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• Fur-wearers, dealers say Louisiana’s nutria can ...

  Fur-wearers, dealers say Louisiana’s nutria can make ‘beautiful’ coats, help wetlands
  ~Laura McKnight
  ~Editilla Scrotellas~ We added that last part about helping wetlands due to the erosive effects of Nutria on restoration efforts and flood control structures. Outside of Boots, Gloves and Wine Flasks, Editilla gets personanally creeped out [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 10:00am EST
  

• Breaching Federal Flood Denial~The Palm ...

  Breaching Federal Flood Denial
  ~The Palm Beach Post~H/T~Levees.org
  ~The federal government's failure after Hurricane Katrina — "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job" — might turn out to be nothing compared with its failure before Katrina missed NOLA.
  
  
  Civil Engineers weigh on Corps liability [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 10:30am EST
  

• Corps' MR-GO claims should be settled, ...

  Corps' MR-GO claims should be settled, and fast, attorneys say
  ~Mark Schleifstein
  ~Winning Attorney Pierce O'Donnell said the Obama administration has two choices in responding to Duval's Wednesday ruling.
  "The Justice Department could continue the scorched earth policies of the prior administration and stonewall the people of New Orleans'" [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:50am EST
  

• Kenner City Council asks Corps for ...

  Kenner City Council asks Corps for information about Garbage in substandard Levee
  ~Mary Sparacello
  ~The Kenner City Council asked Thursday that the Army Corps of Engineers disclose who allowed a section of Kenner lakefront levee to be raised with substandard material. "I want to know where that weak link" [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 8:30am EST
  

• Nola.com White Washes ...

  Nola.com White Washes Corps' Graft on Garbage-filled Levees
  ~WARNING! Blatant Financial Conflict of Interest!
  ~That contractor is off the hook now, Mr. Herr said, because the corps accepted the job back in 2000 and 2001. So taxpayers will have to pay a yet-to-be-determined amount' [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 8:40am EST
  

• Corps liable for failed operation ...

  Corps liable for failed operation of MR-GO: doomed homes in St. Bernard, Lower 9th Ward,
  judge rules~Mark Schleifstein
  ~"Judge Duval exposed 40 years of the Army Corps of Engineers' gross malfeasance with regard to the operation and maintenance of the MR-GO," said Pierce O'Donnell, a Los Angeles-based [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 8:59pm EST
  

• Leslie Jacobs, good opening Ad --except ...

  Leslie Jacobs, good opening Ad --except for a mispilled gut check on the Teeensy Fact that Katrina did not cause New Orleans to flood on August 29th, 2005
  ~Editilla bites the tongue that feeds it~
  It is but a tiny little bone in my heart, the difference between a [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 2:47pm EST
  

• Independent study sought in Charity Hospital ...

  Independent study sought in Charity Hospital debate
  ~Jan Moller
  
  The most mysterious drink in the city: the enigmatic, Mass Portal
  ~American Zombie
  
  Clueless~We Could Be Famous
  
  Applications available for NOLA health program ~NOLAFemmes
  
  From Look'see to Come'see: Corrupted Levees in Kenner [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 8:00am EST
  

• Leslie Jacobs to ...

  Leslie Jacobs to launch ad blitz in New Orleans mayoral race
  ~Frank Donze [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 7:42pm EST
  

• Liprap's Lament - The Line:Leslie ...

  Liprap's Lament - The Line:
  Leslie Jacobs and the Bloggers
  ~Apart yer'ho'so humble Editilla (who was jus'schleppin the Gambit Twit) , Liprap is first outta'da gate on Leslie Jacobs Live from last night's "Mayor Mugs Bloggers" meet'n'greet.
  We always enjoy the way Leigh lays it right in da'pocket. She' [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 4:29pm EST
  

• Leslie Jacobs reaches ...

  Leslie Jacobs reaches out to Nola Bloggers before official campaign announcement ~Gambit Twits!
  
  Leslie Jacobs
  Speaking with Sandy Rosenthal of Levees.org, Kevin Allman of Gambit and Leigh Checkman of Liprap's Lament
  
  ~Editilla Counsuellas~Again, Big' [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 9:00am EST
  

• Contaminated Soil in New Orleans: New ...

  Contaminated Soil in New Orleans: New Research Finds Arsenic is from Federal Flood
  ~Gina Solomon
  
  Corps looks to strengthen flood walls~Jennifer Van Vrancken
  
  Nation's largest gay newspaper publisher closes~Dorie Turner
  ~H/T~ BBuzz
  
  $7,500 grants available to strengthen homes against storms ~WWL[...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 4:07pm EST
  

• Editilla expecta'hear One Wordabout Leslie ...

  Editilla expecta'hear One Word
  about Leslie Jacobs for Mayor...
  
