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20 Interesting places in Moscow - You have to visit

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20 Interesting places in Moscow - You have to visit

Luxurious and tsarist Moscow has always attracted numerous tourists. Its majestic Cathedrals, Churches, modern architectural structures, unique metro stations, parks, gardens, avenues and boulevards are of great spiritual value to Russia. Every corner of the city is saturated with the spirit of the history of our country. You can’t see the whole city in one trip. Therefore, it will be right to pre-compose a crib for yourself in the most interesting places in Moscow.

Kremlin and Red Square

In the center of Moscow, on the high bank of the river, the main building of the capital, the Kremlin, has been rising for a long time. The architectural ensemble consists of a fortress, buildings of cathedrals, temples, palaces with royal chambers, squares, streets. The powerful walls of the fortress are guarded by 20 towers, among which there are no identical ones. For several centuries, the towers are symbols of the Russian state. The ensemble includes 8 Cathedrals. Among them, one of the main cathedrals of the Russian state is the Assumption.

The ceremonial coronations of emperors and wedding ceremonies were held here. The Kremlin is the oldest square in Moscow Cathedral. Being on it, you can see the Patriarchal Chambers, the Assumption, Annunciation, Arkhangelsk Cathedrals, the Church of the Twelve Apostles, the Faceted Chamber, the bell tower of Ivan the Great. Now the residence of the president is in the Kremlin, museums are working. One of them is the Moscow Kremlin State Historical and Cultural Reserve. The museum hosts interesting excursions, telling about the times of the White Stone, Brick Kremlin.

It is proposed to go through the Spasskaya Tower and Red Square. The square is often called the heart of the city, its soul. A silent witness to the fateful events of the country, surrounded by majestic architectural monuments. In ancient times tsar’s decrees sounded on the frontal place of the square. Rulers came out through the Spassky Gate, troops went to war. Locals called this place “beautiful or red.” Since 1661, under the royal decree, the square received the official name “Red”.

Now it is considered one of the most beautiful squares in the world. The fabulous St. Basil’s Cathedral, sparkling with folk patterns, the Kremlin towers, the famous bell ringing, preserved its historical atmosphere, the spirit of great Russian power. Attraction address: metro station “Alexander Garden”, Kremlin, Red Square.

Kremlin in Izmailovo

The historical and architectural complex in Izmailovo appeared on the site of artisans workshops that lived under Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich of the “pre-Petrine” era of the capital. The original ensemble was erected in the image of the ideas of Vernisage Izmailovo. In the center of culture and entertainment there are excursions, holidays, Russian-style meals in restaurants, cafes. Visitors are offered dishes of ancient Russian cuisine. Of particular interest is the acquaintance with the traditions, culture, and crafts of the peoples of Russia.

Subscribe to our channel in Telegram, where we daily post the most last-minute tours and flights. During a walk through the territory of the ensemble, it is proposed to independently test the technique of many folk crafts: felting from felt, pottery, baking bread, making blacksmiths. The architectural style of the complex in Izmailovo is a synthesis of the best options for the Kremlin that existed on Russian land at different times. The buildings of the Tsar’s residence, made according to the drawings, drawings of the XVI and XVII centuries (the main ones were the Church of St. Nicholas and the Palace of the Russian meal) were an example of buildings.

In the Palace, created by the imagination of architects and decorated with numerous elements of a real royal dwelling, 10 banquet halls are offered. From balconies, windows, galleries overlooking the square, where the main events of the Kremlin. There are several interesting museums on the territory (Bread, the Russian Navy, the history of vodka, Russian folk toys, the museum of miniatures “World History in Plasticine”, etc.).

Cathedral of Christ the Savior

The architectural monument was created in honor of the victory in the war with Napoleon. Blown up during the Stalinist regime, he received a second life at the end of the last century. The cathedral is considered the main temple of Russia. It hosts divine services with the participation of the Patriarch of All Russia, meetings of bishops’ councils, and church forums. From a historical point of view, the Temple serves as a unique museum that stores important events of an entire era of Russia, a memorial of Russian military glory.

The original idea of a temple dedicated to the Savior was proposed by the first architect, Alexander Vitberg. In terms of grandeur, the building was to surpass the famous Cathedral of Peter and Paul in Rome. The Cathedral is located near the Kremlin. The restored interior is represented by numerous images of the graces of the Lord, the figures of saints, Russian princes who did not spare their lives in the fight against the enemy for their homeland.

The names of the brave heroes of the battles of 1812 are written on a marble board at the bottom of the gallery. The Shishkinsky porphyry, Italian marble, Labrador stone, precious stones, gold leaf were used in the design of the Cathedral. Now in the huge hall of the Cathedral are Christmas trees for children for the New Year. Along with excursions, it is proposed to visit the observation platforms of the Cathedral. The Kremlin is clearly visible from one of them.

Arbat

It is proposed to plunge into the atmosphere of the old city, to feel the spirit of the bygone centuries while walking along the Old Arbat. Its alleys, small courtyards evoke emotion to the sounds of the famous songs of Bulat Okudzhava. Each step along the Arbat passes surrounded by buildings, places connected with the life history of many famous personalities. For example, relatives of Natalia Goncharova (Pushkin’s muses) lived in house No. 4 (behind the Prague restaurant). In the house number 53 was the headquarters of the poet.

The first time the newlyweds lived in it. In honor of the 200th anniversary of Pushkin, a monument to a couple who showed the power of great love was erected next to him. Opposite the monument to Gogol is the famous Mosselprom house. The real place of pilgrimage was the wall of memory of Viktor Tsoi. The first mention of the street exists since 1493. The road to Smolensk passed along it.

Buildings in the Empire style appeared on it in the 19th century. At the end of the XIX century, it became a trading one, many buildings passed into the possession of merchants, apartment buildings appeared. At the beginning of the 20th century, writers, musicians, artists, theater and film workers moved here. The Vakhtangov State Theater is located on this street. Now it is at the same time a museum, a market with trendy shops, restaurants. The pedestrian section “Old Arbat” begins at the metro station “Arbat” or “Smolenskaya”.

VDNH

In honor of the 20th anniversary of Soviet power in 1939, an unusual exhibition was opened in Moscow showing the achievements of Soviet industry in various fields. The city of dreams of Soviet people among pavilions, fountains, sculptures, park alleys, stadiums, created by the possibilities of the Soviet economy in all regions of the country. Each republic sought to show its best achievements in the pavilions of the exhibition. It was possible to see the possibilities of Russia only in this place.

Therefore, everyone wanted to visit VDNH. An invariable symbol of the victory of socialism was the famous sculpture by Mukhina “Worker and Collective Farm Girl”. Now VDNH is considered the largest entertainment and educational ensemble in Russia. Along with the restored old pavilions, modern buildings appeared dedicated to space exploration and cybernetics. On the territory of the exhibition there are 49 buildings recognized as masterpieces of architecture and included in the lists of monuments of cultural heritage.

Parks, alleys, ponds, beautiful flower beds allow you to spend your holidays in an extraordinary relaxing atmosphere. Expositions from the best products of various sectors of the economy are constantly held. Sounds music concerts, works from literary evenings. The largest aquarium of the country, the village of fishermen, rides with a huge ferris wheel, a green theater are open for visitors. In winter, a large ice rink is poured.

In summer, it is proposed to ride a bike, try your hand at the rope park, play table tennis, badminton. Hire of scooters, rollers, bicycles works regularly. The main entrance is located on the side of Mira Avenue. It is easiest to arrive by metro to the VDNH station.

Hermitage Garden

In Moscow, there are over 100 parks, gardens used for walking, entertainment. Among them, the Hermitage rest area in the Karetny Ryad occupies a special place. This year, the famous garden turned 125 years old. Alleys of the monument of landscape gardening art, its theaters, stages, pavilions filled with Muscovites heard the voices of Chaliapin and Nezhdanova. The music of Rachmaninov was admired by the play of Sarah Bernhardt, Komissarzhevskaya, Ermolova. Here in 1898 the Moscow Art Theater opened.

