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Palm Beach, Parks, Poached Eggs... Escape is Just a State of Mind No Matter Where You Are......... .................25
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In Her Own Words: Spencer George The Founder of #NOTYOURGIRL... ............31 The Escape Report Everything to Feed Your Wanderlust Soul ......52
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How to Throw Like a Girl Valerie Nies........................................................... 54
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What Matters Isn’t Where We Went But That We Went... Ela Carpenter .................................................48
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Putting this issue together was such a great escape for us, and we have pages of escapism for you, whether you’re planning on traveling the world or having a staycation and exploring your own city like a tourist. We have a spread that will incite you to get into an escapist state of mind, pages of tips for your inner adventurer, profiles of people who have all sorts of ways to escape the sameness of their daily grind—and they inspired us to do the same. Don’t skip over the amazing essays from
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Sightseeing via canoe? The closest to Charleston is Congaree National Park. Marvel at some of the oldest trees in the country, camp out, or take a trip by canoe on the 15-mile Cedar Creek Canoe Trail. Ready to pitch a tent? Assateague Island, a barrier island off the coast of Maryland, has you covered. Chances are good for a sighting of at least a few of the 150 wild horses that inhabit the park. Mountain climb like a pro? Try the tallest one on the U.S.—the Atlantic Coast in Acadia National Park, Maine.
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To travel is to escape. People go to other places for many reasons, but at the core of countless films, books, and documentaries is the desire to travel— to move, to feel, to live.To be in a different world entirely, even if only for a few days. I travel to become a new person, a better person. I travel because every time I leave, I come back holding more knowledge than I did before. Traveling allows me to get outside of my head and immerse myself entirely in new cultures, experiences, and personas. It is, most simply, a way to escape from ourselves—our lives and our sufferances, our desires and our routines. I have been fortunate to have had opportunities to capitalize on my passion for travel, getting to explore places such as the oceans of the Mediterranean or the cliffs of the Irish coast.This past summer, I travelled to Peru to hike the Salkantay trail to Machu Picchu. In the fall, I will be moving to Italy for my freshman year of college. Every time I print out a new boarding pass and sit down in another sticky airplane seat, I am filled with excitement and joy for a new experience. I am filled with the desire to escape from the ordinary and live in a world of wonder and thrill. To me, escape through travel is a beautiful thing. It allows us to grow, learn, and understand more—both about ourselves and others—than we might have been able to before. Breaking free from the routines and lives we may have otherwise grown stuck in is one of the most important parts of life. If we do not travel, we run the risk of becoming stuck in the everyday rather than the extraordinary. And it is my utmost belief that we should always seek out the extraordinary in life, even if we do not get on a plane to do it. So I urge you to go.Travel. Learn. Grow. Seek the extraordinary. Because adventure is everywhere- we just have to know how to look for it.
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Rob first tried Zumba with coworkers on a military base in Germany. He had been an officer in the Marines for eight years and was skeptical. “It’s something men don’t traditionally do…I didn’t see anyone like me in that class,” he said. But it was one of the best cardio workouts he had ever had. Group fitness had been part of his culture in the Marines, and after he became a civilian and was trying to shed weight, he found that he didn’t enjoy gym workouts. “At some point I said, ‘This is enough, I’m not sexy anymore, I need to go and fix this.’” Why Zumba was the solution: “The beauty behind Zumba is that it’s exercise in disguise.” Now, in addition to working for the government in Charleston, Rob is getting
others to experience the power of Zumba. He owns and teaches classes at Power Zone at Riverside Sports in Mount Pleasant, offering that community a fitness option beyond gym memberships. “Some people just want to dance,” said Rob, who describes his classes as intense but simple enough for beginners. He’s hosting a Zumbathon charity event June 25 for the public at Power Zone to benefit Active Heroes, which serves veterans with PTSD.Veterans and families of veterans from around the region will participate. “It’s a party,” he said. “While you’re in a class you’re just enjoying yourself…For that one hour you escape into Zumba where you’re just dancing and
