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10 things concerning Aubrey Sitterson and his pursuit of good comics [Part 1]
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by Jarrod Jones. I don't think it's a reach to call Aubrey Sitterson an iconoclast, at least as far as cape comics are concerned. He's not here to build on what superheroes have become over generations. Sitterson is here to revitalize something that superheroes haven't been since the genesis of superheroes. "Judging from the current landscape, it's easy to assume that superheroes have never been anything more than corporate-owned supercops, reactionary power fantasies cloaked in liberal signifiers," he wrote for Polygon back in 2020. He continues: "But that generalization obscures the truth: Superheroes used to be about helping and protecting people, not the systems and hierarchies holding them down."
That piece was written just as his and Tyrell Cannon's Kickstarted project, the "Leftist superhero" Beef Bros, was unleashed on backers and the general public alike. Beef Bros, a clear descendant of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster's original "hero of the people" concept of Superman, signified an embrace of Sitterson's ideologies and the kind of comics he wanted to make—unsurprising, given all this followed his short-lived experience scripting G.I. Joe for IDW Publishing. "The dream wasn't working on G.I. Joe comics to benefit Hasbro," he told The Comics Journal back in 2020. "That wasn't the pinnacle for me."
So an iconoclast, sure. And he's a gifted writer, as well as a positive force for all things good and awesome in the comics industry. If I could distill all of this into a single word and couple that with having known him for years, I'd describe Aubrey Sitterson as a force. His energy is unbelievable. And as Aubrey ventures deeper into his current era writing viscerally joyous and energizing action comics alongside co-creators like Tyler Cannon, Chris Moreno, Tony Gregori, Fico Ossio, and others, he's yet to display any signs of fatigue. This body of work—which includes No One Left to Fight, Savage Hearts, The Worst Dudes (all published at Dark Horse Comics), and Kickstarted projects Stoned Master and the aforementioned Beef Bros—feels like a foundation off of which Aubrey can build practically anything, including a template of clear-eyed, honest superhero stories for future writers and artists to study and embrace.
When I ask him where all this energy comes from, he cuts right to the point: "This is what I've always wanted. I didn't feel I had any other choice but to make it happen!"
As the second volume of No One Left to Fight hits bookstores and comic shops everywhere, I'm excited to share the first part in a longform interview with Aubrey Sitterson, where we discuss a multitude of things concerning comics, not least of which the fires which burn inside Sitterson and forge the comics he wants to see in the world.
1. Over the last couple years, it has been a Sitterson Bonanza of creator-owned comics: No One Left To Fight with Fico Ossio and Raciel Avila; The Worst Dudes with Tony Gregori and Lovern Kindzierski; Stoned Master with Chris Moreno; Savage Hearts with Jed Dougherty and Kindzierski; Beef Bros with Tyrell Cannon, Ossio, and Raciel Silva—with Taylor Esposito lettering the whole lot. Forgive me for being glib, but where's all this energy coming from, Aubrey? How does one harness such power?
Aubrey Sitterson: But wait; there's more! There was also No Kings, No Masters with Goran Gligović, which ran as back ups in Savage Hearts! I had an absolutely colossal 2021 and it was all made possible by the first No One Left to Fight series, the success of which seemed to surprise everyone except for those of us working on it. Once that thing hit like it did, I knew it was now or never to do what I've always dreamed of doing: Furthering and exploring what I see as comics' still-untapped potential. So, it became a mad dash to get other work out there, hitting the direct market as well as the crowdfunding arena, all the while trying to avoid getting pigeonholed by making sure that each book was in an entirely different genre, with a distinct tone, voice, and thematic undertones.
As for where the energy comes from… This is what I've always wanted. I didn't feel I had any other choice but to make it happen!
2. Most of your recent work has been published through Dark Horse Comics. Can you tell me a bit about how Dark Horse became your de facto homebase, and how your working relationship with the company has been?
In a word? Great. Everything I've done at Dark Horse has been with the incredible Brett Israel and, more recently, with assists by Sanjay Dharawat. It all started a few years back, when Brett, being a big fan of the One True Sport, dug Chris Moreno and my The Comic Book Story of Professional Wrestling and asked if I had any fictional work to pitch. The first thing I sent him was Fico and my No One Left to Fight, with the entire first ten issues broken out beat by beat, and we were off to the races. The thing I love most about Dark Horse—and why I continue to do so much work there!—is the freedom they give creators to tell their story the way they want to tell it. The wide breadth of genres we've touched on already—fight comic soap opera, science fiction mystery, jungle fantasy romantic comedy—tells the whole story. Who else is getting to do such a wide variety of material!? I feel incredibly blessed to have an opportunity to get all this very specific, very unique stuff out of my head and into the world, especially with a publisher as renowned and, frankly, legendary as Dark Horse.
3. What puts Dark Horse over the top as a creator-owned hub for you—over, say, Image Comics, or Substack?
I see Dark Horse and Substack—or Dark Horse and Kickstarter, for that matter—as being pretty apples and oranges. They're both ways to get comics out into the world but the similarities end there, with the biggest difference being that Substack is a digital comics platform and Dark Horse, while it does make comics available digitally, is primarily a print comics publisher. That's key for me because the books I'm doing are meant to be read in print. This isn't a criticism of digital comics but, rather, an acknowledgement that every medium should be used to its fullest and the fact that Aubrey digital comics would function and operate very differently than Aubrey print comics do. My Dark Horse books are meant to be held in your hand and pored over, in large part because of how incredible my artistic co-creators are! They're designed to make you want to flip back to previous pages to catch things you might have missed or just to savor specific moments because I know that's how I like to read comics.
As for the difference between Dark Horse and Image, it's a little more subtle and inside baseball. Both publishers come with tremendous legacies and are incredibly well respected in our industry but the deals they offer are wildly different. While I can't speak for anyone else, what's made my relationship with Dark Horse so valuable and rewarding is how they've willingly and generously invested in me as a talent. In addition to providing editorial, marketing, and distribution services, Dark Horse, seeing the potential of the work I've been bringing to them, has put up money to fund its creation; books like No One Left to Fight, Savage Hearts and The Worst Dudes simply wouldn't exist if not for Dark Horse and I can't overstate how grateful I am for their taking a chance on our work.
4. One thing that stands out to me is how expansive all these worlds you have co-created are. The gnarly sci-fi noir or The Worst Dudes, the rambunctious fantasy romance of Savage Hearts, the sweeping worlds and familial strengths of No One Left To Fight—so much detail for such a large and growing body of work.
That's so nice of you to say. Thank you!
How does a story begin for you? Are you charting out complete story/character bibles?
I think what you're picking up on is a byproduct of how my co-creators and I go about building these projects. What the initial piece is—a character, a visual, a joke, a genre—varies book to book but what comes next is always the same: a conversation. I'm not terribly interested in making assembly line comics; actual meaningful collaboration isn't just what makes this work so much fun, it's what makes a comic truly special and more than just the sum of its parts. That's why all of the books you mentioned are true co-creations, with Tony, Jed, and Fico acting as equal partners over the course of countless conversations and discussions. And when you get two creative people excited about an idea, there's no really turning off that faucet, which means that, inevitably, we end up with way more pieces than we can actually cram into five issues. Instead of seeing that as a limitation though, I look at it as a challenge: convey as much information as we can in as little space and as visually as possible. It's a mindset that's central to my approach to storytelling as well as my theory of comics as a medium.
5. What's proven to be the most unwieldy project for you so far, in terms of scope?
Oh man, that's easy: The Comic Book Story of Professional Wrestling. Don't get me wrong; Chris Moreno is a consummate professional and I adore working with him. The unwieldiness of the wrestling book had nothing to do with him and everything to do with all of the added requirements of doing nonfiction. Wrestling is something I love and I knew that we had the opportunity to make something really special, something that doesn't exist in comics or any other format, a definitive, comprehensive history of The One True Sport, so I spent a ton of time doing research and getting outlines together before I started writing the first page. But even then, I still wasn't prepared for how much fact-checking I needed to do with regard to dates, locations and other specifics. Plus, there was all the reference gathering to make sure that hardcore wrestling fans didn't get pulled out of the narrative by a wrestler wearing the wrong colored gear at a specific event.
When I started writing TCBSOPW, I had a general idea of how long it took me to write a page of comics, but after I wrote the first three pages, I looked at the clock and said, "Oh noooooooo." It required some heavy rescheduling and shuffling around on my end to make sure that I could make that thing as rigorous and exhaustively and exhaustingly researched as I knew it needed to be. It was my first and last nonfiction work!
6. Are there any subjects left that you might consider writing a nonfiction book about if the opportunity came along? Or is that all the way off the table?
Brother, they'd have to back the Brinks truck up. I'm not interested in doing Wikipedia theater or stuff that's just pure anecdote or a list of things that happened. I went into The Comic Book Story of Professional Wrestling as a very well-informed wrestling fan but I still had to do an immense amount of research in order to fill in the gaps in my knowledge and also develop what I refer to as the books thesis statements and then confirm that my theses actually hold up; to me, that's what makes truly substantive nonfiction work, what elevates it from anecdote to an actual narrative with ideas to convey about a subject. And then, on top of that, there were all the requirements in terms of things that absolutely had to be in there and working with Chris to find ways ways to convey all of this information in as visual a way as possible.
I guess I shouldn't entirely rule out doing more nonfiction work but right now I'm much more interested in exploring ideas through fiction, where I've got more freedom to do so while really making the most of the comic book medium.
7. On that front, you seem to work with a recurring crew of folks on your projects, almost as though you and your fellow creators could launch your own comics imprint. Is this a ride-or-die kind of situation?
