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As if posing for my camera, that magnificent butterfly rested stately upon a rugged log - a perfect extension of its unique form and detail. It was nature in harmony, beauty in simplicity, and survival through a perfect blend with its surroundings.
Yet from the viewfinder, it was far more. My subject was a phenomenal creature up close, magnified by a lens that revealed extraordinary detail and form I had never before witnessed.
I couldn't wait to process that image later in the evening with a computer. To my surprise, the monitor actually revealed more than I noticed with the naked eye hours before. I saw thousands of years of evolution etched into brilliant wing patterns, which from a distance, disappeared perfectly into its rustic setting. The wisdom of nature to hide such beauty from countless predators left me awestruck. "Magnificence unscathed," I thought to myself after I printed the photo, gazed at it for awhile and drifted off to sound sleep.
The next morning brought renewed energy and exhilaration. As the sun flirted with the horizon, I sipped a cup of coffee and reexamined the 8x10 souvenir of the day prior. Marveling at the stunning model of nature, I felt fortunate to have frozen one special moment in an artistic medium.
As I closed my eyes, I began to imagine my subject's lifecycle; an industrious caterpillar transforming into a transparent chrysalis suspended from one hidden limb among millions of similar branches in a dense forest. I could see the creature slowly emerge from its translucent veil with wings gently dried by sun rays piercing the majestic canopy. Seemingly lighter than air, it floated at first, then drifted and finally set its wings in slow motion beginning a journey toward its destiny through an airborne cycle of life. "Ah ... to be a butterfly," I imagined. How much easier than being human?
Just then upon opening my eyes, I was suddenly taken back by what hadn't been obvious previously. My inner reflections shifted. This supposedly "perfect" specimen wasn't so perfect after all. Actually its wings were rather tattered. Ragged, in fact, is more descriptive - irregular to the extent that perhaps it was no longer capable of flight. How could I have missed those obvious defects? I had been staring at my not-so-masterful masterpiece for quite some time. Or was it a masterpiece?
Reevaluating the photo with more scrutiny, I initially reasoned that the flawed photo was no more than "ordinary." I simply resigned to tuck it away in a manila folder with all my not-so-perfect shots. Yet as the day progressed, I was drawn to the image over and over again. It seemed frustratingly impossible to escape.
Then his word's echoed clearly in my mind. I had interviewed him just a few weeks ago on my syndicated NPR radio program, Mind Body Matters. His insights were proof that when the student is in need, the teacher appears. Actually I had longed to speak with him for years, but I couldn't track him down. I'll never forget his response to one question I always wanted to ask which was "How do you know what to write about?"
The world-renowned author of the classic talking seagull replied, "The way I find a book to write is when some idea comes crashing through to me and will not let me go. I try to run away from it. If I can't turn away, then at last, I give in. You are so fascinating dear idea, I don't know what you want me to say, but as of this moment you now control my hands on this keyboard."
And through his words I took another look. It was clearer now in many ways. No matter how closely I scrutinized the defects and scars ... remnants of obvious life-threatening challenges, the butterfly simply radiated a beauty that was absolutely inescapable. Yet the real lesson was in the perspective, for I simply could not focus on what had been lost.
My attention immediately turned to some of my unforgettable patients whose experiences have left scars that are deeply etched within them as seemingly everlasting self-reflections. While they focus on their tattered wings every moment of every day, I am drawn to their beauty, their uniqueness and the divinity that's expressed by their souls.
Some exist as betrayed, abused, paralyzed, and scorned. They're stuck in what used to be, and long for the parts that have been sheared away by a lifetime of pain and suffering ... and loss. Existence for many is an expression of disability rather than in the ability to live, to grow and to evolve into whole people again in mind, body and spirit. It hasn't dawned on them that they are perfect souls simply inhabiting temporary bodies that show the wear and tear of survival.
Just as the butterfly will never re-grow its missing wing parts (in this life-cycle anyway), the fragments of existence that are lost from one's life will not reappear. Yet in their place is a needed void - one that beacons filling one moment at a time. In that space, Richard Bach enabled Jonathan Livingston Seagull to emerge. In your space, amidst the beauty you are, anything is possible when you see with your understanding - Mind Over Matter!
Barry Bittman, MD is a neurologist, author, international speaker, inventor and researcher. He is the CEO and Director of the Mind-Body Wellness Center, 18201 Conneaut Lake Road in Meadville, phone (814) 724-1765, fax (814) 333-8662, www.mind-body.org.
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Claire Barcham is an AMHP who has been closely involved for a long time with the development of AMHP practice, including involvement with The College of Social Work as a professional practice development advisor. Based on her own experience, she has written a clear and concise guide to Mental Health Act Assessments.
The book is very easy to navigate (take note, Richard Jones). Of course, it is not purporting to be as painstaking and detailed as the Mental Health Act Manual, but is more designed to provide a practical guide to the basic process of assessing people under the MHA.
The book is in five parts: The Legal Landscape; Setting up Mental Health Act assessments; Managing MHA assessments and making decisions; Implementing decisions and admission to hospital; and rounding off with the newest addition to the MHA, Community Treatment Orders, in a section on Working with Compulsion in the Community.
The first section places the MHA within the wider legal context, including the Human Rights Act and the Mental Capacity Act. It also usefully looks at the interface between the Children Act 1989 and the MHA when considering detaining a child.
The second section concentrates on the process of setting up assessments, including the gathering of relevant information, making assessments of risk and urgency, and looking at alternatives. She then reviews the different sorts of situations in which MHA assessments arise, eg following Sec.5(2) and Sec.136, whether the assessment is in hospital or in the community, and also looks at Sec.135. There is a good analysis of issues relating to the Nearest Relative, including identification and displacement.
The third section concentrates on the actual assessment. This includes interviewing in a suitable manner, a breakdown of each individual section that involves detention, and the necessary criteria for admission under the MHA.
The fourth section looks at the process once a decision has been made. This importantly includes what needs to go on the section papers in order to ensure that they are legal and valid. Guidance on conveyance to hospital is included, as well as a helpful guidance for nurses and staff who receive the patient and the paperwork.
