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Tristan Wilds, né le  à Staten Island (New York), est un acteur et chanteur américain. Il est également connu sous le nom de Mack Wilds, en tant qu'artiste musical.

Il est principalement connu pour son rôle de Dixon Wilson dans la série télévisée 90210 Beverly Hills : Nouvelle Génération (2008-2013).

Biographie
Né dans le quartier de Staten Island à New York, Tristan commence à jouer à l'âge de quatre ans. Sa mère, Monique Moncion, est d'origine afro-dominicaine et irlandaise, et son père, Paul Wilds, est afro-américain. Sa mère a d'abord été esthéticienne puis agent de change. Il fréquente et est diplômé de l'école Michael J. Petrides à Staten Island.

Carrière
Pour son premier rôle, il interprète A.J. dans la mini-série Miracle's Boys, en 2005.
Il fait diverses apparitions dans d'autres séries parmi lesquelles Cold Case : Affaires classées, New York, police judiciaire et Sur écoute. En 2009, il joue également dans le film Le Secret de Lily Owens.

De 2008 à 2013, il a joué le rôle de Dixon Wilson durant 5 saisons dans la série 90210 Beverly Hills : Nouvelle Génération.

En , il rejoint le casting du film dramatique Indelible. Le tournage devait commencer en octobre 2011 dans le Nord-ouest de l'État de New York, mais les plans ne sont finalement jamais réalisés.

Musique
En 2010, il signe un contrat d'enregistrement avec le label indépendant Ten2one. , Fall 4 Her et Runaround. Les deux chansons ont été produites par Dre et Vidal. Une autre piste intitulée 2 Girlz  dans la quatrième saison de 90210 et Kim. En , Tristan a sorti un EP intitulé Remember Remember. À l', il sort son titre Own It. Son album New York: Love Story est sorti le .

En janvier 2014, il est nominé à la  des Grammy Awards dans la catégorie Best Urban Contempory Album pour son album New York: A Love Story. Cependant, c'est Rihanna qui remporte la récompense avec son album Unapologetic.

Il apparaît dans plusieurs clips dont Roc Boys de Jay-Z, extrait de l'album American Gangster (2007), Teenage Love Affair d'Alicia Keys en 2008, How to Love de Lil Wayne, extrait de l'album Tha Carter IV (2011), Buy My Love de Wynter Gordon (2011) ou encore Hello d'Adele (2015).

Vie privée

Filmographie

Cinéma

 2006 : Half Nelson : Jamal
 2008 : Le secret de Lily Owens : Zach Taylor
 2012 : L'Escadron Red Tails : Ray « Ray Gun » Gannon
 2015 : Covers : Angel
 2020 : Really Love : Nick Wright
 2023 : Rhythm in Blues : Duke

Télévision

Séries télévisées
 2005 : Miracle's Boys : A.J. (3 épisodes)
 2006–2008 : Sur écoute : Michael Lee (23 épisodes)
 2007 : Cold Case : Affaires classées : Skill Jones
 2008 : New York, police judiciaire : Will Manning
 2009 : Le Secret de Lily Owens : Zachary Taylor
 2008–2013 : 90210 Beverly Hills : Nouvelle Génération : Dixon Wilson (114 épisodes)
 2013 : Black Actress : Jared Smith
 2017 : The Breaks : Darryl 'DeeVee' Van Putten Jr. (8 épisodes)
 2017 : After Hours : Mack
 2017 : Shots Fired : Sheriff Joshua Beck (10 épisodes)
 2019 : Tales : Kayron
 2021 : Swagger : Alonzo Powers (8 épisodes)

Téléfilms

 2016 : The Breaks : DeeVee
 2018 : Dinner for Two : Chris

Clips

 2011 : How to love de Lil Wayne
 2015 : Hello de Adele

Discographie

Album studio
 2013 : New York: A Love Story

Notes et références

Liens externes

Acteur américain
Chanteur américain du XXIe siècle
Naissance en juillet 1989
Naissance à Staten Island
Acteur américain de télévision

