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Home Features Syrians take to the streets: Golan belongs to Syria
Syrians take to the streets: Golan belongs to Syria
Syrians demonstrate in the Golan Heights in support of President Bashar Al-Assad
PEOPLE have once again taken to the streets across Syria to protest against US President Donald Trump's recent recognition of Israeli 'sovereignty' over the occupied Golan Heights.
Demonstrations were held in the different neighbourhoods of Damascus and its countryside. A rally was also held at a cultural centre in the north eastern city of Qamishli.
Syrians also rallied in the various towns and villages of the province of Quneitra, near the Golan Heights. Dozens of activists gathered in the town of Jibbat al-Khashab in denunciation of Trump's decision. They held banners and raised national flags to assert that 'Golan is Arab and Syrian land.'
Social activists and local political groups also organised a mass gathering in the south western city of Sweida.
In Deir Ezzor, at a protest gathering organised by Awqaf Directorate, people censured Trump's move, stressing that 'it violates the resolutions of the UN Security Council'. They pledged to return the territory to the Syrian motherland.
Trump signed a proclamation recognising Israeli 'sovereignty' over the occupied Golan on Monday 25th March, triggering a global outcry.
US President Donald Trump has formally recognised Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Golan Heights, a border area the Tel Aviv regime seized from Syria in 1967.
World countries — including Iran, Turkey, Lebanon, Russia, and the European Union (EU) — have rejected the decision. So has Syria.
In 1967, Israel waged a full-scale war against Arab territories, during which it occupied a large swathe of Golan and annexed it in 1981, a move never recognised by the international community.
Syria has repeatedly reaffirmed its sovereignty over the Golan Heights, saying the territory must be completely restored to its control.
Turkey will not turn back from a major arms deal with Russia despite the US suspension of Ankara from the F-35 fighter-jet programme, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Wednesday.
'The S-400 deal is a done deal and we will not step back from this,' he told a think-tank forum in Washington, where he is taking part in 70th anniversary celebrations of NATO.
The United States said on Monday that it was halting shipment of F-35 parts of Turkey as well as joint manufacturing work due to Ankara's purchase of the S-400 missile defence system from Russia.
Cavusoglu said Turkey turned to Russia as it could not buy US Patriot missiles and quoted President Donald Trump as saying in an unspecified phone call that his predecessor Barack Obama had made a 'mistake' not to sell the system to Ankara.
However, the Trump administration has since made clear that it is ready to sell Patriot missiles to Turkey – if it drops the S-400 system.
The Turkish foreign minister said the S-400 deal did not signal a warming toward Russia.
'We disagree with Russia on many issues,' Cavusoglu said, pointing to Moscow's 'aggression' in the Black Sea and pledging never to recognise Russia's annexation of the Crimean peninsula from Ukraine.
'We have been working with Russia,' he said.
'But it doesnt mean that we are undermining the alliance and we agree with Russia on everything. There is no shift on our foreign policy.'
US policymakers worry that Russia will obtain data from the F-35s to hone the ability of the S-400 to shoot down Western planes.
Cavusoglu said the S-400 system would be separate from NATO infrastructure in Turkey with no linkages to the F-35s.
Lebanese President Michel Aoun has told US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that the Lebanese resistance movement, Hezbollah, has popular support in the country.
'Preserving national unity and civil peace is a priority for us,' Aoun told Pompeo, the Lebanese presidency said on its Twitter feed.
Pompeo met with Aoun at the presidential palace in Baabda, east of the capital Beirut last Friday.
The visiting top US diplomat claimed that his pressure on Iran and Hezbollah was working and urged Lebanon to stand up to the resistance movement which he accused of 'terror and threats'.
'Our pressure on Iran is simple. It's aimed at cutting off the funding for terrorists and it's working,' he said in a statement after meeting Lebanese political leaders. We believe that our work is already constraining Hezbollah's activities.
'Lebanon and the Lebanese people face a choice: Bravely move forward as an independent and proud nation or allow the dark ambitions of Iran and Hezbollah to dictate your future,' he said.
Bassil stood side by side with Pompeo at the new conference but he rejected the terrorist denunciation of the US official for Hezbollah.
Bassil said he held 'constructive and positive talks' with Pompeo but added that their were differences of perspective with regards to Hezbollah.
'Hezbollah is a Lebanese party, not a terrorist group, and it enjoys a wide popular base,' he said.
'We don't want our ties with America to be affected and we want to work together to solve problems, including the issue with Hezbollah,' he said.
Earlier, the long-serving speaker of Lebanon's parliament, Nabih Berri, told Pompeo that American sanctions against Hezbollah were having a 'negative impact on Lebanon and the Lebanese'.
Nabih Berri told the top US diplomat in a meeting in Beirut that Hezbollah is a Lebanese political party whose members are in the government and parliament, and that it is carrying out 'resistance' against Israel to free Lebanese territory from Israeli occupation.
Earlier in the day, Pompeo also met with Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri at the Grand Serail, which is the headquarters of the Prime Minister of Lebanon.
The US secretary of state on Thursday declared he would be 'very clear' in his meetings in the Lebanese capital that 'Lebanon's success depends on the Lebanese people (demanding) that a terrorist organisation not be in control of their government and not drive policies'.
'Hezbollah is a terrorist organisation. You ask how tough I am going to be? It is a terrorist organisation. Period. Full stop,' Pompeo said in the Israeli-occupied Jerusalem al-Quds on Thursday, before leaving for Lebanon.
Hezbollah was founded in the 1980s following the Israeli invasion and occupation of southern Lebanon. The movement waged a long resistance campaign against Israeli forces and pushed them out of southern Lebanon in May 2000. Since then, the group has grown into a powerful military force. Israel also suffered a humiliating defeat from Hezbollah in the 2006 war.
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Slobodna trgovina podrazumijeva međunarodnu trgovinu bez intervencije državne vlasti.
Slobodna trgovina znači nesmetan protok dobara i usluga između država.

Relativni troškovi i korist slobodne trgovine predmet su akademske rasprave, rasprave ekonomista, vlada i interesnih grupa.

Šira značenja slobodne trgovine

Slobodna trgovina je koncept u ekonomiji i vlasti koji se odnosi na:

 Međunarodnu razmjenu dobara bez carinskih tarifa i drugih prepreka (npr. dozvole, kvote i sl.)
 Međunarodnu razmjenu usluga bez carinskih tarifa i drugih prepreka
 Slobodan protok radne snage između država
 Slobodan protok kapitala između država
 Odsustvo mjera kontrole trgovine (kao što su porezi, subvencije, uredbe i zakoni) koji favoriziraju domaće poduzetnike u odnosu na strane.

Sporazumi o slobodnoj trgovini su ključni preduvjet za stvaranje carinskih unija ili slobodnih carinskih zona.

Svjetska trgovinska organizacija (WTO) osnovana je s ciljem, da otvori tržišta, potiče međunarodnu trgovinu koncipiranu na laissez faire paradigmi slobodne trgovine. WTO potiče i kontrolira sporazume o slobodnoj trgovini i arbitrira u slučaju kršenja ovih sporazuma. WTO definira slobodnu trgovinu kao "ravnopravnu tržišnu utakmicu", što znači, da neograničena razmjena dobara ne mora uvijek biti i "slobodna". Na primjer, ako neka zemlja proizvodi zrakoplove, i ako vlada potiče istraživanje i razvoj u toj grani ili uspostavlja olakšice i limitira nabavu dijelova samo na lokalno tržište, onda to po definiciji WTO, predstavlja narušavanje slobodne trgovine.

