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Martha Stewart Crafts™ Charm Bracelet
This lovely charm bracelet evokes the beauty and abundance of the sea. Simply link the finely detailed shells, creatures and ocean-colored beads to a delicate silver chain, and create a special memento to be cherished forever.
Designed by Kristin Hare, courtesy of Martha Stewart Crafts™.
Material List
- Crystal Pendant – Crab
- Charms – Sand Dollar, Under the Sea, Captain's Wheel and Resin Shells
- Jump Rings Twist – Silver
- Toggle Braid Clasps
- Fat Oval Chain – Silver
- Faceted Round Beads, 6mm – Blue and Green
- Round Beads, 8mm – Ocean Blue
- Bicone Beads, 8mm – Blue (2)
- Melon Matte Beads, 5mm – Clear
- Melon Beads, 8mm – Teal
- Rondelle Translucent Beads, 4x7mm – Aqua
- Round Prongs Rhinestone Settings, 10mm
- Round Rhinestones, 10mm – Amazonite and Peridot
- Head Pins, 2" – Silver
- Flat Nose Pliers
- Chain Nose Pliers
Project Instructions
Step 1 Cut chain to length. Add toggle to each end.
Step 2 Using jump rings, add charms to bracelet per photo, leaving space in between for rhinestones and beads.
Step 3 Place beads on head pins, and attach to chain between the charms as pictured.
Step 4 Place rhinestones in settings and fold down prongs with pliers. Attach to chain as pictured.

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Rouleur 20: Farewell to Perren St.
We couldn't let the twentieth edition of the magazine pass by without marking several milestones in Rouleur's short but celebrated lifetime.
Riders take a back seat for once as we celebrate the art of the bicycle, with legendary manufacturers De Rosa, Nagasawa, San Marco, Time and TA all receiving the Rouleur treatment, with images from Gerard Brown, Taz Darling and Ben Ingham.
We have included a style section with a difference, shot in the weird and wonderful Essex bungalows of east London's cycling clubs. Regular columnists Johnny Green, Matt Seaton and William Fotheringham wax lyrical on their component of choice. Mike Barry – father of Team Sky pro and Le Metier author Michael Barry – turns out to be a world authority on the seemingly dry, yet strangely intriguing, subject of derailleurs…
That's 162 pages of bikes, bits and the stories behind them, marking our departure from Kentish Town and Rapha HQ to our very own offices in Shoreditch. What better way to celebrate Rouleur's coming of age than with the perfect symbol of tinkerers and bodgers alike – the bike shed, shot on the roof of Imperial Works, Perren St.
"It happened by accident…well, most of it. We wanted to shoot the inside of a bike shed, so we spoke to set designer Rhea and model maker Luke and the rest was down to some seriously hard graft by them.
"The fact that we shot it on the roof at the old Rouleur HQ and Rapha's offices at Perren Street was down to Taz deciding it was the perfect setting, and as we'd just moved out, it just seemed fitting. Which meant that the shed had to be rebuilt there…
"We can't thank Luke aan de Wiel, Rhea Thierstein, Simon Watts, Samara Tompsett, John Sutcliffe (the model), Gino (the other model) and Ben Ingham enough as they all worked really hard to make the one shot work. That's it really - the farewell to Perren Street.
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8th October 2010 12:18pm
Looking forward to reading #20
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8th October 2010 07:11pm
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9th October 2010 09:14am
Au revoire et a bientot…On the road again.
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10th October 2010 02:46am
A great issue and a great gatefold sleeve to mark the move. I got to talk to Rohan Dubash on the Sigma Sport stand at the Cycle Show in London, what a nice man.
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Helping Someone Move
I helped my buddy move today. He lived in an old three-flat in the city but moved to the suburbs to be closer to his job–we joked and told him he was turning into a yuppie. The move was much more difficult than I expected because I developed a splitting headache not long after I woke up and now, over 15 hours later, it is still with me. I don't get headaches too often but man, today was a really bad day to get one. As a guy you're expected to be there for your friends and not back out of commitments with them, especially if it involves a major life change like a move. I didn't even wanna bring it up–all I did was take four ibuprofen and drink a lot of water and hope for the best. It didn't help though. Or rather, the ibuprofen and water did help the headache but the physical act of moving gigantic pieces of furniture down three flights of very narrow stairs made my headache worse, so it balanced out.
I know it probably isn't exactly fair to say, but in some ways women are lucky when they get headaches. It is usually a bit more socially acceptable for them to excuse themselves from needing to do things that may make headaches worse. Us guys are supposed to be tough and just deal with it. It doesn't help that men don't get very many headaches, outside of hangover-related ones, so people don't even really think about such a thing happening.
We did stop for something to eat in the middle of it all and that helped me feel a bit better. It also helps that my friends are funny and kept my mind off my unspoken misery, for the most part.
Either way, I can tell you I'm very happy to be home from helping my buddy move. He's all settled into his new place out in the 'burbs and I'm back at home with some Migralex stress headache relief that my friend told me to try (he said you can use it for other types of headaches we well) and an ice pack on my head, with a bad horror movie on the television. Getting a headache really sucks but knowing how mine are, after a good night's sleep I will wake up refreshed and headache-free. I just hope that next time one of my friends needs to move out of the top floor of a three-flat then I wake up that morning feeling 100%!
Five Years At My Other Job
As you know I'm a photographer in my heart, but I also have another job
For those of you that know me pretty well, today I celebrate a milestone. This is year number five of my (somewhat) lucrative career working as a mechanic. I had no idea I would end up doing this, considering I went to school for communications. Turns out my niche was on the complete opposite end of the spectrum.
