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Dr. Tilden Edwards to speak at 2010 Christus Theological Institute Conference
March 3, 2010
Mobile, AL – Dr. Tilden Edwards, internationally known for his writings and workshops on contemplative spirituality in the Christian world today, will be the speaker at the Christus Annual Conference April 15 –16, 2010 at Byrne Memorial Hall on the Spring Hill College campus.
Edwards is co-founder and executive director of the Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation in Washington, D.C., and an Episcopal priest who was ordained in 1962 at the Washington National Cathedral. He holds a bachelor's degree in cultural anthropology from Stanford, a Master of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School, a Ph.D. from the Union Graduate Institute, Certificate of Anglican Studies from the Episcopal Theological School, and an honorary Doctor of Divinity from Virginia Theological Seminary.
Drawing from his experience working with Christians from all denominations, Edwards writes about the struggle to find balance in life between responsibilities at home and work as well as the need for spiritual nourishment and quiet. He uses the notion of Sabbath to explore the rhythm God provides to human life. The relationship between work and rest, ministry and Sabbath, provides the framework that allows us to find God in all things.
At the Shalem Institute and in his books, Edwards invites people into a deep experience of the presence of God in prayer, insisting that God is more available than we think. "We try to posture people's deeper intimacy with … the presence of God in their life," he explained during an interview with PBS about the 25th anniversary of the Shalem Institute. He contends that the practices of centering prayer and contemplation do not lead to a self-centered life: "All of this is meant to overflow into the world and caring for the world. And the spirit doesn't come to you in some private way; it comes to you to be circulated."
Edwards combines the insights of Christian mystics, the ancient monastic traditions of contemplation, the insights of the Buddhist monks and the writing of the saints to guide people into a deeper spiritual life. In his work over the years, Edwards explains that intense spiritual experiences can be rare. But "once something has been tasted, there's a memory of that, and even though it can fade, it's like there's something about it, as obscure as it is to the mind, that feels more substantial than anything else in life."
He is author or editor of eight books: "Embracing Spiritual Depth," "Spiritual Director, Spiritual Companion," "Living in the Presence," "Spiritual Friend," "Sabbath Time," "Living with Apocalypse," "All God's Children," and "Living Simply Through the Day," as well as numerous journal articles. "Edwards is both a scholar of the highest order and a profoundly spiritual person," remarked David O'Brien, Associate Director for the Office of Religious Education - Lay Development Division of the Archdiocese of Mobile. "Anyone who reads his books is impressed with his profound insights into the spiritual life and the challenge of being spiritual in our hectic world today."
Christus Theological Institute is a grassroots consortium of bay area churches joined in the quest to promote a deeper understanding of our Christian faith, which is housed at the College.
Contributions to this article are from Religion and Ethics Newsweekly from PBS, Rebecca Titford, Director, Office of Religious Education; and David O'Brien, Associate Director, Office of Religious Education, at the Archdiocese of Mobile.


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Shell, based in The Hague, can drill in waters about 137 miles (220 kilometers) south of Lafayette, Louisiana, at a depth of 2,721 feet (829 meters), according to a statement today from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement. The Interior Department unit on March 21 approved Shell's exploration plan for the Gulf.
The company must comply with "rigorous new safety standards" adopted after the April 20 blast on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, which killed 11 workers, ruptured the well and spilled 4.9 million barrels of crude into the Gulf. The Obama administration halted deep-water drilling after the blowout, a ban that was lifted in October.
"The completion of this process further demonstrates that we are proceeding as quickly as our resources allow to properly regulate offshore oil and gas operations in the most safe and environmentally-responsible manner," Michael Bromwich, director of the bureau of ocean management, said in a statement.
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Northwestern University recently instituted a mandatory nap time for players on game day. And although the policy wasn't in effect when he played there, grabbing a snooze makes sense to Chicago Bears defensive end Corey Wootton.
"Really, that's what I've been doing on my own for years," said Wootton. "I'd go to early morning practices or meetings at Northwestern, then slip away for a few Z's."
Wootton claims that just 20 minutes of solid rest can make all the difference.
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"It's been fun. The goals we set for ourselves at the beginning of the season are showing up on the field," he said. "So much of the outcome of a game depends on a good ratio of turnovers and takeaways. We've been strong in that area. Going against Detroit, we plan to continue that trend, putting pressure on the passer and throwing off their game plan. A fast, strong pass rush disrupts the timing of an offensive play. Mistakes are made and turnovers can result. That's exactly what we want."
The Lions (2-3) are two games back of the Bears (4-1) in the NFC North. Detroit is averaging 419.6 yards per game on offense, second overall in the NFL behind New England, while the Bears are third in total defense, allowing 291.2 yards per contest. Once again, it will be a battle between the unstoppable force and the immovable object.
"There is so much more to it than you can find in the stats," Wootton said. "The Lions had a rough couple of games, then they turned things around. They came back strong against Philadelphia last weekend. Its our job as a defense to make sure that doesn't happen next Monday Night."
Wootton struggled with injuries his first two seasons with the Bears but is fully healthy this year and it's showing. He's currently second on the team with 3.0 sacks and leads the club with two forced fumbles.
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"It works and it makes sense. The NU players and coaches are right. Rest equals increased energy and mental alertness on the field. Every player wants that."
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Although not technically a part of Dreamweaver, Adobe's Widget Browser gives you a quick and easy option for integrating Ajax widgets into your sites. The Widget Browser is a standalone AIR application that allows you to browse Adobe's Widget Exchange and creates a collection of widgets that feature advanced user interface controls like sliding panels or accordion widgets or more complex components like slideshows or lightboxes. To access the Widget Browser, you can go to the application toolbar, find the Widget menu, and choose Widget Browser.
Now, if you've never launched the Widget Browser before, you're going to be prompted by Dreamweaver to download it. So, clicking OK is going to take you out to Adobe's web site. You can click right here on the Widget Browser page to get the Widget Browser. Now, you're going to be prompted to sign in with your Adobe ID. If you don't have one, they're really easy to get and they're free. So just sign up and you'll be able to download Adobe's Widget Browser. Now after downloading the WebWidgets install file, all you need to do to install it is just double-click on it.
So, here I have it right on my Desktop, WebWidgets AIR file. I'm just going to double-click that and go through the installation process. So I'm just going to install this. I'm not going to add a shortcut icon to my desktop, but I do want to start it after I install it. So I'm going to go ahead and click Continue. It should install rather quickly. Once the Widget Browser is installed, you can use it to browse through Adobe's Exchange to see the available widgets. Now as of this recording, everything is still in beta. So, as you can see, there aren't a lot of widgets displayed here.
