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Investor Group Attacks Snap's No-Vote Shares, Stock plunges
by Wolf Richter • Mar 6, 2017 • 61 Comments
Top indices might refuse to include Snap's shares.
The third day was not the charm. Not for Snap, the company that owns the Snapchat app. An investor revolt, spearheaded by the Council of Institutional Investors, against Snap's non-voting class A shares is now deflating a big part of the hype around its IPO.
The hype worked like this: The market capitalization of Snap would be pushed so high that major indices, including the S&P 500 index and the MSCI USA Index, would include the stock, and that index and pension funds that track these indices would all have to buy the shares, and thus drive up the share price even further.
That was the bet. And now news of the revolt is spreading.
Snap's class A Shares plunged 12.3% to $23.77 at the close on Monday. Down 16% from their high in the morning. Shares now trade below the price at which they opened on March 2 during their first moments in the public market.
This is what Snap's first three days in the public market look like, and it made a big dent in the glory of what had been the hottest technology IPO in three years:
Investors that made money so far on these Class A shares are the institutions that had bought them the day before at the IPO price of $17. But for the public, these class A shares haven't been a picnic.
Much of the hype had been focused on the stock being included in the S&P 500 Index and the MSCI USA Index, given its IPO valuation of $24 billion, and its market capitalization on Friday of about $30 billion. By comparison, Ford's market cap is $50 billion.
The bet was that once the shares are in the index, the real buying would commence by funds that track those indices and would therefore have to buy the shares. Given the relatively small number of shares traded, this buying pressure across the globe would push up the price even further. It was simply a matter of creating a lot of artificial demand. And investors were front-running that propitious moment.
But suddenly, there is doubt. Reuters reported:
A group representing large institutional investors has approached stock index providers S&P Dow Jones Indices and MSCI Inc., looking to bar Snap Inc. and any other company that sells investors non-voting shares from their stock benchmarks.
While other large companies, most famously Facebook and Alphabet, have issued some non-voting shares, in addition to voting shares, shareholders can still vote, though only in watered-down form. Snap pioneered a new thing: selling only non-voting shares in the IPO, and public shareholders cannot vote at all.
These are the three classes of Snap shares, but only Class A shares were sold to the public:
Owners of Class A common stock have zilch votes per share.
Owners of Class B common stock (certain early investors) have one vote per share.
Owners of Class C common stock (co-founders Evan Spiegel and Robert Murphy) have 10 votes per share.
The structure leaves the two co-founders in total control. Class A shareholders have no say whatsoever on the company's strategy, the pay of its executives, the board of directors, and whatever else the owners of a company would want to have a say over.
What Class A shareholders got for their money, in addition to the financial toxicity of the deal, was the hope and hype of the stock's inclusion in the indexes.
But now both index providers, the S&P Dow Jones Indices and the MSCI USA Index, said that they're reviewing Snap's inclusion.
"What we would like to see at the least is for the indexes to exclude new no-vote companies," Amy Borrus, deputy director of the Council of Institutional Investors, told Reuters. The Council represents pension funds and other large asset managers. Meetings with both index providers are scheduled this week, she said.
Reuters added:
David Blitzer, managing director of S&P Dow Jones Indices and chair of a committee overseeing its indexes, said they would not add a new stock like Snap for 6 to 12 months after its IPO in any case, and will use the time to study Snap's structure.
While the index provider does not have a hard requirement about a company's voting structure, the committee needs to think through how much influence investors should have, Blitzer said in an interview on Monday.
"'Who Votes?' is the issue right now," he said.
To be included in the S&P 500, Blitzer said, the company normally needs a market capitalization of around $5.5 billion and four profitable quarters in a row. That latter condition pretty eliminates Snap's chances of making it into the S&P 500 index in the foreseeable future.
On March 2, MSCI said that Snap would qualify for inclusion in its MSCI USA Index. But on Friday after the markets had closed, and when no one was supposed to pay attention, MSCI changed its mind and announced:
Following additional analysis, the IPO of SNAP (US) did not meet all of the relevant market capitalization requirements required for early inclusion into the MSCI USA Index.
Therefore, and in accordance with the MSCI Global Investable Market Indexes methodology, SNAP (US)'s inclusion into the MSCI USA Index will be re-assessed as part of the next Semi-Annual Index Review, which occurs in May 2017.
MSCI "seeks feedback from the investment community" on whether or not companies without voting rights should be included in its indices.
What's left for Snap after the index-hype has deflated? Plenty of other hype. And it might still blow over. Because hype is still in plentiful supply in this wondrous stock market.
Update: Noon-ish Tuesday, March 7: Snap now down an additional 11.5% to $21.00.
So how long before the stock market hits the wall? Read… This is Worse than Before the Last Three Crashes
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61 comments for "Investor Group Attacks Snap's No-Vote Shares, Stock plunges"
Jungle Jim says:
And then they wonder why Mom and Pop think the market is rigged.
Although there's an interesting opinion piece on Marketwatch claiming that it's Trump's "Mom and Pop" supporters who are behind the market's run up. Not sure I buy the logic, but it is intriguing.
Mary, I saw that but I remain skeptical. I'm an old coot myself and the first thing I learned many years ago was that you should never put money in the Stock Market that you couldn't afford to lose. After eight years of depredations by the Fed, most of us don't have money we can afford to lose.
Sonomendo Steve says:
There are a lot more of the "fewer" rich people that CAN afford to lose money than 30 or so years ago. I know that sounds weird, but gross levels of overall wealth/income inequality make it possible.
Our fellow boomers account for many of them, maybe most all.
Meme Imfurst says:
Marketwatch is another cheerleader for brokers, nothing more.
Mom and pop are broke, the central banks are not, simple.
Snapchat…go there and ask yourself 'what is so special'. It is great if you want to observe boys and girls who have a very small clue about 99.9999999% of everything but can't express it in understandable language.
alexaisback says:
The recent run up is not mon and pops..
The recent run up is shorts caught
by computer algo's causing frenzy.
First time I shorted an IPO right off the bat. Came out worth more than SONY? pfffttttt Could be dangerous though as the stock market hasn't traded on valuations in quite a while.
Mar 7, 2017 at 12:25 am
Which brokerage lent you the shares to short?
steve from virginia says:
Drain the swamp, eh, SNAP?
TheDona says:
The irony is it is supposed to eventually make money as an advertising platform catering to the Millennials. Why advertise if nobody is buying much of anything? Most of the bigger conglomerates have already said they are pulling back on social media spending.
I do have to give props to Even and Robert for their chutzpah. Can't wait to see how this goes off the cliff.
Comcast bought into this IPO, the reported amount was $500M.
Comcast owns NBC and they are probably afraid that election advertising will be down considerably in the future, due to Trump winning with low spending, and Hillary losing with high spending.
Snapchat gets them into the internet advertising sector and gives them a way they can capture a younger demographic. Whether this turns out to be a good hedge for them remains to be seen.
Here is the younger demographic using Snapchat :http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2016/12/28/4-arrested-after-snapchat-planned-flash-mob-breaks-out-at-philly-mall/
Your link proves the point that Snapchat can be used to influence the dummies.
Election consultants will exploit the prospect in the next election. I expect the bots to be at full capacity by then, generating income from manufacturing consent.
Suzie Alcatrez says:
No way SnapChat ever makes money via advertising.
Their user base is flat. They are just like Twitter.
At least they are not losing as much money as Uber.
I still don't understand how Snapchat loses $500 million a year. Don't they just run a bunch of servers?
They pay for Amazon cloud instead of purchasing their own physical servers.
Copernicus says:
Suzie Alcatrez
No way legit companies will advertise on this medium.
Who could blame them?
Who in their right mind would advertise next to dissapearing dick pics?
If that medium was seen as legit the massive porn sites with record setting traffic would see stalwarts of industry advertising on them. They don't.
Probably a good time to look at the television stations.
Snapchat debacle, may remind Suits why they were attracted to curated environments on which to advertise their wares, in the first place.
If you are a company advertising online there's one thing you want to see before the number of pages visited, number of users etc: clickthrough rates.
Clickthrough is the rate between the number of times your ad is displayed and somebody clicking over it. In short it's the only parameter that truly matters to see if advertising is working.
Clickthrough rates have generally been declining all across the field, even for giants such as Google and FaceBook, over the past three years. Ad blockers are doing their part, especially among Millenials (who account for a massive 40% of all ad blocker users), but it's beyond doubt something broke in how ads are displayed to potential customers.
The fabled algorithms supposed to taylor-made ads to viewing habits either don't work as well as advertised or take second place to bidding, even if all those involved know it will be a waste of time and money.
Snapchat has always had issues with clickthrough rates: Instagram has always been better despite being part of the FB Empire whose clickthrough rates are nothing to write home about.
Snapchat, together with other clickthrough Cinderellas, has long maintained that "clickthrough rates don't matter as much as you think" but offers little more than the usual spin on user numbers and pages loaded, not including, for example, how much of that traffic goes through ad blockers, a data all advertisers know very well but keep for themselves, or how many of their ads are "watched" by bots, something they should know even better.
" Why advertise if nobody is buying much of anything?"
If nobody is buying then vendors will be desperate to advertise, amirite?
If the future of society lies in gaming index funds, so that they have to buy at the top and sell on the collapse, then I'm starting to get really scared. Remember the last big one, when that guy constructed derivatives specifically so he could short them? It'll be like that everywhere.
Agree…..on new financial engineering game…….It scares me about the future almost as much as Private Equity itself does.
And, in a way, it's kinda like "privatizing a public investment"…..or at least taking a "private cut out of existing ones"
They were saying on stocktwits that you can't short shares until tomorrow.
Based on the 5-day chart, it doesn't look good for tomorrow either.
Tomorrow is here! And…
Snapchat is now trading below its post IPO price. Which means anyone who bought into Snapchat at issue, is now underwater.
Sounds like a great short to me so far, with much more to come!
I love the supposed old investors thinking they are duped… lol. I'm going to live off my interest, happy day, cue music. Now anyone born into unaffordable housing, vehicles, etc, I feel your pain! We are not the moms and dads basement dwellers. We are super hard working folks that are in are early thirties and working just as hard or harder than you when you hit this time,. Now realize as we save we get nothing or a lottery. No 5-7 percent return like you enjoyed. Wish older folks could just realize how overinflated the world really is, it's just insane.! No comparison if I lived in your day. Maybe you should run the numbers…
