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The Inner Harbor Navigation Canal (IHNC) Project will be the largest Civil Engineering Works ever performed by the United States Army Corps of Engineers. The objective of the IHNP is to protect the lives and property of the citizens of New Orleans, Louisiana. As a Civil Engineer, one cannot aspire to a loftier objective than to serve precisely that function in every project. This project is also very special to practitioners and students of Civil Engineering in that design and construction works are being concurrently performed. This latter feat is presently requiring tremendous knowledge, dedication, and coordination by the Civil Engineers, scientists, and other specialists at the Corps of Engineers (New Orleans) and those serving within the ranks of the successful contractor for the IHNC project: Shaw Environmental and Infrastructure.
For simplicity, the IHNC Project may be classified as the design and construction of a surge barrier and similar to a floodwall. Nevertheless, it will be a very long barrier (2 miles or 3.2 km) across the canal and will have to resist the tremendous impact of a water surge from Lake Borgne and/or the Gulf of Mexico during a hurricane. The surge barrier will be constructed near the confluence of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (GIWW) and the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet (MRGO). Since these are navigable waters, navigation gates will be constructed where the barrier crosses the GIWW and Bayou Bienvenue to reduce the risk of storm surge. A significant part of the works to be performed are of a geotechnical engineering nature, beginning with the construction of the Bayou Bienvenues levees to retain the dredge materials for the access channel, shoreline protection works, partial filling of the MRGO, the driving of nearly 1300 piles to depths of up to 230 feet, installation of sheet-pile walls, potential expansion of access roads through poor soils. For additional information on the project, please visit the U.S. Corps of Engineers Team New Orleans Project Portal at the following Web link: http://tiny.cc/IhjI4
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Roberto L. Sanchez, P.E.
President/Principal Engineer
Star Engineering, Inc.
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Carnival Conquest passing by on the Mississippi River just upriver from Venice, Louisiana on Sunday, August 7, 2005. We were on Carnival Sensation on the final night of the 4 day cruise to Cozumel and going upriver back to New Orleans. Carnival Conquest was just starting its 7 day cruise from New Orleans to Montego Bay, Grand Cayman and Cozumel. Who would have imagined that in exactly three weeks after this video was taken that Hurricane Katrina would almost wipe Venice (where you see all the lights) off the map and Carnival Conquest would relocate to Galveston, Texas. I hope that Carnival brings back Carnival Conquest or another equivalent class ship soon so I could witness another Carnival Cruise Lines ships rendezvous on the Mississippi River once again.
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New Orleans (pronounced /nuːˈɔliənz, nuːˈɔlənz/ locally and often pronounced /nuːɔrˈliːnz/ in most other US dialects French: La Nouvelle-Orléans is a major United States port city and the largest city in Louisiana. New Orleans is the center of the Greater New Orleans metropolitan area, the largest metro area in the state.
New Orleans is located in southeastern Louisiana, straddling the Mississippi River. It is coextensive with Orleans Parish, meaning that the boundaries of the city and the parish are the same. It is bounded by the parishes of St. Tammany (north), St. Bernard (east), Plaquemines (south), and Jefferson (south and west). Lake Pontchartrain, part of which is included in the city limits, lies to the north, and Lake Borgne lies to the east.
The city is named after Philippe II, Duc d’Orléans, Regent of France, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. It is well known for its multicultural and multilingual heritage, cuisine, architecture, music (particularly as the birthplace of jazz), and its annual Mardi Gras and other celebrations and festivals. The city is often referred to as the “most unique” city in America
La Nouvelle-Orléans (New Orleans) was founded May 7, 1718, by the French Mississippi Company, under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville on land inhabited by the Chitimacha. It was named for Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, who was Regent of France at the time; his title came from the French city of Orléans. The French colony was ceded to the Spanish Empire in the Treaty of Paris (1763) and remained under Spanish control until 1801, when it reverted to French control. Most of the surviving architecture of the Vieux Carré (French Quarter) dates from this Spanish period. Napoleon sold the territory to the United States in the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. The city grew rapidly with influxes of Americans, French, and Creole French. Major commodity crops of sugar and cotton were cultivated with slave labor on large plantations outside the city.
The Haitian Revolution of 1804 established the second republic in the Western Hemisphere and the first led by blacks. Haitian refugees both white and free people of color (affranchis) arrived in New Orleans, often bringing slaves with them. While Governor Claiborne and other officials wanted to keep out more free black men, French Creoles wanted to increase the French-speaking population. As more refugees were allowed in Louisiana, Haitian émigrés who had gone to Cuba also arrived. Nearly 90 percent of the new immigrants settled in New Orleans. The 1809 migration brought 2,731 whites; 3,102 free persons of African descent; and 3,226 enslaved refugees to the city, doubling its French-speaking population.
