This post is an attempt at explaining the following set of observations concerning government interference and transportation mode choice:
- High auto usage tends to involve government subsidies to motorways and other roads
- Nonetheless, more obtrusive government planning tends to correlate with more public transport and intercity rail
- In places where state planning capacity is weak, transportation evolves in a generally pro-car direction
The main thread tying this all together is that building roads requires a lot of money, but the money does not need to be coordinated. Local districts could pave roads on a low budget and improve incrementally; this is how the US built its road network in the 1910s and 20s, relying predominantly on state and even local planning. In contrast, public transportation requires very good planning. Rapid transit as an infrastructure project is comparable to motorways, with preplanned stopping locations and junctions, and then anything outside dense city cores requires network-wide rail schedule coordination. Good luck doing that with feuding agencies.
I’ve talked a bunch about scale before, and this isn’t exactly about that. Yes, as Adirondacker likes to say in comments, cars are great at getting people to where not a lot of other people want to go. But in cities that don’t make much of an effort to plan transportation, anyone who can get a car will, even for trips to city center, where there are horrific traffic jams. An apter saying is that a developed country is not one where even the poor drive but one where even the rich use public transport.
Right of way and surface transit
The starting point is that on shared right-of-way, cars handily beat any shared vehicle on time. Shared vehicles stop to pick up and drop off passengers, and are just less nimble, especially if they’re full-size buses rather than jitneys. No work needs to be done to ensure that single-occupant vehicles crowd out buses with 20, 40, or even 60 passengers. This happens regardless of the level of investment in roads, which, after all, can be used by buses as well as by cars.
Incremental investment in roads will further help cars more than buses. The reason is that the junctions most likely to be individually grade-separated are the busiest ones, where buses most likely have to stop to pick up and discharge passengers at the side of the road at-grade, whereas cars can go faster using the flyover or duckunder. For example, in New York, the intersection of Fordham Road (carrying the Bx12, currently the city’s busiest bus) and Grand Concourse (carrying the Bx1/2, the city’s sixth and the Bronx’s second busiest route) is grade-separated, but buses have to stop there and therefore cannot have to cross more slowly at-grade.
Within cities, the way out involves giving transit dedicated right of way. This can be done on the surface, but that removes space available for cars. Since cars are faster than public transport in cities that have not yet given transit any priority over private vehicles, they are used by richer people, which means the government needs to be able to tell the local middle class no.
The other option is rapid transit. This can be quite popular it if is seen as modern, which is true in the third world today and was equally true in turn of the century New York. The problem: it’s expensive. The government needs to brandish enough capital at the start for a full line. This is where transit’s scale issue becomes noticeable: while a metro area of 1-2 million will often support a rapid transit line, the cost of a complete line is usually high compared with the ability of the region to pay for it, especially if the state is relatively weak.
The third world’s situation
The bulk of the third world has weak state capacity. Tax revenue is low, perhaps because of political control by wealthy elites, perhaps because of weak ability to monitor the entire economy to ensure compliance with broad taxes.
This does not characterize the entire middle- and low-income world. China has high state capacity, for one, leading to massive visible programs for infrastructure, including the world’s largest high-speed rail network and a slew of huge urban metro networks. In the late 20th century, the four East Asian Tigers all had quite high state capacity (and the democratic institutions of Korea and Taiwan are just fine – the administrative state is not the same as authoritarianism).
In 1999, Paul Barter’s thesis contrasted the transit-oriented character of Tokyo, Seoul, Hong Kong, and Singapore, with the auto-oriented character of Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur, and predicted that Manila, Jakarta, and Surabaya would evolve more like the latter set of cities. Twenty years later, Jakarta finally opened its first metro line, and while it does have a sizable regional rail network, it is severely underbuilt for its size and wealth, which are broadly comparable to the largest Chinese megacities. Manila has a very small metro network, and thanks to extremely high construction costs, its progress in adding more lines is sluggish.
Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok both have very visible auto-centric infrastructure. Malaysia encouraged auto-centric development in order to stimulate its state-owned automakers, and Thailand has kept building ever bigger freeways, some double-deck. More to the point, Thailand has not been able to restrain car use the way China has, nor has it been able to mobilize resources to build a large metro system for Bangkok. However, Indonesia and the Philippines are not Thailand – Jakarta appears to have a smaller freeway network than Bangkok despite being larger, and Manila’s key radial roads are mostly not full freeways but fast arterials.
Public transportation and roads both form networks. However, the network effects are more important for transit, for any number of reasons:
- Public transportation works better at large scale than small scale, which means that urban transit networks need to preplan connections between different lines to leverage network effects. Freeway networks can keep the circumferential highways at-grade because at least initially they are less likely to be congested, and then built up gradually.
- Public transportation requires some integration of infrastructure, service, and rolling stock, and this is especially true when the national rail network is involved rather than an urban subway without any track connections to the mainline network.
- The biggest advantage of trains over cars is that they use land more efficiently, and this is more important in places with higher land prices and stronger property rights protections. This is especially true when junctions are involved – building transfers between trains does not involve condemning large tracts of land, but building a freeway interchange does.
None of this implies that cars are somehow smaller-government than trains. However, building a transportation network around them does not require as competent a planning department. If decisions are outsourced to local notables who the state empowers to act as kings of little hills in exchange for political support, then cobbling together a road network is not difficult. It helps those local notables too, as they get to show off their expensive cars and chauffeurs.
