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Post-Installation Setup Tasks - Page 8
January 3, 2002
No matter which operating system you're running, once PHP is installed and the MySQL server is in operation, the very first thing you need to do is assign a "root password" for MySQL. MySQL only lets authorized users view and manipulate the information stored in its databases, so you'll need to tell MySQL who is an authorized user, and who isn't. When MySQL is first installed, it's configured with a user named "root" who has access to do pretty much any task without even entering a password. Your first task should be to assign a password to the root user so that unauthorized users can't mess around in your databases.
It's important to realize that MySQL, just like a Web server or an FTP server, can be accessed from any computer on the same network. If you're working on a computer connected to the Internet that means anyone in the world could try to connect to your MySQL server! The need to pick a hard-to-guess password should be immediately obvious!
To set a root password for MySQL, type the following command in the bin directory of your MySQL installation (include the quotes):
To make sure MySQL has registered this change, you should tell it to reload its list of authorized users and passwords:
If this command returns an error message to tell you that access was denied, don't worry: this just means the password has already taken effect.
To try out your new password, request that the MySQL server tell you its current status:
Enter your password when prompted. You should see a brief message that provides information about the server and its current status. The "-u root" argument tells the program that you want to be identified as the MySQL user called "root". The "-p" argument tells the program to prompt you for your password before it tries to connect. The "status" argument just tells it that you're interested in viewing the system status.
If at any time you want to shut down the MySQL server, you can use the command below. Notice the usage of the same "-u root" and "-p" arguments as before:
With your MySQL database system safe from intrusion, all that's
left is to configure PHP. To do this, we'll use a text file
Save the changes to
You're done! Now you just need to test to make sure everything's working okay.


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"I found the interaction between two of your posts [last week] interesting," writes Aaron Hierholzer of the Greenleaf Book Group. "The report on the Publishing 2.0 model panel and the Kindle's nonexistent profit margins highlighted part of the problem e-books face before they take root: there's no consensus on what their main role is."
"Are they best as a tool to spur print sales (as Derek Powazek suggests)," Hierholzer asks, "or are they the final, standalone product, worthy of a purchase (as Amazon.com presumably hopes)? In the NYT piece, Amazon claims that people buy the same amount of print books even as they buy more e-books; is the suggestion that they buy both e-book and 'p-book' versions of the same title? If not (this seems rather prodigal to me), how do they decide which books to buy in which version?"
Good questions! Anybody care to venture an observation?

