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Hey guys I am trying to research some options of pilotless ignition systems,so I thought I would start here. Right now I have honeywell valves running on low pressure lp. Are the electronic ignitors that come on when the honeywell is told to open? Just wanting to know what is out there. Thanks
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One are the spark ignitors the other are the hot ignitors. Both check for a flame and shut down the valve if it's not present. Different folks like each one.
Spark ignitor fires off a spark to light a pilot. Pilot then lights the burner. Lots and lots of threads showing them in action. There are a set of them in the garage here.
Not as familiar with the hot element ignitors.
There are 2 methods out there, spark ignition and hot surface, both will work direct ignition but variable fire levels on burners make that an iffy situation. The pilot with all of the baggage is the most reliable method because the pilot burns with constant fire level regardless what the main burner is doing.
You can get into the situation where the burner is turned low enough, or high enough that the ignition does not happen, then the ignition module locks out until power is shut off. With a pilot, it lights off each time and gives enough flame to reliably light the burner off at all reasonable firing levels.
Excuse the thread-borrowing, but...kladue, can you recommend a specific model valve setup for high pressure propane?
I'm running mine on high pressure propane with the "usual" Honeywell ignitors and eBay 24 VAC valves.
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Onehoppyguy, I dont understand what those valves you linked to actually do. Can you explain the operation?
A couple questions about need for high pressure, are you using BG-10's, if so you need high pressure, if BG-14's that is not the way to go. Most folks do not understand that more than 80K btu's under a 16" pot or keg is just not going to work, the multijet burners look impressive but have to be mounted 10-12" below the pot to get enough secondary air to burn right, and most of the heat just blows away. The BG-14 burners have proven to be the optimum size for HLT and BK applications, and with low pressure hit 80K at wide open.
To implement spark ignition with pilot you need 2 solenoids and 1 spark ignition module for each burner. The correct 1/4" solenoids rated for gas use are ASCO RED-HAT-8262H078, and run $75 each. The S8610 spark module runs around $88 each, for a total of $238 a burner. The Y8610U kits run around $210 and have a low pressure valve included, but you will need a Q345 pilot burner as they only have conversions for the Q314 pilot burners but no Q314 pilot burner. You do not need solenoid valves larger than 1/4" with high pressure, the gas density is such that they will flow more than the #65 drill size orifice can pass at the burner, larger is wasting your time and money.
For an example of this with diagrams, check the "Soos Creek Brewery thread http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f51/1-bbl-brewery-build-brutus-inspired-307647/ as there is an implementation of high pressure burner control for propane.
If you want the lowest cost and most popular setup, the Honeywell VR8200 low pressure standing pilot valve, Q314 pilot burner, and thermocouple will run about $80 per burner. Light pilot at start of brew session and away you go.
I have to disagree with one item kladue... using natural gas and needle valves, jet burners respond very well in our tests.


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Eye-tracking of men's preferences for women's body shape
Eye-Tracking of Men's Preferences for Waist-to-Hip Ratio and Breast Size of Women.
Dixson BJ, Grimshaw GM, Linklater WL, Dixson AF.
Studies of human physical traits and mate preferences often use questionnaires asking participants to rate the attractiveness of images. Female waist-to-hip ratio (WHR), breast size, and facial appearance have all been implicated in assessments by men of female attractiveness. However, very little is known about how men make fine-grained visual assessments of such images. We used eye-tracking techniques to measure the numbers of visual fixations, dwell times, and initial fixations made by men who viewed front-posed photographs of the same woman, computer-morphed so as to differ in her WHR (0.7 or 0.9) and breast size (small, medium, or large). Men also rated these images for attractiveness. Results showed that the initial visual fixation (occurring within 200 ms from the start of each 5 s test) involved either the breasts or the waist. Both these body areas received more first fixations than the face or the lower body (pubic area and legs). Men looked more often and for longer at the breasts, irrespective of the WHR of the images. However, men rated images with an hourglass shape and a slim waist (0.7 WHR) as most attractive, irrespective of breast size. These results provide quantitative data on eye movements that occur during male judgments of the attractiveness of female images, and indicate that assessments of the female hourglass figure probably occur very rapidly.
