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It was great to catch up with Jimmy May recently. Jimmy is a principal database architect at Microsoft and was part of the SQL CAT team (customer advisory team) for quite a while.
We recorded a new SQL Down Under podcast.
In this podcast, Jimmy discusses his experiences with columnstore indexes and the new updatable clustered columnstore indexes.
You'll find it here: http://www.sqldownunder.com/Podcasts
With each update to Azure, it's been getting easier to implement options for SQL Server. One of the challenges for the teams that write documentation and training is this rate of change.
For a long time, Availability Groups weren't able to be implemented properly on Azure as there was a limit of one IP address per VM. That problem was fixed some months back.
I recently needed to set up Availability Groups wholly within Azure. I followed the documentation here:
(Tutorial for setting up Availability Groups in Azure) http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn249504.aspx
and the documentation here:
(Tutorial for adding a listener) http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn376546.aspx
which has just been updated here:
(Tutorial for adding a listener) http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn425027.aspx
As I was reading the listener tutorial, I noted that the tutorial used Powershell for creating the endpoint as there was no GUI based method for enabling Direct Server Return on the endpoint. I thought "I'm sure I've seen that". And this is the challenge for the documentation. In the portal, when I was creating the endpoint, the following dialog appeared:
This is wonderful in several ways. Not only has the option been added, the popup help text is actually very helpful, and also provides a link to details related to how to use it. (I'm a firm believer that help should first and foremost be helpful). Kudos to whoever implemented that.
The one remaining real roadblock for Availability Groups in Azure was the use of them for disaster recovery. The VMs involved needed to be contained in the same VPN. That's fine for local high availability and for read-only replicas for load balancing but it's not OK for disaster recovery where we want a secondary VM to be in another datacenter in another region.
That roadblock has also been removed now. The Azure team added support for interconnecting different regions via secure tunnels. This is documented here:
This allows you to construct a VPN like this: (image from the article)
In fact, with the site to site connectivity, you can also combine your on-premises systems as well: (image from the article)
This is important news for those wanting to implement Availability Groups in Azure, with a need for DR. Support for this has been announced:
And the guidance for using it has also already been updated here:
Kudos to all involved in making this possible so quickly.
Gartner tends to publish magic quadrant leader boards related to a variety of technology areas.
It was interesting to note that the latest leader board has Azure moved up into the Leader quadrant. The only other player in that quadrant is Amazon. That's a big step up for the team, given the IaaS business really only went to GA in April last year.
You'll find details here: Gartner Report
Customers used to complain that the tooling for creating BI projects (Analysis Services MD and Tabular, Reporting Services, and Integration services) has been based on earlier versions of Visual Studio than the ones they were using for their other work in Visual Studio (such as C#, VB, and ASP.NET projects).
To alleviate that problem, the shipment of those tools has been decoupled from the shipment of the SQL Server product. In SQL Server 2014, the BI tooling isn't even included in the released version of SQL Server. This allows the team to keep up-to-date with the releases of Visual Studio. A little while back, I was really pleased to see that the Visual Studio 2013 update for SSDT-BI (SQL Server Data Tools for Business Intelligence) had been released. Unfortunately, they then had to be withdrawn.
The good news is that they're back and you can get the latest version from here:
One quiet addition to the tools that have been released recently was the set of project templates for creating BI projects (Integration Services, Analysis Services, Reporting Services) within Visual Studio 2013.
It is really great to be able to use the same version of these as we are using for other code development in Visual Studio.
Thanks to the team for updating them so quickly!
You'll find them here:
I had the distinct
honour (honor) this week of recording a new SQL
Down Under podcast with Paul Larson.
Paul is a principal
researcher at Microsoft and is one of the keen minds involved in the
technologies behind the in-memory tables (Hekaton) and clustered columnstore
indexes in SQL Server 2014.
In this podcast, Paul
explains his role, and discusses how these core enhancements in SQL Server
2014 have been implemented.
You'll find it
here: http://www.sqldownunder.com/Podcasts
When you visit websites, you may or may not have noticed the small icons that appear in the title bar areas. These are called Favicons. Here's an example of one in Chrome:
In Internet Explorer, they appear in several places:
They are only a small visible aspect of your website but they greatly improve how professional the site looks in a browser. In IE, they also appear when you open a new page:
So, how do you create these, and how do you add them to your site?
I had tried creating them using a variety of icon editors including the excellent IcoFX. However, I could never create really good looking Favicons as I must be a little art-challenged. I'm sure it's a left-brain/right-brain thing. I'd try to draw them but I'd end up giving up and using something boring like this:
It's quite hard to create a small version of your company's logo, etc.
On one of the local mailing lists, our buddy Andrew Coates from Microsoft, pointed out one of their sites that I'd never seen before. It's awesome for creating favicons by scaling existing images. Here's how I created the one in the images above:
First Step – Transparent PNG
The first step was to make sure I had a transparent png file that contained the logo that I wanted to use. Even though you could use a white background, it looks much better if it's transparent. (Skip this if you already have one). To create that, I used Paint.Net (yet another awesome free tool). I loaded the existing logo that had a white background like so:
In many of these tools, it's not so obvious how to make the background transparent. In Paint.Net, all I needed to do was to select the paint bucket as a tool, then use the "More" option in the color palette, and move the Transparency-Alpha setting fully to the left:
Notice that the primary color now looks transparent. Then I just used the paint bucket tool to change the white to transparent.
