tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54556062012-01-25T21:10:06.632ZGreetings and salutations. These are just some of my thoughts and people, places, things, video, and audio I've found (and been pointed to by others that made me think. I think they will make you think, too. Need help ? Contact me, I'll do my best. yahoo/skype: willrawls gtalk/gmail: william.rawls@gmail.comOmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08825126451558581721noreply@blogger.comBlogger3691100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455606.post-31608889824181265902012-01-25T20:49:00.004Z2012-01-25T21:10:06.639Z

Well, I'm dusting off the ol' blog. I haven't exactly been hip deep in it... In fact I haven't posted in... wow since July 2011. A lot has happened to me in the last few months, not the least of which is I'm now working at Citrix as a Senior Software Engineer working on VDI-in-a-Box, a remote desktop solution for small to medium sized companies, especially if they've never done it before. Dell is

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It's ben a long while since I have posted.what can I say. Life has been interesting and complicated. Am I next directing thought? Maybe.on to it.

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Your health depends on the balance of an alkaline environment, created by eating foods such as tomatoes, avocados and green vegetables...striking the optimum 80/20 balance and regulating your body's acid/alkaline chemistry through simple changes in diet can result in weight loss, increased stamina and strength,a stronger immune system and a greater sense of wellbeingList of Alkaline Foods

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Quotes of a Man

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William M. Rawls - MultiURL Added my.share for my DimDim screen sharing / online meeting space.

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Short answer: It doesn't affect you financially until 2014. After that you'll have to have health insurance like you have to have car insurance. If you work for someone with fewer than 25 employees (with an average income of less than $50k) or you make less than about $10k a year, you're not required to have health insurance but you're guaranteed to have it available to you and you'll be given a

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XLG Pipeline : XML Library Generator (XLG) : MetaData ->XML ->XSL ->Code - Discussions - Requests For CommentPosted using ShareThis

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Wow...

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One of my favorite songs done up at a party. Good voice, good interpretation.

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Groovy... Hip... Cool... Chill.... Give it a minute... I bet you'll give it the full 6 minutes.

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Thoughts of a Man... Ok, the beginning of my thoughts. This will be the area I write my book on programming philosophy. At this point I have a rough first draft of the preface "One is a Pattern". Enjoy.

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This blog struck me so deep I just had to reply (mine's the 4th comment). It was so nice to see a mother's concern for her openly gay son who recently came out and how she should handle something that I wish I could one day do, take my loved one to family gatherings and to feel normal...I think that's what get's me most about being gay these days. How in so many ways it's better than it used to

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Wow... I guess Comcast is really committed to defining fair use. Granted 250 GB is a lot of data, this would be analogous to telling each American they could only drive on US roads 10,000 miles a year... That may seem a lot to you and me, but if the limit is so high, why even have one? Comcast does not offer business grade service in my area, even though I work at home. This effectively prevents

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Presidents, Well Known or Not, Will Have Their Day on a Dollar - New York Times: "The United States Mint is unveiling four designs for one-dollar coins today, featuring likenesses of the first four presidents. They begin a series that is to last a decade and portray every deceased president."

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I gave a presentation on new and cool things for Visual Studio 2005 at the Capital City .NET User's Group meeting yesterday and presented a number of free and/or open source utilities for VS 2005. Here are the links and some commentary on each item I presented.

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Birds and bees may be gay: museum exhibition | Tech&Sci | Science | Reuters.com: "(Reuters) - The birds and the bees may be gay, according to the world's first museum exhibition about homosexuality among animals."

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Neuro-Linguistic Programming – or NLP – is a technique that we can use to alter the way we react. NLP looks at the relationship between how we think -neuro, communicate -linguistic and behave -programming.

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Wired News: It's Alive (ish): "Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology figured they could learn more from neuron clumps that acted more like real brains, so they've developed 'neurally controlled animats' -- a few thousand rat neurons grown atop a grid of electrodes and connected to a robot body or computer-simulated virtual environment."

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VVV - Viridian Vegan Viking: "Check out this video of an Invisibility Cloak being demonstrated at the University of Tokyo.The wearer is moving in front of a television screen and colored backgrounds.Observe that his face is not covered by the wallpaper background displayed on the cloak.Very impressive. Plus, he has mad dance moves."

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Trends: 3D. What is it good for?Some VERY interesting Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Mixed Reality Interface, Holographic, and other real world inventions and prototypes being developed and coming soon to a store near you :)

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Project - Keio Media Design Okude Laboratory: "At the laboratory, much team project is produced every year and its idea is made into the form.The project which students created is introduced."

