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September 19th, 2005 #1
Why is Getting a Bachelor's Degree in Art so Important?Typical Course Sequence
First Quarter
FS101 Fundamentals/Observational Drawing
FS102 Fundamentals of Design
FS103 Color Theory
FS104 Computer Applications
HU110 College English *
Second Quarter
FS111 Drawing, Proportion & Perspective
MA1112 Drawing & Anatomy
FS131 Typography - Traditional
FS122 Image Manipulation
HU111 Effective Speaking *
Third Quarter
GA1121 Survey of the Game Industry
MA1122 Character & Object Design
MA1124 Sculpture for Animation
MA1132 Life Drawing & Gesture
MS110 Quantitative Literacy & Reasoning *
Fourth Quarter
GA2201 Game Design and Game Play
MA1131 Conceptual Storytelling
MA1133 2D Animation Principles
MA1134 Principles of 3D Modeling
HU130 Visual Language & Culture *
Fifth Quarter
MA2201 Background Design & Layout
MA2202 Story Boarding for Animation
GA2212 Game Modeling & Animation
MA2204 3D Animation
MS111 College Algebra *
Sixth Quarter
GA2211 Hard Surface & Organic Modeling
EL01 Elective
MA2212 3D Camera Techniques
MA2214 Audio for Animation
FS239 Career Development
Seventh Quarter
GA3311 Material & Lighting
GA3312 Level Design
GA3313 Designing 3D Environments
GA3314 3D Character Rigging
HU357 Ethics *
Eighth Quarter
MA3312 Advanced Lighting & Texture
GA3322 Advanced Level Design
GA3323 3D Scripting
GA3324 Character Modeling
SB112 Psychology *
Ninth Quarter
GA3331 Game Prototyping
GA3332 Interface Design for Games
GA3333 Introduction to Scripting Languages
HU230 Art History *
HU251 Literature *
Tenth Quarter
GA4401 Advanced Game Prototyping
GA4402 Senior Project Planning
GA4403 Intermediate Scripting Languages
GA4424 Advanced Character Rigging
SB110 World Civilization *
Eleventh Quarter
MA3324 Character Animation
EL02 Elective
GA4412 Senior Project 1
SB113 Sociology *
SB250 Humanities *
Twelfth Quarter
EL03 Elective
GA4422 Senior Project 2
FS497 Portfolio II
SB210 US History *
SB111 Anthropology *
FS399 Internship I
FS499 Internship II
I look at that curriculum and all I see are classes that I can take at community colleges at a tenth of the price.
Why should I spend $70,000 on school for classes that are readily available at community colleges?
I've taken Calculus and Biology.........to me these classes don't seem that challenging.
Justin Sweet, Feng Zhu, Jim Lee.......alot of people never got a BS Degree in Art.
Plus, I've seen people get a Bachelor's Degree and end up in a job not of their academic training.
Isn't it more about learning what it's all about then pursuing a piece of paper?
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You so spectacularly missed the point of my posts, that I am finding this hilarious right about now.
Btw, maybe you'll want to take a course on those so that maybe you won't think that "the goal of concept art is to draw without reference"? Just a thought.
September 19th, 2005 #3Originally Posted by Magic Man
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September 19th, 2005 #4
I agree with you, but we live in a world that people with that piece of paper and little knowledge earn more and is respected more than people with more knowledge and no piece of paper.
And yes, many people spend years specialising in a field of expertise, then get a job in a totally different environment. Like my friend with a BSc in Physics and now he is working in a bank.
September 19th, 2005 #5
You miss my point.
I can take these classes at community colleges, without getting a bachelor's degree.
Here's a listing of community colleges.
Basically, I'm researching this stuff and it's driving me nutz.
Plus this sculpture really makes me leery of art schools:
I think you also understand why I'm so angry at art schools in San Diego.
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September 19th, 2005 #6
Getting any kind of schooling, whether is is two year or four degrees is this. It proves that you have the initiative and the intestinal fortitude to put up with a load of crap, other students, annoying professors that you hate and still fulfill the requirements that are set forth in front of you to complete. Interships which are usually intended to do nothing but allow to experience adequate amounts of abuse for you reach the real world are usually in 2 and 4 year curriculums.
However, from the previous posts, it appears that you are experiencing some of the that abuse early. CA.org, for the abuse that you are missing in the real world...LOL
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September 19th, 2005 #7
I've been self-taught most of my life, and i gotta admit i take some pride in it. I just did my first year in art school and gotta say most classes i had were a waste of time. Wherever i didn't have to put up with project methodology, it was the same old obsession with impressionism, expressionism, futurism and all those other currents that basically fought the academies and each other's ways and are now put in the same academic bag. That and and aesthetics' theory which was basically like philosophy only even more senseless and useless. It made me hate art, to an extent.
Still, it's useful. I've learned a great deal from painting classes even if i still have a great deal more to learn. And it's not just the classes but all the people around you. It was the first time i was around so many skilled people (who all happened to have a totally different style from my own). It motivated me to work harder on my own skills, and learn stuff i didn't know.
And to point out the painful obvoius, a piece of paper these days can open all the right doors, wether you're qualified to go through them or not.
That's my experience anyway.
September 19th, 2005 #8
Not all community college courses transfer to a full four-year Bachelor's degree. Sometimes you will only get 40-60%, because the Community College courses are more of a skim-over, rather than "in-depth" discussion, with homework done more on your own, rather than in-class.
Check out transfers before you sing the community college praises too loudly.
Often, you'll pay the same in the end, and have to take some courses AGAIN...
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September 19th, 2005 #9
It's all about the end result.
If I show a portfolio to a potential employer that has mediocre artwork in it, but I scream, "NO! I am SELF TAUGHT and I am not an ART SCHOOL SNOB!! BROWNIE POINTS PLS KTHX!", I'm probably not going to get that job.
If I show them a portfolio with competent artwork, they're not going to care as much whether or not I reached that point through a college or through my own studies. I can give them what they want and that's that.
People who are self-taught have every right to be proud of themselves. They do have to work harder than some who attend an art school (and yes, there are ALWAYS those lazy asses who bullshit their way through school).
My experience with art school was mixed; you needed to be self-driven as nothing was spoon-fed to you and I did feel the school that I went to was over-priced, since many of the graduates went on to teach the same caliber of courses at smaller art schools in the area.
But I won't lie - a school can and will get you connections to the jobs you want, through internships or alumni. You have to be willing to pay for those connections, I guess.
But the fact still remains; you need to have the quality of work to back yourself up. If you can supplement your portfolio with community college courses, do it, but like madster said, you risk getting watered-down instruction.
Just get yourself primed and ready to land the jobs you want.
September 19th, 2005 #10Originally Posted by NoSeRider
September 19th, 2005 #11
you dont neeed a degree. i am a high school AND college dropout, and i do just fine. something you gotta realize is that the only person who determines whether or not you can earn a living as an artist is YOU. a piece of paper dont mean shit. it is entirely hinged on the quality of work you produce. and the only person that can make your work good by putting in the necessary time is..................you.-c36
September 19th, 2005 #12
first off, I think a degree only matters in rare cases, and they usually involve employers who aren't really looking at your portfolio. Secondly, I hope you don't think figure painting 101 at the local community college is the same as 15 weeks of teaching from a master painter. Look at community college portfolios and art school portfolios, then come back and tell us how insane the difference is. There are people in any school who shouldn't be there, but by and large it makes a big fat difference. Some people don't need schooling. I did. Every time I visit deviantart I'm glad made that choice.
