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"Fashion is a tool for cultural creativity, innovation, self-expression and connection," says Sasha Duerr, founder of the Permacouture Institute through the Trust for Conservation Innovation in San Francisco. "Over-consumption, with limited understanding of where our materials come from or where they go is a huge issue in our modern times. We need to close the loop through practice and education."
Throwing a green event is more expensive and more complicated than you would think — it's not just using recycled paper. For starters, in the self-proclaimed fashion capital of the world this past February, New York Fashion Week brought on sponsors with a greener edge. High-end skin and hair care product supplier, Aveda, rolled out a green initiative campaign, including supplying tap water and reusable aluminum water bottles (with the green-minded label, "Beauty Is, Beauty Does") in place of bottled water to event participants and attendees. The company also served organic, locally grown food to the production staff and models backstage.
"Aveda is an activist brand at heart, so we are thrilled to be a force of change in helping to reduce the carbon footprint of the Spring/Summer 2008 shows," says Dominique Conseil, president of Aveda. "The response to the program exceeded even our own expectations and we believe it has the potential to become a global movement in the world of fashion." Despite findings in an Associated Press investigation in March that New York City tap water has remnants of heart medicines and prescription tranquilizers, the water is quite drinkable and doesn't taste much different from most bottled water brands.
For an industry that barely existed in the United States three decades ago, bottled water itself has become a fashion — but at a damaging cost. Only 10 percent of the 2.5 million water bottles consumed each hour in the United States are recycled, according to a 2005 study by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
It's not just paper and plastic materials dragging water down. Each week, nearly 1 billion bottles of water are being shipped from coast to coast by truck, train, boat and airplane. At the sky-high price of $124 a barrel already, one can just imagine how much gas is fueling the bottled water business.
On the opposite side of the country, Portland Fashion Week proudly proclaimed it was the world's first entirely green fashion production. Beyond using eco-friendly fabrics (such as organic cotton, linens, and silk) for the garments adorning the models, Portland organizers constructed the world's first bamboo runway, used recycled fabric for drapery, and installed energy-efficient LED lighting. Not to mention the invites were printed on recycled paper. And, all proceeds from the green event went to protecting Oregon's Willamette River.
The Portland event organizers intend to repeat their green strategies at the next fashion week this fall. "We are trying to be eco-responsible in every respect, we have tried to do something on every step to make the production sustainable. We will use a sustainable runway, sustainable hair and makeup, we're doing our media kit on recycled paper," Tito Chowdhury, the event's executive producer, says. "Portland is nationally known as sustainable city. We want to make this fashion week the place for sustainable designers from all over."
Los Angeles took another approach altogether. At the city's Fashion Week in March, one of the highlighted events was the Green Initiative Humanitarian Show, debuting the collections of six designers on a runway flanked with bamboo plants, given away at the end of the show. While the emphasis of the green production was largely in the garment design, corporate sponsors did their part to appear eco-friendly. Shipping giant DHL gifted fashion week goers with recycled mailing materials, and title-sponsor Mercedes-Benz highlighted the company's switch to clean diesel technology, Bluetec.
Despite the industry's sluggish response by only getting into the green game within the last year, fashion's green future could be blooming. "We hope that this commitment to the environment sets an example for the rest of the fashion community that it is possible to be profitable while using sustainable materials and designs," Davis Factor, co-founder of Smashbox Studios, one of the event's premier sponsors, says.
In the last two years the fashion industry has taken big strides to show concern for the environment and many fashion companies have incorporated it into their businesses. The question remains: Are throwing green events just a fleeting trend, or will they become the mandated way of producing events in the future?
Trend or not, companies are emerging nationwide solely for consulting and producing green events. Some amenities include basic program management, air and ground transportation, and energy efficient lighting and audio-visual needs. "Needless to say, fashion shows are often pretty extravagant productions," Leslie Hoffman, executive director of Earth Pledge, a Manhattan-based group that partners with businesses in organizing events with sustainable materials, says. In January, Earth Pledge held FutureFashion to kick off New York Fashion Week, bringing in big name designers, like Mark Jacobs, Stella McCartney, and Calvin Klein to get their message to the media. But the blogosphere isn't buying it, criticizing designers for only doing this for the publicity. Yet green event organizers welcome any kind of acknowledgement that change is necessary. "They're getting a ton of press because there's only a handful [of green fashion shows]," says Susan Taber Avila, a design professor at the University of California, Davis who is hosting an exhibition on sustainable fashion in Davis on May 18. "There is criticism that designers only do one show and go back to their ways. But I think it does help somewhat."
One of the major consequences of lavish fashion shows is the carbon footprint left behind. At the Hong Kong Fashion Week, for example, the footprint for transportation and accommodation for the exhibitors and buyers to attend the four-day event was estimated at over 49,000,000 pounds of carbon, or the equivalent of over 1,200 average Americans living their lives for an entire year, Duerr says. She added that this figure doesn't include the carbon footprint of the entire production process underlying the manufacturing and fabrication of all of the clothes as well as other infrastructure necessary for the event.
"A lot of fashion shows actually use materials once," Hoffman notes, "When you think about the fact that the show itself is happening for a short period of time, it really does make sense to think about where materials are being sourced from, how they can be put to use again instead of thrown away and left behind." To offset the carbon footprint, Earth Pledge partners with farmers to sequester the carbon dioxide emissions by absorption through plants.
Loads more work is needed to keep the green fashion trend alive, Hoffman acknowledges. One of the biggest materials wasted at fashion shows is paper. While her company utilizes environmentally friendly printing techniques and recycled paper, no one is ready to go paperless quite yet. "Greening events is a pretty interesting field because [the events] are so fleeting that its obvious to people that there is a significant amount of waste involved," Hoffman says.


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The country, however, beat world's average production growth rate in March. While India clocked a 3.9 percent growth rate in production, world's average growth rate was at 2.7 percent.
Global steel production in March stood at 141 MT, said WSA, a leading global industry body in its monthly report.
India had produced 6.98 MT steel in March last year.
China produced nearly half of the global steel production at 70.3 MT in March, up by 2.2 percent compared to the same month last year. Japan's production stood at 9.7 MT and South Korea's production was 6.1 MT.
Among the European Union nations, Germany produced 4 MT of steel in March 2014, Italy produced 2.4 MT, France 1.4 MT and Spain produced 1.3 MT.
Turkey's crude steel production was 2.8 MT, down by 4.3 percent. Russia produced 6.0 MT, clocking an increase of 1.3 percent and Ukraine's production was 2.7 MT.
The US produced 7.4 MT in March 2014, up by 0.9 percent compared to March 2013.
