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Liverpool, England Brief job details... Interim Finance Business Partner Liverpool Contract � 250-� 300 perday 3-6 months Interim Finance Business Partner needed to work for a large established manufacturing organisation located in Liverpool.
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Liverpool, England Brief job details... One of the UK's leading providers of skilled technical resource supporting the regulatory environment are provideing great opportunities within the financial services industry for a multi-national client on the Chester Business Park.
Merseyside Liverpool North West Brief job details... vacancy Synopsis and Required Skills and Attributes Oversight of daily controls for the sub ledger covering trade undertaking and processing for equities, fixed income and FX plus post trade services.
- This includes monitoring trial balance postings and control accounts system testing for new functionality and regression testing... ... Review and approve daily journal postings Co-ordination of monthly account ownership process, run monthly review meeting, track actions raised Review and approve requests for new accounts, checking adherence to policy Updating account ownership policy Reconciliations prepare or review sub ledger accounts under finance ownership communicate and discuss with auditors on I S A E 3402 account owners... ... . .... Interested in "Accountant IV - Finance" job? Click job title for more details.
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Merseyside Liverpool North West Brief job details... Reed Finance is proud to be hiring for a Finance Business Partner for an incredibly successful Higher Education organisation located or based in Liverpool.
Preparation and production of monthly management reports detailing the relevant portfolio, its financial performance... . .... Interested in "Finance Business Partner" job? Click job title for more details.
Merseyside Liverpool North West Brief job details... As a job seeker are you an determined AC A / ACC A qualified accountant or Internal Auditor from Big4 / Top20 / Top50 firm looking for their first or second move in industry but a vacancy with a commercial edge? A market-important company is now looking for a Finance Business Partner with strong communications skills to be working with operational stakeholders to track changes and ensure everything is captured through accounting processes and procedures.
- This vacancy is ideal for a high calibre individual with an external or internal auditor background (at least 50% audit) that is wanting a new position with a mix of commercial and financial responsibilities rather than a purely technical vacancy... ... The Finance Business Partner ... ... . .... Interested in "Finance Business Partner - ACA / ACCA from Practice" job? Click job title for more details.
Merseyside North West Liverpool Brief job details... Large engineering business in Liverpool is hiring an Finance Business Partner for a six month contract.
- Your new companyLarge engineering business located or based in Liverpool owned by a multi national European listed company... You'll be responsible for controlling the spend on a range of high public profile projects, including partnering with senior stakeholders, writing business cases and capital investment appraisals... Your new vacancyCovering an internal secondment for six months, the finance business partner job will report into the financial controller and manage a small team... Other duties will include monitoring KP I's and producing management accounts for head office... What you'll need to succeedC I M A/ ACC A/ AC A. .... Interested in "Interim Finance Business Partner" job? Click job title for more details.
Merseyside Liverpool North West Brief job details... With over 21 years financial recruitment experience in the local area, Marshall Moore has a wide range of longstanding relationships with some of the most sought after accountancy, financial services and wealth management organisations in the Liverpool area.
- As we near the summer of 2017, there has been a significant increase in graduate recruitment and we have a range of opportunities from key Liverpool based companies for job seekers of graduate calibre... Routinely outperforming national and international competitors, Marshall Moore s intelligent and friendly consultants offer an exceptional financial recruitment service ... Established in 1996, Marshall Moore is a authority financial recruitment company defined by quality of service... ... . .... Interested in "Graduate Opportunities - Accountancy - Finance and Wealth Management" job? Click job title for more details.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England Brief job details... The employer are a Senior Partner Practice of St.
- Jamesandrsquo;s Place Wealth Management, providing a personal wealth management service designed to meet their clients short and long-term needs... Assisting clients reach their financial goals by provideing appropriate advice and guidance now, and by ensuring that any plans put in place remain effective in the future no matter how your circumstances change... As a result of organic and acquisitive growth they now seek to appoint a number of Financial Advisers to their expanding and new office in Liverpool... Whatever the situation,they work closely to create a financial strategy personalised to the specific needs relevant to clients as an individual, their family or business... Some of the serv. .... Interested in "Financial Adviser" job? Click job title for more details.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England Brief job details... Excellent Position! Life office require a Financial Advisor to cover Liverpool area.
- Basic salary � 21000 with OTE � 50K ( no limit) Mercedes Company Car (Fully expensed) Pension (Non Contributory) 4X Death in Service benefit Excellent bonus scheme Renewal Commissions paid Home Based job For this job you need a good understanding and proven track record in Sales... Customer face to face skills are essential... In an ideal world you will have studied Financial Services and hold a recognised qualification such as FPC or CeFA ( this is not essential) At least 2 years Sales experience is needed... The Job involves working an existing client bank (Child Trust Fund Clients) and visiting customers in their homes... You will have a wide range. .... Interested in "Financial advisor job (Home Based)" job? Click job title for more details.
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Liverpool, England Brief job details... Part Qualified Accountant Liverpool Permanent � 30k-� 35k Part Qualified Accountant needed to work for a financial services organisation located in Liverpool.
- The Part Qualified Accountant will be studying towards either the CIMA or ACCA qualification and have gained experience working within financial services, producing large amount reports and dealing with multi-site organisations... Duties and job duties for the Part Qualified Accountant; andbull; Ensuring the completeness and accuracy of the information provided meets Internal and External ... The Part Qualified Accountant will be based within the Financial Management team and assist in the gathering, validating and reporting of financial information, producing accurate reports... ... . .... Interested in "Part Qualified Accountant" job? Click job title for more details.
Liverpool, England Brief job details... Assistant Accountant Liverpool Permanent � 20k-� 23k plus study support I am at the moment recruiting for a large worldwide manufacturing company located in Liverpool for an Assistant Accountant.
andbull; Inter-company accounting andbull; Working closely with finance business partners throughout the business ensuring all accounts b... The Assistant Accountant will also be accountable for the management and administration of the groupandrsquo;s fixed assets, VAT returns, Intrastat reporting and reporting of tax... ... . .... Interested in "assistant job Accountant" job? Click job title for more details.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England Brief job details... An Assistant Management Accountant is needed at the Head Office of a company located in L4 on a full time permanent basis.
- Recent relevant experience of management accounts, Sage and Microsoft Office is needed along with a good working understanding of sales and purchase ledgers, payroll and credit control... Competitive salary available to the successful applicant who must provide an enhanced disclosure, the cost of which will be met by the Company... This job would suit a professional individual in possession of an attention to detail... To make a job application please send an email with curriculum vitae (CV), covering letter and current salary... No Agencies . .... Interested in "assistant job Management Accountant" job? Click job title for more details.
