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Cet engin est une création entièrement nouvelle, un peu déroutante qui présente des points très positifs, tels que les détails sous châssis ou en dossiers caisse avec représentation des câblots de liaison entre motrice et remorque ainsi qu’une motorisation à moteur central héritée des X 2100/2200 de Lima! C’est un bel engin qui a de la présence, renforcée par une décoration très bien appliquée. Le modèle Jouef L’ensemble motrice et remorque de Jouef est présenté dans un coffret qui protège avec efficacité le modèle, les deux éléments étant emballés séparément. Les attelages à chaque extrémité extérieure de caisse sont à élongation et des jupes sont à rapporter pour améliorer l’esthétique lorsque l’on utilise pas d’attelage à boucle. Les attelages à boucle sont réglables en position, avec bagues pour permettre de rouler à tampons…

Through a steady London rain on the morning of May 6, the pomp and ceremony of King Charles III’s coronation began with a ride in the Diamond Jubilee State coach. The carriage, first used in 2014 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the accession of his late mother, Queen Elizabeth II, departed from Buckingham Palace at 10:20 a.m. Escorted by more than 150 members of the British armed forces and cheered on by thousands of damp but decidedly enthusiastic well-wishers, the enclosed horse-drawn coach rolled its way to Westminster Abbey. For Charles, 74, accompanied by his wife of 18 years, Queen Camilla, 75, the ride followed a carefully charted course, winding past landmarks like Trafalgar Square, the Palace of Westminster and Big Ben. At only 1.4 miles, the King’s procession…

With Apple reportedly ditching its plans to launch a successor to the 27-inch iMac Pro, professional users now have the choice between the 24-inch M1 iMac and the new Mac Studio with Studio Display for the desktop set-up. Whilst the former is ideal for emails, data entry, and basic editing, the latter is a powerhouse and takes Mac computing to a new level. WITHDRAWING THE 27-INCH iMAC Since the announcement of the transition to Apple Silicon, Apple has been working hard to give its entire Mac family a new lease of life. Goodbye are the same old designs with virtually no changes, and hello to a new era of Mac computing. Although the first couple of devices to transition to M-series chips looked virtually identical to their predecessors, Apple has since begun…

Mekka für Gleitschirmflieger „Wieso wo hinfahren, wo sich die Flieger stapeln, als wär‘s Bassano? Nun – so ambivalent sind wir eben gestrickt: Die einen tummeln sich am liebsten zusammen wie die Pinguine, die anderen suchen Einsamkeit und Unberührtheit. Gleich vorweg: Algodonales bietet beides! Und noch viel mehr. Wie viele andere fliegerische Schauplätze hat auch das 5.500-Einwohner-Nest in der Provinz von Cádiz seine eigene Geschichte. Geschrieben und erzählt von den Menschen selbst, wodurch sich Anekdoten aneinanderreihen, die den Orten einen sagenumwobenen Glanz verpassen – so auch in Algodonales, das bereits in den 80er Jahren entdeckt, bereist und beflogen wurde. Der Deutsche Gerhard Ganter sieht sich als fliegerischer Entdecker und Erschließer von Algodonales. Er beflog die mächtige Sierra de Lijar – den Hausberg von Algodonales – erstmalig 1983 (mit dem Drachen) … und blieb…

LG announced that it will close its mobile phone business, still the number-three player by sales in the US. The company will sell down its existing inventory of phones, including the LG Stylo 6, LG Wing, and LG Velvet, while continuing to provide support and software updates “for a period of time which will vary by region.” “LG’s strategic decision to exit the incredibly competitive mobile phone sector will enable the company to focus resources in growth areas such as electric vehicle components, connected devices, smart homes, robotics, artificial intelligence, and business-to-business solutions, as well as platforms and services,” the company said in a press release. The company had reportedly sought a buyer for its money-losing phone business but hadn’t found any takers. Among other things, this means the “LG Rollable” phone, which…

In today’s Silicon Valley, land of buzzwords, there may be none buzzier than “creator”—the tech industry’s chosen way to refer to someone who gathers an audience by posting their words, images, or videos online. Every tech company seems to be fixated on building tools to help their super users make money through subscriptions, tips, or other direct payments from fans, whether they’re running audio streaming services like Apple and Spotify or social networks like Facebook and Twitter. All these big companies are, in a sense, aping Patreon Inc., the tech startup that’s spent the past eight years building tools to allow content creators to accept recurring payments from their fans. Patreon is in the midst of a hiring spree, and in April it raised $155 million from investors who valued it…

This winter, the world will be fighting over something that’s invisible, yet rarely so vital—and in alarmingly shorter supply. Nations are more reliant than ever on natural gas to heat homes and power industry as they work to quit coal and increase the use of cleaner energy sources. But there isn’t enough gas to fuel the post-pandemic recovery and refill depleted stocks before the cold months. Countries are trying to outbid one another for supplies as exporters such as Russia move to keep more natural gas home. The crunch will get a lot worse when temperatures drop. The crisis in Europe presages trouble for the rest of the planet as the continent’s energy shortage has governments warning of blackouts and factories being forced to shut. Inventories at European storage facilities are at historically…

