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| In August 2015, I got a little job editing Wikidelphia. Wikidelphia was in need of someone to pay attention to the whole project in a sustained, overseeing way and help expand it more than its busy progenitor [[User:Stan|Stan Pokras]] can do by himself.
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| One experience that qualifies me to do this job is that I started and have been gradually expanding another reference source. It's called [[Study Love]], and it's about what I consider, and what many Near Death Experiencers call, the most important force in the universe: spiritual love. The site is large, detailed, well-organized, and easy to use, just as we want Wikidelphia to be.
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| Since 2011, I have volunteered at many events throughout the Phila-NJ area. For example:
| | In August 2015 I signed on as staff editor of Wikidelphia. This wide-scope Philadelphia website was in need of someone to pay attention to it long-term and help expand the site more than its busy progenitor Stan could do by himself. |
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| *Macy's Family Fun Days at the [[African American Museum in Philadelphia]].
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| *[http://www.philadelphiareadingolympics.org/ Philadelphia Reading Olympics], a multi-day, multi-venue annual event where you can ask kids questions like on Jeopardy or just keep score.
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| *[[West Park Arts Fest]].
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| *[http://www.bridesagainstbreastcancer.org Brides Against Breast Cancer] bridal shows, where I've done various tasks from registration to truck loading.
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| *Mount Laurel Harvest Fest.
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| *Maple Shade Holiday Festival.
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| Something else I do on my personal time, since 2009, is to provide five daily Twitter news-and-views services where I find and share headlines and links relevant to poverty, malaria, the fruit of the Spirit, linguistics, and finally a topic too controversial to mention here.
| | In late 2018, I decided to expand my World's Fairs bookmarks from a short list to a whole page. It didn't stop there. Once I caught the World's Fair bug, I kept adding and adding until the site grew to more than 30 pages containing what may be more than 10,000 links covering expositions from the Great Exhibition of 1851 until the present day. |
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| A larger part of any bio of me would have to be Life-Net News & Radio:
| | In the first decade of this century, I started and have been gradually expanding another reference source. It's called Study Love, and it's a place to learn about or meditate upon spiritual love (''agape''). The site is large, detailed, well-organized, and stunningly fast-loading. |
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| Life-Net News was a newsletter, sometimes monthly, sometimes weekly, sometimes printed. I selected stories from the press and elsewhere about poverty, without regard to political angle, because if we always attack poverty from the same political vantage point--left, right, or whatever--we'll never win. I compressed the stories down much smaller than the original, making them more quickly readable yet just as informative. Life-Net News ran for 14 annual volumes.
| | Slowly I'm also building a personal glossary of linguistics that I share publicly. In a more specialized vein, in 2009, I started slowly adding the Stratificational Grammar collection of terms to Glottopedia, getting advice from the father of that grammar, Sydney Lamb. |
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| Along with Life-Net News, from 1998 to 2010, I made a radio show, Life-Net Radio, a densely packed, fully layered, professional-sounding production. Again, the idea was to find guests from as many vantage points as possible in order to gain real understanding that transcends any political, religious, or philosophical angle. I started the show with the belief that I had received a call from God, and I did the show "in the name of Jesus" on radio station [http://www.wtmrradio.com/ WTMR-AM] in Camden. Guests included atheists, Lutherans, Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, charity CEOs, activists, Communists, Greens, Socialists, etc. Notably, I don't feel certain that I ever found a Republican, and the gay community didn't seem interested, either. I produced over 540 new episodes.
| | From 2007 to 2014, I held the "chief clerk" job (doing website maintenance, flier creation, operations reports, and various other clerical tasks) at Nonprofit Technology Resources (NTR), which was what I would liken to a Goodwill for computers. |
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| In 2008, I received the [http://www.presidentialserviceawards.gov/the-award President’s Lifetime Achievement Award] in recognition of many thousands of hours of volunteer service. From 2007 to 2014, I had a job doing clerical work, website maintenance, flier creation, operations reports, and various other tasks at [[Nonprofit Technology Resources]].
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| | *[[User:Stan|Stan]] |
| | *[[Jon Paul Sank's World's Fairs Page]] |
| | *[[Study Love]] |
| | *Glossary: [http://studylove.org/ling/jpsgloss.html Sank's Glossary of Linguistics] |
| | *Glossary: [http://www.glottopedia.org/index.php/Category:Stratificational_Grammar Stratificational Grammar] |
| | *Linguistics: [http://www.glottopedia.org Glottopedia] |
| | *Sydney Lamb: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Lamb Sydney Lamb] |
| | *NTR: [[Nonprofit Technology Resources (NTR) (Now Closed)|Nonprofit Technology Resources]] |
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| I've been married to Vicky since 1988. She's my first and only wife. My advice for marital longevity is to rule out divorce as an option, which in my own case was helped by heeding 1 Corinthians 7. If you don't maintain a commitment to your marriage, how can you be sure you'll maintain commitments to anything else?
| | <br>[[User:PaulSank|PaulSank]] ([[User talk:PaulSank|talk]]) 14:30, 25 October 2019 (EDT) |
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| We have a beautiful Eskimo-Chihuahua dog, Pixie. We have lots of squirrel and bird friends because we feed them premium seed, suet, and peanuts.
