~NO City Business
Job creation, retention benefit
from stimulus bill expected to be
lowest in 2nd District
~Bruce Alpert
~By the White House’s own projections, the stimulus is supposed to create or save about 8,000 jobs per congressional district.
DC gets 12,000 jobs, and some Nevada and Utah districts make out above average, but generally the projections are between 7,000 and 9,000 a district almost uniformly down the line.
But then there’s Louisiana’s 2nd District. New Orleans.
Projected job creation: 4,800. Easily 1,200 less than any
other district in the country. Glaringly bad in the optics.
New marching band for budding
musicians takes to the streets
this Carnival~Katy Reckdahl
Parades seek flambeau carriers ~Allan M. Johnson Jr.
~Flambeau torch~A portable, flambeau torch utilizing liquid propane gas, butane, or the like fuel in contrast to the fluid kerosene or "white gas" of traditional flambeau devices.
~Please click to enlarge-->A backpack support (1)
for the user or operator holds the gas containment tank (6) and first regulator stage (10).
A torch frame (18-19/20-22) carrying a multiple number of burners (23a-d) is connected to the tank by means of a quick disconnect (12) hose (11) and an internal passageway formed by the hollow, closed ended, tubular members making up the torch frame. A hand manipulated, quick release, kill switch (14) is held down by the operator to allow the gas to continuously flow to the burners during use (see FIG. 3). Concentric cylindrical members (23 and 25 ) form combustion chambers (32) for the burners.
'Druids' first to test extended Uptown Mardi Gras parade route ~Keith I. Marszalek
~Krewe of Thor~RESCHEDULED: 2-19
The Travesty of the Commons
~Odd Bits of Life in New Orleans
That's One Long Bead!
~Children in an East Houma neighborhood strung together Mardi Gras beads they caught during parades to form one long bead.
New Orleans named one of five places in the world to visit before global warming messes it up
A View of the 56th IAEM Annual
Conference~Margaret R. O’Leary
Storm-resistant levee on tap for Grand Isle~Nikki Buskey
Mad scientists~James Gill
A more “intelligent design” for our coast?~lacoastpost
~"Too bad that south Louisiana wasn’t designed intelligently enough so that even the best efforts of the Corps of Engineers and the “drill here drill now” mentality of the state re 1970’s oil and gas production couldn’t have screwed it up."~Len Bahr
Geoscience-Related Investments in the Stimulus Package
~American Geological Institute
Editilla T'n'T~Arizona Geology Blog
European Space Agency hopes to clean up space junk~Melissa Eddy
~Cosmic Debris: evolution in pictures
~Between the launch of Sputnik on 4 October 1957 and 1 January 2008, approximately 4600 launches have placed some 6000 satellites into orbit, of which about 400 are traveling beyond geostationary orbit or on interplanetary trajectories.
Note: The debris objects shown in the images are an artist's impression based on actual density data. However, the debris objects are shown at an exaggerated size to make them visible at the scale shown.
Film: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans
~Lauren R. Rice
Lives Defined by Hurricanes,
but Devoted to New Orleans
~Dwight Garner, NYT
“Stop thinking of New Orleans as the worst-organized city in the United States. Start thinking of it as the best-organized city in the Caribbean. New Orleans is a city-sized act of civil disobedience.” ~Dan Baum~Criticism, H. L. Mencken said, is “prejudice made plausible.” That’s why, reading the first 50 pages of Dan Baum’s new book about Katrina and New Orleans, I tried to puzzle out exactly what I disliked about it. I wanted my eventual pan of “Nine Lives” to make fine distinctions, to be 99.4 percent airtight.
Silly me. Because at about Page 65, something very real clicks in “Nine Lives.” The small, stray, unobtrusive details that Mr. Baum has been planting along the way begin coming together and paying off, like a slot machine that’s begun to glow and vibrate.
By the final third of “Nine Lives,” as the water begins pouring into the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, I was weeping like an idiot in the coffee shop where I was reading.
Books in full flower: The spring reading list~Susan Larson
Banana fritters: a New Orleans breakfast classic
Morning 40 Federation call it quits~NolaFunk NYC
New Orleans guitarist Snooks Eaglin dies at 72
~Keith Spera
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