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Since the concept of a covered highway provides a more multi-dimensional use of land for benefiting more people, I attached this example to my statement above to the United States National Capital Planning Commission:Visions for putting a roof over the freeway and reclaiming 26
Monday, October 5 1998
By Janet Christ of The Oregonian staff
In this city of visioning, dreaming and imagination, we are being asked to imagine yet again.
To project ourselves 25 years ahead in
and live in what is now freeway airspace. Portland
By then, a swath of air through the west side may be transformed into 26 reclaimed city blocks.
Think of a brilliant West Burnside "bright lights" district, a pedestrian and cycling crossing that defies weaving freeway pasta below and a southern traffic connection that brings sense to six roads at the top of Southwest Broadway.These are among a group of detailed visions for putting a roof over much of the Interstate 405 freeway and creating new land for city life.
Mayor Vera Katz will present the concepts today at the
Convention Center where the American Society of Landscape Architects is having its annual meeting. Oregon
Sparked by Katz's February address to the city that promoted reconnecting neighborhoods split by the freeway, the architects'
chapter took on designing the air above the 38-block-long ditch as a gift to Oregon , the society's 1998 conference host. Portland
With information from public workshops and sessions this summer, designers added their ideas and created a 20-foot model and sketches.
Paul Morris of McKeever/Morris Inc., a
planning and design firm, said the free six-month study is worth about $200,000 in work from the team of 30 design, planning and engineering professionals. It is one of three community-assistance team projects donated. Portland
Katz said the City Council will be asked to approve a final concept plan in late November. And that she really does expect to see it happen.
Knowing what the development, engineering and even air rights costs are for such a mammoth project is still a ways off. At this point, when capping the freeway has not even been approved, no specific means of financing has surfaced.
"We must conduct a thorough economic analysis related to cost and market conditions and determine the level of interest of private sector investment, the mayor said, claiming that the value of freeway air space will increase greatly during the next 25 years with a rising population.
As one example, the architects study estimates a tax income of $625,429 based on a proposed section of 195,000 square feet of commercial space in the west end.
Katz also sees the project fitting well with regional plans for the next 25 years of life in the central city. The freeway lid concept came up in the 1988 Central City Plan. It is a way, the mayor said, to allow density within the urban growth boundary while taking the pressure off neighborhoods that prefer the current quality of life.
Morris said projections are that the 26 reclaimed city blocks will include six acres for parks and recreation,1,000 housing units, 50,000 square feet for civic and exhibition space, 650,000 square feet of commercial space, 1,800 permanent jobs and 2,200 parking spaces for existing needs and future demand. "It's a series of sutures. It's like we're healing," Morris said. The freeway divided the west side for 3.6 miles from
Northwest Glisan Streetto Southwest Fourth Avenue at , clearing homesand stores that sustained largely Italian and Jewish communities. Portland State University
Katz, who came to
the year before propertieswere condemned and the ditch dug in 1965, said reconnecting the streets is overdue and that pedestrians no longer should suffer inhumane walks on freeway overpasses. Portland
Starting in the Northwest Pearl District, the concept map offers a three-block sports and recreation center with grocery store and commercial space on the ground floor and a covered soccer field on the top story.
Going south, people come into the bright lights entertainment district, which Morris describes as a
Times Square. It includes a plaza surrounded by cafes, restaurants, night clubs, shops, offices, housing and parking. The site also is the doorway into the downtown business district
Much of the pedestrian routes are covered, so rain won't alter walking plans
Continuing, the concept shows office and retail blocks -- a mixed-use area to complement the light-rail system on
Southwest Yamhilland Morrison streets. Main comes up next, three blocks connecting the Cultural District and PSU with Goose Hollow and Street Plaza . Next to the Great Lawn -- more than a block of green open space -- looms high-rise housing. Lincoln High School
More retail space, a civic and office center and high-end condominiums with scenic views are next in line.
And then comes the interchange of Interstates 5 and 405 -- the city's western portal -- dwarfed by an arched crossing for walking or biking. Along this section, freeway slopes are landscaped and terraced to capture stormwater.
Near the university, a new market square is created with four blocks of housing and plaza. It's a new neighborhood center, Morris said. And where the South Park Blocks just end beyond the university campus, a new events space is created, and more student housing rises.
At the south end -- or entrance -- of the project, a round-about connects six roads in a traffic circle whose center is open over the freeway. The nearby developments follow the design, arching toward the circle.
The capped blocks will stimulate other development and activity, radiating toward either side, Morris said. A13-block capping project in
, finished five years ago, stimulated nearly $1 billion in private development for that city, he said. Building it cost about $220 million. Duluth, Minn.
"Developers have personally told me that capping the freeway will lead to the redevelopment of many underutilized parcels bordering the freeway," Katz said.
But where to begin? Morris said that when public groups looked at specific sections along the freeways path, and when separate groups of architects and developers also were asked to pinpoint crucial sites, all three groups fingered the same top two ideas in the west end: the Civic Stadium areas mixed-use blocks by light rail, and the bright lights entertainment center.


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Stars: 5 out of 5
Pros: Revelations in page turning fun
Cons: That cliffhanger!
The Bottom Line:
Tracking a father
Into a comic book world
Delightful again
I'm Letting the Secret Out – This is More Book Hopping Fun
As a kid, I used to dream I could hop into my favorite book. You can imagine how much I've been enjoying the Story Thieves series since it features kids who can do just that. Of course, my dream was always to just meet my favorite characters and experience the story, but as Bethany and Owen have learned, that's not always a good idea. Secret Origins is their third adventure, and things get even more complicated.
It's been two months since Bethany last jumped into a book – any book. It was a hard decision she and Owen had made to avoid causing any more issues in the lives of fictional characters. She's found it frustrating since it means she can no longer look for her father, a fictional character trapped in some book. And it's also made her notice a man parked across the street from her house.
