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MAASTRICHT, Netherlands — As a gastronomic delicacy, the 5-ounce hamburger Mark Post has painstakingly created here surely will not turn any heads. But Post hopes it will change some minds.
The hamburger, assembled from tiny bits of beef muscle tissue grown in a laboratory and to be cooked and eaten at an event in London, perhaps in a few weeks, is meant to show the world — including potential sources of research financing — that so-called in vitro meat, or cultured meat, is a reality.
"Let's make a proof of concept, and change the discussion from 'This is never going to work' to, 'Well, we actually showed that it works, but now we need to get funding and work on it,' " Post said last fall in his office at Maastricht University.
Down the hall, in a lab with incubators filled with clear plastic containers holding a pinkish liquid, a technician was tending to the delicate task of growing the tens of billions of cells needed to make the burger, starting with a particular type of cell removed from cow necks obtained at a slaughterhouse.
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The idea of creating meat in a laboratory — actual animal tissue, not a substitute made from soybeans or other protein sources — has been around for decades. The arguments in favor of it are many, covering both animal welfare and environmental issues.
A 2011 study in the journal Environmental Science and Technology, for example, showed that full-scale production of cultured meat could greatly reduce water, land and energy use, and emissions of methane and other greenhouse gases, compared with conventional raising and slaughtering of cattle or other livestock.
Those environmental arguments will only gain strength, advocates say, as worldwide demand for meat increases with the rise of middle-class populations in China and elsewhere.
Post, one of a handful of researchers in the field, has made strides in developing cultured meat through the use of stem cells — precursor cells that can turn into others that are specific to muscle, for example — and techniques adapted from medical research for growing tissues and organs, a field known as tissue engineering.
(Post, a physician, considers himself first and foremost a tissue engineer, and about four-fifths of his time is dedicated to studying how to build blood vessels.)
The burger consists of about 20,000 thin strips of cultured muscle tissue. Post, who has conducted some informal taste tests, said that even without any fat, the tissue "tastes reasonably good." For the London event, he plans to add only salt and pepper.
But the meat is produced with materials — including fetal calf serum, used as a medium in which to grow the cells — that eventually would have to be replaced by similar materials of non-animal origin. And the burger was created at a phenomenal cost — 250,000 euros, or about $325,000, provided by a donor who so far has remained anonymous.
Large-scale manufacturing of cultured meat that could sit side by side with conventional meat in a supermarket and compete with it in price is at the very least a long way off.
"This is still an early-stage technology," said Neil Stephens, a social scientist at Cardiff University in Wales, who has long studied the development of what is also sometimes referred to as "shmeat."
"There's still a huge number of things they need to learn."
There are also questions of safety — though Post and others say cultured meat should be as safe as, or safer than, conventional meat, and might even be made to be healthier — and of the consumer appeal of a product that may bear little resemblance to a thick, juicy steak.
"This is something very new," Stephens said. "People need to wrestle with the idea of whether this is meat or not."
Cultured meat would have some inherent cost advantages over conventional meat, said Hanna Tuomisto, whose research while at the University of Oxford in England was the basis for the Environmental Science and Technology study.
"It's really about the conversion of feed to meat," she said. "In cultured meat production, it's much more efficient; only the meat is produced, and not all the other parts."
Gabor Forgacs, a researcher at the University of Missouri and a founder of Modern Meadow, a startup that wants to develop and market cultured meat, is aware of the hurdles as well.
"Getting cultured meat to the supermarket is going to be difficult and controversial," said Forgacs, whose approach to cultured meat has some similarities to Post's. He has also developed 3-D bioprinting technologies that might someday be used to create thicker tissues.
Given the difficulties, Modern Meadow is first focusing on creating cultured leather. Its process does not use stem cells but rather skin fibroblasts, specialized cells that produce collagen.
"There are a lot of parallels to cultured meat, except that it is a lot less controversial because you're not going to eat it," Forgacs said. "But if we can convince the universe that we can build leather, it will be much easier to convince the universe that we can build meat."
In his work on cultured meat, Post uses a type of stem cell called a myosatellite cell, which the body itself uses to repair injured muscle tissue. The cells, found in a certain part of muscle tissue, are removed from the cow neck and put in containers with the growth medium.
Through much trial and error, the researchers have learned how best to get the cells to grow and divide, doubling repeatedly over about three weeks.
"But we need billions," said Anon van Essen, the technician in Post's lab.
The cells are then poured onto a small dab of gel in a plastic dish. The nutrients in the growth medium are greatly reduced, essentially starving the cells, which forces them to differentiate into muscle cells.
Over time, the differentiated cells merge to form primitive muscle fibers, called myotubes. "And then they just start to put on protein," Post said, and organize themselves into contractile elements.
The key to this self-organization, he said, is that the cells are anchored in place. "We add anchor points so they can attach to something and start to develop tension," he said. "That is by far the biggest driver of protein synthesis, and they do that by themselves."
The result is a tiny strip of tissue, about half an inch long and only a 25th of an inch in diameter, that looks something like a short pink rice noodle, Post said.
The strips have to be thin because cells need to be close to a supply of nutrients to stay alive. One approach to making thicker tissues — to make a cultured steak rather than a hamburger, for instance — would require developing a network of channels, the equivalent of blood vessels, to carry nutrients to each cell. (A steak would also require culturing fat and incorporating it in the tissue, something Post has not had to do with his burger.)
Some note that since there is a limit to how often myosatellite cells can reproduce, Post's cultured meat will never be completely animal-free. He will always need a supply of muscle tissue.
Other researchers are studying different kinds of stem cells that, unlike myosatellite cells, can reproduce indefinitely, ensuring a "livestock-autonomous" supply of cells to make cultured meat.
