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A World Tour of Policy Rate Hikes
John Blank November 10, 2021
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With the Fed undertaking a taper, starting in November, I wanted to outline this:
Jerome Powell & Co. are very likely late in the cyclical game, and way behind many of their peers, in this rapidly expanding business cycle.
Usually, the Fed leads the way.
This time around, the European Central Bank (ECB) led the way on bond-buying tapering in September. Smaller central banks (aka Norway and South Korea) have been hiking policy rates since August.
Then, there are the more extreme central bank stories to share:
- Brazil's central bank is already at a 7.75% Selic policy rate
- Russia is already at a 7.5% policy rate
- Our neighbor, Mexico, is already at a 4.75% policy rate
For stock investors, this spells out a major worry for 2022.
The Fed's uber-slow hand gets forced. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) starts to surprise vote to raise short-term Fed Funds rates, perhaps multiple times. The Dec. 2022 timeline for a first Fed Funds hike is truly suspect.
Swiftly moving higher U.S. monetary policy rates could well mean lower stock prices, folks.
Don't worry though!
Another cautious non-economist central banker is at the helm of the ECB. Christine LaGarde and Company may be even further behind the curve than the Fed.
The ECB forecast is currently for no policy rate hikes until 2024.
Read on to examine the evidence and the state of play.
I. The USA
For a reference, to how hot or cold economies are across the world, let's start here.
Consensus Economics in London shows USA October 2021 macro forecasts are for:
+5.7% GDP growth in 2021 and a core CPI at +4.4% y/y.
+4.1% real GDP growth in 2022 and a core CPI at +3.4% y/y.
If you put full employment attainment (3.5% versus 4.6% seen now) at the middle of 2022, the Fed will be well over its two statutory mandates, of maintaining frictional full employment and a +2.0% CPI.
It is appropriate to think Fed Funds rates move sooner than the consensus expects. Thinking is now for a December 2022 for liftoff.
Now, let's turn to Europe.
There the ECB is quicker on the bond-buying taper, but could be much slower on the ECB policy rate hikes.
However, smaller independent countries not in the Eurozone are already hiking policy rates.
That is a foreboding sign there for an acceleration of policy rate hikes, too.
II. Europe
For reference, Consensus Economics in London shows us October forecasts are for:
Keep this data in mind: the CPI for the Eurozone is forecast to be half the USA level. Outside the Eurozone, however, the CPI rates are much higher. Double, triple, or even quadruple the Eurozone (4% to 8%).
What's happened to monetary policy in Europe?
The ECB has announced a reduction in monthly bond buying back in September. They plan to finish their bond buying taper earlier than the Fed. March 2022 they are scheduled to be done.
In Europe, the Swedes had gotten off of negative rates back in Dec. 2019. But they are staying pat with 0.0% policy rates for now. Their CPI was at +2.5% in September.
Norway lifted policy rates to 0.25% on Sept. 23rd. They moved first in Europe this fall. Norway's CPI is at +4.1% — the highest rate of inflation seen since July 2016.
A week later, the Czechs moved policy rates a big 0.75% to 1.50% on Sept. 30th. The CPI hit +4.1% in August.
Poland has raised policy rates two times at 0.25% to get to 1.25% as of November 3rd. The CPI is +6.8% y/y in October.
Finally, Russia has hiked policy rates all the way to 7.5% on Oct. 22nd. Their CPI is somewhere between 7.4% to 7.9% y/y.
Juxtapose this with an ECB forecasted to keep policy rates on hold until 2024.
Hmmm. I have trouble believing the ECB will wait that long to raise their policy rates. The Western European economies collectively have similar GDP growth rates vis-à-vis the USA. (USA is 4 to 5% GDP growth, Eurozone is 4 to 5%, too.)
A. Sweden
Reason for a late 2019 hike to 0.0% policy rates: doubts over negative rates.
The Sveriges Riksbank left its repo rate at 0.0% during its September meeting as widely expected, saying monetary policy needs to remain expansionary for inflation to be lastingly close to the target going forward.
- Policymakers noted the Swedish economy has recovered quickly and inflation is expected to become temporarily higher than 2 percent in the coming year, before falling back again.
- The central bank will also continue to purchase securities during the fourth quarter, in line with the earlier decisions.
- The repo rate is expected to remain unchanged until at least the third quarter of 2024, while the holdings of securities will be more or less unchanged during 2022.
On December 19, 2019, the Riksbank raised its interest rate from -0.25% to 0%. In part, this increase (like the one implemented in December 2018 from -0.50% to -0.25%) was a reaction that came (voluntarily) late: the domestic health of the Swedish economy supported rate hikes in 2017 and 2018, but following a long period of low inflation, the Riksbank opted to prolong its accommodative monetary policy for a while longer.
However, its decision to raise rates now, in a context of a deteriorating economic outlook, was somewhat unexpected. Indeed, it suggests (at least in part) that the decision reflects doubts about the effectiveness of negative rates.
In fact, in a relatively explicit manifestation of these doubts, some members of the Riksbank stated that they preferred not to keep rates in negative territory unless the situation made it strictly necessary.
The doubts over negative rates
The Riksbank had kept rates negative since 2015, and one of the widely-argued reasons for raising them back up to 0% was related precisely to this time span: operating with negative rates for a short period of time is not the same as prolonging this environment for many years.
If such an environment persists, the compression of interest margins can end up eroding the capital positions of the financial system, increase the cost of access to credit for households and firms, and have a contractionary effect on the economy.
B. Norway
September 23rd, 2021. The 1st major European central bank to hike rates. Reason: a normalizing economy, with capacity-utilization close to normal.
According to CNBC:
Norges Bank on Thursday Sept. 23rd, 2021 become the first major Western central bank to raise interest rates following the onset of the coronavirus pandemic.
After cutting rates three times in 2020 due the economic fallout from the crisis, Norway's central bank unanimously decided to raise rates to 0.25% from zero.
"A normalizing economy now suggests that it is appropriate to begin a gradual normalization of the policy rate," said Governor Oystein Olsen in a statement Thursday.
The bank said that another hike is likely in December.
Norway's currency rallied to its highest levels since June against the euro, and gained 0.7% against the U.S. dollar.
The rate hike comes as many central banks consider similar moves amid solid growth and surging inflation.
"The reopening of society has led to a marked upswing in the Norwegian economy, and activity is now higher than its pre-pandemic level. Unemployment has fallen further, and capacity utilization appears to be close to a normal level," the bank added in the statement.
C. Czech Republic
A big 75 basis point hike on Sept. 30th, 2021, due to Consumer Price Inflation jumping to +4.1% y/y in August.
According to the Associated Press:
The Czech Republic's central bank has significantly increased its key interest rate by three quarters of a point to 1.50%, in an effort to tame soaring inflation as the economy rebounds from the coronavirus pandemic.
Thursday's move was the biggest single hike of the rate since 1997 and the third increase in as many months.
Analysts had mostly predicted a half-point increase. The central bank considers high inflation as a major threat.
Inflation jumped to +4.1% in August, well above the bank's 2% target. The Czech economy registered a record +8.1% year-on-year growth in the second quarter, according to the country's Statistics Office.
The last time the bank changed its rates was in August when it increased the key interest rate by a quarter-point to 0.75%, to tackle inflation.
D. Poland
Reason for 2 policy rate hikes in 2 months (October and November)? Consumer Price Inflation at +6.8% y/y.
According to the Associated Press, Poland's central bank on Wednesday November 3rd 2021 made its second interest rate hike in as many months as consumer prices surge.
The National Bank of Poland raised the rate to 1.25%, indicating that it intends to move more forcefully against rising prices after facing criticism for not acting soon enough.
The move "suggests to us that it is taking the fight against inflation much more seriously than we had thought," Capital Economics said in a note.
It comes after Eurostat, the European Union's statistics agency, said Friday that Poland's yearly inflation rate hit +6.8% in October. That's among the highest in the 27-member European Union.
Inflation has been spiking worldwide in recent months because of soaring energy prices and pent-up demand during the pandemic recovery.
Consumer prices in Poland are at their highest in two decades — and appear set to rise even further.
The country's deputy finance minister, Piotr Patkowski, said Tuesday that he expected inflation to reach +8.0% by the end of the year.
But the head of the National Bank of Poland, Adam Glapinski, said at a news conference after the interest rate announcement that he foresees inflation peaking at +7.0% in January and then declining.
Glapinski described the price surge in Poland and beyond as part of the "global" price being paid for actions taken by governments and central banks to avoid "large-scale economic disaster" during the pandemic.
He said that thanks to huge government spending and the actions of the National Bank of Poland, which kept interest rates at historic lows through the pandemic, "it was possible to save the economy from a deep recession."
But he also pointed to factors beyond Poland's control that are putting upward pressure on energy prices: Russian limits on gas exports, charges for greenhouse gas emissions imposed by the European Union, and oil prices set by OPEC.
Poland's government, which is socially conservative but favors social spending to even out income inequalities, says it is planning energy vouchers for low-income families to limit the impact of rising energy prices.
E. Russia
Oct. 22, 2021: Reason for hikes? Consumer Price Inflation at +7.4 to +7.9% y/y in 2021.
According to the Moscow Times:
Russia's Central Bank hiked interest rates to 7.5% on Friday as economists warned the country faces a triple threat of rising coronavirus cases, new lockdown measures and surging inflation.
The Russian economy recovered to its pre-coronavirus size earlier this year — a quicker recovery than first expected and faster than most other large economies — but now faces serious headwinds from both home and abroad.
The Central Bank said inflation was "developing substantially above forecast, and is expected to be within the range of 7.4-7.9% at the end of 2021" — a huge increase from the previous forecast of under 6% that was set in July.
Governor Elvira Nabiullina has taken an aggressive approach to taming inflation, and has warned for months that rising prices threaten to derail the Russian recovery.
Those fears prompted her to increase the Central Bank's key interest rate by 0.75 percentage points to 7.5% — a more aggressive hike than financial markets were expecting.
The Russian ruble advanced on the news, gaining 1.4% against the U.S. dollar in trading to stand at 70.1, its strongest level since before the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic last year.