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We cannot shop our way out of environmental crisis, 'green' or not
Eight weeks ago, I wrote about the delusions of "green capitalism," that there is no alternative to a dramatic change in the organization of the global economy. That led to a vigorous discussion, and I thank all of you who contributed to it.
This week, I'd like to return to this theme, in the form of discussing an interesting paper that I could then only quote briefly. The paper, "Green capitalism: the god that failed," by Richard Smith of the Institute for Policy Research & Development in London, packs a powerful argument into its 33 pages. The paper was published in issue No. 56 (March 2011) of Real-World Economics Review. (That a publication for non-orthodox practitioners needs to take such a name speaks volumes of the field as a whole.) The author's basic theses are:
"Green capitalism" is "doomed from the start" because maximizing profit and environmentalism are broadly in conflict; the occasional time when they might be in harmony are rare exceptions and temporary. This is because the managers of corporations are answerable to private owners and shareholders, not to society. Profit maximization trumps all else under capitalism and thereby sets the limits to ecological reform.
No capitalist government can impose "green taxes" that would force out of business the coal industry or any other because the result would be recession and mass unemployment. Without carbon or other "green" taxes, the "entire green capitalist project collapses."
Green-capitalism proponents vastly underestimate the speed with which environmental collapse is coming. No amount of tinkering can alter the course of environmental destruction under the present system. Humanity, therefore, must replace capitalism with a post-capitalist ecologically sustainable economy.
Resource extraction is inherently polluting but can't be shut without chaos. It is not possible to "dematerialize" much of the economy as green-capitalism proponents believe possible. The only way to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions is to "enforce a drastic contraction of production in the industrialized countries." Such a thing is not possible in capitalism because the affected industries would be committing suicide to agree to this and nobody would promise jobs to those displaced; this could only be carried out through a socialization of industry and a redeployment of labor to sectors that need to be developed for social good.
Consumerism and over-consumption are not "cultural" or the result of personal characteristics — they are a natural consequence of capitalism and built into the system. Problems like global warming and other aspects of the world environmental crisis can only be solved on a global level through democratic control of the economy, not by individual consumer choices or by national governments.
Cap-and-trade equals profits by polluting
European attempts to implement "cap and trade" schemes to limit greenhouse-gas emissions were countered from the start by industry lobbyists asking for exceptions because, they argued, they would lose competitiveness, and some threatened to move elsewhere, taking jobs with them. Governments gave in. Polluters and traders took in windfall profits, with no real effect on emissions. Dr. Smith wrote:
"German electricity companies were supposed to receive 3 percent fewer permits than they needed to cover their total emissions between 2005 and 2007, which would have obliged them to cut emissions by that amount, instead the companies got 3 percent more than they needed — a windfall worth about $374 billion at that time." [page 119]
A proposal to directly tax carbon in France, proposed by the administration of Nicolas Sarkozy, was ruled unconstitutional because most of France's major polluters would have been let off the hook entirely while households would have assumed the burden. Dr. Smith put the farce of this failed proposal in perspective:
"The court said that more than 1,000 of France's biggest polluters could have been exempted from the charges, and that 93 percent of industrial emissions would not have been taxed at all. But even if Sarkozy had successfully imposed his carbon tax, this tax would have raised the price of gasoline by just 25 US cents per gallon. Given that the French already pay nearly $9 per gallon for gasoline, it's hard to see how an additional 25 cents would seriously discourage consumption let alone 'save the human race.' " [page 120]
A part of Moofushi's bleached coral reef (Alifu Dhaalu Atoll, Maldives), damaged by warming sea temperatures.
(Photo by Bruno de Giusti)
Some advocates of cap-and-trade or carbon taxes in the United States try to get around industry pushback by advocating they be made "revenue-neutral." But if "carbon tax offsets are revenue neutral, then they are also 'impact neutral,' " Dr. Smith writes. That brings us back to the reality that imposing drastic cuts would be the only way to effect the significant reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions necessary to prevent catastrophic global warming in coming decades. That, in turn, can't be done without massive dislocation.
Yet reductions are not only necessary, but will be required by physical limits — the world's population is using the resources at the rate of 1.5 Earths and the United Nations predicts we'll be using two Earths by 2030. Moreover, if all the world's peoples used resources at the rate that the United States does, "we would need 5.3 planets to support all this." Needless to say, we have only one Earth available.
More efficiency leads to move consumption
One of the pillars on which green capitalists rest their advocacy is increased efficiency of energy usage, achieved through technological innovation. But energy usage has been increasing, not decreasing, despite greater efficiencies wrung out of a range of products. Gains in efficiency can, and frequently are, used to expand production; given that capitalist incentives reward expansion, that is what is done. Moreover, "green" industries are not necessarily green. The "god that failed" paper points out:
"Even when it's theoretically possible to shift to greener production, given capitalism, as often as not, 'green' industries just replace old problems with new problems: So burning down tracts of the Amazon rainforest in order to plant sugarcane to produce organic sugar for Whole Foods or ethanol to feed cars instead of people, is not so green after all. Neither is burning down Indonesian and Malaysian rainforests to plant palm-oil plantations so Britons can tool around London in their obese Landrovers." [page 128]
Making motor vehicles more fuel-efficient, although a goal that should be pursued, nonetheless falls far short of a solution. Fuel usage from the increasing number of vehicles and longer distances traveled are greater than all the savings from fuel efficiency. And focusing on only when the vehicle is being driven leaves untouched most of the pollution caused by them, Dr. Smith writes:
"Most of the pollution any car will ever cause is generated in the production process before the car even arrives at the showroom — in the production off all the steel, aluminum, copper and other metals, glass, rubber, plastic, paint and other raw materials and inputs that go into every automobile, and in the manufacturing process itself. Cars produce 56 percent of all the pollution they will ever produce before they ever hit the road. … [S]o long as [automakers] are free to produce automobiles without limit more cars will just mean more pollution, even if the cars are hybrids or plug-in electric cars." [page 131]
Those electric vehicles are only as "clean" as the source of electricity used to power them. Many plug-in electric vehicles are coal-powered vehicles because coal is a common source of electricity. Looking at it holistically, such an electric vehicle would be more polluting than a gasoline-fueled vehicle; and the majority of the pollution from the manufacturing (for the vehicle itself) would be there just the same. Then there is the pollution and greenhouse-gas emissions of the electric-car battery. Nickel is a primary input; the Russian city that is the site of the world's largest source of nickel, Norilsk, is one of the world's most polluted places.
"I would not be surprised if the most ecological cars on the planet today are not those Toyota Priuses or even the Chevy Volts with their estimated [seven- to 10-year] lifespan, but those ancient Fords, Chevrolets, and Oldsmobiles cruising round the streets of Havana. For even if their gas mileage is lower than auto-producer fleet averages today, they were still produced only once, whereas American 'consumers' have gone through an average of seven generations of cars since 1960 (when the U.S. embargo ended car imports to Cuba), with all the manufacturing and disposal pollution that entailed." [page 133]
Consumerism props up capitalist economies
Planned obsolescence is part of the problem, across the spectrum of manufactured products. Capitalist manufacturers don't want products that last a long time; repeatedly selling new products is far more profitable. But it would be overly simplistic to lay full blame for this on greed, however much greed is rewarded by a capitalist economy. Household consumption — all the things that people buy for personal use from toothbrushes to automobiles — accounts for 60 to 70 percent of gross domestic product in almost all advanced capitalist countries. If people aren't buying things, the economy struggles.
Proponents of green capitalism fail to grasp the structural causes of over-consumption. However much better for the environment, and the world's future, drastic reductions in consumerism would be, moral exhortations can't be effective. Trapped in an idealist mirage that capitalism can be "tamed" or "repurposed," green capitalists, through seeking individual solutions to structural and systemic problems, not only miss the forest for the trees but leave the economic structure responsible untouched. People in the global North should consume less, but to place the blame on individual behavior lets the manufacturers of useless products off the hook and is blind to the economic realities should the system be left in place intact.
Once again, we can not shop our way out of economic and environmental problems. Even not shopping would bring its own set of problems, Dr. Smith writes:
"[H]ow can we 'reject consumerism' when we live in a capitalist economy where, in the case of the United States, more than two-thirds of market sales, and therefore most jobs, depend on direct sales to consumers while most of the rest of the economy, including the infrastructure and not least, the military, is dedicated to propping up this super consumerist 'American way of life?' Indeed, most jobs in industrialized countries critically depend not just on consumerism but on ever-increasing overconsumption. We 'need' this ever-increasing consumption and waste production because, without growth, capitalist economies collapse and unemployment soars. …
