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Dual Voltage Power Supply Electronic Circuit Diagram Based On The 7812IC
Description: The following circuit shows about Dual Voltage Power Supply Electronic Circuit Diagram. This circuit based on the 7812IC. Features: can be used for Misc.. application, transformer output must be between 12vAC to 24vAC @ 500mA, 24vDC to 12vDC Voltage regulator, accurate, 110vAc-220vAC Input of transformer (Primary), voltage from (almost) -24vDC to -12vDC, AN7912 is the Negative Voltage Regulator. Component: Transformer, Resistor, Capacitor, IC.[free-circuits.com]


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From Sharon: What albums are you using?
I use American Crafts 12×12 3-ring cloth binder albums in Chestnut. I mix in 8.5×11 layouts with my 12×12 layouts within these albums. You can see inside one of my albums here.
From Mandy: Why cover the albums up? Dust? Just Curious.
Mainly for visual simplicity in the baby's room.
From Camille: Hey didn't you used to keep those chestnut-colored albums on a shelf in the dining room?
Yep. I moved them out of the dining room during Christmas when I wanted to decorate with other things. The timing was just right in that I was in the process of moving rooms at the same time.
From Vicki: What happened to your red tool box and your spinner? Those were my 2 favorite storage items.
I gave the spinner to my friend Jill and the red tool box is here waiting for a new purpose. I love that red tool box.
From Paulette: Would you share the dimensions of your space?
13 feet x 11 feet with a slanted ceiling (from 9 feet to 10 feet)
From Caryl: I love your "workhorse table"! I hope it's ok if I can get the dimensions?
It's 48 inches wide, 36 inches tall, and 24 inches deep.
From Lola: I was wandering, what does the saying, "mon petit chateau", on the front of your desk mean?
I am pretty sure it is French for "my little castle."
From Susan: Would you mind telling me the exact paint colour you use?
I asked Chris and he said he was pretty sure that the color is Ralph Lauren Safari Tan (which sure seems a lot more yellow than tan to me). Part of that could be the warm lighting that I use in here as well.
From Trudy: How can you take such different elements spanning from different time
periods, textures, and sizes and fit them together? Is it where you
place them or choosing a set number of colors in the room or picking
items that blend from the start? You obviously choose things you love
which have good function but how do you get them to work together?
When buying things for our house – or for my office space (most everything in here now was in my other room with the exception of the lockers) I think I am most often looking for things to store things in. I have a collection of baskets and shelves and such that I have picked up over time – often when I wasn't necessarily looking for them. I have loved the color red for quite awhile so when I see something red (like the chair) I definitely consider it depending on the needs I have at the time (and sometimes I don't have a need but I just love it and will bring it home and find a function for it).
I don't choose a set number of colors for the room but instead by the ones that I love – such as red + yellow. I have collected lots of yellow cups + such that I have used in my office in the past and will be using in the baby's room now. I like to be able to interchange things from one room in the house to another.
How does it all come together? Really, I am not quite sure…it just seems to work (I also don't stress about it at all rather I am really open to moving things around if they don't "feel" right).
From Katie: I love the idea of the clipboards hanging on the wall. What did you use to stick them to the wall?
Just small nails .
From Jung: what did you use to hang the wood mounted stamps storage pieces…they look really heavy!
I used picture hangers again with brackets on the back of the wood. They are heavy but less so than they appear.
From Kayte: Just curious if you knew that the larger wooden storage for your stamps
are actually hens bays chicken coups? I see them every once and a while
around here in antique stores. I always wonder if people know what they
were used for in a former life.
I actually did know that – pretty cool isn't it?
From Anna: how do you store your rub ons?
Rub ons are stored in a basket under the table with my letter stickers. It's actually more of a tray with sides.
From Annette: I'm curious how you put your room together. Did you make lists, sketch
out a plan or just move things around and see what works.
I pretty much did a lot of standing in the space and thinking about what was going to work + make sense functionally before the actual moving day came. I had an idea in my mind of what would work and Mom + Chris + I tried a couple of configurations before coming back to the original idea I had in my head. I didn't sketch anything out in advance, just had a really good feeling for the room.
From Karen: I was wondering why you don't use a pen and tablet instead of a mouse,
or if you have tried the pen and prefer the mouse. I don't do a lot of
detailed drawings but when I do I feel a little encumbered by the mouse.
I definitely do use a Wacom Intuos3 6 x 8-Inch Pen Tablet
for hand-drawing out my digital products but have never really moved into using it for everyday use of surfing, etc. The tablet is stored on top of my photo printer in the shelf unit next to my chair.
From Kathleen: Can you give a little info @ your mac?
Sure. The desktop I am currently using is an older G5 (technically
it's a Dual 2 GHz PowerPC G5). I have had it for a few years now and
love it.The monitor is a 20 inch Apple Studio Display. I also have two external hard drives hooked up. They are both LaCie
drives – one holds a 100 GB and the other is a 1TB drive. One is for
general back-up + holds my iPhoto library and the other holds all my
digital elements and a bunch of other stuff. I don't know a ton about
computers – I mainly know when it starts to get slow I need to move
things around, delete stuff, or get another external hard drive.
From Mefi: how do you organize your pictures on your mac?
I use iPhoto and right now just simply organize by event/day.
Nothing high-tech or complicated. I upload very regularly after taking
photos and then just label the batch based on the grouping of photos.
From KazT: What kind of printers do you use – laser or inkjet?
I use a laser for class handouts and the inkjet for just about everything else (photos + digital elements).
From Molly: to use your sewing machine … is the foot pedal inside the cupboard? Do you just open it up and pull 'round the chair?
The foot petal is right below the cupboard. One of the things that is great about the cupboard is that there is an opening on the bottom rather than going all the way to the floor. I can just tuck it under when I am not using the machine and then pull it back out when I am ready again. So far I have been standing up to sew on my pages (no bigger fabric projects yet) and the height is just right for that.
From Jen: You have so many stamps – clear and wood mounted. How do you keep track
of what you have? I also love stamps (and am growing quite a
collection) but I seem to reach for the same 10 when I scrapbook. I
don't know if is familiarity or laziness or not remembering what I have
and not taking the time to search through them all each time. Do you
use all the stamps you have, or are they just pretty? Where do you keep
your clear stamps – like your line at Technique Tuesday???
Good question. I use many of the same over and over and go through phases were I barely stamp at all . I have gone through the stamps I have (the ones you see in the photos) and kept the ones I really like and donated the rest. I tend to buy stamps (especially the wood mounted ones) that are really versatile: basic shapes + universal words that can fit lots of different stories. I don't think I have any that are very theme specific (such as Happy Birthday) with the exception of my holiday stamps that I am currently storing in a ziplock bag in one of the lockers. I don't need to have those out right now.
My clear stamps are in 3 ring binders that are stored below the sewing machine. Jennifer McGuire has a great video on her blog that shows her system of storing stamps in binders. One of her keys is divided page protectors. She is super organized.
From Nikki: How/in what type of container do you store your ink pads? I want
something kind of funky and different, something that has had a life
before me so I was hoping that you might have a suggestion.
Right now I am just storing them stacked on top of each other inside the lockers. In the past I have used baskets which have worked well. The smaller ones that I use the most are in a little wire basket with a lid on top of the bottom stamp storage unit.
From Gioconda: How do you store your wood alphabet stamps?
Some of them are in a basket under my table and a couple others are stacked on top of the bottom stamp storage unit. I usually just keep them in the boxes they come in.
From Lanette: What's above the grey lockers? it looks interesting. How is the table to stand at, with the surface being flat? i used to
stand when i was a graphic artist, but i had an angled light box.
Above the lockers is a large wire lidded-basket that holds fabric swatches + a metal flower container that holds rolled papers. I love standing at that table because I like to have the view looking down onto a project rather than at an angle when sitting (if that makes sense). That table has worked great for years.
From Julie: does Simon totally love Horton?
YES. He loves Horton! We saw the movie in the theater and have rented it a few times since it came out on Video. We also have the book now so he is into that as well.
From Nicky: I wanted to know where you get Simon's PJ's.
We love Hanna Anderson. Those jammies are super soft and totally worth it.
From Poopsicle: What do you keep or store in those lockers (like them alot)? If you use Tombow markers do you store them upright or lying down?
The lockers hold paint, adhesive (I get it in bulk), inks, ribbon, a box of embellishments, etc. Most of those things are inside baskets or boxes that I have found to fit the dimensions of each locker. I am still getting used to where things are located in there but for the most part the things I have in there are less used items. I don't use Tombow markers .
From Mary: What I really want to know is how you do it all??? Do you never sleep??
Oh Mary, I definitely don't do it all .