Central Liverpool The employer, BDO - an international network of public accounting, is looking to recruit Assistant Cashiers to provide a national cashier processing service to the Business Recovery stream.
andbull; Inputting data and maintaining ... SSC team members work internally within the business providing support to the client facing members of the firm... ... . .... Interested in "Business Recovery Cashier assistant job" job? Click job title for more details.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England Brief job details... North West Housing Services is a leading provider of finance, maintenance, property investment and housing management services to housing co-operatives, small housing associations, leaseholders and social enterprises.
- We are located in Liverpool and operate throughout the North West of England... Reporting to the Accounts Manager, you will pla... Accounts Assistant Salary � 15,708- 16,708 per annum dependent upon experience 27 days leave plus 3 days concessionary, 35 hour working week (flexible working hours), 8.5% defined contribution pension scheme, study support package, other benefits The post holder will be part of our Finance Team located in our Devonshire Road office in Liverpool, but may also work from clientsandrsquo; offices... ... . .... Interested in "Accounts assistant job" job? Click job title for more details.
Liverpool, England Brief job details... Accounts Assistant Working for one of the leading marketing and design agencies in the UK you will be working with some of the worlds most famous brands.
andbull; Responsible for processing large amount purchase invoices on a daily basis andbull; Accurately coding of all nominal invoices and reconciling for any errors andbull; Raising of sales invoices and processing remittances andbull; Responsible for the credit control and recovering overdue payments andbull; Bank reconciliations and managing th... ... . .... Interested in "Accounts assistant job" job? Click job title for more details.
Central Liverpool The employer, BDO - an international network of public accounting, is looking to recruit an Accounts Hub Senior Associate to become part of the Accounts Hub located in central Liverpool.
andbull; Support national audit and BDO Drive teams with review and QA of single company and consolidated statu... SSC team members work internally within the business providing support to the client facing members of the firm... ... . .... Interested in "Accounts Senior Associate" job? Click job title for more details.


It's been a few weeks now, I'm 30,000+ words in, and... the plot bunnies have come to eat me. It was going to happen inevitably - figuring out my story as it went along would always mean fixing a plot hole ahead would open another, far more cavernous one behind me. But it is somewhat demoralising to realise that you are pretty much going to rewrite the 30k you spent the last few weeks ploughing through. But I will not be quelled by plot holes and gaping inconsistencies! So here I am, navigating the First Draft Blues. It was a pretty sweet feeling when I hit 30,000 words in a cafe last weekend. Unfortunately being surrounded by people/civilisation meant I was unable to do a victory lap and demand the finest tea in all the land (but I did get a free top-up of my chai tea, so it wasn't all a lost cause!). I had waded carefully through one plot hole, kindly revealed to me by the previous day's long walk, and was on the cusp of a Major Event in the story. I went home, refueled on important things like food and daydreaming, wrote another 500 words... and then stared blankly at my laptop. I had just written myself into a plot hole of such cavernous proportions, I could barely see the light at the top of it. I may as well have climbed down an oubliette and left myself to rot. There's nothing quite like a character saying things to another character that you are sure you can weasel out of, then realise all hope is lost and actually your wise old character has just proved a very good point and you really ought to listen to them. So naturally, I wrote down the error in my Problems Notebook and carried blithely on. But my characters would not listen.
And then I saw the ladder out of the oubliette, a shaft of light bearing down on my draft and saying "Look! A solution! Listen and all your problems will be solved!". Now as far as solutions go, it's pretty good. It irons out other minor inconsistencies and problems I had neatly skipped over earlier, and should lead to the rest of the story being more cohesive and actually making sense. But it is somewhat depressing to realise that this particular solution is so critical to the story that I will have to do a complete rewrite. But this is a first draft! I tell myself. First drafts are designed to be awful! The only purpose of a first draft is to figure out the story, using as many real words as possible, and then you will rewrite it into a sensible blob and then you will turn the blob, very slowly, into something beautiful. Wise words, past me. What the wise words did not tell me, however, was how to cope with the enormous sense of failure. My Inner Editor quickly pounced on this opportunity and ran riot in my brain. START AGAIN, it screamed. FIX THIS NOW, it demanded, making me rue the split second I accidentally let it out of its cage.
The only thing I find you can do in a situation like this is walk away. I spent three days away from my story; I was still thinking and daydreaming and imagining, but not writing down. And there was still a sense of apprehension there. I worried that as soon as I go back to the draft, that I would be overwhelmed by my Inner Editor running rampant once again. But under no circumstances should I redraft! This is the thing that has always tripped me up when I'm writing, and I'm sure it's tripped up many of you too: rewriting so many times to make it perfect, and then never finishing the stupid thing! I have only ever finished one novel beginning to end, and that was for NaNoWriMo. It was a hideously written, badly plotted, two-dimensional exercise in writing - but it was finished.
So that's my writing resolution for this week. Keep on at it, write more story, and ignore the diabolically cavernous plot hole behind you. And if you're at the same stage with your draft - well then I recommend that you do too!


The Census Bureau reported that private residential construction spending activity increased 1.8 percent during January. The preliminary estimate for December was boosted higher to show a 1.5 percent gain, versus the originally reported increase of 0.8 percent. After falling in July 2010 to its lowest reading since mid-1995, spending on private residential construction projects has increased in each of the last six months — rising to its highest dollar value since January 2010.
Spending on new single-family home construction climbed 2.5 percent versus December 2011. In addition, the level of spending activity has increased in each of the last eight months and on a year-over-year basis this category has registered a gain of 5.5 percent. Although this improvement is modest, the sustained period of growth corroborates the mounting evidence from indicators such as the Wells Fargo/NAHB HMI, new construction starts and home sales that the housing market might have found that elusive recovery. The recent quickening in the pace of new job growth and still-high levels of housing affordability should only bode well for additional growth in single-family construction activity over the near term; however, tight mortgage lending standards and competition from distressed property sales will remain a limiting factor going forward.
Multifamily construction spending ticked higher by 0.7 percent in January. While month-to-month fluctuations for this category have been more volatile, the level of spending has certainly trended higher during the past year with a 20 percent increase versus January 2011. Authorized multifamily (5+ units) building permits remained above 200,000 annualized units for the third consecutive month in January 2012, pointing to likely gains in spending over the near term.
The home improvement component of construction spending increased for the sixth consecutive month during January, gaining 1.3 percent on a month-to-month basis. Overall, remodeling did not endure the same degree of decline in activity when compared to new construction for single-family and multifamily projects. In fact, during 15 of the last 16 months, the level of home improvement spending has exceeded that of new single-family homes. A combination of tax credits for retrofitting homes with energy efficiency equipment and rehabilitation/repair work on distressed properties has likely bolstered demand for home improvement spending.


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New Delhi: In an implicit criticism of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP President Amit Shah, BJP veteran L.K. Advani on Thursday said the BJP never regarded those who disagreed with it politically as "enemies" but only viewed them as "adversaries".
