Black Cat Becomes A Nurse, Tending to Every Wounded Animal

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When a rescued two-month-old kitten named Radamenes was rushed into a Polish clinic last year, doctors didn’t think he would make it. Plagued with an extreme respiratory infection, they were planning to euthanize him – but, then he started to purr. It was the beginning of a miraculous recovery for the black kitty, and through it all he might have learned some tips about care giving.

He began seeking out ill animals that might need comfort or warmth. The staff noticed that Radamenes paid special attention to those, like himself, undergoing the most serious treatments. Whether hugging or grooming the patients, the “nurse cat” spends much of his day purring the sickest back to health.

Radamenes has become quite the celebrity in the town of Bydgoszcz, attracting many visitors who want to observe his loving technique. And, like any good nurse, he doesn’t favor one species over another.

The photos, by Marta Sowińska, show him gingerly draping himself over any wounded area and watching over patients on their journey back to recovery.

This is one black cat these pets are happy to have seen cross their path.

(SEE more photos at the Polish website, TV Meteo)

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10 Year-old Girl Saves a Life Three Hours After Learning CPR

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It’s been said that you never know when CPR will come in handy–including minutes after you’ve learned it.

Literally three hours after learning the technique, a 10-year-old girl in Seoul performed it on an unconscious man who’d just had heart attack near his apartment building.

Earlier that day, she had learned to press down 30 times per minute, and that’s exactly what she did until the man began to wake.

Believed to be in his 50s, the man was taken to the hospital and later released. She had saved his life.

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“I was scared, but just wanted to help him out,” she was quoted as saying by the Korea Times. “Now I know CPR can really help people. I want to take my friends to the training.”

Responded to the call was the Gangseo Fire Station–where she’d just learned CPR.

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Cloud Lifts India’s Waste Pickers Off Trash Piles Without Ending Recycling

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Apr 16, 2015

The third largest city in India piles up huge amounts of garbage every day, while recycling very little. Thousands of Bangalore’s poorest citizens pick through dangerous trash heaps scouring for things to sell. The only ones doing any large-scale recycling, they only end up earning about $72 a month for their hazardous work.

A brilliant scheme started by IT professionals, “I Got Garbage,” is taking waste management into the 21st century, using the cloud to address the city’s mounting trash problem. The company replaces the dangerous and unhealthy practice of landfill waste picking with a door-to-door model, collecting the valuables and recyclables before they end up in landfills. The service sends pickers to homes and offices to sort through the trash there and charges about $1.60 a month to show up daily at a client’s door to separate organics and recyclables.

So far, the project has rescued more than 5,000 waste pickers from trash heaps while doubling their income to about $144 a month. If a husband and wife work together, that’s enough to send their kids to school.

At the same time, “I Got Garbage,” brainchild of the Mindtree consulting firm, has recovered 2,350 tons of recyclables that would otherwise have been added to Bangalore’s trash heaps.

The team behind “I Got Garbage” has other business models in the works, including one in which pickers sell their clients composting kits to recycle organic waste at home.

Next up: expanding the program into other Indian cities in the months ahead.

Photo credit: I Got Garbage Facebook Page

POWWOW Diverts 30 Million Pounds of Produce Annually From Landfill to Food Banks

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Apr 16, 2015

About four billion dollars worth of produce is imported from Mexico every year at the border of Nogales, Arizona, for distribution around the U.S. and Canada. Much of that food, however, doesn’t make the cut. Thirty to forty million pounds of the fruits and vegetables were being thrown into landfills because it was too scarred, too ripe, or too small.

Fortunately, Yolanda Soto developed a solution.

As executive director of the Borderland Community Food Bank, Soto began salvaging the rejected produce 20 years ago and started to feed families in need. To the three hundred-plus hunger-relief organizations across the US now on Soto’s email list, Borderland can offer $70,000 worth of food at the heftily discounted price of $800 — which adds up to about two cents a pound.

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Borderland’s agency distribution program, Produce On Wheels With Out Waste (POWWOW) also presents up to ten million pounds of perishables each year to Arizona communities, churches, and schools who are invited to come and donate ten dollars, and shop for up to sixty pounds of produce. Volunteers sort the produce and box it up for distribution.

