November 01, 2011
NABLUS - Munib al-Masri offers a tour of his olive grove, the Islamic gardens with fountains under the stone arch transported from the South of France and the enclosure that houses his gazelles. Comfortable in his Bermuda shorts and faded shirt, al-Masri walks and talks through his 24 hectares of property with no shortage of eloquence or charm. He is accompanied by his eight-year-old grandson, whom he's put in charge of answering his cell phone.
The air is crisp at the top of Mount Gerazim. Al-Masri says it is always like this, even when the summer heat is crushing the rest of the West Bank.
He gestures toward the surrounding hills. His neighbors include a Jewish settlement and an early-warning center for the Israeli army. In the valley below is Nablus, dubbed the "terrorism capital" during the second Intifada, and formerly known as Shechem of the Samaritans and of the Jews, as frequently mentioned in the book of Deuteronomy. The small Arab-Jewish community of roughly 700 people lives on this still-sacred mount believed to have been spared during the deluge.
The temple that was built in 330 B.C. no longer exists, most likely destroyed by the Byzantine emperor Xenon. In its place, al-Masri has built his own personal temple, an extravagant folly inspired by the 16th-century Palladian villas outside Venice. The cupola, which resembles the one in St. Peter's basilica in the Vatican and the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, can be seen for miles away.
Al-Masri loathes the term "billionaire," not to mention the title of the "world's richest Palestinian." When confronted with the fact that serious people estimate his fortune at around $5 billion, he says he doesn't know how much he's worth. "I have worked a lot," he says. "I gave much to Palestine. I am a simple man, and am rich from being a Palestinian nationalist."
A close companion of Yasser Arafat, al-Masri made his fortune in oil and gas. He is the head of the Padico investment holding group, which controls 35 companies that include the sectors of telecommunications, construction, tourism, energy, environment, banking, finance and agriculture. He also founded the Edgo group (industry, commerce, health, education, distribution, etc.), which oversees 29 companies across the Middle East, Africa, Europe and North America.
A philanthropist, an art sponsor, tapped three times to serve as Palestinian prime minister – he refused each time – and an intermediary between Fatah and Hamas, al-Masri has lived many lives. At 77, he now wants to focus on Palestinian reconciliation, and "doesn't want to die" before witnessing the creation of an independent Palestinian state.
American wife, Byzantine church
Born in Nablus, he studied in the United States earning a degree in petroleum geology at the University of Texas, where he met his American wife, Angela. It was there, at age 19, that he imagined "Beit Filistine," or the "House of Palestine," which he built on Mount Gerazim, importing almost all the construction materials from France. The residence, he says, proves to the world and to the Israelis that Palestinians have the courage, the pride, "the resistance and the perseverance" to meet such a challenge.
In the morning, when al-Masri walks through the vast hall, he sometimes stops in the middle, in front of a marble statue of Hercules directly below the 80-meter-high "Dome of Tolerance." He says that Hercules symbolizes the spirit of the Palestinians. "Arafat used to say that we are the most resistant people in the world," he adds.
The construction of al-Masri's palace was completed in 2000 during the Intifada. While digging, construction workers unearthed a 5th century Byzantine church, which al-Masri preserved. In the rooms on the ground floor, alongside Picassos and Modiglianis, are tapestries, silver pieces, Louis XIV sofas, a wooden staircase from Italy and a chimney from Versailles. The park, where 10,000 olive trees are planted, was laid out by 35,000 trucks that removed rocks and fertile soil.
When asked why such a Baroque project, al-Masri answers serenely: "I could live in London, Geneva or New York, but I prefer Nablus." Perhaps because "Beit Filistine" is a central location for working on Palestinian reconciliation. On the day we met, three Hamas officials from the West Bank came to discuss an accord announced in May but effectively dead on arrival.
For him, extremists "are the product of oppression, of anger and the denial of dignity." The Israelis must recognize Palestinian independence now, he insists. "Otherwise, 15 years from now, they will be desperate for a Palestinian Mandela, because Israel will have become an apartheid state."
In early July, al-Masri received a group of Israeli officers from the West Bank coordination unit. He offered dates and baklava, noting that the Palestinian sweets were sent to him by his "friend," Khaled Mishaal, the head of the Hamas political bureau, in exile in Damascus. "Khaled sends greetings," he told his disconcerted guests.
While showing us out, the "simple man" from Mount Gerazim offered us parting gifts: a single lemon and organic tomato from his garden.
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Once meant to protect the royal family, the century-old law has become a tool for the military-led government in Bangkok to stamp out all dissent. A new report outlines the abuses.
Laura Valentina Cortés Sierra
October 22, 2021
"We need to reform the institution of the monarchy in Thailand. It is the root of the problem." Those words, from Thai student activist Juthatip Sirikan, are a clear expression of the growing youth-led movement that is challenging the legitimacy of the government and demanding deep political changes in the Southeast Asian nation. Yet those very same words could also send Sirikan to jail.
Thailand's Criminal Code 'Lèse-Majesté' Article 112 imposes jail terms for defaming, insulting, or threatening the monarchy, with sentences of three to 15 years. This law has been present in Thai politics since 1908, though applied sparingly, only when direct verbal or written attacks against members of the royal family.
But after the May 2014 military coup d'état, Thailand experienced the first wave of lèse-majesté arrests, prosecutions, and detentions of at least 127 individuals arrested in a much wider interpretation of the law.
The recent report 'Second Wave: The Return of Lèse-Majesté in Thailand', documents how the Thai government has "used and abused Article 112 of the Criminal Code to target pro-democracy activists and protesters in relation to their online political expression and participation in peaceful pro-democracy demonstrations."
Criticism of any 'royal project'
The investigation shows 124 individuals, including at least eight minors, have been charged with lèse-majesté between November 2020 and August 2021. Nineteen of them served jail time. The new wave of charges is cited as a response to the rising pro-democracy protests across Thailand over the past year.
Juthatip Sirikan explains that the law is now being applied in such a broad way that people are not allowed to question government budgets and expenditure if they have any relationship with the royal family, which stifles criticism of the most basic government decision-making since there are an estimated 5,000 ongoing "royal" projects. "Article 112 of lèse-majesté could be the key (factor) in Thailand's political problems" the young activist argues.
In 2020 the Move Forward opposition party questioned royal spending paid by government departments, including nearly 3 billion baht (89,874,174 USD) from the Defense Ministry and Thai police for royal security, and 7 billion baht budgeted for royal development projects, as well as 38 planes and helicopters for the monarchy. Previously, on June 16, 2018, it was revealed that Thailand's Crown Property Bureau transferred its entire portfolio to the new King Maha Vajiralongkorn.
Protestors In Bangkok Call For Political Prisoner Release
Freedom of speech at stake
"Article 112 shuts down all freedom of speech in this country", says Sirikan. "Even the political parties fear to touch the subject, so it blocks most things. This country cannot move anywhere if we still have this law."
The student activist herself was charged with lèse-majesté in September 2020, after simply citing a list of public documents that refer to royal family expenditure. Sirikan comes from a family that has faced the consequences of decades of political repression. Her grandfather, Tiang Sirikhan was a journalist and politician who openly protested against Thailand's involvement in World War II. He was accused of being a Communist and abducted in 1952. According to Sirikhan's family, he was killed by the state.
The new report was conducted by The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), Thai Lawyer for Human Rights (TLHR), and Internet Law Reform Dialogue (iLaw). It accuses Thai authorities of an increasingly broad interpretation of Article 112, to the point of "absurdity," including charges against people for criticizing the government's COVID-19 vaccine management, wearing crop tops, insulting the previous monarch, or quoting a United Nations statement about Article 112.
Juthatip Sirikan speaks in front of democracy monument.
Shift to social media
While in the past the Article was only used against people who spoke about the royals, it's now being used as an alibi for more general political repression — which has also spurred more open campaigning to abolish it. Sirikan recounts recent cases of police charging people for spreading paint near the picture of the king during a protest, or even just for having a picture of the king as phone wallpaper.
The more than a century-old law is now largely playing out online, where much of today's protest takes place in Thailand. Sirikan says people are willing to go further on social media to expose information such as how the king intervenes in politics and the monarchy's accumulation of wealth, information the mainstream media rarely reports on them.
Not surprisingly, however, social media is heavily monitored and the military is involved in Intelligence operations and cyber attacks against human rights defenders and critics of any kind. In October 2020, Twitter took down 926 accounts, linked to the army and the government, which promoted themselves and attacked political opposition, and this June, Google removed two Maps with pictures, names, and addresses, of more than 400 people who were accused of insulting the Thai monarchy. "They are trying to control the internet as well," Sirikan says. "They are trying to censor every content that they find a threat".
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Russian President Vladimir Putin now says he was aware of former NSA contractor Edward Snowden’s request for Russian asylum while he was still in Hong Kong, of which he had previously denied knowledge, in an interview with Agence France-Presse.
U.S. military forces are expected to roll out new cyber warfare capabilities during the anticipated military strike on Syria for its use of a deadly nerve agent, according to military sources.
Targets of cyber attacks likely will include electronic command and control systems used by the Syrian military forces, air defense computers, and other military communications networks.
Joshua Foust pieces together details of the ties between WikiLeaks, Edward Snowden, and the Kremlin to make the case that Snowden’s jump to Moscow with a cache of sensitive American intelligence documents has the feel of a Russian spy recruitment operation.
The NSA is not sure what secret national security documents Edward Snowden accessed, NBC News reports.
A federal review revealed that the U.S. government bungled NSA leaker Edward Snowden’s most recent background check, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since 2008, the Washington Post reported on Thursday, citing an internal audit and other top-secret documents.
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Jamaican singer Lila Iké is receiving widespread attention for her debut EP, “The ExPerience”. Unlike artists like Rihanna, whose Barbados accent is nearly undetectable in her music, Lila is unmistakably a Jamaican vocalist.
“I want people to know, Lila Iké is not just a reggae artist, I am a Jamaican artist who is influenced by different music and you are going to hear that coming through”, Lila declares, quoted by “The Daily Beast”.
“Jamaican music is moving further and further away from the purist reggae kind of vibe, but for me, it’s important to maintain the music’s indigenousness. I incorporate that into the rhythms I use and in my singing style because I want young people to know, this music doesn’t start where you hear it, it has transcended many years and changes.”

