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CAIRO ? Around 200 Coptic Christians and Muslims clashed in a southern Egyptian province after a drawing depicting the Prophet Muhammad was posted on a local Christian student's Facebook page.
Troops sealed off several flashpoint villages after angry residents in the province of Assiut, 200 miles (320 kilometers) south of Cairo, burnt seven Coptic homes in reaction to the drawing.
Muslims generally oppose any depiction of the prophet, even favorable, for fear it could lead to idolatry. This particular drawing depicted four women asking the prophet's hand in marriage.
The strife began late Thursday when four homes belonging to relatives of the Coptic student were burned.
Villagers burned another three homes belonging to Copts in nearby villages on Friday. Copts comprise around 10 percent of Egypt's population.
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Ford Motor Company offered on Thursday a taste of some advanced technology that will be featured in the all-new Fusion, which is scheduled to be introduced at the Detroit auto show in January. The technical tidbit is a tracking system that can help prevent drowsy or inattentive drivers from wandering out of their lane. While similar technology has previously been offered on some automobiles, Octavio Navarro, a Ford spokesman, said in a telephone interview that the Fusion will be the first affordable nonluxury vehicle to offer this type of system.
Fusion?s Lane Keeping System monitors the vehicle?s position with a windshield-mounted digital camera that can track lane markings. If the car drifts close to the edge of the lane without the turn signal on, the driver will be notified by a vibration in the steering wheel that feels much like the pulsing caused by rumble strips in the road. A system that Ford calls Lane Keeping Aid can steer the car back toward the center of the lane if the driver doesn?t respond to the warning.
If the Lane Keeping System calculates that the driving pattern over a period of time suggests that the driver is drowsy, a chime sounds and a coffee cup icon warning appears on the instrument panel. If the driver continues to nap, a second chime is issued.
According to a Ford news release, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that 100,000 reported accidents are caused annually by drowsy drivers, resulting in 1,500 deaths, 71,000 injuries and $12.5 billion in monetary loses.
The system must be turned on by the driver, who can choose to employ just the alert function without the steering assist. The intensity of the warnings is also driver selectable. The switched-on system becomes active at speeds over 40 m.p.h. when lane markings are visible.
?Fusion?s Lane Keeping System combines a digital imaging sensor with our own state-of-the-art control software to process images and determine what level of warning or assistance to provide to the driver,? Michale Kane, Ford development engineer, said in a media release.
The all-new Fusion is a very important car for Ford, because it will determine how big a role the automaker plays in the large and lucrative midsize marketplace. Few will be surprised if more details are disseminated before the big reveal at Detroit?s Cobo Hall.
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Kumar Sangakkara leads the charge of Sri Lanka's resurgent cricket team against a rattled South Africa on day 3 of the second Test match.
At long last, Sri Lanka had reason to smile, as Chanaka Welegedera and Rangana Herath did the unthinkable and bundled South Africa out for a measly 168. It secured a vital 170-run lead over South Africa going into the second innings, but the hosts were not far behind, with Dale Steyn snapping up the big wicket of Tillekeratne Dilshan to leave Sri Lanka at 7/1 - effectively 177/1 - when stumps were drawn.
Day 3 started with clouds over the ground, and clouds over South Africa, as Mark Boucher dropped Kumar Sangakkara (on nought) off Morne Morkel from just the fourth ball of the day. Morkel had his revenge, snaring an edge off Tharanga Paranavitana to leave Sri Lanka in familiar trouble at 20/2. Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene stitched a brief recovery before falling LBW to Marchant de Lange. Sri Lanka 44/3, but Sangakkara, aided by Thilan Samaraweera, fought back to score quick runs and finish the truncated session at 64/3.
The two batsmen were bullish in the second session, bringing up the 50 partnership off just 82 balls, then taking the score past 100 in the same over. Sangakkara reached his half-century shortly after, and even the reintroduction of the fearsome Dale Steyn into the attack couldn't stop the Sri Lankans from dictating terms. Runs and boundaries flowed as the lead passed 300, but just as South Africa seemed to have settled for defensive play, Imran Tahir forced Samaraweera to play on to his stumps. Samaraweera gone for 43, and South Africa finally had a breakthrough at 138/4, ending a vital 94-run partnership.
The second breakthrough came in the next over, as Angelo Mathews threw his wicket away with a wild slog against Dale Steyn. 141/5, with the hosts back in the fight now. But they ran into Sangakkara and Dinesh Chandimal, continuing his impressive debut. The two distanced Sri Lanka from the brace of wickets, as Sangakkara raced through the 90s to reach three figures and score his first Test century in South Africa. And to think, he was dropped before he had even scored. Sri Lanka went to tea sitting very nicely at 207/5.
The runs continued to pile on in the final session. When Sri Lanka passed 230/5, the lead crossed 400. Sangakkara's century led the way as he became the highest Sri Lankan run scorer in South Africa, his 105* making his the highest individual Sri Lankan score in the country. Chandimal soon reached his second half-century of the game, becoming the first Sri Lankan debutante to do so, before Steyn finally snapped the 104-run stand, finding Chandimal's edge for 54. 245/6, but the game well and truly with Sri Lanka.