This should change dramatically once the Widget Browser is released to the public. Adobe will continue to release widgets. The Browser allows users to package and share their own widgets as well. So as the community gets more involved, the number of available widgets will only continue to grow. Let's take a moment and explore how to use the Exchange and how to get a widget on to your site. So, I kind of like this Spry Image Slide Show. If there is a widget that you want to add to your collection of widgets, you simply click on it. You're going to be prompted by the Widget Browser to go ahead and sign in.
So I'm going to go ahead and sign in to my Adobe account. After you signed in, you're going to get a more detailed view of the widget than you were taking a look at. You can see ratings. You can see descriptions. You can see the type of license agreement. If this is something that you want to add to your collection, you simply click Add to My Widgets. As soon as you do that, you'll go through a little screen where you agree to any license agreements. As soon as the widget is added, you can browse directly to your widgets. Now, you can also view your widgets by going up here to the menu and clicking on My Widgets.
Now currently, I only have the one. Now what's really interesting about this is that if you click one of these widgets, after you've added them to your My Widgets section, you can see a preview of this slideshow in action. You can see people can interact with the thumbnails. They can play the slideshow. You can even take a closer look at the formatting for this. Now, in addition to being able to preview the widget, you can go right down here to the lower left-hand corner and click Configure. This is going to take you into a very detailed interface where you can control every aspect of the widget.
You can name the widget, you can change the duration of slides, in this case, you can modify titles. You can set physical size for the frames. Pretty much any option you can think of is directly controllable through this interface. So this is an incredibly powerful way to customize these widgets without having to write any code yourself. Now if you change these, you can save them as a preset. You'll notice that when I go back to the overview, I've already saved a preset for my Explore California Tours. I've changed the title of this. I've changed the size of it, changed a little bit of the color on it.
You can go up to the menu and choose Insert > Widget or you can use the Insert panel. You can go to your Common objects. There is our new Insert Widget icon right there. So if I click that, I get a menu that says okay, which of the widgets that you have installed you want to use? Well, I only have one currently. So I'm going to click the Spry Image Slide Show with Filmstrip. Then any presets that I've chosen, I can go ahead and select. I'm going to select the Explore Tours preset that I created earlier. I'm going to click OK.
As soon as I do that, it's going to place the Spry Image Slide Show right on the page. You'll notice that all these thumbnails have nothing to do with our photo gallery. We also have this little weird star out in the side. What's going on there? Well, if I switch over to Code View, I can see that the slideshow is really just an unordered list. So one of the things that's really nice about these new spry widgets is they're very unobtrusive. They're just singular elements on the page without a lot of complex structure. So really, in order to make the slideshow on my own, all I have to do is click on each of the image thumbnails and swap them out for an image in my site.
So I'm going to close the Tag Inspector here just so I have little bit more room. I'm going to open up my _images and I'm going to open my gallery folder. So in the gallery folder, I'm just going to one at a time select one of these thumbnails. Using my source, I'm going to point that to one of my thumbnails. To control which larger image displays with this, I'm going to use the link Point to File to point to the larger file. So I'm just going to do that with each one of these guys. I'm just going to point to a thumbnail. Then using a link, I'm going to point to the larger image.
Now you're not limited by just the thumbnails on the page. You can add more if you'd like. So if you've got more images than the thumbnail, you can just keep adding as much as you want. This particular slideshow, for example, allows for you to have more thumbnails than can fit within the pane. Then it allows you to scroll through them if you've got more. Let me just go ahead and grab one more for this example. There we go. Now, you may have noticed that when we previewed our slideshow earlier, titles were coming up with the photo.
So, lot of times in order to understand how this is going to work, you do have to do a little bit of exploration. There weren't any instructions on the Widget Browser as to what we had to change. It took a little poking around to find out that if I go into Code View, I can see that each one of these links has a title attribute. The title attribute is the caption that displays. So I can simply highlight that. Then type in the caption that I want for that particular thumbnail. So usually just examining the structure of the page will give you a good idea as to what you have to do in order to customize the widget to your own devices.
Just a couple more of these guys and we should be ready to go. Now, just like when we use our other Spry widgets on the page, as soon as I save this, Dreamweaver is going to add a lot of external files. Notice all the graphics it's adding. It's adding a lot of includes, a lot of JavaScript files. When I click OK, I can see that I have a brand-new directory in my site. It's this Spry-UI-1.7. That contains all of the CSS and all of the JavaScript in order to make the slideshow work.
So if I'm going to upload that to my remote server, I need to make sure that that folder gets uploaded as well. I'm going to go ahead and preview this in my browser. So I'm just going to do a Save All. Then preview this in my browser. As soon as I do, there is my slideshow with the thumbnails that I have loaded up. As you can see, the Widget Browser makes it simple to add Ajax-driven controls into your sites. One of the really cool things about the Widget Browser is that it's going to be a community-based tool.
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Six Central New York high school students have returned from a week-long tour of they South. They visited landmarks of the civil rights movement and spoke with those who fought racism and Jim Crow laws.
Read Maureen Sieh's story on the 13-year old Civil Rights Connection program. For more information, check out her blog entry on the program.
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MOBILE, Alabama -- The Mobile County Public School System confirmed that a teacher and coach at Fonde Elementary School is being investigated after an altercation with a child.
According to a report from Local 15, Trinity Sykes, 10, said the teacher called her a name, then pushed her down on the playground.
Nancy Pierce, Mobile County schools spokeswoman, confirmed that Jeremy Rogers is under investigation and on administrative leave.
Trinity's mother, Deleice Solomon, filed a police report on Monday. "She reported to us that on Friday there was an incident involving her daughter and a school teacher," said Cpl. Christopher Levy, public information officer for the Mobile Police Department.
Solomon has an appointment with the city magistrate to see if a warrant can be signed, Levy said, and the incident remains under investigation.
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The Fighting Lady turns 70 today.
