They say that the sound of waves along the shoreline is soothing because it transports the mind back to the womb. Rebecca Atwood brings this meditative quality to the home with her newest fabric collection, launching today, 21 January 2015. Though……
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IBT Media does not want to hear about print fading into the sunset. The company brought Newsweek back from the dead last March, and it’s expanding Newsweek again, with the launch of Newsweek Middle East.
The weekly magazine — which will be printed in both an English version and an Arabic version — is the result of a partnership between Newsweek and ARY Digital Network.
The first issue of Newsweek Middle East is expected to debut in June. It will be available in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. The English version will hit newsstands first, followed by the Arabic version.
Newsweek Middle East is the eighth international edition of the magazine. Other markets include Japan, South Korea, Latin America, Montenegro, Poland, Serbia and the United Kingdom.
This new entry from Newsweek is a strong indication that the brand — though it has hit some potholes along the road of its relaunch — still carries weight.
We saw the initial report claiming that Jay Z and a group that included Carmelo Anthony being in negotiations to buy New York FM powerhouse HOT 97. But the morning gang there on Tuesday really had some fun with this now officially debunked trail.
Ebro, Peter Rosenberg and Laura Stylez re-christened the station HOV 97 in honor of Jay Z’s alternate street name. They later speculated about what the loss of HOT 97 might mean for parent company Emmis Communications.
Funniest of all: twice along the way, the on-air crew speculated that the false acquisition mentions helped buoy Anthony and the Knicks to a rare 2014-15 season win.
Armée de ses crayons, la dessinatrice Nettie Wakefield a réalisé cette série de portraits vus de dos avec beaucoup de créativité et de précision : des jeunes femmes et hommes dont seuls les cheveux sont visibles et sur lesquels Nettie s’est amusée à dessiner toutes sortes de coiffures, des plus simples aux plus sophistiquées. À découvrir.
Purple amethyst crystals formed inside rocks provided the inspiration for this ambitious hotel design, proposed by Dutch studio NL Architects for an island off the south coast of China (+ slideshow).
Described by NL Architects as a “slightly insane project”, the Amethyst Hotel is conceived as the first in a chain of gem-inspired hotels where guest rooms are housed behind the faceted glass that makes up its fantasy crystals.
Related story: Cave hotel underway in water-filled Chinese quarry
The violet-coloured quartz stone has been the subject of numerous myths through history – in Greece it was believed to prevent drunkenness, while medieval soldiers used it for protection during battle, and others thought it could strengthen the immune system or prevent nightmares.
Architects Kamiel Klaasse and Pieter Bannenberg believe a design modelled on the “seductive gemstone” will benefit from the associations with these alleged “healing powers”.
“The Amethyst Hotel has the potential to become a performative symbol – a symbol with actual powers associated with it,” they said.
The proposal takes its cues from the portfolio of developer and architect John Portman, who is credited for the widespread popularity of hotels with grand atriums across Asia and the United States, for brands including Hyatt and Marriott.
“The project could be understood as a mutation of Portman’s innovative hotel typology of hotel rooms lining a sensational void,” said the architects.
“Amethyst Hotel is, in a way, a Marriott Marquis hotel sliced in the centre, exposing its magnificent interior,” they added.
Rooms in the hotel would be arranged around the atrium, with access corridors running around the outer perimeter. This would allow every room to face into the central void, which itself would be fronted by glazing.
The first hotel is proposed for a manmade island known as Ocean Flower, which is under development in the sea north of Hainan, southern China. The vision is to eventually build more around the world, each with slightly different shapes.
“Developments are slow. By going public we hope to catalyse the project,” the architects told Dezeen.
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News: the team behind an entirely solar-powered aircraft has revealed the planned path for a record-breaking flight around the world that won’t use a single drop of fossil fuel (+ slideshow).
Solar Impulse 2 (Si2) is a solar-powered plane that is capable of flying both in daytime and at night. Its inaugural flight was made in June last year, when it took to the skies for just over two hours, but the latest iteration will be able to comfortably cross oceans and continents –flying without fuel for five consecutive days and nights at a time.
The Solar Impulse project began in 2003, but a 70-person team had to work for six years before the first working prototype was able to make its debut in 2009.
The second prototype of the sun-powered vehicle has a 72-metre wingspan, slightly larger than that of a Boeing 747, but weighs just 2,300 kilograms, approximately the same as a family car.
Completed in April 2014, Solar Impulse 2 has 17,248 solar cells built into its wings, which supply four electric motors with enough energy for the machine to fly. During the day these cells recharge lithium batteries, allowing Solar Impulse 2 to operate during nighttime as well.
A 3.8-metre cockpit sits at the front of the plane, and has been specially designed so that the pilot can live within the space for up to one week. Unlike most aircraft, the cockpit is not pressurised in order to keep the overall weight of the vehicle to a minimum.
The plane’s 21,700-mile expedition will begin in Abu Dhabi, where the emirate-backed renewable energy company Masdar first displayed the vehicle for Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week last year.