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BABY STEPS “ Ye s . I j u s t n e e d e d t o g e t t o t h e S u n G a t e .” “Take a vacation from your problems,” Dr. Leo Marvin prescribed. While trying to escape a mundane 9-5 grind and late 20s existential crisis, my vacation turned into my problem. However, the advice of this fictional psychiatrist echoed in my head. The movie “What About Bob?” is a long-time family favorite. In it, Dr. Marvin treats an agoraphobic, obsessive-compulsive Bob by giving him a copy of his book, Baby Steps, where he is taught to break down all of his anxieties into smaller actions. Baby steps up the next 500 feet; baby steps to that rock, baby steps...This mantra echoed through my head as I hiked the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu. Turns out this is actually a high altitude hiking technique: walk for fifteen counts and rest for five. Travel guides described the Inca Trail as a mystical journey. One TripAdvisor review read, “Passing through the Sun Gate and seeing that magical view of Machu Picchu was the most spiritual experience of my life.” Yes. I just needed to get to the Sun Gate. The path, though, was rugged and steep and included a section called “Dead Woman’s Pass.” This involved hiking uphill for five hours to an elevation of about 14,000 feet. Prior to my trip, I was advised to find preparatory hikes where there was an altitude change of at least 5,000 feet. I figured a pretty good equivalent could be found in my morning commute when I walked up the 188 foot metro escalator at Dupont Circle. My concerned friend, Laura, had hiked the trail a couple of years before and she encouraged me to get more serious about my training. “Honestly,” she said, “the hike feels like you are doing a stair master for eight hours a day.” What I lacked in physical preparedness though, I made up for in gear. As an indoorsy person, I had never been camping. Nervously conferring with REI sales associates, I spent hundreds of dollars acquiring it all—hydration packs to insert into a brand new backpack, a thermal sleeping bag, trekking poles, hiking socks, sock liners, water purification tablets, electrolyte gel packets, zip off hiking pants, a Diamox prescription for altitude sickness, and so on. Like the shopping list, our first day in Peru had been dutifully planned months in advance. It was devoted entirely to acclimating to the high altitude. But, in our very American way, we decided we should maximize our time in Peru by booking a bus tour of ancient ruins in Ollantaytambo. I spent all six hours in the back of the tour bus vomiting coca tea into a bag while my sister gently patted my head. My sister, brother-in-law, best friend and I had all been chugging this purported altitude sickness elixir since landing. Swallowing Diamox with coca tea worked for everybody, but me. My nagging headache became throbbing, so I stopped at a roadside Medico Centre where a Peruvian woman rubbed some type of herb between her hands and instructed me to sniff. If I hadn’t thought I was dying, I would have asked if this was some sort of a “smell my finger” joke. Instead, I inhaled deeply. This did nothing, so a man in a white coat handed me several very large chalky pills.
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Katie Geer escapes into art.
Katie is the Director of newly opened contemporary fine art gallery, Meyer Vogl Gallery, featuring her mother’s artwork. “It had just been something my mom and I have always talked about—that we would open an art gallery together,” said Katie, who grew up in Charleston surrounded by her mother, Laurie Meyer’s original artwork and artist friends. “I grew up helping her out with her art in little ways,” she said, like setting up her mother’s artwork for Piccolo Spoleto displays in the summer in high school. After working as a writer/ editor for Everydayhealth.com in New York, she moved back to Charleston and did parttime work with Anglin Smith Fine Art. Here, she said, the possibility of her working in
the art world started to feel tangible. Now she is full-time with Meyer Vogl Gallery, which spotlights works by Meyer, Marissa Vogl and local and nationally recognized guest artists. Katie handles the gallery’s marketing, social media and coordination of shows, like the upcoming “She” exhibit featuring female figurative works. This category happens to be her favorite when it comes to her mother’s creations. “Her use of light is really incredible,” Katie said. For now, the gallery space is set up with a cozy, living-room-like seating area, so, she said, “You can look out and imagine that the artwork is in your own home.” You can also sip wine while you make your selection. “I love sending a beautiful painting home with someone.”
