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Who is the best on this years Western Slope?
The Durango High School basketball teams are out to prove its the Demons this weekend at their Class 4A district tournaments.
The boys (14-5) are the No. 1 seed and received a first-round bye, then will play the winner of No. 8 Montezuma-Cortez and No. 9 Battle Mountain at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Colorado Mesa University in Grand Junction.
The girls (11-8) also earned a first-round bye and the No. 4 seed at districts. They will play No. 5 Glenwood Springs at 3 p.m. Thursday at Grand Junction Central High School.
The boys still got to prove were the No. 1 seed, the best team over here on the Western Slope, DHS boys head coach Alan Batiste said.
That title would come with more than just bragging rights, too. It will have an effect on the state tournament seeding, which will be determined by MaxPreps.com and announced Sunday.
The Demons currently are ranked 10th in the Class 4A MaxPreps standings; the DHS girls are ranked 24th. The top 48 reach the state tournament.
Our minimum goal is to go up and win at least one game and get to the states, DHS girls basketball head coach Nancy Smith said. Our maximum goal is to go up there and beat everybody and get a home game for the first round of the state playoffs.
Batiste said his Demons would love a No. 4 seed for the playoffs but are looking for a No. 7 or better with a district tournament championship.
Weve got to win it just to show the board that were the No. 1 team over here, Batiste said.
To do that, the DHS boys needs to execute, bouncing back from a buzzer-beating loss to Grand Junction on Saturday. The Demons executed well for 31 minutes, 40 seconds, Batiste said. It only took 20 seconds for the Tigers to come away with the win.
Defense will be the centerpiece of the Demons gameplan in Grand Junction, as it has been all season, but Batiste said his boys will need to convert staunch defense into scoring.
On the offensive end, just taking our time with what the defense gives us, he said. Pushing the basketball and trying to get easy baskets.
Either second-seeded Palisade (14-5) or third-seeded Eagle Valley (14-5), which could meet each other in Fridays semifinal if they win their respective quarterfinals Thursday, could prove to be Durangos biggest challenge if it reaches the Saturday-afternoon championship game at the college.
Batiste warned, however, that in postseason tournaments, every game is anybodys game.
The Demons beat Palisade 50-43 in December but lost to No. 7 Montrose 45-44 in January, then needed a buzzer-beating 3-pointer to force overtime for a 58-48 win over the Indians on Friday night.
Anything can happen, Batiste said.
The girls, meanwhile, are excited to go up against more comparable foes than their difficult Southwestern League, which combines Class 4A and Class 5A competition, where the Demons were in the middle of the pack, so our wins and losses were fairly lopsided, said Smith, whose Demons finished 4-6 in the SWL.
This will be a chance to see some teams that we match up well with and test ourselves, she said. Maybe have some nail-biters.
She said a single win in the tournament, which guarantees each team three games, should be sufficient to secure a spot in the state playoffs.
Glenwood Springs, with its higher-powered offense, will be Durangos first test, and Smith said the Demons plan to lock up the opposing Demons with scrappy defense.
Well sick our most tenacious defensive players on their highest scorers, Smith said.
A win there likely will pit Durango against No. 1 seed Montrose at 6 p.m. at Colorado Mesa in the semifinals. The Indians already have beaten the Demons twice this year 62-20 in January and 54-38 on Friday.
Smith picked out Montrose as her girls biggest challenge, but if the Demons ratchet down their defensive play, take care of the ball on offense and make well-selected shots, she said they can pick up the win, then a title in the 1 p.m. championship game Saturday at the college.
The Southwestern League/Western Slope Class 4A District Tournament started Tuesday with play-in games.


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By John R. Statton —
Saskatchewan's top provincial politician knows the importance of free-flowing trade to the economy.
Saskatchewan communities are trend leaders in projects using innovation and enterprise. On May 13, the annual Saskatchewan Municipal Awards ceremony celebrated some of the best and brightest of these, including environmentally friendly improvements for recreational facilities; engaging youth; taking pride in preserving the past; employing municipal cooperation to create a joint sanitation system; and finding common interests in improving healthcare services through providing a residence for doctors and students.
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President Pell is the wise, compassionate leader and figurehead of the Galactic Mytes of Sorton City, on the planet Nekron. Aided by Vice-President Nitor, Pell proposes the alliance between the Galactic Mytes and the people of Primus. The Mytes are a peace loving race, who tries to make an appeal to General Nifel and the Gleanons to end to the hostilities between the two races. Pell hopes that it will come sooner rather than later. Allied with Mara of Primus, President Pell fights for an end to war.
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The controversy surrounding the objections of Selectman Mark Ferguson over giving podium time to Chairman Duncan Leith of the Wachusett Regional School District at the Nov. 19 selectmen's meeting continued last night.
Three people stepped to the podium during the citizen's address portion of the selectmen's meeting with differing opinions on the incident — including Mr. Ferguson himself.
Former Wachusett Principal Hal Lane, a one-time state legislator, decried the actions of Mr. Ferguson on Nov. 19 — leaving the meeting as Mr. Leith was about to speak — as "arrogant" and "juvenile," and asked the board to take action.
"The board has the right to censure elected officials who violate town rules or who resort to antics not consistent with the charter of the town or who act in ways that bring embarrassment to the town," Mr. Lane said. "I believe this action should be taken by you tonight or whenever you can."
Mr. Ferguson had been protesting the school district's not supplying selectmen with more than 4,000 pages of documents showing line item expenditures of the budget. His protest met with approval last night from Holden resident Edwin Meyer, long a critic of the school committee and Mr. Leith. He called once again for the resignation of Mr. Leith and senior representatives of the committee for what he said was their lack of financial oversight.
"I applaud Selectman Mark Ferguson for having the guts to walk out on Duncan Leith," Mr. Meyer said.
Mr. Ferguson himself stepped to the podium as a private citizen and reiterated that his board's request for the budget still had not been met. Mr. Leith said at the committee's Nov. 27 meeting that the district budget could be found online, but Mr. Ferguson said the 12 pages that could be found online did not contain the information about expenditures that the board was seeking.
The board made a request in August for certain documents to back up the budget in the aftermath of revelations in July of overspending and underforecasting amounting to nearly $3 million for fiscal 2012 and 2013 and the resulting firing of Business Manager Peter Brennan. But the district replied that the more than 4,000 pages requested would require the town to pay more than $2,000, or 50 cents per page, in copy costs.
Selectmen agreed last night to ask once again for electronic copies instead.
Mr. Ferguson suggested that he would be happy to pay 20 percent of the cost to get the copies they requested.
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2013-14: Three-year letterwinner … holds school records in 200 free (1:55.96), 400 medley relay (3:59.44), 800 free relay (7:49.01) and 400 free relay (3:33.95).
2012-13: Won the 200 free at the ODAC Championship meet with a school-record time of 1:55.73 to garner first-team recognition as a junior … member of the winning 200 and 800 free relays at ODACs … recorded the team's season-best time in the 200 free (1:55.73) and the 400 free (4:44.46).
2011-12: Earned First Team All-ODAC honors in her sophomore campaign … named ODAC Champion in the 200 free relay (1:38.26), 400 medley relay, 800 free relay and 400 free relay … placed second in the 200 free with a school-record time of 1:55.96 … also took third in the 50 free (24.78) and the 100 free (54.35) at the conference meet … recorded first-place finishes against Sweet Briar (11/11) and Bridgewater (1/14) and at the Franklin & Marshall Invite (Dec. 3-4).
2010-11: Missed the second half of her rookie campaign with an injury ... recorded season-best times in both the 50 free (25.21) and 100 free (54.92) at TCNJ Invite (Dec. 3-5) ... swam a season-best time of 1:11.91 while finishing second in the 100 back at Sweet Briar (11/12) ... finished third in the 200 free (2:00.95), a season best, at the Centre College Invite (10/30).
High School: Earned four letters in swimming at Athens Drive ... served as team captain during her senior campaign ... member of a squad that qualified for the state tournament three seasons ... finished ninth in the 100 free at the state tournament as a senior ... member of fourth-place 200 medley relay squad as a sophomore ... was a YMCA National Qualifier ... member of the YMCA National Combined Third-Place team in 2009 and 2010 ... swam on two 12th place relays at the 2010 YMCA Nationals.
Personal: Family member, Keith Romich '79, swam and played water polo at W&L … cousin, Joey Kienle, played water polo at Whittier College … serves as a Venture Volunteer pre-orientation leader … also active with Women in Technology and Science … spent the summer as an intern at Shepherd Poverty in Phillips County, Ark. … Neuroscience and psychology double-major.


