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@Macaulay Author Series with Shane Martin '20 and Geevanesam Devakanmalai '21
Join us as Shane Martin '20 takes us on a fantastical journey back in time to ancient Rome, the setting of his new book Lost Souls: A Servant of Death. Joining him will be Geevanesam (Gee) Devakanmalai '21 who illustrated the cover art and Victoria Smith '20 who will moderate the event and give us an insight into their camaraderie.
Shane Martin '20
Shane Martin grew up on books, T.V. and video games, struggling to fit all three of these things into each and every day. A pianist, mixed martial artist, and tennis player on the side, he's always got something to do when not gaming or netflixing (or writing, of course).
Shane received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in both Philosophy and History at Lehman College, and first started pursuing his English Minor in Creative Writing there half way through undergraduate school. He is now pursuing a Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies at New York University, focusing heavily on how he can enhance his writing with various elements of history, philosophy, and more.
Geevanesam Devakanmalai '21
Geevanesam, also Gee, is a 1.5 generation immigrant from Tamilnadu, India. In middle school, she was the kid who sat in the corner devouring a new novel each day. In high school, she was the scientist. Now, she is the person that knows everyone in school, and she thrives in the presence of others. Gee is majoring in Philosophy, and will be beginning her PhD in Philosophy in the Fall, studying ethics. Outside of school, Gee loves making music, writing, and making art. Art and drawing/painting specifically has always been the only space where time ceases to exist in her life. Though she was unable to pursue it professionally, her friends supported her skills by buying her art and helping her develop an Etsy store. She is now growing more confident in calling herself an artist, and working with Shane has been the most rewarding experience yet.
Victoria Smith '20
Victoria Smith '20 graduated Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude from Macaulay Honors College Lehman College. She received a Bachelor's of Arts degree in Philosophy with minors in Music and Political Science. Smith was an active member of Humans of Macaulay, the Macaulay Scholars Council, and co-president of the Macaulay Ambassadors Club. Smith was a recipient of the Jeannette K Watson Fellowship in 2017, through which she had internships with Mt. Sinai Beth Israel, The Bronx Defenders, and Sonke Gender Justice in Cape Town, South Africa. Currently, Smith is an Associate Teacher at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School in Bronx, NY.
Venue: Virtual
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RTL Group Posts Record Results as Company Goes Global with 'Deutschland '83,' Digital Biz
2:35 AM PST 3/10/2016 by Scott Roxborough
Nik Koniezny
German drama 'Deutschland '83' airs in the U.S. on AMC's Sundance TV.
Fremantle revenue slips amid the cancellation of 'American Idol,' but overall revenue and profit set new highs as the German media giant shifts focus to online operations and "producing our own content."
RTL Group, Europe's largest television company, posted record numbers for 2015 on Thursday, the result of an aggressive push into digital and drama productions.
Revenue at RTL, which owns American Idol producer FremantleMedia as well as such major European channels as Germany's RTL and M6 in France, topped $6.5 billion (€6 billion) last year, a 3.8 percent increase and a company record. Operating profit (EBITDA) also hit an all-time high, rising 2 percent to $1.2 billion (€1.17 billion).
Revenue at FremantleMedia slipped to $113 million (€103 million), largely from the cancelation of Idol in the U.S. as well as from the company's major investment in production. Fremantle, known for its non-scripted formats, is shifting its focus to fiction series. Last year, it bought Italian production house Wildside — which is producing Jude Law series The Young Pope — and French companies Frontaram and Kwai. It also took a 25 percent stake in British drama group Corona TV.
Fremantle's German production company, UFA, last year produced Deutschland 83, the first German-language series to air on a U.S. network (Sundance TV), and its North American division will produce the hotly anticipated adaptation of Neil Gaiman's American Gods for Starz.
"This trend will continue and see scripted entertainment taking a larger share of FremantleMedia's total revenue," said RTL's co-CEOs Anke Schaferkordt and Guillaume de Posch in a joint statement. "Producing our own content and owning the rights to it will be one of the keys for further growth."
The other strategic shift at RTL is toward online and global expansion.
The German market remains RTL's base, and the territory provided close to 60 percent of the company's profits in 2015, but RTL clearly has its sights set on international expansion.
RTL has invested heavily in digital start-ups in the past few years, mainly in North America, where it has snatched up online video platform BroadbandTV, fashion MCN StyleHaul and SpotX, an online video advertising group. Last year, RTL led the most recent financing round for Clypd, a platform for programming ad sales for linear TV channels, and for VideoAmp, a company that analyzes viewer data across all platforms. RTL currently holds a 17.4 percent stake in Clypd and 21.5 percent in VideoAmp.
RTL has also seen a major increase in advertising revenue, from companies such as Facebook and Google, for online streaming of its TV shows. RTL said, taken together, its catchup services, websites and MCNs attracted a total of 105 billion online video views last year, nearly three times the number reached in 2014.
The company's digital revenue shot up 72.2 percent to $557 million (€508 million) in 2015.
Schaferkordt and de Posch said they expected moderate growth this year, with the digital business being the main engine.
Scott Roxborough
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The Devil's Horn
- The Story of the Saxophone, from Noisy Novelty to King of Cool
Michael Segell
The 160-year history of the saxophone comes to brilliant life in Michael Segell's wonderfully researched, beautifully told The Devil's Horn. Beginning with "a sound never heard before," Segell's portrait follows the iconographic instrument as it is lauded for its sensuality, then outlawed for its influence, and finally credited with changing the face of popular culture. A deeply personal story of one man's love for music-making, a universal story of artistic and political revolution, and a trenchant critique of the global forces that stand in art's way, The Devil's Horn is music writing at its very finest.
Picador Usa
Bibliotekernes beskrivelse Segell traces the 160-year history of the saxophone--a horn that created a sound never before heard in nature, and that from the moment it debuted has aroused both positive and negative passions among all who hear it.
Music reviews & criticism


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We need to talk about race and racism in our schools. It's unfair to all children to do otherwise.
Danielle M. Gonzales
Special to The Capital-Journal
What good has ever come from avoiding — or forbidding — teaching and talking about history and current events in school? Not much.
Yet, over half a dozen states recently passed laws banning teachers from including vital discussions about race and racism in America. Other states and school boards are following suit.
The result: important lessons are getting shelved. For example, critics called for schools to ditch an autobiography about Ruby Bridges who integrated her New Orleans school, saying it made white students feel uncomfortable. This an important story about a part of America's history, its progress, commitment to equality and resilience.
Likewise, critics argued a book about an immigrant family's effort to integrate California schools promotes prejudice among children, despite its clear message: Racism is wrong.
It's hard to believe it's come to this. Book banning is anti-American, and these efforts threaten to seriously undermine K-12 education, the well-being of our students and democracy.
Proponents of the laws are pushing for them under the guise of opposing a legal and academic framework, Critical Race Theory. It is more likely a reactionary stance to recent racial justice movements that exposed inequities in U.S. institutions, including schools.
The research is clear that talking about race is beneficial for all students. A new resource from The Aspen Institute explains the research base surrounding race in education and why the new laws are harmful.
For starters, saying children don't see race is simply untrue. Infants as young as 9 months old show awareness of race and ethnicity, and preschool children fully understand social categories like race and gender. A study commissioned by Sesame Workshop showed 86% of children ages 6-11 think people in the U.S. are treated unfairly based on race.
Telling schools to ignore students' awareness of race, racism and stereotypes is dangerous and can lead to increased prejudice. Furthermore, discussing race and racism in school has been shown to prevent prejudice in white students and students of color.
Evidence shows widespread academic benefits to talking and teaching about race and ethnicity in the classroom. These benefits include higher attendance rates, and higher achievement and graduation rates. Additionally, research shows those who have positive racial-ethnic identities have more positive attitudes toward those from other racial-ethnic backgrounds.
Policymakers should take the following steps:
• Stay committed to equity and providing learning environments that promote a sense of belonging for all students.
• Allow schools to teach children about all aspects of America's history, including those that relate to race and racism.
• Prepare teachers to have conversations that matter — including about race — and to hold all students to high expectations. We need to support teachers with professional development to deliver developmentally appropriate, culturally responsive lessons, and equip them with instructional materials that take race and culture into account.
• Engage students and families in critical conversations about race, racism, and what's happening in school.
While I am worried about the push to prevent the teaching of accurate history in schools, there are also reasons to be optimistic. I've seen local and state boards of education, like the Kansas' State Board of Education commit to equity even in the face of extreme criticism. And students are standing up: in one Pennsylvania community, students successfully spoke out against attempts to ban books that told the stories of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr.
I'm hopeful these stories will be beacons of light and policymakers will follow a path putting research, equity and empathy at the center of teaching and learning. So much is at stake — for our children and for our country.
Danielle Gonzales is managing director of the Education & Society Program at the Aspen Institute.


