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Saturday, December 31, 2011
Turkey: funerals held after air strike (AP)
ISTANBUL ? Thousands of mourners gathered in southeast Turkey on Friday for the funerals of 35 Kurdish civilians who were killed in a botched raid by Turkish military jets that mistook the group for Kurdish rebels based in Iraq.
Turkish television footage showed people, many weeping and lamenting the dead, as they gathered after the air strikes Wednesday that killed a group of smugglers along the border, one of the deadliest episodes in the conflict between the Turkish state and Kurdish rebels who took up arms in 1984.
Noncombatants have often been caught in the war's crossfire, but one of the highest civilian tolls in a single day was sure to further sour relations between the government and ethnic Kurds who have long faced discrimination. A government campaign to reconcile with Kurds by granting them more rights has stalled amid a surge in fighting this year.
Dogan news agency video showed people digging graves on a hill near the southeast village of Gulyazi, home of some of the slain smugglers, and the funeral rites quickly took on a political tone. Firat, a pro-Kurdish news agency, said some of the coffins were draped in red, yellow and green, the colors associated with Kurdish identity and the rebel group PKK.
According to Firat, families at the funerals urged the PKK, whose Kurdish acronym stands for Kurdistan Workers' Party, to take revenge and they accused Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of being a "murderer."
The Kurdish conflict is a drag on Turkey's efforts to burnish its image as a regional model and advocate for democratic change in neighboring countries such as Syria, where thousands have died since an uprising began in March.
Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, a chief architect of Turkey's rising profile, said the airstrikes would be thoroughly investigated.
"Whatever are the requirements of a state of law, these will be done. No one can claim that such an event was intentional," Hurriyet newspaper quoted Davutoglu as saying. "This is a sad event, it should not be made a subject for political exploitation. The incident will be investigated and whatever is necessary will be done."
The military issued a message of condolence that was carried on the state-run Anadolu news agency. There was no apology, but such a public outreach is highly unusual in the Turkish armed forces, which are traditionally tightlipped about operations and have seen their political influence decline in recent years.
"We wish God's mercy and grace to those who lost their lives in the cross-border incident of Dec. 28, 2011, and extend our condolences to their family and friends," the statement said.
All of the victims were under age 30 and some were the sons of village guards who have aided Turkish troops in their fight against rebels, according to Huseyin Celik, a spokesman for the prime minister's ruling party.
There were conflicting reports about what the men may have been transporting, though cigarettes and diesel fuel are commonly smuggled from Iraq to Turkey, often by horse or donkey over the rugged terrain. Turkish government officials have accused Kurdish rebels of engaging in such illegal trade to generate revenue for their coffers.
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Associated Press writer Suzan Fraser contributed from Ankara, Turkey.
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Friday, December 30, 2011
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Thursday, December 29, 2011
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Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Helicopter finds safe haven at Columbiana church
COLUMBIANA - Pastor Chuck Hamilton was sitting in his office at the Upper Room Fellowship off state Route 14 when he heard what he thought was a truck exploding in the parking lot.
He soon discovered the sound was that of an Air Evac Lifeteam helicopter landing in the soccer field next to the church.
The helicopter was en route to East Liverpool on Tuesday after delivering a patient to St. Elizabeth Medical Center when it was forced to land due to the weather, Matt Handley, Air Evac Lifeteam program director for base 81, said.
The patient had been involved in a propane truck rollover in Hanoverton, he added.
"On the way back home the (weather) ceilings were starting to come down so the pilot made a safe landing in the soccer field at the church," he said.
Hamilton said the weight of the helicopter proved too much for the wet grass, which began to slowly sink.
The Air Evac team and members of church staff worked together to move the helicopter to the church parking lot and then up a small incline to rest under the carport at the church entrance.
Hamilton said he suggested the carport when the pilot and medical professionals said the helicopter would have to remain grounded for the next few days because of the hazardous weather forecast.
Five people, including Air Evac employees, Hamilton, the church secretary and janitor John Ferranti, physically pushed the helicopter to the carport using two sets of double wheel jacks provided by Air Evac.
"I never pushed a helicopter before," Hamilton joked, adding it was fortunate church staff were there at the time.
