【推荐1】Take part in one of these FUN summer camps.ID Tech Camps offer weeklong courses at locations throughout the US.Our junior courses provide additional time for off-computer activities,ensuring a well-balanced day.Learn from instructors who are passionate about technology.There is a maximum of just 8 students per instructor.Just choose a course.

Don't just play games!Make them!Create your own video game in this fun,exciting video game camp for kids. Design your own arcade or platform game using professional software.Take breaks to play sports outside and do other activities.

Let your imagination run wild in this multimedia adventure.Create your own interactive stories,animated adventures and creative comics.Learn drag-and-drop programming basics with scratch (a project of the MIT Media Lab).Computer characters are at your command!Take breaks with supervised outside sports and activities.

Imagine it,build it and watch it go!Powered by the LEGO MINDSTORMS Education NXT Base Set and Software,our Adventures in Robotics course explores the exciting world of robots!This course will have you create cool robots on your first day.

Use a high-end camera and learn the building blocks of web design with Adobe Dreamweaver.Put your photos into your basic website,and then share your creation with your friends and family.The software Adobe Flash may be introduced based on a student's progress throughout the week.

Are you ready to learn the basics of filming and editing?

Shoot with professional cameras and see how much fun creative editing can be with the video editor iMovie. Take home a DVD of your final project to show your family.Please remember it takes filmmakers years to master their skills.Please have realistic project expectations.

【推荐2】A cool job offer

If the earth-changing events of this year have left you thinking about making a big change and you also happen to be an expert in Roman ruins, then here's a job you might be interested. To be honest, it's one of the coolest jobs that we've ever seen.

Italy's culture ministry is looking for someone to run Pompeii: the enormous ruins near Naples of an ancient Roman city in Italy destroyed by an eruption (火山爆发) of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD- -and one of the country's most popular tourist attractions.

For the first time ever, the job is open to persons of any nationality as well as Italians, and a global search for the right candidate (候选人) is now underway.

“Pompeii is loved by archaeologists (考古学家) from all over the world. We imagine that many applications will arrive ,”said Dario Franceschini, the country's minister of cultural heritage and tourism.

The job is a four-year agreement of employment, with the option to extend for another four. “There will be digging and more big discoveries will be made,” said Franceschini, “This is a job which brings huge satisfaction as well as great responsibility. ”

If you think you're up to the job, the application deadline is November 3. Now's the time to dig up the resume (简历). You can hand it in in person or by fax. The email is also available, but not the phone.

To find out more and apply, just click here.

【推荐3】Jon Williams has never had a bank account before. But now he is married and has a new job. He and his wife, Sherry, want to start keeping their money in a bank.

When he went to the bank, he was surprised. He told Sherry, “When you open a checking account, it’s like shopping. You choose the services you need. The man at the bank asked us to read this chart and choose the plan that is right for us.”

Jon and Sherry thought over the number of checks they would write each month. Between home expenses and personal spending, they realized they would write as many as 25 checks in a month. They decided the Special Checking account would cost too much. It had a check charge and a service charge. The EARN Checking account would require them to keep too much money in the bank. They chose the Personal Checking account because the $ 8.00 service charge would be cheaper than paying $ 0.50 per check.

【推荐1】Enjoy yourself in the beauty and energy of Havana and the charm and history of Trinidad as we explore these two dynamic Cuban cities. We’ll experience the people, politics, and culture of the island during this important period in the country’s history.

THE HIGHLIGHTS

Learn about housing, infrastructure(基础设施),and restoration(修复)programs in Havana during a lecture with urban planner Miguet Coyula.

Hear from Norma Guillard, a Cuban social psychologist and former brigadista(准将)with the 1961 Cuba Literacy Campaign, about Cuba’s efforts to bring literacy to the entire country.

Attend a discussion about the current process of economic reform with economist Giulio Rioci.

Visit the site of the Bay of Pigs invasion of 196l and the Bay of Pigs Museum. Take a walking tour of Old Havana and feel amazed at the splendid architecture.

Wander the cobblestone(鹅卵石) streets of Trinidad, a UNESCO World Heritage site, with Nancy Benitez, an expert in restoration, architecture, and history.

Tour a second UNESCO World Heritage site—Cienfuegos—and observe wonderful French and Spanish architecture during a walking tour.

These are only a few of the highlights of this extraordinary program. See the full travel guide at the Nation.com/ HAVANA—TRINIDAD.

The whole trip costs $ 5,455 per person ($ 370 extra for a single room) and includes hotel accommodations for 7 nights, all transportation within Cuba, all tours, all lectures, meals, tips, and numerous other events and activities.

100% of the income from our travel programs supports our journal The Nation.

For more information, e—mail us at travels@thenation.com, call 212—209—5401, or visit us at the Nation.com/ HAVANA—TRINIDAD.

【推荐3】Are you attracted to faraway places? Do you prefer a vacation away from other tourists? Are you careful to take only memories and to leave only footprints? If you answered yes to more than one of these questions, you just might be an ecotourist (生态旅游者).

Ecotourists are people who want to experience the natural world without damage and leave it that way when they return home. This started in the 1990s and ecotourism is now growing three times faster than the tourism industry at large. The Ecuador’s remote Amazon Basin (盆地) is leading to that enlarging, and it gives a snapshot of what ecotourism looks like.

At the Ecolodge, a small group of small houses sits Kapawi Ecolodge in the middle of the Achuar people’s reserve (保护区) and is only reached by air. From here, visitors can explore parts of the Amazon rainforest seen by few outsiders. As they do local Achuar guides explain how the forest is like their supermarket, where they find food, clothing, medicine and tools. As a result, tourists learn to enjoy the local culture as well as the natural environment.

The owners of Kapawi pay monthly rent to the Achuar people, but they also train the community to run and manage the lodge. They have agreed on a plan to turn the operation over to the Achuar completely by 2011. The owners are working to make ecotourism benefit and empower the local people.

You probably won’t start your own ecolodge (生态旅馆), but you can be an ecotourist if you follow these guidelines: Protect the environment; Support local businesses; Respect the local customs and traditions.

The world is full of fascinating places to visit. As an ecotourist, you can enjoy them yourself and make sure that they remain beautiful for future generations as well.

【推荐2】Essay

Since the marketing meeting yesterday, it occurred to me that we might be ignoring one potentially important source of subscribers. We have focused so intently on how to expand the appeal of our product to groups that have never used it before that I’m afraid we may have overlooked the obvious； we may have forgotten that there is a whole group of interested people who have used it and stopped for one reason or another.

This target group has particularly good potential because it consists of readers who have demonstrated interest in the subject matter we present. Their interest is not something we have to work to stimulate. I suggest that making a maximum effort to win these readers back will be more effective on a percentage basis than pursuing some of the other groups we’ve identified.

Since these readers quit using our product once, they were most likely dissatisfied with some aspect of our presentation or our pricing. Our new product will be vastly improved over the old version and is priced more competitively. We need to do everything possible to get those points across, perhaps by sending them a free issue and by asking for their opinions on how we might improve it even further. This could be in the form of a very short survey, either included with the free issue or accessible online.

If you think this idea has merit and might be willing to authorize it, let’s discuss it further when you’ve got a few spare minutes. I have a rough draft of the survey questions I could show you.