Saturday, December 31, 2011

Turkey's PM pledges full probe into deadly raid (Reuters)

ANKARA (Reuters) ? Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on Friday promised a full investigation into airstrikes on the Iraqi border that killed 35 villagers whom the military had mistaken for Kurdish militants - an attack that has infuriated minority Kurds in Turkey and Iraq.

The strikes sparked clashes on Friday in Turkey's restive mainly Kurdish southeast and in the autonomous Kurdish northern Iraq region.

In the border village of Gulyazi, thousands of mourners attended funerals after digging deep graves along a steep cliff. The bodies, most of them young villagers who were smuggling cigarettes and diesel, were ferried on tractors or wrapped in carpets lashed to donkeys making their way along snowed tracks.

Breaking his silence over an attack Turkey's largest pro-Kurdish party has labeled a crime against humanity, Erdogan said video recordings of the air raid would be examined and forensic experts would be dispatched to the area.

"All necessary steps will be taken," Erdogan told reporters, calling the incident, one of the largest single-day civilian deaths in a decades-long conflict, unfortunate and saddening.

But Erdogan also defended the Turkish military, which has been fighting Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) armed militants since the group took up arms against the Turkish state in 1984.

The military had said its warplanes launched air strikes after drones spotted what looked like suspected PKK militants.

"Unfortunately, it's not possible to determine who's who from these images taken by drones. These images showed a group of 40 men near the border," Erdogan said, adding the PKK has used smugglers and mules to carry out attacks in the past.

"Our F16 jets have bombed the area as a result."

The attack undermined efforts by Erdogan to engage Kurds in talks to write a new constitution expected to address long-held Kurdish grievances. Kurds, a minority that inhabits Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Iran, have become increasingly assertive.

Some 500 protesters gathered on Friday in Arbil, the capital of Iraq's Kurdish region, to protest the killings. Some protesters threw stones and clashed briefly with Kurdish security forces, but there were no reports of casualties.

"The crime ... is a real genocide, a war crime and a crime against humanity, and breaches international laws," Kurdish activist Ali Mahmoud said. "We demand that Turkey be judged in the international courts."

The protesters carried PKK flags and pictures of its leader, Abdullah Ocalan, and shouted, "fight, fight for freedom" and "Erdogan is a terrorist."

"The Kurdish people must protest and condemn what happened," activist Lalo Rangder said. "Erdogan is a terrorist and has two faces in the sense that he asks the international community to protect Syrians and at the same time is killing Kurdish people with forbidden weapons."

Clashes also broke out across cities in Turkey's Kurdish areas and in its largest city Istanbul.

UN PROBE

Turkish rights groups called for a U.N.-sponsored probe.

"Turkish and international non-governmental organizations should investigate the incident and the U.N. Human Rights Committee should send a committee right away," human rights groups IHD and Mazlumder said in a preliminary report into Wednesday's airstrike.

IHD and Mazlumder said most of those killed near the border village of Uludere were between the ages of 12 and 18. Turkish media have reported that 28 out of the 35 dead belonged to the same extended family and carried the same surname.

In their report, IHD and Mazlumder quoted 19-year-old Haci Encu, who survived the attack and was in hospital, as saying the smugglers were a group of about 40-50 people with mules and were attacked as they were crossing the border to Iraq.

As the group saw the planes overhead, "we started running towards Iraq, and bombs started to fall on those who were left behind on the rocky area. We were six people in my group, and three of us survived. We had civilian clothes and nobody was armed," Encu said.

"We have been doing this for a long time. Two people from the group were married, the rest were high school and secondary school students. Nobody has contacted me for testimony yet, and I haven't seen a single soldier since the incident."

The deaths threatens to ignite more violence from the PKK, which is regarded as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the European Union and the United States. The group has been fighting for an ethnic Kurdish homeland in a conflict that has claimed the lives of 40,000 people.

A PKK commander called on Kurds to rise up to what he called an organized and planned massacre.

"We call on all the people of Kurdistan and especially those of Hakkari and Sirnak to show their reaction against this massacre and to hold the perpetrators of this massacre accountable through their uprising," Bahoz Erdal said in a statement.

With most Turks favoring a hardline military response against the PKK, the incident is unlikely to hurt the popularity of Erdogan, who won a third term in office in a June vote.

(Additional reporting by Ece Toksabay and Daren Butler in Istanbul and Shamal Aqrawi in Arbil; Writing by Ibon Villelabeitia; Editing by Alessandra Rizzo)

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Friday, December 30, 2011

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LG unveils 84-inch 'ultra definition' 4K TV it's bringing to CES 2012

LG let us know at CES 2011 that it had 4K LCD televisions in the pipeline, but unfortunately they didn't make it out this year. Expect for that to change in 2012, as the company just announced it's bringing an 84-inch "ultra definition" (3840x2160) TV to Las Vegas. It has all of LG's Cinema 3D and Smart TV features built in, including support for that upgraded Magic Motion remote and voice control. Check the press release after the break for a few more details.

