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Le Flâneur Politique
Work-in-progress: "Restructuring Protected Industries: The efficacy of policy responses to disruption in the sugar, automotive manufacturing and taxi sectors"
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Institutional funding for conference attendance is now a distant memory, and I have sorely missed the opportunity to present my work in progress and receive frank and honest feedback, to the point where I have been self-funding my conference attendances. This article covers my most recent presentation at the Australia and New Zealand Public Policy Network (PPN) 2017 Annual Conference at Flinders University in Adelaide. It still fills me with a sense of wonder when I have the opportunity to have my work critiqued by some of the greats in political science whose names were familiar from my undergraduate textbooks some 23 or so years ago. So when I write about my journey here, it is in the spirit of memories past which I present my work in progress.
So I've decided to write about my research work in progress. It is likely filled with factual errors and poorly articulated ideas, but that is the nature of the process. Since starting this blog I have found that my writing somehow "gets going" if I blog regularly. I recall, too, that regular blogging opened up numerous opportunities for me in the early stages of my career, including the first of a series of paid gigs for ABC Unleashed (which would later become The Drum). This was an important time for me as I observed many others, who were also writing regularly for Unleashed, who went on to change careers and become journalists or freelance writers. But my heart was never in it; certainly not as a journalist, and I am glad I didn't go there. Indeed, if I were writing about the new president in another country for a living today, I would not be glad at all.
But what writing for the media did for me was to create an area of specialisation and to gain the support of my colleagues. It was an interesting phenomenon, amid immaturity, life crises, career change, returning to full time study, and being broke-arse poor, but it has proven a useful vignette for my leadership classes.
I would run around seeking validation for my work. I wanted to be accepted by my colleagues. But it didn't happen. It was all critique and no joy, and, strangely enough, exactly the type of critique I now deliberately seek out! But the point is that my colleagues would not validate my expertise. That is, until my work was validated externally by the media. Then when speaking of me, my colleagues would routinely say "Oh you should speak to Michael. He is an expert in..." Bizarre.
I do not mean to flatter myself. Indeed, one of the comments I received while writing for Unleashed was something like: "Expert! Ha! This guy doesn't have a PhD. He is lucky to have a job!" Besides, my favourite definition of "expert" is: "X being the unknown quantity and spurt being a drip under high pressure". But I do have a spot on expertguide.com.au, so for the point of what I am trying to say, there it is.
So by looking for validation within the organisation, I found nothing and came across as a needy freak. But by obtaining validation outside of the organisation, my colleagues just went with it. It is so strange to think back to these times, and the recent PPN conference was attended by some of the very same people. Nothing much has changed, and their feedback and criticism is as frank as ever. And God love them for it. If anything, their feedback is probably better, because I have grown up just a tad and I suspect they aren't so worried about hurting my delicate little ego!
Why we aren't taught such things, I think, is a function of class. Silvertails won't talk about such things because they might lose some of their silvertailed mystique. I played that game as an army officer and they can have it. Now, rather than asking "Why aren't we taught such things?" - I just get on and teach them.
Of course it takes age and experience, and for some, like me, age and experience are probably not the best ways to gain wisdom. Fools learn from their mistakes and I am a fool. But Rousseau (1782/1995: 11) says it best:
No doubt adversity is a great teacher, but its lessons are dearly bought, and often the profit we gain from them are not worth the cost.
While I am visiting Rousseau (1782/1995: 2), I am reminded of why I do things as I do, and while not so very good at it, I am less inclined to fight against my nature:
For a long time I put up a resistance as violent as it was fruitless. Being without guile, without skill, without cunning, without prudence, frank, open, impatient and impulsive, I only enmeshed myself further in my efforts to be free, and constantly gave them new holds on me which they took good care not to neglect. But realizing eventually that all my efforts were in vain and my self-torment to no avail, I took the only course left to me, that of submitting to my fate and ceasing to fight against the inevitable. This resignation has made up for my trials by the peace of mind it brings me, a peace of mind incompatible with the unceasing exertions of a struggle as painful as it was unavailing.
Interestingly, Rousseau's words echo Stoicism. But again I digress. Below is the work in progress so far.
Disruption created by globalisation and emerging technologies has resulted in various policy responses to manage the decline of long-standing, protected industries in Australia. The Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement, cheaper labour rates overseas, and challenges to existing regulated monopolies have affected the sugar, automotive manufacturing and taxi sectors respectively. In the first two cases, the Commonwealth introduced policy responses to manage the decline of the sugar and automotive manufacturing industries, whereas state governments have responded to the emerging ride-sharing providers by lowering the barriers to new market entrants. In each case, different approaches to compensating existing industry players for the impact of market restructuring have produced various policy approaches. This paper, then, compares the rationale for the respective policy responses to disruption in the sugar, automotive manufacturing, and taxi sectors. While the Commonwealth managed industry restructuring with deliberate, well-organised policy responses, the states ignored the need for reform until a disruptive business model had garnered such support from consumers that the states, politically, had little choice but to rush through policy responses that do not augur well for approaches to managing future disruptions. Indeed, the states created a high level of sovereign risk that has had a significant financial impact on small business investors in the taxi industry that may set a precedent for policy responses to the sharing economy in other state-governed industries such as hospitality. The paper argues that the states' protracted policy responses to disruption, compounded by limited resources for policy-making, have resulted in inefficacious outcomes compared to the industries governed by the Commonwealth. Based on the experience of the three cases, the paper concludes with recommendations for governing future industry disruptions to ensure that small businesses do not bear the financial brunt of poorly implemented anticipatory industry policies.
There are a number of issues with my abstract. The most important feedback I received was not for me, but another. Much like the military appreciation process, where one must constantly ask oneself, "So what?". It is not uncommon in political science research to address some form of injustice, with an aim of improvement, as I discussed previously via Charles Merriam and Gabriel Almond. But to present little more than a series of moral judgements of political happenings, leaving the audience to state "So what!" rather than the researcher to point out clearly the answer to the question "So what?" is not political science, but a form of political journalism. I need to tidy up that part of the story.
Restructuring Protected Industries from University of Canberra
The introduction of ride-sharing in Australia presents a number of issues that are of concern for the future. For example, if the state governments did not have the power to reform the regulated taxi monopolies, and then did not have the power to enforce their (or more appropriately "our") own laws, then does this not represent a level of sovereign risk that should be of concern? Again, so what? The word "should" immediately brings in a normative element. While normative questions are fine, does it fit with my understanding of the purpose of political science? I don't think so.
When comparing telecommunications policy in Canada and Australia, I accepted that nation-states wanted to increase the penetration of communications technologies. I did not consider whether broadband, for example, was a "good thing". What I wanted to do was to understand questions like: Why has Canada consistently outperformed Australia in the penetration of new communications technologies? How do governments enable, coordinate, and regulate new communications technologies? And so on. Out of this I hoped to develop a meso- or industry-level theory to explain the interaction of the institutions of the state and new communications technology inventions over time.
When I look back to my abstract and my presentation, I can see that I need to remove the over- and under-tones of moral judgement and focus on explaining the process. To ask "Why?" But also to ask questions such as: How do governments respond to disruption? How does timing influence the policy options available to governments? And so forth. But I need to be clear and focus on one element of the issue. I need to avoid that great academic disease: conflation.
I will write more on this project later, but in the meantime, it was recommended to me that the temporal aspect might be useful, hence my reading of the following article:
Newman, J. and Howlett, M. (2014). Regulation and time: temporal patterns in regulatory development. International Review of Administrative Sciences, 80(3), 493–511. https://doi.org/10.1177/0020852313517995
I hope to have a write-up on this paper in a future post.
Automotive Manufacturing Industry Disruption Disruptive Technology Industry Policy Regulated Monopoly Ride Sharing Sugar Industry Taxi Industry Work-In-Progress
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Essay Notes: "Clouds, Clocks, and the Study of Politics" by Gabriel Almond and Stephen Genco
Almond, G. A. & Genco, S. J. (1977). Clouds, Clocks, and the Study of Politics. World Politics, 29(4), 489–522.
Written in 1977, this article considers the scientific turn in political science. Traditionally, political science focused on descriptions of political systems, laws, and history. I have discussed Charles Merriam, founder of the "Chicago School" of political science, in an earlier "journal note". Along with Harold Lasswell, Merriam encouraged greater scientific rigour in political science research. Almond was notably a product of the "Chicago School" of political science, earning his PhD in 1938, the year Harold Lasswell left and two years before Merriam retired. The adoption of the scientific method of the hard (or natural) sciences, which had influenced psychology and economics, and, by this time, was influencing political science, is the subject of this article. Almond and Genco bring to the attention of political scientists the issue of…
La Chute: Albert Camus on the consequences of not learning to live
This is the last of Camus' works completed before his death in 1960. First published in 1956, the work is presented as a monologue by Jean-Baptiste Clamence, a Parisian lawyer who has moved to Amsterdam to become a "judge-penitent". I will return to this term later.
Clamence has become bitterly cynical about judges, law, and justice, and has taken to womanising, drinking, and generally driving himself into the ground through hard living. I've read other reviews suggesting the work is Clamence's "confession", for others it is his "self-accusation". The story (it is clearly a philosophical work, rather than a novella) incorporates the stolen panel "The Just Judges" of the Van Eyck painting, The Mythical Lamb (also known as the Ghent altarpiece). The panel was actually stolen in 1934 and is missing to this day.
There are a few other historical references which I found fascinating, inclu…
Moodle: Higher Ed's Great Open Source Experiment
Moodle is an open source educational platform that has a global reach with millions of users worldwide. As part of this open source experiment, many Australian educational institutions have adopted Moodle as their primary Learning Management System (LMS). Unlike proprietary LMS, which tend to be pedagogically neutral, Moodle's "social constructivist" underpinnings have changed the nature of how education is delivered in these institutions. But is the change for the better?
Open source versus proprietary software
Unlike proprietary or commercial software, "open source" means that the software code is freely available and institutions do not have to pay licence fees based on the number of users. However, institutions pay for support services such as their own (or third-party) help-desks and technicians to implement and manage the software on their servers (whether owned by the institution or controlled by a third party).
In contrast to commercial LMS, Moodle has…
T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land": Pound for Pound
The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot
After reading Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust, the title of which is derived from T.S. Eliot's modernist poem, The Waste Land, I was compelled to read the poem and to learn more about Eliot. Up until today, my knowledge of Eliot was limited to what I had gleaned from Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris.
I have read all around Eliot, including Djuna Barnes (whom Eliot admired)1, Ernest Hemingway, Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Sherwood Andersen, Ford Madox Ford, and Virginia Woolf. But I have shied away from poetry until only recently.
After reading the poem, I listened to the BBC's In Our Time podcast episode, "The Waste Land and Modernity". There was much interesting discussion about the original book version of Eliot's poem. Apparently, the poem itself was too short to be a book and the publisher asked Eliot to pad it out.
Eliot added a bunch of notes to the poem, many of whi…
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In total, six days of this enticing cruise will be spent in Germany and each will be packed with sights and experiences that are sure to leave a lasting impression. A scenic sailing of the picturesque Kiel Canal starts your adventure. Gorgeous German countryside will be revealed as Balmoral glides along this size-restricted waterway en route to Warnemünde. A pretty seaside city, Warnemünde boasts wide, white sand beaches and an historic lighthouse offering unspoilt views of the Baltic Sea; take advantage of your ship's convenient docking location and an overnight stay here to discover these attractions at your leisure.
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Q: How to solve flutter web api cors error only with dart code? It seems like CORS error is well-known issue in the web field. But I tried flutter web for the first time ever and I faced critical error.
The code below worked well in app version when it was running on iOS device, but when i tested the same code on Chrome with web debugging from beta channel, it encountered CORS error.
Other stackoverflow answers explained how to solve the CORS issue with serverside files of their projects. But I have totally no idea what is server thing and how to deal with their answers. The error message from Chrome console was below
[  Access to XMLHttpRequest at 'https://kapi.kakao.com/v1/payment/ready' from origin 'http://localhost:52700' has been blocked by CORS policy: Response to preflight request doesn't pass access control check: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource.  ]
So, what i want to do is to solve above 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin header' issue ONLY WITH DART CODE! Code below is what i've tried to solve these issues only with my main.dart.
onPressed: () async {
      var res =
          await http.post('https://kapi.kakao.com/v1/payment/ready', encoding: Encoding.getByName('utf8'), headers: {
        'Authorization': 'KakaoAK $_ADMIN_KEY',
        HttpHeaders.authorizationHeader: 'KakaoAK $_ADMIN_KEY',
        "Access-Control-Allow-Origin": "*",
        "Access-Control-Allow-Methods": "POST, GET, OPTIONS, PUT, DELETE, HEAD",
      }, body: {
        'cid': 'TC0ONETIME',
        'partner_order_id': 'partner_order_id',
        'partner_user_id': 'partner_user_id',
        'item_name': 'cool_beer',
        'quantity': '1',
        'total_amount': '22222',
        'vat_amount': '2222',
        'tax_free_amount': '0',
        'approval_url': '$_URL/kakaopayment',
        'fail_url': '$_URL/kakaopayment',
        'cancel_url': '$_URL/kakaopayment'
      });
      Map<String, dynamic> result = json.decode(res.body);
      print(result);
    },