  ~Yeah!~We have been trying to get a Woman elected God for the longest time. But, since Heaven ain't exactly what you'd call a Democracy if you know what I mean, Editilla would have settled for President of the' [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 7:00am EST
  

• Kenner levee 'compromised' ...

  Kenner levee 'compromised' by debris, Corps officials say
  ~Sheila Grissett
  ~Warning Dixclaimer Bat Signal~
  Screen Shots of Expensive Flash Adverts from today's nola.com above and at right. Yes, they are real and the Irony galling...
  --like the T-P/Corps would stick a Thump Up in' [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 8:30am EST
  

• 'Leslie Jacobs for ...

  'Leslie Jacobs for Mayor' launches Website, Facebook, Twitter platform sans 'Platform'
  ~~T'row Me Some'tin, Sista!
  
  ~Editilla Gotta Toll'ya... we toll'ya! hahaha~
  I took one look at this woman and all sorts of Intuitive Bells and Whistles began [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 10:30am EST
  

• The Word ...

  The Word Not Spoken: Bagram ~Harry Shearer
  
  Proposed live oyster ban on hold~Jay Vise
  
  "With ingenuity and determination"
  ~Your Right Hand Thief
  ~And a bit mo'from ADRASTOS
  ' [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 12:54pm EST
  

• New Army Corps ...

  New Army Corps Policy Forces Project Designers to Consider Rising Seas~Taryn Luntz
  ~Also~Congressional delegation decries Army Corps’ Plan to deepen Delaware River
  
  All about Louisiana's oil-and-gas industry~Daily Comet
  
  St. Tammany Parish president frustrated over delay in funding for flood control[...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 8:30am EST
  

• ~Editilla Notellas on'da Crow'tella~ 77,777 hits ...

  ~Editilla Notellas on'da Crow'tella~
  77,777 hits on yer'Birf Day! Hahahaha, that is just cool as hell.
  If any'youz would like to know just how fast someone can run from That Flood, please do check and compare our first post
  --at the bottom of our very first week alive, [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 8:30am EST
  

• Another Letter About ...

  Another Letter About Afghanistan the President May Not Be Reading~Harry Shearer [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 5:13pm EST
  

• Thank You NOFD, Charity Hospital ~and all who held The Line. Jus'sayin... Sinn Féin

  
  ~Thank You, Pop.
  Thank You, Sandy.
  
  *
  Letter: Use of eminent domain for LSU/VA immoral with reasonable alternatives available
  ~SaveCharityHospital.com
  
  Rep. Cao vs. retired Gen. Honoré
  ~Denis Keohane
  
  Melancon, Cao protected by politics ~Gerard Shields
  
  School choice: Grandmother struggles to [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 8:00am EST
  

• St. Bernard Parish fares well during ...

  St. Bernard Parish fares well during Ida; parish officials watching slow-draining rural areas~Bob Warren
  ~Taffaro did say that officials and area residents had noticed that the water seemed to be taking longer to drain from areas outside the levee system today. He said officials went out to the earthen [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 7:19pm EST
  

• Troy Henry launches N.O. mayoral campaign: ...

  Troy Henry launches N.O. mayoral campaign: ranglin'fo Successful Business Exec with No Political Experience
  --But Not like Nagin was...
  or Georges is, or... Leslie who?
  ~David Hammer
  ~Editilla Ho'tellas~Yeah, well, we all expect the next mayor to "Get The Job Done", right? But what about actual issues?
  Who has [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 8:30am EST
  

• Ida not weakening; ...

  Ida not weakening; spreading heavy rains inland
  ~Wunder Blog
  
  London Avenue Canal gates are ordered closed
  
  Parsing: Corps publicly commits to fix outfall canal walls
  ~Fix the Pumps [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 3:21pm EST
  

• EU commemorates the ...

  EU commemorates the fall of the Berlin Wall, reproduces the domino effect
  ~The center piece of the "Festival of Freedom" will be an artistic project reproducing the domino effect of the events in 1989. Organised by the City of Berlin with the participation of [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 8:00am EST
  

• Dimanche~ GEAUX SAINTS! 8-0 BAY'BAY!!!

  WHO'DAT???
  YO'BEAUX 8-0!!!!
  ~Alejandro de los Rios
  
  
  ~La. Gov. declares state of emergency as Hurricane Ida menaces Gulf Coast
  
  Coastal Parishes Prep For Possible Flooding ~WDSU
  
  Louisiana Anxious, Watchful for Hurricane Ida~Carol Forsloff
  
  Ida takes casualties~NYT
  
  Ida takes [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 6:27pm EST
  

• "Man With Balls Lives Here" Rep. ...

  "Man With Balls Lives Here" Rep. Cao is only Republican to vote for Democrats' health care ~Jonathan Tilove
  ~In the end, satisfied that the House health care reform bill would not subsidize abortions, Rep. Anh "Joseph'' Cao, R-New Orleans, voted "yes" late Saturday night, making him the only Republican'" [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 8:30am EST
  

• H/T'n'Thanks Youz

  H/T'n'Thanks Youz Charolette getting Dinglerized!
  
