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They appeared to know her well, and seemed greatly to commiserate us.
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c.1600, from Latin commiseratus, past participle of commiserari "to pity, bewail" (see commiseration). Related: Commiserated; commiserating. An Old English loan-translation of commiserate was efensargian.

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Regular readers to this blog will know that when I doodle I often seem to end up drawing sinister and/or sleazy looking clowns. Some people have even been helpful enough to suggest that this indicates some deep-seated psychological problem and I should probably seek help.
I'm starting to think they may be right, as even by my standards the guy above, who emerged yesterday when I was supposed to be thinking of a cartoon for a client, is pretty disturbing.
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The ACLU is representing Scott and Sharon Lane, the parents of a child known in the proceedings as "CC," in a case against the Sabine Parish, Louisiana School Board, where their child was ridiculed for his Buddhist faith, and was forced to endure Christian indoctrination, including forced prayer, in the class. They say that their son's sixth grade curriculum included exam questions like "ISN'T IT AMAZING WHAT THE _____________ HAS MADE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" (the correct answer was "LORD"). The school superintendent told them that they had no business being upset by this, because the school is in the Bible Belt, and he recommended sending the child to a school 25 miles away where there were "more Asians."
The ACLU is calling on supporters of the Lanes and CC to sign a petition to Attorney General Eric Holder, asking for a "an immediate investigation into unlawful religious discrimination in Sabine Parish public schools."
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What does State of Indiana's " disturbing the peace" law say ? ans would it apply to the race track making noise? Any other Indiana cases putting noise restrictions on race tracks etc?
Your talking about the race track being a "nuisance".
I need to explain what this is to you.
Nuisance (also spelled nocence, through Fr. noisance, nuisance, from Lat. nocere, "to hurt") is a common law tort. It means that which causes offence, annoyance, trouble or injury. A nuisance can be either public (also "common") or private.
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Now, as to your quesiton, it would very much seem that you have a cause of action here because everyone you have talked to bounced it on to someone else. Too, that it isn't a gov't. run race track - some county or municipality run race track - it it was you would most surely lose any legal battle trying to limit it's activities.
However, since this would seem to be a private company operating the race track - you and the other owners could file suit in the matter and request injunctive relief. That injuctive relief potentially would spell out hours in which they could operate to alleviate everyone.
Your going to need to come up with a plan and local zoning ordinances as to breaking the peace times - ie. after 10:00pm or 11:00 pm at night they have to cease and desist operations for example.
After you file for an injunction - the judge will hold a heairing on the matter. Given that I'm sure the race track will vigorously oppose your request for an injuction - that it's a taking and a loss of profits.
Usually race tracks come under the local zoning ordinances and they have to abide by such. Clearly your municipal officers aren't doing their job so you have to do it for them.


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I don't know which category would be best for this track, normally I compose cinematic music in the epic genre.
I hesitate between ambient, electronica(chillstep is a sub-genre of electronic), it could also be experimental I guess.
nice track! I think if a customer were looking for this kind of track they would probably go for the electronica section, even though there are some organic elements in there.
You're probably best putting in either "-Ambient -Chill" or "-Electronica -downtempo"
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The Syrian government has accepted a Russian proposal to put its chemical weapons under international control to avoid a possible US military strike, Interfax news agency quoted Syria's foreign minister as saying on Tuesday.
The proposal has however been met with skepticism by the American government.
"We held a very fruitful round of talks with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov yesterday, and he proposed an initiative relating to chemical weapons. And in the evening we agreed to he Russian initiative," Interfax quoted the minister, Walid al-Muallem, as telling the speaker of Russia's lower house parliament house in Moscow.
He said Syria had agreed because this would "remove the grounds for American aggression," the report said.
The US is waiting to see a real and verifiable plan from, but will not wait long and will not accept a delaying tactic, Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday.
"We're waiting for that proposal. But we're not waiting for long," Kerry told a hearing of the House of Representatives Armed Services Committee.
"President Obama will take a hard look at it. But it has to be swift, it has to be real, it has to be verifiable. It cannot be a delaying tactic," Kerry told the panel.
The threat of US military action against Syria must remain on the table, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Tuesday.
"All of us are hopeful that this option could be a real solution to this crisis, yet we must be clear-eyed," Hagel told US lawmakers. The "real, credible" threat of US military action must continue, he insisted.
Meanwhile, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said France would propose a UN Security Council resolution setting out conditions for Syria to place its chemical weapons under international control and accept that they will be dismantled.
Fabius told a news conference in Paris the resolution – under Chapter 7 of the UN charter covering possible military and non-military action to restore peace – would warn of "extremely serious" consequences for Damascus if it breached those conditions.
Russia's Foreign Minister Lavrov said on Tuesday that Russia was working on an "effective, concrete" plan for putting Syria's chemical weapons under international control and is discussing the details with Damascus.
Lavrov told reporters the plan would be presented to other nations soon and that the proposal, which he announced on Monday, was not entirely Russian but grew out of contacts with the United States.
Syrian Prime Minister Wael al-Halki said on Tuesday his country supported a Russian proposal for Damascus to give up chemical weapons to avoid a possible US military strike.
Syrian state television quoted Halki as saying the government backed the initiative in order "to spare Syrian blood."
The Arab League said it will support the Russian proposition, the group's chief said on Tuesday.
Secretary General Nabil al-Arabi told reporters in Cairo the League will "soon issue a statement announcing its support officially" of the Russian plan.
Syria's main opposition group called the Russian plan a "political maneuver" to head off threatened US airstrikes on Syria.
Lavrov had previously suggested on Monday that Damascus hand its chemical arsenal to international control and have it destroyed.
"The proposal of Lavrov is a political maneuver and is part of useless procrastination that will only result in more deaths and destruction for the Syrian people," said a statement from the opposition Syrian National Coalition late Monday.
Obama called Lavrov's plan a "significant breakthrough," and US Secretary of State John Kerry said that the move could stop possible military action against Syria.
US lawmakers are due to vote on a resolution authorizing the use of force against the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in response to alleged chemical attacks launched near Damascus on August 21 in which hundreds are said to have died.
Damascus has firmly denied it was behind the attacks.
"The perpetrators of war crimes cannot be exonerated and crimes against humanity cannot be washed away by offering political concessions or by handing over the instrument used to commit the crimes," the opposition said, referring to the chemical weapons.
"We call for strikes and we warn the international community that this regime tells lies, and the liar Putin is its teacher," Free Syrian Army chief of staff Selim Idriss told al-Jazeera television on Monday.
