August 2009

Liveblogging From RT4: New Orleans Institute Presentation

August 22, 2009

Liveblogging as usual, so keep checking back here for updates.  Also follow the #risingtide and #rt4 hashtags on Twitter. You want a citizen journal, you’ve got a citizen journal: Ariella Cohen talks to us about the New Orleans Institute and announces the upcoming Orleans’s own investigative news site: New Orleans Public Record. Based on The [...]

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Liveblogging From RT4: Healthcare Panel

August 22, 2009

Liveblogging as usual, so keep checking back here for updates.  Also follow the #risingtide and #rt4 hashtags on Twitter. Healthcare panel includes public health Ph.D. candidate and local blogger Holly Scheib, Cecile Tebo, crisis unit coordinator for the NOPD and one of New Orleans magazine’s Top Ten Female Achievers; Dr Elmore Rigamer, medical director of [...]

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Liveblogging From RT4: Politics Panel

August 22, 2009

Liveblogging as usual, so keep checking back here for updates.  Also follow the #risingtide and #rt4 hashtags on Twitter. Lunch from Café Reconcile was excellent, especially the white beans on rice.  Yummy!  On to the politics panel: Adrastos moderates Clancy Dubos of The Gambit & WWLTV, political cartoonist John Slade, Lamar White of CenLamar and [...]

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Liveblogging From RT4: Harry Shearer Keynote

August 22, 2009

Liveblogging as usual, so keep checking back here for updates.  Also follow the #risingtide and #rt4 hashtags on Twitter. Harry Shearer takes stage.  “I’m delighted to be anywhere, any time I’m in New Orleans.”  I can’t decide whether it’s Mr. Burns, Smithers or Ned Flanders talking to me and it shakes me to my very [...]

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Liveblogging From RT4: Net2NO Presentation

August 22, 2009

Liveblogging as usual, so keep checking back here for updates.  Also follow the #risingtide and #rt4 hashtags on Twitter. Jessica Rohloff, of Net Squared New Orleans (@NewJess on Twitter), up there talking about social media in New Orleans.  Call themselves “nerds* getting together for a project.”  Attended last SXSW conference to show that “New Orleans [...]

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Liveblogging From Rising Tide 4: Culture Panel

August 22, 2009

Prologue: Hugging, kissing, huggingkissinghugging my friends. Tears came on seeing Slate. I’m here, people, I am here!  Liveblogging as usual, so keep checking back here for updates.  Also follow the #risingtide and #rt4 hashtags on Twitter. Emcee Loki is up there!  Watch out, wake up, etc.  Introducing Wet Bank Guy, the moderator of the Culture [...]

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Chicago, Part 5: The Wright Flyer

August 20, 2009

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Chicago, Part 4: Enigma

August 20, 2009

The events and artifacts of World War II fascinate me.  Not World War I, not Korea, not Vietnam, not even the war of the greatest import to my family, but World War II.  I still smile knowing we lived only a few blocks down the street from the D-Day World War II museum in New [...]

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Chicago, Part 3: The U-505 Submarine

August 20, 2009

Capture of U-505 on 4 June 1944 On 4 June 1944, a hunter-killer group of the United States Navy captured the German submarine U-505. This event marked the first time a U.S. Navy vessel had captured an enemy vessel at sea since the nineteenth century. The action took place in the Atlantic Ocean, in Latitude [...]

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Chicago, Part 2 (Wherein I Break The Gravitron Maker)

August 18, 2009

A couple of Saturdays ago, D and I spent a good portion of the day at the Chicago Museum of Science & Industry with friends. The museum has come a long way since 1992, when I visited last, and it should go on your list of 100 Places To See Before You Die. The exhibits [...]

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