Sasvim slobodna trgovina

Neki ekonomisti, posebno liberalno orijentirani, smatraju da je stav WTO-a o slobodnoj trgovini previše skučen. Oni smatraju, da su vladine olakšice zapravo oblik komparativne prednosti te da subvencije u određenoj gospodarskoj grani, koje uvodi jedna država ne trebaju biti razlog za ograničenje uvoza od strane druge države.

Oni smatraju, da višak vrijednosti koji se stvara kod domaćih potrošača uvoznih dobara ima prevagu nad gubitkom koji ostvaruju domaći proizvođači. Niža cijena dotiranog uvoznog proizvoda je zapravo neto dobitak domaćih potrošača.

Ovakva politika ne nailazi na puno razumijevanja u zemljama u razvoju, i to zbog sljedećih razloga:
 Proizvođači su mnogo bolje organizirani nego potrošači
 Umjetni "hendikep" stranih, subvencioniranih proizvođača djeluje manje "fer" lokalnim proizvođačima nego npr. prirodne prednosti (geografski položaj, prirodni resursi, obučenost i sl.)
 Po teoriji igara, trgovinske barijere mogu biti odlična strategija za otvaranje vanjskih tržišta domaćim proizvođačima. Po ovom obrascu, trgovinske barijere mogu poslužiti kao pregovarački argument pomoću koga će se, na temelju reciprociteta, vrebati udio na inozemnom tržištu. Ova strategija donosi korist i potrošačima i proizvođačima zemlje koja je provodi.

Povijest slobodne trgovine

Sve danas razvijene zemlje koristile su se protekcionizmom, dok nisu stekle dovoljno bogatstva, koje im je osiguralo sigurnu korist u slobodnoj trgovini. Ekonomist Danny Rodrick primijetio je, da "jedina suštinska povezanost između trgovinskih barijera i ekonomskog rasta leži u činjenici, da zemlje uklanjaju barijere tek kada steknu bogatstvo". Ujedinjeno Kraljevstvo koristilo se protekcionizmom od početka 18. do sredine 19. stoljeća, Japan i Južna Koreja stotinu godina kasnije. Tek kada je osiguralo ekonomsku premoć, Ujedinjeno se Kraljevstvo je počelo zalagati za slobodnu trgovinu i otvoreno društvo. SAD su također imale velikih problema sa slobodnom trgovinom i štitile su svoje gospodarstvo protekcionizmom, pa čak i carinskim ratom protiv V. Britanije. Američki predsjednik Ulysses S. Grant (1869. – 1877.), osvrćući se na britansku politiku slobodne trgovine, izjavio je jednom prilikom: "Kada, nakon 200 godina, izađemo iz protekcionizma, jedino što ćemo moći ponuditi svijetu je - slobodna trgovina".

Vidi i:
 Transatlantsko trgovinsko i investicijsko partnerstvo

Globalizacija
Međunarodni odnosi

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Carlo Marchionni
Rome 1702-Rome 1786
Five drawings of caricatures of Clerics Heads
Inscribed on mount Ghezzi., laid on a period mount
Pen and brown ink, grey wash
Overall size:114 x 90 mm. (4 x 3 in.) and smaller; including mount 246 x 356 mm. (9 5/8 x 14 in.)
The traditional period attribution of these drawings to Pier Leone Ghezzi is most plausible, however the work of Marchionni comes much closer1.
Carlo Marchionni was one of the most important architects of his generation. He won first prize in the Concorso Clementino at the Accademia di San Luca in 1728, and became official architect to Cardinal Albani.
Marchionni collected drawings and paintings, including works by Pier Leone Ghezzi, to whom these drawings were traditionally attributed.
1.Philadelphia Museum of Art, A. Percy & U.W. Hiesinger, entry by Thomas William Sokolowski, A Scholar Collects: Selections from the Anthony Morris Clark Bequest, 2 October 1980-4 January 1981, no.77. The attribution was suggested by Stefan Kekko. Also see Revue du Louvre, Vol. 3, 1993 Carlo Marchionni (1702-1786) deux albums de Dessins Acquis par le dpartement des arts graphiques du Louvre, pp.28-40.
SOLD TO A PRIVATE COLLECTOR.
Other Artworks By Carlo Marchionni
A Caricature of a Monk
A Gentleman standing, wearing a broad rimmed hat
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In the paper we study the temperature boundary effect behavior in the dividing wall made of a composite conductor in which every area parallel to the outside and the inside plane areas has identical biperiodic structure. The proposed modeling approach is restricted to the hexagonal case of bi-periodicity in which the hexagonal cell can be divided onto three rhombus parts with different thermal properties. Considerations deal with anisotropic conductors.
Keywords: tolerance averaging, heat conduction, biperiodic conductors, boundary effect.
Cielecka I., Jędrysiak J. (2006), A non-asymptotic model of dynamics of honeycomb lattice-type plates, J. Sound and Vibration, 296, 130-149.
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Mazewska M. (2013), Modelowanie tolerancyjne efektu brzegowego przewodnictwa ciepła w kompozytach o strukturze heksagonalnej, doctoral thesis, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Warsaw.
Mazewska M, Wierzbicki E. (2013), Modelowanie tolerancyjne przewodnictwa ciepła w kompozytach o strukturze dwukierunkowo-periodycznej, Acta Scientarum Polonorum, Architectura 12 (1) 2013, 3-17, Warsaw.
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The genus Erica is the most specious in the Cape Floristic Region, with a large range of habitats, pollination syndromes and fire survival strategies. Erica coccinea, like many other Cape Erica species, has high intraspecific variability between populations. In addition to variability in floral characteristics such as colour, this species includes two distinct regeneration forms: a resprouter form which survives fire by resprouting from dormant buds in a swollen lignotuber, and a seeder form which does not survive fire, but whose populations regenerate from fire-triggered seed germination. Previous studies have shown that these two regeneration forms are genetically determined and this dissertation investigates further the differences in floral morphology, phenology, fecundity and genetic relatedness across 29 populations. Results show patterns of seeder individuals investing more effort into nectar and seed production than resprouters and differences in flower colour and flowering phenology between the two fire life history strategies. A PST-FST analysis, comparing genetic variability to variability in floral traits shows a strong selective force working on anther length in the seeder form. A complete separation of flowering phenology between seeder and resprouter individuals in 'mixed' populations where the two forms co-occur leads to speculation that this might be a case of incipient speciation.
Malan, M. 2013. Intraspecific variation in Erica coccinea. University of Cape Town.