F. European Central Bank (ECB)
Reuters wrote this outlook on October 22nd.
The European Central Bank will be one of the last major central banks to raise interest rates after the COVID-19 pandemic, according a Reuters poll of economists, who still say the risk is a rate rise comes sooner than their current prediction of 2024.
While the ECB has said the recent inflation surge will be transitory and has clearly indicated no policy tightening until it averages around its 2% target, financial markets are pricing in a hike later next year.
"Our baseline forecast is for the ECB to remain on hold through 2024, based on our assessment inflation is indeed transitory, and the expectations the ECB will continue to see it as such," said Bas van Geffen, senior macro strategist at Rabobank.
"But against the backdrop of higher inflation uncertainty, this does skew risks to an earlier move. That said, we consider current market pricing of a rate hike next year as excessive."
The Oct. 18-21 Reuters poll consensus pointed to no rate rise through to the end of 2023, but nearly 90% of economists who responded to an additional question, 35 of 40, said the risk was it comes earlier than expected.
A steady view from ECB watchers but a change in market pricing comes at a time when most other major central banks, including the U.S. Federal Reserve and the Bank of England, are getting much closer to tightening policy.
The latest ECB poll results appear in line with the central bank's own view that inflation will be transitory and stay below target over the medium-term.
Poll medians showed the ECB deposit rate unchanged at -0.50% and the refinancing rate at zero through to the end of 2023. A smaller sample looking out more than two years showed the deposit rate at -0.30% and refi rate at zero by end-2024.
Three-quarters of economists who had a view that far in the future, exactly 18 of 24, expect at least one rate hike in 2024.
In September, the ECB took the first step towards unwinding the emergency aid that has propped up the economy during the coronavirus pandemic. It announced a reduction in monthly emergency bond buying this quarter, with the intention to end it completely in March 2022.
Asked about the volume of its regular asset purchases program (APP) beyond that date, the median of 29 responses showed 40 billion euros worth of bond buys compared with 20 billion euros each month presently. The highest forecast was for 65 billion euros.
That effectively means the ECB will shift some of the existing emergency bond purchases it closes into the regular program.
III. Latin America
Here is where you really see the big monetary policy rate hikes.
The Bank of Mexico (Banxico) is already at 4.75% policy rates. The CPI is +5.59% there.
Banco do Brazil is already at 7.75% Selic policy rates. Their CPI is at 10.25%.
A. Mexico
On Sept 30th, 2021, Banxico raised rates 0.25% to get to 4.75%. Their CPI was at 5.59% in August.
Reuters wrote that the Bank of Mexico raised its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points to 4.75% on Thursday, as expected, in a four-to-one vote by its governing board, as the central bank expressed concern about above-target inflation.
All 22 analysts surveyed in a Reuters poll had expected the bank, known as Banxico, to raise the rate for the third time in a row to 4.75%.
"Although the shocks that have increased inflation are expected to be transitory, due to their variety, magnitude, and the extended horizon over which they have affected it, they may pose risks to the price formation process and to inflation expectations," Banxico said in its monetary policy statement.
In order to avoid those risks, Banxico said it deemed it necessary to hike the key rate.
Mexican consumer prices during the first half of September rose 0.42% to reach annual inflation of 5.87%, already edging above the 5.59% clocked for August, official data showed last week.
That is far above Banxico's target rate of 3.0%, plus or minus one percentage point.
B. Brazil
Brazil has now set off on its biggest rate hikes, ones not seen in two decades!
On Oct. 27th, we learned this from the Buenos Aires Times:
Brazil's Central Bank raised its benchmark interest rate by 150 basis points Wednesday, to 7.75% — its biggest hike since 2002 — as it struggles to tame surging inflation.
The increase, which was in line with analysts' expectations, is the sixth straight for Latin America's biggest economy, whose pandemic recovery is taking a hit from soaring prices.
It was decided unanimously by the nine members of the bank's monetary policy committee, who said in a statement a hike "of the same magnitude" was likely at its next meeting, in early December.
The Selic rate started the year at an all-time low of two percent, as policy makers sought to kick-start the economy after the devastation of the pandemic.
Inflation and exchange rate turmoil complicates the government's re-election hopes.
But the Central Bank is now moving aggressively to raise the rate in order to tamp down the annual inflation rate, which came in at 10.25% last month – far above the bank's target ceiling of 5.25%.
Unemployment, meanwhile, remains high at 13.2%, though it has come down from 14.7% early this year.
IV. Asia
A. Japan
Behold! Another central banker slowpoke. Japan's CPI rise is so tepid, the BoJ's Kuroda is not even concerned about it.
In fresh quarterly estimates, the BOJ cut its consumer inflation forecast for the year ending in March 2022 to +0% from +0.6%. It also slashed this year's economic growth forecast on sluggish consumption and the hit to factory output from supply disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The projections highlight the policy gap between Japan and other economies.
"The BOJ is living in a totally different world as an outlier from the global trend," said Masamichi Adachi, chief economist at UBS Securities.
"Given tepid inflation expectations, the BOJ will stick to easing policy under yield curve control at least until Governor Kuroda and his two deputies serve out their terms in 2023."
B. South Korea
On Oct 12th, 2021, South Korea's central bank kept policy rates steady at 0.75%. But they had hiked already in August, and are forecast to hike again in November.
Comparatively, this is a very hawkish (actually normal in times past) central bank governor. South Korea's CPI rate was +2.1% in August and he hiked rates. The CPI went to +2.5% in September, and that was above +2.0%, so he will likely hike rates again.
Done. The 'old way.'
According to Reuters, South Korea's central bank kept interest rates steady on Tuesday, October 12th, taking a breather after its first rate hike in nearly three years in August, but flagged further tightening could come as soon as November to curb rising inflation and household debt.
The Bank of Korea held benchmark interest rates steady at 0.75%, as widely expected in a Reuters poll, but increased its inflation forecast for this year.
In a rare remark on inflation, President Moon Jae-in also said during a cabinet meeting on Tuesday that the government should make every effort to stabilize consumer prices.
"The bank can consider raising interest rates further at the next meeting should the economic recovery proceed as expected, while monitoring how changes in internal and external conditions affect the domestic economy and inflation," said Governor Lee Ju-yeol during a news conference, retaining a hawkish tone adopted since May.
South Korea's three-year treasury bond futures fell more than 0.40 points following Lee's comments.
"Looking ahead, it is forecast that consumer price inflation will run at the mid-2% level for some time, exceeding the path projected in August, before declining somewhat," the BOK said in a statement.
The bank had projected 2021 inflation of 2.1% in August, above the central bank's 2% target.
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The BOK reiterated it expected the economy to grow 4% in 2021 after shrinking 0.9% last year.
HAWKISH TONE
While a recent spike in daily COVID-19 cases has clouded the short-term outlook, the central bank is keen to contain a surge in private sector debt, a red-hot property market and building inflation pressures.
Annual consumer inflation reached 2.5% in September, staying above the BOK's target for a sixth month.
Most analysts in the Reuters poll had expected the BOK to hike rates in its next rate-setting meeting on Nov. 25 and then to raise them by a further 25 bps, taking the rate to 1.25% by the end of 2022.
"Governor Lee's comments were a bit more hawkish than expected," said Cho Yong-gu, a fixed income analyst at Shinyoung Securities.
"I expect the BOK to raise rates in November and saw the next one coming at around (the) third quarter (of) next year, but I am considering bringing that forward after today's press conference."
In August, the BOK became the first major Asian central bank to start raising borrowing costs since the COVID-19 pandemic started, putting it ahead of the curve as central banks around the world seek to dial back emergency stimulus.
V. Conclusion
I concluded with the central bank narrative of South Korea, purposefully.
This country got the COVID response right, moving swiftly to test and trace.
Their central bank governor appears to be moving independently, and in accordance with the salient cyclical macro facts, too.
Why are the big central bank players hamstrung, this time around?
What say you: Fed, ECB, BoE and BoJ?
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Ward Churchill and Death of Academic Freedom (part I)
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By David R. Hoffman
There is a popular adage that states: "Only two things are certain—death and taxes."
Now there is a third: "It is certain that the constitutional rights of the individual will always be sacrificed to appease a governmental and/or economically powerful entity."
In a recent Pravda.Ru article entitled "A tale of two academics", I analyzed the diametrical situations faced by two tenured university professors: Ward Churchill and John Yoo.
Churchill was fired from his position at the University of Colorado (hereinafter CU) after writing a controversial essay shortly after the 9/11 attacks, comparing some of those killed in the World Trade Center to Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann.
To avoid the appearance that Churchill was terminated for exercising his first amendment right to freedom of speech, CU instead accused Churchill of engaging in plagiarism and other forms of "research misconduct."
Yoo, by contrast, remains a tenured law professor at another university even though, while serving in the "Justice" Department during the dictatorship of George W. Bush, he authored controversial memoranda that endorsed the use of torture, extraordinary rendition, and the denial of due process of law, while also claiming that Bush, as president, had the authority to void the Constitution and Bill of Rights, deny Americans their fundamental freedoms, and detain them without charge or trial.
In "A tale of two academics", I argued that even though Churchill's actions seemed to cause more outrage in America than Yoo's, there are three reasons why Yoo is more deserving of condemnation: 1). Yoo's memoranda possessed the power to influence governmental policy. Churchill's essay did not; 2). Churchill expressed his views openly, while Yoo hid behind a wall of government secrecy and bureaucracy; 3). Yoo was surreptitiously working to murder the Constitution and Bill of Rights, while Churchill was breathing life into them by exercising the very rights these documents were created to protect.
