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SM&CR – The role of in-house legal / general counsel
By Charlotte Henry, Imogen Garner (UK), Hannah Meakin (UK) and Jonathan Herbst (UK) on January 25, 2019 Posted in Senior Managers, United Kingdom
Two years ago the FCA issued a statement regarding its supervisory intentions concerning whether an individual in charge of a firm's legal function required approval under the Senior Managers' and Certification Regime (SM&CR). Specifically, the statement was in response to firms asking the regulator how Senior Management Function 18 – Other Overall Responsibilities (SMF18) applies to the legal function. The FCA further considered this issue in September 2016 when it published Discussion Paper 16/4 (DP16/4). The response to DP16/4 showed widespread opposition to in-house lawyers falling within SMF18 with, for example, the Association for Financial Markets in Europe and the British Bankers Association (now UK Finance) issuing a joint letter to the FCA expressing serious concerns that such a move could "have considerable potentially adverse implications for culture within banks and for the in-house legal profession". The deadline for comments on DP16/4 was 9 January 2017. Nothing was heard on the subject from the FCA until its press conference launching the 2018/19 Business Plan on 9 April this year. The FCA's CEO, Andrew Bailey, gave the following reply to a question: "There has been a question raised in the context of the Senior Managers Regime about whether general counsel should be a responsible function. That isn't an easy question, because obviously it raises big issues about the role of legal advice and so on in firms, but it has been raised, including by lawyers, I should say. We were going to do some work on that. We will do some work in the future on that, but it isn't going to happen in the next year."
However, the FCA has now published Consultation Paper 19/4 (CP19/4) which sets out details of the feedback received to DP16/4. The deadline for comments on CP19/4 is 23 April 2019. The FCA will consider the feedback received and publish final rules and guidance in Q3 2019 with the effective date of the changes being before implementation of the regime to the non-bank industry, namely before 9 December 2019 (Extension).
The regulator has proposed to exclude the general counsel and heads of legal from the requirement to be a senior manager. However, there are three important caveats:
it is only when the individual is acting as general counsel / head of legal that they are excluded. If, for example, the individual has another role, e.g. Head of Compliance, they will be in scope for that other role;
they need to be certified as they will either meet the test to be a Material Risk Taker or a Significant Harm Function. Most banks in the bank implementation certified their general counsel / head of legal so this should not be a new change; and
they must comply with Senior Manager Conduct Rule 4 – the duty to disclose matters to the regulator when appropriate.
The comments of the FCA in CP19/4 raise some interesting points if they are proceeded with in the current form:
the concept of the 'other role' comment means that general counsels / heads of legal may need to look at their current responsibilities and ensure that none of them give rise to an additional senior manager role. Similarly, they may need to ensure that their current responsibilities support that they have no additional roles. For example, most general counsels / heads of legal are also on a firm's executive committee / management committee. This is usually in an advisory capacity however, on occasion, we have seen that the terms of reference of the committee does not make this clear. It would be prudent to ensure that is the case; and
the 'no gaps' principle still applies for banks, insurers and will apply for enhanced scope firms in the Extension. As such, while the firm does not need to allocate responsibility for the advice given by the head of legal / general counsel, it seems sensible that responsibility for the legal function is still allocated, otherwise a gap is created. Most banks allocated responsibility for the legal function – which is responsibility for (a) having one, (b) taking steps to ensure it is appropriately resourced and (c) taking steps to ensure it has access to an appropriate budget in order to obtain external assistance.

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Posted byRichard Fenton January 12, 2020 July 4, 2020 Posted inUncategorized
PSV Eindhoven of Holland are easily one of Europe's elite clubs. They are a club with heritage, tradition and an impressive roster of past world class players. The city of Eindhoven is situated in the south of the Netherlands, in the province known as North Brabant. The history of the city stretches back to the 13th century, when it was first granted city status by Duke Henry of Brabant. The name Eindhoven derives from two Dutch words, Eind, meaning last, or end and Hoeve, meaning an area of land said to be around fourteen hectares. During the 19th century Eindhoven, like many other cities throughout Europe benefited from the industrial revolution.
The Philips family.
The PSV football club was founded in 1913 by and for the employees of the world famous Dutch company, Philips. Back then Philips were primarily manufacturers of light bulbs. Indeed today, one of the nicknames of PSV is The Lightbulbs, other nicknames they have are The Peasants and The Red and Whites. The company was founded in 1891 by Gerard Philips and his father, Frederik, in Eindhoven. Not long after the setting up of the company, Gerard's brother, Anton came on board, and it was Anton who proved quite a talent in business. As the years went by the young company boldly branched out into other areas. During 1914, the company set up its first scientific research laboratories and made its first steps into radio technology and even X – Ray technologies. Today Philips is a huge company, manufacturing electronic products, various types of hi – tec lighting and healthcare products for the medical industry.
So what does PSV stand for? Its stands for Philips Sport Vereniging, or in English, Philips Sport Union. So as I said, the football club was set up in 1913. However its worth mentioning, that the Philips company first put together a football team three years before in 1910, known as the Philips Elftal, unfortunately though due to financial difficulties and strikes by the workforce, it didn't last long and the club folded. Happily though, a second effort reaped much reward, the club went from strength to strength. The official day of the relaunch was August 31st 1913, it was the same day that Philips hosted celebrations commemorating the one hundred years since the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte's French army. Obviously, because of the First World War, it was almost impossible to stage football matches. However, the Dutch football authorities gave the green light for the go ahead for the 1915 – 1916 season which saw Philips Elftal play its first competitive match. It ended in defeat for the Philips team losing 3 – 2 to Willem II's second team. Their team manager at the time was gentleman by the name of Wout Buitenweg. Despite that first defeat, Buitenweg guided his team to promotion that season, winning promotion to the newly formed Brabantian Third Division. Eventually, the relaunched Philips Elftal changed its name to PSV Eindhoven in 1916. Before the start of the 1987 – 1988 season, PSV had won the Eredivisie, the Dutch top division, a total of nine times and it had won the KNVB Cup, the Dutch FA Cup, a total of three times. It had tasted European success too. In 1978 PSV lifted the UEFA Cup. After victories over Glenavon of Northern Ireland, Widzew Łódź of Poland, Eintracht Braunschweig and FC Magdeburg of Germany and a semifinal victory over Barcelona of Spain, Kees Rijvers's PSV side found themselves in the two legged final against French club, Sporting Club of Bastia. The first leg was took place at Bastia's home stadium, the Stade Armand Cesari. It finished 0 – 0, and when the two teams reconvened two weeks later, PSV beat the French side easily, running out 3 – 0 winners. It was a great night for PSV, winning its first European trophy in front of their home fans in their own backyard. The Eindhoven club have also done well in the Johan Cruijff Schaal, or in English, the Johan Cruyff Shield, winning it a total of nine times. Dutch football fans will tell you it started out as the Dutch Super Cup back in 1949, first won by Schiedamse Voetbal Vereniging defeating Quick 1888 of Nijmegen. This particular piece of Dutch football silverware was contested between the Eredivisie champions and the winners of the KNVB Cup (Koninklijke Nederlandse Voetbal Bond).
