Posts Tagged ‘Congress’

Green Building Congress 2011

Saturday, October 1st, 2011
Green building concepts have come to the mainstream in commercial space development, but need to be encouraged more for wider market acceptance, according o Mr C. N. Raghavendran, Chairman, CII-IGBC Chennai chapter, and partner C. R. Narayana Rao Architects, a leading firm of architects.

Papal Message to Asian Laity Congress

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
VATICAN CITY, SEPT. 1, 2010 ( Zenit.org ).- Here is the message Benedict XVI sent to Cardinal Stanislaw Rylko, president of the Pontifical Council for the Laity, on the occasion of an Asian Catholic laity conference, which began in Seoul, South Korea, on Tuesday. It runs through Sunday.

This is a First Principles Series Report On Political Thought

Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010
Abstract: Conservatives have often charged that the great centralizing tendencies in American government were a product of the New Deal. As the late Dr. Wettergreen shows in this essay, first published in 1988 as a chapter in The Imperial Congress , a book produced by The Heritage Foundation and the Claremont Institute, the true culprit was not FDR but LBJ, as the full bureaucratization of ...

Lots of news around PLoS these days [A Blog Around The Clock]

Friday, May 21st, 2010
First big piece of news is the new PLoS Hub for Biodiversity - see the details on the PLoS Blog . Second big piece of news is the New PLoS ONE Collection - Biodiversity of Saba Bank - the collection homepage, where all the articles are collected, is here and the overview article is here . There is some movement on The Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA) in Congress. Keep up with the ...

Corpses on Congress

Thursday, April 1st, 2010
The Downtown Tucson Partnership has a big announcement next Tuesday about the future of the the Rialto building that surrounds the Rialto Theatre. We hear the displaybeing billed as a "world-class scientific exhibition"is one of those shows of posed dead bodies. Our alternative brethren up in Seattle review one of the shows: The first thing you notice: eerie, sleek, air-lock cleanliness ...