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A pattern is projected onto a screen by a projector using an illumination having a non-visible wavelength. A camera, displaced several inches from the projector, observes the projected pattern whose signals are then stored to create a reference frame. The pattern is then projected onto the screen a second time with a presenter present. The camera observes the projected pattern whose signals are then stored to create a current frame, including the presenter, and signals obtained from the reference frame are compared to determine their difference. In unobscured screen areas, the pattern images match. The pattern on the presenter is displaced because of the displaced camera, and no longer matches the reference pattern, thereby identifying the presenter's silhouette area.
1. A method for generating a binary matte signal that selectively inhibits data image signal levels of pixels within a silhouette area of a presenter in front of a projection screen comprising,
a) projecting a pattern upon said projection screen, with said presenter absent, using an illumination having a non-visible wavelength,
b) storing in a reference frame memory signal levels of said projected pattern as observed by a camera sensitive to said non-visible wavelength,
c) projecting said pattern upon said projection screen, with said presenter present, using an illumination having a non-visible wavelength,
d) storing in a current frame memory signal levels of said step c) projected pattern as observed by said camera,
e) comparing said reference frame signal levels with said current frame signal levels at corresponding pixel addresses and storing a measure of their difference in a memory,
f) identifying said presenter's silhouette area as those pixels whose neighborhoods contain at least a predetermined number of pixels whose said measure of difference between current and reference frame signal levels is above a predetermined threshold,
g) assigning a matte signal first level for pixels in the identified presenter's silhouette area and a matte signal second level to all other pixels, said first level being different than said second level, thereby generating a binary matte signal.
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15. An apparatus for generating a binary matte signal that selectively inhibits data image signal levels of pixels within a silhouette area of a presenter in front of a projection screen comprising:
a) a projector means for projecting a pattern upon said projection screen, with said presenter absent, using an illumination having a non-visible wavelength,
b) reference frame memory means for storing in a reference frame memory signal levels of said projected pattern as observed by a camera sensitive to said non-visible wavelength,
c) said projector means projecting said pattern upon said projection screen, with said presenter present, using an illumination having a non-visible wavelength,
d) current frame memory means for storing in a current frame memory the signal levels of said projected pattern as observed by said camera,
e) means for comparing said reference frame signal levels with said current frame signal levels at corresponding pixel addresses and storing a measure of their difference in a memory,
wherein said presenter's silhouette area is defined as those pixels whose neighborhoods contain at least a predetermined number of pixels whose said measure of difference between current and reference frame signal levels is above a predetermined threshold, and
a matte signal first level is assigned to pixels in the presenter's silhouette area and a matte signal second level is assigned to all other pixels, said first level being different than said second level.
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That portion of an image being projected onto a presenter in front of a projection screen is distorted and very distracting to both an audience and a presenter. U.S. Pat. No. 6,361,173 describes a method for generating a matte (alpha) signal to selectively inhibit the projected image in the screen area occupied by a presenter. A presenter may then walk in front of the screen and look at his audience without being blinded by the projector.
The screen and presenter are illuminated with infrared light, and observed with an infrared camera. The pixel levels of a stored infrared screen-image when subtracted from the camera image of the screen with presenter present are zero in the unobscured screen area. All other pixels should be in the silhouette area of the presenter. Several other methods are described for locating the position of the presenter.
The increased infrared illumination from opening a door or adjusting room illumination can result in a failure to generate a useable matte; also a portion of the presenter, or his wardrobe, matching the screen's infrared reflection can destroy a portion of the matte.
To develop a reliable binary selective inhibit signal accurately identifying those pixels comprising the presenter's silhouette; where said signal is immune to a subject's infrared reflection levels and immune to randomly occurring non-uniform infrared flooding of the projection screen and presenter.
A pattern is projected onto a screen by an infrared projector. An infrared camera, displaced several inches from said projector, observes the projected pattern whose signals are then stored to create a reference frame. Infrared signals from a current frame, including a presenter, and signals obtained from said reference frame, are compared to determine their difference. In unobscured screen areas, the pattern images match. The infrared pattern on the presenter is displaced because of the displaced camera, and no longer matches the reference pattern, thereby identifying the presenter's silhouette area.
FIG. 1 illustrates the placement of a projection screen, a presenter, an infrared camera and project, and a video projector, with respect to an audience area.
FIG. 2 is a view from the presenter's position, showing the placement of the infrared projector and camera, with respect to a video projector.
FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing selected signal processing steps which can be employed in generating a stable matte signal.
FIGS. 4, 5, 6, and 7 illustrate four physical configurations for generating and apply a matte signal to selectively inhibit a projected image.
Four key elements make a stable Inhibit Signal possible. They are: 1) the use of a projected pattern upon the screen and presenter using non-visible infrared, 2) the lateral displacement of an infrared camera whose image of the pattern will be displaced for any subject not in the plane of the screen, 3) a unique pattern, such as a random noise pattern, whose displaced image will no longer match the original image, thus making a presenter's infrared reflectance irrelevant, and 4) the comparison of differentiated pattern signals, thus providing immunity to infrared spill on the projection screen.
FIG. 1 is a side view of an auditorium or meeting room. A presenter 2 is shown standing before screen 1. An infrared camera and projector in housing 4 are located just below a video projector 3, typically set well above audience 5. Audience 5 will see a projected data image on the screen but not on the presenter. Data images are those images accompanying a presentation and are projected by a video projector.
FIG. 2 is a view from the stage looking toward a video image projector 3, and a housing 4 that contains an infrared projector 6 and an infrared camera 7, including their associated electronics. While camera 7 is shown laterally displaced to the left of projector 6, it may be displaced in any direction from projector 6, except axially. Infrared camera 7 and projector 6 are shown as located just below video projector 3, although other positions are acceptable.
Projector 6 projects a pattern onto the projection screen using infrared light. Camera 7, displaced several inches from projector 6, observes this infrared pattern and stores its image as a reference frame in memory 10 of FIG. 3. All subsequent image frames, usually including a presenter, are routed to memory 15 and are identified as current frames. Each succeeding current frame replaces the previous current frame in memory 15, at a video rate.
The pattern in current frame memory 15, in the absence of a subject, will match the pattern in the stored reference frame memory 10. In a current frame that includes a presenter, pixels on the screen outside the presenter's silhouette area will continue to match.
The presenter, not being in the plane of the screen, and because of the displaced camera, will displace the pattern from its original position. This displaced pattern causes a large number of pixels in the presenter's silhouette area to fail to match corresponding pixels in the reference frame pattern, and their difference will be significantly greater than system noise.
Comparing the reference frame pattern signals with a current frame pattern signals at corresponding pixels permits determination of a measure of their difference. One such measure is their absolute arithmetic difference (i.e. their divergence from each other); a second measure is the absolute difference of their differentials. The arithmetic difference is useful in generating a matte signal when the presentation room environment can be controlled. The difference of differentials is essential when the room environment cannot be controlled.
