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The average, annual, minimum temperature zone where Viola portalesia is cold hardy
USDA Zone:9 20° to 30°F   (-6.5° to -1°C)
Type of plant - perennial
Flower or inflorescence: pale BLUE
Height, in meters: 0.4
Height, in feet: 1.32
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Some knowledge about growing from seed is necessary to germinate even the easiest seeds. Most seeds require humidity to germinate, even desert plants like Welwitschia mirabilis require that their growing medium remains moist until germination.

Most seeds require oxygen to germinate, if buried too deep in their growing medium, or if the medium is too wet, the seeds may not get the oxygen they require.
Some seeds need to be in the light (surface sown) or in the dark (sown deep enough to receive little or no light) to germinate. A rule of thumb is to cover the seeds their own width deep in the growing medium, but some seeds prefer to be sown much deeper, and some fairly large seeds like to be surface sown (or higher).
Many seeds germinate best at certain temperatures, some will germinate at a comparatively wide range of temperatures, yet others need fluctuating temperatures.
Almost all seeds are waiting in a dormant state for some outside stimulus to break their dormancy, some just need sufficiently high ambiant humidity, others need scarification, vernalization or to be passed through the intestines of an animal.

Viola portalesia seeds will usually germinate in 14-21 days, even under good conditions germination may be erratic.
Normally germinates in the dark. Sow Viola portalesia seeds about 2mm deep in a Well drained seed sowing mix at about 22°C.

Viola portalesia seeds need to be "overwintered" before they will germinate.

Stratification; cold treatment or vernalization. Seeds of some species need just a couple of weeks, others 3 months. Seeds can be stratified in dampened peat or sand, in a plastic box or bag at 4°C or 5°C in a refrigerator. The seeds should not be frozen or in a wet medium. Very small seeds can be sown on the surface of their growing medium, in pots sealed in plastic bags, and kept in the 'fridge. Many vernalized seeds need light to germinate when they are sown in the "Spring".
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Woman shares lessons learned growing up in Dad’s business

“My dad used to carry my baby sister in a backpack while he worked on patients, when she wasn’t napping in the back room,” said Lisa Liberatore as she shared memories of growing up in her dad’s business.

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Lisa’s dad, Albert “Lib” Liberatore, was an orthodontist with an office in Brewer for 37 years before he retired in 2010. His wife, Jeanne, managed the business side of the practice. Together they raised four children.

Lisa Liberatore and her older brother, Anthony, along with younger sisters Anna and Maria, grew up in the business.

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“My dad insisted that I sell those, too,” Liberatore said. She added, “They are super popular. Dad always has good ideas.”

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Apple assesment over the past decade

Walt Mossberg, the renowned and highly respected technology columnist for the Wall St. Journal and The Verge, briefly came out of retirement to write an insightful analysis of the past decade of Apple with Tim Cook at the helm. It was a fascinating take – well balanced, knowledgeable, and perceptive, especially considering how supportive his views have been about Apple under Steve Jobs. It’s well worth reading here on The Verge.

Apple has always been of interest to those that love tech hardware such as myself, because it’s been the world leader and has raised the level of hardware design and innovation for appearance, quality and ease of use. Apple’s products in the late 90s set the standard for mechanical fit and finish that was picked up by its competitors and significantly raised the standards of the public’s expectations.

But with Jobs departure due to his illness and death, things have not gone so well and, In that context I want to add to Mossberg’s analysis and expand on several points he wrote relating to Cook’s impact on Apple’s products:

But Cook does bear the responsibility for a series of actions that screwed up the Macintosh for years. The beloved mainstream MacBook Air was ignored for five years. At the other end of the scale, the Mac Pro, the mainstay of professional audio, graphics, and video producers, was first neglected then reissued in 2013 in a way that put form so far ahead of function that it enraged its customer base.

Some insiders think Cook allowed Ive’s design team far too much power and that the balance Jobs was able to strike between the designers and the engineers was gone, at least until Ive left the company earlier this year.

The design-first culture that took root under Cook struck again with the MacBook Pro, yielding new laptops so thin their keyboards were awful and featuring USB-C ports that required sleek Macs to be used with ugly dongles. Apple has only recently retreated back to decent keyboards on the latest MacBook Pro, and it issued a much more promising Mac Pro. But dongles are still a part of the Apple experience across its product lines.

Over the past decade I’ve observed much the same, and have written about it here and on other sites. As someone that’s developed and reviewed products professionally for many decades, I’ve cringed to see so many unforced errors. Finding and criticizing was not fun, but Apple brought it on by the expectations they set, amplified by often over-the-top PR. It was the company that led the way in creating some of the best tech products in the world that so many loved. So when they faltered some were eager to criticize, while others, as myself, wanted to point out their mistakes in the hope of fixing them.

Once Cook took over, Apple made mistakes relating to its products frequent enough to wonder what was going on and what were they thinking. Some of the reasons have become more apparent in recent months as inside information leaked out.

The first product CEO Cook personally announced, Apple Maps, turned out to be a total embarrassment.  After personally praising the product as he personally introduced it, it immediately became apparent that Cook had never used the product, because most of us experienced embarrassing navigation issues. I remember how it directed me in the wrong direction to a restaurant in San Francisco, miles away from the correct location, Heads rolled as a result and Cook had to apologize.

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  • Removing useful ports from computer notebooks and phones and replacing them with dozens of optional dongles. While Apple said this was necessary because of size constraints, most of the Windows notebooks managed to be as thin and light as the new MacBooks, while retaining all of the ports.
  • Using smaller batteries than competitors use in their iPhones, making it difficult to get through the day and causing sudden shutdowns to the phone as the batteries aged. While most wanted longer battery life, Apple opted for thinness.
  • Bendgate, the situation where many iPhones began bending in the pocket because the product was so thin.
  • Replacing the well-sproven, reliable keyboard with the unreliable butterfly version to make the MacBooks a bit thinner. That led to five years of recalls and repairs and notebooks without a dependable keyboard.
  • Designing Apple MacBooks so they were impossible to repair or replace defective parts. The subassemblies were all glued together and the products became throwaways. iFixit’s repair ratings for MacBooks plummeted to a 1 out of 10, where 10 was easily repairable.

These were all decisions that were made for aesthetics and not for function. It was what became known Apple’s obsession with thinness.

As Walt noted, Jony Ive, the head of design, who worked closely with Jobs, was now untethered. He became Apple’s new product visionary and he ran wild. Cook ceded product responsibility to Ive.

The results would have been catastrophic for most companies, but Apple had so much goodwill and its products were generally so much better than competitors, that Ive’s impact was less visible for a long time, aided by Apple’s PR machine lauding every new design tweak, from the “special aluminium” to the “amazing new crown” on the watch .

Now, a decade later after this transition, the evidence is clear. Apple has squandered their advantage and has created products that have greatly diminished its leadership in the notebook arena and has saddled its iPhone users with a myriad of problems because of an obsession with thinness.

With Ive just recently departing, we’ve seen the first MacBook in five years with a reliable keyboard, the MacBook 16″. Fans are hoping it’s the harbinger of a wave of new notebooks that will solve the keyboard issue on all models.

