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Graduate Art Programs offer Masters of Fine Arts (MFA), Master of Arts (MA), and PhD Fine Arts degrees to help students refine their technique or study advanced concepts within a certain field. Art history, art education, visual arts, literary arts, digital media, and performance arts are several examples.
Graduate arts programs might prepare students to turn their passion into a professional career. Most fine arts schools offer programs that blend studio time, lectures, seminars, and internships. This type of curriculum may help students explore their creativity through new and refined techniques.
Also, fine arts graduate students may learn to think critically, and define their vision through the give and take of critique and feedback. Moreover, through practice of their medium and for-credit projects, students usually build a portfolio of their work. This could take the shape of a manuscript, photography, paintings, or other medium.
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Managers, clients, and others look at artists' portfolios when they are deciding whether to hire an employee or contract for an art project.i
General graduate fine arts programs are often tailored to student interests. Typically a student works with the faculty to select courses that will support their capstone project or thesis research. While in their arts program, students may attend lectures, workshops, and student-led critiques based on their concentration.
Also, while topics vary between schools, a fine arts graduate student might take upper-level studio courses in drawing, printmaking, or design—classes that refine and/or teach technique.
Finally, fine arts electives often play a critical role in a graduate program. Through them, one might expand their viewpoints and approach.
In some graduate art programs, these electives might extend in to the disciplines of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, City and Regional planning, and Historic Preservation—all great themes to help build up potentially marketable skills. Contact fine arts schools to learn what specific electives and concentrations they offer.
|Degree Awarded
|Master of Fine Arts
|University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
|Art History - Doctorate
|Duke University
Most graduate fine arts programs ask to see official transcripts. They want to see proof of graduation with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from an accredited institution.
Also, students may be asked for letters of recommendation, a personal essay, and a statement of goals. What drives your artistic interest? Which artists or theorists have influenced or inspired you?
Moreover, future graduate art students usually submit an artistic/creative resume. This itemizes relevant experience; things like performances attended, places where art was made, exhibitions that were meaningful or times work was displayed.
Finally, applicants submit a creative portfolio of work samples, such as written, digital, video, media and promotional pieces. Of course every arts school had different criteria so be sure to speak with an advisor before applying.
We asked graduates of fine arts programs about how earning a master's degree in fine arts can build your skills to practice your passions:
"Earning a Masters of Fine Arts Degree helped me expand my horizons and train myself to be a writer. For me, the MFA program was not about a career goal, but about building the life I wanted with the skills and practice that I picked up during my graduate courses."
~Sarah Donawerth, Writer
The MFA degree is recognized as the highest academic degree in the creative practice of visual and performance arts. In some art universities, the Masters of Fine Arts is a 60-credit program and may take a full-time student about two years to complete.
Most MFA programs focus on the professional development of student artists. To that end, many fine arts schools offer self-directed programs. Students base their courses around their unique interests and goals. Faculty advisors often work one-to-one with each student, to help them define their vision.
Guidance may also be offered through open exchanges with peers. This stimulus often promotes innovation, and provides an opportunity to show one's art to new networks.
While project-based, the MFA degree often concludes with a thesis project, written thesis paper, and oral defense. Master of Fine Arts programs vary, so be sure to read curriculum and inquire into exact program requirements.
The Doctor of Fine Arts (DFA) degree is a professional doctoral degree in fine arts. While academically equal to a PhD, the DFA may entail applied research or a practical approach to the arts. It is also sometimes awarded as an honorary degree to someone who has made a notable contribution to their area of art.
By contrast, PhD Arts programs offer a research-focused course of study where students often have to contribute original thought to their area of study (e.g. art history or archaeology). Typically students complete upper-level courses, seminars, research courses, and a final dissertation.
Time to completion will vary by program and student. In some universities, full-time students may take up to seven-years post-bachelors. Others may enroll after completing a masters program or require additional time for their dissertation. Contact individual PhD Art programs for details.
A graduate certificate in fine arts may cover theory, technique, and essential tools and ideas in a very specific area. Shorter-term than a full degree, a certificate program may offer several courses that highlight one theme.
For instance, a certificate in fine arts foundations might expose learners to color theory, drawing, painting, and live model sketching. This type of program may extend one's expertise in various mediums, such as studio art. Also, it may help the budding artist work on their portfolio.
Certificates may be available at the graduate or post-graduate level. Students may also use a certificate to prepare for a later MFA program. In these cases, credits are sometimes transferable. Contact prospective schools to learn if you might be eligible.
Often, students choose to earn their MFA or doctoral degree in the specific field of study they aspire to succeed in. That said, more general graduate art programs may also be offered with a variety of concentration areas. This could provide a good differentiator between art universities, so let's take a look.
A focus in arts and culture explores the social significance of art and culture. As an area of emphasis, it might provide a solid base in theory and communication methods, especially for students who want to pursue a career in a creative industry, tourism, art history, or art policy.
In art education, students may develop the skills to teach art to elementary and secondary students. Usually offered as a focus area within a Master of Arts program, course work is often based on theory and current best practices. Topics of study tend to include strategies for art teachers to use in their classroom, aesthetics, art criticism, and therapeutic art education.
Graduate studies in art history often provide students with the opportunity to focus in on specific historical period, type of artwork, or museum studies. While topics may dive into the past to examine legacies, students are often taught to consider the past in context of the present. This may foster intellectual development as students expand their view and think critically.
The goal of the Modern and Contemporary Art concentration is to train students to be effective art world professionals, including learning how to navigate the marketplace. Students often take courses that are designed to foster connoisseurship skills. Other topics may be more organizational, for instance, how to catalogue and write about art history or current art business practices.
Interdisciplinary arts programs are often designed to help students articulate their unique vision. At the same time, they may work to refine their expressive skills and branch out into new artistic mediums. For these reasons, an interdisciplinary fine arts program might include discussion groups, a practicum, and engagement with a community of peers.
As a result, one might get the chance to study with artists from a variety of practices. Visual arts, dance, music, theater, performance art, social practice, design, digital media, and the literary arts are a few examples.
Studio and digital arts usually stress topics such as visualization, ideation, and creation of visual imagery. This may provide students with the opportunity to refine their graphic design, 2D, and 3D skills.
These are just a few examples of fine arts concentrations. Others may also be available such as glass or printmaking. Contact an advisor to learn about all your potential options.
Graduate art programs may be offered by regionally-accredited universities. Also, a school may be an accredited institutional member of the National Association or Schools of Art and Design (NASAD). Both may be helpful in identifying a great fine arts school for you.
To begin your search, easily look through programs right here to find fine arts graduate programs at the degree level you need. Or refine the list by doctorate, certificate, or masters in fine arts programs using the menu bar.
You can also filter your search for online fine arts graduate programs or look for art universities in a specific city, state, or country. While you are on the page, click to request information.
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In the week following Halloween, Jimmy Kimmel's stunt involving kids and their candy climbed to over 20 million views on YouTube. But public fascination with the gag doesn't change the fact that it is cruel and sadistic. It underscores the worst elements of mass media and social media, and the incendiary possibilities of combining the two.
The "joke," as explained to viewers by Mr. Kimmel on Nov. 4, has as its premise: "You know, for kids, Halloween candy is kind of a sacred thing. For a lot of them it's the first time they ever earn anything."
The ABC host went on to explain that for the third year in a row he asked viewers to deceive their small children by claiming to have eaten all their candy. Parents were encouraged to record and upload videos of the reactions. "We got an avalanche of great responses," he noted.
What followed was nearly six minutes of kids screaming, kicking and crying. One boy tells his mom, "I hate you." A girl fights through tears to point out that she spent two hours collecting the treats. "I'll get you," says another girl. Mostly, the video consists of near-frantic screams by kids who appear to be only about four or five years old.
Perhaps you're among those who find it funny.
Why? Why does the studio audience laugh through the entire piece? Why did so many parents follow Mr. Kimmel's horrible directive? Why did NBC's "Today" show run a big chunk of it the next morning while its five hosts hooted? Said Al Roker, laughing heartily, "The good news is, Jimmy is springing for therapy for all those children."
Maybe our taste in entertainment is changing for the worse, but there's a lot more going on in this case. The power of authority vested in Jimmy Kimmel by virtue of being a popular network host is enough to make a significant number of young parents suspend their own judgment of right and wrong long enough to try the gag. Many of the clips end with an admission completely lost on toddlers: "Jimmy Kimmel told me to do it."
To be clear, this type of child abuse -- and I believe intentionally provoking a happy child to cry real tears for comedic purposes is just that -- is not nearly as bad as the more serious abuse that goes on every day. Yet, those crimes are not inspired by TV, at least not overtly.
If the same stunt had been tried by school teachers, there would have been immediate efforts to have them fired. If a bit with similar intensity were urged on pet owners instead of parents, I submit that the network would have been deluged with protests.
Yet, when it comes to kids, the showbiz paper Variety headlined the story, "Jimmy Kimmel's Annual Halloween Prank Continues to Slay." The writer, A.J. Marechal, declared, "What unfolds in each clip is apocalyptic devastation, the kind that can only bring the L-O-Ls for viewers." LOL? OMG, what are we thinking?
I showed the segment to a business associate, a family member and a successful Hollywood producer. Each indicated initially that the material was amusing; one believed it to be "hilarious." After discussion, however, all three became convinced that their reactions had been misguided and that they had briefly overlooked the basic cruelty in the stunt, rendering it unfunny.
I don't credit my powers of persuasion. Rather, I believe the power is with television and social media. Just as we tend to believe that news and commentary is accurate simply because it appears on-screen, so, too, do we initially assume that if ABC-TV, its respected host, and millions of YouTube users believe something is acceptable, then it is.
Mr. Kimmel ended the presentation by saying: "Thanks to all the kids and their terrible parents who pitched in to make that possible."
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In the week following Halloween, Jimmy Kimmel's stunt involving kids and their candy climbed to over 20 million views on YouTube. But public fascination with the gag doesn't change the fact that it is cruel and sadistic. It underscores the worst elements of mass media and social media, and the incendiary possibilities of combining the two.


