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Weekly digest: Hotel openings, a review from Paris & trends galore
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By: Hamish Kilburn
Peek-a-boo! Editor Hamish Kilburn here, emerging from the Holidays slumber, with your first weekly digest of 2022 – and it's a big one! Our list of must-read stories this week features an extensive look at significant hotels openings expected between now and June, a hotel design trends special as well as a hotel review, sent with love, from Paris…
And just like that, it was January: a month that crawls by under the shadow of the Holidays. It's not all dark mornings and freezing evenings, though, as January is a time at Hotel Designs when we put our fortune-telling hats on to explore some of the most significant hotel openings expected over the next 12 months.
Okay, we may not quite qualify as fortune tellers, but we do our best to keep our readers in the loop on all the latest hotel developments, emerging trends and new products – all while providing an entertaining read (and sometimes listen with our podcast) to keep things aptly light.
As important as it is for designers, architects, hoteliers, developers and suppliers to keep their fingers of the pulse, it's not always the easiest of tasks to do when on-the-go and on site (somewhat of a novelty these days). Therefore, the weekly digest, published (you got it, every week) will include all the most-read and must-read stories. Shall we get started?
Hottest hotel openings anticipated for 2022 (Q1 & Q2)
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Each year, adhering to tradition, we started January on a unique mission: to pinpoint the hottest hotel openings; the game-altering properties that will flex their muscles, challenge conventional approaches to hotel design and effortlessly take hospitality, on an international scale, forward.
If last year was about recovery, then 2022 will be defined by the designers, architects and hoteliers who are willing to put it all on the line for the sake of innovation and creativity – it's time to show-off as we gather around the crystal ball once more to see which hotel openings of 2022 will make the biggest impact. And we start the two-part series by taking a glance at the hotels that are expected to arrive in Q1 and Q2.
Hotel review: Fauchon L'Hotel Paris, where rock & roll meets luxury hospitality
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Briefed to expect the unexpected, Gareth Thomas sets off on a Parisian adventure – far removed from chichés but still in the beating heart of the action – and checks in and checks out Fauchon L'Hotel Paris, where a bold interior design scheme juxtaposes heritage architecture in the heart of the city.
Hilton reveals its list of new hotels for 2022
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With more than 75 new hotels planned across Europe, the Middle East and Africa in the coming year, Hilton is sharing its optimism and enticing us with their choices. It is starting to feel like it is time to start planning the next year's jet-setting adventures. From Morocco to Mallorca, here is a taste of what is to come on the Hilton International agenda.
Architecture structure 'Phase Dance' wrapped into the natural world
Image credit:Phase Dance/Koichi Torimura
Nestled in a hilly forested area in Shizuoka, Japan, Phase Dance is an impressive architectural structure, designed by Takeshi Hirobe Architects. But the journey to create this masterpiece was not as effortless as the result itself.
7 hotel trends shaping hospitality in 2022
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As we start look past the crisis period of Covid-19, and start to settle into a 'new normal', the definition of hospitality has a new meaning – one of comfort, security and escape. International architecture firm SB Architects has identified which key hotel trends are shaping hospitality design in 2022 and beyond.
Dream Hotel Group unveils plans for Miami flagship in 2025
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A new 165-key Dream Hotel has been planned as a centrepiece to the world-class Riverside Wharf hospitality and entertainment development in the heart of Downtown Miami. Here's what we know.
Product watch: The modern Statement shower collection from Kohler
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The modern Statement shower collection from global brand Kohler brings a range of unique shapes and various sizes to the shower, breathing new, contemporary life into well-loved standards and marrying the latest in technology with enduring craftsmanship. Innovative sprays elevate the showering experience, and universal compatibility means the system works wherever in the world it is installed. Inspired by iconic furniture and home goods, and defined by soft, approachable designs, the collection carries an underlying familiarity while creating striking aesthetics within the space.
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Weekly digest: Global hotel growth, a Nobu debut & a live roundtable
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Huddle in everyone… Editor Hamish Kilburn here to serve up your weekly dose of hotel design and hotel development news and features. This week on the editorial desk we unveiled our latest live roundtable, explored the art of lighting; shared hotel development news from several hotel groups and, in addition to this (and more), we rounded up the latest products that have emerged on our radar…
In the week before the industry gathers for The Brit List Awards 2021 – we are ready to put on a show – the energy pulsating through the veins of the hotel design and hospitality industry, on an international scale, is pointing towards signs of serious recovery. From brands announcing that they're doubling their current portfolio of hotels by 2025, to other leading groups that have, this week, debuted in new territories, it suggests that 2021 will be rounded off with ambitious plans laid out on the table. And following the industry's awakening since its forced hibernation, why not be aggressive when strategically looking ahead?
In the meantime, while hotel groups and brands jostle for position on the international stage, suppliers have come out of the wings, performance ready, with new products to attract designers' attention. In addition, industry experts are excited about the boundless possibilities that lie ahead. One wellness guru, Ari Peralta, Founder of Arigami, exclusively reveals some game-changing qualitative research that we are excited to share with you!
To make sense of the latest headlines and features, from all corners of the industry, here are our top stories of the week.
St Regis to almost double portfolio of hotels by 2025
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Hotel brand St Regis Hotels and Resorts has announced ambitious plans to expand its portfolio of luxury resorts in desired destinations for the next generation of luxury travellers, including locations within the Caribbean, North America, North Africa, Middle East and Asia Pacific.
St. Regis currently has 49 hotels and resorts open worldwide, with a further 29 hotels and resorts in its pipeline, representing expected growth of nearly 60 per cent over the next five years in both urban and leisure destinations.
Inside Rosewood Villa Magna, the brand's debut hotel in Spain
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Set in the heart of the Spanish capital city's distinguished Salamanca district, the reimagined icon, now Rosewood Villa Magna, represents a milestone for the brand as well as Madrid's hospitality landscape.
Renowned Spanish architect Ramón de Arana led the remodel of the building's striking façade and entryway into the hotel, adding a sense of grandeur to the arrival experience via a striking staircase and a pair of reflecting pools that draw attention to the centuries old, 30-metre-high cedar and carob trees adorning the property.
Industry insight: Digital interactive art – technology for tomorrow's hotel
Image caption: 'Internal Visions' by Daniel Kersh. | Image Credit: Daniel Kersh Studios
Technology is shaping the way in which hotel buildings are built and designed. Inside the hotel, technology is altering how guests use and journey through spaces as well as how they view interior design. In our latest article in the Hotel Designs Lab series, Ari Peralta, Founder of Arigami, explores the rise of digital, generative and interactive art; a new genre that has the potential to transform guest experiences.
Nobu expands its footprint in Saudi Arabia
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Nobu, the global lifestyle brand founded by Nobu Matsuhisa, Robert De Niro and Meir Teper, has just revealed plans to launch a new hotel, Nobu Restaurant and Nobu Residences in the Eastern Province city of Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia, by 2024. Here's what we know.
Live roundtable: The art of lighting
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In Hotel Designs' first live roundtable since the beginning of the pandemic, in association with Dernier & Hamlyn, we gathered leading interior designers to discuss the art of lighting in 2021 and beyond – from downlights to pendants and the pitfalls in-between. Scroll down to meet the panellists and to catch the conversation.
Product watch: Venti20 collection by Gessi
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"Great design has emotional power and an innate ability to instil beauty into everyday objects," states bathroom brand Gessi when discussing the new Venti20 range, which captures the essence of the era and allows us to rediscover the spirit of the 'Roaring 20s.
Aeon: A wellness hotel setting new standards in architecture & design
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Designing the Aeon hotel, which shelters an innovative wellness concept that plays on striking architecture and thoughtful design, was all about connection and context for the architects and designers at noa* network of architecture. It was also about shifting and blurring lines, looking at the boundaries between inside and out – the visible and the invisible – between dream and reality. The studio's use of colour in the interiors does exactly this; it creates divisions, yet blurs the lines. There is the feeling of standing firmly on the ground, while at the same time being able to touch the clouds.
Weekly briefing: a London opening & the 'new normal' of luxe design
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Only got a minute? Our editorial team have compiled the top design stories that they have published this week, including a roundtable that targets health and wellness and luxury designers' predictions of the 'new normal'…
