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A national awareness event is being held in Edinburgh this month to raise awareness of altruistic kidney donation and highlight how it transforms lives.
Since 2006, people have been able to donate a kidney to someone unknown to them, purely because they want to help someone in need. To date, there have been over 390 altruistic kidney donations in the UK.
With 421 people in Scotland currently on the kidney transplant waiting list, the event will bring together altruistic donors, the transplant team involved in the process and a transplant recipient to speak about what altruistic donation involves and what it has meant to them. A panel of medical experts will also be on hand to answer questions.
Brian Robertson, 54, from Hawick, is one person who decided to give a stranger the ultimate gift, after hearing about altruistic kidney donation on the radio.
The former neuroscientist donated his kidney at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh in 2013 after the difference a transplant made to a friend's life.
Brian said: "A couple of years ago, whilst making the tea, I was listening to a programme on Radio 4 where they interviewed a man that had given a kidney altruistically and that got me thinking. He was over seventy and I thought that if someone twenty years older than me can do that then so can I. I decided to find out more and spoke to my wife about it.
"It took about a year from me first enquiring to actual donation. It doesn't happen quickly, they need to be sure you understand what you are doing, that you are doing it for all the right reasons and that you are completely certain about your decision. You also go through a psychological assessment to make sure you are fully prepared and committed.
"I only told my wife Lesley and some of my closest friends that I was considering it. I didn't want my parents or brother and sister to worry."
Brian told his mum and dad his decision just two days before the operation, dropping it casually into conversation.
He said: "My mum is a worrier and I didn't want her to, so I told her at the last minute. She was against it at first but then she supported my decision, my father was very supportive too. I think they were pretty proud really.
"My wife Lesley was completely supportive the whole way. She understood my reasoning of course and it was her who had the tougher job of running around after me after the op.
After the various medical teams gave Brian the all clear for donation, his operation was scheduled for February 2013.
He said: "I travelled up to Edinburgh the day before for some last minute tests, to make sure I had no minor bugs and everything else was tickety boo. I was back out of theatre a few hours later that day and in the high dependency unit but I felt really good, tired but well. I was only in hospital three days and could have been out in two if I had lived closer.
"The recovery was fine. A few months later I was back to full manual labour, chopping logs, felling trees and helping build our new house. Now I'm fitter than I was this time last year."
Brian doesn't know anything about the recipient of his kidney, however knowing that he helped save someone's life and freed them from dialysis is enough for him.
He said: "A couple of hours after the operation my consultant spoke to the hospital where the recipient got the kidney and was told that, the operation had gone exceedingly well and the kidney was working straight away. I thought that was enough for me and I've not really thought about it since to be honest.
"I've been pretty fortunate in my life; I've enjoyed good health, supportive family and friends and been lucky to have had great job and interesting career. I just wanted to give something back."
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MD Students Step Out into Community During Clinical Public Health Summit on Obesity
On a hot, sunny June day, George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) third-year MD students stood in a garden in northeast Washington, D.C., listening to the president, Ronnie Webb, and deputy director, Jerome Nesbitt, of nonprofit The Green Scheme talk about how the organization brings people from Ward 5 together to achieve one goal: access to healthier foods.
Just an hour later in southeast D.C. at the Washington Nationals Youth Baseball Academy, another group of students heard from residents of Ward 7 about the challenges to healthy lifestyles that the community's residents face.
The visits occurred throughout the District on June 20 as part of the Clinical Public Health Summit on Obesity for the MD Class of 2019. During the three-day summit, students learned about the population health dimensions of obesity, a growing health issue throughout the United States. In interacting with leaders of the communities that surround GW, students saw first-hand the issues impacting their patients — as well as what can be done to address those issues.
"You need to learn how to be an active participant in developing both community and population-level interventions, programs, and policies that promote healthy weight in the populations and communities you serve," Lawrence "Bopper" Deyton, MD '85, MSPH, Murdock Head Professor of Medicine and Health Policy, senior associate dean for clinical public health, and professor of medicine at SMHS, explained to the students at the start of the summit.
The students were split into six groups, each one assigned to understand the factors that promote increased risk of obesity in a specific DC Ward and specific a specific age group – and how to improve them. The groups included preschool-aged children living in Ward 1, children 5 to 11 years old in Ward 4, 12 to 17 year olds in Ward 7, 18 to 34 year olds in Ward 2, 35 to 64 year olds in Ward 5, and reproductive women ages 18 to 50 in Ward 8.
In addition to the site visits, students heard from experts in the field, including Ruth Perot, co-founder and executive director/CEO of the Summit Health Institute for Research and Education (SHIRE); Aaron Doughty, SHIRE Wellness Circle participant; Marcus Andrews, presidential administrative fellow at the GW Rodham Institute; and Pam Hess, executive director of the Arcadia Center for Sustainable Food and Agriculture.
Kofi Essel, MD '11, MPH '17, general academic pediatrics fellow at Children's National Health System (Children's National), who helped direct and organize the summit, told the students to "think beyond the individual, into the community and population."
"We want you to become the 21st century clinician and go beyond the office, into the health system and the communities, and we want you to go beyond clinical care to advocacy, leadership, and [health] system change," he said.
Essel added that SMHS is embarking upon an innovative method of training using immersion to teach students about the social cultural influencers of obesity through the summit.
Using information gleaned from their first two years of medical school and from the site visits, the students developed and presented innovative proposals on how to increase healthy foods, decrease unhealthy foods, and increase physical activity by working alongside the communities for their age groups.
MD student Michael Froehlich, who worked with the Ward 7 group, said the site visits "helped to make the issues more real on a personal level and … helped drive us to create not only an innovative proposal, but also a realistic one."
"We were able to put together a proposal that has a high likelihood of being implemented, and one that will address some of the day-to-day issues that those in the community want addressed but don't get the attention that they deserve or require," he added.
The proposal included creating cooking classes for teens and their parents or caregivers in the kitchen of the Washington Nationals Youth Baseball Academy, an educational program in Ward 7 high schools that teaches teens about the negative effects of unhealthy eating, and increased advertising and marketing for the organization's baseball and softball programs as a way to increase physical activity among high school-aged residents.
Students from the Ward 5 group also took to heart the advice from The Green Scheme Deputy Director Jerome Nesbitt on the importance of community in promoting healthy lifestyles. "The garden breaks down barriers, and there are many different generations involved, including people who have lived in the neighborhood for decades and those who have only been there a few years," he said, standing between plots of plants and flowers at the community garden site on 20th Street NE.
Reflecting that, the students' proposal focused on bringing community members together through educational sessions on mindful eating and the development of a mobile app and text service to help community members get information about local farmers' markets.
Review committee members listened intently to the students' presentations and offered both praise and recommendations on the proposed plans. Committee members included Andrews; Bill Dietz, director of the Sumner M. Redstone Global Center for Prevention and Wellness at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at GW; Erin Kennedy Hysom, MPH, RD, public health dietitian and program analyst at the Maryland Department of Education; Yolandra Hancock, MD, MPH, community pediatrician and pediatric obesity expert; Patty Nece, JD, Obesity Action Coalition national board member; Ambrose Lane Jr., chair of the Ward 7 Health Alliance Network; and Yolanda Lewis-Ragland, MD, pediatric obesity expert and assistant professor of pediatrics at Children's National.
The public health summits — which also include programs on creating an AIDS-free generation and on eliminating childhood asthma in D.C. — are student Kami Veltri's favorite part of the MD curriculum. "They allow us the opportunity to engage with our local communities beyond the boundaries of our academic institutions, offering a firsthand view of what's happening upstream from where we stand in our hospitals and clinics," she said. "With this wider angle, we can focus on preventive medical interventions — interventions inspired and implemented by the community members themselves."


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Rhino Records plan the CD and CD/DVD release of Wynton Marsalis and Eric Clapton Play The Blues – Live From Jazz at Lincoln Center. Release date is 13 September.