How did it all start? Well, I got what I thought was my dream job right out of college, but found out quickly that I absolutely hate working in a cubicle. In fact, it only took a year for me to figure out that almost all of the jobs that I qualified for with my degree were jobs that I really couldn't see myself doing for a long period of time. Whoops, wish I would have figured that out earlier.
Well, a good friend of mine told me that his place was hiring a person to work on the large industrial machines in the factory he'd been working at since high school. These machines are massive…presses that are twenty feet tall, CNC machines that can cut about anything you could need, giant conveyors, robots, you name it. Well I didn't have a ton of experience but I had a good work ethic so they gave me a chance.
After about six months, I was finally in the full swing of things and discovered that I really liked getting my hands dirty. Something about fixing things just satisfies an innermost craving I have. I guess I could say it brings out my inner caveman. Either way, I had finally found something I loved, and knew I would stay here for a long period of time.
I love this job, and I definitely love the tools I get to play with on a daily basis. One of the coolest things I have at my disposal are hydraulic torque wrenches by TorqLite. This thing is pretty small compared to what it can do. I hook it up to a hydraulic power unit, hit a button, and this baby can drive a bolt with tens of thousands of pounds of torque. I think it's the fact that I have this kind of power at my disposal that makes me glad I work here. Like I said, this job brings out my inner caveman and every time I get to play with something as powerful as this, it's like I rediscover fire.
I'm Kinda DIY
I am in the process of remodeling my house and it has been nothing but easy. I keep hitting these little roadblocks and I'm starting to get pretty frustrated over the whole deal. I wish I was rich so I could afford to have somebody else do all the work for me but sadly that isn't the case. I'm hoping the next room I work on will go smoother than what I have done so far. I'm going to be working on my office and am going to keep it simple. I bought a bunch of wire shelves to hang up to keep things tidy in there for starters. I also bought a new computer desk and chair and am going to add some art to the walls and that's about it. I thought about putting up new wallpaper in there too but the fact is I'm not in there enough to justify doing that. I have both a laptop and netbook now and am rarely on my computer.
After the office I'm going to tackle probably my biggest project in this whole thing and that is my kitchen. I doubt you want to hear my plans for that but I'm going to tell you anyways. First off I'm removing all the cabinets. They are old and need to go. I already have some new ones picked out because I like to plan ahead. I am also getting a new granite table top which I can't wait to have. The old kitchen table and chair are also going although I haven't picked out anything new to replace them.
Last but not least is my downstairs. My friend Mark has a man-cave in his basement and I want to try to replicate that. It wont be exactly the same of course but it'll be close. I want to get the same sized TV that he has and the same sectional couch. I have spent many of nights on that couch of his so I know it is nice. I won't however be putting in a pool table like he has. I was never a big fan of shooting pool although I will do it on occasion. I should probably be honest and say I don't like it because I am downright terrible at it. I can never make any balls unless I get lucky and the way my friends play those lucky shots don't count.
Remember Film?
You know what one of the best parts about digital photography is? It's not the fact that you can immediately see your pictures as soon as you taken them (as opposed to having to wait to develop the film). It's not the ease with which you can digitally edit a photo. Both of those things are cool, don't misunderstand, but my favorite part is the the fact that everything is digital and that means storing your photos is simple.
I have shoeboxes and albums full of pictures from back in the day when I used a real camera with real film. I should really go through and scan all those pictures one day, but in the meantime they'll just stay in the albums.
But now that everything goes directly to my hard drive, I can do whatever I want with it, I can save the original, and I can send copies to everyone. If you want a copy of an actual photograph you have to develop the negatives into another picture, which takes money and time. If the pic is on my computer and I want another copy of it, I just copy and paste it and I'm done. It's much easier!
The other thing that's easier about keeping pictures on your hard drives is it's easier to back them up. If you lose the negatives for an original picture you're pretty much out of luck (well I mean you can scan the picture and have a copy of it that way, but then that's crossing into the computer realm). I've also been looking for an online backup for all my pictures (just in case something happens to my computer). There's always a cloud backup, you know, "the cloud", which is basically just a fancy term for the internet. Here's a Zipcloud review which is one such service. Basically they keep your data on their servers so if you lose your computer or your hard drive crashes or whatever you still have a backup copy. It's kind of a cool idea, and also makes it kind of convenient since you can access your files from anywhere, so like if I'm vising a friend and want to show them something I wouldn't have to bring my computer or external hard drive with me or anything. Just something to consider.
Of course, there is still something to be said for old school photography, it's just that using digital cameras is easier so it's no wonder they're so popular.
A Trip Down Memory Lane
I remember about 15-20 years ago when the internet wasn't widespread like it is now. In the early 90′s I discovered bulletin boards. You'd call up a bulletin board with your modem and access everything through a text-based interface. Bulletin boards were awesome. They had a basic form of email (you could send messages to other users of that board) and users could share files with each other. I remember getting a bunch of shareware games from them. It was actually really cool though because sometimes game developers would upload their own games there, too. The only problem was that you had to make sure the numbers you dialed weren't long distance or you might get a big phone bill!
I remember when the internet started becoming widespread. I had a trial; one month free. I gave it a try with my dial up modem and I was hooked! This was in the days before Google, of course, so I would hop over to Alta Vista or Excite and search for whatever I wanted. Most of the results were fan pages. It wasn't like it is now where everyone is trying to sell you stuff and there are ads all over everything. The early days of the commercial internet were just people with like interests talking and sharing information with each other.
