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PHOENIX -- Super Bowl XLIX is more than the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks playing for the Vince Lombardi Trophy under the bright lights in Glendale.

It also happens to be about the lights as well.

University of Phoenix Stadium will illuminate the Feb. 1 Super Bowl like no other previous NFL championship game before. The Patriots and Seahawks will be the first teams to compete for the title under an LED lighting system, which the stadium installed prior to the Arizona Cardinals and San Francisco 49ers game in September.

The use of LED lights for the game comes at a time when attention to detail has been critical in an NFL game. Look back at this postseason, where two games involving the Dallas Cowboys came down to calls made by the referees.

The company that brought the new lights to Glendale, Ephesus Lighting, designed and installed these lights to provide television audiences and replay officials more vivid detail.

Scott Norton, director of marketing and public relations at University of Phoenix Stadium, said media companies like ESPN and Fox have praised the stadium's upgrades.

"The lighting is just amazing for slow-motion [replay] and HDTV," Norton said.

The installation of the LED lights cut down the number of lighting fixtures by more than half, saving about 929,000 watts needed to power the fixtures, according to a case study Ephesus Lighting conducted.

Doug Drotman, the spokesman for Ephesus Lighting, said that number of watts is equal to about 15,000, 60-watt light bulbs. In layman's terms, that equates to about the same amount of energy needed to power about 750 homes each using 20 of those bulbs.

In all, stadium officials expect the lights to save about 65 percent in electrical costs.

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If youre ready to explore kitchen remodeling options, Dun-Rite Home Improvements Inc. (DRHI) can offer you a full array of services, from cabinet refacing (or as we call it, cabinet resurfacing) to a complete tear-out and re-do, including custom cabinets and shelving, custom countertops and flooring.

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Accessories such as replacement drawers, sliding shelves, tip out trays, trash can sliders, spice racks, mixer stands, and other custom options offer additional convenience and storage possibilities. Options like these can be added as part of a total cabinet system, custom-designed and custom-crafted for your unique needs and preferences.

Explore your kitchen cabinet refacing Denver and front range renovation options today!

Installation will be completed using our own employees, not sub-contractors. Projects are supervised from start to finish by a Project Manager to ensure a smooth transformation and timely completion. From contemporary to traditional, our designers will help you put together a kitchen renovation project that fits your personal taste and that you and Dun-Rite will be proud of!

If youd love a new kitchen, but would rather not take on a complete remodel, our cabinet refacing process is the perfect way to get an updated kitchen without the mess, hassle, time and expense of a total kitchen tear out.

The Classic Dun-Rite method is a process of utilizing your existing cabinets to achieve the look and feel of a new, updated custom kitchen. We pioneered an exclusive process that is not just simply sticking laminate or veneer on your cabinets, as seen in some refacing approaches. Instead, quarter inch thick solid wood is hand-fit to the existing wood faces, and quarter inch matching ply is attached to end panels and undersides. Next, all new custom-built, doors and drawer fronts of the highest quality are installed, and all is finished to match.

In a sense, we build a new custom cabinet around what you already have. Our process is extensive and long-lasting, and maintains a very high level of product integrity. As such, we call it resurfacing rather than just refacing.

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Rick Mather Architects recently completed Passivhaus scheme
Rick Mather Architects has completed this 12 million Passivhaus residential scheme in Camden, North London.

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Amsterdam-based NL Architects is envisioning a chain of striking towers based on the 'positive powers' of amethyst Hotels are shaped like a geode, featuring a facade that has the appearance of crystals in volcanic rock First hotel is planned for Chinas Ocean Flower, a man-made island under development in the sea north of Hainan

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Dutch architects have designed a fascinating concept hotel that would be the jewel of any large city.

The proposed Amethyst Hotel is shaped like a geode and features a facade that has the appearance of violet-coloured crystals in volcanic rock.

Amsterdam-based NL Architects is envisioning a chain of striking hotel towers with designs based on the positive powers of amethyst, a variety of quartz used in jewellery.

The proposed Amethyst Hotel is shaped like a geode and features a facade that has the appearance of violet-coloured crystals in volcanic rock

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Summary:In a recent interview, John Zachman said: 'If we as enterprise architects are not doing diagnosis and prescription, then we're the technicians; we're just taking x-rays.'

Enterprise architects should stop operating as if they are x-ray technicians, and more as doctors -- diagnosing and prescribing solutions for enterprise problems, versus building models that only serve as temporal snapshots of the situation. Photo: Joe McKendrick

That's the word from John A. Zachman, creator of the highly regarded Zachman Framework, in a series of interviews posted at the site of iCMG, an EA services firm. In a fascinating and provocative discussion with Sunil Dutt Jha,CEO of iCMG, Zachman compared enterprise architecture to medicine. Too many of today's EAs are not taking on the roles of doctors as they should be, he opined.

"The doctor does the diagnosis, and then the doctor prescribes the solution, the prescription," he said. "Then you apply the prescription, then you see if it fixed the problem or not. So if the doctor is only ordering an x-ray by the x-ray technician, which is basically a model of your body, it doesn't do anything."

The fundamental problem in the enterprise community, Zachman said, is "nobody is doing the diagnosis, they're just taking x-rays. If people think that enterprise architecture is a practice of building models, that's like taking x-rays. What the enterprise architect ought to be doing is reading the models, figuring out what the problem is, then prescribing three, or five, or 20 possible solutions. If we as enterprise architects are not doing diagnosis and prescription, then we're the technicians. We're building models, we're just taking x-rays, we're taking snapshots."