TJ Martin says:
Look son … and I say that with no disrespect being your elder by some 30 years or more . Many of us do get it . We see all too well how hyper inflated the world is today . Not to mention how much of a Potemkin Village / Emperors New Cloths the economy really is . And to be blunt … it is beyond insane to the point of outright chaos . Honestly not a day goes by when I do not count my blessings that I came up when I did as well as the position I was able to attain before this current madness ensued .
But trust me son .. though yours is a godawful mess .. much of it self created I might add .. ours was no cakewalk either . Yuppies – Nixon – Reagan's Trickle Up to the Wealthy's Back Pocket theory – Viet Nam – Racism – Watergate – Kent State – The Weathermen – Iran Contra scandal – Hoover's FBI – Domestic Terrorism etc * . So don't make the mistake of thinking our time was so great and I'll for one commiserate and empathize with the downside/upside down house of cards you're living in . Suffice it to say every era has its challenges and this is one is yours . Just remember one thing . You cannot remedy the symptoms of evil with evil itself
* I'd add drugs to the list but in my opinion this era's drug problems are worse than the 60's – 70's ever were
Patience, I was there. And you are absolutely right, not much comparison AT ALL. Most all of us had it pretty easy…at least those who looked European. Sure, most had to work hard (find me someone who will admit they had to "work easy"), but folk's house dwellers were usually by their own choice w/parent ok, or w/disabilities. I never knew any….except while going to cheaper JC's. And I knew some who were tossed out, at 16,17,18. Roomates? Plenty of that going on. Cops didn't hassle kids living in vans here then, either…I did for 5 yrs. Our biggest bummer was Vietnam, for those of us who were in country especially, and those who came back boxed or trashed, and those who loved either. I won't put all the blame for today's econ problems on people not listening to Carter and then embracing idiot Reagan….but quite a bit of it I will. That said, recently many boomers have had to downsize lifestyles a lot, I'm one, so what? Many your age and younger around here would love to share a 525 sq ft apt like mine, and the luckier ones do.
Good Luck to you, and DON'T get tricked into fighting each other, you are ALL in it together.
PS- We had a saying for a while, "Never trust anyone over 30".
You might want to look at politicians sort of the the same way, maybe allow 40, should they emerge. Or become one (or encourage a friend) yourself.
" "Never trust anyone over 30". "
Was that not anybody over 40
A big fuss was made in various MSM outlets, when, the "never trust anybody over 40" Hippy Vietnam, Segment of the boomers, (Of which Mr "I did not inhale" ( was a member)) turned 40.
I was on Haight St summer '66 to Mar '67 and I can assure you it was 30.
But then as they say, if you remember that scene clearly you weren't there.
KSFO says:
Did these dudes just figure this out!?! SHEESH!! Wolf, had they should have read your Feb 3 article about this P.O.S…….Caveat Emptor!
NotSoSure says:
Oh come on, there will be a Snap Back soon enough.
Also no worries. The Muppets ARE BACK when it comes to buying stocks. On one hand, they can't afford to write a 500 dollar check: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-06/half-americans-cant-write-500-check
But then they go ahead and plow money into stocks: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-06/second-dumbest-kind-money-pouring-stocks-vengeance
And the Millenial Muppets buying SNAP stock: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-04/we-found-markets-greater-fools-millennials
God Bless America. This country is already great.
SNAP right price 10cents/share with market cap 140-150M. Why not? Negative earnings, revenue less than 400M. All media stocks are overheated like dot.coms in 2000. Just think about the fact: FB is more expensive than all auto and air craft industry in US. Have you ever seen such a deviation from a common sense in history? If tomorrow FB vanishes economy and life will continue. Can you imagine what will happen if all transportation disappears?
Guido says:
Let me guess what happens if transportation disappears — the multitude of food delivery start ups will fail?
A snap is involved.
Its the sound of fools money, disappearing out of the country in this wrought.
The people who brought at 17 probably sold at 25 plus on day 1 and walked, some day traders made something on day 2. Now its "over rover."
This whole IPO is almost classifiable as a short cycle "pump and dump" IMHO.
r cohn says:
Many people who were allotted shares in the IPO agreed NOT to sell the stock for at least a year
"Many people who were allotted shares in the IPO agreed NOT to sell the stock for at least a year":
And they were all small, and not "insiders".
What those sales restrictions do, is stave off the big public sell off date.
This who snap deal, is simply more American legalised fraud. In the case of the snap deal, it is to obvious, even for the indexes
Si says:
Standing on the sidelines gives a view of the game that the participants can't see. It was so obviously structured to appeal to suckers. "Class A" shares with no votes, and class "C" with 10. Hahahahahahahaha!!!!
It's a known technique.
A company that I was in, at folding time, offered me Class A Preferred non-voting shares with a guaranteed percent of the profit as dividend.
What is profit? Profit is revenue minus expenses.
What is revenue? Revenue is what the customers decide to bring in.
What are expenses? Expenses are what management decides to spend.
Going forward, management would have owned all the Class B common shares. My lawyer overcame my sentimental objections, told me to get them to put some money on the table, and take it, and get far, far away. It was good advice.
The real travesty is for the employee who worked hard and took a pay cut hoping he'll retire after this. The chiefs will plunder and the employees will find their options worth less than TP. Worse, some of these early investors will go buy apartments and jack up the rent of the poor employee.
Also, don't the employees get to sell their stock along with other investors in 3 months' time? If true, sit back and watch the stampede for the exits.
mvojy says:
AOL stock has more upside at this point
Keep on eye on Miranda Kerr…if she dumps Speigel in the next 30 days you know SNAP is about to crash…she has expensive tastes and women can spot a failing sugardaddy a mile away
An underwear model has to maintain some standards, doesn't she?
Topsy Turvy?
The ratio of insider sales to buys stands at 45:1
This current insider selling trend started in mid-December 2016
while the Daily Sentiment Survey of Futures Traders now shows a 92% Bulls reading! Over exuberance? Certainly looks that way. Those in background have filled their cash bags and have exited the building!
Gallup just released their findings from their latest consumer poll;
Consumer spending highest since 2008
As economic confidence hits a new record high!
Blow Off Top? Certainly looks that way.
Uhh … yeah .. seems to me Gallup's credibility has gone straight to hell in a hand basket after the travesty of the 2016 election . So why would we trust them when it comes to consumer confidence and spending ? More importantly . Who even responds to polls these days ? I and my household certainly do not !
Does SNAP remind you of Twitter 2.0? People need to consult with Aswath Damodaran (Valuation professor at NYU) because he got Twitter's valuation right when others were hyping it to $100/share.
That's the model pioneered in Canada, when families issued non-voting shares in family businesses. They like to sell something but still own it.
"That's the model pioneered in Canada," ????????
Porsche and several other Austrian and German entity's Including VW before that. Long ago
Difference being they were profit making companies with a good track record of such. Everybody wanted a piece of, when they issued the non voting shares.
So it is another (and according to d, not new) PE game.
http://www.ecgi.org/research/control_europe/documents/austria.pdf
sec 2.1.2
http://www.asx.com.au/documents/public-consultations/non_voting_shares_public_consultation.pdf
and check the dates of the documents.
Such is allowed in other jurisdictions also.
This is a financial blog.
Just like any human, I make mistakes.
Unlike many with an agenda. I am not in the business of knowingly posting falsehood's to support an agenda.
I sure never meant to imply any, nor do I see any, mistakes, falsehoods, or agendas on your part, d. Frankly that 2.1.2 was real headache read, and this no vote share thing remains spooky to me.
Unless this no-vote "preferred dividend" status has some benefit I don't understand, I still fail to see why anyone would want a share without a vote. If I bought VW (via ADR). Could I get one of these forced down my throat, or would I have to request it?
Anyway, I still remain scared of PE, it controls too much of our lives, and a no vote share sure looks like a form of it to me. You might get a good dividend, but you have no say in the action.
Like being the dummy hand in bridge, maybe a win, but no say in how it's won.
And I quit playing with stocks, anyway. So, sorry I offended you, words are not as accurate as people often think…..far from it.
You didnt offend me.
"Unless this no-vote "preferred dividend" status has some benefit I don't understand, I still fail to see why anyone would want a share without a vote. If I bought VW (via ADR). Could I get one of these forced down my throat, or would I have to request it? "
When an entity has no vote, or different vote shares, you need to ascertain what you are buying, before you order, "Caveat Emptor".
The purpose of no vote, is to get investors money but give them no say in how the company is run. With some big stable company's, it lets small investors in safely (at a lower entry price), as the no vote shares generally have a lower value/listed price. It also protects the companies from activist, asset stripping fund's, Ican Etc, when raising capital.
Porche VW is like that to keep controll in Germany/Austria, and in particular, the two or three states that have the major VW Assembly plants, the union and state Governments, are BIG Voting share holders, along with the owners.
Patriotic German's and Austrian's. Buy VW non vote for their Children, Grand Children, as it is seen as a blue chip investment (they can afford (if they can get them)) with a guaranteed payout annually.
In the case of snap, its a ripoff, no say, and a declining value. If snap survives, the vote and no vote, should start trading at different values, VERY soon. They should also be listed/quoted as such.
As for anybody who wants a say in snap, no vote, are worthless.
R2D2 says:
Let me add this; facebook is the King of all these social media companies. Although, I had created a couple of Facebook accounts in the past, but I had never really used them. For the last few days, I tried to use it to find out what does it really do for people who are on Facebook. I can summarize Facebook as the following: "A sophisticated version of chat rooms". A sophisticated version of chat rooms with the market capitalization of $396.79 billion. Are you kidding me? This company isn't worth even one billion. These other little players such as snapchat are worth far less.
I forgot; all I see is a bunch of people posting their photos for self-gratification, and a bunch of other bored people around the world with nothing to do liking or loving the picture of these people who are trying to get a confidence boost by posting their pictures. Is that really worth $396.79 billion?
Let me add my picture to Facebook right now, and send the stock soaring to $596.79 billion :-}.
chris Hauser says:
"wishing you all the best of good buys"
Kevin Beck says:
I have stated before, and will again, that companies that issue non-voting shares as the major component of float, should not be eligible for inclusion in any index. These "shares" are really just tracking shares instead of ownership shares. They hardly represent ownership of the company, since the holders of the shares have almost no rights. They don't have preference for dividends or in liquidation, which makes them worth less than preferred shares. I would prefer that they be refused listing clearance by the exchanges, but that might be too extreme.
"I would prefer that they be refused listing clearance by the exchanges, but that might be too extreme."
Other exchanges, make them list the non/restricted vote shares, separately, where they generally trade at much lower values.