"The crude steel capacity utilisation ratio in March 2014 was 79 percent," WSA said.

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No Direction Home: Bob Dylan Review
When Bob Dylan and three members of the Paul Butterfield Band plugged in their instruments at the Newport Folk Festival in July 1965, popular music changed forever and Dylan became both international rock star and hate-figure for a thousand readers of 'Sing Out' magazine. It's one of those culturally defining moments which become mythical and it's the origins and results of this moment which give shape to Martin Scorsese's new documentary No Direction Home Bob Dylan. Considering that it's also one of the most documented and discussed moments in pop music history, you might wonder whether there's anything left to say about it. I certainly did and I approached this documentary with a certain scepticism. Needless to say, any scepticism is completely unjustified because this is a riveting, beautifully assembled document about one of the most significant artists of the 20th Century.
The two-part film, running 209 minutes in total, covers Dylan's career between his growing up in Hibbing, Minnesota and his tour of the UK in 1966, culminating in outraged fan Keith Butler's famous cry of 'Judas' at the Manchester Free Trade Hall on May 17th. The first half examines how he got from Minnesota to New York, his musical influences (ranging from Hank Williams to the Clancy Brothers) and his discovery of Woody Guthrie which encouraged him to find his own voice in "Song to Woody". We hear some great stories; how Dylan so outraged his high school at a talent contest that the Principal pulled the curtain on him; how he stole rare records from Tony Glover as it was the only way he could hear them; how he lied his way into the Folklore Center in New York with a ludicrous manufactured life story. This is riveting stuff. Scorsese and his team have got together some fantastic interview footage, chasing up virtually everyone still with us who was around during Dylan's early career.
Better still, and its not hard to believe (whether its true or not) that only someone of Scorsese's reputation could have achieved this, we get Bob Dylan talking about himself, a wily and ironic man of 64 looking back on his younger self with what looks like amazing honesty until you realise that everything he says in designed to appear open and frank while really sucking you back in to the mystery. It's up to individual viewers to deconstruct his comments and decide what is true and what is friendly dissimulation. When he says of his Columbia recording contract "I didn't really believe it myself", it may sound like disarming honesty but I don't believe a word of it. It was Dylan's basic certainty about himself and his talent that made him a star in the folk scene and subsequently gave him the balls to defy the people who got him where he was because he really did know better than they did what he should do with his talent. There was surely no disbelief, at least not from Mr Zimmerman. It may suit him to pretend there was but that's all part of his, rather charming, smokescreen. Later he says that he didn't know that 'Blowing in the Wind' had "any kind of anthemic quality or anything". You're not telling me that someone who had devoured 400 classic folk and blues records didn't know an anthem when he came up with one. Call him one thing and he'll deny it – there's a great moment from a radio interview in the early 1960s when he refuses to accept that he writes topical songs, shortly before he came out with 'Masters of War' and 'With God On Our Side'. But please don't regard this as criticism. I don't want Dylan demythologised any more than I want Van Morrison to go around after a show signing autographs and posing for photos. It's the myth we love and the thing to which we keep returning and I think Dylan knows this as much as anyone.
The structure of the documentary reveals Scorsese's guiding hand. In some respects it is a straight chronology taking us from 1941 to 1966. But Scorsese, aware of the impact of that 1966 footage, keeps coming back to it to demonstrate that made Dylan, along with his undeniable brilliance as a songwriter and performer, was his sheer bloody-mindedness. When he sings 'Like a Rolling Stone', he sings it at the audience, the line 'How does it feel?' becoming an aggressive come-on. This is repeated, undisguised, when he addresses 'Ballad of a Thin Man' to the people shouting "Go home" from the audience. The look of slight boredom coming over his face as he trudges through an acoustic 'Mr Tambourine Man' changes to one of glee when he begins improvising on his harmonica, realising that this is really pissing off certain sections of the audience. Then the expression changes once again to sheer delight when he's with his band, The Hawks, and taking about half of the audience with him while outraging the rest. Add to this some absolutely inspired use of other footage – items from private collections, stills from photo shoots, clips from old movies, archive news footage, performances from other singers ranging from Odetta to Joan Baez – and you have one of the most compelling films of the year. Scorsese also supplies us the social context within which Dylan became famous. There's a lengthy section about the history of Greenwich Village which is full of Ginsberg spouting his extraordinary free verse and Liam Clancy drinking and singing snatches of songs. Scorsese sometimes makes direct connections between American history and Dylan's music and isn't afraid of the obvious – 'A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall' is accompanied by clips of the Kennedys and weapons tests.
The second half of the documentary begins to focus more on how Dylan, becoming a worldwide phenomenon, came across to audiences and his contemporaries, making an inexorable trek towards the 1966 tour of the UK. Dylan seems to have deliberately moved away from the political movements which he became involved in, notably the civil rights movement. This seems to have had more to do with an unwillingness to be categorised than any lack of sympathy with the movements themselves – apart from his flirtations with evangelical Christianity, Dylan's politics seems to have been consistently left of centre. The irony is that the exact things which made Dylan an ideal 'protest' singer and icon of the folk movement – his ornery nature, his unique take on the surrounding world, his wit and insight – are the things which forced him to move on from that into something new and different. When you listen to 'Like a Rolling Stone', that first drumbeat is like a gunshot with the barrel aimed at the exact people who cheered him at the 1963 and 1964 Newport Folk Festivals.
This second half also includes a good number of other voices on the subject of Dylan's move from folk to rock. Al Kooper, for example, tells his famous story about how he got to play on 'Like A Rolling Stone'. Joan Baez comes across very well indeed – funny, wise and remarkably forgiving. She is particularly good value on the subject of how Dylan's songs would combine personal and political, often being aimed at one particular group of people who had fucked him over. Scorsese includes some fantastic footage from a vast number of sources; the Steve Allen show (in which the host clearly has no idea who Dylan is); the 1963-65 Newport Folk Festivals gleaned from Murray Lerner's rare documentary Festival; and outtakes from D.A.Pennebaker's Don't Look Back and the little seen Eat the Document. There are undoubted omissions. Drugs, for example, are never mentioned. Dylan's relationships with a series of remarkable women are covered more by implication than explicit information. Indeed, the whole private life is barely covered at all, although this at least makes for a documentary blessedly devoid of gossip and scandal. His personality doesn't come out of the film in a particularly glowing light – Joan Baez talks about his 'darkness' and how hard it could be to reach him – but he does come across as a complex and fascinating human being who was sometimes, in Baez's words, "a pain in the ass!" His sense of humour, thankfully, is often in evidence, along with the verbal and musical playfulness which you see in extracts like the promo video for 'Subterranean Homesick Blues' (and which has continued to appear in his later work). Along with this, of course, comes his cruelty – depicted here in the scenes from Don't Look Back where he baits journalists or treats Baez like shit. At times, he simply seems a little baffled - "Why do they boo?" he says after a particularly fractious live show in 1966, "How did they manage to buy up all the tickets so quickly?" - which reminds you that when all this was going on he was still only 25 years old.
