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The State and Society in Contemporary Turkey
Political Reflection July 21, 2019 November 2, 2019
Dr Görkem Altınörs
gorkem.altinors@bilecik.edu.tr
The Turkish model has long been considered as a challenge to the orthodox claim that Islam and Western values, such as liberalism, capitalism, modernity, and democracy, cannot be together as they are ontologically incompatible. The electoral success of pro-Islamic AKP in 2002 was welcomed as an example. The AKP was rooted in the political Islamic mobilisation on the one hand, and yet its political discourse was articulated around liberal democracy and free market economy on the other. The AKP's pro-Islamic but still liberal, democratic, and pro-EU rule has been shown as the evidence that the orthodox claim is flawed. However, this did not last forever and something had changed after eleven years. Most of the analysts specialised in the politics of Turkey and the MENA (the Middle East and North Africa) signified the Gezi Uprising in 2013 as a breakdown in Turkish politics in terms of the AKP's transition from a democratic-liberal government to a heavy-handed and authoritarian power cluster. What happened in 2013 that led to the Gezi Uprising? Even in the 2010-2012 period, the AKP was being praised as a transformative and progressive power that would consolidate democratic values and civil liberties in the country among the mainstream-liberal intelligentsia. For instance, in 2010, The Economist was claiming that Turkey is not turning its back on the West[i], as John Peet, the Europe editor of the magazine said: "Turkey has made astonishing progress in the past decade"[ii]. On the other hand, just three years later, following the Gezi Uprising started in Taksim Square in June 2013, it is claimed that the AKP abandoned its progressiveness and turned into a regressive power that rules the country in an authoritarian way. The Economist was then questioning whether the AKP's leader, Erdogan, is a "democrat or sultan"[iii]. Such transformation came by complete surprise and brought the Gezi Uprising under close scrutiny. Was the upheaval really the breaking point of the political climate in Turkey? Was the Gezi uprising a secularist movement against the Islamic AKP? Does the divide between Islamism and secularism constitute the most significant social phenomenon of Turkey? What is the key element of social change in Turkey?
Such questions require a historical focus on the state-society relations in Turkey. The centre-periphery relations approach has long been offered as a key to understand the state-society interaction in contemporary Turkish politics. "Society has a centre", claimed Edward Shils more than half a century ago[iv]. Şerif Mardin adapted the concept to the Turkish context. According to Mardin, there has been a sharp division between centre and periphery in both the Ottoman Empire and Turkey; and this split has always been the most critical phenomenon of the Turkish politics[v]. He considers the modernisation process of the Ottoman Empire as the Westernization of the bureaucracy.[vi] Basically, he argues that the centre that is represented by the state imposed Westernisation processes towards the society that represents periphery. He applies the same analogy to the Republic as well. For instance, he claims that the coup in 1960 deepened the split between centre and periphery.[vii] He, therefore, concludes that the resistance in Turkey is not rooted in organised labour movements, since they are not simply the only part of the periphery; but the periphery itself is the core of counter-official culture[viii] because of patrimonialism and the absence of civil society[ix]. Metin Heper seeks answers to the antagonism of the strong state versus weak society in Turkey.[x] He argues that the state is distinctly separated from society in the Ottoman-Turkish context[xi] and points out two interconnected reasons for why democracy faced difficulties in Turkey. First, the state elites are sensitive to the crisis of integration, and second, they are not sympathetic towards the periphery.[xii] Çağlar Keyder brings social classes into this antagonism and discusses that the history of the late Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic is a class struggle between two classes; the bureaucracy, and the bourgeoisie.[xiii] Finally, Hakan Yavuz incorporated this antagonism with Islamism. He argued that "the Turkish secular reforms not only hyphenated state and society but defined the Republican state against traditional society".[xiv]
It is safe to argue that the works of scholars cited above suggest a separatist understanding of the state and society which juxtaposes the 'Kemalist state elites' with the 'traditional Islamic society', and assumes that there is a conflict between the state and society. For instance, the chief advisor of President Erdoğan, İbrahim Kalın, defined that the success of Islamism, what he called the "conservative democracy", heralded a movement from the periphery to the centre through emphasising society over the state[xv]. Moreover, John L. Esposito argued that there was a transformation of small Islamic marginal organisations into a new class of modern-educated but Islamically oriented elite, which is defined as a movement from the periphery to the centre through Islamic banks, schools and religious publishing/broadcasting[xvi]. It is safe to argue that the major meta-theoretical tool in understanding Turkish politics manifests itself in the secularists versus Islamists dichotomy.
This essay identifies four shortcomings of the centre-periphery relations approach that juxtaposes secularists with Islamists antagonistically. First, the state and civil society are considered ontologically autonomous and antagonistic entities. The dualist understanding of the state-society relations does not consider the split between those concepts methodologically but ontologically. Such abstraction results in a conceptualisation that those two spheres appear as two independent entities without symbiotic relationship or with very limited interconnectedness. This is problematic because it obstructs the ability of the analysis to comprehend internal dynamic between the state and civil society, as it neglects their interdependent relationship or downgrades their relationship into a limited dependence. Eventually, it leads to an ahistorical analysis of social change. Second, the dualism also appears at the economic and the political spheres (or in other words, the market and the state) and they are considered separately and antagonistically. The pitfalls of 'ontological exteriority'[xvii], such as the negligence of interdependence and interconnectedness between spheres, apply in these dualisms too. Similar to the first one, this feature causes an ahistorical reading of the relationship of those spheres and prevents us from understanding the internal relations between them.
Third, there is clear favouritism for civil society over the state in those analyses. The antagonistic reading of the state-society relations resulted in an understanding that the state is considered as a heavy-handed, repressive and reactionary entity and civil society is seen as a progressive social force against the so-called 'evil' state. In the literature of Turkish politics, this conceptualisation manifests itself in the rivalry between the 'secular' state and the 'religious' civil society. An understanding based on an always-progressive civil society is problematic because civil society is symbiotically connected to the state; and as the integral state, they produce hegemony together. Civil society is neither a necessarily progressive entity nor the sphere of 'freedom'; it is rather an abstract component of the integral state[xviii] where hegemonic struggles are carried out and civil society groups could be on either side of these struggles, be reactionary or progressive[xix]. Fourth, there is a negligence of the social relations of production in the literature. The social relations of production are used in order to describe the class structure – that is, to say the social aspect of the relations of production. However, in the centre-periphery relations approach, the class structure is either neglected and the antagonism is made between identities (such as secular versus religious) or used as a sociological term in which it is utilised to discuss class conflict disconnectedly from the relations of production (such as bureaucracy as a class). I argue that the lack of the social relations of production in an analysis is problematic because the material conditions of societal relations are the bases that determine superstructural spheres such as culture, politics etc. Ignoring the material conditions and attributing the identities as the main source of the conflict would lead us to ahistorical analyses.
At a time when the Gezi Uprising is being demonised as an intervention by foreign governments and criminalised by false and ungrounded shreds of evidences in Turkey, it is crucial to understand the upheaval critically. I argue that neither the Gezi Uprising simply remarks a rupture in the transformation of the AKP into an authoritarian party nor it was an intervention conspired by foreign governments to overthrow the AKP. The Gezi Uprising was a popular response to the AKP's on-going political economy in the 2002-2013 period that has been manifested in Islamic-neoliberalism. False attributions to the uprising are rooted in the centre-periphery relations approach's reading of the state-society relations. It is imperative to employ a holistic and critical understanding of the state and civil society.
[i] The Economist, 23rd-29th October 2010, p. 21.
[ii] The Economist, 23rd October 2010, Anchors aweigh: A special report on Turkey, p. 21.
[iii] The Economist, 8th-14th June 2013, cover.
[iv] Shils, Edward. Center and Periphery: Essays in Macrosociology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1975, p. 3.
[v] Mardin, Şerif. "Center-Periphery Relations: A Key to Turkish Politics?" Daedalus 102, No. 1 (1973): 169-190, p. 169.
[vi] Ibid, 179.
[vii] Ibid, 186.
[viii] Ibid, 187.
[ix] Mardin, Şerif. "Power, Civil Society and Culture in the Ottoman Empire." Comparative Studies in Society and History 11, No. 3 (1969): 258-281, p. 254-64.
[x] Heper, Metin. "The Strong State as a Problem for the Consolidation of Democracy: Turkey and Germany Compared." Comparative Political Studies 25, No. 2 (1992): 169-194.
[xi] Heper, Metin. "The State, Religion and Pluralism: The Turkish Case in Comparative Perspective." British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 18, No. 1 (1991): 38-51, p. 46.
[xii] Heper, Metin. The State Tradition in Turkey. Beverley: Eothen, 1985, p. 98.
[xiii] Keyder, Çağlar. State and Class in Turkey: A Study in Capitalist Development. London: Verso, 1987, p. 2.
[xiv] Yavuz, M. Hakan. Islamic Political Identity in Turkey. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, p. 7.
[xv] Kalın, İbrahim. "The AK Party in Turkey." In The Oxford Handbook of Islam and Politics, edited by John L. Esposito and Emad El-Din Shahin, 423-439. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, p. 427.
[xvi] Esposito, John L. The Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality?. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999, p. 20-1.
[xvii] Morton, Adam David. "The Limits of Sociological Marxism?" Historical Materialism 21, No. 1 (2014): 129-158.
[xviii] The integral state is a Gramscian term defines the integrity of state-society, state-market, economy-politics, base-superstructure, consent-coercion, and hegemony-dictatorship.
[xix] I owe this definition of civil society to my PhD supervisor, Prof Andreas Bieler.
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Frances A. Meléndez, PhD. Director of the Clinical Mental Counseling Program at the College of Staten Island (CSI) is a licensed clinical psychologist in the State of New York. She is a graduate of the College of Staten Island and received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from the Graduate School of The City University of New York.
Dr. Meléndez completed her internship at Bellevue Hospital Medical Center (BHMC) followed by a two year Neuropsychology fellowship in the Traumatic Brain Injury Unit of BHMC. She went on to become the Associate Director of the TBI/Rehabilitative Medicine Unit. As the Associate Director she was involved with direct patient care as well overseeing a staff of 115. Dr. Melendez developed and implemented several professional development staff training programs for the staff.
The clinical interests of Dr. Melendez include disparities in mental health services, depression and women, substance abuse, trauma, psychogenic seizures (PNES), empowerment and self-advocacy, HIV/AIDS, stigma as it related to being diagnosed with HIV/AIDS and mental illness. Dr. Meléndez is an active presenter for the Department of Health on topics related to HIV/AIDS and well-being. She regularly presents at regional and national psychology conferences. She is a member of the American Psychological Association, the National Latino Psychology Association for Hispanic Mental Health Professionals, and New York State Psychological Association, where she also sat on their executive committee on addiction, and the American Mental Health Counselors Association. She has been elected to the Board of Directors of Community Health Action of Staten Island (CHASI).
NYS OASAS Credentialed Alcohol and Substance Abuse Counselor and a NYS OASAS Qualified Instructor, currently teaching at the College of Staten Island. He is an alumni of the College of Staten Island (CUNY) and Empire State College (SUNY). Michael is also a graduate of the Interfaith Chaplaincy/Counseling Program at The New York Christian Counseling Center, an Albert Ellis Institute satellite school and is a Certified Temperament Counselor.
Mr. Squeglia has served as a chaplain in hospital and correctional facility settings and is actively involved with a faith-based treatment facility. As a CASAC, Mr. Squeglia has been working in the field of Addiction/Recovery for 12+ years at a variety of clinical and administrative positions in a wide range of treatment settings including; Medical Detox, Inpatient CD services, Outpatient CD services, HIV/AIDS services, MICA Residence, Family Stabilization, and Supportive Housing. Mr. Squeglia has had extensive experience in all core functions of counseling He is also experienced in a variety of evidence based treatment approaches for clients in all stages of change, and levels of recovery, in both Harm Reduction and Abstinence based settings. Some of these evidence based treatments include Motivational Interviewing, REBT, Client Centered and Brief Therapy, effective Group Facilitations, as well as techniques and concepts to conduct a wide range of Psycho-Educational Skill Development and Cognitive-behavioral groups.
Mr. Squeglia's personal and professional mission has been to serve those that are in his community. This has afforded him the opportunity to work with many other dedicated people and organizations in the New York and New Jersey that have been providing services to those that are in great need. He has developed and maintained productive and cooperative relationships with other service providers in the five boroughs and throughout New York State.
Since addiction transcends all racial, ethnic, religious and economic lines, addiction services do as well. This work has provided Mr. Squeglia with the opportunity to meet with and provide trainings to diverse groups of business, community, and religious leaders. The work has taken him from performing outreach to homeless individuals on the streets of New York to providing training to EAPs of some of New York's most valued public servants. Mr. Squeglia is currently involved in authoring a workbook designed to facilitate extended healing and personal growth for those Individuals who are at late stage recovery.