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By Alan Duke
LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- Shia LaBeouf's plagiarism apology tour took to the sky Wednesday as the Transformer actor hired an airplane to tow a banner saying "I'm sorry Daniel Clowes."
Clowes is the author whose story LaBeouf admits he copied for his short film "HowardCantour.com" without crediting Clowes.
But it was a cloudy apology, raising suspicion that LaBeouf has moved on from saying he's sorry to Clowes and is now taunting Clowes fans and LaBeouf critics who have attacked him online in the two weeks since he was busted.
The creativity shown by LaBeouf in more than two dozen Twitter postings of apology begs the question of why such a fertile mind needed to borrow ideas.
Those tweets included the words "naiveté," "embarrassed," "regret," "terribly wrong," "deeply sorry," and "hurtful and thoughtless."
The apology tweets started clearly enough on December 16: "Im embarrassed that I failed to credit @danielclowes for his original graphic novella Justin M. Damiano, which served as my inspiration. I was truly moved by his piece of work & I knew that it would make a poignant & relevant short. I apologize to all who assumed I wrote it."
Transforming apologies
But three days later, it appeared LaBeouf was frustrated that the online attacks against him continued. Sarcasm emerged in his tweets: "I want to thank all of you who have written in and created groups and protested. Even though I wish I hadn't made so many of you angry."
Sincere-sounding apologies continued for another week, including this on December 28: "When you've made a mistake you should apologise. But more importantly -- most important of all -- you've got to learn from your mistakes."
By December 31, LaBeouf was mocking those who refused to accept that he was sorry for copying from Clowes: "I am sorry for all the plagiarized tweets, they all were unintelligent, ambiguous and needlessly hurtful. You have my apologies for offending you for thinking I was being serious instead of accurately realizing I was mocking you."
On New Year's Day, LaBeouf went old school, used a predecessor to the 140 character Twitter forum. He hired a single-engine airplane to pull a banner through the blue skies of Los Angeles: "I AM SORRY DANIEL CLOWES."
He then tweeted a photo of the airborne apology, since it would have been unlikely the author, who lives in San Francisco, would have seen it.
The text that accompanied the tweet posted Wednesday night read:
- vapor floating in the atmosphere
- remote servers used to SHARE DATA
- to make LESS CLEAR or TRANSPARENT
If LaBeouf is considering a sequel to his short but controversial film about an online film critic, perhaps he already has a script for a movie about an actor who finds his voice on Twitter.
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[MLS SPOTLIGHT: New York Red Bulls] The New York Red Bulls have announced that Coach Hans Backe wouldn't be returning as
coach and that they have hired Scotsman Andy Roxburgh, the former Scottish national team coach and UEFA technical director, as its new sporting director
responsible for all soccer activities at the club.
Backe was with the team for three seasons. Mike Petke will coach the club on an interim basis. Assistant coach Jan Halvor Halvorsen's contract was also not extended.
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2 Weeks on diet, not a single lb lost?
2 Weeks on diet, not a single lb lost?
Okay, guys I'm fed up with keto diets and a diet that will work for me is one which I can stick to. One where I can eat everything in moderation.
Age 18
Height 5' 9"
Weight 185
Bodyfat 22-24%
My Diet:
Breakfast - 4eggs + 2 Bread
Lunch - 7 oz Tuna + lettuce/cucumbers
Pre Workout - 1 scoop whey
Post Workout - 1 scoop whey
Dinner - 1 lb chicken + 1/2 cup rice + lettuce/cucumbers
I came to 1500 calories, 211 g Protein, 70g Carbs, 35g Fat.
Cardio 4x a week @45 minutes burning 500-650 calories.
Lift 3x a week.
also eat more often, 5 meals a day to 6 meals a day keep your metabolism going
throw in some snacks in the middle of meals, like almonds, bananas, whatever floats your boat, but try and keep the principle of eating every 2/2.5 hours
and be patient man, weight loss takes time
You're NOT eating ENOUGH, honestly - I lose fat on at least TWICE that many calories. If you make your caloric intake TOO low, your body will fight you to hold onto the fat.
I recommend reading The 3 Keys to Fat Loss for comprehensive advice and information re nutrition and training for effective and successful fat loss, and follow the principles outlines there!
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Rhodes Hall won't be dressed up as a haunted house during Halloween weekend, but one of our resident apparitions might say otherwise.
Uptown Rhodes Race at the Haunted Castle
A stroller and dog friendly 5K
Saturday, October 28, 2017, 9 a.m.
Rhodes Hall
1516 Peachtree St., NW
Atlanta, Georgia
Thanks to our sponsors, volunteers and participants for another great event!
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2017 Overall Results >>
2017 Age Group Results >>
2017 Stroller and Dog Division Winners >>
Every Halloween from 1984 to 1992, Rhodes Hall became the perfect setting for one of Atlanta's most popular haunted houses. Today its haunted atmosphere has given way to sparkling interior and exterior details, and although Rhodes Hall won't be dressed up as a haunted house, that doesn't stop us from getting into the Halloween spirit (nor does it stop our resident ghost from appearing)!
Mark your calendars for Saturday morning, October 28, 2017, and bring your whole family to the Uptown Rhodes Race at the Haunted Castle. This dog and stroller friendly 5K will wind through the creepy twists and ghoulish hills of one of Atlanta's oldest and boo-tiful neighborhoods, Ansley Park. Feel free to run or walk in your best Halloween costume!
Afterwards join us at the hair-raising after-party at Rhodes Hall for a costume contest, food and prizes. You can even take a self-guided tour inside our "haunted castle," and who knows, maybe you'll get a glimpse of our resident apparition.
Here's what's in store:
Dogs are welcome to join you during the race
The course is stroller and dog friendly (just as long as your pooch is well-behaved, leashed, and under your control at all times). There will be a special "pet pit stop" along the race route to provide dogs with drinking water. Dogs and their runners will also have their own special start group.
Exciting post-race party with lunch and refreshments
After the race, stick around for a huge post-race party on the lawn of Rhodes Hall featuring a delicious lunch, refreshing drinks and great music. All participants will receive a t-shirt and goodie bag. Awards will be given to the top 3 overall male/female finishers, top 3 male/female finishers in each age group, first participant with a stroller and first dog.
Costume Contest Categories
2017 Registration fees:
$15 - Until January 31
$30 - February 1 until March 31
$35 - April 1 until October 8
$40 - October 9 until raceday
Register now at active.com
If you think your pooch has what it takes to race with the best of 'em, the run/walk event will begin at 9 a.m., Saturday, October 28, 2017 at Rhodes Hall, located at 1516 Peachtree St. N.W., Atlanta, Georgia. Interested runners and walkers can register at www.active.com. Race day registration is available. All proceeds benefit The Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation. Please note: Dogs must be well behaved, leashed, and under their owner's control at all times.
Event is rain or shine. No refunds given.
Photos from past races
2016 Photos - Part 1 >>
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2016 Overall Results >>
2016 Age Group Results >>
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Enhanced heat exchangers enable improved product designs.
Tougher standards, soaring energy prices, and more intense competition are all factors pushing the makers of air-conditioning and refrigeration equipment to design more energy efficient products. The heat exchangers employed as evaporators and condensers in such products play a critical role in overall system efficiency. While the core principles have underlying finned tubing heat exchangers have remained the same for years, a great deal of research and development has been focused on improving their heat transfer performance. New configurations have also increased design options for makers of cooling products, given heat exchangers have a significant impact on the size and shape of the end product.
For example, the size of both indoor and outdoor coils was a big consideration for makers of residential air conditioners and heat pumps as they prepared to meet the 13 SEER standard that went into effect in January. York International, Unitary Products Group, York, Pa., was one of the OEMs that looked to redesigned heat exchangers as a path to 13 SEER. The company achieved the goal through use of microchannel heat exchangers, using coils supplied by Delphi Thermal & Interior, Lockport, N.Y.
Microchannel heat exchangers have flat, streamlined tubes. One larger tube is split into multiple smaller, parallel ports.
The metallurgical tube-to-fin bond eliminates contact resistance, allowing fins to transfer heat more efficiently. Where higher grade aluminum materials are used, the metallurgical bond allows the heat exchanger to be formed in unlimited configurations.
There are three basic components in the overall heat transfer equation: air-side heat transfer (between the fins and the ambient air), heat conduction (between the fins and tubes) and refrigerant-side heat transfer (between the tubes and the refrigerant).
Because air is essentially an insulator, overall heat transfer is limited by the air-side portion of the equation. This limitation is common to both fin-tube and microchannel heat exchangers. Consequently, a great deal of research has been dedicated to improving air-side heat transfer through modification of fin geometry. Some of these modifications include louvers, lances and rippled edges.
The heat conduction portion of the equation depends heavily on the bond between the fin and tube. In fin-tube heat exchangers, that bond is created when hairpins are expanded. If the fins are loose on the hairpins, (either from under-expanded hairpins or splits in the fin extrusions due to over-expanded hairpins) air gaps between the two materials reduce heat transfer. With microchannel heat exchangers, a mechanical bond is created by brazing the fins directly to the tubes, eliminating the possibility for air gaps to reduce heat transfer.
The refrigerant-side heat transfer occurs at the boundary between the refrigerant and the internal surface area of the hairpin — typically known as the "wetted perimeter." In general, as the internal surface area of a tube increases, the refrigerant side heat transfer increases. For fin-tube heat exchangers, internal surface area of the hairpins can be increased by adding groves to the inside of the tubing.
For microchannel heat exchangers, internal surface area is increased by two methods: one, increasing the number of microports in each tube's cross section, and two, increasing the number of tubes in each heat exchanger (decreasing the tube spacing.)
Microchannel technology should be suitable for any HVAC/R application that uses refrigerant and air for heat transfer. This would include residential and commercial condensing units, heat pumps and evaporators as well as refrigeration systems. In addition to the heat exchanger heights and lengths that are normally modified to create a variety tonnages and efficiencies, the manifold baffles can be relocated to change the refrigerant-side pressure drop and the split between the "de-superheat" and subcooling portions of the heat exchanger. Contingencies must also be made for condensation removal when the heat exchangers are used in evaporator or heat pump applications.
"Now that the commercial feasibility of microchannel technology has been proven for HVAC applications, additional research should probably be dedicated to optimizing the tube geometry for the various refrigerants used in our industry," says Darren Warnecker, senior project engineer, Cooling for York International-Unitary Products Group. "However, even though the microchannel tubing has dramatically improved the overall heat transfer by increasing the refrigerant-side portion of the equation, HVACR heat exchangers are still limited by the air-side portion. Consequently, additional studies will be necessary to determine the optimum fin geometry to compliment the microchannel tubing geometry."
Parallel preference
The fin is what differentiates PF2 heat exchangers from conventional micro channel heat exchangers. It allows tubes to be oriented vertically or horizontally to function as a condenser or evaporator in refrigeration and air-conditioning applications.
With a few notable exceptions, most current HVAC heat exchangers are constructed from aluminum fins and copper hairpins, both of which may have enhancements to improve heat transfer. The aluminum fins are long and thin and have round extruded holes through which the hairpins are laced and expanded to provide an interference fit for heat conduction. Circuiting is performed with various return bend combinations that are brazed to the open ends of the hairpins. Parallel flow plate fin, or PF2 technology from Modine Manufacturing, Racine, Wis., is a heat exchanger innovation designed specifically for the HVAC/R market. The fin is what differentiates PF2 from conventional micro channel heat exchangers. It allows tubes to be oriented vertically or horizontally to function as a condenser or evaporator in refrigeration and air-conditioning applications. PF2 also solves water drainage issues.
Modines's patented PF2 coil technology provides a means to meet or exceed mandated R-22 refrigerant phase out, performs well as an evaporator in any orientation and meets large capacities with its multiple row design. It also has multiple pass circuitry and enhanced mounting designs.
Benefits of the PF2 technology include:
- Reduced coil depth that further lowers air side static pressures.
- Reduced face area to cut cabinet costs.
- Reduced internal volume to reduce refrigerant charge.
- Increased design versatility.
Potential applications include:
- Refrigeration equipment such as ice machines, beverage dispensers, refrigerated display cases and food service refrigeration.
- Air conditioning applications such as residential air conditioners, rooftop air conditioners, chillers, geothermal heat pumps, PTACs and electronic cooling.
The PF2 concept mainly remains the same from application to application. Only coil size or depth will vary to meet performance needs.
With PF2 engineers can design cooling solutions around the application, not the heat exchanger technology. Consequently, PF2 provides for lower system costs, higher system efficiencies, lower operating costs and quieter operation.
Wave revolution
Parallel flow plate fin, or PF2 technology from Modine, is a heat exchanger innovation designed specifically for the HVAC/R market.
A plate-on-tube condenser from Bundy improves airflow over the condenser surface by using the Coanda effect. The Coanda effect is named for a Hungarian researcher who, during World War II, discovered that air that flows over a curved surface, tends to follow that surface. The technology was first used to improve aerodynamics in warplane designs. Traditional tube-on-plate condensers have louvers that are angled in the same direction to allow air to pass through the condenser. Nevertheless, because there is no significant pressure drop between the two sides of the condenser, a very limited amount of air actually passes through the louvers.
Launched in mid-2005, Bundy's Coanda-effect louver design allows air to flow from one side of the plate to the other, and back again, flowing much like a wave up through the middle of the condenser.
The technology was designed mainly with upright refrigeration appliances in mind, but can replace any plate-on-tube, and potentially wire-on-tube, condenser.
The company currently has OEM customers in Europe, who purchase the Coanda solution for household refrigerators and upright freezers.
The curved design of the heat exchanger fins disrupts the formation of boundary layer on the condenser and creates turbulence, which improves the efficiency of the fins, and in turn, the condenser. Tests have shown a 5 percent to 7 percent improved heat transfer compared to standard plate-on-tube condensers.
Peter Espersen, technical director for Bundy notes that the future of heat exchanger technology lies in not just tinkering with the basic heat exchanger design, but the development of entirely new products.
"I think there will be increasing interest to develop new heat exchanger products that will not only improve efficiency, but also reduce costs. This business has been quite static for a number of years," he says. "There has not really been any development because the main benefits that we have seen over the last couple of years have been due to innovations in gas compression and insulation, not because of systematic development of a newly developed product, and this is where we believe there is going to be interest in the years to come."
Plastic improvement
Modine's PF2 concept mainly remains the same from application to application. Only the coil size or depth will vary to meet performance needs.
While metal heat exchangers are constantly being improved, they still have some inherent drawbacks due to their metal construction. These heat exchangers are subject to corrosion, oxidation and microbiological attack. Metal heat exchangers additionally experience slow degradation and loss in heat transfer capacity. And commonly used chemical water treatment can adversely affect metal heat exchangers. Another difficulty with metal heat exchangers is friction or contact between coils during operation. Vibrations during operation often result in rubbing of the heat exchanger coils. This friction can cause the coils to wear on each other. Over time, this wear and tear can cause serious damage and even fluid leaks.
New plastic heat exchanger technology developed by Powercold, La Vernia, Texas, offers an interesting alternative to metal heat exchangers. Powercold designs, develops and markets energy efficient HVAC systems for new and retrofit applications. Powercold uses Caltrel plastic from Dupont for its heat exchanger tubing to provide for effective energy transfer in most applications. In fact, Powercold says that the heat transfer capacity of this plastic tubing is comparable to that of copper heat exchangers, and that transfer rate remains consistent for both heating and cooling.
When used in HVAC applications, fluid coolers fitted with 3/8-in.Caltrel tubing with a 0.20-in. wall thickness, have comparable heat transfer rates to 5/8-in. copper with a 0.034-in. wall thickness, which is the industry standard for fluid coolers. When comparing the heat transfer of the 1/8-in. plastic tubing with a 0.007-in. wall thickness and aluminum finned 3/8-in. copper coil, the plastic exhibits the same heat transfer performance up to 400 cfm airflow. For airflow higher than 400 cfm, however, the plastic exhibits higher heat transfer rates than copper coil, according to Powercold.
Lifespan extended
The Coanda effect is named for a Hungarian researcher who, during World War II, discovered that air that flows over a curved surface, tends to follow that surface. The technology was first applied to improve aerodynamics in warplane designs.
Caltrel also offers improved capacity, strength, weight, fluid flow and lifespan. Unlike conventional copper heat exchangers, the plastic heat exchangers are not subject to corrosion, oxidation, microbiological attack or galvanic action. (With galvanic action, dissimilar material can set up an electrical current, causing the metal to decompose.) This allows the plastic heat exchangers to function effectively under conditions in which conventional systems would not survive. For example, the plastic tubing is unaffected by exposure to salt water, aggressive vapors or corrosive fluids. The plastic heat exchangers therefore will not experience the slow degradation and loss in heat transfer capacity other materials experience over time. Instead, Caltrel maintains heat transfer rates closer to that of its original design capacity for the duration of its lifespan. As a result, these plastic heat exchangers have a longer life than conventional heat exchangers, regardless of environment.
The plastic is not adversely affected by chemical treatment. Systems utilizing plastic heat exchange tubing can be treated with these chemicals much like copper coil fitted systems.
The plastic material is far more resistant to impact damage during handling because unlike copper and aluminum, it has elasticity and "memory." If pinched or dropped during handling, this plastic will return to its original position/configuration almost immediately.
Smooth surface
A plate-on-tube condenser from Bundy improves airflow over the condenser surface by using a Coanda effect.
Friction or contact between coils during operation is not an issue for the plastic for two key reasons — one, the coils naturally dampen the vibrations in the system, and two, the Caltrel surface is smoother, permitting little friction between tubing rows even if they do come in contact. Plastic is additionally lightweight. The plastic heat exchangers typically weigh 75 percent less than similarly sized metal heat exchangers, providing for greater mobility as well as ease of installation and maintenance. And unlike most metal heat exchangers, the plastic-fitted heat exchangers have no sharp edges, greatly reducing the risk of injury during handling.
The surface of plastic tubing is smoother than copper and resists the buildup of material deposits, which can restrict both fluid and airflow through and around the coils. In the event that an internal buildup does occur, it can be removed from the plastic by flushing it at moderate pressure.
External mineral deposits can significantly decrease the heat transfer capacity of heat exchange coils. Evaporative condensers and fluid coolers are constantly battling scale buildup and often require water treatment or softeners. Because of its higher coefficient of friction, copper bonds more easily to scale. Scale does not bond easily to the smooth surface of plastic coils, and is less of a problem for evaporative systems utilizing plastic tubing.
The heat transfer capacity of plastic tubing from Powercold is comparable to that of copper heat exchangers, and that transfer rate remains consistent for both heating and cooling.
Another important benefit of a smoother surface is that pressure drops, internally and externally, are lower than that of copper. Fluids flowing through the coils encounter lower internal friction and suffer lower pressure drops at similar flow rates. This allows engineers to lower pumping horsepower for a system while maintaining required fluid flows. The same holds true for airflow across the outside of the plastic tubing. Lower pressure drops across the heat exchanger results in lower fan horsepower requirements for the system. A unique benefit of plastic material is its natural dampening characteristics, which minimize vibrations and reduce noise levels. While in operation, plastic-fitted systems create less noise than traditional heat exchangers. This characteristic is especially appealing in instances where fan coil heat exchangers are located in hotel rooms less than 10 feet from customers' beds.
Unlike metal coils, plastic tubing is easy to contour and shape. This makes plastic heat exchangers entirely customizable for almost any application, having the ability to fit any space or configuration.
It is not as easy to customize a metal heat exchanger for unique applications, and metal heat exchangers are limited by manufacturing costs. Production costs of plastic heat exchanges are competitive or lower than conventional finned metal tube heat exchangers.
Despite their significant advantages, these plastic heat exchangers are not suitable for all applications. They cannot be used with refrigerants nor high-pressure or high-temperature systems.
Plastic is not a suitable heat transfer media for systems with operating temperatures higher than 220 DegF or pressures higher than 150 psi. Plastic additionally cannot be used with any gaseous systems because it does not serve as a sufficient vapor barrier.
Although the primary market for plastic heat exchangers is the HVACR industry, it is not limited to the industry. Plastic is versatile enough to be utilized by almost all industries requiring some form of energy transfer.


