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Dorna & Circuit of the Americas Confirm Austin GP
By David Emmett 10/03/2012 10 Comments
The Texas round of MotoGP is to go ahead. The race, due to take place at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas has been confirmed for April 21st, 2013, with Dorna and the Circuit of the Americas issuing a joint press release announcing the date. The race in Texas was one of the two races marked as being subject to confirmation, but today's announcement leaves just the race in Argentina and the Jerez round to be confirmed.
Confirmation of the race comes despite the ongoing legal action between Kevin Schwantz and the Circuit of the Americas. That legal action should have no effect on the race actually taking place, however. The lawsuit filed by Schwantz against COTA will take some time to actually get in front of a judge, and the most probable outcome is that money will change hands to settle the deal, either one way or another.
The signing of the Austin contract leaves just Argentina and Jerez to be sorted out. The Jerez deal is a question of paperwork and, most likely, money; it is inconceivable that Dorna would pull out of the deal to host the first European round of the season in Jerez, where it has been for several years now.
Argentina, on the other hand, is far more complex: there are reports from local Argentine sources that work on the facilities at the circuit is slow, but the bigger problem is political. The expropriation of Repsol's Argentinian subsidiary Repsol YPF by the Argentine government has deeply upset the Spanish oil giant, and Repsol has threatened not to allow the teams it backs to attend the race, saying that they cannot be certain that their property will be safe, a claim which the local organizers have denied.
The full press release announcing the MotoGP race in Texas is after the jump.
By David Emmett
The 2013 Dakar Rally – Peru, Argentina, & Chile
The Dakar Rally has already released its route for the 2013 Dakar, and the famous endurance race will once again compete in South America (Africa what?). Choosing to do a reversal of its previous routes, The Dakar will travel from north to south by starting in Lima, Peru and ending in Santiago, Chile.
Though this will be the fifth time the Dakar Rally has run in South America, the 2013 edition should be a grueling one right off the bat. Since the race is starting in Lima, it means competitors will be in the sand dunes of Peru right away — the first time the race has ever started in the desert. With all eyes watching to see if Cyril Despres can defend his 2012 victory against rival Marc Coma, racing action for the 2013 Dakar Rally starts Janurary 5th and ends January 20th.
Stage 6 of the Dakar Rally Cancelled
The world's top adventure riders have been down in South America the past week, competing in the 33rd running of the Dakar Rally. Racing through South America since 2009, the 2012 Dakar will be taking competitors through some of the toughest terrain available in Argentina, Chile, and Peru, as The Dakar continues to live up to its name as one of the toughest races in motorsport, and this year's rally has tragically already claimed its first life, as motorcyclist Jorge Martinez Boero of Argentina died from a cardiac arrest, after crashing during the rally's first stage.
For Stage 6 (Fiambala-Copiapo), the weather and terrain were apparently too inhospitable, even by Dakar standards. Set to cross the Andes Mountain Range for the seventh time in the rally's history, snow and rain at the 15,420 foot Paso de San Francisco pass was too inclement for Chilean authorities to keep the crossing open. Accordingly, today's stage will be a convoy of all the Dakar Rally vehicles, with the rally's itinerary changed after the border crossing in Chile from Argentina.
Official: MotoGP to Race in Argentina in 2013
It looks like the rumors were true, as Dorna announced today that the MotoGP World Championship will race in Argentina during the 2013 season. In an event attended by Argentinean President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Dorna announced that MotoGP will come to the Autódromo Termas de Río Hondo track in the Santiago del Estero province for three years, starting in 2013 (subject to FIM homologation of course). Bringing premier motorcycle racing back to South America, Argentina is the second stop added so far to the 2013 calendar, as Austin, Texas will also host MotoGP starting in 2013.
Argentina Wouldn't Mind Hosting MotoGP
In the MotoGP World Championship there are 18 stops on the calendar at different race venues, and the series has a penchant for looking to expand its global reach. It seems just about every season there's a bevy of rumors about possible venues the premier class of motorcycle racing could stop at, and 2011 season is no different.
While a Spanish GP is a sure-fire way of ensuring a massive attendance, there does seem to be some motivation in Dorna to spread the wealth as it were, and the Secretary of Tourism of Argentina has made it clear he'd like to see MotoGP racing back on the South American continent, preferably at the Autódromo Termas de Río Hondo just outside of San Juan.
Dakar Stage 5: Race Officials Give Marc Coma Time Back After Stopping for Injured Rider
To call the Dakar dangerous is probably an understatement, as the rally has been fraught with stories of peril from its very inception. Often alone in some of the most remote terrain in the world, riders rely primarily on themselves for their safety, but the sport is marked with moments where participants put aside competition to help each other.
Stage 5 of the 2011 Dakar Rally had one of those stories yesterday, as KTM rider, and overall race leader Marc Coma found himself as the first person to come across an unconscious Olivier Pain on the race course. Coma, who himself had sustained a fall earlier in the day, stopped at Pain's crash site and activated the unconscious rider's emergency beacon. Coma stayed with with the fallen rider until his water carrier, Joan Pedrero, arrived on the scene.
2011 Dakar Rally Starts Tomorrow
Making its third start from South America, the 33rd Dakar Rally officially kicks off on New Year's Day tomorrow in Buneos Aires. Making a quick trip to Victoria, Argentina (174 mils as the crow flies), the 2011 Dakar Rally competitors will have to contest with what is being considered a more difficult and technical course than last year's route. In total there are 445 competitors (180 motorcycles, 140 cars, 67 trucks, & 32 ATVs) entering the race, but history tells us a smaller number will finish the course.
KTM's Cyril Despres is favored in the motorcycle category, after winning the 2010 rally, but he will have to contend with fellow KTM rider Marc Coma and Francisco Lopez Contardo, whose Aprilia has been extensively improved upon over last year's debut model, and could be a real contender this year in the Dakar. Of course rally purists will still lament the fact the race isn't taking place in Africa, but the Dakar is getting back to its roots a bit, and has limited the use of global positioning satellites. Photos and video after the jump.
Dakar Rally Releases Route for 2011
The organizers of the Dakar Rally have released details on the 2011 edition of the adventure race. Dashing hopes that the race would return to its namesake, the Dakar Rally will again be held in Chile and Argentina. With the route going as far north as the Peruvian border, Dakar riders will see many more sand-filled stages, and will have to contend with a number of rule changes. Stage schedule and more, after the jump.
Cyril Despres Wins 2010 Dakar Rally – Aprilia's Francisco Lopez Finishes 3rd – Marc Coma 18th
It doesn't seem to matter where the Dakar Rally is located, or what restrictions race officials place on the motorcycle class, KTM continues its dominance of motorcycling's most grueling and infamous race. After battling with Marc Coma and Aprilia's Chilean secret weapon Francisco Lopez for stage wins and overall supremacy, Despres took his third Dakar victory, and continued a KTM tradition.
The Best of Dakar from Behind the Lens
The Boston Globe is running a series of photos from the Dakar Rally, which we think are some of the best shots we've seen of the race to date. A mixture of octane and gorgeous landscape, we think you'll enjoy these shots as much as we did. You can find the rest of them here at boston.com.
Rally racers are currently on their 12th stage of the race, heading from in San Juan, Argentina to San Rafael. After today, the riders will have to complete two more stages before the rally concludes where it began in Buenos Aires.
Photo: GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP/Getty Images
Argentina-Chile Dakar Rally 2009
On January 13th, 2009, the Dakar Rally will for the first time, not involve trekking to Africa. Instead the venue will be held in Argentina and Chile. The change comes after the rally was cancelled last year for the first time since its inception in 1979 due to concerns over security. This coming rally will cover 5600 miles of varying terrain, just like the original rally. 530 teams will take off from Buenos Aires to start their six-day journey, of which there will be 230 motorcycless, 30 quads, 188 cars, and 82 trucks, from 49 nations.
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from sequana.viz.core import VizInputSquare
from sequana.lazy import pylab
from sequana.lazy import pandas as pd

__all__ = ['Imshow']

class Imshow(VizInputSquare):
    """Wrapper around the matplotlib.imshow function

    Very similar to matplotlib but set interpolation to None, and aspect
    to automatic and accepts input as a dataframe, in whic case
    x and y labels are set automatically.