Recorded on the 8th and 9th April this year, the setlist comprised the following:
01. Ice Cream – Howard Johnson/Robert King/Billy Moll
02. Forty-Four – Chester Burnett/Howlin' Wolf
03. Joe Turner's Blues – W.C. Handy
04. The Last Time – Bill Ewing/Sara Martin
05. Careless Love – W.C. Handy/Martha E. Koenig/Spencer Williams
06. Kidman Blues – "Big Maceo" Merriweather
07. Layla – Eric Clapton/Jim Gordon
08, Joliet Bound – "Kansas Joe" McCoy/"Memphis Minnie" McCoy
09. Just A Closer Walk With Thee (with Taj Mahal) – Traditional
10. Corrine, Corrina (with Taj Mahal) – Bo Chatmon/Mitchell Parish/J. Mayo Williams
The dvd will have the bonus track: "Stagger Lee" by Taj Majal
The band featured:
Trumpet -Wynton Marsalis
Guitar, Vocals – Eric Clapton
Trumpet – Marcus Printup
Trombone – Chris Crenshaw
Clarinet – Victor Goines
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A$AP Rocky and A$AP Ferg have dropped the visuals for "Wrong," a single first released in April 2017. Filmed in a church, Rocky and Ferg wear white and red while the supporting cast of women are all dressed in white.
The song's lyrics are a confessional, with the two acknowledging they haven't been the best in terms of their treatment of women. To drive home the point, Rocky wears the much-celebrated Dior t-shirt featuring the Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie quote, "We should all be feminists."
Atypical of most rap videos, the women are fully clothed and appear downcast and defeated, implying they're sorting through pain caused by Rocky and Ferg.
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The International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography Camerimage has just finished. The 10th Anniversary edition appeared as a great success and unforgettable event, the best of all that have taken place in Poland so far. It is a pleasure to share with you what happened in Lodz, Poland between November 30th and December 7th. The Festival was held under the aegis of Polish Prime Minister, Polish Ministry of Culture and the Local Authorities. Furthermore, thanks to wide involvement of our sponsors CAMERIMAGE 2002 came into existence so smoothly. For this exceptional occasion we utter effusive "thank you" towards distributors, producers, associations and private people without whom the Festival would be deprived of substantial part of its celebrity. Especially, we would like to thank the following companies:The International Jury composed of: John De Borman, Adam Greenberg, Pierre Lhomme, Vladimir Smutny, Jost Vacano, Piotr Wojtowicz, and presided by Chris Menges spent seven days of hard work watching and judging 14 films presented in this part:
BEHIND THE SUN - Brazil, France, Switzerland Cinematographer: Walter Carvalho Director: Walter SallasBLACK HAWK DOWN - USA Cinematographer: Sławomir Idziak Director: Ridley Scott DEMONLOVER - France Cinematographer: Denis Lenoir Director: Olivier Assayas EDI - Poland Cinematographer: Krzysztof Ptak Director: Piotr Trzaskalski FAR FROM HEAVEN - USA Cinematographer: Edward Lachman Director: Todd Haynes GRILL POINT - Germany Cinematographer: Michael Hammon Director: Andreas Dresen MAN WITHOUT A PAST, THE - Finland Cinematographer: Timo Salminen Director: Aki Kaurismaki NOWHERE IN AFRICA - Germany Cinematographer: Gernot Roll Director: Caroline Link RABBIT-PROOF FENCE - Australia Cinematographer: Christopher Doyle Director: Phillip Noyce ROAD TO PERDITION - USA Cinematographer: Conrad L. Hall Director: Sam Mendes STAY ALIVE - Iran Cinematographer: Bahram Badakhshani Director: Dariush Mehrjui STROKES OF FIRE - South Korea Cinematographer: Jung Il-Sung Director: Im Kwon-Taek SWEET SIXTEEN - UK Cinematographer: Barry Ackroyd Director: Ken Loach WARRIORS, THE - Spain Cinematographer: Josep M. Civit Director: Daniel Calparsoro The cinematographers competed for Golden, Silver and Bronze Frog. At the Closing Ceremony that has been held in the Grand Theatre in Lodz on Saturday, December 7th the Jury made their unusual decision public... During our exceptional event we had a pleasure to present great films and their creators to our wonderful audience. All our guests had a chance to see such masterpieces as: AUTOFOCUS - USA Cinematographer: Fred Murphy Director: Paul Schrader ARARAT - France, Canada Cinematographer: Paul Sarrosy Director: Atom Egoyan BANK BAN - Hungary Cinematographer: Vilmos Zsigmond Director: Csaba Kael BLUE NOTE - France Cinematographer: Andrzej J. Jaroszewicz Director: Andrzej Żuławski DIRTY PRETTY THINGS - UK Cinematographer: Chris Menges Director: Stephen Frears EDEN - Poland Cinematographer: Andrzej Czeczot Director: Andrzej Czeczot GOOD THIEF, THE - UK, France, Canada, Ireland Cinematographer: Chris Menges Director: Neil Jordan HEART OF A BEAR, THE - Estonia Cinematographer: Rein Kotov, Arvo Iho Director: Arvo Iho HOMO FABER - France, Germany, UK, Greece Cinematographer: Pierre Lhomme Director: Volker Schlöndorff HOUSE OF FOOLS - Russia, France Cinematographer: Sergei Kozlov Director: Andrei Konchalovsky MACROCOSMOS - France Cinematographers: Dominigue Gentil, Phillipe Garquil and others Director: Jacques Perrin PEOPLE I KNOW - USA Cinematographer: Peter Deming Director: Daniel Algrant SANTA CLAUSE 2 - USA Cinematographer: Adam Greenberg Director: Michael Lembeck WILD BEES - The Czech Republic Cinematographer: Marek Divis Director: Bohdan Slama This year's Camerimage Lifetime Achievement Award went to one of the greatest British cinematographers Freddie Francis. The Retrospective was a parallel section where some of Freddie Francis' most illustrious films were presented: The Elephant Man - directed by David Lynch Sons and Lovers - directed by Jack Cardiff The Straight Story - directed David Lynch The "Frog embodied" Award was granted to Freddie Francis during the Closing Ceremony on Saturday, December 7th. The next record has been achieved. Almost 900 students picked up their accreditation during the Festival. Once again particular character of CAMERIMAGE gave them a chance of active participation in the event just side by side with their masters. Students presented their short works to the audience but certainly the most thrilling aspect for them was the fact that their films were judged by such magnificent cinematographers and director as Peter Deming, Csaba Kael, John Mathieson, Phedon Papamichael, Billy Williams, Piotr Wojtowicz and Vilmos Zsigmond as a Jury President. Students, representing almost 30 Schools from more than 20 countries, showed 28 films in the Competition and 16 in the World Panorama. The etudes competed for Golden, Silver and Bronze Tadpole and the awards went to: Together with Opus Film Studio from Lodz we prepared professional workshops, where students had the exceptional opportunity to see the masters of vision at work revealing the secrets of their craft and talking about their experiences. On the first-day-workshops students spent exciting hours with Edward Lachman and Phedon Papamichael during ARRI LIGHTING Workshops. At the next day students had a rare chance to see the way of working of Ken Loach together with Barry Ackroyd and also witness the mastery of Vilmos Zsigmond at ARRICAM Workshops. Furthermore, they also attended ARRIMOTION Workshops led by Michael Haubmann. The students as well as the regular audience had the chance to attend engaging seminars by Volker Schlöndorff, Willem Dafoe, Irene Jacob, Ken Loach, Barry Ackroyd, Christopher Doyle, Peter Deming, Dante Spinotti, Edward Lachman and Sławomir Idziak. Also some special presentations were to be seen:
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- On Thursday, December 5th at 8.30 p.m. all the guests were witnesses of Cutting the 10th Anniversary Birthday Cake founded by KINOŚWIAT. The cake's pieces were given to all the guests and first most important cuts have been made by Andrzej Bartkowiak, Dante Spinotti and Marek Żydowicz.
- On Thursday, December 5th at 10.30 p.m. in the Festival Pub - Evergreen KODAK STUDENTS PARTY organised with Camerimage Film Festival was held.
- On Saturday, December 7th at 1 p.m. on the main street of City of Lodz - Piotrowska Street, the Council of Łodź together with Camerimage Film Festival and assisted by Witold Sobociński, Freddie Francis, Vilmos Zsigmond and Billy Williams opened the Jubilee Camerimage Star devoted to all Camerimage Lifetime Achievement Award Recipients. Since then the Festival and their most important guests will be present in the history of Lodz forever.
