Thursday, January 31, 2013

ZTE V81 Siap Saingi iPad Mini ?

Rabu, 30 Januari 2013 | 16:56 WIB

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Dalam perhelatan Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2013 yang lalu, manufaktur perangkat digital berbasis sistem operasi Android asal Cina, Zhongxing Telecommunication Equipment Corporation, yang dikenal dengan mereka dagang ZTE, berharap bisa mengembangkan pangsa pasarnya di Amerika Serikat.

Meskipun kini menduduki peringkat kelima dunia sebagai perusahaan yang berhasil mengapalkan telepon seluler cerdas terbanyak ke seluruh dunia pada kuartal keempat 2012, produk ZTE masih dianggap ?murahan? oleh kebanyakan warga Amerika. Padahal, produk ZTE kini tak kalah dalam persaingan dengan vendor papan atas, semisal HTC atau LG.

Pasar digital Amerika memang menggiurkan dan, bagi sebagian besar penduduk di sana, komputer tablet dianggap sebagai perangkat digital masa depan. Itu sebabnya, selain memasok ponsel cerdas, ZTE kini mencoba menggelontorkan komputer tablet ke Negeri Abang Sam. Tentu dengan strategi yang telah diperhitungkan.

Pada Senin lalu, ZTE mengumumkan komputer tablet pertamanya dengan sistem operasi Android. Namanya ZTE V81. Yang menarik, tablet ini dibuat mirip iPad mini, yakni dengan lebar layar 8 inci dan cenderung berbentuk kotak. Apakah ini strategi ZTE untuk masuk pasar Amerika?

Yang pasti, ukuran layar 8 inci sangat tidak lazim bagi sebuah tablet komputer, dan hanya iPad mini sejauh ini yang mengadopsinya. Kebanyakan tablet yang beredar di pasar memiliki diagonal layar 7 inci dan 10,1 inci. Di Amerika, justru iPad mini kini yang sedang naik daun dan penjualannya terus naik.

ZTE V81 memiliki aspek rasio layar sama dengan iPad mini, yakni 4:3, dengan resolusi mencapai 1024 x 768 piksel. Di dalamnya terdapat prosesor dual-core dengan kecepatan 1,4 GHZ, namun belum diketahui buatan mana prosesor tersebut. Sedangkan total RAM yang disediakan adalah 1 GB, dan memori internal sebesar 4 GB, yang bisa ditambah berkat tersedianya slot kartu memori microSD.

Sayangnya, spesifikasi yang dikeluarkan pihak ZTE sejauh ini masih sangat minim, kecuali bahwa ketebalan V81 mencapai 11,07 milimeter. Bandingkan dengan ketebalan iPad mini, yang hanya 7,2 milimeter. Sedangkan berapa bobotnya, belum diketahui.

Baterai yang diusungnya juga sedikit mengecewakan. ZTE V81 hanya diperkuat baterai berkekuatan 3.700 mAh, lebih kecil dibanding baterai tablet Android pada umumnya yang memiliki kapasitas minimal 4.000 mAh.

Untuk urusan konektivitas secara nirkabel, ZTE V81 dilengkapi dengan Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n dan Bluetooth 2.1. Adapun koneksi yang langsung terhubung dengan perangkat antara lain 3,5 milimeter headphone jack, GPS, HDMI, USB, dan accelerometer. V81 juga mendukung jaringan UMTS (850) 900/1900/2100 MHz dan GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz.

ZTE belum memastikan berapa harga jual V81. Namun ada kemungkinan tablet ini akan dihargai di bawah US$ 200 atau sekitar Rp 1,9 juta. Bila betul demikian, ZTE V81 dipastikan menyasar konsumen kelas menengah ke bawah di seluruh dunia. Namun, akankah strategi ini berhasil di Amerika?

Meskipun harganya di bawah iPad mini, banyak pengamat pasar digital yang mengatakan bahwa V81 tak akan laku di Amerika. Penyebabnya, di sana sudah ada Kindle Fire, yang dijual di bawah US$ 200. Kalaupun harganya lebih murah ketimbang Kindle Fire, reputasi produk Cina yang masih dipandang sebelah mata akan menjadi pengganjal V81.

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SPESIFIKASI

Sistem operasi: Android 4.1 alias Jelly Bean
Prosesor: 1.4 GHz dual-core
Memori RAM: 1 GB
Layar: 8 inci
Kamera: 2 MP belakang dan 0.3 MP depan
Konektivitas: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, USB, GPS, HDMI
Memori internal: 4 GB, tersedia slot microSD
Baterai: 3.700 mAh

Source: http://www.tempointeraktif.com/hg/it/2013/01/30/brk,20130130-457939,id.html

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Wednesday, January 30, 2013

UN, experts posed to confirm any NKorean N-test

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ? With North Korea set to detonate an atomic device the U.N. agency that detected previous tests says it is better position than ever to confirm an explosion when it takes place.

But experts say it might be difficult to establish whether the blast was nuclear in nature.

The best indication of a test will be seismic tremors and gases released into the air, phenomena that the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty picked up from previous testing.

The Vienna-based organization's most potent detection tools are more than 150 seismic stations located across the globe. Although very small in yield, the North's first test in 2006 was picked up swiftly and reliably even though the CTBTO back then only had 80 such stations. The second test in 2009 was also detected quickly by 61 stations.

Last week, North Korea warned that it plans a third nuclear test to protest toughened international sanctions meant to punish it for firing a long-range rocket in December. The world sees the launch as a ballistic missile test banned by the U.N., while Pyongyang says it only launched a satellite into orbit as part of a peaceful space development program.

The U.S., South Korea and their allies have pressed the North to scrap its nuclear test plans, saying it will only worsen the country's decades-old international isolation.

The threats have placed scientists and experts in South Korea on high alert as any test is likely to aggravate the already high tensions on the divided Korean Peninsula.

South Korea's Defense Ministry said Tuesday it believes North Korea has nearly completed its nuclear test preparations, confirming satellite analysis last week by the U.S.-Korea Institute, a research group at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

Its satellite images of the Punggye-ri site ? where the previous two nuclear tests were conducted ? show that the North Koreans may have been sealing a tunnel into a mountainside where a nuclear device would be detonated.

In the event of such an underground nuclear test, both the CTBTO facilities and earthquake monitoring stations in South Korea can detect seismic tremors

But although this is a strong indication of a test, it is not an absolute confirmation.

An earthquake expert at the state-run Korea Meteorological Administration said his office aims to find out the magnitude of the tremor, the time it started and the exact location on the map within 10 minutes of the explosion. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to speak to the media.

Experts also note that artificial earthquakes, such as those created by nuclear explosions, rarely trigger the same wave patterns as natural quakes.

North Korea could also try to deceive and give the impression that it exploded a nuclear device by simply exploding sophisticated conventional weapons that would trigger the same seismic waves produced by a nuclear test, said Chi Heoncheol, an earthquake specialist at the government-funded Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources.

