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Stanford Blood Center Partners with Cantor Arts Center to Give Art Lovers Opportunities...

Stanford Blood Center Partners with Cantor Arts Center to Give Art Lovers Opportunities to Donate Blood STANFORD, Calif.--(Business Wire)-- The Stanford Blood Center invites the public to view a special installation at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University and to donate blood this summer. This unique exhibition, titled, "Spared from the Storm: Masterworks from the New Orleans Museum of Art," showcases 80 pieces of world-class art that escaped the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. In keeping with the focus on surviving tragedy, the blood center's bloodmobile will be on location at Cantor Arts Center on selected Thursday evenings through early September. Art lovers and members of the community are encouraged to donate blood as a way to offer a lifeline to patients in local hospitals--especially now.

Data Center Designers In High Demand

Hugh Pickens writes "For years, data center designers have toiled in obscurity in the engine rooms of the digital economy, amid the racks of servers and storage devices that power everything from online videos to corporate e-mail systems but now people with the skills to design, build and run a data center that does not endanger the power grid are suddenly in demand. 'The data center energy problem is growing fast, and it has an economic importance that far outweighs the electricity use,' said Jonathan G. Koomey of Stanford University. 'So that explains why these data center people, who haven't gotten a lot of glory in their careers, are in the spotlight now.' The pace of the data center build-up is the result of the surging use of servers, which in the United States rose to 11.

Journey to the Center of the Earth with THQ's New Game for Nintendo DS(TM)

Handheld Gamers Can Experience All of the Excitement from the Journey to the Center of the Earth 3-D Film From New Line Cinema AGOURA HILLS, Calif.--(Business Wire)-- THQ Inc. (NASDAQ: THQI) today announced that Journey to the Center of the Earth(TM) has shipped to retailers worldwide. The game is based on the upcoming film Journey to the Center of the Earth 3-D by New Line Cinema and is available exclusively for Nintendo DS(TM). In Journey to the Center of the Earth, players can use the Nintendo DS stylus to search for a passage to the surface of the earth while navigating through all seven of the exotic underground worlds from the movie. A wide variety of mini-games will allow players to rock climb, dig for dinosaur bones and raft across an ancient sea.

APC announces TradeOff Tools-Web-based applications that simplify the data center decision making process

APC, a global leader in integrated critical power and cooling services, today announced the debut of APC TradeOff Tools, new Web-based applications with easy-to-use interfaces designed for use in the early stages of data center concept and design development. By enabling data center professionals to experiment with various scenarios regarding virtualization, efficiency, power sizing, capital costs, and other key design issues, APC TradeOff Tools break down major data center planning decisions into a series of smaller, more manageable decisions. Use of these tools helps validate, through modeling, the overall design of a data center.

APC Announces TradeOff Tools(TM) -- Web-Based Applications That Simplify the Data Center Decision Making Process

APC, a global leader in integrated critical power and cooling services, today announced the debut of APC TradeOff Tools(TM), new Web-based applications with easy-to-use interfaces designed for use in the early stages of data center concept and design development. By enabling data center professionals to experiment with various scenarios regarding virtualization, efficiency, power sizing, capital costs, and other key design issues, APC TradeOff Tools break down major data center planning decisions into a series of smaller, more manageable decisions. Use of these tools helps validate, through modeling, the overall design of a data center.

Stanford Blood Center Partners with Cantor Arts Center to Give Art Lovers Opportunities to Donate Blood

Stanford Blood Center Partners with Cantor Arts Center to Give Art Lovers Opportunities to Donate Blood

Stanford Blood Center Partners with Cantor Arts Center to Give Art Lovers Opportunities to Donate Blood

Stanford Blood Center Partners with Cantor Arts Center to Give Art Lovers Opportunities to Donate Blood

Stanford Blood Center Partners with Cantor Arts Center to Give Art Lovers Opportunities to Donate Blood

STANFORD, Calif. (Business Wire) -- The Stanford Blood Center invites the public to view a special installation at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University and to donate blood this summer. This unique exhibition, titled, "Spared from the Storm: Masterworks from the New Orleans Museum of Art," showcases 80 pieces of world-class art that escaped the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.

Stanford Blood Center Partners with Cantor Arts Center to Give Art Lovers Opportunities to Donate Blood

STANFORD, Calif. - (Business Wire) The Stanford Blood Center invites the public to view a special installation at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University and to donate blood this summer. This unique exhibition, titled,

Stanford Blood Center Partners with Cantor Arts Center to Give Art Lovers Opportunities to Donate Blood

STANFORD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 10, 2008--The Stanford Blood Center invites the public to view a special installation at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University and to donate blood this summer. This unique exhibition, titled, “Spared from the Storm: Masterworks from the New Orleans Museum of Art,” showcases 80 pieces of world-class art that escaped the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.

Video Demo of Microsoft's "Containerized" Data Storage

BDPrime writes "Michael Manos, Microsoft's director of data center services, shows a 3-D rendering of the company's upcoming containerized data center, which is like a facility full of shipping containers. He also demos Scry, Microsoft's internal data center analytics tool that lets the company monitor the data center's energy use, carbon footprint and power bill. There are a few companies out there that are now touting the data center in a shipping container. Sun was one of the first with its Blackbox, now called the Sun MD, while others include Rackable Systems' ICE Cube and Verari's FOREST."

New "Columbus Circle West" Community Graced With New Arts and Culture Center

NEW YORK - Nestled in the center of a new community of over 3,500 condos, "Columbus Circle West" is the brand new state-of-the-art facility, the Manhattan Movement & Arts Center, or MMAC. It was designed by the architects who created some of the country's most acclaimed theatre spaces, including the Joyce and Arena Stage. Located in Manhattan at 248 West 60th Street in the midst of a brand new luxury condominium community called The Element, MMAC's aim is to offer the best dance and fitness classes available to the public, while also acting as a multi-purpose arts center.

