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Originally Published on NevadaNewsmakers.com, 10/23/2007 1:09:27 PM
At last, we spot the rare creature that's evaded us since John McCain made a swing through Reno in the spring.
Here's how long it's been since Reno voters caught sight in public of a Republican presidential candidate. At the McCain town hall, the candidate was optimistically pitching the brand of immigration reform that shortly thereafter moved voters to flood the Capitol switchboard with angry calls. That was the last Reno saw of the GOP, unless you count Rudy Giuliani's strange shopping trek through Costco. Or the virtually apolitical Olympic pep rally at Mount Rose Ski Resort, where Mitt Romney urged the Reno-Tahoe Winter Games coalition to work with all its might to become the host city in 2018.
Romney and Duncan Hunter both appeared last weekend in Sparks at the Conservative Leadership Conference. (Romney's smooth town hall performance was still top-of-mind a week later when the equally smooth Barack Obama appeared at the Grand Sierra. Obama's presentation led the Reasonable Reporter to yearn for a debate between just the two, for no other purpose than to savor the aesthetic and verbal symmetry of such an event. Romney and Obama are suitably matched: stylish, civil, and artful in their language.)
Romney got a polite reception at the Conservative Leadership Conference, but it was Duncan Hunter who brought the crowd to its feet. Hunter promoted a border fence, protectionist trade policies and touted his son's multiple tours of duty in Iraq. Both men, it should be noted, lost the CLC straw poll to Ron Paul, who didn't even show up.
For philosophical symmetry, one might stage a debate between Duncan Hunter and John Edwards. Each man rails in his own way against free trade, and in favor of reinvigorating U.S. manufacturing. The candidates' narratives taken together offer a wider lens through which to ponder the relevant economic questions than does either one alone.
Fred Thompson, who caught fire at last in Sunday's Florida debate, is scheduled for his first Nevada visits in November. The Reasonable Reporter awaits a closer look.
Identity Politics: Dead or Alive?
Barack Obama declines to make more than a passing reference to his status as an African-American candidate for the White House. At the recent Reno town hall, he was asked whether said status causes him to feel additional pressure. In a masterful dodge of the race issue, the candidate:
1- Made a joke: if you don't feel pressure running for the presidency, maybe you shouldn't be the president.
2 – Shifted into more serious matters with a segue acknowledging the race question, sort of: the next president, black, white, brown, yellow, red, male, female – the next president will have a huge mess to clean up.
3 – Jumped right back into the meat and potatoes of his message: You know what pressure is? Somewhere in Iraq today, there's a kid getting into a humvee… it's hot, it's dusty, he's loaded down with heavy equipment. He lost a buddy yesterday and he might lose a buddy tomorrow. That's pressure. Pressure is raising a family without enough money to pay for health care expenses. That's pressure
4 – Wrapped it up with a bow: My job every day will be to think of ways to take the pressure off of you.
Uh. OK. What was the question again? In Obama's world, Identity Politics is dead.
In Hillary Clinton's world, identity politics is alive. Women have been the center of the Clinton bull's eye from the beginning, but the effort intensified this week, with a focus on "Women Changing America." The exclamation point on the full-court press for the female vote came from senior Clinton strategist Mark Penn, who predicted a quarter of Republican women will abandon the GOP for Hillary in 2008.
The unanswered question: Is identity politics dead or alive among Republican women, who would tend, one might think, to reject identity politics?
Penn also foresees young women voting in droves for Hillary, in a show of support for the symbolic progress represented by a woman in the White House. A view shared by the Reasonable Reporter, who, in a parallel line of reasoning has predicted same for months.


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BOSTON — Referring to college students as "walking question marks," Brother Joseph Donovan said they grapple with the meaning and purpose of life as well as their place in it. "At the end of that four-year process is the rest of life, so, suddenly, the big questions get asked," said Brother Joe, as he is called by the students.
Last fall, his religious order, the Brotherhood of Hope, was tasked with the significant challenge of ministering to students at a dozen schools in Boston's Back Bay.
The brothers have served at the second-largest institution of higher learning in Boston, Northeastern University, since 2005. Last year, Boston Cardinal Sean O'Malley asked them to take on the surrounding schools.
All within a five-minute walking distance, the schools are relatively small, private, non-Catholic institutions with a combined total of 60,000 students. None had Catholic campus-ministry staff last year. At most, they had a Catholic student group, while many had only a nondenominational Christian group to serve students.
The name of the program — Hub, which stands for Hope for Undergraduates in Boston — is a play on words, drawing both from Northeastern's centralized location as well as Boston's nickname — the "hub of the universe." Boston is well known for higher learning, with about 230,000 students at more than 50 colleges in the Boston metro area.
For the first year, the focus of Hub has been building relationships at the schools closest to Northeastern. The idea is to grow organically so that the growth will be sustainable.
Personal Connection
The brothers' campus ministry is marked by their desire to build strong relationships with students. Young people who have spent years or just minutes in the presence of the brothers remark on how the brothers are invested in what they have to say.
While that approach, which Brother Joe calls "relational evangelization," may seem inefficient, reaching one person deeply allows that person to reach out to others. Part of the ministry is teaching those young people how to invite others to participate in their faith.
The Brotherhood of Hope, founded in 1980, began serving at Rutgers University in New Jersey in 1985. They have served at several other colleges over the years, including 11 years at Boston University, which concluded at the same time that the Hub ministry began. Currently, they also run campus ministry at Rutgers and Florida State University.
Their mission, to help people come to know Christ more deeply, expresses itself most clearly on campus, Brother Joe said. Faith, when found in college, often carries young people through the rest of their lives, according to Brother Joe. It is a great gift to them, and it is a great gift to the Church. When students are well-grounded in their relationship with God, they call on him when making important life decisions about their careers, their vocations, choosing spouses and having children. They also tend to pay it forward, becoming leaders in their future parishes, he added.
"Each person who says Yes to God by this experience is really expanding the life and the mission of Christ in the world through the Church," he said.
Adam Wilson, director of communications for the Cardinal Newman Society, a Virginia-based group that seeks to strengthen the identity of Catholic colleges, said campus ministries must effectively reach out to young people. "In addresses touching on higher education, the Holy Father himself has pointed out the great need to emphasize proper formation of students. Without formation on the ethical and moral level, the flourishing of a Catholic intellectual life can be very compromised," he said.
Hooked on Faith
Rich Pelosi, a student studying architecture at Wentworth Institute of Technology, grew up going to Mass regularly, attended Catholic high school and worked at his home parish in Peabody, Mass.
Once he went away to school, he became distant from his faith. He got "caught up in the college lifestyle," living for weekends and parties.
When he first attended a Northeastern University Life meeting at Northeastern's Catholic Center, he was shocked to see so many of his peers invested in faith.
After attending a weekend retreat, he too became "hooked" on his faith.
"Before, it would be like: If I have the time to go to church, if I have time to go to the NU Life meetings, I'll go," he said. "Something clicked on retreat, and my faith became the priority over everything else." He spoke of another young man who gave a witness on the retreat and broke down while discussing his faith and life struggles, struggles Pelosi could relate to. On retreat, the two became good friends, and Pelosi said he is one of several male friends who "keep me on my faith game." The guys get together and talk about topics like purity and not allowing their busy lives to interfere with their faith.