"The guiding principle of my life has been 'Nation First, Party Next, Self Last. And in all situations, I have tried to adhere to this principle and will continue to do so," he said in a blog post written exactly after four years.
"The essence of Indian democracy is respect for diversity and freedom of expression. Right from its inception, the BJP has never regarded those who disagree with us politically as our 'enemies', but only as our adversaries," he added.
Advani, one of the founders of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh and later the Bharatiya Janata Party, said that elections were a festival of democracy and "are also an occasion for honest introspection by all the stakeholders in Indian democracy".
"In our conception of Indian nationalism, we have never regarded those who disagree with us politically as 'anti-national'.
Advani conveyed his "sincere gratitude" to the people of Gandhinagar, which he represented in the Lok Sabha six times since 1991 but where he was not fielded this time by the BJP.
"Their love and support has always overwhelmed me," he said.


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Singing the Psalms in Lent:
A Little Handbook of Twenty Sections
by Fr Jonathan Tobias
1. I wrote this "little handbook" to assist anyone who would like to pray through the Psalms this Lent (and maybe afterward). Outside of Lent, the Orthodox Christian community prays through the Psalms completely once per week; and in Lent itself, we are called to go through the Psalms twice per week.
2. This handbook is meant only as an introduction. There are many more things to say about the Psalms than what is contained in these paragraphs: in fact, it is impossible to write anything that approaches completeness about the Psalms. The same thing could be said about the Psalms as the Evangelist said about the Lord Himself: "… there are also many other things which Jesus did; were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written" (John 21.25 RSV).
3. God has helped me so often, and so deeply, through the Psalms that I encourage everyone to try praying through the Psalms in a regular manner. I invite you to do this whether you are Orthodox or not — even whether you identify yourself as a Christian, or a believer, or a traditionalist or a doubter or wanderer.
4. The Psalms constitute the "hymnal" or "songbook" or, better, the "prayerbook" for all Christians. Our Lord Himself, in His human life, grew up in and continued to pray these Psalms. This is a deep and beautiful thought, because it is the same Lord Who in His divinity — as the eternal Word of God — actually formed the Psalms through the work of David and the other makers of the Psalms.
5. In the same way, the Psalms "form" our thoughts and feelings and actions as we sing them. They teach us the design of prayer — the ways of meeting God in His sanctuary that He Himself has made (more on this below).
6. You probably noticed that the second title is "Singing the Psalms." I encourage you to at least read the Psalms out loud, so that your ears can hear the words and the verses from your mouth. If you can, try to chant — that is, sing on the same note or a simple melody — the Psalms in a soft voice (sotto voce) that is just barely loud enough for you to hear. This is not an unimportant matter. It is possible that silent reading confines the information in subjectivity: on the other hand, reading audibly gives the words a higher level of objectivity. At the very least, move your lips when you read the words. In a famous passion of his Confessions (book vi, chapter 3), St Augustine was amazed to see his spiritual father St Ambrose of Milan actually reading silently, without even moving his lips, so that he would be always available for visits and thus "interruptible." I know that I am not nearly so spiritually developed as Ambrose: perhaps this is true about you as well.
7. Sometimes (actually, many times) my attention wanders while I pray. This happens less when I chant the Psalms out loud. And even then, when my consciousness wakes up and finds itself "otherwise occupied," I am better able to re-focus on the Psalms in the context of a chant.
8. At the end of this handbook, there is a schedule of readings that we follow in praying through the Psalms in a single week. There exists an additional Lenten schedule for reading the Psalms twice per week: I have not included this. I share with you the fact that I have rarely chanted the Psalms in Lent on the twice per week schedule. I do what I can and try to do better. If you can do better, I am sincerely happy and thankful, because you are making the world a better place (without any irony, I welcome any superiority over my own work).
9. This schedule of readings is special, and worth looking into. The early desert monks, living by themselves, would chant the entire Book of Psalms (or "Psalter") every single day. As they grew into communities, the chanting of the Psalms every week became the community form of prayer. Over time, the Psalms were divided into twenty sections called "kathismata" ("kathisma," singular). Every kathisma is roughly the same length, consisting of one to four Psalms, depending upon the length (thus, the longest Psalm, the 118th, is a kathisma unto itself).
10. The word "kathisma" is the Greek word for "sitting." This reflects the practice of the monks who would sit down while one of the brothers would stand and chant the Psalms.
11. Each kathisma is further divided into three "staseis" ("stasis," singular). "Stasis" is the word for "standing," which is exactly what the monks would do at this point, since the monk who was chanting the Psalm would say "Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit," at which point everyone would stand.
12. For most of the week, the schedule calls for the reading of two kathismata in the morning and one kathisma in the evening. The "kathisma" schedule is based upon the chapter numbering of the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament, which is called the "Septuagint." This is the translation used by the Orthodox and Roman Catholic community. Its chapter numbering is different from the more familiar English translations (like the King James Bible, or the New International Version). For example, the "Good Shepherd Psalm" is known as Psalm 23 in most translations, but in the Septuagint (which is often abbreviated as the "LXX"), it is identified as Psalm 22. To help you with this difference of chapter numbering (especially if you are using an English translation that is not based on the Septuagint), I have included a helpful chart that compares the Septuagint numbering with the Masoretic (this is the numbering used by most English translations).
13. It is more important to do a little with the Psalms than to attempt a lot, only to give up and not do anything at all. That is why I have not yet tried to do the Lenten schedule in its entirety. Perhaps it is impossible for you to chant the Psalms completely in a single week. If this is the case, pray one Psalm in the morning, and another Psalm in the evening. If you would like to complete all the Psalms on a less demanding way, I suggest that you try the "tri-weekly" schedule. In this manner, on the first week, you would simply chant the first stasis of each appointed kathisma. On the second week, you would do the second stasis. And on the third, you would complete the Psaltery by chanting the third and final stasis of each kathisma.
14. Sometimes people do not like the idea of a "way" or "method" of prayer, thinking that any such form is artificial and limits the spiritual freedom of prayer. But nothing is wrong with "form" in prayer, even a repeated form. This does not at all prevent anyone from speaking extemporaneously or spontaneously. In fact, the Psalms often speak of pouring out one's heart to God, or expressing intense emotions to the Lord. It is in such intense moments, especially of sorrow or anxiety, that form can actually help in the expression of spontaneous concern. When the Lord condemned "vain repetition" (in Matthew 6.7), He did not denounce "repetition" or form, but the vanity of "going through the motions," without any attention to the words, or without any emotional involvement. There are many instances of repetition in the Psalms. Themes and ideas frequently re-appear. Verses and even groups of verses are repeated in various sections. And in one famous case (Psalm 135 LXX), the phrase "for His mercy endures forever" is repeated twenty-seven times and twenty-six verses.