Trains are more efficient and cleaner than cars, but building them requires a more actively planned infrastructure network. Even if the total public outlay is comparable, some competent organ needs to decide how much to appropriate for which purpose and coordinate different lines – and this organ should ideally be insulated from the corruption typical of the average developing country.


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1) Be wary of any explanation that is purely "institutionalist," meaning one that excludes voters from the process. Trump won the nomination because voters-- Republicans-- liked him. He got this far because those voters stuck with him. Any examination of the Trump phenomenon that writes voters out of the process in favor of jargonistic handwaving about institutional features of the political system is bullshit.
To this end, Julia Azari at least makes some progress in this Mischiefs of Faction piece. Yes, that blog functioned a bit like the Politburo for The Party Decides, AKA, the wrongest book ever written on party politics, but Azari never drank the kool-aid. And, in her piece, she at least begins to build in voters. For my money, she still oversimplifies in some critical ways, leading to...
2) Be wary of any explanation that doesn't grapple with party asymmetry. Clinton for all her many, many, faults, is basically a normal politician. However, right before the first Comey announcement, I posted this joking that we weren't actually having a presidential election this year. The presidential election looked more like one of those 2010 Senate races with Christine O'Donnell or Sharron Angle. Here's the thing, though. Which party nominated each of those candidates? If, as Azari claims, the problem is the gap between the strength of our partisanship and the weakness of our party institutions, then the Democrats should be just as capable of nominating these kinds of asshats. So, either the problem is within the Republican Party rather than truly institutional and pervasive, or the Democrats could just as easily have nominated a Trump-like figure.
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Yet we do not wish to be too hard on Party Decides. Its account of nominations in the period 1980 to 2004 remains, in our view, sound.Aside from the line about not wanting to be too hard on their own book, I'll note the time frame for which they give themselves credit. Note that they don't take credit for doing well in either 2008 or 2012? I actually think their model did a mediocre-at-best job in 2004, but, well, take a look at my original critique of their success/failure record. They just never impressed me. At least they finally started reading Nelson Polsby. A bit late.
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Cyprus PIO: Turkish Cypriot and Turkish Media Review, 16-09-02
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From: The Republic of Cyprus Press and Information Office Server at <http://www.pio.gov.cy/>TURKISH CYPRIOT AND TURKISH MEDIA REVIEW No. 167/16 02.09.2016
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 The occupation regime reacts against the natural gas agreement between Cyprus and EgyptTurkish Cypriot daily Kibris Postasi newspaper (02.09.16) reports that the self-styled foreign ministry of the breakaway regime in the occupied area of the Republic of Cyprus has strongly condemned the further advancement of the cooperation between the Republic of Cyprus and Egypt on the natural gas issue and the agreement signed between the two countries on 31 August 2016 for transferring gas to Egypt through a pipeline from Cyprus' Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).
In a statement issued yesterday, the "ministry" calls on the "Greek Cypriot side" to revise its "unilateral stance" which is "harmful" for trust. It also asks the "Greek Cypriot administration", as it describes the Republic of Cyprus, to immediately stop taking these "negative and unacceptable" steps which "increase tension". The "ministry" argues that it cannot tolerate any more the fact that "rights of the Turkish Cypriot people are violated and ignored".
The statement further alleges that "instead of protecting the sensitive balances, the Greek Cypriot side insists on taking steps which will negatively influence the negotiating process in this critical period, in spite of the suggestions made by both the UN and the international community to all sides concerned to be moderate and constructive".
 Turkish frigate harasses Greek Cypriot ship near occupied FamagustaTurkish Cypriot daily Star Kibris newspaper (02.09.16) reports that the Greek Cypriot ship named "Royal Flash", which had allegedly been conducting researches without a permit in the so-called Turkish Maritime Area of Jurisdiction in Eastern Mediterranean, has been warned and send away from the area by a Turkish frigate.
"Royal Flash" was allegedly conducting researches for undersea resources and mainly natural gas in the area between occupied Famagusta, Mersin and Alexandretta on 21 August. A Turkish frigate which was carrying out reconnaissance, spotting and patrolling activities in the area within the framework of the so-called "Mediterranean Shield Operation" warned the Greek Cypriot ship to abandon the area on 21 August, but Royal Flash did not stop and expanded its work in a broader area. The Greek Cypriot ship was pursued by the Turkish frigate and was forced to leave the area after being warned twice again on 25 and 26 August.
According to the paper, the "Mediterranean Shield Operation" started on 1 April 2006 with the participation of frigates, corvettes, submarines, assault boats and patrol vessels which continuously patrol in the area using the ports of Aksaz, Mersin, Alexandretta and occupied Famagusta. The operation is also supported from the air by airplanes and helicopters.
 Ertugruloglu to visit the United States for contactsTurkish Cypriot daily Kibris Postasi newspaper (02.09.16) reports that Tahsin Ertugruloglu, self-styled foreign minister of the breakaway regime in the occupied area of the Republic of Cyprus, will visit New York within the forthcoming days for holding contacts and "participate" in the meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). It is said that in New York Ertugruloglu will meet with officials from the OIC and the UN.
According to the paper, afterwards he is expected to visit Washington where he will meet with high ranking US officials, some think tanks and media representatives.
The announcement of Ertugruloglu's "official program" is expected within the forthcoming days.