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The festive season showed how the vast majority of the people are benefiting from economic growth, Prime minister Joseph Muscat told a One Radio interviewer on Sunday.
“Rather than data on economic growth by the politicians, one could see the benefits of a strong economy in the people’s pockets, the streets and the shops. The people can say this was a good Christmas, they felt good, they had more disposable income and could spend more,” Dr Muscat said.
While such growth was thanks to the government’s decisions, the government would not ignore those pockets of society which had not benefited enough so far, such as the unemployed, those who could not keep up with their rents, and those who had health problems, the prime minister added.
He pointed out that with the New Year, people were enjoying higher pensions, an increase in wages and the minimum wage, and an extra day of leave as part of the process to compensate for public holidays which fell on weekends.
Dr Muscat also hailed other recent developments, including the lifting of the 350m euro government guarantee on the power station project and the takeover of the Vitals hospitals concession by Steward Healthcare of the United States. Despite this, he said, the Opposition was still being negative and one did not know what it was all about.
Furthermore, how credible could the Opposition be when its criticism stemmed from a person who reportedly gave medical prescriptions on the phone?
Sometimes, he said, the Opposition appeared to want to change, but its extremist faction was not allowing the party leader to steer away from the negative route.
He said he was optimistic for the new year and looked forward to all enjoying Valletta’s status as European cultural capital. This was a national project, started by the PN and successfully continued by the present government, despite the strong criticism against the people involved.
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John Cleese once made the phrase “don’t mention the war” memorable in a Fawlty Towers episode involving German tourists. From then on it has become synonymous with avoiding an unpleasant subject, as CVC Capital Partners did this week when it revealed that its long-time chairman Michael Smith was retiring.
There was nary a mention from Smith or CVC Capital of its Nine investment, which has turned out to be one of the biggest disasters private equity has had globally in its existence. The loss will be close to $US2.7 billion for its funds.
Nine is still listed on the CVC website as part of its portfolio. Even though the deal to convert all that debt to equity has seen CVC lose Nine Entertainment to US hedge funds Oaktree and Apollo, it hasn’t gone through yet as the final structures and other details are nailed down. The list of news announcements, including asset sales, on the CVC website has yet to carry a statement confirming the change of control at Nine.
One of the final details still to be ironed out is the final level of debt Nine will carry, which will be between $500 million and $800 million. This will be contrary to statements from Nine boss David Gyngell and the company last month that Nine will be debt free. Nine Entertainment released a statement after the sale was finalised in Sydney last month which said in part:
”As soon as the restructure is effected, all the existing senior and mezzanine debt will be converted to equity and the Group will have no debt. In exchange for cancellation of existing senior and mezzanine debt, senior lenders will collectively receive 95.5% of the equity in the Group with mezzanine lenders receiving the remaining 4.5% … Full details of the restructure will be contained in the scheme booklets which are expected to be lodged with ASIC in late November.”
That “debt free” status looks like being a temporary situation, judging by media reports this week about the negotiations over how much debt the revamped Nine Entertainment will be carrying once the change of control happens.
There are no free lunches with hedge funds, just as there are no free lunches with private equity. They all extract their cash, one way or another.