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"The Church stands or falls," Pope Benedict XVI tells us, "with the liturgy."
Pope Benedict is, of course, quite right. When the sacred liturgy is celebrated with faith, reverence and devotion, the Church stands firm and grows: opening the door to the mysteries of God. But when the liturgy is celebrated without attention and respect for its beauty, then the Church falls: we are diminished and weakened.
Implementation of the new translation of the Roman Missal is an opportunity to once again take a fresh look at the liturgy and its central place in the life of the Church.
The translation we will begin to use on Nov. 27 is the fruit of 10 years of work by experts in Latin and liturgical theology, and by bishops from across the English-speaking world. This new English translation was borne out of efforts to spark a renewal in our full and active participation in the worship of God. Discussion of the translation was full of vitality—good scholars of varying opinions gave their best efforts to help the Church in our worship of God.
Ultimately, this work touches the heart of one of the most important questions about the Church: Does the Church change? And, therefore, can the liturgy change? In recent years, many Catholics have asked about the role of tradition in the Church. Some have suggested that nothing should change from the traditions of our parents and grandparents. Others have suggested that to make the liturgy relevant, it must undergo radical change in order to suit our contemporary era.
For many of us, change can be the lens through which we view reality. Though change is what helps us to grow, Pope Benedict has warned us to avoid a "hermeneutic of discontinuity or rupture" in which the traditions of the Church are discarded in the name of renewal. The word hermeneutic simply means "way of interpreting."
The alternative and correct way of understanding the renewal in the Church, particularly in the liturgy, is what Benedict called the "hermeneutic of continuity or reform." This approach is a renewal in the tradition of the one Church, which the Lord has given to us. True renewal happens only when there is continuity and organic development within the tradition of the Church. The guiding principles of our liturgical renewal have been just that: to find a way to preserve and honor the tradition of the Church while reanimating it in a way that can be understood by modern man. This is the task of evangelization; not only in liturgy, but in all facets of the Christian life.
Recently, the pope explained the true idea of tradition in the liturgy: "Not infrequently, tradition and progress are clumsily opposed. In reality, the two concepts are integrated: tradition is a living reality, which because of this includes in itself the principle of development, of progress. It is as if saying that the river of tradition has its source in itself and flows toward the outlet."
The river of the liturgy flows and gives life to our hearts. It truly satisfies our deepest longings and gives strength for our journey. The sacred liturgy comes from an eternal wellspring, which leads to green pastures; because its water is the same as ever, and yet is always renewed, adapting always to the particular thirsts of our times.
Liturgy is a gift from God, providing a life that we can never create. It is a gift that we should welcome with gratitude and responsibility.
The liturgy, more than "an object to be reformed" is "a subject capable of renewing Christian life" (Pope Benedict XVI). The Church is renewed, first and foremost, through an authentic renewal of the liturgy, a renewal in continuity. The new translation of the Roman Missal is an important step in this process. Receiving with joy the beautiful words of the Mass will help us to be faithful stewards of the mysteries of the Lord and to allow the river of his presence to refresh our hearts and the heart of the world.
In an ancient Christian text called the "Clementine Homilies," Peter, the first pope, explained a command he received from the Lord: "Keep the mysteries for me and the sons of my house."
"Keep the mysteries"—that is our responsibility and our hope.
Let us commit ourselves to the worship of God, which understands the great traditions of the Church and presents them faithfully to the modern world. Let us be transformed by our worship. And let us invite others to Jesus Christ, present in the Eucharist, the "river of living water."
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The sanctity of the secret Swiss bank account — an icon of global finance — is under growing pressure in a tax investigation due to come into public view on Wednesday at a U.S. congressional hearing.
Senator Carl Levin, a long-time foe of offshore tax havens estimated to deprive the U.S. government of $100 billion in annual revenues, will convene the hearing before the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations that he chairs.
Levin will grill Mark Branson, a top officer at UBS AG, over a tax case in which the U.S. government wants the giant Swiss bank to disclose the names of thousands of rich U.S. clients suspected of dodging U.S. taxes.
The Michigan lawmaker told reporters in a briefing on Tuesday that the hearing will also focus on a U.S.-Swiss tax treaty he described as having "very, very limited value." He said, "You can't rely on the Swiss. That's the bottom line."
Branson will appear before the Senate panel for the first time since UBS last month acknowledged responsibility for helping U.S. clients conceal assets from the U.S. government, which is cracking down on tax dodgers with offshore accounts.


