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I have a dream. I see humankind understanding that the spirit which sings in our hearts sings as well in the hearts of the other animals. I see us realizing that there are many kinds of intelligence, many kinds of souls, many kinds of suffering and striving. I see us knowing that all creatures are endowed with the same will-to-live which we possess. I see us respecting theirs, as we would like our own to be respected were we in the less powerful position and they dominant upon the earth.
I see us grateful for these extraordinary companions.
I see our lives rich with animals. I see us with many animal friends. I see our cities sprinkled with wild places, shorelines, parks, ravines and creek-canyons, where wild creatures can live. I see all life forms working together in harmony, cultivating the full potential of the planet.
I see us appreciating the different needs, different kinds of intelligence, and different responsibilities of the various animals. I see us sensing the unique ways in which they feel, they think, they suffer, and they love.
I see us learning to treat with respect those who are, in the greater scheme of things, but our younger brothers and sisters. I see us realizing they, too, are expressions, in their individual ways, of the universal life-force. I see us acting from the knowledge that it is the same God- Force that gives us all breath.
I see us realizing that all God’ critters have a place in the choir.

Sometimes children understand these things better than we do. A young Girl Scout named Karyl Carter wrote a simple report that says it all so well.
“A beaver who swam, dove and somersaulted among canoeing Girl Scouts—that’s what you would have seen at Camp Sacajawea Girl Scour Camp in Nefield, New Jersey, this summer.
“It was a late morning discovery. Girls from Holly Shores Girl Scout Council were taking canoeing lessons in Sacy’s Lake when a large stump started to move and perform numerous swimming feats. Hearing laughter, squeals and screams, the waterfront director canoed out to the girls, identified the stump as a real heave, and yelled to those on the beach, ‘Go get the rest of the camp. . . they’ve never seen anything like this before.’ In no time flat, the entire camp lined the lakefront, playing audience to a most talented but different kind of swimmer.
“The waterfront director, who was wary but excited, told the canoers, ‘Just keep canoeing, don’t pet the beaver, but enjoy the experience.’ Meanwhile, a beach bystander ran to the camp office and called Hope Buyukmihc4 naturalist and author, at Unexpected Wildlife Refuge, three miles away. ‘Are you missing a beaver.. . a very friendly one?’ The answer was yes. The beaver was Chopper, an orphan Ms. Buyukmihci had raised from infancy, and he was now over a year old and beginning to make a on his own in the
“Minutes later, Hope drove in to Camp &wy to con Chopper back home. But the next day Chopper was back in Sacy’s lake, entertaining campers with his swimabatics. ‘Maybe he’s building a dam. Maybe he’s going to raise a family,’ said some of his young admirers.
“All of us were excited over these prospects. We told Hope about Chopper’s whereabouts. She said he could slay and was happy that Chopper was on his own.
“Every day the staff members kept Hope informed of Chopper’s activities. ‘He may try to climb into your boats, ‘ she said, ‘but he’s just playbig. He’ll c&e off immediate&. And he might just swim along or wrestle with you if you’re in the water!’
“For the next three days, campers, leaders and staff members observed, petted, fed and just plain enjoyed Chopper. The Girl Scouts also learned about the looks, diet, habits and temperament of a beaver who is accustomed to the world of people.
“During these beaver days, the atmosphere in the camp drastically changed There was a profound awareness that there really was something alive and friendly out there in the woods and waters.
“One afternoon the camp director decided to take some pictures of Chopper. He found him swimming in a swampy area near the Comanche campsite. An animal enthusiast, the direqor walked right into the swamp1 click-clicked the camera, and was then promptly but playfully grabbed around the leg by Chopper. The following day was hectic, with camp closing and campers leaving. It warn ‘t until late Saturday afternoon that a few remaining staff members decided to walk down to the lake to say goodbye to Chopper.
“As we approached the lakefront, there were other last-minute beaver admirers standing on the dock. They screamed— ‘Come quickly/fl’ We ran, only to find Chopper lying on the edge of the dock deai
“These people, many of whom were young campers, had just witnessed an unidentified fisherman maliciously beat Chopper to death.
It seemed Chopper was disturbing this trespassing man’s sport. The fisherman, who was rowing away, shouted to us, ‘That thing tried to climb into my boat, so I hit it with my fishing pole. Then it started to hiss at me. I had to hit it with my oar.’
“We wrapped Chopper up in a beach towel , “We cried..