  Ed Blakely Former Recovery Buffoon is on Facebook
  ~Thanks Youz Karen!
  ~and a little'mo Lagniappe from Squandered Heritage.
  
  Navy Week: Johanna Mudge
  ~NOLAFemmes
  
  Ida might skip Louisiana, veer to Florida~Mark Schleifstein
  
  [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 10:15am EST
  

• Flood Insurance: The ...

  Flood Insurance: The Flip Side of Katrina~Harry Shearer
  
  Ida Update
  [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 2:54pm EST
  

• Estimated Profit: Corps' price for

  Estimated Profit: Corps' price for Not protecting New Orleans
  ~Michael Luke
  
  ~Editilla A'hemas~ We saw this very show in Jackson, MS
  
  Tropical Depression Ida approaches Honduras
  
  Rep. Cassidy urges to rethink conservation efforts
  ~David Bennett
  
  Polluters feel the heat in [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 8:00am EST
  

• Raw-oyster proposal targeted ...

  Raw-oyster proposal targeted by federal legislation~Bruce Alpert
  ~Three Gulf Coast senators introduced legislation Thursday that would bar the Food and Drug Administration from using federal money to enforce a ban on the sale of raw, untreated oysters during warm-weather months. [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 8:13pm EST
  

• United Houma ...

  United Houma Nation plans options for storm-prone communities ~Naomi King
  
  Coastal wetlands education program conveys memories of fading lifestyles ~Katie Kennedy
  
  Report challenges feds to eliminate barriers to saving the coast~Daily Comet
  
  Interactive climate map shows world after 4C [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 10:00am EST
  

• Out of ...

  Out of the Mouths of Corps Managers...~Harry Shearer
  
  King Milling's Exquisite Corps and the Sell-Out of South Louisiana
  
  Tropical Storm Ida threatens Central America, could be in Gulf of Mexico by Monday
  ~Mark Schleifstein
  ~Wunder Blog
  [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 6:27pm EST
  

• Charity Hospital reimbursement claims inflated through ...

  Charity Hospital reimbursement claims inflated through error, bias, FEMA argues~Jan Moller
  
  LSU student, rape-survivor,
  confronts Louisiana Senator
  David Vitter (R-Pamper) over his
  vote against the rights of raped
  Citizens to criminal prosecution
  
  Vitty'cent Humpin'Day~slabbed
  
  Questions I Have for the Army Corps of Engineers
  [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 8:00am EST
  

• One Year Along:freehopeandchange.com~Harry Shearer~It ...

  One Year Along:
  freehopeandchange.com
  ~Harry Shearer~It was maybe March of this year that I first said to someone who asked what I thought of the then-new President that he was in the process of making two major, perhaps historic, mistakes: pretending that Afghanistan had patiently waited for seven years [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 1:09pm EST
  

• Slidell senator wants mud from Corps ...

  Slidell senator wants mud from Corps projects for planned 'megaport' near mouth of Mississippi River
  ~Jen DeGregorio
  ~The Army Corps of Engineers may play a role in building a planned megaport near the mouth of the Mississippi River, potentially using mud dredged from the channel as construction material for [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 10:30am EST
  

• Leslie Jacobs enters Mayor's race in ...

  Leslie Jacobs enters Mayor's race in New Orleans
  
  Make levees, not war
  ~~An unsigned editorial from New Orleans City Business
  ~Editilla Hmmmmellas~ Given the rhetorical holes in this editorial, big enough to suck a train through, we have to wonda what in the world is this' [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 8:30am EST
  

• Leslie Jacobs enters Mayor's race~We just ...

  Leslie Jacobs enters Mayor's race
  ~We just got this from her sister-in-law, Sandy Rosenthal, the founder and executive director of Levees.org.
  Ya'hoid it Heah Foist! Editilla loves scoop'in I Scream!
  We feel that this doesn't signify an endorsement of her candidacy as much as signal that New Orleans Flood Safety [...]
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  Posted: November 01, 2009, 9:17pm EST
  

• Who'dat Boo'dat?

  Celebrate All Saints Day by learning more about New Orleans jazz funerals
  ~Maria C. Montoya
  
  ~Image boo'dats to: Haunted America Tours
  
  
  Mardi Gras Indians are singing the Saints praises
  ~Alison Fensterstock
  
  10TH Annual All' [...]
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  Posted: November 01, 2009, 10:30am EST
  

• Corps Public Relations Gets Giant West ...

