Coconut Shrimp
Servings: 8 • Serving Size: 3 shrimp, 1 tbsp sauce • Points +: 4 pts • Smart Points: 6
Calories: 161.6 • Fat: 3.4 g • Protein: 10.2 g • Carb: 22.2 g • Fiber: 1.8 g • Sugar: 15.7 g
Sodium: 164.3 (without salt)
1 lb (24) large raw shrimp, peeled and deviened (weight after peeled)
1/2 cup + 1 tbsp shredded sweetened coconut
1/2 cup + 1 tbsp panko crumbs
2 tbsp all purpose flour (you will only use 1 tbsp)
1 large egg
pinch salt
non-stick spray (I used my misto)
For the Sweet and Spicy Dipping Sauce:
1/2 cup apricot preserves (you can use sugar free if you wish)
1 tbsp rice wine vinegar
3/4 tsp crushed red pepper flakes
Preheat oven to 425°. Spray a non-stick baking sheet with cooking spray.
Combine coconut flakes, panko crumbs and salt in a bowl. Place the flour on a small dish. Whisk egg in another bowl.
Lightly season shrimp with salt. Dip the shrimp in the flour, shaking off excess, then into the egg, then in the coconut crumb mixture.
Lay shrimp on the cookie sheet then spray the top of the shrimp with more cooking spray; bake in the middle rack for about 10 minutes. Turn shrimp over then cook another 6-7 minutes or until cooked though. Remove from oven and serve with dipping sauce.
For the sauce, combine all the ingredients and place in a small bowl.
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Filmmaker emphasizes Obama's Hawaiian roots
WASHINGTON -- It's a bright Sunday morning and Gloria Borland is rushing her 10-year-old to hula class at Halau O 'Aulani, a Hawaiian cultural school in Arlington, Va. Musicians in Tiki shirts and Tevas set up their steel guitars, and students with plastic frangipani flowers in their hair pull on yellow cotton skirts. Borland's daughter skips over to join a circle of dancers as her mother collapses into a chair, her arms filled with notes on President Barack Obama's formative years in Hawaii and several biographies stuffed with crinkled Post-it notes that read, "WRONG -- IT ACTUALLY HAPPENED IN HAWAII."
When it comes to Obama, Borland wants the world to understand one thing: The president is a native son of Hawaii. She spent the past six years making "Barack Obama: Made in Hawaii," a two-hour documentary that she hopes will set the record straight as Obama's legacy begins to take shape.
"President Obama is not an angry black man from Chicago. I mean, give me a break, he's a Hawaiian, with a Hawaiian temperament," says Borland, who was raised in Hawaii around the same time as Obama and now lives in Washington's Dupont Circle neighborhood. Along with Washington's 10,000-strong Hawaiian community, she believes the 44th president's public narrative fails to highlight just how deeply Hawaiian culture has influenced both his personality and his policies.
"She is so passionate, on a serious mission. And we're really proud of her," says Wendell Yee, 65, who unpacks his ukulele and smiles gently as he watches Borland shuffle through her notes. "This really needed to happen."
The president's competing biographical narratives are apparent in the wrangling over which state will get to host Obama's official presidential library when his second term ends. Will it be the sun-dappled Polynesian island where he was born and raised, graduating from Honolulu's prestigious Punahou School? Or the chilly metropolis on Lake Michigan where he worked as a young community organizer and later served as a senator?
For Borland, what does it feel like to be obsessed -- possessed -- with the belief that an important part of history is being ignored? For the Hawaiian community in Washington it's a little like this: "Did you know, that Obama's daughter is named 'Malia'? Malia is a common Hawaiian name," says Borland, her voice rising. "Go to any school in Hawaii, any classroom, and you'll find a girl named Malia."
Borland's own pre-teen daughter, Imiloa, has been her secret weapon in getting exclusive interviews with Obama's childhood friends. She recites facts even quicker than her mother. "Did you know most kids' books on Obama leave out his Hawaiian story?" she asks as her mother exhibits Obama's page in a book called "U.S. Presidents" that makes no mention of Hawaii. Borland finds such omissions "flabbergasting," and points out that they are not confined to children's books. The Obama biography video shown at the Democratic National Convention in 2008, for example, doesn't even mention Hawaii.
"There's so much information that's wrong. It's all stereotypes and I didn't want him to be misunderstood," says Borland, who's in the final stages of finishing her film. She says the documentary is educational rather than political. Funded mostly by her late parents, it cost about $300,000 to shoot, a figure that includes 42 interviews and 15 trips to Hawaii to talk to close friends and family of "Barry," as Obama is known in Hawaii. Borland, a media entrepreneur, has made the documentary her full-time job.