What has become clear in recent weeks is that even with the best will in the world, we are yet to find many of the answers we require in order to design in a post-pandemic world. However, beneath this week's Hotel Designs headlines, we have spoken to leading designers, architects and hotel experts to understand what we do know. Here is our 'editor's pick' of the juiciest stories covered this week.
How luxury hospitality designers are adapting to the 'new normal'
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To cut through the noise, Hotel Designs has teamed up with J Public Relations to ask how designers Rosendale Design, Nicola Harding, Goddard Littlefair and David Collins Studio are adapting to meet new demands from travellers.
One thing that has become apparent as we stand in the eye of the pandemic storm is that no one yet has all the answers. From the number of panel discussions I have hosted recently, I have learned that designers, architects and hoteliers are adapting daily to new developments in the Covid-19 crisis, which is somewhat impossible when designing hotels that will open years from now.
Virtual Roundtable: health & wellbeing in hospitality and hotel design
With a question mark on what the future of health and wellbeing will look like in tomorrow's hotel, editor Hamish Kilburn, in collaboration with HDR | Hurley Palmer Flatt, asks industry's experts to decipher what's fact and what's myth when predicting tomorrow's wellness scene.
You have until 10am (BST) on Monday to secure your tickets to Hotel Design LIVE
In order to continue to start creative conversations like no other, Hotel Designs has launched Hotel Designs LIVE, a one-day virtual conference to serve the industry during and after the Covid-19 crisis.
Click here to participate.
Fairfield by Marriott doubles its footprint in Japan
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Marriott International has announced the planned openings of eight new Fairfield by Marriott properties in Japan, highlighting a vast expansion that more than doubles the size of the brand in the country.
Parkside Tiles adds lavish colour to Arabescato
A bold and lavish take on Arabescato marble, Pulp is the latest porcelain wall and floor tile collection from design-led tile specification brand, Parkside.
Weekly briefing: A sensational shortlist & the secret to a good night's sleep
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Only got a minute? Our editorial team have compiled the top design stories that they have published this week, including the shortlist of The Brit List Awards 2020 and an exclusive interview with designer Lisa Haude about tomorrow's design challenges…
With the industry re-strategising following further constrictions to social distancing, we appreciate that you may not have time to read all the content that Hotel Designs has published this week. Therefore, here is our 'editor's pick' of the juiciest stories that have been covered this week.
EXCLUSIVE: Shortlist unveiled for The Brit List 2020
This year, more than 120 individuals and projects were selected across eight categories. The winners will be announced at the virtual award ceremony on November 12. Now in its fourth year, The Brit List Awards is Hotel Designs' the nationwide search to find the most influential designers, architects, hoteliers and suppliers operating in Britain.
Click here to read the story | Click here to secure your seats in the audience at the virtual awards ceremony.
1 in 3 Brits want to replace shower with modern system, survey reveals
A survey carried out by GROHE has revealed British showering behaviours and consumer attitudes towards their bathroom. As indicated in the debut broadcast of Hotel Designs LIVE, bathroom and wellness demands have shifted as we look ahead towards a post-pandemic world.
In Conversation With: interior designer Lisa Haude
A storyteller in her own right, designer Lisa Haude creates one-of-a-kind spaces that breathe a new level of authenticity into the projects she touches. Working predominantly with the larger brands, such Hilton Hotels & Resorts, Hyatt Hotels & Resorts and Marriott International, Haude's style is to celebrate the history of each hotel's destination, which is channeled through an meaningful design narrative that is sheltered inside each project.
Bathroom goals: when sustainability meets design
Sustainability meets design in Austria's Winzendorf-Muthmannsdorf municipality. Surrounded by grapevines, and set on a sloping plot of around 1,600 square metres, is a detached house in harmony with nature. The distinctive and nature-loving architecture is in evidence outside, in the form of the charred larch cladding used on the façade. The client requested elegance and eco-conscious design everywhere, including the bathroom.
New speakers announced for Hotel Designs LIVE
Calling all designers, architects, hoteliers and developers: you can secure your complimentary seats in the audience for Hotel Designs LIVE, which takes place on October 13, by clicking here…
Industry insight: a special sleep experience during Covid
Chris Ward, Group Marketing Director at Hypnos Contract Beds, looks at how in addition to having Covid-compliant practices, hotels can offer a more discernible experience to guests by providing premium experiences that have sustainability at their heart.
HIX announces postponement of debut event
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As a result of the uncertainty that remains in the wake of the Covid-19 crisis, HIX has made the decision to postpone its debut event until 2021…
2020 has been a painful and frustrating year for the events industry. Within the realms of hotel design, Salone del Mobile, the Independent Hotel Show, Clerkenwell Design Week and Hotel Designs' much-loved networking events have all been indirect victims to the virus.
While the pandemic continues to force travellers from certain regions to quarantine and while businesses are encouraged to adapt to new social distancing guidelines as measures to prevent Covid-19's spread tighten once more, there is heavy sense of uncertainty in the air. HIX, an ever-changing design experience that was expected with high anticipation to launch this year, has released an official statement announcing that it will postpone the debut event until November 2021.
"We made this decision based on uncontrollable factors but just one question: 'can we guarantee a brilliant HIX experience this year?' – HIX.
"It hurts to write the above statement because we are still buzzing from our launch and [we] feel a huge sense of gratitude for your support in making HIX London's only hotel design event… all in the space of six months," the event organisers expressed in the statement. "We made this decision based on uncontrollable factors but just one question: 'can we guarantee a brilliant HIX experience this year?' The potential implications of the uncontrollables made it impossible to answer that question with a confident 'yes we can!'
"So we made the call; despite our own sense of adventurous optimism, despite the Government announcement for events to go ahead from October and despite our exhibitor's consensus view of 'if you guys open this year then we'll do it with you'.
"And this brings us to the good news. The HIX 2020 exhibitors have pledged their support for 2021 and with 15 months before the event, we have already allocated most of the stand spaces. So we now have the time and clarity to reflect, discuss, sketch and then create the hotel design experience that the community deserves.
"At this point in the announcement we're supposed to provide a polished and sensible quote from us, 'the organiser'. But we reckon that Anand from Hansgrohe summed it up pretty well on a zoom call this week:'It's sad not do it this year, but we'll all build HIX 2021 to be something credible, meaningful and something for the future'. That's exactly what we would have tried to say. Thank you Anand."
HIX, which is fully supported by Hotel Designs, is now scheduled to take place at the same venue, sheltered inside London's Business Design Centre, on November 18 – 19, 2021. Watch this space, we're with HIX.
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Elivi Skiathos to unveil new rooms and suites
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Elivi Skiathos has announced that 56 Grace Rooms and Suites, three new restaurants, and a Kid's Club will be added to the hotel in time for season opening on April 26, 2019…
Opened for the first time last year in June, the father-and-daughter-run luxury hotel is building on the success of its first season by expanding its accommodation offerings.
Elivi Skiathos is comprised of three separate areas, ELIVI Xenia Hotel in the main area of the resort, ELIVI Nest Rooms, Villas and Suites elegantly spread among olive groves, and, as of 2019, 67 secluded ELIVI Grace Rooms & Suites set on the beach.
The Grace area of the hotel will grow from 11 rooms to 67. The elegant, new Double Supreme Deluxe Rooms and Junior Suites will boast either long balconies, hot tubs or private plunge pools.
The hotel, which is perched on a hilltop on the Pounta Peninsula overlooking the Aegean Sea, was developed in collaboration between the family and Vivi Nathanailidi. The property is surrounded by an area of natural beauty beside a wildlife refuge, forest and lagoon – and roaming black swans – which became a large reference in the interior design as well as the branding of the hotel.
"A new beach bar will also take its bar offering up to seven."
ELIVI Skiathos will also grow its food offering to five restaurants: fine-dining restaurant Leda & The Swan; Hagoromo Sushi Bar and Asian restaurant; the cosy Nest Greek Fish Restaurant serving traditional, fresh Greek seafood and meze; Grace Restaurant serving Mediterranean and Italian cuisine; Nest Breakfast Restaurant reserved exclusive for guests of the Nest area of the hotel. A new beach bar will also take its bar offering up to seven.
With families being a key market for Elivi Skiathos, the hotel is also pleased to introduce a Kid's Club for 2019 with more details coming soon.
Two outdoor swimming pools on either side of resort stretch into the glistening Aegean Sea below and four of the most picturesque white-sand beaches on Skiathos are all within walking distance, offering mattress thick sunbeds and beach waiter service.
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Michael Young and Woven Image create an acoustic Muse
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Woven Image has collaborated with world renowned industrial designer Michael Young on a new range of acoustic wall panels. Notable for their extraordinary patterns that feature contrasting colour prints as well as subtle tone-on-tone colours and pearlescent ink, the Muse range is perfect for seamless floor-to-ceiling applications in commercial interiors.
The collection comes in three designs: Muse Fluid evokes the movement of the ocean and is available is five colourways (Ice, Ivory, Goldeneye, Lavender and Emerald); Muse Cloudy is based around a series of varying dots that converge to produce a 'cloud-like' effect and contains three options (Sandstone, Starlight and Foam); finally the cross-hatch style design Muse Mineral can be specified in two different versions (Calcite and Steel).
