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Posted: Mon 21 Jan 2013, 00:11
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Truth is, I chickened out at your suggestion. When you say, navigate to the folder, I assume you mean to actually open the folder. Additionally, I am guessing that no other folder should be open. I chickened out because I didn't want to accidentally remove Exec permissions in the entire home directory where the Index folder resides. I was not familiar with the back-tick call of the command prompt. Thanks for your suggestion. Will try it next week.
I wonder why the command didn't work when I did everything from command prompt. I cd'ed to the folder. Did a ls to confirm contents. Ran command. Exec checks not removed.
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Posted: Mon 21 Jan 2013, 00:16
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I just tried it by going into the target folder strictly through the command line and it worked.
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Posted: Mon 28 Jan 2013, 18:41
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Next time I cold-booted the computer, when I viewed the test Index directory that apparently failed to respond to [chmod 644 *], files contained therein had in fact reverted to text file format, despite my initial observation to the contrary. I tried the back-tick technique on another Index folder, and observed the file changes instantaneously, so I am satisfied with this result. Solved.
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I forgot to ask: What happens if I try to open a geany file in Windows XP?
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Posted: Thu 07 Feb 2013, 03:24
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So this happen if one use geany to do text files with not .txt
what if one use Leafpad instead and still use fat format usb?
to do the transfer?
Is it the fat format or the lack of .txt that mess up or
would that get solved using leafpad editor instead?
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Posted: Mon 11 Feb 2013, 16:54
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nubc wrote:
I forgot to ask: What happens if I try to open a geany file in Windows XP?
Short answer:
It will open, and probably look fine if using a fairly recent text editor.
Medium answer:
The reason I say "probably" in the short answer above is that the MS-DOS/Windows world and the Unix/Linux world have differing preferences when it comes to the control characters used to represent the end of a line of text. Years ago this was a bit of a headache. But modern text editors usually accept either preference.
As an experiment, I booted up an old PC that still had Windows 98 on one partition. Notepad refused to deal with the Linux NL (New Line) characters, represented them as black rectangles, and printed each line at the end of the previous line. But WordPad displayed the Linux files fine. And loading the file with WordPad and saving it created a file that Notepad could display.
Long answer:
The files that geany creates are simply text files, and can usually be displayed in any text editor because they use standard encodings (such as ASCII, ISO-8859-1, and UTF-8 ) and have no special formatting codes like, for instance, word processor documents or spreadsheets.
I say "usually" only because geany supports a lot if encodings, so it is possible to save a geany file with an encoding that isn't supported by every text editor. But if you stick with common encodings like UTF-8, or ISO-8859-1 (the default used for geany in the Puppies I've seen) you should be able to use any modern text editor.
The one fly in the ointment is that different operating systems prefer different control characters to signify the end of a line of text. How can that be? Didn't I just say that text files use "standard encodings"?
Yes. Well, we live in an imperfect world, and standards are not always as standard as we would hope them to be.
These standards are based on standards that were developed fifty years ago when Teletype machines roamed the earth. Teletypes normally used a pair of control characters to end a line: CR (Carriage Return) and LF (Line Feed). As the names suggest, the first returned the print head to the first character position in the line, and the second advanced the paper by one line.
Some folks thought that it was inefficient to send two control characters for each line when a machine could be designed to both move the print head and advance the paper in response to a single control character. So they lobbied for the inclusion of a NL (New Line) control character in the ASCII standard to allow for that behavior.
But ASCII was only a seven-bit encoding, which limited it to 128 possible elements, all of which were already in use. So it was decided to use the value that represented LF to also represent NL.
Wait. How can one value represent two different control characters? It can't. Users of ASCII had to agree amongst themselves which control character to use. And so the standard became less of a standard.
ASCII 1968 wrote:
LF (Line Feed): A format effector which controls the movement of the printing position to the next printing line. (Applicable also to display devices.) Where appropriate, this character may have the meaning "New Line" (NL), a format effector which controls the movement of the printing point to the first printing position on the next printing line. Use of this convention requires agreement between sender and recipient of data.
So two data terminal operators could agree to use CR/LF or they could agree to use NL, assuming that they had machines that allowed them the option to choose. More likely, a corporation with a data network would buy equipment that all supported one convention or the other. Either way, everyone was happy.
But ASCII was originally developed for communication. When used for encoding files, the concept of "this convention requires agreement between sender and recipient of data" is hard to enforce. When was the last time you sat down with the people who created the text files on your PC and discussed what convention you should use?
Since it is not practical to have millions of text file creators discussing which convention to use with millions of text file users, the decision ended up being made by the folks developing operating systems, since system software was usually initially designed to support just one convention.
Of course, the folks developing one operating system might not choose the same convention as those developing another operating system. But it didn't matter at the time, since back then it was rare for a file written on one O.S. to be used on another O.S., unlike today.
Anyway, the Unix world settled on the NL convention, and the MS-DOS/Windows world settled on the CR/LF convention.
Using the value for NL with hardware or software that expects that value to represent LF would, years ago, cause the same behavior that would happen when a LF control character was sent to a Teletype machine: the paper (or the cursor on a CRT display) would advance to the next line, but the print head (or cursor) would not return to the first position in the line.
So this gave a sort of "stair-stepping" output, where the first line would start on the left, but each subsequent line would start under the end of the previous line. Using the MS-DOS commands TYPE and MORE on my old Windows 98 machine showed this kind of output for a file that used NL characters.
How to convert, if necessary:
Although Windows WordPad and probably many other editors should handle text files from geany that use the default NL convention, you can manually convert the files to use the CR/LF convention with this command:
unix2dos test.txt
You can also save them directly from geany using the CR/LF convention by using geany's
Set Line Endings
Convert and Set to CR/LF (Win)
But, again, there is probably no need to do this. Chances are good that a modern text editor in Windows will open the files fine without you needing to do anything special.
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Posted: Tue 19 Feb 2013, 15:12
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nooby wrote:
what if one use Leafpad instead and still use fat format usb?
to do the transfer?
It will be the same as when using geany. No matter what editor is used, if the filename has no extension (such as ".txt"), and any execute permission bits are set, clicking on it in ROX-Filer won't open the file.
nooby wrote:
Is it the fat format or the lack of .txt that mess up or
would that get solved using leafpad editor instead?
