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- IMAGES: World's most amazing circular buildings Wednesday, July 20, 2011 @ 2:37AMThe circular shape of these magnificent buildings have made them architectural wonders.
- Renovated two-story condo in S.F.'s Lake district Wednesday, July 20, 2011 @ 2:31AMTwice a week, The Chronicle features a local home on the market that caught our eye for its architecture, history or character. See more photos at www.sfgate.com/ZHQD . Address: 158 Funston Ave., San Francisco Asking...
- Century-old restaurants -- Tadich Grill, Hotel Mac and more -- continue to thrive in the 21st century Wednesday, July 20, 2011 @ 2:31AMMarie Curie had just won the Nobel Prize in chemistry. The Titanic was still in the shipyard, and the brand-new San Francisco Symphony had just celebrated its inaugural concert.
- Singing the Bleus at The Huddle Wednesday, July 20, 2011 @ 2:30AMThe whole meal was like the effect of turning down the color on a TV set, making everything slightly duller. by Josh Gross Sports bars are rarely great by culinary standards but at least they're consistent. Large servings of artery-clogging goodness that make your belly swell will always be in.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
- Cellution Releases FAST 3.0 Global Leader in Mobile Expense Management Adds New Functionality in FAST 3.0 & FREE ... Wednesday, July 20, 2011 @ 2:29AMGlobal leader in Mobile Expense Management adds new functionality in FAST 3.0 & FREE License to Enterprises. (PRWeb July 20, 2011) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/7/prweb8649641.htm
- Logitech looks to cloud and mobile video meetings Wednesday, July 20, 2011 @ 2:27AMLogitech's LifeSize division is embracing the cloud in a bid to extend videoconferencing's reach, announcing new services and the acquisition of a small mobile video company called Mirial.
- King of Prussia Mall announces move to add two-story space for ten new retailers Wednesday, July 20, 2011 @ 2:24AMKing of Prussia Mall today announced plans to move ahead with the demolition of the former Wanamaker’s department store in The Plaza, paving the way for the redevelopment of retail space adjacent to it. Set to debut in time for Holiday 2012, the two-story, 122,790 square foot redeveloped space will be home to ten new retailers.
- Logica CEE Announces Partnership with jBilling Wednesday, July 20, 2011 @ 2:22AMLogica CEE, a business and technology service consultation company, announced today a partnership with jBilling, developer of the newly released open-source billing software, jBilling 3. (PRWeb July 20, 2011) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/7/prweb8650926.htm
- Regents expected to approve appointment Wednesday, July 20, 2011 @ 2:21AMNORMAN — Blair Humphreys, an urban designer and University of Oklahoma assistant professor, is awaiting approval to become executive director of the OU College of Architecture’s Institute for Quality Communities.
- Architecture for Humanity founder delivers public lecture Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 10:00PMCameron Sinclair, founder and “Chief Eternal Optimist” of Architecture for Humanity, will deliver a public lecture as part of his role as International Architect in Residence at The University of Auckland.
- Additional news "Nature" Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 9:57PMPalit Microsystems Ltd introduced the Palit GeForce GT520, a new graphics architecture Fermi. Palit GeForce GT 520 supports DX11, Blu-ray 3D, the latest technology from NVIDIA and is ready to turn any home computer into a digital media center.
- The basics of VHDL for embedded software developers: Part 2 - More essential commands Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 9:53PMA series of three articles for embedded software developers unfamiliar with VHDL that is designed to give concise and useful summary information on important language constructs and usage - helpful and easy to use, but not necessarily complete. Part 2: More essential commands. View the full article HERE .
- Joomla expands beyond content management Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 9:39PMWith Tuesday's release of version 1.7, Joomla has been redesigned to support jobs beyond its typical duties of Web content management (WCM). Administrators and developers can now use Joomla's underlying platform as the basis for other types of Web applications as well.
- Buying Fulcrum could deepen Intel's data-center role Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 9:37PMIntel's acquisition of Ethernet chip vendor Fulcrum Microsystems is just the latest step in integrating the components within data centers to help them work smoothly as a single virtual system.
- IMF urges more EU fiscal governance Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 9:34PMTHE INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund has made its strongest call yet for Europe to strengthen euro-zone economic governance to the deal with its debt crisis.
- Korean Car Designers Take Ferrari Design Award Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 9:28PMA team of budding car designers from South Korea’s Hongik University has beaten students from two of the world’s leading car design universities in Europe to win the 2011 Ferrari World Design Contest.
- New hires: ThenDesign Architecture of Willoughby announces appointment Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 9:23PMThenDesign Architecture of Willoughby has announced the appointment of Linda W. Bayer as its director of business development. Bayer returns to Northeast Ohio with 28 years of experience, most recently with Fukui Architects in Pittsburgh.
