Throughout the 20th century, flagship Latin American metropolises were the key drivers of the region's economic progress, production growth and increasing domestic demand. In 2012, nearly 30% of the region's GDP derived from just 15 major cities. However, over the last decade, Latin America's economic growth momentum has been shifting from the major metropolises towards lower-tier cities.
The contributions of major Latin American cities to their respective national economies have declined throughout the region. In 2005, 10 out of 15 flagship Latin American urban economies were performing above national levels in terms of real GDP growth, while in 2012 there were only six. The decentralisation of economic activity in the region is also being confirmed by demographic changes. Over 2005-2012, 12 out of 15 major Latin American cities saw their populations expand at a rate below the national average.
Already Facing Diseconomies of Scale?
There are several reasons for changes in economic balance in Latin America, including more liberal economic policies, which encourage the rise of economies outside the largest cities in the region. However, the declining economic performance of large Latin American cities seems to be intrinsically related to emerging diseconomies of scale, with the negative externalities of urban development starting to outweigh the benefits of large metropolises. In light of this, establishing an efficient growth path for lower-tier cities is crucial for Latin America, the world's most urbanised developing continent.
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Despite slowing economic growth, major Latin American cities still account for a prominent part of the region's GDP. In 2012, contributions to their respective national GDP varied from 2% for Salvador to 66% for Montevideo. However, depending on the country, lower-tier cities are expected to increase their contributions to Latin America's economic performance in the future. Even though in 2012 many smaller cities lagged behind larger Latin American metropolises in their per capita income, they were already being increasingly eyed up by marketers in search of unexploited business opportunities, which will enable them to play an increasing role in the region's future economic growth. For example, the FIFA World Cup, which kicks off in 2014, will be hosted by various Brazilian cities – including lower-tier ones – and will attract significant global attention. If adequately exploited and matched with respective infrastructure and planning improvements from the local authorities, the above described changes might become a turning point for economic development in some of Latin America's lower-tier cities.


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Q: Check whether empty strings are present in character-type columns I have an application that (as part of its logic) trims strings and replaces empty strings with NULL prior to insertion in the database. I guess one way to ensure that this is enforced would be to write a CHECK on every table that has a VARCHAR, TEXT (or similar) column.
Assuming that one can't or does not want to do that is there a way to write a simple, generic, SQL query (obtaining table and column names from the database's metadata) that would check if any textual columns in the database contain empty strings?

A: The best way to do this is with a CHECK constraint, as you noted, possibly via a DOMAIN, e.g.
CREATE DOMAIN nonempty_string AS text
CONSTRAINT non_empty CHECK (length(VALUE) > 0);

then ALTER existing columns to use the domain.
If that's not possible, you will need to query INFORMATION_SCHEMA to find all columns of the target type across all tables, then for each column, dynamically generate a query to check. You can use PL/PgSQL and the EXECUTE statement for this; there are many examples of its usage this way elsewhere on Stack Overflow.
You cannot write a single query to do what you want. It just won't work. You'll have to use query generation from information_schema.

A: Function for a single table
Returns all character-type columns of the given table with a count of empty values ('') and whether they are defined NOT NULL.
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION f_tbl_empty_status(_tbl regclass)
  RETURNS TABLE (tbl text, col text, empty_ct bigint, not_null bool)
  LANGUAGE plpgsql AS
$func$
DECLARE
   _typ      CONSTANT regtype[] := '{text, bpchar, varchar}';  -- base char types
   _sql      text;
   _col_arr  text[];
   _null_arr bool[];
BEGIN
   -- Build command
   SELECT INTO _col_arr, _null_arr, _sql
          array_agg(s.col)
        , array_agg(s.attnotnull)
        , '
   SELECT $1
        , unnest($2)
        , unnest(ARRAY [count('
                 || string_agg(s.col, ' = '''' OR NULL), count(')
                                   || ' = '''' OR NULL)])
        , unnest($3)
   FROM   ' || _tbl
   FROM  (
      SELECT quote_ident(attname) AS col, attnotnull
      FROM   pg_attribute
      WHERE  attrelid = _tbl           -- valid, visible, legal table name
      AND    attnum >= 1               -- exclude tableoid & friends
      AND    NOT attisdropped          -- exclude dropped columns
   -- AND    NOT attnotnull            -- include columns defined NOT NULL
      AND    atttypid = ANY(_typ)      -- only character types
      ORDER  BY attnum
      ) AS s;