We are up pretty early around here with Simon out the door by 7am. I start working after he leaves and work until he gets home from school. I work on different projects and at least for the next couple of weeks it will still be quiet. We shall see how productive I am after the baby comes. I don't have any unrealistic expectations and plan to just see how it goes. One thing to keep in mind is that this is my job and it is what supports our family so I am very committed to staying on top of projects, posting, creating, etc (in addition to the fact that I love doing most of it – including the organizing, etc). I actually love to sleep and have a pretty regular routine (again, about to change for awhile) of being in bed generally by 10pm and up at 6am.
From Jeanette: I have those very same trimmers and am always looking for a safe place
to store them when I'm not using them. Did you use a cup hook, a nail
or what?
I used picture hangers (like this one) to hang the trimmers. So far that has worked really well for me. I definitely like having them out of the way and using the space under my table for other things.
From Laura: Is the portable rotary trimmer just as useful as the desktop?
I think so. I got the smaller one after the large one because I was wanting something a bit more portable. I find myself reaching for the smaller one vs. the larger one. Both are great.
From Kara: Can I ask what local antique store(s) you frequent? I never know where to go in Eugene/Springfield.
I love to visit Ruthie B's (in Springfield) and a great little place on River Road called Amelia's (I think that is the name). I used to go to Coburg but many of the little shops that were once there are gone. Definitely check out the Coburg Antique Fair in August. Other than that I like to check in at lots of the Goodwill locations from time to time as well at the St. Vincent de Paul off River Road. So much of finding the things is actually taking the time to look regularly…you never know what you may come across on a random stop.
From Michelle: I'm in the process of setting an "official" studio in part of our
garage but I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed and don't have a lot of spare
time (two kids!) Any tips for getting organized quickly?
I think my biggest suggestion would be to break down the tasks into manageable chunks of time. Come up with a list of all the things that need to be done to move into your new space and then give yourself a half-hour (or whatever you can "afford') and have a specific task to complete in that time such as boxing things up, moving furniture, sorting papers, etc.
One of the things I really noticed with this office move was that knowing I was moving my space was an invitation to pare back and get serious about what I really use and want to keep in my space. My Mom and I moved everything out of Chris' office and then moved the larger pieces in one day. The luxury I had this time around was that I was not in a hurry or rushed and could then move the smaller things at my own pace over a span of time and really think about each thing I brought down to the new office. It became apparent pretty quick what I wanted to keep and what I could let go of simply based on what I was most motivated to move.
From Faith: I have a one year old and we have a craft room/play room combo. What
tricks do you have for keeping everything within your reach but out of
the little one's reach? I'm just afraid she will get into everything!
I think maybe I need to wait a year or so to answer this one. Here's what happened with Simon who was just about a year old when I started scrapbooking and collecting all the stuff: I never let on that anything in the room was "off-limits" for him. He was not a kid that put lots of things in his mouth or ever really got into stuff around the house. In some ways I think that because I never got mad or did a lot of "don't touch that" sort of thing he lost interest before it even began.
When he was in the room with me I gave him specific things to look at and sort (which was what he liked to do) and he would happily do that while I was creating. Obviously, the dangerous things were out of his reach and I was always in the room with him. It will be very interesting to see what happens with this little girl…
Thanks for the questions and the nice comments on the room yesterday. Hope everyone has a great weekend.

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Grilled Apple Pie: Without Adornment
My first thought when I saw the title of this recipe was, "How in the world do you grill an apple pie?" Then I saw the picture and my second thought was, "Must make a grilled apple pie!" Bean over at Without Adornment was assigned Jenni's blog, The Gingered Whisk. She found so many recipes to make that her had was spinning. Once Bean recovered she decided on Jenni's Grilled Apple Pie. What a novelty! All your friends will talk about this for weeks to come. So, drag out the BBQ grill and make this pie. Now. Don't wait. Time's-a-wastin'!! (Hard to believe that crust is gluten-free, right?) Bean says . . .
"To any doubters, don't let the idea of a grilled apple pie turn you off of this – basically what you do is bake the pie in a cast iron pan in your BBQ. I obviously made my pie gluten free – I tried to roll out the pie instead of piecing it together – and used a bit less sugar. Even with my changes and the novel baking method, I thought it turned out very well and it was yummy! Mr. Bean definitely agreed."
Check out the recipe for Grilled Apple Pie.
Update: Bean linked to Jenni's blog that no longer has the recipe posted. Sorry for the convenience.


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No one knows for certain what happens to us after we die. Do we simply cease to exist? Or does our energy – our personality or spirit – continue on some other plane? Most people think there is an afterlife, and every once in awhile people experience events that forever convince them that life after death is a reality. Paula Jenkins, who suffered the loss of her son, is one of those people. This is Paula's story.
I LIVE IN Houston Texas and I have decided to share my very own proof positive, so to speak, of the afterlife activity that has gone on in my home since the death of my youngest child, Christopher Michael Jenkins (April 3, 1983 – December 5, 2002).
Christopher was a very bright, talented young man. He was 19 years, 8 months and 2 days old when he crossed over. He was a high school graduate, an accomplished artist in drawing caricatures, and could play keyboard, bass guitar, lead guitar and drums. He liked to make up new lyrics to old songs, like Weird Al Yankovich, with his own melodic satires. He had just been promoted to Chef where he worked and was going on to culinary school. His dream was to open his own restaurant.
Christopher never met an enemy he couldn't make a friend. He started a rock band with his older brother. He had plans – big plans – and he was going for them; the whole pie in the sky, not just a piece of it. He was 6'4" and 360 lbs. at the time of his death, and there was nothing he couldn't do.
Then Death came. It was a cold, overcast, wet, gray December day. Chris had moved his room into our den, which had sprung a leak the night before, and had moved his mattresses into the living room. I had just gotten back home from taking my oldest son to work when Chris came into my room. He had woke up and felt cold. He asked if he could sleep in my bed. "Sure," I said. After all, he may be way bigger than I, but he was still my baby. He crawled under the blankets. He told me, "I love you, Mama" and I told him, "I love you too, Punkin." Those were the last words he would ever speak to me.
Twenty minutes later, my daughter – my firstborn – showed up. She couldn't seem to get her new cell phone working, could I help? Of course I could, I am SuperMom! She was online activating her phone when it started. Chris was snoring. Loudly, as usual. Then he got really loud and it startled us. We looked at him. Chris's legs started shaking. At first I thought he was having leg cramps; he often got them while he slept. I started rubbing them and talking to Chris, but got no response.
My daughter raised his head up and his eyes were rolled up in his head. She screamed, "Mom! Something's wrong with him! I'm calling 911!" While she frantically called for help, I stood up and rolled him over. My heart stopped when I saw the blue ring around his mouth. My son was dying. I screamed, "Oh, God! No! Not my baby!" We started CPR immediately. His girlfriend and brother-in-law ran into the room (they had slept over the night before). I had my son-in-law take over for me while I desperately tried to contact my husband at work 12 miles away.
The ambulance arrived. They gave him shock treatments to stimulate his heart. But we were getting no response. An hour later, they pronounced him deceased. My baby... gone forever.
Or was he?
Next page: Chris signals


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Davisburg Heritage Festival
Celebrate fall family fun all throughout Davisburg on September 21 and 22, 2013 at the Davisburg Heritage Festival. The Davisburg Heritage Festival includes contests, games, crafts, fun for kids and more at Civic Center Park, Mill Pond Park Shultz Park and throughout Downtown Davisburg. Springfield Twp. Parks and Rec will provide shuttles so you don't miss any of the exciting events.
Learn about the town you cherish while enjoying a day of family fun at the Davisburg Heritage Festival. The weekend will be filled with a pancake breakfast, antique tractor and fire-truck display, cemetery tours, wagon ride park tours, historical demonstrations, a parade through downtown, family fun games, cow pie bingo, beer tent, farmers' market, concert and live bands, hay maze and much, much more. Most activities are FREE.
Davisburg Heritage Festival hours are Saturday, September 21 (starting at 8:30a) and Sunday, September 22 (starting at 10a).
Mill Pond Park / Hart Community Center (inside park)
495 Broadway and Davisburg Rd, Downtown Davisburg
Davisburg, MI
Contact Springfield Township Parks and Recreation for more details on Davisburg Heritage Festival.
This page is intended to be used as a guide. Oakland County Moms does not endorse these events. Oakland County Moms is not responsible for changes to event descriptions, event times or details being altered without notice or cancellations.


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I'm having the strangest phenomenon - [I]DisableAutoRotation()[/I] suddenly doesn't work when executed from the installed application (I'm using KuneriLite), or even when ran directly from C:/<AppFolder>/<app>.swf or E:/<AppFolder>/<app>.swf ! When I run it directly from E:/ for example, it works [B]perfectly[/B].