South Africa gained some momentum with Kumar Sangakkara's wicket the next over, but his stellar 108 ensured it was too little, too late for the hosts. Decaying light led to stumps being called at 256/7, with the visitors ahead by an unreachable 426.
The job is not yet over for Sri Lanka; they still have to bowl South Africa out again, and the chances of two poor South African batting displays in one game is very slim. That said, after the Lankans were rolled over for under 200 in both innings in the previous game, this is a markedly better showing. The batting needs more work - lots of batsmen threw their wickets away - but the displays of Sangakkara, Samaraweera and especially Dinesh Chandimal are reassuring. Now the question is, can Welegedera and Herath turn it on again.
It was a disappointing day for South Africa's bowlers. They did work hard to prize out some wickets, but a lot of that also came from the Sri Lankans' poor technique and shot selection. Once Sangakkara, Samaraweera and Chandimal settled in, there was no fight or drive from the host team. It will be interesting to see what their strategy is, with a possible target of 450 to get in two days, with the memory of being bundled out for 168 still fresh on their minds.
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HAVANA (Reuters) ? More than 2,500 Cuban prisoners have been released in recent days under a New Year's amnesty announced before a visit next spring by Pope Benedict XVI, a local human rights group said on Tuesday.
Cuban President Raul Castro said last Friday that the ruling Council of State had granted amnesty to more than 2,900 common prisoners.
Castro said the amnesty was a "humanitarian gesture" and had also "taken into account" an upcoming papal visit and requests by, among others, top Roman Catholic Church officials in Cuba and relatives of the prisoners.
"We estimate that more than 2,500 prisoners have been released in all the provinces, and the process continues," Elizardo Sanchez, head of the independent Cuban Commission on Human Rights, told Reuters.
The government and official media have not commented on the releases.
"The Cuban Commission on Human Rights applauds these releases, but really it is a limited gesture as we calculate there are between 70,000 and 80,000 Cubans in prison," Sanchez said.
Sanchez said those freed so far included five political prisoners.
Cuba released 130 political prisoners in a deal brokered by the Catholic Church in 2010. Cuban dissidents have said there are still at least 60 people behind bars for political reasons, including some convicted of boat and plane hijackings and spying.
Castro said on Friday the amnesty covered people more than 60 years of age, prisoners who are ill, women and some young prisoners who had no previous criminal history, as well as a few prisoners who had been convicted for crimes against "the security of the state."
The Cuban president said 86 foreigners from 25 countries convicted of committing crimes in Cuba were also on the amnesty list.
A number of Western diplomats said on Tuesday they were waiting to be contacted by Cuban authorities about their nationals in Cuban jails.
U.S. contractor Alan Gross, who began serving a 15-year prison term this year after being convicted of participating in a semi-covert U.S. democracy-building program to establish a clandestine Internet platform inside Cuba, was not on the amnesty list, Cuban officials said.
The U.S. government and Gross family insist the contractor was simply helping Jewish groups connect with each other and Jews around the world.
Gross' imprisonment threw cold water on a warming trend in relations between the decades-old-ideological foes.
"If this is correct, we are deeply disappointed and deplore the fact that the Cuban government has decided not to take this opportunity to extend this humanitarian release to Mr. Gross this holiday season, especially in light of his deteriorating health, and to put an end to the Gross family's long plight," Mark Toner, a State Department spokesman, said on Saturday.
(Additional reporting by Marc Frank; Editing by Tom Brown and Peter Cooney)
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Google ponies up a lot of money for search priviledges.
While Firefox might be losing some market share to Google Chrome in the past few months, it?s still an excellent browser that remains a favorite of many users around the world. But there was doubt on Google?s dealings with Mozilla once their search deal expired and whether they would renew it or not and that would drastically affect Mozilla?s annual revenue. Well worry not, because Google and Mozilla have announced that they?ve renewed their search deal for three years.
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ALBANY ? On the matted, dead grass of Academy Park ? where the lively Occupy Albany camp held court for eight weeks ? only disappointment reigned Friday.
Disappointment by protesters still furious over what they say was excessive force wielded a day earlier by a police department whose leader, Chief Steven Krokoff, they had previously viewed as their principled protector.
And disappointment by Krokoff and other top city officials, who criticized the lack of respect shown by demonstrators and lamented having being drawn into the exact sort of physical conflict with the protesters they had sought for two months to avoid.
Krokoff and Mayor Jerry Jennings stridently backed the actions of their officers in the bizarre tug of war Thursday over the encampment's last remaining tent ? a scrum that ended with three officers injured and several members of the crowd, including a city councilman, reeling from pepper spray used by one mounted officer.
"Use of that pepper spray most definitely prevented serious injuries ? not only to the police officers but to the other people that were in that camp," Krokoff said Friday morning, standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Mayor Jerry Jennings. "I'm proud of each and every member of my police department ? as proud as I've ever been of them ? for the work that they've done. ...the abuse that they took."
Richard Gorleski, the officer who used the pepper spray, later confirmed Krokoff's account of the incident, saying he reacted only after protesters reached for the reins and bridle of his horse.
