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The RSA Student Design Awards 2015 call for entries
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The RSA Student Design Awards (The SDAs) are now open to entries for the 2015-2016 awards.
The prestigious awards challenge young creative minds – designers, artists, craftsmen – with project briefs based on real issues to drive innovation.
Steeped in heritage, the awards initiated in 1924 and feature winners including Sir Jonathon Ive, chief design officer at Apple (RDI); Richard Clarke, global vice president of design at Nike and Paul Priestman, founder of 'PriestmanGoode'.
2014-15 RSA Student Design Award winning projects: Christopher Rothera's 'Sustainable Filtration Kit', a water purification solution utilising local resources. The kit is a 5 litre, robust container with a two-lid system that produces high quality carbon from scrap wood which is then used to filter contaminated water.
This year sees 12 briefs covering a variety of topics in society, the environment and in business. These range from designing greener ways to bathe and wash, to promoting waste as a valuable source to eliminate the surplus. Sponsors include Airbnb, Philips, Unilever, Fazer, GlaxoSmithKline, RBS, Waitrose, Springetts and PriestmanGoode.
Global Director of the RSA Student Design Awards, Sevra Davis, says:
'Every year the briefs evolve to reflect contemporary challenges and issues. This year we have 12 briefs that tackle a variety of day to day problems, from how to rebrand waste in developed societies and how to make bathing more sustainable, to how to create business environments that foster innovative and creative thinking.'
2014-15 winning projects: Lisa Hornsey's 'Squiggle', a gender neutral playhouse made from chalkboard that allows children to bring their imagination to life and transform the toy by drawing on it. Squiggle is ecologically produced, designed for a longer product life, and the packaging is made from 100% recycled and biodegradable elements.
Last year's winning projects include a unisex playhouse, a filtration kit that produces high quality carbon from scrap wood to purify contaminated water (see above), and a unique redesign of the London's Underground map to aid disabled users.
Winners compete for a range of prizes such as bursaries from sponsors, work placements and mentoring to develop younger designer's careers. Additionally this year, entrants can receive over £35,000 in cash prizes and paid internships at Philips, Waitrose, GlaxoSmithKline and PriestmanGoode.
2014-15 winning projects: Lisa Hornsey's 'Squiggle'
The awards are recognised across the globe, last year seeing entrants from Australia, Brazil, Hong Kong, Singapore, India, Finland, Taiwan, Turkey and Libya. This year to help expand the awards, the RSA are introducing global partners outside the UK such as AIGA in the US.
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2014-15 winning projects: Rebecca Grover's 'London Accessible', a service that provides live accessibility information, enabling users to plan their journeys on the go. The service integrates with existing mainstream station information and journey planning apps.
Today the 12 briefs are launched alongside pre-registration.
For more information visit the SDA website.
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Every artist has a beginning, and, in an exhibition running until September, The Hepworth Wakefield is sharing the story of Barbara Hepworth, born in 1903. A room of curated juvenilia including photographs, scrapbooks and early works, as well as the earliest known portrait of Hepworth, painted by Dame Ethel Walker RA for her 18th birthday, offers glimpses into the early life of the sculptor.
Hepworth as a baby, with her parents and grandmothers, 1903. Photo Credit: Courtesy Bowness, Hepworth Estate
While Hepworth's works in the exhibition aren't included in her catalogue raisonné, they attest to her early gifts in understanding form and scale. Portraits of Mary Fennell and George Parker, executed in pencil, also attest to the role of circumstance. In an era when women weren't expected to have careers, Hepworth's progressive father not only encouraged his daughter's gifts but also procured for her these commissions, which were essential in developing her artistic identity. The focus on Hepworth's drawings also illustrates how her scholarships were secured, first at the Leeds College of Art, then the Royal College of Art.
(l-r) Edna Ginesi, Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth in Paris, 1920. Photo Credit: Courtesy Bowness, Hepworth Estate
Only after Hepworth's admittance to the RCA, and having made a bust, could she enrol on a sculpture course.
Born in Wakefield as the eldest child of middle-class parents, Hepworth's father Herbert Hepworth was a civil engineer who would later become County Surveyor, possibly accounting for Hepworth's technical accuracy when submitting drawings for sculptures made in the foundry.
While driving in her father's car (an early model), Hepworth was often lifted up to see over hedgerows, observing the sculptural forms of the landscape and the road's division of the hills. Like Hepworth's contemporary, Moore, this integral connection with landscape was to continue, shaping her outlook.
Nine black-and-white images of Yorkshire line one wall of the exhibition, their locations selected by Hepworth and published in a book, Drawings from a Sculptor's Landscape (1965). These carefully commissioned images, taken by Magnum photographer Lee Sheldrake, convey a sense of the landscape seeping into Hepworth's bones, re-emerging in her muscular, later forms.
Hepworth at the Royal College of Art workshop, studying on a Yorkshire Senior Country Art Scholarship. Photo Credit: Courtesy Bowness, Hepworth Estate
More personal photographs on display reveal a treasure trove of Hepworths, showing her in various guises. Victorian-dressed adults, including her father, cluster around a two-month-old Hepworth in one photograph, while a pert young 'Hiawatha Hepworth' reclining on fur skins in another reminds one of Lewis Carroll's portraits of girls. An older, more assured Hepworth is seen travelling on her West Riding scholarship in Italy, where she would meet her husband, the artist John Skeeping, and in Paris she poses carefree and confident, with Henry Moore and Edna Ginesi. A final, surprising image taken at a King's Road studio presents a glamorous, made-up Hepworth, her heavy brows, luminous skin and formidable hair-parting offering a resemblance to Frida Kahlo.