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Many denizens of the world oceans could be described as monstrous- they may have: tentacles, a fearsome reputation, big teeth, an air of mystery, way more than the usual number of legs, an alien or unfamiliar appearance, and, in many cases, a distinct lack of what you might call a face. Yet these monsters frequently also possess: grace, brilliant colors, striking patterns, pleasing symmetry, sparkly or shiny surfaces, and sometimes, a clearly visible face humans instinctively identify as "cute". This collection is for those beautiful monsters.


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Grizzly Celebrates 30 Years in Business
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To celebrate, the company is releasing a special 30th-anniversary catalog – 764 pages of woodworking and metalworking machinery; you can request your copy at Grizzly.com or by calling 800-523-4777.
In a press release, Balolia (who is still the president and CEO of the Bellingham, Wash.-based company), said, "A lot has changed over the last 30 years. Many machinery brands that were around 10 or 20 years ago have completely disappeared. Others have changed ownership, some multiple times, losing their core values and commitment to customers along the way.
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- 6 4- to 5-inch-diameter portobello mushrooms
- Olive oil
- 3 garlic cloves, minced
- 12 large eggs
- 4 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese
- 1 1/2 teaspoons chopped fresh rosemary
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 6 tablespoons (3/4 stick) butter
Recipe Preparation
Preheat broiler. Line large baking sheet with foil. Remove and discard mushroom stems. Scoop out and discard tough inside centers where mushroom stems were attached. Brush both sides of mushrooms generously with olive oil. Place mushrooms, dark gill side up, on prepared baking sheet. Sprinkle mushrooms with minced garlic, then sprinkle generously with salt and pepper. Broil mushrooms about 5 inches from heat source until beginning to soften, about 5 minutes. Turn mushrooms over; broil until tender when pierced with knife, about 7 minutes longer. DO AHEAD Can be made 2 hours ahead. Let stand at room temperature. Before continuing, rewarm in 350°F oven until heated through, about 10 minutes.
Whisk eggs, 2 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese, chopped rosemary, salt, and pepper in large bowl to blend. Melt 5 tablespoons butter in heavy large skillet over medium-low heat. Add eggs to skillet and stir gently in circular motion with wooden spoon or heat-resistant rubber spatula, releasing cooked eggs from bottom of skillet and allowing uncooked portion of eggs to flow underneath. Cook until eggs are set but still soft, about 4 minutes total. Dot with remaining 1 tablespoon butter.
Arrange hot portobello mushrooms, gill side up, on plates. Top with eggs, dividing equally. Sprinkle with remaining 2 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese, dividing equally, and serve.


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Life Goes on in Embarrass at 42 Below Zero
EMBARRASS (AP) - You might think activity in a small township in northern Minnesota would come to a standstill when the temperature drops to 42 below zero.
Not so. The postmaster in the St. Louis County township of Embarrass says life goes on. Residents have reported to work. Children are in school. And the mail is being delivered.
The Natural Weather Service says Embarrass is the coldest spot in Minnesota Thursday. But, other communities in the region aren't far behind. The temperature in Ash Lake dropped to 39 below and 36 below in International Falls. That's without the wind chill factor.
Embarrass Postmaster Paul Thesenvitz says his postal carriers deliver mail in the rural township by car, so only their arms get cold when they reach out to a mailbox.
Thesenvitz has only one complaint. He says the power has gone out so his coffee pot isn't working.
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There's something mighty fine about a dirt road . . . too much pavement can't be good for the soul. Of course, if you're in a hurry these aren't the kind of roads you want to be on; in fact some of them are downright scary. But if you can endure the bumps, Idaho's back country roads will provide the adventure.
–from Outdoor Idaho's Backroad Adventures
It's estimated there are over forty-thousand miles of back roads that wind through the forests and deserts of Idaho. These rugged and seldom-used corridors beckon to adventurous travelers. From the Owyhee Backcountry Byway in the desert of southwestern Idaho . . . to the Magruder Road Corridor between the state's two largest wilderness areas . . . to the Lolo Motorway that follows a route traveled by Lewis and Clark, these remote roads can transport you to little-known scenes of beauty and wonder.


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While teaching some of the formal terms used to describe sonnets will be one of the aims of this lesson, our starting point and central focus throughout will be learning to appreciate the sounds of poetry.
Shakespeare's preeminence as a dramatist rests in part on his capacity to create vivid metaphors and images that embody simple and powerful human emotions. This lesson is designed to help students understand how Shakespeare's language dramatizes one such emotion: fear.
Students search an online version of Shakespeare's Macbeth for clues to the motives behind Macbeth's precipitous descent into evil.
Learn how Shakespeare used the sonnet tradition to enhance his stagecraft by performing a scene from this timeless tragedy.
The activities in this lesson invite students to focus on the characters from A Midsummer Night's Dream, to describe and analyze their conflicts, and then to watch how those conflicts get resolved.
The following lesson introduces children to folk tales through a literary approach that emphasizes genre categories and definitions. In this unit, students will become familiar with fables and trickster tales from different cultural traditions and will see how stories change when transferred orally between generations and cultures.
In this lesson plan, students read and learn to understand fairy tales in order to recognize their universal literary structures and themes. They compare similar fairy tales from different cultural and geographic regions of the world to see over-arching plots featuring conflicts between good and evil and imagery and motifs that are repeated across many cultures and time periods.