12 Pac Radio Podcast makes their preseason review stop in Salt Lake City as they preview each team in the conference of champions. We are have the pleasure of jumping on the airwaves with them and help breakdown the Utes. We talk key players with Tyler Huntley, Zack Moss, and Bradlee Anae while also trying to answer the questions around both offensive and defensive lines.


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Summer of Service Learning
Posted on June 3, 2020 by jphmpdirect
by Eric Coles, DrPH
This summer public health students are struggling to find positions that fulfill field-based learning requirements for their degree programs, as many host organizations have cancelled their summer practicum and internship programs due to COVID-19. At the same time, local public health departments are in desperate need of more resources for contact tracing and other efforts to combat COVID-19.
Academic institutions can help both these groups by supporting students to work and volunteer with local public health departments. With institutional support, students can have a positive impact on local public health while fulfilling their degree requirements through a summer of service learning.
Schools can do three things to support students who volunteer for COVID-19. First, they can allow students to use COVID-19 positions as practicums or for course credit through independent studies. The Council on Education for Public Health, the accreditation body of public health degrees, has recommended "maximum flexibility" for practicum positions this year. Students will need flexibility around locations, supervisors, deliverables, and hours. Any changes to requirements must then be clearly communicated to students so that they know COVID-19 volunteering is an acceptable option. Students will be more likely to volunteer if it can advance their studies.
Second, fostering connections with local public health departments can create new opportunities for students. As they manage the pandemic response and its myriad demands, the flood of questions, information, and requests from the community and implementation partners make it difficult for local public health departments to organize and manage interns this summer. Health departments, thus, need help in order to utilize students to support their work. One solution is to establish academic health departments, which are formalized partnerships between a public health department, at a city, county, or state level, and academic institutions. AHDs can be found sparingly around the country but are very useful in facilitating connections between students and health departments. Successful AHDs allow many more students to be placed and undertake meaningful public health work.
I have spent the last six weeks volunteering with the Massachusetts Academic Health Department (AHD) Consortium in its COVID-19 response. The AHD recently created the Academic Public Health Volunteer Corps to support local public health departments across Massachusetts. The project utilizes a team concept where a single lead volunteer is the point of contact with a local board of health and organizes a team of volunteers to support their identified needs. It has shown early signs of success. In the last six weeks, several hundred volunteers have been placed through the partnership, many of whom are using the opportunity for their practicums. This arrangement benefits schools through placing practicum seekers and meeting certification requirements while supporting local public health departments across Massachusetts to address COVID-19.
Finally, finding ways to alleviate financial strain on students will allow for more depth and diversity in the volunteer pool. More privileged students with more secure financial backgrounds have an easier decision to make about volunteering. While budgets will be tight at many schools, students are also feeling the burden, even more so for those with less privileged backgrounds. This financial consideration is at the heart of the equity issue around student volunteers.
Around the country, there are nearly 40,000 students enrolled in schools and programs of public health. Many of these students will need practicum positions this summer. A "summer of service learning" is the perfect opportunity to support local public health departments and help to combat this pandemic. __________________________________________________________________________
Eric Coles, DrPH
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Januari
27 januari - Sveriges Radio börjar sända Fyra kring en flygel

December
31 december - Vid nyårsfirandet på Skansen läses Nyårsklockan av skådespelaren Olof Widgren, medan en bandad upptagning av Anders de Wahl sänds i Sveriges Radio. Detta arrangemang kommer att fortgå till 1955 (året före de Wahls död).

Okänt datum
 Serien The Guiding Light upptas av CBSradio. Serien hade pågått sedan 1937 i NBCradio.
 Provsändningar på FM genomförs över Stockholm, Sverige .
Philco Radio Time introducerar inspelad radiosändningar på bästa sändningstid.

Födda
 3 mars - Tommy Blom, svensk programledare.
 9 mars - Christina Mattsson, svensk programledare.
 12 september - Åke Pettersson, svensk programledare.

Referenser

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Q: chrome contextMenu - get window objects in tab I have a tab with an object defined on the window.
window.foo = 'bar';

Using chrome.contextMenus api, I'd like to create menu items off of the window.foo value.
The goal is to obtain this information without registering a click event on prexisting context menu item. How do I obtain the window object on page load, successfully passing it to the context api?

A: What you're requesting is not possible yet, but there are two feature requests that would make it possible to achieve your goals when they are implemented:

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*issue 60758: Allow contextMenus to be updated with context specific information prior to rendering

*issue 393789: chrome.contextMenu.create must be able to configure context menus to work on certain tags

Today
Since you want to create a page-specific context menu, you could check whether the page contains that variable, then send the URL to the background page, which in turn registers a context menu for that specific URL pattern (see documentUrlPatterns). This would only work if you want to show the context menu on a page that has a relatively unique URL.
To detect whether the page has a window.foo variable, and communicate the information to the background page, see this answer.

Future
I expect that a declarative context menu will be implemented, so your extension should tell Chrome upfront that a context menu has to be rendered. If the second feature request gets implemented, then the extension can add an attribute to the document to trigger get the desired context menu.
Assuming that it is possible to declaratively toggle the context menu, then you have to overcome another hurdle: The page's window.foo variable is not directly visible to the content script (let alone the background page). So you have to run code in the context of the page, e.g. using one of the methods described in this answer and then use e.g. document.documentElement.setAttribute to set an attribute that would be matched by the to-be-implemented contextMenus API extension.

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Tatinger Kanne ist die moderne Bezeichnung für eine Form frühmittelalterlicher Gefäße, die ins späte 8. und frühe 9. Jahrhundert n. Chr. datiert wird.

Bei den Tatinger Kannen handelt es sich um schwarze Tongefäße mit einer charakteristischen Verzierung aus aufgelegten Zinnfolien. Der Name leitet sich vom Fundplatz Tating in Nordfriesland ab. Gefäße dieser Art sind von Skandinavien bis ins Rheinland und das Maingebiet verbreitet, Herstellungsorte oder Herkunftsregionen sind derzeit noch unbekannt. In Siedlungen finden sich meist nur Scherben, einige wenige intakte Stücke stammen als Beigabe aus skandinavischen Gräbern.

Literatur
 Ludwig Wamser: Zu einer Tatinger Kanne und ausgewählten Kleinfunden aus Karlburg am Main. Anmerkungen zu Handel und Verkehr, Weinbau und Missionierung im Nordosten des Karolingerreiches. In: Dedicatio. Hermann Dannheimer zum 70. Geburtstag (= Kataloge der Prähistorischen Staatssammlung. Beiheft 5). Michael Lassleben, Kallmünz (Opf.) 1999, S. 206–242.
 Dieter Hupka: Frühmittelalterliche Prunkkannen. In: Marcus Trier, Friederike Naumann-Steckner (Hrsg.): ZeitTunnel. Katalog Köln 2012, ISBN 978-3-86832-141-8, S. 112–113.

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Haircut, hayley williams short haircut, can be divided into two groups: I – uniform hair shortening and II – silhouette (uneven). These groups, in turn, are divided into subgroups depending on the method of shortening hair.


Spring and I turned to see who was talking. We were in the car, sitting at a red light and the driver of the car next to us was motioning at us. "Yes?" I answered.
"No, I don't think this car can handle it," said Spring.
"Yea? Yea. Good." The driver then faced forward to wait for the green light. We turned back to watch the light.
"No problem," I said as the light turned green and he drove off.


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Wisconsin needs to whip Michigan State on Tuesday night when the teams meet in Madison.
The good news is that my beloved Wisconsin Badgers, who are currently ranked 20th, are going crush the 11th-ranked Spartans. They're walking into the toughest environment that they'll play in all year. You don't want a piece of what MSU is going to go through Tuesday night.
You don't want a single part of it.
It's going to be ugly, it's going to be brutal and it'll have the Spartans begging to be anywhere else on the planet. The bad news for them is that my squad doesn't show mercy.
When we have you on the ground with a boot on your throat, we just push harder. Ethan Happ, Brad Davison, D'Mitrik Trice, Nathan Reuvers and the rest of the squad are coming for blood.
Tom Izzo is a good coach, but he's going to have no idea what hit him. Welcome to hell, gentlemen. Get comfortable because it's going to be a long night.
Anyone else still fired up from tonight?!


