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Mick Ireland is a lawyer (University of Colorado Law School, class of 1988), a diehard cyclist (he has biked from Aspen to meetings in Denver and Meeker), a clueless dresser (bicycle tights are standard attire for his daily rounds), a self-described “geeky intellectual,” and an uncle who takes the role seriously, exerting significant influence on a niece and nephew who were raised here.
Ireland is also Aspen’s most recognizable political brand. He concludes his third term—the maximum allowed—as mayor this spring, and he has been through ten local elections, all victories. At the same time, he is town’s most polarizing politician. Being anti-Mick has become practically a cottage industry. Two of his ballot appearances were in recall efforts against him; a recent campaign season was marked by “Sick of Mick” bumper stickers.
The role in which he excels most, though, might be as a numbers guy. Fellow politicians—both supporters and foes—marvel at Ireland’s grasp of campaign demographics, and he is occasionally hired to track voter databases, neighborhood by neighborhood, by others running for office. In 2006, when Snowmass Villager Gail Schwartz ran for Colorado Senate, a TV station called the race for her opponent. Ireland insisted otherwise—by his tally, which included districts that were late in turning in votes, Schwartz was going to win. The next morning, she had been elected, with 51 percent of the vote.
The number that has most motivated Ireland’s twenty-year political career is 200. That represents, by his count, the population of a 1.6-square-mile patch of the Vail Valley, along I-70, marked by the most popular ski mountains in the U.S., a mass of condos, and few actual residents. Over three terms as a Pitkin County commissioner and three as Aspen’s mayor, Ireland has made it his mission to steer Aspen clear of that fate. In doing so, he has carried on a populist local political legacy that dates back to the late ’60s: putting community preservation above a development-oriented expansion of the resort.
In the ’90s, as county commissioner, he fought for rural and remote zoning, which significantly limited development rights in backcountry and outlying areas. (That contentious battle led directly to the two recall efforts.) Ireland helped turn the local bus service into a regional transit agency, an effort that had him lobbying at the state level and eventually winning the support of a Republican-controlled legislature. On environmental principles, he pushed hard for building a hydroelectric plant on Castle Creek. Last year, voters rejected the proposal.
But surely the most bedrock piece of Ireland’s platform has been affordable housing—providing locals a chance to live in or near the town where they work. When he took office, the housing program included approximately 1,100 units. In the twenty years since, Aspen and Pitkin County combined have added approximately 1,700 more, either built, subsidized, or mandated by government.
“[Aspen’s] vitality is based on the fact that we’ve maintained artists, cops, journalists, ski patrollers in affordable housing. If not for affordable housing, we’d be just like Vail, which is basically empty,” says Ireland, who himself lives in a one-bedroom townhouse in the Common Ground affordable housing project. As proof, he points to Aspen’s West End neighborhood, which has virtually no subsidized worker housing. “The West End has gone dark—it’s lost population for three consecutive censuses. Without affordable housing we’d be done.”
The relentless advocacy for worker housing—and in Aspen “worker” is as likely to mean a master sommelier or a CPA as it is a ski lift operator—has crystallized a debate that has proved ongoing, between Ireland, in favor of an activist government, on one side, and free-marketeers on the other. Among the heated skirmishes in Ireland’s career was one in 2008 over the ballooning cost of Burlingame, a ninety-one-unit project (with a second phase in progress that will add 167 units) built by the city.
The housing concept has spread downvalley, and Ireland has often consulted with other resort towns, including Sun Valley, Asheville, NC, and Vail, that aim to emulate Aspen’s model. “We’ve changed the way we think about what a resort can and should do,” Ireland says. “And it’s working—people pay more to come here than to ski the same snow in other places. That’s not a marketing paradigm; that’s more because of the locals. We have something spiritually and culturally that you don’t find in other resorts.”
Helping Aspen maintain a diverse population, where ski bums and billionaires often do mingle, has meant sacrifices for Ireland: financial opportunities, social life. His detractors would add social skills to that list. “He’s rude. No question in my mind,” says Helen Klanderud, who was elected to three terms as mayor prior to Ireland. Klanderud’s would be among the milder critiques. Those on the receiving end of tongue-lashings at public meetings would say that Ireland’s reputation for being abrasive and dismissive has been well earned.
Ireland—sixty-three, never married, not a mover in Aspen’s upper social circles—considers the interpersonal friction to be the side effects of a greater purpose. “This is like a calling,” he says. “Like someone who climbs Mount Everest—because you can, because you have the skill and equipment. I can do this. I know politics. I can make this a better place. You’re the guy walking along the dike, and your thumb is big enough—you do it. It’s important.”
Ireland’s family owned Ireland’s Oyster House, Inc., a Chicago restaurant successful enough to provide a house in the affluent suburb of Mt. Prospect—“whiter than Aspen,” Ireland says—and private schooling, on occasion, for Mick and some of his seven siblings. But in the late ’60s, a relocation of the restaurant went disastrously bad and the family adjusted dramatically downward. Ireland, paying his own way through college, began as a psychology major at Marquette, a private university, but transferred to the University of Illinois, a state school. Unable to afford the typical four-year college route, he mixed college with work. It took eleven years before he graduated.
Ireland’s interest in politics, though, and his specific political leanings, had already taken shape years earlier. In 1956, his mother was transfixed by John F. Kennedy’s bid for vice president and devoutly followed the Democratic National Convention. Six-year-old Mick became infected.
“When Kennedy came back, in 1960”—to run for president—“I was totally clued in. My best friend would bring in Nixon material and argue with me about Kennedy missing a subcommittee meeting on Africa,” he says. Ireland related especially well to Kennedy’s outsider status: “A Catholic becoming president? I was in Catholic school, and Catholics were like Hispanics: ‘Too many children.’ ‘We’ll never hire you.’”
By the time Ireland came along, Ireland’s Oyster House was no longer the hip hangout for black jazz musicians it had been in the 1930s. Still, the time Ireland spent there, through the 1950s and into the ’70s, sharpened his outsider’s perspective. “Dad decided black people could come in, sit wherever they wanted. That was controversial. In my grandfather’s day they sat in back,” he says. “The staff had black guys, white guys from the South, who couldn’t read or write. I’d have to write down their orders.”
Ireland frequently dropped out of college to work—in the restaurant, in a lumber mill, at newspapers. Often the breaks were more about the adventure than the job. “Kerouac shit, you know,” he says. Ireland was a journalist in Alaska, where he made a contact who later fed him stories about the wild goings-on around the construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline. He worked for George McGovern’s 1972 presidential bid, hitchhiking across the country to pick up bumper stickers. Impressed, the campaign offered Ireland a plane ticket back to Chicago. He turned the ticket down, and thumbed home.
