Word: billiard
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Perhaps thought of more as a fabric for hats or billiard tables, felt worked by London-based Finnish designer Anne Kyyrö Quinn becomes sumptuous art for the home. Her sculptural wall panels, throws and pillows have a bold, modern look. Based in the landmark Oxo Tower Wharf in London's South Bank, Quinn uses wool and industrial felt, weaving and twisting them into intricate designs. The raised relief on her flower pillows and three-dimensional dot pillows makes a bold statement on any sofa. Quinn will even customize the pillows to match your décor. De Beers has used...
...Information of this sort is never lost; it only changes forms. When the cue ball strikes a billiard ball and stops, it becomes easier to describe the information content of the cue ball (all you need is its position), but you need to use more information to describe the other ball, which now has position and velocity. Likewise, each interaction between subatomic particles can create or exchange information...
Today the printing process begins with Cavalli's digital camera with which he documents images he likes?flowers, nature, sunsets?before downloading them to the computer. The next stop is the main printing area: two warehouse-size rooms occupied by 10 wooden counters, each the length of a billiard table, that run along one wall. Here the screens will be laid out for printing. Colors are chosen from a line of plastic jugs and are mixed in a special machine. "Before, we mixed by hand, pouring this in and that in. Very trial and error," he admits. "Now we have...
...national showplace for the policies of its homegrown boy. In a field where dozens of commune workers once listlessly toiled, a family now energetically tills the land. Villages whose fortunes once depended entirely upon crops now boast small plants that make products such as shoes, radios and billiard balls. Free markets enliven every town's main street, attracting peddlers from all around who bring their wares by bicycle. (What can be tied up and carried on two wheels would have amazed even Ripley: live pigs and goats and 20-ft.-long bamboo poles...
...globe-spanning satellite empire to North America; bolsters his strategy of marrying distribution and content; and seems to have triggered, as his maneuvers often do, another tectonic shift in the communications landscape. Why is Comcast suddenly bidding for Disney and Viacom eyeing the cable industry? Because on the billiard table that is the media business, Murdoch is the cue ball. Everything he does creates a chain reaction, often leading to unexpected combinations...