15. There are good reasons for repetition. One reason is that repetition signals that the phrase is important and deserves greater attention. Another reason is that each successive repetition calls for increasing intensity and higher, wider interpretation. In the case of Psalm 135, the repeated "for His mercy endures forever" calls for an ever deepening sense of God's mercy. For example: I start with a simple identification of "His" as "God," but then "His" turns into a personal possessive. "Mercy" may start with the simple meaning of "erasing my debts" or "letting me off the hook." But then the repetition deepens in sense: "mercy" becomes "steadfast love and compassion," which is more intimate than an arbitrary erasure of debit in an accounting register. Then, as the chanting continues, "mercy" reaches the deeply mystical understanding (or "knowing") of the Self-sacrifice of Christ on the Cross (and throughout His Incarnation" — and that Self-sacrifice itself is related to the constant "pouring out" of One to the Other within the Three Persons of the Holy Trinity.
16. In this sense, any formal repetition in the Psalms is not at all a deadening, limiting and vain practice of man-made habits. Instead, it becomes a spiritual "dance" of love between the Creator and His beloved creature. There is a pattern of God's action and word, and our response. And God in turn responds to us: and at ever act, the human heart rises higher.
17. Much, if not all, of the Psalms is simple: a straightforward "plain reading of the text" can yield powerful meaning. But at the same time, everything in the Psalms is also mysterious. In general, every Psalm and every verse (or "stanza") is simultaneously plain and hidden. I say "in general" because frankly, there are some Psalms and some verses that are not at all plain. Some of the Psalms actually state, outright, that they are about "dark sayings," "riddles" and "things hidden since the foundation of the world" (as in Psalm 77.2 and 48.4 LXX). This is an honest statement about reality: only some of life is easy to understand, but better understanding of real life is difficult and requires hard work. This shows the presence and deep concern of Wisdom that occupies the "depth of the earth and the height of the sky" surrounding and permeating the Psalms.
18. Thus, there is no substitute for a constant, repeated practice of praying the Psalms. Meanings will seem to jump out at you with the first readings. There may be occasions when nothing new will commend itself to you. But there are other occasions, perhaps on the tenth or hundredth or thousandth, that the utter depths of Wisdom reflected in a single stanza will overwhelm you with such loveliness and a vision of the everlasting that you will be reduced to tears (which St Symeon the New Theologian and St Isaac of Nineveh called the second baptism of the latter rain, that turns the gray wilderness into verdant pasture). Repetition of the Psalms is like a spiral, not a circle: for example — you may revisit, cyclically, Psalm 109 every Saturday morning (since it is contained in the sixteenth kathisma, but one year, one morning, you will be overcome by the poetic and Christocentric force of Psalm 109.7 LXX: "He shall drink from the brook on the way, therefore he shall lift up his head").
19. There are, indeed, repetitions of many terms, phrases or themes. Here is a short list of Psalmic terms. I describe these particular ones because some of them may actually appear as an obstacle to you. Some, even, may appear to afflict you with fear or distress, or even despair. Some will say this is impossible, since "perfect love casteth out fear" (1 John 4.18 KJV). But for my part, this issue became an almost insurmountable difficulty in the beginning phase of my Psalmic life: I was saved, however, and granted peace (and a vision of beauty) only after some hard work of repetition and study. So in the hopes of sparing you some discomfort that is possibly avoidable, I offer a short discussion of the following terms:
Selah. This odd, mysterious Hebrew word appears seventy-one times in thirty-nine of the Psalms. The Septuagint translates this with the Greek word "diapsalma," which indicates a pause, and perhaps a change in melody and rhythm. I suggest that when chanting and you encounter "selah," that right then you take a breath, and think deeply on the phrase you just chanted, and pay attention to how the next words follow upon that phrase. For example: the first occurrence of "selah" occurs in Psalm 3.2 LXX. In the first two verses, David sings about how the increasing number of his enemies, and "how many are they who say to my soul: There is no salvation for him in his God." Then there is the "selah." At that moment, we reflect on how often in life we suffer from attack, and attack of a certain kind. The clue to this is the phrase, "many are they who say to my soul." Plainly, this is at attack from spiritual sources instead of physical ones, since these "afflicters" are ones who can "say to my soul." So in this reflection, we are ready to more deeply appreciate the protection of God in verses three and four: "But You, O Lord, are my protector, my glory and the One Who lifts up my head. I cried to the Lord with my voice and He heard me from His holy hill." And even then, we encounter another "selah" before the beginning of the fifth verse: "I lay down and slept" (i.e., secure enough to sleep vulnerably in the midst of the foe) and why is this possible? "I awoke (i.e., I survived the night), for the Lord will protect me."
That is what "selah" can do for you.
Enemies. These are "actors" or agents who attack the prayer of the Psalms — whether the Psalmist is David, Moses, Solomon, the sons of Korah, or even you and me. At one time, these enemies may have been actual, human persons (or groups of people). But even then, when the enemies may have been Goliath, King Saul or palace conspirators lined up against David, they had given up the noble image of their humanity and were acting as puppets of their demonic masters. The literal, historic meaning of the "enemies" in the Psalms is always valid (because it is "authentic"), but it is always secondary and derivative — even in the original author's contemporary situation. To confine David's many, many complaints about his enemies to a political situation is to reduce the meaning — even for David himself, as he knew that behind the historical actions of his physical enemies lay the greater, far more horrible evil presence of the demonic.
The interpretation work is even simpler for us after the Incarnation. "But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you, Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you" (Luke 6.27-28 KJV). Some early Christian Fathers say that human anger should never be directed against anyone who bears the image of God, at least not any human. Some Fathers teach that anger should be reserved only for the demonic. But even then, a few Fathers suggest that we should even pray for them, or at least mourn for them (I'm thinking of St Silouan of Athos here), simply because, as St Isaac of Nineveh teaches, God only loves those whom He has created.
In short, when enemies are mentioned in the Psalms, they are spiritual entities, whether they are demons or demonic forces or just nameless, amorphous, even ambiguous afflictions and oppressions. We are to express completely and emotionally our affliction to God and His compassion: we are not to take revenge.
Imprecation. This word means "curse." There are some moments in the Psalms when the singer seems to demand that God take revenge on the enemy. Two Psalms in particular (68 and 108) are considered the most infamous of the "Imprecatory Psalms." There are also "imprecations" in sixteen other Psalms (5, 6, 12, 13, 36, 38, 41, 53, 55, 57, 59, 80, 84, 138, 140, and 143 LXX). The problem of the "Imprecatory Psalm" is so distinct that it has found its way into English literature. In Thomas Hardy's novel, The Mayor of Casterbridge, the main character sees his hated rival outside the pub window, where he is drinking with the church choir after choir practice. He persuades the choir to sing Psalm 109 as a curse against his enemy. The choir director then said this, understandably, of the psalm: ""Twasn't made for singing. We chose it once when the gypsy stole the parson's mare, thinking to please him, but parson were quite upset. Whatever Servant David were thinking about when he made a Psalm that nobody can sing without disgracing himself, I can't fathom."
