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A GROUP of architects set out to paint a 50-meter wall in Mandaue City with images of countryside life.
Richard Abella, president of the United Architects of the Philippines (UAP)-Datu Lapu-Lapu Chapter, said the mural they are working on aims to convey the need to protect the environment.
We only have one planet. We have to protect it, he said in an interview with reporters yesterday.
Their mural on a concrete wall of the Ho Tien Soy factory is an added attraction in Barangay Subangdaku, where street art enthusiasts led by renowned mural artist Amado Guerrero AG Sao are also doing the countrys first flyover art project.
Subangdaku Barangay Captain Ernie Manatad said he suggested that the architects depict countryside life in their mural painting to evoke the barangays past as an agricultural area.
Subangdaku has become a concrete jungle from being a place of ricefields, he said.
Manatad said the paintings are part of his effort to beautify street walls in the barangays.
Weve chosen walls that are frequently vandalized for the paintings. So far, nobody has vandalized the walls again, he said.
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The UAP, which has about 120 members, started their project on the 50-meter wall last Aug. 31. The wall has a height of five meters.
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15/09/2014
Wide range of free events planned for Auckland Architecture Week 2014
From the 23-28 September the New Zealand Institute of Architects (Auckland Branch) is presenting a week-long festival of architecturally themed events and activities, most of them free.
The organisers of Auckland Architecture Week 2014 have put together a programme of events that considers the identity of Auckland, addresses architecture at both public and private scales, and recognises that the most important part of architecture is people.
City-focussed events include an Auckland Conversation featuring Auckland Council design champion Ludo Campbell-Reid, Hobsonville Land Company executive Mark Fraser and NZIA President Pip Cheshire and fellow Cheshire Architects director Nat Cheshire two designers who have been influential in the regeneration of some of the citys most popular areas. Auckland the Rise of a Design-led City (Thursday 25/09, 7:00pm) will focus on how integrating design thinking, the adaptive response to place, context and culture, can be Aucklands competitive edge its point of difference in the world.
Auckland Architecture Week also covers the topic of Aucklands identity. At the group exhibition, Auckland Redefined (opening event Friday 26/09, 7:00pm), five of the citys best architectural photographers, Patrick Reynolds, Mark Smith, Jackie Meiring, Samuel Hartnett and David Straight, present visual responses to a question posed by NZIA President Pip Cheshire: Auckland has used the City of Sails to promote itself in the past. Isnt it time we came ashore and defined Auckland by what it is, not what it is next to? What image of Auckland will evoke the spirit of our new city in a way that the billowing sails on the Waitemata once did?
Another event that considers identity, albeit at a national level, is Last Loveliest Loneliest in Venice (Thursday 29/09, 1:00pm). This year, architect David Mitchell was creative director of New Zealands first national exhibition at the Venice Architecture Biennale. Like all other national exhibitions at Venice, New Zealand responded to a provocation by Biennale curator Rem Koolhaas: do modern buildings, regardless of country, all look the same? New Zealands exhibition, Last Loneliest Loveliest, is a proposition about where New Zealand architecture has come from, where it might go, and how the islands in the South Pacific are connected to the wider architectural world.
Heritage protection or lack thereof for modern buildings is a current concern for Auckland. At Modernist Buildings under Threat (Sunday 28/09, 3:00pm) architectural lecturer and author Julia Gatley, conservation architecture specialist Adam Wild and HOME editor Jeremy Hansen will discuss reasons why modernist buildings with good architectural pedigrees, such as Tibor Donners Auckland Administration Building, sit in a heritage-protection blind spot.
Auckland Architecture Week also has an international aspect. This years Metro Glass Public Lecture (Friday 26/09, 6:00pm) will be presented by Mexican architect Enrique Norten, founder of the esteemed practice TEN Architectos. Norten is currently working on a wide-range of projects with significant international profiles, including the Guggenheim museum in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Auckland Architecture Weeks activities also address architecture at a human scale. On Sunday 28/09 (1:00pm), actor and television host Peter Elliott will present The Art of the Architect Live, a discussion with some of the well regarded architects who appeared on the popular television show. How do you choose an architect? What should you expect? What are the high and low points of the design process and, of course, what was making the TV show really like? The discussion will feature award-winning architects Lance Herbst, Malcolm Walker and Tony Koia.
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Architects should think like economists when creating apps, and let economic principles guide them in building and using elements in the Cloud.
Architects should think like economists when creating apps, and let economic principles guide them in building and using elements in the Cloud.
"You have to get the externalities right. You want it to work like a credit card does intuitive, easy to understand and applicable in lots of places. You have to get the incidences right. That means you need to get it right for the people who will be using it. If it is the CIO, it has to work right for him and his needs. If it is someone else, then it has to be fashioned to work right for them," said Chris Auld, CTO at Intergen.
Addressing a session at Microsoft's TechEd 2014, Auld encouraged IT architects to work on normalising costs between private and public Cloud.
"Consider the cost of raw materials. Don't let it be the case where the cost of things going in is more than the cost of the thing that is coming out of it. There are various ways to measure things these days and you should consider the input cost of the apps that you build, and understand what is cheaper where. And everything comes into the picture here people, power all of those elements.