Shortly before I finished writing "A tale of two academics", a Colorado jury concluded that Churchill had been fired from CU for expressing his political views, and not because of any alleged "research misconduct." In San Francisco, around the same time, federal district court judge Jeffrey White ruled that Yoo could be sued by Jose Padilla, an American citizen who was victimized by Yoo's policies of torture and detention without charge or trial.
Thus, for a brief time, it appeared that American justice was working. But, having witnessed throughout my legal career how fleeting this so-called "justice" really is, and how the American power structure tends to reward those who promote injustice while penalizing those who fight against it, I also wrote that "anyone familiar with American jurisprudence knows that such victories are fleeting in a legal system that labors harder to rationalize injustice than it does to produce justice."
It appears my statement was prescient: Two significant developments are now underscoring the sociological ramifications of the Churchill/Yoo dichotomy.
First, the world of academia recently embraced another war criminal and torturer when Texas Tech hired Alberto Gonzales—attorney general of the United States under the Bush dictatorship—to teach political science.
This is the same Alberto Gonzales who allegedly used the "Patriot Act" to illegally spy on American citizens; who so zealously sought to continue this spying program that he attempted to dupe his predecessor, a hospitalized and disoriented John Ashcroft, into signing an extension order; who tried, while serving as attorney general, to present a public façade of "morality" while he privately endorsed the use of extraordinary rendition and torture; who answered "I do not recall" at least seventy times when testifying before Congress about the circumstances that led to the politically motivated firings of eight United States Attorneys; who was suspected of committing perjury when the Senate Judiciary Committee questioned him about the illegal spying program; and who resigned in disgrace in 2007.
I hope that others, besides myself, can appreciate the hypocrisy of Yoo and Gonzales teaching law and politics when the foundations of these subjects are the Constitution and Bill of Rights—the very documents they made every effort to destroy.
Second, despite the jury's finding that Ward Churchill was wrongfully terminated from CU, Denver district court judge Larry J. Naves refused to reinstate Churchill to his professorship position or award him any financial compensation for lost wages.
In reality, such an outcome was predestined. Blaming American foreign policy for spawning acts of terrorism automatically made Churchill a pariah in the eyes of the legal system, just as Malcolm X's "chickens coming home to roost" statement in the wake of the John F. Kennedy assassination made him an outcast during the early 1960s.
So, despite Judge White's ruling in the Padilla case, it is a sure bet that Yoo will never have to pay Padilla a penny in damages, largely because of the same specious reasoning used to deny judicial relief to Churchill.
Not surprisingly, CU's president Bruce Benson lauded Naves for "appropriately applying the law." But what "law" did Naves actually apply? Obviously the only one that truly matters in the United States: the "law" decreeing that the rich and powerful must always work to protect the interests of the rich and powerful.
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WandaVision Featurette Takes the MCU in Front of a Live Studio Audience
Marvel Studios has released a new featurette taking fans behind-the-scenes of WandaVision. One of the main focuses of the new footage is how the cast and crew were able to film an episode in front of a live studio audience. Marvel boss Kevin Feige wanted the show to pay homage to the classic TV sitcoms, and using a live audience is one of the larger ways that they stuck to that original premise. With that being said, don't expect WandaVision to stick to that format as the show progresses. There are no SPOILERS for WandaVision below.
WandaVision director Matt Shakman appears in the featurette and notes, "We are kind of recreating a whole era of television and trying to do it with this authenticity." To do so, the crew went with the vibe of a midcentury sitcom, filming in black and white in front of a live studio audience. Lucky audience members had to sign strict NDAs to make sure that nothing leaked. Crew members got in on the fun and came to set in '50s-era clothing and used period correct lenses to make sure everything looks as authentic as possible. Special effects techniques that were used on shows like Bewitched and I Dream of Jeannie were also used.
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Elizabeth Olsen found that shooting WandaVision in front of a live studio audience brought back some memories. "It was insanity," Olsen said about the live experience. "There was something very meta for my own life because I would visit those tapings as a kid, where my sisters were working [on Full House]." Olsen's sisters, Mary-Kate and Ashley worked on Full House when they were children, both starring as Michelle Tanner. Marvel Studios sought out to make something classic, while using classic influences, trying their best to make sure that nothing comes off like a spoof.
As for Paul Bettany, he was excited by shooting WandaVision in front of a live studio audience. "We were all so high by the end of it, we wanted to keep on running the show. Maybe take it out on tour or something. WandaVision on ice," he said. While a live stage show is out of the question, it does lead one to wonder if there will be more Vision in the MCU's future, which is something that Bettany has addressed. Obviously, he can't reveal too much, but he has admitted that he would love to return to the character.
When Marvel boss Kevin Feige called up Paul Bettany to discuss WandaVision, the actor initially thought he was going to be fired. "So, my contract was up, and I got a call from Kevin Feige saying, 'Can you come into the office?' And when the boss calls you up and says to come by the office when your contract is up, you know what that means," Bettany recalled in a new interview. In the end, he was pitched a TV a show and immediately said yes. You can check out the behind-the-scenes featurette above, thanks to the official Marvel Entertainment YouTube channel.
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"IF" Calgary decides to bid for the 2026 Games The City of Calgary bid to the IOC should stipulate that if they are awarded the 2026 Winter Games that they also automatically be awarded the 2034 Winter Games. It makes no sense for any City to spend that kind of taxpayer money without some kind of chance to be financially rewarded. When any City is awarded Games they should get them again in 8 years. They already have the Venues and the volunteer experience, now lets make some $$$'s. Just imagine how well Vancouver would have profited if they would have had the Winter Games again last year instead of South Korea. What about Sochi? That place is a toilet now, if they would have had the Games again 8 years later they would have continued to improve the place as a city and a capable venue for the games again, this time they might have even been ready! There is a huge opportunity here for economic growth in Calgary, but only if we get to profit after we spend. As a tax payer, I'm all for the Games if we get them twice, but I'm a no vote for a one time shot.
CBC: City council to decide if arena talks with Flames should resume
CMLC boss says a new arena will come to Victoria Park: 'It's just when does it happen'
The article has conceptual drawings of a proposed arena designed. A reporter was gauging people on the street and reactions were positive. IMHO this design is way better than CalgaryNext, although that leaves out a replacement for McMahon Stadium.
The plebiscite date is approaching fast, although there is another date approaching faster: Oct 17. Been wondering how the Canadian Olympic Committee will be dealing with that. I wonder if they're gonna make Ross Rebagliati the chef de mission to Team Canada.
paul 610
On 10/3/2018 at 5:18 PM, intoronto said:
So far on the Calgary 2026 engagement website, 67% of the vote on "Do you think Calgary should submit a bid for the Games?" is a resounding "strongly disagree"
TODAY: I want The City of Calgary to submit a bid to host the 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.
Strongly disagree / 70%
Olympianfan 6
13 hours ago, paul said:
Do you have a link to it? I can't find it anywhere
14 hours ago, Olympianfan said:
https://engage.calgary.ca/2026Games?redirect=/2026games
City report on Calgary Olympic bid highlights several looming risks
The city's latest risk assessment on the potential impact of hosting the 2026 Winter Olympics shows nearly half of the key factors identified by the city rank as medium- to high-risk.
The evaluation, slated to go before the city's Olympic assessment committee on Tuesday, comes a little more than a month before Calgarians will cast their votes in a non-binding plebiscite on whether they are for or against hosting the Games.
In the report, bureaucrats identified 18 potential risks that could face a potential Calgary bid, with two of those labelled yellow for medium risk and another six marked red as high risk.
Factors deemed to be high risk include ongoing negotiations between the city and the provincial and federal governments on the clarity and timing of a cost-sharing agreement.
Low-risk categories include the projected cost to host the Games, impact on city investments and a review of the Olympic bid draft plan.
Earlier estimates put the cost of the Games at $4.6 billion, but the city's draft plan released last month shows the Olympic hosting plan will cost at least $5.23 billion.
The public portion of the Games comes to $3 billion, according to the city's bid corporation, divided between municipal, provincial and federal governments, and the province has committed to releasing details on its share of the bid no fewer than 30 days ahead of the Nov. 13 plebiscite.
"Time has always been one of the factors we flagged as being a high risk," said Coun. Jeff Davison. "Could we always want more time? Of course. Are we going to know enough of the facts and the numbers between the goal posts? Yes, I feel confident that we will."
Ottawa is expected to pay at least half that amount and Calgary's portion of the bill is an estimated $500 million (or 15 per cent) if a cost-sharing agreement can be reached between Calgary and the province.
The remaining costs would be paid through International Olympic Committee (IOC) contributions, corporate sponsorships, ticketing and merchandising.
The city's own public engagement campaign ahead of the Olympic vote, which started in earnest this month, is also in the high-risk column along with the city's ability to keep sensitive documents around the bid confidential and under wraps.
The report reiterated the city's commitment to an "accountable … citizen-centric" and neutral engagement campaign "to inform and educate the public about the bid process, seek public input … and identify issues" with the bid process ahead of the vote.
Meanwhile, the report said the Calgary 2026 Olympic bid committee's own engagement strategy "is independent of and separate" from the city's, as the city-funded group released a video on its website asking families to talk about the city's proposed Games bid during their Thanksgiving meals.
Calgary 2026's website states the bid committee's goal is to "explore, develop and promote a responsible bid to host" the 2026 Winter Games.
Davison said he's confident the dollar figures cited by city administrators won't deviate significantly.