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Tuple visibility through a view
Quote from johnwcowan on October 9, 2019, 3:10 pm
I realize now that my questions about updating through a view were seriously off-piste, because what I was actually interested in has nothing to do with that. What I'm interested in is this: given a base relvar, a tuple that is a candidate for insertion, and a representation of a view on that relvar (not the view itself, but its definition), what is the most suitable way to alter the tuple so that when it is inserted into the base relvar it will be guaranteed to be visible through the view? Similarly, what is the most suitable way to update an existing tuple of the base relvar so that it is guaranteed not to be visible through the view? Parsimony counts: obviously the latter case can be reduced to just deleting the tuple, but that's not what I want.
I am willing to confine my concerns to views that are defined solely by projection over selection, and selections to those defined by Boolean expressions involving only attributes and values, without reference to any other relvars.
Quote from Dave Voorhis on October 9, 2019, 3:13 pm
What does "alter the tuple" mean?
To me, it sounds rather like, "given the expression 3 + 4, what is the best way to alter the 3 to make it visible in the result."
By altering the tuple, I mean computing a new tuple which satisfies the requirements to be visible in the view but is otherwise as similar as possible to the original tuple. Crudely, if a tuple {A: 1, B: "foo"} is to be inserted, but the view specifies a selection clause B = "bar", then the simplest altered tuple would be {A: 1, B: "bar"}.
Quote from AntC on October 9, 2019, 8:25 pm
None of the academic work on update-through-view wants to support that. I'm wondering what is your use case?
Crudely, the view definition acts as a constraint: only tuples that satisfy the constraint are visible through the view. Ergo only tuples that satisfy the constraint can be inserted through the view or deleted through the view. If by 'alter' a tuple you mean delete some tuple value and insert a different tuple value, see above.
Tuples don't have identity; we can't talk of the 'same' tuple with some attribute values altered. There's a deep pathology in the way Entity-Relationship modelling thinks that a tuple represents an entity, and that a Primary Key is some sort of persistent identifier pointer to the entity.
Perhaps if you give an example, we can unwind the thinking that's got you into this blind alley.
Very concretely, then, and talking wlg only about the visible-insert case:
I have a relvar holding an EMPLOYEEs relation. There is a field SENIORITY, and I have a view SENIOR_EMPLOYEES defined as EMPLOYEES WHERE SENIORITY = "senior". I have constructed a tuple T representing a new employee, and I wish to insert T through the SENIOR_EMPLOYEES view.
If the attribute SENIORITY in T = "senior", all is well. If not, the database engine has three choices:
Refuse to insert T through SENIOR_EMPLOYEES and raise an exception.
Insert T anyway, and accept that this employee is not senior and will not appear in the view it was inserted through.
Insert T', where T' is equal to T except in the SENIORITY field. This requires access to the definition of SENIOR_EMPLOYEES, but I posit that.
It's case 3 that interests me. When the selection predicate is this simple, it's obvious what to do. But I want to be able to do the same thing for at least somewhat more complex views, which requires a procedure for computing T' from T. What is the Right Thing?
As I said above, I'm willing to restrict my attention to projections and selections that are arbitrarily complicated Boolean expressions but don't refer to any value outside the tuple being selected or not selected except a constant: A < B is fine, so is A = 3, but not A < AVG(A).
Erwin@erwin
Quote from Erwin on October 9, 2019, 9:29 pm
It's case 3 that interests me. ...
I'm relatively sorry to have to say, but this post betrays that you don't understand the CWA and/or predicates aka set membership conditions (and the role they play in the how and why the RM actually works).
The only reasonable option is 1.
That's because asserting that someone is a [member of the] SENIOR_EMPLOYEES (-and making that assertion is exactly what you semantically mean by inserting into this view-) despite the fact that it has been formally stated that being a member of the SENIOR_EMPLOYEES ***requires*** seniority == "senior" and despite the fact that you are asserting that for this particular employee, that is not the case.
In logic that is plain and simply called a contradiction, and a DBMS [supposed to] being a dependable system of logical inference, it ***CANNOT AFFORD TO ACCEPT ANY CONTRADICTIONS***.
Stop! Do not go there. That way lies madness.
That is the most sane option in a world you've already made mad.
Better would be to disallow any form of "insert through" and only permit updates to base relvars.
October 9, 2019, 10:01 pm
Quote from johnwcowan on October 9, 2019, 10:01 pm
I grant that databases should not be allowed to represent contradictions. But that does not mean that when faced with a contradiction, there is nothing the total system can do to resolve it. Imagine that you are doing the insert interactively. A user-hostile system would just say "Can't do that, contradiction". A more friendly system, however, might present a dialogue box like this:
You have attempted to insert a tuple through the view SENIOR_EMPLOYEES that violates the definition of the view. What would you like to do?
Do nothing.
Insert the tuple anyway, as if you had inserted it into the base relvar EMPLOYEES.
Change the SENIORITY attribute of the tuple to "senior".
Is there anything inherently wrong with that? And if not, is there anything inherently wrong with being allowed to make the decision between 1, 2, and 3 in advance in all such cases, thus avoiding the tuple-by-tuple interaction?
If you do not like crottled greeps, by all means do not eat them. But I do: see above.
Quote from Erwin on October 9, 2019, 11:08 pm
The DBMS autonomously taking the decision to do 3. represents a contradiction too. It boils down to the DBMS deciding that the user meant "senior" when he actually said "junior" (and the two are mutually exclusive which makes it a contradiction). That's "I'll accept it, but I'll assume it was a lie and I forgive you in my own crazy way".
(And the DBMS autonomously taking the decision to do 2. is an obvious blatant mistake because it means ignoring that part of the set membership condition (/predicate) for the view which ***makes*** the assertion as made by the user a contradiction.)
Dialog boxes are not the responsibility of the DBMS, they are the responsibility of the application, and they ***could*** be triggered by the DBMS refusing, but that still leaves "the DBMS refusing" the only sensible option to even facilitate any reasonable repair tactic.
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Quote from johnwcowan on October 10, 2019, 1:34 am
Did I say "autonomously"? I did not. I suggested that it was not unreasonable for the application to tell the DBMS in advance what general approach to take in cases like this. Or if you're allergic to that for some reason, what about the application? Is the user allowed to tell the application what recovery strategy is to be employed? Or must we send a letter to the employee saying "Your promotion has been canceled due to a contradiction in the database"?
Now that all the preliminary cruft has been cleared away, let me try again. Suppose the Powers That Be have decided that if the actions taken by the code (to wit, inserting into a specific relvar) contradict what the data says, then the fault is in the data and it must be repaired. What now is the most appropriate general strategy to minimally repair the data so that it meets the constraints? This question is actually just as appropriate for base tables as for views, so Dave's objection is no longer to the point.
Data, after all, despite its etymology, is not given to us from Heaven on tablets of gold, or even stone. It is collected by fallible human beings who make mistakes of all kinds. If you want to say this isn't database theory, fine. It's data theory, then. Or something.
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There's a good reason to join a Bangkok Chinatown Tour simply because it's right here where you'll get to discover the old and the new Bangkok. You can stop for a coffee at a 100-year-old cafe and enjoy food from the many market street stalls. And that's just for starters as you'll soon discover there's a lot more going on here. You'll also find some of the finest Chinese restaurants. Simply put, there's plenty to tempt your taste buds.
As you stroll past the foodie places, you'll come across a tonne of other market stalls filled with colourful flowers and plenty of other amazing goodies. You'll feel the vibe as you watch Chinatown come alive at night.
Your guided evening tour begins along Ratchawong Pier on the Chao Phraya River. Step back in time to the old markets in Yaowarat, located in the heart of the vibrant Chinatown district. The land that now occupies the Grand Palace once belonged to Chinese traders. When King Rama I moved the capital from Thonburi to Bangkok over 200 years ago, the community was asked to move and the region became the capital of the Kingdom of Siam.
Continue from the pier and walk along Song Wat Road, which is bordered by old business buildings and warehouses, most of which are still operating today. See Wat Traimit Temple that houses a large seated Buddha and the Chinese Museum which preserves the history of the Chinese in Thailand.
This is where you'll stop at a 100-year-old coffee shop on Pha Sai Road. Relax and enjoy coffee and a snack while you take in the ambience.
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Tim Brando and Dan Bonner to Call Action for NCAA Men's Division II Men's Basketball Chamionship Game on CBS Sports
Friday, March 28, 2008 , Posted by Christopher Byrne at 12:10 PM, under 2008 NCAA Basketball Championships, CBS Sports, Chris Svendsen, Dan Bonner, Ken Mack, Television Broadcast Schedules, Tim Brando
Athens, GA (Mar 29, 2008) - CBS Sports will be broadcasting the 2008 NCAA Men's Division II Basketball Championship Game between Winona State (37-1) and Augusta State (27-6) on Saturday, March 29, 2008 at 2:30 PM ET. Tim Brando will be on play-by-play duty, while Dan Bonner will handle the color analyst role.
About Tim Brando
Now in his 13th year as play-by-play announcer for CBS Sports' NCAA Tournament coverage, Tim Brando also serves as the host of COLLEGE FOOTBALL TODAY, the Network's pre-game and studio show. He has called play-by-play for the CBS Television Network's coverage of the NFL and also serves as host of AT THE HALF, CBS Sports' college basketball halftime studio show. Brando called play-by-play for CBS Sports' college football coverage in 1997.
He provides commentary for Jefferson Pilot's coverage of SEC and ACC basketball broadcasts and he hosts the "Tim Brando Show" every afternoon on Sporting News radio.
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This is Dan Bonner's 18th year as an analyst for CBS Sports' NCAA Men's Basketball Championship coverage. In 2006, he served as reporter for the Final Four and Championship games. He served as an analyst for CBS Sports' coverage of the 2000 and 2001 Final Four and Championship games in HDTV.
He also serves as an analyst for regular-season college basketball games for CBS Sports and Fox Sports Net and has called ACC games for Jefferson Pilot Sports since 1983. Full profile...
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Robert Morales of Brooklyn was convicted of attempted murder for shooting parole officer Sam Salters in 2010, but at his sentencing on Tuesday, he explained rather vividly that he really had no choice. "Not all parole officers are bad, but d—head Salters and his partner don't deserve that title. They deserve to be here with me in orange," said Morales, adding, "To Salters and his partner, they can eat a d—k. With that in mind, thank you, your honor." Surprisingly, the judge was unmoved and gave him the maximum 40 years to life. Morales was similarly eloquent in his response, declaring "I'm f—ed for life," and flipping off the court with both hands as he was escorted from the room.
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A Generations' Dream Come True: A Hungarian Mass Was Held for the Csangos in Moldavia
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At the beginning of January, the Roman Catholic Episcopate of Jászvásár (Iasi) in Romania allowed the Csángó community to have a monthly mass in Bákó (Bacău) for the first time since the change of regime. Last Sunday, the Csangos could finally enjoy a Hungarian liturgy after what was a very long struggle. So many people attended the event that the temple was filled to its capacity.
The first Hungarian mass was held on January 27th. From now on, once every month, a Sunday mass will be held in Hungarian by priests Felix Mariut of Forrófalva (Faraoani) and Andrei Varga of Bogdánfalva (Valea Seaca).
The Csango people (Hungarian: Csángók, Romanian: Ceangăi) are a Hungarian ethnographic group of Roman Catholic faith living mostly in the Romanian region of Moldavia, especially in Bacău County. Their traditional language, Csango, an old Hungarian dialect, is currently used by only a minority of the Csango population group. It has been suggested that the name Csángó is the present participle of a Hungarian verb csángál meaning 'wander, as of going away'; purportedly a reference to sibilation, in the pronunciation of some Hungarian consonants by Csángó people.
Ethnographer Nyisztor Tinka, Chief of the Moldavian Union of Moldovan (MCSMSZ) responsible for religious affairs, told MTI that, "this was the first time in the history of the Episcopate of Jászvásár, founded in 1884, that there have been regular Hungarian masses in the area. The Moldavian Csángó's requests for Hungarian masses have been continuously rejected by the diocese of Bishop Petru Gherghel. He previously stated that he would only allow the Hungarian Mass if it was proven that at least two percent of the believers don't understand Romanian.
In an interview, the ethnographer shared that they have been struggling for the Hungarian liturgy for nearly thirty years. He also revealed that he plans to publish the two volumes of correspondence he had with various church leaders.
Nyisztor Tinka believes the Hungarian Mass in Bacau is as significant as Pope Francis' visit to Csíksomlyó in June.
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According to data published on the Episcopate's website, there are more than 200,000 Roman Catholic devotees in the eight Moldavian counties belonging to the Bishopric of Jászvásár. Hungarian researchers estimate the number of Moldavian Catholics speaking a dialect of the Hungarian language to be between 30,000 and 40,000.
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About Us Sports Journalism Blog 2022 Big Ten Men's Basketball Tournament Michigan State Returns to a 16th Big Ten Semifinal
Michigan State Returns to a 16th Big Ten Semifinal
INDIANAPOLIS – A Big Ten Men's Basketball Tournament marked by its unpredictability – with the top two-seeded teams eliminated before the semifinal round for the first time in its 24-year history, has retained one tradition.
The Michigan State Spartans are in the semifinals.
The seventh-seeded Spartans eliminated No. 2 Wisconsin, 69-63, at Gainbridge Fieldhouse. Michigan State (22-11) advanced to a semifinal meeting with No. 3 Purdue on Saturday afternoon. The semifinal appearance will be the ninth in 12 seasons for the Spartans, and the 16th time in 24 tournaments.
"I love Indianapolis, and I love March," said Michigan State coach Tom Izzo. "How's that?"
The Spartans made 58% of their shots in the second half after a first half that brought back memories of a dreary Michigan State-Wisconsin matchup in the 2000 Final Four. "Offensively, it was something that probably would make Dick Bennett and Bo Ryan proud," Izzo said of former Wisconsin coaches. "It was typical Michigan State-Wisconsin. First guy to 50 wins."
Senior center Marcus Bingham, Jr. led the Spartans with 19 points on 7-of-11 shooting and had 11 rebounds. He blocked three shots, the 18th multi-block game of the year.
"I'm proud of him, but happy for him," Izzo said.
Wisconsin's Johnny Davis, the sophomore guard and Big Ten Player of the Year, struggled in his first game after suffering what Wisconsin officials described as a lower body injury last Sunday. Davis scored 11 points on 3-of-19 shooting, with 11 rebounds.
"I just missed shots," Davis said. "It happens in the game of basketball."
The tempo and offensive efficiency picked up in the second half. Each team had droughts, but things began to click. Michigan State's 58% shooting in the second half was a turnaround from the 33% rate in the first half. The Badgers doubled their 24% shooting in the first half, improving to a 48% effort.
"From here on out," said Wisconsin coach Greg Gard, "40 minutes is all we're guaranteed."