In addition to Hamilton, the church secretary, Ferranti, and youth leader Christy Calfee were at the church on Tuesday.
"They caught us at a good time," he said.
Handley said the helicopter will fly back to East Liverpool when the weather is safe for air travel.
The National Weather Service out of Pittsburgh issued a winter weather advisory and hazardous weather outlook for Columbiana and neighboring counties on Tuesday afternoon. One to three inches of snow was expected, according to the forecast.
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Tuesday, December 27, 2011
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Thursday, December 22, 2011
Lockheed Martin F-35 wins Japan fighter jet deal (Reuters)
TOKYO (Reuters) ? Japan picked Lockheed Martin's F-35 jet as its next mainstay fighter Tuesday, choosing the aircraft over combat-proven but less stealthy rivals, as concern simmers over North Korea and as China introduces its own stealth fighters.
The decision came as Japan and the United States stressed that their security alliance was tight in the face of worry about an unstable North Korea after the death of its leader, Kim Jong-il.
Defense Minister Yasuo Ichikawa said the decision to buy 42 of the stealth aircraft, valued by analysts at more than $7 billion, would help Japan adjust to a changing security environment after Monday's announcement of the death of the 69-year-old North Korean leader.
"The security environment surrounding future fighter jets is transforming. The F-35 has capabilities that can firmly respond to the changes," Ichikawa told reporters.
Lockheed Martin and the Pentagon hailed Japan's selection of the F-35, saying it would help establish a strategic, conventional deterrent in the Asia-Pacific region, where concern simmers about instability under Kim's successor, his untested youngest son, Kim Jong-un.
"The F-35 Program Office looks forward to strengthening partnerships with Japan, and contributing to enhanced security throughout the Asia Pacific region," the Pentagon said in a statement after Japan announced its decision.
The F-35, which is in an early production stage, competed against Boeing's F/A-18 and the Eurofighter Typhoon, made by a consortium of European companies including BAE Systems.
Experts said the decision to opt for the U.S. plane, made informally well before news of Kim's death, reflected Japan's desire to tighten U.S. ties in the face of concern over China's rising military might and other regional uncertainties.
"It reflects Japan's recognition on a variety of levels that at a time of greater insecurity, it needs to be more deeply engaged with the United States on security issues," said Brad Glosserman, executive director at Honolulu's Pacific Forum CSIS.
In a sign the allies meant to stand together, U.S. President Barack Obama spoke by telephone to Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda and underscored the U.S. commitment to its allies, the White House said.
Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura told a news conference that Washington and its two close Asia allies, Japan and South Korea, were likely to hold high-level talks on North Korea soon. "The date has not been decided but it will be at the soonest possible opportunity," he said.
U.S.-Japan relations had frayed after the novice Democratic Party of Japan took power in 2009 for the first time, vowing to recalibrate the alliance on a more equal basis and attempting, unsuccessfully, to keep a pledge to move a U.S. military base off Japan's Okinawa island.
Noda, who took office last September, has firmly shifted gears back to a more traditional security stance.
"Once again, Japan's security policy is right back to the post-war Japanese mainstream -- the decision that the U.S. is Japan's best security partner," Glosserman said.
Japan had been widely expected to choose the F-35 due to its advanced stealth capability and U.S. origin. Stealth technology has drawn much attention in Japan since China, which has a long-running territorial dispute with Japan, in January confirmed it had held its first test flight of the J-20 stealth fighter jet.
Despite Sino-Japanese tension over territorial feuds, maritime resources and a bitter wartime past, Noda will nonetheless be seeking China's cooperation in coping with North Korea when he visits Beijing on December 25-26.
"Instructions from the prime minister were that we need to establish close cooperation and exchange of information with the United States, South Korea and China, so we will seek to work with China on this understanding," Fujimura said.
BOOST FOR LOCKHEED MARTIN
Japan's choice of the F-35 comes as a shot in the arm for Lockheed Martin's F-35 program, which has been restructured twice in the past two years and is expected to boost the odds that South Korea will follow suit with its own order for 60 fighters. Japan will pay 9.9 billion yen per fighter including backup parts in the initial stage of procurement.