Comparing the differentials of the reference frame and current frame signals, rather than comparing the original signals, achieves immunity to randomly occurring infrared spill onto the projection screen, especially when the spill is a streak of light across the screen from an opened door. The difference in signal level between two adjacent pixels (a differential) is the same whether this difference occurs at low or high levels of spill light
Differentiation of reference frame signals in memory 10 can be accomplished in differentiator 11 for each pixel by subtracting the signal level of a first pixel from the signal level of the following pixel. Their difference replaces the signal level of the first pixel. The difference between the signal levels of a second and third pixel establishes a value for the second pixel. This procedure of subtracting adjacent pixels is continued to the end of each scan line, and is applied to all pixels in the reference frame. Vertical and other derivatives can also be computed in addition to, or in place of, the horizontal differentiation described above. These reference frame differentials are stored in memory 12. Since the differentials of the reference frame are immune to spill light, and do not change during a presentation, their computation is done only once.
By the same process, pixel signals in each current frame 15 are differentiated in differentiator 14 and stored in memory 13. When the differentiated signal in memory 12 of a pixel in the reference frame is subtracted from the differentiated signal in memory 13 of a pixel in the current frame, and their absolute difference is above the noise level, that pixel is in the area of the presenter's silhouette.
Any subject, not in the plane of the screen will displace the camera view of the projected pattern because of the displacement of the camera, and the displaced pattern signals and reference frame pattern signals will no longer match, nor will their differentials.
A selected measure of difference, such as the absolute arithmetic difference, between the signals or preferably, their derivatives computed by subtract and store 16 is then compared to a threshold (21), set near zero, but above camera and system noise, and assigns a binary matte signal level of 1.0 for all pixels whose signal level in subtract and store 16 is at or below this selected threshold. A matte signal of 0.0 is assigned for all pixels whose signal level is above said threshold. These 0.0's and 1.0's are a binary signal appearing as a scattering of black dots.
This binary scattering of dots is then blurred by blur function 22, in effect providing an estimate of the density of dots in the neighborhood of each pixel. This blurred image is converted to a binary image by comparing each pixel to a second threshold (23), assigning a binary matte signal level of 1.0 to all pixels whose matte signal level after blur function 22 is above the threshold, and a binary matte level of 0.0 to all other pixels. It is at this stage that the binary image represents an effective silhouette, or mask, of the subject.
After this initial effective mask is formed, it can be subjected to further adjustments, including but not limited to the following:
It can be sized, or shrunk (17). One method of shrinking involves blurring and thresholding (not to be confused with the prior blurring and thresholding).
It can be blurred again to soften its edges by blur function 18.
Image storage 9 provides one of the stored data images to inhibitor function 20, where it is multiplied by binary matte signal produced by blur function 18 to inhibit (reduce to zero) the data image signal in the silhouette area of the presenter. The inhibited data image is then routed to video projector 3.
The method described above is not restricted to infrared illumination of the pattern, but may use any non-visible wavelength band that can be sharply focused.
An infrared band in the wavelength region between 700 and 1000 nanometers is especially useful because of the wide availability of components that function in this wavelength region.
This invention provides immunity of the binary matte signal to changes of stray infrared room illumination from opening an outside door or readjusting room lighting, by differentiating the current and reference frame signals before comparing them.
Immunity to infrared reflection matches of the screen and presenter is achieved by the use of a displaced infrared pattern rather than their infrared levels.
An alternate method can be used to correct for the effect of room light changes on the screen by making an offset correction in the amount of the average difference, using either a linear or a logarithmic scale, between the reference frame signal levels and the current frame signal levels in the unobscured screen area of the current image frame. Such updating may be performed every two or three frames. However, this is a more complex method of dealing with infrared spill onto the screen, as compared to the use of differentials, and the updating can cause a momentary loss of the binary matte signal.
The method described in this invention for generating a binary matte signal can be implemented in at least four configurations, all of which will selectively inhibit a video data image.
FIG. 4 is a configuration in which computer 21 stores data images and makes all of the computations shown in dotted box 8 of FIG. 3. Housing 4 contains only the IR projector 6 projecting a pattern, and TR camera 7 providing an image of the projected pattern to processing functions 8 located within computer 21. The output of inhibit function 20 is the inhibited current image, and is routed to image projector 3. The advantage of this configuration is its simplicity and the use of a desktop computer to perform all computations.
The disadvantage of configuration 4 is the computer delay in performing the necessary computations. A delayed matte signal results in a separation of the inhibit function and the subject it is supposed to mask. A rapid movement of the presenter's arm is an example. An excessive delay permits the presenter's arm to momentarily move out from under the mask and into the projected image.
FIG. 5 shows the matte generation function 8 moved from computer 21 to IR housing 4. In this configuration, dedicated hard-wired circuits accomplish the matte generation, with a considerable reduction in delay. The matte signal 18 is then routed to inhibit function 20, located in computer 9, where it inhibits the current image selected for projection. The inhibited image is routed to image projector 3.
In FIG. 6 the image inhibit function 20 has been moved from computer 21 to IR housing 4, where hard-wired circuits further reduce the delay by which the inhibit signal follows the motions of the presenter. Image storage 9 is used only for the storage of the presenter's data images. There is no inhibiting penalty in a slow transfer of a stored data image in computer 21 to inhibit function 20 in housing 4.
Configuration 6, using hard-wired circuits, provides minimum time delay between a presenter's motion and the motion of the mask that covers him.
In FIG. 7 all functions in box 8 of FIG. 3 are incorporated in projector housing 3, resulting in an integrated product. Computer 21, located convenient to an operator, continues to store a presenter's data images, as shown in FIG. 7.
The functions of image storage (10,15,12, 13), signal differentiation (11,14), signal subtraction (16), blurring and sizing (17,18,22), greater than and less than comparison (21,23), and multiplication (20) are well known computer functions. The infrared projector 6 may be a film slide projector equipped with an incandescent lamp and incorporating a dichroic or other glass filter to reflect or absorb visible light. The infrared camera 7 may be any small video camera with dichroic or gelatin filter to reflect or absorb visible light. The video projector 3 may be any video projector receiving a video signal. The unique pattern may be a bandwidth limited random noise pattern, or a pattern simulating a bandwidth limited random noise.
The required computational functions listed above, if not performed in computer 21, are performed by programmable devices such as field programmable logic devices, or digital signal processors available from a variety of sources, the programming of which is well known to those skilled in the art.
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I am a graduate student at Princeton University's School of Engineering and Applied Science working in the CRoCCo Lab for Professor Pino Martin.
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From a Python Easter Egg
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The Zen of Python, by Tim Peters Beautiful is better than ugly. Explicit is better than implicit. Simple is better than complex. Complex is better than complicated. Flat is better than nested. Sparse is better than dense. Readability counts. Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules. Although practicality beats purity. Errors should never pass silently. Unless explicitly silenced. In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess. There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it. Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch. Now is better than never. Although never is often better than *right* now. If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea. If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea. Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those!
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I will again teach this course in Fall 2015 (MoWe 1:00PM - 2:30PM). Location: 2108 A&AB. I will post the updated syllabus in summer 2015. (The syllabus for 2013 is listed below). Feel free to email me with any questions about the course. Students from other programs (such as architecture, SNRE, public policy, business, social work, etc.) are encouraged to participate.