By raising tensions this way, North Korea may hope to wrest concessions or aid in return for promises to scale back its unproven nuclear capability.

"Even if they bring truckloads of high-powered conventional explosives, put them (into an underground tunnel) and explode them, they will generate the same seismic wave and sound wave," Chi said. The only difference is no radioactivity would be detected from the explosion of conventional weapons, he said.

The best course for scientists would be to collect air samples to look for increased radiation but the process could take days. Even if the wind is favorable ? and assuming North Korea conducts the test at Punggye-ri in the country's northeastern corner ? it will take more than one day for airborne radioactive isotopes like xenon to reach South Korea, according to an official at the government-run Nuclear Safety and Security Commission.

The official, who requested anonymity citing the sensitive nature of the subject, acknowledged it may be impossible for South Korea to confirm a test if the wind doesn't blow southward or if North Korea plugs the underground tunnel so tightly that no radioactive gas escapes.

Both South Korea and the Vienna-based CTBTO confirmed increased radiation levels following the North's 2006 nuclear test but didn't find anything in 2009.

CTBTO spokeswoman Annika Thunborg says that generally speaking it is hard for those conducting nuclear tests to control the escape of noble gases, which is a clear indication of a nuclear test. With her organization's extensive air sampling network, it is less dependent on wind direction than the South Koreans in picking up such traces.

If North Korea decides to conduct a so-called subcritical test, there would be no release of radioactivity at all ? but that may be beyond the North's expertise.

A sub-critical test only works on the properties of plutonium but stop short of creating a critical mass, the point at which a self-sustaining nuclear reaction occurs. Such an experiment requires a "very difficult technology" that only a few countries like the U.S., Russia and England have acquired, said nuclear expert Whang Joo-ho of Kyung Hee University.

"I believe North Korea's technology has not reached that level," Whang said.

North Korea said its upcoming atomic explosion will be a "high-level" test and many analysts said that refers to a device made from highly enriched uranium, which gives the country a second source for manufacturing bombs in addition to plutonium.

Whether North Korea detonates a uranium- or plutonium-based device, there won't be much difference in how easily scientists can detect the tests. The only difference is that they produce different radioactive gases, Whang said.

He also said a uranium-based test explosion would mean that North Korea's nuclear stockpile can continue to be enlarged at a time when there is no evidence of continued production of plutonium at its main Yongbyon nuclear complex.

North Korea watchers in South Korea are speculating various dates for a possible nuclear test, with some predicting it could happen as early as this week and others choosing days just before the Feb. 16 birthday of late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.

There is no way to determine when North Korea will conduct a nuclear test, said analyst Shim BeomChul at the state-run Korea Institute for Defense Analyses in Seoul. U.S. spy satellites "can detect objects 15 centimeters (5.9 inches) in size on the ground but they cannot detect what's happening underground," he said.

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Online: www.ctbto.org

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/un-experts-posed-confirm-nkorean-n-test-234059635.html

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Seattle LB Leroy Hill arrested on assault charges

ISSAQUAH, Wash. (AP) ? Seattle Seahawks linebacker Leroy Hill was arrested after police say he assaulted his girlfriend and kept her in his home against her will.

According to a release from the Issaquah Police Department on Wednesday morning, Hill was arrested on investigation of unlawful imprisonment-domestic violence and third-degree assault-domestic violence. According to King County Jail records, Hill was booked into the Seattle correctional facility early Wednesday afternoon.

Both charges are felonies in Washington state. It's at least the fourth time Hill, 30, has been arrested and the second time he's been accused of domestic violence.

Police said they responded to Hill's home around 4 p.m. Tuesday. A 26-year-old said she had been assaulted several times and was kept in Hill's home against her will. The women told police that Hill blocked the doorway and took her cellphone. She was able to escape the home when Hill used the bathroom, police said.

She was treated at a hospital and released. A Seahawks spokesman said the team is aware of the situation.

Hill played last season on a one-year contract with the Seahawks. He played in 13 games, starting 12, and recorded 47 tackles and 1? sacks. Hill is one of two players still on the Seahawks roster from their lone Super Bowl appearance when they lost to Pittsburgh. He's played all eight NFL seasons with the Seahawks and has started 89 of 97 games in his Seattle career.

Hill is scheduled to become a free agent this offseason.

For much of his career, off-field problems have followed Hill. He was arrested less than a year ago for marijuana possession in Atlanta, but the charge was later dismissed. His first arrest came in 2009 in Georgia for marijuana possession where he was sentenced to 12 months of probation.

Then in April 2010, Hill was arrested by Issaquah police on a fourth-degree assault-domestic violence charge. Hill avoided trial on that charge after agreeing to a stipulated order of continuance that required him to avoid legal troubles for 18 months and complete a one-year, state-certified domestic violence treatment program.

Issaquah prosecutor Lynn Moberly said Wednesday that Hill's previous domestic violence case had closed and the latest arrest has no influence on his previous deal.

Hill was suspended by the NFL for two games during the 2010 season.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/seattle-lb-leroy-hill-arrested-assault-charges-221759791--nfl.html

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Tuesday, January 29, 2013

'Eat Your Art Out' with Riverwalk A&E District's Unique 5-for-5 ...

Bring out your inner foodie and artist with Riverwalk A&E District?s deliciously creative ?Eat Your Art Out? 5 for 5 package! Taking place each Monday evening from Feb. 18?March 18, the unique package includes dining at some of?Downtown Fort Lauderdale?s most popular restaurants, followed by a different? stimulating art class each week at the AutoNation Academy of Art + Design at Riverwalk A&E partner Museum of Art I Fort Lauderdale.

Eat Your Art Out With Riverwalk's '5-for-5 Package'

Eat Your Art Out With Riverwalk's '5-for-5 Package'

On each of the five Mondays, package guests will indulge in ?artful? 3-course prix fixe menu options at spectacular restaurants along Las Olas and in Downtown Fort Lauderdale from 5-6:30 p.m., then head to the AutoNation Academy of Art + Design for a 7-10 p.m. art class.

The package price for this gastronomic and artistic experience is only $250 per person, or any one of the evenings including dinner and art class can be purchased on its own for $65 per person. The package or individual cost includes the 3-course prix fixe menu options at each of the participating restaurants, class instruction and supplies. Gratuities and beverages are additional and will be charged separately.

The dining and creative adventure will take package guests to the following restaurants and classes:

  • Monday, Feb. 18: SoLita Italian Restaurant, Painting Class

Guests will begin their evening at SoLita at 1032 East Las Olas Boulevard, offering a delectable menu of Italian favorites using only the finest hand-picked ingredients and featuring an extraordinary selection of seafood, veal, and pasta entrees. Following the dining experience, a painting class will offer an invigorating exploration of the steps needed to develop an idea into personal expression. The focus will be on perspective, composition, gesture and the representation of form and space.

