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ATHENS, Greece ? Greek tax officials walked off the job Thursday at the start of a 48-hour strike to protest salary cuts and other austerity measures, as the government struggles to meet revenue targets demanded by the crisis-struck country's international creditors.
Tax offices shut down for the last two working days of the year, prompting hundreds of Greeks on Wednesday to rush to settle last-minute issues before the strike. Many handed over their car license plates, preferring to keep their vehicles off the road rather than paying an increased tax.
Greece has been surviving since May 2010 on multibillion euro rescue loans from other eurozone countries and the International Monetary Fund after years of government overspending left it with an unsustainable public debt.
In return for the euro110 billion ($144 billion) bailout, the previous Socialist government imposed harsh austerity measures, increasing taxes and retirement ages, cutting pensions and salaries, and suspending tens of thousands of civil servants on reduced pay.
"As a result of the austerity measures putting some tax officers on reduced pay, we have 5,500 fewer tax office jobs," said tax officers' union head Charalambos Nikolakopoulos.
Tax evasion has been rampant in Greece, despite repeated efforts to crack down on the practice.
The strike comes a day after the sudden resignation of two prosecutors heading the judicial task force charged with fighting tax evasion. The two, Grigoris Peponis and Spiros Mouzakitis, claimed they were being sidelined and implied government interference in their work.
They said the government was "attempting to replace and get rid of" them with a new draft law that would appoint a high court prosecutor in their stead. The finance and justice ministries said the draft plan was meant to improve the task force's functioning.
Prime Minister Lucas Papademos, who was appointed to head an interim coalition government in November after a political crisis forced his predecessor to resign, was meeting with top judicial officials on Thursday following the resignations.
The main Supreme Court prosecutor ordered an investigation into why the two resigned and their allegations of interference.
The repeated rounds of austerity cuts have left the country struggling through a deep recession, with the economy projected to contract for a fourth year in 2012. It quickly became clear that the initial bailout would not be enough to prevent Greece from a potentially catastrophic default, and European leaders agreed in late October on a second, euro130 billion bailout for the country.
The new package includes provisions for private creditors to write off 50 percent of the value of Greek bonds they hold, potentially cutting Greece's overall debt by euro100 billion. But the details of this remain to be worked out, and the country is currently involved in tough negotiations.
If the debt writedown goes through and Greece implements all it has pledged to in the way of austerity measures and privatizations, the country is expected to reduce its debt to 120 percent of gross domestic product by 2020, from 161 percent of GDP this year.
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A look at the prime minister candidates for Jamaica's two main political parties.
ANDREW HOLNESS: The candidate of the ruling center-right Jamaica Labor Party, Holness, 39, is the youngest prime minister in Jamaica's history. The island's No. 1 politician for the past two months, he also risks being the country's shortest serving leader. Born to working class parents in the southern city of Spanish Town, Holness became a lawmaker at age 25. He became Jamaica's No. 1 politician when Bruce Golding, Jamaica's prime minister since 2007, stepped down in October amid anemic public backing. Labor Party lawmakers unanimously chose Holness as their party's leader during a seamless transition. He has described himself as both "pro-business" and "pro-people" and has said he hopes to ease Jamaica's severe poverty by creating jobs and improving access to education. He has called for a "new era of responsibility," but there are concerns that he is not providing citizens with a clear picture of the island's dire fiscal straits.
PORTIA SIMPSON MILLER: The top opposition candidate, Simpson Miller has been a stalwart of the People's National Party since the 1970s. The 66-year-old Simpson Miller was first elected to Parliament in 1976 and became a Cabinet member in 1989. She became Jamaica's first female prime minister in March 2006 after she was picked by party delegates when P.J. Patterson retired as leader. Supporters admire Simpson Miller as a Jamaican who was born in rural poverty and grew up in a Kingston ghetto, not far from the crumbling concrete jungle made famous by Bob Marley. Also referred to as "Sista P" and "Comrade Leader," she is known for her folksy style. During her brief tenure as prime minister, her support waned amid complaints she responded poorly to Hurricane Dean.
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(Reuters) ? Irish singer Sinead O'Connor has ended her fourth marriage after just 16 days, blaming pressure and disapproval from the family and friends of her new husband Barry Herridge.
O'Connor, 46, said on her blog that the marriage went wrong three hours after the Dec 8. ceremony in Las Vegas and that the pair had lived together for only seven days before splitting on Christmas Eve.
"Within 3 hours of the ceremony being over the marriage was kyboshed (ruined) by the behavior of certain people in my husband's life. And also by a bit of a wild ride I took us on looking for a bit of a smoke of weed for me wedding night as I don't drink," the controversial singer wrote.
O'Connor, who found fame in the late 1980s with her shaved head and original voice on songs like "Nothing Compares 2 U", said that Herridge was "enormously wounded and very badly affected by that experience and also by the attitude of those close to him toward our marriage. It became apparent to me that if he were to stay with me he would be losing too much to bear."