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Walt Handelsman: N.S.A. Wiretapping: "Walt Handelsman: N.S.A. Wiretapping"Animated political cartoon on NSA eavesdropping. And a song, too.

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Here's the code camp presentations I gave June 17th, 2006 in Tallahassee, FL.

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GameSpot Forums - PC Games - reasons why it's worth to be a PCgamer in 2007: "Below is a comprehensive list of all(at least I think so)promising PCgames slated for 2007 release.By 'promising' I mean games with big chances of scoring at least AA, while extremely small chances of scoring below 7. I've tried choosing only games made by experienced developers(who made good games in the past) or for

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'Mind over matter' no longer science fiction: "Sitting stone still under a skull cap fitted with a couple dozen electrodes, American scientist Peter Brunner stares at a laptop computer. Without so much as moving a nostril hair, he suddenly begins to compose a message -- letter by letter -- on a giant screen overhead.'B-O-N-J-O-U-R' he writes with the power of his mind, much to the amazement of

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Wired News: A Sixth Sense for a Wired World:"What if, seconds before your laptop began stalling, you could feel the hard drive spin up under the load? Or you could tell if an electrical cord was live before you touched it? For the few people who have rare earth magnets implanted in their fingers, these are among the reported effects -- a finger that feels electromagnetic fields along with the

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As bizarre as it may seem, the sample jars brimming with cloudy, reddish rainwater in Godfrey Louis's laboratory in southern India may hold, well, aliens.

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Gays Not The Origin of HIV: "Gays Not The Origin of HIVAfter 25 years of speculation, an international scientific team has traced the origin of HIV to wild chimpanzees in a remote area of Cameroon, Africa. The first human to be infected with the virus is believed to be a hunter who came into contact (by bite or cut) with an infected chimp. In the early 80s, HIV was seen as a gay disease or a '

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I'll be speaking at theHome - 2006 Tallahassee .NET CodeCamp - 2nd Annual: Tallahassee .NET CodeCamp #2All day Saturday, June 17thFSU, Tallahassee, FL

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ZUG: Comedy Articles: Electronic Road Signs and Me: "I found a deliciously inviting handheld keypad, then took a wild guess and pushed a button labeled STOP. The display on the control box flashed ENTER PASSWORD. I was about to give up in disgust when I noticed that someone had written the password in large Sharpie lettering above the box.I entered the password, and lo! The sign ceased its

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ANPR Surveillance Helicopter Tested: "Within the U.S., two cities are using the technology in a device called 'Bootfinder' to identify and tow vehicles with unpaid parking tickets or even overdue library books. One woman's car in Connecticut was towed out of her driveway because she had $85 in unpaid parking tickets. Legislation is pending in Texas to allow the use of RFID to scan and ticket

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Crypto-Gram: May 15, 2005: "The United States will get a national ID card. The REAL ID Act establishes uniform standards for state driver's licenses, to go into effect in three years, effectively creating a national ID card. It's a bad idea, and is going to make us all less safe. It's also very expensive. And it all happened without any serious debate in Congress."

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Skype - The whole world can talk for free.Skype just made all calls free. Previously you had to buy credits which were already very inexpensive. I wondered what eBay was going to do with Skype :)So, to reiterate. Anyone in the US or Canada can download skype for free, register for free, and CALL for free to anyone in the United States or Canada for the rest of the year.This is likely a market

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Be a film producer for $1THE 1 SECOND FILM

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The goog-le.com is up for sale on eBay. I know the guy who owns this domain personally. He's a very, very cool guy who I'm sure could really use some traffic and bids. Can I get the digg community to generate some interest, please ?Plus, that's GOT to be a great name to register. Who knows, maybe google will see it and make a decent offer :)read more | digg story

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Internet under Attack by Renegade Spammer; Blue Security Responds; Blue Security Identifies ``PharmaMaster'' as the Illegal Spammer Who is Threatening the Internet to Keep His Spam Business Running

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'World's oldest person' turns 128 - Americas - MSNBC.com: "SAN AGUSTIN, El Salvador - Friends and relatives of Cruz Hernandez’s gathered Wednesday to celebrate her 128th birthday, a milestone that might make her the world’s oldest person.Hernandez, who relatives say spends most of her time dozing and no longer speaks, was surrounded by some 200 people at her party, some bearing a cake and others

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Marbles! - Best of Google VideoHehehe... Marbles (first video) is so fun :)

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Marbles! - Best of Google VideoHehehe... Marbles (first video) is so fun :)

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The oondocks

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Quasimondo : Incubator : Processing : Minority Cube: "If you've seen the movie Minority Report you probably remember the impressing gesture based computer interface that Tom Cruise uses. Well, my experiment here is far from that, but nevertheless quite entertaining I think:Minority Cube allows you to control the rotation of the cube on the screen by moving your hand (or yourself) in front of your