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Tesla Motors is expecting to report its first-ever quarterly profit after sales of its all-electric Model S exceeded expectations.
The announcement about the just-ended first quarter pushed Tesla Motors (TSLA) shares nearly 16% higher.
"There have been many car startups over the past several decades, but profitability is what makes a company real," co-founder and CEO Elon Musk said in a late Sunday statement. "Tesla is here to stay and keep fighting for the electric car revolution."
The company expected to sell 4,500 units of the Model S in the quarter. But sales surpassed the 4,750-unit mark this weekend. In response, the company amended its first-quarter guidance.
But the company might have even bigger news in store for Tuesday. In a late night tweet, Musk alluded to an announcement this week that will be "arguably more important."
The profitable quarter would follow a disappointing final three months of 2012, when Tesla reported a $75 million loss. Tesla posted $306 million in sales.
The Model S is a full-size, four-door luxury sports sedan. It was unveiled in 2009, but did not become publicly available until last year. So far, the company has sold about 10,000 electric cars to customers in 31 countries.
The weekend's announcement also came with news that Tesla has decided to scrap production of its entry-level model, which sold for a base price of $59,900. It was equipped the smallest battery, a 40-kilowatt hour version that would deliver a range of 160 miles.
Instead, the company is sticking with the larger 60 kilowatt hour battery pack option, with a range is closer to 230 miles. That model sells for $62,400 after a $7,500 federal tax credit.
The company explained that only 4% of customers chose the version with the smaller battery, not enough to justify production.
In the announcement, CEO Musk also thanked customers for continued, "passionate support." Those that bought into the Model S in recent months did so even after the car received a scathing review from the New York Times, one that Tesla accused of being full of lies.
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|The award was presented to Larry Hammond in New York on November 18, 2010.
Death Penalty Fairness Advocate Wins 2010 Award
The international law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP and The University of Alabama School of Law announced today that Larry Hammond, founder and chair of the Arizona Justice Project and the creator of the Center for Forensic Science and Public Policy at The American Judicature Society, has been awarded the 2010 Morris Dees Justice Award.
Hammond, the 2010 award recipient, has spent much of his career in public service, including stints clerking for U.S. Supreme Court Justices Hugo L. Black and Lewis F. Powell, Jr.; as an Assistant Special Prosecutor during Watergate; and as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel at the Department of Justice.
Hammond is the founder and chair of the Arizona Justice Project, and a member of the Board of the Arizona Capital Representation Project. He also serves as chair of the Criminal Justice Reform Committee of The American Judicature Society (AJS), an organization he served as president from 2003 to 2005.
Hammond is honored for his tireless work to correct systemic injustice in death penalty litigation in the United States, for his representation of defendants in capital cases and for leading efforts to create the AJS Institute for Forensic Science and Public Policy during his presidency of AJS.
A recipient of many local and national awards, Hammond was nominated by a distinguished group that included former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno and former Dean of Yale Law School Harold Hongju Koh.
Full 2010 Morris Dees Justice Award Press Release
About the Award
About Morris Dees
|2010 Selection Committee
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Pour out a shot of Jäger for the grenades who are no more. Throw up one last fist-pump in memory of those nights at Karma, because all guido things must come to end. MTV announced Thursday that is canceling its hit reality series Jersey Shore. Its stars are growing up—as much as one can ever expect them to—and ratings are down. The show's upcoming sixth season, premiering Oct. 4, will be its last.
When the series introduced viewers to GTL enthusiasts (that's Gym, Tan, Laundry) Snooki, J-Woww, the Situation, Pauly D, Sami Sweetheart, Ronnie, and Deena, the look at a group of twentysomethings' boozy nights during a summer in Seaside Heights, N.J., polarized its audience. Italian Americans blasted the show for the cast's unflattering embodiment of ethnic stereotypes, but the series quickly grew to become the most popular program in MTV history. By its third season, almost 9 million viewerswere tuning in to see the tanned crew's ridiculous shenanigans.
In honor of the show's final season, we've rounded up those wild times—a retrospective of Jersey Shore's raging fights, drunken tomfoolery, and crazy moments.
The Punch Heard Around the World
As its popularity skyrocketed in Season One, Jersey Shore began making major headlines. But no incident received as much attention as the moment Snooki got punched. The guidette was at a bar when a group of men started giving her unwanted attention. After Snooki lashed out at him to leave her alone, the man—later revealed to be a New York schoolteacher—sucker-punched her in the face with so much force she was thrown to the ground.
A Tricky Situation
The Situation was not only the crew's master of hookups, but also, surprisingly, wordplay. The high point of the two came in Season Two when the boys invited two girls back to their apartment as backups in case no better options surfaced at the club. When they did, the guys suddenly had two sets of girls at the house to juggle, and neither pair knew about the other. As Sitch finagled his way through the scenario, his narration was loathsome, derogatory… and brilliant. "In this type of situation, you have to separate the two sets of girls, and then you have to separate the hippopotamus from her good-looking friend," he explains. "I will extract the hot one, and leave the grenade to blow up in Ronnie's room by herself."
The Bro Beatdown
Throughout much of the first three seasons of Jersey Shore, catchphrase-coining playboy the Situation and Ronnie—the hulky, tortured paramour of Sami Sweetheart—engaged in nothing short of a bromance. That all changed during the Season Four trip to Italy, when a violent fistfight broke out between the two over something the Situation told Sami, ending with Sitch inexplicably ramming his own head into a wall and getting carted off to the ospedale.
The Lovers' Quarrel
To call Sami and Ron's relationship hot and cold would be an understatement as egregious as saying Snooki likes "a little color" on her skin. But the rocky relationship escalated into numerous alarmingly violent fights in Season Three. Throughout the tumultuous summer, clothes were thrown, furniture was turned over, and, in one particularly memorable altercation, Sami even punched Ronnie in the face.
J-Woww and Sami's Girlfight
Long before Ronnie ever laid a hand on the Situation, J-Woww and and Sami got into a brawl of their own. Sami accused J-Woww of breaking the girl code—failing to inform about her boyfriend's infidelities—and the two exchanged (bleeped-out) words before pouncing on each other. The dustup was complete with hair-pulling, punching, and, of course, loads of cursing.
'You're a #%&-ing Psycho!'
When Snooki arrived in Italy to film Season Four, she made it very clear to her GTL friends that she was in a committed relationship with boyfriend Jionni. So when the Situation let spill that he and Snooki smushed in L.A. just before the trip, she reared her head and laid into him, denying his claims. She screamed, "You're a [bleep] psycho," and called him a liar. It wasn't the duo's only fight in Italy. A practical joke later in the season led Snooki to chuck wine bottles—there were plenty lying around—at Sitch.
'Where's My Boyfriend?'
When Snooki's at the time on-again-off-again boyfriend Jionni (they're engaged and have a child together now) arrived in Italy for a visit, the overly excited girlfriend couldn't keep her hands off him—or keep away from the bar. She drunkenly danced in the club, exposing her panties for all to see (and never un-see). Jionni furiously stormed out, and Snooki tried to chase after him, but, barely able to stay on her feet, the chase more closely resembled Bambi learning how to walk. The disaster ended with Snooki meandering the streets of Italy wailing, "Where's my boyfriend?!"
'Where's the Beach?'
Snooki has a history of having trouble finding things while under the influence. In a memorable Season Two episode, an obviously hammered Snooki paraded up and down the Seaside Heights boardwalk, bellowing, "Where's the beach?"—though the beach was mere feet away. The drunken antics got the attention of local police, who arrested her for disorderly conduct.
Snooki and Vinny Smush
Broken up (at least temporarily) from Jionni while in Italy, Snooki climbed into Vinny's bed. As Pauly D astutely narrated, "There's a lot of stuff going on in that bed right now. I see blankets going up and down. I see Snooki's head popping up for air. We all know what's going down." When asked later in an interview with Wendy Williams how the night went, Vinny responded, "Um… you ever have sex with a meatball?"
The Meatballs Kiss
Snooki and Deena love each other. How couldn't they? They're physical doppelgängers and spiritual twins. The lovefest got out of control in a Season Three episode when the overly tanned, diminutive divas began making out a bar, as if acting out a sordid piece of Willy Wonka/Oompa Loompa fan fiction.
'Cabs Are Here!'
Pauly D, bless his heart, never got into a fistfight with a roommate or drunkenly hooked up with Snooki. But he was still beloved by fans for his near-constant grin and unyielding allegiance to his fellow guidos. Never was he more delightful than when bellowing, "The cabs are here!" to the housemates—something he did so often, so obnoxiously, and so famously that it was even turned into a ringtone.