Owen is sure that this mystery man isn't watching her, but Bethany knows better. She talks Owen into tracking the man to his home, where they make a startling discovery. Have they stumbled on Bethany's father? Where will they find themselves next?
The first book in the series played around with fantasy stories, and the second took on mysteries. This time, we spend most of our time in the world of comic books. While I have never read comic books, I am familiar with the characters and the world they inhabit thanks to movies and TV, and so I enjoyed some of the discussion about how this new world should behave. In fact, some of the spoofs of comic books were pretty fun.
Those who have been reading the series from the start will be delighted with the revelations we get here. In fact, we get answers to many of the questions left over from the first couple of books here. As a result, I really don't recommend you jump in here. Trust me, you'll have such fun along the way, it's not an issue at all.
These books are always fast moving, and this one is no exception. I purposely kept my plot teaser very vague since this book unfolds in a delightful and fun way, and I don't want to risk spoiling any of it. I found myself reading longer than I should a couple of different times because I had to read just one more chapter. There are some wicked cliffhangers along the way guaranteed to keep you reading, too. And let's not even talk about the cliffhanger at the end of the book. Is the next one out yet? Please?
Series fans will notice I've mostly talked about Owen and Bethany. Yes, other characters from the series pop up, although that's all I'm going to say. We get some fun new characters as well, filling this book with people you want to spend time reading about.
The answer we get here will please those who have been reading the series all along. And if you are new to the Story Thieves books, start reading them today. You'll be done with Secret Origins before you know it.
You'll want to jump into the rest of the Story Thieves series in order.
You'll want to jump into the rest of the Story Thieves series in order.
This review is part of this week's Marvelous Middle Grade Monday.

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Did Wallflowers Grow at Horticultural Hall?
Wallflowers are generally spotted along the sidelines at dances, but were wallflowers ever spotted at staid Horticultural Hall? The answer is, rarely.
In the peak years of the big band/dance scene, Horticultural Hall had a prime location across the street from Symphony Hall, and a 5,000-square-foot ballroom. It seems inevitable that big bands would find their way into that space, but I can find only one instance when one actually did so.
For whatever reason, the Massachusetts Horticultural Society wasn't interested in renting its ballroom, but somehow Charlie Shribman convinced the Society to rent it to him for this night. And so the Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra played, and presumably the Society collected its rent, and there were no stories of disturbances in the papers to indicate the night ended badly. But there were no more shows. Perhaps the horticulturists thought that the African rhythms might harm the New England flora.
I dubbed the area around Mass Ave and Huntington the Ballroom District, because anyone wanting to dance in the thirties and forties exited the subway at the Symphony stop to do it. On April 23, 1943, there were bands at the Roseland-State Ballroom on Mass Ave and Burbank, the Raymor/Play-Mor twin ballrooms at 263 Huntington Ave, the Arcadia Ballroom upstairs at 254 Huntington, the Ritz Plaza's Crystal Ballroom at 218 Huntington, and the Uptown Ballroom at 239 Huntington. There might have been dance bands nearby at Convention Hall at 56 St. Botolph Street or in the smaller rental halls in the Mechanics Hall at 111 Huntington Ave. The Ballroom District was thriving even without the Horticultural Hall's room.
Here we are 70 years later, and Horticulture Hall is owned by the Christian Science Church. The Horticultural Society itself decamped to the suburbs years ago. Convention Hall is now condos, the Raymor/Play-Mor building is office space, and the Arcadia is a storage area for the Huntington Theatre. The rest have been torn down, replaced by newer buildings.
I don't think we'll see wallflowers at Horticultural Hall ever again, but they were out on this night 70 years ago, shyly enjoying Jimmie Lunceford's music. This short video shows that great band explaining that "Rhythm Is Our Business."


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If there's one thing that unites us as human beings, it might just be a love of story. From the toddler begging for a bedtime story to the elder watching the nightly news or the film buff seeking out a rare movie, narrative plays a pivotal role in not only our entertainment, but also the way we process information and even our decision-making.
Consider the roles that narrative play in arenas like courts of law and politics. We wouldn't think of the jobs of lawyer or politician as storytelling jobs, but that's exactly what they are. Both the lawyer and the politician share the fundamental mission of persuading people, and nothing persuades people like a good story.
Today the video game industry is one of the most powerful storytelling media, and it's also the most versatile. While it's possible for books and films to leave space open for interpretation (Picnic at Hanging Rock is an amazing example of open-ended storytelling in both its literary and film incarnations), interactive video games have the opportunity to let players create stories in a unique way.
And the medium truly shines when players are allowed to take the reins and shape the stories they tell. Consider the wildly successful Sims franchise: theoretically, there's nothing particularly exciting about tiny people who act like people.
But the open-ended nature of Sims gameplay means that players are free to build their own stories. Some players will create an ideal version of their own lives—others will ratchet up the dramatic tension with criminals and cops falling in love, and some will take gleeful pleasure in filling the lives of their tiny people with chaos and death. The Mod the Sims community is full of challenges invented by players to inspire others to create unique dramatic situations.
RimWorld, a scifi colony sim from Ludeon Studios currently in Early Access, plays like a combination of The Sims and Minecraft in many ways. Like The Sims, game characters have specific wants and needs and enough free will to add surprises to their behavior. Like Minecraft (or the roughly one billion other survival games released in the last couple of years), the game has a strong gathering/building/survival element.
What sets RimWorld apart, though, is its AI storytellers.
On creating a new colony, the player is prompted to choose a storyteller. Cassandra Classic follows a traditional storytelling arc, beginning with small difficulties (a rabid animal, a temporary psychic drone attach) and working up to more difficult challenges (a pirate raid, a crop blight) as the story proceeds. Phoebe Chillax gives a little more time between story events and is the best choice for those who are more interested in colony building than devastation. And Randy Random, like life, has no respect for dramatic story structure but throws out challenges with no particular logic.
