WHAT WENT WRONG????????

New Orleans geographical location points where natural phenomena’s happen. Its has been know for centuries that its not the best location for people to settle, but because of its great historic city that people cant seem to abandon. Ever since the 1800’s natural disasters have hit New Orleans some levees have broken, hurricanes killed a lot of people, floods etc. In Article Flirting with Disaster its mention that an Organizational bystander, is a person that fails to take necessary action when important threats or opportunities arise. People in New Orleans that constructed and settle been had knowledge of its geographical threats.

       On August of 2005 Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans killing over 1,300 people, putting millions out of homes, and leaving thousands without jobs or income. Hundreds of thousands of homes were destroyed or drastically damaged. The few weeks after the disaster, many individuals were left ruined, without food, water or a roof over their heads. In disaster as devastating as Katrina the Government was not well equipped and not ready for this storm.   In City adrift they mention that the government said, “ They couldn't foresee, couldn’t anticipate”.  That was not the natural disaster, but rather the human disaster that followed.  

   The accessibility of insurance became a matter of life or death, especially the living expenses under “loss of use” clauses in homeowner’s policies. Many homeowners’ policyholders, who were hungry, worn out, shocked and on the streets, immediately looked to their insurance carrier to come to help with living expenses. What many of these residents found was not help, but rather conflict by their insurance carriers to pay anything at all. It was soon after Katrina hit that insurance companies began looking for ways to escape responsibility to their homeowner’s policyholders. They publicly declared that most of the damage was due to flooding. Only those who carried flood insurance which is underwritten by the federal government, would get any coverage, leaving insurers entirely off the hook for paying Katrina-related claims. This included payment of temporary living expenses, which flood insurance does not provide. This was despite the fact that neither the law nor the facts justified insurers’ behavior.

  FEMA monitor complaints, refer them to state insurance departments and keep records of hurricane-related insurance problems. This affected policyholders covered by several different insurance carriers. Insurance carriers were unreachable or simply refused to respond to their policyholders at all. With more than 1,000 lives lost in Katrina and the hundreds of thousands of people still in bad circumstances, and the insurance industry flush with money, the industry should pay these claims. The government needs to step in and help these victims of Katrina.

 

New Orleans’ history, culture, and geography

The city of New Orleans was founded in 1718 by the Sier de bienvikke, a French Canadian nobleman believed that a port should be built. New Orleans unique connection with a bay that made it perfect for trade across the US, Bienville started to build roads in his new city. In 1722 great hurricanes hit New Orleans that drowned new build city. The first generation ignored causing them to keep building but more levees between the town and the river. Through the 1800’s to 1927 some levees did not function, hurricanes killed a lot of people, floods etc..  New Orleans just kept rebuilding because it was Major commodity crops of sugar and cotton. Slave labor on large plantations outside the city.New Orleans from the 1888  The Haitian Revolution of 1804 established the second republic in the Western Hemisphere and the first led by blacks. Haitian refugees, both white and free people of color, arrived in New Orleans, often bringing slaves with them. While officials wanted to keep out more free black men, French Creoles wanted to increase the French-speaking population.

The population of the city doubled in the 1830s and by 1840, New Orleans had become the wealthiest and third-most populous city in the nation. New Orleans was the birth of Jazz music. The style combined earlier brass band marches with French Quadrilles. the "New Orleans Traditional" revival movement began in 1942 and was extended by the French Quarter during the 1960s.

In the 1800’s depression hit New Orleans’s there was only room for project building. By the 1940s things started to pick up again but they did not have the skill to compete against the industrial muscle. New Orleans found it self-competing with technology of shipping, which was threating to the economical foundation and its old city. They had to face reality of its sudden suburban explosion that carried segregation to separate blacks from the white towns. The revolution ports allowed New Orleans to make some money, and gained most its revenue from the transporting goods. On pg71 of article “the making of an urban landscape” the say “new Orleans has a relatively small captive market of shippers who must use the ports facilities”. Technology caught up to them the 1960’s because of interstate highways.

In the 1970’s New Orleans had a racial malady. They lived poor and with low education, and high crime. While the whites increased economically, blacks were isolated and abused from their rights. Ghettos were built to segregate the blacks from the whites with the city. On PG 99 The Making of an Urban Landscape.  It says “During the 1960s whites abandoned public schools because black population has increasing”.  New Orleans public schools were abandoned because Blacks outnumbered whites in schools casing white children to go to private schools.

BLOGGING ADVANTAGE FOR CITIZEN JOURNALISM

Blogs are a social genres,” Rettberg writes, and: “Blogging is a relatively type of free form social software, and are decentralized” (p. 37). Blogging has changed the way public opinion information is delivered. Different from the way the media once controlled all information. Rettberg notes that media such as television, radios, and newspapers were the only means for society to receive news about the outside world. Now, at the touch of a keyboard anyone can access various points of views on the outside world and events, and make a subjective assessment of what may or may not be the truth.