Dutch researchers at Utrecht University are trying to isolate embryonic stem cells from pigs and cows. And Nicholas Genovese of the University of Missouri is trying to develop a type of stem cell that is "induced" from a regular adult cell. A skin cell from a pig, perhaps, could be turned into a stem cell that could reproduce indefinitely and differentiate into muscle tissue to create cultured pork.
But Post said that efforts to use different kinds of stem cells introduced other problems. And even if his approach means the world will still need cattle, it will need far fewer of them.
"If we can reduce the global herd a millionfold, then I'm happy," he said.


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On this date in 1992, the Los Angeles riots had the world's attention, breaking out after the four cops on trial for beating Rodney King were acquitted the day before. Property damage has been estimated at $1 billion and 54 people were killed in the mayhem. There were a lot of important things to come out of the riots, but, in the music world, the greatest tragedy was Madonna's famous bustier was swiped from its case at Frederick's of Hollywood. The black bustier worn by Madonna in the "Open Your Heart" video was stolen from the Frederick's "lingerie museum." It wasn't the only underwear debacle that night — a man who wanted Madonna's bustier found it already stolen, so he instead grabbed a push-up bra worn by Katey "Peg Bundy" Sagal on Married … With Children (he would later return the bra to a church, which returned it to Frederick's). Madonna's bustier was never returned (despite a whopping $1,000 reward), but the Material Girl did give the museum a replacement.In more serious matters, the rioting created the opportunity for dialogue across the country about race relations. And that dialogue leaked into popular music, as major social issues often do. Songs (from nearly every genre) inspired by the L.A. riots of 1992 include Tom Petty's "Peace in L.A.," Sublime's "April 29, 1992 (Miami)," Dr. Dre's "The Day the Niggaz Took Over," Rancid's "I Wanna Riot," Machine Head's "Real Eyes, Realize, Real Lies," Garth Brooks' "We Shall Be Free," fIRHOSE's "4.29.92," David Bowie's "Black Tie White Noise," Aerosmith's "Livin' on the Edge" and Branford Marsalis' "Simi Valley Blues," the title of which was named after the town in which the police officers were put on trial. L.A. Electronica act Daniel LeDisko named his "band" LA Riots on the 15th anniversary of the riots. Here was Rap legend Ice Cube's commentary on the riots from his third solo album, 1992's The Predator. This past weekend, Cube (alongside artists like Cypress Hill and Ras Kass) performed at a concert celebrating West Coast Hip Hop called Krush Groove. At midnight on Saturday (when it was officially April 29, the day rioting started), Cube reportedly asked the crowd to take a moment and remember those frightening days. Born This Day: Musical movers and shakers sharing an April 30 birthday include Blues/Gospel singer and guitarist Reverend Gary Davis (1896); Rockabilly/Country singer ("The Battle of New Orleans," "North to Alaska") Johnny Horton (1925); half of the instrumental duo Santo and Johnny ("Sleep Walk"), Johnny Farina (1941); late Folk singer/songwriter and activist Mimi Farina (1945); Dancehall Reggae star Barrington Levy (1964); bassist and original member of Brazilian Metal greats Sepultura, Paulo Jr. (1968); Ohio native and member of "boy band" 98 Degrees, Jeff Timmons (1973); singer/composer/pianist for The Dresden Dolls and solo artist Amanda Fucking Palmer (1976); rapper with G-Unit and solo artist Lloyd Banks (1982); one of the singing kids from Glee, Dianna Agron (1986); and legendary singer/songwriter Willie Nelson (1933). Nelson is one of those songwriters (like artists from Woody Guthrie to Lennon/McCartney to Bob Marley) who transcends genre tags. Nelson isn't a Country music icon — he's an American music icon. Before garnering a publishing contract in 1960, Nelson worked as a DJ, played bars and joined Roy Price's band on bass. Songs Nelson wrote for others in the 1960s would become Country music classics — "Hello Walls," "Funny How Time Slips Away" and "Crazy" are just a sampling of his hits from that period. Nelson had less success as a singer on his own, so he retired and moved to Austin, Texas, in the early '70s. But Nelson fell in with the Outlaw Country scene and recorded increasingly successful albums, including the classic, Red Headed Stranger. He continued his run into the '80s with material like "On the Road Again" and "Pancho & Lefty," and also formed supergroup The Highwaymen with Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson. Since the '90s, Nelson has made news headlines with his tax problems and dedication and enthusiasm for smoking weed, but he's also managed to release a few relevant albums that have kept him from having to go on QVC to shill his music.Here's one of Nelson's early hits, "Crazy" (best known for the version by Patsy Cline), and a clip of Nelson talking about his forthcoming album, Heroes (due May 15). The album will include a strange range of covers — from Bob Wills to Coldplay — as well as a couple of new songs. Happy 79th, Willie!
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Second, the respondents rated their top 3 challenges facing their business. The biggest challenge is finding customers or clients indicating that entrepreneurs "aren't busy enough"… On the other hand, 3rd on the list are entrepreneurs that are "too busy" or "overwhelmed" without "enough hours in a day"… Paired with the 2nd on the list - wearing "too many hats" - this indicates skills, Management & time management issues for focus & effectiveness.
It seems like a divide between Business/Marketing/Operations side and the Personal/Management side.
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Are there additional challenges for women entrepreneurs? I found some interesting information on this topic.
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As I reflect on these lists and my personal experience and the experience that I have shared with my business coaching clients, I see that these issues appear to be quite universal.
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Sarkozy's "Hadopi" law was passed just last month and features a three-strike policy for illegal down loaders. Unfortunately it would appear that Sarkozy is already down to his last strike, as he has been accused of two misuses—making 400 unauthorized copies of a DVD and copyright infringement related to his use of an MGMT song at a political rally.