Even though i actually had the header "Access-Control-Allow-Origin": "*" which most other answers recommended, the Chrome console printed same error message. Weird thing is that the same code made successful request in mobileApp version. So I think this is only problem with flutter WEB VERSION.
Hope somebody can figure it out and suggest only-dart code to resolve the issue in my main.dart!! Thank you for reading [:

A: This is a CORS (cross-origin resource sharing) issue and you do not have to delete/modify anything. You just have to enable the CORS request from your server-side and it will work fine.
In my case, I have created a server with node.js and express.js, so I just added this middleware function that will run for every request.
app.use(function(req, res, next) {
  res.header("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "*");
  res.header("Access-Control-Allow-Methods", "GET,PUT,PATCH,POST,DELETE");
  res.header("Access-Control-Allow-Headers", "Origin, X-Requested-With, Content-Type, Accept");
  next();
});

And BOOOOM! I received the data.
You just have to look at the settings to enable CORS for your server.

A: Server side engine like node js or django is really needed to work with flutter web with bunch of external apis. Actually there's high possibility of same CORS error when we try to use internal api because of the CORS mechanism related to port number difference.
There are bunch of steps and answers from SO contributors that recommend to use chrome extensions to avoid CORS errors, but that is actually not cool for users. All the users should download the browser extensions to use the single website from us, which wouldn't be there if we used true server engines.
CORS is from browser as far as i know, so our flutter ios and android apps with same api code don't give those CORS errors. First time i encountered this error with flutter web, i believed i can deal with CORS in my app code lines. But that is actually not healthy way for users and long term dev plans.
Hope all flutter web newbies understand that web is quite a wild field for us. Even though i'm also newbie here, i highly recommend all the flutter web devs from 1.22.n stable to learn server side engines like node js. It is worth try.
And if u came so far down to this line of my self-answer, here's a simple guide for flutter web with node js. Flutter web is on stable channel but all those necessary infra are not fully ready for newbies like me. So be careful when you first dive into web field, and hope you re-check all the conditions and requirements to find out if you really need web version of your flutter app, and also if you really need to do this work with flutter. And my answer was yes lol
https://blog.logrocket.com/flutter-web-app-node-js/

A: If you run a Spring Boot server, add "@CrossOrigin" to your Controller or to your service method.
@CrossOrigin
@PostMapping(path="/upload")
public @ResponseBody ResponseEntity<Void> upload(@RequestBody Object object) {
    // ...
}

I know the question explicitly asked for a solution "with dart code" only, but I was not able to fix the exception with dart code (for example by changing the header).

A: The disabling web security approaches work well in development, but probably not so well in production. An approach that worked for me in production dart code involves avoiding the pre-flight CORS check entirely by keeping the web request simple. In my case this meant changing the request header to contain:
'Content-Type': 'text/plain'

Even though I'm actually sending json, setting it to text/plain avoids the pre-flight CORS check. The lambda function I'm calling didn't support pre-flight OPTIONS requests.
Here's some info on other ways to keep a request simple and avoid a pre-flight request

A: Since Flutter 3.3.0
I implemented the option to add any browser flag to the flutter command.
flutter run -d chrome --web-browser-flag "--disable-web-security"

Or for drive command:
flutter drive --driver=test_driver/integration_test.dart --target=integration_test/app_test.dart -d web-server --web-browser-flag="--disable-web-security"

Note: This is just for development and testing. Flutter is executed explicitly on the client's browser! You should NOT and you can NOT disable it in production (as stated by @Tommy), as it is a security feature of the browser, and not meant to be changed in dart code. You have to enable CORS on your web server, which is providing the resources of your Flutter app, to ensure it works for everyone.
If you use dart language without Flutter on the server side with shelf, then see this response.

A: https://docs.flutter.dev/development/platform-integration/web-images
flutter run -d chrome --web-renderer html
flutter build web --web-renderer html

A: This official solution worked for me on Chrome only (Source). But I had to run it first every time.
flutter run -d chrome --web-renderer html

And disabling web security also worked (Source). But the browsers will show a warning banner.
But In case you are running on a different browser than Chrome (e.g. Edge) and you want to keep 'web security' enabled.
You can change the default web renderer in settings in VS Code

File ==> Preferences ==> Settings ==> Enter 'Flutter Web' in the Search Bar ==> Set the default web renderer to html

A: After hours of testing, the following works perfectly for me.
Add the following to the PHP file:
header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *');
header('Access-Control-Allow-Methods: GET, POST');
header("Access-Control-Allow-Headers: X-Requested-With");

This allow the correct connection with the HTTP GET POST with no issue from flutter for me.
I discovered this in the following discussion:
XMLHttpRequest error Flutter

A: 1- Go to flutter\bin\cache and remove a file named: flutter_tools.stamp
2- Go to flutter\packages\flutter_tools\lib\src\web and open the file chrome.dart.
3- Find '--disable-extensions'
4- Add '--disable-web-security'

A: Update:
I recommend to use User Rebo's answer. It is now possible to pass --disable-web-security as a browser flag to run & drive commands!

Original outdated answer:

Alternative solution for MacOS & Android Studio (without modifying Flutter source)
We use a similar approach as Osman Tuzcu. Instead of modifying the Flutter source code, we add the --disable-web-security argument in a shell script and just forward all other arguments that were set by Flutter. It might look overly complicated but it takes just a minute and there is no need to repeat it for every Flutter version.
1. Run this in your terminal
echo '#!/bin/zsh
# See also https://stackoverflow.com/a/31150244/410996
trap "trap - SIGTERM && kill -- -$$" SIGINT SIGTERM EXIT
set -e ; /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome --test-type --disable-web-security "$@" ; set +e &
PID=$!
wait $PID
trap - SIGINT SIGTERM EXIT
wait $PID
' > ~/chrome_launcher
chmod 755 ~/chrome_launcher

This adds a chrome_launcher script to your user folder and marks it executable.
2. Add this line to your .zshrc (or .bashrc etc.):
export CHROME_EXECUTABLE=~/chrome_launcher

3. Restart Android Studio
If a simple restart does not work, use Invalidate Caches / Restart in Android Studio to force loading of changes.
Notes
The script also adds the --test-type flag to suppress the ugly warning about the disabled security features. Be aware that this option might also suppress other error messages!
The CHROME_EXECUTABLE takes only the path to an executable file it is not possible to set arguments there.
Without trapping exit signals and killing the process group, the Google Chrome instance was not killed when you hit the Stop Button in Android Studio.

A: I am getting the same error with php api so i add the php code these lines ;
header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *');
header('Access-Control-Allow-Methods: GET, POST');
header("Access-Control-Allow-Headers: X-Requested-With");

A: If you are using FVM, I suggest to use flutter_cors package
dart pub global activate flutter_cors
fluttercors --disable

If you face
zsh: command not found: fluttercors

You need to add it to PATH. In my case, I'm using zsh, I add it to .zshrc by
vim ~/.zshrc

Press I to start editing and paste export PATH="$PATH":"$HOME/.pub-cache/bin" to the top of the file

Then press ESC and type :wq to save the .zshrc file.
Now you're good to go

Now, just need to run your flutter web normally. It will trigger Chrome without CORS.

A: I think disabling web security as suggested will make you jump over the current error for now but when you go for production or testing on other devices the problem will persist because it is just a workaround, the correct solution is from the server side to allow CORS from the requesting domain and allow the needed methods, and credentials if needed.

A: run/compile your Flutter web project using web-renderer. This should solve the issue both locally and remotely:
flutter run -d chrome --web-renderer html
flutter build web --web-renderer html

A: I think you may not doing this in right way.
The cors headers should be added in HTTP response header while you added them in you reuqest header obviously.
for more information check out the documentation https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CORS#what_requests_use_cors

A: The below solution is great if you are only communicating with a local NodeJS server.

*

*Install NodeJS

*Create a basic NodeJS express project

*

*Create a folder to put you NodeJS project in

*

*ex: C:\node_project\

*in PowerShell run: npm init in the folder

*

*fill in your desired values

*entry point: must be app.js for this example to work

*in PowerShell run: npm install express in the folder

*create a app.js file in the folder

// init express
const express = require("express");
const app = express();

// set the path to the web build folder
app.use(express.static("C:/Users/your_username/path_to_flutter_app/build/web"));

const PORT = process.env.PORT || 8080;
app.listen(PORT, () => {
    console.log(`Server listening on port ${PORT}...`);
});

*

*The value "C:/Users/your_username/path_to_flutter_app/build/web" must be changed to the web build folder in your flutter app.

