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Sears Didn't 'Die.' Vulture Capitalists Killed It.
Robert Kuttner
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If you've been following the impending bankruptcy of America's iconic retailer as covered by print, broadcast and digital media, you've probably encountered lots of nostalgia and sad clucking about how dinosaurs like Sears can't compete in the age of Amazon and specialty retail.
But most of the coverage has failed to stress the deeper story. Namely, Sears is a prime example of how hedge funds and private equity companies take over retailers, encumber them with debt in order to pay themselves massive windfall profits, and then leave the retailer without adequate operating capital to compete.
Part of the strategy is to sell off valuable real estate, the better to enrich the hedge fund, and stick the retail company with costly rental payments to occupy the space that it once owned.
In the case of Sears, the culprit is a hedge-fund operator named Edward Lampert, once a senior merger guy at Goldman Sachs. In 2005, Lampert merged Sears with Kmart, loaded both up with debt, and used some of the debt on stock buybacks to pump up the share price and enrich shareholders, notably himself and his hedge fund.
In a decade, 175,000 people at Sears/Kmart lost their jobs and revenue was cut in half. Various pieces of Sears were sold off. Lampert did just fine.
Lampert's hedge fund also became a prime a lender to Sears, making money off of commissions and interest charges as well as being a prime shareholder. The strategy ensures that the fund and its beneficiaries (including Lampert himself) get rich, even if they run Sears into the ground. For the most part, the nostalgia coverage of the demise of Sears has missed this.
If you look hard, you can find an excellent 2017 piece from The New York Times by Julie Creswell, "The Incredible Shrinking Sears," on Lampert's role. Another writer who regularly covers how hedge funds and private equity have pillaged American retailing is David Dayen.
The story goes far beyond Sears. Last year, about 20 retail chains went into bankruptcy. In most cases, the culprit was a hedge fund or private equity owner. (These two business models were once rather different, but are increasingly converging.)
This entire business model is one of the most extreme examples of how financial engineering is destroying potentially viable parts of the real economy.
I've written about how private equity and hedge funds are destroying independent daily newspapers, using the same acquire, strip and flip strategy. A book that tells the larger story in vivid detail is "Private Equity at Work," by Eileen Appelbaum and Rosemary Batt. But in general, this backstory is missing from the news coverage whenever another retailer bites the dust.
The tactic of loading up a company with debt and then paying yourself exorbitant fees and dividends and manipulating the share price at the expense of the company ought to be illegal. It's a plain conflict of interest. Likewise being both creditor and shareholder.
Ditto the use of Chapter 11 bankruptcy in order to profit yet again by picking over the remains. A hedge fund operator who drives a company into the ground by stripping assets for his own profit should not be permitted by bankruptcy court to keep control of the company. But that practice is the norm. Lampert will step down as CEO but remain chairman with a controlling ownership stake of what's left of Sears.
It's astonishing how little attention this maneuver has gotten, and how scarce are the demands for fundamental reform. One reason may be that Wall Street Democrats as well as Wall Street Republicans are leading players in this parasitic industry, and few politicians of either party have taken them on.
It was insider conflicts of interest at the expense of consumers, workers and investors that inspired the Glass-Steagall Act, separating investment banking from commercial banking. If we ever resume the task of draining the true financial swamp, we need a Glass-Steagall for hedge funds, private equity operators and bona fide businesses.
There are many things wrong with American capitalism. One of the most flagrant, and least appreciated, is the perverse role of hedge funds.
Sears, in its glory days, was the opposite of financial engineering. It was run by real people, and it sold real stuff, to real people. To make the American economy great again, get rid of the financial engineers and make America real again.
Robert Kuttner is co-editor of The American Prospect and a professor at Brandeis University's Heller School. His new book is Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism? Follow him on Twitter at @rkuttnerwrites.
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Starring: Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, Michael Cera, Kevin Costner, Chris O'Dowd, Jeremy Strong.
Coulda been a contender. Gonna be a convicted felon.
This is the journey which will be taken by the protagonist of Molly's Game, a selectively intriguing and downright entertaining true story of high-stakes gambling, high-risk career choices, and the lows to which they will inevitably take you.
Molly Bloom (played by Jessica Chastain) channelled her troubled upbringing as motivation to become an Olympic-standard freestyle ski jumper.
One single, misplaced twig on the run-up to a jump that would have put her on the US team put paid to Molly's dream of glory in the blink of an eye.
Needless to say, it is long before Molly finds herself in hot water. Primarily due to being too clever for her own good and too broke to think clearly, Molly lands in the right place at the wrong time to become the host of the biggest secret poker game in the country.
The regulars who sit at Molly's table in a secret room inside an exclusive nightclub are major players in every sense of the phrase. Many of them are A-list actors, sportsmen and captains of industry.
Having established the beginning and the end of Molly Bloom's story from the outset - she wrote a best-selling book that all but dared the FBI to come after her - there is every chance Molly's Game may have painted itself into a tight narrative corner.
Thankfully, this is where the superb scripting of famed writer Aaron Sorkin (creator of TV's The West Wing and an Oscar-winner for The Social Network) comes in.
What Sorkin expertly constructs is an immorality tale for our times, told as ethically (almost perversely so) as possible.
He does have an advantage in completing this tricky assignment in that an actress as assured as Chastain took the lead role.
While Molly Bloom is undoubtedly a tough nut, the manner in which Chastain handles how her character will ultimately crack gives the movie a weight that Sorkin's speedy, breezy style could never have achieved on its own.
Sorkin allows a mystery to slowly take hold. Why is Molly Bloom so reluctant to explain her mistakes, while acknowledging them all the same?
Is he protecting her former players? Or herself?