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article, “14 Amazing Trips You Can Take With the Average Tax Return.” Huh? Whose spending their tax return on vacations? Did I miss the memo? This money is already promised to the new tires my car needs, my upcoming possible two cavities and “we need to look into that pain you are feeling under your back tooth.” I will be lucky to get a pedicure out of that money. I pass out cold 10 minutes into my Wednesday night Netflix binge. What happened on “House of Cards” again? Did the Underwoods take a vacation? Now it’s serious. Yours truly, “I Need a Vacation.”
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Spoleto Festival favorite René Marie is known for her distinctly American mélange of jazz, soul, blues, folk, and gospel on the beautifully renovated stage of the Charleston Gaillard Center. Her 2016 performance will include a commissioned work—“Be the Change”—inspired by the community outpouring after the nine murders in Charleston’s Emanuel AME Church in 2015.
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W H AT M AT T E R S I S N ’ T W H E R E W E W E N T, B U T T H AT W E W E N T AT A L L “What would a life living here be like?”
I didn’t want to go. I did, but I didn’t. I wanted to be the kind of person who would go, without actually having to be the person who went. Ever since we found out my husband got a two year teaching job in Boston, the plan had been to spend our one long summer vacation in the states driving out west. We would buy a VW Eurovan, with the back seat that folds down into a bed, and hit the road for the adventure of a lifetime – my husband, myself and our three-month-old baby. When I was pregnant and the plan was still in the future, it seemed like a good idea. But once our daughter was born and spring started to warm into summer, I grew more and more afraid. What if something happened? I was a new mother; what was I thinking leaving behind the safety of our apartment, our nascent routines, our pediatrician? Some worries like this I could name, but some I could not; insidious, they were just there, a constant background noise to our preparations. The only thing that outweighed these fears was the fear that fear might win, and in so doing would show that it always got the better of me. I did not want to be that person, I did not want to be that mother to my daughter. It was this that got me through the packing, the final preparations and into the van. As we pulled out from the curb and left Boston behind, I felt the giddy rush of victory. I left the state of constant anxiety about what could be and entered one where things simply became. We were on the road. I liked who I was behind the wheel; I liked who we were as a family. Forever heading west, needing only what we brought with us, we were adventurers, young and alive. As our wheels turned over the tarmac the whole landscape seemed to hum with possibility. What next? We learned how to camp in the van, how to unpack, pull out the bed and make our home for the night. We bathed our daughter outside as the light faded, before tucking her into bed and eating our dinner, pasta and sauce cooked on a small gas stove. There was something about being outside as the night drew in, feeling it on your skin, that made the food taste better and the day behind you feel more your own. For lunch we stopped at cafes and diners, sometimes just where we found
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them, other times seeking them out in the towns we came across. Dots on the map became real places and we walked the streets and asked ourselves, “What would a life living here be like?” The days built a rhythm. We’d get up and fold the bed away as quickly as possible so we could get a good number of hours driving in whilst our baby slept. She dozed, oblivious, through fields of bison, down winding mountain roads surrounded by forest. She stayed in her own dreams as our little white van passed through dreamlike landscapes, scars—wrought by volcanic violence thousands of years before we arrived—etched across the earth. I took photographs, trying to get her in the frame. “See—you were there!” I will tell her one day, pointing to the brilliant blue of Crater Lake, or the looming grandeur of the Grand Tetons just visible through the window beyond her car seat. Sometimes she cried and we would pull over so that I could feed her. In that blessed quiet we would stare out at the place where no one plans a stop and notice the details we would otherwise have sped past. The bullet-hole in the information sign, the dilapidated house in the field of corn, the crickets feasting on the corpse of a beetle on the tarmac. How much did we pass by without seeing? There was so much country, so much road. Eventually we reached the Pacific, then turned around and made our way back. In the Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota, camp fatigue set in and the romance came to an end. There was nothing dramatic, it was just time. It had been over a month, we had done what we set out to do; we had driven as far west as we could and now on the homeward stretch we were done. With the decision made, Interstates carried us home in a matter of days. Back in Boston, each day felt like a jump from a standing start, with no inherent momentum to drive it forward. I put together a photo book of the trip for our daughter to show her when she is older. I imagine her looking at it, flicking through the pages, seeing where we went, what we did. But what I most want her to see as she takes the book down from the shelf, years from now, is that no matter who we become, no matter what kind of parents we turn out to be, we were once these people— adventurers, young and alive.