These storytellers are independent of difficulty settings, so a Phoebe Chillax story played on the hardest setting will result in a much harsher situation than Cassandra Classic played on the easiest. Randomly generated character traits also play a role. (Tip: Never let a pyromaniac in your colony. Never.) And player choices matter too, meaning that no two RimWorld stories are ever alike.
Consider the tragic tale of Bonhome, my very first colony. Three intrepid colonists crashlanded on this harsh, alien world. At first, things went well. They built a house, sowed crops, and began taming animals. Then came the squirrel.
This rabid squirrel attacked everyone it saw, and I hadn't yet worked out all the intricacies of gameplay, so I wasn't really sure what to do about it (kill it, kill it with fire), and all my characters were still on the default setting of fleeing from danger. First the squirrel took down one colonist, then the doctor who came out to rescue her collapsed from bites in the doorway of their home. Unfortunately, that meant the door stayed open and the squirrel was able to come in and attack the last colonist until everyone was dead or in shock with no one left to rescue them, and only the squirrel was left alive to tell the story of how it destroyed a budding new civilization (until it dies from the rabies).
As I became more skilled at the game and was able to keep my colonists alive for longer, the stories became more elaborate. When Basque the pyromaniac went on a mad fire-setting spree, my other colonists regretfully decided they had no real choice other than to club him to death. Unfortunately, they were also starving at the time (mostly because Basque had burned up their crops), so…well, Basque will always be with them.
And while RimWorld's graphics are generally uninspiring, the game has little strokes of genius that add to the experience more than any visual flourishes could. Colonists can make art, and they enjoy commemorating particular events from their colony's history such as someone being naked, someone vomiting, or a couple becoming lovers, and the descriptions are elaborately hilarious.
The modding community has upped the ante of the game's storytelling too. Players can install a mod that adds H.P. Lovecraft to the storyteller options, and another mod adds Cthulhu-esque "cosmic monsters" to the gameplay. It's a fair bet that no one gets out of those colonies unscathed. There are also mods to add items, increase social interactions, and, of course, start a zombie apocalypse.
The possibilities are endless, and your RimWorld story will always be a unique creation, which is one of the reasons the game shines when shared on a platform like Twitch. Will you create a new utopia or a cannabalistic hellscape? The story is yours.


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Once of the best things about protein bars is that they are truly a portable food. You can carry them with you just about anywhere. You can keep a box of protein bars in your car, at school in your locker and at your desk at work. A great tip is to put a box of them in the freezer. Frozen protein bars are amazing and they take a little longer to eat which will keep you busy for a while.
What To Look For
Find a protein bar that is high enough in protein (at least 25 grams per bar), low in sugar and low to moderate in fat. Many protein bars on the shelves will be higher in fat (over 10 grams per bar), so make sure you read what type of fats are being used. Stay away from protein bars that contain saturated fats.
Watch out for the amount of "sugar alcohols" which will be listed under carbohydrates. They will usually list carbs, fiber, sugar and then finally sugar alcohols.
The term "sugar alcohol" is somewhat misleading, as polyols are neither sugars nor alcohols. Technically, they are hydrogenated carbohydrates that, at the molecular level, have some of the structural properties of alcohols. But the fact that they are a type of carbohydrate has led to much debate among those concerned about carbohydrates in their diets.
Some manufacturers subtract the amount of sugar alcohols in their products from the total quantity of carbohydrates to yield a much lower "net carb" figure for their labels. They base this practice on the fact that indigestible carbohydrates, such as fiber, cannot by definition have the same effect on the body as carbohydrates that are converted to glucose. But sugar alcohols are only partially indigestible. So some people feel they should be counted as carbohydrates in their entirety, while others feel that only half the sugar alcohol in a product should count as a carbohydrate.
Taste is also a very important part of choosing a protein bar. If the bar doesn't taste great, then you will not want to eat it. Make sure to choose a few different types of flavors and different brands of protein bars before buying a huge box of them. Narrow down your favorite tasting ones and invest in a few boxes that you can store in your home and office for quick protein packed snacks.
|Atkin's Nutritional Advantage Bars
|Serving: 1 bar
Calories: 240
Fat: 10 g
Carbs: 2.5 g
Protein: 20 g
|Balance Bars
|Serving: 1 bar
Calories: 180
Fat: 6 g
Carbs: 22 g
Protein: 14 g
|Met-Rx Food Bar
|Serving: 1 bar
Calories: 330
Fat: 3 g
Carbs: 48 g
Protein: 27 g
|Power Bar
|Serving: 1 bar
Calories: 230
Fat: 2 g
Carbs: 45 g
Protein: 10 g
|PR Ironman Bars
Serving: 1 bar
|ProMax Bars
|Serving: 1 bar
Calories: 280
Fat: 5 g
Carbs: 35 g
Protein: 20 g
|Pure Protein Bars
|Serving: 1 bar
Calories: 200
Fat: 4 g
Carbs: 10 g
Protein: 30 g
|ZonePerfect Bar
|Serving: 1 bar
Calories: 200
Fat: 7 g
Carbs: 23 g
Protein: 14 g
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At last, after weeks of dithering, the Indian government has begun to deal with the crippling financial consequences of rocketing oil prices. On Wednesday, it announced that it is raising the price of petrol and diesel by about 10% and cooking gas by 17% to save three state-owned oil companies from looming bankruptcy. Only kerosene, used by hundreds of millions of the poor for cooking and lighting, was spared.
The government had to do something because the oil companies – Indian Oil, Bharat Petroleum and Hindustan Petroleum – are facing a multi-billion dollar hit (some estimates put it as high $60 billion) in the current financial year due to the soaring cost of crude oil. India imports 75% of its oil.
Wednesday's move will worsen India's already high rate of inflation, which is edging towards 9%. As Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has already acknowledged, the current 8.1% rate is socially and politically unacceptable.
