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Florida International University (FIU) is changing the face of physics education in South Florida, with the goal of increasing the quality and quantity of physics teachers, including traditionally underrepresented minorities and woman, through an integrated research and learning community. Leading the effort is the FIU PhysTEC Project, one of four new PhysTEC (Physics Teacher Education Coalition) Primary Program Institutions that began operation in summer 2007. PhysTEC is a joint effort to improve teacher preparation facilitated by three national physics societies: the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT), American Institute of Physics (AIP), and American Physical Society (APS). The member institutions are deeply engaged in the enterprise of producing more and better-prepared elementary, middle, and high school teachers.
The FIU PhysTEC Project is embedded within a physics research and learning community centered in sustained educational reform, adoption and adaption of successful national programs, and community development via partnership. To gain an understanding of how the project will realize its goals, we start by building an appreciation for this physics research and learning community. Then we move on to see how the PhysTEC Project and the FIU community merge to create a successful model. The physics community emerged from a multi-disciplinary team representing both the Department of Physics in the College of Arts & Sciences and the College of Education, and was seeded by several collaborative research grants. The CHEPREO project provided the foundational impetus for the community.
CHEPREO: Foundation of the Physics Learning Community
CHEPREO, the inter-regional grid-enabled Center for High Energy Physics Research and Education Outreach, is an NSF-funded multidisciplinary, multi-institution project based at FIU that supports research in particle physics, grid computing, and advanced networking at CERN. Significant CHEPREO resources are devoted to excite, entice, and retain science and math students using the project's cutting-edge science as a foundation. CHEPREO targets high school and university students as well as the stakeholders that support them: teachers, faculty, parents, etc. Students and stakeholders have come together to form a vibrant research and learning community that provides students with inquiry-based pedagogy and high energy physics, physics education, and cyber research experiences to ensure deep physics understanding that spans fundamental through bleeding-edge physics research. Through these efforts, CHEPREO has redefined the education outreach model for physics, providing pathways and support for students, especially those from traditionally underrepresented groups, to pursue science careers. Before delving into the model, we need to describe FIU and the South Florida region.
Florida International University is a minority serving urban public research institution located in Miami, Florida. Over 38,000 students were enrolled at FIU in the fall of 2007, a population that included 59% Hispanic, 12% African American, and 56% female students (2007 data). Most FIU students come from the South Florida region, a region where the fourth (Miami-Dade County) and sixth (Broward County) largest public school districts in the country are located. Enrollment in introductory physics courses at FIU reflects a diversity similar to that of FIU as a whole and includes 62% Hispanic, 13% African American, and 40% female students (2004 data). The research design of our model supports all student populations; however, we find that it supports our diverse population very well.
The physics department at FIU includes 82 intended and declared undergraduate majors, 33 graduate students (mostly PhD candidates), and 22 faculty. Our physics department also reflects the diversity of FIU. The 82 majors listed in Fall 2006 include 67% Hispanic, 6% African American, and 20% female students. Similar representation is reflected in our bachelor's degrees granted since 2001: 71% Hispanic, 6% African American, and 29% female students.
Our treatment includes both high school and undergraduate students, so we begin with the high school component. The high school community is centered on working with educational partners (students, teachers, administrators, and schools) to bring excellent content-pedagogy to the classroom and high-energy physics outreach to the high school community. This combination provides teachers with techniques for everyday classroom instruction as well as added activities that build excitement for the future. The physics modeling approach developed by Wells, Hestenes, and Swackhamer has been used as the content-pedagogic standard [Wel95]. Modeling was chosen due to its well-documented success in high school classrooms, its student-as-scientist structure, its active-studio format, its adoptability to introductory physics courses at the university, and its community-building nature both for teachers and students. Our research has shown that modeling was an excellent choice, as evidenced by student performance, community building, and recruitment. High-energy physics outreach is centered in QuarkNet, a well-developed national model of outreach and community building. FIU became one of the 60 QuarkNet centers in 2004. Modeling and QuarkNet form the synergistic foundation of our high school community. The community has evolved substantially, meeting on a year-round basis with multiple activities planned for students and teachers throughout the year.
Typically, a teacher's induction into the community begins with a summer workshop. Two three-week long summer modeling workshops are offered every year (starting in 2003). The high school community now extends to over 80 teachers in over 45 different schools in the South Florida region as well as many teachers in other states and regions in Florida impacting well over 10,000 students a year. High-school activities include intensive summer workshops for teachers, regular meetings of our teacher community named FizMo (Physics Modelers), and a series of high school student activities that entice students to pursue science degrees and careers.
CHEPREO has also transformed the undergraduate experience by creating a physics research and learning community. The undergraduate community starts with the modeling approach-based, guided-inquiry introductory physics classes and high-energy physics experiences and extends the experiences to include a research and learning fellowship program, physics education research (PER), and the establishment of the Physics Learning Center. The undergraduate community impacts all physics majors and many other science and science/math education majors in addition to the fellows and modeling class students who are the direct recipients of the support.
The first studio classes at FIU were our introductory, modeling-based studio physics classes pioneered to support our undergraduate community members. We offer three, 30-student sections of modeling-based physics classes each semester. Cooperative learning is thought to better support under-represented minorities and women than traditional classrooms; hence, our studio classrooms support all students including minorities and women, in alignment with our goals and research focus. These courses have been extremely successful, in terms of student learning outcomes, faculty assessments, and recruiting. The average student performance on the Force Concept Inventory (FCI) [Hes92] in the modeling-based courses is roughly a factor of 2.5 better than in our traditional courses. Also, the DWF rate (drop, withdraw, fail) in modeling-based classes is 1/4th the DWF rate in traditional classes. Faculty evaluations and student feedback have been overwhelmingly positive, and the courses are drawing roughly four times the room capacity in requests to enter the class. We also find 10-20% of the students pursue physics minors and majors after taking the course, either adding a second major/minor or switching majors.
Components that extend the community are the CHEPREO fellowship program and the Physics Learning Center. CHEPREO fellowships give students a unique opportunity to experience both teaching and research. Fellows participate in our summer modeling workshops (working with the teachers) and then go on to assist in the modeling-based courses, lead study sessions, and/or work in the open labs during the first half of their program. As their physics knowledge builds, they concentrate on research. The dual nature of the fellowships allows students to experience both teaching and research so they can confidently make career decisions. The Physics Learning Center includes the modeling classroom, conference room, and lounge. The center is open to fellows and physics majors around the clock, and has become a crucial component of the students' lives.
