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Deathwings Stormwind Assault comes with the following:
-Stormwind - Castle
-Deathwing - Dragon
-Varian Wrynn Human Warrior
-Barton Gnome Death Knight
-Mythrin Night Elf Priest
-Alliance Catapult
-Secret Loot
Coming in about 809 pieces all in separate bags, this can be a daunting task at the very beginning. Organizing all of the pieces into their own piles is a good afternoon right there. Building it can take an entire night or more, depending on how much wine youre consuming and whether or not you have help!
Fortunately for us, Mega Bloks provide full color instruction booklets providing a list of all the pieces and all the steps to build both Deathwing and the Stormwind castle. Both require a very different type of mindset so be mindful. Building a castle is a walk in the park compared to the articulated eccentricities of a dragon.
Also a part of the castle are three statues (non-poseable) that snap into place in front of the castle. I do wish that these were built up of smaller pieces just for recreating a damaged castle would be that much more fun.
Deathwing is a really cool piece and a bit tricky to put together. He has several articulated joints but I do pine for a few more in the paws for more dynamic poses, but I should remind myself that these are building-toys and not action figures. Deathwing sports articulated wings, neck, head, jaw, and various limb and joints.
The three included figures are articulated as all other Mega Bloks figures are and theyre a lot of fun. Each come with their own weapon that can be stored on a peg that plugs into their back.
The last thing of note is the catapult that really works and a treasure full of booty. All in all, hours, nights, days full of fun are to be had with this World of Warcraft Mega Bloks set as well as many others currently available. Visit warcraft.megabloks.com for even more information on this officially Blizzard Entertainment licensed product!
Review and Photography by David Yeh
Review Samples Courtesy of Mega Bloks


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On Tour with the Tesla Roadster
The Tesla Motors Team is on the road to the Midwest and East Coast for our 2007 Spring Tour. While we will not have an official Tesla Tour T-Shirt (as good as that sounds, it has probably been done before by some folks that don't look much like us), we can offer something a bit different: a day-by-day account of the trials and tribulations of life on the road and a companion photo album. In this travel diary of sorts, you'll hear the good, bad, and ugly as the Tesla Motors Team embarks on our most ambitious customer outreach effort to date – hitting four major metropolitan markets in the span of just a few short weeks. So tune in and see the drama unfold here.
Aaron Platshon, Marketing Associate
Filed: Saturday, April 14, 2007
As I type this note, Engineering Prototype 2 (EP2, aka the red Tesla Roadster) is cruising across Nevada in a beautiful, new 26-foot enclosed trailer, adorned with our logo. The trailer is being hauled by our new Chevy crew-cab Duramax diesel truck. (Editor's note: fossil fuel vehicles still have their place, and we are pleased that Chevy builds the Duramax to haul our Tesla Roadster around.)
It is important that we show our commitment to our other markets outside of our home state as we move into the final stages of development prior to the start of production. The sales and marketing teams are embarking on a 2½ week whirlwind tour of the United States that will include:
- A quick stop in Detroit for a supplier event that coincides with the SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) Conference. This is a great opportunity to showcase the Tesla Roadster for potential WhiteStar (our upcoming electric sports sedan) suppliers.
- Public/private events and media opportunities in two of our initial markets: New York City and Chicago. Check the Events page on the website for events that are open to the public. Let your friends and family know.
- Events open to the public in Washington, D.C.
We will send updates and pictures from the road, but here are the highlights of where we'll be and when:
- April 17
Supplier Event, Downtown Detroit, Mich. (This is a private event.)
- April 20-21
New York Earth Day, located outside Grand Central Terminal.
- April 24-26
Various public/private events in Washington, D.C., including public appearances at the Department of Transportation, House of Representatives, and Senate.
- April 29
Tentative public display event in Chicago, Ill. (Editor's comment: Sorry, this event has been cancelled. We will do our best to schedule a public event next time we bring the Tesla Roadster to the Midwest.)
Very special thanks to Don Matheson, Marty Taft, Dallas Matheson and Phil Luk for working diligently until almost midnight Friday to get the rig on its way!
Thank you to Jamison Cummings, Jeremy Cleland, Joyce Cid, Barrie Dickinson, and Chris Dalupan for their help preparing for this trip.
EP2 is set to arrive back at our San Carlos, Calif., headquarters on May 2 or May 3.
Don Matheson, Director of Service
Filed: Monday, April 16
Friday – Phil and Jamison twisted wrenches all day to upgrade EP2. Upgrades included new carpeting, installation of show wheels, work on door latches (they still don't work due non working membrane switches), removal and new placement of EPO switch on dashboard, installation of new shocks and springs, dash vent trim rings, etc. While Phil and Jamison were working on the car, others worked on wiring up our new trailer and installing our new diesel generator. Work continued into late Friday night. I finally got home at about 12:15 am Saturday morning.
Saturday – Our drivers Dallas and Joe Sisto rolled into Park City, Utah, around 1:15 am Sunday morning. No problems reported. The truck pulled all mountain ranges easily. GPS (Tom Tom) worked like a charm, and they are enjoying XM radio thanks to Mike Harrigan.
Sunday – I checked in with Dallas at 11 am today. They should be approaching Laramie, Wyoming, as I write this.
Monday – Our drivers just passed through Davenport, Iowa. They expect to hit our Rochester Hills, Mich., office by Monday evening.
Aaron Platshon, Marketing Associate
Filed: Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Dallas and Joe arrived at our Rochester Hills office without incident on Monday evening. The rig lived in the (soon to be full, as we know from our experience in San Carlos) secure warehouse space currently populated by two partially dissected sedans from other manufacturers. Each part that has been removed lives on a rack labeled by type and mass for further research.
This morning, the traveling team (David, Dallas, Joe, and myself) enjoyed a quick continental breakfast at the hotel, with a few of our San Carlos engineering colleagues in town for meetings, before heading into the office for the day, our first among our Michigan counterparts.
It is exciting to turn the bend and catch a glimpse of the "Tesla Motors" signage in the distance and follow it in. Upon arrival, we were greeted by John Thomas, Senior Director of the WhiteStar program, and Penny Chant, the Rochester Hills office manager. They got us situated with cubes and phones for a day of "regular" work before our evening supplier event in downtown Detroit.
The highlight of the day was opening up the trailer (that had lived in the warehouse the evening prior) and extracting the Tesla Roadster for the Rochester Hills employees. For most of them, this was their first opportunity to see their company's product first hand. The excitement and anticipation in the warehouse was palpable. I have great confidence that we may have dissuaded a new employee in our Supplier Quality department (his second day on the job) that he should forgo that Dodge Viper purchase (it's been his dream car since its inception) for a Tesla Roadster (it's a lot faster ;)). What a great way to share what we have enjoyed in San Carlos for the last year with the growing pool of very impressive Tesla Motors talent!
At 3pm we took off for the supplier presentation in downtown Detroit, which was put on by a team from the WhiteStar program, Marketing, and After Sales and Support. This coincided with the annual SAE Conference, a huge engineering conference held every year in Cobo Hall. We rented out a meeting room at the Marriott across the street from the General Motors world headquarters and put the Tesla Roadster on display out in front of the hotel.
The reception of the Tesla Roadster was tremendous, including many visitors from their offices across the street to check out our wares. We also had more than 100 supplier executives attend our open house where Ron Lloyd, Vice President, WhiteStar, used the Tesla Motors story to communicate our vision and their potential to join us in the EV revolution. This was particularly exciting, since we had invited only 80! The feedback from suppliers was extremely positive – they were energized by the story, anxious to be a part of the Tesla Motors success, and willing to look at their worlds differently to make this happen.
Once again, the truck and trailer will live inside the Rochester Hills warehouse space until we depart bright and early for New York City. Tomorrow is all about getting safely to New York and getting ready to host many of our early "members" (those who have placed Tesla Roadster reservations) for a ride event in Manhattan on Thursday.
Doreen Allen, Senior Sales Manager
Filed: Wednesday, April 18, 2007
The drive team got a late start out of Detroit and didn't arrive in New York City until the wee hours of the morning on April 19. TomTom did a great job of getting them to the city limits but had no clue on how to direct a large pickup truck pulling a 26-foot trailer. It frequently gave them instructions to turn well after they were committed in a lane. And when they couldn't adjust, it went into a tizzy trying to come up with a new route. After one messed up turn, the team found themselves wrongfully entering the Holland Tunnel and were immediately pulled over by New York's finest. After inspecting the cargo (a really cool electric Tesla Roadster) and checking the paperwork on our brand new truck (since it didn't have tags yet), he helped them with directions to the Manhattan Classic Car Club, where we were storing the Tesla Roadster while in town. By the way, the team over at the Classic Car Club are great! They were incredibly kind in helping us with our stay here in this great city.
