Thursday, December 18, 2008

Jeudi

Screen shot of today, Dec, 18th. Click to enlarge.
Part 3: Protecting southeast Louisiana will be extraordinarily expensive~Mark Schleifstein
~Editilla Notellas~ It would appear now that the Corps Marketing Contractor has begun tailoring the ads to fit the articles published. This makes them Advertorial.

New computer storm model condemns role MRGO played in Katrina flooding~Sheila Grissett
~DISCLAIMER! WARNING! BAT SIGNAL!~
~Commissioners peppered Van Heerden with questions, quizzing him for details of the work done by his team at the LSU Hurricane Center, along with a well-known modeling company in the Netherlands and a group of engineers from the University of California at Berkeley. At least one of the Berkeley scientists also does work for the litigation team in New Orleans.
~Editilla gotta ax~ Ms. Grissett, can you please write something other than unmitigated horse Spin? If you were actually there, can you please tell us with what questions the Levee Board "peppered" Dr. Igor Van Herrden, and his answers?
If you were not actually there, as it appears from this article, then what are you doing here, scratching your advertiser's ass,
writing Advertorials for the Exquisite Corps?
Come on Ms. Grissett! For all our sakes MRGO HOME!
Monday the Corps goes before the Judge to present their "expert evidence", in the MRGO Lawsuit. Trial is set for April 22nd.
These are our citizens, Ms. Grissett, the people of New Orleans.
And, since you failed to note his identity, that "Berkeley scientist" is Dr. Robert Bea, an esteemed and highly qualified expert witness with 45 years of geophysical engineering, marine structures science experience. Your bias is evident.
That litigation which the Times Picayune continues to fail to mention is known as: "Robinson v. United States of America".
Information can be found here and here.


Mr. Cerasoli’s morning
~Kevin Allman


N.O. Inspector General Has Big Day~ Jeff Crouere, BBuzz

State rejects FEMA offer on N.O. hospital~Allen Johnson Jr.
~O'Dell: Offer for Katrina-damaged hospital firm

~Special thanks~ Food Music Justice

Millions in aid confirmed for Terrebonne, Lafourche
~Naomi King


I forgot about the library
~Jewel Thinks


Gallup Path for Macroeconomics
~Famille d'Entreprises

~Lieutenant General Russel Honoré (retired) explains how the application of business and charitable principles can give people around the globe what they need most: a good job.

Swiss Re says 2008 insured losses $50 bln for industry

Clinton discloses Katrina donors

Map of Death ~Brooke Borel
~Heat and droughts caused the most deaths at 19.6 percent, followed by severe summer weather at 18.8 percent and winter weather at 18.1%.
Together, earthquakes, hurricanes and wildfires made up 3.4%.

PR-Barnes & Noble, Inc.
Project Home Again Reunites Gentilly Neighborhood in Time for the Holidays
~Today Leonard Riggio, the Chairman of Barnes & Noble, and his wife Louise, will for the first time meet the twenty Hurricane Katrina survivor families to whom they are personally giving the gift of a new home.
David Briant, a single father of two who has been sleeping on his sister-in-law's sofa with his young son since Katrina, says that the work the Riggios and Project Home Again are doing is different than what anyone else has tried to do in New Orleans.
"The Riggios are reaching out to help working families, people who had homes before Katrina and were trying to take care of their families,"
said Mr. Briant. (Italics mine)

Celilo Falls~Cascadia Journal

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