"If I didn't spray a few of those people, someone would have been seriously injured," said Gorleski, who is also president of the Albany Police Officers Union. He said officers below him were being rushed by protesters trying to keep police from restraining those clinging to the tent.
Some protesters, however, disputed that account.
Jennings, meanwhile, contrasted the city's decision to send crews of workers into Academy Park to dismantle the two-month-old encampment after its permit expired Thursday with tactics used elsewhere.
"I didn't go in the middle of the night like they did in other cities," he said. "They did show restraint."
Krokoff's refusal to arrest the protesters after the camp first took root Oct. 21 ? paired with District Attorney David Soares' refusal to prosecute them ? only boosted the chief's credibility among progressives who backed his candidacy for the job last year. That he was at the center of its unraveling served as a strange coda to the Occupy Albany encampment.
"I no longer trust Krokoff," declared Councilman Anton Konev, a one-time supporter of the chief.
Konev has called for hearings to investigate the use of force and said using some of the city's new beat officers to dismantle the camp may have seriously damaged newly forged relationships with the community.
Councilman Dominick Calsalaro, who said he was grazed by the mist of pepper spray, also criticized the decision to capture the tent but laid the blame with Jennings, not Krokoff, who he said was likely just following orders.
"It was totally against the whole community policing philosophy, and they've destroyed relationships that they've had with the people," Calsolaro said. "Nobody disrespected the police until they came in to take that tent."
City workers first entered the camp around 2 p.m. Thursday after officials won a court order barring the occupiers from continuing to spend nights there.
But the violence didn't flare until some three hours later, after the protesters uprooted their last tent and carried it around the city through rush-hour traffic, then returned it to the park across Washington Avenue from the state Capitol.
Protesters maintained they had no plans to leave it there. Minutes later, however, about 30 police officers under orders from Krokoff moved in to capture it to prevent them from heading back into the streets.
Mark Mishler an attorney working with the protesters, called that the day's most fateful decision, saying that if the protesters were going to resist, they would have done so hours earlier when they linked arms and surrounded the tent before taking to the streets.
"The group had already essentially made a decision that they weren't going to fight to keep it in the park," Mishler said.
The hand-to-hand struggle that ensued ? including the use of the pepper spray ? was captured on numerous video recordings. Police first said only two protesters were sprayed, but Krokoff later acknowledged more may have been hit.
Four people were arrested, and three police officers suffered minor injuries, Krokoff said, including one who was hospitalized overnight for complications resulting from a back injury.
Soares said his office will review video of the skirmish to decide whether to prosecute those arrested. In a statement, he called the conflict a "black eye" for the city. But Jennings put the blame squarely on the protesters.
"I expected cooperation. We didn't get it," Jennings said, reiterating that the occupiers are free to return to the park, so long as they leave their camping gear behind. "We're not going to allow it. We'll take 'em down again."
Reach Jordan Carleo-Evangelist at 454-5445 or jcarleo-evangelist@timesunion.com. On Twitter: @JCEvangelist_TU.
Source: http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Mayor-police-chief-defend-action-to-dismantle-2421993.php
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New Hampshire voters don't seem to like being asked to settle for Mitt Romney, asking him slightly-hostile questions at town halls that can be summed up as, What makes you think you're so awesome? "I've heard the talk. I would like to see the walk," Von Baltzer told Romney at a Berlin, New Hampshire town hall Thursday, Reuters'?Ros Krasny?reports. "What can you say to me and to other voters that are sitting here, that the promises that you're making, that you can walk the talk?" But at a Conway town hall, it wasn't authenticity but relatability that was on the mind of another skeptical voter.??"Relatability has been a large issue for you on this campaign trail, and as a college student many people in my generation find it especially hard to relate to you as a candidate," Kallie Durkit asked the candidate , according to ABC News'?Emily Friedman. "Why should we mobilize for you as a candidate instead of Obama, which we did in 2008?"?Romney answered with a pretty big promise: "What I can promise you is this -- when you get out of college, if I?m president you?ll have a job. If President Obama is reelected, you will not be able to get a job."
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Even the voters trying to be nice have a hidden not-so-pro-Romney agenda.?Friedman reports that one voter presented Romney with a bottle of chocolate milk, which his wife said was his favorite vice in an interview recently. "I wondered if I gave you a bribe, if you would tell us if your vice presidential running mate would be from Florida, Illinois or New Jersey? he asked. If I act slightly nice, will you at least pick someone I like better for your No. 2??The?New Hampshire Union Leader, in an editorial trying to goad Romney into debating the paper's chosen candidate, Newt Gingrich, says Romney's no good with unscripted answers -- like when a gay veteran confronted him -- and his town halls are "often a careful, arms-length kind of campaigning."
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LOS ANGELES?? Grammy-winning singer Etta James, who has been deemed terminally ill with leukemia, has been hospitalized in California and placed on a breathing machine, her long-time manager and friend said on Friday.
James, 73, best known for the blues ballad "At Last," was taken to the hospital near her home in Riverside, east of Los Angeles, earlier this week because she was struggling to breathe.
"They took her to the hospital. She was having trouble breathing, so they intubated her. She is on a breathing machine and is resting," Lupe De-Leon, the singer's manager for 30 years, told Reuters.