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Company tax strategies to be published online
Future UK tax legislation will require larger businesses including companies and partnerships to publish their tax strategies online for public scrutiny. Businesses must publish their approach to risk management and governance arrangements in relation to UK taxation; its attitude towards tax planning (so far as affecting UK taxation); the level of risk in relation to UK taxation that it is prepared to accept; and its approach towards its dealings with tax authorities. There is no requirement for publication of the amounts of taxes paid.
Businesses must publish if their turnover was more than £200m or balance sheet total was more than £2bn.
The same requirements apply to groups, and the guidance contains information about groups which come in scope, including multinationals and UK groups where companies do not have the same financial year end.
The tax strategy has to be published on the internet as a separate document or a self-contained part of a wider document, and should remain accessible to the public, free of charge for the period until the next year's strategy is published.
After this, the strategy must not be published less than nine months, or more than 15 months, after the day on which the previous strategy was published.
Businesses face penalties if not published in the correct format.
The draft guidance on compliance with the tax strategy rules is here
See more at CCH Daily


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Alumna Mona Das: Legislating for a More Sustainable and Equitable Future
Posted October 19, 2021 by Merry Richter
Our unstoppable community of change is strengthened and enriched by the fact that it includes not only Presidians, but also alumni of Pinchot University (formerly Bainbridge Graduate Institute), who are creating positive change across the globe. Their unique journeys and trailblazing efforts make our community what it is today. In our Changemakers in Action series, we meet true sustainability and social justice leaders and learn how they bring about positive change. Today, we're proud to share our conversation with alumna and Washington State Senator Mona Das, a woman who "MONAvates" others, fights for sustainability, and does it all in her unique way, on her terms.
Before we begin our conversation, meet Mona Das. Mona was born to Indian parents who immigrated to the United States with only $6 in their pockets when she was just eight months old. She spent her childhood moving around due to her father's job, living in eight states and three countries. She finally settled down in her current hometown of Kent, Washington.
Mona graduated from the University of Cincinnati with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology and earned an MBA in Sustainable Business from Bainbridge Graduate Institute (BGI), which merged with Presidio Graduate School in 2016. She also attended the Women's Campaign School at Yale University.
For 15 years, Mona has operated her own mortgage business, MOXY Money, while also fundraising for various organizations and driving forward change as a legislator. Elected to the Washington State Senate in 2018, Mona has centered her career around sustainable development, equal access to housing, and empowering marginalized voices.
As a dedicated member of our community, Mona has remained active and involved through several alumni roles, including serving on the Board of Trustees. Mona brings her passion for inspiring and connecting people to building community. At Pinchot, Mona learned to embrace her voice, lead by example, and inspire others to change the world. She also serves on the board of the Women's Business Exchange. She recently launched MOXY!, an organization designed to inspire, coach, and mentor women to live their lives and earn their livelihood by following their true purpose. She loves when friends tell her they have been "MONAvated!"
MR: In fact, reading your origin story makes me feel "MONAvated" right now! It's an honor to interview such an accomplished and determined changemaker. What sparked your interest in sustainability?
Mona: Not wanting to pay five cents for a grocery bag while living in Ireland in my early thirties!
Kidding—but also, not kidding! It was also a change not having a car there and, instead, walking or taking public transportation to work.
But sustainability has also been ingrained into me since childhood. My family was very poor. We came to the States with $6 to our names when I was just a baby, so camping was a family pastime. When I moved to New Hampshire after college, I learned to appreciate the outdoors in a new way with hiking, skiing, and so on. I took this journey to "find myself" and, in the process, found a growing interest in the outdoors and sustainability. But Ireland was a turning point.
In Ireland, I learned how to reduce, reuse, and recycle. My partner at the time and I didn't go out to eat much, so we became chefs. We became cooks. And we started to feel really good!
That is really where the sustainability journey started. At first, I just called it recycling, and I was really big into it. And then, obviously, that evolved.
MR: Very interesting! So what ultimately led you to BGI/Pinchot?
Mona: The short answer is that the mortgage industry crashed, and I went from making six figures to hardly anything. So one of my very good friends, Dave, suggested that I sell carbon offsets. At first, I had zero clue as to what a carbon offset was, but he explained it to me, and I was like, "Okay, so sustainability, recycling, got it!" At the time, I didn't even have the correct vocabulary to understand the wider world of sustainability, but this got me going in the right direction.
Then, the Universe hit me over the head with it. I met loads of Bainbridge alums as I learned more about carbon offsets and how to move up in the industry.
When I went to the Go Green Conference, I got to know five Bainbridge alumni. I ended up meeting with one of them for coffee, and I asked, "So you've done this two-year MBA in sustainability. What would you change about the program?" He responded, "Absolutely nothing."
I was SHOCKED. And, of course, intrigued.
Then he started talking about Island Wood, and I was sold. And then, when I went to Island Wood for Sustainability Saturday, I was entirely sold—hook, line, and sinker!
In the first year of the program, I was intimidated and definitely experienced imposter syndrome. For the first year, believe it or not, I was quiet. I was really quiet. And I didn't say much because all of my other BGI friends were so smart.
But then, in my second year, I discovered just how smart I was! Smart in the CREATIVE way. We took a course, Creativity and Right Livelihood, which was my pinnacle class in grad school. We got to unleash our creative potential. In that class, I realized that I'm not smart like my family in subjects like science and math, but I'm deeply creative. I am a creative, brilliant person. That class unleashed my creativity and my potential.
MR: It's so terrific that Bainbridge helped you discover your brilliance. Tell us about the importance of the Bainbridge experience! What have you taken away from your time in that program that still serves you today? How did it impact you moving forward?
Mona: One of the things that I take with me—and I always say this: Circle.
Let me describe Circle to you. I know that Presidio has adopted it, which is fantastic. You sit in a physical circle. And you sit in that circle because you can see everybody else in the circle at once. It's pretty powerful. We started every Thursday afternoon session with Circle, beginning with "appreciations."
Here's is how it works: I might say, "I appreciate you, Merry, for taking the time out to hear my story. I appreciate that you realize that my story is valuable, and you realize the value in an oratory narrative and history of Bainbridge transitioning to Pinchot transitioning to Presidio. I appreciate you for valuing my gifts."
When you get to Circle, and you hear appreciations—and let's say you disagreed with a teammate, and then all of a sudden that teammate appreciates you in Circle—you don't hold a grudge anymore. Right? It disarms the situation.
I actually brought this Circle tradition to the legislature. And this is how I passed the Styrofoam Bill out of the senate in 2020. The year before, I was aiming to ban plastic bags. The bill didn't pass in the first year. So I knew it was going to pass the second year. I already knew I was banning plastic bags; that was a given. And that wasn't my bill. I inherited that. But the bill against Styrofoam—this was my bill, my idea—I wanted to ban it.
I convened a stakeholder meeting, and the first thing I did was I asked everybody to come and sit at the table so that everyone could see each other—including staff. Our staff was extremely uncomfortable because they were never asked to sit at the table, ever. And I will say that I'm a different legislator: I wasn't groomed to be a legislator, so I tend to do things in unconventional ways. I could tell a lot of people were tense. One woman sat there with her arms crossed because she did not like this bill and what it would do to the grocers.
I started by saying, "Thank you for being here. We are going to go around the table to get everyone's voice heard in the room." And I continued, "I want everyone to go around, say your name, what organization you're from," and whether they were probably pro or con for the bill.
And then I went around, addressing the group, and said, "Okay, you're all here because you either love or hate the bill. I don't want to hear your problem with the bill. I know you have a problem. Otherwise, you wouldn't be in this room. What I want to hear is your solution. I want you to tell me what's going to make you and the organization that you're representing pro-bill."
There was, honestly, a comprehensive list of people in the room. And everybody was also, by the way, appreciative to be included in a meeting.
One by one, the representatives each went around the room, told us why they hated the bill, and then proposed a solution. By the time we got to the Department of Ecology, which was three-quarters of the way around the table, the Department of Ecology spelled out a great solution (because they are brilliant lobbyists), and do you want to know what happened?! Every single person at the table said, "That works for me." "Yep, that works for me." "Oh sure, that works for me." "Yep, that works for me." And so on!
It was incredible! People felt heard and, in turn, that made them more willing to listen. We reached a solution so quickly.
MR: Thank you for sharing that, Mona. You've done truly amazing work, and I know there's much more to come. Before you go, what advice would you give someone who seeks to follow your path?
Mona: Follow your path, bet on yourself, find what you're meant to do, and keep going.
And I should add—don't follow my path! Follow your path! Find a way to keep your dream alive. I used my 401k after grad school to keep myself going forward and figuring out WHAT exactly I wanted to do. And the funny story is, I decided I was going to be a senator…in the shower! And then, I just made it happen.
The moment I knew it was going to happen was when I was walking my dog, Cleveland, and saw the "Pramila Jayapal for Senator" sign. I thought to myself, "This is a woman, an Indian woman, and she is running. I can do the same." And now I am in Pramila's old office! I'm honestly getting so tearful just talking about it.
Believe in yourself and keep going. There were only 12 people in the state of Washington that thought I could win. Thankfully I was one of them. I believed in myself so strongly that I knew I would win.
Looking to level up your ability to create a positive impact? Want to join our tight-knit community of change? Learn more about our MBA, MPA, Dual Degree, and Certificate programs, and then start a conversation with us!
About the Author / Merry Richter
Merry served as the Director of Marketing & Communications at Presidio Graduate School and the Editor of the Presidian Blog from 2020 to 2021. Her posts share happenings at Presidio, alumni and student stories, and helpful resources and stories of impact.


