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THE bar and nightclub owner behind a planned £3 million new nightspot in Edinburgh's city centre has reported record profits of £7.3m. Entrepreneur Stefan King's G1 Group, which also owns a string of pubs in the Capital, including the controversially-named Morningside Glory and the Auld Toll Bar premises in Tollcross, saw profits soar by 12.7 per cent - in the fifth consecutive year that both profits and sales have increased for the company. .
Adobe Systems Incorporated has introduced the public beta of Adobe Digital Editions, a Rich Internet Application (RIA) built from the ground up for digital publishing. With native support for Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) as well as an XHTML-based reflow-centric publication format, Digital Editions delivers a way to acquire, read, and manage content, including eBooks, digital magazines, digital newspapers, and other digital publications. Initially available as a free public beta for Windows, Digital Editions will support Macintosh systems as a universal binary application, Linux platforms, as well as mobile phones, and other embedded devices in future versions. .
ONE of the things that distresses me about modern building methods is that there will be no more beautiful ruins. Smashed concrete blocks and twisted steel structures may make hearts race at Tate Modern, but they will never grace a landscape, or even a city-scape, in the way of solid stone and hand-jointed timber, however broken and fallen. Call me old-fashioned? Im not. Rather, I am fed up with the graceless, faceless, skill-less tat thrown up in place of good-quality building. Any idiot can make a square out of breeze blocks I know, Ive done it myself. Yet breeze blocks are not just ugly, they produce huge amounts of carbon dioxide in their manufacture and require heavy cement mortars to hold them together. The things may be faced with stone or brick, but once your inner shell is made of cement blocks you might as well be in a concrete apartment in the former East Germany.
NASHUA, N.H. — Viega North America opened its first educational facility Sept. 18 in grand style before a turnout of nearly 350 attendees. Contractors, industry partners, city officials and Viega personnel gathered to celebrate the official opening with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and champagne toast. Viega CEO Dan Schmierer, Training Director Mark Parent, Vice President/ Sales and Marketing Dave Garlow and Nashua Mayor Bernard A. Streeter welcomed guests. Joining them were the two cousins who own Viega, Heinz-Bernd Viegener and Walter Viegener, and the company's export manager, Karl-Heinz Maier. The 16,000-sq.-ft. training center, under Parent's direction, is equipped with a computer lab for plumbing and heating takeoff applications, multiple presentation rooms and a hands-on interactive shop area.
Local builder Joseph E. Rhodes Jr. made his name on the Outer Banks. But the Elizabeth City native says Pasquotank County is the place to be. Rhodes is in the process of building a 49-home residential development off Northside Road, near Main Street Extended. The development, called Northeast Landing, is funded by a group of Outer Banks investors, Prairie Dog LLC, whose managing partner is William Rowland Thorp. Some of the projects Rhodes has finished on the Outer Banks include the Pelican Watch subdivision, just north of the Kitty Hawk Pier, Grace Lutheran Church in Nags Head, the animal hospital in Manteo, and several custom waterfront homes. But as the market on the Outer Banks starts to flatten out, Rhodes says he's contemplating a move back home.
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