>> The Virgin passenger spacecraft became the first US commercial flight with humans aboard to reach space, since America's Shuttle program ended in 2011.
The spaceship two spacecraft took off Thursday morning from the Mojave air and space port, about 90 miles north of Los Angeles. And Branson watched with hundreds of spectators. Reuters' reporter, Eric Johnson was there.>> I was standing steps from Branson moments after he learned that the spaceship had crossed the 50 mile threshold he had been waiting for and actually reached the fringes of space.
He got visibly emotional, you could see the relief and joy in his face, and mixed emotions. At one point, he wiped a tear from his eye as he turned and hugged spectators, and hi-fived spectators.>> The plane reentered the atmosphere at 2.5 times the speed of sound and landed a few minutes later.
>> My best guess is that I'll be in space within a few months from now. Once there, 100% sure that every box is taped, then I plan to go up. And then we have 700 people who signed up to go into space, and we'll start sending those people to space.
>> The flight had two pilots on board, as well as a mannequin named Annie, as a stand-in passenger. The rocket was high enough for the pilots to experience weightlessness, and see the curvature of the planet. Billionaire businessmen from Branson to Jeff Bezos, to Elon Musk have been racing to offer space tourism to the wealthy.
Musk's SpaceX already hooked Japanese billionaire, Yusaku Maezawa to be the company's first passenger on a trip around the moon on its Big Falcon Rocket spaceship tentatively scheduled for 2023. Among those already signed up for Virgin Galactic, actor Leonardo DiCaprio and pop star Justin Bieber. It'll cost them 250 grand for a 90-minute thrill ride that could kick off as early as next year.


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What is the third most spoken language in the world?
The third most spoken language in the world is Spanish.
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Which sentence suggests the greatest amount of psychic distance
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Which is the third most spoken language?
The third most spoken language in the world is Spanish, if you include all the people who speak it as a second language.
What is the percentage of Spanish speakers in the world?
Spanish is the third most spoken language in the world; English is second; and, Mandarin is first.
Is Spanish the most commonly spoken language in the world?
Based on population, Chinese Mandarin is the most commonly spoken language in the world. Spanish is 2nd, followed by English and Bengali.
What percentage of world's population speak English?
It is estimated that almost 30% of humans can speak English (over two billion). English is the most spoken language on the planet, counting first, second, third, etc. language speakers. It is the official language of over 50 countries and it is a language of business and marketing world wide.
What is the second most spoken language in Massachusetts?
Spanish is the second most spoken language in Massachusetts, followed closely by Portuguese.
Why is Spanish taught in school?
Spanish is the third most spoken language in the world. Mandarin (Chinese) is the first most spoken and English is second most spoken language in the world.
After Chinese and English what is the third most spoken language in the world?
What is the 3rd most spoken language spoken in Austria?
The third most spoken language in Austria is Hungarian.
Which language is the most widely spoken language in the world?
Mandarin Chinese is the most spoken language in the world.
What language is mostly spoken aside form English in the US?
The most spoken language is Chinese, then the second most spoken is English, and the third most spoken language is Spanish.
Why is English the most spoken language in the world?
English is not the most spoken language in the world, the most spoken language in the world is Chinese since China is the biggest country in the world. English is the most easiest language to speak in the world but Chinese is the most spoken one.
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English is the most widely spoken language in the world.
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Previous / BMW DTM team voices fuel mileage fears for Monza Next / DTM tyre choice "doesn't work for BMW", says Rowe boss
Why ex-F1 racer Klien hasn't raced in the DTM until now
Ex-Formula 1 racer Christian Klien says he never seriously considered racing in the DTM until the championship's move to GT3 cars presented an opportunity to contest a part campaign in 2021.
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Sometime Jaguar and Red Bull grand prix racer Klien will take part in three of the eight DTM rounds this year in a McLaren 720S GT3 entered by JP Motorsport, with plans to expand to a full season programme in 2022.
Klien has competed in a wide variety of championships since he contested the last three of his 51 grands prix with Hispania Racing in 2010, sampling everything from single-seaters and touring cars to LMP1 prototypes.
This included two outings in the Le Mans 24 Hours - where he had previously finished on the overall podium with Peugeot - select Supercars enduro events including Bathurst, a one-off appearance in SUPER GT's flagship Suzuka 1000km event, and a third-place finish in the 2015 European Le Mans Series standings.
More recently, he has raced almost exclusively in GT3 categories in Europe, and finished second in the Pro-Am class of the International GT Open last year with JP Motorsport.
However, the Austrian driver says the DTM was never an option for him during the championship's Class One era, as he felt the barriers to entry were too high to overcome for a non-factory driver.
"The DTM was never really on my radar," Klien told Motorsport.com's sister title Motorsport-Total.com. "That was for the following reason: either you are a works driver for BMW, Mercedes or Audi, or you have a lot of money and buy into a private team.
"All the manufacturers have never-ending factory drivers. There were not only the DTM drivers, but also the GT3 drivers who all wanted to drive DTM as well. So you needed to be close to a factory in order to be able to drive in the DTM at some point."
BMW DTM team voices fuel mileage fears for Monza
Glock getting to grips with 'Space Drive' system in DTM
#111 JP Motorsport McLaren 720 S GT3: Patryk Krupinski, Karol Bascz, Christian Klien
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Klien admitted that he held a brief discussion with WRT when the Belgian team was fielding two customer Audi RS5 DTMs in 2019, but chose not to proceed with the talks as he felt the asking price of one million euros was too high for someone of his experience.
"I got interested because I know [WRT team boss] Vincent Vosse from the GT3 scene. And that's how we got into conversation at the race track," said Klien.
"Then he explained to me what the bill looked like - for him, too. Then it became clear relatively quickly that you need a sponsor to finance the whole thing - and I didn't have one.
"The whole project with two cars costs six million euros. He gets three million from Audi and has to set up three million himself. Even as a professional driver, you have to bring a million."
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Do you want to be part of Yoko Ono's new art project?
"Arising" by the Japanese artist will be exhibited at the Memory and Tolerance Museum in Mexico City.
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The latest activism-inspired art project "Arising" by Japanese artist Yoko Ono will be displayed at the Memory and Tolerance Museum in Mexico City.
The Japanese artist invited all women of all ages and from all countries of the world to send her written statements about the struggles they have to face just for being women.
She also asked them to send a photo of only their eyes which will be displayed at the installation.
According to the website of the artist, a book of a selection of the women's statements and photos is also being prepared.
The collected material will be exhibited from February 2 to May 29 in Mexico City.
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Charlie Hebdo on ISIS
Posted in France: Charlie Hebdo, Middle East on September 30, 2014| 9 Comments »
Voilà the cover of the latest issue of Charlie Hebdo, which will hit the newsstands tomorrow (October 1st). For those whose French is not up to par, it reads:
IF MOHAMMED WERE TO RETURN…
"I'm the Prophet, idiot!"
"STFU, infidel!"
Charlie Hebdo nails it. Totally.
Somehow I think security will be reinforced outside Charlie Hebdo's office in the 11th arrondissement.
ADDENDUM: For other irreverent CH covers I've posted on, go here, here, here, and here.
