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From setting up blanket "backdrops" as a child and forcing my brothers to model for me so I could "do shoots", to toting my point-and-shoot everywhere throughout college, my prized first dSLR landed in my hands in 2010. I spent countless hours (and more dollars than I'll admit to my husband) learning in classrooms, online, and practicing, practicing, practicing...eventually shooting family photos for friends who paid me in wine!
I have always loved to take pictures, meet new people, and hear their stories. When I realized photographing allowed me to do all three of these things in tandem, there was no looking back. In 2013, ClickSmith Photography was born. I had discovered a "job" that has never felt like work.
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Many people want to remove freckles from their face or body naturally because they do not like the look they give to the skin. Although they can be pretty in childhood, an excess of freckles in adulthood can complicate those who have them, especially when exposed to the sun.
In this article, we propose a natural treatment to eliminate freckles progressively and without side effects to the skin, with the help of some home remedies.
What are freckles?
Freckles are melanin spots, of different shades of brown that appear on the skin when exposed to sunlight. As we tan, more freckles appear, which enlarge and darken the more light our skin receives.
In general, skins with freckles tend to be more delicate, so they require specific care. If we want, therefore, to eliminate the freckles, we must always do it naturally and with common sense.
Can freckles be removed?
It is not always possible to eliminate the freckles since they can influence genetic factors or some questions related to the functioning of our organism.
However, if we follow these steps we can soften them, in some cases eliminate them, and prevent them from coming out more.
1. Choose a natural scrub
The first step is to perform an exfoliation once a week with one of these homemade ingredients:
- Sodium bicarbonate
- Sugar
- Salt
- Coffee stands
- Interior of pineapple peeling
Either of these options is adequate to remove dead cells that accumulate in the surface layer of the skin and prevent it from regenerating. However, if it is the skin of the skin, we should always do it smoothly, mixing the exfoliant with aloe vera gel or a vegetable oil.
The peeling of the pineapple, although it does not scratch the skin, performs an exfoliation by means of its enzymes.
2. Try the strawberry and lemon cubes
To eliminate freckles we will prepare an old and homemade remedy with two anti-stain ingredients: strawberry and lemon.
- Fresh strawberries
- Lemon juice
How do we do it?
- We will crush or beat fresh strawberries until you get a homogenous cream.
- Add lemon juice to cover the cream and mix well.
- We will put this preparation inside a bucket to have individual rations ready whenever we want.
How do we apply it?
- Using this remedy is as simple as taking one of these freezer cubes and massaging the face or freckled area for a couple of minutes.
- We will leave the remains of the fruit to stay on the skin for another 10 minutes while it dries.
- Then we will wash the skin and moisturize.
You may also like to read: 9 tips to have a young and naturally rosy complexion
3. Power the regeneration of the skin
Once we have exfoliated the skin and used natural remedies to remove the freckles, we should enhance the regeneration of the skin cells. The best remedy to achieve this is the combination of these two natural ingredients:
- Musk Rose Oil: It promotes the regeneration and healing of the skin and prevents wrinkles.
- Aloe vera: Soothes, heals, hydrates and regenerates the skin.
We can prepare a homemade lotion with these two ingredients and save a few days in the refrigerator.
4. Watch out for the sun
If we follow all these tips but expose ourselves to the sun in excess it will be very difficult that we can eliminate the freckles definitively.
However, since sunbathing is also beneficial for getting vitamin D and for overall health, we recommend doing it 10 minutes a day, first thing in the morning or late in the afternoon.
5. A surprising relationship
According to traditional Chinese medicine, freckles, which are very prevalent especially in childhood, are related to an excess of carbohydrates, especially monosaccharides and disaccharides.
These include white sugar, honey, lactose, and fructose. In fact, many people gradually disappear over time, which could also confirm this relationship with food.
In this sense, to eliminate the freckles we must take into account the presence of sugar, honey, milk, and fruits in our diet.
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The Swedish capital city, Stockholm, has earmarked eight million kronor (£617,091) to fund specific and dedicated "LGBTQ" lessons in primary and secondary schools. The lessons will "promote and broaden the acceptance" of LGBT issues among children.
The initiative has been lead by Sweden's feminist party, Feministiskt Initiativ. A spokes from the party, Gita Nabavi, told STV news:
"LGBT students are subject to more violence and threats (than other students) and they suffer more from health problems so it's important that we deal with these issues at school."
"This is long-term work and that's why it is important to work strategically with these questions and that we include them in our day-to-day work [in school]," Navabi said.
She argued that "norms" must be installed in children as early as possible, preferably in school, so the young will be fully indoctrinated into a feminist, gender theory-based ideology by the time they are adults.
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Feministiskt Initiativ is a growing force in Swedish politics and the inspiration for Britain's new Women's Equality Party. They won 5.3 per cent of the Swedish vote in the 2014 European elections, installing the first feminist party Member of the European Parliament (MEP), and 3.1 per cent of the vote in Sweden's 2014 general election.
The programme is due to start in 2016 as part of a wider push to increase the "awareness" of human rights in the city, and will be implemented with the help of Sweden's national LGBT organization, the RFSL.
Sweden – in particular Stockholm – is well know for being a global leader in the enforcement of an LGBT and feminist agenda. Just last year, they introduced a new pronoun into the Swedish language and dictionary for transgendered and "gender neutral" people – something similar is now being considered in the UK.
So far, British schools do not have dedicated LGBT lessons in schools, but it is common for LGBT issues to be taught in Personal, Social, Health and Economic (PSHE) education lessons.
Last week Breitbart London exposed a new document to "encourage" transgenderism in children as young as two-years-old being distributed to Cornish schools by the police, and a new book to raise "LGBT awareness" being distributed to schools nationwide.


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Statistics Denmark delivers knowledge, which underpins decisions, debate, and research. Our goal in the coming years is to transform the institution into an extrovert data- and knowledge generator, which strengthens the common understanding of societal phenomena.
Statistics are only valuable, when they are trustworthy, comparable internationally, and timely.
The faster statistics are made public, the better the knowledge we have of society – a society in constant development. The times need numbers, and numbers must be there on time.
Statistics Denmark´s communication and dissemination strategy sets out the principles of how to communicate with our target groups and gives an outline of the general strategies and objectives for our communication with the surrounding world.
The communication and dissemination strategy is an important element in realising Strategy 2020.
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At Statistics Denmark data are subject to revisions in the published figures in accordance with the Code of Practice for the European Statistics, Quality As-surance Framework of the European Statistical System (QAF) and the ESS guidelines on revision policy for PEEIs. This implies that the revisions follow common procedures and principles, and that the revision policies for the individual statistics are public.
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Hockey: Challenging Canada's Game – Au-delà du sport national
Last week my new co-edited collection was released by the University of Ottawa Press. Please, judge this book by the fantastic cover image: it is a challenging, myth-busting, inclusive and fun-loving analysis of hockey. Available online and at academic bookstores.
For many Canadians, hockey is the game. While the relationship between hockey and national identity has been studied, where does the game fit into our understanding of multiple, diverse Canadian identities today? This interdisciplinary book considers hockey, both as professional and amateur sport, and both in historical and contemporary context, in relation to larger themes in Canadian Studies, including gender, race/ethnicity, ability, sexuality and geography.
Contributors to this book reflect upon all aspects of hockey in Canadian life: play, fandom, sports broadcasting, and community activism.
Revisiting the Barbara Ann Scott doll
Recently, I revisited a topic I've been researching since my undergraduate days: the Barbara Ann Scott doll. I first looked at this doll in an image study of Eaton's Catalogues preserved at the Archives of Ontario. The paper was inspired by my mom's childhood memories of the skater. Since then I've revisited the history of the doll in my master's thesis and used it as a springboard for discussion in undergraduate sports history classes.