The Russian proposal, which apparently began life as an off-the-cuff remark by Kerry, offers Obama a way out of ordering unpopular strikes, days before contentious votes in Congress seeking authorization to use force.
Moscow unveiled its proposal on Monday after Kerry, speaking in London, said the only way to halt strikes would be for Assad to give up his chemical weapons arsenal.
In Congress, Democratic Senate leader Harry Reid pushed back a Senate test vote on possible US strikes that had been scheduled for Wednesday as lawmakers evaluate the Russian plan.
The US Senate may not vote this week on the issue, several aides said, adding that congressional leaders want to wait to assess the public's response to President Barack Obama's address to the American people on Syria on Tuesday night.
The dramatic diplomatic twist in weeks of high-tension international wrangling came when Kerry was asked by a reporter during a visit to London whether there was anything Assad's government could do or offer to stop a US military strike.
"Sure. He could turn over every single bit of his chemical weapons to the international community in the next week – turn it over, all of it without delay and allow the full and total accounting. But he isn't about to do it and it can't be done."
The State Department later said Kerry had been making a rhetorical argument, not an explicit proposal.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon also backed the ideas in the proposal, saying he was considering proposing something similar to the Security Council.
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The tiny successor to the even tinier Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro (there we said it) – the Xperia SK17i Mango – has leaked for the nth time today. This time the Gingerbread-laden handset appears in better quality photos, and is sized next to all of its keyboarded Android brethren in the Sony Ericsson stable, including the Xperia pro.
The phone extends the miniature 2.55″ display of the Xperia Mini Pro to 3″, with 320×480 pixels of resolution, and is most likely powered by the same 1GHz Snapdragon chipset that is in most SE Android phones this year.
It's got a 5MP camera, which does HD video, but the sensor is most likely the one from the Xperia Play, rather than an Exmor R one, which comes in at least an 8MP package; the Xperia Play takes pretty good photos, though, so no biggie.
Read the whole story at PhoneArena.com!
After what must seem like forever, owners of the Samsung Fascinate will finally get an OTA update tomorrow for Android 2.2. Starting Thursday, Fascinate owners can head over to Settings>About Phone >System Updates and they will be a click away from receiving Froyo OTA.
Besides enabling the device to show Flash video and animation, Android 2.2 also allows some apps to be stored on a microSD card. The upgrade will also allow for faster browsing on sites using JavaScript, correct upper and lower case letters on sentences typed using Swype, gives you the choice to have your apps automatically upgraded, and preloads VCAST apps and Samsung Media hub on your device among other improvements. For a look at the changelist, click on the sourcelink.
As we reported, the Android 2.2 upgrade was expected to reach Fascinate owners back on February 22nd, and even then it was considered long overdue. But if everything goes as planned tomorrow, all of that will be long forgotten by happy Samsung Fascinate owners.
The latest commercial for the Samsung Galaxy S II shows off a feature called "Voice Talk" that will allow users to send a text without using their hands. The ad highlights how handy this feature could be if you are caught in the Antartica or in Green Bay during the NFL playoffs, and you need to pass along the word to your buddy Nanuk that you are stranded.
Before the Samsung Galaxy S II, you would have to struggle with numb, useless fingers. But the handset allows you to open the text application, dictate the message, and send it all by using your voice.
As we have reported, the device is set to launch in the U.K. on May 1st. While at the current time there is no word on a U.S. release for the Samsung Galaxy S II, it is expected that the Korean based manufacturer will not leave the States out in the uh…cold.
source: AndroidCentral
Remember that pesky security hole that was found in the Skype application for Android devices? Well, that vulnerability is a thing of the past now after an official update to Skype for Android took care of it, hopefully once and for all. However, there seems to be a significant bonus that comes along with the security fix.
Call it a way of saying "We're sorry!" if you will, but the update enables all Skype users to make calls from their Android-powered smartphones over 3G networks. Until now, the feature was only a privilege that some Verizon subscribers could brag about, and needless to say, this discrimination was criticized by Skype users nationwide. With 3G calls now enabled for everybody, the service ought to make up for any loss in popularity that the security flaw may have caused.
If you are not a part of the big Skype family, feel free to give it a try. Calls between Skype users are free of charge, and paid services like international calls or text messaging come at pretty affordable rates.
source: Skype (Android Market)
The Gingerbread update for the Motorola DROID X has been live for about a week now, but the improvements that it brings seem to be anything but solely superficial. According to the feedback that we just got from a fellow tipster, the phone now shows a significant boost in performance in comparison to the time when it was running an older Android version.
The numbers simply speak for themselves. As you can see in the screenshot below, the DROID X scored up to 1918 points on Quadrant and further benchmarks reportedly kept delivering results above the 1800 mark. Such milestones would have been pretty much unreachable prior to the Gingerbread update, when the handset was getting a bit over 1000.
Anybody who thinks their DROID X can beat this? Comments and tips from you, dear readers, are more than welcome!
Thanks, Sniggly!
We already know that the Sony Ericsson Xperia arc is to debut in Canada in only a week's time, but news about the smartphone's U.S. launch has been pretty scarce. Luckily, a hint regarding its arrival emerged from the official Sony Ericsson Product Blog and suggests we may have to wait patiently until later this summer.
Here is what Rikard Skogberg, one of the official SE bloggers, shared with his readers when asked about details around the arc's landing in the U.S.:
I just got something from my US colleagues and the current plan is to have an "a"-variant available at retailers this summer. This version will be optimized for use in the US (GSM/UMTS). I'll keep you posted as I get more details.
So there you go, a clue from a reliable source that the Xperia arc is already on its way. Unfortunately, "this summer" does not sound as good as a concrete release date would have, but it will have to do until we receive an official announcement from Sony Ericsson itself. If the smartphone does indeed come to the U.S. sporting a GSM radio, AT&T and/or T-Mobile will most probably be the carriers that will offer it. Stay tuned as we will be keeping an eye out for updates. In the meantime, how about checking out this extraordinary Xperia arc commercial?
source: Sony Ericsson Product Blog via SlashPhone
The T-Mobile Sidekick 4G is now available for the subscribers of the fourth-largest US carrier for $99.99 with a two-year contract.
The new Sidekick is sure to be a decent option for these lads and ladies who love nothing better than to write their blogs and messages on a large, well-spaced physical QWERTY. The Sidekick 4G's specs are nothing to frown about either, as it offers a 1GHz Cortex A8 Hummingbird processor, two cameras – a 3MP rear one and a VGA front-facer, Android Froyo, 3.5-inch screen with WVGA resolution and access to T-Mo's 4G network.