Narendra Modi in the Big Apple
Posted in Asia on September 27, 2014| 1 Comment »
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In my last—and only—post on Narendra Modi, from 4½ months ago, I opined that were he to become Indian PM following the general election there the US would no doubt lift the visa ban he was slapped with in 2005, for his implication in the infamous events in Gujarat three years prior. It is indeed hard to imagine an Indian Prime Minister being denied entry to the US and not welcomed at the White House with open arms. So PM Modi arrived in New York City yesterday for, as WaPo reports, a five-day "rock star-like U.S. tour," which will involve, entre autres, a speech "to a capacity crowd at Madison Square Garden on Sunday in a show replete with laser lights, holographic images and former Miss America Nina Davuluri as co-host [and with the event being] broadcast in Times Square and 100 other venues around the country." Moreover "[t]he Port Authority of New York and New Jersey [will add] extra trains to accommodate the expected crowds [and a] red carpet will be unfurled." Definitely rock star-like. À propos, an academic gauchiste half-Muslim Indian friend—whose political views are the antithesis of those of Modi and his supporters—informed me today that, to her exasperation, her Facebook news feed has been inundated with links and comments by excited friends and relatives who plan to attend Modi's US events. A post in the NYT's The Upshot blog on Thursday indeed called Modi "A Facebook leader, too," informing the reader that he had 21.8 million official fans on his FB page—two days later it's over 22 (see above image)—, which is way more than any other political personality anywhere save Barack Obama (who has 42MM). By contrast, Nicolas Sarkozy, who was bragging recently about how he has more Facebook fans than François Hollande, has yet to hit a million…
On Narendra Modi's US appeal, the très gauchiste historian Vijay Prashad, who teaches at Trinity College in Hartford CT, had a comment in The Guardian yesterday on how "Tough guy Modi is the man of the moment for wealthy Indian Americans." Money quote
For wealthy sections of Indian America, Modi represents a strong man who evokes pride in India. When Modi brags about his 56-inch chest, his machismo indicates India's arrival in world affairs. Poverty is swept away by his braggadocio. Eyes are averted from the slums and instead rest upon his promises to toss environmental and labour laws in the dustbin. Trains will run on time, workers obey their supervisors and the armed forces will spread their testosterone along India's borders. Experiences of racism and discrimination inside the US will be forgotten in the presence of Modi. If America sees Modi's toughness, say his US supporters, the petty humiliations of life in the west will vanish.
As I observed in my post of 4½ months ago, Modi bears a distinct resemblance to Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Poor India.
Pankaj Mishra, in the November 21st 2013 NYRB, had a review essay on the latest books (co-)authored by Indian economist frères ennemis Amartya Sen and Jagdish Bhagwati, "Which India matters?," in which he made observations similar to Prashad's
Rising social unrest is making an insecure Indian elite gravitate to such hard-line leaders as Narendra Modi, whose well-advertised toughness with labor unions and PR-enhanced business-friendliness make him the preferred choice of many corporate leaders, economists, and commentators as India's next prime minister. Bhagwati, for instance, has described Modi as a "positive role model" with "an unblemished record of personal integrity." As chief minister of Gujarat, Modi was allegedly complicit in the killing of over a thousand Muslims there in 2002 and was barred from traveling to the United States as a result. But he still embodies managerial efficiency and iron discipline to those disturbed by the political assertiveness of the poor and the disaffected.
And Mishra writes supra that
India's ruling class today consists, as C. Rammanohar Reddy, editor of The Economic and Political Weekly, defines it, "of large Indian businesses, the new entrepreneurs in real estate, finance, and IT, the upper segment of the urban middle classes, the upper echelons among the bureaucracy, and even large sections of the media."
What's immediately striking about this class of the relatively affluent is the degree to which it shares the same interests and beliefs, and its reflexive hostility to government spending on welfare—although political parties feel particularly obliged to indulge in such spending before elections. But the conservative rhetoric about buoyantly self-reliant entrepreneurs hides the fact that, as [Atul] Kohli writes [in his 2012 book Poverty Amid Plenty in the New India], the Indian state since the 1980s has been "pro-business" rather than pro-market, responsible both for the dynamic forces at the apex of India's economy and "the failure to include India's numerous excluded groups in the polity and the economy."
This "collaborative capitalism," of which Narendra Modi, the Hindu nationalist chief minister of Gujarat, is the most egregious exponent, consists of the state extending tax benefits to India's largest businesses and facilitating their cheap access to national resources of oil, gas, forests, and minerals. In turn, "the disproportionate control over economic resources," Kohli writes, "enables businessmen to 'buy' politicians," shape decision-making through the media, and even enter politics themselves.
The spitting image of RT Erdoğan. If Modi acquires anything resembling RTE's electoral base, he'll be around for many years to come.
UPDATE: Pankaj Mishra, in a column in Bloomberg View (September 29th), says that "Narendra Modi is a dangerous cliché."
2nd UPDATE: Meera Nair, who teaches writing at NYU, has a post on one of WaPo's blogs (October 3rd) informing us that "Narendra Modi was speaking in code when he visited America. Here's what he was really saying to his Hindu nationalist base."
Arab civilization: the collapse
Posted in Middle East on September 23, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Hisham Melhem, Washington bureau chief of the Dubai-based satellite channel Al-Arabiya and correspondent for the Beirut daily Al-Nahar, had an excellent, must read essay in Politico last week (September 18th), "The barbarians within our gates," in which he lucidly asserted in the lede that "Arab civilization has collapsed [and] won't recover in my lifetime." Money quote
Arab civilization, such as we knew it, is all but gone. The Arab world today is more violent, unstable, fragmented and driven by extremism—the extremism of the rulers and those in opposition—than at any time since the collapse of the Ottoman Empire a century ago. Every hope of modern Arab history has been betrayed. The promise of political empowerment, the return of politics, the restoration of human dignity heralded by the season of Arab uprisings in their early heydays—all has given way to civil wars, ethnic, sectarian and regional divisions and the reassertion of absolutism, both in its military and atavistic forms. With the dubious exception of the antiquated monarchies and emirates of the Gulf—which for the moment are holding out against the tide of chaos—and possibly Tunisia, there is no recognizable legitimacy left in the Arab world.
Is it any surprise that, like the vermin that take over a ruined city, the heirs to this self-destroyed civilization should be the nihilistic thugs of the Islamic State? And that there is no one else who can clean up the vast mess we Arabs have made of our world but the Americans and Western countries?
The implosion of practically the entire Arab world east of the Maghreb—and particularly of its core states—over the past three years is breathtaking. It's stunning. The future of Egypt—a state and nation crushed by its demography and in which there is no positive dynamic whatever (politically, economically, culturally, you name it)—is bleak; Syria, Iraq, and Libya are finished—shattered states and societies that will not be put back together for the foreseeable future, if ever; Lebanon—a fragile, weak state and whose most important social, political, and military actor acts independently of that state and is remote-controlled by a foreign power to boot—could descend into internecine bloodletting (Shia vs. Sunni) at almost any moment; Jordan is on the knife's edge and likewise Saudi Arabia, which has nothing to offer the world or itself but oil and the holy places… And then there's Yemen, running out of water and in a state of permanent tribal rebellion. As for the Palestinians, let's not talk about them…
Melhem does mention Tunisia as a possible exception to all this. Tunisia—a small, confessionally and ethnically homogeneous country—has indeed not been doing badly—so far, at least—in its transition toward something that resembles democracy, but is in economically dire straits and is vulnerable to the chaos on its southeastern border. And if Tunisia is doing okay relatively speaking, this is in part thanks to its sizable French-speaking educated class, which has been influenced by certain French ways of thinking (notably in regard to republicanism and the relationship of religion and the state), and is oriented toward Europe. Which all goes to show that the legacy of French colonialism isn't all negative (merci, la France). Algeria and Morocco have likewise benefited from this aspect of their French pasts, though all that stands in the way of Algeria becoming another Afghanistan or Somalia is its hydrocarbon wealth. Algeria is about as rentier of a state as one can get (whose state budget depends on hydrocarbon taxes to an even greater extent than in Saudi Arabia or the Gulf states). As for Morocco, its archaic monarchical order enjoys legitimacy but if the corruption and inequalities there get any worse, who knows how long that will last?…
Another piece on the catastrophic situation in the Arab world read of late was by Daniel Williams, formerly of Human Rights Watch, in WaPo (September 19th), who informed the reader that "Christianity in Iraq is finished." Williams, writing from Erbil, says that the West should not delude itself on this, that there will soon be almost no Christians left in Iraq (and probably not in Syria either, he could have added). The exodus of Iraqi Christians is being accelerated by ISIS, of course, but was boosted in a big way by events set in motion by the 2003 US invasion, he correctly asserts. In point of fact, though, Christians have been emigrating from the Near East to Europe and the Americas for much of the 20th century, e.g. the departure of Iraqi Chaldeans and Assyrians to the US (Chicago and Detroit) in the 1920s and '30. It goes without saying that the end of the indigenous Christian presence in the Middle East would be a tragedy of major proportions (as I've posted on, e.g., here and here). An incalculable loss—culturally and economically—to those societies. And for which the sole response is for Europe, the Americas, and countries elsewhere to throw open their doors to the fleeing Christians.