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Thursday, December 29, 2011

Personalised poem boxed scroll Unique wedding gift

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Personalised boxed poem scroll

gift from the bride or groom on their wedding day

to their Mum or Dad (Mother/Father of bride or groom)

also 2 more one to the bride from the matron of honour

& one from the bride to her new husband

This can be personalised with any message or name/s you wish

This personalised poem is printed on either an A4?parchment like mottled paper or a popset ivory paper

Rolled up into a scroll and decorated with Organza

and?satin ribbon and beautiful mulberry roses.

I have a wide choice of colours as pictured

Please let me know your colour scheme & I will try & help match it if possible.

These scrolls are going to have to be 20p more than my others to recoup some of the set up costs

with all the different colours of ribbon & roses & petals etc.

It comes in an ivory scroll box

(measuring approx 9 x 2.5 x 2 inches)

with?a gold? gift tag on gold elastic cord.

(I will soon be getting silver cord & different coloured tags

I will add a pic when I do :)

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See my feedback on these!

I can also put a photo on the scroll if you wish.

All poems are written by me and are subject to copyright

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Please do not reproduce

There are 6 poems to choose from,

they read as follows:

1/ Mother of the Bride from the bride

As I planned my wedding Mum
I couldn?t stop thinking of you
& all the support & love you?ve given me
the whole of my life through.

Through the years you?ve always been,
the one who?s always there;
Whenever I had a problem
you gave advice, guidance & care.

Without all the things you?ve done for me
I wouldn?t be who I am now
& all of this made me ponder
as I thought of the wedding vow.

You had & held me from day one
& looked after me in sickness & health too;
For richer, for poorer, until death us do part
I will always love & cherish you.

You have been a brilliant Mum
& it doesn?t end when I wed,
there will just be one more at the table
occasionally wanting to be fed.

You?ve shown a special kind of love,
so thoughtful, patient & true
& in case I don?t tell you often enough,
thank you & I love you.

2/ Father of the Bride from the groom
As I planned my wedding Dad
& thought of walking down the aisle,
I obviously thought of you
to walk me there in style.

I could only have my dear Dad
to give me away at my wedding;
With you there to support me
no stumbles I?d be dreading.

You?ve been a rock to me,
always there to lend a hand,
dependable & reliable
so I hope you?ll understand?.

Your little girl?s not deserting you,
she?s just adding a son-in-law to the family
& setting up a home from home
where you can come for tea.

To have & to hold from this day forward
my husband will look out for me too,
but for richer, for poorer, until death us do part
I?ll? always love & cherish you.

I have a heart that?s full of love
& there?s plenty there for my Dad too
& in case I don?t say it often enough
thank you & I love you.

3/ Mother of the Groom from the groom
It may not seem like long ago
that I was a little lad;
Climbing trees, grazing knees
& sometimes being bad.

You were always there for me
for advice & wisdom too;
I am the man I am today
thanks mainly to you.

As a Mum you?ve been great;
I?m your number one fan!
You taught me how to love & care
& to be the best I can.

I know I sometimes hide my heart
and show feelings not enough;
But I will admit today that
you taught me how to love.

My life has been full of
kindness, love & laughter,
& now I wed NAME
I hope for a ?happy ever after?.

You?ve been an inspiration Mum,
so thoughtful, patient & true;
& in case I don?t tell you often enough,
thank you & I love you.

4/ Father (or / & Mother) of the Groom from the bride

As I take your son?s hand today
& commit to him for life
I feel really very privileged
that he?s chosen me to be his wife.

He is such a special person,
so caring, kind & true
& I think I must say thank you
because that must be down to you.

You?ve taught him the right values
that is plain to see;
& coming from a caring, loving home
I know a great husband he will be.

I feel so very happy
to be your son?s bride
& thank you for welcoming me
with arms opened wide.

There really aren?t enough words
to say thank you fully,

for raising such a wonderful man
& then handing him to me.

I promise I will look after him,
& be the best wife that I can be,
& also the best daughter-in-law
as part of your family.

5/ To the Bride from the maid/matron of honour

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Today you got married

& so honoured did I feel;?

To have stood there beside you,?

it all seemed so surreal.

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When we became friends

over ?? years ago now,?

I never dreamt we?d be this close?

as you took your wedding vow.

To have been there as your Maid of Honour

as you took those vows today

was such an immense pleasure

that I truly can?t convey

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We?re always there for each other

& marriage won?t change that!?

But you?re on your own on your wedding night?

because I?m a diplomat!?

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But enough about us,?

today?s about the bride & groom?

I wish you both health wealth & happiness?

& hope with these your marriage will be strewn

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Congratulations NAMEt & NAME?

I hope today is filled with joy & laughter?

