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A Slap in the Face . . .
Newroz did not pass without political incident this year, though it was less violent in years past. Two main disturbances occurred, one in the city of Batman in Diyarbakir province, a BDP stronghold, and the other in the town of Silopi in Sirnak province when a clash between police and Newroz observers resulted in BDP Istanbul deputy Sebahat Tuncel slapping a police captain.
The Batman incident involved a tent that was reportedly illegally setup outside the municipality building. Police tried to disassemble the tent, but met resistance. Approximately 70 people were detained in the clashes that followed.
The incident involving Tuncel occurred when a canister of tear gas reportedly hit Tuncel's leg. In a confrontation with police, Tuncel slapped a police captain, drawing criticism from Prime Minister Erdogan and Interior Minister Besir Atalay. The incident has been heavily covered in the Turkish press in recent days.
Violence in years past, for example in 2008, has been much worse.
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Labels: BDP, Kurds
How Turkey is Perceived in the Arab World
Though conducted between Aug. 25 and Sept. 27 last year, TESEV's recently released public opinion survey or perceptions of Turkey, Turks, and Turkish foreign policy in seven Arab countries and Iran takes on particular relevance given the democratic revolutions now sweeping the Middle East. At an event hosted and co-sponsored by the Center for American Progress, TESEV presented its report, "The Perception of Turkey in the Middle East 2010," to a Washington audience.
Among its key finds are he highly positive attitudes toward Turkey held by all the countries in the survey, especially when compared with attitudes toward the United States and Europe. The findings add weight to the rather tired, but true argument that Turkey could act as a bridge between "East" and "West." However, more intriguing are the 66% of respondents who answered that Turkey could be a model for the Middle East, as well as the high support throughout the region that support Turkey's accession to the European Union and feel that it would have a positive effect on Turkey's role in the Middle East (64%). 78% of respondents thought Turkey could play a positive role in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
Most interesting is the large number of respondents who watch Turkish television series (78%). 76% of respondents said they had consumed a Turkish product, and when asked from which country in the region they would like to see foreign investment, 32% gave Turkey as a response. A significant portion of respondents (35%) also listed Turkey as a top tourist destination in the Middle East.
For the complete report, click here.
Labels: Foreign Policy, Middle East
A Minority Rights-Based Approach to Cyprus
International Minority Rights Group International has published "Minority Rights: Solutions to the Cyprus Conflict." Here is a summary:
Attempts to resolve the ongoing conflict in Cyprus over the past forty years have been marked by one common feature: the systematic failure to recognize the presence of most minority groups on the island, and to involve them in conflict resolution processes and in drawing up plans for the island's future status. This reflects the wider marginalization of minorities in both northern and southern Cyprus, who are effectively silenced within a discourse of competing Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot nationalisms. Drawing on interviews with representatives from minority groups from both parts of the island, as well as on the wealth of literature that has grown up around the 'Cyprus problem', this report argues that minorities in Cyprus have a vital role to play in any future settlement, as well as in ensuring ongoing peace, prosperity and security on the island.
I have not yet had the opportunity to review the report, but thought I would go ahead and post it.
Labels: Cyprus, European Union, Foreign Policy, Human Rights in Foreign Policy, Minorities
Newroz Festivities
A scene from the Newroz festival in Istanbul's Kazlicesme district. Jumping over a fire to mark the coming of the new year is just one of many Newroz traditions. AA Photo from Hurriyet Daily News
Police are on high alert throughout Turkey this week as Newroz festivals get underway. Newroz marks the spring equinox and the beginning of the new year for Kurds, and as the Turkish government has emphasized of late, many other peoples from Central Asia to the Balkans.
In his Newroz remarks, President Gul expressed regret that the government had in past years banned Newroz celebrations. The government's emphasis on the holiday as something 'not just Kurdish' has also landed criticism from certain circles who argue the government is trying to somehow take the "Kurdishness" out of Newroz, though the government is right in its assertions that the holiday is observed by others than just just Kurds. The Central Asian heritage of the holiday, which some government officials have also put emphasis on in recent years, is even more controversial, though I have not thoroughly investigated the veracity of the statement.
The political significance of Newroz as a venue for Kurds to express their "Kurdishness," no doubt a politics of recognition here, plays out in this English-language story in Hurriyet Daily News of festivities in Kazlicesme, where BDP politicians turned the venue into a political stage at which to criticize the AKP.
Labels: Kurds
Europe According to Turks
For the full size image, click here.
Labels: European Union, Foreign Policy
"Progress This Is Not," Says EU Parliament
The European Parliament voted to approve its resolution on Turkey's progress toward accession this week. The resolution follows up on the annual progress report the European Commission issued in November, which documents how far Turkey has come over the past year in meeting EU requirements for membership (the 36 negotiating chapters of what is known as the EU acquis communitaire.
The resolution passed Wednesday is not an extraordinary measure, but an action taken by the Parliament every year that allows European MPs to comment on the progress report. The Parliament is routinely more stark in its criticisms than the progress report, and of course, is much more influenced by European politics -- in this case, European opposition to Turkish membership in some countries -- than the progress reports issued by the Commission.
The resolution this year was particularly strong, drawing attention to the recent arrests of journalists Ahmet Şık and Nedim Sener, whose case have drawn considerable international controversy and domestic criticism. The Parliament also noted concern with long arrest periods, an issue that has also attracted more attention in the Turkish press and among human rights groups. Parliamentarians also requested that Turkey lower its current 10% threshold, something the AKP has been reluctant to do since it would jeopardize the ruling party's ability to attain a parliamentary majority and thus more easily pass a new constitution. The whole resolution can be read here.
Prime Minister Erdogan responded strongly, arguing today that if Europeans do not want Turkey in the EU, they should just be honest about it. Instead of addressing the criticisms head-on and noting shortcomings on Turkey's part, the prime minister instead leveled his criticisms at European parliamentarians opposing Turkish membership. The deflection is a not at all a new tactic by the AKP, but the players have changed a bit.
Contrary to the nationalist era of CHP when the party was led by staunch Kemalist stalwart Deniz Baykal, Kemal Kilicdaroglu's CHP -- "the new CHP" as party officials are calling it -- has taken a more pro-European posture. CHP's office in Brussels, a development of the past two years, issued a statement criticizing the AKP for Turkey's stalled accession process and urging the government to take needed reforms. From Hurriyet Daily News:
"Despite the fact that the European Parliament and other EU institutions cannot analyze Turkey's situation correctly, taking into consideration the whole of events and the cause-effect relationship, the scene painted by Brussels on the situation today is saddening," Kader Sevinç, the Brussels representative of the main opposition Republican People's Party, or CHP, told the Hürriyet Daily News & Economic Review in an interview.
Sevinç sent a written note to CHP leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu briefing him about the content of the report.
"Unfortunately, the CHP's reservations about the government-led constitutional amendments proved right: Those responsible for the Sept. 12 [1980] military coup cannot be tried, judge and prosecutor appointments have been politicized, authoritarian tendencies have grown stronger, pressure on the media has increased, freedoms are being limited and social polarization is deepening," Sevinç told the Daily News.
"We see in the report that the importance of these issues is becoming better understood by the European Parliament, which is directly elected by the EU public," she said.
The Brussels chief criticized the AKP for not doing enough to open the three EU accession-negotiation chapters – those on competition, social policy and public procurement – that carry no political baggage.
"The government remains unwilling to open the social policy and competition chapters because there is a need for reforms on state aid, the unregistered economy, gender equality at work and child labor," said Sevinç.
Sevinç said the CHP was closely following Turkey's accession process and had established a "shadow CHP team monitoring EU negotiations." The team, led by Sevinç, is following each and every negotiating chapter in the Turkish-EU talks and briefing Kılıçdaroğlu about the progress made.
Whereas before the CHP would stay quiet in face of the EU criticism, the party is now using such opportunities in its opposition politics against the AKP. The resolution did recognize the constitutional referendum as a qualified step toward accession, but yes, the shortcomings are duly noted and Sevinc is astute in arguing that the new constitution has not brought about a more liberal Turkey.
UPDATE I (3/15) -- EU Rapportuer on Turkey Ria Oomen Ruijten defends the resolution here, calling the report critical but balanced. Meanwhile, worth a considered reading is Turkey watcher Aengus Collins' thoughtfully sober blog post on the AKP's recent majoritarian turn, something I have written about here extensively. An excerpt:
In 2002, however, the AKP was a new political force which risked a backlash from Turkey's establishment. It went out of its way to counter concerns about its religious roots by pushing forward with political and economic reforms. But that was then. Today, the AKP no longer needs to burnish its European credentials as a means of forestalling a backlash from the establishment, because in the meantime it has consolidated its own position as Turkey's new establishment. It is not unrivalled in this role, but it is clearly dominant. Both in successive electoral contests and in murkier episodes such as the failed judicial attempt to close the party in 2008 or the conduct of the Ergenekon and similar cases, the AKP has repeatedly secured the upper hand over those who would challenge it.