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Being the chosen platform for creative high-level graphic artist and such, or so everybody say, Mac has many options of heavy-duty graphic softwares. But not everybody needs Photoshop-level applications. Sometimes you'll only need to do simple and quick drawing.
Believe it or not, one of the Windows softwares that I missed most when I first moved to Mac, aside from Minesweeper and Freecell, is MS Paint. So, for the nostalgia sake, I compile a small list of simple drawing application for Mac.
1. Paintbrush
I think it's best to start the list with this app because Paintbrush claimed to be "the clone" of MS Paint. This one is a very simple drawing application with minimal tools. That's why it's fun and perfect for quick doodling.
2. MacPaint X
MacPaint X is a basic drawing tool for Mac which is based off the original MacPaint that was created by Apple. It comes with many other small applets such as a auto saver and updater which makes it one of the good alternative drawing application for OS X. The simplicity of MacPaint X makes it fit for everybody, from children learning how to draw on their first computer to adults doing a quick sketch.
3. Tux Paint
If you are (or have) children ages 3 to 12, then you have to try this award-winning multi-platform drawing application. The app combine easy-to-use interface and fun sound effects to encourage children to draw. There's also the cartoon mascot which will guide kids on using the program. But even if you're not young anymore, this program could be a fun time waster. We all have the little child inside of us, don't we?
4. Drawberry
It is a free vector drawing software application for Mac OS X. This one is an alternative to the free but bulky: The GIMP or Inkscape. With DrawBerry, you have all the possibilities the vectorial drawing offers you in a free, easy to use and powerful application. At the time of writing, the developer's web showed near-blank page, so I get the app from one of the Mac download sites.
5. HeliosPaint
This one is a bit more advanced, but not too complex. Maybe somewhere above Paintbrush and (way) below Photoshop. It's written in Java so it would work on every OS. But as most Java apps out there, HeliosPaint is a bit sluggish.
Of course there are other drawing apps available for Mac and there's no way I could list them all here. Which one(s) do you use? Share your thoughts below.


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Allen Lessels' College Hockey: No. 47 gets his day at practiceBy ALLEN LESSELS
New Hampshire Union Leader
February 14. 2013 8:20PM
DURHAM -- The player in University of New Hampshire blue hockey jersey No. 47 moved in and fired a shot that beat the goalie high to the glove side.
UNH coach Dick Umile laughed about the play a little later.
"I saw that shot," Umile said. "He's got a great shot. I could have used that shot last night."
Umile's Wildcats lost a tough one on Tuesday night in Rhode Island, 1-0 to Providence College when the Friars scored the only goal of the game with less than three minutes to play.
As for No. 47, he's getting his game back in shape for the sixth CHaD Battle of the Badges game at Verizon Wireless Arena in Manchester on March 16.
Umile presented Manchester police officer Dan Doherty with his jersey - No. 47 is his badge number - in the UNH locker room at the Whittemore Center before a light team practice on Thursday afternoon.
Doherty wore the jersey onto the ice and skated in some drills with the Wildcats before they scrimmaged.
Doherty, who returned to work last week and is still recovering from wounds he received after being shot last March by Myles Webster, is an avid hockey player.
He was set to play in his third CHaD game last year and said one of the most difficult things to deal with after being shot was that he had to miss the game.
"We fundraise for the kids and our reward is getting to play in the game," Doherty said. "The game means a lot to me. I made a promise I'd be playing this year. I may not be playing great, but I'll be playing."
Former Gov. John Lynch, also a hockey lover and a visitor to UNH practices over the years, had told Doherty, 26, when he saw him in the hospital last year that he would bring him to a practice when he was able to skate again.
Thursday was the day.
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NOW the Wildcats must wait.
They are 16-8-3 overall and 11-7-2 in Hockey East and are tied for second place in the league with Merrimack this morning. By the time they finish their next game at Boston College on Sunday, they could be anywhere from first to fifth.
Merrimack plays BC at home tonight and can take over first place. BC holds a one-point lead over UNH and Merrimack at the moment.
"There's a long way to go," said UNH goalie Casey DeSmith, a sophomore from Rochester. "There's a few games left. If we win most of our remaining games, we're going to give ourselves a good shot at being pretty high in the standings."
The Wildcats, ranked No. 5 this week, are down to seven games to go.
After BC, UNH goes to Vermont for a pair of games next weekend and then closes out the regular season with home series against Massachusetts and Maine.
DeSmith made 33 saves, including one on a penalty shot, in the loss to Providence on Wednesday. He improved his goals-against average to 2.16 and his save percentage to .928.
PC freshman Jon Gillies had 37 saves for the win.
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THE DARTMOUTH MEN, 11-8-4 overall and 7-6-3 in the ECAC, are down to six regular-season games remaining and four of them are at home. They play Cornell, 8-13-2 and 5-8-3, at Thompson Rink tonight at 7 and Colgate, 13-11-4 and 6-7-3, on Saturday night.
The Big Green are on the upper end of an ECAC logjam.
Quinnipiac, the No. 1-ranked team in the country, is running away with the league and Yale is a distant second with 19 points to Quinnipiac's 30.
Dartmouth, Princeton and Rensselaer are all tied for third with 17 points. St. Lawrence and Union are another point back and Brown and Clarkson one more behind that.
Dartmouth lost to Colgate, 5-4, and tied Cornell, 1-1, on the road in the middle of November.
The Big Green are at Clarkson and St. Lawrence next weekend and then close out with home games against Princeton and Quinnipiac.
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THE ST. ANSELM MEN and women are both home this weekend.
The men, 11-8-3 and 0-3-1 in their last four, play Southern Maine tonight at 7 and the University of New England on Saturday at 4. They close out the regular season with a home game against Stonehill on Tuesday at 7.
The women are 15-4-4 and 4-0-1 in their last five. They have two games left, against Plymouth State today at 4 and against Southern Maine on Saturday at 1.
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THE UNH WOMEN, 12-14-2 overall and 8-7-1 in Hockey East, are at Providence tonight and play the Friars at home on Sunday at 2.
The Wildcat are tied for fourth place in the league with Northeastern, a point behind Providence.
The Dartmouth women, 14-7-4 overall and 9-6-3 in the ECAC, are at Colgate, 9-17-3 and 4-11-3, tonight and at Cornell, 20-5-0 and 15-3-0 on Saturday.
The Big Green are sixth in the league.
Cornell goalie Lauren Slebodnick, a junior out of Manchester and Cushing Academy, has the third-best goals-against average in the league at 1.50 and the fourth-best save percentage at .927.


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Wow that guy is a beast
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Ray Ray's coming back. Very good decision. Next year should be his redemption season.
Ray Ray was the only one that I didn't care about if he left. <_<
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Yea I actually thought (and was hoping) that forston and miller would stay and ray ray would go. Miller could have been a heisman winner next year
He's the least important of them but he still has a lot of potential and another off-season under Golden will do him good. Not like our secondary is exploding with talent.
First time on this forum, hell i didn't know the Canes had one but it feels good to talk to fellow Canes fans. Who the hell is giving these players draft advice?? Especially Marcus smh, I played optimist football with him and his brother Dustin. Miller Time i can understand, Streeter somewhat even though he could've improved his draft status if he stayed another yr. Vernon should've stayed, I remember my senior yr Vernon was moved up to varsity, he didn't know a thing but he's came a longgggg way haha. Washington entered for financial reasons so i understand his decision. I'm ready for our bounce back yr and hopefully the NCAA doesn't drop the hammer on us too hard.
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Tonight comes the first of the BBC specials celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Doctor Who
BBC America plans to do a doctor a month starting with the 1st Doctor William Hartnell.
After the Special they will show an episode from the Hartnell era. I had expected them to go with the very first Dr. Who episode but instead they are picking my favorite of the Hartnell era The Aztecs.
It is not only one of the best written and best acted of the era, it is the most provocative, at least it's provocative if you live in 2013.
Watch the episode tonight (10 PM EST) and lets see if you spot the allegory to take with you.