The panels, which are 1180mm x 2800mm high untrimmed, are manufactured from PET, 68 per cent of which has been recycled. They aim to reduce reverberated noise in commercial spaces – achieving a Noise Reduction Coefficient rating of 0.30 (no air gap) and up to 0.75 (with 50mm air gap).
According to Young, his studio brought a very particular sensibility to the product. "I believe these designs are genuinely cutting edge," he explains. "It seems to me that an industrial design office is going to take a different approach to creating a pattern than an artist or even a graphic designer," he said. "We created the aesthetic for Muse Fluid, Cloudy and Mineral using a software program called Grasshopper. By setting up an animated algorithm we generated a changing two-dimensional pattern and freed the animation at a particular point to build the final image. In other words, we are not creating conceptual decoration but technical decoration. The finished results look wonderfully mathematical."
Top stories of 2018 – editor's round-up
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With more than half a million viewers this year in 2018, Hotel Designs has enjoyed a fantastic 12 months of exclusive stories, features, events and some rather spectacular hotel reviews. Here, the editor of Hotel Designs, Hamish Kilburn, runs us through the top nine articles of 2018…
The age-old saying goes: "Out with the old and in with the new" – and it has never felt more appropriate than it does in this moment as I sit down to write this significant write-up. Our industry is dominated by major shifts in trends and opinions, many of which were created in the number events that we were proudly media partners of this year. Therefore, we, the leading international hotel design website, must continue to remain relevant with our content, while showing that we are ahead of the curve in our own design – everything is about to change. For the minute, though – before we launch our new logo and fabulous website designed to be as visual and interactive as our readers themselves are – let's take a moment to reflect on what a cracking year 2018 turned out to be.
Since joining the company as editor in May 2018, I have had many overwhelming moments. The first came just weeks into my role when I was whisked up to the stunning Scottish Perthshire countryside to review the mighty Gleneagles. The 'am I dreaming moment' came shortly after our excursion up the mountains in 4x4s. Taking in the tremendous scenes that stretched over the horizon, I heard a faint ambiance of buzzing that become louder as a helicopter appeared from the clouds. It hovered for a moment and began its descent. "This is your ride back to the hotel," said our very helpful PR manager looking rather smug with herself – talk about setting standards as embarked on my editorship.
Another experience that remains etched into my memory is my time at London Design Festival 2018. I will never forget surviving on four hours sleep per night (something I have become accustomed to in my role here) in order to be at every major launch at every event (and after-party). Meeting the leaders and visionaries of our industry is all the thanks we require, as it allows us to be at the core of the hotel design world.
One other unforgettable breakthrough of the year was introducing, for the first time, interactive hotel reviews. Working with ACT Studios has allowed us to give our audience a truly immersive experience when reading our reviews, allowing them to find out exactly which products are in each guestroom and suite and where to purchase them.
The year continued with more exclusive features with international leading profiles from the likes of CEO of Meliá Hotels International, Gabriel Escarrer Jaume, the new Managing Director of WATG, Martin Pease, the Managing Director (EMEA) of Wyndham Hotels, Dimitris Manikis, Creative Director of HBA London, Constantina Tsoutsikou and the Principal of Richmond International, Fiona Thompson, who was also our headline speaker at our inaugural Meet Up North.
And so, as with all good things in life, we come to the end of 2018, but not before remembering our top stories of the year as we are on the cusp of welcoming in a new era in Hotel Designs…
1) IHG launches voco, a new upscale hotel brand
Topping the Hotel Designs viewing charts is IHG. I was thrilled to have been one of four journalists who were invited to the exclusive launch of the new brand, where I learnt all about the significance of three logos (finch, owl and flamingo).
Just months after, the hotel brand unveiled their first hotel and it was located in the Gold Coast.
2) Elivi Skiathos to open June 2018
Family-owned five-star hotel will offering private pools, a sea-facing four-bedroom villa, spa and panoramic views.
The Elivi Skiathos Hotel, owned and developed by father and daughter team Elias and Vivi Nathanailidi, opened in June 2018 and marked the first hospitality venture by Elivi Hotels.
The 213,000m² hotel is surrounded by a wildlife refuge and offers direct access to four beaches in Skiathos: Koukounaries, Ambelakia, Banana and Little Banana Beach.
Elivi Skiathos features modern, spacious rooms and suites only a few steps away from the shore, with private pools and courtyards integrated into the area's existing natural features and walking paths bordered by forests of olive and pine trees.
3) Editor's round-up of London Design Festival
Ten design districts, nine days, eight talks, seven parties, six after parties, five exhibitions, four hours sleep between each day, three fabulous media partners, two tired legs and ONE city. This year, an estimated number of more than 450,000 designers, architects and creatives from more than 75 countries visited the 16th edition of London Design Festival – and what a way to remind the world of London's position as one of the best design hubs in the world than with the installation of a fifth lion protecting the city's landmark Neslon's Column in Trafalgar Square. We were ready to hear London Design Festival roar, and with two days still remaining, that roar can still be heard echoing in an around the city.
4) Checking in to Gleneageles, Scotland
Positioned in 344 hectares of land, under Perthshire's Ochil Hills, is a Scottish jewel. The ever-majestic Gleneaglesfirst soared to be a natural star in the spotlight when it first opened its grand doors in 1924. Its 'cutting of the ribbon' was celebrated with Scotland's first ever outside broadcast, and these moments of the hotel's many milestones can be found injected into the fabrics of many pockets of the today's Gleneagles. The hotel's general manager, Conor O'Leary, was recently awarded 'Innovation in Design – Hotelier of the Year' at The Brit List 2018.
5) IN CONVERSATION WITH: Ronald Homsy, CEO and co-founder, Utopian Hotel Collection
In a quiet café just off London's Sloane Square, which is a pleasant experience itself, something amazing is happening: I am about to meet one of the men behind a new hotel collection that inspires through one-off experiences. The sharp-looking businessman approaches my table and takes off his tailored blazer and rolls up his sleeves to shake my hand, which breaks down all formal barriers. The CEO and co-founder of Utopian Hotel Collection, Ronald Homsy, sits down comfortably and starts to share what I can tell has been a driving passion of his for years.
6) Meet Up North took networking in the North to new heights
More than 200 of the industry's leaders and visionaries from within the hotel design gathered on the terrace of King Street Townhouse in Manchester for the first ever Meet Up North on July 18, 2018.
Sponsored by Marca Corona, the event, which boasted an unparalleled perspective of the Manchester sunset, welcomed hoteliers, architects, interior designers and key-industry suppliers.
7) Checking in to Hotel Gotham, Manchester's decadent playground
This year, we sent Hotel Designs interactive by launching our ever-so-popular hotel reviews. The second interactive hotel review (the first can be read here) is Hotel Gotham. Ever since its bold entrance onto the unapologetically loud Manchester scene in 2015, Hotel Gotham's alluring charm has tantalised many senses of those who have passed through its spectacularly framed automatic doors. I, for one, am one of them, and I hold my hands up proudly to say that I have formed a lust for decadence and luxury since checking in.
8) Chelsom Lighting launches Edition 26
Tapered perforated metal shades, brushed brass rings and even glass icicles were some of the focal trends that were unveiled at Recommended Supplier Chelsom Lighting's launch of Edition 26 in May 2018.
Two years since the launch of Edition 25, leading designers, procurement experts and friends of the firm gathered at One Marylebone in central London to celebrate the awaited unveiling of the collection.
9) Oscar Wilde's grandson opens first Wilde Aparthotel in London
Merlin Holland, the only grandson of famous Irish playwright and poet Oscar Wilde, was the guest of honour at the official opening of Staycity Group's Wilde Aparthotels London [Photograph (from left to right): Jason Delany, Director of Brand, Product & Marketing; Merlin Holland; Tom Walsh, CEO; Keith Freeman, COO; Atul Prakash, GM].
Police release hotel terror attack advice video for holidaymakers
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By: Daniel Fountain
The UK's Counter Terrorism Police force has released a video, which advises holidaymakers on what to do in the event of a terror attack at a resort.
The four-minute video was made in association with the Foreign Office and Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA) and depicts an incident at a hotel, describing how to stay safe in such an event.
In the video, holidaymakers are reassured that while the chances of becoming a victim in a terror attack remain 'extremely rare', the new approach encourages everyone to be prepared 'should the worst happen'.
The Run, Hide, Tell message was first introduced in 2015 following the terror attacks in Paris in December. It has now been re-issued by the police in answer to the incident at London Borough Market.
Some 30 British tourists were among 38 people killed when a gunman attacked a Tunisian beach resort in June 2015.
Counter terrorism officials said there is currently no intelligence suggesting Britons will be targeted this summer, but that the film is part of a general awareness campaign.
The video advises:
– Run
If there is a safe route, run. Insist others go with you, but do not let their indecision slow you down. Leave belongings behind
If you cannot run, hide. Be aware of your exits. Find cover from gunfire and try not to get trapped. Barricade yourself in and stay away from doors.
– Tell
Call the police as soon as it is safe. Tell them where the attack is happening, where you are and how many attackers you saw.


