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Business and government leaders from coastal North Carolina counties are expected to look more closely at issues tied to the region during the NC-20 Coastal Issues Symposium in New Bern Friday.
N.C. Senate Majority Leader Harry Brown, R-Onslow, will be the keynote speaker for the 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. luncheon event at the New Bern Riverfront Convention Center. He will speak on the �new day� in the N.C. General Assembly.
N.C. Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin is scheduled to comment on insurance matters related to the region, which is one of the major concerns for the nonprofit group of individuals, governments and businesses in the 20 counties that are regulated by the N.C. Coastal Area Management Act.
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We present below an excerpt from a talk given by Bishop William J. Smith, the Bishop of the Diocese of Pembroke, Ontario, to the Madonna House community on June 8, 1960, the day he officially installed and blessed the shrine of Our Lady of Combermere with the approval of the Sacred Congregation of Rites in Rome.
We introduce it with this July 1960 Restoration article by Eddie Doherty:
The newest shrine in Christendom — and the humblest and least pretentious — was blessed on June 8th at Madonna House by His Excellency, the Most Reverend W. J. Smith, Bishop of Pembroke, Ontario.
Combermere is a mere crossroads village lost in the vastness of this Canadian province; a town forgotten or ignored by most of the map-makers; a community that has seldom boasted more than a hundred people. But perhaps Our Lady loves the humble places — like Fatima, and Lourdes, and a hundred other shrines.
It was no miracle that produced this shrine. There was no apparition. There was no spectacular occurrence of any kind. It was only the coming of a beautiful statue and the love of the people in and around Madonna House that caused it to become a place of devotion and of pilgrimage...
The bishop read and sang the words of the blessing. He sprinkled the statue with holy water. He sent the fragrant smoke of incense up and around it, using the ritual fashioned for the purpose many hundreds of years ago. Then, along with everyone present, he said the prayer to Our Lady of Combermere that the people of Madonna House had been saying every day for years...
When he had finished this prayer he turned and faced the congregation. He was standing before the statue, between its wide-flung arms, and beneath its tender loving face. He spoke of his first visit to Madonna House, on August 15th, 1945, V-J Day, the feast of Our Lady's Assumption, on which ended the Second World War — the day also when the idea of an Apostolate here was conceived... He spoke of the shrines of Our Lady at Fatima in Portugal and Lourdes in France, both of which he had recently visited.
Bishop Smith said:
I think that a few words... would be in keeping with the happiness we all feel this afternoon. While I was blessing this new statue of Our Lady of Combermere, I could not help thinking of 15 years ago, when I first came to this diocese.
It was then that the subject was broached to me about the idea of the lay apostolate — and particularly the rural apostolate — in this area of the vast diocese of Pembroke. At that time I gave verbal approbation and later, a formal approval for this great work... of the lay apostolate and rural apostolate.
Of course, nobody envisioned what the future would hold. No human being can, unless he has a special gift. I did not realize at the time that in 15 years such great things would be accomplished here.
I want to express to Mr. and Mrs. Doherty and to the staff my appreciation of the work they are doing. They know that I am heartily in accord with their work. I want to express a welcome to the priests who have come also, as we bless and dedicate the Diocese... to Our Lady of Combermere.
Graces will go out in abundance from Our Lady and this centre of Catholic Action — and we will all benefit. All of us, we in the diocese and those outside the diocese who are dedicating their lives to the lay apostolate and the apostolate in general — the apostolate of Catholic Action.
As the years go by, we seem to be living in a confused world which is becoming more confused all the time. It seems to me that the solution of the things troubling us today will be cared for by Our Lady. Our Lady promised to do so, if we do our part. So if we take heed of her words, in whatever work we do, and dedicate ourselves to her, we will have opportunity to make recompense to God for the many sins of the world.
I know that as the years go by, great graces will flow out all over the diocese, Canada, the United States and the distant continents through Our Lady and the great work to which these people have dedicated their lives.
There has been such progress here in 15 years; The hand of God is on this work. As bishop of the diocese, I want to express my gratitude and appreciation to Mr. and Mrs. Doherty and to all those in charge of this work. We hope that God will continue, through the hands of our Blessed Mother, the dispenser of all graces, to bless this hallowed spot and make it memorable in the social doctrine of the Church.
† Most Rev. William J. Smith
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Olmert, Abbas to meet in Jerusalem in last-minute attempt to bridge differences as negotiations for joint statement remain deadlocked. Government stands to authorize release of 500 Palestinian prisoners as goodwill gesture to Abbas before conference
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The meeting will take place after an Israeli cabinet meeting during which Olmert is expected to lead a discussion on Israel's obligation to freeze the expansion of settlement blocs in the West Bank and dismantle illegal outposts.
The cabinet will not hold a vote on the implementation of the measures on Monday but only reiterate the government's commitment to them.
Olmert is scheduled to meet with British Foreign Secretary David Miliband earlier in the day.
The meeting follows a stalemate in negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. The talks, intended to iron out various differences on key issues ahead of the summit, failed to produce the much sought-after joint statement from both parties.
Israeli diplomats accused the Palestinians of "backpedaling to square one" but also said the impasse did not constitute a crisis and said relations remained cordial and positive.
The divisive topics center on the Palestinian refugees, the demand that Israel withdraw to its 1967 borders and the question of its sovereignty over Jerusalem.
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Using Dual Credit to Solve Multiple Problems
One of the first items I read every morning is my Career Tech Update from ACTE. It is great to see what other schools, districts, and states are doing to further advance career and technical education. It is also a little depressing seeing what other districts can do, but, for some reason, my district cannot.
The biggest of these, in my opinion, is the number of high schools that are increasing the amount of dual credit or tech prep with their local colleges. While my district does have a tech prep agreement with the local community college, it is extremely flawed. There are not enough credits available to high school students and in some program areas of study the amount of seat time to earn three credits is up to four times what a college student would need to receive the same credit.
Tech prep programs like ours do not cost the student, high school, or college any money because of Perkins funding. Students are collecting college debt by the truckloads and there is a general push to get more students into post-secondary institutions. By increasing tech prep and dual credit programs, society can address both of these issues.
There are always high school students who are on the border between going to college and joining the workforce immediately after high school. If students could earn more college credits while in high school, they likelihood of the students continuing post-secondary course work would increase – even if it was as a part-time student.
In addition, students who earn tech prep or dual credit do not have to take or re-take these courses in college. This is hard-earned money that these students could be using on upper-level courses. I have actually lost track of how many of my students who have attended the local community college told me that they were bored in their major classes because it was the same content we covered in high school. Why should these students be paying for classes where they already know the content?
Increased tech prep and dual credit programs will encourage more students to take college classes that normally wouldn't and decrease the amount of student loan debt.
Learning Something New
I am attending the Magnet Schools of America conference this week in Tulsa. While this conference is a little smaller than some of the other conferences I have attended recently, that doesn't mean it is short on content.
Tony Wagner was the keynote speaker via Skype, but it was interesting. Tony was advocating that today's learning needs to value teamwork, be interdisciplinary, make student creators and not consumers, allows for risk taking and making mistakes, and allow for iteration. Students need to "fail early and fail often" and reflect back on their work. Tony argued that an F is the new A. Student who have attempted something and failed may have learned more than the straight A student who has not.
Tony believe that we need to hold teachers accountable for what matters most. The key is what does this look like and could it be determined through a sampling strategy. He also points out that teachers spend too much time complaining about the current assessments and not enough time offering solutions. Another of his suggestions is to change the grading system to A, B, or Incomplete. The student has either mastered the learning standard, achieved the standard, or has not reached it yet.
The final point that I want to mention from Tony's keynote is the suggestion that each state as a research and development division for education. He says companies spend millions in R&D to improve their products and services so why shouldn't states do the same with education. I particularly liked this idea and think that it can start at a school or district level first.