Any Linux distro has many text files with no ".txt" filename extension -- and often no extension at all, so that is not the cause of ROX-Filer's confusion. Adding the ".txt" just makes it clear to ROX-Filer that the file is not an executable script, since when ROX-Filer sees a text file with no extension and any of the execute permission bits set, it assumes it must be an executable script.
So it is the FAT filesystem's lack of support for the execute permission bits that confused ROX-Filer (as
explained earlier by rcrsn51
Because FAT doesn't support execute permission bits, when translating a directory entry from FAT, these bits are set to a fixed value that is determined when the FAT filesystem is mounted. By default all have read and execute permission bits set, and the write permission bit is set for the owner (umask 0022). This can be changed with the umask, dmask, and fmask mount options. For instance, using option "fmask=0133" will turn off the execute permission bits for files. (You wouldn't want to turn them off for directories, unless you wanted to keep all users other then root from searching directories.)
(By the way, the man page for mount says the "default is the umask of the current process" for umask, dmask, and fmask. After some experimentation, I gave up trying to get it to work as described. While I've not made an in-depth look at the code, a quick look seems to indicate that mount began setting umask to a specific value by default way back in October of 2002. (First it used 033, then switched to 022 in December of 2004.) So it hasn't used "the umask of the current process" in over ten years.)
So if you mount a FAT filesystem using option "fmask=0133" the execute permission bits will be off, and clicking on text files with no filename extension in ROX-Filer will open the file in a text editor, unless it is otherwise recognized as a script (for instance, if it had "#!/bin/sh" as its first line). But the downside of that is that you would now have the reverse problem. If you were trying to copy executable files from the FAT filesystem, you would now have to turn the execute permission bits on after copying. (Also, in that case, executable files could not be executed directly from the FAT filesystem.)
I was curious if using extended attributes would make any difference, so I mounted an ext2 filesystem with the user_xattr option and experimented with setting the extended attribute file type to text/plain. This made no difference. Since the only text files that can be executed are scripts, ROX-Filer reasonably assumes that a text file which has execute permission and no filename extension is a script, and attempts to execute it when clicked.
Our Puppies do so much for us that we sometimes ask them to do things that they were not designed to do.
It is wonderful that Linux is able to access FAT filesystems, to allow files created with another O.S. to be shared with a computer running Linux. As a way to share files that might otherwise be unsharable, it is a positive, beneficial thing. But for sharing files between computers running Linux, it is generally preferable to use a native Linux filesystem.
Sure, the actual content of the files will transfer just fine with FAT. And if that is all one is interested in, then using a FAT filesystem is fine. But if you need Unix/Linux-specific things like the permission bits, or timestamps with a resolution greater than two seconds (a lack of which can make certain software believe that the copy of the file that you just made on your FAT filesystem is older than your original file), then a native Linux filesystem is a better choice.
Depending upon how one uses one's Puppy, one might rarely encounter problems using a FAT filesystem. But when a problem does arise, it can be a puzzler, leading to considerable head-scratching and time wasted trying to devise a work-around.
Now, having said all of that, what kind of filesystem do I use on my USB flash drives? Um, . . . ah . . . well I use FAT.
I took the lazy approach of just sticking with the filesystem that they came formated with.
So, in this case I didn't take my own advice. On the other hand, I generally just use those drives for casual backup, and use the network for transferring files from one Linux box to another, not flash drives. And a FAT flash drive does come in handy for the occasional need to share a file with a Windows user.
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I am transferring a directory, an index directory containing about 110 geany files. These files each contain a long list of names, separated by comma. I constantly update these files by adding names. On a weekly basis I transfer the entire Index directory containing 110 geany files to another computer. Before I make the transfer, on the destination computer, I delete the oldIndex directory, rename the extant Index directory as oldIndex, and then transfer the updated Index directory from the source computer. Last week, I discovered that the transfer of the updated Index directory from source to destination computers does not include all data. Specifically, several names were missing from a certain geany file, which should have been there. This was an embarrassment, so I was determined to correct the omission later when I got an opportunity to inspect the source computer. However, those missing names are present on the source computer, so I conclude that the data transfer between source and destination computers is incomplete or inaccurate. It may have something to do with the destination computer's desktop icon for "Index" which undergoes a transition when the Index is transferred, a transition from removed item to restored folder. Can anyone explain why this is happening?
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Posted: Tue 10 Sep 2013, 09:04
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Hello, nubc.
Out of curiosity, what utility/program are you using for the transfer?
Linux's cp, a file manager, a file sync program?
Maybe you should double-check the parameters or settings you are
using for this transfer. A simple typo can create the most unreal error!
But it sounds as though the copy or transfer was interrupted somehow,
since the error occurred only this particular time. (Or has it happened
before without you noticing?)
Best regards.
"You want it darker? We kill the flame." (L. Cohen)
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Posted: Tue 10 Sep 2013, 09:49
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Rox-filer to make the transfer between two wary 5.1.1 computers. I am guessing that the incomplete data transfer has been going on for a while, and I just noticed it. The transfer of the Index folder has always been problematic, as you can read in this thread.
If the solution to this issue isn't obvious, I will probably stop the practice of saving the old Index directory, and instead, just delete it and then transfer the updated directory.
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Posted: Tue 10 Sep 2013, 10:42
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@nubc: You have failed to mention the most important piece of information - that you are transferring the files via a USB drive.
So the first thing to check would be the state of the files on that drive.
Are you unmounting the USB drive properly before removing it from the source machine?
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Posted: Tue 10 Sep 2013, 21:18
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Point taken: there is an intermediary stage of the file transfer, which is the temporary storage of data on a fat32 external USB hard drive. My practice is to "move" the Index directory when making the final transfer from USB drive to destination drive, so there is no evidence of the transfer left on the USB drive.
Yes, I exercise every precaution when using this USB drive, mounting and unmounting, so the problem is not my carelessness. This USB drive is not 100% reliable, as there are times when it simply crashes and and the transfer has to be restarted. The weekly transfer involves two directories. The text-based Index directory takes about 3 seconds to "copy" from source to USB drive. The other directory can take up to 10 minutes to transfer, and this transfer is typically the one that fails when the drive crashes, which is annoying but not that frequent.
One observation I can make is how clean the omissions seem to be on the transferred Index directory. There are no partial names or any obvious truncations. Certain names are simply missing. It makes me think this is an old Index, long since deleted or renamed. On the other hand, the names that are missing are so essential to the list, the names must have been put on the list many versions before the ones that currently reside on the destination hard drive.
