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Pope to Mexico's children: Be messengers of peace

GUANAJUATO, Mexico (AP) ? Pope Benedict XVI reached out to the future of the church in Mexico on Saturday, telling a gathering of children to be messengers of peace in their often-violent country.

The pope reserved his only public remarks of the day for a gathering of about 4,000 children and their parents massed in Peace Plaza in the city of Guanajuato, telling them that they are each a "gift of God to Mexico and the world."

Referring indirectly to the drug-fueled violence plaguing Mexico, he urged them all to be messengers of peace.

"The disciple of Jesus does not respond to evil with evil, but is always an instrument of good instead, a herald of pardon, a bearer of happiness, a servant of unity," Benedict said. "I will pray for all of you, so that Mexico may be a place in which everyone can live in serenity and harmony."

"We're excited to hear his words, not just for this moment, but to carry in our lives and to know God better," said 17-year-old Fabiola Gonzalez, who traveled by bus with a group of 45 teenage girls from Guadalajara to the plaza. "We hope they will last more than this week."

Benedict was interrupted several times by the cheering crowd that had gathered hours beforehand for an intimate encounter with the 84-year-old pope on one of his few public outings in Mexico.

Tens of thousands, many of them teenagers, watched his remarks on big screen televisions in a nearby pilgrim camp at the site of the papal Mass planned for Sunday. The atmosphere was like a rock concert as the TVs showed the pope emerging on a balcony in nearby Guanajuato, with campers letting go a roaring chant of "Benedicto, Benedicto."

The focus on youth fits with the Vatican's drive to re-evangelize parts of the world where Roman Catholicism has fallen by the wayside, trying to rally the next generation to embrace a faith that their parents may have abandoned. While Europe has certainly been Benedict's focus to date, Mexico also has seen its number of Catholics fall.

"The Mexican church feels like it's lost a few generations of Catholics," said Joseph Palacios, a professor of Latin American studies at Georgetown University, citing the battles over liberation theology that drove many left-leaning Catholics away. To get back its numbers, the Mexican church is "moving forward with the new generation," he said.

Even as Benedict was receiving a rapturous welcome from young Catholics, his first full day in Mexico was not without criticism ? particularly concerning the church's treatment of children and sexual abuse.

Victims of the late Marcial Maciel on Saturday launched a new book containing documents on the Vatican's alleged cover-up of sexual abuse of seminarians by Maciel, who founded the Legionaries of Christ. Questions about the Vatican's handling of Maciel and his victims have grown in the lead-up to Benedict's arrival.

Benedict took over the Legion in 2010 after the order finally admitted that Maciel had molested seminarians and fathered three children with two women. The documentation in the new book, said author Jose Barba, one of the victims, demonstrates that the Vatican had information against Maciel as early as 1944 and particularly in the mid-1950s, when the Holy See launched its first investigation into the Mexican-born Maciel.

Alberto Athie, former priest and one of three co-authors of "The Desire Not to Know," called on Benedict to publicly recognize the church's responsibility for Maciel's abuse.

"The church won't fall. On the contrary, it will be reconstructed," he said.

The pope did not talk about this abuse scandal in his limited remarks.

At the entrance to Guanajuato, Benedict received the keys to the city and then traveled by popemobile past faithful crowded along the cobblestone streets of the historic colonial-era city, which was the birthplace of Mexican independence and an armed uprising against harsh anti-clerical laws in the 1920s.

People packed narrow streets, balconies and rooftops and cheered wildly even as it started to sprinkle. Children and teenagers ran through crowds as Benedict passed to catch another glimpse of him. At one point, someone handed him a baby through an open window of the bulletproof popemobile. He kissed the baby and an aide passed the child back.

As he left his residence in the city of Leon in late afternoon for his meeting with President Felipe Calderon in Guanajuato, Benedict went out of his way to bless dozens of babies handed up to him by their parents. While such gestures are routine papal fare, Benedict seemed to zero in on the children in the crowd.

"We young people are getting closer to the church and to God, instead of getting closer to drugs and violence," said Juan Daniel Pacheco, 18, of Apaseo el Grande in Guanajuato state as he sought shade with his friends at one of the campgrounds that were quickly filling with faithful arriving for Sunday's Mass. "We are young people who will be able to change Mexico."

Benedict has taken up Pope John Paul II's drive to reach out to young Catholics, following in his footsteps by rallying millions of young faithful to join him for World Youth Days, the Catholic youth festivals held once every three years. The next edition is scheduled for Rio de Janiero.

He awoke to the pre-dawn serenade of two dozen youths from a Guadalajara church group who sang him a traditional folk song after getting as close as security would allow to the college in Leon where the pontiff is staying during his three-day visit to Mexico.

"We sang with all our heart and all our force," said Maria Fernanda de Luna, a member of the group. "It gave us goose bumps to sing 'Las Mananitas' for him."

