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FixO3 Project: Key outputs at half way and how to access them
Luisa Cristini (NOC)
The Fixed point Open Ocean Observatories (FixO3) Network project is an European project coordinated by the National Oceanography Centre (NOC), which objective is to integrate 23 in situ platforms operated by European organizations and to improve access to data and services they provide for the broad ocean community. Started in September 2013, FixO3 is now at half way and has produced several outputs useful for scientists, industry and policy-makers beyond the project partners.
FixO3 is an international project that involves 29 partners from academia, industry and research institutions from 12 European countries. The network includes the 23 fixed-point open ocean observatories operated by European organisations and is funded by the European Commission with 7 million Euros over four years.
The three overarching objectives of the project are:
to integrate the observatories, located throughout the Atlantic Ocean from the Arctic to the Antarctic and in the Mediterranean Sea
to improve access to installations for the broader community
to provide multidisciplinary observations from the sea-surface to the seafloor
The programme is structured in 12 work packages (WPs) that carry out three different types of activities:
Coordination activities (COORD) to integrate and harmonise the current procedures and processes
Support actions (SUPP) to offer free access to observatory infrastructures and open data services and products
Joint research activities (RTD) to innovate and enhance the current capability for multidisciplinary in situ ocean observation.
The work of the various WPs is directed and supervised by a Steering Committee (SC) composed of 17 members including the WP leaders and other key individuals representing related programmes. The Advisory Board (AB), an international panel of 12 experts, advises the SC ensuring that the project outcomes are of high quality and relevant for the wider community. The SC is also in direct contact with the European Commission (EC). The outcomes of the project are directed to scientists, industry, public and policy makers beyond the project partners.
The project made significant advancements in the first half of its lifetime, most of which are publicly available and can be found on the project website. The website is the first and most complete source of information on the project as it includes a variety details and material, such as all the project documentation (e.g., Description of Work, project information pack, deliverables and reports), all the observatory information, data and documentation, news & events, partners list and links to their websites, full description of each WP and its plan of work, information on special actions (e.g., Transnational Access) as well as training opportunities, and a rich glossary of terms in operational oceanography.
One of the main aims of FixO3 is to harmonize technologies and procedures. A major achievement in this direction has been a detailed review and complete synthesis of the current operational status of all observatories included in the network. Now all the information related to each FixO3 observatory is available directly on the website. Each observatory has a dedicated page with details on the study area, the platform status and maintenance, information on data provided, hardware and software, and a list of all sensors mounted on the platform.
An inventory of new sensor developments and their applicability has also been carried out within the technological harmonization (D2.4) and is available to project partners. The inventory includes sensors for pH, pCO2 & pH/pCO2, ADCP, CTD, tide recorders, hydrophones, current meters and underwater technologies (mass spectrometer, HD camera, acoustic modem). This inventory constitutes an update of the ESONET Yellow Pages, a public database of all available sensors along with their specifications.
The available documentation related to the observatory is collected in a searchable database. The library of instrument-specific preparation, deployment & calibration techniques (D2.7) is an extremely useful catalogue for all the data managers and instrument developers and technicians who need to access quickly the reports and manuals related to an observatory in the network. The library is available to all project partners and is continuously updated with new documentation.
Another useful resource for all the scientists and technicians working on the observatories is the handbook of best practices for observatory operations. This document (D3.2) has been compiled to gather all common methodologies and protocols on pre-deployment, deployment and recovery and post-deployment within the network and to provide recommendations on sampling, calibration, the latest anti-fouling measures, Q/C methods for high quality products. The first version of the handbook id available to project partners and will be updated towards the end of the project and made public.
Data harmonization and accessibility is paramount for the FixO3 community and a lot of effort is going into bridging the data providers and users communities. Open access to data & visualization of available parameters from all the observatories is made available through EarthVO (Earth Virtual Observatory), a powerful and versatile tool that enables users to easily view and compare parameters and observatories on a variety of fixed and mobile devices.
Two more essential tools have been made publicly available to facilitate data and metadata availability: a standards & services registry complying with GEO to enable effective interoperability among FixO3 data archives and a searchable metadata catalogue that collects and indexes the metadata of data hosted within the several data archives used by the FixO3 community.
FixO3 has also a tight link with the industry and identified the main commercial sector needs for the upcoming 5-10 years through direct interaction with a wide spectrum of companies (D5.2). It also helped identify five innovative products developed within the FixO3 community that have been released, or will soon be, to the public (D5.5). Both analysis as well as several other outputs outcoming from the collaboration with industry are publicly available as deliverables on the project website.
A cost-benefit analysis has been carried out to justify Eulerian observations. The report, publicly available from the project website, summarises the rational behind sustained open ocean observatories monitoring the Essential Ocean Variables (EOVs), provides an estimate of the costs to operate a typical fixed-point observatory and assesses the type of data and services provided and their value for society.
The FixO3 project is heavily engaged in outreach, training and dissemination activities. Lots of material about the project is available to partners on the project website to download and distribute. Two fully funded training workshops have been organized for less experienced users of data (Bremen, April 2015) and infrastructures (Trieste, September 2015). Both courses were oversubscribed and received excellent feedback. A third course on acquisition, validation, quality control and access to biodiversity data is being organized for July 2016 by FixO3 partner NIOZ and will include lectures on theory, practical examples, and hands-on sessions. More information on training opportunities is available on the project website.
Within the FixO3 project Service Activities (SA) give access to fully-process multidisciplinary data services and products. This includes the entire oceanic environment, from seafloor to the air-sea interface. The SA's comprise high quality data services and products from 18 fixed-point multidisciplinary open ocean observatories included in the FixO3 network. They demonstrate direct applications, such as maps of ecosystem indicators over European seas, or model validations with respect to in-situ data. In addition, FixO3 provides highly derived information products such as regional trends in ecosystem function and diversity.
Through a targeted action for transnational access to infrastructures (TNA), FixO3 supported external users by providing fully coordinated logistical and financial support to 13 of the 23 observatories included in the network. 24 project applications from research institutions and private companies responded to two international calls in 2014 and 2015 to access top-class platforms for research and testing.
Two work packages within FixO3 are devoted to research & development to advance observational methodologies and capabilities for high quality observations. An inter-comparison experiment has been carried out at a test site in a coastal environment to evaluate the performance of pCO2 sensors and compare 10 instruments. The full report (D12.2) is available for project partners to consult.
The FixO3 project is due to end in August 2017 and more data and tools will be available for the scientific community to use and apply in other contexts and projects. FixO3 main result will be the data and data-derived products, which will be freely available on a single portal. The handbook of best practices will be publicly available for observatory managers to implement the recommended procedures. Recommendations on how to optimize ocean-observing capabilities will also be provided. The commitment to sustained fixed-point observations in the water column and at the seafloor will be ensured by implementation of the EMSO programme.
FixO3 is an international community of people who are committed to share expertise and work together to address the many challenges of today's ocean observations. More information on the project can be found on the website and following our Twitter account (@FixO3Project) or writing to our Project Office at NOC: fixo3@noc.ac.uk
Thank you for your interest in FixO3!


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POPULISTS IN THE EUROPEAN ELECTIONS
In EU, Populism
There is concern about the impact of "populism" on rational decision making in many western democracies.
But there is no agreement on what populism means.
All politics appeal, to some extent, to people's self interest, and to their preference for advantages being given to themselves, to the area in which they live, or to a group to which they belong.
The concern is not so much about this form of populism, as it is about a populism that seeks to radically overturn the rules of the game by which conventional politics is played out. As the EU is, above all, a rules based organisation, this form of populism represents a particular threat to the EU.
For example, by proposing to leave the EU, British populists sought to change the rules of UK politics, rules which constrained what the UK could do, so as to protect the UK's relations with its neighbours.
Polish populists sought to overthrow the rules of Polish politics by undermining the independence of the Polish courts.
Hungarian populists did something similar by dominating the media and by defying EU policies on refugees.
America's populist President is seeking to overturn the rules of international trade by undermining the WTO and placing new tariffs on imports, and withdrawing from non proliferation and arms control Treaties.
Generally, the existing rules, that populists want to overturn, are portrayed by them as benefitting an "elite" or foreigners, to the disadvantage of "the people".
By overturning these rules, the people are supposed to be allowed to "take back control."
But there is often no underlying consensus about what to do with the control, once it has been taken back. This is most obvious in the case of Brexit. Populists can articulate what they are against, but generally fail to give equivalent detail on what they are for. If everyone pursues national self interest, the conflicting national interests will cancel one another out.