Andrew Murray
Concept Artist, Tencent Boston
September 19th, 2005 #13Every time I visit deviantart I'm glad made that choice.
I just gotta move outta San Diego.
September 19th, 2005 #14
k. um... i'm in community college right now. as much as a lot of people have ripped on my artwork in the past, i fucking pwn this place. no competition. it sucks.
makes me wanna quit. or like, kick puppies.
college is an environment that fosters learning, and more advanced analytical and organizational skills.
rather than try to introduce the argument of 'if you can't pedal a bike, how can you expect to learn tricks? college teaches you how to pedal a bike!'
i introduce:
what happens if you think you're hot shit in your neighborhood, and you are, but see, the next neighborhood over has hot shit all over the place. college makes you work along side some of these hot shits. you see what you're up against. you learn the reasonable and realistic competition in your immediate future, and it definitely motivates you. and humbles you. before you argue that OH BUT PLACES LIKE CONCEPTART SHOW ME WHAT I'M UP AGAINST!!! uh, nope. not really. that's a bit, uh... small minded and naive to think that conceptart, an almost hall-of-fame of artists shows you what's out there. these people that you idolise and fawn over aren't the ordinary everyday. your chances are a lot better than you think.
so just work. either you go to college or you don't. if you go to college, you get the smug satisfaction of being able to wave the piece of paper and open big doors rather than ramming them with a giant, dull pencil. yeah. an HB battering ram. if you don't go to college, that door's not gonna open with a bit of knocking and a bit of walking.
really the only excuse you can use for not going to college is money/lack of money or... well, even then, there's all kinds of options for financial aid...
whine and moan all you want, but really it's up to you what you want to do, where you want to go, and how far you wanna go. you're your own worst critic. get the hell out of your own way.
September 19th, 2005 #15
Your "competition" down the line isn't your kid sister, classmate or the guy next door who can draw Dick Tracey just like in the comics, it's the select group of maybe a few hundred people who form the absolute top of the field right now. You're going to war...against the biggest, most dangerous, best armed enemy in the world. Whether you wanna take 'em on with only a plastic spork or not is a decision that only you can make.
I believe firmly in every cell of my body that I am NOT as good as the guy in front of me, so I have to try to be better, smarter and work harder. When the bastards finally shoot me in the back of the head and throw dirt on my ass, I'll know how well I did by how many are still chasing me compared to how many are still in front, looking back over their shoulders with that scared little puppy look...
The "tools" are out there. Use 'em. Or not. It's your choice, but just remember to keep looking over your shoulder...
September 19th, 2005 #16Originally Posted by madster
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You DON'T need a degree in art. (those look like Art Institute class schedule).
3 of my friends dropped out of the Art Institute and landed great jobs working in the game industry. They don't have a degree. They have talent.
You don't have to take ALL of those classes. It's a waste of time and money to take typography and "effective" speaking . Bullshit.
Just take the 3D animation, modeling, and life drawing class.
Infact, the life drawing at the art institute sucks. Go to a fine arts school for figure drawing. It's cheaper and the instructors know what they're doing.
September 19th, 2005 #18Originally Posted by bizarre
Your "competition" down the line isn't your kid sister, classmate or the guy next door who can draw Dick Tracey just like in the comics, it's the select group of maybe a few hundred people who form the absolute top of the field right now. You're going to war...against the biggest, most dangerous, best armed enemy in the world. Whether you wanna take 'em on with only a plastic spork or not is a decision that only you can make.
September 19th, 2005 #19
[QUOTE=ParkerD]It's a waste of time and money to take typography and "effective" speaking [QUOTE]
eh, i think typography and graphic design are good avenues of art to be at least familiar with, you dont have to be pro level with them but if you're going to be an illustrator, having an idea of what they go through is actually pretty valuable
September 19th, 2005 #20
Ilaekae- yeah, but i was trying to convince myself i had at least some kind of chance at getting SOME kind of job.
and like i said, college shows you what you're up against immediately- whose resume's you're gonna be fightin' with and such, at least locally.
it's good to think big, but there's no need to be afraid that you're up against the best armed enemy in the world. chances are, you're not gonna be in direct opposition to the top brass of the enemy. i'm not saying don't try hard, oh no... don't get me wrong, work your ass off!
what i'm saying is don't cry yourself to sleep because you can't draw like Craig Mullins Mohammid Aimar Tyson Fuckin Ali.
don't worry, you're not competing with them just yet. might as well focus on workin up your chops. THEN shoot for the olympics.
college, in my mind, is the act of doing a little work now for a little less work later.
September 19th, 2005 #21Originally Posted by ParkerD
September 19th, 2005 #22
it's just ignorant to call any kind of higher education 'bullshit'. just because you can't imagine needing to make a presentation to a room full of people doesn't mean public speech classes are useless.
just because you can't imagine typing up comps for design documents, or designing/choosing an appropriate font to go along with your art director's vision doesn't mean typography is useless.
September 19th, 2005 #23
Irene - that's an interesting comment you made...
I realize that several artists are soft-spoken, shy, quiet...
Do you feel this stands in the way of having a successful AD/illustrator relationship..or is it some other greater miscommunication that is really the downfall of the artist?
Perhaps a course in business isn't such a bad idea..?
September 19th, 2005 #24It's a waste of time and money to take typography and "effective" speaking . Bullshit.
Typography should be left to the graphic designers.....I don't wanna be a graphic designer.
Effective Speaking is another community college class I can take. Why pay $1500 a semester for that when you can get the same class at a community college for $126?........I did take a debate class at JC by the way, which explains my utter obstinance.
I can take a Typography class at a JC as well. It's a rip off I tell ya.
September 19th, 2005 #25
Bizarre- Honey, you said it perfectly.
I'd like to add, that a bachelors or masters degree is not the only road to rome. But its the fastest way. In a short ammount of time, you're beeing tought to live, breath and act professional. You're tought the skills of survival, doing it on your own. With that you get all the support and critics to start developing your own style. Next to it, a masters degree shows that you have reached a curtain level of thinking, independence and skills. You give yourself a headstart, and within college you can work to get above the mowfield.
My two cents,
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Taking a 10 week course, one day a week, isn't going to help that person learn how to communicate to your liking. It's a fundamental problem that requires a long-term solution. A teacher at an ART school isn't going to cure anyone of their communication disabilities.
You don't send people to art school to teach them how to communicate well. That's something that is facilitated since birth from family, friends, and societal interaction. A 10 week course in "effective" speaking from an art school is not gonna make up for a life-time's worth of neglect. And needlessly spent $1,500 for it as well.
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September 19th, 2005 #27Originally Posted by ParkerD
I can wave more damn educational paper at you than can choke a recycling plant, but effective communications are something that only experience can teach you.
I used to joke that the Community College I went to (speaking from sad experience on the transfer thing, okay?) did not offer any classes on Communications With Tact and Diplomacy, but if they did, I would be the very first person to sign up for them, and would probably end up repeating the class. No one who has ever worked "up close and personal," nor, I would wager, many others on this planet, ever doubted, nor disagreed with me...