Of the 43.5 million Mexicans under age 20, 36.2 million are Catholic, or 83.2 percent, just under the national average. The largest group of Mexicans overall are children aged 5 to 9 ? a prime target for Benedict's efforts to rebuild a church that has fallen victim to the same secular trends that have emptied churches across Europe.

Benedict will greet tens of thousands of young faithful Sunday, when he celebrates Mass in the enormous Bicentennial Park.

The weeklong trip to Mexico and Cuba is Benedict's first to both countries, and only his second to Latin America. He visited Brazil in 2007.

Many said the pope's message of peace and unity would help heal their country, traumatized by the deaths of more than 47,000 people in a drug war that has escalated during a government offensive against cartels that began at the end of 2006.

Teens on Saturday said the damage of violence and drug use emphasized the importance of staying on a religious path.

"I've been drawn closer to all that is spiritual because it helps me in life," said Carla Patricia Maldonado Moreno, 15, of nearby Celaya. "I know I'm not going to surrender to whatever obstacle."

Pilgrims streamed into the camps from all over Mexico and as far away as Phoenix, Arizona.

Paula Zazueta traveled 40 hours by bus from Phoenix with 43 people, who first went to Mexico City to see the shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe and later to the camp in Silao to await the Mass.

"The blessings he will give us are important," said Zazueta, who owns a video production company.

"It is faith that moves us," said Alejandra Angoa, 34, a handicrafts-maker from the state of Tlaxcala. She walked alongside people of all ages carrying sleeping bags, coolers, backpacks, rolling suitcases and jugs of water.

Marcela Perez, 35, was exhausted after the trek and huddled in the only shade she could find alongside a portable toilet. But she did not regret coming.

"I think it's worth it," she said. "He is the head, the rock for us who have been baptized, for the church. It's a unique experience."

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Associated Press writer Adriana Gomez Licon reported this story in Guanajuato and Nicole Winfield reported in Leon. AP writers Michael Weissenstein in Silao and E. Eduardo Castillo in Leon contributed to this report.

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'Borat' strikes again: Fake anthem used at ceremony

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Borat Sagdiyev, played by actor Sacha Baron Cohen, attends a "book signing" in 2007 in Los Angeles.

By msnbc.com staff and news services

Kazakhstan's shooting team demanded an apology after a spoof national anthem from the comedy film "Borat" was played instead of the real one at a medal ceremony in Kuwait, the BBC reported Friday.

The team's coach told Kazakh media the organizers of the Kuwait tournament had downloaded the parody from the Internet by mistake and had also got the Serbian national anthem wrong.

Video of Thursday's original ceremony posted on YouTube shows gold medalist Maria Dmitrienko listening solemnly to the anthem before smiling.


The BBC reported that the team demanded an apology and the ceremony was later rerun.

The spoof anthem, from the movie featuring British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan," praises Kazakhstan for its superior potassium exports and for having the cleanest prostitutes in the region.

"Borat" portrays Kazakhs as ignorant and backward and was banned in Kazakhstan.

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How Online Fax Services Can Simplify Your Life

With the decline of traditional fax machines, this IS a great alternative.

Written by Shelly Verma, Contributing Writer

As you set up or expand your business, you are going to look for ways to increase its efficiency and implement cost effective measures. The issue is how to improve your operations without compromising the communication tools that you use, since the key to survival in the corporate world is instant and effective communication. For example, the invention of the fax machine first made this possible through the use of a telephone line, though using modern technologies such as an Online Fax Service has even greater advantages over traditional faxing. Let?s see how.

What is online faxing?

Online fax or Internet fax uses the internet to send document replicas. The hard copy of a document is converted to a digital file type such as PDF and is sent via email. By using the office Local Area Network (LAN) or Wide Area Network (WAN), data is sent via an IP address through the internet or intranet. The machine at the other end must also be compatible with this technology in order to receive the fax from the Internet. There are several online service providers which provide a fax number and encrypt faxes for increased security.

If you do opt to fax documents, online fax services will by all means be the right choice.

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Effective communication: Using an online fax service allows for smooth and quick communications between each other. Your message is accurately replicated and your business will be more productive with instant communication.??

Cost Effective: An online fax is sent via e-mails and you only need an internet connection since a telephone line is not required. The costs of transferring data are covered by your internet service provider and you don?t need to pay any additional charges for faxing over the internet. Also, internet faxing significantly reduces the costs of long distance or overseas faxes.

No Special Software is Required: The document is converted into PDF format and transferred to the receiver as an attachment over the internet. Using IP Fax, the data from a networked multifunctional device is transmitted to the IP address of another on the intranet since no special software is required for this process. With LAN/WAN infrastructure, it?s possible to rule out costs of connection and transmission. Also, you can send multiple faxes simultaneously and make communication faster.

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Energy Efficient: The traditional fax machines has to be left on receive faxes, while computers can receive faxes even when it it?s turned off. This leads to higher savings on electricity.

