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New York City Structures, HL23 Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 8:47PMHL23, the 14 story co-op tower on West 23rd Street and 10th Avenue is thoroughly modern in design and technology, yet its lithe and muscular form seems to hearken back to less digital times.
2011 Lincoln MKZ Hybrid - The Hybrid for Old Guys Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 5:47PMEven old guys want to drive hybrids. I just spent a week driving the 2011 Lincoln MKZ Hybrid, and I'm hoping that my craving for the early bird special goes away soon.
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Evolution of the evolutionarily minded Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 4:45PMIn the century and a half since Charles Darwin's publication of The Origin of Species, evolutionary theory has become the bedrock of modern biology, yet its application to the understanding of the human mind remains controversial. For the past 30 years, evolutionary interpretation of human cognition has been dominated by the field of evolutionary psychology. One view of this field is that human ...
Patent fears may hurt Android, result in lower-cost Windows phones Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 4:39PMPatent concerns are apparently pushing Chinese phone vendors away from Google's Android operating system and toward Windows Phone 7. Huawei and ZTE plan to adopt Microsoft's smartphone operating system when the forthcoming "Mango" upgrade is released, according to a DigiTimes report.
Vivisimo Receives U.S. Patent for Clustering System and Method Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 10:19AMPITTSBURGH, July 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Vivisimo, the leader in Information Optimization, announced today that it was awarded patent 11/774,908 by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for its clustering system and method. Vivisimo's remix clustering set new benchmarks in the enterprise "search" arena when it was introduced, a result of its ability to allow employees for the first time to dig ...
Maxwell Winery Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 10:06AMMaxwell winery's architecture is matched by the ambition of its menu, writes Simon Wilkinson.
Ultimate Risk Solutions Brings Out New Version of Risk Explorer(TM) on Its Tenth Anniversary Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 8:17AMNEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - Jul 19, 2011) - Ultimate Risk Solutions (URS) has just brought out a new version of Risk ExplorerT with many powerful new features, one of which allows companies that have built Dynamic Financial Analysis (DFA) models to automatically calculate capital required to meet demands of Solvency II, the European Union's new regulatory regime to be effective in January 2013 ...
Green Hills Software Is Founding Member of Technology United Alliance Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 7:16AMConsortium of Best-of-Breed Companies to Offer Turnkey Imaging Solutions
Tiny Wi-Fi device server ships with Linux SDK Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 7:09AMLantronix is now shipping a wireless device server module with a Timesys LinuxLink software development kit (SDK). The PremierWave EN includes a 400MHz Atmel ARM9 processor, an Ethernet port, and a dual-band 802.11a/b/g/n modem, and ships with Linux-based Lantronix firmware -- offering secure tunneling, configuration, diagnostics, LAN bridging, and remote access applications.
Big question: how much do you value a formal web design education? Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 5:34AMWith an increase in tuition fees and more choice in web design degrees, deciding on a course can be tricky, but do you even need a formal qualification to be successful? We ask our panel of experts to tell us about their experience and thoughts...
Beer, beach and markets Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 4:30AMQingdao (China Daily/ANN) - John Clark takes a break in Qingdao, China, and delights in the city's many attractions even if he does fall flat on his face at the beer museum.
Glasgow and Edinburgh: the architectural rivalry Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 6:09PMTwo new museums in Scotland, a vast zinc-coated amoeba on the edge of Glasgow, and a transformed temple of High Victorian knowledge in Edinburgh, have renewed the eternal cultural rivalry of these two great cities, just 47 miles apart. Glasgow claims immediate bragging rights because the Riverside Museum of Transport and Travel was designed by Zaha Hadid and cost more: £74m. And yet Gareth ...
Trump Ocean Club Opens as Tallest Building in Latin America Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 4:09PMThe first international Trump Hotel Collection project features a striking yet intimate design by HBA/Hirsch Bedner Associates
As Chile's Economy Continues to Grow, New Investment Opportunities are Emerging Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 3:23PMIn July 2010, I stepped out into the bright winter sun onto the roof top helicopter pad at the newly built USD$150M W Hotel mixed use development in Santiago, Chile. I could see the glimmering mirrored windows of the surrounding corporate office towers. The elaborate modern designs of these tall buildings are a reminder that in last few decades Santiago has emerged as one of Latin America’s ...
