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Last night Steve Kondik (Cyanogen) and Jef Oliver from the CyanogenMod team broke the news that the popular custom firmware has reached 100 million unique installs. CM, which is by far the leading multi-device custom ROM for Android phones, is officially supported on 56 Android devices, with many more available via unofficial or nightly builds.
Interestingly, almost half of the CM installations are of unofficial or "KANGed" builds, although that's likely skewed by official-unofficial self-KANG builds by developers maintaining not-yet-supported phones like the HTC Sensation and EVO 3D. Top devices include the HTC Desire and Motorola DEFY, with over 80,000 and 58,000 installs respectively.
Congrats to the CM team in reaching this huge milestone. With more than a few Android owners eagerly awaiting the ICS-based CM9 in the months ahead, that number is sure to increase in 2012.
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DENVER (Reuters) ? U.S. prosecutors in Colorado started a crackdown against nearly two dozen medical marijuana dispensaries located within 1,000 feet of schools, giving the proprietors 45 days to cease operations or face civil and criminal penalties.
U.S. Attorney John Walsh issued the ultimatum in letters to 23 dispensaries and landlords he said were in violation of federal and state law, a statement Thursday from the U.S. Justice Department said.
The move makes Colorado the latest battleground pitting federal prosecutors against storefront distributors of marijuana in states that have decriminalized marijuana for medical purposes.
"When the voters of Colorado passed the limited medical marijuana amendment in 2000, they could not have anticipated that their vote would be used to justify large marijuana stores located within blocks of our schools," Walsh said.
He cited a 2011 memo from U.S. Deputy Attorney General James Cole that allows individual federal prosecutors to "exercise their discretion to handle marijuana trafficking matters."
The Colorado move followed an announcement in October by federal prosecutors in California that they were cracking down on medical pot dispensaries they said were fronts for large-scale, for-profit drug trafficking.
Last March, federal agents also raided greenhouses and dispensaries in 13 cities in Montana cited by authorities as operating illegally under the guise of that state's medical marijuana law.
A month later, U.S. attorneys in Washington state issued a legal opinion threatening to prosecute not only dispensary owners and growers but state officials who would have enforced a proposed state licensing system for medical marijuana.
Washington Governor Christine Gregoire cited that warning in her decision to veto a bill to establish a new regulatory system for state-sanctioned suppliers of medicinal cannabis.
A total of 16 states and the District of Columbia have enacted some sort of legalized medical-marijuana statutes, according to the National Drug Policy Alliance. But cannabis remains classified as an illegal narcotic under federal law, a point Walsh underscored in his letter to Colorado dispensary operators.
"The dispensary is operating in violation of federal law, and the Department of Justice has the authority to enforce the federal law ... even when such activities may be permitted under state law," the letter said.
Walsh did not identify any of the letter's recipients, except to say the businesses were located throughout the state.
Denver lawyer Robert Corry, who represents clients charged with marijuana offenses, said in recent testimony before the Denver City Council that "there should be no arbitrary distance limits" for legal marijuana businesses.
"There is no documented case of any child ever purchasing or obtaining medical marijuana from a dispensary," he said.
Nevertheless, Walsh said law enforcement will be on the lookout for other violators, and offenders could be subject to asset seizure and property forfeitures.
"Those who do not comply will be subject to potential criminal prosecution and civil enforcement actions," Walsh said. "Because the stores are operating within 1,000 feet of a school, enhanced penalties apply under federal law."
(Editing by Cynthia Johnston and Bill Trott)
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NEW YORK ? There ain't too many of us left.
For Nils Lofgren, who's using the familiar refrain as a song title, it's both a call to arms for old friends like Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Sam Moore ? and a goodbye to lost brothers like sax player Clarence Clemons.
What it's most definitely not: the last gasp of a dying breed. Lofgren ? who proudly titled his new album "Old School" ? has surpassed his 60th birthday with the vigor of a much younger man. He's pain-free after hip replacement surgery and is eagerly awaiting an upcoming tour with Bruce Springsteen and the other members of the E Street Band.
But first things first: Lofgren's album is dedicated to his late comrade, Clemons, who would have turned 70 on Wednesday.
For 27 years, Lofgren stood alongside the Big Man, two friends sharing the spotlight and a shenanigan or two. The personal and professional aftershocks from Clemons' sudden passing in June have not subsided. His sax was a pillar of the E Street sound; Clemons also was the band's spiritual center.
Though eagerly anticipating the tour, Lofgren is also "dreading the journey to get up to speed without Clarence."
He'll miss their "whispering dialogue in the dark" ... helping each other with "the next surprise song" ... popping into Clemons' dressing room before shows. They talked every week between tours.