"(Calgary 2026), they're obviously going to go out and promote that those are the numbers and facts. The city's job is to encourage people to also understand the risks. And of course, the No side is going to tell people no for the sake of saying no," Davison said.
Representing the opposing side is No Calgary Olympics, a grass-roots anti-Olympic lobby group formed in August in response to pro-Olympic lobby group Yes Calgary 2026.
Erin Waite, spokesperson for No Calgary Olympics, said Calgarians should be aware of any potential pitfalls with Olympic spending, particularly if political attitudes change after upcoming provincial and federal elections.
"If anything happened to those funding streams, Calgary is carrying the entire costs," Waite said. "(Calgarians) need to understand that as a taxpayer, you are legally obligated to pay whatever (the Games) ends up costing. … So to me, that risk is huge and it needs to be understood."
Waite also called on city councillors to publicly commit to honouring the plebiscite results. Davison said a No vote should and would be honoured by the city, but added a Yes result from the public could ultimately end up being voted down if the cost-benefit numbers don't add up.
"Personally, I'm committed to honouring the results of the plebiscite one way or another," Davison said.
For more information on Calgary 2026's draft hosting plan visit www.calgary2026.ca.
Calls to the city's bid corporation and Yes Calgary 2026 were not immediately returned Saturday.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/city-report-on-calgary-olympic-bid-highlights-several-looming-risks/amp
CTV News Calgary Special Report: (Video, over 42 mins): Yes or No? Should Calgary Host the Olympics?
CTV News: Province pledges $700M to Calgary's potential 2026 Olympic bid
Published Friday, October 12, 2018 12:56PM MDT
Last Updated Friday, October 12, 2018 1:32PM MDT
The provincial government says it will contribute $700M towards Calgary's bid to host the 2026 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Province of Alberta leaves Calgary, Ottawa with 2026 Olympics tab
Alberta says it is willing to spend $700-million to return the Winter Olympics to Calgary in 2026 if the city is chosen as host, however, the province's decision not to cover possible cost overruns leaves the city and Ottawa facing a potential multibillion-dollar tab.
Finance Minister Joe Ceci said on Friday that the province's funding is contingent on a majority of Calgarians supporting the Games in a plebiscite scheduled for Nov. 13. The province would also require the city's bid process to fall under provincial freedom of information laws to increase transparency.
"I know there is $3-billion necessary for the public governments and agencies to contribute. And $700-million is a significant amount of money and it gets us a lot of the way there," Mr. Ceci told reporters in Calgary on Friday afternoon.
The Finance Minister said he felt $700-million was the most the province could contribute as Alberta claws its way out of a long recession and looks to slay its budget deficit.
"It was a number we felt comfortable putting in, relative to the situation we're in at the provincial government level," Mr. Ceci said.
A draft plan for the 2026 games estimated the cost at $5.2-billion, with the three levels of government expected to contribute $3-billion. Sponsorships and Games revenue would cover the rest. Calgary officials have said the city could provide $500-million. Friday's announcement from Mr. Ceci means Ottawa and the city could be asked to cover the remaining $1.8-billion, and the risk of cost overruns.
Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi said in a statement that the city is in conversations with the federal government about funding the Games.
"We imagine there will be more to say about the city and federal government contributions in the next few days," he said.
A spokeswoman for the federal Minister of Science and Sport said Ottawa is working on providing more funding specifics before the plebiscite. "We respect that the citizens of Calgary need to be informed before they vote," the statement from Science and Sport Minister Kirsty Duncan's office said.
Calgary city councillor Druh Farrell has been opposed to an Olympic bid from the outset and believes Calgarians have not been given the preplebiscite data they were promised.
"We have a tendency to pursue the unicorn, the one big thing that is going to solve our problems," she said. "We know that with this particular recession it's very different, very complicated and we're not just going to rebound because of hosting an event eight years into the future."
All three of the candidates approved by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) face political challenges.
Stockholm's bid is at risk because a coalition deal struck on Friday to run the city's municipal government requires that no taxpayer funding go towards holding the Olympics. The Italian government's decision to not provide significant financial backing for the combined bid of Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo has also led to questions about the level of support for the effort.
The most immediate barrier for the Calgary bid is next month's non-binding plebiscite.
Calgary's city council has not said what level of voter support it would require to continue the Olympic bid. Mr. Ceci said the province would be comfortable with a simple majority.
Two competing campaigns, YesCalgary and NoCalgaryOlympics, have emerged to shape the debate. Both sides are clashing not only about the amount of money required to fund the Games, but also about whether Calgary would benefit from the infusion of cash a decade after the start of a grim economic situation sparked by a downturn in the oil market.
Emma May, a volunteer for the pro-bid group, said Calgary needs the Games again to recapture the feeling of the 1988 Olympics and the international attention it brought to Alberta's biggest city.
"I was here in the depression of the 80s. People were losing their homes and businesses were going bankrupt. But in 1988, the town gathered around and lit itself on fire and we had the 1988 Olympics. We underestimate what that did to the city's consciousness. It shifted us onto a new path and gave us a global outlook that has helped us thrive," she said.
A month before the vote, she said, there has been a lot of vocal support for the no side. Her biggest challenge will be getting the people who she says want the Games to come out and publicly support it.
Erin Waite, a spokeswoman for the no campaign, said the tone of the plebiscite has "felt panicked" as different levels of government have put forward their commitments only weeks before the vote.
"When this is an IOC-driven process you have IOC deadlines, you get rushed decisions and cost overruns. We're eight years before the games and already seeing the panic," she said.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theglobeandmail.com/amp/canada/article-province-of-alberta-leaves-calgary-ottawa-with-2026-olympics-tab/
mountainboarder_530@yahoo. 6
that 300 mil is going to make a pretty big difference for Calgary........that might have tipped this thing as a no, if there were any glimmer of hope for a yes
How much would the 2026 Winter Olympics cost each Calgary household?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/globalnews.ca/news/4566104/calgary-2026-winter-olympic-games-cost-taxpayers/amp/
CTV News: IOC in Calgary to answer questions about potential Olympic bid
Coincidentally, the Jamaican bobsled team is also in town, doing pre-season training at Olympic Park. Cool Runnings 2: Electric Boogaloo?
Protesters against Calgary 2026 claim Stockholm bid works better
https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1071410/protesters-against-calgary-2026-claim-stockholm-bid-works-better#comments
On 10/6/2018 at 5:12 PM, paul said:
strongly disagree has risen to 74% regarding the statement: I want The City of Calgary to submit a bid to host the 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.
https://engage.calgary.ca/2026Games
CBC News: Alberta isn't budging on $700M Olympic commitment, despite federal government cash
Finally, what the feds would be contributing:
The federal government is committing up to $1.75B to host the Olympics in Calgary
Ignore the numbers. Apparently bots are hitting the site.
CTV News: Yes Calgary calls on City to dismiss online engagement results on potential Olympic bid
Proponents of a potential Calgary bid to host the 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games say the City of Calgary's online engagement platform is ripe for manipulation by bots and its results should not be considered.
So we could have another Brexit Trump like event for Calgary it feels like there is a silent YES majority vote after all Vancouver 2010 was super popular in Canada unity it was only the far left protesting against the games at games times if their is a YES win the Canadian Taxpayers federation creditably will be shot down the toilet after all they joined the far left campaign.
The older baby boomers might want to give the younger generations the chance that they had in the 1980s I don't think it's all over yet we will find out in under 3 weeks times.
I'm heading out to a 2026 open house put on by the city. I'll see what's going on.
Lmfao - love the TIT-FOR-TAT here! And then just love the Trumpisms - "Make Canada Pay Again!" Stockholm portrayed as a great host is "fake news!" Brilliant!!
Swedish taxpayer group retaliates, endorses Calgary 2026 Olympic bid
https://www.google.com/amp/s/calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/swedish-taxpayer-group-retaliates-endorses-calgary-2026-olympic-bid/amp
And then the ending is great, too! "Let's just 'team up' & make Italy pay instead!!"
strongly disagree had risen to 82% regarding the statement: I want The City of Calgary to submit a bid to host the 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.
....then suddenly the "strongly disagree" changed to 44% and the "strongly agree' jumped to 46%
If the city can simply adjust the number like this there is no credibility in any engagement effort.
Here are some of the comments left on the Calgary engagement site:
"Basically, I distrust the IOC and feel that we will end up losing millions or even a billion + dollars & Homeless ppl pushed aside "
"High profile vanity projects, arrogant politicians and benefit-seeking special interests are a recipe for fleeced taxpayers. "
"Self anointed elites who indiscriminately waste public resources have never created anything "vibrant" or "world class" vote NO "
"Olympics are a business.Let business people finance and operate sports & entertainment ventures.Let the tax mules rest! "
"Too expensive for Calgary taxpayers. "
"Not a place for scarce public resources.Govt needs to focus only on those important roles appropriate for govt. I vote NO"
"The cost, broad doping & cheating regardless of the oaths claimed at the start of the games has broken the spirit and value. I vote NO!"
...there were many more negative comments but only 1 sort of positive one:
"The larger share of the money is spent on persistent buildings and infrastructure that are needed and will be well used by Calgarians."
Questions arise over funding for Calgary's 2026 Olympic bid
https://www.google.com/amp/amp.newsobserver.com/sports/article220792435.html
We've become a city of morons.
CBC News: Council's Olympic committee will be asked to cancel Calgary 2026 bid and plebiscite
They may have just burned thru $2 million setting up the plebiscite. Morons.
Calgary has scrubbed their engagement tools clean off their website.......so much for engagement. If you don't get the engagement you want then just shut down the process.