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And that's how it was. Everyday things were such a struggle that it had become a thing. At one point, I had to start my day by brushing my teeth, then lie down for a while, then wash my face. Showers were carefully timed for days when nothing else was imperative. This was better than when I couldn't get out of bed but it was hard to feel any gratitude. Continue reading


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An off-duty law enforcement officer took quick action on Jan. 12 to stop a pedestrian accident in a marked crosswalk.
In the early afternoon of Jan. 12, Hood River County Undersheriff Dwayne Troxel was in his private vehicle, idling behind a stopped pickup at a pedestrian crossing on 12th Street, just south of the May Street intersection. With the two vehicles blocking the right lane, Troxel said a young boy, about seven years of age, began to push his tricycle across the one-way street.
At that point Troxel took a quick look in the rear view mirror and noticed an oncoming vehicle in the left lane that appeared to be traveling between 25-30 miles per hour. It quickly became apparent to Troxel that the driver of that car was not aware of the pedestrian presence and did not intend to stop.
Just as the boy entered the left side of the roadway Troxel blasted his car horn and lurched his automobile toward the other lane. He said the surprised woman behind the wheel then slammed on her brakes and slid almost a vehicle length into the middle of the crosswalk, stopping just feet from the child.
"This could have ended in a tragedy," said Troxel. "Hood River drivers using these one-way streets need to be alert and follow the law which requires them to stop at a crosswalk or intersection anytime the car in the other lane stops."
Last year the Hood River City Police Department held eight crosswalk traffic crackdowns within a two-month period. The focus on pedestrian safety was launched after two Hood River residents were struck and killed by vehicles in May of 2000. Viola Briggs and Lynn Rasmussen both died from injuries during the same week after being hit by motorists while attempting to cross 12th Street, also known as Highway 281, near the Hood River Shopping Center.
Because of community outcry over the two deaths, Hood River was one of two cities in the state chosen to receive a $4,000 public education grant from the Oregon Department of Transportation. During the crackdown between December of 2000 and February of 2001, 180 vehicles were stopped and 82 ticketed for failure to yield to a pedestrian. An additional 98 citations were given for other offenses, such as driving while suspended, passing a vehicle stopped at a crosswalk, failure to use seat belts, driving uninsured, expired vehicle license, failure to carry registration or change of address and speeding.
The Hood River County Sheriff's Office also received a $5,200 state grant last year to help train motorists to slow down on city streets. The funding was used to purchase an Electronic Speed Trailer, a self-contained unit that is portable and can be set up along area roadways to give approaching drivers a reading of their current rate of travel. That equipment was used frequently near the deadly 12th Street crosswalk last year to remind drivers that ODOT had lowered the speed limit from 35 miles per hour to 25 miles per hour in that vicinity.
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The Big Draw in LondonAs one of the largest and most influential drawing campaign in the world, the Big Draw aims to use drawing to connect visitors, and the wider local communities, with museum and gallery collections, in new and enjoyable ways. On October 24th, "Big Draw - La Festa del Dibuix" will make its debut in Barcelona at the Museu Picasso, including creative workshops by local artists and illustrators throughout the historic district La Ribera where the museum is located .
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Taiwan's peaceful transfer of political power offers further evidence that the regime in Beijing is wrong when it suggests democracy is not possible in China.
Taiwan remains an embarrassment to Beijing's aging leadership who condescendingly assert that market-based democratic traditions are inconsistent with Chinese culture. In the blogosphere Chinese are increasingly asking: "If Taiwan can democratically elect a president, why can't we?"
Beijing is undergoing an increasingly uneasy leadership change, where not one member of the Chinese power structure is directly elected by the people. A corrupt Chinese Communist Party (CCP) looks increasingly entitled, repressive and cut-off from the Chinese people.
US policymakers need to understand Taiwan's political and social significance to China's transition now underway. Failure to do so only serves to re-enforce attitudes among ultra-nationalists in Beijing who would gladly snuff out Taipei's experiment in freedom. Based on their statements, a growing number of People's Liberation Army (PLA) hardliners seem to feel that former Chinese chairman Mao Zedong's (毛澤東) famous statement to then-US secretary of state Henry Kissinger four decades ago, that: "We can wait 100 years for Taiwan," is now outdated.
Rather than engage Taiwan as a partner, whose political and social history offers a useful roadmap to greater democracy at home, Beijing sees Taiwan's emerging democracy as a threat. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the PLA has pivoted much of its military assets away from China's northern border and to its east coast instead. We know from experts' analysis of PLA military planning that a large part of the US$100 billion in annual military expenditures now undertaken is directed at Taiwan-related contingencies.
The loss of Taiwan to Chinese domination would have far-reaching repercussions. From Seoul in the north to Canberra in the south, such a policy retreat would likely raise questions among our Asia-Pacific allies about the US' Pacific staying power. Some of our old friends might even decide that the time has come to cut their losses and seek an accommodation with Beijing before it is too late.
With control of Taiwan, Beijing would be able to dictate terms of engagement with both Tokyo and Seoul. The PLA Navy would dominate the crucial sea lanes around Taiwan and its seizure would also break the current freedom of navigation in the first island chain off the Asian coast, allowing Beijing to pursue its strategy of denying access to the US Navy.
As China's air and sea power rapidly expands, it is key that the US approve Taiwan's request for next generation F-16 jets to replace an aging fleet provided at the end of the Cold War. Taiwan also needs diesel submarines to counter Beijing's rapidly expanding submarine fleet.
Leaving Taiwan exposed to Beijing's incessant bullying and potential aggression is not the answer. Inaction on provision of defensive weapons as mandated by the US Congress in the Taiwan Relations Act (TRA) is a prescription for disaster. I have put forward legislation, known as the Taiwan Policy Act, to enhance the TRA and to strengthen our ties with Taiwan.
Beijing seeks to marginalize US strategic and commercial interests in the world's most economically vibrant region. Any success would have a direct impact on lives of US citizens. Without access to Asian markets, the US economy would decline.