In 1968, the Marquette Avalanche Ski Club organized a trip to Aspen. Unable to afford the $15 bus fare, Ireland hitchhiked. He wasn’t much of a skier but loved the thrill of the mountains and the fact that he was willing to launch off catwalks that scared his friends away. He came back for the winter of 1970–71 to work at the Dormez-Vous, a $6-a-night lodge with four beds to a room.
On January 9, 1979, having finally graduated, Ireland headed to Colorado for good. After giving Keystone a brief trial, he came to Aspen and took a dishwasher job at the Mother Lode. He would also drive a bus and get involved in a grassroots effort to raise funds, through a local ballot measure, to qualify for a federal mass-transportation grant. The measure passed, and the transit agency received $6 million from Washington to build a bus barn. The campaign was opposed by what Ireland calls, “the Ayn Rand crowd, who said we shouldn’t do it.”
A year after moving to town, Ireland began covering the courts beat for the Aspen Times. “This was back when many of our prominent citizens had less orthodox ways of accumulating capital,” he says, referring to the drug dealers he wrote about. “There were serious concerns about my personal safety.”
Covering drug cases was a further test of Ireland’s willingness to take sides against powerful groups in Aspen. It also led him to believe the lawyers representing the dealers were no smarter than he was. In 1985, Ireland started law school at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he focused on tax law. His studies coincided with the Tax Reform Act of 1986, which changed the tax consequences regarding second homes. The effect in Aspen was immediate. Ireland says property values doubled over ninety days, and the social effects were as drastic as the economic ones.
“I saw what I had studied manifesting in front of my eyes,” he says. “In the early ’80s, people would rent rooms in the West End. Because of the tax changes, owners no longer needed to rent. The work force that lived here dropped noticeably.”
In 1988, while working as an associate at a law firm, Ireland wrote an opinion piece for the Aspen Times. “Tax and Build or Say Goodbye” stated the core of his progressive beliefs. It went against the rightward movements of the Reagan years, but Ireland argued that for Aspen to maintain itself as a community, government had to build much more affordable housing. Later, in office, he would help institute a tax to fund Pitkin County’s Department of Health and Human Services.
“That political strategy—‘I want you to vote for me, and I want to raise your taxes’—was not widely emulated,” says Ireland, who entered public office in 1993, when he was appointed to fill a vacancy on the Pitkin County board of commissioners. (He was then elected to serve three subsequent full four-year terms.) “But you can’t have community unless there are shared burdens. People have lost this notion of public investment, as if things like RFTA [the valley-wide bus system] and affordable housing would exist without the public sector.”
Pursuing his agenda with conviction has meant alienating a significant portion, or at least a vocal portion, of the public. Yet Ireland has been elected every time he has run for office. Should he extend his political career with a city council bid this spring—a prospect he is considering, and one that instantly activated the anti-Mick faction—he would likely be the front-runner.
“I think he represents the desire to control growth and protect the environment,” says Rachel Richards, a current Pitkin County commissioner and a former Aspen mayor and city councilperson whose political aims have been essentially aligned with Ireland’s. “Even people in development, they respect the idea that there’s a golden goose that could be killed if there are real changes in the character and scale of Aspen. Mick always represents a backstop to that and the idea that restaurant workers, journalists, and ski patrollers are as important to the community as a second-home owner.”
But Aspenites have also been partial to Helen Klanderud, whose own three terms as mayor were marked by a more business-friendly approach. While she commends Ireland’s commitment to affordable housing and expresses awe at his campaigning skills, she believes Ireland’s vision rejects even a healthy rate of growth.
“There’s a lot of ‘no’ going on—‘no’ this, ‘no’ that—and I’m not sure that’s good for the community,” says the more socially outgoing and popular Klanderud. “I don’t think you can put the lid on so tight. If you don’t grow at all, that’s stunted.” Klanderud points to the proposal to develop the base of Aspen Mountain near Lift 1A, a generally overlooked neighborhood, with a big hotel and other attractions. That proposal has been stalled before city council for years, and Klanderud faults the government for not being more receptive. “Clearly, lodging should go at the base of the mountain. That’s a true missed opportunity for this community.”
But in Aspen, where the financial stakes are extreme and vast resources are thrown behind development proposals, voters have viewed someone like Ireland—the guy who is willing to say “no” and take the consequences—as a necessity. Ireland believes it is this mayor-as-roadblock dynamic that feeds the perception of his being abrupt. For a wealthy landowner seeking permission to build a dream mansion, simply having the application denied can seem like rudeness.
“They’re not used to being told, ‘No.’ And they’re not used to hearing it from a mere country lawyer, a dishwasher,” Ireland says. “I’ve had people stand up in a meeting and say, ‘My maid doesn’t expect to live in the same city I do. Why should you expect your maid to live in the city you do?’ Well, I was the maid.”
Despite the disconnect between the glitz of Aspen and the shabbiness of its mayor, Ireland believes he represents something close to the heart of town. “I’m not at all glamorous,” he says. “But people are surprised that the town itself is not as glamorous as the media would have it. They come in to write about the number of jets, the Charlie Sheen trial. But you get here and see so much more of a real-town flavor.”
Ireland is unglamorous by inclination. He would rather bike or ski or work than dress up for a benefit. Neither a glad-hander nor an arts lover, he is seldom seen at the sort of functions one might expect a mayor to attend. When he does appear at such events, he doesn’t necessarily behave as expected. Last summer, at the opening convocation for the Aspen Music Festival and School, he had several hundred out-of-town youngsters laughing—and stunned—as he warned them not to smoke pot in the woods, because of fire danger. Nobody would care, Ireland told them, if their marijuana was medical and legal.
But Ireland also believes that the way he has led his political life—pursuing firm, sometimes controversial convictions with passion—has made him socially “radioactive” and excluded from the glitzy sides of Aspen. “People don’t want you at social functions where a certain percentage of the attendees are angry at you, against you. I’ve had people say, ‘I can’t be involved with you because of the political baggage.’”
Consequently, much of his life has a real-town flavor to it, or at least Aspen’s version of real-town existence. Among his favorite ways of advocating for the town is to meet tourists on a chairlift, then give them a local’s view of the ski mountains. “That’s an important part of their experience. They might be a CEO, but they get the vicarious fantasy of their life revolving around how much powder we get,” he says.
Away from politics and recreation, much of Ireland’s life revolves around family. At one point he had three siblings living in the area. His sister Molly, a thirty-year Aspen resident who has worked at the Pitkin County Library for two decades, is still here and functions as something of an anchor for her brother. She notes that her two children, now young adults, were often given ethical guidance by Ireland, an input she welcomed.