What I remember about the last decade is that Apple entered it with the most innovative, beautiful, and well-designed products ever, and is leaving the decade with line of unreliable notebooks and underpowered phones, both just now being addressed.

In other areas Apple has had better success. It tool Apple three years to fix a lot of Watch problems, but now that it’s in its 3rd incarnation, its an excellent product with no serious competition.  Apple has also had a big success with its Earpods accessory headphones.

The next big announcement for Apple is this Spring and many are hoping for a new line of notebooks with keyboards that finally work.

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How Childcare Benefits Your Child

How Childcare Benefits Your Child

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Written by Abbie Nicholls

Childcare is something all parents spend a lot of time researching. Placing your child in the care of someone else can be a tricky transition however there are many reasons why childcare can be a great choice for your child. Daycare with a focus on the highest quality of care and education will provide you and your child with loads of great benefits.

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Children often love to express themselves when they are in a secure environment that gives them the opportunity to do so. One way to help them achieve this is exposing children to a more language-rich environment than they would otherwise have access to, which is something high-quality childcare centres are able to focus on. We develop these skills through engaging games, songs and interaction with experienced educators. Many of our beloved educators speak multiple languages and, through regular interaction and activities, are able to immerse your children in many cultures to give them an invaluable awareness of the wider community.

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Croatia: Raiffeisen Bank analysts are more cautious about GDP growth

Contrary to the central bank and government optimism for the recovery dynamics in 2021, which ranges between 8.5 and 9 percent, Raiffeisen Bank (RBA) analysts are still somewhat more cautious with the expectation that GDP growth will stop at 7 percent. .

“Our estimates are significantly lower than those of the government because we expect a slowdown in the last quarter of the year,” said RBA chief economist Zrinka Zivkovic Matijevic in presenting the latest RBA research.

She adds that the “risks” for the forecasts are on the positive side, which in the case of their realization significantly approaches those forecasts.

The summer quarter, due to a good epidemiological situation and a surprising season that brought in 8.5 billion euros in inflows (85 percent of the 2019 level), could end with a double-digit growth rate.

However, on the side of the rapidly deteriorating epidemiological situation with the end of the year approaching, the withdrawal of “parking brakes” in terms of optimism is a reflection of the uncertainty of energy and raw material prices, as well as outages. in supply chains. However, Croatia’s real economic recovery, and indeed growth throughout 2021, will remain strong, driven mainly by increased exports of services, namely tourism and personal consumption.

Next year, domestic economic growth should attract investment in the European Union (EU) money-making arms under the much-discussed National Recovery and Resistance Plan.

“From a macroeconomic point of view, investments are a desirable generator of growth,” said Zivković Matijević, explaining that the benefits of a generous injection of European Union money outweigh the availability of money itself, as their withdrawal depends on measures and reforms that. will work to reduce the weaknesses of the domestic economy in the long run, and whose contours are slowly emerging.

News of Croatia’s economic recovery and accelerating economic momentum has recently been overshadowed by inflation, which accelerated to 3.3 per cent in Croatia in September (compared to 4.1 per cent in the Eurozone), which is expected to peak there. the first. next year quarter.

“Inflationary pressures continued to intensify, mainly due to the strong rise in energy prices, thus reflecting developments in world crude oil exchanges. “Since the second half of the year, energy prices have been joined by rising food prices,” they added from the RBA.

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The Nigerian-American star reportedly suffered a heart attack during training at the Partizan stadium

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Nigerian-American basketball player, Michael Ojo has passed away after suffering a heart attack during training in Belgrade, Serbia.

The 27-year-old who previously played for Red Star Belgrade was reportedly having an individual practice at Partizan’s stadium when he collapsed on Friday, August 7.

Local media said he was rushed to the hospital from Partizan’s stadium but showed no signs of life and was confirmed dead.

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Nigerian basketball player, Michael Ojo dies at 27 after suffering a heart attack during training in Serbia

“We are deeply saddened by the news”, Red Star’s spokesperson Igor Vujicin told AFP.

The Lagos-born who was 7ft 1in tall and weighed 22st played for Florida State University in the United States, before starting his professional career in Belgrade, Serbia with FMP for a year after which he played two seasons for Crvena Zvezda.

He won the 2018 ABA SuperCup as well as the ABA League and the Serbian League in 2019. Ojo was a free agent this summer.

Ojo had been without a club since June 30 but was training with Red Star.

Red Star Belgrade released a statement mourning the shocking loss of their former star.

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His former teammates and EuroLeague also extended condolences to Ojo’s family, teammates, coaches, “and many fans who enjoyed his performances”.

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The Importance of Time

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What do you do with it that really matters?

Who do you spend it with?

It doesn’t matter what you do with your time, as long as it’s what you are intentionally choosing to do with it. So often, time is spent without even thinking about it. The thing is, once it is spent, it is gone forever. You can not get time back!

What is important to you? Are you spending your time doing just that?

Who is important to you? How much time are you spending with them? Do they know how important they are to you? In what ways do you let them know?

Look closely at the clock. It says: “We do not remember the days, we remember the moments.” This is what is important. The Moments. Make your moments count! Time is of the essence. If you spend it wisely it can pay you back in great dividends. But if you don’t, chances are you may never see any part of it again.

Remember the next time you look at a clock on a wall, or the watch on your wrist. Let it be a reminder to you that it’s your time to choose what matters to you. Start to invest more of your time in places, with people, doing things, taking in what is important to you, starting now.

If you are spending your time just the way you want and are happy with your choice, great! I’m happy for you. Leave a comment below and share with us how you use your time. It may be of support to someone else.

On the other hand, if you have invested so much of your time in what mattered to others, that you really haven’t taken the time to entertain what matters to you, but would like to, then connect with me here. Let’s delve into the possibilities together.

Until the next time, here’s to you choosing to invest in you and the time you have left here on this earth. Have a great time!

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Equifax Data Breach: Settlement Options

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In the fall of 2017, Equifax experienced a massive data breach. Approximately 147 million people were victims of this data breach. Recently a federal court has purposed a class action settlement. If you are part of this data breach, you are able to file a claim today.

Was I Part of The Equifax Data Breach?

You can check if you are part of the Equifax data breach by going to Equifax’s data breach settlement website. You will need to enter your last name and last six digits of your social security number. After entering in this information on the settlement site, it will say if you were or were not a victim of the Equifax data breach.

Can I File a Claim?

You can file a claim if you if you are a victim of the Equifax data breach. To file a claim go to the Equifax data breach settlement site mentioned above to verify your eligibility. If you were a victim, the website will take you to a screen where you can file a claim.

What are My Claim Settlement Options?

Victims of the Equifax data breach, you can select from the following options:

  • A one-time cash payment up to $125 (if you already have credit monitoring)
  • Free credit monitoring service for 10 years. Which includes $1 million in identity theft insurance, identity restoration services (for seven years), and options to add more monitoring from Equifax.
  • Exclude yourself from the Equifax settlement

You can file a claim for eligible for reimbursement for time spent recovering from this incident if you were a victim of the Equifax data breach. You can also request compensation for reimbursement for out-of-pocket expenses if you spent or lost money recovering from this incident.

