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5 Niche Template Websites That You Don't Want to Miss Many people use website templates to make their website. If you want to build your website with a template, there are many template websites that you can choose from. Some sites like Template Monster cater to a wide variety of websites ranging from regular HTML to Flash while others focus on templates for specific types of websites. This article identifies niche template websites that specialize in their given area. Some of the sites offer templates that you have to customize and adapt to your needs while others offer ready-made websites that require very little customization to get started. The Template Websites on this list have been chosen based on the following criteria: • •
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This is a relatively new service launched by web design experts from London that offers ready-made website templates that are ready to use and require little customisation. You can choose to download a professional website for $67 or you get an expert to set-up and launch the website on your behalf. The template consists of 6 core pages including images and industry standard text. Social media, email marketing and live chat feature are built-in to the website which can be very useful to generate leads on your site. What I like about this service is the free logo and free web-hosting package that you get with your template.
Niche: Open Source
OSWD targets the vast open source community. offers a collection of web designs submitted by the community. It offers free and premium designs.
The Open Source Web Design project was founded in September, 2000 with the goal to provide the Open Source community with web design templates that could use and build upon to create a website whatever their needs. It also helps designers to showcase their
projects on the Internet. Here you can get design samples for personal blogs, simple business sites as well as content managements systems. The templates typically include sample layouts for the homepage and one sub-page which you will need to customise to meet your needs. 3. Mojo Themes
http://www.mojo-themes.com/ Niche: Wordpress, Tumblr Themes
Mojo Themes is a premium themes marketplace. It is different to the sites on this list. It is especially useful if you run a website that is built with one of the popular open-source
software. The site sells themes for the most commonly used CMS and e-commerce platforms on the web such as premium WordPress and Tumblr themes, and more. The templates range from basic Photoshop (PSD) templates to complex premium WordPress plugins. The website also has a blog and support forum for posting your queries which can be useful if you need further help. 4. Photocrati http://www.photocrati.com/ Niche: Photography Websites
This is a niche template site which is useful if wish to build a professional photography website, fast and cost effectively. If you're researching the best option for creating a photography related website, then Photocrati is an option worth taking a look at. Photography websites focus on the overall design and visual presentation more than a regular business and this is reflected by the designs available on this site. Photocrati's powerful WordPress theme, that is specially created for photographers, comes with 60+ Built-in Styles, Gallery Management as well as built-in e-commerce shopping cart that can be used for selling your photographs. 5. Dreamweaver Graphics
Niche: Dreamweaver Dreamweaver Graphics offers affordable websites templates for businesses. You can choose from a wide selection in several categories or types such as Flash, Ecommerce, CMS, Blogs and standard web site templates. Although I cannot confirm, I believe this is one of affiliate sites that offer templates from other sites such as Template Monster.
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This unique tour takes you from the quaint ambiance of Greenwich Village to the bustling commercial center that is Columbus Circle.
We begin at Washington Square, a former potter's field. Surrounded by the buildings of New York University, the park is a magnet for students. From jazz bands to pianists to solo guitar players, musicians flock to the park to perform. There are several important monuments here, as well important historic architecture bordering the park.
We will walk up Lower Fifth Avenue, known as the Gold Coast, to Union Square. Four days a week the park is alive with the oldest Farmers Market in the city. This square too attracts students from New York University. The park holds several monuments, including those of General George Washington and his friend, the Marquis de Lafayette.
We continue to Madison Square on foot. It is anchored by the uniquely-shaped Flatiron Building. In Madison Square we will see monuments to heroes, statesmen and politicians, all of whom were friends!
We will give our feet a rest and ride the Broadway Local to the fourth square on our tour. The subway station at Madison Square offers subway art, great for a fun photo-op! Next stop: Herald Square. An impressive monument to the father-and-son publishers of the now-defunct New York Herald stands at the far end of this small park.
We walk further along Broadway. From the size of the buildings here we can see clearly that the character of the street has changed. The 19th-century, lower-rise buildings between Union and Madison Squares have given way to the high-rise office towers of the 20th and 21st centuries. We are headed to Times Square, called the Crossroads of the World.
Times Square is the last square on the Five Squares and a Circle Tour. It is the only square without a park. We will find very little that is green here. Instead bright lights, dazzling video displays and great crowds have replaced any thing that Mother Nature would recognize. The ABC-TV studios of Good Morning America are located in this entertainment hub.
We jump on the Red Line #1 subway in Times Square. Having finished with the tour's Five Squares, we end at Columbus Circle, with its monument to the Italian explorer. In September of 2012 I took advantage of a temporary art exhibit, "Discovering Columbus." The Japanese artist Tatzu Nishi enclosed the sculpture of Columbus that tops the column in what he called a living room. This was a unique, once-in-a-lifetime experience to see this marble version of Cristoforo Colombo at close quarters.
The USS Maine Memorial Monument marks the southwest entrance to Central Park located at Columbus Circle. Discover the "lungs of New York City" during Walk About New York's Central Park Walking Tour.
The Tour's cost is $30 for adults, $20 for seniors 65 years and older, and $15 for youths 13 to 18 years of age. The tour lasts between 2.5 and 3 hours. It is strongly suggested that you travel light. We are on our feet for the entire time. Carrying heavy backpacks and shopping bags can only distract from your enjoyment of the Tour.
We gather at the Washington Arch in Washington Square, located at the foot of Fifth Avenue. Please consult the Calendar Schedule for the dates and time that the Five Squares and a Circle Tour is offered.
The terrain of this tour is mostly level, traveling along the sidewalks of New York. We will be climbing stairs to access the subway. It is advisable to wear comfortable shoes. You will get a solid walking and climbing workout on this tour. You will need a valid MetroCard to ride the subway for two parts of this tour.
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So Deadspin.com broke this story of Terry Francona apparently emailing a topless photo of himself to a 27-year-old girl from Tucson, Arizona. The story came to their attention when a reader of theirs, whom they refer to as "Rob", sent them the emails. Upon doing some research, "Rob" was able to connect the email address of the sender to Terry Francona's AOL account. "Rob" also informed Deadspin that he pulled Francona's number from phone records and called it. He didn't speak with Francona, but he said the voice on the other line was no doubt the former Red Sox Manager. However, the article takes a shocking turn when we find out that "Rob's" girlfriend initiated the email controversy when she sent Tito a chest picture of her own.
Now I don't know about the rest of you, but I don't see a problem in what Tito did here. Sure some people may say that he works for ESPN and that this is inappropriate. However when you break down the story, Francona didn't do anything wrong.
First of all, she sent him a picture first. If "Rob" is going to get mad at anyone here it needs to be his..ahem faithful.. girlfriend. Francona did what most middle aged, successful, single men would have done. He responded. Also, the girl in question is 27-years-old. She isn't 17 needing parental consent for decisions. She is an adult acting on her own. The act she chose, was to gain Terry's attention. I would say she succeeded at that. Lastly, the picture Francona sends isn't all that provocative. As you can see he is standing on a balcony in a towel, topless. Clearly he is enjoying his lovely ocean view. This picture is no different than if he was in a bathing suit, in fact the towel covers more than a bathing suit would anyway.