[I]t's not the culture that drives the economy so much as, overwhelmingly, the economy that drives the culture: It's the insatiable demands of shareholders that drive corporate producers to maximize sales, therefore to constantly seek out new sales and sources in every corner of the planet, to endlessly invent [new needs]. … '[C]onsumerism' is not just a 'cultural pattern,' it's not just 'commercial brainwashing' or an 'infantile regression.' … Insatiable consumerism is an everyday requirement of capitalist reproduction, and this drives capitalist invention and imperial expansion. No overconsumption, no growth, no jobs. And no voluntarist 'cultural transformation' is going to overcome this fundamental imperative so long as the economic system depends on overconsumption for its day-to-day survival." [pages 141-142]
There is no way out other than replacing capitalism with a steady-state economy based on meeting human needs, and that could only be attained through bottom-up, democratic control. No one promises new jobs to those who would be displaced under capitalism; logically, then, those who jobs and ability to earn a living is dependent on polluting or wasteful industries resist environmental initiatives. The wholesale changes that are necessary to prevent a global environmental catastrophe can't be accomplished under the present economic system; it would require a different system with the flexibility to re-deploy labor in large numbers when industries are reduced or eliminated, and one that would have no need to grow. Inequality would have to be eliminated for any kind of global democratic economy to be able to function.
Richard Smith pronounces this "a tall order to be sure." That it is. But with many world cities, and entire countries, at risk of becoming inhabitable due to rising sea levels, more erratic weather and an accelerated timetable to deplete the world's resources, what choice do we have? Green capitalism is not only not green, it is worse than illusion because of the false hope it dangles in front of our eyes.
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The high cost of new and improved
Planned obsolescence is not a natural phenomenon like the tides. Yet most of us accept it as such. I've been forced to think about this because my computer is not long for this world. Eight years ago, it was as up to date as can be. Now, Mac OS 10.3 is evidently one step removed from a stone tablet.
That in itself is a solvable problem. But the friendly and knowledgeable computer person who advised me on new computer options calmly told me that some of my crucial software programs won't be readable on the latest system. I will have a great many files that will become unreadable (yes, I do back up) without having to cobble together some cumbersome solution.
"New and improved" is marketing gospel. Well, it's mighty big business — as much as $1 trillion is spent on marketing in the United States alone. People have to buy a whole lot of stuff to justify all the money spent on them to buy it. If products work for a long time, people won't be moved to buy all that "new and improved" stuff. That's where planned obsolescence comes in — it's simply big corporations forcing us to buy new stuff.
Having a new computer isn't a terrible thing in itself. But having your software be made outdated, thereby rendering many years of writing inaccessible, shouldn't be the price paid for "progress." As the friendly and knowledgeable computer person explained just how behind the new and improved times I was, I sighed and said to him, "This is why I don't like capitalism. It's all this planned obsolescence." The computer person, clearly an intelligent person (and working for a quite reputable computer retailer), looked at me totally blankly. He had no idea of what I could be talking about.
To him — and far from him alone — the rapid updating of computer software and hardware was some natural phenomenon, as natural as the tides. I am not arguing here for stasis, nor am I unused to dealing with new computers. Because my original profession, newspaper journalism, was among the first industries to undergo computerization, I've been writing on computers since 1978. There were no personal computers then, nor was the concept of "user friendly" yet in existence.
We used highly specialized, balky computers where one had to continually devise methods of getting the machine to do what it was supposed to do but often would not. So I can say I am quite pleased at the advances of the past couple of decades. But continually updating systems so that they become obsolete in a few years is not "new and improved" — it is "let's make people buy more of our stuff." What about the many people who can't afford to keep buying more stuff?
At least the electricity doesn't have new operating systems
This perpetual consumer arms race is hardly limited to computers, although not necessarily carried as far in other industries. Can you imagine that, needing to replace your decade-old automobile, you go to a dealer, only to find out this year's new model runs on a different type of fuel, and that you no longer can go to your local gas stations because it won't run on the same old fuel. Or what if the electricity was changed every few years? Sorry, we're on a different voltage this year, so all your home's power sockets are now useless, and you can't use your lamps or appliances.
Although other industries don't have the audacity of computer and software makers, a relentless push to induce more consumer purchases is endemic. The weight and size of what we buy is bigger. And it is wrapped up in ever more packaging. The social costs of all this unnecessary consumption are high, and are paid for in environmental destruction.
Here are two statistics that put some perspective on this immense waste:
About 40 percent of U.S. landfill waste is discarded packaging.
The cost of packaging constitutes 10 percent to 40 percent of a product's retail price.
Add in the immense costs of advertising to induce us to buy stuff we otherwise wouldn't want or need, and we are talking mountains of waste. Obtaining figures is difficult, but estimates of the money spent on marketing in the U.S. per year range from $460 billion to $1.07 trillion.* Further add in the costs of raw materials, production and transportation, the effects of all this on the environment and the psychological stresses on people continually told they are inadequate without owning the latest gadget, and the impact of new and improved becomes clearer.
All we need is another Earth
Almost all of the world's higher-income countries, and many lower-income countries, are consuming far beyond Earth's ability to recuperate. To put this in stark terms, a study by the non-profit group Global Footprint Network estimates that humanity is consuming the equivalent of one and a half earths. The group's study says:
"This means it now takes the Earth one year and six months to regenerate what we use in a year. Moderate UN scenarios suggest that if current population and consumption trends continue, by the 2030s, we will need the equivalent of two Earths to support us. And of course, we only have one."
The Living Planet Report 2012, a study produced by WWF–World Wide Fund For Nature in collaboration with the Zoological Society of London and Global Footprint Network, provides country-by-country and region-by-region breakdowns. It finds that the Middle East/Central Asia, Asia-Pacific, North America and European Union regions are each consuming about double their regional biocapacity. Africa and "other Europe" are about even, while Latin America is currently consuming at less than half its biocapacity.
To this it should be added that Africans themselves use less — much of the consumption there (and in other developing areas) is generated by multi-national corporations headquartered in stronger countries. People in poor countries consume minuscule amounts in comparison to the wealthy of the world and the middle classes of the advanced capitalist countries.
The Living Planet Report's conclusions, despite being frequently couched in moderate language, nonetheless declare that "business as usual" will lead us to disaster:
"Clearly, the current state of human development, based on increased consumption and a reliance on fossil fuels, combined with a growing human population and poor overall management and governance of natural resources, is unsustainable. Many countries and populations already face a number of risks from biodiversity loss, degraded ecosystem services and climate change, including: food, water and energy scarcity; increased vulnerability to natural disasters; health risks; population movements; and resource-driven conflicts." [page 10]
All those shiny computers and mobile phones — and so many other consumer products produced in ever greater numbers — use metals mined from around the world, often under dangerous conditions. Many of these products are assembled under brutal sweatshop conditions. The environmental damage from moving all these raw materials, manufactured parts and finished products around the world is enormous, and increasing as more destructive and capital-intensive technologies are necessary to extract less accessible resources. We tend to not think about these costs.
"New and improved" is of human creation. If it were as natural as the tides, there wouldn't be advertising bombarding us everywhere we turn. We have only one Earth and, for now, the rest of the universe is out of our grasp. In a satirical short story written by the science fiction author Stanisław Lem, space-faring marketers set off a series of supernovas that, from Earth, align in the night sky to spell out the name of the product they were promoting. Imagine the budget for that campaign!
And imagine life forms on the planets orbiting those exploded stars — would our morals be so low as to destroy all life on multiple planets to advertise a product? Surely they would not. Yet we seem to be on a course to destroy life on this planet for the sake of short-term corporate profits. Is new and improved really that important?
* The former estimate (from 2008) from Charles W. Lamb, Joseph F. Hair, Jr., Carl McDaniel, Marketing [South-Western Cengage Learning, Mason City, Ohio, USA, 2009]; the latter estimate (from 2005) from the Metrics 2.0: Business & Market Intelligence web site.
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using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Bibliotheca.Server.Gateway.Core.DataTransferObjects;
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Sydney FC made it back-to-back wins in the Westfield W-League, edging Melbourne Victory 2-1 on Sunday.
Alanna Kennedy looped a header onto the crossbar for Sydney before Natasha Dowie went close for the hosts at Lakeside Stadium, curling an effort just wide.
Dowie then hit the side netting as Victory made a bright start, and Christine Nairn fired over from an angle.
But Kennedy would open the scoring in the 17th minute, her 20-yard free-kick going in via the crossbar despite the best efforts of Bianca Henninger.
Victory pushed and Nairn had a long-range effort palmed away by Shamiran Khamis before Sydney doubled its lead.
A Georgia Yeoman-Dale cutback was tapped in by Remy Siemsen to make it 2-0.
MelindaJ Barbieri was the next to go close for Victory, which started the second half well and had Dowie hit the side netting again after rounding Khamis.
Kennedy rattled the crossbar with a free-kick before Dowie scored her third goal of the season, taking down a long Laura Spiranovic throw before poking in.
Dowie almost secured a draw for Victory but shot wide after a brilliant turn in the area.
Victory faces City in a Derby clash next week, while the Sky Blues host Adelaide United.