The impact of combining the undergraduate and high school communities can be seen through many factors. High school teachers using modeling have high student achievement (the average student performance on the FCI is more than twice that of traditional courses). The modeling classes have high student achievement and low DFW rates, as noted above. Department enrollment is up: in our Modern Physics I course (a gateway to upper level courses) enrollment has increased from 9 students in Fall 1997 to over 30 students in Fall 2007, and graduation rates of physics majors increased from 2 or 3 a year in the decade prior to the implementation of the program to 8 in the 2005-2006 academic year and 12 in 2006-2007. It is especially exciting that these improvements are embedded in our diverse community with the DFW results improved strongly across all minority and gender categories.
Our preliminary research into the causes of this transformation is also showing fascinating results. Fellows are seeding the rest of the physics majors with their experiences, thus impacting the larger physics community. A case study of undergraduate teaching assistants hired by the department, comparing ones with modeling experiences to those without modeling experiences, showed that not only the modeling students brought very advanced teaching attitudes (student-centric, Socratic dialogue, group work) to their TA work, but so did several of the non-modeling students. Therefore, students interact about teaching methods throughout their time in the physics learning community. Pathways between high schools and FIU are well established, having broken down barriers through the community approach, resulting in teachers sending students directly to the department.
Our success has been leveraged in many ways, including extending the reform movement deeper into the physics and curriculum and instruction departments, serving as a model for reform in other units in the university, and as a model for many complementary funding proposals. The Department of Education Students' Equity and Achievement in Mathematics and Science project (SEAMS) and the FIU PhysTEC Project are all examples of projects leveraged off of the core CHEPREO project. FIU's PhysTEC Project illustrates that synergy as it builds a model for improving the quality and quantity of physics teachers.
The FIU PhysTEC Project
The FIU PhysTEC project utilizes a multilevel approach that incorporates several successful PhysTEC components into the FIU physics community foundation, yielding a model that supports pre-service teachers all the way from recruitment though successful induction. Top students in our introductory physics sequence will be recruited and offered the opportunity to "test drive" teaching immediately upon joining the program. These learning assistants (LAs) will develop their skills in inquiry-based classrooms where they will learn and lead with the best pedagogical methods. To ensure a smooth transition to the classroom after graduation, we will immerse the LA in our learning and research community and provide induction and mentoring into the initial phase of high school teaching. Our implementation includes a teacher in residence (TIR) who will lead much of the program, contribute to curricular development, provide sage advice and mentoring to both LAs and faculty, help document the site's assessment, and provide support for beginning teachers while experiencing professional development at FIU.
The heart of our PhysTEC program is the recruitment, preparation, support, and long-term commitment to our pre-service physics teachers. The top 20% of freshman and sophomores will be recruited and given an early field experience immediately upon joining the program. This experience gives LAs the opportunity to assist in an active learning classroom, learn about the teaching profession, and experience the intellectual challenges of teaching. They will also enroll in our new Seminar in Teaching course that will help prepare them for their field experience and begin learning about teaching methods. The LA experience mimics much of the CHEPREO fellow initial experience: both experience inquiry-based learning immediately upon joining the program, thus seeding both programs.
LAs that elect to continue in the program receive more training and assume greater teaching responsibility, participate in our mentoring support system, and recruit the next cadre of LAs while they prepare for full teacher credentialing. Upon graduation, an LA will have had multiple, inquiry-based teaching experiences and be fully ready to successfully enter the classroom. To further ensure their success, LAs will continue to receive support from teacher mentors and our South Florida learning community.
The teacher in residence (TIR) is a master teacher who spends one year on a rotating appointment at FIU. For the project, they provide much of the leadership and support for daily operations: mentoring LAs, helping document the site's assessment and evaluation, providing support for curricular reform, and aiding LAs when they enter the classroom. TIRs also provide crucial feedback and support for the department: building bridges with faculty, providing input on students and curricula, and sharing their professional experience. For the teacher, the TIR position offers the opportunity for professional development so they may take their skills to another level and experience the university community. They take their experiences back to the classroom, further impacting the community.
The PhysTEC project is also a vehicle for education reform within the physics department, leveraging off of the training opportunities for LAs and the experience of the TIR and the team. At FIU, this has translated into reforming the traditional introductory laboratory sequence for those students not in the modeling courses. Tutorial-style labs were introduced in six of fourteen Introductory Physics I Laboratory sections in Spring 2008, providing the opportunity for LAs and the TIR to experience first-hand both how to implement change and how to measure the effect of that change through the FCI and an attitudinal study. This also offers the opportunity for a feedback loop for further reform, providing the department with the notion of "If reforming the labs does this, what would happen if both lectures and labs were reformed?"
In this short article, we have provided an overview of our vibrant physics research and learning community, an emergent model specifically designed to engage all members of our diverse community, treating the whole community as scientists to achieve our goal of increasing the quantity and quality of scientists and science educators. In our five-year history, we have redefined the education and outreach model for our physics department, a model that has transformed the department. Our model is one of collaborative, coherent, synergistic project building, using grants to kick start our efforts from which we leverage and expand to suit the needs of our students: the future scientific community.
These efforts mark the beginning. FIU has designated a goal of becoming one of the top ten urban-serving public research institutions in the country within a decade. Our efforts will help serve that goal by producing models that support high quality students, expanding the research mission both in education research and through support of broader impact criteria, and creating teachers that will engage the next generation of students.
Work supported by the CHEPREO project (NSF #0312038) and the FIU PhysTEC Project (AIP, AAPT, APS).
[Hes92] Hestenes, D., Wells, M. & Swackhamer, G., "Force Concept Inventory," The Physics Teacher, 30, 141-158 (1992).
[Wel95] Wells, M., Hestenes, D., & Swackhamer, G. "A modeling method for high school physics instruction," Am. J. Phys., 63 (7), 606-619 (1995). Also see http://modeling.asu.edu.