She added that she had decided to end the marriage, and said the couple had made a mistake "rushing into getting married" without being prepared for the consequences on his life.
"The marriage was 16 days. We lived together for 7 days only. Until Xmas eve. And we haven't been awful to each other," she wrote.
O'Connor has been married three times previously. Her most recent union to musician Steve Cooney ended earlier this year after about one year.
She courted controversy in the 1990s by tearing up a photo of Pope John Paul II on live television in a protest over priestly sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, by declaring herself to be a lesbian and then retracting her assertion, and by being ordained as a priest in a breakaway Catholic Church sect.
(Reporting by Jill Serjeant, editing by Christine Kearney)
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The end of U.S. military involvement in Iraq coincided with Bradley Manning's military hearing to determine whether he will face court-martial for exposing U.S. war crimes by leaking hundreds of thousands of pages of classified documents to Wikileaks. In fact, there is a connection between the leaks and U.S. military withdrawal from Iraq.
When he announced that the last U.S. troops would leave Iraq by year's end, President Barack Obama declared the nine-year war a "success" and "an extraordinary achievement." He failed to mention why he opposed the Iraq war from the beginning. He didn't say that it was built on lies about mushroom clouds and non-existent ties between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda. Obama didn't cite the Bush administration's "Plan for Post-Saddam Iraq," drawn up months before 9/11, about which Former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill reported that actual plans "were already being discussed to take over Iraq and occupy it - complete with disposition of oil fields, peacekeeping forces, and war crimes tribunals - carrying forward an unspoken doctrine of preemptive war."
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta also defended the war in Iraq, making the preposterous claim that, "As difficult as [the Iraq war] was," including the loss of American and Iraqi lives, "I think the price has been worth it, to establish a stable government in a very important region of the world."
The price that Panetta claims is worth it includes the deaths of nearly 4,500 Americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. It includes untold numbers wounded -- with Traumatic Brain Injury and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder -- and suicides, as well as nearly $1 trillion that could have prevented the economic disaster at home.
The price of the Iraq war also includes thousands of men who have been subjected to torture and abuse in places like Abu Ghraib prison. It includes the 2005 Haditha Massacre, in which U.S. Marines killed 24 unarmed civilians execution-style. It includes the Fallujah Massacre, in which U.S. forces killed 736 people, at least 60% of them women and children. It includes other war crimes committed by American troops in Qaim, Taal Al Jal, Mukaradeeb, Mahmudiya, Hamdaniyah, Samarra, Salahuddin, and Ishaqi.
The price of that war includes two men killed by the Army's Lethal Warriors in Al Doura, Iraq, with no evidence that they were insurgents or posed a threat. One man's brain was removed from his head and another man's face was skinned after he was killed by Lethal Warriors. U.S. Army Ranger John Needham, who was awarded two purple hearts and three medals for heroism, wrote to military authorities in 2007 reporting war crimes that he witnessed being committed by his own command and fellow Lethal Warriors in Al Doura. His charges were supported by atrocity photos which have been released by Pulse TV and Maverick Media in the new video by Cindy Piester, "On the Dark Side in Al Doura - A Soldier in the Shadows." CBS reported obtaining an Army document from the Criminal Investigation Command suggestive of an investigation into these war crimes allegations. The Army's conclusion was that the "offense of War Crimes did not occur."
One of the things Manning is alleged to have leaked is the "Collateral Murder" video which depicts U.S. forces in an Apache helicopter killing 12 unarmed civilians, including two Reuters journalists, and wounding two children. People trying to rescue the wounded were also fired upon and killed. A U.S. tank drove over one body, cutting the man in half.
The actions of American soldiers shown in that video amount to war crimes under the Geneva Conventions, which prohibit targeting civilians, preventing the rescue of the wounded, and defacing dead bodies.
Obama proudly took credit for ending U.S. military involvement in Iraq. But he had tried for months to extend it beyond the December 31, 2011 deadline his predecessor negotiated with the Iraqi government. Negotiations between Obama and the Iraqi government broke down when Iraq refused to grant criminal and civil immunity to U.S. troops.
It was after seeing evidence of war crimes such as those depicted in "Collateral Murder" and the "Iraq War Logs," also allegedly leaked by Manning, that the Iraqis refused to immunize U.S. forces from prosecution for their future crimes. When I spoke with Tariq Aqrawi, Iraq's ambassador to the United Nations, at a recent international human rights film festival in Vienna, he told me that if they granted immunity to Americans, they would have to do the same for other countries as well.
Manning faces more than 30 charges, including "aiding the enemy" and violations of the Espionage Act, which carry the death penalty. After a seven day hearing, during which the prosecution presented evidence that Manning leaked cables and documents, there was no evidence that leaked information imperiled national security or that Manning intended to aid the enemy with his actions.