I have my strengths, but effective, interactive communications is still a skill I struggle with (NO....not Madster...). It is a continuing effort at improvement...
All I can suggest is tolerance and clear communications. Many here have communicated with me on many levels, and whatever changes have occured are due to clear communications, never trash-talking, because I can do that with the rest and the best of ya... I know that my communication skills have improved, due in large part to having to communicate my observations to a very large and diverse audience, so having to adjust and tune to achieve maximum effect, with minimum misunderstanding/offense. Many of us have shortcomings that cannot be cured by 3rd Party education. You can only learn so much when you are "self-taught." Some of it really takes the feedback that only interaction with others can provide.
That is not to write off "formal education at a higher level." For some, the structured routine of classes and drawing can be helpful. For some, the knowledge gained of Art History, or Composition and Figure Drawing can be priceless. Not everyone has the same level of technical talent AND theoretical foundation. And for a great many, the discipline required and taught by attending classes with deadlines and assignments, is enough of a lesson in itself...
There are many paths to the destination...But all of them still require time and effort.
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Take mine and madster's advice, and check it out first. During HS, I took a few classes that TCC (Tidewater Community College) gave us credit for. After I graduated HS (this summer, in fact). My friend took the same classes as I did and went on to ODU. She doesn't have to take any English nor Math classes the four years she's at ODU. BUT I'm at William & Mary, and though some of the credits transfer, they equate to squat -- I still have to take English and Math. Seriously, take the time to check it all out. Plus, on the emotional side, there is a certain feel to living on campus at a college or university. It's a big change from HS, and an even bigger change from CC. I wouldn't say a 4-year college is for everyone, but I think you should check one out (with the proper work and funding, it isn't nearly as expensive at you'd expect).
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September 19th, 2005 #29
I need a BA degree if I want to get out of the UK and work in the USA or Canada (USA is still a bitch to get into, even with a degree - without one, it's nigh-on impossible).
If I had decided not to take a university course, I could have had a job in the videogame industry as an artist 2-3 years ago (really, it pains me to turn down job offers!).
I'm doing it because it opens doors. That's why it's so important to me. Granted, I could probably just work on my art in spare time while keeping a real job, and I'd probably be better at art than I am now, but university helps me to look in different directions and make different choices.
I'm not all too enamoured with the course I'm on, but it has taught me a fair bit of valuable stuff I might not have picked up on my own.
NoSeRider: Seriously, if you spent more effort on actually actively looking for a job rather than whining about why you can't get one, I think you'd have had what you wanted a while ago. You've been posting threads along the same lines as this one for years, both here and on Polycount.
Get your act together and just go crazy. I know your art is good enough to get you a job, therefore I can only assume that either you're not sending out enough portfolios, or you botch up any interviews you get.
Am I right? Or is there some other factor at play here?
September 19th, 2005 #30
I'm going to an Atelier.
I go to class with people that work at Sony.
I get conflicting messages on what it takes.
CSU Long Beach will offer a 4 year degree for cheap. Might look into that.
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Instead of crying over the amazing pace of development of Chinese territories across our borders, ask Chinese companies to come forward and invest in our border roads.
The latest contribution to the discourse on China comes from Jaswant Singh, former External Affairs and Finance Minister. His opinion piece in the American media enjoins our strategic community's current discourse on the power dynamics in Asia. He is convinced that India has a "great game" on its hands and seems to imply that the outcome of this game will critically depend on its military prowess and its strategic alliance with the United States, whereas expanding Sino-Indian economic cooperation ultimately becomes inconsequential. Mr. Singh has articulated these views at an interesting point in the U.S.-India strategic partnership. To be sure, President Barack Obama's forthcoming visit to India gives them a sense of immediacy.
However, is there a great game in our region, and if so, is it as one-dimensional as Mr. Singh suggests? He says: "Rudyard Kipling's old 'Great Game' now has new contestants. Instead of an expansionist Russian empire confronting Imperial Britain, it is now China hungry for land, water, and raw materials that is flexing its muscles, encroaching on Himalayan redoubts and directly challenging India."
It may seem an esoteric historical detail in current polemics, but thanks to able historiography in the West, we now know that Imperial Britain exaggerated the "perception of threat" from Czarist Russia with the purpose of expanding its own influence in India and in the regions to the southwest in a wide arc that stretches from Cairo to China's Xinjiang — Greater Middle East. There is a spellbinding book by David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace, which Jawaharlal Nehru would have acquired for our Parliament library had been alive today. Unlike Kipling's fiction, Fromkin provides calm, meticulously researched conclusions on Imperial Britain's strategy leading to the great Middle East settlement of 1921 — and the immense vistas of decades of history that provided its backdrop.
What makes Fromkin's world of yesterday absolutely fascinating is that the world of today bears striking similarities. Then too, as the decline of the Ottoman Empire began accelerating, there was a furious struggle for geopolitical space (and resources) among the established and emerging powers in Europe. There were great anxieties as a revolution was erupting with an obscure ideology amid convulsions of social unrest that were threatening to breach the dam in the established powers and which had no easy solutions.
The great game today, too, is a pantomime. The U.S. moves into Middle Asia to get embedded in a region which it historically never accessed — and couldn't access so long as the Soviet Union existed. These U.S. moves are, like Kipling's fiction, easy to dissimulate but the geo-strategic thrust is barely disguised: get embedded in a region that holds multitrillion dollars worth of mineral resources, and which overlooks 4 nuclear powers (potentially 5), three of which are emerging powers that may at some point, inevitably, see the raison d'etre of getting together in a post-Bretton Woods world order. Mr. Singh loses the plot.
He asserts: "The Chinese urge is to break from the confines of their country's history, and thus China's own geography. An assertive and relatively stable China, it seems, must expand, lest pent-up internal pressures tear it apart." This is taking a walk fearlessly into terrains where Sinologists fear to tread. The point is China is a neighbour and even if a neighbour is not tailor-made for us, we have to live with it. And that can commence only by knowing our neighbour without pride and prejudice. The well-known American historian and author, Jeffrey Wasserstrom (who edits The Journal of Asian Studies), also happened to amble across these tricky terrains last week. Whereas Mr. Singh is self-confident, Prof. Wasserstrom is unsure about the great ambivalences in the Chinese story. I need to quote him at some length:
"One way to interpret China' elevated rhetoric … is as another indication that Chinese leaders have grown supremely self-confident and are eager to throw their weight around. The reality, though, is more complex … words and deeds are often shaped by a mixture of insecurity and cockiness … Of course, there are moments when China's leaders do seem like people who know that they are succeeding and want others to acknowledge it.
"And yet, when news broke last month that China had officially replaced Japan as the world's second-largest economy, instead of crowing about surpassing a long-time rival and having the top spot, held by the U.S. in its sights, the government issued statements emphasising that theirs remains a "poor, developing" country… Why, then, do China's rulers continue to backslide into doubt and fear, why do they seek to avoid having China labelled a superpower?