Anyone I know will tell you I have always been a supporter of Terry Francona throughout his time in Boston. I stand by my support of him in this sense. The man managed our team to arguably the biggest comeback in sports history during the 2004 ALCS. He led us to two World Series victory while flaunting an 8-0 record in the Fall Classic. Not to mention he led us to game 7 of the 2008 ALCS where they couldn't muster up any offense against Matt Garza and the Rays. I disagreed with the decision to fire Francona and disagreed even more at the owner's attempts to tarnish his name on the way out. After all Francona has done for this team and city, I think he deserves some time to relax. He's a single man, why shouldn't he be allowed to attempt to meet some co-eds? If he has the opportunity to go out and meet some young twenty-somethings then more power to him.
Sure Francona is 53 years old, but he is also famous and successful, which will draw the interest of plenty of women. At some point in his life Francona will not be able to go out and meet people, so who would we be to criticize him? My only advice to Francona would be that before you send out a picture to a girl, make sure she doesn't have an angry boyfriend named "Rob" who will send the picture and the emails to Deadspin for the whole world to see. Like the old saying goes: "Hater's gonna hate, Terry Francona's gonna swap chest pics with 27 year old girls." Circle of life.
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Gaza audiences enjoy first night out at the movies in 20 years
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GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are enjoying their first night out at the movies since political tensions led to the torching of cinemas in the enclave 20 years ago.
Hollywood blockbusters have yet to return and Hamas Islamists, who now rule Gaza, are looking out for anything they consider immodest. Nevertheless, the projectors are rolling again, in a newly-opened cinema whose shows have been limited so far to films about the Palestinian struggle for statehood.
About 150 people took their seats last week in the Red Crescent Society hall, usually a venue for celebrations or traditional performances, to watch "Oversized Coat". The 2013 film by Jordan-based Palestinian director Nawras Abu Saleh examines Palestinian life between 1987 and 2011, a period of failed peace efforts and two anti-Israeli uprisings.
Tickets cost 10 shekels ($2.50) each.
In the audience, Alaa Abu Qassem, a Gaza student who had never been to the movies before, reveled in the new experience.
"I am very happy," said Qassem, just a toddler when the last of Gaza's cinemas were burned to the ground during fighting between rival Palestinian factions. "But where is the pop corn?"
Cinema once flourished in Gaza. Back in the 1950s, when Egypt ran the enclave, residents used to frequent movie houses to watch Arab, Western and Asian films. Those cinemas were set on fire in 1987 when the first Palestinian uprising erupted. All were repaired, but were torched again during internal violence in 1996.
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Jones sat out the team's first four games after having surgery to repair
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A famous American humorist, Evan Esar was once quoted as saying, "Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration, and inspiration". The life of an artist, a digital photographer to be specific, is such that tons of planning, money and sweat can pave the path for success. The steps in which you take to establish yourself can be spontaneous and exciting or patient and well thought out. Given the current economic affairs, there is still room for your dreams and goals. Starting specifically with concrete goals is a great sprint into your career. Let's start with how to book an exhibit, sell your work and get your name out there.
1.Find your theme
When starting to plan your first exhibit, you should research your target audience and pick a theme from your work that they would best enjoy. Remember, you are not just a photographer but also a businessperson. Artists need to be organized enough to focus on a particular theme so that potential buyers and visitors can understand the concepts, identify with them and make sense of what's being presented. Treat your exhibit like a museum which is neatly divided into categories and topics , rather than random images. Eventually, more established artists are able to have more control over the kinds of pieces they want to showcase. It might be a matter of "swallowing your pride" but in the beginning, you have to crawl before you walk.
2. Start Small
Try any and every place where you are able to put up your work. Some great places to start are your local cafés, libraries, schools, restaurants and various public and private places where you do not have to pay to exhibit. You never know who might attend even the smallest of gatherings, so it is important to pitch your work and promote the show. Word of mouth and guerilla marketing techniques (e.g., hanging up posters on every corner if need be) have been key to any start up.
3. Build your Curriculum Vitae
A good CV is essential for promoting yourself in a few words that people will remember you by. Make sure the things that matter really stand out and use bullet points to make your points clear. Don't be too wordy and never lie. Write out tangible and concrete tasks you have accomplished in your education, experience, previous shows, and more. As a photographer, a website and portfolio are simply expected so that people have easy access to assess your work.
4. Get to know your supplier
Build your network of artist friends so that you have connections as to how cheaply you can source your supplies. Allowing you to know the people in these organizations may give you access to wholesale prices for mattes, frames, paints, and more. Make a note of all the local art supply stores, framers, matt cutters, galleries, foundations and museums to help you in this direction.
5. Choose your best work to show
Make sure you preserve and present your artwork perfectly when going to showcase it to the world. Even if you feel you have done a brilliant work of art, do not display it if it has tears, scratches, minor nicks, and slight details that people might criticize you on. Do remember that if you are asking high prices for your art, your customers will be asking for a high level of perfection from corner to corner. People also take great pride in the works that they create so don't let that get overlooked for some bad quality that could have been prevented.
6. Getting a known gallery to sponsor and/or represent you
Especially important are the galleries in which you want to showcase. The more you attend their events and know the managers, the easier it will be for you to book a show of your own. While vying for their attention, persistence is key, as rejection should be a common and forgettable part of the 'pitching' process.
7. Prepare an Invitation List for your showing
The time has come to really make or break your show. By building up a good mailing list and sending out invitations, you will be prepared for the opening. Many times, galleries themselves will also have databases, which will be a nice addition to your own. Without a proper mailing list, your efforts could be wasted, as people might not show up through word of mouth.
And finally…
The main goal after your photograph is ready to go to the market is to become a good businessperson. Even the most talented artists do not get the full rewards when they do not market themselves properly. Some great books to read up on are "Art Marketing Handbook", "Marketing Art: A Handbook for the artist and art dealer", and "Successful Self-Promotion for Photographers". After reading them, you will feel much more prepared and confident to tackle marketing. Not only will you have learned tons about your own field of photography but also tons about business.
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Parents in the Omaha metropolitan area say the number one health issue affecting community children and teens is obesity—including the areas of nutrition, physical activity and weight. A close second for parents of adolescents is concern around teens' mental and emotional health.
Children's Hospital & Medical Center, Boys Town National Research Hospital and Building Healthy Futures are pleased to share these findings and more from the 2015 Child & Adolescent Health Needs Assessment. The three organizations teamed up to co-sponsor the assessment to determine the health status, behaviors and needs of children and teens in Douglas, Sarpy and Pottawattamie counties. Professional Research Consultants (PRC) of Omaha conducted the research endeavor. A similar assessment was sponsored and conducted in 2012. PRC's process involved a customized local health survey given to 966 area parents/guardians online and via phone, a review of secondary data (e.g. census data, Youth Risk Behavior Survey, other public health data) and an online key informant survey for key community healthcare stakeholders.