À propos—and while I'm thinking of it—, here's a question for Palestine one-staters: if the mythic one state were to somehow come into existence, does one honestly believe that Muslims, Christians, and Jews would live together in peace and harmony—or at least en bonne intelligence—, or would the Jews (and remaining Christians) eventually find themselves in the same situation as Christians in Iraq today? Poser la question c'est y répondre, je crois…
The Scottish referendum
Posted in Europe on September 16, 2014| 13 Comments »
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I didn't pay too much attention to it until the poll ten days ago that showed the 'yes' in the lead for the very first time. Now I have never set foot in Scotland—which is too bad for me, as I know for a fact that it is a beautiful and wonderful country—but am deeply concerned by the outcome of Thursday's vote. Simply stated, I will categorically assert that a 'yes' victory would be a disaster: for Scotland, the United Kingdom, Europe, and the world. I am totally, unalterably, 100% distressed by and hostile to this eventuality. Period.
First, for Scotland, the consequences for which I am not overly preoccupied but still. As Paul Krugman has informed us, an independent Scotland would be a very bad deal for the Scots. Krugman insists that the Scots would, macroeconomically speaking, seriously regret their decision were they to vote for independence. There would be buyers remorse galore. I won't repeat Krugman's argument here. Just read what The Man has to say.
Secondly, for the United Kingdom. Regardless of how one feels about successive British governments over the past three decades and their embrace of neoliberalism and deregulated finance capitalism, it would really be terrible if Scotland were amputated from the UK. Politically speaking, a UK minus Scotland would lurch to the right. The Tories plus the UKIP would dominate, with an eventual Labour party government—even in coalition with the Liberal Democrats—nigh impossible in the short and medium term. For this reason alone, no one on the left side of the political spectrum in England or Wales can possibly wish for Scottish independence. And geopolitically speaking, the UK would be greatly diminished, as Gideon Rachman and Bernard Guetta have asserted, and with a possible departure of Northern Ireland in the cards. A UK without Scotland would eventually be downgraded to the geopolitical rank of Italy. The Brits would no longer be geopolitical players, at least not to the extent that they are, and with their permanent seat on the UNSC increasingly tough to justify. This eventuality is not in the interests of the UK. Nor of the USA, Europe, or most of the rest of the world.
Thirdly, for Europe, and this is the really big deal. First, a UK minus Scotland—with its pro-Europe voters—would almost certainly opt to quit the European Union. This would be a body blow to the EU and entire European project, needless to say. An EU without the UK would be amputated in the same way as the UK without Scotland. The EU would be that much less of a player dans la cour des grands (USA, China, Japan, Russia). Secondly, Scottish independence would have a certain demonstration effect on Spain/Catalonia and Belgium/Flanders, culminating in the breakup of two more core European states. In addition to the uncertain economic consequences—which would certainly not be positive—a Europe further fragmented would hardly be able to go toe-to-toe with the US or Russia as an equal. The power of the EU in global trade negotiations or as a geopolitical actor would be diminished. The EU's status as a relative geopolitical dwarf would be set in concrete. This eventuality, it goes without saying, is not in the interests of anyone in Europe. Thirdly, a UK exit from the EU and breakup of Spain would consecrate Germany as the uncontested hegemonic power on the continent. The Germans would certainly be fine with this but would other Europeans?
Fourthly, for the world. The centrifugal demonstration effect of the UK's breakup would be felt in several corners of Asia that I need not mention. A Scottish breakaway would be geopolitically destabilizing and profoundly so—and the last thing the planet needs right now is more instability. It would be a geopolitical earthquake, as more than one has put it. And in diminishing the already diminutive geopolitical role of the European Union, the geopolitical power of the USA, Russia, and China would increase ever more. Now this would not displease these three Great Powers but would it be in the interests of the rest of the world? Je ne crois pas.
A final point, and which—for me at least—is fundamental. Scottish nationalism is nationalism, and I hate nationalism. Now nationalism can be a progressive and/or understandable force in nations under occupation or that suffer discrimination inside multinational states. E.g. pre-1962 Algerian nationalism was utterly justified, as were all nationalisms in colonies against colonial powers. But such does not pertain to the Scottish nation, which suffers no discrimination whatever in the multinational state of the United Kingdom. And what is the problem with multinational states, so long as each national group is equally treated and with its culture respected? As Niall Ferguson—whom I would normally not link to favorably—has argued, the Scots have had a good deal in their three centuries-long marriage with England. The marriage has been one of equals. Cf. Quebec, whose separatists have had half an argument in view of the history of linguistic discrimination in the province until the 1970s, or Belgian Flanders, whose separatists have a quarter of an argument on account of their past humiliations when the Francophones were dominant. And Catalans in Spain have a semblance of an argument given their shabby past treatment by the Spanish state. Now I am not sympathetic to any of these separatisms but at least they're based on a concrete history of past grievance and by nations that speak a different language from the dominant or other nation they wish to divorce. In the Scottish case, though, there is is no justification whatever. Scottish separatism is, as one political science wag aptly put it on social media the other day, petty bourgeois nationalism. Scots cannot claim that they are disfavored qua Scots in the multinational, linguistically united United Kingdom, particularly in view of the devolution of 1999 (and the increased autonomy that is sure to be granted them in the event of a 'no' vote in the referendum). Scottish separatism is pure egotism, as was, e.g., that of the government in Prague in 1993 when it cast out the poorer Slovakia. And the Scottish nationalist leader, Alex Salmond, is a two-bit rogue out for power, as Edinburgh political scientist Tom Gallagher reliably informs us. As for all the younger generation Scots who will be voting 'aye' on Thursday, they've simply bought into a stupid ass bullshit nationalist narrative and which has nothing whatever to do with their personal lives or life chances, which are every bit as good—or maybe not so good—inside the United Kingdom as they could possibly be in an independent Scotland. C'est affligeant.
Another final point. Author Emile Simpson writes of the injustice he feels as a Briton in helplessly watching as Scots set about dismantling the United Kingdom and without anyone in the UK outside of Scotland—including the hundreds of thousands of Scots who live south of the border—having anything to say about it. Now this is ultimately the fault of David Cameron, who stupidly agreed to the referendum and the terms under which it is being organized. But still, it is just crazy that the breakup of Great Britain should be decided by a simple majority in a single ballot by less than ten percent of its population.
For the record, I predict that the 'no' will carry the day, with 53% of the vote. Inshallah.
UPDATE: John Oliver has spot on—and very funny—commentary on the Scottish referendum. Watch here.
2nd UPDATE: The Democracy Now! website has a most interesting 23-minute debate, "Should Scotland vote for independence? Musician Billy Bragg vs. historian Sam Wetherell." Both Bragg and Wetherell are on the left but are taking opposed positions in the referendum. I entirely agree with the smart and well-spoken Wetherell, needless to say. See also his article in Jacobin, "Exit Stage Right: The Case Against Scottish Independence."
3rd UPDATE: Gordon Brown gave a great speech on the eve of the vote. Watch here.
4th UPDATE: Robert Reich's Facebook status update four hours before the closing of the polls in Scotland is worth reading and meditating on
Nationhood doesn't mean what it used to. Even if a majority of Scots decide to secede today, a separate Scotland will probably still use the same currency as England, remain part of the Eurozone (no visas or passports required to enter Scotland), and coordinate major policies with Parliament and Whitehall.