I will discuss the other sessions that I attended tomorrow. These sessions included a college/high school partnership, using the class as a production company, and tips for using social media as a school.
Screencasts Exercise – Part 2
In my previous post, I talked about an idea to have students screencast themselves typing Java code at the beginning of the unit and then doing the voiceovers using the proper vocabulary later in the unit.
My students finished their screencasts last week and it did not work the way I wanted to. The main flaw in my plan was that I over-estimated the video editing abilities of some of my students despite previous video editing assignments during their three years at my school. The result from this was that I had videos that last about four minutes and videos that lasted about 25 minutes.
The videos did not need to be a specific length in time, but the longer videos came from students that did not type well and the video was filled with "dead air" as the student waited for the typing to stop before explaining the next concept. The other part that did not work out well is that some of the students used the default iMac mic instead of plugging a microphone in and there is a lot of background noise. There was a huge quality difference between the students that went to the sound booth or a quiet room to record the audio and those that just used the computers in class.
My goal of having students understand the vocabulary better will be known later in the week when the students take a test on the chapter. Hopefully, despite the technical difficulties and range of quality videos, my students have improved their vocabulary skills.
Trying Student Screencasts to Teach Programming
I am trying something new with the next Java unit that I'm teaching on methods. Through the first part of the year, my students have excelled in actually creating code and getting it to work. Unfortunately, when it comes to seeing snippets of code and explaining the terminology and concepts behind the code, the students are struggling a little bit.
For the methods unit, I have decided to do something new. The textbook that we have in class typically has a full example of code at the beginning of the chapter and then breaks it down into smaller parts as the chapter progresses. Typically my lectures demonstrate the breakdowns and the terminology, but I'm trying to find a way to improve what is going on in my classroom.
This time instead of having students reference the original code at the beginning of the chapter as the unit progresses, I had the students type the code straight from the book and screen capture the entire process without recording any audio. My plan is that as I teach the smaller concepts within the unit, the students will go back to the video and add the appropriate terminology and concepts as audio components to their screen casts. I am hoping that this will reinforce the concepts of the units and the students will be able to explain the code they see better.
I will post updates here, on Twitter, and on Google+ as the unit progresses.
GTAMTV Review – Where to Start?
This is a question that I have been asking myself since I returned from the Google Teacher Academy – Mountain View. I have so much information that I want to share with my colleagues, students, and educators around the country that I have no idea where to start. I've tried breaking it down by tool, relevant subject area, and/or importance, but I have found that there is too much overlap and it was becoming more work than when I started.
During my prep period today, I went into the principal's conference room and just started writing on the whiteboard. I put ideas, tools, subject areas, and whatever else I thought on the board. I started drawing arrows, questions marks, and asterisks. The whiteboard looks like a mess and after a half hour or so, my principal walked in to see what I was doing in her conference room.
She smiled and asked me to explain one of the items on the board. I picked the research tools in Google Docs because it is something that can help our teachers right away. From there, I started to randomly work my way around the board trying to do a quick summary of each item. Another teacher walked into the room and says, "Tell me about the YouTube thing." I give a quick summary of the YouTube Editor and move on to one of the other related topics. I stop to take a breath and my principal asks me to stop talking and asks what are the most important items that you can do professional development on that will get the school the biggest bang for the buck.
I circle about five broad topics that will have the biggest impact on the school. We work out a date in January and I am going to be presenting those topics to a select group of students and teachers that want to come in on a Saturday to learn more about Google. I am going to develop the presentation as a "train the trainer" style professional development because those students and teachers will be able to go to their departments and friends and show them some of the great things that I learned next week.
Professional development with Google tools is not part of my action plan since I do a lot of professional development already with Google Apps and iPads. Today was a good day. I was able to finally organize some thoughts, get feedback, and start to create a plan to share what I have learned. I plan to post more information about my experiences at GTAMTV and share the knowledge that I learned, but I first needed to find a place to start and with some help from my friends, I found that place.
ACTE Vision 2012: Days 2 and 3
I know that I promised a post on My Vision 2012 sessions yesterday, but it was a busy day and I didn't get back to the hotel until late last night. The second day sessions were just as good as the first day's.
Session 1: Imagine Tomorrow: Where Information Technology Projects Are Interactive, Student-driven and Engaging From Conception to Completion
I will admit that I am biased about this session because two of my fellow Southwest CTA teachers were the presenters, but this was an excellent sessions. The focus of the presentation was on developing student-driven projects that are not only meet the course goals but also engaging and interactive. The presenters described how the senior class has created a company that builds websites for clients. The students created departments, apply for jobs, and assign tasks for projects while the instructor is there for guidance. Students in their other classes have created a virtual tour of the school through QR codes and hosted a technology conference for middle school students through these student-driven projects. It is a great opportunity for students to take ownership in their education.
Session 2: Implementing a Successful Credentialing Program
This session was not on my original list, but after hearing the things that are going on in Virginia Beach, I decided to attend this session. The number of credentials that this district is using is incredible. While this is not something I can't directly use in my classroom, it will help me advocate for getting certifications in my classroom and other classroom in my school. Students and employers see the true value of these credentials and it is a great way to make sure students are career ready.
Session 3: Effective State Leadership for CTE
I had not planned on attending a session during this time slot, but my principal encouraged me to go. I have seen Dr. Daggett's presentation before on our campus and it was great to hear some of it again. I was impressed with what the state of Georgia is doing with their performance framework. While the main components of the framework are similar to ours, it was interesting to see the areas where schools could earn bonus points. These included capstone projects for seniors and portfolios in the 5th grade. These ideas are not earth shattering or particularly difficult and make great sense, it makes me worry about where Nevada is headed because it seems like we are slow to include reforms like these.
Session 4: The Globalization of Technical Education Partnerships
Another sessions where there were not a lot of things that could go directly into my classroom, but provided me with some advocacy information that I can take to others. The partnerships that the panel members have formed in countries like Germany, Morocco, Greece, and China are incredible. They have formed great relationships that is a win for all parties.
I didn't attend any in the final time slot because I was attending a Nevada ACTE board meeting to start planning our summer conference. It is a rarity when most of the board is together in one place so it was great to be in a room together to start hashing out the structure for our conference.
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On the final day, I did not attend any individual sessions, but I did attend the closing session. Roland Fryer was the perfect final day speaker. He was funny, engaging, informative, and in the end gave us something to think about. It is with positive speakers like him and conferences like ACTE that give me hope that education is moving in the right direction.
I can't wait for ACTE Vision 2013 in Las Vegas. I have great expectations for the sessions there since each year I attend ACTE, I learn more and more through the sessions.
ACTE Vision 2012 Part 2: The Excellent
Based on my previous post, many of you may think that my ACTE experience so far has been negative. It hasn't been because the sessions are awesome. Here is a summary of the individual sessions that I attended today. Please email or post a comment if you want my full notes.
Session 1: The Economic Vitality Formula of Success
This was a great session that as a teacher/community partnership coordinator was well above my pay grade, but at least I was in the room so I can share these ideas with those who have the right pay grade. I also game up with a great project for me to work on at school as well. The focus of this session is that the combination CTE and workforce development with local industry will equal economic vitality for the city. Students in Virginia Beach are working towards receiving industry credentialing as well as a workplace readiness skills test. The school district and the economic development board can showcase the skills that students are learning in the city when they go to recruit new businesses to the area. By focusing on the skills and talent that the city is producing locally, they are able to help persuade companies to move their business to the area because the workforce is educated and prepared with the skills those companies need. This gave some great ideas to bring back to Nevada to highlight what is happening in the career and technical academies as well as the schools that incorporating CTE programs of study.