Though my paternal grandfather made only $100 a month as an attorney during the 1930s and 1940s (which would equate to about $1,200 a month now), he saved enough money to buy a small ranch in the Sacramento Valley of California. Focusing on a specific vision of what he and his family had agreed they wanted made puffing money aside every month more meaningful and a lot easier.
To make your family’s dreams (and the benefits you’ll reap from them down the line) as tangible as possible, you might want to start a dream scrapbook—or even several. If you and your loved ones dream of owning a vacation home, then have every member of your family rip out magazine photographs of great homes and paste them into your scrapbook. Add vacation photographs and decorating ideas. Jot down any and all notions about how the place would look or feel, or why it’s important to you in the first place. In short, use your dream scrapbook as a repository for anything that will remind you of the goals toward which you’re striving. Should you and/or your partner feel yourselves weakening, actually seeing an image of your goals can help to strengthen your resolve.
Creating, expanding, or simply revisiting your scrapbook should inspire and encourage you and your family to discuss your financial situation as it relates to your dreams, and to reaffirm both your intentions and your commitment. So start gluing and gabbing!

If investing has always seemed like a dry, alien concept that has nothing to do with your life, I have a quick solution for you. Simply put a face on those potential earnings, so they represent a dream instead of a bunch of numbers. Because that’s what investing is. It’s a tool that enables you to create the life you want for yourself. And that’s about as personal as you can get.
But like any tool, it won’t do the work by itself. You need to guide it by discussing the vision you want to realize, then setting firm goals. If you don’t, you won’t be moving toward anything concrete, which will slow you down, if not stop you in your tracks. Let’s say you haven’t been saving enough money to invest, or you’ve neglected to invest the money you do have. It is difficult to shift your priorities if you haven’t actually defined them.
So think about what you and your family want and why, then challenge yourselves to make it happen. Commit to your vision by making a point to tell family, friends, and even coworkers about your dream and how you plan to achieve it. In addition to clarifying and cementing your vision, making your plans known will make it harder to let them fall by the wayside later on.
Of course, your dreams need to be realistic. It doesn’t help to set up a target that you can’t possibly reach. If you have several dreams, you’ll probably need to prioritize them. You may not be able to buy a boat, acquire a second home, send your three kids to a private college, and retire at age fifty. But when done according to a long-term plan, investing can help you realize the important dreams, the ones that reflect your core values.

While growing up, my colleague Kate’s father, Eric, never talked about money. The subject was simply off limits, and the household was ruled by an ironclad mantle of financial silence that no one in the family dared to crack. But that didn’t mean that Kate’s mother or siblings didn’t wish things were different. “We’d have done so much better if only your father had invested our savings,” Kate overheard her mother lament years after Eric’s death. Not that the family was doing poorly. To the contrary Eric had managed to save a healthy sum, allowing the family to live quite comfortably. But aside from a few perfunctory attempts from time to time, Eric hadn’t been an investor. And that cost the family he loved. “We had a very nice lifestyle, but we could have had so much more,” says Kate.
Why did an educated man who was successful in so many aspects of his life fail to take control of his finances? “I guarantee you that he was afraid of investing,” says Kate. And because he didn’t want to reveal his lack of financial acumen, he didn’t consult a financial advisor, either. As a result, his hesitancy about money and investing wound up compromising his estate. That unfortunate legacy is now being perpetuated by three of his five children, none of whom invest or even talk about money. Clearly not everyone is fortunate enough to obtain financial knowledge in a way that he or she can hear and understand. I hope this book will help fill that communication void in your family. For in addition to providing you with information, it’s intended to fuel your family’s conversations about where you’re going, how much money it will take, and which investments might get you there.
This is a chapter for beginners. For those of you who are new to investing, want a refresher, or are introducing a family member or friend to investing, we start at square one and cover the basic concepts. We then launch into a primer on stocks, bonds, and mutual funds: the vocabulary and building blocks you need to talk about to build your financial future. Finally, we discuss professional advice and what you should look for in an advisor.
More experienced investors may want to skip to Chapter 3, where the focus is on putting these basics to work. That’s fine, but I urge you to use the information in the following pages to open what I hope will be an ongoing and worthwhile family dialogue about money.
As I hope you’ll see in this chapter, investing isn’t a sprint to an endless series of finish lines. It’s more like a family marathon, with all of you reaching the ends you’ve identified together, through steady and systematic discussions and planning that allow you to work toward your financial goals.