Moreover, the AKP has managed to do all of this in the name of democratisation. With Machiavellian aplomb, the party has turned democracy's weak roots in Turkey to its advantage by loudly defining the concept on terms that work in its favour. In essence, this amounts to a crude majoritarianism which holds that an elected leader can and should do as he sees fit. The stronger his mandate, the less tolerable are constraints of any sort on his power, whether these stem from the military, the judiciary, the media, international organisations, or anywhere else. As the Financial Times noted in a recent editorial, the AKP government's executive powers are now "increasingly untrammelled."
It is against this backdrop that Turkey will head to the polls in three months' time. Testing times lie ahead.
Labels: AKP, CHP, European Union
Something Wicked This Way Comes . . .
Internet freedom in Turkey is drifting closer to the Orwellian as the Prime Ministry's Information and Technology Board plans to implement new regulations on the Internet. From Ersu Ablak writing in Hurriyet Daily News:
After Aug. 22 we will have a totally different system. The government is so kind and father-like that it wants us to be fully protected from any kind of harm that the Internet can bring about. This is why they have decided to provide Internet services to us filtered from the source. It is too much hassle to ban websites one by one, therefore they will have bundles and lists. According to the current plans there will be four types of bundles available.
These will be called Standart Profile (Standart Profil), Children's Profile (Çocuk Profili), Family Profile (Aile Profili) and Domestic Internet Profile (Yurtiçi İnternet Profili). All of these profiles will be censored to various degrees so that we will be protected just as our profile needs to be, because our government knows best.
Each profile will have two lists assigned; A black one and a white one. In the black list there will be websites that will be banned and in the white one there will be websites that are allowed to be surfed.
The government says that they ban websites at the source so that our children will be fully protected. There will be no room for the human error of parents. Banning websites will be fully automatic. However, the people who will be in charge of these practices and the standardization of establishing these lists are very vague. The government will be able to censor any website at will. You won't even notice it.
The regulation is entitled "Rules and Procedures of the Safety of Internet Use" and was passed just this February. As if Turkey's current (2006) Internet law was not bad enough . . . let's hope the government turns an about course.
Also, on another note, as far as I can tell the ban on Blogspot (and this blog) is still on.
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Labels: Freedom of Expression, Internet Freedom, Media
Wildlife Is Not Immune from Ultranationalism
Vulpes Vulpes Kurdistanica
Turkey's environment ministry is changing the names of three species of animals bearing Turkish and Armenian names. From the BBC:
The environment ministry says the Latin names of the red fox, the wild sheep and the roe deer will be altered.
The red fox for instance, known as Vulpes Vulpes Kurdistanica, will now be known as Vulpes Vulpes.
Turkey has uneasy relations with neighbouring Armenia and opposes Kurdish separatists in Turkey.
The ministry said the old names were contrary to Turkish unity.
"Unfortunately there are many other species in Turkey which were named this way with ill intentions. This ill intent is so obvious that even species only found in our country were given names against Turkey's unity," a ministry statement quoted by Reuters news agency said.
Some Turkish officials say the names are being used to argue that Armenians or Kurds had lived in the areas where the animals were found.
Really? Yeah, really.
Labels: Armenian Minority, Kurds, Minorities, Nationalism
A Sobering International Women's Day
Ayse Pasali, who was allegedly shot to death by her ex-husband, unsuccessfully sought official protection due to her husband's alleged physical abuse and threats to kill her. PHOTO from Radikal
From Bianet:
The Turkish Medical Association Women Doctors and Women's Health Branch indicated that violence against women in Turkey increased on the grounds of social insecurity caused by capitalism, male domination and the destruction of the social state. Other reasons for the increase of violence were a failing of the state to protect women and the impassiveness of the media regarding the whole topic.
The women's branch announced, "Apart from intensifying the struggle and strengthening solidarity, only very few tiny things have changed for women since the witch-hunting era in the middle ages. Migration and poverty becomes more and more an issue for women. Men dominate women and usurp and control their identity and body. This domination provides them with concrete, tangible benefits".
"Statistics suggest that women murders have increased by 1,400 percent in the last seven years. At least five women are killed every day by men by reasons of honour, virtue or morality. On 8 March this year we are demonstrating once more for our labour, our bodies, our identities and our freedoms."
Prof. Şahika Yüksel and Assoc. Prof. Ayşe Devrim Başterzi, who conducted the study, are not without ideas of how to address the problem, which include amending the Penal Code to eliminate "unjust provocation" as a mitigating factor. Under a recent decision by the European Court of Human Rights, Turkey is required to protect a woman's right to life in cases of domestic abuse, a legal duty Turkey has had difficulty upholding. Below are photos and summaries of the murders of eight women killed in the first two months of 2011 (thanks to Hurriyet Daily News).
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Labels: Domestic Violence, Women
Ahmet Şık and Nedim Sener Caught Up in Ergenekon Press Raids
Journalist Ahmet Şık has been detained in the Ergenekon investigation. Most ironically, Şık helped to expose the Ergenekon group as well as past coups against the government. Colleagues say it is highly unlikely he had anything to do with Ergenekon. More likely: He was working on a book on links between the Gulen Movement and the Turkish police . . . playing with fire indeed.
From Hurriyet Daily News:
Turkish police Thursday targeted more journalists as part of a controversial probe into alleged coup plots, among them a prominent award-winning reporter, Anatolia news agency reported.
Police were searching the homes of 11 people in Istanbul and Ankara, following a similar raid targeting the media last month that sparked an outcry over press freedom in EU-hopeful Turkey and drew a U.S. rebuke, Agence France-Presse reported.
A prosecutor issued a detention order for the suspects, and journalist Ahmet Şık was detained after his home was searched for six hours, daily Hürriyet reported on its website. Nine others, mostly journalists, were also detained, The Associated Press reported.
Şık already faces prosecution for co-writing a critical book about the crackdown on the so-called Ergenekon network, broadcaster NTV reported.
Police had reportedly discovered a draft book by Şık that allegedly focuses on the religious groupings within the police force on the hard disk of one computer seized in last month's raid on Oda TV, several news websites said.
Also among the suspects was Nedim Şener, an investigative reporter for daily Milliyet and author who last year received the International Press Institute's "World Press Freedom Hero" award for a book that put blame on the security forces in the 2007 murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink.
Şık (use Turkish letters when spelling!) and Sener have both been in-and-out of the news in recent years, and neither can be loved much by the government. Radikal journalist Şık's most recent investigation of links between the Turkish police and the Gulen movement, a most controversial subject in Turkey, has certainly not won the journalist any friends, and many have speculated in the Turkish media that this was the reason for his arrest.
The government has taken a lot of domestic and international heat for its treatment of the press, and many have long accused the government of using the Ergenekon investigation to silence its critics, including journalists.
The current situation is "ridiculous and tragic," said journalist Ertuğrul Mavioğlu, noting that Ahmet Şık, one of the journalists whose homes were searched, had been instrumental in opening the Ergenekon case in the first place. The diaries in Şık's "Coup Diaries" story for weekly Nokta in 2007, an article that led to the magazine being shut down, were among the key evidence that led to the investigation, Mavioğlu said.
It is a very "immoral accusation to place Ahmet Şık next to the 'deep state' and Ergenekon," said Mavioğlu, a journalist with daily Radikal and co-author with Şık of a two-volume book about the Ergenekon case. Speaking to the Daily News while in front of Şık's house as the search continued, he said he cannot compare the situation to anything but McCarthyism.
For more reaction against the arrests, including a strong denunciation by CHP leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu and CHP deputy leader in charge of human rights (who I interviewed last summer), click here. For more on Sener and the trumped up charges he faced last year for leaking state secrets (that could be found in public documents), click here.
Shame, shame, the whole way round . . .
UPDATE I (3/4) -- The Turkish Journalists Association (TGD) has issued a statement in regard to the press raids (thanks to Bianet): 60 journalists are currently detained in prison; more than 2,000 journalists are being prosecuted. Investigations have been launched against 4,000 journalists. Death threats against journalists and trials carrying hundreds of years of imprisonment and are continuing.
The government seems to remain a passive spectator of the threats against press freedom and journalists by giving the impression that they are not disturbed by the situation that the source of the threats is not being removed. Crimes of thought are on the rise again in this country with journalists being taken into custody, arrested and tried.
Head of the Turkey-EU Joint Parliamentary Commission Helene Flautre has made the following statement on the arrests: "The professional orientation and research carried out by the journalists do not give the impression that they are affiliated with nationalists and supporters of a coup like the Ergenekon organization, I think."
UPDATE II (3/5) -- The New York Times' Sebnem Arsu has the story here.
Labels: Ergenekon, Gulen Movement, Media, Police, Press Freedom
Erdonomics?
PHOTO from Hurriyet Daily News
A recent report by TurkStat, the Turkish government's statistical arm, reveals a growing division between rich and poor despite the high growth percentages and foreign direct investment numbers the government has been posting. While the rich have indeed been getting richer, the poor have gotten poorer. From Hurriyet Daily News:
The people in Turkey's highest income group are 8.5 times richer than those in the poorest, up from 8.1 times in the previous survey, according to the "2009 Income Distribution and Living Conditions" report recently released by the Turkish Statistical Institute, or TurkStat.
The overall poverty rate in the country likewise increased from 16.7 percent in 2008 to 17.1 percent in 2009, the report said. This means a total of 12.97 million people living in poverty, up from 11.58 million a year earlier. According to TurkStat, the monthly income set as the official poverty line for a four-person household in Turkey was increased from 767 Turkish Liras in 2008 to 825 liras in 2009.
