To suffer on good Friday, Pope uses TV to field questions | Philadelphia-Philadelphia Inquirer

RICCARDO DE LUCA / associated press Pope Benedict XVI unveiling a Crucifixat the passion Christ mass on Friday. Posted on sat, Apr 23, 2011 by Frances d ' Emilio associated PressVATICAN city - in a never before move, instead of Pope Benedict XVI a televised televised question and answer session good Friday, queries from as far away as Japan, Iraq and the Ivory Coast to topics fields as far-ranging as death mark, Violence, intimidation and suffer.

Benedict tells a Japanese woman frightened by the earthquake and tsunami are a Muslim woman in their home, which was their suffering not in vain, and backed-up in violence shaken Ivory Coast of Vatican peace efforts are.

TV the Pope to seven questions amongst the thousands of Catholics and non Catholics alike replied a recorded appearance on Italian State the solemn day when Christians think online submitted about the crucifixion of Christ.

The unusual TV appearance aired before Benedict of an evening prayer service to St. Peter's Basilica and the night way cross procession at the Colosseum of Rome under the Presidency.

During the Q & A dressed in white robes, Benedict was sitting on a desk and spoke softly in Italian. The first question came from Elena, 7, the Japanese girl who the Pope said that many children of their age were killed in the accident March 11 and why children be asked so sad.

"I have the same questions: why do you have so much life suffer while others in the user experience?" Benedict said. "And we have the answers, but we know that Jesus suffered as you do, a innocent."

Try words of comfort, the Pope said: "even if we are still sad, God is on your side."

A Muslim woman of C?te d'Ivoire, where the political stand-off deadly fight months caused have, asked the Pope: "as Ambassador of Jesus, what you rates for our country?"

Benedict told her that the Vatican did what it could and said that he asked an African Cardinal to go to the C?te d ' Ivoire ", try to give to the different groups and different people promotion speak with a fresh start."

Another question came from young people in Baghdad that Iraqi capital, where Christians have warfare and intensive religious persecution was flee.

"We Christians in Baghdad as Jesus, tracked" came the question, along with a plea for advice on how you fellow help Christians to rethink their desire to emigrate. Benedict replied that he was praying daily for the Christians in the Iraq, and urged them "believe, have patience."

A woman whose Middle old son in a vegetative state Easter 2009 since wanted to know whether his body had left his soul.

Benedict assures the mother, that his soul "in his body."

During the Vatican's usual good Friday routine, elsewhere in the world, the Q & A session departed tagged old Christian practices the solemn day.

Filled in Jerusalem Christian pilgrimage crucifixion of Jesus to commemorate two millennia in the cobbled streets of the walled Old City. Thousands of international visitors and local Christians traced Christ last steps of Via Dolorosa from, or "Way of suffering." The route ends in the old church of Holy Sepulchre Church, revered as the site for Jesus crucifixion, burial and resurrection at Easter.

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In Princeton, questions of the instructor's suicide

Four days later, he killed himself in his Manhattan apartment slashed on April 12,.

Dr. Calvo suicide has devastated a close community of scientists and students, which rated his generosity and animation, so that they called it St. Antonio. And on the campus which has Princeton, private grief admirer broke faulting of the University in public accusations, with Dr. Calvo for how it handled the episode.

It is what exactly to Dr. Calvo unclear, hasty departure from the job. Princeton officials said on Thursday that he was on leave at the time of his death other details refused but ready. "To get the privacy of our employees, the University is not to questions of the staff who are not public," a University spokeswoman, CASS Cliatt, said.

Several former colleagues said that Dr. Calvo, 45, who did not have tenure as a lecturer, was evaluated the term of Office in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese languages and cultures, and that some students and lecturer, had mounted a campaign colleagues to block the renewal. As Director of the Spanish language program of the University assisted Dr. Calvo teach students, of which most students; the students, his friends said, criticized his leadership style and singled comments that they felt unduly hard were out.

In one episode, a student, said on at the beginning of academic year Dr. Calvo them a blow the face deserves, and smote together his own hands. In another he called genitals in an E-mail as a joke a male students, to get someone to work with a common Spanish expression that begs.

Dr. Calvo also frustration with students, expressed, he felt himself seriously not their teaching duties, said friends. Angelina Craig Florez, lecturer in Latin America, and the Iberian cultures at Columbia University, said that she last spoke with him at a Conference in February.

