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Magic Ring (right-handed) Link easily to this tutorial in your patterns: www.planetjune.com/magicring Looking for the left-handed instructions? Or the video tutorial? If not, read on… What is this ‘Magic Ring’, anyway? A magic ring is a way to begin crocheting in the round by crocheting over an adjustable loop and then pulling the loop tight. L: ch2, 6 sc in 2nd ch from hook, 2 sc in each st around. How do I make a Magic Ring? Please note: in the following photos, the starting yarn tail is always on the left and hanging down. This demonstration shows a piece made using the following pattern:Make a magic ring, ch 1. Make a loop a few inches from the end of your yarn. You’ll never go back to your old method again, I promise!

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The Youngest Technorati. Other programs are cropping up to support college alternatives. Enstitute, a nonprofit that puts 18- to 24-year-olds in company apprenticeships, placed 11 interns in its first year, 2011, and will place 500 this year. A co-founder, Kane Sarhan, said that 20 percent of interns, making $25,000 a year, come directly from high school. But he also encourages college for many people, saying it’s the rare teenager who is ready for the “work, motivation and time” that it takes to go directly into the real world.

In another sign of the trend, some of the biggest tech companies, including Facebook, eBay and Microsoft, are sponsors for “HSHacks,” a programming talent contest this weekend that signed up 800 students aged 13 to 18. The event was organized by Shrav Mehta, 17, a high school senior. The event’s tagline is “Welcome to the Big Leagues.” Economists who study education largely agree that college matters greatly to future financial gain. Phil Hansen: The art of the imperfect.

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Overheard at Maker Faire 2013. Steampunk. Japanese Group 'Three' Makes Art with Common Household Items. Posted on July 7, 2013 An artistic trio in Japan has recently made a name for itself by installing ingeniously crafted sculptures made from soy sauce containers and anime figurines. According to Miwako Tezuka, the gallery director of Japan Society in New York, the group’s members prefer to remain anonymous, but have taken on the name “Three” for their collective. Three showcases its artistic flair by putting everyday materials into extraordinarily imaginative use, in hopes of inspiring creativity in Japan.

The artists, hailing from Fukushima, were themselves victims of the tsunami and the resulting nuclear disaster that displaced thousands. Today, as Japan marks the earthquake’s second anniversary, the trio created “TokyoElectric,” a three-meter-high cube proportionately modeled from the ill-fated Fukushima nuclear power plant. It took 151,503 soy sauce containers to build the structure, the exact number of which represents the people displaced in Fukushima. (source) Social group may be key to fostering creativity. (Phys.org) —Creativity and genius are commonly seen as attributes of an individual, but new research indicates the role played by the surrounding group may be just as important. Shared group membership, or lack of it, motivates individuals to rise to particular creative challenges, says Professor Alex Haslam from the School of Psychology at The University of Queensland.

"Shared group membership provides a basis for certain forms of originality to be recognised, or disregarded," said Dr Haslam, who collaborated with international colleagues on a paper published recently in the Personality and Social Psychology Review. "Our research supports the argument that geniuses and creative people are very much products of the groups and societies within which they are located. " Typically it is assumed that genius and creativity are the product of the exceptional genes and personality of the individual. "Yet punk only makes sense with reference to what it is breaking away from.