I've added a debug text, printing the Device object. In the first case, I get "undefined" while in the second case (same swf, I swear!) I get "[object, object]" and it works perfectly! How od!
Of course, the same code works in all my other apps, inc. after installation.
Any clue what could cause this?


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[Source Description: 5 August 1963: Letter from Chancellor Aycock to Jefferson B. Fordham, Records of the Office of the Chancellor - William B. Aycock Series, University Archives, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.]
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On 11 July 1963, The Daily Tar Heel announced that Chancellor Aycock would resign, effective September 1964, in order to return to his professorship in the UNC School of Law. Shortly after this announcement, Aycock wrote to Jefferson Fordham, then the Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, to express his disdain for the Speaker Ban. Aycock pointed out the complexities behind the law: "Frankly, it is going to be a long tough fight. The whole matter is tied in with racial demonstrations, politics, and widespread unrest throughout the state."


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Courier Staff Writer
Health care providers in Ottumwa and surrounding cities were thanked Friday for their service.
River Hills Community Health Center hosted the second Corps Community Day Friday afternoon, a chance to recognize local healthcare professionals during the 14th annual National Primary Care Week.
Clark Conover, regional supervisor for the Health Resources and Services Administration's Division of Regional Operations, thanked nine medical, dental and behavioral health primary care providers in southeast Iowa for their hard work.
Health centers like River Hills, Conover said, help provide care for the uninsured and underserved of the area.
"I just received notice of my acceptance to the National Health Service Corps," said Patricia Blackledge, advanced registered nurse practitioner in Centerville.
This acceptance means her $60,000 in student loans for her master's degree in nursing will be paid off within 90 days, a huge benefit and attraction of the program.
"It's hard to get health care providers to southern Iowa, to rural Iowa," Blackledge said. "This is a great way to get people to the area and to retain them."
NHSC is a federal program that improves access to health care for persons living in communities with a shortage of primary care providers.


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Tag Archives: psychopathic
Here's What Turns On a "Sportsman"…
The Infertile Union
So you don't get the idea I go around unfairly picking on small grassroots groups, here's an excerpt from my book, Exposing the Big Game: Living Targets of a Dying Sport, wherein I take on the Goliath of all national green groups for siding with hunting…
Sport hunters have enjoyed so much laudation of late they're beginning to cast themselves as conservation heroes. What's worse is that many modern, influential green groups are swallowing that blather, hook, line and sinker. Maybe they ought to reread the words of Sierra Club founder, John Muir:
"Surely a better time must be drawing nigh when godlike human beings will become truly humane, and learn to put their animal fellow mortals in their hearts instead of on their backs or in their dinners. In the meantime we may just as well as not learn to live clean, innocent lives instead of slimy, bloody ones. All hale, red-blooded boys are savage, fond of hunting and fishing. But when thoughtless childhood is past, the best rise the highest above all the bloody flesh and sport business…"
Henry David Thoreau, another nineteenth-century nature-lover whose forward-thinking writings were an inspiration to Muir, cautions, "No humane being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure he does. The hare in its extremity cries like a child. I warn you, mothers, that my sympathies do not make the usual philanthropic distinctions."
If those dated messages and mockery are lost on twenty-first-century Sierra-clubbers, Edward Abbey's sentiment should be obvious enough for anyone, "To speak of harvesting other living creatures, whether deer or elk or birds or cottontail rabbits, as if they were no more than a crop, exposes the meanest, cruelest, most narrow and homocentric of possible human attitudes towards the life that surrounds us."
Early vanguards of ecological ideology recognized Homo sapiens as just one among thousands of animal species on the planet, no more important than any other in the intricate web of life. They also abhorred sport hunting.
But a shocking turn-around is taking place in the current bastardization of the environmental movement. The Sierra Club and other large, corporate green groups are embracing (read: sleeping with) powerful hunting groups like the Safari Club International and the National Rifle Association (NRA). In a transparent effort to appear down-home and therefore more in touch with nature, they're making the fatal mistake of joining frces with sportsmen whose conservation "ethic" exists only so their preferred prey species can be slain again and again.
The infertile union between super-sized modern green groups and mega-bucks hunting clubs must have been sired by their shared conviction that humans are the most crucial cogs in the wheel of life (or at least the squeakiest wheels in the dough machine). As the only animal capable of coughing up cash when the collection plate comes around, human beings (every last gourmandizing, carnivorous one of them) are the primary concern; their wants must be given priority over those of all other species. Contemporary environmental organizations, seduced by a desire to engage as many paying members as they can get their hands on (regardless of their attitudes towards animal life), must believe blood-soaked money is as green underneath as any.
Forever stagnating in "thoughtless childhood," members of hunting groups like the NRA live for the day they can register a record-breaking trophy with the Boone and Crocket Club—formed by Roosevelt "to promote manly sport with rifles." Fund for Animals creator, Cleveland Amory, took issue with the sporty statesman in his anti-hunting epic, Man Kind? Our Incredible War on Wildlife. A benevolent humanitarian for humans and nonhumans alike, Mr Amory wrote, "Theodore Roosevelt…cannot be faulted for at least some efforts in the field of conservation. But here the praise must end. When it came to killing animals, he was close to psychopathic. Dangerously close indeed (think: Ted Bundy). In his two-volume African Game Trails, Roosevelt lovingly muses over shooting elephants, hippos, buffaloes, lions, cheetahs, leopards, giraffes, zebras, hartebeest, impalas, pigs, the not-so-formidable 30-pound steenbok and even (in what must have seemed the pinnacle of manly sport with rifles) a mother ostrich on her nest.
But don't let on to a hunter your informed opinion of their esteemed idol, because, as Mr Amory points out, "…the least implication anywhere that hunters are not the worthiest souls since the apostles drives them into virtual paroxysms of self-pity." Amory goes on to say:
The hunter, seeing there would soon be nothing left to kill, seized upon the new-fangled idea of "conservation" with a vengeance. Soon they had such a stranglehold [think: Ted Nugent] on so much of the movement that the word itself was turned from the idea of protecting and saving the animals to the idea of raising and using them—for killing. The idea of wildlife "management"—for man, of course—was born. Animals were to be "harvested." They were to be a "crop"—like corn.
Fortunately, a faithful few are seeing through the murky sludge spread where green fields once thrived. Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's Captain Paul Watson (founder and president of about the only group still using the word conservation to mean protecting and saving animals) recently took another in a lifetime of steadfast stands by resigning from his position on the Board of Directors of the Sierra Club. He refused to be a part of their whorish sleeping with the enemy—their pandering to sportsmen by holding a "Why I Hunt" essay contest, complete with a grand prize trophy hunt to Alaska. To think of how many trees were needlessly reduced to pulp for this profane effort when the answer to why hunters hunt was so succinctly summed up in just one sentence by Paul Watson, "Behind all the chit-chat of conservation and tradition is the plain simple fact that trophy hunters like to kill living things."
Just as the naïve young girl who falls for the charms and promises of a sunny sociopath learns, the hard way, about his hidden penchant for abuse and violence, the Sierra Club and other middle-ground eco-friendly groups may soon learn the dangers of looking for Mr. Goodbar in all the wrong places. How will they divorce themselves from this unholy alliance when the affair goes sour and sportsmen reveal their malicious, hidden agenda by calling for another contest hunt on coyotes or cull on cougars, wolves or grizzly bears to do away with the competition for "their" deer, elk, moose or caribou?
Yes, Hunters are Psychopaths—and Sport Hunting is Serial Killing
Based on your response to yesterday's post, "Are Hunters Psychopaths?" the answer is clear: Yes, hunters are psychopaths. Therefore, by extrapolation, we can conclude that sport hunting is serial killing. There's no way of getting around it. Not unless you consider non-human animals to be mere objects, possessions or "things," but then you would be viewing them the way a psychopath views his victims. The fact that society still considers nonhumans as objects or possessions can only mean human society shares some of the traits of a psychopath.
Objectification is one of the benchmark behaviors of psychopathy.
Consider the words of Aaron Thomas, the accused East Coast serial rapist who says he doesn't know why he couldn't stop attacking women for nearly two decades. "They were objects," Thomas recently told The Washington Post during a phone interview from his Virginia jail cell. "Whoever came down the street, an object," he said.
Struggling to understand himself, Thomas admitted, "I don't think I'm crazy, but something is wrong with me." Yes, something is definitely wrong—it's called psychopathy. Though not considered a defensible form of insanity that blurs the line between right and wrong, psychopathy is a disorder characterized by an inability to empathize with others, often accompanied by a compulsion to exploit, harm or kill in order to gain a sense of self-worth. Sound a lot like trophy hunting? It's the same deal. Thomas said he carried out his attacks without regard for his victims. The same can surely be said about sport hunters in regards to their victims.