  • Monday, Feb. 25: Indigo Restaurant at Riverside Hotel, Ceramics Class

The evening will commence with dinner at Indigo Restaurant at Riverside Hotel, 620 East Las Olas Boulevard. Indigo?s excellent service matches its impressive menu of deliciously fresh seafood, savory steaks, light bites and much more.? After dinner, guests will get their hands into clay with a ceramics class, during which they will learn techniques needed to facilitate the development of ideas with clay. Each student will throw a vessel on the wheel with ceramist Brett Thomas.

  • Monday, March 4: Tarpon Bend, Drawing Class

Tarpon Bend, located at 200 Southwest 2nd Street, will be the fresh and fun start to the evening, serving up American classics highlighted by daily fresh catches and an array of seasonal seafood specials. Then, guests will participate in a drawing class, during which they will explore several mediums, including the use of charcoal and pencil, while learning to create emotional drawings. Students will work from still life set-ups as they consider perspective, proportion, and volumetric rendering of objects.

  • Monday, March 11: Grille 401, Printmaking Class

The night will begin at Grille 401, 401 East Las Olas Boulevard, a trendy, comfortable and convenient dining environment with an innovative, freshly made in-house menu featuring delicious fresh and locally-sourced ingredients. Next, students are invited into the Printmaking studio. Demonstrations of various printmaking techniques will be explored using hands-on, step-by-step processes in printmaking, including silk screen, etching, and monoprinting.

  • Monday, March 18: YOLO, Digital Arts Class

YOLO, located at 333 East Las Olas Boulevard, will be the first stop of the night. Featuring a well-executed menu and effortless, yet non-intrusive service, YOLO offers many entrees prepared on the wood-burning grill visible through the cozy dining room. To conclude this artistic experience, guests will enjoy an interactive lecture and exploration of the creative process and fundamentals of graphic design and visual communication during a digital arts class in the Academy?s state-of-the-art Mac computer lab. Students will experiment with Photoshop and Illustrator.

This once-a-week for five weeks package is the perfect way to experience great dining and art exploration. For more information, or to book the ?Eat Your Art Out? 5 for 5 package series or one evening, visit www.moafl.org or call (954) 525-5500.

Source: http://www.riverwalkae.com/eat-your-art-out-with-riverwalk-ae-district%E2%80%99s-unique-5-for-5-package-series-feb-18%E2%80%93march-18/

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Animal shelters, rescues help Washington County pets find happy ...

?When Wanda Bailie decided she wanted a Boston terrier, she knew she'd prefer to adopt, rather than buy from a breeder.?

"I wanted to give a home to a dog that needed one," said Bailie, 64, of Cornelius.?

Finally, after a two-year search, she found Suzy, a 7-year-old Boston terrier who inspired her to start rescuing Boston terriers and finding homes for them with people whose hearts were set on the breed.?

"They have personality plus," she said. "They play all their lives."?

Last year, Bailie placed nearly 40 Boston terriers in homes across the state. Rambo, the most recent adoptee, is deaf and will be a service dog for an 18-year-old.?

"People who go to shelters generally don't have a specific type of dog in mind," she said. "They're just going in to see what catches their eye or who they bond with."?

At a small rescue, people can meet dogs in a calmer environment, where they're more likely to act naturally, especially if they're nervous in large groups, Bailie said.?

For other dogs, a shelter is the best chance at becoming healthy.?

A few months ago, every step hurt for Zinnia, a small stray poodle with a badly injured leg. Now, as she waits to be adopted from Washington County's Bonnie L. Hays Animal Shelter, Zinnia gets around with three legs and no pain.

?"She's a sweet, happy animal," said Deborah Wood, Washington County's Animal Services manager. "She'll end up with a great home and be just fine."?

Zinnia is one of about 4,000 animals the shelter helps each year, most of which are placed in homes from Portland to Forest Grove.?

"If they're potentially adoptable, we do everything we can to make that happen," Wood said.?

Still, though, hundreds of animals in shelters and rescues wait for adopters each day. In the winter, Wood said, calls to the Bonnie L. Hays shelter spike.?

"We get a lot more when it's cold," she said. "People become worried about animals they didn't worry about in the summer -- a backyard dog or a cat where someone said, 'That's not my cat, I just feed it.'"?

Aside from strays, the shelter takes in animals rescued from situations of abuse or neglect. Staff and volunteers give medical attention and work on socialization and behavioral issues to help the dogs and cats become adoptable pets.?

When the shelter is full or animals have special needs, Animal Services works with local rescues like Bailie's that help place pets in appropriate homes. For people who are looking for specific breeds -- and for dogs that don't thrive in a shelter environment -- a rescue can work better.?

While the Bonnie L. Hays shelter works mainly with stray animals, Bailie often receives dogs that have been given up by their owners.?

"Some people think they're 'just animals' -- a throwaway item," she said. "But to me, they're like my kids."?

Wood said that while the number of homeless pets has decreased as a result of a nationwide push for spaying and neutering, shelters and rescues always need adopters to provide loving homes.?

"Often this shelter is the best place these animals have ever been," Wood said. "But then when they get adopted, it's a whole new level they can't even imagine."?

Source: http://www.oregonlive.com/forest-grove/index.ssf/2013/01/animal_shelters_rescues_help_w.html

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Cadavers honored in med student dissection lab

In this photo taken Friday, Jan. 25, 2013, in Gary, Ind., medical student Jimmy Beasley, left, speaks with Joan Terry, about her sister, donor Judy A. Clemens, after a memorial service for bodies donated to science at Indiana University School of Medicine - Northwest. During the hour long service, relatives of donors gather around the steel tables where their loved ones were dissected along with the medical students who worked on the bodies during the previous semester. The students read letters of appreciation, clergy offer prayers, and tears are shed. The program is geared towards teaching the medical students that this is not merely a cadaver, but a person, and their first patient. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green

In this photo taken Friday, Jan. 25, 2013, in Gary, Ind., medical student Jimmy Beasley, left, speaks with Joan Terry, about her sister, donor Judy A. Clemens, after a memorial service for bodies donated to science at Indiana University School of Medicine - Northwest. During the hour long service, relatives of donors gather around the steel tables where their loved ones were dissected along with the medical students who worked on the bodies during the previous semester. The students read letters of appreciation, clergy offer prayers, and tears are shed. The program is geared towards teaching the medical students that this is not merely a cadaver, but a person, and their first patient. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green

In this photo taken Friday, Jan. 25, 2013, in Gary, Ind., family members watch as a medical student lights a candle atop the remains of their grandfather, donor William N. Kelly, during a memorial service for bodies donated to science at Indiana University School of Medicine - Northwest. During the hour long service, relatives of donors gather around the steel tables where their loved ones were dissected along with the medical students who worked on the bodies during the previous semester. The students read letters of appreciation, clergy offer prayers, and tears are shed. The program is geared towards teaching the medical students that this is not merely a cadaver, but a person, and their first patient. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