"It's so easy to get lost in school and social aspects of college. And it's easy to put certain things on the back burner, and a lot of people do put their faith on there. I mean, I did for the first three years," he said.
Now, faith comes first, followed by school, and social engagements are a distant third, he added.
'Challenge Us'
Brother Joe said that the social aspect is just one part of campus ministry.
Spiritual and service events are also key in reaching the whole person.
Sometimes, in ministering to young people, there is a reluctance to get "too serious and holy." It is important to plow the ground for deeper discussions, which may come later, but never shy away from difficult topics.
Young people are ready to be challenged, he said.
Brother Joe said it is like college students are saying: "Be human to us. Be real. Do the fun stuff, but challenge us. We want to learn what our faith means."
It is not unusual to have one part-time minister on a college campus. The lack of resources has been acutely felt in Boston, where the Archdiocese of Boston has slashed budgets across the board, and campus ministry has taken a significant hit. The Hub project has two full-time and three part-time campus ministers, all members of the Brotherhood, along with four unpaid interns. They also utilize the students they have reached in planning and running events.
This fall, the brothers hope to have student-led events at several of the satellite campuses and continue to invite everyone to shared events like weekend retreats and Sunday Mass. Having one, centralized event eliminates the need to re-create the program 12 times over.
Said Brother Joe, "You can get a lot of bang for your buck if you do this thing right."
Christine M. Williams writes from Quincy, Massachusetts.

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Yesterday, the world was finally officially introduced to Apple Maps. We first caught word of the impending change months ago, with glimpses and peeks at what's surfaced since. And now it's here. Google Maps is gone. And everybody is angry.
The backlash has been swift and determined, and for good reason. As pretty as Apple Maps are – and they really, really are – their function has yet to prove itself as anything other than mediocre to bad. Instead of waxing eloquently about how Apple is sacrificing user experience in order to rid itself of all things Google, let's review the sins of Apple Maps.
1. Goodbye, public transit
The first and arguably most-obvious problem with Apple Maps is that there is no public transit function. Those three, familiar icons – car, walking, bus – that sit at the top of your directions might lure you into thinking you're about to get from one place to another using city-paid-for transportation, but think again. Hitting the public transit icon will send you to the App Store, where you're prompted to download a routing app, one of which costs $50 (the others range in price — but seriously, that's shocking to see when Google's been giving me the information for free for… what seems like forever).
A Google rep tells me that the public transit feature graduated from Labs all the way back in October 2007, and now includes more than one million public transit stops the world over, "…including buses, trains, subways, and trams in nearly 500 cities." And iPhone uses don't get than anymore. It's a big loss.
2. No direction editing
The best way to describe this particular fault is to run you through the process: I hit the arrow icon in the upper right hand corner, enter my start and end points, and hit route. Then I decide to change my starting point, or I realize I want walking directions instead (not public transit because, well, see above). With Google Maps, I'd hit edit and make the respective changes. With Apple Maps, however, there is no such option; you hit clear and start over from scratch. This is a tiny, tiny time-suck, but I already hate it and feel pigeon-holed by Apple into these new, strange gestures.
3. Dumbed down the data
Tech blogger Michael DeGusta explained it up best in this blog post – but to sum up: Apple simply doesn't have the data set to accurately plot the world. Here's a quick breakdown on what iOS' new Maps are missing, via DeGusta:
- Transit: Removed from 51 countries with 4.9 billion people
- Traffic: Removed from 24 counties with 2.4 billion people
- Street View: Removed from 41 counties with 3.0 billion people.
In total, 63 counties with a combined population of 5 billion people will be without one or more of these features they previously had in iOS.
And there are plenty of examples of what precisely this looks like hitting the Web. Day-old Tumblr blog TheAmazingiOS6Maps has already curated quite the collection of Apple Maps follies. A favorite has to be the fact that Apple appears to have duplicated the disputed Diaoyu/Senkaku islands in the East China Sea – the territory is being fought over by China and Japan and causing mass protests. And Apple put them on its maps twice. (To be fair, I could only find them on Google Maps when searching for them by the commonly used term "Pinnacle Islands" and the results weren't great – but at least they weren't plotted twice.)
I know that the Internet was full of these Google Maps v. Apple Maps comparisons moments after the iOS 6 download was available, but it's the type of thing that never gets old. Check out the differences here (three guesses which one is Apple Maps; hint: It's the one with way less information).
Now, I do have to admit that Apple's Yelp integration is a really nice touch. And for local search in metropolitan areas, it's fantastic. Searching the Empire State Building surfaces icons for nearby restaurants and shops and immediately pulls the Yelp data. But the moment you aren't in such highly populated areas, it's a worthless feature.
And business search isn't always flawless: One very popular restaurant in Portland, Serrato's, never came up when I searched for it – instead I was given two different locations for Sheraton Hotels. Searching for Target brought up one location when there are several in the area; it also happened to be the farthest from me.
4. Inexplicable bugs
There really isn't even much of an explanation to go along with this, except that there are some baffling glitches going on in Maps. I tried to search Canada, Mexico, and Australia, to the following results.
Only after I turned off Wi-Fi (and received the warning below) was I able find anything via search.
5. Street view and 3D are not the same
There is no denying that Apple's flyover-created imaging for its 3D view is stunning. Like any Apple product, it's beautiful and fun and engaging. But it doesn't work: Looking at the 3D images is wonderful, but it isn't effective for direction purposes. You know what is? Street View. Street View is an incredibly useful tool, especially when you're trying to drive and navigate, or find some place on foot. But it's gone, and we're stuck with a gorgeous, useless replacement.
So how do I get Google Maps back?
Right now, there's no word on when the Google Maps app will be making its iOS comeback. According to SearchEngineLand, this was Google's official statement on the matter:
"We believe Google Maps are the most comprehensive, accurate, and easy-to-use maps in the world. Our goal is to make Google Maps available to everyone who wants to use it, regardless of device, browser, or operating system."
Whether Google's just holding out or Apple's blocking them is unknown, but it's definitely in Google's best interest to give the people — the iPhone-wielding people, that is — what they want. After Apple dropped YouTube from its native apps collection, it soared to the top of the App Store. Being wiped off the iPhone is just bad news for Google, so it makes you wonder what the hold up is. In the meantime, you can still access it via your iPhone's browser and still get most of the features you're missing — but fingers crossed, many of us can put Google Maps back on the home bar banner where it belongs very soon.
[Update:] According to 9to5Mac, the ball is entirely in Apple's court and the Google Maps app is just waiting for the go ahead from the App Store… which we all known is renowned the world over for its efficient and totally balanced approval process (not). Hopefully this time, things go through quickly and the people get what they want.
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Ensure that the server is running.
Remote subcommands require a running server.
Display uptime by using the uptime(1) subcommand.
This example displays the length of time that the DAS has been running.
asadmin> uptime Uptime: 1 Weeks, 4 days, 0 hours, 17 minutes, 14 seconds, Total milliseconds: 951434595 Command uptime executed successfully.
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Imposing, Eye-Catching And Mysterious: The Running Wall Residence
The Running Wall residence in Kerala, India by LIJO RENY Architects is built more as a fort house that reminds us of the Great Wall of China. The residence looks more as a stone wall that extends towards the yard and continues all the way to the building. This contemporary house explores the potential of spatial diversity and features different volumes, which make it very interesting and eye-catching.