The final section compares and contrasts the various methods by which patients can be maintained in the community. This includes appropriate use of Sec.17 leave, guardianship, and of course, Community Treatment Orders.
Each section is heavily interspersed with examples from practice, as well as explicit references to legal issues, and also helpful reminders about other relevant legislation to bear in mind in certain situations, in particular, where the Mental Capacity Act may be considered, as well as checklists to guide one through each part of the overall process.
While experienced AMHP's would probably not need to dip into this book that often, I would wholeheartedly recommend it as a very useful resource for AMHP trainees, social work and mental health nursing students, nurses, police, service users, and indeed anyone with a personal or professional interest in mental health and the Mental Health Act.
While experienced AMHP's would probably not need to dip into this book that often, I would wholeheartedly recommend it as a very useful resource for AMHP trainees, social work and mental health nursing students, nurses, police, service users, and indeed anyone with a personal or professional interest in mental health and the Mental Health Act.


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Étude de faisabilité concernant l'intégration dans un portail "Open Access" des recherches en sciences humaines et sociales financées par la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
Audrit, Stéphanie ; Bastin, Myriam ; Chalono, Dominique et al
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L'Open Access en Belgique francophone : étude de la BICfB réalisée à la demande des Recteurs des universités et du F.R.S.-FNRS
Renaville, François ; Bastin, Myriam ; Audrit, Stéphanie et al
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Au printemps 2011, les Recteurs des universités de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles et le Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique – FNRS (F.R.S.-FNRS) ont émis le souhait de voir mener une étude sur le ... [more ▼]
Au printemps 2011, les Recteurs des universités de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles et le Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique – FNRS (F.R.S.-FNRS) ont émis le souhait de voir mener une étude sur le développement de l'Open Access en Belgique francophone. Ils ont décidé de confier la réalisation de celle-ci à la Bibliothèque Interuniversitaire de la Communauté française de Belgique (BICfB). La présente étude fait le point sur le développement des dépôts institutionnels (Voie Verte) des universités de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles et apporte un éclairage sur l'implication active des enseignants et chercheurs de leurs institutions (en tant qu'éditeur en chef, membre du comité de rédaction, peer-reviewer, etc.) dans la vie de revues scientifiques en Open Access (Voie d'Or) ou tout au moins accessibles gratuitement sur le web. [less ▲]Detailed reference viewed: 1569 (226 ULiège)
Variation linguistique et signification sociale chez les jeunes Bruxelloises issus de l'immigration maghrébine. Analyse socio-phonétique de trois variantes non standard.
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The present PhD research concerns three non-standard phonetic variants, known as specific to the adolescents from Moroccan immigration, and the meso-social meanings linked to these variants. The meso ... [more ▼]
The present PhD research concerns three non-standard phonetic variants, known as specific to the adolescents from Moroccan immigration, and the meso-social meanings linked to these variants. The meso-social level is defined here as the profiles or social personae (Coupland 2001). My hypothesis is that macro-socially homogeneous speakers use non standard variants according to their belonging to contrasted meso-social profiles. This problem is tackled through the analysis of authentic data, collected during a one-year ethnographic survey inside of two Brussels schools. These schools had a mostly female and immigrated population. Among the two of them, a peer group constituting a community of practice (Eckert 2000, 2005) was chosen as the focus of the study. This ethnographic gathering of data has a double aim: (i) first, it has to allow to determine what the profiles specific to the investigated peer groups are; (ii) secondly, a long-term survey must allow to collect speech as close as possible of the speakers' vernacular. The three non standard variants are the followings: (i) The reduced vowels: they are strongly reduced vowels that can completely disappear from the sound signal, in very atypical positions according to standard French. (ii) The back /A/: these realisations of /A/ are characterized by the backing of their articulation point, whose consequence is to move their timbre closer to this of /ɔ/ ; (iii) The marked variants of /r/: this large designation includes trill fricatives and fricatives produced with a large amount of noise. Analyzing the meso-social meaning of non standard variants requires a double methodology, both qualitative and quantitative. The qualitative part concerns the analysis of ethnographic data (interviews and fieldwork notes). It leads to the discovery of three contrasted speaker profiles, that is to say the messing-up girls, the provocatives and the modests. In the second part of the analysis, the existence of a link between the different speaker profiles and the use of each of the marked variants was investigated through statistical independence tests (chi square tests). These tests underline that the reduced vowels and the marked variants of /r/ are more used by the messing-up and the provocative girls, that is to say to speaker profiles which distance the traditional Moroccan and Muslim values. At the opposite, the back /A/ seem to have a double face, because they are linked with two very different profiles, the provocatives and the modests. This variant is also often mentioned as characteristic of the lower class language (Jamin 2005). It seems thus that the back /A/ have multiple meanings, whose point in common would be pejoration. If we come back to the initial hypothesis, the use of marked variants thus appears to be linked to the speakers' belonging to contrasted profiles. However, these profiles are not the only factor to have an influence: the results of the tests show that, jointly to the profiles, the school has also an influence on the use of marked variants. This importance of school was furthermore underlined by several researches in sociology of education, where it is known as the school composition effect (Dumay & Dupriez 2005, 2008). [less ▲]Detailed reference viewed: 218 (44 ULiège)


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Law graduate selected for highly competitive program with U.S. Department of Justice
May 25, 2011
Law Campus
Ellie Dawson is one of more than 220 students who will participate in the commencement ceremony at Lewis & Clark Law School on May 28, 2011. Dawson will receive a certificate in environmental and natural resources law before beginning her dream job with the U.S. Department of Justice.
The commencement ceremony will feature an address by Stephen L. Carter, a legal scholar who has written extensively about religion, politics, and ethics. Learn more about commencement.
In the following interview, Dawson discusses how her experiences at Lewis & Clark prepared her for her chosen career.
Where are you originally from, and why did you choose to attend Lewis & Clark?
Originally from Madison, Wisconsin, I came to Lewis & Clark because it presented the best combination of an excellent environmental law program and a great overall law school. I came to law school with the intent of becoming an environmental lawyer, but I also wanted to keep my options open in case I changed my mind. Lewis & Clark is an exceptional law school all around, one of its greatest assets being the professors. What struck me when I came to visit was how much more interested in actually teaching the professors seemed here than at some other schools I visited, and I wasn't disappointed when I enrolled. Additionally, at the visit day the faculty and staff were extremely welcoming, making me feel like they wanted me to attend and that I had something to contribute to the school, as well as getting a great learning experience out of it.