His first performances were Tsar Fedor Ivanovich, the premiere of Chekhov’s plays. A year after the opening in Shchukinsky Park (named after the creator and the main financier during the creation of the park), the first movie screening in Moscow at the Lumiere brothers cinema took place here. In the Mirror Theater, the first game, What? Where? When?”. There are many interesting sculptural groups in the garden. Among them is the monument to all lovers “Silver Heart”, erected in 2006.

Now the Hermitage Garden is the center of the summer variety, touring life of the city. Three theaters are located in a small area: the Hermitage, the New Opera, and the Sphere. In summer, the SUMMER TIMES is a silent open-air cinema (the sound is broadcast through the headphones). On a large lawn are inflatable bright ottomans. In winter, an ice rink is poured in their place.

Patriarch’s Ponds

The name of the place evokes memories of ancient times, mysticism, and riddles that lived here before the appearance of Moscow. As if the priests of the ancient cult of the pagans are still hiding in the place of the Goat’s swamp and conduct their rites on the banks of one of the surviving ponds. According to local legends, these are the souls of the drowned (victims of the actions of the priests) formed a mystical place here. In the middle of the 20th century, a gang of hypnotists worked on ponds.

Perhaps the presence of evil spirits contributed to the creation of the famous work “The Master and Margarita.” After the formation of the Patriarch’s Sloboda, the ponds began to be called patriarchal ponds by the efforts of the patriarch Germogen. He drained the swamp, built churches, dug three fish ponds in his own residence. For a long time, the ponds were abandoned (after the abolition of the patriarchate), two were filled up, and the third was restored in 2003. An important motive was the construction of the elite Patriarch’s house.

According to the My Street program, an excellent green zone was created for the rest of Muscovites, guests of the capital. She deservedly entered the lists of cultural heritage. Thoughts of a different nature are born from the memory that famous poets, actors, famous party figures lived in the nearest houses. Alexander Blok lived for some time, Marina Tsvetaeva was born, the creators of rocketry, aviation marshals worked.

In 1976, a monument to Krylov was surrounded in the square on the ponds, surrounded by 12 heroes of famous fables. Now Muscovites go here in the summer to play chess, walk along convenient avenues. In winter, they are attracted to the ice rink, fun fairs.

MUSEON Art Park

The events of 1991 changed the history of the country, destroyed its basic ideological principles. The construction of a new life began throughout the whole territory. There was no place for “architectural monuments” in the form of sculptures of leaders, compositions glorifying power. They were brought from all over the city to the wasteland. After the construction of the new building of the Tretyakov Gallery, the House of Artists decided to place a unique open-air sculpture park.

From the monuments of the Soviet era, they created interesting thematic zones that demonstrate a specific historical time. The sculptures of Vuchetin, Merkurov, Mukhina, etc. were restored and presented for viewing (monuments to Stalin, Derzhinsky, Gorky, the sculptural ensemble of Mukhina “Demand Peace”). Among the elements of the museum are monuments not related to the political life of the country: Don Quixote, Grandfather Mazai and the Hares, Shoes, sculptural works of avant-garde artists that are forbidden to be displayed and stored in workshops. A composition of sculptures related to military operations was created.

In total, Muzeon has about 1000 elements. To see the unique monuments that have absorbed the spirit of the former life of the country, you are invited to walk along convenient paths, surrounded by flowers, trees, fountains. Rental services allow you to rent a bicycle and explore the entire park along the equipped paths. On the Crimean embankment to get a picture, prints, various works of modern masters, visit the exhibition. MUSEON’s address Krymsky Val, 10. Take the metro to the stations “Park Kultury”, “October”.

Gorky Park

There are many parks with this name in the cities of the former Soviet Union. Their ancestor was Gorky Moscow Park. He appeared in 1928 at the site of the first All-Russian exhibition of the country on the Crimean Val stretch along the banks of the Moscow River. Vorobyovy Gory, Neskuchny Garden (they are part of the park) complemented the beautiful green zone. The main entrance is on the side of the Garden Ring. The center of the park is located next to a huge bowl of a fountain, from which alleys, paths for walks diverge.

The childhood of kids, schoolchildren of the last century was held in such parks. Now there are no modern noisy attractions, water parks. After reconstruction, it became a cozy zone of peace and tranquility. At the same time, the park retained sports grounds and attractions for kids in Miracle City. The teenagers are provided with an almost real ship, which can be controlled by posing as a captain (attractions Silver Mine, Serpentine, Dream Ship, Condor, etc.).

On the territory of the recreation area there is a sports center, a summer cinema, a greenhouse, beach places on the river bank with wooden sunbeds (Olive Beach), next to the Galitsinsky Pond, a large ice rink in winter. The dance floor, where concerts are often held with the participation of popular singers. There is a zone with free internet and computer seats. The park is popular among residents of the capital as a place of relaxation, relaxing. Park address: Krymsky Val, 9.

Zaryadye Park

A small park appeared on the site of the historical district of Moscow (the Hotel Russia used to be here) in 2017 and quickly became popular with Muscovites and guests of the capital. The prestigious district of Moscow of the XII century (behind the shopping arcade), inhabited by artisans, merchants, acquired a new life, preserving the ancient atmosphere and artifacts transferred to the Underground Museum. The unsightly wasteland near the walls of the Kremlin has become a unique recreation area.

Its alleys, green areas are just starting to develop, but they are already attracting attention with an interesting approach to their formation. Hill “Northern Landscapes” is formed from the vegetation characteristic of the northern regions of the country. A beautiful view of the Znamensky Cathedral opens from the hill. By the way, there are nine temples in the park. About 15 thousand artifacts were discovered here, including a fragment of the Kitaygorod wall of the 16th century. Soon birch and oak groves, mixed and floodplain forests created from seedlings of native Russian places will rustle in the park.

The concert hall “Zaryadye” began to work in the park. This is a unique architectural building made of glass and concrete, ending with an interesting amphitheater zone, which has grown into a hill. The hall houses the largest organ in Russia and Europe. Its sound is clearly audible from anywhere in the transformer hall. It is proposed to approach the dome of the concert hall along the famous “floating bridge”, which has become the main attraction of the Zaryadye park.

Victory Park

This is one of the largest memorial complexes in Russia and the world. It is dedicated to victory in the battles of World War II and is located on Poklonnaya Hill. It is an ancient, historical place of the city and is mentioned in documents of 1368. Travelers stayed here, different conquerors dreamed of power over Moscow, soldiers went to the front. For many of them, this was the last battle. A unique memory complex in Victory Park is dedicated to them, who defended their native land.

The birth of the park took place in 1958 with the advent of a granite slab with the inscription that there will be a memorial in honor of the victory over the Nazis. And they created it. In the park, each site is saturated with the solemn atmosphere of heroism, the memory of the Great Victory. The central place is occupied by the arched building of the Museum of the Great Patriotic War. In front of him is a bayonet with a height corresponding to the number of military days. Bronze bas-reliefs and the figure of the goddess Nika are fixed on it.

This is the Victory Monument. Among the attractions of the pack include the Church of St. George the Victorious, the Holocaust Museum, the Synagogue, the Memorial Mosque, monuments to the defenders of the Russian land, to soldiers-internationalists. The sculptural ensemble “The Tragedy of the Peoples”, a complex of fountains “Years of War”. Every evening, the original red lights on 225 water streams turn on (according to the number of weeks of the war). They are often called Bloody Fountains. ” The park regularly hosts holidays, concerts, walks.

War veterans, youth, guests, residents of the capital come to the symbolic zone of Moscow with a beautiful landscape, original flower beds of an unusual shape (in the form of ribbons, watches, inscriptions). At a special site, samples of military equipment were installed: aircraft, tanks. Park alleys with numerous descents, ascents are used for cycling, skateboards.

Ostankino Tower

A modern television center appeared on the site of the Shukhov Tower with a transmitting television antenna in 1967. The first signal from the new tower left in November in honor of the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution. The second phase of construction was completed in 1968. An observation deck (at an altitude of 337 m), the restaurant began work a year later. The Ostankino television tower is located near VDNH, near the metro station. Its height is 340 m and is one of the tallest buildings.