   -- Debug
   -- RAISE NOTICE '%', _sql;

   -- Execute
   IF _sql IS NULL THEN
      -- do nothing, nothing to return
   ELSE
      RETURN QUERY EXECUTE _sql
      USING  _tbl::text, _col_arr, _null_arr;
   END IF;
END
$func$;

Call:
SELECT * FROM f_tbl_empty_status('tbl_name'); -- optionally schema-qualified

Returns:
tbl   | col        | empty_ct | not_null
------+------------+----------+---------
tbl1  | txt        | 0        | f
tbl1  | vc         | 3        | f
tbl1  | "oDD name" | 7        | f

Works for Postgres 9.1 or later.
Output table names are automatically schema-qualified if needed, according to the current search_path.
Output table names and column names are automatically escaped if needed.
empty_ct is the count of rows where the value of the column is the empty string
not_null reports whether the column is defined NOT NULL (so you cannot convert possible empty strings to NULL!)
Input table name can optionally be schema-qualified, else defaults to the current search_path.
Your role needs privileges to actually read from the given table.
The function is highly optimized and only runs a single scan on the given table to check on all relevant columns.
Should be safe against SQL injection.
Using parallel unnest() to simplify the complex code somewhat:

*

*Unnest multiple arrays into rows
You will be interested in this related answer on SO to actually replace empty strings - with more explanation:

*

*Replace blank spaces with null values
Match strings of only space characters, too
As you commented, trim(s.col, ' ') = '' does the job just fine. But here's a shortcut:
s.col::char = ''

How?
char is an alias for character(1), the rarely useful blank-padded type. Values are padded with space characters to the right up to the length specifier (which is 1 in this case, but irrelevant). Trailing spaces are effectively insignificant for this type. So '   ' is the same as '' or '        '. Voilá. And yes, it is faster, too, I tested.
To find strings of only space characters, too (not other white space!), add the cast to these lines above:
                  || string_agg(s.col, '::char = '''' OR NULL), count(')
                                    || '::char = '''' OR NULL)])
Wrapper function to report on a whole schema
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION f_schema_empty_status(_sch text DEFAULT 'public')
  RETURNS TABLE (tbl text, col text, empty_ct bigint, not_null bool)
  LANGUAGE plpgsql AS
$func$
DECLARE
   _tbl regclass;
BEGIN
   FOR _tbl IN
      SELECT c.oid
      FROM   pg_class c
      JOIN   pg_namespace n ON n.oid = c.relnamespace
      WHERE  n.nspname = _sch  -- 'public' by default
   -- AND    c.relname LIKE 'my_pattern%'  -- optionally filter table names
      AND    c.relkind = 'r'  -- regular tables only
      ORDER  BY relname
   LOOP
   -- Debug
   -- RAISE NOTICE 'table: %', _tbl;

      RETURN QUERY
      SELECT * FROM f_tbl_empty_status(_tbl);
   END LOOP;
END
$func$;

Call:
SELECT * FROM f_schema_empty_status();  -- defaults to 'public' without parameter

Returns:
tbl   | col        | empty_ct | not_null
------+------------+----------+---------
tbl1  | txt        | 0        | f
tbl1  | vc         | 3        | f
tbl1  | "oDD name" | 7        | f
tbl2  | some_text  | 123      | t
...