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Hello, I’m Jody Litvak. Welcome, thank you for joining us to learn about the Westside Extension Transit Corridor Study and our early public scoping process. This study has been authorized by the Metro Board of Directors to look at possible new transit alternatives for this study area that you see here.
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This is a 38 square mile study area. It extends from the east at the end of the Metro Purple Line at Wilshire and Western and the Metro Red Line at Hollywood and Highland, west to the Pacific Ocean and Santa Monica, south along Pico Boulevard and north along the base of the Santa Monica Mountains. South of this study area, outside of it, you will see a black dashed line which is Phase I of the Expo Light Rail Project which is currently under construction. Continuing west from there in orange you’ll see possible alignments for the continuation of the Expo Line to Santa Monica. Those are under study right now. While there’s not passenger rail currently in this study area except for the existing Red and Purple Line, this area is marked by high levels of bus service today.
There are some things that we need to hear from you early at this stage in the study.
- Do you agree that there should be a new transit service to the Westside in addition to the Expo Line under construction and under study?
- Is there a particular mode or alignment that you want studied?
- Do you want a station in your community and where would that be?
- What criteria are important to you in evaluating the options we’re going to look at?
And for all these, please tell us why you feel the way you do, and of course let us know if you have any other thoughts.
Let me explain a little bit about what an alternatives analysis is, the process and our schedule. An alternatives analysis is the first step in defining a project. This is an evaluation of a wide range of alternatives and issues, including modes or methods of travel, alignments or routes where those would travel, where stations would be located, lengths of particular segments. We will be including the public comments we receive from scoping, and we will be screening these alternatives to consider what might move into further environmental analysis.
As I mentioned, an alternatives analysis is the first phase of what needs to occur before any project would be available for the public to use. Following the alternatives analysis, if the Board gives us direction to continue on, a particular project or potential project would be subject to further environmental review; it would need to go through engineering and of course construction before it would go into actual operation.
The schedule for this alternatives analysis study – we’re in the public scoping phase of the project, and we’ve held our first meetings in October. Comments for this scoping phase are due by November 1st, and we’ll be talking a little bit later about how you can get us your comments. Early in 2008 we’ll be producing a report indicating our initial review or screening of the alternatives that have come forward at this stage. And in the summer of 2008 we will be completing the alternatives analysis study report and making of recommendation to the Board of a Locally Preferred Alternative to proceed into further environmental analysis.
At the conclusion of the alternatives analysis there are a variety of outcomes that could result. One possibility is that the Metro Board of Directors adopts a Locally Preferred Alternative and authorizes us taking that alternative into preliminary engineering and further environmental review known as a Draft Environmental Impact Study and Draft Environmental Impact Report, or EIS/EIR. It’s also possible that the Board would not adopt a Locally Preferred Alternative and may select 2 or more alternatives that would then have to go through further environmental review. That would defer the preliminary engineering until the end of that environmental review process.
Another possible outcome is that the Metro Board of Directors would not adopt a Locally Preferred Alternative and would not authorize us to move forward for any further actions, and the study would conclude at that point.
I’d now like to turn things over to my colleague David Mieger, who will talk to you a little bit about why we’re conducting this study at this time and tell you more about the study.
David: Thanks, Jody. The question is, why are we doing this study at this time?
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The Metro Westside Corridor has a long history of studies dating back as early as 1925.
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In the mid-1980’s, prohibitions were put in effect against subway tunneling.
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However, more recently there’s been renewed interest in considering options for the Westside that were generated about a year ago when the American Public Transit Association considered the safety of tunneling in this area and determined that subway tunneling could be conducted safely using current standards and practices.
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This improved tunneling technology has been demonstrated with the Metro completion of the Eastside tunnel, done as a part of the Metro Gold Line Eastside extension, which has been recently completed with no measurable ground settlement.
One of the important factors that the city will be considering is the growing density on the Westside.
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The towers that we see along Wilshire Boulevard…
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…and in parts of Century City and Westwood rival those of downtown Los Angeles in terms of overall density.
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As the chart shows, population is projected to grow by 11% between the current year and 2030, and employment is projected to grow by 17% during the same period of time.
In terms of the total county population, the Westside only has 5% of the total population, but it has 10% of the county’s jobs and 17% of the county’s total transit trips.
And in terms of transit trips per square mile, the number of trips per square mile are equivalent to the downtown area as well as many other downtowns throughout the Western United States.
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This growing congestion has put a lot of demand on the existing bus lines that serve the area and on the rail lines that are being built near the area but are not yet completed.
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Increasing traffic congestion is affected on the 10 freeway, the 405, and on all the major arterials serving the Westside.
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And, as the transit network is built, there is an opportunity to connect the Westside into that network, which currently carries over 250,000 daily riders on the rail and over 1.2 million people on the bus system.
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And also on the Westside, the streets and highways are essentially built out. There’s not room for new projects to be built to increase the size or the width of the current freeway and arterial system.
So what will the alternatives analysis study? In addition to different alignments, station options, different modes of transit, we will also be looking at the evaluation criteria that will be used to measure these different alignments, stations and modes.
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The Westside has considered two primary routes. The lower line on the map here shows the Wilshire alignment that could be extended from Wilshire Western station. The upper blue line shows possible extensions from the Hollywood and Highland station. The southern part of the map is the Expo Project, which is a separate project.
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As you proceed from the current terminus of the Metro Purple line from the current Wilshire station – this is a shot looking west – this is the current terminus, the subway is below the street level here. You can see new development that’s occurring around that new transit station. As you proceed west from the Wilshire Western station, possible alignments for stations would exist at…
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…and as you proceed further west into the Miracle Mile area near the County Art Museum…
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This shot looks west from about Hauser Street looking out towards the County Art Museum in the distance, and the high-rise buildings you see along Wilshire Boulevard have upwards of 40 to 50 thousand jobs that could be served by transit in this area.
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Proceeding west from the Miracle Mile, you enter Beverly Hills. The downtown Beverley Hills Business Center is seen here in this photo looking along Santa Monica Boulevard up towards Wilshire. The Beverly Wilshire Hotel is on the left side of the slide, and the intersection of Santa Monica and Wilshire is on the right, and within this triangle are another 50,000 jobs that could be served by transit.
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As you proceed further west, the line would deviate to serve Century City, and this slide shows looking to the east along Santa Monica Boulevard and the concentration of office towers and shopping complexes within the Century City area.
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As you proceed west from here, the next major development center is Westwood. This is a shot looking east along Wilshire Boulevard from the 405 freeway. With about 17,000 jobs along this corridor, along Wilshire…
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…but this also is adjacent to UCLA campus which has upwards of about 33,000 jobs as well, making this a center with densities equivalent to downtown Los Angeles.
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Proceeding west from Westwood, past the 405 freeway in the distance, you can see West Los Angeles with office towers lining Wilshire Boulevard from Federal out towards Centinela towards the Santa Monica city line.
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And then ultimately, Wilshire Boulevard terminates in Santa Monica at the beach at Ocean and Wilshire Boulevard at the Santa Monica Pier.
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In addition to the Wilshire alignment, however, the other alignment that’s historically been studied would extend transit west from the Hollywood and Highland station, which is shown here, out along Santa Monica Boulevard towards the Westside.
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In this photo, you can see the new development of the Hollywood and Highland shopping complex, the Renaissance Hotel, and the Kodak Theatre, where the Academy Awards are currently held. That’s all grown up around the transit subway station at Hollywood and Highland.
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The alignment along Santa Monica Boulevard would leave Hollywood and Highland and proceed west, with possible stations near Fairfax, near La Cienaga, and as you see here, the Pacific Design Center near San Vicente Boulevard. This shot shows Santa Monica Boulevard proceeding west towards Century City and Westwood.
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Both of these alignments, Santa Monica and Wilshire, would converge near the intersection of Wilshire and Santa Monica and share a common alignment west of Santa Monica and Wilshire Boulevards.
In addition to alignments, we will be studying different modes - heavy rail, light rail, bus rapid transit and metro rapid bus.
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Heavy rail transit is the current system operating on the Metro Purple Line and the Metro Red Line. This is the highest-capacity system the Metro operates, with speeds up to 70 miles per hour, uses six-car trains, and can carry upwards of a thousand people per train. Stations are generally one mile apart on those systems.
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Metro also operates light rail transit, and that’s the technology we currently use on the Metro Blue Line, Metro Green Line and Metro Gold Line.
This technology is flexible - it is able to operate at grade as well as in grade-separated configurations - but it has slightly less capacity than in heavy rail, upwards of 500 people per train with about a one-mile station spacing.
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And bus rapid transit is one of our newest technologies. We’ve recently opened the Metro Orange Line in the San Fernando Valley, which operates similar to light rail but uses buses instead of light rail transit vehicles to operate. These buses can operate at speeds upwards of 60 miles per hour depending on their location, but can carry about 100 people bus because of the smaller size of buses as opposed to trains.
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And finally, Metro Rapid Bus is currently in operation on Wilshire Boulevard, on Santa Monica, and on several other arterial streets on the Westside. This uses the larger articulated buses that we currently have out in service. Generally they’re red, and they operate with signal priority to move faster through congested conditions.
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So how will the alternatives analysis decide which of these alternatives should be carried forward for environmental clearance and construction? Generally, we follow guidelines that are prepared by the Federal Transit Administration that are used to evaluate projects throughout the country. Major factors include cost, ridership, the cost-effectiveness of the project, the potential benefits that the project could have to economic development and land use, and how much travel time savings would result from having faster alternatives to get people around quicker. The reliability of the service is very important, so that we can give dependable service that can get people to their destinations in a reliable manner. We’ll also be evaluating the potential environmental effects of these alternatives, issues regarding sustainability, security, safety, and the financial capability to build and operate.
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And finally, the most important criteria is community acceptability. Just what type of support is there for these lines, and is there support for it, because without community acceptability, none of these projects that we plan can go forward.
And with that, I’ll turn it back to Jody, who can give you a little more information about how you can be involved in this study.
Jody: Thank you, David. As you’re watching this, we have recently completed five community meetings held during the second and third week of October throughout the study area.
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Perhaps you attended one of those meetings, and we’d like to thank you if you did.
During this early public scoping time, the comment period concludes November 1st. After November 1st, we will proceed into a technical analysis of the alternatives and the criteria. Later this year, we will be producing a scoping report that will summarize the results of the scoping, as well as the comments we received, and it will identify the new alternatives and the criteria that will be included in the study. Obviously, throughout the study, continuing into next summer, we do welcome your comments on the alternatives under review.
There are several ways you can provide comments and ask for more information.
If you attended one of the community meetings and you picked up a comment form (and you still have it), please send that to us via U.S. mail. Please send your comments to:
David Mieger, Project Manager, Metro,
One Gateway Plaza, Mailstop 99-22-5,
Los Angeles, CA, 90012.
You can contact our study information phone line at 213-922-6934.
If you’d like to provide your comments in audio or video format, please send them and your contact information to firstname.lastname@example.org . That’s westsideextension – all one word – at metro dot net. And you can go to our website, www.metro.net/westside . Click on “contact us” and fill out the online comment form.
Again, there are things that we do need to hear from you during this period:
- Do you agree that there should be a new transit alternative to serve the Westside?
- Is there a particular mode or alignment you want us to study?
- Do you want a station in your community?
- What criteria are important to you for use to in evaluating these options?
And for all of these, please tell us why you feel the way you do, and of course let us know if you have any other thoughts.
Thank you again for joining us to hear more about this study, and we look forward to hearing from you soon.