Doreen Allen, Senior Sales Manager
Filed: Thursday, April 19, 2007
The driving team hit the sack at 8:00 am, while the fresh team of sales and marketing folks headed over for our first venue, which was a ride event for our local Tesla Roadster Club Members. We held the event at the Classic Car Club, which turned out to be a perfect venue - cool cars to check out; a comfortable sitting area; uncrowded streets, so we could stretch the Tesla Roadster's legs a bit; and fantastic catered food.
When most members arrived we would hear the familiar comment that the Tesla Roadster is even better looking in person than in photos. I wholeheartedly agree, although you might call me biased. Each member returned from their ride with their Tesla Roadster "torque smile" on. I must say that Aaron is not a bit shy about letting our members feel a little g-force in the car. A bit heavy on the pedal is what was reported but not as a complaint.
One of our members almost got away with jumping into the driver's seat to take his ride, but we caught him just in time to put him in the passenger seat. One of our Signature One Hundred guys was there, and we were quite happy that he came in and made himself at home. He hung out with us for a while and even played with the shop dog, a miniature French bull dog named Trixy. Too cute, very hyper, and very entertaining.
One member reported that he heard whistles and cheers from the street during his ride. It seemed he was digging the "cool factor," that even the general public on the street already knows about Tesla Motors and is cheering on our efforts. I'm not bragging here, I'm just reporting that the public is often our greatest advocate and supporter. That's one of the big things that makes what we are doing so cool.
Next up was the reception that same night at the Classic Car Club. They invited their members to see the Tesla Roadster and, of course, the many other very cool high performance cars in their shop. It was a blast to hang out at the club with a bunch of car enthusiasts and to offer a few rides to our new friends there.
David Vespremi, Director of Public Relations
Filed: Thursday, April 19, 2007
New York really is the city that never sleeps – and as it turns out, neither did we. A good friend of mine, Jared Holstein, who shoots cars for all the major car magazines, is a recent transplant to the city. He and I had met for dinner on Wednesday and, after listening to me vent about how I wanted more images of the Tesla Roadster in real world settings (in contrast to the highly stylized studio shots on our website), Jared interrupted me with the observation, "Hey, you know, I have my rig here..." With that, we hatched a plan. At 11:00 pm after the last of the customer rides had cleared out of Classic Car Club, we would mount Jared's custom 17' carbon fiber camera rig to the Tesla Roadster – how fitting: carbon on carbon – and go out guerilla style on the streets of New York City to see if we could capture one of his signature overhead rig shots. To see some of his work, check out www.jaredholstein.com.
Our first stop was the sea of lights that is Times Square. Brightly lit enough to look like daytime even in the dead of night, we were able to work with long shutter speeds to keep the car in sharp focus as the sea of lights blurred in the background. Very dramatic and very NYC. The support Silverado did double duty for us that night as the chase car for the car-to-car shots, and gave me a warm place to thaw from driving around the Tesla Roadster with no top, no heat (HVAC is disconnected on EP2), and no roof. Too bad diesel smells so bad. After a few hours of following the Chevy around and breathing in diesel soot, I was well on my way to nausea and a headache. The world needs more zero emissions cars posthaste.
As much as we enjoyed the pothole riddled Times Square loop, things got a lot more interesting when we switched locations, heading over the Williamsburg bridge to shoot in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and Harlem. This is where we got the best of our gritty urban shots, and we look forward to showing these off soon. I'd like to use this opportunity to apologize to any New Yorkers inconvenienced by our impromptu shoot – but we think the images were worth the all-nighter. We returned the car to Classic Car Club by about 7:00 am with 67 percent of the charge still left after driving all night, and I was in bed by 8:30 am. I slept for a couple of hours before being awakened by a series of fire alarms at our hotel, with people evacuating, returning, evacuating again, and finally figuring out that it was some kid pulling the alarm as a prank. Nice. The rest of the day consisted of my returning emails in a sleep deprived haze and making plans for the Good Morning America show to air on Sunday.
Doreen Allen, Senior Sales Manager
Filed: Friday, April 20, 2007
Oh my goodness. We had no idea of what to expect. We meet our dreary colleagues at the break of dawn to recover the car and get it over to Grand Central Station for a display at the New York Earth Day Celebrations. I was amazed, enlightened, and moved by the many people that I met yesterday. I was also terrified at moments. Sometimes there would be a group of classroom kids – we're talking 15-20 kids who want to climb into, open, and climb onto the Tesla Roadster. One minute you're having a conversation with someone about the technical aspects of the car, only to ask them to pause a moment while you create a body barrier to prevent the 20 seven year olds from climbing into and onto the Tesla Roadster. But those challenges were easily forgotten after the class teacher would scurry the kids into a small ring and then ask us, "Can you explain to my class why it is so important for us to move to electric vehicles versus gas powered cars?" Wow.
New Yorkers truly inspired me to be all the best I can at Tesla Motors. From the hoards of classroom kids to the engineers who suggested alternative technologies – thank you for the incredibly kind and supportive reception that you gave to us. We'll be back.
David Vespremi, Director of Public Relations
Filed: Saturday, April 21, 2007
I finally got to spend some time with the crowd at the Earth Day event at Grand Central Station. Wow, what an eclectic crowd we had there. For a city that is nearly as focused on car culture as, say, Los Angeles or even the Bay Area, it was amazing how widely recognized the car was by all ages and walks of life. Sure, we had the occasionally hardened New Yorker poke jabs at the car – I liked the one guy that heckled the interior calling the sports seats "lawn chairs." But all in all, the amount of enthusiasm in the air was enough to keep us going, even as many of us still struggled with exhaustion. We had a team dinner and debriefed on the week's events, and I can say that, unanimously, we feel like we did the right thing by heading out to the east coast for this trip and are amazed at how smoothly things have been going so far.
Gretchen Joyce, Vice President of Sales
Filed: Saturday, April 21, 2007
The weather couldn't have been better, sunny and in the mid-70s, and the crowd never let up around the Tesla Roadster. It's always interesting to hear the reaction/comments about the car, especially outside of California. The awareness was quite high in NYC, with many people spewing facts verbatim from our website. Early in the day a young couple excitedly approached the Tesla Roadster. It turns out that they had driven in from Lebanon, Pa., (about a 120 mile drive) specifically to see the Tesla Roadster, after reading that it was in New York. There wasn't anything new we could tell him about the car, as he was clearly knowledgeable, so we asked him for suggestions for our blog. He had been interested in reserving a Tesla Roadster, and after seeing it, I think it finally threw him over the edge!
Toward the end of the day, a gentleman was quietly looking at the car clearly intrigued. He then told us that he had worked on the advertising campaign for the EV1 launch, so he had to see the next generation electric vehicle in person.
And then there was the 10-year-old boy who asked many very intelligent questions of the Tesla Motors team about our technology, and he and his mother hung around until we drove the car away. He wants to grow up to be an engineer and perhaps figure out how to make electric airplanes. But until that happens, he claims that he will own a Tesla Roadster one day. And the best part for everyone was when the Tesla Roadster was actually driven away at the end of the day with all eyes on it as it quickly but quietly drove down 42nd Street.
David Vespremi, Director of Public Relations
Filed: Sunday, April 22, 2007
Good Morning Haiti...
Sunday began early. Too early. With a wakeup call at 3 am and check out by 3:30 am, Doreen, Aaron, and I were off to present the Tesla Roadster on Good Morning America. The only real highlight of the bleary-eyed rush to the set was the cab ride to retrieve the car from Classic Motor Club. For those familiar with Jim Jarmusch films, you'll know that this NYC native's pairing of offbeat music with surreal, dreamlike moments is one of the signature elements of movies like Stranger than Paradise, Coffee and Cigarettes, and, most recently, Broken Flowers. As it happened, we were floating down Broadway in a cab, with the sea of lights blurring by and the traffic swaying through the lanes as drunk or sleepy drivers deemed lane markers to be of no real consequence, causing rows of cabs to weave back and forth in unison from lane to lane as if dancing in the early morning hours. In our particular cab, the soundtrack to this dance, as if out of a Jarmusch film, was a melancholy sort of music with deeply resonant French vocals sung over a down tempo form of reggae with a smoky jazzy flavor. I'd never heard anything like it before but, somehow, it fit the ambience of the ride perfectly. As Aaron scanned through his email, his eyes and head nodding as he drifted in and out of sleep, and Doreen gazed out the window at the sea of lights, I asked the driver about the music streaming in from his iPod. He explained that it is a Haitian form of music called "komba." I would have probed deeper, but rather than make small talk and ruin the mood, it seemed like the kind of moment when nodding along to the music together was all the talk that was needed.