The MGMT song misuse cost Sarkozy 30,000 Euros (approximately $44,112 U.S.). More galling may be the fact that the publisher of the DVD allegedly copied by Sarkozy only created 50 copies itself.
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Nicknames can tell you a lot about people. They both shed light on how the person with the nickname is perceived as well as saying something about those who bestowed the nickname.
For example, when my 6'6" son Aaron moved from Texas to New York to go to college, he became known around campus as "Tex." Anyone who didn't know anything about Aaron or his college buddies could easily guess from his nickname both that Aaron was from Texas where legend has it everything is bigger, and further that his college buddies weren't from Texas.
When a person picks out a nickname for himself it's a whole different story. Self-selected nicknames don't hold any clues as to what other people think of the person with the nickname. (Although the simple fact that someone has nicknamed himself makes it easy to guess what others think of him. After all, what kind of person gives himself a nickname?)
But a self-selected nickname is revealing in a different way. It says a ton about the person who sets out to get people to call him something other than his real name.
When my sister was in college she knew a guy who tried to get everyone to call him "Macho." Here's a safe bet: Whatever image you have in your head right now of a twenty year old guy who insists everyone call him Macho? Chances are that image is spot-on.
Like cartoon character bed sheets, there are some things that are cute when you are a kid, but creepy when you are a grown-up. Giving yourself a nickname falls into this category. Anyone can be forgiven for trying to get a self-selected nickname to catch on in elementary school. But once you're old enough to vote, a self-selected nick name is the ultimate badge of insecurity. And the older you are, the bigger the badge.
The man with the biggest badge in the America is Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who really, really wants people to call him "America's Toughest Sheriff." Really.
Other people have different names in mind. Like racial profiler, for example. That's a term that was bestowed on Arpaio by Latino plaintiffs in the class action federal civil rights trial which got underway on July 20th. Or unlawful discriminator. That moniker was chosen by the United States Justice Department in a law suit it filed against Arpaio in May of 2012.
But the manifestation of Sheriff Joe's insecurities doesn't stop at dreaming up self-aggrandizing nicknames. For decades he has engaged is a wide array of other behavior ranging from embarrassing to unconscionable all perfectly designed to showcase his raging case of little man's syndrome.
On the embarrassing end of the spectrum are actions like establishing an in-house radio station in the basement of the Maricopa County jail--and then naming it KJOE. Or describing as "world famous" on the Maricopa County Sheriff's webpage Arpaio's requirement that all the inmates wear pink underwear. Or marketing pink boxers emblazoned with the Maricopa County sheriff's logo and the words "Go Joe" (available in English and Spanish--take that, English-only crusaders!) as a fundraiser for the Sheriff's Posse Association. (There have been allegations of misuse of funds from the proceeds, but so far Arpaio is holding tough on his refusal to provide an accounting. Go Joe, indeed.)
On the unconscionable end of the spectrum is the establishment of tent cities that Arpaio refers to as "concentration camps." Temperatures in Phoenix routinely rise above 110 degrees in the summer and have been measured above 140 in the encampment itself. Arpaio likes to berate any inmates that complain about the heat, telling them to shut their mouths because it gets that hot in Iraq and soldiers have to live in tents there even though they haven't committed any crimes. But the thing is, many of the inmates who are housed in Arpaio's tent cities have not been convicted of any crimes, but rather are simply awaiting trial. With Constitutional protection like that, who needs fire arms?
Little Man's Syndrome often compels people to try to look better or stronger or tougher or more powerful than everyone else. But Arpaio's case is unique in its specificity. Rather than wanting to be perceived as somehow superior to everybody, Arpaio seems particularly obsessed with being better than Latinos.
You don't have to look hard to find evidence of Arpaio's special affliction. It gushes out of his mouth every time he opens it. He has called Latino immigrants dirty, for example.
And he routinely sends thank you notes to constituents who write to him with racist rants about Latinos. In fact, one lucky Sun City constituent who wrote Arpaio asking him to investigate a local restaurant because the staff spoke Spanish got both a thank you letter and a complimentary sweep of the area conducted two weeks later. That's what I call a double barrel over-reaction.
Arpaio has claimed that immigrants from Mexico are different from immigrants from other countries in that they "refuse to assimilate." At least that's what he claims in his understated and humble book, Joe's Law: America's Toughest Sheriff Takes on Illegal Immigration, Drugs, and Everything Else That Threatens America.
It's clear that Arpaio has it in for Latinos, but why? Arpaio and his supporters try to play it off as coming from a patriotic law-and-order desire to protect our borders. According to this defense, Arpaio's issues aren't with Latinos per se, but rather with those who are in the U.S. illegally.
Methinks the sheriff doth protest too much. Arpaio's real issue is both more obvious and primal than that. Arpaio is worried that his similarities may be showing.
Like Arpaio, I am an Italian-American who lives in a southern state that shares a border with Mexico and has a large population of Latinos. And if there's one thing I know it's this: Like pizzas and quesadillas, Italians and Latinos are really just slightly different versions of the same thing.
We look alike, what with our brownish-black hair and eyes and olive skin that tans without even trying. We sound alike -- in fact, it's hard to find two languages that are more similar than Spanish and Italian. Our last names tend to be heavy on the vowels. Our religion of choice is Catholicism. Even our food is pretty much the same. When you stop and think about it, manicotti easily becomes enchiladas with one or two basic substitutions. The bottom line is this: Italians are to the northeast what Latinos are to the Southwest.
Given that Latinos and Italians are like twins separated at birth, Arpaio's disdain for Latinos is one of the clearest cases of self-loathing that I have ever seen.
In an attempt to explain away in trial his statement that illegal immigrants are dirty, Arpaio said that traveling across the desert on foot for four days can make a person dirty. True enough. But do you know what makes you even dirtier than spending four days crossing a desert on foot? Spending two to three weeks crossing the Atlantic Ocean on a ship packed with other Italian immigrants in the early 1900s like Arpaio's parents and my grandparents did. Conditions like that almost make a Carnival Cruise sound like a vacation.