Then I saved the file.
Step 2 – Create the Favicon
The site that Andrew recommended was http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Browser/IconEditor/Default.html. Navigate to that site. We then want the icon editor:
Next choose to Import:
Use the Upload button to bring in the transparent png that was created earlier, and then move and resize the guide window until you get as much of the logo that you want displayed:
When it looks good, make sure that all four icon sizes are selected via the checkboxes and then click OK. You'll then see your logo in the main window, and you can choose to export it:
Save the file that is downloaded as favicon.ico.
Step 3 – Add the Favicon to your MVC Project
Copy the icon file into the root folder in your MVC project, and make sure you have included the file in the project. James Green pointed out to me that many older browsers still go looking for the specific filename favicon.ico and in the root folder of the website, so it sounds like good advice to always place them there.
Finally, add a reference to the icon file in your _Layout.cshtml file in the head section:
And you're done. Enjoy!
I've always thought that the support for spatial data types that was added in SQL Server 2008 was one of the best parts of that release.
In SQL Server 2012, a great set of enhancements were made to the spatial support.
We've had lots of interest lately in SQL Server spatial so we've been working on a new course that targets it specifically. We're pleased that we've now added a brand new one day SQL Server Spatial Core Skills course to our list of regularly scheduled courses. It covers a wide variety of topics from understanding the data types, to loading data, geolocation, indexing, etc. It also covers the enhancements that were made in 2012.
The first public schedule for this course is April 14th in Melbourne. Details are here: http://www.sqldownunder.com/Training/Courses/21
I hear comments from people all the time that say it's not worth posting details on the Connect website as they don't get actioned anyway. While it can seem a frustrating process, and often take quite a while, improvements do come from there.
At a SQL Saturday event in Brisbane, I was speaking to an attendee (Ian Roberts) who was complaining that DQS was returning what he perceived as the wrong status. More importantly, the results from using the DQS client differed from using the SSIS transform. He described it this way:
He set up a domain for Australian States and one for Australian suburbs, based on files that he had downloaded from the Australia Post website. He then created a Data Quality Project to test this. In that tooling, the results were as expected. Hobarrt got transformed to Hobart; Victoria got transformed to VIC; Melburn, New York and NWS all got tagged as New as they couldn't be found. With the Record Status, New seemed to override Correct, and Corrected seems to override them all.
However, in the DQS Client Transform, since Correct overrides New, unless every field was in error, the record would go to the Corrected output.
The problem with this is that in the SSIS conditional split transform, you should just be able to test the Record_Status to determine what to do with the record, rather than look at the status for each field. Looking at the status for each individual field, it would make the conditional split transform unwieldy.
The other real issue is that the two tools should provide the same outcome. You should be able to look at the Record_Status, direct correct and incorrect records to their appropriate destination, then deal with the incorrect ones after the fact. Having the field status in the output would make application error reporting more meaningful as you could nominate the actual field in error. The main issue is that Correct gazumps New in SSIS, but New gazumps Correct in the DQS Client. That's not appropriate.
In one of my podcasts for SQL Down Under, I had interviewed Gadi Peleg from the DQS team and Gadi agreed that it looked incorrect. He agreed that the output should be:
• If 1 of the values is Invalid – the record is invalid • If 1 of the values is corrected – the record is corrected • If 1 of the values if New – record is new • If all values are Correct – only then record is correct
Gadi encouraged me to log it on the Connect website.
Today I got an email to say it's been fixed. That's a great outcome, although the update doesn't indicate in which version of service pack the change will apply:
Over the last few days, I've been getting a lot of questions again about what I've found works and doesn't work with learning Chinese.
Here are a summary of things I've tried and thoughts on them:
1. Local classes
My wife and I attended some local classes in the first year I tried to learn. That was only about 2 hours per week and while it was interesting, it's way too little to be very meaningful.
2. ChinesePod
This is a great podcast. They concentrate on spoken Chinese and much of it is good fun. I really liked the older material with Ken and Jenny but the new hosts are getting there. They have different levels. Newcomers might find much of the Newbies level quite challenging at first, but it's important to persist with it. The step up to Elementary is substantial but not too scary. The step up to Intermediate though, is really too big a jump. I now find Elementary too easy but Intermediate is often too hard. I can't comment on higher levels.
The accents on ChinesePod are pretty clean but some people complain that it's a bit too Shanghai-ish. It seems pretty good but it's not as clean as material that I've used from Beijing. You can really tell the difference.
ChinesePod also have lessons that you can do daily or weekly with teachers. These are not inexpensive but I think they'd be good value for those that want to progress quickly. Having someone to talk to for 20 mins a day, 5 days a week should help enormously, and allows for the teacher to provide one-on-one help in your weaker areas. I've done a demo session and I might take this up soon.