Urban Planning
523: Regional Planning
Prof. Scott Campbell (home page) College of Architecture and Urban Planning University Of Michigan firstname.lastname@example.com office: 2225C A&AB (734) 763-2077 Office hours sign-up • class listserv: email@example.com
last modified: Tuesday, July 21, 2015
NOTE: please email me if you find broken links. Thank you.
of Weekly Readings (subject to additions/substitutions)
Location of readings: Books available electronically via ebrary are labeled. If source not listed, the reading is located in the ctools resources folder.
Sep 3: Introduction
Central Questions for the Course include:
Sep 5 - 19: The History and Politics of Regional Planning; the Visualization of the Region (MODULE 1)
Sep 5: The Impulses for Regional Planning
Katz, Bruce, ed. 2000. Reflections on Regionalism. Washington, DC: Brookings. [ebrary link]
• Introduction: Bruce Katz
• Chapter 1: Henry R. Richmond, "Metropolitan Land-Use Reform: The Promise and Challenge of Majority Consensus"
• Chapter 3: David Rusk, "Growth Management: The Core Regional Issue"
Foster, Kathryn, 1997. "Regional Impulses," Journal of Urban Affairs 19 (4).
Briffault, Richard. 1999. "Localism and Regionalism," Columbia Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Working Paper Group, Paper Number 1.
Sep 10: Challenges and Opposition to Regional Planning
Paul Dimond, "Empowering Families to Vote with Their Feet," in Katz, Bruce, ed. 2000. Reflections on Regionalism. Washington, DC: Brookings. (Chapter 9) [ebrary]
john a. powell , "Addressing Regional Dilemmas for Minority Communities" in Katz, Bruce, ed. 2000. Reflections on Regionalism. Washington, DC: Brookings. (Chapter 8) [ebrary]
Tiebout, C. (1956), "A Pure Theory of Local Expenditures", Journal of Political Economy 64 (5): 416–424
Frug, Gerald E. 2002. Beyond Regional Government. Harvard Law Review 115:1763.
[also read -- and add your contribution to -- this google doc collection of arguments for and against regional planning; use your UM login to access]
Sep 12: History of Regional Planning
Friedmann, John and Clyde Weaver. 1979. Territory and Function: The Evolution of Regional Planning. University of California Press. (Part I: Regionalism in America," pp. 21-86)
Robert Fishman , "The Death and Life of American Regional Planning", in Katz, Bruce, ed. 2000. Reflections on Regionalism. Washington, DC: Brookings. (Chapter 4) [ebrary]
Solof, Mark, 1998, "History of Metropolitan Planning Organizations," North Jersey North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority, Inc., Newark, NJ.
Popper, Frank. 1993. "Rethinking Regional Planning," Society, September/October, pp. 46-54.
Markusen, Ann. 1994. American Federalism and Regional Policy. International Regional Science Review 16 (1&2):3-15.
[see also the regional items in this planning history timeline]
see also:
Friedmann, John and Robin Bloch. 1990. "American exceptionalism in regional planning, 1933-2000," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 14 (4): 576-601.
Sep 17: Megaregions
Ross, Catherine L.(ed.). 2009. Megaregions : Planning for Global Competitiveness. Covelo, CA, USA: Island Press. [Introduction, Chs. 5, 6, 7, 10, 12, 13] [ebrary]
Regional Plan Association. 2006. America 2050: A Prospectus. New York. see also these resources. and this megaregions home page.
Sep 19: Mapping, Visualizing the Region [class exercise; each student presents in class]
The goal of this (ungraded) assignment is to understand the definition and delineation of a "region." What differentiates a region from a city and from a state? How do ecologic, economic, administrative and social criteria lead to differing boundaries of a region?
The task: select a region (both US and international examples encouraged). (1) Briefly describe this region. (The most common region here may be a metropolitan area of one or more central cities and the hinterlands. But you might also try to map other kinds of regions, e.g., rural regions without central cities; polycentric regions; megaregions; cultural regions; etc.) (2) Then define the approximate boundaries of this region based on one or several different criteria: economic, ecological, and political-administrative (and optionally: statistically and/or socio-culturally). (3) Briefly explain the logic of your criteria. How do the boundaries vary depending on the criteria used? (4) Develop one or multiple maps to illustrate the various boundaries you have defined. (You can draw the maps by hand (and then digitally scan), use a computer program, create a collage, or any other combination of techniques to create your map.) We will review your representations in class. [look at the pdf file of the first day's class lecture -- in ctools -- for examples of regional mapping]
Format: pdf file (ideally landscape format to display in class via projector); include: your name; the name of your region; a brief caption that explains the boundaries and the logic/criteria of your regional boundaries (see above); your map.
What to turn in: Upload your pdf file to google drive folder "up523 Fall 2013 Regional Planning" (Only class members have access to this folder.)
Deadline: before the start of class on Sept 19.
Background readings and links:
Geddes, Robert . "Metropolis Unbound: The Sprawling American City and the search for Alternatives." The American Prospect, No. 35, November/December 1997, pp. 40-46.
Pastor, Manuel, Jr., Chris Benner, and Martha Matsuoka. 2009. This Could Be the Start of Something Big : How Social Movements for Regional Equity Are Reshaping Metropolitan America. Ithaca, NY, USA: Cornell University Press. (Chs. 1-2) [ebrary]
Metropolitan Council (Twin Cities) and its GIS
The Metropolitan Area Research Corporation (Myron Orfield)
Portland metropolitan government
regional councils of government (including SEMCOG, ABAG, etc.), the National Association of Regional Councils, and the Association of Metropolitan Planning Organizations)
states as implicit regional planning agencies (e.g., the New Jersey State Plan).
Patrick Geddes,
regional science,
FDR's TVA
LBJ's ARC
federal policy as implicit regional planning (e.g., US Forest Service, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Department of Transportation)
Isserman, Andrew M. 1993. Lost in Space? On the History, Status, and Future of Regional Science. Review of Regional Studies 23 (1):1-50.
Sep 24: guest speaker -- Dr. Phil D'Anieri (Lecturer in Urban and Regional Planning, who specializes in regional institutions/politics)
G. L. P., Regional Plan of New York and its Environs , Town Planning Review, 15-2 (1932-Nov.) p.123, (author, G. L. P.)
Benjamin, Gerald and Richard P. Nathan. 2001. Regionalism and Realism: A Study of Governments in the New York Metropolitan Area. Washington, DC: Brookings. selections from Chapters 1-6 [ebrary]
Sep 26: [class CANCELLED -- syllabus to re rearranged]
Oct 1: [revised date]
Benjamin, Gerald and Richard P. Nathan. 2001. Regionalism and Realism: A Study of Governments in the New York Metropolitan Area. Washington, DC: Brookings. selections from Chapters 7 - end
Regional Plan Association (RPA). A Region at Risk: (Summary)
The New Jersey State Development and Redevelopment Plan: Executive Summary
Robert Yaro, "Growing and Governing Smart: A Case Study of the New York Region" in Katz, Bruce, ed. 2000. Reflections on Regionalism. Washington, DC: Brookings. [ebrary]
Oct 3: NYC GROUP PRESENTATION: New York (James, Terra) [revised date]
(A) A leitmotif of this course is the advantages of regional coordination and planning to overcome myopic localism, fragmentation and inequality. Yet an apparent subcurrent of Benjamin and Nathan's analysis is the downside of regionalism, and the loss of important local activities when the scale of government gets too large (even when a city itself, such as New York, gets too large). In your essay, articulate and then critique the authors' view of regionalism vs. localism. How does regional governance in the New York region either respect and/or undermine positive local government and governance?