- On Saturday, December 7th at 1 p.m. in the POLONIA Cinema, ARRI organised Special Presentation of its film Circle of Love.
- During the whole Festival the Photographs Exhibition in M1 Shopping Centre has been held.
THE GOLDEN FROG: EDI - Krzysztof Ptak ROAD TO PERDITION - Conrad L. HallTHE SILVER FROG: FAR FROM HEAVEN - Edward LachmanTHE BRONZE FROG: DEMONLOVER - Denis Lenoir
THE GOLDEN TADPOLE THE SHADOW - Ngo The Chau, DFFB, GermanyTHE SILVER TADPOLE SIENA - Szymon Lenkowski, National Lodz Film School, PolandTHE BRONZE TADPOLE MEAT - Maxim Shinkorenko, VGIK, Russia
CAMERIMAGE LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Freddie FrancisCAMERIMAGE AWARD FOR DIRECTOR WITH SPECIAL VISUAL SENSITIVITY Neil JordanAWARD FOR THE IDEA INSPIRING THE CREATION OF CAMERIMAGE Volker Schlöndorff SPECIAL AWARD FOR A DUO DIRECTOR - CINEMATOGRAPHER Ken Loach - Barry Ackroyd SPECIAL AWARD FOR A POLISH DUO DIRECTOR - CINEMATOGRAPHER Andrzej Żuławski - Andrzej J. Jaroszewicz SPECIAL CAMERIMAGE AWARD FROM CINEMATOGRAPHERS TO AN ACTOR FOR IMMENSE CONTRIBUTION TO THE ART OF MOVIE Willem Dafoe THE KRZYSZTOF KIEŚLOWSKI AWARD Irene Jacob THE GENARAL SPONSOR - ATLAS AWARD FOR THE PROMOTION OF POLISH CULTURE ABROAD Janusz Kamiński SPECIAL CAMERIMAGE AWARD FROM CINEMATOGRAPHERS TO A POLISH ACTOR Leon Niemczyk SPECIAL IMAGO AWARD FOR TEN YEARS OF CAMERIMAGE Marek Żydowicz THE DIGITAL TADPOLE FOUNDED BY DIGITAL LAB Laboratory in Warsaw for Supporting Young Creators THE BEST FILM ADAPTATION OF OPERA founded by Marcin Krzyżanowski, the director of the Grand Theatre in Lodz: Vilmos Zsigmond and Csaba Káel for BÁNK BÁNTo sum up, the 10th edition of the International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography - CAMERIMAGE was very successful. More than 30.000 Lodz inhabitants visited the Festival Centre within the Festival week. We have hosted over 900 students and about 200 cinematographers from all over the world. The City of Lodz, for the third time, was the witness of the film celebration and hosted such great personalities as: Andrzej Bartkowiak, Neil Jordan, Csaba Kael, Ken Loach, Volker Volker Schlöndorff, Piotr Trzaskalski, Andrzej Żuławski, Willem Dafoe, Irene Jacob, Nutza Kukhiani, Barry Ackroyd, Walter Carvalho, Josep M. Civit, Peter Deming, John De Borman, Marek Divis, Christopher Doyle, Freddie Francis, Phillip Garquil, Dominique Gentil, Wiktor Gluszczenko, Adam Greenberg, Michael Hammon, Sławomir Idziak, Andrzej J. Jaroszewicz, Rein Kotov, Edward Lachman, Denis Lenoir, Pierre Lhomme, John Mathieson, Chris Menges, Roman Osin, Phedon Papamichael, Krzysztof Ptak, Gernot Roll, Timo Salminen, Vladimir Smutny, Witold Sobociński, Dante Spinotti, Billy Williams, Jost Vacano, Tibor Vagyoczky, Piotr Wojtowicz, Haris Zambarloukos, Vilmos Zsigmond and many, many others, whose names are not imprinted in CAMERIMAGE's records, but definitely CAMERIMAGE has been engraved in their hearts.


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Deliveries of Embraer business jets were down 24% in the first half of 2018 compared to last year according to new numbers published by the company, with 31 jets against 41 the year before. Following the acquisition of Embraer by Boeing, the business jet division is set to remain independently owned by Embraer.
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This installation explores the early cyber-feminist hopes of the internet as a genderless, bodiless utopia. The work asks questions about representation, gender and embodiment in Post-Internet culture. Set-up as a mock utopia, the work asks the viewer to question the effect of the digital/physical divide on how we understand and view sexualised and gendered bodies in online and offline spaces. The installation features coded Arduino modules that interact in real-time with the topography of the exhibition space.
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This series explores the early cyber-feminist hopes of the internet as a genderless, bodiless utopia. The work asks questions about representation, gender and embodiment in Post-Internet culture. Set-up as a mock utopia, the work asks the viewer to question the effect of the digital/physical divide on how we understand and view sexualised and gendered bodies in online and offline spaces. The installation features coded Arduino modules that interact in real-time with the topography of the exhibition space.
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June 2019: (Solo) The Split Is Vividly Revealed: Nars Foundation: New York: USA
June 2019: The Present Is Not Enough: Hebbel Am Uffer: HAU2: Berlin: Germany
July 2019: Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary Shortlist Exhibition: BALTIC 39: Gateshead: UK
June 2019: The Split Is Vividly Revealed: Nars Foundation: New York: USA
February 2019: My Body Is The House That I Live In: SOHO20 Gallery: New York: USA
May 2018: Bodies In Space: Helmut Gallery: Leipzig: Germany
February 2017: Always Turned On: Southsquare Gallery: Thornton: UK
April 2019: DEEP TRASH: Eco-Futures: London: UK
March 2019: Flux/Us with Shape Arts: Tate Exchange: Tate Modern: London: UK
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January 2019: Let's Try Listening Again: 13th A.I.R. Gallery Biennale: Curated by Sarah Demeuse and Prem Kishnamurthy: New York: USA
October 2018: Light Night: East Street Arts: Leeds: UK
September 2018: Art Yellow Book: CICA Museum: South Korea
June 2018: It Takes A Village: Humber St Gallery: Hull: UK
May 2018: Porno-Pop: The Concept Space: London: UK
April 2018: She Bends: The Midway: San Francisco: USA
April 2018: Come As You Are: St Georg: Berlin: Germany
April 2018: I'm Not This Body: Mo Gallery: Berlin: Germany
January 2018: Emerald Winter Pride Art Awards: London: UK
January 2018: FBA Futures: Federation of British Artists: Mall Galleries: London: UK
November 2017: Techne Space x The Wrong: New Digital Art Biennale: Online
October 2017: Recent Graduates: Curated By Cassie Beadle: Affordable Art Fair: Battersea: London: UK
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September 2017: February 2018: She Bends: Museum of Neon Art: Los Angeles: UK
July 2017: Free Range: Truman Brewery: London: UK
June 2017: Once More With Feeling: Leeds College of Art: Leeds: UK
May 2017: 1st Birthday: The Square Gallery: London: UK
November 2016: Bryanston Today: Mall Galleries: London: UK October 2016: Affordable Art Fair with Jamm Gallery: Battersea: London: UK
September 2016: Darkness Cannot Drive Out Darkness: Lights Of Soho: London: UK
August 2016: Essence of Gender: Munro House: Leeds: UK
July 2016: Space and Place: Left Bank: Leeds: UK
June 2016: ?: Aire Place Studios: Leeds: UK
May 2016: Eat Me: The Brunswick: Leeds: UK
May 2016: Factory: PS Mirabel: Manchester: UK
March 2016: Hand Maid: Hoxton arches: London: UK
March: 2016: xoxo: Regents Building: Leeds: UK
February 2016: Paint By Number Issue 1 launch: The Brunswick: Leeds: UK
February 2016: She Art of Now: 35 Chapel Walk: Sheffield: UK
January 2016: Generations X: A.I.R Gallery: Brooklyn: USA
January 2016: Chroma: red issue: Safe House 1: Peckham: London: UK
December 2015: The Art Takeaway: Espacio Gallery: London: UK
October 2015: I'll Show You Mine: LS6: Leeds: UK
May 2015: 20:20 Print Exchange: The Arthouse: Wakefield: UK
March 2015: Shift: Studio 24 - Leeds: UK
2019-: Studio Grant from the Kulturwerk BBK Berlin and Berlin Senate
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January 2019: CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #2
January 2019: Oppenheim Downes Memorial Trust Award
November 2018: Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary Shortlist
August 2018: AB&B Artist's Commission in Association with Unlimited
July 2018: Axisweb Artist Award Winner
April 2018: Chiara Williams Solo Award Longlist
January 2018: Emerald Winter Pride Art Awards Finalist
November 2017: Jamboree x Castlefield Gallery Associates Bursary
June 2017: Celeste Prize Editors' Choice
June 2017: Artslant Showcase Prize Winner
Feb 2017: Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellowship
May 2016: Jameson Works Bursary
February 2019: Launch event for 'Primer' at A.I.R. Gallery: New York: USA
October 2018: Workshops with Sickness Affinity Group Berlin and Feminist Healthcare Research Group Berlin: M.1: Höhenlockstedt: Germany
September 2018: Curating Sickness with Feminist Healthcare Research Group Berlin: Berlin: Germany
October 2016: Artist's talk: Lights of Soho Gallery: London: UK
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i-D USA: Romily Alice Walden's art confronts the silence surrounding ableism
Shape Arts: Shortlist Announced for the Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary
Axisweb: Axisweb Artist's Award Winner: Romily Alice Walden
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The next time you take a stroll down your grocery's "health food" aisle, take note: Most of what you're looking at may not really belong.