She takes 10th place among the free-standing buildings in the world and the first place in Europe. As a result of the fire in 2000, three floors of the tower burned down completely, high-speed elevators collapsed. Powerful concrete walls of the bath allowed to carry out repairs and continue broadcasting many gears. Now horizontal-polarized television broadcasts are installed on the fifth floor. The design of the Nikitin project with a cone-shaped base (“inverted lily”) has proven its reliability.

Three viewing platforms were opened at an altitude of 337, 340 and 85 m. In the building of the excursion building of the Ostankino TV tower there is a concert hall “Korolevsky”. It hosts conferences, seminars, theater performances, and concerts. In 2003, the tower hosted the base jumping festival and set the first world record: 26 people jumped at the same time. Until 2000, competitions on races to a height of 337 m took place on the tower stairs. Excursions (lasting about an hour) have been held regularly since 2010.

Moscow cableway

In preparation for the World Cup, the authorities decided to build a new cableway for lifting athletes. The previous cableway has existed since 1953 and was built according to the design of a gallium engineer to service a large springboard. A new 720 m long highway connected Luzhniki with a viewing platform on the Vorobyovy Gory with the intermediate stop “Vorobyevskaya Embankment”. It became much longer and passed over the Moscow River. Left-hand traffic was created on the road from 8-seater gondolas (there are 35 of them) of different categories of comfort, and 4-seater hanging chairs.

There are even individual VIP options. The equipment is made by a Swiss company. There are places for skiing in winter and bicycles in summer. In 2019, cable car cabs are equipped with audio guides (in four languages). It is proposed to start the journey by cable car from the Luzhniki station (not far from the Sportivnaya metro stop). In one of the premises of the station there are platforms for boarding passengers. For the disabled, the elderly, an elevator works here. The plans for the future construction of Moscow provide for the appearance of 40 km of new cableways.

Sparrow Hills

The ancient place of Moscow is a rugged river bank with cliffs, landslides. Once upon a time, sea waves raged here, and then the first settlements of mankind appeared, the settlement of the Dyakovo period. At one time, Sparrow Pop lived here, by his last name and they began to call an interesting area. Her special possessions were keys, springs emerging from the bowels of the earth. The famous Rublevsky water supply (built in 1900) passed from the Moscow River through the reservoirs of the area.

Based on the rare quality of fine-grained sand of the Vorobyovy Gory, mirror and glass factories were built (in the 17th century). In the period of the XV-XVIII centuries, the Vorobyov Palace housed the residence of tsars, Russian emperors, and grand dukes. In its place at the beginning of the XIX century it was planned to erect the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. In the Middle Ages, wooden churches were located on the site of the Cathedral of the Life-Giving Trinity. The first of them appeared in the XIV century.

The landscape, geological features of the area influenced the decision to create Vorobevsky Park here. To erect architectural structures that are included in the lists of city attractions. Among them are Moscow State University, an observation deck that opens up a beautiful panorama of the city, a ski jump, a sports complex, the new building of the Academy of Sciences, located at the foot of the mountains.

Three ponds (large and small Andreevsky and Lesnoy), a section of an ancient broad-leaved forest, have been preserved in the landscape of the park (Vorobyovy Gory Nature Reserve). Excursion routes run along special ecological trails. In 2013, the St. Andrew’s Monastery was opened. Vorobyovy Gory is a popular holiday destination for Muscovites.

Observation deck in Moscow city

Residents, guests of the capital at any time sought to look at the beautiful city from a bird’s eye view, to capture the widest possible area. Hundreds of viewing platforms were located inside the city and its environs. Therefore, when the “city of skyscrapers” “Moscow City” grew up, consisting of a complex of high-rise buildings of original architecture, several zones for visiting were organized in it. It is proposed to see the whole complex from the observation deck on the opposite bank of the river.

The highest observation deck is located in the Federation skyscraper on the 89th floor, 360 meters high. It is organized in compliance with international standards for comfort, safety and is provided in the initial drawings of the skyscraper. PANORAMA 360 provides a 360 ° view of Moscow and allows you to take beautiful pictures of the city. There are ice cream and chocolate factories located on its territory (the highest in the world). There are 9 interactive zones on the observation deck.

It is a cultural and educational center. Here master classes, exhibitions are held, schools for studying the history of Moscow work. Closed panoramic windows allow you to visit it all year round. But on the roof of the OKO tower there is the highest (in Moscow, Europe) open observation deck HIGH PORT 354. Children under 7 years old are not allowed on it. From this site it is proposed to observe the night sky using a three-meter telescope.

St. Basil’s Cathedral

During a walk along Red Square, an elegant temple attracts special attention. It looks like a flower with bright buds that emerged from the bowels of the Russian land at the place where the old city’s defensive moat was once located. 11 amazing domes rise above the buildings of churches, united in a beautiful ensemble. In its center stands a pillar-shaped church of the Protection of the Holy Virgin.

The architectural complex was built by decree of Ivan the Terrible in 1561-1565 in honor of the capture of Kazan. In 1670, a tented bell tower was built. On one foundation are 10 churches with onion domes. Among them are not the same. Churches are sanctified by the names of saints, the days of remembrance of which coincided with the decisive battles for Kazan. The Orthodox church has a chapel in honor of St. Basil. Many legends have survived about his life, and the unique ensemble was named after him.

The external and internal decoration of the cathedral consists of intricate floral patterns, ornaments, murals, frescoes, paintings of monumental paintings, and works of Russian icon painting. Divine services were resumed in the cathedral, excursion routes were organized. Unique in beauty and significance, the temple of Russia. very soon will meet its 460th anniversary. Address of St. Basil’s Cathedral: Red Square, 2.

Kolomenskoye

In the southern part of Moscow is the ancient village of Kolomenskoye, which later became the residence of the great princes, kings. Residential buildings, a palace, a fortress fence, and churches were erected here. On the high bank there were smart chambers, towers, connected by stairs, passages, and fancy galleries. Among the architectural creations, the building of the Church of the Ascension of the Lord stands out. It was built in 1532 from large bricks on the base in the shape of a cross and ends with a high tent.

Three porches lead to the gallery, where a throne of carved stone has been preserved. Near the building is the famous healing spring, which attracted women here to treat infertility. The building is the first tent-shaped temple in Russia made of stone. In those days, cross-domed churches were built. It is believed that its author was Pietro Annibale (Petroc Maly). There are legends that the temple was built in honor of the birth of Tsar Ivan the Terrible, and it is associated with its disappeared library.

Since 1994, the church is listed as a UNESCO heritage site. The last restoration of the church took place in 2007. Now the accessory tier is open for visitors, services are being held, a museum exposition of the exhibition “Secrets of the Ascension Church” is organized. Along with the architectural masterpieces of the village (Ascension Church, St. George the Victorious, Gosudarev Yard, Towers of the Bratsk prison), it is proposed to see beautiful elements of a nature-landscape reserve: springs, groves, ravines.

Tsaritsyno

The new life of the park, created as the summer residence of Catherine II, began in the early 2000s. The groomed and overgrown complex (after the death of the queen) was betrayed to the capital and completely restored. Walking along the paths, alleys of the park, it is proposed to walk through the halls of the Big and Small palaces of the capital. View permanent exhibits dedicated to the reign of Catherine II, find out the history of the Tsaritsyno reserve. To get acquainted with the Opera House, which was planned to hold court performances.

See the original building with an 8-sided shape, intended for the second cavalry corps, the temple of the icon of the Mother of God “Life-giving spring.” Musical fountains, graceful bridges, well-groomed alleys, luxurious flower beds, and Gothic buildings give the flower a modern look. In the conservatory greenhouse, it is proposed to look at plants that were grown in the XVIII century. Address of the reserve: Dolskaya, 1. Drive to the Tsaritsyno metro station.

Moscow planetarium

On November 5, the oldest planetarium in Russia turned 90 years old (it was built in 1929). All these years he has been an active promoter of the development of science. An observatory is equipped here, which allows observing space objects. Since 2010 (after the difficult history of the planetarium), it has been owned by the Moscow Property Department. After reconstruction, the purchase of the latest equipment, the planetarium is a multi-level building.

Each level has its own purpose. In the lower, underground part is the Small Hall, where children can watch the miniature mini-starry sky, go to the 4D cinema, and visit the interactive Lunarium Museum. His expositions in astronomy, physics, space exploration, the halls of Urania (they tell the story of the planetarium).

