Sunday, April 27, 2008

Dimanche

"It's not the preferred technique"
~Library Chronicles


Paper Levees
~Louis Maistros


Engineers for man: Shaping the Mississippi River
~
Rudi Keller
~In his nostalgic look back at his career as a steamboat pilot in "Life on the Mississippi," Mark Twain described the difficult task of navigating the river in the pre-Civil War era.
"Piloting becomes another matter when you apply it to vast streams like the Mississippi and the Missouri, whose alluvial banks cave and change constantly, whose snags are always hunting up new quarters, whose sandbars are never at rest, whose channels are forever dodging and shirking, and whose obstructions must be confronted in all nights and in all weathers without the aid of a single lighthouse or a single buoy for there is neither light nor buoy to be found anywhere in all this three or four thousand miles of villainous river."

Flooding to close most locks on upper Mississippi

Flood Stage Levels, current 'real-time' guage readings

PMI GNO "Project of the Year" Goes to U.S. Army Corps' Exquixotic Engineers?
~The award was presented to the Corps for its Hurricane Katrina emergency response mission. The Corps was recognized for its Task Force Unwatering, Task Force Guardian and Louisiana Recovery Field Office (debris) missions.


Former adjusters never realized where challenging State Farm would lead them
~State Farm pressured engineers to change Hurricane Katrina damage reports, they said - and documents filed in lawsuits have indicated - minimizing what policyholders were owed.


John McCain's Miserable Record on Hurricane Katrina



GasHole: Dirty Oil and the Biofuel Myth~Allison Kilkenny

Gray Ghost launches offensive at café
~She looked to her left and that’s when she saw him,
a tall, stocky man wearing dark sunglasses.

Bat'Signal Photo:
PARCHOTOGRAPHY

A Flood of Emotion in a Song

In the nearly three years since the levees failed, you haven’t had to wait very long at a Louisiana festival or nightclub before a singer croons, “What has happened down here is the winds have changed.”

The Times- Picayune's insider's guide to Jazzfest

Live from Jazz Fest:
Plant, Krauss set early high bar


FIRST ANNUAL PONDEROSA STOMP MUSIC CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Tuesday, April 29 and Wednesday, April 30 at the historic Louisiana Cabildo on Jackson Square (701 Chartres St.)

Piano Night 2008 - Monday April 28

WWOZ Jazz Fest Scheduler!!

New Orleans Jazzfest: In Wake Of The Flood
~Swampland.com



Find Da'Bones Marks da'Spot! ~thanks Mel

Downpours don't stop the music at Jazz Fest

WWOZ ~ WTUL
GAMBIT
~NOMENU

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