In this photo taken Friday, Jan. 25, 2013, in Gary, Ind., A military honor guard folds the flag of a Viet Nam veteran and anonymous donor, during a memorial service for bodies donated to science at Indiana University School of Medicine - Northwest. During the hour long service, relatives of donors gather around the steel tables where their loved ones were dissected along with the medical students who worked on the bodies during the previous semester. The students read letters of appreciation, clergy offer prayers, and tears are shed. The program is geared towards teaching the medical students that this is not merely a cadaver, but a person, and their first patient. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

In this photo taken Friday, Jan. 25, 2013, in Gary, Ind., Linsdey Ellingsen, granddaughter of donor William N. Kelly, wipes a tear from her eye as a song is sung during a memorial service for bodies donated to science at Indiana University School of Medicine - Northwest. During the hour long service, relatives of donors gather around the steel tables where their loved ones were dissected along with the medical students who worked on the bodies during the previous semester. The students read letters of appreciation, clergy offer prayers, and tears are shed. The program is geared towards teaching the medical students that this is not merely a cadaver, but a person, and their first patient. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

In this photo taken Friday, Jan. 25, 2013, in Gary, Ind., medical student Sarah F. Shaaban reads from the Quran during a memorial service for bodies donated to science at Indiana University School of Medicine - Northwest. During the hour long service, relatives of donors gather around the steel tables where their loved ones were dissected along with the medical students who worked on the bodies during the previous semester. The students read letters of appreciation, clergy offer prayers, and tears are shed. The program is geared towards teaching the medical students that this is not merely a cadaver, but a person, and their first patient. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

GARY, Ind. (AP) ? When medical students have finished their study and practice on cadavers, they often hold a respectful memorial service to honor these bodies donated to science.

But the ceremonies at one medical school have a surreal twist: Relatives gather around the cold steel tables where their loved ones were dissected and which now hold their remains beneath metal covers. The tables are topped with white or burgundy-colored shrouds, flags for military veterans, flowers and candles.

The mixture of grace and goth at the Indiana University School of Medicine-Northwest campus might sound like a scene straight out filmmaker Tim Burton's quirky imagination. Yet, despite the surrounding shelves of medical specimens and cabinets of human bones, these dissection lab memorials are more moving than macabre.

The medical students join the families in the lab and read letters of appreciation about the donors, a clergy member offers prayers, and tears are shed.

Family members are often squeamish about entering that room. This year's ceremony was last Friday, and relatives of one of the six adult donors being honored chose not to participate. And some who did attend had mixed feelings.

Joan Terry of Griffith, Ind., came to honor her sister, Judy Clemens, who died in 2011 at age 51 after a long battle with health problems including multiple sclerosis and osteoporosis. Terry said she felt a little hesitant about being in the dissection lab and was relieved that nothing too graphic was visible.

"I was kind of looking forward to coming," Terry said. "This is ... like a closure. I know Judy's not with us anymore. I know that she's dancing on the streets of gold in heaven. She's probably smiling knowing that her body's helping other people, helping these young doctors learn something about her, because that's what she wanted. That's the type of person that she was. She was always giving."

More than three dozen students, donors' relatives and campus staff members crowded the anatomy lab during Friday's memorial, surrounding the tables and standing solemnly along the room's perimeter. Some dabbed their eyes as prayers and remembrances were said, but faces were mostly stoic and there was no sobbing. The lab's usual odor of formaldehyde was strangely absent, masked perhaps by the sweet aroma of bouquets decorating the cadaver tables.

Some donors' relatives wore formal funeral attire. Terry, noting her plain pink T-shirt, said her sister wasn't a fancy person, either. Terry closed her eyes and struggled not to cry during the service, saying beforehand that Clemens "would be upset if I did."

Abdullah Malik, a medical student who worked on Judy Clemens, thanked her in a letter he read aloud during the ceremony.

"To have the courage and fortitude to endure as much as she did is a testament to her strength and an inspiration to us all," he read, standing next to Clemens' sister beside the dissection table holding Clemens' remains.

Ernest Talarico Jr., an assistant professor and director of anatomy coursework, created the unusual program and began holding the laboratory ceremonies in 2007. The cadavers are considered the medical students' first patients, and students are encouraged to have contact with the donors' families during the semester, too.

At other medical schools, donated bodies remain anonymous and students never meet the families. Talarico said his program humanizes the learning experience.

Talarico views the services as life-affirming and a chance to give thanks. The education these donated bodies have provided is invaluable, he says, teaching doctors-to-be how the body works, and what causes things to go wrong.

"We look at it as a celebration of the lives of those individuals and the gift that they have given to us," Talarico said.

He considers the location fitting.

"I think it is appropriate in that we honor them in the setting in which they desired to give what they viewed as their last gift to humanity," he said.

Malik, the medical student, said knowing the donors' identities and meeting their families enriches the students' medical education.

"Once you put a name and a face to the body that you're working with, once you kind of put an identity to it, you kind of connect to it in a really meaningful and powerful way," he said.

Medical student Kyle Parker said he admired the donors' relatives for showing up, and wondered if he were in their shoes, "would I be willing to meet the people who have actually dissected my family member?"

Parker said he hopes the answer would be yes.

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Online:

Indiana University School of Medicine-Northwest: http://iusm-nw.medicine.iu.edu

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AP Medical Writer Lindsey Tanner can be reached at: http://www.Twitter.com/LindseyTanner

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Monday, January 28, 2013

Soldier who lost 4 limbs has double-arm transplant

The first soldier to survive after losing all four limbs in the Iraq war has received a double-arm transplant.

Brendan Marrocco had the operation on Dec. 18 at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, his father said Monday. The 26-year-old Marrocco, who is from New York City, was injured by a roadside bomb in 2009.

He also received bone marrow from the same dead donor who supplied his new arms. That novel approach is aimed at helping his body accept the new limbs with minimal medication to prevent rejection.

The military is sponsoring operations like these to help wounded troops. About 300 have lost arms or hands in the wars.

"He was the first quad amputee to survive" from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and there have been four others since then, said Brendan Marrocco's father, Alex Marrocco. "He was really excited to get new arms."

The Marroccos want to thank the donor's family for "making a selfless decision ... making a difference in Brendan's life," the father said.

Surgeons plan to discuss the transplant at a news conference with the patient on Tuesday.

The 13-hour operation was led by Dr. W.P. Andrew Lee, plastic surgery chief at Johns Hopkins, and is the seventh double-hand or double-arm transplant done in the United States. Lee led three of those earlier operations when he previously worked at the University of Pittsburgh, including the only above-elbow transplant that had been done at the time, in 2010.

Marrocco's "was the most complicated one" so far, Lee said in an interview Monday. It will take more than a year to know how fully Marrocco will be able to use the new arms, Lee said.

"The maximum speed is an inch a month for nerve regeneration," he explained. "We're easily looking at a couple years" until the full extent of recovery is known.

While at Pittsburgh, Lee pioneered the novel immune suppression approach used for Marrocco. The surgeon led hand transplant operations on five patients, giving them marrow from their donors in addition to the new limbs. All five recipients have done well and four have been able to take just one anti-rejection drug instead of combination treatments most transplant patients receive.