"He was very excited because he had what to do, were a review which was normal, has been subjected to, but some of the students does not follow," she said. "Some don't even show up for classes that they were informed, and it is his responsibility to ensure that the language programme runs smoothly."

Some of Dr. Calvo students complained this week, Princeton with them about his departure or death have been sincere. They said that they have not received, that it up three days later in an E-mail had died, which simply put, that Dr. Calvo "has passed."

James Williams, a student of Pittsburgh took an advanced class with Dr. Calvo, said that on Friday the instructors from the building was accompanied, students waiting for 30 minutes in the classroom. When they left, they asked where was the Department Chairman Dr. Calvo.

"she said, had he left today to early for personal reasons that he would be back next week," Mr of Williams recalled.

The day before the suicide, the students waited again for Dr. Calvo. After 20 minutes other Professor entered the room and announced that in the course indefinitely, again relying on personal matters, which Dr. Calvo, was visited.

After studying in the following week of Mr. Williams said, told him the new Professor Dr. Calvo even killed. Williams has a Facebook page with the title "justice for Calvo: make a student response" created and planned a strategy session for Saturday. "Definitely more questions must be answered," he said.

Dr. Calvo "never seemed to the kind of person who would commit suicide," added Mr.. Williams.

"If there was a leak in turn, that all should be alone," he continued. "But it is an error by a person or group, or institution which treated him perhaps unfair or unethical must be addressed and measures taken."

At the monument on Tuesday, students collect their anger and confusion Stimmhafter. "I really want to know more about what happened," said Molly Bagshaw, 19. "I want the holes that are filled out, before I can move."

You reminded lively teacher with a love of colorful shoes and a quick wit. A woman recalls the time that bartender in Toledo, Spain charmed, where he oversaw a summer program, so his entire class free Dr. Calvo round of drinks. Another student, said Dr. Calvo students on the campus, about her life to chat would stop.

"He had such a power about him," said Williams Mr.. "He would go not only in the classroom."He would bounce.

Friends of Dr. Calvo said the timing of his firing put him in a difficult position. Since he was sponsored by Princeton in the country on a work visa, he would quickly have an other work to find - and sponsor.

"Antonio in the United States for over 10 years lived and made a living in this country for themselves", said Marco Aponte Moreno, former lecturer in Spanish at Princeton University, who now teaches in England. "Also meant the loss of his work that he his life in the United States behind would have to leave."

Nate slider contributed reporting.

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Top 5 questions on radiation exposure

Is our water safe to drink? It is safe to eat seafood Pacific? Experts from the Union of concerned scientists answer questions about the radiation exposure.

Japan's fight for control of the nuclear power plants damaged in the tsunami, on 11 March followed regain a 9.0 earthquake which questions, and that has people worldwide thought about the effects of radioactive fallout. Here is our top 5 questions and answers from experts of the Union of concerned scientists, an advocacy group culled nuclear safety.

1. Should people in the United States worried about their drinking water?

Edwin Lyman, senior scientist: "I believe that at this time no.." "We need to use a disclaimer no level of radiation is safe, but the risk is proportional to the dose and dilution, who travels thousands of miles as a plume is experienced very significantly."

2. As radioactive water in the cellar and in some tunnel to the reactor building at the end?

Lyman: "it is not clear where it came from." During the last week or the last two weeks, workers on a regular basis have lifted the ship reactor in secondary or into the primary containment structure. It seems that some it deflated the, occurred after fuel damage has occurred. So, that would have a way for highly radioactive water in the containment building. It is possible that it came from that structured and ventilated pathway of the vessel reactor or some other breach of containment, in contrast to some holes on the bottom.

(3) Are the weaknesses of radioactive water expected to continue or deteriorate?

David hole tree, nuclear security program director, "in the last few weeks, the focus was on the reactor cores and the spent fuel pools." You have done by a non-preferred method, that only more and more added to water. The preferred method would be something water from the reactor vessel or spent fuel pool, remove and cool it back, so that your inventory of water remain the same. But they not this option so that you add only water reactor vessels and the spent fuel pools.

The water had somewhere to go, so that it has found its way into the containment building, the cellar, the reactor building, the turbine building. Themselves or floods piling it up all kinds of places that it should be so, and because it now radioactively contaminated everything carries out leaks is that radioactivity with him. For the reactor building and the turbine building, next to the leakage pathways for water you have to also vaporization of material with radioactive isotopes. So, it will be a problem, and it will be a while for them to, first of all, get their hands around it, and second, to clean up.