The Irish Coast Guard has achieved the significant milestone of 10,000 Sikorsky S92 flight hours in its Irish Search-and-Rescue (SAR). The five new technology Sikorsky S92 aircraft have completed more than 3100 missions, operating from the bases in Sligo, Waterford, Shannon and Dublin. With the introduction of the S92, the service ushered in a stepped change in operational effectiveness and flight safety. The fleet is equipped with state-of-the-art autopilot functions, auto hover and flight director upgrades. This has led to improved safety and higher levels of aircraft availability.
A significant percentage of SAR missions ensure critically ill people reach hospitals within the so called 'golden hour', giving them the best chance of a full recovery. For heart attack victims in rural communities, ensuring fast access to a specialist cardiac unit is vital. The speed and reliability of response is critical because the heart muscle starts to die within 80-90 minutes after it stops getting blood, and within six hours, almost all the affected parts of the heart could be irreversibly damaged.
When a pregnant woman living on an island off the Irish coast went into labour and found herself unable to get to hospital in July 2013, the SAR team were scrambled to take her to hospital. Impatient to make his/her arrival, labour was more advanced than initially believed and a baby boy was delivered by the crew's winchman in the hospital corridor.
The waters around Ireland's coastline can be both beautiful and wild. SAR Ireland's crews have completed many missions miles offshore in some of the most challenging conditions. Here are two examples of a single night's work.
· The 18th of September 2015 was a very busy shift for the crews of Waterford Rescue 117 (R117) and Shannon Rescue 115 (R115). Rescue115 was tasked by the Irish Coast Guard Station MRCC Valentia to Vessel Hanjin Cape Lambert approximately 170mls SW of Castletownbere, for an injured crewman. Due to the distance of the mission, R115 routed to Castletownbere refueling helipad. On arrival at the helipad, Rescue 115 was retasked to a more time critical medevac approximately 240mls SW Castletownbere to evacuate a 72 year old female with a suspected heart attack from cruise vessel Regal Princess. Rescue 117 (Waterford) was subsequently tasked to the Vessel Hanjin Cape Lambert. Rescue 115 lifted and met the Regal Princess 180mile SW Castletownbere. A Rescue 115 winchman was deployed to the vessel to assess the casualty's condition. A Hi-line and stretcher technique were used to recover winchman and casualty back to the helicopter. R115 departed for Cork where the casualty was handed over for transfer on to Cork University Hospital.
· A crewman aboard a container ship about 100 miles off the coast of Ireland took ill recently and required medical evacuation. Two of Ireland's Coast Guard helicopters were tasked in the long-range mission to the MV Atlantic Cartier and removed the man from the ship as he was suffering from chest pains. The Waterford-based aircraft (Rescue 117) reached the ship, located about 100 miles from Fastnet Rock, with the helicopter from Shannon (Rescue 115) providing top cover. The Irish Coast Guard Rescue Coordination Centre (RCC) in Valentia, Co Kerry, which coordinated the rescue, said the man was taken to Cork Hospital where he made a full recovery.
The director of the Irish Coast Guard has outlined the thinking behind its recent €500m deal for helicopter search and rescue services.
Chris Reynolds told Rotorhub that a simplified model based on key critera was adopted when choosing a bigger for the contract, which was awarded to CHC Ireland last year.
"With our contract, we essentially wanted to continue with what we already had, but with new technology," he said.
Rotorhub reports that the Irish Coast Guard formed a Future Helicopter Study Group to discuss the service's needs before the tender process which led to the 10-year deal for five Sikorsky S-92s.
The process stands in contrast to SAR-H, the UK's programme to overhaul its helicopter fleet which collapsed last year.
"If the UK needs to be looking at a new interim contract, they could look at how we did it," added Reynolds.
Rotorhub has more on the story HERE.


When I started planning this bike to display at NAHBS, I rather early settled on building it with S&S couplers so that I could easily pack the bike and travel with it without incurring huge airline fees. I had shipped my Di2 equipped DRB to California in late 2011, and it became instantly apparent how simple Di2 made packing a bike. Now I no longer had to deal with shift cables, all I had to do was break the chain with a quick link and then unplug and unbolt the derailleurs. Once I arrived, reverse the process and the bike is ready to ride with no adjustments at all.
In addition, since the bike features a dyno front hub, rack and light, I needed to have a way to quickly assemble and disassemble these parts to fit in the S&S case. Along the way, I made sure the brakes would also be easy to disconnect and reset up out of the case. When I arrived home from Sacramento, I figured I'd document the rebuild, so that folks could see the amount of time and thought that went into making this process as simple as possible. So, if you follow this link to my Picasa page, you can see not only some really nice finished photos of the bike, but about halfway through the album I start a sequential group of photos documenting the build and some cool features of the bike.
This bike was featured in a quick article on Bike Portland, and I managed to raise the ire of some traditionalists by suggesting that if Rene Herse or Alex Singer were around today, they'd be building bikes with Di2. Sure it's pretty speculative to guess what anyone who built 40-50 years ago would be doing today, but they were known as early adopters of technology like derailleurs and ultra lightweight tubing, so is it that hard to imagine them using the most advanced parts of the time? Another comment questioned whether my bike was truly "innovative", but I challenge that this (or Ultegra Di2) may be the most appropriate group for a travel bike, and I think my Di2 wiring must be somewhat innovative, it's certainly been copied enough since I first introduced it at NAHBS in 2009!
p.s. Before I get inundated by folks reminding me that the Rene Herse and Alex Singer marques are still in business, I'm referring to the man, not what the current output of these brands are.
Congrats on another NAHBS win Dave! Great looking bike! I'm proud to be an Ellis owner.


