Rai, mae'r gynwedd ychwanegu iawn ar y flwyddyn nhw nid, mae'r mhwng yma i wedi'w dweud o'r ll supportedr. Mae'r gynw'n ardod o'r cherdd. Rydw i'r cwmysglu o'r ddechrau i'r peth a dod o'r gynwedd felly i'r bwysig. Rhaid. Rhaid. Gwyl Gwyl David, rhaid. Rhaid, rhaid, rhaid a'u ddefnyddio ei ddefnyddio fel gwahol, ac roedd ni'n gwneud i ddweud i gwaith ar y cynnig. Felly, mae'r cymhdoedd yn gion, mae'r cymhdoedd bwrdd, mae'r cymhdoedd yn bach wedi eu cyfnod, mae'r gwybod, mae'r cymhdoed. A wnaethau'r cyfrydd ym ddigon. Mae'r cyfrifedd yma o'r ddweud, mae'r cwmdick erbyn yn gael er mwynol Segwyr... Mae'r argumentau i'w llwyddiadau yn ymdyn nhw, yn cael ei chael, yn ddod i'r ddweud. Yn yw'r ysgolwyddiad, rydyn ni'n ymdyn nhw. Rydyn ni'n ddod i'r economaeth yn cael ei wais. Ysgolwyddiadau yn ymdyn nhw. Yn ymdyn nhw'n ymdyn nhw'n ymdyn nhw'n ymdyn nhw. and it get people out of jobs and other employment into jobs, like the fact majority of people. Well, it doesn't do and you brought up the method yourself. It doesn't work for a minority group, it doesn't scheme a minority group who are unemployed a'r unrhyw o rynwir o'r gallu'r drwyaf yn gweithio. Rydyn yn mynd yn ei wneud, cael ei mwy yn 80% y dynig, i'r gwneud o'r ddweud. Mae'r gwneud o'r ddweud o'r ddebygu'r gwneud dyma i'n meddwl i'r cyd земol 1%. Mae'r ddweud o'r peth. Fe wnaeth eu llei ddangos, Byddwn i'n gweithio'r cyflwyno o gydaneth i'r cyflwyno a gwahodd o'r gweithiau. Yn ymgyrch yn gwneud y bwysig yn y bwysig? Rwy'n ymgyrch. Yn y lle mae'r globarau, yn y lle mae'r sefydluoedd yn ymgyrch. A'r bwysig oherwydd yn Ysbryd, yn y ffwrdd yr Ysbryd Gweithio'r Llyfrgell, ac yn ymwysig yma, yw'r Ysbryd Llyfrgell. Oni'r Llyfrgell yn ymgyrch. Gwyl yn oeddiad yn y conwcllid ar gyfer cyhoeth o edrych yn gweld y Llywodraeth, a i ddysgu'n oeddu'n gweld y Llywodraeth yn Cymru. Rydym a'r enwaryll Leolau wrth gwrs y cyfgrif storioddau sydd wedi'r cysylltiadau. It ups depths, and all of that is really tough, but it's really hard to get it. So, we need to start thinking about this. My final point is real cock-a-bag globalization. Real cock-a-bag projects, what the EU has grown at, how the EU is bad. It's not perfect, nothing is perfect, because it's 11th. We have the lowest in Europe share of people at work. Now, again, I don't think that's a globalization thing. I don't think it's a European thing. You know, there are other national factors at play. I just find it very hard to see a correlation between globalization countries that are very globalized and countries that have low proportions of their people with disabilities at work. I think it's more again, coming back to so many other things, it's a national issue rather than a global or European issue. I would just say, I would say if you need to get on Irish facts, the Irish national facts, you say look, you have to wait and I can hear that, but it doesn't really mean to your employment. I've changed during the fact that Ireland, out of 10 years, when you ratify your treaty. But again, it's the old story. You know, if your accrats interfere where they don't have a mandate, they get accused of not respecting the democratic process. They haven't been given the powers. We can't say to them, you should intervene when you don't have a mandate. You want us to come in on that and then we'll just open up. Well, on another point, but just on that point, and it is one of the great difficulties that I think progressives all over Europe have, especially when you're talking about the rights that we have that were more in place as a result of the European Union. But nobody can point to a social right that we got through Europe that we couldn't have got through a government because the government had the political will to actually deliver it. And they were agreed by governments at an EU level, probably just the power of numbers. I think that's what you're talking about in terms of, but there are UN treaties. We've signed up to another convention in relation to the rights of people with disabilities. The difficulty has always come in terms of the implementation of them at a national level. But just in terms of the globalization, and I probably didn't make this point well earlier on when I was talking about what it has meant because I think we're beyond the debate as to whether globalization is good or bad because globalization is a reality. What we need to talk about is how do we respond to the obvious disadvantages and problems that globalization has created? OK, so we can have an argument about whether the outweigh or are overmatched by the positives but there have been negatives. And one of the negatives has undoubtedly been the disconnect from citizens from the political process. Lots of people believe that they don't actually have a say in terms of how they address their concerns. And sometimes opportunity presents themselves where people can just give two fingers to the political system whether it be through Brexit or through Trump or through the far right. And the difficulty I have with the European Union in large is that they haven't been taking those messages because they are messages from people who, and the European Union has actually got quite a number of them. I mentioned the constitution in France and Germany. When they rejected the European constitution, European leaders came back into a room. And they could have done one of two things in my view. They could have said, OK, what were the reasons why the people of France and Netherlands voted against this and how can we address those concerns? Or they could have done what they did do, which was how do we get this thing through without actually having anybody to vote on it again? Which was what their priority was. And they came up with the Lisbon Treaty, which was a convoluted set of amendments. But in essence the same thing. That was the message. They got the message again then in numerous times in terms of election results and in terms of political symbol, the Greek people responding to the fiscal compact. Brexit again has been another whatever you like. And we don't obviously like that result, but it was a message to Europe. And the answer of European leaders has largely always been, let's do what we always intended to do anyway, only do it quicker.  Just double up every time that you get a message that says, we don't like where you're going, where we're going even harder. And the problem is that that creates more disillusion. And to such a point that I was in the European Parliament last year and there were MEPs almost dancing in the chamber with the victory that was the fact that only 35%, only 35% of French people voted for an actual fascist. That's how crazy our political systems have become and the sense of disillusion that we actually consider that to be. And then when you actually look at what Macron is doing in terms of labour reforms, so-called labour reforms and everything else, you wonder, is he actually creating the scenario and the foundation block to actually making sure that a fascist is actually elected. I'll let Michael come back in on that, but just in the meantime, we're just hands up for someone else who'd like to do something with the microphone. Actually, these days here, at the very front table here with the tracks here, give the microphone to them. Just in the meantime, Michael, you want to... Can I just make a point? Again, it's very simplistic, I think, to say, well, it's Europe has lurched to the right or to the left. That isn't the case. So if you heard Pascal Dunno make the point a long time ago, like 12 months ago, he said the centre must hold. And the centre has held. Yeah, there was a vote in the UK from Brexit that was two years ago. But since then, about 65% of the population of Europe have gone to national elections. And in the main, they've held. There have been some results where you have coalitions like what's happening in Italy, where your party on the far right who are now in government. But let's see how they get on. And the centre has held quite well better than anybody anticipated. So subsequent to Brexit, we then had the American election result, which was a surprise also. But in the main, the centre has held and held well. Girls here at the front table, what's your name and what would you like to say to the panel? My name's Neave and I just want to acknowledge Man's comment with the government's tackling of the current health crisis. This government also oversawd that apple tax can, in which they refuse for ages to accept the old 13 billion in tax, which could have been much needed investment into our public services. For example, our health service, which is in need of investment of better services. But like corporations, they do serve a purpose. That's fine. But running after them and doing dirty deals with them, that doesn't represent the ordinary citizen. It doesn't represent the ordinary taxpayer. And what it does is it assists those who are playing the tax system and that's being facilitated at the minute widespread. As a young person, what do you think about globalisation? Do you think that it makes you more optimistic about the future? Does it give you a little bit of fear or what do you think about? I'm excited. Upside and downside. Can I ask a question? Are you a member of the party? I am, yes. Which party? It's good to see the next generation are involved in the tax and spend. In relation to the acts. No, I'm sorry. She just says pay your taxes rather than tax and spend. I'm quite happy to call it as it is. I listen to it every day in the Dall Chamber when we're in there just in the last month from opposition parties. Can I just say this? Michael's Government has spent 450 million euro now, let's say. Just let me finish, please. What I can say about it is the tax and spend. In the last month there was a requirement, an ask from opposition parties, costing an extra 400 million. The last decade has been too hard. It's been too tough on too many people for us to go back and do that again. I can assure you T-Shop won't do it, and the Minister for Finance won't do it. We will not create an unsustainable tax position because we want to keep spending to be populist. Let's try and keep the discussion to European and global. Anyone else with a hand up who would like to make a question? This gentleman here in the front row. What's your name? My name is Ciaran Rogers, I want to fill out it. No, I just wanted to say one of the huge dynamics in history has been migrations of people, be it through the fall of the Roman Empire or Muslim conquests or whatever. And certainly in my opinion as regards Brexit, the voter Brexit, fear is always a huge motivator as regards people voting. And certainly the Brexit campaign has really tapped into this visceral fear that many UK citizens had about an influx of foreigners. And to some extent although the centre has held reasonably well, I think much of the tension is because people feel a sense of maybe culture dilution, that globalization itself involves not just a freer movement of goods, but a freer movement of peoples. And I think many people feel a genuine fear or we seem to be overwhelmed by Syrians or Africans or whatever. So I just wanted to ask the panel in general how do you feel about the EU's immigration policies and its contribution towards the perception of the threat of immigration? I know that you both do one community of that, but we haven't heard very much from this end of the panel on that. So Marie, do you want to start on that and what do you think about the role and the people fear globalization because it makes them feel that their national identities and cultures are under threat? Of course. Well, the thing is, if somebody is unemployed or if they are not eating out a decent standard of living, then somebody coming into town and taking up employment, of course people are going to fear that. So