    .. plot::
        :width: 80%
        :include-source:

        import pandas as pd
        data = dict([ (letter,np.random.randn(10)) for letter in 'ABCDEFGHIJK'])
        df = pd.DataFrame(data)

        from sequana.viz import Imshow
        im = Imshow(df)
        im.plot()

    """
    def __init__(self, x, verbose=True):
        """.. rubric:: constructor

        :param x: input dataframe (or numpy matrix/array).
            Must be squared.

        """
        super(Imshow, self).__init__(x, verbose=verbose)

    def plot(self, interpolation='None', aspect='auto', cmap='hot', tight_layout=True,
        colorbar=True, fontsize_x=None, fontsize_y=None, rotation_x=90,
        xticks_on=True, yticks_on=True, **kargs):
        """wrapper around imshow to plot a dataframe

        :param interpolation: set to None
        :param aspect: set to 'auto'
        :param cmap: colormap to be used.
        :param tight_layout:
        :param colorbar: add a colobar (default to True)
        :param fontsize_x: fontsize on xlabels
        :param fontsize_y: fontsize on ylabels
        :param rotation_x: rotate labels on xaxis
        :param xticks_on: switch off the xticks and labels
        :param yticks_on: switch off the yticks and labels

        """

        data = self.df
        pylab.clf()
        pylab.imshow(data, interpolation=interpolation, aspect=aspect, cmap=cmap, **kargs)

        if fontsize_x == None:
            fontsize_x = 16 #FIXME use default values
        if fontsize_y == None:
            fontsize_y = 16 #FIXME use default values

        if yticks_on is True:
            pylab.yticks(range(0, len(data.index)), data.index,
                fontsize=fontsize_y)
        else:
            pylab.yticks([])
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            pylab.xticks(range(0, len(data.columns[:])), data.columns,
                fontsize=fontsize_x, rotation=rotation_x)
        else:
            pylab.xticks([])

        if colorbar is True:
            pylab.colorbar()

        if tight_layout:
            pylab.tight_layout()