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Rabies Information for Local Health Departments
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Information for Local Health Departments
This web page provides information and resources to assist local public health officials in their investigation and reporting of rabies cases and evaluation of potential exposures to rabies.
In the event of an animal bite or other potential rabies exposure incident, it is important to identify all persons who had contact with a confirmed or suspected rabid animal and assess their need for rabies post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP).
California regulation (17 California Code of Regulations [CCR] §2606) mandates that all bites from animals susceptible to rabies (mammals) must be reported to the local health officer, whether or not the animal is suspected of having rabies. Healthcare providers (including physicians and veterinarians) are required to report confirmed or suspected cases of rabies in either humans or animals to the local health department (LHD) immediately by telephone (17 CCR §2500). In turn, LHDs are required to report confirmed cases of rabies in humans and animals to the California Department of Public Health (CDPH).
Rabies Exposure
Contact with an animal does not always equate to rabies exposure. The minimum requirements for a rabies exposure are:
A rabid mammal
Rabies virus in its saliva
Saliva containing rabies virus deposited beneath the skin or on the mucous membranes
Investigation of Suspect/Confirmed Rabies
If a LHD is contacted by a physician who suspects rabies in a human patient, the LHD should gather and assess clinical, laboratory, and epidemiologic information to determine if rabies is likely. If the available evidence indicates strong or uncertain suspicion of rabies, the LHD should contact CDPH for consultation. The CDPH Viral and Rickettsial Diseases Laboratory (CDPH-VRDL) provides diagnostic testing of human patients. CDPH must be consulted and approve rabies testing before specimens may be submitted to CDPH-VRDL.
Testing protocol: Post-mortem testing of animals for rabies is performed at select local public health laboratories and CDPH-VRDL. Laboratories report positive test results immediately to the LHD from which the animal specimen was submitted. Laboratories and/or LHDs should report positive test results within one business day to the CDPH Veterinary Public Health Section (CDPH-VPHS) by completing Section I of the Animal Rabies Case Report (PDF). Samples that test positive at local public health laboratories should be submitted to CDPH-VRDL for rabies virus variant typing. CDPH-VRDL is available to provide assistance, including confirmatory testing, to local public health laboratories.
Managing exposures to an animal that tests positive for rabies: After a LHD is notified by a public health laboratory that an animal tested positive for rabies, LHD staff should determine if any humans or other animals had contact with the rabid animal and if the specific type of contact might have resulted in exposure to rabies virus. Decisions on rabies PEP for persons potentially exposed to rabies virus are made between a patient and health care provider following an assessment of the exposure incident and consultation with public health officials. Decisions on the disposition of any domestic animals (including dogs and cats) exposed to a rabid animal should be made by LHDs in coordination with city or county animal control authorities. After the LHD completes its epidemiologic investigation, Section II of the Animal Rabies Case Report (PDF) (and Section III if the rabid animal was a domestic animal) should be completed and submitted to CDPH-VPHS via email or fax. CDPH-VPHS is available to LHDs for consultation on possible rabies exposures.
For detailed information about reporting and rabies case investigation guidelines, please see:
CDPH California Compendium of Rabies Control and Prevention, 2012 (PDF)
Resources for LHDs
CDPH Investigation, Management, and Prevention of Animal Bites in California, 3rd edition, 2014 (PDF)
Practices and procedures related to the investigation and prevention of animal bites in California
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CDC Rabies Post-exposure Prophylaxis (PEP)
CDC Rabies Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP)
Programs for Uninsured and Underinsured Patients
Rabies Vaccine Recommendations and Guidelines of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)
CDPH California Compendium of U.S. Licensed Animal Rabies Vaccines Part III, 2012 (PDF) - Updated 12/22/21
List of all licensed animal rabies vaccines and those approved for use in dogs in California
NASPHV Animal Rabies Compendium, 2016 (PDF)
CDPH Rabies Fact Sheet (PDF) – updated June 2022
Rabies Caution Placards: Bat | Skunk | Fox
– for use by public health officials only
Caution signs for placement in public areas where rabies has been detected in key animal species
Digital files available by request - contact VetPH@cdph.ca.gov for more information
Laws and Regulations
Laws and Regulations Relating to Rabies — Excerpts from the California Health and Safety Code and the California Code of Regulations (PDF) - Updated December 2014
Laws and regulations related to the rabies surveillance and control program in California, including canine rabies vaccination and licensing laws and requirements for managing biting animals and animals that were bitten
CDPH Declaration of Rabies Areas in California (PDF) - Effective January 1, 2023
Local Rabies Control Activity (LRCA) Reports
CDPH 102 - Animal Rabies Case Report (PDF)
Case report form to be completed by public health laboratories and local health departments
CDPH Reported Animal Rabies in California
CDPH Rabies Surveillance in California Annual Reports
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CROMWELL -- A robber armed with a screwdriver held up a Berlin Road convenience store early Wednesday.
The thief made off with an undetermined amount of cash and four cartons of mentholated cigarettes, police said.
No one was injured in the incident -- the second robbery in town in less than a week. Last Thursday, a man held up the Gulf service station at 207 West St.
Police said they were called to the Cumberland Farms store at 38 Berlin Road at 3:50 a.m. Wednesday.
The clerk said that, at approximately 3:45 a.m., a lone white man came in and walked toward a snack rack in the center of the store.
As he did, the clerk, who was standing at the counter, turned his back; when he did, the suspect walked around the counter and confronted the clerk with a screwdriver, Police Chief Anthony J. Salvatore said.
"The suspect ordered the clerk to open the cash drawer," Salvatore said. When the clerk did as he was told, the thief scooped up the cash from the drawer; then the robber grabbed four cartons of Newport cigarettes and left.
"He was last seen headed toward the Berlin Road," Salvatore said.
The suspect was described as a clean-shaven, light-skinned white man in his early-to-late 20s, approximately 5-feet, 8-inches tall, weighing roughly 150 pounds.
He was wearing a dark knit cap, a dark-colored pullover sweatshirt and blue athletic-style pants with a white stripe running down the side.
Police are reviewing surveillance video from the store's security system.
In the meantime, they asked anyone who may have been passing the store or who otherwise may have any information about the incident to please contact them at (860) 635-2256.
Jeff Mill can be contacted by e-mail at jmill@middletownpress.com.