The indoor-outdoor relationship, the voids in the wall and the combined materials complement the beauty of this house and add a touch of mystery. Ingeniously created, the building gives the impression of fluidity. The dining and the living rooms open out into a beautiful landscape, while the kitchen expands into a landscaped yard. The house has minimal decoration, features vaulted ceiling, wooden flooring and an internal pool that leads up to the living and dining rooms. Ferns, banana and other tropical plants can be spotted in the internal court, near the stairs and at the upper level.


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Die Shop Automates to Wrangle Work Back from Overseas Competition
"When the accountants and purchasing agents were just looking at the price of the tool, it was difficult for us to compete," says Rezler. "They now are starting to realize that they get what they pay for, and we're earning quite a bit of work completing or fixing tools that were made overseas that have not been up to the customers' quality standards. And, we are even starting to see more work that doesn't go overseas because of quality concerns."
Estimating Accuracy Critical
Still, the overseas alternative and the downturn of the economy continue to place a constant pressure on Rezmin Tool & Die, in Oldcastle, Ontario, Canada, to reduce the cost of its tools while increasing the speed of delivery and maintaining its quality standards. This constant cost pressure and lack of accurate estimation tools also have made quoting more challenging. Rezler spends 5 hr./day working on quotes.
"We used to do the quoting based on experience," Rezler explains. "If we knew a part was going to be a bit difficult to form, we tended to protect ourselves by over-quoting. To make ourselves more competitive, we had to become more efficient and use more automation."
The company has invested in CNC equipment to eliminate much of the handwork processes, and outsourcing of die sets. Producing die sets inhouse has returned as much as a 50 percent cost savings. To take on this work, Rezmin purchased four seats of die design and build software (from Cimatron) in its engineering department, and three seats on the shop floor. Also, die makers on the shop floor use two additional seats of Cimatron Viewer.
"We use the software to design and build in 3D," explains Rezler, and perform the NC programming and run the CNC machines directly from the software."
The firm also uses Cimatron Fikus software to create wire-EDM programs directly from the 3D design data. "Eliminating the need to translate the data has simplified the data flow. It makes wire programming less labor intensive and more accurate," adds Rezler.
To further increase efficiency and speed, Rezmin added four- and five-axis machines to its shop, for boring, drilling and tapping holes on multiple compound pockets. According to Rezler, programming the new machines with Cimatron software has reduced setup and machining time by as much as 65 percent.
"The software makes four- and five-axis programming really easy," comments Rezler. "This is relatively new for us, but I was surprised how quickly we were able to get up to speed with the process."
Efficiency, Cost Savings and More Competitive Quotes
Using Cimatron Die Design for blank development and the strip layout, Rezler says that, "complex strips that used to take us 3 to 4 days to lay out now take 3 to 4 hr. Simpler strips can take as little as 10 to 15 min."
Rezler also finds that the benefits of the software's quick blank-development and forming-analysis capabilities really pay off in his quoting work. "The forming analyses highlight any hot spots, wrinkling, splits and other areas of potential difficulties," he says. "It saves a lot of time and eliminates the guesswork. Most importantly, it gives me the confidence to quote exactly what needs to be done rather than over-quote to protect against the unexpected, like we used to do. It allows us to come up with more competitive quotes."
On the shop floor, Rezmin has been able to eliminate much of the time-consuming and expensive manual plate work. "We used to do a lot of work with manual radial drills, laying out and transferring screw holes, spring pockets, dowels, keys, etc. Now all of these procedures are designed into the solid model and programmed directly to the CNC machine, which routinely runs some parts in one setup that used to require two or three setups. Labor hours on manual machining processes have been dramatically reduced."
Rezmin's programmers take advantage of the Cimatron auto drill function to define sequences for different types of holes and pockets. "The ability to define templates for cutting procedures is a huge timesaver," adds Rezler.
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Archived Webinar Embellishes the Story
Mr. Rezler recently participated in a webinar hosted by MetalForming and PMA, where he speaks eloquently about his firm's ability to compete with low-cost countries. To listen in, access the archived webinar at www.metalformingmagazine.com—click on the Multimedia Center link.
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Driving to squeeze every hour of productivity from its machines, Rezmin runs two shifts during the day and also runs a third untended lights-out shift. "Cimatron is able to define the tools as well as the holders and spindles, so tool changes can be done without operator intervention," explains Rezler. "Thanks to the automatic gouge gap checking, cutter paths are guaranteed not to crash. It makes the operators comfortable walking a and setting up lights-out machining."
Using the same software for design and machining is another big timesaver for Rezmin. "We don't need to go through the cumbersome process of translation," says Rezler. "It has eliminated all issues of miscommunication and missing or corrupt information. The CNC operators pull their data right from the design. Whenever we experience a design change, the operators als have the most current information—no need to worry about the integrity of the data."
The View from the Floor
Finally, the Cimatron viewer seats on the shop floor provide machine operators with direct access to the part data, so they can pull sizes and dimensions directly from the 3D assembly. As a result, detail prints are no longer needed for most parts and components, helping Rezmin run a greener and leaner shop floor operation.
"Overall, we are 25 to 30 percent more efficient than we used to be," concludes Rezler. MF
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Please note: Welcome Week – which is held in English – is not open to external visitors.
Welcome Week for International Students
For whom? All new international students at RWTH Aachen – full-degree and exchange students
When? From Monday, September 23 to Friday, September 27, 2019Copyright: Claudia Pankanin
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Second Explosion in 24 Hours Hits Russia
A second explosion struck the Russian city of Volgograd, killing at least 15 people and raising concerns over security ahead of the Winter Olympics next month. The WSJ's Jake Lee speaks with Moscow-based reporter Lukas I. Alpert about the blast. Photo: Reuters
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Public Event on Dec. 15: Key Aspects of the 8th WTO Ministerial Conference and Beyond
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14 December, 2011
- What are the key issues that will be determined at the 8th Ministerial Conference (MC8) of the WTO?
- How do these decisions relate to the development mandate of the Doha Round, and the global crisis of unemployment?
- How is the WTO responding to international demands for increased international and national oversight over financial services?
- What impact are WTO accessions having on the populations of the acceding countries?
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Room A, WTO Centre William Rappard
Rue de Lausanne 154, Geneva
- Ambassador Nathan Irumba, Executive Director, SEATINI, Uganda
- Martin Khor, Executive Director, South Centre, Geneva
- Lori Wallach, Director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, USA
- Sanya Reid Smith, Third World Network, Geneva
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Anthony here. Just wanted to share a personal update now that I have a moment.
At around 9:00 this morning upon hearing about the fuel situation at Peer1, I decided to head out and see if I could lend a hand. The streets of Manhattan near where I live (Soho – not in the evacuation zones) are in not-so-bad shape right now, but the damage left from the flooding in the evacuation zones is significant and real.
I'm sitting in our datacenter NOC at 75 Broad St. Not that it's been pointed out to me, but there are beds set up on the tiled floor here from the great team at Peer1 who stayed to monitor the situation overnight. These guys have incredible commitment to keeping everything running, and it's great to see.
Normally, power loss would not be a major problem for our datacenter – Peer1 stayed online during the major Manhattan power outage in 2003 that lasted for days, and we preemptively shifted to backup power around 4:00pm yesterday predicting that Con Edison would be shutting off power in evacuation zones. Given the nature of the flooding, this situation escalated greatly, submerging our reserve fuel in the basement, shutting off the elevators, and damaging the pumps required to get this fuel to the generator on the 17th floor.