According to TurkStat's figures, the richest 20 percent of people in Turkey earned 47.6 percent of the country's total income in 2009, while the poorest 20 percent had a share of only 5.6 percent.
"Of course, as the statistics demonstrate, the gap of more than eightfold is a sign of inequality. But compared to Western Europe, this ratio is better and I don't see a worse deterioration," Professor Seyfettin Gürsel, the director of Bahçeşehir University's Economic and Societal Research Center, or BETAM, told the Daily News. He said increasing income taxes in an equitable way would enable the social transfer of wealth needed to help solve the problem of income inequality.
TurkStat's survey showed that poverty rates increased in both urban and rural areas, to 15.4 percent and 16.1 percent, respectively. The 7.09 million urban poor in 2008 went up to 7.51 million, while the total in rural areas went up from 3.2 million to 3.49 million.
Wages constitute the largest income source for the Turkish population, 42.9 percent, compared to entrepreneurial income, at 20.4 percent, the survey said. The breakdown of statistics by region and province showed that Istanbul residents continued to have the highest levels of disposable income in 2009, with an average of 12,795 liras annually in 2009, followed by the Western Anatolia region with 11,501 liras. Southeast Anatolia had the smallest amount of disposable income, an average of 4,655 liras. The number of poor people in Southeast Anatolia increased from 895,000 in 2008 to 999,000 in 2009, or 13.7 percent of the regional population.
For the report, click here.
The numbers come at the helm of an election year in which the CHP is challenging the government on its failure to grow the economy for everyone. Moving back to a social democratic agenda, CHP leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu has promised to work to bridge the wealth divide and provide better social services. The AKP, on the other hand, has put the emphasis on traditional welfare systems and pursued a neoliberal economic policy that has kept Turkey from pursuing another IMF loan while at the same time largely failing to adequately address income inequality, poverty, and the country's significant informal sector.
Part of the problem here is that Turkey lacks a proper tax infrastructure that would progressively address income inequalities and help solve for the growing inequality brought by high interest rates and an elite-oriented growth policy. From my post last February:
According to data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the revenue Turkey collects from personal income taxes and profits stands at less than six percent of the total GDP, and has been declining steadily since 2000. (See "Public Finances" at the bottom of Turkey's OECD statistical profile.) This is the lowest among all OECD countries. As the Anatolia News Agency pointed out in its report Monday, a decline in personal income tax collections likely shifts the burden to workers and more vulnerable members of society. Though the Agency cites no sources, I would very much like to see more analysis of the problem.
Also worth taking note of are the remarkable revenues taken in on cigarette sales, which no doubt hit the families of smokers quite hard. (And, in Turkey, smoking is not only an "upper-class" addiction.)
According to the United Nation Development Program's Gini index calculations, Turkey stands between Peru and Ecuador in terms of economic inequality. All European Union member countries rank far ahead of Turkey according to Gini's equality measures, in addition to Croatia and Macedonia, the two other countries that have accession partnerships with the EU.
Kudos to the AKP for bringing the Turkish economy out of a sad time, but it is time to balance neoliberalism with economic and social rights and democracy that delivers. Perhaps the CHP can shake things up a bit. A counter-cyclical fiscal policy would also help -- some lessons from Chile? Finally acting like a social democratic party while paying significantly less heed to the nationalist/laicist rhetoric . . . actually focusing on democracy that delivers . . . what a concept!
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Labels: AKP, CHP, Economic and Social Rights, Economy, Social Policy
Blogspot Banned . . . Again
A spat over rights to broadcast Turkish football matches has led a local court to issue a blanket ban on the popular blogging platform Blogger, angering Turkish Internet users with what experts said was a disproportionate response.
The court in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır banned the website, a property of Google Inc., in response to a complaint by the satellite television provider Digiturk, which owns the broadcast rights to Turkish Super League games. Matches broadcast on Digiturk's Lig TV channel had been illegally posted by several Blogger users on their blogs.
"This is a disproportionate response by the court and undoubtedly has a huge impact on all law-abiding citizens," cyber-rights activist Yaman Akdeniz told the Hürriyet Daily News & Economic Review on Wednesday, adding that millions of bloggers and blog readers would be affected by the Diyarbakır court decision.
"[I understand] there is a legitimate concern [regarding Digiturk's commercial rights] but banning all these websites will not solve the issue. The decision opens the way to collateral damage," said Akdeniz, who is also a law professor at Istanbul Bilgi University.
There are more than 600,000 Turkish bloggers actively using Blogger and some 18 million users from Turkey visited pages hosted by the site last month, Akdeniz said. The ban is expected to fully go into effect within a few days unless it is successfully challenged in court.
"If two people plan a criminal activity on the phone, should we ban the use of telephones all over the country?" asked Deniz Ergürel, the secretary-general of the Media Association.
"We believe this is a wrong approach to the issue and deprives millions of bloggers and Internet users from writing and sharing ideas online," Ergürel, who is also a regular blogger, told the Daily News on Wednesday. He added that while the violation of Digiturk's commercial rights should not be ignored, other solutions had to be found. "Even cursing, threatening or cheating over the phone is considered a crime, but this does not imply access to phones all over the country would be banned if there is a case against them," he said.
Of course, this blog is a Blogspot/Blogger blog, and so for the time being, readers in Turkey are having to use proxy servers to gain access. There are many issues with how Turkey regulates the Internet, but at the heart of these broad "bans" is that the Telecommunications Board shuts off an entire website when only particular page or aspect of that page is troublesome. When we are talking about massive sites like YouTube and Blogspot, the orders become more than a little problematic, not to say ridiculous. For more on Turkey's Internet laws, click here. For more on Turkey's various disputes with Google, which operates Blogspot, click here.
UPDATE I (3/4) -- Google has petitioned the Turkish government to ends it blanket ban on Blogspot, calling on the Turkish government and firms concerned with copyright violations to use forms available on their website to seek redress for copyright violations rather than petitioning for the wholesale closure of websites. From a press statement the company has issued: "Instead of depriving all content owners from accessing Blogger services, we encourage them to make use of such a process. In this way, Blogger users from Turkey will be able to benefit from the services while we try to deal with the complaint." Too much common sense?
Labels: Freedom of Expression, Internet Freedom, Media, Press Freedom
Erbakan Funeral Recalls an Earlier Era
AA Photo from Hurriyet Daily News
Former prime minister Necmettin Erbakan was buried today. Though they have significantly changed their views since, many AKP figures were students of the former Islamist leader, who was removed in power in Turkey's 1997 postmodern coup. A bit of background from my first post:
Shortly after Turkey's last coup in 1997 (the 'post-modern' coup), Turkey's Constitutional Court closed Erbakan's Refah Party (RP)and banned from politics its prime minister, Necmettin Erbakan, along with other Refah politicians (including Erdoğan who was then the mayor of İstanbul). RP was widely feared when it came to power in 1994's municipal elections and then entered parliament with a plurality of the vote in the next parliamentary elections. The party's ideology was an amalgam of political Islam and anti-imperialism and never did it espouse liberal democratic ideals. It was authoritarian to its core, anti-EU, and paid little heed to the concept of personal liberty.
Although the party moderated its radicalism once in parliament, it did so because it had to in order to maintain the coalition it had formed with the center-right. Despite this moderation, Erbakan was subject to a deluge of criticism when he made state visits to Iran and Libya, seeking to influence foreign policy, traditionally the domain of the president. Further, he urged children to attend religious schools, proposed the construction of mosques in secular centers, and most importantly, failed to control RP municipal authorities who began to pass very restrictive laws, shutting down cinemas, lingerie stores, and restaurants that refused to close their door during Ramazan.
Following the dissolution of RP, many of its members re-organized and established the Virtue Party (Fazilet Partisi—FP) in 1998. FP was in many ways a continuation of RP and although posting a strong showing following elections in 1999, faced problems soon after resulting from internal divisions among more Islamist sectors in the party and those who began to identify themselves as reformers. Erdoğan and Gül are members of the reform group and it is this group which formed AKP in 2001 just after the Constitutional Court's closure of FP. Although some of the more radical actors within RP and FP entered AKP, Erdoğan dismissed with many of them upon coming to power.
Following the collapse of a divided parliament in early 2002, AKP swept to power in elections held in November that year. The party won a surprising 34 percent of the vote—enough to capture an absolute majority in Parliament. AKP's victory seems to have had more to do with reform than Islam. This is indicated by the losses of truly Islamist parties in 2002 and the years that followed. In contrast to AKP, the Felicity Party (Saadet Partisi—SP) was formed by the faction of more Islamist FP members and did quite poorly in the 2002 elections.
The SP is still a minor player in Turkish politics, and received a lot of attention last summer when the party sought to capitalize off of the Gaza flotilla incident. Erbakan lost control of the party soon after when the party's leadership chose not to elect his family members to the party congress. Though most of the AKP leadership has long ago drifted from Erbakan's National Outlook ideology, a synthesis of old-school Turkish nationalism and Islam, Erbakan's ideas remain part of AKP's history. His prime ministership will certainly be remembered as an important time for Turkish politics.
Labels: AKP, Saadet Party
Ahmet Şık and Nedim Sener Caught Up in Ergenekon P...