Laird Kramer (Physics faculty, firstname.lastname@example.com), Eric Brewe, and George O'Brien (both College of Education faculty) form the nucleus of the Physics Education Research Group at Florida International University. They lead the FIU PhysTEC and CHEPREO projects.


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Metaxas is Founder and host of Socrates in the City, a Manhattan speakers series on "life, God, and other small topics" featuring such speakers as Dinesh D'Souza, Os Guinness, Sir John Polkinghorne, Baroness Caroline Cox, and Francis Collins.
Eric has worked for VeggieTales, where he co-wrote Lyle the Kindly Viking and was featured as the voice of the narrator on the Esther video. He has authored over 30 children's books, includingSquanto and the Miracle of Thankgiving. His work for Rabbit Ears radio has won three Grammy nominations for Best Children's Recording.
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Total TimePrep/Total Time: 30 min.
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- 2 cups all-purpose flour
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- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 cup cold butter
- 1 cup Sourdough Starter
- 1/2 cup buttermilk
- Additional butter, melted
- In a large bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, salt and baking soda; cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Combine Sourdough Starter and buttermilk; stir into crumb mixture with a fork until dough forms a ball.
- Turn onto a well-floured surface; knead 10-12 times. Roll to 1/2-in. thickness. Cut with a floured 2-1/2-in. biscuit cutter. Place 2 in. apart on a greased baking sheet.
- Bake at 425° for 12-15 minutes or until golden brown. Brush with melted butter. Remove from pan to a wire rack to cool.
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This was a great recipe and I used self rising in lue of all purpose, wonderful!! My sour dough starter is over 100 years old, from Alaska. If you want your starter to be more sour, add a tab of sugar!
Jan 5, 2014
The biscuits were quick and easy to make. Delicious. Took my starter right out of the fridge and used, then fed the remaining sour dough starter. Will continue to use this recipe to make my biscuits.
Dec 1, 2013
Does the starter have to be freshly fed or can it be straight out of the fridge?
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This recipe is in my sourdough cookbook by Rita Davenport that I have had for many many years. Matter of fact my starter is 44 years old. I have been making these biscuits that long also. My grandaughter is a newly wed and she also has a starter from mine and loves making all kinds of breads. This recipe has to be good to have lasted that many years. My husband has started cooking and he is making these biscuits tonight
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My favorite biscuit recipe!!
May 18, 2012
This is a wonderful and tasty biscuit recipe. A good way to use extra starter. Got rave reviews from the men! Will be my favorite from now on.
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Facebook Thursday showed off a major face-lift for its centerpiece News Feed, placing greater emphasis on the photos and other visual elements that members of the social network are increasingly posting.
The company's biggest redesign of the News Feed since it was introduced in 2006 will make Facebook more like a "personalized newspaper," with a less cluttered look and easier access to specific topics like news and sports, Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said during a news conference.
"We believe that the best personalized newspaper should be visual and rich and engaging because the stories around you are intricate and detailed and they deserve to be displayed with more than just text," Zuckerberg said.
The News Feed is the first page most members see when they log on, but the face-lift has wide-ranging effects throughout Facebook. And while the News Feed started as mostly text-based posts, the "evolving face" of Facebook is now more than half photos, videos or other visuals. Zuckerberg said that trend began to escalate in 2011.
Facebook has been publicly concerned that its younger users might migrate to other social networking services, such as Instagram - the photo-sharing service Facebook bought last year - or the photo-centric site Pinterest. Rival Google+, which also tweaked its design this week, highlights photos too.
"In our new design, we're giving these images and these rich visuals a lot more prominence so that what we see on Facebook better reflects the experience that you'll get on Pinterest," said Facebook design director Julie Zhuo. "We really are taking these photos and putting them front and center."
The changes are being rolled out slowly to Facebook's more than 1 billion members around the world so the Menlo Park company can gather feedback. That feedback could be considerable, since in the past, even minor tweaks have caused members to complain and even threaten to quit.
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In a press conference in the company's Menlo Park headquarters, Facebook demonstrated the new News Feed, which is supposed to give the social network a cleaner, more uniform look across desktop PCs, mobile phones and tablets.
The change keeps the basic three-column format, but gives more real estate to the main column in the center, with photos displayed about 50 percent larger. Member profile photos are also larger, and logos and stories shared by brands are more prominent.
The navigation column on the left side of the page starts out narrower, with text labels replaced by mobile phone-style app icons and profile photos, but it expands to reveal the text labels when the cursor rolls on top.
The links are basically the same as before, although Facebook's algorithms highlight a member's main activities, heavily used apps and closest friends. The left bar includes a calendar icon familiar to smartphone users.
The running news ticker, a live feed of posts and comments that friends are making, is supposed to be consolidated into the left navigation column.
The left column won't be customizable, at least not initially. But the top of the right-hand column will include customizable quick links, such as "all friends," "photos" and "music." Those pull up posts, recent pictures or songs into the center column.
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Facebook executives compared it to a newspaper having sections like sports or business that readers can pull out and read right away.
The right-hand column will continue to display advertising and other sponsored content, but will look more like a smaller, secondary news feed.
The design seems to leave room for more visual advertising content as well, which down the line could be vital for Facebook as it tries to placate investors and generate more revenue from ads without them being overly intrusive. Facebook executives skirted questions about what the redesign might mean for advertising.
Andreas Pouros, chief operating officer of London digital marketing agency Greenlight, said in an e-mail that the redesign will encourage Facebook members to stay on the site longer and that could be good for advertisers.
"Facebook has taken the success of advertising in peoples' news feeds on mobile and based its News Feed redesign on mirroring that format, or close to it, on all devices," Pouros said. "This should boost revenue."
But Sarah Carter, general manager of Actiance, a Belmont social media management company, said the new design makes it easier for people to skip content from businesses.
"While this is good for a consumer ... it doesn't help a business, or a business user," Carter said. "The flip side is that the new design is meant to get people browsing for longer and improve the overall Facebook experience. So if a business is able to effectively market to its audience on this channel, using content that is visual, relevant and spoken in an authentic voice, the return on investment should be greater."
David-Michel Davies, executive director of the Webby Awards, said in an interview that Facebook needed to modernize its look or eventually lose members to competitors.