To ensure maximum use of the veggies, Borderlands gives any produce that isn’t fit for consumption to nearby farms as compost or animal feed.

It is thanks to determined individuals like Yolanda that hungry families have been provided with healthy, fresh, nutrient rich nourishment that was destined for the landfill.

We Stumbled Upon a Lincoln Lovefest at Ford’s Theater 150 Years After His Death

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Apr 15, 2015

The most fortuitous thing happened while I was entertaining an out-of-town friend in Washington, DC yesterday, driving her around to see the cherry blossoms out of the rain. When it was time for lunch we spotted a restaurant at 10th and E Streets and DJ said, ‘Hey, there’s Ford’s Theatre.”

It turned out serendipitous because the National Park Service was hosting an around the clock tribute that day–the 150th anniversary of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in that very theater.

Lincoln fans young and old lined up on the brick sidewalks under umbrellas waiting to take the free tours that would continue past midnight.

Dozens dressed in period clothing playing real characters who were at the theatre that fateful night. We talked to this US Army officer who said that he was enjoying the performance of Our American Cousin that evening. It was Good Friday.

During the third act, a shot rang out and he realized that Lincoln had been terribly wounded. He and three other officers carried the president across the street to a boarding house (in orange, pictured behind). They feared he would not survive a trip to hospital and wanting him to be comfortable.

A reporter from the city’s Daily Morning Chronicle was writing in a notebook, seemingly preparing his notes on the terrible incident. Tourists picked up free replicas of the following morning’s April 15th edition featuring the article by Associated Press reporter Lawrence Gobright.

DJ and I felt so fortunate to be on the rainy block of 10th street that day, led by our hunger but satiated in the end by the veneration of American citizens and volunteers there, spurred by the free tours and pride of our own US government’s National Park Service, which runs the historic Ford’s Theatre and The Petersen House across the street where the Army officers had stood guard into the night while the city waited for news.

A banjo player strummed somber tunes from the Civil War era, a war that had ended just five days earlier.

The bloodstained pillow and pillowcases– and the black coat and top hat– on display are the ones used by Lincoln 150 years ago.

(WATCH a video from WJLA below)

Sweet Soldier Cooks Year’s Supply of Meals For Wife Before Deploying

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Apr 15, 2015

A way to a woman’s heart is through her stomach.

At least, that seems to be the proverb at the heart of 27-year-old Chinese soldier Yin Yunfeng, who cooked a year’s supply of meals for his wife before leaving on deployment.

Stationed in an isolated outpost in Tibet, Yin only sees 26-year-old Zhao Mai once a year. During Yin’s latest visit he was saddened to see that Zhao, a teacher in the city of Anshui in China’s Guizhou province, was so busy after work that she would often miss dinner.

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The devoted spouse commenced a cooking marathon to ensure his wife would be well fed. He lovingly made 1,000 dumplings, 150 liters (about 40 gallons) of her favorite noodle soup and dozens of homemade meals to get her by. Each neatly packaged meal was stored in their fridge and at the homes of nearby loved ones.

“I have to admit his food packages help me keep going and it’s great to know that he loves me. In some way, every time I have my meal, I know he is with me,” Zhao is quoted as saying in metro.co.uk.

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Her hubby didn’t stop there. In case Zhao needed cheering up, Yin hid several sweet treats with hand-written love notes all around their house, the whereabouts of which he plans to divulge during phone calls and letters throughout the year. In his first such letter to Yin he wrote, “Here is your first surprise. You can find a bag of raisins at the back of the sofa in the living room.”

The old adage is probably correct that food equals love.

(SEE the husband’s 12-photo slideshow in China Daily)

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Heart & Sole: Fashion Mogul Hand Delivers New Sneakers to Homeless

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Apr 15, 2015

A man sleeping on the street is gently awakened by a question asking if he wears a size 9 or 10. After the stranger rummages through a duffel bag, a new pair of red and black sneakers is handed to him.

The stranger is Andre McDonnell, a self-proclaimed style maven who works in New York City’s fashion district. The 40-year-old began giving away new athletic shoes to homeless folks about three years ago, using the personal touch of hand delivery– usually in Grand Central and Penn Stations where many congregate. His one-man charity outreach, “It’s From the Sole,” distributed 4,000 pairs of sneakers last year alone.