Hepworth's portrait by Walker anchors the room. Commissioned by Hepworth's father and shown publicly for the first time in 90 years following its auction, acquisition and recent donation, the painting presents Hepworth looking down, her slender, girlish limbs painted cream with blue undertones, appearing graceful and pliant. It's an image at odds with the later, more familiar images of the fiercely independent sculptor.
Hepworth in Siena, from the tower of the Palazzo Communale, 1925. Photo Credit: Courtesy Bowness, Hepworth Estate
Contact with Walker was made through the Hepworths' regular summers spent in Robin Hood's Bay, where a community of artists lived part-time and exhibited in the New English Arts Club. The painter, described by Augustus John as one of England's 'foremost artists', counted Vanessa Bell among her sitters. Meeting the strong-natured, critically acclaimed Walker would have represented a step in Hepworth's development, linking her to the possibilities of the future.
Another strong component of the exhibition is an early plaster relief of Hepworth's cousins Jill and Peggy (1918), made with plaster used for broken bones, obtained from Hepworth's GP uncle. Hepworth's depiction of her cousin's chubby young cheeks shows an honesty for angles and dimensions. Oddly, the plaster's origins isn't mentioned in the wall text, but was shared with me by the curator, Eleanor Clayton. Indeed, for a show about an artist's early life, Hepworth in Yorkshire is surprisingly stripped of supporting information.
Hepworth, centre, with fellow students at the RCA . Photo Credit: Courtesy Bowness, Hepworth Estate
Understanding the biographical narrative is crucial for a rewarding visit, and without adequate texts, this small yet valuable room may appear like an addendum to other, larger Hepworth exhibitions on show. The Hepworth Wakefield is also presenting A Greater Freedom, offering an examination of the sculptor's final years, and Plasters: Casts and Copies 1965-75, addressing the work of Hepworth and her contemporaries, while Tate Britain's major summer retrospective opens in June, the central show in what is undoubtedly the season of Hepworth.
Nonetheless, Hepworth in Yorkshire is a thoughtfully curated exhibition. It will soon be refreshed to allow more of a focus on Hepworth's time at Wakefield's Girls School, including a drawing made of the gym mistress. And it reminds us that no matter how international in outlook it becomes, an artist's success must begin somewhere.
A Greater Freedom: Hepworth 1965-75 (until April 2016) and Plasters: Casts and Copies (until 8 May 2016) are on view at The Hepworth Wakefield
The fine art of playing – Artists on Play
Words Rebecca Swirsky
Amid the glitz of London's Frieze Art Fair, a four-year-old studies an oversized dice scored with black holes, from which children are intermittently appearing. 'Normally you'd roll a dice,' he tells his mother. 'How am I going to roll this?' Nearby, a toddler is tugging on a toy octopus's tentacles, the creature's hazel glass eyes uncannily human, while two six-year-olds are rocking a giant mushroom with realistic funghi veins and patination. I'm in Gartenkinder (2014), a children's playspace designed by Carsten Höller, the Belgian conceptual artist whose major show – Decision – has just opened at the Hayward in London. Gartenkinder's title is translated literally as 'garden for children' and this installation for the Gagosian Gallery's stand attracts a steady stream of well-dressed children and accompanying adults, some of whom are clearly hoping to play themselves.
Fast forward five months and I'm lying down, staring through a square of Plexiglass built into an Escheresque soft-play space named The Idol (2015), in London's economically deprived borough of Barking. Straddling contemporary art sculpture and functional space, The Idol is the jewel in the crown of the £14m Abbey Sport Centre and is predicted, in its first 10 years, to engage more than 700,000 local young children and families.
The Idol, an art sculpture and playspace by artist Marvin Gaye Chetwynd in Barking, 2015. Photo Credit: Emil Charlaff
Designed by Turner Prize-nominated artist Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, acclaimed for her anarchic, playful group performances, the soft-play space has departed from generic primary colours, instead reworked with black-and-white, sci-fi overtones, taking its title from the mythology of an effigy discovered in Dagenham believed to date from around 2250 BC. Raisa, a 10-year-old girl, tells me: 'The see-through bit makes you feel like you're going to fall. But the slide is the best, it gives you an adrenalin rush.' I ask her about the design. 'Some of the pictures up the wall are cool, but a bit scary and odd,' she replies.
Commissioned by Create, The Idol is part of the £14m Abbey Sports Centre. Photo Credit: Emil Charlaff
Franky, seven, agrees. 'I like the slide when it goes bumpy because it makes me feel weird.' He adds: 'I like feeling weird.' Chetwynd was commissioned by the charity Create, whose interest lies in infiltrating artists and designers into social projects in different ways. 'It had to be functional, stimulating and interesting to adults, but also cut the mustard as a critically acclaimed artwork and contemporary sculpture,' Chetwynd tells me. I ask what would she like the children to feel as they use it. 'I'd like them to feel pride that it's in their area, like civic pride.'
The Idol takes its name from an 2250 BC effigy discovered in Dagenham. Photo Credit: Emil Charlaff
'The presence of play in art emerges periodically,' says Ralph Rugoff, director at London's Hayward Gallery, where Höller has a survey show this summer. 'It goes in cycles, and this definitely seems like a moment.' In 2009, the art commissioner Artangel hosted the one-day conference called There's an Artist in the Playground that examined play's connection to adult concerns, which included, in the words of the marketing material: 'responsibility, risk, fun, recovery, politics, inclusion, conflict, environment, belonging, being'.