Session 2: The New Middle Skilled US Employment Marketplace: The How and Why Higher Education Will be Changed Forever
This session focused on how employers are changing the way that they look for candidates and how candidates are changing to be prepared for careers. Frank Britt discussed how the paradigm in education needs to change to be focused on real learning and not necessarily seat time. The explosion of MOOCs are giving candidates a chance to focus on skills that they need for a career and are more competency-based. Mr. Britt explained that companies are now starting to push for more competency-based degrees and that higher education schools are becoming retailers of education. Students will not be able to afford the average annual increases in tuition forever and alternative methods to learn skills will are required to work in industry. Education needs to change their thought process in how they deliver content because there are so many options for students that prefer to learn digitally.
Session 3: Changing Student and Community Perceptions of Manufacturing
This session focused on methods to get students interested in the manufacturing industry. There is a large skills gap in manufacturing and that gap is going to get larger as baby boomers start retiring. The problem is that many students, parents, and educators perceive manufacturing as a low-wage, low-skill job or that all the manufacturing jobs are in China. The truth is that these manufacturing jobs require a high-skilled workforce and pay well. This presentation focused on what the Connecticut Community College System is doing to recruit students through camps, expos, tours, and internships to name a few. The system has shown success and hopefully other states can replicated it to meet the 600,000 manufacturing jobs that currently need to be filled.
I will post summaries of my sessions from day two tomorrow evening.


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Music scrapers not retrieving thumbs, fanart since add-ons
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Not sure if genuinely missed or simply not there yet as part of ongoing add-on merge. Probably the latter, but thought it best to open a ticket just in case.
XBMC SVN 28839 OS: Win 7 64-bit
Having zero success in scraping music fanart & thumbs when using allmusic scraper. Before add-on merge, when selecting allmusic as scraper of choice in settings, a sub-settings option appeared allowing granular choice of where artist/album thumbs should be obtained and whether fanart should be scraped via htbackdrops. Since add-on merge, this sub-settings menu is no longer available and as a result no thumbs or fanart is being scraped when using Allmusic.
Having a hack about with allmusic.xml inside com.allmusic.scraper, I first tried - without success - to alter the default boolean flags.
I then removed a couple of the 'conditionals' from the body of the xml relating to "lastfmalbumthumbs", "htbthumbs", "lastfmartistthumbs" & "htbfanart".
Which resulted in new scrapes bringing in artist and fanart thumbs.
Oh, and I also included the common xml scraper elements to the allmusic.xml.
eg. <include>com.htbackdrops.scraper.common/htbackdrops.xml</include> <include>com.allmusic.scraper.common/allmusic.xml</include> <include>fm.last.scraper.common/lastfm.xml</include> <include>com.discogs.scraper.common/discogs.xml</include>
As said, it's probably still on the to-do list for Allmusic and other scrapers with common xmls, but for anyone wating to make scraping work whilst waiting for SVN builds to resume, I thought I'd share.
Rgds, Rich
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Folks, please feel free to close this ticket.
When raised, changes around Add-ons were still quite new and only a fraction of the final functionality had been implemented. Now that scraper settings can be got at through add-ons, all the problems reported above are rendered obsolete.
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Employee Relocation Trends and Implications for 2002
The editors of Workforce have looked into their 2002 crystal ball and identified what they think are the major issues affecting HR management today. Then they examined the impact of these issues on individual HR functions.
What's happening in your company that contradicts or confirms these trends?
Read the quick synopsis below. Then to give your opinion, click on the Employee Relocation Survey.
Workforce will tabulate these results and include them - and selected comments - in the next version of this article.
Major Trends Affecting Human Resources Management in 2002
Trend #1: Significant HR issues are intertwined with the current economic climate.
The economic climate has significant HR implications, and conversely, some HR issues are affecting the economic climate.
For instance, there is an ongoing labor shortage, obscured, in part by the current - but temporary - economic cycle. This labor shortage will have long-term effects on businesses' ability to compete in the world marketplace. Therefore, HR must manage to that labor shortage, despite contrary evidence.
Trend #2: Tough times require continued cost-cutting beyond layoffs.
It looks as if the 9/11 events may have helped to delay the country's economic recovery. Thus, many companies will continue to look for ways to cut costs.
In 2001, layoffs targeted less-skilled and marginal performers. In many organizations, only key employees are left. Additional staff cuts could hurt current business and hinder future economic recovery.
Companies cannot over estimate the importance of key employees to an organization and the continuing need to retain the best and the brightest.
As a result, HR will need to look at both trimming expenses and fulfilling HR's demand to keep and attract the best employees.
Trend #3: "Re-engineering" - or its next iteration - will become an important way to cut costs.
Since downsizing won't achieve the necessary cost-cuts, companies and HR departments will have to re-engineer their processes and do what they now do faster, cheaper, and smarter.
HR will have two roles:
First, it will have to look at its own department and make HR more efficient, more cost effective, and a greater contributor to bottom-line stability.
Secondly, HR will work with executive and line management to support their re-engineering efforts.
Trend #4: The pending economic recovery will lag unless there are qualified employees in place to make it happen.
Sustained economic recovery is in the hands of the intellectual capital of an organization - its remaining employees.
Because those employees are vital to long-term corporate success, HR is responsible for maintaining their commitment, well being, skill sets and continued employment.
Therefore, HR will use all of its traditional tools to develop and maintain a competitive workforce.
How These Trends Affect Employee Relocation
Housing Is Still Expensive in Many Major Metropolitan Areas
It hasn't been in the headlines, but the cost of housing is still an issuein many job markets. Despite low interest rates and the fact that the housingmarket has eased up in some areas, such as the Silicon Valley, housing costs arestill significantly higher in many communities.
And costs will continue to rise. According to a recent Home Price Forecastdone by the Cambridge, MA research firm, Case Shiller Weiss for The Wall StreetJournal, home prices nationally will increase by an average of 2.8% this year.In cities such as San Diego, housing prices will go up by 0.8% while in others,like Washington, D.C., prices are could jump more than 7%.
This fact may make it hard to recruit new employees or relocate existingemployees to communities where housing is costly.
Reluctance to Travel and the Need to Balance Work/Family Life
What will happen to the long-distance commuting employee in the wake of 9/11?While the terrorist attacks emphasized the importance of friends, family, andcommunity, it also has made many people nervous about airline travel.
Does that mean that commuting executives will look for jobs closer to home?Will they move their families closer to the jobs? HR will need to help suchemployees make informed decisions.
Pressure to Relocate
When unemployment was at 3%, companies were eager to accommodate manyindividual employment requests, including the virtual office and long-distancetelecommuting.
However, with the push for increased productivity and with more people in thejob market, telecommuting and virtual office options might be withdrawn fromsome employees.
The face-to-face relationship has distinct advantages to some employer. Thus,there may be some additional pressure on employees to relocate.
On 9/11, many companies lost key staff and "sudden succession" became anissue. HR realized, if it hadn't before, that succession planning was not aluxury, but a necessity.
And so HR has new emphasis on looking at key jobs and identifying thosepeople who could fill the open positions. To make that a reality, many employeesneed additional experience -- sometimes at a different location. In suchsituations, relocation becomes a definite training tool.
Increased "Long-Term" Assignments
Competitive pressures will dictate that a vendor be "on site" for aclient. One way to get and keep the business will be to temporarily relocate keyservice personnel to the client's site.
If employees need experience in other locations and job assignments, butcannot relocate, then a long-term assignment short of a relocation becomes anoption.
Global Security Issues Impact Global Relocation
When Americans are targets and the country is at war, global relocation willdecline. Some executives in dangerous locations will be brought home, evenbefore their tour of duty is over.
On the other hand, the globalization of business will not stop, and Americanmanagers will continue to be posted abroad. What will change is stepped upsecurity, even in such seemingly benign environments as major European cities.
