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As one ages, their perception of time changes. The world seems to be spinning ever faster. Hours feel like minutes as we grow old.
In 1982, just a few hours past his 29th birthday, John Venuti of Aston, Pennsylvania, knew that if he didn't get his hands on a custom classic truck by the time he was 30, he would be too old to enjoy it. After a few months passed, John discovered this was not a fleeting notion and expressed his concerns to his wife, Gail. For some women, this disclosure would have made about as much sense as a man working out in his garage at night instead of eating chocolate bon-bons on the couch with her. Fortunately for John, his wife understood his desire and encouraged him to find an old truck. "In February '82, I heard about a guy building a '36 Ford pickup in his garage. The word was he might sell it. When I went to see it, the cab was sitting on a rolling chassis with a 350-inch Chevy and a four-speed stick tranny installed. The guy said he would sell it after he was done, which should take about six months-six months turned into three years." In February '85, John and Gail bought the '36 Ford and drove it home. They hung a set of Centerline wheels on it and had the headliner done, and that was that.
"From that point on, going to rod runs with our three children was our full-time hobby. The kids would get into the bed with their pillows and off we'd go. In 1987, we drove from Aston, Pennsylvania, to the Street Rod Nationals in Columbus, Ohio. It was the best trip we ever made." For 15 years the Venuti family ran the wheels off their Ford, until June '02 at the NSRA Street Rod Nationals East in York, Pennsylvania, where they spotted a beautiful '40 Ford pickup custom-built for Bill Baldwin by the Hot Rod Garage (HRG) of Denton, Maryland. John and Gail met Ray Bartlett, owner of the Hot Rod Garage, and discussed building the '36 with him. After driving out to Ray's shop in Maryland and discussing the idea further, they were convinced they should leave their truck with the Hot Rod Garage's crew and give them carte blanche to boot.
First in line for the HRG treatment was the '36's frame and suspension. Dean Alexander pie-cut the rear framerails and fabricated a custom step-notch. From there, TCI leaf springs were hung on Hot Rod Garage custom-made shackles, with a 3.25:1 limited-slip 9-inch Ford rearend attached. Up front, the frame horns were pinched to run a chromed Super Bell '32 Ford 4-inch dropped axle with So Cal Speed Shop Buick-style brakes and hairpins. For steering, a Mullins Vega steering box directs chrome-plated spindles from Pete & Jake's Hot Rod Parts of Peculiar, Missouri. Pete & Jake's tubular shocks are used at all four corners for dampening. For rolling stock, 15-inch Billet Specialties Legacy-style wheels are mounted on Michelin radials on the front and BFGoodrich T/A radials on the rear. Supplying hydraulic juice to the brakes tucked within the billet wheels is handled via an aluminum 1 1/8-inch-bore Wilwood master cylinder.
To power the '36 Ford, the Hot Rod Garage installed a new 355-horsepower ZZ4 Chevrolet engine mated to a beefed Turbo 350 tranny by Mike Oliver at Easton Transmissions in Easton, Maryland. Internal transmission modifications include a B&M 2,200-rpm stall torque converter with a shift kit. On the inside, a 16-inch Lokar shifter pops out of red wool carpeting laid down by the Hot Rod Garage's Dean Alexander. Dean was also responsible for custom-fabricating the '36's seat and door panels, then covering them in red leather. The stock dashboard on John's '36 Ford was replaced with a '37 Ford passenger car dash featuring a custom gauge panel fabricated by HRG's Jason Gallo. Completing the '36 interior's tasty vintage look is a banjo steering wheel from The Wheel Shop topping a fully chromed tilt steering column from the folks at Flaming River.
To accent the exterior of John's pickup, the Hot Rod Garage looked again to a Ford passenger car for subtle changes. The headlights and taillights are from a '36 car. The bodywork on the stock all-steel '36 Ford cab, bed, and fenders was done by Gary Hunter at the Hot Rod Garage. For those special touches, only a custom-made part will do. Jason Gallo fabricated filler panels and a custom rear roll pan along with front and rear stainless steel nerf bars. For exterior color, the Hot Rod Garage's painter, Dustin Lutz, sprayed the '36 in General Motors Refrigerator White DuPont paint. One of the few chores handled by an outside source were the pinstripes pulled by Jerry Campbell of DuPont's hometown, Wilmington, Delaware.
"In June 2004, Ray delivered the truck to us at the York, Pennsylvania, show. We couldn't believe it was our truck. Since then the truck has been to Indy, Columbus, Louisville, Pigeon Forge, Charlotte, and numerous local runs as well. With many more trips planned, the completed truck is well beyond what we ever expected."


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When Brooke Astor dressed up in a fur coat and jewels to drive around town in a chauffeured limo, making personal visits to every charity that asked her for money, she was considered the epitome of a proactive philanthropist.
The definition has changed. Last year, Americans donated $291 billion to charity. But the most creative givers, a new generation of 21st-century philanthropists, do far more than write checks to the causes they support. They donate their time and expertise, working as many as 80 hours a week, to try to fix the world.
Barron's is profiling five of these innovative philanthropists, looking at the entrepreneurial spirit that propelled them to think of new solutions for social problems. None of our picks are headline-grabbing billionaires using $100 million grants to wipe out a disease, but each is deploying grants and sweat equity in such an original way that it changes the world.
It starts with caring. Maybe the thing they care about is animals -- so they sponsor a competition to get top architects to design bridges for wild animals to safely cross highways. Or they care about people -- so they create a company to help low-income students get high-paying jobs. Or they care about America's future -- so they build a Museum of Math to persuade schoolchildren to like a critically important subject.
What philanthropists like these have in common is that "they're driven in a truly personal way," says Glen Macdonald, president of the Wealth & Giving Forum. "They're really no different from someone like Steve Jobs -- absolutely, single-mindedly committed to innovation -- except that the thing they're passionate about is helping other people."
It requires focus and real expertise. Today's most creative philanthropists aren't just rolling up their shirt sleeves for the cameras. Mindful that the best intentions can go wrong if you pose like Madonna for a photo op in front of a faraway orphanage, they take the opposite approach. They immerse themselves in the minutiae of their causes. They understand where a system's flaws are. Then they fix it with creative approaches.
In philanthropy, it's notoriously difficult to measure impact. But the most effective givers are obsessed with getting results. And they're nimble. "They create their own measures of success, and they hold their programs to them," says H. King McGlaughon, chief executive of Foundation Source, which manages the finances of about 1,000 private foundations. "They're self-directed, they're constantly questioning the value of the course they've set, and they aren't afraid to change direction fast."
Glen Whitney
Math excites Glen Whitney. He believes it should excite you, too. This is why Whitney, a former algorithms specialist at the famously math-loving hedge fund Renaissance Technologies, has raised more than $22 million to open a New York City museum to glorify a subject that many Americans loathe by middle school. "We're trying to create a safe place to love math," Whitney says.
The Museum of Math, with 9,000 square feet of exhibits, will open its doors in Manhattan late next year. The museum will feature square-wheeled tricycles that offer a smooth ride over a grooved surface of catenary curves, a roulette wheel to teach probability theory and an opening exhibit so cool -- Whitney is sure of this -- that parents won't begrudge paying $15 per adult and $9 per kid for admission.
"You'll see a two-story-tall sculpture, made of taut, wiry airplane cables -- it's all straight lines -- and then you can actually walk inside of it and see the shape transform," Whitney says. "And you'll realize you can make an elegant curved shape out of straight lines."
Aimed at fourth- through eighth-graders, the museum's goal is to make kids think math is fun. Which most probably don't: By eighth grade, only 35% are proficient, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.
That bugs Whitney. "We already have a shortage of people who are adept enough in math to fill all the positions available that require math skills," he says. "It's a large societal problem: America doesn't like math."
Consider Whitney's own experience. Growing up in New Jersey, he was so good at numbers that by second grade his teachers recommended he skip to the fourth grade. Yet, he says, "I didn't like math, maybe because it was dismissed as a tool to use if you want to understand something else. Who loves a hammer?"