Which Settlement Option Should I Pick?

A one-time cash payment of $125 sounds great, right? But the actual cash payment amount is expected to be much less. Equifax set aside $31 million for cash payouts. This means that if only 248,000 people select a cash payment, they will get the full $125. Don’t forget, there were 147 million affected by the Equifax data breach.

If you do the math and estimate 10% of the affected victims select the one-time cash payment, that is approximately $2.10 per claim. If 1 million people select the one-time cash payment, that is about $31 per claim.

Credit monitoring cost about $9 to $40 per month depending on the company you select and the credit-monitoring package. Estimating $15 a month for 10 years, this equals $1,800 – far more than a one-time cash payment of $125.

There has been a lot of publicity about the Equifax settlement. They are expecting a high rate of people filing claims. The FTC is warning victims not to expect the full one-time cash payment of $125.

What do you do if you have already selected the one-time cash payment but want to change to the credit monitoring option? You can contact Equifax to change your settlement option.

Changing Your Equifax Settlement Option

The Credit.com Editorial Team called the Settlement Administrator to find out. Settlement members can email Info@EquifaxBreachSettlement.com to change their settlement option. In the email to Equifax include the following information: your claim number, full name, and details about changing the settlement option. You only need to do this if you want to change your claim option.

Whichever selection you decide, make sure to do it before time runs out. You have until January 22, 2020 to file.

 Preventing Identity Theft

It may seem impossible to prevent your personal data, but there are steps you can take to be proactive. Here are some ideas:

  • Be mindful of what your share on social media. A data thief can find out a lot of information about a person on social media. Limit your exposure by limiting what you share and whom you share it with. Don’t give away your address, date of birth and mother’s maiden name on social media. Are you already doing this? It’s a good idea to check your security settings every so often.
  • Take outgoing mail to the post office or a collection box. When you mail your mortgage payment and put the flag up on your mailbox, it is an open invitation to thieves to come check your mailbox to see what they can find. You can put a stop payment on a stolen check but the thief now has your bank account and routing number, which is a much bigger issue. Go for online bill payments or dropping off at a secure location.
  • Keep your Wi-Fi secure. Make sure your home Wi-Fi is password protected. If you are using public Wi-Fi, be careful what information you enter and view while on a public browser as others could see this information.
  • Opt out of prescreened credit card offers. You can opt out for five years or permanently. If you go with the permanent option, you have to mail something in. The five-year option allows you to complete the request online. To opt out, go to optoutprescreen.com. This will also eliminate waste since you will not receive offers you are not interested in. Next time you are in the market for a new credit card, visit Credit.com’s Credit Card Marketplace to review top offers instead. It is a much easier way to compare various credit card offers.
  • Freeze your credit if you have been a victim of identity theft. Freezing your credit report makes it harder for a data thief to open an account in your name. You can place a fraud alert on your credit report by contacting the three credit bureaus – Experian, Equifax and TransUnion.

Final Thoughts

If you have been a victim of the Equifax data breach, or any other data breach, there are things you can to do to help prevent identity theft. Monitoring your credit report and credit scores are a very important part of preventing identity theft.

Make sure to review your personal data (bank accounts and other sensitive info), credit report and credit scores from the credit bureaus on a regular basis to help prevent identity theft. Consumers are entitled to a free credit every 12 months from AnnualCreditReport.com. You can also sign up with Credit.com to view your credit score. With Credit.com you get two credit scores every 14 days and a credit report card for free.

Sign up now.

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A few months ago, I committed a crime. Next to the chair I sit in to write, rests a little gray cube shaped ottoman. On top of the cube is a square black tray and in the tray mixed among various old napkins, a coffee cup and the TV remote controls, is a tiny little white dish.  It’s a little butter dish that I stole from an infamous restaurant in Ybor City. Other than for its outstanding food, this establishment is most well-known for hosting the criminal elite of Tampa since 1905; who individually and as a group, committed far worse crimes than my humble lift.

This harmless theft of the butter dish from the restaurant table, pales in comparison to a level of organized crime that was rampant in the late 40s and early 50s throughout Florida, especially in Ybor City. One night, in the early 1950’s, just prior to the Thanksgiving Holiday, one of the most notorious gangsters this country has ever known, knocked on the door of a little shack off a side street located within, the Cigar Capital of the World.

As the rain finished tapping on the tin roof of this humble workers home, the crime boss waited and a beautiful young lady in her 20s named Delia answered. He wanted to be sure that everything was all set for the Bolita Drawing that was to occur later that night. This was the equivalent to the modern-day numbers racket or illegal lottery of the day. Delia nodded and the gangster left her home and drifted back into the shadows. She closed the door and resumed her preparation for a fund-raiser she would be dancing at later that evening at a local club.

During the day she, like many others in her world, worked at the cigar factories. Delia was a cigar bander and would soon fall in love with one of the men she worked with, who was a cigar maker. He managed to earn a little extra in the evenings, betting on his prize rooster at the cock fights. The two cigar workers would marry, have two sons a daughter and launch a dynasty that followed them. But on this night, she had to rush out to the club where a random photograph was taken of the dancing volunteers crowded around a famous actor named Edward Horton, who also donated his time to the charitable event.

Delia stood just to the left of the famous actor and next to one of her best girlfriends. She rested her hand on the shoulder of another close friend sporting a very tiny mustache, as he sat posed in front of Mr. Horton. And this picture will be passed down through the generations along with stories of gangsters, close calls and good times in the old neighborhood. Later that night, more photographs were taken including candid shots of the dancers smoking those same cigars that they rolled and banded during the day.

Flash forward to 2013, I’m up the street from that same neighborhood, in downtown Tampa, the weekend before Thanksgiving. The shadowy figures of the past have been replaced with huge office buildings casting shadows on empty weekend parking lots  filled with vendors on a Sunday morning. I had just dropped off my daughter departing from the Tampa airport and had to kill a few hours before returning to the airport to retrieve new arriving guests flying in for the holidays.

No gangsters or famous actors here today, just the dogs unnaturally adored by their owners and the view of a wannabe famous mascot promoting the local hockey team standing in front of a strolling rubenesque woman poured into a striped dress too tight to be seen in public.

Round and round I walked, looking for thrilling reveals and spontaneous moments to capture. All I could find was even more full-figured women dressed in bright yellow t-shirts offering to squeeze large lemons into lemonade and smiling college students working their way through school by selling Whoopie Pies. I decided to move on from the dull and delicious to find adventure in downtown Tampa on a Sunday afternoon.

It was surprisingly busy up and down the side streets. Workers were caulking cracks in parking garages while others painted flag poles at great heights.

Groping for spectacular images I had to settle for strange and bizarre decals unusually mounted to the backs of cross walk signs naturally placed beyond reach. I pondered the possibility of hi-tech drug dealers and pimps marking their territory with their hi-res branded images printed on adhesive backed stickers purchased at Kinko’s copy centers.