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The inspiration for his work struck the Brooklyn man while he was playing basketball one summer and noticed a homeless man walking in the streets without shoes. Suddenly compelled to help, he walked over and gave the man the shoes off his feet, and a clean pair of socks he had in a bag. He has been “outfitting” the less fortunate ever since.

He has received many donations, maybe because he offers to send personal photos of the people wearing the donated items.

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For anybody out there who desire to make a difference, including businesses, McDonnell says, “I’m going to help you help them.”

He is now making It’s From the Sole a 501(c) organization, which will lead to even more donations of shoes. He also plans to recruit high school and college students to help pass out the kicks.

(WATCH the video below or READ more in the Metro) Photo by SummerShowerPro, YouTube

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Teen Invites Her 80-year-old Grandfather to Prom (Video)

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80-year-old James Drain never got to go to his high school prom. He never even wore a tuxedo in his eight decades of life.

This week, he got to do both.

His granddaughter, Joy Webb, got special permission from her Alabama high school administration to take “Poppa” to the prom as her date, and the two had what we can only imagine to be the time of their lives.

Ms. Webb said that Drain has brought “nothing but joy to her family” and was grateful for the opportunity to do something extra special for him.

Sounds like joy all around.

Breath Test Can Tell the Difference Between Heartburn, Stomach Cancer

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Apr 15, 2015

If doctors had a way to easily spot the difference between cancer and indigestion, it could save thousands of lives.

Soon there may be a simple test that lets them find stomach cancer in its earliest stages, when it’s easiest to treat. The symptoms — burping and heartburn — mirror too many minor health problems, and patients are often misdiagnosed until the cancer spreads. But new research could soon give doctors the tools they need to be right on the nose with their diagnosis.

Scientists from the Israel Institute of Technology and the University of Latvia believed there’s a way to “sniff out” stomach cancer in those stages because it has a unique smell.

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They focused on finding “breath prints” of cancer — the idea that people with cancer have chemical compounds in their breath, which don’t show up in people who are cancer free. They used a technology called nanoarray analysis to see if it can spot those minute differences in chemicals people breathe out.

The study builds on earlier work by Israeli, Latvian and Chinese researchers who first identified “breath prints” and suggested proper technology — or even dogs — could be used to sniff out cancer.

Early tests on 484 people found the nanoarray technology was 92% effective in spotting people in the early stages of stomach cancer. The researchers published their findings in the journal Gut.

Larger tests, involving thousands of subjects, are planned. If those go well, nanoarray analysis could be used to screen for stomach cancer within just a few years.

“Diagnosing cancer in its early stages offers patients the best chance of successful treatment,” Dr. Emma Smith of Cancer Research UK, told the BBC. “So research like this has potential to help save lives.”

Labradoodle Fetches Hope For Girl In Long Term Treatment

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For a small girl, Caydence Brannaman has defied long odds. Born ten weeks early with a hole in her upper heart chamber and Pulmonary hypertension, it was determined that she would need open heart surgery. Not only that, tests showed that Caydence had Pulmonary Vein stenosis, which sent her family on a journey across the country looking for a suitable treatment.

By the time she got to the Ronald McDonald House near Texas Children’s hospital, she was in serious need of some comfort.

“Everything was new to her. She was so unsure of everything. We told her about the play room, the outside area and how much fun she would have,” said her grandmother, Patty. “But it was Mogie who turned Cayde back into that smiling little girl again.”

Mogie the Labradoodle is the Ronald McDonald House’s resident pup in Houston. He’s not a service dog (and therefore not required to sit still), so playfulness abounds when the two are together.

“When I got out of the hospital I didn’t feel very good, but Mogie would sit with me and give me kisses that made me feel better,” Caydence told Good News Network.

The two became fast friends when Mogie was just one-year-old, and Caydence was four.

“Running around and chasing Mogie….the exercise was good for her, and she wanted to play, something that sometime sick kids like Cayde find hard to do,” said Patty. “But when you’re doing it with your buddy for fun, it’s not like work.”

Cayde and Mogie have celebrated birthdays and other major milestones together, and have since worked together to bring awareness to the RMH Houston at fundraising events (once they both got over their shyness).