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Today I’m bringing you round 2 of my caramel apple cinnamon rolls. You see, round 1 was a complete disaster. Yep, I experience disasters in the kitchen too. It isn’t pretty, so I’ll spare you the photos.
I’ll share with you how to make these rolls perfectly and what I did wrong the first time. I’m not shy to say that the final version are the best cinnamon rolls I’ve ever had. 🙂
I made these cinnamon rolls last Friday night. And again on Saturday morning. Sometimes recipe disasters make me feel like a failure, but other times it just motivates me to keep trying until I get that perfect result. It took me 11 months and about 15 different tries to get my Cake Batter Chocolate Chip Cookies right. Soft, thick, tasting homemade, but bursting with cake batter flavor. And trust me, they were worth the wait.
And so were these apple cinnamon rolls. The dough is soft, moist, and sweet. The rolls bake up to be puffy and very fluffy. The center is filled with sliced apples and a mix of cinnamon, brown sugar, and butter.The brown sugar and butter caramelize making these rolls extra sticky. I topped the pretty coiled rolls with a homemade (and easy!) caramel sauce. I love apples and caramel together. These would be a perfect breakfast in the fall. Or, well… any time of year. 🙂
There is quite possibly no better aroma than a pan of these big, puffy rolls baking in the oven, fragrant with cinnamon, brown sugar, and sweet apples. I hope you’re ready for these!
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During a sunny Friday afternoon in the parking lot of the main branch of the North Bergen Public Library on Bergenline Avenue, youngsters and their parents gathered to “Touch A Truck.” It was the fifth year the library and the township’s various service departments came together to allow kids to see their vehicles.
The kids got to sit in a police car, sound the siren, and talk to police officers. They were able to tour the inside of an ambulance and see a fire truck up close. They sat in the driver’s seat and even were able to put on part of the firefighter’s protective equipment.
A North Bergen DPW street sweeper was there, as was a SWAT truck from the Hudson County Sheriff’s Department and a massive North Bergen Police Department rescue truck. Every vehicle drew oohs and aahs from the kids. And the parents had a wonderful time taking pictures of their children exploring all of the vehicles.
North Bergen Library Director Sai Rao said this year’s event was the biggest ever. It was a tremendous way for the kids and the local workers, firefighters, police officers and EMS personnel to meet each other and bond as a community. And the two hour event was topped off with free ice cream for everyone who attended.


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Neo post-flave electro synth funk KILLER record. Lowfish marks his own turf with his sound and style as usual with this the 4 tracker on Satamile. Emotive,deep fat synth bass lines, pumpin beats and character all of his own. Welcome to Satamile Lowfish! Canada in the mix.
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Scratch9 @ New York Comic Con – This weekend!
Who, What: Scratch9 writer and creator Rob M. Worley, artist Jason T. Kruse and publisher Ape Entertainment will be attending the New York Comic Con. We’re at booth #2105!
UPDATED 10/5: We’ve just learned that Jason Kruse will not be able to attend New York Comic Con this year. We’re sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. We’ll all miss ya Jason!
When: The convention runs from October 8 – October 10.
Signing Schedule: Rob will be signing comics at the following times:
Where: the Jacob K. Javits Center in New York City! [MAP]
How: Stop by and say “Litterbricks!”
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NYCC at Jacob K. Javits Center
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By Kevin Posival
Killeen Daily Herald
BELTON – Seth Alcozer is a part of this year's special Belton Tigers baseball team. The expectations won't drop next year at Temple College.
Alcozer, who plays both infield and outfield for Belton, signed his letter of intent to stay close to home and play for the neighboring Leopards.
"They're one of the most respected across the state of Texas and across the nation," Alcozer said of the Leopards, who went 44-16 in 2009, snapped Howard College's 57-game winning streak in the NJCAA Region V tournament and was one win shy of making the JUCO World Series last season.
"Not to knock any other program, but I believe that having a school of that caliber in my back yard, basically, was a great fit for me and I think from there, it'll catapult me to a great D-I school, possibly even get drafted. I know I can go over there and get a lot better and I'm looking forward to it."
The senior, who had a .432 on-base percentage
last year to go along with a pair of home runs and had a 97 percent fielding average, is the fourth player to sign a college letter of intent so far this season for the Tigers, who finished 23-9 overall last season after a regional quarterfinal loss. Shane Hoelscher (Rice), Dillon Newman (Baylor) and John Beck (University of Texas-Arlington) signed Division I letters in November.
"He brings a presence at the plate. He brings untapped talent," Belton coach Eddie Cornblum said of Alcozer. "He's got some tools that you look at him and go 'when it clicks, it's going to be something special.'"
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What is the test?
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This booklet explains the Days of Awe, starting with Rosh Hashanah and running through Yom Kippur, including what to expect at synagogue services, what the home celebrations may look like and concluding with a glossary of useful terms.
Connecting Interfaith Families to Jewish Life in Greater Cleveland by providing programs and opportunities for interfaith families to experience Judaism in a variety of venues, meet other interfaith families, and to connect to other Jewish organizations that may serve their needs.
A great way for Jewish professionals and volunteers who work with and provide programming for people in interfaith relationships to locate resources and trainings to build more welcome into their Jewish communities; connect with and learn from each other; and publicize and enhance their programs and services.
Cookbook author extraordinaire Jayne Cohen will offer tips to make Passover more delicious and accessible for guests of all faiths and ages. She will discuss how to incorporate meaningful discussions and new traditions into the seder, how to make the seder more interactive for children, and how to make food that even the pickiest kids will enjoy.


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For decades, drug use has been considered an inner-city problem. In reality, however, that trend is changing rapidly. With the legalization of marijuana and the rise of the prescription drug epidemic, drug use in the suburbs is an increasing problem that society can no longer ignore. Most Teen Heroin Users are White Suburban Residents In
Prescription Drug Abuse
Prospective patients ready to take the next step and seek addiction treatment often want to know how drug rehab works. In order to be most effective, inpatient therapy is the ideal choice. By taking a closer look at drug rehab facilities, individuals struggling with addiction uncover how rehab prevents relapse from occurring. The Need for
According to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, there are 16.3 million adults in the United States struggling with alcohol abuse, and more than 88,000 people die from alcohol-related causes annually. Chances are many of those people never even sought alcohol addiction therapy. These staggering statistics are often enough to convince people that
Prescription Drug Abuse is a Growing Problem for College Students Part of being in college is learning to meet challenging deadlines. Learning to focus and study is critical to successful graduation. College is also a time when boundaries are tested and new experiences are sought. Stressful and challenging workloads coupled with little practice at time
Legal Stimulant Abuse In the Washington Post there was an article about the disturbing increasing rates of Ritalin and Adderall use by college students. It is suggested that late night study habits have produced the need for stimulants to assist with students staying awake. There may be a possibility that these drugs aren’t just being
As prescription drug overdose deaths are rising at an alarming rate the Obama administration is taking action to get control on whose hands prescription drugs fall into.
In an attempt to learn where the focus on drug and alcohol addiction needs to be the Obama administration has began to implement a tracking program that will determine how many people are going to addiction treatment and what they are going for.
Maine has a reputation for their lip licking lobster. Unfortunately that reputation is quickly being preceded by the by the epidemic they are having with OxyContin addiction.
No different then any other area in the country addiction to drugs and alcohol is on the rise in Fairfax, Virginia. The best way to overcome an drug addiction or alcohol abuse is through the professional help of an addiction treatment center.
Prescription drug abuse in San Antonia, Texas is a growing problem. Drug addiction is a disease that is not easy to overcome. Drug addiction effects not only the suffering addict but his or her entire family. The best way to overcome addiction is through drug rehab or addiction treatment.


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The pro-life movement is surging at the state level:
Monday’s Hobby Lobby decision is part of a deeper trend: even as Obamacare worked to expand access to contraceptives, decisions by both the courts and state governments have left American women with less access to reproductive health care than they did four years ago. Since 2010, states have moved aggressively to restrict access to abortion and taken new steps to defund family planning programs. Advocates on both sides of the issue describe the wave of changes as unprecedented.
States passed a record 205 abortion restrictions between 2011 and 2013, more than the entire 30 years prior. … In Texas, the number of abortion clinics has shrunk by half, from 40 to 20, since 2011. Arizona had 19 abortion providers in 2010; now it has seven. One clinic that shuttered posted a message on its website, directing clients go to the nearest abortion provider, in Houston, 100 miles away.
Many of those restrictions were squarely firing back at the Affordable Care Act. Twenty-five states, for example, now limit or ban abortion coverage in Obamacare’s new insurance markets. None of those laws existed before health reform.