Defeated, cold and tired I decided to take in a movie at the historic Tampa Theater. Continuing to scrape the surface of the obvious, I grabbed frozen females in need of elbow grease and young dramatic boys fixated on flutes.

Suddenly the beautiful sound of music filled the air as the stage floor opened up at this old theater pushing through an old man on an old organ. I climbed up to the balcony to get another shot from a different perspective. Soon the entertainment ended, the floor of the stage opened up again and swallowed the musician and his instrument while I settled in up there to watch the movie of the day.

Hours passed, the movie ended and the weather changed from tropical windy to dark and blustery. I left the theater in search of adventure once again and was drawn to mischievous nymphs running through crops of tilted blown fountain stalks. Playing with my camera to adjust the light and speed, another odd traveler rode their bicycle through my field of wet white weeds. It could have been the mist from the spraying sprigs or a drizzle may have started to fall, either way I was compelled to seek shelter.

Frustrated, searching and starving for image and story… I looked up to see the Florida Museum of Photographic Art in the distance. I can’t stand photo galleries. The tension between the thought of how my pictures should be on those walls and the envy toward  those people who are actually exhibiting… is excruciating and unbearable. And like a moth to the flame I’m drawn in to allow myself to be pulled by the continuous caustic conflict.

I entered the luring museum and rode the elevator up to the second floor where the gallery was located.  The elevator doors opened in front of a desk where a thin, artsy man sat, taking money and repeating the pitch about the various exhibits going on. A tall athletic man and an exotic woman stood in front of me at the desk, making their donation to enter the exhibit. I thought they were a couple till the woman proudly pointed and declared, “ You see that woman over there in the exhibit poster? That’s our mom! She’s the pretty one in the middle smoking the cigar.”

That’s when it all made sense to me. My purpose for being there at that moment. To connect time and be a part of a special story. A chain of events that ended with me being at a museum at that exact moment, behind a brother and sister. I’m now a part of tale that began long ago with a mother who banded cigars and a father who made them.

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Who knows…maybe in 60 years when I’m long gone and forgotten, this picture of a woman standing in front of a poster will show up in some creative person’s futuristic writing, telling a story about a frustrated photographer who was known for stealing butter dishes and how he wandered through the streets of Tampa long ago.

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  • Arthur Marinis

    Arthur Marinis

    Managing Director

    Arthur has spent the last 21 years establishing businesses from ideas. His passion for operational improvement and practicality in business has prompted him to become one of the leading faces of cloud computing in Australia. As CEO and Co-founder of base2Services he led the company to being the first in Australia to launch a managed AWS offering in 2006. Today, and many cloud implementations later, he is pushing the boundaries on how companies approach and manage IT in a cloud environment.
  • Aaron Walker

    Aaron Walker

    Technology Director

    Aaron has over 18 years experience working in the IT industry delivering large-scale enterprise applications and integration solutions. He is very passionate about open source technologies and has a deep and thorough technical understanding. He has contributed to several open source projects over the years and is the project lead for Jentrata, an open source B2B gateway. Aaron is all about knowledge sharing, process for teams and tools. He regularly shares his knowledge as speaker at major industry conferences including JavaOne, OSDC and OSSPAC.
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    General Manager

    Mel’s focus is to ensure the team is committed and delivers high value to all our customers. She is responsible for our customers’ satisfaction, general operations and company administration. Mel has worked within the IT industry for over fifteen years. She has extensive project and team management experience and successfully delivered and supported a variety of programs and projects in the Finance, Digital, Media, Internet and Technology industries.
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    Manager Global Sales

    A committed Customer Advocate, Wayne has worked across the range of software and consulting services and gained more than 10 years experience in cloud computing. Starting out as Info Technology Auditor, he discovered his passion for customers and change and continues to evangelise IT business alignment and governance. An avid observer of technology he is afflicted with OCVD Obsessive Customer Value Disorder so he is right at home at base2Services.
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Batchwood School: Passion Belief Courage

Careers Advice and Guidance

At Batchwood we are committed to providing the highest-quality personalised Careers Path that we can for all our students. We have adopted the findings of the Gatsby Foundation’s research into what makes outstanding school-based career guidance and are working towards ensuring that these Gatsby Benchmarks guide our Careers Curriculum as we seek to gain the Careers Quality Mark.

View our certificate that shows we are committed to work towards meeting the Quality in Careers Standard incorporating the Gatsby Benchmarks.

The Quality in Careers Standard

We firmly believe that it is our role to ensure students are informed, have opportunities to reflect, have access to a wide range of careers opportunities and are thus able to make informed choices about each step of their career. In this regard we are building on a history of successfully meeting the needs of all our students.

On a practical level we work closely with Hertfordshire Services for Young People (formerly YC Hertfordshire) to ensure we ‘tap into’ students’ interests to find the right work experience placement, college course and environment for success. We liaise with professionals, parents and, most importantly, our students to determine the next step.

Most of our students have experienced much change in their lives and as a result they struggle to cope with any change. To address this, we try to source every available opportunity to prepare them for this change. This includes multiple taster days and supported visits during which we share all the relevant information on every student’s strengths and weaknesses with our professional colleagues. We try to involve our parents in this as much as possible, so they can support the management of impending significant change.

For all students, we provide access to a dedicated careers area, situated within the school, access to personal guidance from an independent YC Hertfordshire Careers Advisor and provide students with a range of careers information and advice through the whole-school curriculum.

In addition, aiming to widen their career horizons and support their careers journey, we provide opportunities from Year 9 onwards as students make decisions about what Key Stage 4 options to take, thereby starting the process of firming up on their areas of interest and possible future education, training and career paths.

Learning Pathway

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Work Experience

All students in Year 11 engage in work experience for a week during the Spring Term.  Students have scope to seek out their own placements or select those provided by our partners, Services for Young People.  The process of finding a placement begins in the Summer Term of Year 10 when all students have a personal interview with the school Services for Young People Advisor, building on the discussions that they have had with their Form Tutor. The form Tutor helps the student to complete all the necessary paperwork for this venture and will visit the student on their placement. This is an excellent opportunity for students to engage in work, build their skills and consider their personal career pathway.

If you have any queries, would like to assist with a careers event or to share your own career journey with our students, please contact us by emailing our
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Upcoming events to watch out for:

  • Year 7 – 11 motivational Speakers
  • Year 9 – Options evening
  • Year 10 – work experience choices
  • Year 11 – Curriculum Vitae writing
  • Year 11 – Work Experience week
  • Year 11 – Further Educational College visits
  • Motivational speakers to inspire our students throughout the year
  • ABC Careers newsletter

Careers Policies

Please visit our policies page to view our Careers Policy (58) and Provider Access Policy (58a).

Education or Training Providers

Our provider access statement sets out the school’s arrangements for managing the access of education or training providers to pupils at the school for the purpose of giving them information about what the provider offers.

