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How One Person is Recreating Chicago's Famous Skyline With LEGO Bricks
By AJ LaTrace Jun 4, 2015, 3:30pm CDT
Chicago's skyline is world famous for its tall, monumental towers, and one person is on a quest to recreate the city's downtown using LEGO bricks. As a student at the Illinois Institute of Technology's College of Architecture, Rocco Buttliere is intrigued by design and how Chicago's buildings all fit and flow together. He started tinkering around with the idea of building a scale model of Chicago a few years back, and now he's completed the north end of the Loop and parts of River North and Lakeshore East. However, to recreate the entire downtown area, Buttliere estimates that the ambitious task could take nearly a decade to complete. Building the city's famous towers at a 1:650 scale, Buttliere has used tens of thousands of LEGO bricks to build his model of over 30 buildings, and he's only really just getting started.
At what point did you say to yourself, "I want to build a LEGO version of the Loop," and why?
Deciding to build the Loop really came as a result of my studies at IIT. I think studying architecture has shifted my focus with these models in a completely new direction. Wanting to study architecture got me interested in representing buildings, but actually studying architecture and urbanism led me to consider the importance of each aspect of the urban environment. This is why I strive to include more and more of each model's surroundings, so that I can more honestly express its context as truly being a part of a whole, not simply an individual and standalone monument as the designation of 'landmark' would have you believe.
How long has this project taken you?
I started making skyscraper models at a uniform 1:650 scale back in 2009. The first building in my North Loop Layout was Trump Tower, which I made in 2010. Since then, each building in the layout has been added individually over the past five years. I only decided to connect them all last year, by adding in several of the smaller North Loop buildings between Wacker and Michigan.
What are some of the challenges of building Chicago's towers in LEGO form?
The biggest challenge is keeping all the models within my uniform scale of 1:650. Any restrictions of working with LEGO tend to go back to the consistency of scale. LEGO pieces are their own modules, meaning one piece can be used at any scale for whatever purpose. It's finding the right piece at my scale for the right purpose that can be restrictive. Starting out on a model, I like to picture a moment or quality of the architectural fabric that would translate nicely into a combination of pieces I am picturing in my head. Sometimes this can take years, as was the case with my Marina City model. The nice thing going forward, though, is that lots of buildings feature some of the similar motifs as others. Already having a sizable chunk of Chicago has and likely will make things quicker in the design stage, as I prepare to expand my layout.
How far do you plan on taking the project?
I plan on expanding my current layout until it incorporates the majority of the downtown area. It's still too early to decide exactly which streets I will be drawing the lines for the borders at, but that also depends on how certain areas develop between now and whenever I complete this project. My current estimation is that this will take no less than ten years to fully realize. This allows ample time for many of the currently proposed Chicago projects to be completed, as well as new proposals to pop up. The adaptability of LEGO will make this layout a continually developing and redeveloping project. With so many new buildings (even a few supertalls) in the works for Chicago, who knows what the final model will look like. Though I suppose with that logic, the layout will never actually be in a state static enough to be called 'final.'
Have you had any discussions with organizations to display your work?
I display all my models at the yearly Brickworld Chicago convention in Schaumburg. This year, the convention public days will be held on June 20 and 21. I will also be displaying my complete collection of models at IIT's LEGO City Day on July 18. As far as less temporary venues go, I haven't had any recent discussions about doing so. I am totally open to the idea, though. I actually had my then-seventeen Chicago models displayed at Prudential Plaza for a month back in February 2014. I find public installations such as this to be one of the best ways to accommodate more of the people who are interested in seeing it.
·LEGO Loop is growing: More than 30 buildings now depicted [Loop North News]
·North Loop Layout, Chicago [MOCpages]
·Adventures in Architecture archives [Curbed Chicago]

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Le parc national de Douala-Edéa, précédemment connu sous le nom de réserve de faune de Douala-Edéa, est une aire protégée du Cameroun. Elle est située dans le département de la Sanaga Maritime. D'une superficie d'environ , elle longe la côte atlantique au sud de Douala sur une distance d'environ  jusqu'à la rivière Dipombé.