At the second level is Moscow’s largest telescope (300 mm in diameter), accessible to visitors. The large star hall is located upstairs under the dome of the planetarium. Here you can trace the stellar route of more than 9 thousand celestial bodies. The planetarium is located on Sadovo-Kudrinskaya street, 5. You need to go to the metro station “Barrikadnaya”.

Pharmaceutical garden

The history of the pharmaceutical garden is associated with the emergence of the Botanical Garden of Moscow State University, founded in 1706 under Peter I in the northern part of the city. There is a legend that larch is still growing, planted by it next to spruce, pine with the aim of “instilling citizens in their difference.” A big surprise is the existence of a rare green area next to the busy Prospect Mira.

The area, conceived for growing medicinal herbs, has become an invaluable archive of well-groomed plants living on our land for millions of years. Since 1805, the Pharmaceutical Garden Botanical Garden has become the base of Moscow State University for studying and creating collections of different plants. Over 300 years, cozy places have been found here for the development of plants, subtropics, tropics, northern regions of the earth, combined 5,000 botanical taxa (varieties, forms, varieties, etc.).

Among them, for example, only a collection of orchids consists of thousands of varieties, species, forms. Familiar irises are represented by 700 varieties, and the usual lilac has 130 varieties. For some, open space is used, while others are developing in modern greenhouses. The Botanical Garden has developed several scientific programs.

Among them, attention is paid to the collection, study, conservation of endangered plant species. There is a separate exposition of plants listed in the Red Book of the country. For Muscovites, the garden has long been a favorite vacation spot. Walking among the beautiful flowers (sea of tulips, daffodils, magnolias, etc.), listening to the birds singing, you can take part in musical concerts held in the tropical pavilion. Address of the Botanical Garden: Prospect Mira, 26.

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The interest for top notch piezoelectric accuracy movement gadgets is satisfied by certain particular firms. There are a couple of driving parts in this area that control each and every part of the production of exactness movement gadgets from actuators to direct slide positioners and complete multi-pivot movement frameworks. Hardly any organizations likewise control their own artistic assembling unit for more tight quality control. A direct actuator produced with great earthenware production as indicated by the most recent plan innovation could extensively outlive other standard actuators.

Benefits of piezoelectric actuators

A piezo actuator empowers unequivocally controllable movement in the sub nanometer domain. Smooth and responsive development can be accomplished with brief change in the working voltage. Stiction or grating doesn't bear an impact over the movement in such a case. Hence, the client can anticipate sub-nuclear goal from a piezoelectric actuator or straight slide.

The perseverance showed by such actuators is praiseworthy. Certain makers have put their actuators through billions of development cycles and haven't recorded indications of any adjustment of execution. This can be clarified by the way that a piezoelectric actuator doesn't contain wearing mechanical parts like cog wheels or turning shafts.

Another significant benefit is that such actuators are fit for producing power of 10,000N or more relying upon the manner in which they are planned. Enormous burden bearing limit and accuracy movement abilities are an imposing blend for the most intricate applications. In addition, these actuators can work productively even at cryogenic temperatures.

Moreover, a piezoelectric direct actuator has a really quick reaction time down to the miniature second reach. Piezo actuators stay unaffected by attractive fields or high vacuum conditions, as the piezo impact depends on an electric field. These actuators are clean, require no greases and are profoundly appropriate for use in tidy up rooms as well, making them somewhat famous in clinical, drug, and the semi conductor industry.

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Day 2 - Knoxville

Somehow the post I made about Knoxville got deleted so this is me trying to remember some of it but this is deficient and I am mad and sad I lost that writing because it was good and heartfelt.

Before we went to bed in Asheville we heard birdsong in the trees at like 1am and I said ‘nightbirds?’ and Jeremy laughed a little. Jeremy and John and me remarked in the morning in Asheville how nice it would be live here. The cool mountain breeze was nice. We left the house we were staying at and headed into town. We went to the mechanic first to try to find out what the problem with the van was. The mechanic looked at it and explained it was our pittman arm and the steering box was shot which was causing the play, and that it could be repaired for about $280, and we confirmed with the van owner from whom we are borrowing the van that they would reimburse us for the repair, so we left the van with them, put on sunglasses, walked past the moog factory and down thes street to the Five Points diner. It was a greasy spoon where they served typical Denny’s fare plus a bonus section of greek and italian entrees in the back. I got a big omelet of spinach and feta, hash browns and grits. It felt so warm and full and substantial to eat those things. Later John would remark that “when your needs are met on tour, they’re met so much more intensely,’ which I agree with. Sleep is precious even thought it’s usually cramped and smelly and uncomfortable, the water bottle and coffee cup and meal feel like real ballast and fuel. I had said this more poetically before I lost the post but whatever. We eat our breakfast and then stroll around town for a bit, visit the bookstore Malaprops downtown where I see more muppet-looking people busking and spanging, flying signs, nodding out, sleeping on benches, the nexus of muppet and homeless is an unclear one for me and I try not to be too judgy. We meet Kabir’s friend Alex Brown at Malaprops, Kabir buys a book called 1491 which is a precolonial history of the US I think, we walk down town past one plaza and to a park with a bandshell and a stage and a lawn cordoned off because two men are testing the sprinkler system. The soil near the bench where we sit is aerated and I confirm the squat columns of earth littering the ground are soil and not goose shit. We all four sit on a long bench and all cross our legs together and read each of our individual books in this way that was kind of comically synchronized, so much so that Kabir just bent over so we wouldnt look exactly the same. Me and John were on Ursula K Leguin and Kabir on Kingdom Cons by Yuri Herera, a novella, and Jeremy on Capitalist Realism on his kindle. A townie ambles by, he has a deeply asymmetrical hircut with a shock of purple dyed hair on a mostly shaved head, a loud Pittsburh steelers hat, a cane, and that familiar mix of affability and psychosis that seems to characterize a lot of home bums. He sees us all reading and remarks: “I like Shakespeare myself.” Mercifully, he walks on, goes to another group of tourists down the sidewalk and does something that’s not quite heckling and not quite visiting with them.

We leave, the drive is short, we have had the steering box/pittman arm/linkage repaired and so the play is gone out of the steering but the wheel itself is permanently at 10 o clock and evidently it wants to drift left. Jeremy is driving and negotiating the misalignment expertly, we agree to find a place to get this fixed in Knoxville. On the drive we listen to Blue Smiley, The Durutti Column, Andy Shauf, Frank Zappa, Toro y Moi, Toshifumi Hinata, and best of all we listen to a track called “Style and City’ by Stand High Patrol, which is just an upbeat litany of naming music genres and then naming the city that genre originated, a genius idea, Jeremy said it came on in a club in Brooklyn and the crowd got incredibly loud and everybody loved it. This time around on tour rather than despairing at the poverty of my music knowledge as compared to the expansive encyclopedic aural erudity of the boys in the band, instead I just ask what song is on when I like a song and like it on my Spotify. The other day my friend was asking me where I find out about new music from and I said without thinking ‘I just borrow my music taste from my friends’ which like yes, of course I do. I had this issue for a long time like I must be the originator of my taste, that I must dig in the crates and find the rarest music that no one has ever heard of before, and that I must never be influenced by anyone. Which is dogshit egotism, I’m pleased and relaxed to learn that I can just ask and my bandmates will happily give me a track ID and not think twice of it, and I can take these new songs home with me to enjoy and share.