I know that it will truly be

a happy ever after.

6 /To the groom / husband from the bride from the bride

Today I am so happy
I love being your bride;
We've taken vows & promised
to live life side by side.

I look forward to our life together
& all that it may bring
& I'm proud to wear this symbol
of our love, this wedding ring.

I feel really blessed today
to be marrying my man
& if ever I can help you Babe (or name of your choice)
I shall, I will, I can!

I know you'd do the same for me,
we'll be there for each other;
We'll be the very best of friends
as husband, wife & lover.

We'll share lots of laughter,
fun, smiles & maybe tears;
But I know our union will be blessed
& last throughout the years.

The reason why I know this
Is that we were made for each other!
This love is for eternity,
there will never be another.

My dearest darling husband
thank you for choosing me,
although I don't think you had much choice
I think it was fate & destiny!

This will be posted in a separate outer carton to

?ensure it reaches you in pristine condition.

**********Don't forget to let me know: *********

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??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 1 the number of your poem choice

??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 2?your personal love from message for the end

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??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 5 The wedding date & venue if you wish it included

?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 6 whether you'd like popset ivory paper or gold parchment like paper

?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 7 whether you would prefer confetti or silk rose petals if I have them in your colour

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Just e-mail me the details through contact member or directly

(you will receive my e-mail address on checkout)

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I usually put at the top:

"To my Mum

Mother of the Bride"

(or Father/Groom etc as applicable)

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& finish with your personal love from message

followed by the

"Married ?..date??

at ?venue?."

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If you would like it set out differently please just let me know

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PLEASE leave feedback to confirm safe receipt

or contact me if not received

within 5 working days of making payment.

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******? See my other items? ******

for more gift ideas & other poems

for Birthdays, Christenings, Anniversaries,

Thanks, I love you gifts etc.

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Southwest plane's tires blow at Sacramento airport

Rescue firefighters responded to a Southwest Airlines flight in distress after two tires blew on the runway Tuesday evening, leaving the jet and its passengers grounded.

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The left main tires blew at about 6:15 p.m. as Southwest flight 2287 was departing for Seattle, Sacramento International Airport spokeswoman Laurie Slothower said.

Southwest Airlines spokeswoman Katie McDonald said the pilot quickly aborted the takeoff and emergency crews were called in to hose down the 737 as a precautionary measure. They later set up a portable stairway to let the 130 passengers off the plane.

"I want to stress that there were no injuries tonight, and the tires never caught on fire," Slothower said.

McDonald said all passengers were being booked onto other flights.

Officials have not determined what caused the blowout and the incident is being investigated. In the meantime, one of the airport's two runways remains closed.

Copyright 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Amid bloodshed, Hamas prepares to leave Syria

Gaza's Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, flashes the victory sign as he visits the leader of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, Mohammed Badie in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Dec. 26, 2011. The green flags represent the Muslim Brotherhood. (AP Photo/Mohammed Abu Zaid)

Gaza's Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, flashes the victory sign as he visits the leader of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, Mohammed Badie in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Dec. 26, 2011. The green flags represent the Muslim Brotherhood. (AP Photo/Mohammed Abu Zaid)

Palestinian women who are members of the security forces of Hamas demonstrate their skills during a graduation ceremony in Gaza City, Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2011. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Gaza's Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh speaks during a press conference in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2011. Haniyeh was in Egypt on his first trip outside the blockaded territory since the Islamists overran it in 2007, saying his meeting with his Islamic ideological mentors threatens Israel. (AP Photo/Mohammed Abu Zaid)

Palestinian men look on at a graduation ceremony of security forces of Hamas in Gaza City, Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2011. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Palestinian men, members of the security forces of Hamas, demonstrate their skills during a graduation ceremony in Gaza City, Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2011. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

(AP) ? Alarmed by bloody unrest in Syria, the Hamas militant group has pulled out many of its lower-level cadres from its Damascus headquarters and made contingency plans to move its leadership to locations across the Middle East, senior Hamas members have told The Associated Press.

The Hamas members say the group remains appreciative of Syrian leader Bashar Assad and there is no immediate intention to abandon their base in Damascus. But they confirmed that dozens of low and midlevel members have already left Syria as the security situation grows increasingly precarious.

"Most of Hamas has left Damascus. We have a plan B for leaving if things deteriorate," said a senior Hamas official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was discussing the inner workings of the secretive group.

Hamas, an Iranian-backed Palestinian group, has been based in Syria for more than a decade. Assad has allowed Hamas, branded a terrorist group by Israel and the West, to use his territory for military training, and provided a valuable headquarters in the heart of the Arab world.

But the uprising in Syria has put Hamas in a difficult place. The U.N. estimates that more than 5,000 people have been killed in violence since March, and Hamas is wary of being associated with the government crackdown.