"This program badly needed an endorsement like this, particularly one from a technically respected customer. But there are still many complications, especially price tag and work share demands," said Richard Aboulafia, an analyst with the U.S.-based Teal Group.
He said the F-35 program was facing scrutiny from U.S. lawmakers and officials who need to trim hundreds of billions of dollars from the defense budget over the next decade.
Boeing's loss of the order would be a real setback for the company's prospects in the fighter business, especially since there were few other large competitions open anymore, said Loren Thompson of Lexington Institute.
"The market place is signaling to Boeing that its days in the fighter business may be numbered," Thompson said.
Japanese firms Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd , IHI Corp and Mitsubishi Electric Corp will participate in the production and maintenance of the F-35, the Defense Ministry said.
A Lockheed Martin official said Japanese defense contractors could become global suppliers to the F-35 stealth fighter program if Japan's government decided to ease a decades-old ban on exports of military equipment.
"The Japanese aerospace industry is world class, so if there was a relaxation (of the export ban) it would be very logical for them to have the opportunity and indeed it would be a very good opportunity to participate in the F35 global supply chain," Dave Scott, director of international business development for the stealth fighter, told Reuters.
Japan is considering easing the export ban, a step that might allow its contractors to bid for contracts in the United States, which spends 10 times as much on its military.
Ending the ban would also allow Japan to buy aircraft, ships, missiles and other equipment more cheaply by allowing domestic manufacturers to tap overseas markets and lower production costs through economies of scale.
(Additional reporting by Andrea Shalal-Esa and Carol Bohan in Washington, Tim Kelly and Shinichi Saoshiro in Towriting by Leika Kihara and Linda Sieg; Editing by Edwina Gibbs and Robert Birsel)
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Monday, December 19, 2011
SEC sues former top execs at Fannie, Freddie (Reuters)
NEW YORK (Reuters) ? U.S. securities regulators sued six former executives at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on Friday, including ex-CEOs of both mortgage finance companies, saying they misled investors over exposure to risky home loans.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sued three former executives at Fannie Mae and three at Freddie Mac. The civil charges were brought in two separate lawsuits filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.
The SEC accused former Fannie Mae CEO Daniel Mudd, former Freddie Mac CEO Richard Syron and four other defendants of knowingly approving false statements to investors that drastically misrepresented the extent of the firms' exposure to toxic mortgages.
Spokesmen for Mudd and Syron did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The SEC said both firms have agreed to cooperate with the agency and have agreed to admit responsibility for the alleged conduct, without agreeing or denying that they are liable. The firms have also entered into non-prosecution agreements with the agency, the SEC said.
Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae have been propped up by $169 billion in federal aid since they were rescued by the government in 2008.
The cases are SEC v. Daniel Mudd et al., No. 11-9202 and SEC v. Syron et. al No. 11-9201, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
(Reporting by Basil Katz, editing by Gerald E. McCormick and John Wallace)
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Sunday, December 18, 2011
PFT: Giants' Boley accused of child abuse
APIt took Broncos coach John Fox a while to warm up to the unique skills of Tim Tebow.? Even though Fox apparently has decided to ignore the niceties of the traditional quarterback position and to embrace the fact that Tebow is leading his team to victory after victory in 2011, Fox isn?t ready to anoint Tebow as the team?s quarterback for 2012.
?We get that question a lot, whether it?s John Elway or myself,? Fox told Jim Rome on Friday.? ?We?re both his biggest fans.? I mean, we love him.? How would you not at 7-1?? I think right now, all our focus is, let?s get this season done.
?We love him, he?s great, we?re pulling for him, and you know, we?ll make those decisions when this season is over and not worry about next season at this point.?
That?s fine, but what does the guy need to do to show that he?s the team?s quarterback of the future?? Plenty of quarterbacks with far lower winning percentages than Tebow have locked down the year-in, year-out starting jobs with their teams.
So why not Tebow?? As quarterbacks go, the Broncos could do a hell of a lot worse, and plenty of teams would surely pounce on the opportunity to make the until-further-notice starter a guy who has won games, elevated his team, generated unprecedented excitement among the fan base, and provided an anti-Hurd role model to the youth of America.