What do you think defines the Lewis & Clark law student experience? The accessible faculty, rigorous academic offerings, beautiful surroundings?
All of the above! When I looked at the materials online and in the mail, I thought, "How great would it be to get to study in a park?" L&C really seemed to walk the talk about sustainability and connecting students to the natural world, all the while preparing them to protect it.
Another key feature of L&C that makes it unique is the supportive, encouraging atmosphere. Law school is extremely stressful no matter where you go, but because everyone here does everything they can to facilitate learning and meaningful practical experiences, the stress does not have to hinder students' success. I think that the competition between students, another major stressor, is also less prominent here than at other schools—we each want to succeed, of course, but not to the detriment of others, because I think we all understand that the law profession as a whole will be better if we build each other up.
What has been your experience with the Public Interest Law Project (PILP), and why do you think it's important for current students to be involved in supporting opportunities for work in the public sector?
The Public Interest Law Project, and the work it supports, is one of the defining features of this law school. We have a higher percentage of students going into non-profit and government work than many other schools, which reflects the spirit of service many students have when they come to school and the emphasis the school places on using the law to help the underserved. Especially in these current economic times, with services being cut, and people losing their homes, having the assistance of someone versed in the law is becoming more important than ever, yet harder to secure.
Of course, such work cannot usually pay as much as private-sector, for-profit law, and that is where PILP summer stipends and the Loan Repayment Assistance Program (LRAP) come in. As one of three Auction Directors, I helped organize an auction that raised more than $80,000, which funded students' summer legal internships at non-profit entities and contributed to the LRAP fund. Preparing for such a large auction was an intense experience, given that we were all carrying full course loads at the same time, but the support staff at school was amazingly helpful, and the involvement of the faculty, students, and alumni was spectacular.
My role in PILP this year was to try and get the word out to students about the existence of LRAP, and then to run an opinion poll to gauge student support for the assessment that is added on to the student fees every semester (currently $25 a semester) to help fund the program. I am happy to report that those voting expressed overwhelming support for continuing the assessment, and the majority even voted to increase it! That the students would be willing to contribute more than they already do to ensure that their fellow students will not feel discouraged from pursuing public interest careers is a testament to the strong sense of community that the school creates.
Have you taken part in other activities/groups at the law school that have helped to prepare you for work in your chosen field?
I have been fairly active during my time at L&C, as I wanted to make the most out of my time here. I was a member of Environmental Law during my second and third years, my third year serving as Notes and Comments Editor. My second year, I was also a law clerk for the International Environmental Law Project, a clinic that provides assistance to NGOs and even small countries, most recently focusing on climate change, trade in endangered species, and biodiversity issues. My third year, I also participated in the Environmental and Animal Legal Advocacy moot court course, which was partially an in-school competition to decide who to send to the national competition. I was selected to be on the school's National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition team, and we made it to the final round, marking the 13th time in the past 20 years that the school has made the finals. All of these experiences helped improve my skills in different ways, and I am grateful that the school provides so many opportunities for expanding one's practical capabilities.
What do you think sets apart a Lewis & Clark legal education? What is the value of degree from Lewis & Clark?
Besides reiterating what I mentioned above about the professors' interest in teaching and the encouraging atmosphere they foster, I think a Lewis & Clark degree signifies that a student is dedicated to learning the law and to putting that knowledge to practical use. The writing and professional skills requirements, in particular, reinforce what we learn in the classroom and prepare us to practice in a way that no reading from a casebook ever could.
What's next for you after graduation?
My husband and I are heading to Washington, D.C., where I was lucky enough to be hired by the U.S. Department of Justice in their Honors Attorney Program. I will be working for the Environment and Natural Resources Division—essentially, I landed my dream job! There is no way I would have been able to secure this position without all of the experiences L&C provided and the excellent instruction of its professors.


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Oakland Sourdough
Oakland sourdough:
This is the basic sourdough that I keep around the house. Nearly every sourdough bread that I do is an edit on this basic recipe, which is sort of a combination of Daniel Leader's Pain de campagne and Chad Robertson's Country Bread.
310g Sourdough Starter (130% hydration)
250g Water
440g Good quality unbleached AP/Bread Flour
60g Whole Grain Flour (I use whatever I have, WW/Rye/Spelt, etc)
12g salt (I use course grey sea salt)
(50g boiling water)
In a large bowl, mix sourdough with water and flours until a shaggy dough forms. Let autolysis.
Measure out salt into a small bowl, pour boiling water over the salt to dissolve it. let the salt water come to room temp.
After 45 mins mix the salt water into the dough. (I do this all by hand within the bowl, ala tartine)
S&F the dough a few more times over the course of the rising time (about 2-4 hours, depending on the temp of the house). At this time I either retard the dough in the fridge (on a weekday, so I can go to work), or proceed to pre-shape.
Pre-shape the dough into a round (If removing from fridge, let dough reach room temp before pre-shape). Let pre-shaped dough bench rest for 15 mins, then shape into a round and place in a cast-iron dutch oven to rise.
30 mins before bread is proofed pre-heat oven to 500F. Place lid on DO and put into pre-heated oven. Bake for 20 mins covered. Remove lid, turn down to 450F and bake for 15 mins.
Take bread out of DO (carefully) and let cool on a rack. Enjoy!
The pictured bread is cracked wheat/White Whole Wheat as the whole grain part.


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Software quality has received a lot of attention recently. There have been tons of books, blog posts, conferences and the like on improving quality. Tools and practices such as TDD, automatic builds, agile methods, pair programming and static code analysers are praised for improving code quality.
And, indeed, that is what they have done.
But one should never mix the tool with the person using it. All these wonderful tools are just that: tools. They are not the source of quality, only facilitators of it. The true essence of quality does not flow from them. It comes from somewhere else entirely. When distilled down to its core, there is only one source of true quality.
The only way to get consistently high quality code is that the people who generate it care about it. This means that they have a personal interest in their code tree. They want it to succeed and flourish. In the best case they are even proud of it. This is the foundation all quality tools lie on.