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The Witch of Edmonton
Hoof and Horn Productions are a student-led theatre company based in Oxford. I acted as an in-house designer for them, creating work for two productions ‘The Pitchfork Disney’ and ‘The Witch of Edmonton’ both of which sold out. This 2019 adaptation of ‘The Witch of Edmonton’ was a modern retelling of the original play, rewritten by Hoof and Horn’s directors. To bring the 1621 play into 2018, I adapted the original artwork by redrawing the illustration and matching the typeface. The set design used red ribbons to hang a pentagram made from sticks from the ceiling, a theme also present in the poster design using the silhouette of a tree. Working closely with their marketing team, I created flyers, programmes, a poster and social media content to advertise the play.


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Expedited removal allows low-level Department of Homeland Security officers to summarily order the removal of non-citizens without the procedural protections that are otherwise afforded to persons in regular removal proceedings. With the expansion of expedited removal on the horizon, it is more crucial than ever to understand how expedited removal works and how to best defend clients who are subjected to expedited removal. Join the presenters in a discussion of the legal framework of expedited removal and learn how to advocate effectively for the release of your client and to have your client placed in removal proceedings under section 240 of the Immigration and Nationality Act.
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By saini, 28th September 2012 [Full Review]
This isn't the first Priyadarshan film where the pampered heiress is protected from male attention by her slew of bullying brothers. Earlier Kareena Kapoor was similarly guarded from Akshaye Khanna's attention in Hulchul. Recurrent themes often give Priyadarshan comedies a sinking sense of sameness. A remake of a Malayalam film Marykundoro Kunjaado, Kamaal Dhamaal Malamaal is one of Priyadarshan's better potboilers in recent times.
By renisha, 28th September 2012 [Full Review]
Though Neeraj Vora's dialogues have seen better digs, they capture the ethos of eccentric antics well. The actors are all in the mood to have fun. Tucked away in this rumbustious drama of mistaken identity and godforsaken raillery is a message on trust, belief and honesty. All of this is put forward with zero dependence on vulgarity.
By nadeem, 28th September 2012 [Full Review]
An interesting film, and far superior to the prolific Priyadarshan's other recent comedies like De Dana Dan, Khatta Meetha and Malamaal Weekly, a prequel to Kamaal Dhamaal Malamaal.