I remember in the late 90′s and early 2000′s in university when we had classes on how the internet was going to transform the world. You have to keep in mind that most people there, and especially the teachers, weren't internet "nerds" like I was. Some of them were just getting their first email address ever through the university. We had classes about how the internet could revolutionize business by providing and outlet to sell goods and services without having to actually pay rent on a physical store location. We studied Amazon.com and some of the teachers said they weren't comfortable ordering books online. I remember sharing with them my brilliant strategy of going to a brick and mortar bookstore to find the books I wanted, and then ordering them online to save money.
Now I use the internet for even more. I pay my bills online. I spend countless hours online researching stuff (much of which is just for fun). I talk to other people on forums devoted to many of my hobbies: photography, music, cars, etc. Of course, there's YouTube, which needs no explanation. I can even stock my wardrobe online from many of the online clothes shopping Australia sites. There's eBay where I have bought (and sold) a lot of stuff. There are review sites for everything. I cannot even tell you how many new bands I have discovered online that I never would've heard of otherwise.
So yeah, there's all the cool business stuff. My professors were right about that. But I think it's even more impressive in its use for sharing information around the world.
The Dumbest Thing I've Ever Done
One of my best friends from the US is kind of freaking out right now. He just sent me this email:
"I am not too happy with myself right now. I got pulled over the other night and got charged with a DUI and am sort of freaking out about it. I don't know what is going to happen but I do know that I am going to be paying a lot of money. I also was reading online that I might have to do community service and counseling and the counseling is not free. This just couldn't come at a worse time for me financially. I have a huge medical bill from earlier this year that is looming over me like a dark storm cloud. I also will be starting to pay child support in a few months when my son is born. I'm no longer together with his mother in case you couldn't figure that one out. We broke up about a month ago and I'll save that story for another time as it is something I don't want to talk about right now.
I know that I'm going to need to hire a good lawyer to represent me in court. I found sarasotaduiattorney.net and I am going in to talk with them next week about my case. I don't think I can beat it but I'm not a lawyer. I do know that I wasn't that much over the limit and it wasn't like I caused an accident or anything like that. The reason I got pulled over to begin with was stupid. I was trying to put a CD in to listen to and dropped it on the floor. When I reached down to pick it up I swerved just enough for the cop three cars behind me to pull me over. I should have just stuck to listening to the radio but every single preset was commercials.
I know that I'll never again in my life get behind the wheel even after one drink. I know this first DUI is going to be bad but a second one from what my friend Kevin said is a lot worse. He should know because he has two on his record. I remember when he got his second one I had to drive him around everywhere. That was back when we lived really close which is no longer the case. He moved like an hour away a few years ago and we still stay in touch with one another."
I know my friend is a good guy and I wish him the best in dealing with this situation.
Scrapbooking Your Life
I was recently invited to a beach to do some photography for a friend. He's compiling a scrapbook of his life and wanted to get some shots of himself surfing. At first I wasn't sure what I thought of his idea, but then I realized I actually really liked it. It made me think of some of the times in my life that I've really enjoyed, like much of my experience in university, where looking back upon them I realize I wish I had taken more picture of myself and my friends. I actually do have an album full of pics from school, but like 90% of them are from Freshman year, and then for some reason there aren't really that many more from later years. This was back in a time before digital cameras were common and most people didn't even have a cell phone (much less a phone with a camera on it), so I'm talking about actual photographs. I did a lot of stuff and had a lot of fun, but it never really occurred to me to take pictures of it, and now all I have are memories instead of actual pictures.
So I was just like, that's a good idea, mate. Not only will he have a lot of personal memories for himself, but he'll be able to share them with friends and family as well.
So anyway, we get to the beach, and I'm pretty excited for this because I really don't have any experience with surfing other than occasionally seeing some people do it every now and again. The shoot went well, but it also sparked an interest in me to learn how to surf.
It was one of those things where you don't realize just quite how awesome it is before you actually experience it. Sure, I'd seen people surfing and sure it looked cool or whatever, but actually being there with my friend who was really into it and feeling the energy that goes with it already has me completely hooked. It's kind of like when you first go to a nightclub for the first time and actually feel the energy there. You can't explain it to someone who hasn't experienced it.
So this summer I will be heading to a Costa Rica surf camp and taking lessons, and hopefully getting someone to take pics of me, and I think I'm totally going to copy my friend's idea and start taking more pics of the things I do so I'll have some pictures to go with the memories.
Saving Your Pennies…
Camera equipment is expensive; it's no secret. This is also the reason why many people avoid getting into this adventure that we call photography beyond just taking casual photographs with their cellphones. If I would have been writing this blog post 10 years ago I'd replace "cellphones" with "entry-level digital cameras." The cameras on some cell phones today are better than digital cameras from just over 10 years ago.
Two things come to mind about this. First, I remember the first digital camera I ever saw. It was in 1999 and this camera actually took 3.5″ disks. Like you actually inserted them into the camera itself and it saved the pictures on there. The pics were really low resolution by today's standards but they were awesome at the time. It was one of the first commercially available digital cameras. And it was high tech!
The other thing I remember is when they started putting cameras on cell phones. I remember people saying "why would I want a camera on my cell phone? If I wanted a digital camera I would just buy a digital camera."
I remember thinking the same thing, too.
I remember the first cell phone I had that had a camera built into it. I don't even remember the resolution because the pics were pretty grainy, and it wasn't able to send picture messages (MMS), but you could copy them to your computer and then email them to your friends.