My reasons for coming to the datacenter were twofold: one was simply to help and do whatever I could to help us (and the whole building) stay online. The other was to send our systems team the absolute final signal to perform a clean shutdown of our infrastructure should we be moments away from total power loss. Generally, clean shutdowns are preferable to abrupt halts, since code halting in a known state is better than code halting in an unknown state.
We had an initial warning that 10:45am was going to be the clean shutdown time. To determine how much time we have remaining, engineers are taking readings at particular time intervals to attempt to determine how quickly we are depleting. The tank readings are behaving somewhat erratically, as there is another mechanism replenishing it from a separate fuel header. Some of our recent readings seem more optimistic, but it is impossible to predict how much fuel remains in this header at this time. As of this writing, we have at least 45 minutes left.
Bridges to the island are open right now, and we currently have a fuel truck en route. We have approval from the building to manually carry fuel up in plastic water bottles, and we have a number of our team on-site to carry fuel up the stairs as needed. I do not know if the manual plan will be successful, but we will certainly try.
Unfortunately, I do not have more information on a final resolution to this issue. You should still expect Squarespace to go offline at some point because of the hurricane's aftermath, but we will do our best to keep that downtime to a minimum. Once we have a reliable stream of fuel to the building, it will go online independently of any other grid issues related to ConEdison and lower Manhattan in general.
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Libyan Christian leaders stress reconciliation
ENInews--In Tripoli, fireworks were ignited, guns fired in the air and chants sounded on 17 February in celebrations marking the first anniversary of the Libyan uprising that ended Colonel Moammar Gadhafi's 42-year rule.
But amid the fanfare, Christian leaders emphasized the need for comprehensive reconciliation and sustained peace efforts to end instability in the North African country.
"The people seem much happier as from last October (when Gadhafi was captured). They are more spontaneous, happy and relieved. They are joyful, not withstanding the security situations they are facing, but we still have to keep praying and stressing peace and reconciliation," the Rev. Daniel Farrugia, the vicar general of the Vicariate of Tripoli, told ENInews in a telephone interview.
The first major uprising against Gadhafi's rule started in the town of Benghazi in February last year. The revolt later spread to other parts of the country with the NATO Alliance joining to back rebel fighters grouped under the National Transitional Council.
The alliance conducted airstrikes to implement a U.N.-sanctioned no-fly zone and protect civilians. The action was approved by the U.N. Security Council after Gadhafi's forces attacked civilians protesting his brutal rule.
With the death of the leader on 20 October, global Christian leaders had raised concerns that an Islamist takeover would badly affect Christianity as it had been witnessed in other North African countries and the Middle East.
But Farrugia explained that the Church had survived the war and continues with its work and mission. "It was not very much affected and its members are now returning, especially the Filipinos and African. But the families are yet to return," he said.
According to the Rev. Kosti Ketola, an Anglican leader at the Christ the King Church in Tripoli, church leaders were backing the celebrations in their individual capacities. "The situation is changing and people are slowly coming back to church … the guns have disappeared from the streets, but the challenge is to minister to the people," said Ketola whose church had been serving an international congregation of Indians, Pakistanis, Egyptians and Nigerians.
Before the war, members of Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican and some Pentecostal churches accounted for three per cent of the population. The Libyan people, who are mainly moderate Muslims, remained tolerant to the groups during the revolution. The denominations were never asked to close down or evacuate, according to the leaders.
The leaders say they are keen to continue with interfaith dialogue, which is largely credited for the safety of Christian leaders and churches during the war. Under the past regime, an active discussion between the faiths thrived.
The leaders express optimism that the new authority will respect religious freedom. The authority has been trying to establish control of the country, where many small arms and light weapons are still in the hands of militias and the public.
Dr. Nagi Giumma Baraka, a former Minister of Health in the transitional council, said there are more than 200,000 registered fighters and many weapons circulating among them and the public. "For those reasons, no one is obeying the law and the country is lawless for the time being," he said in an opinion in The Tripoli Post on 7 February.
Meanwhile, thousands of people remain in detention, individual lives and communities continued to be threatened by unexploded devices, and many families are still trying to find missing relatives, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross.


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Sen. Hillary Clinton on Wednesday cast herself as a candidate who "relies not just on words but on work" as she eyed the upcoming Ohio and Texas primaries in hopes of stopping Sen. Barack Obama.
Clinton's supporters said she must win those two states March 4 if she is to close the gap with Obama in the delegate race and stop the momentum he has built up with 10 straight wins.
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BALTIMORE – With one more chance to prepare for the 2014 America East Indoor Championships at the New York Armory, the UMBC track and field teams travel once again to New York to make their final preparations at the same facility at the Rider/Lafayette Winter Games on Friday.
Both of the Retriever squads make the trip back to New York ranked No. 13 in the latest United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) Mid-Atlantic Regional Poll which was released on Tuesday.
The UMBC men have excelled this winter thanks in large part to their distance team. Seniors Andrew Smith (Chadds Ford, Pa./Garnet Valley) and Jake Albino (Hampton, N.Y./Minisink Valley), as well as sophomore Hassan Omar (Frederick, Md./Thomas Johnson), have all broken school records this season while all qualifying for the IC4A Championships in their respective events.
Smith enters the weekend with the top time in the 800m run (1:49.15) in the conference by over two seconds while also ranking tied for 17th nationally. He also holds the fifth-best time in the 1,000m (2:25.60) in the conference, just behind Albino's school-record time of 2:25.48 from last week's Armory Collegiate Invitational. Albino also sits second in the league in the one-mile run (4:08.97). The two seniors will both compete in the 800m on Friday.
Omar, meanwhile, has set two school marks this season, both while competing on the Armory track. The sophomore set the 3,000m record (8:23.50) at the NYU Team Challenge on Jan. 24 to rank fifth in the America East while his 5,000m record of 14:32.71 from last week's competition sits second in the league. Omar will have the weekend off before the America East Championships next Sunday.
The women's distance crew has also achieved record-breaking success, led by senior Cody Mezebish (Westminster, Md./South Carroll) and junior Sarah Daly (Lake Orion, Mich./Lake Orion). Mezebish originally broke the UMBC mark in the 1,000m run at the Penn State Relays on Jan. 11, but both athletes inched past it last week in New York with Daly edging out her teammate to take the school lead (2:53.04) and sit sixth in the America East rankings. Sophomore Angelina Oputa (Bowie, Md./Elizabeth Seton) also set a personal-best last week (2:58.06) to claim the third spot in the UMBC standings. All three athletes will rest this weekend.
Junior sprinter Mercedes Jackson (Huntingtown, Md./Huntingtown) recorded season-bests in both the 60m dash (7.41) and 200m dash (24.17) last week and is seeking a second-straight qualifying spot at the NCAA Indoor Championships. Jackson leads the conference in both events with her 60m time ranking tied for 28th nationally.
Senior Kirsten Jones (Brentwood, Tenn./M.L.K Magnet) sits second in the 500m run (1:14.54) and third in both the 200m (24.87) and 400m (56.14) events, having qualified for the ECAC Championships in all three. Both Jackson and Jones will have the weekend off, but sophomore D'Nique Phillip (Elkton, Md./North East), who ranks ninth in the 60m dash in the conference, will run the 60m and 200m events in New York.