        # For some reasons, in newest version of python/mpl, this is required
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4th Report, 2015 (Session 4): Subordinate Legislation
4th Report, 2015 (Session 4): Subordinate Legislation (380KB pdf)
1. At its meeting on 6 January 2015, the Committee considered the following instruments—
Advice and Assistance (Assistance by Way of Representation) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2015 [draft];
Regulation of Investigatory Powers (Modification of Authorisation Provisions: Legal Consultations) (Scotland) Order 2015 [draft];
Regulation of Investigatory Powers (Covert Surveillance and Property Interference – Code of Practice) (Scotland) Order 2015 [draft];
Regulation of Investigatory Powers (Covert Human Intelligence Sources – Code of Practice) (Scotland) Order 2015 [draft];
2. The instruments were referred to the Justice Committee as lead committee and were subject to affirmative procedure. The Minister for Community Safety and Legal Affairs, Paul Wheelhouse, gave evidence on the instruments and also moved the relevant motions recommending approval of the instruments.
ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE (ASSISTANCE BY WAY OF REPRESENTATION) (SCOTLAND) AMENDMENT REGULATIONS 2015 [DRAFT]
3. The draft Regulations were laid under section 9 of the Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986. The Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 amended the Children's Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 to allow a pre-hearing panel or children's hearing to determine whether an individual previously deemed to be a 'relevant person' in relation to a child for the purposes of the 2011 Act should continue to be deemed so.
4. This instrument makes assistance by way of representation (ABWOR) to a child or relevant person for a pre-hearing panel considering whether an individual should continue to be deemed a relevant person, subject to the same criteria usually applied for ABWOR at a children's hearing.
5. The Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee considered the instrument at its meeting on 9 December 2014 and agreed not to draw the attention of the Parliament to it on any grounds within its remit.1
6. The draft Regulations were considered by the Justice Committee on 6 January 2015, when it took evidence from Paul Wheelhouse, Minister for Community Safety and Legal Affairs.2
7. In his opening remarks, the Minister restated the purpose of the Regulations as set out in paragraphs 3 and 4 above. He indicated that, in ensuring that children and relevant persons have access to assistance by way of representation where a pre-hearing panel is considering whether an individual should continue to be a relevant person, the Regulations "ensure that access to justice is maintained at the right time and for those who need it most".3 The Minister also advised that stakeholders, including the Law Society of Scotland, are supportive of the changes.4
8. At the conclusion of the evidence session, Mr Wheelhouse moved the motion lodged in the name of the Michael Matheson: S4M-11913—that the Justice Committee recommends that the Advice and Assistance (Assistance by Way of Representation) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2015 [draft] be approved.
10. The Justice Committee therefore recommends to the Parliament that it approve the draft instrument.
REGULATION OF INVESTIGATORY POWERS (MODIFICATION OF AUTHORISATION PROVOSIONS: LEGAL CONSULTATIONS) (SCOTLAND) ORDER 2015 [DRAFT]
REGULATION OF INVESTIGATORY POWERS (COVERT SURVEILLANCE AND PROPERTY INTERFERENCE - CODE OF PRACTICE) (SCOTLAND) ORDER 2015 [DRAFT]
REGULATION OF INVESTIGATORY POWERS (COVERT HUMAN INTELLIGENCE SOURCES - CODE OF PRACTICE) (SCOTLAND) ORDER 2015 [DRAFT]
Regulation of Investigatory Powers (Modification of Authorisation Provisions: Legal Consultations) (Scotland) Order 2015 [draft]
11. This draft Order provides for directed surveillance of matters subject to legal privilege to be treated as if it were intrusive surveillance. In introducing these higher level procedures for authorisation of such surveillance, the instrument follows the same approach as taken by the UK Government.
Regulation of Investigatory Powers (Covert Surveillance and Property Interference – Code of Practice) (Scotland) Order 2015 [draft]
12. This draft Order brings into force a revised Code of Practice relating to covert surveillance authorised under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers (Scotland) Act 2000 (RIP(S)A) and interference with property or wireless telegraphy under Part III of the Police Act 1997. The Code also reflects organisational changes, such as the creation of Police Scotland, and the new arrangements for surveillance of matters subject to legal confidentiality.
Regulation of Investigatory Powers (Covert Human Intelligence Sources – Code of Practice) (Scotland) Order 2015 [draft]
13. This draft Order brings into force a revised Code of Practice relating to the Covert Human Intelligence Sources (CHIS) authorised under RIP(S)A. The Code has been updated to reflect organisational changes, and new arrangements for authorisation of CHIS on matters subject to legal confidentiality, and for relevant sources (set out in SSI 2014/3395).
14. The Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee considered the three draft Orders at its meeting on 16 December 2014 and agreed not to draw the attention of the Parliament to the instruments on any grounds within its remit.6
15. The three draft Orders above were considered by the Justice Committee on 6 January 2015 when it took evidence from Paul Wheelhouse, Minister for Community Safety and Legal Affairs.7 In advance of the evidence session, the Committee received correspondence8 from the Dean of the Faculty of Advocates expressing concerns regarding the surveillance of lawyer-client discussions arising from two of the draft Orders. In his letter, Mr Wolffe QC stated that the instruments are "a significant improvement on the current state of law and, to that extent, I welcome them". However, he questioned "whether the SSIs draw the boundaries sufficiently tightly, given the importance of lawyer-client confidentiality".9
16. In his opening remarks, the Minister set out the background to the draft Regulation of Investigatory Powers (Modification of Authorisation Provisions: Legal Consultations) (Scotland) Order 2015—
"In 2010, the House of Lords, in considering an appeal from the divisional court in Northern Ireland, agreed with that court's decision that directed surveillance under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 of communications between lawyers and their clients breached article 8 of the ECHR, on the right to respect for private and family life. The Secretary of State did not challenge the divisional court's decision that the procedures used to authorise directed surveillance were disproportionate to the infringement of an individual's right to a private consultation with a lawyer, particularly given the lack of a requirement for independent and high-level scrutiny of such authorisations. In Scotland, the authorisation of directed surveillance is mostly regulated by RIPSA, and the relevant provisions of that legislation are for relevant purposes the same as those that have been successfully challenged in the House of Lords. As a result, it is necessary to adjust the authorising regime for directed surveillance of legal consultations under RIPSA."10
17. The Minister advised that the Order seeks to reclassify the authorising regime for directed surveillance of legal consultations to: (a) narrow the circumstances in which directed surveillance can be used to those in which it is necessary to prevent or detect serious crime; (b) restrict the office-holders who can authorise such surveillance to the Chief Constable of Police Scotland, or any other senior officer designated by him, and to the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner; and (c) require authorisation to be notified to the Office of Surveillance Commissioners and prevent that authorisation from taking effect unless the commissioner approves it on the basis that it is both necessary and proportionate. He confirmed that the Order significantly tightens up existing arrangements.11
18. The Minister told the Committee that the other two draft RIP(S)A Orders put in place revised Codes of Practice to reflect a number of changes which have occurred since their publication in 2002.12
19. During questioning, the Minister confirmed that the Orders do not give investigatory authorities any additional powers and said he was confident that they "represent an appropriate approach to tackling the issue that was brought up by the court case in Northern Ireland", adding the Orders "will make sure that Scottish legislation complies with the ECHR".13
Use and operation of the legislation
20. Committee members sought assurances that information obtained during surveillance of legal consultations would only be used to counter a threat and not for criminal proceedings. In response, the Minister said that "the Codes of Practice in Scotland require … direct surveillance to be used only in compelling circumstances, such as where there is a threat to life or limb".14 Kevin Gibson, from the Scottish Government's Directorate for Legal Services, added that "in general, you are not required to disclose privileged information in court proceedings". He explained that there would be "an arguable breach of someone's right to remain silent and not to incriminate themselves if their private discussions were recorded without their knowledge and, secondly, the information obtained might be legally privileged".15
21. When asked whether the Scottish Government envisages more use of the legislation, the Minister responded that "unless there is an increase in the underlying need for such surveillance to take place because of an increase in the prevalence of serious crime … , there will not need to be an increase in the use of surveillance as a result of the legislation". He went on to state that "I hope that I can give confidence in the wider community that an appropriate approach is being taken to ensure that surveillance techniques and human resources—informants and others—are deployed only where that is necessary and proportionate to the crimes that are believed to be being committed".16
22. The Minister acknowledged that the Faculty of Advocates raised "important issues" in its correspondence to the Committee and said he accepted "the importance of protecting the trust between a lawyer and their client". He stated that "in a nutshell, we are doing our best to protect individuals' rights and the confidentiality of legal advice, except in very unusual circumstances in which a serious crime is being planned or undertaken". He went on to state that "we are making the best stab at tackling the issue that we can make at this time, but that does not mean that the approach is set in stone", adding "if it transpires that there are difficulties, we will listen to and address representations from the legal profession and other stakeholders about the need for modifications".17
Office of Surveillance Commissioners
23. Graeme Waugh, Investigatory Powers Team Leader at the Scottish Government explained that the role of the Office of Surveillance Commissioners was to (a) approve or quash an application for surveillance; and (b) annually inspect relevant bodies, including Police Scotland, which would be obliged to respond to any recommendations set out by the inspectors.18 He also advised that the Chief Surveillance Commissioner is an ex-High Court Judge and that two commissioners, Lord Bonomy and Lord MacLean, currently provide knowledge of Scots law.19
24. When asked to clarify the monitoring arrangements for authorisations under RIP(S)A, the Minister advised that the Scottish Government does not have access to this information. However, he highlighted that "the Office of Surveillance Commissioners has access to knowledge about the extent to which the approach is deployed by all the relevant bodies that can use surveillance, so it is a repository of information about what is happening on the ground and can keep an eye on practice". He explained that "the Office considers the necessary and proportionate use of surveillance and can keep the data under review so it will understand trends in the deployment of the approach, if trends emerge over time—for example in relation to the groups of people who are affected".20
25. Mr Waugh added that the Office publishes an annual report which includes data on the number of authorisations under RIP(S)A, and is laid before both the Scottish and Westminster Parliaments.21
26. When asked whether he could give any reassurance that the changes will be adhered to by any UK security and police services, the Minister responded that "in other jurisdictions … , certain procedures have already been established, have had time to bed in and are, we believe, working effectively [and] to our knowledge, no concerns have been raised about bodies outside Scotland abusing them". He said he was "happy to keep a close eye on how things operate in practice and see whether any concerns arise in due course".22
27. At the conclusion of the evidence session, Mr Wheelhouse moved the following motions lodged in the name of the Michael Matheson:
S4M-11915—That the Justice Committee recommends that the Regulation of Investigatory Powers (Modification of Authorisation Provisions: Legal Consultations) (Scotland) Order 2015 [draft] be approved.
S4M-11910—That the Justice Committee recommends that the Regulation of Investigatory Powers (Covert Surveillance and Property Interference – Code of Practice) (Scotland) Order 2015 [draft] be approved.
S4M-11916—That the Justice Committee recommends that the Regulation of Investigatory Powers (Covert Human Intelligence Sources – Code of Practice) (Scotland) Order 2015 [draft] be approved.
28. The motions were agreed to.
29. The Justice Committee therefore recommends to the Parliament that it approve the draft instruments.
1 Scottish Parliament Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee. 73rd Report, 2014 (Session 4). Subordinate Legislation. Available at:
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/CurrentCommittees/84622.aspx
2 Scottish Parliament Justice Committee. Official Report, 6 January 2015. Available at:
3 Scottish Parliament Justice Committee. Official Report, 6 January 2015, Col 3. Available at: http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/28862.aspx?r=9707&mode=pdf
4 Scottish Parliament Justice Committee. Official Report, 6 January 2015, Col 3.
5 SSI 2014/339 is the Regulation of Investigatory Powers (Authorisation of Covert Intelligence Sources (Scotland) Order 2014.
6 Scottish Parliament Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee. 74th Report, 2014 (Session 4). Subordinate Legislation.
7 Scottish Parliament Justice Committee. Official Report, 6 January 2015.
8 Justice Committee Note by the Clerk. Available at: http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/S4_JusticeCommittee/Meeting%20Papers/Papers20150106.pdf
9 The concerns relate to (a) the Regulation of Investigatory Powers (Modification of Authorisation Provisions: Legal Consultations) (Scotland) Order 2014 and the Regulation of Investigatory Powers (Covert Human Intelligence Sources) Draft Code of Practice.
10 Scottish Parliament Justice Committee. Official Report, 6 January 2015, Col 4.
11 Scottish Parliament Justice Committee. Official Report, 6 January 2015, Cols 4 and 5.
14 Scottish Parliament Justice Committee. Official Report, 6 January 2015, Col 12.