One of our favourite lighting and interior architects, Joanna Laajisto, who you may remember we featured here, has shared with us her latest project right in the heart of seaside Helsinki. Located in the Old Market Hall, the design of the restaurant Story by Joanna Laajisto and her team, brings together Finland's finest restauranteurs looking to provide hospitality in a beautiful space overlooking both the harbour and Helsinki's new Sky Wheel.
Paying homage to the history of the 120 year old market hall and its cultural heritage significance, the high-ceiling hall space has been designed by Laajisto to feel intimate and inviting using natural materials such as oak, leather and stone (our favourite material trifecta).
Originally used for loading horse carriages, the design brief to create intimacy was a challenge as the space also acts as a walk through area for market hall visitors. Taking the use of the area into consideration Laajisto has designed the cafe-restaurant to be split into three parts – all of which are separated by wide walkways.
An oak-paneled kitchen has been designed to incorporate a large wooden shelf holding chalkboards painted in custom-tinted blue, while a sizeable counter with herringbone laid, stone composite tiles takes centre stage in the room. Herb pots act to divide the dining areas with Laajisto's custom-made Edit2 lamps have been used to light up the tables. A platform has been added to the space to invite ocean gazing over the harbour while oak seating booths lined with leather sit beneath large pendant lights by Zero. Here, Laajisto played to the aesthetic of the 'market hall feel' designing a light from one of the wire fish traps found at the owners summer house – adding the perfect seaside reference to scheme.
With a focus on quality and service, naturally Story's philosophy towards the menu revolves around the creation of dishes that use ingredients sourced at the market hall and nearby market square. And of course, being Finland, fish features prominently!


A strong and persistent ridge of high pressure aloft (GOES water vapor image animation) along with a northward push of unusually warm air behind a poleward-moving frontal boundary (GOES IR image animation) helped some locations in Alaska set all-time record high temperatures for the month of January (including 51º F at Nome and 52º F at Denali National Park). An AWIPS I image comparison of 1-km resolution Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.64 µm visible channel data and the corresponding false-color Red/Green/Blue (RGB) product at 23:57 UTC on 27 January 2014 (above) showed generally cloud-free conitions over much of the northwestern quarter of Alaska — at that time Nome (station identifier PAOM) had a surface air temperature of 50º F, with offshore (east-northeasterly) winds. The Nome airport reported a snow depth of 12 inches on the morning of 27 January — however, there were several areas of bare ground (which appear as shades of cyan in the RGB image) scattered across the Seward Peninsula. Snow and ice appear as varying shades of red on the RGB image; supercooled water droplet clouds appear as shades of white, with ice crystal clouds taking on a pink to lighter red hue.
About an hour and a half earlier (22:14 UTC on 27 January), a closer look at the Seward Peninsula region using AWIPS II full-resolution (250 meter) Suomi NPP VIIRS visible and false-color RGB images (below) showed even more detail in terms of the location and size of the bare ground areas, with a few upwind of Nome (which was located approximately in the center of the images). Full sunshine and winds blowing across areas of snow-free ground likely helped to warm the air that was moving toward Nome. In addition to setting the all-time January high temperature of 51º F, the morning low that day of 38º F was also the warmest January minimum temperature on record for Nome.


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Like Nazis of yore, many Jews still obsessed with tracing Jewish bloodlines -- only today, it's out of Zionist conceit
View from the Lab: Who is a Jew? DNA can hold the key
(Telegraph) -- By Steve Jones --
Who is a Jew? As the recent passport row shows, that question can be murky, with elements of belief, values, descent and nationality mixed in.
It also has dark reminders of a terrible time in history when Jewish blood meant death; and science, or pseudo-science, claimed to be able to sniff it out.
Things have changed. A decade ago, I was passing through Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv carrying a box filled with small tubes. Alerted by the Syrian stamp in my passport, the security staff gave me a hard time. After emptying my case, she asked what was in the box. I replied, irritably: "Arab spit". "What?" she said. "I'm a geneticist, I explained, I have been sampling Palestinian DNA. At once, her face brightened – ah, DNA. Had I heard the then novel stuff on the shared male chromosomes of priestly Jewish families such as the Cohens? I had, and we parted on amicable terms.
The conversation gave me pause for thought. Joseph Mengele himself wrote his doctoral thesis on the relationship between jaw shape and racial identity. His ideas were pernicious rubbish and even 20 years later the thought of a genetic test for Jewish descent would have been treated with horror. Now, one has emerged and is not despised but hailed by many Jews themselves...MORE...LINK
Of course, the problem vis-a-vis Jewish identity is not whether or not one has Jewish blood, but rather whether one identifies with Jewish Zionism and its open (right-wing version) or crypto (left-wing version) supremacist agenda and ideology.
For example, take Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, highlighted on the post below. He has a long left-liberal political record (which means he regularly spews politically correct platitudes) but he's also a warmongering Jewish Zionist, which means he has today embraced open Jewish supremacism.
True, his Jewish blood (since such a thing exists, according to the article above) may make him more prone to Jewish-supremacist warmongering, but until he actually crosses the line by embracing the Jewish-supremacist, Zionist ideology...so what? DNA is not destiny -- at least for those of us who are not racist, fatalistic or superstitious.
But Cohen crossed the line twice -- first, by embracing crypto-Jewish-supremacist, Marxist ideology (which is designed to provide the totalitarian "secular" government framework utilized to enforce Jewish supremacism, but under the guise of "pursuit of social and economic justice"), and again by embracing Zionism, which today has dropped all pretense of "justice" and is now openly Jewish supremacist.
His journey from crypto Jewish supremacist to open Jewish supremacist is one that plenty of Zionists before him have traveled, from the neocons and neoliberals that today inhabit the West to the Communist Jews that went straight from Soviet Russia to Israel.
The only thing that has changed, really, is the world's consciousness of both that journey itself, and of the prevalence of Jewish supremacism in both its naked and hidden forms.
A Look at Israel's Good Buds, ISIS AKA Israeli Secret Intelligence Services - *Let's first look at their beginning...* And some of the help they got from real anti-Semites, the kind that kill TRUE Semites, and not the Jew impostors li...

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Q: What are typical wireless security loopholes and how can they be avoided? I was wondering if anybody had any thoughts on this, as I recently saw a Verizon DSL network set up where the WEP key was the last 8 characters of the router's MAC address.
(It's bad enough that hey were using WEP in the first place...)
What are common default security loopholes on wireless routers as they are shipped? How can they be fixed?

A: There was a story a while back about routers having a WEP key that could be derived from the network name and the MAC address. Might of been Thompson, I can't remember.
Relying on MAC address filtering is another bad one - since MAC addresses are transmitted in plaintext, you can just sniff a few packets and pick an address from there. It gets harder when there are multiple networks, and of course you have to wait until that machine is offline (duplicate MAC addresses are not good).