On the contrary, in an online chat attributed to Manning, he wrote, "If you had free reign over classified networks... and you saw incredible things, awful things... things that belonged in the public domain, and not on some server stored in a dark room in Washington DC... what would you do?"
He went on to say, "God knows what happens now. Hopefully worldwide discussion, debates, and reforms... I want people to see the truth... because without information, you cannot make informed decisions as a public."
Manning has been held for 19 months in military custody. During the first nine months, he was kept in solitary confinement, which is considered torture as it can lead to hallucinations, catatonia and suicide. He was humiliated by being stripped naked and paraded before other inmates.
The U.S. government considers Manning one of America's most dangerous traitors. Months ago, Obama spoke of Manning as if he had been proved guilty, saying, "he broke the law." But Manning has not been tried, and is presumed innocent in the eyes of the law. If Manning had committed war crimes instead of exposing them, he would be a free man today. If he had murdered civilians and skinned them alive, he would not be facing the death penalty.
Besides helping to end the Iraq war, the leaked cables helped spark the Arab Spring. When people in Tunisia read cables revealing corruption by the ruling family there, they took to the streets.
If Manning did what he is accused of doing, he should not be tried as a criminal. He should be hailed as a national hero, much like Daniel Ellsberg, whose release of the Pentagon Papers helped to expose the government's lies and end the Vietnam War.
Marjorie Cohn is a professor of law at Thomas Jefferson School of Law and past president of the National Lawyers Guild. Her books include "Rules of Disengagement: The Politics and Honor of Military Dissent" and "The United States and Torture: Interrogation, Incarceration, and Abuse." See www.marjoriecohn.com.
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Samir Brikho heads Amec PLC, a London, England-based engineering and consulting giant that, in its operating focus, is about as Canadian as oil sands and potash. Amec?s engineering services for oil sands and potash projects are a major factor in generating Canadian revenue of about $1.5-billion a year, and a Canadian work force of 7,000 (including 2,600 in Alberta).
Mr. Brikho, 53, is a Lebanese-born, Swedish-trained engineer with a travel schedule that would crush lesser mortals. He landed in Calgary recently to talk about the changing U.S. energy landscape and what it means for price-challenged Canadian natural gas in 2012 and beyond.
Is Amec a Canadian or British company?
Thirty per cent of our worldwide revenues come out of Canada, so, in a way, we are both British and Canadian. In the past few years, we have transformed the company by concentrating on four markets ? oil and gas; metals and minerals; clean power technologies; environment and infrastructure, with water as the driver there. Despite our divestments [from construction and other non-core businesses], we have also been making a lot of investments in Canada. We are more profitable than average in Canada, and this is the only country in which we do everything [in all of Amec?s targeted sectors.]
You are heavily involved in the Alberta oil sands. Are you alarmed by the delay of the Keystone XL pipeline to the U.S. Gulf Coast?
Keystone XL has been a great opportunity for Canada to export its resources to the United States, but we have started to see a big change in the U.S. ? because of new energy technology, and how Americans are taking a different view from what their Canadian brothers would like to see. Was it right or wrong to [defer the decision on] the project? We will know perhaps in 30 years.
Where does this leave Canada?
Let?s talk about natural gas. All the exports of Canadian gas go to one country: the U.S. For four consecutive years, we have seen that gas production in Canada has been declining because of [shrinking] demand in the U.S. It?s because of shale-gas possibilities in that country. It is possible that the U.S. in 10 years will be totally self-sustaining and could be a net exporter of gas, rather than an importer. So for Canada, the game has changed.
If that?s the case, why this focus on gas?
Gas is interesting because it has abundant reserves; it is attractive from an environmental point of view. I?m not saying this is the best fuel we have, but it is definitely the cleanest compared with other fossil fuels. If we installed today a combined-cycle power plant [fired by natural gas], you would be having half the carbon emissions as in a coal-fired plant. So the U.S. can meet its own aspirations on emissions just by shifting [the balance in power generation]. In 15 years, it would not be impossible for the Americans to meet their high standards in terms of low emissions.
So what do we have to do in Canada?
We need to start looking at what is happening in Asia. The market is going to be Asia and no longer in the U.S. Take China, which is consuming 16.5 billion cubic metres of gas a year; the International Energy Agency anticipates it will consume 210 billion by the year 2035, about 13 times the current level. That presents us with an enormous opportunity.
And who are the suppliers of gas to China? Fifty per cent now comes from Australia and therefore Australia is building liquefied natural gas plants [with export capability]; in five years they will have 10 plants. Right now in Canada, we are building three plants. It is not going to be as big here as in Australia, but we still need to be in that game.
So gas is abundant, affordable and acceptable environmentally ? what I call the three As ? and they can put Canada back in the game, even all the discussion about the oil sands.