I can't think of many ways in which this film could be improved upon. I wish it were a mini-series rather than a two-part film because I would love to see Scorsese tackle the period between 1967 and 1991, a time which is much less familiar and just as fascinating. It would be wonderful to see the evolution of 'Blood on the Tracks' between the New York recording sessions and the finished product. How about Dylan talking about his 1978 conversion to Christianity or why he took all those great songs off 'Infidels' and replaced them with ones which were generally inferior. I imagine this is never likely to emerge but I'm allowed to dream. I'd also have liked to see more about some of the songs that got away – the beautiful 'I'll Keep It With Mine' or the legendary 'She's Your Lover Now'.
Martin Scorsese is the ideal person to direct this kind of documentary. In fact, he's fast becoming one of the best documentary filmmakers around. In his brilliant series on American and Italian cinema he showed himself to be the ideal film history teacher. Now, with The Last Waltz, his documentary on the Blues, Feel Like Going Home and this study of Dylan, he's broadened his range into popular music. He is able to use his considerable grasp of technique to sustain a momentum that keeps the audience just as gripped as they would be in a thriller. Even the fortuitous shifts from black and white into colour flare out with meaning. No Direction Home is one of his very finest achievements, an invaluable document about one of the most exciting periods of the 20th Century. Everyone should see it, whether or not they're interested in Bob Dylan. I guarantee that a good number of those who aren't interested will come out of the documentary as budding Dylanologists. It really is that good.
The Disc
The DVD transfer of No Direction Home is excellent. Considering the amount of 'found' footage included in the film, some of it in pretty ropey physical condition, it's remarkable that the film has such a consistently impressive visual appearance. Some of the scenes look beautiful, particularly much of the 1966 concert footage which is in far better condition than I had expected. Sometimes, there's an awful lot of grain and damage but this is inevitable. The fact that there is as little as there is should come as a recommendation in itself.
There are two soundtracks. The 5.1 surround track is very involving with the music filling in the surround channels. The 2.0 track is also fine with music and dialogue remaining eminently clear throughout. Needless to say, some of the song performances and other archive clips have less impressive sound than others but that's par for the course with this kind of DVD
The extra features are made up of seven bonus 'live' songs from a variety of sources. We get 'Blowing In The Wind' from a TV show in 1963 which has Dylan looking a bit like a wax model; 'Girl From the North Country' from Canadian TV, on a log-cabin set and sounding spare and beautiful; 'Man of Constant Sorrow' from a 1964 TV appearance; 'Mr Tambourine Man' from Newport 1964 which looks pristine and sounds gorgeous; 'Love Minus Zero/No Limit' from London 1965, an outtake from Don't Look Back unless I'm mistaken in which Dylan looks very relaxed off-stage; 'Like a Rolling Stone' from Newcastle 1966 with Dylan coming across as quite aggressive and stringing the song out to nearly 9 minutes; and 'One Too Many Mornings' from Liverpool 1966 in a fantastic electrical version. All of these are well worth seeing.
There are also four performances by 'guests'. Liam Clancy sings 'Girl of the North Country' after rambling on engagingly for a bit. Maria Muldaur sings an outtake from the 'Infidels' album, 'Lord Protect My Child'. Mavis Staples storms through 'A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall' and Joan Baez sings her hit version of 'Love Is Just A Four Letter Word'.
Finally, we get a very bizarre unused promo clip for the marvellous 'Positively 4th Street', one of Dylan's most biliously nasty songs, and some all-too brief footage of him developing a beautiful song called 'I Can't Leave Her Behind' in a hotel room in Glasgow.
The disc allows you to access the documentary via particular songs or through the usual scene selection.
Even if you watch No Direction Home on its TV showing, its worth getting on DVD simply because you'll probably want to watch it again and again and you also get the bonus live performances. It's wonderfully rich social history about a man who is just interesting as hell directed by a master filmmaker. What more could you want?


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The usual cold and dry harmattan wind, became unusually warm and humid at the Bo Stadium, which was charged by enthusiastic fans which went frenzy by the spectacular performances from galaxies of superstars.
Bo City on the 29th December 2017 hosted the 2017 the Sierra Leone DJs Union (SLeDU) Awards.
The euphoria was heightened; the momentum was vibrating; hopes were high. The fans and nominees were highly expectant. The stadium was cramped. Fans watched the glittering stage with fiery anticipation. The speakers outburst sent a powerful wave that shook the already hysteria stands igniting the event.
The night was full of surprises and snubs.
There were 29 categories with over 100 nominees. Tightly contested categories. It was the biggest music award in the country in 2017.
I was there on a chartered paid trip by SLeDU to cover the event as an entertainment journalist. I arrived in Bo at about 7pm, and at the venue at about 10pm. Fans were there as early as 6pm according to sources.
Upcoming artists got the ball rolling with stage performances, and were later joined by their senior counterparts. The performances were splendid with ecstatic extravaganza
from mega stars like Drizilik, Leonus D Genius, Arkman, Fyn Face, Innocent, Agnes Bockarie, Colabo, X-vert, Lady FSK, Succulent, Emerson and more…
The presentation of the awards was done at intervals (interchangeably with the performances). The tougher categories were the last to be presented. The earlier winners
received huge applauses from the audience.
The night was splendid to the delight of all present. The mood did not end the way it started. It suddenly dwindled.
First, it was the throwing of plastic bottles and debris into the pitch by angry fans who were too bored with the persistent presentation of upcoming or underground artists on stage by the MCs. The organizers
earlier promised the audience with performances from Kao Denero, Boss LA and Emerson, but they were not forthcoming, except Emerson who showed up at the 11th hour. That rowdy moment was hard to put under control even with presence of military and police personnel, until a Bo resident artist (Cosko B – who was earlier awarded as Best Reggae Artist)
was presented on stage probably to quell down the chaotic scene. He brought back the show to life with back-up performances from Colabo, Innocent and Emerson in the
earlier hours of the 30th December. The earlier performances were great too, with Leonus De Genius rocking the stage alongside Arkman, Succulent and others.
