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katiecarrick posted an update: Syria, there were several bomb attacks caused many casualties

Syria, a number of towns 27 bombings occurred, causing many casualties.

Syrian official media news agency reported that the classification of the northern city of Idlib a police checkpoint outside the day was a "terrorist" implementation of a suicide car bomb attack, killing one person killed and two policemen were injured. However, the Syrian Human Rights Watch said that in addition to causing the attackers killed the attack, but also led to a number of policemen were injured.

Classification of news agency reported that same day, "armed terrorist organization" the central city of Homs in Syria to detonate a bomb, killing one child died and 11 civilians and police were injured. In addition, there are several cities 27 bomb attacks, causing some casualties.

According to Syrian media reports, classification of security forces in the capital Damascus, 27 region on the eastern outskirts of the ancient tower militants launched crackdown. At the same time, classification of the security forces have entered about 20 kilometers away from Damascus, militants entrenched in the Manchester Town Hall and City Duma.

League of Arab States (LAS) 22 announced a new Arab initiative, urged Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to transfer all powers to the First Vice President, and requested classification authorities within two months, including the opposition, including the formation of a national unity government. This initiative has been refused classification side. Arab League Secretary General of the Syrian Arab than 26 innocent civilians casualties caused by the continuing violence expressed concern and hope that the Syrian government "to refrain from any military escalation" measures.

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katiecarrick posted an update: The United Nations said parcels intended destination is not in possession of drugs under investigation

UN Secretary-General spokesman Neixierji 27, United Nations Headquarters in New York last week on possession of drugs intercepted two parcels regarding A reporter asked that the United Nations was not the intended destination of suspicious parcels.

Headquarters in New York in accordance with Neixierji day at noon news conference to say, "two suspicious parcels is not the intended recipient of the United Nations, and they are not the United Nations diplomatic pouch, although with the United Nations emblem, but they not a United Nations parcels. "

New York police spokesman Paul Browne told reporters, originally from Mexico City suspicious parcels delivered to DHL (DHL) service center in Cincinnati, as with the UN logo on the parcels, in addition, not only did not address , there is no sender and recipient, so packets are sent to the United Nations Headquarters in New York.

Brown said he personally understood, it is because there is no address, DHL so take it for granted, believes that "Since the United Nations marks, then we put the parcels to the United Nations Headquarters to deal with their own good."

Neixierji that the United Nations has two relevant departments of the U.S. government's U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and the New York City Police Department (NYPD) with information on the case of two suspicious parcels, and related materials have been transferred to the two departments . Neixierji that, for the matter of the investigation now under way.

Neixierji further said that the fact that, within the United Nations delivered a message to all the review work is effective. Currently, the United Nations has its offices located around the world issued a warning to strengthen related work.

January 16, the United Nations Department of Safety and Security Service headquarters in New York intercepted a mail processing center two suspicious parcels, parcels Chinese shipment of about 16 kg, the market value of approximately $ 2 million of cocaine, the cocaine was being installed in some of the dig empty books.

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katiecarrick posted an update: Ban Ki-moon called for peaceful dialogue to resolve the Iranian nuclear issue

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on the 27th to express their views on the Iranian nuclear issue that the International Atomic Energy Agency released the latest report shows that Iran's nuclear program may have a military purpose, he is deeply concerned. Ban Ki-moon called on Iraq through peaceful dialogue to resolve the nuclear issue.

Attend the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland is the Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon 27 in a press conference pointed out that currently the responsibility of Iraq in the Iran nuclear issue party, the Iranian authorities still need to prove that its nuclear program is the use of true peace, and full compliance with the Security Council on Iran to make the relevant resolutions.

Ban Ki-moon said: "Iran's Security Council has adopted a five resolutions, four of which are its sanctions. At the moment, it is important that Iran should fully comply with relevant Security Council resolutions of the United Nations of all Member States fully comply with Security Council resolutions on bear the political and legal responsibility. liability in Iran at the same time, in addition to the peaceful settlement of the crisis through dialogue, there is no other alternative. "

Since 2006, the Council adopted a series of sanctions against Iran resolution, the core is demanding that Iran halt its nuclear program and ballistic missile programs, and requires States to Iraq's nuclear program-related technology and equipment needed to implement the embargo.

