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If you are really daring and seeking a Halloween thrill, West Virginia has finally opened its first Escape Room. You and your team will be locked in a room. You have to complete a task to escape before your time runs out. Decipher clues and solve puzzles to unlock the door and escape before the time runs out.
Fright Nights does not allow children under the age of 12 to attend without a supervising adult.
If you are headed to Weirton, West Virginia, stop to check out the Haunted School of Terror. For the brave souls, you will like the Lock up-Lights Out. If you are not so brave, they also have a lights-on tour. You will walk through a haunted indoor maze, and if you are still seeking a thrill, they also have a haunted b...
Now that you know where to go in West Virginia, we hope you have a spooktacular time!
Buildings eat up around 40% of the total energy used in the European Union and a big part of it still relies on fossil fuels. Improving building energy performance would lead to lower energy bills and to lower levels of CO2 emissions.
Today the all-party industry and energy committee in the European Parliament voted on the Energy Performance of the Buildings Directive, the first file of the Clean Energy Package. The Socialists and Democrats pushed for an ambitious enhancement of energy performance that will take the European Union a step closer to m...
“Member states should draw up long-term renovation strategies in order to make sure the energy-efficiency targets are met, with the ultimate goal of a decarbonised building stock by 2050. This means homes, schools and offices will be healthier place to be in and the increase in renovation activity will create jobs all ...
“New measures approved today will also help improve transport, because infrastructure for electro-mobility will be introduced. The idea is to build the necessary pre-cabling and pre-tubing for electrical-vehicle-charging points when buildings are being renovated.
"The S&Ds have tried for a long time to improve life for energy-poor households (estimated to be up to 11% of EU households). Now finally EU countries will have to outline actions that help to reduce energy poverty while supporting equal access to financing tools for energy-efficiency renovations for vulnerable househo...
“The directive lays the foundation for a new way of thinking about construction, making use of innovation for smart buildings. Using building automation and control systems (BACs) can save a lot of energy. We want to encourage the installation of these systems in all non-residential buildings with total primary energy ...
Regardless of what post facto moral case might be made against the Australians and New Zealanders invading that part of Turkey at that time (and I am not one who argues that a convincing moral case against the invasion is to be made), no one could seriously suggest that the Turks were not morally entitled to defend the...
We remember the 130,000 who were killed on that blood-soaked peninsula during the Gallipoli campaign, and the other quarter of a million who were wounded. A century on, we have gathered more inclusively and not just to pray for the 44,000 Allies who died, but also for the 86,000 Turks who perished in their trenches opp...
We recall the innocence of the soldiers – many aged the same as many of those who today study here at Harvard – and the human values that they embodied of courage and mateship. We recall too the reality, routine and relentlessness of their fighting, their sufferings, and their deaths. We also recall the idealism, the h...
Having just spent the past academic year as a visiting professor in the law school at Boston College, I had the pleasure of encountering three writers on different aspects of the morality of war: the Oxford theologian Nigel Biggar who has recently published In Defence of War (Oxford University Press, 2013), Fr Ken Hime...
I have been particularly stimulated by Biggar’s writings on war and peace because he thinks that many of us Christians (and I am probably one of those in his sights) are too pacifist in our approach to moral questions about war. I have long been challenged by George Orwell’s famous remark: ‘Those who “abjure” violence ...
Given the ready access we have to international media and the world wide web, we can no longer plead ignorance of the trouble going on in our world. Those of us who are purist pacifists can presumably put a coherent case for eschewing violence in all cases, even were a madman to be imminently threatening the lives of o...
the use of arms must not produce evils and disorders graver than the evil to be eliminated. The power of modern means of destruction weighs very heavily in evaluating this condition.
These are the traditional elements enumerated in what is called the “just war” doctrine.
There is a variety of views being expressed. I think in sheer number of published views, there would have been more critical than supportive. I thought the articles that came from Archbishop Pell and Archbishop Jensen were both very thoughtful and balanced. I also read a very thoughtful piece from Bishop Tom Frame, who...
Being an accomplished politician, Howard managed to create the perception of the moment that the two Sydney archbishops were more closely aligned to his position than were most other church leaders. It was quite misleading for him to group Jensen and Pell with Tom Frame who later admitted that he had lost his ‘ecclesia...
I never publicly endorsed the second war in Iraq. I wrote publicly about it and I said at that stage the case was not established. They said they were going to Iraq basically on two grounds: that there were weapons of mass destruction there; and that Saddam was actively supporting Al Qaeda. Neither of those two grounds...
In hindsight, and wanting to learn lessons for the future in the wake of a conflict which so demonstrably failed to fulfil the conditions for a just war, we can say that it would be better for our church leaders to be more immediately and publicly assertive in questioning the legitimacy of a proposed armed intervention...