"Before we can effectively address the health needs of children in our community, we have to step back and listen to parents' perceptions and challenges," says Dr. Richard Azizkhan, President & CEO, Children's Hospital & Medical Center. "Their feedback is incredibly important in directing our efforts and advocacy into the future."
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Father accused of shopping while leaving son in tub
Texas Dad Charged After Son Found Dead In Box
Autopsy underway on Jonathan Singer, disabled boy found dead in cardboard box, father is suspect
Dad Charged After Disabled Son Found Dead in Cardboard Box
There are so many children featured on this site that you have the lean back in your chair and think to yourself "Damn…. They really never had a chance with such selfish assholes for parents". Well, 10-year-old Jonathan Singer is a perfect example of a child that never had a chance because his parents were selfish.
Jonathan was not a typical child. He had cerebral palsy and he was blind. That's a double whammy right there. Little Jonathan needed extra care and extra love. Besides those crucial things, he needed help eating, which he did through a feeding tube, and moving. A child with such needs should never be left alone, right. Well, tell Jeffrey Singer (the DNA donor) that. Never mind. It's far too late to tell that mother fucker anything. Jeffrey is being accused of leaving Jonathan in a bathtub while he went to a store on April 12th. The result… Jonathan is dead.
5 days after Singer left his child alone to die, the child's uncle made a phone call to police. He was concerned for the child and asked that they go look in on him. When officers arrived at the home, Jonathan's mother, Tina Madrid, told police that the child was fine and was out with Jeffrey. Jonathan WAS with Jeffrey, but he was far from fine.
Jeffrey showed up at his father's house, which was about a 4 hour drive from their Pasadena, Texas apartment. He told his father that something bad had happened and Jonathan had been killed. His father made a phone call to police. When they arrived, they searched Singer's car. They were met by a foul smell and, in the back of the SUV, Jonathan's decomposing and emaciated body rested in a cardboard box.
Something tells me that there was a missed opportunity to save Jonathan's life. As we see so often on this site, CPS has a previous report, in January 2010, of neglect and abuse by both parents. That case was closed. Four months later, another investigation was started because of a claim that Tina Madrid may have been unable to care for Jonathan because of he own health issues. The investigation was never completed because the family moved and could not be located. We can find fucking terrorists living in caves on the other side of the world, but we can't find child abusing assholes that live in our backfuckingyards. Go figure.
Jeffrey Singer is being charged with injury to a child by omission. He is currently out on $50,000 bond. Tina Madrid is being charged with neglect of a child. She was arrested then released pendng formal charges. There may be other charges for both parents once the ME report comes back. They will have to determine wether Jonathan's death was murder or a tragic accident. Leaving a handicapped child home alone in a tub full of water is murder in my books, but that's just my opinion.
Jonathan's 2 sisters, ages 15 and 17, are reportedly safe and in the custody of relatives.
Rest in peace, Jonathan. The tears soaking my pillow tonight are for you, little man.
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You see, I started to lose myself after my wedding. My marriage didn't start off on good footing.To make a long story short, my husband decided to estrange himself from most of his family. I was hit with the baby bug before I even met my husband and I wanted to start trying right away. I waited a little more after my wedding because I stopped smoking and wanted to get my shit in order. In my mind, getting my shit in order also meant completely changing who I was because I wanted to be a mom. I ditched all my goth clothes because I stupidly felt like I needed to grow up. I had to be a mom now and that meant not dressing cool anymore. It meant it was my time to settle down. I had to fit into this little mold and be, well normal.
I had trouble conceiving and my pregnancy for my son was a difficult one. I had this huge ass chip on my shoulder because I gave up all the things I loved. I became a shell of who I was because I wanted to get pregnant and I couldn't! I almost lost my son (as well as my own life) in child birth. A couple of months after he was born, my son had to have surgery for Pyloric Stenosis. I was going through post postpartum depression through all this too. Somehow, I survived.To this day, I have no idea how I kept my sanity but I did!
With all this in mind, you can imagine why and how I completely lost myself into motherhood. I felt like a loser mom and wanted to do everything right. Up until then, although this was never the case, I really felt like I failed as a mother. I am sure most women have their stories too. Maybe it is something similar to mine or maybe it's not. I think we put so much pressure on ourselves to be a great mom its crazy. We do it because we love our kids or maybe some of us do it because we had shitty mothers and don't want to make the same mistakes twice?
When I lost myself, I never cared much about fashion.I bought what was on sale. I stopped colouring my hair. I stopped doing anything for myself! My whole life was wrapped around my baby. I hung out with other moms and joined all these on-line Mommy groups. The very women I used to spend my life rolling my eyes at and avoiding like the plague became my group of friends. It was all so fake.
I also hated the snarkiness, the back-stabbing and the whole sancti-mommy bullshit behind it all. You were judged for the things you did or didn't do. Everyone bragged about how great their kids were and it became a competition on whose kid would do this or that before the other kid. It was like these babies milestones weren't their own but reflected on the mother's parenting style. It wasn't about the kid, it was about the mom. It was very narcissistic. I didn't fit in at all. I didn't like the music they listened to, I didn't play their stupid mommy wars, and I didn't want to dress like they did.
I remember when my kid started daycare. Where I am from, we get a year off for maternity leave so my son was almost a year old when I went back to work. It was around this time that I started to let go of all the crazy things I did. I stopped talking to those other moms and realized that a lot of my coworkers were parents themselves. A lot of them have older kids. I reached out to them for advice and it was less judgmental and more...well...real. I slowly got my head out of my ass and I started to change. I realized that there was more to me than just being a mom. Yes, I have an adorable little boy but what about me? Aside from motherhood, what defines me? Sometimes being a parent means that you should find time for you. I started wondering on what exactly made me unique. What did I enjoy doing besides taking care of a young child? My child's milestones, while they deserved to be celebrated, should be celebrated for my child, not because I am some wonderful super mom. I am not trying to imply that I neglect my kid in anyway or to imply that he is unimportant.. He always comes first but I realized that it was OK for me to go out by myself, it was OK for me to take a break and to remember who that crazy girl I was before I even thought about conceiving.
The way I see it, one day, this cute little baby is going to grow up, have a life of his/her own then what are you going to do? It is important to have your own personal interests. It makes you less boring to your kids. My husband plays D&D twice a month. He shows our son how to play too. I took him to the Goth picnic last summer, we visit cemeteries together and my kid asks for certain bands to listen to while I drive him to school. His friends tell me that I am a cool mom because I dress cool and like videogames! You can be a mom and have outside interests too and even incorporate them into your family life. The point of all this is to please don't make the same mistake I did. Don't be THAT mom. Trust me. I love being a mom but I also love being Sylvie too.


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SALISBURY, Md. – The No. 1-ranked Salisbury University men's lacrosse team is just 60 minutes of play away from capturing the program's 16th consecutive Capital Athletic Conference championship. The Sea Gulls hosted the University of Mary Washington on Wednesday afternoon in a CAC tournament semifinal match, defeating the Eagles 18-7. Salisbury, the top seed in the tournament, will now host No. 3-ranked Stevenson University, the second-seed, on Saturday in the CAC championship game.