The first P.S.V. team.
Oddly enough it was only played the once back in 1949, the Dutch FA revived the fixture in 1991, then won by another famous Dutch club, Feyenoord of Rotterdam. In 1996, the Dutch FA renamed it the Johan Cruyff Shield, in honour of arguably the country's greatest ever player, indeed it was PSV who lifted the very first Johan Cruyff Shield, defeating Ajax Amsterdam 3 – 0, a match played at Ajax's home stadium, the Amsterdam Arena, a nice little satisfying victory for the Eindhoven club. Incidentally, Ajax did achieve revenge a few years later in 2002, when they beat PSV 3 – 1 at the same venue. PSV have had a number of English managers in their history, their first English team manager was John Leavy who was team boss from 1922 to 1926. Then there was Jack Hall, PSV manager from 1929 to 1935. Hall was the manager of Feyenoord when he got the job offer at PSV, during his playing career he played for such clubs as Rochdale and Preston North End, after leaving PSV in 1935 he went on to manage Willem II, eventually going back to again manage the Rotterdam club, Feyenoord. Hall was succeeded by Lancastrian Sam Wadsworth who was PSV team manager until 1938 and again taking the managerial reins at PSV in 1945, managing the club for a further six years until 1951. Wadsworth was a former England international playing his club football for Blackburn and Huddersfield, Sam loved life in Holland, he passed away in Eindhoven aged 64 in 1961. After Sam Wadsworth left the club in 1951 he was succeeded by Harry Topping.
The Philips Elftal team.
Topping was, like Wadsworth, a Lancastrian, born in Kearsley, about eight miles from Manchester. Topping played his club football for clubs such as Manchester City and Bristol Rovers, and like Jack Hall came to PSV from Feyenoord. For the 1957 – 1958 season George Hardwick was team manager of PSV. Hardwick played left back for English club Middlesbrough for thirteen years, achieving hero status at the east coast club. That statue standing outside Middlebrough's Riverside stadium? That's George Hardwick. Last, but most certainly not least is the late great Sir Bobby Robson. Robson had two spells as manager of PSV Eindhoven. From 1990 to 1992, Robson delivered two Eredivisie titles. Unfortunately, Robson was unable to deliver European success. During the second round of the European Cup for the 1991 – 1992 season, PSV were beaten in the second round 2 – 0 on aggregate by Belgian champions, Anderlecht. The season after was the inaugural season of the UEFA Champions League.
Sir Bobby Robson, P.S.V. manager.
Back then the Champions League was formatted slightly differently to how it is now, teams had to succeed in two rounds of matches before entering a group stage. PSV reached the first group stage after beating FC Žalgiris of Lithuania 8 – 0 on aggregate and then Greek champions AEK Athens 3 – 1 on aggregate. Those two victories meant they were in the group stage in Group B alongside AC Milan, IFK Gothenburg and Porto. Unfortunately for PSV, the wheels came off their challenge for European silverware when they finished bottom of their Group following one win and five defeats. Robson had a second spell in charge at PSV during the 1998 – 1999 season, winning the Johan Cruyff Shield.
Willy van der Kuijlen lifts the U.E.F.A. Cup, 1978.
One other great name in the history of PSV Eindhoven is Guus Hiddink, a former midfielder for The Lightbulbs. Hiddink was born in Varsseveld, about eighty eight miles south east of Amsterdam and only about five miles from the border with Germany. Incidentally, Varsseveld is also the home town of pro cyclist Robert Gesink, nicknamed "The Condor of Varsseveld". As mentioned, Hiddink played in midfield for PSV, he was at the club for a couple of years from 1970 to 1972. He went on to have spells at De Graafschapp and NEC Nijmegen, he even had spells in the USA with NASL teams Washington Diplomats and San Jose Earthquakes.
Guus Hiddink, 1988.
After Hiddink hung up his boots for the last time as a player he went into the assistant coach position at PSV, first as deputy to Jan Reker and then to Hans Kraay. During his time in the assistants role PSV won the Eredivisie twice. After impressing the powers that be at PSV Eindhoven he was offered the club manager's job in the March of 1987. He took on the job when that particular Eredivisie season was coming to an end, with ten games left of the season PSV were three points behind leaders Ajax of Amsterdam. Well, PSV finished as champions, a full six points ahead of their Amsterdam rivals, not a bad start then for Hiddink, and things were going to get a whole lot better at PSV Eindhoven under Guus Hiddink. That PSV side was full of world class players, players that would eventually go down in the folklore of Dutch and European football. Team captain and right back defender was Belgian international Eric Gerets, born in Rekem, Belgium he was part of that highly rated and exciting Belgium side of the mid 1980's, Gerets picked up 86 caps for Belgium. He started his playing career at Standard Liege. Gerets joined PSV in 1985, when Ruud Gullit left PSV for AC Milan Gerets was made team captain.
Eric Gerets.
Also in that PSV side was Frank Arnesen. Arnesen was from Copenhagen, Denmark. Arnesen was a highly respected midfielder for club and country. Arnesen's compatriot, Søren Lerby was also a key member of that great PSV side. Lerby, also a midfielder, is famous for playing two competitive games in one day, in two different countries! Back in the November of 1985, he took part in a world cup qualifying game for the Danes against the Republic of Ireland in the Republic, Denmark turned the Irish over winning easily 4 – 1. That was the afternoon game, after a hurried flight to Germany he took part in Bayern Munich's DFB Pokal Cup game against VFL Bochum. Again Lerby finished on the winning side as Bayern defeated Bochum 2 – 0. Willy van der Kerkhof was in that glorious PSV side too. A midfielder by trade, van der Kerkhof won sixty three caps for Holland appearing in the world cup final for Holland in 1974 along with his brother Rene. He was a part of some great Dutch international sides. He joined PSV in 1973 from Twente Enschede and was at PSV for fifteen years, playing 418 games, scoring 57 goals in his time in Eindhoven.
Willy van de Kerkhof.
Ronald Koeman was another great player in that Lightbulbs team, the current Southampton team manager. Koeman started his career at Groningen in 1980, three years later the defender, who was just as good playing in midfield, moved to Ajax Amsterdam. In 1986 he was transferred to PSV where he would prove himself a world class player. In goal was Hans van Breukelen, bought from English club Nottingham Forest in 1984. The Utecht born goalkeeper (where he began his professional career), now occupies a place on the board of directors at PSV. Berry van Aerle was also in that PSV team, van Aerle was from Helmond, only a short drive from Eindhoven in North Brabant. He was at PSV for thirteen years, playing nearly three hundred games for the Eindhoven club, he also picked up thirty five caps for the Netherlands. PSV's first round match in the KNVB Cup of the 87 – 88 season was away to De Treffers during the October of that year, PSV outclassed their amateur status opponents 6 – 0. A month or so later they met MVV Maastricht, PSV came away with a 3 – 1 win. PSV's domestic league campaign for that season was extremely impressive, of their thirty four game league programme, they drew five games, and only lost twice, they won the rest, that's how you win a league title.