МУЗЕЙ ВАН ЛОН АМСТЕРДАМ Построенный еще в XVII веке, дом на канале Кайзерсграхт в XIX стал собственностью семьи Ван Лон, глава которой был одним из учредителей Ост‑Индской компании и богатейшим человеком своего времени. Поэтому здесь есть все, за что мы любим голландское искусство, но в великолепном, не свойственном для сдержанных голландцев изобилии. Со всех стен смотрят бесчисленные портреты, полки ломятся от китайского и европейского фарфора, а окна комнат обращены на канал и великолепный регулярный сад, один из лучших в Амстердаме. ДОМ-МУЗЕЙ ХЕМИНГУЭЯ ФЛОРИДА Особняк на острове Ки-Уэст, построенный еще в середине XIX века, в 1931 году стал домом Эрнеста Хемингуэя, его второй (и далеко не последней) жены Полины Пфайффер и сыновей, Патрика и Грегори. Здесь Хемингуэй прожил свои самые спокойные и респектабельные годы. Богатая наследница, журналистка и знаток моды, Полина взялась за обустройство подаренного ей…

работу увидела девушка – и восхитилась ею так же, как Катя. Так началось знакомство и работа над ак-то декоратор Катя Гердт увидела в витрине антикварного магазина в Берлине картину, которая ее заворожила. Про себя она назвала ее “Бал”. И целых полтора года выхаживала, чтобы уговорить продавца на приемлемую цену. В итоге новое приобретение повесили в шоуруме декоратора в Москве, а спустя какое-то время квартирой мечты для образованной и тонко чувствующей девушки-доктора. “Иногда нужно схватить какое-то настроение, поймать волну. Картина как раз явилась такой точкой отсчета. Ключик был найден, и дальше все складывалось одно к другому, легко и непринужденно”, – говорит Катя. Так как квартира находится в новом московском жилом комплексе, была возможность придумать планировку с нуля. На ста трех квадратных метрах спланировали общее пространство гостиной и столовой, разделенное консолью, отдельную кухню,…

Anne and Brian Trinque never intended to build from scratch. But a serendipitous meeting with architect Ron DiMauro of DiMauro Architects at an overgrown lot half a mile from the beach in Jamestown, Rhode Island, changed their tune. “Our real estate agent, who knew we had been in touch with him about renovating another property, saw him drive by and flagged him down,” Anne says. “We discussed our dream for a three-bedroom where we could escape in summer with the kids.” The couple had definite ideas for the look and feel of the house, inside and out. The team, overseen by project architect Tyler Zagryn, took cues from the modern farmhouses Anne loves and the shingled seaside homes that are the firm’s specialty. The result? A board- and batten cottage best…

ALEXANDRA GRAY BENNETT and her husband were ready to nest. Finally back together in their native Minnesota—after they married, he had moved to Boston for business school—the couple were looking for an ideal home to start a family in. “We were basically Trulia regulars,” jokes Bennett. “But I remember the first moment I saw our house in 2017. I just had a feeling.” Set in the leafy Kenwood neighborhood of South Minneapolis, the 2,300-square-foot, two-and-a-half-story 1920s cedar-shingle dwelling had a traditional foursquare design, with a room in each corner and a central hall and stairway. It ticked all their boxes: It was simple and beautiful, close to lakes and trails for their Labrador, and—the kicker—walking distance from one of the city’s best playgrounds. Two years and one positive pregnancy test later,…

MATHIEU WEIMER PLAGE DYNAMIQUE Boîtier : Samsung Galaxy S7 Objectif : 26 mm Sensibilité : 40 ISO Vit./diaph. : 1/3000 s à f/1,7 « Cette image fait partie d’une série réalisée début juillet sur l’île d’Oléron. La chaise des sauveteurs était l’unique structure présente sur cette grande plage de sable à marée basse. En sachant que j’allais convertir l’image en noir et blanc, j’ai utilisé cette chaise haute et son ombre pour remplir le premier plan. » POURQUOI NOUS L’AVONS CHOISIE Face à un tel sujet, un photographe peu imaginatif aurait placé la chaise à droite, pour laisser de l’espace dans l’axe du regard des personnages. Cela nous aurait privés de cette image intrigante, où l’océan reste hors cadre et où l’ombre de la chaise forme un surprenant motif. Une composition futée, à l’atmosphère estivale renforcée par un…