After retrieving the car, Doreen and Aaron took the Silverado and I drove the Tesla Roadster over to GMA's studio in Times Square. None of us being New York natives, we found ourselves off course, heading along the side of the Hudson in the final hours of dawn before the sun would introduce what would be the first day of real spring-like weather to the city. I had the top off of the Tesla Roadster, the wind in my hair, and not a care in the world as we made our way through traffic.
Once on set, Aaron and Doreen helped park the car in the curbside area from which the car would make its morning debut in about an hour, as I made my way to the "green room" for some coffee and to finish my prior entry to our travel blog. After a brief tour of the studio and control room, I couldn't help but smile to myself as I recalled having driven on the street below GMA's set, looping past that exact location at least 30 times prior during our all night photo session in Times Square. Had someone been pointing a camera out the window just two nights before, they would have had all the footage of the Tesla Roadster they could ever have wanted.
After hitting "send" on my blog entry – to which Darryl Siry (our Vice President of Marketing) would incredulously ask if I was even awake when I wrote it – I made my way downstairs for the car's big live television debut. All seemed to be going smoothly. Lights, cameras, car, and crew were in their designated locations and the countdown began. "On air in 10, 9, 8, 7..." And then panic set in. In that moment, my mellow komba vibe abruptly vanished as I gasped, noting that the presenter on the show – who was supposed to describe the car, get in, and drive off – had her hand on the handle of the Tesla Roadster's closed driver's side door. Now, in any other car, this would be fine, but the EP2 car has its electronic outer door handles disabled and cannot be opened from the outside. As the final seconds counted down before the live cameras came on, I rushed past and reached into the inner door handle, popping the door open before ducking behind the camera. Phew. I could imagine how that would have looked on live TV as she tugged frantically on the door handle of the Tesla Roadster, unable to get inside. That was a close one.
From that point on the filming went fine, as she smoothly opened the door, got in, and sped off camera. After the cameras were off, she even paid us a complement about how smooth and quiet the car was. With that, the show went on to cover other subjects, and we prepared to make our way over to Grand Central Station for what would be our final customer ride event before leaving New York City.
Editor's note: After our customer ride event in New York, the Tesla Motors crew hustled to Washington, D.C., for three more days of meetings and events. Find a full recap of our adventures at On Tour Part Two - Inside the Beltway.

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THE saga over the status of Bushfield Down near Winchester moves to the Court of Appeal in London next month.
Winchester resident Barbara Guthrie and the Bushfield Down Supporters Group are attempting to have it given town and village green status which would strengthen its protection from development.
The owners, the Church Commissioners, are resisting that attempt and have appealed against a High Court decision in June 2013 that ruled the county council had followed the correct procedure.
The hearing has been listed for the appeal court on February 5-6.
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This holiday season, I pray you celebrate the miracle of the lights that surround us. Remember the miracle of the original Hanukkah. Do not forget the first miracle, the victory, was the work of human beings. Only then did God's work make a vessel of oil last eight times its normal burning time.
Here are some miracles we humans can make happen this year.
The peace discussions among the Israeli, the Egyptian and the Palestinian factions can be successful. Let them be full of meaningful negotiations. May a miracle occur and may trust break out among them.
May all the obstreperous leaders of our nation forget the rancor they exhibit toward each other and remember they were elected to insure our security, prosperity and equality. May a miracle occur and may they work together to keep us from falling off the fiscal cliff.
May all of us donate extra to the local food banks so the many hungry have enough to eat this winter. For those in need, it will feel like a miracle.
May parents give teachers the support they need to properly educate our next generation. May we remember that all of our youngsters, inner city and suburban, need educations that will insure our nation's continued success in the future. May we make the miracle, whatever we call it next time, of no child being left behind.
May people remember no matter what name we use, one God created all of us. May we accept the fact that God created everything, including different faiths. Then may we finally learn to respect each other's beliefs. If so, we might make the miracle we really dream of: God's light will enter our world and create everlasting peace.
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DETROIT -- A familiar pair of teammates made the trip to Joe Louis Arena Friday morning, but this time it was as retired players, rather than players preparing for a game later that night.
Nicklas Lidstrom and Tomas Holmstrom, who both announced their retirements prior to the season, were back in familiar territory with former teammates and staff.
"I miss being in the locker room, being around the guys and I miss the game situations too," said Nicklas Lidstrom, who watched the Wings' morning skate with Holmstrom. "When you're watching the game and it's the heat of the moment as a player that's where you want to be.
"It's such a different pace when you have your usual routine of going down to the practice rink or playing games, being used to traveling all the time," Lidstrom added. "It's a slower pace, but I'm enjoying retirement."
Lidstrom has been keeping busy helping coach his 12-year-old's hockey team in Sweden and also doing a little scouting for the Wings.
"I've watched some of the junior teams, national teams, this fall, and watched some of teams going through my hometown, some of the junior kids. It's different, kind of a learning process. When you're watching a whole team it's hard to pick players out, you have to focus on one or two players that you're really looking it."
There was a thought that the pending NHL lockout aided in Lidstrom's decision to retire, but that wasn't the case.
"I know what it takes to be there and that's something I can't be up to that level of play where I want to be," Lidstrom said. "That was the main reason I retired and why I'm still retired.
"Whether there was a lockout or no lockout, I still had my mind made up," Lidstrom continued. "If you come back and play in a shortened season it's easier, even though it's a lot more intense. But you have to stay in shape to be able to play at this level, so even if I knew there was going to be a lockout, my decision was already made."
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Wings coach Mike Babcock on running into Holmstrom and Lidstrom Friday, "I told them, 'I should have loved you more when you were here.' I miss them so much, the puck gets through the point all the time and Homer got the puck back. Everyone talked about Homer and his ability to tip the puck, but he got it back like no man alive. I even told him when you were yelling at me and I was yelling back it was just me sharing the love. But he said the old lady won't let him come back."
Ins and outs
Pavel Datsyuk missed Friday's game with a nagging upper-body injury according to Wings general manager Ken Holland and is day-to-day.
The Wings thought there was a chance Datsyuk was going to be able to play and held off on their decision if he could or couldn't go until right before game time.
Earlier in the day the Wings recalled Gustav Nyquist from Grand Rapids to have him on hand if Datsyuk would not be unable to play.
Don't expect to see Todd Bertuzzi or Darren Helm anytime soon in the Wings' lineup.
Both have been out with back injuries.
"I've got to believe he's out probably a minimum of a couple weeks," Holland said. "When he comes back it's going to take a week or two to get up and running."
With Bertuzzi it's his lower back.
Helm is feeling better each day according to Holland.
"We're in a holding pattern, I have no idea of time frame," Holland said. "Doctors aren't sure if it's a strain or a slight ligament tear, but they've ruled out a disc problem and hairline fracture. Judging by how long he's been out it's likely a slight tear."
Johan Franzen (hip flexor) is out at least through Sunday.
"We're going to be conservative with him," Holland said. "Fortunately, we're 7-4-2, we can be a little conservative."
The news is better with two other injured forwards -- Mikael Samuelsson and Jan Mursak.
"Maybe Sunday or Tuesday for both of them, barring a setback," Holland said.
Defensemen Brendan Smith and Carlo Colaiacovo, both out with shoulder injuries, are a week to 10 days away from returning according to Holland.
"If not next weekend, then shortly after," Holland said.
Goalie Jonas Gustavsson (groin) may be heading to Grand Rapids for a conditioning stint.
"We'll decide tonight or tomorrow morning," Holland said. "He's getting close enough. We're discussing ways of getting him up and running."
The Griffins play Sunday and then again on Friday.
Tootoo reaches milestone
Jordin Tootoo reached an NHL milestone Friday playing in his 500th game.
"Seems like yesterday when I started out in the league," Tootoo said. "But I feel great after all of the years of battling in the corners and whatnot. It's just another game for me."
Tootoo, who signed a three-year deal worth $1.9 million a season with the Wings at the start of free agency this past summer, said playing in his first NHL game has been his best memory so far.
"It was a huge milestone for me, but you know, you come to practices, you come to games, you prepare for whatever's thrown at you and after all of these years I'm very fortunate for what the opportunity for what I've been able to do, and I'm just happy to be a part of a special team," Tootoo said.
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2013 Sundance Film Festival Announces Films in U.S. and World Competitions,
Park City, UT — Sundance Institute announced today the films selected for the U.S. and World Cinema Dramatic and Documentary Competitions and the out-of-competition of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, January 17-27 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah. Robert Redford, President & Founder of Sundance Institute said, "Every great film starts with an idea, and it is a testament to artists that they continually find new ideas, new stories, new points of view and new ways of sharing them, year after year. We look forward to hearing from these artists not just through their words and images onscreen but also through the larger dialogue they create with audiences at our Festival and beyond."