If Hamas does pull out completely, the move could force it to change the way it operates since the leaders would become dispersed across the region and their new hosts may not give them as much freedom. Hamas' supreme leader, Khaled Mashaal, for instance, is set to go to Qatar, a Gulf state with close ties to the U.S. Other leaders would go to Egypt, another American ally, while others would end up in Lebanon, Turkey or the Hamas-run Gaza Strip.

Fawzi Barhoum, a Hamas leader in the group's Gaza stronghold, says Hamas "hopes that Syria will get out of its difficult internal crisis through a political solution ending further bloodshed in the country." He said there has been "no decision" to leave Damascus.

The plan is the latest sign of change in the Islamic group amid the convulsions of the Arab Spring across the Middle East the past year. The uprisings have been a mixed blessing for Hamas. On one hand, allies like Syria are in trouble. On the other hand, Islamic groups have made strong gains through peaceful elections. While Hamas leaders say they haven't abandoned their dream of destroying Israel, they also seem to be realizing that they can advance their agenda through nonviolent means.

In recent days, Mashaal said Hamas would turn focus on nonviolent protests against Israel, though he refused to renounce violence.

He also signaled that Hamas might be willing to accept a Palestinian state alongside Israel in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the areas captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war. Hamas has in the past endorsed the 1967 lines as the first stage toward eliminating Israel.

Hamas also last week began the process of joining the Palestine Liberation Organization as it reconciles with the rival Fatah movement. The Fatah-dominated PLO has long sought a political settlement with Israel. Joining the PLO could give Hamas a voice, and possibly veto, in future peace efforts.

Israeli officials dismiss any suggestion that Hamas, which has killed hundreds of Israeli civilians in suicide bombings, rocket attacks and other violence, has changed. They cite the hardline speeches delivered at Hamas' 24th anniversary celebrations earlier this month, when speakers proudly called for "armed resistance" and the destruction of Israel.

"Unfortunately there is no evidence that Hamas has in any way moderated its extremist agenda," said government spokesman Mark Regev.

Barhoum said the group has not abandoned its ideology. Instead, he said it has merely changed its tactics as it adjusts to the times.

"There is a new environment around us," he said. "That doesn't mean Hamas is giving up its rights and its clear program as a resistance faction."

Hamas began its transformation into a political movement in 2006, when it defeated Fatah in Palestinian legislative elections in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

A brief power-sharing arrangement disintegrated into violence the following year, leaving Hamas in control of Gaza and the Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority in charge of the West Bank. The sides are now holding reconciliation talks and hope to hold new elections next year.

In Gaza, Hamas on Tuesday marked the third anniversary of an Israeli military offensive in the seaside strip. The offensive, launched in response to months of intense rocket barrages, killed some 1,400 Palestinians, including hundreds of civilians, and caused widespread damage. Thirteen Israelis also died in the fighting.

At memorial ceremonies, speaker after speaker voiced their support for continued armed confrontation with Israel. After suffering heavy losses in the fighting, Hamas has largely maintained a cease-fire with Israel the past three years. Still, it is believed to have restocked its arsenal with more powerful weapons.

But Raed Nearat, a political science professor in the West Bank who is close to Hamas, said that behind the rhetoric, Hamas is in the midst of a significant change.

He said the revolutions across the Middle East, as well as elections that have voted heavily in favor of Islamic movements in Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco, have emboldened Hamas.

"The Arab Spring has made Hamas much more confident, pragmatic and open," he said. "It's much more confident now that it can lead."

This week, the prime minister of the Gaza government, Ismail Haniyeh, left the territory for the first time since the 2007 takeover on an official tour of the Muslim world. His first stop was Egypt, with planned visits to Sudan, Qatar, Bahrain, Tunisia and Turkey.

Hamas officials say the goal of the trip is to improve ties with Muslim countries swept up in the uprisings shaking the Arab world. In Egypt, Haniyeh met with the leader of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, the biggest winner in the first parliamentary elections since the Feb. 11 fall of Hosni Mubarak.

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Sony Ericsson lanza juego de plataforma-puzzle gratis para el Xperia Play

Experiment 13 es unjuego que te pone en los zapatos de Roy Tate, un aprendiz de laboratorio que por accidente se transporta a otra dimensi?n llena de peligros, monstruos y rompecabezas a resolver para poder regresar a la tierra.

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Disney switches Marvel's "Avengers" to 3D (Reuters)

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) ? "The Avengers" has a new superpower: 3D. Walt Disney Studios said Thursday that the movie will be released in the format when it debuts May 4.

The movie had previously been slated for 2D only.

In the same announcement, Walt Disney Studios said another, untitled Marvel movie has moved up from a wide release on June 27, 2014, to a wide release on Apr. 4, 2014. There has been speculation that the sequel to "Captain America" might arrive in 2014.

Also, Disney shed some light on a previously untitled movie scheduled for a November 27, 2013, release. It will be called "Frozen."