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TURKISH PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS IN EUROPE
20 Temmuz, 2018 Avrupa, KAMU YÖNETİMİ, Misafir Yazar, YABANCI DİLDE YAZILAR 815
Jose Miguel Dias Rocha
In the June 24 Turkish presidential election, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan secured another five-year term by winning more than 50% of the votes. As it happened in former elections, in the European countries with the largest Turkish communities the vast majority voted overwhelmingly for him. After the results were known several European leaders congratulated Erdoğan on election victory, despite the well-known tensions between Ankara and some countries in Europe.
In Germany, 65% of the 650,000 voters backed Erdoğan[1]. Before the elections, Turkish politicians were denied permission from German's government to campaign in the country (albeit a pro-Kurdish HDP, People's Democratic Party, rally in Cologne was allowed – in the eyes of the Turkish government, the HDP is linked to the PKK, Kurdistan Workers Party) and a meeting between Turkey's president and Mesut Özil and İlkay Gündoğan, two football players of Turkish heritage who represent Germany in international football, has sparked a huge debate in the country on the integration of the largest Turkish community out of Turkey[2].
The German Chancellor Angela Merkel, in a message sent to the elected Turkish president, underlined that "the upheavals in the Near and Middle East, and the consequent refugee flows, are significantly affecting our two countries. In that respect, Turkey has taken great responsibility" and said she was looking forward to continuing to work with Turkey[3].
However, Cem Özdemir, the most prominent German politician of Turkish descent, preferred to slam "the Turkish-German Erdoğan supporters [who] aren't only celebrating their dictator, they are also expressing their rejection of liberal democratic values"[4]. The former leader of the German Greens has paved the way for a return to the eternal debate in Germany ("Why so many Turks in Germany vote for Erdoğan?") intrinsically linked to the integration of the Turks who are living in the country. In one of the most popular German newspapers, "The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung", one could read on the June 25 edition that "German politicians should reflect on their own part in a phenomenon that has led a group which has been living in Germany for decades to regard the head of another country as their leader"[5].
The Turkish voters in France did not differ from those in Germany: Support for Erdoğan was at 64.8 percent in the Hexagon (where, in total, around 160,000 Turks voted). The French President Emmanuel Macron congratulated the winner, wished "the Turkish people success in the economic and social development of their country and in the democratic functioning of their institutions" and emphasized the importance of a "calmer dialogue" between the European Union and Turkey[6]. In France, the period before the elections was marked by a controversy over a French magazine's (Le Point) cover calling Recep Tayyip Erdoğan a "dictator"[7]. Some journalists working for that magazine claimed they suffered harassment and intimidation by pro-Erdoğan activists, which lead Macron to express his support for freedom of the press, labeling those incidents as "unacceptable". In response, the Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said "the Turkish community in France has expressed its civilian and democratic reaction", even though there were several protesters removing and covering up advertisements for the magazine at newsstands.
In the Netherlands, 73 percent of the 120,000 eligible voters supported the outgoing president. Like in Germany, Turkish election campaigns ahead of the polls were banned there. Prime Minister Mark Rutte said he did not "want to import any problems from outside", mentioning possible public order disruptions, a decision that drew criticism from the Turkish government[8]. Especially since the Dutch authorities prevented political rallies of Turkish politicians before the April 16 referendum last year, the diplomatic relations between Turkey and the Netherlands have been rocky. For instance, The Netherlands does not have an ambassador in Turkey since the beginning of February and, in February, the members of the Dutch parliament voted in favor of a motion recognizing the "Armenian genocide", which prompted an angry reaction from the Turkish government.
It was in Belgium that Erdoğan obtained his best result in Europe: 75% among the 75,000 voters chose him. Turkey has been criticizing Belgium as it considers that the country fails to act against the PKK[9]. In 2017, the Belgian Court of Appeals decided that PKK members cannot be tried for terrorism links, a decision which was overturned later by Belgium's Supreme Court. One year earlier, supporters of the PKK set up a tent outside EU buildings in Brussels, causing some diplomatic tensions as Turkey summoned the Belgian ambassador to complain about it.
Yet that is nothing compared to the strained relations between Austria and the Turkish government (and, actually, the Turkish community living in the country). The fact that more than 72% of the 52,000 Turkish voters expressed their preference for Recep Tayyip Erdoğan infuriated the populist Austrian Vice Chancellor and leader of the Freedom Party (FPÖ) Heinz-Christian Strache who wrote on his Facebook account: "I recommend all the Turks in Austria who voted for Erdoğan should return to Turkey!"[10]. Along with Germany and the Netherlands, Austria bared Turkish politicians from campaigning on its soil ahead of June elections. In the eyes of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, "Erdoğan's Turkish leadership has been trying to exploit Europe's communities of Turkish origin for many years" and that is why Turkish politicians "are unwanted [in Austria] and we will therefore no longer allow them"[11]. Some weeks ago, Kurz revealed his government's plans to shut down seven mosques and expel foreign-funded imams in a crackdown on "political Islam". In reaction, İbrahim Kalin, a spokesman for the Turkish president, tweeted that the decision was "a reflection of the anti-Islam, racist and discriminatory populist wave in this country"[12]. Austria's government strongly opposes Turkey joining the European Union and in its program there were already straightforward signs of the hardening of rhetoric on Turkey, immigrants, and Islam.
Contrarily to what happened in the five European countries where more Turks casted their ballots, in Switzerland (37% of the 48,000 voters voted for Erdoğan) and in the United Kingdom (just 21% among the 42,000 voters supported Turkey's reelected president) Erdoğan was not the first choice of the majority of Turkish community.
The Prime Minister Theresa May congratulated Erdoğan on his victory in the Turkish Presidential elections and said she hoped both countries could continue to work together on their "shared priorities, including security cooperation, trade and investment, the situation in Syria and supporting a political settlement in Cyprus"[13].
Even though during the Brexit referendum campaign in 2016, Boris Johnson used a supposedly imminent Turkey's full membership as a threat to the UK's national security (due to a possible flood of Turkish immigrants) if his country stayed in the European Union, a few months after, already as Britain's foreign minister, he went to Ankara and made sure he would help Turkey to join the EU[14].