We get into Knoxville and there’s a giant JFG sign that looks about a century old and a bizarre system of concrete staircases snaking and zigzagging and carved into a steep hill and I want to go visit them but we end up not visiting them. We get to the house we’re staying at, the people who live there are Royal and Kayla, ‘betrothed’ is how Royal describes his Kayla, they are married. Royal is an architect, exceedingly kind and jubilant and gregarious and gets close to you and involves you in jokes and has a laugh that comes so easy and his jaw kind of jerks in time with his jaw and palate when he laughs, the same sort of motion you see in an opera singer or like Mariah Carey when they are modulating vibrato on big belting sung notes. We hang at the house, Kabir breaks out his big thing of homemade chipotle hummus, we start to feast but Kayla brings out a homemade loaf of sourdough she has and then warms up four thick slices in the cast iron and puts a gentle golden crust on it and serves it to us with a big stick of butter on one of those covered narrow butter plates, and also she brings out sweet bell peppers and cuts them into sections we can dip into the hummus, and she pulls out the drum throne from royal’s kit for me to sit on. She’s a nurse, she’s southern in this special way that treats hospitality like breathing, makes it not hard to accept kindnesses and graces. She gets up after eating to work on her pottery, she has a throwing wheel outside in the garage area and she has lined their stone retaining wall with cups and pots she’s made, I learn later that the plates she served us bread off of were all made by her as well. The life she and Royal have in Knoxville seem so breezy and solid and supported and full and healthy.

Royal is an architect, the home has a couple little miniature homes and buildings made out of what look like high-grade matchsticks. John recognizes a poster on the wall of a friend’s band. Their dog, Willow, approaches me, I get annoyed and think it’s going to be mean or bark or smell bad or be annoying, but then I’m petting it for an hour, she jumps on the couch beside me and I put her in this kind of hug-headlock and fall asleep with her on the couch, Jeremy, I learn later, has taken a picture of this, I feel really happy he did that, and I ask for the picture from him and I send it to a girl I like in an effort to confirm my putative cuteness and genteel nature. When Royal is home we watch funny videos on youtube on his projector, weird interviews with furries and flat-earthers and then of a guy screaming about something while in the middle of traffic outside Universal Studios in L.A., I try to explain to the guys how there was a meme I saw wherein there is a picture of a cat who is reciting the lyrics of a Kanye song but in a cute speech impediment style where it can’t say Rs: “Pwease Baby No Mo Pawties in Ew Ay” and it is basically impossible to explain and gets no laughs and that’s fine and we move on. Jeremy puts on a Vimeo of this incredible short film he made with the title “Guided Meditation for Increased Kill/Death Ratio,” which is exactly what it sounds like, it’s built in Unity, which is like a framework to design video games in, it looks like a generic FPS with a character holding an assault rifle moving down a long spacy looking corridor lined with metal, and with a very calm amniotic ambient track Jeremy comissioned his friend to make, and Jeremy is doing the voiceover, and the conceit is it’s like a guided mindfulness meditation except instead of reducing anxiety or avoiding panic or grappling with trauma or mending depression or whatever the usual purpose of these meditations are (meditations I do daily, using the app Headspace, btw, which no one here knows as far as i know), instead of that, the purpose is to like reassure the video game player that they are a perfect efficient killing machine. Stuff like ‘focus on the feeling in your HUD, now the feeling in your body armor, now the feeling in your M4A1 carbine, now visualize your next spawn, you are not your avatar, you are pure death’ something along those lines, and it hits hard home for me being a former competitive Counter Strike player and casual Halo and Call of Duty player and now being like mentally ill to whatever extent I am such that I believe I require these meditations. ITs really well executed, the player glides through corridors, clips through the ceiling, encounters nebulas and NPCs and aliens and eventually spirals into space. Jeremy shows the original video that inspired him, same basic thing but in a virtual Costco rather than in a FPS. We move slow, Royal screen prints tee shirts for his band, Tired Frontier, on his living room table as we watch the videos. The plan is to spend tonight and the next three tour dates wth Tired Frontier. We eventually go to the show.

It’s a house show, the name of the place is CBD Castle, above the front door they have a huge cardboard sign that says CBDB’s in the style of CBGB’s and there’s a big porch with a huge couch on it and a guard rail thing that you can sit on or prop your feet on perfectly if you’re slouched way down on the couch. We mingle a little, the show gets started, the opening act is Kind Magic, which it becomes evident is something of a joke band, perfectly suited to a house show, they don’t take themselves too seriously, they mostly have just mustaches, 80s style, one guy has wraparound oakleys, he’s the lead singer, he climbs up on his bass amp at one point. Royal comes in, and people start moshing, gently, just like running into each other, Jeremy does a silly dance and I watch it happen and I want to do it and I have to wait a few songs to get up the courage but eventually I give it up and start spinning around and let myself get bounced around and I am 32 years old and feel just right and not self conscious and silly and afraid how I used to always feel at the metalcore concerts when I was 16 in Ace’s Basement in Greensboro and the moshing was this awful violent masculine chauvanist bullshit thing. This is the opposite. One song, the lead singer, it becomes evident, is chanting “Pogo! Pogo! POGO!” and I think this means pogo mosh but it does not, it means the drummer gets up off his throne and picks up a big pogo stick he has secreted in the corner and starts jumping up and down on it WHILE playing a complex drum pattern on the drums, it is unreal the level of dexterity and coordination this guy has, I learn later that he spends half the year touring with a professional pogo troupe whose gigs are mostly basketball halftime shows, and include a guy named Danger Rus, aka Russel The Muscle. This band rips and is so fun and loosens everybody up and people are drinking and getting kind of sloppy and I plan to be mad and indignant about this but instead I just don’t care and it’s lovely. Next up is us.

We set up, I get to use the backline kit so load in is minimal, just setting up breakables again. We get locked in, Kabir revs us up, we get started, and right from the jump either I pushed the tempo with my count-off or the guys pushed the tempo or we all did most likely, but we are playing louder and faster than last night and I am going in all the way hard on the drums, playing with my whole body, i come down with my right hand on the floor tom so hard my butt bounces up off the throne, I’m surprised but I like that so I keep letting that happen, I head bang as hard as possible, my neck is immediately sore and hurting but the crowd is crazy live, everyone is dancing after a few songs. I manage to thrash the wingnute off the hihat clutch which and try to repair it, flounder, and give up, which all that means is I can’t modulate the hi hat and so our set is just louder and more raw which matches the room anyways. By the last two songs the people are dancing so hard that I give up my usual veneer of grimacing and lasering my eyes to the side or corner to avoid the crowd, instead of grimacing what I do is watch what is happening in the crowd, which is the crowd smiling dancing moshing grooving with us, with me, and I get a huge smile on my face which I can’t hide and I’m so incredibly happy just playing and being heard by these people. We end and Royal rallies the crowd and they chant ONE MORE SONG ONE MORE SONG for like 3 minutes but we just don’t know another one, and so there’s no encore, but how special and lovely to be asked to do one.

Tired Frontier plays and they rock and they have keys by Paul who has a master’s in music theory and currently pursuing a second music masters in production or something. Royal has 10 pedals I think, and a super weird tuning, and they make a big wall of ambient noise between the keys from Paul and the feedback from Royal’s “stack,” which is his guitar running through a Fender guitar combo for an amp and with a Fender bass combo for effects. Their set is a little longer and the vocals don’t come through that clear and they don’t give super clear definitions to the start and end of their songs so the set may have been 4 or 7 songs. They finish, and I am so starving hungry I get the keys from Kabir and go to the van and eat about a half a jar of peanut butter and an apple and then go lay on the big white couch outside and just doze, super tired. It starts raining sheets and we learn from somebody that Knoxville’s adjacency to the mountains makes it a temperate rain forest and it rains almost every day. It’s warm and breezy and perfect. Me Kabir and John go get taco bell, the best taco bell in town, I just order the same thing as Kabir rather than taking a million years to choose and that works out great, two spicy potato soft tacos, and we just sit in the parking lot and wolf and chomp. The parking lot is sparkling, spotless, a big street sweeper truck is skrrting around finishing the job, someone who I imagine is on opiates walks very very slowly up to our van and then walks away. Someone is asleep outside near a building in the strip mall. Some car drives up and maybe drops off food or clothes. We go back to CBDB’s Jeremy is involved in a dance party there, Paul is choosing tunes based off what he calls ‘forgotten hits from the 80s.’ We eventually go back to Royal’s I fall asleep almost immediately on the couch.