The dictionary defines the word “landscape” as “all the visible features of an area of countryside or land, often in terms of their aesthetic appeal.” When you hear the word “landscape,” your mind likely summons a vast and sprawling natural expanse, perhaps with trees and rolling hills. It’s OK; the same thing happens with me when I think of that word. I believe that it has become a bit of a knee-jerk instinct for photographers to associate landscapes with nature. It’s why when you search for landscape photos, you’ll likely be treated with a bevy of beautiful natural locations. However, it’s worth pointing out that the genre of landscape photography is quite broad. As someone who grew up in New York City and who didn’t leave it until I was 18 years…

Saul Nash FASHION DE SIGNER North Londoner Saul Nash is at the vanguard of contemporary British menswear and earlier this year was announced as the winner of the 2022 International Woolmark Prize. KAIETEUR KITCHEN LONDON, UK “This is a special place in Elephant and Castle and one of the few Guyanese restaurants in London. It’s owned by Faye Gomes. I first discovered it when I used to travel to that side of London for dance lessons. It started as a street-food truck and now has a permanent location in Castle Square. The food takes me back to special times when I was a kid – my family would get together for parties and we’d enjoy massive spreads of Guyanese food. It reminds me of my grandmother. I go there a lot to get…

Nuestras revistas hermanas Oxígeno y Trail Run han llegado a un acuerdo de colaboración con Komoot, la app de rutas con más usuarios en Europa, para unirse a esta gran comunidad de aventureros. Komoot es una aplicación gratuita para descubrir, planificar y compartir rutas, una app que convierte tu móvil en un GPS y con la que puedas navegar aunque no tengas cobertura. Movidos por las ganas de explorar y ayudados por un sencillo planificador y las recomendaciones de una comunidad muy activa, la misión de Komoot es convertir cada salida en una aventura increíble para todo el mundo. Y ahora los seguidores de Oxígeno y Trail Run tendréis la posibilidad de descargaros las rutas que publiquemos en vuestros dispositivos móviles. Dentro de la comunidad de aventureros, hay quien elige hacer trekking,…

The year is 1988. In the mountain village of Teotitlán del Valle in Oaxaca, Mexico, Wence Martinez, a young Zapotec weaver, stands at his hand-built loom, transforming the elemental spirit of a small ink painting into a woven artwork. His concentration is total as he guides threads of undyed black and white churro wool—sheared from local sheep and spun by elders from a nearby village—with his shuttle. His feet walk the treadles with a quiet, meditative rhythm, as he weaves through the challenges presented by the painting’s curves and shapes. “From the first time I saw Sandra’s painting, I knew there was a connection between us. I told myself, I’m going to weave that.”—Wence Martinez Two visitors from Door County, Wisconsin, who know the village and Wence’s work, gave him the painting:…

SOME 60 MILLION light-years from Earth — by the estimate of one team of researchers, anyway — a pair of strange galaxies is causing a cosmic stir. The bizarre galaxies, named NGC 1052-DF2 and NGC 1052-DF4 (or DF2 and DF4, for short), are the first known galaxies born without any significant amount of dark matter. If confirmed, their existence would throw a wrench into our understanding of how galaxies form and evolve. But, as Carl Sagan liked to say, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. And, according to some researchers, the evidence for these dark-matter-deficient galaxies doesn’t hold up. THE CLAIM: NOTHING TO SEE HERE Astrophysicist Pieter van Dokkum of Yale University was certainly surprised when he first spotted DF2. After data from the Dragonfly Telephoto Array, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the Hubble…

I’ll admit, I was pretty skeptical before unboxing the first smartwatch from OnePlus, aptly named the OnePlus Watch. At $159, it’s less than half the price of our Editors’ Choice winner, the Apple Watch Series 6 (which starts at $399). And while it doesn’t work with iPhones, it offers many of the same features as Apple’s market-leading wearable. So far, my skepticism appears to have been unfounded. The OnePlus Watch offers a large color touch screen, built-in GPS, 2GB of storage, a 402mAh battery that promises two weeks of power, and the ability to make and receive calls. It also has plenty of health and fitness features, including support for more than 110 workout types, automatic workout detection for jogging and running, rapid-heart-rate alerts, guided breathing exercises, stress detection, and the…

So you’re in the market for a detachable 2-in-1—a tablet you can use either by itself or with a keyboard and stylus? The Apple 10.9-inch iPad Air is a good choice—in fact, a PCMag Editors’ Choice winner—at $599. But if you’re willing to think different, HP’s 11-inch Chromebook x2 costs the same—including twice the memory as well as the keyboard and pen that Apple will charge you an extra $428 for. Tablet shoppers rarely consider Chromebooks, but the HP x2 favors the bold. It doesn’t perform as well as comparably priced Chromebook laptops (and we still consider our Editors’ Choice favorite, the Lenovo Chromebook Duet, a better value among Chromebook detachables), but it fills a nifty niche. PROS: Affordable price includes pen and keyboard cover. Available 4G mobile broadband. CONS: Tepid performance.…