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:::: how level 0 will work before thinking about level 1.
line 28, "<mpm> You cannot return an exit code from hg_rawcommand."
when does this API call return?
"four days from now after trying to buffer 500G of data"?
hg_rawread()s as you need, and finally call hg_exitcode().
level 1 at all; we just stick to level 0.
internally buffer unknown huge masses of data."
which, at this point, confuses me.
I really hope we can have a discussion on IRC about this today.
It has been long since Iulian had some feedback from the seniors.
implement the level 0 API.
Might we ask you an eyeball?


The old man still possessed the childlike habit of biting his lower lip when he wrote. The thick skin dry as pork rind. He recorded the days without rain in a spare, makeshift almanac. The pages waxened from the soiled press of his hand tracing and retracing the swelling numbers. It had been over a year since he last saw her, but he remembered. The weight of her when she fell hard and pummeled him with bruising drops. He'd refused to take shelter despite her torrential rage. The heels of his flaking snakeskin boots clawed for traction in the shifting muck.
Standing there. Arms spread wide, back arched, mouth agape, swallowing hard. She tasted of the sun and the stars, and she teased him with this. Her celestial seduction. She swiped the puckered rustler's hat from his head. Disproved that his battered slicker was waterproof. She didn't stop until she had brought him to his knees. And once he'd fallen, slumped and spent, against the thick trunk of a stripped oak, she left. Running his finger along the bloody crease of his mouth, he smiled. At least she kissed him before saying goodbye.
He knew she left because of her.
The woman who'd found him there that day. Still limp from the tempestuous encounter. She came riding up surveying the storm's damage to her property on horseback. They were not strangers. In fact, she had been his employer on one occasion. He was a ranch hand. Transient. Averse to long-term hire. At his age, she was reluctant to hire him for any lengthy duration. However, he was strong and possessed an agility with the horses and ease with the cattle that softened her doubts. He was silent, not sullen, and this was acceptable behavior. The less chatty the better when it came to working with livestock, and with her. When he left them after three months, without incident or notice, it was neither surprise nor insult, and he was soon forgotten.
But she was surprised to see him now, hurt. And she did remember him. She extended her arm signaling him to climb atop her stout quarter horse, Jackson. He stood, with some difficulty, and looked up at her. As she leaned forward and measured his face, she realized that he wasn't as old as she had originally thought, despite skin leathered from a life open to the elements. His eyes were sharp with a still-youthful clarity in the color of the irises. He looked up at her wide-eyed. If she had been standing, she may have felt a little weak-kneed, but she maintained her composure and shifted her weight in the saddle. Jackson responded in tandem and shuffled slightly to accommodate her.
He shook his head. He didn't want her help. But before she nudged Jackson with her heel to move on, the young old man grabbed her stirruped boot and held it close to his chest. For a moment. Then he slapped Jackson on the haunch without facing her. He did not watch her ride away. But he knew she had been watching. She saw his moment of weakness and would not be forgiving.
It was over a year later, while riding Jackson by a dry riverbed creviced by drought, that she discovered his body. When she knelt beside him, she felt the first pale drops of rain, after 426 days.
Opening her mouth wide, she wept.
Texas has been experiencing drought for more than a year-and-a-half. Sometimes it feels as if mother nature is withholding her affection...or acting as a woman scorned.
Thank you so much James. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
So good to hear J.A. Pak. Appreciate the support.
Lovely, lilting prose from opening to close. And sad, too, hits the heart, lays it wide open, raw.
Thanks Robert and JP. Much appreciated.