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Terrific Tides
The daytime minus tides that began on Thursday are the last of the lowest for 2013, so this week's a great time to get out and explore. All tides below are for Seattle and can vary depending on where you go in the Salish Sea.
- Saturday 7/20: -2.3@9:25am
- Sunday 7/21: -2.9@10:15am
- Monday 7/22: -3.1@11:03am
- Tuesday 7/23: -2.8@11:50am
- Wednesday 7/24: -2.1@12:37pm
- Thursday 7/25: -1.1@1:23pm
The Kitsap Beach Naturalists will be sharing cool finds at Scenic Beach State Park Saturday (8:30-10:30), Fay Bainbridge Park Sunday (9-11), and at both Kitsap Memorial State Park and Lions Park (Lebo Blvd. in Bremerton) Monday (11-1).
I had the pleasure to end the work week by teaming up with the great Harbor WildWatch staff and volunteers to share sea life wonders with about 100 girl scouts, team leaders and some family members at Manchester State Park. We had a lot of lovely finds and a couple that really piqued my interest…
A cruel crustacean
Reactions to a dead shiner perch (Cymatogaster aggregata) were varied, particularly as we showed off the evidence of parasites that may have hastened the perch's demise. Turns out the poor fish's body was home to a small coven of vampires!
Out from under each gill cover poked what looked like a pair of small Slinkys. A colleague who trained as a fish pathologist, informed us that the coils were the gonads of a parasitic female copepod called Haemobaphes diceraus.
Copepods are crustaceans, better known as abundant members of the microscopic animal plankton. Of course, in certain circles, their fame derives from Plankton, the tiny, one-eyed nemesis from SpongeBob SquarePants. Plankton was a reasonable depiction of typical copepods, which have teardrop bodies with a single eye and long antennae. Their parasitic cousins, however, wind up looking more like a bit of offal from the cleaning of the last catch.
Haemobaphes diceraus has a long trunk that extends through the gill arch and directly into heart, where… it siphons off blood. It's super cool creepiness even garnered the honor of Parasite of the Day in 2010.
Research from Nanaimo, British Columbia in the early 2000's found that about 10% of shiner perch unwillingly hosted their personal blood sucker. Interestingly 97.9% of the infested fish they studied had only a single copepod inhabiting them. Our sad specimen sported two. Bummer.
Smooth operator
Beauty and grace combine on a bed of slime. Imagine shaping yourself to the ground as you move through your daily life. While halfway up the stairs, I'd be thinking "Oh yeah, I'm pretty cool." (Then again, I'd be choking on dust and dog fur.) Alas we remain upright and rigid, but we can still enjoy watching a flatworm live the glide life.
While collecting for the touch tanks, Harbor WildWatch staff found a beautiful giant flatworm (Kaburakia excelsa). Their typical home is under rocks, though you may find them on floats and docks and among masses of mussels. Since they can read 4″ long, these are the giants of the flatworm world and a bit tougher than their smaller cousins.
You can see the highly branched digestive sac in the picture of it's underside. Though branched, the sack is made up of dead ends. After using an eversible throat to capturing an unfortunate victim, partially digested food is moved into the digestive sac. Since there's no point B for the indigestible bits to leave the sac, poo must go out where the food came in. Yum.
Wandering the beach is an iconic part of the Salish Sea summer. Summer's going fast, so explore a beach this week. Go slow. Be observant. There's always some new bit of wonder tucked on a rock… or sticking grotesquely out of the side of a dead fish's head!
Jeff Adams is a Washington Sea Grant Marine Water Quality Specialist, affiliated with the University of Washington's College of the Environment, and based in Bremerton. You can follow his Sea Life blog, SalishSeaLife tweets, FaceBook and video posts, send email to email@example.com or call at 360-337-4619.


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'Ball Peen Hammer'.
George O'Connor is an artist from Brooklyn. He is the author of several picture books, including 'Kapow!' (2007), 'Ker-Splash' and' Sally and the Some-thing' (2006). His debut graphic novel, 'Journey into Mohawk Country', was published by First Second in 2006.
'The Olympians'.
It was followed by the futuristic story 'Ball Peen Hammer' in 2009. O'Connor's next project was 'The Olympians', a series of graphic novels for young readers about Greek Mythology.


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Workspace Group Service
The group service allows a client to manage a set of workspaces that were deployed as a group.
See the main interfaces page for an overview of group requests.
The same operations listed on the service page apply here. The main differences are:
- The group service will apply the operation to all remaining members
of the group.
This includes WSRF resource destruction.
- The group service WSRF resources have no resource properties.
As explained in the group overview: if there is an error with an operation on one of the group members, this is noted in a return fault along with all of the successes. There are no error backout semantics (only during factory group-create, which is an all or nothing process). A group operation is simply a shortcut for a regular workspace service operation invoked simultaneously on N workspace EPRs.
The WSDL can be viewed online.