3. Rosetta Stone
This is probably the best known of the traditional language learning systems. For most languages, there are 3 levels. For Chinese, there are 5 levels. Each level consists of 4 units. I'm currently half a unit from completing the 5 levels. My inlaws (Chinese) say I've learned an enormous amount by doing this material. I'm sure that's true but I have to say I've found it very, very frustrating at times.
A surprise for most people is that all spoken and written words in the course are in your target language. Read that last statement carefully. They argue that children learn by seeing. While this concept mostly works, I could not have learned using Rosetta Stone without having Google Translate and Pleco open the whole time. There were way too many subtleties that I could not have picked up from the pictures alone. I have had many moments of "how the @#$@#$@ could I have known that???" when working with Rosetta Stone.
When I signed up, they also had a Studio product that gave you online access for about $60 each six months. That was amazing value and one of the main reasons that I used it. It let you book into online classes that were conducted directly from Beijing. There was no limit to the number of classes you could book into. Clearly this was a problem for them so about a year ago, they dramatically changed the rules to where the Studio product was no longer worthwhile in my opinion, for many, many reasons. That was a real pity as it was the best part of the product and they broke it.
4. Pleco
This is by far the best app I've found for using on my iPad. It helps me translate Chinese to/from English in many useful ways. I use it every day. One of the reasons that I can't move to a Windows Phone is that it's not available on that platform and I wouldn't want to live without Pleco.
5. Serge Melnyk's Podcast
This is an odd one. Serge is a Russian (yes you read that correctly) that has a podcast on learning Chinese. I've come to really like Serge and have signed up to his site so that I could download all the content. If you have travelling time when you can listen to podcasts, it's well worthwhile, although the accent is quite bizarre.
6. HSK Review
This is a great app for learning the Chinese characters that are required for the HSK exams. I hope to do at least HSK 1 and HSK 2 exams this year, perhaps HSK 3 if I'm lucky.
7. AnkiApp
This is in many ways an even better app for learning HSK based characters. It keeps track of what you are getting right and wrong, and how hard you find each character. It works out what you need to work on and provides great review drills for you based on that feedback. It also then assesses what level it thinks you are at for each of the levels.
8. Google Translate
This is invaluable and much superior translation-wise to the Bing Translator (sorry Microsoft). The pinyin input editor doesn't work on IE11 (sorry again Microsoft) but no surprise, works like a charm on Chrome. Many of the translations are "interesting" so I'm glad I have a bunch of patient Chinese speaking buddies on Facebook that help me out where I just can't work out what something really means.
9. PeraPera Chinese Popup Dictionary
This is an add-on for Chrome (and for Firefox) that has quickly become one of my favourite things. You just click a button in the top right of the browser when you want to use it, and you just point at words or phrases in Chinese that you don't understand and it tells you about them. Awesome idea.
10. FluentU
This is another excellent service that I've signed up to. It's about $19 a month when I signed up and it produces a bunch of content each month. I particularly like the way that different levels are supported, the way that the content is often quite current, is presented in a natural way, with characters, pinyin, and English all shown.
1. PinYin
I made the mistake of spending too long with pinyin visible when I was first learning. It can become a crutch for you, and eventually you need to learn to read Chinese characters. In Rosetta Stone, you can choose what's displayed. For the last year or so, I changed to only having Chinese characters displayed. It was VERY painful at first but I'm so glad I persevered with it. I now only turn on the pinyin display (in addition to the characters) when I don't understand something. It's important to force yourself to read.
Learning to pronounce pinyin correctly is also a challenge. There is no simple story here. You just need to learn the basic rules on how words sound, and after a while you will see "xin" but "shin" will come out of your mouth.
Focus a lot on listening. Some sounds take a while to get used to. Good examples are the difference between the "u" in "qu" and "zhu" or the sounds that we really don't have in English like "nv" (The v is really a u with an umlaut). Other challenges are getting used to "c" sounding more like "ts" in words like "cai", etc. So, listen a lot.
2. Movies and Video
Watching movies is obviously good but it's a real challenge. At first, I struggled to find many Chinese movies that weren't endless martial arts of medieval warriors.
My Spanish friends told me they learned English by watching movies in English but with English subtitles. This is important because you don't want to know what something means, when learning you want to also know what they actually said. The problem with Chinese is that you have the added problem of not being able to read the characters, and certainly not at the speed that they are displayed at. (And I might be getting old, but they are really small too).
I'm told that Karaoke is good for learning. I haven't tried it. Many people swear by learning languages by singing songs in the target language.
There is a world of good content on YouTube. I really like many of the game shows. You might as well find something entertaining while you're learning.
3. Growing up with Chinese
CCTV has a series called "Growing up with Chinese" that is targeted at teenagers wanting to learn. There are 100 episodes that are available for download. I watch those while trying to get some exercise on a treadmill. They start out very basic but I think they move a little too fast into more complex topics. However, the host Charlotte is adorable, and the more of these things you learn from the better.
