Welcome to migrants fleeing conflict, says Pope at Easter - Reuters Africa

* Pope complained about riots in Libya, North Africa

* Escape strife demands generous welcome for immigrants * delivers Easter greetings in 65 different languages

* Easter week test run for the beatification by John Paul II.

By Philip Pullella

Vatican City, April 24 Reuters) - Pope Benedict, complained in his Easter message of the world on Sunday, that the day of joy was marred by the war in Libya and Europe urged welcome desperate migrants flee unrest in North Africa.

The Pope 84-year-old donated marking his sixth Easter as a Roman Catholic leader, to the ground for more than 100,000 people in a St Peter's square decorated with 42,000 bright flowers and plants in the Chair to symbolize hope and love from Holland.

But the contrast between the joy of Easter season and the wars, poverty and suffering around Benedict, which delivered, wove Easter greetings in 65 different languages his sermon the around the world, especially in North Africa.

"Here, in this world of us, Alleluia still contrasted the Easter with the cries and weeping, the by so many painful situations arise: poverty, hunger, disease, war, violence," he said in its twice annual "urbi et orbi" (to the city and the world) message. ? More...

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April 1 is coming... Give life a little entertainment spirit... ...

April 1 is coming... Give life a little entertainment spirit... ...

A, office applicable

1. Modulation smell coke

Buy a bottle of coke, drank half later, adding vinegar, soy sauce, salt, mustard seasoning and so on, and carefully modulated a colour and lustre is normal smell coke. Meet acquaintances act like it is drinking, then naturally "coke" give up, the other side, the side of unsuspecting thanks big mouthful down, and then, to open the mouth will vomit. Eyebrows You can also make by old formula, such as to mineral water into wine, and to the spirit erguotou beer soap water etc. Against PM

2, toothpaste GaXinBing 

The GaXinBing unpacking and carefully through two cracker, remove the original sandwich, take out toothpaste (best is black teeth 

Cream, tastes good! ) Squeeze appropriate amount to bread, component follow individual "diet" habit, finally to Bob close, try to do too lifelike presentable. You generally no specially use, just put it to obvious place, best to prepare for the GaXinBing patches of the original watching TV and eating, would automatically someone patronage taste. This is called JiangTaiGong fishing, let person the bait. You can also the initiative, everywhere please people, although the risk bigger taste, but there must be many people trap. 

3, the song 

Prepare for a water or enamel washbasin (other can send out loud after by the blow of high decibels objects all but) and telephone. Try to use a very formal tone phone call for the other party, after connect according to below words: here is the music station, a X (can say don't say real surname), sir/miss for Y sir/miss point one song, if you wanted to hear, please dial "#" key listen to (average person can click). Thank you, the song is engine 

"When", please listen carefully. Then tap the prepared blow things out, knock only once, 1 of "when" in each other, not the reaction come over, say: thank you for listening before, happy April fool's day, goodbye! 

This method is applicable to between quarters, or available telephone contact friends, who is a close final. In addition on the phone process must not laugh, lest affect effect and atmosphere. 

 4, double postage 

Estimation good time, ahead of time to send a letter of your friends, but don't put stamps, also don't make your mail address write (or it will give you back). This April fool's day one day, your friend will receive a notification issued by the post office, was told that wins he have a postage due mail, please to so-and-so post office and pay for place on get double postage. When he arrived in so-and-so post office, dusty, humbly after sending the postage on double, opened the envelope, but found savoir inside a small note, top write "happy April fool's day." But the joke may time could achieve error, the effect that there may not be an imagination of so good. 

5, gifts 

If someone's birthday on April fool's day, they gave him a write "happy birthday" big box, the box, and filled with scraps of this fluffed up. When he picked up the box, this fall, scraps of fly all over the house, is going to be up for the was a fool. Half an hour 

6, measuring 

With a cut the rope pranksters, stopped a pedestrian, to him for help measure size. Then take the other side of the rope, turned the corner, and stopped another pedestrian, likewise. Then you can hide in the side to complainers. Two people may wait ten minutes, seeing no action to put down the rope head, to find each other ask clear, then just can discover fooled. This is the good way to fool strangers. 