Fewer Corporate Dollars Allocated to Relocation
Corporate relocation is expensive. Many organizations are looking closely atthe relocation packages they offer and the people who receive them.
New hires will continue to receive less complete relocation packages thantransferees, and those will be closely evaluated based on the return oninvestment.
How These Trends Affect the Demand for Employee Relocation Services
Cost-of-living Issues and Mortgage Assistance: Because of housingcosts, HR will have to closely examine cost-of-living calculations.
In addition, HR may consider working with mortgage companies to provide loanassistance and achieve volume discounts.
General Relocation Assistance: There are competing pressures on anindividual employee's relocation decisions.
HR will call on relocation specialists to develop relocation packages andprovide education and assistance.
Temporary Housing: More long-term assignments will require increasedtemporary housing options.
Spousal employment assistance: The costs of raising a family, being ahomeowner, and having an expected standard of living generally require twoincomes. Many employees will be ask about spousal employment assistance beforethey accept relocation offers.
Global Relocation Assistance: For those companies either bringing homeexecutives or still sending them overseas, HR will need assistance in relocatingthese key professionals.
International Security: Given the volatile nature of the world and thethreat of terrorism aimed at Americans, HR will increase its use of firms thathave experience in international security.
Source: Margaret Magnus, Publisher, and The Workforce Editors, January 2002.


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hi all,
i've been gone-- as usual. working hard, entertaining visitors, and maintaining weight about 10 pounds more than i was last summer, when i was lithe and lean and muscley and foxy feeling. granted, 187 wasn't my final goal-- but if i can feel that way again by the time i visit family in florida for xmas, i will feel really proud of myself.
i've been overwhelmed by depression lately and also having my period nonstop. it's resulting in low hemoglobin levels and anemia-- so my fatigue isn't just depression or something else i can't respect-- it's measurable. this information, from the first doctor i have liked in a long time, helped me realize i need help, and i am pursuing it. today i started a low dose of prozac and when my "real" seeming period ends, i will start yaz, in hopes that it will help to regulate my period and lower the amounts of blood i am losing.
today i went to therapy and i'm not sure i'm going to stick with that, but i have gone to about 8 acupuncture sessions and even though i'm not sold on those yet, i'm going to try to stick them out. i'm trying to remember that i've only got this one life, and it's not defeat if i need medication or pep talks to get back on track. i know exercise will help but i'm overwhelmed with anxiety and exhaustion right now. hopefully i will hop onto a food pic blog challenge for next month and keep my intake in check as i start to get ramped up to get my output relevant. y'all are doing great and looking great and i can't wait to join you. xo
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Omg, I have the same problem with my period. I used to get anemic once a month because of it. My doctor put me on ortho and I also get to do a 3 months supply so I skip periods and only get it 4 x a year now. That has made such a huge difference for me. Don't know if that's an option for you but I would ask your doctor. I couldn't take being so low energy and lethargic every month for a week and then taking another week to recover and build up my blood supply. Anyway, I know how much that sucks and I feel for you.
I hope the anti-depressants work for you. I had to take some after my mom died and they really helped me a lot. I also still go to a therapist and I love her. Finding the right therapist is like finding the right boyfriend/girlfriend. Not everyone will be the right fit for you. I saw two others, one that I absolutely hated and one I was meh about, until I finally found the one I have now. She is awesome.
Ok, I've rambled too long. Hope you feel better soon!!!!
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My cycle has been all kinds of effed up since I started exercising on a regular basis. Granted, I'm not on birth control and haven't been regularly for well over a year but I feel your pain. I was on Yaz for quite a few years and really liked it. It def helped regulate everything AND helped my skin stay clear. I also didn't gain any weight on it which was nice.
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Kree Harrison is lucky enough to have access to one of the best mentors possible: former American Idol finalist and current country star Kellie Pickler! The two have been pals for a long time now, having met through a mutual friend in Nashville. Kree told E! News that she really looks up to Kellie as a role model but also enjoys having the singer for a friend, complimenting her for being "sweet" and "inspiring." And Kellie's help has really proven valuable in getting Kree adjusted to the sudden increase in attention. Kellie's advice, while somewhat cliche, is definitely true — she has told Kree to stay true to who she is at all times.
Of course, while Kellie is very supportive of Kree's bid for American Idol victory, the same can be said of Kree's support for Kellie's attempt to capture the mirror ball trophy on Dancing with the Stars. The two are absolutely planning to continue voting for each other, and if they both win their respective competitions, they'll commemorate the double victory by getting inked. "We've decided that if we win, which I know she's going to winDancing With the Stars, we're going to go get matching tattoos!"
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In a joint investigation, Massachusetts police departments from Reading, Lynnfield, Salem, Melrose, Canton, Braintree, Andover, Peabody, Tewksbury, and Gloucester, along with the Massachusetts State Police and FBI's Violent Crimes Task Force, arrested a man and woman who were suspected of allegedly robbing a series of banks. Christopher Decareau, DOB 7/20/1984, of Peabody, Massachusetts, was arrested on May 31, 2011, at approximately 5:00 p.m. near a branch of Eastern Bank located at 60 Main Street, Andover, Massachusetts. His alleged accomplice, Jenifer Sannizzaro, DOB 4/23/1987, of Gloucester, Massachusetts, was arrested nearby.
On May 20, 2011, the FBI issued a press release requesting the public's assistance to identify an individual who was allegedly responsible for a series of bank robberies in Eastern Massachusetts from April 25, 2011 through May 19, 2011. Subsequently, a tip from the public led to the identification of Decareau as a person of interest. The two had been under surveillance by law enforcement agencies prior to their arrest.
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Polls aren't closing until 8 p.m. in the Massachusetts Senate race, but Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele has already declared it a victory, of sorts.
In a memo to RNC members today, Steele said the national committee has been "working very diligently behind the scenes" with the Massachusetts Republican Party for the past three months to make the race what it is today—a likely Republican takeover in one of the bluest states in the nation.
"Never in the history of our party have so many fellow Republicans from all over the country worked so hard to help another state," he wrote. "This is a model for campaigns of the future."
Steele's revelation that the RNC has been working this election for months may come as a surprise. The committee avoided seeking attention for its work on behalf of GOP candidate Scott Brown, Steele writes.
"We have stayed out of the limelight while supporting the Brown campaign and the Massachusetts Republican Party," he said, adding: "If we succeed tonight this will be a victory for our ideas, for our principles, and for the people of Massachusetts."
While Steele was quick to predict victories in contested New Jersey and Virginia governor's races last year, the often-embattled party chairman has been uncharacteristically silent on the Massachusetts race. It could be, in part, because he has been taking some heat for unflattering press he received recently during a media tour to promote his book.
Suggesting the RNC will be sure to claim a role in Brown's victory (if he wins), Steele highlights in the memo exactly what the party did to help him defeat Democrat Martha Coakley.
The steps include: supplying equipment, including computers and over 400 phone lines, to the Massachusetts GOP, sending "multiple" RNC staffers to the state full-time last November, as well as nearly three dozen additional RNC staffers as Election Day approached, and coordinating bus trips for 160 volunteers. Steele writes that the RNC also endorsed Brown early, maxed out to his campaign, and sent out 228,000 emails to raise money on his behalf.


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Hey mapmakers,
This is the third time I am here, asking for a map for my D&D campaign and I have to say that both so far made maps ( http://www.cartographersguild.com/sh...n-coastal-city and http://www.cartographersguild.com/sh...he-baren-south ) were AWESOME and are in good use as far as D&D goes.
Again, I would ask if someone could put together a simple black-and-white, not complex, easy-to-edit-in-Paint map of a coastal town with four properties:
- it is located on the edge of a swamp/built on a swamp/something like that, but swamp bortders the sea
- has port/place to "park" your ship
- it is small. A few taverns, a warehouse, some shops maybe - anything a pirate den (maybe something like Tortuga in Pirates of Carribean) needs. Which is not much except rum and women
- swamp is on western part of the map, sea lies east of it
Name of town is Gatiska.