Sometimes, Caydence still likes to shut off the world and be alone, and when she does, her retreat of choice is Mogie’s dog house, where she’ll watch a movie on her iPad as Mogie stands guard outside, looking in.

Grandma has also been soothed by Mogie.

“Even if I just wanted to go outside and have a good cry away from Carlee and Caydence, Mogie seemed to know. He would just sit there with me while I tried to find answers to questions I could not answer,” Patty said. “Mogie was an amazing asset to Caydence’s growth…he got me through some tough times while learning to cope.”

Mogie still lives at RMH Houston where he provides love and support to hundreds of little ones throughout the year.

(WATCH videos of Mogie playing with Cayde and other children below)

Houston we have landed.. And look who is glad Cayde is back at her Houston Ronald Mcdonald Home. Mogie and Cayde get a little time together not so sure who missed each other more.. So lots of kisses and hugs and some fun.
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Mogie lives at Ronald McDonald House Houston and spends his days comforting children with critical illnesses.
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4 Steps to Ease the Stress of Tax Day

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It’s Tax Day in the United States today, a time when stress mounts so much that it becomes almost dangerous to be on the highways. Due to a spike in driver stress levels, there are more deaths by car accident, according to the Journal of the American Medical Association. An ongoing Gallop survey showed that April 15 was tied as the 2nd most stressful day of the year, behind a day with mass tornadoes.

Fortunately, there is something you can do to better cope with tax-time panic (and, we didn’t mean to further panic you with the highway statistic). According to Stanford psychologist Dr. Megan Jones, who also serves as Chief Science Officer at the self-improvement website Lantern, the solution comes in four steps:

STEP 1: Pivot Your Perspective

Because your chance of feeling daily stress is the same if you make $40K per year versus $160K per year, realize that more money does not make you less stressed — but your attitude about money can.

STEP 2: Look Forward, Not Back

For many couples, conflict arises during tax season because one partner tends to spend more while the other saves more. Rather than looking back at what each of you did in 2014, use tax time to make 2015 financial resolutions, based on saving, spending less or earning more.

STEP 3: Be Proactive

Because money-related stress is often related to a feeling of helplessness, choose a simple action (such as selling an old item on Craigslist), that you can implement immediately to start positively impacting your savings.

STEP 4: Box It Up

To manage different sources of stress, visualize “boxes” where you can put each stressful obligation when you’re not actively engaged with it. Avoid thinking about tax and money issues until you consciously decide to take them out of a mental box, and do something about it.

All of these steps are based on a proven approach utilized at Lantern.com, where users engage in daily Cognitive Behavioral Therapy—a type of therapy that examines self-destructive thinking patterns.

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Iran to Appoint Female Ambassador

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Iran is set to promote its Foreign Ministry spokeswoman to be the first female ambassador abroad since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. (Telegraph)

Scientists Find Two Proteins That Can Suppress Cancer

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Apr 14, 2015

Israeli researchers have discovered that a “Jekyll and Hyde” protein, long linked to causing cancer, may also be able to stop the disease from spreading in the body.

The protein, p50, has been linked in studies to several different kinds of cancers, but scientists have now found that in high concentrations, p50 actually has the opposite effect — it dramatically slows the growth of cancerous cells.

“The p50 protein is quite reminiscent of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” said Prof. Aaron Ciechanover, who won the 2004 Nobel prize in chemistry.

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He says before it can cause cancer, p50 has to hook up with another protein, p65.

“We found that when there is an over-expression of the protein p50, it has nothing to hook up to, and it thus hooks up to itself,” Ciechanover said

When that happens, Ciechanover said, the protein “changes its spots” and starts suppressing the growth of cancerous cells.

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“In this study, it does this by producing other proteins that are known cancer suppressors.” Ciechanover told Haaretz.

The new research was done at Ciechanover’s lab at the Technion — Israel Institute of Technology, led by Dr. Yelena Kravtsova-Ivantsiv, and published in the journal Cell.

The research also found that another protein, KPC1, showed promise in suppressing the growth of cancer cells. KPC1 is also involved in producing p50 in the body.