*The app can be accessed through your browser once the app is built, the node server is running, and the browser is at the correct address

*

*Build the app

*

*open PowerShell and navigate to the flutter project's root ex: C:/Users/your_username/path_to_flutter_app/

*run flutter build web

*turn on the node server

*

*open PowerShell and navigate to the NodeJS server folder ex: C:\node_project\

*run: node app.js

*Open in your browser

*

*Enter http://localhost:8080/ into the browser

Note that everytime you change your flutter app's dart code you will need to re-run flutter build web

A: Wrong Server on Target Port
I feel silly for even admitting this, but I had some other local server running on the targeted port. I've no clue why the server seemed to boot on the same port, or why the iOS app seemed to work, but now that I'm hitting the actual server it's working fine.
I was also getting some 404's mixed in, but originally thought that was due to the CORs error.
Maybe someone else has this same issue and this helps them.

A: In my case, The problem was in laravel backend code which did not support CORS, So I added the CORS into backend project then it worked successfully in test and live.

A: The 5th step of Osmans answer should be to add the option
'--disable-site-isolation-trials',
Only this works for me.
Chrome version 106.0.5249.119

A: For me none of the solutions above worked on production as it was expected. Altough there is one solution I can suggest which uses CORS proxy to avoid CORS issues on flutter web on production. You can find CORS proxies on this website.
Basically you bypass all the unnecessary headers which your browser appends to your requests, so you may not encounter the same CORS issues when making request to another API. Hope it helps!

A: It Worked With Me By The Following Code :
in conn.php file put like this :
<?php
header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *');
header('Access-Control-Allow-Methods: GET, POST');
header("Access-Control-Allow-Headers: X-Requested-With");

$connect = new mysqli("localhost","db_user","db_password","db_name");

if($connect){

}else{
    echo "Connection Failed";
    exit();
}

A: This is a CORS (cross-origin resource sharing) issue and you just need to enable the CORS request from your server-side.
In my case it is Asp.Net MVC Web API and adding below code to Application_BeginRequest at Global.asax worked for me:
HttpContext.Current.Response.AddHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "http://localhost:7777/");

if (HttpContext.Current.Request.HttpMethod == "OPTIONS")
{
    //These headers are handling the "pre-flight" OPTIONS call sent by the browser
    HttpContext.Current.Response.AddHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Methods", "POST, GET");
    HttpContext.Current.Response.AddHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Headers", "content-type");
    HttpContext.Current.Response.End();
}

Use desired urls , Methods and Headers
Also There is no need to change anything in Web.config

A: If anyone looking for an equivalent of the accepted answer (Osman's) when working with dart web (webdev), here's what worked for me on Dart 2.17.6 (a bit more complex but in case you needed a quick fix, it might be handful).

*

*Find webdev executable (this helps) then you see something like this:

The snapshot file (generated if not exist, as you see) is executed when you want to run app in browser. It contains the code that dart runs when launching chrome (using browser_launcher dart package).

*Backup and remove the snapshot file (location in the screenshot above) so it can be regenerated in next run.

*Locate browser_launcher package in your pub cache (also you might find location of browser_launcher by searching in the snapshot file) and edit lib\src\chrome.dart, find '--disable-extensions' and add '--disable-web-security'.

*Run your app and remove the backup created in step 2.

A: If you are working with django in the side of the service, you can configure CORS with 'corsheaders', in this link you can find whole the documentation to setup your back end and recognice your requests.
https://pypi.org/project/django-cors-headers/

A: *

*Go to flutter\bin\cache and remove a file named: flutter_tools.stamp

*Go to flutter\packages\flutter_tools\lib\src\web and open the file chrome.dart.

*Find '--disable-extensions'

*Add '--disable-web-security'

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Pharmacy teams need protection to keep running during COVID-19
The Pharmaceutical Journal6 APR 2020
Personal protective equipment is vital in allowing pharmacists to continue their essential work during the pandemic, yet pharmacies have not received enough to continue operating safely.
Open access article
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society has made this feature article free to access in order to help healthcare professionals stay informed about an issue of national importance.
To learn more about coronavirus, please visit: https://www.rpharms.com/resources/pharmacy-guides/wuhan-novel-coronavirus
Source: Morgan Harlow / PA Wire / PA Images
Pharmacy is people. Those dispensing, checking, ordering or delivering medicines; advising and counselling patients; or picking up the phone to query a prescriber.
However, policies on self-isolation for those with symptoms of COVID-19 are having an impact on staffing levels, with some pharmacy teams down by 15%. Many are working long hours to meet demand as patients stock up on over-the-counter products, order prescription items early and request deliveries.
In hospital, dispensaries are brutally busy, with many pharmacists being relocated to assist with critical care and recruitment ongoing to staff five new Nightingale hospitals to cope with the pandemic.
The pharmacy workforce has recently been bolstered by more than 6,200 returning pharmacy professionals after the General Pharmaceutical Council quickly put out a call to pharmacists who have recently dropped off the register.
It is also encouraging that the thousands of volunteers who have signed up to help the NHS will be directed to help community pharmacy deliver medicines, although they must be vetted and trained, and are no substitute for an adequately-funded service.
We are still only in the foothills of this pandemic and the rising pressure on pharmacy is worrying
There have been moves to help community pharmacies cope with the unprecedented pressure on the sector, with advance payments, inspections, revalidation and some services scaled back. Short closures during the day are also now permitted to enable pharmacy teams to regroup.
However, we are still only in the foothills of this pandemic and the rising pressure on pharmacy is worrying. If there are not adequate numbers of people on the workforce, the whole system will stop functioning; this would be a disaster for the country, piling even more pressure on the rest of the NHS.
One of the best ways to prevent this happening is to ensure that pharmacy staff do not get sick or have to self-isolate for long periods.
Advice on personal protective equipment (PPE) has recently changed to recommend that if social distancing of two metres is not possible, fluid-repellent surgical masks should be used. However, social distancing is a virtual impossibility in many pharmacies; how are you meant to hand over a medicine, or give advice, to a patient from over two metres away?
This will require many more surgical masks to be made available to pharmacies as previous stocks were based on out-of-date advice that "there are few occasions" that pharmacy staff will need PPE.
Testing for COVID-19 infection must also be prioritised. The government is ramping up capacity, but it is not clear when testing will be opened up to pharmacy staff. It is vital to ensure that pharmacy staff and their families can be tested to ensure that those who do not have the disease — or are now immune to it — can return to work as swiftly as possible.
The NHS has a duty to protect frontline healthcare workers and this includes those in pharmacies. As the pandemic continues, this is the only way pharmacy teams will be able to carry out their vital role in keeping the public healthy, safe and informed.
The Pharmaceutical Journal has opened up its jobs board for free postings of volunteer or paid opportunities in pharmacies until 25 May 2020. Please email: classified@rpharms.com for more information
Citation: The Pharmaceutical Journal, April 2020, Vol 304, No 7936, online | DOI: 10.1211/PJ.2020.20207864
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A: For those who come across this problem (confusion), I just relied on the obsolete Pdf Font Name in the textfields property in iReport. Just ignore the iReport's deprecated warning because it seems like this is the only way


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Q: how to convert table to pdf in angular 7/8/9/10? I have searched far and wide and found many solutions that work on jsPDF.But the solutions I found either try to add lines of text manually, which is impossible in my scenario; or they convert