Why am I reminiscing? Because I remember saving my money and living a certain way so I could afford the equipment I wanted. Many of my friends spent their money on fun stuff: XBoxes, flat screen TVs (oh man, I should do a post on when flat screen TVs first became popular!), partying, etc. But not me. I would save my money for photo gear. I went on the ramen diet, I looked for more affordable car insurance rates, I bought my furniture used, I sold a bunch of old stuff on eBay, I bought my flatware at the discount store, and I never got into a $5 cup of coffee per day habbit. I remember when one of my friends from University got a state-of-the-art plasma TV. He was so happy cuz he got a great deal on it, and he told me how much he paid, and I remember thinking I could've bought two of those TVs with the amount of money I just spent on a lens last week.
And was it worth it? Oh heck yeah! Anyone who follows their passion will tell you the same. Ask a musician who forgoes having nice things so he can afford the gear he wants. Or the guy who saves all his money for car parts. Or the collector of Star Wars action figures.
It's a cool club and we're all members. Even the Star Wars toy collector.
(btw, check out the sweet macro shot of those coins)
Keep Track Of Your Expenses
Most people who take their photography to the level of being a professional don't really think about how their income and tax situation will change. Technically speaking, when people pay you to take pictures, that is income. And technically speaking, you're supposed to pay taxes on your income. That doesn't mean that everybody does, of course, but you should.
And you can get into some trouble if you don't.
Let's talk about a few of the things that change. Assuming you're getting paid for your work, you have income. As this technically makes you a professional, you may now be allowed to legally deduct some of your expenses from this income. For example, did you buy a new camera? That's a business expense, isn't it? How are you going to take those pictures that people are paying you for without a camera?
But it doesn't stop there. Do you ever drive to a shoot? That gas that you are burning on that trip may be a business expense, too. Did you pay someone to make a website for your business? Or maybe you made your own website and are paying for your own hosting and domain name. Those are all business expenses.
The more I read about how this all works, the more confused I became, so I went to a Five Dock accountant who helped explain everything and who now helps to prepare my taxes. Honestly, I figure it's better to do it this way, even though it costs a little more, because I want to make sure I'm doing everything legally and getting all the deductions and expenses and everything and not missing anything.
It is cool what counts as an expense, though. Many of them are things you'd be spending money on anyway. Advertising, your website, supplies, even your computer if you use it for work. Of course, none of this should be taken as business advice; merely things you should discuss with your accountant.
But don't stress about paying taxes. The only reason you have to pay taxes is because you made some money, which means you're doing something right! Hopefully that money will grow each year as word gets out and you improve your skills.
Just remember to keep good records of everything. You need proof that your expenses really exist, so keep all your receipts just in case. You might even want to enter them into an Excel file, too, since sometimes receipts are printed with cheap ink that gets lighter over time.
Taking Pictures of People
Spend enough time in this industry and eventually you will get the one request that, to non-photographers, sounds like the holy grail of photography: doing a model shoot.
Now, don't get confused. "Model" doesn't necessarily refer to an actual famous model; it could be anyone. I have had numerous people, both male and female, as me to take pictures of them. Most of them were from aspiring actors/actresses who wanted some decent head and body shots for their portfolio, or from people who were aspiring models and wanted some good quality pictures for their website.
It reminds me of the joke that boys would tell on the playground in school; what is the best possible job to have? Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue photographer! (Or, as you get older, the answer changes to "Playboy photographer.")
Working with people is different from just taking pictures of things or scenes. You actually have to give direction to the models and tell them what to do. If you're taking a picture of a house, for example, you can't tell it to move to the left a little bit because that shot would be optimal. It's a house. It's not going anywhere. But with people on the other hand, they can move, and so can you.
Some people take direction well. They love it. Other people seem to think they know what will be the best shot despite the fact that they aren't the ones looking through the lens.
Some people are also super cool to work with. They actually enjoy having their picture taken. Other people are neurotic. "How do I look? Does it look good? Do I look fat? Can you photoshop that out? Is the lighting ok?" But the thing to remember is that if your income depends on your looks, you might start to obsess over it. I remember one woman was telling me about all the supplements she uses to lose weight and stay in shape. She told me at least 10 different things, vitamins, amino acids, protein shakes, green coffee bean extract (which I had never even heard of before), and some other stuff of questionable efficacy. But hey, I don't know much about that stuff. They just pay me to take pictures.
Just remember to be professional. If you're doing swimsuit shots or whatever, you can't be giggling like it's the first time you've ever seen a woman in a bathing suit. I shouldn't even have to mention this, but some of the comments that I've gotten from clients have lead me to believe that it needs to be said.


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Working Abroad
Finding a job abroad isn't as simple as just looking at an international webpage. Remember, if you plan to work in another country, you'll be competing with job seekers who are native to that country, and probably have more connections. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't try, if working abroad is your goal. Here are some helpful tips on how to get started, and move towards that international job.
Short Term Work Abroad
Go Overseas - started with the simple idea of creating a centralized website to provide the resources required for meaningful travel abroad. That idea has grown and expanded into what you see here, a community driven website of like minded people who are all passionate about teaching, studying and volunteering abroad. GoOverseas.com features a popular 'Help Me Find a Program' forum where users regularly discuss a wide range of travel topics, and a blog community where we have brought together a wealth of overseas travel experiences. We also regularly post insightful articles to help expand the community's knowledge about opportunities to travel abroad.
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CIEE - Another fee based program which sends students and recent graduates on short-term work abroad programs.
