“Such time dilation has been repeatedly demonstrated, for instance by small disparities in a pair of atomic clocks after one of them is sent on a space trip, or by clocks on the Space Shuttle running slightly slower than reference clocks on Earth, or clocks on GPS and Galileo satellites running slightly faster.”..(Read…)
The glazed ends of this house in Ecuador, by local architect Emilio López, are larger than the building’s middle portion to make the most of ocean and forest views.
Don Juan House is a two-storey residence perched atop a hill, which features a notable dip in its centre to give the impression of a bow-tie.
The residence measures 1,184 square feet (110 square metres) and was designed by Quito-based firm Emilio López Arquitecto to suit its natural setting in the coastal area of Don Juan.
Oriented east-west, the home’s glazed ends face the ocean on one side and overlook the forest on the other.
“The concept of the double-opening shaped the architecture, which is conceived as two funnels that converge,” the studio said. “The double-opening allows crossed ventilation, and embeds the house and its inhabitants within the surroundings.”
The house is constructed from glass and flat-fibre cement panels, which cover the entire exterior, as well as local amarillo and asta woods.
Inside the sea-facing end is a main living area, with an open-plan kitchen and sitting area. Sliding glass doors meet a narrow deck outside, where steps meet the ground.
On the other side, a wooden staircase leads up to two bedrooms, which overlook the main living space below and distant beach beyond. A bathroom is located on each level to complete the modest layout.
The interior has a golden colour that is bathed in ample natural light. Minimal furniture pieces, as well as cabinetry, are made from wood to create a cohesive design.
“The inner facades are plastered and covered with bamboo, permitting a feel of warm materials within the inside yet not compromising the protection of the exterior of the house,” said the studio.
Ecuador’s architecture scene has recently gained some momentum, with several contemporary residences completed in the country over the past year. Examples include a flat-roofed family house by Gabriel Rivera Arquitectos, and a two-storey concrete home by Estudio Felipe Escudero.
Photography is by Jag Studio.
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Circulation: 60,000
Frequency: 8x/year + 2 special issues
Special issues: Yearbook (December); Craft-Based Workbook (July)
Background: In an era where print publications have been folding left and right—crushed under the weight of too much competition or the Internet, Writer’s Digest is an industry staple that will be celebrating its 100th anniversary next year.
The publication prides itself on keeping its readers (mostly novelists who are aspiring to get their first book published) abreast of industry trends and providing guidance and instruction from successful authors, says Jessica Zafarris, content director. And just about any successful author you can name from the last century has been featured in the publication—from H.G. Wells and Truman Capote to Maya Angelou and J.K. Rowling.
Most writing publications focus on one form or practice of writing, but Writer’s Digest provides content to just about anyone who wields a professional pen: non-fiction writers, short-story writers, poets, freelancers, screenwriters, and copy writers. “We’re here for anyone who wants to express themselves in writing or earn a living from it,” says Zafarris.
What to pitch: Editors often turn to fresh freelance voices to fill out WD’s feature well. And these are the best places to aim your darts:
Writer’s Digest Interview: This signature section is for any writer who can score an interview with a best-selling author who’s willing to talk about her work and success. Word count: print: 2000; online: 2500.
The Inkwell: This section focuses on unique aspects of the industry. Subjects have centered around investigative reporting and how to create the perfect query. Word count: 1000.
Five-Minute Memoir: This “creative piece that writers write about writing” is the perfect place to pitch stories about any unique aspect or experience of a writer’s life. Word count: 600.
What not to pitch: The Poetic Aside, Meet the Agent, and Conference Scene sections are handled by dedicated writers. Editors are also not interested in pitches that are too self promotional.
Online opportunities: This is the place for published authors to share what they’ve learned about the writing/publishing experience. Editors are also looking for stories about any interesting aspect of writing life. It can pertain to screenwriters, poets, freelancers, etc…at any stage of your career. Word count: 600-1000.
Percentage of freelance content: 75%
Percentage of freelance pitches accepted: Print: 20%; Online: 50%
What publicists should pitch: Editors want to hear from publicists who represent both new and established writers. Lead time: 4-5 months: (If you have a high-profile client: 6-8 months) *Note: Editors are looking to include writers who represent more diverse genres.