Updated coverage of Hurricane Isaac: http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/28/isaac-nearing-hurricane-strength/?hpt=hp_t1
Tropical Storm Isaac to hit Louisiana coast at 7 p.m. Tuesday as Category 1 hurricane
Tropical Storm Isaac -- yes, it's still a tropical storm -- remains rooted on a northwestward path that will take it on an agonizingly slow journey across the New Orleans area on Tuesday and Wednesday as a Category 1 hurricane, according to the 10 p.m. forecast of the National Hurricane Center. The center of Isaac will make landfall near the mouth of the Mississippi River at about 7 p.m. Tuesday, be over New Orleans at 7 a.m. Wednesday, and won't reach the north shore of Lake Pontchartain until 7 p.m. Wednesday.
BP seeks to drill again in the Gulf of MexicoBy Melanie Eversley, USA TODAY
In its first application since the Deepwater Horizon explosion that killed 11 workers and spilled nearly 800,000 cubic metres of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, the British oil company BP has asked the US government for permission to begin drilling for new oil wells in the Gulf of Mexico, Al JAzeera's Jesse Mesner Hage reports from Washington, DC.
Soaring Poverty Casts Spotlight on 'Lost Decade'By SABRINA TAVERNISE, Washington Post, September 13, 2011
WASHINGTON — Another 2.6 million people slipped into poverty in the United States last year, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday, and the number of Americans living below the official poverty line, 46.2 million people, was the highest number in the 52 years the bureau has been publishing figures on it.
Another disaster: Conservatives' attack on FEMABy Sally Kohn, Special to CNN August 29, 2011
Three months ago, Republicans in the House of Representatives tried to slash 2012 spending for the Federal Emergency Management Agency by 55% compared with 2011 spending levels, 70% compared with the 2010 budget. Thankfully, Senate Democrats avoided the most extreme cuts to FEMA. But since then, the United States has been pelted by several major disasters and FEMA is almost out of money.
How Congress Rewarded the Corps of Engineers for Drowning New OrleansBY Sandy Rosenthal, 29, levees.org, August, 2011
Hurricane Katrina exposed more than 50 incidences of design and construction flaws in the Army Corps of Engineers' levee system in and around New Orleans. When Congress handed the Corps $15 billion and told the agency to build it right this time, perhaps it was believed that the levee failure and flooding was simply an avoidable act of nature.
6 years after Katrina, Lower 9th Ward still bleakBy CAIN BURDEAU, Associated Press, August 28, 2011
In New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward, the grasses grow taller than people and street after street is scarred by empty decaying houses, the lives that once played out inside their walls hardly imaginable now.
In New Orleans, a snapshot of life after project tear-downsLos Angeles Times, August 22, 2011
After Hurricane Katrina, many of New Orleans' public housing projects -- sources not only of deep neighborhood culture and connectedness but also notorious crime and blight -- were demolished over furious opposition from advocates for the poor.
New C.J. Peete complex is solid, shiny—but not as social, some residents sayBy Katy Reckdahl, The Times-Picayune, August21, 2011
In the days before Hurricane Katrina, Jocquelyn Marshall kept her now-teenage son indoors. He came home, did his homework, then maybe played videogames. But he had to stay inside their apartment in the old bricks of the C.J. Peete public-housing complex. Not anymore. "Now, I'm not fearful of my son stepping onto the porch," said Marshall, whose new apartment, in what's now called Harmony Oaks, is also an improvement. "I don't have a plumbing problem. I don't have a rodent problem. No drug dealers are sitting on the porch," she said.
Inmate suicide in New Orleans jail raises calls for federal oversightBY Laura Maggi, The Times-Picayune, August 13, 2011
Two years ago, the U.S. Department of Justice issued a highly critical report on the Orleans Parish jail that specifically found that staffers there weren't doing enough to prevent suicides. Nonetheless, federal deputy marshals last week placed at the jail a Coast Guard employee who was avowedly suicidal after he tried to wrest a gun from a security officer outside the federal courthouse in New Orleans.
Five New Orleans Cops Convicted for Their Role in Post-Katrina Shootingsby A.C. Thompson, ProPublica August 5, 2011
Nearly six years after Hurricane Katrina tore through Louisiana, a federal jury today convicted five current or former New Orleans police officers in connection with the Danziger Bridge shootings, which occurred in the tumultuous aftermath of the storm. The shootings left two citizens dead and four others injured.
Louisiana: Judge Is Asked to Provide New Oversight for BP FundBy JOHN SCHWARTZ, New York Times, July 25, 2011
Lawyers suing BP over last year's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico have filed a brief asking a federal judge in New Orleans to take over the $20 billion fund that the company established to compensate victims. The lawyers argue that the fund has only paid some 16 percent of "interim" claims from people with continuing damage, calling it an "abject failure."
Finalists for 2011 PUMA.Creative Impact Award announced at Durban International Film FestivalChannel 4 BRITDOC Press Release, July 25, 2011
Durban, South Africa, July 25, 2011 –Today PUMA.Creative and Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation announced the five finalists for the first annual PUMA.Creative Impact Award, which will honour and support the documentary film that has made the most significant impact on society. The five finalists are Trouble the Water, The Age of Stupid, Burma VJ, The End of The Line, and The Reckoning: The Battle for the International Criminal Court, Press release here: http://puma.britdoc.org/attachments/files/49_PUMA.Creative_Impact_Award_Finalists_Release_FINALE.pdf
Class-Action Suit Filed After Katrina Hospital Deaths Settled for $25 Millionby Sheri Fink, Special to ProPublica July 21, 2011
A New Orleans judge gave preliminary approval today to a settlement agreement that would end a class-action lawsuit against one of the nation's largest publicly owned health care companies. Under the terms of the deal, Tenet Healthcare Corporation and a subsidiary will pay $25 million to patients and visitors trapped at Memorial Medical Center after Hurricane Katrina.
FBI agent tells of Katrina shootings police cover-upBY Kathy Finn, Reuters, July 18, 2011
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - A federal agent who investigated a post-Hurricane Katrina shooting in which police killed two people in New Orleans said one reason he doubted police claims of being shot at by civilians was that the officers never took cover.
Teenager says was beaten after family shot in post-Katrina chaosBy NEW ORLEANS, July 5, 2011
A New Orleans teenager whose family members were wounded by police in the chaos after Hurricane Katrina testified on Tuesday that officers punched and kicked him before arresting him at the scene.
The Key To Disaster Survival? Friends And NeighborsBY by Shankar Vedantam, NPR, July 4, 2011
When Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005, one victim was political scientist Daniel Aldrich. He had just moved to New Orleans. Late one August night, there was a knock on the door. "It was a neighbor who knew that we had no idea of the realities of the Gulf Coast life," said Aldrich, who is now a political scientist at Purdue University in Indiana. He "knocked on our door very late at night, around midnight on Saturday night, and said, 'Look, you've got small kids — you should really leave.' " The knock on the door was to prove prophetic. It changed the course of Aldrich's research and, in turn, is changing the way many experts now think about disaster preparedness.
Trial of New Orleans Police Begins in the 2005 Killings of Unarmed CiviliansBy CAMPBELL ROBERTSON, New York Times, June 27, 2011
NEW ORLEANS — On the sunny morning of Sept 4, 2005, five days after Hurricane Katrina, a team of police officers rushed to Danziger Bridge in the eastern part of this city in response to a report of shots fired.
Essence Music Festival kicks off in New Orleans, 400,000 attendees expectedLos Angeles Times, July 1, 2011
The sounds of bounce music and hip-hop pouring out of every club on Bourbon Street in New Orleans on Thursday evening wasn't necessarily an unfamiliar sight.
Nagin pressed harder on Comedy Central than network newsby: Heather Miller Tuesday, 21 June 2011
Former New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin may have sailed through his interview with gentle prodding from NBC's Matt Lauer Monday morning, but the bizarre claims he makes defending his new Katrina memoir made Nagin the punchline Monday night when he was a guest on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
Lawmakers Agree to $1B for Flood RepairBy AP / ANDREW TAYLOR, June 15, 2011
A House panel has approved $1 billion in emergency money to repair levees and other flood control projects damaged by the devastating flooding along the Mississippi and Missouri rivers.
The Mississippi River Flood and the Katrina RiskBy Peter Heller, Businessweek, June 9, 2011
On May 20, a few minutes before 1 p.m. and a few miles above the Port of Baton Rouge, the towing vessel Crimson Gem was pushing 20 barges loaded with corn into a tight bend on the Mississippi called Wilkinson Point. The river was raging at eight knots, or about nine miles per hour. It creamed and ripped against pilings and tore along the wharves with a low hiss. Sheets of surface current collided and whirlpools seven yards across spun down the seams. Two days before, at this spot, the Mississippi hit 47.5 feet, the highest level ever measured here. In recorded history.