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The Free Library > Literature > Wilkie Collins > I Say No > Chapter XLVII: Debating.
Chapter XLVII: Debating.
In the meanwhile Emily had been true to her promise to relieve Mirabel's anxieties, on the subject of Miss Jethro. Entering the drawing-room in search of Alban, she found him talking with Cecilia, and heard her own name mentioned as she opened the door.
"Here she is at last!" Cecilia exclaimed. "What in the world has kept you all this time in the rose garden?"
"Has Mr. Mirabel been more interesting than usual?" Alban asked gayly. Whatever sense of annoyance he might have felt in Emily's absence, was forgotten the moment she appeared; all traces of trouble in his face vanished when they looked at each other.
"You shall judge for yourself," Emily replied with a smile. "Mr. Mirabel has been speaking to me of a relative who is very dear to him--his sister."
Cecilia was surprised. "Why has he never spoken to us of his sister?" she asked.
"It's a sad subject to speak of, my dear. His sister lives a life of suffering--she has been for years a prisoner in her room. He writes to her constantly. His letters from Monksmoor have interested her, poor soul. It seems he said something about me--and she has sent a kind message, inviting me to visit her one of these days. Do you understand it now, Cecilia?"
"Of course I do! Tell me--is Mr. Mirabel's sister older or younger than he is?"
"Older."
"Is she married?"
"She is a widow."
"Does she live with her brother?" Alban asked.
"Oh, no! She has her own house--far away in Northumberland."
"Is she near Sir Jervis Redwood?"
"I fancy not. Her house is on the coast."
"Any children?" Cecilia inquired.
"No; she is quite alone. Now, Cecilia, I have told you all I know--and I have something to say to Mr. Morris. No, you needn't leave us; it's a subject in which you are interested. A subject," she repeated, turning to Alban, "which you may have noticed is not very agreeable to me."
"Miss Jethro?" Alban guessed.
"Yes; Miss Jethro."
Cecilia's curiosity instantly asserted itself.
"We have tried to get Mr. Mirabel to enlighten us, and tried in vain," she said. "You are a favorite. Have you succeeded?"
"I have made no attempt to succeed," Emily replied. "My only object is to relieve Mr. Mirabel's anxiety, if I can--with your help, Mr. Morris."
"In what way can I help you?"
"You mustn't be angry."
"Do I look angry?"
"You look serious. It is a very simple thing. Mr. Mirabel is afraid that Miss Jethro may have said something disagreeable about him, which you might hesitate to repeat. Is he making himself uneasy without any reason?"
"Without the slightest reason. I have concealed nothing from Mr. Mirabel."
"Thank you for the explanation." She turned to Cecilia. "May I send one of the servants with a message? I may as well put an end to Mr. Mirabel's suspense."
The man was summoned, and was dispatched with the message. Emily would have done well, after this, if she had abstained from speaking further of Miss Jethro. But Mirabel's doubts had, unhappily, inspired a similar feeling of uncertainty in her own mind. She was now disposed to attribute the tone of mystery in Alban's unlucky letter to some possible concealment suggested by regard for herself. "I wonder whether I have any reason to feel uneasy?" she said--half in jest, half in earnest.
"Uneasy about what?" Alban inquired.
"About Miss Jethro, of course! Has she said anything of me which your kindness has concealed?"
Alban seemed to be a little hurt by the doubt which her question implied. "Was that your motive," he asked, "for answering my letter as cautiously as if you had been writing to a stranger?"
"Indeed you are quite wrong!" Emily earnestly assured him. "I was perplexed and startled--and I took Mr. Wyvil's advice, before I wrote to you. Shall we drop the subject?"
Alban would have willingly dropped the subject--but for that unfortunate allusion to Mr. Wyvil. Emily had unconsciously touched him on a sore place. He had already heard from Cecilia of the consultation over his letter, and had disapproved of it. "I think you were wrong to trouble Mr. Wyvil," he said.
The altered tone of his voice suggested to Emily that he would have spoken more severely, if Cecilia had not been in the room. She thought him needlessly ready to complain of a harmless proceeding--and she too returned to the subject, after having proposed to drop it not a minute since!
"You didn't tell me I was to keep your letter a secret," she replied.
Cecilia made matters worse--with the best intentions. "I'm sure, Mr. Morris, my father was only too glad to give Emily his advice."
Alban remained silent--ungraciously silent as Emily thought, after Mr. Wyvil's kindness to him.
"The thing to regret," she remarked, "is that Mr. Morris allowed Miss Jethro to leave him without explaining herself. In his place, I should have insisted on knowing why she wanted to prevent me from meeting Mr. Mirabel in this house."
Cecilia made another unlucky attempt at judicious interference. This time, she tried a gentle remonstrance.
"Remember, Emily, how Mr. Morris was situated. He could hardly be rude to a lady. And I daresay Miss Jethro had good reasons for not wishing to explain herself."
Francine opened the drawing-room door and heard Cecilia's last words.
"Miss Jethro again!" she exclaimed.
"Where is Mr. Mirabel?" Emily asked. "I sent him a message."
"He regrets to say he is otherwise engaged for the present," Francine replied with spiteful politeness. "Don't let me interrupt the conversation. Who is this Miss Jethro, whose name is on everybody's lips?"
Alban could keep silent no longer. "We have done with the subject," he said sharply.
"Because I am here?"
"Because we have said more than enough about Miss Jethro already."
"Speak for yourself, Mr. Morris," Emily answered, resenting the masterful tone which Alban's interference had assumed. "I have not done with Miss Jethro yet, I can assure you."
"My dear, you don't know where she lives," Cecilia reminded her.
"Leave me to discover i t!" Emily answered hotly. "Perhaps Mr. Mirabel knows. I shall ask Mr. Mirabel."
"I thought you would find a reason for returning to Mr. Mirabel," Francine remarked.
Before Emily could reply, one of the maids entered the room with a wreath of roses in her hand.
"Mr. Mirabel sends you these flowers, miss," the woman said, addressing Emily. "The boy told me they were to be taken to your room. I thought it was a mistake, and I have brought them to you here."
Francine, who happened to be nearest to the door, took the roses from the girl on pretense of handing them to Emily. Her jealous vigilance detected the one visible morsel of Mirabel's letter, twisted up with the flowers. Had Emily entrapped him into a secret correspondence with her? "A scrap of waste paper among your roses," she said, crumpling it up in her hand as if she meant to throw it away.
But Emily was too quick for her. She caught Francine by the wrist. "Waste paper or not," she said; "it was among my flowers and it belongs to me."
Francine gave up the letter, with a look which might have startled Emily if she had noticed it. She handed the roses to Cecilia. "I was making a wreath for you to wear this evening, my dear--and I left it in the garden. It's not quite finished yet."
Cecilia was delighted. "How lovely it is!" she exclaimed. "And how very kind of you! I'll finish it myself." She turned away to the conservatory.
"I had no idea I was interfering with a letter," said Francine; watching Emily with fiercely-attentive eyes, while she smoothed out the crumpled paper.
Having read what Mirabel had written to her, Emily looked up, and saw that Alban was on the point of following Cecilia into the conservatory. He had noticed something in Francine's face which he was at a loss to understand, but which made her presence in the room absolutely hateful to him. Emily followed and spoke to him.
"I am going back to the rose garden," she said.
"For any particular purpose?" Alban inquired
"For a purpose which, I am afraid, you won't approve of. I mean to ask Mr. Mirabel if he knows Miss Jethro's address."
"I hope he is as ignorant of it as I am," Alban answered gravely.
"Are we going to quarrel over Miss Jethro, as we once quarreled over Mrs. Rook?" Emily asked--with the readiest recovery of her good humor. "Come! come! I am sure you are as anxious, in your own private mind, to have this matter cleared up as I am."
"With one difference--that I think of consequences, and you don't." He said it, in his gentlest and kindest manner, and stepped into the conservatory.
"Never mind the consequences," she called after him, "if we can only get at the truth. I hate being deceived!"
"There is no person living who has better reason than you have to say that."
Emily looked round with a start. Alban was out of hearing. It was Francine who had answered her.
"What do you mean?" she said.
Francine hesitated. A ghastly paleness overspread her face.
"Are you ill?" Emily asked.
"No--I am thinking."
After waiting for a moment in silence, Emily moved away toward the door of the drawing-room. Francine suddenly held up her hand.
"Stop!" she cried.
Emily stood still.
"My mind is made up," Francine said.
"Made up--to what?"
"You asked what I meant, just now."
"Well, my mind is made up to answer you. Miss Emily Brown, you are leading a sadly frivolous life in this house. I am going to give you something more serious to think about than your flirtation with Mr. Mirabel. Oh, don't be impatient! I am coming to the point. Without knowing it yourself, you have been the victim of deception for years past--cruel deception--wicked deception that puts on the mask of mercy."
"Are you alluding to Miss Jethro?" Emily asked, in astonishment. "I thought you were strangers to each other. Just now, you wanted to know who she was."
"I know nothing about her. I care nothing about her. I am not thinking of Miss Jethro."
"Who are you thinking of?"
"I am thinking," Francine answered, "of your dead father."


