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The cost of all this? The iBooks Maker is free, high school textbooks for "$14.99 or less." Is that per year, though? If it's per year that may not be much of a discount.
If kids have to buy them themselves, that's a huge difference.
If kids have to buy them themselves, that's a huge difference.
These teachers need help, we try to figure out what we can do at Apple to help.Phil Schiller • Speaking at Apple's live event, which seems to focus strongly on the idea that Apple needs to do something to help educators.
That's the cool thing about it. The book is kind of a living document.Minnesota high school statistics teacher Michael Engelhaupt • Discussing how his school, Blaine High School, decided to write their own textbooks, rather than pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for textbooks which would be out-of-date and ill-suited to the school's state testing. Right now, students can pay $5 to buy a printed-out version, or print from the Web, but eventually they'll be able to access the material with computers everywhere. And, as things change, they can update the textbooks yearly. The difference in cost to the Anoka-Hennepin school district, by the way, was staggering: It would've cost $200,000 to buy textbooks; to get Engelhaupt and his fellow teachers to write them (and to pay for offline versions) cost just $25,000. Not a bad deal. source (via • follow)
» A couple random examples: Peer reviewers found that "Our Virginia" and other books from the same textbook publisher said that the U.S. entered World War I a year earlier than it actually did, that Civil War soldiers commonly wore full suits of armor, and that New Orleans began on a U.S. harbor (instead of a Spanish one). It's a book so good, it makes you feel dumber when reading it.


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Historical Lab 4 "Raw materials and Art Nouveau" in Aveiro - 26 January 2013
In the framework of the project Art Nouveau & Ecology supported by the programme Culture 2007-2013 of the European Commission, The Réseau Art Nouveau Network, as a network of cities aiming to preserve, study and promote Art Nouveau at a European scale, organises a one-day symposium on January 26th 2013 on Raw materials and Art Nouveau.
Programme (Portuguese, English and French)
Travelling exhibition The Nature of Art Nouveau 2 – Die Natur des Jugendstil in Bad Nauheim – from 12 September to 26 October 2014
Travelling exhibition The Nature of Art Nouveau 1 in Barcelona – from 9 October 2014 to 6 January 2015
3rd Creative Mackintosh Festival in Glasgow – from 1st to 31 October 2014
The Horta Museum in Brussels honoured: EU Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Awards - on 10 October 2014
With the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union
Responsible publisher: Arlette Verkruyssen, General Director,
Brussels Regional Public Service - Bruxelles Développement urbain (Brussels Urban Development),
CCN - Rue du Progrès 80, B. 1, 1035 Brussels - Belgium

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Educause Security Discussion
mailing list archives
Our sensitive data group just published a guideline requiring
encryption for sensitive data.
We are looking for a stopgap encryption solution so we have a
mechanism that people can use to comply with the guideline.
We are recommending Windows EFS on Windows XP computers and
a combination of EFS and Bitlocker on Vista computers for
this purpose.
I was wondering why others were choosing commercial solutions
over the native EFS and Bitlocker as the strategic solution
for workstation encryption.
If you're using a commercial product, does it perform key
escrow to a centralized server? Is it a standalone product
or does it require existing infrastructure such as an
Active Directory domain and/or Microsoft CA?
If you've purchased a commercial product for this purpose,
would you be willing to send me the pricing you have
obtained offline and the volume of licenses you had to
purchase to get that price?
On a side note, what do you think of the ATA hard disk
security feature ( i.e. hard disk password )? Although
its not based on encryption, it looks to me to be a fairly
strong protection mechanism short of someone able to
read bare, disassembled disks.
Gary Flynn
Security Engineer
James Madison University
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|Dustie and Rusty <3
|Dustie and Rusty <3
Shame on YouFool me once,Shame on You by PureWolf123
shame on you,
Fool me twice,
shame on me,
they all say.
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from everything,
that has happened,
to me,
you wouldn't,
do that to me,
you wouldn't,
even think about,
even going there.
You didn't even,
let me reply,
then you,
just set an,
MaybeMaybe by PureWolf123
I should,
Just leave.
I should,
Start over,
With everyone,
Just leave one,
person in my life.
My bestie has been,
There for me,
Since the start.
But if I leave,
Her here,
I will have to start,
With a new school,
A new bestie.
Maybe you should,
Leave me,
And I might,
You better,
Be on the look out,
For me,
And my start over,
will become what,
Is the best..
hurr durr i am adult
i am mature
master ball
this has been a psa brought to you by buttfIuff
Thank you to my bestie for the amazing ID she made me :3
Thank you to for the lovely icon!!
Name: Taylor (Tay, Tay tay, Dustie or just ask me)
Age: 14
Gender: Female
SO: Straight
Status: Single
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Name: Dustie
Status: Taken (Rusty)
Species: Wolf
My best friend in the entire world and that will never change,ever:
Friends in real life:
Friend from across the sea:
Cool people:
Current Residence: Texas
Favorite genre of music: Country, Rock, and Metal
MP3 player of choice: iPhone
Shell of choice: Conch
Wallpaper of choice: Baseball (aw yeah, son)
Skin of choice: Fur Brown with Black eyespot (Fur Copy from Texan-Werewolf)
Favorite cartoon character: Garfield and Marvin the Martian
Personal Quote: "Respect my Authorita!"(From Texan-Werewolf)
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i love her so much
we spend way too much time together but i love her
tay let me snuggle your face ahh
so overall
this lady is my lady
and if you touch her
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Student Learning Using Classroom Assessment Techniques
Jon Stratton, Walla Walla Community College
June 26-28, 2003 in Seattle, Washington
the current national emphasis on assessment, many faculty feel the need to
understand and employ effective assessment of student learning and of their own
classroom teaching. Classroom
assessment techniques (CATs) are very well suited to meet this need.
CATs are ungraded, anonymous feedback instruments used to evaluate and
improve both student learning and faculty instruction.
course will focus on discussion and hands-on assessment opportunities.
Initially, participants will review the rationale for classroom research
and assessment. After completing a
teaching goals inventory, they will examine, practice, and evaluate specific
CATs, with an eye to adaptation in their own courses. Participants will practice interpreting actual student
feedback data, and will practice various techniques.
the simplest level, CATs are used to discover how well students have learned
what teachers want them to learn on a given day.
After examining the results, teachers can modify instruction accordingly.
For example, a teacher solicits from each student an anonymous written
response to the question, "What is the most important thing you've learned
today?" Reviewing the results
provides the teacher with reactions to two (at least) important questions:
How well did the students learn what the teacher
thinks is "the most important thing" taught today?
What clues for improving instruction in this specific class are contained
in the responses?
a more complex level, CATs are context-dependent, interactive, multiple-focused,
formative, largely qualitative assessments.
They are "conversational" rather than "standardized,"
"personal" rather than "disengaged."
Participants will work from Classroom
Assessment Techniques, by Thomas A. Angelo and K. Patricia Cross.
For college and
high school teachers
of all disciplines.
