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Here's a summary of today's developments:
• Libya's interim leader Mustafa Abdel Jalil has asked Nato to continue its campaign in Libya until the end of the year. Nato meets on Friday to discuss ending the mission. Qatar has admitted that it had hundreds of troops on the ground in Libya as part of the current operation.
• Former Libyan intelligence chief Moussa Koussa has denied involvement in the torture of political detainees or in the 1996 massacre at the notorious Abu Salim prison. Koussa issued a statement through his lawyers in response to allegations made on Monday's BBC's Panorama programme.
• A report claims that bodies of 267 people, mostly Gaddafi loyalists, have been found in Sirte. Many were reported to have been executed. The report cited a Red Cross official but the humanitarian group said it could not confirm the details. However, a spokesman said there were a "significant number of dead bodies in Sirte".
• Muammar Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam and his former intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi are proposing to hand themselves over to the International criminal court, a senior military official with the National Transitional Council said. However, the ICC said it had no confirmation of the report. Islam was last believed to be headed towards Niger.
• Video has emerged purporting to show part of Tuesday's burial ceremony for Muammar Gaddafi. The former Libya leader's death sends a "strong message" to dictators around the world, according to Barack Obama. But the Russian prime minister, Vladamir Putin, said it was impossible to watch the video images of Gaddafi's demise without being disgusted.
• An Arab League delegation is in Damascus for talks with the Assad regime about starting a dialogue between the government and the opposition. Human Rights Watch urged the delegation to call for international observers to be allowed to monitor the behaviour of the security services.
• Rival demonstrations have been held in Syria to coincide with the Arab League's visit. An opposition general strike has been observed in cities across Syria, according to video from activists. A pro-regime rally was held in the capital Damascus, as footage emerged purporting to show the army bussing in troops dressed as regime supporters.
• At least 10 people have been killed by security forces, including three children, one of them aged 18 months, according to activists. The British-based Syrian Observatory of Human Rights said 10 civilians were killed, including seven in Homs, and nine soldiers were killed when a rocket propelled grenade was fired at their bus in Hama province, probably by deserters. The LCC said 15 people have been killed by the security services, including a five-year-old and a 12-year-old. The Ministry of Health has accused Amnesty International of spreading "fabrications" following the publication of report which claimed that medical workers were involved in torture and abuse of protesters.
• King Abdullah announced he will consult MPs on the appointment of ministers in future, giving elected officials more say in government. Jordanians took to the streets in protests this year, demanding that elected representatives take part in the selection of all members of Cabinet.
• The government and opposition groups in Yemen are blaming each other for violating an agreed ceasefire after 25 people were killed in clashes in Sana'a and in the southern city of Taiz Hundreds of Yemeni women set fire to traditional veils in the Yemeni capital in protest at the violent crackdown against the country's uprising.
• Two Egyptian policemen have been jailed for seven years for the manslaughter of Khaled Said, whose death helped sparked the Egyptian revolution that brought down Hosni Mubarak. Said, 28, was beaten to death by two officers in June 2010 after he posted an online video of local police officers apparently dividing up the spoils of a drug haul. Many pro-democracy protesters criticised the sentences as two lenient and the fact that the policemen were found guilty of manslaughter rather than murder. The families of the policemen reportedly vandalised the court room and attacked Said's family and lawyers after hearing the sentences.
Huneish Nasr, has described the last time he saw his boss:Gaddafi's personal driver for 30 years,
Everything was exploding. The revolutionaries were coming for us. He wasn't scared, but he didn't seem to know what to do. It was the only time I ever saw him like that.
Nasr also said that Gaddafi had always been good to him:
He was strange. He was always standing still and looking to the west. I didn't see fear in him. I was with him for 30 years and I swear by God that I never saw any bad behaviour in him. He was always just the boss. He treated me well.
During a meeting of his All-Russia People's Front, the Russisn prime minister, Vladamir Putin (left), has criticised the treatment of Gaddafi (via my colleague Miriam Elder in Moscow). He said:
Look, they killed nearly the entire Gaddafi family. They showed his corpse on all the international channels. It's impossible to watch without disgust. What is this? And they show how the whole person is covered in blood, wounded, still alive and they kill him. And all this is shown on the screens.
Russia did not exercise its veto on the UN security council when the vote for a no-fly zone to protect Libyan civilians was passed but subsequently it grew increasingly angry at what it saw as Nato going beyond the terms of the resolution and taking sides in the civil war.
We don't have confirmation about this now. We are trying to contact the NTC for more information," ICC spokesman Fadi El Abdallah said.
Earlier on Wednesday, a senior Libyan military official with the National Transitional Council said Saif and al-Senussi are proposing to hand themselves in to the Hague-based court.
In June, the ICC issued arrest warrants for Gaddafi, his son Saif and al-Senussi on charges of crimes against humanity after the UN Security Council referred the Libyan situation to the court in February.
according to AtlasInfo.fr (link in French). The article quotes AlMounsel Ben Salem, described as a leader (although not the leader) of An-Nahda.The moderate Islamist party, An-Nahda, which has claimed victory in the Tunisian election has said it will cut off relations with Israel, including imposing a trade embargo,
according to an al-Arabiya newsflash.Gaddafi's most prominent son Saif al-Islam, last believed to be heading to Niger, has suggested to Libya's national transitional council that he hand himself into the International criminal court,
Two more children have been killed in Syria today, the Local Co-ordination Committees (LCC) report.
The death of 18-month-old Katreen Khabor in Homs had already been reported (see 11.06am).
The LCC says that Dalal Al-Joriyah, aged five, died after being shot in the head by security forces, also in Homs, and an unnamed 12-year-old died in the Damascus suburb, Douma.
It puts the death toll at the hands of security forces today at 15, 10 of them in Homs.
The British-based Syrian Observatory of Human Rights says 19 have been killed, including seven in Homs. Its total includes nine soldiers it says were killed by a rocket-propelled grenade in Hama province, probably fired by deserters.
the Guardian's interactive, which is being updated as results continue to come in.You can keep up to date with the Tunisian election, the first of the Arab spring, with
An-Nahda, the moderate Islamist party has already claimed victory on the basis of unofficial results. It says it will go into coalition with Ettakatol, a centre-left party and CPR, centrist secularists. PDP, a liberal secularist party, have conceded defeat. The surprise has been Aridha, a party whose main support is in the rural interior.
The International Committee of the Red Cross said it could not confirm a report, sourced to one of its officials, that 267 bodies, mostly Gaddafi loyalists, have been found in Sirte.
The online Libyan newspaper Qurynaew said a Red Cross official had told it that most of those found had been executed (see 1.16pm)
A spokesman for the ICRC said it was doubtful that a Red Cross official would have provided such a briefing.
Steven Anderson, a Geneva-based spokesman, said:
We have not given out such a precise number. We don't deny the figure, and it doesn't seem wrong or far fetched. We just can't confirm it. And we can't comment on the circumstances of their deaths.
We have been working in Sirte and we have seen a number of dead bodies, but estimates of the numbers are difficult to provide. I can't confirm these figure, but there have been a significant number of dead bodies in Sirte.
Hundreds of Yemeni women have set fire to traditional female veils in protest at the government's brutal crackdown against the country's popular uprising, as clashes have killed 25 people, AP reports:
In the capital Sana'a, the women spread a black cloth across a main street and threw their full-body veils, known as makrama, onto a pile, sprayed it with oil and set it ablaze. As the flames rose, they chanted: "Who protects Yemeni women from the crimes of the thugs?"
As they burned their veils, Yemeni women activists handed out leaflets appealing for help and protection.
"This is a plea from the free women of Yemen; here we burn our makrama in front of the world to witness the bloody massacres carried by the tyrant Saleh," the leaflets read.
Across town, a group of women supporters of Saleh marched Wednesday up to the UN office to voice their opposition to international pressure on the president to step down. The women entered the UN building to hand in their protest note.
The act of women burning their clothing is a symbolic Bedouin tribal gesture signifying an appeal for help to tribesmen, in this case to stop the attacks on the protesters.
Medical and local officials said up to 25 civilians, tribal fighters and government soldiers died overnight in Sana'a and the city of Taiz despite a ceasefire announcement by Saleh late Tuesday. Scores of others were wounded
A medical official said seven tribal fighters were among those killed in Sanaa's Hassaba district. Another medical official said four residents and nine soldiers also died in the fighting there. Government forces also shelled houses in Taiz a hotbed of anti-Saleh protests killing five people, including four members of one family, a local official said.
album of photographs of Condoleezza Rice (left) was found among the rubble, Paul Owen writes.When Muammar Gaddafi's compound, Bab Al-Aziziya was stormed by rebels in August, an
Gaddafi had spoken of his fondness for the former US secretary of state before, saying: "Leezza, Leezza, Leezza … I love her very much. I admire her and I'm proud of her because she's a black woman of African origin."