(B) Benjamin and Nathan (2001) note that "equity arguments to promote collaboration -- urging fairness between races and classes -- rarely work" [p. 30]. They go on to argue that "social equity is best advanced as a by-product of regional reform, not as its social focus" [p. 32]. In your essay, examine how the authors use the various case studies in the New York region to support this argument. Do you agree or disagree with their conclusion? Explain why.
see also:
Mumford, Lewis. 1932. The Plan of New York. New Republic, 6/15/32, Vol. 71 Issue 915, p121-126.
Meyers, Andrew A. "Invisible Cities: Lewis Mumford, Thomas Adams, and the Invention of the Regional City, 1923-1929." Business and Economic History 27:2 (Winter 1998):292-317.
Regional Plan Association, 1968, The Second Regional Plan, a Draft for Discussion. (26 pages)
Tony Schuman and Elliott Sclar. 1998. New York: RACE, CLASS & SPACE: A Historical Comparison of the Three Regional Plans for New York. Planners Network online. [link]
Background readings and links:
Regional Plan Association • maps • publications • 1929 Plan (vol 1) (vol 2) • "The Region's Growth" (1967) • A Region at Risk: The Third Regional Plan (1996)
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey • history • facilities map
Hudson River greenway
New York Metropolitan Transportation Council and regional links
Museum of the City of New York
North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority Inc. • a history of MPOs (Metropolitan Planning Organizations) NJTPA Quarterly
State of New Jersey: Office of Smart Growth • maps
National Association of Regional Councils
Oct 8 - 10: Case Study: Chicago
-- Regional Network Formation and the City as Catalyst for Regional
Development (MODULE 3)
Oct 8: The Rise of Chicago and the Region [revised date]
Cronon, William. 1991. Nature's metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. New York: W. W. Norton. [Ch 2, Rails and Water]
Bennett, Larry. 2010. Chicago Visions and Revisions : Third City : Chicago and American Urbanism. Chicago, IL, USA: University of Chicago Press. (Ch. 6: Chicago and American Urbanism) [ebrary]
Lewis, Robert D. 2003. Chicago Made : Factory Networks in the Industrial Metropolis. Chicago, IL, USA: University of Chicago Press. [Introduction, Chs. 1-2] [ebrary]
Hunt, D. Bradford, Jon B. DeVries. 2013. Planning Chicago. APA Press. [Ch.1, Introduction]
see also:
Commercial Club of Chicago, David Hudson Burnham, Edward H. Bennett, and Charles Moore. 1909. Plan of Chicago. Chicago,: The Commercial Club. [link] • alternative site: Plan of Chicago (1909) "The Burnham Plan"
Smith, Carl. 2006. Plan of Chicago : Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City. Chicago, IL, USA: University of Chicago Press. [Ch 9] [ebrary]
The Burnham Plan Centennial
The Metropolis Plan (2020) • Technical reports
CMAP: "Go To 2040" Plan • 2040 plan promotional video
Art Institute of Chicago: Chicago Looks Ahead: 100 Years of Planning, 1909–2009 • An Online Exhibition of the Plan of Chicago
Oct 10: CHI GROUP PRESENTATION: Chicago and Regional Networks (Amal, Wenqi)
2b. Chicago built and exploited new infrastructures (canals, rail, telegraph, etc.) to place itself at the center (or at least as the gateway) of a massive new economic network (of grain, lumber, meat, etc.). However, Chicago would later lose this advantage of centrality in the trading and processing of the Midwest's natural resources. That decline in Chicago's traditional economic activities might have led to an irreversible decline in the city's economic status. However, Chicago was eventually able (albeit with some painful adjustment and social inequality) to transition into a city with a remarkably diverse and vibrant post-industrial economy with global reach. How did Chicago's late 19th century history as a raw material hub shape its eventual rise as a late 20th century global city?
2c. The RPA created three regional plans for New York (1929, 1960s, 1996). Chicago has its classic 1909 Burnham plan, and a series of plans for 2020 and future decades. Contrast each city-region's approach to regional planning (as expressed in their various plans). What differences do you see in the approach in New York vs. Chicago? (Given that each city-region has several regional plans, you certainly do not need to comprehensively examine all of the plans. Instead, pick at least one plan from each region for the comparison).
2d. Compare two or more of the Chicago plans (e.g., 1909, 2020, 2040), examining how differences in the plan reflect larger changes in either the Chicago region and/or in the approach to regional planning, such as regional governance, economics, land use, political culture, sense of place, environmentalism, multiculturalism, social justice, competition from other US and global cities, the perception of Chicago's strengths and vulnerabilities, the relationship between the city and the suburbs, etc.
Background readings and links:
Chicago Imagebase including the animated 1850-1990 growth map • Chicago's Columbian Exposition of 1893 • City of Chicago (official site) • Chicago Historical Society • Chicago Board of Trade • Chicago Mercantile Exchange • Chronological history of Chicago (timeline) • Great Chicago Fire and The Web of Memory• Encyclopedia of Chicago • PBS American Experience Series: Chicago - City of the Century
Lewis, Robert. 2008. Chicago Made: Factory Networks in the Industrial Metropolis. Chicago, University of Chicago Press. [ebrary] (focuses on the metropolitan expansion of Chicago's rapid industrial growth)
Oct 15: No class (UM study break)
Oct 17: Los Angeles
Fulton, William B. 2001. The Reluctant Metropolis: The Politics of Urban Growth in Los Angeles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. [Introduction, Ch 3]
Pastor, Manuel, J. Eugene Grigsby, and Marta Lopez-Garza. 2000. Regions That Work : How Cities and Suburbs Can Grow Together. Minneapolis, MN, USA: University of Minnesota Press. (Chs. 1-3) [ebrary]
Gottlieb, Robert. 2004. Next Los Angeles : The Struggle for a Livable City. Ewing, NJ, USA: University of California Press. [Chs 3, 5] [ebrary]
see also:
Gottlieb, Robert. 2007. Reinventing Los Angeles : Nature and Community in the Global City. Cambridge, MA, USA: MIT Press.[Chs 1,3] [ebrary]
Pastor, Manuel, Jr., Chris Benner, and Martha Matsuoka. 2009. This Could Be the Start of Something Big : How Social Movements for Regional Equity Are Reshaping Metropolitan America. Ithaca, NY, USA: Cornell University Press. (Ch. 4) [ebrary]
Oct 22: San Francisco Bay Area
Walker, Richard A. 2009. Country in the City : The Greening of the San Francisco Bay Area. Seattle, WA, USA: University of Washington Press.[Introduction, Chs. 1, 2, 5, 6, Conclusion] [ebrary]
Greenbelt Alliance, "At Risk: The Bay Area's Greenbelt" (in their reports section)
Oct 24: Portland (and the Urban Growth Boundary)
Ozawa, Connie P. 2004. Portland Edge : Challenges in Growing Communities. Covelo, CA, USA: Island Press.[Introduction, Chs 1, 2, 8, 11] [ebrary]
see also:
Stephenson, R Bruce. 1999. A vision of green: Lewis Mumford's legacy in Portland, Oregon Journal of the American Planning Association; Summer; 65, 3.