Jon Stratton is an Instructor in Philosophy and Humanities Division Chair at Walla Walla Community College in Washington State. Dr. Stratton has given presentations in Classroom Assessment Techniques at several Outcomes Assessment Conferences and Abilities Institutes in Washington. He presented CATs workshops at the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development at the University of Texas (NISOD) in 1997 and 1998. He was awarded the NISOD Excellence Award for teaching in 1998, and the Exemplary Status Award from the Washington State Community College Humanities Association in 1997. Dr. Stratton has led a number of workshops for college faculty in outcomes assessment with an emphasis on critical thinking. He is the author of Critical Thinking for College Students (Rowman and Littlefield, 1999).
Location information
See above
This course will be held on or near the University of Washington campus. University of Washington dorm accommodations are available for this course. Link to UW Housing/Dorms for more information.
To Register
Please go to the National Chautauqua site at the University of Pittsburgh site to apply. Registrations cannot be confirmed without payment.
Participant Information
Use this link to plan your trip to the Chautauqua Pacific Northwest Field Center.
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Love Worth Finding - Mar. 25, 2011
Love, Not Nails, Held Him to the Cross
"I am the Good Shepherd: the Good Shepherd giveth His life for the sheep." John 10:11
Did you know that there has only been one person who ever chose to die? Only one.
Oh, you say, suicide pilots choose to die. Other people choose to die. People who die by their own hand choose to die. People who give themselves for others choose to die.
No one has ever chosen to die but Jesus, because He was the only one who didn't have to die. Some people may just choose to die a little sooner, but nobody has chosen to die except One.
It wasn't nails that held Him to the tree. It was the silver cords of love and the golden bonds of redemption that held Jesus Christ to that cross.
The fact that no one has ever chosen to die but Jesus may be a new concept to you. If so, it is probably new as well to someone else. Share it with someone today!
For more from Love Worth Finding and Pastor Adrian Rogers, please visit www.lwf.org.
You can also listen to Adrian Rogers at OnePlace.com.
Watch Adrian Rogers and Love Worth Finding Video Online.
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This devotional journal with daily applications was designed several years ago by Adrian Rogers. This leather-bound keepsake will be a treasured addition to start your day out right!
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The SCM Lounge is a great blog maintained by the RTC SCM team sharing their latest improvements: http://www.thescmlounge.blogspot.fr/
I thought it could be good to share this link with you…
The SCM Lounge is a great blog maintained by the RTC SCM team sharing their latest improvements: http://www.thescmlounge.blogspot.fr/
I thought it could be good to share this link with you…
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Vous connaissez beaucoup de conférence intéressantes où l'entrée est à 30€ et qui se situe prêt de chez vous ?
Toulousain en voilà une ! ;-)
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I have been invited by the Aristide Briand High School at Saint Nazaire, France to present to 150 16 years old teenagers what is the job of a software engineer…
The exercise was tough because (1) you need to do some introspection on your own job and (2) you need to interest most of these guys else they will make your presentation a hell ;-) …
So, I decided to tell then a tale : 30 years of my life from the punch cards (yep, I'm an old guy !) to the iPhone (yep, I'm a sort of geek !) talking about my Apple IIe, my first job and my life as a home worker.
On the second part of my presentation I explained what is Moore's Law and asked then, based on such law, to imagine what could be their life or subject of interest in 10, 20 or 30 years if they decide to take up this job showing some Sci Fi movies, research projects or exiting new stuff.
I certainly forgot plenty of important things to talk about. I don't know if I was convincing and if, in 10 years from now, we will have 150 new Software Engineer but, definitively the exercise was fun and the audience didn't make a mess. I even heart that some of them enjoyed it… ;-)
So, if you understand French or if you want to practice your French accent, fill free to view the video of my presentation.
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So many times in my Jazz Jumpstart team member life I got this question from our customers:
"Do you provide an integration of your Source Control Manager with Windows Explorer like Subversion does with TortoiseSVN?"
Each time, I had to reply: "No, for now. Please subscribe to the Story 43272: Windows Explorer client for simple SCM operations (like ClearCase, Tortoise, etc.) for non-eclipse users…"
Today we can say that RTC 4.0 will (certainly) provide a shell integration for Windows Explorer!
I checked the story: it has been created in February 2008 (yes, great feature might take some time, sometimes!) by one of my first customers (and friend!) Roman Smirak and it has so far 103 subscribers…
Please check-out the great article from Sreerupa Sen: Introducing the Rational Team Concert Shell integration for Windows Explorer and you will learn what you can expect from this great feature.
Roman! They built it!!! ;-)
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The Sprint Review Meeting concludes the current Sprint. During this meeting, the team demonstrates the Stories they achieved during the Sprint.
Knowing that my team was very concerned in being informed on the progress of the project, I was already convinced that this kind of meeting will help them in staying tuned.
In parallel, I read in several places that for a Sprint Review you should "invite the world", and I liked this idea because it was not only a good way to promote the team work but also a good way to inform the "rest of the world" about our progress. So we decided to invite all the others teams concerned by the product and here are the feedback we got from them afterward:
Yes, I know, no customer was invited for this internal meeting. Nevertheless, we recorded all the meeting to be able to share this information with all the actors of the project.
So, what I learned from this meeting is the value of a Sprint Review meeting, even if we tried to keep it pretty informal.
So, don't feel shy in inviting "the world" on such meeting; they will be thankful and your team will certainly appreciate this kind of work recognition.
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|I'm very proud to announce that Rational Programming Patterns v8.0.3 has successfully eGA'ed this Wednesday, November 28th, 2011.It is publicly available for customers from the Announcement Letter page.
There is also a "Refresh Pack" (RPPz v8.0.3 update) available on the RPPz Fix Central page.
And, if you never tried RPPz and you are a Pacbase practitioner, you can also try it by downloading our RPPz v8.0.3 Trial version from the developerWorks Trial site.
Enjoy it!
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If you follow my LinkedIn page you might have noticed that I have changed for a new position at Rational.
Actually, I have joined the Rational Programming Patterns (RPPz) team as their Development Manager. The Product Manager, Philippe Bauquel, invited me to join the team to help them in improving their Rational Team Concert (RTC) practices and in putting in place an Agile development process with the development team (17 people). These are two very exiting challenges.
The first one is obviously a great move because of my expertise in RTC and I'm really exited in putting in place by myself all the best practices I was suggesting to my customers in my previous position as a Jazz Jumpstart team member.
The second one is more challenging. Actually, I participated to several Agile projects like Eclipse or Jazz and I managed few teams using some early days "sort-of" Agile approaches but I never formally applied any well-defined Agile method like the EclipseWay or the Scrum process…
So don't be surprised if you retrieve in my next posts some interesting news about RPPz, some Scrum questionings or some practical tricks about RTC used in the context of an Agile project…
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Sometimes the simplest solution is the best, but good luck getting politicians on board when the subject involves the emissions trading scheme (ETS), which was implemented by the European Union on January 1.
Kyoto Protocol
The U.S. and its allies in opposition to the European Union's emissions trading scheme (ETS) are expected to step up political pressure on Europe after apparently failing to block the controversial cap-and-trade program on legal grounds.
The most likely solution to the battle over ETS lies in political compromise, according to Mehran Massih, counsel and head of the London-based environment practice at international law firm Shearman & Sterling. He views the European Court of Justice (ECJ) advocate general's preliminary legal opinion as a wholesale rejection of the Air Transport Association case.
The U.S. House of Representatives helped stoke a threatened trade war with Europe, passing legislation October 24 that would prohibit U.S. aircraft operators from participating in the European emissions trading scheme (ETS).