in some ways it's cultural and it's economic. And I think you're right. I absolutely agree with you with regards to the factors that accounted for the Brexit vote. So that's why in some ways it's so important to make sure that people are adequately skilled and that also I suppose a separate point to make is that with regards to Ireland, we've actually had very few numbers of migrants coming. So I think I'm not sure of the exact numbers of our commitments, but certainly with regards to Syrian refugees coming to Ireland, they're a lot lower than what we actually committed to. So in some ways I don't think we've been exposed to the same extent. We've had a lot of inter-EU migration into Ireland with regards to those from Central and Eastern Europe and I suppose 30% of employment growth over the past four years in this country has been by workers from Central and Eastern Europe and beyond those borders. But I suppose in terms of the migration outside of Europe into Ireland, we have not had that to the same extent as other countries. Dan, what are your thoughts on that? I think you pick up a very important point because I spend most of my life as an economic migrant in other countries. I live in Dublin age, the most diverse part of the country. I'm a globalist type of person. I don't have an issue, but that doesn't make me a better person than somebody who is uncomfortable with an increasingly diverse society. This notion that diversity is morally better, I think we need to be careful about that because you end up talking down to people who are just more comfortable with the familiar and they want to be able to talk about the local GA game with their neighbour and they feel that increased diversity means they may not be able to do that. Now, I think we just need to be very careful about talking down to people like that, people of my view, of just dismissing them as racists and bigots. I think too much of that has gone on. I think it still goes on in this country about Britain and Brexit. I think there's a lot of stuff going on in the Brexit thing about British history, about British character. It can't all be dismissed as a bunch of bigots and racists and I think a lot of Irish people have done that about the Brexit vote. We just need to listen to people's concerns and if people feel that migration is maybe running too far, then governments may have to say, okay, well, let's just slow things down. That is not a morally bad position to take and if governments don't listen to discomfort about levels of migration, I think then you risk getting into the sort of territory that we've moved towards in Europe lately. I think just we need, those of us who are of my persuasion need to be a little bit more respectful and listen more to people who are uncomfortable with that change. Michael, can you ever see the EU take that kind of direction where the EU has been so built around freedom of movement that it could get to a point where it might actually say this perhaps needs to be slowed down. Are you talking about migration into the EU? Into or within? I don't see the EU moving in any way from within. Ireland is a great example of a good result in terms of migration. So, if you take a lot of senses, one person in six wasn't born in Ireland. And I take Dan's point and I think it's important to partly where the EU, I'm critical of the EU, to tend not to listen as well as they should. Dan's point about listening to people who have an alternative view, you don't have to agree with it, but we should listen and I think that's kind of what Dan is saying. We haven't been good enough to listen but we've done it much better than just about any other jurisdiction. So, if you take one in six, that's a higher rate than nearly everywhere else in terms of people not having been born here. And we've integrated very well. Whereas I think in other jurisdictions, there's been the ghettoisation of people either from within the EU or from the same countries. So, you have towns in other jurisdictions that have people from different countries. And the people from that town aren't pleased. And you had a lot of that in Northern England in the Brexit vote. Matt, very briefly, will we try and get another question? Your thoughts on that? Yeah, I think what we have seen happen is that you're dealing with communities who are disillusioned, angry, frustrated. In many respects, they're not exactly sure as to who it is that they need to blame. These are people who lost their jobs as a result of globalisation, are working harder than their parents did. There are two incomes coming into the house if they're lucky. And yet, their parents had their mortgage paid off, had the car, bought, were able to take a family holiday every year. And they're working twice as hard. There's two people doing it instead of one. They have smaller families. All the things that should point to a better quality of life. And yet they find it even tougher on the generation that went before them. And what we've seen is a very clever mechanism that in some cases was caused by government's actions and where people have been scapegoated. So those people who are frustrated because of all of those things have been told that the person that is responsible for that is the person that looks different from them and the person who sounds different from them and the person who comes from them. And the European Union isn't this great entity that comes to migration. Yes, internal freedom of movement is a cornerstone of the EU, rightly so in my view. But the European Union at the moment actually has a very poor record, I would argue, in terms of dealing with the migration crisis. It is expecting. I saw, for example, going back to my old friend McCrame yesterday, hitting out at the Italian government now. The Italian government's position in relation to the Aquarius ship is scandalous and should be considered such as Irish people with their own history of puffinships and everything else like that. But the French government have actually been driving back in their thousands migrants who are in Italy trying to make their way to France have been bolting the door and sending the back using the Dublin regulations. So, listen, there's lots of causes for migration. In most cases, most of the migrants that we have in Ireland, the people who Michael are talking about, are people from other parts of Europe who come over to work. In many cases they've been enticed to come over by companies so that they can be paid less than Irish workers would be entitled to. The other migrants are coming from places that they would prefer to be living in. The reason they're leaving them is because they're war-torn, largely because of wars that European countries were engaged in. And they have suffered as a result of decisions. And I just think, whether it's politically expedient or not, I just think, especially coming from Ireland, was born in England. I sometimes am reluctant to admit, but I think every one of our families has experience of migration when you talk about the family. If it wasn't for emigration and the prospect of Irish people being able, we wouldn't exist as a people at all. So I just think we have a moral obligation to say if somebody's coming from a place like Syria or Iraq or places that have been devastated, then I think we just have a responsibility to find them a whole agenda. The very back of the room there. Thank you. I guess for me, the issue of localisation is the challenge of the nation state. It doesn't have enough power. I don't see a match to touch and view the nation state. And if we're about cruel sovereignty, how do we ensure that Europe becomes back to the vision it had of 30, 40 years ago? How do we make Europe much more democratic? How do we empower and engage Europe? I think it is about respect. And figuring out how we can respect the decisions that people democratically send us. I'm not just dismiss those decisions that we don't like. I'm often conflicted because I do support those EU directives that provide rights to the citizens and protect them. I'm not just dismiss those decisions that we don't like. I'm often conflicted because I do support those EU directives that provide rights to the citizens and protect citizens, particularly workers, women and people with disabilities in some instances. Absolutely. And there are some things that can only be dealt with at a European level. You can't deal with climate change as an island of Ireland. We have to deal with it at a European level. There are some issues with vis-a-vis globalisation tax avoidance. I will argue to the idea that the right of national parliament to set its own taxation powers, but at the same time, if we want to have tax justice globally, then there has to be an EU and a global response in terms of transparency matters and country by country reporting and things like that. So then things have to have... The problem and where I get conflicted is the best thing about politics, the way we get people like meaf to join a political party, which I think young people should be commended by the way. But the way we get them engaged is by convincing them that if anybody in government, whether it's a Sinn Fein government or a Ffina Gail government or a Ffina Ffaill government, if you don't like what they do, that's the beauty of democracy. You can kick them out. The big problem at the European Union level is if something is put in place, good, bad or indifferent, and citizens decide that they don't like that, not only do they have to kick out their government to hope that 26 or 27 other countries do the same because that's what it takes and that's where I have a problem in terms of the democratic framework of an EU. Yes, if there was better transparency and an overview and people were engaged in the decisions that were made at an EU level, yes there is a level. You could argue that it's a democratic framework at that level. The problem is part of democracy means you can also change laws if you don't like them and that's very difficult at the European Union level. And we're doing it. My big problem, and I suppose this isn't, is that we are all collectively, it's not the biggest power, the biggest problem isn't that the EU has too much power although in some areas it does. The biggest problem is that corporations have too much power. We're going back to the areas of the apples and the Facebooks and the Amazons and they have more power than some member states of the European Union and unless we collectively tackle that, well then that's where I really fear that the effect of globalisation on the market. So I've been involved in the European Union in some capacity for about 20 years and if I had a euro for every time somebody asked your question, how do you make Europe closer to the people? I'd have about 13 billion at this stage. I don't think there is an answer to it because I think, as I said, the kind of thing the EU does, it doesn't do the stuff to help the education, the stuff that people pay most attention to in politics. It doesn't have the human drama that you have in national politics. Ever listen to a debate of MEPs, most of it is through simultaneous translation which I would send even if politics didn't go back to sleep. So I think the nature of what it does and just that kind of lack of human drama means that it's never really going to engage people. And as I say, I've heard that question but so many times and I still haven't heard a good answer to that and I'm not sure there is one. Ray, do you have a good answer? No, but I suppose I do think though that and I suppose Matt touched on it like it is the objectives of the European Union in terms of what the project, the EU project wants to achieve and certainly issues like climate change, Ireland and so on can achieve very, very little. Certainly with regards to migration as well and again