So Canada should be alert to the potential of gas even at today?s low prices?
In terms of the ?three As,? gas at the current stage ticks all the boxes, while oil sands at the moment is not ticking all the boxes ? I?m not writing off the oil sands by any means, because I think there will be a technological breakthrough where we will be able to improve our carbon and water footprint. The oil sands present a great opportunity still. And after what happened with Keystone XL, the energy agendas of Alberta and Ottawa are being aligned more than ever.
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SEOUL/BEIJING (Reuters) ? North Korean television on Sunday showed power-behind-the-throne Jang Song-thaek in the uniform of a general in a sign of his sway after the death of Kim Jong-il, and Japan's prime minister said the region had entered a new phase following Kim's demise.
The footage, which North Korean television said was shot on Saturday, showed Jang on the frontrow of top military officers who accompanied Kim Jong-un, the youngest son of Kim Jong-il and his anointed successor, paying their respects before Kim's body.
The choreography around Kim's death is one of the secretive North's few clues to the emerging configuration of power in this poor and isolated state that has rattled neighbors with nuclear tests and military brinkmanship.
A Seoul official familiar with North Korea affairs said it was the first time Jang has been shown on state television in a military uniform. His appearance suggested that Jang has secured a key role in the North's powerful military, which has pledged its allegiance to Kim Jong-un.
North Korea announced on Monday Kim Jong-il had died of a heart attack on December 17. His body is lying in state in a mausoleum in Pyongyang. He was believed to be 69.
Kim Jong-un was hailed by state media on Saturday as "supreme commander" of the North's 1.1 million-strong armed forces, the title held by his father.
A senior source told Reuters this week Pyongyang will shift from a strongman dictatorship to a coterie of rulers including the military and Jang, Kim Jong-un's uncle.
Jang married the daughter of the country's revolutionary founder, Kim Il-sung, in 1972, joining the ruling family that has forged its own form of dynastic rule.
"AN NEW PHASE"
In Beijing, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda told Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao that their two countries shared a stake in preserving stability in North Korea in a "new phase."
"The death of Secretary-General Kim Jong-il has brought East Asia to a new phase," Noda told Wen at the start of bilateral talks in China's capital.
"Peace and stability of the Korean peninsula is in a common interest for both Japan and China," Noda told Wen.
"I believe it is timely that we can exchange views and information on this matter with China, which is the chair country of the six-party talks and has the biggest influence on North Korea."
Noda is the first regional leader to visit Beijing since Kim Jong-il's death was announced on Monday, leaving his young son Kim Jong-un as leader of North Korea, which has rattled the region with nuclear tests and military confrontation.
China is North Korea's sole major economic and diplomatic partner, and the United States and its regional allies have long pressed Beijing to use its influence to rein in Pyongyang.
China has also hosted the six-party talks, which have sought to coax North Korea into abandoning its nuclear arms ambitions in return for aid and security steps.
Those talks bring together North and South Korea, the United States, Japan, Russia and China.
Constraining North Korea is especially important for Japan, which is well within range of the North's long-range missiles and wants Pyongyang to resolve the emotive issue of the fate of Japanese citizens kidnapped to help train spies decades ago.
"I hope we can sincerely exchange views on how to overcome abduction, nuclear and missile issues," Noda told Wen, referring to North Korea.
(Writing and additional reporting by Chris Buckley; Editing by Yoko Nishikawa)
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We don't usually review printers like the Canon imageClass MF4570dw ($299 direct) that are virtually identical to one we've already reviewed except for the addition of WiFi. We made an exception in this case primarily because the Canon imageClass MF4570dn ($299 direct originally, 4 stars) is an Editors' Choice, and we wanted to see if the MF4570dw, would be one as well. It isn't, but it comes close, and is certainly worth considering if you need a mono laser MFP for a small or home office.
First, to avoid confusion about prices, note that the dw model is the same price that the dn model was when Canon first announced it. Since then, Canon's dropped the price on the MF4570dn to $249, making it an even better value. And one way to think about the dw is that it's the same printer with WiFi added for $50 extra. However, there are some other interesting differences.
Canon is moving towards shipping all of its laser printers that include duplexing (two-sided printing) with their drivers set to duplex by default. This new approach started with the current crop of newly announced models, including the MF4570dw. Given that few people change settings for their drivers?which is why we run most of our tests using printer defaults?it's a good bet that most people will print with the default duplex setting. The best argument for this change to duplexing is that it helps make printing a little more eco-friendly, since it uses less paper. However, it also slows down print speed, and it creates at least one problem.
When you set a printer for duplex, you also have to tell it whether to want the two sides printed so you can read the document by flipping the page on its long side, like a book, or short side, like a steno pad. The default setting on the Canon driver assumes you want to flip the pages along the long side, which is fine for pages you want to print in portrait mode, but the wrong way for my tastes for pages printed in landscape mode.
