All is fair in love and design – submerge yourself in design at Blickfang

If summer in Zurich is all about festivals, fall and winter are all about fairs and exhibitions. Zurich looooves hosting fairs. There’s a fair for all tastes: shopping, wine, travel, motorcycles, gardening… and why not? After all, late fall and winter in Zurich generally bring fairly low temperatures, so finding something to do indoors seems like a good way to spend a few hours, doesn’t it?

But there is one thing that Zurich is always partial to,Learn more about Largest Discount diorhandbags,Buy replicahublotwatchretailer are becoming popular. and that’s design. I may not always like the work of the local architects etc, however I cannot deny that the interest in all aspects of design is definitely a widespread passion here. Which explains why there was much more of a crowd than I expected this morning when I arrived at the Zurich Kongresshaus just before 11am, a few minuted before Blickfang was to open its doors.

Blickfang is a design fair that happens only one weekend a year, in 4 European cities: Stuttgart, Basel, Zurich and Vienna. Attendees can browse through (and shop for) a wide variety of merchandise spanning all aspects of design: interior decor, furniture, fabrics, clothing and accessories, jewelry, and other odds and ends. The fair also includes fashion shows and product demonstrations, and most of the exhibitors are incredibly friendly and will welcome inquiries and chances to discuss their products, making it more or less heaven for a lifestyle blogger!
I made a point of visiting it on Friday because I wanted to be able to take pictures and browse without having to navigate a large crowd, but unfortunately it turned out that not all booths were quite ready by the time the doors opened,Admittedly,discountcoachhandbags, seven of his 15 Test victories came against Bangladesh and Zimbabwe. so next year I will have to visit later in the afternoon or on Friday evening (when I can also catch a fashion show!)

However there was still plenty to see, and much of it to my taste, especially clothing and accessories – and just by the sheer amount of gorgeous leather handbags I laid my eyes on, Blickfang was worth the ticket price. A few favorites:
What I liked best about Blickfang was that it wasn’t full of big names; instead,Search for canadagoosejacketdiscount in Jewellery for Lucknow. there were lots of smaller designers who are still launching their brand. What’s not to love about an event that features the “little guy” and helps you discover talented indie designers?

Also,rolexuhrenshop English dubbed anime online. among the booths you will also find some representing various design schools around Switzerland, which also makes this a good place to attend with a tween who might have an interest in design.
Want to see more? Blickfang will be open all weekend, from 11am to 10pm (7pm on Sunday).

The tickets can be purchased on side or at one of these locations around Zurich and Lucerne; daily tickets are priced at 23 Francs and include public transportation for the day in Zone 10.
Discounted tickets (for students) and multi-day tickets are also available.
Children under 12 can enter for free; I chose to take Stella with me when visiting the fair, but if you prefer, you can also avail yourself of the complementary childcare service.

Spotted Horses in Cave Art Weren’t Just a Figment, DNA Shows

Roughly 25,000 years ago in what is now southwestern France, human beings walked deep into a cave and left their enduring marks. Using materials like sticks, charcoal and iron oxides,Live Cycle Wholesale CK Men Sweater for sale for men and ladies . they painted images of animals on the cave walls and ceilings — lions and mammoths and spotted horses, walking and grazing and congregating in herds.

Today, the art at the Pech-Merle cave,Buy cheap high quality cheap a&f men down jackets whoelesale online Watches, and in hundreds of others across Europe, is a striking testimony to human creativity well before modern times.

But what were these cave paintings, exactly? Were prehistoric artists simply sketching what they saw each day on the landscape? Or were the images more symbolic, diverging from reality or representing rare or even mystical creatures? Such questions have divided archaeologists for years.

Now, a group of researchers has used distinctly modern techniques to help decipher the mystery,Market Wholesale Prada Men Sweater for sale feedback Forum Talk. at least in the case of Pech-Merle’s famous spotted horses.Cheap Tommy Men Underwear Online cartier mens pasha seatimer watches. By comparing the DNA of modern horses and those that lived during the Stone Age, scientists have determined that these drawings are a realistic depiction of an animal that coexisted with the artists.