ABC Careers Newsletters

Compass Careers Benchmark Reports

If you attended Batchwood School, we would love you to contact us and tell us what you are now doing. We are in the process of forming an Alumni of past students whom we can draw upon to give our present students an insight into the life of work. Please contact the careers lead Mark Pearson at Batchwood School either by email or by telephone 01727 868021

Useful Websites

National Careers Service
This is the Government’s hub for careers advice for people of all ages where you can find help with drafting letters, CVs, exploring your skills or seeking careers advice

Hertfordshire Services for Young People
Services for Young People
Providing youth work projects and programmes, information, advice, guidance, work related learning, outdoor education and support for young people aged 13-19 (up to age 24 for young people with learning disabilities).

STEMNET creates opportunities to inspire young people by linking people in STEM careers with teachers and schools to enable young people to gain a clear idea of the range of careers available to them.

Local Labour Information
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Hop into Herts
HOP is the premier gateway in Hertfordshire to find out about: career path options, apprenticeships and work experience, skills development and professional qualification programmes.


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Bauman Orchards Locations

Bauman Orchards has proudly served the Northeast Ohio region, since its began in 1929, with the finest quality fruit and vegetable produce. During that time, our farm has grown in size and we have extended our presence with the development of our Scenic Ridge and Corner Market retail locations. We invite you to learn more about our company, our individual locations, and the products that we offer.


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To resist is American

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A friend of a friend recently shared that while at his city’s pride parade this year, he was told his anti-Trump shirt was “un-American.”

For the record: No.

It is a common error of reasoning, this false concept that to love one’s country means to love one’s government.

Republicans have deployed the “to criticize us is to be unpatriotic” rhetoric effectively over the years, although notably taking a timeout during Obama’s presidency. During those eight years, it suddenly became patriotic to criticize the president.

In fact, there is nothing more American than to criticize the president, and the government at large, no matter which party is currently at the helm.

Many may be feeling less than peak patriotic this Fourth of July, what with our mean-tweeting, probable Russia-colluding president sitting in the Oval Office as our angry faced leader.

But America isn’t Donald Trump. America isn’t Republican, nor Democratic, nor even Independent.

The American political system delivered us Trump, allowing for a rollback of civil rights, banning travel from Muslim majority countries, pulling out of the Paris Accords, proposing the defunding of HIV/AIDS research, and an all out attack on the free press. All of this is an assault on the very principles that give us real reason to be proud Americans.

But the American people voted against Trump, no matter how many lies he tells about millions of fake votes. And his popularity isn’t exactly growing, while at just the start of the Russia investigations.

Take pride in the growing backlash, take pride in the people gathering out in the streets, demanding we stop these attacks on our American values in the name of Trumpism.

Take pride in a history of revolution, in the civil rights movement, in the fight to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

Remember that dissidents are so often derided and smeared before being elevated and celebrated, and that there is a lot of work left.

Remember that this is still your country too, and that you can still get out in the streets, and you can still get on the phone with your elected representatives, and you can still run for office.

If you don’t like where this country is headed, you can still play a part, however small, in helping to change that course.

That is what makes America great. And we can be greater still, again.

Keep resisting. This is still your America too. Happy 4th.

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Trait frunk_core::hlist::Sculptor[][src]

pub trait Sculptor<Target, Indices> {
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    fn sculpt(self) -> (Target, Self::Remainder);
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Trait for pulling out some subset of an HList, using type inference.

This trait is part of the implementation of the inherent method HCons::sculpt. Please see that method for more information.

You only need to import this trait when working with generic HLists of unknown type. If you have an HList of known type, then list.sculpt() should “just work” even without the trait.

Associated Types

Required methods

Consumes the current HList and returns an HList with the requested shape.

Please see the inherent method for more information.

The only difference between that inherent method and this trait method is the location of the type parameters. (here, they are on the trait rather than the method)

Implementation for when the target is an empty HList (HNil)

Index type is HNil because we don’t need an index for finding HNil

Implementation for when we have a non-empty HCons target

Indices is HCons<IndexHead, IndexTail> here because the compiler is being asked to figure out the Index for Plucking the first item of type THead out of Self and the rest (IndexTail) is for the Plucker’s remainder induce.


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Please take some time to understand the following in regards to Hypnoanalysis and how it can really make a difference to you. Hypnoanalysis is one of the most successful forms of therapy available and one that can provide results you may never have thought possible. It is worth noting that if you have had hypnotherapy before this may not be the same so please don’t discard the information below if you think you know what hypnoanalysis is.

Hypnotherapy can almost be split into two parts.

1. Suggestion Therapy (if you have had hypnotherapy it will likely have been this – read on to understand why it didn’t resolve your problem!)

2. Hypnoanalysis – The Cream of therapies (If you had already had this treatment I can almost guarantee you wouldn’t be on this page looking for help with your anxiety!!)

Suggestion Therapy:

If you have had Hypnotherapy before there is a chance it will have been Suggestion Therapy. This works by placing you into a relaxed, calm, hypnotic state and given suggestions that will allow yourself to make changes to your life. These changes are perfect for one off occasions or stopping smoking. You may have it for a driving test you have coming up or a speech. This type of therapy produces excellent results for these type of issue as the suggestions are strong enough to be taken on board by the sub-conscious. The results are often short-term though so if you were to have a session for a driving test, it is best to be close to the test itself. If it’s for continuous public speaking you may find that if you have sessions before each talk you will become confident enough to do talks without therapy beforehand going forward. This type of therapy is extremely powerful and beneficial but it has its limitations with what it can work with and the how long the effects last.

Suggestion therapy can be very effective and shouldn’t be dismissed for certain situations but it will never resolve fully your underlying issues.

Hypnoanalysis is one of the single most effective form of therapy available in the world today, for the resolution of anxiety, phobias and fears. This form of hypnotherapy can TOTALLY RESOLVE the CAUSE of unconscious anxieties – leaving the sufferer free of their symptoms for life!

Hypnoanalysis usually takes 6-12 weekly sessions, lasting about an hour each.

We are going to use a much opened yard stick in the following example. It has been studied that it takes the average person around 2 years to get over the death of a loved one (please just accept this on the basis of the analogy).

The first few days/weeks/months are the hardest. The emotion experienced in the early grieving days is at is strongest. As the grieving process goes on the less and less of emotion is experienced and pain felt in the person. In the early days it can be almost impossible to even mention the person’s name without crying but fast forward a year, you can mention them with sadness but not completely overcome with emotion. People do resolve things at their own pace so this will definitely not be a one sized fit all result. But the point I am making is that people can get over the worst thing that can really happen to them ‘losing a loved one’ but eventually move on and reclaim their life. But why is it that anxieties and phobias persist for some people a life time. Why don’t we get over and move on from a fearful situation?

This resolution is a natural process where time itself doesn’t heal you but the release of emotion slowly over time does. For example every time you cry you release a small amount of emotion.

We are unable though to release an emotion of a past trauma that easily as usually we actually add to it rather than release it. The bottled up emotions that are held within us are causing us to live life in the way we are doing so and for many people this isn’t the way they want to live their lives.

This is where Hypnoanalysis comes in, the hypnotherapist is able to use one of 2 techniques to help get to the root of the problem(s) and allow the bottled emotion to be released using either Regression to Cause or Free Association.