The only real beneficiaries will be large global corporations. They'll have more bargaining leverage over a separate Scotland. Global corporations like separatism and "devolution" (a fancy term for pushing responsibility down to state, regional, or provincial governments) because both allow them to play governments against each other with ever bigger tax breaks, subsidies, and favorable regulations. In the United States, for example, states are in a frenzy of corporate gift-giving to attract and keep corporations and jobs.
If lefties have a response to this, I'd like to hear it.
Obama & ISIS
Posted in Middle East, USA: foreign affairs on September 15, 2014| 2 Comments »
A faithful reader—my mother—asked me in an email the day before yesterday why I hadn't commented on Obama's speech on ISIS. I replied that I hadn't paid much attention to it, being occupied as I was with getting my daughter set up in Istanbul, where she's spending an Erasmus year. Now that I'm back in Paris, I've been able to take a few minutes to read into the matter. This commentary by CFR Fellow Steven A. Cook, "ISIS and us: No way to go to war," gets it right IMO. The New Yorker's Philip Gourevitch also had a worthwhile comment on "What Obama didn't say." And I will take the liberty of cutting-and-pasting journalist Craig Pyes's pertinent Facebook status update of two days ago
It's appalling how so much of the press and pundit corps are so wrong in their criticism of Obama's actions on ISIS (although there will be plenty of mistakes, little he can do, and a real danger of a prolonged war). Most journalists hunt in packs, and they follow each other rather than discern their own truths. This is true on the ground and in their thoughts. It's why each newspaper reads like the others. Obama's reaction has little to do with terrorism, and to draw up arguments of why it won't be an effective CT tool, totally misses the point. Secondly, this is not Iraq in 2003, and marshaling the arguments against being overly credulous then — which you all were (Strobel and Landay exempted) — you're, as they say, fighting the last war. Now is not then. Not only do these reporters think they're right because their colleagues are writing the same critique, but it conforms to a pool of common sources, most of whom are no longer in the government. Very, very few of these reporters actually know anything about underlying realities of the Middle East, and so are captive to their sources.
The Middle East is unraveling — there are serious bad scenarios that can emerge — and for the US to do nothing about ISIS will insure that the political climate turns even more poisonous there than it is now, with thousands of innocents being butchered. The political reality is not good now, there is a huge possibility that the US will not be able to influence what it is becoming, but those aren't arguments for sitting back and doing nothing. Nor are they arguments to put boots on the ground.
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Chile's 9/11: What really happened?
Posted in Americas on September 12, 2014| 2 Comments »
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Yesterday was the 41st anniversary of the coup d'état in Chile, that other 9/11. I want to use the occasion to post a fascinating article that appeared in the July-August 2014 issue of Foreign Affairs on "what really happened in Chile" in 1973 and, specifically, what was the precise nature of the US role in the coup that overthrew Salvador Allende. The article is authored by Jack Devine, a now retired CIA career officer who was in the agency's Santiago station at the time. In short, Devine makes clear that, contrary to popular belief, the CIA did not foment the coup; not only was the Chilean military 100% sovereign in its decision that fateful September but it did not even inform the Americans of the plot it was hatching. The CIA station only got wind that the coup was imminent two days beforehand and from its local assets. Devine's account is detailed and totally persuasive. I have no reason to doubt it—and, dear reader, nor do you. It makes total sense that General Pinochet & Co would not bring the Americans into the loop, as there was no reason to. The Chilean military, like the Egyptian military—or the Turkish military, or the Thai military, or any old, proud military establishment out there—, cannot be manipulated or told what to do by great power patrons, and certainly not when it comes to its country's internal affairs. Do read the read the article. All of it. For those too lazy to click on the link, here's the text (with passages I found noteworthy highlighted in bold).
By Jack Devine
On September 9, 1973, I was eating lunch at Da Carla, an Italian restaurant in Santiago, Chile, when a colleague joined my table and whispered in my ear: "Call home immediately; it's urgent." At the time, I was serving as a clandestine CIA officer. Chile was my first overseas assignment, and for an eager young spymaster, it was a plum job. Rumors of a military coup against the socialist Chilean president, Salvador Allende, had been swirling for months. There had already been one attempt. Allende's opponents were taking to the streets. Labor strikes and economic disarray made basic necessities difficult to find. Occasionally, bombs rocked the capital. The whole country seemed exhausted and tense. In other words, it was exactly the kind of place that every newly minted CIA operative wants to be.
I ducked out of the restaurant as discreetly as I could and headed to the CIA station to place a secure call to my wife. She was caring for our five young children, and it was our first time living abroad as a family, so she could have been calling about any number of things. But I had a hunch that her call was very important and related to my work, and it was.
"Your friend called from the airport," my wife said. "He's leaving the country. He told me to tell you, 'The military has decided to move. It's going to happen on September 11. The navy will lead it off.'"
This call from my "friend"—a businessman and former officer in the Chilean navy who was also a source for the CIA—was the first indication the agency's station in Santiago had received that the Chilean military had set a coup in motion. Not long after, a second source of mine, another prominent businessman (more…)
9/11 + 13
Posted in USA on September 11, 2014| Leave a Comment »
I hadn't planned on posting anything on it today, the 13th anniversary, but came across, via social media, these amateur photos taken from Queens of the Twin Towers collapsing on that calamitous day. The link was posted on FB by engagé historian and MENA specialist Mark LeVine—whose attitude toward US foreign policy is rather more negative than mine—, who wrote that he watched the catastrophe almost from the same spot in Queens where the photos were taken and had tears streaming down his face. I did too, almost. I watched the second tower collapse on live TV—in France—and was traumatized—by all that happened that day—, shedding more than one tear over the subsequent days and with trouble sleeping on account of what had happened in New York City. That's all I have to say. For all those who lost their lives that day, R.I.P.


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If you keep your workouts regular, you probably dread injuries. The more time you spend pushing your body to its maximum, the greater are the chances that you might injure yourself. In fact, if you've been keeping yourself physically active for years, you've probably already gone through unexpected body trauma. When this happens, it is difficult to comprehend that you might have to sit through at least a week, without exercising or training. Luckily, there are ways to keep yourself sane, while trying to overcome remaining sedentary.
Stop and Think – Should you experience an injury while working out or during training, the first thing you need to do is put your activity on hold and evaluate the situation. It is a common mistake to try and push through the pain and end up turning something that could've been a minor disruption to your daily exercise plan, into a serious injury with serious consequences.
Stopping whatever you're doing once you experience pain is the first thing you need to do. Evaluate the injury and consider whether it needs immediate medical attention. If the pain levels are high, visiting a doctor's office is a no-brainer – in the worst case, you'll waste a couple of hours. If the pain isn't all that unbearable, going home and treating it with ice, heat, or a massage is the perfect and logical choice.
Exercising around the Injury – In case of certain injuries, you can still get your workouts done. This is done by training areas around the injury, thus not only keeping your mental willpower going by still exercising, but also potentially speeding up the healing process, as well as maintaining mobility and strength. For example, should you sprain your ankle, you are offered a unique opportunity to improve other body parts, such as your pecks, arms, lats and the general torso area. Exercising around the injury is a perfect way to strengthen your often neglected body parts, as well as to keep yourself active, instead of remaining sedentary. Furthermore, you'll get to serve as an example for many of your gym friends and acquaintances.
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This is a huge mistake, because, with regards to the former, even though you might be able to, for example, walk normally at a certain point, that injured leg might not be ready for heavy physical trauma. As for the second part, any injured area takes time to fully recover – you'll probably be able to perform exercises once the PT is done, but this doesn't mean that the body part in question isn't still raw, and thus more susceptible to injury.
Another thing you need to keep yourself aware of is the fact that physical therapy isn't meant to get you back to your full strength, but rather to overcome all the injury-caused imbalances and get you back on track towards achieving your goals.
So there you have it, a couple of useful tips, when it comes to sport injuries. There is no reason not to follow this advice, in order to make for a proper recovery, as well as potentially even come out stronger than ever before.
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Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS): Who is at risk?
Posted by: Nick Phin, Posted on: 23 August 2018 - Categories: Health Protection
Whether you're a health professional or a regular traveller to the Middle East you may have heard of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, or "MERS". The risk of contracting the virus remains very low but simple precautions can help visitors stay safe.