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NEWCASTLE UNITED are focusing attentions on Portugal this summer after a run of form which has exposed a lack of depth in the squad many feared would prove costly at the start of the season.
While the pressure on manager Alan Pardew's shoulders has grown from the stands following five consecutive defeats in a row in the Premier League, there have been discussions behind the scenes aimed at the close season.
There will be a push to bring in some established names from the English game to add much-needed experience to the squad, but the cheaper European market is still being scoured by chief scout Graham Carr.
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Over the last few years he has had success in recruiting from both France and Holland, but it is understood there are others under consideration from other countries in the hope of gaining value for money.
Having been constantly given mixed messages over the likes of Montpellier's Remy Cabella and Lyon's Clement Grenier, Newcastle are exploring alternatives to the sought after playmaker and the Portuguese league has thrown up a couple of potential signings.
As well as keeping tabs on Sporting Lisbon's Spanish winger Diego Capel, Benfica's exciting midfielder Filip Djuricic is on the radar again having previously tried to land him following the sale of Yohan Cabaye in January.
Djuricic, 22, first caught the eye of Carr when he impressed playing for Heerenveen. He only left the Dutch club last summer in a £5m deal having scored 26 goals in 111 matches.
Benfica boss Jorge Jesus has played him sparingly in his preferred central midfield position and he has become unsettled, so his name has been floated around a number of European clubs.
The Serbian is understood to be open to the idea of playing in England and Newcastle's move for him earlier this year means the Magpies are one of the front-runners again – and probably for less than the £5m initially quoted.
Newcastle will be relieved when the season is over. The losing streak – the worst in the club's Premier League history – has led to many disgruntled fans turning the spotlight on Pardew after years of targeting owner Mike Ashley.
Supporters want to see the cash raised from the reputed £20m sale of Cabaye reinvested in the squad during the close season, fearing Newcastle face a season of relegation struggle if they fail to do so.
Newcastle have nose-dived since Cabaye's departure and, with top scorer Loic Remy also unlikely to be around next season at the end of his loan from QPR, Pardew's squad is in desperate need of reinforcements.
Long-serving striker Shola Ameobi, whose contract is also up for renewal, has admitted the squad is well aware that there has been a shortage in numbers when injuries and suspensions have hit.
"We have limited resources at the moment and when we lose one or two key players it hurts the team badly," said Ameobi. "But that is what the manager has had to put up with unfortunately.
"That is something the club have to put right for next season. We need quality players and we need a quality squad as well.
"This has been brought out to a lot of people but we, as players, knew that. I think the fans are getting to see that now."
The need to bring in an extra creative verve is only likely to increase if Pardew manages to move on Hatem Ben Arfa. The Newcastle boss would like to offload the Frenchman in the summer if a suitable deal can be done.
There have been disagreements behind-the-scenes between the pair, with Pardew and the coaching staff unhappy at the work-rate and attitude of the player.
Ameobi, speaking to BBC Newcastle, said: "It's been a tough month and a half for us. There have been a few frictions in there, which you get in every dressing room. But we're all trying to pull in the same direction, players and staff."


text: From South Africa — Keeping Traditional Knowledge Traditional07/12/2012 by Intellectual Property Watch 3 CommentsShare this Story:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Google+ (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)The views expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and are not associated with Intellectual Property Watch. IP-Watch expressly disclaims and refuses any responsibility or liability for the content, style or form of any posts made to this forum, which remain solely the responsibility of their authors.By Professor Owen DeanIntroductionThere has been a tidal wave of severe criticism of the South African Government's proposed legislation to provide for protection for traditional knowledge in domestic South African law (see for example the articles posted on the (IPSTELL blog) indicated by the keywords "traditional knowledge". By means of the Intellectual Property Laws Amendment Bill, it is sought to introduce a special form of protection for so-called "traditional knowledge" into each of the Trade Marks, Copyright, Designs and Performance Protection Acts (the Bill is commonly known as the "Traditional Knowledge Bill"). There has been vociferous support for the viewpoint that, if some form of special protection for traditional knowledge is required, this should be provided in a sui generis statute which is customised to meet the requirements and characteristics of the subject matter sought to be protected and not by means of adulterating the existing intellectual property statutes.The desired type of protection cannot be achieved by amending the aforementioned intellectual property statutes without doing serious damage to the basic tenets of such statutes. That is because specialised protection for traditional knowledge is not compatible with the fundamental principles of intellectual property law as embodied in these statutes and the desired objective is incapable of being achieved for this reason. A South African authority has gone as far as formulating a draft sui generis bill, which can be found by perusing the article posted on the IPSTELL blog entitled "NEW Traditional Knowledge Bill – Sui Generis Protection For TK."International Association for the Protection of Intellectual PropertyOne of the foremost non-governmental expert intellectual property institutions is The International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI). It describes itself on its website as "The world's leading international organisation dedicated to the development and improvement of the regimes for the protection of intellectual property. It is a politically neutral, non-profit organisation, domiciled in Switzerland which currently has almost 9 000 members representing more than 100 countries. The objective of AIPPI is to improve and promote the protection of intellectual property on both an international and national basis. It pursues its objective by working for the development, expansion and improvement of international and regional treaties and agreements and also of national laws relating to intellectual property."The AIPPI dates from 1897 and its membership includes lawyers, patent attorneys, judges, scientists, engineers and academics. It is generally regarded as one of the most authoritative voices on matters pertaining to intellectual property and is held in high regard by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).The AIPPI recently held its 43rd World Intellectual Property Congress in Seoul, Republic of Korea, from 20 to 23 October 2012. One of the working sessions at the congress was devoted to the question of "The relevance of traditional knowledge to intellectual property law".Gauging International OpinionAgainst the South African background it is interesting to see what the international view on this general question is. The question arises whether the criticism of the Traditional Knowledge Bill is perhaps unfair and whether such criticism is in or out of harmony with the international thinking on the question of the relationship between intellectual property and special protection for traditional knowledge. The abovementioned working session provided an ideal opportunity to reasses the situation.It transpired that many of the delegates participating in the TK discussions were familiar with the South African Traditional Knowledge Bill and had a very low estimation of it, even holding it out to ridicule! It was a source of some embarrassment to be seen to be representative of a country that had spawned what was perceived to be such poor legislation. The Traditional Knowledge Bill was held up as an example of how not to go about providing for specialised protection or traditional knowledge, and more particularly expressions of folk law which is, of course, what the Bill is really about. It transpired that mainstream South African views were not only shared by the meeting, but indeed in some instances even stronger criticism of the Bill was forthcoming.Adoption of ResolutionThe purpose of the working session was to prepare a resolution for adoption by the congress reflecting the view of the AIPPI as an organisation on the issue of traditional knowledge.The workshop duly formulated and prepared a resolution which was adopted at a plenary session of the congress. The resolution thus reflects the official view of the organisation and the collective view of its 100 or so national groups. These national groups reflect a microcosm of the international community and they include many developing, and developed, countries which have a rich heritage of traditional knowledge. They range from South American to European and Asian countries. Countries, like South Africa, having a western culture as well as an indigenous culture (e.g., Canada, New Zealand, Peru, Australia, India and the like) formed an important component of the group.The full text of the resolution as adopted is available from the AIPPI website [pdf]. The product of all the working committees on Q232, the summary reports, resolutions and group reports per nation are available from the listing of all AIPPI committees.The main thrust of the resolution was to arrive at a harmonised definition of the term "traditional knowledge" with a view to achieving a harmonised international approach to the protection of traditional knowledge.As a precursor to the congress, the various national groups had been asked to express their views on the manner in which traditional knowledge should be protected. The majority of the groups considered that so-called "defensive protection" of traditional knowledge is in principle desirable but there was no majority in favour of so-called "positive protection". The draft resolution was prepared taking these considerations into account.Spectrum of ViewsIn general, views on the nature and extent of protection for traditional knowledge cover a wide spectrum. On the "left wing" of the spectrum are those who take the view that existing intellectual property law gives adequate protection, to the degree warranted, to traditional knowledge and therefore that no special protection is required. Moving towards the centre, there are those who hold the view that the existing laws are adequate, but that provision should be made to ensure that where rights are claimed in property by a third party (for instance by registering a patent or design), the rights of traditional communities to continue using their TK undisturbed should be entrenched – this is the so called "defensive protection" of traditional knowledge. Moving away from the centre towards the "right wing" of the spectrum, there are those who believe that some form of special protection for traditional knowledge – so called "positive protection" – may be appropriate, but such protection should be granted in customised or sui generis legislation. Finally, on the far "right wing" are those who favour amending existing intellectual property laws so as to grant special protection for traditional knowledge (the South African government is the only known proponent of this view).It became abundantly clear from the discussions that by far the majority of the delegates were of a left wing persuasion favouring no special protection for traditional knowledge, save perhaps for protection of a defensive nature. There were few supporters of the right wing approach of adopting sui generis legislation, while noone subscribed to the far right wing position of amending existing IP legislation to cater specially for traditional knowledge. Needless to say, the writer did not offer any support for the far right wing view and inclined towards the majority view. WIPO is, of course, sponsoring the sui generis legislation approach and this factor was given due recognition by the meeting.In addition to adopting a harmonised definition of traditional knowledge, the resolution provided that harmonised treatment of TK internationally is to be encouraged, that legal certainty is desirable, protection for TK should be aligned with the principles of existing IP systems, and that this may be achieved by way of sui generis treatment. Finally, the organisation resolved that defensive protection of TK is to be encouraged and that the specifics of this should be the subject of further study.ConclusionThe message that came through loud and clear from the congress was that the mainstream of international opinion on the subject of traditional knowledge is that nothing more than defensive protection is required and that, if it is desired to go further than this, special protection should be provided for in sui generis legislation. In the final analysis, it became clear to the writer that the view that the South African critics have been propounding is in keeping with international thinking on the subject and, if anything, it inclines towards a somewhat right wing approach by international standards. Their viewpoint that the South African government's approach to the protection of traditional knowledge is way out of line and is untenable is a generally prevailing one. The far right wing view is supported by noone and, on the contrary, is simply dismissed out of hand. The South African critics can therefore be content in the knowledge that their criticism and rejection of the Traditional Knowledge Bill is reasonable and is in harmony with the general informed international view. There is thus every justification for attempting to apply the brakes to the runaway train being driven by the Department of Trade and Industry.Read more about this subject and other matters at: www.sun.ac.za/iplaw or blogs.sun.ac.za/ipstell. Prof. Owen Dean was appointed as a Professor at the Law Faculty of Stellenbosch University as of 2011, where he is the incumbent of the Anton Mostert Chair of Intellectual Property Law. Share this Story:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Google+ (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)Related"From South Africa — Keeping Traditional Knowledge Traditional" by Intellectual Property Watch is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.