Now in an interview to be broadcast on Monday Rice has described a meeting with the late dictator that revealed his "strange fascination" with her.
"What was going through my head was "How long do I have to sit here and how quickly can I get out of here?" You know, it was funny because when he said, "I have a video for you," I thought, "Oh my goodness, what is this going to be?" But it was actually just a bunch of pictures of me with Vladimir Putin, me with Hu Jin Tao. And then he said, "I have Libya's best composer, most famous composer write this song for you," and it was called Black Flower in the White House ... And I thought, 'Well this is a really, really strange, strange moment in my time as secretary of state.
Rice also defended the west's overtures towards Gaddafi, who was brought back in from the cold in the years following 9/11 in return for giving up his weapons of mass destruction programme. Rice said:
I don't think we ever got very close to him. I think what we did was to eliminate his weapons of mass destruction, or the most dangerous ones.
The trust's review will look at the BBC's coverage of events in Tunisia and will then focus in particular on reporting of events in Egypt, Libya, Bahrain, Syria and Yemen.
Ahram online reports that after the sentences were handed out to the two Egyptian policemen convicted of the manslaughter of Khaled Said (see 3.09pm), their families "set about vandalising the court room and attacked Khaled Said's family and lawyers".
Khaled Said, whose death helped sparked the Egyptian revolution that brought down Hosni Mubarak.Two Egyptian policemen have been jailed for seven years for the manslaughter of
Said, 28, was beaten to death by two officers in June 2010 after he posted an online video of local police officers apparently dividing up the spoils of a drug haul.
Witnesses said Said was attacked in an internet cafe by the two plainclothes officials who kicked and punched him before eventually smashing his head against a marble table-top. His body was dragged into a police car and later dumped by the roadside.
Graphic photos of Said's injuries circulated online and became a rallying cause for activists opposed to Egypt's 29-year-old emergency law.
A Facebook page called We are all Khaled Said, co-founded by Wael Ghonim, became one of the most important online sites run by activists during the revolution.
The sentences are already being criticised on Twitter by some of those who were involved in protests against Mubarak and who have since been involved in protests against the interim military rulers.
Mosa'ab Elshamy tweets:
People got same sentence for breaking curfew. RT @adamakary: Two policemen accused of killing Khaled Saed have been sentenced to 7 years.
The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claims that nine civilians have been killed today in shootings by Syrian security forces nationwide, including six in the central city of Homs. The Observatory also reports nine soldiers were killed in Hama province when the bus they were travelling in was hit by a rocket propelled grenade.
The Local Co-ordination Committees put the number killed in Homs at seven.
Tanks have been filmed firing at a residential area in Homs in one of the latest videos circulated by activists.
There is high chance that Egypt's parliamentary elections, which start next month, will be marred by violence, according American foreign policy analysts Steven Cook, from the Council on Foreign Relations and Michele Dunne from the Atlantic Council.
Speaking on Bloggingheads TV, Dunne says the US must avoid being seen as complicit in allowing the Egyptian military to have a greater role in governing Egypt.
Cook says the military is likely to make a deal with which ever political party advances its interests. He says the US should make it clear to the generals that it wants to see civilian rule in Egypt.
Saddam Hussein personally ordered the execution of the Observer journalist Farzad Bazoft to punish Margaret Thatcher and humiliate Britain, secret recordings released in Washington reveal, writes Luke Harding.
The late Iraqi leader insisted there could be no clemency for Bazoft, whom he described – wrongly – as a "an Israeli spy working for the British".
Hussein also grumbled over the length of time it would take to have Bazoft hanged. "A whole month!" he exclaimed to an aide, after being told the sentence could not be carried out immediately. "I say we execute him in Ramadan, and this will be punishment for Margaret Thatcher."
Bazoft, an Iranian-born freelance journalist, was arrested in September 1989. He had been investigating reports of a mystery explosion at a military complex south of Baghdad. He was charged with spying for Israel.
Here's a lunchtime summary:
• Libya's interim leader Mustafa Abdel Jalil has asked Nato to continue its campaign in Libya until the end of the year. Nato meets on Friday to discuss ending the mission. Qatar has admitted that it had hundreds of troops on the ground in Libya as part of the current operation.
• Former Libyan intelligence chief Moussa Koussa has denied involvement in the torture of political detainees or in the 1996 massacre at the notorious Abu Salim prison. Koussa issued a statement through his lawyers in response to allegations made on Monday's BBC's Panorama programme.
• The bodies of 267 people, mostly Gaddafi loyalists, have been found in Sirte. Many were reported to have been executed.
• Video has emerged purporting to show part of Tuesday's burial ceremony for Muammar Gaddafi. The former Libya leader's death sends a "strong message" to dictators around the world, according to Barack Obama. There whereabouts of Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam are still unknown.
• An Arab League delegation is in Damascus for talks with the Assad regime about starting a dialogue between the government and the opposition. Human Rights Watch urged the delegation to call for international observers to be allowed to monitor the behaviour of the security services.
• Rival demonstrations have been held in Syria to coincide with the Arab League's visit. An opposition general strike has been observed in cities across Syria, according to video from activists. A pro-regime rally was held in the capital Damascus, as footage emerged purporting to show the army bussing in troops dressed as regime supporters.
• An 18-month-old baby was among four people killed in Syria today, according to activists. Katreen Khabor was reportedly killed in the central city of Homs. Another person was killed in Homs, one in Idlib and one in Damascus, the LCC said. The Ministry of Health has accused Amnesty International of spreading "fabrications" following the publication of report which claimed that medical workers were involved in torture and abuse of protesters.
• King Abdullah announced he will consult MPs on the appointment of ministers in future, giving elected officials more say in government. Jordanians took to the streets in protests this year, demanding that elected representatives take part in the selection of all members of Cabinet.
• The government and opposition groups in Yemen are blaming each other for violating an agreed ceasefire after two people were killed Sana'a on Tuesday and another two died in the southern city of Taiz today. President Ali Abdullah Saleh has again agreed to sign a deal to step down from power.
As the Syrian government stages its second pro-government rally in as many weeks, video has emerged suggesting the army is being used to bus in troops dressed as flag-waving supporters.
The clip shows truck and bus loads of men with placards and Syrian flags. The caption says the supporters are on the way to the rally in Damascus. The claim cannot be independently verified.
told the online Libyan newspaper Qurynaew (link in Arabic) that 267 bodies have been found in the dead dictator's hometown. The official said most of them were supporters of Gaddafi and many had been executed, adding that they had been buried in mass graves near Sirte.More allegations of executions of Gaddafi loyalists in Sirte have emerged. A Red Cross official has
The official also said that the authorities in Benghazi and Sirte had recorded the details of all the bodies and that the interim government had pledged to investigate the circumstances of the deaths and punish the perpetrators.
On Monday, Human Rights Watch said it had found the bodies of 53 people, apparently Gaddafi supporters who had been executed, at an abandoned hotel in Sirte.
The government and opposition groups in Yemen are blaming each other for violating an agreed ceasefire after two people were killed in the Old City of Sana'a, designated a World Heritage site by UNESCO. From Reuters:
Residents said they heard shots ring out across the city, which opposition groups blamed on security forces loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh, while the government blamed renegade general Ali Mohsen's forces.
"The militants of Ali Mohsen ... shelled the Old City of Sana'a. One of the shells came down on a house, killing two people and injuring three others," a government source said.
The ceasefire, which was due to begin on Tuesday, was also reportedly breached in the southern city of Taiz, where two people were killed by shelling on Wednesday.
Jordan's King Abdullah has made more concessions aimed at quelling opposition, AP reports:
Jordan's King Abdullah says he will consult parliament on the appointment of ministers, giving elected lawmakers a greater say in government.
The change, which will be enacted next year, is significant because it allows the elected 120-seat parliament to consult with the king on the mak-eup of government.
The current system gives the king sole powers to appoint ministers. Abdullah says the new system will strengthen parliament's role.
The decision comes after Jordanians took to the streets in protests this year demanding that elected representatives take part in the selection of all members of Cabinet.
Opening parliament's session Wednesday, Abdullah said he wished to see speedy reforms enacted by his new Cabinet working in coordination with lawmakers.
Abdullah sacked Jordan's prime minister last week after Marouf al-Bakhit failed to push though reforms to defuse popular criticism.
Qatar has admitted that it had hundreds of boots on the ground in the Libyan conflict, according to AFP.
"We were among them and the numbers of Qataris on ground were hundreds in every region," said Qatari chief of staff Major General Hamad bin Ali al-Atiya.