It wasn't until Whitney went to math camp as a teen that he started to see the fun. By the time he was 30, he was a math professor at the University of Michigan when. There, in 1997, he got an e-mail from a former boss he'd worked for at IBM during a long-ago summer internship: "I'm at Renaissance now. How would you like to sell out and join us?"
Whitney spent the next 10 years at the hedge fund, where the legendary quantitative trader Jim Simons had created an extraordinary analytical system. "The particle collider at Brookhaven National Lab might possibly generate more data than Renaissance processes on a daily basis," says Whitney, "but there's not much else that does."
All those algorithms paid off for Renaissance and for Whitney. But after a decade of making money, he wanted to figure out how to spend it to help the world (in a quantifiable, pro-math way, of course).
He started coaching kids in math, first at his daughter's school, on Long Island, and later through a high-school enrichment program he launched at the Brookhaven labs. He showed up there on a recent Saturday morning with a bag full of red plastic triangles and snapped them together to form three-dimensional shapes as he talked about his work: "When you start to play with things, to think deeply about them, you see such a range of surprising and beautiful things -- look, I made a flying saucer polyhedron."
The Museum of Math is the first of its kind in North America. "Certainly there's a need; it's a no-brainer," says Jeremy Kilpatrick, co-chair of the National Academy of Education's committee on math and science education. "We manage to kill off the interest that little kids have in it. Maybe this museum can help change that."
In hindsight, it all seems so obvious. But Whitney saw it first.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
For some, philanthropy is in their DNA: They're so naturally good at it, they can effortlessly teach others, too.
While "how to" philanthropy courses are now fairly common at the nation's top schools, they weren't when Professor Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen created Stanford University's first class to teach MBAs-in-training how to give away their money.
"There was nothing like it anywhere," says Tarek Ghani, who took the class as an undergraduate in 2004 and credits it with inspiring him to later work for a nonprofit. "It was incredible: This young, enthusiastic, high-powered professor who walks into the room the first day, drops this 500-page binder on the table and says, 'I expect you to know everything that's in this.' She said we can all be philanthropists, that you don't have to be a Carnegie or a Gates, that whatever you give of yourself out of the desire to make the world better is philanthropy."
Her class has a ripple effect. In the past decade, more than 500 students have enrolled. Like Ghani, many of Andreessen's former students keep in touch -- with her and one another -- forming an ad hoc network that shares job leads and ideas about grants and charitable programs.
For Arrillaga-Andreessen, becoming a philanthropist was kind of like going into the family business. The daughter of one of northern California's most successful real-estate developers, John Arrillaga, she is on the board of a family foundation he created that holds assets of $31 million.
She is also married to venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, cofounder of Netscape. To celebrate their 2006 wedding, the newlyweds pledged $27.5 million to Stanford Hospital's emergency department.
Her greatest influence, she says, was a childhood in Palo Alto spent watching her mother, Frances Arrillaga, treat her volunteer work as a serious, full-time job.
"She took me along once after school, when I was in seventh grade, to a nonprofit where she was on the board," Arrillaga-Andreessen says. "I remember standing in the hallway, while she was in a meeting with the executive director, and I started reading all of the flyers and information on the wall for the people who came in for services. It was the first time I really understood how blessed my family was with resources and how it was our responsibility to share them. I think this was exactly what she wanted me to figure out that day."
Arrillaga-Andreessen graduated with an MBA in 1997 during the dot-com boom, a time when a slew of young, successful tech entrepreneurs were trying to figure out what to do with the next chapters of their lives, and with their money. While her classmates had been writing business plans for making money, she had drafted a template for a philanthropists' giving circle, which became the Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund in 1998.
The fund's donors pool ideas, resources and individual annual contributions of as little as $5,000 to make grants to 35 small, promising nonprofit groups. One of them, a local tutoring program for low-income middle-school students, enrolls 350 students each year, up from 26 in 1989. Another turns California farmers' cow manure into renewable energy.
These days, besides teaching, Arrillaga-Andreessen is promoting her new book, Giving 2.0: Transform Your Giving and Our World, published by Jossey-Bass. Her royalties will go to charity, of course.
Gerald Chertavian
The dress code is one of many rules everybody enrolled in the Year Up program must abide by: Slacks, skirts, ties, suit jackets and stockings are acceptable. Sneakers and jeans are not.
As a result, the 47 young men and women, ages 18 to 24, who stream every weekday morning into a sunny fourth-floor suite on Wall Street to sign in (another rule) by 8:30 a.m. don't look like people who dropped out of high school, or who spent childhoods in foster care, or who not so long ago believed their future was working the night shift at McDonald's.
In their business-hopeful attire, they head off to their morning classes, where they learn college-level grammar and database management and how to design computer networks. They look talented and eager and smart -- precisely the sort that companies like Google, LinkedIn or JPMorgan might want to hire.
And that is exactly what Year Up founder Gerald Chertavian expects to happen. He created the nonprofit program 11 years ago after he and his business partners sold a technology-consulting company, Conduit Communications, for $83 million. About 1,300 students in nine cities matriculate in Year Up annually. While in training, they're guaranteed six-month internships at top firms. After they graduate, 84% either land full-time jobs that pay an average of $15 an hour, or enroll full time in college.
One of them, Greg Walton, has worked as a desktop-support specialist at MIT since 2007. "I was in foster care. I grew up living with random different family members; I'm rebuilding a relationship now with parents who battled drug addiction," he says. "I didn't have any guidance about how to become an adult, and I wouldn't be here today if it weren't for Year Up."
Says Chertavian: "Where you end up in life, in this country, has more to do with luck than anything else -- the size of your parents' bank accounts, the zip code where you grew up, your school district and your skin color."
Chance played a role in Chertavian's own life. The entrepreneur, who grew up and attended public school in Lowell, Mass., said he was lucky a teacher suggested he go to Bowdoin College. "He drove me to campus, showed me around and said, 'This is where you're going,' so convincingly that it was a surprise to me, later, when I still had to apply. The accident of success, of luck, isn't lost on me."
After college, while working for Chemical Bank in New York in 1987, Chertavian became a mentor himself, as a Big Brother volunteer to a 10-year-old boy who lived in a low-income housing project in Manhattan. "He and his brothers had ability and drive, and I saw this huge waste of human capital at a time when America couldn't afford to waste anybody," Chertavian says.
He left Chemical Bank for Harvard Business School -- his admissions essay proposed starting a business that sounded very much like Year Up -- and afterward moved to England, where his wife grew up. After selling Conduit he moved back to Boston to start Year Up. His first class of 22 students enrolled in July, 2001.
Chertavian has grand plans, to double the number of students and add three new cities within five years. Beyond that, the next phase, he hopes, will entail partnering with community colleges to provide a version of the program on campuses, enrolling as many as 100,000 students a year. Chertavian says only 8% of Americans earn college degrees between ages 18 and 22, which means, "We have a social responsibility to help the rest find the next step in life."
Diana Barrett
There's a scene, about 30 minutes into the documentary film Born Into Brothels, when the filmmaker pleads with a gray-haired nun on behalf of a handful of children who face an almost-certain life of prostitution if they don't escape Calcutta's notorious red-light district. The nun, whose kind eyes and blue wimple are straight from central casting, says, "We will take them." It's a heart-wrenching moment that makes you want to jump out of your seat -- to help people, to right wrongs, to fix everything in the world that's broken.
Diana Barrett was hooked. As she sat in the dark watching a rough cut in a Manhattan editing room in 2004, she wondered: Could you change the world by investing in documentaries?
This wasn't the sort of question that Barrett's comfortable Manhattan upbringing had prepared her to ask. Her stepfather had worked in banking, she had attended Convent of the Sacred Heart on the Upper East Side and, she says, "I was expected to grow up to join the Junior League and play golf." Instead, she went to Harvard Business School (where she sat next to Mitt Romney in class), married TV handyman Bob Vila and raised three children while teaching at Harvard.
By the time she saw Born Into Brothels, she and Vila had moved to New York from Boston. She was for the first time actively managing her family's $7 million foundation, looking for useful causes to support. She gave a $15,000 grant to Born Into Brothels, which went on not only to win an Oscar but also helped raise nearly $1.2 million to build a boarding school in Calcutta.