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Any truth to it or politically correct BS?
If this is true well'see Australia's europeans with dark skin very soon.
I like a woman at work with a great hourglass figure and large breasts, but I like a woman at the same job even better who does not have large breasts and is skinny without much of an hourglass figure.ReplyDelete
I like the lesser-buxom/shapely coworker because she is very smart, and that to me contributes to someone's sexual appeal. Of course men like women with large breasts and hourglass figures, but studies like this one are simplistic. Studies like this one also need to examine who people actually end up with rather than who they prefer.
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Dean: who men end up with has often little to do with who they prefer. They end up with who they're preferred by, and the resulting breast size + hip/waist ratio fills up the preference slot in their brains - it better did, or else...ReplyDelete
(Yes, studies like this are simplistic - but not more then we are.)
Perhaps the best study would be to measure people up at the time they are getting married. :-)ReplyDelete
Not sure how this relates to the topic, and there are too many errors in this article to comment on.
The bottom line, though, has been known for many, many decades.
Yes, clearly, fishing would have been a very large part of pre-agricultural sustenance in northern Europe - but it is not just the extremes of northern Europe that receive too little light for vitamin D production. So does the Danubian valley - both because of latitude, and because of its infamous fog and cloud cover. So, it is not 5,000 years ago, but 7,500 years ago that the first farmers of the Danubian area were forced to adapt to lighter skin pigmentation. Keep in mind that skin and hair color are one of the most easily changed attributes of animals and people - so there is no surprise that this could become widespread in a couple of centuries.
As to the main article of this topic, there is of course the problem that we all like to stare at extremes (and accidents), but that does not necessarily indicate preference. So, men mind stare at "my god, are those big ...", but their preference may be more the average, or quality (shape, apparently not measured, here) over quantity.
Finally, computer-generated images have the strong disadvantage that they do not preserve natural proportions and existing correlations. In reality, preferred breast size will be related to all: body size, body weight, and body shape. Vice versa, preferred body shape in reality is related to height, weight, and other characteristics - even facial form.
I should add that at the 7,500 years-ago time frame I mentioned, there would have already been a significant pool of (relatively?) fair-skinned people living in Central Europe, from which agriculturalists would easily inherit. This is so because meat, even liver, has a very small amount of vitamin D compared to fish or sea mammals.ReplyDelete
Thus, in Central Europe away from the coasts, where fishing was seasonal and (from the archaeological record) likely mostly done by specialized groups just after the last ice age, it already at that time would have been advantageous to get a reliable amount this vitamin through skin color, instead.
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The Ignite events are a fun blend of performance, technology, and speaking skill. Each presenter gives a five minute talk with twenty slides that auto-advance after 15 seconds.
The title of my talk is a classic geek reference (you can get the t-shirt). I'm very interested in developing automated techniques for handling the massive and growing amounts of information that we all have to deal with. I started with e-mail and twitter, both of which are easy to access programmatically (via IMAP and the Twitter API).
In the talk, I went through several of the simple and successful e-mail management scripts that I've developed.
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Truly a most beautiful write..... tape and glue.... yes, I know that welll. (Report) Reply
Tiffany Rose Moczydlowski
Tape And Glue
''My heart is very fragile, held together
By a bit of tape and glue.