But I don't think any Psalm, even so-called "cursing" Psalms, can ever be sung with disgrace. In the almost two thousand year long tradition of the Church, these troubling Psalms are not identified as curses or imprecations. For one thing, all curses — along with all dark magics — are abolished by the Incarnation: "From that time onward all magic was abolished and every spell" (St Ignatius, Letter to the Ephesians, xix). For another thing, it is contrary to God's Nature: "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning" (James 1.7 KJV). God is never the cause of any evil. Any description of wrath or vengeance in Scripture on the part of God is mainly a description of the inevitable and self-inflicted consequences of persons (human or demonic) who reject God's love.
This must be said clearly and insisted upon, and you have to remember it at all times during your perilous adventure in the Psalms, because the enemy (whoever and whatever) will do its best to discourage you, and tempt you into thinking that God is the source of evil.
You can pray the Imprecatory Psalms confidently. One thing to keep in mind is God's nature of goodness, and that His Name is Love. Another thing to keep in mind is the fact that the Imprecation Psalms may not ask for God's revenge so much as they plead for His salvation and healing. What David does with complete openness and confidence is to fully express his psychic situation to God. No, God does not need to be informed of this information, because He already knows. But in giving full voice to his pain and anguish, the Psalmist opens himself in complete vulnerability. It is as if he is driven to childlike, primitive crying for paternal rescue. And at this point of extremity, God meets the Psalmist in so intimate embrace that the Psalmist's heart is expanded and healed.
This is true of every Psalm of complaint, of which the so-called "cursing" or "imprecatory" Psalms are only the most severe. In this context, it is helpful to consider the possibility that the so-called "curses" are actually descriptions of what the Psalmist suffered at the hands of his enemies, as in "God, do to them what they did to me." Actually, He will not. But eventually, the enemy will experience this and more a fate that he inflicted upon himself.
Take, for example, probably the ugliest, most violent Imprecatory Psalm: the end of Psalm 136 (LXX). The heading of the Psalm says that this is "a psalm of David, concerning Jeremiah in the captivity." So it is a prophetic song about the Babylonian exile of Israel. It begins lyrically, heartrendingly:"By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down and wept when we remembered Zion. Upon the willows in her midst, we hung up our harps" (Psalm 136.1-2). But then it concludes horribly: "O wretched daughter of Babylon, blessed be the one who shall deal to you what you have dealt to us" (vs 8). And if that were not enough: "Blessed the one who shall seize your infants and smash them against the rock" (vs 9).
What shall we do with these last two verses? Certainly, we can not take these as license to act with brutality to those we identify as our enemies. I know this license has been taken before, even by those who call themselves Christian. But revenge -- whether military action, social denunciation, imprecation or casting an evil eye -- is never an option for those who are called to be meek and peacemakers. It is enough here to remember the cruelest of evil injustice that is the Cross: at which extreme dereliction the Innocent cried out "Father forgive them." Moreover, it should be enough to recall that the Lord Himself said "See that you do not despise one of these little ones; for I tell you that in heaven their angels always behold the face of My Father Who is in heaven, for the Son of Man came to save the lost" (Matthew 18.10-11 RSV). So every "little one" — even the "little ones" of Babylon, even "little ones" who appear to be adult — is deeply linked with his angel (that fact is essential for our humanity).
No, the only thing to call to mind when chanting these troubling verses is the fact that the Psalmist — even if it were David in prophetic vision — actually witnessed this very event. This horrific detail, this demonic infanticide, was a common occurrence in the destruction and plunder of cities (and not just in ancient warfare): and indeed, this was the experience of Jerusalem at the hands of Babylon. What other, humanly possible way is there to express the horror of this memory than to enframe it in the widely-known, contemporaneous form as "imprecation"? I propose that you understand all imprecation as an expression of anguish to God out of a broken heart. Neither David, nor does anyone, curse (i.e., imprecate) in the Kingdom of God.
God judges only in love, and will not be forced into any explicit request. His justice has nothing to do with revenge, since He has no need.
Nine words for God's Divine Law. In the second half of his too little-known book of essays, the poet and sub-deacon Donald Sheehan pays close attention to the various terms in Psalm 118 for God's Law. There are nine of them (i.e., Commandment, Statute, Law, Word, Testimony, Judgment, Teaching, Way and Path), and they are not synonymous, but carry important meanings that differ but are all related. This Psalm (118 in the LXX, and 119 in the Masoretic numbering) is intimidating in its length, but may turn out to be the most critical of all the Psalms, and crucial in all of Scripture.
In the Orthodox Church, we sing this Psalm on Saturday mornings, but also at funeral services. This is probably because Saturday morning is the time when Christ lay in the grave between the Cross on Friday and the Empty Tomb on Sunday. On Great and Holy Saturday Morning (very early, as in a few hours after midnight), we sing a special, once-a-year interweaving of every verse of Psalm 118 with that many different short hymns that link the psalm with Holy Saturday.
This interweaving establishes a deep, mystical link between the Divine Law and the life of salvation through Christ, in Whom there is a union of the divine with the human. It is precisely at the signposts of these nine words that the divine life of Christ meets and becomes unified with the human life. It is through these nine words that the Christian denies his negative passions and seeks the virtues that becomes his part of Christ transforming him or her into the Body of Christ — the Body that became alive in the Resurrection.
There is a beautiful (and brilliant) extended study of these Nine Words in Donald Sheehan's The Grace of Incorruption: the Selected Essays of Donald Sheehan on Orthodox Faith and Poetics (Brewster MA: Paraclete Press, 2015). Another collection of the late poet's work, largely on the Psalms, will come out hopefully in the near future, entitled Reflections on the Psalms and Psalmic Prayer.
There are other words that require close attention, like "spaciousness," "sanctuary," "water," "bread," "tower," "valley" and "sea" and many more. In fact, if we are to take seriously the writings of the Church Fathers, and the Jewish Rabbinic writers, every single word of the Psaltery requires close attention. This means reading carefully, slowly, deliberately, with focus on every syllable. It means researching the meaning of difficult terms and phrases, and not resting until some learning has been accomplished. Instead of dismissing a repetition or incomprehensible phrase, you and I should be motivated to understand as best as we can.
