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By Clara Moskowitz, LiveScience Staff WriterYou’re pounding the keyboard, double-clicking away, sighing and grumbling, but to no avail: That devilish little hourglass icon refuses to give way to the Web site you’re trying to reach. Most Internet users have encountered trouble reaching online destinations, but they often attribute the problem to their wireless network cutting out or a server momentarily going down.
Sometimes, though, the problem is more mysterious. At any given moment, messages throughout the world are lost to cyber black holes, according to new computer science research.
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"We were astounded when we did an initial four-monthstudy and we saw how many problems there were," Katz-Bassett told LiveScience."It seemed infeasible that this could be happening so often. They’redefinitely more common than we thought."Now the team constantly monitors the Webfor black holes and posts a map of where the problems are around the world atany given moment. They hope their data will help Internet service providerstrack down the route of problems experienced on their networks.
Source: livescience.com
So, are recent problems on NowPublic.com due to 'Black Holes'?
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This sounds like a reasonable idea.
Who else agrees?
The oil and gas companies should help repair what they damaged.
Mr. Bill creator Walter Williams turns his camera on the oil and gas industry and asks for help paying for coastal restoration. He is not alone.By Mollie Day, Gambit Weekly, April 15, 2008
As fuel prices continue to climb and people across the nation accuse oil and gas companies of price gouging to amass huge profits, some researchers remain focused on the energy industry's role in accelerating a different crisis — the demise of Louisiana's coastline.
Hundreds of square miles of marsh grasses that once carpeted Louisiana's coastal prairies have become open water in the space of a few decades. As the marshes disappear at an alarming rate, so does the state's natural hurricane protection barrier. Along with it go vast acres of Gulf fisheries and nurseries, coastal cultures, the very ground needed to protect the nation's domestic oil and gas infrastructure.
Filmmaker Walter Williams' recent documentary, Restoring the Coast: Who Pays?, explores the legacy of oil and gas companies along Louisiana's coast and the reasons why some coastal advocates believe the energy industry should pay at least some of the costs of restoring the coast — before it's too late.
Until recently, Williams was best known as the creator of Saturday Night Live's infamously tragic character, Mr. Bill. Lately, Williams has earned acclaim for his campaign to restore the coast at the expense of the oil and gas industry.
Source: bestofneworleans.com
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Mississippi River- Bonnet Carre spillway to open tomorrow
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Bonnet Carre spillway to open tomorrowby The Times-Picayune
Thursday April 10, 2008, 10:59 AM
The Bonnet Carre Spillway will open at noon tomorrow for the first time since 1997 in an effort to divert water from a rapidly rising Mississippi River.
The order to open the spillway was signed today by Brig. Gen. Michael Walsh, who serves as president of the Mississippi River Commission.
It's been more than 10 years since the Bonnet Carre Spillway was pulled from its recreational duties to serve its original purpose - diverting the fast rising and even faster moving Mississippi River from overtaking New Orleans.
The Army Corps of Engineers has been monitoring the river levels for several weeks and had thought that an opening wouldn't be necessary. However, recent rains in the Arkansas, Ohio, and Upper Mississippi River Valley have heightened flood worries.
The opening of the spillway in St. Charles Parish will lower river stages in New Orleans while causing a rise in Lake Pontchartrain. Corps officials said they don't expect to open the entire spillway, and that the opening will probably last between 2 and 4 weeks.
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I saw the Olympic Flame in New Orleans. The runners came into Jackson Square back in 1996 just before the Atlanta games. We could see the runners. IT WAS SO THRILLING!
But watching on CNN the Olympic Flame Relay event in San Francisco, I am highly distressed. They changed the route, they changed the whole event, so all the people who came to see the Relay are being disappointed. It looked like a Police State event. There are so many police and guards around the runners, no one can see the Flame.
Does China own San Francisco, its police and SWAT teams? And what about the so-called 'American-Chinese'? Are they loyal to America or to China?
And, China? How could they have been so naive? They asked for it all when they asked to host the Olympics. Do they really want to reveal who really they are?
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MONTEGUT, La. (AP) -- Waves have eaten a chunk 5 feet deep and 10 to 12 feet wide in a 6-foot wetlands protection levee here, and Terrebonne levee officials have set aside $35,000 to plug the hole with rocks before the winds change and waters rise higher.The breach will keep some farmers from planting cotton and soybeans in Pointe Coupee Parish, and others have lost wheat and crawfish to floods and heavy rains, Gov. Bobby Jindal told U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer in a letter Monday.
He asked Schafer to declare the parish a disaster area, along with six surrounding parishes: Avoyelles, Concordia, Iberville, St. Landry, West Baton Rouge and West Feliciana.
"As you are aware, the Mississippi River is very high and it is expected to continue rising," and several thousand more acres would be flooded if the Army Corps of Engineers opens the gates to the Morganza Spillway, Jindal wrote. "The producers in the immediate area are severely affected and will suffer significant crop losses."
Source: hosted.ap.org via René
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Daily reports, reassurances, but locals aren't buying it.
You can see from my photos from the foot of Audubon Park that the river is very close to the top. No sandbags in evidence.
Officials monitoring river levels; don't expect it to overflow its banks
by Jan Moller, The Times-Picayune
Monday April 07, 2008, 7:54 AMBATON ROUGE -- State and federal officials said Sunday that they are continuing to closely monitor the rising water levels on the Mississippi River for possible flooding, but that they don't expect the river to overflow its banks.
"This is a situation that changes nearly every day," Gov. Bobby Jindal said at an afternoon news conference at the state Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, where representatives of several federal and state agencies met to review emergency procedures.
State emergency officials plan to issue daily updates as the river nears its expected crest of 17 feet in New Orleans on April 16.
Last week, water levels were expected to peak at 16.5 feet on about April 7. The New Orleans river levees are designed to handle up to 20 feet of water.
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Introducing Gmail Custom TimeTM
Be on time. Every time.*
How do I use it?
Just click "Set custom time" from the Compose view. Any email you send to the past appears in the proper chronological order in your recipient's inbox. You can opt for it to show up read or unread by selecting the appropriate option.
Is there a limit to how far back I can send email?
Yes. You'll only be able to send email back until April 1, 2004, the day we launched Gmail. If we were to let you send an email from Gmail before Gmail existed, well, that would be like hanging out with your parents before you were born -- crazy talk.Source: mail.google.com
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