The second upset came from the inconsistencies of the organizers/presenters. The Best Music group award was first awarded to LXG, but was later awarded to X-vert group. Of course there were no inscriptions of names of the winners on the trophies – which makes it very easy for everyone to claim it.
There were also unpopular winners in some categories like Dori O Dori by LXG as the Best RNB Song, as opposed to 'I wish' by Innocent or 'Sorry' by Rahim D
Wezard, Boss LA as the Best Diaspora Artist, as opposed to Terror D who many believed has done more, etc.
There was also an issue of placing artists or groups in the wrong categories, the same was detected in the National Entertainment Awards (NEA)
earlier presented this year by Lake Production, where nominees declined from certain categories. We would need expert to help identify the criteria that qualifies a song, an artist, group or any artistic work to be placed in a particular category.
The most annoying was the Best Hip Hop Artist category awarded to Colabo, who was earlier awarded that night with a special recognition award for his outstanding contribution to the music industry. This award was supposed to be presented by Emerson, on his dismay on seeing Colabo's name as the winner for Best hip-hop artist, intelligent as he is, he sounded the opinions of the audience as to whom they thought the winner should be. The audience suggested other names contrary to the outright winner SLeDU had already indicated. Emerson thus declined to announce Colabo as the winner, and henceforth presented the winners of the other categories before descending the stage.
After few performances and presentations, Colabo was later announced by the organizers as the winner for that category.
Drizilik was highly ticked by fans to take this trophy home. But he was left disappointed that morning, although he had already pocketed 2 others. The event immediately went cold that morning after Colabo's announcement. The words on the lips of most present were pointing at Colabo's alleged influence over the industry. Whom many considered as a god.
At a point, Colabo was seen walking out of the venue when Emerson refused to announce him as the winner.
In one of his latest Facebook posts from The Gambia, Kao Denero asked organizers to stop using his name or brand on their awards. He noted that those nominations bring him nothing but disrespect. He never
objected when he was nominated. His latest outburst may have emanated from the outcome of the results.
Meanwhile, the president of SLeDU Abdul Karim Koroma aka Pilot CPO however maintained that the winners were determined by the number of votes they received plus other criteria determined by the Committee responsible for the awards.
"Nobody influenced the results", he said.
Notably, SLeDU's former president – Ibrahim Kalokoh otherwise known as DJ Kalloxx was not in attendance that night for unknown reasons.
However, the discrepancies here are synonymous to other major awards across the world. Perfection is farfetched but professionalism is ensured.
Notwithstanding, also, a healthy competition is once again injected into the minds of recording and performing artists.
At least, they have something to fight for, if not money but honors. And SLeDU has created that platform to recognize hard working musicians.
Not in a haste would I fail to commend SLeDU for the honour given to me to come on stage and presented the trophy for the Best RNB Artist. Regards! Massive respect also for the decentralization of
entertainment by taking the awards out of the capital city for the first time and most artists attended this auspicious occasion. This shows how the venture was well appreciated by entertainers.
Notwithstanding the above squabbles, many artists are celebrating their trophies on social media.
In a nutshell, SLeDU has done a great job and would probably learn from the minor mistakes. The event was a success so far.
FAMOUS: The singer who was placed in 7 categories grabbed two important awards in Bo. They include BEST ALBUM – 'Brighter Future' and BEST MALE VOCALIST
STAR ZEE: The DOZ female rapper who was nominated in 8 categories also grabbed 2 important trophies as BEST FEMALE HIP HOP ARTIST and BEST COLLABORATION –
'Leader 2' ft. Stonebwoy.
DRIZILIK: The new skool rapper who was nominated in 4 places, took home 2 trophies for BEST NEW SKOOL ARTIST and BEST HIP HOP SONG – 'Di Mami E Moni For Komot'.
ROZAY: The KME diva who was placed in 3 categories got 2 and missed one. The biggest achiever that night. They include BEST FEMALE VOCALIST and BEST FEMALE PERFORMER.
COLABO: The All Stars president got one as BEST HIP HOP ARTIST plus a SPECIAL RECOGNITION AWARD for his outstanding contribution to the music industry.
JANE PETERS: Won her only category nominated as BEST TRADITIONAL SONG – 'Massa Kheh'.
ESTHER MYKEL: She won the only category nominated as BEST GOSPEL ARTISTE.
BROTHER ABASS: He won his only nomination as BEST ISLAMIC ARTISTE.
LEONUS DE JNR.: Grabbed the only trophy he was nominated for as BEST FUTURE ACT.
YOUNG LEE: He grabbed the BEST PRODUCER.
EMERSON: From his 3 places nominated, he won one as BEST ARTISTE OF THE DECADE.
ARKMAN: He got one from his 2 places as SONG OF THE YEAR – 'Hold Somebody'.
DALLAS B: He won one from his two nominations as BEST DANCEHALL ARTISTE.
MARKMUDAY: He won one from his two places as BEST RNB ARTISTE.
COSKO B: He grabbed one out of two as BEST REGGAE ARTISTE.
BLOCK JONES: Won one missed one as BEST LIVE ACT.
X VERT: They won one out of two as BEST GROUP.
FANTACEE WIZ: She won one from three places as BEST TRADITIONAL ACT.
SUCCULENT: He got one from 3 places as BEST MALE PERFORMER.
KME ALL STARZ: Got one out of 3 as BEST RECORD LABEL.
LXG: Won one out of 3 as BEST RNB SONG – 'Dori O Dori'.
INNOCENT: Won one from 4 places as BEST SOCIAL COMMENTARY SONG – 'Udat Responsible'.
NASSER AYOUB: Won one from 4 places as BEST DANCEHALL SONG – 'Twerk It'.
LAJ: Got one out of 4 as BEST DIASPORA ARTISTE (USA).
TERROR D: Got one out of 5 categories as BEST MUSIC VIDEO – 'Levels'.
Kao Denero, Rahim De Wezard and K Man missed in all their respective 4 categories nominated.
Slim G, M 2, Vida and Alonzo, missed in all 3 categories nominated.
Morris, Keyler Voice, King Melody, Empress P, KrackTwist N Samza and Shuaibu all missed in their 2 categories nominated.
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Out of all the questions that I get on Instagram, my blog, through messages and comments….hair & fashion seem to always be the top ones. I'm so excited to share with you my collaboration with Bumble & Bumble because they have been one of my favorite brands for as long as I can remember!