Large and simple map is welcome.
Copyright - Well, It is a map for a d&d campaign. If author wants, his/her name/handle can be on the map, along with perhaps his online site, but I have no intention to use it for commercial means.
BTW my campaign wiki is here: http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/nox-arcana
And here is my raw as it gets concept of Gatiska (just so it is known where sea and coast are):
As long as sea stays on the east side, I will be happy with map. Anyone interested in making this map may re-shape it any way he likes. Go wild, I'll love it.


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REPORT Nº 34/06
March 14, 2006
1. On October 22, 2003, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (hereinafter "the Commission") received a petition submitted by the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL), Edwin Leslie Wald Jaramillo, and Edwina Mercedes Jaramillo (hereinafter "the petitioners"), alleging that the State of Panama (hereinafter, "the State") did violate Articles 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 19, and 25 of the American Convention on Human Rights (hereinafter, "the American Convention" or "the Convention"), in conjunction with the obligations assumed by the State under Article 1.1 thereof, together with Articles I, II, and III of the Inter-American Convention on Forced Disappearance of Persons (hereinafter the "Convention on Forced Disappearance"), through the forced disappearance of Rita Irene Wald Jaramillo. With respect to the violation of Article 5 of the Convention, the victims are identified as being, in addition to Rita Wald, her mother and her seven brothers and sisters.
2. The petitioners claim that on March 27, 1977, Rita Wald, a native of the province of Chiriquí who was studying at secondary school and was a student activist, was forcibly disappeared and that, to date, her whereabouts remains unknown. The petitioners claim that, as occurred in other cases under the military regime that ruled Panama between 1968 and 1989, no effective investigation was carried out.
3. The State reports on several legal proceedings that were carried out and statements that were taken in both a first investigation, conducted between 1977 and 1978, and in a second investigation, which took place between 1990 and 1994. The State describes the various errors committed during the preliminary proceedings and the negligence of some of the officials involved in the case. However, the State maintains that the proceedings are still at the summary investigation phase, and so the remedies provided by domestic law have not been exhausted.
4. After examining the parties' positions in terms of the admissibility requirements set out in Article 46 of the American Convention, the Commission decides to declare this case admissible as regards Articles 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 19, and 25 of the American Convention, in conjunction with the obligations assumed by the State under Article 1.1 thereof, and as regards Articles I, II, and III of the Inter-American Convention on Forced Disappearance of Persons. In addition, it resolves to notify the parties of its decision and to continue with its analysis of the merits, and it also decides to publish this report.
5. The original petition was received by the Commission on October 22, 2003, and was recorded as No. 875/03. The victim was also named in a global case covering disappeared persons in Panama, which was assigned No. 882/03. On February 22, 2005, the petitioners told the Commission that in the case at hand the Truth Commission did not represent the alleged victim and that her representation had been assigned to her mother, Edwina Jaramillo, and her brother Edwin Wald, in conjunction with CEJIL Mesoamérica. On February 28, 2005, the Commission informed the General Director of Panama's Truth Commission that "it has proceeded to remove, from the list of victims given by [the Truth Commission] in complaint No. P-882/03, the name of Rita Wald Jaramillo." On July 13, 2005, the Commission conveyed the petition to the State, in compliance with Article 30.3 of its Rules of Procedure, and it set a deadline of two months for the State to reply. On September 14, 2005, the State requested a 30-day extension for submitting its response to the petition; it was given until October 14, 2005, in compliance with Article 30.3 of the Commission's Rules of Procedure. The State filed no response within the extended deadline granted; it did, however, do so on October 24, 2005, after the period of time provided for in the Rules of Procedure. The Commission transmitted this response to the petitioners on October 27, 2005.
A. Petitioners
6. The petition deals with the forced disappearance of the minor child Rita Irene Wald Jaramillo on March 27, 1977, at which time she was seventeen years of age. The disappearance was allegedly carried out by officials of Panama's military regime as a reprisal for the minor's role as an opposition student leader.
7. The petition claims that between the military coup d'état of General Omar Torrijos on October 11, 1968, and the invasion by U.S. forces on December 20, 1989, Panama was under a military dictatorship during which many serious human rights violations were perpetrated. During that dictatorial regime, the officers of the National Guard dissolved the National Assembly and appointed a military-led Provisional Government Junta.
8. According to the petitioners, during this period political activities were all but suppressed by a hardline military regime that set about arbitrarily persecuting and systematically detaining the dictatorial government's opponents. One of the most controversial issues during the regime was the ratification of the Panama Canal Treaties (the Torrijos-Carter Treaties). In response to the Government's actions in connection with those treaties, groups of students began a series of protests. The State consequently decided to intimidate and repress the student movement.
9. It is also claimed that at this time, while at secondary school, Rita Wald was a member of the Democratic Student Society (Sociedad Estudiantil Democrática, SED). At the time of her disappearance, she was studying at the Colegio José Antonio Rendón in Panama City. The petition claims that she played an active role in student politics at this school. It notes that Rita was an active leader of the SED and was well known at the school for her ideology of fighting for social justice, democracy, and equality, and against the Canal Treaties.
10. The petition reports that according to the investigation carried out by the Second Superior Court of Justice following the return of democracy, it was common knowledge that Rita had been attacked and had received threatening phone calls because of political matters.
11. The petitioners report that on Sunday, March 27, 1977, Rita left her home at around 5:00 pm to return a car to a friend of hers, Mr. Emilio Garzola, a presenter on the Onda Popular radio station. The petition relates that Mr. Garzola said that Rita handed over the vehicle in the vicinity of Galerías Obarrio at 6:00 pm and then asked him to take her somewhere else, but that he refused. Mr. Garzola said that Rita went toward the Vía España to catch a taxi. Later, according to the petition, Rita called a friend, Reina Isabel Jaén, at approximately 8:30 pm. According to this friend, Rita called to say she had a friend who wanted to meet her; the girl declined, and Rita wished her goodbye, saying "I'll see you tomorrow." This call is the last that is known of Rita.
12. The petitioners report that after Rita failed to return home, on Tuesday, March 29, 1977, her sister Tania Wald Jaramillo reported the disappearance to the National Investigations Department (DENI), which launched a judicial investigation. They report that in the first statements taken by officials of this authority, they were asked about the minor's sexual relations and whether she was sexually attractive. The petitioners claim that such questions, totally unrelated to the context of a serious investigation, were commonly asked during that period by the DENI and the Prosecution Service. They argue that although Rita's family did everything they could to ensure an investigation was pursued,[1] on January 23, 1978, ten months later, the prosecutor's office asked that a provisional impersonal dismissal be issued on account of there being no evidence to indicate whether the disappearance was forced or voluntary.
13. The petition indicates that six years later, on February 7, 1984, the disappeared minor's brother Edwin Wald asked the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation to reopen the case. However, he received no reply. Subsequently, in January 1990, Rita's brother again tried to have the case reexamined, requesting that the case file be reopened and that Cleto Hernández, Emilio Garzola, and Lucho Gómez be investigated and statements taken from them. On April 17, 1990, the Second Superior Prosecutor formally requested that the Second Superior Court reopen the case file, which duly took place the following month.