Springsteen's struggle with the "ominous, complex issue" of how to musically fill the Clemons void is "a rough one" that Lofgren doesn't envy ? but whatever the decision, he backs his Boss "a thousand percent."
Despite the lingering heartache, Lofgren is brimming with hope and humor. "I look at the people standing," says Lofgren. And performing.
After decades of honing their craft before huge live audiences, E Street musicians can "play songs we've never played before, figure out how to cover for each other," communicate with hand signals.
They can "work on an arrangement 30 seconds onstage while the teleprompter guy frantically searches for a lyric from a sign Bruce has thrown down like a Frisbee at him."
Besides musical adaptability, physical fitness is crucial.
"God willing, we'll all be up for it," says Lofgren. "I certainly am counting on that."
At her recent recording session, E Street's Patti Scialfa and her husband, Springsteen, "were in great shape." But Lofgren sheepishly admits that he's working off a "15-pound tire."
On the road, he's "very disciplined." Performing is "a big workout" in itself; he also hits the gym. At home, though, he's "truly a sweet junkie." While glued to a football game, he's been known to polish off a pint of vanilla Swiss almond ice cream, buried beneath a mountain of chopped white chocolate and even more nuts.
He dryly advises adding "a couple of hits of skim milk to keep it low-fat."
And don't even get him started on the cookies.
Once a gymnast, Lofgren has long been known for his stage stunts as well as his instrumental prowess.
The double-hip replacement three years ago eliminated his pain for the first time in 15 years. Wear and tear had finally gotten the best of him: "too much city court basketball, and back flips on my trampoline, and jumping off drum risers for four decades onstage."
During the excruciating post-surgical period, Amy Lofgren propped the phone to her husband's ear as Neil Young, his lifelong mentor, sustained him.
"I'll never forget: At the end, he said, `Hey, you know, heal up and get well. ... Need you around. There ain't too many of us left,'" recalls Lofgren.
"Right then, through the haze of pain meds, I recognized that as the potential to be a great song."
He was thrilled to stand "eye to eye" with Moore, his longtime friend and idol, while recording the high-octane duet.
Lofgren marked his milestone birthday while making the album. When he sings about "The New 18," his 60-ish character is "lost" but determined to "claw back to some dignity."
"There's a lot of people my age that are unemployed; they're losing their home; they're losing their spouse; their kids have turned on them. ... It just takes one wrong turn or one wrong circumstance to throw your life into chaos ? at any age."
His own top priority is a healthy mix of family and work. But concerts with the E Street Band involve a certain kind of managed chaos.
"Last tour with E Street, I think we had something like 53 instruments on the road," he recalls.
Lofgren observes which instruments Springsteen and Steven Van Zandt are strapping on, then instantly decides what sound will best complement them.
"It's very organic," says Lofgren. "Sometimes Bruce ... won't say anything. He'll start playing something and you pick up what you hear and it'll work. Other times ... he'll look back at me and point" ? sometimes at the pedal steel, a stand-mounted, 10-string guitar with foot pedals and knee levers, played with a round, metal slide bar.
Lofgren has always been an extremely quick study. When he was 18, Young insisted he learn to play piano for the "After the Gold Rush" album.
After the last E Street tour, he was summoned to record with yet another Rock Hall inductee, Jerry Lee Lewis, on lap steel, a 6-string guitar with Hawaiian origins that's played flat on the lap, with a grooved metal slide bar.
Lofgren's glad he "shut up and said yes" instead of emphasizing his lack of experience. During one "funky" passage, Lewis shouted out: "Play that steel, killer!"
"In my mind, I went, `Are you talkin' to me?'" Lofgren says gleefully. "And I realize I'm the only steel player in the room."
He also revels in a wildly creative group called "The Whack Brothers," which hangs out at the Springsteen homestead in New Jersey. They got their name while recording with Scialfa at the home studio. Lofgren ? inspired by the uninhibited, super-artistic vibe there ? was "lettin' my freak flag fly ... comin' up with some crazy part I was hearin'."
"Man, Nils," observed Springsteen, "that's pretty whack."
Soon, the muse was striking left and right: "We all came out with whacked out parts."
"If you have musicians of that caliber, there's no point in tying their hands," says Lofgren. "And if you're smart, you put `em in an environment where they have some time to explore ideas."
It could be a lesson for just about any walk of life.
"...Amidst the whacked out parts that don't work," says Lofgren, "you come up with some extraordinary stuff."
And when that happens, "Life is grand."