Boston MFA to Open New Gallery with Jewelry Exhibit Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 3:08PMThe Boston Museum of Fine Arts will open a new gallery Tuesday dedicated to jewelry with the exhibit
Jerusalem Stretches For Its Cultural Groove Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 2:56PMAmid the alleyways that zigzag through Jerusalem’s Nahlaot neighborhood, a nonprofit collective run by five young artists is trying to make art more accessible in a city known more for conflict than culture.
Panel PCs are environmentally sealed Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 2:54PMWinSystems announced a family of environmentally sealed panel PCs that feature Intel Atom N270 processors plus CompactFlash or hard disk storage.
Memorial Stadium vista point open to public Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 12:52PMGolden Bears fans can view progress on the Memorial Stadium retrofit project from a viewing deck perched above the east rim of the famous old stadium. The vista point is accessible during construction hours.
Heron Hill Winery - NY Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 10:53AMFinger Lakes' Heron Hill winery is going from strength to strength. Peter F May visited its spectacular tasting room and tasted its wine withe owners John and Jo Ingle.
Otel.com Announces Discounts for Hotels in San Francisco Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 10:09AMOtel.com takes its costumers to another interesting destination which is San Francisco. Otel.com announces San Francisco hotel discounts and gives travelers chance to visit one of the most popular international tourists destinations, famous landmarks and eclectic mix of Victorian and modern architecture in San Francisco. (PRWeb July 18, 2011) Read the full story at http://www.prweb ...
Dhr.com Announces Special Promotions for Hotels in Glasgow Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 9:52AMDhr.com announces special promotions for hotels in Glasgow. Visit Dhr.com and choose some of the cheap hotels for the largest city in Scotland and one of Europe’s top twenty financial centers. With these Glasgow hotels discounts it is really easy to spend some quality time in one of the most attractive places on the continent and get the chance to see the beautiful buildings and parks, modern ...
Microsoft moves forward with 'Roslyn' compiler as a service project Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 8:59AMMicrosoft plans to share more information on its "Roslyn" compiler-as-a-service (CaaS) project during its annual Microsoft Research Faculty Summit this week.
WSO2 Launches Industry’s Most Comprehensive Cloud Middleware Solutions with Debut of WSO2 StratosLive PaaS and Launch ... Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 8:16AMPALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--With this launch, WSO2 gives developers unprecedented flexibility in deploying 14 integrated middleware products on a public PaaS, private on-premise PaaS, or private-public PaaS hybrid
Bob Stover: Special magazine to chronicle 30 years of space shuttle coverage Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 6:38AMSpecial magazine will chronicle 30 years of shuttle coverage, says executive editor Bob Stover.
Cape Cod Modern House Trust director to speak at Truro museum Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 6:19AMPeter McMahon, executive director of the Cape Cod Modern House Trust, leads a discussion of modernist architecture on the Cape dating back to the late 1930s at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, July 20, at the Highland House Museum. The lecture, which is free, is part of the museum’s Wednesday evening program series.
How Japan's data centers survived the earthquake Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 5:17AMIDG News Service - Smart construction and good planning allowed Japan's data centers to survive the massive earthquake that rocked the country in March , a Japanese data center executive said last late month at the DatacenterDynamics conference in San Francisco.
CBA’s dated IT systems forced its hand, says ANZ Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 3:11AMANZ Bank chief information officer Anne Weatherston has rejected claims the bank's technology platform was falling behind that of rivals, stating billion-dollar IT splurges by the likes of the Commonwealth Bank in recent years were necessary because of a lack of ongoing investment in technology infrastructure throughout the past several decades.
New York-based Landscape Architect to offer advice Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 7:39PMKen Smith, one of the best known of a new generation of landscape architects is visiting New Zealand this week as a guest of Unitec Institute of Technology and reset Urban Design.
Palaces stamp their mark Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 6:12PMPos Malaysia will issue a special collection of stamps featuring 10 of the most beautiful and majestic royal palaces of Malaysia. The regal collection will be issued today.
18 July 2011 Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 4:14PMThe Fair Work Act has turned two. It is a very long statute, with some 650 pages, and the regulations are complex and highly prescriptive. It is an unambiguously pro-union law.
A long way from Mr Natural Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 9:00AMCARTOONIST Robert Crumb is bringing his mordant wit and old-time music to Sydne.