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The German, who is the second most expensive signing in Premier League history, travelled to Sunderland with the Arsenal squad despite the illness, although his compatriot Per Mertesacker was too ill to do likewise.
The defender's absence is likely to mean Bacary Sagna plays in the centre of defence, with Carl Jenkinson at right-back.
Jack Wilshere will return after struggling in England's goalless draw against the Ukraine on Tuesday.
Arsène Wenger, the Arsenal manager, has backed Wilshere to emerge from his injury problems into a player who can follow all-time greats Bobby Moore and Zinedine Zidane by inspiring his country to glory.
Wenger stressed that the midfielder simply needs a prolonged period of regular football to return to his very best following two ankle operations. Should he do that, Wenger is certain that he has both the technical quality and the mentality to carry England's hopes and even take the pressure off the rest of Roy Hodgson's squad.
Wenger had noted how England and his native France had underperformed in recent internationals – the French drew 0-0 with Georgia and were beaten 3-0 by Brazil over the past eight days – and believes that both teams need a talisman.
"National teams need a guy who absorbs this type of pressure and takes it," he said. "We had Zinedine Zidane. When the France team played well it was all Zidane, but the others could play. Before we had Michel Platini. In the history of the French team, it stops when Platini stops, the results. They stopped when Zidane stopped. You need a good generation but you also need one player."
When it was put to him that England "stopped" after Moore in 1966, Wenger said: "Jack can take that, he is young, only 22. He has the characteristics to do that. But he needs to play six months without any problem. If he can continue to play in October and November he will be normal."
Asked for the similarities between Zidane and Wilshere, Wenger said: "Not fazed by the importance of the game. He is not inhibited." Wenger, though, did concede that Wilshere had not been at his very best recently but also stressed that any dip in his performance would become magnified while with England.
"If Jack Wilshere has the same game at Arsenal we just say, 'He was not at his best'," said Wenger. "But when he has that game in the national team suddenly everyone questions [his] ability. The players play in the national team with that kind of pressure that comes from everybody."
Wenger is also certain that Wilshere will thrive by working day-to-day with Özil. He is also confident that they will complement each other , with Wilshere playing as one of his two central midfielders and Özil starting behind the main striker. "We all benefit from being with top level people ," said Wenger. "Jack has the personality to be a top, top, player. He has gone through a difficult period."


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The Constellations don't fit comfortably in any box, and that's by design.
The creation of Elijah Jones and producer Ben Allen (Animal Collective, Gnarls Barkley), the outfit's recent debut, "Southern Gothic," blends funk, psychedelia, Tom Waits-hued cabaret, groove-driven rock and Beck-inflected hip-hop. It's something that emerged organically from sessions helmed by Jones and Allen, and features a handful of Atlanta-area musicians.
"Ben called me one day and let me know that he was working on this kind of project where he was just inviting musicians in to work, and write songs together. The first day I came in, I wrote something, and from that point on, (we) were together in the studio," Jones said.
The entire process was loosey-goosey, with no goal or intention, which helps explain the record's wide-ranging sound, from the spacey electro-rock jams to cowbell-banging soul-rock.
"We played on stuff that was not even instruments. We'd mike a window seal, and I'd bang on it with my hand and we'd put it on the record. It was " on a day-to-day basis " one of the most creative things I've ever done," Jones said.
One of the defining moments came midway through the process when Allen suggested the group record a cover, and release it on the Web, just to judge the response. Jones suggested Waits' "Step Right Up," but couldn't quite master Waits' delivery and tone. Allen suggested Jones take the track home and write his own words to make it his own.
The trick worked, and became one of the album's signature songs, a dark, carnivalesque tune that captures the shadowy freak show of Atlanta's early morning nightlife. That theme runs through the entire disc.
"It definitely is the centerpiece. It's one of those songs that people either love or hate. We're that kind of band," Jones said. "There was never a point in time where I was, 'All right, I'm going to write another song about Atlanta.' I was in that mind frame, and that's what we were all connecting with, and we just rolled with it. We didn't even realize until we saw 70 percent of the work that we apparently wrote a concept record."
The product of a religious household, Jones gravitates toward the darker side of life, from seedy, street-corner hookers to "cocaine vulture" hipsters "with their complicated hairdos."
"I grew up in the church, and I still keep that in my heart. Definitely. But I have a different philosophy than my dad and mom would maybe approve of. I think without shedding light on the dark, you can't really talk about the good all the time. Sometimes, you have to talk about the bad," he said.
When the album began to take shape, Jones was taken by its quality and quickly assembled a band to play live shows. But he wasn't content to stick to Atlanta.
"It was too good of a record to sit on it and have it be a hometown favorite," he said. "I wanted it to reach as many people as possible."
Steady touring helped The Constellations build a reputation along the East Coast and eventually earned them a Virgin Records deal. Growing up with indie-rock snobs, Jones was initially intimidated by the major label, but sold when he met their reps.
"They didn't just hear or see money signs with the lead single," he said. "Everybody had their own favorite song. That's really what I was looking for: someone who got the record and would push the record as a whole and not just this one song."
Jones couldn't be more excited to head out on their first national tour. He continues to write and push his music in new directions, which he sees as key.
"It's about just not taking yourself so seriously, and at the same time, taking your art very seriously and not dumbing it down. Challenging your audience to reach out." he said. "Chris Parker