Ronald Koeman.
Their 87 – 88 season started at home at the Philips Stadion with a 6 – 1 demolishing of neighbours Den Bosch. They then travelled to Enschede to play Twente, PSV drove back to Eindhoven with a 3 – 2 win. Like I said, it was a very successful domestic season for The Lightbulbs. That season, they began with a winning streak of twenty games, only being brought to a halt with a 0 – 0 draw with Groningen. During that winning streak they recorded emphatic wins against Utrecht, 9 – 0, Wim Kieft scoring a hat trick. They also walloped Willem II 6 – 0, Drechtsteden 7 – 0, and Den Haag 9 – 1. They were pretty much unstoppable. Their first defeat of that season didn't happen until the March of 1988 when they lost away to Feyenoord 2 – 0 at the De Kuip stadion. PSV's only other loss that season was a 2 – 0 away defeat to Groningen at Oosterpark. As that Eredivisie season was nearing the end, PSV still had fuel in the tank to inflict a walloping or two. In late March of that season they went to Zwolle and put them to the sword to the tune of 6 – 2 and in their penultimate game they beat Sparta Rotterdam at home 6 – 2. Their final game of that season was against Drechtsteden away, PSV ran out 4 – 0 winners, the title was theirs and to be frank, it was never in doubt, Hiddink's PSV had ran the Eredivisie ragged.
P.S.V. 1987 – 1988.
The round of sixteen in the KNVB Cup couldn't come round quick enough for the PSV Fans, which it did in the March of '88. PSV met Den Bosch at The Blue and White Dragons (as Den Bosch are nicknamed), at the home of Den Bosch, the De Vliert Stadion. It was a lot closer than the league games that these two clubs had played together, but eventually, PSV won the game 1 – 0 in extra time. That meant in the quarter finals, PSV would meet RBC Roosendaal, another Brabant neighbour of PSV's. At the Philips Stadion PSV ran out 2 – 0 winners. The semifinals were played in the middle of April, PSV travelled to RKC Waalwijk, the Eindhoven club put themselves in the final with a 3 – 2 victory. In the final Roda JC Kerkrade awaited them. In the league, Roda JC had ran PSV quite close in their two meetings, only losing 2 – 1 and drawing 1 – 1. The final ran to form really, when the referee blew his whistle for full time, it was 2 – 2. Unfortunately for Kerkrade, PSV's Danish international Søren Lerby nicked a winner, so that meant with the league title about to be bagged, PSV were to be the double winners in the Netherlands that season. PSV's biggest achievement of that year was the lifting of the European Cup, however it only took them eight games to get to the final, four ties in fact. In the first round, PSV met Turkish champions Galatasaray early in the season. The first tie was at home at the Philips Stadion, PSV recorded a 3 – 0 home win. Over in Turkey it almost went pear shaped for PSV as their Turkish opponents ran out 2 – 0 winners, a close thing but PSV would be going through to the next round with a 3 – 2 aggregate win. In the October and November of that season, PSV played their European Cup second round tie against Austria's Rapid Vienna, PSV winning at home 2 – 0 and away 2 – 1. They had to wait until the March of that season to play their quarter final tie, there they met Bordeaux of France. Bordeaux gave PSV much more of test. The first leg of the tie for PSV was away in France, it ended 1 – 1, two weeks later in Eindhoven, the game finished 0 – 0, so PSV progressed to the semifinal against Spain's Real Madrid courtesy of the away goals rule. The same thing happened in the semi, a 1 – 1 draw in the Spanish capital and a 0 – 0 draw at home in Eindhoven meant once again PSV had won via the away goals rule. In the final they met Portugal's Benfica.
The players take to the pitch.
The final was held in Germany, at the Mercedes Benz Arena, then known as the Necker Stadion, home of VFB Stuttgart. For the final Hans van Breukelen was in goal for PSV, the back four was made up of team captain Eric Gerets, Ivan Neilsen, Ronald Koeman and Jan Heintze. In midfield Guus Hiddink selected Søren Lerby, Berry van Aerle, Gerald Vanenburg and Edward Linskens, up front was Wim Kieft and Hans Gilhaus. So that meant PSV would be playing a 4 – 4 – 2 formation, Benfica would also play in that formation. The Portuguese champions also had a few class players in their team that night including the Brazilian trio of Elzo, Carlos Mozer and Chiquinho Carlos. It was one of the closest European finals for years, I remember watching it at home as a kid thinking this football match is a chess game. It finished in normal time 0 – 0, extra time would be needed but that extra time yielded no goals, so it was down to penalty kicks. Hiddink picked Lerby, Koeman, Kieft, Vanenburg and Neilsen to take PSV'S penalties, they scored all those penalties, no misses, five out of five, but then Benfica scored all of their five penalties too, so it was down to sudden death. Veloso of Benfica missed his penalty and Janssen scored his, so an incredible season was capped for PSV, they lifted the 1988 European Cup, they had achieved the treble, becoming the second Dutch side to do so along with Ajax Amsterdam. Of course, 1988 was an excellent year for Dutch football, that summer the Netherlands won their first piece of silverware when they lifted the European Championship trophy in Germany. As if winning the treble wasn't enough, Ronald Koeman, Berry van Aerle, Hans van Breukelen, Gerald Vanenburg and Wim Kieft all picked up winners medals as members of that victorious Netherlands side of 1988.
European Champions 1988.
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Premium Episode 108 Excerpt - The Salt of Inner Wisdom 0
On this excerpt from a premium episode, Michael Meade follows a myth from ancient Ireland and weaves together cosmology, psychology and philosophy in order to open the soul's vision and catch the fish of wisdom. Rather than being abstract knowledge, "embodied wisdom" is shown to be both immediate and eternal, both spiritual and soulful.
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Episode 313 - Soul's Hidden Gradient 0
On this episode, Meade explores how as the outer world suffers conflicts and collapse, a balancing imagination and energy for healing seeks to awaken in our individual souls. This in-born code of the soul provides us with a gradient or guideline that can aim our energy as well as protect our lives.
The soul's gradient is a mythic umbilical that plumbs to the ground of our being, but also connects us with the soul of the world. When in touch with this guiding line we can draw upon the resources and creative imagination of our souls. When out of touch with the gradient, we not only lose the natural vitality of our being, but can also suffer a loss of soul.
Each life calling involves a deeper connection to the inner-woven thread of destiny that leads us to the paths with heart and helps to aligns us with our natural dharma, our way of contributing to life and serving the world.