A report saying "Frozen" is the untitled Pixar movie about dinosaurs -- which is due in 2013 -- is incorrect, a Disney representative told TheWrap.

"The Avengers" won't be the only major 2012 superhero film released in 3D. Another Marvel movie, Columbia Pictures' "The Amazing Spider-Man," will also be released in 3D when it comes out July 3.

However, Warner Bros.' "The Dark Knight Rises," which comes out July 20, will not be released in 3D.

"The Avengers" is an ensemble movie that stars Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, Chris Evans as Captain America, Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye, Scarlett Johansson as the Black Widow, Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man, Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner and Tom Hiddleston as villain Loki (Thor's half-brother).

It is written and directed by Joss Whedon.

"I don't know who doesn't know about 'The Avengers,' at this point," Disney's distribution chief, Dave Hollis, previously told TheWrap.

"It will be an absolute phenomenon," he predicted.

The first "Avengers" trailer was released in mid-October.

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Saturday, December 24, 2011

Prometheus Trailer: An Epic Space Odyssey Begins


The trailer for Prometheus has arrived, and the latest space odyssey from director Ridley Scott (Alien, Blade Runner) looks like it may live up to its considerable hype.

From this introductory look, the film bears some resemblance to Alien - not just with its stunning, otherworldly visuals, but its theme of desperation against rising odds.

Many think the film is a prequel to Alien, a theory Scott denies, but it could be something of a companion piece, a film that exists in a parallel universe. Just a theory.

Starring Charlize Theron, Idris Elba, Michael Fassbender and Noomi Rapace, the film touches down in theaters summer 2012. Here's the Prometheus trailer ...

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System update rolling out for the Acer Iconia, brings a market update and improved UI speed

Acer Iconia

The Acer Iconia A500 is getting a pretty widespread system update this evening -- actually it's getting two.  Users are reporting that they receive the first (7.014.01), and it's quickly followed by version7.014.02.  Both are small (less than 10MB) files, and neither are Ice Cream Sandwich.  What the updates are bringing is welcome though, namely a change to the latest 3.4.4 version of the Android Market and it's corresponding widget, and improved UI speeds -- including the keyboard.  The full changelog hasn't hit Acer's website as of the time of this writing, so it's possible there may be more goodies inside and we'll find them as we go along. 

As for root, the jury is still out if these updates will remove it and/or make the current methods to root stop working.  If you're on the root train, maybe you should wait for your favorite developer to catch up.

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Friday, December 23, 2011

Roku brings v3.1 software update to first-gen boxes, Amazon Instant Video channel gets refaced

Early birds may get the worms, but early adopters aren't always as equally rewarded. But, as they say, maybe first-gen Roku owners should simply be elated that their box is still on the update trail. A week (and change) after the Roku 2 and Roku LT saw a fairly significant software update, the company is now pushing v3.1 to OG models. As the company says: "Unless your Roku player is smaller than a hockey puck, this update applies to you." The fresh bytes provide added enhancements to support the official Roku iPhone app, improved playback of MP4 files streamed over the internet and over USB via the USB Media Player channel, and the ability to purchase Roku players, accessories and toys within the Roku Channel Store.

Furthermore, we're told that issues found when navigating channels that display content in a grid screen have been solved, and perhaps most importantly, there's support for Amazon's downright delightful new Instant Video channel. Every last unit should see the update pushed their way in the coming hours, but if you're not exactly the "patient" type, just head to Settings -> Playing info -> Check for update.

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At least 16 shot dead in Mexico's Veracruz state (Reuters)

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) ? At least 16 people were killed after a gang of armed men began shooting in the state of Veracruz on Mexico's Gulf coast on Thursday morning.

A spokeswoman for the state government told local television the gunmen first killed four people in the small town of El Higo early on Thursday. Afterwards the group attacked three buses on a highway about 60 miles southwest of the port of Tampico, killing seven others.

Five armed men were then killed after a shootout with Mexican security forces, the spokeswoman said.

Mexican authorities in October blamed a surge of killings in the city of Veracruz - some 300 miles south of Tampico - on a group linked to the country's most powerful drug lord, Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman.

Guzman has been fighting a turf war with the violent Zetas cartel, which authorities say controls Veracruz.

More than 45,000 lives have been lost since President Felipe Calderon launched a war on drug cartels in late 2006.

(Reporting by Miguel Angel Gutierrez, writing by Elinor Comlay)

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Thursday, December 22, 2011

Kindle Fire 6.2.1 update launches, brings Silk browser improvements (Digital Trends)

Mentioned two weeks ago by Amazon officials, the Internet company has started rolling out version 6.2.1 of the Kindle Fire software. Much of the user interface has been tweaked to become more responsive to screen tapping and navigation of content is much more fluid. The Silk browser is also smoother when moving through different Web pages and loading content. The update brings?customization to the tablet allowing users to hide items that appear on the?carousel as well as the ability to password protect?Wi-Fi access. By using a password on the device, tablet owners can prevent other users from purchasing content while browsing movies, books or other media.?To update your Kindle manually, connect to a Wi-Fi network and tap the Quick Settings icon in the upper right corner to find the ?Sync? option.?