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Q: Android with webview with remote website My android app has a webview which directly goes to the remote PHP site and shows user the registration form.
My question is, once user get registered successfully I want to close the webview and start another activity which is in native view. But how can I know whether he/she got registered successfully or not?
Thanks

A: You can do it this way:
In your PHP code, when the user gets registered successfully, redirect user to a unique link(this link will be used in your android code). Let's assume the link you redirect user to is "https://blablabla.com/successfully_registered"
In the WebViewClient's OnPageStarted method used by your WebView, Get the URL and check if it's similar to your redirect URL we assumed you used in your PHP code.
For Example:
WebView wv = findViewById(R.id.webview);
wv.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient(){
        @Override
        public void onPageStarted(WebView view, String url, Bitmap favicon){

            //check if URL is similar to redirect URL
             if(url.contains("https://blablabla.com/successfully_registered")){
                view.stopLoading();
                //user have been successfully registered. Start another activity or do something else...
            }
        }

    });

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Fairfax poll: Forget ScoMo, Malcolm Turnbull is the choice if Tony Abbott tumbles
By Michael Gordon
Updated August 17, 2015 — 7.13am first published August 16, 2015 — 6.00pm
Coalition faces 36-seat electoral wipeout: poll
This is a result that clarifies the choice for Liberal Party MPs if, and when, they decide they cannot go to the next election under Tony Abbott's leadership.
Malcolm Turnbull has firmed as the public's choice of Liberal leader, while the Coalition vote has gone backwards since the Prime Minister survived a leadership spill motion in February.
Turnbull has a whopping 18-point lead over the next most favoured choice in Julie Bishop; a 26-point lead over Abbott, and a 36-point lead over the circling Scott (ScoMo) Morrison and the struggling Joe Hockey.
He is seen as more in sync with an electorate that wants more action on climate change and supports marriage equality.
Preferred Liberal leader ... Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull. Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
Because much of Turnbull's support is coming from those who say they will not vote for the Liberal Party under current circumstances, a switch to the former leader should do more than one to any of the alternatives to improve the Coalition's prospects.
If the latest Fairfax-Ipsos national poll restores Turnbull's standing as the only viable alternative if the Coalition is to change before the election, there are at least two reasons it also makes that decision harder.
First, Turnbull still trails Abbott as preferred leader among Coalition voters by eight points, with both men dropping five points since February.
Actions that have enhanced Turnbull's appeal among progressives, like distancing himself from Abbott's alarmist rhetoric on Islamic State, have further alienated him from conservatives.
Frontbencher Scott Morrison said he rejected Tony Abbott's offer of the Treasurer's role because it would "throw Joe Hockey under a bus". Credit:Andrew Meares
Second, Liberal MPs would have to weigh up whether any immediate lift in voter support under Turnbull would continue until polling day, given the hostility some in the party have towards him.
However, things cannot continue as they are, with the PM's disapproval only marginally better than it was in February, at 59 per cent, and clear signs of a breakdown in cabinet.
All the pressure was supposed to be on Bill Shorten, whose ratings have slightly recovered from record lows to an approval rating of minus 10, compared with Abbott's minus 24. Yet, Shorten leads Abbott as preferred PM by 45 to 39.
This weekend, Turnbull, in effect, repudiated Abbott's claim that last week's marathon party room meeting "decided" to put the question of marriage equality to the people, should the Coalition win the election.
"Neither the Cabinet nor the party room have considered this matter," Turnbull said of the question of a public vote in a weekend blog.
He also highlighted the futility of Abbott continuing to rule out a referendum on same-sex marriage, asserting a constitutional amendment that "marriage" could extend to same-sex couples would leave Parliament's powers unchanged but cost taxpayers $100 million.
One imperative is to settle the process when cabinet meets on Monday, but Abbott needs much more than that.
One conversation changer would be to announce that the Canning by-election would be held on September 19 and hope that this focused everyone, in the Coalition's minds, on the things that matter.
Michael Gordon was one of Australia's most respected journalists. He won many honours, including the Graham Perkin award for Australia's most outstanding journalist and the Walkley Award for Most Outstanding Contribution to Journalism. His reporting turned an unflinching spotlight on the treatment of asylum seekers and the injustices faced by many Indigenous Australians. He suffered a fatal heart attack in 2018, a week after filing his last story.

