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Power Restored After Thursday's Sweeping Storm
NBC5's Rob Elgas reported that the weather reminded some of a movie.
"I was coming from the south and I drove into it (the storm)," said Chicago resident Edith Crigler. "It was just absolutely unbelievable. I said, 'It looked like the Wizard Of Oz come to life.'"
Outside the Art Institute, hail peppered the ground outside, Elgas reported.
Vernon Tate, a delivery driver, described the weather conditions as "brutal."
"It kind of shook me a little bit," he said. "I had to pull over and regain my nerves, but it's OK."
Flights at both O�Hare and Midway airports are delayed up to two hours Thursday night as strong winds and thunderstorms continue in the Chicago area. All inbound and outbound flights at O�Hare are delayed up to two hours, but no flights have been cancelled because of the weather, according to Karen E.
Ha Noi office rents near top of Asia list
Occupancy rates remain high, at over 74 per cent for five-star hotels and nearly 80 per cent for four-star ones, while room rates are averaging $124 per night. By 2010, the four and five-star hotel market is expected to grow by 3,700 rooms, but will mainly serve international tourists and business travellers. "The current lack of office, apartment and hotel space in Ha Noi could be solved in the next three years when there will be a sufficient supply," he said. Meanwhile, My Dinh (west of Ha Noi) is still the fastest growing new urban area in the city. Townsend suggested that by 2011, around 300,000 sq.m of office space, hotels, retail centres and residential projects will be on the market in the area. "The area is perceived as an increasingly attractive investment destination due to its strategic location and infrastructural development," he said.
Beware needless purchases for digital TV
Analog TVs should come with a specific consumer alert warning you that a converter box will be needed to view over-the-air broadcasts after Feb. 17, 2009. For more information on digital TV, visit http://www.dtv.gov. - Dan Thanh Dang More articles Copyright © 2008, The Baltimore Sun .
Dynamotive Appoints David B. McMillan as President, Dynamotive USA
McMillan will be responsible for the development and implementation of the company's business plan for the U.S. market, reporting directly to Andrew Kingston, Dynamotive USA Chief Executive Officer and Dynamotive Energy System Corp. President & CEO. Mr. McMillan earned a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from Texas A&M University in 1979, and comes from Eastman Chemical Company after a 28 year career. Mr. McMillan has a strong background in profit and loss management, strategic planning, and operations. He also led a major business development initiative in the late 1990's that successfully established a new $200 million chemical manufacturing complex in Southeast Asia. In 1999, he assumed global responsibility for an $800 million business segment within Eastman, leading the development and execution of strategies that resulted in a major improvement in corporate performance.
Autodesk and U.S. Green Building Council Collaborate to Increase ...
CHICAGO, Nov. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Greenbuild Expo -- At the 2007 Greenbuild Expo, Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) and the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) presented an update on their ongoing collaboration to expand the use of technology to facilitate adoption of sustainable design and green building. Autodesk also showcased a technology concept for a new sustainability analysis dashboard that could be used in combination with the Revit platform for building information modeling (BIM) to provide architects, engineers and designers with real-time graphical feedback about the impact of their design decisions on the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) rating of a project. "As we've worked closely together over the past year, it is clear that USGBC and Autodesk share a vision of using technology to drive the mainstream adoption of green building practices," said Rick Fedrizzi, President, CEO & Founding Chair, U.S.
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