I would like to touch on two modern developments in warfare – one legal, and one technological. The legal development relates to the ‘Responsibility to Protect’ framework (RTP) which has been developed by international NGOs and given qualified endorsement by the UN. In the wake of ghastly events like the Rwanda genocid...
if the ‘invaded’ state consents to the ‘invading’ state’s action.
when the U.N. Security Council authorises the intervention.
when armed force is used in accord with ‘invading’ state’s right of self-defence against attack.
But what if the UN Security Council withholds authorization simply because one of the permanent members (P5) exercises the veto in their own national self-interest, in order to further their own geo-political objectives regardless of the humanitarian need of the moment? What then would constitute the appropriate author...
e. an assessment that no other reasonable alternatives exist to effectively address the threat to U.S. persons.
Many Australians would be horrified to learn that the drones program depends on Australian co-operation with facilities such as Pine Gap providing necessary communications in tracking and taking out targets. They would be even more aghast to learn that the Obama Administration has escalated the use of drones way beyond...
It is only a matter of time before other state and non-state actors get access to drones. They cannot be used in countries like Australia which have secure air defence. But there will be nothing to stop unscrupulous actors using them in developing countries without secure air defence. Is it not time to develop an inter...
What remains, then, but despair and inertia? Hope remains – but only of a certain kind. It needn’t be impatient and reckless. It needn’t only take the form of relentless, fingers-in-the-ears Project Optimism, whether Donald Rumsfeld’s or Alex Salmond’s. It can be patient and sober instead. This kind of hope remains tha...
Lord Our God, on this day, 100 years ago, the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, at Gallipoli, made immortal the name of Anzac and established an imperishable tradition of selfless service, of devotion to duty, and of fighting for all that is best in human relationships.
O Lord, we who are gathered here today from both sides of that conflict remember with gratitude the men and women who have given, and are still giving all that is theirs to give, in order that the world may be a nobler place in which to live.
And with them, Lord, we remember those left behind to bear the sorrow of their loss.
We dedicate ourselves to taking up the burdens of the fallen and, with the same high courage and steadfastness with which they went into battle, to setting our hands to the tasks they left unfinished. Lord, we dedicate ourselves to the service of the ideals for which they died. With your help, O God, might we give our ...
We make this prayer through Christ Our Lord. Amen.
I commend all of you who dedicate your energies and your thoughts to these vexed issues of war and peace. Whether we be purist pacifists or just war advocates, we need to be able to give an account of our stand both to those suffering at the hands of ruthless oppressors and to those put in harm’s way by armed intervent...
This is the text of an address delivered at St Joseph’s Church, Newtown, Sydney, on 14 June 2015.
The numbers are awesome. In a matter of hours, Hurricane Harvey dumped nine trillion gallons of rainfall on Houston and southeast Texas: at one stage, 24 inches of rain fell in 24 hours. Like all American cities, Houston is prepared for hurricanes and floods — but Harvey was of a different magnitude. ‘We have not seen ...
The photos from Houston have been heartbreaking. Pensioners have been pictured sitting half-submerged in retirement homes, awaiting rescue. Some 30,000 may be forced into shelters, and officials are braced for almost half a million requiring federal assistance. We have seen parents walking knee-deep in water with their...
Amid all this, another picture emerges: of the resilience of the city and its people, of the calm effectiveness of the emergency services and the orderliness of communities responding to an extreme set of circum-stances. The volunteers who took their boats to rescue those who had been stranded. There are people like Ar...
As early as 1937, local officials declared Houston to be a city ‘at the mercy of the relentless water’. Storms have battered the city several times over recent years: Hurricane Allison in 2001 and Rita in 2005 each had a significant death toll. Yet its population keeps growing, and the risk of hurricanes are factored i...
Americans are less afraid of the weather than they used to be, and with reason. The pictures of Houston’s motorways turned into rivers look shocking, until you realise that this is their function. Houston has 2,500 miles of managed waterways, a network of drainage channels and sewers. They fill up when a hurricane stri...
This is the story of human development: when a nation grows more prosperous, it is less at the mercy of the elements. When Superstorm Sandy struck New York five years ago, it took 74 lives — but if a similar storm had struck cities in the third world, the death toll could have run into the thousands. An MIT study of na...
And why? Not because the weather is any milder, but because developed countries can afford to protect people from it. Globally, mankind turned the corner after 1970, the year that deaths from storms, including hurricanes and typhoons, peaked.
Had Hurricane Harvey struck ten years ago, it might have been enlisted into the political battle about global warming. But the tone of debate is less hysterical now; only a few voices say that this is a taste of what we can all expect in the future. It’s not true to say that Harvey is ferocious by historical standards:...