Predictably, Thomas's early behavior involved cruelty to animals. As a youth, he dropped the family's Lhasa apso into a post hole that had filled with water, nearly drowning it. Showing more insight than most animal abusers, Thomas told the Post, "I used to think to myself I could have turned out a serial killer."
It's eerie, yet enlightening, how much the obsession described by Thomas mirrors the preoccupation of an avid sport hunter. The following confession by a "lifelong sportsman" was printed in Montana Outdoors magazine, under the title, "Why I Hunt":
"Why do I hunt? Well, I hunt because…. Yeah, right. As if there's an acceptable answer to that question, one I can regurgitate to nonhunters at Christmas parties and still offer with a straight face to my fellow sportsmen, people who already know in their hearts and guts and bones that we hunt for the same reasons we breathe. Because we don't have a choice. Just as some human beings are born with the gift of artistic talent and others have an innate facility with numbers, we hunters seem blessed with a genetic predisposition toward the chase."
It is a "predisposition," and it's shared by stalkers, sexual psychopaths and serial killers. Sorry to burst their bubbles, but it's not a blessing to be proud of, and it's certainly not something to brag about.
Pawns in Their Big Game
Like a lot of people these days, I'm currently reading parts of several books at the same time. One of the books I've been whittling away at is Anne Rule's autobiographical, The Stranger Beside Me, about the years she spent struggling to accept that her friend, Ted Bundy, was actually an avid serial killer. Much of it is almost unreadable, as she spends an inordinate amount of time doubting her suspicions, long after the reader is convinced of Bundy's guilt.
For anyone wondering what this has to do with hunting, I'll get to the point. If you've been following this blog, you've no doubt picked up on the established similarities between the way sport hunters and serial killers think…and behave. Finally, by the end of the book, Rule is willing to accept the fact that someone she thought so highly of is really as low as they come. In the book's last chapter, she does a good job of describing the self-centered perspective of a psychopathic serial killer:
"As an antisocial personality, he could feel no guilt. He had only taken what he wanted, what he needed to feel whole. He was incapable of understanding that one cannot fulfill his own desires at the expense of others."
Like serial killing, sport hunting is all about fulfilling one's desires at the expense of others. It's interesting how much Rule's quote above mirrors the last lines in the chapter, "Inside the Hunter's Mind," of my book, Exposing the Big Game: Living Targets of a Dying Sport.
"The reason the sportsman hunts is ridiculously simple: because he wants to. It makes him feel good about himself. No one really matters but him anyhow. And for some, there's nothing quite as stimulating as the thrill of the kill itself. In the mind of the sport hunter, animals are nothing more than pawns in their big game."


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This may not be a basic question, but I have no clue as to whether this trigger has any function I could use. It appears that the input is to the Emotiva amp, which makes me think that you turn something else on, and the amp starts up. However, the Emotiva manual says not to switch anything that plugs directly into the wall, whereas their advice is to ALWAYS plug the Emotiva into the wall.
On a broader scale....is there any way to control the Emotiva without manually popping the button to turn it from standby to on? Maybe that's a question for the Emotiva forum, but I know there are a lot of users (and haters!) on here.
The AV receiver I have, the Onkyo TX-SR706, does have a 12V output but it apparently only works in Zone 2. Thanks for the help!


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CHATHAM, VA – Hurt Campaign strategist Chris LaCivita issued the following statement after the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee today announced the launch of new false negative attack ads against Robert Hurt:
"After their shellacking in the last election, it's no surprise that the national Democrat party is resorting to spin and scare tactics to mislead voters in their newest ad campaign.
"It took one month for the liberal special interests to attack Robert for keeping his promises to Central and Southside Virginians when it comes to voting to get our fiscal house in order.
"No amount of money spent can change the fact that while Democrats are doubling-down on more failed stimulus-style government spending, Robert Hurt is delivering on the message sent by 5th District Virginians to cut spending to create jobs, grow the economy, and reduce our nation's unsustainable debt."


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Christopher Helman, Forbes Staff
I'm based in Houston, Texas. Energy capital of the world.
Billionaire Harold Hamm is convinced there's 24 billion barrels of oil to be coaxed from the Bakken field of North Dakota and Montana. No one has more acres there than he does.
The last time we profiled Harold Hamm, the billionaire founder of Continental Resources, it was early 2009 and oil prices had slumped to $40 a barrel. This was bad news for Hamm's big push into the Bakken oil play of North Dakota and Montana, where tight rocks and tricky drilling necessitate $50 crude to break even. With oil back at $100, Hamm is sitting pretty with the biggest holding in the Bakken and set to invest $1 billion there this year in his quest to prove that it is not just one of the biggest oil fields in the United States, but in the whole world. "Out of all the oil plays in the U.S., there's just one Bakken," Hamm says. "It towers above everything else."
Continental has already prospered from Hamm's Bakken bet—shares are up 250% since early 2009. Hamm's 72% stake is worth $8 billion. Hamm currently has 25 of the 175 rigs working the Bakken. In the past year Continental's Bakken output has exploded 70% to 28,000 barrels per day.
He's just getting started. "We're going to triple the size of the company within five years," says Hamm, 65. Within five years Continental will likely be pumping 100,000 bpd from the basin, and to grow its proved reserves from 400 million barrels to more than 1 billion.
Bakken. The name has become shorthand for the entire 8 million acre Williston Basin area of North Dakota and Montana. The United States Geological Service (USGS) made headlines in 2008 when it determined that the formation likely held 4.3 billion barrels of recoverable oil and gas equivalents. Already a kingsize hoard.
That's nothing, says Hamm. He's convinced that the recoverable bounty is more like 24 billion barrels (20 billion of crude, plus the equivalent of 4 billion barrels in natural gas and other liquids). If true, this is oil on an outlandish scale–enough to double America's proven reserves; nearly as much as ExxonMobil's 28 billion in reserves; enough oil to supply the entirety of U.S. demand (roughly 20 million barrels per day) for three years. It would rank high up on the world's biggest oilfields.
The Bakken is just the biggest of myriad spots across the country where drillers have triggered an onshore oil boom. New reserves and new fortunes are being made in the Eagle Ford shale of Texas, the Niobrara in Colorado, the Marcellus in Pennsylvania, and (another Hamm favorite) the Woodford in Oklahoma. Even in the century-old fields in the San Joaquin Valley of California, Occidental Petroleum has found another billion barrels by drilling deeper and smarter. In 2010 U.S. crude production was up 150,000 bpd to 5.51 million bpd, despite downturns in Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico, all on the strength of Lower-48 drilling. The Energy Information Administration forecasts Lower-48 growth of 230,000 bpd this year.
"As far as energy supplies go we're in as good of shape as we've been in for 25 years," says Hamm, who thinks that by developing domestic reserves the U.S. could cut its reliance on foreign oil by half, to 25% of supply. "The glass is not just half full, but fixing to run over. It may cost a little more to produce than it used to, but it's there."
I guess people still don't get it: we cannot use fossil fuels anymore. Economies will be decimated if we continue to burn fossil fuels at the rate the world is growing (imagine the populations of China, India, Africa all burning oil!) Leave it in the ground where it belongs and instead invest and develop clean and renewable energy. There is plenty of energy intensity in some renewables eg: wave energy, and once we commit to taking that route, developments will happen quickly. Fossil fuel is so last century. It's like than chain smoking on a global scale.
Dear Ms. Means:
Your position is noble but typical of liberals is unworkable. Environmentalist want want to spread the wealth but instead spread the pain. With unemployment at 9.2% and gas at over $4.0 per gal. in some States. Ask the working man to pay $10 and there will not be enough bread to cover the bread lines. We have been investing in solor technology for 25 years and all we really have is hot water for a bath tub and we have billions invested.
——" indeed. i wish we could all afford to install solar panels on our roofs"——–
Solar thermal heat is easy to collect and store and 100% efficient.
Solar thermal heat is about as cheap and low tech as you can get. The Ansasazi Indians used passive solar thermal to heat and cool their cliff dwelling pueblos 1,000 years ago with only stone age technology.
Solar thermal can heat and cool buildings—heat water, and even generate electricity.
A CST(concentrating solar thermal) plant has commenced operation and produces 20Mw of electricity 24/7.
Almost anyone can afford solar thermal—it is low tech, easy to manufacture, install and maintain.
——–" … until then, i guess we're stuck with coal and oil and gas. "———
Anything that can be done with petroleum can be done with biofuels. Cleaner, cheaper, and you can keep doing over and over and over without damaging the environment or ever using them up. You just make more.