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What You Ought to Know About Music Composing Software
By Layla | May 2, 2020
Music is an essential ingredient in infants learning and growth. Generally black women are uneducated and have no job skills. You will not normally find any electrical guitars or other trendy electronic musical instruments associated with such a music generally. This model of piano music takes coaching that's intense and lots of follow as nicely.
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This style of piano has been around for a whole lot of years and for a lot of, it's the proper fashion of music to be taught when taking part in the music. Educate songs with actions and encourage your child to bounce alongside to the music. Bhajans are easy devotional songs, that are sung many instances to invoke a high quality of God , The Supreme.
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Early adopters of the expertise – mostly younger music audiences can be given the chance to endorse their most well-liked music tastes – the pop songs of the 90s, catapulting pop stars into the spot-gentle. Black ladies have, historically, been used as intercourse instruments, and proceed to combat for power and materials wealth.
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The Nineteen Nineties witnessed one of the speedy rates of technological innovation in the 20th Century. There are music shops, and even people, who provide musical devices for renting or leasing. Easy accessibility to musical instruments could present an outlet that encourages children to use music to cope with emotional issues, especially when they are unable to precise them by way of speech.
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Finding and organising shows for your band can be a time consuming and irritating expertise. Bands playing at this level are hungry for consideration and they're willing to work for it. With the intention to discover the perfect talent, a new document label ought to have representatives all over the place the music they sell is being performed stay.
Forth, the report company will maintain a portion of the royalty cash as a result of the distributor typically has an settlement with the shops to take back and credit the retail shops money from unsold models. Nevertheless, unknown artists will nonetheless have to work exhausting to get the excitement going about their music.
So I put my cash the place my mouth was, introduced a digicam and an enhancing laptop and 17 music videos later the rest is history. Independent labels – distributes records by main labels. These guidelines can not be taken as a whole template for signing music enterprise contracts as a result of the internet is implementing change to the laws surrounding the work produced by artists.
An artist successfully indicators a document contract. They tend to find expertise, sign the expertise, sees to it the music is recorded and contracts with main file labels to perform the promotion, advertising, and other functions. Charges will fluctuate of every artist depending on how successful their file sells.
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Annually, the National Association of Music Retailers (NAMM) complies a worldwide report on musical instrument gross sales. Many artists have jumped on board this bandwagon by using their brand to barter clothing, video video games, and endorsement offers. To be able to arrange a bank account for a report label, it's necessary to have authorized proof the business exists. It doesn't matter whether you are taking part in to 10 or 1,000 individuals, you need to nonetheless act professionally.
Document labels prefer to cope with artists who've a historical past of record sales. Lets speak about my first music video and one in all it is major areas, crazy props, and extras. Photographs communicate to folks and the document label emblem ought to reflect what the label stands for.
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There are a selection of file companies out there right now and each one operates in another way. As a new artist to the music business on the lookout for music business contracts, you also need to be sincere about who you're, and what you need to provide major labels in return for the funding they should make in your music profession.
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A dynamic trade is a growing industry. They embody, File Clubs, Compilation CDs, Samplers (low-priced albums through which a number of artists are featured), Premiums (albums sold with different products, reminiscent of cereal), Movie Soundtrack Album, Music Video Sales, Biggest Hit's Album, Foreign Royalties (track played in some overseas country … Read More...
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Music could make mundane tasks just a little simpler and long days go by a bit of quicker. This enhance in dopamine might clarify the excessive that some folks feel after they're listening to music that they enormously get pleasure from." Dopamine may boring the ache your physique would otherwise expertise, research point out.
Within the early Nineties, the recognition of grunge introduced in a punk influenced fashion of its personal, together with torn jeans, old shoes, flannel shirts, backwards baseball hats , and other people grew their hair towards the clean-reduce image that was in style on the time in closely commercialized pop music culture.
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Having earned an MBA from Harvard whereas still working for General Motors, Juszkiewicz mixed his Ivy League enterprise faculty schooling with a lifelong passion for rock music when he took the reins at Gibson. Offering a stark distinction to the desolate panorama, the life-style and the individuals of Rajasthan, with their huge spectrum of good hues, sew a bond of oneness, cheerfulness and fertility.
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As most music lovers say, music is a lifestyle, regardless of the style. Legal guidelines of the Universe" reveals a composer whose love of dance music runs by means of the populist nostalgia of Daft Punk, and whose crate-digging geekery leaves room for in-jokes about LCD Soundsystem Miss Me," a haunted chillwave ballad with guest vocals from Abra, is a grasp class in evocation; it sounds like its decomposing in real time, the tune's bitter disappointment consuming it from the inside out.
Thanks to the patented accoustimass module, this method will deliver full vary of theater sound each time you turn on the menu. Music will not be a thing, it is a lifestyle. But even that tiny dose of musical information is outwardly an excessive amount of for contemporary-day media.
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By Layla | December 27, 2019
When you have listened to a tune within the realm of well-liked music from any time limit from the final fifty years, likelihood is it has included at the least some form of sampling. The Infamous B.I.G. would go on to sample La Di Da Di" for his posthumous #1 single Hypnotize ," and a generation later, Miley Cyrus would make the most of an interpolation of the song for the melody of her track We Can't Stop" The point of the demonstration is to point out that, regardless of the age of a sure song, artists can breathe new life into the songs of old by means of the embracing of present tendencies, sparking a newfound curiosity in the classic songs and cementing their timeless standing.
The mission of Art of Élan is to enrich the cultural life of San Diego by presenting exciting and exceptional chamber music concerts to most of the people, simultaneously educating and exposing diverse audiences to classical music via revolutionary programming, the commissioning of latest works, distinctive performance venues and personal connections with concertgoers.
As a soloist, he has carried out with various ensembles including the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Singapour Symphony Orchestra, Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra, Warsaw Philharmonic, Quebec Symphony Orchestra, OFUNAM (Mexico City), Orchestre Métropolitain, National Arts Middle Orchestra, Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Violons du Roy, I Musici de Montréal, Sinfonia Varsovia and the Poznań Philharmonic.
In September 2017 the Quartet turned Ensemble in Residence on the University of Toronto, and was lately named Inventive Directors of the Prince Edward County Music Festival, where they may make their curatorial debut in September 2018. The Musician's Approach is the primary book to supply music college students and educators an in depth, holistic strategy to studying the artwork of apply and efficiency.
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A champion of latest music, Mr. Dyachkov was soloist for the first French performance of Giya Kancheli's Diplipito on the Evian Competition and for the North American premiere in Winnipeg.
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Mixing is an artwork and never a science. It was a creative outlet for the scholars and their musical abilities grew. Ms. Koh is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Foundation for the Advancement for the Arts, a scholarship program for high school students within the arts. I not solely had AC, but my own workplace, a music library, classroom risers, and a brand new performing arts heart with wonderful lighting and sound.
For Wilfred and his successors, the historical distinction between the spatial arts-architecture, portray and sculpture-and the temporal arts-music, poetry and drama-had lastly been completely obliterated in various forms of shade-music. Within the inaugural efficiency of their 20th anniversary season, Toronto's innovative Artwork of Time Ensemble presents a … Read More...
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Almost ten years in the past I wrote Zen and the Artwork of Piano and planned to write Zen and the Artwork of Music after a short break. As a soloist, he has carried out with varied ensembles including the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Singapour Symphony Orchestra, Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra, Warsaw Philharmonic, Quebec Symphony Orchestra, OFUNAM (Mexico City), Orchestre Métropolitain, National Arts Center Orchestra, Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Violons du Roy, I Musici de Montréal, Sinfonia Varsovia and the Poznań Philharmonic.
Charles was not too long ago awarded the Order of Arts and Letters of Quebec and the celebrated Career Improvement Award offered by the Girls's Musical Membership of Toronto. This spans depictions of musical performances at the court and within the theater, designs for the opera and ballet, and works portraying musical scenes of on a regular basis life.
To analyze the structure of a bit of (typically atonal) music using musical set principle, one usually begins with a set of tones, which might kind motives or chords. Generally, music is a subjective artwork and at the similar time, it's summary, and due to this fact easily stirs emotions; a certain music piece can fully change the message of a film or scene," he says.
American cellist Julie Albers is recognized for her superlative artistry, her charismatic and radiant performing style, and her intense musicianship. This display explores what design for music can mean in the digital age – from a musical jacket woven with Wolfe's music to the world's first "anti-stream" from the quietest room on Earth.
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In case you have listened to a track in the realm of fashionable music from any time limit from the final fifty years, likelihood is it has included not less than some type of sampling. He argues, however, that a soundtrack is barely a garnish" or the cherry on high of the cake." A piece of music composed especially for a movie is an element of the particular 'cake' and performs a significant position in having a deeper effect in manipulating feelings, except a film is initially built in a manner that makes using the soundtrack the higher affect," he argues.
A champion of new music, Mr. Dyachkov was soloist for the primary French performance of Giya Kancheli's Diplipito at the Evian Festival and for the North American premiere in Winnipeg. Fischoff describes music in movie as a extremely expressive sensory element." Whether music, sound impact or speech, sound in any film manages to fill the void created by a complete silence that might in any other … Read More...


Tim Rawlinson's fascination with the way light passes through glass informs his work. He exploits transparency, as its essential and primary quality, manipulating and distorting both colour and form in order to challenge his viewer's perceptions.
The refractive qualities of glass, in Tim's sculptures, create optical effects and shadows, that transform their environment creating an architecture of light and colour.
Society moves at an alarmingly rapid pace demanding instant solutions. Tim's works aim to touch a part of our intellectual and spiritual need to slow down and experience what is going on within. These beautiful pieces are objects of curiosity and contemplation.


