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• INDUSTRY RELATED NEWS
• NEIGHBORHOOD ENTERTAINMENT

Bellarmine University
Bellarmine's Center for eWorld Education has partnered with Carnegie Mellon University to offer Carnegie Technology Education Classes. The Program begins January 8 and 10, 2002.
For more information, including class schedules, go to http://eworld.bellarmine.edu/CTE_Jan.asp

Biomedical and Information Technology Incubator
Development for the incubator, which will be located at the corner of Brook and Jefferson Streets, is on schedule with the basement completed.

Brinly-Hardy Building
Plans have been developed to renovate the building into loft apartments and retail, commercial and office space. Construction is expected to begin in about a year.

Clock Tower
The Clock Tower is 95% completed.

Slugger Field
Construction on the microbrewery and steakhouse is scheduled for completion by March 2002.

X-Treme Park
Completion of the outdoor facilities is expected by spring 2002.   When completed, the park will include 40,000 square feet of outdoor skating surface, featuring concrete ramps, bowls and a street course.

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Waterfront Park cafe would overlook river

A $2 million cafe built largely of glass and rough and smooth stone on a deck overlooking the Ohio River will be a centerpiece of the expansion of Waterfront Park. The cafe will offer a striking view from the rest of the park, from the Kennedy Bridge and also from passing watercraft.

More land acquired for extreme-sports park
Louisville has all the land it needs for an ''extreme sports'' park to be located at Clay and Witherspoon streets, along Interstate 65. The Board of Aldermen approved a 20-year lease, with an option to buy, the one-half acre site at the corner of Franklin and Clay streets. Ground was broken on the park in April. Construction is set to begin by year's end.
http://www.courierjournal.com/localnews/2001/11/14/ke111401s104987.htm

Trolleys will carry art lovers to galleries
Special free trolley service will be offered on the first Friday night of each month through the end of 2002 under a program to promote Louisville's visual arts and a dozen downtown galleries. Starting Dec. 7, TARC will provide trolleys that will run continuously west on Main Street and east on Market Street between 10th and Clay streets. Near the east end of the route, the trolleys will jog north on Preston Street to Waterfront Park and back south on Brook Street to Main.
http://www.courierjournal.com/localnews/2001/11/23/ke112301s109946.htm

$25 million Home of Innocents campus takes shape
With each passing day, the new, $25 million Home of the Innocents campus is coming more into shape on the 20-acre site at Market Street and Baxter Avenue. The Innocents is a nonprofit agency that provides shelter and care to abandoned, abused, neglected and homeless youth as well as medically fragile and terminally ill children.
http://louisville.bcentral.com/louisville/stories/2001/11/05/story5.html

Family's 5th generation leads bat firm
A fifth generation of the bat-making Hillerich family has stepped to the plate as president and CEO of Hillerich & Bradsby Co. John A. Hillerich IV has taken over daily operation of the company that his great-great-grandfather began in Louisville as Hillerich Woodworking in the middle of the 19th century.
http://www.courier-journal.com/business/news2001/11/14/bu111401s104696.htm

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Personal networking
A survey from the Pew Internet & American Life Project concludes "the online world is a vibrant social universe where many Internet users enjoy serious and satisfying contact with online communities." The survey looked at 1,697 Internet users in January and February 2001 to explore the effect of the Internet on group relationships.
http://www.courier-journal.com/business/news2001/11/04/biz_networking.htm

GLI's Get Wired program adds three new partners
To further the growth of Web technology among Louisville-area businesses, Greater Louisville Inc., the metro chamber of commerce, along with Win.Net Business Internet, has launched Phase II of their Get Wired program. "A lot of small businesses need more advanced technology," said Don Fowler, who is leading Phase II of Get Wired. "Basically, we are trying to look across the board at the specific needs of small businesses." With the implementation of Phase II, GLI members now can take advantage of services offered by Vobix Corp., Xodiax LLC and eRoute Inc.
http://louisville.bcentral.com/louisville/stories/2001/10/29/story8.html

Tech Transformation
After 40 years in business and several incarnations, ranging from nursing home company to for-profit hospital corporation to health insurer, Humana Inc. is shifting gears again. This time the Louisville-based health insurance giant isn't changing industries, but it's taking a lead in reshaping its current industry. Company officials say Humana is setting that course by developing products suited to preferences of the American public: consumer choice and business done via the Internet.
http://louisville.bcentral.com/louisville/stories/2001/11/19/story1.html

BellSouth completes 2001 Kentucky broadband deployment
BellSouth Corp. has finished deploying high-speed broadband Digital Subscriber Line technology to 57 Kentucky cities -- one week ahead of schedule. With the building of the high-speed broadband network, BellSouth also promoted its own retail DSL product called BellSouth Fast Access Internet Service. The service is also offered in Louisville.
http://louisville.bcentral.com/louisville/stories/2001/10/29/daily27.html

Computer security is focus of spinoff
Louisville-based Inter Space Computers Inc. has formed a spinoff company, X4TRESS LLC, which is dedicated solely to computer network security consulting, hardware and software.
http://louisville.bcentral.com/louisville/stories/2001/11/19/story8.html

Company's software alters shape of Web
Face it, Web pages basically come in one shape. Rectangular.
Now comes a product that can turn any Web page into whatever shape you can imagine - an automobile, a clown, a face or a flower. The folks at Rovion Inc. in Lexington, Ky., say their recently introduced ShapeShifter software offers Web designers new creative possibilities.
http://cgi.louisvillescene.com/cgi-bin/techwrapper.pl?URL=http://www.gannett online.com/e/trends/10001583.html&AFFIL=LCJ  

Americans use Web in record numbers
Internet usage reached record levels in October as 115 million Americans went online, according to measurements released by Nielsen/NetRatings. The total represents a 4 percent increase from September and a 15 percent jump from the same period last year. Nielsen/NetRatings also estimated that more than 176 million Americans, or 62 percent of the population, had access to the World Wide Web.
http://www.courier-journal.com/business/news2001/11/14/bu111401s104691.htm  

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NEIGHBORHOOD ENTERTAINMENT

Slugger Field
http://www.batsbaseball.com  

Swanson Cralle Gallery
Call 589-5466 for more information

Stevie Ray's Blues Bar
http://www.stevieraysbluesbar.com