where she is is because we're so much further north compared with the southern Mediterranean countries. But there are transnational issues that the EU can I suppose adopt and be ambitious on and bring its people along with it. But I think because I suppose we have so many layers and Ireland probably does better than other countries with regards to an awareness of the council and the commission and the parliament and the powers between them all but I think ultimately the structure lends itself to that sense of being able to remove and people not being able to understand how power functions. Do you think that we need to be reminded sometimes or maybe the EU needs to be reminded of what its mission is that maybe it's not really sure what its role is in its life that maybe it goes too far sometimes? Well that the mission evolves. So if you go back to after World War II and the establishment of the big cursor to the European Union the mission really was to stop not so much your Britain, France and Germany going to war every couple of decades. So the period that we have today 75 years almost later is the first period of 75 years that those three countries haven't gone and ravaged one another at some stage. And what it's also evolved now into so going back where it started then it wanted to feed itself so the common eye culture policy was hugely important going back to ensure that Europe would be fed. The idea in today's coming to the end of the second decade of this century that this continent just a couple of decades prior to that may not be able to feed itself is just alien to so many young people but it's evolving the mission is evolving as well. And I think one of the things my criticism about democracy in Europe is of the parliament that I shared a stage with William Hay during the week and I made the point that the UKIP party found themselves in a position that they were able to get on the political stage by winning seats in a European election where there was less than 20% turnout. So the European Parliament elections on so many occasions the turnout is really, really poor. Average of 35%. So there's a lot more people who choose not to participate in that way and then perhaps they should. And that's a great pity because if you take the referendum last week almost 70% most general elections here range between 65% and 70% but the Tory party in the UK got spooked because the UKIP won a nice number of seats on a turnout of between 20% 25% which is remarkable and that's what happened and that's how Brexit came about. Does raise the whole question again of the demographic deficit and we could have a whole other event. The deficit on that stage was in the voters that chose not to participate. We have time for a couple more questions but I'm just mindful that I've only had one female contributor so far being over here at the White House. Your name and if you have any affiliations Andrew Bestion, please. Heverly empowering change and the main affiliation is right to home so don't even get me started on what we might have done if we had taxed the profits of the culture funds. I think that what we've missed is as a national government what can we do to mitigate the issues around globalization and my understanding is a new touch on productivity of the main drivers of increased productivity at the beginning of the 2000s was women entering the job market in greater and greater numbers and that has actually leveled off and one of the things that national government could do for instance is better childcare. Ireland has the highest childcare costs in the certainly in Northern Europe in Europe, the only country in the OECD with higher childcare costs is the US. So again if we're looking at what the things are that we can do in Ireland as a national government to mitigate the impact of globalization let's increase productivity and let's do it on the back of better policy around childcare. The other piece with the distribution of wealth I think that we have to start to look at very radical approaches whether it's universal basic income or better social safety nets the kinds of things that will make people nervous about migration that make people have less of a knee jerk reaction and let's talk about some of the things that we could be doing here. We're a very passive lot and oh no we can't change that the EU says no and yet we'll duck and dive and get around every other regulation on the planet but oh no the EU said no so I guess I would like to hear more from each of you about what Ireland at a national level can do to mitigate the impact of globalization. I'm going to try a novel experiment and I'm going to try and give each of the four of you 45 seconds to answer that question well look at your thoughts and I'm going to start with Marie you have 45 seconds starting from now. Okay well firstly I very much share your sentiment on childcare certainly I think it's when you look at how little Ireland has done in the childcare space compared with other EU countries over the past and over the years that certainly you know but it's a role for national funding just in terms of I suppose that level the mobile migration of capital and I suppose touching on the big ratio of globalization at the moment I think as a country we don't fully understand even the levels of of capital coming in and out and indeed then if we don't understand then I think it's hard for us to even identify how we can begin to more equitably distribute between labour and capital in this country but we do know that there has been a greater shift towards capital in terms of the gains from output in this country compared with the gains going towards labour and that has to be remedied by our tax system in particular but also I think in terms of the rules regarding corporates in this country in particular the growing number of companies that are now able to become unlimited companies and it's a very small domestic example but I think there's an issue when even understanding what is happening with regards to mobile capital flows in these countries You'll notice that actually went for a better minute I know, I've heard the most I don't realise that 45 seconds is actually a really really short time I'll give each of you 45 seconds twice Dan, your minute and a half starts now I think Ireland has done very well out of globalisation I don't think we need to talk about mitigation I think we need to talk about taking advantage of it and one of the parts of that is to talk less about all these terrible things that come with it and talk more about the opportunities there and let people think about it in a more positive way how they can start businesses, do international business do more for themselves and empower people to take opportunities from it That was only 28 seconds Let's back that up for later on Michael Darcy, your minute and a half starts now For me the biggest issue in terms of globalisation is if when industries evolve and when jobs are lost I would get people back educated and back re-skilled and get people back to work A great example I have was a guy who was unemployed as a chef at Limerick for two and a half years He started a work with a funds administration company in the tech side He had no knowledge about technology whatsoever He turned out to be a natural coder He participated in an international competition He won 100,000 euros in that competition So there are so many examples of so many people who might start off as a brickie or a chef or a driver in a van but there are so many natural skill sets and abilities that get left behind because they may not have come to college or they may not have started in that space but that we need to have a fleet of foot in terms of getting people back into the workspace I started off talking about the letter factory in town that I know best where people were unemployed when they lost their one job That can't happen You guys are very efficient when I give you time Matt Cartey Never spoken of it OK, I'm going to try a new... 3, 2, 3 OK, just to say something that for a long period of time became the most unpopular notion in politics in Ireland and across many parts of town and that's the idea of state intervention and I think we need to go back to the basis that there are some public services that are so important that the state needs to provide them childcare is a good example so we basically left childcare to the private sector and it actually took the community sector to intervene and start providing services around the place so in some instances we've seen it in housing in health in the provision of broadband across the board services that we've allowed the private sector to basically came over and then we've subsidised those private companies delivering them millions of euros of our money so the state should actually get back to providing those services that are so important because the alternative is that the private systems in place will be the best you can get if you can afford them and if you happen to be living in the place where they're there but they'll actually broaden inequalities and then the second part of it is that those individuals and companies that benefit from that investment in public services actually start paying their fair share of tax so that we can be reinvesting it again it was a time where that wasn't a radical thing to say but to suggest that actually government should actually provide services and that people who may do well out of those services pay a fair share of tax, they've become radical notions I think we should go back to them That was only minute 26 as well That's a record for me This gentleman here at the front has had his hand up very politely all even so it's about time we gave him a chance to have a say Microphone is right behind you sir Your name, any affiliations you have and the point you'd like to make please The only affiliation would be to the town of Dundorg itself Globalisation has had many serious downsides Intel which is one of the most famous companies to come into Ireland had to move out of a manufacturing base in America when the environmental impact of the company became apparent it's now gone to Vietnam where those environmental problems are being played out amongst the people who work for the firm The other thing about globalisation is that we have an artificially high standard of living which has come about from cheap imports If I can go on to eBay and buy a small transistor for £2 and it can be posted to me from China and they make a profit something's wrong somewhere We have a situation where Intel, the head of Intel two years ago said there were five reasons why they came to Ireland and there's only one reason left and that is the taxation system If that taxation system has to be changed as a result of Trump's actions we are in a serious situation we have depended too much on foreign investment and we have lost an awful lot of jobs and going back to a point that you made we say we have more people employed in this country than ever before but those jobs are very purely paid and you made a point where two households two pays are going into a household and still they don't have the standard of living that their parents have so we have a distorted economy where the wealth is concentrated on a very small percentage of people David Dimbleby made a series on the BBC called How We Built Britain and in the final scene of that series he's standing in Canary Wharf at Night where the background is all the office blocks lit lit up and he said in the past the power lay with the church then the power moved to the politicians and with a sweeping wave of his arm he said this is where the power now lies so you gentlemen up there when you are involved in politics may think you are having an impact or an influence or you may think you are doing something but you are dependent upon the influence