Second, network application: 

1 the most primary methods: simple, suitable for all use computers 

The toilet while others in their computer screen saver, set on and adding * * * *; Fake website administrator speech: "system will restart, please keep hands quit after the work"; E-mail to a friend, first Winzip, packaging, packaging... again Finally make self-extracting files, so circulates several times, finally open letter other only six Word: today is April fool's day! 

2. Easy to let art: appropriate use MSN instant messaging software friends 

Use emergency will are using instant messaging software was a fool ZhiKai, open the instant messaging software revision personal data options, use a keyboard, mouse, will be a fool looks to a comprehensive network of modifications. As for how to change, then take your interest and ability. Finally, don't forget the destruction of all the evidence may expose evidences. This method will not be discovered, not only let be a fool 1:30 was friends don't know who he was, even be a fool myself also 1:30 was confused. 

3, another method is seeking to be fools MSN number 

Himself to apply for a MSN number, according to the details of fools provide your personal information. Will be a fool to join you apply new number contact list, and then began to grab the weakness of "big bombing". This method is mainly to don't let them know of who you are, so in use must note hidden, try not to let the other side to you have suspicion. 

Remind be fools: whenever and wherever there are ten million should remember will leave the computer system lock, again. Once the suspect in Plan, can only be careful, carefully to observe cracked. 

4, bait-and-switch: change is a fool some of computer Settings 

Using the microphone and Windows bringing "recorder" program to record some terrorist or extraordinary voice, and then the Settings for Windows open (closed) machine voice. So when be fools open (closed) machine, suddenly must be jump. Will be a fool in the computer "my documents" of the corresponding target folder change and let its mistake written document all disappear hard. Will be a fool commonly used some application shortcuts target change and let its click shortcut open procedure, but found start-up not and shortcut corresponding program. Note must will shortcut icon to maintain and original procedures. 

These methods a fool's effect is the first-class, enough to be a fool a racing heartbeat, increased blood pressure, emit cold sweat. But when use must careful, because but they made a great mistake. 

Remind: don't give anyone is April fool's day can be as close as your computer's chance. 

5, move hardware 

Computer broke down, average person can see program or whether Internet wrong, seldom consider that slight little hardware you can be a fool also did not go to work, and it will display before the power plug or mouse plug fluffed up so that when be fools work opened his computer will find display screen or hints the mouse can't find, as he did not know what to do, you will easily appears, brace again, then each other not only questions resolved never think be fooled, but also greatly appreciate you? 

Of course there are also "vicious" one court, that is will display contrast to adjust the minimum to screen for dark principle. So, unless the other very talk, or extremely difficult to find the real cause. If he feels is hardware that right, and likely will own computer "big discharging, in order to check eight" reasons. 

Remind: should pay attention to observe carefully monitor power indicator. Whether you can find the problem, see you Not deep spiritual deep. 

Fleeing North Africa and Landing in an Italian Limbo

Perhaps they could have just walked.

“Oh, let them go,” a plainclothes officer standing near the camp’s gate said loudly, his metal badge visible on his breast pocket.

The Italian government hastily built this camp in the Puglia region, the heel of Italy’s boot, last weekend to help hold immigrants evacuated from Lampedusa, a tiny Italian island south of Sicily that is jammed with thousands of immigrants from North Africa who have crossed the Mediterranean in fishing boats and are now sleeping in the open air.

The Puglia center, which holds about 1,300 people, is an example of the logistical challenges that Italy — and Europe — face as they prepare for thousands of immigrants fleeing the unrest in North Africa. So far, most of them have been Tunisians seeking work, but last weekend the first boats arrived from Libya carrying Somalis and Eritreans who had been working there.

To some Italians, the tent camp is as much a political statement as a humanitarian reality, the product of a center-right government intent on demonstrating that the immigration situation has become an emergency that requires a coordinated European response. If the authorities wanted to dramatize the problem, some say, what better way than with photographs of immigrants escaping from crowded holding areas?

Others see the camp as a bargaining chip in a diplomatic standoff between Italy and France, the former colonial power in Tunisia and the place where most of the Tunisians say they want to go.