I also blogged about Scott in my Fifteen for Section 15 series a few years ago.
2018 marks the 70th anniversary of Scott's gold medal win at the 1948 Winter Olympic Games in Switzerland. I could not resist putting together a short blog post on its history.
Read it here.
Fall talking season!
I received invites from a couple of groups to come talk about curating. How could I say no? I love my work, and I will tell anyone who will listen.
Curious about curating?
September 20, 6:30-8:00pm
Editors Ottawa
414 Sparks Street
Five Things I've Learned About Working in Public History
October 2, 12:30-1:30pm
Trent University
Kerr House
…and I'll also be talking museums and sport at an upcoming conference:
Hockey: where do we place the accent?
October 14, 9:30am-11:00am
150 Ideas That Shaped Canada
York University
Check out the program!
A few projects I've worked on are making, or have made, their way into the world.
Recently, the Champlain Society shared a short piece I wrote about Justine Blainey. This documentary analysis looks at a letter to Blainey from her lawyer about a telephone conversation with a hockey official. Part of a larger project I'm chipping away at situating Blainey's case in Canada in the 1980s.
In March the catalogue for Hockey, an exhibition I co-curated, was released. Much of the credit for this beautiful book goes to Dr. Jennifer Anderson. If you did not get a chance to see the exhibition in person this will give you a sense of the content.
Anderson and I have also put together an edited collection called Hockey: Challenging Canada's Game that will be released next spring. The book was a great opportunity to work with many of the scholars that inspired the exhibition.
Lastly, Gurze recently invited me to submit an entry on Obesity Stigma for their resource catalogue of "eating disorders." While I don't think obesity is an eating disorder, I was happy to submit this short encyclopedia entry explaining the problem of stigma to health practitioners and the public.
Fat Activism Book Review – Free Copies
Women's Studies, an Interdisciplinary journal, is offering free copies of my review of Fat Activism by Charlotte Cooper. Click here.
Spoiler alert: the book is well worth the read, but more details and discussion on the book's contribution to Fat Studies are in the review.
Book Launch for Obesity in Canada
Please join us in Winnipeg on September 26 at 7:00pm for the official launch of Obesity in Canada: Critical Perspectives. The event is at McNally Robertson Grant Park in the Atrium.
I'll be there along with co-editor Deborah McPhail and some of the book's contributors. We would love to talk about the book, our research, your research, and critical perspectives on obesity.
No RSVP required, more details here.
Obesity in Canada: Critical Perspectives
Coming April 29, 2016. Order here.
Five Things You Don't Know About Terry Fox: May 27, 6:30pm
You know he's a national hero, but what did he add to the national conversation? As he became a hero Canadians were inspired by Terry Fox in ways you might not expect.
Come see me talk at the Danforth Coxwell branch of the Toronto Public Library,May 27, 6:30-8:00pm in the Program Room (upstairs). This event is part of the History Matters lecture series.
The talks will expand upon (yes, there's more) my recent blog posts for Active History. I'll talk upon some unknown aspects of the runner's life story and how he fits into the story of Canada in the 1980s.
You can find my April 2015 ActiveHistory.ca series on Terry Fox, marking the 35th anniversary of the Marathon of Hope, here:
Terry Fox Was an Activist
Terry Fox: A Unifying Influence on Our Nation?
Terry Fox was a Rock Star
Terry Fox Mania
I hope to see you May 27!
Podcasting Project
I'm creating a podcast documenting how Canadians think about bodies, health and sport. It will focus on stories of how individuals experienced, thought about or contributed to noteworthy events, social movements and controversies.
Right now I am looking for people who won a "gold crest" or "Award of Excellence" from the Canada Fitness Awards in the 1970s and 1980s. These were a series of tests (shuttle run, 500 and 50 metre run, chin ups) that you may have done in phys ed class as a kid. If you – or people you know – were Canada Fitness Award all-stars, please get in touch!
Please email me at firstname.lastname@example.com with your story.
Not a Canada Fitness Award winner? I'm also looking for folks with memories of other events and programs of the 1970s and 1980s for future work:
• The Canada Home Fitness Test "Fit Kit" (see photo)
• ParticipACTION
• The 1988 Calgary Olympic Games (and especially the theme song "Can You Feel It")
• Women's Health Movement Activism
Debating Femininity with Nancy Greene
Fifteen for 15 #8
Eight years ago I was seeking permission to use an advertising image of Nancy Greene for an article. Getting permission to use old ads and images is sometimes hard. After getting the run-around from the brand I decided to contact Nancy Greene's "people" to see if they could help. I found a number and dialed. Greene answered the phone.
I was caught off guard and impressed that Nancy Greene answered her own calls. This was before she was Senator Nancy Greene. But still. Greene was named Canada's "athlete of the century" by the Canadian Press in 1999 because of her gold and silver medals at the 1968 Olympics, World Cup wins in 1967 and 1968 and numerous Canadian titles. She also operates a ski resort in the B.C. interior, Cahilty Lodge, with her husband Al Raine. Greene didn't seem like someone who would have the time to be answering public inquiries.
True to one of her nicknames, "Nice Nancy," Greene was down to earth and chatty. I explained that I was looking for permission to use an ad that appeared in Chatelaine for an article on female athletes and femininity. I'm paraphrasing here, but her immediate reaction was a chipper but firm "no, no, no, you've got it all wrong." Greene told me that there wasn't any need to debate athlete's femininity or feminization, it was a non-issue and people shouldn't make a bit deal out of such stuff. She "was what she was" and there was no need for analysis.
The ad in question is one of my favourites from my study of images of female athletes in advertising. It shows three images of Greene, posed in her ski gear, beside a vase of flowers, and in a kicky, striped sleeveless dress. The copy compares two women "Mrs. Raine" and Nancy Greene, and the challenges of keeping their skin hydrated and soft. In the end we learn that Nancy Greene is Mrs. Raine! It employs a common trope of pre-2000s images of athletes: comparing their sport with other more stereotypically feminine activities. You can see and read more about these ads here.
I was taken aback when Greene told me flat-out that I was wrong to study female athletes and femininity. I can't remember what I said in response to her challenge, other than stammering out a meek defense of my research. Looking back I can see this as the first time one of my research participants challenged the academic process. I now know this is a common experience when writing about living people. They talk back.
Greene chuckled at my reply and then agreed to let me use the image. Cool, right?
Last week I was in Banff, Alberta and saw a panel about Greene in a display about Canada's best skiers. She was one of only a few women featured. It made me think back to our phone conversation. At the time I felt charmed by Greene but unsettled that she didn't want to talk about the gender dynamics of sport. Since I hadn't expected to talk to Greene I had not thought about what she might say if she learned I was analyzing her public image. After reading Silken Laumann's biography I can see that such inquiries probably hit a bit too close to home or are perceived to take away from an athlete's accomplishments.
Off the ski hill Greene was known as "Nice Nancy," but on the slopes she was called "Tiger" because of her aggressive skiing style. That this all happened in the late-1960s and early 1970s when femininity as subject for public debate is interesting. This was the era of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women and a time when female athletes successfully lobbied for a women's program within Sport Canada. Greene didn't see herself as a sports feminist and didn't join other female athletes in attempting to reform Canada's sport system. But she still helped advance women's sport in Canada because of what she achieved. So in this sense, Greene was right, she "was who she was," and it worked.
Still, I think the question of femininity is an important part of Nancy Greene's legacy. The ad was sexist and a relic of the 1970s. It is a lens we can use to understand the past and think about gender representation in the present.