The day after the elections, the European Commission said it hoped Turkey would remain a "committed partner (…) on major issues of common interest such as migration, security, regional stability and the fight against terrorism"[15], not mentioning Turkey's status as a candidate country to join the EU. (And on June 26 EU ministers said that Turkey's EU accession talks have come to a "standstill" and declared their concern about "the continuing and deeply worrying backsliding on the rule of law and on fundamental rights including the freedom of expression".[16])
Meanwhile, in a (separate official) statement by the EU's diplomatic chief Federica Mogherini and enlargement commissioner Johannes Hahn it was highlighted that "the restrictive legal framework and powers granted under the ongoing state of emergency restricted the freedoms of assembly and expression, including in the media" and that "Turkey would benefit from urgently addressing key shortcomings regarding the rule of law and fundamental rights"[17]. The text did not name Erdoğan or refer to his election win.
When it comes to the European Parliament (EP), Renate Sommer, a German member of the parliament and shadow Turkey rapporteur for the EP's Christian Democrats, stated that the Turkish president violates the principles of the rule of law and has absolute power, calling for end to European Union-Turkey membership talks[18]. The Social Democrats, the second largest group in the EP, were also critical. Udo Bullman, the group's president, applauded the efforts made by the opposition parties and said he believes Erdoğan's "only objective is to consolidate authoritarianism in Turkey"[19]. By the same token, the EP-Turkey Forum, a cross-party non-partisan platform composed of sixty members of the EP, welcomed the plurality of the new parliament, but regretted "the lack of independent media and silencing of critical journalism" and added that "the new presidential system that now enters into force lacks the necessary checks and balances required to safeguard democracy and the rule of law, which are basic conditions for EU membership"[20].
On July 9, the Bulgarian President Rumen Radev and Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán (who was the first foreign politician to congratulate the reelected Turkish president on his victory) were the only EU leaders attending Erdogan's inauguration ceremony at the presidential complex.
One can conclude that there is a general tendency in the countries having some diplomatic issues with Turkey (especially those where Turkish politicians were banned from carrying out election campaigns for expats voters) of seeing their Turkish communities showing a huge support for Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, even though, given past tendencies, those results are not surprising at all. The voting behavior of Turks in Europe has become again a source of discussion in several European media[21], but as Professor Ayhan Kaya puts it, to Turks living in Europe and coming from a disadvantaged socio-economic background Erdoğan is a "strong personality who can challenge European leaders" and "heal the sources of their problems", mainly because they were "searching for a personality to save them from sources of humiliation" in their host societies[22]. The signs (before and after the elections) coming from countries like Austria – and even from the European institutions – do not look promising for a possible improvement of relations between them and Turkey.
José Miguel DIAS ROCHA – Erasmus Volunteer for SASAM
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[1] The election results used in this article are taken from the following website: http://www.karar.com/guncel-haberler/secim-2018
[2] José Miguel Dias Rocha – "Turks in Germany". 06/09/2018. http://sahipkiran.org/2018/06/09/turks-in-germany/
[3] Hürriyet Daily News – "European leaders congratulate Erdoğan on election win". 06/26/2018. http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/european-leaders-congratulate-erdogan-on-election-win-133785
[4] The Local – "Turkish majority in Germany who voted for Erdogan 'are like AfD': Green MP". 06/25/2018. https://www.thelocal.de/20180625/majority-of-turks-in-germany-are-like-the-afd-says-leading-green-mp
[5] Jasper von Altenbockum – "Niederschmetternd". 06/25/2018. http://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/inland/dass-erodgan-in-deutschland-so-viele-fans-hat-ist-niederschmetternd-15658971.html (In this article, I used the translation available on the following website: https://www.eurotopics.net/en/201823/why-is-erdogan-so-popular-with-the-turkish-diaspora# )
[6] Euronews – "Macron congratulates Turkey's Erdogan, urges calmer dialogue". 06/26/2018. http://www.euronews.com/2018/06/26/macron-congratulates-turkeys-erdogan-urges-calmer-dialogue
[7] Al Jazeera – "Turkey slams Macron over Erdogan magazine cover". 05/29/2018. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/05/turkey-slams-macron-erdogan-magazine-cover-support-180529120258692.html
[8] Hürriyet Daily News – "Turkey slams election campaign ban in Austria, the Netherlands". 04/22/2018. http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkey-slams-election-campaign-ban-in-austria-the-netherlands-130694
[9] Anadolu Agency – "Belgium's high court paves way for trial of PKK members". 02/14/2018. https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/belgiums-high-court-paves-way-for-trial-of-pkk-members/1062509
[10] Heinz-Christian Strache – "HC Strache". 06/29/2018. https://www.facebook.com/HCStrache/posts/10156040006328591
[11] Reuters – 04/20/2018. "Austria says will bar Turkish politicians from campaigning on its soil". https://www.reuters.com/article/us-austria-turkey/austria-says-will-bar-turkish-politicians-from-campaigning-on-its-soil-idUSKBN1HR0XK
[12] The Guardian – "Turkey condemns Austria's 'racist' move to close seven mosques". 06/08/2018. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/08/turkey-austria-close-mosques-expel-imams
[13] The Government of the United Kingdom – "PM call with President Erdogan: 25 June 2018 ". 06/25/2018. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pm-call-with-president-erdogan-25-june-2018
[14] José Miguel Dias Rocha – "Which EU countries support and which oppose Turkey's accession?". 03/19/2018. http://sahipkiran.org/2018/03/19/turkeys-eu-accession/
[15] Reuters – "EU Commission says hopes Turkey will stay committed partner after vote". 06/25/2018. https://af.reuters.com/article/idAFKBN1JL13W
[16] Hürriyet Daily News – "Turkey's EU accession talks at 'standstill': European ministers". 06/27/2018. http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkeys-eu-accession-talks-at-standstill-european-ministers-133849
[17] European Comission – "Statement by High Representative/Vice-President Federica Mogherini and Commissioner Johannes Hahn on the elections in Turkey". 06/25/2018. https://ec.europa.eu/commission/commissioners/2014-2019/hahn/announcements/statement-high-representativevice-president-federica-mogherini-and-10_en
[18] Deutsche Welle – "'Seçimi Erdoğan kazanırsa AB üyelik süreci bitmeli'". 06/20/2018. https://www.dw.com/tr/se%C3%A7imi-erdo%C4%9Fan-kazan%C4%B1rsa-ab-%C3%BCyelik-s%C3%BCreci-bitmeli/a-44319384
[19] S&D Group – "We stand by all progressive, pro-European forces in Turkey and we will continue to lead the call for rule of law and democracy in the country". 06/25/2018. http://socialistsanddemocrats.eu/newsroom/we-stand-all-progressive-pro-european-forces-turkey-and-we-will-continue-lead-call-rule-law