Episode 312 - The Treasure Hard to Obtain 0
On this episode, Michael Meade considers how each time we unlock the original pattern within us we align with our inner gradient and find a path with heart and soul. In contrast to the sense of a heroic journey that leads to treasure in the outside world, the road of awakening involves a pilgrimage to the genuine center of the deep self. What is so often sought in the outer world waits to be discovered in the soul's inner realm. As things fall apart all around us, we have to find the center of the deep self within us.
Meade then tells the story "The Tiger's Whisker", a famous tale of a woman who must face a living tiger in order to cure the ailment in her soul. What begins as a small village tale opens up to become the endless territory of the human heart that harbors an old sage, a fierce tiger and the need to find a cure for love. In a world troubled with collective anxiety and growing fears, it is helpful to know that on a path with heart, fear is the guide and what you truly love is the cure.
Episode 311 - The Inner Speck of Star 0
This episode begins with an ancient myth from a tribe along the Amazon River. The story tells how the inner soul of each person travels at night all the way the center of the cosmos. Once there, the soul receives a message that is brought back and shared with the tribe as a dream. Meade draws on this link between the individual soul and the cosmos to describe how ancient cultures imagined each person to be born with a speck of star hidden in their soul, buried in their heart, just waiting to become a person's "guiding star."
Each person is intended to contribute presence and meaning to the world and liberation happens each time we become conscious of the contents of our soul. We are here to awaken and learn how to express the uniqueness of our souls, and if we do that we add presence, being and creativity to the world and we become irreplaceable. If we don't find the meanings hidden in our souls, the world loses presence and people who have no idea who they are come to dominate society.
Rumi wrote that: "The world inside is bigger than the world outside." Meade argues that in this time of darkness and conflict, hatred and bigotry, we have to revive the sense of the inner magnanimity and enduring brilliance of the individual soul.
Episode 310 - Bringing Back the Light 0
This episode of Living Myth begins with a review of how cosmology used to refer to all of the ways that humans could imagine the creation of the world and the subtle connections of the human soul to the living cosmos. "As above, so below" is the ancient mantra that places humankind in the middle of the cosmic story as an essential link in the chain of being. As individuals we may properly feel frail and small; yet we belong to more than one dimension of life. And the dark time of the year is the traditional time to recall the interconnection between each of our souls and the starry universe around us.
The word solstice means the "sun stands still" and ancient people imagined that the extremes of darkness harbored a timeless moment of stillness as the sun seems to stop just in time before the gloom becomes too great to recover from. Traditional cultures all over the world imagined that the midwinter sun needed conscious help from human beings in order to turn things around and bring back the light.
These are not simply the dark days of winter; but the dark times for everyone; especially for those who truly care for the souls of other people, and for the well-being of the sacred earth we all live upon. Even as we can feel more physically separated from each other, and just when we can feel even more frail and small in the face of all the worldwide troubles we face, there may be no better time to light a candle, make a prayer, find a song to sing in the midst of the darkness, in order to help bring the light back.
In facing the darkness together in a spiritual sense and in the ancient way, we can also find again and realign with the divine spark of life we each carry. For the soul has its own inner light and each soul is secretly connected to the song of the earth, to the Soul of the World, and to the indelible spark of life and light that can only be found in the darkest hours and the darkest times.
Episode 309 - Ancient Night, Ancient Soul 0
This episode of Living Myth addresses the whirlwind of feelings that can be stirred when the complications and uncertainties of contemporary life become accelerated by the growing darkness, the holiday season and the end of the year. Beginning with the idea that "making beauty gives us a place to stand," Michael Meade weaves together a nest of poems that invoke the breath inside the breath, the stillness at the heart of being and the ancient soul of the world.
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Episode 308 - Facing Darkness 0
This episode begins with a consideration of darkness as a necessary precondition for the creation of the lighted world. The symbolism of endless dark waters in creation myths represents the pre-formal, amorphous darkness that is also the hidden source of all life and all light. In cosmological terms, the presence of eternal night and the coming of the light are the primordial pairing. They are the twin generative principles that formed the origins of creation and continue to shape the living world.
"Yet, in the modern world, the almost universal presence of artificial lights virtually turns night into day. Instead of surrendering to the return of primordial darkness each evening, a manufactured realm of superficial illumination triumphs over natural darkness. Instead of appearing as an essential, uncanny, potentially spiritual presence, night becomes reduced to being the temporary absence of incessant incandescent light.
In this surface oriented, secular world of continuous light, the ancient sense of night as a necessary realm of reality that meaningfully alternates with the edge bright empire of day becomes lost, specifically lost in the light. Ancient people had an instinctive connection to darkness as a place of potential creation, revelation and divination. Thus, night was often seen as the most spiritual time, the dreaming space that cleanses the light before it returns to light up the day again.
As we find ourselves facing the darkest time of the year again, we also find our true selves in the dark times on earth again. At the same time, darkness is the essential background for the process of birth, death, and renewal, which is the underlying mystery of life in the cosmos, in nature and in our own souls. This greater understanding of the importance of darkness was part of all ancient cultures. In many traditions, Winter Solstice involved a willingness to stand in the darkness in a prayerful attitude in order to help bring the light back to the world."
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Episode 307 - A Dream of Life on Earth 0
On this episode, Michael Meade turns to ancient stories of the Titans in order to understand all the tragic events and extreme behaviors that keep making the world a darker and more dangerous place.
There are times when myth and fact coincide, when events in the common world become mythical in shape and scope. In such radical times, myths can offer ways of understanding what otherwise appears as completely unprecedented events and impossible dilemmas. In mythological terms, we are facing the end of an era during which everything can seem to collapse back into chaos and darkness before a regeneration of the dream of life can occur.
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Episode 306 - On Gratitude and Grace 0
On this episode, Michael Meade answers questions about the sources and meanings of grace and gratitude. Gratitude was called the parent of all virtues and is connected to the natural nobility of the soul. We are most human and most alive when we allow ourselves to be touched by the beauty of the world and when we feel genuine gratitude for the life we have been given, no matter how hard or how dark the world around us may become.
Gratitude involves a flowering of the soul in which even a small sense of gratefulness can generate a full sense of abundance. In this way, feeling grateful and expressing gratitude helps to bring grace back into the world. Occasions of grace and gratitude, however small they may be, can rekindle our spirits and ease our souls.
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Episode 305 - Visions of the Future 0
This episode of Living Myth begins with a report that shows that younger people, voting in larger numbers, made the difference in an election that many viewed as a struggle for the future of democracy and the direction of modern culture. At the same time, a large study found that as people become older they tend to go from being optimistic about the future to being realistic about the present, and from there to being pessimistic about the future.
The tendencies towards pessimism become more pronounced in times of uncertainty and radical change, as many seek to return to idealized visions of the past. The trouble now is that the radical changes affecting and threatening all levels of nature and all aspects of culture make a return to the past, not just unwise, but also impossible.