The biggest hint though is just to get out there and try to talk to native speakers. They will correct you much more quickly than you'll ever work out yourself. I see this every day. For example, we were at my in-laws for lunch. I said to my mother-in-law "我很高兴我不需要药", and she look puzzled then said "我很高兴我不需要吃药". Note that I'd left a word out that helped a lot with what I meant. Only natives can do this for you.
With all the formal types of courses too, you'll quickly find that what they teach really is quite formal and you'll come to a sad reality (at some point) where you find that's just not what people say. That's why it's so important to get to common spoken language pretty quickly. For example, people often learn "ni hao" as the first phrase for "hello". After a while, you'll realise that it's not common for people to say that. "nin hao" which is more formal is pretty common in some situations though. A better example is to ask yourself how often you'd say a phrase like "good morning" or "good day". Most Australians would be more likely to say just "morning" rather than "good morning". Similarly, while you'll learn "zao shang hao", you'll often hear people just say "zao". For "bus" the courses will teach "gong gong qi che" but as an example, my brother in law says "gong che". There is no answer to this apart from talking to natives.
One source of natives that I've found useful is local meetup groups. There are lots of Chinese who want to learn English and are happy to chat to you back/forth with both languages, plus native speakers who are just happy to help because they get to meet new people.
Anyway, that's it for now. If I think of more, I'll add them later. Good luck!
Recently I've been working on a system where I had to create a test script that reliably recreated a database each time it was executed. I've done this many times before and thought I knew how but I was wrong. It turns out that reliably dropping a database in a script that you run from SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) is harder than it looks. (It's also harder than it should be).
In Books Online (BOL), the article for DROP DATABASE says :
"You cannot drop a database currently being used. This means open for reading or writing by any user. To remove users from the database, use ALTER DATABASE to set the database to SINGLE_USER."
Based on this, I had been using the following style of script to drop and recreate a database:
USE master; GO
IF EXISTS(SELECT 1 FROM sys.databases WHERE name = N'Blah')BEGIN ALTER DATABASE Blah SET SINGLE_USER WITH ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE; DROP DATABASE Blah; END; GO
CREATE DATABASE Blah ON
However, what I've found is that when I execute this from SSMS, it doesn't always work. Fairly randomly (and hard to reproduce), it fails with an error message telling me that the DROP failed because the database was in use. But isn't that the whole purpose of setting it to single user?
The problem seems to be that although the database gets set to single user, another connection could be made to it before the DROP DATABASE statement occurs. Setting the database to SINGLE_USER isn't enough as the current database context for the script is the master database, not the database in question.
A number of users and fellow MVPs have told me that they've experienced the same issue. What we suspect is causing this is the Intellisense system within SSMS connecting to the database to check the syntax of objects later in the same script. The problem only really seems to happen in SSMS but it could happen elsewhere.
A great suggestion from Rob Farley was to set the database OFFLINE instead of SINGLE_USER. While that would stop the other connection, the problem is that when you DROP a database that is OFFLINE, the files for the database don't get deleted. You'd then need to have some additional script (nasty) to delete the files as well after the database was dropped.
What is really needed to get around this race condition is:
If you agree, I've created a Connect item here that you can vote on:
In the sessions that I was attending in Redmond yesterday, I was interested to see the presenter discussing the idea of having individual database files in the cloud as some sort of bizarre option that's now available in SQL Server 2014. I don't see it as bizarre at all. However, I see two distinct use cases that make complete sense to me:
Overcoming Drive Limitations in Azure-based SQL Virtual Machines
One of the current limitations of running SQL Server in Azure virtual machines is that you can only attach two additional data drives per CPU core, and each of those drives is up to 1 TB in size. For example, if you spin up a two core VM, you can attach 4 data drives.
By allocating URLs for data drives, you can overcome this limitation. In a recent whitepaper that I was a reviewer on, we discussed the IOPs and size limitations of Azure storage based drives, both at the individual drive level and the storage account level. Please read that whitepaper for more info on those characteristics that remain unchanged. A core takeaway though is that you shouldn't mix storage accounts for files that make up a single database, to make sure that you maintain write ordering. You could use different storage accounts (to overcome single account limits) for different databases though.
Tiered Storage for Partitioned Tables in On-Premises Databases
I commonly implement partitioned tables for sliding window scenarios. For example, a customer might want to keep 7 years of data online at any time. If table partitioning isn't familiar to you, please read another whitepaper that I was a reviewer on. Even though it was created for SQL Server 2008, it's pretty much still spot on.
One way that I use partitioned tables is to keep active data in the current partition, and to keep older data in separate partitions, often one per month. This usually allows me to have the older data in read-only filegroups. This gives you a great situation where your application just sees a normal table, but most of the table is read-only. There are several advantages of this, some of which are:
- While locks are still acquired on the read-only data, hints like NOLOCK are then safe to use on that data.
- You won't have a query accidentally overwrite your older data.
- The older data could be stored on slower media.
- The older data could have a higher compression rate. For example, you could use ROW compression for the active data, and PAGE
compression for the older data.
- SQL Server doesn't need to run recovery on read-only filegroups.