Mostly, though, Ireland has sacrificed his private life, allowing the political life to consume him. He says his prominence as a politician has been the result not of his grasp of demographics, not of cozying up to the right segments of society, and certainly not of a warm and proper personality, but of making himself and his views widely known. More than anything, Ireland is an old-school politician who has put in the time knocking on doors, passing out fliers, and speaking—loudly, single-mindedly at times, with conviction always—about the issues he believes matter to the Aspen community.
“I’ve probably talked to more people face to face in campaigns than anyone who’s run here,” he says. “There are more popular people—Bob Braudis,” who was Pitkin County sheriff for twenty-four years. “But I talked to people about myself, school tax, open space tax. Odds are better than even, if you’ve lived here, you’ve seen me at your door.”


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Just so everybody knows, I finished the last Harry Potter book on Friday. Let's just say that it was real good. That's all I'm going to say so I don't ruin the ending for the rest of you.
Now, I'm trying to become a guitar hero expert. I have six songs left.
Obviously, studying for the CPA exam has dropped on my priorty list.

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Electric cars have been at the forefront of technological advancements in the automotive industry for the past few years.
It’s critical to mention the progress being made in infrastructure development, which is keeping pace with electric vehicle technology. For instance, the growth of commercial EV charging stations in Colorado Springs demonstrates the concerted efforts in not just advancing electric vehicle technology but also in improving their feasibility for daily use. The increased accessibility and convenience of these charging stations not only benefit EV owners but also play a key role in encouraging more consumers to consider electric vehicles. Thus, infrastructure development becomes an integral part of the narrative around the intersection of electric cars and cutting-edge tech.
However, it’s not just about the electric drivetrains and batteries that make these vehicles unique. Electric cars have been increasingly integrating cutting-edge tech features that enhance the driving experience, and provide added convenience and safety to drivers and passengers alike. If you are interested in buying one consider electric cars for sale in san diego.
In this article, we will explore the intersection of electric cars and cutting-edge tech, with a special focus on the Polestar 2.
Polestar 2: An Electric Car with Cutting-Edge Tech
The Polestar 2 is an all-electric car that’s known for its sleek design and impressive performance. However, it’s not just the car’s electric powertrain that makes it stand out. The Polestar 2 is packed with cutting-edge tech features that enhance the driving experience, provide added convenience, and improve safety.
Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS)
One of the most notable features of the Polestar 2 is its Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS). This system includes a range of safety features, such as adaptive cruise control, lane departure warning, and collision avoidance. The ADAS system utilises a combination of sensors, cameras, and radar to detect potential hazards on the road and alert the driver to take corrective action. If the driver fails to respond, the system can take control of the vehicle to avoid a collision.
Google Infotainment System
The Polestar 2 is also one of the first cars to feature a built-in Google Infotainment System. This system is designed to provide drivers with a seamless and intuitive driving experience. The system includes a large 11-inch touchscreen display, which can be used to access a range of features, including navigation, music, and phone calls. The system is also voice-activated, allowing drivers to control various functions using voice commands.
Another cutting-edge tech feature of the Polestar 2 is its ability to receive over-the-air updates. This means that the car’s software can be updated remotely, without the need for a visit to the dealership. This allows Polestar to continuously improve the car’s features and capabilities, providing drivers with the latest technology and enhancements.
Regenerative braking is a feature that is becoming increasingly common in electric cars. This feature allows the car to recapture energy that would otherwise be lost during braking, and use it to recharge the battery. The Polestar 2 takes this technology a step further by allowing drivers to control the level of regenerative braking through the car’s infotainment system. This provides drivers with a more personalised driving experience, and can also help to extend the car’s range.
While fully autonomous cars are still in the testing phase, many electric cars, including the Polestar 2, are equipped with semi-autonomous driving features. These features include lane-keeping assist, adaptive cruise control, and automated parking. While these features are not intended to replace human drivers, they can help to reduce driver fatigue and improve safety on the road.
The Future of Electric Cars and Cutting-Edge Tech
The Polestar 2 is just one example of how electric cars are integrating cutting-edge tech features to enhance the driving experience. As technology continues to evolve, we can expect to see even more advanced features in future electric cars. From augmented reality displays to advanced artificial intelligence systems, the possibilities are endless.
Electric cars are not just changing the way we drive; they’re also changing the way we think about cars. With cutting-edge tech features such as the ones found in the Polestar 2, electric cars are becoming more than just a mode of transportation. They’re becoming a platform for innovation and a window into the future of mobility. As we continue to push the boundaries of technology, we can expect to see more integration of advanced tech features in electric cars, making them more efficient, convenient, and safe for drivers and passengers alike.
The Polestar 2 is a prime example of how electric cars are becoming more than just a means of transportation. Its advanced tech features, such as the Google Infotainment System, ADAS, over-the-air updates, and regenerative braking, provide drivers with a personalised and innovative driving experience. The semi-autonomous driving features also make driving safer and more comfortable, reducing driver fatigue and improving road safety.
As we move towards a more sustainable future, electric cars will continue to play a crucial role in reducing emissions and combating climate change. The integration of cutting-edge tech features in these vehicles will only accelerate the transition towards a cleaner and more sustainable transportation system. The future of electric cars and cutting-edge tech is bright, and we can’t wait to see what’s in store for us in the years to come.
In conclusion, the intersection of electric cars and cutting-edge tech is where innovation and sustainability meet. The Polestar 2 is just one example of how electric cars are leading the charge towards a cleaner, safer, and more efficient transportation system. As technology continues to advance, we can expect to see even more exciting developments in the field of electric cars, making them the vehicles of choice for the future.You may also like:
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Premarital s*x would be punishable by up to a year in jail under a new criminal code that the Indonesian Parliament is expected to approve, according to local media sources, IgbereTV reports
In the upcoming days, the Parliament is expected to pass the Draft Criminal Code (RKUHP).
“Anyone who has intercourse with someone who is not their husband or wife shall be punished for adultery with a maximum imprisonment of 1 (one) year or a maximum fine of category II,” reads article 413, paragraph 1.
However, if the spouse of the adulterer or the parents of their unmarried children file a complaint, the law will go into effect.
Furthermore, according to Article 144, complaints may be withdrawn before the trial court’s examination even starts.
Prior versions of the code were meant to be passed three years ago, but they were met with widespread opposition as tens of thousands of people took to the streets to demonstrate against the legislation, which they claimed would have restricted their freedom of speech.