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"They summed up the entire election: If Texas elects a Democrat, they're going to ban barbecue across the state"
What would be one effect of Texas turning blue? Incumbent Republican Sen. Ted Cruz suggested a ban on barbecue could be instituted if the Lone Star State votes his Democratic challenger, Rep. Beto O'Rourke, into office.
"When I got here someone told me that even PETA was protesting and giving out barbecued tofu," the Republican incumbent said Saturday at a campaign event. "So I got to say, they summed up the entire election: If Texas elects a Democrat, they're going to ban barbecue across the state of Texas."
"You want to talk about an issue to mobilize the people, and I'm talking everybody," Cruz continued. "So I want to thank PETA. And I do want to tell PETA: You're going to have to disclose to the FEC that, by coming and protesting and giving away tofu, that you have given an in-kind contribution to my campaign by demonstrating just how bad things can get."
According to My Statesman, a daily Texas newspaper, the PETA protest "consisted of four volunteers holding signs. Their demeanor was all smiles, and their message was that 'Republicans eat tofu, too.'"
Cruz returned to the subject Sunday, tweeting, "PETA protested our town hall yesterday, handing out barbecued tofu. We were glad to welcome them, but it illustrates the stakes of the election: if Beto wins, BBQ will be illegal!"
A week earlier, Cruz had warned supporters that Democrats are raising "millions of dollars" to transform Texas into California with its "tofu and silicon and dyed hair."
For their part, PETA officials are glad Cruz was drawing attention to tofu. "Tofu is the most versatile food on the planet, and it's grown right in the Lone Star State," PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman said in a statement. "PETA is confident that, once Ted Cruz tastes how delicious tofu can be, he'll want to see it in every Texas pot."
Cruz is facing a fierce challenge from O'Rourke, who has repeatedly polled within single digits of Cruz. The Republican incumbent's vulnerability appears to be the result of both the strength of his political rival and the proverbial "blue wave" that ensued after Trump's election.
A polled released Tuesday suggests Cruz could be on track to keep his seat in Congress, as it showed him leading O'Rourke by nine percentage points — 54 to 45 percent among registered voters. Midterm cycles are largely considered referendums on the current White House occupant, and likely voters are split 49-49 on the President Donald Trump's job approval.
With Election Day less than 50 days away — 49 days, to be exact, as of this writing — the majority of voters in Texas say their minds are already made up. While Cruz is the current favorite in his race for re-election, the race remains tight.


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Q: MySQL - What is the difference between SUM and COUNT? In MySQL - What is the difference between using SUM or COUNT?
SELECT SUM(USER_NAME =  'JoeBlow')

SELECT COUNT(USER_NAME =  'JoeBlow')

A: To answer the OP question more direct and literal, consider if you were totalling integers in your column instead of strings.
+----+------+
| id | vote |
+----+------+
|  1 |    1 |
|  2 |   -1 |
|  3 |    1 |
|  4 |   -1 |
|  5 |    1 |
+----+------+

COUNT = 5 votes
SUM = 1 vote
(-2 + 3 = 1)
Sum is doing the mathematical sum, whereas count simply counts any value as 1 regardless of what data type.

A: It is a big difference because the result is not the same.
The first query returns the number of times the condition is true, because true is 1 and false is  0.
The second query returns the complete record count because count() does not care about the content inside it, as long as the content is NOT NULL. Because count(1) and count(0) are still values and both get counted.
To get the correct return value for the second query you would have to make the result of the condition be null (instead of 0) to not being counted. Like this:
SELECT COUNT(case when USER_NAME = 'JoeBlow' then 'no matter what' else NULL end)
from your_table

Or simply remove the else part from the case statement which automatically makes the else part null.

A: I guess COUNT() returns the number of rows in a column whereas SUM() returns the sum for the column

A: select count(field) from table

is slower than
select sum(1) from table

Consider using the second option

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Q: How to enable Server Side search with jQuery dataTables? I am using Datatables with server side processing to display data. I have around 10000 rows of data which I would like to limit to make it more readable.
I would like to display only 50 rows of data in the datatable.
$('#dataTable3').dataTable({
        "sAjaxSource": "user_data.php",
        "sPaginationType":"full_numbers",
        "bProcessing": true,
        "bPaginate":true,
        "iDisplayLength": 20,
        "aoColumns": [
        { mData: 'sno' } ,
        { mData: 'dob' } ,
        { mData: 'fullname' },
        { mData: 'email'}]
    });

The server side PHP script limits the number of rows to 50 as shown :
SELECT * FROM users order by id desc limit 50

Now, the issue is if I want to search for a particular user, it is searching from the 50 rows of the Datatable. I would like to search on the server side as well. Any idea how to do it ?

A: There are some rules you have to consider when you are using server-side processing with DataTables.
On every load datatables executes, it sends some parameters to your server and it expects some others back to identify the data, quantity and filters to apply.
You need to read those on the request sent by datatables and apply them on you filters and data fetching on you database.
You can check how datatables sends the request in this image.
As mentioned by @Bindrid, you can check the detailed definition of those parameters here.
There is a good tutorial here and here that you can check how to do that using PHP.And, of course, there is also the example on the datatables documentation.


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Is the volume of domestic patenting in Vietnam a cause for concern? : An exploration of the issue and its policy implications
Thuong, Luong Van and Göransson, Bo LU (2014) In Science and Technology Policy and Management. 3(1). p.72-84
This paper examines the assumption that the volume of domestic patenting in Vietnam is too low and needs to be expanded. The structure and state of development of the Vietnamese economy and a set of relevant systems - including the Science and Technology (S&T) System, the Intellectual Property System, the National Innovation System (NIS), and the Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) Policy System of Vietnam - are described and analyzed in order to determine, in qualitative terms, the extent to which the volume of domestic patenting is dependent on these framework conditions. An appraisal of the volume of domestic patenting is also been undertaken by analyzing data collected from various sources.
Thuong, Luong Van and Göransson, Bo LU
Department of Business Administration
Science and Technology Policy and Management.
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Abstract: Large expanses of black spruce fuels in Northwest Territories and other parts of Canada pose a major wildfire threat to communities and other values at risk. Conventional fuel treatment methods are expensive and fuels managers would like to explore opportunities to mitigate the risk of wildfire through innovations in fuels engineering and prescribed fire. This fuel amendment technique has been applied in a mature lodgepole pine fuel environment where cut stems were piled under the canopy of the adjacent residual forest stand. Prescribed fire was applied in the amended fuels under moderate fire hazard conditions and resulted in fire intensity that was sufficient to scorch aerial fuels and cause stand mortality. This approach will be explored in a dense black spruce forest stand at the CBCFS research area using chainsaws and brushsaws to cut stems to create fuel amended strips.


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An Op-Ed in Monday's hurricane-nervous NY Times is a plea for more federal science research funding. It's by a former science adviser and of course it's an advocacy piece. It makes the attempt to show the benefits to society of university-based federally sponsored research--the usual claim that this leads to new medicines, cleaner energy, and more science jobs.
Of course, these things are true in principle and in some instances actually true. We'd create more science jobs if we actually did our duty with respect to raising the expectations and standards for our educational programs, especially for undergraduates (but that's not what professors' jobs are all about any more). The extent we really generate usable research that leads to products is something we don't know much about, because industry loves foisting their responsibility (to do research for their company's products) off on the public, while still being secretive and competitive so that most of the key research is done in house. Pharmas are trying to cooperate in their support for basic facts which will then be turned over to their own private (and secret) value-added research.
By buying research from universities, companies impose various levels of privatization of the results (and commercial incentives for faculty), which undermines the proper role of public institutions, and in some ways actually privatizes public research.
Federal research is, in a naturally expectable way, bureaucratized to give it inertia so that program officers' portfolios are stable or enlarged, and prominent investigators' labs (and their universities' general funds), have continuity. That may sound good, but it means safe, incremental work without any serious level of accountability for producing what one promised (here, we refer not just to miracle results, which can't be promised, but things like adequate statistical power to detect what one proposes one has the power to detect, or advances in things like disease therapy that is promised in grant applications.).
This is both a post-hoc rationale (one can always look backwards and identify successes and thus try to justify the expense, and its continuation, but is not usually compelled to argue what else, or what better, could have been done by government--or by taxpayers keeping their money--had the policies been different.
At the same time, it's a very legitimate argument. If science investment doesn't lead to a single real advance in health or energy efficiency, but if it does lead to jobs for lots of people, not just including the scientists, but the people who make, transport, market, advertise, and design their gear, their reagents, even their desks and computers, then those funds are circulating in society and in that sense doing good.
It's a poor kind of justification for the investment relative to its purported purpose. But life is complex. Sequencing machines or enzymes or petri-dishes are made by people. The challenge to identify real societal needs (or to decentralize) and achieve success without just building self-interested groups and bureaucracy is a major one. Often it leads to disasters, like wars or poor agricultural management, and so on. But it also is part of the engine of a society, whatever that society's emic delusions about what they're up to may be.
Good post. I think it is very telling that the genome projects (human and cancer) can only be said to produce jobs. If they had produced a breakthrough, even a little one, this would be touted as the proof it was worth the money. In cancer they continue to sequence thousands of cancers and they continue to observe that most cancers even of the same type do not share mutations. The answer to the problem, "I thought that doing a few hundred tumours would probably be sufficient. Even at the level of 1,000 samples, I think we're probably not going to have the statistics we want."
The basic facts were known 35 years ago (I know, because I was working on the issues and evidence was already accumulating). Every success is touted (GWAS advocates claim thousands of 'hits'), and their smallness and vagaries is dismissed on a variety of grounds.
Of course, there will be successes, and some areas such as (perhaps) cancer response to therapies as a function of gene expression profiles, may be very useful.
But the bottom line is that we do this kind of approach because (to quote someone I won't name) "that is what I do". It is because our labs and careers are dependent on safe things we know, even when we know they are not really working.
So, the political justification, usually by Republicans but Clinton was just saying this yesterday, is that it makes for jobs. Why not just say that outright and make up things that we can redirect money towards that will make jobs?
Biomedical research isn't the only culprit. Defense research is certainly another. Much of social science research is right up there in the leader table of no-fruit-bearing.