In recent weeks, the government has tried to stem the inflationary tide by cajoling and bullying steel and cement companies to hold prices for at least three months, and introduce some cuts. More controversially, it has banned rice exports and has also stopped (since last year) futures trading in food commodities, most recently potatoes and chick peas.
This has led to allegations of pointless political gimmickry. The next step might be a hike in interest rates, which would curb growth and might have little effect on what is largely internationally generated inflation. But it will be difficult to do much, given the current world-wide food price crisis and the fact that India imports most of its oil.
The direct inflationary impact of yesterday's petrol and fuel price hikes is the being softened by the government scrapping customs duties on crude oil and associated imports. That however will cost $5.5 billion in lost revenue, which will worsen the fiscal deficit. Nothing is easy in this economic balancing act.
Inevitably, the government has few supporters for its announcements, apart from the oil companies which welcomed a partial reduction (around 25%) of their financial problems.
Many economists and newspaper editorials took the easy line that what the government had done was "too little too late". Singh seemed almost to agree, saying it was the "modest bare minimum" needed. What he meant was that anything more would have endangered the stability of the government because of opposition from leftist parties that support the Congress Party – led United Progressive Alliance coalition in Parliament (now safely in the summer recess).
The parliamentary opposition was outspokenly critical – one of its more headline savvy spokesmen called it "economic terror" – and the leftist parties are taking to the streets with countrywide bandhs (political strikes that shut down parts of cities) that started Thursday in three states.
The growing economic crisis is especially embarrassing for the government because it has presided over strong growth of 9% or more, and limited inflation, since it took office in 2004. Now, with various state elections due in the coming months – and a general election by next May– it is facing internationally generated economic problems that may prove impossible to contain.
This is leading to criticisms of what was once called the "dream team" of economic reformers in charge of government policy – Singh, who is a former finance minister and a respected economist; Palaniappan Chidambaram, the finance minister (by profession a top international lawyer); and Montek Singh Alhuwalia, an economist-turned bureaucrat who runs the Planning Commission.
Dream they may be in terms of believing in economic reforms, but they are not a dream politically. Sadly, they have little idea how to pull the strings of government and handle difficult coalition allies such as the Communist-led left. And Sonia Gandhi, the Italian-born leader of both the Congress Party and the coalition who ultimately calls the policy shots, does not have enough experience to handle difficult political and economic issues.
As a result, economic reforms have been stifled by the left for the past four years, a key nuclear deal with the United States seems doomed, and now the government is looking less than confident and astute in its handling of inflation.
Unless its luck – and political savvy – changes, Congress's chance of being returned to power next year at the head of a new coalition will decline sharply. The last Bharatiya Janata Party-led coalition lost the 2004 general election because voters did not believe that, along with regional political party allies, it had done enough to help the rural poor. This time, it is Congress and the left that face a risk of the same fate, with urban voters joining what last time was a rural-led protest.


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The Place de l'Etoile is the center of twelve avenues, spokes to its hub, all of them well built and modern. Three arrondissements meet here, the 8th, the 16th, and the 17th.
A little less than five miles away to the east, and in an almost perfectly straight line, is the Place de la Nation, which is another hub to another twelve streets, less fashionable but no less interesting. Here too, three arrondissements meet : the 11th, the 12th, and the 20th.
Few persons, I am sure, have ever taken the trouble, have ever even had the impulse, to cover the five miles between these two points on foot, traversing a cross-section of Paris which is not set down in any guide-book, even though all the elements of it find their individual places there.
Your point of departure is the largest stone arch in the world; it needs no publicity. It was begun as an arch of triumph by Napoleon in 1806, when he announced that his plans for beautifying Paris were to keep sculptors busy for twenty years. But he was mistaken; by his own defeat he managed to stop that work in eight short years.
It went forward in 1825, to be halted by a revolution in 1830. Nevertheless in 1836 it was finished, having cost what was a tremendous sum for that time, two million dollars. Its dedication read: "To all the French armies since 1792" which made it a logical place for the burial of the "Unknown Soldier"; it has had, since the war, more visitors than any other monument in the world.
The Arc de Triomphe is 167 feet high, 147 feet wide, and 73 feet deep. As a symbol of Napoleon, it is perfect. As the classic embodiment of boastfulness, it has no equal. But the stone, mark you, did not come from the foundations of Paris but from a quarry some significant distance away. The Arc de Triomphe belongs to France and to the world, one of whose crossroads it marks; it is not of the marrow of Paris.
Champs Elysées means Elysian Fields; in that part of it I should say, I suppose, "of them" where the auto-mobile has established itself behind highly polished plate-glass windows, you are still in the shadow of the triumphal arch. Further down, where the frenzy of fashion has cooled enough to allow trees to take root, you might believe that commerce had no place.
You are wrong. Consider those chairs, piled lugubriously together on rainy days, but holding at other times their hundreds and thousands. You may already have discovered that they have to be paid for; that only the benches along here are free.
Why this distinction? The city owns the benches; they represent municipal hospitality. The chairs are the property of a concessionnaire. His name is Silly. I believe him shrewd. He admits a modest possession of sixty thousand chairs; several hundred thousand are more likely. That many are needed for the six hundred acres of parks, squares, and public gardens in Paris; six hundred acres! And you will find Monsieur Silly's chairs thick upon all of them.
You were brought up to believe that the "Farmers-General," the men who got concessions from the kings of France and milked the people for their own benefit, were responsible for the Revolution of 1789; all good histories teach us in our youth that they were justly hung for their exploitation of the people.
But consider these chairs; the French have preserved the principle of "farming out," and they still use the same word for it. Monsieur Silly, who provides these chairs for your use, is a Fermier-Général and has never been hung although a woman did sue him because she tore her dress on a chair. You pay more for one with arms than without; the woman whom you pay has an eye like an eagle's because she gets a small percentage of all that she collects. Another percentage goes to the city, and, after the overhead is paid, M. Silly gets the rest. I have seen somewhere, but I cannot remember where, the large building which is his permanent garage and repair shop. Municipal practices are the same the world over.