Maybe Fox is worried that it?s all a fluke.? Or maybe he?s concerned that Tebow won?t play as well without the added motivation of constantly having to prove himself.? Regardless, Tebow provides a solid foundation around which to build the team for the next decade.
If the Broncos won?t realize that, some other team will.
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Berenson says she was barred from leaving Peru
FILE - U.S. political activist Lori Berenson speaks to The Associated Press at her home in Lima, Peru, in this Nov. 9, 2010 file photo. Paroled U.S. activist Lori Berenson was headed for New York early Saturday Dec. 17, 2011 after a Peruvian court ruled she and her toddler son could travel there for the holidays, airport security officials said. (AP Photo/Karel Navarro, File)
FILE - U.S. political activist Lori Berenson speaks to The Associated Press at her home in Lima, Peru, in this Nov. 9, 2010 file photo. Paroled U.S. activist Lori Berenson was headed for New York early Saturday Dec. 17, 2011 after a Peruvian court ruled she and her toddler son could travel there for the holidays, airport security officials said. (AP Photo/Karel Navarro, File)
LIMA, Peru (AP) ? Paroled U.S. activist Lori Berenson said Saturday that she and her toddler son were not permitted to leave Peru despite being granted permission in court to spend the holidays in New York with her family.
"They didn't let me leave and they're putting out this version that I arrived late," she said in a brief phone conversation with The Associated Press, referring to media reports citing unnamed airport officials.
Her lawyer, Anibal Apari, accused the government of making an arbitrary political decision to halt her departure. He said it had provided no official explanation for not allowing Berenson to board a New York-bound flight the previous night.
"An abuse of authority has been committed," Apari told the AP. "Administratively, you can't block a court order."
Phone calls to Interior Ministry officials seeking an explanatoin were not immediately returned.
Berenson, who was paroled last year after serving 15 years for aiding leftist rebels, was given permission to leave the country beginning Friday with the stipulation that she return by Jan. 11.
She had been denied such permission in October, but a three-judge appeals court on Wednesday overturned the lower court judge's ruling.
Peru's anti-terrorism prosecutor, Julio Galindo, told the AP that he had on Friday asked the court that approved Berenson's leave to nullify the decision because it violated a law prohibiting paroled prisoners from leaving the country.
He said he did not know if the court had acted on his appeal and Peru's courts spokesman, Guillermo Gonzalez, said he had no information on the matter.
Galindo's move was precisely the kind of action feared by Berenson's parents, who did not respond to phone calls seeking comment on Saturday.
The prosecutor had opposed letting Berenson out of prison before her 20-year sentence for aiding terrorism ends in 2015, arguing that it would set a bad precedent for the early release of others convicted of terrorism-related crimes.
Berenson's father Mark told the AP on Friday that he was "petrified" that negative local reaction could prevent the trip, including celebrating his 70th birthday Dec. 29.
"My worry is that there's going to be screaming to stop this," he said. Some Peruvians consider his daughter a terrorist and have publicly insulted her on the street.
Mark Berenson said his daughter had every intention of returning to Peru.
"As Lori says, if she doesn't come home, let Interpol arrest her," Mark Berenson said.
Peru could seek her extradition and return her to prison if she doesn't return in the allotted time, Gonzalez said.
A local TV station displayed video on Friday night of Berenson pacing nervously in front of a ticket counter, wearing a bulky black backpack, with Salvador in a stroller beside her. She wore pants and a brown polo shirt.
Berenson has been repeatedly hounded and mobbed by Peruvian news media, which has occasionally frightened young Salvador. Last month, one TV channel obtained her new address and showed video of her home.
"It was very dangerous," Mark Berenson said. "The (U.S.) Embassy complained."
"It's just not fair to Salvador or to her," he said. "They used her like she's a celebrity and she just wants to be a low-profile person and get on with her life and be a good citizen."
He said he would appeal to President Ollanta Humala to send his daughter home.
Humala could by law commute her sentence but has not indicated whether he might do so. The AP sought presidential palace comment but its calls were not returned.