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Of course, it is an extraordinary intellectual challenge facing Indians to comprehend China. To compound it, we base opinions on dogmas and beliefs. Don't trade and investment constitute "constructive engagement" and become "CBMs"? There is a Chinese proposal today that they desire to build nuclear power plants in India — yes, maybe even bigger than the ones in Pakistan — having been India's "strategic partner" historically in the nuclear field. Somehow, our gurus are missing out on the quintessence of history and diplomacy, something our Chief Ministers in Karnataka and Gujarat who frequent China seem to grasp better — that good politics is about creating wealth.
If we are savvy, instead of sitting on the ground and crying about the amazing pace of development of Chinese territories across our borders, ask Chinese companies to come forward and invest in our border roads, too. According to Kamal Nath, China is prepared to increase threefold its present investments in our infrastructure sector. Why can't China build a world-class container terminal near Thiruvananthapuram so that we won't end up depending on the Colombo port, which China is expanding? The Sri Lankans seem to anticipate better the acute infrastructural problems of the Indian economy as it moves into a dazzling trajectory of growth.
The recent U.S. Senate testimony by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on China following his consultations with the Chinese leadership, including President Hu Jintao, provides a fascinating essay in realpolitik. Mr. Geithner said: "We [U.S.] have very significant economic interests in our relationship with China… [China's] efforts to encourage growth led by domestic demand ultimately mean more demand for American goods and services… [U.S. investment] in China provides a major channel through which U.S. exports flow, and as a result contributes to creating jobs here at home at our exporting firms … China has a very substantial economic stake in access to the U.S. market … And we have a very strong interest … in the Chinese market, so that U.S. businesses and U.S. workers do not face unfair trading practices. I want to be clear: a strong and growing China benefits the United States."
Mr. Geithner, a personal friend of Mr. Obama, is pondering how China makes butter and how they can make butter together. There can be differences of opinion over what should be our appropriate and principled response to the Chinese way of making butter. Yet, today, there is so much for Indians to know: how, for a start, China is beginning to climb from low-end assembly lines and sweatshops to green technology and wind turbines and solar panels and electric cars. As Orville Schell, director of Asia Society's Centre on U.S.-China Relations, put it recently: "The first priority is to get our own house in order, so we're not filled with so much anxiety that is easily transferred on to the rise of another country."
The pity is, just the wrong people could exploit Mr. Singh's plain thesis: middlemen for American arms manufacturers. India has a need to modernise its armed forces for meeting the new security challenges and "asymmetrical" wars that we may (or may not) fight. But we don't want to be hustled into things. Look at the contemporary politics of power. Saudi Arabia is embarking on a $60-billion dollar arms deal with the U.S. The Obama administration admits that the deal will generate thousands of new jobs in America.
In the run-up to the arms deal, the arms manufacturers and their middlemen whipped up nerve-wracking xenophobia regarding a growing "Iranian threat." Meanwhile, the U.S. is inching towards normalisation with Iran. China is a serious challenge to the U.S. and the challenge is increasingly how to tap into China's growth. Mr. Obama's ultimate focus is on butter, how to make more butter in America — with the Chinese brought into that enterprise.
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They've sold 4 million iPhones in 200 days - 20,000 iPhones per day on average.
On US Smartphone marketshare, the quarter ending in September, In its first 90 days of shipping it garnered nearly 20% of the smarpthone marketshare. They nearly equaled Palm, Motorola, and Nokia combined. Jobs expects they'll do even better when the December numbers come out.
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Big Bird going way of the dodo if Romney wins
No sooner had Mitt Romney asked Big Bird to step aside during a verbal sparring match with US President Barack Obama than the giant yellow muppet on the well-loved children's television show "Sesame Street" became a top-trending topic on social media sites.
The former Massachusetts governor running for US president definitely angered "the people in the neighborhood" who grew up on the long-running educational series after he threatened to pull the plug on America's public television service and, by extension, its beloved "Sesame Street" character Big Bird.
Wrote one user on Twitter, "Tonight's debate winner: Big Bird."
In a statement, the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)—a nonprofit American public broadcasting television network which airs such programs as "Downton Abbey" and "Sesame Street" without commercials—said it was "very disappointed" by Romney's threat made during his first debate with Obama.
"Governor Romney does not understand the value the American people place on public broadcasting and the outstanding return on investment the system delivers to our nation," it said.
Romney turned on PBS—whose veteran news anchor Jim Lehrer moderated Wednesday's debate—as he spelled out how he intended to slash the US government's trillion-dollar deficit.
"I like PBS. I love Big Bird," said Romney, name-checking the leggy yellow character who teaches children the alphabet on "Sesame Street." "But I'm sorry, Jim. I'm gonna stop the subsidy to PBS."
PBS said the "federal investment" in public broadcasting equals only "about one one-hundredth of one percent of the federal budget."
Sarcastic remarks
Romney's reference to Big Bird triggered a torrent of sarcastic remarks on Twitter, while a meme of the much-loved character—sitting on a brownstone stoop with a "Will work for food" sign—went viral on the Internet.
Read other "Big Bird" sentiments: "Today is brought to you by the letter U for Unemployed." "Screw Romney… I wasn't going to vote for him anyway." "I thought people who acted like you lived in trash cans, not mansions."
A laughing Romney-goes-after-Big Bird image screamed: "Obama got Bin Laden, I'll get Big Bird."
Comedian Chris Rock tweeted: "Mitt Romney: If you elect me, I will starve the poor, tax the middle class, kill Medicare, eliminate Big Bird & destroy the planet."
"Hey Mitt Romney, today's Sesame Street is brought to you by the letters L I A & R," said a Big Bird parody account.
Blogger Kelly Jensen added: "In all seriousness, Big Bird got more attention than women did in this debate."
Tweeted another user: "Children around the world traumatized about Romney promising to kill Big Bird."
Actor-director Albert Brooks wrote: "Next debate will be moderated by Miss Piggy before she loses her job…"
At one point during Wednesday's debate, Twitter said, Big Bird's name was being tweeted at a rate of 17,000 times a minute. It was still among the top-trending words 17 hours after the debate ended.
Obama's turn
Speaking in Denver, Colorado, in the aftermath of the debate, Obama poked fun at his opponent, even though most commentators declared Romney the winner of the debate.
"Thank goodness somebody is finally getting tough on Big Bird," the president said to laughter and applause. "It's about time. We didn't know that Big Bird was driving the federal deficit."
It gave no dollar figure, but according to other sources, PBS received $445.5 million from Washington this year. That compares to $20 billion in subsidies to US farmers and $707.5 billion for the US military.
"Elimination of funding would have virtually no impact on the nation's debt, yet the loss to the American public would be devastating," the broadcaster said.
PBS and its member stations, like their public radio counterparts, also get revenue from tax-deductible contributions from viewers, collected during frequent on-air fundraising drives.
Trojan horse for liberals
While fans applaud its higher brow commercial-free content, some of which is imported from British sources like the BBC, hard-core conservatives regard public broadcasting as a Trojan horse for liberal values.
"Sesame Street," produced by the nonprofit Sesame Workshop for PBS, has been on the air for more than 40 years, and offshoots appear on television in more than 150 countries.
"Sesame Workshop is a nonpartisan, nonprofit, educational organization," it said in a brief statement. "We do not comment on (political) campaigns—but we're happy we can all agree that everyone likes Big Bird."
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County commissioners yielded to pleas from social workers who said the Web photos are a tool needed for placing kids in permanent homes.