  Corps Public Relations Gets Giant West Bank Pump Station Celebration Under Way
  ~Friday's event capped a week in which the corps held a three-day closed-door summit at a Metairie hotel (?) to brainstorm ways to cut $200 million to $300 million from the project to keep it under budget.' [...]
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  Posted: October 31, 2009, 6:29am EDT
  

• New Orleans: The Corps Defends the ...

  New Orleans: The Corps Defends the Future~Harry Shearer
  
  Col. "NO NO Protection" Lee satisfied with local levee effort
  ~Nikkie Buskey~Col. Al "Give Up NO" Lee, commander of the Army Corps of Engineers New Orleans District Office, visited construction at H-3 in lower Chauvin. H-3, which workers [...]
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  Posted: October 30, 2009, 3:29pm EDT
  

• Nearly $1M in roadwork begins in ...

  Nearly $1M in roadwork begins in preparation for riverfront park~Richard A. Webster
  
  Louisiana Restaurant Association to fight FDA plan to ban raw oysters
  
  Are raw oysters a bigger threat to health than McDonald's fries?
  ~World Class New Orleans
  
  Clown Car: Some' [...]
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  Posted: October 30, 2009, 9:30am EDT
  

• "Today is a good day to ...

  "Today is a good day to die",
  Man barricaded in house tells
  T-P reporter: ~Richard Scearce, 59, reached on his home phone, said, "I'm old, fat and crippled. I'm not going out on the streets to live. Let them come get me."
  He said he heard police were having [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2009, 5:23pm EDT
  

• Louisianans react to proposed federal ban ...

  Louisianans react to proposed federal ban on summer oysters
  ~Nikki Buskey
  
  Catching up on Katrina litigation ~slabbed
  
  Reinventing Paradise...
  New Orleans and the Invisible Coast~Robert Corsini
  
  Mitch Landrieu Convenes Louisiana Cultural Economy Summit ~BBuzz
  
  Entergy asks to cancel Little [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2009, 9:32am EDT
  

• Aaaiiight Now! Oyster-Ban ...

  Aaaiiight Now! Oyster-Ban Joke ain't funny no'mo
  ~FDA to ban sale of raw Gulf oysters to fight bacteria; restaurants, harvesters cry foul ~Cain Burdeau/AP
  
  Louisiana blasts FDA plan to limit oyster production
  ~Chris Kirkham
  ~“It’s not only going to include raw oysters. You [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 9:00am EDT
  

• Levees.org says Corps General's Surrender of ...

  Levees.org says Corps General's Surrender of New Orleans to flooding is "Childish Cop-Out"
  "Protect the city no, reduce the risk yes." ~ Lt. General Robert Van Antwerp, Chief of the US Army Corps of Engineers
  ~Flood control advocate Sandy Rosenthal of "levee.org" says General Van Antwerp made' [...]
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  Posted: October 27, 2009, 9:00am EDT
  

• Stop Katrina Shorthand ...

  Stop Katrina Shorthand Media
  NOLA City Council Resolution
  Passed 5-0~Levees.org
  
  
  Levees.org New Bumper Sticker!
  ~~Jus'One Dolla! Maka You Holla!~Available Wherever Particular People Congrooviate~
  ~On Levee Failures and Weather Event
  
  Now Do You Believe?~WWL
  
  WHO'DAT!~Canal St. Chronicles
  [...]
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  Posted: October 26, 2009, 7:00am EDT
  

• Making the Louisiana coast a priority ...

  Making the Louisiana coast a priority while allowing post-flood
  New Orleans to drown
  ~Editilla lances this Editorial Botox, proving again that the Pen is Mightier than the Boil~
  ~Wow, yet again not a word from the Times-Picayune about the Gatzillion Ton Gorilla in the Living Room: the Corps of [...]
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  Posted: October 25, 2009, 7:00am EDT
  

• US Army Corps admits it can't ...

  US Army Corps admits it can't stop floods in New Orleans
  ~Paul Brown~Lt. General Robert Van Antwerp, Chief of the US Army Corps of Engineers would not answer my question "Should New Orleans be abandoned?"
  But the General, whose job it is to protect New Orleans from future hurricanes,' [...]
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  Posted: October 24, 2009, 5:19pm EDT
  

• Delaying safe pump stations for New ...

  Delaying safe pump stations for New Orleans is not an option: an editorial, by the Times-Picayune --who gave the Corps Free Pass!
  ~Editilla snaps a fuse into a million watt anus~
  Is This the kind of after-market alligator tears you show the public --after you have taken so [...]
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  Posted: October 24, 2009, 10:00am EDT
  

• Vendredi~Boo'Dat???

  Corps of Engineers snubs local MS flood protection board
  ~Northside Sun~THE U.S. ARMY Corps of Engineers is apparently responsible to no one when it comes to spending taxpayer dollars and getting nothing for it.
  After wasting six years and $2.8 million to study the Two Lakes Flood Control [...]
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  Posted: October 23, 2009, 5:49pm EDT