A: first install jspdf library

"npm install jspdf --save"

jspdf@2.3.1 work for me.
then after import jspdf in component and create function for export
import { jsPDF } from 'jspdf';
      generatePdf() {
            var head = [['NAME', 'DATE', 'TIME']];
            var table_data = [];

            array.forEach((element: any) => {
            var item = [element.Title, element.Date, element.Time];
            table_data.push(item);
            });

            var doc = new jsPDF();

            doc.setFontSize(18);
            doc.text('Page', 11, 8);
            doc.setFontSize(11);
            doc.setTextColor(100);
            (doc as any).autoTable({
            head: head,
            body: table_data,
            theme: 'striped',
            didDrawCell: data => {
                // data
            }
            })

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Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story Geeta Dayal
Hobnobbing with fellow celebrities, international advocacy, and a bit about the music: Bono's new not-quite-tell-all memoir.
Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story, by Bono, Knopf, 563 pages, $34
Few contemporary rock stars are as universally celebrated as Bono. Ever since his band, U2—formed with his teenaged schoolmates in 1976—grew massively in fame in the 1980s, he has been the quintessentially confident lead singer, an almost messianic performer with a burning desire "to be loved at scale," as he confides in his new memoir, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story. To date, U2 has sold over one hundred seventy million albums and garnered twenty-two Grammy awards. The nearly six-hundred-page-long Surrender is Bono's latest career milestone, fetching a mind-boggling book deal estimated at $8.4 million, according to the Irish Sun.
U2, Halfpenny Bridge. Photo: Paul Slattery.
Surrender follows Bono's life story in a loosely chronological order, with each episodic chapter named for a different U2 song. In the first quarter of the book, he traces his multidenominational upbringing in Dublin (where he was born Paul David Hewson, in 1960); his mother's untimely death, from a brain aneurysm she suffered at her own father's funeral, when Bono was fourteen; and the early days of U2. His account of making one of the band's first hits, "I Will Follow," from 1980, is especially vivid. The rehearsal room, he writes, was less than a hundred yards from his mother's final resting place. " 'I Will Follow'," Bono remembers, was "about some kid who wants to find his mother, and even if she's in the grave, he'll follow her there." Bono says he instructed the Edge, the guitarist, to "play the sound of an electric drill through the spinal cortex," and offers little-known details into the song's odd instrumentation: they "used bicycle wheels as percussion, turning the bike upside down in the hall of Windmill Lane and using forks and knives in the spokes for rhythmic effect. In a break in the track we threw milk bottles up in the air and let them bounce down the tiled hallway, their off-key musical contributions a novel addition."
U2. Photo: Patrick Brocklebank.
The youthful exuberance and specificity of the first few chapters recede as the narrative progresses. Surrender doesn't deliver much more about the process of making music after those early glimpses, which will be frustrating for some fans. There are brief passages that go behind the scenes of various U2 albums, with some entertaining anecdotes, but little in the way of any deep musical analysis. For instance, regarding Achtung Baby, released in 1991, he mainly writes about the dislocation and alienation of recording in Berlin at the cavernous Hansa Studios as the Wall was coming down—which fueled the record's moody atmosphere, to be sure—but not that much about the songs themselves.
Ali Hewson and Bono. Courtesy the Hewson family archive.
So what does Bono talk about, if not music? Throughout the chatty, conversational book, he discusses the inner workings of his friendships with his bandmates, his relationship with his wife, Ali, and his belief in God. Sizable chunks of Surrender deal with international politics, including Bono's long-standing advocacy work on behalf of AIDS activism and international debt cancellation. There are numerous stories of his famous acquaintances—world leaders, business titans, musical legends. We are regaled with recollections of hanging out in the Oval Office with Bill Clinton, going over to Steve Jobs's house for tea, kissing the Pope's ring, and drinking whiskey with Frank Sinatra. A celebrity perspective on other celebrities has the potential to be uniquely revelatory. But that is not the case here, as Bono, for the most part, offers only the breeziest of insights into the stars that stud his prose. When discussing other musicians, he favors grand statements but generally offers little explanation to back up his opinions. The trip-hop group Massive Attack, he declares, is "one of the most important bands in the history of music." David Bowie "was England's Elvis Presley," in terms of impact. When he looks back on how Paul McCartney gave him a guided tour of Liverpool, the birthplace of the Beatles, Bono gushes, "It's like Moses giving you a tour of the Holy Land. It's like Freud giving you a tour of the brain. It's like Neil Armstrong giving you a tour of the moon."
Bono. Courtesy the Hewson family archive.
But here and there among the lofty pronouncements are little treasures, times in which Bono reveals himself to be a keen observer. In some of these short vignettes he manages to distill a given person's essence through quick, trenchant descriptions. His concise commentary on Brian Eno, who coproduced several classic U2 albums, is particularly memorable, and it's hard not to chuckle at tidbits like this one, about their studio work in the 1980s: "Brian abhorred 'muso' talk. We never used the word 'riff,' for example. He called it a 'figure.' A 'guitar figure.' He talked not about 'sound' but 'sonics.' " And Bono's account of his recent trip to Ukraine earlier this year to visit President Volodymyr Zelenskyy condenses significant emotional depth into a small amount of space. He highlights Zelenskyy worrying about Ukraine's ability to continue exporting grain to poorer countries that rely on it—a poignant illustration of Zelenskyy's humanism, persisting even in the face of disaster.
Bono and Ali Hewson. Courtesy the Hewson family archive.
These moments end up tipping the scales so that, ultimately, you very much feel that Bono passionately believes in the mythos he has created. The hyperbole can be hilarious, but also somehow poetic. Regarding a visit to Ethiopia, he rhapsodizes: "There is a mist lifting from the land. The red earth of Ethiopia is exhaling. The land is breathing. It is alive, only just, but alive." Are these lines cringeworthy? Sure. But it's precisely this sort of unselfconscious earnestness that led Bono to write songs with such engagingly epic grandiosity, songs with such universal themes that they seem timeless. At its heart, Surrender is really about Bono's faith—whether it is faith in his band, faith in his marriage, faith in God, or faith in his ability to spark change in the world. Surrender is also about Bono's unshakable belief in himself—the unstoppable self-confidence necessary to push forth to the highest levels of stardom.
Geeta Dayal is an arts critic and journalist specializing in twentieth-century music, culture, and technology. She has written extensively for frieze and many other publications, including the Guardian, Wired, the Wire, Bookforum, Slate, the Boston Globe, and Rolling Stone. She is the author of Another Green World, a book on Brian Eno (Bloomsbury, 2009), and is currently at work on a new book on music.