Barrett's full-time obsession became figuring out how to get quantifiable returns from socially progressive films. In 2005, she created the Fledgling Fund, which rates films' impact based on such measures as audience size, frequency of screenings, extent of press coverage and whether they were cited in public discussions or policy debates.
For instance, after the Sundance Festival premiere last year of Gasland, a film about the controversial natural-gas drilling process known as "fracking," HBO aired the movie in 2010, and other media -- including a PBS news show and ABC News -- featured it on programs discussing safety concerns. The Fledgling Fund grantee was subsequently nominated for an Academy Award for best documentary. Last month, the New York Times Sunday magazine ran a lengthy article on fracking and described Gasland as "a popular tool" for anti-fracking groups to rally resistance.
The walls in Barrett's spartan New York office ("the rent's only $1,500 a month; that leaves more money for film," she says) are covered with posters from her films. Ghosts of Abu Ghraib. Very Young Girls. Lioness. All tackle social issues, ranging from sexual exploitation of children to prisoner torture in the Middle East. Fledgling Fund grantees have helped change laws and have won eight Emmys and four Oscars in total.
These days, the Fledgling Fund receives about 800 applications a year. With assets that have grown to more than $20 million, it awards about $2 million annually in grants that average from $25,000 to $50,000.
Barrett often invites a filmmaker and strategists to brainstorm about how to get the most bang for the buck. For instance, before the 2007 film King Corn was released, Barrett arranged for filmmaker Curt Ellis to meet with representatives from the American Diabetes Association. The film is about how U.S. agricultural policy affects diets.
"We ended up showing the movie not just in cinemas in 60 cities, but also in church basements in small towns," Ellis says. Here, too, Barrett's attention to detail produced tangible results: Local farmers sat in the lobbies and signed up moviegoers to buy organic produce.
Jeremy Guth
When Jeremy Guth looks at a map of the western part of North America, he imagines pearls strewn across a necklace. The pearls are the national parks, from Yellowstone to the Yukon, that are scattered across the U.S. (where he grew up) and Canada (where he lives now).
The chain of the necklace -- the links between the parks -- is incomplete. But someday, Guth hopes, the pearls will be connected by "wildlife corridors," safe migration routes for animals that are in search of food or mates.
Guth, a trustee of the $36 million Woodcock Foundation that his parents created, has been actively trying to connect the pearls since 1999, both by helping land conservationists buy strategic parcels and by encouraging efforts to build wildlife crossings for animals, including grizzly bears, elk, deer, wolves, cougars and coyotes. The goal is to prevent the more than 1.5 million collisions between cars and animals that the nonprofit Insurance Institute for Highway Safety estimates occur annually. The accidents cause more than 200 human fatalities a year, and researchers estimate the damage to humans, animals and vehicles at as much as $8 billion.
Guth grew up in upstate New York, where his father was an executive at Corning. He loved nature, particularly the time spent at his grandparents' Woodcock Farm -- after which the family foundation is named -- in New Hampshire. After graduating from the University of Toronto, he married a Canadian woman and settled on a 17-acre farm on the outskirts of Montreal.
"I happen to live in a country that has a very different attitude toward its cultural heritage from the attitude the U.S. has, but when I immigrated 25 years ago, I brought an American approach to preserving my new country's heritage," he says. In the 1990s, he urged local officials to conduct a comprehensive study of historical buildings in his tiny town of Senneville, to protect them from development.
A former securities broker, Guth became involved in his family's foundation about 15 years ago. He began to attend conferences sponsored by the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative, a joint Canada-U.S. nonprofit organization that works to preserve wildlife habitats. There he learned about efforts to preserve the world's largest remaining stretch of ecologically intact mountain landscape -- a 2,000-mile-long swath of unspoiled land that extends from Yellowstone National Park northward through Canada's wild Yukon territory to the Arctic Circle.
"I was attracted to the idea that we can conserve something we still have -- rather than try to restore something that's been lost," Guth says.
At a location between Glacier National Park in Montana and Banff National Park in Alberta, land conservationists were promoting a new approach that would also benefit wildlife. "We thought maybe we could buy key pieces of land that ran perpendicular to Highway 3," Guth says. "Then we learned that Alberta was planning to widen the highway, making all of this conservation work completely futile."
Then Guth learned about wildlife crossings. "That's where I saw the solution," he says. A scientist at the Western Transportation Institute who had spent nearly 10 years gathering data to prove the efficacy of crossings was about to run out of money, in 2006. Guth put together a coalition of partners, including Woodcock, to contribute $90,000 a year to pay to continue the research, an effort that included DNA profiling of animal hairs found at crossing points.
These days, the Woodcock Foundation gives hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative. For six years, Guth sat on the group's board and helped devise ways to keep the spaces between parks open to wildlife.
"Jeremy took a big risk and put significant funding into the part of our operation that is entrepreneurial and innovative," says Rob Buffler, Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative executive director. "He helped us innovate."
Last year, the Woodcock Foundation co-sponsored a competition with a $40,000 prize for designing a sturdy, low-cost wildlife crossing in the mountains of Colorado. The winning design, a bridge of lightweight concrete panels that can be snapped into place, "is something brilliant," Guth says. "It's adaptable to various sites and simple to construct."
The next step will be to build the crossing -- and roll out more like it. "We have a primary relationship with nature, and if we don't understand its importance, it's at our peril," Guth says.
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A correctional officer at the federal prison in South Canaan has died after being stabbed by an inmate.
— A correctional officer at the federal prison in South Canaan has died after being stabbed by an inmate.
Officer Eric Williams, 34, of Nanticoke, was pronounced dead at 11:30 p.m., Monday following the incident.
According to public information officer Kim Straesser, the incident took place while Williams was working in a housing unit at the prison.
Straesser would not say what time the incident happened because the case is under investigation. She did say the prisoners are all locked into their cells at 10 p.m. each evening and not allowed out until 6 a.m. the next morning.
The cells are part of a housing unit at the prison.
The report says that Williams was assaulted by an inmate using a homemade weapon. Members of the staff responded immediately and restrained the inmate.
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Straesser said officials are not yet releasing which hospital the officer was taken to after he was assaulted.
"This is clearly the darkest day in our institution's short history and we are in shock over this senseless loss of a colleague and friend," said warden David Ebbert.
The federal prison at South Canaan opened in March of 2005.
Williams began his career with the Federal Bureau of Prisons on Sept. 11, 2011.
Straesser did say that Williams lived in Nanticoke and had a family.
The prison was immediately placed on lockdown, she said. Straesser said there is "no way" to know how long lockdown status will be in place.
Officials said the community was never in any danger.
An investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation is currently under way. Straesser said it is standard procedure for the FBI to investigate incidents which take place at federal prisons.
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They aren't the first to do so, but the New York Giants are reaching into the college ranks for help on solving the read-option. Coach Tom Coughlin confirmed it Tuesday at a New York public signing for his new book, "Earn the Right to Win," something the Giants didn't do against Robert Griffin III and the Washington Redskins in Week 13 last season.
The Giants held Washington's read-option attack to 17 points in that Monday night showdown, but Coughlin would like to cover his bases heading into a 2013 campaign that includes another double dose of RG3 and two games against Chip Kelly's presumably option-heavy Philadelphia Eagles.
"If you're talking to a defensive staff, you want to know what they thought were the critical issues in terms of defending," Coughlin said. "Not only how did they go about it, (but) how good was it, what would you have done differently, how do you assign responsibilities to the option game? And then you take for example what we've faced, and very few times is the ball pitched, but the dive kills you. So how do you defend it; how are you defending it?"
The Giants were an all-around disappointment on defense in 2012, following up their Super Bowl season with a unit that couldn't rush the passer and wound up 31st in the league.
Coughlin told told Jenny Vrentas of The Star-Ledger his strategy is to ask college coaches "the whole deal."
Indianapolis Colts coach Chuck Pagano said last week that NFL defenses would improve against the read-option after a full offseason of study. Coughlin also expressed confidence that New York will be ready. We'll find out soon enough if that's the case.