It can't handle being shattered again;
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Comments about this poem (Tape And Glue by Tiffany Rose Moczydlowski )
Tony Karas (6/11/2014 12:36:00 PM)
Akhtar Jawad (5/11/2014 8:43:00 PM)
Leslie Philibert (5/11/2014 5:19:00 AM)
Not bad, the theme is well worked at, the idea itself not new, and perhaps the central metaphor tires towards the
end, but a poem that will be liked (Report) Reply
Gajanan Mishra (5/11/2013 5:29:00 AM)
Savita Tyagi (8/17/2012 10:21:00 PM)
''My heart is very fragile, held together
By a bit of tape and glue. Love your title and wordings. Very well composed. (Report) Reply
Marcella D (7/12/2012 10:41:00 AM)
Now this one had a emo-love genre/theme that makes sense. keep it up with other genre/theme's such as horror or comedy or any of them :) (Report) Reply
Kevin Patrick (6/29/2012 8:48:00 PM)
I read this after reading Wind and the Winds and I think this is a thousand times better; you threw away the baggage of trying to sound like somebody else, and seem to have a voice that is more acclimated to yourself and makes you unique.
The tape and glue fell away
As you took their place in
Piecing it together and repairing my wounds
With your tender love that fills
The once gaping, hollow spaces where
Missing components were never regained
And the cracks that were forged
See this is what's great, fantastic use of similes and alliterations which don't sound hackneyed from other works, this is all you and that is why I think it is really great. (Report) Reply
Besa Dede (6/22/2012 9:15:00 AM)
I like the way you use free rhyme to tell a story to the reader. Interesting piece
~Besa (Report) Reply
Kaila George (6/21/2012 11:42:00 PM)
Im not sure what to think, I had to read it a few times to understand, normally when I do read it just jumps at me, how people write I mean, this is good, it expresses how you feel with every line, just needs to flow together, but I still think you are a brillant poet for one so young I mean the first one I read just blew me away. Actually made my mouth dropp with a gaping look of wonder...smiles...anyway keep up the writes my friend...hope we are if you want you can leave comments on mine as well would love to see what you think. (Report) Reply
Kebe Iwara (6/21/2012 12:22:00 PM)
I admire ur tact and craft.this only simply conveys a strong emotion of love and not to impress. Though not ur best poem, bt it conveys d emotion well enough. I'd like u 2 rd some of mine too. (Report) Reply
Amber Glistener (6/21/2012 10:56:00 AM)
:) This is a very well thought out piece of work. I enjoyed reading it and I hope that you continue to write for your whole life because you have a true talent here and no matter what anybody says, it is good. I'm sure you make God smile. The emotions in this piece are clear, which is a wonderful thing. It is very nice. (Report) Reply
Christopher Is Dead (but I'm More Than Alive) (6/21/2012 7:53:00 AM)
I really enjoyed it because I really like love poems, and it feels good to read feelings I can remember having for someone, though a long time ago. (Report) Reply
Tammie Aimson (6/21/2012 7:24:00 AM)
i think this is geart and you should keep it up, it s a beautiful poem. x tamara (Report) Reply
Joyce Rugg (6/20/2012 5:51:00 PM)
This is beautiful! I love it. I'd say there's no way to improve this one, because it's perfect as is. Care to check out mine? (Report) Reply
Indira Babbellapati (6/20/2012 12:15:00 PM)
Lenore Lee (6/19/2012 11:48:00 PM)
Beautiful simplicity. I like the story behind it; one person can come into your life and just make everything better. (Report) Reply
Juan Guzman (6/19/2012 7:57:00 PM)
to put it simple the poem feels as if you started off writing about something and then drifted into writing about something else and ruins the mood, but i guess it was an okay poem. sorry (Report) Reply
Matty Reynolds (6/19/2012 12:17:00 PM)
I'm curious about the punctuation in this poem. It reads like a long drawn out sentence and left be needing air. (Report) Reply
Connor Whyte (6/18/2012 5:29:00 PM)
When our walls break down and crumble away reseal them and make them stronger it is the only thing that keeps our judgment right instead of wrong. Very well written and people can always relate to these feelings. Keep up the good work good job. (Report) Reply
Hans Vr (6/17/2012 7:13:00 PM)
NIce expression of an 'in' love poem.
Let the glue and tape be the wonderful sunrises and sunsets, the soul power you possess and nobody will be able to break that heart again. (Report) Reply
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Direct start to Flying Frog. Pass two bolts to join FF on the face above. Pull the right facing dihedral.