Michael Meade turns to old ideas that show how a culture renews itself from both the dreams of young people and the visions of the elders. Traditional societies around the world had the idea that youth and elders were secretly connected through a deep sense of imagination that can hold past and future together. Seen that way, finding visions that heal the divisions in society and help realign human culture with nature cannot be the sole burden of young people.
When older people act out of self-interest or fear, they fail to have foresight and genuine vision. They also fail to make the kind of sacrifices that connect them on one hand to young people, and on the other hand to wise ways of thinking and understanding. The idea is not simply to age well, but to become wise in ways that draw upon the archetypal knowledge that sustained our ancestors and can also provide guidance for the future.
When we find ourselves at the end of an era, when even the young can feel older than they otherwise would be, it becomes important to reconnect to the capacity for genuine vision that exists in each person. For, imagination can go places that logic does not know and that fear fails to find. Youth and elders meet in places where imagination blossoms and the inner eyes of the soul open to genuine visions that can unite the old with the new, the past with the future.
Episode 304 - Weathering the Storms 0
This episode of Living Myth begins with the fact that what was once known as "election day" has become a stormy election season as social polarization leaves many outcomes too close to call. The political balance hangs in the troubled air as if to make palpable the sense that the world itself is divided. It is our mutual fate to be alive during a period of extreme divisions and radical changes that endanger the balance of nature as well as the stability and sanity of human culture.
In troubled times, everyone is affected by the storms of life as what happens in the outside world also stirs the internal depths of our own psyches. The deeper self or soul within us knows that politics alone cannot solve the global issues that threaten both culture and nature; yet avoiding the political storms and cultural divisions can secretly add to the collective turmoil.
Michael Meade tells an ancient myth that places the first human ancestor right in the middle of the tension between self-interest and serving something beyond oneself. The circumstances may change, but life has always been hanging in the balance with humanity implicated in the outcome. Once again, humanity faces the elemental tension between simply consuming the resources of life and becoming a true friend of nature and the earth.
The ancient story shows that at crucial times a small change can lead to a great effect that can shift the underlying patterns of both nature and culture. When we listen to the subtle voices that can come from any area of life, it becomes possible to awaken more fully to the creative impulses that sleep within our souls.
Despite feeling overwhelmed by the dramas and challenges of change, our hands are never far from finding again the old practices that help us weather the storms, while keeping our hearts open to the language of nature, and the inspiration and imagination trying to enter this troubled world through each of our souls.
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Episode 303 - A Time of Metamorphosis 0
This episode begins with a report on the radicalization of a radio station where extreme political views began to be mixed in with the local weather and local news. Ironically, the name of the town was Normal, as if to underline the sense that "normalizing" extremist movements and disinformation causes any sense of what might be normal to be a thing of the past.
The dramas and conflicts happening locally are also occurring throughout the world as the rise of social media, where anything goes, becomes added to the strong arm politics of gaining power by any means necessary. In the midst of all the misinformation, fear mongering and rabble rousing, people don't know what to believe or who to trust. To be alive at this time means to be a witness, willingly or unwillingly to the upheaval of the world.
The conditions in which we find ourselves are the conditions through which we must find our true selves and the genuine purpose of our lives. If we accept that we live amidst a great metamorphosis that involves all levels of life, we can become more able to tolerate and endure the troubling and tragic events that threaten both nature and human culture. In times of upheaval we are being called, not to return to normal, but to find a greater imagination as well as a deeper understanding about life on Earth.
As things fall apart in the outside world, a deep sense of purpose and meaning seeks to awaken within us. The inner alchemy of the human soul includes a settling self-center, but also resilient resources of great vitality and transcendent creativity. Ancient traditions held that the individual soul could be the source of "vertical imagination" that allows us to reconnect the inner with the outer, the upper with the lower, the older with the younger, each other with one another, and help bring human culture and great nature back into balance.
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Episode 302 - Wisdom of the Soul 0
This episode of Living Myth begins with Michael Meade turning back to an ancient myth and a five thousand year old fragment of writing in order to find wisdom that is missing in the modern world. Both the myth and the words of the ancient scribe offer solace and encouragement to people feeling helpless and hopeless about contemporary life.
"Like the ancient writer, we live in tormented and troubling times, as all of life's conflicts and uncertainties seem to surface at the same time. Like the anguished scribe, we cannot deny the turmoil of the world. And yet we cannot simply bear the weight of it as frail human beings. As was the case for the ancient scribe, this time of cultural upheaval is also the time of a struggle for the presence of the human soul and a battle for the soul of the living world.
The counterweight to the feeling of having the weight of the world on our shoulders and being subjected to collective fears and anxieties, involves an awakening of the inner soul. For, the soul is always on the verge of some great awareness and on the edge of awakening to more meaningful ways of being. As the underlying and unifying force of life, the human soul carries an inheritance of resiliency, and a capacity for innovation in the face of disaster.
The idea of drawing on our own inner resources and from there contributing to the healing and renewal of the world is essential to avoid feeling powerless, and helpless in the face of the storms of life and the radical changes of the worldwide upheaval at this time."
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Episode 301 - Medicine of the Soul 0
In conjunction with Michael Meade's new online series "Heart and Soul", we are replaying a popular episode that relates to the timely issues and themes of the medicine of the heart and the redeeming energy of the soul.
Each heart can be mined for courage and each soul is imbued with creative imagination. Often we must be driven to our deepest inner resources by fear, grief and despair. Yet, what the heart loves is the cure and what cures the human heart can also help heal a broken world.
The realm of heart and soul is the source of all the arts and spiritual traditions. Meade reminds us of the old idea that "therapy treats my condition and art treats the condition of the world". What follows is an intricate weaving of poetry and ideas that leads to the kinds of medicine waiting to be found in the depths of the soul.
Episode 300 - Seeking a Unity of Opposites 0
On this episode, drawn from a live event, Michael Meade explores an old idea that genuine maturity depends upon our ability to withstand and understand the tension of the opposites. The word individual means "un-divided," not divided on the inside and thus able to remain true to ourselves when under great pressure from the outside world. Although we can feel crucified by opposing sides and torn between conflicting ideas, transformation is the secret aim of the tension inside life itself.
For just when everything seems to fall apart, what seeks to become more conscious is the eternal youth in the soul that sustains the dream of life and the wise old sage in the heart of each person that serves as inner teacher and guide. Inner wisdom involves a creative unity in which the eternal youth and wise elder within us help us hold together the past and the future and find meaningful ways forward.
Episode 299 - Healing and Making Whole 0
On this episode, edited from a live event, Meade considers how as accepted patterns dissolve and uncertainty grows, we become more vulnerable to feelings of insecurity, anxiety and fear. While the rational mind reels from the irrational blows, it becomes necessary to find a sense of wholeness within ourselves.
Wholeness and unity are what all healing seeks, but a genuine transformation requires a descent to the underworld of the soul. There we find that our woundedness is not a static state, but rather a dynamic condition through which we incarnate more fully. In going through the wound the greater self within us is revealed.