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This Monday, November 10th, at 8PM, at No Radio Records (Ithaca, NY) we have a special treat.
Christian Weber, the renowned doublebass improviser from Switzerland
is currently doing a brief US tour, and he is playing in Ithaca.
Christian will be joined by Jesse Kudler, a well-known musician from
Philadelphia who works with tabletop guitar, electronics, shortwave
radios, and a whole assortment of gear and approaches. The two will
be playing a collaborative duo set of improvised electroacoustic
Local electronics improviser Aaron Phillip Tate will open the night
with a solo set.
Christian Weber - Doublebass (Switzerland)
Jesse Kudler - tabletop guitar, electronics (Philadelphia, PA)
Aaron Phillip Tate - electronics (Ithaca, NY)
No Radio Records
All Ages Welcome
$5 donation for the travelling musicians suggested (all money goes to
the touring musicians)
Christian Weber has recorded a stunning amount of music and has played
around the world for a number of years. This is a rare chance to see
and hear him!
Christian's biography and touring history:
Christian's recorded work (it's enormous):
Jesse Kudler's site: http://www.white-flag.org/front.html
Jesse's Myspace page:
***Also, as folks who have attended our events in the past know, these
shows are always small, intimate, warm, and friendly gatherings. The
musicians always enjoy talking with the audience aftewards, and new
faces as well as old friends are always very welcome!***
The show will be short. Begins at 8PM, will be over by 9:30PM.
We would LOVE to see you, so if anything you find at Christian or
Jesse's websites sounds interesting, please stop by and say hello and
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[Mar. 24, 2023: Josie Eade, University of Oxford]
Researchers at the University of Oxford has identified that Talarozole, a drug that is known to increase retinoic acid, was able to prevent osteoarthritis. (CREDIT: Creative Commons)
A new study, published in Science Translational Medicine by researchers at the University of Oxford has identified that Talarozole, a drug that is known to increase retinoic acid, was able to prevent osteoarthritis (OA) in disease models.
About half of all women and one-quarter of all men will experience the stiffness and pain of osteoarthritis (OA) of the hands by the time they are 85 years old. A degenerative disease that affects all the tissues of a joint, OA leads to the breakdown over time of the smooth, protective cartilage on the ends of bones, so bones rub together, causing pain. The 29 bones of your hands and wrists come together to form many small joints that can be affected by OA.
Tonia Vincent, Professor of Musculoskeletal Biology & Honorary Rheumatologist at Oxford’s Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences (NDORMS), said: ‘Hand osteoarthritis is a common and debilitating medical condition that affects mainly women, especially around the time of the menopause. We currently have no effective treatments that modify their disease.’
The researchers started by investigating a common gene variant that had been linked to severe hand OA. Using patient samples collected at the time of routine hand surgery, as well as a number of experimental models, they were able to identify a key molecule that was especially low in ‘at risk’ individuals, called retinoic acid.
More than 40% of individuals will develop osteoarthritis (OA) during their lifetime. Hand (OA) is an extremely common form of OA and there are currently no disease modifying treatments that effectively relieve symptoms or stop deformity and stiffness of the joints.
Professor Vincent added: ‘This project was only possible because of the multi-disciplinary approach that we took; working with our hand surgical colleagues, geneticists, data scientists and biologists.’
As talarozole has an acceptable safety profile in human subjects, a small proof of concept clinical study is underway to see whether this drug might represent a new disease modifying treatment in patients.
Talarozole prevents the drop of atRA-responsive genes after injury and suppresses injury-induced inflammatory genes. (CREDIT: bioRxiv)
Dr Neha Issar-Brown, Director of Research and Health Intelligence at the charity Versus Arthritis, which funded the research, said: ‘Around 8.5 million people in the UK live with OA. Despite often being dismissed as just a few aches and pains, OA can have a profound and far-reaching impact on life, affecting people's ability to work, care for a family, or live independently.
‘There is an urgent need for disease-modifying treatments designed to prevent or reverse the painful symptoms of OA. This study reveals a new understanding of the causes of hand osteoarthritis, which could lead to identifying new biological targets for intervention in hand OA.
Gene regulation in cartilage from people with hand OA after stratification by polymorphic variants in ALDH1A2. (CREDIT: bioRxiv)
‘This research is still at an early stage, but with these encouraging findings we are a big step closer in being able to develop a new class of disease-modifying drugs to treat osteoarthritis, prevent chronic pain, and enable people to live well with the condition,’ Dr Issar-Brown concludes.
Symptoms of osteoarthritis
According to the Mayo Clinic, osteoarthritis symptoms often develop slowly and worsen over time. Signs and symptoms of osteoarthritis include:
Pain. Affected joints might hurt during or after movement.
Stiffness. Joint stiffness might be most noticeable upon awakening or after being inactive.
Tenderness. Your joint might feel tender when you apply light pressure to or near it.
Loss of flexibility. You might not be able to move your joint through its full range of motion.
Grating sensation. You might feel a grating sensation when you use the joint, and you might hear popping or crackling.
Bone spurs. These extra bits of bone, which feel like hard lumps, can form around the affected joint.
Swelling. This might be caused by soft tissue inflammation around the joint.
Causes of hand osteoarthritis
According to the Arthritis Foundation, osteoarthritis usually occurs later in life, with no specific cause. But several factors can play a role, including:
Age: the older you are, the more likely you are to have hand OA.
Sex: women are more likely to be affected than men.
Race: whites are more often affected than African Americans.
Weight: obese people are more likely to have hand OA than thinner people.
Genes: some people inherit the tendency to develop osteoarthritis, usually at a younger age.
Injuries: Even when properly treated, an injured joint is more likely to develop OA over time. Fractures and dislocations are among the most common injuries that lead to arthritis.
Joint issues: Joint infections, overuse, loose ligaments, and poorly aligned joints can also lead to hand or wrist arthritis.
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For Tate Taylor, working on a studio movie had to be a dream. That he adapted the book The Help, which was written by his high school buddy Kathryn Stockett, likely made every day seem like a dream. As we sat down to do the interview Kathryn passed around a picture of the two of them at prom together. Both had very intimate feelings for the material, and it shows. Check it out.
Was it because of your history that you really felt you could trust Tate with your material?
Kathryn Stockett: In retrospect, absolutely, but at the time I was a little nervous. We have different versions of the story of how it came to happen (laughter). Tate said…the thing that really kind of broke me, and it wasn’t like a huge argument that we had about whether he would make the movie. What really got under my skin was he said, “Katy if you don’t give me the rights to The Help some kind of Hollywood type or I mean God knows like a Canadian might will get them and chances are they will try to make this movie and they’ll get scared and it will sit on the shelf and it’ll never be made.” And I think he was right because he pushed through a lot of walls to get it made.
Tate Taylor: If you think about it, you gave me the rights in June of 2008 and three years later (that was before the book was out) it was written, the book came out, and the movie’s finished. That’s quick. Maybe I was trying to scare you a little bit. But I’ve just been out here and you hear of these great projects…I think The Secret History, that’s one they put expensive writers on and then people don’t like it and then they bring on another expensive writer and all these people get involved and gets whittled and ugh. I didn’t want that to happen.
KS: There was a well-known writer and studio that was trying to get the rights and Tate told me how many projects that they had sitting on the shelf. They love to take great books, buy the rights, and never make the movie.
TT: And I just thought that this is so potentially sticky and scary for Hollywood that…
KS: Well also I knew that you would make it in Mississippi.
When you were writing this was the movie playing in your head or was that not even a thought?
TT: Ohhh, don’t say the “M” word.
KS: I don’t go to the movies.
TT: She doesn’t.
KS: The last movie I saw in the theatre was “Seabiscuit.”
TT: And she’s not kidding. She doesn’t watch movies.
KS: Mmmmm, I don’t. I read! So no. But while I was writing the manuscript and Tate was reading it he kept saying, “Oh good, in this scene we’ll do this…” And I kept going, “Tate it’s not a movie – it’s a book!” I didn’t even have an agent and Tate said, “well listen when you shoot this scene…” We’re just very different writers. But it was really exciting to hand this project over to Tate because I knew he’d get it. We grew up in the same circumstances. It’s amazing how parallel our lives were. Both of our mom’s were divorced.
TT: Our mom’s were Celia’s. Honestly they were not accepted in Jackson society at all. We both saw the pain that it caused them.
KS: So the woman that we would come home to was the black woman that was working for our mom’s because our mom’s were working in an office.
TT: It was a different dynamic because my mom and Carol – the woman that raised me, who’s also in the movie… When Aibileen comes into the church and says, “who are we clapping for?” and the woman says; “They’re clapping for you” that’s the woman that raised me. But she and my mom had a really great relationship.
KS: That was more of a partnership.
TT: Yeah, but that was like Celia and Minny. My mom was a single mom trying to support me being a real estate agent and three months went by and she had not sold anything. Luckily it was at that age where franks and beans is gourmet so she just kept opening up the cans. But she had Carol. Carol was a single mom with three kids and it was really cool because Carol would take care of me and sometimes mom would take care of Carol’s kids. They would come spend the night with us one weekend. So that’s what spoke to me in the book – that bond between like Mae Mobley and Aibileen and then that going against the grain relationship, which is still against the grain, a black woman and a white woman being friends in ‘70s and just taking care of each other. But I know my mom – if you print this she’ll kill me. She had her hysterectomy and Carol came and lived in her house and took care of her for a week and then Carol had hers and mom did the same. So it was really cool – but don’t tell that one. Please.
KS: It was much more of a hierarchy. After school I went to my grandmother’s house and it was her maid. But still, we came home to that face and those arms around us.
So did you guys know anyone like Hilly?
TT: Hell yes!
I mean obviously you must have based it on somebody…
KS: It’s fiction…
TT: Well, you suffered some social persecution by some of those girls you ran around with at the High School. We both did, we were just oddballs. We also liked to create tension. We were always getting in trouble and messing with the system and pushing the buttons and it was always fun.
KS: It just found us. Trouble found us. It still finds us.
TT: Thank God.
KS: We get bored.
Can you guys talk about the casting ?
TT: It was just weird for Katy. Seeing the scenes come to life.
KS: Yeah. But Octavia had actually toured with me when the book first came out. And you know when I first started writing the character of Minny I just kept thinking about Octavia. You know she is very well educated, she’s a writer, she writes poetry – she isn’t Minny. But there’s something about Octavia’s mannerisms that can really take you and the way she looks you in the eye and you know exactly what she’s thinking. And so I loved to draw on that when I was writing the character of Minny and so you know as she toured with me it was so cool to hear her read those lines.
TT: Octavia had the part period. Octavia’s been in everything I ever directed – same with Alison Janney. I was so excited when I was reading her book and I was like, “Oh my God Charlotte Phelan. this can be Alison!” So that was there and I always wanted Viola and I mean really I prepared myself for this never happening again quite like this. The whole experience from everybody you’ll probably talk to – we just had the greatest time. Dreamworks was amazing, they just did not rock the boat, they saw this dynamic we all had as life-long friends and luckily people were talented in our group and they said, “Okay! Please, this is great.” So it just worked out.
KS: And my daughter plays young Skeeter. That’s one of the perks of having your friend be the director.
You mentioned Octavia – did you meet her just on the book tour?
KS: She lived with Tate.
TT: She was my roommate for five years until last October. So, it’s very incestuous and friendly. I did a short film called “Chicken Party,” it’s the first thing I ever did, and we were doing the sound mix and Larry Blake did our sound mix and we picked him because he was in New Orleans so we could have a reason to go to New Orleans for a sound mix. And then Katy said, “I want to come meet everybody!” And so she came to New Orleans in 2003 and she met Octavia. And Octavia was being Octavia and she goes, “You know that book I’m writing? Do you think Octavia would mind if I modeled a character after her?” And I go, “Just do it, just don’t tell her about it.”
KS: No, not modeled – we have to kind of step carefully on that one.
TT: Oh, true.
KS: Just kind of drawing on the way she uses her hands and her eyes and her mouth.
One thing that comes through in the film and sitting here talking with you is both the fondness for the time and the place but also the awareness for everything that was kind of wrong. That was a very delicate balance to strike in a film which I think you did achieve. Can you talk about that essential dichotomy of the south that feels like that ugly side bit the celebration of it as well?
KS: The very thing you’re speaking of is why the cast and crew fell in love with Mississippi. I mean my DP – they all came down there knowing the bad things and all the preconceived notions of the South and there are elements of that but there’s also all this beauty and love. It’s so confusing! And they said, “this place is just so something, there’s just somethingness everywhere.” But being a Mississippian – you said this in your book about the right to poke fun at your own mother and then no one else can – so since I’m a part of it there’s things that might upset some people, but I’m from here and I can talk about it. And it happened. What I was really joyful about was there was a part of me that thought people were going to be pissed off in Mississippi and we went to Green Wood which is really stuck in time and everybody, even like the Jr. League, Old Miss…I had to get permission and everybody celebrated what they had become. And I was really proud that no one said, “don’t put that in there, you’ll make us look bad!” So, I think if you’re going to grow and change you have to, not celebrate, but give attention to and acknowledge where you were. And everybody did it.
How much were you on set?
KS: Well I was there a lot.
TT: She wasn’t on-set. She was off to sleep. She was there for the evenings when we were through with work. I would tell her, ‘come see this scene today,’ ‘Ah, I get it. I’m going to get in the pool – what are we doing tonight?’
KS: Y’all worked late into the night though.
Being from that region makes you the police to the actors on what works and what doesn’t.
TT: These women did their homework. I have some acting in my past and I’ve been on set and you can tell when someone shows up stumbling through it and figuring it out. No way. They all took their work so seriously and really just – not because of me – but just felt the sense of privilege that they were getting to be these women and they showed up so prepared. And on-set, think about nine competitive actresses in an ensemble in 110 degrees sharing menstrual cycles, you’re just wondering when this is going to blow up. I’m you’ve probably seen they’re all best friends and they’re all so giving.
KS: But part of that was Stacy Snider too. She had a lot to do with…I think people just want to please her. It’s amazing they all just wanted to make sure they walked on to that set prepared and ready for Stacy to be excited.
Did you ever change things and say: Can you do it like this because this is how I remember it?
TT: Oh gosh yeah. No, I was changing things on the set – writing. I remember there was this one time where Viola and I rehearsed a scene and we got to set the next day and we rehearsed it for camera and I kind of got this sinking feeling and she and we kind of looked at each other and all the actresses and I had that relationship and I said, “let’s go talk.” And we went in her trailer and we realized that it was too much, what was written. You know when she says in the movie, “Mrs. Leefolt should not be having babies, write that down.” It was a whole long thing I had written and we rehearsed it and thought, “do we need all this?” And I said “what if you just say this?” And she said, “I love it.” And to have an actress say “let’s cut out that monologue” speaks so highly…I mean that’s what I’m talking about she’s such an efficient, smart, powerful actress – they all were.
This seems to be Emma Stone’s moment in time.
TT: Well we didn’t know! That was what was so great. I read Skeeter as a young Joan Cusack who I just think is hysterical and that’s who I wanted to find. Who’s Joan Cusack at 20? Somebody find me that and I met Emma Stone in this hotel, I felt so naïve and green, I thought I was going to look stupid because she is the first person I ever met and we met for drinks here and I thought, “I’m gonna look so dumb saying I met Skeeter with the very first person.” I thought, “should I tell them, they’re gonna think, ‘oh he’s such a green horn he thinks he’s found his lead,’ but I did though!” And I met other people and I said, “Oh it’s Emma.” And Dreamworks said, “great! We don’t know her but lets watch some stuff she did!” Her range was just incredible. And then she became Emma Stone. I wish we could say we planned it but that’s just how everything with this movie has worked out.
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Finland and Finnish stakeholders have been vocal in efforts to influence formulations in the new Forest Strategy, particularly in the last moments before it became public. Has Finland taken leadership, or has the lobbying resulted in fragmentation? Is Finland unique, as many Finnish forestry stakeholders have claimed? In considering Finland’s role, it is fruitful to consider the role of the EU forest strategy: how does it affect forest management, and how is it positioned in the forest policy landscape of the EU and member states?
This debate has resulted in polarization and gridlocks that tend to overlook other countries’ reasons for having strong interests in forestry. It is time for the forestry and environmental parties to engage in a deeper dialogue to look for solutions also in difficult issues. The first reactions to the strategy published last Friday give hope for the emergence of such dialogue. This would be a way for Finland to promote forest policy also at the EU level, rather than getting bogged down in internal conflicts.
Eeva Primmer and Mikael Hilden from SYKE has taken a look into the new EU Forest Strategy for 2030 from a Finnish persepective: Forest management needs European level collaboration (syke.fi)