Using data files in Azure storage could make really good sense for some of this older data. You could store your old read-only data in
storage files and keep it available. So your current data would be fast to access but your older data would still be present, but slower to access.
I could see a situation where you might never need to remove your old data.
One other question that comes up in this situation relates to how backups work. Clearly you don't want to be pulling all your data out of
the cloud when you perform a backup, particularly if you are going to also backup to the cloud. However, piecemeal backups in SQL Server are perfect for this. If you just store your read-only filegroups and archive data in Azure storage files, you can safely perform a backup with READ_WRITE_FILEGROUPS_ONLY.
All in all, I see that some of these new hybrid scenarios could be quite compelling, and not bizarre at all.
The Azure team keep rolling out improvements at an amazing
pace. Scott Guthrie posted
recently about the latest set of changes. Here are the ones that I think
are most important for SQL people:
Import/Export Hard
Even though Azure storage accounts can hold a very large amount
of data, one of the big questions has always been about how to get that data
into the storage account in the first place. That question is now answered
because the new Windows Azure Import/Export service lets you ship hard drives
directly to the Azure team for uploading. The reverse is also available. If you
export a large amount of data to a storage account, you can move it onto a hard
drive and have the drive sent to you.
Currently the service uses FedEx for transport. If you are
concerned about the security of data in transit, bit locker encryption is also
supported in both directions.
HDInsight Out of
Preview Mode
HDInsight has made its way out of preview and into general
availability. It allows you to process large volumes of data (in Azure Storage)
using Apache Hadoop tools (including Pig and Hive).
HDInsight gives you a way of rapidly (and economically)
spinning up a Hadoop cluster when you need one, and shut it down again when you
are done.
Virtual Machine
As the number of virtual machine images has continued to
grow, it's been getting harder and harder to find the image that you want when
creating a new virtual machine. UI changes have been made to make this easier.
One of the discussions that the team has been having lately
is around how long images should be kept. For example, once SQL Server 2014
ships, should images of SQL Server 2008 R2, or SQL Server 2008 also be kept? I'd
like to see them all kept but I'm not sure how much ongoing maintenance that is
for the team. Also, if they are all kept, should they only keep the version with
the operating system that was the most current at the time? If anyone has
strong opinions on this, I'd love to hear them and I'll pass them on.
General Changes
You can now configure endpoint security using PowerShell.
You can now configure alerts related to billing. You can get
an email when you bill exceeds a given threshold. One thing I'd really like to
see (which isn't there yet) is the ability to simply have your bill emailed to
you each month, even when it's prepaid. Does anyone else feel the need for
For further details on areas that I haven't mentioned, you'll
find Scott's post here: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2013/11/04/windows-azure-import-export-hard-drives-vm-acls-web-sockets-remote-debugging-continuous-delivery-new-relic-billing-alerts-and-more.aspx
Hi Folks,
If you want to get your head around the core improvements coming in the SQL Server 2014 wave, I'm presenting a Technet Live session on November 29th (Australian time).
Registration is here: https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032570709&Culture=en-AU&community=0
I'd love to see you online.
I had the distinct honour (honor) this week of recording a new SQL Down Under podcast with Dr David DeWitt from the Jim Gray Systems Lab at Microsoft. Anyone that has been to a PASS summit over the last few years would know that David seems to have single-handedly converted morning keynotes into must-attend events.
In this podcast, David explains his role, gives a philosophical view on where we're at in the database industry and discusses core enhancements in SQL Server 2014.
You'll find it here: http://www.sqldownunder.com/Podcasts


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World's Oldest Woman Eunice Sanborn Dies at 114
The title of the oldest living woman now goes to 114-year-old Besse Cooper of the US state of Georgia, according to the Gerontology Research Group.
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She was three months old when the liner bound for Liverpool from New York sank off the Irish coast on 7 May. Mrs Lawson-Johnston's family had been emigrating to England when the boat was hit in an attack that killed hundreds, including her sisters.
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Dick Winters, of 'Band of Brothers' Fame, Dies
On D-Day, June 6, 1944, Winters and his troops from Easy Company, 506th regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, parachuted behind enemy lines to take on a German artillery nest on Utah Beach. His company fought through the Battle of the Bulge, the liberation of a death camp at Dachau and to Hitler's Eagle's Nest at Berchtesgaden.
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Nazi War Criminal Michael Seifert Dies in Italy
Seifert was convicted in absentia in 2000 by an Italian military tribunal of 11 murders at a prison camp in Bolzano. He was extradited to Italy from Canada in 2008.
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5 November 2010
World's Oldest Person, Eugenie Blanchard, Dead at 114 Years Old
Now, an East Texan is the oldest person in the world. Eunice G. Sanborn, 114, of Jacksonville, was born on July 20, 1896, five months after Blanchard.
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21 September 2010
Files Reveal Bravery Of WWII Spy
Ms Nearne lived a hermit's life in her Torquay flat and the secrets of her work as a spy only emerged after she died of a heart attack, aged 89, on 2 September 2010.