Under European Union law, the country where immigrants arrive is responsible for determining their status. Italy has argued that it should not bear the brunt of the new arrivals just because it is so close to North Africa. In a television interview on Wednesday, the Italian foreign minister, Franco Frattini, criticized France for its “lack of solidarity” after it returned more than 500 immigrants to Italy after they were caught trying to cross the border into France.

“It’s a political statement to France: ‘You want to start the war in Libya? We’ll give you immigrants,’?” said Tonio Tondo, a journalist following the immigration situation for the daily La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno. Italy, which colonized Libya in the early 20th century, stands to lose billions in investments there because of the allied intervention. Italy is taking part in the mission, but it was championed by France.

Here in Manduria, officials seem nonchalant about the escapes. Asked why the Italian authorities appeared to do so little to stop the immigrants’ jumping the fence, Giuseppe Caruso, the police chief of Palermo and the special commissioner for the immigration emergency, asked rhetorically: “What should we do? Should we shoot them?”

But the camp is rapidly emerging as a problem. The town’s residents protested on Wednesday, calling for it to be closed because so many immigrants had escaped. Then both the mayor and Italy’s deputy interior minister, Alfredo Mantovano, tendered their resignations after Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said in a visit to Lampedusa on Wednesday that an additional 1,400 immigrants would be brought to Manduria. On Monday, Mr. Mantovano had pledged that the camp would not hold more than 1,500 people.

With its neat rows of blue tents on freshly laid gravel, and dozens of uniformed officials, the camp shows the power of the Italian state. But it also reveals its fissures. The camp is a legal no-man’s land. The new arrivals’ status — are they illegal immigrants, refugees or asylum seekers? — is uncertain, making it nearly impossible for the Italian authorities to process, repatriate or detain them.

Before the influx began in January, bringing about 18,000 people through Lampedusa, the immigrants who arrived there were held on the island for a few days before being sent to formal immigration or asylum centers on the mainland. The Interior Ministry says those centers are now almost full as Italy struggles with a bureaucratic backlog.

Under Italian law, immigrants can be held for up to 180 days to determine their status, and much longer if they are seeking asylum. If their arrival is deemed to be illegal, and they would not be subject to persecution in their home countries, they can be sent home. But Italy’s repatriation accords with Tunisia and Libya have broken down.

“We’re waiting for a directive,” said Antonio Calcagni, the chief of the immigration office at the Police Department in the nearby port city of Taranto, as he stood outside the Manduria camp. “Different countries are working on it,” he added.

The immigrants have grown frustrated, too. “We’ve been here for three days,” said Omar Naim, 24, a Tunisian, as he peered through the fence. “They haven’t done anything for us.”

Italian officials traveled last week to Tunisia, which still lacks a functioning government, to persuade the authorities there to honor the repatriation accords.

“What’s the legal status of the camp? That’s a good question,” said Nichi Vendola, the president of the Puglia region and a leading member of the center-left opposition. “Is it a place for determining who is an illegal immigrant? A place to receive asylum seekers? A hybrid place?” He added, “The confusion is the fruit of the ideological prejudices of the Northern League, which dominates the Berlusconi government.”

That party, the most powerful in the governing center-right coalition, has long drawn on fears of illegal immigration. Asked on Tuesday what should be done about the immigrants, the Northern League’s colorful leader, Umberto Bossi, used a phrase that politely translates as “get them out of our faces.”

The interior minister, Roberto Maroni, a member of the Northern League, has been more diplomatic, but has repeatedly said the European Union has abandoned Italy. The Italian government is not alone in seeking a more coordinated European response. Laura Boldrini, spokeswoman for the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Italy, said it was important to distinguish between the “economic migrants” from Tunisia who were seeking work in Europe and those fleeing the fighting in Libya.

“In the event of a mass influx of asylum seekers from Libya, the U.N.H.C.R. recommends that member states receive them and give them temporary protection,” Ms. Boldrini said. “It would be good to have a positive sign from Europe,” she added. “That could also help reduce tensions and calm down tones in Italy.”

Back in Manduria, as bulldozers worked the ground and trucks carted in generators, the camp seemed increasingly less temporary. Mr. Calcagni, the immigration chief for the Taranto police, looking resigned, cited an often-used Italian saying: “There’s nothing more definitive than something provisional.”