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3 Jul 2009

Photo contest entry

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I decided to enter one of my photos in a contest and found out that I am one of the 20 finalists in the Sierra Club Trails National Parks Photo Contest. There are no prizes or anything, but it’s kind of neat anyway.
If you want to vote for my image, you can go to http://action.sierraclub.org/site/PageNavigator/NAT_TrailsPhotoContest. It’s Image #1, shown above, taken in The Narrows at Zion National Park. The deadline for voting is July 10.

22 Jun 2009

Why is it such a hard lesson to learn?

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Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.   – Franklin D. Roosevelt

Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.    - Dalai Lama

5 Jun 2009

A view that never gets old

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I know I take this picture every year and every season, but I still like it.

31 May 2009

Spring at last

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7 Apr 2009

Jost Van Dyke

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Click for full screen slide show

A bit of paradise in the British Virgin Islands.

12 Mar 2009

Family tree

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Here is a photo taken in about 1930 of Frank and Marietta Ellis of York Beach, Maine, along with their children and grandchildren. Some of the families represented, in addition to the Ellis’s, include those with the surnames Boardman, Hancock, Bridges, and Chase.

Frank Ellis Family #2

My father is among the rather startled looking children. For a key to some of the names that I think I’ve figured out, go to my Flickr page.

12 Mar 2009

The rewards of greed?

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Here is the best explanation I’ve seen yet on the current banking crisis. Scary stuff.


The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

29 Dec 2008

This about sums it up

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Time vs. Money

From ThisIsIndexed.com.

4 Dec 2008

Kiva - doing good from a distance

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Kiva is a great organization that allows anyone to be a micro lender for as little as $25.

From CNN.com: Your $25 can start a business, change a life
“This is microfinancing. It allows everyday people to invest as little as $25 to help people in developing countries climb out of poverty. The concept of microfinancing is nothing new. At its essence, it’s making small loans to the working poor. The loans are used to establish or expand small businesses to help families earn more money.”

Frontline has an excellent 15-minute video report that brings the subject to life:

More background information at the Frontline site: http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/uganda601/