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|République d'Haïti
Repiblik d Ayiti
|Coat of Arms
|[[French, Haitian Creole]] (official)
|Ariel Henry (acting)
|Prime minister
|Ariel Henry (acting)
|10,714 sq mi
|11,500,000 (2020)
|GDP per capita
|$1,800 (2006)
The Republic of Haiti is a country located in the Caribbean Sea, and occupies the western one-third of the Caribbean island Hispaniola. "Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Food is often scarce." [1] It is "burdened by one of the world's least-free economies."[1]
- the post-Duvalier period, ... far from seeing the restoration of civilian-led democracy, has been a period of increasing violence and economic decline. [2]
U.S. Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett and her husband adopted two children from Haiti.
Columbus reached Haiti in 1492; the local natives soon died out from new diseases. France set up a colony in 1697 and created the richest sugar-producing colony in the world, using African slaves who were worked to death. In 1791 the slaves revolted—the world's first successful slave revolt—killed the whites and mulattoes, and under Toussaint L'Ouverture became the first black republic. Napoleon sent an invasion army that was devastated by disease, and in 1804 Haiti secured its independence—the second country in the Americas to gain its independence.
Immediately following independence, France refused to recognise Haiti as a country and other countries also enforced trade embargoes. Recognition came in 1825, but only at a cost of 150million francs; repayments on this debt had an enormous effect on the new country's economy, leading to widespread poverty from which the country has never recovered.[2]
In 1994, U.S. socialist leader Joe Biden said, "if Haiti just quietly sunk into the Caribbean or rose up 300 feet, it wouldn't matter a whole lot."[3]
About 80% of the population lives in wretched poverty, and Haiti is the poorest country in the western hempisphere.[4]
French is taught in schools, but the language of conversation is Haitian Creole.
Earthquake[5] Thousands of buildings, including the presidential palace, the UN headquarters, and most hospitals, collapsed without warning, crushing many of those inside. The major damage was confined to the capital and a few outlying areas, with the rest of the country largely spared. Early estimates are that 50,000 or more have died, and many others are injured or orphaned. By Sunday the issue had become caring for the survivors. The city's already very poor infrastructure that provides food, water, medical care, transportation and police has collapsed in damaged areas. Relief is being sent from around the world, but as of Jan. 17, the port is still closed and the bottleneck at the tiny airport is delaying deliveries. One two-lane road across the mountains from the Dominican Republic is now open for relief convoys. There is no central command and control system in place to deal with the devastation and urgently needed relief.
Haiti's first lady, Elisabeth Debrosse Delatour, reported that "most of Port-au-Prince is destroyed" and that many government buildings had collapsed… [3]
Relief efforts
The best-publicized response in the US and Europe has been to pledge or solicit money for relief.
"We need medicine. We need medical help in general," Haitian President Rene Preval told CNN. "Some of the hospitals, they collapsed." [4]
One worry conservatives have is whether the money will be spent effectively. Representative Porter Goss of Florida once said, "We've been ripped off in Haiti and I don't see why we should put more money into it. There's so much corruption that the only way to make sure aid gets to the people is to fly down there yourself with some food, hand it to a Haitian, and watch him eat it in your presence."[6]
Aid organizations affiliated with churches did the best in delivering aid after the tsunami of 2004.
- Their people were on the ground and living with the people who needed their help. Large NGO's and government agency types just flew in, stayed at the best hotels, and flew out. There was little attempt to work with the local leaders and address local needs. They just dictated and flew away. [5]
Red Cross
The Red Cross has three staffers in Haiti, and a food warehouse in Panama. Their initial response was to "pledge" $200,000 in aid and to send a disaster management specialist to Haiti. [6] within 72 hours of the quake, the ICRC had dispatched forty tons of aid supplies to Haiti.[7]
Diplomatic relations, always strained, may force donor countries to tread carefully with relief efforts. For example, until the evening of the 14th, flight time between Haiti and the United States was increased by 90 minutes due to restrictions on flying over Cuban airspace.[5] In addition, President Obama's initial statement sounded overly concerned with respecting Haitian sovereignty:
- Officials said Obama told them to start preparing in case humanitarian assistance was needed.[8]
The Haitian government, whose national police have collapsed after the earthquake,[5] appears to be incapable of providing the requisite assistance.
Haiti has been hard hit by hurricanes. The hurricane season runs from June 1 - November 30 each year. In 2008 Haiti was smashed by three tropical storms and one hurricane that resulted in torrential rains, extensive flooding and mudslides, and hundreds of killed. The lack of government infrastructure and rescue services, combined with impassable roads and bridges, severely hindered rescue and relief efforts.
The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, and other laws and policies contributed to the generally free practice of religion, provided that these practices do not disturb law and order. The law at all levels protects this right in full against abuse, either by governmental or private actors. The Government generally respected religious freedom in practice, and there have been no reports in recent years of societal abuses or discrimination based on religious affiliation, belief, or practice.
A U.N. Population Fund census taken in 2003 shows: 54.7% of the population is Roman Catholic, 15.4% Baptist, 7.9% Pentecostal, 3% Seventh-day Adventist, and 2.1% voodoo (vodun). Smaller groups include Methodist, Episcopalian, Jehovah's Witness, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon), Muslim, and other religious affiliations. Those who follow no religion number 10.2%.
Haiti is the origin of the occult practice of voodoo, which is still popular in rural areas. The UN's 2.1% figure for voodoo represents only those who select voodoo as their primary religion. A much larger segment of the population practices voodoo alongside Christianity (most commonly with Catholicism) and considers Christianity their primary religion. One common saying is that Haitians are 70% Catholic, 30% Protestant, and 100% voodoo. Leslie Griffiths, renowned expert on Haiti former head of the British Methodist Church, stated that "Voodoo is part of the air that Haitians breathe". In April 2003 Haiti's Catholic President, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, declared voodoo to have the same legal status as other religions, such as Roman Catholicism.[9]
Roman Catholicism was the official religion until 1987, but the 1860 concordat with the Pope still serves as the basis for relations between the Catholic Church (and its religious orders) and the state. Catholicism retains its traditional primacy, as official and quasi-official functions are held in Catholic churches and cathedrals, such as "Te Deum" Masses for Independence Day, Flag Day, and Founders Day; however, the Government has recognized the increasing role of Protestant churches. For example, Episcopal and other Protestant clergy and voodoo practitioners have been invited to participate when the religious sector is asked to play an advisory role in politics.[10]
See also
External links
- U.S. State Department
- Help Survivors of Quake in Haiti.
- Bodies piling up as relief efforts continue in Haiti.
- "Help for Haiti: Learn What You Can Do"
Further reading
- Dupuy, Alex. The Prophet and Power: Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the International Community, and Haiti (2007) anti-Aristide
- Dupuy, Alex. Haiti in the World Economy: Class, Race, and Underdevelopment Since 1700 (1989).
- Dupuy, Alex. Haiti in the New World Order: The Limits of the Democratic Revolution (1997) online edition
- Hallward, Peter. Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment (2007), leftist and pro Aristide
- online books
- ↑ Don Boudreau
- ↑ History Commons
- ↑ https://youtu.be/Wwf4FyA0B0M
- ↑ http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/LACEXT/HAITIEXTN/0,,contentMDK:21040686~pagePK:141137~piPK:141127~theSitePK:338165,00.html
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/16/world/americas/16haiti.html?hp
- ↑ http://www.amren.com/ar/2001/04/index.html#cover
- ↑ http://www.icrc.org/web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/haiti-earthquake-update-150110?opendocument
- ↑ http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5hV0B6fLLw-0m3nvz7lOc9is0M2tA
- ↑ BBC world news, Wednesday, 30 April, 2003
- ↑ U.S. Dept of State "International Religious Freedom Report 2008"


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BERLIN – While an appeal of the Trimper's Amusements property assessments has been somewhat successful, it is unclear whether the savings will be enough to keep Trimper's going.
According to a report yesterday at the County Commissioners' meeting, the reduced assessments have resulted in a reduction in Trimper's tax bill over the next three years of $470,000.
The family-owned company, which owns 24 properties, appealed their assessment this summer after noting that without a reduction in their tax bill, the iconic amusement park might have to close or be sold.
The company's comments have been the subject of dozens of letters to the editor to this paper and the creation of a website devoted entirely to saving the amusement park.
The matter might not be settled with these decisions, as the family has further options to appeal the rulings.
For the full story, see Friday's issue of The Dispatch and its online counterpart.