Judge rules Danziger trial will start as scheduled on June 20By Laura Maggi, The Times-Picayune, June 9, 2011
U.S. District Judge Kurt Engelhardt today denied a defense request to postpone the trial of five current and former New Orleans police officers accused of an unjustified shooting on the Danziger Bridge after Hurricane Katrina and a subsequent cover-up.
Racial divides among New Orleans neighborhoods expandBy Michelle Krupa, The Times-Picayune
A largely overlooked byproduct of the historic diaspora triggered by Hurricane Katrina, which shrank New Orleans' population by a quarter, is that parts of the city were more segregated last year than a decade earlier, according to an analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data collected last year.
Homeless population in New Orleans rises 70 percent since Hurricane KatrinaBy Katy Reckdahl, The Times-Picayune, June 2, 2011
The homeless population in Orleans and Jefferson parishes stands at 9,200, 70 percent higher than before Hurricane Katrina, with the largest share of people living in abandoned buildings, according to counts and estimates released Thursday by UNITY of Greater New Orleans, a collaborative of 63 social service agencies.
Trial for fired school workers begins in OrleansBy Associate Press, May 23, 2011
A long-awaited trial has begun in a class action lawsuit that could affect thousands of former New Orleans school employees who lost their jobs after Hurricane Katrina.
Mississippi River flooding: After levee blast, threat shifts to MemphisBy Mark Guarino, Christian Science Monitor, May 3, 2011
An emergency procedure intended to prevent the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers from flooding several river towns appears to be working Tuesday, as river levels have fallen more than a foot. However, water levels are rising as far south as Memphis, Tenn., where heavy rainfall could contribute to a river crest of 48 feet next Tuesday.
Ray Nagin to publish Katrina's Secrets, the first volume of his memoirsby Kevin Allman, The Gambit, May 3, 2011
Former mayor Ray Nagin announced today via Twitter (his new favorite form of communication) that he would be publishing his memoirs next month in a book titled Katrina's Secrets: Storms After the Storm. On the cover: a contemplative Nagin looking out a window, somewhat reminiscent of the famous photo of President George W. Bush looking down at a flooded New Orleans from Air Force One.
Vignettes from the devastation across the SouthBY Associate Press, April 29, 2011
BROOKS, Ga. (AP) — A mobile home was picked up by the storms racing across Georgia and disintegrated while it was tossed almost the length of a football field. Inside was Charlie Green, a man paralyzed by a stroke five years ago, and caretaker Jamie White, a mother of three. Both were killed. White, 22, was "a T-shirt and jeans girl" who loved horseback riding, being outside and spending time with her three young sons: Andrew, 6; Austin, 5; and Anthony, 1.
Why Was New Orleans's Charity Hospital Allowed to Die?BY Roberta Brandes Gratz, The Nation, April 27, 2011
Before Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005, Charity Hospital was the pride of New Orleans. A 1930s Art Deco–style icon built with WPA funds, Charity was one of the oldest continually operating public hospitals in the country and was regarded as one of the most vital and successful. "Charity was one of the best teaching hospitals in the country, where students from Tulane and LSU did their training," says Dr. James Moises, a former Charity emergency room physician, noting that it served 100,000 patients a year before the storm.
'Spillionaires': Profiteering and Mismanagement in the Wake of the BP Oil Spillby Kim Barker ProPublica, April 13, 2011
The oil spill that was once expected to bring economic ruin to the Gulf Coast appears to have delivered something entirely different: a gusher of money.
On the Media: Times-Picayune wounded by what photographer didn't shootBy James Rainey, Los Angeles Time, April 12, 2011
A former photographer for the New Orleans Times-Picayune didn't report on, or tell colleagues about, police misbehavior he witnessed after Hurricane Katrina. It only came out in court. Media critic James Rainey writes about it this week in the LA Times.
Ford Foundation gives $1.5 million to fight poverty in New OrleansBY New Orleans Times-Picayune, March 31, 2011
The Greater New Orleans Foundation on Thursday announced a $1.5 million grant from the Ford Foundation that will help poor people find housing, jobs and transportation.
New Orleans' heart attack rates remain high 5 years after Hurricane KatrinaBy Katie Urbaszewski, The Times-Picayune, April 4, 2011
Heart attack rates that rose at Tulane University Medical Center after Hurricane Katrina remained high in mid-2010, and no one is more surprised than the researchers themselves.
Time Runs Out for St. Bernard ParishBY New York Times Editorial, March 29, 2011
It has taken far too long, but the Department of Housing and Urban Development has finally intervened in an outrageous case of housing discrimination by the government of St. Bernard Parish, an overwhelmingly white district adjacent to New Orleans.
The New New OrleansBY Nicholas Lemann, New York Review of Books, March 24, 2011
The best of the Katrina documentaries thus far, to my mind, is Trouble the Water, which was released in 2008. A young New Orleans couple, Kimberly and Scott Roberts, poor sometime drug dealers living just across the Industrial Canal from the Lower Ninth Ward, began shooting home videos as Katrina approached New Orleans. They made an astonishingly vivid record of themselves and their neighbors preparing for the storm, then huddling in their attic when their narrow wooden house was flooded. They managed to evacuate to Alexandria, Louisiana, where they met and joined forces with Tia Lessin and Carl Deal, documentary filmmakers who had come to Louisiana for a different post-Katrina project that had gone awry.
Trial to Open in Lawsuit Connected to Hospital Deaths After KatrinaBy SHERI FINK, The NEw York Times, March 20, 2011
A jury trial set to open on Monday will weigh whether one of America's largest health care corporations should be held accountable for deaths and injuries at a New Orleans hospital marooned by floodwaters after Hurricane Katrina.
Justice Department Report Details Wide Range Of Abuses By New Orleans Police DepartmentBY Trymaine Lee, Huffington Post, March 18, 2011
Long before Hurricane Katrina laid bare New Orleans' deep social wounds, the relationship between the city's police force and its black citizens had been deeply troubled. The city's African American residents have long complained of frequent abuses at the hands of police. Katrina only intensified the sense of grievance, given the prosecution of several police officers that shot unarmed civilians, sometimes fatally.
Fat Tuesday: biggest crowds since Katrina?By Associated Press / March 8, 2011
Savoring her first taste of Carnival in New Orleans, Karimah Gottschalck broke into a shimmy as she strolled down Bourbon Street with a friend. Fat Tuesday was still days away, but at midweek the party already had started in the French Quarter. As the 25-year-old New Yorker soaked in the boozy sights, music blared from bars and people on balconies flung beads to eager recipients below.
National HIV/AIDS Awareness Rally Held in New OrleansBy Michael A. Radcliff, The Louisiana Weekly, March 7, 2011
If ever one needed their spirits lifted or simply a good laugh, one only needed a chance encounter with Londy. Londy's side-splitting antics would have most folks crying for her to stop. The family comedienne, the class clown, her reputation for turning life's lemons into lemonade was legendary. She also loved kids… her kids, your kids, everybody's kids… a PTO board member, a volunteer crossing guard - Londy's dream job was to one day own a day care center. In the Spring of 2008, at the age of 36, Londy, a mother of three, died of AIDS. "She's Left the Planet," her sister, award-winning poet, Nikki Napoleon pronounced, as she performed a heartfelt rendition of a love poem written in honor of her sister during the National HIV/AIDS Awareness rally through the Tremé neighborhood recently.
New Orleans tops list of worst cities to find a job in 2011 Continue reading on Examiner.com: New OBY Karen Gross, New Orleans Headlines Examiner, March 1, 2011
Forbes Magazine reveals that New Orleans, Louisiana will be the hardest city to find work in 2011 according to a study by www.indeed.com which put New Orleans at the very top of this list.
Future of public school system uncertain, fragmentedBY Travis Andrews, Monday, February 28, 2011
The New Orleans schooling system is a jigsaw puzzle, but no one knows it if it solved yet. This emerged as the central topic at "5 Years Later: A Forum on the State of Public Education of New Orleans," a Loyola University symposium on the state of New Orleans public education following Hurricane Katrina, hosted by the Loyola University Sociology Student Organization and the Loyola Society for Civic Engagement.
Restoration official: BP reluctant to fix damageAssociated Press, New Orleans, February 28, 2011
NEW ORLEANS -- The vice chairman of a task force set up by President Obama to restore the Gulf Coast criticized BP PLC. for what he described as an increasing reluctance to repair damage done by last year's massive oil spill. Garret Graves, the vice chairman of the Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force and a Louisiana coastal official, said on Monday that BP has become harder to work with.
This year's Mardi Gras is expected to be one of the biggest everBy Jaquetta White, The Times-Picayune, February 27, 2011
It's sometimes called the Greatest Free Show on Earth, but Mardi Gras is poised to translate into big profits for New Orleans-area hotels this year. Largely because the season starts so late, Carnival is shaping up to be the biggest in years for the tourism industry, hotel operators say.