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In order to search a property ownership record, it is necessary to have the address of the property in question or the owner's name. Many property records searches require the address of the property to locate the ownership records. Records searches that are done through a title company or the Tax Assessor's Office may be done using the owner's name. The owner's name can also be used to locate liens, short sale pay off amounts, property tax records and other debts against the property. A realtor can search the MLS for property history information such as previous and current owners, purchase prices, realtors who previously listed the property and property listing information, such as price and listing changes. To check if a property's improvements or additions were added legally, it may be necessary to do an owner or property search through the local city planning office.


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Nikki Haley 'Making A List' Of Trump Jerusalem Opponents At United Nations
December 20, 2017 By Reuters
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Ambassador Nikki Haley, in a letter to dozens of U.N. states on Tuesday seen by Reuters, warned that the United States would remember those who voted for the resolution criticizing the U.S. decision.
"The president will be watching this vote carefully and has requested I report back on those countries who voted against us. We will take note of each and every vote on this issue," Haley wrote.
She echoed that call in a Twitter post: The U.S. will be taking names."
Under a 1950 resolution, an emergency special session can be called for the General Assembly to consider a matter "with a view to making appropriate recommendations to members for collective measures" if the Security Council fails to act.
Only 10 such sessions have been convened, and the last time the General Assembly met in such a session was in 2009 on occupied East Jerusalem and Palestinian territories. Thursday's meeting will be a resumption of that session.
Trump abruptly reversed decades of U.S. policy this month when he recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital, generating outrage from Palestinians and the Arab world and concern among Washington's Western allies.
Trump also plans to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv. The draft U.N. resolution calls on all countries to refrain from establishing diplomatic missions in Jerusalem.


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Q: Find Duplicates Records and Assign 'Y' and 'N' to Them in SQL Developer I want to Assign 'Y' to the Duplicate Records & 'N' to the Uinque Records, And Display those 'Y' & 'N'
Flags in Another Column Called 'Duplicate', which is Actually Not Present in the Table.
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I want to Assign 'Y' to the Duplicate Records & 'N' to the Uinque Records, And Display those 'Y' & 'N'
Flags in Another Column Called 'Duplicate', which is Actually Not Present in the Table.
Like Below
Source Table:
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Name,Location
Ram,India
Ram,USA
Ram,Japan
Ram,India
Ram,UK

Target Table:(Output I want)
----------------------------
Name,Location,Duplicate
Ram,India,Y
Ram,India,Y
Ram,Japan,N
Ram,UK,N
Ram,USA,N

OR
Name,Location,Duplicate
Ram,India,N
Ram,India,Y
Ram,Japan,N
Ram,UK,N
Ram,USA,N

How to Write a Query in Oracle/SQL Developer.

A: One option is to conditionally use count analytic function.
Sample data:
SQL> with test (name, location) as
  2    (select 'Ram', 'India' from dual union all
  3     select 'Ram', 'USA'   from dual union all
  4     select 'Ram', 'Japan' from dual union all
  5     select 'Ram', 'India' from dual union all
  6     select 'Ram', 'UK'    from dual
  7    )

Query:
  8  select
  9    name,
 10    location,
 11    case when count(*) over (partition by name, location) > 1 then 'Y'
 12         else 'N'
 13    end duplicate
 14  from test;

NAM LOCAT D
--- ----- -
Ram India Y
Ram India Y
Ram Japan N
Ram UK    N
Ram USA   N

SQL>

A: You can use ROW_NUMBER() OVER() analytic function.
Assuming that the first one of multiplyed records is considered as unique and the second and every possible other is considered as duplicate here is the code:
WITH    -- Sample data
    tbl (A_NAME, LOC) as
        (
            Select 'Ram', 'India' From Dual Union All
            Select 'Ram', 'USA'   From Dual Union All
            Select 'Ram', 'Japan' From Dual Union All
            Select 'Ram', 'India' From Dual Union All
            Select 'Ram', 'UK'    From Dual
        )

-- S Q L
Select  A_NAME, LOC,
        Case When ROW_NUMBER() OVER(Partition By A_NAME, LOC Order By A_NAME, LOC) = 1 THEN 'N' ELSE 'Y' END "DUPLICATE"
From    tbl

R e s u l t:
A_NAME LOC   DUPLICATE
------ ----- ---------
Ram    India N
Ram    India Y
Ram    Japan N
Ram    UK    N
Ram    USA   N

OR
-- S Q L    2
Select  A_NAME, LOC,
        Case When COUNT(LOC) OVER(Partition By A_NAME, LOC Order By A_NAME, LOC) > 1 THEN 'Y' ELSE 'N' END "DUPLICATE"
From    tbl

A_NAME LOC   DUPLICATE
------ ----- ---------
Ram    India Y
Ram    India Y
Ram    Japan N
Ram    UK    N
Ram    USA   N


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"Up to a Point" – Pyramids in Britain and Ireland Webinar
David Winpenny, the author of Up to a Point, will deliver a webinar at 7:30pm on Thursday 26th November 2020 where he will set the pyramids of Britain and Ireland in their historical context and tell the story of the mausolea, ornaments and general pyramidal oddities that turn up in the most unexpected of places. David will also take a look at the builders of the pyramids, a motley crew including eccentrics, engineers, philanthropists and philosophers.
David will showcase some little-known gems like Britain's only cast-iron pyramid, an Irish pyramid that sheltered the IRA, a Formica pyramid in Scotland and a Welsh pyramid made of road signs.
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Our photograph shows the Burgh Mausoleum in Maudlins Cemetery, Naas, County Kildare, which was erected by Walter Hussey Burgh (1801-62) to house the remains of his late wife Elizabeth Jane (née Fitzgerald) (1801-34). The mausoleum is one of a pair in the burial ground, a unique pairing according to David Winpenny, although the builder of the second is currently unknown. The Burgh Mausoleum has recently been conserved and restored with the financial assistance of a grant of €15,000 from the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage under the Built Heritage Investment Scheme 2020.


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"Inspired by Swissness, but keen to avoid Alpine nostalgia, B&B worked to a Modern Swiss design essence from the start, first creating the name Cuckoo, then experimenting with graphic pack designs for a contemporary poster-style look. The final logo includes a stylised C and K to form a graphic cuckoo, while the negative space of the K is reproduced as a die-cut on pack revealing the layered product inside. The innovative nature of the product is highlighted by the strapline 'the modern muesli'."
"Foodie flavours are key to the brand and we were keen to depict the ingredients in a modern and exciting way," says B&B Creative Partner Shaun Bowen. "We used a bold and distinctive multi-layered photographic style, inspired by Swiss poster design, to really heighten the contemporary feel."