Minimizing anti-rejection drugs is important because they have side effects and raise the risk of cancer over the long term. Those risks have limited the willingness of surgeons and patients to do more hand, arm and even face transplants. Unlike a life-saving heart or liver transplant, limb transplants are aimed at improving quality of life, not extending it.

Quality of life is a key concern for people missing arms and hands ? prosthetics for those limbs are not as advanced as those for feet and legs.

Lee has received funding for his work from AFIRM, the Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine, a cooperative research network of top hospitals and universities around the country that the government formed about five years ago. With government money, he and several other plastic surgeons around the country are preparing to do more face transplants, possibly using the new minimal immune suppression approach.

Marrocco expects to spend three to four months at Hopkins, then return to a military hospital to continue physical therapy, his father said. Before the operation, he had been living with his older brother in a handicapped-accessible home on New York's Staten Island built with the help of several charities.

The home was heavily damaged by Superstorm Sandy last fall.

Despite being in a lot of pain for some time after the operation, Marrocco showed a sense of humor, his father said. He had a hoarse voice from a tube in his throat during the long surgery, decided that he sounded like Al Pacino, and started doing movie lines.

"He was making the nurses laugh," Alex Marrocco said.

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AP writer Alex Dominguez contributed to this report.

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DARPA Builds A 1.8-Gigapixel Camera That Can Spot Six-Inch Targets From 20,000 Feet

DARPA has released more details on the ARGUS-IS, a 1.8-gigapixel camera that will be attached to unmanned drones to spot targets as small as six inches at an altitude of 20,000 feet. The camera - which is one of the highest resolution systems in the world - can view ten square miles of terrain at a time and zoom in on targets with surprising clarity.

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Guatemala ex-dictator to stand trial on genocide

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) ? A former U.S.-backed dictator who presided over one of the bloodiest periods of Guatemala's civil war will stand trial on charges he ordered the murder, torture and displacement of thousands of Mayan Indians, a judge ruled Monday.

Human rights advocates have said that the prosecution of Jose Efrain Rios Montt would be an important symbolic victory for the victims of one of the most horrific of the conflicts that devastated Central America during the last decades of the Cold War.

He is the first former president to be charged with genocide by a Latin American court.

Guatemala's leaders have been criticized for years for their inability or unwillingness to prosecute government forces and allied paramilitaries accused of marching into Mayan villages, carrying out rapes and torture, and slaughtering women, children and unarmed men in a "scorched earth" campaign aimed at eliminating the support for a left-wing guerrilla movement.

Despite a series of international inquiries finding him responsible for war crimes, Rios Montt served as a Guatemalan congressman for 15 years until he lost a re-election race late last year. He had held immunity from prosecution while a member of Congress and was put under house arrest after losing his post.

One of the highest priorities of the president who won last year's election, Otto Perez Molina, has been campaigning for the elimination of a U.S. ban on military aid to Guatemala, which is locked in a fight against heavily armed drug cartels that have taken over swathes of the country.

Among the conditions set by the U.S. Congress for restoring the aid is reforming Guatemala's justice system and putting an end to impunity.

The decision to try Rios Montt could stand as a precedent in the cases of dozens of other lower-ranking military men accused of participating in atrocities, victims' advocates have said.

Judge Miguel Angel Galvez ruled that Rios Montt could be tried on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity for the killing of 1,771 indigenous Ixiles in 1982 and 1983, when he was president.

The decision clears the way for a three-judge panel to hear the evidence against Rios Montt and decide to either judge him guilty and sentence him, exonerate him of the charge or start a public trial.

Prosecutors allege that after leading a March 1982 coup and seizing control of the government, Rios Montt oversaw torture, rape, forced disappearances and forced relocations and killings of thousands of Ixil people by soldiers, paramilitaries and other government officials.

His lawyers have sought to block the trial, arguing that he is protected by an amnesty law.

The attorney-general's office said that it found evidence of 5,271 killings of Ixil residents of the towns of San Juan Cotzal, Santa Maria Nebai and San Gaspar Chajul in the department of Quiche. Prosecutors said 1,771 died in some 15 massacres between 1982 and 1983, and 370 bodies have been identified.

Prosecutor Orlando Lopez said during hearings before Monday's decision that Rios Montt wanted to wipe out the Ixil people, considered a bastion of support for guerrilla fighters waging a civil war against the Guatemalan state.

"During the period in which you held office, it is believed that the actions carried by members of the Guatemalan Army, military official and civil defense patrolmen resulted in the deaths of 1,771 people," the complaint against Rios Montt reads.

The prosecution case includes forensic reports documenting hundreds of deaths.

Among the testimony presented to the judge was that of Ana Lopez, an Ixil woman taken from her home by soldiers in May, 1982 to a government outpost where she was tortured and raped for 10 days.

During the 1960-96 civil war, more than 200,000 people, mostly Mayan Indians, were killed or went missing and entire villages were exterminated, according to the United Nations.

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Sunday, January 27, 2013

Hubble finds appearances can be deceptive: Looking at the stars in NGC 411

Jan. 26, 2013 ? Globular clusters are roughly spherical collections of extremely old stars, and around 150 of them are scattered around our galaxy. Hubble is one of the best telescopes for studying these, as its extremely high resolution lets astronomers see individual stars, even in the crowded core. The clusters all look very similar, and in Hubble's images it can be quite hard to tell them apart -- and they all look much like NGC 411, pictured in a new image.

And yet appearances can be deceptive: NGC 411 is in fact not a globular cluster, and its stars are not old. It isn't even in the Milky Way. NGC 411 is classified as an open cluster located in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a small sister galaxy near our own. Less tightly bound than a globular cluster, the stars in open clusters tend to drift apart over time as they age, whereas globulars have survived for well over 10 billion years of galactic history. NGC 411 is a relative youngster -- not much more than a tenth of this age. Far from being a relic of the early years of the universe, the stars in NGC 411 are in fact a fraction of the age of the sun.

The stars in NGC 411 are all roughly the same age, having formed at one time from one cloud of gas. But they are not all the same size. Hubble's image shows a wide range of colors and brightness in the cluster's stars; these tell astronomers many facts about the stars, including their mass, temperature and evolutionary phase. Blue stars, for instance, have higher surface temperatures than red ones.

The image is a composite produced from ultraviolet, visible and infrared observations made by Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3. This filter set lets the telescope "see" colors slightly further beyond red and the violet ends of the spectrum.

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Olioboard Inspiration ? Lazy Sunday Afternoon with Stagetecture

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Will smart machines create a world without work?

In this Dec. 19, 2012 photo, James Finch, front, service advisor for U.S.Bank Service Center, takes a call at the facility in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. (AP Photo/The Spokesman-Review, Kathy Plonka) COEUR D'ALENE PRESS OUT

In this Dec. 19, 2012 photo, James Finch, front, service advisor for U.S.Bank Service Center, takes a call at the facility in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. (AP Photo/The Spokesman-Review, Kathy Plonka) COEUR D'ALENE PRESS OUT

(AP) ? They seem right out of a Hollywood fantasy, and they are: Cars that drive themselves have appeared in movies like "I, Robot" and the television show "Knight Rider."