Chris Cox, Facebook's vice president of product, said the face-lift is a "very mobile-inspired design." That's also key to the company's future, because more than half of its members now access the service on a mobile device.
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Why don't doomsday cults break up when their apocalyptic predictions fail to come true? After all of that suffering and inconvenience, people want to make the best of a situation. And this same phenomenon will allow you to treat people like crap, and pay them a pittance — and they'll thank you.
We've all heard the Aesop's Fable about the fox and the grapes. The fox is walking around, doing whatever foxes do, when it looks up and sees some grapes hanging on a vine. The fable, to its credit, is biologically accurate. Foxes will eat grapes if they can get them. In this particular fable, though, the fox couldn't get them. After trying for a while, it angrily said that they were probably sour anyway, and walked off. This is a version of negative cognitive dissonance. When we want something but can't have it, we have to justify not having it so we don't feel bad about our situation.
If the fox were totally subscribing to the theory of cognitive dissonance — as put forward by Leon Festinger in the 1950s — the fox would have followed its pronouncement that the grapes were sour by brightly saying, "But it was really good that I tried, because I got a lot of exercise!" Cognitive dissonance doesn't just cause us to denigrate the things we don't get, it also makes us justify the things we do get — and the ridiculous actions we take to get them.
Festinger started formulating this theory when he noticed the fact that doomsday cults stay together after the apocalypse failed to materialize. How did they justify all the inconveniences, and the evidence against their vision?
In 1959 he tested out his theory of cognitive dissonance, with a basic experiment. He recruited about seventy volunteers and had them do a simple task. In fact, he had them do a very simple task. They turned pegs in a pegboard. Over and over again. For an hour. This task brilliantly combined monotony and fiddling little details and no one enjoyed it.
After the experiment was over, Festinger asked the volunteers to come with him and convince the next volunteer that the task was going to be the equivalent of playing video games while having their feet massaged by their favorite celebrity. Oh boy, they were going to have a good time! Since this was over and above what the original volunteers had been asked to do, Festinger told them that they were going to be paid for it. Some he said he would pay twenty dollars. Some were paid one dollar.
After they'd sent the next volunteer — usually another scientist posing as a volunteer — off to endless tedium, the participants were interviewed about whether or not they enjoyed the activity. No one was paying them to lie at that point, but one would think that loyalty to the dollar would cause the ones who were paid more to think more kindly of the experiment. That was not the case. The ones who were paid twenty dollars cheerfully admitted that the task was actually bang-your-head-against-a-wall boring, while the ones who were only paid a dollar rated the task as, if not fun, then at least more fun than the well-paid ingrates considered it.
Why? It seems that one dollar isn't enough to let a lie sit well on one's conscience. In order to justify getting, essentially, a handful of change flung in their face as a reward for deceiving another human being, the volunteers who were paid less actually made themselves believe the task was more fun than it was, and so they weren't lying. The ones who sold their soul for a whole twenty were more clear-eyed in their assessment of the stupid boring thing that the egghead scientists had made them do.
There's all kinds of cognitive dissonance on display in everyday life, but the first experiment might have revealed the most potential for evil. Treat people well and pay them well, and they might grumble over the tedium. Let them know that they're getting ripped off, and they're having to be underhanded while doing it, and they'll hum a happy tune because — what else are they going to do, admit that everything sucks?
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|Announcement Date
|The date the project was publicly announced.
|Benefit Stream Affected
|The benefit stream(s) affected by this policy.
|Frequency Regulation
|Black Start
|A black start is the process of restoring a power station to operation without relying on the external electric power transmission network.
|An energy storage system is used to re-start turbines of a generation facility after a large blackout causes generators to go offline.
|Capital Expenditure (CAPEX)
|The total up-front capital expense of the system stated in dollars.
|Commisioning Date
|The date the project was electrically activated, or "turned on".
|Construction Date
|The date construction commenced on the project.
|A project that is Contracted is under signed contract to be built, however construction has not yet begun.
|Debt Provider
|The primary debt provider in the project.
|Decommisioning Date
|The date the project became inoperative or was "turned off".
|The person or organization responsible for organizing the development and implementation of the energy storage project.
|Duration at Rated Power
|The amount of time (in HH:MM) the storage system can output at its rated power capacity.
|Effective Date
|The date the policy becomes effective.
|Electric Bill Management
|Energy storage used by end-use customers in a variety of facets to reduce electric bills.
|Can be used to eliminate demand charges, charge during off-peak to reduce peak consumption, etc.
|Electric Bill Management w/ Renewables
|Energy storage used by end-use customers in a number of facets, and in conjunction with renewable generation resources, to reduce electric bills.
|Smooth the output of solar panels to eliminate the risk of high demand charges during peak hours when the solar drops off.
|Electric Energy Time Shift
|Energy time shift involves storing energy during low price times, and discharging during high price times.
|Electric Supply Capacity
|Depending on the circumstances in a given electric supply system, energy storage could be used to defer and/or to reduce the need to buy new central station generation capacity and/or to 'rent' generation capacity in the wholesale electricity marketplace.
|Electric Supply Reserve Capacity - Non-Spinning
|Generation capacity that may be offline, or that comprises a block of curtailable and/or interruptible loads, and that can be available within 10 minutes. Unlike spinning reserve capacity, non-spinning reserve capacity is not synchronized with the grid (frequency). Non-spinning reserves are used after all spinning reserves are online.
|Electric Supply Reserve Capacity - Spinning
|Generation capacity that is online but unloaded and that can respond within 10 minutes to compensate for generation or transmission outages. 'Frequency-responsive' spinning reserve responds within 10 seconds to maintain system frequency. Spinning reserves are the first type used when a shortfall occurs.
|Enacted Date
|The day the policy was officially accepted.
|Energy Storage Project Name
|The official or unofficial title of the project.
|Bath County Pumped Storage Station
|Energy Storage Technology Provider
|The company that provides the energy storage technology itself.
|A123 Systems
|Stands for "Engineering, Procurement, Construction" - Identifies the entity or entities that performed any or all of these services for the project.
|DBR Construction
|Equity Owner
|The (or one of the) owner(s) of the system, or the entity that holds "title" to the equipment.
|Southern California Edison; First Wind
|Equity Owner Percentage
|The percent equity held by each owner of the project.