Ray Dalio, the founder of the investment firm Bridgewater has described populism as a
" political and social phenomenon that arises from the common man being fed up with
1) wealth and opportunity gaps,
2) perceived cultural threats from those with different values in the country and from outsiders,
3) the "establishment elites" in positions of power, and
4) government not working effectively for them. "
These sentiments lead that constituency to put strong leaders in power.
Dalio says that Populist leaders are typically confrontational rather than collaborative, and exclusive rather than inclusive.
As a result, conflicts typically occur between opposing factions (usually the economic and socially left versus the right), both within the country and between countries.
These conflicts typically become progressively more forceful in self-reinforcing ways.
The results of the European Parliament have revealed some breakthroughs for populists, in France, the UK, Italy, Hungary, Slovakia and Poland.
But they have suffered setbacks in Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Austria, Denmark and Ireland (Sinn Fein losses).
The centre has held, but its composition has changed. Greens and Liberals have gains while classic Christian Democrat, Social Democrat and Conservative parties have lost some ground, although they remain dominant.
The biggest difficulties will be in EU relations with the UK and Hungary, where radical populists won large mandates. Once has to ask whether the political culture of these countries is such that they belong in the EU at all.
The problem is Brexit itself, not the backstop.
In BREXIT, EU, Ireland, United Kingdom
Brexit, of its nature, means hard barriers between the UK and the EU.
This is because it means the UK having different standards, and, sooner or later, different trade arrangements and tariffs than the EU.
Whether these barriers are at the geographic boundary, or a few miles away, makes little difference.
These new barriers will bring delays, extra bureaucracy, and eventually bankruptcies, in their wake.
This is what Brexit means, and was always going to mean. Taking back control, by its nature, means more controls
The UK Government says it wants to impose these controls for two reasons.
The first is to be able to control immigration to the UK from the EU.
The truth is that the bulk of the immigration to the UK is not from the EU, but from outside it. EU immigration to the UK will fall off anyway because the population of the EU countries, from whom immigrants have come to the UK, is set to decline.
The second is to be able to make its own trade deals with non EU countries.
This argument is unconvincing. On leaving the EU the UK will lose the trade agreements it ALREADY HAS with the EU, and through the EU, with other countries.
In fact, leaving the EU will mean the UK losing trade agreements with countries that account for 70% of all UK trade. It will need a lot of new agreement to make up for this sudden and dramatic loss!
The backstop would reduce the effect of this, but not remove it altogether, especially if the UK opts for a different VAT regime to the EU.
If there is no deal, and no backstop, the European Commission said in a paper published in November, that ;
"Member States, including national authorities, will play a key role in implementing and enforcing EU law vis-à-vis the United Kingdom as a third country. This includes performing the necessary border checks and controls and processing the necessary authorisations and licences."
The paper does not exempt any of the EU Member State from this requirement.
Indeed if the EU Customs Union and Single Market were to deliberately fail to control any of its borders, it would soon cease to exist, as a Customs Union and a Single Market.
This would not be in Ireland's interest, to put it mildly.
WHY IS THERE AN IRISH BACKSTOP?
In BREXIT, EU, Ireland
It puzzles many people in Britain that something known as an "Irish backstop" should be at the heart of an increasingly bitter dispute. The dispute is about the Deal the UK Government has made with the EU on the terms for the UK leaving the EU.
Most people understand that, when the UK leaves the EU, the only land boundary between the UK and the EU will be the 300 mile long border in Ireland.
Some do understand that if the UK leaves the EU there will have to be border controls.
After all, leaving the EU was supposed to be about taking back "control", and, given that countries can only exercise control in their own territory, there is a logical necessity to have controls at the border of a country's territory, at its ports and on its land boundary.
This is not something made up by the EU to annoy Brits, but is a logical consequence of Brexit, which is, as we all know, something Britons have chosen for themselves, and not something imposed on them by the EU.
The proposed backstop in Mrs May's deal with the EU involves the whole of the UK staying in a close customs arrangement with the EU.
The original idea was that the backstop would be confined to Northern Ireland, but the UK government itself preferred a backstop arrangement that would cover the whole UK, so as to minimize the controls that would otherwise have to be imposed between Britain and Northern Ireland.
The object of the entire exercise is to avoid having to have controls at the 300 crossing points between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
Some in Britain think that the UK should be free to leave the EU, and that the UK and Irish governments should then just decide, between themselves, that they were simply not going to have controls on the Irish border.
That would not work because Ireland would still be in the EU, and would be breaking EU rules if it failed to control its portion of the EU land border.
Apart from being illegal, it would be impractical.
The UK, once outside the EU, would immediately go off and try to make trade deals with non EU countries. These would inevitably involve agreeing to different standards, and different tariffs, on goods coming from these non EU countries to the ones that the EU (including Ireland) would be applying to these countries.
So, if there were no controls on the Irish border, goods from these non EU with which the UK had made its own trade deals could enter the EU via Northern Ireland, without complying with EU standards or paying EU tariffs.
That would destroy the EU Single Market, which is based on common rules and tariffs, made, enforced and interpreted in the same way for all 27 EU countries (including Ireland).
TRADE DISCRIMINATION BREAKS WTO RULES
Outside of the EU, under WTO rules, the UK would also have to impose tariffs on its side of the Irish border, unless it wanted to collect NO TARIFFS AT ALL on goods coming into the UK from any country in the world!
This is because of a WTO rule which, says that, in the absence of a broad trade agreement, a country cannot discriminate between WTO member countries in the rate of tariffs it charges on goods coming from those countries (the most favoured nation rule).
So, in the absence of a trade deal with the EU, the UK must charge the same tariffs on Irish goods as it would charge on goods coming from any WTO members, with whom it has no trade deal, which, on the day it leaves the EU without a deal, would be every WTO country!
If it attempted to discriminate unilaterally, the UK would be bound to be taken to the WTO court by some or all of the WTO countries who would not be getting the same concessions.
The UK is a trading nation. As such, it benefits from a rules based world trading system. So it would not be in the UK's interest to start breaking WTO rules on the day it left the EU, just to solve a problem that is of its own making.
SAVING LIVES BY GIVING RESPECT TO THE TWO ALLEGIANCES IN IRELAND
The other big reason for having an "Irish" backstop", and for avoiding a hard border, is about human beings, rather than just about commerce.
For the past four centuries two communities, with different allegiances have lived together, geographically intermingled, in the Irish province of Ulster.
One community feels a sense of allegiance to Britain, its monarch, its historic narrative and its flag. The other feels an allegiance to Ireland and identifies itself with different historic narrative and different symbols. The two communities have different religious allegiances too but the disagreements between them are not primarily about religious matters, they are all about national identity.
For centuries, the contest between these two identities was a zero sum game. Either the British identity had to win, or the Irish identity had to win. That zero sum approach led to wars, threats of wars, or uprisings in 1641-51, 1689-1691, 1798, 1867, 1911, 1916, 1919-23, 1939, 1956-7, and 1969-1998. These conflicts caused many casualties in Ireland, and in Britain too.
British and Irish political leaders have for the last 40 years been trying to find a different way forward. Rather than a zero sum game, where if one identity won, the other had to lose, these leaders sought to create conditions in which both identities could coexist comfortably together within Northern Ireland, without either of them winning or losing.
The aim was to ensure that neither would feel cut off from their focus of their emotional allegiance. The nationalists would not feel cut off from Dublin, and Unionists would not feel cut off from London or the "mainland" as they would call it.
The Belfast Agreement of 1998 achieved this. Crafted between Ireland and the UK, when both were members of the barrier free EU, it created structures to create a comfort zone for both communities. This was done through establishing three interlocking structures of cooperation, incorporated in an over arching international Treaty, namely
power sharing within Northern Ireland,
cooperation between North and South and
cooperation between Dublin and London.
On the strength of this Agreement, Ireland changed its constitution to remove a territorial claim it had on Northern Ireland.
Now, 20 years later, the UK's decision to leave the EU puts these structures at risk, because, for the reasons I explained earlier, Brexit requires barriers to go up between the UK and Ireland, where previously there was free exchange.
This is why, at a meeting in London, long before the Referendum, I described Brexit as an" unfriendly act" by the UK vis a vis my country.
The backstop is simply an effort to mitigate the damage. It is a second best option…… and a bad second best at that.
The only option that will not damage the structure of peace, we have so painstakingly built between Ireland and Britain, and within the island of Ireland, would be for the UK to decide to stay in the EU after all.
HIGH NOON IN BUENOS AIRES
In China, EU, G20, USA, WTO
The G20 meeting in Argentina, which took place last weekend, simply postponed a confrontation between the US and China which could prove to be as momentous for Ireland as the Brexit vote in the House of Commons on 12 December.
Will a deal be possible in 90 days time?