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kadobeclothing · 5 years ago

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The Best Valentine’s Day Date Ideas

Valentine’s Day should be easy. After all, the potentially disastrous bit – finding a partner to get all googly-eyed with – is done. Yet, the reality can be as far from cute and cuddly as a season of Narcos. There’s the panic gift buying – as if every man on earth suddenly remembers it’s his mother’s birthday. The overpriced roses that resemble a shrivelled scrotum the instant you leave the shop. Plus the restaurant dinners where the conversation is drier than a well-done steak.However, there is a new Plan V. A cooler, slicker way to handle the day – starting with these 14 date ideas that are memorable and have just the right level of mush. You’ve got it from here.1. Take A Cable CarValentine’s Day can feel like every town and city is crammed full of couples. Like, seriously, is no one binge-watching Netflix tonight? To escape to your own little pod of outdoor privacy, think vertical. Cable cars and Ferris wheels were made for this very occasion – they bring awesome views, the novelty factor, the fear of dangling perilously in the air. Okay, don’t dwell on that last one. Do pre-book wherever possible, however. Queuing is never an aphrodisiac.2. Book A Chocolate MasterclassChocolate for Valentine’s Day, ground-breaking, right? Well, actually, it is if you think outside the chocolate box and turn the sweet stuff into an experience. For one, a masterclass with a chocolatier is basically a whole evening spent eating dessert together. You’ll smell chocolate, taste it and turn it into miniature truffley works of art. It’s a touchy-feely activity that brings out your creative and your sensual sides. The result? Prepare to adopt the charm of Ferrero Rocher’s ambassador with the sultry appeal of the Milk Tray man. Roll neck optional.3. Go Star-GazingThe night sky isn’t just romantic, it also doesn’t get booked up three weeks in advance and is big enough that you won’t bump into anyone else with the same idea. To ace stargazing, you need a spot away from artificial light (but not so remote that your date thinks you’re luring them into the wilderness), cosy layers, the Sky View Lite app to identify what’s above you, plus something stiff (liquor based, please). Of course, every great plan has a nemesis, and in this case it’s clouds. An observatory or planetarium is a strong back-up. Even if visibility is poor, 3D projections bring the planets to you.4. Escape To A Boutique HotelNo relationship was ever made worse by a king-size bed, Egyptian cotton sheets, a mini bar stocked with rum and someone else cleaning the toilet. Spending Valentine’s away in a swanky hotel elevates planning for the day from a chore into a treat. There’s also a ‘Do Not Disturb’ sign that you can use without feeling guilty. Meaning all the usual mid-passion mood-killers – parents unexpectedly popping over, the postman needing a signature – are eliminated. Oh yes.5. Have A Cook-OffSo you forgot to reserve the pop-up restaurant that your partner’s been dropping hints about since last October. No problem. Blame its booking system and inject some DIY fun instead. Propose a challenge: you both have to prepare the best or most inventive meal you can, using only what’s currently in the house. Depending on your level of reliance on takeaway apps, that dish could be a variation on pasta and sauce, or something to make Ottolenghi green with envy. Winner of the cook-off gets a week off washing-up duty.6. Recreate Your First DateObviously it helps if your first date was a cracker. And, very important, that you remember the first date with the right person. A candlelit river cruise with some phone-streamed jazz might be date dynamite, but not if it actually happened between you and an ex. Caveats over with, a trip down memory lane always gets the heartstrings going. Throw on the same Oxford shirt, recreate the food you ate, choose the same bottle of wine, joke about the mishaps or funny moments and how you never could have imagined it would have worked out so well. You big softie.7. Build Something TogetherFor a fun evening where time will evaporate, get your geek on and build something together. Lego and jigsaw puzzles are, frankly, wasted on the young. By our age, we should celebrate finally being allowed to buy the big Lego set (Star Wars Millennium Falcon, we’re looking at you). Plus, we won’t throw a tantrum if we can’t find the bottom right-hand corner of the jigsaw. Or so the theory goes. Fact is, games are silly and satisfying in equal measure, and, weirdly, it’s seriously hot watching your partner construct. Who knew?8. Pick A Random Cuisine To TryAn interesting way to solve the dinner dilemma – i.e. how to eat out without being a clone of every couple in a 10-mile radius – is to pick the cuisine of a lesser known country or just one you’ve never tried and find a street-food truck or takeout. Maybe it’s Vietnamese or Bangladeshi or Lebanese. The food itself provides a more interesting talking point than ‘Will that couple over there please stop eating each other’ – and you might just stumble upon a new favourite to return to.9. Give Pottery-Making A SpinIf it was good enough for Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze in Ghost… (okay, Swayze’s character wasn’t exactly alive at the time – but details, schmetails). For Valentine’s Day, a ceramics or pottery-making class is all kinds of sensual. Think about it: hands interlocking over wet clay while you sculpt next to each other at the wheel. Even if the end result is more mangled than majestic, you’ll have a romantic date and a souvenir to remember it by.10. Belt Out KaraokeValentine’s Day singing isn’t just for drunk groups of singles on the train – it’s great for drunk couples, too. Though upgrade the train to a karaoke booth. Depending on which side of the X Factor stage you would be most likely to grace – the voice of an angel ‘Yes’ group or the voice that makes dogs howl – a bit of tequila beforehand may or may not be needed. Though, it’s really the attitude that counts. Grab your date, a classic playlist and belt out some cheesy duets. Sonny and Cher, eat your heart out.11. Try An Adventure SportNot that thing you saw on PornHub that looked like you needed to be triple-jointed, this is good, clean, PG-friendly fun. In fact, your local sports centre is a good place to start. Have you ever been to a climbing wall together? What about trampolining? Or a zip-wire or tree-top assault course? Think outside your comfort zone (literally – there may well be muscle ache the next day) and choose an adrenaline-fuelled activity that’s good for your heart, both physically and romantically.12. Wow With A Helicopter RideIt’s hard to talk about helicopters without dropping in a ‘give them the ride of their life’ cliché. But, when in Rome and all that. A helicopter ride is a blow-the-budget, blow-their-socks-off date memorable for you, for your partner, and great for bragging rights on Instagram. Dating by chopper always trumps dating by Uber – even one of the fancy ones with Fiji Water. Where to go? Take a short flight around your city, over a river or near a famous landmark. It’s not just about the views, the bumpy bits are perfect moments for some impromptu hand-squeezing.13. Relax In A SpaHowever tough men like to act, moaning about always having a stiff neck and never doing anything about it, almost all agree – pampering rocks. Take those white spa robes. That’s a level of comfort and fluffiness that seems to defy the laws of science. A spa is a great Valentine’s Day activity because you’re both indulged, both relaxed, and both in a setting where there’s no pressure to competitively look at other couples and judge who is having the better time. In a spa, everyone is too blissed out and horizontal to care. Couple’s packages range from hours of knot-nuking massage to dips in hydrotherapy pools and scent-infused saunas.14. Play The Flip-A-Coin GameStill don’t want the pressure of producing a Valentine’s Day dud? Well, why not leave the evening to chance. Head into a town or city centre and flip a coin to make your decisions. Should we turn left or right here? There’s a bar on one side, a café on the other – which wins? Should we go to a museum or the park? Ice cream or cake? Like one of those ‘choose your adventure’ books you loved as a child, the coin handles your fate for you. One thing: just don’t forget your wallet. Source link

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A weekend trip in the new Chevy Blazer

The shapely and sporty 2019 Chevrolet Blazer RS handles like a dream on the winding mountain roads of the Hudson River Valley. (Talisman Photo)

Only a short drive away, the Hudson River Valley boasts beauty and fun all year long. On a recent sisters weekend away, I had the opportunity to spend time in Hyde Park, Stone Ridge, Rhinebeck and other towns in the area and can’t think of a better location for a leisurely getaway. I also had the opportunity to drive Chevy’s new Blazer and can’t think of a better car to explore the artsy, mountainous villages of the Hudson River Valley in.

Our trip began as most road trips do—by loading luggage into the car, or in this case, the stylish crossover SUV. The cargo area of the Blazer is equipped with a rail that slides forward and backward and locks in place. This ingenious feature is great for keeping a suitcase or two in place during a long drive and perfect for keeping grocery bags or sports equipment from rolling around during day-to-day activities.

The Culinary Institute of America’s American Bounty Restaurant serves up charred citrus salad with arugula and endive, turmeric Greek yogurt and an Aperol vinaigrette.