Mary Washington, the fifth-seed in the tournament, came out swinging but excellent defense in the cage by junior goalkeeper Johnny Rodriguez (Gambrills, Md.) prevented all but two of the Eagles' 12 first-half shots on goal from reaching the back of the net. Sophomore attack Matt Cannone (Bayport, N.Y.) led scoring for the maroon and gold in the first half, netting three of Salisbury's 11 first-half goals; sophomore midfielder Sam Bradman (Canton, N.Y.) also netted three goals in the first half, bringing his season scoring total to an impressive 50 goals. Senior midfielder Ryan Finch (Finksburg, Md.) was 10-for-11 from the face-off "X" in the first 30 minutes of play.
The Sea Gulls (17-0) wasted no time charging the goal in the third period as senior midfielder Mike Von Kamecke (Winter Park, Fla.) ripped a shot past Eagle (8-9) goalkeeper Ryan Montgomery (four saves) just 1:35 into the quarter to give Salisbury a 10-goal advantage. Salisbury never looked back, netting seven goals in the third and fourth quarter combined to seal the deal. Nine different Sea Gulls scored in the lopsided victory. Rodriguez finished with 14 saves, just three shy of his career-high. Cannone finished with a game-high four goals.
The championship game time is to be determined, but will be played at Sea Gull Stadium on Saturday, April 24. Salisbury has never lost a CAC championship since joining the conference in 1995. This will be the second time this season that the Gulls have squared off against the Mustangs (15-1); Salisbury handed Stevenson its only loss of the season, a 16-10 decision, back on April 3.


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Both teams struggled offensively, a vast difference from game one. Before the seventh, GC had just had six hits and CU managed just four all game against Jessica Claxton. The freshman tallied another win and continued strike batters out in an impressive clip. She set eight Bulldogs down and allowed just one run.
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It was the tandem putting Georgetown on the board first. In the bottom of the fourth, Snow started with her second single of the day through the hole at short. The sophomore stole second and third. Then Young's double to deep left-center put the Tigers up 1-0.
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> Erik Max Francis wrote:
>> The context I mentioned above is a tensor library where you don't really
>> want to see the components of the tensor unless you specifically ask for
>> it -- a 4-dimensional Riemann tensor, after all, has 4^4 components --
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> Yes. I see no reason not to do that in Mathematica. I won't say it is
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i have a 66 bonneville 2 door hard top and after it rains theres a puddle of water on the passenger side carpet, i cant find where its comming from, i dont see a leak anywhere around the window, i though it would be from the heater box? water going behind it? car hasnt ran for a couple months, putting new motor in, any ideas it needs fixed. thanks
any body rot on the firewall?you sure it isnt anti-freeze?
The bottom corner of the windshield leaks on a lot of Pontiacs. Also where the hood, fender, and cowl meet there is a drain and over time if plugs up and rusts in that area allowing water into the cabin. Door Seals are another place to check for leaks especially on the older cars. Water can actually go up around seals so look high and low.One way to try and find the leak is use a flashlight from inside and see if you can spot the droplets. It is best if the lights from outside the car are low you can create your own rain with a garden hose. Corn Starch on door seals and metal surfaces also help to spot the leak.If this has been going on a long time check for rust under the carpet.Milt
i found one place that was leaking it was the antenna wire there was a hole the size of a dime inside the fender where the wire went through in to the car, i pluged that one with a rubber plug, theres still one more leak though... i think it might be what you said the bottom corner of the windshield, i can see the other leak alittle bit when i get under the dash but i cant see exactly where, ill try looking again. thank you im sure its not antifreeze my car hasnt been running for a couple months cause im putting a new motor in, and before that the heater core blew, i have it blocked off, im getting ready to replace the heater core ill make sure it has a good seal around it so it wont leak.
Pontiac 66,I don't know if your car has hood vents under the windshield, but they are notorious for letting water flow in directly from the rain or washing. My '66 Mustang has a special plexi-glass cover for the vents because it will rust out the bottom of the dash and the floor pans quickly.You might also check inside the hood up in the corners by the windshield. Like Milt suggested, just take a water hose and force a leak just to locate it.This weekend I fixed a radiator leak with JB Weld - it's really effective on smaller leak spots. Let us know what you find.
i was thinking about that to, theres a vent that goes across where the windshield wipers are at, all the water goes in there that might be where its leaking to, ill have to take it off an look, i will take a look and let you guys know what i find
i found where the leak is coming from, under neath the dash up in the corner, corner of the dash and the window its rusted alittle bit letting the water through
Glad you found the source!That's pretty common on the cars around that year. There's not alot you can do after you patch it, cause the water will still get in and eat at it. The plastic cover I mentioned over the vent grill might help if you can find one for your car. I'd google it. Good luck!


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Matt Prior's only issue as he clung to the catch that won England the Ashes was who would get to keep the ball. "I still have the ball and the argument over it has started already," he said. "All I know is that it is very important to take the final catch in an Ashes Test match."
Prior revealed one suggestion was that he should donate the ball to the Lord's museum, but as the ownership of the ball from England's 2009 Ashes series has not been settled, it may be a while before he makes up his mind.
Graeme Swann bowled the ball that won the 2009 series at The Oval and Alastair Cook took the catch when Mike Hussey was the last man out for Australia. "The argument is still raging between Cooky and Swanny over the ball from 2009 so I think I might have a few years of this debate left," Prior said.
Prior's matchwinning victim was Australia's last man Ben Hilfenhaus, a faint edge that he took going down the leg-side to give Tim Bresnan his fourth wicket. Bresnan has yet to claim his rights to the ball.
Prior said: "I held on to that ball for dear life and even when I got back into the dressing room after all the handshakes and everything, I still had the ball nestled in my left glove. My right hand glove was off, but the left stayed on and the ball was still in that glove until well after we got back into the changing rooms.
"There were a few people who have got a claim on it such as Trotty after his great innings, and Bres with the way he bowled. That spell to get Ponting, Hussey, and Watson was just huge."
It was a relatively straightforward catch, but it is already awash with folklore. "We were standing so close on a dying wicket and reverse swing doesn't seem to carry as much," Prior said. "We were in a ludicrously close position. Myself and the slips said to each other, let's stand as close as we can to make sure that it carries and maybe look for a rebound, or someone takes a special catch. Luckily it was just a thin edge and it carried through OK.
"It is what you train for. We knew that reverse swing was going to play a role and when it does the ball doesn't carry as much so you end up taking lower catches. Our slip practise in the morning was all about taking low catches and standing very close. If it still didn't carry then so be it, there is only so close you can stand. Thankfully this one came through and I hung on for dear life."


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Senior(2008-09)...Championship Meets... came in 12th in the 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 1:02.51 after a career-best and NCAA consideration time of 1:02.12 in the prelims, placed 21st in the 200-yard breaststroke with a time of 2:18.98 after a career-best time of 2:18.46 in the prelims and finished 96th in the 50-yard freestyle with a season-best time of 28.49 at the Big Ten Championships(Feb. 18-21) ... Regular Season... recorded season-best times in the 100-yard freestyle (55.68) and the 200-yard individual medley (2:13.51) at the Indiana Invitational (Jan. 9-10).