Fifteen for 15 is a series of blog posts I've been doing since 2013 about women's sport in Canada. Inspired by ESPN's "30 for 30" and "Nine for IX" television documentaries, I'm thinking about athletes, teams and watershed moments in Canadian women's sport history.


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Beijing has rolled out a number of incentives to attract talents by introducing a points-based permanent residency policy, which well-educated, highly skilled migrants could use to become permanent residents in the capital.
Under the points-based system which will take effect next year, migrants who want to apply for household registration in Beijing, or hukou, must meet four essential requirements: they must have residence permits in Beijing; they must be younger than the statutory retirement ages; they must have paid social security premiums in the city for seven consecutive years; and they must have no criminal record.
A permanent residency allows a Beijing resident access to the city's fine public services including healthcare, education and pensions.
Applicants' employment, educational background, accommodation, creativity, tax payment, age, award-winning record and legal compliance will be converted into certain points under the points-based system, which will be the replacement for the existing annual quota scheme, under which employees hired by government agencies or state-owned enterprises and fresh graduates working for qualified companies are mainly allowed to apply for Beijing hukou.
It is worth mentioning that the points-based system gives priority to applicants with higher academic degrees. An applicant with a technical degree will be given 10.5 points, bachelor's degree 15 points, master's degree 26 points and doctoral degree 37 points, according to the points-based policy.
The number of points that an applicant must have to be awarded with Beijing citizenship every year is flexible, as the figure will be decided based on the city's annual population control target, said officials with the Beijing municipal government.
Analysts said that the points-based system is transparent enough but is still badly in favor of top talents, leaving under-educated migrants in a much more difficult situation. They also estimated that less than 10,000 migrants will be awarded with Beijing hukou every year under the strict points-based policy.
"Applicants who are aged under 45, have received higher education, have their own business or pay more taxes will very likely be the group selected by the points-based system," said Zhang Hui, a researcher with the Chinese Academy of Fiscal Sciences.
She said that such a group of people who are basically elites working in the hi-tech and financial sectors will make greater contributions to Beijing's economy. "The introduction of the points-based policy is the first step taken by Beijing in its competition with other Chinese cities and foreign countries for top talents."
As the rigid household registration system has long impeded the mobility of talents across China, Beijing has joined the ranks of Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, which have adopted similar points-based policy to lure high-end professionals and highly-skilled workers.
In June, the Beijing municipal government released a document listing the backbone employees of hi-tech and innovation-based enterprises into the category that would be favored in its points-based scheme.
Besides this, China's Ministry of Public Security has also released new policies to make it easier for foreign talents and professionals in Beijing to obtain permanent residency status.
Earlier this year, the Permanent Residence Service Center for Foreigners in Zhongguancun was established as a pilot project to offer green card services to high-level foreign talents in the Zhongguancun National Demonstration Zone (ZNDZ), foreign employees hired by ZNDZ-based startups, foreign technicians working for ZNDZ-based enterprises, and overseas Chinese with a doctor's degree or a higher degree employed by ZNDZ-based companies.
However, Beijing's effort to attract domestic and global talents has been derided by some experts, who argue that it will hurt the capital's development as a balanced economy and marginalize migrant workers in the labor-intensive industries.
"The thresholds to get a Beijing hukou set by the points-based system are too high, especially for those who are not highly skilled," said Lu Ming, an economics professor at Shanghai Jiaotong University.
Lu pointed out that a certain proportion of high-end and low-end workers should be maintained in a city in order to ensure complementarity in the process of production, while dismissing the view that a highly developed city does not need under-educated migrant workers.
The professor labeled Beijing's points-based policy as discriminatory against the under-educated migrants, saying that the growth of population should be determined by reasonable human resources allocation based on the market rules.
The Beijing municipal government has announced its plans to cap the city's population at 23 million by 2020. The city's permanent residents have surpassed 21 million.
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Ed Harris upholds the man's-gotta-do tradition as the director and star of this granite-jawed Western. He and Viggo Mortensen play a pair of "peacemakers" hired by the New Mexico town of Appaloosa to rein in murderous local rancher Randall Bragg (Jeremy Irons). However, their intuitive relationship is put under strain with the arrival of Renee Zellweger's flighty widow. As slick, polished and liable to go off as a well-oiled Colt . 45. Yes, sirree.
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BE.LOVED is about being and loving. It's about harnessing the nourishing abundance of nature, to care and nurture for ourselves, supporting our inner grace and beauty. With BE.LOVED, we respect nature, whilst also utilising its life-giving and nutritive properties. Because nature gives us everything we need to live a healthy and harmonious life, inside and out – energy, beauty, aromas, tastes, foods and of course, nature gives us life itself.
At BE.LOVED, we use 'minimalism' as our motto – using the most effective highly concentrated and potent extracts, taken straight from nature, without harming or destroying nature. Living in harmony with nature reflects our inner beauty, and this can be seen on our faces. And that is the BE.LOVED message – you are beautiful, you are strong, you get your strength from nature, and nature supports you by giving you all the ingredients that you need to live in harmony.
BE.LOVED skincare was created with a love for all natural ingredients sourced from organic farms all around the world. Created for women who start to think about their skincare with awareness… women who also like minimalism in skincare solutions… women who love nature and believe in its therapeutic powers… women who are conscious about the environment, and who enjoy using and reusing the packaging they buy… women who enjoy their inner journey, and who are conscious about the impact they have on the world… women who care for themselves and who love to pamper themselves.
Every ingredient that we use in our products is there for a specific therapeutic reason. We do not use fillers of any kind, so almost every ingredient in our products is an actively beneficial ingredient. This results in pure, highly concentrated and effective formulas. 'Less is More' when it comes to healthy skincare. The key is to support your skin's natural processes and stimulate its ability to regenerate.
We have created mixable, and multi-use products. You can apply them individually or mix them in different combinations to personalise the formulas and create: a face mask, additional hydration, or control over the level of exfoliation.
We offer three product lines, each with its own colour code, according to its specific ingredients and symbolic energies.
Pink is related to rose, rosehip, pomegranate, ylang and geranium; symbolizing power, energy and the life-force itself. Pink symbolizes unconditional love and nurturing. Pink is feminine and romantic, thoughtful and caring.
Orange is related to tangerine, orange, sea buckthorn, pineapple, honey (citrus aromas); symbolizing warmth and happiness, combining physical energy and stimulation with cheerfulness.
Violet is related to plum oil, grapeseed oil, may chang, lemongrass, rosemary, lavender (herbal aromas) and hydration; symbolizing self–awareness, openness and courage.
BE.LOVED skincare is packed in dark violet miron glass. Why this choice? Going back in history, violet glass is already mentioned as being used by the early Egyptians. These sophisticated Egyptians used violet or gold jars in order to preserve and protect their most precious substances (taken from nature) for long-term storage. The secret of violet glass was to be 'kept in the dark' for a long time however, as it was used less and less between the Egyptian era and our present day. By the beginning of the 20th century, the glass was only used by pharmacists who stored their remedies in hand-made, violet glass bottles.
After many years of research, MIRON violet glass was developed for the protection and storage of high-quality substances.
By 1995, the company MIRON had started the first mechanical production of this special glass, bringing about the return of violet glass as a means of quality protection for valuable products.
By 2005, many innovative companies, who highly value the conservation of bio-energy in their products, had changed to this violet glass.
The secret of miron violet glass is based on the fact that the violet spectral range (720 – 770 bio herz) permanently activates and energizes the product's molecular structure, and its healing energies don't deteriorate.