“We’re proud to have a criminal code that’s in line with Indonesian values,” Indonesia’s deputy justice minister, Edward Omar Sharif Hiariej, was quoted by Reuters as saying
Cohabitation before marriage is also prohibited, according to Reuters, along with insulting the president or state institutions and expressing any opinions that are at odds with Indonesia’s national ideology.
The meeting between the Commission III of the Indonesian Parliament and the Deputy Minister of Law and Human Rights took place in November at the Parliament Complex in Senayan, Jakarta


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Wall Street charted a course toward a solidly higher open. Data showed that U.S. consumer spending was flat in February after adjusting for inflation, the third consecutive month of weak consumer demand.
Shares of British Airways fell as travelers faced a second day of chaos at the carrier's newly opened, and much touted, Terminal 5 at Heathrow. Broad European markets were strong, however, thanks to miners. Asian markets were also generally higher.
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Morgan Stanley downgraded Swedish telecommunications equipment provider Ericsson AB to equal-weight from overweight, citing the recent profit warning at Sony Ericsson. Sony Ericsson is the mobile-phone making joint venture of Sony Corp.
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-1.60%fell 4.5% on word that Chairman James Cayne had sold his entire stake in the troubled brokerage, netting just over $61 million.
- KB Homes said it lost $268.1 million in its fiscal first quarter, compared with a profit of $27.5 million a year earlier. "We do not anticipate meaningful improvement in these conditions in the near term...," said CEO Jeffrey Mezger.
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- The Federal Reserve released data after markets closed Thursday showing investment banks and broker dealers borrowed more than $30 billion a day from the discount window this past week, but showed only tepid interest in a separate 28-day lending facility from the Fed. "This may indicate that liquidity problems are not as bad as previously thought," said Barry Dixon, an analyst at Davy Stockbrokers in Ireland.
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An anonymous Republican lawmaker recently told Vanity Fair that Donald Trump is creating a “Nixonian enemies list.”
On Monday, Vanity Fair’s Gabriel Sherman reported that “Republicans briefed on Trump’s thinking believe that the president is out for revenge against his adversaries. ”
“It’s payback time,” an anonymous Republican lawmaker told Sherman. “He has an enemies list that is growing by the day.”
Sherman shares that some of the names mentioned include Adam Schiff, Jerry Nadler, Sen. Mitt Romney, and John Bolton. Sherman adds that Bolton is on top of the list.
“Trump wants Bolton to be criminally investigated,” Sherman stated. “A person familiar with Trump’s thinking said Trump believes Bolton might have mishandled classified information. According to a former official, the White House is planning to leak White House emails from Bolton that purportedly allege Bolton abused his position at the National Security Council.”
On Monday, Walter Shaub, former director of the Office of Government Ethics, tweeted that Mitch McConnell “hasn’t even held the final vote to launch the post-checks and balances era, and already the would-be authoritarian is escalating his abuses of power.”
“This is what Senate Republicans are voting to permit,” said CNN legal analyst Susan Hennessey. “They know this is terrifying and destructive of the country, but they’re more afraid of what Trump might do to them.”
It is expected that the Senate will vote to acquit Trump on Wednesday. If that is the case protests are scheduled across the country to condemn the GOP’s “cover-up.”


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This memoir, described by Doris Grumbach as “unusually elegant and meditative,” is once more available with an updated Afterword by the author. Golden Prague seemed mostly gray when Ms. Hampl first went there during the dark days of the Cold War in quest of her Czech heritage. In that bleak time, no one could have predicted the political upheaval awaiting Communist Europe and the city of Kafka and Rilke. Hampl’s subsequent memoir evoked Czech life under socialism, examining what it means to be engaged in the struggle of a people to define and affirm themselves against brute force. Reissued after the tenth anniversary of the Velvet Revolution, A Romantic Education includes an extensive updated Afterword based on Hampl’s annual return trips to Prague and the Czech countryside. This book provides an introduction to what was once the unknown “other Europe” behind the Iron Curtain and one of the continent’s hottest travel destinations.
. . . a quarry of richly imagined lines.
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A marvelous memoir written in an elegant style that glitters like water and light. It is a moving search for ones identity, for the burden of history, and for the beauty and poetry that illuminate that history.
Pat Conroy A Romantic Education W.W. Norton (originally published by Houghton Mifflin)
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year
Winner of the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship

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Despite serious challenges on the home front of her network, OWN, Oprah Winfrey on Monday launched Oprah’s Book Club 2.0, an interactive, multi-platform reading club for her community of fans on Oprah.com, readers of O Magazine and OWN viewers.
The best-selling memoir Wild, by Cheryl Strayed (Knopf), is her first selection with special digital editions of the autobiography — plus exclusive content including a reader’s guide and Oprah’s notes on her favorite passages — available for Kindle, Nook and Apple's iBookstore.
To say that Oprah’s Book Club has been successful for Oprah, for her fans, and for the book industry is an understatement, so relaunching the franchise marks a pivotal return to one of the core pillars of her brand and connection with her community.
“Oprah's book club, since its inception in 1996, has done more to put books — good books — into the hands of adult readers than any marketing or educational campaign could even aspire to,” notes Powell.com. “Perhaps the success of Oprah's book club can be attributed to her uncanny knack for choosing the right books: books that deal intelligently and compassionately with the complex life situations her audience deals with on a daily basis — and that provide a good story to boot.”
“It’s great to have Oprah back as a champion of books. Her enthusiasm for an author’s work has always been a catalyst for readers as well as a prompt for conversation,” said Paul Bogaards, EVP, Knopf, the publishers of Wild.
"I admire Oprah Winfrey tremendously, and could not be more honored and thrilled that Wild is the first selection for Oprah’s Book Club 2.0,” said Strayed, whose memoir recounts her 1,100-mile hike along the Pacific Crest Trail in California and Washington. “When she called me out of the blue and said, ‘This is Oprah,’ I was astonished. It was not a call I was expecting, and I will always remember her kind words about Wild.” It’s a
The social and digital tentacles of Oprah's Book Club will make version 2.0 spring to life way beyond what Winfrey's TV show, magazine and website could do in the past. “This is a book club for the way people live and read today,” said Sheri Salata, president of OWN, of the cross-platform threading of the Oprah's Book Club conversations. “In addition to the traditional way, we also access books on smart phones, e-readers and tablets and we talk to our friends about them through social media.”
Conversations amongst book fans will be live on the Book Club hub at Oprah.com/bookclub and via mobile and social media. A series of webisodes featuring conversations between Oprah and Strayed will be uploaded weekly during June and July, and readers will have the opportunity to interact including responding to weekly questions on Oprah.com with text or photo using Facebook and Twitter (using the hashtag #oprahsbookclub).