Recent freelance story pitched and published: Freelancers have penned articles that tackle genre-blending, 21st-century writing technology, and the changing face of crime fiction.
Etiquette: Pitches need to be “short, sweet and to the point,” says Zafarris. Please send links to clips (no attachments), and include a subhead if the pitch is for a longer, meatier piece. For online-only articles please include a brief summary of your proposed article or guest post, or attach a Word document containing a completed article, along with a headshot, bio and any applicable book cover images. Writer submission guidelines can be found here.
Lead time: 4-5 months
Pay rate: $.30-.50/word; Online: $50-$200
Payment schedule: Payment within 60 days of article submission
Kill fee: 25%
Rights purchased: Negotiable
Contact info:
Writer’s Digest
F+W Media
10151 Carver Rd., Suite #300
Blue Ash, OH 45242
Twitter | @writersdigest | Facebook
Direct pitches to the appropriate editor:
For online-only articles and guest posts, content director Jessica Zafarris: JESSICA dot FARRIS at FWMEDIA dot COM
Submissions can also be sent to WDSUBMISSIOINS at FWMEDIA dot COM
[EDITOR’S NOTE: Though we’ve updated this article recently, the speed at which things move in media means things may have already changed since then. Please email us if you notice any outdated info.]
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Maciej Leszczynski recherche le charme des paysages industriels de Hambourg, en Allemagne… un exploit difficile qu’il réussit sans effort. À travers une composition soignée et un encadrement intelligent, la série nous invite à voir au-delà des sombres caractéristiques industrielles des usines, des terminaux à conteneurs et des immeubles de bureaux et à apprécier leur beauté géométrique. Cette façon unique de voir le monde est en harmonie avec son esthétique et sa vision artistique. « La photographie est pour moi une façon individuelle de regarder le monde», dit-il. « La différence entre ce que l’on voit dans la réalité et ce que l’on peut voir dans une image est fascinante.» Plus de son travail ici et sur Instagram.
During the winter months in China, the quality of the air can diminish as the haze simultaneously worsens, and with this brings the need for Fresh Air Ventilation systems or Air Purifiers. However, these can often take up noticeable, and often valuable space within the room, and this problem continues when it comes to storing the device. But this certainly isn’t the case with Plant.
Plant is what happens when two products, a Fresh Air Ventilation System and Electric Curtain System, collide… and the resulting product is brilliant! In addition to the space-saving form, its function and user experience has also been greatly considered; both the primary filter and Carbon Filter, which introduce fresh air into the room, are concealed behind a magnetic lid, making the replacement process quick and simple! Control of the device is achieved through an intuitive smart app, which not only allows for adjustments to be made remotely, but also displays live data regarding the air quality.
Designer: Colt Chow
We’ve made a pretty seamless transition from hard cash to digital money, but there’s still one form of payment that hasn’t really changed yet. The allowance. Unless your kid owns an ATM card and a bank account (I didn’t until I was 18), allowance has always been handed in banknotes or coins that found their way into the symbolic piggy bank.
As we move into the digital age of virtual currency and cashless payments, Pigzbe ditches the piggy bank in favor of their new ‘piggy wallet’ virtual realm too, allowing parents, relatives, and other elders to go cashless with their children… but the Pigzbe is much more than just a digital wallet for children. It’s also an education in finances, budgeting, earning, saving, and making sensible expenditures.
Designed to look like an abstract pig, Pigzbe is a small rectangular card-shaped device with two buttons (that double up as the pig’s cheeks) and an LED screen between them that lights up with a pig’s face on it. The Pigzbe accepts international currencies as well as cryptocoins, and comes powered by Wollo, a secure blockchain based token that allows you to send money globally and quickly. When you transfer money to a child’s Pigzbe, they get notified as the money gets deposited in their account, to be used digitally. The wallet actively tracks transactions, letting children know, through the display on the front, how much they’re earning, spending, and saving.