I'd argue that if you are going to make duplex printing the default, you should also add separate settings for portrait and landscape modes for the direction to flip the page, and ask the user to choose the default flip settings during setup. Otherwise, odds are you'll forget to change the setting before printing with some regularity, have to reprint the document, and wind defeating the ecological benefit of having the duplex setting in the first place. So count the default duplexing as proving that Canon has good intentions, but didn't think through this particular change very well.
Basics and Setup
The MF4570dw shares the dn model's size, making it a little big to share a desk with, but reasonably compact, at 14.6 by 15.4 by 16.6 inches (HWD), and easy to find room for in the typical micro office or busy home office it's aimed at. Like the MF4570dn or the directly competitive Brother MFC-7860DW ($300 street, 3.5 stars), it can print, scan, and fax, even over a network, and work as a standalone copier and fax machine.
It also offers a 35-page automatic document feeder (ADF) for scanning multipage documents as well as legal-size pages, which are too big for the flatbed. And with a 250-sheet input tray and 1-sheet manual feed, as well as the duplexer, it offers an appropriate level of paper handling for most micro or home offices. If you need more, however, you'll have to go elsewhere, since there are no options for additional trays.
Setup is standard fare. For my tests I connected the MF4570dw to a wired network and installed the driver on a Windows Vista system.
Speed and Output Quality
Because of the default setting to duplex printing, the MF4570dw is a bit slower than the MF4570dn on our tests, but Canon rates the printer at the same 26 pages per minute (ppm) for simplex (one sided) printing, and 16 ppm for duplex.
On our business applications suite, (using QualityLogic's hardware and software for timing), the printer managed an effective 9.8 ppm in its default duplex mode. Although that's slower than the MF4570dn, at 12.3 ppm, it's still reasonably fast. In fact, the printer essentially tied the MFC-7860DW, for example, at 9.7 ppm as well as the more expensive Editors' Choice Brother MFC-8480DN ($400 street, 4 stars) at 10.6 ppm. (Differences of 1 ppm or so on our tests aren't significant for lasers.) In addition, I ran the MF4570dw through the tests in simplex mode, and timed it at the same speed as the dn model.
Not surprisingly, the MF4570dw offers essentially identical output quality to the MF4570dn. Text is a touch below par for a mono laser, which is still good enough so you shouldn't have any complaints unless you need a printer for serious desktop publishing or have an unusual need for small fonts. Graphics and photo output are both par for a mono laser MFP. For graphics, that means it's easily good enough for any internal business need. For photos, it's suitable for printing Web pages with recognizable photos or printing photos in client newsletters and the like.
Much like the MF4570dn, the Canon imageClass MF4570dw offers all the features you need for a small or home office, reasonably good speed and output quality, and sufficient paper handling. And if you don't want to print in duplex, you can always change the default setting to simplex. If you don't need WiFi, the MF4570dn is obviously the better choice. If you do need it, you'll want to take a close look at the Brother MFC-8480DN as well, but the Canon imageClass MF4570dw is a more than reasonable choice and a potentially good fit for any micro or home office.
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An appeals court upheld a criminal fine of about $1.3 million for Trafigura, one of the world?s largest commodity traders, as the result of toxic waste being dumped in the open in Ivory Coast, killing at least 16 people and making thousands sick. ...
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MOSCOW ? Tens of thousands of Russians jammed a Moscow avenue to demand free elections and an end to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's 12-year rule, in the largest show of public outrage since the protests 20 years ago that brought down the Soviet Union. Gone was the political apathy of recent years as many shouted "We are the Power!"
Saturday's demonstration, bigger and better organized than a similar one two weeks ago, and smaller rallies across the country encouraged opposition leaders hoping to sustain a protest movement ignited by a fraud-tainted parliamentary election on Dec. 4.
The enthusiasm also cheered Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader who closed down the Soviet Union on Dec. 25, 1991.
"I'm happy that I have lived to see the people waking up. This raises big hopes," the 80-year-old Gorbachev said on Ekho Moskvy radio.
He urged Putin to follow his example and give up power peacefully, saying Putin would be remembered for the positive things he did if he stepped down now. The former Soviet leader, who has grown increasingly critical of Putin, has little influence in Russia today.
But the protesters have no central leader and no candidate capable of posing a serious challenge to Putin, who intends to return to the presidency in a March vote.
Even at Saturday's rally, some of the speakers were jeered by the crowd. The various liberal, nationalist and leftist groups that took part appear united only by their desire to see "Russia without Putin," a popular chant.
Putin, who gave no public response to the protest Saturday, initially derided the demonstrators as paid agents of the West. He also said sarcastically that he thought the white ribbons they wore as an emblem were condoms. Putin has since come to take their protests more seriously, and in an effort to stem the anger he has offered a set of reforms to allow more political competition in future elections.