 Denktas held "contacts" in Ankara; He met with Turkes and AgbalTurkish Cypriot daily Kibris newspaper (02.09.16) reports that "deputy prime minister" and "minister of economy" Serdar Denktas who is currently in Ankara for a series of "contacts", met yesterday with Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister, Responsible for Cyprus Affairs, Tugrul Turkes.
Speaking during the meeting, Turkes expressed pleasure over the meeting and stated that due to the recent incidents occurred in Turkey he was not able to carry out frequent visits to the "TRNC".
In his turn, Denktas said that the aim of the visit was to exchange views on the intensified Cyprus negotiation process and generally about the latest developments in the region.
Meanwhile, according to the paper, Denktas and his accompanied delegation met also with the Turkish Finance Minister Naci Agbal.
Agbal stated, inter alia, that the "common projects" that the two "ministries" will carry out will contribute to the development of the two "countries" and especially to the development of "public finance".
In his turn, Denktas said that during the last four months and after their "government" assumed "duties", they achieved to cover a lot of ground in the field of economy and this is due to Abgal's positive approach.
 Incidents after the Cypriot National Football Team U21 defeated Turkey in AnkaraUnder the title "Historic victory at Osmali", Turkish Cypriot daily Halkin Sesi newspaper (02.09.16) reports that the National Football Team U21 of the Republic of Cyprus defeated 1-0 the National Team of Turkey yesterday at Osmali Stadium in Ankara within the framework of the European championship.
After the game incidents took place between the players of the two teams, writes the paper noting that after the final whistle a Turkish player named Enver Cenk Sahin kicked a Greek Cypriot player and tension increased when other players were also involved in the incident. The security forces entered into the pitch, interfered and escorted the Greek Cypriot players to the locker room.
 A sale of potatoes causes tension, threats and reactionsUnder the title "They shot trade", Turkish Cypriot daily Star Kibris newspaper (02.09.16) refers on its front page to information published in Greek Cypriot "Alithia" newspaper according to which a Greek Cypriot named Christos Christofi has been threatened because he had "imported" potatoes from the occupied area of Cyprus and that among a group of 200 persons who protested against Christofi were seven members of the Cyprus Parliament with the parties of DISI, ELAM and the Solidarity Movement.
Commenting on the issue, Nazim Cavusoglu, self-styled minister of agriculture and natural resources of the breakaway regime in the occupied area of the Republic of Cyprus, described as "unacceptable" the fact that a "group of fanatics" protested against a Greek Cypriot merchant who had legally purchased potatoes from the occupied area of Cyprus within the framework of the Green Line Regulation.
Arguing that the incident saddened them and concerned them, Cavusoglu wondered "how a mentality which does not accept even the potatoes of the Turkish Cypriot people will be united with the Turkish Cypriot people".
Addressing the Minister of Agriculture, Nikos Kuyalis, Cavusoglu said: "We are concerned that these behaviors will continue even in case of an agreement if you bring up generations which do not want even our potatoes. I call on those who participated in this protest and mainly the members of the Parliament to accept that two peoples live in this geographical area and change their world views acting accordingly".
Under the title "550 tons left over", Turkish Cypriot daily Diyalog newspaper (02.09.16) writes that the above-mentioned Greek Cypriot merchant had agreed with the so-called "agricultural products organization" to buy 700 tons of potatoes and that he has exported 150 tons of potatoes to Europe. According to the paper, the Greek Cypriot will not buy the remaining 550 tons of Turkish Cypriot potatoes.
In statements to Diyalog, Ragip Latif, "director" of the above-mentioned "organization" said that they had signed an agreement to sell 700 tons of potatoes to Christofi and that they were pre-paid for a certain quantity, according to the provisions of the agreement, but they will suffer a loss because of the 550 tons of potatoes which will be left over.
 Twelve more persons were "granted" the occupation regime's citizenshipUnder the title: "Twelve new citizens", Turkish Cypriot daily Havadis newspaper (02.09.16) reports that the so-called council of ministers in the framework of the "citizenship law" has decided in its latest meeting to "approve the granting of the TRNC's citizenship" to 12 more persons.
The decision of the "council of ministers" was published in the occupation regime's "official gazette" dated August 31.
The "TRNC' citizenship" was "granted" to the following:
1) Aysel Ozbey, born in Kagimzan in 1981
2) Baris Polat, born Istanbul in 1994
3) Subhi Asilturk, born in Gerger in 1978
4) Hasan Yalcin , born in Altinozu in 1986
5) Berra Yemenici, born in Vakfikebir in 1998
6) Ridvan Yalcin, born in Antakya in 1991
7) Muhammed Al-Shanableh, born in Altindag in 1991,
8) Semih Zafer Guven, born in Mersin in 1972,
9) Nur Al Shanableh, born in the occupied part of Lefkosia in 1993,
10) Osman Polat, born in Istanbul in 1995,
11) Mehmet Emine Erdogan, born in Yeni-mahalle in 1997,
12) Ahmet Serdar Senay, born in the occupied part of Lefkosia in 1995.
 Tunali alleges that the TGNA wil decide whether the guarantees in Cyprus will be abolishedTurkish Cypriot daily Star Kibris newspaper (02.09.16) reports that Tozun Tunali, chairman of the Social Democrat Party (SDP) has said that the Treaty of Guarantees as regards Cyprus had been signed in 1959 after being approved by the Turkish Grand National Assembly (TGNA) and therefore the final decision for its abolition could only be taken by the TGNA.