Carsten Höller's Isomeric Slides cascades down the Hayward Gallery, part of his major summer show Decision. Photo Credit: The Artist and Luma Foundation, Arles, Photo David Levene
Notable British artists concerned with play include Gary Webb, whose Squeaky Clean (2012) is a permanent playground and interactive public sculpture in Greenwich's Charlton Park, and Turner Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller, who presented Sacrilege in 2012, a life-size, inflatable, bouncy-castle replica of Stonehenge. Artist Katarzyna Zimna published Time to Play: Action and Interaction in Contemporary Art in 2014, a book that links 20th- and 21st-century art with studies of play, games and leisure, and the theories of Kant, Gadamer and Derrida. Last year's Glasgow International Festival saw Play Summit, a threeday event curated by artist Nils Norman and Assemble, an 18-strong collective working across the fields of art, architecture and design. The remit was to explore the state of play in Scotland and beyond, and the event was attended by Chetwynd, who cited it as inspiration for tendering for the Dagenham soft-play commission.
Snake by Carsten Höller, 2013. Photo Credit: The Artist and Air De Paris, Paris, Photo: Marc Domage
Enshrined under Article 31 in the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the importance of play is deadly serious, although not always valued. In Britain, as funding has dropped for play provision, the science has surged ahead, showing that quality play stimulates essential brain 'plasticity' and is an essential pathway to cognitive, developmental and physical growth. Where play doesn't occur, brain cells rigidify, in a process referred to as 'synapse elimination', with chronically play-deprived children experiencing mental problems, restrictions in brain growth and depression. The leading theorist on children's play, Bob Hughes, goes one step further, connecting it with the survival skills of our hunter-gatherer ancestors.
Made From Scratch builds play spaces to children's designs
One of the main reasons for play deprivation, and a clear casualty of modernity, is the drastic reduction of 'roaming' – the extent to which children's play and travel is negotiated autonomously of adults. It has been reduced by fears of traffic, children engaging in risky activity and 'stranger danger'. Into this vacuum, adventure playgrounds, more than any other play spaces, are the unsung heroes, compensating for children's restriction. Completely free to access, they provide a range of activities, including opportunities for physical risk, and offer an authentic space to experiment and self-learn.
Made From Scratch has so far built eight playgrounds and one adventure playground
Children at Northworld Primary school take part in building thier own playground
The first was created in Copenhagen in 1943 by landscape architect Carl Theodor Sørensen, and was known as a skrammellegepladsen, meaning 'junk playground'. In England at the time, children were playing on bombsites, building dens and re-playing war, and inadvertently dying because of collapsing walls and unexploded devices. When the English landscape architect and philanthropist Lady Allen of Hurtwood saw the skrammellegepladsen in 1946 during a lecture tour, she realised Britain needed dedicated play spaces. The first UK junk playground (later called adventure playgrounds) opened in 1948 in Camberwell, south London, on the site of a bombed church.
Iraq's first adventure playground, created by Made From Scratch, in the Kurdish town of Halabja
Today, with British councils decreasing funding both for playgrounds and art initiatives, 'utilitarian' arts projects such as Chetwynd's The Idol might offer a new hybrid way forward.
But can the art world and the play world integrate with integrity? 'The problem is that artists can possibly do damage if they don't understand about the science of play,' says Jess Milne, who for 11 years managed Hackney Play Association's Play Training Unit, and who is also a qualified art teacher. 'And I mean that in the sense of creating things for art and for themselves, rather than for children to look at, and work with and see through and generally participate in.'
Assemble's Baltic Street Adventure Playground in Dalmarnock takes shape. Photo Credit: Assemble
Fergus P. Hughes defined play in 1982 as 'freely chosen, personally directed, and intrinsically motivated'. Yet despite all the scientific advancements made in understanding what play does and how it affects the brain, many adults still find it hard not to take control. 'It's very difficult to remove the adult and the adult's ego,' says Milne. 'It's the same for everyone – parents, playworkers, artists.'
Assemble's Baltic Street Adventure Playground in Dalmarnock takes shape. Photo Credit: Assemble
Yet art and play share the same goals, according to Gemma Mudu, co-director of social design enterprise Made From Scratch, which builds play spaces to children's designs.
'Artists and children are each absorbed in a line of enquiry, questioning the role of existence,' says Mudu. 'Both are getting to grips with the nature of being and expressing it through different ways. We see great potential for cross-fertilisation with artists aware of play sensibilities.' Lizzy Longtale, her co-director, agrees: 'In many ways adventure playgrounds should be seen as ongoing art installations.'
Assemble's Baltic Street Adventure Playground in Dalmarnock takes shape. Photo Credit: Assemble
Set up in 2011, Made From Scratch has already built eight different playgrounds and one adventure playground, with seven further builds in the pipeline. Their budgets are small – the average cost for a playground is between £30,000 and £70,000, with smaller playgrounds costing £15,000. 'We invite kids to take inspiration from landscapes, art galleries, paintings, sculptures and immersive spaces so that they're not just thinking about the conventional format of play structures,' says Longtale. 'A special project is Made from Scratch's work on Iraq's first adventure playground in the Kurdish town of Halabja.