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Liverpool lost the Merseyside derby and Tottenham Hotspur manager Jose Mourinho edged closer to the exit door.
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Q: store part of an executable string as a variable using t-sql Instead of
WHERE foo = 'one' and bar = 'two'

I would like to store parts of it in a variable to allow changing WHERE clause easily
DECLARE @var VARCHAR(50)
SET @var = "foo = 'one' and bar = 'two'"
...
...
WHERE @var

This notation doesn't work but I think it indicates what I am trying to do. Does anyone have any ideas?

A: If you want to build dynamic where clauses, you're better off using dynamic sql.
Take a look at the following article: Dynamic SQL
Also this article: Another Article...
and here's a simple dynamic SQL code example:
Here's a SP that uses dynamic SQL to determine what to order by:
create procedure GetCustomers
    @OrderByField nVarchar(50),
    @OrderByDirection nVarchar(4)
as
begin

declare @strSQl nvarchar(200)

set @strSQL = 'Select firstname, lastname from customer order by ' + @OrderByField + ' ' + @OrderByDirection

exec sp_execute @strSQL

end

then you can run it:
exec GetCustomers 'lastname','desc'

this will return all customers ordered by lastname desc

A: If you want to go the dynamic sql route, try this:
declare @foo varchar(10)
        ,@bar varchar(10)
        ,@sql varchar(max)

select @foo = 'one'
        ,@bar = 'two'

SET @sql = '

    SELECT
        ...
    FROM myTable
    WHERE foo = ''' + @foo + '''
    AND bar = ''' + @bar + '''
'

EXEC (@SQL)

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Been a long time since my last post and have a lot of projects that I have done since my last post so I am gonna start updating. The first project is a remake of the ID4 alien head. A good friend of mine has this game on location and the alien head kept breaking. I recasted it and thickened up the walls that are always breaking and gave it a closer paint job to that of the one on the back glass. In the pics you can see the original one that was all glued together and 3 new ones I made him.


It's called the Lone Star State to commemorate a single white star that signifies Texas' battle for independence from Mexico. Now Texans living with HIV are waging another war—fighting a legal system that locks people up for decades for behavior that poses no risk of HIV transmission.
Texas ranks number two in the nation in number of AIDS diagnoses. It's also the second largest state in the country in both area and population. Unlike most states, however, Texas has no HIV-specific criminal laws. Therefore, the data on the number of HIV criminalization cases and convictions is hard to gather. It also has effectively given prosecutors wide latitude in using general criminal laws to charge HIV-positive defendants with attempted murder and aggravated assault. Texas' aggravated assault statute makes it a second-degree felony (two to twenty years in jail and a possible fine of $10,000) "to cause serious bodily injury to another or to use or exhibit a deadly weapon in the commission of an assault." If an aggravated assault is committed against someone the perpetrator knows is a security officer, it's a first-degree felony (punishable by five to ninety-nine years in prison and a possible fine of $10,000).
What I found most disturbing in researching this article is that the Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court of Texas have consistently upheld aggravated assault convictions in which HIV was considered "a deadly weapon"—even in cases where the only body fluid exchanged was saliva, which has never been documented to transmit HIV.
An HIV-positive man from Texas who spat at a police officer during his 2006 arrest for being drunk and disorderly was sentenced to thirty-five years behind bars by a Dallas court. The Court of Appeals affirmed the verdict, which mandates that the defendant serve at least half of his sentence before being eligible for parole. This was because the jury found that his saliva was a deadly weapon.
For more information, visit: www.legacycommunityhealth.org/introducing-texans-living-with-hiv or www.seroproject.com/network-empowerment-project.


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Drift Stealth 2 Camera Offers Half the Size, All of the Battery Life
Written by Zach Overholt November 06, 2014
We love the new Sony Action Cam Mini, but if there was one downside to the camera it would have to be its battery life. The new Drift Stealth 2 can't quite compete on size, but the diminutive camera looks like it will more than make up for it in battery life. At just over 3″ in length, the Stealth 2 is Drift's smallest camera yet and packs an impressive amount of features into the tiny package.
If you're looking for one of the longest run times on a single charge, you'll want to check out the Stealth 2 next…
At almost exactly half the size of the Drift Ghost HD camera, the Stealth 2 measures 80 mm (3.15″) x 42 mm (1.65″) x 27 mm (1.06″) and weighs in at only 97g which works out to around 40% lighter. The built in rechargeable 1500 mAh battery provides up to 3 hours of recording time at 1080p shooting at 30 fps. Compare that with most other action cameras and in some cases you're looking at double the recording time.
To make the camera smaller and more energy efficient, the live view LCD screen has been replaced with a simple color coded screen and Mono graphic backlit LCD which changes color based on the recording mode.
Using a 137º field of view, the Stealth 2 retains the 360º adjustable 7 element lens so that the camera is always recording right side up no matter how it's mounted. Camera controls are located on the top of the camera but it is also compatible with the Drift 2-way remote control as well as the Android and iPhone Drift Connect App.
Like other Drift cameras, the Stealth 2 can record WVGA, 720, 960, and 1080p HD video with high speed recording available in 720p and WVGA modes. Other camera features include Flashback Video tagging where the camera continuously records but only saves what you tag, photoburst mode at 3 fps, Timelapse photography, and even a car DVR mode where you plug it in through a USB cord and it will record footage in a continuous loop. Still photos can be taken in 5, 8, or 12MP formats.
Weather resistant without an additional housing, full waterproof housings are available which are good to 40m. The Stealth 2 can use all of the current Drift mounts as well as anything with a 1/4 20 thread.
Selling for $249, Stealt 2 cameras will include curved and flat surface mounts, a goggle mount, universal clip, and a micro USB cable. For complete specs, check out driftinnovation.com.
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Zach Overholt is the Editor in Chief of Bikerumor. He has been writing about what's new in the bicycle world for 12+ years. Prior to that, Zach spent many years in the back of a bicycle shop building and repairing nearly every type of bike, while figuring out how to (occasionally) ride them.
Based in Ohio, Zach is now slowly introducing a new generation to cycling and still trying to figure out how to fit the most rides into a busy schedule as a new dad.
How well do these do picking up license plates of ne'er do wells when mounted under a road bike seat?
Yes! I've been waiting for a good form and compact-sized HD camera (similar to the Shimano CM-1000) that has good battery life of 2.5 hours and above. We're moving in the right direction. The rotatable lens is a good idea too. And the fact that it's already weather resistant without adding additional bulk sounds good. Got my interest.
My favorite camera! 🙂 I've used it for some months and I'm satisfied with it. It survived my crash landing when suddenly ground disappeared under my wheels during downhill biking. Something bigger and more sticking out wouldn't survive then.