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I'm from Turkey, I'm new user on this forum and I'm so sorry for quite poor English. I bought a L90 (D405-TR). But there isn't FM Radio app in applications menu.
I read some Turkish forums (for LG G2) installing the ROM of different countries or by rooting to activate FM Radio.
1) I rooted the device. My /cust/OPEN_AME/TR/config/custom_apk_list.cfg contents as follows:
2) I flashed England and Italy's ROMs, I saw FM Radio app in the phone's application menu. Again I plugged a headset, and opening FM Radio app on app menu. But menus and buttons are passive. So that I could not listen fm radio
3) Both the phone is rooted, and while both been installed in a different country (which again was the root case)… I was installed Spirit FM Radio, Connected Music Player, etc. I did not listen to the radio.
Q1: Is there Fm radio receiver / hardware on my device? How can I check/detect whether there is?
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Kill Sun Solaris and Oracle commits suicide. Makes no sense at all. Won't happen.
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Azul Systems is a company that specializes in accelerating Java workloads on Sun, IBM, and X86 machines. I see Azul as being at least as important to a "complete" Java solution as SpringSource and Hypernic..
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But the hardware business becomes a boat anchor. Much of Oracle's expensive direct selling is done in joint bids with hardware vendors like IBM, HP, and Dell. Are HP sales reps going to call in Oracle if the Oracle-Sun hardware sales team becomes another dance card at the party? History says an emphatic "No". So don't be surprised if Oracle sells/spins off the hardware and hardware services business quickly.
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There is a GPS map option already and it's pretty accurate. But it sure doesn't tell you whether the cab driver is taking you by the most direct route or whether there are traffic jams ahead.
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A Delhi court has sentenced a man here to five years in jail for sexually assaulting his seven-year-old daughter, born out of his live-in relationship. Additional sessions judge Pawan Kumar Jain awarded the jail term to the Timarpur resident, after holding him guilty under provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and the IPC. The court said being her father, it was the man's duty to protect the child but he chose her to satisfy his lust.
"No doubt, the convict is the father of the victim who was just seven years old at the time of incident. Being the father of the victim, it was the duty of the convict to protect her from any such incident but he himself chose the victim to satisfy his lust. The convict not only committed an offence as provided under the POCSO Act, but he had also betrayed the faith of the victim which she had posed in him being her father," the court said.
It also held him guilty of threatening the child by asking her not to disclose the incident to anyone and imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on the man.
According to the prosecution, the man and the girl's mother were living together for the past 14 years, but they had not married each other. Four children including the victim were born out of their live-in relationship. In 2012, the woman, along with her children, went to her parents' house after being beaten up by her live-in partner. And a few days before the incident in November, 2012, the man took the children to his house, the prosecution said. When the girl returned, she asked her mother not to send her to her father's house, and on being asked why, she disclosed that the man had sexually assaulted her during her stay there, the prosecution said. The woman then lodged a complaint with the police.
During the trial, the man claimed that he had been falsely implicated in the case by the woman. The court convicted him saying it became abundantly clear that the man had sexually assaulted the girl, who was not only below 12 years of age at the time of incident but was also his blood relation. It, however, did not award the maximum sentence of seven years prescribed for the offence of aggravated sexual assault, saying that the minor stayed with her father for five nights and except one night when he assaulted her, he kept her properly during the rest of the time.
"It is also an established fact that the victim had stayed with the convict for about five nights, and he had treated her properly during the said period except on one night when the said incident had taken place. This is one of the substantial mitigating factor in favour of the convict. In view of the said mitigating factor, I am of the view that it is not a fit case to award maximum sentence as prayed by prosecution," the judge said.


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Man Without a Human Heart Completes 4.2-Mile Run
Randy Shepherd, Kept Alive for 10 Months by the SynCardia Total Artificial Heart Powered by the Freedom Portable Driver, Walked the April 26, 2014 Long-Distance Course Honoring Pat Tillman
TUCSON, Ariz., April 29, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Randy Shepherd's 4.2-mile walk in Pat's Run April 26, 2014, in the Phoenix area was more than a test of his endurance. It was part of his training for the most crucial event of his life–a heart transplant.
Last June 20, Shepherd, 40, had his life saved by the SynCardia temporary Total Artificial Heart, the world's first and only FDA, Health Canada and CE approved Total Artificial Heart. His history-making walk as the first person without a human heart to enter and complete Pat's Run also helped get him in better physical condition.
Watch news coverage of Randy Shepherd's walk in the 10th annual Pat's Run http://www.syncardia.com/patients/randy-shepherd-two/itemid-1690.html
Doctors at the University of Arizona Medical Center in Tucson had to remove his heart, which was damaged twice by rheumatic fever in his teens and now could no longer support him. They replaced his dying heart with the SynCardia Total Artificial Heart as a bridge to transplant to a matching donor heart.
Like a heart transplant, the SynCardia Heart eliminates the source and symptoms of biventricular heart failure in which the two heart ventricles can no longer pump enough blood for a patient to survive.
"I feel like I'm in training right now," says Shepherd, who lives in Mesa, Arizona. "I look at my heart transplant as an athletic event that I'm training for."
Shepherd has been able to walk about half a mile most days since leaving the hospital, thanks to the Freedom® portable driver, which contains all of the electronics that operate the SynCardia Heart. The SynCardia Total Artificial Heart doesn't require sensors, motors or electronics of any type inside the body. So there is never a need to re-operate to repair or replace faulty electronics.
Six days before Pat's Run, he decided he wanted to give it a try. "I wanted to push myself out of my comfort zone," Shepherd says. "I wanted to prove that I could do it even though I've been handed circumstances that might not be the best."
The 10th annual race through the streets of Tempe, Arizona honors Pat Tillman, a local college and professional football player who gave up his lucrative National Football League career to serve in the military. He was killed in Afghanistan on April 22, 2004.
After getting clearance from his doctors, Shepherd and his wife, Tiffany, joined twenty-eight thousand other participants in the race. Steve Langford, Director of Clinical Support at SynCardia, made the walk with them, which they completed in one hour and 40 minutes.
Shepherd carried in his backpack the 13.5-pound Freedom® portable driver, which gives SynCardia Heart patient's nearly unlimited mobility. Langford carried a backup driver, which Randy ended up not needing.
The SynCardia Heart provides safe blood flow of up to 9.5 liters per minute through each heart ventricle. During exercise, increased muscle and body movement causes more blood to enter the ventricles. The ventricles can fill with up to 30% more blood for exercise and other heavier exertion.
During 30 years of use, the valves in the SynCardia Total Artificial Heart have never failed. The diaphragm, which is responsible for pumping blood in and out of the ventricles, has a failure rate of less than 1/2 of 1% over more than 1,300 implants (2,600+ diaphragms).
Life Before and With the SynCardia Heart
Sports and fitness have always been part of Shepherd's life, even after his heart damage. He played semi-professional baseball for a year in Phoenix, participated in a slow-pitch softball league, lifted weights and shot bows and guns.
"I stayed in relatively good shape," says Shepherd, an active, giving man devoted to his family and his church.
In 2009, Shepherd began suffering from fatigue, loss of appetite and a declining desire to do what he loved. "The doctor said, 'You need a transplant. Your heart is completely done,'" he recalls.