If caring does not exist, even the best of tools can not help. This is due to the fact that human beings are very, very good at avoiding work they don't want to do. As an example, let's look at code review. A caring person will review code to the best of their abilities because he wants the end result be the best it can be. A non-caring one will shrug, think "yeah, sure, fine, whatever" and push the accept button, because it's less work for him and he knows that his merge requests will go in easier if there is a general (though unspoken) consensus of doing things half-assed.
Unfortunately caring is not something you can buy, it is something you must birth. Free food and other services provided by companies such as Valve and Google can be seen as one way of achieving quality. If a company sincerely cares about its employees, they will in return care about the quality of their work.
All that said, here is my proposal for a coder's mascot:


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Notes when painting with Oekaki BBS Painter
Adjust brush size with the up and down triangles.
To select color from picture, click on "COLOR PICK UP" and click on desired color. You can also use the right mouse button or [Ctrl + Left Click] to select.
To draw half tone colors, select from the brush setting.
To change the palette to your current color, right click (or [Ctrl + Left Click]) on the palette.
If you accidentally hit CLEAR, just hit the UNDO button.
After clicking on MASK, select the color you like by clicking on. When MASK is active, the chosen color will not be over-painted when you draw.
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On June 24, 1675, William Salisbury and his son John are the first colonists killed in King Philips War. Four days earlier, William had killed an indian warrior who entered his home at Kickemuit, MA. The indians killed William and John in retribution. William is my 8th great grandfather.
Isaac Ormsbee – Born June 21, 1763 in Warren, Bristol Co., Colony of Rhode Island. He married Patience Chase on February 8, 1789 in Warren, Bristol Co. Isaac died on October 13, 1848 in Greenfield, Saratoga Co., NY and is buried in the Ormsbee Cemetery on the Ormsbee Farm near Porters Corners, Saratoga Co., NY. He is my 4th great grandfather.
Elizabeth Fuhrman – Born June 22, 1874 in Marshfield Twp., Fond du Lac Co., WI. She married John Hau on June 12, 1900 in Johnsburg, Fond du Lac Co. Elizabeth died on May 27, 1964 in Fond du Lac, Fond du Lac Co. and is buried in Calvary Cemetery, Fond du Lac. She is my great grandmother.
Henry Lawrence Heim and Vera N. Gage – Married on June 21, 1916 in Jackson, Jackson Co., MI. They are my wife's great grandparents.
Richard Kemball – Died June 22, 1675 in Ipswich, Essex Co., Massachusetts Bay Colony. He was born on April 10, 1595 in Rattlesden, Suffolk, England. Richard Married Ursula Scott on October 23, 1615 in Rattlesden. He is my wife's 10th great grandfather.
President Stephen Grover Cleveland – Died on June 24, 1908 and is buried in Princeton Cemetery, Princeton, Mercer Co., NJ. He was born on March 18, 1837 in Caldwell, Mercer Co. Grover married Frances Clara Folsom on June 2, 1886 in the White House, Washington, District of Columbia. He is my 6th cousin, 3 times removed.
John Hau – Died June 25, 1966 in Fond du Lac, Fond du Lac Co., WI. He was born on August 25, 1874 in St. Joe, Marshfield Twp., Fond du Lac Co. John married Elizabeth Fuhrman on June 12, 1900 In Johnsburg, Fond du Lac Co. He is buried in Calvary Cemetery, Fond du Lac. John is my great grandfather.
Raymond Christian Hau – Died June 27, 2003 in Milwaukee, Milwaukee Co., WI. He was born on February 29, 1908 in Fond du Lac, Fond du Lac Co., WI. Raymond married Florence Rose Heller on October 10, 1933 in Fond du Lac. He is buried in Calvary Cemetery, Fond du lac. Raymond is my grandfather.


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In his column Wednesday, Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post, asked the question: Would Deep Throat be a hero in 2005? He suggested that most people would say yes. Deep Throat, after all, was the anonymous source who led journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein to the information that exposed what became known as the Watergate scandal during the early part of President Richard Nixon's second term. That information, and the dogged pursuit of the story by the Post, also exposed the complicity of John Mitchell's Justice Department and led to Nixon's resignation in disgrace in 1974.
Deep Throat was in the news, of course, because the source — one of American journalism's best kept secrets — revealed himself on Tuesday. He is W. Mark Felt, former deputy director of the FBI. According to a Washington Post editorial, Felt, who is 91, revealed his role in part "because of his family's belief that he deserves to be honored for his actions while he is alive.�
For all those Americans who believe honesty trumps blind loyalty, Felt deserves a nod of approval and recognition. We're among those who hold Felt's actions in the highest regard.
Felt, it should be known, was no flaming liberal. The Post noted that he was a dedicated servant of the FBI, who was convicted and later pardoned for authorizing illegal acts in pursuit of leftist radicals in the early 1970s. But corruption within the White House was too much for Felt's conscience when he saw Nixon's staff try to silence and interfere with the FBI's investigation of the burglary of Democratic Party headquarters in June 1972 and, according to the Post, when he witnessed Nixon attempt to gain control of the FBI for political purposes.
At the risk of being fired or prosecuted, Felt went undercover, meeting with the Post's two reporters in 1972 and 1973, which led to reports that eventually exposed the extent of corruption within the Nixon White House. Felt's action was courageous and worthy of honor precisely because it went against the very nature of his job and of his oath in office. He knew that many within the bureau would consider such a breach of confidence as treachery.
Yet, he made the decision to be that anonymous source because he believed that exposing the truth of a corrupt administration was far more important than keeping silent. Looking at Felt's decision 33 years later, few will question (except those of the extreme far right) that it was the right thing to do.
But Kurtz asks whether the country would make the same assessment in today's politically-charge climate. If the president were George W. Bush, not Richard Nixon, and the media climate was that of 2005, with the in-your-face bias of extremist radio jocks and broadcast studios like Fox News, would Americans consider an anonymous source a hero if that information exposed corruption inside the Bush administration?
And, if not, why not? If exposing truth is the highest public good — over loyalty when such loyalty is dishonest — then surely a modern-day Deep Throat would be hailed as a hero.