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Poetry Flash presents a virtual poetry reading by Omnidawn Publishers's Spring 2020 poets, featuring Desirée Alvarez, Raft of Flame, Anthony Cody, Borderland Apocrypha, Jennifer Hasegawa, La Chica's Field Guide to Bazai Living, David Koehn, Scatterplot, Craig Santos Perez, Habitat Threshold, and LM Rivera, Against Heidegger, online via Zoom, free, 3:00 pm PST (Register to attend: please click here; you will receive an email with a link and information on how to join the reading)
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Please join us for a Poetry Flash virtual event on Sunday, December 13 at 3:00 pm PST! We are excited to bring you a poetry reading by Desirée Alvarez, Anthony Cody, Jennifer Hasegawa, David Koehn, Craig Santos Perez, and LM Rivera via Zoom. To register for this event, see the link in the event listing above. After you register, you will receive an email with a link and information on how to join the reading. These books are available for purchase at www.omnidawn.com/product-category/poetry. Thank you for continuing to support Poetry Flash and our reading series!
Desirée Alvarez is a poet and painter living in New York City. Her new book, Raft of Flame, won Omnidawn's Lake Merritt Poetry Prize. Craig Santos Perez says, "Aboard this multilingual poetic vessel, Desirée Alvarez crosses the thresholds of time and space to enter ancient America and its conquest. On this journey, she examines the violent relations between the colonizer and the colonized, as well as her own entangled Latina, Spanish, and European heritages.…In the end, the Raft of Flame carries us to the place where we can look—entranced—into historical and genealogical depths that cannot be uttered." Her previous book, Devil's Paintbrush, received the 2015 May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Award. Her poetry is anthologized in What Nature and Other Musics: New Latina Poetry. Alvarez exhibits her work nationally and internationally, and her paintings were on view at Brooklyn Botanic Garden Conservatory Gallery this fall.
Anthony Cody's new book is Borderland Apocrypha, a finalist for this year's National Book Award in Poetry and winner of the 2018 Omnidawn Open Book Prize, selected by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge. She wrote of it, "Intense feeling, empathy, rage, compassion swerves language, torques the page. History and data inflict. Intelligence composes, sequence wrestles with violence. It must be witnessed, expressed. The love is expression. Witness is form." The 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo marked an end to the Mexican-American War, but it sparked a series of lynchings of Mexicans and long-lasting traumas. Borderland Apocrypha centers on the collective histories of these terrors, excavating traumas born of turbulence. Cody is a Canto Mundo fellow from Fresno, California with lineage in both the Bracero Program and Dust Bowl. He is a member of the Hmong American Writers' Circle and co-edited How Do I Begin? A Hmong American Literary Anthology.
Jennifer Hasegawa's new book is La Chica's Field Guide to Banzai Living. Molly Bendall says, "Buckle up for Jennifer Hasegawa's exhilarating ride, whatever sort of displaced being you might be—from immigrant to extraterrestrial—and consult this manual. Follow the poems as they careen through assorted omens and 'ghosts of sovereignty.' Touching down in Hawai'i, California, and other parts of the world, Hasegawa carries her baggage with aplomb. She's all-too-aware of how old family folkways can linger with the 'slow-burrowing hoodoo/of suggestion.' And she's brazen enough to push through to the next realm of possibilities…" The manuscript for La Chica's Field Guide to Banzai Living won the Joseph Henry Jackson Literary Award from the San Francisco Foundation.
David Koehn's new book is Scatterplot. Jericho Brown says, "David Koehn's Scatterplot is a book full of names and near-misses best described by its attention to narrative…when it is the narrative we associate with dreams! Or as Koehn himself says, "I was stumbling around the aisles of a dream." This line in particular has everything to do with what I love most about this book. Every poem throws itself headlong into litanies of images reminding us that, even when we are lost or dying or anxious, we are still very much alive." Koehn diagrams connections from media, art, film, music, nature, history, and his family into a web of coordinates that form constellations of beauty and tragedy. In a universe so full of imperfection one can't help but laugh and cry, the poet embraces the present while taking responsibility for his own insufficiencies. David Koehn is the author of several previous books of poetry, including Coil and Twine.
Craig Santos Perez's new book Habitat Threshold has crafted a timely collection of eco-poetry that explores his ancestry as a native Pacific Islander, the ecological plight of his homeland, and his fears for the future. Linda Hogan says, "Craig Santos Perez is a writer I seriously watch. He includes a variety of environmentally important writing, seamlessly combined with history, politics, and the familial." Craig Santos Perez is an indigenous Chamorro from the Pacific Island of Guam. He is the author of four books of poetry, coeditor of five anthologies, and cofounder of Ala Press. He has received the American Book Award, PEN Center USA/Poetry Society of America Literary Prize, Hawaii Literary Arts Council Award, and fellowships from the Lannan Foundation and Ford Foundation.
LM Rivera's new book is Against Heidegger. Brian Evenson says, "This hybrid critical memoir offers up the scraps and bits of language the semi-conscious mind grasps as it strives to resolve those problems which upon awakening, still somehow remain. A sort of philosophical trance state that keeps opening up to subtly reveal the wound of being human." LM Rivera is a writer. He co-edits Called Back Books with Sharon Zetter. The author of a chapbook, The Little Legacies and a previous poetry collection, The Drunkards, he is also a tutor, a filmmaker, and an artist.