Have you ever wondered why we keep putting off for tomorrow what we can do today, particularly when it comes to the issue of, yes—I'll say it—global warming? Quite apart from the flat-earth crowd, the people who believe the overwhelming scientific evidence tend to acknowledge a need to do something about this existential threat.
A provisional ruling from the advocate general of the European Court of Justice has denied an appeal led by the U.S. Air Transport Association (ATA) against the imposition of the European Union's emissions trading scheme (ETS) on air carriers from outside Europe.
The European Commission is refusing to back down over the implementation of its controversial emissions trading scheme (ETS), even in the face of possible new legislation that would make it illegal for U.S. aircraft operators to comply with its requirements.
Political pressure against the application of the European Union's emissions trading scheme to non-European aircraft operators has intensified, with bipartisan support in the U.S. for legislation that would make it illegal for U.S. operators to comply with ETS. The European Union Emissions Trading Scheme Prohibition Act of 2011 would require the U.S. Secretary of Transportation to ensure that U.S.
Lawyers acting for European Union states have begun their defense of the application of its emissions trading scheme (ETS) to non-European airlines in response to a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Air Transport Association (ATA).
After years of hair-splitting debate and tactical vacillation, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) finally has agreed to what it characterized as the first global approach to reducing air transport's effect on climate change.
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Member Login
Saturday, October 10, 2009
We had a special treat arranged for us this morning- Perdita Welch had been able to arrange a visit inside Mrs. Rosa Parks' home at the Cleveland Courts public Housing in Montgomery, Alabama.
Photo: The Rosa Parks' home.
The Cleveland Courts were constructed in the early 1940's to counteract the lack of affordable and adequate housing in the south. The apartments still serve as public housing today.
Photo: Interior shot of Mrs. Rosa Parks' home.
We then visited the "Brick – A – Day" church, also known as the First Baptist Church of Montgomery, which played a central role in the struggle for equality during the civil rights era. The "Brick – A – Day" nickname came from the donation of home-made bricks made by the congregation membership to the rebuilding efforts after a fire destroyed the church in the early nineteen hundreds. The reconstruction effort lasted for five years, from 1910 to 1915 when the church was finally completed. Reverend R.D. Abernathy, a central figure of the civil rights movement, and close friend to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was also the pastor of this church from 1952 to 1961.
While there, we had the good fortune to have an organ recital performed for us by Mrs. Essley Gomiller. She served as the church's organist for some forty-nine consecutive years. I was able to record a small snippet of the tail end of the recital. Please click on the image below this entire post to play the movie.
Photo of interior of the First Baptist Church of Montgomery.
Photo of exterior of the First Baptist Church of Montgomery.
Our next stop was the Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church, which is located just a stone's throw from the State capital. This proximity is of critical importance, as Dexter Avenue has had a very troubled and difficult past. On the low end of the street, a slave auction market was established just after the founding of the city, and the site of the church itself was once the headquarters of a slave trader.
Photo of the State Capital and a memorial recognizing the swearing in of Jefferson Davis as President of the Confederate States of America on February 18, 1861.
Photo of Dexter Avenue King Memorial Church.
Dexter Avenue Church had its first worship service in 1889 on Thanksgiving Day, but its planning can be traced as far back as 1877. The church had been without a minister since 1953 when Rev. Vernon Johns left Montgomery. However, R.D. Nesbitt Sr. one of the church's deacons had heard of a powerful, young preacher in Atlanta who he wanted to bring to Montgomery as the church's new pastor. That young preacher was Martin Luther King Jr., and he was barely twenty-four years old. The Dexter Avenue King Memorial Church was also the only church that Dr. King ever pastored.
It was also in the church's basement that the decision to launch the Montgomery Bus Boycott was made on December 2, 1955 a day after the arrest of a young seamstress named Rosa Parks. Originally intended to last just a single day, the boycott lasted three hundred and eighty one days, and involved the creation of ride sharing for some forty thousand African Americans day.
Photo: Interior of the Dexter Avenue Church.
Just up the street from the historic Dexter Avenue Church is the Civil Rights Memorial Center, whose outside memorial was designed by Maya Lin in 1989. The memorial is to the forty plus people who lost their lives in the fight for desegregation, and to the landmark legal rules that officially ended the discriminatory practice on a national level.
Photo of The Civil Rights Memorial designed by Maya Lin.
Our last stop in Montgomery was to visit the parsonage that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called home while he was the Pastor at the Dexter Avenue Church. The home, on South Jackson Street, was squarely located in the center of the black middle class neighborhood of Centennial Hill. The home, built in 1912 became the parsonage used by Dr. King when he accepted the pastoral responsibilities of Dexter Avenue church in 1954. If you look closely at the photograph of the exterior of the home, you will notice that the windows of the left hand side do not match the windows on the right. The reason that this is the case is that on the evening of January 31, 1956 a bomb was thrown onto the porch and the resulting explosion destroyed the windows and damaged much of the exterior of the home. Despite shrapnel being stuck in the interior walls, thankfully no one was injured despite Mrs. King and her children being present in the home at the time of the bombing.
Photo of Dexter Street Parsonage Museum.
Photo of the bombing plaque.
We left Birmingham for Selma, but just outside of the city limits of Birmingham we stopped off at a roadside memorial dedicated to Viola Liuzzo. Viola Liuzzo was a housewife from Detroit Michigan who, after seeing the police brutality that met the first effort of African Americans to walk from Selma to Montgomery on March 7, 1965, decided that she had to drive to Selma to offer any assistance that she could. While driving local protest organizers home along highway 80, a car containing four Ku Klux Klan members (one of whom was a police informant) open fired on the vehicle, killing her instantly. The memorial was paid for by the SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference) and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and was completed in 1991. Due to numerous defacements, including the painting of the Confederate flag on the memorial, a fence was established around the memorial's perimeter in 1999.
Photo of Viola Liuzzo Memorial.
As we entered the city limits of Selma, we stopped briefly at the memorial park on the far side of the Edmund Pettis Bridge, where the SCLC established a series of memorials to the key figures in both the national and local civil rights movement.
After a walking lecture provided by Dr. Upton in downtown Selma, we stopped by Brown Chapel African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) (1869).The church was the starting point of the protest march against discriminatory voter registration procedures, which resulted in massive disenfranchisement of African American voters. The protest march was to start in Selma, and go all the way to the state capital of Montgomery. On March 7th, 1965 these protestors were met by local police enforcement with tear gas, billy clubs, dogs, and mounted horsemen who beat them mercilessly in front of national media. That particular Sunday became to be known as "Bloody Sunday", and drew national and international attention to the plight of African Americans in the south. Blacks exercised their right to vote during reconstruction, however in the early part of the twentieth century, state officials saw to it that they were systematically purged from the state and local voter rolls. Practices such as severely limited hours for voter registration, poll taxes, and intense literacy requirements dropped the number of eligible black voters from some 164,000 immediately after reconstruction to a mere 3000 in 1965. In the single month following the passage of the civil rights act of 1965, more African American voters registered to vote within the state of Alabama than did so in the previous sixty-four years.
Photo of the exterior of the Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma.
Photo of the interior of the Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma.