and the control of major corporations major investment funds when you have the top 1% of people control about 85% of the wealth of the world you have a problem thank you for your time Just because you mentioned both Matt and Diana I'm going to give each of you and stop what really works for you so I'm going to give each of you 60 seconds and then the gentleman back there and Matt 60 seconds to respond to what Michael said Michael is there inequality it's a buzzword but it's actually the root cause of an awful lot of the problems we see in the world and if we can tackle inequality either at national, European or global level I think we can actually start addressing the concerns that you have raised the problem in terms of one of the issues of globalization is we are never going to get back to the level of manufacturing previously in place in a lot of countries and even if you were you're never going to get back to the levels of people who are employed in manufacturing in western countries because of the robots and computers doing the job now so we need to figure out the alternative ways of doing it and we need to be open minded someone mentioned the basic income idea it's one I'm not convinced on but I think we need to have ideas like that because we need to figure out how we can actually get back to society I have to say 95% of what you said I just fundamentally disagree with and I just think you're wrong in a number of things to say that we're not as rich as our parents I would ask most people here would I think they are better off than we were 30 years ago I grew up in the 80s I just think this country is much better now than it was when my parents were my age I am one salary of nose 2 but are do people really believe that we're poorer today than we were in the 80s when it comes to housing that's when it breaks down housing prices have gone up but are we overall saying that we are now less well off than we were in the 80s I just I often make a point on these things of course there are many things wrong but there's not to deny that but the point that we're poorer than we were in the 1980s we spend millions of taxpayers money every year step down please we spend millions that's a very important point but I'm taking the point are we poorer on average than we were 30 than our parents were hands up how many people in the room think that the current generation is lesser off than the one from 30 years previous the current generation is worse off than the one that came ahead of it hands up how many people think that the current generation is worse off than its parents that was what you asked the person and how many people think that the current generation is better off than its parents two hands up here Bray you wanted to comment on that question just two things there I think certainly when you look at incomes the market what people earn is better now than what our parents certainly earned or certainly my parents earned in the 70s and 80s but is the cost of living and in particular housing my parents were able to build their house for 11,000 pounds and pay off with a local authority loan over a period of 30 years now the number of local authority loans that became available during the 90s and the 2000s do anything to nothing so people of course were put into the arms of banks and in some ways credit was able to fund people's lifestyles so in terms of there is a share of my generation now who are worse off because of housing costs because of childcare costs for such a wealthier society why is have we got the worst homeless problem we've ever had in this country I don't ask this man here because if you see a real wealthier than you've ever been why do we have the worst homeless problem but can I just answer that because of decisions made by successive governments in the 90s and the 2000s to stop building social housing in this country is there any indication that comes to great I'm not disagreeing with you but can I just it's been touched on a number of times today which is with regards to our tax system and somebody who's mentioned Apple and whatever else I think there is a real debate that needs to take place in this country with regards to our corporation tax rate and for years it was the we cannot have that debate because companies are going to leave as somebody who works for a trade union who's got a lot of members in those multinational companies so we're concerned as well about the debate but I think it needs to happen because there was a report that came out yesterday I haven't read it in full yet I think it was the public accounts committee and I talked about the top 100 companies in this country 70% of corporate tax revenues now if there's any lesson from the 2000s it's not being overly dependent on any one part of the earth's economy to fund our public services and we saw the over dependence on construction and to a lesser extent retail in the 2000s and now we're seeing a different type of dependence and corporate taxation I think is the second or third largest tax head amongst tax revenues in this country so one of the things I think we need to talk about is our corporate tax rate I'm not in favour of a significant increase in our corporate tax rate but I think what is not being spoken about is an effective rate of corporate tax we have it for income tax for personal income tax in this country we don't have it for corporates Can I just answer the question to the gentleman about that? I will let you address the gentleman's question and then we will come to the gentleman Michael about corporation tax I think it's really important to understand that the companies who come here from outside of the jurisdiction come here for certainty the corporation tax in Ireland is 12.5% it's been that for decades the effective rate that you speak about we get a lot of criticism from our competitors about the headline rate 12.5% most of the jurisdiction's headline rate is much higher than that they're effective rate most of them pay less than what ours is the report from PAC yesterday said it's 8 the effective rate is between somewhere between 8 and 10.5% we have practically no deductions the main deduction that we have is research and development which is absolutely legitimate for companies who choose to come and establish here where we find ourselves in the corporation tax rate the challenge is not spending it and that's a big challenge so what happened in the past three verses of politics if I have it I spend it the challenge we have now is that while it's coming in and it's increased an incredible amount put in 3.9 billion three and a half years ago to 8.2 billion so in 2017 and we expect that figure to go over 9 billion in this calendar year so the challenge to the body politic is to be careful and not to be reckless just because we know it's in this year because it might not come in in subsequent years and that's a big challenge because there's enormous pressure on the purple finance and everybody from the body politic to keep spending and I've said it earlier the last decade was too hard to go back and do all of that again I know Matt that you do want to come back on that but we're already over time as it is and they've committed to letting Dan the gentleman at the back as well do you want to just summarise again Dan to respond to and then we'll let him do it If you're going to say that globalisation is good for Irish society if you're going to say that globalisation is good for Irish society how is this right you talk about all the extra wealth that's in the country that we are sitting upon right one of the worst homeless crisis that this country has ever seen since records began we also have a complete defunct health service that can cope with any more people coming into the country and relying upon an already over burdened health service if globalisation is so good how is it that we have all the migrants that even come into this country end up in so many occasions in more vulnerable positions where they have landlords that don't even afford them basic human rights in the accommodation that they afford to them so with all this extra wealth that's in the country why is it not being redistributed in a fair and proportionate way into the redistribution that's a much bigger question but why do we have homelessness 10 years ago the building industry collapsed it stopped building houses the population has increased by 400,000 could I just finish the point could I just finish the point please sir okay I'm just simply trying to answer your question could you just let me do the building industry collapsed no houses or very few houses were built over 10 years the population rose by 400,000 100,000 it wasn't globalisation that collapsed the building industry let me finish this answer sir please it wasn't globalisation that collapsed the building industry we screwed up that ourselves here in this country that allowed that to collapse it is not about globalisation it is because we messed up this gentleman here at the back has been waiting very very delighted for a long time thank you for being so patient sir your name, affiliations and questions Mark, morning I'm a Phinegal member how much of a fear surrounding EU and globalisation do the tribute to nostalgia you were chatting with somebody there recently a lady in her 70s and her self and her friend were having a coffee with me and the one said the good old days and they retort wise what was good about them there was damp running down the insides of the walls we had to go to the well for water we're in a far better place now so I'd just like to ask do you feel that nostalgia is down to nostalgia yes we are already running very well over time so we will try and keep it again 2 minute and a half and we will start with Matt please no I don't think so actually I think people by and large in Ireland support our membership of the EU for example the support are 12.5% tax rate for all it's I think what they have a problem with is actually some of the direction so I think the biggest problem people have in Ireland isn't the rate that people are paying it's the people who aren't paying at all or who are using Ireland as a mechanism for avoidance tax a lot of the increase in receipts and corporation tax haven't actually been as a result of increase in economic activity they've been as a result of profit shifting of multinational companies it's actually true let me just say this every I've been a member of a special inquiry committee on tax avoidance tax evasion and money laundering by corporations in the European Parliament every single every not some every single report that has been presented to our committee has earmarked Ireland as a location of facilitating of tax avoidance and from that level to some that have gone as far as the report yesterday co-ordered by Gabriel Zuckman that called Ireland not at tax haven but the worst tax haven now the difficulty with tax havens because Michael and the Department of Finance and everybody will come down very strongly I was talking tax haven status it's like early rising and good kissing it doesn't really matter what you think it's really important what your reputation is and the problem is that we actually have a reputation of facilitating mass tax avoidance and the point in this is that rather than actually endorsing and supporting our foreign direct investment we're actually putting it under threat because companies are becoming under increasing pressure from their customers and their shareholders not to be associated in any way with the whole notion of tax avoidance because people are recognising the damage that's causing the development world and to society in a whole and if we don't actually get our act together well then we're actually going to ensure that we don't receive foreign direct investment coming into our country you were doing so well with