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New Ts from'da Dirty Coast!
~Looking for Summer Interns~ D.C. is currently seeking a team of summer interns to assist with the long-awaited launch of HumidBeings.com. Anyone who is interested can submit their resume through posting at WorkNola.com.

After HB780: What Happens Next~SaveCharityHospital.com

LSU Hospital Plan Oversight Bill Stumbles in Louisiana Senate
~Walter Gallas

Thanks, Ann you scuzzbucket
~Thanks, Katrina

SAfrican unveils guidebook for New Orleans crime survivors
~A South African woman, whose husband and mother-in-law were murdered five years ago in New Orleans, has unveiled a free handbook for other "survivors" of the city's nation-leading homicide rate. Gathered outside a cafe near the French Quarter Friday, an eclectic crowd of prosecutors in suits, uptown civic activists and left-leaning activists in more casual attire, applauded Rose Preston after she read a passage aloud from her book: "Crime Victims Guidebook: For Those Who Have Lost Their Loved Ones To Violence."
~Also~Laura Maggi, The Times-Picayune

FBI stats, Forbes article paint contrasting images of New Orleans~Louisiana Weekly

Bad~New Orleans Murder Blog

Levee precautions still in effect as Mississippi River continues steady fall~Sheila Grissett

Port Fourchon updates on recovery projects
~Katherine Schmidt

Schedule of flood anniversary events~Flood-related events in the Cedar Rapids and Iowa City areas this weekend

Assessment of post- hurricane forest damage using optical remote sensing
~Wanting Wang and John Qu
~A new algorithm enables rapid and accurate view from space of forest disturbance on a regional scale.
Figure 1. Severity of forest damage caused by hurricane Katrina. Each pixel represents 1km².

Slabberday

Funds may go to housing, barrier islands ~Michael Newsom

Permanence Eludes Some Survivors~Spencer S. Hsu

PadnObama declares Coal Ash Spills a National Security Threat too dangerous to reveal publicly --DHS Censors Senators' Debate!

~Just how bad has the coal ash situation gotten in the United States? So bad that the Department of Homeland Security has told Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) that her committee can't publicly disclose the location of coal ash dumps across the nation.
The pollution is so toxic, so dangerous, that an enemy of the United States -- or a storm or some other disrupting event -- could easily cause them to spill out and lay waste to any area nearby.

There are 44 sites deemed by the Environmental Protection Agency to be high hazard, but Boxer said she isn't allowed to talk about them other than to senators in the states affected.
"There is a huge muzzle on me and my staff," she said.
"Homeland Security and the Army Corps of Engineers (our heroes) have decided in the interests of national security they can't make these sites known," she said.

"There are several hundred coal ash piles across the nation, all of them unregulated. I'm not pleased that we cannot notify the people who live near these sites," said Boxer.
~Photographs of the TVA Coal Ash Spill which buried over 400 acres of Kingston TN. Special thanks, Dorothy Griffith

U.S. to withhold list of risky ash storage sites~LA Times
~Dozens of communities nationwide are at risk from a coal ash spill like the one that blanketed a Tennessee neighborhood last year, but the Obama administration has decided not to tell the public about it because of the danger of a terrorist attack.

Thank you, Tolu Onafowokan!
~Running 'Cause I Can't Fly

Finally, vampires that you can sink into your deepest fears,
Director Guillermo Del Toro
Is A Novelist, Too ~Guy Raz

Editilla T'n'T~ Citizen K, please click poster for site.

Meet the mascot behind the Creole Tomato Festival
~Chris Rose

Neville Brothers to give Clearwater Jazz Holiday a real kick ~Mike Brassfield

Brooklyn Jazz History
Comes Correct
~Hermenautic Circle Blog

~Special thanks~ New Orleans Daily Photo