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The Xbox 360 gaming console has received updates from Microsoft from its launch in 2005 until November 2007 that enable it to play select games from its predecessor, Xbox. The Xbox 360 launched with backward compatibility with the number of supported Xbox games varying depending on region. Microsoft continued to update the list of Xbox games that were compatible with Xbox 360 until November 2007 when the list was finalized. Microsoft later launched the Xbox Originals program on December 7, 2007 where select backward compatible Xbox games could be purchased digitally on Xbox 360 consoles with the program ending less than two years later in June 2009. The following is a list of all backward compatible games on Xbox 360 under this functionality.

History

At its launch in November 2005, the Xbox 360 did not possess hardware-based backward compatibility with Xbox games due to the different types of hardware and architecture used in the Xbox and Xbox 360. Instead backward compatibility was achieved using software emulation. When the Xbox 360 launched in North America 212 Xbox games were supported while in Europe 156 games were supported. The Japanese market had the fewest titles supported at launch with only 12 games. Microsoft's final update to the list of backward compatible titles was in November 2007 bringing the final total to 461 Xbox games.

In order to use the backwards compatibility feature on Xbox 360 a hard drive is required. Updates to the list were provided from Microsoft as part of regular software updates via the Internet, ordering a disc by mail from the official website or downloading the update from the official website then burning it to either a CD or DVD. Subscribers to Official Xbox Magazine would also have updates to the backwards compatibility list on the demo discs included with the magazine.

Supported original Xbox games will run each with an emulation profile that has been recompiled for each game with the emulation profiles stored on the console's hard drive. Original Xbox games must use the original game disc and can not be installed to the hard drive unlike Xbox 360 games. Game saves and downloadable content cannot be transferred from an original Xbox to an Xbox 360. Xbox Live functionality for original Xbox games was available until April 15, 2010 until support for original Xbox games were discontinued. System link functionality between original Xbox and Xbox 360 remains available.

Microsoft launched the Xbox Originals program in December 2007 where Xbox 360 owners could purchase select original Xbox titles digitally if they did not own a game disc and such could be found inside their own section in the Xbox Live Marketplace. Beginning in June 2009 the branding was phased out and the games were moved to the "Games on Demand" section of the store with Microsoft stating that they have "finished its portfolio" of Xbox Originals.