Lori Berenson is separated from Salvador's father, Anibal Apari, whom she met in prison and who serves as her lawyer.
Mark Berenson said his daughter is looking forward to seeing relatives she hasn't met since her 20s, including his 96-year-old aunt, and that he wants his grandson, who loves trees, see the New York Botanical Garden's holiday display.
Since her initial parole in May 2010, Lori Berenson repeatedly expressed regret for aiding the rebel Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement.
Arrested in 1995, the former MIT student was accused of helping the rebels plan an armed takeover of Congress, an attack that never happened.
A military court convicted her the following year and sentenced her to life in prison for sedition. But after intense U.S. government pressure, she was retried in civil courts in 2001 and sentenced to 20 years for terrorist collaboration.
Berenson was unrepentant at the time of her arrest, but softened during years of sometimes harsh prison conditions, eventually being praised as a model prisoner.
Yet she is viewed by many as a symbol of the 1980-2000 rebel conflict that claimed some 70,000 lives. The fanatical Maoist Shining Path movement did most of the killing, while Tupac Amaru was a lesser player.
Berenson has acknowledged helping the rebels rent a safe house, where authorities seized a cache of weapons. But she insists she didn't know guns were being stored there. She denies ever belonging to Tupac Amaru or engaging in violent acts.
In an interview with the AP last year, Berenson said she was deeply troubled at having become Peru's "face of terrorism."
Its most famous prisoner, she also became a politically convenient scapegoat, she said.
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Associated Press writer Franklin Briceno contributed to this report.
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Saturday, December 17, 2011
'Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chip-Wrecked' trailer shows the movie will be a hit with kids
'Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chip-Wrecked' has a trailer that shows kids will like the movie, if not some adults
This winter marks the arrival of a third installment, Alvin & the Chipmunks: Chip-Wrecked. Surprisingly enough, even the teaser trailer for the movie seems to be aware of how most adult moviegoers are going to react when they watch it (re: not well).
Skip to next paragraphLike previous Alvin & the Chipmunk flicks, Chip-Wrecked features Jason Lee as the eternally flustered Dave (the human) and celebrities like Justin Long, Jesse McCartney, Matthew Gray Gubler, Amy Poehler, Anna Faris, and Christiana Applegate as the voices of the Chipmunks and Chipettes, respectively. Not that it matters, though, seeing how their voices are altered beyond recognition in order to reach that familiar high-pitch known as a ?chipmunk voice.?
Chip-Wrecked was scripted by the writers behind Alvin & the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel and directed by Mike Mitchell, the man responsible for films like Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, Surviving Christmas, and Shrek Forever After. But does any of that information really shock you?
One thing that might surprise you is how self-aware this theatrical preview for the new Chipmunks movie appears to be. Forget about having to lodge insults at the trailer - the footage does that for you.
Find out what we mean by watching the Alvin & the Chipmunks: Chip-Wrecked trailer (via?iTunes Movie Trailers) below:
See? There?s no need to whine about Chip-Wrecked featuring painfully dated pop-culture jokes like a Titanic reference, or how you want to puke after watching the clearly-not-real CGI little critters ?get jiggy? with a bunch of kids aboard a cruise liner. Heck, even after the tiny creatures offer their own rendition of Lady Gaga?s ?Bad Romance? near the end, we immediately cut to the hauntingly silent image of a lonely isolated island - clearly, a metaphor for how every adult who watches this trailer will feel afterwards.
Yes, that is a bit harsh, and chances are good that if your kids loved the previous Chipmunk pics, they?ll love this one too. Everyone else can just roll their eyes and continue to ignore the existence of these movies, like they have in the past.
Alvin & the Chipmunks: Chip-Wrecked arrives in U.S. theaters on December 16th, 2011.
Sandy Schaefer blogs at Screen Rant.
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Kolb practices 'a little bit' after concussion
updated 7:40 p.m. ET Dec. 14, 2011
TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) ? Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kevin Kolb said he was able to practice "a little bit" on Wednesday after tests evaluating the concussion he sustained early in Sunday's victory over San Francisco.