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Q: Website over HTTPS gives 502 error on Azure VM behind public load balancer I have an Azure VM behind an Azure Public Load Balancer. The VM is running a website. I can load the website in a browser over HTTP with no issues, but when I try HTTPS I get a 502 error.
I've got a load balancing rule set up to send 443 to the VM. I allow all connections on 443 via a Network Security Group. I've triple checked the config and been looking at this for hours, but can't make any progress.
One additional clue is that if I remote into the VM, set my DNS name to point to the internal IP of the VM (10.1.2.4 instead of pointing to the public IP of the load balancer), and load the site in a browser over HTTPS it works. I'm not sure what that means other than it seems my IIS config isn't the issue.
Any thoughts would be extremely appreciated, and I'm happy to provide more details. Thanks!
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In my Azure Load Balancer when I deleted my HTTPS load balancing rule and instead added a NAT rule redirecting 443 traffic directly to one of my VMs then HTTPS worked perfectly. So it appears to be something specific to my config using HTTPS with a Load Balancing rule.

A: I finally figured out the issue, hope this saves somebody else a few hours. The problem turned out to be a combination of my load balancer Probe settings and the IIS bindings for my websites.
In IIS on the VMs I have 2 websites configured. Since the 2 websites share 1 public IP, I'm using a Host Name when setting up the bindings in IIS. So basically my bindings are configured to send www.site.com traffic to site #1 and test.site.com traffic to site #2. I didn't set up a default binding to handle port 80 traffic with a DNS name other than those 2. So if you go to http://[internal_ip_or_machine_name] no page gets loaded because there isn't a binding to handle it.
My probe was an HTTP probe set to hit /probe.html on port 80. The problem is that the probe likely hits http://[internal_ip_or_machine_name]/probe.html since the probe knows nothing about the DNS names I use, and that URL doesn't have a binding to handle it in IIS. So the probe was failing and assuming all of my VMs were offline. This resulted in the 502 error.
Not sure what fix I'll do yet. I'll either add a default binding for port 80 in IIS that points to the production website, or I'll use a TCP probe.
What really threw me for a loop is that HTTP worked fine as I mentioned above. I must have happened to have a default IIS binding in place while testing HTTP and then removed it before testing HTTPS. Now without a valid probe, both HTTP and HTTPS fail. With a valid probe, both work.