In fact, many of the products we've come to accept as good for us have a fascinating history behind them that includes remarkable coincidences, clever advertisements, and even complex forces beyond our control, like war and immigration.
Here are some of the brilliant marketing strategies behind some of our favorite "health" products:
Peanut butter and jelly
The problem: The PB&J is a ubiquitous lunch item among American kids — there's a song about it, folks — but it's actually a less-healthy alternative to sandwiches made with hummus or lean meats.
Peanut butter is high in fat; jelly is high in sugar. Slap those ingredients between two slices of white bread and you've got a sandwich that packs 20 grams of sugar, 14 grams fat (3.5 grams saturated), and 400 calories.
Marketing origins: World War I rations officers, Welch's — which came out with Grapelade — and peanut companies that latched onto it.
How it happened: The Great Depression popularized peanut butter on bread as a cheaper-than-meat substitute for protein. When it was combined with Welch's Grapelade — one of the first iterations of jelly — in the rations of WWI soldiers in the US, the PB&J became an official hit.
Fruit smoothies
The problem: Just because they pack lots of fruit, bottled smoothies and those sold at places like Jamba Juice are not necessarily healthy. But most are also incredibly high in sugar and calories. A 15-ounce bottle of Mighty Mango-flavored Naked Juice has 290 calories, 68 grams of carbs, and a whopping 57 grams of sugar — a 16-ounce bottle of Coke has 44 grams of sugar.
Marketing origins: Bottled juice and smoothie companies that capitalize on consumers' desire for fresh, healthy foods.
How it happened: The first blender was invented in the late 1930s, and Steve Kuhnau, who was reportedly experimenting with blending fruits and veggies to combat some of his own allergies and health problems, founded the first Smoothie King restaurant in Louisiana in 1973.
The problem: Bowls of sugar-laden empty carbs got swapped for protein-rich components of the "balanced breakfast." A cup of Reese's Puffs, for example, has 160 calories, 4 grams of fat (1 gram saturated), 13 grams of sugar, 29 grams of carbs and more than 3 grams of protein. A high-sugar, low-protein diet can increase hunger pangs and mood swings and leave you with low energy. Not exactly the best way to start the school day.
Marketing origins: Cereal companies.
How it happened: As Jaya Saxena writes for Serious Eats, "Cereal's position as America's default breakfast food is a remarkable feat, not of flavor or culture, but of marketing and packaging design."
It all started, Saxena writes, with Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, manager of the Battle Creek Sanitarium, a Seventh-day Adventist health resort advertised as a place where upper-middle-class Americans could go for a health tune-up.
Kellogg, a vegetarian, advocated turning away from meat in favor of yogurt, nuts, and grains. Then, in 1895, C.W. Post, a former Battle Creek patient, founded his own cereal company with Postum, a "cereal beverage intended to replace coffee," as its poster product.
Sports drinks
The problem: We've been wrongly convinced that we need sugar water to prepare and refuel after a hot date with the gym. In reality, exercise scientists recommend drinking water and eating or drinking 20 grams of protein, since studies suggest that it helps recondition and build muscles.
Marketing origins: Soda companies make the majority of sports drinks that you see on grocery-store shelves.
How it happened: Gatorade's "Is it in you?" black-and-white ads in the 1990s featured star athletes like Mia Hamm and Michael Jordan, who are shown literally sweating out the color of the Gatorade they were drinking. More recently, the company has come out with a lineup of "G-series" pre- and post-workout drinks that are supposedly designed to help you either prepare for or cool down from a workout.
The problem: We've been told that beef, which is high in fat and has been implicated in contributing to the California drought because of its large impact on land and water resources, is a go-to source of protein.
Marketing origins: The National Beef Board.
How it happened: The Beef Checkoff Program, a research- and advertising-funding pool created by the National Beef Board to stimulate sales in the US, came up with the "Beef: It's What's for Dinner" campaign in 1992. The campaign featured TV, radio, and magazine ads with actor Robert Mitchum as the narrator, as well as catchy Western music from the "Rodeo" suite by Aaron Copland.
The initial campaign ran for a year and a half and cost $42 million. Today, the program still owns and operates BeefItsWhatsForDinner.com, which features recipes and guides to picking out a cut of meat.
Orange juice
The problem: Orange juice has become a required aspect of the American breakfast. In reality, juicing fruits removes all of their fiber, the key ingredient that keeps you feeling full and satisfied until your next meal. The result: mostly just sugar and water. And a high-sugar, low-protein diet can increase hunger pangs and mood swings and leave you with low energy.
Marketing origins: Sunkist, Tropicana, and the California Fruit Growers Exchange.
How it happened: Historian Harvey Levenstein writes in his book, "Fear of Food: A History of Why We Worry about What We Eat," that biochemist Elmer McCollum, who helped discover vitamins A, B, and D and warned against vitamin-deficient diets in the 1920s, provided ample material for orange growers, whose sales at the time were sagging.
Under the Sunkist brand, the California Fruit Growers Exchange created a campaign focused on drinking orange juice to get these vitamins in an easy, tasty way.
The problem: We were led to believe that we needed to drink milk to get calcium for strong bones, especially at a young age. In reality, there are a ton of veggies that are rich in calcium, including kale, collard greens, spinach, and peppers, just to name a few.
Marketing origins: The California dairy industry.
How it happened: In 1993, California hired advertising consultant Jeff Manning to boost lagging dairy sales. He brought on ad agency Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, which used its $23 million budget to create the "Got Milk?" campaign, which began with the idea that people want only milk when they run out.
Later versions of the ads emphasized its importance for health, like the above ad featuring actor Frankie Muniz with the text "Want strong kids?"
Bottled water
The problem: We've been deceived into thinking that bottled water is cleaner and healthier than tap water. Globally, we spend more than $100 billion on the bottled, yet otherwise widely available, good every year.
Marketing origins: Soda companies: Pepsi makes Aquafina, Nestle makes Dasani, and Coca-Cola makes Smart Water.
How it happened: Author Elizabeth Royte writes in her book, "Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought it," that 92% of the nation's 53,000 local water systems meet or exceed federal safety standards and are at least as clean and often cleaner than bottled water.
So why has bottled water become so prevalent that sales surpass beer and milk in the US? Royte calls the phenomenon one of the "greatest marketing coups of the 21st century."
The problem: Americans have been led to believe that gargling with mouthwash is a better alternative to flossing. We spent $1.4 billion on mouthwash in 2014.
Marketing origins: Listerine.
How it happened: For years, mouthwash company Listerine claimed that its products worked just as well as flossing. Those claims were false, as revealed in a 2004 lawsuit against the company for false advertising.