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Indeed the Spiritual Association of the Church of Scientology – Celebrity Centre (ASES-CC) had brought the UNADFI association before the Paris Court, arguing that the association had abused the legal process by acting as plaintiff against the Church in a trial that took place in 2009 for the first instance and in 2011 for the appeal. The Church of Scientology felt that this abusive application as a plaintiff had contaminated the court proceedings, and that the bad faith of UNADFI was evidenced by the fact that it knew very well that it was inadmissible and that its sole purpose was to harm the Church and illegally influence the judicial proceedings in progress.
In its judgment of 20 November 2015, the Paris Court of Appeal had agreed with the Church of Scientology acknowledging that it was « certain that the presence of UNADFI influenced the proceedings of the trial and the content of the debates » and ruled that the bad faith of UNADFI was established. The Court had also judged that the words written by ASES-CC "This request is the result of the arrogance of an association present at all levels of the State, knowing that it is supported by MIVILUDES and the Ministry of Justice, providing for more than 13 years training to the judges, and that all major ministries, including the Prime Minister, funded with hundreds of thousands of euros », were not defamatory.
UNADFI had been ordered to pay 21,000 euros to ASES-CC and its members. It had made an appeal before the Court of Cassation.
It is this decision which the Court of Cassation confirmed today, rejecting all the claims of the UNADFI, considering that it was obvious that the arguments raised by the UNADFI could not lead to the quashing of the judgment.


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Q: need to find when all callbacks resolved Below is a snippet from my javascript function. It's taking an arbitrary size array of objects travelDataGroups[{}] and iterating over it.  Inside of the forEach() I have to call newUser(), which is async, and inside that I have to call loadOtherUsersPayRate() which is asynchronous.
After all the callbacks are resolved and the loop is done, I need to call makeWorkbookDownloadObj(), the catch is it can only be called once, else it corrupts the object.
myGroupWorkReportObj.travelDataGroups.forEach( travelerData =>
{
    // add the pay rate for this user
    const someUser = new User( travelerData.employeeId , function()
    {
        // add the pay rate for this user and project
        const projectId = travelerData.projectId;

        const payRate = loadOtherUsersPayRate( projectId, someUser )
            .then( payRate =>
            {
                //create a row of travel data
                const rowOfData = [
                    travelerData.firstName,
                    travelerData.lastName,
                    travelerData.travelHours,
                    financial( payRate.pay / 2 )
                ];

                // push the row of data into the sheet
                thisSheet.data.push( rowOfData );

                // need to only call this once, when all callbacks are resolved
                // makeWorkbookDownloadObj( workbookObj );
        });
});

EDIT final working code:
const userPromises = [];

// wrap the User class in a Promise
var aUserPromise = ( travelerData ) =>
{
    return new Promise( ( resolve, reject ) =>
    // new User( employeeId, ( someUser ) =>
    {
        // return new Promise( ( resolve, reject ) =>
        new User( travelerData.employeeId, ( someUserObj ) =>
        {
            // add the pay rate for this user and project
            loadOtherUsersPayRate( travelerData.projectId, someUserObj )
            .then( payRate =>
            {
                //create a row of travel data
                const rowOfData = [
                    travelerData.firstName,
                    travelerData.lastName,
                    travelerData.travelHours,
                    financial( payRate.pay / 2 )
                ];

                // push the row of data into the sheet
                thisSheet.data.push( rowOfData );

                resolve();
            } );
        } );
    } );
};

myGroupWorkReportObj.travelDataGroups.forEach(( travelerData ) =>
{
    // add the pay rate for this user
     ** this line would push the function, but not execute it (until later),
     ** so did in two lines as below
    // userPromises.push(aUserPromise(travelerData));

    var myRun = aUserPromise( travelerData );
    userPromises.push( myRun );
});

Promise.allSettled( userPromises )
.then( ()=>
{
    makeWorkbookDownloadObj( workbookObj )
});

A: I do this - use Promise.all - see here for docs:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Promise/all
Note the code below is untested but you can see how to do it:

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*Create array of promises

*Call Promise.all on that array

const promises = []

promises.push(
    loadOtherUsersPayRate( projectId, someUser )
            .then( payRate =>
            {
                //create a row of travel data
                const rowOfData = [
                    travelerData.firstName,
                    travelerData.lastName,
                    travelerData.travelHours,
                    financial( payRate.pay / 2 )
                ];

                // push the row of data into the sheet
                thisSheet.data.push( rowOfData );

                // need to only call this once, when all callbacks are resolved
                // makeWorkbookDownloadObj( workbookObj );
        });
)

Promise.all(promises).then( ()= > makeWorkbookDownloadObj( workbookObj ));

A: Following your comment and using Promise ALL and same pattern used by previous answer:
const userPromises = [];
myGroupWorkReportObj.travelDataGroups.forEach( travelerData =>
    {
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But what if this is in fact a false dichotomy? What if we adopted a different framework, according to which helping ourselves helps humanity at large, and conversely, helping others helps us as well? This is the basic idea behind cosmopolitanism, literally being a citizen of the world, which originated in Ancient Greece and was further developed in Rome. Turns out, ancient Greco-Roman philosophy still has a thing or two to teach us moderns.
The term 'cosmopolitan' was associated with the ancient Cynic philosophers, named after a word that didn't have the modern connotation at all, but rather indicated a group of radicals devoted to challenging society's norms by living simply, owning no property or housing. One of the schools of Hellenistic philosophy influenced by the Cynics was that of the much more mainstream Stoics (who lived in actual houses, and some – like the Roman Senator Seneca – were even rich). The Stoics developed the idea of cosmopolitanism into a general philosophy that guided their everyday thoughts and actions. As Epictetus, the slave-turned-philosopher of second-century Rome, put it in Discourses: 'Do as Socrates did, never replying to the question of where he was from with: "I am Athenian," or "I am from Corinth," but always: "I am a citizen of the world."' This strikes me as something we ought to remember, internalise, and practise – especially in these times of fear-mongering, xenophobia, Brexit, Trumpism, and nationalistic tribalism.
The Stoic idea was simple and elegant: all humans inhabit the same big city, indeed we are so interconnected and interdependent that we are really an extended family, and we ought to act accordingly, for our own sake. The Stoic philosopher Hierocles came up with the image of a number of concentric circles of concern: at the centre of the smaller, inner circle, is you. Right outside is the circle of your family. Outside that is the one comprising your friends. The next circle over is that of your fellow citizens (ie, in the literal sense of those inhabiting the same city), then that of your countrymen, and finally humanity at large.
A modern philosopher such as Peter Singer talks of expanding the circles, meaning that we should aim at enlarging our concerns to encompass more and more people, thus overcoming our natural selfishness. Hierocles, in contrast, thought that we should aim at contracting the circles, bringing other people closer to us because we realise that they are our own kin. The closer we get them to us, the more the self/other dichotomy dissolves, and the more our interests align with those of our community. Indeed, Hierocles went so far as to instruct his students to address strangers as 'brothers' and 'sisters' (or, depending on their age, as 'uncles' and 'aunts'), in an early form of cognitive therapy aiming at restructuring the very way we think about others – and consequently the way we act toward them.
This is what the Stoics captured in one of their fundamental slogans: 'Live according to nature.' It doesn't mean that we should go around naked, hugging trees in the forest, but rather that we should examine human nature and live according to it. And human nature is fundamentally that of a social being capable of reason. (Notice that I said capable of reason, some of us employ such capacity more often or more keenly than others…) It follows that living according to, or in harmony with, nature, means doing our part to use reason to improve society. Whenever we do so, we at the same time make things better for us (because social beings thrive in a functional and just society) as well as for others. Which means that the modern self/other dichotomy is far too simplistic, and in fact misleading, because it artificially pits the interests of the individual against those of society. Of course, there will always be specific cases where we have to choose between the immediate interests of, say, our children and those of strangers. But keeping in mind that in the long run our children will thrive in a flourishing society helps to shift our way of thinking from treating life as a zero-sum game to seeing it as a cooperative one.
Stoic cosmopolitanism should not be taken to imply that the ideal human society resembles a beehive, where individuality is subsumed for the benefit of the group. On the contrary, the Stoics were keen defenders of human freedom and very much valued the independence of individual agents. But they thought that the freedom to pursue our individual goals, to flourish in our own way, is predicated on the existence of a society of similarly free individuals. And such society is possible only if we realise that our collective interests are broadly aligned. We might be from Athens or Corinth (or the United States or Mexico) as an accident of birth, but in a deeper sense we are all members of the same global polis. We would be well advised to start acting like it.