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Home Office gives green light to first drug testing clinic
Drug users bringing illicit substances into the new clinic will get results of what they contain within 10 minutes. Photograph: Rex
The first drug-checking service licensed by the Home Office will allow users to have their illicit substances tested without fear of being arrested in a move that could be rolled out nationally if it is shown to save lives.
The year-long pilot project, which had a soft launch in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, last Friday but begins in earnest this week, will allow anyone over the age of 18 to take their drugs to the clinic, run by the charity Addaction. Testing the content will take about 10 minutes, during which time the user will complete a short questionnaire to allow harm reduction advice to be tailored to them.
"This is about saving lives," said Roz Gittins, Addaction's director of pharmacy. "We know people take drugs. We don't have to condone it but nor should we judge people or bury our heads in the sand. It's our job to do whatever we can to help people make informed choices about the risks they're taking. Checking the content of drugs is a sensible and progressive way to do that. If people know what's in something, they can be better informed about the potential harm of taking it."
The launch of the service comes amid rising concerns that users are buying drugs which contain other potentially toxic or more potent substances. Cocaine laced with the synthetic opioid fentanyl has been linked to a number of deaths, while there have also been warnings about the sale of super-strength ecstasy at a number of music festivals.
We know people take drugs. We don't have to condone it but nor should we judge people or bury our heads in the sand
Roz Gittins, Addaction
A drug safety charity, the Loop, already conducts drug testing at music festivals and has carried out a similar exercise at a pop-up site in Bristol city centre. But the new project, which has been three years in the planning, is the first to be licensed by the government.
"It's Home Office-licensed, but in addition to that we have a local agreement in place with the police force," Gittins said. "So people will not be stopped and searched on their way in or out of the buildings, because they are supportive of what's going on." The pilot is being run in partnership with Hertfordshire University and The Loop, which is providing the testing equipment.
"The work done by the Loop already shows that people who have had substances tested often then decide not to take them, or take less than planned, resulting in less health issues," added Gittins.
Fiona Measham, professor of criminology at Durham University and director of the Loop, said: "Three summers' piloting festival testing and a year piloting city-centre testing has shown that drug safety testing can identify substances of concern, productively engage with service users and reduce drug-related harm."
All the groups involved in the pilot insisted that they were not in any way condoning the use of illegal drugs. Gittins denied that the testing service would have a negative impact on people living near to the site and said the Bristol city centre pilot had been carried out without incident.
"If anything, this should be a positive step to help reduce drug-related harms. It is not just people's lives, it's also potential increased costs to the health service, for example, locally. If we can help to prevent those from occurring in the first place, then that is another positive thing."
Although coastal towns have become "hot spots" for drug deaths, according to data from the Office for National Statistics, Addaction said Weston-super-Mare had been chosen for the pilot because it was relatively small, making it ideal for a test site.
Few countries around the world offer government-licensed drug testing – the Netherlands is a notable exception. Its Drug Information and Monitoring System, founded in 1992, has been described as the "first pill-testing initiative in Europe" and acts as an official branch of the public health system. Government-backed trials are also currently being held in Australia.
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Q: Getting the JSON data from the "Export Collections to BigQuery" firebase extension into row column format I'm currently using the Export Collections to BigQuery Firebase Extension.
This is a Firebase Function that periodically updates Firestore Collections to BigQuery.
This is great, but it seems to put Firestore Document Data into a "data" column inside BigQuery.
My question, how would I go about getting this JSON out of the data column into separate columns in BigQuery. Luckily my JSON/Firestore documents are not nested and are flat and I intend to keep it that way.
Any advice would be great. I'm aware of https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/standard-sql/json_functions but am struggling to find the right SQL query to achieve this.

A:     SELECT
      JSON_EXTRACT(data, "$.user") AS user
    FROM `firebase-project.firestore_export.name-of-firestore-collection`

is what I able to use to pull JSON from the data column and format it into different columns.
Thanks rtenha!

A: You should be able to use JSON_EXTRACT_SCALAR to "column-ize" your data.
with data as (select '{ "name" : "Jakob", "age" : "6" }' as my_json)
select
  JSON_EXTRACT_SCALAR(my_json,'$.name') as name,
  JSON_EXTRACT_SCALAR(my_json,'$.age') as age
from data

Consider keeping your firebase 'source' data as is, then create a view that parses the json to give you useable columns.


Last time, we worked on installing BC adjustable coilovers on Firas's 86. This time, we are installing H&R lowering springs on Sid's 86.
The process takes, almost, the same time as installing coilovers but goes to a slightly different route as we had to disassemble each strut, remove the stock springs and replace them with the nice blue H&R ones. The end result was very satisfying, coupled with H&R wheel spacers on the front and the back.


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Brian Sandoval was the first Mexican to have ever held a state position in Nevada. Sandoval was born on August 5, 1963. In his lifetime, Sandoval has held several positions in the United States. He was a judge at the United States District Court and also an Attorney General in Nevada. He was also the youngest chairperson of the Nevada Gaming commission. Brian Sandoval became the Nevada State's Governor in 2010 and still holds the position currently.
Brian Edward Sandoval was born on August 5, 1963. He traces his roots from Mexico although he was born in Redding, California. Brian Sandoval began his education at Little Flower School in Reno and later graduated from Bishop Manogue High school in 1981. He proceeded to the University of Nevada, Reno and graduated in 1986 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Economics. He attended the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law and graduated in 1989. Brian Sandoval began practicing law with several law firms in Reno before he started his law firm in 1999.
Brian Sandoval began his career as a politician in 1994 when the then sitting Governor Jim Gibbons went on retirement. Brian contested for the open seat and was elected to serve at the 25th District of the Nevada Assembly. He was re-elected in 1996 but resigned in 1998 and became a member of the Gaming Commission of Nevada which handles the gaming industry of the State. He was succeeded by Gibbons wife, Dawn Gibbons.
Sandoval was appointed as the chairman of the gaming commission in 1999 at the age of 35 making him the youngest chairperson ever to serve in the commission. In his tenure as chairman, Sandoval came up with regulations that were meant to limit or otherwise face out the rate of gambling on college sports events.
In 2002, Brian Sandoval won the Nevada Attorney General seat against his Democrat opponent John Hunt and began service in 2003. Among his achievements as an attorney included elevating laws against drug abuse, human trafficking, and domestic violence. He served as the State's Attorney until the then U.S Senator Harry Reid proposed him as a nominee for the position of a judge in the United State District Court for the District of Nevada in 2004. On March 1, 2005, Sandoval was nominated to take the seat of Judge Howard D. McKibben by President George W. Bush. Sandoval was voted into the office by the U.S Senate on October 24, 2005, and resigned on September 15, 2009.
He pursued his bid to become the Governor of the Nevada State in 2010. He won against Rory Reid of the Democratic Party with a majority vote in almost all the counties except Clark County. Sandoval won the 2014 elections where he defeated Democrat Bob Goodman by a wider margin of more than 70% of the votes.
Brian Sandoval married Kathleen Teipner in 1990 and divorced in 2018 having three children. He is currently married to Lauralyn McCarthy.
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Q: Hide (Suppress Showing) Global Public Parameter Dialog Box (Modelica Dymola) I have a parameter that is always calculated from other parameters, and needs to be public so it can be used by other component models in my project. Basically, it is a global parameter in an object very similar to the TIL.SystemInformationManager object.
Because it is calculated, it is meaningless to show it in any dialog box; and using annotation(dialog(enable=false)) could lead to confusion and frustration because the user sees it always disabled for no good reason.
Because it must be public, I cannot use the protected keyword.
It cannot be final because it is set by the model using it.
Lastly, it must be a parameter, and not a variable, because I use it to dimension an array.
Here is the model. The idea is that in sim2 you set the connector type ct which then calculates the size n of the array myArray that is used in all the connector components:
package VerySimpleSIM

  model Sim2

    parameter Integer ct = 0 "Connector type";
    final parameter Integer n = if (ct > 0) then 2 else 0;

  end Sim2;

  connector MyConnector "Connector with array size set by global parameter n"