Abbott, Carl;Margheim, Joy. 2008. Imagining Portland's Urban Growth Boundary: Planning Regulation as Cultural Icon. Journal of the American Planning Association; Spring; 74, 2;
Carl Abbott and Margery Post Abbott, A history of Metro,( May 1991) [link through the Metro site]
Metro (Portland regional government) • maps • mission • timeline/history • urban growth boundary (UGB) • UGB map
Oct 29: WEST COAST GROUP PRESENTATION (Cole, Evan M.)
Background readings and links:
Travis, William R. 2007. New Geographies of the American West : Land Use and the Changing Patterns of Place. Washington, DC, USA: Island Press.[ebrary]
Abbot, Carl. 2010. How Cities Won the West : Four Centuries of Urban Change in Western North America. Albuquerque, NM, USA: University of New Mexico Press.[ebrary]
Southern California Compass (public participation to shape the region's future growth)
Los Angeles Government Sources (CSUN Library)
Southern California Association of Governments • "Regional Comprehensive Plan" • "Global Gateway Regions" • Interactive Atlas
South Bay Cities Council of Governments • Westside Cities Council of Governments • Gateway Cities Council of Governments •
Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies (UCLA)
Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Authority • rail map • bus map
Metropolitan Water District of Southern California
South Coast Air Quality Management District
Response Paper 3 due Thursday Oct 31. Answer ONE of the following questions. (Be sure to read the guidelines on the assignment page.)
(a) Can one speak of a "West Coast Regionalism"? Do the patterns and politics of regionalism along the Pacific Coast differ in substantive ways from the regionalism found in eastern and midwestern metropolitan areas? If so, what might explain these differences?
(b) Pick two of the three West Coast metro areas (Los Angeles, San Francisco and/or Portland) and compare the central challenges and policies of regional planning and coordination.
Oct 31 - Nov 12: Ecoregions: regional planning
as a tool of environmental planning, water resource management, habitat preservation and sustainability
Oct 31: Ecoregions
Sale, Kirkpatrick. 2001. "There's no place like home..." The Ecologist: 31 (2): 40-43.
Hiss, Tony. 1990. The Experience of Place: A new way of looking at and dealing with out radically changing cities and countryside. New York: Vintage. (Chapter 9, "Thinking Regionally," pp. 194-220.)
Thayer, Robert L. 2003. Life-Place : Bioregional Thought and Practice. Ewing, NJ, USA: University of California Press. (Ch. 7: Planning: Designing a Life-Place) [ebrary]
Anderson, Larry. 2002. Benton MacKaye : Conservationist, Planner, and Creator of the Appalachian Trail. Baltimore, MD, USA: Johns Hopkins University Press. (Chs. 1, 8-11). [ebrary]
Nov 5: Designing the "The Regional City"
Calthorpe, Peter, and William Fulton. 2001. Regional City : New Urbanism and the End of Sprawl. Covelo, CA, USA: Island Press. (Chs. 1, 3, Conclusion) [ebrary]
Erickson, Donna. 2006. MetroGreen : Connecting Open Space in North American Cities. Washington, DC, USA: Island Press (Ch. 1 Connected Open Space: The Metropolitan Scale) .[ebrary]
Hellmund, Paul Cawood, and Daniel Smith. 2006. Designing Greenways : Sustainable Landscapes for Nature and People. Washington, DC, USA: Island Press (Chs. 1, 2) .[ebrary]
see also:
Lindenmayer, David B., and Joem Fischer. 2006. Habitat Fragmentation and Landscape Change : An Ecological and Conservation Synthesis. Washington, DC, USA: Island Press. [ebrary]
Saunders, William. 2005. Sprawl and Suburbia : A Harvard Design Magazine Reader. Minneapolis, MN, USA: University of Minnesota Press. [ebrary]
Bailey, Robert G. 2002. Ecoregion-Based Design for Sustainability. Secaucus, NJ, USA: Springer. [ebrary]
Nov 7: Water: The River Basin as Region
Reisner, M. 1993. Cadillac desert: the American West and its disappearing water. revised ed. New York and London: Penguin Books. (Introduction & Ch. 1, pp. 1-51)
Annin, Peter. 2006. Great Lakes Water Wars. Washington, DC, USA: Island Press. (Ch. 1) [ebrary]
Mullin, Megan. 2009. Governing the Tap : Special District Governance and the New Local Politics of Water. Cambridge, MA, USA: MIT Press. (Ch. 1) [ebrary]
Nov 12: ECO GROUP PRESENTATION (Jonas, Danielle M.)
(a) One typically thinks of regional planning as the activity of regional economists, resource managers, infrastructure planners; by contrast, design is often viewed as an activity that can best (or only) be done at a small scale (e.g., the neighborhood). However, Calthorpe and Fulton argue that creating the "regional city" should be an act of design. In your essay, examine why the authors assert the importance of design (over, for example, "engineering", p. 43). How does a design approach/mentality lead to a different type of regional planning than a typical policy/planning approach? What are the advantages and drawbacks of the design approach to regionalism?
(b) Benjamin and Nathan (2001) had argued that equity arguments for regional planning rarely work. Can the same be said about environmental protection arguments? Consider the range of examples from this module's readings: to what extent have environmental concerns been effective in promoting regional planning and building powerful regional coalitions? And are all regional environmental arguments equally effective (or ineffective), or is there variation (e.g., habitat preservation vs. watershed protection vs. public health concerns vs. open space as amenity, etc.).
(c) One argument made by some ecoregionalists is that a region should live within its means (e.g., minimize imports of natural resources into the region). Examine the logic of this argument (made either implicitly or explicitly in the readings). How might this argument vary for different kinds of natural resources (e.g., water, energy, food)?
Background readings and links: [links to be updated]
Fregonese Calthorpe Associates
the Planet Drum Foundation
the Sierra Club ecoregions
regional wildlife corridors (e.g., a GIS example from Montana and corridor design)
riverbasin-based identity (such as an envisioned Hudson River greenway from Manhattan to Albany)
greenbelts (e.g., the Greenbelt Alliance in San Francisco, Frankfurt, Vienna)
Campbell, Scott. 1992. "Integrating Economic and Environmental Planning: The Regional Perspective," pdf
the fall issue of Boom: A Journal of California is a special issue on California water, Owens Valley, Los Angeles, and the LA Aqueduct [link]
Nov 14: Detroit and Southeast Michigan: What kind of region did the Motor City create?