Pigzbe comes with an educational component too. Developed by Primo Toys, the guys behind Cubetto (the toy that taught preschoolers the basic tenants of coding), Pigzbe comes with a partner app too that helps visualize the child’s finances in a gamified way. The app introduces children to much more advanced financial concepts like saving, currency-conversion, and even setting budgets. They can earn money either through allowances, gifts, or even by completing tasks. The Pigzbe device stores and keeps track of everything that comes in and goes out, while the app allows kids to be financially aware and even learn to be fiscally responsible, from as young as six years old!
Designer: Jon Marshall
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Pigzbe is a hands on piggy-wallet that will help your kids learn digital money management through adventure and play.
Saving, earning and sharing. Pigzbe future proofs learning about modern digital finance with something fun, tangible, and for the whole family.
Pigzbe emerged from years of research with kids, parents, teachers, economists and product designers on a quest to reinvent pocket money in the 21st century.
Since January 2018, over 30,000 people from across the globe have come together to make the Pigzbe project come to life.
Pigzbe comes with all the necessary parts to begin playing and learning about saving, earning, and managing digital money right out of the box:
A – Pigzbe Device
B – Pigzbe App
C – USBC Charging chord
The Pigzbe Device hand-held home for digital money. It’s your screen-less window into a world of savings, making digital money tangible and fun.
Lights! Sound! Touch! Ⓓ 128 LED lights, combined with a Ⓔ speaker, a Ⓕ haptic engine, and Ⓖ 2x buttons, provide a magical experience with pocket money.
The Pigzbe App lets the adults in the family connect and send money to Pigzbe from anywhere in the world, instantly and securely, and cost effectively.
For kids, the app is an adventure that enhances the hands-on experience, helping them learn through connected play, stories and fun.
Pigzbe runs on Wollo, a blockchain based token that allows you to send money globally, quickly and cost-effectively (It costs $0.000001 to send as little as $0.005).
Every Pigzbe comes with enough Wollo to play and interact with right out of the box, and complete over 10,000 transactions, so you don’t have to buy any to start!
Earn and save – Pigzbe makes it easy for children to earn money and learn how to save it. Set goals for presents, get rewards for chores.
Visualise and play – Watch your money grow, literally! Your digital wallet is an interactive money-tree that you nurture and grow through savings.
Spend and share – Send your savings in and out of your account. Spend it on the things you want, online from the app, or in the real world with a card.
Create a family network – Invite family members and friends to connect with your child’s Pigzbe from anywhere in the world. Pigzbe is global!
Send allowances – Anyone in your network can send recurring allowances or one-off gifts, quickly, securely, and cost-effectively.
Set tasks and chores – Set chores and tasks for your children to complete. Keep track of progress, reward good behaviour, help them form good habits.
The piggy-bank served us well. It taught us, and our parents before us, financial values like earning and saving, one penny at a time. But it’s become outdated.
Primo Toys believe that managing digital money is a basic 21st-century literacy, and one our children can’t afford to miss out on, yet widely overlooked in elementary education.
Research shows that good – or bad – money habits are learned by age 7, and that kids can understand concepts like price and value as early as age 5.
Primo Toys believe that financially curious children can become financially literate adults, and be designed Pigzbe to achieve just that.
Earning – Pigzbe allows children to earn money through chores. Financial empowerment comes from knowledge of our own self worth, and the worth of our hard work.
Saving – Saving money makes Pigzbe’s environment richer and more playful. The more you save, the more possibilities you have, which is true in real life too!
Budgeting – Children visualise their pocket money benchmarked against savings goals. Knowing where you want to be is as important as knowing where you are.
Spending – With Pigzbe children are in charge of their own money. They spend it on the things they want, and learn about independence.
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Today we’d like to introduce another eggsquisite unitasker, the plastic egg mold. Made of rubber, these molds squish hard-boiled eggs into rabbit or bear faces.
To use these molds, simply boil the eggs. Peel the shell off the eggs when they are very hot. Drop the hot eggs into the mold and close the lid. Submerse the closed mold in cold water for 10 minutes and your eggs will be shaped.
Personally, I am not interested in peeling hot, hard-boiled eggs. The eggs turn out better when they are cooled then peeled anyway. I am also not interested in yet another “hand-wash only” item. I prefer everything to be dishwasher-safe.