Ms Nearne was parachuted into France in 1944 where she worked undercover for the Special Operations Executive (SOE). Her remarkable story is told in files at the National Archives in London.
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15 September 2010
War Heroine Found Dead In Devon To Have Council Funeral
Eileen Nearne, 89, who died in her Devon home on 2 September, was one of 39 female agents sent to occupied France in her capacity as a member of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II.
Miss Nearne, who was fluent in French, was captured by the Germans just four months after arriving in France, but managed to persuade them she was an innocent French woman.
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Japan Says Over 230,000 Listed Centenarians Can't Be Found
Japan, famed for its longevity, launched a nationwide survey after a recent string of grisly discoveries -- including a mummified man in his bed and an old woman's remains in a backpack -- sparked alarm over the fate of many elderly.
The cases also triggered soul-searching over elderly people living in isolation, and public outrage at relatives of those missing who have kept their deaths secret in order to keep receiving their pension payments.
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Tokyo's 'Oldest Man' Had Been Dead For 30 Years
Mr Kato may have been dead for 30 years according to Japanese authorities.
They grew suspicious when they went to honour Mr Kato at his address in Adachi ward, but his granddaughter told them he "doesn't want to see anybody".
Police are now investigating the family on possible fraud charges.
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20 July 2010
African Ancestry Tracing Goes Mobile with AfricanAncestry.com's First Multi-City 'We Are Africa' Road Tour
To learn more about African Ancestry's 'We Are Africa' Road Tour and find out more about what's happening in your city go to http://www.africanancestry.com/roadtour.
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UK's Oldest Person Dies Aged 111
Eunice Bowman, who was born in 1898, died peacefully in her sleep at a care home on Tyneside.
When World War I broke out she went to work for the Armstrong munitions factory in Newcastle and the money she earned was used to help her family.
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23 June 2010
Nurse In Iconic WWII Photograph Dies Aged 91
Edith Shain said she was grabbed and kissed by an unknown American soldier on 14 August 1945.
The picture by Alfred Eisenstaedt was taken as people celebrated Japan's surrender, and it became an iconic image.
The identity of the sailor remains disputed.
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8 June 2010
Death Of Scottish 'Great Escape' Survivor
Jack Harrison took part in the famous breakout from Stalag Luft III in 1944, an event later immortalised on film.
He missed his chance to flee the camp when the German guards discovered the escape plot.
Of those who broke out of the camp only three reached safety and of the 73 recaptured, 50 were shot.
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5 May 2010
World's Oldest Person Dies At 114
Kama Chinen, a resident of a sub-tropical island in Okinawa, Japan, died on May 2, 2010. She lived to see three different centuries, the Gerontology Research Group (GRG) commented.
The title of oldest human now passes to 114-year-old Frenchwoman Eugenie Blanchard, who was born in February 1896. She lives on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, GRG said.
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23 April 2010
Whitney Harris, Nuremberg Prosecutor, Dies At 97
Harris was the last surviving of the three Nuremberg prosecutors, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch said. He died Wednesday at his home in the suburban St. Louis town of Frontenac, according to his stepdaughter, Theresa Galakatos of Richmond Heights. She said he had been battling cancer for three years and had been in and out of the hospital since suffering a fall in his home about six months ago.
Harris was lead prosecutor in the first of the Nuremberg war-crime trials in 1945 and tried Ernst Kaltenbrunner, the senior surviving leader of the Nazi Security Police. He also helped cross-examine Hermann Goering, Hitler's second-in-command, and helped get the confession of Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Hoess, head of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
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Indians have an obsession to religiously carry out teachings imparted to us by our various foreign colonizers, and "divide & conquer" seems to be our favourate subject. But on a larger picture, in international relations, India can alway shy out of international affairs by bringing up Pak 24*7 and Pak can do the same by bringing up India 24*7. So, whenever our allies need our help in international relations, we give our customary "Oh we'd love to but we're too busy w/ those evil Pakis" excuse and the Pakitanis do the same w/ India. Pak did this too, but India used Pakistan excuse to bail itself out of several situations, like facing NATO to bail out Gemal Abdul Nasser (our chief ally) for one. On an International Relations plane, a hostile Pak benefits Indian leaders & a hostile India benefits Pak leaders, so that they can narrow down the entire national & regional security purpose as to counterbalance the other, and avoid bigger internatioanl rel ...moreAnswered by A Moin, 23 Nov '08 06:31 pm
Due to political game divide and ruleAnswered by gautam kumar, 23 Nov '08 05:45 pm
Do not blame politicians alone it is a falacy that people want peace with each other. Due to constant indoctarisation a large section of pakistani population ernestly belive India is an Evil Hindu nation , They give donations to organizations such as LeT and Hizbul Mujahidine to wage jihad against India. Seeing paki support for terrorism and hostality a large section of population in India also wants an all out war to settle the matters. Basically the differences were deep seated and fanned by Islamists and there seems to be no cure untill Pakistan educates itself to level of western europe and also India advances economically to Per capta income and economy riveling 1st world so that making peace with India is an attrective proposation for pakisAnswered by Batao Na, 23 Nov '08 04:46 pm
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Becouse dirty politics both the side. tawa kese garam hoga without fire.Answered by athar siddiqui, 23 Nov '08 04:44 pm
Politicians only reflect views of the public. they are public representatives. they will act in ways or take stands that most of their supporters want.Answered by Raimer Rainer, 23 Nov '08 04:44 pm
They need a bait to surviveAnswered by david manjaly, 23 Nov '08 04:43 pm
They are the WARIS of the British who devided and ruled Indians for so long. Log apna PITRUTWA hamesa batate hei.Answered by UNNIKRISHNA RAMAN, 23 Nov '08 04:42 pm
Politics of power!!! People of Pakistan are quite like us... Filled with love and affection!!!Answered by sanjay sharma, 23 Nov '08 04:42 pm
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Overnight paving work to close lane of Mill Neck Road
Overnight paving work will close one lane on West Shore Road one night a next week in Mill Neck, according to a news release. Which night the work will happen hasn't been chosen yet, Nassau County Department of Public Works spokesman Michael Martino said.