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The easiest way to avoid the various problems is to archive the folder before saving it to the fat filesystem. This will avoid the permissions and ownership problems, as well as any conversions between DOS format and UNIX format (line endings).
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Now, that was a pretty solid episode of SNL. Emma Stone, capable in her first appearance last year, was front-and-center in a bunch of sketches and did a fine job with 'em. But there were a few sketches that stood out for their awfulness, two in particular that brought the show to such a screeching halt that I'm amazed it could recover from their awfulness (the back half was a lot stronger than the front half here). Those sketches were two of Kristen Wiig's most tiresome spectacles—Secret Word and Garth and Kat. Wiig was good in other stuff this week, Lorne Michaels! Why must you insist on putting this stuff as high up in the show as possible!
"Secret Word" (where Wiig is a faded Broadway actress who always says the secret word) was the lead sketch this time around, and it followed a solid Republican debate cold open and a very cute monologue from Stone centered around Spider-Man that even got a gag in about her remaking a movie that came out 10 years ago. Andrew Garfield showed up to wave hello (Stone wasn't plugging anything, so I guess Spider-Man actually is her next project), and Andy Samberg fired off a few decent Spidey jokes while upside down (I wonder if they rotate the cue cards for him).
The Republican debate was the obvious choice to lead off and had the requisite fun with Rick Perry's debate gaffe, which was almost too easy for the writers. Hader's impression of the event started out with him just repeating Perry's words verbatim (reminding me of Tina Fey's Palin bits), although it built to the fun concept of Perry's troubles being so hard to watch that the other candidates actually try to help him out. "I want to be President, but… not like this," Mitt Romney intoned, later trying to put Perry out of his misery, Of Mice And Men-style. I'm sure the SNL writers were glad that Perry's "oops" moment drew attention off of Herman Cain's troubles, because Kenan Thompson's Cain impression is still pretty darn weak, especially given how much there is to lampoon in Cain's mannerisms. But Perry's thing was the flavor of the week, so it made sense (Cain got a couple lines dealing with the sexual harassment).
So, I was feeling good. Then, Secret Word. Ughhh. It wasn't the Lawrence Welk show (the very logo of which fills me with dread these days), but it was damn close. We get it: She's going to say the secret word. The gag was obvious the first time this sketch aired, which might as well have been 1964. I've seen it so many times, it feels like it's been happening my entire life. As usual, there were some variations that struggled for chuckles—Wiig misreads "thorny" as "horny," Emma Stone was a robotic moron Miss USA winner—but the joke formula never really changes.
When it comes to Garth and Kat (who appeared on Weekend Update as usual), I appreciate that Wiig and Fred Armisen are gifted improvisers, and this sketch tests those skills nicely. But I really couldn't care less at this point. The nature of the joke means the bit is always interminable, and when you have Chris Martin involved, it's obvious that he and Wiig are just copying what Armisen says two seconds later. Weekend Update panelists are rarely the highlight of a show, but they are usually short.
Of course, here I am ragging on overlong recurring bits we've seen too many times, and I haven't bitched about Herb Welch coming back. Well, sue me, but Herb Welch kinda makes me laugh. The joke has definitely gotten old (this is his third or fourth time on the show, I think), but I'm just such a sucker for Bill Hader that I don't really care. Still, for fairness' sake, it's worth pointing out that the Herb Welch sketch also follows a strict formula that barely changes each time: He's gonna make inappropriate, out-of-date comments, he's going to whack people with his microphone, and he's going to call Jason Sudeikis' anchorman something derogatory (this time it was a tie rack).
Alright, let's get to the good stuff, because after Herb, I liked pretty much everything aside from Weekend Update. And even Update had a strong segment with Sudeikis as the Devil being horrified to learn about the Penn State scandal, which functioned as a version of "Really!?!?" only better. The "Wish It Would Rain" digital short was a more minor work by Samberg, but it was also his first "song" of the year which was nice to see.
Then, those final four sketches were surprisingly consistent. "Les Jeunes de Paris," always a good time and something Emma Stone did last year, came back dancing to "A Cause de Garcons," which (embarrassingly?) I recognized immediately. It's always simple stuff, but they've learned how to build the joke up pretty effectively with the Napoleon and the marriage and the baby popping out at the end, so you don't feel like you just watched a bunch of dancing for five minutes. Plus, Taren Killam is such an energetic performer, easily one of SNL's standouts for the last calendar year.
The bridal shower sketch was Emma Stone's standout of the night, the one time she got a really complete character to run with, and she did a great job as the horrifying, if well-meaning, Wallace. Everything was just about waiting for the gifts to come back around to Wallace, but the buildup was always worth it, and Armisen's appearance as a "human toilet" was very welcome. Stone's performance here and in Les Jeunes de Paris shows why the show had her back even though she had nothing to plug. She blends into the cast pretty well, has a lot of energy and is clearly game for anything.
Things would have wrapped up really strong if the Adele sketch had been the last of the night. I won't deny that the technology humping made me laugh and was a perfect example of a 12:55 sketch, but the Adele thing was a nice capper, even though it took a very simple concept and didn't go very far with it. People's crying faces got a little more ridiculous but that was the extent of it. But having everyone together, swaying along to that guilty pleasure of a song, felt like the best way to wrap up the night.
Stray observations:
- "Is it trains? Trains? No, you can't cut trains!"
- Paul Brittan did some great bird-arms for Ron Paul.
- "It's never too late for Spider-Man. He can stop time!" "You're actually thinking of Zack Morris from Saved By The Bell."
- "You think this Belafonte kid oughta, you know, pipe down?"
- The Devil invented comments sections, tagging on Facebook, buffering, and terms of service agreements.
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The folks at the CITP have just improved RECAP.
How? They have now added search functionality.
By going to Archive.recapthelaw.org, you can search all the documents gathered by the RECAP Firefox Extension. The simple search allows you quick access to documents from U.S. Federal District and Bankruptcy Court documents, without charge. Further, the search will pull up the full docket sheet for a case, alerting and allowing you to acquire documents that are on PACER (and not yet in RECAP).
There is a simple and an advanced query page. The advanced query allows you to search by case name, number, court and dates of filing.
Two great features: it provides an RSS feed and an e-mail alert option for your query if you want to track the case.
Further, once you are viewing a case, you can add tags and connect related cases. For the case that I was searching, it even showed that it had been viewed 2 other times (by me).