In a written statement issued yesterday, Tunali argued that "the Turkish Cypriot people have absolutely no authority as regards the lifting of the guarantees".
Tunali expressed the view that a result could be achieved in a five-party conference if the US undertakes an active role in the Cyprus problem and that if no result is taken at the five-party conference the negotiations will end. He further expressed the belief that no referendum will be held on the island.
Tunali said that with their policies in favor of the non-solution of the Cyprus problem, the politicians who administrate the occupied area of the island for years led the "country" to the point of being bankrupted today and the "people", "who are punished because of the non-recognition", consider migration as the only solution to their problems.
 Talat: "2016 could become the year of solution"Under the title: "We should protect peace", Turkish Cypriot daily Yeni Duzen newspaper (02.09.16) reports that the chairman of the Republican Turkish Party (CTP) Mehmet Ali Talat, in statements in a message he issued on the occasion of September 1st, World Peace Day, expressed hopes for an urgent solution of the Cyprus problem that will bring a viable peace in Cyprus.
Stating that the Cyprus problem has reached to a crucial point, Talat recalled that the leaders will hold another 3-4 meetings and later on they will hopefully hold a meeting in New York.
Underlining that while proceeding to New York, the discussion of important issues and chapters will come to an end, Talat said that only the chapters that will be discussed in one-two international conferences will be left. "If this is achieved on September 2016, then 2016 could become the year of solution. If we do not succeed for 2016 to become the year of the solution, then probably we will be too late".
 Yildirim met with Schulz; "We cannot change anti-terror law"Turkish daily Hurriyet Daily News (01.09.16) reported that Turkish Prime Minister Binali Y?ld?r?m said on September 1 that he had made clear to visiting European Parliament President Martin Schulz that Turkey could not ease its anti-terrorism laws, a demand from Brussels in order for Turks to gain visa-free travel to Europe.
"We have once again bluntly told the EU and Mr. Schulz that we cannot bring in an improvement in the Struggle Against Terrorism Law due to the current conditions. This is a matter of life and death for us. The issue of Turkey's security is also a must for the struggle against terrorism in Europe. If this is left aside, we see no problem in solving other issues," Yildirim said.
Schulz said the two sides had not agreed on all issues during the talks in Ankara on September 1 and that Turkey must protect basic rights.
Ankara argues that changing the terror law is impossible since the country is fighting against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has escalated its attacks, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), which has perpetrated bloody bomb attacks in several Turkish cities, and the followers of Fethullah Gulen, the main suspect behind the July 15 failed coup attempt.
Y?ld?r?m's words came hours after the European Union's Migration Commissioner said on Sept. 1 that Turkey had made progress in a deal to secure visa-free travel for Turkish citizens in the EU but that Ankara still had to meet some benchmarks before implementation.
Speaking at a news conference in Ankara, EU Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos said that the EU was ready to help Turkey fulfill the last details of the deal to secure visa liberalization "very soon," without giving a precise timeline.
Ankara and Brussels reached a deal this year in which Turkey would control the flow of migrants to Europe and gain visa-free travel to the European Union for its citizens in return.
 Yildirim met with PACE's Parliamentarians; He called PACE to inform the world about the July 15 coup attemptTurkish daily Hurriyet Daily News (01.09.16) reported that Prime Minister Binali Y?ld?r?m has called on the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) to tell everybody, including their national Assemblies, what happened on the night of July 15, when Turkey put down a failed coup attempt, and how the Turkish people embraced democracy.
"Today you are here as an indicator of support to Turkey, of solidarity during these hard days. You came after giving an ear to the Turkish Grand National Assembly. Our expectation from you is telling everyone what Turkey has lived through, how the Turkish people protected their democracy that night, not only to the Parliamentarian Assembly that you are representing, but also to your National Assemblies," Y?ld?r?m said to Parliamentarians on Sept. 1.
Stressing that some countries immediately showed solidarity, Y?ld?r?m complained that "many countries that Turkey assumed were friends and brothers remained silent" after the July 15 coup attempt.
"As a more accurate picture of the truth about the events leading up to and including the coup attempt became clearer, receiving positive reactions was still welcome, even if they came late, he added.
"Countries which criticize every minor case about democratic values were unable to defend democracy in an attack which directly targeted democracy", Yildirim stated.
Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu in a meeting with the President of PACE Pedro Agramunt on September 1st, stated, inter alia, that the Council of Europe had stood by democracy, the Turkish people and the elected Prime Minster and government since the recent failed coup attempt.
"The Council of Europe has always shared its frank opinions and concerns in a sincere environment," Cavusoglu said.
He added that the Council of Europe had always contributed to the development of Turkish democracy and Ankara had never ruled out its responsibilities to the body.
The Turkish government has repeatedly complained about the alleged lack of solidarity from its Western allies in the aftermath of the botched coup attempt, blamed on the followers of U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gulen.
For his part, Agramunt said they had a fruitful meeting with Cavusoglu and would continue cooperation with the Turkish government.
 CHP calls on the EU to open Chapters 23 and 24Turkish daily Hurriyet Daily News (01.09.16) reported that Turkey's main opposition leader Kemal K?l?cdaroglu has called on the European Union to open Chapters 23 and 24 to strengthen judicial independence and impartiality in Turkey.