The paving will take place from 10 p.m. until 5 a.m. In addition to the paving, railing along the seawall will be installed within the next two weeks. The railing work will not be done during morning or evening rush hours and will not require a lane to be closed.
Martino said this work will finish the first phase of the project to restore the road, which was damaged by superstorm Sandy. The road was closed after the Oct. 29 storm and reopened in June. The remaining two phases of the restoration have yet to be scheduled, he said.


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* During ''DeathOfASalesman'', a woman's laugh is heard repeatedly. This woman is revealed later to be [[spoiler:the main character's mistress]]. During the final test, I subconsciously listed it along with the {{Leitmotif}}s and then I reread what I'd written. Cue the Eureka moment. --WL (not a registered troper)
* Why is Willy so obsessed with personal attractiveness and thinks it's the key to success? Because he's a salesman, and for salesmen, personal attractiveness IS their bread and butter.
** ...which adds a metaphor of the title: it's not just WILLY's death, it's the death of his salesman-like ideals! Brilliant! -BlackHumor
* One of the themes of the play is how the father will oftentimes foist his perceived failings onto his children, seeing them as the ones who will make up for them through their own success, seen in Willy's relationship with Biff and Happy. Now, think about his jealousy regarding Charlie's success, Bernard's success, and his older brother Ben's success and how Happy, the younger brother, decides to stay in New York and "fight the good fight" at the end of the play while Biff decides to leave New York to seek his own fortunes. And now lets remember how Ben left America for years and found his wealth in South America.\\
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I realize that Ron Paul evoked some controversy in libertarian circles. I continue to support him and most of the ideas he champions. The groundswell of Internet and financial support he received indicates to me that I'm not the only one. It's nice to still have at least one or two voices in Congress espousing the kind of liberties voiced in our founding documents.
President Obama exhibits a rhetorical love for pragmatic solutions, rather than idealistic. We won't know what actions he'll take beyond the rhetorical for a bit yet.
As for "government that works", my question is (as always with Mr. Obama it seems): what specifically does he mean? Government that works how? Doing what?? If we're to eschew ideals when charting government's course, how do we know when it's on the right one? How do we know if it's working? Obviously, most Americans don't want a government that works like China's.
I prefer the unabashed idealist who is willing to honestly hold government to the limits established by the Constitution (as they're all sworn to do), over an eloquent pragmatist who tells me my highest calling and honor is to serve my country (as defined by him).
I prefer the self-sufficient spin on the JFK chestnut: "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for yourself."
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Max Beer Has (Gives?) Head
There's not much to say about this Max Beer faux commercial other than the fact than it'd it'd never air anywhere. Night Ranger? Sister Christian? Huh? Not a bad song but WTF for a commercial?
Topic: Racy, Spoofs, Video
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Max Beer Has (Gives?) Head
There's not much to say about this Max Beer faux commercial other than the fact than it'd it'd never air anywhere. Night Ranger? Sister Christian? Huh? Not a bad song but WTF for a commercial?
by Steve Hall Sep- 3-08
Topic: Racy, Spoofs, Video
For Some Brands, Nudity Has A Proper Place in Advertising
If you're in the business of selling items of, say, an "adult" nature such as lingerie, pornography and sex toys, you can't really expose your wares in your advertising. Beate Uhse AG found an ingenious way around this unfortunate fact with this directional billboard featuring four naked women with all the OMG-you can't-show-that-in-public parts neatly covered with an arrow.
The creativity - or the prurient persona of the work's creators - behind this one is to be applauded. Show the "product." Make it easy to find said "product." The work was created by Cayenne.
by Steve Hall Sep- 2-08
Topic: Good, Outdoor, Racy
Get Hitched in Paris and Las Vegas -- at the Same Time!
You'd have the best of two depraved worlds: a gaudy lustfest and some seriously decadent cake. Kind of like the ad at left, which was ganked out of last month's Travel and Leisure magazine.