The omens are mixed. Some US officials say China is offering nothing concrete to bridge the gap between the countries, just promises. President Trump is particularly sensitive about imports in the wake of thousands of lay offs by General Motors last week, which he blames on import competition.
President Trump has already imposed a 10% tariff on a wide range of Chinese goods in an effort to rebalance trade between the US and China. He has said he will increase the tariff rate from 10% to 25% on 1st January, if he does not get satisfaction from the Chinese.
He has threatened further measures to follow.
His concern is about the alleged theft on US intellectual property by China, Chinese subsidization of exports through state supported companies, and the supposed under valuation of the Chinese currency to boost Chinese exports.
A full fledged trade war could start if matters are not sorted out in the next 90 days.
One might think that a dispute like this might be referred to an arbitrator, who could adjudicate on the facts and the arguments. The WTO dispute panels are there to do this. But the US is refusing to appoint judges to sit on these panels, and President Trump has even threatened to withdraw from the WTO altogether.
A Trade War between the US and China would be very bad news for Ireland.
More than any other EU country, Ireland is dependent on the US as a destination for our exports. If the trade dispute with China hits US growth, the effect of that would be felt in Ireland more than in any other EU country.
As an export oriented country, Ireland has also invested heavily in building an export trade to China. We rely on a growing Chinese middle class to consume our meat and dairy products.
We also depend disproportionately on multinational companies, who use global supply chains, which would be disrupted drastically by a trade war between the world's two biggest economies.
President Trump feels that China has gained unduly and unfairly from its membership of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) since 2001. Since then, while still being a state directed economy, China, through its membership of the WTO, has been able to get easy access to the markets of the world under the WTO's Most Favoured Nation principle (MFN).
MFN requires a WTO member state not to discriminate between countries, and to charge the same tariffs of goods from all WTO members, including China, unless it has a comprehensive trade agreement with that other country (in which case it is allowed to discriminate in favour of that country).
President Trump's deeper worry is that China is using the profits it is making from its export industries to build its military and naval strength in the Western Pacific, where the US also has bases and alliances.
The US sees its bases in Korea, Japan, Thailand and the Philippines as defensive. After all, the US has had a military presence in the western Pacific, in the Philippines, since its war with Spain in 1898. But to China, these US bases, ringed across the sea lanes China uses to survive, are a threat.
To break out of its encirclement, China has increased its own military spending substantially. But it is still spending less than a third of the US defence budget.
So this is not a simple trade dispute that can be settled easily.
China will continue to want to break out of ring of US bases on its eastern flank. Indeed its much publicised "One Belt One Road" initiative, to develop transport links from western China all the way to Europe, could be seen as an attempt to break free of its dependence on the Pacific sea routes, where it confronts the US and which the US could block in the event of confrontation between the two countries. Japan faced a similar situation in 1941.
The growing trade dispute is already having an effect. China's economy is showing some signs of stress. New car sales there have declined. Corporate borrowing is high and could be hit by a rise in interest rates, which might be forced on China if it needed to revalue its currency to meet one of President Trump's complaints. The biggest increase in global debt in recent years has been in China. It is an important element in the global banking system. A slowdown in China would affect the rest of the world.
China acknowledges it has a surplus in goods exports to the US, but believes this is compensated by services exports by the US to China, and by the privilege to US enjoys because its currency, the dollar, is the world's reserve currency.
To an extent, China and the US are talking past one another. The Americans are even complaining about having to translate Chinese trade proposals from Chinese into English!
Given the complexity of the rivalry between the US and China, the best outcome one can hope for in 90 days time is a some form of combination of minor agreements and postponements.
The really important battle for Ireland and for the EU will be that of defending and strengthening the WTO.
Arbitration, rather than confrontation, should be the way to resolve trade disputes.
UKRAINE……A KEY TO EUROPE'S FUTURE
In EU, Ukraine
Control over Ukraine's fertile land and natural resources has been a source of conflict throughout modern history.
The Russian occupation of Crimea, which is part of the sovereign territory of Ukraine, is the first forcible alteration an international boundary in Europe since the end of World two.
In Eastern Ukraine, the conflict between Russian backed militias and the Ukrainian Government led to the shooting down by the militias of a passenger airline full of Dutch holiday makers returning from the Far East.
Ukraine is a democracy, but is afflicted by corruption and by constant tension between its President and its legislature under its US style constitution.
Ukraine looks to the European Union for salvation, but the EU is turning inwards and giving priority to other problems.
In an attempt to understand the challenge, I read "The Gates of Europe" by Serhii Plokhy. It is a history of Ukraine from the earliest times. Plokhy is a Professor of History in Harvard.
At the outset of the First World War, Ukraine was divided between the Russian and Austro Hungarian Empires. The between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Greek Catholic Church, which is in communion with Rome but following Eastern rite, are active in Ukraine, and religious divisions have been a source of conflict in the past..
Both Russian and Ukrainian languages are spoken in the country, Russian more in the cities and in the east of the country.
The Ukrainian language is now promoted as a badge of national identity, as Irish is in Ireland. Thanks to immigration from Russia the country is ethnically diverse, but partly because of high handed Russian actions, even ethnic Russians in Ukraine increasingly identify themselves as Ukrainian.
Plokhy traces the cultural and political influences that shaped the country in the past two millennia.
Ukraine was onn the frontiers of the Roman Empire. It came under the influence of Greeks of the Byzantine Empire from Constantinople, who introduced Christianity to the area in 989 AD
It was from Ukraine that Christianity was introduced to Russia, which partly explains the Russian view that Ukraine should not be separate from Mother Russia.
In 1240, Kiev fell to the Mongols, who ruled the area for 100 years. The Mongols were defeated in 1359 and Ukraine became part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, which was dominated by Poles and Lithuanians. The Grand Duchy's Catholic religious policy was resented by Orthodox Ukrainians.
From 1590 to 1646, a series of risings by Cossacks (armed bands of native Ukrainians) weakened the Grand Duchy and oriented Ukraine towards Moscow and the Orthodox Church.
The autonomy enjoyed by the Cossacks within the Russian Empire was ended by Catherine the Great in the 1770's, and that fuelled resentment.
Plokhy describes the tragedy of the First War, when Ukrainians fought on both sides.
At the end of the war, and during the Russian Civil War, Ukraine briefly became an independent state. That independence was ended by the victory of the Bolsheviks in the Civil War.
Plokhy shows how the Jews, who were numerous in Ukraine , became scapegoats.
Under Stalin in the 1930's, Ukraine suffered a terrible famine because of Communist determination divert food supplies into the cities to help industrial expansion.
During the Second World War, which was fought over the territory of Ukraine, Ukrainian nationalists took up arms for the independence of their own country, against both the Nazis and the Soviets.
The pro independence fighting against the Soviet continued well into the 1950's, but without any aid from the West.
Ukraine did comparatively well, while Stalin's successor Khruschev, and his protégé Brezhnev, were in charge of the Soviet Union.
Under Gorbachev, things got worse for Ukraine, especially in the aftermath of the Chenobyl nuclear disaster which affected 3 million people in Ukraine and where the risks to the population were partially covered up by the regime.
While it was the Baltic states and the Russian Federation, led by Yeltsin, which precipitated the breakup of the Soviet Union, Ukraine took full advantage of it, and declared itself independent in 1991.
Interestingly the US, which favoured independence for the Baltic states, opposed it for Ukraine at that time. President Bush senior foresaw the effect Ukrainian independence would have on Russian opinion.
As an independent country, Ukraine shared the economic collapse in most post Soviet states caused by the stress of adjusting from a Communist to a market economy. Unlike Russia , Ukraine does not have vast natural gas reserves, but, also unlike Russia, it has remained a democracy.
This is an important book, because it deals with a country that could become a source of conflict between EU countries and the Russian Federation in the foreseeable future.
Russia feels the Ukraine should be part of its "sphere of influence", but the EU rejects the notion of "spheres of influence". Many in the EU believe Ukraine could eventually be eligible to be an EU member (something that most Ukrainians would like but the Russians would hate).
In some circumstances, Ukrainian membership of the EU could benefit Russia, but nobody in Moscow sees it that way……..at least, not yet.
CHINA TRANSFORMED …..A NEW BALANCE OF POWER
In China, EU, Ireland, John Bruton
The economic transformation of China is the most important global economic event of the past forty years. It has changed the balance of power on the Eurasian landmass, in ways we are only beginning to comprehend.
The economic transformation of China happened because, since 1979, there has been lively economic competition within China, something that was not allowed in the Soviet model. China's economy grew, while the centralised Soviet system stagnated. This explains why Communism survived in China, but collapsed in the Soviet sphere. China also grew thanks to the opening up of global trade, under successive rounds of trade liberalisation, which allowed China to build a powerful export sector.