Kilicdaroglu, leader of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), met with the former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt, the head of the European Council of Foreign Relations (ECFR), who has been holding meetings with political leaders in Ankara over the last two days.
Deputy CHP leader Ozturk Y?lmaz, who attended the meeting, informed reporters after the meeting and said that the July 15 failed coup attempt and its aftermath were discussed by the two men.
"Mr. Chairman [K?l?cdaroglu] expressed our expectation for the opening of Chapters 23 and 24 for making progress on judicial independence and impartiality," Y?lmaz also told reporters.
Chapter 23 on the judiciary and fundamental rights and Chapter 24 on justice, freedom and security are two key chapters in pushing candidate countries to further align its laws and regulations with the EU on fundamental freedoms, justice and other democratic norms.
The opening of these two chapters is blocked by the Greek Cyprus side.
 Turkey, Gazprom agree to accelerate Turkish Stream projectAccording to Turkish daily Hurriyet Daily News (01.09.16), Turkish Energy Minister Berat Albayrak and a senior delegation from Russia's Gazprom headed by company CEO Alexei Miller have discussed in a meeting in Istanbul on August 31, the upcoming moves to accelerate the Turkish Stream gas pipeline project, as well as the latest situation in the arbitration process over Russian gas.
Issuing a written statement, the Ministry said that "It was agreed to finalize the required permissions to realize the Turkish Stream project as soon as possible".
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the Turkish Stream project with Russia would be realized swiftly following a thorough review, during a critical meeting with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in August.
The Turkish Stream pipeline is intended to deliver gas from the Russian Black Sea coast to Turkey and on to Greece.
"In addition to the Turkish Stream project, the arbitration process, which was initiated by Turkey in line with its rights from the gas contract with Russia, and regional energy cooperation opportunities were discussed," said the statement.
"Both sides voiced their determination to resolve the problems which have erupted, so as to pave the way to the arbitration process in a short term," added the statement.
 Turkey and Russia to establish a Joint Investment Fund to be used in Syria's reconstruction and Akkuyu Nuclear PlantTurkish daily Sabah (01.09.16) reported that Economy Minister Zeybekci announced that Turkey continue works with Russian on establishing a joint fund.
The Turkish-Russian Investment Fund will be used in the reconstruction of third world countries and particularly war-torn Syria and building the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant, according to Zeybekci.
In the aftermath of the jet crisis last year between Turkey and Russia and following the meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Aug. 9, a new corner has been turned nine months after the incident.
The details of the Turkish-Russian Joint Investment Fund are becoming clearer and the fund is to be used for the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant, the first of three nuclear power plants Turkey currently plans to build in the southern province of Mersin along with the Russian state-owned nuclear energy company Rosatom, in addition to usage in underdeveloped countries.
Speaking at the Turkish-Russian Media Forum organized in Antalya on Wednesday, Zeybekci said that firms from both countries will assess the investment opportunities in various third world countries in the context of the Turkish-Russian Joint investment fund, which will be established soon.
Zeybekci noted that Russian and Turkish businesspeople will be provided with capital support through the fund especially with regard to the reconstruction of Syria and Iraq and an assessment of business opportunities in Africa.
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Russia is getting ready to make nuclear power and space vehicle investments, costing about $1 billion in Egypt with its joint fund with the UAE. The size of Russia's joint fund with China has currently reached $2 billion. With this equally shared fund, both countries have made various investments so far.
Meanwhile, Culture and Tourism Minister Nabi Avc? said that they have also taken steps to open a Russian-Turkish University in Antalya as well as back various enterprises, such as TV shows and cinema projects, between the two countries.
 Hotels in the occupied area of Cyprus had a 64% occupancy rate in AugustAccording to Turkish Cypriot daily Havadis (02.09.16), the rate of the hotel occupancy in the occupied area of the Republic Cyprus in August was 64%.
According to data by the "Turkish Cypriot hoteliers union" ("KITOB"), the occupancy rate of the five-star hotels in the occupied area of Cyprus in August reached to 71%, while of the smallest hotels to 56%.
Comparing with the same period last year, the occupancy rate of the five-star hotels dropped by 7%. Also, comparing with last month (July 2016) there is an increase of 13%.
 "World Peace university" to be established in the occupied area of CyprusTurkish Cypriot daily Kibris newspaper (02.09.16) under the title: "World Peace University to be established", reports that a new "university" is to be established in the occupied area of Cyprus under the name: "World Peace University".
According to the paper, the establishment of the new "university" has been announced by a group of "academicians". The "academicians" announced yesterday that having as a reference the World Peace Day, they have decided the establishment of the "university" in the "TRNC" with the aim to provide support to the struggle for "Peace in the World" and to the efforts for the continuation of the global stamina.
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Two Derby schools which were hit by devastating fires in the space of three days did not have sprinkler systems in the buildings which burned down.
It has been revealed by fire chiefs that neither school had sprinkler systems in place to prevent or slow the spread of any flames.
Parents and teachers at both schools have been left distraught at the events, which have left buildings with such substantial damage that children can no longer return to the classroom only weeks into the new school year.
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Sean McClafferty, CEO of St Ralph Sherwin Catholic Multi Academy Trust, which runs St Mary's Catholic Voluntary Academy, said there had been no legal requirements for sprinklers when the school was built.