"Always watch out for mispricing when using Cloud services as well. Take advantage of them. There are inefficiencies in the pricing system because even with competition this is not a perfect market and often you can take advantage of them. You might get years of cost advantage with mispricing, and you can architect apps with those cost models. Don't worry you will get time to pull out if things change," Auld said.
He encouraged architects to work on apps that are modelled around the philosophies of call centres.
"There are peaks and troughs related to calls that come into a centre and how they are dealt with. Build buffer around your apps to deal with those and to take the edge off the peaks and troughs. Protect your more expensive assets. When you get through to a call centre you don't speak to a tier three engineer first thing, do you? That's because they are more expensive, and what they bring to the business is more valuable. The first tier call centre folk protect the more expensive engineers. Same principles should apply in the app. And certainly don't waste precious resources," Auld said.
He also stated what Steven Martin, GM of Cloud and enterprise at Microsoft had told Computerworld NZ earlier, "Commoditised Cloud services are on a downward march to the bottom. High level and differentiated services, which can add more value, will have different pricing schemes. But it is very hard to find the right price that works well in the full continuum scale from small businesses to large businesses. Cloud providers are still working on the mechanisms to establish those prices."
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An athlete places comfort above anything else while choosing an athlete apparel brand. Worldwide there is a rise in the demand of comfortable fashionable sports apparel. Foot Locker (FL) is a leading global athletic footwear and apparel retailer. Its stores offer the latest in athletic-inspired performance products, manufactured primarily by the leading athletic brands. Foot Locker offers products for a wide variety of activities including basketball, running, and training. Its 1,911 stores are located in 21 countries.
A Look at the Recent Results
(Second Quarter Earnings Report)
Net income for the Companys second quarter ended August 2, 2014 was $92 million, or $0.63 per share, compared with net income of $66 million, or $0.44 per share, last year, an increase in earnings per share of 43 percent. Second quarter comparable-store sales increased 7.0 percent.
Total second quarter sales increased 12.9 percent, to $1,641 million this year, compared with sales of $1,454 million for the corresponding prior-year period. Excluding the effect of foreign currency fluctuations, total sales for the second quarter increased 11.7 percent. The Companys gross margin rate increased to 32.0 percent of sales from 31.2 percent in the second quarter of 2013, while the selling, general, and administrative expense rate improved to 20.9 percent of sales from 21.6 percent last year.
The team at Foot Locker once again achieved record levels of sales and profits in the second quarter, and I am extremely proud of their efforts, said Ken C. Hicks, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer. We delivered excellent financial and operational results through the outstanding execution of our strategic priorities. This continues to be a winning formula for us, and we remain committed to taking full advantage of the many opportunities we have identified --- over the near, intermediate, and longer terms --- to continue producing a consistent, strong performance.
(Store Status)
During the second quarter, the Company opened 14 new stores, remodeled/relocated 112 stores and closed 18 stores. As of August 2, 2014, the Company operated 3,460 stores in 23 countries in North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. In addition, 47 franchised Foot Locker stores were operating in the Middle East and South Korea. (Source: Companys Website)
Soaring Expectations
FL is currently concentrating on innovating new products. A company prospers by continuous innovation and FL is not an exception to this. Across the globe, many sports apparel companies are targeting female customers, since there is a sharp rise in the female sportswear segment. FL is presently pursuing strategies to woo the women consumers. Further expansion can be expected in Europe. The company is also planning to expand its childrens business by opening new stores for them. The company is focusing on robust expansion strategies. With more focus on store remodeling, e- commerce and technological advancements, the company is all set to grow.
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The Dockers let a 31-point first-half lead slip. Photo: Getty Images
Fremantle may be out of the 2014 AFL premiership race, but coach Ross Lyon says his side is in really good shape to challenge again in 2015.
He has predicted some key additions to the Dockers list, as well as some significant changes to the way the side trains.
Lyon said that his coaches needed more time to work with the players and that the club needed to investigate a better goal kicking program.
That comes on the back of the 11.17 the Dockers kicked in their 22-point loss to Port on Saturday night.
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The Dockers let a 31-point first-half lead slip in their cut throat semi-final against Port Adelaide at Patersons Stadium to lose.
They failed to make the most of their opportunities when they dominated play in the first half - which you can't do against the best second-half side in the competition.
By half-time they had managed 6.11 from 28 inside 50 entries. Port had kicked 3.5.
But Port fired after the break, kicking 12.10 to Fremantle's 5.6 after half-time, sparked by Robbie Gray's four goals in the third term.
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The Dockers let a 31-point first-half lead slip. Photo: Getty Images
Fremantle may be out of the 2014 AFL premiership race, but coach Ross Lyon says his side is in really good shape to challenge again in 2015.
He has predicted some key additions to the Dockers list, as well as some significant changes to the way the side trains.
Lyon said that his coaches needed more time to work with the players and that the club needed to investigate a better goal kicking program.
That comes on the back of the 11.17 the Dockers kicked in their 22-point loss to Port on Saturday night.
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The Dockers let a 31-point first-half lead slip in their cut throat semi-final against Port Adelaide at Patersons Stadium to lose.
They failed to make the most of their opportunities when they dominated play in the first half - which you can't do against the best second-half side in the competition.
By half-time they had managed 6.11 from 28 inside 50 entries. Port had kicked 3.5.
But Port fired after the break, kicking 12.10 to Fremantle's 5.6 after half-time, sparked by Robbie Gray's four goals in the third term.
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