These are the specs, but if you want to know the real-world performance of this new incarnation of the Sidekick, go this way for our T-Mobile Sidekick 4G Review.
source: T-Mobile
A few days ago we exclusively informed you there is a great likelihood that the handset which we met as the Motorola DROID BIONIC at CES 2011 won't be the phone that's going to see commercial release with the DROID BIONIC brand.
As you may remember, our tipsters claimed that the model that was showed-off during CES 2011 (codenamed "Etna") will never see the light of day. However, that's not to say that Verizon won't launch a phone named "DROID BIONIC", as it is alleged that Big Red is firmly determined to use this brand, only that it will be a different device altogether – please, shift your attention to the Motorola "Targa".
Confirmation now comes from Motorola (quoted by WSJ) stating the launch of the Motorola DROID BIONIC will happen in the summer. A spokeswoman gives the following reason for this postponement:
"Based on compelling feedback since [Consumer Electronics Show in January], we are incorporating several enhancements to make this an even better consumer experience."
Just what we told you, isn't it?
source: WSJ
You feel like rerunning an old episode of the Sopranos for some wisdom coming out of Paulie Gualtieri? You will be able to do just that on the go, with a fancy official app.
HBO has finally decided to bring its world-famous TV content to the smartphone and tablet universe. Dubbed HBO GO, the app will appear both on iOS and Android, and will allow you access to the premium channel's content, such as all episodes of each and every soap that has appeared on HBO, plus a garnish of original movies.
HBO GO is supposed to go live on May 2nd (at least that's the timeframe in the teaser video below), and will be available for free for current HBO subscribers. Mum's the word on non-subscribers, or Bill Maher, for that matter.
via Engadget
What a day for equality in the Android Market. As we reported early on Tuesday, the CNN app that turned Android users green with envy over its long time appearance in the App Store, became available in the Android Market. And on Tuesday, the official White House app, a App Store exclusive since January 2010, also joined the Android Market as a free download.
The app offers videos and pictures of presidential happenings, news of events, announcements and press briefings. Some of this will be available as they occur in real time. With the app, which has already been downloaded 400,000 times, you get a notification when the President is about to speak.
Although the White House app is available for the Android and iOS platform, any mobile browser using a different OS can use the optimized mobile White House web page at http://m.whitehouse.gov.
source: TheWhiteHouse via Engadget
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1) What Machine do you own?
I have a Brother LS-2020. Just so you know, I don't think this model is being produced anymore...
2) when did you purchase it/how old is it?
I must have bought it 4 or 5 years ago.
3) How much sewing experience do you have? (how long sewing, how advanced your projects are)
I have been sewing for ten years now. Sadly, it has been an on-and-off hobby of mine, since space and time affected my costuming. I make my costumes out of various material, so while my sewing skills are solid for 'normal' fabrics, I have no real experience working with odd fabrics; like fake fur or spandex.
4) what do you like most about the machine?
It is a pretty easy machine to work with. There aren't too many settings, and loading the thread is fairly easy as well. The machine is also fairly easy to disassemble and clean; as I found out due to a thread tangling mishap.
5) what do you not like?
The machine I have does NOT work with stretchy materials of any kind. for whatever reason, it won't feed through the machine like it is supposed to.
6) Would you recommend your machine to a fellow cosplayer?
A beginner or someone making loads of clothing that uses 'normal' woven fabrics?~ Yes.
Someone sewing projects that require knit, pleather, or any other highly pliable fabric?~ certainly not.
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The oratorio Saul tells a focused story: jealous of young David's popularity after his victory over Goliath, King Saul orders his son Jonathan to murder him. Jonathan, David's best friend, refuses. Saul dissimulates, but when Jonathan produces David, he tries again to kill him. In an attempt to assuage his fears, Saul has the Witch of Endor call up the spirit of the Prophet Samuel, who promptly informs him that, on the morrow, there will be a great battle in which Saul and Jonathan will be killed, and that David will inherit his kingdom. Although biblical, the story is on a human rather than epic scale, allowing Handel many opportunities for character development, as well as clever instrumental effects. (For example, the witch's bassoons, or the long series of interrupted laments David sings in the third act.) The individual movements tend to be shorter than is usual for Handel, so that the work seems to move along quickly, rather like another oratorio with a compact plot, the splendid Athalia. This performance is excellent; all of the soloists are strong, although Cordier's David takes on a weak edge at times. Very good recorded sound. --Paul Turok


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2005/7/14, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 04:50:01PM +0300, Yura Pakhuchiy wrote: > > 2005/7/14, Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxx>: > > > On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 06:22:28PM +0300, Yura Pakhuchiy wrote: > > > > I found patch by Greg Ungreger to fix this problem, but why it's still > > > > not in mainline? Or it's a gcc problem and should be fixed by gcc folks? > > > > > > Yes, IIRC the patch was incorrect for other platforms, and it sure > > > looked like an arm-specific gcc problem (this was ages back, so > > > perhaps its fixed by now). > > > > AFAIR gcc-3.4.3 was released after this conversation take place at > > linux-xfs, > > maybe add something like this: > > > > #ifdef XSCALE > > /* We need this because some gcc versions for xscale are broken. */ > > [patched version here] > > #else > > [original version here] > > #endif > > no, just fix your compiler or let the gcc folks do it. Did anyone of > the arm folks ever open a PR at the gcc bugzilla with a reproduced > testcase? You're never get your compiler fixed with that attitude. Yes, but a lof of people use older versions of compilers and suffer from this bug. I personally was very unhappy when lost my data. Best regards, Yura
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September 3, 2005
Katrina: Failure at every level
Watching the tragedy and our response to it over the past week, I have been generally appalled. I've been reminded of the situation in third-world countries. When we see disaster on such a large scale "over there", we tell ourselves that it can't happen here. After all, this is America. We have the infrastructure, we have the wealth to build structures that can withstand the greatest of earthquakes. We simply should not see the sort of large-scale loss of life in the aftermath of a natural disaster: especially since Katrina was no surprise.
What, then, should we think about this? How is it that we let ourselves fall victim to such a terrible fate? What can we learn to keep this from occurring again?
First, we have to ask ourselves whether this could have been avoided. The answer is undoubtedly yes, but the preparations would have had to start 20 years ago. Why is it, with the possibility of a Category 5 hurricane looming, that this never was never even started? I fear that this is a much more general failure of government. As Neal Boortz put it today, you don't earn votes by adding redundancy to the radio systems of first responders. You get it by influence peddling and transfers of wealth. We can fault the {corrupt} city government of New Orleans, and all the way up to the feds, but assigning blame for something that was ignored for 25 years won't get us very far. If anything, this can be a lesson to us. There are threats looming all around us. San Francisco has very stringent safety codes for buildings, due to the prevalence of earthquakes. We need to take threats to places like New Orleans seriously, and make preparations an actual priority.