On top of that, once in the U.S., my grandfather lived in an old abandoned boxcar along with a handful of other Italian immigrants until they scraped together enough money for other housing. And stories like that are as common as pizzerias in Little Italy.
Because all of this happened long before I was born, I never had a chance to give the boxcar the white glove test. But a bunch of men who did manual labor all day long and slept in a boxcar at night -- all before indoor plumbing, air conditioning and Glade Air Freshener were invented? Even Oscar the Grouch would deem those conditions substandard.
And what about Arpaio's claims that Mexican immigrants refuse to assimilate? A review of the passenger records from the ships that originated from Italy and landed at Ellis Island in the early 1900s reveal that most of the passengers not only didn't speak English, but they couldn't read or write in any language including their native tongue. In other words, they weren't bilingual, they were bi-illiterate.
I can't speak for Arpaio's folks, but I know that like most Italian immigrants, after moving to the U.S. my grandparents lived the rest of their days here yet never did learn English. But their children that were born and educated in the U.S. did. And according to my dad, immigrant parents like his mom and dad watched with a very human mixture of both pride and pain as their children grew up to identify more as American than Italian.
The same pattern holds true for Latinos. Over ninety percent of the children born to Mexican immigrant parents and educated in the United States learn to speak English. But a study (by a Latino doctoral student whose last name--Aguayo--rhymes with Arpaio) now also confirms that along with learning English, children of Mexican immigrants who also retain aspects of their Mexican culture including language generally have higher grade point averages than those who only spoke English at home and in school. That fact should comfort the "English Only" crowd; but since they are driven by fear rather than logic, that information will likely serve to enhance their concerns, not ease them.
In trial last week when Arpaio was asked about his claim that Mexicans refused to assimilate, he claimed it was his ghostwriter's view, not his own. So, if Arpaio needed a ghostwriter to write his book and wasn't fully aware of what the book said when it was all finished, what does that say about the literacy and language assimilation of Arpaio himself?
Joe Arpaio may have failed at his efforts to get his nickname to catch on or to be viewed as superior to Latinos, but his efforts have not been entirely in vain. There is one glaring difference between Arpaio and other descendants of immigrants: His complete lack of humanity.


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The state of the water supply and sanitation (WSS) sector in Lebanon is not in line with the level of economic development reached by the country. Despite the relatively high coverage rate in the water sector (78 percent), continuity of supply is extremely low. The Beirut Mount Lebanon (BML) region, which accounts for 60 percent of total connected households, receives only three hours of daily water supply during the summer season. The development of the wastewater sector is still at an embryonic stage. There are a few waste water treatment plants in operation, all of which are small. Water storage capacity is inadequate to meet irrigation water demand, and is far below the level of other MENA countries. The present public expenditure aims at examining efficiency and effectiveness in the allocation of resources in the water sector. In conducting the research and analysis, the team observed a contrasted reality in which a multitude of issues afflicting the sector emerged. Alongside the public expenditure analysis, the study presents an in-depth diagnosis of the water sector in Lebanon and the issues it is facing. The analysis focuses primarily on water supply, encompassing to a lesser extent sanitation and irrigation, due to the scarcer information available on the latter two sub-sectors. The public expenditure review addresses the following main questions: what progress has Lebanon made in reforming the water sector? What are the main weaknesses still characterizing its current institutional setting? Is the water sector performance in line with the level of economic development in the country? What are the key issues faced by consumers in the water sector? Has public expenditure been adequate to meet the development needs of the sector? What is the level of efficiency of public investment? What are the key sources of hidden costs in the water sector? What are the main accountability weaknesses which should be overcome to improve efficiency in the delivery of water supply and sanitation services in Lebanon? What policy actions are needed to improve sector performance and meet the development needs of the sector?
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The Lebanon Water Policy Program (LWPP), funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), is an ambitious program working on sensitive policy and financial issues related to public private partnerships, water utility management and tariff pricing at the national and local levels. During its four years of operations (September 2002 – March 2007), LWPP worked at both the national and regional levels with the Ministry of Energy and Water (MEW) and Lebanese water establishments to provide assistance in the following four areas: (1) technical assistance; (2) institutional strengthening; (3) policy making and; (4) capacity building. Close coordination took place between the program, the funding agency and the beneficiaries to make the best use of the tools provided by the program and maximize results. LWPP pursued a demand-driven approach based on continuous communication with the beneficiaries to assess their needs and adapt operations. This was the major reason to increase the credibility of the program in the eyes of the beneficiaries, especially during the critical change period in the water sector following the approval of the by-laws of the newly formed water establishments.
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UN Human Rights Envoy Says Gaza a Prison for Palestinians
Dugard blasts EU, U.S. for cutting off aid to Palestinians, says Israel breaks int't law and goes unpunished.
Israel has turned the Gaza Strip into a prison for Palestinians where life is "intolerable, appalling, tragic" and appears to have thrown away the key, a United Nations human rights envoy said on Tuesday.
Special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territory John Dugard said that the suffering of the Palestinians was a test of the readiness of the international community to protect human rights.
In response, Itzhak Levanon, Israel's ambassador to the UN in Geneva, rejected Dugard's allegations as "one-sided" and not reflecting reality.
"If ... the international community cannot ... take some action, [it] must not be surprised if the people of the planet disbelieve that they are seriously committed to the promotion of human rights," Dugard said in a statement to the United Nations Human Rights Council.
The South African lawyer, who has been a special UN investigator since 2001, repeated earlier accusations that Israel is breaking international humanitarian law with security measures which amount to "collective punishment."