    //~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    //This parameter is always set by the component using the connector,
    //so I don't want to show it in any dialog box.
    parameter Integer n;
    //~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Real myArray[n];

  end MyConnector;

  model Creator

  protected
    outer Sim2 sim2 "System information manager";

  public
    MyConnector cnctrB(final n=sim2.n) annotation (Placement(transformation(extent={{80,-10},{100,10}})));

  equation
    //Create arbitrary values for testing: time + 0.1 * {1,2,...,n}
    cnctrB.myArray = {time + 0.1 * i for i in 1:sim2.n};
  end Creator;

  model Changer

  protected
    outer Sim2 sim2 "System information manager";

  public
    MyConnector cnctrA(final n=sim2.n) annotation (Placement(transformation(extent={{-100,-10},{-80,10}})));
    MyConnector cnctrB(final n=sim2.n) annotation (Placement(transformation(extent={{80,-10},{100,10}})));

  equation
    //Output = sin(2 * pi * input)
    cnctrB.myArray = Modelica.Math.sin(2 * Modelica.Constants.pi .* cnctrA.myArray);
  end Changer;

  model TestSim2

    inner Sim2 sim2(ct=1) annotation (Placement(transformation(extent={{20,20},{40,40}})));

    Changer changer annotation (Placement(transformation(extent={{-10,-10},{10,10}})));
    Creator creator annotation (Placement(transformation(extent={{-40,-10},{-20,10}})));
  equation
    connect(creator.cnctrB, changer.cnctrA) annotation (Line(points={{-21,0},{-9,0}}));
    annotation (Icon(coordinateSystem(preserveAspectRatio=false)), Diagram(coordinateSystem(preserveAspectRatio=false)));
  end TestSim2;
end VerySimpleSIM;

A: You can show/hide a parameter using the public and protected keywords as shown in the following example:
model protectedParameter
  parameter Real p1=1 "Visible parameter";
  parameter Real p2=3.14 "another visible parameter";
protected
  parameter Real derivedParameter=p1+p2+p3 "Hidden (protected) parameter";
public
  parameter Real p3=2.71 "yet another visible parameter";
equation
  // equations from here on
  ...
end protectedParameter;

Alternatively, you can put the final keyword in front of the parameter declaration and Dymola, at least, will hide it from the dialogs.
Best regards,
Rene Just Nielsen

A: Use annotation(dialog(connectorSizing=true)) to suppress showing a parameter in a dialog box. E.g., change the line that reads,
    parameter Integer n;

to read,
    parameter Integer n annotation(dialog(connectorSizing=true));


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Home / News / Please Welcome Jeopardy! Host Alex Trebek to the Capitals Bandwagon
Please Welcome Jeopardy! Host Alex Trebek to the Capitals Bandwagon
By Ian Oland
April 11, 2016	11:39 am
Hi, my name is Ian Oland. I'm your driver of the Washington Capitals bandwagon. Today, we need to make a quick stop in Hollywood, CA, to pick up our newest passenger: Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek.
On Friday, the Jeopardy! YouTube account uploaded an interview where Trebek talks hockey for a few minutes. When asked what team would surprise people in the playoffs, Trebek picked the Caps.
"Well, it's not going to be a surprise," Trebek said, wearing a Habs jersey (which we'll ignore… this time). "It's Washington. I mean, they have been dominant all season long."
"In terms of surprise, maybe the Anaheim Ducks," Trebek continued. "The Kings are still looking good, looking strong. But then again, you have the Rangers and you have Chicago. Chicago is solid. But in the East, I think it's Washington. It might be their year."
The essential Trebek GIFs.
This news should make Caps fan and Frederick Country resident Kelly Wright happy. Wright became a Jeopardy! champion in December. She wore an RMNB t-shirt under her sweater.
In the video, Trebek expands upon his fanhood. He said he grew up a Detroit Red Wings fan because of Gordie Howe, but later switched allegiances to the Montreal Canadiens after Howe retired.
Trebek, born in Ontario, joins famous people such as wide receiver Roddy White, Hall of Famer and Stanley Cup champion Mike Modano, and this Utz potato chip my mom gave me to pick the Caps.
In the coming days, expect more famous people to give the Caps their support after the team dominated the regular season.
And I'll be here, ready to pick them up.
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— Ian Oland (@ianoland) March 31, 2016
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It's been quite a while since we've provided an overview of some of the recent activities of Vector 35 and Binary Ninja. The good news is that means this SotN is chock-full of goodies. Read on for a new contest, several new training opportunities, and a summary of the latest code changes.
First and foremost, there's been a ton of changes since the last update, so I'm only going to cover the highlights here.
When you encounter unknown stack alignment (particularly a problem for callee cleanup ABIs), a new manual UI makes resolving the issue much faster, and an internal solver means you won't even need that UI most of the time.
The new arbitrary FlowGraph API is just one of many in-progress 1.2 UI improvements that made this release.
Our QT version has been updated to QT 5.11.1.
Searching, setting types, and displaying UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32 is now possible in the strings and disassembly views.
We have switched to Intel XED for x64/x86 disassembly (also allows for 8086 disassembly though without supporting segment selectors in the core, so still work to be done).
Find more functions! Linear Sweep is now enabled by default and a new "Open With" option added for customizing initial analysis.
And of course, we've added all the usual bugfixes and performance improvements you'd expect along with many other small changes.
For the rest of the details, you can always check out the full changelog.
Two new training opportunities are coming up in November and we're extremely excited about both of them. First, if you're interested in really upping your game specifically with Binary Ninja, learning more about using the API, ILs, and hearing from the most knowledgable binary ninja out there, you need to check out Josh Watson's upcoming training in Santa Clara, California on November 9th. If you've ever joined our slack and ask a question it's likely that Josh was the one who answered, and we're hoping he does many more courses like this.
Second, if you're newer to reverse engineering or looking for something less focused on Binary Ninja in particular (or just limited to the east coast), you'll want to check out the Barr Group's Software Reverse Engineering and Security Analysis course happening in Germantown, Maryland from November 13th to November 15th. Brought to you by Anthony DeRosa, one of the developers of ODA, this three day course is sure to be a great overview of RE.
And even better, both courses include free licenses for Binary Ninja as a part of the registration! If you've already got a license, consider using it as an opportunity to gift a non-commercial license to someone else.