the stopwatch it was a really important part for which reason then I'll give Michael two and a half minutes to respond to both the nostalgic point and the tax better I think the tax haven is a country that has a pacerate of zero tax ours is 12.5% it's been 12.5% for decades and I don't think to be any movement upon it and the Irish tax rate but they don't complain when there were other jurisdictions that had lower rates than ours because they're not successful we have a lot of reasons for being successful the tax rate and the tax certainty here is one of them in terms of nostalgia the room was a bit shocked about are we better off than we were 30 years ago we are infinitely better off than we were 30 years ago there's no question about that I don't know how many of you remember the Black Gardens that was the answer to homelessness and the likes of that in the past and the population in the 1980s were so much better off than the population in the 1950s that this gentleman was talking about also the era of overcrowded housing and 6-8 people in one house 10 people banged into one house that year is over now we have challenges we said something about the health service the health service isn't all wrong there are challenges but there's quite a few people who enter the health service and get a good service it's not all right but people shouldn't be saying that equally it's all wrong because it's not he kept it within a minute and a half which is impressive when you consider what time of the evening it is Dan on that point about nostalgia and then Maria then we'll have to wrap it up after that I'm not going to consider the nostalgia thing I'm an economist I work with the evidence and every shred of evidence says we're better off, we live longer we have more incomes pretty much every set of data that goes back to the 80s says that now if other people have other information or data that I haven't seen that's fine let's talk about it but if we want it we can either live in a fact world or we can live in a post fact world and I prefer to live in a fact world and I think to finish off well I suppose the facts are that like is in we have thousands of families who are dependent on the state for a temporary housing payment or homeless at the moment so it is a very real issue but just in terms of I suppose you know again I tend to look at at the facts and the evidence but I'm also very conscious that sometimes the data will not tell us everything right and certainly I think that is something an issue, certainly an issue with regards to quality of work at the moment because anybody in the construction industry will tell you that the quality of work 10 years ago or 20 years ago was far better than what it is now because most people are not directly employed in construction but just kind of there's a number of points I just want to make but just I think we have made progress in society but we've also retreated and the one area that I'm thinking about is education so I started college in the early 2000s and I was able to do that with the benefit of free education brought in by the Labour Party in 1997 and that was a huge benefit to a whole generation of people who previously would not have been able to go to college and I was able to go to Dublin because I was able to avail of those free fees the cohort of people now who are going into college are facing very significant registration fees which by any other name is a fee it's not called a fee but it is a fee also brought in by the Labour Party well now it was there before that it was much higher and the point is that we have a funding gap of about 2 billion in education at the moment and complete in action as to how we're going to properly fund the education system so I suppose to just sum up the progress over all to retreating in certain areas in education and housing and in details to a certain extent are the three years that I'm thinking of 10 seconds we're spending more on education in 2018 than we've ever done before 10 million euros and the President of any of the universities would say that they are having to deal with the latter to cope with increasing numbers of students into third level and much less money coming into thousands we also provide 50% of the students and to attend education I think Barry Andrews has found the topic for his next seminar we'll be at the end of it that was the last two folks we're going to have to leave it there we're only a little bit over time sorry to those of you who I know had your hands up David in the amount of people we can accommodate please to show a round of appreciation from Rhysi Arlawd


I'm very pleased to welcome to the studio someone who knows the ITU very well. It's Bilal Jammusi, you're the chief of the study groups department at the standardisation bureau for the ITU. Now coordinating the world is a very complicated task, as you well know, your job involves coordinating study groups, focus groups, global standardisation initiatives, other kinds of activities. But I don't think we're going to go through all of those, I think we'll be here for quite a few days if we do. Let's start with focus groups. So we are here at the time when the digital financial services focus group is meeting. How does that fit into the overall ITU process? Sure, so the focus group is an open platform. It's open to members and non-members of the ITU. And we usually, when we have a topic of intersection of common interest to the telecom sector but also to adjacent sectors like the financial sector in this case. The focus group becomes an interesting platform that's open to bring both parties to the table to have these discussions of future interest to the world really. So we're talking about private companies, governments, regulators? Yes, that's the unique value proposition of the ITU and being able to convene private sector companies, regulators of telecoms, governments, academia to talk about the issues around financial services. Okay, and why was it necessary to set up this focus group and why now? Well, the focus group has been set up for one year now. Today is the second workshop that we're hosting around digital financial services. And when we set up this focus group a year ago it really came at the request of the Gates Foundation as one of our new sector members in ITU to work on digital financial services because in the world there are about two billion people, adults that don't have bank accounts, they have no bank services. Out of those two billion people, one and a half billion have mobile phones. And so we can reach out through digital financial services to 1.5 billion of the unbanked population. And who's best to convene that dialogue than the ITU where we have this reach to telecom regulators, to the private sector companies. And then through the focus group we opened to the financial sector and convened the workshop a year ago to start the dialogue. And today we're celebrating one year since this kickoff to really go deeper into the issues of relevance to this focus group. And is that because it's been perceived as a not particularly well-regulated sector up until this moment? The issue with digital financial services, it falls in the jurisdiction of two regulators, the telecom regulator and the central banks or the financial regulator. And if we don't have a constructive dialogue among those two entities it's very hard to roll out digital financial services. So the heart of the discussion in the focus group is to create that dialogue between the financial service regulator and the telco regulator. And to draft guidelines or MOUs between the financial service regulator and the telco to enable the rollout of digital financial services globally. And in your experience of these kind of focus groups with private industry government regulators, is it like people speaking completely different languages? Is it hard for them to understand each other? Sometimes they come with a different interest in mind. So the companies want to make money and to grow the business which is understandable. The governments and the regulators have the interest of the citizens in mind. And so the ITU provides a unique platform where the various stakeholders and various interest groups can come together and find a common denominator that suits all the interests and allow in this case the digital financial services to be rolled out. Now I'm sure that a year in this kind of process is quite a short time scale. What can realistically be achieved within a year? Right now we have three drafts. The focus group has had four meetings since its initiation and has been working on three recommendations or draft output documents. One is the frame MOU between a digital financial regulator and telco regulator. A set of tools and guidelines. And a blueprint really on how to roll this out in terms of interoperability. They're not final products but they are quite mature and in this meeting this week these deliverables are getting advanced quite a bit. And then the focus group has one more year before it finally produces its final output to move into the various study groups. In the ITU we have study groups that look at the regulatory aspects of the financial services. We have study groups looking at the quality of service. Another study group looking at the digital identity management and security. And these are all topics of key interest to be able to roll out digital financial services. And so the output from this focus group will span out into the various study groups to become international recommendations from the ITU. Given the exponential growth of mobile take up I presume that this means that the area that we're looking at digital financial services and getting people out of financial exclusion is going to be more and more important. Become more and more a priority for the ITU. Is that the case? Indeed. In fact next year we have our world telecom standards assembly at the end of 2016. Given the success of this focus group and the importance of this topic. It's expected that there will be some sort of a resolution of the world telecom standards assembly on this topic. To continue to enable the market to continue to enable the regulatory environment. And to put the focus, the necessary attention around the digital financial services and the financial inclusion as a whole. Well the whole fintech sector is a fascinating sector. Bill Elgiomysi, thank you very much and I wish you all the best. Pleasure. Thank you.


data analysis. What most people don't know, 80% of that is actually data cleaning and whipping the data into a shape so we can analyze it. There's often that image that we have huge servers here and we we write complicated code and derive formulas on the whiteboard like the movies. And there are some of that, but actually 80% is very tedious cleaning data, merging different data sources together, confirming the data quality to make sure that what later enters the model and our statistical models is sound and makes sense and it's of high quality. It always helps in that phase to have this connection with the field, to have been there, to have seen the reality. So when data speaks, when there are mistakes or inconsistencies, you can actually identify them and can tell this number is odd or I'm surprised by this, my intuition was not telling me that. And most of the time the complementarity between field work and data analysis make the story and the survey great. A fair bit of statistical modeling is to make sure that the final estimates that we present to policymakers. Is there a 10% increase or 10% decrease or you know, does this campaign work or doesn't it work? To make sure that this estimate is very reliable and to inform projects and their policies. The last phase is the writing phase and the dissemination phase. My job there is to make these numbers something that tells a story.