Mid-distance runner Erick Soetje (Clarksburg, Md.) set a personal-best in the 400m dash (49.54) last weekend to jump to fourth in the UMBC record book and ninth in the conference. The freshman also sits 12th in the America East in the 500m with his season-best time of 1:05.40. Soetje will run in the 500 at the Armory on Friday.
School record holder Alisha Beeman (Bridgeport, Conn./Bunnell/Hartford) ranks third the high jump with her school-best leap of 1.71m (5'7.25). The junior's best is just 1.50m behind conference leader Brittany St. Clair from Vermont. Looking to diversify, Beeman will compete in the 60m hurdles, long jump, and shot put on Friday.
Junior Thor Serafenas (Olney, Md./Good Counsel/Clemson) paces the UMBC throwers and sits sixth in both the shot put and the weight throw. Serafenas posted a season-best of 14.86m (48'9") in the shot put last weekend while his best effort in the weight throw (17.06m; 56'11.75") came at the Penn State National Invitational on Jan. 31. He will compete in both events this weekend.
For the women, sophomore Nneoma Edokobio (Rockville, Md./Richard Montgomery) holds a top-five spot in both throwing events. Edokobi, who will compete in both events at the Armory, is third in the shot with her heave of 12.91m (44'4.25) at the Bison Opener and fifth in the weight throw from her performance at the Terrapin Invitational (15.26m; 50'0.75").


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Title: The Amethyst Ring
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Character Rating: 4/5
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Okay, first of all I have to say that I did LOVE this book... But..... First with the good... It was written wonderfully. The characters were SO believable... IT showed all their faults... Which I think a lot of books do not... It was wonderful... because the main character you loved... but you slowly saw him changing for the worst... It was so strange... Because you were routing for the main character, but then he would do something, and you are like, "WHAT???" It kind of reminded me of (here comes the bad) the 3rd episode of Star Wars. I always loved Anakin... But in the third one, you saw him slowly corrupted... Yet you still were rooting for him during some of it... Like you did not know what side you wanted to be on... LOVED IT!!! It just crept up so slowly... But it was kind of depressing at the same time... But in a semi-good way. So that is the only reason it could not get 5/5... I highly recommend the series.
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I recently bought Trix yogurt for Caleb and today he was eating a new flavor. He didn't seem to like it so I took a bite of it. Let me just tell you the Berry Bolt flavor is revolt-ing! So much so, that after I tasted it, I shuddered and said "bluuuuck." (Not sure if that's the correct spelling but you get the idea.) When I did that, he cracked up. So I kept making the noise and he kept cackling!!! It was so funny, I grabbed my camera to capture the moment.
Caleb is in the 'parrot' stage of his life so at the end of the video, I asked him to say two of his favorite sayings:
"I don't think so" (which he picked up from Emma) in Calebese sounds like,
"I-on't dink sooooo." (Think Mr. Miyagi, Karate Kid)
"Spank your hiney" (which of course came from me) in Calebese sounds like,
"Pank A Hiney!!!"
Be sure to turn up the sound!
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
To Make You Laugh
I recently bought Trix yogurt for Caleb and today he was eating a new flavor. He didn't seem to like it so I took a bite of it. Let me just tell you the Berry Bolt flavor is revolt-ing! So much so, that after I tasted it, I shuddered and said "bluuuuck." (Not sure if that's the correct spelling but you get the idea.) When I did that, he cracked up. So I kept making the noise and he kept cackling!!! It was so funny, I grabbed my camera to capture the moment.
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Please Pray
I just went to this blog and was shocked at what I read. Please be praying for the singer, Nicol Sponberg. Her 2 month old son, Luke, went home to be with Jesus last night.
"The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears them;
he delivers them from all of their troubles.
The Lord is close to the brokenhearted
and saves those who are crushed in spirit."
Psalm 34:17-18
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Are you kidding me?
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For lack of a better title, Weekend Recap!
Our weekend was filled with graduation ceremonies, parties, picnics and a whole lot of fun.
We started by attending the graduation Friday night of our local high school. Several kids from our church were graduating.
Emma, Brookes and Dougie.
Brookes was valedictorian of her class!
She's as sweet as she is smart!!!
Brookes, me and Katelyn.
I have had the privilege of
mentoring these two sweet
Saturday morning, we headed to the farm, which is the house that my grandparents built. Before the graduation party, we got in a little fishing. I love to see my kids fishing in the same pond I grew up fishing in!
Dougie and Paps (my dad).
This is the pond we were fishing in.
Emma and Jared, the graduate!
It's so hard for me to believe that he is
old enough to graduate!!!
Here are some of the great grand kids.
Back: Holton, Dougie, Anson
Front: Haley, Haven, Emma, Jessie and Hannah
Emma and Dougie left Sunday morning to go on a trip with their dad. :(
On Sunday afternoon, we had a church picnic. We had a great time fellowshipping and eating but I didn't take one picture. I'm sure you're relieved.
On Memorial Day, Steven left at 6am and went fishing on the Savannah river with a friend. Caleb and I did absolutely nothing! He slept until 9:45 am. He ate his breakfast and within an hour, he was asking to go take a nap. So he went back to bed and slept til almost 1pm!
I laid on the couch and watched the Jon and Kate plus 8 marathon!
After Steven got home, we invited some friends over and we cooked some hamburgers and hot dogs. I think we actually ate about 8pm. But it was a fun day.
I hope you had a great weekend as well!
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Thursday, May 22, 2008
The Body of Christ
Hear my prayer, O Lord; listen to my cry for mercy.
Psalm 86:6-7
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Teacher's gifts
A few weeks ago, we bought some fresh strawberries from a farm close to the kids school. I'm not kidding when I tell you, those were the sweetest strawberries I had ever put in my mouth! I used some of those strawberries and made us some homemade jam.
So when thinking about gifts for the teachers, I thought why not give them something homemade.
So on Monday afternoon, we stopped by the strawberry farm and bought a bucket of strawberries.
That large bucket cost $8!!!
Now before I go any further, please don't think I'm some kind of domestic diva, whipping up cooked batches of homemade jam, cause I'm definitely not.
If you buy this:
It has a simple, super easy way to prepare jam.
Y'all it's so simple, even I can do it!
Here's the finished product:
The kids helped make the jam and pour it into the jars. I bought the jars and the fabric from
wal-mart. All together, I spent $17 and we made enough to give 2 jars each of their teachers (they have 2 teachers a piece), a jar to the teacher of their choice, and a friend.
Y'all should definitely try this!
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008
It's Emma Again!!
Hey everybody!!! I'm back. Sorry it's been so long since I last posted. Well, guess what? Today is the LAST Wednesday of SCHOOL!!!! Well, right now I'm pretty bored. Caleb is taking a nap, and Dougie is outside playing with 1 of his neighborhood friends named Cannon. Please pray for 1 of my BEST friends, Cammie. She is having her tonsils taken out tomorrow at 9 am, and will not be back to school this week. For any of you who don't know, I fractured my foot a little less than 3 weeks ago. My dad talked to my mom and they decided that I get to return to wearing normal shoes (instead of my boot!). Well, Dougie and Cannon are throwing water balloons at our neighbors, Cad and Mason. Well, that's all for now cu l8r!!
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Will this week ever end!?!