What is MERS-CoV?
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus, usually shortened to MERS or MERS CoV, is a respiratory virus first identified in 2012 in a patient in Saudi Arabia.
Public Health England played crucial role in the discovery of this new virus, diagnosing one of the first cases in the world at our laboratories in Colindale in September 2012, a patient from the Middle East.
It was dubbed Middle East Respiratory Syndrome because of the origin of the first cases. Corona is the Latin word for crown or halo, and corona viruses are so named because the surface protein spikes of the virus resemble the 'corona' or halo of the sun.
Technically MERS is the syndrome caused by the MERS virus, while MERS CoV would refer specifically to the virus itself, but both terms tend to be used interchangeably.
Are we at risk in the UK?
The risk of contracting MERS-CoV in the UK remains very low. A handful of imported cases have been diagnosed in the UK, all of whom had returned from travel to the Middle East or who lived there and were visiting the UK.
MERS-CoV is a virus that is transmitted between animals and people and has been linked to close contact with camels or consumption of products from camels. It can also be passed from person to person, although this is difficult without close, prolonged contact. The risk of infection with MERS-CoV to UK residents remains very low.
To date, there have been 5 cases of MERS-CoV in the UK. 3 cases were acquired in Saudi Arabia and 2 were acquired from onward transmission in the UK.
Typical MERS symptoms include fever and cough that progress to a severe pneumonia causing shortness of breath and breathing difficulties. Some people with the virus also develop gastrointestinal symptoms, including diarrhoea.
The virus can cause more severe disease particularly in people with weakened immune systems, older people, and those with chronic diseases such as diabetes, cancer and chronic lung disease.
So MERS cases occur mainly in the Middle East?
Following its identification in 2012, cases have continued to occur primarily within Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, with 97% of cases reported from the Middle East.
Cases associated with travel to the Middle East have also been seen in several European countries (including Austria, France, Germany, Netherlands, Italy, UK, Greece) as well as other parts of the Middle East (Egypt, Iran, Jordan, Qatar, Kuwait Turkey and Oman) and the rest of the world (USA, Malaysia, Philippines, Algeria, Tunisia).
In France, Tunisia and the UK, there has been limited, non-sustained transmission among patients who had not been to the Middle East, but had been in close contact with imported cases.
More recently we've seen cases of MERS in South Korea and China, with secondary cases in health care settings linked to a person with a recent history of travel to the Middle East.
What if passengers travel on a flight and sit near someone with MERS?
The risk to airline passengers remains very low, but in the event of a case involving contact with passengers, Public Health England would undertake contact tracing, where we work with airlines to follow-up any passengers who might have been in contact and provide health information and reassurance.
In August 2018 we were advised of a patient who had travelled from Saudi Arabia to the UK who we believed had been infected before travelling.
Although the risk of the infection being passed to other passengers on the aircraft is extremely low, as a precautionary measure we will undertake efforts to contact UK passengers who were sitting in the vicinity of the cases.
How has the UK helped with diagnosing cases?
Public Health England lab staff have developed a series of tools for diagnosis and surveillance of MERS-CoV, giving other scientists the ability to generate genomic sequences and measure antibody responses.
These tools are not only deployed in the UK, but can also support international investigations and responses within affected countries.
In October 2012 we provided virological and epidemiological support to a WHO led mission to Doha, Qatar and we continue to provide virological and diagnostic support to Qatar, most recently in December 2013 when PHE ran a training course to enable Qatari scientists to undertake MERS-CoV testing.
PHE also provides guidance to doctors on identifying and managing cases of MERS-CoV, as early identification and implementation of prompt infection control precautions are very important to limit onward transmission.
What precautions should Middle East travellers take?
We advise travellers, particularly those with underlying or chronic medical conditions, to avoid contact with camels in the Middle East and practice good hand and respiratory hygiene to reduce the risk of respiratory illnesses. Travel advice is available from the NaTHNaC website.
The risk to UK residents travelling to Middle Eastern countries may be slightly higher than within the UK, but is still considered very low.
Why do you recommend avoiding contact with camels?
There is growing evidence that the dromedary camel is a host species for the MERS-CoV and that camels play an important role in the transmission to humans, however the source of infection and transmission modes of MERS-CoV are still not completely understood.
There is still more work needed to understand the role that camels play in the spread of infection, but until more is known we recommend avoiding contact with camels in the Middle East.
Could we see more MERS cases in the UK?
The risk to UK travellers to the Middle East remains very low, and although MERS infection has been ongoing since it was identified in 2012, the UK has still only seen 5 cases.
As we do with all infections, Public Health England continues to provide advice on infection control, urgent diagnostic investigation and identification of contacts of suspected cases in England who may need to be followed up to check on their health.
We also advise healthcare professionals to remain vigilant for severe unexplained respiratory illness occurring in anyone who has recently travelled in the Middle East, as well as any unexplained cluster of severe respiratory illness or healthcare worker with unexplained severe respiratory illness.
Where can professionals read more on MERS?
PHE has published a range of clinical documents and our scientists recently published a paper in Eurosurveillance about our response to the two cases involving passengers with MERS transiting via Heathrow.
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STAMFORD — City officials say there are plenty of spots available for the next Public Safety Citizen's Academy set to begin this month.
Mayor David Martin and Public Safety Director Ted Jankowski say there are about 20 seats available for the free academy that runs for eight weeks and touches on virtually all of Stamford's public safety programs.
Jankowski said the third annual academy, which is held for three hours each week with two Saturday sessions, brings together residents and first responders in an informal educational program.
The training enables graduates to become members of the Stamford Community Emergency Response Team or join the Medical Reserve Corp, which are citizen organizations committed to improving the community's health and safety.
The participants will receive an overview of the functions of each city agency and how they respond.
In June, 28 residents graduated from the last program. Jankowski said he is trying to assemble a class of between 25 and 30 people to tentatively start on Sept. 27 at 6:30 p.m.
Topics will include overviews of law enforcement and firefighting, community policing, terrorism awareness and evacuation procedures, canine and bomb squad operations, ambulance life support services and disaster medical operations.
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RALEIGH � North Carolina's General Assembly is freezing any state work on a new one-stop shop to help people buy affordable health insurance and ordering unspent federal funds returned.
Senate and House lawmakers on Wednesday filed identical bills that also make clear Medicaid coverage for poor residents can't be expanded without their approval. A Senate committee is expected to hold hearings on the legislation Thursday.
The online marketplaces for private health insurance scheduled to open in October under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul law are called health benefit exchanges. If North Carolina doesn't create one, the federal government will run it.
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WHAT: Today, August 15, 2017, the Santa Cruz Community Foundation, opens its 2017-2018 grant round for nonprofit organizations in Santa Cruz County. Requests up to $5,000 will be considered. Proposals must fall within established guidelines; only one application will be accepted per organization. The grant period is for one year: December 1, 2017 – November 30, 2018.
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Mom 'Cried All Night' After UPS Man Left Present In Trash [VIDEO]
Rob Banks Published: December 17, 2013
Has anything like this every happened to you?
A mom in Missouri says she "cried all night", understandably upset, when she read a UPS notice indicating that the Android tablet she purchased for her daughter's Christmas gift was left "in black trash can". Of course, as you can imagine, it didn't end up well.
She didn't see the notice in time before the garbage truck came and took it away, and now she says she wants something to be done.
"I called them that night and they put me on hold, then they hung up on me after sitting on hold for about 20 minutes. So, I called back and sat on hold for another 10 minutes, which just made things worse because I was already upset. I was trying to talk to the guy on the phone and he's like, 'You're going to have to calm down. I can't understand what you're saying.' And I'm like, 'Well you don't understand.' But it was, it was awful. It was probably the worst feeling", she told KTVI.
And everyone knows that telling someone to calm down when they're already livid NEVER makes matters better anyway. It's not like a lullaby at bedtime, that's for sure.