'Initially we had to deal with the community representative who dreamed of a neat, sterile, Disney fairground,' explains Longtale. 'Explaining loose parts theory – the need for an infinite variety of materials for children to play with, such as sand, timber, pipes, tubes and fabrics – was challenging. He kept saying, "When are you going to take all this rubbish away?"' The playground is in its final stages of completion before handover to the community, when it will support play for up to 80 children. Ironically, Made From Scratch had to travel to Iraq to work on an adventure playground. Longtale says: 'There is no funding here anymore for new community adventure playgrounds, so we work on playgrounds in schools. But we always try and link the children up with local adventure playgrounds that already exist.'
Assemble's Baltic Street Adventure Playground in Dalmarnock takes shape. Photo Credit: Assemble
Assemble, the co-curator of Glasgow International's Play Summit, has created the Baltic Street Adventure Playground in Dalmarnock, an impoverished area of Glasgow. Delivered in collaboration with Create, the project has helped bag the collective a nomination for this year's Turner Prize. Hadrian Garrard, director of Create, remains on the playground's board of directors. 'This wasn't about making a pretty artwork,' he tells me. 'Assemble was interested in getting the right set of conditions for a community space. The Turner Prize nomination picks up on the opportunities for artists and designers to move into territory managed in the past by government authorities.'
Architect and Assemble member Amica Dall explains what attracted the group to this territory. 'We've always been very aware of the limits of what you can do with design, and of how much design is asked to do that isn't necessarily in the realm of design with a capital 'D'. I would argue for a more expanded notion of design. For example, systems have to be designed, organisations have to be designed, arguments have to be designed. These things add up to make situations and environments that are not just physical. In many design situations, all the critical decisions have already been made by the time the architect gets involved. Doing self-initiated work is a way to be part of more stages of the process.
The Brutalist Playground, a collaboration between Assemble and artist Simon Terrill at the RIBA. Photo Credit: Photo by Tristan Fewings Getty Images For RIBA
'The adventure playground is the epitome of that approach because while we are creating an environment where physical things need to happen, there has also been the human aspect, the organisational aspect, the financial aspect, the legal aspect, the political aspect. All of those ducks have to be put in line to create this environment. I think that's common to a lot of our work: creating the conditions of possibility and being responsible.'
Assemble's interest in play has also led it to collaborate with artist Simon Terrill on The Brutalist Playground, at London's RIBA this summer which recreates in foam the concrete playgrounds designed for post-war housing blocks.
Ralph Rugoff has commissioned many artists to create site-specific environments at the Hayward Gallery. I ask him whether it would be good for such artists to create municipal spaces in the public realm. 'People in the design world can be a bit abstract, while artists are very attuned to the way we experience things. So there is a role,' he concludes. 'Although,' he adds wryly, 'it might work best with those who play well in teams.'
Mudu is also optimistic about the potential of artists, as long as they prioritise play. 'It's such a balance. If it's about art coming into the community, the priority is the art. But if the primary focus is to have a quality play space, then the priority is the play.' With health and safety fears rising and funding being cut, play deprivation is likely to become more endemic in the UK. Perhaps, if play was rebranded to seem to be the serious issue it is – 'self-learning' – those who hold the purse strings might give it greater importance. 'Most people think play is a leisure activity,' Mudu continues. 'For adults it's about extreme sensation and about getting some form of pleasure. For kids it's a necessity.'
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So you guys know how much I love a stripe, right? I know: borderline obsessed! No surprise then when I write how hard I am crushing on Ian Mankin's new 'Britannia' fabric collection as the brand is known for their iconic stripe patterns. Britannia is the most extensive collection to date from the British fabric house and it launches at Decorex this September. I like the introduction of the intense, dark blue to the brand's more pared-back wider palette. In total there are 15 new fabrics in the collection as well as 15 existing and recoloured classics. The best part? They all mix together to create an effortlessly stylish array of navy, red and neutral tones that's perfect for creating a nautical look even in the darker autumn and winter months. Can we please discuss that incredible indigo stripe? So good. I love the idea of using Ian Mankin's fabric to create a luxurious bed canopy like this – so indulgent and with a wonderful mix of grad-meets-modern. All of the fabrics are woven at the brand's Lancashire cotton mill, and the signature stripes, checks and plains come in a range of weights and weaves. One of the unexpected highlights […]
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Council Supports Solar Power in Coal-Centric Louisville
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The number of solar-powered homes and businesses in Louisville has grown rapidly in the last three years, at a 70 percent rate from 111 in 2012 to 189 this year. The Courier-Journal reports that though the number is still relatively small, it shows great progress since 2008, when only two solar-powered homes or businesses were reported by Louisville Gas & Electric (LG&E).
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And solar is also gaining support from public officials. Last week, the Louisville Metro Council passed a resolution in support of solar power, and is considering an ordinance that would help with solar energy financing.
"Over 30 states have done this, and progressive states and communities have made this work, and I think we should, too," said one council member, who's also pushing solar-powered street lighting.
Advocates for solar power in Louisville hope to engage younger people in what has traditionally been a big coal state.
"I think it's kind of sexy to be able to create your own energy on your own property," Colleen Crum, co-chair of a council committee coordinating the Solar Over Louisville campaign, told the Courier-Journal. "There is a personal pride to say you are doing the right thing."
Despite the city's progress, it still ranks last of the 50 biggest cities for solar's value to customers, according to a report from North Carolina State University. The region's history with coal-powered electricity is a major barrier to overcome for solar policy. Nonetheless, the council's solar power resolution is a big step toward new energy policies.