Our last stop of the day in Selma was at Live Oaks Cemetery, where we met a self described historian and preservationist by the name of Patricia Goodwin. The cemetery was dedicated in 1829, and provides the final resting place for many confederate solders, and at least one large confederate memorial is present. Ms. Goodwin told us of difficulties that she experienced with her efforts to place a memorial to Nathan Bedford Forrest within the city of Selma, and she viewed the predominately African American city council as being the major detractors of her efforts. For half an hour the group listened to her descriptions of the events that led up to the memorial's placement within the cemetery, but it became clear that her central role in the fundraising and the construction of the memorial made the events that she experienced incredibly personal. When she was challenged on some of the basics regarding the life of Nathan Bedford Forrest, such as his involvement with the formation of the Ku Klux Klan, and the possibility that he served as the first Grand Wizard of the group, she denied any involvement that he had with the Klan. When asked about a particular inscription on the memorial that refers to him as being a "wizard in the saddle", Ms. Goodwin stated that that term was used by one of his former foes, out of respect for Forrest's military prowess. W alking under live oaks draped with large tufts of dangling spanish moss I was struck that despite the end of the civil war some one hundred and forty four years ago, many of the wounds are still festering.
Mrs. Goodwin in front of the Nathan Bedford Forrest Memorial.
We started today looking at the benefits of the wealth generated along Auburn Avenue in Atlanta. Our first stop was the Alonzo Herndon Museum Home.
Photo: The Alonzo Herndon Home
Herndon first made his money through being a barber, and slowly, through hard work, started to own a series of barbershops throughout the southeast. His most famous location was in downtown Atlanta on Peachtree, where he employed some twenty-six African American barbers to cut the hair of his powerful white clientele. The wealth that he earned through his establishment went back into the black community, and assisted him in amassing prime real estate locations in the south, and also providing the capital necessary to start Atlanta Life insurance.
Our tour then took us through the educational institutions that were established to teach the young minds of the rising black middle class. Clark Atlanta University, Spelman College, and Morehouse College were founded to address the necessity of providing excellent post secondary education to African Americans, so that those students would become the next generation of community, political and business leaders. Remember at the time of their respective founding, no black students were allowed to attend post secondary educational institutions in the south.
Photo: Martin Luther King Jr. statue at Morehouse College.
Photo: Sisters Chapel at Spelman College.
We also had a brief visit to Booker T. Washington High School, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. went to high school as a young man. Again, because of racial segregation, King had to travel miles to attend this all African American high school, even though there were numerous white high schools that were much closer to where he lived.
Photo of "Lifting The Veil" at Booker T. Washington High School. ( A copy of statue of the original statue is at Tuskegee University.)
We then departed Atlanta for Tuskegee, home of the famous Tuskegee Airmen, and the Tuskegee Institute founded by Booker T. Washington (now Tuskegee University).
Photo of Tuskegee Town Square.
We then walked the grounds of Tuskegee University, including the George Washington Carver Museum. The history of the University is fascinating. Lewis Adams, who recognized that while slavery had been abolished by the emancipation proclamation acts of 1862 and 1863, noted that freed slaves often possessed little formal education or marketable skills to support themselves or their families. Adam's strong lobbying of the State of Alabama's democratic party resulted in the establishment of the Institute in 1881, and he hired the young Booker T. Washington to serve as the first president of the school. The school proved to be a critical destination for many African Americans, as the school not only provided formal education, but also real world, "hands on" experience. Many of the buildings on the grounds were designed by the first African American architect in the United States, Robert Taylor, who had graduated from MIT in 1892, and the labor for the construction came from the Institute's student body.
Photo of student laborers constructing a building at the Tuskegee Institute.
After a long, and full day, we headed to our next destination, Montgomery Alabama.
"Sweet Auburn"
As we gathered for lunch at the Hampton Inn and Suites in downtown Atlanta, Dr. Dell Upton gave a wonderfully insightful lecture on memorials and the act ofcommemoration as a foundation to what we were about to experience over the next four days. Of particular interest was his observation that memorials often reflect the social, cultural and historical perspective not of the time that they were supposed to be marking, but rather of the current conditions of when they were actually being established. Thus memorials to the civil rights era that were constructed in the late twentieth century reflect the ideals and perspectives of the 1980's and 1990's that were interpretations of the civil rights movement of the 1950's and 1960's. Applied on a broader level, Upton's observation explains a great deal why sites like the World Trade Center Memorial in New York City, or the Memorial to Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pennsylvania are still so hotly contested, and their cultural meanings still uncertain.
Professor Upton also noted in his lecture how the traditional forms of memorialization seem to be strangely out of place for the civil rights movement. In a systematic approach, Upton showed numerous examples of traditional memorial statuary, and revealed their reliance upon metaphors of military prowess and conquest for their meaning. The seated equestrian, the heroic lone figure, the group action pose— all find their respective origins in military conflict. Dr. Upton wondered just how appropriate such visual metaphors were for a movement that practiced nonviolence, and saw great success in mundane, yet critical actions such as voter registration, community organization and peaceful acts of civil disobedience.
Photo: Dell Upton giving his introductory lecture.
After the lecture and a substantial lunch we headed off to Auburn Avenue, which was and remains a center of black middle class life and culture. The act of racial segregation, combined with discriminatory business laws that intentionally restricted access to capital for African Americans, made Auburn Avenue a central node for the black middle class. It was here that Atlanta Life was based, an insurance company established by Alonzo Herndon in 1905 to provide African Americans with financial tools and security similar to those enjoyed by their white middle class counterparts. Professor Upton showed members of the study tour the numerous and complex spatial interrelationships that black businesses utilized before the civil rights movement to ensure that monies generated by black owned businesses would stay within the African American community, and how black reinvestment into AuburnAvenue was an absolute necessity given the overtly hostile attitudes and discriminatory practices by whites towards black owned businesses.
Photos: Atlanta Life then and now.
Auburn Avenue was also the birthplace and the final resting place of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. We toured the home where he was born, and noted how, on that particular section of Auburn Avenue, there were a range of housing stock that encompassed the urban poor through to the wealthy. Our docent for the tour of Dr. King's birthplace told the story that when Martin Luther King Jr. was a child, he saw first hand the wide financial disparity experienced by African Americans on this very street. On one side, small, two room, "shotgun homes" were the dominant housing stock, while on the other side of the street,large mansions were the norm. This inequitable relationship within the African American community stayed with Dr. King, and was a constant reminder of not only how far African Americans had come, but also how far was still left to go.
Photo: Dr. King's Birthplace in Atlanta.
Photo: Small, shotgun homes on Auburn Ave.
Photo: The upscale homes just across the street from King's birthplace.
Photo: The tombs for Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife, Coretta Scott King.
Civil Rights Memorials and African-American Urban Landscapes in the Twentieth Century South.
October 8-12, 2009.
By Martin J. Holland
This is the first of three accounts by SAH fellowship recipients discussing the recent SAH study tour that examined civil rights memorials in the South. For those of you interested in a day by day, moment by moment account of what we saw, I would strongly suggest that you subscribe to Twitter, and sign up to get tweets from theSAH_Study_Tour which will not only provide you with what occurred from October 8-12, 2009, but with any luck, all future SAH study tours as well. It is a great way to feel part of a Society of Architectural Historians tour, even if you are unable to attend.