Oprah.com will also highlight reader tweets via Storify, and Instagram photos and Facebook posts will be “curated into a social wrap up,” with a map display that locates other Book Club participants worldwide. Using the mobile messaging application GroupMe’s app will let readers create smaller book clubs of choice.
The final ‘chapter’ of the Wild journey is a simulcast of Oprah’s interview with Strayed that will air Sunday, July 22 at 11 a.m. ET/PT on OWN’s “Super Soul Sunday,” streaming live on Oprah.com, OWN’s Facebook page and airing on “Oprah’s Soul Series” on Oprah Radio (Sirius 204, XM 111).
It's been a "wild" journey for Winfrey, too, since she stepped away from the daytime talkshow that made her name and fortune to launch a 24-hour cable channel in OWN. But realizing she can't do it just on her OWN, the hope is that the relaunch of Oprah's Book Club — along with the recent Huffington Post partnership — will return Winfrey to what she does best: prompt conversation, promote thought leaders and thought-provoking works, inspire, and curate the zeitgeist with even more tools and points of connection on social and digital.


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Niagara Falls spectacular ice boulders form
Things aren't expected to thaw soon: Temperatures dipped to -22 C in Niagara Falls this morning
The winter's deep freeze has transformed Niagara Falls into an icy spectacle, encasing the trees around it into crystal shells — a sight that's drawing tourists.
The Niagara River keeps flowing below the ice cover, so the falls aren't totally frozen over. But the massive ice buildup near the brink has become a tourist magnet for the second straight year after several relatively mild winters.
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Visitors have been flocking to Niagara Falls State Park, next to the American Falls, one of three waterfalls that make up the natural attraction. The cold has created a thick coating of ice and snow on every surface near the falls, including railings, trees and boulders.
Things aren't expected to thaw out any time soon: Temperatures dipped to -22 C in Niagara Falls on Friday morning.
The Alberta man was named National Geographic's adventurer of the year in 2015.
Gadd, 47, was followed by another Canadian, Sarah Hueniken, 34, who grew up near the falls.
The climb was started on the American side of the falls, the National Geographic reported on its website.
"It's the biggest, coolest, wildest, most well-known waterfall in North America," Gadd told CBC's Carol Off. "As an ice climber, that's very, very attractive."
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NASA began operating the Kepler mission in 2009. The space telescope observed a planet about half the size of Saturn in a multi-star system called KOI-5Ab. This was the second planet Kepler ever discovered but was eventually ignored.
Kepler worked through 2018 and discovered 2,394 planets orbiting stars beyond the sun. The expedition also found 2,366 additional exoplanets that still need confirmation. Scientists say that KOI-5Ab was abandoned because it was complicated, and there were thousands of potential candidate planets that were easier choices.
Years after its discovery, KOI-5Ab The investigation is now underway using new observations from another NASA cultivated hunting mission called TESS, along with data from several ground-based telescopes. Thanks to the feedback, some new and exciting details for KOI-5Ab have emerged. The planet itself is likely to be a gas giant similar to Jupiter or Saturn.
The interesting thing about the planet is that it orbits a star with two other stars accompanying it on a plane out of alignment with at least one of the stars. The researchers say the arrangement wonders how each member of this system was formed from the same swirling clouds of gas and dust. Researchers say there aren’t many known planets found in triple star systems.
KOI-5Ab is special because its orbit is skewed, and scientists have a lot of questions about how and when planets form in multi-star systems and how properties compare to planets that form in single-star systems. Researchers hope to gain insight into how the universe makes planets by observing the system more closely.
KOI-5Ab orbits star A, which has a relatively close companion known as star B. These two stars orbit each other every 30 years, with a third gravitational-linked star known as Star C orbiting the other two stars every 400 years. Although this triple star system is interesting, this is not the first time that NASA has discovered evidence of planets in double and triple star systems. However, more planets have been discovered in single star systems. Researchers say that triple star systems make up about 10% of all stellar systems


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Install glass fin prior to the installation of glass wall. For mounting of light fixture support base on top of fin glass plate, fasten stainless steel clip angles bolting through glass plate as shown on the approved shop drawings. Between glass and stainless steel bolt, insert 3mm thick rubber grommet. Mount stainless steel light fixture base on top of those stainless steel clip angles.
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Isn't teenage social networking just the new rock'n'roll?
I was alerted - via Twitter, where else? - to the fact that Nicky Campbell's "The Big Questions" show on Sunday morning had a section on teenagers and social networking. You can watch it on iPlayer for the next 6 days.
The consensus amongst the audience seemed to be that social networking was damaging the social development of teenagers. I happen to believe that this is an area where an astonishingly wide generation gap has rapidly opened up.
Put it this way, when I was 13, once I finished at school for the day, I went home, and, if one of my friends called the telephone located in the house my parents lived in, and my parents were not using it or expecting a call, I might get to talk to them one-on-one for a bit.
Nowadays, either via their PCs or their personal mobile phones, most children and teenagers are constantly in touch with their peer-group, know exactly who is online and offline, and can view and record the conversations they are having in groups with each other.
That means that all of the good and fun things about being a tweenager - gossip, flirting, swapping tunes and moaning about parents - go on for much longer each day than just the time that we cram our kids together in the same school building.
Conversely, it also means the bad stuff - bullying, rejection, loneliness and uncertainty about identity and the future - are also much more pervasive.
I think it is hard for the majority of adults to even begin to imagine what it is like to live in that realm.
However, I'm old enough to know that social networking has replaced games as the biggest menace to our children, that video nasties were going to ruin my generation, and that way before that, rock'n'roll was undoubtedly the end of the world as we knew it.
Since the term was first coined, teenagers have always been involved in some technology-led fashion which bamboozled and perplexed their parents. They've generally just got on and coped with the environment that surrounded them - after all, any technology invented before you were 5 is just the background radiation to your life.
I'm fairly certain that our current crop of teenagers will be moaning in 15 years time about the terrible things that their kids are up to - and asking 'wasn't it so much more simpler and natural when we were all just hanging out with our mates on Bebo?'.
 I find it a very odd TV format, incidentally, like the forced convergence of the respective letters pages of The Times and Take A Break. [Return to article]
I have a teenage son (13), who we allow out till 9pm. The moment he comes in he's on MSN talking to his friends. I can only guess it costs less than phone calls.
I use to think young girls were the worst, speaking on the phone a few minutes before they met up.
Its a techno age and it calls for social networking on a techno platform

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SHILLONG: With stray incidents of arson and vandalism reported from some parts of the city, the East Khasi Hills district administration has imposed prohibitions under Section 144 of the CrPC ahead of the proposed agitation by NGOs demanding introduction of the Inner Line Permit (ILP) system to check illegal immigration and influx of 'outsiders' into the state.