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Effectively addressing malnutrition in the rural sector remains a critical international priority, especially as increasing evidence shows that people who are malnourished as children not only experience the developmental consequences of chronic nutrient deficiencies, but are also more likely to be overweight or obese as adults (Black et al. 2013; Godfrey, Gluckman, and Hanson 2010).
Source: Ana Deaconu, Geneviève Mercille & Malek Batal (2019) The Agroecological Farmer’s Pathways from Agriculture to Nutrition: A Practice-Based Case from Ecuador’s Highlands, Ecology of Food and Nutrition, 58:2, 142-165, DOI: 10.1080/03670244.2019.1570179
How to prepare and use botanical pesticides (in English). This short video provides details to African farmers and knowledge providers on optimized methods of collection, preparation and application of botanical pesticides in smallholder farming systems.
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The soil health tool kit assembles a number of methods to assess soil health in the context of projects and networks working with smallholder farmers. The soil health tool kit website describes the protocols for soil pH, permanganate-oxidizable soil carbon (POXC or active carbon), particulate organic matter (POM), soil aggregate stability, and soil available phosphorus. […]

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In conjunction with Ohio’s statewide efforts to distribute COVID-19 vaccines to Ohioans in Phase 1B, Madison County Public Health (MCPH), the Madison County Emergency Management Agency (EMA), and other community partners are prepared to lead the vaccination efforts in Madison County.
Health Commissioner Chris Cook said Madison County is prepared to receive and give vaccine but MCPH will not get enough to take care of everyone at the same time.
“Vaccine supply will not meet demand right now. We know there are people who are eligible and want vaccine. It’s coming, but it will be over the period of weeks and months,” Cook said.
There are only two approved vaccines right now. As supply increases and other manufacturers are approved, COVID-19 vaccine will be available to more Ohioans and at more locations. Gov. Mike DeWine announced that Phase 1B will include Ohioans age 65 and older, those living with severe congenital or developmental disorders, and K-12 school employees.
Phase 1B will begin the week of Jan. 18 and include a tiered approach. During the week of Jan. 18, limited supplies of vaccine will be administered to those who are age 80 and older. During the week of Jan. 25, people who are age 75 and older, plus those with severe congenital or developmental disorders, will become eligible. During the week of Feb. 1, the group of people eligible to get vaccine will be expanded to age 70 and older and school staff. Finally, during the week of Feb. 8 people who are age 65 and older will become eligible.
Cook stressed that over the coming weeks the vaccine supply Madison County is expected to receive is in the hundreds, not thousands.
“There are 6,500 people in Madison County who are age 65 and older, plus many more with severe congenital or developmental disorders,” Cook said. “Getting vaccine to people is our top priority. This will take time and patience because of the limited doses available.”
Depending on supply, vaccination of all Phase 1B will likely take months to complete. While moving through Phase 1B, MCPH will simultaneously administer second doses to those vaccinated in Phase 1A.
Residents can visit covidvaccine.madisonph.org to pre-register for vaccine and to watch for upcoming clinics. Registration forms also will be available at clinics and at the MCPH office at 306 Lafayette St. in London. People should only come to a clinic when they become eligible for vaccine according to the governor’s “phased” approach. Because vaccine is provided to counties based on the number of people who are currently eligible for vaccine, residents should get vaccine in their “home” county.
Cook said that clinics will be scheduled as soon as vaccine arrives in the county.
“Our goal is to administer whatever we receive during that same week. Since vaccine remains scarce right now, delivery amounts and dates will we unpredictable,” he said.
If vaccine is available each week, drive-through clinics will be held every Tuesday and Thursday from 12 to 3 p.m. at OSU’s Molly Caren Agricultural Center (best known for the Farm Science Review). Residents should check the MCPH website before planning to attend a clinic.
“Whether or not we hold a clinic on a Tuesday or Thursday depends directly on vaccine deliveries and supply. This could change each week, and we will have times when we run out during a clinic,” Cook noted.
Additional locations in Madison County will begin to administer vaccine over the coming weeks. A statewide vaccine provider search will soon be available at coronavirus.ohio.gov/vaccine. Residents can also call (740) 852-3065, ext. 1546, to listen to vaccine updates.
While vaccine and clinics will be somewhat unpredictable for now, Cook said his team is excited about the vaccine.
“We know it’s going to be limited for a while, but vaccines will save lives and help us turn the tide during this pandemic.”
Besides vaccine itself, medical personnel to administer vaccine are in short supply. Healthcare workers continue to be overly taxed by the number of COVID-19 patients they are caring for, which leaves only a few people available to administer vaccine. Cook explained that people who are licensed and trained to administer vaccine can volunteer to help at clinics.
“We are always looking for volunteers to be part of our Medical Reserve Corps,” he said.
Volunteers who are interested in helping can contact MCPH at (740) 852-3065 or send an email to email@example.com.