Junior (2007-08)...Championship Meets... finished in 23rd in the 100-yard breaststroke (1:05.10, 1:03.99 prelim), 30th in the 200-yard breaststroke (2:22.17) and 80th in the 50-yard freestyle (29.64) at the Big Ten Championships (Feb. 21-23) ... Regular Season... touched the wall in aseason-best 1:06.39for17th place in the 100-yard breaststroke; also helped 800-yard freestyle relay (7:28.40) to eighth place at Texas A&M Invitational (Nov. 16-18).
Sophomore (2006-07)... Academic All-Big Ten ... Regular Season... won the 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 1:03.83 and took first in both the 100-yard (52.24) and 200-yard (1:55.47) freestyle at the ABC Invitational (Jan. 27); qualified for the U.S. National Championships this spring ... placed 14th in the 100-yard freestyle (53.34) at Michigan Invitational (Jan. 12-13)... competed exhibition in 100-yard (53.49) freestyle at EMU Invitational (Dec. 1-2) ... swam on second-fastest 200-yard freestyle relay (1:37.87) against No. 24 Princeton (Nov. 11).
Freshman (2005-06)...Championship Meets... placed 31st in the 50-yard freestyle (23.72), 32nd in the 200-yard freestyle (1:52.35), and 31st in the 100-yard freestyle (51.96) at the Big Ten Championships (Feb. 15-18) ... Regular Season... clocked in sixth in the 50-yard freestyle (25.13) against Northwestern (Jan. 21) ... anchored the 800-yard freestyle (7:58.85) relay team to fifth place, and swam on fifth-place 200-yard freestyle (1:39.69) and 400-yard medley (4:00.86) relay teams at the Michigan Invitational (Jan. 13-14) ... had sixth-place finishes in the 100-meter (1:02.24) and 200-meter (2:15.50) freestyles at the Copa Coqui 2006 (Jan. 3) ... swam on second-place 200-yard freestyle (1:39.40) relay team against Georgia (Nov. 5) ... part of second-place 400-yard freestyle (3:38.77) relay team in career debut against California (Oct. 27).
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By Mary Wisniewski
(Reuters) - How Americans view Arabs and Muslims has gotten worse in recent years, with negative feelings strongest among Republicans and senior citizens, according to a poll released on Tuesday.
Only 27 percent of Americans have a favorable opinion of Muslims, down from 35 percent in 2010, according to the Zogby poll, commissioned by the non-profit Arab American Institute. Favorable attitudes toward Arabs dropped to 32 percent from 43 percent in 2010.
The poll also found that 42 percent of respondents believe an American Muslim's religion would influence his or her decision making in an important government job. The same percentage believe it is justified for law enforcement to profile Arab Americans or American Muslims.
"For me, the biggest concern in the poll is not just that people don't like us, but what not liking us translates to," said Institute president Jim Zogby, who is of Lebanese descent. He said attitudes towards profiling and Arabs and Muslims in government posts "affect our ability to function as communities here."
Zogby, brother of pollster John Zogby, attributed worsening attitudes to negative news about Arabs and Muslims.
The poll also found sharp partisan, racial and generational divides.
For example, 59 percent of Republicans and 53 percent of people 65 or older agree with profiling Arab Americans or Arab Muslims, compared with 32 percent of Democrats and the 18-29 age group. Only 29 percent of non-whites favor profiling, compared with 47 percent of whites.
Zogby noted that many Americans falsely conflate Arab and Muslim communities, assuming that most Arab Americans are Muslim, when less than a third are, and that most American Muslims are Arab, when less then a quarter are. Continued...


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Fellows (2015–2016)
Jaysel Shah
Jaysel graduated from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service in December 2015 with a degree in International Economics. In college, he was involved in several student microfinance clubs, a student investment fund, and an Indian dance team. During a semester abroad at the University of Buenos Aires, he volunteered as a loan advisor at a local microfinance nonprofit. This year, Jaysel is returning to Buenos Aires to work with high-impact business ventures to learn about entrepreneurship on a much larger scale at Endeavor Argentina. Prior to starting the PiLA fellowship, Jaysel worked in transfer pricing at Deloitte in Washington, D.C. and spent a summer interning at Citi in Latin American finance. In his free time, Jaysel enjoys learning new languages, running, and hiking in his native York, Pennsylvania. As part of his latest challenge, Jaysel has dedicated himself to the lofty mission of finding the best piece of meat in Buenos Aires.
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Adam Barton
Adam graduated from Georgetown University (2016) with a degree in Spanish & Portuguese Studies and Education, Inquiry, & Justice. While at Georgetown, Adam taught English and coordinated language tutoring and wraparound support services for recently arrived English language learners and their families. In the process, he discovered a passion for education and language access, which he brought to the interior of Southeastern Brazil as a volunteer English instructor in the summer after his freshman year. He returned to Brazil the following summer to conduct ethnographic research on best practices in early childhood community health education while coordinating the program through which he'd taught. Returning once more to his host community in Brazil as an independent-status study abroad student, Adam spent his junior year teaching English in a rural public middle school, conducting ethnographic research on educational purpose and promise as Georgetown's David Andretta Fellow, and leading the re-founding of Learning Enterprises Brazil. Adam looks forward to marrying his passion for education and language planning with a deep interest in Latin America as an advocate and researcher with and for learners in the States and abroad.
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Deidre Beck
Deidre Beck graduated from South Dakota State University (SDSU) in May 2016 with a double major in civil engineering and Spanish. During her undergraduate studies at SDSU she was very involved in the SDSU chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB), serving as president and project lead. The chapter is currently working to provide clean drinking water to the Unidad Academica Campesina (UAC), a rural university in Carmen Pampa, Bolivia, through the implementation of chlorination and slow sand filtration. Deidre is very excited to continue to work with the UAC and SDSU EWB as Director of External Relations in the coming year. When she returns to the US, Deidre plans to pursue a career in water/wastewater engineering with a focus on sustainability. She also hopes to continue her involvement with developmental engineering projects, through programs such as EWB.
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Gabriela Weldon
Gabriela Elena Weldon (Gabi) grew up in Boulder, Colorado and graduated from Harvard College (2016) with a degree in History and Literature of Latin America. Her mom is Brazilian, and her interest in Latin America was sparked at an early age through visits to her extended family in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She studied and interned in the region throughout her time in college, working in areas related to human rights and education. Gabi wrote her senior thesis about the evolution of contestation in favelas in Rio through music, literature and film. She is very excited to be working in São Paulo this year with Worldfund, a non-profit that works to improve public education in Latin America.
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Ava Zhang
Ava graduated from Harvard College (2015) with a major in psychology and a minor in government. In college, Ava served as Director of Content for the Harvard International Review, co-directed a peer counseling group focused on sexual and reproductive health, and interned for a summer in the Office of the Secretary General at the OECD. As a research assistant for the Harvard Humanitarian Institute, she helped to produce an impact evaluation report on UNICEF's Peacebuilding, Education, and Advocacy Programme in Uganda. She spent the summer before junior year volunteering with a community development NGO in Cochabamba, Bolivia, and left determined to find her way back to Latin America after graduation. She is excited to learn about the role of entrepreneurship in spurring robust and sustainable development during her year with Endeavor Chile. Having grown up in Toronto and spent college in Boston, she is also looking forward to her first winter without snow.