ENTERING LESLIE BENNETT’S backyard in Oakland, California, is like walking through a door to another world. Blue sky-flower and passion-fruit vines climb overhead. Bamboo, ‘Icee Blue’ podocarpus, and red-leaf banana blur the property lines. And beds packed with edibles, including guava, apple, pomegranate, and fig trees, offer a pluckable feast in any season. To say it’s an oasis in this sprawling city neighborhood is not an overstatement. The celebrated landscape designer and contractor intentionally planned her home garden so that every square inch of it delights the senses, and many of the plants honor her family’s Jamaican and British heritage. For Bennett, the founder and owner of Pine House Edible Gardens, a Bay Area firm that specializes in planting produce in ornamental landscapes, having an outdoor retreat where she can unwind,…

THE WELSH VILLAGE of Llandudno went quiet in March as stay-at-home orders began. Then the goats descended from the mountain. A wild herd of Kashmiri goats has lived near Llandudno for almost two centuries, and they sometimes come down from the Great Orme Mountain during inclement weather. But this spring, while the human world hit pause, they settled into town for a few days, munching on hedges and trotting down the empty streets. The goats joined a host of animal celebrities flooding the internet after they supposedly reclaimed urban areas: dolphins frolicking in Venice’s clean canals, elephants drunk on corn wine in a tea garden in China’s Yunnan province. Tweets announcing these events proclaimed that nature was recovering from years of abuse by humans, thanks to COVID-19 shutdowns. While the goats really did…

The first time I heard an MP3 file was back in 1995. It was some protodrum-and-bass track that I had downloaded to my PC from an FTP site, back when the web was just beginning to go mainstream. I don’t remember the name of the song or the artist. But I do remember I was stunned at how clear it sounded. It was a full four-minute digital audio track that, at just a couple of megabytes, was also small enough to download in a few minutes over a dial-up connection. Today, with the exception of a growing band of vinyl enthusiasts, everyone listens to digital music. The single biggest reason for that is the iconic Apple iPod. Almost overnight, the iPod was everywhere in the aughts, with giant billboard ads, TV…

Fifteen years ago, on January 9, 2007, I sat on the floor of a Las Vegas Convention Center entryway and pondered the iPhone. While I was running around the Consumer Electronics Show looking at the latest LG Chocolate, Steve Jobs was over at Macworld changing the world. I’d been covering smartphones for three years by then, and they were complex gadgets for road warriors. With the iPhone, Apple simplified the smartphone and made it a must-have for everyone. This wasn’t solely about Steve Jobs’ brilliance. He struck when several other technologies were becoming available—3G for the mobile web and capacitive touch screens for finger-friendly interfaces. And he worked without the legacy-software hangovers that Microsoft, Nokia, and Palm all struggled through from the first generation of proto-smartphones. The iPhone has made a huge number…

“Quería representar amor el, la celebración, el juego, la codicia, la vida...”.MARIE-LISE FÉRY en una palabra, diría que mi casa es juguetona”. Como sus lámparas. Y es que Marie-Lise Féry, la propietaria y diseñadora de la marca de iluminación Magic Circus Éditions, sinónimo de luminarias artesanas, artísticas y lúdicas, vive con su familia en una casa de finales del XIX en Saint-Cyr-au-Mont-d’Or, a quince minutos de Lyon. “Estar aquí significa tranquilidad, llanuras, bosques, viñedos. Nos mudamos justo dos días antes del primer confinamiento. Inicialmente buscábamos una casa de campo, pero tras dos años de reflexiones y agotamiento optamos por ésta, su luz y buen rollo nos enamoraron. Junto al arquitecto Francis Juillard, amigo de toda la vida, reformamos los 750 m2. Pusimos las zonas comunes en la planta baja, hall, despacho,…

IN 2017, NASA CELEBRATED 20 consecutive years of Mars exploration — the longest humankind has continuously monitored another planet. But there’s a key phrase in that statement that’s easy to overlook: another planet. Even as planetary scientists strive to understand the fellow planets circling our Sun, it’s worth remembering that we have the perfect scientific testbed right at our fingertips. As the most familiar planet — and perhaps the strangest — Earth gives us insight into the forces that shaped our solar system, revealing clues about how rocky planets form and evolve. Studying Earth lets us walk before we run, testing techniques and technologies in a familiar setting before sending them to other worlds. But the more we learn, the more we see that our planet is one of the weirdest places…

Whenever you fly, wherever you travel, you need to know about active flying – and apply what you know. So let’s cover it here. In smooth air, glider and pilot glide in unison. When you fly through turbulent air though, your wing can become disturbed, causing you to swing in an unbalanced way, which can expose you to greater risk of collapse and rapid height loss. You need to calm the movement so you fly in harmony again. This is active flying. Most wings are designed to recover by themselves, so why do you need to do anything? Paragliders are incredible aircraft, but a little corrective input can greatly improve their recovery time. Developing your active flying skills also allows you to reduce the movements and hugely improve your gliding performance. Watch out!…