Now, three years after Google invented one, automated cars could be on their way to a freeway near you. In the U.S., California and other states are rewriting the rules of the road to make way for driverless cars. Just one problem: What happens to the millions of people who make a living driving cars and trucks ? jobs that always have seemed sheltered from the onslaught of technology?

"All those jobs are going to disappear in the next 25 years," predicts Moshe Vardi, a computer scientist at Rice University in Houston. "Driving by people will look quaint; it will look like a horse and buggy."

If automation can unseat bus drivers, urban deliverymen, long-haul truckers, even cabbies, is any job safe?

Vardi poses an equally scary question: "Are we prepared for an economy in which 50 percent of people aren't working?"

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EDITOR'S NOTE: Last in a three-part series on the loss of middle-class jobs in the wake of the Great Recession, and the role of technology.

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An Associated Press analysis of employment data from 20 countries found that millions of midskill, midpay jobs already have disappeared over the past five years, and they are the jobs that form the backbone of the middle class in developed countries.

That experience has left a growing number of technologists and economists wondering what lies ahead. Will middle-class jobs return when the global economy recovers, or are they lost forever because of the advance of technology? The answer may not be known for years, perhaps decades. Experts argue among themselves whether the job market will recover, muddle along or get much worse.

To understand their arguments, it helps to understand the past.

Every time a transformative invention took hold over the past two centuries ? whether the steamboat in the 1820s or the locomotive in the 1850s or the telegraph or the telephone ? businesses would disappear and workers would lose jobs. But new businesses would emerge that employed even more.

The combustion engine decimated makers of horse-drawn carriages, saddles, buggy whips and other occupations that depended on the horse trade. But it also resulted in huge auto plants that employed hundreds of thousands of workers, who were paid enough to help create a prosperous middle class.

"What has always been true is that technology has destroyed jobs but also always created jobs," says Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz of Columbia University. "You know the old story we tell about (how) the car destroyed blacksmiths and created the auto industry."

The astounding capabilities of computer technology are forcing some mainstream economists to rethink the conventional wisdom about the economic benefits of technology, however. For the first time, we are seeing machines that can think ? or something close to it.

In the early 1980s, at the beginning of the personal computer age, economists thought computers would do what machines had done for two centuries ? eliminate jobs that required brawn, not brains. Low-level workers would be forced to seek training to qualify for jobs that required more skills. They'd become more productive and earn more money. The process would be the same as when mechanization replaced manual labor on the farm a century ago; workers moved to the city and got factory jobs that required higher skills but paid more.

But it hasn't quite worked out that way. It turns out that computers most easily target jobs that involve routines, whatever skill level they require. And the most vulnerable of these jobs, economists have found, tend to employ midskill workers, even those held by people with college degrees ? the very jobs that support a middle-class, consumer economy.

So the rise of computer technology poses a threat that previous generations of machines didn't: The old machines replaced human brawn but created jobs that required human brains. The new machines threaten both.

"Technological change is more encompassing and moving faster and making it harder and harder to find things that people have a comparative advantage in" versus machines, says David Autor, an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who has studied the loss of midpay jobs to technology.

Here are the three scenarios that economists and technologists offer about jobs in the future:

?THE ECONOMY RETURNS TO HEALTH AFTER A WRENCHING TRANSITION

It has always happened before. Europe and the United States endured repeated economic and social upheaval during the 19th and early 20th centuries as their agricultural economies transformed into industrial ones. Columbia's Stiglitz argues that such pressures led to the collapse of the world economy in 1929 ? the cataclysm we call the Great Depression.

The mechanization of farming caused agricultural production to soar worldwide in the 1920s ? and prices to plunge. In the U.S., crop and livestock prices fell by 50 percent between 1929 and 1932. American farmers, who accounted for a fifth of the U.S. workforce, lost purchasing power and also struggled to pay their mortgages and other loans. As their debts went bad, banks began to collapse, squeezing credit and spreading panic. The economy went into free-fall.

Only World War II ? and the massive rearmament program it required ? restored the U.S. economy to full health. The experience was traumatizing. And today only 2 percent of Americans work on farms.

"Economies don't make these transitions well," Stiglitz says. People in the dying parts of the economy can't afford to invest in the education or retraining they need to find different work. "So you get workers trapped in the wrong sectors or unemployed," he says.

Peter Lindert, an economist at the University of California-Davis, says computers are more disruptive than earlier innovations because they are "general-purpose technologies" used by all kinds of companies. They upend many industries instead of just a few. The mechanized looms the Luddites hated in England in the early 1800s, for instance, rattled one industry. Information technology touches every business.

The changes are coming much faster this time, too. Lindert says that's showing up in the steep drop in prices for some products this time.

In the Industrial Revolution, "the price of textiles went down. But it was a small number compared to how the cost of information storage has gone down. It's a fraction of what it was in the 1970s," Lindert says. Now, computing power is doubling every 18 months to two years ? and the price is plummeting.

But Lindert does not believe workers are doomed to unemployment. With the right skills and education, he says, they can learn to work with the machines and become productive enough to fend off the automation threat.

"There is a period of time that is extremely disruptive," says Thomas Schneider, CEO of the consultancy Restructuring Associates. "If you're 55 years old now and lose your job, the odds of you ever getting hired into what you were doing before is as close to zero as you can imagine. If you are a 12-year-old, you have a very bright future. It's just not doing what your father was doing or your mother was doing."

The rise of the iPhone, for instance, has put more than 290,000 people to work on related iPhone apps since 2007, according to Apple. That suggests that new technology continues to create new types of jobs that require higher skills and creativity.

"Over the long run, I have confidence we can do it," Stiglitz says. But, he warns, "I can see us being in this kind of doldrums for half a decade, for a decade, or for longer."

?THE ECONOMY CONTINUES TO PRODUCE JOBS, JUST NOT ENOUGH GOOD ONES

Some economists worry that the sluggish, lopsided labor market of the past five years is what we'll be stuck with in the future.

Smarter machines and niftier software will continue to replace more and more midpay jobs, making businesses more productive and swelling their profits.

The most highly skilled workers ? those who can use machines to be more productive but can't be replaced by them ? will continue to prosper. Many low-pay jobs are likely to remain sheltered from the technological offensive: Robots are too clumsy to tidy up hotel rooms or clear dirty dishes at busy restaurants.

"Computers can do calculus better than any human being," says Andrew McAfee, principal research scientist at MIT's Center for Digital Business. But "restaurant bus boy is a very safe job for a long time to come."

Under this scenario, technology could continue to push economic growth ? but only a few would enjoy the benefits. More people would be competing for midpay jobs, so pay would shrivel. Many midskill workers would be left unemployed or shunted into low-skill, low-pay jobs. The income gap between the rich and ordinary citizens, already at record levels in many developed countries, would continue to widen.