During Microsoft's E3 2017 press conference on June 11, 2017, backward compatibility for original Xbox games on Xbox One family of consoles was announced. Part of the backward compatibility program for Xbox One will see original Xbox games be made available digitally in addition to owners of the original Xbox game disc. Prior to the first batch of original Xbox backward compatible titles for Xbox One were revealed six titles that were never released digitally as part of Xbox Originals program for Xbox 360 appeared in its "Games on Demand" store. Microsoft also confirmed that digital licenses would also carry over to Xbox One.

Game saves for original Xbox games that are backward compatible on both Xbox 360 and Xbox One cannot be transferred between the three generations. While Xbox Live functionality will not be available, Albert Penello, head of marketing for Xbox, explained users could "system link an original Xbox, an Xbox 360, an Xbox One and an Xbox One X for a four-player system-link LAN play with all original discs across three generations of consoles."

List of compatible Xbox games
There are  games made backward compatible out of  that were released for Xbox.

List of Xbox titles removed from backward compatibility list
The following Xbox titles listed below were initially announced as being backwards compatible with Xbox 360 that were later removed from the official list from Microsoft.

See also
 Xbox 360 system software
 List of backward-compatible games for Xbox One and Series X/S

Notes

References

External links
 Play original Xbox games on an Xbox 360 console (Xbox.com)

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Madness Rules the Hour
Charleston, 1860 and the Mania for War
by Paul Starobin
ON SALE: April 11th 2017
Genre: Nonfiction / History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
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From Lincoln's election to secession from the Union, this compelling history explains how South Carolina was swept into a cultural crisis at the heart of the Civil War.
"The tea has been thrown overboard — the revolution of 1860 has been initiated." — Charleston Mercury, November 8, 1860
In 1860, Charleston, South Carolina, embodied the combustible spirit of the South. No city was more fervently attached to slavery, and no city was seen by the North as a greater threat to the bonds barely holding together the Union. And so, with Abraham Lincoln's election looming, Charleston's leaders faced a climactic decision: they could submit to abolition — or they could drive South Carolina out of the Union and hope that the rest of the South would follow.
In Madness Rules the Hour, Paul Starobin tells the story of how Charleston succumbed to a fever for war and charts the contagion's relentless progress and bizarre turns. In doing so, he examines the wily propagandists, the ambitious politicians, the gentlemen merchants and their wives and daughters, the compliant pastors, and the white workingmen who waged a violent and exuberant revolution in the name of slavery and Southern independence. They devoured the Mercury, the incendiary newspaper run by a fanatical father and son; made holy the deceased John C. Calhoun; and adopted "Le Marseillaise" as a rebellious anthem. Madness Rules the Hour is a portrait of a culture in crisis and an insightful investigation into the folly that fractured the Union and started the Civil War.
"'Madness Rules the Hour,' Paul Starobin's fast-paced, engagingly written account of the hysteria that descended on lovely Charleston--where the unthinkable became the inevitable--is as much a study in group psychology as it is in history...The conductors of this movement were the city's elite, whom Starobin presents in finely drawn portraits."—New York Times Book Review
"[A] gripping new narrative history...[a] bracing, seamlessly narrated account of the hysterical events in Charleston in 1860..."—Washington Times
"A dramatic and engaging addition to Civil War studies that serves as a fitting bookend paired with Jay Winik's account of the end of the war, April 1865 (2001)."—Kirkus Reviews, STARRED REVIEW
"Starobin's narrative is readable and lively; he is skilled at creating setting and character description. Recommended for those interested in the Civil War and its causes.—Library Journal
"Charleston in 1860 was a lovely, civilized, gracious city poisoned by tribalism, conspiracy theories, and the evil of slavery. With a clear, sharp eye, Starobin takes us back to this strange time and place and tells a riveting, tragic story."—Evan Thomas, author of Being Nixon
"'South Carolina is too small for a Republic,' wrote James Petigru in 1860, 'but too large for an insane asylum.' Starobin has skillfully chronicled the mass psychology in favor of secession that built to a climax after Lincoln's election and led the state out of the Union."—James M. McPherson, author of Pulitzer Prize-winning Battle Cry of Freedom
"As the birthplace of disunion and the cradle of rebellion, the city of Charleston long claimed a perverse, myth-encrusted pride in launching a noble 'revolution' against 'Northern aggression'and federal overreach. Starobin has exploded this magnolia-suffused legend by convincingly portraying Charleston as a cauldron of disloyalty, extremism, and vicious white supremacy. Boasting fresh research and riveting characters, this vivid account of the feverish run-up to the Civil War sets the record straight with panache. The book should take its place as the definitive account of the hysteria that nearly destroyed, but in the end transformed, the United States."—Harold Holzer, winner of the Lincoln Prize
"This book is a gem-a tightly written account of Southern 'war fever' in Charleston during the fateful year of 1860. This terrifying and well-told tale reveals the viral power of hate, and how it can crush a supposedly rational society in its grip."—Alex Beam, columnist for the Boston Globe andauthor of The Feud
"Charleston was the fuse that exploded the powder keg of secession. Starobin's rich, sweeping portrait of a city and its people on the brink brings us as close as possible to those frightful, red-hot passions of that fateful time. This book has much to teach us about the dangerous contagion spread by ideology and war fever."—Marc Wortman, author of The Bonfire and 1941

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Consortium lines up $600 mln loan deal
March 27 2014 17:48:00
ISTANBUL - Reuters
A consortium building a motorway between Gebze and Izmir in western Turkey plans to sign a $600 million loan accord with eight banks for a section of the road in April, consortium leader Nurol Holding's chief financial officer said yesterday.
A consortium of Nurol, Italy's Astaldi, Özaltin Makyol, Yüksel and Göçay Insaat won the 22-year operating rights for the highway in a 2009 tendering for a build-operate-transfer deal. Yüksel group subsequently withdrew from the consortium. "We plan to sign a $600 million loan accord in April," CFO Kerim Kemahli told Reuters, refering to a section of the highway being built between Orhangazi and Bursa. "In total it looks like the cost of investment for the whole of the project will be $7.4 billion," he added. Last year the consortium secured a $1.4 bi
llion, seven-year loan for the Gebze-Orhangazi section of the road with Akbank , Finansbank, Garanti Bank, Halkbank, İş Bank, Vakıfbank, Yapı Kredi Bank and Ziraat Bank.
Central government gross debt stock at $243 bln
Panel foresees strong Turkey-UK post-Brexit cooperation
Machinery exports hit $17.1 bln in 2020
Turkish Treasury borrows some $800 mln through auctions
Contractors carry out $14 bln worth projects