Okay. Lets talk about hair care. I cannot enough how important it is to take good care of your hair. TRUST ME. I have been on both sides of it! In high school, I couldn't have cared less what products I used on my hair. I didn't care what was in them and I bleached my hair with no fear….let alone use any type of protection for it. Trust me, I saw how it destroyed my hair. Now, 3 almost 4 years later…my baby hairs are still recovering from all the damaged that I did to them! Poor guys 😦
I think one of the first things we think of when we think of hair care is heat. Which….you're right. Heat plays a huge part in the damage our hair can develop. But I'm here to talk about one of the things we don't always think of first. Our hair products.
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Okay. This one is going to have a similar goal as the spray….but this one is in powder form. I have never found another dry shampoo that gives as much volume and clean of a feel as this one. I use this powder every single day. You can even add a pinch to your brush and comb it through freshly blow dried hair to extend your blow dry look. If you have really oily hair, this powder will work wonders for you! I still think it's a staple product for any girl…but ESPECIALLY if you tend to be on the oilier side you need this magic!! BUY IT HERE
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Everton F.C host SRtRC educational event
On Tuesday 8th March the campaign team were at Goodison Park to deliver an educational event
On Tuesday 8th March, Show Racism the Red Card (SRtRC) held an educational event at Goodison Park and worked in partnership with Everton F.C to educate local young people about the dangers of racism. Over 150 young people from local primary schools attended the event which saw the Year 5/6's take part in an educational workshop, watch the SRtRC educational film and take part in a Q&A session with a panel of special guests.
Young people from Liverpool City schools and Sefton Borough Schools arrived at Goodison Park in the afternoon and headed to the 'Peoples Lounge' where they would spend the remainder of the afternoon. After a quick introduction the young people went straight into a workshop conducted by Education Worker, Richard Offiong. The workshop allowed young people to explore stereotypes, think critically about the way in which we stereotype and allowed the young people to discuss the dangers of stereotyping.
The young people further developed their understanding of racism by watching the 22-minute Show Racism the Red Card educational film, which provides an excellent introduction to the subject of racism.
Throughout the afternoon the young people had been asked to start thinking of questions that they would like to ask the panel of special guests at the end of the day. With suspicion building among the young people of who might be attending the Q&A it was time to introduce the panel.
On the panel was SRtRC Education Worker and former Newcastle United player, Richard Offiong. Joining Richard was Claudia Walker who plays for England Under 20's and Everton Ladies. Also on the panel were two club legends and former Everton players, Graham Stuart and Graeme Sharp. Adding to the panel was Show Racism the Red Card patron and Liverpool F.C's first black player, Howard Gayle. To round off an already fantastic panel was Everton first team player, Brendan Galloway.
Great having @cbwalker96 represent @EvertonLadies for @SRTRC_England event today pic.twitter.com/vbYGGsd607
— r i c h a r d (@richard_offiong) March 8, 2016
Young people from each primary school put forward a variety of questions to the panel regarding racism. How can you stop racism? Have you or anybody you know suffered from racism? Have you witnessed racism? Were just a few examples of the questions that the panel were taking it in turn to answer.
The current and former players were recalling their experiences of racism on and off the pitch and explaining how it made them feel. A prize was generously donated from the club and was given out to the pupil who asked the best question on the day.The question they asked was 'Is global racism getting better or worse?
Show Racism the Red Card would like to thank everyone at Everton F.C for their ongoing support, and a special thank you to Helen Mayo and Henry Mooney for all their help in organising the event. A massive thank you to FIFPro and both Sefton and Liverpool City Councils for their ongoing support of the campaign.The power of role models should never be under estimated, therefore a massive thank you to Richard Offiong, Claudia Walker, Graham Stuart, Graeme Sharp, Howard Gayle and Brendan Galloway. And finally, a massive thank you to all the young people for their honest engagement from start to finish.
A massive thank you to @brendan_gallo37 for speaking to the young people at today's educational event #EFC pic.twitter.com/MzUibABVYh
— ShowRacismtheRedCard (@SRTRC_England) March 8, 2016


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2018 Participating Vendors
Below are a list of the Vendors who joined us on Waltham Common for the
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2018 Participating Food Vendors
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Buying a unit or a townhouse
Buying a unit or a townhouse in a conveyance is different to buying a house, as you take on a relationship with the other owners in the complex as a member of the body corporate. As a consequence, you will:
- Share ownership of the common areas (i.e. driveways, lifts, stairs, etc.)
- Automatically become a member of the body corporate which is regulated by the Body Corporate and Community Management Act 1997 (Qld) (BCCM Act)
- Become jointly and severally liable for the body corporate's debts
- Contribute money to the body corporate for the day to day ongoing expenses (into a fund called the administrative fund) and anticipated long term costs (into a fund called the sinking fund)
The body corporate for a community titles scheme (sometimes referred to as a strata) is composed of all the owners in the scheme. The body corporate deals with a number of matters including:
- Issues about the common property
- Concerns of owners
- Maintenance of the complex
The standard REIQ contract for lots in a community titles scheme differs in a number in a number of important ways from the contract for a house. It discloses the following important information which should be carefully considered as part of the conveyancing process when buying a unit or townhouse:
- The interest schedule and contribution schedule lot entitlements for the property you are purchasing. Contributions to the administrative and sinking funds are divided amongst the owners in the same proportion as the contribution schedule lot entitlements. Contributions towards insurance for the complex are divided amongst the owners in the same proportion as the interest schedule lot entitlements
- Details of the body corporate insurance policies which should be current
- Information about any defects in common property, actual or contingent or expected liabilities of the body corporate, etc. It is implied that the buildings on scheme property and body corporate assets are free from defects other than fair wear and tear and anything that has been disclosed by the seller in the contract. If defects and liabilities are not disclosed in the contract you may be entitled to terminate the contract and recover any money paid
The seller is also required to give a buyer a disclosure statement under the BCCM Act. This disclosure statement contains detailed information about the body corporate including:
- the current administrative and sinking fund amounts that are payable for the unit
- the full levies payable for the current financial year
- whether there is a body corporate manager
- what assets are owned by the body corporate
This disclosure statement must be provided before a buyer enters into the contract.
When purchasing a unit or townhouse, we would also recommend that you obtain the following additional information:
- A copy of the by-laws (which form part of the community management statement) for the scheme. The by-laws regulate various matters including whether pets are allowed, noise and parking on common property. The BCCM Act allows a body corporate to adopt standard by-laws set out in the BCCM Act, or to create by-laws that best suit the body corporate's individual circumstances. We will search for and provide you with a copy of the community management statement when you appoint us as your solicitor if you are purchasing a unit or townhouse
- A search of the body corporate records. The body corporate records can provide important information such as whether any improvements to the unit you are purchasing were properly approved, whether there are proposed special levies being considered (which can have significant financial consequences), whether there are significant works to be carried out on common property which may require the passing of a special levy, whether the body corporate has entered into any agreements for maintenance or caretaking agreements etc.
