Rob Gravelle shows how to use the Maqetta WYSIWYG editor to build a calculator that determines years of service based on a start and end date. Specialized dojo controls and methods are utilized to enhance the results.

Cuba’s new state-run cybercafes charge 70 cents an hour for the Cuban version, and $5 for the global one. And please hand over your national ID card.

Where can you find some of the lowest Internet penetration rates in the Western hemisphere? Just 90 miles from Key West. In Cuba, most people only get a kind of national Intranet: a state-run e-mail and friendly websites hosted in the .cu domain—all subject to review by the regime’s Department of Revolutionary Orientation, of course. 

Cuba’s new state-run cybercafes charge 70 cents an hour for the Cuban version, and $5 for the global one. And please hand over your national ID card.

Where can you find some of the lowest Internet penetration rates in the Western hemisphere? Just 90 miles from Key West. In Cuba, most people only get a kind of national Intranet: a state-run e-mail and friendly websites hosted in the .cu domain—all subject to review by the regime’s Department of Revolutionary Orientation, of course. 

Following the acquittal of George Zimmerman, Kimberly Moffitt, assistant professor in the Department of American Studies, and other guests discuss what this decision means, specifically with regard to race and the justice system.

“Even in our text we talk about how the black body is revered and reviled, simultaneously – and this is even more poignant when you think about the black male body as being that space where we place upon it something we love,” Moffitt said. “When we think about sports, immediately we think about black men and their athletic ability to perform at sports—and we love that part of that body. But that’s the same body, even in the midst of playing a sport, that we also criminalize, that we villainize, in many ways. And, we haven’t been able to remove the reviling part of that black body to accept people as human beings.”

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