On 15 of its 24 products, Listerine said that it was "as effective as floss when used regularly." The claim was based on two studies by the American Dental Association, which was funded by the maker of mouthwash, Pfizer. In 2005, New York judge Denny Chin ordered a stop to the ads, noting substantial evidence that no amount of mouthwash could replace daily flossing.
ConsumerAffairs.com reports that the class-action suit was thrown out in March 2010, but only because the claim was "over-broad" and that the majority of the population never encountered the advertisements because of a short shelf life.
Coconut water
The problem: We've been led to believe that this $4-a-serving beverage is a panacea for everything from post-workout dehydration to cancer.
Marketing origins: Zico, VitaCoco, and O.N.E.
How it happened: Since taking off globally in the mid-2000s, the coconut-water business has mushroomed into a $400 million industry dominated by just three giant companies. Ads featuring glowing celebrities like Rihanna relaxing on beaches helped push the trend into high gear.
Low-fat everything
The problem: We've been led to believe that low-fat products will lead to increased overall health and weight loss. An eight-year trial involving almost 50,000 women suggested that that's highly unlikely. When roughly half of them went on a low-fat diet, they didn't lower their risk of breast cancer, colorectal cancer, or heart disease. Plus, they didn't lose much weight, if any.
Marketing origins: The sugar industry. Sweet-snack and candy makers quickly realized that they could slap the "low-fat" or "fat-free" label on everything from yogurt to Twizzlers and see a boost in sales.
How it happened: Headlines of the 1980s and '90s were filled with missives that fat was killing us. Ironically enough, many food makers began replacing all this fat with another ingredient: sugar.
New recommendations show that healthy fats, like those from nuts, fish, and avocados, are actually good for you in moderation. So add them back into your diet if you haven't already.
Gluten-free products
The problem: A lot of people think that gluten — a protein composite found in wheat, barley, and other grains that gives breads their chewiness — is bad for them, and that anything with a "gluten-free" label is, well, not.
In reality, unless you're one of the 1% of Americans who suffer from celiac disease, eating gluten probably won't have any negative effects on you.
Marketing origins: Consumers, gluten-free food makers, and food makers who responded to the trend by slapping "gluten-free" labels on foods that didn't have gluten to begin with.
How it happened: While the origins of the gluten-free craze remain disputed — it's still in its early days — it's been largely consumer-driven, Saint Joseph's University marketing professor John Lang wrote in The New York Times.
"Whether consumers' reasons for demanding more gluten-free products are medically or nutritionally justified doesn't really matter; simply put, more consumers want more of these products," said Lang.
By 2020, the gluten-free market is projected to be valued at close to $24 billion.
The problem: We associate anything crunchy and sold in bags in the health-food aisle with nature-loving hikers — people who get lots of exercise and keep their bodies lean and healthy. But granola is no health product. In fact, it's packed with sugar and calories — a cup contains about 600 calories, or the same amount as two turkey and cheese sandwiches or about four cereal bars.
Marketing origins: The first "corporate granola," according to a 1978 Rolling Stone article, was Heartland Natural Cereal. Its roots reach back to the '60s, when Seventh-day Adventist Wayne Schlotthauer, who'd been operating the world's largest granola factory in California using a recipe his grandma had brought over from Germany, was approached by Layton Gentry. Schlotthauer sold him the West Coast rights to the granola recipe for $18,000.
How it happened: Luckily for Schlotthauer and Gentry — who was named "Johnny Granola-Seed" by Time — the '60s saw a resurgence in health-conscious eating habits and a desire to return to an "all natural" lifestyle. It was the perfect environment for granola to blossom.
The problem: Close to half of American adults take vitamins every day. Yet decades' worth of research hasn't found any justification for our pill-popping habit. That isn't to say we don't need small amounts of vitamins to survive — without vitamins like A, C, and E, for example, we have a hard time turning food into energy and can develop conditions like rickets or scurvy.
Here's the thing: Research shows that we get more than enough of these substances from what we eat, so no need for a pill!
Marketing origins: Fruit-juice and vitamin manufacturers.
How it happened: Biochemist Elmer McCollum warned against vitamin-deficient diets in the 1920s, and juice companies as well as vitamin manufacturers hopped on the bandwagon to peddle their products.
Egg substitutes
The problem: For decades, we've been led to believe that eggs are bad for us because they're packed with cholesterol. Flavorless egg substitutes ranging from Egg Beaters to pre-blended cartons of egg whites packed grocery store shelves in the 1990s and early 2000s.
As it turns out, the cholesterol in eggs doesn't significantly raise blood cholesterol for the vast majority of us.
Marketing origins: US Dietary Guidelines, which for decades urged Americans to avoid eggs and strictly limit their intake of cholesterol from food.
How it happened: One odd thing that may have informed the original US Dietary Guidelines is the strange practice of studying cholesterol in rabbits, which are — surprise! — not humans. They're herbivores that don't eat animals or animal products. Regardless, at least one prominent researcher still extrapolated their rabbit results to people, Tech Insider reports.
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Maybe the individual cars could be made with loose letter/name/number boards, having all 3 RRs boards in the box so the buyer could determine which cars he wanted to apply???
Bob - great idea but I can hear the complaints now. Added cost and too difficult to glue the letterboards to the cars.


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Insulin and insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF1) are two closely related proteins and share similarities in both primary and tertiary structure. The homology is paralleled by similarities in the structures of their receptors, the insulin receptor (InsR) and the IGF1 receptor (IGF1R), which belong to the same family of receptor tyrosine kinases.
When studying the InsR and IGF1R is it therefore important to use specific antibodies that does not cross-react with both receptors. NNC0124-0226 is a highly specific IGF1R monoclonal antibody that lack cross-reactivity to the InsR. NNC00124-0226 is an IgG4 monoclonal antibody directed against alfa-subunit of the IGF1R.
Also, unlike earlier monoclonal antibodies reported in the literature, this antibody shows cross-species reactivity to the extracellular domains of mouse, rat, pig, and human receptors, indicating that it binds conserved epitopes. Furthermore, the antibodies work well in several different assay formats and therefore provide a new tool to study InsR and IGF1R biology with translation across several species and experimental model systems. NNC0124-0226 differ in one amino acid compared to the mAb 227 in the reference by Ørstrup et al 2019 listed in the reference section and therefore displays the same specificity as mAb 227.
The antibodies are of very high purity and have a minimal amount of aggregates as determined by SEC-HPLC. The isotype control (NNC9416-0001) is anti-trinitrophenol (aTNP), the isotype control standard used in most in vitro and in vivo applications since the antigen is not considered present in mammals.
|Isotype control
|Production host
|HEK cells
|CHO cells
|Fc subtype
|Human IGF1 receptor
|2,4,6-trinitrophenol (TNP)
|Original species
|Human/rabbit (rabbit variable domains)
|Buffer composition
|PBS, pH 7.4 with 0.02% Na-azide
|PBS, pH 7.4 with
0.02% Na-azide
|1 mg/mL
|1 mg/mL
|Theoretical mass
|144349.8 Da
|144774.3 Da
|<0.06 EU/mg
|<0.06 EU/mg
CHO: Chinese hamster ovary; EU: endotoxin unit; HEK: human embryonic kidney; PBS: phosphate buffered saline; SEC: size exclusion chromatography
NNC0124-0226 displays cross-species reactivity to the extracellular domains of mouse, rat, pig, and human insulin receptors (other species not tested), indicating that it binds conserved epitopes. Furthermore, the antibody works well in several different assay formats, see the table.
|WB (only non-reduced)
|Flow cytometry
|ELISA (tested as capture Ab in sandwich ELISA)
|Tissue IP
|Immunohistochemistry on frozen section
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Sunday, August 2, 2009
Do we live in a small town?
It was almost noon when Lise and I slipped out of the house Sunday. She wanted to go hit a couple of wineries for both tastings and photos. Addresses were looked up and loaded onto Reggie-the- GPS. First stop? Trinity Vineyards.