The question is asked, however, because the evidence suggests otherwise. We are living in a society in which Americans are too willing to believe that which is not believable; too willing to turn a blind eye to abuses in the name of patriotism; too willing to criticize opponents of the Bush administration, even though the facts support many of their criticisms.
Is there corruption within the current administration? No proof is on the table. More to the point, however, is whether anyone inside the administration today would expose that corruption as did Felt in 1972. On that question there is a great deal of doubt.


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Three Recent Violent Tales
from Berkeley's Notorious Caffe Mediterraneum
Tale One: Purloined Food at Med; How Secure is Your Food Order?Coconut—a street kid, who hangs out on Telegraph near the Caffe Mediterraneum, 2475 Telegraph—grabbed off a plate of food from the Med's kitchen take-away counter, Dec, 27.
The food was purchased by a customer named Larry, according to Becker. "Coconut stole my food," Larry told him. Coconut, 23, is a well known street kid who has been on the streets for seven years, according to Slumjack Homeless, a former reporter for Change.Org.
Coconut put the plate of food on the sidewalk outside the Med. Becker, who was watching through the window, rushed out, snatched back the plate, and returned it to his cafe. When Coconut saw that Becker had reclaimed the food, he angrily overturned a plastic trash can, according to several witnesses.
Becker re-emerged from the cafe to correct the trashing. As he approached Coconut, saying, "you can't do that," Coconut sucker-punched Becker, dropping him to the walk, on his back, according to several witnesses who added that Becker sprang back to his feet like "a pop-up toy."
Back on his feet instantly," he quickly kicked Coconut in his scrotum and simultaneously face-punched him, flooring the kid. When Coconut got up, he had lost the urge to fight, witnesses said.
"Clean it up," Becker commanded, and Coconut meekly complied, witnesses said.
Becker has no formal fighting experience other than high school wrestling, he says.
"i just respond instinctively," Becker explains, adding that "I have to feel that troublemakers are not cooperating, before I take action."
Becker called the police, who arrested Coconut. Coconut spent four days in county jail, according to Coconut.
"Whatever Craig says about this is his delusion," Coconut said recently. "I didn't steal no food. My brother bought it for me."
Asked about the fight, Coconut said it wasn't a fight. Someone disagreed.
"Okay, if you say it was a fight who do you think won?" Coconut asked.
Becker won hands down," someone replied.
He had been unwilling to talk, but this drew him out. "Craig is delusional," he repeated. "I won that fight."
After also denying it was a fight, Becker said," he's [Coconut] delusional," Who was deluding whom?
Tale Two: Shooting-Up in the Mediterraneum StairwellA few nights later, a Winona Ryder look-alike shot up on the Med stairwell by the restroom and defecated on the restroom floor. "I called the police to offer the girl help," Becker told me. "a young, good-looking girl like that," he added.
Two Berkeley PD officers, with hard-nosed reputations, showed up. With Berkeley Mental Health outreach services decimated by budget cuts , police have filled in. The girl declined assistance. She was not cited, according to one of the soft-noses.
Tale Three: A Tale of Attempted Cop Car TheftHere's what one witness told police, who were taking information for their incident report. "Joe couldn't get into the Med restroom. There was a long restroom line, and Joe propelled himself into my table, almost falling over the mezzanine railing. At the foot of the mezzanine stairs, he pissed on the floor."
Then he went to the front doors, where he announced to an astonished first-floor crowd, "anything you want. It's on me," according to Lost, who said Joe was tweaking (high on Meth).
Joe bolted the cafe and hopped into an empty BPD cop car outside the Med, according to witnesses. Although the keys were not in the car, Joe seat-belted himself, as if he were about to peel out, witnesses reported.
A BDP officer tried unsuccessfully to yank Joe from the car by his hair, but had to settle for pulling him out the hard way, witnesses said.
By the time I got there police were gathered around the car. One officer was peering into the car, but avoiding entering it. Joe was gone--off to the pokey and facing serious charges.
Next day, a Med employee told me that the Med was having much more violence under Becker than under the previous owner.
Ted Friedman has contributed to the Berkeley Daily Planet, The Daily Cal, and Berkeley Reporter, where he is featured. His photojournalism is being noticed.


text: When the word got out that a pair of magicians would cut Sherman School Principal Michelle Paton in half and put her back again, ticket sales for the show were so brisk that two shows had to be scheduled Friday night at the school. Derek Whitneck and Justin Mazz of Connecticut staged the 45-minute show with a variety of magic tricks that included kids from the audience and, naturally, the principal who was loudly cheered for her role by students and parents. School cultural arts coordinator Jessica Schad arranged for the show whereby the school and the magicians split the proceeds of $5 ticket sales with no minimum obligation on part of the school. Pizza and baked goodies, which parents served up in the school all-purpose room preceded the show. Here Derek and "The Mazz" prepare to saw up the principal – they ended up using an electric saw; students Owen Reilly and Lucas Johnson enjoy the pre-show pizza and a student checks out a ring to verify that there's nothing tricky about it – of course, Derek proved otherwise.


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PGCluster 1.1.2rc7 is the patched version of PostgreSQL 7.4.19. ATTENTION: Never mix other PGCluster packages with this version. It does not work.
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This version was fixed following bugs, and based PostgreSQL version was updated to 7.4.19 from 7.4.14. (1)regeneracy mode of pglb might not work in two set of cluster DBs environment. And this version was added following setting parameters. (1)Rsync_Timeout (in cluster.conf) I/O timeout of rsync. (2)Rsync_Bwlimit (in cluster.conf) I/O bandwidth limitation of rsync. (3)Ping_Path (in cluster.conf) Full path of ping command. These parameters are useful in recovery mode, especially rsync often failed since DB size is very large and network bandwidth is narrow (like a WAN). If rsync was failed, cluster DB sets some reasonable values to bwlimit automatically, and try it again. These setting parameters were proposed by Rick Vernam. Timeout implementation of lifecheck also changed. Timeout is available not only lifecheck but all db login sesstion to Cluster DB from replication server. This update was proposed by Anatoly Savchenkov.