———"let's not give up hope dear readers. please do share your personal adventures in removing petroleum from your own lives."———
You are telling us some glowing story about how some guy who is already a billionaire is going to continue to rape the environment and destroy North Dakota and Montana—and who knows where else by the time he's finished spilling all over and belching pollution from the use of his product. And he's going to rape consumers(that is me and you) economically to become even richer?
Thanks, but there are better ways for us to live. They are being done right now in other parts of the world. We can get rid of coal and oil, do everything we do now, have money in our pockets, food on the table, and jobs for everyone.
You liberals and tree-huggers are the one's who don't get it!……if the world were ready for solar,wind, and bio-fuels, they would have no need to be subsidized by the taxpayer……fossil fuels are not. In case you have forgotten, America still has a free market economy which is controlled by a demand for products. When alternatives to fossil fuels can stand on their own as a viable alternative without government subsidies, they might have a chance…until then, thank heaven for what we have!
This is great news. We need domestic energy production.
Domestic oil production won't necessarily push out renewables. All forms of energy production will coexist.
My guess is solar will find a great place on rooftops in the southwest. Solar rooftops running air conditioning. Houses will "over-cool" at high-noon to suck up the surplus.
But oil will be with us for many, many years. In fact, solar powered enhanced oil recovery will become huge. Oil fields are usually in empty, sunny, places.
——–" This is great news."———-
Only if you are a billionaire looking to make even more billions at the expense of the rest of us.
—–" We need domestic energy production."—-
Yes, we do. But we don't need coal and oil. We need energy production that makes clean water out of sewage. We need energy production that creates new topsoil—not strip mines that destroy the productive capacity of the earth for generations to come. We need energy that is low cost, and does not pollute the only air we have to breathe. We need energy that does not contain toxins from contact with the earth where they have been cooked in by millions of years of intense heat and pressure.
—–" But oil will be with us for many, many years. In fact, solar powered enhanced oil recovery will become huge. Oil fields are usually in empty, sunny, places."———–
Biofuels can do anything that can be done with petroleum. Empty sunny places are perfect for making biofuels. You can only take oil out and use it once. You can keep making biofuels over and over—-as long into the future as we want.
Using petroleum to do what we can do better with ethanol and biodiesel is just plain stupid.
Mr. Harold Hamm and Continental Resources should be accorded our full supports. Their success would bring-in more resources to the industry. Once new oil extraction technology could be developed and tested , money will always follow. Better technology would evolve and their applications may even start a worldwide surge for extracting hard-to-get oil in other countries. Thank you Mr. Christopher Helman for the information !
———" Mr. Harold Hamm and Continental Resources should be accorded our full supports. Their success would bring-in more resources to the industry. "——–
Why? I've never gotten a check from them.
——-" Once new oil extraction technology could be developed and tested , money will always follow. "——–
Money for them. Not for the rest of us poor schmucks that the money is coming from.
——" Better technology would evolve and their applications may even start a worldwide surge for extracting hard-to-get oil in other countries. "—–
"Better technology"—-to rob and pollute?
Using technology that is safe, clean, freely available—-works through the natural means of the environment and does not harm people seems a much better way to go. Most of this technology has been around for a long time, much of it, over a century.
Hello Fred,
Buts lots of people have received a cheque. And they used the money to buy things for their families. The Government also got a cheque.
I don't know what business you are in, but eventually the money from an oil company will end up in your pocket.
Not commented on in the story, but also relevant to the projected numbers is a newer discovery announced in 2010 called the Tyler Formation. It only covers about half the same area partly because it doesn't go up into Canada but migrates South into Northwest South Dakota. It lies roughly 2000 feet above the Bakken.
Because of the nature of the formation it also does better and produces more from vertical wells than the Bakken or the Three Forks. However the horizontal wells are better producers in the Bakken. For now emphasis is being placed on the Bakken, but if fracking remains an environmental issue it could put pressure to do less or no fracking. A better backup then would be horizontal drilling from the Tyler.
Importantly, because larger portions of the Tyler also extend quite a bit further South, putting resources into it geographically will put less socio-economic and infrastructure strain on already over-stressed drilling sites further North in the Bakken. In areas with few roads, few manpower, little water, little services and few places for employees to stay there is only so much drilling that can be done in any single location at any given time.
An imortant point, although the Bakken has been around a few years (it was moving pretty well four years ago, it has only been highly recognized for the last year or so) tight oil/liquid shales have been incredibly hard to produce.
When companies were stepping out of the Bakken to othe5r plays, like the Woodford, Fayetteville, etc. What happend was many didn't know how to produce liquidy and oily shales. When people hit really heavy liquids in the Eagle Ford, non-core Barnett, etc. it was a big negative and those areas didn't develop. By contrast, very dry plays like some of the Barnett, Fayettville, Haynesville and dry Marcellus had pretty spectacular growth; very wet, oily plays were viewd as failures.
Now we are seeing the oil window Eagle Ford going great guns. Producers are working other plays like the Niobrara. Wet Marcellus is developing well. I wonder if some of the very marginal wet areas of the Barnett will have a resurgence of interest.
Now it is extending to the Granite Wash in the Texas Panhandle, and shale plays in the Permian Basin.
Continental, EOG Resources, Hess, etc. have been instrumental in developing the wet, oily tight/shale liquids.
Bottom line, the paradigm shift is starting to hit the oil plays; there is a move away from the very dry gas plays, not that those will not be long run successes, but they are victims of their own success (driving down prices due to their prolific nature).


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Village public toilets takeover secures future
8:00am Tuesday 15th January 2013 in Helston
St Keverne Parish Council has taken over control of the village's public toilets as of Monday.
Speaking at last week's meeting of members, council chairman Russell Peters thanked councillor Bill Frisken and clerk Grace Hatton for the time they had spent on the takeover.
He said: "It's in the interests of the parish that we take them on. I don't see how we can ever survive without public toilets.
"I was born here and live here – it means everything to me and I'm sure to a lot of other people."
In response Mr Frisken said: "Our chairman Councillor Peters has done a wonderful job in making sure the people of this parish and visitors to this parish will be able to use public toilets in the future."
He added that the parish would not have to "put their hands in their pockets" to pay for the takeover, due to some clever balancing of the council's assets.
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Several women, among them Hairpin pals Lindsay Weber, Jenna Wortham, and Andrea Rosen, found themselves together and yet alone at the third annual Hallowmeme Ball last night in New York City. (AAAHHHHH!!!!) They were awarded an Honorable Mention — some of the other costumes weren't too shabby, either.
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There are NO WORDS!! Love this ladies.
@momentisaflower Yeah, my first response was OHHHHH MYYYY GODDDDDDAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
This is one of the best photo i have ever seen. That is too funny. I like it very much. free facebook likes
laughing together with salad. LOVE.
Also, a HallowMEME costume party? That sounds like all kinds of fun.
This is so wonderful.
WOW. I am in awe. And it made my morning.
This is so incredible I don't even know how to deal with it.
I'm going to pretend the pink drink one of them is holding is Crystal Lite.
@figwiggin I'm going to pretend it's Qream!
Damn. That was totally my backup plan if the upholstered dickflowerpot doesn't pan out.
Amazing. You girls are my heroes.
Aaaaaaaa the watermarks!! SO GOOD!
@leastimportantperson Honestly! I can't even!!
@rambutan i don't miss that party
obat peninggi badan i until laughing read this article Several women, among them Hairpin pals Lindsay Weber, Jenna Wortham, and Andrea Rosen, found themselves together and yet alone at the third annual Hallowmeme Ball last night in New York City. (AAAHHHHH!!!!) They were awarded an Honorable Mention — some of the other costumes weren't too shabby, either. LOL :D
This makes me even more excited for the HALLOWEEN NYC PIN UP!
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My friends thought I was crazy when I suggested this as a Halloween costume! ...looks like somebody (me) needs new friends...
THIS MADE ME DIE A LITTLE AT MY DESK. I always reference this in my head when I eat a salad, and here I am eating a salad and dying. Thank you Hairpin!!!!
I also love the woman laughing alone with salad infiltrating other memes! http://bit.ly/t2pTjV
my love for the Hairpinners grows in leaps and bounds!
I laughed as I ate my salad alone at my desk :)
This is why I love Hairpin and you lovely ladies. <3
They killed it with this picture! I was looking at each of their faces, trying to find the "best" one, and ALL of them are honestly SO GOOD. And then you add them all together and it explodes the mind with awesome.
GREAT job ladies!
@wee_ramekin their smiles, their joy, it's all so spot on. love love love!
Okay, so who's doing the workplace sexual harassment costume with me?
SO GREAT. The Weber Images is a nice touch.
My favorite woman is the one who brought a box of mixed greens from the grocery store (far right).
What a great pic. The end.
Ugh this is EXCELLENT. Now my The 99% costume just feels extra dumb.