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Fulbright US Student English Teaching Assistantship Program - An English Teaching Assistantship (ETA) places a Fulbrighter in a classroom abroad to provide assistance to teachers of English to non-native English-speakers. English Teaching Assistants help teach English language while serving as a cultural ambassador for U.S. culture. The age and academic level of classroom students varies by country, ranging from kindergarten to university level.
GoTeachAbroad.com - find teaching opportunities and connect with others who are interested in teaching abroad or have already gone.
ELS Language Centers - this is the only program in the NW where you can obtain CELTA credentials, the most widely recognized teaching credentials in the world. This program is based in Seattle and teaches Cambridge CELTA courses year-round.
CIEE - Fee based program which sends students and recent graduates on teach abroad programs.
Dave's ESL Cafe - Easy-to-navigate website for current and potential English teachers abroad.
Teach Abroad - Extensive website features job listings in several countries.
EduFind Jobs - Jobs and resources for TESOL professionals.
The Jet Programme - The Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Programme, now in its 24th year, is aimed at promoting grass-roots international exchange between Japan and other nations. The number of countries sending participants has risen over the years, as has the number of participants. In 2010, the Programme has welcomed 4,334 participants from 36 countries.
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Go Abroad - Good information about teaching abroad
EPIK (English Program in Korea) - Teach English in a public school through the Korean government.
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Overseas Jobs - Features international job opportunities for professionals, expatriates and adventure seekers.
Jobs Abroad - Extensive website features job listings in several countries.
Idealist - Work for a non-profit in the US or abroad.
Monster - The international section of this famous career website.
LatPro - The largest Hispanic and bilingual jobs and diversity career board in the Americas.
Fulbright Scholars Program - Prestigious scholarship to live and research abroad.
Going Global - Provides extensive country specific employment and career information. Online, unlimited access subscription database contains country career guides, corporate profiles and more than 100,000 international internship and job openings.
GraduateJobs.com - updated daily with graduate jobs from a wide range of companies worldwide.
Green Jobs International - Provides users with a continuously updated overview of various international paid jobs, internships and volunteering opportunities within the environmental, engineering and management sector.
USAJOBS - Database of national and international federal jobs.
United States of America Embassy - Search this site for job and internship positions with the US Embassy.
Worldwide NGO Directory - Provides contact information for NGOs all over the world.
The International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience - Provides students with international technical work experience.
4 International Careers & Jobs - An international employment directory and search engine featuring reviews and web rankings of2,200 career and job sites in 200 countries.
Australia Employment - Job postings in Australia.
Euro Jobs - Job postings in Europe.
AFFUT Job - Job postings for companies looking to hire in Africa.
Volunteering Abroad
Peace Corps - opportunity to serve in a developing country for 27 months in areas such as education, health, agriculture, environment, youth and community development, and business/ information technology. Oregon State University Representative: Sarah Kassel (email@example.com). There is also a Master's International Program available through the Peace Corps within the OSU Forestry department.
Volunteer Abroad Search - Database of a variety of volunteer abroad opportunities.
Explorations in Travel- the projects that you'll find on our site were started by people who saw a need and acted on it, by; starting a school, creating a reserve, building an animal shelter, growing organic food, etc.
Omprakash - We build partnerships with grassroots health, education, and environmental projects around the world, and connect them with volunteers, donors, and classrooms that can learn from and support their work. Volunteering is FREE!
Unite For Sight - supports eye clinics worldwide by investing human and financial resources in their social ventures to eliminate patient barriers to eye care.
GoVolunteerAbroad.com - find volunteering opportunities and see ratings from others who have volunteered at specific programs. Great research tool!
Other Resources:
Fulbright US Student Program - provides grants for individually designed study/research projects or English Teaching Assistantships. A candidate will submit a Statement of Grant Purpose defining activities to take place during one academic year in a country outside the U.S.
OSU International Programs: Helpful Tips on finding Work Abroad
University of Michigan, International Center - This university has a very thorough site on working abroad.
IE3 Global Internships - Oregon University System's unique international internship program
Global Edge - A rich collection of thousands of international business resources selected based on content and usability.
Studentsgoabroad.com - A placement agency for internships and voluntary work.
Mobility International USA - to empower people with disabilities to achieve their human rights through international exchange and international development.
Immigration to Australia - Answers the great deal of inquiries for information on Australian student visas and Australian Universities, as well as students wanting to work in Australia.
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Awwwwwww why is she so beautiful?
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I'm sure we'll find the videos on youtube too soon
P.s. Love her t-shirt!
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yikes, I guess WTH is back to being horrible
Those were nice performances. She's obviously just getting warmed-up for her Florida shows next month ...
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I thought What The Hell was good! I actually really loved the musical arrangement they put together!
The only complaint I have for the two performances is that she is doing this weird thing with her voice lately. She is singing like she is British and saying words like "girl" really oddly. It sounds really low and mispronounced.
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sadly i cant watch here in germany... youtube please
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BEER + WINE ISSUE: Tap rooms! Breweries! Wine bars! Keep up with all the latest openings (and what's coming soon)
BEER + WINE San Francisco is awash in a sea of suds right now, and based on the number of wine bars that keep opening, it's like there's a citywide edict that every neighborhood has to have at least one good wine bar — not like that's a bad thing. It's a lot to keep track of, though, which gets extra-challenging when alcohol is involved (hic), so consider this your handy cheat sheet on all the latest places to hit.