From cannibalism to floating markets on the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, here you’ll find a comprehensive bibliography listing hundreds of incisive and engaging studies of the foods of peoples around the world, and how they are impacted by and in turn impact culure. Topics include ecology and food systems, eating attitudes, fasting and body image, festivals and feasting, famine and starvation, malnutrition and disease, meat-eating vs. vegetarian diets, the nutritional anthropology of nonhuman primates, food rituals, and food taboos. Regions covered include Africa, Australia, the Caribbean, Central America, Mexico, East Asia, Europe, the Middle East, North America (both European and indigenous), Oceania, South America, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and West and Central Asia. Articles address subjects that range from the dialetics relating to the sacred cows of India to the typical American diet of 100 years ago, from scholarship on contemporary American “foodways” (as opposed to folkways) to “soul” and traditional Southern food practices, customs, and holidays. Here you’ll also find references to such interesting articles as “Chinese Tables Manners: You Are How You Eat,”“The Origins and Ancient History of Wine,”“Food Classifications and the Diets of Young Children in Rural Egypt,” and “The Folk Foods of the Rio Grande Valley and of Northern Mexico.” As language, climate and history are to culture, so too is food—an engaging and appetizing area of study, to say the least.

Based on the pioneering work of Prof. Dr. lrenaeus Eibl-Eibesfeldt and Prof. Dr. Hans Hass begun in the 1960s, as many as 205 films on Human Ethology and Ethnology have been published based on the resources resources of the Film Archive of Human Ethology of the Max-Planck-Society in co-operation with the Institute for Scientific Film (Institut flier den Wissenschaftlichen Film, IWF) in Goettingen, Germany and most recently with the Federal Austrian Institute for Scientific Film (Osterreichisches Bundesinstitut flier den Wis
senschaftlichen Film, OWF) in Vienna, Austria. Most of the published films were included in the Encyclopaedia Cinematographica (EC) of the IWF, either because they met the rigid standards for scientific documentation or because they were judged to be of great importance for the scientific community. Each of these films documents a certain scene of primitive life in detail. The films are accompanied by publications in which the verbal interactions and songs are transcribed and all important side information is collated. Much of this data—including clips, supporting materials, and a complete catalogue of films houses in the archive—are to found at this web site. The films in question
record unstaged and undisturbed social interactions of everyday life, rituals and other activities—and thus provide documentation that will prove continually valuable to anthropologists and ethnologists through the years.

The Journal of Field Archaeology is an international, refereed quarterly serving the interests of not only archaeologists, but also anthropologists, historians, scientists, and others concerned with the recovers and interpretation of archaeological data. Its scope is worldwide and is not confined to any particular time period. The Journal publishes field reports whose results in terms of interpretive content or of techniques and methods employed seem clearly to be of more than regional interest.., technical and methodological studies that relate to actual archaeological data, are also of general rather than only regional significance, and would be comprehensible to most readers. . . review articles such as updated regional or topical summaries designed to appeal to a fairly wide professional readership.. occasional essays on the history of archaeology in major geographical areas, or with respect to research topics of general archaeological concern.. . and brief preliminary reports describing the results of recent fieldwork or other research. Visit this web site to search the journal archives and read journal articles online. Here you’ll also find details on the members of the editorial board, and information on bow to submit articles for publication. You can perform searches by keyword, author, or—nicely—by geographic region related to the topic addressed in any given article. All editions of the Journal are archived back to the autumn of 1998.