The announcement marks the first time that Qatar has acknowledged it had military boots on the ground in Libya.
The International Monetary Fund has expressed concern about sharply increased deficits in the region that have mounted up in the wake of the Arab spring.
In a report on the regional economic outlook for the Middle East and central Asia it says governments in the region have significantly increased social spending partly in response to growing social unrest.
It produced this chart showing that deficits have increased significantly in Egypt, Syria and Tunisia.
A summary of the reports findings says:
In the near term, such spending measures are appropriate to lessen the impact of the downturn. But from an efficiency and equity standpoint, it is better for governments to gradually replace universal subsidies with targeted social safety nets, the IMF report states. Resources can then be used for critical investments in infrastructure and education and for supporting much-needed reforms.
Meeting the rising demands of the population will not be easy, the report notes—particularly as most countries have already used their fiscal and international reserve buffers to respond to deteriorating economic conditions in the wake of the Arab Spring, and have much less room left to respond to future shocks.
The report is likely to be viewed sceptically by those who have taken part in the protests. The Arab Spring is seen by many as a rejection of the kind of neo-liberal economic policies put forward by bodies like the IMF.
Bashar al-Assad strike, tens of thousands of supporters of the embattled president have been rallying in Umayyad Square, in the Syrian capital - as shown in this video . Like the general strike, the pro-regime rally was timed coincide with today's visit by a delegation of Arab League ministers.While opponents of
Filmmaker Sean McAllister was arrested in Damascus while working undercover for Channel 4 News last week and held for five days.
He has given a harrowing account of what he heard and saw while in jail. He was in a cell next to the torture chamber and saw for himself the cables used to torture detainees.
WARNING: video contains some graphic images.
McAllister said:
They'd manufactured the end of the cable to become like a proper handle and the cable was so solid that it had formed its arc and the arc as it hit someone's back. It was so heavy, it was so awful, it must have broken bones and the howling, the noise of a human being hit with that is something that just, you know, you shiver and shake. You hear a sound that you've never heard before, I've never heard before. And I've seen people dead. And I've seen people dying. But this sound, hearing a man cry, is just like, awful, there's nothing to compare it with.
Gaddafi's death sends a message to other dictators.Barack Obama told the chat show host Jay Leno that
"Obviously you never like to see someone come to the kind of end that he did, but it obviously sends a strong message around the world to dictators that people long to be free," the president told Leno.
Who could he mean?
footage claiming to show of part of the burial ceremony for Muammar Gaddafi.The Guardian's video team has an edited version of that Alaan TV
The clip contains no audio.
Four people have been killed in Syria today, including an 18-month-old girl in Homs, according to the activist group the Local Co-ordination Committees which reports on the protests.
It named the girl as as Katreen Khabor. A video (WARNING: very graphic) has been posted of her on YouTube The LCC says another person has been killed in Homs, one in Idlib, in north-west Syria, and one in Damascus. As is usual with Syria, we have no way of independently verifying this information.
The LCC is also reporting widespread observance of today's general strike which is being supported by the Syrian National Council. This Googlemap shows videos posted on YouTube showing businesses shut down, apparently in observance of today's strike. Click on the Guardian icons to watch the videos from different areas.
Among the areas where the LCC says people are striking are Dara'a, Idlib, Aleppo, Homa, Hama and neighbourhoods of Damascus suburbs. The strike was called coincide with a visit to Syria by an Arab delegation, which is expected to meet with President Assad to discuss the possibility of starting a dialogue between the government and opposition.
Leading dissident Ammar Abdulhamid says the strike was called by activists inside Syria before it won the backing of the opposition Syrian National Council.
The Nato mission in Libya should continue until the end of the year, to help prevent remaining Gaddafi loyalist from fleeing, interim leader Mustafa Abdel Jalil (left) has told a meeting Qatar, according to Reuters.
"We look forward to Nato continuing its operations until the end of the year," Jalil told reporters, adding that stopping the flight of Gaddafi supporters to other countries was a priority.
"We seek technical and logistics help from neighbouring and friendly countries," Jalil added.
In Brussels on Wednesday, a Nato official said the alliance had postponed until Friday a meeting of its ambassadors which had been set for Wednesday and was expected to formalise a decision to end its Libya mission.
"The Libya discussion has been moved to Friday to accommodate the ongoing consultations with the United Nations and the National Transitional Council," the official said.
Warning the clip contains disturbing images.The UAE broadcaster Alaan TV has shown footage of what it claims is part of the burial ceremony for Muammar Gaddafi, his son Mutassim and his defence minister Abu Bakr Younes.
The ceremony was attended by several people the clip shows. It is understood the burial itself took place later at a different location. The footage cannot be independently verified.
Arab League should demand the Assad regime allow international monitors to observe the behaviour of the security services in Syria, Human Rights Watch has urged.The
An Arab League delegation will visit Damascus today revive the idea of talks between the regime and opposition.
Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch, said:
If the Arab League's initiative is going to have any chance of success, it needs to guarantee that civilians will be protected. The only way to make sure civilians are protected is to have on-the-ground monitors whose presence would inhibit abuse by the security services.
Welcome to Middle East Live. Here's a round up of the latest developments in the region.
• Former Gaddafi loyalist Khaled Tantoush describes preparing the former Libyan leader for burial.
"I didn't feel anything when I was washing him," said Tantoush. "I was just doing my duty as a Muslim. He was a person and he should be properly buried."
"Liar," muttered one of his jailers, Haithem Danduna, at Tantoush. "He is a chameleon," he added, pointing at Tantoush. "He was green until a week ago," in reference to the colour of the regime.
"It was a good thing what they did last night, allowing us to bury him. It was a good start of a new beginning. After we finished washing him we moved to the tables and we wrapped them in white, then prayed for them. The whole process took about an hour. The guards helped us move the bodies."
• Gaddafi's most prominent son Saif al-Islam is said to be trying to flee to possible sanctuary in Niger. son and one-time heir apparent is believed to be heading towards Niger. Rhissa ag Boula, an adviser to Niger's president, said he was in touch with Tuareg who are helping guide Saif cross the desert from Libya to Algeria and finally to Niger.
• Saif called his father frequently on the telephone and increasingly feared being hit by a mortar bomb as he tried to escape from the town of Bani Walid last week, an officer who had been with him told Reuters. Al-Senussi Sharif al-Senussi, a lieutenant in Gaddafi's army who was part of Saif's security team, said: "He was nervous. He had a Thuraya (satellite phone) and he called his father many times. He repeated to us: don't tell anyone where I am. Don't let them spot me. He was afraid of mortars. He seemed confused."
• Gaddafi's spokesman Moussa Ibrahim, whose whereabouts are currently unknown, spent last Christmas drinking red wine and toasting the Tunisian revolution at the home of his PhD supervisor, Ros Coward recalls.
I cooked them a traditional roast dinner and we played with the baby. Moussa was very hands-on, changing nappies and rocking the baby to sleep. Perhaps more surprisingly, we toasted the Tunisian uprising over several glasses of good red wine, to which Moussa was always extremely partial.
• The Ministry of Health has accused Amnesty International of spreading "fabrications" following the publication of report which claimed that medical workers were involved in torture and abuse of protesters. Amnesty said many in Syria feared going to hospital where it said the security forces had been given free rein.
• The opposition Syrian National Council has called for a general strike to coincide with the visit by an Arab League delegation the New York Times reports. Ibrahim, an activist from Derra, told the paper: "The regime says the crisis is finished, while we say it will start tomorrow with a new chapter when all of Syria will begin the first day of a general strike. It will be embarrassing for the regime to receive the Arab delegation while the country is on a strike."
• The latest attempt to implement a ceasefire in Yemen has failed to stop the violence as the country's protracted standoff has evolved into a rang of proxy battles, writes Laura Kasinof for the New York Times.
• President Ali Abdullah Saleh has made yet another offer to step down, according to the US State Department. Saleh said he would sign a deal brokered by Gulf Co-operation Council involving him transferring power in return for immunity from prosecution, during a meeting with the US ambassador. "We look to see him implement it," said State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland.
• En-Nahda, the moderate Islamist party that is emerging as the victor in Tunisia's first free elections is in talks with rival parties about forming an interim coalition government. Partial results released supported the Ennahda party's claims that it won at least 40% of the seats in a 217-member assembly tasked with running the country and writing its new constitution.
• Angelique Chrisafis and Ian Black examine the immediate challenges for En-Nahda and its leader Rachid Ghannouchi.
The key issue in the next few days is what jobs the Islamists take in a coalition government. There will likely be an Islamist prime minister, with a secular, centrist interim president. But the new government will inherit a depressed economy, struggling tourism sector, regional inequality between the coast and poor rural interior and crippling unemployment – a root cause of the revolution. It is officially at 19% but thought to be much higher, and over 40% for female graduates.
