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DEEP within the bowels of an anonymous building in the centre of Glasgow, a 'war room' has been set up. That might seem a little melodramatic to outsiders. After all, this is a considerable distance - in every sense - from Churchill's Second World War bunker beneath Whitehall. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports that the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen building in New York City is being used as a stand-in for the headquarters of "The New York Times" newspaper in the film "The Papers," by Steven Spielberg.

Presents updates on GLBT issues in the U.S. as of September 3, 2004. Information on Pacy Markman, a gay advertising veteran who initiated an unofficial political campaign against U.S. President George W. Bush; Selection of gay man Patrick Gosset as city commissioner in Rehoboth, Delaware; Acquisition of a building by Delaware sexual minority advocacy organization Camp Rehoboth.

Discusses a scheme to defraud the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) by purchasing buildings in New York City. Description of the scheme, in which brownstones were purchased in Harlem at vastly inflated prices; Arrest of people involved with the scheme, including lawyers who represented the defunct Mortgage Lending of America bank.

The article offers information on a study conducted by engineering experts for Commissioner Karachi which focused on capability of buildings is Karachi, Pakistan to resist earthquake and mentions the need of investigation and analysis of urban planning and engineering principles in Pakistan.

At the southeast entrance to Central Park stands a colorful, tubular structure resembling a swing-set frame designed by spiders on LSD. Touching ground at 10 points on the cobbled plaza, its red, green and black striped posts rise at different angles into an airy web more than 18 feet high at its tallest. A playful riff on the ancient form of the triumphal arch, ''Empire,'' by the Irish sculptor Eva Rothschild, may be viewed for the purposes at hand as a metaphorical gateway to the entertainingly illogical array of new and old artworks awaiting Midtown and Upper East Side gallery hoppers. A suggested itinerary would have you begin at the Crown Building on Fifth Avenue just below 57th Street where two galleries have extremely different shows. Gering & Lopez presents a 30-year survey of works on paper by the Postmodernist abstract painter Peter Halley. Neatly limned ink drawings from 1981 declare the concepts on which his retro-Modernist, grid-based paintings have been based: they are schematic renderings of prison cells that represent modern systems of dwelling, technology and communication as a vast, interconnected penitentiary of consciousness. On the other hand, more than three dozen small, Day-Glo-hued paintings on paper, from 1977 to 2010, attest to a nimble, geometric formalist sensibility reminiscent of the early Frank Stella. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article announces the sale of the "Fort Worth Star-Telegram" building in Downtown Fort Worth, Texas to XTO Energy founder and former chairman Bob Simpson to close in April 2010, according to the paper's president and publisher Gary Wortel.

''I SAID, 'We live so close, and we never hang out down here; we should be tourists for a day,' '' she remembered later. ''I played right into his hands.'' So it was that Stacey Corr, a bankruptcy lawyer, and Richard Irvine Jr., who works in finance, came to find themselves one day in July in front of 5 Beekman Street -- a mysterious, stately, even lovely nine-story building overlooked by modernity. The doors had been mostly locked tight for years and covered with brown paper and permits for scaffolding, the floors inside dark and empty. The place was called Temple Court. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Industrial buildings of a certain type exude a stark grandeur: Form follows function with matter-of-fact force. This printing plant rose when Oakland's Embarcadero hummed with blue-collar activity, and it survives intact with its foot-thick concrete walls amid the paper-thin apartment blocks south of Jack London Square. Still owned by the Monahan family, the block may not be pretty, but it has a remarkable presence - and, by its presence, argues that a working city shouldn't be ashamed of strong buildings where real people work. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

States that the Harlem ballroom, used by the Rev. Al Sharpton for civil rights and political activity in New York City, was destroyed by fire. Investigation finding that the fire resulted from an electrical problem and was not arson; Details of the fire in the so-called House of Justice which houses the headquarters of the National Action Network, Sharpton's civil rights group; Background on Sharpton who filed papers in Washington, D.C. to create a presidential exploratory committee; Comments from an eyewitness as to the cause of the fire; View of a Sharpton critic that the fire produced publicity for the politician.