For example, why is it that this odd, mysterious passage is said twice in the Psalms, word for word: "I will exalt and divine Sikima, I will measure out the vale of tabernacles. Gilead is Mine and Mine is Manasseh, Ephraim is the strength of My head, Judah is My king" (Psalms 59.6-7 and 107.7-8). Is it enough to dismiss these passages as describing only the pitiful imperial hopes of a conquered nation? After all, these geographical place names were all neighbors of Judah that had once been part of the Empire of David and Solomon.
Or do these names, and the fact of their almost incantatory repetition, signify a persistent and even deeper meaning? Are these spiritual — that is, no longer merely political — realms and structures that the Kingdom of God is expanding upon, in not an imperious, triumphalist manner, but by a self-sacrificial means of wisdom, knowledge and communion with Christ?
Consider this possibility: it is entirely likely that the praying of the Psalms is performative. In other words, something happens. History — that is real history, not the superficial human historiographies — is made. An exorcism has been done and the demonic is put on the run. On the other hand, a sub-creation, in a mythopoeic manner, has been fashioned and has beautified Creation in glory. Another part of the heavy obscurity of the fallen world has been rendered lissome and transparent to glory. I wouldn't call this "magic," but it is probably theurgic.
Christ. Christ, the "Anointed," is everywhere in the Septuagint Psalms. That is the chief reason why I recommend the Greek translation of the Psalms over the Masoretic one. It is possible that the Septuagint is based on an older text than that of the Masoretic.
In any case, one of the fruits of Jesus' teaching through Pentecost is the Christological interpretation of the Old Testament, but particularly the Psalms. The Psalmic vocation of every Christian is to seek Christ and to recognize Him in every verse of the Psalms. At times, your voice will be joined to His as life in a dark world is experienced. At other times, you will open your eyes onto the aspect of His Kingly reign in cosmic reality. You will hear Him in the verses at the bottom of your heart and even deeper. At other times, you will see Him in the mountains. Your suffering will be joined to His. His exaltation will become your celebration.
Anyone can recognize Christ in the Psalms. There is no other equivalent interpretive rubric. We can do our linguistic, historic, critical and scientific investigations, but we will sing the Psalms in the octave of the Nicene Creed.
The recognition of Christ in the Psalms follows the same ways of recognizing Him in life. The Psalms call us to bravely look at ourselves in the depths. Even more, the Psalms encourage us to open ourselves without reserve to God: "Search me profoundly, O God, know my heart," David sings in Psalm 138.23, "Examine me and know all my paths." This is unsettling to modern ears, who would much rather than God would do no such examination. But the Psalmist knows that the self can neither be reserved or hidden -- even partially -- in the face of Love. If Love -- especially Divine Love -- is precisely the complete pouring out of self for the other, then nothing of the self can be kept back. Where Ananias and Sapphira held back in substance, but claimed to give all in appearance, David opened his heart in complete, childlike vulnerability. Instead of so many Christians these days who fear the Advent of the Lord at His parousia, the early Christians anticipated it with joy: "Marana Tha," they sang. And so does David, even in the awareness of his moral failings, and his turning aside from the beautiful paths of righteousness.
It is here, at the point of meekness and openness, that the Lord is recognized, after having followed the paths of the Psalmic form of prayer. "Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near" (Isaiah 55.6 KJV).
20. My favorite Psaltery is The Psalms of David, which is a translation from the Septuagint Greek by Donald Sheehan (Eugene OR: Wipf & Stock, 2013). Get it in paperback so you can mark it up with a pencil: after five years, there is little white space left in my copy for much more marginalia. Donald has a fine sense of poetic rhythm. If you do not like his use of "Thee, Thou or Thy," then substitute the more familiar "You and Your." My interest here is that you remove as many obstacles as you can that get in the way of your intimate, full-hearted approach to God.
There are other Psalter based on the Septuagint (which I think is necessary for Orthodox or Roman Catholic persons). The Psalter: According to the Seventy, published by the Holy Transfiguration Monastery (Boston, 1997): this volume includes the Nine Odes. There is, too, A Psalter for Prayer, which is an adaptation of the Miles Coverdale translation (Jordanville NY: Holy Trinity Publications, 2011): this volume includes the traditional troparia and prayers after every kathisma. These are the Psalter that are on my shelves: others are available.
Then, too, there are the Psalters that are part of the Holy Bible. There is the Book of Psalms in the Orthodox Study Bible (Nashville TN: Thomas Nelson, 2008). This is a fresh translation from the St Athanasius Academy Septuagint, so it is not the NKJV translation that was used in earlier editions. Unfortunately, this Psaltery — along with all the others that are included within larger Bible volumes — is not divided up into kathismata. I believe that Donald Shaheen may have assisted in this translation.
Of course, my sentimental favorite is the Book of Psalms within the King James Version. I stipulate that some of the translation is inaccurate: for example, "The Lord is my Shepherd" is not correct, seeing as the phrase is better rendered as "The Lord shepherds me." Nevertheless, when I'm in trouble and distressed, the KJV wording comes more easily to me.
Finally, thank you, +Sub-deacon Donald Sheehan: il miglior fabbro. Rest, et lux perpetua luceat eis, fair poet.
Chapter Numbering Comparison
Septuagint (Greek)
Masoretic (Hebrew and most English)
add 1 to the number of each psalm
116.1-9
116.10-19
147.1-11
Division and Schedule of Psalms into Kathismata (using the Septuagint numbering)
Kathisma I
Stasis 1
Sunday AM
Monday AM
Monday PM
Tuesday AM
Tuesday PM
Wednesday AM
Wednesday PM
Thursday AM
Thursday PM
Saturday AM
118.73-131
Friday PM
Friday AM
Please note that beginning on the Sixteenth Kathisma, the sequence "jumps" out of order from the days of the week. After the Fifteenth Kathisma on Thursday night, you will read the Nineteenth and Twentieth Kathismata on Friday morning. I learned this the hard way.
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Helmut Philipp Aust (* 1980) ist ein deutscher Rechtswissenschaftler und Hochschullehrer an der Freien Universität Berlin.

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Nach dem Abitur am Gymnasium in Isernhagen 1999 leistete Aust seinen Zivildienst und nahm dann zum Wintersemester 2000/01 an der Universität Göttingen das Studium der Rechtswissenschaften auf. Dieses beendete er 2005 mit dem Ersten Juristischen Staatsexamen. Anschließend arbeitete er ab 2006 als wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Lehrstuhl von Georg Nolte an der Universität München. Nach einem Forschungsaufenthalt an der University of Cambridge im Spätjahr 2008 war er als nach seiner Rückkehr nach Deutschland 2009 als wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter an der Universität der Bundeswehr München tätig. Im November 2009 wurde Aust von der juristischen Fakultät der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, wohin sein Doktorvater Nolte unterdessen gewechselt war, zum Dr. iur. promoviert. Bereits im April 2009 hatte Aust im Bezirk des Oberlandesgerichts München sein Referendariat begonnen, welches er im Mai 2011 mit dem Zweiten Staatsexamen abschloss. Bereits während seines Referendariats und noch danach arbeitete er als wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter an der HU Berlin.