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Arthur Cazenove (12 February 1823 – 10 August 1893) was an English first-class cricketer and clergyman.

The son of Philip Cazenove, the founder of the stockbrokers Cazenove, and Emma Knapp, he was born at Clapton in February 1823. He later studied at Exeter College, Oxford. While studying at Oxford, he played first-class cricket for Oxford University from 1851 to 1853, making seven appearances. He scored 129 runs in his seven matches, at an average of 16.12 and a high score of 37 not out. With his roundarm medium pace bowling, he took 15 wickets.

After graduating from Oxford, Cazenove took holy orders in the Church of England. His first ecclesiastical posting was as vicar of St Mark's Church in Reigate. He later held the post of honorary canon of Rochester Cathedral. He married Letitia Georgiana Thomson in 1856, with the couple having three children. Cazenove died in August 1893 at Cranborne, Dorset. His grandson was the soldier Arnold Cazenove and his great-grandson was the actor Christopher Cazenove.

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The factory has had different names over the years: La Confianza, La Mercedes and Compañía Harinera de Castellón de Ampúrias, S.A. This plaque commemorates that the company, whose founders were Mr Enrique Chantier Batlle, from Pont de Molins, and Mr Mario Godó Riera, from Castelló d'Empúries, was founded in July 1920. The latter was the grandson of Francisco Godó i Ballesta, a trader from Cadaqués who purchased the mill and turned it into a flour factory.
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Nancy Polette: Catching Readers for 70 Years
Nancy Polette's first published poem made its mark on the pages of a children's magazine when she was ten years old. At about that same time, a 34-year-old American named Virginia Hall was limping her way onto the Gestapo's most wanted list as a one-legged World War II spy in France. The two women were separated by thousands of miles and two decades of living, but their stories would eventually cross paths. As unlikely as a connection might be between an international spy and an elementary school teacher/librarian from Missouri, the collision resulted in Polette's 172nd published book, The Spy with the Wooden Leg: The Story of Virginia Hall. Polette, a lifelong writer and teacher, spent five years chasing the incredible story of Hall's life as a British and American spy in order to write the book. She wrote it for the children she feels are the most important to catch as readers, and she knows Hall's story is just the kind of story that will grab them.
Polette has taught at both the elementary and college levels, instructing teachers how to teach and best use school libraries to engage students. She began her passionate journey in and through books in a time when the world was starkly different than it is now.
As a child in the 1940s, Polette was accustomed to chalkboard instruction, writing pen to paper or occasionally typing with a typewriter. It was a time when world wars might have gone unnoticed were it not for the scratchy radio broadcasts, the bike-delivered newspapers, or handwritten letters that told the story. It was in that time, and in the quieter spaces in Missouri, where Polette discovered her passion for writing. Over the course of the next seventy years, she would write and teach about ways to protect and inspire the fledgling reading flame of children, but especially for the unique fire that exists in 9-, 10-, and 11-year-old kids. Throughout her life, she has identified the kinds of stories that engage children in a way that makes reading both fun and educational.
"Reading is knowledge," Polette says, "and I'm worried if kids don't become passionate about reading, they won't be as well-educated as they should be."
Virginia Hall's story is one of a number of children's stories Polette has written, but its recent publication has come only after she invested countless hours, and millions of words, to the education of others.
Polette has mostly written about techniques to use books and reading to teach children. Her writing career took off when she wrote to fill the void for classroom teachers who were learning to use the new federally-funded school libraries. Starting in the 1960's, Polette had agreed to take over the role as librarian for the elementary school where she taught. She was an elementary classroom teacher in the Pattonville school district from 1954-1979, and she doubled as a school librarian for part of that time.
She recognized there were not nearly enough resources available to teachers who wanted to best use the libraries, so Polette authored several guides and resources to teach teachers how to better use books in their classrooms.
"I hope my books for teachers help them to be better teachers," she says.
Polette eventually became a sought-after presenter and trusted resource for making good use of the school library. Through the course of her life, she has logged more than 2 million miles traveling the country to present and train teachers in library-use practices.
It is a certain-aged child who most motivates Polette's drive to educate. She feels some of the most important grades to reach are the 4th, 5th, and 6th graders.
"That is the age they need to be exposed to intense reading," she says. "We need to catch them as readers then because in middle school it's almost too late."
That opinion is why Polette's children's books, including Virginia Hall's story, are for the reading level of that age-group.
"I want to give kids something to chew on without being preachy. To give them something to think about," she says.
Researching extensively both in the United States and in Europe, Polette was able to employ primary resources and archived documents to build a complete version of Virginia Hall's story.
"I like to do research," she says, "especially if it results in a children's book. It's fun. It's like opening a treasure chest."
Some treasures take longer to unearth, but the end-goal of presenting real-life stories that can capture the imagination of children motivates Polette to continue moving from story to story.
"When I finish a book," Polette says, "I have withdrawal. I ask, 'What am I going to do next?'" She hasn't run out of ideas quite yet.
The world may have changed during Polette's 82 years, but what hasn't changed is the window of time in which the best stories can capture child readers, or the need to have motivated people like Polette who are inspired to write them down.
Nancy Polette currently lives in O'Fallon, Missouri, where she continues to write as well as instruct college students studying education at Lindenwood University.
Web: www.NancyPolette.com
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Thanks for sharing this book! I'm updating a reading list for Women's History Month, and so I added this book to it: http://read.rifflebooks.com/list/share/46233 I found this article via the Women's History Network blog post.
This quote was really motivating: A "no" for Virginia really meant "look for another way."


