Collecting debts~Library Chronicles
~Some of us have very very long memories.
A few years ago, an NFC Championship match-up with a similar bugaboo from days gone past had us quoting scripture we were in such a vengeful mood. Today is very much the same as then. The "destroying angels" have another cosmic debt to collect.

New Orleans Saints, San Francisco 49ers have swapped franchise DNA~Bob Marshall

Don't let anyone fool you, today's game will be close ~Alejandro de los Rios, Gambit

Saints vs. the Ghost of Mike Nolan…
Disenfranchised Citizen

In the prolific words of Fatboy Slim...
~American Zombie

Master plan has few restoration options
~Nikki Buskey

Corps 2012 Planning Associates Program offers participants expertise in Project Over- Budgeting, Exploiting Congressional Pork Fat and The Meaninglessness of Civic Meetings

Bob Fortus' Race Day Fair Grounds forecast

Master coastal plan positive~Amy Wold

$1.1 billion levee around Lake Charles part of bold proposal

Gulf of Mexico oil spill environmental data drives damage assessment~Mark Schleifstein

Mississippi, Atchafalaya rivers drop, flood worries ease

Still being smothered by agendas…
~Disenfranchised Citizen

Americans Clueless Paying Wall Street $20 Billion for Bad Swaps~Darrell Preston
~Seven months after Hurricane Katrina ripped holes in the Superdome’s roof in 2005, Louisiana State Bond Commission members made what they were told would be “the best of a bad situation” in financing the stadium’s renovation.
~Special thanks @captainsdead for this sunrise pic of our Sacredome!
I love the smell of Black and Gold in the morning! It is the smell of Victory!

~@Editilla the Pun~I got my bat signal! RT @nolamaven Saints still use bat as motivator http://t.co/8p1cP7UK

Of course Bobby Hebert is not in trouble with Entercom Communications. I mean hell Garlandfill took $250,000 in payola and he didn’t get in any trouble ~Slabbed

Murders are decreasing, just not in New Orleans: Jarvis DeBerry

Grenades discovered in car police say was used in eastern New Orleans triple homicide

NASA Moves Shuttle Engines From Kennedy To Stennis

Wrap your mind around ornamental vines ~Dan Gill

Bayou Teche Biere~Hat Tweet @artbymags

Louisiana coastal restoration 50-year blueprint released~Mark Schleifstein
~The strategy is outlined in the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority’s draft five-year master plan update, which for the first time contains maps showing the location and scope of proposed projects and maps showing what the state’s coastline will look like in 2061 if they’re built. Lists of the projects also show their cost. Click pic to enlarge.

River turbine testing site gets $150,000 grant

Keep lower Mississippi River open

Did I mention with all the shit going down a few of us are engaged in what I’ll term high stakes blogging? ~Slabbed

Judge halts release of 21 prisoners pardoned by MS Governor Babar

Hell hath no fury like a great team thirsting for gridiron vengeance
~Mark Moseley, The Lens

Chefs and Casual Food ~Robert Peyton

Cooking With Wine~Blackened Out

Willie Nelson at House of Blues tonight! David Allan Coe, Kyle Turley Band at Howling Wolf!

Read more here: http://www.sunherald.com/2012/01/11/3681468/judge-halts-release-of-21-prisoners.html#storylink=cpy

Saints @ 49ers: Game Preview
~Canal Street Chronicles

Development atop a city dump? Policy fiasco comes back to haunt Upper 9th Ward
~Ariella Cohen, The Lens

Mississippi ranks last in building standards
~Anita Lee

Tens of millions due to BP contractors, subs

Read more here: http://www.sunherald.com/2012/01/10/3680368/tens-of-millions-due-to-bp-contractors.html#storylink=cpy

Chihuahua saves Uptown woman's life

City clarifying rules on bribes, ‘kickforwards’
~The New Orleans Levee

Aquaponics being taught in Vietnamese community ~Louisiana Weekly

Mo's Pizza~Blackened Out

Rocky & Carlo's roast beef po-boy gravy is too good to serve on sandwiches alone

Guaranteed to blow your head apart... ~moosedenied ~Cha-ching, bitches! One more for the Bad Guys.
The only thing missing was Chris Ivory busting a bottle upside Ndamukong Suh's head. But we'll forgive that minor omission for the sake of avoiding the suspension. Besides, the Saints displayed more than enough "lack of class" to satisfy – scoring 5 touchdowns on 5 second-half possessions before driving to Detroit's 2 and taking a knee – without having to resort to their typical "dirtyness" anyway. Am I right, Prisco?