Let's start with the biggie, shall we? Locals are going nuts for this first US location of the famous Copenhagen beer bar (a partnership between Chuck Stilphen of The Trappist and Trappist Provisions and Mikkel Borg Bjergsø of Mikkeller). The draw? Forty taps of very choice beers that will keep you coming back, plus two cask handles, poured by a staff that is entirely composed of certified cicerones, so you can get an education with every sip. Downstairs, the Tivoli Sour Room just opened, where you'll find 80 bottles of lambics and sour beers. You can order up some beer-friendly food, like housemade sausages, soft pretzel rolls, sandwiches, and more. Expect a crush of humanity: yeah, this place is hot-hot-hot. 34 Mason, SF. www.mikkellerbar.com
The next time you find yourself in Union Square and in need of something frothy to drink, this casual place has more than 100 beers — with 50 on draft! It's also a game room, for those of you who dig things like shuffleboard. It has an adult clubhouse-meets-tavern vibe, sporting fun, eclectic décor (it's on the second floor of the historic Press Club building). 449 Powell, SF. www.ggtaproom.com
Right by that crazy wind tunnel on Market Street is this newly opened spot that's hard to notice unless you know it's there. (So now you know.) There are 20 taps of craft California beers, plus a retail selection with bottles you can cart home. Oh yeah, and if you're with someone who prefers wine, well, they'll find something to drink, too. It has a modern tavern look, and since it's right by the Twitter offices, expect a post-work scene. 1 Polk, SF. www.thebeerhallsf.com
Freshly opened — like, just this week! — is this new gastropub in the Design District. Twenty beers on tap include selections from afar, like Sculpin in San Diego or Ommegang in Cooperstown, NY, and local brews like Drake's Brewing Company and Social Kitchen and Brewery (chef Chris Wong was previously at SKB). There's a menu of cute pub fare; open for lunch and dinner. 680 Eighth St, #170, SF. www.blueprint-sf.com
One of the most exciting wine-related openings is inoVino in Cole Valley, because the owner, Claudio Villani, knows his shit. He was formerly the wine director at Perbacco, and here he has decided to focus on Alpine and volcanic wines of Italy. He wants the wines to be approachable, as in not breaking the bank, so that's always appreciated. Since it's an enoteca, there are also things to eat, like different presentations of mozzarella, bruschette, panini, and more. It has a chic look, with a Carrara marble bar, and sleek metal wine racks, and will be a great date spot, mark my words. 108 Carl, SF.
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Some farmers have already created their own slideshows. See here or here.
It is easy to create new slideshows; they are created with photos already in the farmer's photo gallery. Simply create groups of pictures by going into the manage gallery page and use the "tag" function.
Each photo can have multiple tags separated by a comma. For example, you may want to create a group of photos called "livestock" with all the pictures of your animals. See this screenshot of the manage gallery page for an example:
Now go to "Gallery Slideshow" page to create a new slideshow, select an effect, select the "livestock" tag group an then you will immediately see a page on your site with your new slideshow that would look something like this:
Use the subject line to stand out in a crowded inbox. As I was sending out the first Small Farm Central monthly mailing list of the fall (click here to sign-up), I started to think about email subject lines.
This is, perhaps, the most important aspect of the mailing list because it determines if the recipient reads and acts on the email. If the subject line is uninteresting and causes the reader to ignore the email, then any text in the body of the email is meaningless.
I read into the subject methodology (see links below) and apparently the best route is A/B testing on possible subject lines. So if you have a mailing list of 95,000 -- a few days before the big delivery test one subject line to 1,000 readers (the "A") and another subject line to 1,000 other email addresses (the "B"). Then look at opening rates of the emails and the winning subject line goes out to the remaining 93,000 recipients.
Easy, right?
Well, when your email list is in the low 100s instead of the low 100,000s, you don't have the luxury of A/B testing.
So I guess us mortal mailing list managers have to try our best with the tools we have.
The October '08 mailing for my list was entitled:
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which I think has to be better than:
"October 2008 Farm Marketing Newsletter"
Maybe you can think of an even more engaging subject line than I picked?
I think email subject lines are important for the farm mailing list because it absolutely does determine how many people open the message. Your customers are busy people just like you and you have to make them care.
Farmers have a distinct advantage over Target or Zappos.com because you have authenticity and you are selling something that consumers are actively searching for instead of a pair of shoes that can be bought at a dozen other outlets.
A good rule is to focus on what your customers care about first, so instead of:
"Weekly Product List for the week of May 5th",
try, "Last week for Asparagus! and see our young chicks grow"
This creates a feeling of urgency for asparagus and the promise of pictures or stories connects the reader to the farm. This type of subject line gives the potential reader a firm idea of the value that they will get if they click on the message.
If you want to go deeper into subject line research, you might like some of these articles:
We've written about mailing lists a number of times in the past here on the blog
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The new Small Farm Central site was released this morning. Thanks for the great design work, Nathan.
This is a big improvement over the previous design and it is a good base to build another year of great web services for farmers.
Come over to http://www.smallfarmcentral.com to check out the new site and let us know what you think!
Farm blogging is not necessarily difficult and time-consuming. Try regularly posting a photo and frame with a few words of background -- a vibrant photo with an engaging description will go a long way in creating a connection with your customers.
It shouldn't take you more than 10 minutes to post a blog entry like this. Perfect for those summer weeks when the last thing you want to do is write a long blog post.
Eugene from Catskill Merino, a sheep farm and Small Farm Central subscriber in Goshen, New York, does this consistently and effectively. See here or here.
Of course, every good rule is flexible and it is a good idea to break this rule if you do not have anything to say with a photo. If words do the job and you can't find a good photo, break the "one photo, one blog" rule!
(Whew, I made it to the end of the post without using some hackneyed "picture is a worth a thousand words" reference.)