The article reports that Roman Catholic Church officials approached a CuraÇao real-estate developer for help turning the vacant Catholic girls' school beside his new hotel into a medical school in Willemstad, CuraÇao, Netherlands, Antilles. The group renovated the old building, hired a management team away from another Caribbean medical school, and went into business in 2003. St. Martinus University is one of the Caribbean's youngest for-profit medical schools. It has seven full-time professors and 35 students. INSETS: Offshore Medical Schools Operate With Minimal Oversight;A Hissing Match on Bonaire;A Pioneering Offshore Medical School Gains Credibility;The Egg Man and Other Anti-Fraud Activists

Lauds the efforts of Tidewater Community College in Portsmouth, Virginia to restore its observatory. Pledge of the college's president, Deborah M. DiCroce to renew efforts aimed at renovating the structure; When the observatory was built and by whom.

The article focuses on an effort to collect substantial amount of money for the old Athens Armory repair in Ohio. It provides an overview if the structure, that anchors the north end of Court Street in uptown Athens is awaiting a new tenant or tenants, and a planning study in 2016 that suggested a number of new purposes that the building could host.

Focuses on the renovation program at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Renovation cost; Heritage of the university; Concern expressed by historic preservationists about the renovation program; Architectural design of the Yale campus; Impact of the renovation on the university's libraries.

The article offers the author's perspective on how the government in New Jersey is investing more on buildings and not on the Jews, citing the halls of the Omaha Jewish Community Center which are often empty.

The article offers information on the blocking efforts of sheriff's sale by a company that claims a financial interest in the Ohio-based company Baymont Inn and Suites. It suggests that the local real state developers have purchased the mortgage note and wants the sale to go forward, so that they can buy the building and make necessary changes into it. It further briefs about the legal procedure related to the issue and the reasons behind this effort.

Presents an article about teaching at Miami-Dade Community College in Miami, Florida. Number of students enrolled in the college in 2004; Visits to the college's feeder high schools; Number of people in Miami who are living below the poverty line according to the 2000 U.S. Census; Description of the buildings in Miami Dade.

This section offers entertainment news briefs from St. Charles County, Missouri. The Columns will stage the 48th Annual Crystal Gala, on February 9, 2013 with proceeds going to the new building of the Boys and Girls Club. Mary Wilson of the Supremes will perform in the Bezemes Family Theater at the J. Scheidegger Center at Lindenwood University on January 26. The Concert Arts Association will hold rehearsals every Monday at the Transfiguration Episcopal Church.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to an article about a proposal to establish a distribution center in a vacant building in the Boardwalk Marketplace in O'Fallon, Missouri.

The article reports that the Miner's Institute Foundation voted to retake ownership of the Miner's Institute on July 11, 2012.

The article reports developments in real estate industry in Arizona. Madden Media has agreed to buy the MacArthur Building downtown from the City of Tucson for $1.7 million. L&G Mortgagebanc acquired the Rillito Mortgage & Investment. Michael Guymon was appointed executive director of the Metropolitan Pima Alliance.

The article presents the author's comments on the role of business in community. In Flagstaff, voters rejected the city's anti-bigbox ordinance, which centered on Wal-Mart's proposal to build one of its supercenters there. It was a divisive campaign in which there were the usual anti-Wal-Mart arguments. Even in Tucson, where people seem to think government needs to run the show, there are some signs that business is getting ready to step in. Businessman Don Martin and restaurateur Bob McMahon say they are ready to step in and kickstart downtown's stagnant redevelopment efforts with Tucson's tallest building.

Reports developments in the real estate industry in Tucson, Arizona. Launch of the 'Rincon Teachers Academy' project by KB Home and the Tucson Unified School District; Construction of a store building by Yarborough Development for New Balance Shoes; Plans of Ducati Homes to build home sites at Sycamore Creek.

Focuses on University of Southern Maine professor Peter J. Aicher and his study of classical Roman aqueducts. Publication of his book `Guide to the Aqueducts of Ancient Rome'; Features of the book, including information on the Appia and the Alexandrina, the first and last aqueducts of the period; Inspiration for the book; Observations of the suburban land area that surrounds Rome.

In last year's earthquake in northwestern Turkey, which killed more than 18,000, residents in newer concrete buildings died at a far higher rate than those in traditional timber structures, a […]

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