Lenovo’s flagship 16-inch gaming laptop comes in both Intel and AMD flavors. The Intel version tested in October 2021—the Legion 7i Gen 6—is a real barn-burner, producing some of the best gaming benchmarks we’ve seen from any notebook. The AMD-powered Legion 7 Gen 6 (minus the i) reviewed here isn’t quite as fast and misses out on Nvidia G-Sync and Thunderbolt 4 without colossal cost savings—it starts at the same $1,439, though at $2,649 our test configuration is some $600 under the 7i we tested. But it’s still an exceptional performer, and more than doubles the Intel laptop’s battery life to ultimately be the more practical of the two. The Legion 7 Gen 6 claims our Editors’ Choice award among deluxe 16-inch gaming laptops. PROS: Top-notch gaming performance. Vivid 165Hz display.…

RICK PERRY CAME TO WASHINGTON LOOKING FOR A DEAL, AND less than two months into his tenure as Energy Secretary, he found a hot prospect. It was April 19, 2017, and Perry, the former Texas governor, failed presidential candidate and contestant on Dancing With the Stars, was sitting in his office on Independence Avenue with two influential Ukrainians. “He said, ‘Look, I’m a new guy, I’m a dealmaker, I’m a Texan,’” recalls one of them, Yuriy Vitrenko, then Ukraine’s chief energy negotiator. “We’re ready to do deals,” he remembers Perry saying. The deals they discussed that day became central to Ukraine’s complex relationship with the Trump Administration, a relationship that culminated in December with the House vote to impeach President Donald Trump. Perry was a leading figure in the impeachment inquiry…

A half-dozen companies are potentially ready to spend $80 billion for C-Band, a new set of airwaves that promise to fix the perilous state of American 5G, at an FCC auction. That’s a vast amount of money, and it shows how important C-Band is. But what is C-Band, and what does it mean for 5G? Do you need a C-Band phone? Is C-Band a new frequency? Should you be scared of C-Band? I can explain. RECOVERING THE SATELLITES According to wireless testing firm Rohde and Schwarz, the C-band is all frequencies between 4GHz and 8GHz. When US wireless geeks talk about C-Band, though, they’re talking about 3.7GHz to 4.2GHz—and specifically, in this case, the range from 3.7GHz to 3.98GHz. This frequency had been used for satellite TV since the 1970s, but as C-Band…

01 SPRING’S SICKEST FITS What to Wear Now 02 Nu-Safari 03 A Bag For Life 04 Disco Blazer 05 E-BOY BRACELET 06 The Reverso 07 Smar t Speaker 08 BIG-BOY TROUSERS 09 Slick Vase 10 BEACH BAG 11 Blue Denim Shoes 12 BAGGY SHORTS 13 SMART PEN 14 Car Coat 15 Future Shades 16 FRILLY BOMBER 17 Paisley Shirt 18 Cool Crossbody 19 RING’S A MOOD 20 ART DECO WALLET 21 LOUCHE LUGGAGE 22 FTW Winklepickers 23 Vibe Tee 24 Roomy Trench 25 SPOTTY DECANTER 26 EVERYDAY WATCH 27 Dope Dominoes 28 Forever Scent 29 SUN CAPS 30 Lightweight Case…

Twenty years ago, after moving into our home in Colorado, I began an excursion into building a large N scale layout featuring the Denver & Rio Grande Western line west of Denver. Benchwork began in January 1999, and mainline track soon followed with the gold spike driven in November 1999. Once the rest of the track and wiring were completed, I looked forward to getting my hands dirty with some scenery. The scenery base is carved foam insulation board, with Hydrocal rock castings and Sculptamold for initial textures. After a coat of earth-color latex paint, often tinted with acrylic paints, fine rock and ground foam were added, affixed with matte medium. One feature of the railroad that I really wanted to present was the 2 percent climb from Denver to Moffat Tunnel. I…

Orangetheory’s cosmic success hasn’t burned out since 2010. That’s because its research-minded approach to fitness actually works. It’s all about heart rate-based interval training. When you spend 12 or more minutes of an hour-long class in orange or red zones (see chart, right), muscles’ need for oxygen skyrockets. Your body answers by oxidizing carbs and fats, torching calories up to a day later in what’s called the afterburn. While OT gamifies the in-class experience by having clients wear heart-rate monitors and displaying real-time results on flatscreens, you can get the same body-sculpting results at home or your local gym. Here’s how. POWER Row: 5x150m Set the display to “Just Row” or 150-m intervals. These are all-out efforts. Strive for powerful strokes, keeping the rate around 24s/m or less. A 3- to 5-min. base-effort…