Small Farm Central's latest development project was quietly released a few weeks ago (besides the Small Farm Central project we also provide professional web consulting and development services to agriculture-related organizations).
BuyLocalPA.org's goal is familiar: connect eaters with local sources of food. The technology takes the next step in modeling a local food system by combining the latest web mapping technology from Google Maps with advanced profile creation, local food event management, comment functionality, and more.
The site is open for free to any local food business in Pennsylvania, so if you are in the state head on over to the site and sign up.
Some sample searches:
Map the Pittsburgh area: http://buylocalpa.org/map/15224
Map Philadelphia: http://buylocalpa.org/map/19146
Who is selling lettuce currently near Pittsburgh: http://buylocalpa.org/map/search?text=lettuce&zoomlevel=9&zip=15224
Farmers Markets in Eastern Pennsylvania: http://buylocalpa.org/map?zip=19149&checkedcats=15
Events Near Pittsburgh (local food week is coming on September 21st): http://buylocalpa.org/map?lat=40.466800689697&lng=-79.993499755859&zoomlevel=10&checkedcats=event
A Few of the Innovative Features
Current Products: One of the big questions consumers have is: what is in season now? If you are looking for local corn in February, the site should reflect the fact that farms do not have corn available at that time. Farmers on BuyLocalPA.org create a list of all their products at the beginning of the season with general start of end dates of availability (using a fancy "slider" control) and then the software that runs the site takes a look at that list each week and automatically adds and removes products that should be in or out of season. Of course there is the ability to override the system just in case a strawberry crop fails.
Multiple Locations: Each profile can create multiple mapped locations. For example, if your CSA is located 50 miles outside of the city, but you do 15 drop points within the city, isn't it more important for potential members to know where the drop-off points are rather than the actual farm location?
Trading Partners: Farms and consumers can map out their food-shed by creating links on their profiles to sellers, buyers, farmers markets, and other profiles that are on the site. In this way, a consumer that was interested in Turner Farms milk can find out that the milk is sold at Whole Foods, Giant Eagle, and the East Liberty Farmers Market.
Stay Local: Searching and viewing is done at the zip-code level because eaters in Central Pennsylvania are not interested in the local food offerings of Northeast PA.
And many more innovations from event mapping to making local food connections between users (like, how can I find someone to share a side of beef with me this fall?).
The project will be supported by special features that are available only to paid consumer members and paid local food providers. This is an exciting model and I look forward to continued involvement in making it a success.
This is all part of the Pennsylvania Association of Sustainable Agriculture's (PASA) outreach to local food consumers. I am proud of this project and I hope Pennsylvanians will find something good to eat!
[The Blog had a birthday while we were away on an end-of-summer blog-holiday. I'm sure you didn't mind since you were out harvesting instead of reading, but we are back at the blog and you will see postings once a week for the fall, winter, and spring.]
The Small Farm Central blog has one year under its belt. I have greatly enjoying writing about web marketing topics from the unique perspective of the small farmer.
For those of you who missed these articles or who have just recently come to the blog, here are some highlights.
10 Highlights from the Early Days of the Blog
In no particular order, but I'll number them anyway.
1. August 21, 2007: First blog entry, What is this all about?
2. August 23, 2007 - November 1, 2007: A ten-part course in web design & marketing for farms, Farming the Web
3. August 27, 2007: Market sales drop at the end of the season, a condensed version of a discussion on the market-farming listserv.
4. Fall 2007: Beth Bader contributed recipes on a weekly basis last fall, this is a list of her contributions and a recipe for Cauliflower, Chard and Leek Gratin.
5. September 12th, 2007: An interview with Steve Sando of Rancho Gordo covers his blog marketing strategy and successes up to that point. Since last year, he has been featured in Gourmet magazine, among others, and his Internet sales have taken off even further.
6. October 9, 2007: Specific ideas to get you started on writing a farm blog, Part 1 & Part 2.
7. October 29, 2007: This blog post on canning, Canning is Ideology in a Jar, received several thousand hits from Stumble Upon and still is the most popular blog entry with over 5,000 views. Honestly, I am not sure why it is so popular, but the link got out to the right place.
8. November 12, 2007: We posted some sample cards to hand out at markets or other public facing places. This is a great way to generate hits on your website and help your customers understand who you are.
9. November 27, 2008: Did you know that there are 9 distinct ways to eat your home-canned food?
10. December 26, 2008: You never know who will visit your website or what connections you will make, so why not embrace the Serendipity Factor ?
To another year of farm marketing blogging and providing great web services to farms across the country. Stay in the conversation: tell us what you think, post comments, and ask about topics you are interested in.
Ever wonder how we control spam on Small Farm Central sites? We use a system that you have seen many times throughout the web called CAPTCHA (which stands for Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart).
This is a series of distorted letters and words that is difficult (or hopefully impossible) for a computer program to decipher, but is easy for the human brain to translate.
It's not really important for you to understand the specifics except that a CAPTCHA makes sure that a human is at the other end on comment submissions, emails from the website, mailing list submissions, and anywhere else that we take input from the user.
We use a really interesting implementation of the CAPTCHA called reCAPTCHA (starting in fall 2007) from Carnegie Mellon University which is coincidentally just a few miles down the road in the same city that Small Farm Central is based.
Each CAPTCHA word on Small Farm Central sites is scanned in by a project that is seeking to digitize the literary public domain. There are always certain words that the computer cannot understand as they attempt to encode these books, so the reCAPTCHA project takes the collective brain power that was heretofore wasted on CAPTCHAs and puts it to the task of deciphering these words so that these books can be searched and read digitally in the future.