db<>fiddle here
Old sqlfiddle

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Orbital Sciences completed a successful test launch of its Antares rocket carrying a simulated version of its Cygnus vehicle. It hopes to use the combo to compete with SpaceX and others in carrying cargo to the International Space Station.
By Dan Carney
With the successful launch Sunday evening of the Orbital Sciences Corp. Antares rocket carrying a simulated version of the Cygnus supply vehicle for the International Space Station, NASA took another step toward turning over low Earth orbit to commercial launch companies. After a launch that was scrubbed on Wednesday when a data cable connected to the second stage unplugged prematurely and subsequent weather delays, evening's launch went off without a hitch.
Orbital may be a new name to those who have been following the progress of Space Exploration (SpaceX) and its outspoken CEO Elon Musk. But the company has been around since 1982 and has delivered more than a thousand satellites, launch vehicles, and space-related systems since that time. Antares is Orbital's heaviest lift rocket, with an orbital capacity of 11,000 pounds, which the company plans to increase to more than 14,000 pounds someday. Orbital hopes to use the larger Antares rocket and Cygnus supply vehicle to join SpaceX in sending cargo into orbit for NASA (though Cygnus is not reusable and Orbital does not plan to carry astronauts).
Antares blasted off from the Wallops Island, Va. spaceport (which is actually the oldest launch facility in the U.S., having fired its first rocket on the Fourth of July, 1945). The rocket's first stage burns for four minutes, carrying the Antares to an altitude of 70 miles before depleting its fuel supply. After dropping the burned-out first stage, the rocket coasts for another 93 seconds before lighting the second stage's solid rocket, which burns for another two minutes, carrying the dummy payload to its destination orbit.
With the successful conclusion of this test mission, Orbital is contracted to launch eight Cygnus transports to the ISS by 2016. John Steinmeyer, senior project manager for Orbital, told NASA TV the first delivery mission is slated for late June, depending on the station's schedule.
Cygnus comprises a service module, with its own power, and propulsion and navigation systems, plus a pressurized cargo compartment for transporting supplies. Orbital builds the service module at its Dulles, Va. headquarters, while the pressurized module is built by Thales Alenia Space in Italy. The two parts are assembled and the service module is fueled at Wallops before being mounted atop an Antares rocket. Orbital has already delivered a completed Cygnus to Wallops for installation on the Antares rocket that will carry it on a real mission to the ISS.
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For this test, Antares not only carried the dummy Cygnus payload module into an elliptical orbit of 155 by 186 miles, but also put a quartet of "phone sats" into orbit. They are tiny cube-shaped satellites that use a mobile phone as their on-board computer. Orbital already does a strong business launching satellites; with this weekend's success, the Cygnus is well on its way to the ISS, too.
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Ukrainian School groups of all ages learn how food was used as a weapon in the Holodomor during Holodomor Education Week 2019 at the Ukrainian Canadian Research and Documentation Centre
TORONTO, 9 November 2019 | During their annual field trip to St. Vladimir's Institute to learn about the Holodomor for Holodomor Education Week in November, junior and senior level students with some of their parents, from St. Volodymyr Ukrainian School (401 College St. at Kensington Community School) learned how food was used as a weapon in the Holodomor.
Students began the day with molytva (prayer) in memory of victims of the Holodomor and sang the anthems of Ukraine and Canada, followed by a creative workshop with Oksana Pikush painting in the Petrykivka decorative style of the Dnipropetrovsk region – whose symbolism reflects spiritual harmony, unity and love of life.
After lunch, the class of seniors (grades 7-11) headed to the Ukrainian Canadian Research and Documentation Centre (UCRDC) upstairs for a presentation by long-time UCRDC Board member and educator Valentina Kuryliw. In her PowerPoint presentation, Kuryliw discussed the basic facts of the Holodomor with them and viewed a video interview with her as a child of Holodomor survivors created by the Saskatchewan Holodomor Awareness and Education Committee for FAST's "Voices Into Action" educational series. The presentation and video contained photographs and family
stories intertwined with the teaching of the historical facts, which created greater connection and empathy for the students.
Valentina explained the role of the UCRDC Oral History Collection and what it means to interview Holodomor survivors and eyewitnesses and the importance of studying the recordings preserved in the archive. She also pointed out that the archives also interviewed the children of survivors and these interviews were done by Sophia Isajiw, who was assisting with the lesson. In responding to questions, the students showed a solid understanding of the value of oral history recordings and eyewitness accounts when studying the Holodomor as sources of research, amongst other resources researchers and historians use, to understand past events.