4. What is the detection of plutonium. Is it a problem?

Hole tree: "plutonium is isotope a default certificate also caesium pose an additional threat 137, and so the presence of plutonium and would require more difficult there and more expensive cleanup." There were sites in the United States, in the plutonium contamination, which successfully, are been restored as the Rocky flats plant (in Colorado), and a company that you know is expensive and difficult. Plutonium, if it is the finest and inhaled, is a particularly strong carcinogen, and you need additional respiratory protection if it substantial plutonium, which potentially could be inhaled. So, I think, it is added to a different folds of the problem.

5. Is Pacific is safe to eat seafood?

Lyman: I would think it is unlikely that for seafood, which are relatively close littered along the Japanese Coast not caught is, but we have done any analysis on this. Even dilute levels of contamination can marine life in particular, how such as mercury in large fish such as tuna focuses to be improved. Also plants such as algae is known that certain isotopes focus, and so are certain types of shells. But I would think certainly in the fishing industry in the region, they are most likely need to take measures to make their catches.

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Economix: 5 questions for today's jobs report

The Ministry of labour will publish March jobs report at 8:30 am. My colleague Michael Powell posted his preview of the report earlier tonight. These are the five things that I will be looking to first:

(1) Has the current turbulence - employer spooked the oil prices, Japan, Portugal, State and local cuts?

In the last three months (December to February) now data is, the economy added 135,000 jobs per month. This was almost exactly the growth dynamics of job in the spring of 2010, before a combination of events - Europe's debt problems, in particular - stopped rest in its title.

Is the year's recovery at risk similar? A gain of 200,000 or more jobs in March, would suggest that no. closer would provide A reinforcement to worry about 100,000.

2. Is there reason to believe, that Ministry of labour employment growth might be undercounting?

The above figures refer to the Government estimate the increase in employment based on his survey of the employers. But the Government surveys households each month. In General, the employer survey is more accurate, because it is much larger. Turning points the household survey can but more precisely, because survey often fails the employer, to record the creation of new businesses (or the closure of failed ones).

Now one can be this turning points. According to the household survey, the economy has added 221,000 jobs - not 135,000 - a month in the last three months. Remember that the economy needs 150,000 jobs a month to keep only create population growth thinking.

So, employers as well as the household survey are worth a visit on Friday. In particular, pay attention to the change of the number of workers according to the household survey - and not the unemployment rate, which can by the number of people that are distorted on the search type to work.

3. What happens to wages?

Although the labour market is so weak as it is now, are the vast majority of people who want to work, has in fact, of course. For her role, wage developments likely more than unemployment trends.

From February 2009 to February 2010 average hourly wage rose began only 1.7 percent, the slowest annual growth since before the recession. Rising oil and food prices caused annual inflation now have to 2.2 per cent, which means that most workers an effective pay took cutting last year to achieve. While most of this downturn, however, workers jobs next increases obtained.

Joseph H. Ellis, an author and former Goldman Sachs analyst, argued that pay the wages the single best predictor of consumer spending. In February, the average hourly wage rose just one cent to $22,87. A monthly increase of at least 4 cents - translation at an annual pace of more than 2 per cent - would be much more welcome.

4. Existing staff work more hours?

The average length of the work week in the private sector has in fact 34.2 hours since May last year (with slight variations here and there) glued. June 2009 to May 2010, before the recovery from, into the ground to a halt the news was much better: the work week rose to 34.2 hours, from a low of 33.7 hours.

If the work week increases in March, it will propose that companies have more business - and that several of them are more workers on the verge of hiring.

5. How are the underemployed and unemployed in the absence of hard core?

You have been the source of some of the most encouraging news lately. To 8.3 million in February fell by 9.5 million in September 2010, the number of people, part-time work, because she couldn't find full-time work. And less than 6 million in February, was the number of people who have unemployed 27 weeks from a peak of 6.7 million in May 2010. Further progress in March?

One last thing: in a typical month, the Ministry of labour changes to the last two months of data - January and February in this case - are important not to overlook. You are certainly on Friday of importance. But I think they are less than usual of importance.

The overarching question will be whether the recent economic and political turmoil has created new problems in the labour market.

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