Catherine Boland The Legacy August 9, 2009
It's difficult to believe how quickly this tour has gone by! On our final day, we took a look at the legacy of the 1909 Plan of Chicago.
We began our day with breakfast at the SAH Headquarters, the Charnley-Persky House (Sullivan, 1892). I was amazed by the striking interior space and spent a great deal of time exploring the house.
View from ground level
Our next talk was on "urban nature." Sally A. Kitt Chappell of DePaul University delivered a lively commentary on Burnham's legacy of the green space in the city. One of the things that struck me was Charles Graham's renderings of the World's Columbian Exposition and his focus on the public spaces. I was reminded of something Kristen had spoken about on our first day of lectures – Burnham wanted to make his buildings a wall for the street. With this in mind, it is easy to see just how important public space was for Burnham. Sally highlighted the ways in which green space had a positive effect on the city: wasteland became recreation areas, vacant lots and rooftops became gardens, median strips became places for greenery, etc.
Our first stop in the park was the Chicago Historical Society (Graham, Anderson, Probst and White, 1932) and we admired the ceremonial entrance facing the park. We strolled past the Prairie-style Café Brauer (Perkins and Hamilton, 1908) on the way to the Lincoln Park Conservatory (Silsbee and Bell, 1894).
The formal gardens in front of the conservatory contrasted with the informal "Grandmother's Garden" across the street. The conservatory was another world in itself with ferns, palms, orchids and other exotic flowers (even including a confined Venus fly-trap).
The final stop on the walking tour was the Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool (Alfred Caldwell, 1937), another perfect example of a green space where one could escape the congestion of the city.
After a few hours of free time (and a few cool drinks to escape the day's heat!), we reconvened below the Wrigley Building for a River and Lake Sunset Cruise with commentary by Phil Gruen.
As we glided out onto Lake Michigan and saw the expanse of the city, I thought about the development of Chicago – how far it has come since Burnham's Plan. The cruise was such a fitting end to our study tour and I would like to thank SAH for the opportunity to be a part of such a wonderful learning experience.
The Plan August 8, 2009
After focusing on Daniel Burnham's architecture during yesterday's activities, today we focused on Burnham's 1909 Plan of Chicago. Carl Smith of Northwestern University led the morning's lectures. He stated that what was novel in Burnham's plan was the idea of the beauty and health of a city as being integral to a city's financial success. This progressive proposal — that a great space makes great people — was the impetus for the City Beautiful movement and the Plan of Chicago.
Carl outlined the six main issues of the plan:
- Development of the lakefront
- Creation of highways outside of the city
- Improvement of railways
- Systematic arrangement of avenues and streets
- Acquisition of an outer system of parks
- Development of centers of intellectual and civic life
Burnham tried to reconcile different interests and address pertinent issues as he considered the long-term development of the city of Chicago.
Following Carl's lecture, Dennis McClendon provided us with a closer look at the Plan through the use of lantern slides of city and area maps and Guerin's renderings. Dennis spoke about the reasons why the plan succeeded – mainly because of its limited scope (it wasn't trying to address all social issues) and by promotion (through the use of Guerin's renderings, publications, etc.). These lectures were a great foundation for the afternoon's motor coach tour where we were able to see the Plan in action.
The planned itinerary became a little more sporadic as we tried to beat the traffic caused by Lollapalooza and the Chicago Bear's Family Day. I did not mind at all – it was great to see the city alive with people.
Passing under an elevated rail track
We started at "Museum Campus" which contains the Field Museum (D.H. Burnham and Co.; Graham, Burnham and Co., Graham, Anderson, Probst, and White, 1912-20), the John G. Shedd Aquarium (Graham, Anderson, Probst, and White, 1929) and the Max Alder Planetarium (Ernest Grunsfeld, 1930). From here, we took photos of the city and were able to see just how much of the city was extended into the lake by means of landfill.
In addition to the planned diagonal avenues, major streets were widened to accommodate traffic. The widening of these streets, such as Western, Damen, and Ashland avenues, was executed unlike the planned diagonal avenues. Dennis pointed out that most of the remaining buildings on those streets had facades from a later period.
We drove through Lincoln Park on the way to Graceland Cemetery, where Burnham was laid to rest after his death in 1912. I was struck by the beautiful lakefront and green spaces as we left the noise and congestion far behind. The difference was incredible and yet we were only a mile out of the city. The skyscrapers loomed in the distance but it felt as if we were a world away.
Keeping on topic with the transportation in the city, we stopped into Union Station to admire the original waiting room (Graham, Anderson, Probst, and White, 1916-25).
One of the completed projects from the Plan was the straightening of the south branch of the Chicago River – an astonishing undertaking. We drove over the straightened section and saw the area that was intended to become the site of a consolidated rail facility. The consolidation of the rail companies into one large facility was never realized.
The motor coach tour was an excellent complement to the day's lectures. We were able to see what parts of the Plan were realized, such as the widening of streets and lakefront expansion, and what aspects of the plan never came to pass.
Catherine Boland
The Architecture
August 7, 2009
The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, located in the Albert F. Madlener House (1901-2), provided the setting for our lectures each morning. The first day of the tour began with a welcome from the Executive Director of SAH, Pauline Saliga, and from the tour coordinator, Phil Gruen. After an introduction to the weekend's events, we were treated to a lecture from Kristen Schaffer of North Carolina State University, one of the leading Burnham experts. Her talk focused on the relationship between Burnham's architecture and his city planning. Kristen proposes there is continuity in his buildings and his city plans – the provision of public space. Burnham favored the hollowed square plan with an atrium in the center was exemplary of Burnham's attitude of the public nature of private space. It was this attitude that extended into his plans for the city.
After lunch, we were joined by geographer and historian Dennis McClendon to take a walking tour of Chicago's Loop, the city's downtown center. The rainy weather did not stop Dennis and Kristen from providing an intriguing commentary as they took us on a tour of significant Burnham buildings that illustrate his philosophy of urban architecture.
Our first stop was the Rookery (Burnham and Root, 1885-89). For a building of such great height (eleven stories), the foundation needed to be solid enough to rest on Chicago's marshy soil and was therefore made of interlinking concrete and iron. The more traditional façade features a Romanesque entry arch, rustication and terra cotta ornament.
The Rookery
Detail of the Rookery
La Salle Street Entrance
with Richardsonian Romanesque Arch
It was in the interior, however, that we were truly able to understand Kristen's commentary on the public nature of private spaces. As we entered into the atrium, we were struck by the openness and airiness of the space. Despite the dreary day, the amount of light filling the space was incredible.
Atrium of the Rookery
The atrium was renovated by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1907. The original iron staircase, railings and supports were encased with gold-incised white marble. However, one iron support is exposed to allow visitors to imagine what once was. After seeing a photo of the original atrium and seeing the exposed support, I can't help but feel that the atrium lacks the airiness that Burnham and Root intended.
Light fixture by Frank Lloyd Wright
Original iron support exposed
One of the most thrilling parts of the tour was the private viewing of the office of Burnham and Root on the eleventh floor of the Rookery. The original fireplace, where the well-known photograph of the two architects was taken, remains in situ.
Burnham and Root in
Running between raindrops, we headed over to the Monadnock Building (Burnham and Root, 1889-91) to marvel at the load-bearing masonry construction. The enormity of the six-foot-thick base of the building was best observed from the interior where you could see the thickness of the walls from the interior storefronts. Instead of an atrium, light would have filtered through the vertical shafts containing iron staircases.