So far the only public buildings you have passed are the Grand and the Petit Palais; they were put up in 1900 for the World's Fair; they have housed all sorts of exhibits ever since: art, industrial, domestic, agricultural, and the annual horse show.
The Place de la Concorde, even at its emptiest, is so full of history that it is just as well not to try to set it down here. The Revolution, after beginning its manifestations in the Palais Royal, carried them on here in the shadow of the guillotine. Until recently the "concord" seemed assured for the place, even though the Chamber of Deputies is over there, across the Seine. It is in a Bourbon palace that the people's representatives there are six hundred and twelve of them have their seats, under a system which allows of a more rapid change of government than with us.
The French very frequently take advantage of that system. When, as in the early winter of 1934, the representatives seem to hesitate to do the public will, the crowds take possession of the Place de la Concorde and do their best to express their feeling, even to the point of demanding immediate change.
There is a general belief that the sixth of February, 1934, marks a new epoch in France. Time will tell. In passing it is not amiss to note that there have been here more automobile accidents in which diplomats figured than anywhere else in Paris, which is strangely significant when one is studying the European situation.
The American embassy has already become a landmark, and it is in perfect harmony with the structures done by Gabriel, the great French architect (whose parents were not afraid to name him Ange, Angel). These two structures were erected in the reign of Louis XV for the reception of visiting ambassadors and notables; the one is now used by the Hotel Crillon, whose list of guests reads like an Almanac de Gotha; and by an American bank. The other is the Ministry of the Marine.
The story of the Egyptian obelisk will be found elsewhere; it is six feet taller than its companion at London.
The buildings upon the terrace before you are the Orangerie and the Jeu de Paume of royal days, now used for art exhibits. The terrace belongs to the Gardens which took their name from the "tileries" (Tuileries) of the Middle Ages. A queen conceived the idea of a palace here; it was built and lasted until 1871, when the people of Paris burned it to show their feeling about palaces in general.
On the other side of you are the arcades ordered by Napoleon in 1802; they were cut ruthlessly through all the old convents which had housed the National Assembly in 1789, when it came into town from Versailles with Lafayette and his national guards. Fine old gardens had to give way, too. Napoleon had the proper spirit; he did not want to see about him anything which suggested the period of liberty, fraternity, and equality. He meant to be emperor !
Today this whole arcade is the alphabet of de luxe commerce in some of its simpler forms: bookshops, tea-shops, hotel entrances are sandwiched in and repeat them-selves as far as the Palais Royal Square, where the Louvre begins as the Tuileries leaves off.
The first entrance in the big building on the rue de Rivoli is that which lets you into a museum of rare interest, the museum of the Decorative Arts' History of France; there is, besides, a remarkably good library for students of these arts. Anyone may enter this to study if he is willing to sign his name when he gets inside.
The next entrance, with the flag, is that of the Ministry of Finance. Across the way is the State Council in the Palais Royal, the old palace of the Duc d'Orléans. The famous garden is not visible from here, and we have no time for detours. Richelieu built the place and then had the good taste to leave it to the royal family, through whom he had come into power.
As you pass the Magasins du Louvre, note its conformity to the rules of the arcades; the building was the last one in this plan and was put up as a sumptuous hotel for the first French World's Fair in 1855.
To your left you will see the first group of truly old buildings that have yet appeared along the line of our march. They were built not long after the Palais Royal itself, some perhaps even before, in the 16th century. And before that this Square was known, from its condition in the 12th century, as "Rotten Field" (Champ-pourri).
The arcade passes from the Magasins du Louvre in front of a church, now Protestant, called the Oratoire; just under it you could find the foundations of the first wall which was built about Paris on this, the Right Bank, in 1180. So far, we have been walking outside of what was Paris at that date. Philip Augustus, who built the wall nine and a half centuries ago, excluded his own feudal château, the Louvre, which was then a place of towers and walls, a fortress.
To your right now is the church of St Germain-l'Auxenrois, whose story is one to raise your hair; for a time they performed black magic there against Henry III; and it was this bell which rang out for the massacre of the Protestants on St Bartholomew's day in August, 1572. One of the victims was Coligny, whose statue is in front of the Oratoire.
The rue de Rivoli from here on was designed as a piece of strategy and was cut in the reign of Napoleon III (1865) to the very Hôtel de Ville, to promote, in times of rebellion, the swift arrival of royal troops to that point in case the citizens should take it as they so often did for military headquarters. Narrow and crooked streets lent themselves too easily to the throwing up of barricades; they still do.
Here is the Tour St Jacques, all that is left of a church built and worshiped in for several centuries by the richest of the Corporations, that of the Paris butchers. In-deed they were so powerful that they refused to come into the Federation of trade-guilds but held their own against bourgeois and noble and, at times, the king himself. There is something sinister in their living on the rue St Antoine, where all revolutions have started; and that it was a butcher who put the Republican bonnet upon the head of Louis XVI is a bit of that symbolism which makes history, in spite of its seeming confusion, coherent even to its details.
This tower was used by Pascal, priest and scientist, in studying gravitation; it was used, too, for making lead bullets, and more recently in meteorological service. The square in which it stands covers the site of a cemetery and of cloisters; it is the oldest public square of the municipality of Paris.
The Hôtel de Ville, the City Hall of Paris, is linked to our patriotic pride because it was upon this balcony that Lindbergh's appearance roused such tremendous ovations! That balcony has held many celebrities since it was built, to resemble as nearly as possible although on a larger scale the one upon the same site which was burned in 1871. Before that Renaissance structure was here, the houses about the enormous Square were gabled and timbered in medieval fashion, and the place more homelike. Official proclamations of King or Prefect were read first of all in front of the Town Hall before they were carried to other squares and street corners to be read. This was the center of the greatest excitement when any public question was up for discussion, when war threatened, or revolt menaced.