Altavia Anniversary is a two day event this year.
Secca and Meliora invested as the new Baron and Baroness of Altavia.
The White Scarves of Caid launched the first Iron Crescent challenge.
Mother's Day Brunch and 10-person Melees on Sunday!
Come join us as we celebrate "Banner Days" in Altavia: This will be a two day non-camping event -- Tourneys and Anniversary events on Saturday -- Mother's Day Brunch and 10-person Melees on Sunday!
Saturday, May 9th, will be a day of Pageantry as we raise our pennants high! Join us in the morning for the Investiture of our Sixth Baron and Baroness. Then, standard double elimination tournaments will determine Altavia's Armored, Youth Combat and Rapier Champions. Bring your flags, your banners, your heraldic devices, large and small -- and raise them to the skies. We will have banner stands for all fighters to place therein a banner or flag, so please bring your colors upon on a staff 3 to 6 foot tall.
Our Arts & Sciences Champion will be selected from the most spectacular Banner and/or best use of your device or other heraldry on an item (including clothing). There will be a pennant making class for the youth, and a Parade of the day's Champions led by the Youth into Closing Court. A Bardic competition to find the next Bard of Altavia will be held on the theme of "Pageantry." Present a poem, song, story, juggling act, etc. that involves Pomp, Pageantry, and/or Tournaments in some way. All through the day a Chess Tournament will determine Altavia's Chess Champion.
Sunday May 10th, there will be a 10-fighter per team Melee tourney, either round robin, or double elimination (depending on how many teams assemble). Just in time to get your fighting units ready for Potrero War!
These Melees will be for both Armored and Rapier teams, who will be fighting for the honor of a Mother present that day. Also in honor of Mother's Day, there will be a Brunch offered for a donation, with all Moms present eating for free! Bring your Mother since this is HER day!
11:00am Mothers' Day Brunch and beginning of the Brawl Melees!
Merchants are welcome both days! Veteran's Park requires 10% of gross profits fee. Inquiries please e-mail the Autocrat.
When Laertes and Bridget stepped down as Baron and Baroness of Altavia we raffled off the opportunity to "kill" then during their stepping down court. Courtney of the White Meadow won the right to help Laertes depart his throne -- she had his rapier "peeps" stone him with yellow peeps. I won the right to bring Bridget Death by Chocolate -- so my household, House Zacharia, helped Bridget shuffle off the mortal coil with a presentation of fudge.
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WLPGA Asia Autogas Summit – Sri Lanka
The WLPGA held its third Asia Autogas Summit - in Colombo, Sri Lanka on Monday 17th November 2014 at the Sirimavo Bandaranaike Memorial Exhibition Centre, Colombo, Sri Lanka. It coincided with the Better Air Quality event which was held later in the week.
Over 130 registered for the event - from nearly 20 countries - which was organized by The All Events Group in Singapore and kindly sponsored by Litro Gas, Laughfs Gas, SIHI pumps and CIMC.
The day was moderated by Nick Black, vice president of LPG at Argus Media, and Editor of LPG World. The keynote address was given by Glynda Bathan, Deputy Executive Director of Clean Air Asia. Glynda spoke of the deteriorating street air quality in many Asian mega cities and how clean transport fuels such as Autogas can play a role in mitigating these effects.
The morning session focused on Autogas with an international array of top speakers from Europe, Asia and Australia. Mr Kang (Korean LPG Association), R Zulfikar (Pertamina), J Batchen (Australia) and Dr R Mudalige (Sri Lanka) presented the latest thinking on Autogas developments from their respective countries.
Although Bart van Aerle, CEO of Prins Autogassystemen B.V., was unable to present in person the organisers managed to hook him up by telephone to enable him to explain the exciting technology his company is developing with direct Autogas injection and diesel/LPG bends. Nick Black chaired the panel discussion with Eric Johnson (Atlantic Consulting), Suyash Gupta (Indian LPG Coalition) and David Tyler (WLPGA) discussing how the Autogas business can be reinvigorated.
For more information about these events please contact David Tyler on: dtyler@worldlpgas.com or Michael Kelly on: mkelly@worldlpgas.com