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'Overwatch': Open Division details revealed
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Here are the things you need to know about the 'Overwatch' Open Division
by Issie Hinata (article) and Milos Kitanovic (video)
Gamers who have been working hard to get on the master level in "Overwatch" are finally paying off. Just recently, Blizzard announced the details about the game's Open Division. The latest move from the game developer is described as the testing ground for players to prove their strengths as a team. Players can make a name for themselves in the game's Esport scene and earn rewards as well.
"Overwatch" Open Division will introduce organized play for any player starting from Masters rank and higher. This will be a very good venue for players aspiring to be in the professional league of the game.
This is for all player who has reached 3500 SR or in the Master level or above in the fourth competitive season of the game. In addition, those who were able to complete the Open Division during the regular season will be rewarded with $10 Blizzard credit in appreciation of their efforts.
Aside from those, this will aid in tracking a team with the use of free agent queue for players who needs teammates to play with. Moreover, this is not a one-time event but will run even up to the future competitive season of the game. This would give players the chance to reach the required rank even if they were not able to reach it in the fourth competitive season of the game.
For the future seasons, players who will be able to finish on top in the Open Division will be given a chance to get into "Overwatch" Contenders.
The Contenders is the game's development league for future game's League professionals. In the US, in Australia and New Zealand, the Open Division will be run by ESL.
On the other hand, Starladder will handle the operations for Eastern Europe while Faceit takes care of the Western Europe's region. For teams interested to sign-up, the period has already started and will run through June 21.
They can sign-up using their Blizzard account in the game's Open Division website.
For players who would like to participate in "Overwatch" Open Division, he must meet all the requirements specified by Blizzard. This includes 3500 in ranking or higher from the previous season's in-game rank. In addition, the player must only play in the specified region where his Battlenet account is registered.
Moreover, he must be 13 years of age or older. After this, Blizzard will run an eligibility check when the signup time closes on June 21. Those found qualified after the eligibility check will be communicated by the team.
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Rosberg corrects qualifying error to win in Austria
Posted: 22 June 2015 by Michael Lamonato
Nico Rosberg has cruised to victory at the Red Bull Ring after seizing the lead from teammate Lewis Hamilton at the first turn.
Rosberg executed a perfect start to force the issue on the inside line at the first turn and take the lead, before defended against an attempt around the outside of turn three, but maintained the advantage and wasn't challenged again.
Even a safety car prompted by a dramatic accident between Kimi Raikkonen and Fernando Alonso — during which Alonso's McLaren leapt over the top of the Ferrari before coming to a stop on the nose cone — wasn't enough to loosen Rosberg's grip on the lead.
"It's an awesome feeling to win again here," he said on the podium. "Very, very happy.
"The start made the race, then I managed to defend in the first couple of corners.
"I really tried to push flat out, and the gap opened up to Lewis."
If Rosberg's victory was ever under threat, it was when the driver reported increasingly severe vibrations from his front tyres in the closing stages of the race.
"All eyes on that," he implored of his pit wall, but executive director (technical) Paddy Lowe confirmed after the race that the team thought it unlikely the issue was anything more than a nuisance.
Hamilton looked a neutered version of his ordinarily feisty self, looking unlikely to mount a challenge at any point in the race.
The Briton hung around five seconds behind his teammate, but never closed until the end of the grand prix.
Matters were compounded when Hamilton crossed the white dividing line on the pit lane exit, earning him a five-second penalty added on to his race time. Though his buffer to Massa easily absorbed the punishment, it made his unlikely victory near impossible.
"I was pushing as hard as I could, but the second stint was just about making the distance, which is what I was trying to do," he summed.
Felipe Massa scored Williams' second podium finish of the year after Valtteri Bottas' third place in Canada a fortnight ago.
The Brazilian's cause was helped by a slow stop from Sebastian Vettel, who qualified third and held that position for the first half of the race.
Trouble with the Ferrari driver's rear right tyre during the stop dropped him down to fourth, and spent the second half of the race chasing the Williams, but ran out of laps to execute the pass.
"We managed to get Sebastian with the problem he had at the pit stop," acknowledged Massa.
"I understood maybe at the end of the race he would be behind me because they were one or two tenths quicker every lap, but I just got there.
"I'm so happy. It was an amazing race and a fantastic result for the team."
Valtteri Bottas suffered behind the Force India of Nico Hulkenberg for he first half of the race, and was only able to get past until lap 27.
Force India reacted by pitting Hulkenberg on the next lap, which prompted Williams to do likewise to protect Bottas' position.
Bottas, however, endured a slower stop than Hulkenberg and lost the position after exiting the pits, and was kept at bay until lap 36 — but the damage had already been done.
Hulkenberg, though — who won at Le Mans last week with Porsche, if you didn't know — held on to sixth in the last race behind his A-spec Force India.
Pastor Maldonado survived a terrifying loss of traction in the DRS zone in the last moments of the race while battling Verstappen, but survived to sake seventh place from the Dutchman.
Maldonado tried to pull out of Verstappen's slipstream with the DRS open and immediately lost the rear, but managed to keep his Lotus on the track and see his Toro Rosso prey run wide into the next corner, allowing him to close the deal.
Sergio Perez recovered from qualifying sixteenth — P14 on the grid after both Red Bulls took their engine penalties — to score two points.
His ninth place looked threatened by Daniel Ricciardo, who was closing fast in a truncated final stint on the supersoft tyres.
The Australian, leading Red Bull's charge at its home race, fell three seconds short, out of laps.
Ricciardo waited until lap 52 of the 71 lap race to switch from the soft to supersoft tyre, and had enough pace to put 20 pass Sauber's Felipe Nasr with 10 laps to go and finish 20 seconds up the road of the Brazilian.
Nasr gave a strong performance, but the Sauber didn't have the pace to fend off attacks from faster midfield cars with its underpowered a-spec Ferrari engine.
Daniil Kvyat looked uncompetitive on his way to P12 after sustaining bodywork damage on the first lap, while Marcus Ericsson finished two laps down after serving a drive-through penalty for jumping the start.
Roberto Merhi brought up the end of the grid in P14 as the only Manor car left in the race after teammate Will Stevens had his car stop on the opening lap.
Carlos Sainz and Romain Grosjean were the only two other retirements, the former after losing power in his Renault engine, the latter with a terminal gearbox problem.
Formula One continues with the 2015 British Grand Prix at Silverstone on 5 July.
2015 AUSTRIAN GRAND PRIX — PROVISIONAL CLASSIFICATION
1 Nico Rosberg Mercedes 1:30:16.930 25 2
2 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes +8.800s 18 1
3 Felipe Massa Williams-Mercedes +17.573s 15 4
4 Sebastian Vettel Ferrari +18.181s 12 3
5 Valtteri Bottas Williams-Mercedes +53.604s 10 6
6 Nico Hulkenberg Force India-Mercedes +64.075s 8 5
7 Pastor Maldonado Lotus-Mercedes +1 lap 6 10
8 Max Verstappen Toro Rosso-Renault +1 lap 4 7
9 Sergio Perez Force India-Mercedes +1 lap 2 13
10 Daniel Ricciardo Red Bull Racing-Renault +1 lap 1 18
11 Felipe Nasr Sauber-Ferrari +1 lap 0 8
12 Daniil Kvyat Red Bull Racing-Renault +1 lap 0 15
13 Marcus Ericsson Sauber-Ferrari +2 laps 0 11
14 Roberto Merhi Marussia-Ferrari +3 laps 0 16
Rt Romain Grosjean Lotus-Mercedes Gearbox 0 9
Rt Carlos Sainz Toro Rosso-Renault Engine 0 12
DNF Jenson Button McLaren-Honda Engine 0 20
DNF Will Stevens Marussia-Ferrari Electrics 0 17
DNF Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari Collision 0 14
DNF Fernando Alonso McLaren-Honda Collision 0 19
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Roundup: Mideast experts highlight China's role in resolving Palestinian issue
CAIRO, Nov. 29 (Xinhua) -- Experts in the Middle East have said that Chinese President Xi Jinping's congratulatory message on the UN observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People highlights China's role in resolving the Palestinian issue.
In his message, Xi said that China, as a good friend, partner and brother of the Palestinian people, is a staunch supporter of Palestine-Israel peace.
The Chinese president also said that China supports the just cause of the Palestinian people to restore their legitimate national rights, and supports Palestine in building an independent and fully sovereign state on the basis of the 1967 borders and with East Jerusalem as its capital.
He called on the international community to seek a comprehensive and just resolution for the Palestinian issue, and to help Palestine and Israel achieve peaceful coexistence and common development.
Palestinian analysts expressed gratitude to the Chinese leader for his strong support.
"We appreciate the Chinese president's support for the Palestinian people in their just cause, and as an international issue, it must be resolved on democratic foundations that respect Palestinian human rights," said Adnan Abu Amer, head of the political science and media department of Umma University in Gaza.
He noted that China has provided financial support to Palestine by funding sustainable development projects, which will contribute significantly to the economic development of the Palestinian society.
Maher Shameya, a political analyst working for several local and Arab newspapers, said Xi's message reflects China's real support to the political, economic and social rights of the Palestinians, "so as to ensure that they can live in security like many other people of the world."
Husam Dajani, a Gaza-based analyst at Ummah Open University, said, "China can effectively play an important role in the peace process between the two sides."
Iraqi political experts regarded Xi's message as responsible for and supportive of the justice in the world.
Najib al-Jubouri, a politics lecturer in Iraq's al-Nahrain University, said that Xi's message confirms that there is a need for "a comprehensive and just resolution" for the Palestinian issue, which could help both the Israelis and the Palestinians to achieve peaceful coexistence.
"Xi's announcement of readiness to work with the international community to push forward the Palestinian-Israeli peace talks reflects China's responsible and unbiased policy, and gives a strong push to the peace process in the Middle East," said Ibrahim al-Ameri, lecturer of politics at Iraq's Baghdad University.
Raed Omari, a Jordanian political analyst, noted that China has always supported the Palestinian cause at the UN and at all international arenas.
"China is a strong supporter of the two-state solution, which Jordan and the rest of the world stress is the key solution to the Palestinian issue," Omari said.
Nasser Bouchiba, president of the Africa-China Cooperation Association for Development in Morocco, said that Arab people appreciate China's important role in the peace process in the Middle East.
"We hope China could urge Israel and Palestine to settle the disputes through political approach," said Bouchiba. Enditem


