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For the first time since 1936, the Nobel Peace Prize won't be handed over to the winner himself, Liu Xiaobo, or a member of his family.
That year, it was pacifist Carl von Ossietzky living in Nazi Germany who couldn't attend.
In 2010, Communist China is the obstacle.
An uncomfortable comparison.
Ever since the Nobel announcement, China has responded angrily.
Putting not only Liu Xiaobo's wife under house arrest, but human rights activists everywhere.
Even limited discussions in the country about political liberalization have been censored since the Nobel announcement.
Al Jazeera's Melissa Chan reports
sexta-feira, 10 de dezembro de 2010
#news: Nobel crackdown in China
#Passione: Veja as fotos do resgate de Kelly em aeroporto
Foi gravada na última terça-feira, na Base Aérea do Campo dos Afonsos, no Rio, a sequência do resgate de Kelly (Carol Macedo) em “Passione”. Totó (Tony Ramos) e Clara (Mariana Ximenes) chegam a tempo de impedir que a menina seja levada para a fazenda de um político no Pará.
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#news: First underwater robot crossing Atlantic on display
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) -- The first underwater robotic vehicle that has crossed an ocean basin is on display at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington. The robotic glider, also known as RU27, can dive to depths of 200 meters to collect data such as temperature, salinity, currents and density. This helps scientists better understand how the ocean works and how the ocean and the climate are changing, processes that directly impact all life on Earth. Scientists and students from Rutgers University launched the transatlantic glider, dubbed "the Scarlet Knight" in honor of the school's mascot, off the New Jersey coast in spring of last year. They and their Spanish colleagues from Puertos Del Estado (the Spanish Port Authority) recovered the glider off the Spanish coast after seven months at sea and brought it ashore. One year later, it is laid as a centerpiece within the Sant Ocean Hall at the Smithsonian Museum. Scott Glenn, professor of Marine & Coastal Sciences Institute, Rutgers University, who actually led the scientists of the transatlantic mission, told Xinhua that "just months before, the technology was used to help in the Deepwater Horizon BP response." As part of the Deepwater Horizon BP oil spill response effort, a fleet of gliders equipped with sensors were deployed to help indicate the presence of oil. Although scientists must still confirm the oil through water sampling, the gliders narrowed the search zone for subsurface oil. "We have some optical sensors on them, which give us signals that related to the oil," Glenn said. "We can use the gliders to improve the circulation models and forecast where those unmown things are going. If we've found some oil today, we'll know where it is going to be tomorrow, and how to respond for that," he added. "New technologies give us greater insight into how the ocean works. The transatlantic glider, in particular, helped reduce uncertainty in some of our climate models," Glenn said. Glenn also told Xinhua that China has such a glider as well. "The glider which shares the concept of flying in the ocean and for the same purpose, but with a totally different technology, is owned by Tianjin University of China, which is Rutgers' international partner."
#news: Australian scientists in peanut allergy treatment breakthrough
SYDNEY, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- Australian scientists have identified peanut proteins that could be translated into the world 's first treatment for the often lethal food allergy, said Professor Robyn O'Hehir from Melbourne's The Alfred hospital and Monash University on Friday.
The research identified some "dominant fragments" of peanut proteins that lab tests showed were able to interact with immune cells from an allergic person to build tolerance with no sign of triggering anaphylaxis.
"These dominant fragments are the best candidates for a peanut allergy vaccine," said O'Hehir who led the research.
"Immunotherapy is commonly used to treat people who are allergic to wasp and bee stings (where) protein extracts from the venom are given in increasing doses to desensitize the individual, " O'Hehir said.
"Until now, peanuts have been regarded as too dangerous an allergy-provoker to try immunotherapy, however the latest discovery overcomes this problem."
O'Hehir said the peanut proteins could be translated into a therapy being tested clinical trials within three years and, if proven safe and effective, a world-first treatment could follow " within five to seven years".
It would not be a once-off jab but instead people with the potentially lethal allergy would have a series of injections, over weeks or months, to gradually increase their tolerance.
The same research team has also made recent headway with grass pollen, with a desensitizing therapy now in a clinical trial in the United States.