As to privacy concerns, when you view case details, there is a button for reporting privacy violations. Although we hope that these privacy mistakes won't occur, this button does help remove that data from the searchable RECAP archive.
The site mentions that it is still in the experimental phase and they welcome feedback. I might suggest a page of search tips (for example, should we use quotation marks for exact searches? etc). Also, I am not sure if this is searching full-text through all the downloaded documents and the tags that users might supply. Or, is this searching just through a few fields in the documents (attorney name, nature of suit, etc)? So, a bit more information on the searching will be helpful. [I will find out more and add to this post with details.]
But, all that being said, what a great resource. Now, what should we ask the folks at CITP to do for us next?
[UPDATE: this comes from Dhruv Kapadia, one of the Archive.Recapthelaw.org developers: "Right now the search is limited to the contents of the docket - the descriptions of each document as well as some parts of the metadata
associated with the docket. In the future, we may try to incorporate the OCRed text of the documents themselves, but we aren't doing that currently."]


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Justin Timberlake's 20/20 Experience was the best-selling album of 2013, according to Nielsen SoundScan, as reported by billboard.com.
Timberlake's album sold 2.43 million albums last year, as per billboard.com. It was the only album to sell more than 2 million copies in 2013.
20/20 and Lil Wayne's Tha Carter III, which was the best-selling album of 2008 with 2.87 million copies, are the only best-selling albums of a year to sell less than 3 million copies since SoundScan began tracking music sales in 1991, billboard.com reports.
The second-highest selling album of 2013 was Eminem's The Marshall Mathers LP 2, which sold 1.73 million copies. The Detroit rapper had the best-selling album of 2010 with Recovery, which sold 3.4 million copies that year.
Drake's Nothing Was The Same album is the seventh best-selling album of 2013. It sold 1.34 million copies. Despite being released December 14, Beyonce's self-titled album is the #8 album overall and the best-selling album from a woman of 2013. It sold 1.3 million units.
Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines" single, which featured Pharrell and T.I., was the best-selling song of 2013. It sold 6.5 million copies. "Thrift Shop" by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis sold 6.15 million copies, making it the second-best-selling song of 2013. "Blurred Lines" and "Thrift Shop" are among the 26 songs to have sold more than 6 million units in music history, billboard.com reports.
"Can't Hold Us," also by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, sold 4.26 million units, which made it the #8 best-selling song of 2013.
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The Climate plugin does not inherit from the infrared code, and thus climate devices can't currently be IR controlled (unless somebody has checked in code for this at some point...)You wouldn't want to do this anyway, IR devices are a compromise for the A/V world, and as such, you'll run into all sorts of funky quirks because IR is unidirectional and incapable of communicating back its state to the system.-Thom
I have a question, does anyone know if it is possible for me to change the climate control group. I have IR blinds I use, what I would like is a group for this instead of having blind scenario stuck under my media group.
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La danza della memoria / Elie Wiesel ; [trad. di Giulio Lupieri].
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Look at the card back - "This stormtrooper figure was created especially for the Star Wars online shop". Was last year's SDCC figure (which was who btw?) sold online afterwards?
Wow, this figure is too cool to waste on the SDCC! I hope I can get my hands on at least one.BTW - isn't the black stormtrooper the same as the "Blackhole Stormtrooper?"
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Changes are coming for a number of indexes globally, according to MSCI. In its annual market classification review, it announced that Greece's index, currently classed as a developed market, will be moving down to emerging markets, and Morocco's index will be reclassified from an emerging market to a frontier market.
In addition, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates will see their indexes elevated from frontier markets to emerging markets, thanks to improvements each has made to its markets, and China A-shares will be under review for possible inclusion in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index.
The company also said that the MSCI Korea and MSCI Taiwan indices will remain under review for a potential reclassification to developed markets, while the situation in Egypt, according to the company, may result in the "launch [of] a public consultation on a potential exclusion of the MSCI Egypt Index from the MSCI Emerging Markets Index were the situation to worsen in the coming months."
Greece is the first developed market country downgraded by MSCI to emerging market status. Market accessibility is a major factor in that decision, and MSCI said that Greece fails to meet the requirements in securities borrowing and lending facilities, short selling and transferability. "Market participants have commented that in-kind transfer and off-exchange transaction-like facilities that were introduced in 2008 by the Greek authorities and the Athens Stock Exchange are so restrictive that they are, in practice, unusable. In addition, the long standing absence of well-established stock lending as well as short selling practices also make the Greek equity market incompatible with the standards of other developed equity markets," according to MSCI.
There is also the issue of size, on which MSCI said the country has fallen short for the last two years. Greece's stock index has lost 83% since 2007, and the country has been under review for downgrade since June of 2012 after MSCI criticized its market restrictions.
The downgrades of Greece and Morocco will take place in November, to coincide with the issuance of MSCI's semiannual index review, while the upgrades on Qatar and the UAE will wait till the next annual review in May of 2014.
No immediate action is expected on China A-shares, with the company stating that "a large number of key obstacles in the areas of capital mobility, quota allocation and taxation continue to exist and substantial progress would need to be made in order to warrant an inclusion in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index." "However, given the significant size of the China A-share market and the possibility of further regulatory reforms in the short term, MSCI believes that it is important to actively engage with the international investment community on this matter. The speed and magnitude of any hypothetical inclusion will be entirely dependent on the speed and magnitude of actual progress in the opening of the market and the resulting experience of international institutional investors," according to MSCI.
Dimitris Melas, managing director of index research for MSCI, said that investors in developed markets will not see a significant change because of the Greek downgrade because "it already had such a tiny weight in the index that even for portfolios that replicate the MSCI index, the effect will be tiny." Greece's presence in the developed markets index amounted to about one basis point, and "removing that small allocation will not really register for most investors," he said.
However, for advisors who look more at emerging markets, "the changes are likely to have a more noticeable impact," Melas said. Greece's very small weight in developed markets may not be noticeable in its absence, but in the emerging markets index, in which market cap tends to be lower, it will have a greater weight. "We are projecting that after the reclassification in November, Greece would probably have a weight of 0.3%—30 basis points—in emerging markets. That's still small, tiny compared to China or Brazil, but it's now beginning to be noticeable."