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Brandy Clark releases outtake from BIG DAY IN A SMALL TOWN, "You're Drunk"
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It's been just over a year since critically-acclaimed touring artist Brandy Clark released her sophomore album Big Day in a Small Town, which garnered two 2017 GRAMMY nominations for Best Country Album and Best Country Solo Performance ("Love Can Go To Hell"). As reported today by Rolling Stone Country, the songstress who has been heralded as "country music's most reliable character witness" (The Washington Post) returns with new music in a digital release of the sharply witty "You're Drunk," available now.
Written with her longtime collaborators Josh Osborne and Shane McAnally while in a West Hollywood hotel room writing for Big Day, Clark shares its origin: "It's funny, I never took this song seriously if that makes sense. However, when we went in to cut it, it immediately became a favorite—it just came to life—but, at the time, it just didn't fit overall vibe on Big Day… I remember thinking even then we'd have to find a way to get it out." Clark soon took a band on the road with her, bridging beyond the singer/songwriter moniker that launched her career, and that change also expanded what she could perform live with such a strong musician in upright bass player Vanessa McGowan. "It's such a different song than say 'Three Kids No Husband,' but like that song, I didn't realize how much the audience loved it until I played 'You're Drunk' live. Their response is so exciting; I'm happy to now have it available for the fans asking 'where can I hear this?'"
Dubbed by Garden & Gun as "the best songwriter in Nashville," Clark has established herself as one of country music's greatest storytellers. Last year marked several successful acoustic tours and the release of Big Day in a Small Town, which was produced by Jay Joyce and has been revered as "gritty and visceral" (Associated Press), "aggressive and big-grinned" (SPIN) and also "made her one of country's driving forces" (TIME). Rolling Stone praised, "it's music tooled alternately for stadiums and songwriting circles, commercial and public radio, line-dance bars and coffee shops…Clark is good at bending country boilerplate."
Big Day in a Small Town is self-proclaimed "cousin" to Clark's critically acclaimed debut album, 12 Stories, which was featured on "Best of" lists from New York Magazine, NPR, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, New York Post and The Boston Globe in 2013. That same year, Los Angeles Times called it "the country debut of the year."
ABOUT BRANDY CLARK The Morton, Washington-native received her first of six career GRAMMY nominations in 2013 in the Best Country Song category for co-writing the Miranda Lambert No. 1 hit "Mama's Broken Heart." Her talent as a storyteller had quickly propelled her into critical acclaim as one of Nashville's best tunesmiths when she quietly released her debut album 12 Stories, which went on to be named "best album of 2013" by The Boston Globe, New York Magazine, NPR, The New York Post, and more. She won the 2014 CMA Song of the Year Award for "Follow Your Arrow," which she co-wrote with Shane McAnally and Kacey Musgraves, and was also named the 2014 Music Row Breakthrough Artist of the Year. The Academy of Country Music voters nominated her for Female Vocalist of the Year in 2015.
Brandy released her sophomore album Big Day In A Small Town in June of 2016, which garnered two GRAMMY nominations for Best Country Album and Best Country Solo Performance ("Love Can Go To Hell") and topped more than ten major critics' "Best of 2016" lists including NPR, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly and Billboard, establishing Clark as one of country music's most talented artists, beloved by fans, critics, and fellow entertainers alike.
For more information, visit brandyclarkmusic.com. Follow her on Facebook at facebook.com/TheBrandyClark and on Twitter @TheBrandyClark
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It's been just over a year since critically-acclaimed touring artist Brandy Clark released her sophomore album Big Day in a Small Town, which garnered two 2017 GRAMMY nominations for Best Country Album and Best Country Solo Performance ("Love Can Go To Hell"). As reported today by Rolling Stone Country,...
2017 Grammy nominationBig day in a Smalll TownBrandy ClarkJohn OsborneKacey Musgraves.FacebookRolling Stone Countryshane mcanallyYou're runk
Ross Copperman and Cam Collaborate on new breakup song "Everything Changes"
Bellamy Brothers Announce 2022 European Tour Dates
Ross Copperman Delivers Solo Project with EP: 'Somewhere There's A Light On'
Shane Owens' latest single "Everybody Dies But Not Everybody Lives" on All Streaming Services
Jon Pardi's HEARTACHE MEDICATION DELUXE EDITION Out Now
Morgan Wallen's record-breaking "Summer"
Rhonda Vincent and Daryle Singletary Debut at No. 1 on Billboard Bluegrass Albums Chart
Lindsay Ell to perform on NBC's Today Show August 8