And how do you get on the Net? Various on-line services are available today including America Online, CompuServe, Prodigy, GEnie, and MicrosoftNet. Strangely, however, it was a freenet called the World Wide Web (WWW or “the Web”), as discussed earlier, that really got things going.
The WWW was developed at the European Particle Physics Lab as a vehicle by which to share information about high-energy physics among physicists working in a dispersed international environment. Led by Tim Berners-Lee, the developers rightfully reasoned that coming up with standards for hardware or software was a waste of effort. Instead, they developed a standard for representing the data. The standard was called the Hypertext Markup Language, or HTML. Using HTML, you simply attach a proper tag to a word or phrase causing it to become a link to another page. This link can be to a document on the same machine or on one across the world, exploiting the other major innovation of the Web, a universal addressing system. With this addressing system, nearly any Web document, optionally including sound, image, and even video, can be accessed and viewed effortlessly, without rrdialing another number, knowing any computer addresses, or entering log-in IDs.
A Net browser called Mosaic was the catalyst that got the WWW going. In February 1993, Mosaic was released by University of Illinois student Marc Andreessen. This event catalyzed the explosion of information exchange now occurring. With Mosaic, a Mac, Windows, OS/2, or UNIX user with any level of Internet access could literally view the world of online information as a vast, seamless, interconnected universe. You entered at any point and began exploring, effortlessly visiting something called I lome Pages and informationrich documents from around the world. Most with-it companies now have Home Pages—places where customers and others can go to learn about their products, services, and the compaIlies themselves. Through the hypertext links called “hotlinks” you simply click on any highlighted word in a document and link to other computers, I lome Pages, and documents anywhere. According to John Landzy, Mosaic ‘energized’ the World Wide Web.”
Mosaic was the first wildly successful graphical browser for the Web. According to Landry, “Andreessen must have watched Field of Dreamy, He believed that if he built it they would come—and come they did.”
To get Mosaic, all you had to do was download it, for free, from the University of Illinois or numerous other “mirror” sites around the world. In 1994, every day nearly 4000 people did. In the first two years since release, Over I million copies were downloaded from Illinois, thousands more from Ilie mirror sites, thousands more from sharing disks, yielding estimates of illore thaxi 3 million users before the end of 1994. In January 1993, when Mosaic was introduced, there were only fifty known Web servers. By october 1993 there were more than 500. By June 1994 there were 1500 gvowing to 5000 by the end of the year. By the end of 1995 there were more than 100,000 Web server-s.
Now the market has shifted to a commercial product based on the Mosaic model called Netscape, which is provided by’ a commercial venture
Ioiinded by Andreessen. The new company is able to offer the kind of Ipport and quality expected of commercial software. And in a widely
rsuhscribed public offering in August 1995, Andreessen became an instant millionaire.

One of the most confusing aspects of gearing is how gear ratios are expressed. It’s an inverse relationship. Low gears, such as a 4.10 to 1, are numerically higher; high gears—2.54 to 1—are numerically lower.  Low gears give the truck greater pulling power; higher gears improve fuel economy.
Changing tire sizes and gear ratios may play havoc with the On Board Diagnostic (OBD) system found on late-model trucks. That’s because the sophisticated computers that comprise the OBD system monitor a wide range of vehicle functions, including the engine, transmission, and anti-lock brakes. New wheels and gears also will affect the speedometer reading, and when the speedometer, tachometer, and wheel speed readings don’t correspond with the pre-programmed conditions in the computer system, the system can get a little testy. Usually a warning light on the dashboard will come on, letting you know that you have offended the sensibilities of the factory engineers; in more serious cases, vehicle performance may be seriously compromised. So before you change wheels or gear ratios on a late-model truck, check with an offroad shop that regularly performs these modifications,
Heir’s an example of what we’re talking about.
Let’s say you have a stock Ford Explorer with tires that are 28 inches tall and a 2.73 drive gear ratio. At 60 mph, the engine is turning 1,966 rpm. Now add taller tires, say 33-inchers. At 60 mph, the engine will turn only 1,668 rpm, a power loss of nearly 15 percent. You’ll notice it immediately; the engine will appear sluggish and fuel economy will suffer.
The Explorer needs a gear ratio of 3.19, but the factory gear ratios available for the Explorer (a 4×4 requires you to change front and rear axles) in our range are 3.07 and 3.55.The 3.07s are a bit on the high side, which entails a sacrifice of a small amount of torque for better Ihel economy; the 3.55s are on the low side and would be a better choice for offroad use, towing, and hauling heavy loads. The penalty here is higher fuel consumption.
If you don’t know your vehicle’s drive gear ratio, look at the vehicle specification tag, usually found in the glovebox or on the axle tag attached to the axle covet You can also check this manually by putting the vehicle on jack stands, blocking the front wheels, and Putting the transmission in neutral. Mark the driveshaft and tire with chalk, and rotate the tire one full turn while counting the number of turns the driveshaft makes.This will give you a close estimate. If the driveshaft spins 2I4 revolutions per 1 revolution of the tire, the truck has a 2.73 ratio. (This procedure will work only if the truck is equipped with a limited-slip or locking differential, if your truck has open differentials—see Chapter 7—you and a partner will need to rotate both rear wheels simultaneously.)
if you don’t want to fool with the math, that’s okay. Just keep in mind the basic concept: When you change tire size, you’ll need to change the gears in order to maintain the performance of the truck.