The 2013 Collingswood Farmers' Market opened this past weekend. I dashed out of the house hoping to catch the ribbon cutting ceremony at 8 am. I either missed it by a minute or blinked and was too busy looking at something else (like locking up my bike) because I didn't see the ceremonial cutting. Oh well. I did take a lot of great photos and bought a lot of vegetables, breads, plants and flowers. The market was as great as I remembered it to be on my very first opening day last year.
This year's market brings a few folks from my old stomping grounds of South Philly - Green Aisle Grocery and Market Day Cannel. I was also pleased to see Momma's Homemade Applesauce and Hot Sauce! I met these fine and kind folks at the Ocean City Farmers' Market last summer. Their foodstuffs are so tasty and delicious. It will be wonderful to be able to buy their foods and sauces in C-Wood if and when they can be regular vendors here!
Favorite vendors from last year have returned too - the best bread (and only decent) source in Collingswood, Wild Flour Artisan Bakers, Viereck Farms (cannot wait for the strawberries and tomatoes!) as well as Spring Dale Farms and their good pies and cider donuts. Nate was excited to see King Kettle Korn with the dollar boxes of kettle corn! Yum.
I had such a good visit to the market at 8 am, that I was able to go home, drop off my goods, get Nate dressed and return for a late morning once around again! 2nd trip to the market enabled me to buy some herbs and 6 huge healthy geraniums for the garden. I definitely did my part to keep a lot of cash well-spent in the local small business stream!


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Q: Big Query Regex Extraction I am trying to extract a item_subtype field from an URL.
This regex works fine in the to get the first item item_type
SELECT REGEXP_EXTRACT('info?item_type=icecream&item_subtype=chocolate/cookies%20cream,vanilla&page=1', r'item_type=(\w+)')
but what is the correct regex to get everything starting from 'chocolate' all the way to before the '&page1'
I have tried this, but can't seem to get it to work to go further
SELECT REGEXP_EXTRACT('info?item_type=icecream&item_subtype=chocolate/cookies%20cream,vanilla&page=1', r'item_subtype=(\w+[^Z])')
basically, I want to extract 'chocolate/cookies%20cream,vanilla'

A: In your case, \w+ only matches one or more letters, digits or underscores. Your expected values may contain other characters, too.
You may use
SELECT REGEXP_EXTRACT('info?item_type=icecream&item_subtype=chocolate/cookies%20cream,vanilla&page=1', r'item_subtype=([^&]+)')

See the regex demo.
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*item_subtype= - this string is matched as a literal char sequence

*([^&]+) - a Capturing group 1 that matches and captures one or more chars other than & into a separate memory buffer that is returned by REGEXP_EXTRACT function.