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Mexico · May, 2006
Stories about Mexico from May, 2006
Mexico: Preview of Open Source Movie Elephants Dream
Film 31 May 2006
Eduardo Arcos informs his readers that a preview showing of the film "Elephants Dream," which was made using only open source software and is licensed with a Creative Commons 2.5 attribution license will be shown on Friday, June 2 at Non solo bar in Mexico City.
Mexico: Green Party Luxury Toilets
Elections 31 May 2006
Wave Making is offended by the "VIP bathrooms" of Mexico's young Green Party candidate. (Also in Spanish)
Mexico: AMLO Back in the Lead?
Goleech cites the May 29 poll by María de las Heras, which has leftist candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrado back in the lead with half a percentage point over Felipe Calderón and three points ahead of Roberto Madrazo.
Mexico, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, US: Border Frustrations
Costa Rica 30 May 2006
In a summary of Latin American news, Western Hemisphere Policy Watch describes tension over the militarized border … the Costa Rica-Nicaragual border. Isopixel is upset [ES] by an offensive song posted on the website of the US anti-immigration group, the Minutemen, which calls President Vicente Fox – among other things...
Mexico: "Friki"
"Friki [ES]," defined by Wikipedia as someone interested in or obsessed by a topic, is a must-know word for the reader of Spanish-language blogs. As Eduardo Arcos points out [ES], it's also one of the most searched for words on Technorati. And who is the friki of the year?
The Global Voices Show #1
Caribbean 24 May 2006
Global Voices is pleased to announce the first of our new magazine-style podcasts, which aim to do for online audio what the Global Voices web site does for text blogs — introduce listeners to some of the exciting offerings from podcasters around the world. In this episode we feature the...
Mexico: Unfortunate Name
Arts & Culture 23 May 2006
In a post titled "unfortunate name Eduardo Arcos says that the Policy Interpretation Network on Children's Health and Environment (AKA "PINCHE Project") will need to change it's name if it ever comes to Mexico. In a related item, León Felipe Sánchez has posted a photograph of an attention-grabbing, if not...
Chile, Mexico: Valentina Palma's Letter and Video
Chile 23 May 2006
Eduardo Arcos has posted another letter from Chilean anthropologist Valentina Palma [ES] who was detained by Mexican police in the violence that erupted outside Mexico City earlier this month. Al Giordano has posted a video of Palma being led away by police armed with firearms (contradicting earlier official claims).
Edible Blog Report
East Asia 23 May 2006
#1: A food blogger's reunion in Pistoia, Italy: Kishko and Lucullian Delights tell the story in their blogs. The photos are stunning. It makes me want to go there! Then we bought some chocolate and loitered around, looking at the main sights but as I am a lousy guide and...
El Salvador, Peru, Mexico, Chile: Internet Day
May 17th was "El Día de Internet," or "Internet Day" in Latin America and several bloggers offered homages to the World Wide Web. From El Salvador, Hunnapuh asks [ES] "but really, what is the significance of the internet?" A commenter at BlogsPeru remarks that just around the corner is "International...
Mexico: Violence and Backlash in San Salvador Atenco
This much we know for sure. On May third and fourth, in the Mexican town of San Salvador Atenco, riots broke out which resulted in 200 arrests and 50 injured officers according to an official statement. We also know that a 14-year-old youth named Javier Cortés Santiago was killed in...
Mexico: Chilean Anthropologist Beaten and Deported
Antropologi.info is justifiably troubled by the deportation and beating of Chilean Anthropologist Valentina Palma when she went to San Salvador Atenco on Thursday, May 4 to document protests that erupted there. We will have much more on San Salvador Atenco and the reaction it has inspired later in the week.
Mexico: Artists From Tijuana
Nathan Gibbs recommends to readers that they check out the Flash-based website for the exhibition "Strange New World," which focuses on artists from Tijuana, Mexico.
Mexico: New Library
Vivir México is a new "metroblog" about Mexico City. Edmundo Hidalgo writes today about the about the opening of the new Vasconcelos library [ES], which will open its doors to the public for the first time tomorrow morning.
Mexico: Free Album from Album
Music 16 May 2006
Fernando Casale says that each and every song from the new album, Microbricolages, of the Mexican band "Album" is available for free download on their website.
Mexico: US National Guard to the Border
International Relations 16 May 2006
Jefferson Morley has inspired a slew of varied comments with his summary of the Mexican media's reaction to US President Bush's announcement that he will deploy National Guard troops to fortify the border. Boz argues that "there is a role for the military in our border defense, keeping the bad...
Vegetarian or Carnivorian, it is up to you!
North America 14 May 2006
#1: Apuntes de Cocina desde Venezuela on Salmon Gravalax!Learn to prepare it the easy way and enjoy it for the rest of your life! Head over to her blog to get the step by step recipes and great photos. #2: Directo al Paladar from Spain, visits the famous Restaurante Escuela...
Mexico: Mexican National Anthem in English
Never politically correct and at times offensive, Mark in Mexico has translated the Mexican National Anthem into English.
Mexico: Roadblocks in Chiapas
Protest 11 May 2006
Dave Pentecost wonders what caused the roadblocks in Chiapas to later find via Google News that a protest took place yesterday to commemorate the 87th anniversary of the assassination of Emiliano Zapata, namesake of the Zapatista rebels.
Mexico: Campaign Spots More Aggresive
Elections 9 May 2006
Eduardo Arcos has posted two brief campaign spots, which he says show that presidential candidates Calderón and López Obrador (ES) are "two sides of the same coin."
Mexico, Argentina: Encouraging Free Culture
Argentina 9 May 2006
The winners of the "Mexicommons Creativity Contest" have been announced (ES). You can download the winning songs, podcasts, photographs, and designs from the post. The site Bienes Comunes (Common Good) has a list of works (ES) from Argentina that will be included on a DVD to be presented at the...


When I moved to Philly, I was happy to have a space that lends itself to sharing. So I thought I'd hold occasional gatherings of writers, musicians, and artists.
Ayat, simply, means love in Ilocano, the language of my parents – though I'm told that in Arabic it can refer to the verses of the Qur'an or it can mean a sign of love or gratitude. I'm hoping to make a space where people can share what they love. Ayat events are mostly informal and completely irregularly scheduled.
As a way of making a first blessing, Willie Perdomo and Malik Abduh will be reading poems. Friday, June 13, approximately 6:45pm EDT.
Willie Perdomo is the author of The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon (Penguin Poets, 2014), Smoking Lovely (Rattapallax, 2003), winner of the PEN Beyond Margins Award, and Where a Nickel Costs a Dime (W.W. Norton, 1996), a finalist for the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award. His work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, BOMB, Mandorla, and African Voices. He is a Pushcart Prize nominee, a former recipient of the Woolrich Fellowship in Creative Writing at Columbia University, and a two-time New York Foundation for the Arts Poetry Fellow. He is founder/publisher of Cypher Books, a VONA/Voices faculty member, and is currently an Instructor in English at Phillips Exeter Academy.


Crews are on the scene of a Friday night crash involving a pedestrian in Middle River.
Reports indicate that a pedestrian was struck at about 8:45 p.m. in the area of Eastern Boulevard at Bengies Road.
Serious injuries have been reported.


When looking for a new property in which to base your business, it is very important that you do everything that you can to make sure you have thought about everything that you need to consider before signing. Your new office to let in London is bound to be one of the best things you have ever done in relation to your business, but you will need to double check that everything is right for you. One thing that you should always do is to make sure that you know as much as possible about the terms of the lease, as this is something that will make a major difference.
For example, unless you are hugely confident about the future of your company, there is always the risk that you could lose a lot of money if your company ceases to trade. If you are the one who signed the lease, there is always the chance that you could be liable if you move out part way through the lease. For this reason, you should always read through all of your paperwork carefully, to make sure that you know as much as possible about the lease that you have signed with your new office.


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$query= 'kamen rider site: http://p-bandai.jp/';
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when i search this from bing api all correct images are came. but when i search this keyword i don't have any results. code is given below
$query= 'tomica disney site: http://p-bandai.jp/';
$query = urlencode("'$query'");

i got the issue creating place. but i dont know how to solve the issue.
issue : when i search tomica disney site: http://p-bandai.jp/ i dont get any results. but when i search tomica disneysite: http://p-bandai.jp/ i got the results. please give me any solutions.