Off and running the finals of the Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition 2015 got off to a blazing start with the young Taiwanese violinist William Ching-Yi Wei taking center stage. Indulge the writer and join in for a brief recapitulation of just a few of the contest's many splendors. Travel down the cobbled streets of old Brussels, wend your way towards the 'Mountain of the Arts' and after marveling at the amazing variety of chocolate stores and even more impressive collection of museums you find yourself facing Horta's monumental Bozar concert hall. Crowds throng to the competition, animated conversation in French and Flemish permeate the halls and continue til the wee hours at a plethora of pubs and restaurants nearby.
Blessed by a legacy of royal patronage, the affection borne towards the monarchy is repeated each evening as the audience stands and applauds the royals before the lights dim. Whether prince or pauper, the violin occupies the minds and hearts of a city where bartenders and hotel porters voice opinions concerning 'their' favorite contestants.
The contrast between the opening night candidates was difficult to ignore. While Tobias Feldmann seemed at home on stage, Wei was noticeably uncomfortable and although his technical level deserves kudos, he did not seem ready to take on the musical challenges of Shostakovich's monumental First Concerto. One might wonder why a 20 year old accomplished violinist who has not trained on the competition circuit would enter the Queen Elisabeth at this time. Nerves of steel and a solid routine of performance under pressure are basic for successful, communicative performances in the rarified atmosphere at the top.
Feldmann exuded confidence and unflappable nerves---after breaking a string at the very end of the first movement of Bartok's Second Concerto, he returned triumphantly to sing through the heat-wrenching Andante Tranquillo. A night to remember.
"Feldmann exuded confidence and unflappable nerves---after breaking a string at the very end of the first movement of Bartok's Second Concerto.."
I reminds me of the semi's of Maria Milstein in 2012 which I heard live. She hit her bridge but could play on with her dislocated bridge. First I thought she had broken her E-string (like Mathieu van Bellen in the national violin competition). The moment in the video is on 8.20 minutes.


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Q: Tricky Triple Sql Join While finding the most recent date I apologize if this question has been asked in a similar way before.  I am rather new to SQL and am having a very difficult time finding the solution to my problem.  Very confused.
I currently have three tables:

Templates - | id | name |

Users - | id | full_name |

Changelog - | id | id_user | id_template | last_edited_at

I have a table filled with templates.
I have a separate table full of users WHO make changes on those templates.  Every time a change is made, an entry is created in the changelog table.
I am trying to create a query with the main goal being fetching EVERY record from templates, as well as WHEN it was most recently changed, and BY WHOM.
I came up with this query which allows me to find the most recent change for a specific template ID.
SELECT changelogs.id_user, changelogs.updated_at, users.full_name
FROM changelogs
JOIN users
ON changelogs.id_user = users.id
WHERE changelogs.id_template = :templateId
ORDER BY changelogs.updated_at DESC
LIMIT 1

I orignally tried to solve this problem by looping through each template record, and running the above query for each record ID, but that is slow and doesn't work.  I know there must be a way to do this in SQL, and I wanted to see if anybody has solved a similar problem.  I didn't design this database, so sorry if it is not optimized.
My ideal final result would be a table that looks like:

| template.id | template.name | user.name | changelog.updated_at |
Thanks so much in advance for any guidance

A: You can use a correlated subquery:
SELECT cl.id_user, cl.updated_at, u.full_name
FROM changelogs cl JOIN
     users u
     ON cl.id_user = u.id
WHERE cl.updated_at = (SELECT MAX(cl2.updated_at)
                       FROM changelogs cl2
                       WHERE cl2.id_template = cl.templateId
                      );

For each template referred to in the outer query the subquery finds the maximum update date.  This is then used to filter the records in the outer query.

A: You can use two JOINs to get the information from all the tables and then use a SUBQUERY to get the maximum value for the updated_at field, like this:
SELECT
    t.id as template_id, t.name as template_name,
    u.name as user_name,
    c.updated_at as changelog_updated_at
FROM
    changelogs c

INNER JOIN templates t on c.id_template = t.id
INNER JOIN users u on c.id_user = u.id

WHERE
  c.updated_at =
    (SELECT MAX(updated_at) FROM changelogs c2 where c2.id_template = t.id)

ORDER BY t.template_name

A: I think a window function is your friend here. I didn't spin up sample tables to run this on, so there my be a type-o or two:
select *
from (

    select *
        ,row_number() over (partition by t.id order by c.last_edited_at desc) row
        from Templates t
        left join ChangeLog c
        on t.id=c.id_template
        left join Users u
        on c.id_user=u.id

) t
where row=1


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Q: How to restore an old Version of an UWP App? I've got a backup of the corresponding App folders from C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\*App* and I want to restore the old app or execute it somehow, because the company developing the app is continuously removing important features from the app.
I tried to just copy the folders back, but windows is really trying hard to prevent me. I simply cannot overwrite the files even as Administrator of the system.
Even windows backup, which was used to create the backup, is not able to restore the files properly due to missing write access.
I cannot simply execute the exe files from the backup, they complain about missing dlls.
This is all pretty frustrating...
Any ideas?

A: Beacause you don't have permission to access this folder So Follow this Steps :

*

*Go to the Folder then Right Click on it

*Open Properties then click on Security Tab then Click Advanced

*Then you will see owner is system Or Trusted Installer

*Then click change then then Write Your WINDOWS username

*Then click Ok then Ok then Close The Window

*Then Restart you System (Windows)