Free association is a truly wonderful tool that allows you the client to ‘mop’ up all unresolved and ‘bottled’ up emotions. It is perfect for people that can’t put their finger on their issue or have multiple issues It is performed by placing you in hypnosis then using free association to bring up all unresolved matters you have stored up in your sub-conscious, bringing them into your conscious and then allowing you to deal with them in conscious with the ability to either reframe them yourself – as many will now seem out of date or have them reframed by the therapist. Or alternatively the emotion behind the event will be released and you will now no longer ‘care’ about that event and it will have no bearing over you anymore. Free association takes around 6-12 sessions but allows you to clear up so many more issues than the ones just presenting themselves. For most therapists this is classed as the cream of all therapies as often gets rids of the original issues as well many others as well.

Regression to cause is a similar technique to that of Free Association but it is usually only used when the client has just one issue of their life that is affecting them. You may have a fear of flying and have never presented any other issues in your day to day life. Regression to cause is a quicker form of therapy as we place you into hypnosis and then regress you back to the original issue connecting to flying. For example someone with a fear of flying might have been trapped in a cupboard as a prank gone wrong as a child. Now when they feel they can’t get off the plane they panic. Regression to cause usually takes around 3-8 sessions


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Fog in the English Channel. Continent Cut Off

 This analysis of recent developments was written and posted on Monday, May 18th, 2020

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EU’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier (Francois Lenoir, Pool Photo via AP)

Fog in the English Channel, Continent Cut Off” may or may not be an actual UK newspaper headline, but could easily sum up the remarks of the UK’s Brexit negotiator, David Frost, last Friday after another round of discussions between the EU and the UK.

“We made very little progress towards agreement on the most significant outstanding issues between us,” Frost said, adding it was “…hard to understand why the EU insists on an ideological approach which makes it more difficult to reach a mutually beneficial agreement”. Frost’s comments were repeated on a Sunday TV show by Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove who said “…there’s a philosophical difference” in the UK-EU negotiations

In reply, the EU’s chief negotiator, Michael Barnier, commented:

“This makes me believe that there is still a real lack of understanding in the United Kingdom about the objective, and sometimes mechanical, consequences of the British choice to leave the Single Market and the Customs Union.”

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Doing #Brexit in the Days of #Covid19.

Brexit is done. The United Kingdom has left the European Union. And it is always worth repeating that it was the UK’s decision to leave. It wasn’t asked to leave. Much less was it expelled. And, as elsewhere in life, leavers don’t normally get to dictate the terms of their leaving.

Brexit cannot now be cancelled, and the UK no longer has the option of remaining in the EU on current terms and conditions. The UK had no part in the negotiations over the past two weeks on the EU’s latest €500bn Covid-19 package and it will have no part in any future EU discussions on rebuilding Europe’s economies in the years ahead.

All that remains is for the EU and UK to work out the terms of the future relationship between the two. This agreement will not only need to cover the basics of trade in goods and services, but also issues as diverse as data transfers, aviation, road transport, financial services, fisheries, nuclear energy, personal and business travel arrangements, as well as potential UK participation in a wide range of EU scientific and other programs, if it wishes to do so.

While the UK has legally left the EU, the two sides have agreed a “transition year” to run until December 31, 2020. Because of this, there has been, to date, no visible impact of the UK’s exit. For the moment, there are no new custom checks and no new barriers to trade between the two. Travel between the UK and the EU, and vice versa, continues as before and UK citizens can still benefit from EU initiatives, such as the European Health Insurance Card (EIHC).

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UK’s Brexit mandate is based on 3 fictions

This blogpost was written on Saturday March 7th.

The first week of negotiations on the terms of the future relationship between the EU and the UK after the end of 2020 transition year opened this week in Brussels. The previous week both sides published their negotiating mandates. The EU mandate can be found here. The UK´s here.

Leave to one side the technicalities of tariffs, quotas, rules of origin and so on, the small stuff of trade negotiations. “Zoom out” and see the big picture. And the big picture is this: the UK is leaving the EU. The UK decided to leave. It was its decision and its decision alone. It was not pushed out or asked to leave.

All the consequences of Brexit flow from the UK´s decision.

The UK is walking away from the deal it now has, as an EU member, of frictionless trade in goods, liberalised access for the services sector, and full integration into intra-EU data flows covering individuals, businesses, and justice and security matters. The UK government has now accepted that any future deal will be worse than this, will generate border delays and frictions, will curb services access and disrupt data flows.

Business will take a hit, in some cases a very big hit (see below). But, as is it right, the current UK government has privileged sovereignty and law-making autonomy over economic and commercial considerations.

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#Brexit: Dealing with the EU (Part 2 of a series of 3 blogposts)

This Blogpost was wrtitten on Monday Sept 16th

As we wrote last week, it seems to us that if the UK was to “make Brexit work” three things were of fundamental importance.

  1. The government needed to develop a consensus in the UK about what Brexit meant, some form of widely-shared vision of what the UK outside the EU should look like.
  2. Resulting from one, negotiate a future deal with the EU that would minimise the impact of withdrawal on the UK economy and provide for a “good neighbour” relationship for the future
  3. Hope that geopolitical developments across the globe would fall favourable for a UK out of the EU, facilitating the conclusion of new trade deals which would open new export markets.

In last week’s BEERG Brexit Briefing we examined the failure of, first, Theresa May, and now Boris Johnson to attempt to build any consensus in the UK around what Brexit should mean in practice and how this lack of consensus was adversely impacting the UK’s discussions with the EU.

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#BorisJohnson goes to #Brussels – A #Brexit parody

We imagined the first formal encounter of UK PM-to-be, Boris Johnson, and the EU’s Michel Barnier:

EU Good morning Prime Minister and congratulations
Johnson Call me Boris… call me Boris. None of this formal stuff. Gets in the way. I’m not like that woman, May. Not a funny bone in her body. She was a bloody difficult woman. Said so herself.
EU I’m sorry Prime Minister. But we here in the EU are a formal organisation. We have to follow the rules. So, Prime Minister it will have to be.
Johnson If you must, you must. Don’t mind if I call you Barny?
EU I would prefer Monsieur Barnier, if you please. We should say that we are aware that over many years you never had anything positive to say about the EU. We have a file of your articles to hand here if you would like us to quote.
Johnson Have it your own way. You frogs were always very formal. I’m only surprised you are not wearing a striped tee-shirt. Ha, ha.

As for those articles, out of context. Just fun. Having a laugh. Even the Telegraph says you can’t take anything I write seriously. I was just ahead of the game with “alternative facts”. Trump told me he learned a lot from me. He also told me to come in here and break up the place. That’s the way to negotiate. Ha, ha.

EU Prime Minister, we understand you wish to discuss Brexit with us. You do realise that the Withdrawal Agreement, as agreed with Mrs. May, is closed and cannot be reopened?
Johnson That agreement has been rejected three times by the House of Commons and won’t fly. Dead as a Monty Python parrot.