The singer has been in failing health for a number of years and suffers from leukemia, kidney disease and dementia but had previously been cared for at her Southern California home.
During a Friday court appearance, she was accused of felony battery and possession of a controlled substance.
Her live-in doctor said last week that James was considered terminally ill, and that she communicates mostly with nods and simple words.
The three-time Grammy Award singer earlier battled obesity and was addicted to heroin for many years.
"It is really sad. She is like my sister," De-Leon said on Friday.
James was a key figure in the early days of R&B music with hit songs like "The Wallflower" and "Good Rockin' Daddy". But it was her 1961 recording of "At Last" that put her on the map.
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Notre Dame researchers have created a semiconductive paste, which can turn surfaces its applied to into solar cells. A team of researchers, lead by Professor Prashant Kamat, created the new material by coating nano-sized particles of titanium dioxide with either cadmium sulfide or cadmium selenide, and then suspending them in a water-alcohol mixture to create a paste.
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The paste can then be applied to a transparent conducting material, which creates electricity when exposed to light.
The solar cell paint is cheap to produce, but it currently has a serious drawback: low efficiency. Silicon solar cells typically have 10-15% efficiency, while the material created by Kamat and his team has a 1% efficiency at best.
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?This paint can be made cheaply and in large quantities. If we can improve the efficiency somewhat, we may be able to make a real difference in meeting energy needs in the future,? says Kamat.
Due to its amazing properties, Kamat and his team dubbed the new material "Sun-Believable." The researcher believes that, if perfected, the new material could be a start of a new era in solar power.
This story originally published on Mashable here.
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Like clockwork, another rapid release Firefox version is upon us. In the heady early days of Mozilla's browser, full version updates were watersheds. But now, just as with Google Chrome's, they're incremental. This time the independent, not-for-profit Firefox 9 adds Type Inference (a technique that vastly improves JavaScript speed), better Mac OS X Lion operation and appearance, better "Do Not Track" support, and improved HTML5 standard support. Let's see how the latest from Mozilla stacks up.
Previous releases have brought bigger changes that will be welcomed by many users. With Firefox 8, we got a Twitter search option, more WebGL support, and protection from drive-by add-on installations. Firefox 7 added better use of memory, addressing one of the most common complaints I've heard about Firefox over the past few years. It also sped up startup times, in which Firefox has long trialed competing browsers.
It still holds true that the big interface changes all came along in version 4. Mozilla started emulating Google's Chrome (free, 4.5 stars) Web browser in JavaScript speed and minimalist interface, as competitors Internet Explorer 9 (free, 4 stars) and Opera 11.50 (free, 4 stars) have.
Firefox 9 can nearly match Chrome on JavaScript speed, and holds its own when it comes to HTML5 support and a trimmed down interface that gives the Web page center stage. But when compared side-by-side with Chrome, Firefox falls just a bit short in terms of HTML5 support and whiz-bang features like Chrome Instant, which loads pages from your history before you even finish typing their addresses or search terms in the address bar.
Install
A simple 15MB download gets you the Firefox 9 Windows installer. When you run it you'll lose your old version of Firefox. The latest Firefox is available for Mac (31MB) and Linux (17MB) as well as for Windows 7, Vista, and XP?the last of which even Internet Explorer 9 (Free, 4 stars) can't claim. You can import bookmarks from any other installed browsers on first run, but setup is nearly as uncomplicated as it is for Chrome. Firefox also now makes it easy to choose a search provider other than Google, but surprisingly, not as easy as Chrome does. Recently, though, Mozilla started offering a Firefox for Bing version, which uses Microsoft's Web search built in.
It's more likely that you'll be updated to Firefox 9 automatically, though, since, starting with version 4, Firefox followed Google Chrome in yet another way: by automatically checking for and downloading each new version, and installing it the next time the browser starts. This has the benefit of keeping the majority of users on the latest version. To give the automatic updater a nudge, choose Help>About from the main Firefox menu dropdown.
The first time you run Firefox, you'll see the "Select Your Add-ons" dialog. This is so that you can see any add-ons that may have been installed unbeknownst to you by another app you installed. After this first extension approval, the browser will no longer allow third-party app installations to install Firefox extensions without your approval. On another score, previous updates broke a lot of extensions, so it's good to see this is less of an issue this time around. I didn't have problems with extension compatibility as long as the extension worked in Firefox 7.
Interface
Firefox's latest interface brings it in line with the trend of "less is more"?less space taken up by the browser frame and controls and more space for Web pages. The page tabs have moved above the address bar, and, as with Opera 11.60, there's just a single menu option in the form of the orange Firefox button at top left. You can re-enable the standard menus by hitting the Alt key.
New for Firefox 9 is better integration with Apple's latest desktop operating system, Mac OS X Lion. Mozilla's browser now supports the OS's two- and three-finger swiping gestures for moving between apps and pages in full screen. The theme design now also matches Lion's toolbar and icon stylings.
The Home button has moved to the right of the search bar, and a bookmark button appears to the right of that. That bookmark button only appears when you don't want the bookmark toolbar taking up browser window space. This gives you one-click access to frequently needed Web addresses. But I wish that, like IE's star button, Firefox also let you see recent page history. You can still call up the full bookmark manager, which lets you do things like importing bookmarks from other browsers, search, and organize.