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President Barack Obama will unveil his sweeping plan on immigration Tuesday in the midst of a rapidly shifting political environment. It's his most ambitious move yet on the emotionally divisive issue after making a series of smaller steps over the past year.
Obama first came into office on the heels of Washington's failure to overhaul the nation's immigration laws. Those failures in 2006 and 2007 led many cities and states to adopt their own regulations to drive out illegal immigrants.
But exit polls find that views are changing, and a growing Latino electorate has emerged as a powerful force.
The political landscape has shifted so much that even before this latest proposal, the White House has been able to quietly unveil several policy changes that undercut communities' ability to enforce federal immigration laws and that allow more illegal immigrants to remain in the country. Meanwhile, states are taking steps to welcome illegal immigrants by, among other things, allowing them to drive.
"The tide is turning," said Frank Sharry, the executive director of America's Voice, which advocates for comprehensive immigration legislation. "People sort of picked up on little pieces of it, but they're not sure whether they believe it."
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have taken notice. And both Democrats and Republicans see the debate as critical to their political futures: Obama sees immigration as a signature issue that he feels could help him define his legacy; Republicans see immigration as a way to appeal to Latinos and help pull the party out of the political wilderness.
On Monday, a bipartisan group of U.S. senators got ahead of the president's announcement by presenting its own immigration plan, though it is similar to past proposals that have failed. The key elements include greater border security, a guest-worker program and beefed-up employer verification, and a path to citizenship for the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants already in the country. The plan is expected to closely align with one the president will unveil Tuesday on a special trip to Las Vegas. The White House called the Senate proposal a "big deal" because it embraces a path to citizenship.
"This is an important development," Press Secretary Jay Carney said. "This is in keeping with the principles the president has been espousing for a long time, in keeping with bipartisan efforts in the past, and with the effort this president believes has to end in a law that he can sign."
Regardless of the warm talk from some politicians about reaching an agreement, Obama's and the Senate group's bipartisan call for a path to citizenship will reignite an emotional debate over the rule of law and "amnesty," a politically charged word with negative connotations among conservatives.
"We would be in a much better position to achieve immigration reform if the Obama administration had spent that last four years enforcing federal law rather than dismantling it," Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., said Monday.
But quietly, a series of administration policy changes in recent months already has begun to transform how illegal immigrants live, work and go to school in the United States.
In addition to last summer's announcement to defer deportations and give work permits to hundreds of thousands of undocumented youth, the White House announced last month that it was going to make legal permanent residency easier for many illegal immigrants who are immediate relatives of American citizens.
The Department of Homeland Security also announced it will no longer scoop up undocumented immigrants arrested for minor offenses such as traffic tickets, and that it is phasing out a controversial but popular program, known as 287(g), which granted police and sheriff's deputies the power to start the deportation process on arrested illegal immigrants.
Reaction around the country has been mixed. Many undocumented immigrants, like 25-year-old Sandra Tovar of Forth Worth, are trying to be optimistic, but they also are wary.
Tovar, who recently received deferred action on deportation, remembers the multiple failed efforts to overhaul immigration law. The consequences included a wave of anti-illegal immigrant sentiment in local communities.
States such as Arizona, Alabama and Georgia implemented their own strong immigration laws geared toward encouraging undocumented immigrants to leave. Several more communities in Texas, Florida and North Carolina, among others, joined the 287(g) program. According to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, nearly 60 local law enforcement agencies in 21 states operated the program.
On a recent evening, Tovar joined other advocates in strategy sessions at the Catholic Men's Club in north Fort Worth, near the historic Stockyards, which is home to long-established Mexican-American families.
"There's still that feeling of not knowing what is going to happen and being afraid," she said at the club Thursday. "We know it can be everything or nothing."
Anticipation is growing at the Kansas City, Mo.-based Don Bosco Center, which offers immigrants and refugees free English classes. At the center, news of Obama's policy changes for immigrant families has spread slowly from "cousin to cousin," according to David Holsclaw, director of the English as a second language program.
Pedro Ramirez, the 24-year-old son of farm workers in Fresno, Calif., got a hug from his mom when he told her this month that he was granted deferred action and a work permit – and that his U.S.-born brother could one day sponsor the rest of the family to gain their residency status.
"I kind of sprung both surprises on both of them," Ramirez said. "You wouldn't believe how many families have mixed status."
The White House appears to be testing the public's temperament on immigration by rolling out changes that, just a few years ago, would have been more strongly opposed, said Susan Gonzalez Baker, director for the Center for Mexican American Studies at The University of Texas at Arlington.
"It allows the administration to implement some policies that demonstrate the world is not going to end if immigration reform includes benefits, not just walls and more enforcement," she said.
The highest hurdle to any agreement will likely be in the House of Representatives. The Republican-controlled House has long been resistant to a comprehensive plan. Leaders on this issue, such as Rep. Raul Labrador of Idaho, a tea party-backed member and Puerto Rico native, have instead called for a more piecemeal approach.
Labrador on Monday questioned whether the Democrats wanted a political victory or a policy victory. Democrats can't just "draw a line in the sand" and refuse to compromise and then blame Republicans if it fails, he said in an interview.
"We need a system that doesn't just fix the problem for the 12 million people who might be here illegally, but that's fair to the people who have been waiting in line for a long period of time and that's fair to the American citizens who want our sovereignty protected," said Labrador, who serves on the House Judiciary Committee's immigration subcommittee.
Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, criticized senators for promoting an "amnesty" plan that will only compound the problem by leading to more illegal immigration.
"When you legalize those who are in the country illegally, it costs taxpayers millions of dollars, costs American workers thousands of jobs and encourages more illegal immigration," Smith, a former chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and a member of the immigration subcommittee, said in a statement.
Most everyone agrees immigration reform is needed, according to Rosemary Jenks, director of government affairs for NumbersUSA, which advocates for greater enforcement. But the public is not ready for legislation that includes "meaningless enforcement measures," she said.
It's not just Obama's policies and the Senate agreement that are effecting change for illegal immigrants.
Sharry of America's Voice says the trend dates back to last summer, with the historic Supreme Court decision striking down much of Arizona's controversial law.
The court upheld the "show me your papers" requirement mandating law enforcement officers to check the status of people stopped for various reasons who might appear to be in the U.S. illegally. But it threw out other provisions of the law, such as requiring immigrants to obtain or carry immigration registration papers. The decision was followed by Obama granting deferred action to hundreds of thousands of undocumented youth.
In last fall's election, 71 percent of Latinos voted for an incumbent president who championed comprehensive legislation.
More local changes have followed. Illinois passed a law that allows illegal immigrants to get driver's licenses. Lawmakers in Nevada and California are considering similar measures.
When Republicans in North Carolina put together a special committee on immigration, the expectation was they'd recommend state legislation along the lines of Arizona and Alabama.
But the special House panel disbanded abruptly last month without offering any recommendations other than calling for the federal government to do more.
Lesley Clark of the Washington Bureau contributed.


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(Reuters) - When Superstorm Sandy hit the U.S. East Coast on October 29, it inundated low-lying pump stations with silt and seawater at the sewage treatment plant in Sayerville, New Jersey.
As a result, sewage burst up from manholes into the streets. In total darkness, two divers swam into about 25 feet of raw sewage for hours at a time to fix a 6,000-pound cast iron flow-control gate.
Now six months later, local and state officials across New Jersey and New York hope to use $569 million of grants from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to make sure they don't have to go through that again in future storms.
The EPA announced details of how the grants will work on Thursday, along with guidance to states about how to apply. Congress approved the funding in January as part of a $50.5 billion federal disaster aid appropriation.
The grants came in about $30 million less than planned because of spending cuts under the federal budget cuts known as sequestration, EPA regional administrator Judith Enck said in a call with reporters.
New Jersey will get $229 million, while New York will get $340 million, or about 60 percent of the total, she said.
About 11 billion gallons of untreated and partially treated sewage flowed into waterways in eight states due to Sandy - enough to flood Manhattan's Central Park 41-feet deep with wastewater, according to a report on Tuesday from the nonprofit research group Climate Central.
New York and New Jersey accounted for more than 94 percent of sewage overflows from Sandy, the report said.
The EPA grants will help local governments, through their states' revolving loan funds, finance projects to better protect their drinking water and wastewater treatment facilities. The funding will also create about 6,000 short-term construction jobs, the EPA said.
At the Middlesex County Utilities Authority, which operates the Sayerville sewage plant, officials hope to use the funds to better protect some of its 900 horsepower pumps, which are the size of small cars.
Those measures could include building a berm, putting in flood gates where there are openings, and extending concrete up the side of structures where there is now more porous brick, according to the authority's executive director, Richard Fitamant.
Some of the pump stations were built in the 1950s and 1960s, when flood elevations were much lower. Eventually, those stations may need to be relocated out of flood zones altogether - a project that would cost hundreds of millions of dollars, Fitamant told Reuters.
Another looming problem for the region that the current EPA grants will not address: expensive equipment damaged by saltwater that was cleaned and put back into use.
"The concern is that you don't get all the salt out of the equipment," Fitamant said. "All this equipment is compromised."
The EPA money also isn't targeting repair costs. In Nassau County on New York's Long Island, operators of the Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant have said they need $600 million just for repairs - money that is ultimately expected to come from other federal agencies.
Angela Anderson of the Union of Concerned Scientists said in a statement that the federal government needed a broader, nationwide plan to handle rising oceans, and that handing out grants was "slapping a Band-Aid on a much larger problem."
(Reporting by Hilary Russ; Editing by Tim Dobbyn)


