mike carey

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).

Remember that the big cities in that you hear about in the southern hemisphere like Cape Town, Perth, Sydney, Santiago and Buenos Aires are less than 35ºS, that's about the same as the middle of the Carolinas or Los Angeles. Corrientes is about the same level as central Florida. Most of the land masses in the southern hemisphere are much closer to the tropics than those in the northern hemisphere, so the winter temperatures of places that Americans might think of as being similar to where they are will be warmer, and that's before you factor in the chilling effects of a continental climate and arctic vortices. (BsAs was 12º or 54ºF and raining when I looked at about 10am local time yesterday, so much cooler than Corrientes.) Edited: The cities I listed are further north than I remembered so the equivalent is more like SC/GA.

Regardless of anything else, if you are uncomfortable with the term, you're entitled to refrain from using it.

No, no, a thousand times no. It's not a racially charged word, it's an anglicised version of a Cantonese expression. It's not even associated with it etymological origins any more, it's now a fully assimilated English expression.

I've received all sorts of scam e-mails but not that one. It's likely that the sender has access to some list of addresses and knows nothing about their owners or even if they are valid addresses, and that they are sending the same message to hundreds or thousands of them. It only takes one to respond and pay to make the effort worthwhile.

I was in Sydney yesterday and it was 25 degrees (I must say that it was beautiful to be out on a ferry on the harbour the day before). In the three hours of my drive back to Canberra, the temperature dropped to 7 (with the help of a cold front and rain). On the heat in north America, I read that many of the deaths in Montréal have been of single men in the higher floors of unairconditioned apartment buildings.

Lol, good point, it's not cheap to get here!

Why will you never make it here, it's only a 14 hour flight from the west coast and if the flight from the NE to LAX/SFO is too long, Qantas flies non-stop from DFW and United from IAH, so you can have a shorter connecting flight (Qantas also flies out of JFK with a stopover in LAX, so it's easy!). Come in Feb/Mar for Mardi Gras. From Sydney, Mount Victoria is about 2.5 hours by train, and they run every hour, under AUD10 no reservations required, and the Blue Mountains National Park is spectacular: you'll love it!

Before he was elevated, Archbishop Sin joked that he would never be made a cardinal.

Colour me stunned. My immediate reaction if I don't get something like this is to say it out aloud. Worked this time too (although to me it was obvious straight away).

Not something that bothers me, but the emergency services make a big deal of it because of the possible confusion with the letter O being 6 on mobile phones. The emergency number in Australia is 000.

Not ads to hate... There is a Royal Commission into the finance service industry. Its hearings have been a litany of banks etc behaving badly. These two ads were commissioned by a public broadcaster program about ads to persuade people to abandon the big banks. The end of the first one where the customer's 'Dear John' letter to the bank says, 'I cheated on you once with a credit union and it was fantastic' is fantastic itself.

Public broadcasters that do not carry advertisements are a blessing. Unfortunately not everything I want to watch is on the ABC.

Not funny in the 'joke' sense, but I had a good laugh at this, in a tweet: We offer a free car ventilation service. All you have to do, is leave a dog locked in a hot car, we do the rest. It was tweeted by the Metropolitan Police in Camden [in London].

And this, about the 'Tasmanian done good', from the New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-comedian-forcing-stand-up-to-confront-the-metoo-era

Thankfully nothing like the purge and massacre of the PKI has happened this year in America.

20-18. And for those years this century where I would include the word 'thousand' (more often those in the first decade) I would say 'two thousand and seven' or whatever.

Bon anniversaire!

Lol, no, and I've made no secret of that. Lance can have his way with me, and as soon as possible. But I do want the shirt too.

@Lance_Navarro tweeted a photo of himself in a t-shirt saying no one is illegal on stolen land. I need one of those shirts.

Happy Canada Day!! // Bonne Fête du Canada!! O Canada, terre de nos aïeux.

Bon Anniversaire!