Monadnock Building
as it reaches the cornice and then bows slightly outward.
The Old Colony building undergoing
The desire to get out of the rain took us into the Marshall Field and Company Store (D.H. Burnham and Co.; Graham, Burnham and Co., 1892-1914). The store was converted into a Macy's into 2005, much to the chagrin of Chicagoans. The stone façade gave no indication of the two striking atria on the interior. The south side atrium features a mosaic dome by Louis Comfort Tiffany and the north side atrium topped with a skylight.
With the walking tour coming to a close, we briefly looked at the People's Gas, Coke and Light Building (D.H. Burnham and Co., 1910-11) and the Railway Exchange Building (D.H. Burnham and Co., 1903-04) before heading to the Cliff Dweller's Club at 200 S. Michigan Ave. for a private screening of clips from Judith Paine McBrien's upcoming Burnham documentary, Make No Little Plans: Daniel Burnham and the American City. The film will be premiered in the Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park on Wednesday, September 2, 2009 at 7.30 PM.
We ended our day with dinner at the Cliff Dweller's Club, thanks to SAH member, John Notz. From the terrace, we took in striking panoramic views of the city. We were also able to enjoy the sounds of the city, thanks to the Lollapalooza Festival in Millennium Park. It was a wonderful end to a stimulating day. Starting the tour with Burnham's buildings provided some insight into his work and his ideas that were a necessary preparation for the following day: looking at the plan itself.
The Legacy of Daniel Burnham: Architect and City Planner
Chicago Study Tour, August 7-9, 2009
Catherine Boland
On the occasion of the 100-year anniversary of Daniel H. Burnham's Plan of Chicago, there is perhaps nothing more fitting than a tour celebrating Burnham and the Plan – its precedents, execution, and legacy. This three-day excursion was coordinated by Phil Gruen of Washington State University and included lectures, tours, and commentary by Kristen Schaffer, Dennis McClendon, Sally A. Kitt Chappell, Carl Smith, and Robert Bruegmann. Tour participants were immersed in the architecture of Burnham and his contemporaries and his successors. Discussions focused on the reasons why some elements of the plan, such as lakefront expansion and development of the arterials of the city, were realized, while others, such as the creation of a civic center and the consolidation of railways, were not. Over the course of the three day tour, we moved from a focused study of Burnham's architecture, to his 1909 Plan of Chicago, and finally to planning in general. Throughout these three days, tour participants were able to experience the city of Chicago not only through our own eyes but also through the eyes of Burnham.
Entering the changing room at Trenton, Tyng's corner entries transition beautifully to the shade and cool of the changing area (while eliminating need for doors and their maintenance). Yet the skylight brings in a soft light (eliminating the need for fixtures, too). In contrast, sharp slivers of light pierce the rough concrete walls, stabbing through the gap between walls and floating roof.
How different from Kahn's museums at Yale, especially the diffuse glow in the galleries of the Yale Center for British Art. Natural lighting was a shared goal with the clients. In fact, it was a requirement for the painting galleries. The desire for a domestic scale was also a factor (presumably the corresponding light effects were desired as well). In the preliminary phase of the design, Kahn visited homes of patron and collector Paul Mellon, as well as the Phillips Collection, a house-museum in Washington, DC. The YCBA glow is the product of the large-span skylights and their deep pyramidal wells. The 20-foot spans help to break the spaces up into room-sized galleries, but moveable, floating partitions and louvered windows keep the feeling open and of course, light. The skylights illuminate the top galleries and atrium. In turn, atrium overlooks allow light to enter galleries on lower floors. White oak panels and smooth concrete complete the effect.
One imagines that Kahn would have appreciated Soane. Both architects were intuitive and idiosyncratic. Both sought the sublime. Both appreciated but transcended ancient precedents. Both were influential teachers. And they both developed unprecedented techniques for indirect natural illumination.
Someday I hope to visit the Kimbell (1966-1972), known as Kahn's greatest achievement with light. What is the combined effect of Texas sun, barrel vaulting, and Kahn's ingenious skylights? How does this change our perception of the works on view? And can I sketch in the galleries?
On this note I end these posts on "The Value and Aim of Sketching." I hope they've conveyed some of the value of the SAH Kahn Tour.
Image (top): Jennifer Tobias. Trenton Bath House.
Image (second from top): Jennifer Tobias. Yale Center for British Art.
This made the behind-the-facade tour a rare and intriguing opportunity, And the interior is fascinating, especially the labs. Such as a "vintage" model, decommissioned to redirect the building's limited air supply to working labs, such as a lively one we visited. It would be fun to return and sketch the ghostly abandoned lab, its notoriously inefficient windows looking out on to a rusticated pile nearby. A modern ruin.
A hard building to love–but its caretakers seem to. The way one might love an Edsel. Maureen Ward, Director of Facilities Planning and Space Management at the Medical School, even jokes with her counterpart at the Salk Institute (1959-1965), Richards' well-behaved younger brother: there Kahn had a chance to work out all the kinks.
Unlike most of the works we visited, in person I found the experience had a sort of photographic quality, as if I could only see it through the filter of published imagery. Perhaps this is because one tends to stand at photogenic vantage points, as if the building was designed for (or through) them. Living there might feel different, but as a guest I couldn't kick back in front of the fireplace.
In their works Venturi and Ruscha (as well as cultural studies theorists) ask, To what degree is subjectivity influenced by culture, specifically media culture? Am I me or mediated? The architect and artist most likely believe in mediated individuality. Kahn no doubt believed in pure subjectivity, especially as expressed through sketching, where "…the presence of our own individuality causes [things] to appear differently than it would to others."
Image (top): Rollin LaFrance. Robert Venturi. Vanna Venturi House (1959-1964).
Quotes from Louis Kahn. "The Value and Aim in Sketching." T-Square Club Journal of Philadelphia. May 1931, 18-21.
Kahn may not have built "pompous estates," but private houses are a significant part of his legacy. (His work in south Asia also involves social stratification, but on a scale I'm ill-qualified to address.)
In these terms, one sees striking differences between an early public project and several private homes we visited. The former is a product of the Depression era, when public housing was one of few opportunities for first wave modernists to test their ideas on a large scale. Many of Kahn's later, private houses reflect post-war prosperity and the luxuries it afforded.
In the public realm, Kahn assisted Alfred Kastner with the Jersey Homesteads in Roosevelt, New Jersey (1935-1936) and his Architectural Research Group proposed a garden city development to replace a South Philadelphia slum (1933), one perhaps not so different from the Northern Liberties of his childhood.
Public projects were ideal testing grounds for "machine housing," ostensibly efficient, low-cost, construction based on industrial principles. Machine housing, however, is different from a machine aesthetic, its much-criticized assimilation into upper-class lifestyles.
Both housing types are a function of class. From this perspective, one can analyze how modernist precepts are applied differently for different social strata. While Kahn is considered primarily an expressionist, his expressions draw upon the "deep structure" of the modernist language. Analyzing the relative application of machine production and machine aesthetic is one way to see this in play. In spareness, for example.