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The Iowa Department of Public Health says now is the time of year when ticks and Lyme disease are on the rise. Washington County Public Health Program Director Chrystal Woller says that Lyme disease is spread by the Deer Tick and affects the skin, the nervous system, heart and joints and most cases occur in June and July. Woller says if you plan to be outside in wooded areas or tall grasslands, to be sure to wear long clothing, socks and shoes, and cover yourself with insect spray that works for ticks. Check for ticks immediately after an outing, and if you find one, remove it with tweezers. In some cases, early symptoms of Lyme disease include a large circular rash at the site of the tick bite, accompanied by chills, fever, headache, fatigue, stiff neck, swollen glands, and joint pain.
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How to correct Chicago's open space shortage: 10 ideas that could help city's park-poor neighborhoods away from the lakefront
Ideas are bubbling that can help Chicago fix the dismaying lack of open space away from its park-rich lakefront.
New York is closing lightly trafficked local streets and turned them into temporary playgrounds. San Francisco is taking parking spaces and transforming them into permanent mini-parks. In Chicago, transportation planners are quietly plotting how to weave abandoned railroad lines and disconnected strips of riverfront parks into a network of trails that would rival the city's heavily used lakefront bike path.
Residents of Chicago's most park-poor areas, meanwhile, haven't been waiting for City Hall to bring more green space to them. They've been holding rallies and marches. And they're starting to get results.
In spite of Chicago's massive budget deficit, such examples reveal that Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the people of his city have plenty of creative, cost-efficient weapons at their disposal as they seek to transform the city's "park deserts."
Those weapons include big pots of federal money that can create bike trails and make it easier to walk or bike to the city's existing parks. Designers also can be enlisted in the battle for better parkland, recognizing their ability to craft imaginative landscapes that make even the smallest parks powerful magnets (above, a new park alongside the future Bloomingdale Trail).
For a video about Chicago's Henry C. Palmisano Park, click here.
For a video about Chicago's park-poor Brighton Park neighborhood, click here.
For a video about PARK(ing) Day in Chicago, click here.
Read part one of this series: Half of the city's 2.7 million people live in park-poor areas; lakefront's parkland disguises severe shortage in many areas. For a web gallery, click here.
The open space shortage is pervasive, with 32 of 77 community areas, home to half of Chicago's 2.7 million people, failing to meet the city's own modest requirement of two acres of open space for every 1,000 residents. And the stakes associated with relieving it are huge. Parks can help the city's neighborhoods attract and retain residents, promote public health, boost real estate values and draw together people from different walks of life.
"Open space is not just an amenity. It is one of the most vital institutions in enhancing urban life," said Sally Chappell, professor of art history at DePaul University.
Although Emanuel has thrown his support behind a grab bag of open space initiatives, such as boathouses on the Chicago River and a new park in an unused area of Rosehill Cemetery, he has yet to produce the visionary plan he promised in his transition report.
In the absence of such a vision, here are 10 ideas that show what architects and the architects of public policy can do to relieve Chicago's chronic open space shortage:
1. Make better use of existing parks
Chicagoans who want their parks to live up to the city's official motto, "City in a garden," might begin by acting on the city's unofficial slogan, "Where's mine?"
That's what residents of Brighton Park, the city's most park-poor neighborhood, did in August. More than 350 of them attended a public meeting that launched a campaign for better facilities at the area's lone large park, the 7-acre Kelly Park (above), a mile south of the Stevenson Expressway.
Public officials, including one of the area's two aldermen, George Cardenas, 12th, quickly got the message. They've promised to push for funds to back such improvements as an artificial-turf soccer field. Chicago Park District officials have also met with community leaders.
"Now that we have tackled the schools, because of overcrowding, now we come to the issue of park space," Cardenas said.
There's a broader lesson in this story: Rehabbing existing facilities won't add acreage, yet it will improve the quality — and capacity — of Chicago's parks. An artificial turf field, for example, won't turn into a mud puddle after it rains. And the best way for residents to ensure that existing parks get upgraded? It's to make their voices heard.
"Equity comes from the grass roots," said Patrick Brosnan, director of the Brighton Park Neighborhood Council, which organized the August meeting.
2. Improve access to open space
It's an asphalt jungle out there on Chicago's roads, with more traffic and less law enforcement than there were decades ago. Little wonder, then, that many parents are afraid to let their children walk or ride bikes to parks. "In general, there's that sense of incivility," said Luann Hamilton, a deputy commissioner at Chicago's Department of Transportation.
In response, members of 10 Chicago community organizations, many in park-poor areas, have been fanning out in recent weeks and asking questions: How fast do the cars and trucks drive? Do barriers protect pedestrians from vehicles? Are the sidewalks cracked?
The effort is part of a $5.8 million program, called Healthy Places, that is funded by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and seeks to encourage healthy eating habits and urban design that encourages exercise. It's run by the Consortium to Lower Obesity in Chicago Children, in a partnership with the Chicago Department of Public Health.
The program has made $800,000 in grants to the 10 community organizations to evaluate the "walkability" of areas around local parks and schools. Working with the Healthy Places program and the Chicago Park District, city transportation officials next year will release a citywide plan that seeks to improve pedestrian and bicycle access to open spaces. "You shouldn't have to drive to a park," Hamilton said.
The effort will build on the city's "road diet" program, which slims the curb-to-curb width of streets, adds bike lanes and introduces amenities like trees and lighting. Another model can be found In San Francisco's "living streets" program, which puts benches and a variety of greenery on expanded sidewalks (above). Both initiatives show that getting to the park is as important as the park itself.
3. Bring life to the boulevards
Chicago treats its boulevards, those extra-wide roads with grassy medians that make a 31-mile circuit around the city, as strips of green that are meant to be seen rather than used. Yet the boulevards can be tweaked to provide active play space, as a playground at Palmer Square Park reveals. Streets around the narrow, rectangular park connect Humboldt and Kedzie boulevards.
Chiefly designed by Thompson Dyke & Associates landscape architects and artists Roman Villarreal and Phil Schuster, who worked under the Chicago Public Art Group and the Chicago Park District, the Northwest Side playground consists of a winding path flanked by soft-surfaced play areas (above). The play spaces are adorned with sculptural elements, like fiberglass seats that resemble tree stumps and rabbits carved from limestone that were inspired by the classic children's story "The Velveteen Rabbit."
The low-slung design simultaneously quelled neighbors' fears that an oversized, brightly colored playground would mar the park's openness — "Eyesore on the Emerald Necklace," screamed one news outlet's headline — and introduced features that are perfectly scaled to small children.
"I like it — it's like a little getaway," said Venesa Seija as her son enjoyed the playground.
Erma Tranter, president of Friends of the Parks, suggested other steps to make the boulevards more people-friendly, such as installing running trails that would take advantage of their long, narrow swaths of green. She even proposed that control of the boulevards should revert to the Chicago Park District from the city, which has run them since 1959. Officials at the cash-strapped district respond that they lack the funds to run the boulevards, but support the trails idea.
4. Turn city streets into 'play streets'
This summer, New York City closed to traffic 13 little-used streets in neighborhoods like the South Bronx, turning the roads into temporary "play streets." The closings, which lasted a few hours a day, created an atmosphere like a block party, except the play streets were devoted to exercising, not eating. Children rode scooters and bikes, played with hula hoops and jump ropes, ran races, or cavorted on temporary basketball and tennis courts.
Coordinated by New York's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene in cooperation with schools and community groups, the play streets were based on a simple idea: If kids prone to obesity aren't going to the playground, bring the playground to them. The program had the desired impact.
In interviews afterward, parents told officials that their children "would have been inside or watching television had it not been for the play streets," said Karen Lee, who heads the Health Department's built environment program. "On average, they were out there for more than an hour to 21/2 hours."
In contrast to the years it can take park districts to acquire and develop land, the play streets offer a quick, inexpensive way to expand open space. But they have yet to flourish in Chicago, where transportation officials have unsuccessfully sought funding for them.
In 2008 and 2009, the nonprofit Active Transportation Alliance ran a one-day event called Sunday Parkways, which closed parts of the city's West Side boulevards. Cyclists, joggers and strollers flocked to the streets. They took in ethnically flavored exercise programs, like a salsa aerobics class, in nearby parks. Yet last year, the event wasn't held because organizers couldn't raise enough money.
With options for carving out new green space in densely built neighborhoods severely limited, city planners are turning to another idea: Transform the industrial infrastructure of the past into the linear parks of the future. It's no pipe dream, as a vote Wednesday by the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning showed.
The agency green-lighted the release of millions of dollars in federal funds to the proposed Bloomingdale Trail, a nearly 3-mile-long public park and bike trail that will be built on a dormant elevated rail spur through four neighborhoods, including park-poor Logan Square and Humboldt Park (above).