We must disaggregate it and keep the good bits, get rid of the bad. The backstop thing. We can do a deal. Wrap this up during the afternoon over a cup of tea. Liam Fox told me it could be done. Just needed a bit of bulldog spirit.

EU That is not going to be possible. The WA is closed. We will not reopen it or disaggregate it. However, we can certainly discuss the Political Declaration on the future relationship if you see the future differently from Mrs May.
Johnson Come on chaps. Don’t be unreasonable. We can sign off on citizens’ rights and all that. I was terribly upset when Lord Lawson had to leave his chateau in France. I want to see him go back to enjoy his sunset years in bucolic splendour among the vines. In vino veritas and all that. Latin, great language.
EU We are sorry. The WA will not be reopened. There can be no separate deal on citizens’ rights. Of course, we want to see those rights protected in the context of an orderly UK withdrawal from the EU and protected by the European Court as provided for in the WA. But we are not going to do “mini-deals”.
Johnson But I am also prepared to pay the £39bn, hand over the moolah. I’ll sign the cheque here and now. Could someone pass me the UK chequebook and a pen? I’ll make it out to cash if that helps. You can bring it to the Bank of England and they’ll hand over the cash, no questions asked. But hey, if we can’t do a deal I can’t sign the cheque. No moolah, a big hole in your budget.
EU Prime Minister, I think you misunderstand. The £39bn is not a one-off payment. It falls due over many years. Some of it goes to pay the pensions of British citizens who have worked here in the EU. As we see it, the UK has a legal obligation to pay it. If you are not prepared to pay it, then these discussions must come to an end. We might add that if we don’t have a deal then the tariffs that will be imposed on UK goods will go a long way to covering the loss of the €39bn. And, no, we don’t take cash.
Johnson But Moggy says we don’t owe the money. He has a report that was drawn up by the House of Lords which says we don’t. He says you claiming we do is just a pile of piffle on stilts. You are trying it on. You can’t get much clearer than the House of Lords
EU Prime Minister, we have a report prepared by our legal experts which says you do. We’ll take the advice of our experts over the report of the Lords. You have an duty to meet the obligations you committed to. If you don’t meet those obligations then we can go no further. May we remind you the UK is leaving the EU. We just want you to settle your bills before you go. We didn’t ask you to leave.
Johnson What’s this tariff stuff? If we have no deal we’ll be trading with you under the GATT XXIV, whatever you call it 10-year thingy. No tariffs. So you won’t be collecting any tariffs. Hadn’t thought of that, had you?
EU We think you misunderstand GATT XXIV. That only applies if two parties have agreed to negotiate a trade deal. The clue is in the word “agreed”. No agreement, no GATT XXIV, and tariffs apply.
Johnson But we have agreed to negotiate a trade agreement. It is in the Political Declaration. Now, I don’t like what May had suggested. I want one of those super-duper Canada Dry+++ deals. Preferably with gin or vodka, ha, ha.

So, the GATT thingy applies.

EU You are quite right Prime Minister. We have committed in the PD to negotiate a trade deal. But the PD comes with the WA. You can’t have one without the other. No WA, no PD. No PD no trade negotiations. No trade negotiations, tariffs apply.
Johnson Can we not agree that if we don’t have the WA we can just go straight into the transition and negotiate a trade deal and apply the GATT thingy while we are doing that. We can also sort out the Irish during the transition. As the Saj suggested, we’ll just spaff them some cash to buy some computers and iPads. They can play FIFA 2020 on them. Keep them busy. Money makes the world go around, that happy clicking sound. Always did it for me as a journo.
EU Prime Minister, again you misunderstand. If there is no WA, there is no transition. The UK leaves the EU with no agreement and no agreement means no transition. You become a third country from the minute you leave. Without a trade deal. As you might put it yourself: crash, bang, wallop.
Johnson But lot of pre-Brexit experts have told me that we can skip the WA and go into a GATT XXIV transition which would be the same as your transition only we don’t have to pay and there would be no backstop. Unlike Govey, I have a lot of respect for experts. They even gave me a plan written by that very clever Singy chap.  Brexit, From Here to Eternity, I think it is called. Top notch.
EU Prime Minister. We think there are some misunderstandings here. No WA, no transition of any sort. The transition that the UK government asked for, and that we agreed to, would see the UK leave the EU on the basis of the WA. Then, for two years, maybe four, nothing would change and the UK would continue as if it were an EU member but with no Commissioner, no MEPs and no judge in the European Court. During this transition we could negotiate future arrangements.
Johnson Cripes, does Farage know he won’t be an MEP? Nadine Dorries said she thought it was unfair that we won’t have any MEPs after Brexit. Anything you could do about that? If we have a transition could you not keep them for a few more years? You’d hardly notice them about the place. Farage only ever turns up to collect his expenses and make YouTube speeches.
EU To continue. If, in the absence of a WA, we were to agree to negotiate a trade agreement, which we won’t, and GATT 24 applied, then it would only cover trade in goods. Services would be excluded. Services exports to the EU account for 50% of all UK service exports. Data flows to the UK from the EU would be cut off as you would be outside the scope of the GDPR. Oh, and UK phone companies would e free to apply roaming charges.
Johnson But the ERG says we could do mini-deals on all of these things. Easy-peasy. But look, the only thing standing in the way of a deal is this backstop thing. Now, I tried to talk to the Irish but they wouldn’t talk to me and told me I had to talk to you. I don’t understand them. After all, they are part of the British Isles and we should be able to sort out these things domestically, between us. I’d even let them back into the Commonwealth.
EU Prime Minister, Ireland is a sovereign country, a member of the EU. In the EU we work as a team. Strength in numbers. And we are committed to protecting the vital interests of Ireland, which are also the vital interests of the EU.

The backstop is part of the WA. It underwrites the Good Friday Agreement. It also protects the integrity of our single market. No substandard Chinese good, for example, coming in through the backdoor. Need we remind you that the people of NI voted 56% to 44% to remain in the EU and that two of its three MEPs are pro-remain. And the border issue is about much more than trade, as is North-South cooperation.

And no, no mini-deals.

Johnson Yes, I know all that. But if we have the backstop we won’t be able to negotiate trade deals on our own. And if we can’t negotiate trade deals what is little Liam Fox to do? His heart will be broken. Can you not agree that the backstop will only last five years and will then be replaced by alternative arrangements? Whatever they are. We could agree to work hard together to discover them. With something like that I could go back to the Commons. The “Boris Breakthrough” we could call it.
EU We can certainly work together to discover alternative arrangements. That is already in the WA/PD. But what if such arrangements cannot be found? That’s why we have the backstop. And alternative arrangements alone won’t solve the border issue.

And may we remind you that we originally proposed that the backstop only apply to Northern Ireland. It was the UK government that asked us to apply it to the whole of the UK. We reluctantly agreed. The backstop stays.