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Aiken Receives Traffic Safety Grant
The city of Aiken, South Carolina is putting a recent grant to good use as it focuses on increasing traffic and pedestrian safety. The $242,910 award from the state's public and highway safety office has enabled the city to hire two new traffic safety officers that are doing everything they can to earn their salary that is paid for through the grant money.
The two officers have taken their job seriously from the first day. According to the lead officer, there have already been over 800 traffic deaths this year in South Carolina, which is an increase over the 767 deaths recorded last year. This year's total is expected to go even higher during the last two months of 2018. Through focused public education initiatives and increased traffic law enforcement, the officers hope to reduce the number of traffic deaths in the county and the state.
The officer in charge of the new traffic safety program through the Aiken Department of Public Safety spent the past 30 years serving as a highway patrol officer. This experience left a vivid impression on him and fueled his efforts to increase safety for all those on the road. Having witnessed many fatal wrecks over the years, he said he realizes that strict enforcement of traffic laws and public education on the dangers of speeding and distracted driving are essential to the success of the program.
How Aiken is Using Public Education and Law Enforcement to Improve Traffic and Pedestrian Safety
The Aiken traffic safety program is reaching out to the public to raise awareness of safety measures in place for their benefit. Through a recent public service announcement, Aiken County police officers made a video dramatizing safe pedestrian and traffic safety tips at a busy downtown intersection.
The two officers in charge of the safety program starred in the video, which focused on the benefits of using crosswalks and traffic signals to cross busy intersections. The public service announcement was initiated after a pedestrian was struck by a car at the intersection earlier this year. Injuries are often severe and sometimes fatal when a pedestrian is hit by a motor vehicle. Using crosswalks and traffic signals reduces the likelihood of being struck.
The video also dramatized how right-turn accidents have recently increased at this same intersection. The officers demonstrated how pedestrians in the crosswalk face danger when drivers are making right hand turns from one-way streets onto another one-way street. Since most of the drivers focus their attention on the left oncoming traffic, they often fail see pedestrians in the crosswalk before they are already into their turn.
The officers hope the video brings awareness to these common safety hazards and encourages drivers and pedestrians alike to take special precautions and pay close attention to their surroundings at all times. In addition to the video, tickets for speeding, failing to wear a seatbelt, and reckless driving are being issued more frequently than ever. The program's focus on law enforcement is a reminder to all motorists and pedestrians that the laws are in place to protect them.
Columbia Car Accident Lawyers at Chappell Smith & Arden, P.A. Help Victims Injured in Wrecks Claim Compensation
If you have been seriously injured or you have suffered the wrongful death of a loved one in a car accident, call the Columbia car accident lawyers at Chappell Smith & Arden, P.A. at 803-929-3600, or 866-881-8623, or contact us online to schedule a consultation today.
We serve clients throughout South Carolina, including those in Columbia, Aiken, Camden, Sumter, Orangeburg, Greenville, Florence, Beaufort, Irmo, Spartanburg, Myrtle Beach, Hilton Head Island, West Columbia, Rock Hill, Charleston, Lexington, Winnsboro, Summerville, and throughout the areas of Lexington County, Richland County, Sumter County, Charleston County, Aiken County, Florence County, Lancaster County, York County, Spartanburg County, Orangeburg County, Kershaw County, and Newberry County.