As we were driving south on Liberty, I checked Reggie to see the name of our upcoming turn-off--Waln Road. So familiar to both of us. We made the turn, began the trek up the narrow paved road and then it hit us--school friends (sisters, also) of both Lise and Fran lived on this same road! The last time we had visited their house, ground had just been broken on the site where Trinity Vineyards now stands. From there we traveled backroads to Ankeny Hills on Riverside Road S. and finally to Vitae Springs Winery where we ran into a school and band mate of both of the girls.
Yup, we definitely live in a small town!
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Deb Grott first met Molly Heaney eight years ago at a fourth grade field hockey camp, and the longtime Exeter High School coach knew right away Heaney was something special.
Deb Grott first met Molly Heaney eight years ago at a fourth grade field hockey camp, and the longtime Exeter High School coach knew right away Heaney was something special.
Grott watched Heaney progress through middle school and was more than thrilled to see Heaney walk on the Blue Hawk practice field as a freshman in the fall of 2008.
"I wanted her on varsity right away, but the other coaches who picked teams with me didn't believe me on how good she was when she tried out," Grott said. "When she first tried out, she was a little tentative because she was so young, but I knew she had it in her, so she started the season at junior varsity."
It didn't take long for Heaney to make everyone realize she belonged on the varsity.
"She played one game with the JV," Grott said. "After that game, the other coaches knew she belonged on varsity. She commanded the performance on the field and was a leader out there for us. She certainly stood out."
Four years later, Heaney's high school field hockey career is over, but she will continue to play as a member of the University of New Hampshire field hockey team, a Division I program.
"Ever since I was a little girl I always wanted to play field hockey in college," said Heaney, who was a three-time All-State first-team selection. "UNH is a Division I team and one of the top teams in the country. I fulfilled my dream and will keep fulfilling my dream for the next four years. I knew if I got better year by year and continued to grow as a player, I could reach this goal, now I am here."
Heaney, of Kingston, starred as a back for the Blue Hawks. She was named the New Hampshire Division I Player of the Year and the Portsmouth Herald Player of the Year as a senior. She was also selected to the All-Star first team and the Twin State team.
"I am going to train hard over the summer, go in there and work my butt off," Heaney continued. "I know I have to earn my spot on the team. They are losing a couple of defensive starters and I know I have big shoes to fill."
UNH won the America East regular-season and tournament titles last season and earned a spot in the NCAA tournament.
"We're very excited about having Molly joining us, we're thrilled to have her and she's an important piece of what we're trying to do here," UNH coach Robin Balducci said. "She's a very skilled player and very smart. She ran that team (Exeter) like a quarterback and she continues to impress me. I saw her last week in a tournament and thought she was better than the last time I saw her. Her skill level impressed me and she also has a great understanding of the game. She's just a real leader. We couldn't be happier and she's going to be a great addition to the program.
"We're graduating two backfield players, both played significant minutes for us," Balducci continued. "We have some big holes back there, and we're looking for Molly to come in and contribute right away. I think she will adapt to the college game pretty easily."
Heaney was also looking at Providence College, another Division I school.
"It was a tough decision for me, but I am really happy with where I ended up," Heaney said. "The girls on the team were so nice and welcoming, and Robin is a great coach. She is tough, but I think she can bring out the best in me."
Heaney will see some familiar faces next season as Maegan Grew (Winnacunnet) and Mary Quill (Portsmouth) are both freshmen at UNH, and Cari Posternak of York, Maine, will be a freshman next season.
"It's important that we're getting the top players in New Hampshire and Maine," Balducci said.
Grott couldn't be prouder of Heaney.
"We've had some incredible players here at Exeter," Grott said. "If you coach long enough, every once in a while you will get a standout player, and Molly was a standout player. I knew she was going to one of them and she became not only an incredible field hockey player, but also a wonderful young woman. I know she will do well at UNH. She's going to show people she is worthy of being on that team. She doesn't want to go there and sit on the bench, she wants to play. She's ready."


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Happy Sunday!
The sun has finally decided to come out over here, after a weekend of gloom and grey. Stefano just took off for Philadelphia again – when he comes back next week, he's here for good!!! Since he didn't arrive until Saturday afternoon, we had just over 24 hours together, which flies when you're having fun.
Since Saturday was not a nice day to be outside, we decided to do warm food and do indoors-y things, namely the Air and Space Museum at the Smithsonian and then going to see the Dark Knight Rises that night. Before we left for the museum, I cooked us up a vegetable marinara pasta, using lots of frozen veggies and a can of tomato paste, seasoned with salt, pepper, garlic, and dried basil. It was the perfect, stick to your ribs kind of meal for a cool, wet day.
After lunch we were off to the Air and Space museum! One of my favorite things about Washington D.C. is the abundance of museums and cultural events that are free to the public. The A&S museum is included and it is perfect for a day when you just want to be inside. Stef and I had both been to the museum before, but not for many years and it was fun to see all the cool airplanes and see the exhibits the depicted the evolution of flight.
Stefano was happy that the original Flyer, built by the Wright Brothers, was on display.
One of the exhibits was about the stewardesses in early flight. There was a section where you could see if you fit the strict guidelines to become a flight stewardess in early 50's. Unfortunately, I would not have been among the few than 2% selected, as I am too tall.
Unfortunately, Stef and I are not very good at spending all day at the museum, and after a few hours we started lagging and stopped paying much attention to the exhibits.
After wandering the museum awhile longer, we decided to go grab dinner. We were both feeling Thai food and luckily, there was a Thai restaurant really close to the movie theater where we would be watching the film that night, so we decided on that. We started off with some yummy dumplings as appetizers and both ordered drinks – Thai iced tea for him and a "Sassy Strawberry" for me, which was a combination of strawberry puree, orange juice, mint, and club soda, which was delicious and refreshing!
We were famished and totally tore through the dumplings. Is it anybody else's pet peeve when they give you an odd number of appetizers for two people? Luckily, Stef and I know how to share and split the third one down the middle. For our entrees, both of us wanted the pad see ew, which is wide rice noodles with your choice of meat and broccoli, but we always like to order different main courses, so we can share try different things! I ended up ordering the chicken pad thai and he ordered the pad see ew with beef.
Stef ended up enjoying my pad thai more than I did and I was really digging the pad see ew, so we did a switcheroo – though I kept picking off of his plate!
We inhaled our dinner and were finished way sooner than we had planned, so we had lots of time to spare before the film started. We decided to have a walk around the neighborhood and stopped by a CVS to grab some snacks for the theater (shh!). I was so excited for Milk Duds, so you can imagine my devastation when I saw this:
All gone!!! While on the hunt for a suitable substitute, I came across these:
Girl Scout cookie Crunch bars!?! I was so tempted to buy one of the Samoa knock-offs, but decided against it. Has anyone tried these? If they taste anything like the original Girl Scout cookies, I am in major trouble and should probably not even tempt myself by buying them.
After loading up on snacks, we made our way to the theater and got in the line for our showing (there were 5 different showings!). We were second in line, which means we got our selection of seats once the theater opened.
We chose our seats, got our snacks out, settled in, and then it was show time!
So excited for Batman. It was a great movie, definitely worth watching! I love anything with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, though, so I might be biased. The movie was nearly three hours long, so it was late when we got out and hopped on the Metro back to my house, so it was straight to bed when we got home.
Did anyone else see Dark Knight Rises this weekend? What did you think?


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3D Light Painting With A 3D Printer. Tiny Tetris by adafruit. Self Leveling Lighting Rig. Bubble Machine. Kaleiduino: A Battery Powered Arduino LED Kaleidoscope. The definition of a kaleidoscope from wikipedia...: "A kaleidoscope is a cylinder with mirrors containing loose, colored objects such as beads or pebbles and bits of glass.
Kaleidoscopes are awesome toys, and are always fun to make and play with. Let's turn a vintage camera into a decorative web cam and light! I was at my father's house recently and he had a box of stuff that he had cleaned out of his garage.
Knowing that I'm a sucker for junk, he offered it to me as my wife shot him dirty looks. There was a couple of old Sony three way speakers with crossovers, an old cast aluminum ice bucket, a collection of shot glasses, a broken CB, a rats nest of wall warts and a Polaroid 250 Land Camera. I loaded the loot in my car while the wife fumed and dad chuckled at conning me into saving him a trip to the dump. K'nex RC Floor Cleaner. This Instructable will show you how to make a remote controlled floor cleaner, kind of like a small version of the big floor cleaners that you would see at the mall.