Okay, how about y'all? Okay, how about y'all? Y'all good now? We good now? Yes, we are. Team Keep It Clean, what's going on? It's Engraven here with another video and let's all take a collective side of relief together. That actually felt really good. So over the past two days Lamar Jackson had been listed on the injury report and he wasn't only listed on the injury report But he had actually missed practice Both on Wednesday and Thursday on Wednesday. I wasn't really concerned with it on Thursday Dead, I did start to get a little bit concerned But at the same time like we said in the video yesterday Friday will tell the story because Friday injury report if they don't practice on Friday Usually under the Ravens under John Harbaugh, then they don't play they don't play And then a lot of people start putting all these different scenarios in their head like okay Hey, we need to go with Trace McSawley then cuz RG3 ain't it cuz again I said like a lot of people they just not feeling RG3 and some people gave some really good reason reasonable explanations That's to why they wouldn't want RG3 to start and they would rather trace Some people just said hey that tiktok song put me on the trace So I want him to start instead of RG3 if it happens to come to that But we even got to worry about that and I'm glad that we don't have to worry about that because Yeah, we just we didn't want to get there We did not want to get there now some some people you were even saying whoa Well, this would be the game to sit him sit them in would be against the bingles and I'm thinking I Don't know about that. I know their record. They just won their first game, but Their record is no indication of where this team is They were right down to the wire with the charges over time with who the Eagles And they they obviously won against the the Jaguars, but this team and against the Browns that that was right down to it too So they've been they've been in every one of their games. They've been in all of their games. They haven't been any blowouts So that says a lot about this bingles team So the when the people were saying oh, yeah, if this is the game if there's any game he should sit in it Should be this But anyway We're just glad that he's back.  Now, of course actions will speak louder than Instagram posts But he looked good the reporters Jeff Zrebek James and Hensley They said there were no issues and Lamar's movement anything like that. They said that he looked like he was fine So that is a beautiful thing And we just we're just glad we're glad we're happy. So anyway Y'all make sure you check out the question from subscriber video that we put out earlier today Title question was how can the Ravens use their running backs? How was the best way for them to use off for their running backs? Effectively efficiently, how should they do that? So y'all go ahead and check that out It is a it's about an hour long because hey, we got a lot of questions like y'all sent a lot of questions And I think it may be almost impossible for us to get caught up by the time the game comes around But I'm gonna try my best trust me questions from subscribers. It does take a lot of work takes a lot of work like Y'all don't understand how much work it takes, but it's all good man Cuz I do it for my appreciation for y'all and I love y'all anyway Also check out the live stream that we did Just like all the Ravens youtubers on there was me. It was new bow Coach came through it was Raven C was sudden death. It was lunch break hot take podcast It was a oh my god, David the sports and game nerd. It was Fred from Berlin BS I feel like I'm missing somebody. Oh, what's the B word was no, we got to get what's the B word on it I know he was working though And then sunny sunny was probably knocked out cuz Sunny's in a whole nother time zone now, man Sonny from SCG sports, but anyway, we we gots to do it again We we are definitely gonna do more stuff like that again cuz it was so fun, man And I appreciate everybody that was a part of that. So thank you. I love y'all team. Keep it clean I appreciate y'all. I got a lot of work to do so I'm gonna go ahead and get on that right now But until then I'm out. Oh, well one last thing a very special video coming out tonight With a bingles youtuber very very special video. I think you guys will really really enjoy it a lot Well, at least I hope you will but anyway, I love y'all team keep it clean. I appreciate y'all We out man. I love y'all, man


Hi Hi, Robin. Can you hear me? Yes, I can. Oh good. It's so good to see you.  Thank you for your patience while we kick this off. I'm Ben Reinhardt the style director at Domino Magazine and Welcome, I'm so excited to Be talking about some of my favorite topics today color and mood boards. There's nothing better There's nothing better. No, the very talented Robin Verrier Robin is here below joining today She is a prop stylist a photographer and the founder of very Robin and company based in Charlottesville, Virginia I'm so thrilled to have you Robin works with Tastemakers and brands such as look who say and Brick helps to bring their stories to life using beautiful objects flowers and their products and Robin I know you recently partnered with look who say to celebrate the launch of agave their latest color introduction a rich blue and green Jewel tone and the brand's first color to blend shades from two different color families So welcome Robin. Thank you for having me. What an awesome intro. I'm so excited that we're doing this Of course Well, so one of the things I love about look who say as a brand is that they really do celebrate color So it sounds like it sounds like such a perfect pairing for you. Yeah, I so like you said I help brands advertise in a really fun way and Like as a person who loves color. It's so great to work with brands who love color You know, it just makes the process so much more fun So when like who say approached me and we've done a few different color launches together To help create the campaign for their new agave color I was so excited because who doesn't love a good blue, which this is it's a beautiful blue green And it was just so much fun We really had a good time with this one. It really is a stunning color and I'm going to pull up An image here One second But while I do that what how did you first get into creating mood boards that's a really good question and I get asked that a lot. So I started this business almost five years ago, which is so crazy But I would like a lot of creative professionals create mood boards to help with like a planning process, you know Like if I'm doing a project or something Moveboards are a really great way to kind of get all of your thoughts in one place, you know like everything in front of you no matter what it is that you're doing and so I Was actually creating a mood board of a working mood board for a stationary company that I was working with and I was you know, I it was for spring and I got all of the beautiful spring Stationary out and I was like, what are the cool props that I can pull to kind of bring this line to life Help tell this new story in a really fun way. And so I did this mood board And I was like, well, maybe I should share this to my Instagram. This is years ago I was like, I don't know people will care. I'll go like it, but I did and so I shared I'm my mood board to insta and people loved it and I kind of started falling in love with the process of mood board creating and it kind of became like my way of Telling my story and of expressing myself So it really started five years ago when I was creating a mood board just for a client for a project And I guess the rest is history, but that's really how it started.  I can see that now Yep, we often I'm at the Domino office and we often put up our working issues as as we're developing them here So I I totally get how important it is to kind of keep those items sort of around you and You know in proximity to where you're working So I was curious to hear from you about what like how do you set goals around creating mood boards and in your opinion, like what makes it successful for those of our readers who are tuning in how can they Create a successful mood board for one of their own projects. Yeah, that's a great idea. So You know, we can do inspirational mood boards just for fun or a mood board to help plan for a project I think mood boards all have different missions. Do I mean like they can be for different things? So I think for a mood board to be successful just for fun is to have fun doing it That's kind of the point. I Always think that a good place to start and this is what I do is to pick a single color or a single theme And who doesn't love the theme to kind of start there and kind of build off of that and Then you can kind of it makes it easier when you're getting props too because like if you're like I'm just gonna work in one color color family in all blue then it makes your job easier when you're getting things together But if it's for a project, I think It just needs to help you kind of get the job done You know when you have like a million little bits and pieces and things in your brain And you can put them all in front of you at one time and see everything it kind of makes everything gel And do my colors work do my aesthetics work. It's just a great way To kind of plan for something so it just depends on what the end result you want is either for fun or for a project But they're so helpful. I think you know absolutely.  This is a Clip from one of the mood boards that you had worked on for the look crusade project And yeah, I love that you're thinking about colors in terms of like different tones So how do you bring in like, you know, three-dimensional objects or other things aside? What else do you kind of, you know, like to include aside from like magazine tears and printed printed pieces? Yeah, that's a great question. So Kind of like what I was saying earlier. I like to play like on a color story so this mood board that you're showing in particular is Really kind of a perfect mixture of blue and green, which is just like like crusades agave color that we just launched Which is blue and green. So I kind of wanted to have a mood board that represents fun and Nature and excitement and so I kind of sourced a lot of different things and that's usually what I use my mood boards Anyway, it's just lots of different bits and pieces to kind of I'll tell one really cool story. So I Love a physical mood board over a digital one just for me personally because I can really use like anything like you can see here in my CDO, I just have lots of just different items So I think it just depends but I do love playing with the color story kind of like the one you just showed with really fun with blue and green and Yeah, I love that you bring in elements from nature and that you're looking outside of just like I think we all have Screen fatigue and zoom fatigue. So it's it's refreshing that you're seeking Sources of inspiration from nature and other places, which leads me to wonder, you know During that these times, where are you finding inspiration for your creative projects? Are any unconventional places or anything? Anywhere that you maybe might not have expected to find Or for an upcoming project or something that you're working on now Mm-hmm. That's a really good question and I actually get asked that one a lot And I think my answer is always going to be nature just because it's kind of like an immersive experience Like when you go outside or if you're at the beach, it's a full sensory experience You know, like if you're at the beach You can hear the ocean and you can feel the wind and like we'll stand on your toes and it's really kind of a sensory moment that you don't really get when you're inside or if you're at your computer, you know I mean, so when I'm able to kind of be out in nature and surround myself with whatever is going on there it kind of sparks these other creative ideas and Yeah, and I love nature so much that I really do love to include it in a lot of my work So I use shells and plants and pressed ferns and whatever I can get my hands on I love that and and I love that you're sort of analyzing what's out there and kind of grouping those things into different families And one thing that you know, I've always loved about the brand The Crusade is that they always really stood behind color and Domino as a brand Really loves to celebrate color as well. Yeah, our team is Always on the hunt for what's new and what's next in terms of trending colors palettes So I'm curious to hear from you just a little bit about What it was like to sort of apply a new color That's sort of launching the market with actual product like Dutch ovens skillets and casseroles and sort of incorporate that type of retail product into The work that you create. Yeah, that's a great question and Kind of the beauty about what I do is that I can work with so many different types of product You know to bring them the life and so working with like cookware and pots and pans was a new kind of Medium if you will and I and I loved it and the thing that made it fun is because like you say really leans into color and Personality and they really it's just fun. You know, it's something that you want to be a part of and have in your life So The really cool thing about these color launches is that these colors over the years that we've done just have so much personality and I think they kind of Have so many inspirations behind them like for example the agave blue that just launched to me It's kind of like when you're walking out on the dune and you're looking out at the beach in front of you And it's just that feeling, you know of the the wind on your face And it's kind of the feeling that that blue gives you I feel like color is so powerful and it can really move you and I think like you say really understands that and they are able to bring these feelings into your life with these pieces That you can have in your kitchen and your in your world and so it was really cool to do these color launches because I Could kind of bring out all the inspirations that are behind these colors like what does This color make you feel and what does it evoke for you? So it's kind of fun to play