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What it's like to be a Commscamp volunteer
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Nearly 70 people offered to volunteer to help run this week's CommsCamp North in Sheffield, a mighty fine number indeed, and a testament to the ethos of the event.
I loved my first CommsCamp in Birmingham. The arrival of the walking buses meant big influxes of happy people, all cheerfully signed in at the arrivals desk before they grabbed a cuppa and admired a cake table that would put a WI fete in the shade.
All of the above were run by volunteers, and for me, it's a key part of the CommsCamp magic. It's a reflection of the friendliness of the community that so many people are willing to pitch in, and I especially love that there is competition over who gets to wear a big foam finger to help people find the venue.
I've volunteered for a few years, starting off as a tea-urn topper-upper* and lunchtime clearer-upper* before being given the keys to the on-the-day Twitter account – although I'll always happily top an urn up. And while I'm a bit sad that I've never been entrusted with a big foam finger, I love being part of a great squad of people helping to make things go as smoothly and enjoyably as possible for everyone on the day.
Why do we volunteer? As a thank you, a give back. CommsCamp is the highlight of my communications year. The generosity of CommsCamp organisers and sponsors in putting on a free event makes attending so much more attainable, particularly in an era of slashed training budgets. Thank you to them all.
I've learned more from CommsCamp than many a megabucks training course, eaten better cake than I could ever buy and met the most fantastic people. I can't wait to do it all over again.
*Official job titles. Honest.
Kelly Quigley-Hicks
Give it up for the volunteers
So, here's the thing. In every walk of life, volunteers make the world go round. Whether it's for the WI, the scouts, sports clubs, Wikipedia – generally for something to succeed – it needs passionate, committed and dedicated folk to help it along.
It's the exact same for Commscamp with the fantastic volunteers who give up their time to make it happen. And this year in 2018, in Sheffield on 27 April, we've seen it more so than ever before. So here's a list of why this year's Commscamp North volunteers are the very best.
We asked for help and you responded in your droves – in fact nearly 70 people put their hand up to get involved. For an event that is for 160 people in total, that's a mega high proportion of willing people who have offered to help. Sadly so many said they wanted to help out that we've had to turn a huge number away as there just weren't the jobs to go round. It shows how willing to help the public sector comms community is.
The flexibility of everyone who has said 'yup I'm in.' Everyone's been happy to muck in and take on any of the jobs that need sorting, whether that's been making tea, getting people to the venue or baking cakes.
We've had not one but two people come forward to lead runs on the day. Not just any runs – a runch – that's a run over lunch led by Jeni Harvey which is taking in the musical landmarks of Sheffield and a bunch – a run over breakfast led by Loz Harvey taking in the famous film locations of the city. Find out more here. While we know it's not everyone's cup of tea, its shows just how passionate and willing people are. And no sadly there are no shower facilities on site – you'll just have to use a wet wipe like you're at a comms festival no less if you choose to take part.
The cake table led by the queen of cake Kate Bentham from Shropshire Council is unlike anything you'll have ever seen before. Think summer fete cake stall and then multiply it by 10 at least. The cake that wonderful people bake and bring along is just amazing. It also raises lots of money for a great cause. This year it's the Sick Children's Trust – an amazing Sheffield charity that provides free accommodation for families with children on intensive care wards at Sheffield Hospital.
The way volunteers are happy to put themselves out there, learn new skills and meet new folk. It is so unlike any other gig in that way. Friendships and skills are forged for lifetimes. I myself have met so many lifelong friends through commscamp and I do think it's pretty unique in that sense. We hope you'll agree.
You can get all the skinny on commscamp north here.
If you were lucky enough to get a ticket and can't make it, do let us know as we have a waiting list as long as your arm and don't want people to miss out.
A role of honour of our lovely volunteers will be added shortly.
Sheffield and why it's ace
In their top ten Sheffield things to do, Lonely Planet have Kelham Island Museum, set on a man-made island in the city's oldest industrial district, at the top of their list.
Because at Commscamp we love you very much, we've made sure that's the amazing place where you'll spend your day; but here are five of the other blinking amazing things you might want to do while you're in the country's fourth largest city.
ONE: Rock and roll, baby. Rock and roll.
Home to the legendary, dark and dingy Leadmill, Sheffield is indisputably the home of British pop and rock.
Even as we type, the Guardian have had this to say: http://bit.ly/2DR9B4T
With The Human League in the 80's, Pulp in the 90s, the Arctic Monkeys in to 00s (and now) ) (and that doesn't begin to speak to the huge number of utterly cool, innovative outfits you haven't thought about yet) arguing the city's case for producing the best band of every era is easy. And there is always a gig. Or six.
These are the gigs we already know are happening while you're here (but keep an eye out – there will be plenty more/
Date Venue Artist
26th April The Greystones Ian Siegel
Firbeck Village Hall Miranda Sykes
Picture House Social Swedish Death Candy
Café Totem Polo
27th April Yellow Arch The Dead South
The Greystones Michael Chapman
Plug Chairmen of the Board
Plug Jesus Jones
Corporation Weapon UK
28th April O2 Academy The Style Councillors
Maida Vale Elevation Avenue
O2 Academy Tokio Myers
The Greystones The Drystones
The Harley Trampolene
Regather Works Silver Darlings
TWO: Beer. And lots of it.
Last year, some very serious research showed Sheffield to be the real ale capital of the WHOLE WIDE WORLD: http://bit.ly/1Nmb725
We also have other drinks. Like a million hip gins. And all the drinks too. None of your northern stereotypes round here, unless we're using them. Okay?
Here are some world-class boozers right near the venue (itself at the heart of the eight hippest place in the whole country: http://bit.ly/2DT6pWx)
The Fat Cat – One of Sheffield's finest pubs, the Fat Cat serves a wide range of real ales (some brewed on the premises) in a wonderfully unreconstructed interior.
The Kelham Island Tavern – near neighbours and fierce competitors of the Fat Cat, this is a glorious pub with carved wooden bar, tiled floors, leafy beer garden and renowned range of real ales.
The Gardeners Rest – on the banks of the Don, this community run pub prides itself on the high quality beer selection, the regular arts and musical events and on being more than a pub, "we're a community hub".
The Shakespeare – between Kelham Island and the City Centre, the Shakespeare was rescued and extensively refurbished and restored to its former glory as a Georgian Coaching Inn. Pub of The Year 2013
And INC – new, cool, urban and urbane; rooftop chic.
And here is Buzzfeed's take on some random number more: http://bzfd.it/2EaA2pA
THREE: Culture and stuff, innit?
Sheffield is described as the UK's most geographically diverse city by Wikipedia, and the eclecticism of place seeps into the buildings that describe the city. A famed legacy of brutalism mixes with the ancient, and the sublime. While you're with us you need to see:
The Millennium Gallery where the city's cultural revival is embodied in four galleries under one roof. Inside, the Ruskin Gallery houses an eclectic collection of paintings, manuscripts and interesting objects.
The Winter Gardens. Pride of place in Sheffield's city centre goes to this wonderfully ambitious public space with a soaring glass roof supported by graceful arches of laminated timber.
And if you are a sports fan, you can pay homage at the Crucible Theatre, a cornerstone of Sheffield Theatres (the largest theatre complex outside London) and spiritual and actual home of world snooker.
And we have a LOT of cinemas. One of them is the Showroom, the largest independent cinema in England, set in a grand art-deco complex and screening a great mix of art-house, off-beat and not-quite-mainstream films.
FOUR: Food
It's a really big city and you don't need us to tell you how to find food you like in a city this size, and there will be food at lunch during the event. But here are some city favourites:
Vero Gusto
Real Italian restaurant, from the Italian owners serving homemade Italian food to the genuine Italian coffee enjoyed by Italian customers reading Italian newspapers…
Marmaduke's
This appealingly cramped and chaotic cafe, crammed with recycled furniture and fittings and run by a young and enthusiastic crew/
Street Food Chef
Down-to-earth Mexican canteen; freshly prepared, great-value meals, including nachos, burritos, tacos and quesadillas with a choice of chilli-laced meat or veggie.
Blue Moon Cafe
Sheffield institution offering tasty veggie and vegan creations, soups and other healthy dishes in a very pleasant atmosphere – perfect spot for Saturday afternoon.
Cool Kiwi Cuisine with genuinely amazing coffee.
If you are short on time and just visiting us for the day, you could grab a coffee at café, located a stone's throw from Kelham Island or head to
Urban Quarter where you could try the some absolutely amazing burgers.
We will be hosting a curry the night before the event too, at Seven Spices Balti house. Tickets are available on eventbrite if you want to join us.
FIVE: Just being outside
Sheffield is the only place on earth where you can walk up hill for twenty minutes, turn around and walk in exactly the opposite direction and still be walking up hill. Hills? We've got 'em.
And we've got four million trees, dozens of green spaces, a magnificent urban place-scape and a massive chunk of the Peak District. A third of this city is a national park. Oh, yes.
So here's a comprehensive guide to the Outdoor City: http://theoutdoorcity.co.uk/
And for those of you with a penchant for that sort of thing, the indomitable Sheffield Council Comms Team and friends will be leading both an early, and a lunchtime Runch (Sheffield Comms Team speak for a run at lunchtime) for those fit or mad enough to want a run through some of the best urban stuff we've got – a really great way to see the city and get ready for breakfast too. There will be one dedicated to sites of interest for rock and pop fans and one for fans of cinema. Thanks to our ace volunteers for making this happen.
You can sign up to the breakfast run here. Meet at the train station at 7.30am.
You can sign up to the lunch run which takes in all the film sites of Sheffield. Thanks to the fab folk who are putting these on for us.
Welcome to Sheffield. You probably won't want to leave.
Written by Eddie Coates-Madden, head of comms at Sheffield City Council so he knows his shizzle
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Also, I won't be recommending characters their own books. So I won't tell Feyre to read ACOTAR, or anything like that.
I don't know how early on in the series it's mentioned, but there are a few times where it's said that Dimitri loves Western novels. I haven't read Vengeance Road, but I've heard a lot of great things about it. It's also the only YA Western I know of.
Sydney loves Greek and Roman mythology, and there are parts of the story in the second and third books where this plays a fairly big role. Whenever she might have time to read, I think she'd enjoy these because of the mythology in them. I'm also sure that the size of the books wouldn't intimidate her.
If Inej was in our modern world, I think she'd be a dancer, or at least love watching dances. Tiny Pretty Things would be great for her, especially since it's more vicious and suspenseful than I imagine normal ballet would be.
I think Aelin would love historical fiction stories, and she would fall in love with Victorian England. I can totally imagine her loving Tessa because they both love reading, and trying to decide whether she liked Will or Jem more. Then she would run to Rowan after finishing Clockwork Princess, because she would be heartbroken just like the rest of us were.
Almost immediately after being introduced to Cress, readers find out that she's very much a hopeless romantic. I think she would love fluff stories, and Anna and the French Kiss would be perfect for her. She would love Étienne as much as the rest of us, and then after finishing, want Thorne to take her to Paris.
I can just picture Alec coming back from a mission or finishing training for the day, then curling up with Oreos and this book before a date with Magnus. That is all.
This isn't technically breaking my own rule, because Magnus isn't only in The Mortal Instruments, so really I'm not using two characters from the same series. (Okay, yes, I'm breaking my own rule.) I can picture him in his apartment with a glass of wine, reading this series and inwardly hoping for a chapter about Rhy.
Lila's biggest goal in A Darker Shade of Magic is to have an adventure. I think she'd love high fantasy stories, especially ones with complex magic, and therefore Throne of Glass would be right up her alley. I can imagine her docking her ship for the night and curling up in her cabin to binge-read the series.