Israel says its security restrictions, which include the construction of a steel and concrete barrier in the West Bank, are designed to stop suicide bombers entering Israel. Bombings have declined since the barrier was built.
It also maintains tight restrictions on the movement of goods and people into and out of Gaza also due to security measures.
Dugard also attacked the United States, the European Union and Canada for withdrawing funding for the Palestinian Authority in protest at the governing party Hamas's refusal to accept Israel's right to exist.
Hamas, a militant Islamic group that came to power after elections in January, is sworn to Israel's destruction.
"Israel violates international law as expounded by the Security Council and the International Court of Justice and goes unpunished. But the Palestinian people are punished for having democratically elected a regime unacceptable to Israel, the U.S. and the EU," Dugard said.
There was no immediate comment from either Israel or its main ally the United States, but the Palestinian question was due to be debated by the Human Rights Council later on Tuesday.
Past criticism, however, has been strongly rejected by Israel and the United States, which say that the current crisis has been provoked by attacks by Palestinian militants.
Dugard said that three-quarters of Gaza's 1.4 million people were dependent on food aid. Bombing raids by Israel since the June 25 capture of an army corporal by Palestinian militants had destroyed houses and the territory's only power plant.
"Gaza is a prison and Israel seems to have thrown away the key," he said.
The West Bank also faced a humanitarian crisis, albeit not as extreme as Gaza, in part due to the barrier, which Dugard alleged was no longer being justified by Israel on security grounds but was part of a move to annex more land.
Palestinians living between the barrier and the Green Line, the frontier at the end of the 1967 Six Day War, could no longer freely access schools and places of work and many had abandoned local farms, he said.
"In other countries this process might be described as ethnic cleansing but political correctness forbids such language where Israel is concerned," Dugard said.
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Oddly Reassuring Study on Rising Deaths From Epidural ComplicationsHeather Turgeon
An article in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology has reported a slight uptick in deaths related to regional anesthesia during childbirth.
The safety of both general and regional anesthesia has improved drastically over the last few decades, say the researchers. Between 1972 and 2002, the deaths resulting from a complication from either one dropped by 59 percent. And both continue to be very safe for women.
But surprisingly, although complications from general anesthesia have continued to fall consistently, those from regional anesthesia (an epidural) have gone up since the 1990's.
Here's what the researchers found (and why it shouldn't deter you from choosing anesthesia):
The number of women who died from anesthesia-related complications in childbirth between 1991 and 1996 were 2.5 per million, but 3.8 per million between 1997 and 2002.
The scientists said most deaths occurred during C-sections (48 of the 56 deaths in about 10 years), and were because of strong allergic reactions, or breathing and heart problems in response to the medication. They said so much focus has been paid to the safety of general anesthesia — which has historically been more risky but has consistently improved (17 deaths per million from 1991 to 1996 and 6.5 per million between 1997 to 2002) — they said it could be that doctors and researchers have loosened up a bit when it comes to the epidural.
Still, the data is reassuring to me. I had an epidural with my son and I certainly didn't worry about dying, but I did worry about having an allergic reaction. (Oh, and having a needle in my spine). Of course zero deaths from anesthesia complications would be ideal — as would be zero deaths in childbirth overall — but the study reminds us just how much progress obstetrics has made over the decades towards safe childbirth.
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Volume 27, No. 237 Thursday, December 20, 2012
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Across a wide range of schools, As represent 43% of all letter grades, an increase of 28 percentage points since 1960 and 12 percentage points since 1988. Ds and Fs total typically less than 10% of all letter grades. Private colleges and universities give, on average, significantly more As and Bs combined than public institutions with equal student selectivity. (HT:Mark J. Perry) Hey! You wannna | Read More »


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CLEMSON, SC Dec. 9, 2012 – Clemson whittled a 12-point second half deficit to four, but ran out of gas late as they fell to South Carolina State (6-2), 67-55, on Sunday in Littlejohn Coliseum. The Lady Tigers (1-7) will have a week off for exams before returning to play next Sunday at 2:00 pm against Radford.
"Any time we got stops, that ignited our fast break,"said head coach Itoro Coleman, who had just seven players at her disposal due to various illnesses and personal reasons. "We were able to get some easy baskets that way. We also got stops in the half court but gave up a rebound, and that's how South Carolina State was able to score."
"They had 19 second-chance points, and you just can't win many ballgames doing that," said Coleman. "Also, they had 14 fast break points and 26 points off turnovers. Again, we have to get back in transition, and we have to do a better job taking care of the ball."
Jonquel Jones had 17 points and 14 rebounds to lead Clemson, while Nyilah Jamison-Myers scored 16 points (8-12 FG) and had six rebounds and four blocks against her hometown team in her first career start.
For Jones, it was her fourth double-double in eight career games for Clemson, and she set a new scoring high with 17, and matched her rebounding output with 14.
Aisha Turner also made her first start, recording six assists in the first half on her way to seven for the game, despite playing with foul trouble much of the game. She now has a 21:5 assist:turnover ratio on the year.
Kelly Gramlich had 12 points on 5-10 from the floor off the bench in 17 minutes, and also added three rebounds. She has now scored in double-figures in two straight games.
Clemson fell to 13-4 all-time against the Lady Bulldogs, who snapped a three-game skid to the Lady Tigers. It was their first win in Littlejohn Coliseum since 1978, as they improved to 9-2 all-time on Clemson's home court.
The Bulldogs had 14 points on the fast break to ten for the Lady Tigers. Clemson did win the points in the paint battle, 34-32, but the Bulldogs managed 19 points on jump shots outside the pained area. S.C. State also outscored Clemson from the line, 16-2, as they attempted 25 freebies to just four for the Tigers.