A little beyond the Hôtel de Ville, you enter the rue St Antoine which continues the rue de Rivoli. Not one of the houses along here but has had its adventures. For the rue St Antoine was always the scene of disturbances and barricades; down this street rushed the first revolutionary crowd between the two rows of butcher shops which lined it then, and which still hold their own today in greater numbers than anywhere else in Paris.
Notice the clock on your right, that of St Paul and St Louis; it has been going more or less regularly since 1627. St Paul does not need to be introduced, but it may be well to say that St Louis was Louis IX, who played his royal part in the 13th century; he had one of his palaces near here, with gardens for which certain streets have been named. He was good and deserved being made a saint.
The Lycée Charlemagne, alongside the church, was a famous Jesuit College in the 17th century. The house at No. 62 belonged to a King's councillor, Sully a man who was strong for the rôle which the farmer played in the economic situation of a country a rôle of as great importance today.
Further on, the mildly amused man on a pedestal is Beaumarchais, who wrote operas and dabbled in high finance; his story is connected with our Revolution of 1776; he was instrumental in sending us arms.
When you reach the Place de la Bastille you may be disappointed; it seems to lack something the Bastille, I suppose. That column in the center was built as a tomb-stone for "the defenders of Liberty" in the revolution of 1830.
When the Bastille was here you had to go through a gate to reach the faubourg St Antoine. This is one of the least interesting of old streets as far as looks go; but upon it furniture has been made for seven centuries! Think what that means! It is not picturesque, but it is Paris.
Straight on, and we arrive at the Place de la Nation, for which we set out. It was originally called Place du Trône (Throne) ; and there was another of those huge celebrations here in 1662 for Louis XIV just as there was at the Place du Carrousel.
On the spot corresponding to that occupied by the Arc de Triomphe, is a fountain representing the Republic. What the crocodiles which guard her chariot represent, I do not know but it is here that the Communists fore-gather in opposition to the ceremonial gatherings at the Etoile.
Across from you are two toll-houses of the sixty built about Paris as a customs wall in 1784. The two columns, nearly a hundred feet tall, are surmounted by two kings: St Louis (12151270) and Philip Augustus, his grand-father, builder of that first wall about Paris in 1180. They guard the spirit of old Paris, even though at first sight that spirit does not seem to be in this rather empty circular place. But here they stand, two constructive French kings. Five miles back is the arch of Napoleon.
And in between, commerce, industry, strategy, municipal affairs, church-towers, and the Bastille column! Seven and a half centuries of life-through which you have been passing as people have passed in all their daily activities, in their processions, in their revolutions, and their revolts.
Is there a better introduction to Paris?
But if I am writing this book as a sort of informal introduction to Paris, it is always with the underlying pleasure which I take myself in the thought that a city can go through so many transformations and retain something of each one in so complete a form that were it not for the diabolic taxis, the modern traffic, we could close our eyes upon one century and open them upon another with out walking more than a block.
And each one of these old buildings meant the life of an active, constructive period; architect and contractor, carpenter and stone-mason, plasterer and cabinet-maker they mean more today perhaps than the man who lived in the building, were he even a king. For what they did remains, proof of honest work, of building.
They were known all over Europe for their work, these builders. In 1287, an old document in existence shows, the master stone-cutter, Estienne de Bonneuil of Paris, took ten "companions" and ten "bachelors" (workers) with him to build a church at Upsala in Sweden. He signed this document before the Provost of Paris as a promise to bring them back.


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* Provide coherent, student-centered, model-driven Modeling Instruction,
* Support mastery learning through Standards-Based Grading,
* Offer resources to support students' varied end-of-course goals.
* Meet kids' human needs through conscientious Rapport Building.
I'll write about each of these things in the coming months to explain what I mean.
After years of work revising and incorporating my own ideas into Modeling Instruction, some of my versions have become the "official" copyrighted versions by AMTA. As such, I'm not allowed to post them here, but must instead refer you to the AMTA site. This gets complicated, too. Over the past five years, I've created dramatically different versions with input from other collaborators while still being clearly based in Modeling Instruction. Trying to figure out a way to share those in a way that benefits teachers and protects AMTA's rights is an ongoing discussion.
I taught middle school meteorology for fourteen years and worked to develop an approach that built foundational meteorology concepts (temperature, air pressure, humidity) on a particle model of matter. Students interpreted and explained complex ideas by basing their explanations on their understanding of how particles interact at the smallest scale.
semester-long astronomy elective for grades 10-12.
Engineering Principles
I started an engineering course at Trinity that has since been handed on to three additional teachers, each of whom has improved the course while playing to their own particular strengths. There's currently not much at the course webpage, I've put the link there mostly to help me remember that it exists!
Resources for Modeling chemistry. Teaching chemistry from a Modeling perspective was a fantastic experience for me. I particularly loved how seamlessly chemistry and physics were intertwined. At my school, physics is taught before chemistry, so I can prepare students with skills and foreshadow critical ideas in the physics course. In chemistry, I can take full advantage of the students' robust concepts of mass, force, energy, and electrostatics.
Environmental Science
I led a one-semester environmental science elective in the fall of 2013. This companion website has links to a variety of the electronic resources used in the class. The pages in the menu on the left reflect the sequence of the course -- it was very much taught from the point of view of a physics teacher and I found the sequence to have a wonderful flow. I do hope to teach the course again because of the critical nature of the ideas encountered in the class. Every scientifically literate person needs to spend some time thinking about the complicated relationship between people and our planet.


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The Turning Point in Israel
During the six years when Menachem Begin was prime minister, his world view and style seemed so divergent from those of his Israeli opponents and of the prevailing political culture in the West that he was perceived as an aberration. Begin's mentality was shaped by Central Europe between two great wars. He was haunted by the nightmare of the Holocaust, was convinced of the power of grand gestures and the boldly spoken word. The mystical lawyer and populist orator was such a departure from the socialist, humanist, and pragmatic leadership of the opposing Israeli political culture that many Israelis and American Jews have wished to dismiss his regime as a mere episode in Israel's history.