But what is truly a tragedy is the immediate fallout. First, the evacuation. The evacuation of New Orleans was declared mandatory by the government. As it turns out, most people capable of leaving New Orleans by vehicle did so. I have no sympathy for those who had the means to leave but did not; they made their choice. But there are a huge number of people in the city of New Orleans that don't have those means. In a pure libertarian world, charities and individuals would have swarmed the city with buses and private cars to sweep these folks to safety. We don't live in a purely libertarian world, and people in this nation expect the government to be ready for this. Why weren't they? They suggested the Superdome. I realize they may not have expected the levees to fail and thus for people to be stranded in the Superdome for that length of time, but as early as Saturday and Sunday, people were talking about the fact that the Superdome was designed for 130 mph winds, and winds as high as 175 mph were expected. This, coupled with the fact that it could never have accomodated the 100,000+ people left stranded in the city anyway, and you have a failure. Who's to blame? Likely the state and local government in the area.
This brings us to the federal angle. Federal disaster management agencies are constantly working up contingency plans for worst-case scenarios. As early as the weekend, they knew how strong this would be. Perhaps the failing of the levees was an unlikely scenario, but I'm sure they know it's a possibility. That is the time to start talking to the National Guard units and military in the area and brief them on what might be happening. It's not time to mobilize yet, but time to start logistical planning in case it is needed. As early as Tuesday, we knew the levees had failed and we had a worst-case scenario on our hands. That is time to mobilize in force and get people in there. At that point nobody can claim that we didn't know what the situation was, it was plastered over every news broadcast in the country.
So what needed to be done? National Guard mobilization is a first step. Are some LA and MS guard units in Iraq? Yes, so if manpower is an issue, we needed the army to roll in. I don't know too much about who is stationed where, but I do know that Fort Benning, on the Georgia/Alabama border, is about 6 hours from New Orleans. If we had mobilized those troops, they could have been on the ground as early as Tuesday night or Wednesday morning. As I've said, a perfect libertarian world would have already had all these problems solved. But as I've also said, utopia is not an option. With power knocked out, communications knocked out, and all the infrastructure of the city compromised, private action can't cut it. The National Guard or military bring their infrastructure with them. Once their on the ground, we have the ability to coordinate and control relief efforts. We have radios, telephones, capable vehicles, fuel for those vehicles, etc. Such widespread destruction requires self-sustaining relief forces to arrive, and in this country, it's the Guard and army. Where were they? Where was the National Guard? Where was the army? Nowhere to be found. Still, at this point, I don't put any fault to the President, as he is not supposed to be a logistical leader in times like this.
But all that changed on Wednesday morning. By this time, everyone knew the situation was horrible. Everyone knew that we were seeing large numbers of casualties, people still stranded, infrastructure in the Superdome failing, widespread looting, and general mayhem. It was already understood that the situation was far beyond the capabilities of the {corrupt, looting} New Orleans police department. At this point, not two days later, is when we needed to see Bush light some fires. At that point we knew the response was not adequate, and it certainly didn't look like anyone was jumping to fix it. Maybe the Mayor and Governor were just too overwhelmed, but it was time for leadership. It was time to call the relief efforts "not acceptable". It was time to tell people that the cavalry was on its way. And our President didn't provide it.
So what did we have? Roving gangs of thugs terrorizing anyone they come across. Women being pulled into the bathrooms at the Superdome and raped. Police officers, rather than stopping the looters, joining in. A situation where the only way to ensure your own survival was to have days of supplies, and arm yourself heavily against people who will kill you to get at your belongings. Law and order went out the window. People who were looking for guidance on where to go for safety had to wander around aimlessly, as nobody could tell them where to go or what to do.
Are we finally starting to get things under control? Yes. But everyone was at least two days late, and there is no excuse for that. The ball was dropped at every level. I stood by Bush's response in the wake of 9/11, because it was a surprise attack and his response was swift and provided the calming and rallying effects that were needed at the time. But he doesn't get a pass on this. I don't need to see him putting feet on the ground in Louisiana, but he was two days too late in his response.
In the annals of history, this is going to be written as a logistical failure that far outstrips 9/11. In New York and Washington, the number of people who perished was much lower than it could have been, and was directly a result of the attack. Thousands were saved in the towers by swift coordinated action of the rescuers. In New Orleans, few perished in the hurricane. The death toll will be almost completely due to our failure to prepare for and respond to what happened. In America, that is absolutely unconscionable.
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While I agree with you somewhat in principle, you seem to WAAAY underestimate the logistical difficulties. While it would be nice to think you can snap your fingers and have 10,000 NG troops instantly deployed and ready to go start saving people and protecting property, it just doesn't happen that way.
The NG and Army don't "bring all their infrastructure with them." They do, ultimately, but the first convoy of humvees and quarter-ton trucks isn't going to have everything they need to sustain operations in a completely devastated area. There is NOTHING in this area; and more importantly, the transportation infrastructure is completely wiped out. You really need interstate quality four-lane divided highways to properly deploy, due to weight constraints on the military's transport trucks. These kind of roads are few and far in between in and around NO.
Until you can get a large number of big trucks in, you can't support any number of NG troops, because without big trucks, they have nowhere to live, eat, get power, or fuel their trucks.
Ultimately, my point is that there's a reason everyone (FEMA, the Red Cross, etc.) tells you to have one weeks worth of supplies on hand in the event of a natural disaster. More often than not, it can take up to one week before there is something resembling a civil infrastructure.
And that brings us to the pre-disaster contingency planning. Why did Nagin wait until Saturday night to declare a mandatory evacuation? If we're playing for keeps, (and with a Cat 4/5 hurricane bearing down on a city below sea level, we most definitely are), it seems to make much more sense to err on the side of caution. If we're supposed to have a weeks worth of supplies on hand in the event of a natural disaster, why didn't the Superdome have that amount? I understand that we're talking about a huge amount of supplies, but the problem is that it seems that the NO civil defense and LEMA were piss-poor about getting a contingency plan put together in the event the levees failed. The levees were only built to withstand a borderline Cat 3 hurricane. Katrina was a Cat 5 almost until she made landfall. While I know its too early to be assigning ultimate blame, it seems clear to me, at least, that the Superdome idea was a last ditch "plan" that was devised because LEMA and the NO city government didn't have one.