It's nothing as formal or defined as all that; it's really just a byproduct of how these books come together. These aren't situations in which I come up with a story and then an editor or publisher assigns other folks to work on it, you know? So, when it comes time to figure out a team, it's only natural that I'd go to people I know share my vision of what comics can and should be, folks I trust to not only do excellent work, but to get it done on time so these things can come out when they're supposed to. Plus, it doesn't hurt that the people I'm working with create the best-looking comics in the industry!
8. Creator-owned is a serious hustle. Kickstarter campaigns are intense. How do you manage your day-to-day? What in your work takes precedence over everything else?
I'm very much a planning and process guy and I pride myself in my ability to prioritize appropriately. But even with all that… Kickstarters are all-consuming in a way that absolutely no one is prepared for and, in my experience, tends to be different each time I run one; you'll figure some things out or establish a process for them and then there's a whole other issue that gobbles up your time. Add fulfillment on top of that, which I've always handled myself, and man… it's a bear, to be sure. The way I look at it though, is that this is what I've always wanted—the opportunity to tell these stories, explore these ideas, in the comics medium—so now that I've got these opportunities, I'd be a fool not to seize every single one of them. I make time for everything, I prioritize, I sit down and get to work because I don't really have any alternative. I've hit enough roadblocks in my career already; I'm not going to let an unwillingness to bust my ass be an additional one.
As for what takes precedence… it's whatever someone is waiting on me for! Given how much more of a time commitment comics is for artists, I firmly believe that it's a sin for a comics writer to keep an artist waiting on them.
9. Do you enjoy the process of Kickstarting your projects? I've seen a lot of campaigns come through in my time doing this DoomRocket thing, and some seem like they come with a ludicrous amount of work.
In my experience, every crowdfunding campaign comes with a lot of work. If you want to do it right, that is. I see crowdfunding as a contract with the people who appreciate my work so much that they're willing to support it financially before it even exists; I can't imagine doing anything to betray that trust. Or to squander this incredible privilege I've found myself blessed with: a way to fund my work without giving up an ounce of control or ownership. So, in order to guard that trust, to protect this incredible outlet I have for my work, there is a ton of work that absolutely must happen, from initial planning, budgeting, and scheduling to the full-court press marketing campaigns to all-consuming fulfillment frenzy. But the truth is that I don't mind it; the same way I don't mind going full carnival-barker mode at conventions. The point of creating art is for people to see it, so I'm more than happy to do whatever I need to do to get my work in front of folks.
10. They say that in order to be a happy writer, you should write the things you want to read. Scanning your recent bibliography, it seems that energized, fuschia-saturated power fantasies are at the forefront of your thinking. What's important to you right now, in terms of making comics?
Comics' categorical imperative is that they must, absolutely must, be visually compelling, arresting even. For years, comics was where you went for visuals that you couldn't see in other mediums; then CGI started to catch up. Comics still had canon and huge interlocking, ongoing narratives but now the big multimedia companies have gotten hip to that too. What comics still has left and what we as comics creators must utilize is the page as a storytelling unit. That's my starting point for every book I work on: How do I make sure that every single page of this thing absolutely demands that people stop and appreciate it, instead of just scanning captions and dialogue as quickly as they can. That's the overall strategy, with tactics that vary based on the specific strengths of my co-creators—I always prioritize lobbing softballs to artists, stuff I know they can absolutely knock out of the park—as well as the specific story being told.
But regardless of the larger themes being explored, I always, always, always want my work to look delectable, which is why so much of it veers into that Lisa Frank aesthetic. It's a refutation of the muted, muddy, earth tones and desaturated colors that, for so much of comics, have come to signify "SMART, SERIOUS COMICS." I don't buy into the idea that fun or exciting or colorful means slight, disposable, or stupid. I know for a fact that this hypervisual approach causes some folks to look down their noses but, to your original point, these are the comics that I want to hold, read, and experience. It's a visual medium, so I can't really fathom why anyone would want comics that prioritize writing that feels smart when they could have a comic that, instead of fighting against the visual elements, positions the art as the centerpiece of the reading experience.
The DoomRocket interview with Aubrey Sitterson will continue in Part 2.
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I wrote this for the Sunday Photo Fiction Challenge of November 5th 2017. The idea is to use the image above as the inspiration for crafting a piece of flash fiction no more than 200 words long. My word count is 200.
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When should you start thinking about your retirement plan?
Updated / Tuesday, 9 Mar 2021 12:10
John Lowe of Money Doctors.ie asks when is it too early to think about retirement planning?
By John Lowe
John Lowe of Money Doctors
John Lowe of Money Doctors.ie asks when is it too early to think about retirement planning? If you are one of the 200,000 employees lucky enough to have a defined benefit scheme or one of the 700,000 + contributing to a defined contribution scheme, will it also be enough to fund your pension when you are ready to retire?
Rudyard Kipling once said words are the most powerful drug in the world and if that is the case, then pension language and literature for some must be the sleeping pills of the English language.
However, your pension is one of the most important financial undertakings in your life and it's really important to at least understand the basics.
We enjoy, without question, the most beautiful pension system in the world and yet what do most people do? Ignore it. This was so apparent nearly 20 years ago when the Personal Retirement Savings Accounts (PRSAs - have limits to the annual management fee that can be charged - 1% - and commissions chargeable - 5% - and are also portable in that you can bring it with you when changing jobs.) came out in 2002 around the same time as the Special Savings Incentive Accounts (SSIAs) where for every € 4 saved, the government gave € 1 – 20%.
A resounding 1.2million Irish people flocked to open their SSIAs while by and large giving the thumbs down on the PRSAs.
The ambivalence continues today in over half the working population. 57.6% of the working population have nothing to look forward to when they retire other than the State Pension... and there is a good chance it will have been abolished by that time!
Pensions made simple
There are currently over 677,000 Irish citizens over the age of 66 and by the year 2050, there will be 1.8million citizens over this age - 767,300 by 2026, meaning that 5 years from now more than 16% of the population will be in retirement. In 2019, for every person who retired, there were 5 workers. In 2051, for every retired person there will only be 2.
Will the government of that day have enough exchequer funds to pay the € 248.30 per week or whatever it will be then, to every pensioner in 2051?
If you are happy to live on that current State pension and you believe it will be there when you retire, then do nothing. But you cannot discount the notion that frankly by the time you retire, there may no government money to pay you.
The UK's National Health Service recently published a report stating among other things that by 2030 the life expectancy of men will be 85.7 years of age and 87.6 for women. Funding a pension that has to last a minimum 20 years after retirement takes planning, serious planning. We are all living longer and healthier lives, pandemics aside.
Even if you are only on the lower rate of tax (20%) it still makes sense to invest in a pension and here are three reasons why a pension is still "beautiful"
For every €100 invested, it is only costing you €80 – meaning that the fund would have to drop by 20% before you actually start losing money. On the higher rate of tax, it makes even more sense and though there are signs of the relief being reduced over the coming years, even at the 20% rate it makes sense.
All growth in the fund is tax free.
When you retire, 25% of this fund can be taken by way of a tax free lump sum up to a maximum of € 200,000. If you are fortunate enough to have a fund up to € 2million (the maximum allowable) you can take another €300,000 at the 20% tax rate.
All companies are now obliged to both nominate an insurance company for pension contributions and have a facility to make deductions for such contributions directly from your salary. There is a €15,000 potential fine for the company if no nomination.
Current government thinking may see employers being forced into auto-enrolment - it's on the agenda for 2023 - potentially making a minimum 4% contribution to employee pensions with employees forced into 2% contributions for an initial minimum period.
This is a far cry from the permitted age thresholds:
Age Limits
Up to 29 years of age 15% of net relevant earnings
30 up to 39 years of age 20% of net relevant earnings
50 years plus 30% of net relevant earnings
Over 60 years 40% of net relevant earnings
Remember too that inflation should be factored into your contributions as over time it decreases purchasing power and erodes real savings and investment returns. Since 1925 inflation has averaged c. 4% per annum so that if for instance you now need € 50,000 to fund your annual expenditure in retirement, you will need € 115,000 in 20 years' time and € 175,000 in 30 years' time.
If you are thinking of setting up a pension plan, there are also four main components that should be considered:
1. The strength of the insurance company where the pension fund is based.
2. The performance of both that company and the specific fund or funds where the pension contributions are maintained – with so much fund choice the vast majority of pension investors stick to the simple 5 fund managed fund structures that the leading insurance companies now offer ranging from cautious to high risk categories.
It is important to have your own risk category determined – some just go with the Lifestyle option ..the younger you are the higher the risk, the older the more cautious the fund. It is so important to review performance annually.
One major aid for investment selection is ESMA - the European Securities and Markets Authority is a body that defines the risk category for every stock on its database and also controls the European Rating Platform (ERP) which provides access to free, up-to-date information on credit ratings and rating outlooks of all public companies.
So for instance, if there are 5 "lanes" of differing risk categories, each public company has been rated and categorised for the "lane" designated by ESMA. Generally the highest risk category would include emerging markets, technology and energy stocks, BRIC countries (Brazil Russia India & China), etc. while the lowest would include cash funds and government bonds.
So all you have to do is stick to your lane rather than individualise your stock selection.
3. The annual management charges associated with the pension fund by the insurance company
4. The commissions or fees payable to the intermediary / broker who sets up the pension plan.
Stick with me – part 2 next week is even better…
For more information click on John Lowe's profile above or on his website.