Most economists say that unequal societies don't prosper; it takes a large and confident middle class to produce the consumer spending that drives healthy economic growth. "In the long run, you could actually see growth stopping," says economist Maarten Goos at Belgium's University of Leuven. "If everyone is employed in low-wage service jobs, then, that's it."

?TECHNOLOGY LEADS TO MASS UNEMPLOYMENT

In a speech last year, former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers declared that the biggest economic issue of the future would not be the federal debt or competition from China but "the dramatic transformations that technology is bringing about."

Summers imagined a machine called the "Doer" that could make anything or provide any service. Productivity would soar. Wonderful goods and services would emerge. Enormous wealth would go "to those who could design better Doers, to those who could think of better things for Doers to do." But everyone else would be worthless in the labor market.

Summers said the world is moving in that direction and has completed only 15 percent of the journey, but already we are "observing its consequences."

Consequences, indeed. ATMs dislodged bank tellers. Microsoft Outlook manages what secretaries used to do. Expedia is replacing travel agents. E-ZPass is doing away with toll-booth operators. And robots continue to supplant factory workers.

But surely some jobs are safe. Truck drivers, perhaps? A machine can't negotiate a left-hand turn against oncoming traffic without a human behind the wheel, can it? Or so economists Frank Levy of MIT and Richard Murnane of Harvard University reasoned in their book "The New Division of Labor," way back in 2004.

That was then.

Six years later, Google developed a car that could drive itself, crossing the Golden Gate Bridge, circling Lake Tahoe and cruising down Hollywood Boulevard. The gee-whiz driverless car could soon claim victims in the job market.

"Twice a week, a truck comes near my house, and two guys get out and pick up the garbage," says Vardi, the Rice computer scientist. "This will disappear. There will still be a truck coming, but it will be driven autonomously, and the garbage will be picked up autonomously, and those jobs will be gone."

In the United States alone, 92,000 people are employed as sanitation workers, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Add all other driving occupations, from long-haul truckers to taxi cab drivers, and the total exceeds 4 million. All those jobs may be in danger.

And that's the future: Other occupations already are disappearing. Add up the jobs that technology can take across dozens of occupations and the result, Vardi and others warn, is unemployment on a scale we haven't begun to imagine.

"The vast majority of people do routine work. The human economy has always demanded routine work," says software entrepreneur Martin Ford. He worries that machines will take all those routine jobs, leaving few opportunities for ordinary workers.

In his book "The Lights in the Tunnel," Ford foresees a computer-dominated economy with 75 percent unemployment before the end of this century; the vast majority of workers, he predicts, won't be able to develop the skills necessary to outrun job-killing computers and robots.

"People talk about the future, creating new industries and new businesses," Ford says. "But there's every indication that these are not going to be in labor-intensive industries. ... Right from the get-go, they're going to be digital."

Consider the great business successes of the Internet age: Apple employs 80,000 people worldwide; Google, 54,000; Facebook, 4,300. Combined, those three superstar companies employ less than a quarter of the 600,000 people General Motors had in the 1970s. And today, GM employs just 202,000 people, while making more cars than ever.

As far back as 1958, American union leader Walter Reuther recalled going through a Ford Motor plant that was already automated. A company manager goaded him: "Aren't you worried about how you are going to collect union dues from all these machines?"

"The thought that occurred to me," Reuther replied, "was how are you going to sell cars to these machines?"

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An AP interactive that accompanies the Great Reset series explores job growth in recent economic recoveries and includes an in-depth video analysis: http://bigstory.ap.org/interactive/interactive-great-reset/

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Bernard Condon reported from New York. You can reach the writers on Twitter at www.twitter.com/BernardFCondon and www.twitter.com/PaulWisemanAP.

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Saturday, January 26, 2013

Genetic landscape of common brain tumors holds key to personalized treatment

Friday, January 25, 2013

Nearly the entire genetic landscape of the most common form of brain tumor can be explained by abnormalities in just five genes, an international team of researchers led by Yale School of Medicine scientists report online in the Jan. 24 edition of the journal Science. Knowledge of the genomic profile of the tumors and their location in the brain make it possible for the first time to develop personalized medical therapies for meningiomas, which currently are only managed surgically.

Meningioma tumors affect about 170,000 patients in the United States. They are usually benign but can turn malignant in about 10 percent of cases. Even non-cancerous tumors can require surgery if they affect the surrounding brain tissue and disrupt neurological functions.

Approximately half of the tumors have already been linked to a mutation or deletion of a gene called neurofibromin 2, or NF2. The origins of the rest of the meningiomas had remained a mystery.

The Yale team conducted genomic analyses of 300 meningiomas and found four new genetic suspects, each of which yields clues to the origins and treatment of the condition. Tumors mutated with each of these genes tend to be located in different areas of the brain, which can indicate how likely they are to become malignant.

"Combining knowledge of these mutations with the location of tumor growth has direct clinical relevance and opens the door for personalized therapies," said Murat Gunel, the Nixdorff-German Professor of Neurosurgery, professor of genetics and of neurobiology, and senior author of the study. Gunel is also a member of Yale Cancer Center's Genetics and Genomics Research Program.

For instance, two of the mutations identified ? SMO and AKT1 ? have been linked to various cancers. SMO mutations had previously been found in basal cell carcinoma and are the target of an already approved drug for that form of skin cancer. Another, KLF4, activates a suite of genes and is known for its role in inducing stem cell formation, even in cells that have fully differentiated into a specific tissue type. Mutations in a TRAF7, a gene not previously associated with cancer, were found in approximately one-fourth of tumors. Meningiomas with these mutations are found in the skull base and are unlikely to become cancerous. In contrast, NF2 mutant tumors that flank the brain's hemispheres are more likely to progress to malignancy, especially in males.

Doctors may be able to use targeted chemotherapy on patients with non-NF2 mutations, especially those with recurrent or invasive meningiomas and those who are surgically at high risk. Individualized chemotherapies could also spare patients irradiation treatment, a risk factor for progression of these generally benign tumors. Gunel said it may also be possible to extend these approaches to more malignant tumors.

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Spaghetti With Shrimp, Lemon & Saffron - Kalofagas - Greek Food ...

IMG_7887-001You know what?s in season in Greece right now? Big, fat juicy lemons! Last year when I traveled to Nafplio (Peloponnese) I recall seeing groves and groves of lemon trees lining the roads. It was August so they all looked like limes but I was imagining myself stopping at the side of the road and picking juicy lemons for a dish like this.

This pasta dish is ready in the time it takes to boil your pasta: the shrimp take a couple of minutes to cook, the sauce is basically olive oil, garlic, lemon zest and pasta water. The dish is subtle in flavours yet still flavourful. I?ve added Greek saffron into the dish to add a wonderful yellow colour and add another dimension to the flavour.