14. According to the complaint, in contrast to the sixty-three pages (including the protocolary texts) that made up the initial investigation, the second phase of the investigation covers more than six hundred additional pages. Statements were taken from Manuel Noriega, Cleto Hernández, and Darío Arosemena. The petitioners claim that some the statements and evidence collected during this second phase in the proceedings indicate that Mr. Garzola, the last person to speak with Rita, was a G-2 member and was conducting intelligence work for the security forces. The petition states that Mr. Garzola was summoned to appear, but that he gave no evidence because he had left the country permanently for Czechoslovakia. It also claims that on January 31, 1992, a request was made for the initiation of proceedings against Emilio Garzola, Manuel Antonio Noriega, Cleto Hernández, and Darío Arosemena. In spite of the evidence indicating a relationship between Mr. Garzola and Rita Wald's disappearance, on September 13, 1994, the Second Superior Court of Justice provisionally dismissed Messrs. Emilio Garzola and Luis Antonio Gómez from the proceedings.
15. The petitioners say that in 2001, a set of human bones were found in clandestine graves and were identified as the remains of disappearee Heliodoro Portugal.[2] Following this discovery, the Government of Panama set up a Truth Commission to cast light on crimes committed by the dictatorship. On April 18, 2002, Rita Wald's case was included in the Commission's final report, which concluded that her disappearance and the lack of due diligence in its investigation had been politically motivated.[3]
16. By tolerating Rita Wald's forced disappearance and failing to locate her, the petitioners claim that the Panamanian State incurred in international responsibility for violating Article III of the Inter-American Convention on Forced Disappearance of Persons and Articles 7, 5.1 and 5.2, 4.1, 8, 25, and 19 of the American Convention.
17. With reference to Article 2 of the American Convention, the petitioners say that the failure to adopt appropriate legislative, administrative, judicial, or other measures to safeguard the rights in question implies a violation of that Article. In particular, they note that the failure to criminalize the offense of forced disappearance, as established in the relevant Inter-American Convention, meant that even after the Convention on Forced Disappearances was ratified, the judiciary investigated forced disappearances as if they were homicides.
B. State
18. In its reply dated October 18, 2005, the State requested that the petition be ruled inadmissible. The State reports on legal proceedings conducted as part of the investigations in 1977 and the investigations carried out after 1990. In particular, they refer to several of the statements that were taken in connection with Rita Wald's disappearance.
19. The State's reply to the petition sets out the following conclusions:
1. The case documents show the background and student activism of RITA IRENE WALD.
2. They also show that at the time of her physical disappearance, the authorities responsible for investigating the incident failed to pursue the relevant formalities, omitting such basic elements as: inspecting the vehicle that, by its owner's admission, was occupied by RITA prior to her disappearance; requesting a list of incoming calls to the house of her friend REINA, who claims that RITA called her at around 8:00 pm; taking a statement from EMILIO GARZOLA immediately after the incident was reported; calling on her friends to give statements; checking with the Canal Zone authorities to see if the young woman had entered that area – access to the Canal Zone at that time was restricted, so if RITA did enter the area, there would be records of that.
3. It can also be seen that those responsible for investigating the incident manipulated and brought pressure to bear on the witnesses, so that the case file would include aspects of the young disappearee's private life that were not germane to the investigation.
4. Circumstantial evidence pointed to individuals who could have had an interest or stood to benefit from RITA's physical disappearance, but they were not summoned to give timely statements.
5. The veracity of the claims made by EMILIO GARZOLA when the case was reopened was not verified.
6. No statement was taken from LUIS ANTONIO GÓMEZ.
7. The time that the investigation took and the number of prosecutors (five in total) who handled it indicate the problems that the proceedings encountered, since each new prosecutor meant new opinions, objectives, plans, and results.
8. Although MANUEL ANTONIO NORIEGA, CLETO HERNÁNDEZ, and DARÍO AROSEMENA were identified as authorities at the time of RITA's disappearance, and they were associated with the failure to conduct an investigation, no statements were ever taken from them.
9. The other homicide detectives who supposedly participated in investigating RITA's physical disappearance were not called upon in order to clarify whether or not they did in fact investigate this case and whether or not their opinions differed from those of LESLIE LOAIZA who clearly, and as indicated by the witnesses, did not adopt an impartial stance vis-à-vis the investigation.
10. The claims made by the witnesses against LESLIE LOAIZA, who they say was in charge of the questioning, were not examined.
11. The claims of CLETO HERNÁNDEZ that he did not participate in the investigation were not confronted with the statements of LESLIE LOAIZA and the witnesses who say that he did question them.
In light of the above, the Panamanian State is pleased to inform the Honorable Inter-American Commission on Human Rights that the case in question is in the summary investigation phase, and so the remedies offered by domestic jurisdiction have not been exhausted as described in Article 46.1.a of the Inter-American Convention (sic) on Human Rights and, consequently, Article 31.1 of the Rules of Procedure of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, and so the instant petition is deemed inadmissible.
A. Competence
1. Competence ratione personae, ratione loci, ratione temporis, and ratione
materiae of the Commission
20. The petitioners are entitled, under Article 44 of the American Convention, to lodge complaints with the Commission. The petition names, as its alleged victim, an individual person with respect to whom the Panamanian State had assumed the commitment of respecting and ensuring the rights enshrined in the American Convention. As regards the State, the Commission notes that Panama signed the American Convention on November 22, 1969, and ratified it on June 22, 1978. In addition, Panama ratified the Convention on the Forced Disappearance of Persons on February 28, 1996, and that instrument came into force on March 28, 1996. The Commission, therefore, has competence, ratione personae, to examine the complaint.
21. The Commission has competence, ratione loci, to deal with the petition since it alleges violations of rights protected by the American Convention occurring within the territory of a state party thereto.
22. As regards its ratione temporis competence to hear the petition, the Commission holds that it describes an ongoing situation that has lasted for twenty-nine years, which began when the minor child Rita Wald suffered a forced disappearance on March 27, 1977, and the corresponding investigations were allegedly hindered by agents of the State. In consideration whereof, and bearing in mind that forced disappearance remains an ongoing or permanent crime for as long as the victim's whereabouts or fate is not established,[4] the Inter-American Commission is competent to examine the violations of human rights protected by the American Convention and the Convention on Forced Disappearance of Persons identified by the petitioners.
23. In addition, and although no such claim was made by the petitioners, the Commission has ratione temporis competence to examine human rights violations arising from the American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man.[5] Thus, as provided for in Articles 23 and 50 of its Rules of Procedure, the Commission is competent to examine and rule on alleged violations of the American Declaration by the Panamanian States arising from incidents occurring prior to the entry into force of the American Convention on Human Rights.
24. In its Consultative Opinion on the Interpretation of the American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man, the Inter-American Court stated that:
45. For the member states of the Organization, the Declaration is the text that defines the human rights referred to in the Charter. Moreover, Articles 1.2.b and 20 of the Commission's Statute define the competence of that body with respect to the human rights enunciated in the Declaration, with the result that to this extent the American Declaration is for these States a source of international obligations related to the Charter of the Organization.
46. For the States Parties to the Convention, the specific source of their obligations with respect to the protection of human rights is, in principle, the Convention itself. It must be remembered, however, that, given the provisions of Article 29.d, these States cannot escape the obligations they have as members of the OAS under the Declaration, notwithstanding the fact that the Convention is the governing instrument for the States Parties thereto.[6]
25. Accordingly, the American Declaration has been taken to be a reference point for determining the scope of the Commission's reviews of human rights violations in contexts where its competence for dealing with Convention violations is restricted or nonexistent.
26. Consequently, the Commission has ratione temporis competence to hear and decide on the instant case under the American Declaration as regards the violations prior to June 22, 1978, and under the American Convention as regards the violations that took place after that date.[7]
27. Finally, the Commission has competence ratione materiae, since the petition describes violations of human rights protected by the American Declaration, by the American Convention, and by the Inter-American Convention on Forced Disappearance of Persons.