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Malcolm Flynn
Malcolm Flynn graduated from Columbia University (2016) with a major in economics and minor in Latin American Studies. While there, he concentrated on the effects of crime and private enterprise on economic development in Latin America. His interest in the region came from a clichéd reading of One Hundred Years of Solitude; his interest in economic justice and criminality came from multiple trips to El Salvador, where he worked with U.S. manufacturers actively engaged in fighting gang-related poverty and violence. He's excited to continue exploring the link between business and economic development with Endeavor Chile in Patagonia. In his free time, he enjoys skiing and surfing—two activities that, thanks to Chile's unusual geography, are rarely more than a couple of hours apart.
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Costa Rica
Abyssinia Lissanu
Abyssinia Lissanu of Somerset, Kentucky is a recent graduate of Princeton University (class of 2016), with a major in Politics and a certificate in Spanish Language and Culture. At Princeton, Abyssinia focused on education and human rights in coursework and community service. She has volunteered extensively domestically, leading a mentorship group for Princeton middle school students and overseeing student education groups at the Pace Center for Civic Engagement. She also volunteered abroad as an English teacher during her study abroad program in Barcelona, Spain, where she later returned to conduct research on immigration for her senior thesis. During the summer of 2015, as the Frank C. Carlucci'52 SINSI Scholar, Abyssinia interned in the U.S. Department of Education at the Office of English Language Acquisition. This year, she is excited to embark on a new journey in Costa Rica with the Arias Foundation for Peace and Human Progress, where she will be working on projects related to human rights and vulnerable populations. Abyssinia is an avid reader and marathon runner, and hopes to fully enjoy the pura vida that Costa Rica has to offer!
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Dominican Republic
Anjelica Neslin
Colorado native Angie Neslin graduated summa cum laude from Columbia University in 2016 with degrees in Hispanic Studies and American Studies. She believes everyone has a story and is committed to giving others the tools and spaces to share theirs. This commitment inspired her work with Youth for Debate, a nonprofit providing free debate and public speaking instruction at underserved schools in New York City, and with the Freedom and Citizenship program, which prepares high-achieving low-income high school seniors for engagement in American public life through a philosophy seminar taught by Columbia professors. During her semester abroad in Buenos Aires, she fell in love with Argentine rock music and wrote her honors thesis in Spanish on rock nacional as an emerging element of mass culture in post-dictatorship Argentina. She hopes to pursue a PhD in Latin American Studies and is thrilled to be joining the team at Fundación Abriendo Camino in Santo Domingo.
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Danielle Coony
Danielle graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 2016 with a major in Political Economy and a concentration in International Development. Frequently traveling across world's busiest border from her hometown in San Diego County, her interest in Latin American language and culture began at an early age. During her time as an undergraduate, she furthered that interest while studying abroad in Santiago, Chile, where she had the opportunity to conduct human rights-focused research regarding Chilean immigration law in association with the Human Rights Center and faculty at the Diego Portales University School of Law. While back in the Bay Area, Danielle held administrative positions at a workers' rights advocacy organization and at the UC Berkeley School of Law; interned with the Center for Law, Energy and Environment; contributed to the Daily Californian as an avid sports reporter; and served as a tutor at Berkeley High School's English Language Newcomers Program. She is excited to work with the DREAM Project in the Dominican Republic and learn more about nonprofit management before pursuing a career in immigration and refugee law.
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Emma Shoaf
Emma graduated from Western Kentucky University with double major in International Affairs and Spanish, and a minor in International Business (2016). While at WKU Emma volunteered within two refugee resettlement organizations where she focused on job development and cultural orientation. Emma continued to explore the relationship between forced migration and economics as a project intern within the NGO Cives Mundi in Spain, where she collaborated on development projects to promote economic recuperation in Lebanese refugee camps. Emma spent her last semester studying Latin American culture and economics in Buenos Aires, Argentina where she focused on the relationship between economic growth and wealth inequality. This year, Emma is excited to work Mariposa Foundation where she will focus on developing job training and financial independence courses for girls as they prepare to enter the workforce.
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Jacob Phillips
A native of Kingston, Jamaica, Jacob graduated from Macalester College with majors in International and Hispanic Studies and a concentration in Human Rights. A desire to promote regional integration and development in the Caribbean has long motivated Jacob. He has worked at the University of the West Indies' Latin America Caribbean Centre (LACC)-dedicated to enhancing interconnectivity among Latin American and Caribbean Higher Education Institutions- as a research assistant, English tutor and interpreter. In 2015, Jacob interned at the Jamaican embassy in Washington, DC where his work with the mission to the OAS further sensitized him to the challenges facing citizens in Latin America and the Caribbean. He later created a database of educational opportunities in the US for Jamaican youth, which he shared with his government's scholarship unit. Fluent in English, Spanish and Portuguese, Jacob volunteered at the Jane Addams School for Democracy in St. Paul, MN, helping Latino/a immigrants navigate the resettlement process and prepare for their citizenship tests. In the future, he hopes to pursue a career in law, but is currently excited about returning to the Caribbean and joining Yspaniola's team in the Dominican Republic.
Kayla Lemus
A San Francisco Bay Area native, Kayla Tamara Lemus was raised by her single mother, who instilled in her a love for Spanish and the Mexican culture. As a child of a Mexican immigrant, Kayla became increasingly aware of discrimination towards Latino immigrants in the U.S. It was through this recognition of prejudice that she became interested in education and foreign language learning as a means of promoting equality and intercultural understanding. A Scripps College graduate with a Bachelor's Degree in Spanish and French, Kayla has also pursued foreign language study outside of her major including Modern Standard Arabic, Moroccan Arabic, and Portuguese. During her time at Scripps College, Kayla studied abroad in Morocco and France, worked as a French and English teacher to both children and adults, and interned as a translator for Libraries Without Borders in Paris and l'AMSAT in Rabat. In addition, her growing interest in NGO work led her to intern as a grant writer for Claremont Heritage in Claremont, California. The intercultural exchanges she has had and the relationships she has developed within these communities has enriched her understanding of these regions' histories and socio-political issues. As a Latina, these realizations have inspired her to return to her roots in Latin America, where she will be working for Yspaniola, an educational non-profit in the Dominican Republic that serves Haitian migrants and Dominicans of Haitian descent.
Pranayeta Shroff
Pranayeta "Shonty" Shroff graduated from Smith College (2014) with a sociology major and a Spanish minor. Her interest in the economic, social, and cultural development of marginalized communities in Latin America stems from a summer learning from activists and community organizations in Costa Rica. After spending 4 months in Spain solidifying her Spanish, Shonty worked with Latin@ communities in the US through education based internships. At a GED training center for Puerto Rican populations in Western Massachussets, she executed an independent research project on how identifying and deploying already existing community assets in the classroom motivates students. She was subsequently able to practice the pedagogical strategies she researched while teaching English in Cali, Colombia, as part of a government program aimed at job creation. In her free time, she likes to run, read, dance bachata, and be an overly enthusiastic fan of Cali's football teams.