Welcome to the CIA

Hyde Park is known as the hometown of Franklin D. Roosevelt. His Springwood Estate, the FDR Presidential Library and Museum, as well as the Vanderbilt Mansion, are preserved as National Historic Sites just two hours away in Dutchess County. You know what else is just two hours away? The Culinary Institute of America.

The CIA, as it is affectionately known as, is a four-year college and culinary school where the top restaurateurs of the country graduate from. The Hyde Park campus operates four public restaurants, including American Bounty, a contemporary farm-to-table restaurant with a focus on regional ingredients.

The lunch menu features dishes Roasted Sage Kobocha Gnocchi, Charred Citrus Salad and Grilled American Beef Wagyu Culotte, which are as beautiful to the eyes as they are delicious to the taste buds. The desserts—Warm Caramelized Apple, Chocolate Mousse Cake and Tres Leches Panna Cotta—are miniature works of art on a plate.

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Students at the CIA get hands-on experience at the restaurants and are constantly making connections between different areas of study. A student with a background in engineering named Joe sagely related the MAYA principle—Most Advanced, Yet Acceptable—to food design and car design. The father of industrial design Raymond Loewy developed this blueprint for delivering the future gradually and palatably to the masses.

“It’s this idea that the newest best thing that’s going to appeal to the most people is a balance between the furthest you can go without scaring people away,” Joe said. “I’m sure it’s a lot with car design too, the balance between aesthetics and use.”

The Chevy Blazer fits this principle perfectly. Designer Steve McCabe and his team endeavored to edge Chevy design into the future with sporty styling choices not typically seen on SUVs. The design turns heads—in a good way.

Chef Bruce Mattel, senior associate dean of culinary arts at the CIA, also added to the concept of how far one can go with food design.

“If you’re too avant garde with food, some people are going to be intimidated,” he said, and this principle is reflected in the dishes he serves with innovative flavor combinations, a focus on texture interplay and artful plating that enhances the dining experience.

American Bounty changes its menu seasonally. There’s no excuse not to journey there quarterly to check out what new flavors they have in store.

Chill out with a good book or play board games with the other guests at Hasbrouck House in the warm and inviting Club Room. (Photo by Emma Tuccillo/Hasbrouck House)

Home Away From Home

Hasbrouck House has everything you could want in a weekend getaway. Established in 1757, the Dutch Colonial stone mansion is hidden among the trees of Stone Ridge, NY, and offers modern, luxury accommodations in a historic setting.

Guest rooms, lofts and suites are dispersed between the main building, the Stable House and the Carriage House, in addition to a private house called The Cottage. Though featuring the same soothing color palette, rich furnishings, large windows, Frette linens and goose down pillows, no two rooms are alike.

My favorite touches are the in-room Nespresso machines, Aesop toiletries and heated marble floors in the bathroom.

During your stay, I recommend booking an appointment with one of Hasbrouck House’s massage therapists or yoga instructors in the Wellness Room. A yoga session with Pepper will give you the opportunity to check in with yourself and feel more relaxed and renewed than you may have thought possible.

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The 50-acre property contains walking trails down to a private lake. It’s a lovely walk even with snow on the ground to get some fresh air and quietude.

For dining, you need look no further than Butterfield, the in-house restaurant and bar. Ingredients are locally sourced and the dishes epitomize farm-to-table cuisine. Simplicity is key and no more evident than in the shishito peppers appetizer. The tender peppers when blistered and sprinkled with coarse mustard salt are perfection.

After dinner, you can spend some time with a drink by the fireplace in the Club Room, or play a round of pool or darts in the Game Room downstairs. The arcade game machine, loaded with classics like Pac-Man and Asteroids, is a fun bonus. These are the best spaces to interact with other guests of the house.

Every guest is treated like a VIP at Hasbrouck House, a true gem of the Hudson River Valley.

McCabe relates pottery design to car design. (Talisman Photo)

Make your mark

Nearby Rhinebeck has a flourishing arts and culture scene. Dive right in at Hudson Valley Pottery and Ceramics School.

Most of us have worked with clay in elementary school, whether it was making pinch pots or small sculptures. It’s easy to forget how much fun it is unless you’ve gone back to it as an adult and realize that ceramics is as much an art as a craft.

At a class at the pottery studio, we were given a tutorial on hand-building a mug, then unleashed on the clay and tools to bring our individual visions to life. Hand-building is good for beginners, while using the wheel requires more practice and skill. Everyone in the class enjoyed the time spent the studio and look forward to seeing our finished projects post-firing and glazing.

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Though it may seem unexpected, clay is an integral part of the car-design process. Following the initial sketches, clay sculptors make small models of the car. Changes in the surfacing are made and rendered back into a digital form. Later, a scale model is made with clay where designers can see if those lines and curves that looked great on the small model still look great life-sized.

McCabe credits the clay sculptors he works with with making him look good. Curves that read to the consumer’s eye as simple and sleek are actually the result of a complex collaborative process between artists.

McCabe also notes that clay is easy to work with, relatively inexpensive and recyclable, which makes it the perfect material for auto design as well as good choice for a hobby.

Make an appointment at Hudson Valley Pottery for a private lesson, or open studio time if you’ve got some experience under your belt. Judi Esmond and her wonderful staff will help you tap into your creative side.

Lead Creative Designer Steve McCabe highlights unique design features of the Blazer. (Talisman Photo)

Form and Function

‘Form follows function,’ the foundational principle associated with architecture and industrial design that states the shape of a building should primarily related to its intended purpose, can also be applied beyond those fields. In food, the form is the visual and the function is the taste. No chef wants to sacrifice good flavor solely to improve the look of the meal. In pottery, a beautiful-looking mug with an uncomfortable-to-hold handle is not functional for its intended purpose. Examples can be found all around.

The Chevy Blazer sports this principle perfectly in its interior with round vents. According to McCabe, there was a big debate during the design process whether to do a rectangular or a trapezoidal shape, or a round shape reminiscent of the Camaro, which the Blazer was modeled after.

In order to justify using an older vent style, the design team decided to make it functional. The round rim acts as the temperature control, making for an intuitive and slightly futuristic design feature. It was the first thing I noticed when I sat in the driver’s seat—my hand went straight for the vent instinctively.

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“From a styling standpoint, we’ve reached ahead a little,” McCabe said.

The Blazer is offered in the signature model, the sporty RS and, for the more formal buyer, the Premiere.

“The RS captures that sports car personality. We injected that Camaro DNA into it,” McCabe said.

As a young father, he feels he’s created an exciting loophole in the market—a bold, dynamic, responsive sports car with the spaciousness and features of a family-oriented SUV that he’s not ashamed to put a car seat and stroller in.

“I can get the best of both worlds with this vehicle,” he said, another place where form meets function.

Drive around and take in the scenery of the Hudson River Valley. (Talisman Photo)

Exploring The Hudson River Valley

Each hamlet of the Hudson River Valley has a personality all its own. Woodstock’s bohemian spirit is fun to explore. The friendly staff at Hasbrouck House can show you the route that takes you over the Ashokan Reservoir, where you can park the car and take pictures of the scenery.

Fruition Chocolate, which is available at Hasbrouck House, has its storefront on Tinker Street in Woodstock, where you can sample the small batch, handcrafted, bean-to-bar chocolates and bring a few bars home as souvenirs.

Also stop into the Garden Café, a vegan restaurant and juice bar on Old Forge Road, and try the Indian chickpea blinis with cashew date chutney—little savory pancakes packed with flavor that redefine what a pancake can be.

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To get away from it all or get some of that adventure you’ve been craving, spend a day hiking, biking or climbing at Mohonk Preserve. The mission of the sprawling nature preserve is to protect the Shawangunk Mountains region and inspire people to care for, explore and enjoy their natural world.

The Chevy Blazer handles amazingly well on windy, snowy mountain roads and has a tighter than expected turning radius, which stands up to the test on New Paltz’s angular, often one-way, streets.

New Paltz is another fun destination while you’re in the area. Lagusta’s Luscious offers artisanal chocolates in flavors like tahini cream and thyme preserved lemon sea salt caramel, while its sister cafe, Commissary, makes a mean cheese plate.