Last November, the IAEA report on Iran's nuclear issue that, at least until the end of 2003, Iran had "organized, systematic" in the "nuclear explosive device and related" activities. The report also suggests that until 2010, Iran may still continue to engage in research and development activities related to nuclear weapons, but until now, some of which activities are likely to continue. But the report has not whether Iran is still trying to make nuclear weapons now make a clear conclusion.

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brettballard posted an update: Twitter announced that technology will improve the national review of user content filtering

Well-known social networking site "Twitter" (Twitter) announced the improvement of technical web site, which the user can press the state to review the news release.

Twitter, the laws of different countries conducted a study concluded that the new review mechanism to ensure that user information as possible available to more people see.

Twitter is working to expand their business into new national markets, to expand the number of users and generate more revenue, the new decision also led to some people on Twitter, the promised "free speech" or weakened concerns.

Twitter's official blog, "As we continue to grow worldwide, we will enter those countries have different views of freedom of speech." Blog and added that in Germany, pro-Nazi content is prohibited .

At present, when the twitter delete a message, it will completely disappear. However, use of new technology, when a message contains some of the countries illegal content, and can not show in the country and to be removed, can still be viewed in other regions. When its business where the national law to delete the search results on the Internet, Twitter messages will be deleted review posted on the notice.

This is similar to Internet search giant Google has been the practice. Twitter, like Google, plans to "chilling effect" (chillingeffects.org) site sharing by the government, business and personal requirements of the proposed deletion of the message.

It is reported that the company has been working in Google General Counsel Twitter Alexander helped Google develop a review mechanism, Twitter and similar to Google's policy is not accidental. Twitter in a blog post he wrote: "As a company, one of our core values ​​is to defend and respect the voice of each user no matter when and where we will try to keep the content flow. When we can not do When that happens, will be transparent to the user. "

Twitter yet reviewed the new technology, but also did not disclose which countries are prepared to use in this new feature. Twitter had removed most of the news links to websites containing child pornography.

Currently, Twitter is trying to be like Google's online advertising giant. According to Twitter, said the site in the world already has more than 100 million active accounts, special efforts will push the number of active users increased to 10 billion.

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brettballard posted an update: Baghdad suicide car bomb attack has caused hundreds of casualties

Around 11 am local time, a suicide bomber in a small Market 泽法拉尼亚 region next to the Shiite funeral in the road passing near the car bomb detonated.

Grocer Salam Hussein, aged 42, is one of the witnesses. He described the explosion occurred, the team is to attend the funeral march of the people, more police cars to maintain order. "Not a small-scale explosion. (Live) Flesh, body parts scattered in a pool of blood."

Iraqi authorities blamed the attack this Sunni Islamist insurgents, accusing them of trying to stir like the 2006 to 2007, causing thousands of deaths in sectarian violence.

However, military spokesman in Baghdad said an official in the Office of Qasim Musavi, targeted the local police station. The official said: "The suicide bombers could not reach the police station to carry out attacks, so close to the shops and market places off."

A spokesman for the Baghdad security authorities Moussaoui said: "This is not suicide bombers arrived Daze Farah, Virginia Police Department, so the shop and detonated a bomb near a market."

27 Funeral for a real estate agent Mohammed al-Maliki held. Maliki and his wife, son, 26, shot to death in Bage La Yarmouk area.

Finally, a number of U.S. troops on 18 December last year, shortly after the withdrawal from Iraq, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's government tried to arrest the Sunni vice president, and members of Congress asked the Sunni deputy prime minister removed from office, triggering a political crisis, even for a series of subsequent leaves school attacks.

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brettballard posted an update: South Korean Ambassador trap energy price manipulation scandal, said members kept inside unknown

The Voice of China "CNR News" reported that South Korean Foreign Ministry announced the release of energy resources 27 Ambassador Kim Eun-stone job, and he was transferred to the Central Disciplinary Committee, Foreign Ministry officials to help quell a business by spreading false information to manipulate stock prices Lee's "Cameroon diamond scandal."