During the War of 1812, the British sent a force to conquer the city. The Americans decisively defeated the British troops, led by Sir Edward Pakenham, in the Battle of New Orleans on January 8, 1815.
As a principal port, New Orleans had the major role of any city during the antebellum era in the slave trade. Its port handled huge quantities of goods for export from the interior and import from other countries to be traded up the Mississippi River. The river was filled with steamboats, flatboats, and sailing ships. At the same time, it had the most prosperous community of free persons of color in the South, who were often educated and middle-class property owners.
The population of the city doubled in the 1830s, and by 1840 New Orleans had become the wealthiest and third-most populous city in the nation. It had the largest slave market. Two-thirds of the more than one million slaves brought to the Deep South arrived via the forced migration of the internal slave trade. The money generated by sales of slaves in the Upper South has been estimated at fifteen percent of the value of the staple crop economy. The slaves represented half a billion dollars in property, and an ancillary economy grew up around the trade in slaves – for transportation, housing and clothing, fees, etc., estimated at 13.5 percent of the price per person. All this amounted to tens of billions of dollars during the antebellum period, with New Orleans as a prime beneficiary.
The Union captured New Orleans early in the American Civil War, sparing the city the destruction suffered by many other cities of the American South.
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Haitian History is Black History, and we determine how the world remember it, thus how the world remembers us.
edited by Lawrence Gonzalez aka Kompa King
A video about the triumph of Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, who founded Chicago, a place that defines character in the world today.
4081 productions rewinding reality for the better.
Edited by Lawrence Gonzalez
Voice intro featuring Mecca aka Grimo
Directed by Ecclesiast Guerriere
Assisted by Daniel Nicolas
Pics were found on the web.
a tribute to chicago and its best
Chicago is the largest city by population in the state of Illinois and the Midwest, and a dominant center of finance, industry and culture in the region. The city was long the “second city” (second in population to New York), and is currently the third-most populous city in the United States, with nearly 3 million people. The Chicago metropolitan area (commonly referred to as Chicagoland) has a population of over 9.7 million people in Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana, making it also the third largest metropolitan area in the U.S.[2] Adjacent to Lake Michigan, it is among the world’s twenty-five largest urban areas by population, and rated an alpha world city by Loughborough University.[3]
Incorporated as a city in 1837 after being founded in 1833 at the site of a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed, it soon became a major transportation hub in North America and quickly became the transportation, financial and industrial center of the American Midwest. Today the city’s attractions bring 44.2 million visitors annually.[4]
Chicago was once the capital of the railroad industry and until the 1960s the world’s largest meatpacking facilities were at the Union Stock Yards. Chicago became notorious worldwide for its violent gangsters in the 1920s, most notably Al Capone, and for the political corruption in one of the longest lasting political machines in the nation. The city has long been a stronghold of the Democratic Party and has been home to many Democratic presidential candidates including the current presumptive nominee Barack Obama.
The name “Chicago” is the French rendering of the Miami-Illinois name shikaakwa, meaning “wild leek”.[5][6][7] Etymologically, the sound /shikaakwa/ in Miami-Illinois literally means ’striped skunk’, and was a reference to wild leek, or the smell of onions.[6] The name was initially applied to the river, but later came to denote what is presently the site of city. The sound Chicago is said[who?] to be the result of a French mis-transcription of the original sound by Louis Hennepin, a Catholic priest, missionary and explorer, who in 1683 first placed the place name ‘Chicago’ on a map.[citation needed]
During the mid-18th century the area was inhabited primarily by Potawatomis, who had taken the place of the Miami and Sauk and Fox peoples. The first permanent settler in Chicago, Haitian Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable, arrived in the 1770s, married a Potawatomi woman, and founded the area’s first trading post. In 1803 the United States Army built Fort Dearborn, which was destroyed in the 1812 Fort Dearborn massacre. The Ottawa, Ojibwa, and Potawatomi later ceded the land to the United States in the 1816 Treaty of St. Louis. On August 12, 1833, the Town of Chicago was organized with a population of 350. Within seven years it grew to a population of over 4,000. The City of Chicago was incorporated on March 4, 1837.
common, obama, hilary clinton, yung berg, dwayne wade, michael jordan, bernie mac, terrence howard, oprah, kanye west,chicago bulls, chicago sox, chicago bears, mike ditka, robin williams, fallout boy
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