When we allow ourselves to be vulnerable we become more open and a deeper wisdom can come to us and live through us. Each act of healing our inner splits contributes to the healing of our divided world.
Episode 298 - The Acorn Myth 0
As a metaphor for human nature, the Acorn Myth suggests that each person comes into the world with an innate shape and an inborn style intended to grow a particular character. Thus the soul, rather than being a blank slate, tends to be more like a garden already planted and seeded in a certain way.
On this replay of a popular episode, Meade suggests that the inner seed of the soul arrives already packed with knowledge. Specifically, it knows something of its own way of being and, if the shell of the seed can be cracked, the nature and shape and aim of a person's life can become revealed. Call it a myth, an open secret or an eternal truth, the sense of each soul having a seed story it came to live resonates throughout the cultures of the world.
As the world around us becomes increasingly unstable and chaotic, we need to turn to the inner shape and core imagination of our own soul to find stability, meaning and purpose.
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Premium Episode 104 Excerpt - Complexities of Life 0
On this excerpt from a premium episode, Michael Meade talks about key issues that affect transformation in our lives. He considers core complexes in family and culture and wades into the territory of deep emotions. The word complex is trying to point out that when we have a particular kind of interior trouble, the issues are complex. Deep down, we all want to change, he says, and each crisis and obstacle we encounter serves to spark the initiatory transformation our soul longs for.
If we change one small thing in our lives, we affect everything and everyone around us. In following our deep calling in life, we naturally encounter struggles. Yet it is these exact struggles that become the turning point for our lives to become bigger, for our wounds to find healing and for our destiny to be revealed.
Episode 297 - Family and Fate 0
This episode begins with the idea that "each family acts as a vessel of fate with an inherited plot that begins all over again each time a child is born. For the infant is not born into a vacuum as much as dropped into a particular stage of a family drama that has been playing out over generations." Meade considers the issues of "family fate" that can restrict and obscure, but ultimately provoke the discovery of the threads of fate and destiny in each person's life.
Episode 296 - Tuning the Instruments of Love 0
This episode considers that when the world seems to be falling apart and life seems increasingly polarized, it becomes necessary to tune to the inner voice that is secretly connected to the pulse of nature as well as to the realm of the divine. The problem is not that there is no resonant voice inside us, not that there isn't something trying to awaken in each of our souls; rather the problem is the issue of tuning in.
The old idea is that once we tune in to our own inner nature, we also become aligned with the world behind the common world, with the realm of the Muses who are sending us signals that turn into music or songs and poetry, or ideas waiting to be found and be shared to bring greater understanding. Through tuning in we become the living instruments whose breath is needed, whose song is required in the struggle for meaning and love. Not because we are inflated or believe we are simply special; but because we are tuned in to life and attuned to our own hearts and souls. Soul is the connective tissue of life. Without a sense of soul, our own lives can fall apart, the inner parts turning discordant, the song of our being becoming silenced.
Yet, when inspired by the eternal youth within us and encouraged by the old sage in our heart, we learn how to become instruments for healing and finding love. Then, we use our breath and our voices to shape places of genuine communion where we can all come together, even with our uncertainties and fallibilities which strangely contribute to the resonance of the healing song trying to be found.
Episode 295 - Resistance to Change 0
This episode considers the problem of resistance to change from psychological and mythological viewpoints. While we are facing radical changes that threaten both nature and culture, we are also challenged by the dilemma of human resistance to change at both personal and collective levels. The issue is not simply a lack of commitment to change. Rather, resistance arises precisely where we have the best intentions to change. The problem becomes all the more difficult as we may not be aware of our resistance because it occurs at an unconscious level. Attempts to meaningfully change can feel like an internal struggle between opposing parts of ourselves; one part that overtly wants change and another part that covertly works against it.
What some psychologists call an internal "competing commitment" or a subconscious "immunity to change" was once known as the fatal flaw that leads us away from our soul's natural goal of transformation and spiritual realization. In terms of mythic imagination, each soul has an original intention waiting to be found and a life dream waiting to awaken. And each soul also has its fatal flaw, a kind of reverse attitude that works against that original intention.
Genuine transformation develops from the inside out. Thus, when change becomes essential, not just for ourselves, but also for life on earth, we are called to awaken to the true aims of our authentic selves as well as to the fatal flaws that work against meaningful change, both personally and collectively.
Episode 294 - The Captive Heart 0
Michael Meade tells two ancient tales about what keeps our hearts captive and restricted rather than being open, loving and wise. Our hearts can be capable of great love and true courage; yet when opportunities come for us to change and grow, old fears awaken and the inner walls tend to tighten as the ego or little-self within us restricts our hearts from opening more fully. In the same way that something greater than ourselves once wounded us, something greater than ourselves seeks to awaken through us, but some practices for letting go may be required for true awakenings to occur.
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Episode 293 - Thresholds of Change 0
Heraclitus said, "It is while we are trying to change that we find purpose." On this in-depth episode, drawn from an event recording, Michael Meade suggests that because we live in a time of change, if we can allow ourselves to participate in the change, then we can find meaningful purpose that awakens the heart and leads us in the right direction in the world.
The idea of a threshold is something that exists before one state and another, before one place and another. Most of us are collectively on that threshold betwixt and between the letting go of the old view of the world and the full stepping into the new world.
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The oldest full deck of playing cards known, circa 1470-1480.
In 1983, The Metropolitan Museum of Art bought a 52-card deck of South Netherlandish playing cards.
The cards dated from the 15th century and were in incredible condition — but they were almost lost to history.
An Amsterdam antiques dealer was sold the pack back in the '70s for $2,800. They were said to be a "unique" pack of tarot cards from the "16th century," according to the Paris auction house that sold them.
But the dealer who bought the deck was skeptical, according to a The Day article published in 1983. He thought they might be even older.
The hairstyles and clothing worn by the royal figures on the cards helped date the deck.
After five years of research, he was able to successfully date the cards to between 1465 and 1480 thanks to the style of the paintings, watermarks on the pasteboard, as well as the costumes and hairdos worn by the Burgundian court figures on the cards.
The shoes, hairstyles, and clothing worn by the kings and queens were going out of style by 1480. The watermarks were also common in Southern Flanders and the Netherlands from 1466 to 1479, according to The Day.
The suits were based on hunting symbols. These are hound tethers.
The dates were confirmed by the Central Laboratory for Objects of Art and Science in Amsterdam which dated the paints used to the 15th Century.
All of this digging and research paid off. In 1983, the Met bought the pack for $143,000.
Game nooses were another hunting-inspired deck suit.
It is now accepted that this is the oldest known full deck of playing cards in the world.
The cards themselves are also very interesting. Instead of the suits we know today, the four card categories are based on hunting gear, including hunting horns, dog collars, hound tethers, and game nooses.
Another suit were dog collars.