Varanasi: President Pranab Mukherjee today stressed that the government should invest more on research saying we "cannot compete with empty words or slogans" as more fundamental work is needed to improve performance.
Prez Pranab Mukherjee today addressing at the Centenary Year Celebrations of the BHU.
Addressing centenary year celebrations of Banaras Hindu University (BHU) here, he urged the government to balance between various competitive demands and resources to meet investment needs in education sector.
He said merely 0.6 per cent of GDP investment in research is not adequate compared to three per cent in Japan, 2.8 per cent in the US and 2.2 per cent in China.
He suggested both public and sector private sector should make this an area of top national priority by substantially investing in research development and innovation.
He said merely physical expansion of education sector was not enough and there was a need to concentrate on quality education by developing scientific temperaments in students.
Citing importance of core civilisational values, he emphasised on harmony, compassion and love for all.
He said words like "Babylon" (one of the ancient cities, now in Iraq) and Japan's "Hiroshima" (which was devastated by nuclear bombs) ignite minds of people.
"They symbolise more than a geographical expression, more than a place or something, which talk of human values. Some events which had the turning point in the history of human civilisation.
"That is why I was thinking what could have been the better place than Kashi (another name of Varanasi), on the holy banks of Ganges, in the land of Lord Shiva to preach harmony, equilibrium, compassion, love, affection and universal humanism," he said.
Mukherjee expressed happiness in knowing that BHU in its curriculum is emphasising on these aspects.
He said if India wants to have the rightful place in the comity of the nations then "we shall have to pay the price".
"There are no free lunches in the world. World is highly competitive and materialistic too. And what could be that price. We must emphasise on innovation, on research, on building up scientific temperament," he said.
Mukherjee said India will have world's huge work force by 2030.
"More than 50 per cent of our population will be in the age group of zero to 25. But what should we do with this. This is a double-edged sword. It can be an asset it can be a liability. It would be asset if we provide them with adequate education, training in skilling them, enhance their employability," the President said.
Citing example of ancient seats of higher learning like Takshashila and Nalanda that attracted great minds from across the world for 1,800 long years, the President asked the universities, faculty and students to regain that position.
Mukherjee, who was scheduled to be in Varanasi for two days, cut short his visit and returned Delhi late in night.
Uttar Pradesh Governor Ram Naik released commemorative coins of Rs 100 and Rs 10 denominations during the programme.
Karan Singh, who is Chancellor of the University, was also present during the function.