Recent research by Prof. F.A. Popp and Dr. H. Niggli, in 1997-1998, proves that solar energy in our food is essential for our health. Solar energy enters our cells in the form of bio-photons, the smallest physical unit of light. Bio-photons provide important information for the complex life process in our bodies. The bio-photons have a strong regulating and balancing energy, and put the organism into a higher vibration or order. These bio-photons are extremely sensitive. Dr. H. Niggli's readings show that bio-photons noticeably decrease in conventional packaging such as amber glass, green glass, blue glass, aluminium foil, plastics, and other synthetic containers. Miron violet glass maintains and even enhances the high energy of the bottle's contents for a long period of time.
In late 1997, the Institute of Dr. D. Knapp tested different spirulina samples. Fresh tablets from the same production were packaged in different containers. After 4 weeks the results were measured. The results speak for themselves in the images below. The sample in the violet glass shows a strong and dynamic energy field. The samples in amber glass and plastic container show a clear energy loss.
We believe in leaving a minimum footprint on the environment, and with this in mind, we encourage our customers to re-use and recycle all BE.LOVED packaging and containers.
As a special gift to you, we will send out one full-sized product, absolutely FREE, to every customer who returns 5 empty full-sized BE.LOVED containers to us.


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Moscow's Pop/Funk outfit, Pompeya, have officially released their highly anticipated EP Night. This record follows up their successful US debut LP, Tropical, and the critically acclaimed Tropical Remixed.
Available now via iTunes and digipak CD HERE. For a limited time only, purchase a bundle of the new 'Night' CD and 'Tropical Remixed' 12" vinyl for only $25 here.
Night showcases the quartets unique diversity in style meshing disco, new wave and pop, while keeping their cool factor and traditional tropical accent. Title track "Night" is a good indication of the bands unmistakable sound, while paying homage to retro classic vibes. Spin said the new wavy chorus vocals "would fit nicely in an early-'80s Duran Duran track."
"Does" incorporates timeless guitar riffs, fat bass licks and infectious vocals. Originally premiering on Indie Shuffle, "(Does) puts you in the perfect headspace for dancing, working, and having a generally good time…It's almost like recounting a childhood spent moving around from place to place, rather than growing up in one place. Newness and excitement, yet simultaneously familiar."
With roots firmly established overseas including extensive touring and TV appearances, Pompeya are broadening their reach to the U.S. and beyond with their distinct blend of 70s disco, 80s New Wave, and 90s indie rock. Recently, the band's debut album Tropical received praise across influential outlets including XLR8R, Thump (VICE), Under The Radar Mag, MTV Hive, Interview Mag, Earmilk, Gotta Dance Dirty, Dancing Astronaut, and DUMMY Mag.
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A good night's sleep is like the holy grail at the best of times, but when you have small children it becomes an obsession. Each moment in slumberland more precious than ever before. I've never been one to laze around under the covers. I'm strictly an early to bed, early to rise kinda gal, but that doesn't mean I appreciate my bed any less, far from it, the best part of the day is the moment I crawl under the duvet and my head hits the pillow.
Which meant having a wakeful baby, all the more harder. I remember persevering until Tween was 8 months before bring him into our bed in desperation for a few extra hours. He struggled with recurrent ear infections and as sleep deprivation hit, it was the only solution to saving my sanity. So we took the plunge and invested in a bigger bed, a much, much bigger bed.
So there on, my co sleeping journey began. Tween, The Man and me, in a superking bed for three. Even Teen could sneak in for morning cuddles. But 2 children and many years later, it was time to replace our much-loved mattress, however the shear thought of going through the chore of choosing the right one, along with the inconvenience of getting it into the house and up the stairs put me off. Then as luck would have it, I stumbled upon a brand and style which ticked a few boxes, and some.
Intrigued by the idea of a rolled up mattress arriving in the post, in a box The Man could carry upstairs with out so much as a swear word, I agreed to give a Leesa luxury mattress a whirl.
Vacuum packed, we unrolled it onto the bed. I stood poised with my video camera to capture the transformation from skinny little mattress, to deep, memory foam body sinking, comfort station. But as I cut the into the plastic wrapping, and it took it's forever shape, I missed the whole show. Before we knew it, we had a full size, super king, rather funky looking bed. It's hard to believe that it was the same squished, rolled up, plastic covered mattress that stood in our room not 10 minutes earlier.
Without so much as a "who wants to try it?" the Toddler dived on, his diddy feet sinking in. It takes a little getting use to not having the springs, so the boys soon realised this was a no bounce mattress. (Not that I'm complaining as we realised our bed was damaged when we removed the old one!) The only thing I can liken it to is sinking onto big soft cuddle as it supports and gently forms around your body.
With no springs or seams, the comfort of a Leesa mattress is out of this world. I was a little hesitant at the thought of letting go of our old one but this is sooooooo much better. I've been sneaking up to bed for early nights for all the wrong reasons, making excuses to sit and work in my room grabbing as many blissful minutes as I can. And as a co-sleeping family, it's perfect. We no longer all wake up squished in the middle, as the weight is distributed perfectly and exclusively for each of us. Our superking bed is once again, the saviour of my sanity.
This really has become a bed of dreams!
Leesa have kindly offered all Mum in a Nutshell readers £50 off a Leesa luxury mattress click here to use the code.
I was sent a Leesa mattress to try and these are my honest words. All photography is also my own.


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A brutal murder in Stephens County, Oklahoma has left sheriff's deputies searching for an illegal immigrant from Mexico suspected of being involved in the crime.
Balthazar Sanchez-Garcia, a 25-year-old illegal immigrant, is reportedly suspected of involvement with the murder of 20-year-old Oklahoma resident Linda Salazar, who was found dead with her throat slit in a shed.
Police said, according to Chickasha News, that Sanchez-Garcia weighs 165 pounds, is 5 foot 8 inches and is either traveling through Texas or Mexico in a white 2005 GMC Yukon with an Oklahoma "444AFH" license plate.
A nationwide alert has been sent out to law enforcement surrounding Sanchez-Garcia's whereabouts. Sheriff Wayne McKinney said Sanchez-Garcia and Salazar were not related, but did not elaborate further on their relationship.
Residents who have seen or have knowledge of Sanchez-Garcia and his vehicle are asked to contact the Stephens County Sheriff's Office in Oklahoma immediately at 580-255-3131 or by dialing 911.
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WASHINGTON — Determined to show a commitment to stopping the flow of illegal immigrants, the Senate convened a special session Thursday and passed a $600 million bill to put more agents and equipment along the Mexican border.
The voice vote in the nearly empty Senate chamber sends the legislation to President Barack Obama, who has urged Congress to channel more money toward border security amid complaints from border states besieged by undocumented immigrants and illegal drug trafficking.
House Democrats had also called a special session, summoning lawmakers back from their summer break Tuesday to pass the border security bill and a $26 billion aid bill to keep teachers and other public workers from being laid off. Both issues — jobs and border security — are among those expected to be on voters' minds when they go to the polls in November.
Senate historian Donald Ritchie said it was only the second time since the August break became official policy in 1970 that the Senate had reconvened. The first time was after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
The border security measure would fund the hiring of 1,000 new Border Patrol agents to be deployed at critical areas along the border, 250 more Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, and 250 more Customs and Border Protection officers.
It provides for new communications equipment and greater use of unmanned surveillance drones. There are currently seven such drones along the border. Almost one-third of the money goes to the Justice Department to help agencies such as the FBI, the DEA and the ATF deal with drug dealers and human traffickers.
The bill is paid for by raising fees on foreign-based personnel companies that use U.S. visa programs, including the popular H-1B program, to bring skilled workers to the United States. India says higher fees would discriminate against its companies and workers.
