mike carey

Happy birthday Greg, have a great day!

@Mikegaite is an absolutely delightful man, I cherish my recollections of meeting him.

SMH $3, Canberra Times $2.20.

FIFA invited the boys and their coach to attend the Cup final as their guests, but they are unable to attend for medical reasons. Separately Man U have invited them and their rescuers to Manchester during the coming Premier League season. https://www.yahoo.com/news/manchester-united-invite-thai-cave-143503634.html

In a sad postscript to the rescue, Dr Harris' father died in Adelaide overnight. The doctor was the last person out of the caves.

IIRC correctly Peter Hung is Hungarian, so no.

Everyone is a newbie at some stage, and when you are everything since the dawn of time shows up as unread. If you're not careful it's easy to scroll through a host of posts and light on some of them and comment without noticing the date it was last used. You can excuse that. Less so newbies who come here not out of interest but on a mission to respond to one specific thing. I roll my eyes when long-standing posters revive long dead threads with only vaguely related comments, but not if their posts are pertinent to the subject of those threads!

The medic who was with them is the Adelaide anaesthetist I mentioned up thread. He is, I understand, well known as a cave diver and is a member of a rescue squad in South Australia. A news item about him here a couple of days ago included footage of him on his own cave dives. It appears that all 13 have now been brought out.

Nor in Australia. I guess writing 25$95 (instead of $25.95) would blow some people's minds. It's done in France for euros.

Meh, it's a convention, and although possibly a rule in some contexts, certainly not a rule in social media. And it sort of makes sense to write 25$ as we say 25 dollars. Putting the currency symbol after the number is common in many countries. Call me conventional, but I wouldn't write it myself (well, maybe rarely) but I have been tempted to write 25 bux at times.

I can see reasons for that and would have thought they would take the weakest out as the middle cohort. The first ones taken out would be a 'proof of concept' and they want to make sure that they could succeed in taking children who had never used scuba gear out through a challenging series of flooded chambers. If the weakest went first and there was a problem that would have a chilling effect on the whole enterprise and particularly on those who had not yet attempted an exit. In line with your thoughts, once the concept is proven the weak ones should be the next with the strongest last.

Safe travels and best wishes for your new life in the sun. Another reason to go to Las Vegas!

True, in part because a lot of furniture is imported and reupholstering is done locally (with higher wage costs). There is also the use of new materials and the cost/impact of sending the old stuff to landfill (if that is a concern to you).

Sofas and the like can be reupholstered. Often that is the issue rather than springs and padding that are worn out.

I'd be happy to participate in an experiment on that issue!

I would have to wonder what the purpose was of writing such a narrative that 'needs' to include words that are now offensive. I agree that it would be clumsy and inauthentic to substitute another word in a simple 'replace all' mode. But it is not necessary to write in a way that there is a perceived need to use that word and one should be able to navigate around it. Using indirect speech rather than direct is one device for doing so.

The link to the world cup is that they are members of a soccer team, but it is only the timing of their ordeal that draws attention to that link.

There's much we don't know. There may be a diving solution with all the factors you list, but that may not be the best way to solve the problem.

Are you sure?

And I know that every country that has contributed to the effort will be talking about that in its domestic media. That said, there are Australian Federal Police and Australian Defence Force divers at the scene, along with experienced cave divers. A doctor from Adelaide (an anaesthetist) who is also a cave diver assessed the soccer team today.

I would have said a tribute to human resilience, detailed planning, determination and international cooperation rather than a miracle, but that would be to quibble over this wonderful news.

It is indeed, but that's not often enough for me to wake up to see it.

I think that's a bit harsh, and I don't think that being contiguous is all that relevant. (Probably) Khmer and (certainly) Lao people would be included in any case, and that would solve the contiguous issue. I suspect that most non-Asian Americans have a mental image of what an Asian looks like and the typical east or south-east Asian fits that image. Despite some imprecision in his language, I think that is what pubic_assistance was saying, The discussion here has been predicated on ticking a box for one racial category, and that is not how racial characterisation works most of the time. In this country we would most likely have the same image of an Asian if we were asked to describe what that meant on a list, but it would not come as a surprise if a South Asian identified as Asian. If talking about race from first principles, people here would use 'Asian' to cover a variety of ethnicities generically without consciously including or excluding any south, south-east or east Asian group (but would not include anyone from further west than Pakistan or from Central Asia). If the discussion became more focussed, we would be likely to differentiate between the ethnic groups of the larger immigrant communities here, and that would include at least Chinese, Vietnamese and Indian. The degree to which smaller, or less prominent ethnic groups are identified would depend on the context and who was discussing them. I agree that the concept of Europe vs Asia is artificial but I'm not sure whether 'superiority' was the reason for the divide or a development from it. The divisions between Sinitic Asia and Indian Asia are at least as significant as those between them and what we call European, and there are significant border lands between them. This article is not entirely unrelated to the subject: https://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewgabriele/2018/07/05/the-middle-ages-actually-isnt-just-about-the-peoples-of-europe/#4b5aa947304a I found the reference to medieval European knowledge of the kingdom of Mali interesting (and as I've commented here before the use of the Mediterranean as the division between 'Europe' and 'Africa' is no more persuasive than it would be to use the Sahara).