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Cllr Evonne Williams, Cabinet Member for Children and Young People at Derby City Council said remote learning will be offered to pupils in the first instance until safe spaces can be agreed for bubbles of children and staff to move into.
She said: "My thanks go out to colleagues here who have worked throughout the weekend to help the schools, and keep councillors and partners updated.
"Our schools are at the heart of our communities. Losing a school has an enormous community impact, and it's fair to say that in an already uncertain time, due to COVID-19, the last thing any of our children need is further disruption. It just makes these incidents even more devastating for the community.
"What’s important at this time are the school communities affected, and we’ll do all we can to support them. Both schools are in direct contact with parents and carers. Social care colleagues are supporting the schools to identify and support vulnerable pupils, and also those who were accessing free school meals so that we can determine how we continue access to these."
She confirmed there were no sprinkler systems in place at either school.
She said: "There is currently no legal requirement for existing schools to have sprinkler systems. Since changes in Government guidance in 2007, retrofitting of sprinkler systems is an option that now must be included in the risk assessments when any major refurbishments are being considered, which is absolutely right. England is lagging behind Scotland and Wales when it comes to introducing legislation to fit sprinklers in schools, and the Government needs to act.
"There is now an expectation that all new build schools should fit sprinkler systems, and this is the case at the new Castleward school being built in Derby."


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10 progressive inexperienced social prescribing initiatives are connecting greater than 7,500 individuals by means of nature, in a bid to enhance well being and wellbeing with the facility of the pure world
Thriving Communities Fund, a brand new nationwide assist programme for voluntary, neighborhood, religion and social enterprise teams, is funding the initiatives that purpose to assist communities in England impacted by well being inequalities and COVID-19, by means of inexperienced social prescribing.
The ten initiatives see native communities partake in quite a lot of out of doors actions designed to attach people by means of theatre, conservation, inexperienced gyms, farming, meals rising initiatives and alfresco cafes.
Social prescribing connects native individuals with a hyperlink employee who helps that particular person join with community-based actions which might be useful to their particular person well being and wellbeing wants. Within the case of inexperienced social prescribing, this initiative works with nature-based interventions to encourage individuals to attach with the well-versed advantages of outside initiatives.
Getting in contact with nature has been a lifeline for a lot of as we’ve navigated the coronavirus pandemic. In actual fact, analysis from April 2020 performed by main psychological well being charity, Mental Health Foundation revealed that 60% of the research’ recipients used outdoors walks as their coping mechanisms within the peak of the pandemic. This 12 months’s Psychological Well being Consciousness Week (10 Could – 16 Could) theme of nature, invitations us to have fun our connection to inexperienced house for optimistic psychological wellbeing.
Inexperienced social prescribing initiatives
“The pandemic has affected communities, isolating individuals from household, buddies and actions that beforehand supported them,” says Jo March, Arts, Well being and Wellbeing Lead at The Arts Growth Belief main the Nature Buddies undertaking in Dorset. “We all know the influence of nature and participation in arts or bodily actions on wellbeing has by no means been so essential and that Dorset’s pure and cultural panorama can have a big half to play on this.”
Simply one of many inexperienced social prescribing initiatives, Nature Buddies has educated 100 hyperlink staff and different healthcare suppliers to attach people with nervousness and low confidence to 30 nature-inspired actions within the Dorset space.
Green Happy Café is one other undertaking lined to obtain very important funding within the inexperienced social prescribing house. The primary England-based inexperienced cafe is a wellbeing hub heading to Northamptonshire’s Delapre Park that goals to achieve 3,000 individuals by organising pop-up cafes in heritage areas masking arts, tradition, bodily exercise and the pure world.
Aimee Holmes of Delapre Abbey Preservation Belief who’re leadingGreen Joyful Café says this initiative gives an important secure haven for these beforehand minimize off from society because of the pandemic. “For a lot of with long-term situations they’ve change into remoted as they’ve needed to protect.
“The open house of Delapre Park, which sits inside an city atmosphere, gives a possibility for individuals to return collectively and be secure collectively.”
The Thriving Communities Fund is led by Nationwide Academy for Social Prescribing (NASP) that seeks to interact native communities in forming collaborations and partnerships by means of the development of social prescribing. Their mission champions the work of native communities in connecting individuals for wellbeing.
When you’ve got been struggling along with your psychological well being or are feeling lonely or remoted, assist is accessible and inexperienced social prescribing could present the connection that’s very important for us as human beings. To seek out out about your native initiatives, go to the National Academy for Social Prescribing.
If it’s worthwhile to speak, head to Counselling Listing the place you will discover quite a few certified therapists who provide each conventional speaking remedy and outdoor therapy that you simply would possibly prefer to discover.

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By Mike Sunnucks | Rose Law Group Reporter
The city of Chandler has approved a two construction contracts totaling $489,457 for improvements along Gilbert Road where a new high school and other new developments have been or are being built.
The Chandler City Council has approved a $361,915 contract for Ritoch Powelll & Associates Consulting Engineers Inc. to make improvements between Ocotillo Road and Chandler Heights Road.
Gilbert Road will be widened to three lanes and three new traffic signals will be installed including at a new Chandler Unified School District high school slated to be built at Brooks Farm Road and south of Ocotillo Road that serves shopping centers anchored by a Fry’s Food Store and a Sprouts Farmers Market.
Chandler has also approved a $127,542 pre-construction services contract with Sunland Asphalt and Construction Inc. as part of the improvements.