- Indonesian president urges hard work for ASEAN Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 8:59PMIndonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono reminded the ASEAN foreign ministers and officials that the grouping must continue to work hard to achieve its targets, a press statement said on Tuesday.
- New church proponents meet with business group in Old Mandeville Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 4:08PMOur Lady of the Lake Catholic ChurchThis is the latest drawing of the proposed new church for Our Lady of the Lake parish in Old Mandeville. Kicking off a couple of meetings with community stakeholders, proponents of a new,...
- Mississippi Cottages available at auction Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 4:06PMGULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — The state is putting up for auction more than 180 Mississippi Cottages on July. 29. The event will take place at the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency's staging area in Gulfport.
- Knology, Inc. Announces 2011 Second Quarter Conference Call on the Internet Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 4:05PMWEST POINT, Ga.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Knology, Inc. (Nasdaq:KNOL) will provide an online, real-time webcast of its conference call discussing 2011 second quarter financial results on Wednesday, August 3, 2011, at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time. A simulcast of the conference call will be available on the Internet at www.knology.com or www.earnings.com[[[SHIFTIN ...
- Improvements in store for Winnetka’s golf service center Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 4:03PMA planned renovation of the Winnetka Park District’s golf service center will add parking spaces and public restrooms to Skokie Playfield. The Park District Board of Commissioners last week reviewed a concept plan for the project, which could cost as much as $1.5 million. The work will be done in phases that could start next spring. Restrooms would be built on the east side of the building for ...
- University of Minnesota’s Crookston campus considers $7.5 million dorm project Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 3:55PMGearing up to meet a growing demand for student housing, the University of Minnesota’s Crookston campus hopes to advance plans for a $7.5 million dormitory project.
- Yahoo Builds Ultimate Private Cloud Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 3:53PMImagine the kind of infrastructure needed for a website fielding 1.5 million requests per second. That was one of the challenges faced by Yahoo's Todd Papaioannou, vice president of cloud architecture.
- Christie Brinkley's Neighbor Also Selling Waterfront Spread Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 3:52PMFor the past year or so, model and East End staple Christie Brinkley has been trying to sell her elegant North Haven home for upwards of $15 million. While that property's had about as much luck selling as her Bridgehampton castle , the whole situation is made a little bit more complicated by this historic cedar shake colonial.
- A Curvaceous Tower Puts Mississauga, Ontario, on the Map Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 3:44PMA 56-story condominium tower in Mississauga, Ontario, called the “Marilyn Monroe” by local residents for its voluptuous curves, has nearly sold out.
- Lesbians Kicked Out of Gertrude Stein Exhibit for Holding Hands [Ironic] Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 3:36PM# ironic In the pantheon of places one does not expect blatant homophobia, "Gertrude Stein exhibit at a museum in San Francisco" is pretty high on the list. And yet! A guard at San Francisco's Jewish Museum tried to kick out a pair of females for holding hands at such an event this weekend, San Francisco Chronicle columnist C. W. Nevius reports : More »
- Give Greece What It Deserves: Communism Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 3:33PMThe world needs a contemporary example of communism in action.
- Additional news "Real Estate News" Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 3:27AMJune 8 The Moscow City Duma amended the Urban Development Code of the city. As the correspondent BakuToday in the press center of the MHD, the editor of the bill, chairman of the committee for architecture and urban planning of Moscow Alexander Kuzmin has stated that the document provided for changing certain provisions of the Town Planning Code of capital in terms of preparation and delivery of ...
- Monarch Expands Its Exotic Goa Holidays Programme Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 3:13AMLONDON, UNITED KINGDOM--(Marketwire - July 19, 2011) - Hugging India's western coastline, Goa's white sands and sparkling Arabian waters attract 2 million sun-seeking visitors each year. In direct response to the growing popularity of this idyllic destination, Monarch is expanding its Exotic Goa Holidays programme to allow even more British holidaymakers to explore its balmy shores.
- VINELAND CHURCHES REACH OUT TO AGING, DISABLED PARISHIONERS: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 3:12AMVirginia Keepfer, 100, of Pittsgrove gets off the new elevator with her great niece, Lisa Hardman, as Usher Gary Papolo of Vineland holds the door at First United Methodist Church at 700 Landis Avenue in Vineland.
- Ephemeral murals Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 2:53AMTHE historic Suffolk House in Penang came to life with a kaleidoscope of colours and sounds as it played host to the Digital Art + Culture Festival (DA+C) 2011.
- ARM poses biggest threat to Intel’s chip dominance Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 2:43AMAfter more than 30 years of domination by a single microarchitecture — Intel’s X86 — the PC microprocessor market finally is set for some real competition, with shipments of ARM processors set to soar in the coming years and projected to appear in nearly one out of every four notebook PCs made in 2015.