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Autographs! Photos! Meet-and-Greets!
Francis Lewis
The Grand Auction. (Courtesy Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS)
Broadway loves an anniversary. This fall, "Chicago" turns 20, "The Lion King" is 19 and "Jersey Boys" chalks up 11 big ones on the Great White Way. But one event has them all beat—even "The Phantom of the Opera." On Sept. 25, 2016, the annual Broadway Flea Market & Grand Auction, produced by and benefitting Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, turns 30. In its three decades, the one-day event, an unofficial kick-off to the new Broadway season, has raised more than $11.8 million for BC/EFA; last year's event was one for the record books: $756,655. So, the bar has been set for this year.
What brings in the dough-re-mi?
The silent auction, for which pre-bidding is open now online (broadwaycares.org) thru Friday, Sept. 23 at 4 pm, includes such treasures as a 50th-anniversary "Funny Girl" CD signed by Barbra Streisand; a musical phrase from "Kinky Boots" signed and in Cyndi Lauper's hand; an autographed "Hamilton" poster; a sketch pad prop from "Fun Home;" boxing, robe, shorts and gloves from the musical "Rocky;" and so much more. On Sept. 25, silent-auction lots are open for in-person bidding every half hour beginning at 10 am.
Pre-bidding is also open online for the live auction scheduled for 5 pm on the 25th. Among the treasures here are pairs of tickets to the opening nights of some of the season's most anticipated new shows, including Bette Midler in "Hello, Dolly!," Cate Blanchett in "The Present," Nathan Lane in "The Front Page" and Jake Gyllenhaal in "Burn This;" meet-and-greets with the casts of "Falsettos" and "Something Rotten!;" brunch with Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka; and a backstage pass to "Aladdin."
Throughout the day, more than 40 tables full of Broadway memorabilia and collectibles, including rare Playbills, line 44th and 45th streets around Shubert Alley. For Broadway browsers, this is nirvana.
Another big draw, 11 am-3 pm, is the Autograph Table and Photo Booth just outside Junior's restaurant in Shubert Alley. Stars set to sign autographs and pose for fan photos include Alex Brightman of "School of Rock," Danny Burstein of "Fiddler on the Roof," Leanne Cope of "An American in Paris," Chilina Kennedy of "Beautiful," Jeremy Kushnier of "Paramour," Ana Villafañe of "On Your Feet." While admission to the event is free, autographs are a minimum $30 donation each hour for all performers that hour; photo prices are based on the number of requests per performer. Log on for an hour-by-hour schedule of appearances.
Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS is one of the nation's leading industry-based, nonprofit fundraising and grant-making organizations. Since 1988, BC/EFA has raised more than $285 million for essential services for people with AIDS and other critical illnesses across the United States. It is the major supporter of the social service programs at The Actors Fund, including the HIV/AIDS Initiative, the Phyllis Newman Women's Health Initiative and the Al Hirschfeld Free Health Clinic. Broadway Cares also awards annual grants to more than 450 AIDS and family service organizations in all 50 states.
Broadway Flea Market & Grand Auction, Shubert Alley, between W. 44th & W. 45th sts., btw Broadway and Eighth Ave., Sept. 25, 2016, Autograph Table and Photo Booth 11 am-3 pm, Grand Auction at 5 pm.
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The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Demand for Density: Evidence from the U.S. Housing Market
53 Pages Posted: 3 Aug 2020 Last revised: 14 Jan 2021
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Sitian Liu
Queen's University - Department of Economics
Yichen Su
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
FRB of Dallas Working Paper No. 2024
Date Written: January 10, 2021
Cities are shaped by the strength of agglomeration and dispersion forces. We show that the COVID-19 pandemic has re-introduced disease transmission as a dispersion force in modern cities. We use detailed housing data to study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the location demand for housing. We find that the pandemic has led to a sudden shift of housing demand away from neighborhoods with high population density. The reduced demand for density is driven partially by the diminished need of living close to telework-compatible jobs and the declining value of access to consumption amenities. Neighborhoods with high pre-COVID-19 home value also see a greater drop in housing demand. While the national housing market recovered after the initial dip, we show that the pandemic's negative effect on the demand for density persisted and strengthened, indicating that the reduction in the demand for density has persisted beyond an aggregate recovery of housing demand.
Keywords: COVID-19, Pandemic, Density, City, Neighborhood, Housing, Location, Telework, Amenity
JEL Classification: R2, R3, I1
Liu, Sitian and Su, Yichen, The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Demand for Density: Evidence from the U.S. Housing Market (January 10, 2021). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3661052 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3661052
Queen's University - Department of Economics ( email )
Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6
HOME PAGE: http://www.sitian-liu.com
Yichen Su (Contact Author)
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas ( email )
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Please excuse us for our lack of enthusiasm for the job at hand. We continue to watch and wait for the inevitable "normalization" of monetary policy in the United States. This is turning into something akin to watching grass grow or watching paint dry without the aid of time-lapse photography.
The veritable "trillion-dollar question" of our financial time is how and when monetary policy will be "normalized". Central Banks around the world who pumped massive sums of money into their banking systems in the aftermath of the Credit Crisis are now pondering how to reverse their "emergency policy".
Now is the time to move from financial crisis battle stations to economic peacetime. The problem is that nobody, or as the Bad Boy commercial shouts, Nooooooobody! now wants monetary policy to be normalized. The capitalist citizenry of the developed world, no matter how right wing in their politics, are enjoying the benefits of cheap money: low borrowing interest rates, higher house and stock prices. Politicians know this and want their central bankers to "err on the side of caution". Read this as printing money until the cows come home or the politicians are reelected.
The financial chattering class is especially unreliable in this matter, as it has a huge bias in favour of more money sloshing about. If your business is taking a little bit of all the money passing you by, you will likely be in favour of more money in circulation than less. Despite this, we all know in our heart of hearts that monetary policy will inevitably be normalized but we still don't want it to be.
Modern central banking has taken on the essentials of an organized religion: mystery, power and faith. Like any religion, it remains the duty of the high priesthood to divine the future. How we can expect the central banking priesthood to divine the economic future when they have failed so obviously in divining the economic present is an interesting study in human psychology. It has to do with the innate and very human desire to believe. It also reflects our need to reduce the uncertainty about the future.
Not Yellen, But Messing with the Messaging!
Janet Yellen is now the Chair of the Federal Reserve, the highest Priestess at the Highest Temple of monetary policy. It falls to her to communicate with her faithful financial parishioners. They are presently examining her every vocal entrail in the hope of gleaning some portent of the future. The problem is that Ms. Yellen really has no idea what to do. She compensates for this by prevaricating about what is going on in the economy and iterating the possible Fed policies ahead.
To us Ms. Yellen seems to be "messing with the messaging" more than outlining Fed policy. Is the economy strong or weak? Is unemployment high or low? According to Ms. Yellen, becoming quite accustomed to the economic doublespeak of her predecessors, it depends! All we know from the Fed is that they are "data dependent". This translates into waiting until the last possible moment to be forced into action when things have so obviously moved that there is no choice.
We are well past the worst of the Credit Crisis and even the Euro debt crisis is a fading memory. Some bankers now suggest that they were not in need of rescue. This is rather convenient memory. If you are arguing that your bonus or dividend should go up, it is a convenient truth to claim historical financial perspicuity. The "inconvenient truth" is that there are very few banks globally that would have survived the Credit Crisis without the massive government support of the global banking system.
Was all of the crisis financial and monetary policy necessary? Much of it was, but much of it probably wasn't and we will never know for sure. The policy response to the Credit Crisis gave rise to many "Emergency" and "Extraordinary" fiscal and monetary policy measures, some of which are still in place today.
Did QE Actually Lower Bond Yields?
The Bernanke Federal Reserve's "Quantitative Easing" or "QE" is a case in point. This "innovative" monetary policy saw the Federal Reserve print money to buy more treasury bonds than the U.S. government was issuing with the explicit objective of lowering long term bond yields. The proponents of the policies say that these policies worked since things improved after they were implemented. On the other hand, when QE was ended, the market feared bond yields would rise sharply, as QE was meant to lower long-term yields. Quite the opposite occurred. After rising sharply in the last half of 2013 due to these fears, U.S. government bond yields actually fell sharply in 2014. If the end of QE did not see higher yields, we ask, did the QE program actually lower yields?
It is hard to separate out all the "emergency" policy. Whether QE was effective in the U.S. is moot, as it is now over and done with. There is no doubt that the Federal Reserve has created a lot of money since 2008 to anchor U.S. short-term interest rates at zero. At the time, the question was what would all that liquidity do?
This was a very contrarian view at the time, as is our present belief that interest rates will eventually rise to more normal levels. Our view in 2010 developed from our observation that regulators in the U.S. were leaning hard on their banks to decrease leverage. We believed that this meant it would be very hard to have goods inflation in a period of debt deleveraging. All that cash created by the central banks was being used to shore up the balance sheets of commercial banks rather than in consumer spending.
This is why the Consumer Price Inflation was rather tame compared to the expectations of runaway inflation. Since banks were being required to hold large amounts of government bonds, banks bid up the price of bonds and that caused bond yields to decline rather than rise as the 2010 consensus had expected. The Euro Debt Crisis and eventual QE by the Fed sent bond yields plunging to generational lows.
This drop in bond market yields and the discount rate used to value investments led to increasing financial asset prices instead of goods prices. There was massive inflation in financial asset prices that, with the help of the massive Chinese credit boom, extended to every investable commodity known to mankind. Gold, silver, copper, wheat and oil soared with Chinese "supply security" buying and investor demand for "inflation sensitive assets". It didn't reach Dutch tulip bulbs, as in the credit bubble of 1637, but it did extend to BitCoin, the virtual currency. Nobody quite knew who created Bitcoins or exactly how they worked, but in a mania, who really cares about the details since everyone is trying to "get some" financially.
The proponents of deflation point to Europe and the negative yields on German government Bunds denominated in Euros. This, they say, is the future of our investment age and a predictor of global deflation. Once again, we beg to differ with the consensus. Just as the Inflationistas were fashionably wrong in 2010, we think the Deflationistas could very well be wrong in 2015.
In the Yield Curve chart below, we show the yields of various Euro zone government bonds at the time of writing in April 2015. This indeed demonstrates that nominal yields are now negative on German government bonds out to 7 years in term. French government bond yields are negative out to 4 years in term. The question is why these yields are negative.
It is actually very hard to get negative nominal bond yields. Let's think about how this works. Being a good German saver, I walk into my bank to buy a bond since Europeans and Germans in particular tend to buy bonds instead of investing in GICs. I have some money to invest and I ask about the bonds on offer. They tell me to go and see my "Financial Advisor", Herr Rippoff, at the local Gasthaus.
I tell him that I would rather just leave my money in my bank account. He then tells me that I must leave one arm and one leg with him to pay my "deposit charges". I then tell him to "stuffen" himself and that I will leave the Euros in cash under my mattress or in my safe at home. I then ceremoniously pour my very good German lager over Herr Rippoff's head and exit the Gasthaus in a very impressive Germanic huff.
Our more expert readers have no doubt been considering that we are not taking into account the coupon of the bond. Yes, if there was a coupon, especially a high coupon, we just might want to buy a bond for higher than its par value of 100 Euros. We do this all the time at Canso. The higher coupon creates a price at acquisition well above par that descends to par at maturity.
Why would anyone in his or her right mind buy a bond that has a negative yield, or pays me negative interest? There are a couple of reasons that this might happen.
The first reason could be that there is deflation and the price of consumer goods is falling. This is rational. If the consumer price level is falling faster than the value of our bond investment then the value of my bond is increasing relative to the cost of consumer goods.
The second reason is the "Greater Fool Theory". This postulates that one reason for an investment "Fool" to buy a ridiculously priced investment is that he believes there is a "Greater Fool" who will pay even more for it. So although we know our bond will fall from its present 100.49 Euros in price to 100 Euros at maturity, we know there is a "Greater Fool" who will buy our bond for even more than we have paid for it. This is not rational, but is the current situation in Europe.
The good German savers aren't the Greater Fools buying bonds with negative yields from Herr Rippoff. An individual investor might take a punt on an overpriced stock but it is highly unlikely he would lock in a certain loss with a negative yield. The "Greater Fool" is none other than the European Central Bank (ECB). Mr. Draghi, the President of the ECB, stared down the bond market during the Euro Debt Crisis and he has now launched "Quantitative Easing" to shock the economic heart back to beating strongly. This means that Mr. Draghi is buying a lot of European government bonds.