Mike pretty well said it. There should have been better plans in place at the nursing homes and hospitals in this case senerio. More personal prepardness. More people ready to leave instead of staying to "stick it out". The city did not have a plan to help those with no transportation or means of survival. The superdome was a last ditch effort. This storm created havoc in several areas: city flooded, communications down, power down, lack of police protection and a way to handle looters, no viable plan by the city for a Cat. 5 hurricane, etc. Everything that could have gone wrong, went wrong. There will need to be much learning from this tradegy. Today the Modern Marvels show on cable TV had day long programing of disasters. It was very interesting and really did fit in with what happens during something like this. This situation is kind of like Pearl Harbor, in a way. Too many things went wrong. Thank goodness for the American people who are now opening their arms with donations, food, lodging, clothing, etc. This would have been a real tradgey had it not been for loving, caring people all over the country. Thank God for that.
In my opinion, New Orleans should not be rebuilt. If they do decide to rebuild then they need to raise the level of the city. It would be easier to build somewhere else. New Orleans is just surrounded by too much water. It's a big gamble.
Go here for just a taste of some of the logistical hurdles. The author is an ex-Army guy who served in a supply outfit. He's been posting all week on the extensive difficulties the relief effort is facing.
The most recent is the fact that the NG's 2 1/2 ton trucks simply can't make it from the last place with fixed gas pumps (Tuscaloosa) and NO. So you have to bring in at least one tanker per 2 1/2 truck. And that tanker needs fuel too. And the tanker that brought the fuel for the second tanker is going to need fuel when it gets back to Tuscaloosa.
I'm not saying there isn't some blame to be assigned on all levels, I'm just saying that the media is extensively white-washing just how difficult the relief effort really is, and is going to be.
I see your point. And problem #1 was the Mayor and state response before it even occurred. Things have come out which show that their own procedures called for using the school buses to evacuate people, and no effort was ever made to do that. That would have saved countless lives.
While I understand the logistical issues, it sure doesn't seem that a lot of smart decisions were made, on any level, until about Thursday or Friday.
Yeah, the Mayor Nagin Memorial Motor Pool.
The AAR for this whole charlie-foxtrot is NOT going to be pretty. There is a lot of blame to be assigned, on all levels; you just have to forgive me for the quick jump to the feds defense. I've read so much bull in the media about how the federal government should have done this, or the how the federal government didn't do that, when the truth is that a) LEMA and NO city government really had no coherent plan, and b) disaster response is ultimately a local responsibility. Yes, FEMA can provide lots of money, and the NG can provide lots of manpower, but if the local response isn't up to snuff in the first 24 or 48 hours, the whole situation goes down the toilet, as we have seen.
As usual, I just wish the media took the time to tell the WHOLE story instead of Mayor Nagin's soundbites. (Speaking of those, if I taught a leadership class, I would use the Mayor's leadership during this crisis as a textbook example of what not to do…but that's just me.)
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Edge here has to go to the senators. The rangers do have a top goal scorer in gabby, but the sens easily match that with a top five point getter in spezza. They also have karlsson, michalek, and alfredsson, which the rangers can only match up with richards and callahan. The senators are a more explosive team, they play a more up tempo system and have given us fits all year long. They have an uncanny ability to get the rangers to open up. They make us want to trade chances with them and that is how they massacre teams. They outscored the Rangers by 29 goals in the season, giving them the 4th ranked offense in the entire NHL to the Rangers 11th. The rangers need to concede that the sens are better than us offensively. We need to get our goals when they come, but mostly wear them out with a physical pounding their grandchildren will feel.
Rangers get the big time edge here. Not only are the rangers defenseman significantly better, more mobile, stronger, and more intelligent, but the Rangers forwards also are worlds better defensively than the Senators forwards. The Rangers are built to win 2-1 games, not 6-5 games. The Rangers allowed 65 fewer goals than the Senators did this season, giving them the 3rd ranked defense in the NHL to Ottawas 24th. This is what should put the Rangers over the top. Their ability to dictate how the game is played in the defensive zone. Give the Senators NOTHING, don't go outside their comfort zone. Play strong in their own zone, block a ton of shots, and win the war of attrition.
Another big time edge for the Rangers. Henrik Lundqvist was ranked 3rd in the NHL in wins (Anderson was 11th), 4th in Goals Against Average (Anderson was ranked 43rd removing goalies with fewer than 17 starts). Lundqvist was 3rd in save percentage (Anderson was 26th), and Henrik was 3rd in shutouts (Anderson tied for 24th). Quite simply, Henrik Lundqvist outclasses Anderson by a significant margin. However, the X-Factor here is that Anderson is a guy who has played VERY well against the Rangers, and Lundqvist has not played all that well against the Senators since the lockout. This may be a similar case to the Washington series a few years back when Varlamov outplayed Lundqvist despite Lundqvist having overwhelmingly better numbers than Varlamov.
This is Henriks year to shine, I have a feeling he's going to come up big this series. I think the guy knows just how important this year is because the Rangers do have a legitimate chance to make it to the Stanley Cup Finals.
Another big time edge to Torts. The guy has won a Stanley Cup, in all likelyhood will be a finalist for the Adams trophy if he doesn't win it outright, and has taken a team that was almost universally picked by the fans to the pundits to finish in the 4-10 range this season to the top spot in the Eastern Conference despite the Rangers playing in what may be the toughest division in all of sports. Torts is a master at getting the most out of his players, I expect nothing else.
Will Chris Kreider get to play? Who knows. Will he lead the team in scoring or something insane like that? No. However, you could see the kid come in and contribute at a .3PPG pace, he's definitely good enough to do that. His speed is gamebreaking, and his offensive talents are undeniable. Will he get into the game? who knows. Carl Hagelin though may be a huge key to the Rangers. He has not played well as of late, his 2 linemates have had to carry him on the ice. Is he fatigued? Has the NHL figured him out? Personally I think it's more of the former. He doesn't have that jump in his game, he doesn't seem to be as tenacious as before, and it's hurt both him, and his line. If Hagelin can get his game back, and I think he will, he could be the guy to watch this series.
I want to pick the Rangers in 5, but to be safe, I'm going to say the Rangers in 6. I know the Sens have great numbers against us, I know this is a young team, blah blah blah, but the long and the short of it is this. The Rangers are better than the Senators. We are built to win playoff games. Don't be surprised if Ottawa takes 1 of the first 2 first games, and then the Rangers steamroll from then on. Remember, it's a series not a 1 game playoff.


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A traffic stop late Saturday night by Cumby Police, assisted by state troopers, resulted in two felony arrests and helped clear at least two Dallas-area vehicle burglaries.
Christopher Robbin Grady, 32, and Rebecca Ann Burrier, 42, both of Haskell, were being held at Hopkins County jail early Monday morning for fraudulent use or possession of identifying information. Grady was also charged with unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon, also a felony offense.