Well it's Wednesday and y'all, I'm tired!
Dougie had his end of the year party on Monday. Then his last baseball game was Monday night. After the game, we had the team party and he got his trophy. Tuesday was Emma's end of the year party. And then we came home and worked on their teacher's gifts. (I'll post about that later. It has something to do with the picture of Dougie holding the bucket of strawberries!)
At the kids' school, they don't have your run-of-the-mill party. Both of their classes had a pool party. So Caleb and I spent, all day Monday and Tuesday, sitting by the pool. Caleb was a trooper and provided lots of entertainment for the kids and parents.
Yesterday before school dismissed, Dougie's teacher had a mini honor's day and gave out certificates to each of the students. Dougie received "The Best Reader" award. Yeah Dougie!!!
Sorry about all the pictures, they're mainly for my family. :o)
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Friday, May 16, 2008
Field Day 2008!!!
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Thursday, May 15, 2008
Thanks for praying. My father in-law came through the surgery and seems to be doing well. He didn't get out of surgery until 8pm last night and after getting a bite to eat, we came back home. We got home around midnight and today has been filled with trying to catch-up!
Thanks again for praying for him!
Thoughts from Cheryl at 8:32 PM 4 thoughts from Y*O*U
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Please be praying
Hey Y'all, please be praying for my father in-law. He had a heart cath yesterday (Tues.)and he has 5 blockages. He is in surgery as I am typing this.
We spent the night at my in-laws house last night and this is the first chance I've had to get to a computer. We're in the hospital library and I'm trying to keep Caleb quiet....yeah right!
Don't know when I'll get to post again but just be praying.
Thanks and love y'all dearly!
Thoughts from Cheryl at 3:20 PM 4 thoughts from Y*O*U
Monday, May 12, 2008
Can't we celebrate it EVERY day?!
I hope you all enjoyed Emma's post. She has been begging me for a blog and I have no intention of giving in to her, so I told her that she could post on mine.
Our Mother's day celebration started Thursday, when my mom and dad arrived. They came to watch Dougie play ball and they got to see 2 great games. (See Emma's recap.)
They stayed through Saturday and it was sure hard to see them leave.
On Sunday, I was served breakfast in bed! Cereal, an english muffin and of course, Mommy's cawkee! Then I was given the sweetest homemade card from Dougie, a beautiful Mother's bracelet with a matching daughter's bracelet from Emma and Steven gave me an awesome Sony mp3 player, yeah!!!!!
We had a wonderful church service, despite the tornados that blew through early Sunday morning. Then we spent the rest of the day with Steven's mom and his family.
It was a great day!
I hope you had a wonderful Mother's Day as well!
Thoughts from Cheryl at 8:23 PM 3 thoughts from Y*O*U
Friday, May 9, 2008
A Post From Emma
Hey!! What's up? I'm Emma. In case you don't know who I am, I'm Cheryl's daughter :). I'm 10 yrs. old and in 4th grade. I am a Christian. I got saved when I was 6. I was down in the office listening to "Amazing Love" then I felt Jesus knocking at the door of my heart (as my step-dad Steven who is a preacher says). I decided to let him in. So, my spiritual birthday is May 26,2004.
My FAVE verse is Philippians 4:13, "I can do all things through CHRIST who strengthens me."
My 7 (almost 8) yr. old brother, Dougie, had a baseball game tonight. Can you guess where this is leding? He hit a grand slam!!! The bases were loaded. The final score was 24 to 10. Dougie's team won!! Well, I can't think of anything else to say. I'll keep posting my own little blog on here because my MOM won't let me have my own blog, soooo keep checking in!! Also, to all you moms out there reading this, HAPPY (early) MOTHER'S DAY!!!!!
Thoughts from Cheryl at 9:05 PM 12 thoughts from Y*O*U
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Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Under The Big Top!
The Carson-Barnes Circus came to our town yesterday and we took the kids to the afternoon performance. Like we told the kids, this is an old-fashion, 3 ring circus that is held in a big tent, literally under the big top!
It had everything that the big circus' have, excepts lion or tigers. But as long as they have elephants, I'm happy.
Before the show started, Emma, Dougie and I rode a camel. Emma rode with her friend, Erica and Dougie and I rode together. All I have to say is that, I hope I never have to ride one through the desert!!!
I tried to get some good pictures. Caleb was mesmerized for the first half. It was a pretty warm day, so it was hot in that tent. That's why Caleb is so sweaty.
I can't get the pictures to post here, so I'm going to do a seperate post for the slideshow!
Thoughts from Cheryl at 12:05 PM 6 thoughts from Y*O*U
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Under The Big Top- slideshow
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Tuesday, May 6, 2008
I just have to share.....
My sister, Laura, has started a blog. She is the slow one in our fam, so it takes her a while to catch up. Kidding, but she is slow, she eats slow, she takes forever to get ready and unless you just like standing around the card section of a store, don't EVER go card shopping with her!!!!!!!! Oh.My.Word.
Anyhoo, please stop by and make her feel welcome to the blogosphere.
I love the name she came up with: "Grounded" and no, it's not a tribute to our childhood! lol :o)
Thoughts from Cheryl at 2:06 PM 4 thoughts from Y*O*U
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Who Likes Target?
My friend, Linda, shared this and I wanted to pass this on to you!
Of course, if you don't want to have a chance to win a
$100 GIFT CARD TO TARGET, then don't bother!
Go on, you know you want it!!!!
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Monday, May 5, 2008
Yard Sale!
While we were cleaning up, no one was paying attention to Caleb.
He was trying his hardest to get into this bag of hotdogs. He was determined...........
Finally, he succeeded!!!
Thoughts from Cheryl at 11:13 AM 5 thoughts from Y*O*U
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Thursday, May 1, 2008
Tidy Bowl Man meets the Tooth Fairy
Anyone who spends some time in our home will quickly come to realize that Caleb is obsessed and I mean obsessed, with brushing his teeth.
So just a few minutes ago, I gave him his toothbrush to chew on while I called Lifeway. I was on hold, sitting at the computer checking the bank account, when I heard an unususal sound.
I heard the 'tapping' of the toothbrush, like when you and I finish and tap it on the side of the sink. But Caleb isn't tall enough to tap it against the sink. Oh yeah, did I mention that he has developed a love for playing in the toilet bowl?
It took a couple of seconds for my feet to catch up with what my mind was telling them but when I rounded the corner to the restroom, Caleb was bringing the toothbrush up from the toilet bowl water towards his mouth!!!!
SuperMom kicked in and I lept from the door to the toilet in a single bound and grabbed that toothbrush in one fail swoop!
He wasn't very happy when he saw me throw it in the trash. He began wailing and gnashing his teeth. (Sorry I couldn't resist!) I promised him I'd buy him a new one but he couldn't have that one.
And all the while, this took place, I was still on hold!
Thoughts from Cheryl at 10:09 AM 20 thoughts from Y*O*U
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The Best Disney Live-Action Movies
List Rules The best non-animated films released under the Walt Disney Pictures and Walt Disney Productions labels
What are the best Disney live action movies? While Disney has put out some of the most incredible, memorable animated feature films of all time, it has also released some remarkable live action films. Some of the live action Walt Disney movies listed here date back several decades; others are more modern classics. One thing they all have in common? They are wildly popular. Vote for your favorites, vote down any you didn't like and, of course, please add any great Disney live action movies that are missing. This list also includes Disney's live action remakes.