To cap off the weekend, visit the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art on the SUNY New Paltz campus. In addition to its permanent collection, works by Angela Dufresne and an exhibition celebrating the 150th anniversary of the founding of Mohonk Mountain House are on display through mid-July.

Spend a leisurely weekend away in the Hudson River Valley. Learn more about the Culinary Institute of America, Hasbrouck House, Hudson River Pottery and the new Chevrolet Blazer, an SUV with the DNA of the Camaro. A weekend trip in the new Chevy Blazer Only a short drive away, the Hudson River Valley boasts beauty and fun all year long.

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Taste test: Burger robot startup Creator opens first restaurant

Creator’s translucent burger robot doesn’t grind your brisket and chow steak into a gourmet patty until you degree it. That’s just one room this startup, previously known as Momentum Machines, wants to serve the world’s freshest cheeseburger for only $6. On June 27 th, after eight years in development, Creator unveils its first robot eatery before opening to the public in September. We got a sneak peek…err…taste. When I question how a startup launching one eatery at a time could become a $10 billion companionship, Creator co-founder and CEO Alex Vardakostas looks me dead in the eye and announces,” the market is much bigger than that .” Here’s how Creator’s burger-cooking bot works at its 680 Folsom Street location in San Francisco. Formerly you line-up your burger vogue through a human concierge on a tablet, a compressed air tube pushes a baked-that-day bun into an elevator on the right. It’s sighted in half by a vibrating bayonet before being toasted and buttered as it’s lowered to conveyor belt. Sauces measured by the milliliter and spices by the gram are automatically squirted onto the bun. Entire soups, tomatoes, onions and blockages of neat cheese get wedges scraped off a few seconds before they’re quitted on top. Meanwhile, the robot grinds hormone-free, pasture-raised brisket and chow steak to guild. But rather than mince them all up, the ropes of meat hang vertically and are thinly pulped together. They words a loose but auto-griddleable patty that’s then plopped onto the bun before the whole pack slithers out of the machine after a total time of about five minutes. The mind is that when you bite into the burger, your teeth align with the vertical strands so instead of necessary harsh chewing it roughly defrosts in your mouth. If you want to be the first to try it, Creator is selling early access tickets at 10 am Pacific today. Otherwise it will be open for lunch Wednesdays and Thursdays until the public launch. Eventually, an app will let beings customize the exact fractions of all the ingredients, opening near infinite permutations. For now, the startup’s initial pre-set burger options include the classic-style Creator vs. The World with a mole Thousand Island special sauce, the oyster aioli Tumami Burger designed by Chef Tu of Top Chef, The Smoky with charred onion jam and the sunflower seed tahini Dad Burger from Chef Nick Balla of Bar Tartine. The taste of each is pretty remarkable. The spice pops out of all the fresh-cut and ground parts that shortcoming the preservatives of pre-sliced substance. The patties hold together as you munch despite being unusually tender. And subsequentlies I appeared less of the greasy, gut-bomb, food coma vibe that typically accompanies scarfing down a cheeseburger. ” This is the kind of burger you would get for $12 to $18[ at an upscale restaurant ], and it’s$ 6 ,” says Vardakostas. It might not be best available burger I’ve had in my life, but it’s certainly the best at that premium. A mint of that comes from the savings on labour and kitchen seat is guaranteed by a robot cook.” We expend more on our parts than any other burger restaurant .” The CEO wouldn’t uncover how much Creator has raised, but says it’s backed by Google’s GV, frequent food startup investor Khosla Ventures and hardware-focused Root Ventures. However, SEC filings attained by TechCrunch register the startup raised at least $18.3 million in 2017, and sought $ 6 million more back in 2013. It’s understandable why.” McDonald’s is a $ 140 billion busines. It’s bigger than GM and Tesla compounded. McDonald’s has 40,000 restaurants. Food is one to the top three biggest sells ,” Vardakostas clangs off.” But we “ve got a lot” of advantages. The average diner is 50 percentage large in terms of square footage .” Then he motions to his big robot that’s a lot smaller than the backside of most fast-food restaurants, and with a smile replies,” That’s our kitchen. You wheel it in and push it in .” From snapping patties to investigating physics Creator co-founder and CEO Alex Vardakostas What you miss in a benefactor is a superhero origin narrative. Some formative moment in “peoples lives” that impels them hellbent on solving a problem. Vardakostas has a somewhat convincing anecdote.” My mothers have a burger joint ,” he reveals.” My job was to originate several hundred of the same burger every day. You recognise there’s so much opening not taken because you don’t have the right tools, and it’s hard work .” Robots and engineering weren’t even on his radar grown up in the restaurant in southern California. Then,” when I was 15 my pa took me to a journal storage for the first time. I started reading about physics and realizing that this could be a alternative .” He went on to study physics at UC Santa Barbara, got to work in the garage, and finally drove up to Silicon Valley to machine the first robot prototype’s parts at the famous Silicon Valley TechShop. That’s when he met his co-founder and COO Steve Frehn.” Steve told me he was from Stanford and I was super terrified ,” Vardakostas remembers. But the two had a great working rapport, and a forte for recruiting budding mechanical designers from the college. Momentum Machine started in 2009, was a full-time garage campaign by 2010, incorporated and attached Lemnos Labs in 2012 and the startup began to reach serious advancement by 2014. In the meantime, other inventors have tried to find a business in nutrient robots. There was the now-defunct Y Combinator startup Bistrobot that arbitrarily spurted liquid peanut butter and Nutella on white bread and called it a sandwich. More lately, Miso Robotics’ burger-flipping weapon named Flippy realized headlines, even though all it does is thrown and cook patties on a traditional griddle.” We have an arm that plucks out the burgers, but that’s probably five per cent of the intricacy” of the full Creator robot run by 350 sensors, 50 actuators and 20 computers, Vardakostas scoffs. Breaking burger behavior The CEO’s past in the kitchen restrains Creator into contact with the human element. He tells me he pictures the relevant recommendations of a staff-less restaurant whatever it is you fiat on a computer sounds “dystopian.” In point, he wants to give his food service employees access to new vocations. Vardakostas reads with a rustle that” parties look at restaurant use as a kindnes occasion, but mortal, we just need a chance .” Citing to the old-fashioned Google policy of giving hires try out side projects, he explains how” Tech business get 10 percentage age but no one does that for restaurant craftsmen .” ” Something we got really excited about in 2012 and we’re just starting to execute on is reinventing the job of working in a store like this, where the machine it taking care of the unclean and dangerous work ,” his co-founder Frehn clarifies.” We’re playing around with education programs for the staff. Five percent of the cases they’re paid just to read. We’re already doing that. There’s a diary plan. We’re $16 an hour. As opportunities come up to fix the machine, there’s a course we’re going to offer people as amend or upkeep parties to get paid even more .” One tradition Creator couldn’t escape was French fries. Vardakostas says they’re basically the least health happen you can eat , noting they’re” worse than donuts because there’s more surface area exposed to the frier .” But cooks told him some people plainly wouldn’t devour a burger without them. Creator’s compromise is that burgers are paired with hearty miniature farro or seasonal veggie salads by default, but you are able to opt for a line-up of frites. Creator’s fate won’t really be determined by the burger robot and the people who work alongside it. The startup will have to prove to fast food diners that it can be just as quick and cheap but a lot tastier, and that they’re welcome amongst the restaurant’s bougie Pottery Barn decor. At the same period, it was necessary to convince most affluent eaters that a cafeteria-style ordering counter and low price don’t mean low quality. Oh, and the figure is a bit rich for a burger spot. For now, Creator won’t be licensing out its bot or franchising its eatery, though those could be advantageous.” I don’t want person putting frozen beef in there or blaming acces more ,” remarks Vardakostas. Instead, the goal is to methodically expand, and maybe take advantage of its petite footprint to be involved in airport terminals or bus depots.” We want to get out of San Francisco ,” Frehn confidently settles.” Our business pose is pretty simple. We take a really good burger that people like and sell it for half the expenditure .” Read more: https :// techcrunch.com/ 2018/06/ 21/ creator-hamburger-robot / http://dailybuzznetwork.com/index.php/2018/07/19/taste-test-burger-robot-startup-creator-opens-first-restaurant/

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