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What can we learn from last week’s general election about the current state of advertising – and its future?
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Worldwide CEO John Seifert speaks with Fast Company about Ogilvy’s ongoing Next Chapter transformation.
All too often, data leaves us bolting the stable doors after the horse has bolted. Speakers at AMEC point out where we’re going wrong.
The Chairman of AMEC talks to Marion McDonald of Ogilvy about ego as a barrier to evaluation.
Fritz Quinn, shares why promoting the impact of PR can make the case for communications being more central to a company’s marketing strategy.
Marion McDonald, Chief Strategy Officer at Ogilvy, on ego as a barrier to evaluation.
The 2017 Ogilvy Young Professionals Network’s Millennials in Marketing Summit was highlighted by movers and shakers from across a wide range of industries.
Worldwide Chairman and CEO John Seifert spoke with PR Week about the agency’s re-founding, the importance of PR, and the future of agency services, and more.
An excerpt from David Levitt’s retirement speech at Ogilvy & Mather.


I’m sitting here reading over an anonymous survey conducted by the Komsomol Central Committee of delegates to the 8th Congress in 1928. The survey covers drinking, sex, and mood of mostly regional secretaries. I found the following hilarious and had to share:
“I first had sex at age 17 with a scabby (parshiven’skaia) prostitute,” writes an ukom secretary, a worker. “Then my cock didn’t make any demands because of a strong enthusiasm for work during the reconstruction period. Then after that, there was a lot of free time and it gorged (ob”elsia) itself well—I screwed seven women.”
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I’ve been going through Komsomolskaya pravda for 1928 collecting articles on whatever I find interesting. And there’s a lot–1928 was a tumultuous year. Articles about the spread of fascism in Europe, particularly in Germany and Poland, and an increasing numbers of communist victims in Mussolini’s Italy were plastered across its pages. The war scare of 1927 spawned a rush of military preparedness among youth in the summer months of 1928. I can’t count how many articles about komsomols marching around Moscow with guns in hand conducting war games. War was in the air.
The firing ranges and marching columns of ersatz soldiers were just the beginning of the war games. The entire Komsomol organization was transformed into a virtual army as it shifted into high gear with the adoption of campiagnism. The targets for their operations, however, were not the fascists abroad, but society itself. There were Komsomol campaigns against illiteracy, campaigns for grain, campaigns for culture, campaigns against alcohol, campaigns against bureaucracy, and campaigns for this and campaigns for that. Komsomolskaya pravda‘s militaristic tone gave all these “fronts,” “battles,” “armies” and “cavalries” against the ills that plagued the Soviet social body a dire sense of desperation. In retrospect, all of this faux civil war rhetoric would prove to be a prelude to the real civil war against the countryside the next year.
Anxiety over the enemy without had its parallel for the enemy within. The Shakhty Trial and its “lessons” ignited the hunt for more wreckers and masked enemies. The Komsomol intensified its hunt to weed out the sons and daughters of Nepmen, priests, and kulaks and the generally corrupt and debauched from its ranks. The slogan fueling this hunt was samokritika, or self-criticism. Namely, this was the “rank and file” exercising “democracy” through the denunciation and expulsion of its leaders for their “immoral” behavior.
While the wave of denunciations shed light on the increasingly authoritarianism within the Komsomol, such acts, as the following short article from Kom pravda shows, were not without comedic elements
Two from the District Committee
“Mama won’t stand for it”
The extraordinary plenum of the Kupian district committee LKSM was alerted.
“To what affair? What happened?”
The question was soon answered. The secretary of the district committee, cde. Efanov reported that on these days the deputies of the organizational department and agitation and propaganda were fired and removed from the buro.
“For what reasons?”
Cde. Popov, the deputy of the org dept., an old komsomol and member of the Party, bragged to komsomols about his relations with prostitutes. Another member of the buro, Kashevatskii, on the contrary, preferred Komsomol girls. A fleeting relation and then abortion characterizes this district “Lion.” Doctors refused komsomolka B. an abortion. [Kashevatskii] had to marry her. But he found the words to explain his refusal:
“Well, how can I marry you? Think of it: I’m a Jew and you’re Russian. My mama won’t stand for this.”
His mother’s interests won out. B. decided to get an abortion. Sometime after, she became deranged and finally committed suicide. But Kashevatskii’s mother profoundly believes in the dovelike purity of her son.
The district plenum drove the rotten from the committee, and Kashevatskii from the League.
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Guest: Andy Willimott on Living the Revolution: Urban Communes & Soviet Socialism, 1917-1931 published Oxford University Press.
By Sean — 10 years ago
Ninety years ago this week, 194 delegates from youth groups from all over revolutionary Russia met to consolidate themselves into an all-Russian youth organization. Of the 194 delegates, 176 had voting rights, (the rest had the right to speak but not vote). The voting delegates claimed to represent 120 different youth groups with a total membership of 21,000. The core groups were two pro-Bolshevik groups, the Socialist League of Worker youth based in Petrograd and the Third International from Moscow. Of the delegates, half (88) were Bolshevik Party members, 38 were communist sympathizers, and 45 were non-party youth. Also present were three Social Democratic Internationalists, one Left Socialists Revolutionary, and one Anarchist. The week long conference, which ran from 29 October to 4 November finalized the creation of the Russian Communist Youth League, or Komsomol.