Buying a unit or townhouse is more complex than buying a house. The additional considerations that arise are many and most can have serious financial consequences. By engaging an expert conveyancing lawyer, you will receive the right advice and the complete picture to enable you to make an informed decision.
If you have any questions arising from this post, please contact one of our expert conveyancing lawyers by calling us on 07 3106 3016 or contacting us using the form on this page.
This article does not give legal advice and should not be relied upon as such. It is intended to provide general and summary information on legal topics, current at the time of first publication. You should seek professional legal advice before acting or relying on any of the content contained herein.


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Regulation Z: There For Your ProtectionTim Worstall
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Regulation Z is the reason for all the small print: that's why it's important. When you see advertising from mortgage companies explaining different loan options, there will always be a mass of small print at the bottom of the ad (or if on the radio or TV, the last few seconds will be someone speaking very very fast).
The reason for this is Regulation Z, a requirement placed upon the mortgage companies that they must tell you the details about the costs of your mortgage. It can sound almost comical, the way the announcer rushes to get everything into a few seconds of time, but it isn't funny. Regulation Z is there for your protection and it's important that you understand what the mortgage companies are telling you about your mortgage.
Regulation Z is about disclosure. The aim of Regulation Z (even if it is a little more bureaucratic than many would like) is to make sure that the mortgage companies disclose to you all of the charges and terms applicable to your mortgage. You are informed about the closing costs, warned that if you do not keep up the payments you can lose your house, and so on. It's a cliché that the devil is in the details, and with complicated contracts this is exactly true, that the small print of the contract makes all the difference. Thus Regulation Z, forces the mortgage lenders to disclose the costs, risks and details of your mortgage. It is extremely important that you read and understand these details.
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Tim Worstall has a degree in finance and accountancy and writes extensively on matters economic and financial.


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Measurement of oxysterols in breast tissue
Breast Cancer UK awarded a grant to Dr James Thorne, at Leeds University, to support his research whose aim was to develop a new method (using mass spectrometry) to measure accumulation of oxysterols in human breast tissue. Dr Thorne collaborated with Dr Hanne Røberg-Larsen, Dr Lisa Marshall and Dr Thomas A Hughes on this project.
Summary of results
Dr Thorne and colleagues developed a novel way of measuring 5 different oxysterols in breast tissue samples and cell culture. Crucially, it only requires a very small amount of tissue; less than that from a typical biopsy.
Details of the research: Preventing breast cancer recurrence through reducing dietary intake of oxidized cholesterol: An analytical tool
Some oxysterols can interfere with endocrine signalling and may be formed enzymatically, at sites of hypoxia (low oxygen in tissues), or when dietary cholesterol is exposed to high temperatures during frying or food processing. Emerging evidence indicates that tumours that develop in a high oxysterol environment may be more resistant to chemotherapy and more likely to spread (metastasize).
Oxysterols can promote oestrogen positive breast tumour growth through activation of the oestrogen receptor, and increase metastasis of triple negative breast tumours through other routes. Oxysterols can be readily removed from the diet and the activity of oxysterols produced in the body may be repressed by a diet rich in plant-sterols (e.g. vegetable oils, nuts, grains, peas and beans).
The project will aim to develop a method that can detect the accumulation of several different oxysterols in breast tissue samples. This will complement on going work that is investigating whether high oxysterol content of tumours increases the likelihood of unsuccessful cancer treatment. The work also aims to demonstrate if oxysterol concentrations in breast tumours can be reduced by dietary changes.
The research began in July 2016, and was completed in October 2017.
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See here for a review that focuses on phytosterols and breast cancer prevention by Dr Thorne and colleagues. Faikh, O. et al. (2018). Exploring the biophysical properties of phytosterols in the plasma membrane for novel cancer prevention strategies. Biochimie 153: 150-161.
See here for an article which describes the technique to measure multiple oxysterols in breast tissue samples developed by Dr Thorne, Dr Hanne Røberg-Larsen and colleagues. Solheim et al. (2019). Fast liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry reveals side chain oxysterol heterogeneity in breast cancer tumour samples. Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 2019 Feb 16. pii: S0960-0760(18)30754-4. [Epub ahead of print].
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Choose To Chance the Rapids and Dare to Dance the Tides
Tags: Adventure Activity, Adventure Sports Activity for Groups, Extreme Sports Activity, Water Canoeing and Rafting, Water Sports In India, White Water Rafting
People say that a river is smooth, calm and a natural beauty. Yes, it of course is. But it has a completely different side to it too. Rivers can be treacherous and wild. How would you feel like taming the wild? Sounds thrilling? Welcome aboard to river rafting, the hottest adventure sport of all time. As the calm and serene river flows, there are gradient drops, those changes in elevation. This transforms the river into varying degrees of rough water for you to manoeuvre your boat through. You work as a team and challenge yourself to raft across in these turbulent rapids. It is a very popular sport among thrill seekers who wish to launch on expeditions.
Water rafting is an adventure sport that is high on adrenaline and will keep you heart pumping at all times. Rocks, height differences and a host of other factors contribute towards making the river flow at high speeds with twists and turns. It is almost like a fancy water roller-coaster ride but it's all natural! The waters where you raft are classified into various levels called class 1, 2,3,4,5 and 6. Higher the class level, greater the fun and greater the spirit of adventure! What actually happens is you will be with your team, on an inflatable boat that is built to withstand the rough waters. You and your team will work hand in hand to move the boat through the course of the river encountering drops, splashes, wobbly surfaces, tricky stretches and what not! The most appealing fact that makes water rafting so enjoyable is that almost anyone can take part. You can go for water rafting even if you don't know swimming!
What to Know
While water rafting is absolutely a tremendous amount of excitement, you should keep in mind some safety precautions. Pay careful attention to the instructions given at the start of the rafting and always follow the advice of the guide on board. The guide will lead you through safely without a hitch while you are having a fantastic time. With the life jackets properly secured, your helmets tucked over and the necessary technique in mind, you are ready for the launch!
Best Water Rafting Locations in India
India is a land of rivers and boasts of a great number of locations where water rafting is undertaken. The most prominent ones are the Ganga river in Rishikesh, Indus river in Ladakh, Beas river in Kulu Manali and Barapole river in Coorg. The Kameng and Lohit river in Arunachal Pradesh are widely known for their rapids which pose a challenge to the rafters at every turn and twist. There are also a couple of rivers in Uttarakhand namely Tons, Bhagirathi and Alaknanda rivers that have water rafting.