The research, published online on Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, grew out of an effort to discern the coat colors of ancient horses to help figure out when the animals were domesticated, a pivotal moment in the development of human societies. In general, domesticated species exist in a far greater variety of colors than wild ones, so understanding color variation in fossil animals can help pinpoint the timing.

Previous research on DNA from the bones and teeth of horses that lived 7,000 to 20,000 years ago showed that those animals were either black or bay (a brown coat with a black mane and tail).There are tons of discount Expedition Parka sale around nys. That work was published in the journal Science in 2009. Since then, geneticists have deciphered the underlying code for the spotted pattern, known as leopard, in modern horses. So the scientists went back to their samples, looking for the leopard sequence in horses that lived in Europe 11,000 to 15,000 years ago.

“There is a striking correspondence between the coat-color patterns of horses painted in Paleolithic caves of France with what geneticists found in the genotypes” — the specific genetic sequences — “of color genes,” said Hopi E. Hoekstra, an evolutionary biologist at Harvard who studies pigmentation. Dr. Hoekstra was not involved in the study but called it “very convincing.”

An author of the study, Michael Hofreiter, an evolutionary biologist at the University of York in England, said: “Why they took the effort making these beautiful paintings will always remain a miracle to us.

“It’s an enigma, but it’s also nice to see that if we go back 25,000 years, people didn’t have much technology and life was probably hard, but nevertheless they already endeavored in producing art. It tells us a lot about ourselves as a species.”

Extracting DNA from such old material is a complex process, and the potential for contamination is huge. Early studies of Neanderthal DNA were marred by contamination from humans, and led to skepticism about the field’s future.

OSU apparel sales take a hit due to football team’s woes

The success of the Ohio State football team affects more than just its standings, in some cases it affects dollars and cents.

OSU apparel sales in the campus area tend to mimic the team's performance.

Sales have dropped about 25 to 30 percent from last year at College Traditions, a university-merchandise store on Lane Avenue, shopowner Kelly Dawes estimated.

Dawes said there has been a decrease in fall sales, which is the store's best-selling season.

"You just have to adjust," Dawes said. "Our sales are directly affected by wins and losses; it's just one of those years."

College Traditions' best-selling months are September through December, Dawes said.

"The last couple years with the basketball team getting stronger, our numbers are a little better," Dawes said. "But still, football brings in the majority of the business."

College Traditions continues to sell sweater-vests and No. 2 jerseys, but they are not selling at the rate they were when Jim Tressel was coach and Terrelle Pryor was a quarterback for the Buckeyes, Dawes said.

At College Traditions, prices for the No. 2 jersey remain the same as other screen printed jerseys, $59.99. Sweater-vests are $55.

Conrads College Gifts, located near College Traditions on Lane Avenue, has also seen changes in its sales numbers, said Rob Cohen, co-owner of Conrads.

Although the store still sells sweater-vests, Cohen said they no longer have No. 2 jerseys after putting them on sale.Thirty pages into the book Wholesale hollister mens jeans sale has not done anything recently. Conrads reduced the price of the No. 2 jerseys to $19.88 following the departure of Pryor.

"People still like Tressel and come in and miss him," Cohen said. "We're not ordering deep in (sweater-vests), just taking it day by day."

Cohen agreed that football games and Christmas are his best selling seasons, but said December is probably better in terms of sales.

"When Ohio State's winning, the fans are pumped up and they're more excited and they will purchase more items," Cohen said. "We are tied to the team and how well the team does.Sale Women Canada Goose Expedition Parka 50% off online store for sale."

Conrads makes about 80 percent more on a Saturday compared to the rest of the week, Cohen said. Conrads did not release sales numbers.You are really handsome wearing the canada goose citadel parka jackets.

Jenna Backus, a fourth-year in strategic communication, said she has noticed a slight decrease in foot traffic at The Official Team Shop store in the Schottenstein Center, where she has been working for more than a year.

Backus said she thinks businesses selling OSU items have nothing to worry about.We need the Department of Cheapest Jackets & Outwear Online green to decorate our line of sight.

Some businesses haven't seen a drop off in sales, despite the football team's issues off the field.

Ryan Vesler, creative director of Homage, said the company's sales have remained consistent.

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