This was not uncommon given that many countries had their own suit symbols. Playing cards were introduced to Europe through the Mameluke Empire in Egypt after originating in China. The Mameluke suits were goblets, gold coins, swords, and polo sticks. Italy and Spain transformed them into batons/staves, swords, cups, and coins. German card makers had acorns, leaves, hearts, and bells. The French were the ones to simplify the shapes and make them the clover, "pike-heads" (a type of weapon), hearts, and paving tiles.
The English used the simplified French shapes, but called the pike-heads "spades" and the paving tiles "diamonds."
The final suit were hunting horns.
Mass-producing and printing playing cards had still not become the norm, so these cards were drawn free-hand with pen and ink with gold and silver later applied. Because they are in such good condition, it's assumed the cards were rarely touched.
You can currently view the cards at The Met's Cloisters museum in New York City.
The cards were drawn free-hand with ink. Gold and silver were later applied by hand.


Stephen Hawking's voice was beamed into space toward the nearest black hole, 1A 0620-00, 3,500 light years away from earth during his memorial where his ashes were scattered between the graves of Charles Darwin and Sir Isaac Newton at Westminster Abbey.
Over 1,000 people attended a memorial in London to celebrate the life and mourn the loss of physicist Stephen Hawking. Actor Benedict Cumberbatch and astronaut Tim Peake read during the memorial.
Stephen's voice was set into space along with an original piece of music composed by Vangelis, the composer of "Chariots of Fire." The message and music are intended to send messages of peace and hope according to Hawking's family. The recording is a total of six and a half minutes with Hawking's voice in the middle.
Hawking was a theoretical physicist and author who was diagnosed early in life with a slow progressing form of ALS and died in March at the age of 76.


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Renault and Dacia set a new sales record for the first quarter
In the first quarter of 2018, Group Renault increased by 5.4 per cent to 13.2 billion Euro, at constant exchange rates and perimeter.
Groupe Renault's worldwide registrations (passenger cars PC + light commercial vehicles LCV, including Jinbei and Huasong since January 1, 2018) rose 4.8 per cent in the first quarter, in a market up 2.7 per cent.
The market share is now 4.0 per cent (+0.1 points compared to 2017). The Renault and Dacia brands each set a new sales record for a first quarter.
In Europe, Group registrations increased by 2.8 per cent in a market up 0.6%, thanks to the success of New Duster and Koleos.
Outside Europe, the Group recorded sales up 22.1 per cent in Eurasia and 21.3 per cent in the Americas, and is facing a slowdown in the Africa Middle-East India (-5.3 per cent) and Asia-Pacific (-18.6 per cent) regions.
Dacia to showcase its first full electric city car on March 3 at Geneva Motor Show
Renault unveils new Megane and Megane E-Tech plug-in
Ford, Renault to reopen China plants on February 10
Volkswagen to offer electrified version of its Golf model


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Advice? Like I said earlier, be humble and nice but do not over do it.
Am starting my training in Dec soon.
Any1 mind telling me what r the things we need 2 buy/prepare?
Am pretty nervous abt the training. Is it tough?
Heard the training is 6-day week.
may i know is there any guys with O level that make it thru yesterday? Cos i make it thru the first round, but when they check my cert, the auntie at the counter said she have to reject me cos my job is not relevant and im only O level. Quite disappointing man haha. Dunno should i try again?
hey blizz gratz on your passing the interviews .. so when was your walk in interview?
hello. anyone care to share the walk in interview process yesterday?
like how was the crowd like? waiting time? passing rate per group? interview questions etc.
saw someone posted that there was more than 1000 interviewees? the waiting time sounds like madness.
Thank u. I had my walk-in interview in August.
How abt u? R u applyig for tis job too?
leonine wrote: hello. anyone care to share the walk in interview process yesterday?
Hi Blizz, Congrats! Don't worry too much. Bring yourself and dress nicely ok? If you are a guy,put on a tie...long sleeve shirt. No jeans or denim materials are allowed. Don't talk too much,just be nice,pleasant and humble. Greet everyone when you meet them,even the cleaning women. Guys are not allowed to wear earrings. Get rid of your tatoos especially those visible ones.
Yoman wrote: may i know is there any guys with O level that make it thru yesterday? Cos i make it thru the first round, but when they check my cert, the auntie at the counter said she have to reject me cos my job is not relevant and im only O level. Quite disappointing man haha. Dunno should i try again?
Yoman, care to explain what do you mean when the auntie said that "your job is not relevant" ??
From the way you put it, its like you've to work in the customer service sector first before joining SIA. Is that true? Care to explain.
This is regarding the SIA medical check up. If I fail the medical check up, can I still apply for SIA again?
Actually, mine was just a case of childhood asthma. I big mouth and go and tell the doctor that.. I am ok now, with no sickness whatsoever.
Does anyone know if SIA keep our medical checkup reports?
How long do they keep our files?
I wanted to try again really badly but I am afraid that if they see my past medical check up fail, then they won't let me through again.
For those who did the same interview with me do pm me plz..
Thanks All the best .
thanz for the advise new to this just found out bout that so are u from the october batch???


The Foundation was established in 1989 — 16 years after the social services foster care program was first established on Mercer Island in 1973. The sole mission of the Foundation — to support financially the operations of MIYFS — grew out of the aim of the volunteer rummage sale project in 1975: to raise money to augment funding that the social services agency received at first from the federal government and, after 1976, from the City of Mercer Island when it became a municipal department for Youth Services.
The annual breakfast will honor the foresight and fortitude of the pioneers who established the foundation, as well as all ensuing board members and volunteers that have made the foundation a major funding source for an innovative and diversified human services department not replicated elsewhere in the state of Washington. In 2018, the foundation contributed $337,668 to MIYFS to support its operations in eight critical areas: mental health counseling in schools, family and individual counseling, senior services, healthy youth initiative (including drug prevention), family and emergency assistance, youth leadership and community service, diversion and early intervention for youth and volunteer/community service opportunities at the Thrift Shop.
The 2019 annual breakfast theme – "30 years, 30 stories" – celebrates the positive impact the MIYFS Foundation has on our community today through testimonials of a wide array of residents who have received support and assistance to live a healthy and fulfilling life within an interconnected and caring community. The MIYFS Foundation Annual Breakfast brings together more than 600 MIYFS supporters to showcase the depth and breadth of financial support that has enabled Mercer Island to provide high quality, research-based social services across the lifespan to all who need them.
Jody Kris is the president of Mercer Island Youth and Family Services Foundation.


Big cities around the world often have underground Graffiti and Street Art scenes, Buenos Aires is no different … or is it?
As part of this country's deeply carved wounds in the political past, the graffiti and street art of today are a representation of the struggles, a reminder of the battles, a voice speaking out to create a movement.