Where can you stay?
Most of the water rafting locations are tourist spots by themselves and have comfortable lodging and boarding facilities. You will find umpteen numbers of hotels, lodges,guest houses and farmstays. They also have varying tariffs to suits all of your budgeting needs. A typical plan would be to visit these places, take a land tour on day one and explore the waters on the second day after you have flexed your muscles. To take a land tour, farmstay is a unique and popular option amongst travellers and adventurers where you can experience the native culture and indulge in the local cuisine. Staying at farmstay might give you a deeper understanding of the locale and the traditions it enshrines.
All said and done, water rafting is a complete experience that will humble you. Not to mention the spectacular scenery that you will see on your journey on the rafts, it will be a gratifying escapade that is sure to tingle your senses!
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The cardamom thrips, Sciothrips cardamomi ranks first among the insect pests of cardamom and is considered to be the most destructive pest in all the cardamom growing tracts.
The damage is caused by both nymphs and adults as they colonize and breed in unopened leaves, leaf sheath, panicle, flower buds and capsules. They lacerate the plant tissue and feed on the exuding sap.
Flower shedding
There will be shedding of flowers and immature capsules. The cardamom pods become shrivelled, undersized, scabby, warty, malformed and lose their characteristic aroma.
The seed formation is also affected. The infested capsules are light in weight, inferior in quality and fetch very low market value.
It is estimated that 78 per cent by weight and 82 per cent by number of capsules are damaged due to thrips.
The adult thrips are tiny, yellowish in colour with fringed wings. They reproduce in large numbers especially during post monsoon seasons. Each female lay around 30 eggs. The incubation and nymphal periods are 8-12 and 10-12 days respectively. Pseudopupal stage takes five days. The complete life cycle from egg to adult takes 25-30 days.
Management practices
— Maintain thrips resistant Malabar types of cardamom clumps.
— Regulation of shade and removal of alternate host plants like Panicum longipes , Hedychium flavescens etc. in the vicinity of plantations would help in reducing the build up of this pest.
— The panicle and 1/3 portion of the base of the clumps are to be treated with insecticides.
— Spray 5-7 rounds of insecticides like quinalphos 0.025 per cent, phosalone 0.07 per cent , chlorpyrifos 0.05 per cent or profenofos 0.05 per cent at 35 days interval. Approximately 250-500 ml of spray fluid will be required per clump.
— Alternatively dust formulations of quinalphos 1.5 D, carbaryl 10 D or phosalone 4D each at 25kg/ha may also be applied.
— Removal of dried leaf sheaths prior to spraying increases the efficiency of the applied insecticides. It is advisable to do spraying as dusting is found more harmful for honey bees.
J. Jayaraj & Manisegaran
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Clinking and Double Clicking
Category : 2nd Class
As you know that mouse has two buttons: left and right. You use the mouse by pressing its buttons. Pressing the button is called clicking. While pointing at an item using the mouse, you must always place the tip of the pointer over the item, but not on its body. You can select an item on the screen by pressing and releasing the mouse button, which is known as Clicking. You double click the mouse to open an item. Quickly pressing and releasing the left mouse button twice is called Double Clicking. (See Figure 2.7.8)
To activate the program/file/ folder that an icon represents, you simply double click (two clicks in quick succession) on it with the left mouse button. This will activate the icon and either start a program or open a file/folder. Files and folders are places where information is stored in a computer, just as you would store important papers in an office or home. Let us look at two of the icons on the desktop- My Documents and the Recycle Bin icon. Try double-clicking it and see what happens. (See Figure 2.7.9)
Recycle Bin
The Trash can you use at home is to throw rubbish and unwanted things. Similarly when you delete an unwanted file. Windows will place the file into the recycle bin (instead of deleting it altogether). This allows you to Restore (bring back) the file in case you deleted it by mistake. For example, if you deleted a file by accident you could double dick on the recycle bin icon to see its contents. Inside you will see the file/folder that you deleted, to restore the file back to where you deleted it from, right click it and then select Restore from the menu that appears.
My Documents
My Documents is the name of a special folder on the computer's hard drive that the system commonly uses to store a user's documents, pictures, music, downloads and many other files.
Identify the correct statements about mouse.
1. Quickly pressing and releasing the left mouse button twice is called Double Clicking.
2. Pressing the button is called clicking.
3. Pressing right button twice and left button once is called triple clicking.
(A) 1 and 3
(B) 1 and 2
(C) All of these
(D) None of these
Answer: (B)
Correct Option:
(B) Statement 1 and 2 are correct.
Incorrect Options:
(A) Statement 1 is correct but statement 3 is incorrect,
(C) All the given statements are not correct.
(D) All the statements are not incorrect.
Match the following
1. Open file i. Clicking
2. Select item ii. Triple click
3. Invalid click iii. Double click
(A) 1, iii; 2, i; 3, ii
(B) 1, ii; 2, iii; 3, i
(C) 1, iii; 2, ii; 3, i
(D) 1, i; 2, ii; 3, iii
Answer: (A)
Correct Option:
(A) Option (A) is matched correctly.
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The Luke Hand Project: From Disabled to Super-Abled
Shalom's infant son, Theo, has a limb difference - he was born with no right hand. The technical term is a congenital transradial amputation. Shalom - an Experience Designer at Autodesk's Pier 9 Workshop - and his wife ultimately came to see that this offered an amazing opportunity to be of service, not only to their own son, but potentially also to the many people throughout the world who have upper limb differences. An opportunity to assemble a team to create the labor of love that is the The Luke Hand.
Theo's case is far from isolated. There are around two million people globally who have one or no hands, due either to congenital or traumatic amputations. Most currently available, affordable prosthetic or bionic devices are inadequate in terms of comfort, fluid control, and dexterity. On top of that, children with limb differences require updated prostheses more frequently due to their rapid growth.
So, what's the Luke Hand?
Inspired by the sci-fi story of Luke Skywalker's robotic hand (which replaced his severed hand in the Star Wars saga), a team of experts has assembled to create an open source bionic hand with the functionality of a human hand, designed for a four year old, within four years. The Luke Hand is also the name of the nonprofit organization that's been formed to design and build this device.
What's the Luke Hand's mission?
First, to create an open source bionic hand with the functionality of a human hand, within four years, sized for a four year-old. And then to scale up the project, to create the greatest positive impact for people with limb differences around the world.
Why create the Luke Hand?
To help people with hand amputations transition from disabled to superabled.
Why create the Luke Hand?