EVEN IF IT’S BEEN a while since health class, you likely know how estrogen impacts reproductive health. Its levels rise as we reach puberty; then each month it surges, causing the uterine lining to prep for a potential fertilized egg, and drops, kick-starting menstruation. As the years go on, levels ricochet up and down in perimenopause and drop at menopause. And along the way, estrogen gets blamed for breakouts and breakups, mood dips and weight gains. But what else does the hormone do? The better question may be “What doesn’t it do?” “Estrogen touches basically every cell,” says Jen Gunter, MD, a gynecologist and author of The Menopause Manifesto (Citadel, 2021). “Until recently, we didn’t recognize its importance beyond reproduction,” adds Elizabeth Poynor, MD, a gynecologic surgeon and founder of the…

TRAVELERS’ TALES, FROM NEAR AND FAR ONE REASON I travel is to envision lives other than my own, or to picture my own life in new, irresistible settings. Rarely has that thrill of trying out someone else’s existence felt as intense as it did during my stay at the Patrick & Joan Leigh Fermor House (ariahotels.gr; villas from $600, three-night minimum). This sun-kissed stone refuge sits above a turquoise cove near the Greek village of Kardamyli. It’s located in the Mani: one of the three “fingers” of the Peloponnese, the hand-shaped peninsula that hangs off the mainland. For decades, this idyllic place was the home of Patrick Leigh Fermor, one of Britain’s best-known travel writers, and his dynamic wife, Joan. “Paddy,” as the late author was called, is perhaps best remembered for…

“Es una casa atemporal sobria, pero tambien serna, pensada con materiales que dialogan con el extrior". LOURDES MARTINEZ” Roble, mármol, cristal y color negro son las claves de esta casa en el Norte de Madrid de más de 400 metros que Lourdes Martínez Nieto transformó para una pareja. "La estética más industrial y menos clásica de ciudades como San Francisco o Londres, en las que he vivido, son la inspiración detrás de esta vivienda sobria pero acogedora, serena", nos cuenta. El uso de materiales que dialogan con el exterior es otro de los secretos de este cubo impecable ubicado en una construcción de los años 80. "Cambiamos toda la distribución y ampliamos y modificamos los huecos de fachada y cubierta para introducir más luz", prosigue Martínez. La arquitecta articuló la casa…

After 15 seasons, the TV show and popculture touchstone Supernatural is coming to an end. And sad as it may be that we can’t ride along anymore with Sam and Dean Winchester on their monster-hunting adventures, the ’67 Impala four-door they inherited from their dad has finally appeared as a 1/25 scale kit from AMT. As you would expect, the Impala in the TV show is not one car, but several vehicles used for various shots. In the show, the Impala is the trusty steed to the knights errant, as much a character as the Winchesters, presented as a stock survivor, lovingly cared for and preserved over the years. But the hero Impala, the main automobile, is a modern beast powered by a modern 550-horsepower 502 cid power plant, an upgraded,…

Officially, HP’s Envy laptops are only its second-best consumer models, slotted between affordable Pavilions and flagship Spectres—but you’d never know it from looking at the new Envy 16. A desktop replacement that straddles the content creation and gaming segments, it’s available with a blazing Intel Core i9 processor and a snazzy OLED display, as well as luxuries like a 5-megapixel webcam. It’s neither cheap nor feather-light, and its midrange Nvidia graphics processor won’t satisfy fanatic gamers, but it’s an attractive all-around performer that costs hundreds less than a comparably equipped Dell XPS 15. Indeed, it’s impressive enough to replace the XPS 15 as our Editors’ Choice holder among premium creative laptops. PROS • Gorgeous 4K OLED touch screen • Fancy 5-megapixel webcam • Great performance and battery life • Robust GeForce RTX 3060 GPU CONS • A…

Canon Pixma G620 $299.99 EXCELLENT It’s easy to find a bulk-ink printer with the familiar cyan, magenta, yellow, and black (CMYK) quartet, but finding an ink-tank-rather than cartridge-based inkjet with six inks for superior photo quality has been difficult, prohibitively expensive, or both. Canon aims to change that with the Pixma G620 Wireless MegaTank Photo All-in-One Printer, which gets its tank refills from bottles. At $299.99, it’s half the price of the Epson EcoTank Photo ET-8500 Wireless Color All-in-One Supertank. Versus that Epson, the Canon is slow and short on features, so it doesn’t join it (or the wide-format EcoTank Photo ET-8550) as an Editors’ Choice award winner. But the Pixma prints terrific-looking borderless photos at sizes up to 8.5 by 11 inches for pennies, making it a great value for families and…