Kremlin-controlled television covered Saturday's rally, but gave no air time to Putin's harshest critics.
Estimates of the number of demonstrators ranged from the police figure of 30,000 to 120,000 offered by the organizers. Demonstrators packed much of a broad avenue, which has room for nearly 100,000 people, about 2.5 kilometers (some 1.5 miles) from the Kremlin, as the temperature dipped well below freezing.
A stage at the end of the avenue featured banners reading "Russia will be free" and "This election Is a farce." Heavy police cordons encircled the participants, who stood within metal barriers, and a police helicopter hovered overhead.
Alexei Navalny, a corruption-fighting lawyer and popular blogger, electrified the crowd when he took the stage. He soon had the protesters chanting "We are the power!"
Navalny spent 15 days in jail for leading a protest on Dec. 5 that unexpectedly drew more than 5,000 people and set off the chain of demonstrations.
Putin's United Russia party lost 25 percent of its seats in the election, but hung onto a majority in parliament through what independent observers said was widespread fraud. United Russia, seen as representing a corrupt bureaucracy, has become known as the party of crooks and thieves, a phrase coined by Navalny.
"We have enough people here to take the Kremlin," Navalny shouted to the crowd. "But we are peaceful people and we won't do that ? yet. But if these crooks and thieves keep cheating us, we will take what is ours."
Protest leaders expressed skepticism about Putin's promised political reforms.
"We don't trust him," opposition leader Boris Nemtsov told the rally, urging protesters to gather again after the long New Year's holidays to make sure the proposed changes are put into law.
He and other speakers called on the demonstrators to go to the polls in March to unseat Putin. "A thief must not sit in the Kremlin," Nemtsov said.
The protest leaders said they would keep up their push for a rerun of the parliamentary vote and punishment for election officials accused of fraud, while stressing the need to prevent fraud in the March presidential election.
Former world chess champion Garry Kasparov was among those who sought to give the protesters a sense of empowerment.
"There are so many of us here, and they (the government) are few," Kasparov said from the stage. "They are huddled up in fear behind police cordons."
The crowd was largely young, but included a sizable number of middle-aged and elderly people, some of whom limped slowly to the site on walkers and canes.
"We want to back those who are fighting for our rights," said 16-year-old Darya Andryukhina, who said she had also attended the previous rally.
"People have come here because they want respect," said Tamara Voronina, 54, who said she was proud that her three sons also had joined the protest.
Putin's comment about protesters wearing condoms only further infuriated them and inspired some creative responses. One protester Saturday held a picture montage of Putin with his head wrapped in a condom like a grandmother's headscarf. Many inflated condoms along with balloons.
The protests reflect a growing weariness with Putin, who was first elected president in 2000 and remained in charge after moving into the prime minister's seat in 2008. Brazen fraud in the parliamentary vote unexpectedly energized the middle class, which for years had been politically apathetic.
"No one has done more to bring so many people here than Putin, who managed to insult the whole country," said Viktor Shenderovich, a columnist and satirical writer.
Two rallies in St. Petersburg on Saturday drew a total of 4,000 people.
"I'm here because I'm tired of the government's lies," said Dmitry Dervenev, 47, a designer. "The prime minister insulted me personally when he said that people came to the rallies because they were paid by the U.S. State Department. I'm here because I'm a citizen of my country."
Putin accused the United States of encouraging and funding the protests to weaken Russia.
Putin's former finance minister surprised the protesters by saying the current parliament should approve the proposed electoral changes and then step down to allow new parliamentary elections to be held. Alexei Kudrin, who remains close to Putin, warned that the wave of protests could lead to violence and called for establishing a dialogue between the opposition and the government.
"Otherwise we will lose the chance for peaceful transformation," Kudrin said.
Kudrin also joined calls for the ouster of Central Election Commission chief Vladimir Churov.
Putin has promised to liberalize registration rules for opposition parties and restore the direct election of governors he abolished in 2004. Putin's stand-in as president, Dmitry Medvedev, spelled out those and other proposed changes in Thursday's state-of-the nation address.
Gorbachev, however, said the government appears confused.
"They don't know what to do," he said. "They are making attempts to get out of the trap they drove themselves into."
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Associated Press writers Nataliya Vasilyeva and Jim Heintz contributed to this report.
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Half-a-decade before TransCanada Corp.'s (TRP-T44.450.400.91%) Keystone XL ran into a wall of political and environmental resistance, a key stretch of the route linking Canada's oil sands to refineries in the southern U.S. emerged as a tricky, though seemingly surmountable, problem.