"The symptoms are down," he said. "It's just a matter of making sure they are down long enough to where I can get out there and then be in full-speed action. That's the key right now. It's a touchy subject, and we want to make sure that we err on the right side."
Unlike the situation with the Cleveland Browns and their quarterback, Colt McCoy, the Cardinals benched Kolb after he took a knee to the head on Arizona's third offensive play against the 49ers. He immediately went to the locker room for evaluation and it was determined he should not return to the game.
"I don't know how they handled it in Cleveland," Arizona coach Ken Whisenhunt said. "All I can speak about is the way our guys did it and they did a great job with it. ... The number one thing is, if there is ever a doubt, you err to the side of caution and that's the way we are going to proceed."
Kolb said he plans to practice more as the week goes on in hopes of being able to play Sunday against the Browns.
He said the football culture is better at dealing with concussions than it used to be.
"I think that there are so many studies coming out now that prove long-term effects and things like that," Kolb said. "Obviously, our health is number one, especially when it comes to your brain. I want to be out there as much as anybody, but it's just something you don't push."
This is Kolb's second concussion in as many seasons. He was sidelined with one after he started last season's opener for Philadelphia and wound up losing the starting job to his replacement, Michael Vick. That eventually led to the trade that brought Kolb to Arizona.
Under the NFL's revised rules, Kolb was required to see a doctor not affiliated with the Cardinals to have his condition independently evaluated. He said he did so on Tuesday and that the visit "went good."
Kolb said some of the symptoms of a concussion don't begin to show up for him until the adrenaline of the football game begins to fade.
"When your adrenaline is going, when you are in the game, it covers up," he said. "It tends to cover up some of the symptoms. As you start calming down, during or after the game, then, from my experience, a lot of things start to rush on you; the vision, the sensitivity to light and noise, and all those things."
Kolb was making just his second start after being sidelined for six games with a right turf toe and bruise to the side of that same foot. The previous week, he had come on strong in the second half to help Arizona beat Dallas in overtime.
"It's beyond frustrating, just because we played a good second half there against the Cowboys and had a good week at practice," he said. "We were ready to go out there and do what we ended up doing, which is great for our team. I wish I could have been a part of it, but they did a great job again of picking right up and rolling along."
John Skelton relieved Kolb last Sunday and threw three touchdown passes as the Cardinals rallied to beat the 49ers 21-19.
Arizona has won three in a row and five of six. A victory Sunday would even the Cardinals' season record at 7-7 with two games to play.
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NBC extends deal with NFL through 2022
NBC today agreed to a new and extensive media rights agreement to extend its NFL rights package through the 2022 season. The new agreement includes many enhancements that broaden the exposure of NFL content on NBC, and across other NBC platforms.
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Friday, December 16, 2011
Time's abstract choice fuels concrete debate
By M. Alex Johnson, msnbc.com
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Time magazine's decision to name another abstract Person of the Year is dividing opinion and generating a lot of discussion ? which is probably the point.
The magazine named "The Protester" its Person of the Year on NBC's "Today" show Wednesday:
Time magazine's Richard Stengel announces who made the cover as Person of the Year.
Full story:?TODAY.com: Time magazine reveals its Person of the Year 2011
Reaction divided into three main camps:?
From Chris Gomez, a naval supply officer from the Dallas area:
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Bobby Ghosh, a Time editor, relayed this reaction:
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From?Eddie Goldman, a self-described activist from New York:
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"The protesters: OK," said Karen Duncan of Springfield, Mass.
"I think they are a little bit crazy for coming out and protesting, but everyone has their own opinion," Duncan told NBC station WWLP of Springfield.
For its part, Time had little hesitation.
"There was a lot of consensus among our people," Stengel said on "Today." "It felt right."
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Morocco condemns end of EU fishing agreement (AP)
RABAT, Morocco ? Morocco on Wednesday condemned a decision by European lawmakers to scrap a fishing accord that earned the North African kingdom more than euro36 million ($47 million) a year, saying the move has "serious consequences" for its relationship with its largest trading partner.
The European Union parliament voted Wednesday not to extend the deal on the grounds it cost too much, overly exploited fishing stocks and did not sufficiently benefit the people of the Western Sahara, off whose coast most of the fishing occurred. The vote was 326-296, with 58 abstentions.