Katrina's Ruins Home to Thousands of HomelessBy CAIN BURDEAU The Associated Press, February 14, 2011
NEW ORLEANS — The dark blue rescue van pulls up in front of a sad shell of a house, a few blocks from the police station and criminal court. It's turning into a cold January night. Slipping on gloves, social workers Mike Miller and Katy Quigley head in. "Homeless outreach! Anybody home?" Miller shouts as he climbs over a balcony and up a flight of stairs.
Haiti: Quake's Toll Rises to 316,000By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD, January 13, 2011
The government has raised the death toll for the January 2010 earthquake to 316,000, a substantial increase from the more than 250,000 deaths previously reported. Officials did not explain the change and did not respond to inquiries about it on Thursday. But Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive, at a news conference on Wednesday marking the first anniversary of the disaster, suggested it had increased at least in part because additional bodies had been pulled from the rubble.
U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear case blaming energy companies and global warming for Hurricane KBY Mark Schleifstein, The Times-Picayune, January 10, 2011
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear a request to reopen a lawsuit that charged energy companies with contributing to the effects of Hurricane Katrina by emitting greenhouse gases.
N.O. cop who lied to FBI resignsBY Associated Press - January 6, 2011
A New Orleans police sergeant who admitted lying to the FBI in its probe of a deadly police shooting after Hurricane Katrina has resigned.
New Orleans getting rid of last FEMA trailersBY CAIN BURDEAU The Associated Press 12/31/2010
The era of the FEMA trailer — a symbol of the prolonged rebuilding from Hurricane Katrina — might be drawing to a close in New Orleans.
N.O. officer says he burned body after KatrinaBY The Associated Press Monday, November 29, 2010
A New Orleans police officer on trial for burning a man's body in Hurricane Katrina's aftermath denies he set the fire to cover up a police shooting.
For Katrina Victims, Relief at LastNew York TImes Editorial, November 16, 2010
It took five long years. The Department of Housing and Urban Development has finally persuaded Mississippi to do right by Hurricane Katrina survivors who were unfairly shut out of a federally financed disaster aid program designed by the state. Congress needs to rewrite disaster aid regulations so that a travesty like this one never happens again.
Haiti's Cholera Outbreak Spreads Ahead of Major StormDemocracy Now, Nov 4, 2010
A cholera outbreak is worsening in Haiti just as an approaching storm threatens to displace hundreds of thousands of earthquake survivors. New figures show that 105 people have died from cholera since Saturday, bringing the death toll so far to 442.
Poverty in Black & White (and Latino and Asian)by Angela Glover Blackwell, PolicyLink, in the Huffington Post, September 16, 2010
How upside down have our politics gotten? Yesterday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said that those making more than $250,000 were "the people who were hit hardest by this recession." The absurdity of that claim was highlighted that same day when the US Census Bureau released its new poverty numbers. While the big number everyone's talking about is that one in seven Americans is now below the poverty level, that doesn't tell the whole story. Not by a long shot.
Hurricane Katrina has created a wave of powerful artBy Jason Anderson, CBC News, August 26,. 2010
Over the last five years, the toll from Katrina has been palpable in art, literature, cinema, television and music. Works like the following are marked by the same frustration Katrina's victims felt as their pleas for help went unanswered. And they suggest the wounds have yet to heal.
After Katrina, New Orleans Cops Were Told They Could Shoot LootersBy A.C. Thompson, ProPublica, August 24, 2010
In the chaotic days after Hurricane Katrina, an order circulated among New Orleans police authorizing officers to shoot looters, according to present and former members of the department.
Five years after Hurricane Katrina, 100,000 New Orleanians have yet to returnBy Jonathan Tilove, Times Picayune, August 24, 2010
Less than three months after Hurricane Katrina chased her from her home on Deslonde Street in the Lower Ninth Ward, Oneida Banks, 93, was at a Sunday service for expatriate members of New Orleans' Franklin Avenue Baptist Church in the borrowed sanctuary of First Baptist in Houston.
Did she hope to return home, she was asked.
"I do and I don't, it seems like I won't," she replied with a shrug.
Latino influx sparks uneasy cultural shiftBy Ylan Q. Mui Washington Post, Aug. 22, 2010
Five years after Hurricane Katrina, growing community of immigrants leaves some New Orleans residents anxious about jobs and status.
Why is the world not responding as Pakistan drowns?By Nita Bhalla Nita Bhalla, Reuters, Thu Aug 19
NEW DELHI (AlertNet) – Scant international donations to flooded Pakistan are being driven by a multitude of factors ranging from the financial crisis, donor fatigue, a low death toll and scepticism that the government can translate the contributions into effective aid, say relief workers and analysts.
Justice Department aims to help overhaul New Orleans police forceBy Sandhya Somashekhar, Washington Post, August 1, 2010
The people fanning themselves in the crimson pews of the Evening Star Missionary Baptist Church had leveled these accusations before. Stories of the police targeting and "executing" their sons, of tiny bags of crack planted by the police in a baby's diaper, of a mentally ill man cooking breakfast when he was fired on by a SWAT team's worth of guns.
There's a Battle Outside and It Is Still Ragin'By FRANK RICH, New York Times, July 24, 2010
THE glittering young blonde in a low-cut gown is sipping champagne in a swank Manhattan restaurant back in the day when things were still swank. She is on a first date with an advertising man as dashing as his name, Don Draper. So you don't really expect her to break the ice by talking about bad news. "The world is so dark right now," she says. "One of the boys killed in Mississippi, Andrew Goodman — he's from here. A girlfriend of mine knew him from summer camp." Her date is too busy studying her décolletage, so she fills in the dead air. "Is that what it takes to change things?" she asks. He ventures no answer.
Six More Charged in New Orleans Danziger Bridge ShootingsBy A.C. Thompson, ProPublica July 13, 2010
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder today announced the indictment of six current or former New Orleans Police Department officers in connection to the Danziger Bridge shootings, which occurred during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
With Help After Storm, a Chance to Give BackBy MIREYA NAVARRO, New York Times, July 11, 2010
NEW ORLEANS — Joycelyn Heintz spent eight months in a camper after Hurricane Katrina with her two daughters, now 20 and 12, while volunteer workers made her three-bedroom house — ruined by 14 feet of water — habitable again. She bonded with the volunteers to such an extent, she said, that when she regained the house in 2008 she joined their ranks as a liaison to other victim
Gulf's Vietnamese-American fishermen become easy prey for legal barracudasBy Bruce Newman, San Jose Mercury News, 07/05/2010
Before it became the single biggest environmental catastrophe in American history, BP's Deepwater Horizon was a magnet for barracudas, which endlessly circled the oil rig in the Gulf's warm waters, feeding on smaller fish. The oil plume and massive cleanup have driven away many of the underwater predators. But as a group of Vietnamese-American lawyers discovered before returning to the Bay Area from the Gulf of Mexico last week, the barracudas have come ashore.
Banned trailers used for Katrina victims reappearing along coastBY Ian Urbina, The New York Times, July 2, 2010
VENICE, La. – Some of the trailers provided to victims of Hurricane Katrina and banned from being used for housing again are showing up back on the coast as housing for oil spill cleanup workers.
Is New Orleans's Recovery Ever Fun to Watch?by Joshua Alston, Newsweek, June 30, 2010
Regardless of how you feel about David Simon's New Orleans post-Katrina series Treme, you probably haven't had many opportunities to talk about it. Unlike The Wire, Simon's dramatic treatise on Baltimore, Treme hasn't quite caught on to the point that you have to be prepared at parties to either discuss it intelligently or give some legitimate excuse—such as hysterical blindness—for not having seen it.
Halliburton Profiting on Gulf Spill Cleanupby Jason Mark, Earth Island Journal, June 30, 2010
How's this for a business model? First, you make a bundle of cash by providing essential services to the oil majors as they undertake tricky (and risky) offshore oil and gas extraction. Then, when one of the wells you're working on blows up, you sneak away from any possible liabilities. And finally, to bring everything full circle, you then rack up additional profits with your oil spill cleanup division.
Gulf Coast tourism officials plead for helpBy Bart Jansen, Gannett Washington Bureau, June 29, 2010
WASHINGTON — A $500 million marketing campaign will be necessary to combat public perceptions about the Gulf of Mexico oil spill that could ripple for years, tourism officials told congressional staffers Tuesday.
Inspector general to analyze New Orleans recovery outlayBY Michelle Krupa, The Times-Picayune June 25, 2010
Facing several dozen residents furious about the dearth of recovery projects under way in the Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans Inspector General Ed Quatrevaux on Thursday promised to conduct a fiscal analysis of public financing of the citywide rebuilding program.