[20] Rebecca Harms – "European Parliament Turkey Forum: Public Statement on the 24 June presidential and parliamentary elections in Turkey". 06/25/2018. http://rebecca-harms.de/post/european-parliament-turkey-forum-public-statement-on-the-24-june-presidential-and-parliamentary-elections-in-turkey-50734
[21] Eurotopics – "Why is Erdoğan so popular with the Turkish diaspora?". 06/26/2018. https://www.eurotopics.net/en/201823/why-is-erdogan-so-popular-with-the-turkish-diaspora#
[22] Hürriyet Daily News – "Turkish diaspora see Erdoğan as 'healer' of frustrations: Professor Ayhan Kaya". 05/21/2018. http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkish-diaspora-see-erdogan-as-healer-of-frustrations-professor-ayhan-kaya-132099
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If only it didn't take two hours to get Bubba to sleep, then this would have been a very different post.
You see, today I've been on a mission searching for joy. I found it, and I've been crafting eloquent ways to write about it all day. I was going to tell you about my kids laughing at each other, empty grocery bags, and sweeping my steps. I was going to tell you about getting peed on, going for a jog, and getting splinters out with weasels*. Most importantly, I was going to try to describe the mysterious relationship between joy and obedience.
But then Bubba wouldn't fall asleep. I swear sometimes that the boy is allergic to his bed. He'll be completely passed out, limp in your arms, but the second his skin hits his sheets, he's wide awake and heartbroken.
Me and my Mama spend a lot of time outside in nature, and we talk about safety and natural resources and stuff. Mostly she just says "Wa wa wa wa wa wa…" and I notice things I could put in my mouth. But I am definitely learning, a little at a time, how to take care of myself outside.
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Column on LeBron James … from 2004
Date: May 24, 2011Author: odevened 1 Comment
This column on NBA star LeBron James appeared in the Arizona Daily Sun in December 2004.
Thanks to James, NBA still lots of fun
By Ed Odeven
It's easy to dislike the NBA. There are too many spoiled, uncoachable players, too much reliance on one-on-one play and too many 82-76 games. And the recent mayhem in Motown did nothing to enhance the league's image.
Don't put LeBron James into the what-is-wrong-with-the-NBA file.
James is a joy to watch on the basketball court, exciting crowds with a mesmerizing blend of Michael Jordan's love for the game, Dominique Wilkins' showmanship and Julius Erving's penchant for making plays you have to watch 10 times in slow-mo to fully grasp what he just did.
James dunks a basketball with as much creativity and authority as any player in the game. He exhibits an ever-expanding repertoire of shots from all spots of the floor. He crashes the boards with a Charles Oakley-like sense of urgency. He plays suffocating, pressure defense every possession.
Those are among the reasons to watch James play.
But my favorite reason is this: James understands the true recipe for success goes beyond himself. He realizes becoming a great passer could, eventually, make his team great the way Magic Johnson and the Lakers were for all those years.
On Wednesday, the red-hot Phoenix Suns won their ninth straight game, topping James and the Cleveland Cavaliers, 120-101, with the Suns scoring 72 second-half points — and making it look ridiculously easy in the process. It was an off-night for the reigning NBA Rookie of the Year — 6-for-19 shooting, 15 points, six assists, three rebounds, two steals, six turnovers and one blocked shot — and he wasn't too shy to give credit where credit is due.
"They made me work tonight," James said of the Suns, especially Joe Johnson, who was his primary defender. "They played great defensively. They made me force some turnovers and at times I was just indecisive about what I wanted to do.
"It wasn't one of my best ones, but that's the good thing about the NBA, there's another one tomorrow."
Tomorrow, as in Thursday, was indeed a better day for the Cavs. James had 17 points, eight rebounds and nine assists in a 92-73 road victory over the Denver Nuggets.
After the Suns game, James was asked if facing Carmelo Anthony, another heralded rookie last year, held any special significance for him. He responded by saying, "I'm just going out to play, man. I don't look at matchups. This is the Cleveland Cavaliers vs. the Denver Nuggets. That's how I look at it."
Every game is just another day at the office for the 19-year-old LeBron, another day to get better at the game he'll one day dominate like only a handful of players ever did.
In a preseason interview with NBA.com, Charles Barkley said: "I think (James) understands the game and now we just need to watch him grow."
Which is what he's doing, especially on defense.
"He's playing much better defense, because he had to on the Olympic team just to play," Cleveland coach Paul Silas said Wednesday. "I think that helped him."
James' most spectacular play against the Suns started on the defensive end in the second quarter. He anticipated where a pass was going to go, stepped in front of it before it got there and took off for the races, going coast to coast and ending the play with an uncontested, rim-rattling jam to tie it at 39-all.
On the Suns' next possession, James got another steal and dished the ball off to teammate Jeff McInnis, who scored a layup. That was, perhaps, the Cavs' best sequence of the game.
The night belonged to the Suns, though. They controlled the game's tempo — a fast, methodical pace on offense and a deny-the-fastbreak mentality on D — and in doing so, they denied the Cavs the opportunity to let James dictate the game.
Smart move, Suns.
"When he's zooming and we're getting the ball to him on the wing and converting, we're a much better ballclub," Silas said. "They (the Suns) just got back better into transition tonight than most teams do."
As for LeBron, he already does things on the basketball court better than most players do. Earlier this week, USA Today noted that James and the Lakers' Kobe Bryant are the league's only players averaging more than 25 points, six rebounds and six assists a game (James' numbers: 25 ppg, 7.5 rpg and 6.3 apg). And, oh yeah, he's fourth in the league in steals (2.4 spg).
The true measure of a player's worth generally occurs when the player reaches his prime in his late 20s. It won't take that long with LeBron. He's going to become a great playmaker in this league, causing fits for other teams. Their dilemma: double team James, the man Detroit's Tayshaun Prince already calls "the hardest guy in the league to guard," or let him beat you by getting his teammates involved.
That riddle will have to be solved for the next 15 years.
"(This year) he's 10 times better," McInnis said. "Every phase of his game has changed. He can pass, he can score, he can do it all. But the most important thing is he's a competitor."
A competitor destined for greatness.
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The Castello della Magione (also Magione di San Giovanni al Ponte or Spedale di San Giovanni in Gerusalemme alla Magione) is a medieval castle in   Poggibonsi (province of Siena, central Italy). It is  an example of a medieval "Mansio" (residence) that belonged to the Knights Templar. The castle includes the ancient church and the "spedale" (hotel) for the pilgrims in transit to Rome on the Via Francigena. The complex is near the ancient crossing of the Via Francigena over the Staggia River, near the Bonizio bridge, now destroyed.