Yorktown facts
Key datesApril 15, 1943 — First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt commissions the USS Yorktown1970 — Decommissioned to Bayonne, N.J.1975 — Towed to Charleston Harbor and dedicated as a memorial Oct. 131986 — Declared a National Historic LandmarkHollywood stardom1945 — "The Fighting Lady," filmed aboard the Yorktown, wins an Academy Award for best documentary1954 — Stars in the movie "Jet Carrier"1966 — Actress Ann-Margret visits the Yorktown for a USO show, and sailors spell out "Hi, Annie" on the flight deck 1968 — Stars in the film "Tora! Tora! Tora!" which recreated the attack on Pearl Harbor1968 — Recovers the crew from the Apollo 8 capsule, the first manned flight to orbit the moonFighting Lady1943-45 — During World War II, Yorktown inflicts heavy damage on Japanese bases in the Pacific and provides support for American troops in the Philippines, Iwo Jima and Okinawa1953-54 — Patrols off Korea1955 — Helps nationalist Chinese evacuate Tachen Islands to Taiwan1957 — Helps counter Soviet Union's growing submarine fleet1959 — Responds to communist Chinese shelling of islands held by nationalist Chinese1964-65 — Provides anti-submarine services for fast carriers conducting air strikes in VietnamSource: Patriots Point
The aircraft carrier Yorktown survived almost 30 years of shells and bombs, playing a key role in several major wars.
Her heroics have been celebrated in at least three Hollywood films. She was chosen to pick up the crew of the first manned orbit around the moon.
Hundreds gathered aboard the aircraft carrier Sunday to celebrate her birthday. Several former crew members told their stories and why it's important to keep the ship afloat.
Future challenges
The Yorktown has been mired in some 27 feet of mud on the edge of Charleston Harbor since 1975. She has become one of Charleston's top tourist attractions, drawing some 230,000 visitors a year to the Patriots Point complex.
Unfortunately, she's beginning to show her age, and she will probably need some surgery to live to be 100.
The saltwater from the harbor has been gradually eating away at her hull beneath the water. Exactly what needs to be done to fix it and how much it will cost remains to be seen.
An environmental assessment of opening the hull has just been finished, Patriots Point Executive Director Mac Burdette said. The study will show what it will take to make sure no toxins leak out into the harbor. The board will learn the details next month.
Next will come a structural assessment, which will reveal what needs to be done immediately and what can wait several years.
The work has been estimated at $81 million. Where would that money come from? Burdette outlined the plan Sunday.
The first step would be upgrading the museum with high-tech exhibits to appeal to young people and draw another 30,000 visitors a year. The board will consider the master plan next month.
The extra visitors would raise enough extra money to float a bond to start repairing the ship.
Meanwhile, plans are also moving forward for a Medal of Honor Museum. Burdette envisions the addition will make the Yorktown a tourist destination. That would make property around the Yorktown that Patriots Point owns attractive to investors. Money from those leases also would be used to repair the ship.
"For better or for worse, and I've believed for the better, we've married the Yorktown for life," Burdette said.
The stories
About 1,500 former crew members are poised to start a fundraising campaign to keep the ship afloat through the Yorktown CV-10 Association. Eight of them were scattered around the ship Sunday telling their stories.
Bill Watkinson, 91, of New Jersey was the oldest former crew member on the ship Sunday, but he was also the most animated.
Watkinson flew night missions during the battle for Okinawa. He relied on a pair of hooks on a cable to catch him as he came down onto an almost dark ship.
"They didn't like to light up the ship at night," he said. "I was nervous every time. I was very fortunate. I always had my tail hooks come down."
He was a commercial pilot after the Navy and then ran a farm after he retired.
Buzz Purcell of Columbia, 87, a Citadel graduate and retired attorney, was also a night pilot.
"I didn't volunteer," he said of the duty. "Then I left the Navy to do something more dangerous — practicing law."
Bill Anderson, 85, of Briceland, Minn., a former anti-aircraft gunner, recalled the day the ship was hit by a bomb.
"I'll remember that day as long as I live," Anderson said.
A lone Japanese aircraft flew low to the water to avoid the ship's radar, came up over the front of the bow and dropped an explosive. Five men were killed and several injured.
The ship continued on its mission, with the crew making repairs en route to Okinawa.
"We never lost a beat," said Anderson, who became a truck driver.
Raven Silverthorn, 9, climbed up into the cockpit of the F9F Cougar until his parents had to call him down. He already has his eyes set on following in these men's footsteps, according to his father, Jeff Silverthorn, who lives near Selfridge Air Force Base in Michigan.
"He's been watching the news about North Korea and waiting to see what's going to happen," he said.
Reach Dave Munday at 937-5553 or twitter.com/dmunday.
Citadel graduate Buzz Purcell explains photos from 1953 when a piece of flak entered his arm during a mission from the deck of the aircraft carrier Yorktown. The 87-year-old from Lexington is now a retired lawyer and still has the flak in his arm.×


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The Loreley ( Lorelei ) is a 433 feet high slate cliff in the Upper Middle Rhine Valley World Heritage near the town of St. Goarshausen. The view of St. Goarshausen, from the Loreley ( Lorelei ) outlook point, with Castle Katz and the view of the town St. Goar and its Fortress Rheinfels, leaves a wonderful impression on all Loreley ( Lorelei ) tourists.
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First traces of human settlement have been apparent from the time the Loreley ( Lorelei ) Plateau was level with the Rhine (600.000 years ago). During the Middle Ages the Loreley ( Lorelei ) was well known, along with the Binger Loch, as the most dangerous section of the Rhine. Many mariners in their wooden dinghies came to tragedy here. In St. Goar, directly opposite the Loreley ( Lorelei ), the Saint Goar settled to save shipwrecked mariners and nurse them back to health.
The name Loreley ( Lorelei ) appears in a romantic ballad written by the poet Clemens Brentano in 1801.
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Panmatex Trading Sdn Bhd with its success phase in the Retail Industry today not only had shown its strong principal and determination to this industry in the country but to prove to the great communities of its warm and eagerness heart to contribute its part as Malaysian company to upgrade the millennium faces and to strike for Wawasan 2020's strategy. This is our aim and goal for as long as we could grow.
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Not forgetting our past, Panmatex Trading Sdn Bhd started off with business in textiles and gloves manufacturing in Peninsula Malaysia, Southeast Asia in June 1, 1974. Following the great change on the country's Information & Technology upgrading and economy boost, we had challenge ourselves to move on in the Retail Industry by restructuring our business channel into supplying Hypermarket & Supermarket Packaging & Machinery items domestically and internationally. This is how Panmatex Trading Sdn Bhd has come to a new appearance, which was then established since August 17, 1981.
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HUNTSVILLE, AL -- Alabama A&M officials are still investigating the details regarding a male student leaping from a dorm window Monday.