"We'll definitely be better. We'll definitely have our thoughts about how we are going to scheme to defend," Coughlin said. "But again, it's a difficult scheme, and the people who do it have good players, whether you are talking about Carolina, whether you are talking about Philadelphia, whether you are talking about Washington. They've got good players doing it. ... Do I think we'll be better? Yeah."
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This is a very interesting book. We like this book because it is descriptive. For example, Patricia Polacco says, "Mabel and Banana Joe climbed into the boat and Will rowed. 'Faster boy. Faster,' Lillian Two Blosom said in a raspy whisper." Also she makes great illustrations. The book reminds me (Henry 10) of the time I went out on the lake with my brother. It reminds me (Luke 7) of the time I caught my two foot eel.
We recommend this to people ages 7-10 because it has a lot of hard words. Also, we recommend this to people who like to use their imagination. This book is a "thumbs" up.


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Bumpy RideSeptember 18, 2003
Folks, this is your captain speaking.
You may have noticed the turbulence. That's to be expected when we're flying this close to the ground, although we're doing our best up here in the cockpit to pick up the nose a smidge. The windshield's a little frosted over, but as best we can tell we're heading in the right direction. (If anyone knows what Cleveland looks like from the air, well golly we'd sure appreciate it if you could come up to the front and let us know.)
Flight attendents will be coming by shortly to pass out a light snack and some beverages. If you need a paper bag, they may have one or two left, but just, uh… try and hold it, yeah? We're running out of those in a real hurry.
We've shut off the inflight movie. Sorry about that, folks, we forgot to screen our new selections this month. Who knew that 'Alive' wouldn't have… uh… been as uplifting as one would have hoped. Gosh, you should see us. We sure are red right now.
Looks like we'll be clear in, oh, a few hours. Keep an eye on the ground, and let us know if we get too close. Thanks for flying with us this afternoon, and we sure hope you'll choose our airline for your next flight.
Sorry about all this, I'm still trying to get solid answers. Even my host's site has been up and down for the past two days, so I can't check the status of my claim.
It comes at a bad time, but my hand is forced: I'll be making the switch to PHP in the next few days, for better or for worse. Matt Mullenweg has stepped to the plate with an offer I just couldn't say no to, so a few days of madly patching my scripts to work in a non-Micrsoft environment will ensue.
It'll sting for a bit. But we'll all be happier for it. Thanks for your continued patience.
Reader Comments
Wow, first you buy a Mac and now you're ready to eschew ASP? There's a snarky comment lurking in there that I refuse to make.
You don't know the half of it yet…
Good luck in the weeks ahead, Dave–hope the transition's a painless one.
What's wrong with PHP and Macs?
Just curious…
It took me weeks to figure out how to do a simple server side include in ASP, where in PHP it's a breeze.
Oh well.
Matt–nothing's wrong. Even I can manage simple PHP, and I use a Mac. The snarky comment I am not making would be along the lines of "nice to see you answered the cluephone, Dave." If I were to say something like that. Which I wouldn't. (vocubulary fun: mentioning something by pointing out how you aren't mentioning it is called "paraleipsis")
so dave,
does that mean you are going to try wordpress as well?
I'm on the lookout for a new web host too. Let me know how things go with Matt, if that is what you meant.
Vocabulary is always fun! I didn't know that one that you mentioned.
Got any other good ones?
huphtur, thanks for the link to word press. Seems quite interesting. So much that I went, downloaded it, isntalled it, and am never going back to regular b2! Thanks again.
Wordpress? Ok, so I've never tried it, but pMachine http://www.pmachine.com ROCKS. Very full featured, very easy to install, use, and modify.
I must agree with "allgood2", personally I use pMachine after using just about every tool out there. pMachine is simply amazing. Very highly recommended. And no I don't have a vested interest in the software. Other than being a user.
PC to Mac, ASP to PHP. jeez, no small switch. Okay, you're still using PC's but you know what mean. All the best and we're all rootin' that this planes lands safely.
I don't know if this has been addressed, and this is an off topic post, but I noticed in 'Door to my Garden', Patrick uses transparent png images, and they work perfectly in IE!
Anyone know how he achieved this?
Good point by Daniel … how the f… did Patrick do that?
Well, after examining his code, all kosher, beautiful, good. It had to be the image … and it was!
door to my garden uses a png with 8-bit colour, instead of 24-bit color.
I played around with it and not being more than mediocre at photoshop, I could not get decent results (similar to transparent gif), so I'am personally sticking to serving bgSleight to IE (http://www.allinthehead.com/retro/69).
Dave, Congratulations on moving to PHP.
Make sure you take the opportunity to move your file extensions to .html NOT the nasty .php, given that you're presumably going to be using PHP in most/all your pages. This gives more flexibility, especially if you later decide to move away from PHP.
Just add:
AddType application/x-httpd-php .html
to your .htaccess file or config, as you probably know. What could be simpler?
Also check out the little-used but vastly useful
auto_prepend_file and auto_append_file
which basically save you having to put the same include on every page. http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum88/421.htm has further info.
To make your Permalinks use slash-forward, just don't use the <MTEntryPermalink> tag. Instead, reconstruct your archive path using the <MTEntryDate> or <MTEntryID> tags.
However, I think I left this comment before, and I think the problem was that MT automatically uses its Permalink format for several things, like Trackbacks.
Can't win 'em all. ;)
How is .html any less nasty than .asp or .php? File extensions are insignificant to any reasonably advanced web server. There's no reason to have a file extension at all. Simply turn on multiviews in Apache (it's on by default on the new server) and address the resource sans extension (or as a faux directory) and the correct file will be negotiated.
I've been hiding most of my file extensions for more than a year, simply by having lots of folders. I haven't found any resource that says having lots of folders is A Bad Thing, so I can happily switch around from .html to .asp to .php without anyone being the wiser.
The only spot I'm going to have trouble with is my MT archives, thanks to my inability in figuring out how to drop the extension when I was tinkering a few months ago. But a liberal dose of .htaccess should clear that right up.
In MT:
Weblog Config > Archiving > In the box. You don't need to specify a file extension, although I use .php so I can keep dynamic content on the archive pages.
I've wrapped my mind around canonical date-based archiving in the configuration, that part was no problem. It was the links I was having trouble generating. I couldn't see a way (in this case) to get them to drop the trailing /default.asp. There must be a way, I just didn't find it when I had time to play around with this.
I was a bit obtuse in that last comment. What I was getting at is that I managed to figure out the server end of things to the point where I could safely link to this:
But I could figure out how to actually modify the links on my home page and archive pages to point to anything but this:
It has to be ridiculously easy, but it was two months ago now that I was playing around, and I can't remember why I couldn't. This is something I'll re-visit only once I've re-built the site though, so it won't happen right away. Thank god for weekends.
> How is .html any less nasty than .asp or .php?
Because you're unnecessarily associating your site's technology with a particular extension. .html is generic, whereas .php would generally indicate that you're running PHP. At the moment, you'd have to parse .asp for PHP if the filenames weren't to change. Perhaps that's not actually a problem as such, but it is somewhat incongruous.
> File extensions are insignificant to any reasonably advanced web server. There�s no reason to have a file extension at all.
Indeed, this is recommended by the W3C. Personally I feel that using .html rather than obviously 'techology-specific extensions' such as .php is a better compromise if one can't/won't avoid using extensions entirely.
Just wanted to say there is nothing wrong with moving to the Open Source world. Glad to see someone like you "forced" to make the jump :) I know you have been wanting to do it for a long time.
I really like the idea of not using extensions for websites. There is a problem for sites that might use multiple technologies. Like linux servers that host php and jsp sites.
Also, the ".html" extension is meaningful if you happen to be serving HTML/XHTML content. Just like ".png" is a meaningful extension for the URI of an image file.
Of course, leaving off the extension leaves you more free to do content-type negotiation, but I've never actually seen that used in practice.
Thanks for the heads up on the move to PHP, now I can make sure to allocate a few extra minutes per day for your page to load.