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Q: RDLC split string with spaces and add color I'm having the below number format in my RDLC report
BM13421090
I need to add spaces and apply a color to the number. End result should be like below
BM 13 4210 90
and Number 4210 need to be in red color. Number will always have the same number of characters and spaces and the color will be added in the same way.
I'm trying to achieve it with the split function =Split(First(Fields!StudentRegistrationNo.Value),",")(2).Unfortunately,cannot seem to get it working.

A: Got it working with the following expression
=iif (IsNothing(Fields!StudentRegistrationNo.Value),
"",mid(Fields!StudentRegistrationNo.Value,1,2)+" "+
mid(Fields!StudentRegistrationNo.Value,3,2)+" "+
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mid(Fields!StudentRegistrationNo.Value,9,4))

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Chapter 8: Full Circle
Aaliyah woke up and looked over at her bed to find it empty. Groaning, she got up and got ready for her day. She loved being pregnant, but it was a pain trying to move around with something permanently altering your sense of space and depth.
As she left her bedroom and walked towards the sound of men shouting, she had to smile. Spending time with all her family was something she had missed and Antonio was having a blast with Bem and Aaron around.
"You boys better take it down a notch, if Rae hears you she'll make you watch Good Luck Charlie with her all morning!" Aaliyah laughed as she watched the horror dawn on Bem and Aaron's faces, while Antonio smiled. Leaving them with that threat, she walked into the kitchen to prepare some breakfast for her and Rae. Today was an important day, Rae was six years old and Aaliyah's mother planned a huge celebration. It was a little nauseating to think of all the people her mother had invited, half of whom were dignitaries and politically important people. This was going to be a nightmare.
Aaliyah turned around to see Rae holding an ice cream cone.
"Rae, seriously? It's nine in the morning! You know better and I'm cooking you breakfast!" Aaliyah scolded Rae.
Rae just shrugged. "But it's my birthday," she said and walked into the dining room. Shaking her head, Aaliyah turned around to continue making pancakes.
"Some kids don't even get breakfast…at least it wasn't deep fried,"Aaliyah mumbled while she plated her breakfast. Sitting down next to Rae, Aaliyah quickly ate her breakfast. When she was almost done, she felt little arms wrap around her from behind.
"I love you mommy." Rae hugged Aaliyah and kissed her on the cheek.
Aaliyah smiled and turned to hug her baby girl back. "Mommy loves you so much more!"
Rae ran out of the room after that and Aaliyah got up to clean up and get ready for the rest of the day. Maybe today wouldn't be so horrible after all.
Quite a few people came for the party and by 5pm, everyone was ready to cut the cake and start dancing. Aaliyah did notice that Kandy was having a nice chat with Sebastian Vanderburg. She would have to ask her about that later.
As the party wound down, Aaliyah headed upstairs to go check in on Rae. Although they had cut the cake and everyone had wished Rae a happy birthday, the party was still raging downstairs. As Aaliyah walked into Rae's room, she heard her father's voice.
"'No,' said Peter, 'I will not give you my candy. I will not give you my pen, and I will not give you my lunch.'" Adejola sat on the bed, reading a bedtime story to Rae.
Aaliyah smiled, recognizing the book, Peter and the Big Mean Bully. It was a favorite of her dad's and he used to read it to her as a child. Even with all the important people downstairs, her father still took the time to read to his granddaughter. Closing the door quietly behind her, Aaliyah left them to it and headed upstairs to her own bed. It had been an exhausting day and her belly and her feet were both ready to call it a night.
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The next day, Aaliyah and Antonio decided to take Rae out for a picnic. They were set to head back to France for the opening of the old nectary that Antonio transformed into a garden house for the town. The day was beautiful and there was an impromptu performance at the outdoor stage. By the time the performance was over, it was getting late and Aaliyah could see that Rae was nodding off.
Aaliyah packed her family in the car and got into the passenger seat. As Antonio started the car, Rae seemed to get her second wind and started fidgeting with her car seat. Trying to calm her down, Aaliyah turned around in her seat to talk to her and sing one of her favorite French songs with her.
They were only a few feet away from home when Aaliyah looked up through the rearview mirror and saw the car.
Aaliyah came to with a gasp. There was a low pressure in her belly and her head hurt. She heard someone calling her but it sounded distant. She felt herself being carried and wondered why it hurt so much to even open her eyes. She felt a jarring impact as whoever was carrying her stumble and the pain that caused was so severe that when darkness came, she sank back into it with relief.
When she gained consciousness again, she was in a hospital bed. She ached all over and when she tried to move she felt a sharp pain in her stomach. In a panic, she clutched her belly. Something was wrong.
A shadow passed over her and she stared until she could focus on the face. It was her mother.
"Hi baby, how are you feeling? Do you want some water?" Ijeoma asked softly.
"What happened, where's Antonio?" Aaliyah tried to sit up but her body screamed in protest, so she lay back down.
Ijeoma's voice caught on a sob when she said, "He had to take care of some things and I told him I would call him the moment you woke up."
"What's wrong, mom?" When her mother just looked at her, Aaliyah started to feel panicky. "Mother, tell me what happened!"
"Everything is going to be fine sweetheart. You need to rest now and get your strength up so you can come home." Her mother pressed a red button by the bed and Aaliyah started to feel woozy. She did feel a little tired and resting sounded like a good idea.
The third time Aaliyah awoke, Antonio was sitting by the side of her bed, reading softly from a book.
Aaliyah tried to say hello, but it came out as a croak. Antonio looked up and closed the book.
"You want some water," He asked softly.
Aaliyah nodded and sipped from the proffered straw. The cool fluid felt great and she tried to say hello again. "Hey."
"Hey yourself." Antonio brushed some hair out of her face.
"How long have I been in this hospital?" Aaliyah grabbed his hand and held it in hers. He was so cold!
"Ten days."
"Tell me what happened."
"There was a car accident. And I managed to pull you out. Do you remember any of that?"
Aaliyah shook her head. "Are you okay? Where's Rae? Oh my God, the baby, is everything okay with –"
Aaliyah stopped mid-sentence when she pressed her free hand to her flat stomach. She looked up into Antonio's eyes and saw the immense sadness there. "No. Oh God, no. Please, don't tell me…"
"No. Not the baby, she's fine. You went into early labor and they had to get the baby out, but she's doing fine."
"Then what's wrong Antonio? Tell me!"
"It's Rae, sweetheart. She was trapped in the back seat and before I could go back to get her out there was an – an explosion, and –"
Aaliyah couldn't hear Antonio after that because someone started screaming. It took her a moment to realize that the sound of utter despair was coming from her. Nurses ran in and she could feel arms around her – probably Antonio's – she did not care. One of the nurses injected something into her IV and soon she could feel darkness creeping onto the edges of her consciousness. She threw herself at the oblivion, happy to escape the pain that had burst from her chest.
Aaliyah spent a few days in a constant state of sedation. Any time the medication wore off, she would dissolve into fits of uncontrollable sobbing. Eventually she managed to pull herself together long enough to go visit her new daughter at the NICU. The baby was doing well and soon the nurses expected her to try to breastfeed.
Knowing that she needed to get off the medication if she wanted to feed her child, Aaliyah refused all medicine after that point. She was not going to let anything happen to her baby because she could not get a grip!
Her father visited her and the baby every day in the hospital. In fact, whenever she went down to the NICU, he was already there, giving her child the love she could not bring herself to give. Aaliyah decided to name the baby Adeya, after her father.
Over the next few days, Aaliyah spent her days sleeping on Rae's bed and having nightmares of the car accident. Her memories were still fragmented and she didn't remember anything about the actual crash, but she was plagued with dreams about Rae's final moments while that car burned up.
Ijeoma and Adejola organized the memorial service and Kandy would sit with Aaliyah while she mourned, even Darling would come and wake Aaliyah up to make sure she got up during the day. Antonio was conspicuously absent through all this. Aaliyah would have been hurt that he wasn't around if she could get herself to care about anything.
The only thing that kept her going now was Adeya. She got up in the mornings for her, lived for her alone, otherwise, she truly believed she would lie down and die from grief.
The day of the memorial service came and it seemed as if the entire world was there to grieve with Aaliyah and her family – they got there early and they kept coming.
Aaliyah pulled herself together long enough to get dressed and meet the family in the sitting room. As she reached the top of the stairs, she saw Antonio leaning on the stair railing, looking up at her. Aaliyah hadn't realized how much she missed him until that very moment. She wanted to be angry at him for not being there when she needed him, but realized that she had shut everyone out, including her husband.
When she reached the foyer, he held his hand out to her and she stepped close and wrapped her arms around him. She felt instantly less alone. Everything she needed to get past this moment had been right here, if only she had turned to him. She felt so foolish.
When they reached the room where Rae's ashes were on display, Aaliyah felt her knees give out suddenly. Antonio caught her and helped her over to a chair in the corner.
"Do you want some water?" Antonio stood in front of her, blocking the view of any curious eyes that might be in the room. And Aaliyah was sure there were plenty.
"No, I'm okay. I just need a minute."
"I'll be right over there if you need me."
Antonio gave her a gentle kiss and went to greet all the people who had come to pay their respects to the royal family.
Aaliyah watched as the dignitaries, the Kings and Queens, Princes and Princesses, and the press filed through one by one to give their condolences to her parents and to Antonio. They would have spoken to her as well, but Antonio calmly told them whatever he needed to keep them away from her.
When the room emptied out around midnight, Aaliyah stood up and went over to what remained of her daughter.
"I love you so much. You will always be my baby girl. My beautiful, smart baby –"
Aaliyah could not finish her sentence and had to turn away. Antonio was there; ready to hold her until she calmed down.
"We can't stay in this house. I can't wake up here every morning and walk past the spot where I lost my baby." Aaliyah looked up into Antonio's eyes and saw her anguish mirrored there. "I just can't do it Antonio."
Antonio hugged her tighter and said, "Okay."
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amandralynn
Oh. My. Goodness. Fantastic chapter but heartbreaking. I can't imagine how it would feel to lose a child. I actually teared up while reading this. On a plus side that car accident scene was awesome and it turned out really well, even though it was so sad.
I cried while I wrote it but it was essential to the story. Rae had to die. It took me forever to get through that chapter!
lateknightsimmer
Oh so sad. This was really well written. Great chapter. That picture of the car accident was really cool. 🙂
Thank you. I don't know what I was doing, but it did come out great.
smashedone
I second what klb said. However, as I just told a friend yesterday when we were talking about mommies and babies; you can have more children, you can't have more mothers.
but still. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*outrage*
*attempts to rewrite story*
*refuses to believe*
klb685
Nope! I don't approve, take it back! *cries*
Well written and heart-wrenching. Poor poor family. I'm pretty sure I'd murder my husband if he pulled me out of the car before our kids, though. *cries some more* Not little Rae!


Can you tell how excited I am about the upcoming holiday? It's getting pretty festive up in here at Life in Spandex! If you haven't already, checked out your new Spooky Halloween Workout and enter for a chance to win a FREE Online Fitness Consultation with me. You won't want to miss this one!
You've all been doing so well on your healthy fitness journeys! However, Halloween is just not Halloween without tricks AND treats! Sadly, a lot of store bought candy is filled with nasty artificial ingredients and preservatives. Yuck! Don't worry, I have a solution! I've come up with a recipe that tastes better than the store bought junk and fits perfectly in with your healthy lifestyle.
My all-time favorite Halloween candy was Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. There's something about the combination of salty, creamy peanut butter and rich chocolate that is impossible to resist. It was only natural to let my childhood palette inspire this gluten-free, low-sugar, vegan recipe! Instead of peanut butter, I opted for crunchy almond butter. I love the texture the bits of nuts added to the candy. Feel free to sub in whatever nut butter you like! I also upgraded the super sugary milk chocolate coating for antioxidant rich dark chocolate (which I have always preferred to milk chocolate actually!).
Okay, time to dig in!
1. Combine all the filling ingredients in a bowl until smooth.
2. Roll the mixture into 10-12 little balls.
4. Melt chocolate chips in the microwave, stirring occasionally.
5. Roll the balls into the melted chocolate. Place on a piece of parchment paper or tin foil onto of a hard surface like a plate, baking sheet, or tupperware. Put in the freezer for at least 1 hour.
6. Put on your Halloween costume, say "trick or treat!" and enjoy! Store in refrigerator or freezer.
What is your favorite Halloween candy? Have you tried to make a healthier version of it? Tell me in the comment box below!
Halloween may be over, but I will be eating these for sure! I've been looking for a recipe like this. So glad I found a better alternative!
Haha yes I do! I almost included how I'd make sure I got twice as many Reese's trick or treating because I knew you'd eat them!! Xoxo you're going to love these!
What a great way to make use of Halloween candy! Looks so delicious!
You're so welcome Betty! Can't wait for more like it!
These sound fantastic! I prefer dark chocolate too.
Let me know when you make them! Dark chocolate makes me happy ?
I hate Halloween. I would like to spend the next two days hiding in my bed eating buckets of these!