The student, whose name has not been released, was injured in the fall.
According to the school, the student jumped from a fourth-floor window at Morris Hall about 9:30 p.m. Monday.
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The University of Northern Colorado men's basketball team doesn't like it, but the Bears know it shouldn't have come down to this.
If the Bears are to have any hopes of hosting the Big Sky Conference tournament semifinals and finals March 8-9, they must hope that the University of Montana loses one of its three remaining conference games.
Even though the Bears (10-3 Big Sky, 14-10) are still tied with the Grizzlies (10-3, 18-7) atop the conference standings, the tiebreakers do not favor UNC in its bid to host the conference tournament.
Because the two teams have split their season series and have so far lost to the same teams in conference play (Northern Arizona University, Weber State University), the first two tiebreakers of head-to-head and record against conference opponents in descending order of finish in the standings would not come into play if both teams win their remaining conference games.
That means the conference would be decided by the third tiebreaker " the team with the higher RPI ranking.
That's where the Bears are in trouble. UNC has an RPI of 130 while Montana sits well above the Bears at 107. One of the big reasons for that is because Montana posted some big nonconference wins early in the season, including a victory at UCLA of the Pac-10 Conference earlier in the season.
Even though the Bears have a pair of nonconference games left starting with Saturday's 6:30 p.m. game at New Mexico State University and ending with Monday's 7:05 p.m. game against North Dakota at the Butler-Hancock Sports Pavilion, neither team will provide a big enough boost in the RPI to make a difference for the Bears.
UNC coach B.J. Hill admits there is no hope for the Bears to earn the title based on the RPI tiebreaker, and he clearly does not like that it is used by the conference as a tiebreaker.
"You explain to me how in one RPI we're 15 points higher than we are in the other one. There's no science to it," Hill said. "Our schedule is four times harder than it was last year. The difference right now in our RPI and Montana's RPI is that Montana can afford to buy three games at the beginning of the year and get three wins and we have to go on the road.
"To me the fact that anything that has to do with the conference is based on what you can and cannot do in the nonconference schedule makes no sense. I think all the tiebreakers in terms of the conference tournament should all be based on conference play."
However, the Bears are more frustrated that they have put themselves in this position with conference losses earlier in the season that they felt they should have won.
The one-point loss at Weber State on a 40-foot shot as time ran out is the one that hurts the most. The hardest thing to swallow is that the Bears realize they are a buzzer-beater away from still being in first.
"If that hadn't happened " if that hadn't gone in, it would be a whole different game," UNC guard Elliott Lloyd said. "But everything happens for a reason, and we have just got to move on from it and learn from it so hopefully it doesn't happen again."
All that UNC can do now is hope that Montana loses one of its final conference games, two of which are on the road at Eastern Washington University and Portland State University and the other at home against Idaho State University.
The best bet for the Bears would be Eastern Washington. Idaho State sits in eighth place in the Big Sky and Portland State is in seventh, but is only playing for pride at this point since they have been banned by the NCAA for postseason play this season because they didn't meet academic requirements.
The Eagles sit in fifth in the conference standings at 5-7 and are still battling for a top-four finish, which would guarantee that they would host a quarterfinal tournament game on March 5.
Also Eastern Washington only has lost twice in conference at home this season to UNC and Weber State.
"Anytime you play on the road in the league it is always more difficult to play than at home," UNC forward Neal Kingman said. "There are definitely a lot of different scenarios on the road that you wouldn't necessarily face at home. They got beat up there last year, I think."
They did. Montana lost 69-68 in Cheney, Wash. So the Bears know it could happen again; however, they realize now the focus has to be on winning the Big Sky tournament no matter where it may be.
"Whether the tournament is here or in Montana we have got to take care of business," UNC guard Devon Beitzel said. "When it's tournament time, it's one game at a time and we have just got to get the job done."


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Dec 8, 2003
China has become one of Brazil's biggest trading
partners, driven by its voracious demand for commodities. Bankers
are benefiting.
China is experiencing an industrial revolution and Brazil
has become its supplier of choice for basic commodities,
selling goods like soybeans and iron ore in undreamt of
quantities. In Portuguese, a big deal is often called 'Um
negócio da China and Brazil, years behind
European and US exporters and investors, is piling into China
as if there were no tomorrow. Companies like Companhia Vale do
Rio Doce (CVRD), the worlds biggest iron ore exporter,
Embraer, the worlds fourth aircraft manufacturer, and
even banks like São Paulos Banco Santos have all
identified China as their next great market. Embraer is due to
deliver its first locally-assembled regional jet this
The Chinese economy is surging ahead, growing 9.1% at the
end of the third quarter 2003, leaving Brazil - which has
barely grown this year - in the dust. China has become
Brazils second largest...
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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- March did some damage last year.
One hundred and fifty-eight motorists filed pothole claims with Cleveland after drives on city streets that month left 'em with tattered tires or wrecked rims or ... well, you get the picture. That total from just those 31 days in March dwarfed the number of claims filed in ALL of 2010. It also topped the tally from 2009.
Consider it the roughest month of a very rough year. A report requested by Road Rant shows 374 pothole claims filed in 2011 -- almost as many as the previous three years combined. Yes, it truly was that bad on the roads in 2011.
The city has written more than $22,000 in sorry-about-that-checks to cover repairs. The city paid on 64 claims, or roughly one out of five decided so far.
Cleveland's Freeman Garrett hit it bigger than anyone in the claims process. The city awarded Garrett $3,308.26 to undo the damage caused when his 2000 Pontiac Grand Am fell into a nasty pothole on East 116th Street at Williams Avenue in June. Garrett told Road Rant that both front seat airbags inflated.
"To be honest, I thought somebody hit me," Garrett said. "It dazed me. Almost knocked me out."
Curious about what else is in that pothole claims report? Then let's fill in some gaps:
• Chester Avenue certainly left scars on travelers near the Cleveland Clinic. The street saw more claims -- 22 -- than any other in the city, with most of the trouble occurring at or close to the medical campus. Other lengthy corridors that popped up again and again included West 25th Street (19 claims) and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive (12).
A short stretch of Ridge Road at Interstate 480 saw 14 claims with five worthy of payment. The area on Ontario Street near The Q and Progressive Field brought few cheers, either, with a dozen submissions and five repairs covered.
• Claims for crater encounters arrived in every month on the calendar, proof that there truly is no end to pothole season in Northeast Ohio. February (51), April (42) and May (32) saw the most after March. December brought the least number of complaints with four.