Because it should already exist! The Luke Hand will be life-changing for people with hand amputations. Perplexingly, despite the high-tech era in which we live, technology remains sadly deficient in the field of prosthetics - so deficient, in fact, that a large percentage of people who have been fitted for prosthetic devices don't bother to wear them.
What is currently available?
Prosthetic hands that offer limited functionality have been available for thousands of years (read more). And modern fabrication methods such as 3D printing has made it easier than ever to create these devices. In terms of devices that offer high functionality, DARPA has developed a sophisticated bionic hand, as have companies like ottobock and several others - many of which you can see here - but no one has brought to market an affordable bionic hand for children that matches the functionality of a human hand. Perhaps no one believes that there would be enough profit in this venture. Therefore, The Luke Hand is taking a radically different approach.
What's the Luke Hand's plan?
Our plan is to develop a bionic hand free of the requirement to create profit. To do this, we plan to have our R&D costs paid for by charitable donors and foundations. We will stretch these dollars as far as possible and maximize the project's brainpower by hosting global hackathons and guided development programs at universities throughout the world. Not needing to recoup our R&D costs from the price of the device, the cost of The Luke Hand will simply be the price of materials, labor, shipping, and tax. By open sourcing all of our IP, we will enable people from around the globe to both contribute to its design and benefit from its development.
Phase 1 entails creating The Luke Hand for Theo when he's four years old, publishing and refining our IP on open source repositories throughout the process of development.
Phase 2 entails scaling up the business and creating larger models that fit older children, teens, and adults, so that anyone who needs a Luke Hand can have one, at the lowest possible cost.
Who are you, and how are you going to do this?
I have the good fortune of being an Experience Designer at one of the world's leading industrial-strength creative workshops for design & fabrication - Autodesk Pier 9. My wife is an expressive arts teacher with a deep knowledge of somatics.
Obviously, this mission is far too vast for me to accomplish alone. The only way to create The Luke Hand is through skillful teamwork. Fortunately, many of my colleagues at Autodesk are cutting-edge robotics experts, mechanical CAD engineers, software and firmware developers, fellow XD's, 3D printing gurus, and more. And my greater professional community includes bionics engineers, prosthetics experts, industrial designers, electrical engineers, lawyers, doctors. And I'm delighted to say that people from all these fields have volunteered to team up and help the cause.
The first major step forward for The Luke Hand was to assemble a dream team of advisors. The first person to become an advisor was the former lead engineer of DARPA's Revolutionizing Prosthetics 2009 bionic arm, Dr. Adam Arabian of Seattle Pacific University. Having already built the world's most advanced bionic hand, his addition to the team was a huge boost for our project.
The director of Autodesk's Applied Research Lab, Maurice Conti, also became an advisor (read about the innovations in robotics happening at this lab). Plus Lynelle Cameron, the CEO of Autodesk Foundation, which supports the design and creation of innovative solutions to the world's most pressing challenges. Plus Scott Summit, a leading Industrial Designer who has helped lead the effort to create Beautiful Artificial Limbs. Plus Andreas Bastian, the Technical Director of e-NABLE, which creates low-cost 3D printed prosthetic limbs for people with limb differences, and who happens to be my teammate on Autodesk's Integrated Additive Manufacturing team. Plus Maria Guidice, Autodesk's VP of Experience Design. Plus Teg Grenager, an entrepreneur who served as VP of Product at a successful tech company in Silicon Valley.
You're called yourself a "power user, fan, advocate" of ReMake! Talk about the tools you're using with the Luke Hand project and how?
I'm a fan and advocate of ReMake because it makes it the process of creating incredibly detailed 3D meshes super simple. My job at Autodesk involves working with 3D meshes and 3D printing, and I've never gotten tired of it.
If I'm a ReMake power user, that's because I use it so much. Actually, using ReMake's photogrammetry tools is something I love to do while I'm traveling on vacation. My wife, Theo, and I recently visited her hometown of Darmstadt, Germany, and while we were there, I shot numerous photo arrays that I fed into ReMake to create many beautiful 3D models. Several of these models can be viewed on my ReMake Gallery.
Talk about the tools you're using with the Luke Hand project and how?
ReMake was the first tool I used in the process, because I wanted to start with a real live hand reference at the proper scale. So I asked for a friend's permission to shoot a photo array of her five year old son's hand. [Technical note: I included a quarter in the scene, which served as a size reference (US quarters are 24.26mm wide).]
I fed these photos into ReMake, and got a beautiful base mesh for The Luke Hand in return, which serves as the form factor reference. [Although we're making this for Theo when he's four, the hand will be the size of a five year old's hand, which will give him room to grow into it. The socket of The Luke Hand will be designed so that it can comfortably conform to his residual limb when he's four years old.] I'm so grateful to have powerful and indispensable tools, such as ReMake, so easily accessible, which help simplify and streamline the process of a task that's as ambitious and complicated as creating a bionic hand.
You made a great video for the Autodesk Global Hackathon about the use of VR in bionics. Why is VR important to bionics and specifically to the Luke Hand project?
Thanks! As I've learned from personal experience, building hardware is hard. Simulating before building makes it easier. And when you simulate in VR, you get the benefit of the most immersive, realistic environment that we can possibly create, currently. This creates an optimal environment to learn how to use a bionic hand, and furthermore, to train it to be as responsive as possible to the commands of the muscles of the residual limb. We're using machine learning to develop an intelligent control system that improves with use – the brains of The Luke Hand. Our first hackathon, called VR Bionics, was focused on creating the foundation of this intelligent control system, and posting all of our code on GitHub, open source. [The code will be coming soon - our developers are currently polishing up and documenting their code before posting it.]
What's in the pipeline for Luke Hand?
The Luke Hand is about to launch a guided development program at Seattle Pacific University, where Adam Arabian teaches. This program will run for half a year, and will focus on developing the needed mechanical components, the muscles, as it were, for The Luke Hand's brain.
We're also planning additional hackathons and guided development programs. And we've been invited to present the results of our VR Bionics work to a team at Stanford University that's focused on VR and computer science.
Finally, once we complete our 503c(3) registration (which is currently in progress), The Luke Hand will apply to Autodesk Foundation and other philanthropic foundations for funding.
Sounds great. How can I help?
Donate to the fundraising campaign
Subscribe to The Luke Hand's newsletter: http://bit.ly/lukehand-subscribe
Sign up to volunteer your skills: http://bit.ly/TLH-Questiionnaire
Follow us…
On Wevolver: https://www.wevolver.com/shalom.ormsby/the-luke-hand/
On GitHub: https://github.com/TheLukeHand
On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thelukehand
On Twitter: https://twitter.com/thelukehand
On Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/thelukehand/
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