So the immediate question is – Are you a beginner in Android Development? If yes, then this blog is just right for you.
Listed below are the top resources among Libraries and Tool that you need to know to develop an app using Android technology. From here you can learn all about Android from basics to intermediate level.
Volley is an HTTP library that makes networking for Android app easier. This library is very fast.
– Ease of customization. For example, retry and back-off.
– Debugging and tracing tools.
This library can be used for sending simple requests and to implement custom request on Android app.
Gson is a Java library used for serializing and de-serializing different Java objects from and into JSON.
You can refer to link given below to know more about Android development using GSON library.
We mostly use JSON library because its lightweight and much simpler than XML.
Universal Image Loader is a library which gives asynchronous, out of the box loading and caching of images.
Using the URL configuration, you will find that everything can be confirmed automatically.
You can add them into dependencies in your build.
After sync you can use this library.
JitPack can build any GitHub Project and publish Maven repository into it. It will help you to save time and give an easy way to building dependencies. This is one of the best way to publish GitHub project as a Maven Dependencies.
This library is developed by the team at Stremetry Ltd.
ActiveAndroid is an ORM (Object Relational Mapping) for Android app development. It is an abstraction for SQLite database on a device without usage of SQL Statements for connecting database in Android app.
Everyone who knows about Android Emulator, knows about Genymotion. Genymotion solves problems by providing a free hardware accelerated Android Emulator.
Genymotion emulator devices support various Android studio versions.
Justinmind is a prototyping tool used for authoring tool for web and mobile app prototypes. It offers capabilities typically found in diagramming tools like drag and drop placement.
Justinmind can generate HTML prototypes that can be displayed in any browser, and Microsoft Word Specification documents.
The Android developer tools let you create an interactive and powerful application for Android platform. When you install Android SDK into your system, these tools get installed automatically.
Link for the same is available at: https://developer.android.com/studio/index.html .
MonkeyRunner is one of the popular Android Testing tools used for automating functional tests for Android software.
This tool is useful for testing. It can run tests on real devices connected to a PC or emulators. The tool has an API what allows it to a control a smartphone, a tablet or an emulator from outside of Android Code.
Unity is a flexible and powerful development platform for creating multiplatform 2D and 3D games and interactive experiences.
A multi-platform development tool with customizable and easy to use editor, graphical tool for cross-platform developed by Unity technologies. Unity brings state of the art, affordable multiplatform tools and services to developers for interactive content everywhere.
These are some of the top resources available. Hope this is helpful in getting started with Android Development.
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'St Mary's on the Cliffs' is one of the most beautiful and historic Churches in Australia and is home to rich traditions of spirituality, fine music, a friendly congregation and where many delightful weddings are celebrated each year.
Built in 1873, this Church with its distinctive Richard Suter lines, organic 'tuff' stonework, it's rustic and warm interior, St Mary inspires all who come to visit or to worship. There is much to discover at St Mary's on the Cliffs and we hope you will enjoy our history, our search into the depths of contemporary belief in God, the historical and eternal Jesus of Nazareth and the challenges of being Anglican Christians in the mystery of the twenty-first century.
"The Anglican Church Grammar School (Churchie) is an independent School for dayboys and boarders with 1700 students from Reception to Year 12.
OUR MISSION: To develop young men of character, to lead and serve their community through a learning environment which aids their intellectual, spiritual, moral and personal growth.
OUR VALUES: The following behavioural and learning values define the spirit of Churchie and the School's traditions and ethos."
"Cannon Hill Anglican College (CHAC) is a dynamic co-educational Christian learning community for Years 4 to 12. We strive to offer a balanced and holistic educational environment, in order to develop the intellectual, social, physical, emotional, aesthetic and spiritual dimensions of each of our members.
MISSION: Cannon Hill Anglican College is a dynamic Christian learning community which strives to offer a balanced and holistic educational environment, in order to develop the intellectual, social, physical, emotional, aesthetic and spiritual dimensions of each of its members."
The Diocese of Brisbane includes an area of more than half a million square kilometers and is home to more than two million Queenslanders. To serve our community within this region we have 467 clergy and 305 churches.
ABM wants to see people everywhere experience the wholeness of life God offers in Jesus Christ, and to this end support our Partners as they participate in God's mission."
AngliCORD is an overseas relief and development agency of the Anglican Church of Australia. Inspired by the Gospel of Christ, AngliCORD's vision is for a peaceful, just and sustainable world for all.
- inspire Australians to be compassionate, involved and responsible global citizens."
This is a voluntary, non-profit society made up of people in Australia and overseas who share a common concern for those in need. Members include bishops, housewives, schoolboys, and pensioners, all united in a common cause - the relief of need in the Name of Christ.
You are welcome to stay for morning tea that follows the 9.00am service.


From the Syria conflict to modern terrorism and from suffragette surgeons to war art, IWM Short Film Festival presents an imaginative, edgy and challenging selection of films responding to past and contemporary conflict.
The festival shows documentaries, dramas and animations by filmmakers from all over the world. The screenings explore themes from displacement to fear, and the special evening events offer an insight into the challenges of documenting terror and a chance to experience hostile environment training.
Six awards will be given out to remarkable films, and at each screening you can cast your vote for the Audience Vote Award. Filmmakers will also be in with a chance of having their film screened at Picturehouse cinemas.
The Festival is part of Age of Terror: Art Since 9/11, a major exhibition season showcasing contemporary artists' responses to war and conflict since the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001.
Here is the brilliant promo film that gives an insight into the quality of the entries!


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Q: Illegal string offset in a function in PHP I have this PHP function:
function editDatas($datas, $got, $to_find, $to_replace) {
    foreach($datas['datas'] as $key => $rows) {
        foreach($rows as $number => $row) {
            if($row['id'] == $got) {
                $datas['datas'][$key][$number][$to_find] = $to_replace;
                return $datas;
            }
        }
    }
}

And this call:
$datas = json_decode(file_get_contents('datas.json'), true);
$datas = editDatas($datas, 'hotel_name', "value", 'My new hotel name');

My json is actually like this:
{
    "datas": [
        {
            "category": "General",
            "id": "hotel_name",
            "type": "input",
            "maxlength": "15",
            "size": "10",
            "label": "Hotel name",
            "help": "Hotel name",
            "value": "Rubi's hotel"
        },
        ...

I'm trying to replace some value in my json.
The problem I'm facing is this error:
Illegal string offset 'id' in line 33

Which is the following in my function:
if($row['id'] == $got) {

I do not understand why because the id is know.
Could you please help me to solve my problem.
Thanks.

A: Think again how and where you are iterating.
foreach($datas['datas'] as $key => $rows) {
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A: I think your function has one too many loops in it. Try this:
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A: First of all please print the array after json_decode using print_r function You will get your answer.