The Bulldogs used an 11-0 run early in the game to take a 16-4 lead seven and a half minutes into the game. Clemson chipped away until they whittled the lead to four at 21-17 on a pair of Jones free throws with 8:17 to play in the half. However, the veteran Bulldogs went on a 13-2 run over the next four minutes, with a Mykala Jones triple closing the run. Jonquel Jones hit a three before halftime to get Clemson to a 36-26 deficit at the break.
Clemson opened the second half with eight of the first ten points to get to within four at 38-34 with 16:23 to play after a pair of Jamison-Myers layups.
Clemson trailed by the same margin, 42-38, with 14:42 to play when the Bulldogs went on a 17-4 run over the next seven and a half minutes, during which they scored on seven straight possessions. Clemson was able to get back to within ten with just less than a minute to play, but the Bulldogs held on for the 67-55 win.


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Cabling question - ethernet
Posted 23 November 2012 - 02:36 PM
Scope/camera/etc. on a pier/obs in a field to the side of my house. Data routed into a USB hub that in turn will feed into an Icron CAT5 Extender.
Cable #1 running from the Icron to an Ethernet jack on the outside of my house.
Cable #2 is a standard CAT5e cable running from the outside jack to an ethernet jack inside the house where my computer will be.
Cable #3 from the inside jack into the other Icron extender, then USB into the computer.
My question is this - Do cables #1 and/or #3 need to be patch cables or regular CAT5e cables? Thanks.
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Posted 23 November 2012 - 06:53 PM
As for the rest of your questions---I really don't know.
Posted 24 November 2012 - 07:20 AM
is use a Monoprice 5e patch cord from inside computer
to wall jack, then 150 foot cat5 underground waterproof
ethernet to observatory (inside conduit with electrical
line), connect this to a Belkin network switch, and
connect this to the observatory computer).
The network switch was recommended by a friend who installs
networks for a living, to avoid problems with electrical
surges, which could fry my network card.
Posted 24 November 2012 - 09:37 AM
I'm not sure exactly what you're trying to do ... since the Icon CAT5 Extender uses CAT5 cable to extend USB port connections over long distances (~100 meters).
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Posted 24 November 2012 - 11:45 AM
My question is really just this - do 3 CAT5e cables connected through 2 jacks behave as a single CAT5e cable? I thought the answer was yes, but my IT guy at work confused me when he opined that he thought I would need a patch cable on the outside. I'm not sure that's right, and I suppose I might be able to test it myself, I'm just trying to avoid buying cables I don't need.
My objective here is simply to run the scope from inside the house - the Icron is needed as the distance is well over the 80' you can get over USB alone. As to fiber or CAT 6, nothing I have even remotely approaches the bandwidth of CAT5e, and upgrading in the future would be simple as we're just talking a run through the crawl space.
Posted 24 November 2012 - 12:37 PM
If it were me I'd run fiber , you can buy that with the ends already installed and a couple of convertors and you will be all set for Gigabit speeds if needed. One of the problems with just running cat 5/6 cable underground is lightning strikes, they don,t have to be direct. We ran 75 ft cat 5 in conduit underground and lost everything that was connected on both ends, PC,s switches , router, etc. We replaced it with fiber and are very happy with the results and the cost wasn't,t that much
I second the fiber route........lightning has a great way of working itself into long cat5/6 runs.....
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Somehow in reporting the results of Plainfield curlers, I forgot a most impressive accomplishment by one of our members. Jacqui Kapinowski, an accomplished athlete who started curling last season and was part of the United States team that won a bronze medal at the World Wheelchair Championships in Switzerland, earned a spot this past December on the team that will represent the USA at the 2010 Paralympic Winter Games. This team will also represent the United States at the 2009 World Wheelchair Championships.
Long overdue congratulations to Jacqui and Harry, her tireless supporter and husband. We'll be watching the results this February and when the team goes for the gold in 2010.


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Directory relating to Haiti, particularly as it relates to energy.
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Haiti provides opportunity for free energy roll-out - The calamity in Haiti and other disasters like this provide an opportunity for new, emerging free energy technologies to step forward in coming to the rescue. Matt Imber gives a short list of technologies he would like to see make their debut where the need is great and hearts are softened. (PESN; Jan. 16, 2010) (Comments)
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Haiti is full of oil (translated) - Haiti's oil reserves are larger than those of Venezuela, which is one of the world's largest producers of oil. The Haitian deposits are declared strategic reserves of the United States of America. (Metropole Haiti; January 28, 2008)
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US Quake Test Goes "Horribly Wrong", Leaves 500,000 Dead In Haiti - A report prepared by the Russian Northern Fleet for Prime Minister Putin states that the catastrophic Haitian earthquake was the 'clear result' of a United States Navy test of one of its 'earthquake weapons' planned to be used on Iran. The Tesla-based weapon allegedly uses resonance to set up massive vibrations. (WhatDoesItMean; Jan. 14, 2010)
- What You're Not Hearing about Haiti (But Should Be) - It may startle news-hungry Americans to learn that these conditions the American media correctly attributes to magnifying the impact of this tremendous disaster were largely the product of American policies and an American-led development model. (CommonDreams.org; January 14, 2010)
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His reputation as an artist is worldwide. His works have been on display in museums across the globe, from Australia and Denmark to England and Israel, as well as throughout the United States. But sculptor Joel Shapiro, a native of Sunnyside, has "never lost his affinity for this borough."
Those were the words used by Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer (D-Sunnyside) to introduce the man who was given a lifetime achievement award Monday night at a dinner to benefit the upcoming Long Island City Arts Open Festival.
"We gather to congratulate you and urge you on to create more wonders," Van Bramer said.
An important modernist sculptor, Shapiro, whose works are generally abstract renderings of the human figure composed of simple rectangular shapes, lives in Manhattan but maintains a studio in Long Island City.