Tagline: "Everything's sexier in Paris Las Vegas." I don't know about sexy, but it's sort of pretty after a few Pernods, and David Hasselhoff makes the occasional cameo. Plus, who can beat rooms starting at $89? Okay, okay, besides Circus Circus.
by Angela Natividad Aug-27-08
Topic: Magazine, Promotions, Racy, Strange
Photogasmic Diesel Commercial Makes Fantasy A Reality
It's well know Diesel does some weird/interesting/racy/bad advertising. They did that global warming thing. They did that two-hotties-in-a-room-S&M thing. They did that Aarif Smaks dance instructor thing. Now Diesel offers up some photogasmic "fuel for life" for, well, its Fuel for Life line of fragrance for women.
by Steve Hall Aug-26-08
Topic: Commercials, Creative Commentary, Good, Racy
I Want Some Ass, Dammit!
Calm down. Calm down. Maybe it's been a while since you've had the pleasure but let's conduct ourselves like the adults here and discuss this rationally. Humans, perhaps as a sick joke by our creator, were seemingly programmed to be obsessed with ass. Though when you think of it, an ass obsession is really kind of gross. After all, an ass's purpose is nothing more than a built in cushion upon which we can sit and rest our weary bodies from time to time. Oh and the gross part? Well let's just say it's home to that area through which unneeded refuse passes. And that's just nasty.
by Steve Hall Aug-25-08
Topic: Guerilla, Racy
Captain Morgan For President!
While everyone's awaiting Obama's Vice Presidential announcement, Captain Morgan is hangin' with the hotties and running for a presidency of his own. His primary platform plank is to put the party back into politics. With the help of four curvaceous cuties, The Captain shares the details of his platform: a two day work week, hot parties and designated drivers.
It might be nice to shove all the world's drama aside for a few days and let this guy take over for a bit. We'd all have a hell of a hangover but we'd all have fun getting it.
by Steve Hall Aug-22-08
Topic: Racy, Video
Bulging Global Objects Sell Mobile Object
This ad works on a couple of levels. First, and quite obviously, it states simply the name of the advertiser and provides a URL to the advertiser's site. Second, it ever so perfectly winks at the likely reaction many will have to the ad with their attention drawn not to anything mobile but to a couple of things global bulging outward threatening to escape their tenuous confines.
by Steve Hall Aug-21-08
Topic: Celebrity, Magazine, Racy
Don't Over Engineer. Flashing Hotties Can Sell Anything
What's the best way to get attention and promote Australia's Queensland as a winter vacation destination? The same way you'd get attention or just about anything else: hot guys and girls in swimwear flashing passersby on the street. It's simple. It's low budget. It catches attention. It's fun. Why over engineer when you don't have to? And who doesn't like to ogle a hottie in the morning?
by Steve Hall Aug-17-08
Topic: Guerilla, Promotions, Racy
Objectified Nude Men Need Cause Group Righteousness
Oh the horror! The double standard! The blatant sexism! Wait. What are we talking about? Oh yea. Nudity in advertising. Put a few nude or barely dressed women in an ad and everyone cries OBJECTIFICATION! Place a few nude guys in an ad and the whole thing becomes a squirmy laugh.
Of course, the guys in this ad for the Norwegian Automobile Federation aren't quite the objects of desire we see in the usual "hot chick sells stuff" variety of ads but still. Where's the outcry? Where's the cause group supporting the rights of these men? Why are we laughing when we should be raging against the machinations of a clearly sexist piece of work? Oh the horror! Will someone please call a cause group!
by Steve Hall Aug-14-08
Topic: Commercials, Opinion, Racy, Strange
No Promises on a Lap Dance, But It's Better than Breadcrumbs
Berlin-based lingerie shop Blush left a trail of striptease billboards to guide (throbbing, drooling, cash-in-hand) traffic straight into its velvety interior.
300 meters away from Blush (at a man-tastic construction site!), a model against a lilac backdrop is fully-dressed, hair tied back, breasts pushed up, choker tying it all together. At 100 meters she's in bare essentials, playing with her thigh-highs.
50 meters: toying with her bra strap. Five meters? Topless, back turned. You'll have to step into Blush for the rest of the show. (But I'm not feeling optimistic for you, unless you're in a chemise-buying mood.)
Kinda reminded us of Virgin's Fresh Footwork interactive campaign, where each click forward brought a ballerina closer to carnality.
For scooping this up for us, Adrants reader Dario of Invoke Media gets a virtual fist-bump, and possibly also an awkward hug when we finally meet.
by Angela Natividad Aug-11-08
Topic: Guerilla, Outdoor, Racy
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Here's how indie movies sneak up on you. This was announced way back in the spring of 2011, before "Homeland" became a big hit, and thus when we saw a new movie with Claire Danes, we sorta just shrugged our shoulders and moved on. But the actress is back in a big way thanks to the hit ...Read More »
It's one of the President of the United States' favorite shows, it just swept the Primetime Emmys (the coveted Best Drama Award, plus Best Actor and Best Actress) and the second-season premiere boasted its highest ratings to date until last night's episode broke them (1.75 million). ...Read More »


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