This project is based off those. I will show you how to build it in two main parts: the front and the back. These will be connected together near the end. Features: Spinning sponges to scrub the floor. Drumbots. Digital drum machines can be easily programmed to play many different sounds and rhythms, but ultimately they sound a little canned.
Why not make a machine that plays real drums? My Drumbot has the programmable flexibility and sequenced tight rhythm of a drum machine, while producing a more natural sound by striking actual drums (or boxes, or tabletops, or whatever). Building your own drum-playing robot is now affordable and easy, mostly due to advancements in programmable microcontrollers and the shared knowledge of user communities. There are a few kits out there that'll do the job, but we'll be using Highly Liquid's MSA-R MIDI decoder kit. I enjoy this kit for its ease of assembly, low price, and solid operation. Parabolic Microphone. Step #1: Make the dish PrevNext Use wire cutters to snip away the 4 plastic holders that connect the hat's umbrella to its headband.
Gumball machine by welwell. Found Sound. Start Making! an Intel Labs Initiative. Guides/pdfs/SketchITPlayIT.pdf. Arduino PIR Motion Sensor. This Instructable is about how to create an Arduino PIR motion sensor for your room or office, using parts available from your local Radio Shack!
Whether you're looking for a cool and easy-to-build security sensor, or an awesome first project to dive into the world of Arduino, Microcontrollers, and electronics, this project is for you. (This project really is easy. Take it from me, I'm 12, and I've only had my Arduino for a week and a half.) If you guys really like my project, please vote for it in the home technology contest! (To vote, click the ribbon in the top right hand corner.) Duct Tape Double. Arduino Theremin. Arduino Photocell Theremin. Step #2: Upload the arduino sketch PrevNext Upload the sketch on your Arduino software.
You can adjust the value of the range your photocell is giving opening the serial monitor (at the top right of your Arduino window). Observe what is the highest and the lowest value coming from the photocell, and write them in the sketch. Step #3: Play music Waving your hand over the photocell will change the sound emitted by the speaker. Aidafruit blog. Bike Dashboard. Arduino Powered Autonomous Vehicle. Festo Fin Gripper. Note: This fun project is provided by Festo as part of their appearance for Maker Camp 2014.
Crochet Inspiration: Broomstick Lace Bracelet. 3D Printed Air Rocket Glider. Step #1: Print the plastic parts.
PrevNext Download the part files and 3D-print them in ABS plastic at 100% fill: left fuselage, right fuselage, wing pivot halves (2), tail fins (3), and the 2-part nose mold (optional, see Step 2). Step #2: Cast the soft nose (optional). Assemble the 2 halves of the nose mold and bolt it together with #10-32 screws, washers, and nuts. Mix about 20ml of urethane resin as indicated on the manufacturer's label in a paper cup. Step #6: Mount the body tube. Folding-Wing Glider: Rockets Up … Glides Down! As a kid, I remember my dad talking about this seemingly magical balsa wood rocket glider.
With the wings folded back, the glider shot into the air using a hand held rubber band attached to a stick catapult. Wind resistance held the wings back, then when the glider reached its peak, the wings popped open for a long and graceful glide down. Especially exciting to me, was when the glider began to wear out, he would attach a fire cracker to it and then launch it into a shower of balsa wood confetti glory.
About ten years ago I began thinking about this glider and whether or not it was still available. I found a science supply company who sold one for about ten bucks that looked similar so I bought three or four. I began researching on the internet about the glider and there was very little information to be found. Model, Modify, and Make ModULO - 3D Printing. Step #6: Heart PrevNext Trinket is easy, awesome, and inexpensive to use. Crittergram Capture Cam. You probably already know the Arduino is a cool prototyping platform which allows you to build great projects with minimal effort.
Over the years many contributors have designed compatible hardware and software libraries for easy methods to interact with the Arduino. With the Crittergram Capture Cam we'll combine several common components to create a camera that only takes pictures when critters move in front of it. The Hardware. Building a Simple Arduino Robot. Step #1: Making the Chassis Place the battery pack face down and orient it so that its cable is facing you.Take two pieces of double sided tape and adhere them on the long sides of each servo.
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Build: Heron's fountain. This week I am actually going to be making something that does not require electricity. Although, you may be able to fool people into thinking it does. We are going to be making Heron's fountain out of common household materials. Milk Jug Rocket Launcher. Soda Bottle Rocket LED Fireworks. Originating in China, fireworks have been around since before the 16th Century and have been making people look to the night sky with delight.
Firework formulas are closely guarded secrets handed down from generation to generation and the overall concept has not changed much over the centuries. Secret-Knock Gumball Machine. Cardboard Construction and Activities. Gr+10+unit+3+-+Cardboard+Challenge.pdf. A cardboard arcade made by a 9-year-old boy. Soil moisture-sensing by hacking a solar light. Makedo. Wind Power: Creating a Wind Generator. The lesson presented here focuses on the engineering design process and its use in identifying a question (solving a problem), developing a design or change in design, testing that design, observing and collecting data, analyzing the data recorded from the experiment, and forming a conclusion to perform another round of design. In this case, we are attempting to maximize the voltage obtained from a wind-driven turbine through the use of several experimental designs.
You may want to review the following multimedia presentations to learn more about STEM and the engineering design process. What is STEM Education. Knex Circle Machine. Homemade Spin Art Machine. Droning Machine. Blinkybug (Maker Faire version) Candy Vending Machine. Giant Computer-Controlled Robotic Arm Made of Old Cardboard Boxes. Marble Machines. Cardboard Pinball Machine. The Tinkering Studio. Cardboard_Automata.pdf. Circuit Scribe - Draw Electrical Circuits Instantly. Circuit Scribe Lite Kit (Pre-order, ships August 2014) Sewing with Conductive Thread. Circuit Stickers.
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SpaceNews reports on another fund-raising round by the Chinese launch company.
Chinese private launch vehicle maker OneSpace has secured $43.6 million in Series B financing as the company looks to its first orbital launch near the end of 2018.
The financing was led by CICC Jiatai Equity Fund, followed by FinTrek Capital, with China Merchants Venture Capital, Qianhai Wande Fund and Qianhai Wutong M&A Fund also increasing their investment in the company.
This fourth round of financing takes the total raised since the founding of OneSpace in August 2015 to $116 million.
In May, OneSpace successfully tested its first OS-X suborbital rocket, with the 265-second flight reaching an altitude of around 40 kilometers, which OneSpace describes the as the first launch of a privately designed Chinese commercial rocket. That launch came after iSpace, another Chinese company, lofted a test Hyperbola-1S rocket from Hainan in April.


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I've been accused by a certain someone
mentioned in #4 below of being a book pusher. Well, what goes around comes around! Here are five of my favorite reads in 2014, all recommended to me (directly or indirectly) by other people.
1. The Sparrow. Recommended by Andi at Estella's Revenge in this wonderful BookTube review. I couldn't stop thinking about this book. I have yet to read the sequel, Children of God, because I'm afraid my expectations going into it will be too high.
2. To Kill a Mockingbird. Pretty much everyone recommended this classic, which I read for the first time this year. Michele at A Reader's Respite basically told me to stop everything, forget the world around me, and read it. Wow. This left me with a major book hangover. I thought of it often these past several weeks, especially.
3. The Giver. This was recommended to me by one of my 7th grade piano students, who gets so animated when discussing this book I knew I had to read it before she completely spoiled it for me! Very glad I did. The…benevolence?…of the oppression in this society made for an interesting spin on the kind of dystopian novels I normally read.
4. Two Lovely Berries. I reviewed this book only yesterday, but this is a wonderfully satisfying self-published title that pulled me out of a reading slump. Katie at Words for Worms is to fault for this recommendation.
5. The Ocean at the End of the Lane. Shannon at River City Reading surprised me in the mail with this one. I want to enjoy reading fantasy. I never enjoy reading fantasy. I enjoyed this fantasy novella!
Tell me: What's the best book you've read this year that was recommended to you by someone else?


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This holiday season, a nationwide Christmas tree shortage could mean you won't get a tree at all if you don't buy one ahead of the crowd.