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Password ChartThought this was interesting enough to post: How do I use this? 1. Enter a chart selection phrase to select one of over 4 billion possible password charts. Examples: "what me worry?" or "I like green eggs and ham" or "My name is Indigo Montoya" 2. Enter an easy to remember password that you want to convert to a hard to guess password. 3. Use the resulting converted

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Black Holes Don't Exist?: "Dark energy and dark matter, two of the greatest mysteries confronting physicists, may be two sides of the same coin. A new and as yet undiscovered kind of star could explain both phenomena and, in turn, remove black holes from the lexicon of cosmology."

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US Government Studies Open Source Quality: "anadgouda writes 'US Department of Homeland Security has released a report on open source quality in an effort to study the security of open source. 31 popular open source packages were studied as part of this effort. From the article: 'Coverity's report, Stacking up the LAMP stack: a study of open source quality, was produced as part of a $1.24m,

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Microsoft Origami Video and Pics!: "Somebody from a digital marketing firm leaked their promotional Microsoft Origami video... So Kevin took a few screen shots for us! It looks like a mini tablet PC - nothing more, nothing less."

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Here is a PowerPoint presentation I wrote for a lecture I gave on web 2.0. You can open it in OpenOffice and I'll be writing a standard web page version of it very soon.

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Kevin Kelly -- Chapter 2: Hive Mind

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Kevin Kelly -- Chapter 2: Hive Mind

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Sleep A Thing Of The Past: "New drugs which will allow people to survive on only two hours sleep a day are being developed, scientists have said. The drugs will allow people to cope with the pressures of 24-hour society."

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Here's a new blog and blogger who's a good friend of mine. I thought I'd share his first blog here: People are always asking me...: "People are always asking me..."

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The Achilles Heel of Web 2.0. Moore's Lore:: "It's an open secret that eBay is beset by fraud, on both sides of transactions, that Google results can be clickfrauded, that Amazon is robbed by identity thieves. These companies regularly calculate the cost of real police against the perceived benefits from better policing and keep the wallets in the pocket. We all suffer from that. The danger is

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Joel Spolsky on Web 2.0: The Antihype Is Thickening. Get Real: Stowe Boyd's take on collaborative and social technology, and its impact on business and society: "People who don't get the difference between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 aren't idiots, but they certainly aren't out there creating and promoting Web 2.0 apps and concepts: they are commenting, looking in from afar, and reading and repeating the

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From the Web 2.0 Trenches: How to Build Real Businesses ~ ISEdb.COM: "How Can Entrepreneurs Survive Web 2.0?

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SPACE.com -- Japan's Hayabusa Closes in on Asteroid Landing Site: "Now just a few miles distant from the space rock, the spacecraft is poised for an historic attempt to collect and return a specimen to Earth from such an object. Imagery from Hayabusa is being used by Japanese scientists to target potential touchdown sites on the rocky world. "

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A team blog dedicated to enlightening others on what web 2.0 is from a business and programmer perspective.Sites using and driving, people talking, applications becoming, terms and wikis on, usage notes, emerging and common technologies, and links to other sites on web 2.0.I welcome new team blog members.read more | digg story

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O'Reilly: What Is Web 2.0: "One of the key lessons of the Web 2.0 era is this: Users add value. But only a small percentage of users will go to the trouble of adding value to your application via explicit means. Therefore, Web 2.0 companies set inclusive defaults for aggregating user data and building value as a side-effect of ordinary use of the application. As noted above, they build systems

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[I believe this is a must read for just about anyone interested in where the internet is and where it is going. O'Reilly: What Is Web 2.0: "In the year and a half since, the term 'Web 2.0' has clearly taken hold, with more than 9.5 million citations in Google. But there's still a huge amount of disagreement about just what Web 2.0 means, with some people decrying it as a meaningless marketing

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Scattered in a Storm's Wake and Caught in a Clash of Cultures - New York Times: "In the chaotic first weeks after Hurricane Katrina, several vanloads of Louisiana exiles, including Mr. Cooper, arrived disheveled and sleep-deprived at the old mission grounds here, miles from the edge of nowhere in the middle of eastern Oklahoma."

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While no playable games were available at the Tokyo Game Show 2005 and the industry continues to debate possible prices for the PS3, Sony revealed strong support for the upcoming PS3 at the conference, by stating that 71 publishers are developing 102 games.

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Hehe... wow...

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A video demonstrating GT3 on the PS3... (Wow... oh wowwy wow wow wow...)