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Stuart's Opera House presents Jonathan Richman with Tommy Larkins & Bonnie "Prince" Billy with Emmett Kelly
Press Release March 2, 2020
Stuart's Opera House in Nelsonville, Ohio hosts Jonathan Richman with Tommy Larkins & Bonnie "Prince" Billy with Emmett Kelly on Friday, March 6th at 8:00 pm and tickets are on sale now! This show is part of a unique tour with an incredibly limited number of shows. For this very special show, Jonathan Richman will start the evening of music featuring Tommy Larkins. Following his set, Bonnie "Prince" Billy will finish the night accompanied by Emmett Kelly. Doors will open at 7:00 pm, with music starting at 8:00 pm. Tickets are on sale now at (740) 753-1924 or www.stuartsoperahouse.org.
Jonathan Richman has been playing music, recording and touring for most of his life. Jonathan and his drummer Tommy Larkins win fans wherever they play. In the early 1970s, Jonathan formed the noted band The Modern Lovers. Tommy Larkins was in the groups Naked Prey, Giant Sand and other popular bands in Tucson, Arizona.
For the purposes of the current (applicable) timeline, the last time there was a new collection of original Bonnie Prince Billy songs was 2011's Wolfroy Goes to Town. The released records in the intervening years have been of previously-recorded songs most often written by other people (the Everly Brothers, Susanna Wallumrod, Mekons, Merle Haggard; even Bonnie 'Prince' Billy). There was the collaborative record Bonny made with Bitchin Bajas called Epic Jammers and Fortunate Little Ditties. In recent years, the whole world of recorded music, in the way that such music is conceived, perceived, recorded, released and distributed, has been atomized. I tried holding my breath, waiting for the storm to pass, but this storm is here to stay and its devastation is our new landscape. What else is a person to do except what he knows and feels, which for me is making records built out of songs intended for the intimate listening experiences of wonderful strangers who share something spiritually and musically? I started working on these songs thinking that there was no way I was going to finish them and record and release them. This was a constructive frame-of-mind that protected the songs until this frightening moment when we let go of them and give them to you.
"This whole record is intensely inspired by the 50th state. In fact, for a while there the working title of the record was 49Th State of Mind, after the mid-20th century Hawaiian music record label optimistically and ultimately erroneously called "49th State Records." The songs likewise are influenced by certain Hawaiian musics, mainly the recordings of Johnny Lum Ho and Edith Kanaka'ole; also by the recordings of Jake Xerxes Fussell; by the songwriting of John Prine, Susanna Wallumrod and Tom T. Hall; by the neo-Zydeco cassette compilation Trail Riderz Vol. 1; and by the desire to have some songs that might be learned on the fly at get-togethers at my friend David 'Fergie' Ferguson's house. As these songs were worked on, in the night, my wife would wrap her pregnant body around mine while I sang the songs over and over and over. They're the first music that our daughter heard.
"The arrangement and production of the record come dominantly from the players themselves and the very circumstances in which the recording of this record was undertaken. Danny Kiely played bass on this, as he had done on Wolfroy and Best Troubador and the Babblers tour as well as Funtown Comedown and many other musical adventures. The mighty mighty Mike Hyman plays drums, Nathan Salsburg plays the lead guitars, Joan Shelley sings along, and Jacob Duncan brought the power with his sax, his flute, his clarinet, my harmonium and the studio's piano and Hammond organ.
"The record is broken into sides, with the first side big and happy and dense and the second side open and questioning and happily sad. It targets the sprawl and bloat of Western Civilization by illuminating the intricate and wondrous of everything that is not celebrated by modern populist mindsets. It's about the one-step-back rather than the two-steps-forward. It's about the riches of the unspent past that "isn't even past." That, coupled with a perpetual desire to have hooky power tunes that are about themselves and about other music while still trying to reach into the common space shared by the audience and the singer.
"On a visit to Pearl Harbor (where my mother was born), our guide saw a photo I brought of my mother sitting perched on her father's shoulders facing away from the camera. She (the guide) started to cry. She told us that the pose, where the subject faces away from the camera, is a traditional pose for Hawaiians and that it signifies the idea that we face away from our future and that our past is before us. So, in that spirit, flip the record over and start from "New Memory Box" again, why don't you?"
Jonathan Richman with Tommy Larkins & Bonnie "Prince" Billy with Emmett Kelly will perform at Stuart's Opera House in Nelsonville, Ohio on Friday, March 6th at 8:00p m, doors open at 7:00 pm. Tickets are available right now! Reserved seat tickets are $33.00 in advance or $38.00 at the door, Box seats are $38.00 in advance or $43.00 at the door, and Balcony seats are $28.00 in advance or $33.00 at the door. For more information call (740) 753-1924 or visit our website at www.stuartsoperahouse.org.
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Amer Didic passes the ball to his teammate in the first half of the game against San Antonio FC on July 30. Image by Shelby Stephens.
Baker alumnus Amer Didic lays out his cleats in the living room by the door. It's Saturday night, and while other 20-somethings may be spending the week's paycheck out on the town, Didic stares at an empty suitcase. In just two days, Didic and his suitcase will be on a plane to Tucson, Arizona, where he will begin preseason training with Sporting Kansas City players and a select few Swope Park Rangers players. Didic was in a very different situation at this time last year.
Before Didic's 2016 debut in the United Soccer League, he played soccer for four years at Baker University. In his last season with Baker, he helped lead the team to a 2015 Heart of America Athletic Conference regular season championship. He was named Heart MVP and Defensive Player of the Year. Didic was also named a First-Team NAIA All-American. Didic was born in Bosnia and Herzegovina but grew up in Edmonton, Alberta. He represented Canada in the World University Games in Gwangju, South Korea, in the summer of 2015.
As a trialist for the first year of Sporting KC's USL affiliate, the Swope Park Rangers, Didic had to earn a contract before he could even think about a full season or what he expected to achieve on a team.
"It was a weird season for me, because I came into preseason as a trialist, obviously, and we went over to Tucson (for) the second leg of the Desert Diamond Cup. I knew I had nothing to lose because I was on trial," Didic said.
Being from a small university, Didic needed to prove he deserved a permanent spot on the roster. Sporting KC Communications and Digital Lead Patrik Bergabo covered all of the Swope Park Rangers' news and media for their first season and was one of the people who was originally skeptical of Didic having a future with Swope.
In Didic's first preseason game, Swope defeated the Colorado Rapids, an MLS team, 3-1. It was Didic's first opportunity to change people's minds about a guy from a small school.
Coming back to Kansas City, Didic felt confident that he was a likely choice to become a starter for Swope Park, especially after being offered a contract on March 2. SPR had two more exhibition games before the start of the season, and Didic played roles in both, some better than others.
Didic believes that mistake cost him a starting spot at the beginning of the season. However, as the schedule progressed and game after game went by without a starting position, Didic remained positive.
Didic said he needed to build some trust between himself and the players and coaches, and playing in games can help build that trust. By the end of the season, Didic said he and head coach Marc dos Santos had become good friends and he felt a "dramatic improvement" in his relationship with the coaches.
Didic also made a lasting impression on his teammates.
The Swope Park Rangers team captain, Christian Duke, said that Didic play a "vital role" in the success of the team.
Didic's first start for the club came in a 2-1 win over Tulsa Roughnecks FC. He eventually made 31 appearances in his rookie season for the Swope Park Rangers and was named to the USL Team of the Week a league-high six times. In the Rangers' first year in the USL, the team advanced to the USL Cup Final in New York. Didic played every minute of the postseason run.
Didic earned his first professional goal in the last regular-season game for the Rangers. This goal helped the team take a 2-0 win over Seattle Sounders FC 2 on Sept. 24.
Didic was the first Swope Park player to be called up to play for Sporting KC. He made his SKC debut in a CONCACAF Champions League draw against Central FC on Aug. 16 in Trinidad and Tobago. Didic went on to play in two more CONCACAF matches, both against Vancouver.
While Didic enjoyed the time spent traveling to new locations, he also felt fortunate to be able to play so close to home. Swope Park is in Kansas City, Missouri, just 50 miles from the BU campus. During the season, many of Didic's old teammates from the Baker soccer program came to cheer him on.
Didic's goal last year as a trialist was to make an impression and earn a contract for the 2016 season. Now he is one of the six Swope Park players returning for the 2017 USL season.
This year, he is focused on new aspirations and expectations for himself and the season. Ultimately, he hopes to sign a contract with Sporting KC.
"My number one goal is to make that jump and sign a contract," Didic said.