• One request for reimbursement involved damage to a bicycle. The city did not award money.
• Nine out-of-state guests submitted claims after "Meet & Beats" with local potholes. Two received parting gifts for their troubles. The largest award -- $500 -- went to the driver who traveled farthest. The Nevada man was 2,103 miles away from home when his vehicle dropped into an East Side hole. Others who filed claims arrived from Colorado, Maryland, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania (2), Tennessee and Virginia.
• Overall, residents from 84 communities here and afar asked for cash. The hometown Cleveland crowd accounted for 142 claims.
Making claims: Did you lose some money in a Cleveland pothole? If so, here's how to try to get some of it back.
Reimbursement requests for vehicle damage go through the Moral Claims Division of the city's Law Department, which can be reached at 216-664-2671. Forms that must be filled out can be found online at city.cleveland.oh.us. (They can be accessed through the Public Works Department page under the Division of Streets.)
You'll need to supply two repair estimates or a repair receipt, as well as some other information to make your case. Photographs of the car damage and the offending pothole wouldn't hurt.
Other communities offer a similar program and can be contacted for specific information on the process.
Go into the claims process knowing that there's no guarantee of money. Towns only part with cash if they had prior knowledge of a problem but failed to repair it in a timely manner. Yes, it sounds like trying to beat the house at its own game, but checks do get written. Just ask Mr. Garrett.


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Fulton St., New Orleans' newest retail, entertainment and dining district, will celebrate the opening of Ruth's Chris Steak House by hosting "Fulton St. Welcomes Ruth's Chris Steak House," a block party benefiting the Louisiana Hospitality Foundation.
The event will feature food from each of the restaurants on Fulton St. including Ruth's Chris, Gordon Biersch, Grand Isle and Ernst Cafe. Entertainment will be provided by Rockin' Dopsie and The Top Cats.
The Louisiana Hospitality Foundation is a non-profit organization made up of New Orleans hospitality industry leaders whose mission is to improve the community and provide support for the education, health and social welfare of New Orleans-area children.
WHO: The Louisiana Hospitality Foundation, The Young Leadership Council, Rockin' Dopsie, the Top Cats and the Fulton St. community.
WHEN: Friday, March 16, 5:00 p.m. - Champagne toast celebrating, 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
WHERE: Fulton Street Promenade at Poydras St. , (next to the Harrah's hotel)
Tickets are available for $50.00 and may be purchased online at www.ticketmaster.com and at all Ticketmaster locations as well as Ruth's Chris Downtown and Metairie locations.


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Beautifully furnished, well equipped spacious rooms in a central location with really helpful, pleasant staff. Incredible value for money.
Good decor and central location
I stayed 5 nights in the Allegra on a business trip. Very nice and clean rooms. Good-size indoor swimming pool in heart of the city. Only drawback was the acoustic isolation - both to neighbouring rooms and to the street (which is normally quiet but there was construction work going on outside while I was there). The breakfast was also sub-standard.
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Our stay at the Rendezvous Allegra was extremely enjoyable. The rooms are very spacious and luxurious. The bathroom is incredible! Our room also had a balcony with views of the City..superb. Our dinner and breakfast in room was first class. Service was faultless and staff were very friendly. The pool area was fantactic as well. We have stayed in a lot of 5 star accomodation but the Rendezvous Allegra really is 5 star!
It is not a4 or 5 star hotel.
The hotel room was dusty.
In our bathroom there was no bath mat. The shower was mouldy and the hand basin dirty. There was no hair dryer either.
The room service dinner was cold when it should have been hot.
The cleaners overlooked our floor on Sunday until evening.
But the front office were pleasant and the breakfasts were good.
Wonderful experience
I accompanied a group of twelve people who booked into this hotel in Feb 2005 and we all had a marvellous experience. The staff, service and decor were all top notch. We stayed two nights initially, then took a 2-night tour of Kangaroo Island, returning to the hotel for one additional night. Upon our late return, our "left luggage" was already placed in our assigned rooms waiting for weary travellers. What a nice touch! Would highly recommend the hotel because it's location in the CBD couldn't be beat...did not find traffic noise a problem at all. There is major building construction nearby and even the rooms on that side of the hotel were not bothered by extra noise. Just remember the bathroom has one wall that is entirely glass, and looks out onto the beds and sitting area!
We stayed here last year. Very modern fit-out - particularly nice bathroom and the lifts are beautiful. However, we found the reception staff very cold and had to find someone to valet park our car after every trip - and it's not cheap! The breakfast was disappointing - exactly the same every day. The place was obviously used mainly by business trade, but is close to the city centre and should do good tourist numbers too. We wouldn't go back - we like to feel welcomed and didn't on this trip.
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Fabulous location near the Central Market & Gouger 'Eat' St ... the executive spa suite is spacious & the bathroom & bedroom luxuriously appointed although not many 'extras' - remember to take a robe! .....
staff friendly but any type of room service was slow. Overall, would recommend - good value if using great internet rates!
The Adelaide Rendez-vous Allegra could be better
I stayed at the Adelaide Rendez-Vous Allegra for 4 days in August 2003.
The hotel is brand new. The rooms look good, very trendy modern style.
Richard, the receptionist who checked me in was excellent. He took the time to give me advice on things to do, places to go etc... Very friendly.
The rug of the room was pretty dirty although the hotel is new. After walking on the rug with my white socks for one hour my socks were black underneath. I assume that they do not know what shampooing the rug means.
The rooms are noisy because the windows are not soundproofed and the hotel is right in the center of the city. Lots of traffic noise. It is a shame that when they built the hotel they did not make the expense to soundproof the rooms. Otherwise the rooms would be super since they are really nicely decorated.
My room was not cleaned twice, in spite of my hanging the adequate sign outside the door requesting service from the housekeepers, and even the second time calling the guest services to let them know that I was leaving the room .
The curtains are cheap: basically plastic, and they let the day light in as they do not adjust properly. It seems that they had no more money to finish the hotel and they did cheap windows and cheap curtains!
Could be perfect if the above mentioned problems were solved.
Allegra A-1 in Hospitality !