• There were four great tests for the Tunisian election: non-violence, turnout, pluralism, and fairness, according to Foreign Policy magazine. On all four counts the elections were a success, it says.

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Jason Evans, 34, from Coleford, Gloucs, scooped £153,476 by picking 11 winning horses and predicting two football results in an £11 accumulator bet.
He had also placed a £23 stake on nine races on the same day, netting him another £81,329.
Paddy Power, with whom he placed the bets, said the odds on winning each were about 10,000-1.
'Biggest winner'
Mr Evans said: "I'm usually glued to the TV watching the racing, but because it was New Year's Eve I hadn't actually checked the results.
"Me and my wife were just about to walk out the door when the phone went and it was Paddy (Power) who told me I had won £250,000.
"I couldn't believe it. He said the accumulators I had done were amazing and I was their biggest ever UK winner.
"£235,000 isn't bad for a day's work is it?"
Mr Evans, who has an 18-month-old daughter called Mollie and works as a civilian firefighter at RAF Fairford, has been gambling since he was 19.
His biggest previous win was two years ago when he netted £18,000 on a horse racing bet.
Mr Evans plans to spend his winnings on paying off his mortgage and buying his 25-year-old wife Kelly a car.


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Gushing that he's suitable for the role, the 'Walking Dead' actor promotes himself, 'If the fans want me as Rocket Raccoon, Marvel will listen to you guys, I think.'
While Marvel's "Guardians of the Galaxy" already seals its director, the project is still searching for the right actors to bring Rocket Raccoon, Star Lord, Groot, Drax the Destroyer and Gamora to life. Many actors have expressed their interests to join the project including Michael Rooker. The Merle Dixon of "The Walking Dead" admits that he'd like to play Raccoon in the highly-anticipated superhero movie.
"I love raccoons. Raccoons are my friends (Laughs)!" Rooker tells MovieWeb. Asked if he thinks he is perfect for the role, the Alabama native confidently responds, "Oh, yeah. Most certainly. I know that [director] James Gunn is doing it. He is directing it, and he is re-writing it. He is a very loyal director. He really appreciates the efforts that each actor puts into these roles."
The actor who previously teamed up with Gunn in 2006's "Slither" states, "And I would be very honored and pleased to work with James Gunn again... Whether it will happen or not, I don't know. But he is a dynamite guy, and we have remained friends ever since we worked together on 'Slither'."
Though admitting that he's currently very busy with "The Walking Dead", Rooker believes that he may end up being cast as Raccoon as long as there are fans' support for him. "I'm really crazy busy with 'The Walking Dead' right now. But you know what? Write this up. Tweet the f*** out of it. If the fans want me as Rocket Raccoon, Marvel will listen to you guys, I think, sometimes...," he says. "Perhaps I will be lucky and blessed enough to go in there, and go at it with Mr. Gunn again, who knows?"
Previously, it was Nathan Fillion who was rumored to be eyed for the big project especially because he had worked with Gunn before and he was Joss Whedon's favorite. However, the "Firefly" actor denied the report by claiming that he's already fully committed to "Castle".
"Guardians of the Galaxy" is a far-future story revolving around a group of alien beings - each the last of their kind - who eventually travel back in time to protect the earth from alien invasion. The script is written by Black List scribe Chris McCoy, while the film itself is set to arrive in the U.S. on August 1, 2014.


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Among the armaments of a British fort on the island of Mauritius, the oldest turtle on record once plodded as if it would live forever. When it finally succumbed, the cause was not illness or infirmity, but a freak accident. In 1918, still spry more than 150 years after its initial capture (or as spry as any giant tortoise is apt to be), it wandered through a gun port and died of the fall.
Turtles, you see, don't seem to die of old age. Whether giant tortoises or humble, box turtles, they don't steadily deteriorate just because they put on years; they don't senesce, to use the gerontologists' term.
"You can find an individual turtle that's sick and say that maybe it's senescent, but there's no evidence of senescence in turtles as a population," says Whitfield Gibbons, a turtle expert at the University of Georgia's Savannah River Ecology Lab in South Carolina. Rather, the armored reptiles persevere-lumbering, swimming, feeding, laying eggs-until something kills them. And something always does, eventually. That's not to say that turtles have discovered the fountain of youth. "As best I can tell," says Gibbons, "even young turtles look old."
Why an animal ages-or, in a turtle's case, doesn't age-is very much an open question in the world of research gerontology. The question sounds at first too obvious to deserve an answer-they age because they get old, right? Not really, it turns out. No one knows if animals die because their time is up-or because illness, injury or deprivation does them in.
"Can you look at pure aging in the absence of disease?" asks Huber Warner of the National Institute on Aging (NIA) in Bethesda, Maryland. "The pathological changes that we think of as aging are also pathological changes that we think of as disease." For Warner, the deputy associate director of the NIA's Biology of Aging Program, identifying precisely what aging is remains a central research question.
A host of new studies of animal aging is beginning to suggest answers, some unexpected, some hotly debated. Motivating the research is more than curiosity about elderly wildlife: An understanding of how animals age, researchers agree, could lead eventually to drugs and therapies to combat the afflictions of elderly humans.
But arriving at that understanding will take some doing. Consider: A mayfly in its adult stage, born without a mouth and living off energy reserves it's born with, has a life span as brief as three hours. A four-year-old mouse is elderly, as is a dog at 15 years, a horse or a chimp at 40. African elephants can reach 70. Among mammals in particular, a pattern seems to emerge: The bigger you are, the longer you live. (Humans, which have made it to 120 years, presumably have extended their allotment of years with hospitals, health food, step aerobics and the like.)
Observing this pattern, German physiologist Max Rubner theorized in 1908 that all mammals, pound for pound, expend the same amount of energy during their lifetimes. Raymond Pearl, a biologist at Johns Hopkins University, expanded on this notion in 1929, suggesting that each species has a fixed metabolic potential. If so, individuals with fast metabolisms would die sooner than would more sluggish members of the same species. The so-called rate-of-living theory of aging supposes that the daily act of living is harmful and that deterioration is an unavoidable outcome of cell metabolism-in short, that an animal's body steadily falls apart.
As a predictor of life span, the rate-of-living theory does appear to hold true for houseflies and many other insects. "If you put 200 male houseflies into a 1-cubic-foot cage, they'll live an average of 15 days," says Robert Allen, a biologist who studies aging at the Medical College of Pennsylvania. "If you put individual flies in small bottles with cardboard mazes to keep them from flying, they'll live on average for three months." Houseflies, unlike humans, don't benefit from a workout. "If we exercise, we probably live longer," Allen says. "If insects exercise, they just get tired."
Moreover, cold flies, whose metabolism is relatively slow, live longer than warm flies. That explains the handful of slow-moving flies that appear in your home each spring before you've even opened the windows; they've overwintered in some cold corner. Allen also reports the intriguing finding that the total amount of oxygen consumed by flies during their lifetimes, vigorous or sedentary, warm or cold, is almost identical. Discoveries like this have led to theories that oxygen consumption leaves a toxic residue that damages cells and ultimately helps kill the fly. Biological rust, in effect.
But if the large outlive the small, why do birds far outlive rodents of the same size? Why do cats outlive dogs? A different theory views an animal's life span as genetically programmed, like fetal development or puberty. This notion is known as the evolutionary theory of aging, and it supposes that natural selection has determined each species' life span.
The key is an adaptive benefit in each case, though the word "benefit" can be hard to reconcile with what actually happens to the creatures. Consider Pacific salmon. Within days of spawning, populations of adult salmon collapse in cataclysmic die-offs. The salmon don't simply die of exhaustion from propelling themselves upstream to their spawning pools. Rather, the cause is a grotesque onslaught of stress-related ailments: ulcers, infections, enlarged glands, devastated immune systems -all apparently triggered by a flood of adrenal hormones. It is as though Mother Nature had checked her watch and thrown a "hormonal death switch," as University of Southern California neuroscientist Caleb Finch and Stanford University gerontologist Robert Sapolsky have written.
What's tough on a parent can be fine for offspring, however, and therein lies one possible evolutionary justification for such fast-forward senescing. The dead fish, had they lived, wouldn't have helped raise their young. In fact, they might even have competed with their offspring for food-if adult salmon ate in fresh water.
Turtles, along with other nonsenescing animals like lobsters, clams and rockfish (none of them mammals), are at the other extreme. "In terms of evolution," says Gibbons of the Savannah River Ecology Lab, "the measure of success is passing genes on to the next generation, not how long you live." A long life in itself provides an adaptive benefit only in animals with social cohesion.
