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A college assignment — an informative speech about hobbies — moved Heather Thompson to research origami, a skill her grandmother had taught her as a child.In her research, Thompson came across the story of Sadako Sasaki, a girl who survived the bombing of Hiroshima only to die of leukemia at age 12. Sadako believed she would get well if she folded 1,000 paper cranes, according to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum’s website.
On one of her paper cranes, Sadako wrote, “I will write peace on your wings, and you will fly all over the world,” according to www.sadako.com.
The Children’s Peace Monument, a statue of Sadako holding a paper crane, was erected in her honor in 1958. The monument moves people from around the world to send paper cranes and letters calling for peace.
“Her story was so inspiring, it inspired me to fold 1,000 paper cranes,” said Thompson, who began the project last Halloween and finished in early May.
Thompson, 19, a special education assistant at Bellows Spring Elementary School in Ellicott City, folded tirelessly on her lunch breaks and when the students were in art and music classes, once folding 80 cranes in a single day.
Thompson said it takes her about three minutes to fold each paper crane, so 1,000 cranes would equal 50 straight hours of folding.
“It was a goal I set for myself. I’m really proud of myself for being able to stick with it,” Thompson said.
Her skill is not limited to paper cranes. For Valentine’s Day, Thompson made a paper rose for each student in her class, and she made her mother a bouquet of paper flowers for Mother’s Day. She also makes paper trinket boxes.
Thompson hopes to raise enough money to travel to Hiroshima and deliver the cranes herself on Nov. 17, World Peace Day.
“Originally I was going to send them,” she said, “but I thought going there would be a really good experience.”
An artist and surfer from California used the occasion of the International Whaling Commission meeting in Anchorage this week to show Alaskans a curtain of 30,000 origami whales.Peggy Oki has launched a campaign through sympathetic organizations and businesses to collect origami whales from around the world. The number 30,000, she says, reflects the whales killed since a 1986 moratorium on commercial whaling went into effect. Oki says her project was a group effort.
“It’s hard to know exactly how many people, but I’d say thousands of people, children of all ages, adults, groups, church groups, schools participated in folding origami whales and sending them to me,” said Oki.
The exhibit will be part of the Alaska Oceans Festival on Saturday.
Model train, car and plane maker Hornby posted lower-than-expected annual profits, knocking its shares, but hopes Formula 1 stars Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton will help drive sales this year We see European revenues growing by 49 percent this year and expect double-digit sales growth in the teens for the UK market,” Chief Executive Frank Martin told Reuters on Friday.
Hornby, which makes Scalextric racing cars and Airfix plastic model kits for planes, ships and tanks, said pretax profit edged up to 8.1 million pounds in the year to end March from 8 million the year before, as adverse currency movements from loans Hornby raised in order to make acquisitions in Europe had an impact.
Analysts at Dresdner Kleinwort had forecast pretax profit of 8.6 million pounds.
Sales in the year also missed expectations. They rose 6 percent to 46.9 million pounds, while Altium analysts had expected 50.5 million pounds.
In November, Hornby, which is its 100th year of making toys after starting life as Meccano Ltd in 1907, had reported a 43 percent slump in first-half profits.
“We brought things back in the second half,” Martin said in an interview, adding that sales rose 13 percent in the last six months of the financial year and he expects the trend to continue with revenues steaming ahead this year.
Hornby’s plans to migrate Scalextric cars and Hornby model trains to digital format should underpin growth, as the price for a digital set is 35 percent higher than for an analogue set.
Users of the new generation of Scalextric racing cars communicate with the vehicles via a controller that sends digital signals to a chip in the car.
Adding to the experience will be images of Formula 1 double world champion Fernando Alonso and his rookie British team mate Lewis Hamilton on the model racing cars.
“We have got the worldwide exclusive rights to use their images on our products,” Martin said.
Martin said he expects Airfix-maker Humbrol, which Hornby acquired in November 2006, to contribute 4 million pounds to this year’s revenues and 1 million pounds to pretax profit.
In addition to models of planes, ships and tanks, kit aficionados can now assemble characters from “Dr. Who” and “Wallace & Gromit”.
Shares in Hornby ended down 3.8 percent at 275 pence, valuing the firm at about 104 million pounds.
1. Fold a letter-size sheet of paper lengthways to get a center line.2. Fold two corners into the center line, as in the picture.
3. Turn the paper over and fold those corners in half, as shown.
4. Fold the pointy nose back on itself to form the snub nose. You might try folding the nose underneath, but both ways work well.
5. Fold the whole plane lengthways, as shown.
6. Finally, fold the wings in half to complete the Bulldog Dart.
1. Begin in the same way as the Bulldog Dart. Fold in half lengthways to find your center line and then fold two corners into that line, as shown.
2. Fold that top triangle down, as you see in the picture. It should look like an envelope.
3. Fold in the second set of corners. You should be able to leave a triangular point sticking out.
4. Fold the triangle over the corners to hold them down.
5. Fold in half along the spine, leaving the triangle on the outside, as shown.
6. Finally, fold the wings back on themselves, finding your halfway line carefully. The more care you take to be accurate with these folds, the better the plane will fly.
This plane does well at slower launch speeds. It can stall at high speed, but if you lift one of the flaps slightly at the back, it will swoop and return to your hand or fly in a great spiral. Fiddle with your plane until you are happy with it. Each one will be
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