Cumby Police Officer Chris Bettis observed the pair commit a traffic violation on the south interstate service road as they turned into a gas station just after 11:30 p.m. Saturday.
During the course of the stop, Bettis had opportunity to look in the vehicle and found identification information for two women, neither of which were in the vehicle. Upon running the information through the computer, officers learned the documents had been reported stolen in Plano and Rockwall. The owners of the information told authorities in those cities the items were stolen recently when their vehicles were broken into.
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A number of tools, known by authorities to be those often used to break into vehicles, were also seized by Cumby police.
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Endothelial dysfunction participates in the development and progression of salt-sensitive hypertension. Asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA) is an endogenous inhibitor of nitric oxide synthase (NOS). The objectives of this study were to investigate the impact of a high salt diet on the PRMT/ADMA/DDAH (protein arginine methyltransferases; dimethylarginine dimethylaminohydrolase) pathway in Dahl salt-sensitive (DS) rats and SS-13BN consomic (DR) rats, and to explore the mechanisms that regulate ADMA metabolism independent of blood pressure reduction. Plasma levels of nitric oxide (NO) in DS rats given a high salt diet and subjected to intragastric administration of hydralazine (SH + HYD group) were lower than those given a normal salt diet (SN group). There were significant decreases in expression and activity of dimethylarginine dimethylaminohydrolase (DDAH) and endothelial NO synthase (eNOS) in DS rats given a high diet (SH group) in comparison to the SN group. The activity of DDAH and expression of eNOS in the SH + HYD group decreased more significantly than SN group. The mRNA expression of DDAH-1 and DDAH-2 were lowest in the SH group. The results suggest that salt, independent of blood pressure, can affect the PRMT-1/ADMA/DDAH system to a certain degree and lead to endothelial dysfunction in Dahl salt-sensitive rats.
Endothelial dysfunction is involved in the pathogenesis of cardiovascular diseases and participates in the development and progression of salt-sensitive hypertension [
ADMA is synthesized endogenously during the methylation of protein arginine residues by protein arginine methyltransferases (PRMTs). There are two broad types of PRMTs: PRMT-1 catalyze the formation of ADMA, whereas PRMT-2 methylate both of the guanidino nitrogens and thus result in the formation of symmetric dimethylarginine (SDMA); SDMA has no inhibitory activity [
Most animal experiments and population investigations have shown that high salt intake can lead to elevation of plasma ADMA. ADMA has been found to be involved in the development of high blood pressure (BP) in Dahl salt-sensitive (DS) hypertensive rats but not in spontaneous hypertensive rats, suggesting that salt might modulate the level of ADMA in salt-sensitive (SS) hypertension independent of blood pressure reduction [
However, there is little information on the effects of a high salt diet on the ADMA system independent of blood pressure reduction. The aims of this study were to examine such effects of a high salt diet on the PRMT-1/ADMA/DDAH pathway in Dahl salt-sensitive rats and SS-13BN rats, as well as to explore the mechanisms that regulate ADMA metabolism independent of blood pressure reduction.
All rats had normal physiological activities and were healthy during the dietary intervention. At baseline, no significant differences in blood pressure and body weight were detected among groups. The blood pressure levels of rats fed a high salt diet were significantly higher than those of rats from the other groups of the same species. The weights of the SH rats (DS rats given a high salt diet) were significantly higher than those of rats from the other two groups (
SH group rats had higher plasma ADMA levels compared with the SN group and the lowest plasma NO
DDAH activity of aorta tissues significantly decreased in the high salt group compared with the BN and SN groups. It was significantly lower than in the SN group and higher than in the SH group, respectively (
Compared with that in the BN group, the mRNA expression of PRMT-1 evidently increased in the four groups, although no significant difference was found among the groups (
Compared with that in the SS-13BN rat group, the expression of PRMT-1 was significantly raised in DS rats; however, no significant difference among the DS rats was observed (
Increasing evidence from multiple clinical studies shows that excess salt intake is related to cardiovascular organ damage, independent of blood pressure [
Our study showed that the blood pressure and body weights of the rats from the SH group were highest among groups. The findings were consistent with a previous study illustrating that Dahl salt-sensitive rats (DS) have a defect in renal pressure, natriuresis, which is associated with retention of sodium and fluid on a high NaCl intake, thereby contributing to hypertension and obesity [
NO, which is generated by NO synthase (NOS), plays a pivotal role in regulation of blood pressure and maintenance of vascular function. ADMA can contribute to endothelial dysfunction by inhibition and uncoupling of NOS [
Plenty of evidence has shown that elevated oxidant stress level in the renal medulla and vascular oxidative stress in DS rats contributes to salt-sensitive hypertension [
The sole limitation of the study is that the detection result of ADMA concentration was higher than the previous literature had reported. There may be some fault in our experimental operation. However, the main purpose of this study is to compare the impact of high salt intervention on the ADMA system between DS and DR rats, thus the conclusion can only be slightly affected.
We thus propose the following underlying mechanisms: high salt intake leads to increased vascular superoxide production, which may result in impaired DDAH activity and expression. Intracellular ADMA that escapes metabolism reduces endogenous NO production by limiting the availability of eNOS via the uncoupling of eNOS, thereby contributing to oxidative stress in a positive feedback fashion.
Eight-week-old male Dahl salt-sensitive rats and SS-13BN rats (Charles River Laboratories International, Inc., Wilmington, MA, USA) were bred in a specific pathogen-free animal house. Each group consisted of eight rats. The DS rats were randomly divided into three groups according to their respective diets: normal diet (0.3% NaCl, SN group), high salt diet (8% NaCl, SH group), high salt diet (8% NaCl) and hydralazine (10 mg/kg/d) intragastric administration (SH + HYD group). Similarly, SS-13BN rats were randomly divided into two groups according to their diet: normal diet (0.3% NaCl, BN group), and high salt diet (8% NaCl, BH group). At the end of three weeks, the animals were sacrificed with intraperitoneal injection of 10% chloral hydrate (3 mL/kg); plasma was collected from the abdominal aorta, and the thoracic aorta were immediately snap-frozen in liquid nitrogen and kept frozen at −80 °C until biochemical determinations and
Before the intervention period and last day of each week, the BP of conscious rats were measured using the tail–cuff plethysmography with a computerized system (Amplifier Model 229, IITC Life Science, Woodlands, CA, USA). All rats did treadmill exercise and were adjusted to the blood pressure measurements by tail–cuff plethysmography prior to the final measurements. A 13 mm, the cuff was placed around the tail of rats and inflated to 240 mm Hg. Systolic pressure was recorded as the pressure at the point when the first tail pulse was detected. Systolic blood pressure was measured four times, every 3 min, and the average value was calculated. Body weights were measured at the end of three weeks.