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San Francisco Ballet Releases a New Dance Film Directed By Benjamin Millepied: Dance of Dreams
SAN FRANCISCO BALLET RELEASES A NEW DANCE FILM DIRECTED BY BENJAMIN MILLEPIED:
DANCE OF DREAMS
Justin Peck, Dwight Rhoden, Janie Taylor, and Christopher Wheeldon contribute choreography to the film shot in iconic San Francisco locations
Available on SF Ballet @ Home, YouTube, Facebook, and IGTV beginning at 12 noon U.S. PDT on August 13, 2020
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, July 31, 2020—San Francisco Ballet announces the premiere of Dance of Dreams, a new dance film directed by Benjamin Millepied, featuring San Francisco Ballet dancers performing choreography by Justin Peck, Dwight Rhoden, Janie Taylor, and Christopher Wheeldon. Filmed in iconic San Francisco locations including the Palace of Fine Arts and the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, the new six-minute film is set to "Scène D'Amour" by Bernard Hermann from Vertigo, Alfred Hitchcock's San Francisco–based thriller film from 1958, played by members of SF Ballet Orchestra. "The connection of this company to the people of San Francisco is so strong. It's a die-hard audience," says director Benjamin Millepied. "Dance of Dreams is a moment of dancing, a moment of reconnecting dancers to the city and the thing they love most." Click here to see the film trailer. "Here in San Francisco, we're still sheltering in place and I wanted to explore new work under these circumstances. Dance of Dreams celebrates San Francisco, while giving our dancers the freedom to move outdoors in some of the most beautiful landscapes in the Bay Area, and with choreography by some of the finest choreographers of our time," says SF Ballet Artistic Director Helgi Tomasson. "Benjamin [Millepied] felt like a natural fit to direct this project. I am thrilled to be able to work with him in a capacity that integrates his background in film and cinematography with dance."
Dance of Dreams offers a glimpse of San Francisco as the city enters its fifth month of shelter-in-place restrictions. The film is choreographed for six dancers, including solos for Principal Dancers Joseph Walsh and Frances Chung, choreographed by Peck and Taylor, respectively; and pas de deux for Soloists Ellen Rose Hummel and Daniel Deivison-Oliveira, choreographed by Rhoden, and Soloist Madison Keesler and Principal Dancer Benjamin Freemantle, choreographed by Wheeldon. SF Ballet Orchestra Music Director Martin West mixed and mastered the recording, which incorporates more than 150 tracks recorded remotely by more than 60 musicians from the Orchestra. With this project, the Company enters an era of unprecedented digital engagement via uncharted territories, grappling with what is lost while ushering in new future possibilities. Millepied and all of the choreographers generously donated their time, working remotely from their respective locales.
The film begins with Joseph Walsh on the grounds of the iconic San Francisco Art Institute in movements that suggest a yearning for what the past and future hold: community, connection, and love. Shifting to an evening scene beside the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco's foggy weather greets Hummel and Deivison-Oliveira, leading to Chung in solitude against the rugged shores of Sausalito. Among the swells and sonorities of Hermann's "Scène D'Amour," the film ends at the Palace of Fine Arts, a location featured in the film Vertigo. Keesler and Freemantle offer a closing pas de deux—an ode to perseverance through challenging times.
Social distancing rules were observed during the filming process, and the pas de deux are danced by dancers who have been sheltered in place together. Dance of Dreams will be available to the public at 12 noon U.S. PDT on August 13, 2020 on SF Ballet @ Home, YouTube, Facebook, and IGTV.
Millepied and Tomasson's professional relationship began two decades ago at New York City Ballet (NYCB), when Millepied danced a principal role in Tomasson's Prism as part of NYCB's 2000 Diamond Project IV. Millepied began choreographing while at New York City Ballet and created his first work for SF Ballet—set to John Adams' "The Chairman Dances"—in 2017. He is now Artistic Director of L.A. Dance Project, and his career has expanded to include filmmaking; he founded The Amoveo Company, a multimedia production company, in 2012. For Dance of Dreams, Millepied selected the music and settings; Tomasson invited the participation of the four choreographers whose work the film features
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Thomas Kurian, Oracle's president of product development, speats at Oracle's 2013 OpenWorld conference in San Francisco.
"He's taking some time off. We expect him to return soon," a spokeswoman wrote in an email.
Kurian joined Oracle from McKinsey in 1996 and has held his current position, president of product development, since 2015. He has regularly appeared at company conferences. He has been described as "arguably the most important person at Oracle not named Larry Ellison." His twin brother George Kurian is president and CEO of NetApp.
Kurian, who reports to executive chairman and chief technology officer Larry Ellison, has been in charge of software development, as well as taking Oracle's own technology to the cloud, according to a biography on the company's website. "Under his leadership, that business [Fusion Middleware] became the fastest-growing within Oracle and the industry's leading middleware product suite," the biography says.
Kurian boasts on his LinkedIn profile that his organization contains 35,000 people in 32 countries — about one-fourth of Oracle's entire employee base.


