Demonstrators who opposed a day-laborer center in the District gathered yesterday outside a Northeast shopping plaza to ask authorities to disperse the mostly Hispanic day laborers who continue to gather there to look for work.

About two dozen protesters affiliated with the groups DefendDC and Help Save Maryland assembled outside the Home Depot on Rhode Island Avenue in Northeast. They were met by about 15 counterdemonstrators who showed up to support the workers.

Members of the protest group held signs and complained of crimes regularly committed by laborers, as many as 200 of whom congregate daily at the site to link up with contractors for jobs. Residents say some of the workers loiter, drink alcohol and urinate in public.http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071216/METRO/682892988/1004

all the questions:

131a) Name the capital that is located on a boot shaped peninsula in the Mediterranean Sea?
131b) The name of lake borders Niger, Chad, Nigeria, and Cameroon?(i don’t know how to spell it?)

132a)a south american country hoping to lure people to its sparsely populated interior built (1956-1960) a splendid new city at 16º S / 48º W. What is the city?"

132b)Southeast Asia is a land of islands and peninsulas stretching south and east from Bangladesh’s eastern border. What are the countries of this area?

133a) Which sea touches Hong Kong? How does it rank in size among the world seas?

133b)What is the capital of Luxembourg, a European country smaller in land area than Rhode Island?

134a) What is the capital of the island nation southeast of Greenland?

134b) Where is the Sea of Okhotsk located?

*GEO MOMENT*
a contractor built an apartment complex around an open area. He planted grass in the open area but didn’t put in the sidewalks until after people had been living in the apartments for a year or so. Why? (he wasn’t just lazy or trying to get away with not finishing the job.)

I reside in Minnesota and was an independent contractor for a company based out of Rhode Island. They ended my contract because I told the owner she was a self righteous ####waffle.
I have spent 7 years in this type of job and it is how I earn the better part of my living.
The contract I signed has a non-compete that states I won’t "work directly or indirectly with a competitor".
Logic would dictate that I’m completely screwed, but many are telling me that because of the geographic distance and the unreasonableness of the non-compete (I won’t be allowed to practice my trade), that I could easily fight this in court. Any thoughts?