As our understanding of the science evolves, a new rationalism is supplanting the old climate hysteria. We might not be sure how much meaningful difference we can make to the trajectory of climate change, but we know that we can adapt to it — and that we can help the third world do the same. That’s why, as the Swedish ...
When hurricanes, floods and other disasters are predicted for countries like Bangladesh due to global warming, an important factor is often left out of the equation. The models which assume that sea levels will have risen and extreme weather events intensified by, say, 2080 might also assume that, by then, Bangladesh w...
Most people who die from disease or extreme weather today are, in fact, dying from poverty. The best defences against the world’s biggest killers are provided by sanitation, medicine and civil engineering, but they are often available only to people who can afford them.
The World Health Organisation estimates that 4.3 million people annually die prematurely from illnesses that can be attributed to household pollution caused by the use of primitive solid fuels for cooking. Just over a million die each year from diarrhoea, which with proper sanitation is generally avoidable. These kinds...
We will soon be hearing estimates about the financial cost of Hurricane Harvey, and the figure will doubtless be eye-watering. When a storm of this size hits such a large city — the fourth-largest in America — the financial cost will always be extraordinary. But the courage, neighbourliness and generosity that Texans h...
The wrong Brexit: what happened to ‘Global Britain’?
Call it love at first sight, Namma Metro has literally become Namma (Our) 'beloved' Metro barely three days after it first snaked its way through the heart of the city and become the 'darling' mode of transport for over 1 crore Bangaloreans.
Brigade Road and Commercial Street, which were the most happening places of the city till the mass transit system came into being, now wear a deserted-look as thousands are thronging the Metro stations.
According to Metro officials, over 1 crore commuters have used the Metro services in the past three days. Witnessing an overwhelming response yesterday, the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) has decided to run trains till 11.30 pm.
According to BMRCL officials, they had earned more than Rs 4 lakh in revenue till yesterday afternoon.
"The response is overwhelming. We ferried more than 75,000 people on Saturday.
The rush today is as anticipated and we have increased the number of trips from MG Road to Byappanahalli to 100 for the convenience of commuters.
The trains will be operating till 11.30 in the night," said B L Y Chavan, spokesperson, BMRCL. Serpentine queues were seen at the MG Road Metro station from 10 am onwards. People thronged the station along with their family members to enjoy the weekend.
Curious commuters were seen standing in queues since the morning. Entire families had turned up to enjoy a Metro ride and have a picnic of sorts.
"It being Sunday, I just thought it would be nice to experience a Metro ride. I am having a fun time with my family and we will be going all the way to Byappanahalli and ride back to MG Road," said Jayanth Natarajan, who came with his kids and wife all the way from Rajajinagar.
At the Olympics, designers get to consciously shape our sense of history as we experience it. Here’s how that role has evolved over the decades.
This post has been adapted from the original.
Can you name all 24 events at the Winter Olympics at Pyeongchang from memory? Of course not, nobody can. But I bet you could do really well if I showed you illustrations of each event. Imagery and easily understood iconography is a necessity at an event like the Olympics, with so many cultures coming together in one pl...
So, easy–right? You just draw some figures playing sports. Not so fast. There’s more involved in developing these little floating head athletes than you could possibly imagine.
The iconography of Olympic events, often referred to as pictograms, has a long, historic, and storied past. With every Olympic Games comes a hosting city looking to make a good impression. And the design and illustration that surrounds the event is the carefully crafted representation of all that goes into making that ...
For a design firm, this is their Olympics, too.
But beyond the utilitarian nature of pictograms, the styling of the symbols created here become part of the indelible experience of the games, and the country which hosted it. And therein lies the true power of pictograms–in the Olympics, designers get to consciously shape our sense of history as we experience it. Ther...
With the weight of the world on these kinds of decisions, a designer must lean on the achievements of the past and be highly aware of the formative work of prior games. For a moment, consider what it might be like if you were to take on this all-important assignment. Where would you start?
The Munich games of 1972 were not the first to include Olympic icons, but they might be the most seminal. That year, Otl Aicher and his team created a set of symbols so iconically well-balanced and smartly conceived it hit a note that reverberated for decades. Aicher’s pictograms marked the debut of the circular head, ...
The formal structure of the Aicher pictograms did what a great design system does: It created rules. And rules are easy to follow.
The design system was so good, it’s hard to find a set of pictograms for Olympic Games throughout the 1970s or ’80s that didn’t reference it almost entirely.
Los Angeles Olympic Pictograms, 1984. Lake Placid Olympic Pictograms, 1980.