Barrow, Heather B. 2004. "'The American Disease of Growth': Henry Ford and the Metropolitanization of Detroit, 1920 - 1940." In Manufacturing Suburbs : Building Work and Home on the Metropolitan Fringe, edited by Robert Lewis. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. [ebrary]
Sugrue, Thomas J. 1998. The Origins of the Urban Crisis. Princeton: Princeton Univ Press. [excerpt: chapter 5]
Galster, George. 2012. [Metropolitan Portraits] Driving Detroit: The Quest for Respect in the Motor City. Philadelphia, PA, USA: University of Pennsylvania Press. (Ch. 10. "What Drives Detroiters?" and Ch. 11. "From Motown to Mortropolis"; see also Ch. 2: "Sculpting Detroit: Polity and Economy Trump Geology") [ebrary]
see also:
Maynard, Micheline. 2004. The end of Detroit : how the Big Three lost their grip on the American car market. New York: Currency/Doubleday. [browse the book contents for one perspective on the US auto industry] [ebrary]
SEMCOG • Detroit Water and Sewerage Department •Detroit Metropolitan Area Regional Planning Commission papers (online historical copies) • a summary of the 1960s Doxiadis Associates plan for Detroit
Detroit Economic Growth Corporation • Detroit Regional Chamber • City of Detroit: Local Economic Development Division
Detroit Works Project • the Framework • The Economic Growth Element: The Equitable City
Nov 19: Presentation (Josh, Alyson, Jordan)
NO response paper assigned for this short module
Nov 21 - Dec 5: New Regionalism, Global-regions; International
Cases of Regional Planning (MODULE 7)
This module addresses three themes: (A) the impact of globalization on metropolitan/regional development (including the rise of "global city-regions"); and (B) the role of regional planning outside the United States; (C) patterns of "new regionalism"
Nov 21: Globalization's Impact on Regional Planning and Development (including the rise of "global city-regions) in the US and Asia
Scott, Allen. 'Globalization and the Rise of City-Regions' GaWC Research Bulletin 26 (Z). html
Sugden, R. and J.R. Wilson. 'Globalisation, the New Economy and Regionalisation' GaWC Research Bulletin 70 (A) html
Scott, Allen J., John Agnew, Edward W. Soja, and Michael Storper. 1999. "Global City-Regions." (Conference Theme Paper). Global City-Regions Conference, UCLA.
Sassen, Saskia. 2009. The Global City Perspective: Theoretical Implications for Shanghai. in Shanghai Rising : State Power and Local Transformations in a Global Megacity. (Chen, Xiangming , editor). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. [Ch. 1] [ebrary]
Nov 26: European Integration and regional development in Europe
Klaus Kunzmann. 2006. The Europeanization of Spatial Planning, in Adams, Neil (Editor). Regional Development and Spatial Planning in an Enlarged European Union. Abingdon, Oxon, UK: Ashgate Publishing Group. (Chapter 3) [ebrary]
Taylor, P.J. 'Regionality within Globalization: What Does it Mean for Europe?'GaWC Research Bulletin 35 (Z) html
Krätke, S. The Metropolization of the European Urban and Regional System GaWC Research Bulletin 193 html
Albrechts, Louis, Patsy Healey, Klaus R Kunzmann. 2003. Strategic spatial planning and regional governance in Europe. Journal of the American Planning Association.Vol.69, Iss. 2 (Spring): 113 - 129
Faludi, Andrea, "The Megalopolis, the Blue Banana, and Global Economic Integration Zones in European Planning Thought," in Ross, Catherine L.(ed.). 2009. Megaregions : Planning for Global Competitiveness. Covelo, CA, USA: Island Press. [ebrary]
see also:
Amin, Ash and Nigel Thrift. 1999. Institutional issues for the European regions From markets and plans to socioeconomics and powers of association. in Gertler, Meric S., and Trevor J. Barnes (eds). 1999. New Industrial Geography : Regions, Regulations and Institutions. Florence, KY, USA: Routledge. [selected chapters] [ebrary]
Otgaar, Alexander, Leo Van Den Berg, and Jan Van Der Meer. 2008. Empowering Metropolitan Regions Through New Forms of Cooperation : Cross-Border and Cross-Sector Partnerships in European Regions. Abingdon, Oxon, , GBR: Ashgate Publishing Group.[selected chapters] [ebrary]
Bvrzel, Tanja. 2001. States and Regions in the European Union : Institutional Adaptation in Germany and Spain. West Nyack, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press. [selected chapters] [ebrary]
Dec 3: The Rise of "New Regionalism"
Wheeler, Stephen. 2002. The new regionalism: Key characteristics of an emerging movement. Journal of the American Planning Association 68, (3): 267.
Brenner, Neil. 2002. Decoding the newest "Metropolitan regionalism" in the USA: A critical overview. Cities: 3-21.
Jonas, Andrew E.G. 2012. Region and place: Regionalism in question. Progress in Human Geography 36(2) 263–272.
Wallis, Allan D. 2010, New Regionalism, in Encyclopedia of Urban Studies. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc.
Storper, Michael. 1999. The resurgence of regional economics Ten years later. in Gertler, Meric S., and Trevor J. Barnes (eds). 1999. New Industrial Geography : Regions, Regulations and Institutions. Florence, KY, USA: Routledge. [Ch 2] [ebrary]
see also:
Scott, James W. 2009. Systemic Transformation and the Implementation of New Regionalist Paradigms: experiences of central Europe and la tin am erica, in Scott, James W. (Editor). De-Coding New Regionalism : Shifting Socio-Political Contexts in Central Europe and Latin America. Abingdon, Oxon, , GBR: Ashgate Publishing Group. [chapter 2] [ebrary]
Fujita, Masahisa, Paul Krugman, and Anthony J. Venables. 1999. Spatial Economy : Cities, Regions and International Trade. Cambridge, MA, USA: MIT Press. [ebrary]
Knox, Paul L. 2008. Metroburbia, USA. New Brunswick, NJ, USA: Rutgers University Press. [ebrary]
New Regional Development Paradigms Vol. 2 : New Regions - Concepts, Issues & Practices. 2001. Westport, CT, USA: Greenwood Press. [ebrary]
Mani, Devyani. 2001. New Regional Development Paradigms Vol. 3 : Decentralization, Governance & the New Planning for Local-Level Development. Westport, CT, USA: Greenwood Press. [ebrary]
additional background readings
Storper, Michael. 1997. The Regional World: Territorial Development in a Global Economy. New York: Guilford Press. (excerpt: Chapter 8, "The Regional World: Territorial Development in a Global Economy", pp. 195-220).
Scott, Allen, ed. 2001. Global City-Regions: Trends Theory, Prospects. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. (introduction)
Stren, Richard. 2001. Local Governance and Social Diversity in the Developing World: New Challenges for Globalizing City-Regions. In Global City-Regions: Trends Theory, Prospects. edited by A. Scott. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.
Markusen, Ann and Karen Chapple. 2001. "High-Tech and I-Tech: How Metros Rank and Specialize" html | pdf
Arndt, Michael ; Thomas Gawron; Petra Jahnke. 2000. Regional policy through co-operation: From urban forum to urban network. Urban Studies; Vo. 37 (11): 1903 - 1923.
Two Dragon Heads : Contrasting Development Paths for Beijing and Shanghai. 2009. Herndon, VA, USA: World Bank Publications. [selected chapters] [ebrary]
Dec 5: GLOBAL GROUP PRESENTATION: Global Regions / International Regional Planning (Evan J., Cheng)
(a) This course has focused on examples of U.S. regional planning and metropolitan politics. As a result, readings have emphasized city-suburban inequality, especially along racial lines; the relative lack of formal, comprehensive regional planning institutions; the resistance of local home rule to regionalism; school funding gaps between city and suburb; the tensions between economic, environmental and social equity priorities in a region; and the importance of semi-autonomous regional authorities / special purpose districts. In a comparative international perspective, to what extent are these problems universal themes of regional planning or instead specific to the American context? (In answering the question, you may find it useful to use a specific example of regional planning/development outside the U.S.)