Just as Disney's animated movies are almost always top notch, with awesome Disney princesses and menacing animated Disney villains, so are the Disney live action films.
Some of the excellent live action Disney movies listed here have a bit of cartoon action in them, but overall, they qualify. One good example is 1964's Mary Poppins, certainly among the greatest of Disney's live action offerings but also one of the best musical movies of all time, too. Fans of sports films will notice that many of Disney's best live action films are also among the most inspirational sports movies ever. Miracle, Remember the Titans, and The Mighty Ducks come to mind immediately as a few of the best Disney sports movies.
Disney has also produced several first-rate live action film franchises, including Pirates of the Caribbean, The Chronicles of Narnia, and the National Treasure movies. All of these movies could be considered among Disney's best, but this is about you -- what do *you* think is the best? Start voting, and enjoy reminiscing about some of Disney's most wonderful, non-animated movies. Fun for the whole family!


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Moving on – when do we decide the grass is greener elsewhere?
Birds do it. Bees do it. Even little kids picking strawberries do it.
Every creature that forages for food decides at some point that the food source they're working on is no richer than the rest of the patch and that it's time to move on and find something better. It even happens to us as we surf the web, and maybe it happens in relationships too?
This kind of foraging decision is a fundamental problem that goes far back in evolutionary history and is dealt with by creatures that don't even have proper brains, said Michael Platt, a professor of neurobiology and director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at Duke University.
Platt and his colleagues now say they've identified a function in the primate brain that appears to be handling this stay-or-go problem. They have found that the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), an area of the brain known to operate while weighing conflicts, steadily increases its activity during foraging decisions until a threshold level of activity is reached, whereupon the individual decides it's time to move on.
In lab experiments with rhesus macaque monkeys, Platt and postdoctoral fellows Benjamin Hayden and John Pearson put the animals through a series of trials in which they repeatedly had to decide whether to stay with a source that was giving ever-smaller squirts of fruit juice, or move to another, possibly better, source. The animals were merely gazing at a preferred target on a display screen, not moving from one tree to the next, but the decision-making process should be the same, Platt said.
For the other variable in this basic equation, travel time, the researchers added delays when monkeys chose to leave one resource and move to another, simulating short and long travel times.
As the monkeys repeatedly chose to stay with their current source or move to another, the researchers watched a small set of neurons within the anterior cingulate cortex fire with increasing activity for each decision. The rate of firing in this group of neurons grew until a threshold was reached, at which time the monkey immediately decided to move on, Platt said. "It is as if there is a threshold for deciding it's time to leave set in the brain," he said.
When the researchers raised the "travel time" to the next foraging spot in the experiment, it raised the decision-making threshold, Platt said.
This all fits with a 1976 theory by evolutionary ecologist Eric Charnov, called the Marginal Value Theorem, Platt said. It says that all foragers make calculations of reward and cost that tell them to leave a patch when their intake diminishes to the average intake rate for the overall environment. That is, one doesn't pick a blueberry bush until it's bare, only until it looks about as abundant as the bushes on either side of it. Shorter travel time to the next patch means it costs less to move, and foragers should move more easily. This theorem has been found to hold in organisms as diverse as worms, bees, wasps, spiders, fish, birds, seals and even plants, Platt said.
"This is a really fundamental solution to a fundamental problem," Platt said.
Platt said the work also relates to recent papers on the Web-browsing habits of humans. In the case of Internet users, the cost of travel time translates to download speed. The faster the downloads, the quicker browsers are willing to forage elsewhere, Platt said.
They aren't sure yet where the brain's signaling goes after the stay-or-go threshold in the ACC is reached. Platt believes this kind of "integrate-to-threshold" mechanism would be a good way to handle a lot of functions in the brain and may be found in other kinds of systems. This particular threshold in the ACC might also be a way to explain maladaptive behaviors like attention deficit, in which a person decides to move on constantly, or compulsive behavior, in which a person can't seem to move on at all, he said.
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Metrix provided quality open source standards based hardware to Community Wireless Networks, University and Experimental mesh networks, Researchers, Responders and Enthusiasts from 2004-2010
In October 2009, Metrix Create:Space opened its doors on Capitol Hill in Seattle, Washington. Open 12pm-7pm, six days a week, it is the first retail hackerspace with all the features of a modern digital fabrication lab. With 3D printers, Laser Cutters, Textiles, CNC and Laser PCB production and assembly, Metrix puts scalable distributed manufacturing capabilities into the hands of the Seattle Maker Community.
In 2012, Metrix Create:Space added the Open Hardware Lab, bringing SMT production to its community of designers, engineers and artists. The Open Hardware Lab's first project was the production of a low cost 3D printer control board designed, fabricated, assembled and tested completely in the Pacific Northwest.
In 2013, Metrix Create:Space added the Advanced Circuits Lab, providing public access to state of the art laser PCB Prototyping equipment. With the combination of the Advanced Circuits Lab and the Open Hardware Lab, custom electronic devices can be made in hours rather than weeks or days.


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Rights group slams Moroccan justice system
Jun 21, 2013, 11:22 AM EDT
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RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Morocco's justice system overly relies on coerced confessions in politically-tinged trials and needs serious reform, Human Rights Watch said in a report released Friday.
It describes six cases which the group said didn't follow international norms of due process and allegedly involved confessions coerced from defendants and judges who ignored claims of torture.
"There is a complicity between the judges and police," said Eric Goldstein, deputy director of Human Rights Watch's North Africa division, describing how police allegedly coerce confessions, then present them to court. "The judges are in a hurry to convict based on that without looking for other evidence."
Morocco's judicial system has long been criticized, and the king himself promised reform in 2009 — a cry that was later taken up by the moderate Islamist party that dominated the 2011 elections and now runs the government. However, in the year and a half the new government has been in power, the reform is still being studied.
The Justice Ministry referred all questions over the report's findings to the minister himself, Mustapha Ramid, who couldn't immediately be reached for comment. Human Rights Watch said he declined to meet with its officials as they prepared the report.
In their official response to the group's findings, which was included in the report, the Moroccan government maintained it "provides all internationally recognized guarantees" for a fair trial and said it was common for defendants to make unfounded allegations of torture.
While using torture to produce confessions is illegal in Morocco, United Nations envoy Juan Mendez said during his visit to last year noted that it does take place.
"The torture and ill-treatment of suspects in custody and specifically under interrogation remains a problem in Morocco, as affirmed by the U.N. special rapporteur on torture after his mission to morocco September 2012," the Human Rights Watch report said, adding that these cases showed the existing challenges for any judicial reform.
Goldstein asserted during the news conference presenting the report that the use of coerced confessions could not be generalized to all criminal trials in Morocco, but that HRW's research has shown it is common in politically-tinged cases, such as those involving political activists. The cases detailed in the report include those of Western Sahara activists charged in police deaths, labor activists involved in demonstrations, pro-democracy activists, and politicians accused of terrorism.
The news conference featured video testimonies of former defendants describing how they were beaten in police custody until they signed confessions that they often hadn't read.
According to experts interviewed by The Associated Press, judges often come under pressure from the state in such trials to rely solely on the police reports, refuse the calling of other witnesses and rule quickly.
Morocco's constitution was amended on July 1 to strengthen the judiciary and make it a branch of its own on par with the legislative and executive ones, and no longer under the direct authority of the Justice Ministry. Those moves have yet to be implemented.