Nach einem Forschungsaufenthalt an der Universität Melbourne 2014/15 schloss Aust im Januar 2016 an der HU Berlin bei Georg Nolte sein Habilitationsverfahren ab und erhielt die Venia legendi für die Fächer Öffentliches Recht, Völkerrecht, Europarecht und Rechtsvergleichung. Nach anschließenden Lehrstuhlvertretungen an der HU Berlin und der Universität Konstanz wurde er von der Freien Universität Berlin auf den ordentlichen Lehrstuhl für Öffentliches Recht und die Internationalisierung der Rechtsordnung berufen, den er seit Oktober 2016 innehat.

Werke (Auswahl)
Austs Forschungsschwerpunkt liegen vor allem im Völkerrecht und im internationalen Grund- und Menschenrechtsschutz.

Weblinks
 Aust bei seinem Lehrstuhl an der FU Berlin
 Übersicht über Austs Beiträge auf verfassungsblog.de
 Staaten vor dem Strafgerichtshof, Rezension über Austs Dissertationsschrift von Katja Gelinsky auf faz.net

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Rechtswissenschaftler (21. Jahrhundert)
Hochschullehrer (Freie Universität Berlin)
Hochschullehrer (Universität Konstanz)
Deutscher
Geboren 1980
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Thucydides' Other War: His Chilling Account of the plague of Athens and What it can Teach us Now
The Conversation 03/23/2020
By Chris Mackie | –
The coronavirus is concentrating our minds on the fragility of human existence in the face of a deadly disease. Words like "epidemic" and "pandemic" (and "panic"!) have become part of our daily discourse.
These words are Greek in origin, and they point to the fact that the Greeks of antiquity thought a lot about disease, both in its purely medical sense, and as a metaphor for the broader conduct of human affairs. What the Greeks called the "plague" (loimos) features in some memorable passages in Greek literature.
One such description sits at the very beginning of western literature. Homer's Iliad, (around 700BC), commences with a description of a plague that strikes the Greek army at Troy. Agamemnon, the leading prince of the Greek army, insults a local priest of Apollo called Chryses.
Apollo is the plague god – a destroyer and healer – and he punishes all the Greeks by sending a pestilence among them. Apollo is also the archer god, and he is depicted firing arrows into the Greek army with a terrible effect:
Apollo strode down along the pinnacles of Olympus angered
in his heart, carrying on his shoulders the bow and the hooded
quiver; and the shafts clashed on the shoulders of the god walking angrily.
Terrible was the clash that rose from the bow of silver.
First he went after the mules and the circling hounds, then let go
a tearing arrow against the men themselves and struck them.
The corpse fires burned everywhere and did not stop burning.
Plague narratives
About 270 years after the Iliad, or thereabouts, plague is the centrepiece of two great classical Athenian works – Sophocles' Oedipus the King, and Book 2 of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War.
Thucydides (c.460-400BC) and Sophocles (490-406BC) would have known one another in Athens, although it is hard to say much more than that for a lack of evidence. The two works mentioned above were produced at about the same time. The play Oedipus was probably produced about 429 BC, and the plague of Athens occurred in 430-426 BC.
Thucydides writes prose, not verse (as Homer and Sophocles do), and he worked in the comparatively new field of "history" (meaning "enquiry" or "research" in Greek). His focus was the Peloponnesian war fought between Athens and Sparta, and their respective allies, between 431 and 404 BC.
Thucydides' description of the plague that struck Athens in 430 BC is one of the great passages of Greek literature. One of the remarkable things about it is how focused it is on the general social response to the pestilence, both those who died from it and those who survived.
Statue portrait of historian Thucydides outside the Austrian parliament in Vienna.
A health crisis
The description of the plague immediately follows on from Thucydides' renowned account of Pericles' Funeral Oration (it is important that Pericles died of the plague in 429 BC, whereas Thucydides caught it but survived).
Thucydides gives a general account of the early stages of the plague – its likely origins in north Africa, its spread in the wider regions of Athens, the struggles of the doctors to deal with it, and the high mortality rate of the doctors themselves.
Nothing seemed to ameliorate the crisis – not medical knowledge or other forms of learning, nor prayers or oracles. Indeed "in the end people were so overcome by their sufferings that they paid no further attention to such things".
He describes the symptoms in some detail – the burning feeling of sufferers, stomachaches and vomiting, the desire to be totally naked without any linen resting on the body itself, the insomnia and the restlessness.
Michiel Sweerts' Plague in an Ancient City (circa 1652).
The next stage, after seven or eight days if people survived that long, saw the pestilence descend to the bowels and other parts of the body – genitals, fingers and toes. Some people even went blind.
Words indeed fail one when one tries to give a general picture of this disease; and as for the sufferings of individuals, they seemed almost beyond the capacity of human nature to endure.
Those with strong constitutions survived no better than the weak.
The most terrible thing was the despair into which people fell when they realized that they had caught the plague; for they would immediately adopt an attitude of utter hopelessness, and by giving in in this way, would lose their powers of resistance.
Lastly, Thucydides focuses on the breakdown in traditional values where self-indulgence replaced honour, where there existed no fear of god or man.
As for offences against human law, no one expected to live long enough to be brought to trial and punished: instead everyone felt that a far heavier sentence had been passed on him.
The whole description of the plague in Book 2 lasts only for about five pages, although it seems longer.
The first outbreak of plague lasted two years, whereupon it struck a second time, although with less virulence. When Thucydides picks up very briefly the thread of the plague a little bit later (3.87) he provides numbers of the deceased: 4,400 hoplites (citizen-soldiers), 300 cavalrymen and an unknown number of ordinary people.
Nothing did the Athenians so much harm as this, or so reduced their strength for war.
A modern lens
Modern scholars argue over the science of it all, not the least because Thucydides offers a generous amount of detail of the symptoms.
Epidemic typhus and smallpox are most favoured, but about 30 different diseases have been posited.
Thucydides offers us a narrative of a pestilence that is different in all kinds of ways from what we face.
The lessons that we learn from the coronavirus crisis will come from our own experiences of it, not from reading Thucydides. But these are not mutually exclusive. Thucydides offers us a description of a city-state in crisis that is as poignant and powerful now, as it was in 430BC.
Chris Mackie, Professor of Classics, La Trobe University
Filed Under: Epidemics, History
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'No-deal' Brexit technical notices: Everything farmers need to know
News23 Aug 2018 Abi Kay
The UK Government has today published a series of 'technical notices' to help businesses prepare for a no-deal Brexit. Abi Kay sets out what farmers need to know.