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| My wife likes to follow what goes on at [http://www.nasa.gov NASA], and so do I. It's incredible, all the things they're doing! Maybe you thought the last Space Shuttle trip was the end of anything interesting, but no, they have ''lots of'' missions and experiments happening all the time. The [https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/newhorizons/main/ Pluto] mission is just a major highlight among many other fascinating activities.
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| My religious affiliation is [http://www.pcanet.org/ Presbyterian Church in America] (PCA), a Bible-believing denomination that disagrees a lot with the Presbyterian Church USA (PCUSA). The PCA's beliefs are summarized in the [http://www.pcaac.org/resources/wcf/ Westminster Confession].
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| Some of my favorite sayings are:
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| *"There's ''always'' something to do." Thanks to pizza man Matt at the Italian Pavilion.
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| *"Where there's ''God's'' will, there's a way." Where there's only your own will, there may or may not be a way.
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| *"The righteous man knows and cares about the cause of the poor; the wicked has no such concern." Proverbs 29:7, the key verse of Life-Net News & Radio.
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| Sometime in the early 1980s, I first met Stan. I volunteered in his Public Interest Media office, organizing, filing the influx of paper, much of which I found fascinating. I remember "multilogues", Winged Mercury, the Hamaker-Weaver Hypothesis, the Whole Earth Catalog. I'm still involved with something I discovered there: [http://www.glassplategame.com The Glass Plate Game], invented by Dunbar Aitkens of Corvallis, Oregon. It's a sociable, playable attempt to realize the fictional Glass Bead Game from Hermann Hesse's Nobel Prize-winning novel ''Magister Ludi''.
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| Over the next few years, I got more involved with Stan's [[Other Networks Newsletter]], the final issue of which I took a lot of responsibility for, as if it were "my baby".
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| In my teenage years, I hitchhiked through all 48 states. I started by hitching from Collings Lakes, NJ, to Pascagoula, MS, winding it up a few years later going up Mount Washington in NH. Other favorite stops were [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenwood_Springs,_Colorado Glenwood Springs] (CO), [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Rafael_Swell San Rafael Swell] (UT), [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeport,_Texas Freeport] (TX), [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_National_Park Yellowstone National Park] (WY), [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spokane,_Washington Spokane] (WA), [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Antonio_River_Walk Paseo del Rio] (TX), [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beartooth_Highway Beartooth Pass] (MT), [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_Harbor,_Maine Bar Harbor] (ME), Brock's Books (TX).
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| What would I want on my tombstone?
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| <blockquote>J P SANK<br>STUDYLOVE.ORG</blockquote>
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| ''Note:'' Throughout this bio, I have avoided saying "I am" anything. Long ago, from an insightful book called [http://www.amazon.com/Compassion-Self-Hate-Alternative-Despair/dp/0684841991 Compassion and Self-Hate], I learned to shy away from that when I can.
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| Paul, thanks for writing up your personal experience at the Franklin Institute! [[User:Stan|Stan]] 17:31, 7 March 2011 (EST)
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Note: To communicate with me right now, here's my Talk page.
Bio
In August 2015 I signed on as staff editor of Wikidelphia. This wide-scope Philadelphia website was in need of someone to pay attention to it long-term and help expand the site more than its busy progenitor Stan could do by himself.
Wikidelphia is one among several information collections efforts I've undertaken:
In late 2018, I decided to expand my World's Fairs bookmarks from a short list to a whole page. It didn't stop there. Once I caught the World's Fair bug, I kept adding and adding until the site grew to more than 30 pages containing what may be more than 10,000 links covering expositions from the Great Exhibition of 1851 until the present day.
In the first decade of this century, I started and have been gradually expanding another reference source. It's called Study Love, and it's a place to learn about or meditate upon spiritual love (agape). The site is large, detailed, well-organized, and stunningly fast-loading.
Slowly I'm also building a personal glossary of linguistics that I share publicly. In a more specialized vein, in 2009, I started slowly adding the Stratificational Grammar collection of terms to Glottopedia, getting advice from the father of that grammar, Sydney Lamb.
From 2007 to 2014, I held the "chief clerk" job (doing website maintenance, flier creation, operations reports, and various other clerical tasks) at Nonprofit Technology Resources (NTR), which was what I would liken to a Goodwill for computers.
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PaulSank (talk) 14:30, 25 October 2019 (EDT)