But the liberals who opposed him while he was prime minister may find it even more difficult now to fight his legacy. What his political rivals and outsiders have failed to realize is that Begin's extremist ideology, his vision of a greater Israel, have turned into a solid structure in which second generation Israelis from both political camps have found shelter.
This vision, permeated with the conviction of the moral superiority of the Jewish national claim and a deep mistrust of the gentile world, has finally gained legitimacy. Begin has triumphed, not because of the acuity of his perceptions or his historic vision but because his political opponents became enmeshed in their own irreconcilable contradictions; their behavior as elites estranged them from the Sephardi masses who became drawn to Begin.
One can only understand the Begin era by viewing it in the setting of Zionist history. In the early part of the century, the vociferous disputes over the goals of Zionism created rivalries and even enmities among the Zionist factions, but these masked an agreement in principle on national objectives: the establishment of an independent national entity based on a Jewish majority in the Land of Israel. All the Zionist groups joined together to create concrete political, military, social, and economic realities that led to the establishment of the state of Israel and the consolidation of its strength. The subjective hopes and ideological proclivities of many Zionists were in contradiction to what actually took place, but their views were submerged. The constraints with which Zionism had to contend, the reaction of its enemies, domestic and external political coalitions, global politics—all of those led to the realization of the maximum aims of Zionism.
This result was not predetermined. At every stage in the progress of Zionism there were clear choices; but they were either passed up or remained "theoretical"—principally because of the enemies of the Zionist enterprise. The position of the Palestinians forced the Zionists to try to achieve their maximum goals—and this position was, from the Palestinians' point of view, unavoidable. They refused to compromise with Zionism because they saw it as an unjust intrusion. Their uncompromising approach, and their view of the conflict as a game only one side could win, obliged even those Zionist groups that hoped for a compromise to adopt…
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Tired of the same old dinner date for Valentine's Day? Try one of these fun and unique ideas happening locally!
Heat things up with a Hot Sculpted Heart Glass Class
Choose your colors and sculpt molten glass from a 2100 degree furnace into a beautiful and unique creation of your own. The studio gets pretty warm, so dress accordingly and remember to wear closed-toe shows.
Anyone 10 years and older may participate . The cost is $55 per person. The class is February 14 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Create something together at Half Baked Pottery
Enjoy your favorite beverages and snacks while enjoying a relaxing evening of painting. It's located near Broad Ripple which makes it a perfect pit-stop before dinner. Walk-ins are welcome, but they are accepting reservations just in case it gets too busy.
Get crafty at Nickel Plate Arts
Valentine's Day at Nickel Plate Arts is no typical "Hallmark holiday." Art-infused events and activities for singles, couples, children and groups go way beyond candy hearts and red roses.
Check it out on February 14 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. The cost is $10 per craft or $50 for all 6 stations plus two free drinks.
Mix drinks together at Hotel Tango
Learn from the Hotel Tango crew how to make your own infusion, simple syrup and shrub. Once you have that knowledge, the bartenders will teach you how to make a cocktail with those ingredients to impress guests at your next party. Tickets include two cocktails, recipe cards for each ingredient, and a 375ml bottle. Two sessions available on February 14: 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. The price is $45 per person.
Renew your vows at City Market
A celebration featuring a wedding vow renewal ceremony with free cake and punch, a photo station, a card-writing station, a live pianist, and coupons to select merchants. The vow renewal ceremony begins at 11 a.m.
Beer our Valentine with a 5-course dinner at Moontown Brewing Company
You'll be so hoppy together this Valentine's Day! Enjoy Chef Ian's 5-course dinner menu for this special occasion. Each course includes a perfectly paired Moontown beer to complement his fabulous food. This unique dinner experience is the perfect Valentine's gift for your beer-loving lover. The stage will be set with candlelight, flowers, and mood music — ready for a romantic (and memorable!) evening in The 1915 Room. The brewpub will be closed to the public and space is limited for the event. Tickets are $150 per couple, and it includes gratuity. The dinner lasts from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Compete for their heart at the Valentine's Day Pickleball Tournament
The inaugural Valentine's Day Pickleball Tournament will be held on Thursday, February 14th from 4:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. The cost is $20 per couple. Register in person at the BFC or over the phone at 317-327-7220. Pay in cash at the door the day of the tournament! All proceeds go to the Friends of Garfield to purchase Pickleball equipment. Light refreshments will be provided!
Laugh the night away at the Irving Theater
My Funny Valentine featuring comedy from Joe Bates, Austin Fry, Katie Hetlage, and Dyke Michaels and music from The Breakes and Fern Murphy. The show starts at 9 p.m. Tickets are $15 per couple or $10 per person.
Practice heart-opening poses with your partner at Cityoga School of Yoga and Health
For $35, couples will be guided through a yoga experience of shared intimacy and connection. Throughout the 90-minute class, you will work with your partner to create beautiful partner yoga poses and sequences. You will also practice and learn Thai massage techniques to relax and nurture yourself and your partner. Affirmations and meditations to deepen your expressions of love and compassion towards each other will also be a part of the experience. This workshop is suitable for all levels even if you have never taken a yoga class. This class is on February 15.
Check out the famous LOVE sculpture at Newfields
The LOVE sculpture is one of the Top 10 Locations for marriage proposals, according to USA Today. You can find it inside the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields. It was designed by Hoosier artist Robert Indiana, and it is the most recognized piece of art in the world.
Dinner and dancing at The Rathskeller
The Rathskeller will host a three-course meal followed by a live performance and dancing. The dinner starts at 7 p.m. on February 14 and the cost is $100 per couple.
Wine tasting, cheese, and live music at Hopwood Cellars Winery
A $29 flat rate fee for couples includes 2 glasses of wine, choice of cheese pairing, chocolates, and live music. It's an all-day event on February 14 from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. The live music is from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
There's Beer! There's Ballet! What more could you want for Valentine's Day? Ballet Theatre of Indiana and Sun King Brewing Co. once again are teaming up to bring you the best in Indiana's suds and sautés for just $25 a ticket on February 15 and 16.
