 on the ground floor of City Hall, went through security and took an elevator to the 7th floor.
I got off and followed red lines on the floor to an escalator that took me up another floor to a room where I waited my turn.
The old elevator to the top carries only four people at a time, but you can entertain yourself with a model of City Hall and photos that show how they clean William Penn every ten years.
The glass elevator climbed slowly up through the tower with its old wood framing and innards of the huge clocks.
The 500-foot observation deck has glass walls and feels safe. The 360-degree view at the top is stunning. Over there is New Jersey...and the rivers. The convention center looks enormous, the Benjamin Franklin Parkway to the Art Museum looks like the Champs-Elysees. It's like looking down on a map.
Looking up, William Penn towers over you.
"The mouth of the placid-looking face would easily take in a whole turkey in one bite. His nose is one foot and three inches long. And his eyes, measuring 10 inches across, are more than a foot apart," Greenberger writes.
She has gone to great lengths to track down those details.
She has climbed to the top of William Penn nine times to do research.
"They put a ladder up one of his legs to a platform at about crotch level, then another long ladder goes to his hat where there's glass hatch," she said.
Did putting a Phillies cap on Penn in 1993 bring on the curse?
That was how workmen, in the 1990s, put a Phillies hat on Penn's head when the city's baseball team was in World Series contention; they lost. And it's how they put an orange shirt on Penn's shoulders when the Flyers competed for the Stanley Cup in 1997; they lost.
In 1987, Philadelphia built a building taller than City Hall and William Penn.
The city's sports teams, who had been at the top of their games in the 1970s and 1980s, slipped into a pattern of failure.
The Phillies lost the 1993 World Series. The Eagles lost the 2005 Super Bowl. Even Smarty Jones saw his bid for the Triple Crown disappear when he finished fourth in the 2004 Belmont Stakes.
Had the curse of Billy Penn fallen on the city? Was Penn miffed that he was no longer tops in Philadelphia? Did he resent being dressed up for sporting events? No one knew for sure.
But in 2007, when the city's newest and tallest building, Comcast Center, was topped off, a small statue of William Penn was welded to the top beam.
The next year the Phillies won the World Series, ending the curse. Perhaps. But no one has dared to dress up William Penn on the City Hall tower again...just in case.
"Somewhere there's a huge Phillies hat in storage," said Greta Greenberger. "But who knows if it will ever be worn again."
When: Every 15 minutes, Monday-Friday, from 9:30 a.m.-4:15 p.m. Reservations required: call 215-686-2840 for timed tickets available same day only.
A longer two-hour tour of City Hall (including Mayor's Office, Council Chambers and the tower) is available Monday-Friday at 12:30 p.m. Reservations required: call 215-686-2840 for tickets available same day only.
Tip: The tour office begins taking calls for that day's reservations at 9 a.m.
Be aware: The tower is not handicap accessible.High-volume data streams and a great number of reports for the real estate market was what we were confronted with on one of our client’s projects. More specifically, the client faced a tough scalability problem: the property market reports generated from such a big data set took up to 3 hours to produce (just for 100 markets). Worse, this time was increasing as each day a few million new records were fed to augment the data set. In a step to resolve the problem, the client decided to invest in a new system architecture.The high-Eddington NLS1 Ark 564 has the coolest corona

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Equestrian, a sport featuring horseback riding, is relatively unknown to most Novato High students. However, one Novato High student has a deep connection to this sport. Junior Ava Nielsen frequently rides and competes with her horse Dante, and was able to provide some insight into how this sport works.
Within equestrian sports, there are several different disciplines that include but are not limited to dressage, showjumping, eventing, and ranch work. Nielsen does eventing which is competing for 3 or 4 days in dressage, show jumping, and cross country.
“It’s the equestrian equivalent of a triathlon,” Nielsen said.
Nielsen has been riding horses since she was 6 years old, and for the last year has been riding a dutch warmblood from the Netherlands named Dante. Earlier this month, she showed me her daily routine of cleaning and tacking Dante before taking him out for a ride.
“I’m happy Dante isn’t grumpy today and he isn’t too tired so we should be able to get some good jumps going once we are on the course,” she explained as we rode out of the barn.
While she was brushing Dante, we spoke about her routine.
After warming up Dante by letting him walk around, we arrived at the jumping course where I was able to see the competitive side of riding. Nielsen was able to explain how competing works in the sport.
Nielsen has been showing for the last three years and has won several awards in her level. Right now, she is aiming to go to the North American Youth Championships in 2023.
Nielsen doesn’t just ride her horse though; she also has to regulate Dante’s diet by providing a nutrition plan to help him sustain his energy levels and increase his recovery time.
This sport is filled with beauty and excitement, however, equestrian injuries can also occur if you end up being bucked off a horse or are kicked by a more aggressive horse.
Nielsen explained some of the injuries she has had plus others that regularly happen.
So even with all of these injuries, why does Nielsen continue to do it?
“I first started doing it because of my love for horses, and as I grew older, I started loving the community and the competition you get from the sport. Now I just want to see how far I can go in my junior career and hopefully get a state or country ranking,” said Nielsen.
She also described the mental health benefits of the sport.
“It’s really nice to do a sport outside of school that can form a kind of escape from everything and gives me my own space to be myself. It’s therapeutic,” she mentioned.
The equestrian experience has been extremely valuable for Nielsen. Viewing the sport in action is also pretty awesome. Spending one day at the ranch and seeing how much control a rider can have over their horse was very impressive. Equestrian can also provide a new experience for people looking for a productive and fulfilling outdoor activity.Using ints.sum() has two problems:. The variable is called customerssalary, not ints; C# is case sensitive - the method is called Sum(), not sum().; Additionally, you'll need a using directive of. using System.Linq; Once you've got the sum, you can just divide by the length of the array to get the average - you don't need to use Average() which will iterate over the array again.
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