A: You are not getting any results because Bing does not have anything in index for that website and query. Check it out:
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=tomica%20disney%20site%3Ap-bandai.jp
site: limits results to be coming only from one website. Since, in second case, you don't have a space between Disney and site:, site: constraint is not working and results returned from index of the all websites.
To summarize: Bing (and Google as well) does not have anything in index for website p-Bandai.jp for query 'tamica disney'. In second case it works only because you mistyped query and site: constraint is not actually applied.

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Let's talk about this site. So far, the forums are pretty much a flop. There's a little activity over there, but not much, and the forums didn't cut down on the amount of mail I receive by much. I'm not going to take them down because I like them, and a few other people like them, but since they're not solving the problem they were designed to solve, I have to look at other methods.
So I'm going to put mail on a separate page. I'm using MHonArc to generate the pages. Mail messages end up on their own pages, which is a disadvantage to the traditional Daynotes method of handling mail, but they're threaded, which is a big advantage. Discussions can continue indefinitely, you can follow them easily, and if the subject matter isn't something that interests you, if you don't click the link it won't bother you. And I don't spend long amounts of time reformatting mail–sometimes it takes longer to reformat mail than it does to write the day's content–which is a huge advantage that I think outweighs not having all the mail on a single page. I used to solve that problem by forwarding all my mail to my sister for her to format and post, but she has less free time than I have these days.
I haven't figured out how I'll handle archiving just yet, but I know that's a problem many have faced and many have conquered. (MHonArc's been around since 1994.) I'm just happy to have it live and looking good.
One option in MHonArc totally mangles the e-mail addresses in headers, but not in message replies. I wised up to this and started nuking the addresses there manually. Some people want the privacy; nobody wants spam, so I figure this is the best way to handle it. I know spambots are harvesting addresses from this site so I don't want to give them another bonanza.
Please continue using the discussion facilities here though. If you're posting a response to a day's entry, it makes a whole lot more sense to have them here than over in Mail.
My Royals make a smart move… And a dumb one! Smart move: My Royals re-acquired the catcher they never should have traded away. Brent Mayne was never going to be the next Johnny Bench; he looked more like he'd be the next John Wathan. But seeing as the Royals haven't had a better catcher than John Wathan for the past, oh, six years since they gave Mayne away to the Mets… Mayne's .251 average in 1995 didn't tear up the league, but he handled pitchers decently, didn't ground into a lot of double plays, in an emergency he could play a couple of different positions, and he could even steal a base. And he played cheap. That's hard to find in a catcher. And in the years since the Royals dealt him away, he learned how to hit better.
He was batting .331 in hitter-friendly Coors Park when the Royals re-acquired him. I doubt he hits better than .270 in Royals Stadium, but when your catching platoon is the legendary A.J. Hinch, who's batting about a hundred points below that, and future Hall of Famer Hector Ortiz, who's batting about 50 points below that, Mayne looks awfully good.
Dumb move: To get Mayne, the Royals traded away Mac Suzuki. Last year, Suzuki was the Royals' best pitcher. This year he's struggled, but when you have no job security and no niche, it's hard to do your best. It seems Tony Muser will banish his starters to the bullpen if he doesn't like the way they tied their shoes that morning. Sometimes young pitchers have problems with that.
And not only that, Suzuki was a revenue pot. Suzuki was born in Japan. All of Suzuki's starts were televised in Japan, because the Japanese are crazy about Japanese players playing in the States. (It was small-time compared to Mariners mania, who sport outfielder Ichiro Suzuki and closer Kachiro Sasaki, both bona-fide superstars, but when you're the small-budget Kansas City Royals, you take what you can get.) With Suzuki on the mound, the Royals got television royalties in Japan. In all likelihood, more people watched those games in Japan than in Kansas City. Suzuki in all likelihood brought in more money than the Royals had to pay him, due to television and merchandising revenue, and the Royals are constantly moaning about how they have no money.
The Japanese couldn't care less about Brent Mayne. Or any other player on the Royals' roster, for that matter.
So now my Royals have a decent catcher, but at the expense of a pitcher who's about 9 years younger and has a tremendous upside. But no one ever said Royals management had any common sense.
That makes for a fair balance in the game huh?
Never paid much attention to the forums but I'll "walkabout" over and visit. Maybe write about my experiences with your book, etc.


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FILE- In this Sept. 20, 2017, file photo the Nest Secure alarm system is seen on display during an event in San Francisco. Google says it forgot to mention that it included a microphone in the security product it began selling in 2017, but blames the omission on an error. When the company's Nest Secure home alarm system hit the market, its product information didn't mention a microphone. Google said in a statement that the microphone wasn't intended to be a secret and should have been disclosed. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)
Google's Nest hub has a microphone it forgot to mention
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Samsung Unveils New, Foldable Smartphone
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Samsung unveiled a highly anticipated smartphone with a foldable screen in an attempt to break the innovation funk that has beset the smartphone market. But it's far from clear that consumers will embrace a device that retails for almost $2,000, or that it will provide the...
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Berlin to get single travel app for public, private services
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Return to sender: High court to hear undeliverable mail case
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Ikea woos India's rising consumer class, tapping new markets
HYDERABAD, India (AP) — In Hyderabad's bustling Nampally furniture market, customers explore a crowded, dusty labyrinth of shops, haggle over prices and work with carpenters to design made-to-order housewares. This is the competition Swedish giant Ikea faces in tackling the $40 billion Indian...
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Sales for Jill Abramson book not great during first week
NEW YORK (AP) — Days of relentless publicity, much of it unwanted, did not lead to many sales for Jill Abramson's "Merchants of Truth." The former New York Times executor editor's media critique sold just over 2,800 copies during its first week of publication, according to numbers released Thursday...
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Motivational Thread, September 8 - September 14!!
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Q: mailx UNIX command in one line What's the best way to send mail from the shell with one line of code?
mailx -s "subject" foo@bar.com

Enters into line by line entry of the body and the message is only sent with termination of Ctrl+D or '.'
Since I am accessing the system command through another program, I'd like to be able to do something like:
mailx -s "subject" foo@bar.com \n Body Text \n .

in one go.
Thank you!

A: mailx -s "subject" foo@bar.com <<<$'\n Body Text \n'

A: Thank you to both Alfe and Joachim PileBorg, I now have two solutions! The one Alfe provided works, as does:
echo "body" | mailx -s "subject" foo@bar.com

which, though my Unix is rusty, I imagine does basically the same thing.