Firefox is one of the last remaining browsers to still use separate address and search boxes, which is good for those who like to keep those two activities separate. That doesn't mean, however, that a search won't work in the address bar, aka the "awesome bar." That tool, which drops down suggestions from your history and favorites whenever you start typing, was pioneered by Firefox and copied by all other browsers. Another tweak is that when one of its suggested sites is already open in a tab, you can click on a "Switch to tab" link, preventing you from opening more tabs unnecessarily?a useful tweak.
As part of its leading extensibility, Firefox has always been the browser most open to allowing different search providers, including specialized search like shopping, reference, or social. It was one of the first to support the OpenSearch format. The other popular browsers now do so, too, but Firefox can automatically detect search services on a page and let you add them from the search bar. With version 8, the social search category was bolstered by the built in addition of a Twitter search, making it easy to follow trending topics or to find Twitter personalities worth following.
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The research was conducted by a team from the Yale School of Public Health from New Haven. It was found that there was 69% increased risk of the disease in people who used tanning beds to get evenly tanned without having to deal with the sand and water at beaches.
The reason for the same is that their body gets very closely affected by the UV rays for a long time. This is what might be responsible for raising the risk of melanoma cancer besides skin cancer.
?Indoor tanning was strikingly common in our study of young skin cancer patients, especially in the women, which may partially explain why 70 percent of early-onset BCCs are in females?, said Susan T Mayne, of the school of Public Health.
This is why it is essential that people understand the potential risk of these diseases and steer clear of using sunbeds in excess. There is need for them to understand that this could put them to the risk of being scarred for life, as well as raise their infection possibilities to such a horrendous disease. It is important that one and all stay safe from such risks. One could opt for occasional sun bathing on the beaches for the same effect, but with a lesser risk of contracting such infections.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands ? As many as 20,000 children endured sexual abuse at Dutch Catholic institutions over the past 65 years, and church officials failed to adequately address it or help the victims, according to a long-awaited investigative report released Friday.
The findings detailed some of the most widespread abuse yet linked to the Roman Catholic Church, which has been under fire for years over abuse allegations in Europe, the United States and elsewhere.
Based on a survey of 34,000 people, the report estimated that 1 in 10 Dutch children suffered some form of sexual abuse ? a figure that rose to 1 in 5 among children who spent part of their youth in an institution such as a boarding school or children's home, whether Catholic or not.
"Sexual abuse of minors," it said bluntly, "occurs widely in Dutch society."
The findings prompted the archbishop of Utrecht, Wim Eijk, to apologize to victims on behalf of the Dutch church, saying the report "fills us with shame and sorrow."
The abuse ranged from "unwanted sexual advances" to rape, and abusers numbered in the hundreds and included priests, brothers and lay people who worked in religious orders and congregations. The number of victims who suffered abuse in church institutions likely lies somewhere between 10,000 and 20,000, according to the probe, which went back as far as 1945.
The commission behind the investigation was set up last year by the Catholic Church under the leadership of a former government minister, Wim Deetman, a Protestant, who said there could be no doubt church leaders knew of the problem. "The idea that people did not know there was a risk ... is untenable," he told a news conference.
Deetman said abuse continued in part because bishops and religious orders sometimes worked autonomously to deal with the abuse and "did not hang out their dirty laundry." However, he said the commission concluded that "it is wrong to talk of a culture of silence" by the church as a whole.
Colm O'Gorman, executive director of Amnesty International in Ireland and a victim of clergy abuse, criticized the Dutch inquiry because it was established by the church itself.
"It is the Dutch government that should be putting in place a meaningful investigation," O'Gorman said.
Even so, he said the report "highlights widespread abuse on a scale I think would be shocking to most Dutch people."
But O'Gorman added that "the scale of the abuse is in and of itself not the significant issue. It is whether it was covered up and, significantly, this report suggests it was."
Nearly a third of the Netherlands' 16 million people identify themselves as Catholic, making it the largest religion in the country, according to the Dutch Central Bureau for Statistics for 2008.
The Dutch probe followed allegations of repeated incidents of abuse at one cloister that spread to claims from Catholic institutions across the country.
The investigating commission received some 1,800 complaints of abuse at Catholic schools, seminaries and orphanages. It then conducted the broader survey of 34,000 people for a more comprehensive analysis of the scale and nature of sexual abuse of minors in the church and elsewhere.
In one order, the Salesians of Don Bosco, the commission found evidence that "sexually inappropriate behavior" among members "may perhaps have been part of the internal monastic culture."
Bert Smeets, an abuse victim, said the report did not go far enough in investigating and outlining in precise detail exactly what happened.
"What was happening was sexual abuse, violence, spiritual terror, and that should have been investigated," Smeets told The Associated Press. "It remains vague. All sorts of things happened, but nobody knows exactly what or by whom. This way they avoid responsibility."
The commission said about 800 priests, brothers, pastors or lay people working for the church were identified in the complaints. About 105 of them are still alive, although it is not known if they remain in church positions. Their names were not released.