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President Barack Obama signs the payroll tax cut extension, Friday, Dec. 23, 2011, in the White House Oval Office in Washington. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)
President Barack Obama signs the payroll tax cut extension, Friday, Dec. 23, 2011, in the White House Oval Office in Washington. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)
President Barack Obama speaks about the payroll tax cut at the White House in Washington, on Friday, Dec. 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Speaker of the House John Boehner of Ohio, center, is surrounded by reporters after exiting a House vote on the payroll tax cut in Washington, on Friday, Dec. 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada speaks to the media at the Capitol about the payroll tax cut extension and other measures in Washington, on Friday, Dec. 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin, D-Mich., left, House Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer, D-Md., and Budget Committee Ranking Member Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., speak to the media about the payroll tax cut at the Capitol in Washington, on Friday, Dec. 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Barely beating Santa's sleigh, Congress delivered a last-minute holiday tax-cut extension to 160 million American wage-earners on Friday, just when it looked like they and millions of unemployed workers were going to be left with coal in their stockings.
It was a major yearend political victory for President Barack Obama, a big slice of humble pie for House Republicans and a blow to House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, who'll have an angry band of tea party lawmakers to deal with when Congress returns to Washington next month.
Back-to-back voice vote approvals of the two-month special measure by the Senate and House came in mere seconds with no debate, just days after House Republican leaders had insisted that reopening negotiations on a full-year bill was the only way to persuade them to prevent a tax increase on Jan. 1.
Obama immediately signed the bill into law.
"I said it was critical for Congress not to go home without preventing a tax increase on 160 million working Americans and I'm pleased to say that they got it done," a buoyant looking Obama said at the White House before dashing off for his delayed holiday vacation to his home state of Hawaii.
Actually most lawmakers were long gone. A token few showed up to make approval official.
The legislation buys time for talks early next year on how to finance the year-long extensions ? negotiations that promise to be contentious, especially if Democrats continue to use Obama's jobs agenda to seek a political edge in the 2012 presidential and congressional campaigns.
The measure will keep in place a 2 percentage point cut in the Social Security payroll tax ? worth about $20 a week for a typical worker making $50,000 a year ? and prevent almost 2 million unemployed people from losing jobless benefits averaging $300 a week. Doctors will win a reprieve from a 27 percent cut in their Medicare payments, the product of a 1997 cut that Congress has been unable to permanently fix.
Republicans did claim a major victory, winning a provision that would require Obama to make a swift decision on whether to approve construction of the Canada-to-Texas Keystone XL oil pipeline, which could generate thousands of construction jobs. To stop construction, Obama, who had wanted to put the decision off until after the 2012 election, would have to declare it was not in the nation's interest.
On Friday, an expressionless Boehner read from a piece of paper before him, gaveled the House's last session of the year closed and stepped off the podium on the Democratic side.
Boehner had been open to the Senate's version of the legislation a week ago, even though it would have punted the issue into February and given Democrats a proven political issue. But tea party forces and some in his own leadership revolted, insisting on picking a holiday fight with Democrats, and Boehner felt no choice but to go along.
The battle turned out to be a loser for House Republicans, earning the ire of swing voters and many in the GOP establishment, but when Boehner capitulated on Thursday he then felt the lash from hard-core conservatives.
"Even though there is plenty of evidence this is a bad deal for America ... the House has caved yet again to the president and Senate Democrats," said Rep. Tim Huelskamp, R-Kan.
Meanwhile, Democratic Senate leader Harry Reid of Nevada did a victory lap, twisting the knife into tea party Republicans.
"I hope this Congress has had a very good learning experience, especially those who are newer to this body," Reid said. "Everything we do around here does not have to wind up in a fight."
A full-year extension of the tax cut had been embraced by virtually every lawmaker in both the House and Senate but had been derailed in a quarrel over demands by House Republicans. Senate leaders of both parties had tried to barter their own yearlong agreement a week ago but failed, instead agreeing upon a 60-day measure to buy time for talks next year.
House GOP arguments about the legislative process and what the "uncertainty" of a two-month extension would mean for businesses seemed lame to many people when compared to the consequences of raising taxes and cutting off jobless benefits in the middle of the holiday season, and Obama and the Democrats were hard on the offensive. House Republicans finally resorted to a technical fix and the fact that Reid would name negotiators on the GOP's yearlong measure as reasons to reverse course and embrace the Senate measure.
Friday's House and Senate sessions were remarkable. Both chambers had essentially recessed for the year, but leaders in both parties orchestrated passage of the short-term agreement under debate rules that would allow any individual member of Congress to derail the pact, at least for a time. None did.
The developments were a clear win for Obama. The payroll tax cut was the centerpiece of his three-month, campaign-style drive for jobs legislation that seems to have contributed to an uptick in his poll numbers ? and taken a toll on those of congressional Republicans.
The two-month version's $33 billion cost will be covered by a 0.1 percentage point increase on guarantee fees on new home loans backed by mortgage giants Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae ? at a likely cost of about $17 a month for a homeowner with a $200,000 mortgage.
The top Senate Republican, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, was a driving force behind the final agreement, imploring Boehner to accept the deal that McConnell and Reid had struck last week and passed with overwhelming support in both parties.