Tree farmers and those who own tree lots are warning that they don't have nearly as many trees as the usually do.
Jimmy Coan, owner of Papa Noel, usually ships in a few thousand trees from Oregon and Washington to sell at his six lots around Austin but he says a tight economy and less demand for real trees a decade ago hurt the industry.
"Many farmers in the northwest went out of business during the recession. Everyone in the market is gonna run out of trees this year," he said.
Coan says he's importing as many other trees as he can from North Carolina and says he probably won't have enough to even get through Monday.


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Organizers delivered powerful speeches and rousing songs to tens of thousands of Hong Kong citizens who gathered on June 4 this year to honor those killed by the Chinese Army in Beijing 25 years ago.
But for me, the most memorable moments of Hong Kong's commemoration were the quiet ones — the sea of candle-lights, the soft voices recorded on video of the "Tiananmen Mothers" mourning their lost sons and daughters, and the reading of the names of those who died. Those names included a girl who was only nine years old.
Another moment allowing for quiet reflection was a minute of silence during which the people bowed their heads. Then there was the silence surrounding a small group of young and old participants who laid a wreath at a replica of the Monument to the People's Heroes located at Tiananmen Square.
I suspect, however, that it was the Tiananmen Mothers who touched the most hearts in the crowd, which the organizers estimated to number more than 180,000.
This was certainly the case at the small museum established in April on the other side of Hong Kong's harbor to commemorate the victims of the Army crackdown on June 4, 1989.
I visited the museum together with an American journalist colleague several hours before attending the rally, which was held in Hong Kong's Victoria Park.
Johnny Li, a staff member at the museum, said that the most popular exhibits were video footage from 1989 and a small theatre featuring a video of the Tiananmen Mothers speaking out about how the killing of their children had affected their lives.
'The feeling of hell'
Ding Zilin, the founder of the Mothers group, spoke softly of "wandering back and forth between life and death during the first two years" after her only child was shot in the back and killed.
"The feeling of hell was always there," Ding said. "The pain of losing my son haunts me all the time."
She said that she was so devastated by her son's death that she could barely find her voice. In the end she found the courage to speak up.
I asked myself who could deny the voice of a mother who bears testimony while bravely holding back tears?
On this day at the museum, mainland Chinese who were visiting Hong Kong outnumbered Hong Kong citizens who were there.
One of the mainlanders, a woman architect from Guangzhou, said that even inside mainland China, "if you really want to know what happened at Tiananmen, you can find out."
She said that her brother had sparked her curiosity when he asked her what had happened in 1989.
She then found a YouTube video, which is apparently now blocked in mainland China.
She said, however, that most of her friends don't know what happened" or "don't bother to find out."
One way to find out the truth would be to spend just an hour in the Hong Kong museum watching the Tiananmen Mothers quietly speaking one after another.
As for the noisy rally, the citizens of Hong Kong are used to constant noise.
Indeed, they tend to relish shouting and laughing at lunches and dinners in noisy restaurants together with their families and friends.
So I'm guessing that the loud speeches and music at a rally would be more welcomed by them than they would be by some Westerners such as myself.
But several of my Hong Kong friends who have worked as journalists and commentators suggested to me that there should be fewer politicians speaking at the annual vigils.
This would allow for more quiet moments and a greater sense of solemnity, they said.
It might also, they said, garner even broader support for the annual candlelight vigils.
Dan Southerland is RFA's Executive Editor.


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Mantua, Italy
For the past 10 years this fascinating ancient Italian city has hosted a five-day literary extravaganza set among its historic squares and palaces. This year it opens on September 7, and as before the programme features a wide range of short events, often no more than half-an-hour long. Apart from the range of writers and thinkers who will visit the town, the 2007 festival has a special focus on the late Primo Levi, with short daily workshops on aspects of his work – lager, chemistry, poetry, clarity, memoirs, animals, grey areas and Judaism are among the topics mentioned.
Cheltenham Literary Festival
Booking is now open for this year's 10-day event, which takes place from October 5 to 14. With more than 400 writers on the programme the range is huge, but this year's guest directors A.C. Grayling and Armando Iannucci have chosen an over-arching theme: "What Does Change Mean to Us? Each of the festivals is eager to stress the variety of its offerings, and Cheltenham is no exception: "For every reading by Seamus Heaney, there's a debate about graffiti art. For every discussion about the Trojan war, there's late-night gothic storytelling. And for every appearance from Michael Palin, there's one from The Gruffalo." This enormous festival, based around the imposing town hall in the city centre, does seem to provide something for everyone, including family days and tentsful of children's events.
Segovia, Spain
Hay Festival
The now famous Hay-on-Wye literary festival has gone (modestly) global, with an offshoot, for the second year running, in the Spanish town of Segovia, sitting on its picturesque walled hilltop some 60 miles north-west of Madrid. Since literature is a branch of tourism these days, the pleasures of attending this festival include the city's cuisine (it is famous for cochinillo, or suckling pig) and its monuments (Segovia has been described as "a theme park of Castilian architectural history"), as well as the lazy pace of life. The four-day event takes place from September 27 to 30, but unfortunately the programme is as yet unpublished online.
St Petersburg
Jewel of Russia Festival
From October 27 to 31 a cross-cultural, multimedia happening in Russia's most beautiful city aims to bring together figures from across the English-speaking media world – not only literature but also music, art, philosophy and film – to parlay with some of their Russian counterparts as well as with each other. The latest brainchild of the young literary impresario Pablo Ganguli, whose ambitious festival-making has so far encompassed events in Morocco, Delhi and Papua New Guinea (with plans afoot for Jordan, Turkey and Malta), this should be an especially interesting event in the context of the current intellectual climate in Russia, where freedom of speech is increasingly becoming an issue. The programme is not yet final but expect the likes of V.S. Naipaul, Jasper Conran, Hanif Kureishi, Sarah Lucas, Martin Amis, Valery Gergiev, Charles Saumarez Smith, John Tusa and Jon Snow among the performers and debaters, talking about issues from climate change to glossy magazines. As this festival has a strong musical side it will include the Russian premiere of Thomas Adès's chamber opera Powder Her Face, and much else.
Ilkley Literature Festival
A multi-faceted books-fest, with themes running from Bollywood cabaret through the slave trade to graphic novels, takes place from September 28 to October 14. Its associations with the late Ted Hughes, as well as such vividly alive and highly popular figures as Alan Bennett, give this part of Yorkshire a powerful literary bent, and the festival programme fields a fine line-up of writers. Apart from Bennett, there are Brian Patten, Roger McGough, Maggie O'Farrell and Esther Freud on the home team, while visitors from overseas include Michael Ondaatje and Caryl Phillips. The ubiquitous broadcasters – Germaine Greer, James Naughtie, Giles Brandreth – always make for lively discussions.
Charleston, UK
Small Wonder Festival
A specialised festival devoted to the art of the short story, this runs from September 19 to 23 at Charleston Farmhouse, the home of Bloomsbury-ites Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell. It is very much a writer's festival, for practitioners and participants as well as readers: alongside the readings and discussions (expect Fay Weldon, Yiyun Li, Monica Ali, Colm Tóibín) there are a two-day workshop run by Esther Freud and James Lasdun, an open-mic Slam (a competitive story-telling session) and a Short
Story Surgery in which the Open University's creative writing tutor will take a scalpel to your own cherished prose.
Looking ahead to 2008
The litfest year kicks off with Hay-on-Wye's other outstation, in Cartagena, Colombia, from January 24 to 27. Cartagena, on the Caribbean coast 400 miles north of the capital Bogotá, is an old colonial town on a bay so beautiful it has been declared a World Heritage Site, and – not coincidentally – also the home of Gabriel García Márquez, magical realist and Nobel laureate. www.hayfestival.com/cartagena
In the UK, it would almost be hard now to name a substantial English town that does not host a festival of some sort. There are hundreds; the most interesting include Bath (March, www.bathlitfest.org.uk), Oxford (April, www.sundaytimes-oxford literaryfestival.co.uk), Hay-on-Wye itself (May, www.hayfestival.com), Dartington in Devon (July, www.wayswithwords.co.uk).
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