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We've gotten several requests for Blu-Rays so we decided to make them available in new $40 and $75 reward categories. Anyone who already backed the project can increase their pledge and select those categories, and anyone who pledged $100 or more will be given the option between DVD and Blu-Ray when we send rewards out.
We've also posted the opening scene from the film below, which will be online until the project ends next Monday, June 11th at noon. If we don't meet our goal by then, all funding will be canceled. Thank you for your generous support!
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Destin here, writer/director of "I Am Not A Hipster," a feature film revolving around San Diego's indie music and art scene, made by the wonderful people there. It's my first feature and I couldn't be more proud, solely because of the incredible community of friends who gave their time and talents to make it happen, including the art of Hess, and the music of Joel P West, Cuckoo Chaos, The Donkeys, Jamuel Saxon, Black Mamba, John Meeks, Pebaluna, and The Tree Ring.
In January we were lucky enough to premiere our little film at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival (which I still haven't recovered from), and now we're taking it to a bunch of other fests across the country (including Cleveland, Nashville, Newport Beach, Philadelphia, and Seattle). But the final step is to get the film out to as many people as possible.
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it's been a busy couple of weeks around here. we moved house, and what a fun experience that always is. so tiring! we're now in our lovely new home, all period features and piles of boxes. yes.. there are still a few boxes that need to be unpacked. turns out i'm a lot more organised when putting things into boxes rather than taking them out. last week i did a jewellery making short course at the jewellery school in birmingham, and i had so much fun! i surprised myself by actually enjoying it. institutions usually give me cold sweats. i think the fact that it was intensive, and there was less talking, more doing than i was used to made it really enjoyable for me. you may or may not know that when it comes to our partnership at paper and chain, naomi does all the complicated jewellery making, and i do most of the other stuff. well now i have the skills to be more hands on. my poor little delicate hands got a battering! oh and in the middle of moving house and doing the course we went to a pretty sweet party in the countryside. sometimes living in a small city can be a bit rubbish, but living near beautiful rolling fields is a definite plus. anyway the reward for my efforts is, as per usual with me, a stinking cold. yay!
a great country pub with a cat on its sign / gus plays the princess and the pea / yummy pud in oxford / this card made me laugh a lot, i've put it in a frame. don't worry kitty, i'm crap at maths too. / michela sent me a beautiful book that deserves (and will get) a whole post of its own / amazing tables that i found on ebay / gus got tired out from all the moving, he had to take a nap in a box / so excited to finally have a home for my magazine collection, although after taking this photo i found another whole box of them, oops / holding paws / drinks in the countryside / a ring i made on my course, proud of this little baby! / pastel skies / gus tucked in / peonies 4eva / current view from the sofa in the new living room. look at the ridiculously grand mirror that came with the house, i love it.
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From the days of Edward Snowden's first leaks about National Security Agency surveillance, President Barack Obama has tried to calm public fears by stressing that ordinary Americans have nothing to fear.
"If you're a U.S. person, then NSA is not listening to your phone calls and it's not targeting your emails, unless it's getting an individualized court order," Obama said in a June interview with PBS's Charlie Rose.
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His words — repeated by officials across the U.S. government at congressional hearings, at panel discussions and in TV appearances — may have eased the concerns of some Americans. But they haven't done much to reassure foreign citizens. Many overseas perceive a double standard at work, where their privacy got short shrift from a superpower with a voracious appetite for information.
Now, Obama is struggling to address a wave of anger from foreigners — and, in particular, from foreign politicians — that is roiling U.S. diplomatic relationships across the globe, threatening to disrupt anti-terrorist data sharing programs with Europe, and risking economic damage to American technology: Some in Europe are floating proposals that could make it harder for U.S. Internet firms to do business on the continent, either by forcing them to move servers to Europe or by pushing customers toward locally run competitors.
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"If there's a criticism to be made of the United States, it's that they've got their own Constitution. They are reliant on protecting their own citizens above all else," said Timothy Kirkhope, a former British Home Minister who's part of a European Parliament delegation in Washington this week to discuss fallout from the NSA story. "Citizens of other parts of the world are complaining, saying the U.S. is not giving us the same level of respect or accountability or redress that they are giving to their own citizens."
That skepticism overseas was initially dampened by claims that the snooping was carried out to fight terrorism — attacks more often focused abroad than in the United States. But those claims of a focus on terror became suspect in recent days with the revelation that German Chancellor Angela Merkel's cell phone was tapped by the NSA, as were the phones of dozens of other world leaders.
"We are not considering our chancellor as a terrorist," said Axel Voss, a German member of the European Parliament also part of the visiting group. "And as long as she is not a terrorist, I can't see any value of [listening to] her cellphone."
"There isn't a sufficient appreciation, perhaps, of the lack of privacy that European citizens feel," said Claude Moraes, a lawmaker representing Britain in Brussels.
( WATCH: Carl Bernstein on NSA: 'We need an answer')
Some scholars say the foreign outcry signals the demise, or at least the limits, of American legal principles interpreted to grant constitutional rights to U.S. citizens worldwide and to foreign nationals on U.S. soil, but which often leave foreign citizens abroad with no legal protection at all.
"There's this almost reflex among American policymakers to steer toward citizenship-based limitations that are almost self-justifying," said Temple University law professor Peter Spiro. "There's a basis in cases in constitutional law for that … There's a pedigree to that reflex, but it's no longer sustaining. It no longer makes sense to non-citizens."
"It obviously goes down extremely poorly with the rest of the world when they're told the U.S. barely recognizes any privacy interest on their part, yet the U.S. has the capacity to routinely invade their privacy because it remains the epicenter of much of the internet," Human Rights Watch executive director Ken Roth said. "If the U.S. aspires to continue on with that role on the Internet, it will have to find some way to respect the privacy of communications channeled through the U.S."
White House officials say Obama and other aides were not trying to be dismissive about foreigners' privacy concerns, but were simply describing the legal regime in place. They also note that as the NSA scandal unfolded, Obama did try to address foreigners worries about U.S. surveillance.
( WATCH: Glenn Greenwald: Spying not about terror)
"I can give assurances to the publics in Europe and around the world that we're not going around snooping at people's emails or listening to their phone calls. What we try to do is to target very specifically areas of concern," Obama said in September during a visit to Sweden.