If you are a German banker like Herr Rippoff, you don't have to worry that you are paying 100.44 for a bond and will take a loss when you get 100 Euros at maturity in two years. The ECB has announced its bond buying ways to the world at large and you know that the ECB will bid up the price of your bond until the specter of deflation is vanquished.
So, are the Deflationistas right about negative European yields presaging global deflation? Well, anything is possible but we think not. As we have said many times in our past newsletters, if a central bank prints enough money, then there will most certainly be inflation as Zimbabwe proved by debauching its currency out of existence. Argentina, Iran and Venezuela are now proving this once again.
Whether increased money supply causes inflation is really a discussion of the "velocity of money". A primer on money creation is in order. We all remember from Economics 101 that a commercial bank can create money in a fractional banking system. Someone deposits $100 and the bank must keep 10% or $10 in reserves so it can lend $90. This $90 becomes a loan to someone else who deposits it in a bank account. Then the bank can lend $81 of the deposit and so on.
This is called the "money multiplier effect". That means that when a central bank deposits funds in a commercial bank that these can be loaned out. What happens if no one wants to borrow? This is Keynes's "Liquidity Trap" where monetary policy is "pushing on a string ".
We believe that commercial banks were circumscribed in their ability to create more money by the capital demands of financial regulators. When regulators demanded more capital and liquid assets, then their banks invested the cash deposited by central banks in government bonds instead of loaning it out. This monetary stimulus improved the balance sheets of the banks but did not result in business and consumer loans that stimulated economic activity. Even "Quantitative Easing", the purchase of government bonds by central banks, didn't help. The central banks created the money to buy government bonds but then the investors took the proceeds and bought other bonds. This drove down bond market yields but didn't result in much more consumer activity.
With the headlines trumpeting DEFLATION and NEGATIVE YIELDS, we think that "graphing the data", as always, is a good idea. As Detective Sergeant Joe Friday used to say in Dragnet on the mean streets of Los Angeles, "The facts, Mam, Nothing but the facts." We took a look at yields in Europe because that is where the Deflationistas are currently holding sway.
The chart on the following page shows 10-year government bond yields in the U.S., Germany, Italy, France and Spain over the 10 years from April 2005 to April 2015. What was quite interesting to us was that U.S. bond market yields were higher than those in Germany, Italy, France and Spain from 2005 to early 2008. Even more interesting is that weak Spain and Italy had yields quite close to those in stronger France and Germany. This all changed in the Credit Crisis when U.S. yields dropped below those in Europe. The effect of the Euro Debt Crisis is obvious in early 2010, when the yields on Italy and Spain soared while those in France and Germany fell in line with the U.S. U.S. bond market yields began to rise above German yields in 2012 and are now higher than those in France, Italy and Spain as well.
What About Inflation? The interesting thing about Europe is that in the Euro currency union, sovereign countries have ceded their ability to run an independent monetary policy to the ECB. Since the primary goal of any central bank is to maintain a stable price level, it is instructive to look at this. On the chart below we show inflation for Germany, France, Italy and Spain. Like in Canada, different regions experience different inflation based on local factors. Note that from 2005 to 2008, inflation ran much higher in booming Spain than slower Germany, France and Italy. This was the Spanish real estate boom, where cheap capital from the core Euro area banks was recycled into real estate projects on the sunny Spanish Riviera. Before the Credit Crisis, no one could imagine banks defaulting let alone countries.
All the inflation rates went negative in the global recession after the Credit Crisis but soon recovered with Spain once again leading the pack with strong competition from Italy at both above 3% in early 2013. Now things are quite reversed with Spain quite negative and the other Euro countries hovering around zero.
This makes it interesting for a Spanish investor who could buy a very safe German government 10-year bond at .2% and have a "real yield" (yield minus inflation) of +1.5% (.2% – (-1.3%)). He could do even better assuming credit risk and buying a Spanish 10-year government at 1.3% and getting a real yield of 2.6% (1.3% -(-1.3%).
Aha, you say. Central banks like to tinker with the economy. What's the point of having a lever to pull if you don't ever pull it? Well we agree that central banks like to try to encourage economic growth and employment so it is also good to see what the ECB is up to in this area.
The chart above shows unemployment in our four Euro economies since 2005. Once again, looking at the actual data brings an interesting perspective. Who remembers that Germany had 12% unemployment in 2005, compared to Spain and France at 9% and industrious Italy at just over 7%?
Spanish unemployment started higher in early 2008, presaging the economic weakness brought on by the Credit Crisis. Perhaps the German banks that had stuffed themselves full of U.S. sub-prime mortgages were already pulling in their Spanish lending. Germany on the other hand has seen its unemployment drop from 12% before the Credit Crisis to the current 6%. Even the Euro Debt Crisis didn't affect German employment as it has been quite stable since 2011.
The Spanish unemployment rate has gone from 9%(3% under the German unemployment of 12%) in 2005 to 24% unemployment(18% over the current German level of 6%). No wonder the Germans want to vote the Greeks and other "Peripherals" off the Euro Survivor Island. They have never had it so good. The Spanish, Italians and French must be wondering about the benefits of low interest rates as their unemployment rates are very stubbornly high.
So a close look at the Germans is in order. In the graph above, we show the German government 10-yield yield, the German unemployment rate and inflation. This shows very low interest rates and inflation in Germany is not really doing much for the German unemployment rate. Note the strong recovery in the German CPI in 2009 from 0% to above 2% in 2011.
Now that we have looked at the European experience with low and negative yields, what conclusions can we draw? Is this our future? Will we all be dealing with negative yields the rest of our lives? We doubt it. The Spanish burst their real estate bubble and are now dealing with 24% unemployment. If low bond yields are the elixir that cures an ailing economy, Spain sure isn't the poster child.
Well, we know that if you print enough money you get inflation, no matter what economic growth there is. The world central banks seem to want to err in favour of inflation in a major way, so that is something that actually might happen.
The historical record certainly doesn't support the current negative yield frenzy. In the chart above we have graphed the long U.S. Treasury Bond yields since 1900. We have used the annual data from A History of Interest Rates by Homer and Sylla and combined them with our more modern data from PC Bond.
This shows that Long T-Bond yields bottomed at 1.9% in 1940. This was after a decade of very high U.S. unemployment in the Great Depression of the 1930s, at the current Spanish level in the 20-30% area, and deflation running at -2%. This gave an investor real yields in the area of 4%.
What Spain is now going through is a debt deflation after a credit bubble as was the case in the U.S. in the 1930s. We don't know why, perhaps the "Spirit of Bubbles Past" guided us, and we decided to plot the Long T-Bond yields from 1920 to 1960 to see what this period looked like. This is shown in the chart on the next page as the blue line.
Our rationale was that the decade of the "Roaring Twenties" saw a strong credit expansion, financial boom and speculative stock market. We then wanted to see what happened to long T-Bond yields after the stock market crash in 1929 and into the 1930s. Perhaps still guided by mysterious powers beyond our comprehension, we then plotted 1990 to present as the red line on the same graph with the years counting up from the start date of 1920/1990 i.e. "10 years" the horizontal axis is 1930 and 2000.
A Message from the Bond Afterlife?
It was a bit eerie for us, delving into the bond afterlife. The similarity between the two lines certainly provokes thought. In 1920 the First World War had just ended and the Cold War had just ended in 1990. Both periods saw a "Peace Dividend" with the huge societal spending on military effort diverted into civilian endeavor resulting in much prosperity. There was also a large expansion of global trade and finance in both periods.
The parallels between the periods in the chart below struck us interesting and perhaps prescient. The 1929 stock market crash ended the "Roaring Twenties" and the end of the millennium in 2000 saw the "dot.com" stock market crash. What we hadn't realized was the drop in long U.S. T-Bond yields from 1920 to 1928 that parallels the drop in yields in the 1990s. Very interestingly, yields then stayed flat from 1928 to 1935 even though the world was in a severe economic depression. Yields then head quite a bit lower from 1935 to 1941 in the darkest days of the Great Depression before the U.S. entry into the Second World War. The aftermath of the 1990s dot.com boom saw a drop in yields that created an even bigger credit bubble that ended in the Credit Crisis. Despite this, the long T-Bond yields tracked very similarly.
Are We Being Paid to Take Interest Rate Risk?
What this chart seems to suggest is that it takes a long time to work an economy out of a financial crisis. A little caution is warranted in simplistic parallels, although we couldn't resist doing exactly this. The situation is much less dire today than in the 1930s. The Depression of the 1930s saw unemployment well above 20% and persistent deflation at -2% to -4%. Even with this economic stress, bond yields still did not go significantly below 2% for any protracted period.
For those predicting ultra low interest rates forever, we note with some caution that, as we show above, Spain is currently experiencing its own Great Depression with unemployment of 24% and inflation at -2%. Contrary to the Deflationista and negative yield hysteria, Spain still has 10-year government bond yields at a positive 1.3%.
We still think it is highly unlikely that yields have much farther to fall. If monetary policy is normalized, then yields will likely rise. Is this a bad thing? If there is anyone out there who needs to borrow and hasn't already, we really don't think a slight increase in interest rates will be a determining factor. On the contrary, since demographics are aging in Western developed economies, it just might be that rising interest income will benefit spending more than it hurts borrowers.
In a pique worthy of comment, The Canso Editorial Review Board, aka "The Peanut Gallery", complained that the first draft of this scintillating Market Observer was bereft of any Canadian content. Despite our nagging objection against editorial interference by preening Weenies and our innate desire for artistic freedom, we decided to accommodate a Canadian perspective.
To your humble correspondents, it is clear that Canada's economic destiny is currently tied very closely to the policy of the U.S. Federal Reserve. Yes, Mr. Poloz, the Governor of the Bank of Canada (BOC), very forcefully declared his monetary independence with his "Insurance" surprise rate cut in January. This did not end very well on the currency front, as the Canadian dollar plunged against the U.S. in record fashion. We think this "Poloz-a-Looza" insurance policy ended very badly and actually risks a currency crisis if repeated.
A look at the chart below shows why we are very worried about a further rate cut by Mr. Poloz. Canada is a small open economy and our monetary policy by necessity has to follow the U.S. if we want to avoid major currency shocks. The red line in the chart is the spread between the 90-day U.S. and Canadian T-Bill yields. This subtracts the U.S. T-Bill from the Canadian.
Mr. Poloz sure surprised people. It was more "Shock and Ouch" than awe. Note that the Canadian dollar in U.S. terms, the blue line, had been hovering in the $.90 U.S. range until the market quite rightly decided the Mr. Poloz wanted to be the master in his own currency house in late 2014 and early January 2015. The fall from $.90 U.S. to below $.80 was one of the major Canadian dollar currency moves that we have found historically.
The "Shock" of the BOC rate cut became a very painful "Ouch" for any Canadian who pays for things in U.S. dollars. Since most things that Canadians buy: oil; wheat; coal; electricity; TV shows; Movies; electronics and even video downloads are effectively priced in the U.S. since we have a very closely integrated economy. It is no fluke that Apple raised its prices in Canada recently.
We believe that Mr. Poloz and the Bank of Canada were very surprised at the market reaction. They also now understand that their latitude to have a differential monetary policy is quite constrained. Canada usually lags the U.S. in a tightening cycle when the economy and commodity prices are strong. This usually coincides with Canadian bond yields falling below those in the U.S. as foreigners rush into Canadian denominated financial assets. This can be seen in the chart below that shows how the Canadian/ U.S. government bond spread goes negative and then whiplashes with a vengeance to very, very positive spreads. Note that the periods of low or negative bond spreads coincide with periods of commodity strength: 1973, 1984, 1997 and 2006. The current spread is at the record low and negative spread.
As we've said before, if U.S. bond yields don't change and Canada goes back to normal levels, we could very well see Canadian yield rise by 1% to 3%. It is also useful to note the price violence of the movement in the Canada/ U.S. bond spread. From 1984 at a -.4% spread to +3% in 1991, a ten year Canada bond depreciated in price over 20% versus a 10 year U.S. T-Bond. While recent episodes of Canadian/U.S. spread widening have been more limited, we note that the current very negative Canada bond spread against the U.S. is at a historical low. Mr. Poloz would be well advised to curb his independent streak and wait for Ms. Yellen to raise rates.
Whether in the U.S. or Canada, it is our conviction that interest rates and bond yields will eventually rise. Is this a behavioral function of our contrary nature? We think not. It now seems clear that the consensus accepts that the present low interest rate environment is and will be the future.
Your humble Canso Market Observers are not so sure. A prudent investor must ask whether he or she is being paid to assume the massive interest rate risk inherent in a long-term bond purchase at the extraordinarily low yields of today.
For now, we are back to watching the monetary paint dry and policy grass grow.