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Washington If you lose your job these days, it's worth scrambling to find a new one — fast.
After six months of unemployment, your chances of landing work dwindle.
The proportion of people jobless for six months or more has accelerated in the past year and now makes up 46 percent of the unemployed. That's the highest percentage on records dating to 1948. By late summer or early fall, they are expected to make up half of all jobless Americans.
Economists say those out of work for six months or more risk becoming less and less employable. Their skills can erode, their confidence falter, their contacts dry up. Their growing ranks also will keep pressure on Congress to keep extending jobless benefits, which now run for up to 99 weeks.
Overall, the economy has created a net 982,000 jobs this year. But for Jeff Martinez and the record 6.76 million others who have struck out for six months or more, their struggles are getting worse, not better.
Martinez, 40, a salesman in Washington, D.C., says he's logged more than 200 interviews in the past three years. Decked out in a dark navy suit and Burberry tie, Martinez projects drive and a zest for deal-making. And yet the most urgent deal of his career — finding a job — eludes him.
"You have days where you feel motivated and hopeful and optimistic," he says. "Then there are other days, you really lose the faith and think, 'I'm never going to get another job. Ever."'
What's causing the rising ranks of the long-term jobless to exceed the pace of other recessions?
Mainly, it's the depth and duration of the job-slashing this time. Since the recession began in December 2007 through May this year, a net 7.4 million jobs have vanished. The unemployment rate has surged nearly 5 percentage points: From 5 percent in December 2007 to 9.7 percent in May.
By contrast, in the last severe recession, the rate rose less sharply over a shorter period: From 7.2 percent in July 1981 to 10.8 percent at the end of 1982.
Lawrence Mishel, president of the Economic Policy Institute, points to the "sheer scale of the falloff in demand for workers" this time. It's left more people out of work for longer stretches. And it's intensified competition for each opening.
"It's a cruel game of musical chairs," Mishel says.
To lower the unemployment rate from the current 9.7 percent to a more normal 6 percent would require roughly a net 15 million new jobs by the end of 2016, estimates Brian Bethune, chief U.S. financial economist at IHS Global Insight.
Few think that's likely.
One factor behind the growing proportion of the long-term unemployed is the erosion of their workplace skills — or employers' perception of it. It's hard to find work in a tight job market when your skills are seen as stale.
For some occupations in particular, such as computer technicians or accountants, people jobless for many months can lose pace with technological changes or federal rules.
Among those who fear losing their edge is Stephan Azor, 30. He's looking for information technology work, perhaps overseeing a company's computer system. He was laid off eight months ago as a system administrator for a defense contractor.
"Technology changes every six months, so there are things I have to look up and learn," says Azor, who lives in Washington.
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Stocks Continue Their Roller Coaster Ride
The opening bell had not yet dinged Wednesday morning when the gloom and doom starting rolling in. After rallying on Tuesday, it appears the stock market is trending downward again. By day's end Wednesday, it had dropped over 400 points.
The market is going to dominate the news cycle for a little bit until the ship is righted again. To help you get through the difficulties, be sure to check out recent posts from us and from PointBlank.
The key, if you have investments in the market, is not to panic and sell off now. You'll be getting rid of assets that will inevitably rebound for pennies on the dollar, essentially, and you'll be contributing to a panicked market environment that is not even close to warranted. The drop, while severe, is likely to be temporary.
How has the stock market affected you? Let's make that today's topic of discussion.
A Small Business Survival Tale
It's not necessarily news that some 40 percent of the jobs lost in this economy are from small businesses. The environment is getting better, but it's not exactly thriving. I loved this quote from the Gloucester Times, not for its grim message but for its language:
Entrepreneurship is a jungle. In an economy that eats its young, like this one, 40 percent of jobs lost are in small business.
But there are survivors. Sometimes due to luck, trends, wisdom, effort or adaptation.
We need success stories to guide us, I believe. The story of a former Mail Boxes franchisee who struck out on his own and has clung on despite numerous setbacks and a recession is one that we can all take heart from. I highly suggest you give it a read.
No Burgers, No Problems
How can you change your business model to become more profitable, more sustainable or just better without alienating loyal customers? There's a lesson in Sweden, of all places, and BizEngine was happy to deliver it last week. Worth a read, but it might make you hungry.
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PARIS, May 13 (UPI) -- French Justice Minister Christiane Taubira has said the government should redistribute land to the descendants of ex-slaves in its Caribbean territories.
Her comments were published in a weekly magazine two days after President Francois Hollande emphatically ruled out reparations for France's role in the slave trade during the country's colonial era, France 24 reported Monday.
The descendants of slaves "were left without access to land" after a "land grab" in the French territories overseas, Taubira said. To rectify that situation "without sparking a civil war," she said France should consider land reform.
"There are steps that should be taken, without expropriations, and clearly explaining the reason behind the state's push to purchase land," Taubira added.
She authored a law that recognized slavery as a crime against humanity in 2001 while representing her native French Guiana as a member of parliament.
Hollande's statement had been protested by the Representative Council of Black Associations. On Sunday, the group's president, Luis-Georges Tin, said he was "overjoyed" by Taubira's comments.
Tin said France owned many unused tracts of land in its overseas territories and that Taubira's land reform could be accomplished without taking land from anyone.


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The Crew will face one of the few burdens of that comes with having one of the most potent strikers in Major League Soccer this week as Jairo Arrieta is away on international duty. The forward, who has scored 10 goals in 21 matches since arriving in Columbus in the middle of the 2012 season, will miss Saturday's match at D.C. United as he represents Costa Rica in 2014 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers against the United States and Jamaica. This could be the first of many call-ups for Arrieta this season as La Sele attempts to qualify for next year's World Cup in Brazil and participates in this summer's CONCACAF Gold Cup.
With Eddie Gaven likely to return from an ankle injury and his replacement Ben Speas impressing in the last two matches, one solution could be to move Dominic Oduro forward from right midfield to striker and slot Gaven into the lineup on the right wing. The speedy Ghanaian has played central forward for most of his eight-year MLS career prior to joining the Crew in February.
"I want to be out there playing all the time, regardless of what position it is," Oduro said after Tuesday's training session at Crew Stadium. "I'm very comfortable playing up top. I'll be glad to fill that spot. Whatever the coaches decide, you've got to respect that and just go out and play your heart out."
Transitioning from the right to the head of the attack would present different responsibilities for Oduro. However, the switch should not trouble the speedster.
"You've got to be alert up top," he said. "Our formation is in such a way that that guy up top has to give options for the guys on the wings and the guy in the middle. I think it's something I would really have to be aware of.
Oduro continued: "I believe [the other Crew attackers] know my style of play. It's just a matter of me trying to make the right runs. I've played in that position many times that I'll be aware of what I should do and what I shouldn't do at a certain point in time."
Another option could be to start rookie Ryan Finley up top, who started most of the Black & Gold's preseason matches while Arrieta was away on Costa Rica duty at the Copa Centroamericana. A physical presence in front of goal, Finley scored 56 goals during his college career split between time at Duke and Notre Dame.
Finley is preparing for Saturday's match as he would any other by working hard to impress his new coaches in training.
"I'm just approaching it as a normal week," the rookie explained. "I've said from the beginning that I'm just going to come in and work as hard as I can whether Robert [Warzycha] wants to start me, play me 30 minutes or not play me at all. It doesn't change my mentality, I'm just going to continue to work as hard as I can."
No matter who starts against D.C., the competition in training this week should benefit the team as a whole.
"I think the guys enjoy competition and that's what you need to get better," Finley said. "I think that if you know you're starting week-in and week-out, you can slide a little bit in training. Here, everyone is battling. Everyone is working and it brings the level of training higher."
Though he has yet to set a lineup for Saturday, Head Coach Robert Warzycha has faith both players can contribute in Arrieta's absence.
"Dominic is a speedy guy and Ryan is a rookie who scored a lot of goals in college," the Head Coach said.
"I don't know who I am going to start, but I have confidence in every single player."


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A full slate of Big Ten games awaits on Saturday. Here's a look at facts and figures to preview the opening week of November football in the league:
The short-yardage run game is clicking for Minnesota. And we're talking very short yardage. The Gophers' past eight touchdowns on the ground have covered 1 yard. Eleven of their 19 touchdowns this season were punched in from the 1, and 15 covered 5 yards or fewer. Minnesota rushed for just 14 touchdowns last year. The Gophers are 13-10 under coach Jerry Kill when they score a rushing TD and 2-8 when they don't.
Indiana's offense is doing its part in the program's bid for a winning season. The Hoosiers have scored 28 or more points in eight consecutive games, a first at the school. They've passed for more than 300 yards six times season in seven games. Indiana receivers Cody Latimer, Shane Wynn, Kofi Hughes and tight end Ted Bolser have all surpassed 100 career receptions and 1,000 yards in the past four weeks. Indiana is the only team nationally and the first in the Big Ten since Northwestern in 2008 with four 100-1,000 players.
Despite scoring just three points last week against Michigan State, Illinois' offense remains one of the most improved units nationally. From last season, the Illini have jumped more than 60 spots in the national rankings in passing efficiency, big plays (20 yards or more), first downs per game, passing yardage per game, turnovers lost and scoring offense. Illinois averages 400.7 yards of total offense, up 46 spots from last year, when it ranked 119th at 296.7 yards per game.
Penn State, under coach Bill O'Brien, has not lost consecutive games since it opened last season 0-2. Its Oct. 12 win over Michigan, 43-40 in four overtimes -- the longest game in Big Ten history -- prevented a two-game skid on the heels of a loss at Indiana. Penn State needs a win on Saturday over Illinois to prevent consecutive defeats in the wake of a 63-14 loss last week to Ohio State. O'Brien is 5-1 at PSU in games after a loss.
Senior Jeremy Gallon's 369 yards on 14 catches last week against Indiana set Michigan and Big Ten records for receiving yardage in a game. It was the second-highest figure ever posted by an FBS receiver, and the 14 receptions were the second most at Michigan in one game. Gallon has recorded a reception in 33 straight games, with nine touchdown receptions over his past eight. He ranks second in the Big Ten in receiving yardage per game at 118.7.
A win for Michigan State on Saturday over Michigan would keep the Spartans in control of the Legends Division and mark their third consecutive victory over the Wolverines at Spartan Stadium, which has never happened in the 105-game series. Michigan is 19-12-2 against Michigan State in East Lansing, but under Brady Hoke, the Wolverines are 6-8 away from Michigan Stadium. A win for the Spartans would also be their fifth in six games over Michigan. That hasn't happened since MSU won six of seven from 1956 to 1962.
No team in the Big Ten feels quite like Northwestern about October. The Wildcats went 0-3 to even their record at 4-4 as November arrives. This final month of the regular season has proven much more kind to Northwestern. It is 12-6 in November since 2008, with five victories over teams ranked in the top 20, including a 28-25 upset in Lincoln over No. 9 Nebraska in 2011. The Wildcats' lone November loss a year ago came at Michigan in overtime.
Redshirt freshman quarterback Tommy Armstrong, set to start for the fourth time this season on Saturday, has guided Nebraska to scores on 12 of 24 possessions in his previous three starts. Armstrong again replaces senior Taylor Martinez, out after he suffered a hip pointer last week in his return at Minnesota after a three-game absence because of a foot injury. A fourth start by Armstrong would mark the first time at Nebraska since 1998, when Bobby Newcombe and Eric Crouch split time, that two quarterbacks started more than three games in the same season.
Ohio State has remained unbeaten this year to extend its nation-leading winning streak to 20 games in large part because of its success at running the football. OSU, after a season-best 408-yard rushing effort against Penn State -- the first 400-yard day at the school since 1995 -- ranks second in the Big Ten and ninth nationally with a 295.6-yard rushing average. Senior Carlos Hyde has rushed for 464 yards and seven touchdowns in the past three games. Hyde and senior Jordan Hall have combined to rush for 1,038 yards and 15 touchdowns.
Purdue has taken Ohio State to overtime in the past two meetings, losing 29-22 a year ago at Ohio Stadium after a 26-23 victory by the Boilermakers in 2011 that marked the program's second straight home win over the Buckeyes. Saturday appears to set up differently as Purdue starts one of the youngest teams nationally. Offensively, four true freshmen, including quarterback Danny Etling, and three redshirt freshmen have participated on the same play in the past two games.
Wisconsin needs one victory to become bowl eligible for the 12th consecutive season. Its run of 11 straight bowl appearances ranks as the longest in the Big Ten and ties the Badgers for the eighth-longest streak nationally. A win would also give Wisconsin an edge in the all-time series against Iowa. It is currently equal at 42-42-2. The Badgers have won six straight games that fall after a bye week, including a 35-6 win three weeks ago over Northwestern.
Iowa cornerback Desmond King is averaging 7.2 tackles in Big Ten games, according to the school, more than any other true freshman in the league. King, who has started seven of the Hawkeyes' eight games, recorded a season-best 12 tackles at Ohio State on Oct. 19 and 11 against Michigan State on Oct. 5. King is the first true freshman to start in the Iowa secondary since Jovon Johnson in 2002. His third-down pass breakup last week against Northwestern negated a potential first down in overtime, helping lead to the Iowa win.