off of those feelings in the mood board to kind of give the color a little bit of narrative You know to tell the story and what inspired it and kind of where it takes you. Do you know what I mean? Oh Absolutely, I'm going to pull up one of my favorite color stories that you produced which would which is this Lemony yellow color and so I'd love to hear from you like now that you've collaborated with this brand iconic brand How do you how would you recommend our audience? Integrate some of these pieces into their own kitchens Would you say like go bold like I love like this bright yellow kind of trending marigold color or are you kind of like? Would you sort of advise? Like going with sort of more of a neutral color. I'm just curious what you what you think So that's a great question and the reason that this is like fun and like or say makes it fun It's because they have such a wide very very excuse me Array of options color options. I can really choose whatever you want and for whatever mood you you want or whatever You know color your kitchen is So for nectar that beautiful golden yellow you just showed I really wanted it to be powerful And so I used a lot of the same tone just because we are launching a new color I want it to be all about that color and that mood board particularly and That warm nectar color is kind of like warm and homey But it's also sophisticated and it kind of like plays well with others if you will I can be matched with a lot of other colors, which is really cool and Something that like her say it's done with some of their new jewel tones as they made it so that they will work with a lot of other colors Which is so neat So, let's see if I had to if I had to pick though. This is hard because Yeah, let's you let's get down to it. Yeah, what I love the nectar color. I think it's gorgeous I also am very much partial to flame, which is there. Oh, yeah, but what yeah, what? What are you sort of drawn to you for your own for your own space? So it's funny you ask because I was married almost seven years ago in May And on our wedding our wedding registry. I had flame as one of the things that I had to have this is way before I worked with like her say So truly truly that the orange like classic flame color is a favorite and I think it's so like sophisticated and beautiful and classic all-in-one, which is so neat because it's orange and So I love the orange, but I kind of like to Incorporate colors that you normally don't see together. So I think it's cool to pair The flame with the new agave, which is the beautiful blue green or The new artichoke, which is that really deep leafy green and it's kind of cool to play on opposite You know how you have like orange and blue or orange red Yeah, yep So, I mean, but I also to be honest, I also love having all one color story You know what I mean? It's kind of refreshing to see everything in the same color I don't know. I guess the answer is I can't choose Well, I hear you it kind of depends on your style your own personal style And I find them super helpful to have on shoots. We always I'm always packing a White Dutch oven just to have because they're always they're so versatile and they look great in So I totally hear you And so it was so great to sort of connect and hear about your Collaboration with the brand and to chat a little bit about your creative process. Thank you. This is so fun I've loved chatting with you guys.  I'm trying to look at what's behind you. Thank you Yeah, our office and this is our one of our past issues that was recently published. So we're doing some spring cleaning and Awesome, I hope that you are able to relax this weekend and it was so good to see you Yeah, you too guys. Thanks for joining us.  Of course. Thanks Robin. It was great to connect And thank you Ben for being in touch. Yep, Sam. 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Hello and welcome to NewsCleek. Today we have with us Prof. Ajaz Ahmad. We're going to discuss the US positions in Syria as well as what's happening in Israel and Palestine. Ajaz, we've been following the Syrian issue for quite some time and you have been with us earlier also on that. How do you see the things now developing? Because it seems that the United States has now made some noises about pulling out of Syria. Trump has given statements. Again, they have sort of gone back on it. But how do you see the United States involvement in Syria now? And particularly with Turkey coming against the US SDA for good alliance? Ravi, my instinct would be to ignore Trump's tweet. He gets up in the morning, he has a thought, he puts it on the tweet.  So that I would by and large simply ignore my senses that we are actually at a very, very dangerous moment where the US and the new appointments have bolted at this time and the other. We don't know what the game plan now would be because the most extreme team has been put in place. The real problem is Turkey. Within NATO, this kind of confrontation is their real problem. Now, the fact of the matter is that a very perfectly reasonable solution is at hand. That is to say the government of Syria has won the war against ISIS. The Kurds have certainly established an enclave, which is internally very well organized as a sort of a media state. But whatever that means, I also think that Kurds are not crazy, insane people. In any negotiations, they would be quite willing to accept that they can have maximum autonomy of the kind that the Kurds already have in Iraq without being an independent state. So these problems can be resolved in internal problems within Syria very easy. Turkey could accept it in Syria as it did in Iraq. Partly because it is trying to improve its relations with Russia and behind the scenes agenda. As long as Kurds don't want an independent state, they would accept this position, that autonomous region, but that's it. Or at least rationally they should. So it's perfectly possible. So a rational solution is at hand. The problem is that with the United States and Erdogan having completely irrational positions and overplaying their hands, we don't know. Because Erdogan has fantasies of capturing territory in Syria and even in Iraq. Turkey could accept a sort of autonomous state and do business with it exactly the way it did in Iraq. I mean it made an enormous amount of money on the oil coming from Kurdistan. Of course Iraqi businessman did it, Iraqi state did it, quite possibly Erdogan and his son did it, made that money. So they have been having that kind of business, they could have it in Syria. The problem with the United States is that the policy of trapping the Russians in Syria, which they have failed to do all these years, still remains. Now with Bolton and all of these people in place, we don't know where that is going. And to reverse whatever Iran has gained and possibly tighten the screws around Iran, that fantasy still continues. That is where I think the danger lies. And this is coupled with the fact that they are sitting on Syria's oil east of Euphrates. And that's really the US army which is backing that part of the Kurdish advance. That's certainly, then the Petrodollar world and the Weppendollar Petrodollar Alliance comes in there. But in the larger strategic sense, Americans are feeling very belligerent because they are caught. It's a belligerent coming from people who used to be called the crazies in America in the 1970s, who wanted to go and destroy the Soviet Union and China and so on, who later on got to be called new conservatives, who are the crazies. And those people are now back fully in power in a president who simply they can control in a way that actually no other president in modern American history has been just sitting there. And now he's cornered. He's very much cornered. So we have a very dangerous situation where you have in America really no presidents. You know, this of course brings me to the next question. What does the American, what you call the new conservatives, of which John Bolton is a key example? What is their end game? Are they looking for a war against Iran? Are they looking for a war against Russia? Or do they think that everybody will back off if they wheel the big stick and make the big noise? When they invaded 2003, 15 years ago, these people were saying Baghdad, Damascus, Riyadh, Tehran, this is going to be the root. They used to say while others go here, there and the other real men go to Tehran. So Tehran has been that place that the whole objective of all of this destruction of the Middle East, so to speak, one of the major objectives has been Iran. The problem for them is that in these 15 years, Iranian position has become much stronger. From being a local important part, but a local part, it has become part of a great strategic alliance in the world, which is China, Russia, Iran. It's not moving according to geo-strategic understanding of where the position of the United States could be.  In all these years, in which there has been so much destruction in Syria, no significant element from either the armed forces or the bourgeoisie, any organ of the state or the class has defected to the Americans. Coming to the other issue, which is also of course very much an issue in Syria, is Israel. Now Israel seems at the moment to want to take out Hezbollah and believes that not having a, shall we say, a proxy Syrian state or a state in which the Syrian government is very weak means that their ability to control Hezbollah, attack Hezbollah or confront Hezbollah is much more weakened. Do you see Israel also taking on Hezbollah as a part of this larger war which the United States seems to want, at least in this, in Syria? I actually look at all this very, very differently. Israel is going through a very great state crisis in which Netanyahu has been implicated in so many of the corruption cases and so on that his government is actually being, he is very weak at the moment and you don't know where all of that is going to go, even if the government survives, it has been undermined a great deal by all of this, one after the other after the other and so on.  But more than that, what they have got is, with Kushner and all of these people, they have a historic chance of completing their colonization of Palestine. The Crown Prince has already said that Israel has a right to its own lands. Now, what its own lands are, of course, is the big question. For many years now, there is an implicit alliance between Israel and Saudi Arabia. But in the last three or four years, virtually month by month, it has become more intensified and closer. So you think that Hezbollah is not going to be their first priority? First priority is trying to do this? They are their first priority and they won't do it alone. If you don't touch Iran, if Iran can remain what it is, Hezbollah will upgrade Israel. But let's look at it this way. The U.S. taking on Iran, Israel taking on Palestinians, which of course they would do with the tacit support of both the U.S. and Saudi Arabia. But if the U.S. takes on Iran, then Hezbollah gets drawn into this mix anyway. Taking on Iran might be the end of the U.S. empire. I mean, it's not as simple as that. They can't. That's why I'm saying that they are caught. The only thing that I'm truly worried about in all this, in the longer perspective, one is worried about everything, is this very rapid annexation of Palestine. So that you see as the immediate and major threat in the area. It's going very fast and all the, certainly all factions of the American power structure seem to have accepted it. And Europe is a conflict. We'll make some noises, but accept it. And interestingly, this is also the point that the Palestinians actually Arab Palestinian population, including the Palestinians within Israel borders, outnumbered the Jewish population today. So this is the other threat that they have, the demographically occupation with internal Palestinians already there means that they are outnumbered today as a, and clearly they have to be an apartheid state. Yes, what they will make is an apartheid state, but they will not have a Palestinian majority. They will hand over Gaza to Egypt. I mean, that's what their plan seems to do. To occupy an annex as much of the West Bank as they're getting want to. Which is the greater Jerusalem, which is 25 to 30% of West Bank. Then hand over the rest to Jordan. As you know, Ajaz, it's not Jerusalem, but greater Jerusalem, which is 25 to 30% of the West Bank. In the long term, historically speaking, that is what the real danger is. You know, there is a bar in, say in Kurdistan, how it shifts here back and forth is of course very significant in which you'll see. But that's where I think the real danger is. So what do you think that the Russians, Iranians, Syrians can do except battle this out defensively for the long run? That's the problem. There's nothing they can do about Palestine. Nothing they can really do about Palestine. And the Arab world, unless there is significant change, Saudi Arabia being the key one, there is no likelihood of any resistance there either. So at the moment the real crux of the issue is that the Palestinian statehood is the main threat at the moment. Or is it the greatest danger at the moment? I mean, I don't know what you mean by Palestinian statehood. That was never in the past. The very possibility of some kind of autonomous existence for the Palestinians in the West Bank, which sustains that claim. Israelis think that this is the time to annex as much of the Palestinian lands, the remaining Palestinian lands as possible, to extend the settler colonial state into as much of the rest of Palestine as possible. That seems to be the real crux of this. Virtually the most dangerous part of the coming of Trump to power is actually pushing, which makes the connection with Israel for the Trump presidency much more intense than it has been in the past. The problem is that the victory in Syria is absolutely spectacular and at great cost, but it is there. The change in the balance of power in the world is actually moving very fast against the Americans. We are really seeing a strategic shift. The factors of all of this geopolitics are such that the resistance in Palestine cannot have decisive backing from this new strategic alliance.