The emerging markets index will also feel the effects of the addition of Qatar and the UAE, he said. Based on available data at the time of interview, he predicted that Qatar will have a weight of 0.45% and the UAE 0.4%. "In total, across the three, the total will be 1.2% weight," said Melas. "This is now a noticeable, significant change for emerging market investors—those who follow the MSCI index will have a broader opportunity in addition to other countries classified today as emerging markets."
Last but not least for advisors to remember is the effect on the frontier markets of the departure of Qatar and the UAE and the arrival of Morocco, "These changes will be noticeable," Melas said.
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Essay on Miyazaki and Marxism
(Dunno where to post this so it goes here.)
Swedish Socialist publication Flamman published this long essay on Hayao Miyazaki which shares some interesting tidbits about his past and influences and naturally interprets his films from a Socialist viewpoint, but given Miyazaki's background I'd say it holds up.
So, as both a Marxist myself and Studio Ghibli fan I decided to translate the essay into English. The translation is admittedly janky and may contain instances of Swenglish, but I hope it can be enjoyed nevertheless. Also, I suck at formatting but I'll try my best.
A hopeful pessimist.
The director Hayao Miyazaki is once again on peoples' minds when ten of his classic movies are shown at Swedish cinemas. Johan Persson tells of a gloomy revolutionary who never stopped making optimistic movies.
Hayao Miyazaki the Revolutionary
An environmental disaster became the springboard to his artistry. Despite a pessimistic view on humankind's ability to live in peace and in balance with nature, Hayao Miyazaki continued to make complex films that present hope and belief in the future.
In 1956 severe neurological ailments of several inhabitants in the town of Minamata on the Japanese island of Kyushu's west coast were brought up to the public. The unknown disease seemed to be able to transfer to fetuses in the womb. 35 percent of those who fell ill died. After three years it was found that the ailments were due to mercury poisoning. Since 1932 a factory of the chemical company Chisso had been releasing methyl quicksilver straight into the Minamata bay.
Despite this discovery the authorities and the company did very little. One of Chisso's few measures was to set up a subsidiary to extract quicksilver out of the seabed after it was found out that it contained two kilos of quicksilver per each ton of sediment. Not until 1968 the emissions ceased. The lawsuits of those affected against the state and Chisso still continue today. The Minamata scandal, along with many other cases of industrial contamination, created a new environmental and consumers movement in Japan. One of the Japanese cultural workers that were left with a strong imprint by this catastrophe was the young illustrator Hayao Miyazaki.
Hayao Miyazaki was born in Tokyo in 1941. His father, Katsuji Miyazaki, was a flight engineer who ran a factory that produced aircraft parts to the Japanese air force. In 1944 the family were evacuated to Utsunomiya, 100 kilometres north of Tokyo, an important centre for the Japanese war industry.
The 12th of July B29 bombers belonging to the 58th division of the American air force released bombs with a total mass of 728 tons over Utsunomiya. In the fire storm that followed large parts of the city were destroyed. The Miyazaki family once again had to flee.
Even though he only was four years old when Japan capitulated his experiences during the war, especially during the mass bombing of Utsunomiya, came to strongly characterise Hayao Miyazaki's life and artistry. The young Hayao often argued with his father who he thought refused to accept his responsibility for Japan's warfare. At the same time father and son shared a fascination for flying and aircrafts. Hayao got good at drawing warplanes, warships and tanks. Humans on the other hand he thought were harder to draw. During the third year in high school, when he was supposed to study for the university entry exams, Miyazaki snuck out to watch Panda and the Magic Serpent (Hakujaden), the first full-length anime movie in colour, in the cinema. An interest for animation was born. He got accepted into the elite university Gakushuin, where many members of the imperial family had studied, and studied economics and political science. At this time he had started considering himself a Marxist.
After getting his degree he got employed at Tôei, "The Disney of Asia", as an animations assistant. It was at Tôei that Miyazaki met the six years older director Isao Takahata. They would develop a friendship and an artistic cooperation that lasted until the death of Takahata during the summer of 2018.
Work as an animator was low-paying and soon Miyazaki got involved in the militant animator's union. In 1964 he got chosen as secretary for the union branch at Tôei while Takahata became vice chairman.
During the 70's Miyazaki animated, wrote and directed anime for TV broadcasting. It was during this time he visited Sweden with mission to secure the rights to a TV series of Pippi Longstocking. The author of Pippi Longstocking, Astrid Lindgren, flatly refused and Miyazaki returned empty-handed, but the impressions from the cities of Stockholm and Visby would influence him later in his career.
In 1979 he received the opportunity to direct his first own feature-length movie, Castle of Cagliostro, the most overlooked part of his filmography. It's the only one of his feature-length movies that is missing when Swedish SF Bio is showing Miyazaki x 10.
It's for certain the only Miyazaki movie that is included in an already established anime canon. It's about the popular character Lupin III, created by artist Monkey Punch, but many themes and visual features that he would return to were established here: strange airplanes, ruins reclaimed by nature and speedy chasing sequences.
The movie flopped. The fans reacted negatively to the change in tone and the characterisation of the protagonists.
After Castle of Cagliostro Miyazaki had troubles getting to make his next movie for several years. At the beginning of the 80's most animation studios were skeptical to orinigal ideas that weren't bases on already popular manga works.
During the launch of Castle of Cagliostro Miyazaki had gotten familiar with Toshio Suzuki, editor at the anime and entertainment magazine Animage. Suzuki convinced Miyazaki to realise his ideas in the form of a manga. In 1982 Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind started its serialisation in Animage. The story of a post-apocalyptic world being swallowed by a poisonous jungle was obviously inspired by the environmental disaster in Minamata.
The manga quickly became popular and Miyazaki was convinced to make a feature film based on it. In Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind from 1983 several themes typical of Miyazaki were first introduced: The young female protagonist, the madness of war and nature that strikes back when it's threatened. Another constant in Miyazaki's films has been the collaboration with the experimental composer Joe Hisaishi.
In 1985 Topcraft, the studio behind Nausicaä, went bankrupt and was bought up by Hayao Miyazaki together wth Isao Takahata and Toshio Suzuki. And so Studio Ghibli was born, named after what the Italians call the hot desert wind that blows from the Libyan highlands towards the Mediterranean Sea. Ghibli is also the nickname for the Italian plane Caproni Ca.309 used during WWII.