It's taken the House and Senate several tries over the past months to agree on the contents of the bill and how it should be paid for. Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick, D-Ariz., said that throughout this legislative back-and-forth she had worked "to make sure that Congress knows that we are fed up with the federal government's failure along the border." She said that with Senate action, "at least this time, they are listening to us."
Arizona has been at the epicenter of the border security debate since it passed a law directing law enforcement officers to be more aggressive in seeking out illegal immigrants. Although a federal judge has since struck down some of the law's major provisions, it remains a rallying cry for those who say Washington has lost control of the border.
Both the Obama administration and congressional Democrats say they are committed to more comprehensive immigration legislation, including steps to create a pathway to citizenship for the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants already in the country. But the issue has made little headway, pushed aside by other priorities such as health care and failing to gain bipartisan support in the Senate.
"Both moderate Democrats and Republicans said they wouldn't even consider comprehensive reform until we did something about the border," said Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., the bill's chief sponsor in the Senate. He said the bill "will clear the path for restarting the bipartisan discussions we absolutely need to have for restoring the rule of law to our entire immigration system."


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Original etching Gothic Interior Suffolk England by Valerie Thornton, British 1931-1991. Signed lower right. Thornton a painter and printmaker. In the1960s she lived in New York working at Pratt Graphics Art Center. Member Royal Society of Painters-Etchers and Engravers. Her work is in the collections of the Royal Academy, Victoria and Albert Museum, British Museum, Tate Gallery, Fitzwilliam Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York Public Library. Image 26"L x 16.5"W. Framed 38" L x 28" W
John Edward Borein, original etching titled Sioux Scouts an early impression with rich ink tone penciled lower right. In good condition some light staining. A fine addition to any collection. BIOGRAPHY Edward Borein is primarily known as an etcher today. Borein executed almost four hundred different etched images in his life, many of which were printed numerous times. Consequently the most frequent examples of the artist's work found today are his etchings. However, every Borein collector knows that Borein's preeminent achievements are his applied color works, as seen in his best watercolors and oil paintings. Among cattlemen and women, Edward Borein is most recognized for his ability to accurately capture the canter of a horse, the posture of a working cowboy and the force of a moving herd of cattle. Borein was a working artist, having made his way in life on the proceeds of his art sales. The citizens of Santa Barbara are full of tales of Borein's senior years, when it is said the visitors to his studio on De La Guerra St. would be greeted with tall tales and etchings which could be had for a modest price. Amongst Edward Borein's close friends were the actor Leo Carillo and the humorist Will Rogers. They were often seen at the nearby "El Paseo" (www.calwestgroup.com) restaurant laughing and carrying on.
The Frugal Repas by Pablo Picasso from the edition of 1913 on arches paper trimmed with .5 inch margins a fine impression of this most famous of prints. Plate size 18 1/4 x 14 7/8 in. (46.4 x 37.8 cm) . A fine addition to any collection framed and archival matted in a fine gallery presentation frame.
Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973) Oath of the Women from Lysistrata Bloch 267-272. Original pencil signed etching from the deluxe edition of 100 signed etchings. Printed by Roger Lacourière (French, 1892–1966) Date: 1934 Medium: Etching Dimensions: plate: 8 11/16 x 5 3/4 in. (22.1 x 14.6 cm) sheet: 15 1/8 x 11 1/8 in. (38.4 x 28.3 cm) Condition is very good some minor staining and foxing very slight minor surface creasing.
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Etching by Adriaen van Ostade (1610-1685) Village Romance (B., Holl., G. 11) etching, circa 1667, on laid paper, a good impression of the 12 state (of twelve), with small margins, in very good condition P. 158 x 128 mm., S. 162 x 133 mm. Image 6.25"H x 5"W. Presented Matted framed.


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Don't assume that homeowners insurance is just another type of coverage designed to take money from your already strapped paycheck. Homeowners insurance is valuable protection that anyone who owns a home needs. It doesn't matter if you live in the home, use it as an income method, or have family residing at the property, this valuable coverage protects you financially should devastation threaten the home. Furthermore, many mortgage companies require that you have it on any home you are buying.
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Homeowners insurance protects you in many devastating situations, some caused by acts of nature, and others by acts of human inconsideration. Homeowners insurance covers loss due to tornadoes, hurricanes, and other similar natural disasters, as well as vandalism, theft, and other situations. The coverage pays for structural damage to the home, as well as for the items inside the home, up to your coverage amount. There are many overage amounts offered, so you are always going to get the exact amount of coverage that you need.
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Travel Landing Pages Deliver Call-to-Action to Capture Book Later Leads
September 4, 2013 -- The latest innovation in landing pages for hotels, tour operators, and travel businesses is the Book Later Landing Page. General purpose landing pages capture ad traffic by convincing people to sign up to download content or to be contacted. Book Later Landings Pages are optimized for stage two of the booking conversion funnel. When a visitor to any travel site likes what they see but are not ready to "Book Now", they should be directed to a landing page to take the next action. Unless travel websites actively capture contact information for remarketing purposes, they risk losing bookings to forgetfulness and the competition.
BookingCounts released the Book Later Button as a website widget for travel email remarketing in early 2013. Based on customer feedback it was quickly determined that many travel marketers prefer the ease of installation and flexibility of a cloud-hosted landing page. That insight led to the development of a landing page option. Now any hospitality website, tour operator, travel seller, or tourist attraction can simply link to their custom landing page to capture leads and remarket via booking reminder email.
The Book Later Landing Page follows the same opt-in email marketing techniques as the widget with several major advantages. First, since the landing page is hosted in the cloud, there are zero installation and compatibility concerns. Second, it offers page design options and for premium licenses, a branded landing page URL. Finally, since it is a standard web link, it can be added to any web page as well as on traveler targeted social media posts, email campaigns, and third party listings.
By signing up for a Freemium software license, independent hotels, B&Bs, tour operators as well as online travel agencies can get the Book Later Button and Landing Page for free. By capturing "not ready to book now" leads and sending out automated email reminders, travel marketers can get a second chance at direct booking conversion. Unless every travel business deploys a landing page, time and money spent on online advertising will lead to vanishing leads and lost bookings.
About BookingCounts™
The Book Later Button™ is the only lead capturing and email remarketing software built for the travel industry. Developed by BookingCounts, a leader in tourism website optimization and booking conversion technology, it delivers email reminders to convince visitors to return and book later. Since 2011 when Meliovation launched the "Get More Bookings" blog, BookingCounts.com has been a valuable source of advice for hotels, tour operators, travel agencies, and tourist activity businesses.
For more information contact:
Scott Petoff, President Meliovation LLC (BookingCounts)


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Shepitko, Larisa
Born: 6 January 1938 (Artyomovsk, Soviet Union/Ukraine) Died: 2 June 1979 (Kalinin/Tver province, Soviet Union/Russia)After studying in the workshop of Dovchenko and Romm, Shepitko graduated from VGIK in 1963. After an impressive diploma work (Heat) she directed Wings, a complex character study that eschewed cliche to depict the emotional gap that develops between a proud, professional woman and her estranged daughter. Though praised by critics, Wings received only a limited release by Soviet authorities. Her next project was a short film for the omnibus Beginning of an Unknown Era called "Homeland of Electricity". Produced by Mosfilm's ill-fated Experimental Studio, it was shelved by censors and wasn't released until after Shepitko's death. The high point of her career came with Ascent, which won the Golden Bear at Venice in 1977. After dying in a tragic accident in 1979, her final project, Farewell, was completed by her husband, Elem Klimov, using her script.