Mystery Donor Gives Her Diamond Engagement Ring to Couple in Need

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A New Mexico woman’s engagement didn’t work out, but instead of selling her diamond ring, she wanted to find a deserving couple to give it to. After posting the offer on Facebook, she received many stories, but one stood out.

Dozens of entries were submitted to the Inhabitants of Burque Facebook page, dedicated to Albuquerque stories. Josh Michaels told his tale of wedding woes last Monday and was chosen as the winner.

Engaged to Laura Aitken since 2013, Michaels was diagnosed with a rare form of stage four cancer. With so many medical bills, he has been unable to purchase a ring for Aitken, who has loyally stuck by his side through the ordeal.

By Tuesday, the anonymous ring donor was so touched by his narrative that she chose him as the recipient of the $2,100 diamond ring.

Thankful for the mystery benefactor’s generosity, Micheals proposed again to his girlfriend, expressing his love while slipping the antique style sparkler on Aitken’s finger.

The couple was also assured by its prior owner that the ring was filled with “positive vibes.”

(WATCH the heartwarming video below or READ more from KRQE)

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Dancing Coffee Shop Employee Gets Free Vacation From Fans (WATCH)

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Sometimes, it pays to be quirky.

Terri Marshall, an employee at a McMaster University coffee shop in Hamilton, Ontario is one of those folks who displays exuberant happiness every time she sees a customer. And when you win something from the store’s “Roll up the Rim” game, she is going to make a big deal. A big, happy deal.

A group of students decided that this Tim Horton’s employee, who does a whole song and dance when you win, should be rewarded for her day-brightening moves, so they collected money and surprised her with a check in the amount of $1,445.26. That’s exactly the amount she needed in order to take a very special vacation.

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We’re assuming they pulled her out from behind the counter for a run-of-the mill, ordinary giant group-dance –but then surprised her with an over-sized check. Marshall added to the merriment by announcing that she and her husband would be celebrating her 30th wedding anniversary.

(Watch the video below)

Space-Out With This Spectacular GoPro Spacewalk Footage From NASA

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Apr 14, 2015

If you were blown away by the scenes in the movie “Gravity,” wait until you see high-def video of the real thing.

Earlier this year, NASA attached GoPro cameras to astronauts Butch Wilmore and Terry Verts before they took their spacewalks on the International Space Station. Uploaded by NASA last week, the breathtaking imagery offers us an opportunity to feel like we’re in the cosmos.

On February 25th, the spacewalk, also known as EVA (extravehicular activity), was performed to provide general maintenance on the space station. Wilmore and Verts took six hours to ready the craft for future space missions, and a one-hour video documents their foray.

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A 40-minute video from March 1st shows the astronauts installing new communications equipment to be used by partnering commercial spacecraft.

According to the Collaborations for Commercial Space Capabilities agreement, NASA is committed to explore all of the possibilities associated with private spaceflight. The high-quality videos give the world a little preview before that galactic dream “takes flight.”

(WATCH the amazing videos below / at the bottom, NASA experts discuss the walk over footage)

IKEA to Upgrade 10,000 Refugee Family’s Tents to Modular Solar Shelters

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Apr 13, 2015

For years, millions of families seeking shelter from war and other turmoil have had to live in refugee tents made of little more than tarps thrown over wooden or metal frames. In some cases, this antiquated method of housing turns out to be the family’s only home for a decade or more.

Fortunately, the IKEA Foundation has teamed up with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to design the “Better Shelter,” which is safer, sturdier, easy to transport and assemble, and can house five people at a time. It boasts built-in solar panels that can charge batteries and power four hours of LED lighting at night, and can better protect its inhabitants from rain, heat, and wind for up to three years — six times longer than the lifespan of tents used in many refugee camps today.

After two years of design work and testing them with 40 refugee families in Ethiopia and Iraq, Better Shelters and IKEA announced plans to produce 10,000 of them starting this year.

“Putting refugee families and their needs at the heart of this project is a great example of how democratic design can be used for humanitarian value,” IKEA Foundation spokesman Jonathan Spampinato said in a statement. “Refugee families and children can have a safer place to call home.”

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Strangers Help Animate 6-ft Dummy to Create Performance Art

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As an homage to Ray Harryhausun and his films like Clash of the Titans, I thought it would be fun to shoot an art project similar to the movie, but on a smaller scale. As it turns out, it was not fun… it was really, really hard. But when I decided to let strangers step in to help, the result was magical.