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THE ESCAPE REPORT
A BACKPACK THAT PROVES TO BE THE PERFECT ACCESSORY. WHAT? YOU’VE NEVER BEEN TO TANZANIA? THREE WORLD CUP WINS AND FOUR OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALS AND WOMEN’S SOCCER IS STILL EARNING 40% OF WHAT THE LOSING MEN’S TEAM GETS PAID? IKEA GOES FROM HOME SWEET HOME TO SWEET CITY BIKING. GUESS WHO’S SPENDING $125 BILLION ON TRAVEL THIS YEAR? HAPPINESS IS SPENDING MONEY ON A TRIP. THE AVERAGE ADVENTURE TRAVELER IS 47-YEARS-OLD, FEMALE, AND WEARS A SIZE 12? AND FOR SOME REASON, YOU ARE NOT TRAVELING WITH FAMILY ANYMORE.
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Pa c k i n g f o r t h e Pe r f e c t E s c a p e
Equipped for Escape
Whether you’re traveling in the States or around the world, your backpack must be your everything accessory. The North Face created the Inductor Charged Backpack with a removable battery pack, a flat laptop pocket (TSA-friendly), and places to stow your charging cords. TheNorthFace.com
Escape Injustice
As the Summer Olympics approach, it’s unclear if the U.S.’s World Cup-winning women’s soccer team will compete.
Not only are several team members suing for equal pay, but the players say an Olympic boycott is very much a possibility if nothing is being done about the problem. Despite the fact that the Women’s National Team has won three World Cups and four Olympic Gold medals in the past three decades, they are paid only 40 percent of what the men’s team makes—even though the men’s team hasn’t won a World Cup since the 1930s. Our take? There’s more than one way to kick some ass. AVAILABLE WORLDWIDE IN AUGUST OF 2016.
“A JOURNEY IS BEST MEASURED IN FRIENDS, RATHER THAN MILES.” Tim Cahill
A site that helps women plan tours and travel destinations specifically for women all over the world.
Founder, Beth Whitman launched WanderlustandLipstick.com. Plan your own solo travel, or sign up for one of Beth’s amazing tours to India, Papua New Guinea, Bhutan, Vietnam & Cambodia, Burma, Thailand & Laos, Bali & Java and Tanzania.
Girls Just Wa n n a E s c a p e
FACT: According to travel agents, the majority (91%) of female clients who book trips with other females are traveling with their friends, while only 8% are traveling with relatives. The Average Escapee
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Swedish furniture giant IKEA is set to release a lightweight Sladda bicycle tailored for city environments, designed with a rustfree belt to replace the traditional bike chain.
The aluminium bike will require little maintenance, and was created by Oskar Juhlin, Jan Puranen and Kristian Eke from Swedish studio Veryday Design.
FACT: The average adventure traveler is not a 28-year old male, but a 47-year-old female. And she wears a size 12 dress. (Source: Intrepid Travel)
IKEA’s Sladda has already snagged a Red Dot Design Award for Best Product Design and was also recognized as the “Best of the Best” in the groundbreaking design category.
Travel marketers, take note: 80% of travel decisions are made by women and are expected to spend $125 billion this year. (Source: Forbes)
Escape Happily
Studies show that money spent on travel makes you happier than money spent on material goods.
(Source: Happy Money:The Science of Smarter Spending, authors Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton)
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VA L E R I E N I E S
Valerie Nies is a comedian, writer, and breakfast lover living in Austin, Texas. She wants a dog but is afraid of commitment. Read more about Valerie at ValerieCallMe.com.
