| Coral on the trail
Five of us visitors showed up for DeCesar's regular walking tour along the rocky beach at Leinster Bay, a windswept and rather isolated chunk of the northern coast.
"You may be wondering how we could possibly spend an hour or more looking at this tiny stretch of shoreline," DeCesar said. "Well, there's a lot of life here. We're on the north side of the island, facing the prevailing winds. When there's a storm, the waves come crashing into this beach, and they leave behind a lot of rocks, a lot of coral, and they carry off the sand.
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New Chicago-Area Co-Location Data Center Embraces Green Technology
NAPERVILLE, Ill., Sept. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Data center company Stargate Holdings Corp., a leader in the global IT services industry, today announced the addition of a flywheel-stored motion system to back up power in its new high-density facility in Oak Brook, Illinois. "Stargate is committed to the extraction, rather than mass cooling, of heat expelled into its new data center," says Stargate CEO G. Gary Chaffin. "The use of leading-edge Flywheel Technology to support critical loads traditionally provided by conventional battery UPS systems, maintains the company's responsible and unique design approach to green technology. "The Flywheel system is a safe, low maintenance, environmentally friendly alternative to large and inefficient UPS battery banks," says Chaffin.
Richard Roberts: God said to resign
Richard Roberts told Oral Roberts University students Wednesday that God spoke to him last Thursday — and told him to resign.
Students cheered and cried as Roberts spoke for a few minutes at the school's chapel service Wednesday, five days after he resigned as the school's president.
Roberts said that God told him to step down.
He said he initially resisted the instructions, but God told him that if he would resign, the school would be blessed ‘‘supernaturally.''
Roberts resigned Friday. On Tuesday, Yukon businessman Mart Green promised the school up to $70 million, more than enough to erase the school's debt.
Roberts was under pressure to step down after three former professors sued ORU and alleged excessive spending on the part of the Roberts family.
The Hidden Wounds of Congo's Wars
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo—The postelection mayhem in Kenya is introducing new ethnic groups' names into our global vocabulary. Soon, terms like Kikuyu and Luo may become common household words, like Tutsi and Hutu. It takes as little as days, even hours, for an ethnic war to flare up. But it takes decades to quench it. On the day when dozens of Kikuyus were burnt alive in a Kenyan church, I was visiting a hamlet in Congo where old tensions started by the Rwandan genocide between Hutus and Tutsis still linger. The village of Karambi is in the northeastern part of North Kivu, just a few miles from the Ugandan border, and it is breathtakingly beautiful. At the health center where we work, covering a population of some 20,000, a midwife told me (in fluent French—this is a former Belgian colony) that cows were seen in the vicinity grazing on corn, manioc, and beans, an obvious sign of ethnic oppression of Hutus by Tutsis.
Richard Roberts: God said to resign
Richard Roberts told Oral Roberts University students Wednesday that God spoke to him last Thursday — and told him to resign.
Students cheered and cried as Roberts spoke for a few minutes at the school's chapel service Wednesday, five days after he resigned as the school's president.
Roberts said that God told him to step down.
He said he initially resisted the instructions, but God told him that if he would resign, the school would be blessed ‘‘supernaturally.''
Roberts resigned Friday. On Tuesday, Yukon businessman Mart Green promised the school up to $70 million, more than enough to erase the school's debt.
Roberts was under pressure to step down after three former professors sued ORU and alleged excessive spending on the part of the Roberts family.
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