Miscreants hurled a petrol bomb at one of the shops in Polo Bazar on Saturday. Police said the fast food centre was partially damaged in the attack. Miscreants also burnt down a two-wheeler belonging to a resident of Langkyrding. In another incident, a house was set on fire in the Umsohsun area.
Police have launched investigations into the three incidents. A senior police officer said, "We have already launched an intensive search to nab the culprits."
"The district administration has immediately imposed section 144 CrPC in the city to stop recurrence of such cases of arsons," East Khasi Hills district magistrate Sanjay Goyal said.
"The district administration has prohibited carrying of arms, weapons or any material(s) which may be used to cause grievous harm, injury or damage or loss of human life, public and private property, sale of petrol/diesel or any other inflammable materials in loose jericans/ jars/bottles to any person(s) by any petrol pump or refilling station or private individuals dealing with the sale or storage of such inflammables," an officer said.
About 10 NGOs, including Khasi Students Union and Federation of Khasi Jaintia and Garo People have called a 12hour state-wide bandh on Monday after the government declined to accept their demand for implementation of the ILP system in the state.
During a recent meeting with the NGOs, chief minister Mukul Sangma had cited the latest Census report which reflected drastic decadal decline from 20 per cent to 13 per cent in non-tribal population in the predominantly tribal state.
Instead of the ILP system, the CM had reasoned that a comprehensive law, taking into consideration all existing laws would be enough to check influx and infiltration.


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I tested my 246t and I picked up a lot of noise with the squelch turned to the normal setting on mine. About half way. I had to turn it to 3/4 scale before it quit getting the noise. It was about 100 noisy to 1 good so it makes a big differance at my location. The same holds true for my pro83 but not quite as bad.

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A project inspired by Farid Shukurov behance project.
I wanted to bring the design to life, by adding movement through animation to the site. In particular I created a canvas background which would generate random curves which would draw across the background.
Working closely with the African Chef team to create a shopify template which would improve sales and match their branding. I added patterns and animations to the site, to add a fun and vibrant feel which the African Chef brand is about.
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Axotomy of the rat facial nerve leads to increased CR3 complement receptor expression by activated microglial cells
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Graeber, M. B., Streit, W. J. and Kreutzberg, G. W. (1988), Axotomy of the rat facial nerve leads to increased CR3 complement receptor expression by activated microglial cells. J. Neurosci. Res., 21: 18–24. doi: 10.1002/jnr.490210104
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On 17 October 2019, the UK government and European Commission agreed the text of a new UK Withdrawal Agreement (WA) and Political Declaration (PD). This ‘deal’ combines a transition period that would run from the date of the UK’s departure from the EU until December 2020. At this point, one of three scenarios would kick in:
The BCC has analysed the level of clarity for business that the proposed Brexit agreements provide on the key areas covered by our Business Brexit Checklist. If you have any questions, would like further clarification or would like to provide feedback, please get in touch.
*Please note that where materials refer to precise timelines for policy these may be subject to revision as events unfold.
During the transition period, employers would face ‘business as usual’ arrangements with respect to European Union (EU) citizens currently living in the UK. EU citizens will be able to enter the UK at any point up until the end of the transition period, 31 December 2020. If they wish to remain beyond the end of the transition period, they will need to apply for settled status.
Those who have been resident in the UK for 5 years will have the right to settle permanently in the UK (‘settled status’) and their family members will also be protected. Those in the UK for less than 5 years will be able to apply for pre-settled status until they have accrued 5 years residency to qualify for the right to settle permanently.
EU citizens with either settled status or pre-settled status will continue to be entitled to work, study, and access public services and benefits on the same basis as they do now. The deadline to register for settled status or pre- settled status under the EU Settlement Scheme is 30 June 2021. As an employer, you can use the Home Office EU Settlement Scheme Employer Toolkit to support your employees to apply for settled/pre-settled status.
Professional qualifications held by EU citizens living or working in the UK before the end of the transition period will continue to be recognised. During the transition period, individuals with professional qualifications may continue to apply for recognition of those qualifications. Any qualifications recognised, or in the process of recognition, by the end of the implementation period will continue to be recognised.
Any Swiss or UK national with a qualification - or in the process of obtaining a qualification - at the end of the transition period will have up to 4 years from the end of the transition period to apply for recognition of their qualifications. All persons with recognised qualifications will be entitled to practice the profession under the same conditions as UK nationals.
Freedom of movement between the UK and EU will end. The government intends to bring in a new UK points-based/skills-based immigration system, replacing the current, reciprocal automatic rights to work and settle.
The status of professional qualifications is unclear: decisions on recognition of qualifications sought after the end of the transition period will be subject to the outcome of future relationship negotiations.
During the transition period no tariffs will apply to UK goods placed on the EU market and vice versa. UK-based firms will retain access to the Single Market as under current arrangements, including for aviation, road haulage and other cross-border economic activities.
As far as we know, no tariffs will also apply to goods placed on the market before the end of transition period where the movement of goods has started but has not been completed before the end of transition period. Such goods will move freely until they reach the end-user.
In principle, the EU’s current free trade agreements (FTAs) will continue to apply. The EU will inform partners of the transition period – it is uncertain as to whether the agreement of these third countries is required. The UK would adhere to EU FTAs, working on the basis of reciprocal adherence.
The UK will be able to continue negotiating, signing and ratifying its own agreements provided they do not enter into force before the end of the transition period. This might mean signing further “continuity” deals with the current EU FTA partners or negotiating new treaties.
After the transition period, the UK would no longer be a member of the EU’s Customs Union and the Single Market. This means that in the absence of a trade agreement that sets tariffs at zero, tariffs will apply to goods traded between the UK and the EU.
The default tariffs will be tariffs applied by both sides to third countries. For the EU this would be the current Common External Tariff – a tariff applied to imports from countries like China or the US with which the EU does not have a trade deal in place. This tariff would also, by default, apply to imports from the UK. The UK would, by default, also apply its third-party tariffs. It is currently uncertain whether these would be the recently published ‘No-Deal’ tariffs or the UK Government will review the No-Deal tariffs during the transition period.
Separate provisions would apply to Northern Ireland. After the Transition Period, Northern Ireland (NI) would stay in the UK’s customs territory but would at the same time continue to apply the EU's customs rules, tariffs, quotas and, partially, EU Single Market rules. This means that NI would continue to apply the EU’s tariffs as external tariffs. The Union Customs Code (UCC) rules will continue to apply in NI. As a result, there would be no tariffs, charges or restrictions on trade between NI and the Republic of Ireland (ROI). However, the proposal creates a de facto customs and regulatory border in the Irish Sea between NI and Great Britain (GB). It is understood that NI businesses would have tariff-free access to both the EU and GB markets.