Burnsville Raises the Bar on Performing Arts Center With Saturday, May 10 Event

WHEN: Saturday, May 10 10:00 a.m. to 12 Noon WHAT: A community celebration recognizing a milestone event for the City of Burnsville's new community landmark, the Burnsville Performing Arts Center. History will be made as all in attendance will be invited to sign a 45 foot steel beam -- the final beam for the Performing Arts Center structure -- and then watch as it is lifted into place by a giant crane into its place high atop the stage house over 80 feet in the air. Hundreds of Burnsville residents are expected to gather for free food and free entertainment such as music, face painting, juggling and more. The Burnsville Performing Arts Center, located in the Heart of the City area, is a regional facility containing a 1000 seat main theatre, black box theatre, art gallery and space for banquets and events.

Burnsville Raises the Bar on Performing Arts Center With Saturday, May 10 Event

BURNSVILLE, Minn., May 9 /PRNewswire/ -- WHEN: Saturday, May 10 10:00 a.m. to 12 Noon WHAT: A community celebration recognizing a milestone event for the City of Burnsville's new community landmark, the Burnsville Performing Arts Center. History will be made as all in attendance will be invited to sign a 45 foot steel beam -- the final beam for the Performing Arts Center structure -- and then watch as it is lifted into place by a giant crane into its place high atop the stage house over 80 feet in the air. Hundreds of Burnsville residents are expected to gather for free food and free entertainment such as music, face painting, juggling and more. The Burnsville Performing Arts Center, located in the Heart of the City area, is a regional facility containing a 1000 seat main theatre, black box theatre, art gallery and space for banquets and

'Unicorn' deer is found in Italian nature preserve

This undated photo provided by the Center of Natural Sciences in Prato, Italy, Wednesday, June 11, 2008, shows a deer with a single horn in the center of its head. The one-year-old Roe Deer - nicknamed "Unicorn'' - was born in captivity in the research center's park in the Tuscan town of Prato, near Florence, Gilberto Tozzi, director of the Center of Natural Sciences, said. He is believed to have been born with a genetic flaw; his twin has two horns.

Office Depot Teams up with Google to Provide Online Marketing & Collaboration Tools

Online Marketing & Collaboration Tools for Small Business Customers New Online Business Resource Center to Help Small Businesses Get Noticed DELRAY BEACH, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 13, 2008--Office Depot(R) (NYSE:ODP), a leading global provider of office products and services, today launched a new online Business Resource Center with Google, providing small business customers with the tools they need to communicate, collaborate, and start marketing themselves. The new Business Resource Center is available online at www.officedepot.com. Through the new Business Resource Center, Office Depot customers have access to a variety of Google products to grow their business, including: Google AdWords(TM) - Hundreds of thousands of businesses worldwide use AdWords to effectively and cost- efficiently advertise their products and services online, r

Sony Center store network expects 25% increase

New Link, the company that runs the Sony Center store network, forecasts a 25% increase in electronics sales this year, from around 17 million euros last year. In 2007, the company saw a 55% turnover increase. "I don't think we can match last year's growth rate. Despite the slowdown of the market's growth rate, I think we will be able to reach a 25-30% growth rate on 2007, in the second part of the year," said Nicolae Dumitrescu, sales manager of Sony Center. The market growth rate seen in the first

Kennedy Space Center Donates Prize for Ball

BANGOR - The Kennedy Space Center has donated the grand prize for the Challenger Learning Center's inaugural Astronauts' Ball.

Clifton arts center wins state funds

The Clifton Cultural Arts Center has won $250,000 in capital funds from the state of Ohio, the center announced.

Mission to Mars at Chabot Center

The Red Planet takes center stage at the Chabot Space & Science Center's Mars Phoenix Landing Celebration this weekend, a great opportunity to indulge any budding space explorer.

National Center for the Performing Arts

If ever a building were ripe for second-guessing, it is Paul Andreu’s National Center for the Performing Arts, near the Forbidden City, Tiananmen Square, and the cavernous Grand Hall of the People. Andreu, the winner of a government competition designed to give Beijing a cultural complex equivalent to New York’s Lincoln Center, placed three separate performance halls beneath a glass-and-titanium roof. The roof reduces the complex, containing an astonishing 2.4 million square feet, to a single form, widely known as “The Egg.� Clearly, some kind of unifying gesture was needed.

Ai-Ya Choir will perform at senior center

The Saratoga Senior Center will host the Ai-Ya Choir on June 18. The choir, whose members have lived in the Bay Area for more than 30 years, was formed in November 2007 and performed at the center's holiday party last year.

Enjoy Target Free Thursday Nights At Walker Art Center

The Walker Art Center’s Target Free Thursday Nights in June are highlighted by the finals of the teen artists competition 20 Under 20, presented by the Walker Art Center Teen Arts Council (WACTAC).

Huge Data Center Going Up In Sin City

pacopico writes "The Register has a report on an intriguing Las Vegas-based company which is building one of the world's largest data centers called the SuperNAP. The company — Switch Communications — claims it will be the most densely packed and power efficient data center ever built. The report notes, 'Legend has it that the company managed to acquire what was once meant to be Enron's broadband trading hub for a song. This gave Switch access to more than twenty of the primary carrier backbones in a single location. Switch tied this vast network to existing data center hosting facilities and attracted military clients, among others, to its Las Vegas shop.'"

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