As a member of Club Rendezvous here in Perth I was keen to try out the new premises in Adelaide, and was not disappointed. Stylish and up-market in design and fittings, Allegra offers First Class accommodation and friendly service in the heart of the city, within easy walking distance of the Central Markets, Victoria Square, Rundle Mall and all forms of transport. Dining is a gourmet experience in their Glasshouse Restaurant, with all-day dining available from the same menu on room service. We enjoyed swimming above the driveway each morning in the lap-pool ! Hot spa, sauna and gym are spotless and well supplied with towels. Staff and service rate as excellent in my books, and only the fact of their having but one restaurant limits my overall rating. However, with the abundance of nearby eateries of all descriptions, this will in no way diminish the enjoyment of a sojourn at Allegra. King-sized beds with feather doonas and multiple lighting effects ensure cozy nights, large marble bathrooms with adjustable showers take care of hygeine enjoyably and we loved the choice offered by the Pillow Menu. As yet Club Rendezvous is not set up there, but it would be worth checking out their E-Club for good deals.
Rendezvous has stunning decor
What a beautiful hotel in the heart of Adelaide. Our Executive Spa Suite was spacious, with gorgeous decor. I loved the marble bathroom in particular. The facilities were great, with a heated pool and spa, and small gym. The buffet breakfast was beautiful, and staff were helpful. Unfortunately the restaurant menu didn't offer many vegetarian options, and this is my only complaint (oh, they didn't have any toothpaste left either!!) Overall, if you are looking for luxury and lovely surroundings (check out the water display at the front entrance), then this hotel is ideal. Reasonably priced too!
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NEW YORK -- The Mark Morris Dance Group's appearances this week at Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival sold out quickly, suggesting two possibilities. First, in the mid-August slowdown, audiences have nowhere else to go.
Or -- option B -- Morris' choreography is sublime. (To say nothing of the fact that for these performances, his musical collaborators include the celebrated cellist Yo-Yo Ma and pianist Emanuel Ax.)
The program at the Mostly Mozart festival features two local premieres, plus the revival of "V," a work of grand and embracing symmetries.
"Visitation," the opening piece for five dancers, is Morris at his most lyrical, reflecting key aspects of Beethoven's Cello Sonata No. 4. The next premiere, "Empire Garden," offers a large and brilliantly layered ensemble as stimulating and mysterious as its score, Charles Ives' Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano. Leading into "V," "Empire Garden" prepares viewers to discover new subtleties where large-scale patterns dominate.
The first moments of "Visitation" set its tone, and establish a motif. Dallas McMurray stands apart from a loose semicircle of dancers, approaches one and clasps him warmly by the hand. This gesture not only creates a tender atmosphere of goodwill, but also recalls the partnership between the cellist and the pianist upon which the whole enterprise is based. As different dancers repeat the gesture, it prepares us for a dance which, like the music, will be filled with echoes and responses. The handclasp and the semicircle also amount to a design statement, which will reappear later in modified form, when pairs of dancers grasp each other by the hand and one travels in a half-arc around the other.
It might be argued that the dance language of "Visitation" is conventional, and that the piece contains few surprises as amusing as the one where McMurray pops out of the wings to join a chain of dancers, only to find himself turned upside down. When one dancer pushes another to the floor, the humor is cheap. Yet themes develop intriguingly, and the performers appear wondrously alive.
"Empire Garden" supposedly borrows its name from a Chinese restaurant, which seems appropriate given the references to popular culture imbedded in Ives' music. Snatches of "Dixie," "Rock of Ages," and the old vaudeville tune "Ta Ra Ra Boom De Yay" thread their way in. Morris makes oblique references to their unsung lyrics. Here gestures and images constitute an abstract pantomime: Ballroom couples freeze, orators address crowds from atop human platforms, and individuals roll across the floor with their mouths open in astonished "Os." The choreography fragments the stage. Making their own scenery, the dancers occupy several architectural levels at once. Yet the semaphoric crispness of their movements clarifies everything. Definitively banishing the August doldrums, "Empire Garden" is a work that should be seen again and again.
Robert Johnson may be reached at email@example.com.
Mark Morris Dance Group
Where: Rose Theater, Frederick P. Rose Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, 60th Street and Broadway
When: 3 p.m. Saturday
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Meet Me (Again) in St. Louis, Louis
Reports of a city's imminent demise appear to have been
greatly exaggerated.
By George Hazelrigg, ASLA
When syndicated columnist Neal Peirce
and urban expert Curtis Johnson arrived in St. Louis in 1997, they found a
downtown of deserted streets and deteriorating buildings. Their published
report predicted continued decay, squalor, and decline unless aggressive
actions were taken. Tourists and conventioneers carried away similar
impressions of downtown. Statistics sounded another alarm bell. From a
population peak of near 860,000 in 1950, St. Louis had lost more than 500,000
by 2000 as residents took flight to the suburbs.
Just eight years after his report, Peirce
returned to St. Louis and praised the downtown revival he found under way,
calling it the most significant he had ever witnessed. "There's an energy that
didn't exist in 1997," he declared. Peirce was not
the only outside observer to notice the recovery. By 2006, St. Louis's progress
had garnered awards from Partners for Livable Communities and the World
Leadership Forum and, earlier this year, the St. Louis region took one of the
National Civic League's 2008 All-American City Awards.
What has happened in St. Louis during the past decade to
warrant such recognition? And is it time to pop the champagne corks?
A Renewed Downtown?
In 2007 Mayor Francis Slay announced the selection of a
design team to prepare a comprehensive master plan for Gateway Mall, a
1.2-mile-long row of mostly uninspiring downtown blocks from Kiener Plaza to Aloe Plaza. The mall design process would
be funded by the private St. Louis-based Gateway Foundation, already known for
the placement of quality public art around the city. Slay's
announcement was met with skepticism by many St. Louisans.
Even after the city began its 50-year decline, new mall plans continued to
surface. None were realized; one local columnist had dubbed St. Louis "the City
of Forgotten Plans."
In June, however, the mayor announced that the Gateway
Foundation would be making one of the largest private gifts in city history: at
least $20 million for the design, construction, and maintenance of a
world-class sculpture garden on a 2.9-acre, two-block site on the mall. Despite
the history of mall plans collecting dust, this time there was a difference.
For at least one section of the mall, there would be funding.
Today, St. Louis downtown's transformation remains an active
work in progress. Projects completed or well advanced include:
To understand the background to these developments, we need
to return to 1997. The Peirce Report confirmed an
already growing recognition by civil leaders that the time had come to act. The
upcoming centennial anniversary of the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair seemed a
timely deadline. St. Louis 2004, a not-for-profit organization launched in
1996, had already begun to map out a vision for, and strategy to achieve,
important regional improvements. "St. Louis is not a spectator sport" was its
battle cry; the revival of downtown became one of its priorities.