In 1986 Studio Ghibli's first film, Laputa: Castle in the Sky was released. To acquire inspiration for the films environments Miyazaki twice visited Rhondda, Wales, right during and after the great coal mine strike. In an interview with Helen McCarthy in 1999 he explained how the struggle of the workers affected the film:
"I was in Wales right after the miners' strike. I admired the way the miners' union fought until the bitter end, for their workers' and communities' sake, and I wanted that the film would mirror the power of those communities."
In 1988 Studio Ghibli released two films. While Isao Takahata's Grave of the Fireflies is a heart wrenching story about two orphaned siblings during the final stage of the Second World War. Miyazaki's My Neighbour Totoro is a quiet and beautiful reflection on childhood and nature animated by spirits.
The story about eleven years old Satsuki and four years old Mei who move into an old house at the outskirst of a great forest to be close to their mother who is bedridden in a sanatorium has some autobiographical features. Miyazaki's own mother was bedridden, having tuberculosis, between 1947 and 1955.
The environments in the film are examples of what in Japanese is called satoyama, "in-between village and mountain", the common lands consisting of grassy fields, wetlands and forests that surrounded Japanese villages. During the 80's many satoyama were about to disappear as the traditional village life was replaced by large scale agricultural production. My Neighbour Totoro was a part of the campaign to preserve the unique environments, an undertaking that is led today by Totoro Hometown Foundation.
In Kiki's Delivery Service from 1989 Miyazaki finally found use of what he experienced during the failed Pippi mission; the film's Koriko is in large part based on the town of Visby and the Old Town of Stockholm.
Porco Rosso from 1992 is one of few Miyazaki films that take place in an identifiable place during an identifiable time. The fable about the flying ace Marco who is turned into an anthropomorphic pig takes place in the Kvarner Bay of the Adriatic Sea, with the fascist takeover as its setting. Despite the sunny and romantic flight adventure Porco Rosso is perhaps also Miyazaki's most pronounced political film. The main character, "The Red Pig", declares that he is rather a pig than a fascist.
In 1997 the epic fantasy film Princess Mononoke was released, depicting the conflict between the human's in the Irontown and the spirits of the woods. The film distinguishes itself with its moral complexity. Irontown's leader Lady Eboshi wants to extract the resources of the forest, but she isn't driven by greed or a thirst for violence like the opponents in Nausicaä or Castle in the Sky. Instead her goal is to make Irontown into a sanctuary for the outcasts of society.
Spirited Away from 2001 is about Chihiro who together with her parents happens to wander into the world of spirits. When Chihiro's parents are turned into pigs she is forced to take employment at the witch Yubaba's bathhouse. The huge bathhouse has been seen as a depiction of capitalism where Chihiro is alienated to the extent of losing her own name, which Yubaba exchanges with Sen, meaning "a thousand" in Japanese. A name which reduces Chihiro's identity to that of her monetary value.
The film became Studio Ghibli's real breakthrough in the West and won an Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film. Miyazaki refused to travel to Hollywood to receive the prize as a protest against the United States' wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The resistance to the United States' warfare came to make up the background for his next film, Howl's Moving Castle, from 2004. The film is based on a fantasy novel by Diana Wynne Jones but Miyazaki added a strong anti-war message to the plot.
In 2008 Ponyo was released, a return to the childhood depiction in Totoro where the balance between the world of humankind and nature is central.
It would take until 2013 before Miyazaki's next film. The Wind Rises is a partly fictional biography of the flight engineer Jiro Horikoshi who dreams of designing beautiful aircrafts but instead has to construct warplanes. Miyazaki here returned to his lifelong fascination for flying as the both the ultimate freedom and a potentially destructive power when in the service of militarism.
After The Wind Rises Miyazaki explained that he intends to go into retirement. But in 2016 Studio Ghibli announced that he had started working on a new film, based on Genzaburo Yoshino's childhood novel Kimitachi Wa Dô Ikiru Ka (How Do You Live?).
Miyazaki has mainly been seen as a visual master, more interested in pictures and environments than stories. This makes the political aspect of his artistry an oft-forgotten one. Feminism, environmental issues and war resistance have been as recurring as watercolour backgrounds and detailed scenery.
Around the fall of the Soviet Union Miyazaki stopped considering himself a Marxist. According to himself it was because he had come to the conclusion that workers aren't always the good guys, an opinion that few Marxists certainly wouldn't have any problem agreeing with.
In an interview from 2008 in Studio Ghibli's own magazine Neppu Miyazaki still voices a more or less Marxist analysis of capitalism. What he seems to have lost belief in are the possibilities of socialism. His view on mankind is too pessimistic to allow for such a conviction. The democratic socialism he may possibly believe in is small-scale and local. As with William Morris his resistance against industrial civilisation lies in the tension between green conservatism and a Marxist trust in the possibilities of collective non-alienating labour.
The essayist Margaret Talbot has called Miyazaki a case-in-point example of Gramsci's adage of "pessimism of the intellect and optimism of the will". Despite a deep distrust of humankind's ability to live in peace and balance with nature he continues to make films that present optimism and belief in the future.
In an interview in Neppu he speaks of his memories from his time as a young union activist:
"I consider us to have the right to revolt. To speak about my own experiences, I was very involved with the unions during the 1960's. I don't mean to say that our activism was right or wrong. But it was better to do something than not doing anything. Revolutions should be made everywhere."
Johan Persson
Flamman, October 11th 2018, issue 40
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I need to watch more of Miyazaki's films. The only ones I've seen are Porco Rosso and Spirited Away, and I'm 99% sure I was too young to appreciate the latter when I saw it. Looks like they're showing a lot of them at cinemas near me over the next year or so, so I'll have to try to keep up with that.
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Adam Levine may be getting his own television show after signing a development deal with NBC to work on original scripted programs. {Billboard}
Karl Lagerfeld presented Chanel's 2014 Cruise collection in Singapore today with an intimate staging at a former British army barracks, which was reportedly less extravagant than the fashion house's previous international runway shows.{Fashionista}
To pay homage to Salvatore Ferragamo's L.A. success, the brand just announced its sponsorship of the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, which opens this fall and counts actors like Brad Pitt as one of its chairs. {Ferragamo Press Release}
Stage and screen star Neil Patrick Harris returns to the stage to host the Tony Awards a fourth time this June 9 in Radio City Music Hall. {The Hollywood Reporter}
Donatella Versace revealed plans for Versace's Versus, claiming she would stop doing runway shows, start a participatory design process online, and debut a capsule collaboration with J.W. Anderson. {Fashionista}
Hedi Slimane for Saint Laurent created bespoke pieces for The Rolling Stones's band member Keith Richards to wear on the band's 50th anniversary tour. {Telegraph}
See a preview of Nicki Minaj's upcoming collection for Kmart from Minaj herself, who has been documenting the whole process on Twitter. {MTV Style}
Our new favorite lingerie line comes by way of Hawaii thanks to two sisters who just launched e-commerce line, NOE Undergarments. {Lifestyle Mirror}
This summer, Kitson will start selling pieces in its store by Brian Lichtenberg, creator of popular fashion parody tees re-imagining logos like "Hermés" into "Homiés."{WWD}
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August 2019
Recent Releases
In the Shadow of Spindrift House
Mira Grant
Welcome to...