History
The castle dates from the 11th  century. On 5 September 1140, it was donated by Gottifredo di Arnolfo and Arnolfino di Cristofano, heirs of the founders, to the Monks of the Saint Michael Abbey in Poggio Marturi. The monks entrusted it to the Knights of the Temple, becoming one of the numerous "Mansiones" or "Domus Templi" on the Via Francigena.

In 1312, as the Order of the Templars was abolished by Pope Clement V, the Magione was given to the Knights Hospitaller.

The castle, downgraded to a farm, was bought by several people, among whom  were the Princes Corsini. In 1979 it was acquired by Count Marcello Alberto Cristofani della Magione, who donated it to the Militia Templi, which was just being founded, as the Magistral See.  After the donation, restoration of the entire complex began.

The castle maintains signs of its Romanesque origins, in spite of some changes made during the ensuing centuries.

Overview

Seen from above, the complex assumes a nearly trapezoidal shape, in that it follows, on the west side, the course of the River Staggia. In the courtyard, visitors will see the premises of the convent for the Knights, the small guest-rooms and the flight of steps for access to the upper floor.

The Magistral Church of San Giovanni in Jerusalem is designed in a pure Romanesque style, as it can be seen from the altar. The restoration has shown the Burgundian-Cistercian influence of the vault construction.

See also
Militia Templi
Tridentine Mass
Traditionalist Catholic

References
A.A.V.V., Chiese Medievali della Valdelsa - I Territori della Via Francicena, Vol 2: Tra Siena e San Gimignano, Empoli : Edizioni dell'Acero, 1999.
Luciano De Filla, Giorgio Merlini, Italo Moretti, La Chiesa di San Giovanni in Jerusalem alla Magione di Poggibonsi, Siena : Ente provinciale per il turismo, stampa 1986.
Giuseppe Mantelli, La Magione casa templare sulla via Francigena : strade, pellegrini, monachesimo, cavalleria nel Medio Evo, Poggibonsi : La Magione dei Templari.
I Templari, Mito e Storia - Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi alla Magione Templare di Poggibonsi - Siena, Raccolti da Giovanni Minucci e Franca sardi, Sinalunga - Siena: A.G. Viti Riccucci 1987.