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I'm a walking billboard… bitch
On Wednesday, Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg boasted that the "next 100 years" of advertising began here.
On the face of it, it looked like Web 2.0 had found its "Long Boom" moment. Facebook has yet to turn a profit, so Zuckerberg hardly seems in a position to advise other people how to make money – let alone place himself in a pantheon of historic business greats. In Web 2.0-land, merely "being there" is a substitute for having "made it".
But then Zuckerberg is no stranger to bluster. This, notoriously, was the 22 year-old who had "I'm CEO…bitch" on his business card.
Behind the calculated bluster were a collection of ideas perhaps equally designed to distract the attention (no pun intended).
Of the three ideas Zuckerberg outlined, one in particular provoked horror and ridicule. It was to turn Facebook users, accustomed to its clean and spare UI, into human billboards. Advertisers could build presences in Facebook – at the moment, you must be a person – giving users the opportunity to "affiliate" with them.
"Users can become a fan of a business and can share information about that business with their friends and act as a trusted referral," is how the company described it.
"What do the users get in return?" asked the IT commentator Nick Carr. "An animated Sprite Sips character to interact with."
But Nick is forgetting that this cuts both ways – it isn't a static picture at all.
Take the example of Stella Artois, which was once a "premium" lager brand owned by brewing giant InBev. In recent years this has acquired the notorious nickname "wife-beater". This is now so pervasive, that lawyers defending their clients on assault charges refer to the "Stella" defence. Sales fell 10 per cent last year – and it isn't quite so "premium" any more.
An affiliation is not an endorsement – yet Facebook collects either way. Would Stella's fall have been accelerated by Facebook affiliation? Almost certainly, for on the web, jeering is the background noise. Only the most delusional marketing person thinks that their brand is in any way enhanced by proximity to the mob – brand advertising is all about keeping a distance. A corporate reputation is like a party frock – it crumples easily.
So shrewder advertising spenders will quickly realize the dangers in such 2.0-style "interactive" engagement and how phoney "conversations" with customers really are – and wisely gravitate towards traditional methods, such as plain ol' display ads.
Nevertheless, and here's the rub, they still want to have better, more targeted advertising. And even the slightest improvement helps.
Facebook's future is much more down to who it lets into the club, rather than anything we heard this week.
Don't be bluffed by bluster
The picture is far more nuanced than a simple analysis permits.
Because Facebook has wrapped up pretty much every internet application protocol ever invented under its umbrella, it's the portal the old dotcom portals wished they would be. [MySpace gave us the first hint of this shift two years ago, when we observed that users rarely left MySpace – using it for everything except IM.]
For Facebook today, most of its value is as an email replacement – which represents the balkanization of the internet, with people only talking to people they already know. This is socially dismal, but again, good for advertisers. We've also seen a successful example of transactional revenue in the Facebook application iLike, which allows you to buy concert tickets. Others will find a way to persuade the in-Facebook brethren to part with their money.
So it's worth remembering that there are many businesses within Facebook, and we're barely at the nebula stage: the star is still forming.
This week reaction to Facebook's announcement fell into two camps. The cynics saw it as confirmation that Web 2.0 companies were only ever out to screw their users as quickly as possible. The technology utopians appeared shocked – shocked! – that Facebook wanted to monetize its user base at all.
The truth is somewhere in between. Facebook may be far cleverer than we've been told this week.
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Oracle to power Cloud transformation drive in India's SMB sector
New Delhi [India], July 8 (ANI): Oracle on Friday launched its first Digital Hub in Bengaluru, which will provide small and midsize businesses (SMBs) access to the cloud solutions and resources they need to power digital transformation. The new facility, one of the five Digital Hubs set to open in Asia Pacific, highlights Oracle's commitment to better serving the midsize market in the new cloud economy. India's new Digital Hub, part of a global network of best practice centres for SMBs, will help small and midsize businesses leverage Oracle Cloud solutions to streamline operations, boost innovation and gain a platform for growth. "There are over 51 million SMBs in India, many of whom haven't worked with Oracle or used cloud before. They now have access to the most modern solutions in the market, available online, direct via the hub and through our expanded end-to-end ecosystem, working with the vast network in India," said Shailender Kumar, VP and regional MD, Oracle India. The hub will house Oracle's new digital sales team and focus on helping more midsize organisations transition to the cloud quickly and easily. With a distinctive Indian feel, and exuding the energy of a start-up, the team will provide timely, personalised and effective support to customers, using the latest collaboration tools, techniques and technologies to transform the buying experience. "The cloud is democratising IT; you just need a web browser or a mobile phone app to take advantage of it. What's more, it has incredible transformation potential for small businesses, enabling them to do things they have never been able to do before, at an affordable price, such as use technology to streamline business processes, gain access to an easy-to-use platform for innovation, and digitise their customer experience. We are simplifying the buying process to help these smaller organisations, as well as branch offices and line of business departments, digitally transform their business," said François Lançon, Senior VP, Oracle Japan and Asia Pacific. Customers that want to buy entirely online can utilise the click-to-buy Oracle Accelerated Buying Experience. In addition to the simplified buying experience, Oracle's Digital Hubs will provide a complete suite of cloud applications, platform, and infrastructure services as both standalone services and as bundles. The range of choices empowers small businesses to select solutions that directly address their goals or issues. "The Oracle HCM cloud solution has completely transformed our HR engine to match our fast growth and has given us the freedom to do more with less. It has helped us achieve the right blend of process modernisation and increased efficiencies. The analytics that come embedded enabled us to gain the right insights to drive more contextual collaboration and engagement, and make faster and better operational decisions," said Vivek Vinayak Purekar, VP and global HR head, Simeio Solutions. The Digital Hub's work with SMBs complements the Oracle Startup Cloud Accelerator Programme, which aims to fuel cloud-enabled innovation among startups around the globe. Following the pilot program in Bangalore, Oracle recently expanded locations across the globe, including opening two new centres in Delhi-NCR and Mumbai to provide mentorship and technology resources to local startups. (ANI)


Rezumat: I. The Romanian word fulg 'snow-flake, fluff, down, feather, flock' most probably is an autochtonous expressive formation of onomatopoeic origin: *fl̥g-, related to a fufula (reg.) 'to snow', a fâlfâi 'to flutter, to fly, to float', cfr. Alb. flug 'swing', OGerm. flug 'flying', Norse (dial.) flugsa 'snow-flake'.
II. The antiquated and regional Romanian word stâlpuri 'branches' is inherited from Vulg. Lat. (dim. pl.) *stirpulae, derivative of Lat. stirps '(3.) branch', cfr. Lat. stipula 'stalk'.
I. fulg, onomatopoeic/expressive words, syllabic sonants, onomatopoeic helping vowels. II. Romanian homonyms: *stâlp2, *stâlpură, pl. stâlpuri, inherited word from Latin; stâlp1, pl. stâlpi, Slavic loan.


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Q: Using php functions, reserved words as local identifiers I'm thinking of some of the array functions. "key", "each", "pos", "range". These are often very useful as local identifiers! I have also seen code that (ab)uses $return, $list, $array, $string. What are other PHP programmers views on this?
Local identifiers only! I wouldn't use them as members or method names of a class, even less global variables.


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Q: summarize with bash I have some data getting by SQL. And I need to summarize with bash without sql.
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A: Using GNU awk and expecting the data to be in files (file1 is the abc data, file2 the dt):
$ gawk '
ARGIND==1 {                                    # process abc data
    a[FNR]=$0                                  # hash to a
    n++                                        # abc and dt expected to have
    next                                       # same number of records
}
ARGIND==2 {                                    # process dt data
    b[FNR]=$0                                  # hash to b
    next
}
split($0,t,/\//) {                             # process the third set
    c[t[1]]=c[t[1]] (c[t[1]]==""?"":", ") t[2] # hash to c appending
}
END {                                          # in the end
    for(i=1;i<=n;i++)                          # n is used
        printf "%s %s | %s\n",b[i],a[i],c[i]   # output
}' file1 file2 file3

Output:
1 A | x, y
2 B | y, z
3 C | z
4 D | x, y, z

If this is a continuous thing you might want to check out the pgsql extension to GNU awk.