Hurricane watch issued for Florida Keys
Isaac pounding Haiti and the Dominican Republic with torrential rains ~Wunderblog
Preview: Saints-Texans as good as it gets in preseason ~Gambit
New Orleans Saints 2012 Season Preview
Local scientists study possible mutations in West Nile ~WVUE
A Hole in the Bottom of the Bayou ~NOLA-dishu
Saturday, August 25, 2012
Friday, August 24, 2012
Corps Commander Admits Relying on Hearsay When He Blamed Katrina Flooding on New Orleans Officials ~Levees.org
~Hat Tweet~ Jim Loznicka WJHG
@jimwxgator 18z model runs for Isaac, @RyanMaue. Classic whiplash storm coming! http://po.st/XTSzYg http://po.st/vFgHq9
Miss. governor urges vigilance as Isaac approaches Gulf ~WDSU
Isaac is strengthening ~Wunderblog
~Tropical Storm Isaac
is strengthening. An Air Force Reserve hurricane hunter aircraft
measured surface winds of 60 mph on the east side of the center, about
170 miles south of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic, at 8:40 am
EDT this morning. Winds at the aircraft's flight level of 5,000 feet
were hurricane force, 76 mph.
Gulf Coast States Evacuation Routes ~DisasterMap.net
Infographic: 160 Years Of Hurricanes Form One Giant Hurricane!
We follow our tropical storms like big game hunters on safari,
watching as these monsters wake and go on a rampage, close enough to
document every single detail, but far enough, hopefully, to never get
caught in their path.
Isaac is strengthening ~Wunderblog
Gulf Coast States Evacuation Routes ~DisasterMap.net
Infographic: 160 Years Of Hurricanes Form One Giant Hurricane!
But what of the larger view? What of the trend? How do these single storms relate to one another over time? John Nelson painstakingly mapped out
every tropical storm documented by NOAA and NASA since 1851, and the
results are absolutely spooky. It doesn’t take a meteorologist’s degree
to spot the obvious: The storms converge to form a larger entity that
looks strikingly akin to a hurricane, as if hurricanes are just fractals
for larger hurricanes. Come to think about it, if you keep zooming out, you eventually arrive at our own galaxy, the Milky Way, which also spirals like a hurricane. ~Hat Tweet Defend New Orleans
@defendnola
New Orleans in Isaac cone - at least for now ~WWL
East bank District C residents lead their own budget forum ~Steve Beatty, The Lens
Louisiana Thinks Funding School Run By ‘Apostle And Prophet’ Is Somehow Constitutional ~Doktor Zoom, Wonkette
LA Swift bus service hits millionth ride benchmark ~Daily Comet
Booty: Truly Amazing ~Pauline's Pirates and Privateers
Sacramento levees fail federal maintenance criteria ~Sacramento Bee
~Levees protecting most of the city of Sacramento and 15 other areas of the Central Valley were declared on Thursday to have failed federal maintenance criteria. As a result, those levees are no longer eligible for federal money to rebuild if damaged in a storm.
7 Years After Katrina, New Orleans Is Overrun by Wild Dogs ~The Atlantic
East bank District C residents lead their own budget forum ~Steve Beatty, The Lens
Louisiana Thinks Funding School Run By ‘Apostle And Prophet’ Is Somehow Constitutional ~Doktor Zoom, Wonkette
LA Swift bus service hits millionth ride benchmark ~Daily Comet
Booty: Truly Amazing ~Pauline's Pirates and Privateers
Sacramento levees fail federal maintenance criteria ~Sacramento Bee
~Levees protecting most of the city of Sacramento and 15 other areas of the Central Valley were declared on Thursday to have failed federal maintenance criteria. As a result, those levees are no longer eligible for federal money to rebuild if damaged in a storm.
7 Years After Katrina, New Orleans Is Overrun by Wild Dogs ~The Atlantic
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Isaac reorganizing as it blows through the Lesser Antilles ~Wunderblog
~Tropical Storm Isaac could be headed into Gulf of Mexico
Alligator violations on the rise ~Daily Comet
Conquering Uncharted Waters ~Claire Taylor
~Bonnie Maillet, founder and CEO of local oilfield service company Boysenblue/Celtec International, got her start in the oilfield service sector in the 1970s, when few women were able to elbow their way into the male-dominated industry.
Today, she's selling drilling fluids internationally with a Saudi Arabian business partner.
2012 New Orleans Film Festival competition lineup revealed ~Ken Korman, Gambit
Basin Street Records On Tour
Alligator violations on the rise ~Daily Comet
Conquering Uncharted Waters ~Claire Taylor
~Bonnie Maillet, founder and CEO of local oilfield service company Boysenblue/Celtec International, got her start in the oilfield service sector in the 1970s, when few women were able to elbow their way into the male-dominated industry.
Today, she's selling drilling fluids internationally with a Saudi Arabian business partner.