"Just because we can do something, doesn't mean we should do it. And there may be situations in which we're gathering information just because we can that doesn't help us with national security, but does raise questions in terms of whether we're tipping over into being too intrusive with respect to the interactions of other governments," the president said, in what now looks like a hint of the Merkel-related news that was yet to emerge.
Former Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.) said the concerns law-abiding Europeans and others are raising about their lack of legal protection from U.S. surveillance are valid and should be addressed.
( Also on POLITICO: Barack Obama: No comment on foreign leader surveillance)
"That's a fair question," Harman said when asked about U.S. officials' frequent references to privacy protections for those who are citizens of, or living in, the United States. "But our Constitution is designed that way."
"Am I in favor of compromising the civil liberties of people who are U.S. persons? Of course not. But as we have this international conversation, I think it's very important to assure non-U.S. persons that we're not targeting them either," said the former House Intelligence Committee member, who now runs the Wilson Center in Washington.
"We need to make clear we're targeting individual bad guys," she added. "It's complicated. It's not an easy argument to make in the U.S. either."


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Lee Man Fong, Fortune and Longevity, 1951, 86 x 260 cm. Estimate: HK$12 million / US$1.54 million. Photo: Sotheby's.
Hong Kong will present its Southeast Asian Paintings Autumn Sale 2012 on 7 October at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. The auction will bring to market an exceptionally strong line-up of modern masterpieces, many of them fresh-to-market with an emphasis on impeccable provenance, rarity and quality. Rounded off by some of the finest examples in Contemporary Southeast Asian art, the collection represents the original, the eclectic, the cutting edge, and the timeless. Offering more than 150 works, the sale is expected to fetch in excess of HK$45 million / US$5.8 million*.
MOK Kim Chuan, Sothebys Head of Southeast Asian Paintings, said: This Autumn, Sothebys is proud to present a sophisticated array of outstanding works by prominent Southeast Asian modern masters, amassed from prestigious private collections around the world. This attests Sothebys leading position in this market, which enables us to source some of the finest properties for auction. Headlining the sale is Lee Man Fongs Fortune and Longevity, a unique work among Lees corpus and a masterpiece that balances the East and the West. No known work by the artist rivals it in its scale, rarity, significance, historical context, as well as creative and technical brilliance. It is an immense privilege for Sothebys to be entrusted with such important painting.
Other important modern works by major artists from the region are also worthy of note: from early pieces by Le Pho, rare lacquer works by Pham Hau, paintings from different periods by Fernando Amorsolo, to a rare assemblage of works by the five pioneer Nanyang artists from Singapore, among others. Bringing together works of such calibre in one season is an extremely rare occasion, and the sale is sure to attract active participation by new and established art collectors alike.
In April 2010, Sothebys Hong Kong presented Lee Man Fongs (1913 1988) Bali Life which achieved an impressive HK$25.3 million / US$3.2 million world record for any Southeast Asian painting at auction. This season, Sothebys will offer another rare painting by the artist - Fortune and Longevity (expected to fetch in excess of HK$12 million / US$1.54 million. Executed in 1951, during the most pivotal years of the artists career, this epic painting (86 x 260 cm) is one of his largest and most exquisitely executed. Extremely rare in Lee Man Fongs oeuvre, Fortune and Longevity was kept in private hands since its completion and is offered at auction this Autumn for the first time in more than six decades.
Fortune and Longevity is a compelling masterpiece that reaffirms Lees contribution and influence as a pioneer Southeast Asian artist who created a brilliant synthesis of Eastern and Western art. The serene depiction of people of different generations feasting and dancing is brought alive by his striking brushstrokes, exhibiting immense technical skill which emulates the fluidity of Chinese ink, but using oil. The painting celebrates peace, prosperity, abundance and good health, expressed through the Chinese calligraphy used by the artist in addition to the auspicious symbols such as the pumpkin a symbol of prosperity, abundance, good luck spanning generations and the qi lin, a symbol of good omen, protection, prosperity, success and longevity. It is Lees deepest empathy for humanism that imbues the painting with soul, bringing with it the artists vision and wishes for a better life for the people.
Among the highlights from Indonesia are two inspiring works by Affandi (1907 1990). Executed in 1976, the sensational Self Portrait, Eating Watermelon (Est. HK$1.6 2.5 million / US$207,000 323,000), rich in colour and texture, is one of the most emotionally-charged works of Affandis career. Its particular composition stands apart from most pieces in Affandis signature Self Portrait series in that it captures the artist biting into a slice of juicy watermelon that covers the lower part of his face, thus giving it an element of candidness, enthusiasm and immediacy. His method of applying paint onto the canvas by squeezing it directly out of the tube is passionate and distinctive. The vibrant, swirling, seemingly moving impastos of this work echo the vivacity and gusto with which Affandi consumes the luscious ripe watermelon. The raw hunger and emotion it depicts resonates with his intense fervour for painting, and ultimately celebrates his joie de vivre.
Also by Affandi is Ginza (Est. HK$1.2 1.8 million / US$155,000 233,000). Affandis travelling series is one of the most important in his body of work, and he was the only Indonesian artist up to the mid-20th century to travel so extensively around the world and to paint so incessantly what he experienced and observed during these trips. Executed in 1970, this piece records Affandis journey to Ginza, the most vibrant district in Tokyo, a place which enabled him to translate the energy and vitality of the urban monuments and lights celebrating the triumph of man. Affandi reveals his fascination with the modernity and glamour of grand cities and luminous skyscrapers. Ginza not only serves as a milestone in Affandis career but it also articulates his unique expression, fascination, awe and passion for life and perhaps even more significantly, confirms his international standing.
Le Phos (1907 2001) Mother and Child (Est. HK$780,000 1.2 million / US$101,000 155,000), executed in the late 30s and early 40s, is an excellent illustration of his expertise with silk painting. Maintaining a balance between Western artistry and Vietnamese soul, Le Phos art indicates the unstoppable progress of time and innovation and yet the unchanging yearning for humanism. Le Pho has probed into portrayals of motherhood continually in his oeuvre, but each composition is infused with its own spirit, drawing the viewers attention to his articulation, richness and complexity. Layered with themes of divinity, motherhood, hope, Western influence and Indochinese identity, these elements firmly establish Mother and Child as one of Le Phos masterpiece works of Vietnamese Modern Art.