|Expiration Date
|The day on which the policy is no longer effective.
|Frequency Regulation
|Frequency regulation involves moment-to-moment reconciliation of the supply of electricity and the demand for electricity. The reconciliation is done every few seconds. So at any given moment, if electricity demand exceeds supply then the supply is increased to meet demand. And, if demand is less than supply then the supply is decreased.
|Grid Connected Commercial (Reliability & Quality)
|The electric reliability application entails use of energy storage to provide highly reliable electric service. In the event of a complete power outage lasting more than a few seconds the storage system provides enough energy to a) ride through outages of extended duration or b) to complete an orderly shutdown of processes, c) transfer to on-site generation resources. The electric power quality application involves use of energy storage to protect loads downstream against short duration events which affect the quality of power delivered to the load. Some manifestations of poor power quality include: • variations in voltage magnitude, (e.g., short-term spikes or dips, longer-term surges, or sags) • variations in the primary 60 cycles/sec frequency at which power is delivered • low power factor (voltage and current excessively out of phase with each other) • harmonics, (i.e., the presence of currents or voltages at frequencies other than the primary frequency) • interruptions in service, of any duration, from a fraction of a second to minutes
|Grid-Connected Residential (Reliability)
|The electric reliability application entails use of energy storage to provide highly reliable electric service. In the event of a complete power outage lasting more than a few seconds the storage system provides enough energy to a) ride through outages of extended duration or b) to complete an orderly shutdown of processes, c) transfer to on-site generation resources.
|Grid Interconnection
|The level at which an energy resource (such as generation or storage) connects to the grid. An energy resource could be connected at Transmission, Primary Distribution, or Secondary Distribution levels.
|Transmission; Secondary Distribution
|Grid Interconnection Affected
|The grid interconnection type affected by this policy.
|Transmission; Primary Distribution
|Incentive Affected
|The name of the incentive(s) affected by the policy.
|Treasury Grant 1603
|Incentive Amount
|The amount of incentive given to the project.
|Incentive Source
|The entity that provides the incentive to the project.
|California Self Generation Incentive Program Administrators
|Incentive Title
|The official or unofficial title of the incentive program received by the project.
|Self-Generation Incentive Program
|Integrator Company
|The organization that brings together component subsystems into a whole and ensures that those subsystems function together as specified.
|ISO/RTO (Independent System Operator/Regional Transmission Organization)
|The ISO or RTO that manages the grid where the energy storage system is installed, if applicable. In the areas where an ISO is established, it coordinates, controls, and monitors the operation of the electrical power system, usually within a single US State, but sometimes encompassing multiple states. RTOs typically perform the same functions as ISOs, but cover a larger geographic area.
|Load Following
|Load following resources' output changes in response to the changing balance between electric supply (primarily generation) and end user demand (load) within a specific region or area, over timeframes ranging from minutes to a few hours.
|The physical location of the energy storage project. (Address, City, State, Zip, Country)
|Onsite Renewable Generation Shifting
|Energy storage to perform renewables energy time-shifting for end-use customers that generate renewable power onsite.
|A production plant has a microturbine that generates excess power at night. They use the battery to store that excess energy and use it during peak price daytime hours.
|Operating Expenditure (OPEX)
|Operating expenses in dollars per kWh of capacity per year. It is assumed that such operating expenses would be recurring throughout the life of the project.
|Operations and Management (O&M) Contractor
|The company or group that operates and manages the energy storage system.
|Ownership Model
|A description identifying the relationship of the project owner to the project itself.
|Third-Party-Owned, Customer-Owned
|Ownership Model Affected
|The ownership model(s) affected by this policy.
|Paired Grid Resource
|The source of energy that charges the ESS.
|Wind; Grid
|Any performance statistics or results available on the project.
|The system performed at a capacity factor of 90% during the year of 2010. Other examples of performance statistics include: - Round Trip Efficiency (RTE) - Ramping Rate - Greenhouse Gas Emissions - Noise (decibels) - Availability - Number of maintenance visits
|A high-resolution JPEG if available.
|Policy Description
|A brief summary of the policy in general and how it relates to storage.
|AB 2514 requires the CPUC to open a proceeding to determine apporpriate utility procurement targets, if any, for energy storage systems that are commercially available and cost-effective
|Policy Name
|The official or unofficial name of the policy.
|The Self Generation Incentive Program
|Policy Number
|The assigned tracking number for a given policy.
|Policy Source
|The agency or body that created or approved the policy.
|California Public Utilities Commission
|Power Electronics Provider
|The company that provides the power electronics (such as inverters) for the storage project.
|Satcon Power Systems
|Primary Project Contact
|A person to contact for information about the project. (Name, Phone, Email, Address)
|Project Description
|A short description of the project that includes size, technology, city/state, and application.
|A 270 MW Underground Compressed Air Energy Storage Plant in Des Moines, Iowa that performs the tasks of energy time shifting and renewable resource firming for a nearby wind plant.
|Projected Project Lifetime
|The number of years a project is expected to remain in operational condition, from date of commisioning.
|15 years
|Changing the loading level of a Generating Unit in a constant manner over a fixed time (e.g., Ramping up or Ramping down). Such changes may be directed by a computer or manual control.
|Rated Power
|The total possible output from the energy storage system, expressed in kW.
|Renewable Energy Time-shift
|Centralized or distributed Electric Energy Time Shifting specifically related to the uncontrollable nature of renewable generation.
|Using an energy storage system to capture excess energy generated by grid-connected wind and solar farms during low demand times in order to dispatch it during high demand times.
|Renewables Capacity Firming
|Use of storage to mitigate rapid output changes from renewable generation due to: a) wind speed variability affecting wind generation and b) shading of solar generation due to clouds. It is important because these rapid output changes must be offset by other "dispatchable" generation.
|Research Description
|A brief synopsis of the research being conducted, if applicable.
|Testing applications for the integration of solar PV with ESS for utility-scale systems.
|Research Institution
|The name of the research institution affiliated with the project, if applicable.
|Solar Technology Acceleration Center; US Department of Energy
|Research Institution Link
|A link to the relevant research institution affiliated with the project, if applicable.