Abi Kay
Abi took up the post of chief reporter at Farmers Guardian after a stint working for the NFU as part of its government affairs team.
'No-deal' technical notices: Everything farmers need to know
As the deadline for Brexit talks to be completed draws closer, Ministers at the Department for Exiting the EU have released 25 documents which attempt to explain what would happen to particular industries, including farming, if the UK leaves the EU with no deal.
A further 60 or so notices will be published over the coming months, which are likely to contain further detail about the impact of a no-deal Brexit on the farming and food and drink sectors.
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WHAT THE NOTICES SAY ABOUT…
Farm payments
The cash total for farm support will be protected until 2022, even in the event of a no-deal Brexit. Farmers should continue to receive payments, though the form they take may change.
This was Conservative manifesto pledge at the 2017 election.
All of the rules and processes will remain the same until Defra and the devolved administrations introduce new agriculture policies.
On-site inspections will continue as normal.
Organic production for the domestic market
For those organic farmers producing food for the domestic market, little would change. Processes for production and labelling would stay the same, with UK organic control bodies continuing to certify organic operators.
Logos on packaging, however, would need to be altered as UK operators would no longer be allowed to use the EU organic logo.
There would be a grace period to use up existing stock, but Defra has commissioned research to develop a new UK logo for future use.
Organic exports to the EU
Big problems here – UK businesses would only be able to export to the EU if they were certified by an organic control body approved by the EU to operate in the UK.
To get this certification, organic control bodies would need to apply to the European Commission for recognition – something they are not allowed to do until the UK ceases to be a member of the EU.
This approval could take up to nine months after Brexit day, leaving British businesses effectively unable to export during that time.
The UK Government has said it is 'exploring alternative approaches' to speed up the process.
Organic exports outside the EU
Exports to countries such as the USA, Canada, Japan and South Korea are expected to face 'minimal disruption' as the UK intends to recognise those countries currently equivalent to the EU.
Organic imports from the EU
The UK has said it 'anticipates' continuing to accept EU organic products in a no-deal scenario, but makes clear this will be at the Government's discretion.
Trade with the EU
Exporting businesses are urged to find out what the likely changes to customs and excise procedures will be and engage with other elements of the supply chain to ensure planning is taking place at all levels.
The Government has also called on businesses to 'consider how they will submit customs and export declarations', suggesting it may be necessary to engage customs brokers, freight forwarders and logistics providers, or acquire the appropriate software – all of which will 'come at a cost'.
Other recommendations include renegotiating commercial terms to reflect any changes in tariffs. For more information on the tariffs which would apply to different sectors in the event of a no-deal Brexit, click HERE.
Any business wanting regular updates on Brexit planning can register for HMRC's EU Exit update service.
Developing GMOs
The Government expects there to be 'no significant implications' for the development of GMOs in the event of a no-deal Brexit.
Existing EU law would be modified to reflect UK circumstances, but would continue to apply, with the release of GMOs continuing to require prior authorisation.
Decisions on GMO trials would be made on a devolved basis, but regulation of GMO marketing would be made at a UK level.
Trade in GMOs
After Brexit, UK businesses would only be able to export GMO products if the GMO in question had EU marketing approval.
The same would apply from the EU side – EU imports would only be accepted if they had UK approval.
INDUSTRY REACTION
CLA president Tim Breitmeyer: "It is encouraging to see the UK Government is making contingency plans in the event of a no deal Brexit. It is important to provide clear and comprehensive guidance to help farmers prepare for the eventuality that the UK leaves the EU without a withdrawal agreement.
"Of particular note is the advice for organic businesses, which highlights the extreme consequences of a no-deal situation which could impact a number of sectors."
NFU president Minette Batters: "While these notices are an essential part of Government's plans for preparing for all outcomes, they serve as a sobering reminder of what is at stake for farmers in the event of a no deal.
"The technical notice for organic farming is a warning for us on the future of trade of all agri-food products – if all these products were subjected to the same problems in approvals and certification then this could result in effectively a trade embargo on exports to the EU.
"Not only would this be hugely disruptive but it threatens livelihoods and businesses in the UK."
Vicki Hird, sustainable farming campaign co-ordinator, Sustain: "The Government has now confirmed a 'no deal' Brexit will be complex and bureaucratic for UK businesses, including farmers and food companies importing or exporting from the EU.
"They are advising today that British businesses should consider 'engaging a customs broker or acquiring the appropriate software and authorisations from HMRC', which will come 'at a cost'.
"The vague guarantees on rural development and agri-environment funding will do little to allay fears of a harmful Agriculture Bill outcome.
"The promises to guarantee farm support under the same set of EU 'rules' will be a mixed blessing for farmers wanting better regulations but absolutely reliant on a lucrative, steady EU market. With no clarity on trade deals elsewhere it is the worst outcome."
Christ Atkinson, head of standards, Soil Association: "The technical notices published today offer no further clarity to businesses and provide neither reassurance nor advice on how to prepare for a potential 'no deal' scenario. They confirm the scale of the challenge we face and the vital importance that the UK achieves a workable deal with the EU.
"The information outlined raises concerns that imports and exports to and from the EU may be held up for months. The critical issue of continuing recognition by the EU of the organic status of products certified in the UK is left entirely unresolved by this paper and a similar document that was issued by the EU some months ago.
"We are also concerned that a new UK-owned imports traceability system to replace the current EU system would need to be in place by 29 March 2019. In our view this is an unrealistic goal within the time frame. Delays could significantly hinder trade."
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Q: Am I missing something in Baby Rudin Theorems 2.38 - 2.40? So I'm reviewing baby Rudin in studying for an Intro Exam for PhD program. I'm in Chapter 2, specifically theorems 2.38 - 2.40. Having independently done the proofs prior to these theorems, I am wondering why a simpler approach is not warranted.
Consider Theorem 2.38: If $\{I_n\}$ is a sequence of intervals in $R^1$, such that $I_n$ contains $I_{n+1}$ ($n = 1, 2, 3, \dots$), then infinite intersection of the sets $I_n$ is not empty.
By Rudin's definition of interval in definition 2.17, the interval is a closed set in $R^1$. Since $R^1$ is a metric space, the intervals $I_n$ are thus compact sets. So isn't Theorem 2.38 just the corollary to Theorem 2.36 directly above on the page? Why go through the proof Rudin uses to prove Theorem 2.38.
I must be missing something basic?

A: Just to have an answer here: yes, something was amiss. It is very straightforward to prove that a nested sequence of nonempty compact sets has a common point. One could hope to get the nested interval lemma from here, but ... first it must be proved that a closed bounded interval is compact, which is at least as hard as the nested intervals lemma itself. In fact Rudin uses the nested interval lemma in the proof that a closed bounded interval is compact.