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Bobby Lashley vs. Ron Sparks, Zaromskis vs. Cyborg added to Strikeforce event in L.A. (June 16, 2010)
By Mike Afromowitz / May 16, 2010
Former WWE superstar Bobby Lashley to face fellow unbeaten Ron Sparks in clash of unbeaten MMA heavyweights at Nokia Theatre, L.A. Live Wednesday, June 16
Marius Zaromskis to Battle Evangelista Cyborg in 170-Pound Featured Matchup
LOS ANGELES (May 15, 2010) – Former WWE superstar Bobby Lashley (5-0) will square off with fellow undefeated Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) heavyweight Ron "The Monster" Sparks (5-0) when STRIKEFORCE hits Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE on Wednesday, June 16. DREAM welterweight champion Marius "The Whitemare" Zaromskis (13-4) will face Evangelista Cyborg (17-13) in a featured welterweight (170 pounds) contest.
The 33-year-old Lashley, a 6 foot 3, 265-pound native of Junction City, Kan., was overwhelmingly victorious in his STRIKEFORCE debut last Jan. 30, stopping Wes Sims with an onslaught of punches in the first round (2:06) at BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise, Fla. The popular Lashley enjoyed success with both the WWE and rival pro wrestling league, TNA, between 2005-07.
In his outing before last on June 27, 2009, Lashley scored an impressive first-round (3:17) TKO over 6-foot-5 inch, 350-plus-pound goliath Bob "The Beast" Sapp in Biloxi, Miss.
A resident of Denver, Colo., Lashley was a collegiate wrestling star for Missouri Valley College and member of The United States Army.
"I'm excited about fighting again,'' Lashley said. "I've been working very hard and I am continuing to learn. The guy I am fighting is huge. This will be a great fight.''
The 35-year old, 6-foot-5 Sparks, of Louisville, Ky., is a tough guy with freakish girth and power who brings it each and every time. An equally imposing physical specimen who has been pummeling opponents, Sparks is coming off a unanimous four-round decision over Johnathan Ivey in his last effort on June 3, 2009.
Until then, only one of Sparks' fights had lasted more than a minute. The total elapsed time in Sparks' previous triumphs, all of which he won by knockout, was 184 seconds. He won in 1:07, 0:36, 0:24 and 0:17, respectively.
"I like to get in and get the job done,'' the hard-hitting Sparks said. "My last fight went all four rounds, but there is nothing I enjoy more than knocking a person out.''
Sparks, who has been seeking a major fight against a "name'' opponent, is looking forward to June 16.
"Trust me, we're going to go down swinging,'' he said. "There will be no tap-outs. I am grateful of the opportunity STRIKEFORCE is giving me and I am very confident of a victory.''
Zaromskis is one of the deadliest strikers in MMA and an opponent's worst "Whitemare.'' Until falling to STRIKEFORCE World Welterweight Champion Nick Diaz on Jan. 30, Zaromskis had won five in a row and nine of 10.
In July 2009, the talented, aggressive-minded 5-foot-9, 29-year-old captured the prestigious DREAM 12 Welterweight Grand Prix in Japan by literally booting the daylights out of his last two tournament foes, winning each fight by spectacular, evil head kick, both in the first round.
Zaromskis has consistently produced highlight-reel performances on the big stage since turning pro in February 2000. A member of London's Shootfighters fight team, he is looking to manufacture another one against the hard-nosed Santos.
"This is a very important fight for me,'' Zaromskis said. "I was disappointed in my performance in my last fight but I know I can do better and expect to do better against a very dangerous opponent.''
Santos, the husband of the No. 1 women's fighter in the world, STRIKEFORCE 145-pound champion Cris Cyborg, dropped a split decision to Joey Villasenor in his STRIKEFORCE debut on June 19, 2009. That fight was contested at 185 pounds.
The 5-foot-10, 32-year-old Cyborg, a member of the famed Chute Box Academy, rebounded in his last start to score a 1:41, first-round TKO (head kick and punches) over Daniel Zarate on Dec. 1, 2009.
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Chakana Announces Closing of $8.0 Million Brokered Private Placement
VANCOUVER, March 23, 2018
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VANCOUVER, March 23, 2018 /CNW/ - Chakana Copper Corp. (TSX-V: PERU; OTC: CHKKF; FWB: 1ZX) (the "Company" or "Chakana") is pleased to announce that, further to its news releases on March 8 and 12, 2018, it has successfully closed a private placement led by Eventus Capital Corp. (the "Agent") of 8,888,889 common shares of the Company (the "Shares") at a price of $0.90 per Share (the "Offering Price") for gross proceeds of approximately $8.0 million (the "Offering").
Chakana Copper President and CEO, David Kelley stated: "We are happy to welcome Macquarie Bank Ltd. and other major institutional investors in this round of financing. This is an exciting time for Chakana as we continue to expand our drill program at Soledad."
The Company intends to use the net proceeds of the Offering to fund the expansion of its exploration program at Chakana's Soledad copper gold project located in Peru and for general working capital purposes.
In connection with the Offering, the Company paid the Agent a cash fee of approximately $373,250. Additionally, the Company issued 391,000 broker warrants to the Agent (the "Broker Warrants"), with each Broker Warrant entitling the holder to purchase one Share at an exercise price of $0.90 for a period of 24 months following the date of issuance.
All securities issued in connection with the Offering are subject to a four month and one day hold expiring July 24, 2018.
The Offering remains subject to final approval of the TSX Venture Exchange.
(signed) "David Kelley"
Neither TSX Venture Exchange (the "Exchange") nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
This news release contains forward-looking statements, including the use of the net proceeds from the Offering, and other statements that are not historical facts. Forward-looking statements are often identified by terms such as "will", "may", "should", "anticipate", "expects" and similar expressions. All statements other than statements of historical fact included in this release are forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate and actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements.
The reader is cautioned that assumptions used in the preparation of any forward-looking information may prove to be incorrect. Events or circumstances may cause actual results to differ materially from those predicted, as a result of numerous known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors, many of which are beyond the control of the Company. The reader is cautioned not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking information. Such information, although considered reasonable by management at the time of preparation, may prove to be incorrect and actual results may differ materially from those anticipated. Forward-looking statements contained in this news release are expressly qualified by this cautionary statement. The forward-looking statements contained in this news release are made as of the date of this news release and the Company does not intend to update any of the included forward-looking statements except as required by Canadian securities laws.
SOURCE Chakana Copper Corp
View original content with multimedia: http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/March2018/23/c4268.html
Copyright CNW Group 2018
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Dia Mirza defends Sanju: I don't believe any facts have been changed; storytelling is through narrator's lens
Rajkumar Hirani's latest film Sanju released on 29 June and what followed was a mixed bag of opinions. While unanimously everyone lauded Ranbir Kapoor's performance as Sanjay Dutt in the biopic, the opinion on the film and its narrative were divided.
Some sections of the audience as well as critics claimed that the film chooses to show only a selective part of Dutt's life and even if the major controversial aspects are considered, they end up making Dutt look like a victim of media reporting (that the film claims to have been a bit harsh on Dutt).
Read: Sanju: What's missing in Hirani's Dutt biopic, from Madhuri Dixit affair to political debut with Samajwadi Party
Dia Mirza as Maanyata Dutt in Sanju. YouTube screengrab
Actress Dia Mirza, who essayed the role of Dutt's wife Manyata in the film, spoke about this divided opinion on the film in an interview to News18.
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When Masand asked whether there has been any factual discrepancy in the film, as per some section of the audience, Mirza strongly claims, "I do not believe that any facts have been changed. I do not believe that. It will also be undermining the intelligence of the people involved with the film. We all understand what we've made here and we care for it."
Read: Sanju: Hirani shouldn't have bowed down to the pressure of making an entertaining yet socially responsible film
Masand also suggested that it will be "quite naive to expect objectivity" from the people involved in the film — the makers, the actors (who have once been co-actors to Sanjay Dutt), to which Mirza agreed.
Sanju has made it to the top 10 highest grossing Hindi films of all time and is nearing the Rs 300 crore mark.
Also read: Sanju's Maanyata Dia Mirza on why the role in Rajkumar Hirani's film came at just the right time in her career
Watch the entire interview here.
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ATS2257 - Long-form television: "HBO" and beyond - 2017
Film and Screen Studies
Dr Tessa Dwyer
First semester 2017 (Day)
The post-2000 era has seen radical transformations in the way television is produced, distributed, viewed and valued. This unit traces the development of one of the most visible and successful outcomes of these shiftsglobal long-form television series that experiment boldly with complex serial narratives, self-conscious stylistics and provocative themes and characters. Areas for discussion include the millennial industrial developments that enable these series to be produced, the critical discourses of 'quality' television that construct their artistic status, the transnational markets in which they circulate, and the audiences and fans that give them a cult life beyond the screen. Through examination of how these systems and strategies both break with and continue historical televisual traditions, the unit demonstrates how the long-form mode of storytelling exemplifies the cultural form of television as the most vital and influential of the millennial era.
critically analyse a range of contemporary long-form television texts from different national contexts;
understand and apply a range of contemporary theories in television studies;
demonstrate an ability to conduct research and develop a critical argument in a manner appropriate to second year study;
demonstrate skills in providing commentary and criticism on television texts and readings in seminar environments both in the classroom and online.
Within semester assessment: 75%
Exam: 25
Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. A unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.


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