External links

Castello della Magione and Militia Templi Website

Castles and fortifications of the Knights Templar
Magione
Castles and fortifications of the Knights Hospitaller
Buildings and structures in Poggibonsi


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Q: Does there always exist a continuous/smooth map from $\mathbb{R}^n$ onto a manifold $M^n$? I want to know if we can get away with only having one set of coordinates for a manifold if we allow multiple coordinates to map to the same point.

A: An obvious requirement is that $M$ must be connected.  This is also sufficient.
To get a smooth surjection $f:\mathbb{R}^n\to M$ for any connected $n$-manifold $M$, cover $M$ by countably many open sets $(U_k)_{k\in\mathbb{Z}}$ which are diffeomorphic to balls in $\mathbb{R}^n$ (and such that these diffeomorphisms can be extended to smooth maps on a neighborhood of $\overline{U_n}$).  Now let $f$ map $(2k,2k+1)\times\mathbb{R}^{n-1}$ diffeomorphically to $U_k$ for each $k$.  On sets of the form $[2k+1,2k+2]\times\mathbb{R}^{n-1}$, we just interpolate smoothly (near the boundary, we use the fact that our diffeomorphisms extend to a neighborhood of $\overline{U_k}$, and then in between we use connectedness of $M$ to let $f$ follow some path between a point of $U_k$ and a point of $U_{k+1}$).
For continuous maps, we can do even better: we can get a continuous surjection $\mathbb{R}\to M$.  The construction is the similar, except that instead of diffeomorphisms to coordinate charts we use space-filling curves.

A: Another construction goes through Riemannian metrics. Assume that $M$ is connected. If you put a complete riemannian metric on your manifold, the exponential map $\exp_p:T_pM\rightarrow M$ will be surjective. The idea is that any two points are connected by a geodesic. You can view the world standing in one point!

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Drug use costs the economy about 600 billion dollars. Celebrities hooked up to substance use are not uncommon. Although the celebrities along do not count for the 600 billion dollars, but they still contribute to its usage. Go on reading here to know of some celebrities who have successfully quit drug abuse.
One of the substance addicted celebrities who have managed to complete rehabilitation process is Kelly Osbourne. She was admitted in rehabilitation facilities up to four times. In one of the relapses, she was admitted in a mental health care facility. Up to now, Kelly Osbourne is still working hard to avoid relapsing since the last time she was admitted in a rehab. Both her brother and father have also enrolled in rehabs and managed to beat their addictions. For Osbourne, she had been an addicted for long including when her family had a reality television program.
Elton John has had a successful music career spanning over three decades. He had substance abuse issues during the rise of AIDs crisis. Elton resolved to quit drugs after he saw how they ruined the lives of many of his talented friends while others were infected by AIDS. His decision to quit drug abuse paid off since he claims to have stayed drugs free for 30 years. Some people argue that drugs are good to musicians because they help improve their creativity There are some people who justify the act of musicians using drugs to improve their curiosity. However, Elton John refutes the claims since most of most memorable songs have been sung after he stopped substance abuse.
Ben Affleck never came forward about his alcoholism problem Therefore, he ensured to enroll in a drug rehabilitation center the moment his alcoholism problem became apparent. Although it is challenging to stay away from abusing drugs, Affleck is one of the best examples of successful addicts as he continues to fight crime as Batman now.
Robert Downey Jr. arrest when driving under the influence of heroin and cocaine was his rock bottom. His case was serious since the arresting officers also came across a loaded weapon in his vehicle. The biggest blow happened after he collapsed on the bed of a minor at the house of his neighbor. Some naysayers argued that Downey Jr.s career was destroyed by the drug scandals he suffered at the peak of his addiction. Nevertheless, he managed to do away with drugs and is currently back in the Team Avengers.
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Yes, pide … "Why now? haven't we already got the recipe? " And yes, I actually have posted a similar one before (you can see it right here if you want). But that doesn't mean that you can not develop on the recipe, make other variants, etc. And to be honest, …. I was not very happy with the previous recipe. Not quite. It was just … it lacked the last color on the edges (but it's the consequence of barbecue them. What they do not get in color, they get in brittle).
So I was trying again last night together with my mother-in-law. And although it was a little hectic, it was a nice project (the dough raised so enormously, so we ended up having twice the amount of dough we planned, ie, more filling was needed, the baking time was longer etc etc ). But we came through it – and have enough Pide for lunch today too (thankfully).
If you don't know Pide, I can almost only presume, that you haven't been to Turkey. Yes, honestly. Pide is the official Turkish form of pizza (and what will Italy be without their pizza?). So it's hard to avoid.
Like many other types of pizza, you can also get Turkish pide with different kinds of stuffing – minced meat, small pieces of meat, eggs, cheese, sausage (sucuk), potatoes, feta cheese etc.
This time I have made pide with minced meat and with sucuk and cheese. When I ended up with so much dough, I had to think quick, so we also got some with feta cheese and chopped onion and green pepper. This was also very good.
If you are permanently reading this blog, you may remember that my husband does not belong to the kind of people, that praises his sorroundings very much. So when he finally does, he really means it. And that he did yesterday actually. I was praised to the clouds and back again and he said it was the best homemade pide he had ever had. Bam bam … And proud I was.
So now you get the recipe for Turkish pide again – just better than before.
½ tsp Chili, turkisk "Pul biber"
2: When it's hand warm, crush the yeast and stir around.
3: mix sugar, salt and flour - a little at a time. Save some flour - the dough may not need it all. Knead it - preferrable at akitchenmachine for about 10 minutes.
1: Just cut the cheese into thin slices and open the sucuk - that's it. You can also add an egg or two to the top of the filling (or between the sucuks when the pide has baked a little inside the oven).
7: Bake one plate at a time for about 10-15 minutes or until they are golden on top and crisp at the bottom.
Remember to serve them smoking hot - that's the way they are the best. I serve, for example, a small bean salad - Piyaz to.


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