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Motion No: 2011-07375 Index No. 08-3601 M131608
REINALDO E. RIVERA
PETER B. SKELOS
MARK C. DILLON
DANIEL D. ANGIOLILLO, JJ.
DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION
On the Court's own motion, it is
ORDERED that the order on application of this Court dated January 11, 2012, on an appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Orange County, dated March 31, 2011, is amended by deleting from the second paragraph thereof the words "no papers having been filed" and substituting therefor the words "the papers filed".
MASTRO, A.P.J., RIVERA, SKELOS, DILLON and ANGIOLILLO, JJ., concur.
Clerk of the Court


There's an a-peel-ing product appearing on Aldi shelves — aside from the canned potatoes, of course — and fans of the grocery chain are finding lots of creative ways to use it.
Aldi's canned fried apples with cinnamon are a seasonal item that hits stores each year for the fall season. And, at just $1.29 per 14.5-ounce can, Aldi shoppers are adding the sweet ingredient to everything from apple crisps to pork recipes.
And since the product returned to stores on Sept. 8, several members of the Aldi fan group have shared their own creations made using the canned fried apples.
Some creative group members use other Aldi items like canned cinnamon rolls or boxed apple cinnamon muffin mix to create mouthwatering baked goods.
"Aldi cinnamon rolls and the canned fried apples = pie on a Tuesday," wrote one user, who shared photos of a beautiful apple pie created with canned cinnamon rolls and the sweet apple filling.
Others have shared ideas for using the canned apples as a topping for pork chops or a sweet breakfast treat served over yogurt with a sprinkle of cinnamon.
In the comment section of a post from earlier this year asking for suggestions on what to do with the apples, group members gave more than 70 suggestions for the seemingly versatile pantry item.
"Eat them as a side with pintos, mashed potatoes and cornbread," said one commenter.
"I had them over ice cream," said another.
Another group member suggested a simple slow-cooker meal: "Pork tenderloin, a can of fried apples and a bottle of (barbecue sauce) in a crockpot," they shared. "Super easy yummy meal."
On another post about the canned apples, members said they made apple dumplings, dump cake and cobbler, and topped waffles, pancakes and French toast with them.
Since the apples are a seasonal item, they can be found in what some Aldi enthusiasts jokingly call the "aisle of shame," the aisle of the store filled with seasonal grocery items and rotating home, clothing and garden products that seemingly have nowhere else to go inside the grocery store.
I recently grabbed a few cans of the fried apples with cinnamon at my local Aldi and brought them home to taste. The verdict? They're similar to apple pie filling in texture, but much less sugary and syrupy. The apple filling inside the can is much juicer and not as sticky as the liquid in apple pie filling. One Facebook user said they're "similar to the fried apples at Cracker Barrel."
The apples taste fresh and flavorful and their scent reminded me of a fragrant fall-themed apple-cinnamon candle. Immediately, I thought of the desserts I could make with my canned apples. I can't wait to warm them up and serve them over a scoop of vanilla ice cream, as the Aldi fans suggested.
And the pork recipes? I can see why the apples would work as a topping over pork loin or a pork roast, served with mashed potatoes and sauerkraut. With the apple orchard vibes they channel, they'd be the perfect addition to a fall dinner.


Korede Bello is a Nigerian singer and songwriter. He was born on 29th February 1996 in Lagos, Nigeria. As a child, he showed a strong interest in Dance and music and also learning to play instruments on his own.
At age 7, he begun performing on stages and entered his school talent competition at the age of 13 and emerged the winner.
He studied Mass Communication at the Nigerian Institute of Journalism and holds a Higher National Diploma certificate. Korede Bello is an Associate Member of the Institute of Information Management.
On February 28, 2020, he was discovered and signed a recording deal with Marvins Records. He started music professionally by recording songs while in secondary school and eventually released his first single ‘Forever’.
After the release of his first single which received relatively positive reviews, he was introduced to Don Jazzy by his manager Casmir Uwaegbute after which they recorded some songs together which got Don Jazzy impressed. On 28 February 2014, he got signed to Mavin Records under which he has recorded popular songs like “African Princess” and “Godwin”.
Korede Bello Net Worth
Korede Bello has an estimated net worth os $800,000. He earned this wealth through his career in the entertainment industry.
Korede Bello’s Twin Brother
Korede Bello is not a twin, however, he shares a striking resemblance with Ezra Chide, a native of the country. The two have met on a few occasions and Bello was excited to see him.
Korede Bello Songs
Some hit songs of Korede Bello include; Do like that, Godwin, Romantic, Stamina, Champion, Together, I love Naija and many others.


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Former Agriculture Minister, Micheal Katambo, blamed the looming food shortages on ‘faulty’ agriculture policies initiated by the ruling United Party for National Development (UPND).
Katambo claimed during a KBN Television talkshow on Wednesday that the Patriotic Front (PF) in which he served as Minister that the administration left more than 1.5 tonnes of white maize which the current regime reportedly exported without thinking about national reserves.
He said late input distribution in the prior years when the UPND took over had led to the current food dilemma.
“This crisis is beyond climate change, we left more than 1.5 tonnes in reserves which our colleagues exported without thinking about national reserves,” Katambo said.
He also accused the government of not continuing with good agriculture policies initiated by the previous government.
Katambo said in anticipation of climate change, the administration then funded the construction of Muomboshi Dam in Chibombo and Masakashi Dam in Mufulira which he observed would change the lives of the people if the projects were completed.
He urged the UPND government to be sincere by taking the blame rather than criticizing the PF government which maintained food security despite unfavourable conditions.
Katambo claimed that during his reign as Agriculture Minister, the country was faced with ravaging locusts and fall army worms but that the government went ahead to record historical 3.6 million tonnes of white maize.
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I like the four elements which come together in this image: a blue sky, the moon, a reflection in the lagoon and the mixed road consist.
NS T12's power, a typical two NS Dash 9s, awaits permission to cross the Clinch River at the depot downtown.
Trackside property? Two of BNSF's finest GE's hustle nearly 7,000 feet of Seattle, WA bound double-stacks through the booming community of Bremen on BNSF's KO Subdivision.
A timely sucker hole illuminates the headend of train A412 as it speeds along the shores of Moose Lake on CN's Albreda Sub.
NS 337 splices the blooming Bradford Pear trees at Landis. This shot is no longer possible as the trees have been cut down as a result of the double track project between Salisbury and Kannapolis.
Following several overcast days, the sunshine and nearly cloudless skies return just in time as NS 51Q races towards Atlanta with a couple of Union Pacific motors leading the empty grain train thr... (more)
CN train 347 rolls west at Snaring, AB along the Athabasca River towards Jasper in late afternoon light. This consist features a former IC SD70 as trailing unit.
Norfolk Southern Freight Train 153 makes their way Westbound as they roar through Fruithurst, AL. With BNSF (former ATSF) C44-9W Warbonnet 669 on the point
Due to congestion on the northern transcon, BNSF has been re-routing their S LPCTAC's and S LPCSEA's via the Southern Transcon and the California Valley. Due to clearance restrictions up North, t... (more)
NS local train GZ04 takes a trainload of brand new Fords to the distribution center in Hapeville on the ex-Central of Georgia Griffin District. Weather here over the past few days has been less-th... (more)
Pocahontas Pumpkin: BNSF C44-9W No. 5155 leads an eastbound Norfolk Southern ballast train through Chattaroy, West Virginia, on May 15, 2014.
Still in its Warbonnet paint, BNSF 706 leads a manifest off of the Marion Branch and past the soon to fall NYC signal bridge at CP 412 on Norfolk Southern's Chicago Line.
Clash of Seasons: Sometimes the weather in Montana can be just downright absurd. Take for example this image, taken on Sept. 13, a full 10 days before summer is officially over, of an eastb... (more)

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Total commits to become Net Zero Emission Company by 2050
Supporting the EU’s carbon neutrality target, Total commits to become a Net Zero Emission Company for all its European Businesses by 2050, a source in the company told Trend.
Through a joint statement developed between Total S.A. and institutional investors – as participants in the global investor initiative Climate 100+1 – Total takes three major steps towards achieving this ambition:
Three major steps to get Total to Net Zero are:
Net Zero across Total’s worldwide operations by 2050 or sooner (scope 1+2);
Net Zero across all its production and energy products used by its customers in Europe by 2050 or sooner (scope 1+2+3); and
60 percent or more reduction in the average carbon intensity of energy products used worldwide by Total customers by 2050.
"As the EU has set the target to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 and thereby lead the way for other regions to become carbon neutral over time, Total takes that commitment to become neutral for all its businesses in Europe," the message said.
Total confirms its target of a renewable generation gross capacity of 25 GW in 2025. Total currently allocates more than 10 percent of its Capex to low carbon electricity, the highest level among the Majors. To actively contribute to the energy transition, Total will further increase its allocation of Capex in favor of low carbon electricity to 20 percent by 2030 or sooner.
Total and the State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic SOCAR participate in the Absheron field’s joint development project. The field is located in the Azerbaijani sector of the Caspian Sea, southeast of Baku. Its development is carried out by JOCAP, a joint venture of SOCAR and Total. The drilling operations are conducted by SOCAR CDC.
Absheron field is one of the biggest gas condensate fields in Azerbaijan, as well as the biggest discovery by Total over the past 10 years. Its development will make an important contribution to ensuring growing domestic demand for natural gas in Azerbaijan and increasing the export revenues.
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