South Korea's Procuratorate, said the day before yesterday, Kim Eun-rock energy resources, as ambassador, knowing that CNK's diamond reserves of up to 17 times over-estimated, but twice to help dissemination of information and false as the Government of Cameroon has received confirmation. Due to Foreign Ministry data support, CNK's share price rose five times straight, and Kim Eun-stone of the company's brothers, who through the sale of stock to obtain a huge amount of interest.

According to South Korean Foreign Ministry's position on this, the Procuratorate of the inspection report will be concerned to take appropriate disciplinary measures, and actively assist in the investigation of the incident. As the seriousness of the situation, Foreign Minister Kim Eun-stone will be dismissed, and requested the Central Disciplinary Committee of the Kim Eun-stone and his secretary to punish.

In the report which stated that the Prime Minister's Procuratorate Office, Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Ministry of Knowledge Economy development in Cameroon for CNK's diamond mines, and the issue has not been adequate research to provide a support, culminating in a stock manipulation case, the relevant departments in the future pay more attention. Thus the Seoul Central District Prosecutor's Office has been on former Prime Minister Kim Eun-room stone chief of Zhao, who has taken measures to prohibit abroad, but according to media reports, South Korea, some members of Congress that, CNK false information to manipulate stock prices take a walk behind there are other insider, and Prosecutor's Office concluded the rights of fraud, comes down to personal fraud to Kim Eun-stone and a few people take full responsibility, so the need for congressional hearings to thoroughly investigate the truth.

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This is an old documentary from 2003 about Henri Cartier-Bresson. Enjoy!

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Nico Foto commented on the blog post Mirrorless news and review roundup (Fuji X manual download and Canon G1 X test) I agree with you, for street shooting, the hybrid OVF is an interesting approach - specially if you already are a rangefinder user. All i'm saying is that, since the ovf does not cover all bases, the EVF better be good, which, at least for initial online impressions, is not. As for the AF, we'll [...]

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ThePhoBlographer (Click here) is the first website posting a hands-on of the new lens. In short this is what they think about the lens:

- it’s super light and small and very well balanced with the Sony NEX 5n. - you won’t be able to put a filter on it - manual focusing works fairly well but still not the best from my initial tests. - wide open at f2.8, the lens offers hexagonal bokeh balls. - distortion levels are also relatively acceptable. - it tends to render all images more towards the blue side

I like Rokinon/Samyang lenses a lot and I recommend you the following two lenses for Alpha mount: 1) The 35mm f/1.4: In US you can find it as Rokinon at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here), BHphoto (Click here) and on eBay (Click here). In Europe the name is Samyang and you can find it on eBay (Click here) and with the name Wallimex again on eBay (Click here). 2) The 85mm f/1.4: You can get for $274 on Amazon (Click here), branded with the name Rokinon on eBay (Click here) and branded with the name Samyang on eBay (Click here).

The GX1 with X lens is now finally in Stock in some US stores: Black GX1 with 14-42mm X in Stock at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and J&R (Click here). Silver GX1 with 14-42mm X in Stock at Amazon (Click here) and J&R (Click here).

And right in time the new GX1 firmware update is now available for download (Click here to jump on Panaosnic’s website). And there is a french GX1 review at Clubic (Click here).

Canon Pixma Pro-1 Review Sneak PeakI have finally received my Canon Pixma Pro-1 A3+ printer, and an extra ink set. I’m very excited to get some printing done with it this weekend. This is a bit of a sneak peak, as I’ll work on the full review as I work with it this weekend.

First ImpressionsBring a friend to the store if you’re going to pick one up. The box is huge and it must weigh 80lbs. It’s probably the largest and heaviest A3+ printer ever made.

The printer itself is quite nice to look at it, very clean and looks extremely well built. Could a printer be beautiful? This one may be.