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Was US 101 south of Crescent it's in Rockslide?
Author Topic: Was US 101 south of Crescent it's in Rockslide? (Read 3764 times)
roadman65
Location: Lakeland, Florida
I noticed that a part of US 101 where it becomes rural south of Crescent City and north of Trinidad, there are one lane segments with portable stop lights managing traffic. One of those has the hill up on the inland side over the NB lane and the SB lane used for both lifted up.
I assume a recent avalanche must of happened?
Every day is a winding road, you just got to get used to it.
Sheryl Crowe
Location: Route 9, Sector 26
Re: Was US 101 south of Crescent it's in Rockslide?
Not only just recently, that's just how unstable the Last Chance Grade is. Essentially the modern highway is probably going to be rerouted inland to the east somewhat soon. I did my own take on the Last Chance Grade this last February which goes into a lot of the historic problems the area has seen:
https://www.gribblenation.org/2021/02/us-route-101-and-last-chance-grade.html?m=1
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BTW, you in California right now?
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on July 08, 2021, 01:33:15 PM
Yes clinching 101.
Quote from: roadman65 on July 08, 2021, 05:27:22 PM
If aren't to San Juan Bautista yet look into Old Salinas Road/San Juan Grade. It's a relic example of original 101, the San Benito County side even has 20 foot wide concrete slabs still. Awesome and short detour:
https://www.gribblenation.org/2017/10/old-us-101-san-juan-grade.html?m=1
Some other stuff that probably is worth checking out as you head south on US 101:
- Trees or Mystery in Klamath.
- The Drive Thru Tree on CA 169 in Klamath.
- Old US 101 and the Douglas Memorial Bridge on the Klamath River.
- Old US 101/Newton B. Drury Scenic Drive.
- The Fernbridge on CA 211 (briefly temporary US 101)
- Old US 101/current CA 283 over the Rio Dell Bridge
- Avenue of the Giants (current CA 254/Old US 101)
- Richardson Grove State Park
- Old US 101 over The Slab near Confusion Hill.
- Confusion Hill/Old US 101
- The Tour Thru Tree on current CA 271/old US 101
- The Willits Arch on former US 101/current CA 20.
- The Golden Gate Bridge from Conzelman Road in the Marin Headlands
- The San Juan Grade (as discussed above)
- Old Coast Road/Old US 101 near the CA 1/US 101 junction approaching Gaviota Pass.
- Cuesta Pass and Old Stage Road near San Bautista.
- The Tunnel View Trail in Gaviota State Park which overlooks the Gaviota Tunnel
- The Arroyo Hondo Bridge on Santa Barbara Channel near Goleta.
Hit me up if there is anything that you think you might be interested in finding.
Are there any stoplights on US 101 south of Willits and north of The Golden Gate Bridge? So far I have hit none from Eureka to Willits. The road alternates from two to four lanes with brief super four freeways in spots and the 31 mile modern alignment from Phillipswood to Peeperwood is a four lane undivided freeway.
I don't believe there are any left aside from an emergency light in Laytonville. Once you hit the Bayshore Freeway in San Francisco you won't encounter any South to Los Angeles.
So Eureka and Crescent City and SF are the only places statewide. Cool.
Yes, 101 essentially is about as far as a major highway can really be developed before it converted into full freeway standards. That's part of the reason why I'm always surprised it rarely pops up on the Fictional Board on this forum. The stretch through Prunedale is probably my favorite segment given how close to full limited access it is but yet has things like driveways to homes on it.
TheStranger
That Prunedale segment actually highlights in some ways why US 101 has not been converted to Interstate (and why it isn't suggested much outside of FritzOwl) -
- In the 1950s-1960s, US 101 had been submitted in essentially 3 segments: LA-SF (including the Central Freeway which was slated to partially carry I-80), then the concurrency with 480 (which was approved as Interstate for a few years), then Golden Gate Bridge to Route 37. By the late 1960s the long-form route was rejected and never reconsidered for incorporation into the Interstate system (and the incompletion of the Central Freeway north of Turk Street probably also added to that).
As noted above, the Central Freeway portion between Fell Street and the Bayshore Freeway was for a time part of the planned I-80 routing west to Golden Gate Park, but returned to solely US 101 in the mid-1960s when the controversial Western Freeway I-80 project was stopped dead cold by the freeway revolts.
Ironically, one of the portions that would have been I-480 has since been upgraded to interstate standards - the segment now known as Presidio Parkway between Route 1 (pre-1968, that portion of Route 1 was to have been I-280) and Richardson Avenue.
- Going back specifically to the Prunedale section, in the mid-2000s a bypass had been proposed (with today's 101/156 section becoming 156 alone) but was already off the table by 2014: https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=13879.0
The current improvements did help a ton in reducing the grade crossing significantly in that town, but did not do anything for widening the road or adjusting the geometry of the curvature at all, which can still be a bit tight at freeway speeds.
Beyond Prunedale, I recall that Cuesta Grade portion near San Luis Obispo is actually not freeway either.
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Chris Sampang
Some of the other expressway segments south of SF not mentioned above would be:
- Salinas-King City.
- Arroyo Grande-Buelleton.
- Gaviota State Park-Goleta.
heynow415
Location: San Rafael, CA
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on July 09, 2021, 08:00:32 AM
South of Salinas the Central Coast section has several expressway segments:
Salinas-King City (excluding short freeway segments in Soledad, Gonzales, and Greenfield)
San Miguel - Paso Robles
Santa Margarita - SLO (Cuesta Grade)
Arroyo Grande - Nipomo
Orcutt - Goleta (excluding a short freeway segment in Buellton and occasional interchanges (Los Olivos, SR154, SR1, State beaches)
Those sections don't really need to be freeway (yet) since it's mostly rural/agricultural and interchanges have been constructed over time as needed, like at 154/San Marcos Pass. Of course, like everywhere else, mainline traffic volumes are increasing over time so making at-grade crossing or turning movements is becoming more challenging.
mrsman
Location: Silver Spring, MD
The expressway portions of US 101, IMO, is a model for the rest of the country. If you have an important and busy corridor, yet don't have the funds for a complete freeway upgrade, this is the way a rural highway should be designed. 2 lanes in each direction, no traffic signals, generally keeping 55-65 MPH speeds, at-grade, shoulders in most places, the occasional intersection, and businesses setback from the roadway considerably. Of course, small freeway segments as it passes through significant towns.
Quote from: mrsman on July 15, 2021, 09:06:54 AM
INDOT is trying to make US 31 between Indy and South Bend that way.
Removed repetitive and broken quotes. —Roadfro
sparker
Location: Bay Area, CA
Last Login: September 12, 2021, 12:44:33 AM
Quote from: roadman65 on July 18, 2021, 07:13:41 AM
Nevertheless, it seems every few years D5 attacks one or another expressway section with freeway upgrades (D7 already did their last section with the Rincon upgrades back around 2017). This time it's the expressway section between Paso Robles and San Miguel; the rationale here is the uptick in tourist business from the expansion of wineries (and tasting rooms) in the Paso Robles area. A couple are located along that expressway segment, with the corresponding left-turn movements across 65mph traffic; incidents or close calls (plus likely pressure from the industry to do something) probably was the instigation for the upgrade. Since that would complete a continuous freeway from the Cuesta grade to King City, it'll probably be the last upgrade until some other precipitating circumstances occur. The Santa Barbara coastline "shelf" has Coastal Commission protection, so any upgrades through there would have to undergo years of vetting, as would anything in the vicinity of the Gaviota Tunnels; and the Salinas Valley seems fine as is (although increased commuter traffic between Salinas and Prunedale might result in revisiting that segment before long). It's likely that the next section -- at least between L.A. and S.F. -- to be addressed would be between Nipomo and Arroyo Grande, for much the same reason as the Paso Robles upgrades -- tourist-friendly wineries right along the highway.