From the outside looking in, the general public (at least where I'm from) view Street Art and graffiti as the enemy. It's old. It's ugly. It defaces and devalues property. It's a hassle. It's got to go. Rebellious kids are responsible for destroying property. Poor people and the uneducated are the cause.
In fact, this is exactly why there is a misconception of this form of art. It has been misunderstood by so many for so long. I'm here to challenge your perceptions.
Let me start with a very simple difference between Street Art and Graffiti as they are not the same.
Graffiti was where it all began. Various forms of painting large, blocky letters in public spaces. This was often done anonymously. Sometimes it would be legible to the average passerby, but often it was a language only understood by other graffiti artists.
Street art has nothing to do with letters and words, but everything to do with art, beauty and conceptual messages. Again, some may be obvious to a passersby, or it may be understood only within the artist community. Some displays are just for the beauty of it, with little conceptual meaning other than to give the viewer enjoyment.
Indeed, graffiti and street art in almost every city that has risen out of poor governments in power, loss of control or war. It is true, that in the beginning that those who went to the streets did so in the dark, illegally and in a hurry to avoid being arrested. They were driven by their passion for a cause, their audacity to stand against a dictatorship and to draw likeminded people together. They were the silent, but visual leaders of their time. Their art became a language to be shared and to unite them. They were not hitting the streets to destroy random property or to make their city 'ugly'. They were going to the streets like men who go to war. They were fighting a battle of words against their flailing governments and building support without the aid of government funded media.
Graffiti in general started out as anti-government, or at least against specific government parties. It was a semi-permanent protest that could be spread across city walls by night and visible by day. It was a voice for those who were being silenced.
It's a pretty dark history, but as with anything from the past, people learn and grow from it. Governments change, wars begin and end, cities make laws and then change them.
On my recent Street Art tour with Graffiti Mundo in Buenos Aires, I really began to understand more about the recent history of the art and how it flourished from the ugly past.
In the early 2000's, the city went grey. Devoid of colour, devoid of hope. Huge billboards and public wall space was devoted to campaigning for government. Political propaganda was everywhere. Sky-high faces of leaders painted on previously blank spaces appeared.
Citizens were being silenced and the dictatorship was quashing any resistance. Artists started having secret gatherings in garages and clubs to discuss what they could do. They had no money, the government was forceful, and they were just a few people. What they decided was that they needed to put colour back into their streets. They needed to spread hope rather than disparity. They needed to move forward instead of being stuck. Artists began by painting the outside of their own homes and offices, making their own colourful art. The artists had no money, so they collected paint left overs from the street and started getting creative with mixing colours as well as trying new methods.
Spray paint is expensive to buy, although quick to use, so it was often the choice of Graffiti artists. Latex paint is free, if left over from someone painting their house, but takes longer to design with. This meant that you could not paint and run. People took to painting their own spaces, in broad daylight with whatever materials they could find. Painting, for the purpose of putting colour back in the streets; for doing something rather than nothing. This art also led to less space for political propaganda. It was a protective layer for their houses as propaganda messages from the government would easily be lost if they were painted on top of colourful art instead of on a clear blank wall.
The Artists thought that if everything else in their city was grey, boring and politically fuelled, that if they painted colourful art, with no political affiliation, it would stand out. It would disrupt the norm because it was different. And, so it continued to flourish.
A group of 12 artists collaborated on this wall below.
Soon enough, a few people painting one or two of their homes were asked by neighbours what they could do. The grand answer – Paint! Find paint and paint the grey away (or the politics away, depending how you read into it). Neighbours joined in by painting their own homes, or by offering up large blank building surfaces to be painted with full artist discretion.
The camaraderie, the appreciation of art and the common passion for revitalizing the city was thriving. No longer did artists have to buy spray paint, tip toe around after midnight and rush to pain their message on a wall before being caught. No longer was it a taboo. The city opened up and embraced the art with many businesses now commissioning artists to paint their walls. Sometimes these are paid gigs, other times artists do it simply for the joy of painting and sharing their vision.
Still today there is a law in Argentina that says you have the right to paint your house however you wish. Neighbours don't complain about it being an eye-sore, if you own it, you can paint it.
A few years ago, Buenos Aires even hosted a large scale festival dedicated to painting the city. Well-known graffiti and street artists came from around the world (by invitation or by choice) to participate. Being a government run project, sadly, the festival rubbed many artists the wrong way as the funds coming in from the festival all went back to the government (to their consulting and construction fees) while none of the money went back to support the artists.
The festival was held mainly in an area of the city near Palermo Hollywood, but known for social housing, the city dump and a main bus hub. Not the prettiest or most desirable of neighbourhoods. Hundreds of artists joined the festival and painted a piece of themselves on the walls, brightening up this otherwise monotonous neighbourhood.
Over the years, street art studios have opened and closed. Sadly, most of them are now closed. It has been a losing battle as the government prohibits artists from exporting their art to an international market. This means their art has to be purchased by other Argentinian's, who for the most part are in the same constant struggle to get buy with the little money they have. They don't have money to buy art, leading to the closing of many of the galleries and lack of exposure and recognition for deserving Argentinian artists.
Even today, as European and first world as Argentina appears to the outside world, it's internal struggles are tormenting it's people every day. They are stuck in a hamster wheel where they can't get off. Their money is monitored, their currency has no value and citizens are not allowed to earn or spend USD.
In the year 2015, Argentina is still in political turmoil, but the vision and artistic passion of it's people lives on through the streets. No matter where you look, you can see walls popping with colour, you can see images of conflict amongst images of roses. You can even find an entire street block filled with Homer Simpson's face as an effort to be the world's largest wall of Homer Simpson.
The spirit of these artists is friendly, open and without shame for the work that they do. Although their government stings them with restrictions that are unbearable for many of us to consider, they march on spreading their vision throughout the city.
These are not the poor, uneducated criminals that the media would have us believe. These are talented, educated, intelligent leaders who believe in a better Buenos Aires, a better Argentina. Their voice runs through the streets and colourfully joins neighbours and strangers together against the government's disparity.


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AerCap signs $7.2bn of financing deals in first quarter
Irish aircraft leasing giant had 1,541 craft on books at end of March
AerCap chief executive Aengus Kelly. The company signed lease agreements for 69 aircraft, bought a further 11 and sold 25 in the first three months of the year. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
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Irish aircraft leasing giant AerCap signed $7.2 billion (€6.7 billion) worth of transactions in the first three months of the year.
AerCap signed lease agreements for 69 aircraft, bought a further 11 and sold 25 aircraft during the three-month period.
The New York-listed company said it had signed financing transactions for $7.2 billion during the quarter, more than the $4.6 billion it signed in 2016.
As of the end of March, AerCap had 1,541 aircraft on its books, that is, owned, managed on behalf of one of its clients or on order from manufacturers such as Boeing and Airbus.
AerCap says it serves about 200 customers in 80 countries, they include Aer Lingus, Etihad, Emirates and Qatar Airways, Qantas and Singapore Airlines.
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