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California muni bonds rally as budget fears ebb
September 8, 2009 | 7:00 am
Strong demand for California municipal bonds in the last few weeks, amid a dearth of supply, has produced a mini-windfall for muni investors to end the summer.
The rally in state and local California muni issues also is a good sign for Treasurer Bill Lockyer, who in two weeks will try to sell up to $10.5 billion in nine-month notes to fill the state's short-term cash needs.
Rising prices for California tax-free bonds last week boosted share prices of popular muni mutual funds to their highest levels of the year. The $13.8-billion-asset Franklin California Tax-Free Income fund, for example, closed at $6.81 a share on Friday, up 3% in less than three weeks.
Counting principal gain and interest earnings, the average California long-term muni bond fund has risen 14.8% this year, according to Morningstar. That edges the 14.6% total return of the Vanguard 500 Index stock fund, which replicates the Standard & Poor's 500 index. (And muni bonds' tax exemption means their real returns are higher.)
California's budget misery, its lowest-of-the-50-states credit rating and its need to issue IOUs in July and August to pay some of its bills scared off some bond investors in summer. But investors' concerns have faded since the Legislature and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger reached a budget deal in late-July.
Bond buyers' mood improved after the major credit-rating firms last month said they were satisfied enough with the budget agreement to keep their ratings on California's general-obligation debt stable for now.
It also has helped that there hasn't been much issuance of new California muni bonds, particularly in the shorter-term maturities favored by individual investors.
"Pent-up demand in California far outweighs the light supply" of new debt, said Joe Lee, a trader at De La Rosa & Co. in Los Angeles. "I guess everyone is sick of sitting on cash."
By bidding bond prices higher investors are pushing down interest yields on California munis. The rally is making JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s agreement last month to lend the state $1.5 billion for a few weeks -- at a 3% annualized interest rate -- look like a rich deal for the bank.
That loan will be repaid when Lockyer sells so-called revenue anticipation notes, or RANs, to investors the week of Sept. 21. The deal could be for as much as $10.5 billion but may be a few billion smaller depending on budget maneuvering in Sacramento.
The annualized tax-free yield on the RANs, which will mature by June 30, is expected to be between 1% and 3%. The stronger investors' appetite for California munis in general between now and Sept. 21, the lower the yield is likely to be on the RANs. The lower the yield, the better for taxpayers.
Matt Fabian, a senior analyst at research firm Municipal Market Advisors in Westport, Conn., believes investors will be eager buyers of the RANs, and figures the state will pay a yield of 2.5% or less. "Most people I talk to think it's going to be a very strong pricing," he said.
But that could hinge on the August tax revenue data the state is expected to report later this week, Fabian said. If the numbers are weaker than anticipated, investors could quickly go back to wondering just how deep a fiscal hole California really faces.
That's what worries George Strickland, a muni bond fund manager at Thornburg Investment Management in Santa Fe, N.M. "I think the rally is premature," he said.
-- Tom Petruno


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House prices and the economy
Brexit What Happens Next Thread ---multiple merged threads.
By GreenDevil, June 24, 2016 in House prices and the economy
cock-eyed octopus
HPC Veteran
11 hours ago, Dave Beans said:
Not a typical guardian article..
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/may/11/gangsters-on-our-doorstep
Many thanks Dave. Confirms in detail what one could only vaguely suspect.
Exploitation has always been there, since man first walked the earth. How to reduce it to the lowest possible amount is the question.
thehowler
HPC Senior Veteran
2 minutes ago, Dorkins said:
A second referendum with all 3 options gets you past the vagueness and it means party leaders don't have to settle on a defined Brexit endpoint which might cause party discipline problems. I can see benefits to setting a future date for a 2nd referendum with 3 options soon to at least set some direction but it's still much too soon to actually have it, both voters and politicians have a lot to process and many have got themselves stuck in quite deep mental ruts. A couple of years is needed to help people get their heads together.
The voting process and campaign would take up to a year anyway...
I'm not sure a majority of Brits can face going through it again. Referendum on having a referendum?
Bluestone59
HPC Poster
45 minutes ago, copydude said:
Could market panic intervene, scuppering all best-laid plans, once the spectre of no deal becomes reality?
Pound tanking to 99c . . . whatever. I imagine Art 50 might get pulled rather fast in this scenario?
The pound is surely only worth 99c, if that. That has arguably been the case for many years.
If there's a 2nd ref I will only partake if joining the Euro is on the ballot. Which it won't be. I never saw the point of being a half member. My second option would be out but doubt I could quite go there.
We are incapable of selecting leaders who have the ability and integrity to run an economy remotely effectively.
Dorkins
Who's afraid of the 'be careful what you wish for' trolls?
10 minutes ago, Peter Hun said:
Mays deal has effectively been rejected so we get a 'WTO' leave (no deal) and no transition period in March 2019.
May's deal is basically the minimum needed to deliver on the 2016 referendum which the Commons voted for. I think after a bit of toys out of the pram the Commons will pass it with a stuck out bottom lip realising that they are gambling with the UK's democracy if they don't enact referendum results.
1 minute ago, Bluestone59 said:
Nah, it's undervalued, check out the BigMac index...
6 minutes ago, thehowler said:
https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/politics/politics-headlines/vote-for-vote-may-trigger-votes-then-vote-followed-by-other-vote-20181212180470
Still the best choice right now.
Confusion of VIs
HPC Guru
Location:Croydon
1 hour ago, copydude said:
Out of interest, what on earth would be the point of keeping it a secret?
To stop the EU finding out. I kid you not this was one of the reasons given.
The real reason is probably that it would have completely undermined the governments messages around Brexit. Remember in the early days how confident they were of achieving a great Brexit "they need us more than we need them", "the German car industry will demand the EU give us what we want", " we will divide and rule, doing deals with individual states", "the easiest deal in history", "a deal at least as good as being in the single market", etc, etc.
All complete b@llocks as making the gaming results public would have revealed.
13 minutes ago, thehowler said:
It was funny watching Jess Phillips MP in the Commons the other day asking the PM if she really thought she would be able to get her withdrawal agreement through the Commons. Full on toys out of the pram moment.
Plus whichever berk it was who grabbed the golden mace to stop the debate. They should replace it with a huge golden baby's dummy.
Edited December 15, 2018 by Dorkins
1 hour ago, thehowler said:
Given the bitterness and chaos over the last 30 months I'm amazed that some posters think anything about a 2nd ref would be straightforward.
How are you going to offer anything 'crystal clear' to voters on EFTA and WTO when you have no idea what form these routes will take over coming years, whether they're deffo an option, and after a majority of MPs have demonstrated that they are not going to vote for any chance of us going to WTO?
There is no EFTA or WTO option, all we have to put on a ballot is Cameron's deal and May's deal.
A referendum on that would be the easiest to sell to Parliament, it would get Remainers on board and as the ERG would vote against any second ballot their views are irrelevant when it comes to deciding what should be on the paper..
