Forged and fabricated octopus style table or floor lamp — via Etsy
Australia and the United States have begun a partnership to share top-secret intelligence from spy satellites as Australia moves to acquire its own satellite to boost surveillance of Asia and the Pacific — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The new Audemars Piguet Millenary 4101 automatic watch was officially presented a couple of weeks ago at the SIHH 2011 and immediately became a new icon of the Swiss brand.
Just like it was done with the recently presented Piaget Emperador Coussin Tourbillon Ultra-Thin and the gorgeous De Bethune DB28 in titanium, the new Audemars Piguet Millenary 4101 takes the idea of a skeletonized watch and, literally, turns it inside out — via World Watch Review
India is all set to give hot yoga a cold shoulder.
In order to stop self-styled yoga gurus from claiming copyright to ancient asanas
, like Bikram Choudhury’s Hot Yoga — a set of 26 sequences practised in a heated room — India has completed documenting 1,300 asanas
which will soon be uploaded on the country’s Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL), making them public knowledge — via redwolf.newsvine.com
There are two identities constituting the units of our world: inside and outside. Object and space. Extrovert and introvert. Active and passive. Community life and internal silence. The building that we can walk around, and the hall where music surrounds us. The building, designed by Építész Stúdió, itself is vivid, moved by the dynamic symmetry of golden ratio. The hall itself is tranquillity filled by the symmetry of intellectual serenity — via ArchDaily
Bandmates of former Thin Lizzy guitarist Gary Moore have paid tribute to a great player and great guy
following his death on holiday in Spain.
The 58-year-old, originally from Belfast, was found dead in a hotel room on the Costa del Sol in the early hours of Sunday — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The basic tenets of sustainable building generally involve lists that go pretty much like this: Minimize disturbance of site, minimize energy use, zero waste, use long life-cycle materials, and above all – because smaller is better – don’t build bigger than absolutely necessary.
The Design Director of the Vermont-based period kit-home builder, Conner Homes, John Connell sees tree house building as the perfect blueprint for sustainable building– via Home Design Find
A good fight should be awesome. An awesome fight should be great.
Have majestic squids ever wrestled with vicious sharks? And I am not referring to anything ever televised on the Sci-Fi Channel. I’m talking about real squid and real sharks and real, true fury — via Etsy
The Omega Hour Vision Blue wristwatch is a special edition of the Hour Vision watch, part of Omega’s De Ville collection. The Hour Vision is a neat watch because the beauty of the movement is visible through the sapphire crystal case back as well as through sapphire glass apertures in the side of the watch case — via Perpetuelle.com Blog
The extensive renovation of this house, designed by Craig Steely Architecture, began by tearing away the layers of substandard remodeling that had accrued over the past 100 years. The home was designed by Craig Steely Architecture and located in San Francisco — via ArchDaily
Perrelet’s latest timepiece places the moonphase display front and center and scales it up dramatically for maximum effect. Developed and manufactured by the group’s affiliate, MHVJ, (Manufacture horlogère Vallée de Joux). The Big Central Moonphase combines a striking appearance with precision — via WatchTime
Project, designed by Chandavarkar and Thacker Architects, picks up its expression from the spirit of flower, a strong form that hovers above the ground and rests on slender supports. Slopes and berms dematerialise the wall to accent the hovering forms of metal sheet roof resting on slender steel columns. Given the slopping nature of eucalyptus wooded site and the large volume and scale of the required warehouse spaces, the programme is partly submerged so that it does not harshly impose on site — via ArchDaily
Who needs Unix In A Nutshell when you’ve got LSD in a sugarcube — via Boing Boing
Located in Barcelona, Spain and designed by architect Santiago Parramón (RTA-Office), the House C is characterized by its geometry, the skin and the cuts that let you discover the dermis — via ArchDaily
Presented last month at SIHH 2011 show, the new A Lange & Sohne Saxonia Dual Time is the first GMT watch in the Saxonia range of dressy timekeepers.
Powered by Lange’s in-house Caliber L086.2 automatic movement, the watch features a standard for this type of gadgets dial layout, which makes it easy to grasp its readings with a momentary glance — via World Watch Review
There are two irreconcilable versions of how that calm shattered. Rueda says that Noah was crying, and she picked him up, sat on the couch and gave him the bottle to help put him to sleep. While she was feeding him, she felt Noah’s arm go limp, and when she moved to take the bottle out of his mouth, he made a sound that she didn’t recognize. I could tell something was happening,
she says. She stood up and put Noah on her shoulder, patting him on the back. As I did this, his body tensed up in a ball. It was as if he was looking for air, and he couldn’t breathe.
Rueda put Noah on the floor and started CPR, at the same time reaching for her phone to call 911. She put the dispatcher on speakerphone so she could keep tending to Noah. I said, ‘Please, please get someone here’,
she said. I knew it could hurt him if there wasn’t enough oxygen going to his brain.
Erin Whitmer’s account of the moments before Noah lost consciousness is entirely different. Around 2:30 on April 20, 2009, Noah was shaken,
she wrote on her blog Noah’s Road, on the one-year anniversary of the incident. He’d been crying. He needed something that his day care provider wasn’t providing him. Maybe he was tired of lying on the mat where she’d had him. Maybe he needed a hug, a laugh, a kind touch. Instead, she picked him up, her fingers gripping him tightly, feeling the softness of his velour pants and his cotton onesie under her fingers, and she shook him.
Whitmer’s account of what Rueda must have done to Noah was based on evidence presented at Rueda’s trial and information from the doctors who treated him after he was rushed to Inova Fairfax Hospital. The doctors gave Noah a CT scan, which showed subdural haemorrhaging (bleeding in a space between the skull and the brain) and an ophthalmological exam revealed retinal haemorrhaging (bleeding at the back of the eyes). Also, his brain was swelling. For decades, these have been the three telltale signs linked to the kind of child abuse commonly called shaken-baby syndrome — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The southerly buster bringing a cool change to Sydney has finally arrived, dropping temperatures by 10 degrees in an hour to end a record week-long heatwave.
Since about 2pm, the temperature in the city has fallen to about 26 degrees – lower than the overnight minimum of 27.6 degrees which was the hottest night ever recorded in Sydney. — via redwolf.newsvine.com
An amateur wine group has paid a record $77,000 for a 237-year-old bottle of wine from France’s eastern Jura region at a local wine festival auction — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The current events in Egypt leave me very uncomfortable. Not the pro-democracy demonstrations — I support that in soul, mind and action — but the fact that the repressive regime is using surveillance technology developed by Western companies, mandated by Western authorities — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Standing prominently on a hilltop just outside Washington, Virginia, the eighteenth century farmhouse is surrounded by five hundred acres of farmland providing vantage point views of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The owners desired an addition, designed by Robert Gurney Architect, to their beloved farmhouse that would bring the outside in and enable them to share the landscape and its changing seasons with friends and family. In addition to entertaining, the owners, who enjoy gardening and horseback riding, required an area to clean up after days spent outdoors. It was also their experience of entry and threshold, both in the daily utilitarian sense and in a more occasional formal sense, which needed to be clarified — via ArchDaily
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