According to data published in the New England Journal of Medicine from the 10-year pivotal clinical study which led to FDA approval of the Total Artificial Heart, 79% of patients who received the Total Artificial Heart were bridged to transplant. This is the highest bridge to transplant rate for any approved heart device in the world.
Doctors at University of Arizona Medical Center removed Shepherd's failing heart and implanted the SynCardia Heart on June 20, 2013. Following surgery he was in a coma for eight days.
"We put it off longer than we should have," Shepherd admits. "I was young and active, so we kind of underestimated my heart failure."
Shepherd credits Tiffany for getting him through those first weeks of recovery, calming him during periods in and out of lucidness, running the household and working as a dental hygienist. "None of this would be possible without her," he says.
On Aug. 7, 2013, Shepherd received the Freedom® portable driver. Since his hospital discharge, he's been able to regularly attend church services, watch his now 7-year-old son play baseball and spend time with his two teenaged daughters.
He hopes his walk inspired others who also may have major health issues. "Don't wait for those things to get better," he says. "Enjoy life. Do what you want to do today."
CAUTION – The Freedom portable driver is an investigational device, limited by United States law to investigational use.
Watch news coverage of Randy Shepherd's Walk in this year's Pat's Run:
>> AZ Central Channel 12 News
>> Fox 10 News
>> Visit Randy Shepherd Image Gallery
For additional information, please visit: http://www.syncardia.com/
Like SynCardia on https://www.facebook.com/pages/SynCardia-Systems-Inc/191245900926019
Follow SynCardia on Twitter – https://twitter.com/SynCardia
Connect with SynCardia on https://www.linkedin.com/company/syncardia-systems-inc.
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About the SynCardia temporary Total Artificial Heart
SynCardia Systems, Inc. (Tucson, AZ) is the privately-held manufacturer of the world's first and only FDA, Health Canada and CE approved Total Artificial Heart. Originally used as a permanent replacement heart, the SynCardia Total Artificial Heart is currently approved as a bridge to transplant for people suffering from end stage heart failure affecting both sides of the heart (biventricular failure).
More than 400 SynCardia Total Artificial Heart implants have been performed since January 2011. The SynCardia Heart has provided almost 130,000 patient days of support from nearly 1,300 implants. The youngest patient to receive a SynCardia Heart was 9 years old; the oldest was 76 years old.
Similar to a heart transplant, the SynCardia Heart replaces both failing heart ventricles and the four heart valves. It is the only device that eliminates the symptoms and source of end stage biventricular failure. Unlike a donor heart, the Total Artificial Heart is immediately available at 97 SynCardia Certified Centers worldwide with 39 others in the process of certification.
The SynCardia Heart provides immediate, safe blood flow of up to 9.5 liters per minute through each ventricle. This high volume of blood flow helps speed the recovery of vital organs, helping make the patient a better transplant candidate.
Photo – http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20140429/81855
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During the Black Friday sales, I came across a bunch of items that I really wanted, things I put into my virtual shopping cart. If you asked me to name them now, I could probably come up with only six or eight items. I figure if it's something I remember--without wandering down store aisles or browsing online shops--then it must be what I really want to have. (ie: The Cheery Lynn screen door die that I've been drooling over since I first saw it this summer.)
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NHL Betting News and Notes Tuesday 5/1
NHL Betting News and Notes Tuesday 5/1
What Bettors Need to Know: Tuesday's NHL Action
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New Jersey Devils at Philadelphia Flyers (-150, 5.5)
THE STORY: Something about postseason hockey brings out the best in Danny Briere. The veteran winger scored the overtime winner in Game 1 of Philadelphia's Eastern Conference semifinal against New Jersey, giving the Flyers a leg up heading into Tuesday's second game at Wells Fargo Center. The Devils look to bounce back after hanging with the Flyers for most of the contest.
ABOUT THE DEVILS: New Jersey made its share of mistakes in Game 1, but head coach Peter DeBoer was still upbeat about his team's performance. "I think we deserved to be in the hockey game," he said. "We dominated the first period and could have had two or three goals. They took over the second and the third was relatively even." The Devils will almost certainly need more out of skilled winger Ilya Kovalchuk, who was held without a shot in the opener and gave the puck away more than once in the loss. Kovalchuk answered questions after the game, but bolted after being asked if he was healthy.
ABOUT THE FLYERS: Claude Giroux has been far and away the best player in the postseason so far, but Briere isn't far off. He scored twice in Game 1 and now has seven goals in seven playoff games after scoring just 16 in 70 regular-season contests. Briere actually had a goal disallowed earlier in the extra session, and was still upset about it afterward. "When I was on the bench there, there's a few seconds where you're shaking your head and you're going, 'Come on, they made the wrong call. I can't believe this is happening,'" he said. "Then I was like, 'All right, it's time to stop pouting.' I was fortunate to have another break."
- New Jersey is 3-13 in its last 16 games in Philadelphia.
- Philadelphia has won four of its last five home games.
- The over is 10-3-1 in Philadelphia's last 14.
1. Briere has scored 36 playoff goals since leaving the Buffalo Sabres in 2007. The Sabres as a team have just 33 postseason goals in that span.
2. Philadelphia has the best power play in the playoffs - converting on 44.8 percent of its chances - but went just 1 for 6 against the Devils, who posted the best regular-season penalty-killing rate in modern NHL history.
3. Kovalchuk has three goals and three assists in eight playoff games but is a team-worst minus-5.
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Devils @ Flyers -- Philly is 5-2 in playoffs this spring, scoring 29 goals in five wins, only five in the losses; Flyers are 4-3 vs New Jersey this year, with road team winning four of seven. Devils are 2-3 on road in playoffs, while Philly is 3-1 at home. New Jersey outshot the Flyers 15-6 in first period, then for rest of game, got outshot 30-11; so far in playoffs, Devils have outshot opponents 95-66 in first period of games, but are just 4-4 overall in postseason, with its last three games all going into overtime.
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NEW JERSEY (52-31-0-7, 111 pts.) at PHILADELPHIA (52-28-0-9, 113 pts.)
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PHILADELPHIA is 52-36 ATS (+15.4 Units) in all games this season.
NEW JERSEY is 52-37 ATS (+11.7 Units) in all games this season.
NEW JERSEY is 23-20 ATS (+46.3 Units) when playing against a team with a winning record this season.
NEW JERSEY is 59-39 ATS (+10.0 Units) second half of the season over the last 2 seasons.
NEW JERSEY is 14-6 ATS (+7.6 Units) on Tuesday nights this season.
NEW JERSEY is 25-15 ATS (+9.9 Units) revenging a loss versus opponent this season.
PHILADELPHIA is 41-36 ATS (-8.0 Units) in a home game where where the total is 5.5 over the last 2 seasons.
PHILADELPHIA is 29-28 ATS (-17.8 Units) in home games second half of the season over the last 2 seasons.
PHILADELPHIA is 7-14 ATS (-7.2 Units) in home games after scoring 4 goals or more in their previous game this season.