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Sakhalin Energy, INTRA Services Company & STATS (UK) LTD. signed a trilateral MoU
Source: www.gulfoilandgas.com 9/5/2019, Location: Asia
Sakhalin Energy, OOO INTRA Services Company and STATS (UK) LTD. signed a trilateral Memorandum of Understanding during the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok.
The subject of the agreement is the joint efforts in implementing projects for wrapping, maintenance, hydraulic testing, tie in, isolations and shutoff of Sakhalin Energy pipelines. The Memorandum will serve as a starting point for long-term cooperation with a gradual increase in the Russian Content and local production of the provided technology in Russia.
�Adoption of cutting-edge technologies that can guarantee safe and efficient operation of our production facilities is an important component of the comprehensive execution of the Sakhalin-2 project, unparalleled in its technical complexity among global oil and gas projects.
Despite the current political and economic climate, we strive to ensure utmost reliability of our equipment and systems, as well as to promote an increase in the local content of services, including highly specialised ones, through expansion of cooperation with our key Russian and foreign partners. We are pleased to report that the Sakhalin-2 project does not only serve as a platform for the implementation of state-of-the-art solutions and innovations, but also facilitates their transfer to Russian companies,� commented Roman Dashkov, Sakhalin Energy Chief Executive Officer.
According to Alexander Shilov, President of INTRA Services Company, the company has already gained experience of implementing the cutting-edge developments of foreign services companies in the Russian Federation. The leadership in the Russian market for tie-in and under pressure shutdown, the level of personnel training and accumulated experience allow implementation of challenging and large-scale projects with full adaptation of innovations under a specific project, as well as in the industry as a whole.
The technology will find wide application among oil and gas operators, including those operating pipelines in hard-to-reach locations, and will ensure proper and safe operation of the oil and gas industry facilities in the country.
"Assimilation and localisation of the technology for pipeline shutdown using guided gears at the Sakhalin-2 project opens way to wider cooperation with one of the most efficient companies of the region and makes it possible to adopt the unique knowledge and competence of STATS (UK) LTD.�an expert in this area�while adapting them to the domestic market," added Alexander Shilov.
STATS (UK) LTD Chief Executive Officer, Leigh Howarth, said: �In recent years we have developed a mutually beneficial relationship with Sakhalin Energy and I am delighted this MoU formalises our partnership and lays the foundations for working more closely with Sakhalin Energy and OOO Intra Services on key pipeline projects.
Sakhalin 2, as a large and technically challenging project, provides an excellent opportunity for assisting our partners in increasing Russian content.�
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The OPFC Inlet Receivers Have Been Installed


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The bamboo pegs are completely biodegradable and the steel spring can be put in recycling.
Bamboo is super sustainable. Needing no sustainable product. It needs no pesticides or fertiliser to grow. It's a super fast growing grass that is more efficient at taking CO2 from the air and producing more O2 than trees.
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Balancing the need to survive with the need to reproduce, female Mediterranean fruit flies appear to age in two distinct modes, depending on the availability of food, reports a team of researchers led by a UC Davis entomologist.
When food, particularly protein, is in limited supply, female medflies slip into a survival mode, delaying reproduction even until an advanced age. But as soon as a complete diet is available, they shift into high gear, producing eggs and aging rapidly.
"The findings suggest that reproduction may be one of the key pacemakers of aging," says UC Davis insect demographer James R. Carey. Results from the study of 2,500 medflies will be published in the Aug. 14 issue of the journal Science.
Carey and colleagues compared the fertility and life span of medflies receiving a diet of only sugar to those receiving a complete diet including protein, which is crucial for reproduction and often difficult for medflies to find in the wild.
"One of the most notable findings was that in the sugar-only group, even 4- to 5-month-old medflies--the equivalent of 90-year-old humans--could produce a moderate number of eggs once protein was added to their diet," says Carey, currently at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany.
The researchers suggest that further studies of the physiological shifts that occur between the waiting and reproductive modes in medflies may yield a better understanding of the fundamental processes that determine longevity.
UC Davis statistics professors Hans-Georg Mueller and Jane-Ling Wang collaborated with Carey on the project, funded by the National Institute on Aging and the National Science Foundation.


Mental Biases, Fallacies & Strange Effects … Every Day!
Did you know that eating soup out of a blue bowl makes it taste saltier?
Because the brain is an acute pattern cognising and pattern re-cognising system, this is just one of hundreds of fallacies, biases, errors, illusions, and blind spots that are a natural part of the every-day life of our brain … like today.
When you've flipped heads five times in a row and you now think that tails is somehow "due," that's an error called the Gambler's Fallacy. Statistically, the chances you'll get heads on the sixth flip is exactly the same as it was the first five times.
When people vote for a candidate just because they've heard her name before, that's the Salience Effect.
There are many customer satisfaction surveys conducted by thousands of companies each year. The main problem is that they prove nothing because customer satisfaction is not the same as customer replication.
For example the Net Promoter Score (NPS) is widely used to predict corporate growth by asking this question: How likely is it that you would recommend our company/product/service to a friend or colleague?
However the NPS provides no causal connection to value-creation or business growth and therefore is no more able to do this than other customer satisfaction surveys. This is a fact of statistical science.
The reason is because NPS asks the wrong question. A much better question for measuring value-creation is the WOMBAT SCORE about customer replication.
about your satisfied customer experience with us?
Those who respond with a YES are called WOMBATS and have already demonstrated value-creating behaviours, such as buying more, remaining customers for longer, and (most importantly) replicating other WOMBATS who also replicate.
The first objective is zero2one.
The second objective is one2ten.
Michael Hewitt-Gleeson says, "Replication is one of the most astonishing facts in the universe that we know of in science. Life only exists because genes replicate. Culture only exists because memes replicate. The purpose of business strategy is to harness the awesome power of replication for profit.
You can design your innovative or new idea and project how customers will pay you for it and your sales team can provide you with real customer feedback on a daily basis.
When it comes to selling new products sales teams sometimes err on the side of pushing established products, rather than new ones, especially if the established ones yield easier conversations, faster conversions, and greater commissions.


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The toll of stardom detailed in musical "Dreamgirls"
Rodger Mullen
rmullen@fayobserver.com
"Dreamgirls" has been called a thinly veiled story of Motown group The Supremes.
Suzanne Agins, who is directing a production of the musical for Cape Fear Regional Theatre, doesn't discount the similarities. But she said there's much more to it than that.
"It's a story about ambition, it's a story about the entertainment industry, it's a story about talent," Agins said. "For me, it's a story about friendship."
CFRT is presenting the play Thursday through Oct. 8. It's the opening act of the theater's 2017-18 season.
The play tells the story of a trio of female African-American singers, their rise from obscurity to fame, and the toll the journey exacts.
Debuting on Broadway in 1981, "Dreamgirls" went on to win six Tony Awards the following year.
But no doubt more audiences are familiar with the story through the 2006 movie starring Beyonce, Eddie Murphy, Jamie Foxx and Jennifer Hudson. Hudson won a Best Supporting Actress award for her efforts.
Starting in the early 1960s, the play traces the rise of a singing group called The Dreams and their struggles with fame and the accompanying pressures. It follows the group into the early '70s.
Although the group does reach the heights to which it aspires, the journey exacts a heavy toll on the members' relationships with each other and the important people in their lives.
"All the characters compromise themselves in some way," Agins said. "At some point, they realize what they have done and there is correction."
But, Agins is quick to add, "It's not just the Supremes. It's sort of all the girls groups."
New York-based Agins is making her CFRT debut with "Dreamgirls." She is a freelance director and artistic director of the New York theater and dinner group Upstart Creatures.
The choreographer for the piece is Randy A. Davis, whose work includes "Cats" and the Broadway revival of "Guys and Dolls." It's Davis' job to create the movements that take the play from the early '60s into the disco-fied '70s.
The three actors playing The Dreams are also new to the CFRT stage.
Diamond Essence White plays Deena Jones, roughly the equivalent of Diana Ross in The Dreams. Nattalyee Randall plays Effie White, the role that won Hudson the Oscar. Stephanie Rocio rounds out the trio as Lorrell Robinson.
Kwame Michael Remy plays Jimmy Early, a soul singer who is being pushed into more of a pop direction by his management. Marktavious Patton is Curtis Taylor Jr., a budding mogul and the manager of both The Dreams and Jimmy Early.
In all, 19 performers are featured in the show, and a nine-piece band accompanies the actors on stage.
"Dreamgirls" is probably best known for the song "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going," sung by Jennifer Holliday on Broadway and Hudson in the movie version. Other numbers include "I'm Lookin' for Something," " Steppin' to the Bad Side" and "When I First Saw You."
That music recreates the eras in which the story is set, from doo-wop to Vegas-style show tunes.
"This show, I would say, is 80 percent sung. It's very heavily scored," Agins said. "There's very little dialogue that isn't underscored. It's pretty intense, musically."
With its themes of compromise and the corrupting influence of fame, "Dreamgirls" takes on some weighty topics.
But not to worry, Agins said. It's also a heck of a lot of fun, she said, and a strong kick-off to the theater's 56th season.
"There's so much great singing and dancing, lots of glittery costumes," she said. "It's a truly fun evening, but it also has a lot of heart in it."