„INSPIRIERT WURDEN WIR VON DER ARCHITEKTUR DER LOKALEN FARMEN“ Steve Mongillo, Architekt „WENN ES UM KOMFORT GEHT, SPIELT DAS LICHT EINE GROSSE ROLLE“ Steve Mongillo „DAS HAUS SOLLTE WARM UND LÄNDLICH, ABER AUCH EINFACH, KLAR UND OFFEN SEIN“ Steve Mongillo DRAUSSEN TIEFE, KÜHLE NADELWÄLDER, die im Wind wogen. Drinnen Kaminfeuer, Kaffee, selbst gemachter Cherry-Pie. Die typische Behaglichkeit des pazifischen Nordwestens der USA, die sich auf folgende Kurzformel bringen lässt: viel Holz draußen, viel Holz drinnen. Vor dem Fenster Douglasien, Mammutbäume, Riesenthujen. In den Räumen Balken, Wandpaneele, Möbel aus naturbelassenem Holz. Oder auch: handgeschnitzte Holzobjekte. Genau solche fertigte ein junger Arzt aus dem Bundesstaat Washington in den Pausen zwischen seinen Patiententerminen an, um sich zu entspannen. Heute, Jahrzehnte später, bewirtschaftet dieser Arzt die weitläufige Farm auf Whidbey Island, die seit Generationen im Familienbesitz…

If you’re in the market for a smart doorbell but don’t want to deal with wiring and voltage transformers, the Toucan Wireless Video Doorbell is an excellent deal. It runs on a rechargeable battery, installs in minutes, and comes with a wireless remote chime that you can place anywhere in your home or yard. The camera delivers sharp 1080p video, works with Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant voice commands, and offers free cloud storage for video recordings. It doesn’t support the Apple HomeKit or IFTTT platforms, but the Toucan is still a strong value that earns our Editors’ Choice award for affordable wireless video doorbells. PROS • Completely wireless • Sharp 1080p video • Free cloud storage • Includes a remote chime • Supports Alexa and Google Assistant CONS • Limited third-party integration options • Doesn’t support HomeKit or…

Cathy Poshusta has a thing for old houses. During the first decade of their marriage, she and her husband, Garrett, bought, lived in, and renovated five homes in Seattle, lovingly transforming them with their own hands. But in the summer of 2016, when she walked up the crumbling path of a worn-down farmhouse in the countryside outside Ellensburg, WA—a ranch town where she and Garrett both grew up—she experienced property lust on a different level. “I thought, I don’t just want to live in this house; I want to die in this house,” she says. “I fall in love with houses all the time, but with this one I had this great feeling I had never had before.” Looking at the place today, it’s not hard to see the appeal. With…

Viola Davis has never been one to shy away from her truth. “I’m always sharing my story,” she says. “People are constantly asking, ‘So how did you get from Central Falls, R.I.? Oh, you grew up poor? Really?’ And then you start your story. And you’d say it again and again.” The Oscar, Emmy and Tony winner, 56, grew up in deep poverty with her parents and five siblings while enduring trauma and heartbreak: living in a dilapidated, condemned building infested with rats; dumpster-diving among maggots for food; reeking of urine at school because she had wet the bed and the family had no clean laundry; incessant bullying by boys who threw rocks at her for being Black. And then there was the physical and emotional abuse her alcoholic father…

Mariés, pacsés ou en union libre, on se sépare en moyenne au bout de quinze ans d’union. 44 % des mariages finissent par un divorce et la moitié d’entre eux implique des enfants (d’après l’Insee). Outre l’impact psychologique sur le couple, la séparation fait intervenir des paramètres pratiques tels que le partage des biens, des dettes, des charges, du domicile, le montant d’une éventuelle prestation compensatoire et la pension alimentaire. Cela se passe parfois bien. Laurence, séparée avec un enfant : « Mon ex et moi avons décidé de rester un couple parental pour le bien-être de notre fille. Nous avons réglé nos affaires entre nous. Les différends matériels sont passés en second même si au final j’assume plus que lui. » Pour Hélène, il y a eu moins de…

What would you see if you could look at the world through the eyes of Jeff Goldblum? Science and metaphysics don’t quite have the answers yet, but a Disney+ show does its best to answer the question. The World According to Jeff Goldblum, in its second season, follows various topics through Goldblum’s meandering musings. “Geez, I love science,” Goldblum says in the first episode of the series. And while there’s mystery in each episode, there’s science and technology, too. Sometimes they’re one and the same, as in an episode that captures the surrealness of street magic while also showing the neuroscience behind Goldblum’s own eyes deceiving him as he watches Penn and Teller do their thing. Both the trick and the tech that unveils it are treated with the same wonder…

Many of us aren’t interested in overhauling our appearance with beauty treatments and definitely don’t want to be told that we should be. In fact, these days, the general desire is refreshingly the opposite. “People have leaned into their idiosyncrasies, no longer afraid of the things that make us different and finding great value in them,” says Lara Devgan, M.D., a plastic surgeon in New York. “It’s self-acceptance that comes from a place of self-love, not inadequacy,” says Caroline Robinson, M.D., a dermatologist in Chicago. So it’s no surprise that with aesthetic procedures, people are renouncing cookie-cutter results—the same pillowy lips, narrow nose, sculpted cheeks, and Facetuned complexion—and instead requesting “tweakments”: pro treatments that produce natural, almost-imperceptible changes. As such, injectors are moving away from what’s referred to as the…