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PHILADELPHIA is 16-8 (+6.4 Units) against the spread versus NEW JERSEY over the last 3 seasons
PHILADELPHIA is 16-8-0 straight up against NEW JERSEY over the last 3 seasons
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New Jersey is 10-4 SU in its last 14 games
New Jersey is 8-17 SU in its last 25 games when playing Philadelphia
Philadelphia is 5-2 SU in its last 7 games
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Philadelphia's last 7 games
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New Jersey: 20-7 SU playing with same-season revenge
Philadelphia: 7-3 Over in the second round of the playoffs
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This fall, the Supreme Court enters a new era. No more will William Rehnquist stare coldly down at lawyers from the center chair. Instead, John Roberts will amiably but firmly interrogate them. And no more will Sandra Day O'Connor, sitting next to the Chief Justice, crisply ask her probing questions.
Instead, Samuel Alito will politely address his from the far right end of the bench.
The next few years may see even more changes, for six of the nine Justices are over 65; John Paul Stevens, the court's eldest member, is 86. On the other hand, federal Justices tend to live a long time and, unlike judges everywhere else in the world, need never retire. Overall, there have been only 110 Justices in our entire history. The last ten Justices to leave our Supreme Court served an average of twenty-six years; the shortest tenure was fifteen years. Four of them served over thirty-one years; Stevens is now in his thirty-first. Allowing public officials to stay in office so long, subject to no accountability and virtually no check, is a peculiar--and deeply undemocratic--feature of American democracy. No other democracy tolerates such lengthy judicial tenure. The anomaly of our system is compounded by the fact that someone can be handed such power by a partisan Senate vote of just 51 to 50 or, as was true for Clarence Thomas, 52 to 48.
And yet, except for some particularly controversial nominations like Robert Bork's, most Americans do not seem to care. There is a widespread impression that the President is entitled to a strong presumption in his favor for judicial nominations, even for the High Court. Not so, for the judiciary is not an arm of the executive. It is an independent third branch, designed to check both the President and Congress when necessary, equally and impartially. Since the appointment process is the only way we have for achieving that impartiality, the Senate and the President must be equal parties in that process.
This was thoroughly understood in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when even George Washington had a nominee rejected; during the nineteenth century, approximately one-third of all Supreme Court nominations were rejected, withdrawn or otherwise not confirmed. Only in the twentieth century has the presidential presumption become so strong. As a result, most nomination hearings today are useless rituals. If the nominee has done or said anything that is remotely controversial, he or she declares that it says nothing about his or her current views and solemnly promises fidelity to judicial restraint and to precedent, and the senators get free television time for some--usually fatuous--speech-making.
Where Supreme Court nominees are concerned, this public airing is also unnecessary. Except with someone relatively unknown, like David Souter, the nominee's record usually reveals who and what the nominee is. What the senators don't already know, they won't find out, for if the nominee is at all controversial, he or she will have been well coached either to evade their questions or to give them answers they want to hear.
There were no secrets, for example, about Roberts or Alito. In 1985 Alito wrote that "the greatest influences on my views were the writings of William F. Buckley, Jr., the National Review...Barry Goldwater's 1964 campaign" and "disagreement with the Warren Court decisions particularly in the areas of criminal procedure, the Establishment Clause and apportionment." His entire career thereafter was consistent with that early declaration. Roberts, more discreet, said almost nothing publicly about his personal views, even though he'd devoted his entire career in high government posts, private practice and on the bench to promoting right-wing causes.
Not surprisingly, Roberts and Alito, during their first months on the Supreme Court, cast votes consistent with their prior records. In the last term, Roberts voted with Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas 95 percent and 92 percent of the time, respectively; in his first five months on the Court, Alito voted 87-95 percent of the time with Scalia, Thomas and Roberts. Having been elevated to the pinnacle of their profession because of their ideological purity and reliability, why should they change?
The outcomes of few important cases were affected, however. For example, in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, the military commissions case in which George W. Bush appeared to be channeling Louis XIV, Alito voted with Scalia and Thomas (Roberts recused himself, having backed the government over Hamdan as an appeals court judge), but Kennedy refused to join them and made a majority (5-3) against Bush. In an important 5-4 environmental decision upholding federal power over certain wetlands, Rapanos v. United States, Alito again joined the Scalia-Roberts-Thomas bloc, but again Kennedy defected. And in the Oregon physician-assisted-suicide case, Kennedy again joined the liberals, with O'Connor, making a 6-3 majority; Roberts again sided with Thomas and Scalia. Nevertheless, Kennedy remains on the whole quite conservative, and on such issues as late-term abortions and affirmative action in education (both matters are scheduled for argument this term), national security, capital punishment, religious displays, disability rights and women's rights, where O'Connor sometimes switched sides to make a narrow liberal majority, Alito will probably move the Court further to the right.
It is, of course, possible that either Alito or Roberts will disappoint Bush's expectations--but it's not likely. Despite the conventional mythology, most Justices vote as their backers expect. As Lee Epstein and Jeffrey Segal point out in their short but useful book on politics and the federal courts, Advice and Consent: The Politics of Judicial Appointments, "by and large, presidents are successful with their appointees.... More often than not, they [the Justices] vote in ways that would very much please the men who appointed them." This is because, as they emphasize, throughout the entire process--when a Justice retires, who is nominated and who wins confirmation--"politics pervades."
There are, however, exceptions, like David Souter and (to a far lesser degree) Sandra Day O'Connor, who are the subjects of two new biographies. Political science professor Tinsley Yarbrough's welcome and informative biography David Hackett Souter: Traditional Republican on the Rehnquist Court provides one of the few sources of information about the least known Justice in recent memory. Few knew anything about Souter when he was nominated by President George H.W. Bush in 1990 on the recommendation of former New Hampshire Governor John Sununu, Bush's Chief of Staff. Sununu, it turns out, didn't know him very well either. When Souter was nominated, Sununu reassured nervous allies that he would be a "home run" for the right. As we now know, Sununu could not have been more wrong. Souter has become one of the strongest liberal voices on the Court.
A careful reading of Souter's confirmation hearing might have alerted some astute observers that he was not quite the conservative team player Sununu imagined. When asked if he had any concerns about "rights created by the court," Souter said no. He supported affirmative action and declared that when the legislature leaves a "vacuum," judges "have got an obligation to come down with practical decrees that implement...rights." He stunned Dixiecrat Senator Strom Thurmond by asserting that the Tenth Amendment, which reserves to the states the powers not delegated to the federal government, "is something that we cannot look at with the eyes of the people who wrote it." These remarks implied little, however, as to how Souter would later vote. This is probably because before going on the Supreme Court, he had rarely ruled on the constitutional and statutory issues that make up the High Court docket. As one close friend put it, "No one knows how David Souter will vote--no one. David Souter does not know."
Sandra Day O'Connor is a very different case. As USA Today correspondent Joan Biskupic makes clear in her smoothly written and insightful biography Sandra Day O'Connor: How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most Influential Justice, O'Connor is a politician, a pragmatist more interested in building winning coalitions than in doctrinal development. She entered Republican politics early and used her intellect, her suburban-lady charm and her genuine kindliness to impress both her peers and those in power. As Biskupic says, "Never one to upend the system, she worked within it to get what she wanted."