2009 Harry Chapin Media Awards Winners announcedBY World Hunger Year
The winners of the 2009 Harry Chapin Media Awards were chosen by an independent panel of judges: Books: Enough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty by Roger Thurow and Scott Kilman. Judges' Award: Let's Get Free: A Hip Hop Justice by Paul Butler. Television/Film: Trouble the Water by Tia Lessin and Carl Deal Newspapers: "Deadly Detention" by Nina Bernstein (The New York Times) New Media: "Childhood Poverty in Colorado" by Tim Rasmussen (The Denver Post) Periodical: "There Goes the Neighborhood" by Alyssa Katz ( The American Prospect) Photojournalism: "Open Wounds: Bhopal 1984-2009" Alex Masi (The Guardian, Time Online, Vanity Fair Italy and BBC) The panel of judges were: Albert Bozzo, senior news editor in charge of features and special reports at CNBC.com; Jonathan Curiel, journalist and author of "Al' America: Travels Through America's Arab and Islamic Roots;" LynNell Hancock, reporter and writer specializing in education and child and family policy issues, and a professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism; Melanie Mannarino, deputy executive editor of Redbook; Elizabeth McDonald, Stocks Editor, Fox Business Network; Laura Silver, freelance journalist/advocate; Kerry Truemann, co-founder of Eatingliberally.org and a frequent contributor to Huffington Post; and Erica Zolberg, freelance television producer. The winners and finalists will be honored at the Harry Chapin Media Awards Ceremony, presented by WhyHunger and Mediabistro, on Sept. 28, 2010 at the Hard Rock Cafe in Times Square, New York City.
Gulf Needs Concrete Actions That Respect Residents' RightsBY Kerry Kennedy Founder of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights, Huffington Post, June 11, 2010 08:40 PM
CODEN, Ala. -- When Gulf Coast resident Louise Bosarge heard President Obama refer to her community as "resilient," her response was poetic: "We bounce back. We always bounce back. Bouncing hurts." Along with my daughter Mariah and a team of human rights experts from the RFK Center for Justice and Human Rights, I spent the last several days in Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama speaking with commercial fishermen, deck hands, restaurateurs, ecologists, farmers, service providers, marina workers, hoteliers, kids and more whose lives are directly affected by BP's toxic tsunami swamping the Gulf Coast and wiping out the fishing and tourism industries which have been the mainstays of these communities for decades. "Oil will be all that's left," lamented one long-time resident. "And with the politicians in the pockets of the oil companies, there will be more pressure than ever to drill, baby, drill."
BP Is Destroying Evidence and Censoring JournalistsBY Riki Ott, Alternet, June 12, 2010
While President Obama insists that the federal government is firmly in control of the response to BP's spill in the Gulf, people in coastal communities where I visited last week in Louisiana and Alabama know an inconvenient truth: BP -- not our president -- controls the response. In fact, people on the ground say things are out of control in the gulf.
In 'Treme,' New Orleans' Music Is EverythingBY Neil Conan, NPR, June 7, 2010
In David Simon's HBO series Treme, the music is almost as important as the people picking up the pieces after hurricane Katrina.
BP oil spill again severely affects people of colorBY Tammy Johnson, The Progressive, June 2, 2010
If the BP disaster tells us anything, it is that government and corporations can't be left alone with the public's business.
Tropical Storm Agatha floods kill 150, cause giant sinkhole in Guatemala CityBy Sara Miller Llana, Christian Science Monitor, June 1, 2010
Villagers have been buried alive in Guatemala. Residents, caked in mud, have searched in the wreckage of their homes for loved ones. Aerial photos show entire swaths of the nation's coffee crop under water. Then, there's the giant Guatemala City sinkhole.
NOAA Expects Busy Atlantic Hurricane SeasonBY NOAA, May 28, 2010
An "active to extremely active" hurricane season is expected for the Atlantic Basin this year according to the seasonal outlook issued today by NOAA's Climate Prediction Center – a division of the National Weather Service. As with every hurricane season, this outlook underscores the importance of having a hurricane preparedness plan in place.
White House: Oil Spill Isn't Our KatrinaBy Brian Montopoli, CBS News, 23 May, 2010
(CBS) White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told Bob Schieffer Sunday that the United States government is doing "everything humanly and technologically possible" to stop the oil leak in the Gulf - despite criticism that it has left too much responsibility to oil company BP and needs to do more.
TN flood responders learned from lessons Katrina taughtBy Juanita Cousins • THE TENNESSEAN • May 23, 2010
Most of the lessons learned through Hurricane Katrina were applied this month during the Middle Tennessee floods, said the military official who was given high praise for coordinating relief efforts on the Gulf Coast.
5th officer charged in Katrina shootings cover-upBy MARY FOSTER (AP) - May 21, 2010
(AP) NEW ORLEANS — Another former police officer has been charged with helping cover up the deadly shootings of unarmed residents on a New Orleans bridge in the days after Hurricane Katrina, prosecutors said Friday.
NYT Editorial: A New Chance in New OrleansBY New York Times, May 18, 2010
The Justice Department described the New Orleans Police Department earlier this year as one of the nation's worst. There is no doubt about that. The city suffers from one of the country's highest rates of violent crime and unsolved murders. Its police force is currently the subject of at least eight federal investigations into accusations of brutality and unjustified killings of citizens at the hands of armed officers.
Whistleblower Sues to Stop Another BP Rig From Operatingby Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, May 17, 2010
A whistleblower filed a lawsuit today to force the federal government to halt operations at another massive BP oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico, alleging that BP never reviewed critical engineering designs for the operation and is therefore risking another catastrophic accident that could "dwarf" the company's Deepwater Horizon spill.
DOJ Has 'Boots on the Ground' to Evaluate New Orleans PoliceBy Ryan J. Reilly, Main Justice, May 17, 2010
The Justice Department will immediately begin an evaluation of the New Orleans Police Department that will likely lead to a consent decree, federal officials announced at a news conference Monday.
Gulf oil spill: firms ignored warning signs before blast, inquiry hearsBY Suzanne Goldenberg, The Guardian, Thursday 13 May 2010
BP was aware of equipment problems aboard the Deepwater Horizon rig hours before the explosion pumped millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, a congressional hearing was told yesterday .
Protesters Blast Haiti President's Quake ResponseBY The Associated Press, PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti May 10, 2010
Police fired tear gas outside the ruins of Haiti's national palace Monday to control 2,000 demonstrators calling for President Rene Preval's resignation in the largest political protest since the Jan. 12 earthquake.
New Orleans Asks U.S. to Help Police DepartmentBy CAMPBELL ROBERTSON, May 5, 2010
Citing the need for "transformational change," the city's new mayor, Mitch Landrieu, announced on Wednesday that he was inviting the Justice Department to help restructure the troubled New Orleans Police Department.
Oil Disaster 5X Worse Than Estimated, 'Churning Slick' Now the Size of Puerto RicoBY Alternet, May 3, 2010
The catastrophe continues, as Federal authorities have banned commercial and recreational fishing in a large stretch of water off four states. The view from space indicates that the oil may be leaking at a rate of 25,000 barrels a day, dwarfing the figure of 5,000 barrels that US officials and the British oil giant BP have used in recent days.
Mitch Landrieu becomes 70th mayor of New Orleans todayBy Michelle Krupa, The Times-Picayune May 03, 2010
Appealing to voters weary of rampant crime, a lagging recovery and a strapped city budget, Mitch Landrieu spent his campaign for mayor of New Orleans hammering home this simple message: "I know what to do, and I know how to do it."
Shades of Katrina in oil spill politicsBy Politico, Seattle Post Intelligencer May 1st, 2010
Even before the spilled oil reaches shore, the political game of assigning credit and blame is in full swing. The White House Saturday stepped up its efforts to respond to the Gulf Coast oil slick now within days of making landfall in Mississippi and Alabama – designating a new incident commander, introducing a new website detailing their efforts and announcing President Barack Obama himself would visit the Gulf Coast on Sunday.
Former New Orleans police officer Robert Barrios pleads guilty in Danziger coverupBy Laura Maggi, The Times-Picayune April 28, 2010
A fourth New Orleans police officer pleaded guilty Wednesday afternoon to participating in a cover-up of the circumstances of the police shooting of six civilians on the Danziger Bridge in the days after Hurricane Katrina.
In New Orleans, the Taste of a ComebackBy SAM SIFTON, New York Times, April 27, 2010
IT is the siren call of a magnificent, broken city: "This, here, is the real New Orleans." Spend any time sweating through a shirt and walking slow and purposeful along Magazine Street toward a Sazerac before dinner, and you'll hear the cry, in this bar or that one. You'll hear it on the radio, driving the high-rise bridge over the Industrial Canal, someone spinning funk on WWOZ and talking about New Orleans soul. You'll see it in the defiant eyes of a man lurching out of a second line in Pigeon Town.
