State university officials say they're prepared to face challenges presented in Gov. Bobby Jindal's proposed higher education reform act, mainly because they're already doing most of things in it
Hitting a pothole can damage tires, wheels, steering and suspension, wheel alignment and more. The Car Care Council recommends that motorists who experience any of the following warning signs after hitting a pothole should have a professional technician at their local repair shop inspect the vehicle.
Heroism and banditry mingled on Chile's shattered streets Sunday as rescuers braved aftershocks digging for survivors and the government sent soldiers and ordered a nighttime curfew to quell looting.
Quake Felt In Lake Pontchartrain The New Orleans area is about 4,000 miles from Chile, but the 8.8 magnitude quake had an effect here -- even if you didn't feel it
The National Incident Management Systems and Advanced Technologies Institute has begun a three-year project to review Louisiana's supply and demand for fuel, particularly when it comes to disaster recovery.
President Barack Obama will offer $900 million in grants to states and school districts to turn around low-performing schools — but recipients would have to take drastic action, such as replacing principals, reopening schools as charter schools or closing them outright.
President Barack Obama hasn't kicked the smoking habit, takes anti-inflammatory medication to relieve chronic tendinitis in his left knee and should eat better to lower his cholesterol, his team of doctors concluded Sunday after the 48-year-old's first medical checkup as commander in chief.
New Orleans Roadfood Festival
The second annual New Orleans Roadfood Festival kicks off Friday, March 26, with an Opening Night Party at the historic Boucvalt House, where Jane and Michael Stern will bestow Roadfood.com’s inaugural Roadfood Blue Plate Award on Anthony and Gail Uglesich.
At Friday night’s party, regional specialties from across America will be served, including Alabama barbecue, all-you-can-eat shrimp and oysters, Cajun cracklins, freshly-made pralines, and an open bar. Tickets for the party are $75 and can be purchased by calling 504-293-2657 504-293-2657504-293-2657504-293-2657 or through the Festival website.
The street festival opens Saturday, March 27, at 11 a.m., when Royal Street becomes a food-lover’s paradise with two dozen vendors serving sample-sized regional specialties from Louisiana and across the country.Vendors scheduled to participate include: Lasyone’s Meat Pie Restaurant from Natchitoches, Plum Street Snoballs, Vaucresson Sausage Company, Uglesich’s, Prejean’s Restaurant, Tony Luke’s – famous for their Philly cheese steaks, the Maine Diner, and Royer’s Round Top from Texas. The festival runs on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Sunday, March 28, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Also on Saturday, March 27, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., the Festival’s sister event, the Louisiana Oyster Jubilee, now in its fourth successful year, takes place on the 300 block of Bourbon Street.The Jubilee’s showcase event is the assembling and eating of the Longest Oyster Po’Boy. Built in concert by over twenty New Orleans restaurants with 5,500 locally-harvested oysters, the po’boy sprawls across 340 feet of Bourbon Street. After the ceremonial cutting, the po’boy will be distributed to oyster lovers and devoured in minutes, to the accompanying music of the Storyville Stompers Brass Band.
On Saturday evening, ticket-holders will enjoy the Cochon de Lait and Cajun Crawfish Boil at the Bayou Barn, with local music, unlimited beer and wine, and Tarot card readings by Jane Stern.Tickets are $95, which includes the cost of round-trip bus transportation from the French Quarter, and can be purchased by calling 504-293-2657 504-293-2657 or visiting the Festival website.
The first-ever Café Beignet Eating Contest is Sunday, March 28, at noon in front of Café Beignet, 334-B Royal Street.Competitors will be five of New Orleans Police Department’s finest, and five of the bravest New Orleans Firemen.The eaters will compete to see who can consume the most beignets in three minutes.Emceeing the event will be recording artist, actor and restaurateur Tony Luke, Jr. of Tony Luke’s Old Philly Style Sandwiches in Philadelphia. Prizes for the very full winners will be provided by Café Beignet, New Orleans Steamboat Company, and Grayline Tours.
Admission to the street festival is free; proceeds from food and beverage sales go to participating restaurants, including Cafe Reconcile, which provides at-risk kids the opportunity to learn the food service business.
The Festival is sponsored by The Louisiana Culinary Trails, Sheraton Hotels and Resorts, and WWNO.Roadfood.com is the online home of best-selling authors Jane and Michael Stern, whose book Roadfood started the cult of celebrating great American roadside eats over 30 years ago.