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Tiffany Brown
Originally from Warner Robins, Georgia, Tiffany graduated from the University of Georgia with a bachelor's degree in Spanish (2014). As a UGA student, in addition to studying educational methodology and pedagogy, Tiffany became involved in the local Hispanic community and developed a passion for addressing concerns affecting the community. After studying abroad and interning at an international school in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tiffany developed an interest in narrative creation and popular portrayals of minority experiences. She received a research fellowship to return to Argentina and study the Afro-Argentine consciousness movement, there she interviewed grassroots organizations about their efforts to increase their visibility in the national Argentine narrative. Following graduation, Tiffany moved to Medellin, Colombia and started working as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant at Universidad de Antioquia. There, she continued to nurture her interests in language and community narrative creation through her student and wider community interactions. She hopes to one day found a comprehensive Family Literacy Center and offer study abroad scholarships to students from underrepresented backgrounds. Tiffany is thrilled for the opportunity to bridge her interests in Latin America and community education through her work with Yspaniola.
Theresa Renker
Tess graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 2014 with a major in Spanish and minor in Latin American Studies. As an undergraduate she studied abroad in Cuzco, Peru, an experience that launched her interest in Andean literatures and cultures, particularly the experiences of Andean youth. While there she researched the impact of Peruvian reality TV programing on youth identity formation, and upon returning home completed a senior honors thesis on discrimination against Peruvian Quechua-speakers. Tess recently completed an M.A. in Spanish at UNH, where she continued her study of Andean youth culture and the performance of cultural identities. Tess is excited to return to South America and continue her exploration of Andean cultures, and is thrilled to have the opportunity to work with CENIT. In her spare time Tess enjoys reading, trail running, and taking care of the animals on her family's small farm.
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Ana Molina
Ana was born in Mexico but raised in Dallas, Texas by two immigrant parents from Panama and Honduras. She grew up spending her vacations in Panama and in Honduras. Ana graduated with a BA from Columbia University in 2016, and she double majored in Political Science and French. During her years at Columbia, Ana interned at various nonprofits in the Dallas area that aimed to help undocumented immigrants with legal representation and provide other critical services such as food and shelter. She has always had a personal and academic interest in Central America; as a child, Ana organized an annual school supplies drive for Panama. In college, she wrote many research papers about the interaction of political, social, and economic factors in Guatemala and Honduras, in particular. This long enduring passion for Central America led her to intern for a fair trade nonprofit in Brooklyn that sold indigenous women's textile work from Panajachel, Guatemala. Thus, Ana decided to move to Guatemala to work at Cojolya Association of Maya Weavers in order to continue expanding fair trade opportunities and economic independence for women in the Lake Atitlán region. Ultimately, Ana plans to attend law school and specialize in immigration law.
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Delaine Winn
Delaine is a native of Northampton, Massachusetts and a graduate of Wesleyan University (2016), where he majored in Latin American Studies and Biology. He spent the fall of 2014 studying in Havana, Cuba, where he was immersed in wonderful music and frequent reminders of his inability to salsa. Delaine's professional interests stem from a commitment to socially and environmentally conscious community development as well as local and indigenous empowerment. He is thrilled to spend the year at Hospitalito Atitlán learning to put these values into practice in public health work. Delaine also can't wait to hike Atitlán's many volcanoes and get to know the Tz'utujil culture (and hopefully keep improving his salsa game while he's at it) during his PiLA year.
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Haley Bliss
Haley grew up in Burlington, Vermont, and graduated from Tufts University (2016) with a double major in biology and community health. In college she began exploring interests in the social determinants of health and health equity with GlobeMed at Tufts, where she led fundraising efforts for Nyaya Health, the chapter's partner organization in Nepal. While at Tufts, she also worked as a research assistant for the Health Quality of Life Lab and taught English as a Second Language to Central American immigrants. In her junior year, she spent a semester studying public health and traditional medicine in Chile, and completed an independent study of women's health in an indigenous Mapuche community. Haley is excited to spend the next year working at Hospitalito Atitlán, where she will be able to combine her interests in community development and public health before pursuing medical school. She enjoys painting, playing piano, and figure skating.
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Julia Levy
Julia graduated from Brown University (2016), concentrating in Economics with a focus on development in Latin America. Throughout college, Julia worked at the Capital Good Fund in Providence as a bilingual financial coach for low-income community members. During her junior year, she studied for a semester in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she conducted independent research on domestic workers in the informal sector. The following summer, Julia worked at Endeavor in NYC as an intern on the Insight research team. Julia is passionate about innovative, inclusive, and entrepreneurial solutions to sustainable development, and is thrilled to serve as a PiLA fellow at Pueblo a Pueblo this year!
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Nami Patel
Nami graduated from New York University (2011) with a B.A. in politics with a concentration in international development and a double minor in Spanish and gender studies. After her freshman year, she interned at Ixchen—a women's rights organization in Granada, Nicaragua—where she conducted rural workshops on reproductive rights and helped organized a nationwide march for gender equality. Throughout college, she continued to work and volunteer with mission-aligned organizations such as MADRE, the International Rescue Committee, and Girl Rising. After graduating, Nami joined an immigration law firm where she was able to work on pro bono cases assisting victims of domestic abuse in Latin America. Eager to return to her nonprofit roots, she then began working with New Women New Yorkers—a startup nonprofit providing leadership training and development to young immigrant women. Most recently, she managed communications at Hudson Guild, a social services nonprofit organization serving the low-income public housing population on the West Side of Manhattan. These experiences have all informed a passion for and interest in social justice and community development, and Nami is thrilled to join Starfish as its Communications Coordinator.
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Rachel Ozer-Bearson
A San Francisco Bay Area native, Rachel Ozer-Bearson graduated from Macalester College in 2016 with a major in International Studies and minors in Hispanic Studies and Latin American Studies. During her time at Macalester College, Rachel developed her passion for social justice and education. She collaborated with community partners while working for the Civic Engagement Center, completed an intensive teaching fellowship with Breakthrough Twin Cities, and taught English classes for adult English language learners at the Minnesota Literacy Council. During her senior year, Rachel expanded upon research from a semester abroad in Buenos Aires to write her senior capstone which explored the relationship between contemporary Senegalese immigration to Argentina and the historic invisibilization of afro-Argentines. Rachel is very excited to join Antigua International School, where she will be teaching middle-school social studies.
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Rachel Pak
Rachel graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park (2016) with a B.A. in Government and Politics and dual minors in Spanish and Law & Society. Rachel's interest in Latin America first developed in high school, when she volunteered annually at Academia Natanael to help with educational development in the Yucatan peninsula, later completing a three-month internship onsite in 2012. In 2015, she spent time traveling and studying political science in a Spanish immersion program in Argentina. Rachel's personal and professional interests lie in gender development and she has demonstrated her commitment to combatting violence against women and girls through her work experiences. While at UMD, she completed her Honors Citation capstone project on sex trafficking policy in the U.S. and interned with nonprofits such as Restoration Ministries and the Tahirih Justice Center in the Washington, D.C. area. In the future, Rachel plans to enroll in law school, pursuing a career of public service providing humanitarian legal aid to refugee women and girls, especially within Latin American populations.