To commemorate the 90th anniversary of the Komsomol, SRB will follow the history, reminiscence, and celebrations occurring throughout Russia over the next week.
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My choices have brought me where I am today
On August 19, 1990 I got married.
I met the man who’ll become my husband in August 1988.
I had just turned 22 that August.
Just like my eldest daughter is now : 22.
Just like my daughter now I had just finished University and moved from Boston to NYC.
Just like my eldest daughter now, I had received an offer from a dream job.
At 22 I became financially independent, just like my eldest daughter is now.
At 24 I got married.
I never wanted to marry young.
In the last 10 years I’ve analyzed this choice under every possible angle.
That August – in 1988 – I had just moved to NYC and like many New Yorkers in August I would go away for the weekend.
Except that particular weekend friends from Boston were supposed to come for a visit, so I stayed in the City. But for the reasons I no longer remember, they did not come. That night I went to a party, invited by my flatmate who was French.
At that party I met him.
I understand now that the meeting was definitely karmic.
Both of us of Russian origin, he educated in Europe, me in the US. We both suppressed the Russian part of ourselves to survive in the new culture.
Finding a person who was not very Russian, but yet had all the same childhood references suddenly felt like the missing piece.
There was nothing conscious or logical about this…
I am not sure how, but it all just clicked.
Today I know my soul was drawn to this to understand and re-integrate parts of me I’d suppressed. And to re-experience the terribly patriarchal, oppressive and hierarchical Russian culture.
31 years of marriage.
33 years since we met.
These numbers… I still want to rebel somehow. The longevity of it all feels archaic, oppressive, obsolete…
I keep on reminding myself: I get to make of it whatever I need, whatever I choose.
Even the right partner won’t make you feel loved
Just like my parents, I did not know that our feelings and our well-being are our own responsibility. I have observed my parents trapped in the misery of their own disempowerment, impotently expecting the other to make the first move toward change.
Stuck in inherited relationship dynamics, guilt, self-sacrifice, and lack of agency, my mother focused on my father’s character flaws as the reason for her unhappiness.
My husband is very different from my father. But, whatever I had observed in my childhood home is what I brought into my own. I did not know then to what extent we recreate the relationship dynamic we know. No matter how different my husband may be from my father, when I felt unhappy, I blamed him for it.
Becoming a conscious observer of your own processes will help you understand how you are co-creating your life and your relationships.
The more time, mental space, and energy you spend on dissecting others, making them into the villains that keep you trapped and unhappy in your life, the less time you are spending on finding the actual solutions to your situation.
I no longer regret my choices.
Recently, I found myself grieving for the 22-year old me.
It crept up on me, unexpectedly.
In one of my Instagram posts, I was comparing my 22-year old self to my now 22-year old daughter.
My daughter finds herself today in exactly the same place where I was at her age: exciting new life in the favorite city, limitless possibilities…
I do not regret my choices.
Or – I should say – through a lot of clearing of debris I no longer regret my choices.
But I think what I felt was grieving that feeling of life seeming limitless, of infinite possibilities.
When I married at 24 I made a choice onto a specific lane. Suddenly that limitless potential of me as a 22-year old became defined. Less limitless.
It was a choice I made.
A specific direction.
It felt happy.
And yet what I resist today is not so much this choice, this person, this path, but rather how programmed that decision to marry was.
Is it conditioning?
And many other factors, impossible to isolate.
The 24-year old me made that decision.
The 55-year old me has to respect that.
My 24-year old me wouldn’t have made a different one. Her world was still quite singular. She was very much the good girl.
She did not know what I know now.
And maybe the 55-year old me wouldn’t be here now if the 24-year old did not make that specific choice.
I’ve been working on choosing this life.
To accept all the parts of me.
I must accept – to thrive.
A fractured life is one of resistance, regret and pain.
I want a life of peace, union, acceptance.
I learn to respect all the parts of me, all of my decisions.
I want to be whole, welcoming all that I am. All that I ever was. And all that I am yet to be.
How have I changed since I had my six sessions with Galina?
I have changed in so many aspects that it is difficult for me to put them into words.
The most significant aspect is the change into my assertivity and into expressing myself.
I used to be a spectator of my life: my energy turns inwards and sometimes can be taken as
a sign of passivity. Which for sure some times in the past happened. To be drowned was
easier than taking steps or my responsibilities. I would blame myself afterwards, for not
having the courage to manifest my thoughts or opinions.
Now I take responsibility, I can express in a nonviolent way my meanings and most
importantly, I am an observer of myself and my process.
In the past I would just swim into my emotions, I would feel wrong for feeling in that or this
way, I would feel like I don’t belong and wouldn’t feel understood.
Through Galina’s coaching to reparent myself, of being my own authority, once I have a low
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my friends have become deeper, a stronger connection has developed, I can feel and create
a safe space with them and manifesting as I am. In the past I was the listener, now I am
actively participating in the conversation. Some friendships have grown stronger and some
new connections have been created.
Once I discovered my true nature, it became impossible to stand in situations or
environments where my values are not met: in the past I would stay and swallow bad
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I made these crafts for my little one to help her celebrate Mother’s Day. She really enjoys making things for her grandmas and great grandmas and I wanted to help her show some love and appreciation for all the moms in her life. Click here or on the first picture below to download the pdf with four cut and paste crafts. There are color and black and white versions included. You can see pics of the four crafts below.
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