Palestinian prisoners strike after inmate death

JERUSALEM (AP) ? Thousands of Palestinian prisoners launched a one-day fast to commemorate an inmate who died in Israeli custody Sunday after days of protests in support of four hunger-strikers.

Israel's prison service said 3,000 Palestinian prisoners went on the fast after 30-year-old Arafat Shalish Shahin Jaradat died Saturday. The death came after more than a week of clashes at protests in support of four long-term Palestinian hunger strikers in Israeli jails.

Israeli human rights group B'Tselem has called for a comprehensive investigation. It said the police inquiry must include the "full circumstances" surrounding his death, including how he was treated during questioning by Israel's domestic intelligence agency, Shin Bet.

The agency said Jaradat was arrested on Feb. 18 after residents in his West Bank village of Saeer said he was involved in a rock-throwing attack that injured an Israeli citizen. Jaradat admitted to the charge, as well to another West Bank rock-throwing incident last year, Shin Bet said in a statement.

Jaradat suffered from back pain and had been injured in the past by a rubber bullet and tear gas canister, the Shin Bet statement said, adding that he was examined a few times by a doctor who detected no health problems, and his interrogation continued.

"After lunch, while resting in his cell he felt unwell. Rescue services and a doctor were alerted and treated him, they didn't succeed in saving his life," the statement said.

A Shin Bet spokesman, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with protocol, said Jaradat was not beaten during his interrogation, nor did he experience any physical activities that might have led to a worsening of his health.

Jaradat was not on hunger strike and died of an apparent heart attack, Israeli prison services spokeswoman Sivan Weizman said.

His death angered Palestinians who have been demonstrating for more than a week in support of the thousands of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, especially four long-time hunger-strikers, one of whom has seen his health deteriorate rapidly. Protests often turned into violent clashes with soldiers.

Defense officials said Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz convened top military officials Saturday night to discuss escalating tensions in the West Bank.

Meanwhile, veteran Israeli lawmaker and acting speaker of parliament Binyamin Ben-Eliezer warned that violence between Israelis and Palestinians will escalate unless stalled peace talks resume. "We are on the eve of an Intifada," he told Israel radio using the Arabic term for uprising.

"I have been warning of this for many months. I know these guys and I see the signs," said Ben-Eliezer, a former defense minister. "As someone who has gone through two Intifadas, I say this time it will be the bloodiest," he said.

Palestinians have launched two uprisings against Israeli occupation. The first in 1987 lasted nearly six years. The second, deadlier uprising broke out in late 2000 and stretched for about five years. More than 3,000 Palestinians and over 1,000 Israelis died in the fighting.

Ben-Eliezer urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to resume talks with the Palestinians. He said this will be the focus of next month's visit to the region by U.S. President Barack Obama.

Associated Press

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Virgin Media adds a YouTube channel to TiVo's guide, ensures you can't escape kitty clips

Annoyed that YouTube had reached Freesat boxes and not just TiVo? Worry not, for Sir Richard and his chums at Virgin Media are on their way with a basket of soothing balms. Your DVR's EPG will soon feature baked-in YouTube results along with regular TV listings, giving easier access to all of those shudder-inducing Harlem Shake videos without resorting to a smartphone. It's been positioned at Channel 198, and you can also access it via the Search and Browse menus on your box -- no matter the paint job.

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Osborne says AAA downgrade is reminder of debt problems

* Rafael and Giggs on target for United * Cazorla double gives Arsenal victory * Wigan beat Reading in relegation battle (Adds details, quotes) LONDON, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Leaders Manchester United moved closer to a 20th title and pushed Queens Park Rangers nearer to relegation when goals from Rafael and Ryan Giggs gave them a 2-0 win at the bottom side in the Premier League on Saturday. The victory put United 15 points clear of champions Manchester City who face third-placed Chelsea at home on Sunday. ...

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New Process Takes Energy From Coal Without Burning It

Why not just burn coal and air in an oven and capture the CO2

Because only part of the air gets converted to CO2. Most of the air is nitrogen, and only ~21% is oxygen. Even if you have complete conversion of the oxygen to CO2 (not going to happen), you'd end up with exhaust gas that's mostly nitrogen with some carbon dioxide mixed in. This nitrogen/carbon dioxide mix is difficult to deal with. To do anything with the CO2 you'd have to separate it from the nitrogen and residual oxygen, which gets complicated and expensive.

The hard part is surely the CO2 capture, not the burning.

Exactly. This new method attempts solve that by separating the CO2 generation stage from the air-using stage. If you could effectively separate them, you'll get a pure CO2 stream in one half of the reactor (which if you can keep closed you can pump off into storage tanks) and you'll keep the nitrogen/depleted-oxygen mix in the other half of the reactor, away from your pure CO2.

The way it works is to use iron oxide as an oxygen shuttle. The iron oxide pellets grab oxygen from the air half of the reactor, and are then transferred as a relatively gas-free solid to the coal half of the reactor, where they give up their oxygen to produce a relatively pure stream of CO2. The pellets are then separated from the coal ash and transferred as a relatively gas-free solid back to the air half of the reactor, where they are recharged with oxygen. If you engineer it right, you could conceivably make it a continuous feed operation, where you shuttle the iron oxide beads back and forth through airlocks, keeping most of the CO2 in the sealed reactor where it can be pumped off as a comparatively pure gas.

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TSA apologizes for blunder involving 3-year-old girl

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The Transportation Security Administration has apologized after the family of a wheelchair-bound 3-year-old girl with spina bifida was pulled aside and told she would receive a pat-down.