In late 1997, the city and key civic organizations formed a
public–private partnership, Downtown Now. EDAW Inc. was tapped to head a
consultant team charged with drawing up a plan; two years later, the resultant
Downtown Development Action Plan was approved. It outlined four "focus" areas
for concentrated action: the Washington Avenue Loft District, the Old Post
Office District, the Laclede's Landing and North
Riverside District, and the Gateway Mall and Arch Grounds District (see
"Renaissance Rivertown?" Landscape Architecture, June 2001). The plan received a 2000 ASLA
Analysis and Planning award.
Reconnect Downtown to the River?
One of downtown's liabilities is that a depressed Interstate
70 and six-lane Memorial Drive separate it from the Gateway Arch and its scenic
riverfront. Mayor Slay made reconnecting downtown to the riverfront a priority;
in 2005, he asked the Danforth Foundation to explore
the potential for transforming the riverfront at the Arch into a major
destination for residents and tourists. The number of visitors to the Arch had
dropped in recent years. The Arch is surrounded by largely unused land designed
by Dan Kiley, and while it offers photo opportunities
and a view of the city from 630 feet, there is no reason for most visitors to
linger or return.
The Danforth Foundation helped to
fund a downtown riverfront design process led by the Great Rivers Greenway
District. The latter, a public organization created by passage of a 2000 sales
tax referendum, was already making impressive progress on its signature
project, the River Ring, a 600-mile web of greenways that crisscross the region
and include the Riverfront Trail, which runs 10 miles north from the Arch area.
By late spring 2005, a design team was selected with HOK Planning Group (St.
Louis) providing project management and Balmori
Associates (New York) as lead designer.
From the outset, the team was handicapped by space
limitations. The National Park Service (NPS) owned the 91-acre site of the Arch
and considered those acres off limits to most redevelopment. That left the team
with just a strip of riverfront land to work with. Nevertheless, Slay had
called for bold planning, and Diana Balmori, ASLA,
gave him just that. A clear favorite among design proposals was her "Terraces
and Islands" design, which added six acres by creating two groups of floating
islands extending into the river. The islands, connected by floating bridges,
would host restaurants and cafés, playgrounds and fountains, swimming pools and
rinks, and trails and bike paths.
The "Terraces and Islands" concept underwent extensive
engineering analysis, elaborate river modeling studies, and design
modifications during the following year. The innovative concept was a first; to
attempt it on the powerful Mississippi with active barge traffic made the
challenge even greater. But even though the design team worked closely with the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Coast Guard to meet the complicated
engineering hurdles, the team and steering committee concluded in 2006 that the
"terraces and islands" option was impossible.
The Danforth Foundation separately
asked St. Louis planning and architecture firm Arcturis
in early 2006 to serve as project manager for an engineering and design study
of a "connector" that could provide convenient, safe pedestrian movement across
Interstate 70 and Memorial Drive. Later that spring, Thomas Balsley
Associates (New York) was selected as lead designer of the team to design the
connector. The team's most ambitious scheme featured a three-block deck to
cover I-70, but resultant "tunnel" ventilation would require two acres of
unavailable land. The steering committee favored a concept that would
incorporate a graceful pedestrian bridge and enhanced pedestrian street
environment. In its 2007 report, the Danforth
Foundation concluded that as long as none of the Arch grounds were available
for redevelopment, hopes of making the Arch–riverfront district a world-class
attraction were slim. Foundation President Peter Sortino
says that the connector, with or without a "lid," must remain on hold pending a
decision regarding the Arch grounds' future. "It's not worth the money if
there's nothing to go to," says Sortino.
Undeterred, the mayor asked a panel of civic leaders to take
another look at how the riverfront transformation process could best proceed;
in May 2008, they emphasized that the riverfront, Arch grounds, and Memorial
Drive must be redeveloped as one project area. They recommended a new
"destination attraction" such as a museum to be built on Arch grounds, seasonal
activities to be planned on the riverfront, and year-round attractions such as
restaurants to be included. They opted for a three-block Arch connector and a
regional not-for-profit trust to raise funds and operate and maintain the new
cultural installation.
Two public surveys commissioned by the Danforth
Foundation showed wide support for developing the Arch grounds "to provide a
variety of cultural, recreational, and leisure activities and entertainment."
More than 30 mayors in the St. Louis region voiced similar support; civic and
business leaders in the city and adjacent counties in Missouri and Illinois
have subsequently created an organization to promote their commitment to
enlivening the Arch grounds and riverfront.
In the face of this groundswell of advocacy, the NPS appears
stubbornly resistant to change. It did hold its own public meetings where
individuals were able to comment on preliminary alternatives for the Arch
grounds' future, but it's not clear what change, if any, the NPS will actually
accept. While supporters of grounds improvements hope to avoid a major
confrontation with the NPS, public comments by NPS officials have not been
encouraging. A final resolution of this issue—namely, a transfer of a portion
of the NPS land to an independent regional trust—will require action by the
U.S. Congress.
A Grand Downtown Garden
Meanwhile, work on the sculpture garden, now officially
known as City Garden, had progressed substantially. From the outset, the
Gateway Foundation envisioned a hybrid garden of trees, groves, and water
features—a city park with garden qualities that would showcase major public
sculpture, open to the city. Neither the garden nor the 20 to 25 sculptures
that would be placed on the site would be fenced.
Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape
Architects in Charlottesville, Virginia, the garden's designers, had focused
early on the idea of three east–west bands of forest, lawn, and garden. They
became fascinated with aerial views of the two great area rivers, the
Mississippi and Missouri, their arcs, limestone outcrops, and islands. That
geography informed key features in the garden, as did a 1916 map of the site
showing existing property lines, alleys, and foundation walls.
The northern more "urban" band of the garden includes groves
and rows of primarily oak, elm, and birch trees, which shade upper terraces and
a video wall. An imposing six- to eight-foot wall extends across the entire
site, evoking the bluffs of the Mississippi. Near a café, the wall bisects a
water basin, creating a waterfall. The middle, more parklike
band includes a large expanse of grass, and a large rectangular pool and spray
basin with vertical water jets for interactive play are featured in the western
block. Perennial beds, shrubs, and smaller flowering trees fill the southern
"garden" band. A series of low hedges mark the historic property lines and
building foundations. On-site stormwater management
includes a number of bioretention treatment areas as well
as porous paving on the upper terrace and along Chestnut Street.