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PORTLAND, Maine — The union that represents dock workers at East Coast ports, including Portland's, is threatening to strike if it's not successful in renegotiating its contract with port operators. A strike could impact several Maine businesses and produce a ripple effect throughout the state's economy.
The recent round of negotiations between the International Longshoremen's Association and the U.S. Maritime Alliance, which represents container carriers and port operators in the negotiations — including Port Americas, which operates the Portland Marine Terminal — broke down last week. No new talks are scheduled, both sides told the Associated Press. The current contract expires at the end of September.
Meanwhile, the ILA chapter at the Port of New York and New Jersey, the East Coast's busiest port, authorized a strike on Tuesday if the contract deal isn't reached, according to the AP.
The Portland Marine Terminal handles between 3,000 and 5,000 containers a year, on average, Jack Humeniuk, the ILA's representative in Portland and an employee of Port Americas, told the Bangor Daily News. There are 45 members in Portland's ILA chapter, he said.
But it's not just a disruption of container service in Portland that would impact Maine businesses. A strike at ports in New York, Newark, Baltimore, Philadelphia and other East Coast ports would disrupt the entire nation's supply chain and create a ripple effect throughout the economy.
If the ILA workers strike, "the worst-case scenario" for Maine businesses, Humeniuk said, "is they'd have to move their stuff through the West Coast."
The contract in question is a master agreement on container service, so it won't impact the noncontainerized cargo that moves in and out of Maine, such as wood pulp and lumber and fuel, Humeniuk said.
For those Maine businesses that do receive and ship cargo by container — L.L. Bean, Sappi Fine Paper and White Rock Distilleries — a strike at East Coast ports would disrupt their supply chain and force them to seek alternative routes.
L.L. Bean is "a considerable user" of Portland's container service, Carolyn Beem, a spokeswoman for the Freeport retailer, told the BDN. "It's a big part of the mix for us," she said. "In terms of the looming strikes we are looking at contingency planning and routing more to the West Coast."
The worst-case scenario would be moving merchandise by air freight, Beem said. "That's just ridiculous with the costs associated with that."
Another user of Portland's container service is White Rock Distilleries, the Lewiston liquor company purchased last year by Beam Inc., the producer of Jim Beam bourbon. It receives raw vodka from France at its Lewiston facility and ships out cases of Pinnacle brand vodka.
"We're definitely monitoring the situation," said Paula Erickson, a spokeswoman for Beam Inc., "and we definitely have contingency plans in place if something should occur in terms of a strike or disruption at the ports."
Shifting supply chains and seeking alternative shipping routes would increase costs for White Rock, which employs more than 150 people, but that would be a secondary consideration, Erickson said. The company's "No. 1 priority" would be to ensure 100 percent uninterrupted production and shipment of the company's product.
Sappi's paper mill in Westbrook is also looking at its options if dock workers strike. "We are aware of a potential longshoreman strike and we are working with our supply chain partners to minimize or avoid any service disruptions through strategic contingency plans," said Joanna Rieke, Sappi's manager of corporate communications.
It's not just Maine's largest shippers that would be affected. A strike at East Coast ports would be felt throughout Maine's economy as products get backed up at overburdened West Coast ports and the entire supply chain slows. "As it goes further down the supply chain it starts to have an impact on everybody," L.L. Bean's Beem said.
For all Maine retailers, a prolonged strike could spell trouble, according to Curtis Picard, executive director of the Maine Merchants Association, especially since it would occur just as stores begin to stock up on Christmas-season merchandise.
However, Picard expects the potential for a strike "is not even on the radar screen of small retailers," he said.
Picard is watching the situation and expects to reach out to his members within the next few weeks. In the meantime, if retailers are worried about how a strike would affect them, they should call their distributor and get a better handle on where their product is coming from and where the distributor is located, Picard said. "If they're on the West Coast, they may not have an issue," he said.
Humeniuk was not at last week's negotiations in Florida, but said the talks broke down over the use of automation at ports that eliminate longshoremen jobs and the question of port operators providing money to retrain longshoremen for other jobs at the ports. Those issues don't exist in Portland, he said. Automation is something happening at the big ports such as New York and Miami. Portland doesn't have any particular issues in negotiation at the moment, he said.
Other key issues at the failed talks were overtime rules and container royalties, which are payments dock workers receive based on the weight of the cargo, according to The Associated Press.
While no new negotiations between the ILA and the U.S. Maritime Alliance are scheduled, Humeniuk expects the parties will sit back down together. "If [the issues] get solved, they're not going to get solved until the 11th hour," he said. "Unfortunately for shippers, it's uncomfortable because you don't know what to do, but that's the nature of the beast."
If a strike or lockout did occur, Humeniuk expects it would be "very short-lived" because the economic impact would be so dramatic that President Barack Obama would likely get involved.


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A new PlayStation 3 console was approved by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission last week, according to the agency's online filings database.
No information on the new model, number CECHL01, is available at present from the filing because Sony was granted short-term confidentiality on the papers but it is likely the 80G-byte version announced earlier this month during the E3 games show in Los Angeles. The console is due on sale in the next couple of months and will replace the current 40G-byte model.
Sony's filing to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission was made because the FCC is the radio regulator in the U.S. and as such all new products that use radio must be submitted to the organization for approval before they can be sold.
The PlayStation 3 includes both 802.11b/g Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.


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Nihon. Japan. The "Land of the Rising Sun".
The red circle on the Japanese flag represents what many Japanese children perceive to be the sun. For us at Chictopia and many others in the wake of the recent crisis, it represents hope.
The earthquake and tsunami in Japan has resulted in over 13,000 family members and loved ones in Japan dead and over 15,000 are still reported as missing.
In this time of crisis, what can we at CHICTOPIA do to help?
We had already been talking about starting a relief fund for the victims of the Japan earthquake/tsunami, but it wasn't until Sam (Chictopia user StyleNomad) and Sybil (TheStyleVoytager) reached out to us that we realized Chictopians can all help in a big way. Not just by praying and talking about the recent events, but by coming together and spreading awareness as a large fashion community. In Sam's own words:
"The fashion community can not only inspire what people wear daily,
but we have a voice that can call other people
into action at a time of crisis and loss."
In response to the massive earthquake in Japan and its devastating outcome, we at Chictopia would like to ask for your help by wearing red and donating $10 to Japan relief funds. By uploading a photo of yourself wearing red, the symbol of Japan, you will not only be showing your support for those devastated by the crisis in Japan but you will also be spreading hope and awareness towards actual change and relief efforts.
The task is simple:
1. Upload a photo of yourself wearing one article of red clothing and tag the "Style" as "Wear Red Wear Hope".
2. Help those in Japan by donating $10 here. All donations will be given to Red Cross Japan earthquake and tsunami relief funds.
3. Help spread the message via Facebook, Twitter, or tell a friend. We are a community not just about clothes and fashion, we make a statement with what we wear.
CHICTOPIA will match up to $1,000 of the community's contribution.
We will give everyone who enters the fundraiser
1 chic point for every $1 we raise.
This online fundraising event will run from April 11 to May 15, 2011.
We just ask that you all please join together for Japan. Wear Red. Wear Hope.
Please donate to the Red Cross Japan earthquake and tsunami fund here.
Follow us on Twitter and Facebook to track the progress of Wear Red Wear Hope!
For more information on other ways you can help, visit Red Cross.