The Zachman Framework lays the foundation for enterprise architecture, providing a series of classifications based on "What, Where, When, Why, Who and How," cross-indexed by organizational perspectives, including "Executive, Business management, Architect, Engineer, Technician, and Enterprise" perspectives. In the interview, Zachman pointed out that the framework is comparable to the periodic table of elements, which are a series of immutable elements (or "primitives") from which an infinite amount of composites can be created.

"There is one periodic table," he said. "There are n different compounds. "I happened to stumble across the periodic table for enterprises."

The laws dictated by the framework for enterprise architecture are the same as for any other form of architecture, Zachman emphasized. "I did not invent this framework," he said. "How, when, who, what and why has been around for 7,000 years. All I did is see the pattern. I put enterprise names on the same artifacts that are relevant for describing any object, whether it's an airplane, a building, a locomotive, or whatever it is."

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Jason Jones Joins Arcsine Architecture January 23, 2015

Oakland-based architecture and design firm, Arcsine has welcomed a new senior architect Jason Jones.

Jones brings more than 20 years of experience working on large-scale commercial projects. Previously a project architect at Gensler, some of his notable projects include the $150 million renovation of San Francisco International Airport Terminal 3 East, the $50 million shell renovation of Market Street Place in San Francisco, and the completion of Club Nokia, a 2,350-seat music club and VIP lounge in Los Angeles.

Jones received a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Arkansas. In 2002, he founded 3Djones, a studio providing visualization services for the architecture and entertainment industries including architectural rendering and animation, photorealistic terrain modeling, and adventure and travel photography.

Having Jason on board is extremely exciting, said Adam Winig, principal and co-founder of Arcsine. It will allow us to offer more core and shell architectural services to our clients, as well as chase after large-scale projects.

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72 Challenger Home restoration
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A swirl of flooring hues at Orlando Regional Medical center cues patients and visitors about directions a trick that can be used in your house. (0Provided by Orlando Health)

As homes go, the place was large: 245 bedrooms and 345,000 square feet. And though it looked and felt like a home in many ways, the new 10-story building I toured last week was really a hospital in disguise a feat of decorating to be sure.

The architects' objective was "to create a home for 245 patients," said the press materials handed to those of us previewing America's newest hospital tower, a $300 million structure at Orlando Regional Medical Center, which will admit its first "overnight guest" Jan. 26.

If imitation is the best form of flattery, then we who care about making homes beautiful, comfortable and nurturing just got a huge compliment.

Everything the designers did to make the large institutional space feel homey, they learned from home designers. They get this universal truth: There's no place like home, especially when you're sick.

"Our biggest design challenge was to make the hospital feel hospitable," said Karen Guindi, the interior designer at the helm of the project, who designed high-end hotels before she began designing hospitals.

So it was with gallows curiosity that I went to see what sleight-of-hand design was used to take the edge off the facts that your bed is a gurney with side rails, that people talk in the hall at all hours and leave the lights on, that everyone who visits you needs to wash their hands, that just when you fall asleep somebody dressed in monochromatic pastels sticks you with needles and messes with your hardware, that you're likely there because you're deathly ill and that down the hall people are routinely being cut open.

It would take more than pretty art, high-definition televisions and a comfy sofa to gloss over that, I thought.

"Our mantra was this is not an institution," said Guindi, who chatted with me in the art-filled lobby after my tour. "It's a healing environment, designed with home, hospitality and nature in mind."

But Guindi also had to bear in mind that the place needed to stand up to heavy traffic and human abuse. You know, all the assaults our homes endure spilled coffee, dirty shoes on nice furniture, face-down pizza only more so.

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Stansbury Park, Utah (PRWEB) January 24, 2015

Conveniently nestled within the heart of the ever-growing community of Stansbury Park, Utah, and just west of the Benson Grist Mill, stands a quaint 1850s pioneer home and granary that havent received much attention until recently. The Coulter Family along with a local contractor performed the hefty, yet rewarding undertaking of remodeling this two-story rock home. The finished project, after eight months of intense labor, is a historic event venue with a remarkably original vintage feel. It has been affectionately re-named the Coulter House. It not only represents the heritage of the Coulter Family itself, but ties generations and families together while celebrating the genealogy of the early settlers of the Tooele Valley. Through the Coulter Familys efforts, this newly restored event venue will continue to stand as a landmark for not only the Tooele Valley, but also for the Stansbury Park community.

The Coulter House is now open and available for all types of events including wedding receptions, family gatherings, community and religious events, consignment for antiques, holiday boutiques, small business incubator, art gallery, business meetings, funerals, art shows, birthday parties, quinceaeras, and various other types of events. A public open house will be held on Friday January 30th from 5 to 8 P.M with refreshments being served. On Saturday, January 31st from 10 A.M. until 2 P.M., a fundraiser will be held for the Stansbury High School FFA Chapter. They will be serving lunch and a $1.00 donation is requested to help support the local FFA Chapter. Additional information can be found by visiting The Coulter House Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/thecoulterhousellc, by visiting the Coulter House website at http://www.coulterhousellc.com, or by calling (435) 840-5587.

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