While being a Christian is illegal in North Korea, identifying as one in Afghanistan or Pakistan is also extremely dangerous.
As a major power, China's actions must be seen at the forefront of any discussion of the global acceptance of religious persecution. As President Xi expands his permanent grip on power, Beijing has increased its crackdown on religion.
Christians are not alone in their suffering.
There continued to be reports the government tortured, physically abused, arrested, detained, sentenced to prison, or harassed adherents of both registered and unregistered religious groups for activities related to their religious beliefs and practices, including members of unregistered Christian churches (also known as "house churches"). Falun Gong reported dozens of its members died in detention.
The oppression of religion by totalitarian governments centers on the concern that any non-official source of influence could serve as a check on their powers, particularly on their actions which deprive individuals of their rights.


Every once in your life you will be encouraged to spy on other people. Unlike other conventional methods of spying like using spy gadgets or hiring personal investigators, you can now use your own smartphones to spy for you. Must be thinking how a mobile phone can spy for you? The market is stocked with latest and advanced technologies and the craze for these latest technologies is catching up with people. Even in the mobile world, there are lots of applications being developed day-by-day and since there is no person in the entire world who doesn't own a mobile needs these apps to make themselves up-to-date with the latest techs and gadgets.
When technology meets innovation, the gateway to a world of endless possibilities opens. The advent of spy apps such as Mobistealth is a testament to just that. Powerful, reliable and user-friendly. These slick tools empower you to remotely keep tabs on everything from call logs, text messages, emails, and web browsing to calendar updates and even the whereabouts of your child, employee or lover. The recorded information is transmitted to your online account, thus enabling you to access it from anywhere and at anytime, provided you've got internet access. With the digital market packed with a wide range of spy apps with varying features and consequent effectiveness, it's imperative that you put your trust in a monitoring solution that won't leave you disappointed.
The first feature that these spy software should have is to monitor the call records of your kid, employee or lover. This feature allows you to view all the calls made by the cell or received by it. It also tracks the missed calls along with their time and the call duration. It also allows you to record calls that were made or received by the mobile.
The spy software should not only cover tracking the call logs but also help you read the text messages sent or received by the cell. If the messages are deleted, they can still be viewed.
Since every person is using Smartphone these days with email and internet features, employers and parents would want to keep a check on those emails. The tracking software should allow you to read the sent and received mails and make sure that your kids are not threatened by any online hackers or the employees are not wasting their time on personal chats.
The best spy software will feature tracking the GPS location of your son or employee or lover. If you are worried where your lover is or if a parent is worried about his child, you can easily track them through GPS Location.
Every Smartphone has internet feature in it and people especially parents are worried about its usage. The spy software allows you to monitor the internet usage done by your child by fumbling through their web history.
The best spy software like Mobistealth have other features too like keeping a tracking the calendar updates, recording the conversations of anyone whose mobile is being tracked, reading instant messages on what's app, twitter and other social media sites, etc. Thus if you want to enjoy all these features it is necessary to use spy software that would work the best in revealing the truth.