2012 New Orleans Film Festival competition lineup revealed ~Ken Korman, Gambit
Basin Street Records On Tour
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Sign at Vilma's restaurant says not to serve Goodell
Saints Nation: Chronic Podcast - Linebacker Apocalypse Edition
Tropical Storm Isaac getting better organized ~WDSU
Public Transit Tuesdays: Lakeview ~Megan Baden-Perry, Gambit
Drilling on schedule at Assumption sinkhole ~David J. Mitchell, Advocate
State Agencies Ramping Up Operations in Bayou Corne
Corps announces yet another delay for Morganza ~Daily Comet
Corps plan sparks outrage, S.D. attorney general says he'll sue if state forced to pay for Missouri water
Library to host bicentennial lecture on “History of Prostitution” ~Uptown Messenger
Thornton Watermelon Cocktail ~Blackened Out
Meat, It’s What’s for Dinner: Toups Meatery ~He Said/She Said NOLA
Today's Events ~NOLA DEFENDER
~Also~Blues and BBQ T-Shirt Contest Offers Cash Reward
Saints Nation: Chronic Podcast - Linebacker Apocalypse Edition
Tropical Storm Isaac getting better organized ~WDSU
Public Transit Tuesdays: Lakeview ~Megan Baden-Perry, Gambit
Drilling on schedule at Assumption sinkhole ~David J. Mitchell, Advocate
State Agencies Ramping Up Operations in Bayou Corne
Corps announces yet another delay for Morganza ~Daily Comet
Corps plan sparks outrage, S.D. attorney general says he'll sue if state forced to pay for Missouri water
Library to host bicentennial lecture on “History of Prostitution” ~Uptown Messenger
Thornton Watermelon Cocktail ~Blackened Out
Meat, It’s What’s for Dinner: Toups Meatery ~He Said/She Said NOLA
Today's Events ~NOLA DEFENDER
~Also~Blues and BBQ T-Shirt Contest Offers Cash Reward
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Levees.org to Host Katrina 7th Anniversary Press Conference
Harry Shearer (producer The Big Uneasy, voice of the Simpsons) will participate via skype.
When: 10 a.m. Wed Aug 22, 2012
Where: Lakeview Harbor Restaurant
911 Harrison Avenue, New Orleans. Plenty of free parking
Contact Sandy Rosenthal @ Levees.org
Depression forms in Atlantic, could become tropical storm later today ~WVUE
Three Atlantic threat areas may develop; a record fire season for the U.S. ~Wunderblog
Low river levels affecting delivery of commodities ~Amy Wold, Advocate
Restore Act process still unclear ~Nikki Buskey, Daily Comet
Cupola to be hoisted atop New Canal Lighthouse ~WDSU
Drew Brees Alone Can Hold the New Orleans Saints Together ~Lucas McMillon
Clear as mud: JPAC gets line of credit, an affidavit and a PR push. Cap’n Jay gets a reprieve while Chief Euris DuBois’ neighbor gets shot and burned out ~Slabbed
Charles Maldonado on the proposed Elisio Lofts project in the Faubourg Marigny ~Gambit
Breakfast at Brennan's: Is It Worth It? ~Blackened Out
Harry Shearer (producer The Big Uneasy, voice of the Simpsons) will participate via skype.
When: 10 a.m. Wed Aug 22, 2012
Where: Lakeview Harbor Restaurant
911 Harrison Avenue, New Orleans. Plenty of free parking
Contact Sandy Rosenthal @ Levees.org
Depression forms in Atlantic, could become tropical storm later today ~WVUE
Three Atlantic threat areas may develop; a record fire season for the U.S. ~Wunderblog
Low river levels affecting delivery of commodities ~Amy Wold, Advocate
Restore Act process still unclear ~Nikki Buskey, Daily Comet
Cupola to be hoisted atop New Canal Lighthouse ~WDSU
Drew Brees Alone Can Hold the New Orleans Saints Together ~Lucas McMillon
Clear as mud: JPAC gets line of credit, an affidavit and a PR push. Cap’n Jay gets a reprieve while Chief Euris DuBois’ neighbor gets shot and burned out ~Slabbed
Charles Maldonado on the proposed Elisio Lofts project in the Faubourg Marigny ~Gambit
Breakfast at Brennan's: Is It Worth It? ~Blackened Out
Monday, August 20, 2012
dashTHIRTYdash is a 98% volunteer effort raising money for Times-Picayune employees and contractors who are losing their jobs because of the changes coming to the newspaper Oct. 1. (The remaining 2% pays for the professional oversight being provided by the Contemporary Arts Center of New Orleans, which is our 501(c)3 sponsor and makes contributions to dashTHIRTYdash tax-deductible.)
Many of the people who have informed and entertained you in the pages of the T-P over the years, and some who risked their well-being to tell the city’s story in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina are losing their jobs. Even if they choose to leave New Orleans, they will face very tough odds in continuing to do their life’s work: in the last five years alone the newspaper industry has slashed almost 40,000 jobs – or 11% of the industry’s total workforce.
Tickets are now available online for the Saturday, Sept. 29 dashTHIRTYdash event, “Black, White & Read All Over,” a benefit and commemoration of the daily T-P.