Even though GOP leaders including House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., promised that the two sides could quickly iron out their differences, the truth is that it will take intense talks to figure out both the spending cuts and fee increases required to finance the longer measure.
Republicans want to shorten the maximum length of unemployment benefits from 99 to 79 weeks, freeze the pay of federal civilian workers and make federal workers contribute more into their pensions ? all ideas considered by the failed debt "supercommittee" this fall. The main provisions of the yearlong House measure cost about $200 billion, and the final version could cost more.
Reid signaled a hard line for the House-Senate talks by assigning Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md. ? a strong advocate for federal workers ? to the Democratic negotiating team.
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LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) ? With Tilda Swinton having racked up Golden Globe and SAG Award nominations for her role in "We Need to Talk About Kevin," distributor Oscilloscope Laboratories has pushed up the New York City release date for the psychological thriller.
The film -- which is based on Lynne Ramsay's novel of the same name -- will now be released January 13 at two theaters in New York: the Lincoln Plaza Cinemas and Angelika Film Center. A week later, it will hit the Arclight Hollywood Theater in Los Angeles.
The movie, which debuted at the Cannes Film Festival on May 12, had a one-week Oscar-qualifying run in the U.S. earlier this month.
"The film's attendance exceeded even our highest expectations," Oscilloscope Laboratories President David Fenkel said in a statement. "Theaters are excited to have a quality arthouse genre film to bring in younger audiences."
Swinton has already won multiple awards for her role in "Kevin," including best actress trophies from the National Board of Review, San Francisco Film Critics and British Independent Film Awards.
The movie also stars John C. Reilly.
Radiohead guitarist/keyboardist Jonny Greenwood composed the film's score.
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The level of control over matter that scientists are now developing to create ultra-cold objects could also be used to create entirely new states of matter and super-powerful quantum computers, researchers added. ?
The coolest things of the future might be created using what are essentially refrigerators that work on the atomic level, researchers say.
Skip to next paragraphThe level of control over matter that scientists are now developing to create ultra-cold objects could also be used to create entirely?new states of matter?and super-powerful quantum computers, researchers added.
Scientists routinely cool matter to a few billionths of a degree above absolute zero,?the coldest temperature?theoretically possible, which corresponds to?minus 459.67 degrees?Fahrenheit (minus-273.15 Celsius). Still, they would like to chill matter to even-colder temperatures to better understand other extreme phenomena, such as superconductivity, where electrons zip without resistance through objects.
Now physicists reveal a new way to create ultra-cold matter, with an idea similar to how fridges work. Refrigerators pump a fluid known as a refrigerant around the area they are cooling. This fluid sucks up heat. The refrigerant is then pumped someplace where it dumps this heat.
Chill atoms
First the researchers cooled?atoms of rubidium?with lasers. When set up properly, these beams can force atoms to glow in a way that makes them emit more energy than they absorb, thus making them colder.
When the atoms gave off light as a result of being hit with the laser, this exerted a slight pressure on them. The scientists took advantage of that pressure to control the atoms, either keeping them in place or moving them around, sometimes creating collisions. [Wacky Physics: The Coolest Little Particles]
The researchers then made the atoms even colder with evaporative cooling, in which matter gets cooled in much the same way as a cup of coffee loses its warmth ? the hottest atoms are allowed to evaporate, leaving behind the colder ones.
Finally, the researchers used webs of lasers known as "optical lattices." When two atoms are made to collide within the optical lattice, the excitations of one suppress the excitations of the other, a phenomenon called "orbital excitation blockade." The excited atoms are then removed from the system -- taking away entropy, the amount of energy available for work -- thus causing the remaining atoms to chill down.
In experiments with rubidium atoms in optical lattices, the physicists successfully demonstrated they could remove entropy from atoms via orbital excitation blockade. In principle, they can reach temperatures 10-to-100-times colder than currently achieved, to temperatures of tenths-to-hundredths-of-a-billionth of a degree above absolute zero. However, they likely need lasers of longer wavelengths to do so in real life, said researcher Markus Greiner, a physicist at Harvard University.
Exotic matter
Their research could help "create exotic new states of matter, ones never seen before," Greiner told LiveScience. "Who knows what the properties of these materials might be?"
The ability to create perfect arrays of atoms could also be "a great starting point for a general-purpose quantum computer," Greiner said. Quantum computers exploit the?bizarre nature of quantum physics?? such as how subatomic particles can effectively spin in two opposite directions at the same time ? to run calculations exponentially faster than normal computers for certain problems.
Research into?quantum computers?has mostly been on devices designed to each crunch one specific kind of problem, but optical lattices could lead to general-purpose quantum computers that, like modern personal computers, can tackle many different kinds of problems.
The scientists detailed their findings in the Dec. 22 issue of the journal Nature.
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