Monday, March 1, 2010

Chile troops, police attack post-quake looting
~Rescuers found signs of life in a quake-toppled building on Monday as the world offered aid to victims of a catastrophe that killed more than 700 people. Troops and police cracking down on looters arrested dozens of people for violating a curfew.
~One more time everyone!
~[Disaster management scholar Joseph Trainor observed that “…people are not victims of disasters, they are survivors…People are adaptive and altruistic, mass rioting and mass looting are just disaster myths for the most part…] (USA Today)
~Editilla Spectellas~We wonder how many people would have actually gone out of control in New Orelans 8/29/05 had we any sort of Police on the scene, as they do in Chili.
But, we did not since They Ran Ferrel.
They were there at first sorta, letting folks Make Groceries, but then, once the Levees Failed everything changed.
I will always wonder, but one thing I won't do is let go of the likes of Joseph Trainor linked above, the FEMA Disaster Management Scholar, the self-styled Disaster Myth Maker.
Oh yeah, we not gonna let this one go no.

It only took 5 years after Katrina to figure this out... ~Vickie Moos

New Orleans Pumps
~Gov. Accountability Project


Meeting scheduled for proposed hurricane route~John DeSantis

Senator Jim “Dumb” Bunning flips off the Nation. The NFIP has expired. Hope you don’t flood today.

National Flood Insurance Program expires, slowing down sales of properties where flood policies are required
~Rebecca Mowbray


New Orleans Revs Up For Google Fiber Initiative ~BBuzz

Census Takers Begin Hand Delivering 2010 Census Questionnaires to 12 Million U.S. Addresses

Mayor-elect Mitch Landrieu ran the Rock 'n' Roll Mardi Gras Kiddy Marathon in a good time

The Year's Best Architecture?
~John Klingman


Paris Under Water
~Review by Emmanuelle Smith


Violin prodigy, 13, readies for his solo~Steven Landry

Music Without Bars
~Tom Macom


Preservation: An Album To Benefit Preservation Hall & The Preservation Hall Music Outreach Program (Deluxe Version) ~girlmusic

Music professor and students collect musical instruments for Haiti~In an effort to revitalize music education in Haiti, Loyola University New Orleans music professor and Haitian native Jean Montès, D.M.A., will travel there in late March with a group of students and volunteers to deliver musical instruments to the earthquake-devastated Holy Trinity School of Music.

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