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Online: www.nilslofgren.com
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FILE - In this Friday, Dec. 23, 2011 file photo, Iraq's Sunni Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi speaks during an interview with the Associated Press near Sulaimaniyah, 160 miles (260 kilometers) northeast of Baghdad, Iraq. Iraq's Shiite-led government has formally demanded that authorities in the semiautonomous Kurdish region hand over the country's top Sunni official, who is wanted on terrorism charges. Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi had been charged with organizing death squads to assassinate prominent figures several years ago. But al-Hashemi traveled in December to the Kurdish north, where federal authorities cannot arrest him.(AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
FILE - In this Friday, Dec. 23, 2011 file photo, Iraq's Sunni Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi speaks during an interview with the Associated Press near Sulaimaniyah, 160 miles (260 kilometers) northeast of Baghdad, Iraq. Iraq's Shiite-led government has formally demanded that authorities in the semiautonomous Kurdish region hand over the country's top Sunni official, who is wanted on terrorism charges. Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi had been charged with organizing death squads to assassinate prominent figures several years ago. But al-Hashemi traveled in December to the Kurdish north, where federal authorities cannot arrest him.(AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
FILE - In this Friday, Dec. 23, 2011 file photo, Iraq's Sunni Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi speaks during an interview with the Associated Press near Sulaimaniyah, 160 miles (260 kilometers) northeast of Baghdad, Iraq. Iraq's Shiite-led government has formally demanded that authorities in the semiautonomous Kurdish region hand over the country's top Sunni official, who is wanted on terrorism charges. Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi had been charged with organizing death squads to assassinate prominent figures several years ago. But al-Hashemi traveled in December to the Kurdish north, where federal authorities cannot arrest him.(AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
BAGHDAD (AP) ? Iraq's Shiite-led government on Sunday demanded that authorities in the semiautonomous Kurdish region hand over the country's top Sunni official to face terrorism charges, turning up the heat in a political crisis that is stoking sectarian tensions.
Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi traveled to the Kurdish north in December just as the last American troops were leaving the country and charges against him were being drawn up.
The government accuses him of running a hit squad that assassinated government and security officials years ago ? allegations he denies. Fellow Sunnis, who made up the dominant political class under Saddam Hussein, see the charges as part of an effort to sideline them.
The resulting political crisis has been accompanied by a rise in coordinated car bomb and suicide attacks targeting Shiites that have claimed dozens of lives in recent weeks.
A judicial spokesman for the Kurds, Dadyar Hameed, said authorities there received a request from Baghdad on Sunday to hand over al-Hashemi and 14 of his associates.
Although the Kurdish region is part of Iraq, it enjoys considerable autonomy. The Kurds have their own security force, and police under the control of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki do not operate there.
As long as al-Hashemi remains a guest of his boss, Iraq's Kurdish President Jalal Talabani, he is effectively out of Baghdad's reach.
Hameed declined to say if the Kurds would comply with the Interior Ministry request, citing the sensitivity of the issue.
A senior official in the Kurdish region's Interior Ministry was less diplomatic.
"We are not policemen working for al-Maliki to hand over al-Hashemi," the official said. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.
Shortly before the arrest warrant was issued in December, state-run television aired what it said were confessions by men said to be working as bodyguards for al-Hashemi. The men said they killed Baghdad police officers and officials working in the health and foreign ministries in exchange for payoffs from al-Hashemi.
The hits allegedly began during the height of the war in 2006 and 2007, when widespread violence between Iraq's Sunnis and Shiites pitted neighbors against neighbors and killed thousands of Iraqi civilians.
Al-Hashemi has dismissed the charges as politically motivated and an effort to embarrass him, and says the supposed confessions implicating him were fabricated. He has said he cannot get a fair trial in Baghdad.
President Talabani came to the defense of his deputy in an interview with Al-Arabiya television that aired Sunday.
"Tariq al-Hashemi is not a fugitive. He is still the vice president. He is only accused, not convicted," Talabani said. He added that al-Hashemi is prepared to face trial in the ethnically mixed city of Kirkuk.
The dispute has paralyzed Iraq's government. Most of al-Hashemi's Sunni-backed Iraqiya bloc is boycotting parliament and Cabinet meetings over what it sees as an effort by al-Maliki to further consolidate power and sideline them now that American troops are gone.
Talabani said he expects talks between the country's feuding blocs aimed at resolving the crisis to get under way in Baghdad later this week.
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Associated Press writers Mazin Yahya in Baghdad and Yahya Barzanji in Sulaimaniyah contributed to this report.
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MEXICO CITY ? Mexico's Environment Department says a spill of 1,500 barrels of oil from a pipeline near the Gulf coast has been brought under control, and about 40 percent of the oil has been recovered.
The department says some of the oil has been detected along a 5-mile (9-kilometer) stretch of the Coatzacoalcos river, which empties into the Gulf of Mexico.
The amount spilled is equal to about 63,400 gallons (240,000 liters).
The department said Monday the spill started Dec. 31 at a pipeline leading to a refinery operated by the state-owned oil monopoly Petroleos Mexicanos.
Video from the scene shows the banks of the river coated in black sludge.
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