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First commercial winter expedition on Mount Everest?
Winter climbing on the eight-thousanders was previously reserved for the best and toughest. In the 1980s, the heyday of winter expeditions to the world's highest mountains, the Polish experts for the cold season were called "Ice Warriors". In that decade they achieved seven winter first ascents of eight-thousanders. Krzysztof Wielicki and Leszek Cichy kicked off on 17 February 1980 on the highest of all mountains, Mount Everest. It's strange that a commercial winter expedition might pitch up their tents there for the first time.
Five clients by the end of May
Wielicki (l.) and Cichy after the first winter ascent of Everest in 1980
However, the whole thing's a little mysterious. On 28 May, Tashi Lakpa Sherpa, chairman of "14 Peak Expedition" and managing director of "Seven Summit Treks", announced for the first time on Facebook that there would be an Everest winter expedition between 1 December 2018 and 28 February 2019. Five clients had already decided to join the expedition, wrote Tashi, adding that there was now "an open platform for all interested parties". In total, the team would consist of more than 30, Tashi said. Shortly afterwards, "Seven Summit Treks" and "Arnold Coster Expeditions" – the operator was then called "Co-Partner" – also tendered this winter project. It was interesting that the introductory passage was changed: "Welcome all, but (you) should be experienced!", it was said at first, then "Welcome all if you would like to take an advantage of less crowded and more adventure on Everest". Tashi Lakpa Sherpa quoted a prize of $38,000 per person on Facebook at the beginning of July. By the way, the permit for climbing Everest is much cheaper in winter than in spring: 2,750 instead of 11,000 dollars per foreign climber.
Txikon: "It has put me off"
Alex Txikon wants to experience loneliness on Everest
Then it became quiet about the planned commercial Everest winter expedition – until Alex Txikon gave an interview about his winter plans to "explorersweb.com" a week ago. This time he wouldn't go to Everest, said the 36-year-old Spaniard, who was one of the first winter ascenders of Nanga Parbat in 2016 and had tried in vain in the past two winters to climb Mount Everest without bottled oxygen. "Well, honestly, the perspective of having a commercial expedition on the mountain has put me off," said Alex. "It's the absolute solitude which makes winter Everest so unique and its climb so challenging so, with all respects, I'd rather look somewhere else for my next winter expedition."
No answer yet
Arnold Coster
Txikon obviously referred to the announcement at the end of May, as he also spoke of five clients so far who were determined to participate in the commercial expedition. I tried to find out more. On the websites of "Seven Summit Treks" and "14 Peak Expedition" I searched in vain for references to the winter expedition. On the site of "Arnold Coster Expeditions" I found what I was looking for. "Join me on Everest this winter to climb Everest away from the crowds … a true adventure!,"is written there. However, the further information to which a link leads seems to have been taken from the invitation to a quite "normal" Everest expedition and contains no reference to the special challenges in winter. My questions to Mingma Sherpa, the head of "Seven Summit Treks", and to Arnold Coster about the current status of the project have so far remained unanswered.
Last success 25 years ago
While Mount Everest has been climbed more than 9000 times to date, the so far 15 summit successes in the meteorological winter are rather modest. For weather researchers, the cold season begins on 1 December, while the calendar winter does not start until the winter solstice on 21 or 22 December.
Everest Southwest Face
29 Everest winter expeditions have so far been recorded in the "Himalayan Database", 21 of them before 1990. In the winter of 1985 alone, four expeditions attempted the highest mountain on earth: three South Korean expeditions on different routes (normal route via the South Col, via the West Ridge and through the Southwest Face) and a Japanese team (via the Hornbein-Couloir). In total, only five winter expeditions were successful on Everest – most recently in 1993, when six members of a Japanese team climbed the Southwest Face to reach the highest point at 8,850 meters on 18 December.
The only one who scaled the highest mountain on earth in winter without bottled oxygen was Ang Rita Sherpa on 22 December 1987. The weather on that day was unusually good. The extreme cold in winter usually causes the air pressure in the summit region to drop even further. An ascent without a breathing mask is then at the absolute limit of what is possible.
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Mount Everest took their husbands. And the fathers of their children. Nevertheless, Nima Doma Sherpa and Furdiki Sherpa want to climb the highest mountain on earth this spring. "We are doing our expedition for the respect of our late husbands because they were mountaineers too," Nima Doma replies to my question about the purpose of their project.
Whiteout at Mount Vinson
Christmas with the family beneath the Christmas tree – this might not happen for about 40 mountaineers in Antarctica. For about a week now, several teams have been stuck in the base camp at the foot of the 4,852-metre-high Mount Vinson, the highest mountain of the continent.
Latok I: How high did Gukov and Glazunov climb?
No photo, no video, no GPS data. It's not possible to prove clearly where exactly on the seven-thousander Latok I in the Karakoram the two Russian climbers Alexander Gukov and Sergey Glazunov finished their ascent on 23 July.
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Bent urges Arsenal to sign out-of-favour England international
Darren Bent believes Arsenal should consider signing Dele Alli.
The 24-year-old was replaced at half-time during Spurs' 1-0 defeat to Everton on the opening weekend of the Premier League and has been left out of the squad for the past two games.
The England international has now been linked with a move away from Tottenham with Paris Saint-Germain reportedly interested.
However, despite Alli's omission from the squad, Jose Mourinho has stated that he expects the midfielder to remain at Tottenham after the transfer window closes next week.
But Bent has urged Alli to consider his options after falling out with Mourinho.
The former Spurs forward told talkSPORT:
"He's been at Tottenham for a while now, and I think maybe he's a product of a process where he's been at Spurs, they've got to the Champions League final, but other than that, there's been a couple of top-four finishes.
"I think any player comes a point where they need a fresh challenge.
"I think for Dele Alli, Mourinho has come in, they've clashed, and I think he's thinking, 'I need a new challenge here'.
"I think he deserves that. He's not going to be happy playing Carabao Cup games because they play Chelsea in the week and if they get beat that's no more Carabao Cup. So are we saying we won't see him in the Premier League for weeks and weeks?
"We can't wait until the FA Cup, so if I'm Dele Alli I'm looking at an option to get out of there."
Bent was then asked if rivals Arsenal should consider signing Alli this summer:
"100 per cent. I wouldn't even hesitate."
Arsenal are reportedly in the market to sign a midfielder this transfer window, with Thomas Partey of Atletico Madrid and Lyon's Houssem Aouar both being touted as potential recruits.
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Understanding and responding to the protection needs of climate activists and movements
As climate change impacts our everyday lives, livelihoods, and ecosystems, significantly harming the world's most vulnerable populations, thousands of individuals and groups have raised their voices to call upon world leaders, the private sector, and the public to take bold action to protect the planet and its people. They have formed a heterogeneous and diverse global movement that has been growing in numbers and relevance as the urgency to tackle climate change increases.
Unfortunately, as the movement and its influence at national and international levels grows, so do the risks faced by those on the frontlines of climate defence. Adversaries of climate activism are increasingly trying to silence the voices of these brave defenders through different means, from restrictive laws to judicial harassment to physical violence.
In addition to these targeted attacks, climate activists often face a wide range of obstacles that affect their activism, integrity, security, and wellbeing, including political, cultural and economic marginalisation, insufficient resources, and inadequate access to information. In response, there have been a range of interventions to help climate activists confront these situations.
In recent years, however, activists and civil society organisations have warned of a gap preventing communication between those who identify as climate activists and the organisations working to support them and provide protection services, including as part of efforts to support human rights and environmental defenders. This gap limits efforts to strengthen the protection of fundamental freedoms and civic space, which is essential for all those working to defend a healthy planet and combat climate change.
Against this backdrop, this brief seeks to contribute to addressing the above-mentioned gap by identifying concrete ways in which civil society organisations and donors who are dedicated to supporting human rights defenders, including those specifically oriented toward environmental human rights defenders (EHRDs), can more effectively connect, communicate, and provide support to address the particular needs of climate activists and movements.
Thus, although some background analysis is provided, the main objective of this document is not to map or analyse the risks and challenges faced by climate activists, but rather to offer concrete, practical advice and guidance on how organisations can increase support for climate activists across the world. The overarching objective of this report is to contribute to efforts to help climate activists secure their protection, wellbeing, and the effectiveness of their activism.
List of support resources for climate activists and movements
Action steps for donors and civil society organisations on how to increase support for climate activists
Joint briefer: New reports present recommendations for donors and support organisations to increase support for environmental and climate defenders
Report on the Urgent Debate on the human rights of women and girls in Afghanistan
The French Development Agency organised an international conference to consider new ideas and approaches to linking human rights and development
Time to ask again: is being the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights an impossible job?
Report of the 34th Special Session of the Human Rights Council on the deteriorating human rights situation in Ukraine stemming from the Russian aggression
International borders: Dividing lines for Indigenous Peoples' rights