Historique
Lors de la création de la réserve de faune de Douala-Edéa, en 1932, la réserve a été délimitée à l'intérieur ou à côté de plusieurs villages et campements de pêche. Avec la croissance démographique, les populations et l'habitat humain exercent une pression de plus en plus forte sur la réserve.
Dotée d'une biodiversité exceptionnelle, la réserve subit de fortes menaces et pressions qui impactent son écosystème. Elle est aussi exposée à de nombreux conflits liés aux droits d'usage. Cette situation est à l'origine d'un plaidoyer pour son reclassement en parc national qui devrait favoriser une meilleure gestion des ressources de la biodiversité  - lacs, lagunes, bancs de sable… -  et espèces animales emblématiques - éléphants, chimpanzés, tortues marines, lamantins…-  vivant au sein de la Réserve.

En 1971, le Cameroun a désigné la réserve comme un parc animalier à des fins scientifiques.

En 1974, la réserve avait un restaurateur et poste de garde.

Au début des années 1980, la réserve a fait l'objet de forages pétroliers qui ont ouvert des pistes facilitant l'accès à l'intérieur de la réserve.

En 2000, la réserve couvre .

Le 25 septembre 2018 est signe par le présidence de la république le décret 2018/8399/PM portant mutation de la réserve de faune de Douala-Edéa en parc national de Douala-Edéa. La surface du parc est portée a 262 935 hectares.

Sa mise à niveau vers le plein statut de parc national a été retardée puisque le pétrole avait été découvert dans les zones côtières du Cameroun, et la région pourrait détenir des réserves importantes.

Géographie
La réserve de faune de Douala -Edéa est géographiquement localisée à 3°30'0" N et 9°49'60" E en DMS (degrés, minutes, secondes) ou 3.5 et 9.83333 (en degrés décimaux). Le lac Tissongo, une lagune reliée à la rive sud de la rivière Sanaga par un chenal de marée de cinq kilomètres est inclus dans la réserve. Cette parcelle du domaine public de l'État réservée à la préservation de la faune couvre les localités de Mouanko, Edéa, Dizangué et les Iles de Manoka.

Ainsi, limitée au nord par la banlieue sud de Douala, au sud par Kribi, à l'ouest par l'océan Atlantique et à l'ouest par la nationale reliant Edéa à Kribi, la réserve est entouré de zones relativement industrialisées ou densément peuplées.

Flore
80 % de la réserve est couverte par la forêt tropicale humide de plaine, et 15 % par des forêts de mangrove de l'Atlantique. La réserve Mouanko entre la Sanaga et l'estuaire du Wouri détient environ  de forêts de mangroves. Les mangroves forment un tampon contre l'érosion côtière et sont un refuge pour 80 % des espèces marines et aquatiques locales pour au moins une partie de leur cycle de vie. Elles sont menacées par l'exploitation forestière de bois d'œuvre et de chauffage utilisé dans le fumage du poisson, ainsi que par le développement des infrastructures urbaines. Les bûcherons illégaux ont été expulsés du parc en 1976.

Faune
La faune comprend les éléphants de forêt, les primates (chimpanzés, espèces de singes tels que le colobe noir), les antilopes (sitatunga, céphalophes bleu, etc.), les lamantins d'Afrique de l'Ouest, les tortues marines, les dauphins, les crocodiles, les alligator, de nombreuses espèces de poissons, des espèces d'oiseaux terrestres et aquatiques.

Le mangabey couronné a été signalé comme étant commun dans la réserve en 1972.

L'espèce en voie de disparition, le Moustac à oreilles rousses a été signalée dans la partie de Lombé de la réserve avec des densités de 2-3 groupes par  kilomètre carré, mais les populations ont été réduites à cause de la chasse.

Les animaux dans la réserve sont mal protégés et le braconnage est très répandu.

Les chimpanzés communs (Pan troglodytes) sont menacés dans la réserve par les chasseurs.

Administration
La réserve est une aire protégée propriété du Cameroun et gérée par un conservateur soutenu par des garde-chasse.