Now China is having to transform itself again. Its export led model has reached its limits. Labour costs are rising because the big transfer of labour from farming to industry is over, and the Chinese population is beginning to age. The working age population of China peaked in 2015 and will decline from now on. Chinese exporters are being undercut by lower wage economies like Vietnam.
The Chinese economy has also reached environmental limits. The pollution level in some cities is dreadful, and the air is dangerous to breathe, even on an apparently clear day. I experienced this for myself when I visited China in the past fortnight on business. Environmental losses reduce China's GDP by 10%.
The proportion of its population living in cities will grow from 20% in 1978, to 50% today, and to 75% by 2030. This will lead to even more pollution, unless the cities are built to a different model. China is devoting a lot of research to this and may soon become an exporter of green technology. Necessity is the mother of invention.
Meanwhile China has an increasing number of well off, high spending, consumers. The Boston Consulting Group recently estimated that what it calls the "upper middle class" ( a group that can afford regular foreign holidays) will rise from 53 million today, to 102 million by 2020. Interestingly it estimates that, by 2020, the upper middle class in will reach 73 million in Indonesia, 32 million in India, and 21 million in Thailand.
At the other end of the scale, China has not got a well developed welfare system. The income gap is very wide. Stress is high. Parents are left looking after grandchildren back in rural China while sons and daughters seek work in the cities. There is a two tier labour market, under which long established city residents qualify for social supports, but recent arrivals in cities do not, and can remain in a precarious situation for years.
Nationalism is very strong in China, and one can foresee a clash between the American nationalism of Donald Trump, and the Chinese nationalism of the Communist party.
Both can exploit suspicion of the other, to rally political support internally.
The United States should be cautious. The abandonment of the Trans Pacific Partnership, by both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, will leave China in the driving seat, as far as trade policy in East Asia is concerned. It is ironic that China increasingly sees itself as the defender of an open world trading system, while the United States adopts protectionist rhetoric. Adding a conflict over the status of Taiwan to this mix could have unpredictable results.
If, under Donald Trump, the US moves closer to Russia, the EU may find its interests aligned more with those of China in some fields, like climate change. This will be reinforced by the anxiety many of the central European members of the EU feel about Russian intentions, and Russia's view that some of them should properly belong in a Russian sphere of influence, rather than being so closely aligned with Western Europe through the EU. Russian support for west European politicians like Marine le Pen is part of a strategy to undermine the EU.
Historically, China has been a supporter of EU integration, while Russia has been hostile, because it felt itself excluded from pan European security structures. Russia feels itself hemmed in. Russia's seizure of Crimea, and its involvement in the Syrian Civil War, can also be seen as attempts to break out of its strategic isolation and gain access to the Black Sea and the Mediterranean.
It is also to break out of its sense of isolation, that China has promoted its "one Belt, One Road" policy to link itself with Western Europe.
As a continuing member of the European Union, it will be in Ireland's economic and political interests to play its full part in building a balanced structure of peace on the Eurasian land mass, that protects the rights of small states, but which also one that ensures that no great power feels itself hemmed in, or isolated. For that is how wars start.
WHO WILL PROTECT IRISH AND OTHER EU FIRMS DOING BUSINESS IN THE UK AGAINST DISCRIMINATION, AFTER BREXIT?
In EU, Europe, Ireland, John Bruton, UK
Many Irish firms, and firms from other EU states, have extensive investments and trading interests in the UK. Indeed this must one of the most intense investment relationships in the world.
For the past 40 years, these investments have been protected by UK membership of the EU, which allowed firms, who might feel they were being discriminated against, in favour of British owned competitors, to appeal not only to the UK Courts, but also to the European Court of Justice(ECJ)
Yesterday the UK Prime Minister announced that , once the UK leaves the EU, the jurisdiction of the ECJ in the UK would be ended. Thus there will no longer be any, non UK controlled, arbiter to protect Irish or other EU investors in the UK against discriminatory laws by a future UK government. The UK has no written constitution.
Therefore it will be important that there be a robust independent investor protection disputes mechanism, capable of overturning discriminatory decisions that might be taken by the UK courts against the interests of EU owned firms.
This must take immediate effect the day the UK leaves the EU.
It cannot wait for the longer term trade agreement the EU negotiates with the UK, which may take years to finalise. Investor protection clauses can be controversial, as we have seen with the TTIP negotiation, and are a reduction of "sovereignty" in the abstract sense.
But , given three factors
the highly nationalistic tenor of UK politics at the moment,
the dramatic ideological trends in the Labour party, and
the likelihood of trade tensions between the UK and the EU,
Irish and other EU firms doing, or intending to do, business in the UK will need a very robust independent investor protection regime. These three phenomena must be confronted realistically. We must not assume that everything will work out in the end. It may not!
Unless Irish and other European firms have concrete assurances that they will not face discrimination of any kind in their activities in the UK after Brexit, they may have to commence disinvestment to protect their shareholders' legitimate interests. The proposed "Great Repeal Bill", reversing EU law in the UK, will need to scrutinised with immense care by Irish and other European investors in Britain. Political assurances will not be good enough.
In the present atmosphere of UK politics, it is all too easy to envisage calls for discrimination in favour of UK firms in contracts with UK local authorities, in access to certain public services, and in standards for goods and services. All would be done, of course, in the name of "protecting British jobs", or "defending British standards".
If the ECJ is no available to protect Irish and EU firms from discriminatory practices on the UK market, alternatives will have to be agreed with the UK. These alternative mechanisms, investor courts in other words, will have to have the power, like the ECJ, of striking down UK decisions, including UK court decisions, that they deem to be discriminatory against the interests of an EU investor.
These mechanisms are known as an Investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) or an investment court system (ICS). They are an instrument of public international law and grant an investor the right to use dispute settlement proceedings against a country's government.
Provisions for ISDS are contained in a number of bilateral investment treaties, in certain international trade treaties, such as the North American Free Trade Agreement (chapter 11), the Trans-Pacific Partnership (chapters 9 and 28) and the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (sections 3 and 4). ISDS is also found in international investment agreements, such as the Energy Charter Treaty.
If an investor from one country (the "home state") invests in another country (the "host state"), both of which have agreed to ISDS, and the host state violates the rights granted to the investor under public international law, then that investor may bring the matter before an arbitral tribunal.
The prospect of having to use such cumbersome procedures will undoubtedly be daunting and difficult for small firms.
This will be particularly difficult for Irish firms who have been used to treating the UK as part of their "home market" since 1966 and the Anglo Irish Free Trade Agreement.
In the aftermath of the original referendum decision, soothing statements were made by British Ministers about the position of Ireland, and about there being no "hard border. But Prime Minister May's speech to her Party Conference yesterday represents a major shift in position. She is going for a "hard Brexit", which inevitably means a "hard border". She offered no assurances to Ireland.
Indeed it is hard to see how the UK could offer special protection to Irish firms investing in the UK that it was not also offering to French or Romanian firms.
The Irish food industry is heavily invested in the UK market. Before it joined the EU, the UK discriminated heavily in favour of UK farmers and against Irish exports. The food industry is far more complex now than it was forty years ago, and the opportunities for discrimination more subtle and more numerous.
The European Union will need to adopt a tough line on investor protection in the forthcoming negotiations and make sure these protections apply in full from the moment the UK leaves, and are not left to a wider long term negotiation.
THE UK NEEDS TO WORK OUT WHAT IT VOTED FOR LAST MONTH
In BREXIT, EU, John Bruton, United Kingdom
I believe the UK itself needs to prepare a realistic proposal, taking the EU Treaty obligations of others into account, on the future relationship between the EU and the UK that it believes would be in the interest of both the UK and the EU.
That is a process that has to take place in the UK alone and not, at this stage in the other EU countries.
The UK needs to do its home work first. The UK needs to take full ownership of the challenge posed by decision in the referendum that the UK itself decided to have .
My own sense is that a relationship between EU and UK that is limited to trade in goods, and to free travel with passport controls, is easily attainable, if the UK is willing to accept EU goods safety standards.
The question is whether the UK would settle for that.
Services and movement of people are inherently inter related so this would not cover financial services exports from the UK.
On migration, the UK position is made difficult by the fact that the UK long pressed for early EU enlargement, and then, like Ireland, opened itself the migration from the new EU members without availing of the transition period.
Now, without acknowledging its own contribution to the dilemma in which it finds itself, the UK has decided to reverse all this by leaving the EU, as if the EU alone was responsible for the consequences of these UK decisions.
I fear that these contradictions within the thought processes of the UK itself will not be resolved without some sort of crisis.
