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Sunday, July 21, 2013

"My son was sick and no one helped"

The mother of Michael Jackson testified at the civil trial pitting the family of musician and concert promoter AEG Live, and said his son was a sick person who never got the help he needed, as local media reported. "It's hard to sit here in court and hear all these things. My son was sick and no one was trying to help" , said the woman, 83 years, according to TMZ. "Many of the things said are not true and he is not here to defend themselves," he added. She is pursuing a lawsuit against the developer with Jackson's children because they argue that the company is responsible for having hired and supervised by Dr. Conrad Murray, who was convicted of having caused the death of the "King of Pop" by injecting A lethal dose of anesthetic. The family claims that the company pressured Murray to neglect the long-term health of Jackson , and to achieve that the singer would be able to perform in concerts organized for his return, sold out.

Microsoft is testing a smart watch translucent aluminum

Microsoft which has just been renovated from head to toe, you want to focus more on the hardware. And one of the gadgets which are working (like average tech sector) are electronic watches. The latest news from Redmond suggest that Microsoft is testing a new model of smartwatch with a translucent aluminum construction and connection to the cloud. After several tests with models prototyped by the development team Xbox , now are the guys of the group Surface those who are trying to convince the bosses to choose their proposed smart watch to take it forward. What little is known is by no means certain, but it does not take Sherlock Holmes to take for feasible many of the following ideas. The SmartWatch have a magnetic connector as the Surface and a screen of 1.5 inches, which will use a series of interchangeable straps blue, red, yellow, gray, black and white. The clock would count with 6 GB SkyDrive combined with those who would be accessed through the LTE connectivity and would be based on a modified version of Windows 8. So far little novelty, but people AmongTech leaked that the watch body would be made ​​of aluminum oxynitride, a kind of translucent aluminum quite expensive and three times harder than glass. If we add now split a Surface and Xbox have joined in one group led by Julie Larson-Green , we can but wait some time to start seeing the first pictures blurry  smartwatch for Microsoft.

Bruce Lee is King in Hong Kong

The exhibition "Bruce Lee: Kung fu. Arte. Vida"  includes more than 600 objects , including photographs, costumes, videos and even a statue of 3.5 meters high. Lee, born in San Francisco but raised in Hong Kong, died when he was at the pinnacle of fame because of an allergic reaction to painkillers . He was 32. His latest film, "Enter The Dragon" , was screened six days after his death and became the most famous star. Shannon Lee, who was four years old when his father died, said Bruce Lee persists as a major influence in her life that has earned both myths. "People immediately think that I am an amazing and deadly master of martial arts," said Shannon Lee, but stated that the studied. clarified who is 44 years old, is engaged in business and has a 10 year old girl. Shannon Lee, president of the Bruce Lee Foundation, said that very few people know the depth of the actor as a man , because it imposes the image of him in martial arts. "We hope this exhibition will help to show a more complete picture  (Bruce Lee), "he said. He said the exhibition will show the familiar side of his father, the great dedication he put into the realization of his films and other aspects of his life such as writing poems.

Israel will release Palestinian prisoners

Strategic Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz said Israel was prepared to release to some prisoners "outstanding" but not that it could not accept Palestinian demands on borders of their future state before the start of the dialogue. The U.S. secretary of state, John Kerry, said Friday that Israelis and Palestinians had laid the groundwork for the resumption of conversacione s peace after three years of stagnation, but warned that the deal was not final and that required more diplomatic work. "There will be some release of prisoners," Steinitz told Israel Radio. "I will not give numbers, but will be featured prisoners in prison carrying tens of years." The release will take place in phases, he added. The Palestinians have been asking for a long the release of prisoners held before 1993, when the two sides signed the Oslo Accords interim pact with which it tried to achieve aPalestinian independent state consisting of East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza Strip. "In all the meetings of President Abu Mazen (Mahmoud Abbas) with Minister Kerry and others, the Palestinian demand to release prisoners was at the top of the agenda, "said Abbas spokesman Nabil Abu Rdaineh. There are about 100 pre-Oslo prisoners in Israeli jails, according to the Palestinian Prisoners Club, an organization that looks after the interests of prisoners and their families.

Weapons l the first version of Cuba was that the ship was carrying sugar

Cuban officials were quick to request that the vessel was released promising that there were no drugs, and made ​​no mention of the weapons until two days later , when 220,000 found hidden under sacks of brown sugar, one official said the agency Panamanian Reuters.They said it was all a big misunderstanding", said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Cuba refused to comment on this testimony. There are still doubts about the cargo of sugar and what Cuba called "obsolete" Soviet-era weapons, which he said were sent to North Korea to be repaired. The discovery has put the Asian nation under increasing diplomatic pressure, because it is suspected that the cargo would be violating an arms embargo by the UN against Pyongyang over its nuclear and ballistic missile programs. The benefits to Cuba for smuggling weapons to North Korea does not appear to outweigh the potential risks, according to experts. "It is disconcerting. 's hard to believe that Cuba would risk so much for so little, "said Frank Mora, senior official at the Pentagon in Latin America during the first term of President Barack Obama. Panamanian officials say the shipment was probably part of an exchange of weapons for sugar. While Cuba needs to modernize its arsenal, experts say that the operation failedsmuggling was so clumsy and ill-conceived that seemed out of place for the Cuban armed forces, usually very disciplined. However, you may not have been the first attempt of this kind. Security experts say thatfive North Korean vessels have transited the Panama Canal in the last three years.One ship, the O A Chong Nyon Ho, passed through the channel and docked in Havana in May 2012. "This shows that both Cuba and North Korea are very isolated and are looking for some mutual comfort . they have few alternatives and do not have much cash, "said Bruce Bagley, an expert on Latin America at the University of Miami and former advisor Panama's intelligence service.