Johnson No deal it is then. No payment and no backstop. Can we agree to immediately open negotiations on a trade deal after we leave?
EU Certainly. We can begin preparations today. But we will only open such negotiations after we have reached an agreement on your outstanding financial obligations, citizens’ rights and the backstop. We can call it an “exit package” as opposed to a Withdrawal Agreement if that helps. And, of course, there will be no transition. May we ask if there is now a majority in the Commons for no-deal”
Johnson GATT XXIV?
EU Certainly. After you have fixed your bills….
Johnson You said we asked for the backstop to be extended to the whole of the UK? Yes? What if we changed our minds and agreed that the backstop only applied to NI?
EU That would not be a problem for us. We would not regard that as reopening the WA but as the UK withdrawing a request.
Johnson So, I could go home and say that I had gotten rid of the backstop and that we are free to negotiate our own trade deals but that we will have to make special provisions for NI, which most people in NI want anyway, that we have agreed that there is no one-off payment of £39bn, the money is phased, citizens’ rights are guaranteed and we get a transition to negotiate a super-duper Canada+++ trade agreement.

So, it’s the “Boris Breakthrough” or a general election as the Commons won’t agree to no-deal. And a general election could mean I would no longer be Prime Minister. Something I am entitled to be.

Fox was right. We could sort it out over tea in an afternoon.

EU Yes, Prime Minister

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The #Brexit #WithdrawalAgreement negotiation – Could Anyone Else Have Done Better?

This Blog was written on Sun, Dec 2nd 2018

Commons Vote

At the time of writing the Commons vote on the EU/UK Withdrawal Agreement looks like it will result in a very heavy defeat for Prime Minister Theresa May.

Depending on which pundit you heed, anywhere between 65 and 90 Conservative MPs are expected to vote against the WA. When you add the government-supporting DUP, as well as all the opposition parties. the majority against could be up to 200 votes. For the moment there is little point in speculating as to what happens next. Quite simply, no one knows.

So, when Michael Barnier, Donald Tusk and Jean-Claude Juncker on the EU side, and Theresa May on the UK side, say that the Withdrawal Agreement, and the accompanying Political Declaration, is the only deal available and that the choice facing the UK Parliament is the deal on the table, no deal, or remain in the EU, are they right?

I believe they are. That is indeed the choice MPs are faced with. Of course, the choice can be passed by parliament to the people in a second referendum, but it will still be the same choice: deal, no deal or remain.

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A Bad Week for Theresa May on #Brexit in #Salzburg

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Pic: Getty Images via BBC website

This blog was written on Sept 21st, 2018

In our Brexit Briefing last Tuesday (here) I wrote:

“So, how will Brexit end up?”, they ask. My answer is that I have no idea. I have been following Brexit developments in detail over the past two years and have written some 60 or so of these Briefings. Yet, I have absolutely no idea of what is going to happen between now and March 29th next year. Quite frankly, neither does anyone else.

What happened yesterday in Salzburg, when the EU brutally said that Mrs. May’s Chequers plan was unacceptable and would not work underscores the truth of this statement.

In the run-up to Salzburg it had been widely reported, especially in the UK press, that Mrs. May would use the occasion to appeal to the EU’s political leaders to go over the head of the “Brussels theologians” and show more flexibility in accommodating UK demands to be both in and out of the EU’s single market and customs union at the same time. “In” so as to ensure continued frictionless trade in goods between the UK and the EU so preserving the UK as the European off-shore manufacturing base for US, Japanese and, in the future, Chinese companies.

“Out” for services allowing the UK to cut buccaneering trade deals, with which a swath of UK politicians have an ideological obsession, with non-EU countries.

(For the arguments on why this approach was never going to work see this excellent article by former Irish ambassador, Bobby McDonagh: here)

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Chucking Chequers and #Brexit… there are just too many ‘unknown unknowns’ in play

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Michael Gove with Andrew Marr (Photo via Jeff Overs/BBC/PA Wire)

I took the last week off to spend a few days outside Chatal, on the west coast of France. But even there, there was no escaping Brexit.

It is important to understand that Europeans are not obsessed with Brexit in the same way as people are in the UK. Talking to people in France, Belgium or Spain over the past few months leaves you with the impression that most people think the UK is “nuts” or “mad” to leave the EU. But they also believe that the UK never really wanted to be part of “Europe” in the first place, so, goodbye to them.

Nevertheless, quite often when people in France, Belgium or Spain hear you speak English they ask you “What do you think of Brexit?” My first response is to tell them that I am Irish, not English.

It’s amazing the difference that little sentence makes. Any suggestion of hostility immediately disappears as they begin to tell you about a fishing trip they once took on the Shannon or their cycling tour of Connemara.  When they were much younger, of course.

“So, how will Brexit end up?”, they ask. My answer is that I have no idea. I have been following Brexit developments in detail over the past two years and have written some 60 or so of these Briefings. Yet, I have absolutely no idea of what is going to happen between now and March 29th next year. Quite frankly, neither does anyone else.

There are just too many “unknown unknowns” in play, political molecules bouncing around, crashing into one another, producing unintended effects.

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PM May middling on #Brexit: Mogg-ists to the Right of Her, Boles-ists to the Left

This Brexit Blog was written on Sept 3rd, 2018

Mogg May Boles

After another week of negotiations between the EU and the UK we are no further along. If anything, things have gone backwards. To coin a phrase, we are in for a long, hot winter.

As we wrote in last week’s BEERG Brexit Briefing, the real issue for the immediate future remains the “politics of hard numbers” in the UK House of Commons. Of course, the UK government and the EU are working to finalise the Withdrawal Agreement by the end of this year at the latest, the October deadline having slipped, however, as any decent trade union negotiator will tell you, there is not much point in coming back with an agreement if the members are in no mind to accept it.

Sometimes the mood is just ugly and it can take a strike to break the logjam.

If the 60, or so, Conservative Party, Moggite, “vote against anything”, ultra-Brexiteers oppose whatever Withdrawal Agreement Prime Minister Theresa May reaches with the EU then she simply doesn’t have the votes to get it through the Commons.

The Moggists are now campaigning under the rubric “Chuck Chequers” the plan on which May still places all her Brexit bets, even after the EU has said no.

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Six Specific #Brexit Thoughts on a Summer’s Day

This blog was written on Monday July 30th.

cropped-raab-1.jpgIt was a Brexit week in which not much happened, except for the small matter of the EU’s chief negotiator, Michael Barnier, telling the new UK Brexit Secretary, Dominic Raab, that a key proposition in Theresa May’s Chequers plan would never be accepted by the EU.

You know the proposition, I’m referring to. The one where the UK says to the EU we’re leaving because we never liked you and you are holding us back; we are setting up as a rival business and we are going to do our own deals with the people you already have deals with or are doing deals with. But would it be OK if we collected monies owed to you by these guys? We promise, we’ll be honest and pass it on to you. All of it, every euro.

To nobody’s surprise, Barnier politely declined the UK’s offer. The UK is now working on plan E or F, not sure which.

I started writing about Brexit a year or so ago in response to questions I was being asked by the multinational companies we deal with. I have learnt a lot in that time, not just about Brexit but about British politics and about the EU, and about the almost complete lack of understanding of the EU, what drives it and how it works, on the part of the UK political class and commentariat.

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