Références

Annexes

Articles connexes
 Liste des aires protégées du Cameroun
 Platytinospora buchholzii

Bibliographie
 L'atlas pour la conservation des forêts tropicales d'Afrique (traduit de l'anglais, publié à l'initiative de Comité français pour l'UICN), Ed. J.-P. de Monza, Paris, 1996, 310 p.
  A. Glyn Davies et John F. Oates (dir.), Colobine monkeys : their ecology, behaviour, and evolution, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge ; New York, N.Y., 1994, 415 p.
  R.O. Nanji, Assessment at the fisheries resources offishermen living around the Sanaga Estuary (Douala-Edéa Wildlife reserve), 2007 (DESS dissertation)
 E. T. Ndjogui, Identification des indicateurs d'aménagement des aires protégées du Cameroun. Le cas de la Réserve de Faune de Douala Edéa, Université de Yaoundé, 2009,  (mémoire de DEA)
  D. McC. Newbery and J.S. Gartlan, « A structural analysis of rain forest at Korup and Douala-Edea, Cameroon », in Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 104B, 1996,

Faune au Cameroun
Région du Littoral (Cameroun)
Aire protégée au Cameroun
Aire protégée créée en 1932

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All these years I'd never seen the Disney Peter Pan movie (that I remember). And for that matter, I'd never read Peter and Wendy, J. M. Barrie's "novelization" of his own play. Since Captain Hook is one of those iconic pirates, albeit a comic one, I figured it was time to fill up the gaps in my education. So I read the story and watched the film.
First, let's disentangle what's going on here. James Matthew Barrie (1860 – 1937) originally wrote a novel called The Little White Bird (1902) in which Peter Pan figured through several chapters. Then he wrote the play Peter Pan (1904, though he kept revising it until 1928), and finally he wrote the "novelization" of the play under the title Peter and Wendy (1911). The Peter Pan of The Little White Bird differs significantly from the later Peters, and Hook does not appear, so we may ignore it here. What most people are talking about when they refer to "Peter Pan" is some adaptation of the 1928 play text. Peter and Wendy is Barrie telling us adults what to think about the play as he reproduces its action. And Disney's Peter Pan (1953) is an adaptation of the play. Got it?
The major was a gentleman of good reputation in the island of Barbados, was master of a plentiful fortune, and had the advantage of a liberal education. He had the least temptation of any man to follow such a course of life [piracy], from the condition of his circumstances. It was very surprising to every one, to hear of the major's enterprise, in the island where he lived; and as he was generally esteemed and honored, before he broke out into open acts of piracy, so he was afterward rather pitied than condemned, by those that were acquainted with him, believing that this humor of going a-pirating, proceeded from a disorder in his mind . . .
Bonnet was unfortunate in his piratical career. It began in 1717 when he bought his own ship, an unusual course for a man about to turn pirate. On some of his early exploits he actually paid for the goods he took! The pirate Blackbeard, a more ferocious character than the gentlemanly Bonnet, took over the Major's ship at one point in 1717, and then ditched him in 1718, cheating Bonnet and his crew of their share of the loot from past captures. Bonnet was captured later in 1718 by a naval expedition that was actually hunting for a different pirate. He managed to escape, only with his customary luck to be quickly recaptured, tried, and hanged on November 13. Whether Barrie ever knew of Major Stede Bonnet I can't say. But the resemblance to the Captain Hook of Peter and Wendy is there.
This entry was posted in Pirates and tagged Captain Hook, history, Major Stede Bonnet, Peter Pan, piracy, pirates on December 30, 2014 by Brian Bixby.
Oh, dear, the little-known apid! Corrected, thank you!
I had not encountered Major Stede Bonnet (not surprising since several years separate us) but I am sure J M Barrie would have, being a writer and writers research (well, most do, at least cursory.) As an amusing postscript, Johnny Depp (Capt Jack Sparrow) played Barrie in Finding Neverland. Recommended, if you've not seen it, though by no means a straight biography. Co-stars Dustin Hoffman and Julie Christie. A little bit of a softie.