The legal status of Western Sahara was a major concern. Morocco annexed the region in 1975 and considers it an integral part of its territory, despite a separatist movement seeking independence.
European lawmakers have suggested a new deal should be struck that does not include the waters off Western Sahara. The original deal technically expired in February.
"In addition to the aforementioned economic, ecological, environmental and other shortcomings of the protocol, there are disputed legal issues with regards to the Western Sahara," said the parliament's report on the agreement. "In the case of this agreement, the issue at hand concerns whether or not the agreement directly benefits the Sahrawi people."
In a statement carried by the state news agency, the Moroccan Foreign Ministry called the decision "a regrettable development with serious consequences for cooperation between Morocco and the European Union in fishing."
"(This) is an opportunity for a global reevaluation of Morocco's partnership with the EU," it said.
Cash-strapped Morocco has seen growth slide in the last few years in the face of lower agricultural yields and dropping tourist numbers due to the European economic crisis. Government spending also has increased, raising wages and subsidies to ward off the popular discontent that has swept across the Arab world, ousting longtime leaders.
Morocco did get a note of support from at least one EU diplomat. The bloc's ambassador to Morocco, Eneko Landaburu, said the parliament's vote went against the advice of member states and the European Commission.
"I regret it for our relations with the Kingdom of Morocco," he said in a statement.
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Chumby brings app network to LG Smart TV platform, more living rooms
Chumby's app ecosystem expanded to yet another platform last week, thanks to a new partnership with LG. Under the deal, owners of LG's Smart TV-enabled devices will now be able to access more than 1,000 applications available on the Chumby app network, including a variety of news-, entertainment- and music-based tools. The Smart TV crowd can access the ecosystem right now; everyone else, meanwhile, will have to wait a bit longer.
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Tuesday, December 6, 2011
China's New Airplane Seems Designed By Batman [Airplanes]
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Monday, November 28, 2011
Battle over Santa Monica Airport's future revs up
Does the endgame loom in the decades-long tussle over Santa Monica Airport?
In 2015, all land and building leases at the airport expire, and city officials ? and thousands of Westside residents weary of life in the flight path ? say the obligation to operate the facility as an airport ends too. Santa Monica has hired consultants to study the 227-acre campus and early next year will begin asking for the public's input on potential future uses.
The Federal Aviation Administration, meanwhile, asserts that the city must operate the airport in perpetuity under a 1948 "instrument of transfer." The agency, long a potent adversary on the airport issue, has vowed to stand pat for pilots and passengers.
The dispute could well end up in court. At the least, it is revving up an ongoing battle that has pitted flight-school operators and convenience-loving Westside jet-setters against airport opponents fed up with noise, pollution and plane crashes ? most recently in August, when a student pilot in a small plane clipped a tree and plunged into the side of a Santa Monica house. Although many residents embrace the airport for its economic value and its dog park, athletic fields, art galleries and plane-watching opportunities, activists say the risks and disruptions outweigh the benefits.
"A lot of people in the community would really like to see the airport closed," said Cathy Larson, who lives in Sunset Park at the airport's western edge. "There are lots of obstacles to achieving that."
Los Angeles Councilman Bill Rosendahl, who represents Mar Vista, Venice and other neighborhoods surrounding Santa Monica, has dived into the turbulence, citing constituents' complaints about the aerial meanderings of student pilots in the densely populated area and elevated levels of potentially hazardous particles from jet exhaust and lead from propeller-plane fuel. "The airport doesn't belong there anymore," he said. "?There's no physical buffer between the airport and the lungs of my constituents."
Santa Monica Airport, established in 1917, is described on a city website as the oldest continuously operating airport in Los Angeles County. After Santa Monica acquired the original 170 acres in 1926, the property became the home of Douglas Aircraft Co., whose DC-3 would introduce average Americans to commercial air travel in the 1930s. At its peak, the company had 44,000 employees, and both Los Angeles and Santa Monica encouraged the building of housing right up to the airport's perimeter.