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What does "organic agriculture" mean?
Organic agriculture as a holistic production management system that avoids use of synthetic fertilizers, pesticides and genetically modified organisms, minimizes pollution of air, soil and water, and optimizes the health and productivity of interdependent communities of plants, animals and people. The non-use of external agriculture inputs which results in natural resources degradation (e.g. soil nutrient mining) does not qualify as "organic". On the other hand, farming systems which do not use external inputs but actively follow organic agriculture principles of health and care are considered organic, even if the agro-ecosystem is not certified organic. On the market place, the organic claim requires certification and related products are distinguished by an organic label. Organic labels can originate from both third party certification and participatory guarantee systems. The term "agriculture" is used in the wider sense to include forestry and fisheries; therefore, organic aquaculture and organic harvesting of non-timber forest products are covered by the Conference. Finally, agricultural harvest includes food, fibers, medicinal and cosmetic raw materials.
What does "food security" mean?
When all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food which meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life (World Food Summit, 1996). The multi-dimensional nature of food security includes food availability, access, stability and utilization defined as:
Food Availability: The availability of sufficient quantities of food of appropriate quality, supplied through domestic production or inputs.
Food Access: Access by individuals to adequate resources (entitlements) for acquiring appropriate foods for a nutritious diet. Entitlements are defined as the set of all commodity bundles over which a person can establish command given the legal, political, economics and social arrangements of the community in which they live (including traditional rights such as access to common resources).
Food Stability: To be food secure, a population, household or individual must have access to adequate food at all times. They should not risk loosing access to food as a consequence of sudden shocks (e.g. an economic or climatic crisis) or cyclical events (e.g. seasonal food insecurity). The concept of stability can therefore refer to both the availability and access dimensions of food security.
Food Utilization: Utilization of food through adequate diet, clean water, sanitation and health care to reach a state of nutritional well-being where all physiological needs are met. This brings out the importance of non-food inputs to food security.
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- House Beautiful / Alex's Kitchen by Alex Hitz
Billionaire's Meatloaf
It's beloved as comfort food, but this classic dish can hold its own at even the fanciest affairs.
When I moved to New York in the mid-1990s, there were so many hostesses and hosts who gave easy, elegant, fun lunches and dinners. They were well known for their parties, and though varied in their accomplishments and lives, they all seemed to understand the power of simple, chic, crowd-pleasing food: baked potatoes with caviar, crabmeat au gratin, gussied-up grits…even meatloaf.
The host most noted for serving meatloaf was legendary fashion designer Bill Blass. Truth be told, I didn't find his version nearly as delicious as it was famous, though he entertained so well that it couldn't have mattered less.
In the realm of memorable evenings, one of my standouts was a dinner around 1998 at grande dame Casey Ribicoff's Sutton Place apartment. There were 18 guests, and we were dressed to the nines — as was she, always! The waiters passed tiny blinis with a staggering amount of Russian caviar, French foie gras on brioche, and chilled vodka, pink Champagne, and Sauternes on silver trays while we waited for dinner. It was truly over-the-top.
When we sat at Casey's gorgeous table — set with ivory candles and antique porcelain, crystal, and linen — those same waiters had, offstage, put on white cotton gloves. They brought in platters of imported smoked salmon with perfectly chopped hard-boiled eggs, snipped chives, capers, diced red onion, and crème fraîche. A cold Chassagne-Montrachet completed the experience. The cumulative effect of all that elegance was a palpable, pinch-myself pleasure that practically screamed: "Sit up and take notice, kid! This is one special evening."
And then the most extraordinary thing happened. The main course was served, and those same white-gloved waiters brought out meatloaf, mashed potatoes, and peas with pearl onions. The guests' delight was an audible, giddy sigh of relief: Enough of the twee; keep it real! I admired Casey's sure hand so much. No science-fair pyramid of ingredients with foam for her — just the best-ever meatloaf, mashed potatoes, and peas, honey! And chocolate sundaes with maraschino cherries for dessert. If you maybe don't find meatloaf to be the pinnacle of stylishness, it's time to think again. That was, quite simply, one of the chicest evenings I've ever experienced.
Let me know how it goes!
Happy cooking! Love, Alex.
Yield: 8 servings
4 tablespoons salted butter
2½ cups chopped onion
4 tablespoons minced shallots
1 pound sliced mushrooms
1 tablespoon plus ½ teaspoon salt, divided
2 tablespoons brandy
2 large eggs
1 pound ground beef chuck, at room temperature
1 pound ground pork, at room temperature
1 pound ground lamb, at room temperature
3 tablespoons Dijon mustard
1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon tomato paste
1 cup white bread crumbs, firmly packed
½ cup beef stock
1 cup grated mild cheddar cheese, firmly packed
1 tablespoon minced garlic
1 teaspoon ground black pepper
¼ teaspoon cracked black pepper
2¼ teaspoons dried thyme
2 teaspoons paprika
1 teaspoon allspice
1½ teaspoons dried oregano
⅛ teaspoon minced dried bay leaf
4–6 slices parcooked bacon, for garnish at cooking time
1. Preheat the oven to 375°F.
2. Melt the butter in a large, heavy skillet over medium heat. When the foaming has subsided, add the onion and shallots and sauté until just soft, about 2 minutes.
3. Add the mushrooms, ½ teaspoon salt, and the brandy. Continue to sauté until the mushrooms are just soft, another 2 minutes. Remove the skillet from the heat.
4. Beat the eggs in a large mixing bowl. Add the beef, pork, lamb, and all remaining ingredients except the bacon.
5. Add the mushroom mixture to the bowl, along with the cooking liquid from the skillet. Knead the meat mixture to combine, but do not mix too much or the meatloaf will be tough.
6. Form the mixture into a loaflike shape on a heavy baking sheet lined with parchment, or transfer it to a buttered loaf pan and bang the bottom of the pan against the counter to deflate any air bubbles. Place the parcooked bacon in a crosshatch fashion on top of the loaf and bake until the internal temperature has reached, but not exceeded, 155°F, about 1½ hours. (You will need to use a meat thermometer for this, but be sure to insert it before beginning to cook the meatloaf — if you poke a thermometer into the cooked loaf, all the juices will run out.) Let the meatloaf rest for at least 15 minutes before you slice and serve.
Happy cooking! Love, Alex.


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Whose Father Was He?
Errol Morris, documentarian and now blogger for the New York Times, brings us a fascinating investigation into the history of a single photograph (technically an ambrotype). Morris's article Whose Father Was He? explores the mystery of a photograph of three children, found on the body of a Union soldier who fell at Gettysburg in 1863. Here's the photo:
The story of the photograph, the soldier, and all the events that followed is massive and strange. In typical Morris style, the story becomes partly about its own telling -- how do we interpret history? How does evidence survive? And so on. But first, there's the mystery. Here's how Morris sets the scene (emphasis added):
The soldier's body was found near the center of Gettysburg with no identification &emdash; no regimental numbers on his cap, no corps badge on his jacket, no letters, no diary. Nothing save for an ambrotype (an early type of photograph popular in the late 1850s and 1860s) of three small children clutched in his hand. ... [This is] a story in which this photograph of three small children was used for both good and wicked purposes. First, the good. Four men on their way to Gettysburg were forced to stop at Schriver's Tavern when their wagon broke down. They heard the tale of the fallen soldier and saw the photograph of the children. One of them, Dr. J. Francis Bourns, a Philadelphia physician on his way to tend to the wounded from the battlefield, was intrigued. He convinced Schriver to give him the photograph so that he might attempt to locate the dead man's family. Perhaps he was touched by the poignancy of the photograph &emdash; three children, all under the age of ten, now without a father. As a life-long bachelor he might have yearned for a wife or family of his own. On the other hand, perhaps he saw it as an opportunity for financial gain.
What happens next is a story of historical detective work, genealogy, nineteenth-century marketing, a cruelly mismanaged orphanage, embezzlement, a worldwide whaling voyage (!), Mayan hieroglyphics (!!), and at its core, a family tragedy told in the letters of the soldier to his wife back home...and by his descendants.
The story is broken into five increasingly rambling parts. See: Part one (the core story), part two (an extended interview with Mark Dunkelman, the author of a book about the story), part three (which opens with the line, "There is something magical and sad about chronicling the history of a man who went more than halfway around the world on a whaling ship and then died (presumably alone) in a small town, a couple of hundred miles from his home."), part four (more on Dr. Bourns, the orphanage he established, and a ton of material about the descendants of the soldier). Part five comes out tomorrow.
For more on Errol Morris, check out this interview, his documentary Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control, or the classic Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe.