From what I read, it seems to me that UK leaders are still going around the continent looking to EU leaders to solve the contradictions in the UK's own thinking for them, which is a bit unfair.
The UK should not try to pick off individual EU states by making them special offers, because that will anger other EU states. The governments of all the 27 remaining EU states have to bring their public opinions with them too
The UK needs an agreement that all the EU states and the elected European Parliament can live with.
Ultimately all EU states are bound by the Treaties, and are required by law to cooperate sincerely with one another to "attain the Union's objectives".
The European Court of Justice and the European Commission are obliged to follow the EU Treaties and ensure they are respected by the member states, the Council of Ministers and the European Commission.
The Commission represents the common EU interest, and is particularly attentive to the needs of smaller states. The UK should never give the impression that it would like to bypass the Commission, by going over the Commission's head to Berlin or Paris.
While the European Council will authorize the negotiations with the UK, it is the Commission that will do the negotiation. The European Council can issue negotiating directives to the Commission, but the European Council acts by unanimity, which leaves a lot of discretion to the Commission.
So the UK needs to come up with a comprehensive proposal that is framed in the context of these Treaties and of the needs of each of the 27 (very different) EU states.
It should probably publish that proposal, in the form of a Green Paper, before triggering Article 50.
THE EU IS ALREADY DEMOCRATIC…..TWO WAYS IN WHICH THAT CAN BE MADE MORE VISIBLE
In BREXIT, Democracy, EU, European Commission, United Kingdom
One of the recurring themes in the debate about UK membership on the EU is the (false) claim that the EU is not democratic.
All EU legislation has to be passed by a democratically elected European Parliament and also by a Council of Ministers who represent the democratically elected governments of the 28 EU countries.
It is true that the members of the European Commission are not democratically elected by the people, but their names must be proposed by democratically elected governments of the 28 countries, and the Commission as a whole must be approved by the democratically elected European Parliament.
In many countries, Ministers serve in government who have not, as individuals, been elected directly. Their democratic mandate comes from the elected government of which they are part.
This is not to say the there is no room to improve the democratic legitimacy of the EU, and of its policies. I believe the EU could respond to the UK referendum by further enhancing EU wide democracy.
I make two suggestions to improve the visibility of the democratic character of the EU, and create a genuinely European democratic debate, rather than 28 separate national debates about EU matters
The President of the European Commission should be directly elected in a two round election by the entire people of the EU, at the same time as the European Parliament Elections
It should be possible for the National Parliament of the 28 to come together to request that the Commission put forward a proposal on a particular matter. National Parliaments( if a minimum number agree) already have a right to petition to delay a piece of EU legislation, so why not give them a positive right to seek the promotion of a piece of legislation (if they can obtain a similar level of support across a number of countries).
WHAT HAPPENS IF THE UK VOTE IS TO LEAVE THE EU?
In BREXIT, EU, United Kingdom
I spoke earlier this week at a very interesting meeting organised by the County Meath Association of Chambers and Business Councils in Kells Co Meath on the topic of Brexit.
Next week, I will speak on the subject at meetings in Liverpool and Birmingham, and will be able to bring to the attention of UK voters at these meetings some of the concerns expressed in Kells.
The consensus at the meeting in Kells was that there would be a dramatic impact on the Irish economy if the UK, including Northern Ireland , left the EU.
DISRUPTION OF EXISTING BUSINESS PATTERNS ON A HUGE SCALE IF TARRIFS HAD TO BE REINTRODUCED
Patterns of trade on these island that have grown up over centuries, would be radically disrupted.
All forms of distribution within the two islands would be disrupted in EU tariffs had to be charged on goods coming to the Republic from Northern Ireland and Britain.
One member of the audience, who holds a very senior position in the food industry , pointed out that products as simple as a sandwich sold in a service stations, now contain a mixture of ingredients produced in the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland and in England.
If the UK left the EU, and Ireland had to impose the Common External Tariff of the EU, on food ingredients coming from either Northern Ireland or Britain, many present food distribution systems would become uneconomic, and hundreds of jobs would be lost.
The disruption of the complex supply chain of the modern food industry would be dramatic.
The Common External Tariff can be as high as 35%.
The knock on effect is impossible to calculate. It would be like having to unscramble an omelette!
IMMEDIATE EFFECT WOULD BE A CHANGE OF GOVERNMENT IN LONDON
I pointed out that this would not, of course, happen overnight on 24 June, because Britain would first have to decide on who would be Prime Minister and what would be the make up on a post Brexit Government.
How long would it take to elect a new Tory leader? Until that issue is decided no decisions on EU policy would be possible.
Only once that was settled, could the UK begin to decide what type of new arrangement it would seek to have with the EU.
NEW UK GOVERNMENT WOULD HAVE TWO OPTIONS
It would have two basic options
it could ask to leave the EU and, like Norway, join the European Economic Area, or
it could try for a wholly new special trade agreement, like the agreement Canada or Switzerland has with the EU
THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA (EEA) OPTION
The first option could be put in place quickly and would not disrupt trade all that much. It would have the disadvantage that the UK would still have to implement EU regulations and contribute to the EU budget.
Technically it would, however, comply with a referendum vote in favour of leaving the EU. It would buy time, allowing us to see whether the fears being stoked up in the present campaign have substance or not.
THE TRADE AGREEMENT OPTION
The second option would be much more disruptive.
It would require a detailed negotiation on every type of product or service that might be sold across the border in Ireland or between the UK and the 27 member countries of the EU.
Such an agreement would take years to negotiate (probably 7 or 8 years), and would be subject to domestic political constraints in all EU countries. We can see with TTIP, which is a much narrower negotiation, how matters can become the subject of fears, misrepresentations and lobbying.
It is unlikely that a Trade Agreement would allow the UK to sell financial services into the EU. Indeed it would be in the interest of countries that might hope to attract financial services out of London and into their own capitals to make sure the UK got no concessions on that point.
WHY IS THE SOVEREIGN UK PARLIAMENT DELEGATING ITS RESPONSIBILITIES TO A REFERENDUM?
I believe that a referendum is not a suitable method for making a complex choice like the one UK citizens are now being asked to make.
The UK used to be a parliamentary democracy, not a plebiscitary democracy , like Switzerland Parliament is sovereign under the UK constitutional system, but the exercise of this sovereignty is now being delegated by parliament to a referendum.
This displays a lack of confidence by Parliament in itself.
A referendum requires people to make a snap decision on a single day, without knowledge of the future implications of what they are doing. It requires complex contingencies to be reduced to a single "yes" or "no" question.
A parliamentary process, in contrast, goes on over a long time, and thus allows new evidence to be taken on board, before an irrevocable decision is made.

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This Constitution was adopted at the Annual General Meeting of the Australian Mental Health Party Western Australia held in Fremantle Western Australia on the 18th of October 2014.
The Australian Mental Health Party is an independent political party representing the needs of people who live with a mental health condition or experience psychological distress. The Australian Mental Health Party extends to the needs and the perspectives of family, friends, and loved ones, as well as the mental health care practitioners, health professionals, communities, groups and workplaces that people interact with.
To achieve these aims we will seek the election to the Commonwealth in sufficient numbers to form governments, of endorsed Party members committed to Party objectives.
We will work with the democratically elected majority government to secure improvement in mental health services for all Australians, and to promote and encourage a more humane treatment for all who uses these services.
We are committed to providing a political platform for the many non-government mental health organisations so that the mental health of Australia can improve from the current high levels.
The Australian Mental Health Party will work with health care professionals, non-government affiliated organisations and those who have a mental health condition and their loved ones to improve the representation of all parties at a political level. We will work co-operatively with the government of the day but at all times set out to achieve the best possible outcomes for our members and support base.
We will seek to ensure a whole-of government approach to those that have a mental health condition and their carers.
We will seek to increase both State and Federal funding allocation to support all Australians who consume Mental Health Services, including their loved ones, families, and their carers.
We will seek to request for an increase in expenditure for all non-government mental health organisations and expect to represent many of these organisation within our political platform.
We will seek an increase in the number of beds and trained staff for inpatients in all Australian Mental Health Care Settings.
We will seek to nurture and monitor the National Mental Health Plan and all relevant Bills and amendments to legislation.
We will seek to increase the long term availability of Community Nurses with a key emphasis on vocational and education rehabilitation. Counselling is a basic need.
We will seek for an increased subsidisation for the associated prescribed pharmaceuticals that are necessary for ongoing long term rehabilitation and stabilisation.
The Australian Mental Health Party will provide all Australians who have a mental health condition a voice through which it can make itself heard and in doing so adhere to the democratic principles which are the fundamental right of all Australians.
The Australian Mental Health Party will seek to promote and enhance this fundamental need and seek to influence the political process.