"At the end of the day, it's all about the math, and getting the math to add up," Maria Koetter, the city's sustainability director, told the Courier-Journal. "That's harder due to our historically cheap energy."


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Similar to the first Ice Age, the promotional material for the sequel
was out in the theatres way in advance, and courtesy of the Scrat
character too, up to its usual antics of getting to that elusive acorn.
Here, Scrat opens the movie, and emulating the style of the first, he
provides most of the laughs, also as an intermission from the actual
scenes from the main cast.
Our gang of prehistoric animals are back - Manny the Mammoth (voiced by Ray Romano), Sid the Sloth (John Leguizamo) and Diego the Sabre-tooth Tiger (Denis Leary). We learn that Sid has gone into the early childhood business, educating the young minds of pre-historic brats. However, I felt that this movie was somehow darker in tone than the original. While the original was one which dealt with hope, this one had its setting in extinction, disaster and death.
The valley which they live in is threatened by the melting ice, no thanks to global warming. So all the animals embark on a journey to salvation, to that rumored ark which will save them from the massive floods to come. Along the way, our trio meets up with another trio of characters, who were added to expand the cast, featuring 2 Possums Crash (Seann William Scott) and Eddie (Josh Peck), and another, but female, mammoth (Queen Latifah).
Needless to say, Manny's still anti-social, and Diego can't get along with those rascal possums who get on his nerves, and Sid's the "philosopher" ever providing the laughs. Various themes like romance (hey, we got 2 mammoths here), friendship, trust, and believing in oneself to overcome one's phobia get covered. Pretty wide scope, but they manage to fit in place nicely.
The villains in this sequel are pretty nasty, besides the looming natural disaster, we have two sea creatures with nasty teeth and attitude, as well as menacing vultures ever ready to pounce on the flesh of animals who have fallen.
But it's not all that bleak. Keep a lookout too for that mad sloth song-and-dance sequence, which has potential to become the next ear worm ala Madagascar's zany "you-got-to-move-it" song. The animation is as usual, top notch, and I just can't get enough of the photo-realistic ice and water landscape.
This is one piece of animation that doesn't rely too much on sight gags, of spoofing current affairs, but one filled with more witty dialogue and kept on an even keel with its interesting storyline. Though at times it might feel clichéd, somehow it excelled in its execution.
And that makes this sequel, as enjoyable as, if not better, than the original. Recommended stuff this week!
Ice Age: The Meltdown
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Ice Age: The Meltdown
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Manny the woolly mammoth, Sid the sloth, Diego the saber-toothed tiger, and the hapless prehistoric squirrel/rat known as Scrat are still together and enjoying the perks of their now melting world. Manny may be ready to start a family, but nobody has seen another mammoth for a long time; Manny thinks he may be the last one. That is, until he miraculously finds Ellie, the only female mammoth left in the world. Their only problems: They can't stand each other--and Ellie somehow thinks she's a possum! Ellie comes with some excess baggage in the form of her two possum "brothers"-- Crash and Eddie, a couple of daredevil pranksters and cocky, loud-mouthed troublemakers. Manny, Sid and Diego quickly learn that the warming climate has one major drawback: A huge glacial dam holding off oceans of water is about to break, threatening the entire valley. The only chance of survival lies at the other end of the valley. So our three heroes, along with Ellie, Crash and Eddie, form the most unlikely ...
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A Nutshell Review: Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
Similar to the first Ice Age, the promotional material for the sequel
was out in the theatres way in advance, and courtesy of the Scrat
character too, up to its usual antics of getting to that elusive acorn.
Here, Scrat opens the movie, and emulating the style of the first, he
provides most of the laughs, also as an intermission from the actual
scenes from the main cast.
Laugh out loud funny!
I wanted to take my older kids to the movies for some family time. We went and saw Ice Age Meltdown really for lack of something better to see. (Looks like a bad year for movies again- on the bright side, we'll save a couple hundred bucks.) I am pleased to say, I loved this movie. I laughed so much and found it very enjoyable. It was much better than the first one and I don't know if I've EVER said that about a movie. The characters are witty and entertaining and Scrat gets a lot more screen time in his plight for the great acorn. If you liked the first Ice Age then seeing the sequel is completely risk free. A great film for young and old alike. Enjoy! =)
Nearly Flawless
Highly enjoyable film. Nary a dull moment as Diego, Sid and Manny find their way through the meltdown. The peril found in the first Ice Age movie was not duplicated here. The danger wasn't as imminent due to the fact that the meltdown is partly a blessing, while the ice age itself was all bad. A subtle flaw but not something the creators could avoid unless they wanted to make a "Mid-Ice Age" movie. How the tribe survived multiple thousands of years is not addressed, but who cares? Maybe they were actually living on the ecuator in the first movie and the ice caps just reached them in the final years of the ice age. A decade later, the climate warms up and causes the mixed emotions found in Ice Age II. The central theme of friendship in spite of differences and the humor found in trying situations plays well. Overcominging fears in the face of danger is a prominent theme. Jokes fly fast and furious for all ages. And the proto-squirrel steals our hearts with his absolute devotion to caching acorns. A strong production for Twentieth Century Fox.


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In this study we evaluated the results of midtarsal release and open reduction for the treatment of children with convex congenital foot (CCF) (vertical talus) and compared them with the published results of peritalar release. Between 1977 and 2009, a total of 22 children (31 feet) underwent this procedure. In 15 children (48%) the CCF was isolated and in the remainder it was not (seven with arthrogryposis, two with spinal dysraphism, one with a polymalformative syndrome and six with an undefined neurological disorder).