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Four hackers charged with stealing $100m worth of U.S. Army and Xbox technology
By Will Fulton September 30, 2014
The United States Department of Justice has charged four hackers with computer fraud and copyright infringement for stealing over $100 million worth of intellectual property and proprietary data related to Xbox. The stolen data includes pre-release copies of games like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, and Apache helicopter training software being developed for the U.S. Army (via The Guardian).
Two of the four hackers, David Pokora and Sanadodeh Nesheiwat, have pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit computer fraud and copyright infringement. The 18-count indictment also charges Nathan Leroux and Austin Alcala with participating in the conspiracy, along with an unnamed Australian national. The investigation is ongoing, and authorities claim that half a dozen other individuals may be involved.
The hackers, ranging in age from 18 to 28, are alleged to be part of a group called the Xbox Underground. The group gained access to the computer networks of various gaming companies, including the Seattle-based Zombie Studios, which had been contracted by the U.S. Army to develop flight simulation training software for Apache helicopters.
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Once inside they stole copies of unreleased software, source code, trade secrets, and financial information about the various companies. Supposedly the group stole plans for the Xbox One and sold counterfeit copies prior to the console's release.
The FBI began tracking the group in 2011 with the cooperation of the gaming companies when a confidential informant tipped them off. Pokora, the group's alleged leader and a Canadian national, was taken into custody in March at the border crossing in Lewiston, New York. His plea is believed to the first actual conviction of a foreign individual for hacking into American businesses and stealing trade secrets, setting important precedents in a time of mounting paranoia that our companies, journalistic entities, and government agencies are under constant, digital assault from foreign agents.
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MediHub TV at large hospitals | Photo: MediHub
Ecosystem addresses major pain-points in healthcare provision.
by Khanh Chi
Jio Health & Bao Viet Phu My partner in digital healthcare and health insurance
Doctor Anywhere & Bao Minh partner in healthcare digitalization
Manulife launches health and wellness platform
MediHub is now the only company in Vietnam to own a health information and communications technology (ICT) ecosystem appreciated for its uniqueness, breadth, and value.
Digital transformation in health education
According to Mr. Nguyen The Dinh, CEO of MediHub, with the health ICT ecosystem it aims to address three major pain-points in healthcare - low health literacy among patients, a lack of sharing among specialists, and a lack of professional training for pharmacists - by providing integrated digital platforms for health education and engagement by patients, physicians, pharmacists, and healthcare corporations for better health in Vietnam.
The MediHub model starts with the patient journey, where people can find trusted healthcare education and engage with healthcare professionals via the MediHub.vn social network. When waiting at hospitals and clinics, they can watch educational videos on MediHub TV, access healthcare articles, and surf the internet with high-speed M-WiFi Free.
To support people to proactively prepare financial solutions for chronic diseases and accidents in life, MediHub has also partnered with Generali, the largest life insurer in Europe, to provide consultation on life insurance packages.
For physicians and pharmacists, MediHub has built two mobile apps - MDCom for physicians and PharmaCom for pharmacists - to create an online community sharing knowledge and experience. It also provides continuing medical / pharmaceutical education in cooperation with medical universities and associations with curriculum, lectures, and official certification, and publishes e-books and medical journals providing medical updates. These mobile apps are the pioneer in Vietnam and activities help improve treatment efficiency when patients come to hospitals or clinics and pharmacies.
Widening potential
From a report presented at the Galang Growth Asia Health Tech Summit 2019, it is clear that Vietnam has the lowest share in terms of healthtech ecosystems and investment compared to other countries in Asia.
The government is encouraging the entire country to apply technology and innovation, including in the medical sector. The Ministry of Health is focusing on major issues to build Electronic Medical Records (EMR). Health management solutions, meanwhile, encourage healthtech companies to work with other digitalized and IT solutions.
"MediHub posted a 650 per cent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) from 2016 to 2019," Mr. Dinh said. "Its channels have reached more than 3.5 million people each month. PharmaCom has gained more than 4,000 top pharmacies as members, while MDCom will conduct the first online training course for 2,000 GPs on diabetes treatment, and also train more than 1,000 members of the Stroke Association. We have also partnered with leading medical universities and associations, 40 special and first-class hospitals, and multinational pharmaceutical companies."
The company sees growth in mobile, internet, and social network use in Vietnam. Its niche social network will connect people with healthcare providers, private health insurance, and telemedicine, while its B2B2C marketplace will have potential over the next three years.
"However, the most challenging this for us is to convince healthcare providers to cooperate and then encourage people to join our platform, so that we don't have to spend too much on a marketing budget," Mr. Dinh added.
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Russian Avant-Garde
Ghent museum director under fire from Flemish museums
Catherine de Zegher faces fresh criticism after staging show of dubious Russian avant-garde works
Simon Hewitt
7th March 2018 13:18 BST
UPDATE: Catherine de Zegher was suspended from her position as director of Ghent's Museum voor Schone Kunsten on 7 March.
Detail of painting presented in Ghent as Pavel Filonov's Supreme Being (1914) Fondation Dieleghem
Catherine de Zegher, the beleaguered director of Ghent's Museum voor Schone Kunsten (MSK), has been hit by fresh criticism as she strives to defend herself over staging an exhibition of dubious Russian avant-garde art.
De Zegher's handling of the affair was criticised by the heads of four top Flemish museums and 12 other leading Flemish culture officials in a joint statement issued on 5 March.
"We explicitly distance ourselves from the manner in which the MSK has acted," they wrote. De Zegher's preparatory research was "sub-standard and lacking in care". She had "blatantly flouted all deontological codes" and her 'utter lack of transparency and refusal to accept responsibility' had 'comprised the MSK's own integrity and that of Flemish museums as a whole.'
De Zegher retaliated with an e-mail to over 60 Flemish culture officials, damning the Statement as "based on a manipulated story in the (Russian) press, and not on reality".
Her talk of manipulation echoed Igor Toporovsky, the Russian-born art collector who gave the problematic works to the museum on long-term loan. In an interview with L'Echo on 1 March, he claimed to be the victim an "unprecedented manipulation of public opinion orchestrated from abroad"—accusing Russian Avant-Garde collector Petr Aven, who had publicly criticised the works, of seeking to "discredit" his collection.
Aven tells The Art Newspaper that Toporovsky's allegations were "funny and absurd".
In the most recent development, De Zegher was summoned to meet Ghent politicians on 5 March. She told them that her 35 years as a curator (albeit in the field of contemporary art) qualified her to recognise fakes, and claimed that the Toporovsky Collection had also been approved by the art historians Magdalena Dabrowski and Noemi Smolik.
Both women have told The Art Newpaper they wished to distance themselves from the Toporovsky Collection, which Smolik bluntly dismisses as 'fake.'
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Thomas Gainsborough: Experiments in Drawing
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Celebrated as the most notable portrait and landscape painter of Georgian England, Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) was also a brilliant and experimental draftsman. Published to accompany the exhibition Thomas Gainsborough: Experiments in Drawing at the Morgan Library & Museum, which has one of the richest holdings of Gainsborough drawings in the United States, this book offers an overview of his work as a draftsman and elucidates his technical innovations and his mastery of materials.
William Jackson, one of Gainsborough's closest friends and biographers, noted that if he had "to rest his [Gainsborough's] reputation on one point, it should be on his Drawings." Gainsborough was indeed a draftsman of rare talent and creativity, and his experiments in drawing inspired an entire generation of British artists, from John Constable (1776–1837) to J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851).
When not occupied with his lucrative portrait business, Gainsborough devoted much of his time to his true passion, the depiction of landscapes, and more than 600 of the artist's approximately 800 surviving drawings depict the British countryside. Like most artists from his generation, Gainsborough did not draw directly from nature but instead re-invented landscape "of his own brain," laying out on his work table stones, branches, leaves, and soil of various colors. His passion for drawing extended to technical experimentation. Gainsborough mixed different kind of media and invented recipes to make drawings in his own personal fashion. He would sometimes immerse his drawing paper in milk or varnish it to give his landscapes a lucent tint.
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State of the TBR March 2021 plus many book confessions #ReadIndies #Dewithon21 @atilatstokbroka	Book reviews – Chris McMillan – "The London Dream" and Pete Lindsay, Mark Bowden – "Pig Wrestling" #NetGalley #TheLondonDream
Book review – Christine Burns (ed.) – "Trans Britain: Our Journey from the Shadows" #ReadIndies #LGBTHM21
I read this book, published by the excellent crowdfunded publisher Unbound (I would have contributed to this one's campaign had I know about it – from the batch I'm currently supporting I'm realising how long the lead-in times are so this one was in progress before I'd found the publisher) for Kaggsysbookishramblings and LizzySiddal's "Read Indies month" and fortunately they have allowed a small overlap into March so everyone can fit in all their reviews! It also fit in with LGBTQIA+ History Month as I read most of it, all but the last two chapters, during that month. Out of these four books bought at the same time, I've read two, this one and "Mother Country", so far.
Christine Burns (ed.) – "Trans Britain: Our Journey from the Shadows"
A fascinating and deeply important book charting the history of trans people in the UK (taking in, by careful definition, transgender people, those who cross-dress and people who do not identify as gender binary, as these groups of people have been mixed up both inside and outside their respective movements, included and excluded one another and generally intertwined in their histories and organisations). All of the chapters are by people who are trans or non-binary (or all) or those who are closely involved with these communities and can offer a different and valuable viewpoint: the practitioner in a gender clinic, the parent of a trans child who helped found the Mermaids charity, the MP who campaigned for trans rights and was instrumental in getting laws changed. Most voices are from the communities themselves, however.
The book opens with a long set of introductions to the earlier histories of trans people, those who have already passed on but left some kind of record. Interesting issues of class come up here, with early upper class people perhaps better able to do what they needed to do and express themselves in their correct genders than the working class (I didn't see anything about intersections with race in this book, which is quite clearly asking for a new book including that aspect). Then there are three sections, Survival, Activism and Growth, which chart the progression of trans and other communities from the early days of tracking down books or finding scraps of information in otherwise prurient and unpleasant media coverage (here I will acknowledge my cis-gender privilege of being able to talk about reading this book without having to worry about outing myself). In Activism people start to come together, showing the power of the Internet age, which has made the "sudden" flourishing and visibility of a group of people who have always been there possible as they were simply able to find each other; there is important charting of earlier collectives which relied on printed newsletters, phone calls and meetings. In Growth we learn about new initiatives to watch the media, change the law and embrace an increasing range of gender identities.
The set of essays is bookended by two stories of transition, Adrienne Nash's early struggle to even communicate with a doctor contrasting with Stephanie Hirst's seemingly smoother and better supported transition recently. A small group of activists, including Christine Burns, is credited with so much work early on, and we learn about gradual and hard work on the law, religion, personal identity, human rights and more. I hadn't realised matters around marriage and birth certificates were quite so complicated, a horrible mess ensuing in the 60s with one divorce case which reversed in one stroke the ability to change a birth certificate, and even equal marriage didn't seem to sort out the jumble of inequitable laws. There are interesting comments about the framework of laws being the impetus for societal change in favour of all protected groups of people and I do hope that is so, because 1 in 100 people are trans, which means we all must know a few trans folk (I certainly and happily do). I was struck by another statistic, that a third of people experience themselves as non-gender-binary in whatever form that takes, having never particularly felt massively woman-like myself, with a much smaller percentage expressing that identity.
The non-trans people in the book reminded me of the White people in "The Good Immigrant USA" taking it upon themselves as allies to explain, for example, the history of the Charing Cross Clinic, in Dr Stuart Lorimer's case, or explaining their path from misapprehension to greater understanding in Dr Lynne Jones (ex-MP)'s case. I was moved by the fact that Dr Lorimer is a friend of a friend and Dr Jones was my MP for some of the time that's detailed in her chapter! Importantly, it did not feel that the trans narratives were being somehow legitimated or dominated by these few cis-gender narratives. Each one spoke to specific lived experience that I don't think could have been covered by a trans writer on the topic. Dr Lorimer pops up later, and movingly, as one of the many examples of supportive people, helping Mark Rees (who bravely took his case to the European Court of Human Rights) to get his gender recognition certificate in later life.The book does not sweeten the pill of trolling, abuse, vile reporting and systematic exclusion from human rights, but the moments of joy and support are equally covered and important.
This is recommended reading, a great counter argument to narratives that have been damaging the cause of assigning equal rights and protection to trans and non-binary people. There is dissent within the movements covered and different opinions are expressed in the essays, but it's a rich and important read that many could benefit from. I would be interested to read reviews by trans and non-binary people, or their thoughts on this book; please share if you have any links!
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You do like your thrillers, don't you? So marvellous to have something to just dive into and forget the world, especially if it's a prolific author. Happy reading!
What a fascinating book, Liz! Unbound are great though I do agree about the lead in times – I supported The Philosopher Queens and had almost forgot about it when it arrived! ;D
It really is and I'm going to lend it around / encourage people to buy it. I missed the PQs too as just before my time. But it's amazing how many Unbound books I also find my way to buying as just normal books rather than subscribing!
This does indeed sound like a fascinating and important book.
Yes, it was both, and an eye-opener, too, I certainly learned some things from it.
Omg Liz I love this book review so much! Added to my tbr list for sure. I want to learn more about trans history globally so this book looks like a great fit, and I appreciate how you name the intersection of class – in my clinical experience and from seeing how this plays out with friends/acquaintances having access to hormones, surgeries, etc. can be so class-dependent which is frustrating (and thank you for naming the necessary intersection with race that other books hopefully will continue to address). What you wrote about not super identifying as a woman resonates with me; as I write in my most recent post I'm kind of eh about being a man so I'm exploring my gender flexible/trans identity right now. Hope you are doing well!
I think you would find this really interesting to add to your international knowledge on this topic – there is mention of US stuff but it's mainly UK-based and it's great to have such a big resource. I was indeed reassured to find there are lots of people who don't identify with being their assigned gender without identifying as being a different one – always nice to know you're not alone!
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