"Among primates, older individuals have acquired knowledge about the environment and can contribute to the success of their offspring's offspring's offspring," says Gibbons. "A turtle, once it lays its eggs in the ground, walks away." Since turtles, like salmon, show no parental care whatsoever, there is no evolutionary reason for them to live beyond the age of reproduction. And they don't. Healthy turtles never stop reproducing, no matter how old. The older a turtle lives, the bigger its total contribution to the gene pool-and the better its genes' chances of prevailing in the natural-selection sweepstakes.
Rates of aging for mammalian species generally fall somewhere between the extremes of the Pacific salmon's rapid degeneration and the turtle. Unlike the latter, a mammal's fertility begins to fall off as it ages, at least under laboratory conditions. In the wild, an animal is usually dead by the time it's too old to procreate. (Humans are a conspicuous exception.)
Among mammals, variations in how fast individuals in different species age have long perplexed biologists. A porcupine can live to be 20, for instance, while an opossum of the same basic size and metabolic rate is lucky to see its second birthday. Might quills have something to do with it? Yes, they might. Quills, quite obviously, reduce the chances that a porcupine will die young from a predator's attack. Far less obvious is how body armor could help determine innate life span. But natural selection works in wondrous ways.
An ongoing study by evolutionary biologist Steven Austad of the University of Idaho provides an unusually clear-cut illustration of the connection between aging and susceptibility to predation. Austad is studying Virginia opossums on an island off the Georgia coast, where they have evolved for thousands of years free of mammalian predators. Compared to mainland opossums, the island animals not only live as much as 25 percent longer but also stay fertile longer and age more slowly physiologically. Natural selection has presumably chosen different genes as advantageous on the island, and Austad thinks the absence of predators may be the main reason.
Virginia opossums are relatively defenseless, and few in typical mainland populations survive longer than two years. Austad asks: What if a gene that confers some benefit early in life also causes a late-acting genetic malady, one that kills off the few opossums that manage to live beyond two years? That gene will continue to be passed on, the good outweighing the bad. After all, very few of the animals live long enough to fall victim to the hypothesized defect.
On the island, however, the theory goes, opossums that inherit such a defect would be far more likely to live long enough to succumb to it. That's where natural selection could play a key role. If such a defect exists, lucky animals that don't inherit it would live longer and produce far more offspring than their handicapped rivals. With every generation, a smaller proportion of the population would be born with the genetic defect-and animals without it would age beyond mainland opossums, just like the actual island opossums.
A dramatic boost to the evolutionary theory of aging has come from the University of California at Irvine, where biologist Michael R. Rose and colleagues have been experimenting with geriatric fruit flies. In one population, Rose's group destroyed the eggs of all but the oldest members, one generation after another, so that only unusually long-lived flies became parents. Their descendants live 80 percent longer than do flies bred from a lineage of youthful ancestors. "That's the equivalent of a human living 150 years or even 200 years," Rose says.
The idea that genes can affect longevity is becoming widely accepted. More controversial is the idea of an actual longevity gene whose function is to control life span. Thomas E. Johnson, a behavioral geneticist at the University of Colorado, believes that there is such a gene, at least in the animals he studies, nematode worms. He uses chemicals to encourage the tiny worms to mutate, then searches through thousands of offspring to select those whose life spans have been extended by genetic accidents. His longest-lived worms live five weeks; three weeks is the usual upper limit. "We're 99 percent certain that these differences result from a single gene change," he says.
The purpose of experiments like these isn't to create immortality in the lab, of course. "No combination of genes is ever going to produce 40-year-old mice," Johnson notes. Nor 400-year-old humans. But the new genetic work is helping researchers understand animal aging and, by extension, human aging.
A gene's job in the body is to control and choose proteins manufactured by the cells. Ultimately, new drugs might mimic that task, making the later stages of human lives healthier, more comfortable and more productive. Finding ways to prevent Alzheimer's disease in particular is a key goal of research funded by the National Institute on Aging. The drug industry, meanwhile, has shifted close to half its funds for research and development-nearly $4 billion a year-into research related to aging.
Low-tech methods for aging research are also showing promise. One approach, studied since the 1930s but now arousing new interest, is to simply put animals on a diet. Numerous studies of mice, rats and other animals have found that populations fed one third to one half as much as what they would eat freely live up to 50 percent longer. Doubts remain about what conclusions to draw, however. Do the diets block aging itself or the diseases that accompany aging? Are diet-restricted animals doing well only in comparison to lab animals, which may have been pigging out and dying young? More philosophically, is the extra time worth it if you spend it hungry?
New large-scale studies are now under way, but already there is at least one telltale sign that diet restriction is a promising research direction: When the first beneficial results became clear, many of the human researchers themselves promptly went on diets. Just in case.
Freelance writer Doug Stewart is all too aware he's a member of a senescing species. Yet he's glad he's not a turtle.


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Words are, Fox is developing a remake to the swashbuckling movie, with the tentative title 'Zorro Reborn'.
Rumor has it, "Zorro" will get a reboot which is tentatively called "Zorro Reborn". Unlike the previous "Zorro" films whose story was based on the historical setting, the upcoming movie will reportedly be set in the future.
24 Frames reported that 20th Century Fox is developing "Zorro Reborn" with a plot set in a desolate and post-apocalyptic time. The site also mentioned, "In this version, Zorro will be less a caped crusader for justice than a one-man vigilante force bent on revenge, in a western story that has echoes of both Sergio Leone and 'No Country for Old Men'. "
"Zorro Reborn" is expected to provide a juicy lead role for a young actor. Lee Shipman and Brian McGreevy, the screenwriters behind the "Dracula" reboot "Harker" at Warner Bros. Pictures, will provide the script for the forthcoming film.
In the meantime, Rpin Suwannath will helm the project. Suwannath has previously worked as a previsualization specialist in a number of films, including "The Matrix" sequels and some "X-Men" films including soon-to-be-released "X-Men: First Class".
Zorro was first brought to big screen in 1998 with "The Mask of Zorro". It features Anthony Hopkins as aging Don Diego de la Vega who passes the whip to a young misfit (Antonio Banderas), who in turn becomes the new Zorro. The second film, entitled "The Legend of Zorro", was released in 2005.


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Do you, or someone you know, love wine? Do you find that your collection tends to grow quickly? Mine sure does.
I'm not a frequent wine drinker, but I do enjoy a glass from time to time.
I often get wine as gifts, as well as wine sent to me to review. I appreciate the wines, I just don't always have a place to store it. I ended up stacking them up on their sides on a shelf until my collection outgrew the small space. Then I took to standing them up inside the back of the hallway closet. That idea worked OK but it was hard to find what I wanted when I needed it. What I really needed was a wine rack.
Have you seen the price of wine racks? Oh my! They are a small fortune. It almost makes collecting wines not worth while.
I did find a solution – handmade wine racks from a company called ThinkEco². The company is owned and operated by Brian Behncke. By day Brian operates Briven Construction. At night Brian repurposes cedar products into wine racks, wine boxes, patio tables, planters and more.
ThinkEco² has wine racks that house a dozen bottles of wine for less than $40. I have seen wine racks that hold less than that a amount of bottles for double that amount.
ThinkEco² was kind enough to send me a wine rack to review.
I love that the wine rack has a bit of a "rustic" and natural look to it. I am not a "fancy" person. I don't need fancy things. I like things that are made for real people. This wine rack was made for the casual, and not-so-casual, wine collector.
The bottles in the pictures are not wine (they are assorted boozes). I just grabbed a few random bottles to test out the wine rack. Currently the wine rack is in my closet filled with mostly wine. I was able to lie a few more bottles on top of it.
I couldn't take a photo of it in the closet because it's too dark.
The wine rack has really helped me to keep my wine and other beverages organized and not rolling around all over the closet, or stacked on top of each other where I could never find what I was looking for.
You can use it vertically or horizontally. You can even stack multiple wine racks.
The wine rack is well made. It's hard to believe it's made from repurposed wood. I love how they took extra care to make sure the corners were done sturdy too.
ThinkEco² will also make custom orders.
I love the idea of a wine box. I think that would make a great gift for newlyweds.
This is a wonderful way to repurpose wood and keep it from rotting in landfills.
On ThinkEco²'s Esty shop there are 52 product reviews and all but one of them are 5 stars. I'm clearly not the only one who is a fan of ThinkEco²'s exceptionally well made eco-friendly products.
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Embattled developer
The company has a $1.3 billion development pipeline for the coming decade, and three major projects on the east coast.
Chief executive
However, he admitted market conditions were testing, given weak sentiment in the residential sector. The carbon tax was also a concern, although Becton was not a large emitter and was well positioned to respond to the challenge.
The company's presentation of its 2010-11 full-year results said debt was reduced from $276.3 million to $201.9 million during the year.