State and local matches are expected to bring the total funding for the project's first phase, which the city aims to complete by late 2014, to more than $46 million. The federal cash comes from the Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement program, which supports efforts that lower pollution and provide relief from traffic congestion.
But you don't have to wait three years to see what a difference the trail might make. A small park that will provide access to the trail opened last summer at 1805 N. Albany St. Designed by JJR landscape architects with artist Schuster, it has a whimsical spider theme. Visitors scramble over its bright red climbing feature, which resembles a spider's web.
Another hint of what the trail has to offer can be found in the mile-long Valley Line Trail in the Northwest Side neighborhood of Sauganash. Built on an old railroad embankment, the well-maintained trail takes visitors past a variety of native plants — goldenrod, milkweed, Queen Anne's lace — and across two muscular, exposed steel bridges designed by the TY Lin International Group, the engineers for the $1.8 million project. Ramps lead to adjoining neighborhoods and a nearby park. Bikers, joggers and strollers enjoy this urban escape.
The trail's weakness is its paltry length and lack of connections to other trails. To close such gaps, the Chicago Department of Transportation is preparing a trail master plan that should be ready by year's end. That plan will propose a major expansion of Chicago's off-road trail network beyond the current 42 miles, according to Brian Steele, a department spokesman. It also will provide a chance to join existing trails, especially along the North Branch of the Chicago River — a key open-space priority of Emanuel's.
6. Turn old industrial sites into new parks
Its critics call Chicago's Henry C. Palmisano Park (left) a cover-up — a way for former Mayor Richard M. Daley to bury memories of the city's scandal-plagued Hired Truck program. Landscape architect Ernest Wong's response? His park is a beautiful cover-up.
In Daley's ancestral Bridgeport neighborhood, the $12.85 million park turned a former limestone quarry —later, a Hired Truck dumping ground —into a 27-acre post-industrial showcase. There's a fishing pond rimmed by the old quarry walls, a sloping artificial wetland that drains into the pond, a lawn that doubles as a soccer field, and a sledding hill with spectacular views of the downtown skyline. A boardwalk leads visitors over the wetland to the pond.
"The entire experience is about discovery," said Wong, who heads the Site Design Group. As he and city officials point out, the park could have been nothing more than a conventional, grass-covered "Mount Trashmore."
Can Chicago turn other abandoned industrial sites into parkland? A test will come in Little Village, part of the South Lawndale community area that ranks as the city's second-worst for open space. There, in the shadow of the Cook County Jail, is the 24-acre site of the long-shuttered Celotex asphalt factory at 31st and Albany streets. A chain-link fence surrounds the property, a federally designated Superfund site.
For years, members of the Little Village Environmental Justice Organization pressed for the contaminated site to be capped — and once it was, they pushed for it to be turned into a park. In 2009, the group took its fight downtown, marching at Daley Plaza. "We have a lot of adults and young people who have absolutely no access to open space whatever," said executive director Kim Wasserman.
In September, the effort finally paid off. The city bought the site for $8 million. Gia Biagi, the Chicago Park District's planning and development director, said the district will hire a designer this fall and aim to open the park's first phase in 2013 or 2014.
7. Turn parking spaces into 'parklets'
In the every-little-bit-helps department, San Francisco is turning parking spaces along its commercial streets into mini-parks called "parklets." Twenty-five of the mini-parks have been built, including one near a turntable for the city's cable cars. San Franciscans have taken to the parklets quickly, using them for dining, schmoozing and reading their laptops.
There has been some grousing about the loss of parking spaces and tie-ins to adjoining cafes, but not enough to kill the program. In fact, city officials are reviewing plans for an additional 30 parklets.
Here's how a parklet works: Two parking spots are closed and a platform is built over them, extending the sidewalk's level beyond the curb. The platform is outfitted with benches, planters, landscaping, bicycle parking, tables and chairs. The builder — typically, a business, nonprofit group or local improvement district — bears the cost, up to $20,000 per parklet. The installations are permanent and open to the public.
"If you buy coffee you can sit there, but if you don't buy coffee, you can go and sit there, too," said David Alumbaugh, a senior urban designer in San Francisco's Planning DepartmentÖ.
The concept has spread to Chicago, but only on a temporary basis, through the international event called PARK(ing) Day, which promotes the conversion of metered parking spaces into parks. Last month, six pop-up parks appeared in Chicago, including one in the 3500 block of North Southport Avenue. Architect Matt Nardella and his wife and business partner at Moss Design, Laura Cripe, paid the meter, laid down 20 rolls of sod, surrounded the grass with donated shrubs and set down a table and chairs (above). That afternoon, they shared tea and cupcakes in their temporary oasis.
"This is public space," Nardella said. "It's been dedicated for the longest time to automobile storage. We'd like to explore ways for it to be a multifaced and sustainable part of the city."
8. Use urban agriculture to plant seeds of revival
Vacant lots don't have to stay vacant. Look at City Farm (left), a one-acre plot at Clybourn Avenue and Division Street. The former vacant lot is like a piece of Iowa set down at the foot of Chicago's skyline, with a little red chicken coop, rows of tomato plants, beds of collard greens, and hoop houses that grow superhot peppers for such noted restaurants as Frontera Grill.
The farm, which operates on city-owned land, creates only four jobs per acre and is essentially an interim land use, a placeholder until something more valuable comes along. But it draws hundreds of volunteers for weeding and other chores. And it provides fresh produce to people who might otherwise lack access to it.
"It's a way for a blighted neighborhood to return to a desirable place to live," said Ken Dunn, of the Resource Center, the nonprofit that operates the farm.
Hundreds of small urban farms have sprung up amid Detroit's vast expanses of vacant lots — along with controversy spawned by more ambitious plans. Neighbors and community groups are using words like "plantation " and "sharecropping " to object to a nonprofit foundation's plan for a $220-million farming project that proponents say would bring fresh food and thousands of jobs to the city's devastated near-east side.
Now, urban farms are gaining traction in Chicago, touted by city planners as a way to bring new life to the vacant lots that stretch across the city's South and West sides. The City Council last month voted to relax size limits on urban farms, as well as parking and fencing rules for the farms in business and commercial districts. Chicago could someday have as many as 30 urban farms, planners predict, citing their ability to serve as hubs for a variety of food-related activities, from growing produce to providing a site for food pantries.
9. Use parks to create commercial hubs
Parks often inspire a certain wariness over the people they attract. In the city, people fret about gangs, drug-dealing and violence — and what such things do to property values.
Carlos Nelson, executive director of the Greater Auburn Gresham Development Corp., cites those fears when a visitor asks whether the vacant lots lining the area's commercial streets should become parks. He sees another role for parks: As a way to create thriving business hubs — urban planners call them "nodes" — amid the often-chaotic conditions of the inner city.
An example: Renaissance Park at 1300 W. 79th St. The park, designed by Wong's Site Design Group, forms a forecourt to the Gothic architecture of St. Sabina Catholic Church, headed by the Rev. Michael Pfleger.
Derelict commercial buildings once occupied the land, Nelson said. Now, the park is a vision of order, surrounded by an imitation wrought-iron fence, with traditional light poles, neatly clipped hedges and a sculptural fountain by artist Jerzy Kenar that celebrates African-American heroes including Martin Luther King. Complementing the bustle of Auburn Gresham's lively cluster of stores at 79th Street and Racine Avenue, the park is a prized amenity, one that lends the neighborhood order and dignity.
"This is the Times Square " of Auburn Gresham, Nelson said, pointing to 79th and Racine.
10. Make new plans for new realities
So much has changed since the publication of Chicago's last open space plan 13 years ago that park advocates are calling for a new plan, one that is tailored to the different needs of different neighborhoods and unites the disparate efforts of various city agencies behind a single vision.
True, the Chicago Public Schools, the Chicago Park District and the Public Building Commission have cooperated to turn more than 270 acres of pavement around city schools into playgrounds. But with so many arms of city government now working on open-space issues — parks, transportation, housing and economic development, health, the schools, the building commission and others — advocates say it is essential to set shared goals, lest the city squander the limited funds it has available.
"There's an absolute need for coordination," said Tranter, of Friends of the Parks,
Although Kathy Dickhut, the city's deputy commissioner for open space, believes the old plan remains an effective tool, she acknowledges that it can be tweaked to meet today's neighborhood-specific needs. It pains her that Logan Square boasts an edgy skate park (left) beneath the Kennedy Expressway while nearby Avondale has barely any new parkland. Park planners need to widen their focus, she said, from individual communities to the wider clusters of park-poor neighborhoods on the Northwest, Southwest and South sides.
After years of being overlooked, then, Chicago's inland parks finally are edging their way onto the public policy radar screen. If the creation of a continuous chain of lakefront parks was Chicago's great public works project of the 19th and 20th centuries, then the uplifting of their off-shoreline counterparts offers a comparably grand goal for the 21st.
Now it's up to Emanuel to ensure that the city's backyard no longer takes a back seat to its front yard.
(Tribune photos by Brian Cassella; Tribune photo of Southport Avenue parklet by Jason Wambsgans; photo of San Francisco "living street" from San Francisco planning department; photo of San Francisco parklet from Peopling Places; photo of New York "play street" from streetsblog.org; Renaissance Park photo from City of Chicago; photo of Chicago River trail from The Burnham Plan Centennial.)