- Farewell/ Proshchaniye s Matyoroj, 1983; (screenwriter only)
- Ascent/ Voskhozhdeniye, 1976; (also screenwriter)
- You and Me/ Ty i ya, 1971; (also screenwriter)
- 13 PM/ V trinadtsatom chasu nochi, 1969; TV
- Beginning of an Unknown Era/ Nachalo nevedomogo veka, 1967; segment Rodina elektrichestva, (also screenwriter)
- Wings/ Krylya, 1966
- Heat/ Znoj, 1963
- Living Water/ Zhivaya voda, 1957
- The Blind Cook/ Slepoj kukhar, 1956


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2,012 Food Growing Spaces in London by the end of 2012? Done!
Posted in Movements by Kate Archdeacon on December 27th, 2012
Press Release from Capital Growth:
100,000 green-fingered Londoners deliver Mayor's 2012 food growing target.
The estimated equivalent of 69 Wembley football pitches or 124 acres of disused land in London now brimming with fruit and veg.
The Mayor of London today [Dec 14] announced that the ambitious target to deliver 2012 Capital Growth spaces has been reached, following a four-year scheme to turn disused plots of land into community spaces abundant with fruit and veg. Nearly 100,000 green fingered Londoners have rolled up their sleeves to deliver this leafy Olympic legacy.
The Capital Growth scheme, run by London Food Link, was launched by the Mayor and Rosie Boycott, Chair of London Food, in November 2008. It aimed to create 2,012 growing spaces in London by the end of 2012 with funding from the Mayor and the Big Lottery Fund's Local Food programme.
The idea is to bring local neighbourhoods and communities together while giving Londoners a chance to grow their own food and green their local area. It is also a response to growing allotment waiting lists, particularly in inner London boroughs, which can be decades long. Capital Growth has worked with landowners and local groups to help identify land for growing and then help people get started in creating successful gardens by providing training and tools.
There are now Capital Growth spaces in every London borough. Food gardens signed up to the scheme have flourished in an extraordinarily diverse and creative range of places, covering an estimated 124 acres of previously disused land. Capital Growth spaces are now growing on roofs, in donated recycling boxes, in skips, alongside canals and in builders' bags providing healthy food to a range of places including shops and restaurants. The spaces have supported skills and enterprise training, market gardening initiatives and even the development of 50 community bee hives.
Some of the Capital Growth spaces have now scaled up into social enterprises selling produce into cafes, restaurants and market stalls and providing jobs for local people. Other projects that the campaign has supported include larger farms, such as Organic Lea in Waltham Forest that employs 13 full and part time staff doing market gardening under glass houses leased from the local authority. The biggest response to the Capital Growth challenge has come from schools with 687 schools signed up involving 66,000 pupils.
The 2012th space was today announced by the Mayor as St Charles Centre for health and wellbeing in North Kensington. The project, based in a disused courtyard of a hospital, will engage a range of community groups, including youth groups and Age UK, as well as hospital staff to grow their own healthier food.
>> Read more about the projects at Capital Growth.
A Community Garden on a Parking Garage
Posted in Models by Kate Archdeacon on July 6th, 2012
Source: The Atlantic Cities
Photo by Nicole Kistler
From "A 30,000-Square-Foot Community Garden, in a Parking Garage" by Sarah Deweerdt:
[Seattle] residents are building a 30,000-square-foot community garden atop a two-story structure once intended for fair visitors' cars.
"As far as we can tell it's the first community-managed food production garden on a rooftop" in the country, says Eric Higbee, a landscape architect working on the project. This project, dubbed the UpGarden, will have space for about 120 gardeners. There are a few rooftop farms, such as Eagle Street Rooftop Farm in Brooklyn. But a commercial operation like that runs around $10 per square foot to construct, while the UpGarden has shoestring budget of $4 per square foot—and it's designed to be built and maintained almost entirely by volunteers.
The project came about because Seattle's P-Patch community gardening program was looking for space to build a new garden in the neighborhood. "We were really struggling, because the neighborhood is really dense," says P-Patch coordinator Laura Raymond.
But building a rooftop garden isn't straightforward. "You'd think that cars are really heavy, and you could put anything on top of a garage," says Nicole Kistler, a landscape designer and artist also on the design team. In fact, soil is much heavier—12 inches of water-saturated soil can weigh over 100 pounds per square foot, but the garage is only designed to support 40 pounds per square foot.
"We had to find a way to get enough soil up there to grow vegetables, but also not exceed the weight capacity of the garage," Higbee says. "That really drove a lot of the design decisions."
Typical green roof technologies were too expensive, so they settled on a series of wooden raised beds 12 to 18 inches deep, which will be filled with potting soil. It's lighter than topsoil. Higbee and Kistler also left wide paths between the garden beds.
At $150,000, designing and building the UpGarden will cost about 10 percent more than a ground-level community garden of similar size, Raymond estimates. The increased costs come mainly from a longer, more elaborate design process, the need for a structural engineer, and a contractor to drill into the garage deck. In addition, the low clearance of the garage means that materials like potting soil and wood chips will have to be blown in, rather than a large load being dumped by a truck and wheelbarrowed into place by volunteers.
Read the full article by Sarah Deweerdt for more details.
Lunchtime Gardening for Office Health
Posted in Models, Movements by Kate Archdeacon on September 23rd, 2011
Source: Sustainable Bristol
Photo: Ovagrown.blogspot.com
From "Will Business embrace Lunchtime Allotments?" by Paul Rainger:
Growing your own is all the rage. With long waiting lists for allotment space, we've seen veg beds spring up in parks, guerrilla growers taking over derelict land and even veg growing on supermarket roofs. The beneficial effects of reconnecting which nature through growing are well studied, from healthy eating itself, through to general improvements in health, happiness and even productivity at work. So, could leading business embrace Lunchtime Allotments as the next must have staff perk?
Will tomorrow's young generation of more values-led employees see an hour lunchtime break to tend their veg as another key differentiator between good and bad employers, just as secure bicycle parking and showers are for many today? One company in Bristol, Arup, are already leading the way in the city. Staff in their city centre Bristol office haven't let lack of space get in their way. They have simply taken over the nearby wide grass verge by the main bus lane.Now beans and courgettes pass by the window of the traffic heading up to the train station. You can even follow their adventures on [their blog http://ovagrown.blogspot.com/].
What if every business played its part in greening our city? Not the bland corporate shrubbery we see today, but the real veg growing of Lunchtime Allotments like this. Businesses would benefit from the improved productivity, health and wellbeing of their staff. And in these times of recession in the public sector, it may now be the best way of achieving the truly edible city.
Read the original article by Paul Rainger on Sustainable Bristol
Community through Gardening: Post-Industrial UK
Posted in Models by Kate Archdeacon on July 8th, 2011
Via The Ecologist
Photo © Henry/Bragg
From "Blooming Britain photo exhibition tours RHS gardens this summer":
In 2010, artists Julie Henry and Debbie Bragg visited post-industrial regions around the UK to photograph people and communities who enter gardening campaigns, including RHS Britain in Bloom and RHS It's Your Neighbourhood. The images are an anthropological study of the dynamics between public display and the gardener's social standing and explore how this impacts on the wider community.
Visiting 'in Bloom' and It's Your Neighbourhood groups in Manchester, East Ayrshire, Fareham, Castle Point and Tower Hamlets in London, the artists said, "We were initially sceptical about photographing community gardening groups. We felt that communities didn't really exist anymore. What we found when we visited various groups around the country blew us away. We found that community could exist in the most unlikely places, from a tower block to an alleyway, using gardening as a cohesive link to bind the community together and improve their environment".
Check out a selection of Exhibition Images.