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Something every kid will want very soon :)

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Just really funny video. I'd tell you more, but I don't want to ruin it. REAL funny.

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Various... painful things caught on video set to music... :)

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Everyone wants to cut car emissions. Sooner or later, someone will find a way to do it. Joe Williams hopes it's him.

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The Daily World: "NEW ORLEANS - With the last weary refugees rescued from the Superdome and convention center, New Orleans turned its attention Sunday to gathering up and counting the dead across a ghastly landscape awash in perhaps thousands of corpses. No one knows how many people were killed by Hurricane Katrina and how many more succumbed waiting to be rescued. But the bodies are everywhere:

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AP Wire | 09/04/2005 | Hurricane survivors must decide future: "TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - He didn't choose to leave New Orleans; Katrina came through and wrecked Jerry Hymel's native city, driving him away. And now he does not know what to do. He is asking the same questions posed by thousands of others who fled the storm and its aftermath: Should he and his wife rebuild, a long and arduous process? Or

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BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Survivors reveal Superdome horror: "Inside the Superdome, a National Guard soldier charged with keeping order confirmed the brutal reality of life after Katrina. 'We found a young girl raped and killed in the bathroom. Then the crowd got the man and they beat him to death.'" (Personal note: This is one of the most vivid stories I've read and includes several

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Top News Article | Reuters.com: "NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - New Orleans looked all but empty on Sunday after the final evacuation of battered survivors of Hurricane Katrina, while top Bush administration officials, stung by anger at their relief efforts, were fanning out across the afflicted region. Rescuers in a vast eight-hour operation cleared New Orleans' Superdome football stadium and the

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CNN.com - Survivors search for missing loved ones - Sep 3, 2005: "OCEAN SPRINGS, Mississippi (AP) -- The only word 1-year-old Leah knew was 'Da-da.' She lay in a stranger's arms as her mother, Christi Scott, floated away in a hot tub. 'I thought, there's no way I'm going to find her,' said Scott, who drifted in her makeshift lifeboat atop Hurricane Katrina's floodwaters for 20 minutes before

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CNN.com - Clapton, Connick on King 'help' show - Sep 4, 2005: "(CNN) -- Before the end of his first stanza, Eric Clapton plied melody into the horror that victims of Hurricane Katrina faced. See the water lie on the ground, from where the heavens opened From his stool on the set of 'Larry King Live,' Clapton lent his talent Saturday night to King's celebrity-chocked fundraiser for people who

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CNN.com - Thousands of deaths predicted - Sep 4, 2005: "NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- Authorities have not yet been able to calculate the number of people killed in Hurricane Katrina's rampage across the Gulf Coast, but Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt told CNN on Sunday it is 'evident it's in the thousands.' Leavitt was the first federal official to give an estimate. New

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Nola.com: NewsFlash - Another storm possible in hard-hit region: "(AP) — Katrina may seem like the last word in hurricanes, but there is a very real possibility that another major hurricane may hit New Orleans or some other portion of the 200-mile coastline devastated by Katrina in the weeks to come. 'We're not out of the woods yet,' said Susan Cutter, director of the University of South

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Nola.com: NewsFlash - Bush expresses sadness at Rehnquist death: "WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House said late Saturday the death of Chief Justice William Rehnquist was 'a tremendous loss for our nation' and issued a statement of condolence on behalf of President Bush. Bush was notified about Rehnquist's death shortly before 11 p.m. It will be up to the president to nominate Rehnquist's successor

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9news.com | News | Owens: Former Lowry AFB to house Katrina victims: "DENVER - With shelters in Louisiana and neighboring states overflowing with people fleeing Hurricane Katrina's destruction, Gov. Owens on Saturday said up to 1,000 refugees will be housed in dorms at the former Lowry Air Force base. Military and civilian planes were to begin arriving at Buckley Air Force Base with those

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Well, It's been about 50 hours since I began logging all the katrina related URLs posted on the various #interdictor IRC channels and I stop to check. I've posted 241 posts in just over 50 hours. There were many more links which, after I checked them out, were either not related to Katrina or duplicates. What a 2 day run. That's about 5 blog entries an hour. Blogger challenged me 2 times in that

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NOLA.com: Times-Picayune Breaking News Weblog: "In front of the Convention Center on Saturday, amid a crowd of refugees weeping and trading stories of raped children and dead babies in freezers, an elderly woman in a yellow shirt lay near death, tremors coursing through her limbs. Afew minutes later, she stopped shaking. And yet, in that hell, Anita Roach raised her voice to the heavens, belting

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local6.com - News - Caskets Washing Up On Shores Of Mississippi: "Dozens of caskets are washing up on the shores of Gulfport, Miss., providing another grim reminder of a storm that may have killed thousands in the state and in neighboring Louisiana, according to a Local 6 News report."