Starts about 20' right of Mescaline Daydream.
Two bolts and an assortment of other gear.
Bolts were rusted, but hangers were in great shape. Another great face climb on that wall. A little dirty at the beginning, but don't let that deter you.
There are definitely a lot of worthwhile routes in TG obscured by rust, dirt, and weeds. I will probably sound like an alarmist, but the self-drive bolts on this route are well past their prime (not a whole lot better than a rusty 1/4 inch). The aluminum hangers are deceiving; they often cause galvanic corrosion on the steel bolt and sleeve and can flake and corrode themselves on the backside. These 8mm bolts fail under pretty low sheer loads anyway. At this point (20+ years later) they are unpredictable, and I do not like to climb over them.


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Thousands of Palestinians flee northern Gaza, fearing Israeli bombing
GAZA, Palestine - Thousands of Palestinian residents of the northern Gaza Strip fled their homes on Sunday and sought safety in U.N. shelters, heeding warnings from the Israeli military about impending plans to bomb the area in the sixth day of an offensive against Hamas that has killed more than 160 people.
The fighting showed no signs of slowing, despite international calls for a cease-fire and growing concerns about the mounting civilian death toll in Gaza. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry spoke to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and voiced U.S. "readiness" to help restore calm, while Egypt, a key mediator between Israel and Hamas, continued to work behind the scenes.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for an immediate cease-fire in a statement issued late Sunday by his spokesman's office.
Ban "strongly believes that it is in the interest of both sides that steps toward dangerous escalation be replaced with immediate measures to end the fighting, thus preventing further casualties and greater risks to regional peace and security," it said.
Ban condemned Hamas' indiscriminate firing of rockets against Israeli civilian targets as "a violation of international law," it said. He abhorred "the image of Israeli families hovering in shelters in fear of their children's safety" and demanded "an immediate cessation of these indecent attacks."
At the same time, the U.N. chief is "deeply worried about the impact on Palestinian families of Israeli military action. Too many Palestinian civilians have been killed, and any Israeli ground offensive will undoubtedly increase the death toll and exacerbate civilian suffering in the Gaza Strip," it said.
Ban noted that despite the U.N. Security Council's demand for a cease-fire, "the situation in and around the Gaza Strip appears to be worsening," it said.
Amid the diplomacy, Israel said it was pushing forward with preparations for a possible ground invasion of Gaza. Thousands of troops have massed along the border in recent days.
"We don't know when the operation will end," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his Cabinet on Sunday. "It might take a long time." He said the military was prepared "for all possibilities."
Israel launched the offensive last Tuesday in what it said was a response to heavy rocket fire out of Hamas-controlled Gaza. The military says it has launched more than 1,300 airstrikes, while Palestinian militants have launched more than 800 rockets at Israel. The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza says 166 people have been killed, including dozens of civilians. There have been no Israeli fatalities, though several people have been wounded, including a teenage boy who was seriously injured by rocket shrapnel Sunday.
Early Sunday, the Israeli air force dropped leaflets around the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahia ordering people to evacuate their homes. Israel says much of the rocket fire has come from the area, and overnight Sunday, the military carried out a brief ground operation on what it said was a rocket-launching site that could not be struck from the air. Four Israeli soldiers were lightly wounded before returning to Israel.
The U.N. refugee agency for Palestinians, UNRWA, said some 17,000 Palestinians had headed to special shelters set up in 20 United Nations schools in Gaza.
"The fact that in a span of almost a few hours, 10,000 people sought refuge in these 15 schools is an indication to the difficult situation on the ground," said Sami Mshasha, a UNRWA spokesman.
Some raced by in pickup trucks, waving white flags. "Once we received the message, we felt scared to stay in our homes. We want to leave," said one resident, Mohammed Abu Halemah.