Amazon-Kindle-FireThis update also?removes root privileges on tablets that have been rooted to replace the?operating system with custom firmware?as pointed out by Engadget. If a user is still using any Amazon software on a rooted tablet, they are?susceptible?to automatic updates when the device connects to any Wi-Fi network. Replacing the stock Amazon software with most forms of alternate software may void the warranty of the tablet and users are also likely to lose access to Amazon apps such as?Amazon Instant Video and the Lending Library feature. However, many developers creating software for rooted versions of the tablet have found the Kindle Fire relatively friendly when it comes to application development.?

According to a recent press release from Amazon, the Kindle Fire has been flying off the shelves and the company has sold about one million tablets per week during December. Amazon has also extended an offer of free two-day shipping on all Kindle models until?8 p.m. Pacific time on Dec. 21. This will allow any Kindle to arrive by December 23 and procrastinating Christmas shoppers will have enough time to receive the Kindle model on Friday to wrap it before the holiday on Sunday.?

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Monday, December 19, 2011

'Velvet Revolution' icon Vaclav Havel dead at 75

Czechs joined their leaders and foreign politicians Sunday in paying tribute to Vaclav Havel, who led the 1989 Velvet Revolution that peacefully toppled communism in the former Czechoslovakia.

A black flag flew over Prague Castle, the presidential seat, while Czechs lit candles to remember the the dissident playwright who helped kick off the fall of the Iron Curtain and then served as president of Czechoslovakia, and later the Czech Republic.

"Mr. President, thank you for democracy," read a note placed at the monument to the revolution in downtown Prague.

Havel, the dissident playwright who wove theater into politics to peacefully bring down communism in Czechoslovakia and become a hero of the epic struggle that ended the Cold War, died Sunday morning at his weekend house. He was 75.

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He was comforted in his last moments by his wife Dagmar and several nuns, Reuters reported.

Havel was his country's first democratically elected president after the nonviolent "Velvet Revolution" that ended four decades of repression by a regime he ridiculed as "Absurdistan."

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As president, he oversaw the country's bumpy transition to democracy and a free-market economy, as well its peaceful 1993 breakup into the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Even out of office, the diminutive Czech remained a world figure. He was part of the "new Europe" ? in the coinage of then-U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld ? of ex-communist countries that stood up for the U.S. when the democracies of "old Europe" opposed the 2003 Iraq invasion.

A former chain-smoker, Havel had a history of chronic respiratory problems dating back to his years in communist jails. He was hospitalized in Prague on Jan. 12, 2009, with an unspecified inflammation, and had developed breathing difficulties after undergoing minor throat surgery.

'Truth and love must prevail'
Havel left office in 2003, 10 years after Czechoslovakia broke up and just months before both nations joined the European Union. He was credited with laying the groundwork that brought his Czech Republic into the 27-nation bloc, and was president when it joined NATO in 1999.

Shy and bookish, with wispy mustache and unkempt hair, Havel came to symbolize the power of the people to peacefully overcome totalitarian rule.

"Truth and love must prevail over lies and hatred," Havel famously said. It became his revolutionary motto which he said he always strove to live by.

Havel was nominated several times for the Nobel Peace Prize, and collected dozens of other accolades worldwide for his efforts as a global ambassador of conscience, defended the downtrodden from Darfur to Myanmar.

Among his many honors were Sweden's prestigious Olof Palme Prize and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest U.S. civilian award, bestowed on him by President George W. Bush for being "one of liberty's great heroes."

An avowed peacenik whose heroes included rockers such as Frank Zappa, he never quite shed his flower-child past and often signed his name with a small heart as a flourish.

In an October 2008 interview with The Associated Press, Havel rebuked Russia for invading Georgia two months earlier, and warned EU leaders against appeasing Moscow.

"We should not turn a blind eye ... It's a big test for the West," he said.

Havel also said he saw the global economic crisis as a warning not to abandon basic human values in the scramble to prosper.

"It's a warning against the idea that we understand the world, that we know how everything works," he told the AP in his office in Prague. The cramped work space was packed with his books, plays and rock memorabilia.

Underground essays
Havel first made a name for himself after the 1968 Soviet-led invasion that crushed the Prague Spring reforms of Alexander Dubcek and other liberally minded communists in what was then Czechoslovakia.

Havel's plays were banned as hard-liners installed by Moscow snuffed out every whiff of rebellion. But he continued to write, producing a series of underground essays that stand with the work of Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov as the most incisive and eloquent analyses of what communism did to society and the individual.