I know exactly what Cleveland looks like from the air, and from just about every compass point to boot, so I'll be happy to help out so long as you're willing to gain some altitude so I can get a read of the land. Too bad FAA regulations won't let me into the cockpit, though.


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The President has shown a talent for slowly but surely moving public opinion in the right direction on crucial policy points, then inexplicably giving those points away to his political opponents for little or nothing in return. According to last month's Gallup poll, for example, only 20% of Americans want Congress to reduce the deficit solely through spending cuts, while the overwhelming majority favor some mix of taxes and cuts, and an additional 7% support tax cuts alone. This was President Obama's stated position, the one thing he said he would stand by, yet the deal he ultimately signed off on included zero revenue increases.
The President long ago convinced Americans that the Bush-era tax cuts should be allowed to expire, either for those making more than $250,000 per year, or for all taxpayers. Yet the President caved on this proposition during the lame duck session of Congress, and again in the debt ceiling debate.
So now we're waiting on a deficit "Super Commission" likely to be packed with conservative hardliners, and a process in which the President promises, once again, that increased taxes for the wealthiest among us must be part of the mix. But the stakes are high. And the default outcome—in the likely event that the commission cannot agree—is across the board cuts that would devastate Americans hardest hit by the recession and bury the prospects for job creation and recovery.
We can hope that the third time will be the charm. We can wring our hands and expect to be sold down the river. Or we can take action to make sure it's a real fight, with or without the President's resolve. That course, the right course, will require innovative ideas, aggressive organizing, and a powerful narrative that has been lacking from the debate so far.
Fortunately, progressives have already launched several efforts that are crucial to winning the fight. The Congressional Progressive Caucus (many of whose members opposed the debt deal) led a jobs tour around the country, proposed a Progressive Budget, and is calling for job creation as a top priority, including in budget negotiations. The Congressional Black Caucus has its own jobs initiative and has vowed to push back against harsh, cuts-only approaches.
From the Rebuilding the American Dream movement, to the Home for Good Campaign, and beyond, activists are taking to the streets, to Facebook, and to the halls of power in their call for an opportunity society, including an opportunity budget.
Just as crucial will be telling our story, a story that inspires the base, persuades the undecided, and marginalizes our opposition. It must be a story rooted in shared values of opportunity, and economic security, and the idea that we're all in it together. It must identify corporate misconduct, inadequate regulation, and wrongheaded economics as the forces that got us into this crisis. But it must focus overwhelmingly on positive, pragmatic solutions that enable Americans to get back to work and rebuild their dreams, as well as their assets. Hardly a fringe message, research and experience show this fits well with what everyday Americans already believe.
Armed with ideas, organizing, and a compelling American narrative, we can win not only the budget and deficit fights, but the fight to restore our economy and expand opportunity into the future. It would be nice to have the President in the lead in this fight, but we may have to pull him along behind us.


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8th November 2018
Brands and companies succeed by tapping into the zeitgeist in authentic ways, says Grayling UK's head of corporate, Tom Nutt, in the first of our #6x19 blog posts.
In last year's trend forecast, one of our trends that really resonated with our clients was 'Take a Stand', which I posted about at the time. This was all about brands and companies saying, "To hell with steering clear of controversy, we are nailing our colours to the mast and telling people that we actually believe in something – even if it risks alienating a proportion of our potential customer base."
Well since then we have seen any number of brands embrace that, including Nike's use of controversial American football star, Colin Kaepernick as the face of its campaign to mark 30 years of "Just Do It", and Levi's CEO Chip Bergh pledging $1M to anti-gun violence groups. Since we launched #6into18 a year ago, we've seen many more examples, some more prolific than others, but all falling into line with that trend.
And there are no signs of that letting up. If anything, we are likely to see more companies exhibit what is often depicted as 'bravery', but is actually sound business sense.
Making a Statement
The reason for this apparent rise in "belief-driven" or "purpose-driven" companies is simply because, in millennials, we have a "belief-driven" generation. They want to believe that they can make a difference, and that extends to where and how and with whom they spend their money.
It may be that Chip Bergh really doesn't care if people disagree with his decision to donate that $1M, but more likely he is reading the demographics, and recognizes that the Parkland generation are the future of the brand of which he is steward – and they care that Levi's not only stands for something, but stands for something that is important to them. And plenty of them are buying Colin Kaepernick jerseys, too, by the way, sending revenues (and Nike's stock) soaring.
So, one can think of the first of our #6x19 trends, 'Cultural Capital', in part as an extension of last year's 'Take a Stand'. But Cultural Capital is deeper and broader than that.
Yes, we are acknowledging the ongoing phenomenon described above, but Cultural Capital is also about brands really inserting themselves into the fabric of public discourse, piggybacking trends, and tapping into the zeitgeist in ways that are authentic not just to their audiences, but to who they are.
Why? Well, Branding Strategy Insider observed that brands are no longer merely about selling products or services or experiences, they are about conveying real meaning.
And Interbrand, probably the foremost authority on brands, assesses brands on 10 Brand Strength Factors. And they found that the brands generating the most stable growth over the past 10 years are those with the highest overall scores on the Relevance and Responsiveness factors.
Meaning, relevance, responsiveness: This is the new language for brands, and the communications functions and programmes that serve and support them.
And there are plenty of examples of campaigns that succeed in aligning brands with cultural phenomena, from the fun and frivolous, to the more issue-based.
Change Catalysts
There is also evidence of some companies going beyond capitalising on cultural trends, and actually agitating to be agents of change themselves.
This is in part a reaction to the loss of trust we have seen in politicians and traditional institutions, and the moves that business leaders have made to fill that vacuum.
This is where public relations, with a broad definition, and public affairs, can work most effectively together, with the push-pull of political pressure and public awareness being used to bring about changes in the law, or regulatory reform. And with so much controversy over Big Data and its responsible use in the past year, it is heartening to see several companies use this for good, such as looking to use that data to find ways to address climate change. Other brands are seeking to be change catalysts in meaningful ways that go beyond simple CSR programmes, to tackle issues from food waste to digital wellbeing.
If Cultural Capital is about anything, it is about responsible corporate citizenship, achieved through behaviours that are not po-faced, or (worse) half-hearted, but rooted in a brand's DNA, authentic in their desire to be part of a real conversation with their audiences.
For more information about Grayling's #6x19 trends and how they may be applied to enhance your future communications, please contact our global head of strategic services, Jon Meakin.
Grayling Team
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Tabor College announced Monday the hiring of Steven Miller as defensive coordinator for the college's football team and Andy Davis as assistant baseball coach.
Steven Miller
"His work at William Penn University helped propel them into one of the top football programs in the NAIA," Rusty Allen, vice president for intercollegiate athletics, said of Miller.
Miller received a bachelor's degree in psychology from Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, La., and a master's degree in business leadership from William Penn University in Okaloosa, Iowa. Most recently, he was coached the defensive line and junior varsity squad at William Penn.
"He will bring much needed experience and maturity as a role model and leader to our defense," head football coach Mike Gardner said. "His reputation as a developer of young men is what impressed me the most."
Andy Davis
"He has the kind of experience as a player and a coach that prepares him to teach, motivate, and recruit," Allen said of Davis.
Davis has degrees from Hesston College and a bachelor's degree in education and a master's degree in exercise science, both from Pittsburg State University. Most recently he was the assistant baseball coach at Peru State College in Nebraska.
"He brings a wealth of knowledge with him from his time as a player at Pittsburg State and coach at Peru State College," head baseball coach Mark Standiford said. "His knowledge of pitching and his ability to communicate will no doubt make our pitching staff better."


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Google has done it again, who says you can't launch a new product via a commic book? As first reported by Philipp Lenssen Google, recently sent out comic books by Scott McCloud announcing their latest offering. Not so incognito perhaps but, very cool!
In addition to Google Chrome's tools for webmasters, Google introduces "incognito mode" for users. While in "Incognito mode" Chrome "will not store basic browsing history information such as URLs, cached page text, or IP addresses of pages linked from the websites you visit."
- Not including encoding information could prevent CSS parsing.