Represented in such prestigious museums as the National Gallery of Art and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC and the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, Shapiro was inspired by the two years he spent while serving in the Peace Corps in India, where he found art to be an integral part of society.
Originally intending to pursue a career in medicine, following in the footsteps of his scientist parents, he turned to art instead, with dozens of solo exhibitions to his credit and countless awards and honors to his name, including being elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1998.
Still, at Monday's ceremony, he said, "This is the most meaningful award I've ever received. I grew up here. The whole community is so full of the pulse of humanity. I'm really proud of this. I couldn't be happier."
Held at Manducatis Rustica V.I.G., a restaurant that has become the area's unofficial community center, the dinner was a major fundraiser for the LIC Arts Open Festival, to be held this year from May 12-20.
The event, a celebration of the arts community in LIC, will involve more than 200 studios, with local artists opening their work spaces to the public. In addition, it will feature music, dance, and theater, as well as painting and sculpture exhibits.
The LIC Arts Open, co-founded by Richard Mazda and Karen Dimit, is, according to its website," a collaboration of arts entities, businesses and individuals seeking to spotlight the diverse artistic community in LIC."
"It's great to honor a home-town hero," Mazda said shortly after the presentation to Shapiro. "There was no real decision to be made. His reputation is huge. We love the fact that he keeps a studio in LIC."
The award, donated by Green Mountain Graphics, a promotional products and printing company that has been in the neighborhood since 1994, was described by the store's owner, Eric Greenberg, as a "large glass crystal teardrop."
Greenberg and his wife, Rhonda, were among those on hand to celebrate the arts in the area.
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Ray Normandeau, a self-described "more or less retired actor," was also in attendance with his wife, Rita.
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Food was donated by M Wells, LIC Market and Sage Catering.
Surveying the room, Van Bramer concluded, "The creative community is the foundation of our cultural and economic engine that really sustains the city."
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Moto spring swap - suspension setup
Hey so my 525 was set up for a 275 pound rider. Really tall, stiff, not a huge deal around town but I want to get on dirt and don't want to take a pounding.
so last night I removed my seat, gas tank, rear tire, shark fin deal, then ultimately removed the rear shock. Total time about 45 minutes, hey not so bad! I then stared at it for 20 minutes more figuring out how to get it apart. Ended up going back inside to search for videos.. found this one where they guy does it in less than 1 minute:
But that's cool, I needed a lesson in removing the rear tire anyway. I never did find a video for how to actually remove the spring, but ultimately found a few threads on Advrider that mention removing a little clip. So just in case I'm not that last guy to figure this out, what you do is relieve all the coil spring tension so the spring is loose, flip it upside down then tap this flange-looking thing at the base of the shock assembly, towards the spring. That reveals this little clip you can remove with your fingers, then the flange falls off, the washer falls off, and the spring slides off.
I had 2 spare springs on hand- the stock one, and a "slightly heavier than stock one" that 60wag brought over. I went with the stock one... now my bike has the stance of a chopper, totally low in back and still tall & stiff in front.
My next step is learn how to pull the front springs- again I have found a couple threads with references to loosening the triple clamps but that's about it. Anyone know of a video on this? Or is it really easy?
Also, I didn't bother with measuring any type of bike sag or rider sag before diving in, but am interested in if there are any good DIY tips for doing that once I get these stiff springs out of there.
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Alex Newman, author of Hot Property: Easy Home Staging to Sell Your House for More Money in Any Market (John Wiley & Sons Canada Ltd., 2007) recognizes the power of a beautifully made bed. She believes every room needs a focal point and in the bedroom, the focal point is the bed. "The more beautiful and lavish, the more people will be stopped in their tracks," Alex says.
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Watershot makes sharing dive pictures easy
In today's age the majority of people like to share the fun things they do in life. Whether its biking in the mountains with friends or going to your favorite sporting event, people love to share their story with the world. Unfortunately for the dive community sharing the underwater world with friends is usually out of the question, unless you want to shell out the big bucks for the high end camera, underwater housing and the expensive lights, at least until recently that is.
New technology has enabled cameras to become cheaper and smaller. Starting in 2007 the iPhone was introduced and with that began the gradual progression of social networking and sharing of photos. Divers have always wanted share their experiences with others but until recently it has been rather expensive or overly time consuming to do so.
The Watershot housing has enabled divers to do what they have already been doing on land for years, taking pictures and sharing them with friends. Being a user of the Watershot I have come to love it. It makes taking pictures underwater fun and easy. Sharing and editing pictures is a breeze with the multiple smartphone apps as most people know, so my friends always know what my dive was like the second I get back on the boat. The cameras on smartphones have progressed so much over the years so both videos and pictures turn out great. As most of you know, when you descend you start to loose the reds and yellows so when you are taking pictures this can wash out all the color in your photo making them look mostly blue. Watershot makes a red filter that screws right to the Watershot housing that helps restore those lost colors at depth making the photo look as brilliant and alive as if you were there.
Although the red filter is great for restoring color some days when the sun is not out or you are on a deep dive the filter is not enough to make the picture look as realistic as it should. Fortunately Watershot came out with a real nice camera tray that attaches to the smartphone housing with an arm that will hold several different wide angle video lights. The tray also helps steady the camera to get that flawless shot.
The best part of this is the price. These Watershot cases start at $99 making them very affordable to most divers. I currently have the Watershot Pro for the iPhone 5 and use the red filter for most of my dives. All the pictures on this blog were taken with my iPhone and watershot housing.


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Although unemployment rates fell in September, California still had the third highest unemployment rate in the nation. California has cut back or eliminated multiple programs in the midst of the financial crisis and a budget deficit. In the last four years alone, California's schools have been hit with $20 billion in cuts, over 30,000 fewer teachers and class sizes that are among the largest in the country.