Plant-based eating is experiencing a growth spurt. Almost one-third of Americans say they are actively trying to reduce their consumption of meat and dairy, according to the Plant Based Foods Association. Last year, 28 percent of people reported eating more protein from plant sources, 24 percent had more plant-based dairy, and 17 percent ate more plant-based meat alternatives than they did in 2019, a survey by the International Food Information Council found. Our desire for a more wellness-oriented lifestyle is fueling the trend. Health is the key reason 56 percent of people choose plant-based proteins, according to a 2020 report from the market research company Mintel, while environmental impact and animal welfare are the top concern for 26 percent, according to Mattson Consulting. “There’s been a lot of emerging science, as well…

Т ина Канделаки продолжает тренировку даже во время своих прямых эфиров, Поли-на Киценко без устали пры-гает с группой худеющих на пляже, Наталья Якимчик приседает, а Наталья Давыдова пуб-ликует новые книги о счастье со спор-том. И даже Ксения Собчак начала ого-лять разные ожиданные и неожидан-ные места, демонстрируя подтянутые йогой вторые девяносто. В этой энер-гичной компании, обрушивающейся на вас изо всех соцсетей, я от вечаю за планку в номинации ≪ведьма, которая ест и не толстеет≫. Если вы думаете, что у вас сложные взаимоотношения с едой, примерьте мои тапки Gucci восьмилетней давнос-ти – именно тогда я начала есть про-фессионально, заделавшись гламур-ным ресторанным критиком. Тут до-вольно быстро выяснилось, что друж-ба с Владимиром Мухиным, братьями Березуцкими и Арсланом Бердиевым расширяет не только кругозор, но и пятую точку. Для начала я решила, что такова моя судьба. Я –…

Cheater’s Mac and Cheese Replacing a traditional béchamel sauce with cream cheese, which melts almost instantly, makes this recipe ultraspeedy. Feel free to swap in other vegetables, such as fresh or frozen cauliflower florets or peas, for the broccoli. 4 ounces short pasta, such as penneKosher salt and freshly ground black pepper (optional)1½ cups fresh or frozen broccoli florets2½ ounces cream cheese (⅓ cup)1 tablespoon unsalted butter½ ounce Parmigiano-Reggiano, finely grated (⅓ cup), plus more for serving 1. Cook pasta in a pot of generously salted boiling water 2 minutes less than per package instructions. Reserve 1 cup pasta water and cover to keep warm. Add broccoli to pot; continue boiling until pasta is al dente and broccoli is bright green, 1 to 2 minutes more. Drain. Return pot to medium heat; add…

After releasing the relatively affordable Studio Buds ($149.99) earlier this year, Beats is back with a new pair of noise-cancelling true wireless earphones, the Beats Fit Pro. Aptly named, the focus here is on in-ear fit security, with built-in earfins made of a pliable material that truly helps create a more secure seal in your ear. They’re also armed with active noise cancellation (ANC), and since Beats is owned by Apple, you get the company’s H1 chip, which enables features including Spatial Audio with head tracking, Adaptive EQ, hands-free Siri, and one-touch iOS pairing. The sonic performance is classic Beats, with intense bass, boosted highs, and a scooped-out midrange. The ANC is better than average, with effective low-frequency noise elimination. For the price, there’s plenty to like, but the Beats…

LOS ANGELES IS SYNONYMOUS WITH BEAUTY: the city is to beauty what Silicon Valley is to tech. Once considered merely the playground of the skin-deep-beautiful, with more cosmetic surgeons, dermatologists and aestheticians per capita than anywhere else in North America, it has now evolved a more inclusive landscape that innovates the latest in beauty, workouts and wellness. With so many start-ups sprouting up – a mix of slow burners and instant success stories – just like South Korea in the noughties, Los Angeles has become the destination to watch when it comes to the beauty zeitgeist. The LA star hasn’t always been in the ascendant. New York, for the longest time, was the epicentre of the biggest beauty movers and shakers, from brands and influencers to writers. But from about 2013,…

When my wife, Jenny, and I decided in the fall of 2017 to sell our house of 47 years and move into a retirement community, that meant the Argentine Industrial District Ry. would be dismantled. At age 80, I had no plans to build another railroad. I decided to give away or sell everything. Some 700 freight cars, 25 locomotives, and numerous structures and all support materials were disposed of in about two months. We moved to the retirement community in January 2018. By then, I’d accepted the reality that I’d built my last railroad. But then something surprising occurred when in July, Jenny asked me whether I thought we could find a house in Prairie Village, as she missed living in our own home. We began looking, and to our…