But, what did UPS do? They said they would definitely replace it for her and get it to her before Christmas. They also explained they are sorry and that the drivers are trained to put packages not in plain sight and where they will not get wet.
Now, although the garbage can wasn't the brightest idea, can we can all say at least he was trying?
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Black and white, 35mm slide of teaching staff at Domain House, Hobart, Tasmania. Centre back Dugald Gordon McDougall, appointed as the Professor of Law and Modern History in the University of Tasmania and took up the appointment in the year 1901 (January); he held the post until June 1933 when, at an age of 65, he retired.
Black and white, 35mm slide of the University of Tasmania's Registrar, James Henry Robrert Cruickshank and his wife Mary.
Cruickshank was born on 24 May 1840 in Bombay, and he died on 26 January 1916 m Hobart. Cruickshank received his first commission in 1858, and served in the Bombay Presidency until he retired in 1885 when he immigrated to Tasmania, as one of the 'Non-Effective Officers . Cruickshank and his family arrived in Launceston on the Flinders on 15 May 1885.36 He was appointed Registrar of the University of Tasmania in succession to George Richardson on the 1 August 1892, and he held this post until his death on 26 January 1916. Cruickshank was given a land grant of 100 acres in the Parish of Wickham in the County of King Island on 13 June 1885 but he did not settle there. He had married Mary Emma Wright in 1865 in Bombay. Mary Emma was born on 24 May 1846 in Rochester Kent, and she died on 17 October 1940 at 'Burnside' Glenorchy Tasmania. The couple had nine children, the youngest of whom was Margaret Winifred Cruickshank. Margaret was born on 12 July 1888 in Hobart, and she died on 4 March 1980 in Hobart. She was married to Percy Hamilton Scott in 1922 in Hobart. Two years before her death Margaret was interviewed by John Roberts, as part of the University of Tasmania oral history recording program. Margaret told of her early life in the 1900s as the daughter of the Registrar of the new university. Her reminiscences are particularly valuable, as they provide a rare window into the early life of the university: interview available here https://sparc.utas.edu.au/index.php/interview-with-mrs-margaret-scott
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Part of University Library Photographs
Photograph of the main reading area of the University library at Domain House
Photograph of the entrance area and cloakroom of the Library, Domain, House.
Photograph of the main reading area of the Library, Domain, House . Taken in November 1960 showing students working at desks. Fire place and mantel on rear wall.
Photograph of the main reading area of the Library, Domain, House . Taken in November 1960 showing students working at desks. Honour board on wall.
Photograph of the Librarian, D H Borchardt at Loans desk with Mrs Kemp 1960
One small black and white photograph of Library workroom at Domain House taken in November 1960. Staff identified as J. Reynolds
One small black and white photograph of Library workroom at Domain House taken in November 1960. Staff identified as M. McClymont, Dr. Wojtowitz, Mr S. Flood
One small black and white photograph of Library staff taken outside the entrance to Domain House, Christmas 1956.
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Part of University of Tasmania Photograph Collection
Black and white mounted photograph of University of Tasmania Commerce Department staff taken in 1938. Left to right: Miss Jeanette Audrey Cox (Clerk 1932-1939), Ken M Dallas, D. L Anderson and Professor F.R.E. Mauldron (front).
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Sepia mounted photograph of staff and students taken in front of the main entrance to Domain House, 1908. Named on back -
Back: G.F. Lovett, C.T. Butler, C.S.W. Rayner, Alan Burn
Middle: E. Jeffrey, S.L. Hughes, Beatrice Beedham, Sarah Dunbabin, F.M.X. McMahon (Mrs Dwyer), Caroline M. Walker, Alec D. Mackay, T.M. Crisp
Front: A.W. Clemes, H.D. Wright, R.L. Dunbabin, Alex McAulay, J.H. Mackay, W.H. Williams, S.M. Johnston, D.G. Burn
William Henry Williams
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Part of Appointment Indentures Collection
In 1894 William Henry Williams became a lecturer and in 1896 the foundation professor of Classics and English Literature at the newly established University of Tasmania. He occupied the chair until his retirement in 1925. During part of that time he was dean of the faculty of arts and chairman of the professorial board. In March 1926 he was made professor emeritus. He was also a trustee of the State Library of Tasmania from 1921 to 1936. Copy of indenture of Professor Williams to the position of Professor of Classics and English literature, dated 1902. Appointment Indenture for William Henry Williams, dated 1901, 1902 &1904. Professor of Classics and English Literature (1901 draft); Professor of Classics and English Literature (17 February 1902); Supplement to agreement (2 February 1904); Professor of Classics and English Literature (19 August1904 and draft).
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Photographic except taken from the Illustrated Tasmanian Mail, 19 April, 1923 - Photographs of Professors and candidates for degrees 1923. Professor Williams, Professor McAulay, Professor Dunbabin, Professor McDougall, Professor Copland, Professor Flynn, Professor Burn. Students Mr. C. K. Wilkins, (B.A.), Miss Erica G. Headlam, (M.A.), Mr. W. Parker Listner, (M.A.) 1919, (LL.B) 1923, Mr. B. Telford, (LL.B.), Mr. G. L. Doyle, (LL.B.), Mr. H. Guy, (LL.B.) Miss A. M. Wherrett, (B.A.) Miss B. J. Miller, (B.A.)
Miss B. White-Parsons, (B.A.) Mr. H. G. Harris, (B.A.) Mr. D. G. Salier, (B.Sc) Mr, L. F. Briggs, (B.A.) Mr. M. E .W. Stump, (B.Sc.) Miss J. L. Hurst, (B.A), Mr. T. Hytten, (B.A.) Mr. Bryan W. S. Page, (B.Sc.)
Photographic except taken from the Tasmanian Mail, 16 January 1897 showing graduating students : Mr W.A. Roberts (LLB), Mr W.J.T. Stops (LLB), Mr Herbert Nicholls (LLB), Mr J.H. Keating (LLB), Miss E.H Wilson, first lady graduate (BA) and Lieutenant -Colonel Cruickshank, Registrar
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Sepia photograph of staff and students of the Political Science III class, at the Domain site in 1948.
Left to right : George Wilson (Senior Lecturer in History and Political Science) Mick Townsley (Senior Lecturer), Bill Morrison, Bob Sharman & John Birman. Front: Janet "McRae ( later Pitty)
Black and white photograph of University of Tasmania students outside the student accommodation at Trinity House, Hobart
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Black and white photograph of University of Tasmania Biology Department staff taken in 1941. Left to right: Miss Winifred M. Curtis, Dr V.V. Hickman (seated) and Dr H.D. Gordon
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Black and white mounted photograph of University Council members and staff taken in 1924 at the entrance to Domain House.
Back :
Dr. A. L. McAulay, Mr. H.P. Tuck, Mr. C. Malthus, Professor J.B. Brigden, Mr. J. A. Johnson, Professor Burn, Professor Copland.
Middle:
Mr A. R. Hewer, Mr. P. L. Griffiths, Colonel Thomas, Mr. E. A. Counsel (Member of Council), Mr C.C. Dudley, Mr. C. S. King, Mr. L. Rodway
Professor Dunbabin, Professor Williams, Mr. W. J. T. Stops (Vice-Chancellor),
Sir Elliott Lewis (Chancellor), Professor McDougall, Professor Flynn, Professor Lucas (Acting Professor of Mathematics).
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Staff with Japanese visitor (front left) taken in front of the main entrance to Domain House, named around photograph N.E. Lewis, W.H. Williams, D.G. McDougall, Herman Ritz, H.C Kingsmill, James Cruickshank, R.L. Dunbabin, F.M. Johnstone, Loftus Hill, A. Beale, C. Dean, Mary Samplan


PostgreSQL can't multiply 256 * 256 * 256 * 256?!
PostgreSQL is a fully-featured, robust open-source database with strong SQL standards compliancy. As with all RDBMS products it has its odd little idiosyncracies, which while documented, are not obvious, counter-intuitive or just head-scratchingly odd.