|Service/Use Case
|The benefits provided by the energy storage system. Services reference individual benefits and may come from direct market participation or reduced/deferred cost relative to the status quo. Use Cases are groups of (or sometimes individual) services that are provided by a single energy storage system. If possible, select from our pre-determined set values.
|Electric Energy Time-Shift; Renewables Capacity Firming; Frequency Regulation
|Stationary Transmission and Distribution (T&D) Upgrade Deferral
|The T&D Upgrade Deferral benefit is related to the use of a relatively small amount of modular storage to: a) defer the need to replace or to upgrade existing T&D equipment or b) to increase the equipment's existing service life (life extension). Storage for T&D equipment life extension is especially compelling for the aging fleet of underground circuits which are quite expensive to replace or to upgrade. Those circuits' life can be extended by: a) reducing the number of ground faults and/or b) reducing loading such that operating temperature is reduced, which reduces degradation of the insulation.
|The current status of the energy storage project.
|Substation On-site Power
|Energy storage provides power at electric utility substations for switching components and for substation communications and control equipment when the grid is not energized.
|Technology Type
|The type of energy storage technology used in the project. If possible, select from our pre-determined set values.
|Advanced Lead Acid Battery; In-Ground Natural Gas Combustion Compressed Air Energy Storage
|Transmission Congestion Relief
|In many areas, transmission systems are becoming congested during periods of peak demand, driving the need and cost for more transmission capacity and increased transmission access charges. Additionally, transmission congestion may lead to increased use of congestion charges or locational marginal pricing (LMP) for electric energy. Storage can be used to avoid congestion-related costs and charges. In this application, storage systems are installed at locations that are electrically downstream from the congested portion of the transmission system. Energy is stored when there is no transmission congestion, and discharged (during peak demand periods) to reduce transmission capacity requirements.
|Transmission Support
|Energy storage used for transmission support improves T&D system performance by compensating for electrical anomalies and disturbances such as voltage sag, unstable voltage, and sub-synchronous resonance. The result is a more stable system with improved performance (throughput). Benefits from transmission support are highly situation-specific and site-specific.
|Transportable Transmission and Distribution (T&D) Upgrade Deferral
|The T&D Upgrade Deferral benefit is related to the use of a relatively small amount of modular storage to: a) defer the need to replace or to upgrade existing T&D equipment or b) to increase the equipment's existing service life (life extension). Storage for T&D equipment life extension is especially compelling for the aging fleet of underground circuits which are quite expensive to replace or to upgrade. Those circuits' life can be extended by: a) reducing the number of ground faults and/or b) reducing loading such that operating temperature is reduced, which reduces degradation of the insulation. Transportable systems can be moved to where they are needed most on the grid.
|The utility that administers the grid where the energy storage system is installed.
|Southern California Edison
|Utility Type
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Timaru, I thought it was time to tell someone in the community, that my wife passed. 2 year struggle with Lung Cancer, rough to watch, especially the last breath and heartbeat. It'll be a month tomorrow since she left. I needed to tell someone, you're that person. mark
Thanks so much for that comment. I really appreciate the positive feedback
Hello, I am still alive...just been hibernating for a bit. I hope you had a very happy holiday and the new year is treating you well. My return trip to Europe is slowing taking shape. I am hoping to have more time in England this go round--and to venture out of London. I will let you know as we get the details more firmed up.
Hi Jonathan,
Thanks for the kind words. I usually come here everyday and read but at times just don't have much to write. Or just don't feel like writing. I think at times I get depressed and don't feel like doing anything. What kind of wine are you drinking there?
How many trout didja catch this year?
Take care of yourself Jonathan,
I learned yesterday that Timaru is a place in New Zealand. It was mentioned in the news about some sailing type who's just completed a trip.
I know! I've had the heating on today for quite a while. Please come back, sunshine!
Another glorious day! I think it's meant to be cooler by Monday though. Gah.
Howdy, I know, but if you were bothered by it, I would never use the word in your presence. :-)
It has been sunny lately, I think most of the UK has had decent weather lately. What's it been like where you are?
I love the sun and heat, I can feel my low winter mood lifting.
Sorry dropped off the radar for a bit. Will be back on facebook sometime. How are you doing? I bought some British pounds yesterday. I am not pleased. They are too wide too fit in my puny canadian wallet ( which was probably made in china)
I had to nod at your suggestion of eccentric humor. I don't think we would survive without it!
Thanks, Timaru - but I'm in much too good a mood to view anything starring Tony Hayward. I'm glad he got his life back and got the hell out of MY gulf. Me, I'm gonna go out on the back porch and smoke one of the lovely cigars that just arrived via FedEX. Today's weather is an 11 on a scale of 1 to 10.
I forgot to tell you he chose the model where you use your chin for the buttons, not the sip n puff. After looking closer and talking to Ken it seemed the better option.
Thanks for your help!
I was looking in PMs for the pole info and remembered it was here. Thanks again!
Thanks Timaru! We are taking a look at it.
No, sadly.
Just seen your recent comment on the "beard" thread. You do make me laugh.
I'd just like to say I've got nothing against beards per se. Just I think RR looks better without.
Lol thanks fella.
How are you doing lately anyway?
we live in the us.
the reason I contacted you was several weeks ago my brother and I were searching for chat rooms to find info. I stumbled upon this website and found the conversation about condom caths. My brother had his first contact in years with a support group last month at the local hospital. We plan to attend when we can but there was only one man in the group and he is still able to walk some.
hi, my brother is 48 and left his wife last nov. he stayed with me for a few months and now lives next door with his adult daughter and fam. we share in his care. She works full time. We are still learning to care for my brother. He has had ms for over 20 years. in a motorized wheelchair, has some movement in his arms, very little in legs. He wears a condom cath (has accidents about one per week) He just came out of an abusive 11 year marriage, he has pretty much been in bed for 2 years, now he is in his chair daily. My question is about bms. are most planned and how often. My brothers memory is getting better but he was on alot of medication. He is doing so much better now that he is with his family that love him.
Ice dancing and curling...that is not a very impressive list of things to win gold medals in, I am sad to say Timaru. However, I believe the skeleton gold redeems the curling.
The ice wine was Canadian. I had never heard of ice wine before. I would venture a guess maybe the German stuff is better than Canadian but I don't know. Who knew a bunch of frozen grapes could taste so good, or be so stupidly expensive!