North of S.F. the aggregate traffic flow, once past Healdsburg, is considerably less, so expressway standards will probably suffice for the present, even with the same winery dynamic in the traversed area. And with the continuing downturn in the north coast lumber-producing area, upgrading even the remaining 2-lane segments entails less urgency than 30 years ago. Projects will likely be of the type required to resolve the Last Chance Grade problems -- more existential than capacity-increasing.
And INDOT seems to change their mind -- and their policies -- regarding US 31 on a regular and continuing basis -- so who knows how that corridor will look twenty years from now?
The expressway portions of US 101, IMO, is a model for the rest of the country.
While within California it's a compromise that satisfies almost no one: the pro-freeway faction want it made to interstate standards throughout, while lots of the low-growth faction would rather it was a 2-lane road with businesses and driveways all along.
Quote from: kkt on July 21, 2021, 10:55:06 PM
In other words, wishing it were still 1936! At this point, it's likely neither extreme will get their wish; there's not enough money or political will to do even L.A. - S.F. at I-standards, even if all the negatives and obstacles could be dealt with; and neither is anyone going to take a jackhammer to one of the carriageways of any section of existing multilane facility. We'll all just live with what we've got -- with sporadic changes that, like the present Prunedale configurations, will probably be best described as lateral movements.
Quote from: sparker on July 21, 2021, 08:39:26 PM
. . . This time it's the expressway section between Paso Robles and San Miguel; the rationale here is the uptick in tourist business from the expansion of wineries (and tasting rooms) in the Paso Robles area. A couple are located along that expressway segment, with the corresponding left-turn movements across 65mph traffic; incidents or close calls (plus likely pressure from the industry to do something) probably was the instigation for the upgrade.
I'm sure the added winery traffic is a driver for this, pun intended. Even so, the Wellsona Road intersection has been a bad one for years (I regularly passed through in the 80's and 90's) and there have been many crashes and close calls there. The issue with that one is the San-Paso truck stop where you have trucks turning in/pulling out with the high-speed 101 traffic. Visibility on the approaches is fine but it's easy to misjudge just how fast(slow) the truck pulling across/into the road is going.
I'll be curious to see if anything happens with the Salinas Valley expressway section since it has similar issues with the large number of ag trucks entering/exiting from side roads and farm fields, and has a much narrower r/w than the San Miguel-Paso Robles section to work with. Even the left entry/exit grade separation at Spreckels is bad news with the truck traffic.
—Fixed quoting. Roadfro
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Quote from: sparker on July 22, 2021, 02:04:13 AM
There are very few corridors like 101 out there with this type of arrangement. Obviously, a full freeway would be better - but we understand that it's not financially or politically feasible.
My own random searching on GSV for similar corridors has not turned out anything similar. I picked a location on US 31 in Indiana and found signals. Perhaps the full expressway approach is aspirational, but it hasn't happened yet. US 29 as a third link between Baltimore and DC also has some signals, but the northern half is a full freeway. US 290 between Austin and Houston also has some signals.
US 101 used to have signals too. When the final signal in Santa Barbara was extinguished in 1992, it made travel exceedingly better.
US 93 in Arizona has a similar feel to US 101 in California. In fact I recall asking the question why I-11 really is even needed when bypasses of Kingman and Wickenburg are the only real problem areas left.
And the answer is regional political will -- pretty much the same as with other pending Interstate corridors elsewhere. The moment that the fact that Phoenix and Vegas were two of the largest metro areas not directly connected by an Interstate corridor became a matter of public discourse -- and projects such as I-49 and I-22 could be cited as precedent -- the die was cast. Just a matter of time until enterprising backers and the congresspersons dependent upon their donations for reelection purposes came together back in 2012 and cobbled up the original I-11 corridor (even with its highly gratuitous extension past Tucson) and later the 2015 extension north to I-80. Once that has been done, most DOT's simply construct the facility to I-standards as funding permits. ADOT seems to have taken a different tack with the US 93/I-11 corridor; FWIW there are pressing issues, as traffic between the cities increases, with safety (more than a few head-ons on the remaining 2-lane segments) calling for more immediate action -- so the road is being expanded to 4-lane expressway standard, with Interstate geometry, to ameliorate the more pressing problems. Of course, short sections such as through Wikieup will be saved for last, as the lowered speeds there help with the collision problems. So a facility much like CA's US 101 will initially emerge -- but en route to a full-blown Interstate corridor over time. Once a divided 4-lane is in place, the bypasses (Wickenburg, the aforementioned Wikieup) will probably be next in line to be addressed (Kingman is already in process). Unlike the I-11 segment south of Wickenburg, the pathway from there north to the NV state line essentially lies atop the existing highway (the Kingman project notwithstanding), so upgrades to an interim status serve both the immediate needs as well as the ultimate configuration.
Aside from the remaining two lane segments you mentioned the corridor is very adequate for the task. It could easily tied in with existing AZ 303 and have a much more logical entry point core of the Phoenix area. US 93 has some really desolate stretches that just will never have the traffic volumes the likes of US 101 has been SF-LA. That more than anything else is why I find it fascinating the Roadgeek world at the very least doesn't seem a greater opportunity for freeway conversion of US 101.
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Unless the Interstate conversion process for I-11 is "incentivized", that conversion will be done gradually over the next couple of decades; as long as the corridor remains on the books as a designated entity, it'll always be hovering over the process. At least the 4-lane conversion to Interstate geometry generally results in a nice safe high-speed roadway for commercial and recreational travelers to use regardless of the color of the shields. Somehow, I don't think we've heard the end of the southern end issues; the EIS for the corridor at least as far south as Casa Grande has been issued, so it's likely the Hassayampa/Buckeye routing will remain in consideration. IMO, it should head straight down to Loop 303 and hence to I-10, but regional planners seem to be much more ambitious than that (they've probably drunk the developers' Kool-Aid!) -- but it'll probably come down to the aggregate cost of the extended corridor -- and to projections regarding just how much more exurban housing is needed in the region. If the Hassayampa option is selected -- and those projections are less than robust -- I wouldn't be at all surprised if I-11 heads down to I-10, crosses it, and then curves over to merge with AZ 85 down to Gila Bend. That's the second most logical and rational corridor option, IMO.
I think the roadgeek world's opinion of the future prospects for US 101, at least L.A.-S.F., change with first-hand knowledge of the corridor in question. Seen on a map, there's a largely completed freeway connecting several metro areas without colorful shields -- and it looks like an obvious system addition (and actually farther away from I-5 than the similarly touted CA 99 corridor). But if one is familiar with the terrain, the towns, and just what would be involved in such upgrades, a different POV would likely emerge. I for one wrote the Interstate prospects off for 101 when the state's Coastal Commission was formed -- at about the time the original wave of freeway protests peaked ('70's). That being said -- I could conceivably see L.A.-to-Santa Barbara as a 3di now that the Rincon section has been breached and the segment through Montecito upgraded (although not for capacity). But north of there -- not so much.
Quillz
Same reason we've got Interstate 238: brand name recognition, to an extent. Motorists are familiar with the interstate shield and know when they see it, it will be a freeway. While there are a lot of US routes now modernized to freeway standards, it's not always a guarantee.
US Highways: 1 / 2 / 6 / 12 / 14 / 16 / 18 / 20 / 26 / 30 / 50 / 64 / 66 / 84 / 85 / 87 / 91 / 93 / 95 / 97 / 99 / 101 / 189 / 191 / 201 / 285 / 287 / 385 / 395
Interstate Highways: 5 / 10 / 15 / 17 / 25 / 40 / 45 / 70 / 80 / 84 / 89 / 90 / 93 / 95