This is work-in-progress; gotchas which have been removed are shown greyed out. Please send your favourite PostgreSQL gotchas and any comments, corrections and criticism to <barwick@gmail.com>.
Note: this document contains many examples as they would appear in the command line client psql. For convenience, where statements are more than one line, the continuation prompt database-> has been omitted, to enable the statement to be copied directly from this page.
Use SELECT id AS my_id FROM test_table tt instead.
In the SQL92 standard, the optional keyword AS is just noise and can be omitted without affecting the meaning. The PostgreSQL parser requires this keyword when renaming output columns because the type extensibility features lead to parsing ambiguities in this context. AS is optional in FROM items, however.
Most other databases (tested: DB2 8.2, Firebird 1.5.0, MySQL in all current versions and Oracle 8.1.7) support the SQL-92 standard.
All unquoted identifiers are assumed by PostgreSQL to be lower case by default. This means SELECT MY_COLUMN FROM my_table and SELECT my_column FROM MY_Table both refer to my_column and my_table. SELECT "MY_COLUMN" FROM my_table by contrast refers to a different column.
This can cause problems when converting mixed quoted and unquoted SQL from other databases with the opposite folding behaviour . For example, in Oracle SELECT "MY_COLUMN" FROM MY_TABLE and SELECT MY_COLUMN FROM "MY_TABLE" are equivalent; in PostgreSQL they are not.
ERROR:  date/time field value out of range: "2002-16-12"
HINT:  Perhaps you need a different "datestyle" setting.
This is because PostgreSQL assumes non-qualified integers to be of type INT4, i.e. 32-bit integers.
NOTICE:  adding missing FROM-clause entry for table "table1"
Here, the statement has been expanded by PostgreSQL to SELECT table1.* FROM table1 t1, table1, resulting in a cartesian join. PostgreSQL does provide a warning notice, but this is easy to overlook.
ERROR:  missing FROM-clause entry for table "table1"
Note that this will not affect SELECT statements containing simple expressions, as in the first example.
The documentation contains further details.
Note: beginning with PostgreSQL 8.1, ADD_MISSING_FROM will be set to FALSE by default.
should only return boolean TRUE values in the column is_true. However is_true will contain ca. 50% FALSE values.
resulting in two RANDOM() calls producing different results.
Operations using COUNT(*) tend to be slow, especially on large datasets, and also when compared to some other RDBMS systems. Generally PostgreSQL will use a sequential rather than an index scan to compute the result.
The basic reason for this is that index entries do not contain transaction information, i.e. whether a particular index entry is visible to the current transaction and thus count towards the total returned. This means that to obtain an accurate result meaning each index entry must be visited to determine its tuple's visibility.
For a detailed discussion on the technical reasons for this problem and possible solutions, see the thread "Much Ado About COUNT(*)".
Beginning with PostgreSQL 9.2, index-only scans have become available which may speed up COUNT(*) queries under certain circumstances. See the wiki for details.
to replace MIN(). See also http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/functions-aggregate.html.
Beginning with PostgreSQL 8.1, indexes will automatically be used for MAX() and MIN().
The encoding "UNICODE" provided by PostgreSQL is actually the Unicode encoding UTF-8. This will cause applications expecting for example a stream of 2-byte UTF-16 characters to function incorrectly.
Note that PostgreSQL accepts both UTF-8 and UTF8 as synonyms for UNICODE, for example when creating a database.
See http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/multibyte.html for information on PostgreSQL's character set support.
This is on 9.4devel, not some ancient version from the days when renaming a column involved recreating the entire table.
Nevertheless it's still there as something "people are used to".
ERROR:  date/time field value out of range: "2014/02/31"
[*] Actually a recent-ish 5.5 version silently converts '2014-02-31' to '0000-00-00', but let's not go down that particular rabbit hole of insanity here.
The reason given was that the data was known to be good and no checking was required during loading, so the constraints were disabled for speed.
Unfortunately PostgreSQL is misleading on this point. NOT VALID actually means do not validate rows existing before the constraint was added, which is useful when adding a constrain to a large table to avoid a potentially time-consuming check requiring an ACCESS EXCLUSIVE lock (existing rows can be later verified with ALTER TABLE name VALIDATE CONSTRAINT constraint_name).
Also unfortunately, PostgreSQL allows constraints to be defined as NOT VALID when creating a table (even though this is not documented), further giving rise to the impression that constraints can be turned on and off at will.
ERROR:  new row for relation "foo" violates check constraint "col_check"
DETAIL:  Failing row contains (bar).
If you create a table with any text type (i.e. text, varchar(10), etc.), then you can insert an invalid byte sequence into that field using octal escapes.
Now, if you COPY the table out, you can't COPY the resulting file back in. That means your pg_dump backups won't be able to restore. The only way to get your data back in is to re-escape that value.
This also prevents some 3rd party applications from working correctly, like Slony.
The RANDOM() failures problem has been fixed in 8.2. It will not flatten subqueries that contain volatile functions.
Hi Jeff. I have a smilar problem like the above. I have a .sql file that process some insert instructions on postgres 7.4.12. and my DB is created with Unicode support. The .sql file want to insert some data with different characters including Arabic and Turkish.
First, when I run the sql I got an error about the chacter encoding and execution terminated.Then I add "set client encoding=Latin1" commend at the beginning of the .sql file. This time I did not get any error but some characters are inserted in to database with a strange form that I can not decode them back with Java correctly. So the characters are seem like the originals. Do you have any idea about how to run the .sql file so that no encoding problem will accure ?
Here are a couple of gotchas I have run across.
This is because the rule substitutes the default expression (the next value of the sequence) rather than the value itself in the new.id value.
The workaround is to use a trigger instead.
select my_set_returning_function(), column from table results in an unintended cross join.
hi,i have a problem,i have to write a project about postgreSQL,its features and it data management stratergies do you mind helping me,hope you do not mind,i wil be glad if you help me.
the default in Oracle or MySQL.
The real difference is that with functions the parser knows that the variable value returned is a scalar (in contrast to a vector or a setof).
This limitation makes little sense, as the runtime check would disallow non scalar values as LIMIT and OFFSET arguments.
While allowing non-constant arguments would unlock a useful feature already in place.


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Dazzled by all the Oscar beauty and fame, it might be easy to overlook Kevin O'Connell.
But he has a record the others can't touch, CBS News correspondent Bill Whitaker reports.
"I've been nominated 18 times before. This is my 19th," O'Connell says.
The Oscar nominations cover his wall — so much so that he says he's "running out of wall space."
Acceptance speeches fill a drawer, but there's not one Oscar in the house. You see, O'Connell holds the record for the longest losing streak in Oscar history.
"Golly, how many people win an Oscar? How many people get nominated for an Oscar in their life? It's insane, just to be part of that is an incredible feeling, so I don't get discouraged," O'Connell says.
He's an optimist and an artist. "Every single different sound in this movie is on a different one of these faders," he says, explaining his skill at mixing sound for movies.
Without him, the movie would sound like, well, nothing. He makes it sound like it's booming. He has put sound to everything from blockbusters like "Spider-Man 2," to tear-jerkers — like his first nomination, for "Terms Of Endearment" in 1984. The movie won, but he didn't.
Does he ever feel dejected? "One year we were nominated for 'Top Gun.' I really actually thought it was the best-sounding movie and we didn't win," O'Connell says. "But the next morning I woke up and got on with my life and everything's been fine since, other than the therapy to get over it ... No, just kidding."
As he celebrates nomination No. 19, he says he has only one regret: His mother got him his first sound-mixing job when she worked at Fox Studios.
"And I said, 'Ma, How can I ever thank you for this amazing opportunity?' And she goes 'I'll tell you how you can thank me. You work very hard and someday you go win yourself an Oscar and you can stand up there on the stage and you can thank me in front of the whole world,'" O'Connell explains.
Kevin O'Connell is more than ready for his close-up.