Man, I just noticed that our Orlando Pin-Up is on the Fifth of November...look for people wearing V masks and/or carnations.
That is fucking awesome.
A. this is amazing and B. HOW DID I MISS THIS PARTY???
Ladies, you just won the internet IRL! This may cause some type of rift in the space-time continuum...
One of the women in the TMNT noses photo looks disconcertingly like me. That never happens!
I'm laughing at this picture. While I'm eating my salad, natch.
And now I know what I can be for Halloween without buying a bunch of stuff! BOOM!
OMFG, this is hilarious
What is this Honorable Mention bullshit?? They should've walked away with First Place easy!
These ladies OWNED it. No Paula Deen Riding Things, though?
This makes me actually like Halloween. Love it!
WONDERFUL! This has made me really happy, thanks ladies.
Why are you all so awesome DEAR SALAD GOD WHY!!!
This made me laugh harder than anything in the last two months except for the thread about poo.
The watermarks look even more amazing in the photo where there's just one person standing in the background.
Aaaaaahhh, you women are fabulous!
OH MY GOD this was totally what I was going to do this halloween, sans WeberImages tag (why didn't I think of that?!). you ladies are amazing.
The more I look at the picture, the more emotional it makes me. Is that weird? It feels weird.
This is the most amazing thing I've ever seen.
Speaking as a woman in stock photos who laughs alone with her salad a lot, we are a culture and not a costume and THIS IS NOT OKAY.
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Happy Tuesday, though I'm sure Roberto Luongo would disagree.
*Inexplicably, the Canucks took the evening off for the biggest game of the season, Bucky Gleason writes from Boston following the Bruins' 5-2 victory Monday night. You have to wonder if the Canucks are crumbling under the pressure and the expectations of a nation that hasn't hoisted the Cup since Montreal won it all in 1993.
Game Six wasn't really a game, but a smackdown for the Bruins. The good news for the Canucks was that Roberto Luongo will be well rested Wednesday for Game Seven. He was sent to the bench with 11:25 remaining in the first period, or roughly four minutes too late.
*Brad Marchand, Milan Lucic and Andrew Ference scored in the first 8:35 to chase Luongo from his second straight game in Boston, and the Bruins emphatically evened the finals with a 5-2 victory in Game Six, sending the series to a decisive Game Seven in Vancouver on Wednesday night.
For the sixth time in the last 10 seasons, the finals have been stretched to their limit. The home team hasn't lost in this series, with Vancouver winning three one-goal games and Boston posting three blowout victories.
*A shaky Roberto Luongo ended up farther out of his crease than even a roaming Tim Thomas likes to go. All the way to the bench. Again.
But Vancouver's inconsistent goalie didn't plan to dwell on his latest journey to a loss too long. He was already looking forward to the cross-continent trip back home.
"There's one game for the Stanley Cup, so you can't hang your head now and feel sorry for yourself," Luongo said after the Boston Bruins forced a seventh game with a 5-2 win over the Canucks on Monday night. "That would be the worst thing I could do."
*Brad Marchand wasted little time setting a Boston Bruins record for goals by a rookie in a playoff year. Marchand's ninth goal of the postseason broke a team rookie record set by Mike Krushelnyski in 1983 and tied by Bobby Joyce in 1988.
*Vancouver's Mason Raymond was driven backside-first into the corner boards by Boston defenseman Johnny Boychuk. He stayed down on his stomach, unable to get up on his own. Eventually he was helped to his feet by linemates Ryan Kesler and Chris Higgins. Raymond needed help just to step up to the bench. He couldn't walk down the hallway on his own power.
The official word from the Canucks that came in the first intermission was that Raymond was transported to a local hospital with an undisclosed injury.
*Here are some of the key stats and figures from Game 6, courtesy of NHL.com.
Detroit Red Wings assistant Paul MacLean has been hired as the new coach of the Ottawa Senators. The Senators fired head coach Cory Clouston and two assistants in April after the team failed to qualify for the playoffs for the second time in three seasons.
*The NHL's competition committee agrees with a recommendation to broaden the league's definition of illegal hits to the head.
"We don't like some of the hits that we see and we don't like the results of those hits," said Dallas Stars General Manager Joe Nieuwendyk. "The numbers of concussions are hard to ignore. That was the goal in mind.
"I think there's a broader spectrum of hits that will fall into this category now."
*The Phoenix Coyotes have signed former Calgary Flames head coach Jim Playfair to a multiyear contract as associate coach.
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David Thomas is H. Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He joined the HBS faculty in 1990 and became a tenured professor in 1998. He is the head of the Organizational Behavior Unit and from 2005 to 2008 served as Senior Associate Dean and Director of Faculty Recruitment
David Thomas is a recognized thought leader in the area of strategic human resource management. His research addresses issues related to executive development, cultural diversity in organizations, leadership and organizational change. He is the author of two books and over sixty cases studies and articles appearing in leading academic journals and practitioner oriented periodicals. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the Executive Development Roundtable's Marion Gislaison Award for Contributions to Executive Development Theory and Practice, Academy of Management Mentoring Legacy Award for pioneering research on mentoring, and ASQ Scholarly Contribution Award for the most influential management article published between 2001 and 2005.
He is co-author of the best selling Harvard Business Review article "Making Differences Matter: A New Paradigm for Managing Diversity." His book Breaking Through: The Making of Minority Executives in Corporate America (with John Gabarro) has met with critical acclaim in reviews by academics and journalists, and is the recipient of the Academy of Management's George R. Terry Book Award for outstanding contribution to the advancement of management knowledge. His most recent book, Leading for Equity (with Stacey Childress and Dennis Doyle), examines urban public school district reform.
Professor Thomas served as Course Head for the Harvard Business School's required first-year MBA course, Leadership and Organizational Behavior. He was the faculty chair for the HBS Executive Education program, Strategic Human Resource Management, and teaches in the Public Education Leadership Program. For seven years, he taught and developed materials for the popular second-year elective course, Self-Assessment and Career Development. He is a frequent presenter in executive education programs as well as a consultant to private sector corporations, government agencies and not-for-profit organizations. Currently he teaches the popular HBS elective Power and Influence.
Professor Thomas received his Bachelor of Arts (1978), Master of Philosophy (1984) and Doctor of Philosophy (1986) degrees from Yale University. He also holds a Master of Arts (1981) in Organizational Psychology from Columbia University.
Prior to joining the faculty of the Harvard Business School, he was on the faculty of the Wharton School of Finance. Professor Thomas sits on the boards of several organizations, among them Cambridge Trust Company, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Partners Healthcare, Center for Creative Leadership and the Posse Foundation.
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By David Hiltbrand
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Let's get the bad news out of the way first as we recap the year in TV.
In 2012, we lost Mayberry's Sheriff Andy Taylor, J.R. Ewing, George Jefferson, two dance-party kings with the initials D.C., Barnabas Collins, the cutest Monkee, the skipper of PT-73, and "Family Feud's" kissing bandit.
The good news? We gained Honey Boo Boo.
You do the math.
TLC's tiny, tubby yahoo was a rebuke to all of you who wrote me declaring that TV could not get any lower than "Jersey Shore." Ha! If there's one thing my job has taught me, it's that TV can always go lower.
At this moment, reality TV producers are out there scouring the underbrush. They will not rest until they find personalities who combine ignorance and arrogance so recklessly that they make Honey Boo Boo look like Audrey Hepburn.
By the way, I don't think Honey was the only one hopped up on Go-Go Juice this year.
Professional apoplectic Gordon Ramsay had about 46 different shows on at the same time.
"Today" exhibited suicidal tendencies, managing to make a martyr of Ann Curry and later to ignore the national moment of remembrance for 9/11 in favor of an interview about boob jobs with Kardashian brood mare Kris Jenner.
Not coincidentally, "Today" ended a streak that made Cal Ripken look like a slacker: 852 consecutive weeks atop the morning show wars.
Always to be outdone, the "CBS Morning Show" responded by pointlessly shuffling its hosts once again. The show's new motto: "Charlie Rose - He's Not Just to Put You to Sleep Anymore."
The prime-time talent competitions were all playing very expensive games of musical chairs. Steven Tyler and Jennifer Lopez will judge no more (if that's what they were doing) on "American Idol." A nation breathlessly awaits the arrival of their replacements: Nicki Minaj, Mariah Carey and Keith Urban.
Howard Stern took Piers Morgan's chair on "America's Got Talent." Britney Spears and Demi Lovato stepped in for Paula Abdul and Nicole Scherzinger on "The X Factor." Now L.A. Reid has announced that he will not return. And Christina Aguilera and Cee Lo just finished their rotations on "The Voice." Shakira and Usher are slated to take their places.