Pre-operatively, the mean tibiotalar angle was 150.2° (106° to 175°) and the mean calcaneal pitch angle was -19.3° (-72° to 4°). The procedure included talonavicular and calcaneocuboid joint capsulotomies, lengthening of tendons of tibialis anterior and the extensors of the toes, allowing reduction of the midtarsal joints. Lengthening of the Achilles tendon was necessary in 23 feet (74%).
The mean follow-up was 11 years (2 to 21). The results, as assessed by the Adelaar score, were good in 24 feet (77.4%), fair in six (19.3%) and poor in one foot (3.3%), with no difference between those with isolated CCF and those without. The mean American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society midfoot score was 89.9 (54 to 100) and 77.8 (36 to 93) for those with isolated CCF and those without, respectively. At the final follow-up, the mean tibiotalar (120°; 90 to 152) and calcaneal pitch angles (4°; -13 to 22) had improved significantly (p < 0.0001). Dislocation of the talonavicular and calcaneocuboid joints was completely reduced in 22 (70.9%) and 29 (93.6%) of feet, respectively. Three children (five feet) underwent further surgery at a mean of 8.5 years post-operatively, three with pes planovalgus and two in whom the deformity had been undercorrected. No child developed avascular necrosis of the talus.
Midtarsal joint release and open reduction is a satisfactory procedure, which may provide better results than peritalar release. Complications include the development of pes planovalgus and persistent dorsal subluxation of the talonavicular joint.
Cite this article: Bone Joint J 2014;96-B:837–44.
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Lauren Alaina Calls Dad on Stage For Father's Day Tribute
American Idol season 10 runner up Lauren Alaina gave her dad a special father's day treat over the weekend during one of her shows.
Lauren was performing at a festival when she called her dad up to the stage to play guitar for her while she sang.
"Before I tried out for American Idol," Lauren said to the crowd, "this really special person would play the guitar for me. and that person is my daddy." Lauren then called her dad, JJ, out on the stage and asked him to play along with her again.
Lauren and her dad do their version of "When You Say Nothing At All" by Keith Whitley (also recoded by Allison Krause). We've got the fan-video for you below. It's a little shaky, but the audio is just fine.
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- Great pattern for easy, stylish shorts
My grandson asked me to make him some two-toned shorts in French terry. I used this pattern, with a few modifications. When shortening the legs from pants, I straightened the angle to make it a bit more of a stove-pipe for shorts; I made them a bit wider because he likes them loose; and I modified them to add the coloured band on the side. These were great because he is between sizes, and this way I could make him shorts the right length. The pattern was very easy to make. Grandson is very happy. I have a feeling I will be making these every summer.
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- Love hoodie
Although the choice of fabric wasn't the best one for this pattern, I love how it fits and how clear instructions me may follow. Have to try with a another fabric.
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- Sweat pants
My son was in desperate need for sweatpants. He had outgrown all of his sweats and the ones we have left all have holes in the knees, big surprise! I just can't bring myself to pay $30 for a pair of kid's sweatpants. Plus all the ones that are good for his length are too wide in the waist. So to my pattern stash to find a straight leg pattern for boys. This pattern is excellent for both boys and girls! OK, so the picture shows a girl on the front. I think they really should show a boy and a girl as this pattern is truly a unisex pattern. I have made the sweaters for ball the boys in our house, as well as for me! Now for the sweatpants.
My son is slender so I did not want a wide leg. And he LOVES pockets. What little boy doesn't? Plus adding topstitching adds details to make it look less homemade. This pattern is the perfect one for a straight leg sweatpants.
Simon decided to make this pattern. This is his first pair of pants. I am letting him fly on his own. I am sure they will turn out fabulous. There is one error in the pattern. On the pants assembly where is says fig. 21 they mean fig. 31 and the fig. 22 they mean fig. 32
Simon had no issues following the pattern. He was able to put them together without any issues. The pants fit very well. The fit is perfect, no modifications needed. The topstitching details on the pockets add some nice details. Simon did an excellent job on the stitching. The hem is perfect. We now have sweatpants for gym class that fit, with no holes in them. Let's see how long the no holes lasts!
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- Awesome pattern, great fit
I've made this sweatshirt twice now for my 9 yr old DD and we just love it. It fits great and is so comfortable to wear.
Instructions: I somehow missed the Kangaroo pocket steps because they are at the bottom of the page that talks about sewing techniques to use. I usually skip that page. Whoops! I attached it after I had sewn the sleeves on and sides together. It was a bit cramped but I got it. So make sure to notice that pocket before sewing the sweatshirt. Also, The instructions state to fold top and sides to the wrong side for it but do not say by how much. I winged it and just did 1/2". It worked fine.
The rest of the instructions were spot on. I lined the hood, though the pattern doesn't have that option. This is a great way to use up knit scraps. I added some of my favorite lillestoff print of scraps to the teal sweatshirt.
I made the pants for my son's Halloween costume and they were spot on with fit too.
Such a winner of a pattern!
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Cassils is featured in the Queer Voices section of the Huffington Post
Eleanor Antin's solo exhibition Eleanor Antin: Romans and Kings opens at Richard Saltoun Gallery in London, on view from September 22 - October 26, 2017
Cassils is featured in the New York Times
Mierle Laderman Ukeles's piece I Make Maintenance Art One Hour Everyday (1976) is included in the Whitney's exhibition An Incomplete History of Protest: Selections from the Whitney's Collection, 1940-2017.To preserve the integrity of the piece, Ukeles' work will be up for a limited time, and will not be exhibited for another ten years.