During her first twenty years on the Court, O'Connor was a thoroughly reliable member of the Court's right wing--something that is often forgotten today. In almost every close case involving racial justice, she came out against the minority litigant; she tried, unsuccessfully, to deny children of illegal immigrants a free public education, and she wrote the key opinions cutting back the availability of habeas corpus. She also sided consistently with business interests and assumed a leading role in the conservative crusade to shrink the federal government's Commerce Clause and other powers, and provided the fifth vote to allow homosexual intercourse to be made criminal. And while reaffirming Roe v. Wade in 1992, she allowed states and localities to raise almost insurmountable obstacles for young, rural or low-income women seeking an abortion. The only discrimination that appeared to raise her indignation was against women, perhaps because of her unpleasant encounters with sexism after she graduated from law school.
O'Connor remained conservative to the end of her career--in her last three full years on the Court she voted most often with Rehnquist, as she always had. Still, after Bush v. Gore she moved closer to the center in significant ways. The year after Bush v. Gore, she joined in barring the death penalty for retarded defendants, reversing a 1989 decision she had written for the Court. (In 2005, however, she tried--unsuccessfully--to retain the death penalty for juveniles.) In 2003 she voted to overturn the criminalization of male homosexual intercourse, though on a narrower basis than the Court majority. In perhaps her most notable shift, she drafted a 5-4 majority decision allowing racial preferences in higher education under certain conditions. And two years ago she wrote eloquently for a four-person plurality, rejecting the President's demand for unchecked power to detain American citizens in time of war.
Throughout her career, Biskupic writes, O'Connor followed a pragmatic, incremental approach focused on the facts of each case, designed to build coalitions rather than develop strict doctrinal rules. This approach has drawn both criticism and praise. Among its admirers is Cass Sunstein, a University of Chicago law school professor whose recent book Radicals in Robes: Why Extreme Right-Wing Courts Are Wrong for America, advocates a minimalist approach like O'Connor's.
Sunstein's case for minimalism is presented as part of a methodological discussion that purports to be neither political nor ideological but rather an objective view about how our Constitution should be interpreted. Scalia, Thomas et al. are described as "fundamentalists" who want to restore the original meaning of the Constitution; the Warren Court, its supporters and successors are labeled "perfectionists" who want to "make the [Constitution] as good as it can be." Both are found wanting. "Minimalists"--Sunstein and O'Connor--try "to reach incompletely theorized agreements" leaving "most fundamental questions...undecided." These have it right, according to Sunstein.
Most of the book is devoted to attacking the fundamentalists' recent victories. Although Sunstein runs through the usual analytical critiques of Scalia's and Thomas's "original meaning" philosophy and their not infrequent inconsistencies, his primary criticism, reiterated constantly without much explanation, is simply that the fundamentalists' views "produce a far worse system of constitutional law" and lead to "intolerable consequences." What makes the system "worse" and "intolerable" is assumed to be self-evident.
As for the "perfectionists," Sunstein acknowledges that "perfectionist" courts in South Africa and elsewhere have abolished capital punishment and created a vast array of civil and social rights. In those countries, he concedes, that may be acceptable, but for the "contemporary United States...minimalism is best and...both fundamentalism and perfectionism are dangerous.... Each of us ought to have a little voice in our heads cautioning: I might be wrong." But that's always true, everywhere, and if the fear of being wrong had stopped the Warren Court and its successors, we might still be living with "separate but equal," legal discrimination against women, official school prayers, unequal voting districts, bans on contraception and abortion, criminalization of homosexual intercourse, fewer protections for speech and much more that Sunstein considers "intolerable." All were outlawed by "perfectionist" judges.
In fact, Sunstein criticizes almost none of the Warren Court's decisions and reserves his scorn for such "perfectionist" claims as the right not to wear seat belts, to use medicinal drugs not authorized by the Food and Drug Administration, to hire or be a prostitute, and to marry a person of the same sex. Except for the last, however, liberals have not sought any of these, and, in any event, it will probably be a long time before the federal courts deal with same-sex marriage--the Massachusetts and other decisions allowing same-sex marriage were decided under state Constitutions, and most of them have been overturned.
Minimalism, on the other hand, has done a great deal of harm. "Minimalist" decisions like Brown v. Board of Education II (1955) allowed gradual school desegregation and produced spurious "freedom of choice" plans that delayed Southern school desegregation for fourteen years. The Casey abortion decision, discussed earlier, which abandoned the strict "perfectionist" approach of Roe v. Wade, and barred restrictions on abortion only if they imposed an "undue burden," is another example. Moreover, providing clear answers to questions that trouble the lower courts is one of the Supreme Court's major responsibilities. The federal appellate courts handle 35,000-40,000 cases annually, the Supreme Court only about seventy-five, and the Court's failure to set out clear rules to guide those courts has cost much time and money.
Should the Democrats be in a position to appoint enough Justices to create a "perfectionist" majority on the Court, why should these Justices not abolish capital punishment once and for all, as courts in other countries have done? Why should they not provide gays and lesbians with the same degree of protection available to other minorities with a long history of discrimination? Overturn the ludicrous 1976 Buckley v. Valeo decision, which equates speech with money and frustrates any hope of meaningful campaign finance reform? Authorize physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients who are in terrible pain? Restore the protections for the right to an abortion that Casey undid? All these changes can be made within the limits of judicial prudence and principled adjudication. Right-wing judges have never worried about being wrong. Why should liberals?
That opportunity may not come for quite a while, however. Roberts is 51, Alito is 56, Thomas is 57 and Scalia and Kennedy are vigorous 70-year-olds. The four liberals range from 67 to 86. There will thus be few opportunities to achieve even a thin liberal majority. Some victories will still come, for it is not possible to turn the clock back completely, nor do most conservatives want to. Also, Kennedy may come to find the other four too extreme, as he has several times this year. And there may be surprises. But the odds are against any great advances and for some serious setbacks, at least in the near future. The only way the Supreme Court can be moved back to the left is through politics. As Senator Barack Obama told an Illinois audience after the Alito vote this past January, "If we don't win elections, you're not going to get the judges you want." For that to happen, Democrats have to renew themselves as a party that offers Americans what they need, not just what the "have mores" want. It's not clear that today's Democrats are able--or willing--to do that.


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|This thesis attempts to illuminate the processes and understanding by which art directors at major (national/international) ad agencies attempt to reach target generational demographics, specifically Baby Boomers, Gen Xers and Gen Ys. Seven focus group sessions were conducted among members of these generations (2 for Boomers, 2 for Gen Xers and 3 for Gen Ys). These discussions were driven by a set of six print ads selected from magazines intended to target these respective generations. Participants were asked to critique the ads, and comments were compared among those the ad was intended to target and unintended target demos. The focus group findings were then used as a basis for qualitative interviews with six practicing ad agency professionals, among them art directors and creative directors with considerable experience. The results indicate that many art directors practicing today do not have a clear understanding of the generations as market segments, and do not see them as discrete groups with unique identity traits with individual perspectives on advertising and media. While focus groups show a strong division of opinion of the generations toward advertising, art directors seem only intuitively aware of them, if at all. The findings of this thesis support the notion that over the next 10 years art directors will find previously held beliefs about once-successful techniques and strategies challenged by the maturation of a generational cohort that does not respond to certain messages the way the previous generation did. If advertising creatives aren't (and don't make themselves) aware of the differences in attitudes among the generations, they are likely to make egregious assumptions about the appropriateness of advertising messages in the future.
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