Shortly before nightfall, Israel carried out a series of airstrikes in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahia. Hamas' Al-Aqsa TV station reported four airstrikes in a 10-minute span, and a large plume of black smoke could be seen over the area from the Israeli border. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
Hamas, an Islamic militant group sworn to Israel's destruction, has remained defiant, and it continued to fire rockets into Israel throughout the day. It urged people in northern Gaza to stay in their homes and has so far rejected proposals for a cease-fire as unsatisfactory.
"They want us to put down our arms and leave the resistance," said Moussa Abu Marzouk, a top Hamas official, on his Facebook page. "They started the battle, and we will stay on our land and fight to protect our future."
Despite Israeli claims that it has inflicted heavy damage on the group, Hamas says it is largely unscathed, and Palestinian medics say most of the dead have been civilians.
The outbreak of violence follows the kidnappings and killings of three Israeli teenagers in the West Bank, the kidnapping and killing of a Palestinian teenager in an apparent revenge attack, and wide-ranging Israeli moves against Hamas militants and infrastructure in the West Bank. Hamas has demanded that hundreds of recently arrested activists be freed as part of a cease-fire.
Many of the airstrikes have been on the homes of wanted Hamas militants, putting their families at risk. In an attack on Saturday, the target of one such airstrike, Gaza's police chief, survived, while 17 members of his extended family were killed.
Israel accuses Hamas of using Gaza's civilians as human shields, putting people in the densely populated territory in danger.
"The leadership of Hamas and the other organizations has chosen — at a time when they are using the population of Gaza as human shields — to hide underground, to flee abroad and to deliberately put civilians in the line of fire," Netanyahu said.
Despite Israel's claims, the international community, including many of Israel's allies, have begun to express concerns about the growing civilian death toll.
The Israeli military said that one of the rockets fired by Gaza militants Sunday night "hit an electricity infrastructure in Israel that supplied electricity to the Gaza Strip, causing a power outage to some 70,000 Gaza civilians."
In Vienna, Kerry spoke Sunday with Netanyahu and highlighted U.S. concerns about the "escalating tensions," the State Department said.
Kerry "described his engagement with leaders in the region to help to stop the rocket fire so calm can be restored and civilian casualties prevented, and underscored the United States' readiness to facilitate a cessation of hostilities," the State Department said.
Egypt, meanwhile, said President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi spoke to the U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon. El-Sissi's spokesman quoted Ban as praising Egyptian efforts to halt the fighting and affirming that "Egypt is the most capable party to effectively participate in reaching a calm between the two sides." Netanyahu's office declined comment on diplomatic efforts.
Other countries were also involved. Germany's foreign minister said he would head to the region on Monday, while French President Francois Hollande tried to rally Arab and Muslim leaders to push for a cease-fire.
Hollande held telephone talks over the weekend with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki.
Marzouki spokesman Adnane Mancer said the French and Tunisian presidents agreed that Marzouki would try to talk to Hamas leaders and urge a cease-fire, while Hollande would try to do the same with other parties. A French presidential official said Hollande was talking to Israeli, Palestinian and other Arab officials.
On Sunday, Palestinians with foreign passports began leaving Gaza through the Erez border crossing. Israel, which co-operated in the evacuation, said 800 Palestinians living in Gaza have passports from countries including Australia, Britain and the U.S.
Rawan Mohanna, a 21-year-old chemistry major at the University of Texas, said she had arrived in Gaza with her family a month ago because her older sister was getting married to a Gazan.
Mohanna, who lives in Dallas, said her family is now returning to the U.S. with mixed feelings because her newlywed sister and other relatives were staying behind.
"It's bittersweet that we get to leave but they are still there and they can't get out," she said.
On Sunday night, Israel's military said rockets were fired at Israel from both Syria and Lebanon in separate incidents. There were no injuries or damage, but Israel fears militant groups along its northern frontier may try to open a second front. The rocket attacks were the second such barrage on Israel from its northern neighbours in recent days.
The Israeli military said it retaliated by shooting toward the source of fire.
In Egypt, security officials said they had foiled a new attempt to fire rockets at Israel by militants in the northern Sinai Peninsula which borders Israel.