Prosecutors said in a statement that Deetman's inquiry had referred 11 cases to them ? without naming the alleged perpetrators. Prosecutors opened only one investigation, saying the other 10 did not have sufficient details and happened too long ago to prosecute.
The latest findings add to the growing evidence of widespread clergy abuse of children documented in the United States, Canada, Ireland, Belgium and other countries, forcing Pope Benedict XVI to apologize to victims whose trauma was often hidden by church cover-ups.
In September, abuse victims and human rights lawyers, upset that no high-ranking church officials have yet to be prosecuted, filed a complaint in the United States urging the International Criminal Court to investigate the pope and top Vatican officials for possible crimes against humanity. The Vatican called the move a "ludicrous publicity stunt."
An American advocacy group involved in that case, the Center for Constitutional Rights, called the Dutch findings "yet another example of the widespread and systematic nature of the problem of child sex crimes in the Catholic Church."
"If similar commissions were held in every country, we would undoubtedly be equally appalled by the rates of abuse," it said.
Archbishop Eijk said the victims in the Netherlands would be compensated by a commission the Dutch church set up last month and which has a scale starting at $6,500 (euro5,000), rising to a maximum of $130,000 (euro100,000) depending on the nature of the abuse.
O'Gorman criticized the church-established compensation scheme.
"It is simply not appropriate for the church to be the decider" of compensation, he said. "It is important the Dutch government recognizes its responsibility to ensure access to justice ... to all victims."
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Carolina Panthers' Cam Newton (1) stands on the sidelines after throwing an interception during the third quarter of an NFL football game against the Atlanta Falcons in Charlotte, N.C., Sunday, Dec. 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Nell Redmond)
Carolina Panthers' Cam Newton (1) stands on the sidelines after throwing an interception during the third quarter of an NFL football game against the Atlanta Falcons in Charlotte, N.C., Sunday, Dec. 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Nell Redmond)
Carolina Panthers' Cam Newton (1) scrambles during the first quarter of an NFL football game against the Atlanta Falcons in Charlotte, N.C., Sunday, Dec. 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Bob Leverone)
Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow (15) is tackled by Chicago Bears defensive end Corey Wootton (98) in overtime of an NFL football game, Sunday, Dec. 11, 2011, in Denver. Denver won 13-10. (AP Photo/Joe Mahoney)
Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow throws a pass against the Chicago Bears during the fourth quarter of an NFL football game, Sunday, Dec. 11, 2011, in Denver. The Broncos won 13-10. (AP Photo/The Denver Post, John Leyba) MANDATORY CREDIT; MAGS OUT; TV OUT
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) ? Panthers wide receiver Steve Smith said when it comes to comparing Cam Newton to Tim Tebow there is no comparison.
Smith said time will prove Newton is by far the better NFL quarterback.
"If Tebow is standing next to me I would tell it to his face ? come check me out in five years, Jack, and you'll know who's the best quarterback," Smith said.
Newton is 4-9 as a starter, although he's put up incredible individual numbers. He has a chance to become the first quarterback in NFL history to throw for 4,000 yards and run for 500 in the same season. He already has 554 yards rushing and needs only 427 yards passing to reach 4,000.
Tebow is 6-1 as a starter this year for Denver with five impressive come-from-behind victories. But Smith believes Denver's defense isn't getting enough credit for the Broncos playoff push.
Smith said Newton's versatility makes him a better quarterback.
"Everybody wants to crown Tebow as a versatile quarterback," Smith said. "Versatile to me means you can throw the ball very accurately, run the ball and create things. The only he can create is running. He isn't very accurate."
Tebow has won more games than Newton this year, but that doesn't matter to Smith.
"You can't compare Cam to Tebow. I think Cam's a more complete player," Smith said. "Tebow has the wins. But everybody wants to crown Tebow. Yes, he has the will to win. I think Tebow is no different than any other professional (in that way). But Tebow has a great opportunity to play behind a great defense."
Denver has allowed the fourth-fewest points in the league; the injury-plagued Panthers defense ranks 22nd in points allowed.
Smith pointed to Tebow's statistics in the first three quarters of last Sunday's game against Chicago ? he was 3 of 16 ? as an example of his inaccurate arm and lack of accuracy in the passing game.
"That's not a versatile quarterback," Smith said.
Still, Tebow has been able to do what Newton hasn't ? win games late.
The Panthers have led in 12 of 13 games this year, but have lost six contests when they've led in the fourth quarter. On the other hand, Tebow has five game-winning drives in the fourth quarter this year and six for his career.
In Denver, the fourth quarter has become known as "Tebow Time."
Panthers center Ryan Kalil said he doesn't see too many similarities between the two quarterbacks.
"They are two different players," Kalil said. "I don't know much about Tebow other than the highlights, but I think they're different. If I had to choose one it would be my guy. Everyone keeps tagging this thing that he's a winner, but it's not one man, it's a football team. I think they're playing good as a football team."
Kalil said Newton is a once-in-a-lifetime quarterback.
"I do," Kalil said. "He's young and he has a lot of room to grow. I think he's already shown he's pretty darn phenomenal."