We may be onto something here. Do you share your brother's resonant Richard Burton baritone?
And glad to hear that you're at least a fractional member of the tribe. Let me be the first to wish you an early happy pesach!
Has anyone told you that you bear a sibling resemblance to Christopher Hitchens? You being the better looking brother, of course.
Oh...Interesting reading. I think I might still go for it, for peace of mind. I'm so worried of getting any flu, as the one time I did have seasonal flu about 17 years ago - pre-sci - it was quite bad on my chest. Hmmm.
I had to cancel my second appointment on the 6th, due to the bloody snow. I'm not going to make another appointment now until the weather improves - whenever the heck that is.
I got your card - thank you so much! Unfortunately, I lost your address and now I can't send you a card in time for Xmas. I'm sorry.
In other news, I'm having the swine flu jab next Wednesday. I'll let you know how it goes!
Do you have much snow where you are? There's not a lot here, but the cold is unreal. It said on the weather forecast it coukd be the coldest night of the year so far, and it seems to be true.
I will have to send you the link to where I found the picture. There are more. And you can buy them and put them on your tree. I love that they are black! I shall google Churchill
Still bloody cold a lot. And snow is forecast for everywhere. Ack!
Despite your assurances, I am still worried I might have be party of bird murder by removing the nest from the engine. However I do need to go places lol. So there really was no viable option. Hope you are doing well. We are currently buried under 3 feet of snow. Thoughts of moving far away are stiring again..
Well , what are you waiting for?
We can arrange for you to be mahout for 1 day!
I haven't got the flu jab yet. I can't face going out in this cold. I feel bad enough indoors with my heating on. Brrr.
When are you going to come & see us? You could go & ride the elephants with Kev.Wishing you well & hope to see you here.
the blog will resume later today! I promise to have a tale of the robot! I have gotten over my writer's block lol. It's nice to hear from you. I hope you are doing well.
Yeah, but that's all gonna change with my new diet.
sorry I sort of crashed for a bit and hid out from the world. Thanks for the welcome back I hope you are doing good.
Lol @ "pig fever".
How long will you have to wait to demo the Storm 4? I hope it's not ages, but it seems most things to do with wheelchairs take their time.
Things are very slowly getting back to normal here. But there's still a way to go yet.
I don't know what it's like where you live, but here it's very obviously moving into cold weather time. Brrr.
Wish I was smart enough to know what that means.
Hello Timaru, sorry I've taken blimming ages to reply. So...did you settle on a powerchair in the end? I'm ok, been dealing with loads of life hassles.
Hey you Blog post tonight and an update on the robot. I promise!
Hi can you send me your address? I have a postcard I want to send
Hi. In Tofino now. Had a longer than planned for delay in Vancouver getting my collar bone re-set. Long story but its doing better now. My dad is out deep sea fishing today. We will see what he brings back from the slaugher (just kidding...he was very happy to go, I guess I sort of understand the allure of fishing, the solitide and all that). Hope you are having a nice summer.
Just wanted to say hi I will have the blog up again soon. Life was hectic for the past month but is now finally settling down. I hope you are doing well.
2 years to replace a cushion?! Revolting, but not massively amazing, I suppose. I don't blame you for bypassing wheelchair services if you can. I know I waited ages to get to see them, but I was happy I was awarded about £900 (maybe a bit more, I can't remember) to put towards buying my own manual chair (I gather this kind of award is fairly generous for w/chair services).
Ah, I remember seeing that picture before. Lol "tank".
Any idea when you might have your new powerchair?
Excellent new pic
Glad you are ok, Timaru. Oh my, I can't imagine having the same chair for 20 years! I bet it's totally knackered, isn't it? I had a look at the chair you are thinking of - looks good. Do you deal with Wheelchair Services?
I got a Pride Quantum 600 chair. I'm really happy with it, but it is still early days. Being able to go to places I couldn't in my manual is wonderful. Like, even just going up a few roads to post a letter today felt great (I just couldn't do it in my manual).
thanx, I had the streinth for the two fires the flood and the crazy man, but now im just kinda in a stupor. my head is spinning.
thank you timaru. your compliment means a lot to me. I have always enjoyed your posts, and tought you to have a great mind.
Hey Timaru, I have a powechair now. I got it through the Motability Scheme. I'm really happy with it.
And how are you doing lately?
yes I have been a busy bee lately lol. But you know I am naturally lazy at heart, so I suspect the whirlwind of activity will die down soon. Glad your trip went well I think somebody you will need to come try the rivers around here.
Hope your fishing trip went well and that you had a nice time! And I am going to pretend that you just fished for sport and put them all back in the water once you caught them
Actually, the old saw, "no fool like an old fool" is the origin.
You are nice
I am not so sure I am so happy today, it is a holiday and it has been hail showers all day so I am just looking out and feel bored
Thank you I am so proud of her, not only for the looks but because she is so kind and made her goal to be a nurse even if she has dyslexia. Did you see the pics on facebook too
Hi Timaru. I wouldn't say things were better, but I felt more like posting today. (If my posting on the main board was the reason for your enquiry).
And...you have a nice new profile picture!
lol I somehow missed your last comment on my profile page. Yes I well remember watching video of the East German shot putters. Yikes!
I will have to get some tips from you on google earth. I tried using it for the first time on the trip, in conjunction with my fancy new GPS unit (which I could barely even figure out how to turn on--sometimes fancy is not the best thing for something like this). Anyways I didn't get very far with google earth.
I am glad you liked the pictures so far. I will be posting more once I get more energy. As for Canada being more accessible than there...well here is a caveat: I was able to go to the top of that canyon and look down on the waterfall no problem. Later that night we went into the Jasper townsite and I couldn't get into the Starbucks because it had 2 steps up to the door. So still a ways to go in many ways...
I should mention that I am so enamoured with that site that I might start overusing phrases I have learned there. If you start seeing me writing on my blog about drinking plonk and wearing trackie dacks, you will know...
Excellent link on the Aussie speak! Thank you
Timaru I owe you some replies to a few things...working on them. I am just slow Hope you are doing well.
lol It snowed here the day they were coming. So I was bumped until this coming Monday.