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(Netflix)
Summer vacation isn't slowing anyone down at the Tanner house. Between summer school, impending weddings, potential affairs, and maturing relationships, D.J., Stephanie, and Kimmy have their hands full.
Starring: Candace Cameron Bure, Jodie Sweetin, Andrea Barber
Genre: Sitcom
Series Summary: Now a widow, D.J. and her three sons move back into her childhood home. Her sister, Stephanie, and best friend, Kimmy, join her as they navigate the big and small moments of life.
Show Title: Best Summer Ever
Viewer Appeal: Ages 12+
I'm obsessed with Full House. I love the signature 1990s way of dealing with tough issues while still remaining completely wholesome. So I jumped on the Fuller House train almost instantly when Season 1 released. And while I somehow missed the announcement of the Season 3, I was pleasantly surprised when it showed up in my Netflix queue.
In true Fuller House fashion, season 3 begins with a whole lot of cheese. But while I'll be the first to admit my love of cheesy shows, I was actually extremely apprehensive as the show opened in a musical number. I grit my teeth and said a quick prayer that this wasn't an entire musical episode. Thankfully it only lasted a few minutes before settling back into the enjoyable family sitcom I know and love.
What makes Fuller House stand out among today's televisions shows is its purity. True to it's 90s sitcom roots, each episode comes with a sticky situation, a half hour of trying to find the solution, and a heart-warming wrap up at the end, complete with a group hug and live audience "awh"s. It's just so wholesome! But my absolute favorite part of this show is Candace Cameron Bure. She lights up the television screen with her joy and her character is the mom I dream of becoming. It's a fantastic reminder that every family looks different, but love makes it perfect.
It's the first day of summer vacation and nothing is turning at as planned. Jackson is sent to summer school. Both D.J. and Steph are having trouble finding the time and place to connect with their boyfriends. Steve, D.J.'s highschool sweetheart, and his finance C.J. want to get married in Japan. Plus, the Tanner sisters think Kimmy's husband, Fernando, is cheating on her.
Now, I need to be completely honest. If you don't like overly sweet sitcoms then you won't like this show. I'm a huge fan of such shows and there were even parts for me that were too much. For instance, the musical number seemed gimmicky. But for me, nostalgia built into the show will always outweigh the cheesiness.
Parents, this is a great series to watch with the entire family. While there's some sexual innuendo between adults on the show, it's very mild and will most likely go over your kid's head. I definitely recommend giving it a try in your family, especially if there are any Full House fans in your household.
Use these questions to spark discussion among family members who are interested in this TV show:
• Have you ever struggled in a class? What did you do to improve your grades?
• Would you enjoy living in such a full house? Why or why not?
• If you were in Stephanie's position, how would you have handled thinking Fernando was lying to Kimmy?
--LV
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TV Ratings for Busy Parents


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Sándor Kaló
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16 March 1944 in Egyek (HUN)
28 January 2020 in Budapest (HUN)
The most successful years of handball player Sándor Kaló's career were spent with Tatabánya, helping them to win their first ever Hungarian championship in 1974 and winning it again in 1978 and 1979. He was also a member of the team that won their first Hungarian Cup in 1969, and again in 1978, when they completed the double. Kaló made his international début in 1965 and went on to win 130 caps in 13 years. At the 1972 Munich Olympics, he scored 14 goals in six games as the team finished eighth. He also participated in the 1967 and 1970 World Championships. In 1967 Kaló was the Hungarian "Player of the Year" and in 1967 and 1969 was the League's top scorer.
After ending his playing career, Kaló worked as a coach, and with his guidance, Veszprém captured their first ever League title in 1985 and then won it on two more occasions, in 1987 and 1998. Kaló also led them to Hungarian Cup wins in 1984, 1988-89 and 1998. He spent four years in Kuwait and one in Várpalota, but always returned to Veszprém. Between 1993-95, Kaló was head coach of the Hungarian national team. They finished seventh at the 1994 European Championship, and participated in World Championship the following year.
1972 Summer Olympics Handball HUN Sándor Kaló
Handball, Men (Olympic) Hungary 8
After the Dutch government voted not to support the 1928 Olympics due to events being held on Sundays, the organizing committee launched a successful "crowdfunding" campaign.


Valve have announced plans for a new "big picture" mode for its Steam digital distibution platform. The mode will concentrate on "controller support and navigation designed for television interaction".
"Our partners and customers have asked us to make Steam available in more places. With the introduction of Steam on the Mac, and soon in Portal 2 on the PS3, we've done just that," said Doug Lombardi, VP of marketing for Valve.
Just what form big picture mode will take is unclear. Will it simply be an optional layout design? A new piece of tech that streams Steam from your PC to your TV?
With the majority of modern PCs shipping an HDMI output, a simply interface upgrade seems like a fairly moot point and certainly not something to make to such a fuss about.
Anyway, controller navigation support will be nice. More details are expected from the Valve camp during this week's GDC.


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Stock Exchange, Copenhagen
24 May 2019 12 January 2019 by Monissa
København — Børsen
Alex Vincent's Kunsuorlag, Eneberettiget, No. 14
Postmarked 1911
The Old Stock Exchange dates back to 1625 and is one of the oldest buildings in Copenhagen. King Christian IV had realized the importance of increased trade and commerce, and so he had this grand building erected. At the time of its inauguration, the building had room for at least 40 market stalls. The Old Stock Exchange was then surrounded by water from three sides, so ships could unload their cargo directly at the wharf in front.
Roof turned to canon balls during war
The Old Stock Exchange was built in Dutch Renaissance style. King Christian IV had originally covered the roof with lead, but during the Swedish occupation of Copenhagen 1658-59, much of this lead was removed to produce cannon balls, and the holes in the roof were only partly covered with tin and tile. Not until the end of the 19th century was the building roofed with copper.
The four intertwined dragon tails of the dragon spire are topped by three crowns, symbolizing the Scandinavian empire (Denmark, Norway, and Sweden).
From Børsbygningen:
Børsen is one of the old buildings in Copenhagen and like Rosenborg Slot and Rundetårn, it is one of the buildings of which we remember King Christian IV. The building is built in Dutch renaissance style but is characterized by the King's taste, like the garrets on the roof and the spire.
In 1618 Christian IV asked the engineer Johan Semb to construct a new part of town, Christianshavn, and a dam was made facing Amager on top of which, the first "Amagerbro" (today known as Knippelsbro) was built. Christian IV had realized the importance of trade and business and decided to make Copenhagen the great trade centre and grand city of the future. However, you cannot have a grand city without an exchange and in 1618 the King asked Lorenz van Steenwinckel to start building Børsen, where the dam facing Christianshavn is connected with land on Slotsholmen.
Børsen as a market place In the late 16th twenties, Børsen was taken into use by renting out booths for merchants. From the street you could enter the ground floor and visit 40 booths. The whole of Børsen's first floor contained only one big room with rented booths in the centre and along the windows.
(More information and photos of rooms.)
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America is watching and cheering us on as we in Seattle work to raise the minimum wage for our low-wage workers who struggle to afford the basics.
The American Prospect: Seattle's $15 Minimum Wage Agreement: Collective Bargaining Reborn?
Think Progress: Seattle Announces $15 Minimum Wage, Highest In The U.S.


How much is your Scottsdale home worth??
Where Do I Find An Accurate Home Value for My Scottsdale Home?
All the big real estate websites claim to have the most accurate home value anywhere.
But, how many of those websites are based in your neighborhood? Are there any right here in Scottsdale? Or, even the State of Arizona? Exactly!
That is why a real estate agent from your area. Who lives in the neighborhoods around you. Shops at the same department stores as you. And, who's kids attend the same schools as your kids. Is the only accurate way to determine your homes value.
I use the same, state of the art database, that all the big websites use. But, I can go further. I can come to your front door. See with my own eyes the upgrades and condition. Walk the property lines and observe the view from the porch.
After gathering all the necessary information. I take my years of experience, and my knowledge of the neighborhood I work in everyday. Then give you the most accurate, up to date, home value possible.


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