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MOSCOW ? Russia's opposition parties have called for weekend rallies to protest election fraud following Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's rejection of demonstrators' demands for a rerun of a disputed parliamentary poll.
Several parties and groups hope for a repeat of last weekend's mass gatherings in Moscow and other cities during which tens of thousands of people vented their anger against results of the parliamentary poll on Dec. 4 they say were marred by ballot stuffing and other irregularities.
The Moscow protest was the largest in Russia's post-Soviet history, signaling that Putin's comeback to the presidential job he held from 2000 to 2008 will not be as easy as had been expected only two weeks ago.
On Thursday, Putin insisted that the vote results reflected the people's will and dismissed the protesters as Western stooges. Putin's United Russia party won nearly 50 percent of the vote, a 20 percent decrease on the number of seats it held in the previous legislature. The opposition and some observers said the slim majority it retained was due to widespread vote fraud.
In Washington, President Barack Obama raised questions about Russia's disputed election in a phone call on Friday with President Dmitry Medvedev and welcomed his promise to investigate whether fraud had occurred at some ballot stations, the White House said. Obama also praised Russian authorities for allowing demonstrations to occur throughout Russia.
The widespread protests following the parliamentary vote reflected popular anger against Putin's party, dubbed by its critics as a "party of crooks and thieves."
"The crooks and thieves have stolen our victory," Oksana Dmitriyeva, a leading member of the opposition Just Russia party wrote in her blog Friday, alleging that her party's victory in St. Petersburg, Russia's second-largest city, was taken away from it through massive fraud.
Putin, who has consistently marginalized the opposition and tightened election rules during his 12-year rule, promised during the call-in show some moves toward liberalization. He proposed placing web cameras in all the country's more than 90,000 polling stations for the March 4 presidential election that he is contesting.
On Friday, he ordered the country's finance and communications ministers to get to work on the cameras plan.
In televised footage of that meeting, he did not specify how the cameras would be deployed, leaving open the question of how effective they might be against vote fraud.
The opposition has dismissed Putin's camera proposal as an attempt to deflect public anger.
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AP correspondent Harry Dunphy contributed from Washington.
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FILE - In this Nov. 12, 2011 file photo, workers in protective suits and masks wait to enter the emergency operation center at the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station in Okuma, Japan, when the media were allowed to enter the tsunami-damaged plant for the first time since the March 11 disaster. Japan is poised to declare its crippled nuclear plant virtually stable nine months after a devastating tsunami, but the facility still leaks some radiation, remains vulnerable to earthquakes and shows no prospect for cleanup for decades. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder, Pool, File)
FILE - In this Nov. 12, 2011 file photo, workers in protective suits and masks wait to enter the emergency operation center at the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station in Okuma, Japan, when the media were allowed to enter the tsunami-damaged plant for the first time since the March 11 disaster. Japan is poised to declare its crippled nuclear plant virtually stable nine months after a devastating tsunami, but the facility still leaks some radiation, remains vulnerable to earthquakes and shows no prospect for cleanup for decades. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder, Pool, File)
The Unit 4 reactor building of the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station is seen through a bus window in Okuma, Japan, when the media were allowed into Japan's tsunami-damaged nuclear power plant for the first time since the March 11 disaster. Japan is poised to declare its crippled nuclear plant virtually stable nine months after a devastating tsunami, but the facility still leaks some radiation, remains vulnerable to earthquakes and shows no prospect for cleanup for decades. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder, Pool, File)
FILE - In this Nov. 12, 2011 file photo, the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station is seen through a bus window in Okuma, Japan, as the media were allowed into Japan's tsunami-damaged nuclear power plant for the first time since the March 11 disaster. Japan is poised to declare its crippled nuclear plant virtually stable nine months after a devastating tsunami, but the facility still leaks some radiation, remains vulnerable to earthquakes and shows no prospect for cleanup for decades. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder, Pool, File)
FILE - In this Nov. 12, 2011 file photo, the Unit 4 reactor building of the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station is seen through a bus window in Okuma, Japan Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011 when the media were allowed into Japan's tsunami-damaged nuclear power plant for the first time since the March 11 disaster. Japan is poised to declare its crippled nuclear plant virtually stable nine months after a devastating tsunami, but the facility still leaks some radiation, remains vulnerable to earthquakes and shows no prospect for cleanup for decades. Japan is poised to declare its crippled nuclear plant virtually stable nine months after a devastating tsunami, but the facility still leaks some radiation, remains vulnerable to earthquakes and shows no prospect for cleanup for decades. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder, Pool, File)
In this Dec. 4, 2011 file photo released by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), radioactive water is seen leaked from a building with a purification device placed inside at the tsunami-damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, north of Tokyo. The nuclear power plant leaked about 45 tons of highly radioactive water from the purification device over the weekend, its operator said, and some may have drained into the ocean. (AP Photo/Tokyo Electric Power Co., File) EDITORIAL USE ONLY
TOKYO (AP) ? Japan is poised to declare its crippled nuclear plant virtually stable nine months after a devastating tsunami, but the facility still leaks some radiation, remains vulnerable to earthquakes and shows no prospect for cleanup for decades.
Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda said last week that temperatures inside the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant's three melted reactor cores are almost consistently below the boiling point and radiation leaks have significantly subsided ? two key conditions in a hoped-for "cold shutdown."
Officials say the government is expected to hold a news conference Friday to declare something close to cold shutdown, though experts caution it will be, at best, a tenuous stability. The declaration would mark a step forward for the much-maligned operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co., which has struggled to control the plant after it was damaged in a huge earthquake and tsunami March 11, unleashing the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl.
"Up until now, this has been the biggest goal," TEPCO spokesman Masao Yamaguchi said. "It would be a milestone."
The announcement is expected to refer to cold shutdown "conditions"? less definitive phrasing than a cold shutdown. That's partly because the operator cannot measure temperatures of melted fuel in the damaged reactors in the same way as with normally functioning ones, although the company believes they have reached a stable state.
In any case, experts caution that the progress so far at Fukushima should not be overstated, and that problems could still crop up.
"TEPCO and the government are anxious to bring a certain closure to the crisis," said Kazuhiko Kudo, a nuclear physicist at Kyushu University. "It would be a problem if the announcement gives an impression that the plant has received an official safety certificate."
The announcement would mark the end of the second phase of the government's lengthy roadmap to completely decommission the plant ? a process that could take about 30 years, authorities have said.
In the next phase, officials may start discussing whether to allow some evacuated residents who lived in areas with lesser damage from the plant to return home ? but that could still be months or years away. Many of more than 100,000 residents evacuated from around the plant remain in limbo, living with relatives or in temporary housing. And a 20-kilometer (12-mile) zone around the plant is expected to remain off limits for some time.
Food safety concerns also persist.
The Fukushima plant disaster, which spewed an estimated one-fifth the amount of radiation as the 1986 accident at Chernobyl, has caused contamination of rice, vegetables and beef from around the region. Recently, even trace amounts of cesium were found in baby formula.
The complex still faces numerous concerns, including the vulnerability of the spent fuel pools, which sit on the top floor of the damaged reactor buildings, and the vast amount of contaminated water that has collected in the reactor basements and nearby storage areas. Another severe earthquake could damage the spent fuel pools, which might cause the water to leak and allow the fuel to overheat.
Unit 4's spent fuel pool, which contains the largest number of fuel rods, is the biggest concern because of structural damage to the building beneath it, although TEPCO says it has reinforced the structure. Removal and storage of those fuel rods from pools at four of the reactor units is also part of the next step toward eventual decommissioning.
Another continuing concern is containing radiation leaks.
To cool the reactors, TEPCO has been injecting water into the reactors, which is then leaking out through cracks. The radioactive water has been collected and stored in huge rooms converted into storage tanks before being decontaminated and put back into the reactors as coolant. Officials say the overall volume of contaminated water keeps growing, forcing the operator to keep searching for additional storage space.
Other recent leaks have raised questions about whether the plant really is fully under control. Last week, the utility said that about 45 tons of highly radioactive water had leaked from the plant's water processing system, some possibly leaking into the ocean.
Officials have said those are isolated incidents that are being taken care of and do not affect the overall plant status.
Normally, a nuclear reactor is considered to be in cold shutdown when its coolant system is at atmospheric pressure and the reactor cores are at a temperature below 100 Celsius (212 Fahrenheit) so that it would be impossible for a chain reaction to take place.
But meeting that strict definition is impossible at Fukushima Dai-ichi because the damaged reactors' fuel has melted and its exact whereabouts is unknown. Authorities suspect most of the fuel has fallen to the bottom of the innermost steel pressure vessels, and some most likely dribbled through to the beaker-shaped containment vessel. That makes it virtually impossible to know the exact temperature of the fuel.
Temperature gauges inside the Fukushima reactors show that the temperature at the bottom of the pressure vessel is around 70 C (158 F). TEPCO officials and nuclear experts say that indicates the reactor is in a cold, stable state. But because of the educated guesswork involved, Japanese authorities are using the phrase "cold shutdown conditions," rather than "cold shutdown."
The government has also stressed that the amount of radiation now being released around the plant precincts is at or below 1 millisievert per year ? equivalent to an annual legal exposure limit for ordinary citizens before the crisis began. It also says the reactor cooling and water recycling apparatus is working and sustainable.
How to remove and dispose of the melted fuel is also an issue.
Recent TEPCO simulations showed that fuel in the worst-hit reactor No. 1 has mostly melted, breached the bottom of the core, dropping to an outer compartment and eating away into its concrete foundation and reaching within a foot of the crucial steel bottom of the primary containment chamber.
"It would make sense to let the people in and outside the country know that the work is steadily continuing," said Satoru Tanaka, a nuclear physicist at the University of Tokyo. "But achieving the (cold shutdown) status does not mean the problem is over. There are so many things that still need to be taken care of and clarified."
The Nuclear Safety Commission, which is comprised of government-appointed nuclear experts, on Monday approved TEPCO's operation and safety plans covering the next phase.
But safety commission chairman Haruki Madarame urged TEPCO and the Nuclear Industrial and Safety Agency to regularly review and evaluate the plans because "the reactors are broken and we hardly know what it really is like inside the reactors and it's difficult to predict what may occur."
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