Within a tight design system like this, small variations can have big meaning or symbolism. A design firm can spend months thinking about a particular line weight, curve, or set of shapes that will make up this new graphic alphabet, and some of the variations on a theme can create an entirely different vibe. For exampl...
It was only a matter of time, however, before designers rejected the strict grid of pictograms past and pushed into more expressive territories. That time was 1992, when both Barcelona and Albertville made bold strokes with design that elevated the pictogram game.
Notice the painterly, imperfect, almost calligraphic lines. Some of the designs even veer into the abstract. This is the pendulum swing of design at its best. It feels loose and easy. Jazz, to Aicher’s methodical classical, structured compositions.
Barcelona Summer and Albertville Winter Olympics Pictograms.
And then another evolution occurred, perhaps even more meaningful. This design awakening took on the task of introducing cultural history into the pictographs. In 1994, Lillehammer gave us some Norwegian rock carvings. In 2000, Sydney threw some boomerangs into the effort. And in 2004, Athens found inspiration in the a...
Sydney Summer Olympic Games Pictograms, 2000.
Athens Summer Olympic Games Pictograms, 2004.
Suddenly, a certain cultural pride and historical responsibility found its way into the Olympic pictogram that would further influence all the work that followed.
Following along with the changes in pictograms through the years is interesting for cultural reasons, but also as a study in how new design technologies influence a system’s look and feel.
The 2000s saw a rapid advancement in design software and the pictograms of the Turin Olympic Games in 2006 and London in 2012 feel likewise touched by a more advanced set of tools. Witness a whole new level of craftsmanship in the presentation of volume, transparency, form, and color.
A quick look back at just the last few decades of Olympic branding shows just how much variety and creativity are demanded from the designers who take on the assignment every few years.
Which brings us to Pyeongchang, 2018.
Seeing the core branding emblem of this year’s Olympic Games up against the previous games here shows a return to simplicity. Gone are the complex shapes and intricate design moves. Instead, heavily symbolized and simplified elements emphasize concept over a desire to impress.
The emblem’s symbols derive directly from the pronunciation of “Pyeongchang” and represent “harmony of Heaven, Earth, and Man” on the left, and “snow, ice, and athletic stars” on the right.
Combined, the emblem and pictograms are practically a study in Olympic imagery history–an almost impossibly elegant mash-up. It reestablishes the simplified head and body shapes of Aicher’s work in the ’70s and ’80s. It embraces the gestural design qualities of the ’90s. And maintains the reverence for the cultural inf...
Rather than challenge us to reinterpret the symbols of Olympic iconography entirely, the new designs take a more inclusive and humble approach. A set of figures made of history, yet ready to take on the history about to be made. That’s design gold.
Josh S. Rose is executive creative director at Weber Shandwick, formerly EVP, group creative director at Deutsch. Rose is also an accomplished photographer and writer.
Barnes & Noble had quite a successful run when they were solely focusing on e-ink readers. It often gave a toe-to-toe fight with the market leader, Amazon. However, their inclination towards LCD tablets have pushed them a step backward in the race. But it seems like they are not giving up on it.
With just under a week left for Black Friday, Barnes & Noble has now announced their new tablet offering, which is the Nook Tablet 7”. However, this one do appears to be a bitterly packed device from Barnes & Noble, especially with its price tag that can take on those from Amazon.
Nook Tablet 7” comes priced at $50, and for that price tag, it definitely offers something to look forward to. With a 7-inch screen, the Nook Tablet features a display resolution of 1024×600 pixels with IPS technology. That’s not dull when you consider that you get a pixel resolution of 171 ppi for a $50 tablet focused...
Apart from that, Nook offers storage of 8GB for loading all your stuffs in the Android Marshmallow-running tablet. The storage can be expanded. A 2MP camera makes the rear-side of the device, while the front side is loaded with a 5MP camera that comes with auto-focus. On the connectivity front, Nook will support dual-b...
Packed inside the OS are features that can be helpful in offering a complete reading experience to the users like Nook reading app, Play Store support, and other Nook additions. Nook Tablet will be arriving on November 25, and can be pre-ordered now from the company website.
Political duo, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton teamed up on stage at the White House yesterday.
The smartly-dressed mother-daughter hosted a ticketed forum on illegal wildlife trafficking, calling for a return to the stricter anti-poaching rules of the Nineties.
Later in the day, former secretary of state, Hillary also took the opportunity to endorse President Obama's call for military strikes against Syria.
According to the Washington Post she said 'it would be an important step' if Syrian President Bashar al-Assad surrendered his stockpile of chemical weapons.
'The Assad regime’s inhuman use of weapons of mass destruction against innocent men, women and children violates a universal norm at the heart of our global order, and therefore it demands a strong response from the international community, led by the United States,' she continued.

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