Once the plane sets off, 12 stops are planned for its globe-spanning flight: southern Europe or northern Africa; New York City; the American Midwest; Phoenix, USA; Hawaii, USA; Nanjing, China; Chongqing, China; Mandalay, Myanmar; Ahmedabad, India; Varanasi, India; and Muscat, Oman.
It is expected the trip will take five months in total, with stop-offs at each location for the Solar Impulse team and pilots to engage in discussions about renewable energy. Corporate partners for the flight include Google, Bayer, and Swisscom.
“We want to demonstrate that clean technology and renewable energy can achieve the impossible,” said Solar Impulse chairman Bertrand Piccard in a statement.
“We want youth, leaders, organisations and policymakers to understand that what Solar Impulse can achieve in the air, everyone can accomplish on the ground in their everyday lives.”
Co-founder André Borschberg pointed out that Solar Impulse is not the first aircraft to function on solar power alone, but that it is the first capable of crossing oceans and continents.
“Now we have to ensure the sustainability of the pilot in order to complete the route,” he said. “Solar Impulse 2 must accomplish what no other plane in the history of aviation has achieved – flying without fuel for five consecutive days and nights with only one pilot in the unpressurised cockpit.”
The public can follow the journey at Solar Impulse’s official website.
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We know that both Coney Island and Atlantic City used valuable Ipe (and in AC’s case, later, Ipe-like Cumaru) to make their boardwalks, starting in the 1960s. With a 25-year lifespan, the lumber in those boardwalks was completely replaced once or possibly even twice. So what happened to all of the old wood? Just because it was no longer suitable as decking didn’t mean the wood was completely rotted through, as the planks could always be machined down and cut into smaller pieces to be reworked.
Well, it seems the traditional thing to do with that still-valuable wood…was to throw it out. According to an article in an Atlantic City local paper from 2013,
In the past, all of the wood removed from the Boardwalk through repairs and maintenance by the city’s internal carpentry division was thrown out, [said Atlantic City Public Works Director Paul Jerkins.]
Thankfully, that same article points out that the latest batch of wood to be removed was auctioned off. “Designers…turned [the old planks] into custom-built tabletops, theater floorboards and outdoor benches.” As people have gotten hip to the fact that huge lots of Ipe and Cumaru are becoming available, the city now expects construction companies bidding on Boardwalk renovation projects to adjust their bids accordingly; the thinking goes that construction crews can make extra money by saving the wood that they remove from the structure and re-selling it.
Dakota Johnson, the 25-year-old star of Fifty Shades of Grey, graces the cover of the latest Vogue. Johnson was photographed by Mario Testino and profiled by Hamish Bowles.
Once Fifty hits theaters on February 14, Johnson is likely to become extremely famous. Yet she tells Bowles that she is unsure about the consequences that come with that.
“I think about my dwindling anonymity,” she explained, “and that’s really scary because a very large part of me would be perfectly happy living on a ranch in Colorado and having babies and chickens and horses — which I will do anyway.”
Here’s a simple solution to that problem: Go for it! Go on! No one is stopping you! We can’t wait to hear what you decide.
For NPR’s All Things Considered, Brooklyn-based freelance arts reporter Jeff Lunden today filed a report about the state of all things Broadway. A realm where only one in four productions succeed.
Among those Lunden spoke to: Deadline theater critic Jeremy Gerard, who has been covering Broadway for three decades. Gerard says reviews have become somewhat secondary:
“Unless you come out of the theater saying ‘I have to tell everybody I know they must see this show,’ the show is going to die,” Gerard says. “It doesn’t matter what the New York Times says, it doesn’t matter what New York magazine says. If they don’t come out feeling that, it’s not going to work.”
Though rarer, audiences sometimes flock to a show that critics are not fond of, as Gerard reminds was the case with Wicked. But in the case of The Last Ship, closing this coming weekend, pans by the Times and New York magazine were right-on the hoi polloi money.
In other words, co-creator and late cast addition Sting should have listened to his neighbor.
[Photo of Times Square: Stuart Monk/Shutterstock.com]
It’s not quite The Robb Report territory. But the target audience for Physician’s Life, a new bi-monthly consumer magazine debuting this spring from New Jersey trade publisher Wyanoke Group’s SLACK Inc. is right up there.
From Keith J. Kelly’s report:
“We’re not going for the pharmaceutical and healthcare advertisers,” Wyanoke Group CEO Peter Slack said after being reached at an optometrists convention in Hawaii. “We’re going for consumer advertisers in fashion, auto, travel and the luxury watch market.”
He plans to send 340,000 controlled-circulation copies to the MD audience. “They have individual incomes north of $215,000,” Slack said.
Greg Hood, a medical doctor based in Lexington, Kentucky, will act as the magazine’s editor, while those aforementioned ad sales pursuits will be handled by New York-headquartered magazine services firm James G. Elliott Co.
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