Saffron from Greece is an ancient spice and it is cultivated in northern Greece, the prefecture of Kozani to be precise. Greeks call Saffron ?Krokos Kozanis? and it is an appellation product protected by the European Union.

Like all quality saffron, it is pricey but a little goes a long way?a pinch of saffron threads will do. This dish offers a taste of sweet shrimp, garlic and the very best in olive oil from Greece, the bright flavour of the lemon zest and some lemon juice for balance. The chives/scallions make it savory, the saffron?s flavour subtle and there?s just enough heat to warm you.IMG_7882

Spaghetti With Shrimp, Lemon & Saffron (????????? ?? ???????, ?????? & ?????? ???????)

(serves 4)

500 gr. package of spaghetti

sea salt to taste

1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil

16-20 medium sized shrimp, peeled and deveined

12 cloves of garlic, thinly sliced

1/4 cup dry white wine

pinch of Kroko Kozani (Greek saffron)

2-3 ladles of pasta water

zest of 3 lemons

juice of 1 lemon

1/2 tsp. Boukovo (chilli flakes)

1/4 cup chopped fresh parsley

1/4 chopped fresh chives (or scallion greens)

drizzle of extra-virgin olive oil

black & white sesame seeds for garnish

  1. Place a large pot of water on your stovetop and bring to a boil, season well with water and add your pasta once boiling. Cook for 6 minutes then drain (remember to reserve some pasta water).
  2. Season your shrimp with a bit salt and pepper and toss. Now place? large skillet on your stovetop along with a bit of olive oil and heat to high. Add the shrimp nad saute each side for about 30 seconds or until just pink. Remove from the skillet and reseerve.
  3. Lower the heat to medium-low and add the remaining olive oil and add the garlic slices, saffron threads and sweat the garlic for 2-3 minutes. Add the wine and reduce for 2-3 minutes (taste to ensure the alcohol has cooked down). Turn the heat off and wait for your pasta.
  4. Once your pasta is cooked, drain and add the pasta into the sauce along with a ladle of pasta water and toss. Now add another ladle of pasta water, the shrimp, the lemon zest and toss. Add another ladle or two of pasta water (if still too dry) along with lemon juice to taste and the chopped fresh parsley and toss.
  5. Divide and plate, drizzle with extra-virgin olive oil, sprinkle some sesame seeds and some Boukovo or chilli flakes. Serve with an Argyros Estate Atlantis white.

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Friday, January 25, 2013

Temple Run 2 - a notable update to a fantastic game

Temple Run 2

Temple Run 2, a sequel to the vastly popular original, sticks with the same format and proven gameplay but makes notable improvements across the game. If you somehow avoided playing the original game, it's a pretty simple concept to get ahold of. You're running away from some scary beasts down a complex level of twists and turns, and you are trying to collect as many coins and perks as you can along the way. Swipe up to jump, down to slide, across to turn and lean the device left or right to stay out of trouble.

Temple Run 2 has the same set of controls as the original, but the levels are spiced up a bit, breaking free of the original combination of straight runs and 90-degree turns. There are rope zip lines to use, and more sweeping turns and curves to navigate through. All of the extra flare helps keep the game interesting, which is important for something that can usually become quite repetitive. The settings menu has a bit of a visual overhaul as well, with easier to use buttons and a better character selector. The store is still here to buy coins (via in-app purchase,) but the game is still free to play and the purchases aren't completely necessary if you want to keep things cheap.

This game is a worthy successor to the original, building on what seems like a classic platform less than a year after its Android release. I've been playing quite a bit on both a phone and tablet with absolutely no hiccups or issues, even at max graphical settings. The animations, sounds and gameplay are all top-notch and set a standard for what every game should feel like when you play it.

Stick around after the break for a video walkthrough and some gameplay of the new version.

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US sees signs that China is tiring of North Korea's antics

North Korea is sending out dire threats daily and could carry out a nuclear test. Even China, North Korea's strongest ally, is increasingly willing to cooperate with the US to chasten the rogue nation.

By Howard LaFranchi,?Staff writer / January 25, 2013

US Special Representative for North Korea Policy Ambassador Glyn Davies speaks to journalists in Beijing Friday. Davies is in Asia for talks on how to move forward on North Korea relations.

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US officials are taking heart in mounting evidence that China, while still worried about the repercussions of a North Korean collapse, is tiring of protecting its troublesome ally.

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Though wary of each other on other international issues, the United States and China are demonstrating renewed cooperation as North Korea ratchets up its belligerence with threats of an imminent nuclear test.

First, the two world powers reached a compromise that allowed unanimous passage earlier this week of a UN Security Council resolution condemning a? December long-range rocket test and tightening sanctions ? a vote that prompted North Korea to threaten ?all-out action? against ?big countries.?

Then at talks in Beijing on Friday, the US envoy for North Korean issues, Glyn Davies, said that the US and China ?achieved a very strong degree of consensus? on how to confront North Korea?s latest threats.

That comment came as Beijing?s Global Times newspaper, which is aligned with China?s ruling Communist Party, said in an editorial Friday that ?if North Korea engages in further nuclear tests, China will not hesitate to reduce its assistance" ? an unusually blunt warning.

Passage of the UN resolution and other signs of growing international unity suggest Pyongyang should consider itself on notice, some regional analysts say.

?A new game is on with North Korea,? and this week?s UN resolution ?indicates that any new nuke test or missile launch will bring yet another round of even stronger and more targeted sanctions,? says George Lopez, a former UN monitor of North Korea sanctions and a professor of peace studies at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind.

The new environment ?is both the best and the worst for the Obama administration,? Professor Lopez says: The ?worst? because any a nuclear test would lead to Republican criticism of his foreign policy, but the ?best? because a test would almost certainly present Obama with the ?opportunity? to show that the world ? including the Chinese and Russians ? is ready for ?meaningful united action.?? ??

Some analysts speculate that Pyongyang is willing to risk a round of tougher sanctions because its 2012 harvest was better than anticipated. The new round of belligerence, particularly towards the US ? which it labeled ?the sworn enemy of the Korean people? this week ? may be aimed at rattling the US into direct talks.

The ultimate goal of the North?s dictatorial regime is to achieve recognition from the US and to sign a non-aggression treaty with Washington, analysts say.

But there also could be technical reasons for carrying out another nuclear test, nuclear experts say. The North may want to see if it has successfully miniaturized the crude weapons of tests in 2006 and 2009, they say. In addition, after last month?s long-range rocket test, a nuclear test might be aimed at demonstrating that the country is capable of mounting a weapon on a missile.

Lopez says he expects the climate around the North Korea issue to ?get a little more dangerous ? before it has a chance to get better.? He expects a nuclear test sometime in the next three months, which he guesses will lead to tough new sanctions, and then a return to six-party talks on the North?s nuclear program.

While he doesn?t want to downplay the risks ahead, Lopez points out that North Korea is ?years away? from ?taking an explosive device and successfully putting it on a missile,? according to nuclear experts.

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