Not one of these programs has yet figured out a way to replace its defecting viewers.
This was a year when Americans were forced to pick sides: Hatfields or McCoys? The modern-day Sherlock on PBS or the one on CBS?
The very institution of TV was rocked. The Emmy Awards is contemplating changing its name to the Cable Ace Awards, as broadcast networks were shut out of a record number of major categories on TV's big night.
A number of old favorites - "One Life to Live," "Desperate Housewives," "House," "Weeds," "Chuck" and "The Closer" among them - winked out. Some shows that have overstayed their welcome, including "How I Met Your Mother," "Glee" and "Mad Men," refused to take the hint.
Poppy Montgomery's series "Unforgettable" was canceled and then, like Frankenstein, revived. Charlie Sheen had an even more unlikely comeback, landing a new series, "Anger Management." Just goes to prove you can't keep a good maniac down.
A lot of 2012 was taken up with events that just seemed to go on and on, like the Summer Olympics. How many nights can you spend watching people do laps in a pool before you lose your mind?
That opening ceremony that dramatized each stage of England's evolution from agrarian Eden to modern techno-power seemed to unfold in real time. And when it came to the closing ceremony, let's face it, any pursuit that climaxes with a Spice Girls reunion is bound to be a bitter disappointment.
Don't even get me started on the eternity that was the election. If that was a TV series, it would have been canceled after Herman Cain's cameo.
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Following a very successful 2008, Fantasy recording artists The Gabe Dixon Band have begun the New Year with a bang. Their self-titled debut for Fantasy Records was released last August to glowing reviews as they barnstormed all over the United States making fans, famous and not so famous along the way. The hard working, Nashville based trio, whose unforgettable, piano-driven songs has been compared to Elton John, Ben Folds and Jackson Browne, have been featured in many television shows including One Tree Hill and Privileged. In addition the band has performed on numerous late night shows including the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, the KTLA Morning News and most recently Jimmy Kimmel Live where they met their latest fan, actress Anne Hathaway.
To kick off the release of their eponymous Fantasy Records debut, the Gabe Dixon Band will tour clubs nationwide in September and October, including shows at New York's Bowery Ballroom, Philadelphia's Theatre of Living Arts, Los Angeles' Roxy Theatre, and San Francisco's Great American Music Hall. The band will share the stage with Stephen Kellogg & the Sixers September 10 –14, and with VH1 "You Oughta Know" buzz artist Justin Nozuka September 18–October 21. The band will make their network television debut Labor Day week on "The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson." Even before the release of the album, the band is being lauded by a choir of fellow musicians: chart-topper Sara Bareilles says "Gabe's voice is flawless, and it delivers some of the most well-crafted, heart-felt, kick ass songs I've heard in a long time. He and the band are truly gifted, and we're lucky they decided to share those gifts with the world." Adds international sensation Jamie Cullum, "Seeing and hearing Gabe Dixon inspires me and upsets me. It inspires me because he plays superbly written songs, beautifully with a superb band. It upsets me because I fret that I may never be this good!" And Grammy Award-winning songwriter Dan Wilson comments, "I can't decide whether Gabe Dixon's secret weapon is his brilliance on the piano or his heart-melting voice. I guess I'll call it a tie. We fans have already witnessed this trio's blazing live performances — their self-titled album is the recorded proof. I'm guessing that Gabe won't be a secret for long after people hear these songs." Gabe Dixon formed the band with bassist Winston Harrison and drummer Jano Rix when they were students at the University of Miami. Dixon has already been recognized as the "next great pop piano man" (Paste) by artists as varied as Alison Krauss, O.A.R. and Sir Paul McCartney, who have all tapped Dixon to play keyboards both live and in the studio. The trio cut their debut CD live off the floor during ten days at Nashville's renowned Blackbird Studios with co-producer/engineer/mixer Neal Cappellino (Alison Krauss, Mindy Smith, Jonny Lang). The album embeds vividly detailed, intensely personal and universally relatable songs in elegant yet muscular settings that draw, unabashedly and expertly, on classic rock.The Tennessean, the newspaper in the band's hometown of Nashville, called it early when it stated in 2005 that Dixon "is a classic pop songwriter [who] deserves to join the ranks of Jackson Browne and early Elton John in the pop pantheon."THE TOUR DATES:Wed., Sept. 10 CARRBORO, NC Cat's CradleThurs. Sept. 11 ASHEVILLE, NC The Orange PeelFri., Sept. 12 NASHVILLE, TN The Belcourt TheaterSat., Sept. 13 ATLANTA, GA Smith's Olde BarSun., Sept. 14 BIRMINGHAM, AL WorkPlay TheaterThurs., Sept. 18 BUFFALO, NY The Town BallroomFri., Sept. 19 BOSTON, MA Paradise Rock ClubSat., Sept. 20 NORTHHAMPTON, MA Pearl StreetMon., Sept. 22 NEW YORK, NY Bowery BallroomWed., Sept. 24 STATE COLLEGE, PA The State TheaterThurs., Sept. 25 PITTSBURGH, PA Rex TheatreSat., Sept. 27 TOWSON, MD Recher TheatreSun., Sept. 28 PHILADELPHIA, PA Theatre of Living ArtsTues., Sept. 30 CLEVELAND, OH House of Blues Cambridge RoomWed., Oct. 1 DETROIT, MI ShelterThurs., Oct. 2 PLYMOUTH, WI Turner HallSat., Oct. 4 CHICAGO, IL Martyr'sSun., Oct. 5 MINNEAPOLIS, MN Varsity TheatreWed., Oct. 8 DENVER, CO Bluebird TheaterThurs., Oct. 9 MURRAY, UT Murray TheaterSun., Oct. 12 SEATTLE, WA Neumo'sMon., Oct. 13 PORTLAND, OR Berbati's PanWed., Oct. 15 LOS ANGELES, CA Roxy TheatreFri., Oct. 17 SCOTTSDALE, AZ Martini RanchSun., Oct. 19 POMONA, CA The Glass HouseTues., Oct. 21 SAN FRANCISCO, CA Great American Music Hall
Nashville piano rockers, The Gabe Dixon Band, have a busy few months ahead. The trio just shot the video for their single "Till You're Gone" and will release their debut, self-titled album on August 26th. The band is set to play select dates with Stephen Kellogg & The Sixers and then join soulful, singer/songwriter Justin Nozuka on a slew of tour dates throughout September and October. Check out more info on their Myspace page to read what other musicians have been saying about the band and find out why Dixon turned down a spot to play on Paul McCartney's tour.
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9/10 Cat's Cradle Carborro, North Carolina **
9/11 Orange Peel Asheville, North Carolina **
9/12 Belcourt Theatre Nashville, Tennessee **
9/13 Smith's Olde Bar Atlanta, Georgia **
9/14 Workplay Birmingham, Alabama **
9/18 Town Ballroom Buffalo, New York *
9/19 Paradise Rock Club Boston, Massachusetts *
9/22 Bowery Ballroom New York, New York *
9/24 State Theatre State College, Pennsylvania *
9/25 Rex Theatre Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania *
9/27 Recher Towson, Maryland *
9/28 Theatre of the Living Arts Philadelphia, Pennsylvania *
9/30 Cambridge Room Cleveland, Ohio *
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10/2 Turner Hall Plymouth, Wisconsin *
10/4 Martyr's Chicago, Illinois *
10/5 Varsity Theater Minneapolis, Minnesota *
10/8 Bluebird Theater Denver, Colorado *
10/15 The Roxy West Hollywood, California *
10/19 The Glass House Pomona, California *
10/21 Great American Music Hall San Francisco, California *
Reinvention, the new album and experiment from Rob Dixon and Melvin Rhyne, is a melding of the bebop jazz organ quartet with world music and jam. Though jazz has always been steeped in improvisation, it has had periods where its intricacies have been ingrained into composition on the page with little room for individual color or influence. This album has touches of the San Francisco cool jazz scene and free bop where a jazz combo moves with a melody like a patch of wild mint around a garden, finding new soil and nutrients for its growth. It's an organic thing, and Dixon and Rhyne are showing that age (whether young or old) isn't any barrier to creating something called jazz.
Rob Dixon, who is comfortable with tenor and alto saxophones, is 37 years old. Born in Georgia, he studied jazz at Indiana University and then went on to New York to work as a side man with The Count Basie Orchestra, The Ellington Band, Rufus Reid, Tony Bennett, and Ray Charles. When he returned to Indianapolis, he formed a trio with drummer Kenny Phelps and organist Brad Whitely. They combined straight jazz with funk influences from Soulive and released an album, "What Things May Be," in 2006.