Blogging has provided many special advantages to citizens journalist and is becoming the worlds nexts thing. The advantages are many according the bloggers interest (numerous subjects). According to many bloggers there's no need for an expensive bureau they are familiar in the filed of their interest and familiar with the events and language. Its also a warning to governments that forcefully control their people and their outlets for free expression. Blogging for citizen journalists has been the tool to resolve the tenacity and rescrictions of suprecive goverments. Bloggers are not journalist, they share their personal information with truth and emotional opinions, and they investigate issues that real journalist publish as said in chap4 of Blogging. Blogging has become where the relationship between press freedom and citizen journalism campaigns is meet. Even though its created controvieries it has opened the doors for public opinion and expressions to be heard worldwide. In the book Blogger Magnus Ljungkvist discoverd that Maria Borelius, failed to pay taxes to her employees. Journalist had published wrong information, citizen journalist reveal the truth creating honesty and credibility to bloggers.

As known Cuba has been a communist country for more than 50 years. There is no public media for journalist opinions in Cuba. The Media is controlled by the government and there are no leaks for people to put opinions. Yoani Sánchez says in her interview “I have coined the term that we Cubans are “undocumented” on the web”. She claims the only way to enter the internet in Cuba is finding leaks in the web. She shares her personal life in Cuba being Generacion Y.Generacion Y blog is her most popular sites visited by people with interest or even debates with her topics. She believes her main concern is to report the Cuban life as it is and not filtered. She does this in a respectful way by not insulting. Yoani never confronts her government and does not create conflict. She writes events of Cuna that affect her personal life. Ted Henken interviewed Yoani Sanchez in “Verbal Violence to Citizen Cyber-Journalism" Yoani claims her blog since Cuba news filters her reports and censored by the Cuban government.

This has been an advantage for Citizens like Yoani Sánchez to post their journal and political opinions to the world. This obligated her to develop what she likes to call a “citizen network,” outside Cuba, where people who help her and her husband post there texts. She is a well educated woman that communicates political problems through her blogging and gives scholar opinions that may offend certain parties and food for thoughts for others. She backs up her opinions with arguments, not with insults, defamations, or incendiary language. Her advantage is that her opinions have meaning and she wants the world to be part of the real world of Cuba.

In my opinion I feel that blogging has changed the way media information is interpreted. Blogging has to be filtered because the truth is told to a certain extend. Blogging has a lot of personal opinion and personal feelings attached to it. Blogging is a place where people show their feeling and opinions to matters around the world. Relying on blogs as a substitute on journalism is a liability because information is changed and filtered to blogg their opinions. I feel that Yoani Sánchez blog “Generacion Y” is informal to a point. We have to see it as an opinion rather than a source of information. She claims that her blogg is for Cubans that were born during the 70’s and 80’s (generation Y) and people that being with the letter Y.

We hit the streets, the strip clubs in search of the city’s scintillating undergroun

Manhattan

LeRoi Manhattan
LeRoi

Store manager and piercer Pete says dozens of New Yorkers stop by the shop every week to get holes punched in their nether regions. Clients range from “girls turning 19 to 50-year-old soccer moms, trying to spice things up.” 174 Ludlow St between E Houston and Stanton Sts (212-253-6402,

 

Poleriders


The city’s first wheel-drawn pole-dancing spectacular has cycled its way around Union Square and the Lower East Side. The mobile show enlists about a half dozen dancers, who generally grind to their own iPod tunes. “Manhattan oozes steamy sex,” says founder Andrew Katzander. “Where do you think all the humidity comes from?” For show schedule and pole-dancing class

 

 

The Standard Hotel


Get thee to the High Line for an impromptu peep show. Reports of schlongs and sexcapades visible through the hotel’s floor-to-ceiling windows are rampant. “It’s all day every day,” says Stephanie of London Meats, which sits right across the street. She’s seen everything from movies being made to naked women prancing in front of the windows. The guests’ antics have even thrown a wrench in production—the loading dock’s of people  are captivated by the show. “Everybody stops walking,” she says. “Two even have binoculars.” 848 Washington St at 13th St (212-645-4646, standardhotels.com)

 

The Museum of Sex
There are 24,000 erotic artifacts at MoSex (233 Fifth Ave at 27th St; 212-689-6337, museumofsex.com), including 19th-century brothel guides and bare-booty coins used as peep-show currency in Times Square. Even the building is rumored to be a former whorehouse. Mark your calendar for two big MoSex goings-on: the November unveiling of its brand-new store, 

SKATING IN NY

The Ice Rink at Rockefeller Center
The most famous of rinks returns for its 72nd season, and it’s still as cramped as ever. 
When to go: Early in the morning or between 9am and noon on Thanksgiving—otherwise, expect a one- to two-hour wait. 30 Rockefeller Plaza between 49th and 50th Sts (212-332-7654, therinkatrockcenter.com). $9.50–$19, skate rental $8.