1 . A P O L O G I Z E T O T H E B A L L B E F O R E T H R O W I N G I T. 2 . G E T PA I D 7 7 C E N T S P E R D O L L A R A M A N G E T S PA I D TO T H ROW T H E S A M E B A L L . 3 . T H R O W A B A L L A N D W AT C H A M A N T A K E C R E D I T F O R T H R O W I N G I T. 4 . W E A R A PA N T S U I T TO F O O L P E O P L E I N TO T H I N K I N G Y O U ’ R E A C T U A L LY A M A N T H R O W I N G T H E B A L L . 5 . T H R O W O N A P I N K S C A R F S O P E O P L E K N O W T H AT E V E N T H O U G H YO U ’ R E M A N E N O U G H TO W E A R A PA N T S U I T W H I L E T H RO W I N G A B A L L , Y O U ’ R E A L S O N O T A F R A I D T O S H O W O F F Y O U R F E M I N I N I T Y. 6 . T H ROW T H E B A L L T H RO U G H A G L A S S C E I L I N G . 7 . L E T A M A N I N T E R R U P T YO U W H I L E T H RO W I N G A B A L L . 8 . T H ROW T H E B A L L A N D WO N D E R I F YO U ’ R E A C H I E V I N G W O R K - L I F E B A L A N C E . 9 . S E E OT H E R W O M E N T H RO W A B A L L . C O M PA R E YO U R T H I G H S TO T H E I R S . 1 0 . B E F O R E T H R O W I N G T H E B A L L , O R D E R A G R E E N J U I C E , TA K E A S I P. D O N ’ T F I N I S H I T. I T T A S T E S T E R R I B L E . 1 1 . F I N D S O M E O N E TO T E L L YO U TO S M I L E M O R E W H I L E T H ROW I N G A B A L L . 1 2 . T H ROW A B A L L A N D T H E N R E S C H E D U L E YO U R B R U N C H P L A N S F O R T H E F O U RT H T I M E . 1 3 . B E F O R E T H R O W I N G A B A L L , WAT C H A YO U T U B E H A I R T U T O R I A L A N D A T T E M P T A F I S H T A I L W AT E R F A L L B R A I D . 1 4 . T H R O W A B A L L . T H E N , T W E E T A B O U T I T W I T H T H E H A S H TA G # T H ROW L I K E AG I R L . 1 5 . T H R O W A B A L L . C O N S TA N T LY A S K O T H E R S W H AT T H E Y T H I N K O F YO U T H RO W I N G A B A L L . 1 6 . M A K E A V I S I O N B O A R D O F YO U T H RO W I N G A B A L L . 1 7 . A F T E R R E A D I N G A N A RT I C L E I N M A R I E C L A I R E , L E A R N T H A T T H E B E S T W AY T O T H R O W A B A L L I S T O S T O P L O O K I N G F O R A B A L L T O T H R O W.
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Jessica Koenig escapes on the water. Jessica’s childhood was filled with weekend sailboat getaways on the Chesapeake Bay with her family and she attended a summer sailing program before her teenage years. “I just loved being out on the water and found it so relaxing and calming and it gave me the confidence to do things in other aspects of my life,” Jessica said. She sailed competitively in college and went to teach the sport in Charleston, where she has been Executive Director of Charleston Community Sailing for a decade. On the water or at her desk, Jessica is working to grow the nonprofit’s vision to give access to anyone with a desire to sail, regardless of background. In particular, she said, “I enjoy working with children and sharing
this experience with them —these are lifelong skills.” In her time at the organization, Jessica has seen the amount of people they serve on the water grow from 150 to 700, and the number of boats in use has tripled to about 45. Another number that has the potential to rise is the number of women starting to sail, thanks to the nonprofit’s program called Women on the Water. Jessica said she wants “to help empower other females to get out on the water in a supportive element.” And as a woman on the water herself, Jessica keeps her competitive edge beyond work by racing with her sailing team, Monsoon. She said, “I love working with a team and developing that bond with them and working toward a
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Joan Leotta is a writer and story performer and lives in Calabash, NC. Her next picture book is “Summer in a Bowl” and will be released in September.You can find out more about Joan at joanleotta.wordpress.com.