It was around this time that Dixon met Melvin Rhyne, who plays Hammond B3 organ and Mini Moog. Over three decades Dixon's senior, Rhyne had a history in jazz. Though he was a self-taught jazz pianist, he found work with up-and-coming jazz groups. In the mid 50s, he played with the reed multi-instrumentalist Rahsaan Roland Kirk and switched to organ at that time. Rhyne collaborated with jazz guitar legend Wes Montgomery in the early 60s. Soon after, Rhyne moved to Wisconsin and became active in the local music scene. In 1990, he returned to recording and did a record with guitarist Herb Ellis and trumpeter Brian Lynch. He even did a quartet session with Joshua Redman. When he moved back to his hometown of Indianapolis, he and Dixon seemed fated to work together. Now, 71 years old, Rhyne is taking his hard-bop organ and adding his velvet touches to this new project.
Dixon asked his trio drummer, Kenny Phelps, to join the group. His solid drumming has made him a popular session player. Finally filling out the quartet is an unexpected player. Fareed Haque, the sensational guitarist and sitar player with Garage Mahal, came aboard to add color with several guitars.
For Rhyne, this might have been the biggest stretch, to come into a jam-rich environment with the likes of Haque, but Rhyne clearly shines in this new album, putting a mark of jazz authority to the project. His organ work is varied, lively, and inventive. The improvisation that Dixon calls forth from his saxophones sets a benchmark for the rest of the quartet, and Haque, in particular, excels in meeting that level of creativity. And Kenny Phelps keeps it all on track.
The quartet is joined by Salar Nader on tablas on "Shadow and Light" and "Tomorrow Sierra." These two tunes are perhaps the most risk-taking for a jazz ensemble (but not for a jam group with strong jazz roots). "Shadow and Light" is reminiscent of the work of San Francisco percussionist Babatunde Lea and his quartet featuring saxophonist Richard Howell. Though the tablas add an Eastern feel, rather than Afro-Cuban as in Lea's work, they are not as pronounced as in "Tomorrow Sierra." "Shadow and Light" is more jazz whereas "Tomorrow Sierra" has a pronounced world sound with a trippy edge to the jazz.
All of the tunes, except one, on this CD are written by Dixon but enhanced by the quartet. The only cover, "Chit'lins Con Carne" is a classic gleaned from jazz guitarist Kenny Burrell's 1967 recording, Midnight Blue. It's a soul jazz tune where Phelps' gospel backbeat carries the quartet along, allowing Haque to explore this old chestnut.
Throughout the entire album, the sax, organ, and guitar all take turns at soloing, without overstepping anyone's place in the group. No one outshines anyone else. They work as a cohesive whole, creating a real conversation between musicians and producing some of the best jazz I've heard in a long time.
Reinvention is an album to sit and savor. If you're a seasoned jazz enthusiast, you'll love the freshness in this album. If you're knowledge of jazz comes from jam, this will be one to add to your collection. It is one of the best new albums out that combines the long legacy of jazz with the richness of new innovators.
The Dixon-Rhyne Project is something to try to catch live. They are playing at the Jazz Kitchen in Indianapolis on July 9 and continue to play in the city when they can.
The Gabe Dixon Band's new self-titled album, due out on Fantasy Records on August 26, is in fact the group's third release, following the 2002 album On a Rolling Ball and the 2005 EP Live at World Café. But there's good reason Dixon, the band's writer/singer/pianist, considers it the GDB's debut.
Formed nine years ago by Dixon — then a classical piano major — and his two college roommates, bassist Winston Harrison and drummer Jano Rix, the group added a sax player and spent several years specializing in jazz-inflected, heavily improvised excursions, showcasing the virtuosity of the players. Dixon's elevated piano chops subsequently led to performances with Alison Krauss, O.A.R. and no less than Paul McCartney who tapped Dixon to play keyboards on his Driving Rain album and back McCartney and others on the internationally broadcast 9/11 tribute "Concert For New York City."
Offered the keyboard slot for McCartney's world tour, Dixon respectfully declined to focus on his own band and its then-yet-to-be-released debut album. But after a bout of cutbacks and regime changes at Warner Bros., the band's original label, the band reinvented itself as a three-piece song-based unit. The band's rededicated attention to arrangement, classic song-craft, and performance can be heard on the band's eponymous new album, The Gabe Dixon Band.
The trio cut the album live off the floor during ten days at Nashville's renowned Blackbird Studios with co-producer/engineer mixer Neal Cappellino (Alison Krauss, Mindy Smith, Jonny Lang) and with bassist Harrison doubling on "mandotar," a modified guitar he created whose sound somewhat resembles that of an electric mandolin. The album embeds vividly detailed, intensely personal and universally relatable songs in elegant yet muscular settings that draw, unabashedly and expertly, on classic rock.
The Tennessean, the newspaper in the band's hometown of Nashville, called it early when it stated in 2005 that the young artist "deserves to join the ranks of Jackson Browne and early Elton John in the pop pantheon." The piano-driven band has also rated favorable comparisons with the Ben Folds 5 and Bruce Hornsby.
Both the material and the supple arrangements result from "the music we heard growing up, listening to our parents' record collections," Dixon points out. "Mostly '70s LPs by Elton John, Jackson Browne, Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Carole King and James Taylor. It was a magical era, the pinnacle of pop, rock and folk in terms of songwriting and musicianship." Dixon and his bandmates have not only assimilated those influences but brought them back into the present tense, resulting in music that is instantly familiar both musically and thematically, yet still provocative and in the moment.
Given the band's innate feel for rock's glory days, it was fitting that the legendary Henry Diltz, whose unforgettable photos of The Doors and Crosby, Stills & Nash have become an indelible part of rock history, shot the album cover images.
While Dixon wrote all the album's songs, three were co-written by onetime Trip Shakespeare and Semisonic frontman Dan Wilson, whose co-write of "Not Ready To Make Nice" with the Dixie Chicks earned him a Grammy. Two songs were co-written with gifted Nashville songsmith Tia Sellers, who won a Grammy of her own for Lee Ann Womack's "I Hope You Dance." For the ballad "Further the Sky," Dixon duets with Mindy Smith, herself a Grammy nominee, at her most inspired.
Of the newfound song focus of his onetime jam band, Dixon says, "We love great songs and real musicianship, and we take time as a band to come up with something that isn't typical, because the arrangement and performance can be just as impactful as the song itself. We've become more refined, and to the point, making the impact direct and immediate. The idea is pretty simple, really: We're dedicated to playing music people like that we like too."
From this immensely promising vantage point, it's been quite a journey for a guy who a decade ago was playing Tootsie's Orchid Lounge in downtown Nashville every afternoon from 1 to 5 for tips. The bridge of the song "All Will Be Well" could serve as the credo for Dixon and his bandmates: "You've got to keep it up and don't give up and chase your dreams," he sings, "and you will find, all in time."


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If the value is too high, discontinuities between the linear approximations used in adjacent panel will be higher. If this is a problem, reduce the tolerance value used.
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My recent posts on plastic bottle houses, Morgan State's Light Box shipping container project and Dickinson University's Treehouse dorm motivated one reader to tell me I was all wet.
It seems that when it comes to alternative (read sustainable) housing, a Dutch company named Tempohousing is king of the hill.
According to the company's website, the city of Amsterdam urgently needed dorms to house its student population. Any solution had to be mobile, affordable and quick. Tempohousing had just the thing.
To make a long story short, Tempohousing established a factory in China where it prefabricated housing units (dorm rooms) inside standard shipping containers. At the height of production, Tempohousing was cranking out 50 new dorm rooms a week.
Because the housing units were built in standard, 40-foot containers, they could be shipped as standard freight all over the world via any vessel, truck or train. The completed container homes—including interiors—arrived in Amsterdam ready to be stacked like Lego blocks.
No one in Holland had lived in a shipping container before, so hearts had to be won at first. Initial fears that container homes would be too small, noisy, cold or hot all proved unwarranted. Students soon found the dorms to be spacious, quiet, well insulated and a better value than other student housing in the city. By the middle of 2006, more than 1,000 dorm rooms were in place and occupied, making a section of Amsterdam the largest container city in the world.
Today, Tempohousing has offices in The Netherlands, China, Australia and Nigeria, and is building with new containers from the Chinese factory as well as used containers salvaged from ports around the world. A 20-foot container yields 170 square feet and a 40-foot container yields 340 square feet of interior space. The company regularly combines multiple containers to make larger spaces, and most structures have exterior balconies.
In addition to the dorm project, Tempohousing has used containers to build homes, hotels, retail space, and many other structures.
According to a Tempohousing marketing brochure, there are more people on this planet without a safe and a proper home than people with one, and Tempohousing is focused on doing something about it.
If the prospect of building with shipping containers excites you, you may be in luck. Tempohousing is looking for new partners in various countries. For more information, email Tempohousing.
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