Spindrift House, a supposedly haunted manor in Maine, where a quartet of mystery-solving teens vie for a $3.5 million reward.
What's the catch?
The friends must find the home's original deed to help settle an ownership dispute...but previous fortune-seekers have already died trying.
For fans of:
H.P. Lovecraft,
Stranger Things
, and Edgar Cantero's
Meddling Kids
The Brink
James S. Murray and Darren Wearmouth
What happens:
After subterranean creatures escape from the New York City subway, former mayor Tom Cafferty and his team must save the world from apocalypse -- and the secret organization that may be responsible for the carnage.
Series alert:
The Brink
is the 2nd in the bestselling Awakened series.
Book buzz:
author James Rollins calls
The Brink
"a white-knuckled rollercoaster."
The Poison Thread
Laura Purcell
imprisoned seamstress Ruth Butterham, who is convinced her stitches have the power to kill; and phrenology-obsessed heiress Dorothea Truelove, who hopes Ruth will be a useful object of study.
Why you might like it:
Featuring a pair of unreliable narrators and an evocative Victorian-era setting, this creepy Gothic novel will keep readers guessing about its characters' motivations and the secrets they keep.
Want a taste?
"The more she picked at the rope, the more it seemed to resemble a pile of human hair in her lap."
All My Colors
David Quantick
What it is:
a satirical, self-referential novel that blurs the lines between reality and fantasy, humor and horror; a disturbing successor to
Twilight Zone,
Charlie Kaufman, and Franz Kafka.
The premise:
At a party in 1979, arrogant wannabe author Todd Milstead drunkenly recalls passages from a popular novel called
All My Colors
-- but he's the only one who knows it exists.
What happens next:
After deciding to "write" the novel himself (which becomes a bestseller, of course), Todd is plagued by surreal events, and
All My Colors
starts to take on a vengeful life of its own...
Adaptations and Retellings
Winter Tide
Ruthanna Emrys
What it is:
an inventive dark fantasy mash-up of Cthulhu Mythos and Cold War espionage and paranoia.
siblings Aphra and Caleb Marsh, the last of Innsmouth's amphibious Deep Ones, who are recruited as spies by the very government that sent their people to internment camps.
Series alert:
Winter Tide
is the first book in the Innsmouth Legacy series, followed by
Deep Roots
The Ballad of Black Tom
Victor LaValle
What it's about:
1920s Harlem, a young African American con artist named Charles Thomas Tester struggles to make ends meet for himself and his dying father while treading on the borders of an occult realm.
What sets it apart:
This atmospheric retelling of H.P. Lovecraft's short story "The Horror at Red Hook" cleverly deconstructs the racism of its source material by putting a black man front and center.
Book buzz:
A Bram Stoker Award finalist,
The Ballad of Black Tom
won the 2016 Shirley Jackson Award and the 2017 British Fantasy Award.
Daniel Levine
What it is:
a violent reimagining of Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 classic
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,
this time told from the perspective of the monstrous Edward Hyde.
Read it for:
a vividly drawn character study and an intense mad scientist drama that will satisfy fans of both horror and psychological suspense.
Is it for you?
This ambitious novel will best be appreciated by those familiar with Stevenson's original novella -- luckily, it's included here as an appendix.
The Haunting of Sunshine Girl
Paige McKenzie
What it's about:
In this creepy young adult novel based on the YouTube series of the same name, 16-year-old Sunshine Griffith discovers that her new home in Washington state is haunted -- and that she alone may possess the power to help the restless spirits move on.
Series alert:
The Haunting of Sunshine Girl
is followed by
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The Sacrifice of Sunshine Girl
Reviewers say:
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Performance and sports cars part 1
* All the star cars coming in 2011-12 * Coupes to sports cars * 2011-12 launch calendar, too...
Bentley Continental GT
What is it? Updated version of the footballers favourite coup
Price from 135,760
On sale Jan 2011
Bentley's Continental GT is the car that kick-started its renaissance under VW ownership and now its due an overhaul of its own.
The new model is based on the old one and its dimensions other than a little extra width have hardly changed. Thanks partly to more advanced production techniques, the exterior has a sleeker look, with sculpted panels and a sportier front end. The rear end now shows the influence of Bentleys new flagship saloon, the Mulsanne, with a distinctive square-edged boot panel.
Inside, theres a swoopier dash and redesigned front seats that free up extra legroom for those in the back. Updated controls and a new touch-screen satellite-navigation system ensure the cabin mixes old-school luxury with 21st century technology, while a more sophisticated audio system includes a 15GB hard drive.
Under the bonnet lies a modified version of the old cars 6.0-litre 12-cylinder engine. Power has been boosted to 567bhp, while the automatic gearbox has been updated to provide quicker shifts. Bentley has revealed that a 4.0-litre V8 engine with significantly lower CO2 emissions than the W12 that will be added late in 2011.
A 65kg reduction in overall weight should make the Continental GT more nimble and theres also an updated four-wheel drive system.
Audi R8 GT/V8 Spyder
What is it? Lightweight special and V8 drop-top version of brilliant R8
Price from 95,545
On sale January 2011
More Audi R8s can only be a good thing and, best of all, Audi is launching two new versions.
Only the very lucky ones will get their hands on the new R8 GT, though, because just 33 are coming to the UK from an overall production run of 333. The GT is based on the V10 coup, but a range of weight-saving measures make it 100kg lighter. Audi has also squeezed extra power from the engine its 552bhp helps it towards a 0-62mph time of just 3.6 seconds, while the top speed is a heady 199mph.
Exterior tweaks include a fixed rear spoiler, bespoke front and rear bumpers, unique wheels and carbonfibre sideblades. There are plenty of interior upgrades, too, as youd expect for your 141,000.
