Solar Powered Aircraft

Solar powered aircraft flies from Europe to Africa.

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Nice Buildings in Morgan Park / Beverly, Chicago

Morgan Park High School

Smith Retirement Home, 114th and Western, Chicago

Plan For Fort McCoy, Wisconsin

We are spending a few days at Fort McCoy Wisconsin on a Marine Reunion. The plan for the base is very interesting - in the shape of a very large triangle.  The plan became a symbol for the base.

The aerial photo below shows the layout. It is quite confusing, and once again shows that a deviation from a simple grid plan is interesting, but hard to understand on the ground.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_McCoy,_Wisconsin 

http://marines10.blogspot.com/ 

Enterpreneurship in Govmint

There is an email story going around about a Bristol Zoo parking attendant who lined his own pockets with customers' cash for years before going missing with the loot has set cyberspace alight.

The story in the email being circulated states the car park at Bristol Zoo has been manned by a single attendant for the past 25 years, who had taken advantage of a mix-up between the zoo and Bristol City Council over who was responsible for the operation to collect drivers' money for himself before retiring on the proceeds. The story states that the Entrepreneur crook made off with a small fortune because of the ineptitude of local government.

Currently, a British Pound is worth $1.57 US Dollars

7 Million Pounds = almost $11 million US

Nice little retirement plan

It is good to see initiative in local government

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This is a cute story, but it urban legend.

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Cities Facing Worst Fiscal Situation

Interesting article in The Atlantic Cities about the decline of city finances. This mirrors the problems at the State and National level. And it does not appear that it will get better any time soon.

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Laser Tag Chicago

"Taking a trip through Chicago's downtown this summer will be like reeling time back to the 1980s, or perhaps visiting a laser-tag arena. Artists at this very second are laying down bright, neon hues at the buzzing intersection of State and Adams, and when the painting's all done the block should look like an IED went off below the Culture Club tour bus."

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Eco-Friendly Development

But an award-winning eco-friendly development in Winnenden near Stuttgart, Germany. 

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http://www.treehugger.com