Study examines impact of restrictions on dredging the Mississippi River

BP serving free lemonade in the French Quarter ~Disenfranchised Citizen

Louisiana Attorney General wants BP ruling thrown out~Rebecca Mowbray

Judge Barbier’s fee ruling in the Oil Spill MDL attracting more media attention ~Slabbed

New Orleans shareholders suing BP fight English jurisdiction~South Texas Register

Louisiana continues fight for spill cleanup
~Nikki Buskey

Deepwater Horizon's missed lessons
~Richard G. Steiner, LA Times

Kafkaesque~The Chicory

Notes on life and death in New Orleans
~Nina Mashurova

Mardi Gras krewe 'tit Rex changes name slightly at Rex's command

The Local Molecular Supplier
~My Life in the Big Easy

Ted’s goes “frostop-side-up” again
~Ian McNulty, Gambit

Casamento's: Is It Worth It?~Blackened Out

Taceaux Loceaux's BP-Sponsored Seafood Giveaway ~NOLA DEFENDER

Levees can be a mortal, as well as a moral hazard ~Len Bahr, LaCoastPost

BP hires chefs Emeril Lagasse and John Besh in massive oilspill PR whitewash
~Rat Fink spies the evil British Usurpers paying chefs Emeril Lagasse and John Besh to promote Gulf seafood, it’s hired two seafood trucks to hand out fish tacos and seafood-filled jambalaya to the hundreds of thousands of tourists and fans pouring into the city for the football games and it’s spreading its messages at galas, pre-game parties and vacation giveaways.
The campaign, launched just before Christmas, has ramped up for the two-week period around the Sugar Bowl and Bowl Championship Series title game to be played on Monday between LSU and Alabama.
“I’m glad to report that all beaches and waters are open for everyone to enjoy!” BP representative Iris Cross says in one TV spot to an upbeat soundtrack. “And the economy is showing progress, with many areas on the Gulf Coast having their best tourism season in years.”

Drew on Pierre Thomas: "Phenomenal" game ~WWL

Report: Saints defensive coach Williams could follow Fisher (to Rams?)

Alabama player's girlfriend dreamed of seeing him play for BCS title in her hometown
~Nakia Hogan

Is Alabama coach Nick Saban a miserable sum'bitch? Let's talk! ~Slabbed

Upcoming South Claiborne drainage project will take more than two years, officials say ~Uptown Messenger

The Parc England Hotel ~CenLamar

Shaw Awarded Environmental and Restoration Services Contract from Corps
~The Shaw Group Inc. SHAW +0.11% today announced it has been awarded an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract to provide nationwide environmental and restoration services for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Louisville District.

Tribute to New Orleans, Inside and Out ~NYT

Save the Date! 2nd Annual King Cake Death Match, February 2!~He Said/She Said NOLA

WHODAT? WHODAT? WHODAT SAY DEY GONNA BEAT DEM SAINTS?


Business Insurance and the Myth of Hurricane Flood Risk Modeling in N.O.
~Paul R. Becker, president of the construction practice at Willis North America Inc. in Nashville, Tenn., and another participant on the October tour, said in talking with Willis brokers in New Orleans last week, “they really haven't seen much change based on the tour.”
“We're choosing to look at it as half full,” Mr. Becker said, the glass' full half being that insurers participated on the tour and they are underwriting business in New Orleans.
In the construction area and the market for builders risk property coverage, “generally it's available, although you need to get multiple carriers for things that are over $20 (million) to $25 million in size in the zone because (insurers) don't want to put that much capacity at risk,” Mr. Becker said. That coverage typically involves a high deductible, he said. In the fixed-property market, “our property guys are seeing what they characterize as massive increases—30%, 40%, 50%—and that's due to the infamous RMS 11 modeling,” Mr. Becker said in referring to Risk Management Solutions Inc.'s version 11 U.S. hurricane model. “The fixed property seems to be much more driven by the cat modeling than the builders risk.”
~Photo: Curtsey of our friends and comrade compadnas at The New Orleans Levee, who snapped this secret under cover lapel pin camera shot of a Corps Risk Reduction Handlin' Officer, CoRRHO, as he nervously Handles his Ratty Hands, furtively eying a newly completed Corps Risk Reducin' Experimental Action Model Assemblage, or CoRREAMA, made up entirely of print copies of The New Orleans Levee.
Well, they don't hold anything back either!

Army Corps Cooks the Books Again

And you’re still outta here! Big D Fazzio’s lawyers remain disqualified and that’s all we’ll be hearing ’bout that for a while ~Slabbed

Road Home buyout properties being sold back to New Orleans~David Hammer

Four major weekend events obscure the important coastal happening ~LaCoastPost
~Yesterday I was reminded by a coastal colleague that a fifth important event will happen Monday, January 9…but with extremely little fanfare. I’m talking about the release of the much anticipated* 2012 Louisiana Master Plan for Coastal Protection and Restoration.

Major Bayou Lafourche cleanup seeks volunteers~Nikki Buskey

What's the word, Hummingbird?

New Orleans Fuit Tree Project spreads the wealth ~Katy Reckdahl

Chefs looking to start small carve out temporary quarters in established kitchens
~Naomi Martin

Do you love brunch? Here are some of Nolamaven's favorite places in New Orleans

Sunday: Lady Jetsetters 2012 second line parade! ~Big Red Cotton, Gambit