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SCOOP: Salman Khan in a special appearance in Judwaa 2
Created: Nov 9, 2016 - 11:11 AM IST
Varun Dhawan has time and again expressed his excitement about working for Judwaa 2 where he'll be filling the shoes of superstar Salman Khan. The previous instalment had proved to be a huge success and even in this version, Varun will be seen in a double role like Salman.
Judwaa 2 is being penned by the duo Sajid-Farhad and we hear that unlike the prequel, this one has an original script. What is even more intriguing is that a special appearance is being planned for Salman Khan in the film. It is being said that Salman, who played the double role in the original Judwaa, may play the role of godfather - gunda for the Varun Dhawan twins. From what we hear, the film is being planned on a grand scale and will be shot extensively amidst Mediterranean beaches. Apparently the film will also feature a remix of one of the most popular Salman songs, 'Tan Tana Tan Tan Tan Tara' from the original.
Talking about the prep on the quirky drama, Sajid from Sajid - Farhad duo revealed that they are still exploring ideas. Though he refused to confirm anything since the film is still in the initial stages, he definitely seemed excited about the possibility of having Salman Khan in a cameo adding who wouldn't want the superstar in a film.
While David Dhawan, Sajid Nadiadwala and Sajid - Farhad may take the film on floor as soon as possible, it has been learnt that the makers are striving for a September 2017 release. On the other hand, the actresses who will play leading ladies Karisma Kapoor and Ramba from the original are yet to be finalized.
Readers may be aware that the Salman Khan starrer Judwaa was a remake of the Telugu movie Hello Brother, which in turn was inspired by the Jackie Chan film Twin Dragons.
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