2. Exhaustion of domestic remedies
28. Article 46.1.a of the Convention requires that "the remedies under domestic law have been pursued and exhausted in accordance with generally recognized principles of international law." Article 46.2.c of the Convention says that when there has been unwarranted delay in rendering a final judgment under those remedies, the rule requiring the exhaustion of domestic remedies need not apply. The Commission's practice has been to analyze, on a prior basis and separately from the merits of the case, whether an exception is applicable. As regards the distribution of the burden of proof in determining compliance with this requirement, the Commission again notes that when a state claims nonexhaustion, it must indicate the resources still to be exhausted and their effectiveness. If the state claiming nonexhaustion can prove the existence of specific domestic remedies that should have been invoked, the petitioners must demonstrate that those remedies were exhausted or that one of the exceptions provided for in Article 46.2 of the Convention is applicable. In the following paragraphs, the Commission will analyze whether the requirement set out in Article 46.1.a of the Convention has been met, or whether the exceptions contained in Article 46.2 apply.
29. In the case at hand, the petitioners maintain that the ineffectiveness of the resources relieves them from having to comply with the exhaustion of domestic remedies, as provided for in Article 46.2.c of the Convention. The petitioners claim that the investigation began with the report of Rita Wald's disappearance filed with the Homicide Division of the National Investigations Department (DENI) on March 29, 1977. They hold that, to date, there has been no exhaustive investigation of the incident and no serious attempt to identify, prosecute, or punish the guilty or to make amends to Rita's family. They claim that following the dismissal of the summary proceedings in 1994 and in spite of the different efforts made by the family and the conclusions and recommendations of the Truth Commission, the State has refused to take any further legal action in connection with the case. The State maintains that domestic jurisdiction has not been exhausted because the case is still at the summary investigation phase and it recognizes the initial mistakes and subsequent problems.
30. Upon analyzing the parties' positions, the Commission notes that the minor child Rita Wald disappeared 29 years ago, that an ongoing situation persists to date, and that there has been no final judicial ruling regarding those guilty for the incident or the whereabouts of her remains. Consequently, the Commission believes that, prima facie, there has been an unwarranted delay in discharging the criminal investigation of the incident. The petitioners are therefore exempted from the requirement of exhausting the remedies that domestic law provides, as described in Article 46.2.c of the Convention. In the merits phase, the Commission will analyze the effectiveness of this remedy and its effects vis-à-vis Articles 8 and 25 of the Convention.
3. Filing period
31. Article 46.1.b of the Convention requires that petitions be "lodged within a period of six months from the date on which the party alleging violation of his rights was notified of the final judgment." As provided for by Article 46.2 of the Convention, the six-month period required in 46.1.b is not to be applied in certain exceptional cases. The Commission notes that although "the Convention's requirements that domestic remedies be exhausted and that the petition be lodged within six months following the judgment exhausting domestic jurisdiction are independent,"[8] the exceptions set out in Article 46.2 of the American Convention are common to both requirements.
32. In the case at hand, the exception established in Article 46.2.c – "when there has been unwarranted delay" – has already been examined by the Commission in its analysis of the remedy exhaustion requirement set out in Article 46.1.a. Given the circumstances analyzed, the Commission does not need to reexamine whether or not this exception applies. Consequently, the Commission concludes that the deadline of six months for submitting petitions is not applicable, in accordance with Article 46.2.c of the American Convention. Under the Commission's Rules of Procedure, in those cases in which the exceptions to the prior exhaustion requirement apply, the petition must have been lodged within what the Commission considers a reasonable time. In this specific situation, the Commission takes into consideration the date on which the alleged violations occurred, the context against which they took place, and the procedural steps taken by the petitioners, and it concludes that the petition was lodged within a reasonable delay.
4. Duplication of international proceedings and res judicata
33. Nothing in the case file indicates that the substance of the petition is pending in any other international settlement proceeding or that it is substantially the same as any other petition already examined by this Commission or another international body. Hence, the requirements set forth in Articles 46.1.c and 47.d of the American Convention have been met.
5. Characterization of the alleged facts
34. At the admissibility stage, the Commission must decide whether the stated facts could tend to establish a human rights violation, as stipulated in Article 47.b of the American Convention, and whether the petition is "manifestly groundless" or is "obviously out of order," as stated in section (c) of that same Article.
35. The level of conviction regarding those standards is different from that which applies in deciding on the merits of a complaint. The Commission must conduct a prima facie assessment to examine whether the complaint entails an apparent or potential violation of a right protected by the Convention and not to establish the existence of such a violation. This examination is a summary analysis, and does not imply prejudging the merits or offering an advance opinion on them.[9]
36. The Commission does not find the petition to be "manifestly groundless" or "obviously out of order." Consequently, the Commission believes that, prima facie, the petitioners have established the elements required by Article 47.b and c.
37. Moreover, the Commission believes that the forced disappearance of the minor child Rita Wald, which occurred twenty-nine years ago apparently in reprisal for her ideas and political activities,[10] together with the denial of justice that has characterized the case, could tend to establish a violation of Articles I, XXV, and XXVI of the American Declaration, Articles 1.1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 19, and 25 of the American Convention, and Articles I, II, and III of the Inter-American Convention on Forced Disappearance of Persons.
31. Based on the foregoing considerations of fact and law, and without prejudging the merits of the case, the Commission concludes that the instant case satisfies the admissibility requirements set out in Article 46 of the American Convention.
1. Declare the petition under analysis admissible as regards Articles I, XXV, and XXVI of the American Declaration, Articles 1.1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 19, and 25 of the American Convention, and Articles I, II, and III of the Inter-American Convention on Forced Disappearance of Persons.
2. To notify this decision to the State and to the petitioners.
3. To begin its processing of the merits of the case.
4. To publish this decision and to include it in its Annual Report, to be presented to the General Assembly of the OAS.
Done and signed in the city of Washington, D.C., on the 14th day of the month of March, 2006. (Signed): Evelio Fernández Arévalos, President; Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro, First Vice-President; Florentín Meléndez, Second Vice-President; Clare K. Roberts, Freddy Gutiérrez, Paolo G. Carozza and Víctor E Abramovich, Commissioners.
[1] The petitioners report that her family even went as far as to send a letter, dated July 15, 1977, to General Omar Torrijos, then the country's head of government, asking him to pursue an investigation into Rita Wald's whereabouts. Four days later, Rita's mother and brother were taken to the office of Lt. Cleto Hernández, in the counter-intelligence section of G-2. According to the petitioners, this indicates how the intelligence services were interfering with the investigations.
[2] These facts have been analyzed in a complaint lodged with the Inter-American Commission. See: IACHR, Report No. 72/02, Petition 357/01, Heliodoro Portugal (Panama), October 24, 2002.
[3] The Truth Commission's Report states that: "There are sufficient elements of proof to conclude that the disappearance of Rita Irene Wald on March 27, 1977, was politically motivated... the officials charged with pursuing the investigation of this case did not act with due diligence, and they also failed to perform basic procedures, which leads to the conclusion that they were protecting the perpetrators of the disappearance." See: Report of the Truth Commission of Panama, April 18, 2002.
[4] Article 3 of the Inter-American Convention on Forced Disappearance of Persons, I/A Court H. R., Velásquez Rodríguez Case, Judgment of July 29, 1988; I/A Court H. R., Godínez Cruz Case, Judgment of January 20, 1989; I/A Court H. R., Fairén Garbi and Solís Corrales Case, Judgment of March 15, 1989.
[5] At the time of the incident, Panama was a party to the OAS Charter and the obligation to respect the rights protected by the American Declaration was binding on it. A similar ruling on ratione temporis competence can be found in IACHR, Report No. 72/02, Petition 357/01, Heliodoro Portugal (Panama), October 24, 2002.
[6] I/A Court H. R., Interpretation of the American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man Within the Framework of Article 64 of the American Convention on Human Rights,, Advisory Opinion OC-10/89 of July 14, 1989, paragraphs 45 and 46.