One of the students who understood the importance of interviewing several generations from the same family responded that the purpose was to study the legacy of "intergenerational trauma" that might be passed down. She is the granddaughter of Iwan Jemetz, and her mother was also present and participating in the lesson. Her grandfather Iwan was interviewed by Ariadna Ochrymowych and his son Alex Jemetz was interviewed by Sophia Isajiw; both interviews are in the UCRDC oral history archive collection. Because the students asked why Holodomor Memorial Day was not observed in their regular schools, Kuryliw discussed the importance of each student being an advocate in their day schools for Holodomor awareness and education and left them with Holodomor Memorial Day pamphlets to take to school to give to their teachers. A worksheet on the Holodomor was distributed for follow up with teachers and Principal Tanya Sunak.
For the class of juniors, Kuryliw asked retired primary educator and the long-time creator and teacher of an innovative Holodomor lesson, Halia Dmytryshyn, to join her at UCRDC to work with the younger group. UCRDC was very quickly filled with the exuberant energy of a very well-behaved and eagerly interactive kindergarten-to-grade-6 group of students. Halia Dmytryshyn came well-prepared with many visual aids, round containers filled with various grains and seeds grown agriculturally, children's story books, a truly enormous head of acabbage and many other objects for the children to look at and hold. As soon as the cabbage was uncovered, the children all exclaimed together as if on cue: "kapuuuustaaaaa!" She talked about the importance of food and the production of food and farming as a basic need in order to survive interspersed with some basic facts about the Holodomor. Halia then shared her famous "Bread and Butter" lesson with the school children which combines storytelling and reading from the Little Red Hen. Each child was given a tall glass spice container filled to one third with whipping cream.
Reciting parts of the story with the teacher, students had to shake, shake, shake their cream hard to churn it into butter over the course of the story. It took a lot of work to shake the jar long and hard enough to make butter and separate the whey from the cream. By doing this in the context set by the teacher, the students were able to intrinsically understand the amount of labour needed in growing food on a farm. Once the butter was churned and the whey poured out, each student was given a slice of bread on a plate and buttered their bread with the butter they had just made. Together they stood up to say a prayer before eating and after the prayer sat down to eat. However, in a surprise move, assistants Svitlana Sheptytska, Valentina Kuryliw and Sophia Isajiw were instructed to very quickly whisk away the bread from the students and tell them they were forbidden to eat it. All of the children gasped at the injustice of having food forcibly taken away from those who produced it. Teacher Dmytryshyn explained that all foodstuffs were taken away from people during the Holodomor, including the fruit of their hard labour. She then asked whose labour made the butter. One girl cried out, "It was MY work!" inbetween bites of her bread and butter. In this way Halia introduced the younger children to basic facts of what happened during the Holodomor, leading to the starvation of millions. The buttered bread was returned to all the students who were happy to bite into it and enjoy their homemade butter!
Both lessons were presented using the Ukrainian and English languages to be inclusive of all students present. UCRDC technician Ruslan Bokiy facilitated all of the IT and technical aspects required throughout the day. It was a very productive half day for the students who were able to learn a lot about a special chapter of Ukrainian history.
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53 years ago The Lovin' Spoonful began in Greenwich Village, NY, combining a folk and Jug Band music with an electric bass and drums, and created what was soon to be known as "Good Time Music". They became immediately popular world-wide, and after their first hit, "Do You Believe in Magic" there were 6 more straight top 10 hits, including "You Didn't Have To Be So Nice", "Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind", "Nashville Cats", and their two # 1's: "Summer in the City" and "Daydream".
The Lovin' Spoonful was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame class of 2000 that included Eric Clapton, Bonnie Raitt, Earth Wind and Fire and James Taylor. In 2006 the Spoonful was also inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame.
The band is still enjoying touring especially since their audiences may not have had the opportunities to see and hear the band in the 1960's as they only toured for 3 years before all going on to solo projects. So don't miss your chance to see them on the intimate winery Surf Room stage!
They will be sharing behind the scenes and songs stories. You've heard the songs, now it's time to hear the stories too!!


