Poor bb!!! The Jonas Brothers have just announced that they will be canceling their concert in Zurich on Saturday night because Nick has fallen ill with an upper respiratory infection! The official announcement states: We are sad to announce the cancellation of the Jonas Brothers concert for this evening in Zurich. Nick Jonas of the Jonas Brothers [...]
CHICAGO, Nov. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Bestselling author Sam Haskell, the man behind ABC-TV's hit series "LOST" and "Everybody Loves Raymond" and "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" will be in the Chicago area November 8-10, 2009.
Zurich Financial Services ( ZURN.VX ) slips 2.7 percent, against a 0.2 percent dip in DJ Stoxx European insurance index .SXIP, continuing yesterday's slide on ...
The new face of Lake Zurich football instantly turned red. As a group of reporters surrounded junior running back Jacob Brinlee after Lake Zurich's 16-6 ...
Solar Impulse, the Swiss bid to make the first solar-powered flight around the world, rolled out its prototype on Friday at an airbase near Zurich and powered up the engines. All four sun-fuelled electric motors were switched on for the first time under open skies after the completed high-tech plane was pushed out of the hangar. WRH permalink
Zurich. It's always tempting to write "Wash Me" on a dirty car or to draw something on a fogged windscreen with your finger. Everyday situations like this were the inspiration for this publication, says Nico Ammann, art director and photographer of the works featured in the book to be published by MINI Switzerland in a limited edition of 2,000. The upshot is a colourful volume depicting a...
HAMBURG.- Since the artist’s inaugural exhibition of the K 21 in Düsseldorf in 2001, Deichtorhallen are the first to present a comprehensive solo exhibition of Katharina Fritsch (born in Essen, Germany in 1956). The work show, set up in cooperation with Kunsthaus Zürich, will be exclusively presented in Germany at Deichtorhallen Hamburg. As one of the leading female artists in Germany...
Want to claim your city as your own? Competing with a rival gang for turf, and want to avoid messy knife fights? Well now you can, thanks to Urban Defender . Working over a short time period, a team of students from Zurich University of Arts built a system to claim buildings by throwing a specially equipped ball at them. Impacts are detected by an accelerometer connected to an Arduino, which is wirelessly...
Solar Impulse, the Swiss bid to make the first solar-powered flight around the world, rolled out its prototype on Friday at an airbase near Zurich. The ultralight high-tech single seater with the wingspan of an Airbus A380 airliner was pushed out of its hangar ready for tests and a maiden flight over the coming weeks when weather conditions allow.
Google Tech Talk October 22, 2009 ABSTRACT Presented by Jeremie Lenfant -Engelmann, Google, at the 4th Annual Google Test Automation Conference, October 21st, 22nd, 2009, Zurich, CH The proliferation of JavaScript unit-testing frameworks in the JavaScript community shows that no one has yet found the magical combination of features to make JavaScript testing a no-brainer. We like to believe [...]
This is part of a series of blog entries on how to get to countries and places. Here is a link to the index . I plan to eventually cover every country and some other places. If you have a request for a particular country or place please use the email me link at top right, or leave a comment. Liechtenstein Source: Carl Rogers Liechtenstein can easily be reached by road or rail from neighbouring Austria...
Details are here . They list only European universities. Departments are noted for excellence across the following categories: international doctorates, international master's students, international staff, highly cited books, citations, publications, and other factors. The political science departments noted are: U Aarhus U Aberystwyth U Amsterdam UPF Barcelona U Belfast FU Berlin HU Berlin U Bern...
A Lebanese scientist at Princeton sent me this (I cite with his permission): "Hi AS`ad, I saw your post about Zurich's city council and it comes as no surprise for me. After living in that country for 3 years I expect any racist ad or anything to be welcome. Look at this attached picture I took last time. To advertise its billboards, the company is making up an ad about a kebab shaped hotel belonging...