Hi, I'm HM3 Barker. I'm from Grand Rapids, Michigan. I'm here in Naples, Italy, working at Capodikino Clinic. In honor of the Navy's 239th birthday, I'd like to thank all my family back in Michigan for their support over the last three years.


Just on my way to the movies to see fast seven and I wish y'all could see this right outside my window I want to lift up the camera. Um, there's a dude. It's rain where I'm at There's a dude running.  This is what it says it says as The rebooted fantastic for movie creeps toward its June release were slowly seeing more of how fantastic The group's powers are January's teaser trailer gave a small taste of the darker more dramatic tone the film is taking on as well as The changes the cast will go through that turns them into heroes in this new international teaser We finally get a real glimpse of the thing and get to see Johnny storm take to the air as The human torch Fantastic for will hit theaters on June 19th.  I just I Don't really you know, it's kind of vague still I mean I Was told that you know this origin is the ultimate Origin so okay, I understand that I just am I don't know I you know, I was one of the people that really liked the first fantastic for and I like the second one You know that was kind of a flop. I liked them both. I really liked the first one. I really liked the first one So I'm a fan of that definitely Let me know what you guys think Are you more interested are you less interested? I'm a little more interested still got that dark gloomy You know ho-hum type of tone. I don't I'm not ant for it doesn't make me ant for I'll go see it most likely because it's from Mar-Vell and you know but You know all their trailers I like it said this one. I'm indifferent about I don't hate it and I don't like it I'm just like okay, I Trust Mar-Vell though.


All right, how's it going everybody? Forest here ripping 2022 Dynasty F1 hobby. That's right, Dynasty F1 hobby, five box case, number one left side serial numbers. We're gonna random right now, names and numbers. You'll get your number. And then again, if you get number two, you'll get whatever's number two or five, two or 10, whatever it may be. So, so on and so forth. Randomize names and numbers the amount of times put them side by side. Good luck and then we're just gonna get right into it. Just get right into it. All one video here. Nine times six and three, nine times on each. Make sure everything's set up here. Cool, all righty, names first. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight and nine. CK down assignment S and nine times on the numbers. Good luck, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight and nine, seven down to eight. There are the number CK with seven, David K is 10, one and six, Christopher L four, MO five, David K with nine, Danny C three, Ralph N two, Simon S eight. Those results are getting posted right now. Here's a link if you need to see those again. I'm also just gonna call out who's hit is who's as we go along here. Okay, oh man, I love Dynasty so much. Who doesn't love Dynasty though? This is the stuff right here. Got the sharpest knife in the world. Be careful, fresh blade sort of seem to stack up like that. Here we go, 2022 Dynasty F one. Yeah, one patch out of her box number to 10 or less. Tyrell would be so cool. All the relics in F one are pretty sick though. Some of those like sponsor patches, logo patches. You ready Jake? I'm ready man. You're gonna top load too hard over there. I gotta get them ready. Triple relics, double relics. All right, there's foam. There's foam, keep it a secret. First card of the day. It is nine of 10. So this one's going to David K with the nine spot. And it is a Fernando Alonzo patch auto. Nine of 10, Fernando Alonzo patch auto. That is the W from BWT right there. Very nice, very nice. Authentic mem. Alrighty, good start to the day there. Yeah, so yeah guys, get used to getting seeing crazy patches. I mean that's nice. Boring to see some crazy stuff today though. Grad state, David. Maybe with the nine spot. Okay guys, there's serial number breaks available tonight. There are F one mixers today. Chrome and Dynasty mixers today. No, no Mandy, no it is not. I think we have a different numbering here. Let's see. Oh, one of five, one spot. David K as well. Is a Joe Guanio rookie patch auto. Let's go. Heck yeah. David again, bought four spots, paying off for him hugely here. Joe rookie patch auto. That is the R from Alfa Romeo, right? That's the R from Alfa Romeo on the rookie patch auto Joe Guanio. That's what's up. Love to see that. Holy cow man, these are so freaking nice. Yeah, these are gross. These are so nice. Takes me a little while to wake up. It's gonna have him quick today. I am waking up for heating up too. All right, so the numbering is always gonna be top right it seems like. Should always be horizontal. All right, we got a Ricardo. Get Daniel Ricardo, ooh, five out of 10. Ammo D, patch auto Daniel Ricardo, five out of 10. Grads Ammo. Sponsor patch there I believe. That's so sweet. Authentic man, yeah, should always be authentic. What up Wahoos? All right, two more. Good luck everybody. Who we got this time? We got Mick Schumacher. We got a quick Mick. Mick Schumacher, one out of two dual patch auto. David K, again. Wow. Like I said, David Barth. Four spots in this one. He hit. Quick Mick dual patch auto, one of two. What patches are those? That looks like it's just from like their logo, the Haas logo. This might be a sponsored patch. I'm not entirely sure. Sick Mick, quick Mick. Sick quick Mick. All right, last one. Last one, good luck everybody. What's this? Ooh, the number is on that side this time. Okay, this is different. This is different. All right, we're just gonna, we're just gonna rip the band-aid off. Lois Hamilton, one of 10. David K, again. My goodness. David just knocked it out of the absolute park. It's like an 800 foot home run. That's what I would call that. Triple patch auto, Lois Hamilton, one of 10. Lou Ham. Yup, that stuff is sick. Thank you very much everybody for joining this one. Two more seal number breaks coming up next. We got some F1 mixtures that we gotta get filled up.


Book. Connected pages. A book in Moodle is a series of connected pages. You can think of it as a mini-website or as a manual, for instance this book on a school Moodle, which is a departmental policy document. A book is useful because you can include not only text, but links, images, sound and video, such as a YouTube video here. You can see that books have a table of contents showing the different sections or chapters. To add a book to our course, we first enable edit mode top right, and then in the section we want to add our book, we click add an activity or resource. This brings up Moodle's activity chooser. Book is a resource because learners just read it, they don't interact with it. Click to go straight to the setup screen, or click the i to get more information, and then click the add button bottom right. We give our book a name, and if needed a description, and if we want to display this description on the course page, we check the box. Note that if you check this box, the description will display at the top of each of the sections or chapters in your book. In appearance, we can decide how we want the chapters, which some prefer to think of as pages, of our book to be displayed, for example numbered. In activity completion, we want to track that students have accessed the book. Do we want them to manually click to confirm they've read it, or do we want it automatically marked complete when they view the book? To alert course participants that a book has been added or updated, click send content change notification. When we click save and display, we can start adding content to our book, and once we've made one chapter, you can see that its name appears over in the table of contents. We can add another one by clicking the plus icon, and then when we've saved a second one, you see there's an arrow allowing us to change the order of the chapters. The configure icon lets us do some edits, the bin will delete our chapter, and the eye will hide it from students. So we can continue with our book by clicking the plus icon again. Finally, if we click on a book and click the more link, we see that it's possible to print books off, something your students might be interested to know.