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PDAF, SPF and plunder-A A +A
Slice of Life
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
ON THE alleged illegal disbursements of the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF), three senators -- Juan Ponce Enrile, Ramon Revilla Jr. and Jinggoy Estrada -- have been indicted for plunder, along with Janet Lim-Napoles and several others criminally liable for plunder and graft.
Senator Enrile faces 15 counts of graft, Revilla 16 and Estrada 11.
Plunder is punishable by reclusion perpetua or life, and forfeiture of the ill-gotten wealth in favor of the government. It is a nonbailable offense.
The case was filed based on the expose of whistle-blower Benhur Luy who gave evidence of huge amounts of the PDAF allocations going to alleged "dummy" NGOs in a scheme supposedly hatched by Napoles. It is said that the supposed PDAF-funded projects turned out to be "ghost" projects.
The wheel of justice is turning. Still, it should not be forgotten that the PDAF was resurrected in a different form. Congress representatives and Senators are still provided with discretionary funds to support their projects. In the executive level, the Special Purpose Fund (SPF) continues.
By any other name and form, it remains a symbol of dirty patronage politics, and an enticing source of corruption.
The Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) revealed that "SPFs and lump-sums constitute still over half" of the P2.006 trillion of the national budget for 2013. SPFs alone also account to a huge 22 percent of the current P2.3-trillion national budget. Senate probe shows that P100 million from the president's P72.11-billion stimulus funds went to bogus government-formed NGOs linked with the pork barrel scam.
In our midst are unscrupulous individuals using their government position to squander resources. This is all about systemic corruption where the taxes of Filipinos from their meager income are slashed and pocketed by government officials while tiny provisions for health, education, infrastructure and housing are spread thinly.
The Council for Health and Development, an organization of community based health programs said the P10 billion pork barrel scam should have fund the salary of 16,667 doctors or 33,333 nurses in rural areas for one year; fund the treatment of 2.5 million Tuberculosis patients; treat 1.25 million Dengue patients; pay for the anti-retroviral treatment of 55,556 HIV/Aids patients for one year and provide vaccines to 12 million babies.
That the pork barrel is still considered by the President as a "great equalizer" needs the conscientious will of those in the government to reassess its position reassess. That Malacañang continue to dilly-dally on the passage of the Freedom of Information (FOI) speaks strongly on its political will and commitment.
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With the commitment of Derrick Green (Richmond, Va./Hermitage), Michigan has landed its highest-ranked running back since 2006. Green, the No. 5 running back in the ESPN 150, is the only ESPN 150 back to pick Michigan during that same time frame.
He isn't the first running back commit for the Wolverines in the 2013 class, as Deveon Smith (Warren, Ohio/Howland) and Wyatt Shallman (Novi, Mich./Detroit Catholic Central) are also committed, but Green is a huge get for a number of reasons.


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Halloween is coming up in a matter of weeks (one of only 11 Irish festivals, so enjoy it while you can!)
This year, Insane Clown Posse – Michigan's scariest, most grotesque rap duo since Kid Rock and Joe C. – have decided to mark the occasion with a brand new song entitled 'This Halloween is Crazy.' Well it certainly is that.
You thought rainbows were insane? Just you wait for this Halloween – it's crazy. Magnets… confusing? Wait until it starts raining pumpkins up in this bitch. Spooky, spooky! A witch smacks into a tree? BOOM! Welcome to Detroit, bitch.
Insane Clown Posse – 'This Halloween Is Crazy'


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I have to constantly bite my tongue over what ex does. Constantly. He makes choices I would never do...but that isn't my problem any longer.
I only step in when it is something really, really stupid now. (like discussing moving in with his boyfriend (he is gay) in front of our kids without discussing it with me first. My 9 year old came home in tears saying she never wanted to move in with daddy and B because it is "so weird". I had no warning this was happening. My kids are 7 & 9 and my ex is stupid.)
It may hurt, you can see it isn't a good idea, but that doesn't make it your business. Unless it directly affects you or your children, then you just learn to roll your eyes and bite your tongue and move on.
Letting go is a long process. Stay focused on yourself and your future and let him mess up his own.
As far our your kids moral compass - that is a tricky one when you have one parent modelling a complete lack of morals.
I would hazard a guess that they know where you stand on these matters so talking to them about it would be like beating a dead horse.
IMO all you can do is live in a way that is true to you and true to your morals. You have no say nor control over how he lives or what behaviour he models.
You continue to show them how healthy people live. In time he will blow his life up enough that they will see.
Don't mistake them accepting him for them agreeing with his choices. A lot of these kids have to bear the burden of their parents choices in order to maintain a relationship with them.
Don't let this become a wedge between you and your children. You keep doing you and let him keep doing whatever the hell he calls this life he is living.


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Trouble getting them out of bed? Letting your children sleep in improves school performance
MAYBE parents should let their children sleep in a little more - it may help improve their behavior and make them less restless in school, according to a study.
On the flip side, few parents are likely to be surprised to know that cutting back on children's sleep time seems to make them more likely to cry, lose their temper and become frustrated, according to the researchers, who published their findings in Pediatrics.
"You can think about it from a lot of different angles," said Reut Gruber, of Montreal's McGill University and Douglas Research Center, who led the study. "What we are showing here is that it can go both ways in terms of behavior and academic performance."
While Gruber's team is not the first to link sleep and behavior, few studies have looked at whether more sleep actually leads to better behavior in school children.
For the study, they recruited 33 children between seven and 11 years old to be followed over two weeks.
For the first week, the researchers monitored how long the children slept - about 9.3 hours, which is short of the 10 hours suggested by the U.S. National Institutes of Health.
The children were split into two groups for the second week. One group's parents were told to add an hour to their kids' usual time asleep, while the other group was told to cut their sleep time by an hour.
Half of the children did lose an hour of sleep each night, but the other group was only able to add about 30 minutes. Still, that seemed long enough for teachers to notice an improvement in the kids' behavior.
After the first week of monitoring, the teachers answered questions that rated the children's emotions, moodiness and restlessless at school on a scale from zero to 100, with higher scores indicating worse behavior and scores above 60 indicating a behavioral problem.
The baseline score for both groups before the sleep manipulation began was about 50, but after a week of the experimental sleep changes teachers, who did not know which group any of the children were in, rated the kids again.
The children who got the extra 30 minutes of sleep during the second week scored, on average, about 47, meaning their behavior had improved. But the children who lost an hour of sleep each night were scored about 54.
Gruber said that while the study only included 33 kids, it was still able to show that more sleep leads to better behavior. But the parents' reporting of sleepiness and behavior may have been influenced because of course they had to know how much more sleep their children were getting.
But she said it could be hard to add extra sleep in the evening, given how busy children's lives have become, and that perhaps adding just a little more in both morning and evening would help.