The company was able to slash debt through a debt for equity swap undertaken as part of a capital management plan made with Bank of Scotland International in June. Under the deal, $33 million in senior debt was converted to equity, and $32 million turned into subordinate debt.
The deal involved extending the trust's remaining $95 million-plus debt to Bank of Scotland International to 2013.
Long-suffering unit holders have seen the property group's share price tumble from more than $5 in 2007 a near 12-month low of just 0.8¢ yesterday. The restructure has left them with the prospect of no distributions for five years.
The group's $1 billion unlisted funds management business, which was sold to 360 Capital in December, contributed $2.4 million in earnings.
The company sold its remaining interests in the funds in June.
Becton has a further two loans with Suncorp worth $7.7 million falling due this month and next month.
Management said negotiations were well advanced and they believed the debt would be refinanced or repaid by their respective deadlines.
A $73.6 million loan, held by a retirement alliance half-owned by Becton, falls due in November.
Becton said refinancing negotiations with a preferred debt provider were well advanced.
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§ 104-1 Title; definitions.
§ 104-2 Congregation or assemblage of people.
§ 104-3 Games and sports.
§ 104-4 Fire lines.
§ 104-5 Lift bridges.
§ 104-6 Roller-skating and skateboarding.
§ 104-7 Swinging gates.
§ 104-8 Trapdoors and grates in sidewalks; skylights.
§ 104-9 Repair of vehicles on streets.
§ 104-10 Hindering or obstructing improvements.
§ 104-11 Responsibility for maintaining sidewalks free of obstructions and snow and ice.
§ 104-12 Excavations near streets.
§ 104-13 Excavations in streets.
§ 104-14 Traffic control devices and detours around street work.
§ 104-15 Permit required for construction or repair.
§ 104-16 Restoration of streets and public places.
§ 104-17 Restoration guaranty.
§ 104-18 Tests on street restorations.
§ 104-19 Restoration by city; costs.
§ 104-20 Extended maintenance fee.
§ 104-21 Liability for damages and claims.
§ 104-22 Interference with survey monuments.
§ 104-23 Moving buildings along streets.
§ 104-24 Street obstructions.
§ 104-25 Driveways and curb cuts.
§ 104-26 Jurisdiction and penalties.
§ 104-27 Street reconstruction cost sharing.
§ 104-28 Neighborhood traffic calming.
§ 104-29 Complete Streets Policy.
§ 104-1 Title; definitions.
This article which comprises Chapter 104 of the Municipal Code shall be known and cited as the "Streets Code."
The following definitions shall apply to words used in this chapter:
- Above ground level.
- Device or structure used to prevent access to a specific area.
- The area bounded by the Inner Loop, but excluding the Inner
Loop and its frontage.[Added 6-16-1992 by Ord. No. 92-264]
- Commissioner of Environmental Services.
- The boundary line on either side of a roadway or paved portion of a street.
- To intrude upon, above or beneath a street or other public place.
- A building or object which intrudes upon, above or beneath a street or other public place.
- That portion of a street improved, designed or ordinarily used for vehicular traffic.
- That paved portion of a street between the curb lines or the lateral lines of a roadway, and the adjacent property lines intended for pedestrian use.
- The entire width between the boundary lines of every way publicly maintained when any part thereof is open to the public for their use for the purposes of vehicular and/or pedestrian traffic.
- The boundary line on either side of a street.
- Below ground level.
§ 104-2 Congregation or assemblage of people.
At the time of any public parade, accident, riot, public peril or other circumstances causing people to congregate or assemble, no person shall enter or remain within the lines or other bounds established by the police or by or under the direction of an authorized City official for the preservation of public safety, peace and order, unless such person is duly authorized by an officer in charge at the scene.
§ 104-3 Games and sports.
No person shall play with a ball or fly a kite or play any type of game or sport in the street.
§ 104-4 Fire lines.
At any fire, the police shall immediately establish and maintain fire lines by placing ropes or other barriers as circumstances may require and shall exclude from the streets within the fire lines all vehicles and persons, except officials or employees of the City in the discharge of duty, and such persons as are entitled to wear and are actually wearing conspicuously upon an outside garment the fire line badge of the Police Department.
Owners of property endangered, personally known to the police to be entitled to remove the same, may be admitted within the fire lines upon order of the superior officer present and not otherwise.
No person shall in any way impede the access to a fire, or its vicinity, of any apparatus, official or employee of the City or enter or remain within the fire lines without permission, and no person shall, by disorderly conduct or otherwise, impede the work of extinguishing a fire or of protecting lives and property.
At a fire or in the case of a fire alarm, the fire apparatus and all City officials and employees in the discharge of their duty have the right-of-way and full unobstructed use of the streets.
§ 104-5 Lift bridges.
[Amended 2-14-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-22]
No person shall climb or step upon or attempt to cross or operate a vehicle upon a lift bridge after the flagperson or operator has given a warning or signal not to do so; and no person shall be upon a bridge while the same is being operated or is in motion.
§ 104-6 Roller-skating and skateboarding. [1]
[Added 6-16-1992 by Ord. No. 92-264]
The following restrictions shall apply to roller skaters, including persons on skates with a single row of rollers, and skateboarders in the city:
Children under the age of 12 shall not roller-skate or skateboard on any roadway, except while crossing a roadway upon a crosswalk.
Roller-skating and skateboarding are prohibited in the following areas:
In the parks within the Central Business District.
In the area bordered by the east facade of the Sibley Building, Franklin Street and East Main Street, including John F. Kennedy Square and a portion of Liberty Pole Way.
On the sidewalks, ramps, steps and plaza in front of and adjacent to the Rochester Riverside Convention Center.
Except for roller-skating between the hours of 6:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m., Monday through Friday, and on Saturday or Sunday or on legal holidays:
On Main Street, including the sidewalks and ramps along Main Street, between Plymouth Avenue on the west and the Inner Loop on the east.
On South Clinton Avenue, including the sidewalks and ramps along South Clinton Avenue, between Byron Street on the south and East Main Street on the north.
In the parking garages designated in § 111-118 of the Municipal Code and the Metro Center Garage located at 455-501 East Main Street, as well as all entrances thereto.
On the Inner Loop and its frontage.
On interstate highways.
Roller skaters or skateboarders shall keep to the right side of a roadway, as close to the right curb as possible, and where special pathways are provided for roller skaters, skateboarders and bicyclists, such pathways must be used.
Roller skaters and skateboarders must obey all traffic control devices.
Roller skaters and skateboarders must not skate two or more abreast in the roadway.
§ 104-7 Swinging gates.
No gate that swings outward over any sidewalk shall be constructed or maintained.
§ 104-8 Trapdoors and grates in sidewalks; skylights.
No trapdoor or grate shall be left open in a sidewalk at any time, except when receiving or delivering goods, and during such time, the door or grate shall be surrounded by barriers sufficient to secure public safety.
All iron or steel doors, glass skylights, gratings and covers of any kind in sidewalks shall be constructed and maintained by the adjacent property owner so as to be in a safe condition at all times.
§ 104-9 Repair of vehicles on streets. [1]
[Added 12-14-1993 by Ord. No. 93-435]
No person shall repair a vehicle on a street, except for such repairs as may be necessitated by an emergency.
§ 104-10 Hindering or obstructing improvements.
No person shall hinder or obstruct the construction or repair of any pavement, sidewalk, crosswalk, sewer or other public improvement which is being done under the direction of or with the consent of the City Engineer or hinder or obstruct any person employed by the City in cleaning any street.
§ 104-11 Responsibility for maintaining sidewalks free of obstructions and snow and ice.
The person occupying the ground floor of a building and the owner of a building or lot must keep the sidewalks adjoining such building or lot free and clear from all obstructions and from weeds and rubbish.
All sidewalks located within the Central Traffic District (as defined in § 111-2) must be swept daily at or before the start of each business day and must not be swept later than said time, so as to remove dirt, dust and other accumulation therefrom.
[Amended 9-28-1982 by Ord. No. 82-445]
The owner of a building or lot must keep the sidewalks adjoining such building or lot free and clear from snow and ice and must not suffer or permit snow or ice to collect or remain on such sidewalk later than 9:00 a.m. if such snow shall have fallen or collected after 8:00 p.m. of the previous evening or later than 8:00 p.m. if such snow shall have fallen and collected after 9:00 a.m. When the snow is removed from sidewalks by City contractors or City employees using plows, it shall be the duty of the owner to remove the snow and ice remaining after such plows have gone through. The portion of the sidewalk required to be kept free from snow and ice is the portion thereof which is paved, if any, and if no portion is paved, a space at least four feet in width shall be kept free and clear as stated above.