MoMA Exhibit Shows How Technology Is Getting the Point Across Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 8:41AM"Talk to Me," an exhibition opening July 24 in New York, explores how innovations in communication design are transforming our lives.
Tours & cruises: Biking through Zambia Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 2:14AMTravel packages also focus on bears in British Columbia, Germany history and architecture, New Orleans and the Caribbean, and culture in China. ZAMBIA
Prof Taj, signing off Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 9:21PMIn this last issue for this year, we say goodbye to our rebel professor and his column of radical ideas on how architecture can help unite a nation.
Archaeologists unearth truer picture of Bible's 'bad guys,' the Philistines Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 7:40PMArchaeologists unearth truer picture of Bible's 'bad guys,' the Philistines
Youngsters learn art of Manga at Lunenburg library workshop Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 6:01AMLUNENBURG -- Cartoons such as Pokémon brought the Japanese Manga comic and Anime cartoon genre to television popularity in the early 21st century, and a generation earlier it was Speed Racer.
Additional news "Tourism" Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 5:27AMUnder the federal program “Social development of village before 2013″ this year, 105 rural families in Kabardino-Balkaria, 50 of them – young families and families of young professionals, improve their living conditions.
Sid Garrison's map-like abstractions at Sweetow Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 2:23AMSid Garrison titles his colored pencil drawings, such as those at Sweetow, by the dates of their completion. This habit acknowledges - at least to those who follow his work - how slowly the drawings come into being....
Fort Stewart hospital to be expanded Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 11:18PMThe construction that in recent years has become a seemingly normal part of garrison life at Fort Stewart is showing no signs of slowing down. In 2010 alone the Savannah District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers completed complexes for two brigade combat teams, a soldier family assistance center and a live-fire shooting facility. And that doesn’t include the 457-acre, $315 million complex ...
Prefabricated homes go upscale Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 10:46PMPrefab houses aren't just for trailer parks anymore. Two Bay Area startups are crafting factory-built homes and rooms for the high-end market, the kind of people who want an architect-designed custom house with all the...
Huntington, spirit of Park Inn project, dies at 50 Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 10:37PMMASON CITY — Martha Huntington, project architect for the restoration of the Historic Park Inn Hotel, died Friday of cancer, within weeks of the hotel’s scheduled opening.
University of Derby holds interview session in Sibu today Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 9:31PMSIBU: The University of Derby is holding an interview session at the NATiONWiDE Management Services at Tanahwang Centre [...]
Rebekah Brooks: flame-haired Queen of Fleet Street Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 8:48AMTurning someone over one day and having them thank you for it the next is said to be the ultimate art of the tabloid hack. If that is the case then Rebekah Brooks - who has resigned in the wake of the News of the World phone-hacking scandal - was, until recently, a master of the profession.
Red Hat Joins $11M Round For Jaspersoft Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 7:07AMJaspersoft, maker of the world's most widely used business intelligence (BI) software, today announc...
Citizen Police Academy: Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 6:44AMSHIRLEY -- The 2011 Citizen Police Academy wrapped with a final class and presentation of certificates to more than two dozen graduates.
Seven Scots cultural treasures on list of at-risk theatres Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 6:20PMFROM a modest modern theatre in Stockbridge that local activists are fighting to save, to the Glasgow edifice where Stan Laurel famously played his first gig, seven Scottish s
Sprint to launch Motorola's Photon 4G smartphone July 31 Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 5:39PMSprint is offering the Motorola Photon 4G, its latest Android 2.3 "Gingerbread" phone, for $200. Available July 21, the Photon 4G is equipped with a 1GHz dual-core Nvidia Tegra 2 processor, offers a 4.3-inch qHD display, and has an optional, Atrix-like "HD Station" dock -- without the earlier laptop-like format -- to expand the display.
Building New, Looking Older - In the Region/Long Island Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 5:12PMOver the last decade, many architects and builders have veered toward a more ageless, classic approach using materials that are increasingly 21st century.
Pennsylvania professor, historic architecture expert to speak in Helena tonight Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 5:08PMHistoric preservation architect Frank Matero, Professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Design, will present “Being Modern: Why Preservation Matters in a Globalized World”, at the Montana Club, Sixth and Fuller, in the President’s Room at 5:30 p.m. Call 406-457-2822 for more information.