Federman reported from Jerusalem. Angela Charlton in Paris, Kirsten Grieshaber in Berlin, Ian Deitch and Yousur Alhlou in Jerusalem, Ibrahim Barzak in Amman, Jordan, and Mohammed Daraghmeh in Ramallah, West Bank, contributed reporting.
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• Think mobile. Within the next couple of years, mobile Internet use via smartphones and tablets is projected to surpass desktop use. Small businesses that want to gain the benefits of online reviews and the like should make sure their mobile platforms are up to speed. If a consumer sees a review, then goes to the company website, it needs to be user-friendly, complete, and easily navigable on a mobile device.
• Expand your editorial reach. Consumer reviews, word-of-mouth and the like are essentially individual editorials. The source's credibility ties closely to perceived level of trustworthiness. That's why recommendations from trusted advisers such as family and friends rate so highly, even more so than online reviews, where the motivation of the reviewer is generally unknown (e.g., the review could come from someone tied to the company itself, or a competitor).
In this same spirit, seek out editorial opportunities from trusted media. For example, increasingly, magazines and newspapers accept submitted how-to articles on topics of interest to their audience. While the author typically gets only a byline and a tag paragraph about their company, it's an excellent credibility-builder — another form of extended word-of-mouth, if you will. To continue that credibility, just make sure that article content aligns with your company performance and credentials.
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Bureau of Governmental Research is a private, non-profit, independent research organization dedicated to informed public policy making and the effective use of public resources for the improvement of government in the New Orleans metropolitan area.
A Bumpy Road for New Orleans: Addressing Streets
Excellence in Government Awards 2014
BGR Wins National Awards for Research
Aug 12, 2014
BGR won three awards from the Governmental Research Association (GRA) at its national conference in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, August 5, 2014.
BGR Excellence in Government Awards Nomination Form 2014
Friday, August 29, 2014
Please deliver the nomination form by hand, U.S. mail, e-mail or fax before noon on Friday, August 29, 2014, to:
BGR Excellence in Government Awards 2014
938 Lafayette St., Ste. 200
New Orleans, LA 70113
Fax: (504) 525-4153
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Do you know creative, dedicated public employees who deserve greater recognition for their accomplishments? Do you know citizens who have worked to significantly improve local government? You can honor such people by nominating them for the BGR Excellence in Government Awards.
The Awards
The Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes sustained performance over a career in public service. Nominees with a minimum of 15 years of public employment are eligible. BGR will present up to two Lifetime Achievement Awards, with cash prizes of $1,000 each.
The Merit Award recognizes outstanding performance by public sector employees. BGR will present up to four Merit Awards, with cash prizes of $500 each.
The Innovation Award recognizes employees who have used innovative solutions to address pressing problems. BGR will present up to three Innovation Awards, with cash prizes of $1,000 each.
The Citizenship Award recognizes a private citizen who has worked to improve the quality of government. BGR will present one Citizenship Award.
Who is Eligible?
A nominee for the Innovation, Merit or Lifetime Achievement Award must:
• Be an individual public employee or group of public employees (classified, unclassified or
appointed). Elected officials are not eligible.
• Work full- or part-time, but not as a consultant or independent contractor.
• Work for a state or local governmental entity in the New Orleans metropolitan area.
(Employees of non-profit organizations, other than schools chartered by the state or a local school board, are not eligible.)
A nominee for the Citizenship Award must be a private citizen in the New Orleans metropolitan area who has not served in the public sector during the previous five years as an elected official, public employee, paid consultant or contractor. Individuals who have served on BGR's Board of Directors within the past 10 years are not eligible.
In addition, for the Merit and Innovation Awards, the nominee's accomplishment(s) must have occurred between January 1, 2013, and August 29, 2014. (This requirement does not apply to the Lifetime Achievement Award or the Citizenship Award.)