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Why Businesses Are Outsourcing Their IT ServicesRead more
Since Windows 10 first launched on July 29, 2015, it has had over 15 million downloads. So, what do users think about Windows 10 – Thumbs up or thumbs down?
Well, the results are in and the vast majority of users definitely give Windows 10 a resounding "Thumbs Up" with high praise for the system.
Why are so many people hyped about Windows 10? There seems to be quite a few reasons why people love it. Here's why.
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Windows 10 operates not just on desktops and laptops, but on all devices including smartphones and tablets along with other hybrid devices. The apps which you get at Windows Store are universal for all devices. This means that by connecting your phone or tablet with a keyboard and monitor, you can use it just like a PC because it has interface features to give you this added flexibility.
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Surrendering to the will of nature permits us to view ourselves and others in a glorious new light.
When you go to a movie, you willingly suspend your beliefs for an hour or two. I'm only asking you to suspend them for a few minutes. This has to do with your happiness, so do pay attention.
You don't exist. At least not in the way you think you do.
Oh, you're a human being, alright, a physical contraption with a sophisticated brain that guides you step by step through your earthly journey.
You had a mother and a father and perhaps a sibling or two. You're married or you're not. You have children or you don't. You eat, sleep, have sex and recreate.
One day you will stop breathing and either be incinerated or put into the ground. At your memorial service a lovingly arranged photo collage will capture the story of your life.
But was it really your life?
This sense of propriety is merely an illusion. The "you" that emerges as you rub the sleep from your eyes in the morning is a waking fantasy. While the figure reflected in the dresser mirror - the one sitting on the edge of a bed wearing a sleepy expression - is real, the idea that it is an independently functioning entity with a "you" manning its control center is a delusion. That "you" is pure fiction. "You" don't control your actions any more than Homer Simpson does because neither of you exists beyond the borders of your imagination.
Since you no doubt fancy yourself to be a freewheeling individual, this can't come as good news, at least not at first. Such a notion challenges the validity of your most basic assumptions about life.
The idea that there was a "you" controlling your actions was instilled at an early age. You were praised for smiling and burping, and not long after that you were scolded for throwing your food and pulling the dog's tail. Well what else were you supposed to think after hearing all that contrary feedback except that you were choosing your actions instead of simply acting? It's an idea that stuck, and since we were all babies once, we all grew up harboring the same illusion.
As you got older, your identity as an independent doer was corroborated by any number of sources. The concept of individual choice serves as the cornerstone of civilized societies, and why shouldn't it? Lines governing social behavior have to be drawn somewhere, and individual choice is as good a concept as any to draw them around. If you steal someone's car, you deserve a stay at the graybar hotel.
And then there's the continuous drone of happiness gurus telling you that "you "should feel good about "yourself," as if there are actually two of you squeezed into the same body – one enlightened and one clueless – in need of relationship counseling. That this split screen self-image breeds unhappiness seems to be lost on even on our most esteemed self-help experts.
So if you don't control your actions, then who does? Why, Mother Nature, of course.
Evolution fated everything in its path, including you, who are but one of 5000 mammals within a larger group of 1.7 million known species. Your brain may be more advanced than a monkey's, but all that extra horsepower doesn't always translate into brilliance. How bright is it to conclude that human beings somehow subverted the will of the universe and wrested away control of their own destinies? Science fiction is a feeble substitute for science when probing for answers to life's big questions.
Relatively speaking, of course, you make choices every day. You choose your hairstyle, your brand of toothpaste and the toppings to adorn your pizza. In the absolute sense, however, this is all a bittersweet fairy tale. You may think you're choosing pepperoni over anchovies, but it's your genes and environmental conditioning that are doing the choosing for you. There is no "you" apart from these natural building blocks. Free as you are to will what you do, you cannot will what you will. Like most mothers, Mother Nature insists on retaining some level of control over her children.
What's all this got to do with your happiness? Only everything.
The source of so much of your unhappiness is your entrenched belief that we're all choosing our behavior, and often choosing poorly. This belief is a stone in your shoe as you hobble through life judging everyone in sight.
You judge smokers for choosing to damage their lungs. You judge adulterers for choosing to destroy their families. You judge drug addicts for choosing to live in abandoned buildings and eat out of dumpsters. You judge distraught mothers for choosing to drown their children. You believe these people consciously chose tragedy over happiness. Of all the choices available to them, these miserable fates were the ones they really had their hearts set on.
And then you point your finger in the other direction. You judge yourself for choosing to eat too much, exercise too little and set your personal goals too low.
You drive yourself up a wall convinced that we're all squandering our ability to make better choices.
Well now you can drop your distressing theory of human behavior and replace it with a new one: everyone's doing the best they can with what life has given them.
It's straightforward, compact enough to slap on your refrigerator as a reminder, and at least as plausible as any theory you've dreamed up so far. With that irritating stone removed from your shoe, you'll discover a lightness in your step. You'll stroll through life feeling grateful for what you have been given and sympathetic toward those who have been given less. Freed from the bondage of judgment, you will live in a perpetual state of forgiveness.
If all this is a bit too much for you to swallow – and it probably is, given how long you've been clinging to the idea that "you" are in control of your life – don't despair. I've got a Plan B that will afford you the same life-enhancing benefits. Adopt the idea that we're all doing the best we can as a philosophy. Live as if "you" mulled it over and decided it was an idea worth acting on.
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GARRETT, Ind. (www.incnow.tv) – Rumors are surfacing of a possible "suicide pact" among students at Garrett Middle School.
Parents are both confused and concerned as they say they heard nothing from school officials about a rumored "suicide pact" among a group of students at Garrett Middle School.
INC News went to Garrett Thursday night and spoke with parents who say they heard the pact involves a group of students who have less-than-ideal home lives. One mother says she found out through her kids.
"They're helping each other try and commit suicide if there's a need, if they feel it's necessary. It's the quiet ones that nobody would suspect. Kids that do really good in school," said one mother.
Parents say at least two students have attempted suicide—one by swallowing hundreds of pills, but parents say both were unsuccessful in their attempts and are recovering.
Parents went on to say as part of the "pact" students would take turns attempting suicide and even helped each other do it by bringing in the pills.
"They encourage them to do things. They bring things in for them to take at school or at home," she said.
The mother thinks the school should've notified parents.
"I think they should make it a little more known to parents to watch out. You know, like with all these little drug things that go on that parents may not know about—like huffing paint or the ready whip cans that they were getting high off of. Make it known to parents so parents can watch out and make sure their kids are okay," she said.
Garrett-Keyser-Butler Community School District Superintendent Dr. Dennis Stockdale released a statement saying:
"Recently, we received reports about a possible suicide pact among a few students at Garrett Middle School. We are conducting an ongoing investigation and have interviewed over 30 students and parents. To this date, we are unable to substantiate the rumor of a suicide pact. However, we take these rumors very seriously and will continue to investigate any information we receive about possible hard to students. We are working with local law enforcement and counselors from the Northeastern Center regarding this issue. I encourage anyone with information to please contact the school or law enforcement."
INC News also contacted Garrett Police. Police Chief Keith Hefner told INC there is no active investigation and there have been no suicides or suicide attempts in the past week. He says the department did not receive a release about the incident either.