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Spokane City Council asks Union Pacific to halt oil train traffic
Source: The Spokesman-Review
The Spokane City Council is calling on Union Pacific to halt train shipments of oil through the Columbia River town of Mosier, Oregon, until the oil tankers from Friday's derailment are removed from the accident site.
"Every time we open up a new port, with oil, we are playing Russian roulette with our citizens," said Spokane City Council President Ben Stuckart.
The council made the nonbinding request in a 5-1 vote Monday night. Councilman Mike Fagan cast the lone vote against the resolution. Councilwoman Karen Stratton was absent from the meeting.
Leaders and residents in Mosier reacted with shock and anger as Union Pacific began running trains through the Columbia River Gorge town just three days after a fiery derailment forced residents to evacuate and water and sewage systems to shut down.
Residents shot video from an overpass of trains sliding past crumpled and burnt oil tankers, some of them still dripping oil onto the tracks. The town's mayor and fire chief expressed deep concern about the trains running again before a full investigation was complete and before the damaged tankers were cleared.
Trains began running Sunday through the town of about 400 people, carrying mixed goods – but no crude oil.
The Spokane City Council's resolution backs the city of Mosier's request for a temporary halt in rail traffic until hazardous debris has been removed and the site has been inspected and declared safe. If Union Pacific doesn't comply with the request, the U.S. Department of Transportation should act, Stuckart said.
"I think we need to be taking every action that we possibly can at this point," he said.
Conservation advocates, elected officials and members of the Spokane Tribe of Indians gave testimony Monday night almost exclusively in favor of the resolution.
Spokane Riverkeeper Jerry White called the resolution "the most sane and reasonable response in the short-term to an industry that appears to be out of control."
State Sen. Andy Billig, D-Spokane, said train-carried oil posed an "imminent threat" to the region.
"This is simply a dangerous product, being transported in a dangerous way," Billig said. "Are we going to wait for a train disaster in Spokane before we take action?"
David Brown Eagle, vice chairman of the Spokane Tribal Business Council, applauded the council for taking action that he said would protect future generations.
"Whatever happens to the land happens to us," Brown Eagle said. "Whatever happens to the water happens to us."
Fagan said his vote against the resolution should not be seen as minimizing what he called a tragedy in Mosier, or any of the other recent oil train derailments. But he called the resolution "a political statement" and criticized its strong language.
"I couldn't help but feel, as the old adage goes, 'you can't let a good tragedy go to waste,' " Fagan said. "The policy statement was issued for the wrong reason."
The city should wait for an investigation into the cause of the derailment, and defer to the opinions of federal regulatory experts on the safety of running trains through Mosier, before passing "a vague resolution," Fagan added.
"Rail transports a lot of nasty stuff," Fagan said. "Why are we just excluding oil trains?"
Stuckart said the city also will ask Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and U.S. Sens. Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell to work to halt shipments of Bakken crude oil through Spokane and the Columbia River Gorge until North Dakota and the railroads can assure the product is safe.
He and council members Lori Kinnear and Breean Beggs are co-sponsoring a ballot initiative to that effect, which will be voted on by residents in November if it receives council support.
Language for the proposed ballot initiative will be discussed at a forum at 7 p.m. June 29 at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 4340 W. Fort George Wright Drive.
The derailment in the small Oregon town highlights Spokane's vulnerability in the event of a similar accident here, Stuckart said, noting risks to the Spokane Valley-Rathdrum Prairie Aquifer, which provides most of the region's drinking water, and to Spokane's downtown corridor.
Because railroads are federally regulated, "it seems like we can't do much except implore the federal government," Stuckart said.
But a ballot measure noting the risks to public safety and public health, and backed by citizens, could make a difference," he said.
"Maybe it would carry some weight. That's what I'm hoping," he said.
The derailment occurred on a stretch of track that passes within 300 feet of the edge of the K-8 campus in Mosier, 70 miles east of Portland. Sandwiched between the tracks and forested cliffs at a bend in the river, Mosier is part of a scenic area that's world famous for the summer winds that blow through the Columbia River Gorge and attract wind surfers and kite sailors.
Union Pacific defended its actions Monday, saying it was safe to run other trains while crews continued to drain oil from the crashed tankers. Thirteen tankers remained and 10 still contained crude, said Raquel Espinoza, a spokeswoman for the railroad. Trains are moving at about 10 mph.
"We will not run any crude oil trains through this area any time soon," Union Pacific spokesman Justin Jacobs said Monday morning. "The community is at the forefront of our efforts, and we're absolutely aware of their concerns."
Sixteen tank cars went off the tracks Friday. Fire started in four of the cars. An estimated 42,000 gallons of crude oil was released, said Don Hamilton, a spokesman for the state, federal and tribal agencies responding. About 10,000 gallons were recovered in wastewater systems, while the rest was burned off, captured by booms or absorbed into soil, he said.
No injuries have been reported. Dozens of residents have been cleared to return home.
The federal government regulates interstate railroad commerce, so cities and towns have no regulatory power over the movement of oil trains.
Eric de Place, policy director with Sightline Institute, a progressive think tank, said states and cities can deny projects in other ways, such as through zoning or permit restrictions. Hoquiam, Washington, last year approved a ban on bulk crude oil storage facilities. Vancouver is considering a similar ban.
Mosier is among dozens of communities that have officially called for stronger federal safety measures and other actions because of increasing oil train shipments through the Northwest.
"The federal government, the railroad and oil companies need to protect us," said Paul Blackburn, mayor of Hood River, a city about 7 miles west of Mosier.
Mosier Fire Chief Jim Appleton said he had been a supporter of Union Pacific's right to move oil through his town until the derailment.
Appleton, who operates with a full-time volunteer firefighting crew of six and has 30-year-old firetrucks, said the derailment terrified him. Firefighters poured 1,000 gallons of Columbia River water per minute on the blaze for eight hours straight to bring it under control, he said.
"The media has been saying this incident is 'near Mosier,' " he said. "No. It went end-to-end through our entire town."


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Home Music New Details Emerge About Rihanna and ASAP Rocky's Relationship
New Details Emerge About Rihanna and ASAP Rocky's Relationship
Not that it's anyone's business, but this article exists to inform you that words like "inseparable" and "happy" are prominently featured in the latest anonymous sources-citing reports on Rihanna and ASAP Rocky.
First up, I suppose we'll go with this one from People in which it's stated the two were seen earlier this month walking around NYC. At another point, this surely crucial report added, they were seen enjoying a meal with friends at Beatrice Inn.
"They've been inseparable the past few weeks," one source told the publication. "It's a new relationship, but they both seem very into it." Another source said Rihanna "seems very happy dating ASAP," with both of them having recently been involved with giving back to their respective communities.
"They both are very much about helping out in the communities where they grew up," a People source said.
The esteemed Us Weekly also got in on the action, sharing a report this week in which one of their sources says Rocky "has been very into Rihanna for years" and "was always the instigator" in their "flirtatious connection." Previously, Rihanna—per this source—would simply "brush off his advances and kept him in the friend zone."
According to the riveting report, things changed for Rihanna and Rocky over the summer.
"They've been together ever since," an "insider" said.
The whole "they're reportedly dating" thing went into high gear in late November. This spawned a wave of reactions, including one from Lil Uzi Vert, who joked that the rumors "can't be true."
Anyway, here's a "Fashion Killa" throwback:


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"Brazil on Fire": Lula Launches Campaign to Unseat Bolsonaro & End His Authoritarian Rule
StoryAugust 18, 2022
freelance journalist, former editor of NACLA, and host of the new podcast Brazil on Fire.
"Brazil on Fire: Democracy and Dictatorship"
This week former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva formally launched his campaign to challenge Brazil's far-right President Jair Bolsonaro this October. Fear is growing Bolsonaro might try to stay in office even if he loses, possibly with help from the Brazilian military. Lula, a union leader who held office from 2003 through 2010, is running on a platform to lift up Brazil's poor, preserve the Amazon rainforest and protect Brazil's Indigenous communities. In 2018, he was jailed on trumped-up charges, paving the way for the far-right Jair Bolsonaro to rise to power, but his convictions were annulled last year, restoring his political rights to challenge Bolsonaro. The presidential front-runners hold "two visions for Brazil," says reporter Michael Fox, former editor of NACLA and host of the new podcast "Brazil on Fire."
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AMY GOODMAN: Today we spend the hour looking at Brazil, a country at a crossroads. On October 2nd, voters will head to the polls for one of the world's most important elections of the year. Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is challenging Brazil's current far-right President Jair Bolsonaro. Lula is running on a platform to reduce inequality, preserve the Amazon rainforest and protect Brazil's Indigenous communities. He is a former union leader who served as president of Brazil from 2003 to 2010. During that time, he helped lift tens of millions of Brazilians out of poverty. In 2018, he was jailed on trumped-up charges, paving the way for Bolsonaro's election. Lula was eventually freed last year after a Brazilian judge annulled all convictions against him.
On Tuesday, Lula held his first campaign rally at a car factory outside São Paulo. Lula denounced Bolsonaro's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has killed nearly 700,000 Brazilians.
LUIZ INÁCIO LULA DA SILVA: [translated] Bolsonaro, you didn't believe in medicine; you believed in your lie. Because if there's someone who is possessed by the devil, it is Bolsonaro. He's a liar like I have never seen anyone lie. … I want Bolsonaro to hear my words: There will be no lies and no fake news that will keep you ruling this country, Bolsonaro. … We don't want a government that distributes weapons; we want a government that distributes books. We don't want a government that feeds hate; we want a government that feeds love.
AMY GOODMAN: That was Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva speaking Tuesday. While polls show Lula in the lead, fear is growing that President Jair Bolsonaro may try to steal the election, possibly with help from the Brazilian military. On Tuesday, Bolsonaro also formally launched his reelection campaign.
PRESIDENT JAIR BOLSONARO: [translated] Our country does not want to take steps back. We don't want gender ideology in schools. Our country does not want to legalize drugs. Our country respects life from its conception. Our country does not want to become an ally to communism in other countries; a country that wants a president who defends private property, a country that increasingly preaches its people the freedom to raise their children. We are going to talk politics today, so tomorrow no one will prohibit us from believing in God.
AMY GOODMAN: To talk more about the Brazilian election, we're joined by Michael Fox, freelance journalist, former editor of NACLA, host of the new podcast Brazil on Fire. Fox's most recent piece for NACLA is headlined "Brazil on Fire: Democracy and Dictatorship." We are reaching him in Flores, Guatemala. Usually he lives in Brazil.
Michael, welcome back to Democracy Now! We're about, in our next segment, to talk about the murders of the journalist Dom Phillips and the Indigenous researcher Bruno Pereira and then talk about a new film about the struggle of the Indigenous in the Amazon. Put this in a broader context of the significance of this week, Lula's announcement that he is running for president in the October election, and Bolsonaro possibly intimating that he might not leave even if he loses.
MICHAEL FOX: Thanks so much, Amy. Great to be back.
No, this is huge. And obviously you're seeing two different visions for Brazil. One, Lula is pushing, is about democracy, saying we need unity, we need to bring back the country, what we had many, many years ago. And Bolsonaro is obviously pushing a much more authoritarian stance. That's what we've seen in Brazil over the last four years. That's what led, in large part, to kind of the Wild West attitude up in the Amazon, like you're going to be talking about in a little bit, where Bolsonaro called for the development of the Amazon, and we saw this huge uptick in the amount of violence, invasions of Indigenous territories, killings and whatnot in that region. But this is extremely significant, what we're seeing.
And it's also really important to look at the two places that the different candidates went to just this week. ABC, São Paulo, where Lula was, that's his home base. That's where he got his start as a former union leader back in the 1970s, led the major marches that would then show the beginning of the end of the dictatorship. And Bolsonaro, in Juiz de Fora in Minas Gerais, that was actually where he got stabbed back four years ago in the lead-up to the campaign.
So they're both kind of going back to their origins — Bolsonaro, kind of this renewal, using this kind of religious language, because, obviously, Bolsonaro, one of his main groups of support are the evangelicals, obviously, and so his focus on family values and whatnot, and Bolsonaro [sic] saying, "We can take this country back." And that's what many, many people have been talking about for a very long time. They've been excited about Lula's candidacy since, you know, before he was jailed four years ago, with the idea of coming — returning to some sort of democratic normalcy.
AMY GOODMAN: In fact, you were there outside the jail when he went to prison and when he came out. The significance of being exonerated of all the charges?
MICHAEL FOX: Oh, it was huge. I mean, he was not — and we have to put this into context, right? It wasn't just one conviction that was against him. There were roughly two dozen accusations and convictions against him, and they've all been tossed out. And what it basically shows is we had a legal system that was being used in order to try and tank Lula and tank the left, take the Workers' Party.
And, in fact, the Supreme Court came out just last year saying that Judge Sérgio Moro, who was the anti-corruption judge, was heralded by many on the right, in conservative sectors, for kind of attacking corruption across the country — and even the Supreme Court came out saying that he was biased in his conviction. And, of course, that was largely — we knew that, because of the leaks from The Intercept that came out back in June of 2019 that showed that Judge Sérgio Moro was actually in connection with prosecutors, was training them, was teaching the prosecutors, telling them what they needed to do, and also the prosecutors were trying to scheme about how to keep the Workers' Party from coming back to power. So, it's extremely complicated. This is the history of Brazil. But, you know, very, very important and extremely exciting that we see Lula now back and running.
AMY GOODMAN: I want to go back to 2018, when we spoke to Lula, when, at the time, he was running for president. It was right before he was jailed.
LUIZ INÁCIO LULA DA SILVA: [translated] I was not accused of corruption. I was accused because of a lie in a police investigation, a lie in an indictment by the Office of the Attorney General, and in the judgment of Judge Moro, because there is only one evidence, of my innocence, in this entire trial, which my defense counsel explained in a magisterial manner.
AMY GOODMAN: So, at the time he then couldn't run for president. Bolsonaro became president. Talk about Bolsonaro then being called the "Trump of the tropics," what happened through the pandemic, and then what he's talking about for this election, what he's intimating — again, very similar to what we hear former President Trump saying.
MICHAEL FOX: Extremely similar. And look, the pandemic was a disaster in Brazil. Like you said, almost 700,000 dead. And Bolsonaro, the entire time, fought with governors against lockdowns and restrictions. He said everyone just needed to get back to work. He pushed unproven drugs and basically peddled fake news and conspiracy theories the entire way, said he wouldn't wear a mask in public, and said it was fine; even if he got sick, it wasn't a big deal. Even when vaccines came out — many different companies came to him offering those vaccines early — he refused to buy them. And that's part of the reason why there were so many dead. And, in fact, it came out just last year in a Senate investigation that accused Bolsonaro of nine different crimes about — regarding the COVID pandemic, including crimes against humanity for not protecting Indigenous communities enough, and, of course, the lack of oxygen, when the oxygen ran out in Manaus, which was just a disaster. So, this is just a metaphor. It's a symbol for what Bolsonaro's reality has been across the country, where he's been pushing consistently conspiracy theories, lies and fake news, very, very similar to Trump. And he's talking about doing the same thing.
Now, one thing, Amy, is really important to understand, however: He's not focused on the issues. He doesn't want to talk about inflation and doesn't want to talk about the rising poverty. What he wants to talk about are so-called family values. He wants to talk about issues that are important for evangelicals. He wants to dive into the culture war of good versus evil. And he wants to talk about abortion. He wants to talk about fighting homosexuality, gutting LGBTQ rights. These are issues where Bolsonaro really thinks he can gain support. And, of course, roughly — he basically won the 2018 election because of the evangelical vote. That was extremely important. It's important to remember also that evangelicals have risen across the country in huge numbers, now make up roughly a third of the population. And this is the world's largest Catholic country. And so, this is really important for Bolsonaro.
But Lula is also fighting back. Lula, you know, he's been embracing evangelicals more and more. And like you heard in that quote, he said that Bolsonaro is possessed by the devil. And so, he's also trying to use that terminology to kind of push back there.
AMY GOODMAN: Do you think he can get the military to stop this election or to change the results of it?
MICHAEL FOX: Amy, this is one of the biggest questions, right? He's been calling on his people to turn out in the streets on September 7th, which is, of course — is Brazil's Independence Day. It's also the bicentennial Independence Day this year. Many people are concerned about what may happen. Is he going to be able to do some sort of a January 6th coup moment? And the big question is: Will the military support him? And that's really up in the air. Now, we [inaudible] the military push back at him at times. In fact, just last year we saw the largest military crisis in 20 or 30 years in Brazil, because Bolsonaro was — you know, he was asking his military officials to do things that they did not want to do. And so, the big question on everybody's mind is: Is he going to try to do something like this? And we don't really know what it's going to look like at this point. What I can say is he's going to continue to push his theme of fraud. He's going to continue to say that they should be doing paper ballots. And his latest thing was saying that the military should be filming people inside voting booths as a way to ensure transparency.
AMY GOODMAN: Well, Michael, we're going to have —
MICHAEL FOX: What that really means is —
AMY GOODMAN: We're going to have to leave it there, but I want to thank you so much for being with us. Michael Fox, freelance journalist, former editor of NACLA, host of a new podcast. It's called Brazil on Fire: Democracy and Dictatorship, the podcast a joint project of NACLA and the The Real News Network. Michael Fox's wife's grandmother, her uncle, friends, relatives, all died of COVID in Brazil.
Coming up, we'll look at the recent murder of British journalist Dom Phillips and the Indigenous researcher Bruno Pereira in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, speaking with an Indigenous lawyer who's just returned from the United States, where he was talking to congressmembers. He helped lead a search and rescue mission for the two men.
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Columbia County 911 dispatched Canaan Firefighters and Chatham Rescue at 10:35am for a reported car / tractor trailer accident. Red Rock responded under automatic mutual aid. The accident was located on State Route 22 and the eastbound exit ramp of the New York State Thruway in the Town of Canaan.
Firefighters were back in service at 11:45am.


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Q: What is the syntax of the Dockerfile EXPOSE Command? Reading the docker documentation at https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/builder/#expose the expose command syntax is described as:
EXPOSE <port> [<port>/<protocol>...]

To me, this indicates that I can use it like:
EXPOSE 8080
EXPOSE 8080 8081/tcp 8082/udp

but not
EXPOSE 8080/tcp

The examples they give contradict this:
EXPOSE 80/udp

and to expose the same port on different protocols they suggest using two lines:
EXPOSE 80/tcp
EXPOSE 80/udp

What does the syntax description actually mean?
Does EXPOSE 8080 8081 expose two ports?
Is EXPOSE 80/tcp 80/udp illegal?

A: The syntax is actually something like
"EXPOSE ", { p };

where
p = port, [ "/", proto ], " ";

(in EBNF)

Does EXPOSE 8080 8081 expose two ports?

Yes

Is EXPOSE 80/tcp 80/udp illegal?

No


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The influential conductor who transformed the Modesto Symphony Orchestra from an amateur group to a professional organization has died.
Sandor Salgo died Saturday at his Stanford home. He was 97.
Known for his elegant Old World manners, depth of knowledge about music and his shock of unruly white hair, he directed the orchestra from 1976 to 1988 and instituted several changes that remain in effect today.
Because of him, the orchestra has auditions, includes highly skilled Bay Area musicians and performs more than six concerts a year. During his tenure, the orchestra's annual budget increased from $41,300 to $380,000. The orchestra now presents 22 concerts a year and has a budget of $2.2 million.