All Kahns works lack ornamentation, of course. But where is this driven by efficiency and where by aesthetics? In the Homesteads, spareness reflected the goal of making homes affordable for textile workers. They could choose between twelve models, but those models were chosen for them. On the other hand, the spareness of the Margaret Esherick House (1959-1961), especially its interior, evokes the rigorous spareness of traditional Japanese architecture. Esherick could choose any form (and architect, for that matter). She chose and underwrote the craftsmanship required for Kahn's design. Another manifestation is scale and its expression in program (functional spaces and their spatial arrangement). Quite simply, the Homesteads are small and private houses large. As a result, program was scaled accordingly. In one of the Homesteads we visited, the entry, living room and dining room are "open plan," the modernist way of saying "no walls."
On the one hand, Modern materials enabled larger spans and the elimination of interior bearing walls, so the open plan offered light, air, and flexibility unknown in traditional construction. But in the Homesteads, this meant an entryway separated from the living room by only a change in flooring material. In Kahn's private houses, including Esherick's, entries take many elegant forms sensitive to transition from exterior to interior.
In his 1931 article on sketching, Kahn states that The simplest form, be it but a moulding, is only part of a creative process. It is the interwoven relation of that moulding to the rest of the creation which makes it significant.
In modernist terms, each element of a work is correctly considered in relation to the material and metaphysics of "the rest of the creation," or in Kahn terms, to its "will." As a whole, his works certainly reflect these notions. What the child of North Philly row houses could not have seen then, and perhaps never saw, is that the expression of will (both spirit and clients') is partially determined by socioeconomic factors.
Image (top): Alonzo D. Biggard. Frankford Elevated, Site of Bent 68, West Side of Front Street [Department of City Transit-1598-0], (1915). This and other excellent historic photos of Philadelphia are found at
Quotes from Louis Kahn. "The Value and Aim in Sketching." T-Square Club Journal of Philadelphia. May 1931, 18-21.
On a study tour, time really is of the essence. The pace forces one to both slow down (observe) yet speed up (get impressions). Here are two takes on Kahn's Jesse Oser House (1940-1942). The first is "on the job" (With tour manager Kathy Sturm in the foreground, keeping us on schedule). The second follows "get[ting]away from it all" and developing the drawing into a "readable design."
There is no value in trying to imitate exactly…We should not imitate when our intention is to create–to improvise…I have learned to regard it as no physical impossibility to move mountains and trees, or change cupolas and towers to suit my tastes.
In this spirit I can exaggerate perspective, manipulate shadows, and literally furnish the mise en scene. Scholarship requires getting the facts exactly right. Drawing requires no footnotes. But Kahn knew that interpretive drawing must, in the end, respect the subject: I try in my sketching not to be entirely subservient to my subject, but I have respect for it…
Any study tour shifts, like a drawing, between the "big picture" and telling details. It would have been a pleasure to linger on the idiosyncratic details of the Furness library at Penn–its crockets, wedge mouldings, and patterned brickwork. But the situation called for the big picture, with the rest improvised later, if the drawing "wanted" it. Furness invented a formal grammar all his own, so can't I riff on it a bit? I try to evolve a composition, and make every sketch count for as much value to me as may be gotten out of a design problem.
Site visits are an excellent way to study details. Archtiecture may start with a room, as Kahn would say, but it ends with building codes, HVAC, and electrical outlets. Consider the air vent detailing in the cupola of Temple Beth El (1966-1972). Two practicing architects in the tour group were disappointed by the execution: surely Kahn wasn't responsible! Based on their observations, I indicated the vents but downplayed them. Or should they be drawn as they appear?
Images (top): Jennifer Tobias. Jesse Oser House (1940-1942)
Did I learn that as a child, Kahn used this coal for drawing, for lack of other material? (Paging a volunteer fact checker–I think it's in My Architect). His use of soft charcoal (and carpenter pencil) is also well known. With this ever mutable powder, he could explore an idea and wipe it away in an instant, or push it around with his fingers like a sculptor with clay. See, for example, his perspective of the unbuilt Mikveh Israel Synagogue (1961).
Perhaps it's no accident that Rodin is a recurring theme in Kahn's biography and article. He writes, "The drawings this great sculptor made took form with his eye on the final results in stone."
In situ drawing, on the other hand, deals with the final results, the (literally) concrete. Here materials spend light on actual mass and volume. The hard lines and colored washes of my tour sketches try to reflect this.
During the tour someone quoted…someone…who said that Kahn worked on a project until he got fired. In this spirit, his drawings are not so much unfinished as transfixed.
Image: Jennifer Tobias. Trenton Bath House (1954-1959).
Rodin quote from Louis Kahn. "The Value and Aim in Sketching." T-Square Club Journal of Philadelphia. May 1931, 18-21.


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City Councilor and Mayoral candidate Sam Yoon wants to dismantle the Boston Redevelopment Authority [2] and replace it with "a comprehensive City Department for Community Development & Planning.†The new department would oversee the entirety of the City's planning operation, which Yoon says would allow Boston to bring public input into the planning process as well as focus on transportation, green alternatives and visionary leadership (that means him.) Is the elimination of a half-century old quasi-public agency and the creation of a new massive City department the way to avoid future development boondoggles? Isn't a new department that would absorb the BRA's existing authority almost the same as Mayor Menino's plan to expand the BRA [3] to include transportation planning?
"I even want to bring the Transportation Department into the Boston Redevelopment Authority,†Menino said. "That's on my drawing board, to move forward on that in the near future.â€
Yoon has specific legislation on the table now. We'll have to wait and see what Menino's particular plan for the future of his BRA will be.
This kind of stuff might fly in Arlington, but repackaging someone else's ideas as your own won't pass the smell test in Boston. Does anyone reasonable see Yoon's candidacy as even close to viable? This guy hasn't even served a full term in the city council.
Actually, Sam is in his 2nd term on the City Council. He was first elected in 2005, and then again in 2007. I do believe he has some great ideas about moving Boston in a new direction and think that he would make an excellent Mayor!


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On January 14, 2013 at 7:49 pm William said:
Whoever says wolves ARE EPIC you are EPIC
On January 23, 2013 at 5:14 pm Nicole said:
Why do people even hunt wolves? There's no use nor any point to it.
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Such beautiful animals!!! Wish i could have spent more time watching them
On November 23, 2013 at 2:55 pm rivermistywolfbffs said:
I love these animals. I know their scientific names by heart. I wish 832F and wolf 754 were still with us. At least they can not be harmed and they are hopefully in a good place. I will mourn with the pack and will never forget them and hope their pack won't either. :'(
This does not need to be happening either. x-(


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After a surprisingly effective rookie season, Moe Harkless entered the 13-14 season with big expectations for the Orlando Magic. As a 19 year-old rookie, Harkless displayed a raw offensive game but proved to be Orlando's most effective perimeter defender. At 6'9″ with enviable athleticism, his potential seemed limitless. After working on his jumper and his handles in the off-season, Harkless seemed poised for a breakout campaign.
His sophomore season has been a disappointment, especially after an encouraging start. Through November, Harkless averaged over 26 minutes, 8 pts, 4 reb, and 2 stls a game. More impressively, he showed off an improved shooting touch, hitting 37.9% of his 3's.
December has been a different story. Vaughn cut his minutes to under 17 a game, including a recent DNP – Coach's Decision. Harkless' confidence has plummeted with his playing time. His scoring has fallen to 4.3 per game and his 3 point shooting has regressed to just 20%.