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Q: How to improve selection sort? This is more of an academic/homework question?
Would it be better to change
if (index_outer !== index_min) {
    $P.swap(arr, index_outer, index_min);
}

to
$P.swap(arr, index_outer, index_min);

and always swap, as this is the special case when index_outer does have the smallest value?  It would be a swap that does nothing, but at the same time it would not break anything.  Because this does not happen often I suppose, it would reduce the amount of times an if check was used.
$P.swap = function (arr, i, j) {
    var temp = arr[i];
    arr[i] = arr[j];
    arr[j] = temp;
};

$P.selectionSort = function (arr) {
    var index_outer,
        index_inner,
        index_min,
        length = arr.length;
    for (index_outer = 0; index_outer < length; index_outer++) {
        index_min = index_outer;
        for (index_inner = index_outer + 1; index_inner < length; index_inner++) {
            if (arr[index_inner] < arr[index_min]) {
                index_min = index_inner;
            }
        }
        if (index_outer !== index_min) {
            $P.swap(arr, index_outer, index_min);
        }
    }
    return arr;
};

A: I don't think it would always be a good idea. What if array was partially/fully sorted, you would be wasting a call to $P.swap().
As for improving selection sort try sorting the array from both ends simultaneously by taking index_min and index_max. Though number of comparisons would remain same, number of passes would decrease hence decreasing total run time.


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Martin Elmiger, född 23 september 1978 i Hagendorn, Zug, är en schweizisk professionell tävlingscyklist. Han tävlade från säsongen 2007 fram till och med 2012 för det franska stallet Ag2r-La Mondiale. Från och med 2013 tävlar han för IAM Cycling.

Karriär
Martin Elmiger blev professionell 2001 med Post Swiss Team, men året därpå blev han kontrakterad av det schweiziska cykelstallet Phonak Hearing Systems. Schweizaren tävlade med Phonak Hearing Systems tills stallet lade ned sin cykelverksamhet i slutet av 2006.

Elmiger vann det schweiziska nationsmästerskapets linjelopp 2001, 2005 och 2010.

Under säsongen 2004 vann Elmiger etapp 3 av Tour du Languedoc-Rousillon. Under säsongen slutade han även tvåa i GP Pino Cerami och Paris-Bourges. Ett år tidigare hade han vunnit den schweiziska tävlingen GP Kanton Aargau Gippingen och under 2005 var han tillbaka för att vinna tävlingen igen, men slutade det året trea efter Matteo Tosatto och landsmannen Markus Zberg.

Martin Elmiger vann två etapper av Tour Down Under 2007 och vann i slutet tävlingens sammandrag med tre sekunder före Karl Menzies från Australien. Under säsongen vann han också Grand Prix d'Isbergues.

I mitten av maj 2008 vann Elmiger etapp 2 av Tour de Picardie framför uzbeken Sergej Lagutin och belgaren Greg Van Avermaet. Två dagar senare stod det klart att Elmiger hade slutat trea på det franska etapploppet efter fransmännen Sébastien Chavanel och Jean Eudes Demaret. Under säsongen slutade han tvåa på etapp 1 av Schweiz runt och på det schweiziska nationsmästerskapets linjelopp efter Markus Zberg. Under Tour de France 2008 slutade han tvåa på etapp 11 framför norrmannen Kurt-Asle Arvesen i en spurtuppgörelse.

I mars 2009 slutade han trea på Montepaschi Strade Bianche-Eroica Toscana bakom Thomas Lövkvist och Fabian Wegmann. Elmiger slutade även tvåa på etapp 1 av Circuit de Lorraine Professionnel bakom portugisen Manuel Antonio Cardoso.

Meriter
2000
 Stausee Rundfahrt Klingnau

2001
  Nationsmästerskapens linjelopp

2003
 Etapp 3 Tour du Languedoc-Roussillon

2005
 Etapp 1, Katalonien runt
  Nationsmästerskapens linjelopp

2007
 Tour Down Under
 Grand Prix d'Isbergues

2008
 Etapp 2, Tour de Picardie

2010
  Nationsmästerskapens linjelopp

Stall
 Saeco Macchine per Caffé-Valli & Valli (stagiaire) 2000
 Post Swiss Team 2001
 Phonak Hearing Systems 2002–2006
 Ag2r Prévoyance 2007–2012
 IAM Cycling 2013–

Externa länkar

Officiell webbplats
Martin Elmiger cyclingarchives.com
Martin Elmiger på Sports Reference

Schweiziska tävlingscyklister
Födda 1978
Män
Levande personer
Tävlande vid olympiska sommarspelen 2004 från Schweiz
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The Swiss Franc is the forex ticker, also referred to as 'The Swissie', and is considered a safe-haven currency. The Swissie is the last currency with that name that is still in issuance in Europe. CH is short for 'Confoederatio Helvetica' and F for 'Franc', and represents the economy of the neutral nation in the centre of Europe. The Swiss Franc is also traditionally the funding currency in carry-trades due to low to negative interest rates. The Swiss Franc is the 5th most traded currency in the world and is also a reserve currency. The USD/CHF currency pair is the equal 5th most liquid pairing, accounting for 5% of total transactions. Switzerland has long been a key banking centre for customers around the world, and the discretion with which they carry their banking operations has made them one of the most desirable locations for depositing money. This has helped them to bring considerable strength to the Swiss Franc, pressuring exporters from the nation. At times of a risk aversion, the Swiss Franc would see inflows at the expense of the U.S Dollar. Its safe-haven status comes as a result of Switzerland's neutral political status in conflict. When the European Debt Crisis enveloped the continent, massive inflows into Swiss Francs made the situation worse until eventually, the Swiss National Bank (SNB) created a peg to the Euro at a rate of 1.2 Swiss Francs for every 1 Euro. If the EUR/CHF currency pair fell below 1.20, the SNB proposed to sell CHF and buy EUR to support the 1.20 floor.
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