The Missouri Botanical Garden is collaborating on plant
selection, native whenever possible, and will maintain the plantings after the
garden opens. The designers have also worked closely with Jeffrey Bruce, FASLA,
of Kansas City—whose specialties include urban soil management—and James Urban,
FASLA, regarding tree plantings in several paved areas.
City Garden will offer a wide variety of experiences, with
seasonal changes throughout the year. Warren Byrd, FASLA, expects a range of
garden users: day workers in adjacent office buildings; the growing community
of downtown residents, tourists, and conventioneers; and attendees at the
nearby Busch Stadium who routinely crossed the site prior to construction
before and after ball games. City Garden is due to be finished in time for the
July 2009 All-Star Game.
But what about the rest of the 1.2-mile Gateway Mall of
which the City Garden is just one segment? The master planning team, headed by
Thomas Balsley Associates and Urban Strategies Inc.
of Toronto, faced numerous challenges to enlivening the bland mall. Except for
a few annual events, most of the mall offers little to attract people. Skeptics
questioned whether there was sufficient residential density downtown despite
impressive gains in recent years. Few buildings flanking the mall generate
street life. Despite its location, the mall failed to provide "much-needed
unifying glue for downtown."
The final master plan, publicly unveiled in January, sets
the stage for individual proposals to develop separate parts of the mall. It
lays out distinct "rooms" starting with Kiener Plaza
at the east end and progressing westward through the urban garden, a civic
room, a neighborhood room, and finally the terminus at Aloe Plaza. Together,
the final mall offers a potential mix of public performance and civil gathering
spaces and platforms for public art and cultural activity. An "urban hallway"
running the entire southern edge of the mall unites the linear site and
ultimately could provide a link to the Gateway Arch grounds across Memorial
Balsley told me that the next
priorities should be unifying the Urban Hallway and redesigning Kiener Plaza. "Together, they have the highest profile and
will change the public's perception forever. Funding for the rest will then
One civic leader expressed hope to me that City Garden will
raise the design bar high for other mall spaces. That is already happening with
an exciting redesign proposal for Kiener Plaza. Local
designer "Hansi" Hommel
initially designed a series of 20-meter-high cantilevered fabric solar panels
that would wrap around a performance space at the western end of the plaza, the
arcing ensemble and its processing of solar energy evoking a leaf in structure
and function. HOK Planning Group prepared a plan for the entire plaza; Arup engineers in New York technically vetted the solar
structures. While the plaza plan is still at the initial conceptual stage, the
designers have already given thought to the possible installation of
solar-energized electric car rechargers around the
The Old Post Office District was another downtown focus area
of the 1999 Action Plan. Central to its redevelopment was the renovation of the
Old Post Office on Olive Street, a late-19th-century National Historic Landmark
building. The city unveiled the design for Old Post Office Plaza in the summer
of 2000; now under construction, the $8.2 million plaza is replacing a former
parking lot. Baird Sampson Neuert of Toronto won the
design competition to serve as the plaza's architect, and Arcturis
was named project landscape architect. The plaza's centerpiece, a large
figurative sculpture called Torso diIkaro by artist Igor Mitoraj, has been contributed by the Gateway Foundation.
The plaza will add an important open space attraction, allowing for public
entertainment and special events in the heart of the downtown core.
Finally, a project located just south of the new Busch
Stadium ballpark is expected to have a major impact on downtown's revival.
Chouteau's Pond was drained in the mid-1850s; today it is largely parking lot
and rail tracks. In 2000, the HOK Planning Group and St. Louis developer
McCormack Baron Salazar began drawing up the plans for a new 16-acre lake at
the site together with a greenway that would eventually link the lake and
downtown's riverfront with Forest Park to the west as part of the River Ring
network. The project is expected to spur significant economic development on
both sides of the greenway. Furthermore, the lake is expected to help reunite
the north and south sides of downtown. Last year, Congress overrode a
presidential veto to pass the Water Resources Development Act, from which
funding for the Phase I lake construction will come.
At the time the 1999 Action Plan was drawn up, city leaders
and planners recognized the need to restore a "critical mass" of people living
downtown. Attention initially turned to the city's former Washington Avenue
garment district, a corridor of fine historic buildings, most vacant or
underused since the once prosperous area's decline beginning in the 1970s. The
buildings were naturals for loft development; with one of the country's largest
historic designation programs, state and federal historic tax credits helped to
make the decision. Today, nearly every historic building has been restored or
is under reconstruction. The effort has spread to nearby streets, and
downtown's population has increased to more than 10,000 people in the past five
years. A Washington Avenue streetscape plan by WRT of Philadelphia, implemented
with $17 million of federal and state funding, was followed by streetscape
guidelines for much of the remaining downtown core by HOK Planning Group.
Streetscapes will be redeveloped with Missouri Downtown Economic Stimulus Act
funding as individual building construction proceeds.
Taking Stock
So almost a decade and more than $4 billion in investment
later, how has the plan fared? People are moving back downtown, and retail
shops, services, restaurants, clubs, and hotels keep opening. Street life now
continues after dark from Washington Avenue to Laclede's
Landing. Major sports and convention facilities add to the energy. Downtown
life will soon be further enriched by City Garden and Old Post Office Plaza.
And a bistate greenways network with assured revenue
is bringing St. Louis the city and St. Louis the region closer together,
already proving to be a catalyst for economic growth.
St. Louis's downtown growth is not immune from current
national trends in capital markets and tightening credit. Several major
residential or mixed-use projects that were forging ahead last year are now
stalled, altered, or cancelled, but the downtown $507 million Lumiere Place complex, including the Midwest's second Four
Seasons Hotel, is off to a successful start, and an on-and-off mixed-use
Ballpark Village development adjacent to the new ballpark that opened in 2006
is back on, with the first phase—hotel, retail, and office, costing $280 to
$320 million—scheduled to begin construction in 2009.
As downtown St. Louis moves forward, two questions remain
high on its agenda. Will the city be reunited with its riverfront? Can momentum
be sustained on the Gateway Mall? Events of the past decade are cause for
optimism. The answers could not be more important.
George Hazelrigg, ASLA, is a senior project associate in Virginia
Tech's landscape architecture program.
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A two-car crash slowed traffic on Interstate 83 northbound in Fairview Township, York County, on Monday afternoon.
A person was trapped in one of the cars, which was on the jersey barrier, but the injuries were not life-threatening.
The crash happened at mile marker 32 near Old Trail Road.
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