Acando's mobile work solutions are suitable for companies whose staff work in business areas such as maintenance or inventory control. Acando's mobile work solutions have brought real-time competitive advantage to customers in many different industries.
We deliver mobile solutions to the needs of many different industries. Easy to use and cost-effective mobile services give different stakeholders a clear overall picture of the work situation. A wide IT capability will enable mobile solutions for seamless integration with the company's ERP system.
Time saving: the business information can be shared and processed regardless of time and place.
Customer satisfaction: Real time data availability during field service enables fast reaction to unexpected changes and to immediate customer requirements.
Labor productivity and cost savings: queues, segregation of duties and reporting can be managed without paperwork¨.


Best list I've seen in the past month. If you love LLL.com's and CVCV.com's then you will love the domains on here today!
bankstore.com – something about this domain I like. I feel like some bank somewhere sooner or later will come across this domain and want it.
emq.com – the "Q" will kill some people's interest. I really like the "EM" portion of the domain.
nvq.com – my least favorite of the LLL.com's on today's list but still it's a LLL.com and that holds value and liquidity.
.info Auction – put this link here yesterday I'll leave it up until the auction closes, lots of top notch .info domains being auctioned off for the first time. Auction closes today.
wodo.com – CVCV.com alert. Got a few of them on the list today. Love them all!
loo.com – I'm surprised that someone is deciding to auction LLL.com domains on Namejet. If I'm a potential buyer (which I am) I would be wondering if they were unable to sell it to any end users and if I buy it would this mean I'm not going to find any end users for it.
yon.com – pronounceable LLL.com's are always highly desireable.
nozo.com – another good CVCV.com.
liri.com – love the CVCV.com's.
veggies.com – good site for vegetarians to frequent or for Green Giant to buy.
h-q.com – Headquarters abbreviation perhaps? Also a few companies with this in their name.


4G's Pirmin Froehlicher offers best practices for clinical supply forecasting in an editorial piece posted on Clinical Informatics News. The article entitled "Stop Choosing Between Clinical Supply Waste and Supply Chain Risk to Inform Forecasting Decisions" offers insight to help supply managers offset risk and reduce clinical supply waste in their trials.
"Have you ever seen the meme of the expected path (direct line from A to B) and then the real path of convoluted squiggly lines and diversions? The latter is clinical drug supply. In an ideal world, there would be just enough drug at each clinical site around the globe to ensure the study runs smoothly. No wasted supply and no risk of trial disruption...Unfortunately, this is not an ideal world but rather the real world..."


Matthew has been conducting educational workshops for over 15 years and during that time he has visited over 500 schools across Ontario alone. He started teaching as the founder of the Canadian Improv Showcase and still conducts workshops with them as well as with the Knights in the Classroom.
His formal post-secondary education was in Marketing and Advertising for which he received an Honours Diploma from Georgian College in Barrie. He also has a Technical Certificate in Radio and Television Broadcasting from the National Institute of Broadcasting in Toronto. But it has been suggested on more than one occasion that he must have a degree in history because of his wealth of knowledge and zest for learning and education. Alas, his interest and knowledge of history is greatly due to his marriage to an elementary school teacher. He was actually married in a medieval ceremony and that was just the beginning.
However, upon looking back at his life and upbringing, Matthew has always had a keen interest in history even if it wasn't in the form of reading. Matthew started doing archery at the age of 8 in his backyard in Brampton, learning the art along side his older brother. After moving to Holland Landing when he was 12 Matthew would go on to compete in high school and become the York Region Archery Champion, setting a record that still stands today.


07 September 2016 - Global cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab has today announced the opening of its first European research and development (R&D) center, in Dublin, Ireland. The location was selected on account of Dublin's growing reputation as a major European tech hub, providing access to a highly skilled IT talent pool and a strong network of innovative technology companies.
With an initial investment of close to USD$5 million, Kaspersky Lab plans to create 50 new Dublin-based roles in the next three years.
The new office will focus mainly on developing data analysis and machine learning technologies for the company's enterprise solutions offering. The team will be responsible for core parts of new Kaspersky Lab solutions, focused on targeted attack detection and investigation.
Kaspersky Lab has appointed Keith Waters as Head of Engineering, to lead the development team in Ireland. Keith graduated from University College Dublin with a degree in Computer Science. He has more than 15 years' experience building enterprise big data analytics products and delivering solutions to global customers.
Dublin was an obvious choice for the company's first European R&D office, owing to the quality and density of tech talent there, and of course, the city's vibrant and appealing living conditions. Locating the office in Dublin is a great opportunity for us to increase our collaboration with other international IT companies, especially as the city is becoming known as the Silicon Valley of Europe. We would like to thank IDA Ireland for their great support with the office opening.
Kaspersky Lab addresses all the IT security needs of large organizations, with a full enterprise platform that helps to prevent cyberthreats, detects even the most sophisticated attacks, responds to security incidents, and predicts the evolution of the threat landscape. Moving forward, the company will continue to enhance its enterprise offering, addressing sophisticated threats with security intelligence, technologies and services. To implement these plans, Kaspersky Lab is increasing its headcount and creating about 400 additional roles across the world in 2016, most of them in R&D.