1.1 The name of the Party is the Australian Mental Health Party, herein called "AMHP".
1.3 All other party documents are subordinate to this constitution.
2.1 AMHP consists of an Executive and any number of sub-branches.
2.1.1 Members may be a member of the party without being a member of a sub-branch.
2.1.2 Members may only be a member of one sub-branch and resign from one sub-branch before joining another sub-branch. The AMHP has an Executive Committee of no than 10 members with no more than any three (3) members of the Executive normally resident in the same postal code.
2.1.3 The Annual General Meeting will decide the number of the members of the Executive.
2.2.1 To direct, organise and co-ordinate as required by the membership, the policies, functions and administration of the party, in accordance with the constitution.
2.2.2 To employ persons, contractors or consultants to carry out the work of the party.
2.2.3 To responsibly manage and conservatively invest the funds of the party.
2.2.4 The AMHP Executive is not precluded from expending amounts from the party's reserve funds to meet ordinary running expenses of the party. This may include: Legal expenses, General Federal Election expenses, General Administration cost and investments.
2.2.5 To cause an Annual General Meeting and other meetings as required in this constitution and as expected of sound management practices.
2.3 The AMHP Executive shall have a minimum of five (5) office bearers; being the Chair, Vice Chair, Secretary, Registered Officer and Party Agent elected at the Annual General Meeting (AGM).
2.3.1 The Annual General Meeting shall decide other roles within the Executive which may include membership officer, fundraising officer, elections officer and other specific officers as agreed by the Meeting and the general members of the Executive.
3.1 Policies shall be formulated with the maximum participation of members and shall finally be determined by the direct and equal say of the membership.
3.2 Policy shall be determined by a simple majority at an Annual General Meeting or special meeting.
3.3 Policy petitions are to be submitted to the Secretary in writing or as agenda items for discussion at the Annual General Meeting or special meeting.
3.4 All financial members of the Party may attend or vote by proxy at the Annual General Meeting for election of the Executive committee and the office bearers by show of hands and simple majority decision with due reference to the constitution.
3.5 The Executive will finalise all matters of policy after due consultation with members and where appropriate policy will be forwarded to the national body requesting adoption as national policy.
3.6 Emergency policy decisions can be made by the Executive. Any such decision shall be submitted for ratification by special meeting within two months. The Executive shall not make any emergency policy decision which contradicts any Executive shall not make any emergency policy decision which contradicts any policy of the Party already approved by a vote of members.
4.1 The AMHP will raise funds via membership, private and corporate donation and fundraising events and activities, as well as return on investments.
4.2 The party shall abide by all relevant laws including employment laws, electoral and association laws.
4.3 All funds raised are to be paid into a bank account in the name of The Australian Mental Health Party as approved by the Executive and receipts issued for all funds received.
4.4 All withdrawals or transfers from the AMHP account will require the signature of two (2) of three (3) nominated Executive members as agreed by the Executive.
4.5 The Party Agent will keep proper records in accordance with accepted accounting principles.
4.6 The Party Agent shall provide regular financial reports on a timely basis as directed by the Executive and shall immediately report any matters of concern.
4.7 All AMHP funds are to be conservatively invested. Example: Deposits in Australian banks in Australian currency would be the most common form of investment and equity investments would normally be avoided. The exception may be the purchase of a building to house the administrative functions of the party: The AMHP House.
4.8 All members of the Executive are voluntary and unpaid positions with reasonable expenses paid for duties undertaken on behalf of the AMHP.
4.9 An Executive officer and administrative staff, contractors and consultants may be employed or contracted at the discretion of the Executive and said persons may attend and report to Executive meetings but will not have voting rights on the Executive.
4.10 All funds raised through donation, membership fees, bank interest or any other means are to be applied to further the goals of the AMHP as contained in this constitution, charter, mission statement and policies.
4.11 The membership fee and term of membership may be varied by a decision of the Executive without amendment to this constitution. No such decision shall be retrospective. Nothing in this paragraph limits the expulsion of a member as per this constitution.
5.1 Preselection of candidate(s) to stand for the Federal House of Representative and Senate seats are made by a selection committee consisting of no less than three (3) members of the Executive.
5.2 The Secretary shall call for nominations and give sufficient time for nominations to be received, bearing in mind the election timeframe.
5.3 Nominees for pre-selection must be nominated by no less than ten (10) current voting members of the party.
5.4 Nominees for preselection must be available for an interview by the preselection committee and be of good character. Nominees should demonstrate an understanding of mental health issues , have political acumen in addition to written and verbal communication skills.
5.5 A person preselected by the sub-branch becomes a Candidate after endorsement by the AMHP selection committee, such notification to be made by letter.
5.6 Any member of the Executive must stand down his/her position once nominated for preselection as a candidate.
5.7 No nominee presented to the selection panel may also sit on the selection panel.
5.8.1 Where the Party is required to present a nomination to the State Governor for the filling of a casual Senate vacancy, the procedures given in this Constitution for the selection of Senate candidates shall apply.
5.8.2 If an absolute majority of the Executive determines that there is insufficient time to hold a ballot of members, the casual Senate vacancy shall be filled by a recount of the most recent party ballot for a Senate ticket in that state, with the position being offered to the highest ranked available candidate from that recounted ballot. If that person is either unavailable or unwilling to fill the vacancy, the position shall be offered to the next most preferred candidate.
5.9 If the Executive believe that it would be of significant benefit to the Party to do so it may, without prejudice, intervene in a sub-branch's or any other preselection process.
6.1 The Executive shall cause an Annual General meeting of the AMHP to be held as near as possible to twelve (12) months, no fewer than ten (10) months and no more that fourteen (14) months from that date of the last Annual General Meeting.
6.2 Members shall be given a minimum of thirty (30) days notice of the date, time and location of an Annual General Meeting.
6.3 The Executive shall cause special meetings of the AMHP to be held as required.
6.3.1.2 The petition is signed by a significant number of members as determined by the Executive.
6.4 Members shall be given a minimum of fourteen (14) days notice of the time, date and location of a special meeting.
6.5 Mail, email or a prominent posting on the AMHP website, detailing the location, date, time and agenda of any meeting shall be deemed sufficient notice of any AGM or special meeting.
6.6 The Executive may hold closed meetings for policy and campaign purposes otherwise members should normally be allowed to observe Executive meetings at the discretion of the Chair.
6.7 Amendments to this constitution must be passed by a majority of eighty percent (80%) of attending members, and proxies, at an AGM or special meeting called for the purpose. Any motion to amend this constitution must be listed on the agenda and submitted to the Executive, with supporting documents at least seven (7) days before the AGM.
6.8 The outgoing Executive will present a report of activities and an audited financial report at the Annual General meeting as near as practicable to the first order of business.
6.9 All financial voting members of the AMHP may attend or vote by proxy at the AGM for election of Executive committee and office bearers by show of hands and simple majority decision.
6.10 A motion calling for a secret ballot, if passed, shall take precedence over the requirements of voting to be by show of hands.
7.1 Members who are unable to attend meetings may provide their proxy vote to any current voting member.
7.2 All proxies must be lodged on the appropriate form that will be supplied by AMHP Secretary.
7.3 The proxy will take the form of a written and signed authority given by one member to another nominated member or the Secretary to vote on his or her behalf at any nominated meeting. The proxy may specify manner in which the proxy vote is to be exercised or may the leave the vote at the discretion of the nominated member.
7.4 All proxy forms are to be correctly completed and forwarded to the AMHP Secretary to arrive at least seven days prior to the relevant meeting.
7.5 Proxy holders will be advised by the Secretary prior to a ballot of the proxies registered to them.
7.7 The AMHP Secretary may carry any number of proxy votes where the signed proxy form specifies the manner in which the proxy vote is to be exercised.
8.1 The Chair is the only person authorised spokesperson for the AMHP including its sub-branches and any committees.
8.2 All press releases, advertising and media interviews are expressly to be authorized by the Chair.
8.3 The Chair may nominate any person, as spokesperson in general or limited to a specified issue or for a limited time. Example: This would normally be restricted to the senior candidate in any election for the duration of the election, or an expert, and limited to a specific issue.
8.4 The Chair may similarly authorize a public relations consultant nominated media spokesperson with the approval of a majority of the Executive.
9.1 Membership of The Australian Mental Health Party is open to any person who is not expressly excluded from membership and is not a member of another Australian political party, is entitled to vote in Australian Federal elections, is prepared to comply with this constitution, and pays the prescribed fees; provided that the Party may reject any application or cancel any membership without compensation on the grounds that its acceptance or continuing membership would be against the Party's interests.