Brandon Ballengée's solo exhibition Sea of Vulnerability opens at the Rowan University Art Gallery September 14 - November 5, 2017
Cassils has been awarded the 2017 Guggenheim Fellowship Award in Fine Arts.
Rico Gatson has a new solo show at Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY Icons 2007-2017,April 20 – August 27, 2017
Eleanor Antin is included in a group exhibition at CUNY, The Graduate Center – The James Gallery, Soft Skills, April 13 – June 5.
Mierle Laderman Ukeles is included in group exhibitions at Rojas + Rubensteen Projects, Miami, FL, The Period, April 1 – July 1; Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL, Revolution at Point Zero, March 10 – April 24.
Brandon Ballengée is included in a group exhibition at Alter Ego Project, Belgium, Creating a Void, April 1 - June 5.
Cassils is included in group exhibitions at Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, Expanded Visions: Fifty Years of Collecting, New York, NY, March 10 – May 21; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, The Ecstasy of Mary Shelley, Los Angeles, CA, January 4 – February 12; Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art, Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, Man Up!: Masculinity in Question, January 9 – March 11, 2017
Cassils has solo exhibitions at Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE, Cassils: Phantom Revenant, February 2 – April 29; Outsider Festival, Austin, TX, Early Career Retrospective: Cassils, February 15 – 19; Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE, February 1. Performance of Becoming An Image; Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE, April 24 – 29. Performance of Monument Movement.
Vitaly Komar has had his piece, New Yalta, featured in the New York Times' Opinion Pages.
Christine Hill has a new solo show at Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria, Assets, February 17 – April 15.
Todd Siler is presenting at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT on March 7, 2017, on "Neuro-Aesthetic Adventures (1975-2016): Exploring the Nature of Creativity and Innovation."
Todd Siler is presenting February 9th at the Denver Art Museum for "Exploring the Denver Art Scene: Critics, Dealers, Artists"
Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid's monumental installation Yalta 1945 is exhibited at Ben Uri Gallery and Museum, London, United Kingdom, September 16, 2016 January 29, 2017. (previously exhibited: Brooklyn Museum, March 16 June 4, 1990, and Documenta 8, Kassel, Germany, June 12 September 8, 1987)
Cassils is included in a group show at Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art, Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, Man Up!: Masculinity in Question, January 9 – March 11, 2017
Cassils is included in a group show at Bael Center for Art and Technology at University of California - Irvine, Irvine, CA,
MASCULINE ←→ FEMININE, January 28 – May 13.
Rico Gatson's Pain Revisited features in Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, part of Dreamscapes: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905 – 2016, November 13, 2016.
Eleanor Antin is included in "Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney Collection" at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, April 2, 2016-February 12, 2017. http://bit.ly/1NXx1n9
NYFA (New York Foundation for the Arts) has announced that Brandon Ballengée is a recipient of a 2015 Artists' Fellowship in the Interdisciplinary Works section.
The first photo in the link below is a sculpture by the artist entitled "Mississippi Delta - Eco Displacement." http://bit.ly/1Im28v2
Cassils is a Creative Capital 2015 awardee in the Visual Arts. Congratulations, Cassils. "Drawing on venture-capital principles, Creative Capital seeks out artists' projects that are bold, innovative and genre-stretching, then surrounds those artists with the tools they need to realize their visions and build sustainable careers."
Cassils is the recipient of the First Annual MOTHA Art Awards in the Solo Exhibition category for "Body of Work" at the gallery. MOTHA (Museum of Transgender & History and Art) is dedicated to moving the history and art of transgender people to the center of public life, insisting on an expansive and unstable definition of transgender, one that is able to encompass all trans and gender non-conformed art and artists.
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All of the stock market ► Hedging
The word "hedge" is derived from the English "hedge", which literally means "fence" or "barrier". Only the stock market, it is not a physical barrier, and financial techniques that can protect investor capital from unfavorable market conditions. In general, hedging transactions are intended to limit the financial losses and reduce risks.
For the practical implementation of such a strategy, it is necessary to combine an ordinary transaction and futures markets. Derivatives markets are, the inversion of so-called derivatives, or in other words, derivative contracts, ie futures and options. This contract for the supply of assets in the future at a fixed price in advance. They may be in tangible goods, such as - oil, natural gas, wheat or orange juice, financial assets - stocks, bonds, currencies, or completely abstract units such as - the weather or interest rates.
Throughout its history, humanity needed tools that allow to insure risks. The first hedging operations have been started many centuries ago. Japanese farmers have noticed that in good years the prices for their products lower than in the lean, so the inhabitants of the country, "Rising Sun" developed a method for the insurance of their risks. They began to negotiate the delivery price in advance, even before receiving the harvest. Thus, farmers could not pay attention to the vagaries of nature, and their buyers were not afraid to be left without the goods. To date, the most sophisticated hedging instruments are considered to futures and options contracts. The main difference between them lies in the fact that buying a futures contract, an investor directly pays the cost of goods and contracts, and buying a call option, it only pays for the opportunity to buy and sell the asset at a set price. By the time of expiry, ie termination of the contract, the investor will have to pay the agreed amount or lose the value of the option to abandon the deal.