- User agent string: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.X.Y.Z Safari/525.13
- Google Chrome will percent-encode query parameters within a URL.
While Google Chrome is a great new product, I feel like privacy advocates may not like Google Chrome recording "snapshots of most pages you visit (except for secure pages with "https" web addresses, such as some bank pages)". Even in incognito mode snapshots "...could still be stored elsewhere on your computer...".


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In response to a request from the Senate Budget Committee, the Congressional Research Service (CRS) reported that federal welfare spending reached three-quarters of a trillion dollars last year. When added to what the states spent on welfare, another $300 billion, total government welfare payments in 2011 hit $1.03 trillion. More unnerving is that the report from the CRS didn't include spending on Social Security or Medicare.
Putting it all together, federal spending on welfare greatly exceeded spending on the military ($540 billion), Social Security ($725 billion), Medicare ($480 billion) as well as the Departments of Justice ($31 billion), Transportation ($77 billion) and Education ($65 billion).
Welfare spending is likely to increase in light of the Obama administration's determination to eviscerate the welfare reform bill passed in 1996 which contained modest work requirements to qualify. In a unilateral, unconstitutional move on July 12th, the administration essentially removed all work requirements that previously applied to the states, claiming that it had, through the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the power to "waive compliance" and use instead "alternative" requirements. As noted by Robert Rector, writing in The New Media Journal, "The policy will clearly waive compliance with the law's existing work participation standard. If this is not gutting the work requirements, it is difficult to imagine what would be."
Not only is this usurpation unconstitutional — effectively neutralizing and negating legislation passed by Congress and signed into law in 1996 — it also hastens the day of financial bankruptcy of the federal government. The fact that more than 80 percent of the American people opposed the elimination of work requirements in order to receive benefits meant nothing to the ideologues currently in charge in Washington.
Much more than financial bankruptcy is involved. It takes lies and deceit and rampant immorality to continue and expand the welfare state. As Thomas Sowell noted in June:
Among the biggest lies of the welfare states on both sides of the Atlantic is the notion that the government can supply the people with things they want but cannot afford. Since the government gets its resources from the people, if the people as a whole cannot afford something, neither can the government.
The problem is with politicians who lie, and citizens who believe them:
Nothing is easier for a politician than promising government benefits that cannot be delivered. Pensions such as Social Security are perfect for this role. The promises that are made are for money to be paid many years from now – and somebody else will be in power then, left with the job of figuring out what to say and do when the money runs out and the riots start.
There's also the morality involved in forcing one group of citizens to pay benefits to another group. Walter Williams tells the story of seeing an elderly woman huddled on a heating grate in the dead of winter:
She's hungry and in need of shelter and medical attention. To help the woman, I walk up to you using intimidation and threats and demand that you give me $200. Having taken your money, I then purchase food, shelter and medical assistance for the woman. Would I be guilty of a crime?
A moral person would answer in the affirmative. I've committed theft by taking the property of one person to give to another.
It doesn't matter even if 200 million people think it's ok. It's still stealing. Williams explained:
Don't get me wrong. I personally believe that assisting one's fellow man in need by reaching into one's own pockets is praiseworthy and laudable. Doing the same by reaching into another's pockets is despicable, dishonest and worthy of condemnation. Some people call governmental handouts charity, but charity and legalized theft are two entirely different things.
As far as charity is concerned, James Madison, the acknowledged father of our Constitution, said, "Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government." To my knowledge, the Constitution has not been amended to include charity as a legislative duty of Congress.
With such a large percentage of government spending going to support immoral activities disguised and dressed up to look like charity, just how long can such a system survive? In the presidential debates, the question continually comes up: how can the government pay for all of this? The question is never: why is the government involved in these illegal and immoral and financially devastating activities in the first place?
Williams quotes Ayn Rand who said in her novel Atlas Shrugged: "When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good."
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A massive survey of internet users reveals trends in social media usage across numerous platforms, ages, races, genders, population density and more...
The Pew Research Center has released the results of a comprehensive survey, conducted over several years to evaluate which demographics were using social media, and on which platforms. Which social networking sites emerged on top?
Of the online adults surveyed at the end of 2012:
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Joanna Blint - Conservation & Environment, Rainforest Conservation in Peru
Hi my name is Joanna Blint, I'm 24 years old and on a career break from London and I'd like to share with you my experience in Peru, teaching, working on the Conservation project in the Rainforest and travelling. I hope after reading my story you will be inspired and eager to create an experience of your own, in Peru of course!
When I first contacted Projects Abroad I was fed up and bored with my job and knew that I needed to get away. I'd had a Projects Abroad brochure under my bed gathering dust since I was 18, so I dug it out and before I knew it I was attending one of their free open days. Talking to the other volunteers and asking questions put my mind at rest and made me sure that I was ready to go for it.
I began preparing about 6 months before I was due to leave which gave me lots of time to fully prepare, physically at least. In the lead up to my trip Projects Abroad kept me fully updated and I even got my own personal web page with lots of info and tips to prepare me even further.
So there I was 5th August 07 waiting for my luggage at a chaotic Cusco airport. I stepped outside to be greeted by a stampede of taxi drivers, totally overwhelmed I saw a Projects Abroad sign waving at me, finally something familiar and I felt safe already. Hannah, an employee of the Urubamba Office met me and escorted me to a taxi. 2 hours later we were in Urubamba a town in the Sacred Valley and my home for the next 4 months. My host family greeted me with a warm hug and a smile, though there was one problem we couldn't communicate! I spoke pigeon Spanish and they spoke virtually no English - this was going to be tough. If I couldn't communicate at home how on earth was I going to teach the kids at school!
So my first full day in Urubamba and at my school, nervous would be an understatement. Firstly I was accompanied by my host mum to the Projects Abroad office where I was given my teaching pack and an introduced to everyone. Next I was taken to my school General Ollanta. I walked through the gates to find hundreds of Peruvian kids in their blue uniforms running around, and yes it was break time. As I made my way through the playground to find the English teacher I could feel hundreds of Peruvian eyes starring at me. I remember being totally blown away by the whole scene. I was introduced to the English Teacher Elizabeth, we hit it off straight away and the fact she spoke English was a plus. As I introduced myself I remember thinking this is real, I'm really doing this.
Day by day I settled more and more into the lifestyle and my surroundings and soon I had a routine, a bunch of great new friends and my confidence was soaring in the classroom.
I was always kept busy. Don't be fooled, teaching is hard work and there is lots of preparation to do. Everyday I was at the office either talking to the teaching supervisor, planning lessons or picking up resources. As well as this we also had monthly teacher meetings where all the English teachers from around the Sacred Valley gathered and the teaching volunteers would deliver a presentation in Spanish on a teaching topic. Luckily all the teachers had a great sense of humour so it was good fun and the teaching supervisor was always on hand to help me out.
Projects Abroad also runs afternoon classes for students who wanted extra English tuition. I volunteered and taught the 2nd graders every Monday and Wednesday for 2 hours. This was great experience as it was just me one on one with the kids and I was in charge (most of the time). I also got to experiment with different teaching methods.
A week before my placement was up I took a week off work (which every teaching volunteer is entitled to after working 10 weeks) and headed off to Lake Titicaca and Bolivia to stay the night on the Isla Del Sol with a bunch of other volunteers. The sunsets were out of this world and the trip also gave me my first taste of Peruvian roads!
The months whizzed past and before I knew it I was saying goodbye to Urubamba and all my lovely students, my amazing family and friends. After an emotional goodbye I headed off for the airport and a few hours later I was in Puerto Maldonado ready for my next challenge of working in on the Conservation Project at the Taricaya reserve for a week.
I was met by the project manager, Richard and taken to the port where I was introduced to the other volunteers. We boarded the Taricaya boat and an hour and a half later we were pulling into the reserve where more volunteers and staff were waiting to greet me. What a different world I had stepped into, from the mountains to the rainforest and the change of climate was a shock. A tropical climate definitely did not do my hair any favours; this is not a place for mascara and GHD's ladies. I thought a week would go so slowly, how wrong I was.