The concentration of ADMA was determined by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). Reagents and ADMA were purchased from Sigma (St. Louis, MO, USA). The serum samples (200 μL) of rats mixed with chromatographic grade acetonitrile (400 μL). The supernatant was collected after centrifugation at 12,000 rpm for 10 min at 4 °C. The supernatant (100 μL) was diluted with 0.1 mol/L hydrochloric acid (HCL) to 1.5 mL. The samples (20 μL) and standards (20 μL) were incubated for 3 min with
The plasma NO
According to the theory that DDAH can catalyze ADMA to dimethylamine and
Total RNA was isolated by Trizol extraction (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA, USA). cDNA was synthesized with RevertAid™ First Strand cDNA Synthesis Kit (Fermentas, Burlington, Ontario, Canada). The mRNA expressions of PRMT-1, DDAH-1, DDAH-2 and endothelial NOS (eNOS) were tested by real-time quantitative PCR, which was performed on an iQ5 real-time PCR detection system (Bio-Rad Laboratories, Hercules, CA, USA) with SYBR PremixEx Taq™ II (Takara, Shiga, Japan). The thermo cycling conditions were 3 min at 95 °C followed by 40 cycles of 10 s at 95 °C, 30 s at 58 °C and 30 s at 72 °C. The data were also collected at the annealing step (72 °C) of each cycle. The relative gene expression was normalized by GAPDH. Data were analyzed on the basis of the relative expression method with the formula relative expression 2−ΔΔCT, where ΔΔCT is ΔCt (different group) − ΔCt (control group), ΔCt is Ct (target gene) − Ct (GAPDH), and Ct is the cycle at which the threshold is crossed. The results were normalized to the BN group. The information of primer (Sangon, Shanghai, China) is shown in
The aorta tissues were homogenized and lysed with RIPA lysis buffer (Genshare, Shannxi, China). The supernatant was collected after centrifugation at 14,000 rpm for 15 min at 4 °C. Proteins were quantified by the Bradford assay with a protein assay kit. Equal amounts of protein samples (45 μg) were separated in 12% SDS-PAGE gels, and transferred to nitrocellulose membranes at 250 mA for 2 h. Non-specific binding was blocked with 5% skim milk for 2 h at room temperature. Immunoblotting was performed for PRMT-1 (1:1000; Abcam, Cambridge, UK), eNOS (1:1000; CST, Beverly, MA, USA), and GAPDH (1:5000; Bioworld, Louis Park, USA). Horseradish peroxidase-conjugated anti-rabbit (1:5000, Thermo Scientific, MA, USA), anti-rat (1:5000, Thermo Scientific, MA, USA) antibodies were used. The membrane was finally washed with TBST. Densitometric analysis was performed with Bio Rad-IQ5 Image Software, and the relative ratio to the GAPDH expression was calculated for each sample.
Data were presented as mean ± S.E.M. Differences between treatment groups were compared by unpaired
In conclusion, a high salt diet independent of blood pressure level decreases plasma NO by downregulation of DDAH activity and eNOS expression in aorta of DS rats; our findings indicated that prior to blood pressure elevation, there must already exist dysregulation of the DDAH/ADMA/eNOS system in normotensive salt-sensitive subjects. The study sheds new light on understanding the pathogenesis of salt-sensitive hypertension. The enhancement of DDAH activity or upregulation of DDAH expression may become a novel therapeutic strategy for early prevention of cardiovascular diseases.
This study was supported by funds from the Nature Science Foundation of China (30900616) and the National Program on Key Basic Research Project of China (973 Program, 2012CB517804), by the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, First Affiliated Hospital of Medical College of Xi'an Jiaotong University; Institute of Cardiovascular Channelopathy, Key Laboratory of Environment and Genes Related to Diseases (Xi'an Jiaotong University), Ministry of Education; and Key Laboratory of Molecular Cardiology, Shannxi Province.
Correlation between plasma ADMA and NO
DDAH activity in all groups. (results were normalized to the BN group). &
PRMT-1, eNOS and DDAH-1, DDAH-2 mRNA expressions in all groups. (
PRMT-1, eNOS protein expressions in all groups. (
Blood pressure and weight of the rats after dietary intervention.
|SBP (mmHg)
|Weight (g)
|13-BN normal diet (
|138.6 ± 4.8
|345.3 ± 19.3
|13-BN high salt diet (
|147.6 ± 5.1
|342.6 ± 5.1
|SS normal diet (
|147.3 ± 12.6
|321.8 ± 17.1
|SS high salt diet (
|160.2 ± 10.3
|365.5 ± 19.4
|SS high salt diet + hydralazine (
|144.7 ± 5.9
|316.7 ± 17.7
Plasma ADMA and NO
|Plasma ADMA (μg/mL)/(μmol/L)
|Plasma NO
|13-BN normal diet (
|64.7 ± 4.3 (320.3 ± 21.3)
|25.6 ± 2.3
|13-BN high salt diet (
|67.5 ± 8.8 (334.2 ± 43.6)
|20.2 ± 3.2
|SS normal diet (
|61.4 ± 5.3 (304.0 ± 26.2)
|30.1 ± 2.4
|SS high salt diet (
|75.7 ± 12.1 (374.8 ± 74.6)
|12.4 ± 1.7
|SS high salt diet + hydralazine (
|65.2 ± 2.4 (322.8 ± 11.9)
|20.3 ± 4.6
Information of primers for real-time quantitative PCR.
|Nucleotide sequence
|Forward primer
|Reverse primer
|Forward primer
|Reverse primer
|Forward primer
|Reverse primer
|Forward primer
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A review warned that "ill judged" comments had undermined the credibility of the role and warned that any future commissioner should speak only on the basis of evidence.
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Dr Dunford also recommended that children should be taught about their rights at school to help them respect the rights of other people and become responsible citizens.
In a newspaper interview, Dr Atkinson had called for the age of criminal responsibility to be raised from 10 to 12.
This would have meant that Jon Venables and Robert Thompson would never have stood trial for killing two-year-old James Bulger in 1993. James's mother, Denise Fergus, called for Dr Atkinson to resign or be sacked over her remarks.
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According to an email making the Hollywood rounds, Quincy Jones has started a petition to ask President-Elect Obama to appoint a Secretary of the Arts. "While many other countries have had Ministers of Art or Culture for centuries, The United States has never created such a position," the email reads. "We in the arts need this and the country needs the arts — now more than ever. Please take a moment to sign this important petition and then pass it on to your friends and colleagues." The petition is located at: www.petitiononline.com/esnyc/petition.html.