There, sent suggestion to Steven. Volunteered your services, too. More cooks improve the stew on projects like this, we do it at u2fp constantly. I just wrote an advocate's toolkit for u2fp, added tons of templates and scripts for calling/writing/visiting legislators, writing letters to the editor. We've found that people, given a template, will participate. Some just lack security in ther writing skills, or get intimidated by a blank screen. (Clearly not a problem of mine LOL.)
I think I'll ask Steven if I can write one and they'd make it a Sticky. Need to do it before summer travel season gets here. And I need cspanos to write up that awesome island he stayed on, where he was sitting on a deck and looking at the Great Barrier Reef.
Flying to Australia...There's a Great Barrier, if you ask me. I keep telling myself "If Dogger could do it, you can too." And Dogger made that flight solo. But he was a great deal tougher than me. That Barrier Reef is taunting me. "Here I am, but you've never seen me, nah nah nah nah nah. And you call yourself a scuba diver..."
I wish Dogger was here to egg me on. Damn I miss him!
I'm posting this here and on my page too. This feature confuses me.
A very special person gave me those
I got my trip photos up! Under Travel etc forum, Trip Report, Isla Mujeres. Since it freakin' snowed in OK this a.m., I keep looking at them!
I think CC should have a rule. No posting of travel photos w/out a trip report. I could write a template, so the writing-averse could just fill in the blanks. What do you think? When ppl don't report, we don't learn from their experiences...
I have been in hibernation mode for some time but just wanted to say hi. I hope all is going well...and you are not still getting snow!
Merry Christmas
Paging Mr. Scrooge. Mr. Ebenezer Scrooge ...
It's more that you keep me in stitches with your quick wit.
Thanks to your Narcissus comment, I just spit h2o all over my keyboard. LOL
Ah, you're too kind.
Only $58 in fish medicine this time as opposed to $90 last time
Mx/Maxine is still swimming around. And seems normal except for some yucky stuff on his/her tail. What a saga, huh? lol
Hope you are doing well
Aww, gee...thanks
I vote you funniest CC member.
Ya, I know, it's a big honour.
Hey ol' chap, good to be your friend.
Sorry I meant to reply sooner. And to post on the blog. Max/Maxine is still swimming around and since I already did 2 courses of antibiotics and there has been no change for the worse, I am guessing that is about all I can do. It is very possible all the damage that happened was due to being pregnant, I think because except for the missing eye and a few white spots/sore on the body, he/she seems fine. Not sure if I should put it back into a tank with other fish. But it went from like a 100 gallon tank to 10 and hates it. I am humanizing the fish again, aren't I? lol. Hope you have a good weekend
Nice to be your friend, Timaru
Timaru, I love your posts. You're a witty guy.
I sure will buddy.Some tootsie rolls too.lol
I basically shaved to look younger. Did it a couple of months ago actually. There's too many cute women in Sydney and with summer coming I've got to look my best.
As for the avatar, I love it too much to change it!
hello there. It gives me more stuff to do when I need to be doing what I am supposed to be doing.
That keps...she's trouble
Hey! Enough of your filth, thank you!
...thanks for accepting my request, though.
The first to deface...erm, write on your page.
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This is my first post for the Fearless Females blogging prompts during the month of March. Thanks to Lisa Alzo for putting together this list!
Today's prompt asks: "How did they meet? You've documented marriages, now, go back a bit. Do you know the story of how your parents met? Your grandparents?"
Well, I didn't get a chance to document their marriage, but the story I've heard about how my maternal grandparents goes like this:
My grandmother was working as an office manager at the Pentagon when she and the other office girls received a file about the new set of officers who were going to be transferred to their office. They were browsing through the photos that accompanied each officer's file when my grandma stopped flipping through the photos and pointed at one in particular.
"That one," she said. And the rest is history. She married that officer, who also was an accountant.
I forget who told me this story — it must have been one of my aunts. I love this story though. My grandma could come across as mild-mannered, but she was a firecracker too. I think this story demonstrates that well.


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Accommodations in ParisParis, 'the outdoor museum' that is never disappointing, a city of undisputed beauty. Paris is full of life and is called the city of light because it was the first city to light up its emblematic buildings and the streets, causing world-wide admiration. Although important monuments from the Middle Ages still stand, it was from the Renaissance period that the grandness of Paris truly awoke and continued until the 19th century, when it became a city filled with wide boulevards, avenues and beautiful buildings. The city of Paris is a majestic combination of history and elegance.
Visitors are advised to explore the most emblematic places in Paris, and there is no better place to start than Charles de Gaulle square and the monumental Arch of Triumph, a tribute to Napoleon and his all-conquering army, which is 45 m wide, 50 m high and neatly decorated with allegorical reliefs. Paris's most celebrated avenue, the Champs Élysées, starts out from this point and takes you all the way down to the Luxor obelisk located in Place de la Concorde. From here, visitors can go to the Louvre Museum, one of world's oldest and most majestic buildings, which houses many masterpieces such as the Mona Lisa. After crossing Pont Neuf, the city's oldest and largest bridge, you come to Ile de la Cité with the impressive Conciergerie or Royal Palace, which has a long history of serving as a prison and houses the Holy Chapel, a gem of Gothic architecture; as Gothic gems go, dont miss out on the Cathedral (Notre Dame), built in 1163 and an unmistakable symbol of the city. After crossing the bridge, you come to the Latin Quarter, which houses the Sorbonne and the Cemetery. In the other direction, basically in front of the Louvre, is the marvellous Museum d'Orsay, formerly a railway station and hotel. Near it is the National Hotel of Invalides, a true work of art depicting all the best of classic Parisian architecture. It was originaly built as a home for war veterans but now houses the Dome of the Invalids, where Napoleon's remains have been laid to rest. Last, but not least, we come to the colossal Eiffel Tower, where visitors can enjoy some majestic views of Paris and admire this 320m-high monument which was built as a temporary element for the universal exhibition of 1889.
There are many astonishing and breathtaking monuments in Paris and it is impossible to leave without visiting the Montmartre, to the north of the city, and taking a stroll in its enchanting avenues, with the final visit being to the Church of the Sacre-Coeur, a temple built in 1871 in the Roman-Byzantine style.
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