O'Hehir said about one in every hundred in the population have peanut allergy and, of these, about one in four can have a life- threatening reaction.
"So this would be a huge benefit to patients, to have an effective and safe vaccine to treat peanut allergy," she said.
The research was supported by the Ilhan Food Allergy Foundation, and is published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.
#news : YouTube Sides With Android in iPhone Mobile Battle
Back in July, when the new YouTube mobile website was first released, Mobile Product Manager Andrey Doronichev called the it “by far the most full-featured YouTube mobile implementation out there.” But now it appears that YouTube is intent on making its Android app the fullest-featured way to view its videos on mobile handsets.
The app has a few major new functions, including in-page video playback — in case, you know, you want to read the description, rate the video, browse related videos or even post a comment while the video plays. It also incorporates users’ video subscriptions into the app, and has a new, full-screen user interface.
The introduction of the new YouTube app follows Google’s recent strategy of decoupling its Android app releases from the launch of new versions of the mobile operating system. Doronichev writes in the Google Mobile blog post, “Today the latest YouTube app, version 2.1, is available on the Android Market, so YouTube app updates aren’t tied to Android OS releases anymore.”
The new app won’t be available to all Android users, however; only those with Android 2.2 and up are supported and it will be pre-installed on the new Samsung Nexus S, which launches this month with Android 2.3. Android 2.2, also called Froyo, has the largest market share among active versions of the mobile OS: according to the Android developers website, those phones account for 43 percent of all active Android devices. That means the majority of Android users on phones running older versions of the OS won’t be able to use the new features unless their carrier or handset maker decides to offer an upgrade to Froyo.
One advantage for YouTube’s Android app is flexibility in monetizing videos, something it doesn’t really have with the native iPhone app (built by Apple). That was another reason for YouTube’s push behind its HTML5-friendly mobile website and one reason that it suggests viewers watch in the iPhone’s Safari browser rather than through the native app.
The release of the new Android app, however, seems counterintuitive to Google’s overall web app strategy. It has put a good deal of effort into making mobile web apps accessible across a wide variety of devices. But the new YouTube app seems solely focused on providing a better native app experience than is available on the iPhone or other, non-Android devices.
Update: A YouTube spokesperson issued the following statement about its plans for the Android mobile app:
“We’ve consistently communicated in the past that we’ll use Android native app as an experimental playground. We try out new experimental features on the platform we can control, and then work with mobile browser manufactures to deliver similar experience across mobile platforms using open web standards (HTML5). Furthermore, the Android app and the mobile site offer different benefits. While the mobile site allows us to incorporate site changes quickly after they roll out to the desktop site, we have the advantage of working closely with the mobile platform, which allows us to use the Android app as our testing ground for new features and innovations. For example, with this latest version we’re experimenting with in-page playback, look and feel and gestures that we hope to incorporate into the mobile web site in the future. Our goal is to give you a consistent YouTube experience across all devices.”
A palavra de #Lula que não vale uma migalha de pão
“Se eu quisesse disputar a eleição em 2014, eu teria escolhido um candidato para perder e não para ganhar (em 2010)”.
A frase é de Lula em café da manhã com parlamentares do PT. Não vale uma migalha de pão. Quem falou a verdade a respeito foi Gilberto Carvalho, atual chefe de gabinete, futuro secretário-geral de Dilma e espião-mor do lulismo no novo velho governo. Em entrevista publicada pelo Estadão no domingo, ele foi indagado sobre a volta do Babalorixá de Banânia. A resposta foi está:
“Ele não planeja nem voltar nem não voltar. Vai depender muito do que vai acontecer. Uma coisa é um governo Dilma bem-sucedido, e outra, com dificuldades. Uma coisa é ele articular um papel internacional muito mais amplo ou não. Tudo é possível. Agora, ambição automática de voltar não existe”.
Entenderam?
Imaginem a hipótese de uma Dilma concluindo o mandato, com baixa popularidade e sem um candidato petista forte. Vocês acham o quê? Que ele vai ficar assando coelho em casa? Essa conversa só serve para confundir as oposições. Sem um Lula no horizonte, elas podem brincar de se matar à vontade, até o último bobalhão.
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