One of his best-known essays, "The Power and the Powerless" written in 1978, borrowed slyly from the immortal opening line of the mid-19th century Communist Manifesto, writing: "A specter is haunting eastern Europe: the specter of what in the West is called 'dissent.'"

In the essay, he dissected what he called the "dictatorship of ritual" ? the ossified Soviet bloc system under Leonid Brezhnev ? and imagined what happens when an ordinary greengrocer stops displaying communist slogans and begins "living in truth," rediscovering "his suppressed identity and dignity."

Havel knew that suppression firsthand.

Born Oct. 5, 1936, in Prague, the child of a wealthy family which lost extensive property to communist nationalization in 1948, Havel was denied a formal education, eventually earning a degree at night school and starting out in theater as a stagehand.

His political activism began in earnest in January 1977, when he co-authored the human rights manifesto Charter 77, and the cause drew widening attention in the West.

Havel was detained countless times and spent four years in communist jails. His letters from prison to his wife became one of his best-known works. "Letters to Olga" blended deep philosophy with a stream of stern advice to the spouse he saw as his mentor and best friend, and who tolerated his reputed philandering and other foibles.

The events of August 1988 ? the 20th anniversary of the Warsaw Pact invasion ? first suggested that Havel and his friends might one day replace the faceless apparatchiks who jailed them.

Thousands of mostly young people marched through central Prague, yelling Havel's name and that of the playwright's hero, Tomas Garrigue Masaryk, the philosopher who was Czechoslovakia's first president after it was founded in 1918.

Havel's arrest in January 1989 at another street protest and his subsequent trial generated anger at home and abroad. Pressure for change was so strong that the communists released him again in May.

That fall, communism began to collapse across Eastern Europe, and in November the Berlin Wall fell. Eight days later, communist police brutally broke up a demonstration by thousands of Prague students.

It was the signal that Havel and his country had awaited. Within 48 hours, a broad new opposition movement was founded, and a day later, hundreds of thousands of Czechs and Slovaks took to the streets.

In three heady weeks, communist rule was broken. Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones arrived just as the Soviet army was leaving. Posters in Prague proclaimed: "The tanks are rolling out ? the Stones are rolling in."

On Dec. 29, 1989, Havel was elected Czechoslovakia's president by the country's still-communist parliament. Three days later, he told the nation in a televised New Year's address: "Out of gifted and sovereign people, the regime made us little screws in a monstrously big, rattling and stinking machine."

Moral voice
Although he continued to be regarded a moral voice as he decried the shortcomings of his society under democracy, he eventually bent to the dictates of convention and power. His watchwords ? "what the heart thinks, the tongue speaks" ? had to be modified for day-to-day politics.

And post-revolutionary life contained many challenges.

In July 1992, it became clear that the Czechoslovak federation was heading for a split. Considering it a personal failure, Havel resigned as president.

But he remained popular and was elected president of the new Czech Republic uncontested.

He was small, but his presence and wit could fill a room. Even late in life, he retained a certain impishness and boyish grin, shifting easily from philosophy to jokes or plain old Prague gossip.

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In December 1996, just 11 months after his first wife, Olga Havlova, died of cancer, he lost a third of his right lung during surgery to remove a half-inch malignant tumor.

He gave up smoking and married Dagmar Veskrnova, a dashing actress almost 20 years his junior.

Holding a post of immense prestige but little power, Havel's image suffered in the latter years as his people discovered the difficulties of transforming their society in the post-communist era.

His attempts to reconcile rival politicians were considered by many as unconstitutional intrusions, and his pleas for political leaders to build a "civic society" based on respect, tolerance and individual responsibility went largely unanswered.

Media criticism, once unthinkable, became unrelenting. Serious newspapers questioned his political visions; tabloids focused mainly on his private life and his flashy second wife.

Havel himself acknowledged that his handling of domestic issues never matched his flair for foreign affairs. But when the Czech Republic joined NATO in March 1999, and the European Union in May 2004, his dreams came true.

"I can't stop rejoicing that I live in this time and can participate in it," Havel exulted.

Early in 2008, Havel returned to his first love: the stage. He published a new play, "Leaving," about the struggles of a leader on his way out of office, and the work gained critical acclaim.

Theater, he told the AP, was once again his major interest.

"My return to the stage was not easy," he said. "It's not a common thing for someone to be involved in theater, become a president, and then go back."

The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.

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Sunday, December 18, 2011

Manning hearing bogs down over dispute

The pretrial hearing for the U.S. soldier accused of leaking government secrets to the WikiLeaks website was bogged down in a dispute over the impartiality of the presiding officer.

David Coombs, the civilian defense lawyer for the accused leaker, 23-year-old Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, argued that Army Lt. Col. Paul Almanza, was biased and therefore should step aside.

