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Children going berserk at the Crown Fountain. Left-click to enlarge.
The Crown Fountain is actually two 50-foot glass block towers that bookend a large puddle. The towers display video of faces and spout water from the mouths of the images. Water also cascades down all four sides of the towers. Kids love this fountain.
The fountain designer was Spanish artist Jaume Plensa.
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Just curious. Why this trend? I could speculate, but there are others who could probably better support their explanations with...um... evidence.
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"In Illinois, we're getting fatter," or so says the headline in the Chicago Tribune. The story continues:
Illinois' adult population keeps growing fatter, with the state's obesity rate rising to 26.6 percent in 2009, nearly a full percentage point higher than the previous year. That figure places the state 26th in the nation for adult obesity, up from 27th, according to the latest annual report on obesity from the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation, released Tuesday.. The state ranks 26th in the U.S. for obesity as the adult population keeps growing fatter. Illinois' obesity rate rose to 26.6 percent in 2009, nearly a full percentage point higher than the previous year.
Except the results of the study do not indicate that the adult population of Illinois is gaining weight. The change in Illinois was actually .08% while the margin for error was +/-1 percentage point at the 95% confidence interval. In other words, the change was not statistically significant unless you move the goal post for significance.
But the headline, In Illinois, our weight is stable, wouldn't be much of a story.
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Library of Congress:
"Last minute check-up. Just before taking off, a bomber crew reviews details of its mission, the target of which is a major German rail center in central Italy. Before Operation Strangle went into effect, German forces in Italy were well-supplied since the Italian rail system was one of the best in Europe. Thus, first objectives of Allied bombers were key rail lines."
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The Cadillac Palace Theatre. Left-click image to enlarge.
Built at a cost of $12 million in 1926, the Cadillac Palace was originally called the New Palace Theatre. It was designed by George and Cornelius Rapp, architects who designed dozens of American theaters. In the 1980s, the theatre became a music venue and was renamed the Bismarck. In 1999, the theater was completely renovated and reopened as the Cadillac Palace
More images below the fold.
Below, a fuzzy interior shot of the lobby, not my photo.
The Ford Center for the Performing Arts Oriental Theatre in Chicago was also designed by the Rapp brothers.
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Bob Somerby provides an example of wild analysis in Charles Blow's strange attempt to divine the inner workings of Obama's psyche. Blow writes:
On the other side stands Obama — solid and sober, rooted in the belief that his way is the right way and in no need of alteration. He’s the emotionally maimed type who lights up when he’s stroked and Fortune_teller_2adored but shuts down in the face of acrimony. Other people’s anxieties are dismissed as irrational and unworthy of engagement or empathy. He seems quite comfortable with this aspect of his personality, even if few others are, and shows little desire to change it. It’s the height of irony: the presumed transformative president is stymied by his own unwillingness to be transformed. He would rather sacrifice the relationship than be altered by it.
Somerby notes that Blow fails to offer a shred of evidence to support his analysis of Obama. Brendan Nyhan rightly calls Blow's assessment, "faux mind-reading."
It isn't unusual to see political pundits engage in analysis untethered from supporting evidence. Who knows where these analyses comes from (I won't attempt to read Blow's mind) when there is no attempt to offer supporting data? These analyst wannabes might do just as well relying on a Ouija board.
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Sicilian boys on a holiday (Nick Parrino, OWI) . Left-click photo to enlarge
The people are gradually returning to peacetime enjoyment after the Allied success in the Sicilian campaign.
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