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Annie Austin
Hailing from Littleton, Colorado, Annie Austin graduated from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service in May of 2015. At Georgetown, she studied Culture and Politics with a concentration in Political Economics in Latin America. Through a desire to promote social and economic development in distinct countries as well as Latin America as a whole, she studied, interned, and volunteered in the region. Annie paired those formative experiences with rigorous academic courses: she attained Spanish and Portuguese proficiency, while also matriculating into courses such as "Drug Trafficking in Latin America" and "Poverty, Well Being, and Social Exclusion in Latin America." Dedicated to returning to the region post-grad, Annie pursued the opportunity to work alongside an organization promoting sustainable development: Endeavor Organization. At Endeavor Mexico City, she will be supporting social entrepreneurs as they refine and pitch their business model to the Endeavor team. Annie can't wait to return to Mexico and explore the successes and challenges that Endeavor Mexico City faces.
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Camila Velasquez
Camila grew up in Quito, Ecuador. She graduated from Kenyon College in 2016 with Highest Honors in Anthropology. In addition to her academic coursework, Camila pursued her interests in education and research while at Kenyon. She served as a Spanish Teaching Assistant and a Writing Center Liaison and Tutor on campus and spent one summer in Quito as a full-time middle school teacher. For the past three summers, she has undertaken research opportunities nationally (with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and internationally (in Mexico in 2014 and in the Philippines in 2016). In the future, Camila hopes to combine these two strands of experience through a career in educational research.
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Mackenzie Welch
Mackenzie graduated from Swarthmore College (2015) with a B.A. in political science and minor in Latin American studies. She has taught in Guatemala, worked with families displaced by guerilla and paramilitary violence in Colombia, supported programs at the Ecuadorian Fulbright Commission, and spent eight months with an organization serving 30,000 indigenous clients in an environmental lawsuit in Ecuador. On the policy side, she has interned for the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington, D.C. and the U.S. State Department in Peru, where she updated the human rights portfolio and screened potential recipients of U.S. funding for human rights violations. She spent the past year studying Portuguese and law in Rio de Janeiro as a Boren Scholar. Mackenzie hopes to more effectively support institution building and equitable economic development in the Americas.
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Niki Hrusa
Niki understood from a very young age the importance of education as a means of creating opportunities in a person's life, especially in the developing world. A dual Honduran/USA citizen Niki grew up in an agricultural town in southern Honduras before moving to the capital city of Tegucigalpa as a 16 year old to live with family friends in her strive to attain a quality education. She found leaving her family difficult, but she felt it was worth it, and she was accepted at Vassar College right out of high school. At Vassar, Niki majored in International Studies with an emphasis on Political Science and Education and a regional concentration on Latin American. She was also an involved member of the student body at Vassar, working for the Office of International Services in support of the college's international student community. After spending a semester abroad in São Paulo, Brazil Niki began to realize that her wish to help Latin America through education was becoming a passion. Niki will be testing her passion with Project Alianza in Nicaragua, where she will be helping sustain schools in rural coffee plantations.
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Ronald Quintero
Roald Quintero graduated from Harvard University (2016), majoring in economics with a minor in statistics. He was born in Colombia, and moved to Los Angeles as a teen. He took off two years between high school and college to help start up a business in Colombia, the basis for his interest in economics and economic development. During 2016–17 he will serve as a social investment programs associate with Global Partnerships in Managua.
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Eve Woldemikael
Eve Woldemikael grew up in Irvine, California and graduated from Brown University in 2016 with a BA in Africana Studies. Eve is passionate about learning languages and is fluent in Portuguese, Spanish, and French and also studied Arabic. While at Brown, Eve became particularly interested in the subjects of race and identity, black feminism, migration, anti/postcolonialism, and community development. Through studying abroad in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for six months, Eve developed an interest in Latin American cultural politics and antiracist feminist activism in the region. In the summer of 2015, Eve received a research award and returned to Rio to study the politics of forced labor in Brazil. She is committed to social justice and seeks to dismantle oppressive systems of all forms. Eve is excited to serve as the new Program Director at Building Dignity and learn about activism and community development in Villa El Salvador.
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Gabrielle Girard
Gabrielle earned a B.A. in history and Spanish with a minor in Latin American studies from Cornell University (2015), graduating Phi Beta Kappa. Four summers of work at a nonprofit pre-K program in her Northern California hometown inspired her interest in social justice and Spanish. She has pursued these interests through coursework at Cornell and through interning with a French international law firm. As an undergraduate, Gabrielle served as a Cornell University Ambassador to prospective students, and as chapter president of her 160–member sorority. She also spent a semester of her junior year studying in Buenos Aires. Upon returning, she researched the effects of U.S. solidarity movements on government policy towards the Chilean refugees that fled the Pinochet regime, a project published by the Cornell Historical Society.
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Karl Pielmeier
Hailing from Palmerton, Pennsylvania, Karl Pielmeier graduated from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University (2016), majoring in culture and politics with a concentration on the spatiality of technology and globalization. For a semester of his junior year, Karl lived in Argentina, where he and his cohorts created and mapped social development indexes at the University of Buenos Aires. He looks forward to returning to the Southern Cone once again – this time, in Paysandú, Uruguay – to work alongside the students and faculty at Liceo Francisco. In his free time, Karl enjoys swimming, reading, and making pysanky eggs.
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Ricardo Gonzalez
Ricardo grew up in Brownsville, Texas, along the U.S.-Mexican border at the center of coexisting cultures and traditions. He began engaging with issues of Latino leadership and education in high school with the National Hispanic Institute. He graduated from Southwestern University with a B.A. in Political Science in 2015. During his time at Southwestern he participated in the Paideia Program dedicated to civic engagement and intercultural learning. In 2014 Ricardo studied abroad in Buenos Aires where he was able to travel across the region including Uruguay, Chile, Bolivia, and Peru. The following semester he interned at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, a Washington D.C.-based think tank where he was able to research and publish several articles reporting on hemispheric relations. After graduating Ricardo returned to South Texas to work at International Trading Services, Inc. an import-export house business.
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"Hitting Home" - Vermonters Adjust to the Recession
02/10/09 10:06AM By Jane Lindholm
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One man says he and his partner are going without needed medical care. Another person, an unemployed geophysicist, has turned to making cheese and caring for neighbors' animals to get by.
These are among the comments posted to VPR's Website in response to our series, "Hitting Home."
In addition to your comments, VPR's John Dillon profiles a laid-off state worker. (Listen)
And NPR reporter David Greene tells us about his travels to collect stories about how people are adjusting to hard economic times. (Listen)
We'll also talk with Valley News reporter John Gregg about the political shakeup in New Hampshire caused by President's Obama's selection of the state's Republican senator to be a member of his cabinet. (Listen)