Architecture Preview

Atomium, Belgium

1. Who is the architect (the person who built it)? André Waterkeyn and Jean Polak.

2. When was it built? 1958

3. Where is it located?  1020 City of Brussels, Belgium

4. Is it a private building or can you visit it? private
5. Is there information on how much it cost to build? 165 billion (thousand million) times
6. Is there a reason the building was created or the history of the building itself? quality of lifting everyone’s spirits and firing their imagination.
7. Why did you pick this building? (write at least a paragraph on this question) I picked this building because it looked really cool to live in. Just imagining it is really cool just to live in one of those balls on the top. I have no idea how be are the rooms but i would like to find out.

1. Who is the architect? Charles Deaton
2. When was it built? in 1963
3. Where is it located? Lakewood, Colorado
4. Is it a private building or can you visit it? private
5. Is there information on how much it cost to build? $10,000,000
6. Is there a reason the building was created or the history of the building itself? they believed that people are not regular so why should they live in rectangles
7. Why did you pick this building? I've seen this building in a couple of movies and I like how almost all of the side of the building is glass and how it kind of hangs to the side of the hill look out to the Colorado mountains. I would really like to leave in this house.

1. Who is the architect (the person who built it)? Paul Andreu
2. When was it built? December 2001- July 2007
3. Where is it located? Beijing, china
4. Is it a private building or can you visit it? It is a performing arts building
5. Is there information on how much it cost to build? $400 million complex
6. Is there a reason the building was created or the history of the building itself? For concerts and to attract more people to their building
7. Why did you pick this building? (write at least a paragraph on this question) I really like this building then all the others. I would love to perform at this place if i was still in Color guard. Its really pretty at night with all the lights.

1. Who is the architect (the person who built it)? burj khalifa
2. When was it built? October 27, 2006
3. Where is it located? Dubai, united Arab emirates
4. Is it a private building or can you visit it? you could rent a room but its going to be a lot of money.
5. Is there information on how much it cost to build? about tens of millions of dollars.
6. Is there a reason the building was created or the history of the building itself?

they build it to have the most expensive building in the country and if there's any disasters like a huge wave nothing will happen to this building.
7. Why did you pick this building? (write at least a paragraph on this question) I picked this building because I've seen it in one movie once and i always wanted to see it in person. its really fascinating

1. Who is the architect (the person who built it)? Nicholas Grimshaw

2. When was it built? in May 2000
3. Where is it located? Carnwall, United Kingdom
4. Is it a private building or can you visit it? Public

5. Is there information on how much it cost to build? no

6. Is there a reason the building was created or the history of the building itself? to show a garden or echo friendly life and world.
7. Why did you pick this building? (write at least a paragraph on this question) i chose this building because it looked weird. i like the environmental aspect of it as well. it has one of the most beutiful sites. i like this picture because it looks nice.

Inverted Pryamid

Basic News Writing

Austin district holds community budget forum tonight

Who?
Who is involved? AISD, AISD employees, and parents
Who does/did the situation affect? AISD employees
Who said so? School Board

What?
What is happening? AISD is making cuts
What did happen? AISD laid off employees
What are the consequences? Alot of employees lose their jobs
What is different about this? They lose their jobs
What are the choices?

When?
When did or will this happen? Last week
When was this discovered? They have been having meetings about budgets

Where?
Where did or will this happen? At last week's budget forum

Why?
Why did this happen or will it happen? To discuss the district's cutting 1,153 jobs, which is necessary, officials said, to balance the proposed $688 million 2011-12 operating budget.

How?
How did it or will it happen?
How much does it cost? $94.4 million
How many people does this affect? 1,153
How do you feel about this? I feel that AISD should have paid better attention to money issues before this happened.



Austin school district parents and employees Who is involved?
the employees and the parents of AISD
Who does/did the situation affect?
who is effected in this situations are the parents and the employees from AISD parents are afraid the state could close down the school their kids attend and the employees are afraid they could lost their job because of the shortage of money the state is doing..  
Who said so?
the school  Board of AISD

What?
the school Board Of AISD are gathering with parents and employees to talk about the economic shortage the making on schools
What is happening?
the school board have been having meetings to answer questions about whose going to be affected by the shortage of employee of about  1,153 jobs
What did happen?
people said that AISD it was they fault of them because they stared spending so much money on building and hiring they didn't realize the consequences of it
What are the consequences?
the consequences are that the AISD have to make shortages, that would let people without a job
What is different about this?
the different about this is that now unemployed teachers would have to find a new job just  liek what happened with a teacher named Dawn Ross, after working with AISD for 21 years of teaching she was fired after recovering form a surgery of breast cancer  
What are the choices?
The choices of this teacher are fight her case or gave up and find a new job

When?
It Happened the last Monday 
When did or will this happen?
at 6 pm
When was this discovered?
it was discovered at the beginning of the year.... 

Where?
At Bowie High School
Where did or will this happen?          
which will start at 6:30 p.m. at Bowie High School, 4103 W. Slaughter Lane , in Southwest Austin.

Why did this happen or will it happen?
the Doing this Because they want to clear nay question that the community or the unemployed teacher may have

How did it or will it happen?
the school borad will start laying out employees till 2011-13
How much does it cost?
they say it would save them alot of money approximately 94.4 millions 
How many people does this affect?
it effects the 1,153 employee that would be lay out and the students who will see their school been close 
How do you feel about this?
I don't think its fair because some of this teacher who are been lay out are really good teacher

warm-up

 Ian Loyd and the goat Albert are playing out in the barn during school because he was excising the Albert.
There was judges watching him.

Spring Shoot photo prompts

Africa

1. My reaction to the photos was that it was really well tooken. I love how it is in black and white and that it was animals. I really like animals. It showed a lot of details but also sad in a way.
2. Its really hard to just pick one photo i like because i like them all but if i had to choose one it would be the picture of the cheetahs that they were laying there on the rock. because it was really well took and the sky is beautiful.
3.
A. Pentax with only two fixed lenses
B. He really liked animals after he heard Mitchael Jackson did song that earth song. He wanted to show how much he fell in love with them so he decide to photograph them.
C. To show how they are and how they live. He also wants people to help and let people see what is happening ot africa animals.
D. "You wouldn't take a portrait of a human being from a hundred feet away and expect to capture their spirit; you'd move in close."

Elements of News

• Proximity: http://www.cnn.com/2011/TRAVEL/04/04/texas.southwest.planes/index.html?hpt=T2#
• Prominence: http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/04/04/afghanistan.troops.killed/index.html?hpt=T2
• Timeliness: http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/04/04/france.jet.wreckage/index.html?hpt=T2#
• Oddity: http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/04/04/japan.nuclear.reactors/index.html?hpt=T2
• Consequence: http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/04/04/libya.us.nato/index.html?hpt=T2
• Conflict:http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/04/04/democrats.republicans.2012/index.html?hpt=T2
• Human interest: http://money.cnn.com/2011/04/04/news/companies/mcdonalds_jobs/index.htm?hpt=T2

Warm up

who? President Obama
where? Chicago
what? launched his bid for re election
when? April 14 , 2011
why? President Obama is making his campaign earlier so he can get a jump on fundraising in a season that's likely to shatter all records
How? Visiting to key early writing states and meeting with supporters across the country