After adjusting to the fact I'd be sharing a lodge with no privacy, no hot water and plenty of creepy crawlies for company, I felt at home. The other volunteers and staff made me feel so welcome and what a friendly bunch they really were! I was surprised how quickly I settled in and felt liberated that I was able to go back to basics. I didn't even miss the internet or my hair straighteners!
Every evening a rota was drawn up to inform me of my duties for the next day. A normal day consisted of waking up at 5am (not as bad as it sounds as I went to bed at around 9pm because it was pitch black and sweltering) and conducting morning observations at one of various platforms scattered around the reserve. I returned at 7ish and breakfast was ready, followed by free time until around 9ish. Lunch was normally at around 12ish then more free time until 2:30 when afternoon observations took place. Dinner was at 7ish and then the evening was spent chilling out with the other volunteers. Every weekend we would go Puerto itself and hit the various clubs and markets.
The week whizzed by and before I knew it was a Sunday and I was saying goodbye to all my new friends, both of the animal and human kind. I headed back to Cusco to begin my 3 weeks of travel time. There was a lot to cram in but I spent a few days in Cusco and Urubamba (just can't keep away) with my family and friends.
In my 3 weeks I got to see quite a lot but still it was not enough time, I could easily have spent at least 3 months just travelling! I bet any volunteer would back me up on that one. My first few days were spent in Cusco, I bought myself a boleto touristico (tourist ticket) and made the most of it before I set off on the 4 day classic Inca Trail (booking in advance is recommended). A few of my friends took the train up there but that's no fun, its much more worth it if you go on the trek. It was tiring but you will appreciate Machu Picchu a lot more once you finally make it there. It was spectacular and just how I imagined it to be from all the pictures. I said my final goodbyes to my family and friends and had one final farewell party in Cusco and Urubamba.
I then began my journey to Lima via Arequipa and Nazca. At that time I was travelling with a fellow volunteer, my boyfriend and friend who both came out from London. The only way to really travel around Peru is by coach. At any bus station you will be bombarded with people shouting over each other "Lima Lima Lima" or "Arequipa Arequipa Arequipa", quite funny but can be scary first off. Choose your coach companies wisely or else you could be in for the long haul stuck on an in-direct coach that takes 5-6 hours longer than a direct coach, I talk from experience. When buying tickets they all say that they are direct, use you common sense if it seems too good to be true then it is. Sometimes it is worth paying a b it more to ensure you have a comfortable, speedy and safe journey.
Arequipa is a beautiful place, well worth a stop over. While you are there it would be rude not to visit the Colca Canyon (deeper than the Grand Canyon) and see the condors. Nazca was home to the famous Nazca Lines and ancient cemetery, its one of a kind and not to be missed. In Nazca I had the opportunity to spend a night in a hotel with a pool as the climate so warm, a nice way to chill out after 3 weeks on the go!
Lima is an interesting place BIG is an understatement. Again take time to soak up the environment and see the coast.
To sum up Peru was the most amazing 4 months of my life and I envy anyone is yet to visit this spectacular, breathtaking place. I wish I could turn back time and do it all again (who knows maybe I will). All I can say is don't think twice, if your feet are itching go, go, go!
Joanna Blint
Dit verhaal is een persoonlijke ervaring van een vrijwilliger op dit project en dus een momentopname. Houd er rekening mee dat jouw ervaring hiervan af kan wijken. Onze projecten veranderen constant, omdat we inspelen op de lokale behoefte en we voortborduren op de behaalde resultaten. Ook verschillende weersomstandigheden kunnen de ervaring beïnvloeden. Lees meer over wat je kunt verwachten van dit project of neem contact met ons op voor meer informatie.


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A native of Rochester, New York, Blake Fitch received her BFA on full scholarship from Pratt Institute, with a major in photography and minor in photo history. After graduating she studied photography and art and technology at the Art Institute of Chicago before earning her masters degree in Arts Administration at Boston University. Currently, she works as a fine art and editorial photography out of Boston, MA and has photographed extensively in the United States and Central and South America. Fitch's fine art work focuses on identity, adolescence, civil rights, and belonging. Her work has been exhibited internationally and is held in the collections of several museums, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The George Eastman House of Photography and the Worcester Art Museum. She is represented by ClampArt in New York and Catherine Couturier Gallery in Houston, Texas. Additionally, Fitch served as the Executive Director of the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, MA from 2002-2007, making the museum a preeminent resource devoted to the exhibition of photography. She continues to curate independently and teaches photography at the New England School of Photography.
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Investment firm fires WND reporter for exposing scandal
New York company reacts to money-laundering probe
A series of investigative reports by WND senior staff writer Jerome Corsi on money-laundering charges by banking giant HSBC has resulted in some shocking fallout for the news agency and the reporter.
Yesterday WND reported that HSBC lodged a complaint that blocked Internet access to one of the WND stories.
Now, Corsi says the HSBC series has prompted the New York City securities firm with which he has worked to fire him.
Along with his well-known WND reporting and book-writing, Corsi has served as a senior managing director since 2010 at Gilford Securities, a Manhattan investment firm that serves institutional and retail clients.
Corsi said Gilford notified him Monday that it would file a U-5 form with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, or FINRA, to deregister him from the firm due to "corporate reorganization."
Gilford Securities declined comment to WND.
Corsi said the firm is responding to his series of reports on the charges of former HSBC manager John Cruz. The whistleblower has provided WND with 1,000 pages of customer account records he claims are evidence of an international money-laundering scheme by HSBC, which reportedly is under investigation by a U.S. Senate committee.
"I was completely blindsided by the reaction of the firm to the HSBC stories," Corsi said. "I thought Gilford would be proud that a member of the firm had sufficient courage to do the right thing – make public and report suspected money laundering activity when first hearing about or learning about credible allegations, regardless what firm the allegations involved."
Corsi noted that he never made any accusations about Gilford and was not investigating anything related to the firm.
"I pointed out to Gilford that firing me could create a chilling atmosphere where others in the firm might think twice before reporting suspicions of money laundering," he said.
Corsi said he is awaiting the processing of Gilford's paperwork to reach FINRA's online reporting system.
WND reported yesterday that HSBC lodged a complaint that blocked Internet access to a WND story by Corsi reporting the whistleblower's charges. The story included redacted images of customer account statements that HSBC claimed was an illegal disclosure of personally identifiable information. However, no personal information was visible in the images.
Corsi said that Gilford management gave him the choice, instead of being fired, to drop his securities registration with the firm voluntarily and to become a "consultant."
"I refused," Corsi said, "saying I had done nothing wrong, but that I should be commended, not fired, for writing the HSBC stories."
WND CEO Joseph Farah said the "lesson that needs to be understood from the fallout WND and Jerry Corsi have experienced as a result of breaking the story about a major bank's involvement with money laundering is that real investigative reporting is costly to those who undertake it."
"That's why very few news agencies and very few reporters will go near such stories with a 10-foot pole," Farah said.
Corsi explained that terminating his registration effectively fires him, removing him completely from any association with Gilford.
The securities industry requires anyone dealing with securities to be licensed and registered with a firm. According to regulations, if Corsi doesn't find another firm with which to register within two years, he will lose his licenses.
Corsi is licensed to work in California, Connecticut, Florida, New Jersey and New York. His nine licenses include Financial and Operations Principal and General Securities Representative.
Corsi said that he spoke with Gilford Chairman Ralph Worthington in New York City last week, who said that the firm could not accept him being identified with Gilford and investigating another financial services firm.
Corsi asked why not, pointing out that when the whistleblower Cruz brought him the information on HSBC, he had a responsibility to report it and to bring it to the attention of authorities, as specified by various federal laws, including the Patriot Act.
Farah, meanwhile, pointed out that no other news agencies have picked up the HSBC story reported by WND.
"Yet, this is the kind of reporting that distinguished American journalism for the previous 200 years," he said.
Corsi and WND reported the story "without any thought as to the personal consequences," he added.
"We reported it because it was the right thing to do," Farah explained. "Corsi reported what he discovered to federal, state and local law enforcement agencies because it was the ethical thing to do. As a result, WND has faced retaliation from the bank, and Corsi has apparently lost his position with a New York financial firm.