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Maksymilian Fajans (May 5, 1827 in Sieradz – July 28, 1890 in Warsaw) was a Polish artist, lithographer and photographer. Fajans won several prizes at the International Photographic Exhibition organized in 1865 in Berlin and, in 1873, at the Vienna Exhibition.

Life
Fajans was born in Sieradz to Jewish parents and studied at Warsaw's School of Fine Arts (Szkoła Sztuk Pięknych) in 1844–49, and between 1850 and 1853 he worked and stationed in Paris, where he was a pupil of the Dutch–French painter Ary Scheffer.

Fajans established one of the first photography studios in Warsaw.  In 1851–63 he published 14 folios of Wizerunki polskie (Polish Images) after his own drawings, and in 1851–61, 24 folios of Wzory sztuki średniowiecznej (Images of Medieval Art) after drawings by L. Łepkowski, B. Podczaszyński and others.

In chromolithography he published Kwiaty i poezje (Flowers and Poems, 1858, after his own drawings), illustrations for albums and books (Karola Gustawa trofea...—Carl Gustav's Trophies...—by E. Tyszkiewicz, 1856; Album widoków Polski—Album of Polish Views—by N. Orda, 1875–83).  He also collaborated with the publisher, Samuel Orgelbrand.  In addition, he worked in utilitarian graphics (calendars, diplomas).

Portraits

Fajans's portraits of notable contemporaries included:

Aleksander Fredro
Andrzej Artur Zamoyski
Antoni Edward Odyniec
August Cieszkowski
Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski
Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński
January Suchodolski
Józef Bohdan Zaleski
Józef Elsner
Karol Libelt
Karol Lipiński
Lucjan Siemieński
Teodor Narbutt
Józef Kremer

See also
List of Poles

External links

Portraits drawn by Fajans (cyfrowe)
A Hunting Certificate from the Workshop of Maksymilian Fajans at the Wilanów Palace Museum
 Works by Maksymilian Fajans in digital library Polona

1827 births
1890 deaths
Photographers from Warsaw
19th-century Polish Jews
People from Sieradz
Polish lithographers

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Patriots Free Agency Coverage
Money reportedly an issue in contract negotiations between Patriots and Stephen Gostkowski
It looks like the two parties are not yet on the same page.
By Bernd Buchmasser@BerndBuchmasser Apr 2, 2019, 3:18pm EDT
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Three weeks after the start of free agency, the New England Patriots are still left with one major hole to fill: the reigning world champions do not have a placekicker under contract at the moment. Stephen Gostkowski, who held the role for the last 13 seasons and earned three Super Bowl rings as well as four Pro Bowl selections in the process, remains unsigned despite the Patriots and the kicker's camp reportedly working towards a new contract.
There appears to be one major roadblock between the two sides, however: as NFL Network's Mike Giardi reported earlier today, money appears to be an issue when it comes to New England's efforts to bring the 35-year-old back into the fold. How much the two sides are apart is not known as things stand right now, but it would not be a surprise to see the Patriots value Gostkowski below the league's top-paid kickers.
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After all, the veteran ranked only 19th in field goal percentage during the 2018 regular season and also missed the first of his three field goal attempts in Super Bowl 53 — making the NFL's most recent championship game the third straight in which Gostkowski was unsuccessful on at least one of his kicks. He was generally accurate on extra points all year long and tremendous on kickoffs, but an argument can be made that he did not live up to his status among the most expensive kickers in the NFL.
As a result, the two sides will have to find a middle ground in the upcoming days and weeks that works for both — if not, the Patriots might look towards the draft and subsequent free agency period to at least bring in a challenger if not successor for their long-term placekicker. No matter what happens, though, one thing seems certain: Gostkowski becoming the league's highest-paid kicker once again will likely not happen given his age and recent inconsistencies.


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Q: Bash: Filter invalid commands from history, specifically passwords
Related Question, less specific: Automatic cleanup of Bash history

This question focuses on a single problem.
Over time, a user will eventually enter a password on the command line by accident, and may even press enter, which will place the password in history. The user probably was expecting a password prompt, but something was typed wrong, causing that prompt to not show.
This user may not know how to clean up the history with history and history -d, or may be too busy to think about it.
I suggest removing all history items that are not found in which, or other white-list. An added benefit is you will not make the same mistake twice on a mis-typed command, not found in which
Do you know of

*

*a way to tell bash to run my cleanup script before, or right after writing history,

*an option that includes this particular which based cleanup already, or

*an alternative way to prevent passwords from being stored in history?

A: *

*Request: "a way to tell bash to run my cleanup script before, or right after writing history"

You could use incrontab to trigger a script on IN_CLOSE_WRITE for each user's bash_history. This Howtoforge article covers a lot of ground on Incrontab.
Do note that ulimit typically boxes inotify in at 128 watches. You can modify that with simple sysctl entries.


Thrall Golf Advances to Regionals!
McKaleb Hamann competed as Thrall's medalist and shot a 141.
The Tiger's season came to a close on Monday. Nonetheless, the Tigers have shown growth and understanding of the game of Golf especially freshmen Luke Fisher and McKaleb Hamann.
The Tigerettes will be returning to Corpus Christi to compete at Regionals and are hopeful to make a run for State!


With traders setting their sights and ears to what Fed Chairwoman Yellen and ECB President Draghi might say or exclude in their respective Jackson Hole speeches tomorrow, the US dollar index – primarily influenced by the exchange rate of the world's two largest reserve currencies – has made its way back down to long-term support after consolidating the steep move lower that began at the start of the year.
As the July inflation data was largely uneventful, another window has opened over the next few weeks to break the respective ranges in gold (up) and the dollar (down). Over the near-term we wouldn't be surprised if the markets took a slightly more hawkish tone subsequent to Yellen and Draghi's speeches tomorrow, if only because the palpable dovish leanings going in may not be further nurtured. At the end of the day, Yellen knows it's easier to walk back policy expectations than to ratchet them up. In the absence of new data or an exogenous influence, we would speculate the symposium is largely a non-event, where a relatively tighter ECB is counterbalanced by a less hawkish Fed.
That said, the elephant(s) in the room remains the contentious relationship between the President and his own party, as the very real threat of a government shut-down and debt default greatly threatens the last remaining prize of the President's legislative agenda this year: an overhaul of the nations tax system. Naturally, as the legislative deadline approaches this fall these tensions should come to a head.
Generally speaking, from a basic technical perspective the downtrend in the US dollar index this year has been defined by characteristic "lower lows" and "lower highs", typical of a significant momentum unwind with diminishing relative strength imprints as the move unfurls. Overall, we expect the pattern to continue as underlying long-term support is eventually breached, which should register positive relative strength divergences before a more tradable low is reached.
Among the few touchstones we've benchmarked against this year to estimate the dollar's prospective trend, we've contrasted the breakdown in gold in 2013, which also displayed a diminishing momentum signature as it broke underlying support from its broad top range. Notwithstanding our appreciation of the inverse symmetry to the cycle today – in which gold has been rejuvenated as the dollar weakens, the technical similarities have remained prescient for the dollar index as well.
Since utilizing at the start of the year our intermarket leading comparative with long-term Treasuries that accurately pointed towards where the dollar would loose trend line support in April (see Here), we have also contrasted with the cyclical pivot in the dollar in 2002 for more long-term projections – as well as a prospective road map for long-term yields, the euro and gold.
Our interpretation at the end of Q1 (see Here) was that the dollar was set to follow Treasuries breakdown lead with the last lagged pivot (~5-6 months) of the cycle, which should mark a pattern break (between LT Treasuries and the USDX) as the dollar turns cyclically lower without a corresponding leading move in Treasuries. In hindsight, those expectations appear well founded to-date, as the dollar and long-term yields have behaved quite similar to their respective breakdowns in 2002, where long-term yields reached a positive correlation extreme with the dollar and turned down again with the dollar's cyclical pivot.
From a big-picture cyclical perspective, we've pointed out in the past that the dollar has followed major upside exhaustion extremes in long-term yields by 2 to 3 years. The 9/81' secular high in yields was followed by a secular high in the US dollar index in 2/85' (monthly). The upside exhaustion in yields in 1/00' was followed by the cyclical high in the dollar index in 1/02'.
Today, the 10-year yield has worked through the secondary pivot below the previous exhaustion extreme of ~3 percent in 12/13'. Our expectation remains that the US dollar index is following again the long cyclical intermarket lag (3yrs) in yields, which points towards a continuation move lower for the dollar over the next several years.
Similar to how the US dollar index led the subsequent breakdown in yields in the back half of 2002, a fresh break of long-term support in the dollar could bring a retest of long-term yields lows from last summer.