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Toyota has been a model corporate citizen, providing space for the Rotary Club of San Ramon's Carboload dinner held the night before Primo's Run for Education. In 2009 the Rotary Club inducted the Toyota Distribution Center into its Business Hall of Fame.
Toyota has wanted to expand its facility in San Ramon for several years. In 2006 Toyota submitted a proposal to the City for an 11,200 sq. ft. training center expansion, which was approved in September of 2007. Instead of allowing Toyota to move ahead with their expansion, the City zoned Toyota's property Multifamily High-Density Housing to meet ABAG's housing requirements.
At a Planning Commission Workshop on the Housing Element for the General Plan on May 6, 2008 Carlos Soria, Project Development Manager, Toyota Motor Sales, USA stated that "Toyota is considering expanding their operation in San Ramon and would request re-zoning their vacant parcel back to a manufacturing/warehouse zoning from a multi-family very high density residential zoning."
Soria, speaking again in a joint meeting of the City Council and Planning Commission in December of 2008, "questioned why housing would be included in the Toyota parcel as Toyota has no intention of using this site for housing. He stated that Toyota would like to expand their warehouse facility. He would like to work with other landowners to shift housing unit allocations to appropriate sites."
In September of 2009 Mr. Soria congratulated the City on meeting State housing requirements, but he commented "that it was unfortunate for Toyota Motor Sales, that the City of San Ramon has met the site adequacy requirement by designating residential uses on the property which Toyota Motor Sales, intended to develop on."
Planning Commissioner Dennis Viers told Soria "that there might be flexibility with the North Camino Ramon Specific Plan." Mr. Soria replied "that he is aware of the North Camino Ramon Specific Plan and supports placing more commercial uses on and near the Toyota site and removing the residential land use designation."
The adjacent illustration is from a consultants' report on the "Current Conditions and Alternatives Identification" for the North Camino Ramon Specific Plan. It is dated November 19, 2009 and shows the current uses of properties in the North Camino Ramon Specific Plan area. Note that the Eastern side of the Toyota property was then and still is vacant.
Last year I asked Senior Planner Lauren Barr if changing the zoning to Mixed Use in the NCRSP would enable Toyota to expand their warehouse, and Barr said it wouldn't.
Soria spoke again at this week's Public Hearing on the General Plan Update and told the City Council and Planning Commissioners that if Toyota cannot expand its warehouse facility here, it will have to relocate to another city.
I also spoke at that meeting on Tuesday and encouraged the City Council to work with Toyota to keep them here and to take Toyota and the Bishop Ranch Veterinary Center out of the NCRSP.
I also suggested taking the Northern portion that borders Fostoria Road out of the NCRSP. Then Kevin and the other automotive businesses there would not have to worry about losing their businesses to future development.
If the Southern properties on Bishop Drive and the Northern properties on Fostoria Road are taken out of the NCRSP, that leaves the middle section from the North side of Norris Canyon Road to Crow Canyon in the NCRSP for the big box stores, public transit, and whatever additional housing is required by ABAG.


text: A series of planned electricity blackouts will begin rolling through regions in most of eastern Japan on Monday. The blackouts are intended to manage a dramatic fall in power generation capacity caused by a massive earthquake and tsunami that hit the country on Friday.The quake, the world's fourth largest ever recorded, caused several nuclear power stations to automatically shut down. A subsequent tsunami further damaged some of the plants and led to problems in at least two reactors.As a result, Tokyo Electric Power Co. has lost about 27 percent of its electricity generation capacity and will be short of demand by about 10 million kilowatts, it said Sunday.The blackouts will affect outlying areas of Tokyo and regions surrounding the capital, but will not hit central Tokyo. Each will last 3 hours and they will begin in stages from 6:20am and run until 10pm every day.The government warned they could go on for several weeks.The number of dead and missing stands at around 3,000, but that figure is growing by the hours. A police official in Miyagi in northern Japan told public broadcaster NHK on Sunday that he expects the death toll in his region alone to surpass 10,000.Japan's Meteorological Agency upgraded its assessment of the quake from magnitude 8.8 to 9.0. The quake was actually three very large earthquakes in quick succession, it said Sunday.The scale of the disaster is huge and its effect on companies and the national economy is difficult to determine.Several electronics companies have plants in the region and they've been offline since Friday.Toshiba makes microprocessors and image sensors in the region and its factory has been without power most of the weekend, said Keisuke Ohmori, a spokesman for the Tokyo-based company."We don't know when we can resume production," he said.Sony operates several plants in the region and has yet to release information on when they might restart production.Several companies have announced plans to temporarily suspend production at some domestic factories. They include Toshiba, Panasonic and Sharp. The factories are either impacted by the earthquake or unable to get components because of disruptions to their supply chain."This is the worst crisis in Japan's 65-year postwar history," Prime Minister Naoto Kan said in a televised news conference. "I'm sure that we will be able to overcome the crisis."Rescue teams from around the world are pouring into Japan and charities have begun raising money for those affected.Sony and Panasonic each said they would donate \u00a5300 million (US$3.7 million) to relief efforts. Sony said it would also provide 30,000 radios to those affected.Martyn Williams covers Japan and general technology breaking news for The IDG News Service. Follow Martyn on Twitter at @martyn_williams. Martyn's e-mail address is firstname.lastname@example.com


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If you don't know where you're putting your slippers at night, you can't do algebra," noted Mary Seaman, Director of the Lewiston High School STEP Program, following the documentary debut of "Homeless Youth in Lewiston" on January 17th at Lewiston City Hall.
The 30-minute documentary was produced by the Lewiston Youth Advisory Council (LYAC) to build awareness about the approximately 200 homeless youth in Lewiston. Before the video was shown, LYAC members shared what an eye-opening experience making the documentary had been. According to the National Coalition for the Homeless, one out of every three homeless persons are under the age of 18, and 1.6 million to 1.7 million people under 18 will experience homelessness each year (nation wide).
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The documentary also included Bob Rowe, Executive Director of New Beginnings, and Jamie Caouette, Homeless Academic Liaison of the Lewiston High School STEP Program, discussing available community resources to assist homeless youth, as well as sharing reasons for youth homelessness. Many homeless youth leave home after years of physical and sexual abuse, strained relationships, addiction of a family member, or parental neglect. Disruptive family conditions are the principal reason that young people leave home. (National Coalition for the Homeless)
Special guests at the event were Governor Paul LePage, who shared about his own homelessness, couch surfing, and unpleasant memories from years ago and praised the youth council for addressing this concern. He was accompanied by the Department of Health and Human Services Commissioner Mary Mayhew, and Senior Health Advisor John Bott. Mayhew highlighted available resources and the effectiveness of 'community' working to address such issues. Lewiston City Councilors Mark Cayer, John Butler (Youth Council Liaison), and Craig Saddlemire were also in attendance.
In the film, youth council members also shared their reaction to hearing what Borghoff and Sprague have endured and stressed the film theme of 'What Can You Do" at its close.
The youth council's documentary and presentation received a standing ovation, and audience members and LYAC shared their thoughts at the event conclusion. Attendees stressed the importance of reaching out to others, to use their voice, to start talking about homelessness, to let others know about community resources, and to share what was heard in the documentary.
Donations for New Beginnings and the LHS STEP Program were accepted at the event. In addition, LYAC Chair Kon Maiwan announced that copies of the documentary will be sold in the near future, with proceeds being split between the two entities.


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Whew. Now that was a grinding run I thought to myself as I crossed the finish line of my twelfth 5K race of the year.
The journey that brought me to this point on a cold and blustery day was one that I did not even fathom way back on Valentine's Day weekend when this all started. It was also a frigid day back on that afternoon when I finally succumbed to the reality that I looked and felt like crap. Oh, there was no mistake about how I looked. Perhaps I was in denial for months and had settled into the winter malaise that most adhere to, and use as an excuse to let themselves go. Yet, it was more than that. Much more. I have always been an active person with an upbeat and youthful outlook, and from what I have been told, appear younger than my chronological age. That all seemed to fall apart as the winter of 2015 dragged into 2016 and I was feeling the damage of what I had done to myself physically. On that cold windy day in February as I participated in the Cupid's Undie Run for charity I hit rock bottom. I was out of breath and huffing it after jogging less than a mile. I felt like a slug, and after seeing pictures of my bloated form, looked like one. Even worse, after I had sent my parents some pics of me at the event they mentioned that I looked kind of portly.
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