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The Classic Bicycle Shop specialise in early 1900's European designed bicycles.We offer a full range of authentic single speed and 3 speed bicycles in different styles, sizes and colours. Along with a large selection of period accessories and parts ,we can customize a bicycle to your needs. Delivery Available.
Why do cool shops like this always exist in places like Melbourne or Copenhagen or Stockholm? Oh well... although it's not exactly convenient for American shoppers, this Australian store is too cool not to write up. They specialize in reproductions of single and three-speed European bikes from the early 1900s (and they ship internationally).
These are the kinds of beautiful objects that inspired Marcel Brauer to make a tubular steel chair from a bicycle frame. (His muse was actually an Adler bicycle from the early 1900s — for the full story, click here.)
Collections are divided into women's and men's models, as well as specialty or custom-made designs. There's also a good selection of parts, including period-reproduction bicycle baskets, bells, wheels, and tires.
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It seems that there is now daily speculation about Arturo Vidal to Manchester United.
Manchester United aren't the only team to be linked with the player. But the fact that there is so much hype about a move to Manchester suggests that Vidal could well be moving from Juventus this summer.
We always maintain that there is no smoke without fire and most of the time players do move when rumours, surrounding a transfer, are this intense.
But he won't come cheap and the question is whether LvG is prepared to pay a massive fee for his services.
Reports over the weekend suggest that Juventus could be keen on taking Nani as part of the package.
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Manchester United ready to make play for Arturo Vidal as Juventus and Chile star's camp shows encouraging signs
Sportsmail revealed in June that Vidal had emerged as new manager Louis van Gaal's principal midfield target after securing Ander Herrera in a £28.4million deal from Athletic Bilbao.
United are yet to make formal contact with Juventus but are understood to have made tentative enquiries to establish whether the Chilean, who so impressed at the World Cup, would be open to a move.
Vidal, who has scored 31 goals in the last two seasons for Juventus, is now thought to be ready to move on
At 27 he will offer at least 4 to 5 years of real top quality football for Manchester United.
Manchester United will surely sign a combative central midfielder this summer to complement the talent of Ander Herrera.
And with Vidal such an exciting target for the role any alternative would now seem like a step down for many Manchester United fans.
The Chilean is a magnificent footballer. Not only a wonderful tackler with a great engine, but also someone who loves to get forward and score goals.
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The talk of the town right now is Black Dynamite. Over 30 years since the artistic wave of critically-acclaimed, cult-followed and low-budget urban films took back a piece of Hollywood, Michael Jai White's brainchild pays homage and breaks new ground at once. In a conversation this month in Philadelphia with HipHopDX, White chronicled the importance of the so-called Blaxploitation genre. "First of all, these movies saved the Hollywood studio system. When television got very, very popular and international and foreign films got very big, it really started hurtin' the pocketbooks of the studio films. When the urban films started up, they were such a cash-heavy thing," said Black Dynamite's writer and star. "That's why they started cranking these things out left and right, and became exploitive - Blackploitation, so to speak. That word got attributed to movies that didn't deserve it, movies that were really just truly great movies." An avid fan of late '60s and '70s urban films, White says that it's high and low-brow films that are channeled in his film co-starring Arsenio Hall and Tommy Davidson. "What we try to do with [Black Dynamite] is pay hommage to the entire genre - the great ones and the not-so-great ones sometimes."
As Hollywood is still far from an equal racial playing field, Michael Jai White also told DX about the important hero aesthetic for audiences in these films. "This was the first time black people were seen in heroic fashion. Up until that time, we were just seen as butlers, maids and stuff. When you've got people like Jim Brown and Fred Williamson kicking ass and being alpha males, it was a very liberating experience. Not only were they welcomed action figures for the black community, but for the white community as well."
Those films of yesteryear play a large role in the 2009 film. For nostalgic fans and new viewers alike, Black Dynamite has a lot of jewels. "I've got dialog, famous lines that was lifted. There's a pool-room fight scene that does direct hommage to one of the coolest movies ever, which was Trouble Man. There's a plot point that alludes to Three The Hard Way, that whole conspirital tone - sometimes wildly conspirital." Beyond simple cut-and-paste recreations, the film artistically combines visual allusions from Willie Dynamite with dialog from The Mack. The fast-paced shooting schedules of lesser quality '70s films also plays an artistic role, as White says, "Sometimes the boom mic gets into the shot...For people that really recognize this genre, they're gonna recognize a whole lot of stuff."
Whereas films like 1989's Wayans family ensemble have attempted previous revues, White and other producers were careful to be accurate to the script's core. "We didn't want to do any cutesy stuff, like cast a bunch of people from the Blaxploitation era. That destroys the illusion; that person would have been young back then. We really wanted to preserve that line."
With that attention to detail, White also explained how they wrote Black Dyamite as a heroic character that balances his tough-guy persona with a sense of humor and a sense of cool. "It starts with a character. The character will [bring] in things that will go out of the box. If you have a fully realized character, and something happens in the room that makes that character respond, as long as that character responds in kind in the truth of that character, you maintain normalcy. You maintain an organic representation. It starts there."
Although the film is set in the '70s, it has ties to Hip Hop, including an "inspired by" song, "The Feeling," [click to listen] from Buckshot, 9th Wonder and Sean Price. White spoke about the parrallels between the urban film movement of the '70s and the formative years of Hip Hop, both voices of rebellion subsequently embraced in the mainstream. "[Hip Hop is] born from the streets. Both are born of the streets - of and for the people. When Melvin Van Peebles made Sweet Sweetback's Badasssss Song, it was nothing that the status quo was going to do. But you see, him getting it to the theater, you saw what it could to do. [This is] just like Hip Hop: when the people wanted it, they tried to it over," said White. "It's hard for them to reproduce Hip Hop that. It still remains something that only a unique body of people can do - somebody has to be in the struggle to create."
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