S E E I N G C L E A R LY I N F O G “ W e w e r e a l o n e o n t h a t s i d e r o a d . A v e r y d a r k r o a d .” It was October, 1976. My mother had flown from Pittsburgh to Washington, D.C. to help me drive from Washington D.C. to Dallas, Texas, where I would take on a two-month work assignment. “Driving such a distance, you need someone with you,” Mom told me, unannounced, uninvited at my apartment, three days before I was to leave. The drive did seem shorter with someone along. She did not try to “boss me.” She read the maps and pulled snacks out of the back seat for me while I drove. It was also nice not to be alone in the cheap budget motel I had booked. On the second day, we briefly stopped in Hot Springs, Arkansas on our slow drive to Dallas, because for many years my grandparents had spent every February there. The “Springs” were in decline at the time so, after a late lunch and exploring a bit, we opted to push on despite the fact that our five-in-theafternoon start meant a nighttime arrival in Dallas. The map said it was just over four hours away. That estimate, however, did not account for a detour and hellish weather. Somewhere just outside the boundaries of the town of the healing waters, just past the turn off for the detour, the sky went dark. Rain poured down as wind bullied trees into bending low, for a terrifying thirty minutes or so. However, there was not much traffic so we pushed on. When the rain stopped, we were alone on that side road. A very dark road. I peered out my window looking for roadside signs to tell us exactly how far from the state border, how far from Dallas, how far from anything we were. Nothing. My mother insisted we trade driving duties. We stopped on the shoulder. A heavy fog rolled in as we shifted seats. The road, the entire area; zero visibility. Two women alone on a dark road in heavy fog at night. My mother seemed to sense my fear. “We should keep going. Eventually we will get back to the highway.” “But we can’t even see the road,” I whined. “I’ll drive slowly. You open your door to watch for the white line so we won’t go off in a ditch.” Her idea made a lot of sense. We crawled ahead for what seemed like hours. However, according to the clock on the Volare’s dashboard only 20 minutes had passed. Suddenly I spotted something gleaming ahead of us—glaring through the fog. Mom headed toward the unknown object. As we drew closer, we realized it was a single light bulb on a pole in the packed parking lot of a roadside restaurant. We found a spot for the car. My sky blue, two-door Volare soon rested between a pair of massive red pickup trucks. Savory smells of home cooking drifted out of the largish wooden shack to remind us we felt hungry. It was nine in the evening. We pushed open the door and discovered a universe of blaring country music and food. Dozens of folks with Stetsons and
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WE’D EXPECT NOTHING LESS FROM THE SON OF PRINCESS DIANA. AT THE NEPAL GIRL SUMMIT IN KATHMANDU, PRINCE HARRY SAID, “WHILE THE UNIQUE CHALLENGES FACED BY GIRLS IS NOT A TOPIC I HAVE SPOKEN MUCH ABOUT IN THE PAST, I THINK IT’S IMPORTANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE SOMETHING THAT HAS BECOME OBVIOUS TO ME AND IS ALREADY KNOWN TO EVERYONE IN THIS ROOM: THERE ARE WAY TOO MANY OBSTACLES BETWEEN GIRLS AND THE OPPORTUNITIES THEY DESERVE.” (Source: The Cut)
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BRILLIANT IDEA TO KEEP KITTIES SAFE In the U.S., over 7 million pets go missing every year. It’s especially difficult to help cats return to their homes because so many are “outdoor” creatures. If you have an indoor cat, there’s one easy way to help identify them as missing if they go off for a wander: Orange collars. And spread the word that orange = “I belong to someone and I belong indoors.” KittyConvict.com.
ADIDAS HELPS KIDS STAY HEALTHY Remember the Presidential Fitness Challenge from grade school? Adidas wants to change the way fitness is measured with selfmanagement and personalization in P.E. class with it’s fitness tracker, the Zone. Schools in the U.S. will soon be testing the new tracker in kindergarten through high school gym classes to keep track of the health of its students. The program is projected to reach one million students nationwide by the end of the year.
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