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Compilation of Resources from Posters on HC and News Agencies

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CNN.com - Chertoff: Katrina scenario did not exist - Sep 3, 2005: "Defending the U.S. government's response to Hurricane Katrina, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff argued Saturday that government planners did not predict such a disaster ever could occur. But in fact, government officials, scientists and journalists have warned of such a scenario for years."

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Maps - NOLA Intel Wiki: "Maps From NOLA Intel Wiki Intended primarily for dynamic (i.e. 'Google-style') maps and resources. DirectNIC coordinates: N29 56'57.32', W90 04'11.11' (punch into search on Google Earth)"

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Maps: The Impact of Hurricane Katrina - New York Times

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LIVE Interview with Donny tomorrow night on "The Animal House" show at 8:00 p.m. EST. Goto our website at http://www.thefuzionradio.com and save the site link. at 8:00 p.m. EST Sunday 9/4, click on Listen Live and your favorite player will open and the show will be on. It's a Talk Comedy Show and depending on when Donny says he will be able to call in, you'll hear our normal stuff. It's a show

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As many of you have likely observed, the national media outlets are suggesting that hurricane relief is finally leading to vast improvements with each hour that passes. Food and water are being delivered, power restored, levees repaired, water drainage plans developed, and those still living successfully evacuated. Many are reporting that the final areas are being checked for survivors, as well

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DirectNIC This is the blog that got (and kept) this whole thing going. 98% of my posts have been coming from information derived from Interdictor based IRC channels. Thanks Mike, you are a true hero.

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WorldNetDaily: New Orleans mayor fears CIA to take him out: "New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said he's feeling better about his city, he feels confident he has gotten the attention of Gov. Kathleen Blanco and President Bush, but he said he fears the Central Intelligence Agency may take him out because he's been yelling at these officials. He didn't say it once. He said it twice."

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Law Officers, Overwhelmed, Are Quitting the Force - New York Times: "NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 3 - Reeling from the chaos of this overwhelmed city, at least 200 New Orleans police officers have walked away from their jobs and two have committed suicide, police officials said Saturday. Some officers officially told their superiors they were leaving, police officials said. Others worked for a while and

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Xinhua - English: "KUWAIT CITY, Sept. 3 (Xinhuanet) -- The Emir of Qatar Sheikh Hamad Ben Khalifa Al Thani decided on Saturday to contribute 100 million US dollars to the victims of the Katrina hurricane in the United States. The Qatar News Agency quoted a source at the Foreign Ministry assaying that the donation was made in the name of the government and people of Qatar. The source

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Entergy Corporate | Emergency Center: "Entergy’s workforce has restored electrical service to more than half a million customers after Hurricane Katrina, on Monday, August 29, left behind the largest number of power disruptions for a single event in the company’s history. Hurricane Katrina crippled Entergy’s electrical system within the City of New Orleans and extensively damaged the electrical

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SURVIVEDKATRINA.net - Hurricane Katrina Connection - Growing online lists

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List of missing people.

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CBS News | Katrina Disaster Blog Sept. 3 | September 3, 2005 23:00:04: "HOUSTON (AP) The governor of Texas worries that his state may not be able to take many more evacuees from Hurricane Katrina. Governor Rick Perry says Texas is committed to doing everything it can to help, but wants to be sure it can provide the services needed, including medical care and education. Perry says local officials

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WESH.com - News - Central Florida Raises More Than $1 Million: "ORLANDO -- WESH-TV and Magic 107.7 FM in Orlando joined the American Red Cross Friday for a daylong fundraising telethon that featured reporters and anchors from WDSU-TV. The final tally from the event was $1,060,287."

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Left Turn: Notes from the Global Intifada: "In the refugee camp I just left, on the I-10 freeway near Causeway, thousands of people (at least 90% black and poor) stood and squatted in mud and trash behind metal barricades, under an unforgiving sun, with heavily armed soldiers standing guard over them. When a bus would come through, it would stop at a random spot, state police would open a gap in

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2_sept__corps_prepares_to_breach_levees.pdf (application/pdf Object)

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QAs on unwatering New Orleans.pdf (application/pdf Object)

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Poynter Online - Covering Katrina: About As Bad As Can Be: "Peter Kovacs, a managing editor of The Times-Picayune, doesn't know if his home survived Hurricane Katrina but fears it did not. He doesn't know when he and his colleagues will be able to return to their newsroom in New Orleans, but figures it won't be soon. He's also not sure what time the PDF version of Friday's paper will be posted

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