As a result, GB goods entering NI would technically be subject to the EU’s customs tariffs. According to the agreement, goods considered low-risk of being diverted into the EU through NI would be exempt from tariffs. Goods belonging to UK residents moving across the border would also be exempt (movement of personal property goods). Only goods considered to be high-risk of entering the EU would be subject to them. The Joint Committee would establish which goods would be considered high-risk during the transition period. The tariffs for GB goods entering NI would then be eligible for a rebate if the importer could demonstrate that the goods remained in NI.
Goods entering NI from a third country would be subject to EU or UK tariffs depending on which market they would end up and the level of risk for the EU Single Market. The Joint Committee would need to decide on how to determine the destination of the product. According to the current understanding, the high-risk goods entering from a third country would be initially subject to EU tariffs and rules. If the UK tariff is lower, the NI importers could apply for a rebate for the difference in duties, provided they are able to prove the goods remained on the NI market.
The details of the rebate system are still to be negotiated within the Joint Committee. The system would require businesses to apply for rebates, adding to the administrative burden. Another issue is how, at which point and who can demonstrate that the goods remained on the NI market. This will be especially cumbersome in case of longer supply chains or goods stored in a warehouse. A system would need to be put in place for traders to provide the necessary documentary evidence of goods remaining in the NI market. Fraud prevention would also be an issue.
Article 5, point 6 of the deal mentions that the UK would have the right to waive or reimburse duties on goods brought into Northern Ireland provided that the values do not exceed State Aid thresholds for individual companies. It is uncertain what the aim of this provision is. According to the current understanding, the provision could lead to de facto exemption for smaller traders irrespective of the type of goods and in which market the goods would end up. It could also allow the UK Government to reimburse or wave costs related to exports and imports between GB and NI.
The revised Political Declaration states that towards the end of the transition period, the UK would expect to sign a comprehensive free trade agreement (FTA) with the EU. It refers to an “ambitious, broad, deep and flexible partnership across trade and economic cooperation with a comprehensive and balanced Free Trade Agreement at its core”. If an FTA is negotiated between the UK and the EU tariffs would be eliminated on the majority if not all goods. However, in order to benefit from preferential, tariff-free access businesses on both sides would need to demonstrate that they meet rules of origin. It is uncertain how such proposed FTA would work together with the arrangements for Northern Ireland.
Under the new proposal, the UK would be able to sign its own free trade agreements with third countries. It is uncertain whether the current continuity agreements (the rolled-over agreements) will be amended during the transition period. Some of them require renegotiation of all or at least some provisions (e.g. the UK-South Korea agreement) after a certain period of time.
NI would be able to profit from UK’s trade agreements. Goods produced in NI will have the same preferential access to FTA partner markets as goods from GB. However, when goods from the UK’s FTA partner are imported into NI, it is understood that the above rules for third-country goods brought into NI will apply.
It is uncertain whether NI would be included in EU’s trade agreements and whether as a result EU, businesses would be able to cumulate origin with NI inputs. However, it seems difficult to prevent goods from NI being incorporated into EU products exported under preferential rates into these markets. Therefore, in practice, it would be difficult to prevent NI from benefiting from EU's trade deals.
During the transition period it would be business as usual for customs arrangements, declarations and procedures. There would be no change in the way customs operates and no new border requirements. There would be no customs or regulatory border between the UK and the EU. As the UK would still de facto be in the Single Market, no paperwork or checks would be required for trade with the EU27 countries.
After the transition period, the UK would no longer be a member of the EU’s customs union and the Single Market. This means there will be a customs border between the UK and the EU. UK businesses would no longer be able to circulate goods freely throughout the EU and vice versa. The UK and the EU would be required to apply the same customs rules to goods moving between the UK and the EU, as they would to goods coming from, for example, China or the USA. The only exception to that would be if the UK and the EU signed a free trade agreement (FTA).
By default, full customs formalities, forms and checks would be required for goods traded between the UK and the EU. Companies importing from the EU would need to provide a range of customs information including a commodity code of the product they are importing, its customs value and country of origin. Similar information would be required when making an export declaration. Same procedures will be required in the EU for goods imported from the UK.
Pre-arrival notifications known as entry/exit summary declarations or safety and security declarations would also normally be required before the goods arrive in the UK or the EU. These are normally submitted by the carrier, not the trader. Exit/entry declarations are different to customs declarations.
They are submitted before goods are imported/exported as a pre-arrival/ pre-departure notification. This allows authorities to control what's moving across borders from a safety and security perspective. This information is mainly used for risk analysis and not to calculate the amount of duties due or apply other trade policy measures as in the case of customs declarations. For imports, this means submitting the notification up to two hours before the arrival of the goods (the deadline changes depending on the mode of transport used). On export, it is usually done at the same time when submitting a customs export declaration. The procedure here is less strict as the goods are leaving the territory.
As part of the transitional procedures in the event of a no-deal scenario, the UK Government announced a gradual phase-in of the entry/exit declarations. The requirement has been temporarily waved for six months for goods imported from the EU. It is uncertain whether similar simplifications would be available after the end of the transition period.
Customs declarations would also be required. They would be identical to the customs declarations currently used for exports and imports to all non-EU countries. It is uncertain whether the UK Government would introduce any simplifications on the UK side of the border. Back in February 2019, the UK Government set out a programme of simplifications for customs formalities for goods imported into the UK from the EU under the no-deal scenario. UK-established companies trading via roll-on-roll-off locations were eligible to register for Temporary Simplified Procedures (TSPs). These simplifications would have allowed registered companies to provide only a small amount of data at the point of import into the UK and defer the payment of customs duties and submission of full import declarations.
Border checks and inspections would normally take place for some shipments on both sides of the border. For certain types of goods, additional requirements would apply. Products of animal origin, plants and plant products as well as some other food of non-animal origin would be subject to safety and phyto-sanitary (SPS) checks. Licences, requirements, permits and other checks will apply to other products, such as chemicals, medicine and controlled goods.
There would also be changes in regard to the movement of excise goods, with the Excise Movement Control System (ECMS) no longer being used to control suspended movements between the UK and the EU. However, it will continue to be used for moving excise goods within the EU. The UK will implement its own version of EMCS. Future UK excise duties or measures have not yet been announced.