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Quenstedt ist ein Ortsteil der Stadt Arnstein im Landkreis Mansfeld-Südharz in Sachsen-Anhalt (Deutschland).

Geografie
Quenstedt liegt rund sechs Kilometer südlich von Aschersleben an der B 180.

Geschichte
Der Ort wurde das erste Mal im Jahre 992 urkundlich als Quenstedi erwähnt und gehörte damals dem Schwabengau an, wie auch das Kirchensiegel mit dem Schriftzug "Swaven Quenstedti", was so viel wie Schwaben Quenstedt bedeutet, belegt.

Am 1. Januar 2010 schlossen sich die bis dahin selbstständigen Gemeinden Quenstedt, Alterode, Bräunrode, Greifenhagen, Harkerode, Stangerode, Sylda, Ulzigerode und Welbsleben sowie die Stadt Sandersleben (Anhalt) zur neuen Stadt Arnstein zusammen. Die Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Wipper-Eine, zu der Quenstedt gehörte, wurde aufgelöst.

Politik

Bürgermeister
Der letzte Bürgermeister der Gemeinde Quenstedt war Georg Lakomy (CDU).

Wappen
Blasonierung: "In Grün der Oberkörper eines Bischofs mit rotem Gewand und roter Bischofsmütze, in der Rechten eine silberne Gans, in der Linken einen silbernen Krummstab haltend, umgeben von einer vierbogenförmigen goldenen Glorie."

Das Wappen wurde 1995 vom Magdeburger Kommunalheraldiker Jörg Mantzsch gestaltet.

Gedenkstätten
 Sammelgrab mit Gedenkstein auf dem Ortsfriedhof für sechs Häftlinge aus dem KZ Langenstein-Zwieberge, einem Außenlager des KZ Buchenwald, die bei einem Todesmarsch im April 1945 von SS-Männern ermordet wurden, sowie für zwei unbekannte Kriegsgefangene, die während des Zweiten Weltkrieges Opfer von Zwangsarbeit wurden

Die Reformationslinde wurde der Legende nach 1520 anlässlich der Einführung der Reformation in der Gemeinde zur Erinnerung an das heilige Abendmahl gepflanzt. Am 31. Oktober 1897 wurde eine entsprechende Gedenktafel angebracht.

Archäologie

In der Archäologie ist der Ort auf Grund der 800 m südwestlich des Ortes gelegenen Schalkenburg, einem mehrperiodigen Fundplatz der vom Neolithikum bis zur Eisenzeit besiedelt war, eine große Bekanntheit. Neben einer Ringanlage der Stichbandkeramik wurde auf dem Bergsporn eine Siedlung der Bernburger Kultur sowie eine Burganlage der späten Bronzezeit bis frühen Eisenzeit vollständig archäologisch untersucht.

Weniger bekannt ist die nordöstlich des Ortes gelegene römerzeitliche Kammacherwerkstatt deren Ausgrabung 1935 von Paul Grimm dokumentiert wurde und der im Zentrum des Ortes gelegene Grabhügel aus der Schnurkeramik.

Persönlichkeiten

 Gregorius Luppe (1582–1636), Oberstadtschreiber, Syndikus und bürgerlicher Rittergutsbesitzer
 Friedrich Reinhold Jahns (1857–1934), Bergingenieur und Bergwerksdirektor in Saarbrücken
 Hans Joachim Störig (1915–2012), Sachbuchautor und Lexikograph ("Der große Störig")
 Otto Teutloff (1931–2005), Heimatmaler und Illustrator. Vor dem Quenstedter Dorfgemeinschaftshaus erinnert ein Gedenkstein an den ersten Ehrenbürger des Ortes.

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Einzelnachweise

Ort im Landkreis Mansfeld-Südharz
Geographie (Arnstein, Sachsen-Anhalt)
Ehemalige Gemeinde (Landkreis Mansfeld-Südharz)
Ersterwähnung 992
Gemeindeauflösung 2010

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