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require 'spec_helper'

describe CapistranoProvisioning::User do
  let(:username)      { 'z6MeKbLOXPqi5P' }
  let(:server)        { 'test1.example.com' }
  let(:config_mock)   { mock(Capistrano::Configuration) }
  let(:user)          { CapistranoProvisioning::User.new(:name => username, :server => server, :config => config_mock) }

  describe "install" do
    it "should require a server" do
      expect { user.install }.to raise_error(SystemExit)
    end

    it "should error if the user's ssh key cannot be loaded" do
      expect { user.install(:server => server) }.to raise_error(SystemExit)
    end
  end

  it "should create an account on the server" do
    config_mock.should_receive(:run).with(/#{username}/, anything()).once
    config_mock.should_receive(:sudo).with(no_args()).once

    user.send(:create_account_on_server, server)
  end

  describe "and groups" do
    it "should return an empty array if there are no groups" do
      user.groups.should == []
    end

    it "should de-duplify groups" do
      user.groups = ['test_group', 'test_group2', 'test_group']
      user.groups.should == ['test_group','test_group2']
    end

    it "should add a user to one group" do
      user = CapistranoProvisioning::User.new(:name => username, :server => server, :config => config_mock, :groups => 'test_group')
      user.groups.should include("test_group")
    end

    it "should add a user to an array of groups" do
      user = CapistranoProvisioning::User.new(:name => username, :server => server, :config => config_mock, :groups => ['test_group', 'test_group_2'])
      user.groups.should include("test_group")
      user.groups.should include("test_group_2")
    end
  end
end


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Android News / Android News / Experts Say A.I. Has A Long Way To Go To Match Humans
Experts Say A.I. Has A Long Way To Go To Match Humans
By Daniel Fuller
Artificial intelligence has made gigantic leaps in the past few years. Thanks to the advent of technologies like multicore processors, machine learning and neural networking, A.I. is able to mimic known human brain functions more closely than ever before. Facebook's A.I. can recognize a human face and decide who it belongs to. Google's A.I. can beat a world champion at an incredibly complex board game that's been around for centuries. Amazon's A.I. can figure out what products you may want for your home and help you manage your IoT devices. None of them, though, are anywhere close to being able to match the brainpower, learning skills and deductive capabilities of a human.
The White House Office Of Science And Technology Policy, looking for how to regulate A.I. and if such a move would even be necessary, held an event on Tuesday where experts in the tech and legal fields gathered to tackle the tough questions about A.I., such as the role of A.I. in fields like health care and transportation, how adept they may be, and what may need to be done on the lawmaking front to ensure that A.I. doesn't become a dangerous or otherwise counterproductive technology. For the moment, however, the panel of experts there determined that A.I. is nowhere near human level in learning capability or flexibility, and there are a number of significant breakthroughs that will need to be made before they can hope to reach that level.
Specialists met in a similar manner and discussed similar questions back in 2009, driven more by public opinion than any legitimate questions that the A.I. technology of the time may have posed. While it's entirely possible that the A.I. of the future could create a nearly human-free economy or otherwise revolutionize the world, feats like this are distinctly out of the pay grade of current A.I. tech. A Microsoft researcher, Kate Crawford, suggested adding in ethics to the basic training provided to future A.I. engineers to help ensure that Hollywood-esque A.I.-based horror stories never come to pass, no matter how advanced the technology gets. Tuesday's meetup was only the first of four events that the White House has planned for A.I. researchers.
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Daniel Fuller
Daniel has been writing for Android Headlines since 2015, and is one of the site's Senior Staff Writers. He's been living the Android life since 2010, and has been interested in technology of all sorts since childhood. His personal, educational and professional backgrounds in computer science, gaming, literature, and music leave him uniquely equipped to handle a wide range of news topics for the site. These include the likes of machine learning, Voice assistants, AI technology development news in the Android world. Contact him at [email protected]


The ALE (Automatic Link Establishment) feature has recently become one of the most important features of modem HF-SSB radios and has in fact become "a must" for large HF communications systems.
High lead count IC packages require tine pitch wire bonding. The design and processing of a blanked or etched lead frame for a quad flat pack is presented that gives the required wire post pitch, and adequate lead-to- lead clearance. A lead frame design for tine pitch wire bonding is shown in Figure 1 and 2, attached.


Joe Fargis stood near the chute of ground rails running the length of the indoor arena, its centerline falling precisely under the middle row of lights. Riders first walked their horses through the chute, then rode transitions midway down at X, progressing from walk-halt-walk to flying changes.
"It's important to be forward, straight and uncomplicated."
"Be precise on the flat. Then a course will be easy."
"Get the transition done with the least amount of commotion. Be as light and invisible and efficient as you can be."
"If you practice being fluid, you eventually will be fluid. If you're casual about it, it will never happen."
For the most advanced group of riders and horses, Joe started the jumping work by building a line of fences: a vertical to an 18-inch skinny green wall to two trot rails to a vertical, set so there was only about three strides from the landing to the arena wall (see diagram at right).
The riders jumped each section as it was built, starting with the trot poles to vertical. Then they rode the entire line. They trotted the first vertical, cantered to the skinny wall, figuring out the striding, which ended up being four or five strides, then trotted over the trot poles to the vertical. The challenge was steering the horses to the skinny wall and then bringing them back to the trot. "Everybody use all the tact and talent you have to make it fluid," Joe said as the riders struggled to get a smooth trot back before going over the trot poles. After the horse's jumped through the line a few times, he gradually raised the fences a few holes.
Next, Joe built two skinny fences on the landing side of the skinny wall, creating a bounce perpendicular to the wall. "All this has to be fluid, like water through a hose with no kinks," he said.
Once horses were jumping the bounce smoothly, he built four oxers on the diagonals and created a course of 3-foot-6 fences with lots of twists and turns. "This is an exercise in control," he said. Then he urged the riders, "Don't let the higher jumps worry you." When one of the riders didn't get her horse back and organized after a fence, he said, "You have to think of the next jump over the previous jump."
He finally took away the standards of the skinny bounce. The "new" fence caused the first rider's horse to run out in middle of the bounce. "Don't trust it so much without wings," Joe told he rider. "If you think of straight line, it will help."
After building up the courses, Joe began to lower the fences and make them easier, for example, turning the skinny fences back into regular fence width. The horses happily jumped over them and ended the day's session with ease, as Joe explained, "Horses should finish just loving life."
To read more about Joe's clinic, see "Keep Your Riding Simple" in the December 2009 issue of Practical Horseman magazine.