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Lions for Lambs
Cruise-Redford-Streep in an earnest post-9/11 melodrama.
Just when you thought that Rendition had nailed this year's award for most dramatically inert post-9/11 melodrama, along comes Lions for Lambs (United Artists/MGM), the Robert Redford-directed, Tom Cruise-executive-produced star vehicle that ought to have been called Slugs for Snails, so leisurely does it creep toward its predictably bombastic conclusion.
As you sit through the film's 88 eternal minutes, you have to keep reminding yourself that Redford has been directing films, some of them pretty good, for nearly 30 years now. Yet Lions for Lambs appears to have been created by someone who's never seen one of these newfangled contraptions called "movies," or for that matter, witnessed that phenomenon known as "speech." Everyone in the movie talks incessantly—essentially, the film is a record of three simultaneous conversations taking place across the globe—but not a line of dialogue sounds like something that anyone has ever actually said. After a while, the script's denatured quality takes on a fascination of its own: Just how does this earnest, well-intentioned movie, crammed to the rafters with talent, manage to feel so thoroughly phony?
In static yammerfest No. 1, Sen. Jasper Irving (Tom Cruise) offers TV journalist Janine Roth (Meryl Streep) an "exclusive" interview that's a barely disguised press release about the administration's latest military push in Afghanistan. Meanwhile, at an unnamed California university, idealistic history professor Stephen Malley (Redford) chews out bright but underachieving student Todd (Andrew Garfield) by telling him the story of two ex-students from the inner city who enlisted for military service in a burst of patriotic fervor. Finally, in a helicopter somewhere over Afghanistan, we meet those two students, Eric Rodriguez and Arian Finch (Michael Peña and Derek Luke). After the ill-conceived mission goes wrong, they wind up half-buried in the snow on a mountainside, waiting for rescue as the Taliban closes in.
The net effect for the viewer is that of being trapped in an airless room, then escaping it to find yourself in another, and yet another. You'd think at least the boots-on-the-ground subplot would provide some forward motion, but each time we're released from the senator's chambers or the professor's book-lined office to rejoin the two soldiers, damned if they're not still waist-deep in snow, where they'll remain, sharing pep talks and flashbacks, for the majority of the film.
Meryl Streep tries to bring her "A" game to the scenes with Cruise, throwing in speech tics and bits of business to give her character some heft. But both politician and journalist are such cutouts (he spouts about the axis of evil, she sighs disapprovingly and scribbles on her pad) that they might as well be debating on Meet the Press. Cruise gets one juicy moment that recalls Jack Nicholson's iconic "You want me on that wall. You need me on that wall" speech in A Few Good Men. But he throws away the chance to embody the passion of the true believer; he never lets us forget that he's only pretending to be Republican.
The screenwriter, Matthew Michael Carnahan, also wrote the recent The Kingdom, a crude revenge-on-the-terrorists fantasy that nonetheless reads like sophisticated policy analysis next to Lions for Lambs. (Both movies do end on similar notes, hinting unsubtly that the next generation will be doomed to repeat the violence of the last.) Redford keeps cutting away to clocks as the professor's office hour, the senator's interview, and the soldiers' hour of peril chug toward their respective ends. The unintended consequence is that you find yourself trying to match the real-time proceedings onscreen with the real time ticking away on your watch, and counting the seconds till you can go home.
Lions for Lambs will no doubt be ridiculed for its pie-in-the-sky leftism, but the movie's view of American politics is muddled and, at times, cynical. Streep's character stands in for "the media," apparently an undifferentiated mass of cowardly suckups churning out glowing profiles of the power elite. Malley regrets his former students' decision to enlist, but his dewy-eyed praise of their courage, along with his vague exhortations to "get involved," understandably inspire the frat-boy slacker to consider signing up himself. And when Todd asks his teacher why he should spend his life trying to make the world better when it probably won't make a difference, Malley's response is a wan, "At least you can say you did something." Now there's a rallying cry! Have we really sunk so far into post-Reagan anomie and liberal self-loathing that even a college professor played by Robert Redford isn't allowed a moment of good old-fashioned hope?


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