Like Obama, Borland comes from a fairly complex multiethnic background -- known as "hapa," or mixed race on the island -- that took her around the world during her childhood. Her African American father was originally from North Carolina, joined the Navy and was stationed in Japan, where he fell in love with her Japanese mother. They got married at a time when interracial marriage was a felony in about half of the country, Borland points out. They moved to Hawaii, which has no majority race (many people who live in Hawaii jokingly call themselves "chop suey") in 1967, when Borland was in sixth grade.
It's important to point out that neither Obama nor Borland has actual indigenous Hawaiian ancestors. But like many people who have lived on the island, they say their identity was shaped by Hawaii's multiethnic culture, where most families have members with various shades of skin and ethnic backgrounds. "Back then, it was really hard for mixed-race couples on the mainland," said Borland. "And in a mixed place like Hawaii, where 75 percent of the population are hapa -- Japanese, Chinese, Filipino, Portuguese -- my parents felt really comfortable."
Of course, every presidential campaign spins its candidate's story, said John Hudak, a fellow and presidential scholar at the Brookings Institution. So Bill Clinton was not a Rhodes Scholar from Yale University. He was the boy from Hope, said Hudak. Jimmy Carter was a peanut farmer, not an engineer.
"We like to relate to our presidents -- and it's hard to relate to Hawaii," said Hudak. "So despite realities, Americans don't think of Hawaii as a tough place, but as a paradise and that's one of major reasons we think of Obama as from Chicago. It's a narrative of plight, grit."
The "birther" controversy added to the confusion about Obama, said Robert Perkinson, a professor of American Studies at the University of Hawaii. "At the same time, a lot of people put Obama in a box as the first black president, which he is," said Perkinson, who is heading efforts to bring Obama's library to the island. "But in truth he's also the country's most cosmopolitan -- that global part of his story doesn't get distilled into sound bites."
Borland says growing up in Hawaii was freeing and allowed her ambitions to flourish. "I always found the 'one drop of blood rule means you're black' so stifling. I was like, 'Don't pigeonhole me. I may look black, but I was raised with a Japanese mother eating Japanese white rice,' " she said in her apartment filled with Japanese and Hawaiian art and furniture and pictures of her daughter surfing. She came to the District of Columbia in the 1970s to work for Hawaii's Sen. Daniel Inouye, a Democrat, and later hosted a PBS program about black entrepreneurs that aired nationally. "Hawaii didn't have the 'one drop' rule," she said. "If you are raised in an environment where everyone is a different color, you have a different sense of self-esteem. You are not boxed in."
Her film about Obama also debunks stereotypes about Hawaii itself, said University of Illinois at Springfield computer science professor Ronald Loui, who went to school with Obama and was born and raised in Hawaii. It emphasizes, for example, the fact that Hawaii has a large military population. "People from Hawaii are not just a bunch of yo-yo liberals smoking pot. We really care about national security. And Obama actually hung out with lots of military brats," said Loui, who donated $2,000 to help Borland finish the film.
After hula class at Halau O 'Aulani, there's a Hawaiian potluck lunch. Its principal, Ku'ulei Stockman, says most mainlanders don't know that in the 1970s Hawaii became the first state in the country to provide near-universal health care, which heavily influenced Obama as a child.
"Or remember the 'beer summit' -- when Obama asked the police officer and professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. to drink a beer at a picnic table and talk over that arrest," coos Darlene Kehaulani Butts, who is on the board of governors in Hawai'i State Society of Washington. "That was soooo Hawaiian: We call that ho'oponopono, or the ability to sit down and talk things out."
The table is filled with a mix of Hawaiian parents who chime in with other examples, all echoing Michelle Obama's famous quote, "You can't really understand Barack until you understand Hawaii."
Then the mood turns serious. They urge Borland to eat more. She will need her strength, they say, to finish a film they all think needs to be made.


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These new titles join the first six volumes in the series, which feature the work of FSA/OWI photographers Russell Lee (1903-1987), Ben Shahn (1898-1969), Marion Post Wolcott (1910-1990), Esther Bubley (1921-1998), Jack Delano (1914-1997) and John Vachon (1914-1975).
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A graduate of Boston University's School of Journalism, Carl Mydans was an experienced photographer with credits in Time magazine when he joined the documentary project in 1930. He later moved to the new magazine Life, and on to a celebrated career as a war photographer. Says author Annie Proulx, "He identified himself as a photojournalist and his interest in the massive global events of the time became his life."
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