1 minute ago, Confusion of VIs said:
Two different timescales though. May's deal would start soon and is just for the next 2-3 years, EFTA and WTO are Brexit endpoints for 2022 onwards.
4 minutes ago, Confusion of VIs said:
I like your subtle semantic substitution of Cameron's deal for the more contentious, remain...
Uncle_Kenny
3 hours ago, copydude said:
Really, we are going nowhere now after a period of circular travel.
I think it's time for Mrs M to resign, to admit that the Brexit project has failed and to rescind Art 50. Which does not preclude having another go in time. A 2nd Ref won't cut it because the subject itself isn't binary . . . there isn't a yes/no answer to such a multi-faceted issue with so many variables.
I think this would be more responsible than pushing the country towards the no deal precipice.
Not leaving the EU will be catastrophic for Britain and it's people. It means that British democracy will die. It would mean that the people have no control over their lives. Are you aware that French people are being killed right now by the state? One guy had his entire hand blown clean off. The French police are using tear gas and grenades to keep their people's aspirations in check.
When Scotland had it's independence vote, no one was killed, there was no violence of any kind. The same for the Brexit referendum too. This is because people know that they are taking part in a democratic process and their vote is counted. The decision is enacted. Without this democracy, there is only violence.
The EU is an anti-democratic self interested and now increasingly violent organisation. It is a tyranny and it has no place in the lives of decent people. I think that a future dark age of tyranny is possible, Britain has had peace for a long time. People forget.
13 minutes ago, Bluestone59 said:
On current figures the pound is thought to be undervalued, it is the long term expectation that Brexit will be bad for the economy that is keeping it at current levels.
Join Euro or out, that is a pretty unusual position to hold.
Language is important, although in this case it runs the risk of degenerating into a referendum on who was our most disastrous PM.
8 minutes ago, Uncle_Kenny said:
How many people do you think will be killed by the decade of austerity and cuts that would follow a no deal Brexit. People are dying today because of Brexit's impact on the NHS. The fall in the £ following the votes was equivalent to knocking around £3bn a year off the NHS budget, leading to the cancelation/deferral of dozens of upgrade projects, especially MRI scanners and leaving another 10-20,000 posts unfilled.
As it is now clear that the promised Brexit cannot be delivered, perhaps its time for the government to admit that. Pig headedly continuing down a route that leads to a deal supported by maybe only 25% of the voters and leaves us a poorer diminished country is not democracy.
20 minutes ago, Confusion of VIs said:
Our finest invention.
I think that reducing government spending will make our lives better, not worse. Where does the government get it's money from? A government spending cut is a citizen's spending increase.
As I said, the French government is killing it's citizens in the street. Using the state's monopoly on violence.
The NHS will never have enough money because it is free at the point of use. If I opened a restaurant giving away free food, the restaurant will never have enough money either.
No specific Brexit was ever promised. The vote was do we leave the European Union, yes or no? It said nothing about anything else. By not having the pay our annual contribution, we could indeed spend on the NHS instead. (It would still not have enough money though by definition). There is no legal obligation to pay the EU anything.
A clean brexit can be delivered, in fact it is the default position for March 29th 2019. A clean brexit is what was advertised in the leaflet that the government sent to every household. The leave campaign won by 52%. Support for a clean brexit is much higher than 25%.
localhero1983
HPC Regular
No it's not, the best choice right now would given how our government work would be to Remain rather then perpetuate this con. In order to give the Brexiteers a good juicy bone Theresa May could on announcing that we will remain say what an evil bunch of vindictive s**ts the EU are and rather than have them destroy our country to make a point we will stay for now, because the EU will collapse at some point.
" Austerity"??? Try living as a poor African or Pakistani, or anywhere in the 3rd world. That's austerity.
The NHS is being run on the complete & utter fiction that we can all live forever, that everything is curable.
You could spend the entire resources of the NHS ensuring that one person survived for one more day.
The reality is you have to make choices. We cannot continue to run a society on borrowed money, in or out of the EU. And if you want to see what's going on in order to keep us in our comfortable lifestyle read Dave Beans' Guardian article.
Austerity my ar$e. All I see is a sh!t load of middle class hypocrisy.
Cosmic Lunatic Asylum
As it is now clear that the promised Brexit cannot be delivered,
Sickening.
How many other forums do you and 'howler' perform your narrative control attempts on?
22 minutes ago, Uncle_Kenny said:
When the economy shrinks the government will need to take a higher proportion of it and cut spending.
So the French government issued a kill order did it - evidence please.
The NHS is badly underfunded making it impossible to deliver the quality of service expected in a developed country. Raise the spending to the level of other developed nations and you will get a comparable service.
We have already lost between 2-3% of GDP because of the vote (as admitted by the OBR and BoE) around 5 times our contribution. There is no Brexit dividend just a big bill.
The ONS says we do owe the £39bn (actually it will turn out to be £45-50bn) so it will be paid deal or no deal. The UK does not, and could not afford to, default on its debts.
Clean Brexit is a completely meaningless statement only used by people who either have no idea what they are talking about or are dishonest. Do you mean immediately removing the UK from its role in all the EU supply chains and provision of financial services to the EU, if not you cannot have anything like a "clean" Brexit.
27 minutes ago, Cosmic Lunatic Asylum said:
Just this one for me. Why would anyone bother with more than one.
Edited December 15, 2018 by Confusion of VIs
2 hours ago, Dorkins said:
I think the UK should leave the EU at the end of March 2019 in order to respect the result of the 2016 referendum. It is really the least the MPs who voted to hold a referendum in the first place can do. Then the UK will have 2-3 years until the end of the transition period to prepare for all 3 eventualities. It could start talking to EFTA, it could begin logistical preparations for a WTO Brexit and it could talk to the EU about the terms of rejoining e.g. Schengen and the rebate.
Maybe May could announce fairly soon that if the UK leaves according to the withdrawal agreement in March 2019 there will be a 3 way referendum at the end of 2020 and that in the meantime preparations will begin for all 3 outcomes and she wants to have a national debate on which of these the final endpoint for Brexit should be. It might be a way to get people to start lifting their eyes from the March 2019 deadline and start thinking about what comes next.
Yes but that's the problem. If we leave on 29 March 2019 and a referendum after that date included a remain option then I doubt it would be remain on a status quo ante basis. Would we retain the various opt outs? would we lose the rebate;?would we still retain permanent exemption from joining the Euro? I'm not sure, the point being that remain now may not be remain in two or three years' time.
37 minutes ago, ****-eyed octopus said:
Not sure how this is relevant to the UK
The NHS now cannot even routinely provide a safe level of basic services.
We are already borrowing much more because of Brexit.
To sum up everything is sh1t so lets do something that will make it worse?