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Steve works for a company that creates software to help under-resourced schools reach their full educational potential.
Q: What are the goals of your company?
A: I work for an education technology startup called PrepFactory and we make standardized test training software for free. We think it is way too expensive to get a Kaplan course or an official SAT or ACT study guide, so we're doing it for free so that everyone has an equal opportunity to do well on these standardized tests that are so important for college admissions and scholarships.
Q: Why did you choose to pursue this job?
A: I worked in an education nonprofit called City Year that works in cities with under-resourced schools. It places AmeriCorps members, which is what I was, into these schools to serve as extra resources like assistant teachers in classrooms during the day or running after school activities and other extracurricular enrichments. We also try to act as a role models and mentors for these lower-performing students; I was at this one high school where the graduation rate was only 50 percent.
It was tough, but when I was in the classroom I realized how much of a difference education software can make. My department teacher was always flooded with complaints and problems coming from the school administration, parents and students. It was hard for him to fit in time to develop good lesson plans and also do what he's actually supposed to do, which is teaching. There are so many tangent problems he had to deal with so it was tough for him to invest in actually educating. We used this software in the classroom called ALEXS and it's similar to the software that my current company is creating. It made the biggest difference. It was effortless for him to make assignments, grade people and make sure that the students were actually learning. They would do assignments that it would instantly grade for them and he would have a weekly report of their progress. It freed up so much time for him to focus on things with the administration and parents that only he could do.
Q: What exactly does the software do?
A: There are lessons you take to learn all of the topics, then you take practice tests to prepare for the exam. There are also games to work on math and vocab that you play with others online. There are a bunch of strategy tips it teaches you.
Q: What do you think is the goal for this kind of software? What is the vision in terms of schooling?
A: I see it eventually taking the place of the teacher just lecturing to the class. I see the software carrying the majority of the burden of actually educating while the teachers become facilitators of learning with the software. The teachers can focus more on the human aspects of teaching that only they can do, like being a mentor, helping the student through uncertainties, or being an extra parent to some of them. I see the software being where the real learning takes place. Once technology costs get low enough, which they eventually will, each student will just have a tablet instead of a binder full of paper. This tablet will have all of the education software and they will just complete all of their assignments on that.
Q: What have you realized by going through the education system as a student versus seeing it through this new perspective?
A: I didn't realize how much effort is required to teach someone something until I was on the teachers' side. On the students' side it feels like you're moving pretty fast, but for the teachers they repeat the same few lessons, phrases and techniques over and over again, especially when they're in middle and high school and they specialize in a specific subject. I think it makes so much sense to develop software that can do that because the software can repeat a mnemonic device hundreds of thousands of times effortlessly. The teacher could have done it but it would have taken so much more effort. The teachers shouldn't have to repeat themselves; they should put their effort into doing more creative things.
Q: How do you think the pressure around standardized testing has changed the way the education system works?
A: I understand that standardized tests aren't perfect. When you do things like teach to the test and teach the testing skills, it defeats the purpose of standardized tests. But I still believe that standardized tests are the best thing we have to date to measure academic standing objectively. It's unrealistic to go into every classroom in every high school in the nation and judge these students' math and reading skills. Some people can have an advantage over others because of the training they receive, but overall I do think it acts as a good benchmark for where students in the nation are doing the best and where they are struggling. The tests are always changing and I think the makers of these tests do a pretty good job of keeping it relevant to whatever they are testing for.
Q: It sounds like this software provides more opportunities and resources to succeed in this type of education system. What do you think young people can do to improve the current education system?
A: The biggest thing we can do, especially as students, is to voice our concerns. Let your voice be heard. There are plenty of problems with the education system, but for every problem there is a solution. People aren't going to feel pressured to create the solutions unless they know there is a problem. Letting your voice be heard is how you let them know there is a problem.
Q: What is your role in implementing this software?
A: My title is operations associate, so I build a lot of content for the software itself. I also do design work and I'll be doing a lot of outreach this fall. It's a very small team so I'm kind of like a nebulous person.
Q: How did you decide to join AmeriCorps after graduation from college?
A: I studied mechanical engineering at University of Maryland and as graduation approached I wasn't really interested in any of the job openings presented to me though career fairs for my major. I was passionate about the volunteer organizations I was involved with on campus, so I decided to try to get a job in a non-profit after graduation. I picked education as the specialty I was most passionate about because it is fundamental to so many other things that are foundational. If someone gets a good education, then they can get a good job and be economically self-sufficient. That solves many problems that could come later down the road.
Q: What advice would you give to other passionate people who may not know where to start in pursuing their interests?
A: Getting started is the hardest part. Once you get the ball rolling it's easier to maintain. Getting started can be done in so many ways depending on what you're interested in. Volunteer opportunities and any exposure to non-profit work on the front lines of issues you care about are really great ways to get started. You can get involved in bigger projects from there, you can network, you can hear about job openings and other related organizations. Meet ups are also good; I used to go to an educator entrepreneur meetup. Being exposed to like-minded people will connect you to more resources that will get you closer to where you want to go. Find people who share your interests and they will help you get to the next step. Once you start it can eventually lead you to where you want to go.


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Rabba Abby Brown Scheier is an educator and Jewish community leader in Montreal. Abby was member of the first ordination class of Yeshivat Maharat, holds a degree in Religious Studies from York University, and pursued an M.A. in Bible at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is a popular Torah teacher in the Montreal community. In addition to her public lectures at synagogues and Federation, Abby works as a private tutor for conversion candidates, bat mitzvah students, and International Bible Contest candidates. Abby established a supplementary education high school of which she serves as director, and is active in multiple volunteer capacities at Congregation Shaar Hashomayim, the synagogue of which her husband is the Senior Rabbi. Abby serves on the board of directors of the Canadian Jewish News and writes a monthly column for the paper. Abby is married to Rabbi Adam Scheier, and together they have five daughters.


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Going down quicker than the Lusitania, the onetime titan of the fairways, Eldrick "Tiger" Woods, plummeted to #62 in the latest World Golf Rankings, marking his lowest standing since 1996, the year he joined the tour.
On Friday at the Farmers Open at Torrey Pines, where he has won eight times since his days as a junior golfer, Tiger withdrew from the tournament unable to even bend over and pick up his own tee. On his twelfth hole Woods shuffled to the green, picked up his ball, supported his surgically repaired lower back with his right hand, and signaled "No Mas!" to his playing partners Billy Horschel and Rickie Fowler.
Woods's withdrawal for the third time in his last eight tournaments inspired Kelly Tilghman of Golf Channel to tweet:
Tiger Woods odds to win Masters drops to 50-1 after his WD at Farmers Ins Open. Probably similar to his odds of playing in it.
— Kelly Tilghman (@KellyTilghmanGC) February 9, 2015
Tiger Woods falls to 62nd in the official world ranking. It's his worst position since the year he said "Hello world", 1996. — Kelly Tilghman (@KellyTilghmanGC) February 9, 2015
Tiger blamed the fog delay as the reason for his back seizing on him. "I got cold standing out there and everything started deactivating again…. It's frustrating that I just can't stay active. That's just the way it is. We usually don't have to wait like this back home practicing. You can keep going and going. My glutes are shutting off and they don't activate."
Woods now falls behind in the rankings to some of the the legends of golf: #31 Stephen Gallacher, #36 Bernd Wiesberger, #37 Anirban Lahiri, #53 Mikko Ilonen, and #39 Thongchai Jaidee.


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B&CSC and the German Society of Maryland Gather to Remember Maritime Pioneer Capt. Paul L. Koenig
Baltimore & Chesapeake Steamboat Company and the German Society of Maryland co-hosted the 80th Observance of the Baltimore Memorial Service for Capt. Paul L. Koenig, Commander of the U-Deutschland Merchant Submarine's Historic 1916 Maiden Solo Voyage Across the Atlantic Ocean.