Brian Schmitz of the Orlando Sentinel reports that Harkless is frustrated by the lack of playing time:
I'm obviously not happy about it. I want to play. I can't control that.
Like many of his rotation decisions, Coach Vaughn's explanation for the decreased playing time was vague and confusing:
There are gonna be pockets of the season where some guys won't play [....] There's pockets where guys will not play. There's just not enough minutes.
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- Arron Afflalo has been playing a surprising amount of small forward.
- Victor Oladipo has played his way into the starting line-up, but the point guard experiment is failing. An Oladipo and Harkless back-court is dangerously low on offensive creation.
- The team's glut of power forwards has Tobias Harris playing small forward.
The trade deadline will clear up some of these problems, but waiting until February could have dangerous consequences for Harkless' development. He needs steady playing time to continue to develop.
Vaughn is letting Oladipo play through his mistakes, while benching Harkless at the slightest slip-up. His inconsistent rotations have left Magic fans scratching their heads, and it is time he improved upon his game management skills. Harkless has earned playing time with his effort, defense, and improved 3-point shot. Yes, the rest of his game is raw, but there is not better way to smooth it out than playing.
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I wish so much that I had been able to buy Miriam Elia's book, We Go to the Art Gallery before it was stomped on by Penguin books. I do love a bit of mothering and nihilism in art galleries, you know. Thanks to Penelope D. for the link. (Cross-posted at blue milk). Related posts […]
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Satire or serious? You decide.
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Despite being born with the use of both legs, many of these bipedal athletes inspire us with their commitment and guts. Having typically learned to walk around the age of one, these amazing Olympians don't let their lurching two-phase locomotion hold them back. Thought they may look unwieldy to the naive eye, as viewers their movements soon look natural to us. We can see their grace and nimbleness shine through.
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I know this is everywhere at the moment, but I've put up this post to assist bookmarking this delightful video for future deployment against infestations of sexually aggressive, racist, homophobe, misogynistic, cowardly, illiterate, wastes of human skin: Thank You Hater by Isabel Fay
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How Gay Marriage Could End Humanity
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Jimmy Kimmel Live – January 2012
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Finding the traditional Nativity disappointingly low on killer metal robots from the future?
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The Terminativity takes the Greatest Story Ever Told and adds time travel, a Terminator T-800, a police manhunt, lasers, pitched battles, a handful of catchy tunes and much, much more….
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Sunday Singalong: Chicks on Speed
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Here is Chicks on Speed with the ultimate anti-cock rock song; joyfully poking fun at the hyper-masculinity of the rock music scene and the way in which DIY punk-electronica is perceived as less than 'real music'. "We Don't Play Guitars", which is so good natured it includes an actual guitar solo. (Thanks Peaches, take that […]
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Outraged opposition MPs debated the merits of At Home With Julia in a party room meeting today, with Nationals MP John Forrest urging the return of tasteful comedy shows such as the 1970s series Are You Being Served?.
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At Home With Julia: meh
By tigtog on September 9, 2011
It's hard enough to write a sitcom when you don't have to worry about the potential for defamation issues and being overtaken by news developments between filming and airing. I have no idea why somebody thought that it was a great idea to shackle their sitcom with such stultifying constraints.
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Tips for Elevator Use
By Mindy on July 20, 2011
Tips for Elevator use.
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I wish to make a deeply heartfelt apology to all motorists
By tigtog on July 19, 2011
In the wake of Elevatorgate, I realise that in habitually engaging in threat/risk-assessment vigilance every single time I cross the road, I have actually been doing you all a most grave injustice.
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The Gingrichburg Address
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Stephen Colbert gets John Lithgow to recite that baffling wafflefest Press Release of Doom from Newt Gingrich's presidential spokesman, Rick Tyler.
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Stephen Colbert Fulsome Appreciation Thread
By tigtog on April 13, 2011
Right now I could not love this man more. Welcome to the line that is going to haunt every Google search on your name for the rest of your life, Jon Kyl.
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Onion video: nearly too close to the bone
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The Onion's new online video channel takes on the latest efforts of the anti-choicers in the USA.
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In August 2011 I went to a community in the middle of Amazon where some people work with social capital and open source software. I was touched by them and the people that I met there. They were free even if they didn't have money for the next month and I was the oposite, with money but feeling in a cage. Something was wrong with my path and my choices.
After 7 months I quit my job, sold and gave the rest of stuff that I had and start organizing and going to events in Brazil that have made difference for me. In 6 months not so much money left, when an opportunity to go to MIT appeared, the first place that I thought in asking for help was Couchsurfing, I thought "in 2011 I offered my apartment when I was travelling on vacations, so I'm sure I can find someone with a good heart as mine". I posted that I needed a place to stay for 3 months in Boston and a lovely couple answered.
Rich and Rose were the most incredible family that I could ever met. They didn't only host me in a nice bedroom, but opened their life as they were my family and received participants from the event that I was organizing (almost 20 people from 15 different countries).
During the same period in Brazil I offered my apartment to a friend that opened for friends, it has been an interesting experience.
I had to say good-bye to the best couch ever and soon I'll travel to Africa and/or through USA and find many other awesome Couchsurfers. Who knows?


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Comics 2 Games in Florence has expanded, Melissa Stewart of the Community Recorder reports:
FLORENCE — There's more room for Batman, Superman, Spider-Man and other graphic novel heroes, and their loyal fans at Comics 2 Games in Florence. The comic book shop, located at 8470 U.S. 42, has doubled its showroom floor.
"Originally we were at 1,300 square feet, now we're about 2,600 square feet," said Mike Viox, co-owner with his wife, Tess. "We wanted to expand to give customers more breathing room, more shopping room and a better overall experience."
Before, Mike said everything was cramped which created a sensory overload.
So, they knocked down a wall and moved some merchandise to the space next door. The expanded showroom includes a gaming area for tournaments and sections for gaming supplies, action figures and kids. Mike said he's very excited about the kids' section and hopes it gives younger customers a feel of ownership in the shop.
"I had it in mind to dedicate an entire wall to all age-appropriate comics for young people who come in," he said. "Comics gets them reading, gives them confidence and gets them using their imaginations. It's neat to be a part of that."
With more space, he hopes to bring in graphic novel artists and writers for in-house signings.
The official grand opening of the new showroom is set for a free comic book day on Saturday, May 4. The shop will be giving away 55 titles. Mike expects even more than the 1,000 people who showed up last year.
Comics 2 Games has been in Florence since 2004. The Vioxes took over the business in August 2010. They previously owned a comic book shop in Tennessee, but moved here to be closer to family.
Community is what the shop is really about, according to Mike.
"This is not just a shop but a destination, a hangout," he said. "All of our customers have a love for a fantasy world or a character and now they have people they can share that with."
Customer Michael Bradford of Newport has been coming to the shop for a little over a year since he moved to Northern Kentucky. He's been collecting comics since high school. He said he really feels that he's a part of a community at Comics 2 Games.
"It's clean and family oriented and it's very friendly," he said. "I feel a part of a group. There's never pressure and the staff is knowledgeable."
He enjoys the new look too.
"I think (the expansion) is a good idea," he said. "It's more roomy it's more open and there's a space for everything."
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