I had wanted to make this for video for about 2 years, and I thought that to begin, I would have to make a model by hand. However, fate decided to show me the dummy for sale online at a very reasonable price.

We started shooting the video on February 3rd as part of the Connect 2 Digital Scheme at the UK Aberystwyth Arts Centre in Ceredigion. I often work with the public community groups, so I wanted the animation process itself to become a performance of the people. We decided to try and get the public to move the figure and be in the video with us, making an aesthetic out of it’s creation. I worried that this would slow us down, or that people wouldn’t come over and help, but I was amazed at just how willing people were to be a part of it. When we set up — rather than me forever running after people and asking them to help — there was a continuous slew of people asking to play along.

Even though it didn’t rain or snow the whole day — which it does a great deal in Aberystwyth — there were still plenty of bumps along the way. The dummy constantly needed adjustments, and pieces kept falling off as we went along, but after shooting from dusk till dawn, we managed to get it across the finish line.

The dummy references texts like Pinocchio, Mannequin (whatever happened to the actor in that? I think he was called Robert Downey something… ?) Winter’s Tale, and all those other stories where figures come alive. It also looks at changing the way animation works; pushing it to the limit on how you can create motion and making the process a performance.

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She’s Officially Celestial: Malala Gets Astroid Named After Her

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Apr 13, 2015

She fought for girls’ rights, survived an assassination attempt, and won the Nobel Peace Prize all by the time she was 17 years old. Now Malala Yousafzai has a celestial body named after her.

An astronomer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory discovered the asteroid back in 2010 and the International Astronomical Union Committee on Small Bodies Nomenclature announced last week it is now named after the Pakistani teenager who stood up to the Taliban.

Yousafzai became the youngest person to ever receive the Nobel Peace Prize last year for her activism in support of a girl’s right to attend school. In 2012, Taliban gunmen shot her, leaving her severely wounded in a failed assassination attempt. She’d drawn the Taliban’s ire after becoming an outspoken critic and symbol of resistance to Taliban efforts to quash education for girls in Pakistan.

“If anyone deserves to have an asteroid named after them, she does,” said Amy Mainzer, who discovered the asteroid. She wrote on the Malala Fund blog, “We desperately need the brainpower of all smart people to solve some of humanity’s most difficult problems, and we can’t afford to reject half the population’s.”

Asteroid 316201 Malala lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, in our solar system’s main asteroid belt. Four kilometers across and described as the color of “printer toner,” it takes five-and-a-half years to orbit the sun.

Mainzer said she decided to name her discovery after post doctoral student Carrie Nugent pointed out to her how few asteroids have been named “in honor of the contributions of women and particularly women of color.”

Photo Credit: NASA/JPL

(Photos) Meet Two Adorable Baby Otters Named ‘Monterey’ and ‘Jack’

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Apr 13, 2015

Sometimes, cheesy can be downright cute.

Just look at these adorable North American River Otters, named Monterey and Jack, born to their mother, Brie.

After the rare birth, the otter family was introduced to the world over the weekend by the Rosamond Gifford Zoo in Syracuse, New York.

“We haven’t had baby otters here since 1988…it’s quite rare for them to be born in captivity, so we’re thrilled about the birth,” Zoo Director Ted Fox told TODAY.

Baby_Otter-newborn_RosamondGiffordZoo — Photos by Jaime Alvarez, Rosamond Gifford Zoo

Weighing just four ounces at birth on March 8th., the kiddos aren’t expected to be opening their eyes for another four to five weeks, but guests will be able to catch a glimpse of them chowing down soon enough. When they’re old enough, the two will be added to the zoo’s regular otter exhibit.

Baby_Otters_in box-RosamondGiffordZoo — Photos by Jaime Alvarez, Rosamond Gifford Zoo

Monterey and Jack will be continuously observed as they get to know their new surroundings, as will mom, Brie, who was named for her favorite toy: a piece of cheese.

Something tells us her new pups will be way more fun to play with.

For more information on the baby otters, zoo visitation hours and admission prices go to rosamondgiffordzoo.org.

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