There is a wide range of Internet-based fax services to choose from, therefore you need to research and select the best plan that suits your domestic or business needs. Though faxing may be regarded by some as an outmoded option, it still provides unique benefits. If you do opt to fax documents, online fax services will by all means be the right choice.

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U.S. sets 'surprisingly low' China solar panel duties

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United States on Tuesday dealt a blow to U.S. manufacturers of solar panels and boosted shares in Chinese rivals when it imposed unexpectedly low preliminary punitive duties on imports from China, though the move still drew fire from China industry representatives.

The action adds to trade tensions between the world's two largest economies and threatens cooperation in the burgeoning clean-energy sector, which both say they want to promote.

A Chinese industry group said despite the low duties the decision was unfair and went against international trade laws.

"If the U.S. finally decides on the tariff, U.S. solar energy costs will increase sharply and shrink the energy market," the China Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Machinery and Electronic Products said in a statement.

"The decision will harm the long-term interest of the solar industry as a whole."

President Barack Obama, running for re-election in November, has promised to crack down on unfair Chinese trade practices and last week challenged China's export restrictions on critical "rare earth" industrial materials in a case filed with the European Union and Japan at the World Trade Organization.

Energy analysts had expected Chinese imports of solar panels to be hit with preliminary duties of 20 percent to 30 percent, but the rates announced on Tuesday ranged from just 2.90 percent to 4.73 percent.

Tuesday's move is the latest salvo from Washington in its efforts to help the nascent U.S. clean energy industry compete against China's fast-growing companies, the leading suppliers to the global solar market.

Rapid expansion by Chinese companies has created a glut of solar panels that drove prices down sharply last year, pushing some weaker U.S. companies, including Solyndra, into bankruptcy.

CHINESE SOLAR MAKERS RALLY

The move pushed up shares of Chinese solar firms in Hong Kong on Wednesday, with GCL-Poly Energy rising as much as 4.8 percent and Solargiga Energy Holdings up nearly 3 percent, beating a flat broader index and tracking gains in Wall Street peers overnight.

"Punitive tariffs of less than 5 percent would be manageable for Chinese solar makers given that their panels are sold 25 to 30 percent cheaper than U.S.-made panels," said Min Li, head of alternative energy at research firm Yuanta Securities.

Chinese solar panel makers depend on exports for more than 90 percent of their earnings and the U.S. is their second-largest market, after Europe.

The Coalition for American Solar Manufacturing, a U.S. industry group that has complained that massive Chinese subsidies were driving them out of business, tried to put the best face on the news.

It said the U.S. Commerce Department would uncover more subsidies and unfair pricing practices as it continues its probe in the coming months, which would result in higher final duties.

"Today's announcement affirms what U.S. manufacturers have long known: Chinese manufacturers have received unfair and WTO-illegal subsidies," said Steve Ostrenga, chief executive officer of Helios Solar Works in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat who has been a driving force behind the case, also said he expected duties to "significantly swell" as the case proceeds.

China accounts for 114 of the 283 anti-dumping and countervailing duty orders the United States has on foreign goods. The Obama administration has imposed more than 50 anti-dumping and countervailing duty orders since taking office in January 2009, including about 40 against Chinese goods.

The United States imported $2.8 billion worth of solar cells and panels from China in 2011, up sharply from about $1.2 billion just a year earlier, according to industry estimates.

The Commerce Department will announce preliminary anti-dumping duties in May to address a separate set of charges that Chinese producers are selling solar panels in the U.S. market at unfairly low prices.

CHINESE COMPANIES FEEL 'VINDICATED'

Chinese producers and U.S. companies opposed to the duties said the preliminary decision on Tuesday belied charges that China was flooding its solar sector with subsidies.

"We're pleased and in large part feel vindicated," Robert Petrina, managing director of Yingli Green Energy's U.S. business said.

Jigar Shah, president of a coalition of U.S. solar panel sales and installation companies which were opposed to duties, called the ruling an "initial victory for America's solar industry and its 100,000 employees" because it would not significantly raise prices for solar products and hurt demand.

SolarWorld Industries America, the U.S. arm of leading German solar manufacturer SolarWorld AG, has led the U.S. industry coalition seeking import relief.

The Commerce Department set a preliminary duty of 2.90 percent on SunTech Power Holdings, the world's biggest producer of photovoltaic solar panels, and a preliminary duty of 4.73 percent on Trina Solar, another major Chinese producer, industry officials said. All other Chinese solar panel producers and exporters received a duty rate of 3.59 percent.

Importers will have to post bonds or cash deposits based on the preliminary countervailing duty rates while the department continues its investigation.

The "surprisingly low" numbers would likely mean that the major Chinese companies would need to pay between about $5 million to $10 million to cover products shipped, said Timothy Arcuri, an analyst with Citigroup, adding this in itself would have a relatively minimal impact.

(Additional reporting by Leonora Walet in Hong Kong, Ran Li in Beijing, Doug Palmer in Washington and Matt Daily in New York; Editing by Anthony Boadle, Eric Walsh and Jonathan Hopfner)

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