Before the United States entered World War II, the federal government leased most of the airport from the city to provide security for Douglas, a major defense contractor. After the war, the federal government returned the improved and expanded property to the city under the "instrument of transfer."
When jets began using the airport in the 1960s, the city imposed restrictions and, at one point, a total jet ban, which aviation advocates successfully challenged in court in the 1970s. In 1981, the Santa Monica City Council voted to close the airport when legally possible but finally agreed to a 1984 settlement that kept the airport open while imposing strict noise rules.
Amid the booming economy in the early to mid-2000s, the airport saw a dramatic increase in high-powered jets used by the likes of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tom Cruise and casino magnate Steve Wynn. The number of jet takeoffs and landings has been on the decline since peaking in 2007 at more than 18,500; still, the number last year was more than triple the number in 1993. The overall number of takeoffs and landings ? including single- and twin-engine planes and helicopters ? has dropped by nearly 30% in the last decade, to 104,950 last year.
In 2007, the city voted to ban high-performance jets with fast landing speeds, including larger and more powerful Gulfstreams, Bombardier Challengers and Cessna Citations. The FAA invalidated the ban, and the city appealed to federal court, which upheld the FAA's ruling.
"It really ties in with the 1% vs. the 99% issue," said Martin Rubin, a Los Angeles air-quality activist who has helped lead the charge against the airport. "The 1% are jet-setting in and out of Santa Monica Airport ? and polluting the air for a large number of residents."
One recent afternoon, Virginia Ernst, whose back door is 337 feet east of the runway end, retreated into her home to avoid the fumes of jets idling before takeoff. "I've totally lost the use of my yard," said Ernst, an area resident for nearly 50 years. "It's like I'm a prisoner in my home."
On Wednesday, state Sen. Ted Lieu (D-Torrance) will hold a hearing on air quality at Santa Monica Airport at the Felicia Mahood Senior Center Community Room in West Los Angeles.
Mark Smith, a solar energy entrepreneur who keeps his Mooney single-engine plane at the airport and lives in nearby Sunset Park, said the facility has been "a vital tool for operation of my business." He said he has no patience for complaints about air quality, given the region's car dependency. "If you're concerned about pollution in Santa Monica," he said, "then close down Ocean Park Boulevard and the 10 Freeway."
Despite the downward trend in airport use, residents' complaints have soared. Seeking to reduce delays at both Santa Monica Airport and Los Angeles International Airport, the FAA tested a new Santa Monica departure heading, or direction, for six months starting in December 2009. Although the agency assigned the heading to an average of just 10 small, propeller-powered aircraft a day, spokesman Ian Gregor said, "the city forwarded us more than 41,000 noise complaints that residents made." (Pilots operating under visual flight rules could also choose to use that heading, and those flights accounted for some of the complaints.)
Joe Justice, owner of Justice Aviation, one of six flight schools at the airport, said neighbors "don't see the upside of the airport ? the joy, the sense of accomplishment and the experience of flying." Justice said residents' grievances are rising even as the sour economy has slashed business. He said he suspects that real estate agents have led people moving into surrounding neighborhoods to believe that the airport will close in 2015.
"They're getting more and more frustrated and interpreting it as more and more [air] traffic," Justice said.
Some residents say closing the flight schools would go a long way toward bringing peace. Santa Monica Councilman Kevin McKeown said the city has been talking with Justice and other schools about relocating some operations to another airport. "The city of Santa Monica might kick in to make it happen," he said. "That would be immediate relief for people."
martha.groves@latimes.com
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Sunday, November 27, 2011
Rumor: Microsoft podr?a estar haciendo dos versiones de su pr?xima consola Xbox
De acuerdo a algunas fuentes cercanas a Microsoft puede ser que la empresa est? preparando dos versiones de la pr?xima consola de videojuegos que reemplazar? a la actual Xbox 360. De ser cierto las consolas estar?an listas en el a?o 2013 ?por lo que a?n hay tiempo suficiente para que la empresa Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) deje completamente listo su proceso 28nm.
Al parecer una de las versiones de la consola es la m?s b?sica y la otra es de siguiente generaci?n para los jugadores m?s exigentes. Sin
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