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Call for Visual Arts Projects for MaComère: Special Issue: Fall 2013 Contemporary Women ArtistsTuesday, February 5th, 2013 Categories: Call for Submissions, Updates
Given the multilingual and shifting locations of Caribbean women artists, this special issue of MaComère focuses on the work of women whose artistic practices engage with the multiple meanings of the Caribbean and its diaspora.
Through diverse written and visual contributions, this special issue seeks to begin a conversation about the ways in which Caribbean women artists, who define themselves as such, engage with and challenge the very notion of the "Caribbean" and introduce nuanced and intertextual concepts in relation to contemporary art practice(s).
We invite proposals for original Visual Arts Projects that will satisfy the following parameters:
- Be created by individual artists or as a collaborative project;
- Creatively explore independent visual objectives with consideration being given to the specificity of this publication;
- Be designed particularly for a printed publication that will be close bound with pages that are approximately 8 ½ " x 10" in size;
- Fill 4 pages of the publication (2 pages back and front – one double spread);
- Be in black and white OR full colour.
Ideally, proposals will not reproduce / document already existing artworks. Rather, we invite original contributions that give careful consideration to the specificity of this particular Issue.
Please submit the following for consideration:
- A detailed proposal of 250-500 words outlining the visual arts project;
- 2 to 4 JPG image files of artwork that relates to the proposal;
- Sketches showing the layout of the proposed project on the 4 pages (sketches may be scanned and submitted as JPG files);
- A brief CV with exhibition history.
Submissions should be made to by April 1st, 2013.


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Reviewed By Julie R (Yakima, WA) Reviewed for a 2010 Mercedes-Benz GL-Class —6/5/2013 10:58 AM
Having recently traded my Sienna Minivan for an SUV, I lost a ton of storage space along with built in cup holders! With three very active kids, we needed more storage space. The Thule Transporter works great! I wanted something that I could load and not have to deal with a carrier that went on top of the SUV. I liked that it had the tilt feature for accessing my car trunk but actually with my MB450GL, I can open my trunk without tilting the cargo box! The difficult part was the installation!


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Spoilers ahead!
A few not-so-shocking giveaways about this week's new movie releases, including Justice League and Frank Serpico
Matthew Lickona 6 p.m., Nov. 17
Hard Rock Hotel, 207 Fifth Avenue, Downtown San Diego
Welcome back, Baby Boomers and suburban-raised Gen Xers, to your childhoods. Minus, of course, bedwetting, skinned knees, dorky shoes, schoolyard bullies, mean girls, broken skates, school-cafeteria lunches, Dick and Jane, et al. Your second childhood will be free of the miseries of the original. At Maryjane's you will eat your recherche du temps perdu just like Proust, and it may even taste slightly better than when Mom served it hot from the oven on a disposable tripartite aluminum-foil tray.
This time around, childhood will be painless because you'll be able to look back not with anger or tears but with fond irony. A wall devoted to prints of Warhol portraits of Mick Jagger will help you maintain your sophisticated detachment. Camping it up are the other walls, partly paneled in genuine coffee-shop wood veneer (unless it's real wood disguised as veneer) and white linoleum tiles peeking out from the edges of dark brown carpeting. There are tall, dark-brown booths upholstered in the hide of the endangered wild Nauga. There are round tables with low-slung rolling swivel chairs kidnapped from a business-class airport lounge, probably Eero Saarinen's TWA Terminal at Idlewild (JFK), circa 1965. An acoustical-foam ceiling sprouts Mid-Century Modern chandeliers resembling long-spiked silvery sea urchins capped with threesomes of bulbs. Numerous silent flat-panel TVs cut between Marilyn Monroe's drag-show outing (Some Like It Hot) and Shirley Jones (The Partridge Family). In the adjacent long, darkish entry room are long counters with stools. (Is it a bar or a luncheonette? Oh, gee, it's either or both — milk shakes or martinis!) Rock of various ages plays rather loudly throughout.
The Mick Jagger portraits on the wall are key. Boomer or Gen X-er, you're now in 1955 viewed from 1967, or 1976 viewed from 1967: Your Childhood by Andy Warhol and the Factory crew — A Multimedia Multi-Sensory Event. Edie Sedgwick and Ultra Violet should be the hostesses, tall Mary Woronov (later immortalized as the punitive "Miss Togar" in Rock'n'Roll High School) and tough tweaker-dyke Bridget Polk the bouncers. Holly Woodlawn and Candy Darling should be motherly, glam-trannie waitresses calling you "hon," with quietly observant Billy Name as kitchen expediter. Oh, maybe not. That could seem too, well, serious (although it would be serious fun, too). The real 1967 was actually awfully strenuous to live through.
This is the lite version of innocence recollected in decadence. Maryjane is a fag hag at heart, but her gay sensibility is strictly closeted, with straight waiters, standard-issue glam hostesses; only another old fag hag like me can see through the pose. The gay sensibility has become the universal urban posture now — everybody's ironic, and nobody's all that decadent, except Amy Winehouse and Babyshambles, and who'd want to be them?
Why was I there? Because we all need a little cheap comfort sometime. I needed it because we'd been planning to explore a new Southern-style BBQ on Euclid that evening, but a few minutes before the gathering of the tribe, I phoned to see if they'd take credit cards and found their line disconnected. Freak out! Needed new destination STAT, with no res needed, a place where low-rent BBQ clothes would pass. Samurai Jim, meanwhile, had just come off 18 straight working days and two root canals. He'd spotted Maryjane's when we ate at Nobu, and since then we'd seen some complimentary early mentions in print. Michelle was fine with it, too, and the Dow Jones had just totally crashed, so going to a really cheap destination seemed like a good idea to show solidarity with the suffering masses.
Maryjane's hip, jokey attitude extends to the menu: A side dish named "Bad Advice" is free, and the plain hamburger is called, in parentheses, "missionary style." The fare at Maryjane's is (like the decor) slightly upscale coffee shop. Big, certified Black Angus half-pound burgers. Big salads, including a classic Cobb. Sandwiches such as tuna melts, peanut butter and banana ("the hot Elvis"), and, especially tempting, an "Award Winning" meatloaf sandwich. A few Mex-oid plates (guacamole, quesadilla, nachos, soft tacos), with vegan versions citing Ozzy Osbourne on the menu; some pub grub (Buffalo wings, fancy fries, onion rings); plus a few simple entrées, ranging from fish and chips to rib-eye steak frites.
We ordered a starter of guacamole from our cheerful, nondecadent waiter and a side of five-cheese mac to come with our entrées. The waiter totally forgot the guac. (He didn't charge us for it.) The mac 'n' cheese (fontina, Gruyère, and three unknowns that evidently didn't include cheddar) was light and creamy but also light on flavor.
The meat loaf is better than Mom's — better than Michelle's, Jim's, and my mom's. It's really meat loaf, not cheap fatty hamburger meat filled out with crumbs or cracker meal, but good, beefy ground sirloin with a bit of char at the edges. Better yet, it doesn't have Mom's ketchup gravy. It comes with mashed potatoes lightly laced with an elusive, nearly flavorless substance called "Wavy Gravy" in honor of the San Francisco hipster-comedian — who was too flavorful a character to deserve so bland an homage. The mash tastes like instant from a box, smooth, fine-grained, lacking all potato taste. On the side are frozen peas. I like frozen peas, use 'em myself in a pinch, but in a restaurant I sort of expect fresh veggies.
The other entrée most worth eating is chicken pot pie. It's a perfected form of the Morton's frozen chicken pot pies I grew up on. It has a light, crispy top crust, plenty of substantial, tender chicken-breast pieces, firm-tender carrot chunks and frozen peas, and the classic semi-viscous chicken gravy familiar from the frozen versions.
"This is so much better than the ones I grew up on," said Jim, "where you had a crust all around and could barely taste the chicken." Michelle concurred. I knew their secret: When my mom was short of money, she bought the cheaper Swanson's brand, with more crust, more gravy, hardly any chicken. Yup, they admitted, their moms served Swanson's. Yup, this is much better, and twice the size — portioned for an adult. Don't get me wrong: This is not a great home-made rendition. (My favorite recipe has a cornmeal crust, tarragon, oyster mushrooms, and — well, it's a lot better.) This is merely an improvement on a good brand of frozen pot pie.
I'm glad you reviewed Maryjane's. I've been thinking about giving it a try -- but maybe now I won't. My favorite diner is the Studio Diner -- which is attached to Stu Segall Productions in Kearny Mesa. Everything I have tried there has been good -- with my favorites being the Samson Steak Sandwhich, Mommy's Meatloaf and the Haddock. It's a fun place with lots of movie/TV memorabilia -- and the best part is that it's open 24 hrs a day.


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Title: Readings and Prayers for Use in Toronto Schools
Description: Toronto, Ontario, Board of Education for the City of Toronto. 1982, First Edition. Paperback, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 247 pages. A compilation of works from many religions. Reference bibliography for teachers. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Good.
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