The "Femcee" ProblemBy John Schaefer, WNYC Soundcheck, April 23, 2010
Queen Latifah. Lil Kim. Lauryn Hill. Missy Elliott. There've been a handful of visible female rappers, but none seem to have inspired a women's movement in hip hop. Why? We looked at the New Orleans hip-hop style known as "bounce" a few months ago, and one of the striking things about the bounce scene is how strong a female presence (and even more striking, a queer and transgendered presence) that community has.
Rage on the Right: The Year in Hate and ExtremismBy Mark Potok, Intelligence Report, Spring 2010, Issue Number: 137
The radical right caught fire last year, as broad-based populist anger at political, demographic and economic changes in America ignited an explosion of new extremist groups and activism across the nation. Hate groups stayed at record levels — almost 1,000 — despite the total collapse of the second largest neo-Nazi group in America.
Days After Rig Explosion, Well Is Pouring Thousands of Gallons of Oil Into GulfBy CAMPBELL ROBERTSON and LESLIE KAUFMAN, New York Times, April 26, 2010
NEW ORLEANS — Officials expect to determine today or Tuesday whether they will soon be able to stop oil leaks coming from the deepwater well near Louisiana or will need months to stem the flow of what is now about 42,000 gallons of oil a day pouring into the Gulf of Mexico.
Mud fails to ruin the fun at Jazz Fest as music lovers go with the flowBy Michelle Hunter, The Times-Picayune April 26, 2010
The crowds that flocked to the Fair Grounds Sunday afternoon for the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival presented by Shell gratefully basked in the warm, sunny weather.
Mayor Ray Nagin leaves office without fulfilling his promises: to rid City Hall of corruption and laBy The Times-Picayune April 25, 2010 (This story was written by Gordon Russell and Frank Donze)
Ray Nagin swept into office in 2002 as the embodiment of a new way of doing business at City Hall. Though the former cable TV executive shared friends and business partners with his predecessor, Marc Morial, he wasn't shy about criticizing Morial's administration and some of the deals those same insiders had finagled.
Obama should appoint first Black woman for Supreme Court, jurists sayBy: Hazel Trice Edney, NNPA Editor-in-Chief, Monday, April 19, 2010
WASHINGTON (NNPA) — President Barack Obama needs only to turn over in his bed to be reminded of all the Black women who are powerfully qualified to be U.S. Supreme Court justices. If First Lady Michelle Obama was not his wife, some legal scholars say she would be a clear and obvious candidate for the short list to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens.
Fourth New Orleans Police Officer Charged in Post-Katrina Shooting at Danziger BridgeBy Ryan Knutson, ProPublica April 17, 2010
Federal investigators charged another New Orleans police officer in connection to the Danziger Bridge shootings, in which two civilians were killed and four were wounded in the days after Hurricane Katrina. The Danziger Bridge shootings are among a string of violent post-Katrina police encounters we've investigated in collaboration with PBS "Frontline" and the New Orleans Times-Picayune.
Food Access Five Years After the StormBy Amara M. Foster, Center for American Progress, March 31, 2010
The best strawberry I've ever eaten was grown on the Gulf Coast. It was unassuming—a small, burgundy, heart-shaped thing—yet one bite was all it took. The berry was soft, not too juicy, and entirely unlike any out-of-season fruit I'd ever tasted. Thoughts of New Orleans bring to mind Mardi Gras and Bourbon Street, but few know of Louisiana's agricultural bounty. The state is consistently one of the top 10 strawberry producers in the United States. It ranks number one in production of crawfish, shrimp, and oysters; is the second largest producer of sugarcane; and is the third largest producer of rice.
Federal civil rights chief talks about drastic options for 'troubled' NOPDBy The Times-Picayune April 13, 2010
In an interview posted Tuesday with political blog Talking Points Memo, the head of the U.S. Department of Justice's civil rights division hinted at the possibility of the agency filing a civil lawsuit to prompt systemic change in the New Orleans Police Department.
After Katrina, Staying Afloat With MusicBy ALESSANDRA STANLEY, New York Times, April 8, 2010
David Simon's new HBO series is called "Treme" and the title alone suggests the difficulty of the subject. Treme doesn't rhyme with ream; it's pronounced truh-MAY, and it's the name of an old New Orleans neighborhood famous for music — and, in some parts, for crime. It's the kind of area sought out by intrepid travelers eager to bypass the tourist traps on Bourbon Street, the kind of place that guidebooks label "authentic."


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WORCESTERSHIRE Rapids launched their home programme in the NatWest T20 Blast in convincing fashion with a five-wicket victory over holders Northamptonshire Steelbacks at New Road.
The Rapids made it back to back victories in the competition after their win over Nottinghamshire Outlaws at Trent Bridge last Friday as they chased down a 135 target with more than five overs to spare.
Northamptonshire looked set for a sizeable total after plundering 47 runs in four overs on deciding to bat.
But some superb bowling from all parts of the attack and excellent fielding by the home side turned the tables on the visitors.
Then some ferocious hitting from Moeen Ali and Richard Oliver propelled the county to their fifth win over Northants in the last six completed T20 games between the two sides.
Shropshire captain Oliver,who is looking to earn a contract with the county, registered his first 50 for the county off just 29 balls with two sixes and six fours.
He was finalled dismissed for 77 made off just 43 balls with three sixes and nine fours.
Northants won the toss and elected to bat and David Willey hit the first six of the game over long on in the opening over from Moeen Ali.
Willey, the man of the match in last season's Twenty20 final at Edgbaston, was fortunate in Jack Shantry's first over to pop the ball up on the offside in between three fielders and then inside-edged the same bowler for four.
He picked up two sixes in the opening over from Chris Russell backward of square and over mid-wicket and another over long on off Shantry.
The 50 came up in the fifth over before Shantry made the first breakthrough as Willey (34) pulled him to Mitchell at mid wicket.
It became 76-2 when Richard Levi (27) lofted Moeen to Chris Russell at long on.
The Worcestershire bowlers tightened their grip after removing the openers and Saeed Ajmal trapped David Sales (5) lbw on the back foot.
The 100 came up in the 14th over but, in the same over from Russell, Steven Crook (8) perished on the cover boundary to Alexei Kervezee.
Ben Duckett (4) gave Moeen the charge and was neatly stumped by Ben Cox as the home side started to exercise almost total control.
Mitchell took a fine catch running back from mid on off Russell to dismiss Matthew Spriegel (1) and Kyle Coetzer (31) was run out by bowler Russell's direct hit after attempting a quick single.
Moeen (2-23), Russell (2-24) and Saeed (1-14) returned the best figures for the Rapids.
Worcestershire began at an even more rapid rate and the 50 came up in just 3.4 overs thanks to some ferocious hitting from Moeen and Richard Oliver.
Moeen hit Crook over long on for six and picked up two boundaries off Butler but Oliver excelled his efforts in the fifth over from Mohammad Azharullah.
He struck two sixes and two fours in an over which cost 21 runs and at the end of the powerplay Worcestershire stood on 67-0.
The partnership was worth 91 in nine overs when Moeen was caught at long off by Spriegel off James Middlebrook for 41.
But Oliver continued to blaze away and, despite the loss of some late wickets, victory was clinched in the 15th over.
Meanwhile unbeaten Worcestershire have named an unchanged side for the LV = County Championship Division Two match with Surrey at the Kia Oval starting on Sunday.
Director of Cricket Steve Rhodes has kept faith with the line-up which held the upper hand in the rain-ravaged encounter with Kent at Tunbridge Wells in which only 17 overs play were possible after the opening day.
The county have won their three home matches with Kent, Derbyshire and Essex and drew their three clashes away from New Road - all badly affected by the weather - with Hampshire, Glamorgan and Kent.
Included in the Surrey side will be former Worcestershire spinner Gareth Batty who returned career best figures of 8-68 against Essex this week after his return to the team.
Worcestershire: Mitchell (captain), Pardoe, Moeen Ali, Fell, Kervezee, Whiteley, Cox (wicket-keeper), Leach, Shantry, Ajmal, Morris. 12th man Oliver.


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A Race Against Time: Preserving Our Audiovisual Media
Registration fee for the two-day program is $200. Brochures with details about the conference are available in the Western History/ Genealogy Department on the fifth level of the central library.
The challenge of long-term preservation for these formats is that they often require intervention to preserve the information stored on them.
Many landmark images have been lost forever because the media allowed reuse. The first years of the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson were reused and that history is now lost forever.
The first super bowl was covered by two networks because each had the rights to their own league games. But even with double coverage there is not an existing videotape of coverage by either network. These tapes were also reused.
But reuse is only one risk. Obsolete equipment and deteriorating media are the greatest problem.
This program is intended for curators, librarians, archivists, collection managers, and other staff involved in managing machine-based collections in cultural institutions.


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