Baltimore, MD – September 15, 2013:- The Baltimore & Chesapeake Steamboat Company (B&CSC) and the German Society of Maryland co-hosted aboard the Nuclear Ship Savannah the 80th observance of the memorial service held in Baltimore upon the death of Captain Paul Liebrecht Koenig (1867-1933). Two presentations were given. The first was "An Historic Voyage: Koenig and the U-Deutschland," by Maizie Rocke, vice president of the B&CSC, and historian Valerie Mathers, which included readings from Captain Koenig's 1916 book about his exploits, Voyage of the Deutschland: the First Merchant Submarine. Historian Walt Mathers then presented "Of Maritime Pioneers," which included insights placing Koenig's achievements within the larger context of maritime accomplishments. The Dockenspielers, a German band that has performed for over 35 years in this area, provided musical selections accompanied by singer Ms. Beth Schleigal courtesy of the German Society of Maryland.
The B&CSC presented Captain Setzer and Mr. Erhard Koehler, Project Manager for the N.S. Savannah, with copies of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, written by Jules Verne. Ms. Rocke stated that, "It is only right that we end this observance on an appropriate nautical note, for another pioneer captain, Captain Koenig, received this book upon leaving Baltimore on August 2, 1916, to make his return trip to Germany.".
that he was awarded the German Iron Cross, 1st Class. After the war, he served as an executive for the North German Lloyd shipping company from 1919 to 1931. He would return to America several times on popular speaking tours. The U-Deutschland's centennial will be in 2016.
The Baltimore & Chesapeake Steamboat Company, which formed in 2004, and began operating in 2005, is an all-volunteer non-profit educational organization that preserves, interprets and supports industrial maritime heritage efforts at the Port of Baltimore and throughout the Chesapeake Bay Region. Contact them at: email@example.com or join us on Facebook.
The nonprofit German Society of Maryland, established in 1783 and incorporated at Annapolis, Maryland in 1817 maintains offices at: 15 West Mt Vernon Place, Baltimore, MD, 21201. Visit them at: www.germansociety-md.com.
B&CSC Attends 12th Annual Submarine Races, Carderock Surface Warfare, DC, 06/2013
For B&CSC, submarines are on the agenda for 2013 and what better way to prepare for our upcoming commemoration of maritime pioneer Paul L. Koenig, captain of the U-DEUTSCHLAND, than to enjoy the competition at this years International Submarine Races! Held at the Naval Surface Warfare Center at the David Taylor Model Basin facility in […]
B&CSC Appears in THE STEUBEN NEWS, Mar/Apr 2013 for Capt. Koenig & the U-DEUTSHLAND Event
THE STEUBEN NEWS featured an article about the B&CSC in their March-April 2013 newsletter of the Steuben Society of America. Baltimore Plans a Tribute to Captain Paul L. Koenig by Use Hoffmann and Walter Mathers The invitation we received to take part in a memorial service described here connects us with Steuben Society history in […]


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Serena, Vika, Caro, and Shuai: My US Open Women's Quarterfinals Picks
I wasn't able to do any pre-tournament write-ups or picks for this year's US Open because of my assignment in New Haven. But now that I'm back in San Francisco with a bit of free time on my hands, the quarterfinals seemed like as good a place as any to get back on the horse and make some picks for the last Slam of the year. Ladies first!
Belinda Bencic (SUI) vs Shuai Peng (CHN)
H2H: No previous meetings
There's no match history between these two players, so there's not much to say on the prospects for this match other than generalities.
Bencic has played good tennis to reach the quarters; particularly in her match against the veteran Jelena Jankovic. I fully expected Jankovic to dig deep into her bag of tricks for a win against her 17 year-old opponent, but it didn't happen. Bencic, young and prone to some impatience/volatility, kept it together on one of the game's biggest stages; and in one of the biggest matches of her life.
Can she give a repeat performance in the quarters? That depends on her opponent, Peng Shuai. Peng steadily knocked off an impressive roster of players in reaching the quarters (Zheng, Radwanska, Vinci, and Safarova), and did so impressively without dropping a set. She's not a flashy player, and doesn't possess any huge weapons. But she will make you play solid and consistent tennis to beat her.
Bencic is certainly talented enough, but I'm not sure if she's steady enough at this stage in her career to rise to the occasion in a Slam quarterfinal. For that reason alone, I'll go with Peng. But I won't be surprised if it goes either way given the volatility of this year's tournament.
Pick: Peng Shuai
Caroline Wozniacki (DEN) [10] vs Sara Errani (ITA) [13]
H2H: Wozniacki leads 2-1
Underestimate Sara Errani at your own risk; especially after her revenge-fueled victory over Venus Williams the other day. It wasn't pretty. And yes, Venus is not the "Venus" we remember from her pre-Sjogren days. But none of that mattered in the end. Sara came away with the hard-fought victory, and has a chance to redeem her disappointing year in singles.
The same could be said for Caroline. After spotty results earlier in the year, she's played like Dane possessed during the summer hard court swing. She took Serena the distance in their two last tournaments (Montreal and Cincinnati), and knocked out Maria in a brilliant R16 match to reach the quarters. She's serving harder, hitting her forehand harder, and is notably mixing up her shot patterns to keep opponents off-balance. Moreover, her backhand winner on match point against Maria, a pre-2014 rarity, tells you everything you need to know about where Caro is with her game. (Hint: aggressive.)
I don't want to risk getting Sara riled up again, but I'm going with Caro in this one. Sara has picked up her game, but Caro's the one most primed for a breakthrough.
Pick: Caroline Wozniacki
Serena Williams (USA) [1] vs Flavia Pennetta (ITA) [11]
H2H: Williams leads 5-0
Serena is, of course, the prohibitive favorite in any match-up at any tournament. But this particular version of Serena is a bit more vulnerable and prone to meltdowns than the one we've come to know in recent years. With time winding down on her Hall of Fame career, she's put tremendous pressure on herself to reach coveted milestones. That pressure has virtually crippled her in the Slams this year, with early exits in Melbourne, Paris, and London. It says a ton that this is her first Slam quarterfinal of 2014.
Flavia's year has also been underwhelming after her early success in winning the title at Indian Wells. Her match results have been unpredictable at best, and haven't come close to those reaching the earlier highs of the year. In spite of it all, she's made it through to the second week, and is facing off against Serena for the second time at the Open.
Unfortunately for Flavia, she's only won a grand total of six games in her last four hard court sets against Serena. Even in a tournament filled with upsets, this does NOT bode well. I'm picking Serena to reach her first Slam semifinal with a routine win over the Italian.
Pick: Serena Williams
Victoria Azarenka (BLR) [16] vs Ekaterina Makarova (RUS) [17]
H2H: Azarenka leads 3-2
Ekaterina won their last match on clay in three sets (2013), but has yet to beat Vika on a hard court. She's a great player with big weapons who has managed some stunning Slam upsets over the past couple of years. Unfortunately, she's never backed up those upsets in the later rounds when the pressure was at its' highest.
Vika, on the other hand, lives for the big moments in the big matches. Sometimes she's a bit too prickly on court for my taste, but you can't deny her competitive fight. It's taken her to the Open final the past two years, and could very well again for a hat trick of final appearances in successive years. She came into New York with a ton of rust and lack of match play, but she's found a way to make it through.
She may not be playing her best tennis right now, but I've got to go with Vika for the win on her chutzpah alone.
Pick: Victoria Azarenka