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Q: What Oracle setting prevents open cursors from closing? I have two Oracle 11G installations. I can run a script that imports a 37MB database into one of them with no problems (installation A). In the other (installation B), when I run the exact same script with the exact same file it gets "ORA-01000: maximum open cursors exceeded". I increased the max open cursors to 20,000 but when the script gets to row 20,000 then it stops with the same ORA-01000 error. The installation that is working has max open cursors set to 300.
Obviously there is no problem with the script or the SQL because it works in one Oracle database. So there must be a setting in the other Oracle instance that prevents open cursors from closing. What could it be?
Installation A works.
Database = Oracle Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.1.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options. Driver = Oracle JDBC driver 11.2.0.1.0.
Installation B does not work.
Database = Oracle Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.3.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, Automatic Storage Management, OLAP, Data Mining
and Real Application Testing options. Driver = Oracle JDBC driver 11.2.0.3.0.

A: I would recommend checking what cursors are open in a session. If you see 10.000 statements, all alike, with open cursors, there is something wrong in the code.
I myself find the easiest way to do this:
connect sys

alter system flush shared_pool; /* Removes everything can be finished, the trees hinder my view of the forest. */

/* Overall overview. */
select *
from v$sqlarea

/* Open cursors per session. */

select *
from v$open_cursor


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Philadelphia LANDvisions + Urban Voids: grounds for change
What does a city do to respond to its vacancy crisis? What might Philadelphia imagine for its future; what ideas might be generated if we looked at the 40,000 vacant properties as assets, not as liabilities? How might the repurposing of this land inform new ways of living in the urban environment? Philadelphia LANDvisions inspired innovative thinking about the future of Philadelphia's vacant land inventory. This three-phased initiative employed the lens of Philadelphia's ecology along with community voice to generate new, ecologically sounds design solutions for the city.
Philadelphia, with over 40,000 vacant properties representing nearly 1,000 acres, had become one of the nation's foremost examples of urban abandonment and extensive sprawl. In January 2006, the City Parks Association with the consulting team from the Van Alen Institute, invited participants from around the world to suggest compelling, environmentally informed ideas for Philadelphia's vacant land: to imagine long-term solutions that could inspire change and reshape urban and natural forms throughout the city.
To ensure public input, LANDvisions launched a series of public forums, each of which started with learning about Philadelphia's environmental history before engaging in small table working sessions. The results of these sessions were integrated into the ideas competition brief for Phase 2, entitled URBAN VOIDS: grounds for change. The competition received over 200 submissions from all over the world, from which five finalists were awarded funding and assigned 'real' sites to further develop their proposals. In June 2006 a grand winner, Waterwork, by North Street Design, was selected for implementation. The design strategy proposed converting vacant sites throughout Philadelphia into "public green filters" by capturing and redirecting water flow. The winning proposal developed both recreational and filtration solutions for the use of naturally cleaned storm-water run-off, and illustrated groundbreaking and poetic ideas that add social and economic value to urban watersheds.
Philadelphia LANDvisions
Phase I: Our Voices, Our Future
May 5, 4-8 pm
Amtrak 30th Street Station
This first community gathering brought over 700 people to 30th Street Station to imagine possibilities for vacant land in the city. The program included a series of short presentations providing background on the current state of vacancy in the city as well as an overview of the ecology and history of the region. The session continued in smaller groups of ten where participants both clarified their ideas and expressed their hopes and aspirations for the future of the city. Innovative technology techniques ensured that all ideas were captured and made immediately available on the website (Philadelphia LANDvisions ).
The River Corridors
May 18, 4-8pm
The Hyatt Regency Philadelphia at Penn's Landing
This session applied ideas from the first Public Community Forum to Philadelphia's river corridors. The meeting began with a series of presentations on existing and planned projects that integrate our rivers with recreational, residential, and commercial uses, then continued with a keypad vote on the ten most critical themes, including "Living with Water," "Creating New Communities," and "Economy and Jobs" that emerged from the May 5th session. Participants worked in small groups to discuss the inherent values, guiding principles, and strategies that follow from a particular theme, and then shared their ideas with the larger forum.
The Neighborhoods Session
The final session focused on how vacant lands can be used to transform Philadelphia's neighborhoods. After an initial keypad polling exercise to determine the characteristics of those present, participants began by discussing the assets and liabilities of different types of vacancies within the city. A mapping exercise challenged participants to brainstorm uses for vacant lands in an unidentified Philadelphia neighborhood. While some groups concentrated on the environmental possibilities of vacant sites, others directed their attention to social or economic options. Finally, participants engaged in a storytelling exercise in which they shared memories of their neighborhood's past and their hopes and wishes for its future. The keypad polling results, lists of assets and liabilities, maps, and hopes and wishes can be viewed on the Philadelphia LANDvisions website.
Phase II: Urban Voids: grounds for change
September 2005 -February 2006
Entrants from around the world were asked to imagine new possibilities for designing a comprehensive view of Philadelphia's urban fabric, creating a new relationship between the city's ecology and the built environment. Applicants were asked to make visible concepts that would reconnect vacant land to the city's existing green infrastructure. A prestigious multidisciplinary jury reviewed and evaluated all submissions, making awards on criteria that acknowledge a range of design ideas. The jury selected five finalists who received monetary prizes and proceeded into the third phase.
Phase III: Reconnecting the Lots
February 2006-May 2006
During the third phase, Phase II finalists further developed strategies for implementing their ideas. Teams prepared site-specific design proposals, focusing on a designated area in Philadelphia. An advisory committee and project partners provided technical support as needed, matching professional partners with the semi-finalist teams. Team members were encouraged to interact with neighborhood groups, experts in the field, members of the business community, and elected officials while developing their final submissions. A prestigious multidisciplinary jury reviewed the final submissions. A key outcome from this competition was the development of innovative designs that will directly influence the plans of the decision makers and implementers in Philadelphia. In addition, the process helped to formulate principles and emerging best practices for issues of vacancy throughout the country.
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Q: CSS: Image border wider than image, though height is correct here is my code:
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The problem that is occurring, is that the border around my image is wider, maybe by 50px on each side, whereas the height of the border rests just fine on the image. I am new to CSS, and not really sure why this is happening.
This is all within google site's HTML box as well.
I adjusted the width and height to create a smaller image with an adjusted ratio. When I eliminate these ratio %'s, the border fits perfectly, both height and width, so I assume the problem is somewhere within my image adjustment within the

tag.
Thank for any and all help. I really appreciate it.
Regards,

A: Just apply the border to div.img1 img instead and keep the text-align property of the div:
http://codepen.io/cavanflynn/pen/NGKWyE