Mohammed Anbar, the vice president of the Judges' Club, an organization of judges formed in 2011 pushing for greater judicial independence, told the AP that in sensitive cases judges have to rule for the prosecution because of the enormous power the ministry wields over their salary and position.
"If the judges don't use the (coerced confessions in the) police report, they will make many problems for the judge," he said, adding that one of the demands of his organization is to change the penal code to ensure lawyers are present during the questioning of suspects.
Goldstein said that with political upheavals of the Arab Spring in North Africa since 2011, reforming the justice system has been a main priority because of its role in supporting dictatorship in the past.
"As Morocco has reformed slowly over the last 20 years, the laggard has been the justice system, and here we are in the middle of the debate, and we are trying to bring a contribution to that debate," he said.


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Under House Bill 251, a state law enacted in 2009, a parent or legal guardian of student in Troup County Schools may request to transfer the child to another Troup County Public School for the upcoming school year. Before the transfer is allowed, the school district must determine that classroom space is available, that teacher allocations at the school are appropriate and all assigned students have been enrolled and scheduled. Please see the attachments below for details.
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Union officials and home health care workers in California said Monday they are examining a U.S. Supreme Court decision in an Illinois case that affects the dues paid to unions.
Gary Passmore, vice president and lead advocate for the Congress of California Seniors, said it will take several weeks of review before officials are able to determine the impact in California and if any changes will be needed to comply with the Supreme Court's ruling.
In Harris v. Quinn, the court issued a limited ruling that Illinois home health care workers hired by individuals but paid in part through Medicaid were considered "partial" public employees and thus didn't have the same union obligations as a "full-fledged" public employee.
It was a distinction that harkened to a 1977 Supreme Court ruling in a separate case that said even if government employees objected to a union's views, they could be forced to pay dues to finance its contracting costs. Labor groups feared the court might use the current case to overturn that precedent, which would have had far-reaching effects.
In Monday's ruling, the court said the home health care workers are not full public employees because they can be hired and fired by individual patients, even though part of their pay comes from the state.
Passmore estimated there are more than 450,000 people with disabilities or seniors who receive assistance from the state's 330,000 home health care workers who help individuals with chores and services that allow them to live at home rather than in an institutional setting.
"California is now a model for how this program should work," Passmore said. "That was not always the case. Up until the 1990s, it was fragmented (and) plagued by massive turnover, with low pay. After the unions came in, the entire program was transformed."
Pay for the workers went from $3 an hour to more than the $9 currently being paid. Benefits were also implemented.
Laphonza Butler, president of SEIU California, said the decision will not affect the group's efforts to organize workers, who pay about $30 a month in union dues. "We have no intention of slowing down," she said. "We intend to continue to do the work to represent working families and unite the voices of caregivers."
Passmore noted the full ripple effect of the Illinois decision will not be known for some time. "We want to look at the impact of this on California and will be pushing every day to be able to help people live at home in dignity," he said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report


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Visit ETS at G104 in Abbotsford or A1205 at CEP.
ETS is located in G104. For equipment bookings, pickups, returns, and video recordings please visit us there.
Educational Technology Services (ETS) is a centre for UFV faculty, staff, and students which offers a variety of easily accessible educational technologies and equipment for producing and enhancing classroom presentations and course assignments. Students may book the ETS video room for interview projects. The Chilliwack lab offers a scaled down version of services.
ETS strives to be a leader in enhancing the learning and instructional experience at UFV through educational technology support and direction.
Office: 604-504-7441 ext 2617
Mon-Fri: 8 am - 4 pm
ETS can encode video and/or audio for delivery via UFV's streaming media server which can be streamed on-demand (user can view the content at a time of their choosing) or live (content will be streamed in real-time -- similar to watching a live television program).
eRooms are classrooms that are supported with electronic audio/visual equipment to enhance presentations, lectures and ultimately learning. All eRooms at UFV are controlled by simple-to-use Extron controllers.
Visit IT Services' audio visual services for information about eRooms.
Please watch this 3:30sec video on how to use the new Touchscreen PCs in our eRooms.


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Baroque historical building by Guarino Guarini (1624-1683). It was built between 1679 and 1684 for the cadet branch of Savoia family. In 1848 the elliptical dance hall was changed in room for the House of Deputies (Subalpine Parliament). In 1864 the whole building were enlarged and a secondary façade was built.
Capital as well as cultural and business center of the Piedmont region, Turin is famous as headquarters of Fiat and Lancia, birthplace of Telecom Italia and Rai television and host of the 2006 Winter Olympics. Turin has a modern public transport infrastructure so it is easy to get to architectural sites and museums, most notably the Mole Antonelliana, which is the home of the National Cinema Museum. Home to Torino and Juventus, two historical italian football teams, the region is famous as the birth place of solid chocolate over 200 years ago. Gianduiotto is perhaps the most famous Turin chocolate currently in production.


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This is an update to the Portal Core Space mod for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, and it references the Meme Who Must Not Be Named. But it does so quite hilariously—and loudly. Turn your volume down before playing. It's not NSFW, just loud.
I especially like "Search Joke •Empty."


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Bernadette Dunne
About the Author
Bernadette Dunne has been narrating for Books on Tape since 1997. She has been twice nominated for The Audie Award and has won six Golden Earphones awards. She studied at the Royal National Theatre in London and The Studio Theatre in Washington, DC. She has appeared at The Kennedy Center, The Washington Shakespeare Company, and Woolly Mammoth in Washington, DC. As a playwright, her work has been produced in New York, Seattle, and Washington, DC. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.


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A package of bills aimed at expanding access to free digital textbooks for California college students advanced in the state Senate today.
The bills, by Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, would create an online library of open-source course materials for use at California's public colleges and universities. Students could purchase a hard copy of the texts for about $20.
Steinberg says his measure is meant to lower the financial burden for students who can now pay $200 or more for a single book. Using an "Open Education Resources" system, he said on the floor today, would provide students with the "highest quality textbook at a fraction of the cost."
Senate Bill 1052 starts the process of developing open-source college course materials for the 50 most widely taken lower division courses. A panel of faculty members from the University of California, California State University and California Community Colleges systems would be tasked with selecting the courses and launching a competitive bid process for contracts to produce the open-source course materials..
The bill was approved with bipartisan support, by a vote of 32-2. A companion measure creating the digital library for the materials also cleared the Senate, 33-2. Both bills now advance to the Assembly.


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If you're like me, you hate online ads. If you're also like me, you really don't study enough...
Well, the new Chrome extension V Energy AdNotes aims to help with all of that by replacing any ads on your webpages with study notes you can set up yourself. It takes a second or two to take over an ad, but then you can have whatever text or image you want appear there, like notes for an upcoming test:
They describe the extension like this:
"V AdNotes will help improve your study a bit by turning forgettable ads into memorable study notes.
It puts your study notes where ads usually go, so you're studying no matter what you do on the internet…
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Just input your colour-coded subjects and add as many study notes as you like. You can turn your subjects on and off depending on what you're studying, and preview how each study note will look in the major banner ad sizes.
Now browse all the cat memes and autocorrect fails you like, because you'll be studying, a bit, the whole time."
This might just help me pass Scalable Architecture 101. Get it in the Chrome store here.