(b) Looking backwards, the industrial revolution fundamentally reconfigured the structure of metropolitan regions and the relationship between city and hinterland within the region. Looking forward, to what extent can one connect the current processes of globalization to the changing social, political, economic and/or physical structure of metropolitan regions? Discuss how regionalists can use concepts and insights from the globalization literature to understand the new American region and where it is headed in the future.
Dec 10: Course Synthesis
This last session will provide an opportunity to link common themes from the presentations and develop a set of principles for good regional planning and governance.
TASK: Each student is to come to class with a one-page sheet (with enough copies for the class) of 5-7 lessons / principles about regional planning and development. (Format: a numbered list; each lesson / principle should be one or several sentences long.) If useful, you might also include a map, diagram, or illustration.


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Stetson University has been so successful at recruiting new students that it doesn't have enough dorms to accommodate them on campus.
Stetson officials said 52 students will be housed on the fourth floor of the Clarion.
Clarion management wouldn't confirm the arrangements because no contract has been signed. But Stetson officials said there is an agreement in place for the entire school year.
The Clarion is about two miles from Stetson; students will be able to ride a free shuttle to campus, which will run every 15 minutes or so.
The deal with the Clarion is being made despite Stetson's recent purchase of the former University Inn, which is being renamed University Hall, will be ready for occupancy at the start of the fall semester.
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Ginger Baker and Keith Moon are the reason I started playing the drums. I saw Baker first (with Cream), then Moon (with the Who). I created my drumming style by blending the best aspects of each of their drumming styles. Later I incorporated aspects of the styles of Bill Bruford, Billy Cobham, Tony Williams, Chester Thompson and Phil Collins.
I saw the Who live several times in the late 60s and early 70s during the Tommy, Who's Next and Quadrophenia tours.
If you want to see Keith Moon at the absolute height of his creative powers, check out the Who's performance at the Tanglewood Music Shed on July 7, 1970. The full concert is usually available via YouTube. This is the last time the Who performed Tommy live in the USA. Moon is absolutely on fire. His drumming is flawless. It's smooth, powerful and effortless! This is undeniable evidence that Moon and John Entwhistle are one of the finest rock rhythm sections ever! And that Moon is easily one of the best rock drummers ever, period! As far as him being sloppy, a poor time keeper or technically inefficient, this performance obliterates those criticisms (at least during this time period). He perfectly compliments the music in a distinctive, creative, entertaining and musically powerful way.
Unfortunately, many people have poor visual reference with which to gauge Moon's true genius. It's generally agreed by knowledgeable Moon aficionados that his later performances are marred by lack of practice, the degenerative and de-conditioning effects of the rock and roll life style and boredom. It is because of these later performances that many people believe Moon is deeply flawed and overrated. I saw the Who in 1975 at the Silverdome (in Pontiac, MI) and he was a shadow of his former self.
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Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Eggs Up Grill, Mount Pleasant's newest breakfast and lunch establishment, made a $1,062 donation to East Cooper Community Outreach on Monday, April 15.
"There are other Eggs Up Grill restaurant locations, mostly in the Myrtle Beach area," said co-owner Jerry Romaine, "but our store is new to Mount Pleasant and we were looking for an opportunity to support our own community."
East Cooper Community Outreach (ECCO) provides emergency assistance for food, clothing, household furnishings, and financial needs as well as, ongoing services including medical, dental, prescription drug assistance, education and counseling. All programs and services strive to guide clients toward self-sufficiency.
"We welcome Eggs Up Grill into our community. We are excited they chose ECCO to receive the proceeds from their first fundraiser. We depend upon our neighbors to keep our programs operational since we are not supported by government funds. Eggs Up has already proven to be a great neighbor," says Jack Little, executive director.
"Jerry suggested we take a look at East Cooper Community Outreach," said Kaycie Lane, Jerry's business partner and co-owner. "So we took a tour of their facility and met their staff. I was really impressed by the scope of their operation and the variety of services they provide. Because Jerry and I both live in Mount Pleasant, it was important for us to select an organization that was serving this neighborhood."
Eggs Up Grill made a commitment to donate to ECCO 10 percent of their sales made every Monday from Jan. 1 through March 31.
"We are so pleased to provide ECCO with these much-needed funds," said Lane. "We wish them continued success in their mission to eliminate poverty in East Cooper communities and we hope our donation assists them in that worthy goal." Jerry Roamine continues, "Kaycie and I are very interested in being involved in our neighborhood and wanted to give back to a worthy organization."
Eggs Up Grill is open 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. daily and serves a variety of breakfast favorites plus an extensive lunch offering. The Mount Pleasant location is at 2664 Highway 17 North, next door to Carrabba's. There are also locations at Pawleys Island, Surfside, Conway, Myrtle Beach, Garden City and Anderson. The Eggs Up Grill menu can be viewed at www.EggsUpGrill.com.
East Cooper Community Outreach (ECCO) strives to provide safety net services for our low income neighbors while empowering them to create better lives for themselves, their families and their communities. Learn more at www.eccocharleston.org.
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An agreement appears to be at hand nearly four months after Johnson City Schools received a tersely worded request by an attorney representing Pittsburgh's Duquesne University for Science Hill High School to cease and desist from using its logo of a grimacing top-hatted man.
University spokeswoman Bridget Fare said in a story last week in the online edition of the university's newspaper, The Duquesne Duke, that they no longer intend to file a lawsuit over trademark infringement and that representatives from the two entities are discussing possible time frames for Science Hill to stop using the logo.
Telephone messages left for Fare and Christine Ethridge, an attorney with the Pittsburgh law firm K&L Gates who is representing the university, were not returned.
"We are finalizing an agreement that hopefully will be voted on by the Board of Education at its next meeting (Oct. 3)," Lee Patterson, Johnson City Schools' human resources director and legal counsel, said Monday.
A June 2 letter from Ethridge asked that the logo be removed from Kermit Tipton Stadium before the start of the school year Aug. 4, and that no further clothing, labels, signs, brochures, schedules and the like bearing the logo be ordered and produced. The request also stated that "beginning immediately" no coach, staff member, teacher or anyone representing the high school wear any article of clothing with the logo on it.
But proof the two entities had gone into negotiation mode straddled the stadium's 50-yard line when school started and at ensuing football games where the large logo has remained firmly implanted in the new synthetic turf.
Since the letter was first made public July 6, Patterson has said the school system was attempting to workout a franchising agreement. Communication with the Press regarding the situation after that point has been consistent: that because of potential litigation, the school could not go public with further information.
On Sept. 15, Supervisor of Instruction and Facilities, Dave Chupa, told the Duquesne Duke's Managing Editor Robyn Rudish-Laning that it would be expensive to cut into a field that has a brand new $500,000 synthetic turf. He told the paper it would be expensive to try to remove the logo from the new scoreboard as well.