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Book on Armenia-Turkey Protocols Warns Arabs not to Trust Turkish Friendship
I was privileged to attend a special program in Beirut last Friday, sponsored by the Armenian National Committee of Lebanon, dedicated to the publication of my new book in Arabic: "Armenia-Turkey Protocols: Truth or Deception?" The book is the compilation of 43 columns I had written in The California Courier in the last three years on the controversial Protocols.
After introductory remarks by George Sabounjian of the local ANC, Dr. Nora Arissian of Damascus, Syria, the translator of the book, asserted that Sassounian's columns exposed the Turkish government's fake intent. She reminded the audience that the author had accurately predicted at the outset of the negotiations that Turkey would not keep its promise to ratify the Protocols and lift the blockade of Armenia.
Dr. Arissian was followed by veteran Lebanese Minister Michel Edde who had written a lengthy and insightful introduction to the book. Mr. Edde had held five ministerial posts during his long and distinguished career in various Lebanese cabinets. In his remarks, the prominent Minister commended the author for his analytical columns, praised the Armenian community of Lebanon for its active role in the country's progress, and condemned Turkey for its denial of the Armenian Genocide. At the end of his remarks, Minister Edde surprised the audience by announcing a generous and unexpected personal contribution of $25,000 to the ANC of Lebanon.
The evening's program was conducted in Arabic, given the fact that there were Arab guests in the audience and the book was intended for Arab leaders and masses. I was gratified to be able to deliver a portion of my remarks in Arabic. Surprisingly, I still remembered the Arabic I had learned over 40 years ago as a student at the local Sophia Hagopian High School.
I reminded the attendees that the Turkish government's true intent was to exploit the Protocols in order to pressure Armenia into giving up its pursuit of the international recognition of the Armenian Genocide, and create a smokescreen of peaceful negotiations so that other countries, particularly the United States, would be warned not to undermine this make-believe reconciliation and budding relationship by recognizing the Armenian Genocide.
In addition, Turkey wanted Armenia to return Nagorno Karabagh (Artsakh) to Azerbaijan's control, give up its demands for Western Armenia which is currently under Turkish occupation, and to tried undermine overall Armenian unity by pitting the Diaspora against the homeland.
Doggedly pursuing its intent to extract additional concessions from Armenia, the Turkish government kept refusing to ratify the Protocols it had signed two years ago. Failing to accomplish its self-serving objectives, the Turkish Parliament recently took the final step to kill the Protocols by removing them from its agenda, citing a technicality.
This failed experiment of Armenia-Turkey Protocols clearly proves that Turkey is more interested in playing diplomatic games and creating false impressions than pursuing peaceful co-existence. Turkish commitments cannot be taken seriously and Turkey's leaders' signatures on international agreements are not worth the paper they are written on.
In my remarks, I pointed out that Turkish leaders have been presenting themselves as defenders of the Palestinian cause, and supporters of all Arabs and Muslims, while continuing to be Israel's strategic partner, and covertly sharing with it some of the most sensitive military secrets of Arab countries.
In my opinion, Palestinians and Arabs in general do not need the fake friendship of Turkey's neo-Ottoman leaders. Arab masses must demand that their own indigenous leaders, not self-serving foreign rulers, defend their national interest.
We just saw how Turkey sided with the despotic regimes in Egypt and Libya until the very last moment when the dictators of these countries were about to be toppled. This is not genuine friendship. This is crass opportunism!
Since Arabs and Armenians have both experienced horrendous suffering and atrocities under the Ottoman yoke, they can not be fooled easily by dishonest Turkish gestures of rapprochement. The survivors of the Armenian Genocide were the grateful beneficiaries of Arab hospitality throughout the Middle East. Without such humanitarian intervention, many more Armenians would have perished.
I ended my remarks by expressing my gratitude to Minister Michel Edde for writing an inspiring introduction to my book, and to Dr. Nora Arissian who had spent countless hours to painstakingly translate it from English into Arabic, as well as my previous book on the Armenian Genocide. I also thanked the Armenian National Committee of Lebanon for hosting the evening's program at the Pyunic Hall of Aztag newspaper, and the Hamazkayine Publishing House for publishing the book. I expressed my special gratitude to benefactor Gabriel Chemberjian and his Pyunic Foundation for sponsoring the book's translation and publication. At the end of the program, signed copies of the book were distributed to the guests.
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Railway Recruitment Board invites Applications in the prescribed format from eligible Indian Nationals for the posts of Technicians. Applications complete in all respects along with required enclosures should be sent by post to the concerned Railway Recruitment Board as mentioned in para 15 of this notification, so as to reach on or before 29.11.2010 up to 17.30 Hrs. The applications can also be dropped in the box kept at the premises of concerned RRB offices, till the closing date.
Date & time of closing : 29.11.2010, upto 17.30 hrs.
In this years railways budget it is going to be the majorly about railway jobs in top priorities as promised by the government during election campaign.