I won't hope to match the reporting skills of the Wall Street Journal, so that covers the basics: read this Wall Street Journal article for all the interesting details! Thanks, Patrick for the link.
If you want to test a reCAPTCHA for yourself, you are welcome to try leaving a comment on this very entry.
This week we are adding a little theory to go along with the practical marketing advice. One of the key ideas of modern marketing is called "permission marketing" -- most of you are already doing this, but it is a helpful to have a framework and label for what you are doing to keep you on track.
Permission marketing is Seth Godin's term coined in a 1999 book which explains how businesses can effectively market themselves to their best customers without spending a lot of money and by providing value for the customer's attention.
In Godin's words: "Permission marketing is the privilege (not the right) of delivering anticipated, personal and relevant messages to people who actually want to get them."
This is in contrast to "interruption marketing" like television commercials, billboards, spam email, and junk mail which clutter our physical and mental worlds without adding value.
As farmers providing healthful products that add a lot of value to a customer's life, it is easy to get that permission to market to current and prospective customers. Godin says, you are using permission marketing if customers complain when they don't receive your messages. So, do you customers complain when forget to send the weekly newsletter?
Provide value every time you connect with your customers whether it is a story about your experience producing food or practical information that the recipient can use like recipes, product availability, or nutrition information.
An Agrarian Example
Get permission to send a weekly newsletter to your farmer's market customers. Be timely by sending out product availability for the market the night before. Be relevant by splitting up your list for different markets so only the people who go to a certain market get the message. If you muddy the message by including all your markets for the week you are wasting the attention that your buyers are giving to you.
Try to send this message for the first 10 weeks of the season and then see what happens on the 11th week if you forget to send the message. I think your customers will complain!
Further Reading on Permission Marketing
Do sales stop "cold" after the farmers market closes or you shut the doors on your farm stand in the Fall?
In October and November, there is usually hardy produce in the garden, meat in the freezer, and the chickens are still producing their eggs. Customers are still hungry for local food and it is finally cool enough in the kitchen to do some real cooking.
If you have been collecting email addresses all summer for your mailing list, your customers are just an email away. Use the Small Farm Central mailing list manager or send one on your own to let your customers know about your availability this fall.
Of course the ecommerce extension makes this process easy and efficient. Just set up your inventory, send a note out to your customers to tell them that the online store is open for business, watch the orders come in with email notifications, and then print a report when you are ready to pick and pack.
As you just sweat through another muggy summer day, it seems a bit premature to start thinking about the cool days of fall. The idea of heavy coat is so foreign at this time of year -- it is hard to remember being cold. But if you want to sell in that shoulder season, it is time to start collecting email addresses, planting a bit extra to sell during those after market months, and start informing your customers that this service will be available during the cooler months.
On a more summery note, I like the colorful ecommerce pages Green Gardens Community Farm in Battle Creek, MI created with Small Farm Central:
Or take a look at the "item detail" page for Kale that shows the customer exactly how this crop grows.


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The surprising results of a newly published study will shock people who have relied on choosing fresh, local organic foods as one way to avoid controversial chemicals associated with food packaging.
Those families who restricted themselves to fresh organic foods that had not had any contact with plastics saw their levels of both bisphenol-a and phthlates increase after five days of changing their diet. Both chemicals are associated with food packaging, and both are endocrine disrupting chemicals that may have a variety of effects on human health by altering normal hormonal function.
The surprising results contradicted a well-publicized study from March 2011 that showed a family sharply reduced its exposure by avoiding canned foods, plastic wrappers and plastic containers in favor of fresh organic foods.
What's more, the amount of exposure to one phthalate, DEHP, exceeded the dose considered safe by U.S. and international environmental agencies.
So what gives?
The research, published today in ournal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology, suggests that the food itself was contaminated. Specifically, milk and ground coriander.
Sarah Janssen, a senior scientist for the Natural Resources Defense Council, who monitors this issue, wrote:
DEHP and dozens of other phthalates have been approved as food additives since the 1960s by the FDA. They can be used in many types of equipment used in food processing including tubing, gloves, conveyor belts, lids, packaging, plastic wraps, adhesives and inks.
If you think about all the processing that milk goes through from the time it leaves the cow until it is put in the milk bottle, it comes into contact with a lot of tubing and other plastic parts that could leach fat-loving DEHP molecules into milk. In clinical medicine, we already know that PVC tubing can contain high amounts of DEHP and when DEHP tubing comes into contact with fatty liquids, significant amounts of DEHP leach into the liquid. Even FDA has recognized this for medical devices. Milk and other dairy products come into contact with a lot of plastic tubing during processing which could explain why they are contaminated with DEHP.
However, it isn't obvious how spices could become so highly contaminated with the chemical.
The average consumer who isn't giving up dairy (though there are plenty of good vegan recipes, and health reasons, to recommend that diet) or spices (no one, to our knowledge, has advocated a spiceless diet). And Janssen says that the results aren't definitive enough to offer instructive guidance to consumers:
Wouldn't it be better if the FDA was on top of this and could tell us which foods are most contaminated with phthalates? Don't hold your breath. FDA has not done any testing of the food supply for these chemicals and hasn't kept track of who is using them since they were first approved for food contact use over 50 years ago.
What we really need is for the FDA to do their job of protecting public health and ensuring all food is safe by revoking approval of of harmful chemicals currently used as food additives.
The authors of the study more or less agreed, writing "In the absence of regulation to reduce phthalate and BPA concentrations in food production, it may be difficult to develop effective interventions that are feasible in the general population."
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