I suppose an item like this would amuse children and maybe get them to eat more eggs — maybe. Or we could just save money, space in our cupboards, and stop unitasker from ending up in the landfill if we taught kids to eat non-decorative foods.
Post written by Jacki Hollywood Brown
I read a lot and I firmly believe that no matter how indispensable a YouTube video, a blog, or a magazine article can be, the long form of writing – a book – can both entertain and educate the way no other media can. Here is a short list of books that we stock, old and new that I think are worth reading. Now actually I think all the books we stock are worth reading, but I particularly wanted to highlight some personal favorites. I’m including some of the many new books we stock along with some classics that really shaped my understanding of woodworking.
In no particular order:
The Mechanic’s Companion by Peter Nicholson. This is a high quality reprint of the 1841 American edition of the book, which was originally printed in 1812. The Mechanic’s Companion is one of those books you don’t actually read as much dip into. It’s structured as a dictionary, and it’s an important book for anyone who has an interest in historical woodworking. What really turned me on is the inclusion of the 1830 building code of New York City. This is so interesting to me because it’s the first gasp of zoning and regulation in New York. We have to comply with Fire Department regulations for our aerosols and flammable storage regulations (including passing the Certificate of Fitness test) so the rise of safety regulations especially caught my eye. Apparently in 1830 the regulations were pretty similar, though they weren’t about spray lacquer – they concerned whale oil and gunpowder. The book also covers the tools and usage for different trades. But there is so much crammed into the book, you can always learn something new. For me, the woodworking tool material wasn’t unfamiliar but the section on plastering was totally amazing.
“The Joiner and Cabinet Maker” is approaching a decade since we put it back in print. I still find it as exciting as ever to go through. For anyone interested in working unplugged, the first two projects are a great first set of challenges. If you can complete the third project – a dresser – you can confidently say that you really know what you are doing. Back then I thought the book was the best education for hand tool usage out there, and today I would double down and also say it provides an anchor for other hand tool instruction you might (and should) get elsewhere. It’s also a good read, which is why I think you can learn from it pretty easily.
Robert Wearing’s – “The Essential Woodworker” is the single best book on useful advice on woodworking every written. Short and sweet, it’s a great practical book no matter what equipment you use – hand or electric. I can’t imaging not having a copy.
Lost Art Press just reprinted “Welsh Stick Chairs” by John Brown and issued an English-language version of Slöjd In Wood by Jögge Sundqvist. Both of these books are standards in their field and if there is any interest in chairs or Sloyd projects these are obvious choices. I also want to recommend “Woodworking in Estonia” which is another standard text for greenwood woodworking – a bit more hardcore and less accessible than the other two, but also very worthwhile.
If you are looking for a great gift set both Roubo books, The volume on cabinetmaking and the volume on marquetry are awesome for woodworkers with experience who are doing traditional work, and the entire series of Charles Hayward books are awesome for everyone – especially a newbie. (Hayward is hands down the best writer and illustrator of woodworking books ever.)
“Ingenious Mechanicks: Early Workbenches & Workholding” by Christopher Schwarz is a historic look at useful clamping accessories for your workbench. I found it very informative and helpful when we were developing our Planing Stops.
If you just want a good read – “The Village Carpenter” by Walter Rose has been a favorite of mine for years.
Hardcore carvers might like “Manual of Traditional Wood Carving” by Paul Hasluck. I’m actually in the middle of the chip carving section. I took Daniel Clay’s course in September and Hasluck has an article on chip carving explaining the English method of doing it. I have also been poring over the book’s decorative designs for furniture as part of my research for my blogs on “The Future of Furniture.” The text is dense but chock full of useful stuff.
For younger people who have an interest in early crafts and tools, Eric Sloane’s “A Museum of Early American Tools” had a huge impression on me when I was a kid. Still does.
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This “Tools & Craft” section is provided courtesy of Joel Moskowitz, founder of Tools for Working Wood, the Brooklyn-based catalog retailer of everything from hand tools to Festool; check out their online shop here. Joel also founded Gramercy Tools, the award-winning boutique manufacturer of hand tools made the old-fashioned way: Built to work and built to last.
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