Should U.S. Have Minister Of The Arts?
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We have that already it's called the FCC & MPAA.
All this country is about is censoring not celebrating the arts.
Ah. So that's why we the people of the United States did ordain and establish (the) Constitution for the United States of America. Not in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, but to give the state a say in culture.
I'll support the arts with my entertainment dollars, not my tax dollars, thank you very much.
I think if anyone needs a Minister Of The Arts it would the Hollywood Studios. Get back to some of that good old fashion story telling with real people and real characters.
Quincy Jones is among the greatest and most influential living American artists. That is beyond question. What is up for question is his objectivity regarding the need for an official Ministry of the Arts. An official Federal department of the Arts. The very concept is silly and of course it will never happen.
hopefully this position will further the tradition of great vision and artistry that Quincy brought us with "Star Camp" and the first three seasons of MadTV.
Um, let's see. We have no Ministry of the Arts, and somehow this country manages to turn out more filmed and electronic entertainment than the rest of the world combined.
I guess we need a new government bureaucracy to put a damper on all this.
Clearly you've never lived in a country that actually does censor the arts.
And, I say if they want to promote the arts in this country, put the money into arts programs in schools. Not in appointing a useless vanity position like Minister of the Arts.
What a lame idea. If Obama falls for this, as I'm sure he will, all it will mean is another level of bureaucrats telling Americans what to do and how to do it. Even worse, it will end up costing hard-working taxpayers millions but will show nothing.
But this is the least of what we are in for, I fear.
Well, considering the inauguration's in a week and they hardly have anyone signed up to perform, I think what they really need is a competent secretary.
I agree with Jen. A Secretary of the Arts is a terrible idea.
No matter who was appointed to such a position, do we really want to subject the freedom of expression to one person's ideology? I'm thinking not so much.
The history of the NEA is frought with censorship of government funded art. Of course, the government can say exactly how the money is spent, as soon as we hand over our tax dollars to let them. That's how it goes. I'd rather keep that money and spend it on shows I like, like the burlesque show I'm seeing tomorrow. I'm doubtful burlesque qualifies as "real" art. But I think it should – and therein lies the kind of debates that would go on once we give up control of funding for the arts.
It would be the first step towards placing a value on the arts and maybe, treating them as they ought to be. Sign the petition!
Would an Arts Czar be able to prevent crappy TV from polluting our airwaves? If so, bring him/her on! Pack your shit and go Jimmy Kimmel, there's a new sheriff in town!
Is he insane? Do you really want the government to have any more control than it already does?
Here is a little trick to decide if you are giving the government too much power.
If you are on the right. Would you want Hillary or Bill Cliinton to have this power.
If you are on the left. Would you want Bush or Reagan to have had this power?
Keep the government out.
I agree with Jen.
It would be a grand idea if America actually practiced "live and let live," the idea on which the country was founded.
Instead (by and large) what will happen is that it'll be turned into another arena for the so-called culture wars, and generate enough Supreme Court cases to fill a history book.
Our culturally rich nation needs a secretary of the Arts & Culture BADLY. This is LONGGGG overdue. Hurrah Quincy Jones!
Anything creative is the first thing to get the chop in schools, both private and public. Heaven forbid the local high school lose their water polo team. They just recently announced TV networks no longer have to support local public programming, which is about the only "arts" programming left on television, paid or otherwise.
There's no point in having a government position for something that has no government support. You may as well appoint a Secretary of Common Sense.
I'm a Canadian and I've seen government arts funding at work and I can say that a Ministry of Arts is a double edged sword.
While the idea of public arts funding is nice, there are problems. Government financed arts programs create elite cliques who dominate the funding bodies, and funnel the funding to their friends and pet projects.
This greatly narrows who succeeds in the art scene from those with the talent, originality, and drive to win an audience to those who are connected to the ruling political party regardless of quality or appeal.
Then there's the questions over the "censorship" issue. Should the state support art that no one else will support for fear of being accused of censorship?
Is it even censorship to not pay for something you don't want, or is it editing as Tom Stoppard once asked? Because those who don't get the funding will be screaming censorship at the top of their lungs.
It's a lot trickier issue than you think.
When you can turn on an FM radio station at 10:00 in the morning and hear people carrying on graphic conversations about what it's like to have sex with uncircumcised men or about being sexually attracted to animals, the notion that "all this country is about is censoring" strikes me as incredibly wide of the mark.
The very fact that you can criticize your government without fear of reprisal is a nearly unique circumstance in the long history of the human race. Count your blessings.
Oh god, there you go again.
If you gotta, then for Christ's sake get David Geffen. He's not doing anything now.
WhatEVER you do, DON'T GET OVIT or EISNER.
Sheeze, Nikki, it's all about the lesser of evils, and besides, we don't need no bloody, wonking, "czar."
We have the 6 assholes who run the studios . . . isn't that damage enough??? Imagine Peter (Turkey-King) Chernin as the FILM CZAR?? Who wouldn't want to throw-up at the thought?
Now let's get back back to talking about something REAL, like saving the US economy and getting jobs for the several million poor souls out there…or dealing with SAG West VS SAG East, or the life-or-death situation of WATCHMEN.
Now more than ever, we need the arts?
Is he out of his mind?
Now more than ever we need an economy, jobs, an infrastructure, credit, a stable housing market, and a state and federal government that isn't heading to bankruptcy.
Art… shssshhhh…. what an idiot.
Perhaps Mr. Jones might familiarize himself w/ the National Endowment for the Arts ( nea.gov ) from which he can apply for a grant here ( nea.gov/Grants/apply ), or the National Endowment for the Humanities ( neh.gov ), or even the public/private partnership that is the Kennedy Center ( http://www.kennedy-center.org/ ).
The government should have as little to do with the arts as possible. I know most artists tend to be liberal and that philosophy likes to have government involved. But listen to your inner libertarian. Once you have the government involved, you have the government having influence. And they can be hard task-master. Want to do something controversial or unpopular? Shouldn't expect that on the taxpayer's dime. We live in a wonderful country. You can make your own way. Get support that way.
And then the war over what is art and what isn't art will follow and still nothing will be accomplished.
I supposed you could call the US Poet Laureate the equivalent.
What a stupendously stupid idea!
Just think what would such a department push for if it were a Republican administration?
Everything would be blander than "7th Heaven"
Those are the people that insist the government would screw up the healthcare system in this country, even though the G currently runs the two biggest health systems around. [The VA & the military medical systems]
And what would the Democrats do?
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