The family was heading to Disney World when the incident took place on February 9. It was "really strange and stressful," said Nathan Forck, the girl's father.

His daughter, Lucy, was taking her first big airline trip. "She didn't know what to expect," he said. "She was pretty upset."

In a video taken by her mother and posted on YouTube with the title "Shh! TSA Wants to Touch Your Kids," Lucy appears visibly distraught. Sitting in her hot pink wheelchair, Lucy weeps, crying for her stuffed lamb doll. A TSA agent can be overheard telling Lucy's mother, Annie Shulte, to stop her "illegal" recording. There is discussion by the agents over whether to give Lucy a pat-down.

The video has been viewed more than 136,000 times.

"TSA regrets inaccurate guidance was provided to this family during screening and offers its apology," the agency wrote in an email. "We are committed to maintaining the security of the traveling public and strive to treat all passengers with dignity and respect. While no pat-down was performed, we will address specific concerns with our work force.?

Furthermore, TSA policy does not prohibit passengers from taking photos or videos at screening locations as long as they're not interfering with or slowing down the process.

The trouble apparently began with mom's earrings.

According to Nathan, Annie was pushing Lucy through security when alarms were tripped by her metallic earrings. In the case of a passenger in a wheelchair, "a pat-down procedure is used to resolve any alarms of a metal detector," TSA says on its website.

It may have appeared to the agents that it was Lucy who set it off, not Annie.

After 30 minutes of tense isolation as agents and supervisors discussed options, Annie proposed carrying Lucy through security while agents swabbed the wheelchair separately.

Ultimately, Nathan said, agents agreed, and the family was on its way to the Magic Kingdom.

Annie uploaded the video to YouTube on Saturday. The couple tweeted about it, with Annie writing, "STOP letting TSA touch your kids! Here's a vid of them trying 2 touch mine #enoughisenough." Nathan also tweeted, "Stop letting TSA THUGS touch your kids." The video quickly gained traction.

The detention was, "very unpleasant," said Nathan, an Army veteran who has served in Iraq and Bosnia and describes himself as a "reformed neo-con."

"I feel like we know a little bit better now how to avoid the situation," he said, adding that he hopes TSA will use the incident as a teaching tool for its agents when dealing with passengers in wheelchairs.

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Bumblebees Sense Electric Fields in Flowers

A flower's electric field (right, with associated electric potential on the left) helps bumblebees predict where to find the most nectar. Image: Dominic Clarke

As they zero in on their sugary reward, foraging bumblebees follow an invisible clue: electric fields. Although some animals, including sharks, are known to have an electric sense, this is the first time the ability has been documented in insects.

Pollinating insects take in a large number of sensory cues, from colors and fragrances to petal textures and air humidity. Being able to judge which flowers will provide the most nectar, and which have already been plundered by other pollinators, helps them to use their energy more efficiently.

It has long been known that bumblebees build up a positive electrical charge as they rapidly flap their wings; when they land on flowers, this charge helps pollen to stick to their hairs. Daniel Robert, a biologist at the University of Bristol, UK, knew that such electrical interactions would temporarily change the electrical status of the flowers ? but he did not know whether bumblebees were picking up on this.

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Keen to find out, he and a team of colleagues measured the net charges of individuals of Bombus terrestris, a common species of bumblebee, by using sucrose to lure them into a Faraday pail ? an electrically shielded bucket that reacts to the charge of anything inside it. As expected, most bumblebees were carrying a positive charge.

Next, the team placed the insects into an arena with petunias (Petunia integrifolia) and measured the flowers' electrical potentials. Sure enough, when the bees landed, the flowers became a little more positively charged.

Finally, the team released bumblebees into an arena with artificial flowers, half of which were positively charged and carried a sucrose reward, and the other half of which were grounded and carried a bitter solution. Over time, the bees increasingly visited the rewarding charged flowers.

But when the researchers turned off the electrical charge on the flowers and re-released the trained bees, the insects visited rewarding flowers only about half of the time, as they would have by random chance. That suggested that the bees were detecting the electric fields and using them to guide their activities, rather than relying on other clues such as fragrance. The team reports its results in this week's Science.

?We think bumblebees are using this ability to perceive electrical fields to determine if flowers were recently visited by other bumblebees and are therefore worth visiting,? says Robert.

?We had no idea that this sense even existed," says Thomas Seeley, a behavioral biologist at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. "Assuming we can replicate the findings, this is going to open up a whole new window on insect sensory systems for us to study.?

Some experts suggest that the study has implications for insects other than bees. ?If you think about it, these discoveries could also apply to hoverflies and moths," says Robert Raguso, a chemical ecologist also at Cornell. "We don?t know if they can perceive charge differentials, but they burn a lot of energy while hovering around looking for pollen or nectar. So it would make sense for them to attend to such cues."

This article is reproduced with permission from the magazine Nature. The article was first published on February 21, 2013.

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Hundreds of new jobs at Ford's Brook Park plant

BROOK PARK, OH (WOIO) -

To meet rising consumer demand for the award-winning 2.0 liter ecoboost engine, Ford?will invest nearly $200 million and add 450 new jobs at its Cleveland Engine Plant in Brook Park.

Production is slated?to begin in late 2014.

Ford is more than halfway to its goal to create more than 12,000 hourly jobs in the United States by 2015.

Production of the 2.0-liter ecoboost engines is currently based in Alencia, Spain. They will continue to produce and ship parts for these engines. Their overall employment won't be affected.??

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