The type of customs formalities and inspections on the EU/UK border will to a certain extent depend on what type of arrangement the UK will have with the EU following the transition period. The revised Political Declaration states that towards the end of the transition period, the UK would expect to sign a comprehensive free trade agreement (FTA) with the EU. It refers to an ‘ambitious, broad, deep and flexible partnership across trade and economic cooperation with a comprehensive and balanced Free Trade Agreement at its core’.
If an FTA is negotiated between the UK and the EU, rules of origin would normally come into force. These are conditions that goods need to fulfil in order to be able to profit from preferential tariffs under a trade deal. Origin certification would be required adding to the amount of paperwork and formalities on the border.
Separate provisions would apply to Northern Ireland. After the transition period, Northern Ireland would stay in the UK’s customs territory but would at the same time continue to apply the EU's customs rules, tariffs, quotas and, partially, the EU Single Market rules. This means that NI would continue to apply the EU’s tariffs as external tariffs and the Union Customs Code (UCC) rules. As a result, there would be no tariffs, charges or restrictions on trade between NI and ROI. However, the proposal creates a de facto customs and regulatory border in the Irish Sea between NI and GB. It is understood that NI businesses would have tariff-free access to both the EU and GB markets.
It is uncertain what customs formalities and checks would be required for goods moving between NI and GB and the other way around. Article 6 of the proposed deal clarifies that nothing should prevent unfettered market access for goods moving from Northern Ireland to the rest of the UK. However, as NI will in effect be the EU’s external border and there might be tariffs in place on some goods as well as regulatory differences, it seems clear that at least some customs formalities would be required. In addition, the UCC would continue to apply in NI and therefore standard provisions for import and export formalities should apply. This will be negotiated by the Joint Committee during the transition period. However, it is likely that both GB and NI exporters/importers would be required to submit additional paperwork.
During the transition period businesses would face ‘business-as-usual’ arrangements for the handling and protection of data.
The Political Declaration (PD) highlights the importance of data and digital trade between the UK and EU. However, for both areas, the PD does not provide any detail beyond broad ambitions for cooperation.
On data protection, PD states that the European Commission will endeavor to adopt a decision on whether the UK meets data adequacy status – in order to facilitate information flows between the UK and EU – by the end of 2020. The PD states that the UK will establish its own international data transfer regime but will take steps to ensure the comparable facilitation of transfers of personal data to the EU.
On the digitalisation of trade, the PD states that the UK and EU should establish provisions to facilitate electronic commerce and remove barriers; provide for fair and equal access to public telecommunication networks; and work together to exchange best practice on emerging technologies.
During the transition period, employers would face ‘business-as-usual’ arrangements with respect to UK and EU regulations. All existing structures will continue to apply, including jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.
The Political Declaration (PD) states that the UK and EU envisage ‘an ambitious trading relationship on goods on the basis of a Free Trade Agreement’ and would seek to establish deep regulatory and customs cooperation. The PD states that the UK and EU, while preserving regulatory autonomy, should promote regulatory approaches to remove unnecessary barriers to trade- including going beyond WTO agreements on technical barriers to trade and phytosanitary measures.
The PD states that the UK and EU would explore possible cooperation between UK authorities and EU agencies such as the European Medicines Agency, European Chemicals Agency, and European Aviation Safety Agency. They would agree regulatory provisions for services trade and establish a framework for voluntary regulatory cooperation.
On intellectual property, the PD states that the UK and EU should go beyond the standards of WTO TRIPs, and preserve high levels of protection. Protections for geographical indications will be negotiated.
During the transition period it would be business as usual for VAT. All VAT related provisions will stay as they currently are. No VAT registered business will be required to pay VAT upfront when moving goods between Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and that accounting for VAT can continue to be done through postponed accounting and UK VAT returns. VAT simplification measures, including the mini one-stop-shop, is expected to remain available to UK firms.
After the transition period, the UK would no longer be a member of the EU’s Customs Union and the Single Market. This means there will be a customs border between the UK and the EU. UK businesses will no longer be able to circulate goods freely throughout the EU and vice versa. The UK will no longer be in the EU’s VAT zone. As a result of a customs border in place between the EU and the UK, import VAT will also become applicable.
Currently, there is no detail on the future VAT regime for the UK post-transition. Earlier in 2019, the UK Government announced postponed accounting for import VAT as part of transitional measures in a no-deal scenario. Import VAT liabilities were to be settled via the business’s regular VAT return. It is uncertain whether this or any other simplifications would apply after the transition period.
Under the new proposal, separate provisions would apply to Northern Ireland (NI). After the transition period, NI would stay in the UK’s customs territory but would at the same time continue to apply the EU's customs rules, tariffs, quotas and, partially, EU Single Market rules. NI would be part of the UK’s VAT area but will also be subject to EU’s VAT Directive and Court of Justice of the European Union rulings for trade in goods. Goods traded between NI and the Republic of Ireland (ROI) would still be considered intra-community supplies as they do now (the same rules would apply). However, goods going from GB to NI and then to ROI would be subject to EU’s import VAT. This VAT will not be remitted to the EU. The UK may also decide to align VAT rates applicable in NI to those in Ireland.
For services, however, NI will stay aligned with the UK VAT rules. This would potentially create issues around distinguishing between goods and services when it comes to VAT (in cases where there is a joint sale e.g. aftersales services or warranty). The Joint Committee will oversee the application of VAT provisions.
During the transition period, financial services firms in the UK will largely be able to operate as usual. However, the EU and UK will be carrying out equivalence assessments, endeavouring to conclude these assessments before the end of June 2020. Overall, there have been no material changes to arrangements for financial services compared to the previously agreed Withdrawal Agreement (WA) and Political Declaration (PD).
Post-transition, EU market access for UK firms in the financial services sector will be more limited than under current arrangements as per the UK’s new status as a third country. Market access will be based on ‘equivalence’, which means recognising each other’s regulations and can be withdrawn with 30 days’ notice. Currently, equivalence does not some cover basic business banking products and services such as bank lending. It remains unclear whether this will impact UK firms’ access to finance or other financial products and services. The PD does keep open the prospect of improved arrangements but offers little detail on this. Taken together, there has been no material changes to arrangements for financial services compared to the previously agreed WA and PD.
EU Structural and Investment Funding (ESIF) arrangements in the UK would apply until the end of the transition period, which also coincides with the end of the current Multi-Annual Financial Framework (end December 2020).
The UK Government’s plan for the domestic replacement for ESIF from 2021 is the ‘UK Shared Prosperity Fund’. There is no official statement that lays out the operational details of the fund. A report by the House of Commons Library, published in May 2019, stated that the government still needed to decide the most basic features of the ESIF replacement, from scale, priorities and objectives, to how it would be dispersed geographically.

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