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A Bumpy Road for New Orleans: Addressing the Street Network
Jul 25, 2014
On July 22, 2014, hundreds of citizens and a number of government officials turned up at a citywide meeting hosted by the Fix My Streets campaign and the Lakeview Civic Improvement Association to discuss options for addressing New Orleans' bumpy street network. The dialogue centered on the need to determine the condition of city streets, to devise a rational approach to prioritizing and paying for roadwork, and to uncover new funding sources to meet the enormous costs. A key point in the discussion was the need to bring more properties into the tax base.
BGR has in recent years grappled extensively with the issues surrounding the city's failing streets and other infrastructure needs. To inform the current dialogue on these issues, we have created this online portal to provide the public with easier access to several key BGR reports.
The first, Street Smarts: Maintaining and Managing New Orleans' Road Network (2008), discussed the weaknesses in the city's management of its street network and described what a good pavement management system looks like. It also explored several funding options.
The second report, The Price of Civilization: Addressing Infrastructure Needs in New Orleans (2010) arose out of a concern that the city's infrastructure needs were receiving inadequate attention. It described the city's capital needs and the factors that affect the local capacity to meet those needs.
A third report focused on a particular exemption that is ripe for reform. The Nonprofit Margin: Addressing the Costs of the Nonprofit Exemption in New Orleans (2011) estimated the impact of the nonprofit exemption and discusses the range of options for mitigating that impact.
Also included here is a related release focusing on the city's tax base.
As BGR noted in The Price of Civilization, the infrastructure funding gap underscores the importance of carefully marshaling and spending what was available. It is essential to re-evaluate and strategically deploy limited available resources and to develop a coherent, prioritized citywide plan for addressing unmet infrastructure needs. It is also essential to find ways to bring sanity to exemptions and broaden the pool of contributors to the revenue base in Orleans Parish. Going after the same group of taxpayers again and again will not solve our problems.
BGR is currently working on a report that will take a comprehensive look at the revenue structure in Orleans Parish. It will examine how much revenue various sources generate, how the revenue is allocated, and the extent to which the revenue is dedicated to specific purposes. The report will also explore potential new revenue sources.
BGR Comments on Draft Contracting Ordinance
Jun 10, 2014
In an open letter to the Jefferson Parish Council, BGR comments on a proposed ordinance that would change the parish's process for awarding nonprofessional service contracts.
SB 469 – Does It Eliminate the Public's Rights?
May 28, 2014
In this open letter to the Louisiana State Legislature, BGR expresses concern that SB 469 might permanently deprive the residents of coastal Louisiana of significant claims against the oil and gas industry and others. It provides a list of questions in need of answers before the House of Representatives votes on the bill.
Special Counsel Bill Threatens Levee Boards' Independence
May 15, 2014
In this release, BGR addresses a bill that would require the regional flood protection authorities to get the governor's approval before hiring special counsel. The change would expose the flood protection authorities to political pressure and intervention from the governor.
Amended SB 79 Still Threatens Levee Boards' Independence
Apr 22, 2014
In this release, BGR addresses a bill that would allow the governor to unilaterally remove members of regional flood protection authorities for vague reasons. The change would expose the flood protection authorities to political pressure and intervention from the governor.
Bill Would Open Floodgates to Gubernatorial Interference
Apr 15, 2014
In this release, BGR addresses a bill that would move the regional flood protection authorities into the executive branch. The change would expose the flood protection authorities to political pressure and intervention from the governor.
Re-Engineered Appointment Process Would Weaken Levee Board Reforms
Apr 1, 2014
In this release, BGR raises concerns about a bill pending in the state Senate that would weaken the critical reforms of local levee boards put in place in response to the 2005 levee failures.
Court Committee Lining Up to Punt Away Public Dollars
Feb 4, 2014
In this release, BGR points out that the Supreme Court committee charged with re-assessing the number of judgeships at each of the state's courts appears to be positioning itself to punt on the matter – at the public's expense.
The S&WB: Looking for a Few Good Members
Jan 2, 2014
In this release, BGR encourages qualified citizens to volunteer to serve on the newly constituted Sewerage & Water Board of New Orleans.