9.2 A person shall be entitled to join The Australian Mental Health Party as an associate member. Such people shall have the same rights as other members, except that they shall have no voting rights, and may not stand for any Mental Health Party or public office or publicly represent the Australian Mental Health Party (AMHP). Applications to become an associate member are subject to the same procedures for approval and rejection as ordinary membership applications.
9.3 Review of membership applications is the responsibility of the AMHP Executive or such other body as the Executive determines.
9.4 An application is rejected if it is opposed by the Executive or such other body as the Executive determines. Otherwise, the application is accepted.
9.5 A member is deemed to be enrolled upon receipt of the application by the membership officer.
9.6 Members are not entitled to vote in preselection at state, federal, branch or sub-branch level until six (6) months after they are enrolled, but may take part in all other party activities.
such application includes a declaration by the person that they subscribe to this constitution and are not a member of another political party.
9.8.4 and in so determining, the AMHP Executive must also specify the period of time for which the payment of such fee or fees confers financial status to the relevant membership, and default such period of time is one year.
9.9 Any increase of the amount payable by way of membership fees performed in accordance with must be by resolution of the Executive after notice of that proposal has been published in an issue of the AMHP newsletter available to the membership at least thirty days prior to the meeting of the Executive where the question is to be decided.
9.10 A member must have their membership enrolment continued or renewed by the membership officer according to the procedures specified for this in the regulations of this constitution and resolutions of the Executive provided only that the appropriate renewal fee has been paid to the Party in a manner specified by or acceptable to the Executive.
9.11 A person ceases to be enrolled as a member if the financial status of their membership is more than six (6) months in arrears with respect to their renewal fee, or if they have resigned from the Party where such resignation is in writing and is signed by the member, or resigned by email where such email notification is verified by the Secretary and a 48 hour 'cooling-off' period has been observed, or if they have been expelled from the Party pursuant to the provisions of this constitution.
9.12 The rights, privileges, entitlements and duties of membership as specified in this constitution and any constitution of the sub-branch to which the member may belong must be extended to and honoured by a person enrolled as a member where that membership has the status of 10 financial voting members, or where that membership has had the status of non-financial for no more than three (3) months; otherwise while the person remains enrolled as a member they may not exercise or be permitted to exercise those rights, privileges, and entitlements other than to renew their membership.
9.13 It is the duty of each member to promptly forward to the membership officer all necessary renewals information and changes of information needed including postal and email addresses, to maintain accurate information about their membership enrolment.
9.14 It is the duty of the secretary or nominated membership officer and the Executive to do all that is reasonable to ensure that renewals and other information relevant to the membership roll are properly and promptly processed so as to ensure the accuracy of the membership roll; and such processing must be complete in less than three (3) months.
9.15 No person may be accepted as a member if convicted of a disqualifying electoral offence within the previous ten years.
9.16 If a current member is convicted of an electoral offence during their period of membership that membership is immediately terminated.
10.1 The Executive can assist in the formation of sub-branches for the purpose of furthering the goals of the AMHP.
10.2 A minimum of ten (10) members may apply to form a sub-branch of the AMHP.
10.3 The purpose of a sub-branch is to further the goals of the AMHP, to raise donations and memberships, to suggest policy and nominate and support candidates in elections.
10.4 All funds collected at sub-branch level are to be deposited in the AMHP account with relevant documentation forwarded to the party Treasurer within seven (7) days.
10.5 Sub-branches will have their own Executive consisting of no more than 5 office holders who will report to the AMHP Executive.
10.6 No member is authorized to incur expenditure for any reason on behalf of the party without prior written authorization from the Treasurer and one other member of the AMHP Executive.
11.1 A sub-branch may be wound up at the Executives discretion without compensation or recourse, should the Executive decide that the be no longer effective or capable of supporting the goals of the AMHP.
11.2 At the request of members or at the Executives sole discretion a special meeting may be called to wind up the AMHP.
11.3 A vote of eighty percent (80%) of attending members (or proxy) is required to formally wind up the AMHP.
11.4 In the event of the organization being wound up, any of the AMHP funds after the satisfaction of all of debts, and the sale of assets shall be donated to a Mental Health Non Government Organisation or Associations as determined by the Chair.
12.1 Members who become involved in a dispute with each other must take all practicable steps to resolve it between themselves, if necessary with the help of a mutually acceptable conciliator.
12.2 There shall be an AMHP Registrar appointed by the Executive who must not hold any other positions within the party and must have demonstrated understanding of the party processes and ethos and an ability to facilitate conciliation.
12.2.1 Disputes in the first instance will be presented to the AMHP Registrar.
(iii) a member who holds executive or sub-branch, office or holds party endorsement for public office has failed to carry out the responsibilities of the position to such an extent, or to have carried them out in such a way, that such sub-branch or the party has been or probably will be seriously disadvantaged.
12.3 In general, disputes must be lodged with the Registrar within 14 days of the action in dispute taking place. If special circumstances are warranted this can be extended to 30 days.
12.5 The Registrar's determination must be made within 14 days, or within 3 days in the case of ballots or if the claim is taken to be a matter of urgency. Any interested party may request that the matter be considered as urgent and the Registrar will make any determination as is appropriate, taking into account the nature of the dispute and political implications.
(iv) Order the ballot to be redone.
12.8 A decision or ballot result will stand while a dispute is being considered.
12.10 The Registrar shall refer all disputes relating to parliamentarians, parliamentary performance or public comments made by parliamentarians to the relevant Parliamentary Team, or where the Team is less than 3 parliamentarians, to the Executive.
12.11 If the matter cannot be satisfactorily resolved within the Parliamentary Team it must then be referred back to the Registrar.
13.1 Anyone applying to be a candidate for the Party will be required to give a signed undertaking regarding the following: not to speak publicly against the AMHP policy unless there is a genuinely strong conscientious objection, in which case the AMHP policy must be stated first and then any qualification/s can be given.
13.2 If elected the candidate agrees that whilst he/she may retain the right to resign from the Party, if he /she does so that person will resign the parliamentary seat beforehand.
13.3.2 and where, in the opinions of an elected member, their duty to their electorate is in conflict with Party policy, then the elected member may vote according to their duty to their electorate.
13.4 When an elected member recognises a conflict between either their conscience or their duty to their electorate and AMHP policy, then they shall furnish a statement accounting for their position to the Executive, for their information.
13.5 When an elected member votes against the Party policy, then they shall at the earliest opportunity, furnish a statement accounting for the reason why they so voted to the Executive.
13.6 The Elected members shall elect a leader. In the event that a leader cannot be selected the Executive shall appoint the Parliamentary Leader.
Executive means the Executive of the Australian Mental Health Party Western Australia.
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Q: Updating a MongoDB document with Mongoose without removing the information already in the document So what I want to do is add on to an object in the document not delete the whole thing. I have a document with an array in it and if I call findOneAndUpdate it adds what I want but gets rid of everything already in the array.
All I want to do is keep what I already have in my array and add one more item.
Here is my code:
Friends.findOneAndUpdate({facebookId: value.id}, {$set: {friends: {id: profile.id, name: profile._json.name}} }, {new: false}, function (err, friends) {
    if(err){
      console.log("Something went wrong when updating data!");
    }

    console.log("success saving user friend update");
});

And here is what happens with my array in the database:
This:
"friends": [
    {
        "id": "114222474148205",
        "name": "Chris Chang"
    },
    {
        "id": "903622474147290",
        "name": "Johny Unitas"
    },
    {
        "id": "685034985392094",
        "name": "Mary Jane"
    }
]

To this:
"friends": {
    "id": "49572957395733524",
    "name": "John Doe"
}

What I want is those two to be combined.
So how would I "add" an item and not "update" the item?

A: As Joao said above; all I you have to do is change $set to $push.
So this:
Friends.findOneAndUpdate({facebookId: value.id}, {$push: {friends: {id: profile.id, name: profile._json.name}} }, {new: false}, function (err, friends) {

instead of this:
Friends.findOneAndUpdate({facebookId: value.id}, {$set: {friends: {id: profile.id, name: profile._json.name}} }, {new: false}, function (err, friends) {

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#10 go to FORMULAS tab, click Name Manager command. and the Name Manager dialog box will open. #11 click New button in the Name Manager dialog box. and type DropDownList as the Name Field. and type the below formula into the refers to Field.
Create a drop-down data validation list in Excel, that only shows unique items from a list. This method works even if your list expands or you add new items to your list. This method works even if your list expands or you add new items to your list.