Almanza's civilian occupation as a Justice Department prosecutor was the chief reason behind Coombs' latest move. The Justice Department is conducting a criminal investigation targeting WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

Almanza refused to step down, and Coombs then asked that the proceedings be suspended while he initiated an appeal of that decision.

The hearing was to determine whether Manning will face a court-martial on charges that he aided the enemy by leaking hundreds of thousands of classified military and diplomatic documents.

Manning, who has been in military detention since his arrest in Iraq in May 2010, sat quietly at the defense table in the opening session of his pretrial hearing Friday as sides were tangled in the latest dispute.

A member of the prosecution team, Capt. Ashden Fein, said the government opposed recusal.

"The United States does not believe you've exhibited any bias in any form and that you can render a fair and impartial decision," Fein told Almanza.

Case spurs international movement
Manning is charged with aiding the enemy by leaking hundreds of thousands of secret documents that ended up on the website. At the time, he was a low-level intelligence analyst in Baghdad.

If his case goes to trial and he is convicted, Manning could face life in prison. The government has said it would not seek the death penalty.

The case has spawned an international movement in support of Manning, who is seen by anti-war activists as a hero who helped expose American mistakes in Iraq and Afghanistan. To others he is a villain, even a traitor, who betrayed his oath of loyalty by deliberately spilling his government's secrets.

Coombs also argued that Almanza had wrongly denied a defense request to call as witnesses the "original classification authorities" who first decided to classify as secret the material WikiLeaks published.

"Let's put witnesses on the stand," he said. "Why is this stuff classified? Why is it going to cause harm?"

Classified documents
The hearing is open to the public, but with limited seating. A small number of reporters were present but not allowed to record or photograph the proceedings.

A U.S. military legal expert told reporters shortly before the proceedings began that the presiding officer is likely to make his recommendation on whether to court-martial Manning within eight days after the hearing ends. The hearing is expected to last over the weekend and possibly well into next week.

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The legal expert, who could not be identified under Army ground rules, said Manning is to be present for all proceedings, including sessions closed to the public for consideration of classified material.

The site of the hearing, Fort Meade, is home to U.S. Cyber Command, the organization whose mission includes protecting computer networks like the one Manning allegedly breached by illegally downloading huge numbers of classified documents in Iraq.

Manning's lawyer asserts that the documents' release did little actual harm.

Last month, 54 members of the European Parliament signed a letter to the U.S. government raising concerns about Manning's 18-month pretrial confinement.

Plans for vigil
Manning's supporters planned to maintain a vigil during the hearing and were organizing a rally for Saturday.

Army Maj. Gen. Michael S. Linnington, commander of the Military District of Washington, could choose other courses aside from court-martial, including applying an administrative punishment or dismissing some or all of the 22 counts against Manning.

The Manning case has led to a debate over the broader issue of whether the government's system for classifying and shielding information has grown so unwieldy that it is increasingly vulnerable to intrusions.

Rape allegations
Absent from the Meade proceedings will be Assange, who runs WikiLeaks from England. He is fighting in British courts to block a Swedish request that he be extradited to face trial over rape allegations.

A U.S. grand jury is weighing whether to indict Assange on espionage charges, and WikiLeaks is straining under an American financial embargo.

The materials Manning is accused of leaking include hundreds of thousands of sensitive items: Iraq and Afghanistan war logs, State Department cables and a classified military video of a 2007 American helicopter attack in Iraq that killed 11 men, including a Reuters news photographer and his driver.

Manning, who turns 24 on Saturday, was detained in Iraq in May 2010 and moved to a Marine Corps brig at Quantico, Va., in July. Nine months later, the Army sent him to the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., after a series of claims by Manning of unlawful pretrial punishment.

When it filed formal charges against Manning in March 2011, the Army accused him of using unauthorized software on government computers to extract classified information, illegally download it and transmit the data for public release by what the Army termed "the enemy."

Global headlines
The first large publication of the documents by WikiLeaks in July 2010, some 77,000 military records on the war in Afghanistan, made global headlines. But the material provided only limited revelations, including unreported incidents of Afghan civilian killings as well as covert operations against Taliban figures.

In October 2010, WikiLeaks published a batch of nearly 400,000 documents that dated from early 2004 to Jan. 1, 2010. They were written mostly by low-ranking officers in the field cataloging thousands of battles with insurgents and roadside bomb attacks, plus equipment failures and shootings by civilian contractors. The documents did not alter the basic outlines of how the war was fought.

A month later, WikiLeaks released hundreds of thousands of State Department documents that revealed a hidden world of backstage diplomacy, including candid comments from world leaders.

It took months for the Army to reach the conclusion that Manning was competent to stand trial. In the meantime Manning's civilian lawyer, Coombs, has sought to build a case that appears to rest in part on an assertion that the government's own reviews of the leaks concluded that little damage was done.

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Associated Press writer Matthew Lee contributed to this report.

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