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Home Gas • News & Commentary • Oil Urgent measures demanded as MP ...
Urgent measures demanded as MPs back call to avert North Sea 'exploration crisis':
The UK Government was under growing pressure last night to take action to avert an "exploration crisis" that could risk thousands of jobs in the North Sea.
MPs and the Scottish Government backed a call from trade body Oil and Gas UK for "urgent" measures to prevent a "collapse" in spending.
A total of 48 new wells were opened up in the North Sea in 2006 and 2007, but a drop in exploration led to just 15 being drilled last year.
Malcolm Webb, who heads up Oil and Gas UK, warned in the Press and Journal and Energy Voice yesterday that offshore exploration was in a "parlous state", despite record levels of investment in recent years.
Sir Malcolm Bruce, the Liberal Democrat MP for Gordon, called in earlier this month for the Treasury to consider introducing new tax breaks to stimulate exploration.
He said yesterday that he was "letting it be known" amongst his colleagues in the coalition government that action was required.
"My view is that there needs to be an incentive for exploration, and there are many ways to do that," he said. "Wells are very expensive and of course it's a long time before you can get any money back.
"The government needs to realise that exploration levels are too low and they need to engage with the industry to stimulate exploration, and tax breaks would be one way to do that. It's as much in the interests of the government as anyone."
A Scottish Government spokeswoman said: "As the industry themselves make clear, investment in the North Sea is booming at all-time record levels. But that investment needs to be matched by government policies which encourage exploration, something which Westminster has consistently failed to do.
"We have made a commitment to formal consultation before any changes are made to the fiscal regime – a pledge the UK Government has failed to match."
A Treasury spokes-woman said: "The government is supportive of the oil and gas industry and values the level of investment and jobs that it provides.
"Last year we introduced Decommissioning Relief Deeds to provide certainty on decommissioning costs, and have introduced new and extended field allowances that have resulted in greater investment in the North Sea."
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Q: Express GET request not working after adding authentication I'm stuck on this very simple problem and I don't know what I am doing wrong. I'm creating a simple RESTAPI with users and authentication. This is the GET request that I'm trying to run:
router.get('/users/me',auth ,async(req,res)=>{
console.log(req.user)
console.log('Entered the get request')
res.send(getUserData(req.user)) })

Basically, at the end of the authentication, I save the user fetched from the database into req.user object and then I send it to the client using res.send(req.user). As you can see in the code below:
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try{
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    const decoded = jwt.verify(token,'secretkey')

    const db = req.app.locals.database
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    console.log(user)

    if(!user){
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    }
    req.user = user
    next()

}catch(e){
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The problem is that this authentication function is working perfectly fine. I have used it on other routes as well. But in this GET request, the authentication function runs (I identified this using many console logs) and fetches the data correctly. But it doesn't enter the get request once the middleware(auth function) has completed the call.
From POSTMAN, when I send GET requests, I get a 404 error and I have no idea why. I have literally spent hours trying to make sense of this. Please help me out if you know what might be the problem.
EDIT: So I was able to run the get request by moving the request above the following request that I also have in the same file:
router.get('/users/:id',auth ,async(req,res)=>{

const id = req.params.id
const db = req.app.locals.database
try{

    const result = await db.collection('users').findOne({_id: id})
    const userData = getUserData(result)
    res.status(200).send(userData)

}catch(e){
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}

})
But now this request doesn't work. I cant figure out what positioning has to do with requests functionality. Can anyone please explain?


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Damascus – Abi al-Dardaa Mosque
دمشق – جامع أبي الدرداء
Daniel Demeter March 15, 2015 Damascus City
Abi al-Dardaa Mosque (جامع أبي الدرداء) is a small prayer hall built into the northern walls of the Damascus Citadel (قلعة دمشق). Inside is a tomb purported to belong to Abi al-Dardaa (أبي الدرداء). Once a wealthy merchant from Medina (Saudi Arabia), Abi al-Dardaa (أبي الدرداء) converted to Islam after the Battle of Badr. He became a companion of Mohammed (محمد), recording the revelations that the prophet shared with his followers. After the Muslim conquest of Syria, he served as the governor of Damascus (دمشق) under Othman Bin Aafan (عثمان بن عفان). His religious teachings are highly regarded in Islam, focusing on the renunciation of material possessions and the importance of the pursuit of knowledge. It is most commonly believed that he died in Alexandria (Egypt) in 652, when he was seventy-two years old. Other researchers suggest he died in Damascus (دمشق).
The origins of the mosque and tomb are unclear. Archaeologist Carl Watzinger dated the tomb to 1733, suggesting it was built during the Ottoman period as a cenotaph. It seems unlikely that the original tomb, if it was in Damascus (دمشق) to begin with, would have survived through the often turbulent Seljuq, Ayyubid and Mamluk periods. The small mosque is only open during regular prayer times, and the tomb is located on the eastern side of the prayer hall.
Getting There: The small entrance to Abi al-Dardaa Mosque (جامع أبي الدرداء) is located on the northern side of the Damascus Citadel (قلعة دمشق), built into the exterior wall.
Coordinates: 33°30'45.00″N / 36°18'07.00″E
Transliteration Variants: Abu al-Dardaa Mosque, Abi al-Darda Mosque, Abu al-Darda Mosque
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Jimmy Cricket has been reminiscing about the era of the comedy song and how he hopes he has helped keep it alive.
In his latest column for the Preston-based Lancashire Evening Post, the famous entertainer recalls "the many comedy and novelty songs that used to permeate the airwaves in the 50s and 60s".
He adds: "Commercial radio stations all have playlists now. This means they only play songs that appeal to younger audiences , which companies who advertise with them deem to be possible customers. That's how the commercial radio stations make their money.
"However, you can still hear comedy and novelty songs on BBC radio stations, especially on their request shows.
"However, fear not dear readers.
"Just when you thought the comedy song was a footnote in the history of popular music, along comes the man in the wellies and the battered hat to save the day!
"Yes, my new CD called Light & Shade contains gems like 'my budgie's been tweeting for years' and 'I got blotto when I thought I'd won the lotto'."
Light & Shade was officially released on 1 February and is available for £6 at www.jimmycricketshop.co.uk and at Jimmy's live shows.
In the inside sleeve, Jimmy talks about the history behind the CD, which features a mixture of serious and comedy songs.
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No evidence shows three deaths after vaccination was related to the vaccine
The Department of Health said that no clinical evidence showed that the three deaths after receiving the Covid-19 vaccine last week were caused by the vaccine.
The DH received three death reports of men aged 53 to 63, who had received the Covid-19 vaccine within 14 days prior to their death.
The DH said that the cases have yet to be evaluated by the expert committee.
As of last Sunday, more than 6.18 million doses of the vaccine had been administered to the public in Hong Kong, 0.08% of which were reported abnormal.
The DH has received a total of 30 deaths within 14 days after vaccination, none of them shown to be related to the vaccine.
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Hey guys. I was recently listening to some Bluenotes music, and it's great of course. I read that there was a lot of tension between Teddy and Harold, so I've always wondered, they did ever make-up or at least try to bury the hatchet with each other before Harold passed away? I tried looking for some info but I couldn't find too much about this. It would be a shame if they still weren't talking to each other decades later.
If you can, check your local library to see if they have Teddy's book in their collection. It's an interesting read in how Teddy felt about Harold. From my recollection, (I read his book a long time ago), he said Harold was always 'contrary' and that he underpaid him and his group members. Basically, Harold was a greedy and jealous SOB and Teddy got sick of him and left the group. Of course, Teddy didn't mentioned that he himself suffered a serious case of the 'Me-itis' and had a huge ego. I wondered if Harold read Teddy's book. I seem to get the feeling that neither one of them wanted to do much with the other. Of course, that's plain speculation on my part.
The Unsung program is an excellent start but try to read the book and come to your own conclusions. I am a fan myself of the Bluenotes and listen to their music often, especially, their duets with Sharon Paige.
Hey Brandy, hope everything is well with you.