[Amended 12-15-2015 by Ord. No. 2015-402]
No person shall remove snow or ice from private property or structures and deposit it on the sidewalk or roadway of any street or against a fire hydrant or on the loading or unloading areas of a public transportation system, nor shall any person authorize or permit such removal and depositing. No person shall remove snow or ice from the sidewalks and deposit it on the roadway of any street, nor shall any person authorize or permit such removal and depositing. These prohibitions shall apply to any means for removing and depositing snow or ice.
§ 104-12 Excavations near streets.
Any person who digs a cellar or other excavation adjacent to and within five feet of the line of the street, must erect barriers between said excavation and the street sufficient to secure public safety and must at all times during the night keep lighted lamps upon said barriers in such manner as to give warning of the presence of the excavation. In case of failure to do so, the City Engineer may cause such barriers and lights to be placed at the expense of the owner or occupant of the property.
§ 104-13 Excavations in streets.
No person shall injure or interfere with any street or make any opening therein or dig in any areaway, sewer, manhole or vault in a street without a permit in writing from the City Engineer and under such conditions as he or she may impose. The City Engineer may order any areaway, sewer or other excavation dug or constructed contrary to the provisions of this section to be filled up or altered and the pavement replaced at the expense of the person causing the excavation. If the person causing the excavation does not comply with such an order, the City Engineer may cause the work to be performed and charge such person for the costs of the work and an additional 15% for administration.
[Amended 2-14-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-22]
Notice to maintainers of underground utilities.
In all cases where excavations are to be made, applications for such permit shall be made in writing to the City Engineer, and the applicant shall comply with the applicable provisions of the Industrial Code of the New York State Department of Labor concerning notice to maintainers of underground utilities.
Upon receipt of such notice, each public or private utility or government agency utility operating conduits or mains which transmit or distribute water, steam, communications, electricity, gas, sewage or any other thing or material in the vicinity of such excavation shall advise the person by whom or for whose benefit the work is being done as to the location of any such facility, and the excavation work shall be conducted so as not to disturb or damage such facilities.
Nothing herein contained shall relieve the person by whom or for whose benefit the excavating is done from the duty of conducting the excavating in a safe and proper manner so that gas leakage or damage to mains, conduits, facilities or any other property will not result.
§ 104-14 Traffic control devices and detours around street work.
Whenever work of any type occurs under, on or above a street, it is the duty of the person performing the work to place traffic control devices and maintain said devices about the place where the work is being done so as to secure the public safety and to establish and maintain required detours until said street is returned to normal condition. The Traffic Control Board shall regulate traffic in the work area, and the person performing the work shall provide and install all traffic control devices necessary to conform to the requirements of the Traffic Control Board and the New York State Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices.
§ 104-15 Permit required for construction or repair.
No person shall construct or repair a street or sidewalk without a permit in writing from the City Engineer.
§ 104-16 Restoration of streets and public places.
[Amended 2-14-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-22]
All persons working, obstructing or making excavations in streets or public places in the City must restore the street or public place to its condition prior to the work, obstruction or excavation in a manner approved by the City Engineer. The City Engineer shall have the authority to order the proper restoration of any public place where work was done without a permit or in violation of any conditions of such a permit or of this chapter. If proper restoration is not made, the person shall be liable for any damages sustained as a result of the failure to properly restore the area. The City Engineer may, on five days' written notice served by ordinary mail, or the Commissioner or his or her representative may, without notice if an emergency situation exists, effect such restoration at the expense of the person doing such work in the street or public place, with an additional 15% for administrative costs. An invoice for the total cost shall be mailed to the responsible person for payment within 30 days of the invoice date. Within this thirty-day period, the responsible person may appeal the invoice or any portion thereof to the Commissioner. The Corporation Counsel may institute an appropriate action or proceeding at law against such person for recovery of the costs and administrative expenses of such restoration by the City Engineer, plus any penalties prescribed by this chapter and the costs of such action or proceeding. No further permits shall be granted to such person until he or she has properly restored all streets and public places or has reimbursed the City Engineer for restoration effected by the city.
§ 104-17 Restoration guaranty.
All persons working and making excavations in streets or public places must guarantee their permanent restoration work for a period of two years from the date of acceptance of the permanent restoration by the City Engineer. The permit holder may be required to completely reexcavate, refill and repave any permanent restoration that fails within the two-year guarantee period.
If, at any time, whether during or after the two-year guarantee period, it is discovered that the permanent restoration was not made in accordance with City specifications, the permit holder shall be responsible for making a proper restoration.
§ 104-18 Tests on street restorations.
[Amended 6-15-1999 by Ord. No. 99-195; 6-17-2008 by Ord. No. 2008-206; 6-19-2012 by Ord. No. 2012-235; 6-16-2015 by Ord. No. 2015-166[1]]
The City has the right to order a test on any street restoration in order to determine if the work has been completed in accordance with City specifications. If the test shows the street restoration to be acceptable, the testing costs will be borne by the City. If the first test shows the street restoration to be unacceptable, the permit holder must pay the amount of $640, and for additional tests the amount of $850, in addition to making the proper restoration. No further permits will be issued to said permit holder until the invoice for the testing and penalty has been paid.
Editor's Note: This ordinance provided an effective date of 7-1-2015.
§ 104-19 Restoration by city; costs.
Permanent restoration of a street cut or excavation may be made by the city, through its Street Maintenance Division, if the permit holder so desires and if approved by the Commissioner. The Commissioner shall establish rules and regulations regarding restoration by the City and the requirements for permit holders requesting the City to perform such restoration.
The permit holder shall pay to the City the total cost estimate of the work based upon the current unit prices prepared by the Street Maintenance Division. The Street Maintenance Division may revise unit prices twice a year. The initial payment by the permit holder shall be calculated from his or her estimate of the size of the excavation including a six-inch cutback on all sides of the excavation to be performed by the city. If the actual dimensions exceed the original estimate, the permit holder shall be responsible for the additional amount due.
[Amended 2-14-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-22]
If any charge so made by the City remains unpaid after 30 days of the invoice date, no further permits for any excavation shall be issued to said permit holder until the payment is made.
§ 104-20 Extended maintenance fee.
An extended maintenance fee in addition to the regular permit fee shall be paid by the permit applicant whenever an excavation will be made in a newly reconstructed or newly resurfaced pavement.
The extended maintenance fee will be charged at time of permit issuance for a period of 15 years after a street has been reconstructed and for a period of seven years after a street has been resurfaced. The cost of the extended maintenance fee will be based on the size of the pavement excavation.
[Amended 5-12-1992 by Ord. No. 92-180; 6-15-1999 by Ord. No. 99-195]
The extended maintenance fee shall be waived for public and private utilities in all cases where the City has not provided a minimum advance notice of 60 days of the street improvement work to them so that they can complete all necessary work prior to the street improvement. After receiving the advance notice, the permit applicant may request a sixty-day extension if extensive work is necessary.
The extended maintenance fee shall be waived for property owners undertaking new development or performing improvements to their property in cases where the extended maintenance fee exceeds 1% of the total cost of the improvements being undertaken. This waiver shall only apply to property owners or their contractors doing work within the right-of-way at their own expense and not to work being performed by public and private utilities in connection with this development.
§ 104-21 Liability for damages and claims.
The permittee shall be liable for any damages or claims arising from the performance of any work for which a permit is required. This Article shall not be construed as imposing liability on the city, its officers or employees for any damages or claims arising from the performance of work under a permit; nor shall the city, its officers or employees be deemed to have assumed any liability or responsibilities by reason of the issuance of a permit, the approval of any work or any inspections made at the site of any permitted work.
§ 104-22 Interference with survey monuments.
No person shall interfere with, disturb or move any survey monument without having obtained a permit in writing from the City Engineer. Interference for the purpose of this section shall be defined as any excavation work within three feet of a survey monument or any extensive excavation work further than three feet from a survey monument that may affect the accuracy of the monument.
§ 104-23 Moving buildings along streets.
No person shall move a building upon or along a street without a permit in writing from the City Engineer, which permit shall specify the route to be taken and contain such additional conditions as the City Engineer deems necessary.
§ 104-24 Street obstructions.
No person shall place or suffer to remain materials of any kind or any goods, wares, merchandise, equipment, machinery or other article or obstruction in, upon or over any street, alley, sidewalk or other public place without a permit in writing from the City Engineer, except while in the process of actively loading or unloading. Unless skids are necessary, a passageway for pedestrians shall be kept open while loading or unloading. This section shall not prohibit the doing of anything otherwise permitted by law or ordinance in the manner and form therein set forth, including the maintenance of newsstands so permitted.
The permit shall contain such conditions and be effective for a period of time as shall be established by the City Engineer. Such permits may be revoked by the City Engineer without notice.