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Keith Rankin: "Intellectuals" as an Academic Sub-Species
February 23, 2012Uncategorized
Opinion – Keith Rankin
On the 3rd of February this year, Chris Barton of the New Zealand Herald published an article called "Who is speaking out on today's big issues?" He included a non-exhaustive list of New Zealanders, who by virtue of their expertise and willingness to engage …
On the Role of 'Intellectuals' as an Academic Sub-Species
by Keith Rankin, 24 February 2012
On the 3rd of February this year, Chris Barton of the New Zealand Herald published an article called "Who is speaking out on today's big issues?" He included a non-exhaustive list of New Zealanders, who by virtue of their expertise and willingness to engage on public issues, might qualify for the rubric 'public intellectual'. He was kind enough to place my name on the list.
Barton writes of a "rare, routinely derided breed – the public intellectual or expert analyst applying their skills more widely [than their academic specialties]". Indeed New Zealand is commonly criticised for its anti-intellectualism, and there's no doubt that it's particularly hard to induce a public debate in New Zealand about underlying philosophical principles relating to economic and financial issues such as taxation, equity, employment, enjoyment, credit, investment, productivity, sustainability, inflation, money and others. In the main, these are seen as technical issues of dry scholarship; issues for geeky experts who should be neither seen nor heard by the public at large.
Indeed New Zealand government policy has been, for a quarter-century or more, to build academic institutions that increasingly promote narrow scholarship at the expense of the intellectualism that Barton writes about.
The crafts of the scholar and the intellectual are not mutually exclusive; far from it. An intellectual should never be unscholarly, should not have an agenda (but may have a passion or two), and should respect the scientific principle of falsification through observation. [The principle of falsification is most associated with Karl Popper, an intellectual of global significance, who wrote some of his philosophical works in Christchurch.]
Nevertheless, most scholars are not intellectuals, and some intellectuals would not describe themselves as scholars. Intellectuals need not be from an academic background, although almost all will have been exposed to academia. Paul Krugman, the renowned American economist, was a scholar who became an intellectual. He no longer does the career-building 'hard yards' of an academic researcher. Rather he engages his profession and the wider public in ways – through popular books, his New York Times column, and literary reviews – that are discomforting to many.
Intellectuals are consumers of information – scholarly and otherwise. Intellectuals present, unpack and criticise arguments; they tell stories, often speculative stories; they ask questions, different questions; they address issues, including contentious issues that scholars and policymakers may avoid; they make lateral connections between different bodies of knowledge; they converse with 'the public', not just their peers. They trade in ideas. An intellectual, in engaging a wider audience, supplies broader but less footnoted outputs than a scholar; lucid essays rather than academic prose. The best intellectuals suggest solutions to the problems they address.
Intellectuals have historical awareness; they can relate contemporary concerns to events and concerns of the past. And they can see some areas – some, not all – in which the future cannot be like the past. For example, intellectuals interested in the post-2008 economic crisis will look to earlier crises, our responses to them, and their eventual resolutions – crises such as the depression of the 1930s and the panic of 1907 – looking for points of similarity and points of difference. And they would look to differences in future circumstances – eg environmental constraints – which might require different resolutions to the types of problem that have occurred in the past.
In economics, there is a 'paradigm' that most career economists follow. It is called neoclassical economics. It is based on the idea that, if everything is priced correctly, relative to everything else, there will be a general equilibrium outcome that represents the best of all possible worlds; or, in Platonic terms, an ideal state that may not be achievable but which we can always get closer to. In this ideal market state, there is no unemployment, no inflation; there are no perpetuating financial imbalances. Further this state is most closely achieved through minimal government. Thus most problems end up being blamed on policy mistakes by governments, or quasi-government authorities such as central banks
Keynes, in his General Theory published in 1936, observed that neoclassical economic theory had an elegant superstructure but poor foundations. Economists – scholars, policy analysts and bank economists – continue to work largely within this paradigm. Scholars add to the superstructure, exponentially as their careers depend on the 'publish or perish' imperative. Intellectuals, better equipped to address the foundational premises of the discipline, are crowded out by the publication sausage machine.
Whenever there is a real-world economic problem, the neoclassical paradigm leads economists to the conclusion that there must be distortions within the price system. Thus unemployment, according to the paradigm, is caused by wages (the price of labour) being too high. Scholarly debates within the broad neoclassical paradigm are more likely to be about why wages are too high in a recession, not whether they are too high.
It is intellectuals, with cross-discipline and cross-paradigm vision, who can offer alternative explanations and solutions. Intellectuals, much more than scholars with their narrow fields of vision, can help us to break the impasses that prevent us from asking the right questions, let alone finding answers to the seemingly intractable socio-economic problems that we face.
Darwinian selection and economic truth
The most important scientific principle of modernity is that of Darwinian natural selection, commonly known as 'the survival of the fittest', but better understood as 'the non-selection of those who or which do not meet some survival criteria'. The principle is essentially a tautology: 'what survives, survives'. Scholarly paradigms such as neoclassical economics survive brilliantly in Darwinian terms.
When it comes to natural science, the criterion of unfitness is falsification. Hypotheses that are shown by factual evidence to be false – through observations inconsistent with the hypothesis, or consistently useless predictions – are discarded, and other hypotheses are formulated.
In human society, however, there are at least two other Darwinian survival criteria: the criterion of profit and the criterion of career. According to the criterion of profit, an item (including an idea) is rejected if too few people buy it, and is successful if people with purchasing power do buy it. (Under the principle of consumer sovereignty, the consumers, whether of goods or ideas, are always correct. Survival is determined by sales.) Market selection is determined by perceived self-interest; falsification is equivalent to the absence of profit. If the principle that unemployment is caused by excessive wages is bought by the people in society with the most buying power, then that principle survives and becomes an accepted truth.
Related to the criterion of profit is the criterion of career. If one possible truth leads a scholar or analyst into a more clearly defined career path – in economics the opportunity to do policy analysis and consultancy work is important – then that 'orthodox' truth is selected over alternative 'heterodox' truths, regardless of how well the competing truths explain or predict real-world events.
In economics, it's the wealthiest five percent (or thereabouts) who are the principal buyers of economic truth. According to the neoclassical paradigm, a rise in the money supply will reduce interest rates, and lower interest rates are widely seen to be growth-promoting. However, because low interest rates are not generally favoured by the principal buyers of economic truth, a feedback theory of inflation expectations was developed (and bought). This theory tells us that induced changes in the demand for money will mean that an increased money supply leads to inflation expectations and therefore higher (rather than lower) interest rates, and may therefore be growth-inhibiting. Thus, the buyers of economic truth tend to favour restrictive monetary policies.
On another matter, a more obvious feedback mechanism is not bought by the most influential buyers in the marketplace for truth. If wages are reduced in a period of high unemployment, the feedback effect is a reduction in the purchases of goods and services, and even higher unemployment. (We see this clearly in southern Europe at present.) However, those whose purchases of ideas determine which ideas should be regarded as true believe in lower wages (lower costs to their businesses) as well as higher interest rates (higher 'investment' income to them).
So one mechanism which 'supply' conditions induce 'demand' changes is rejected (relating to wages), while another (relating to money) is accepted. This selection process takes place not only on the basis of factual evidence, but also in accordance with the preferences of our most influential buyers of truths.
Scholars are miners – suppliers – of truths. But they supply truths to the market. Thus they mine some seams very intensively, while neglecting other seams; choosing which seams to mine in accordance with Darwin's principle of selection. Thus scholars will tend to favour the seams that yield the greatest career rewards, which tend to be the seams least threatening to the purchasers of truths. It is the role of intellectuals, most of whom are also practising scholars, to shine some light on those less-mined truths; truths that may be inconvenient for some.
Keith Rankin teaches economics at Unitec