[7] IACHR, Report No. 24/98, Case 11.287, João Canuto de Oliveira v. Brazil, April 7, 1998; Report No. 9/00, Case 11.598, Alonso Eugénio Da Silva v. Brazil, February 24, 2000; Report No. 33/01, Case 11.552, Guerrilla del Araguaia – Julia Gomes Lund et al. v. Brazil, March 6, 2001; Report No. 40/03, Case 10.301, 42nd Police District – Parque São Lucas, São Paulo v. Brazil, October 8, 2003.
[8] IACHR, Report No. 81/01, Case 12.228, Alfonso Martín del Campo Dodd., October 10, 2001, paragraph 20.
[9] IACHR, Report No. 21/04, Petition 12.190, Admissibility, José Luis Tapia González et al., Chile, February 24, 2004, paragraph 33.
[10] Report of the Truth Commission of Panama, supra, note 3.


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Yesterday at the Web 2.0 Summit, Microsoft announced an agreement with Twitter to begin indexing Tweets in its organic search results. Later in the day, Google announced they too had reached an agreement with the popular micro-blogging service, which now boasts 55 billion unique visitors per month and a $1 billion valuation.
Microsoft wasted little time adding the tweets to their search results in a new feature they've dubbed "Bing Twitter." Google has yet to announce how they will incorporate Twitter updates in their search results.
I asked some fellow Search Agents to consider the potential impact of these agreements on the industry, the companies involved, SEO best practices, and search behavior:
This is definitely a big step for Twitter towards validation as a long term play and not a short term fad. It would also seem to be either a dangerous game for the search engines or acceptance of a reality that social media is only going to grow and that if they do not try to integrate then they are going to shed unique users and lose market share.
Rick Egan | Sr. Director, SEO & Social Media Services
An interesting approach Google may take would be to do something like Wave, where searches stream real-time results. Some Twitter clients' search tools do this as well.
Carl A. Dunham| Chief Technology Officer
I'm curious to see how the engines are going to combat spam and libel. Will be fun to watch.
George Gearhart | SEO Project Manager
This may end up reducing the number of clicks to paid search. Ultimately, it should make Twitter more important, although likely not for anything commercial.
David Hughes | Chief Executive Officer
The Google vs. Bing fight is all about infrastructure and Ph.D's (Ph.D's actually are infrastructure, if they can come up with algorithms 5% more effective you can skip spending $1 Billion on that next datacenter). If Bing can utilize Twitter and Facebook's infrastructure and Ph.D's to do some of the sifting for them, that's a huge win – it's a big web and this is all about coverage. A loose federation of large-infrastructure companies, combined with massive capital subsidies from upcoming Windows 7 profits that could be used to build more Microsoft datacenters, just might be enough to give Bing a real fighting chance.
Ted Ives | VP, Product Management
It will be interesting to see how they implement this. I wouldn't expect a huge affect. They don't want to be posting 5 hour old Reuters and AP articles that Michael Jackson is in the hospital when people Tweeting at the scene have been saying he's dead for the last 6 hours. I think that it is more of a crushing blow to Newspapers and Old Media.
Bing reformatted their results to fit additional things. Google seems intent on keeping their format. So, they will probably just integrate 2 or 3 current Tweets where they would normally put links to news article.
However, they are opening themselves up to some dangerous territory. I hope their Language, Slang, and Acronym Filters are up to date.
In Google's vertical search integration (Universal Search), most of their results have some other weight behind them in order for them to rank. In order to try to integrate 'real time' data, they will be putting results into their listings without really knowing what they say. In an effort to scoop the news, there would be no verify step (e.g. trusted domain, good links, etc…). It will be like customized license plates, Tweeters will be competing with each other to see what they can get past the filters and how effectively they can TweetBomb bogus stories into Google Results.
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1. Twitter realizes that while they've gone viral and sign-ups are through the roof, they're ACTIVE user numbers are actually rather low. Most "lay-people" are not very familiar with one of the powers of Twitter (i.e. real-time search), so this is a great play on Twitter's part to widen their reach vis-à-vis the attachment that consumers have to Google (and to a far lesser extent , to Bing). Folks who live under rocks and haven't heard of Twitter, or folks who have heard of it but are not motivated to sign-up yet, will begin to see the value of Twitter as a part of their SERPs, this list also includes the non-active Twitter folk.
2. For our clients, the opportunity lies in having very active keyword-targeted Tweets which appropriately represent their brand and have tinyURLs within the visible text that the SEs index, so users can click from the SERPs directly to the link that our clients want users to arrive at, thus skipping the Twitter page all-together. Points 1 & 2 almost contradict each other, as far as benefits to Twitter, but if Twitter's smart they'll make sure their http://www.twitter.com is plainly visible to the user.
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I'm not 100% certain that Google or Bing fully understand the implications of indexing real-time search. Looking through my Twitter stream, I manually filter out the 1 tweet in a 100 that has any real value and am sure that once the search giants become involved, SPAM filtering will be their biggest and most resource-intensive issue. That aside, with only 140 characters and a half-baked (and easily spammed) hash tag 'categorization' on Twitter, I'll be very interested to see how Google delivers on it's core value of relevancy.
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By Anu Passary | Nov 19, 2012 10:09 AM EST
On Tuesday, Nov. 13, Google launched its latest smartphone the Nexus 4 which was sold out online in the U.S. and the UK within just an hour. The phone has been highly anticipated by smartphone enthusiasts and is expected to compete with other smartphones in the industry; however, many customers may want to know what the Nexus 4 houses inside, and teardown carried on by iFixit revealed plenty including a dormant LTE chip.
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iFixit's teardown discloses that that the LG Nexus 4's battery is non-removable, on-board storage cannot be expanded using a microSD card, and users only get 3G and HSPA+ connectivity (no 4G LTE).
After removing the outer plastic casing iFixit found that the battery on the smartphone was pasted with adhesive, but every other component including the speaker assembly and the motherboard could be disassemble without a lot of effort.
iFixit noted some Nexus 4 highlights, which are as follows:
At 139 grams the Nexus 4 is slightly heavier when compared to its predecessor, which weighs 135 grams. The Nexus 4 measures 68.7 mm wide and 9.1 mm thick, which is both marginally wider and thicker than the original Nexus which was 67.9 mm wide and 8.9 mm thick.
A number of pressure contacts power the NFC antenna and connect the induction coil needed for wireless charging to the motherboard.
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The Nexus 4 has four different-length screws with a total of 15 screws. Once the back cover and inner frame are removed, pressure contacts make all of the inner components in place.
The glass is fused to both the display and the display frame.
The smartphone is equipped with a 3.8 V, 2100 mAh battery.
The speaker enclosure in the Nexus 4 is kept in place with two screws and no cables. Spring contacts connect the speaker to the phone which makes it easier to remove.
iFixIt details the components on the motherboard as below:
The 4.7-inch WXGA IPS display with 1280 x 768 pixels resolution is made by LG Display. A Synaptics S7020A touchscreen controller ensures touch sensitivity on the smartphone.
iFixit scored the reparability of the Nexus 4: 7 out of 10 (10 being the easiest to repair).
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A Panama City man accused of making hoax telephone calls nationwide will be prosecuted for that in Kentucky.
Bay County Circuit Judge Michael Overstreet has ruled there is sufficient evidence to take David Richard Stewart into custody.
Kentucky officials were in Panama City to take Stewart back to the Bluegrass State for prosecution.
Police say they believe it was Stewart who was making phone calls to businesses around the country, claiming he was a police officer.
The caller would convince store supervisors to strip search female employees for possible theft.
Kentucky officers were able to link Stewart to a call made to a business in their state. They obtained a store security video showing Stewart buying a calling card allegedly used to make the call.
Overstreet ruled it was Stewart on the tape and ordered him back to Kentucky to face the charges.
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