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Goods Standards II UK No Deal Notes
/Goods- The Single Market / Harmonised Standards / Post-UK Exit Official Guidance / UK No Deal Issue Papers [2019] / Goods Standards II UK No Deal Notes
This notice explains the future arrangements for the regulation of most goods covered by the EU's New Approach, which includes those regulated under the 'New Legislative Framework' as well as machinery. In particular it covers arrangements for conformity assessment (the testing of goods to ensure they meet relevant requirements). These goods are subject to EU-wide product specific rules. These arrangements will apply in the unlikely event that the UK exits the EU without a deal in March 2019.
This notice does not cover the following areas:
Automotive (Vehicle type approval)
Pharmaceutical products (Batch testing medicines, Medicines, Medical Devices and Clinical Trials, Submitting regulatory information on medical products)
Medical devices (Medicines, Medical Devices and Clinical Trials, Submitting regulatory information on medical products)
Goods subject to national regulations (Non-harmonised goods)
Annex A sets out the specific EU goods regulations and directives covered by this notice. This list may be updated over time.
Annex B provides additional detail regarding civil explosives.
Before 29 March 2019 (may also apply to new exit date on 31 December 2020)
For the products covered by this notice EU legislation sets out the rules, or 'essential (safety) requirements', which products must meet before they are placed on the EU market.
For some of these product areas, manufacturers can choose to demonstrate compliance with the essential requirements set out in legislation by following 'harmonised standards'. Harmonised standards that can be used to demonstrate that a product meets essential requirements are published in the Official Journal of the European Union.
For construction products, use of the harmonised standards is mandatory.
The relevant EU legislation sets out how products within its scope can be tested to prove that they conform with the essential requirements. Typical ways of showing conformity include:
self-declaration by the manufacturer that they have taken appropriate steps to ensure their product is compliant (for example, for most toys)
assessment of the final product by an EU-accredited body (known as a 'notified body. A notified body is an organisation designated by an EU country to assess the conformity of certain products before being placed on the market.)
assessment of a product's design (or a prototype) by a notified body, followed by testing of either a sample of the final product or quality assurance of production processes
For many products, a manufacturer must affix a 'conformity marking', most commonly the CE marking (CE marking is defined in EU law as "a marking by which the manufacturer indicates that the product is in conformity with the applicable requirements set out in [EU] harmonisation legislation providing for its affixing"). This acts as a declaration that the product complies with the relevant requirements. For marine equipment, the wheel mark (The Wheel Mark (Mark of Conformity) is the European regulatory marking of all marine equipment, as defined in the Marine Equipment Directive, 2014/90/EU) is used.
Where EU rules require third party testing, that notified body's four-digit identification number (as listed on the EU's New Approach Notified and Designated Organisations database, known as NANDO must also be affixed to the product.
Notified bodies are usually given the right to carry out conformity assessment following assessment by a national accreditation body (in the UK, the United Kingdom Accreditation Service). They are then formally 'notified' to the European Commission and other EU countries by the relevant public body and listed on the New Approach Notified and Designated Organisations (NANDO) database.
After March 2019 if there's no deal
Goods already placed on the market will be able to continue to circulate in the UK. Additionally, goods that meet EU requirements (and were tested by an EU recognised conformity assessment body) can still be placed on the UK market. This is intended to be a time-limited measure.
The results of conformity assessment carried out by UK notified bodies will no longer be recognised in the EU. This means that products tested by a UK notified body will no longer be able to be placed on the EU market without retesting and re-marking by an EU recognised conformity assessment body.
For the areas within scope of this notice (see Annex A), notified bodies based in the UK will be granted new UK 'approved body' status and listed on a new UK database. Approved bodies will be able to assess products for the UK market against UK essential requirements (which, immediately after exit day in a 'no deal' scenario, will be identical to EU essential requirements).
Manufacturers selling goods on the UK market will then be able to affix a new UK conformity marking before placing a product on the UK market. A separate UK marking to replace the wheel mark will be in place for marine equipment. Manufacturers will not need to use these markings from the point of exit in a 'no deal' scenario if they have used the relevant EU marking after having their product assessed by an EU recognised body. This will be a time-limited arrangement. Details of these markings will be published later in 2018 and with sufficient time to allow businesses to prepare.
The United Kingdom Accreditation Service's role as the UK's national accreditation body, including for most UK conformity assessment bodies, will remain as it is now.
Existing harmonised standards (used to demonstrate conformity with EU essential requirements) will become UK 'designated standards', used to demonstrate conformity with UK essential requirements. As noted above, immediately following exit these will be identical to EU essential requirements.
All manufacturers intending to place products on the UK market on or after 29 March 2019 (may also apply to new exit date on 31 December 2020) will want to consider the actions outlined below.
All manufacturers placing products on the EU market will need to take the actions outlined below if they intend to place products on the EU market on or after 29 March 2019 (may also apply to new exit date on 31 December 2020)
Actions for businesses and other stakeholders
Manufacturers placing products on the UK market should note:
Products that meet EU requirements can continue to be placed on the UK market without any need for retesting or re-marking, including where they have demonstrated compliance with EU requirements after exit day. This will apply for a time-limited period and sufficient notice will be given to businesses before that period ends.
Products that meet UK requirements and bear a UK conformity marking can be placed on the UK market, as long as any third-party testing required has been carried out by a UK-recognised conformity assessment body.
For product areas covered by this notice, UK-based notified bodies will become UK approved bodies after March 2019 and will be listed on a new UK database.
Manufacturers placing products on the EU internal market should note:
Products which were tested by a UK-based notified body will need to be retested by an EU-recognised conformity assessment body before placing on the EU internal market (A list of EU-recognised conformity assessment bodies can be found on the NANDO database. After March 2019, in a no deal scenario UK-based bodies will no longer be listed on this database).
Alternatively, manufacturers can seek to arrange for their files to be transferred to an EU-recognised notified body to allow for certificates of conformity issued by a UK-based notified body to continue to be valid.
In either of the scenarios above, products where third-party testing is required would need to be re-marked with the new EU-recognised notified body's four-digit number.
The government will provide further information later in 2018 setting out the practical arrangements for how UK-based notified bodies will be granted status as UK approved bodies and on the new UK markings.
Where the government makes changes to any of the above arrangements, for example, regarding the ongoing recognition of conformity assessment activities carried out by EU bodies – it will ensure businesses are provided with adequate notice.
This notice is meant for guidance only. You should consider whether you need separate professional advice before making specific preparations.
It is part of the government's ongoing programme of planning for all possible outcomes. We expect to negotiate a successful deal with the EU.
The UK government is clear that in this scenario we must respect our unique relationship with Ireland, with whom we share a land border and who are co-signatories of the Belfast Agreement. The UK government has consistently placed upholding the Agreement and its successors at the heart of our approach. It enshrines the consent principle on which Northern Ireland's constitutional status rests. We recognise the basis it has provided for the deep economic and social cooperation on the island of Ireland. This includes North-South cooperation between Northern Ireland and Ireland, which we're committed to protecting in line with the letter and spirit of Strand two of the Agreement.
The Irish government have indicated they would need to discuss arrangements in the event of no deal with the European Commission and EU countries. The UK would stand ready in this scenario to engage constructively to meet our commitments and act in the best interests of the people of Northern Ireland, recognising the very significant challenges that the lack of a UK-EU legal agreement would pose in this unique and highly sensitive context.
It remains, though, the responsibility of the UK government, as the sovereign government in Northern Ireland, to continue preparations for the full range of potential outcomes, including no deal. As we do, and as decisions are made, we'll take full account of the unique circumstances of Northern Ireland.
Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein are party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area and participate in other EU arrangements. As such, in many areas, these countries adopt EU rules. Where this is the case, these technical notices may also apply to them, and EEA businesses and citizens should consider whether they need to take any steps to prepare for a 'no deal' scenario.
Annex A – EU directives and regulations covered by this notice
Regulation for Accreditation and Market Surveillance – 765/2008
Toy Safety – Directive 2009/48/EU
Restriction of Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment – Directive 2011/65/EU
Construction products – Regulation (EU) No 305/2011
Pyrotechnic Articles – Directive 2013/29/EU
Recreational craft and personal watercraft – Directive 2013/53/EU
Civil Explosives – Directive 2014/28/EU
Simple Pressure Vessels – Directive 2014/29/EU
Electromagnetic Compatibility – Directive 2014/30/EU
Non-automatic Weighing Instruments – Directive 2014/31/EU
Measuring Instruments – Directive 2014/32/EU
Lifts – Directive 2014/33/EU
ATEX – Directive 2014/34/EU
Radio equipment – Directive 2014/53/EU
Low Voltage – Directive 2014/35/EU
Pressure equipment – Directive 2014/68/EU
Marine Equipment – Directive 2014/90/EU
Personal protective equipment – Regulation (EU) 2016/425
Gas appliances – Regulation (EU) 2016/426
Machinery Directive – Directive 2006/42/EC
Noise emission in the environment by equipment for use outdoors – Directive 2000/14/EC
Ecodesign directive – (2009/125/EC)
Annex B – Additional information relating to civil explosives
Currently anyone importing civil explosives into the EU, or transferring them through the EU, requires an approval from the EU country where the transfer ends. This is called an Intra Community Transfer approval and each EU country through which the civil explosives transfers must also add their authorisation for the transfer to the Intra Community Transfer.
Civil explosives manufactured in, or imported to, the EU must be marked with a unique site code provided by an EU country to the manufacturer or EU-based importer. This code is recognised by all EU countries. An accompanying record must be held to enable traceability of the civil explosive through the supply chain.
As the UK will not be an EU country for the purposes of transfers of civil explosives through the EU internal market, the UK will not be able to issue an Intra Community Transfer.
This means that any transfers (now imports) of civil explosives to the UK will need a standalone approval from a UK competent authority (Great Britain or Northern Ireland depending on where the transfer ends in the UK) before the civil explosives are imported. Intra Community Transfer approvals issued by UK competent authorities prior to exit for multiple transfers will continue to be recognised until they expire.
The UK will recognise existing site codes on civil explosive products imported to the UK where the site code has been issued by another Member State. The UK will not require importers to add a new code. However, to continue effective traceability through the supply chain, all importers will need to contact a UK competent authority (Great Britain or Northern Ireland depending on the place of import) to notify them of any existing site code on the civil explosives being imported. The competent authority will then link this existing code to the UK based importer.
The UK government will continue to work with the Northern Ireland Civil Service to ensure that a coherent civil explosives regime continues to operate across the UK.
Any UK business, who previously obtained an Intra Community Transfer (approval from a UK competent authority (Great Britain or Northern Ireland depending on where the transfer ended) for a transfer across the EU internal market, will now need to obtain an Intra Community Transfer from the final Member State where the transfer ends in the EU internal market.
A new UK approval for the transfer (now import) to the UK will then be required from the relevant UK competent authority (Great Britain or Northern Ireland depending on where the transfer ends in the UK).
Any importer of civil explosives to the UK will need to contact the relevant UK competent authority (Great Britain or Northern Ireland depending on where the civil explosives are imported to) to provide them with details of any existing site code on the civil explosive product.
Businesses dealing with civil explosives may also want to consider the separate technical notice on export controls.
UK No Deal Notes Withdrawn
The UK withdrew almost all of its no-deal planning notes in January 2020. However, they may be re-instated on the same or similar terms with respect to the 31st December withdrawal date. Most of the issues with which they deal, would be equally relevant to both a "no-deal" scenario or a "skinny" trade agreement scenario, one or other of which seems to be inevitable as and from 1st January 2021.