- ZwcadUSA Announces Update Release of ZWCAD 2011 With Easier Interface to Migrate AutoCAD® Applications Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 2:39AMAt no cost to ZWCAD 2011 users, this release embodies most customer requested enhancements that increase stability and makes user experience smoother for frequently used features (PRWeb July 19, 2011) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/ZwcadUSA/Autocad-Alternative/prweb8651109.htm
- New European Bike Tour Combines Spain, France, and a bit of Lance Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 2:38AMA new European bike tour offered by Easy Rider Tours spins through the French Pyrénées, Spanish Catalonia, and some of Lance Armstrong’s favorite training roads. (PRWeb July 19, 2011) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/7/prweb8650979.htm
- InShort Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 2:27AMIan Cato, freshman in studio art, jams out on a Wurlitzer organ in the Arts and Architecture building on Friday, Jan. 21. The organ was just one of several pieces of art throughout the building as part of the Charrette.
- Council aims to keep walkways clear during Cheeseburger Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 5:47PMBy Kate HesslingTribune Staff Writer CASEVILLE — Sidewalks in town should be wide open for pedestrian travel during next month’s Cheeseburger in Caseville festival.
- Questions to ask on cloud reliability Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 5:37PMI've been an architect on some complex applications and I have a significant concern about assessing architectural risk for public/private cloud applications. Traditional risk assessments focus on external/internal access to confidential information like social security numbers, credit card number, and for banks PINs for the ATMs. Access controls and network protection are high priorities ...
- ARM RISC chips to erode x86 market share Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 5:35PMA prominent industry analyst has confirmed that ARM's RISC-based chips remain on track to claim a sizable chunk of the lucrative notebook PC market by 2015. read more
- Can Schools Educate Kids for an Uncertain 21st Century? Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 5:20PMA common theme in the education reform movement is that schools must meet the needs of the "21st century learner." But the rapid pace of global economic collapse and social upheaval means that educators are preparing students for a 21st century that reformers and policy makers aren't completely sure of. As much as they claim to be oriented to the future, reformers usually assume that the way our ...
- New Mystics Center Performing At Historic Fairmont Firehouse Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 5:14PMThe firehouse is located on Monroe Street.
- Nano-ITX board saves power with single-core Atom Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 5:09PMBCM announced a Nano-ITX motherboard that includes a 1.66GHz Intel Atom N450 processor and supports dual displays. The NX450N has Mini PCI Express and CompactFlash slots, two SATA ports, gigabit Ethernet, plus an optional TPM (trusted platform module), the company says.
- Helfand To Serve As Full-Time President At Quest University Canada Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 1:28PMSQUAMISH, BC, July 18, 2011 - The Board of Governors of Quest University Canada has announced that Professor David J. Helfand has agreed to serve as full-time President of the University. Helfand became a Founding Tutor at Quest when he took a leave from his faculty position at Columbia University during the Fall of 2007. For the past three years, he has led the institution on an interim basis ...
- JARING Managed Security Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 1:26PMA complete Internet Protection solution that controls Internet security threats effectively, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week all year round, leaving you to concentrate on your core business.
- ECIDA Approves $2.8 Million in Incentives to Assist Pair of Local Projects Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 1:24PMFunds will support residential and manufacturing and hospitality ventures.
- VMware CTO looks back at 'wild ride' Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 1:16PMNetwork World - Few IT companies have fundamentally changed the data center like VMware. Yet 13 years into VMware's existence nearly all of its co-founders, including the wife-and-husband team of CEO Diane Greene and Chief Scientist Mendel Rosenblum , have moved on.
- Romanian Educational Network chooses Ciena, Felix Telecom for 100-Gigabit Ethernet Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 1:03PMThe Romanian Educational Network (RoEduNet) has upgraded the Ciena (NASDAQ:CIEN) 6500 Packet-Optical Platforms and Common Photonic Layer systems in its fiber-optic network to increase capacity to accommodate 100-Gigabit Ethernet (100GbE) traffic.
- LightCounting charts paths to profitability Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 1:03PMLightCounting’s newly released report. “State of the Optical Communications Industry: On a Path to Sustainable Profitability,” contains both good news and bad news for the optical communications industry.
- About Tonight: July 18, 2011 Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 12:56PMTonight: watch Ocean's 11 on an outdoor screen, raise a (free) glass to Urbana's 5th birthday, or catch some live music. Later this week, check out Bar Pilar's Blue Crab Dinners, a comedy fundraiser for the Tune Inn, Chinatown Coffee's Summer Beer Fest and more. [ more › ]
- Blind builder Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 12:40AMMANILA, Philippines — Professions in the field of fine arts like architecture, interior design, industrial design, and advertising require a lot of visual perspective, from conceptualizing to actual drawing and planning. This is why it is almost impossible for visually-impaired individuals to engage in these professions. But once in a while, there is always someone who stands out to be an ...
