World Heritage Student Exchange Program, a highly respected, non-profit, public-benefit organization, is seeking local host families for high school boys and girls from Scandinavia, France, Germany, Italy, Thailand, China, South Korea, and the former Soviet Republics. Students are anxiously awaiting word on who their host families will be for the 2017-18 academic school year. Host families provide room, board, and guidance for a teenager(s) living thousands of miles from home. Couples, single parents, and families with or without children in the home are all encouraged to apply.
The exchange students arrive from their home country shortly before the 2017-2018 school year begins and each World Heritage student is fully insured, brings his/her own personal spending money and expects to bear his/her share of household responsibilities, as well as being included in normal family activities and lifestyles.
If you are interested in opening your home and sharing your family life with a young person from abroad, please contact Area Coordinator, Courtney Wade at
866-939-4111 or via email at Courtney@World-Heritage.org. Please also visit our website at www.whhosts.com.
WORLD HERITAGE INTERNATIONAL STUDENT EXCHANGE PROGRAMS, FORMERLY KNOWN AS SPANISH HERITAGE, IS A NON-PROFIT, PUBLIC BENEFIT ORGANIZATION AFFILIATED WITH AND OPERATED UNDER THE SPONSORSHIP OF ASSE INTERNATIONAL. WORLD HERITAGE PROGRAMS ARE CONDUCTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE HIGH STANDARDS ESTABLISHED BY THE U.S. COUNCIL ON STANDARDS FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL TRAVEL (CSIET). WORLD HERITAGE IS ALSO A MEMBER OF THE ALLIANCE FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL EXCHANGE.
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Underwater photographer Norbert Wu’s Great White Shark photo is the basis of an illustration that was used to create the Great Shark Forever stamp that was issued last week. The Postal Service receives about 40,000 suggestions for stamp ideas each year but only about 25 make the cut. To have your work appear on a stamp is remarkably rare.
Norb lives in Pacific Grove, CA, and has a great backstory. He is open to doing interviews but is hard of hearing and prefers emails: office@norbertwu.com. www.norbertwu.com
As stock photos were used for the design of the other shark stamps we don’t have contact info on the photographers. Stamp artist Sam Weber is also a good interview. Feel free to reach out to Sam at sam@sampaints.com
Here’s his website: http://sampaints.com/
Here’s the link to the news release: http://about.usps.com/news/national-releases/2017/pr17_039.htm
Here’s a link to b-roll from the Sharks Forever Stamps dedication ceremony at the Newport Aquarium in Newport, KY. Norb was unable to make the event. Go to 2:41 to see the unveiling b-roll.
https://uspsvideo.com/shop/video/shark-fdoi-video/
Norbert Wu is an independent photographer and filmmaker who specializes in marine issues. His writing and photography have appeared in thousands of books, films, and magazines. He is the author and photographer of seventeen books on wildlife and photography and the originator and photographer for several children's book series on the oceans. Exhibits of his work have been shown at the American Museum of Natural History, the California Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Museum of Wildlife Art.
He was awarded National Science Foundation (NSF) Artists and Writers Grants to document wildlife and research in Antarctica in 1997, 1999, and 2000. In 2000, he was awarded the Antarctica Service Medal of the United States of America "for his contributions to exploration and science in the U.S. Antarctic Program." His films include a pioneering high-definition television (HDTV) program on Antarctic's underwater world for Thirteen/WNET New York's Nature series that airs on PBS.
He is the only photographer to have been awarded a Pew Marine Conservation Fellowship, the world's most prestigious award in ocean conservation and outreach. He was named "Outstanding Photographer of the Year" for 2004 by the North American Nature Photographers Association (NANPA), the highest honor an American nature photographer can be given by his peers.
His newest children's book (with text by Jim Mastro), Antarctic Ice, was selected as an Outstanding Science Trade Book for Students by the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) and the Children's Book Council (CBC). His newest large-format illustrated books, Diving the World and Under Antarctic Ice, are now out.
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SIRMA
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DEBUT EP TO LOVE
VIA POPMATTERS
LISTEN HERE
EP AVAILABLE NOW ON DIGITAL PLATFORMS
"To Love is cerebral, layered electropop that is as complicated as you want to make it." -PopMatters
July 31, 2017 - NEW YORK, NY - Alternative electro-pop artist, SIRMA, is streaming her debut EP, To Love, exclusively via PopMatters. Listen HERE. SIRMA creates "music depicting the stages of falling in love", PopMatters notes. "To Love is cerebral, layered electropop that is as complicated as you want to make it." To Love is available now on all digital platforms. For more information, please visit: http://sirmamusic.com.
Born in Istanbul, SIRMA began dabbling in music at an early age, studying both classical music and jazz as a child. After she was awarded the prestigious Arif Mardin Music Fellowship, SIRMA came to the United States to attend an intensive summer program at Berklee College of Music in 2007. She would later return to the US and attend Berklee as a full-time scholarship student in 2009, majoring in Contemporary Writing & Production.
SIRMA graduated from Berklee in 2013 and moved to NYC, where she worked on several international commercial music projects as a singer and gained experience as a sound engineer while working at Terminus Recording Studios. That same year, EDM producer Illenium came across SIRMA's early demos on Soundcloud and proposed a collaboration, which was later released as the first single from Illenium's debut Risen EP, "Drop Our Hearts". The track, featuring SIRMA's vocals, quickly rose to #1 on the Dubstep charts. A year later, upon popular demand, Illenium, this time additionally teaming up with Said The Sky, proposed to make "Drop Our Hearts (Part II)", which SIRMA co-wrote and lent her vocals to. "Drop Our Hearts (Part II)" premiered on EDM.com and rose to #1 on the Dubstep charts within the first week of its release.
After several encounters with a wide range of genres, SIRMA spent the following two years working on developing her own sound, by writing, recording and producing at her home studio in Brooklyn. Now, after being called an "exciting pop hope from New York City's rich melting pot of talent" by The Line of Best Fit, SIRMA has released the first product of this seclusion and self-discovery- her To Love EP-on July 28th.
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For more information, please visit:
https://www.facebook.com/sirmamusic
https://www.instagram.com/sirma/
https://soundcloud.com/sirmamusic
https://www.youtube.com/sirmamusic
https://open.spotify.com/artist/2fYZQJ1iohAImNGjuZoFrz
https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/sirma/id805862917
To Love EP
1. Dancing Into Life
2. Eclipse
3. Love In The Dark
4. Free Fall