Romantic dinner for two and dancing at The Indianapolis Propylaeum
A romantic candlelit dinner for two with music provided by Elizabeth O'Meara Ahlgrim and her harp. Following dinner is dancing in the Carriage House with live music provided by a professional jazz quartet. The dinner is February 14 from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. Packages start at $130 per couple.


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When teenage country singer Scotty McCreery won American Idol Tuesday night, it took some people by surprise — but the folks at Seattle-based startup Likester were not among them. Likester predicted McCreery would win Season 10 of American Idol way back on April 13.
Likester taps into Facebook's public data to make a global database of who likes what, where they are from, and when they like it. When a user signs into Likester and accepts the privacy conditions, they give the company permission to access information about what they and their friends have "Liked" on Facebook. Likester then aggregates that data in a digestible format that can be viewed by topic or geography. I've embedded two screenshots of Likester at the bottom of the post.
Fueled in part by its American Idol analysis, Likester is growing at a rapid clip, with "thousands and thousands" of users having joined in the past three weeks, founder Kevin McCarthy told me. The site is only as good as the amount of data it can aggregate, so Likester hopes to get better with time. Clicking around on the site, I was really impressed with the amount of data it already has, and especially the easy-to-read format in which it's presented.
Likester was built by a five-person team led by McCarthy, who designed and built most of the site's front end. The company started in late 2010 as an app dubbed "What Your Friends Like." After the demand for that app grew, McCarthy and his team decided to "double down" and work to build a larger site that could analyze and aggregate Facebook's Like data in a deeper way. "On Facebook today, when people Like stuff, it goes by quickly, and you never see it in an aggregated format," McCarthy said. "We set out to create geographical and temporal analysis of that information. There are not a lot of developers out there focusing on deep integrations with Facebook."
Likester currently generates revenue through ads, but McCarthy tells me the company may soon get rid of advertising altogether to focus on building a "freemium" business model. Under this model, the basic version of the site would continue to be free, and Likester would offer a premium version of the site with more data analysis tools to professional users like brands, marketers, and researchers.
Likester is currently entirely self-funded by McCarthy, a serial entrepreneur who previously built and sold a search marketing startup to ChannelAdvisor in 2005. Likester is currently in talks with potential investors as it looks to further scale out the business, McCarthy said. "We're self-sustainable as a small team at least for another year, but opportunities are coming for us on a daily basis," he said. "We've only just scratched the surface on the amount of data people have expressed their opinions of."


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NRB Global Bank formally opens Motijheel Branch
Dhaka -NRB Global Bank Limited formally opens its Motijheel Branch at Dhaka on Thursday, reports in a press release.
Nizam Chowdhury Chairman of the bank has inaugurated the operations of the branch as chief guest.
Among others Vice Chairman Mohammad Hanif Chowdhury, Directors Dr. Mohammed Faruque, Mohammed
Yousuf, Managing Director Md. Abdul Quddus, Deputy Managing Director R Q M Forkan, SEVP Mr .Kazi Mashiur
Rahman Jay had Company Secretary J Q M Habibullah, Branch Manager, honorable & distinguish clients were also present on the occasion.
All guests have hoped that through the latest technological support, the bank will provide quality service to
the customers & will expand its network in home & abroad to provide "Great Experience" to its entire stakeholder.News:Bangladesh Today/31-Mar-2014


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The Adventures of Jedidiah Wiggle-Bottom Happy-Feet Puddle-Jumper
This is Jedidiah Wiggle-Bottom Happy-Feet Puddle-Jumper Jonassen. That may seem like a rather long name for a dog, but it isn't really. Especially when you hear how he got his middle names. First of all, Jed has a stubby little tail that looks like a Springer-Spaniel tail (that's one half of his breed). So when he wags his tail, his whole butt dances with excitement. It is not possible to watch Jed wag his tail without smiling. Secondly, when Jed is especially happy, like when he's going for a walk or even a car ride, he lopes around in big happy circles, plunking both his front paws down at the same time and galloping with joyful abandon. Can't watch this without smiling, either. Trust me. Third, in the very first week that he came to live with us, we found him out on the deck with both his front paws jammed into his water bucket - his way of telling us, he would be needing a swim EVERYDAY, thank you very much. And so that's what he gets. And his name is Jedidiah Wiggle-Bottom Happy-Feet Puddle-Jumper Jonassen.
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Wayne Scott, a pale man from South Yorkshire England, attempted his best American accent and called up a terminally ill teenage boy pretending to be rasslin' superstar, UM alum and mediocre action/adventure actor Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson. He claimed, as Johnson, he was put in touch with the boy through a "Make a Wish" type charity and promised to fly the boy to Miami to watch a live wrestling match. He wasn't working any money scheme either, he just appears to get his rocks off from lying.
Scott has a long history of fraud convictions, though his attorneys claim that he has a hard time differentiating reality from fantasy. After the death of Heath Ledger, he attempted to contact Tom Cruise and John Travolta posing as Ledger's father and asking for airfare to New York.
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Today's outfit = true love. I'm so happy with all these pieces. The sweater dress is from Old Navy and the fleece-lined tights are from Walmart. Those two were inexpensive and absolutely worth their cost. The boots are in the "investment piece" category for me, but I think they will last for decades and I foresee wearing them many, many times. All around, I think the cost-per-wear on this outfit will be quite low.
A low cost-per-wear is a goal of mine for almost all of my clothes. I'd love to get good at choosing clothing so that I end up getting a lot of use out of almost everything I buy. I think it's okay if there are a few things that I only wear occasionally - maybe very dressy clothes, or an interview suit. But I don't want to have many things that I almost never wear. I don't need them taking up space in my closet or in my heart.