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The June US ISM manufacturing index has beaten expectations, hitting a four-month high of 60.2 – consensus was expecting a drop to 58.5 from 58.7 given somewhat mixed regional surveys. The ISM is at levels that have historically been consistent with GDP growth of around 7% annualised with the survey only coming in higher on five occasions over the past 30 years.
ISM survey vs GDP - the Trump effect?
The details show production is incredibly strong at 62.3 while new orders are even better at 63.5. However, it was the supplier deliveries component that was responsible for the bulk of the rise in the headline index. It jumped to 68.2 from 62.0 with firms clearly struggling to meet the demand in the economy. Firms are increasingly highlighting supply bottlenecks as a major constraint for them, be it the lack of labour with the required skills, a lack of inventory on components, a lack of delivery drivers or some evidence of hoarding in the wake of tariff announcements.
Either way, this suggests price pressures will increasingly build in the economy as evidenced by the prices-paid component, which was up to 76.8 (50 is the break-even level). In fact, the proportion of industries 'paying higher prices' hit 100%.
The report was strong throughout with employment remaining in line with its six-month average at 56.0, suggesting another healthy gain in manufacturing jobs on Friday. Export orders are also very good at 56.3, which again suggests the trade rhetoric is yet to bite in terms of activity. Nonetheless, the report did state that survey respondents are "overwhelmingly concerned about how tariff-related activity is and will continue to affect their business".
This report tells us that despite market nervousness about trade wars, the US economy is going from strength to strength. In fact, the recent data flow suggests that we should be looking for GDP to come in at around 4% for 2Q18 while inflation is likely to hit 3% in the next couple of months. This will keep the Federal Reserve tightening policy with two more hikes looking likely this year. Nonetheless, the longer the trade uncertainty continues, the more likely we will see real economy effects. A combination of weaker equity markets and growing corporate caution could result in much slower growth later in the year.


With summer looming in a few months, there is one appliance that will gradually and naturally become your best friend if you love outdoor activities. With a juicer in your home, you will surely have all the fun in the sun knowing that some cold juice is just within reach. However, if you are about to shop for your first juicer, it is crucial to remember a few tips that will help you make the right decision. Top of the list is, you must know your juicer needs and buy the one that best fits those needs.
With several options in the market, it is important that you know the difference between handheld, centrifugal and masticating juicers. Centrifugal juicers are often considered a medium between the cheap hand-held juicers and the more versatile, more expensive masticating juicers. For the purpose of this article, let's dig deeper into centrifugal juicers and understand why they are considered an average between the hand-held and their masticating counterparts. We'll do this by exploring the pros and cons of centrifugal juicers.
Centrifugal juicers are widely available because of their popularity. Their popularity is heightened by the affordable price tag they carry, as well as their ease of use and cleaning. Unlike other complicated versions, you can easily find centrifugal juicers in almost every departmental store or electrical shop near you. You won't have to move from one store to another searching for the juicer as you can easily get a centrifugal juicer at the nearest store.
Centrifugal juicers are constructed with fewer parts that make them easy to assemble and use. Also, the fewer parts make them easy to clean as they can be quickly soaked in a dishwasher for an easy clean-up with other dishes.
Centrifugal juicers are quite inexpensive, which also explains why they are widely accessible. Therefore, if you just started living alone and you may want an occasional glass of juice, a centrifugal juice extractor would not be a bad option, to begin with, taking into account its affordability.
One of the significant downsides linked to centrifugal juicers is oxidation caused by the high-speed spinning. Oxidation results from an exchange of positive and negative ions, which destroys essential nutrients and enzymes. The juice may also have more foam because a lot more air is trapped by the high-speed spinning.
There is a high likelihood of yielding a lesser amount of juice that remains in the ejected wet pulp. Most centrifugal juicers do not feature a pulp ejector, which means you have to stop juicing and get rid of the accumulated pulp manually. You will be required to empty the strainer basket regularly, say after two glasses, to enhance the efficiency.
The juice extracted gets oxidized easily, meaning that it needs to be served and drank immediately. Therefore, if you want to make juice that you can store in your fridge for at least 24 hours, you may want to consider purchasing a single or twin gear juicer.
There is no doubt about the nutritional benefits of fresh juice. However, with a centrifugal juicer, you will not extract many nutrients compared to using the more versatile gear juicer. On the other hand, it still has its benefits, giving you a lot to think about before making a decision. Compare the advantages and disadvantages of the juicer and decide if it meets your individual needs or not.


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Q&A with author Laura Silver
Laura Silver is the author of Knish: In Search of the Jewish Soul Food. Her work has appeared in a variety of publications, including The New York Times, The Forward, and the Jerusalem Report. She lives in Brooklyn.
Q: You write that for your family, "the knish served as flag, emblem, flower, and bird." Why did it take on such importance, and why did you decide to write about it?
A: I never thought of it that way—that occurred to me in retrospect. I thought of the idea for the book after Mrs. Stahl's [knish shop] went out of business. I started writing articles, and I found out that my family was from Knyszyn, Poland. I thought, Oh, wow! It's part of my identity more than I imagined!
Q: What did you learn about your family from writing the book?
A: Some of it is specific to my family, and some would apply to all families. It's so much more than it appears on the surface—like with the knish! I had a hard time realizing my nana's name was different. The biggest thing I [learned] was that there's a lot that didn't get passed down, and how much was lost collectively and individually. What else was hidden? There are more secrets…than you can ever know.
Q: How did you research the book, and what else was surprising?
A: The biggest finding was a poem in Poland from 1614. The knish wasn't inherently Jewish in its first mention. In modern-day knishiana, you think of it as a food that's intrinsically Jewish, [part of the] contemporary New York Jewish immigrant experience. In fact, it has roots in another culture as well.
And that it's linked to mourning rituals—I was holding on to it as a symbol of my grandma. After my great-aunt died, my family headed to Mrs. Stahl's. I had no idea the knish had a long history of comforting.
Q: How did the knish become the "Jewish soul food"?
A: I first came across the team in Ukrainian—"bread for the soul." I felt that this food was linked to my deepest recesses. It's a comfort food, but it's beyond that—it's a symbol of history and identity, but it gets in the gut, which isn't too far from the soul.
Soul food is most often identified with African American food. This is a different definition. It's like the book Chicken Soup for the Soul—it's a deeply comforting food, part of an identity, part of a people.
Q: How did you find and track down all the photos that appear in the book?
A: Painstakingly! Some I found in the course of my research, some I took. I did do some photo research. The photo of the movie still with two people eating a knish—[a website] had the picture, but didn't list which movie. I appealed to the New York Public Library arts division, and they cracked the code for me. It's a testament to amazing librarians and archives. The movie was The Night They Raided Minsky's.
A: I'm working on [turning part of the knish book] into a kids' book. That's one spinoff. One [other] project is about the pomegranate, and one is about family stories. One is about the mermaid of the Lower East Side, a swim instructor, Jane Katz. She's one of my heroes.
A: At its core, [Knish] is really a story of regular people. I feel lucky to have been able to find the stories. I didn't know where it would take me—I didn't realize there were so many stories of people who worked hard to make things, and serve their people, and keep a tradition alive. These people laid the groundwork for a lot of the success American Jews enjoy today. The knish has sustained us—now it's time for us to sustain the knish.
--Interview with Deborah Kalb. Laura Silver will be participating in the Lessans Family Annual Book Festival, which runs from November 6-16, 2014, at the JCC of Greater Washington.
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