If thats a bit too much, how about the new V8 version of the R8 Spyder? At 95,545 its over 21,000 cheaper than the V10 model, yet its almost as thrilling.
Aston Martin DB9
What is it? Updates for coup and convertible
Estimated price from 120,000
On sale Late 2011
Rumours are rife that a new flagship Aston Martin DB9 will be launched within the next two years, although the company is especially coy about confirming this.
Reports suggest that Aston will opt to revamp the current car (pictured here) rather than build an all-new model.
That means restyled aluminium body panels will sit on the same platform, as will an overhauled, more luxurious interior. Overall, though, the wheelbase, width, height and front and rear overhangs are not expected to change significantly, although the car will be lighter.
The exterior styling is said to be a toned-down version of the limited edition Aston One-77s (bottom). In particular, it is expected to use the supercars wide, deep front grille.
Power will continue to come from a modified version of the current V12.
Lamborghini Murcilago
What is it? New high-tech flagship model
Estimated price from 230,000
On sale Late 2011
Lamborghini has hinted that some surprises are on the way as it strives to meet more stringent CO2 emissions targets. Lamborghinis with stop-start systems and even hybrid power are possible in the future, then, but for now the replacement for its flagship Murcilago looks like business as usual.
The new model is expected to be as aggressive as ever, with a wide, low body and angular styling. An updated V12 engine will provide power to all four wheels the output is expected to rise to 700bhp.
Aston Martin One-77
What is it? The ultimate Aston Martin, with a price to match
Estimated price 1.2 million
On sale Spring 2011
The figures surrounding Aston Martins outrageous One-77 make for incredible reading. How does a 1.2 million price tag grab you? Or the prospect of a 7.3-litre V12 with a monstrous 750bhp? Then theres a 0-60mph time of 3.5 seconds and a rumoured top speed of over 220mph. In fact, the only small number involved is the limited production run of 77 examples.
The One-77s styling is pretty outlandish, too air intakes are formed from dramatic slashes in the bodywork, while the bulging rear wheelarches and wide, low stance up the aggressiveness.
In brief
Aston Martin DBS
The DBS high-performance coup is expected to get a makeover during 2011. Aston may squeeze more power from the current cars 5.9-litre V12, and new bumpers and light lenses will give it the DBS a sleeker look.
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There are three issues that are important for corn and soybeans as they compete for acreage in 2011, said University of Illinois agricultural economist Darrel Good.
"First, there's the question of how many acres of these crops are needed to meet consumption needs at 'reasonable' prices. Second, how many acres are available for planting of all crops in 2011? Third, what is the likely strength of competition from other crops?" he said.
According to Good, planted acreage of corn in 2010 in the United States totaled 88.222 million acres, 1.74 million more than planted in 2009, but 5.305 million fewer than planted in 2007. Planted acreage of soybeans in 2010 was a record 77.714 million, 263,000 more than planted in 2009.
"Acreage of all crops was about 2 million less than planted in 2009. Although the mix of crops changed from 2009 to 2010, the overall decline reflected a reduction of about 2.3 million acres of double-cropped soybeans. Current strong demand and high prices of grains, oilseeds, and cotton have triggered intense interest in acreage needs for 2011," he said.
The size of the corn and soybean crops needed in 2011 depends on the expected size of stocks at the end of the current year, expected market size in 2011-12, and desired level of stocks at the end of the 2011-12 marketing year, Good said.
These factors are not known with certainty, and assessments will change between now and spring planting Prospective year-ending stocks will become more clear as consumption is revealed over the next several months and with the release of the December 1, 2010 and March 1, 2011 stocks estimates. Market size will be influenced by the strength of demand, price levels, the size of crops in the southern hemisphere, and 2011 production prospects in the rest of the northern hemisphere, he added.
"These assessments will also change over time. Finally, there is not agreement about the desired level of stocks at the end of the 2011-12 marketing year or what constitutes 'reasonable' prices for corn and soybeans. These unknowns result in a wide range in current assessments of acreage needs," he said.
As a starting point for corn, assume that 2010-11 marketing year-ending stocks total 902 million bushels as currently projected by USDA; that 2011-12 marketing year consumption will decline modestly to 13.4 billion bushels as feed and residual use declines from the inflated projection for this year and combined processing and exports increase; and that the desired level of 2011-12 marketing year ending stocks is 1.2 billion bushels, he said.
"Under that scenario, the 2011 crop would need to total 13.688 billion bushels. With a 2011 yield at the trend value of 160 bushels, harvested acreage would need to total 85.55 million acres. Allowing for silage and abandonment, planted acreage of 92.55 million would be needed, 4.328 million more than planted in 2010," he said.
For soybeans, 2010-11 marketing year-ending stocks of 265 million bushels, 2011-12 consumption of 3.325 billion bushels and 2011-12 year ending stocks of 250 million bushels would require a crop of 3.3 billion bushels. A 2011 yield near the trend value of 43.2 bushels would require harvested acreage of 76.389 million and planted acreage of 77.389 million, 325,000 fewer than planted in 2010, he said.
The market currently appears to expect that 2010-11 year-ending stocks will be smaller than 265 million and that 2011-12 market size will be larger than 3.325 billion bushels, implying that more soybean acreage will be required in 2011, he noted.
Combined acreage of corn and soybeans may need to increase by 4 to 5 million acres or more in 2010, depending on the market's assessment of yield risk. Corn and soybean prices required to attract such an increase depends in part on the size of the acreage pie. Acres of principal crops, including hay, totaled 318 million in 2010, but have recently varied from 315.6 million (2006) to 329.3 million (1999), he said.
Acreage appears to fluctuate with the level of crop prices with higher prices resulting in more acres. The size of the pie could increase by 6 to 7 million acres in 2011, making it easier to increase corn and soybean acreage, particularly with an increase in double-cropped soybean acreage, he said.
"High prices of other crops suggest there will be competition for acreage in 2011, with winter wheat producers getting the first planting opportunity. Winter wheat supplies are ample, and a large increase in acreage may not be needed but may occur due to attractive prices, he said.
Soft red winter wheat acreage in particular could rebound from last year's sharp decline. The USDA's January 12, 2011 estimates of 2010 final crop size, December 1 stocks, winter wheat seedings, and South American crop prospects, will be important in determining corn and soybean acreage needs, he said.