Ahhhh, Chillay, Chillay, I luvs that goofy word, Chillay, Chillay........ Richter Scale/TNT comparison for Seismic Example - - Magnitude Energy Yield (approximate) - - - [R.S.] OF (minus) -1.5 (negative value below 0 on the Richter scale) =’s the force of a 6 ounce ‘sledge’ hammer breaking a rock on a lab table - - - - [R.S] OF.…. 1.0 =’s approximately 30 pounds of TNT (Dupont’s dynamite there folksies which is actually nitro glycerin stabilized by sawdust or other inert matter contained in a cylindrical wax coated paper wrapping, it is classified in the high (HE) classification of explosives - - Nitroglycerin (NG), (United States spelling) also known as nitroglycerine, (UK spelling), has a composition of trinitroglycerin, trinitroglycerine, 1,2,3-trinitroxypropane and glyceryl trinitrate, or C3H5N3O9 for short……) which could be exampled [MEY]as a large blast at construction site (like removing a stump the size of a giant redwood or sequoia tree possessing a 15 or 20 foot radius , or a large boulder around the size of a really - really big 4 seat brick outhouse……….. [R.S] OF …… 1.5 =’s approximately 320 pounds of TNT with an [MEY] that yields, well, a pretty damn big hole in the ground at the very least….[R.S] OF … 2.0 =’s approximately 1 ton of TNT Large Quarry or Mine Blast … [R.S] OF … 2.5 =’s approximately 4.6 tons of TNT with an [MEY] that yields, well, a pretty damn big hole in the ground… [R.S] OF … 3.0 =’s approximately 29 tons of TNT with an [MEY] that yields, well, a pretty damn HUGE hole in the ground… [R.S] OF …. 3.5 =’s approximately 73 tons of TNT with an [MEY] that yields, well, a pretty damn GINOURMOUS hole in the ground… [R.S] OF …. 4.0 =’s approximately 1,000 tons of TNT with an [MEY] that yields, well, a Small Nuclear Weapons explosive capacity…. [R.S] OF …. 4.5 =’s approximately 5,100 tons of TNT with an [MEY] that yields, well, an average tornado (total energy) … [R.S] OF …. 5.0 =’s approximately 32,000 tons of TNT with an [MEY] that yields, well, probably the mother of the mother of the mother of all tornados on the planet, or 6 or 7 of those critters happening in the same place, the same space, at the same time….. [R.S] OF …. 5.5 =’s approximately 80,000 tons of TNT with an [MEY] that yields, well, the Little Skull Mtn., NV Quake of 1992… [R.S] OF …. 6.0 1 =’s approximately over ¾ of a million tons of TNT with an [MEY] that yields, well, the Double Spring Flat, NV Quake of 1994… [R.S] OF …. 6.5 5 =’s approximately 5 or 6 million tons of TNT with an [MEY] that yields, well, the Northridge, CA Quake of 1994… [R.S] OF….. 7.0 =’s approximately 32 million tons of TNT with an [MEY] that yields, well, the Hyogo-Ken Nanbu, Japan Quake of 1995; or pretty much the Largest Thermonuclear Weapon known to be in existence today… [R.S] OF ….. 7.5 =’s approximately 160 million tons of TNT with an [MEY] that yields, well, the Landers, CA Quake of 1992 … [R.S] OF ….. 8.0 =’s approximately 1 billion tons of TNT with an [MEY] that yields, well, the San Francisco, CA Quake of 1906… [R.S] OF …. 8.5 =’s approximately 5 billion tons of TNT with an [MEY] that yields, well, the Anchorage, AK Quake of 1964… [R.S] OF …. 9.0 =’s approximately 32 billion tons of TNT with an [MEY] that yields, well, the Chilean Quake of 1960… [R.S] OF …. 10.0 =’s approximately 1 trillion tons of TNT with an [MEY] that can yield, well, probably a San-Andreas type of fault line thingy circling Earth… [R.S] OF … 12.0 =’s approximately 160 trillion tons of TNT with an [MEY] that can yield, well, the (Fault Earth in half through center, OR Earth's daily receipt of solar energy) … [R.S] OF …. 15.0 =’s approximately 1e26 joules - - - - - - interesting gadgetomery……… (calculated using Energy =’s 1.74x10 ^ (5+1.44*Magnitude) [ ref: h t t p: / / w w w .physicalgeography. net / fundamentals / 10m. h t m l ] NOW TO TRY TO FIGURE OUT COMPARITIVE ENERGY VALUES FOR WAVES…….. ANYONE OUT THERE HANDY WITH A CALCULATOR??? MY SLIDE RULE SEEMS TO HAVE SLIPPED OFF TO SOMEWHERE - - - -
Written by on 2/25/2010 ((((((((((((- - - AND I ALSO GAVE YOU THE ODDS....... - - - 8.0-8.9/ Great/ Can cause serious damage in areas several hundred miles across./ 1 per year - - - 9.0-9.9/ Devastating/ in areas several thousand miles across. /1 per 20 years - - - 10.0+ /Epic /Never recorded; /see below for equivalent seismic energy yield. Written by on 2/25/2010)))))))))))) Sort of figured it was about time and all, see, things are sort of predictable, and you can account for them, they ain't no reason to fear, just be prepared..... Ehhhh, nah, I guess y'all just want to sit around on your soap boxes and not do anything..... I guess I'm going to take Jim Morrison's advice and get my kicks before this whole sh^t house goes up in flames.... What's the sense in manning the watchtower if no one is going to lift a finger to put out the fire????????
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