"In America today," the WND chief concluded, "it seems, more and more, doing the right thing has consequences while doing the wrong thing doesn't."
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WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. -- Larry Hollander was driving on Interstate 684 on Memorial Day for a family trip when he saw a loose horse.
Hollander, who lives in Pleasantville, was with his wife and two children. His wife shot two videos of the horse, which show it near the interchange with Route 35 in Katonah, that were later posted to YouTube. He recalled driving north when a couple of cars in front slowed down. He was surprised to find out that a horse was galloping on the road.
Hollander mentioned that the horse was in a right lane, moved left and then went back. The horse, which had been moving fast, then jumped a median, Hollander recalls. He thought that the horse, which went into oncoming traffic in the southbound side, would be involved in a collision, which did not happen. His wife stopped the first video around the time of the jump and shot the second once the horse was traveling on the other side.
The family continued on its way to their destination, which was at the Walkway Over The Hudson elevated park in Poughkeepsie, although 911 was called. Hollander recalls that multiple state police vehicles were then seen going south on 684.
Speaking about the YouTube clips, Hollander explained that the intent was for friends to see. Although his wife, overheard in the first video, predicted that it would be "viral," Hollander did not anticipate that the story would be as big as it turned out.
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A faulty electrical connection between two superconducting magnets may be to blame for an incident that will delay the start of beam collisions at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland for at least two months.
Physicists at CERN believe that the electrical connection may have melted at high voltage which caused a temperature spike of 100 degrees Celsius, enough to make the superconducting magnet quench or become resistive. The quench resulted in a large helium release into the tunnel on September 19th. CERN is estimating that the repair, a relatively simple one, will take two months to fix because the magnets needs to warm up before they can be repaired and then cooled again after repairs have taken place.
Thanks to CERN's stringent safety measures no people were ever at risk during the incident.


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BOSTON, Mass. – Led by senior Jake Kerin (Quincy, Mass.) and newcomer Angelica Pizzi the UMass Boston men's and women's cross country teams got their 2013 season off to a great start at the Emmanuel College Fens Classic at the Fens in downtown Boston.
For Kerin, his senior season got off to a solid start as the Quincy native placed eighth overall with a time of 16:55 to lead the men's team. On the women's side Pizzi recorded a time of 12:55 to earn a seventh place finish. Overall the men's team finished 6th out of 7 teams, while the women's squad recorded an overall finish of 7th out of 8 teams.
After Kerin was Tad Delaney (Halifax, Mass.), who recorded a time of 17:25 to earn 21st place overall. Joe Miller (Hull, Mass.) crossed the finish line with the Beacons third fastest time of 20:38 (54th place). Chhenlee Ly (Leominster, Mass.) was next with his time of 21:36. Emilio Alvarez-Flores (Mexico City, Mexico) recorded a time of 22:51 to earn 61st place overall. Ed McDonald (Waltham, Mass.) closed out the afternoon for UMB with his time of 22:53 (62nd place).
On the women's side senior Ari Leao (New Bedford, Mass.) recorded a time of 14:51 to earn 39th place. Danielle Valerie was next to cross the finish line for the Beacons with her time of 16:17 (55th place). Renee O'Brien (Stoneham, Mass.) made her first appearance with the cross country program as she recorded a final time of 17:18. Closing out the day for the women's team was Ashley Cahill as the newcomer recorded a time of 19:36 to earn 63rd place overall.
The cross country teams will return to action on September 21 when they compete in the UMass Dartmouth Corsair Invitational in North Dartmouth.


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Once fall hits, I crave a deep lip. I can't think of a better pairing with the crisp colorful leaves and cooler air, can you? Lucky for me (and you!), a burgundy pout is once again a fall beauty trend. Honestly, of all of the Revlon videos we've brought to you this year, the one we're featuring this month is our absolute favorite. Revlon equipped us with a few products to show you how to wear a burgundy lip. No surprise, this look is all about the lip. The products I used in the video: include:
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A Few Good Men: The Bodhisattva Path According to the Inquiry of Ugra (Ugraparipṛcchā) : a Study and Translation
Jan Nattier
University of Hawai'i Press, 2003 - Religion - 383 pages
A Few Good Men is a study and translation of The Inquiry of Ugra (Ugrapariprccha), one of the most influential Mahayana sutras on the bodhisattva path, but also one of the most neglected texts in Western treatments of Buddhism. To achieve a better understanding of the universe of ideas, activities, and institutional structures within which early self-proclaimed bodhisattvas lived, the author first considers the Ugra as a literary document, employing new methodological tools to examine the genre to which it belongs, the age of its extant versions, and their relationships to one another. She goes on to challenge the dominant notions that the Mahayana emerged as a "reform" of earlier Buddhism and offered lay people an "easier option."
A Few Good Men will be compelling reading for scholars and practitioners alike and others interested in the history of Indian Buddhism and the formation of Mahayana.
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Richard Stallman's blog
Why programs must not limit the freedom to run them
Free software means software controlled by its users, rather than the reverse.
Nonfree DRM'd Games on GNU/Linux: Good or Bad?
A well known company, Valve, that distributes nonfree computer games with Digital Restrictions Management, recently announced it would distribute these games for GNU/Linux. What good and bad effects can this have?


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November 19, 2012 – The PGE Foundation — Portland General Electric's corporate foundation — recently awarded a $50K grant to Portland State University in support of a power engineering teaching laboratory to prepare engineering students for careers in the power industry.
"The electric utility industry is embarking on significant change in how we generate and deliver power to our customers," said Jim Piro, president and CEO, PGE. "Building a smarter energy grid will require highly trained engineers. We strongly support educational institutions like PSU, which are developing educational pathways and hands-on learning for students to become power engineers."
The PGE Foundation grant will support the development of a power engineering teaching laboratory for the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science. The program includes industry-relevant, hands-on projects as part of students' curriculum and will lead to bachelor's and master's electrical engineering degrees with specializations in power engineering. The lab is directed by Associate Professor Robert Bass.
"This is a perfect example of a public/private partnership," said PSU President Wim Wiewel. "Our job is to train the future employees of Portland, Oregon, and beyond. PGE recognizes that and is helping us do it through programs like the PGE Foundation Power Engineering Lab. It's just smart business all around."
In 2010 Piro and Wiewel signed a Memorandum of Understanding formalizing a strategic alliance between PSU and PGE. The alliance emerged from a joint task force to investigate potential efforts that would contribute to a common vision of Portland as a leader in developing and implementing urban sustainability.
PSU and PGE work together on research, economic development, community projects, and professional training aligned with two main themes: "Urban Mobility" and "Integration of Energy and Sustainable Design." The goal is to leverage this work in support of a strong and vibrant regional economy. Previously a PGE Foundation grant created the PGE Foundation Renewable Energy Research Lab at PSU. In 2011 PSU and PGE worked together to open Electric Avenue on the PSU campus — the nation's first street dedicated to showcasing electric transportation technology. PGE and the PGE Foundation have contributed more than $850,000 in financial support to PSU, plus invaluable donations of professional expertise over the past nearly 30 years.
About Portland State University (PSU)
Located in Portland, Oregon, PSU has about 30,000 undergraduate and graduate students. PSU's motto is "Let Knowledge Serve the City," and we provide every student with opportunities to work with businesses, schools and organizations on real-world projects. Our downtown campus exhibits PSU's commitment to sustainability with green buildings, while sustainability is incorporated into much of the curriculum.
About the PGE Foundation
The PGE Foundation, the corporate foundation of Portland General Electric, was established in 1997 as a 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization with a permanent endowment. The Foundation's giving is separate from the corporate giving of PGE. Since its inception, the Foundation has distributed more than $15 million to help improve the quality of life for all Oregonians by supporting statewide programs and services that encourage healthy families, provide educational opportunities and encourage the arts and cultural diversity. Gwyneth Gamble Booth is chair and Carole Morse is president. To learn more about the PGE Foundation, visit www.pgefoundation.org.