"I can confirm that we are in negotiations, and they are friendly negotiations," Ethridge said in late July as negotiations continued. "We are aware that school has started, and we are hopeful an amiable resolution can be reached."


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Dear Susan, Mr. Korn is not a Rockford resident, his property taxes in Loves Park do not support the library and he does not have a Rockford library card. Therefore he is not a user of the library. The materials collection is larger today than in 2010. This information is located on our website at: http://www.rockfordpubliclibrary.org. There is no "massive" weeding of materials going on. This is a falsehood. The library board and executive director have listened extensively to this group and their concerns. Many people in our community do want e-Readers and access to digital material. Our requests for this material is increasing. We will loan e-readers to patrons just as we provided computers and Internet access to our patrons. We also are currently offering e-book training. We strive to offer a wide variety of materials for ALL people; books, CDs, DVDs, downloadable music and books, information databses, etc. We do not discriminate against any group of people.
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Where are the library books going?
I am a lifelong resident of Rockford, a frequent library patron and a lover of books. What is happening now at the Downtown Branch is nothing less than a crime against not only the people of this community, but against the concept of library itself. We all know about the threat to the library system since out-of-town Director Frank Novak was given a blank check by the library board to overhaul it. What many do not know is that books are already disappearing from library shelves in massive numbers from the Downtown Branch. Library personnel have testified to this, and a walk through the second and third floors makes this plundering easily visible. Here is a link to a picture of empty shelves on the second floor: http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/s320x320/524128_10151506759125145_898020144.
Where are the books going? What criteria is being used to get rid of them? What accountability is there? This despicable activity is being swept under the rug. These books are NOT the private collection of Novak and the Board … they belong to the CITIZENS OF ROCKFORD and have been paid for by OUR MONEY! It is unbelievable to the point of parody. What library system trashes their own books in secret?
I have already contacted Mayor Larry Morrissey about this issue and have also gotten in touch with Kent Fiels, executive director of the American Library Association. I'm also trying to get Occupy Rockford involved. This issue should be of great importance to anybody who loves books and libraries. I know e-books are part of the equation today, but this behavior is OUTRAGEOUS! I've also heard that plans are already in place to rent out parts of the Downtown Library once it's been emptied of its most valuable resource.
I have put up with a lot of dismal activity in Rockford over the years, but this is the end. I have no intention of living in a community so backward, so totally bereft of respect for history, culture and learning. The city is beyond saving if this lunatic activity continues. I urge all citizens to get involved.
Mike Korn
Loves Park
From the April 11-17, 2012, issue
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I am curious why the SOL group is not posting and blocking information sent to their blog which corrects their misinformation and responds to their erroneous charges and half truths?


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Doctor James Fulton, Jr., world-renowned dermatologist, is credited with hiring the first aesthetician on his medical team, was a co-developer of Retin-A and benzyl peroxide and co-founded the Vivant Skin Care line of products.
National Aesthetic Spa Network (NASN) recently honored Dr. Fulton at their 10th anniversary conference in Del Rey, FL. "Dr. Fulton did so much for our industry during his lifetime; we have a lot to thank him for and NASN is here to do that today," said Denise R. Fuller, Founder of NASN. During the presentation, Michael Q. Pugliese, CEO, Circadia by Dr. Pugliese, Bethal, PA, spoke about the positive influence Dr. Fulton had on him and the industry, while Barbara Marzulli, owner of The Sanctuary at Traditions in Port St. Lucie, FL, and one of the first estheticians Dr. Fulton hired, said she attributes the success and longevity of her career to what she learned from him. Fulton's daughter, Kelly Fulton-Kendrick, CEO of Vivant Skin Care accepted the award on Dr. Fulton's behalf.
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In addition, the second annual Global Wellness Tourism Congress will be held September 10, 2014. This event brings together ministers of tourism and thought-leaders to analyze current market conditions and develop new strategies to further develop wellness tourism. According to a recently released Global Spa & Wellness Summit study, wellness tourism is a (US) $439 billion market, representing one in seven tourism dollars.
According to CEO, SMIT, Imad Barrakad, "Business, health and wellness are among the six structuring programs of the Moroccan Strategic Vision for Tourism Development 2020. By developing the wellness and spa niche, we are targeting Morocco as an international destination for wellness via the promotion of new wellness and relaxation concepts that are based on an ecological approach that takes advantage of Moroccan's local riches. Holding the 2014 Global Spa & Wellness Summit in Marrakech is an opportunity for Morocco to introduce the richness and potential of the country for spa and wellness."
Furthermore, Global Spa & Wellness Chairman and CEO Susie Ellis noted, "Morocco is a splendid setting for the 2014 Summit. It has a rich history as a wellbeing destination with an age-old tradition of beauty, relaxation and body care. The Moroccan hammam, argan oil and the amazing new anti-aging Barbary fig seed oil are just some of the contributions the country has made to spa and wellness worldwide. Equally impressive is the country's commitment to, and investment in, wellness tourism."
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The Global Spa & Wellness Summit (GSWS) is an international organization representing senior executives and leaders from over 40 countries, joined by a common interest to drive economic development and understanding of the spa and wellness industries. Delegates from diverse sectors, including hospitality, tourism, health and wellness, beauty, finance, medical, real estate, manufacturing and technology, attend the organization's annual Summit, which is held in a different host country each year. It is known for introducing major industry initiatives such as SpaEvidence.com, the world's first online portal to the medical evidence behind common spa and wellness therapies.
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"Robin Hood" starring Russell Crowe in theatres this Friday (5/14)
Looking for a movie to see this weekend? "Robin Hood," one of this summer's early action picks, comes out this Friday. It promises to be an exciting, action-packed flick, with war, corruption and medieval weapons. It runs 140 minutes, and is directed by Ridley Scott, who also directed action and crime favorites such as "Gladiator" and "American Gangster." Stars of in the movie include Oscar winners Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett as Robin Longstride and Lady Marion. The film is rated PG-13 for violence and some sexual content.
This version of the "Robin Hood" of folklore follows one Robin Longstride, an expert archer and member of King Richard's army. He is only interested in his own self-preservation from his experiences battling the French. When King Richard dies, he travels to the despondent town of Nottingham. There he falls in love with widow Lady Marion, who doesn't trust him as an outsider. He forms a gang of skilled mercenaries. At first this is more of an effort to impress Lady Marion, but as the gang starts to correct the injustices of the upper class, it rids Nottingham of the corruption imposed by a despotic sheriff. You can watch the trailer on Youtube here: Robin Hood (2010) Trailer
The legend of Robin Hood has sparked many adaptations in book and movie form, so the story is familiar to many. Hopefully this version will have a fresh take on popular story. This film opens worldwide tomorrow May 14.
Which version of "Robin Hood" is your favorite? What did you think of this one? Feel free to share in the comments below!


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Many of you may know the Lynxmotion SSC-32 Servo Controller board: it is one of our most popular products and is found in most Lynxmotion robot kits. It has a long history, designed years ago by Mike Dvorsky, a great contributor that worked with the founders of Lyxnmotion. Today, we're announcing the release of the successor board: the Lynxmotion SSC-32U USB Servo Controller board.
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