Derivatives are treated in emergency sections of most of the world stock exchanges. There are the "classical" and "Cross" hedging. Classic hedging - implies the opening of transactions on the futures market, the opposite position to the normal site, that is, buying stocks to sell futures on them. With regard to cross-hedge, it implies the conclusion of a contract is not to the asset that is purchased in the spot market, and on any other. Thus, it is possible to build complex strategies based on completely different markets, with these types of insurance assets can be classified another way - as a "full" and "partial" hedging. The differences are clear from the title, full hedging - insurance assumes the entire cost of an asset, and "partial" - only its share.
Worth noting that along with a reduction in risk hedging and reduce the profitability of transactions, since on the one hand, if you insure your item, and they bring a loss, it overlaps the income that you received in the futures market. However, if the insured transaction will bring a profit, it will be smaller due to the loss on the futures market, and the more complete was the hedge, the greater the offset of profits and losses, so experienced portfolio managers insure only part of their positions.
Hedging in the futures market
Trading in futures and options can be a variety of purposes, for example, to diversify its portfolio, access to convenient speculative instrument, or to hedge their risks. The implementation of all these diverse tasks in the futures market deserves detailed consideration, but today we will focus only on one of them, Hedges - ie the insurance of their risks.
A case in point is, as transactions in the spot market, for example on the stock and on the retail trade, that is, on the operations of non-exchange directly. In addition, fixed-term contracts allow to insure risks related not only to the value of the underlying assets, but also to changes in exchange rates. In general, the futures and options allow you to use a variety of strategies designed to protect investments from various problems.
Participants in the derivatives market that use derivatives for different insurance risks are called "hedgers", let's take a closer look, the way they use the contracts to achieve their goals.
Hedging transactions are "short" and "long". "Short" hedging involves the sale contract, and "long" respectively purchase. The first way of the price changes are usually protected by the buyers of the goods, and the second way sellers. The essence of this approach is simple, if in a transaction, one party loses, as the seller of the asset, it benefits the buyer of the futures on the same amount of goods, and vice versa, so buyers are hedged real asset sale, and the seller is buying.
There are several hedging strategies: "normal", "arbitration", "selective" and "anticipates". "Normal" - is used for leveling of price risks, it is just a simple strategy involving transactions with futures contracts opposite transactions on the spot market.
"Arbitration hedzhirovnaaie" - is used to cover the additional costs. It is based on making a profit in a favorable change in the real price of the goods and the ratio of stock exchange quotations of contracts with different delivery times. Such operations are practiced mainly trading firms.
"Selective hedging" - suggests that the parameters of the futures contract differs from the transaction parameters. In this case, the purchase of a derivative requires only a partial coverage, and some speculative component.
Finally, the essence of "anticipatory hedging" - is the purchase or sale of a futures contract in advance of the transaction with the real goods. Such insurance serves as a temporary substitute for a trade agreement to be concluded later.
Hedging is a very important element in trading on the futures market. Derivatives can serve as a good tool when trading on the spot market, or doing business, not directly associated with the stock exchange. However, it should be understood that there is no perfect protection, futures contracts and in this respect, too, do not provide 100% guarantee. In addition, it is important to see where it ends and begins arbitration hedging or speculation.
Hedging options
The Russian market of derivative financial instruments is growing rapidly. Derivatives give investors plenty of opportunities to minimize risks and increase profits within a given strategy in the stock market. Depending on the investor's objectives, different options strategies can be used for hedging. The advantage of the hedge positions using options on the stock market, is their high liquidity and reliability, because the counterparty to each transaction performs calculation Exchange Chamber, as well as comparatively low overhead and transaction availability.
The easiest way to hedge open positions in shares on the spot market, the price drop with the help of option contracts, is to buy a Put option, or sell the option of Call, and the price increase - sales Put option. Call or buy option. When deciding on the hedging position is necessary to calculate the costs of each strategy, which include the option premium, not a percentage of the resulting opportunities to place their funds at interest without the risk on required dates, as well as dividends on the sale of shares. The market usually gives you the opportunity to choose the cheapest option, volatility and premiums in volatile days can reach up to 50%. With the help of option contracts an investor can hedge your position by asset price fluctuations in the short term, when the general trend of the market, whether it be an increase or decrease, no doubt. Such insurance is carried out by the so-called "reverse the spread", ie the simultaneous purchase and sale of an option of one type, but different strike prices. The investor has a portfolio of shares can hedge it with a set of option contracts for each type of securities. If the portfolio is made up of a large number of different stocks, the hedger is more convenient to insure the sale of its position Put option on a stock index. However, in this case, it should be remembered that the index allows a contract to hedge the market risk and leaves without the insurance of non-market risk. Insurance options contracts each particular stock as a hedge market and non-market risk. If necessary, to hedge long-term positions possible using the "roll" of practice. Its essence lies in the fact that since the beginning of the open positions closer contracts, and with the improvement of liquidity - for a further term of delivery positions near month closed and open positions on the remote.
Options allow with proper modeling and rendering all the components of the strategy to significantly improve the risk-earnings ratio, but there is also the danger associated with a parallel movement of prices and the underlying asset, and related derivative instruments. Basis risk is present with various of the law of supply and demand on the real and urgent markets. real and futures market prices may not differ too much, because in this case, there are arbitrage opportunities, which, due to the high liquidity of the derivatives market, almost immediately disappear.
Throughout its history, humanity needed tool allows you to insure risks. The term "hedging" is derived from the English word "hedge", ie, "to protect" is used to refer to a variety of risks insurance and investment methods…


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