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Watch out for cold calls from a Queensland-based outfit called OLM selling an "investment package".
Kiwis are being asked if they have $10,000 to invest. The "package" turns out to be betting software for horse races in Melbourne and Sydney.
OLM cold called a Consumer researcher's home and made numerous claims, including that the betting returns had been audited in Australia by accounting firm Deloitte. We checked with Deloitte Australia and were told: "we have not been able to find any evidence that OLM Pty Ltd is a client of ours".
The software system costs AUD$8900 to buy and OLM claims that its customers have made $93,792.38 total profits in 7 months from a $1000 initial "investment".
Authorities on both sides of the Tasman, as well as the TAB, are warning consumers not to pay money to OLM-type schemes.
This message is echoed by the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission, which has warnings about sport investment schemes on its website scamwatch.gov.au. It told us the promoters of these schemes can be persistent, which is exactly what happened to our researcher. When asked for some time to "think about it", OLM's salesman claimed that there were only 4 licences left in the Auckland area – a classic hard-sell technique.
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On The Rise: Haviah Mighty on Battling the Barriers of Canadian Hip-Hop
Milca P.
Her Source | Beauty and Fashion Trends, Hip Hop Culture | Hip Hop Arts and Lifestyle, On The Rise
Words by: Remi Okoli
While the masses have latched onto names like The Weeknd, Drake, & Justin Bieber, the Canadian Hip-Hop and R&B space offers much promise for those willing to take a deeper look. In particular, the past few years have proven to cultivate talented female artists within the arena. Many of them have not just created a lane for themselves, but have managed to kicked down doors in respect to making their presence known. One of these regional powerhouses goes by the name Haviah Mighty.
Hailing from Toronto, Haviah first rose to prominence in 2016 as a member of the hip hop group The Sorority, before releasing her debut EP Flower City in 2017. Her debut album, 13th Floor, was released in 2019, and won Canada's esteemed Polaris Music Prize, awarded to the best full-length album from a Canadian artist across genres.
Still, Haviah, like many in her rank, has faced barriers to entry when it comes to crossing over south of the border. Such success takes strategy that Haviah is all too familiar with. One element in her plan involves engaging with American audiences through more collaborations which she does today (April 30) with the arrival of her "Way Too Fast" cut, featuring North Carolina's Jalen Santoy.
"The idea for 'Way Too Fast' started in 2019, a year where I spent a lot of time reflecting on the momentum I felt in my career," she says. "I felt this internal surge of self-belief – it was belly deep, at the pit of my core. From then on, and to this day, I thoroughly believe I have what it takes to achieve my wildest dreams. This song is a reminder to dream big, and to not put a cap on your goals and limit your potential. As a people, we've come so far. I've spent a lot of time reflecting on the work that has yet to be done, but sometimes, we have to remind ourselves of the inevitable rewards as well."
Recently speaking with The Source, Haviah opened up about this journey in self-belief as an artist thus far, femininity in an increasingly male-dominated industry and world, and her commitment to giving fans just a little bit more. Catch "Way Too Fast" below and get acquainted with Haviah Mighty via our exclusive conversation.
This interview has been edited for brevity and clarity.
The Source: How old were you when you started writing music?
Haviah: Pretty young. I started writing music pretty young, because I was in music lessons from four to eleven. So, before I was 8 I was starting to structure songs. I started recording when I was 14, and started actually locking in those ideas and mapping them out. But, my sisters are all piano players so we always had pianos in the house so I was always trying to do what they did and make words to go with it.
What inspired you to start writing music?
I would say the singing lessons and being surrounded by a musical household. Having three older sisters that were playing piano but could also sing; parents that reinforced the value of musicality, it made it very easy to gravitate towards it.
Who would you say were your biggest influences, while coming up?
My sisters I would say, my parents too. In terms of artists, Lauryn Hill for sure just as a woman singing and rapping while playing instruments and doing something different than everyone else was at the time. The dreads, the dark skin, just very relatable to me. Recognizing that someone like me could take up that type of space in the ways that she was and be unique in the way that she was.
If you could name 3 of your top favorite songs from your catalog, what would they be and why?
I definitely think 13 Floors is my strongest body of work. So, probably off of that project I'd say my top 3 songs off the top of my head would be probably "Blame," Wishy Washy," and "Thirteen." The reason why I say those three is because l think that they're very different. "Thirteen" because it is my most impactful song, the songwriting is the strongest, the impact is the deepest and I think it's just a very effective record–like a very deep record that came from a place that I can't explain, I think my goal is to make records like "Thirteen," but that doesn't happen all the time.
"Wishy Washy" I would say is up there too because it's me tapping into a bag that people don't really know I can really do. It's more of a reggae vibe. I'm singing a little bit more. think people just expect me to bring the bars all the time and "Wishy Washy" is kinda like a pop record but with a reggae feel which I think shows my potential audience and my existing audience how far we can take this sound and how much fun we can actually have and I collaborated with my sister on that record and I think she absolutely killed it. And I would say "Blame" because I think "Blame" is the most recognizable song in terms of what people expect from what I can do. It showcases my ability to sing and rap and produce and I think it's closest to my sound; my palate. The trap elements, the upbeat kind of fast flow, and I think it shows my flexing a little bit lyrically.
As a woman in what would primarily be considered a male dominated industry what have been some of your biggest challenges?
In the beginning of my career I don't think I recognized what place I held as a woman and I guess what I was doing that kind of broke down some of those walls; those preconceived notions that are negative about women and what our expectations are. I didn't realize at first that I was so non-conforming but I think over the last few years I've learned how much I don't fit in and how much that's kind of my niche. I think what's so important to me is staying true to me as an individual instead of adapting or trying to adapt to fit trends or like make records that'll do better because I've seen it done. I'm trying to really stay on this path and not deviate, and one of the easiest ways to deviate would be to look at what the male rappers are doing and how I can tap into what their doing to gratify myself and get that success, or even what the mainstream female artists are doing.
I'm sure it would be a little bit easier to get a bit more views off top if I was to adjust, but I know what's me and I know what's not, and I think authenticity is the best-selling point of any individual. That's what makes people connect with you the most.
In the spirit of what you just said, how important it is to incorporate everyday things you do such as putting on makeup into your overall brand?
For me, it's super important because I'm like, that's the type of individual that I am. Like, I talk way too much. I like to let people into the process. And, you know, I think that there's a uniqueness to the way that I do things because I don't think I kind of grew up understanding the way society kind of is supposed to function.
So there's certain things that make me, I guess, a little bit different or set me apart. And I think sometimes it would be interesting for people to see, you know, what that process is. Some artists, you know, their main thing is their music. I worked at a music retail shop. I worked a long time away for like four years. And I got really used to that DIY process and like letting people in, talking about what I do and like. You realize how helpful it is just to have those conversations. So for me, just hopping on social media and letting people into a little bit of my process, it shows that you're a regular person just like them. And I think people are able to connect with you better when they don't feel like you're inaccessible. I value that a lot.
What is the most difficult part about trying to break through Canada and into the US?
I think it's just actually strategizing so that you're including the U.S. or including the UK. All you really know is the Canadian landscape. And I think there is a big restriction in the Canadian landscape because we have a lot less people and a lot less opportunities in particular genres. I can't tell how many times I've met people that are like, "Man, if I knew a rap contact, I'd connect you." It's like we actually have a restriction in terms of people and the way that we can kind of push content just with our numbers. And then on top of that, we don't have a lot of the same resources in terms of people that actually work in the industry on the rap side. We have a lot of people working more on the rock side and other industries that have been more successful in the Canadian landscape musically. I think the biggest thing is just trying to focus on Canada, but also trying to utilize a strategy that will take me outside Canadian walls.
I saw as of recently that you started incorporating more of your family in your videos. How important is it to you to have your family involved in your career?
They're my biggest inspirations. Before I can think of a celebrity, I think I'm lucky to still be very close with my family and have been close with them. And they're just they're my main validators. So to put those people in my work, you know, especially my dad, who's just I don't know, people find him very interesting. I think it's just really cool because people get a sense of who I am a little bit more.
If you could give any piece of advice that you wished you had received at the start of your career to any upcoming artists pursuing their career what would that piece of advice be?
You have to care what people's opinion is to a point. And then at a certain point, you can't care.
You have to understand how to take constructive criticism so that you can grow whatever it is that you're doing to be the best thing that they can be. But, you also have to understand that, is your decision at the end of the day and you have to drive the ship. I can't tell you how long I've been making music while not really believing that I deserve to take up space. I also know that you might have to put the work in before what you want comes back. You have to really grind and the universe eventually will pay you back. But you have to believe. Believing means anything you make, you need to put it out there. You need to monetize it. If it's possible to do so. You need to connect with as many people as possible. So if you're making something and you don't feel like it is good enough to post, you don't believe in it, period.
What should hip hop fans in both US & Canada expect from Haviah Mighty in 2021?
I'm dropping a lot of music for the fans that are already engaged. I've dropped five singles in the past five months. So, I've been busy and they've been pretty eclectic. I have more singles coming out this year. I have some surprises coming out this year as well. This is a busy year I think I can say. And there's a lot more music to come as well. I'm constantly trying to evolve as an artist and as a human being. I'm constantly trying to be the best version of myself and I'm trying to find the best ways to connect. So it's not going to be just music. There's also content that I'm going to be creating. One mistake I think I've been making is not letting people see that side of what I do.
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