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Mercedes F1 chief's Ferrari F40 up for sale
Mercedes-Benz AMG Formula 1 team boss and part owner Toto Wolff is once again offloading cars from his supercar collection.
The latest is a Ferrari F40 that's currently listed for sale by Tom Hartley Jr., the same U.K. dealership that in 2021 sold Wolff's Ferrari LaFerrari Aperta, Ferrari Enzo, and Mercedes-Benz AMG SL 65 Black Series.
At the time, Wolff, an avid race driver himself, said he was selling the cars as he simply didn't have the time to drive them. Given the 23 rounds on the 2023 F1 calendar, it's likely a lack of time is also the reason for selling the F40.
Toto Wolff
Wolff's F40 was recently given a full refurbishment by expert restorer Autofficina Bonini Carlo, and has just 5,536 kilometers (3,440 miles) on its odometer. The car bears chassis number ZFFGJ34B000087007 and is one of 27 F40s originally delivered to Spain.
It's offered for sale with full documentation, including a title from the Ferrari Classiche classic car department confirming its original chassis, body, engine, and transmission.
During its heyday, the F40 was the fastest, most powerful, and most expensive model ever sold by Ferrari. Power comes from a twin-turbo 2.9-liter V-8 that was officially rated at 471 hp when new. The engine is a derivative of the 288 GTO Evoluzione's mill, and thanks to some unique upgrades it enabled the F40 to become the first production Ferrari to exceed 199 mph.
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Screen Talks – great films and great debates!
We're all really excited to begin our season of collaboration with the Exeter Picture House Cinema, and so the title of our first 'Page to Screen' feature is particularly appropriate. Great Expectations is one of the great Victorian novels, epitomising all the best features of Charles Dickens' literary flair, with unforgettable characters and a relentlessly gripping plot.
Great Expectations itself has been repeatedly adapted for film and television – and a fresh reworking from director Mike Newell, with Helena Bonham Carter as Miss Havisham is due for release in late November 2012. However, for countless cinema fans, it is this 1946 version, directed by David Lean, that is the definitive adaptation, by which all others must be compared.
One of Dickens' most enduring collaborations was with the artist Hablot Knight Browne, who was nicknamed 'Phiz' to complement Dickens' own nickname 'Boz'. Browne was responsible for illustrating the now canonical pages of David Copperfield, Bleak House, The Pickwick Papers, Nicholas Nickleby and The Old Curiosity Shop, and the two men worked together for twenty-four years. However, the relationship came to an acrimonious end in 1859 – ostensibly because Dickens was displeased with Browne's work for A Tale of Two Cities – but several biographers have suggested the split was provoked when Browne expressed his sympathy for Dickens' estranged wife, Catherine. They never worked together again.
Dickens kept a pet raven – 'Grip' – who features as a character in his 1841 mystery Barnaby Rudge. The story was reviewed by Edgar Allan Poe, who was particularly taken by the talking bird, and commented that the raven should have been given a bigger role within the plot. It has even been suggested that Grip inspired Poe's famous 'The Raven' poem, which was published in 1845.
Perhaps as a consequence of his impoverished childhood, Dickens found it almost impossible to refuse a professional engagement, and kept up a punishing schedule of writing and lectures. This took a direct toll on his health, and by the time of his final American lecture tour in 1868, he was physically exhausted and subsisting on a liquid diet, including a dish of rum and cream for breakfast, a pint of champagne at 3pm, and a concoction of eggs beaten in sherry before his evening performance.
Dickens continues to be a highly collectable author. A first edition of Great Expectations will set you back somewhere in the region of £80,000, and his writing desk was sold in 2008 for £433,250. Even a toothpick used by Dickens has fetched nearly £7,000 at auction in 2009.
You might even find something that inspires an idea for a future 'Screen Talk' – if so, please do get in touch via this blog or our twitter account at @ExeScreen_Talks – we really look forward to hearing from you!


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