The person to whom such permit is granted must cause all obstructions or materials to be enclosed with barriers sufficient to secure public safety and at all times during the night must keep lighted lamps upon said barriers to give warning to all persons.
All such materials, obstructions and rubbish arising therefrom must be removed not later than the expiration date of the permit, and immediately upon the revocation of the permit.
§ 104-25 Driveways and curb cuts.
It shall be unlawful to drive any vehicles over a curb or sidewalk or to lower any curb or change the grade of any sidewalk for the purpose of providing a driveway across such curb or sidewalk, except upon complying with the following conditions and obtaining a permit in writing from the City Engineer:
Application shall be made in writing to the City Engineer by the owner of the abutting premises or by his or her contractor or authorized representative.
[Amended 2-14-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-22]
Every such driveway shall be paved with concrete or other approved material and shall be constructed in accordance with the terms set by the City Engineer, and the condition that upon failure to comply with all the terms of the permit, the privilege may be revoked and the curb and sidewalk ordered restored to its original grade and condition at the expense of the permittee or the owner of the abutting premises.
Should the vehicular or other use of such driveway, in the opinion of the City Engineer, be or become dangerous to vehicles or pedestrians, the City Engineer shall give notice in writing to the owner of the abutting property to discontinue the use of such driveway and to restore the curb and sidewalk to their original or proper condition within 10 days.
Whenever the abutting property owner discontinues the use of a driveway, it shall be his or her responsibility to abandon the driveway by replacing the curb, removing the driveway apron and restoring the sidewalk and tree lawn area to their original or proper condition.
[Amended 2-14-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-22]
The City Engineer shall refuse a permit to lower any curb or to change the grade of any sidewalk when, in his or her opinion, the actual or intended use of such driveway would endanger pedestrians or interfere with the flow of traffic or create an inordinate hazard on the abutting street. The City Engineer shall adopt and promulgate rules and regulations governing the location, size and construction of driveways or curbs as he or she deems necessary.
[Amended 2-14-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-22]
The City Engineer shall have the power to require the construction of acceleration, deceleration or turning lanes as he or she deems necessary to be provided along the street abutting such driveway.
[Amended 2-14-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-22]
The City Engineer shall not issue a permit for any driveway or curb cut in the Central Traffic District unless the plans have been approved by the Traffic Control Board as to the location and dimensions of entrance and exit drives and the necessity of providing acceleration or deceleration lanes along the street at the entrance and exit drives. The Traffic Control Board may deny approval to any plans for driveways or curb cuts which will interfere with the continuity of traffic flow in the street.
§ 104-26 Jurisdiction and penalties.
[Amended 6-13-1989 by Ord. No. 89-199]
The Municipal Code Violations Bureau shall hear and determine charges involving violations of this article.
Any person who violates this article shall be subject to the penalties set forth in § 13A-11 of the Municipal Code. Every day of said violation may be held to constitute a separate offense.
For purposes of § 13A-11, the following sections are designated as sections for which violators shall be subject to the penalties established in § 13A-11B:
Hindering or obstructing improvements
Excavations near streets
Excavations in streets
Traffic control devices and detours around street work
Permit required for construction or repair
Restoration of streets and public places
Interference with survey monuments
Moving buildings along streets
Street obstructions
Driveways and curb cuts
§ 104-27 Street reconstruction cost sharing.
[Added 6-4-1985 by Ord. No. 85-221]
When a public or private utility performs work on its facilities within the roadway in conjunction with a City street project and the extent of the work is substantial enough as determined by the City Engineer to dictate the total reconstruction of a street originally scheduled for rehabilitation, the public or private utility performing the work within the project limits shall share in the additional cost to reconstruct the street.
The street reconstruction cost share shall be equal to the pavement reconstruction costs of the normal excavation limits required to complete the utility work. Payment of the reconstruction shares by private utilities shall be made through the street opening permit process.
§ 104-28 Neighborhood traffic calming.
[Added 8-19-1997 by Ord. No. 97-302]
The Council hereby approves the use of neighborhood speed humps as a geometric street feature to serve as a traffic calming device on local residential streets. The City Engineer is authorized to adopt rules and regulations as necessary to establish eligibility criteria for streets which may participate in the program, and to establish the location and configuration of the speed humps on eligible streets.
§ 104-29 Complete Streets Policy.
[Added 11-15-2011 by Ord. No. 2011-356]
Purpose. The City seeks to create an interconnected network of transportation facilities which accommodate all modes of travel in a manner that is consistent with neighborhood context and supportive of community goals by establishing a Complete Streets Policy to incorporate active transportation into the planning, design, and operation of all future City street projects, whether new construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, or pavement maintenance. Active transportation attempts to better integrate physical activity into our daily lives through increased emphasis on walking, bicycling, and public transportation. Active transportation improves public health, reduces traffic congestion, enhances air quality, and supports local economic development. Complete streets are streets that are planned, designed, operated, and maintained to enable safe access for all users and upon which pedestrians, bicyclists, transit users, persons with disabilities, and motorists of all ages and abilities are able to safely move along and across.
The City Engineer shall include bicycle, pedestrian and transit facilities in all street construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation and pavement maintenance projects conducted by or on behalf of the City, as appropriate, subject to the exceptions contained herein.
The City shall plan, design, build and maintain all bicycle, pedestrian, and transit facilities in accordance with accepted federal, state and local standards and guidelines, but will consider innovative and/or nontraditional design options, as appropriate.
The incorporation of bicycle, pedestrian, and transit facilities shall be mandated in all street construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation and pavement maintenance projects undertaken by or on behalf of the City, except under one or more of the following conditions:
The City Engineer determines there is insufficient space within the right-of-way to safely accommodate such new facilities.
The City Engineer determines that establishing such new facilities would require an excessive and disproportionate cost.
The City Engineer determines that inclusion of such new facilities would create a public safety risk for users of the public right-of-way.
The project is limited to routine or seasonal maintenance activities such as mowing, sweeping, or spot pavement repairs, including chip and seal and crack seal activities.
Bicyclists and pedestrians are prohibited by law from using the facility.
The Traffic Control Board shall review all street construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation and pavement maintenance projects for consistency with this policy.
The City Council shall receive an annual report from the City Engineer on the City's consistency with this policy with respect to all street construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation and pavement maintenance projects under design or construction by or on behalf of the City.
Planning studies and/or engineering reports for street projects prepared by or on behalf of the City shall include documentation of compliance with this policy.


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Gas main replacements taking place in Penryn for eight weeks from the New Year have been described as "essential" by the company carrying out the work.
Wales and West Utilities will begin work on St Thomas Street on Monday, January 7, which is expected to be completed at the beginning of March.
The project, to replace 150 metres of old metal gas pipes with new plastic pipe, is said to represent a "significant investment" by the gas company, which added the work was "essential to maintain gas supplies to local people and businesses in the area."
To minimise disruption and excavation, the company will be using 'keyhole' techniques to insert new plastic pipe inside the existing metal pipe. The non-corroding plastic pipes should have a lifespan of more than 80 years.
For the safety of road users, pedestrians and the workforce involved, Cornwall Council's highways department has agreed that St Thomas Street should be closed for the duration of the project.
A diversion route will be clearly signposted and businesses in the affected area will be open as usual, with deliveries allowed to take place.
Paul Trevaskis, project manager from Wales & West, said: "We appreciate that this work is taking place in a sensitive area and we will be working hard to ensure that the project is completed as quickly as possible.
"We are very aware of the effect of this work on local people and businesses and we will be working closely with the local authority throughout the project to ensure that inconvenience to local people and road users is kept to an absolute minimum."
He added that the work was part of a multi million pound, 30-year replacement programme being carried out across the South West and Wales.


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text: Bayou Manchac forms the original boundary between East Baton Rouge Parish and Ascension Parish in south-central Louisiana. (Small changes in the bayou's course have subsequently left small areas of Ascension north of the river and small areas of East Baton Rouge south of it.) The bayou, which empties into the Amite River -- which flows into Lake Maurepas, not into the Mississippi -- was the Sieur d'Iberville's route into the area in March 1699, and it was a major trading route in south Louisiana throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. It formed the northern local border of the Louisiana Purchase in December 1803, Baton Rouge and the parishes to the east (and north of the Isle of Orleans) remaining under Spanish Control and known as West Florida. This area is still known as the "Florida Parishes." In the past, settlers along the bayou generally said they lived "in Manchac" (as settlers on Bayou Lafourche usually said they lived "on Lafourche"), but this should not be seen as implying the existence of a town of that name. The only town in the area was the now-vanished Galveztown, at the juncture of Bayou Manchac and the Amite. The town of Manchac, or Port Manchac, in Tangipahoa Parish has no connection with the bayou itself.