The Pond at Bryant Park
Don’t get too excited: The admission may be free, but you gotta pay $12 to rent skates (or BYO). On the upside: The complex holds 500 people, holiday shops, an indoor pavilion and the Canadian-themed lounge Celsius. 
When to go: Mountie Mondays start November 24—then you can get your picture taken with an authentic Canuck! FREE Sixth Ave between 40th and 42nd Sts (212-661-6640, thepondatbryantpark.com).

Sky Rink at Chelsea Piers
This athletic megacomplex offers year-round skating, two NHL-size rinks and classes galore. If you’re looking for holiday accoutrements, head elsewhere. 
When to go: Between 1 and 3:50pm on Sundays, through November 23; admission, skate rental and a slice of pizza cost just $15 ($10 for kids). Chelsea Piers (Pier 61), W 23rd St at Hudson River (212-336-6100, chelseapiers.com). $10–$12.50, skate rental $7.

Trump Lasker Skating Rink
This rink is less crowded than Wollman, but go for the hockey: Competitive leagues for Gretzky wanna-bes practice here daily. 
When to go: Wanna see somebody lose their teeth? Swing by on Wednesdays at 8:15pm for Division One adult hockey. Central Park at 110th St and Lennox Ave (917-492-3856). $2.25–$6, skate rental $5.25.

Trump Wollman Rink
If you’re a skating newbie, this is the place to be: It has the largest learn-to-skate program in the country. Select classes cater to the over-12 crowd. 
When to go: Friday nights, when rink manager Barry Weisselberg drops thumpin’ dance beats. W 59th St at Sixth Ave (212-439-6900, wollmanskatingrink.com). $4.75–$14, skate rental $6.

Brooklyn

Abe Stark Rink
This 38-year-old venue began its life as the Ravenhall Baths, a saltwater swimming pool that was quite the Coney Island hot spot in its day. It was destroyed by a fire in 1963, after which the space was converted into a destination for the heavily sweatered and uncoordinated. 
When to go: Promptly at 1pm, when the rink opens; the ice fills fast and it closes at 4pm. Surf Ave at 19th St, Coney Island, Brooklyn (718-946-6536, nycgovparks.org). $8, skate rental $5.

Aviator Sports and Recreation
Two rinks, sized to NHL regulations, are Brooklyn’s answer to Chelsea Piers. Competitive types can participate in figure skating or hockey leagues, but there’s also public skating aplenty. 
When to go: Fridays and Saturdays draw lotsa teens. Go during the week if you want to avoid hormonally charged adolescents on blades. Floyd Bennett Field, Flatbush Ave south of the Belt Pkwy, Brooklyn (718-758-7500, aviatorsports.com). $6–$8, skate rental $4.50.

Kate Wollman Rink
This 26,000-square-foot, 48-year-old rink will get a green-themed makeover starting next year, but for now it’s the same ol’ same ol’. New amenities—like disco-music night (Dec 18, 7–9pm), half-price admission on Fridays and free admission days (see prospectpark.org for updates)—will tide you over. 
When to go: On Thanksgiving—when all those transplant types are busy eating Aunt Ida’s green-bean casserole. Enter at Lincoln Rd and Ocean Ave, Prospect Park, Brooklyn (prospectpark.org). $5, children under 14 $3, skate rental $6.50. Opens Nov 26.

Queens

City Ice Pavilion
The five boroughs’ only rooftop rink stretches an NHL–size 85 x 200 feet under a weatherproof air dome (if it’s good enough for Canadians, it’s good enough for the wussy New York winter).
When to go: Stop by mid-afternoon during the week, or between noon and 2:50pm on the weekends. At other times, the rink is devoted to skating lessons, hockey practice and private parties. 47-23 32nd Pl between 47th and 48th Aves (718-706-6667, cityicepavilion.com). Mon—Thu $5, Fri—Sun $8, skate rental $6.

Read more: http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/own-this-city/68608/where-to-ice-skate-in-new-york-new-york-city-ice-skating-rinks#ixzz0XprntjX6

nyc horror film festival

November 18 – November 22, 2009
Tribeca Cinema
54 Varick St
New York, NY


Halloween’s bloody NYC Horror Film Festival comes to roost at Tribeca Cinemas. Since 2001, the fest has taken pains to recognize the pioneers of horror . It also pushes the envelope with screenings of new films (short and feature length), an awards ceremony and a place where fans of the dark and terrifying can meet.

NYC TAKE WORLD SERIES

It has been years since the city celebrate its World Series wins, the experience was authentic to the many thousands who crammed the sidewalks along the three-quarter-mile parade route near Wall Street. families skipped work and school to be there. Players recorded the crowd with their cameras as the rode to a second celebration at City Hall, where the mayor presented the team with keys to the city.
Shortstop Derek Jeter carried the trophy, hoisting it high above his head while the crowd screamed and "We are the Champions" blasted on loudspeakers.
"It's been too long, "It feels good to be back."