Expressing the artists interest in social comment, Sekaten 1926 (Est. HK$4.5 6.8 million / US$585,000 880,000) by Walter Spies (1895 1942) is one of a limited number of oil on canvas works by Spies remaining in private hands. There are less than 50 oil works depicting his seminal Indonesian themes, of which twelve were destroyed or their present whereabouts unknown, and 7 are in museums or institutions. The present works rarity and unconventional subject matter and composition, truly makes it invaluable.
Gambuh Dancer (Est. HK$5.5 6.8 million / US$710,000 880,000) by Romualdo F. Locatelli (1905 1943) illustrates the best interpretation of painterliness. With broad, energetic brushstrokes, Locatelli conveys a sense of constant movement and skillfully captures the essence of his sitter a performer of the gambuh, the most archaic dance form in Bali. Executed in 1939, Gambuh Dancer exemplifies a masterwork from Locatellis Bali period, which is one of the most liberating and important in the artists career. This painting is an important example of Locatellis great artistic expression, illustrating a perfect synthesis between his European academic training and the indigenous elements in his new home.
This season, Sothebys will present an extraordinary ensemble of important works by the five pioneer Nanyang artists, namely Cheong Soo Pieng, Georgette Chen, Chen Wen Hsi, Liu Kang and Chen Chong Swee, who have played a significant role in shaping the style and philosophy of the artistry in Singapore.
The contemporary section is led by Filipino artist Ronald Ventura (b. 1973)s The Dive (Est. HK$480,000 680,000 / US$62,000 88,000), in which the artist explored a theme that has always been a constant preoccupation throughout his career, that of preserving a world that is filled of hope for the future generation, a sustainable world for his son, who is his inspiration. This work is also a reflection of the Filipino consciousness the importance of environmental preservation, not only for the present, but also for a world in which there is a tomorrow.
Handiwirman Saputras (b. 1975) Tutur Karena, Nelan (Est. HK$680,000 880,000 / US$88,000 114,000) illustrates the artists view of beauty which is sincere and original. Part of the important Tutur Karena series, executed in 2008, this highly conceptual work blurs the boundaries between abstraction and figuration, provoking viewers to associate the strange objects in his paintings with things that are familiar. The name of the series was derived from his cultural roots in Padang and can be understood as a way of saying something without mentioning the thing itself. It juxtaposes the strength of this idea with the sophisticated subtlety of the colours and composition and embodies the quintessence of Handiwirman.
Another highlight in the contemporary section is a powerful painting by Ay Tjoe Christine (b. 1973). The Workers (Est. HK$220,000 320,000 / US$28,400 41,300) is a key work created in 2010 that bridges two of the most pivotal styles for Ay Tjoe Christine: that of Lama Sabakhthani Club (a series that signaled her spiritual awakening) and Layer (a stylistic breakthrough). Straddling the line between abstraction and figuration as well as strength and fragility is Ay Tjoes forté and it could not be expressed more finely in the current painting.
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The stalled push to expand Interstate 49 in south Louisiana could get new life with the creation of a coalition of business and government leaders.
The stalled push to expand Interstate 49 in south Louisiana could get new life with the creation of a coalition of business and government leaders.
But tight budgets mean raising money remains a huge obstacle.
"This is something we've been trying to do for 20 years. I'm tired of not seeing any progress," said state Sen. Bret Allain, R-Franklin, who represents parts of Terrebonne and Lafourche. "All the people I've talked to said a coalition like this is the best way to go."
Efforts to link New Orleans to Lafayette via I-49 have been stop-and-go for years. Though several projects have improved the existing roads, the toughest work — stretching the road north into Lafayette and growing the southern part of road through Raceland and into New Orleans — remains undone.
That's largely because such an undertaking would cost an estimated $5 billion, making it among the largest highway projects in Louisiana at a time when the state's budget remains tight.
Allain said an interstate into Houma-Thibodaux would be a huge economic development plus.
"If you look at the Census for those areas that were along the I-10, I-12 corridor, they grew by 30 percent," Allain said. "In my mind, there's no better way to grow an economy than to give it that access."
Allain said current efforts to pay for such a project have faltered because there's no single manager.
"We need somebody working on this full time. We need somebody who is devoting their life to this," Allain said. "That's what this coalition will do."
Allain said the coalition would be modeled after Lafourche Parish's LA 1 Coalition, which helped find money to elevate La. 1 from Leeville to Port Fourchon and build a new bridge in Leeville.
Henri Boulet, the La. 1 Coalition's director, has been talking with I-49 Coalition organizers, sharing how his group got on its feet.
Allain said he is currently pitching the coalition to business organizations, industrial groups and local leaders in hopes of rallying support.
"We want to create a coalition that is so politically broad that it can't be ignored," Allain said.
Boulet said the coalition would likely start by raising a mix of money from local governments and matches from local corporations.
"You go to them and say 'Look, this will bring lots of business into your areas,' " Boulet said. "You convince them to give you the money you need to get started, to hire the people you need, and you can move from there."
Boulet said any counterpart of his would face serious challenges.
The biggest of those is tight state construction budgets. Boulet said the state doles out a total of $300 million per year, which translates to only $5 million to $10 million per parish.
"That's not very much at all for a project of this size," Boulet said.
The news is no better on the federal level, where the competitive highway-grant program is authorized to hand out $500 million over the next two years. Boulet said that means Louisiana might be lucky to get $10 million or so.
Boulet also said Congress has stopped handing out individual "earmarks" for specific projects, making any other federal money virtually impossible to find.
Boulet said any I-49 expansion would likely require tolls.
"They need to be forward in organizing community support for tolls," Boulet said. "They need to be out there talking to people and making sure this is something they would support."
Tolls present both public opinion problems and logistical problems — the state struggled to collect tolls on the Leeville Bridge for years.
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"They've learned more about where to put cameras and things like that," Boulet said. "If they do put up a toll on I-49, I'd bet they would apply those lessons they learned."
Allain acknowledged that money might not come easy.
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