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Show Open Closed Fixed reports about Abandoned vehicles Council car parks Dog fouling Flyposting Flytipping Other Parks/landscapes Public toilets Rubbish (refuse and recycling) Street cleaning Street nameplates Bench/cycle rack/litter bin/planter Bollards (lit) Bollards (unlit) Damaged/missing boundary markers Graffiti Bridge or Structure Damaged/missing pedestrian guardrail Graffiti Roadside safety barrier Bus shelter Bus stop Blocked drain Damaged dyke, ditch or culvert Flooding Dying or diseased tree Noxious weeds Overgrown tree/hedges Visibility at junction or bend Weed spraying Grit bin refills Obstruction on pavement/verge Obstruction on road/cycleway Collapsed verge Damaged/missing paving slab Graffiti Loose/missing/chipped kerbstone Manhole/drain cover on pavement/verge Trip hazard/uneven surface Wheel tracks or ruts Pothole on pavement/verge Pothole on road/cycleway Damaged/missing cats eye Damaged road edge, encroaches less than 100mm Damaged road edge, encroaches more than 100mm Graffiti Manhole/drain cover on road/cycleway Road markings faded/missing Road surface issue Problem at LCC roadworks Problem at other roadworks Graffiti Illegal advertising Sign (lit) Sign (unlit) Street light Subway light 1 signal light out 2 signal lights out All signal lights out Crossing not working Crossing running with no pedestrians Damaged cables Damaged equipment Exposed cables/wires Pole/signal knocked down Signal head turned around Signals stuck on red Timing issue
Street light no 1 not working
10:35, Monday, last updated 11:28, Tuesday
Light is defective
Fixed 17:06, 21 Dec 2021, last updated 14:46, Monday
Blocked drain floods when it rains
14:41, 29 Oct 2021, last updated 18:09, 1 Dec 2021
Blocked drain problem
10:46, 4 Oct 2021, last updated 14:33, 15 Oct 2021
Street lamp not working
Exposed damaged pipe work
21:43, 6 Aug 2021, last updated 16:06, 4 Sep 2021
Pathway road to 174 farm is uneven lot of potholes
12:31, 26 Jun 2021, last updated 10:30, 30 Jun 2021
Fixed 21:46, 20 Jun 2021, last updated 09:46, 24 Jun 2021
Sign (unlit) problem
13:58, 24 May 2021, last updated 12:41, 27 May 2021
2 big potholes
Closed 10:38, 9 Feb 2021, last updated 11:24, 24 Feb 2021
Pothole on road/cycleway problem
2 huge pot holes as you come into the 50mph zone towards branston
Flooding problem
11:49, 8 Feb 2021, last updated 15:52, Wednesday
2 large potholes on entering Branston from Canwick
Street is not on at night
Fixed 19:42, 7 Feb 2021, last updated 14:38, 22 Oct 2021
Blocked road-edge drain
Very poor condition of Road
Closed 17:45, 4 Feb 2021, last updated 09:19, 29 Mar 2021
12 Silver Street post Branston LN41LR
Fixed 10:01, 20 Jan 2021, last updated 13:56, 21 Oct 2021
Street light no 2 outside 20 Park View Avenue is not working
Long and deep pothole on road edge joining the driveway to pavement. Affecting car everytime we go in and out
Fixed 09:57, 18 Jan 2021, last updated 15:12, 7 Apr 2021
Street light not coming on
Street light problem
Fixed 12:09, 14 Dec 2020, last updated 13:03, 20 Oct 2021
There is a street light out
Streetlight No 7PN been out for a week.
Fixed 20:44, 18 Nov 2020, last updated 16:31, 13 Oct 2021
Light has failed
Fixed 10:15, 24 Sep 2020, last updated 14:21, 13 Oct 2021
Crumbling edge of carriageway affecting the cyclepath.
Fixed 16:58, 7 Sep 2020, last updated 15:43, 16 Mar 2021
Dangerous pothole
Street Light Failed
Fixed 19:26, 30 Jul 2020, last updated 16:41, 11 Oct 2021
Kerbs too low
10:21, 27 Jul 2020, last updated 10:39, 26 Nov 2021
Fly tipping down lane to properties
Obstruction on pavement/verge problem
Closed 09:56, 9 Mar 2020, last updated 11:11, 10 Mar 2020
Dropped Kerbs to low to stop surface water going down drive
12:11, 10 Feb 2020, last updated 22:38, 1 Jun 2020
Pot hole getting bigger
Closed 14:52, 28 Jan 2020, last updated 14:18, 3 Feb 2020
Road light
Road surface issue problem
Fixed 11:45, 6 Dec 2019, last updated 14:38, 18 Dec 2019
Flooding across the whole junction and path between Park View Ave and B1188
09:54, 18 Nov 2019, last updated 20:01, 7 Apr 2020
Fixed 08:29, 8 Nov 2019, last updated 11:05, 13 Dec 2019
Overgrown tree/hedges problem
Closed 10:21, 25 Oct 2019, last updated 16:03, 25 Oct 2019
Fixed 09:49, 1 Oct 2019, last updated 10:15, 13 May 2020
Fixed 11:42, 27 Sep 2019, last updated 07:49, 4 Dec 2019
Light out.
Fixed 20:36, 1 Sep 2019, last updated 10:59, 10 Oct 2019
Obstruction on road/cycleway problem
Closed 09:28, 12 Aug 2019, last updated 14:46, 12 Aug 2019
1 signal light out problem
Closed 11:45, 29 Jul 2019, last updated 14:32, 5 Aug 2019
Fixed 15:36, 3 Jul 2019, last updated 09:04, 18 Jul 2019
Fixed 16:29, 13 Jun 2019, last updated 07:49, 4 Dec 2019
The street light in front of 157/159 is not working
Closed 10:24, 15 May 2019, last updated 09:38, 21 May 2019
Fixed 09:21, 13 Feb 2019, last updated 10:21, 5 Mar 2019
Street lamp infront of houses 221 and 223 not working
Fixed 21:23, 4 Feb 2019, last updated 08:55, 6 Feb 2019
Mounds of mud on cyclepath.
Closed 11:13, 30 Jan 2019, last updated 09:33, 11 Feb 2019
Closed 13:33, 21 Jan 2019, last updated 09:16, 5 Mar 2019
Pothole makes it difficult to access our drive without causing damage to our cars really deep
Closed 16:57, 8 Jan 2019, last updated 09:23, 29 Jan 2019
Street lighting at D'Aincourt Park, Branston
Lamp in front of 17 & 19 not coming on at night
Fixed 23:50, 5 Oct 2018, last updated 20:18, 31 Oct 2018
Street light cover has come off (cover is in garden behind post at entrance to drive on number 8)
Closed 14:12, 24 Sep 2018, last updated 14:44, 20 Nov 2018
Drain covers sunk into road more than 40mm
Closed 18:19, 23 Sep 2018, last updated 08:58, 28 Sep 2018
Wrong Speed Limit
Potholes near D'aincourt Park
Fixed 11:47, 24 Jan 2012, last updated 17:41, 21 Feb 2012
Fixed 21:40, 11 Nov 2020, 0.5km, last updated 15:42, 13 Oct 2021
18:16, 14 Sep 2011, 0.5km, last updated 16:30, 17 Jan 2012
Street light outside number 7 not working
Fixed 22:56, 8 Oct 2021, 0.5km, last updated 10:33, 14 Oct 2021
Flooding across the whole road and path
Fixed 19:00, 9 Jan 2020, 0.6km, last updated 14:36, 20 Feb 2020
Green phone cabinet open
Closed 11:51, 17 Aug 2019, 0.6km, last updated 14:09, 12 Aug 2021
Street lights already off at 19:30????
Closed 21:32, 19 Nov 2018, 0.6km, last updated 15:09, 22 Nov 2018
Fixed 09:33, 16 Sep 2019, 0.6km, last updated 10:07, 19 Sep 2019
Fixed 18:16, 31 May 2020, 0.6km, last updated 16:29, 8 Oct 2021
Fixed 15:41, 4 Feb 2020, 0.6km, last updated 15:29, 31 Mar 2021
Fixed 17:13, 22 Dec 2020, 0.6km, last updated 14:38, 22 Oct 2021
11:22, 14 Jul 2015, 0.6km
PN LCC streetlight not working
Very uneven road surface
15:23, 9 Jul 2021, 0.6km, last updated 10:11, 27 Jul 2021
Grass verge
Closed 18:24, 16 Jun 2021, 0.6km, last updated 08:37, 23 Jun 2021
Tall grass corner junction
Closed 13:23, 9 Aug 2021, 0.6km, last updated 13:58, 11 Aug 2021
Two large, deep potholes
Closed 15:56, 4 Feb 2021, 0.6km, last updated 15:31, 1 Mar 2021
The street lights outside number 1/3 Spruce Crescent and number 5/7 Spruce Crescent are not working.


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