The box is packed nice and tidy and it was easy to get out and onto a table, or desk. The initial setup was a breeze, and the printer appears to be relatively quiet. The ink cartridges are pretty large for an A3+ printer and are very well built. I paid $400 for a set of 12 ink cartridges, I have no idea if that’s good until we get into how much ink the printer will use. I always found the Pixma 9500 Mark II to be ink hungry, or the cartridges too small. I always had to have lots of backups if I got into a weekend print session.

I will spend the next couple of days playing around and will have a full review ready to go Sunday night (pressure or what?).

The Canon Pixma Pro-1 is in stock at B&H for $999

Canon Pixma Pro-1 Box

Canon Pixma Pro-1 Goodies

Canon Pixma Pro-1

Canon Pixma Pro-1 Review Sneak PeakI have finally received my Canon Pixma Pro-1 A3+ printer, and an extra ink set. I’m very excited to get some printing done with it this weekend. This is a bit of a sneak peak, as I’ll work on the full review as I work with it this weekend.

First ImpressionsBring a friend to the store if you’re going to pick one up. The box is huge and it must weigh 80lbs. It’s probably the largest and heaviest A3+ printer ever made.

The printer itself is quite nice to look at it, very clean and looks extremely well built. Could a printer be beautiful? This one may be.

The box is packed nice and tidy and it was easy to get out and onto a table, or desk. The initial setup was a breeze, and the printer appears to be relatively quiet. The ink cartridges are pretty large for an A3+ printer and are very well built. I paid $400 for a set of 12 ink cartridges, I have no idea if that’s good until we get into how much ink the printer will use. I always found the Pixma 9500 Mark II to be ink hungry, or the cartridges too small. I always had to have lots of backups if I got into a weekend print session.

I will spend the next couple of days playing around and will have a full review ready to go Sunday night (pressure or what?).

The Canon Pixma Pro-1 is in stock at B&H for $999

Canon Pixma Pro-1 Box

Canon Pixma Pro-1 Goodies

Canon Pixma Pro-1

April 2012 Release?From Calumet in the UK, comes word that the Canon EOS-1D X may not be shipping until April. I had heard that previously, and it’s not overly shocking.

No word on why the camera may be delayed.

Canon EOS-1D X at B&H

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Nico Foto commented on the blog post Mirrorless news and review roundup (Fuji X manual download and Canon G1 X test) X-Pro 1: Its a pity the AF performance seems to be quite slow. And the hybrid EVF/OVF idea is nice, but, the EVF for what i've read is nothing spectacular, which would mean a problem when shooting with longer lenses (as composing through the tiny frame that corresponds to a tele lens on the OVF [...]

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Changed things upWe’ve decided that the forum needed to be switched up a bit. There just wasn’t enough categories to cover the range of topics, so we’ve streamlined some parts, and expanded others.

List of the biggest changes

• Added a “Gear talk” section, this area will be for gear & photography topics and not rumors.
• Streamlined the rumors section, this area will be kept to just rumors and speculation.
• Added image gallery categories
• Added a video & movie gallery category
• Added a technical support board.

We are in the process of moving topics to their new category if need be, so the forum may be a little messy for a couple of days.

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Canon has filed a patent for RAW video“The recording of successive frames of raw sensor data depicting a moving scene is provided. The raw sensor data comprises pixel data for an image sensor having pixels arranged in correspondence to a mosaic of plural different colors in a color filter array.”

EOSHD broke it down for people that like english.

• Designed for compatibility with CF cards
• Supports 4K and 2K video (4K is 4096×2048)
• Works with Bayer CMOS sensor (like the one in a DSLR)
• Sensor output is 12bit

Although current C300 camera has a 4K sensor, it cannot output a 4K image because most of the pixels are used to reconstruct colour without interpolation (made up pixels in-between).

Source: [P5D] via @Loricnet

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Nico Foto commented on the blog post Fuji X PRO 1: New image samples and videos. Preorders in Japan. OMG since when a "powerful" shutter is good??? Do you want to take pictures or scare people away??? Good lord! :)

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