Crews finish phase of work. Well to be drilled to study sinkhole ~Robert Stewart, Advocate
~Crews finished driving metal casing into the ground Sunday near a salt cavern in Assumption Parish and plan to begin drilling an observational well into the cavern to see if it caused the large sinkhole near Bayou Corne, a spokesman for the company that owns the cavern said.
Sinkhole leaves small Assumption Parish community shaken ~Daily Comet
Coast Guard continues to monitor Mississippi River after tugs sink
On Mississippi, trouble staying afloat ~John Schwartz, NYT~The Potter is scooping a stretch of the river's navigation channel just south of St. Louis, sucking up about 60,000 cubic yards of sediment each day and depositing it via a pipe 1,000 feet to the side in a violent, muddy plume that smells like muck and summer.
The Army Corps of Engineers has more than a dozen dredging vessels working the Mississippi this summer. Despite being fed by water flowing in from more than 40 percent of the United States, the lower part of the river is feeling the ruinous drought affecting so much of the Midwest. Some stretches are nearing the record low-water levels experienced in 1988, when river traffic was suspended in several spots.
100,000 CADIENS, CREOLES ET AMIS DU FRANCAIS EN LOUISIANE
~The Council for the Development of French in Louisiana (CODOFIL) is the state agency charged with French language educational and cultural economic development initiatives in Louisiana. The agency has multiple legislative mandates that include francophone tourism, economic development, culture, education and international relations. On Friday June 15, 2012 a line-item veto was performed by Governor Bobby Jindal that slashed $100,000 from CODOFIL’s budget (approximately 40% of its total budget) for the upcoming year. This budget cut leaves CODOFIL just enough money to pay operating costs with no room for a budget to accomplish its goals
Interview: Harry Shearer Will Coviello talks to the man whose new album, Can't Take a Hint, is a mashup of comedy and music
Many of the people who have informed and entertained you in the pages of the T-P over the years, and some who risked their well-being to tell the city’s story in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina are losing their jobs. Even if they choose to leave New Orleans, they will face very tough odds in continuing to do their life’s work: in the last five years alone the newspaper industry has slashed almost 40,000 jobs – or 11% of the industry’s total workforce.
Tickets are now available online for the Saturday, Sept. 29 dashTHIRTYdash event, “Black, White & Read All Over,” a benefit and commemoration of the daily T-P.
Crews finish phase of work. Well to be drilled to study sinkhole ~Robert Stewart, Advocate
~Crews finished driving metal casing into the ground Sunday near a salt cavern in Assumption Parish and plan to begin drilling an observational well into the cavern to see if it caused the large sinkhole near Bayou Corne, a spokesman for the company that owns the cavern said.
Sinkhole leaves small Assumption Parish community shaken ~Daily Comet
Coast Guard continues to monitor Mississippi River after tugs sink
On Mississippi, trouble staying afloat ~John Schwartz, NYT~The Potter is scooping a stretch of the river's navigation channel just south of St. Louis, sucking up about 60,000 cubic yards of sediment each day and depositing it via a pipe 1,000 feet to the side in a violent, muddy plume that smells like muck and summer.
The Army Corps of Engineers has more than a dozen dredging vessels working the Mississippi this summer. Despite being fed by water flowing in from more than 40 percent of the United States, the lower part of the river is feeling the ruinous drought affecting so much of the Midwest. Some stretches are nearing the record low-water levels experienced in 1988, when river traffic was suspended in several spots.
100,000 CADIENS, CREOLES ET AMIS DU FRANCAIS EN LOUISIANE
~The Council for the Development of French in Louisiana (CODOFIL) is the state agency charged with French language educational and cultural economic development initiatives in Louisiana. The agency has multiple legislative mandates that include francophone tourism, economic development, culture, education and international relations. On Friday June 15, 2012 a line-item veto was performed by Governor Bobby Jindal that slashed $100,000 from CODOFIL’s budget (approximately 40% of its total budget) for the upcoming year. This budget cut leaves CODOFIL just enough money to pay operating costs with no room for a budget to accomplish its goals
Interview: Harry Shearer Will Coviello talks to the man whose new album, Can't Take a Hint, is a mashup of comedy and music
Sunday, August 19, 2012
Drilling to determine cause of sinkhole begins in Bayou Corne ~Kelsey Davis, WAFB
~Hat Tweet @Editilla the Pun
@USACE Corps to host primitive weapon deer hunts / What an unnecessarily apropos yet typical waste of tax $$$ http://www.dvidshub.net/news/93315/corps-engineers-host-primitive-weapon-deer-hunts-j-strom-thurmond-lake#.UDD4AKDcCKw
~Speshall thanks to Michael Dibari. The Duck Stops Here!
Meet the Cajun Rollergirls ~Katie Turhune, Daily Comet
~Hat Tweet @ChefMarySonnier
A musician comes home ~Tess Vigeland
Review: All About Everything - John Boutte ~WWOZ
~Hat Tweet @Editilla the Pun ~Speshall thanks to Michael Dibari. The Duck Stops Here!
Meet the Cajun Rollergirls ~Katie Turhune, Daily Comet
~Hat Tweet @ChefMarySonnier
A musician comes home ~Tess Vigeland
Review: All About Everything - John Boutte ~WWOZ
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