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The Catholic community have been in existence, in the region of Chita, from the early nineteenth century. This community was predominantly Polish by origin and the members of this community worked in the Nerchinsk mining plants since 1939. In 1859, after the departure of the exiles from the Nerchinsk Factory, there were only seven Catholics in this area, so the priest suggested that, "it would be useful to build a Catholic Church in one of the cities where there are most Catholics". In Chita, Kyahte or Verkhneudinsk there were about eighty Catholics. In 1861 the decision was made to build a Catholic Church in the city of Chita. By mid-1878 the Church was finally built, and on September 10, 1878, it was consecrated under the patronage of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul.
After the end of World War II in 1948, the Church building was transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church and up to the present time it is the Orthodox Church in honour of the Holy Resurrection of Christ. Today, the parish of Saints Peter and Paul is in the city centre of Chita. A new Church was built in the year 2001 and on July 22, 2001 this church was solemnly blessed by Bishop Mazur SVD. About eighty (80) parishioners gather for the Holy Mass in this parish Church. There are several groups like, the group of the living rosary, a group of ministers, youth group, Bible sharing group and also a group for preparing people for the reception of the sacraments. In our group meetings we inspire their faith journey and teach them the values of Christian living that is, being honest, wise and truthful person. It is a privilege to support these groups and ultimately the congregation itself towards the fuller knowledge of Christianity.
We welcome many people, especially, the children and the young adults, who come to us in need of support. Many of them are from difficult family situations. We try to help them financially to overcome some of their challenges and encourage them, step by step, to analyse their current situation. Many of them have shown the progress in their life and their faith and spirituality has played a major role in this progress.
Once, during a youth retreat, along with sisters from the "Order of the Handmaids of the Blessed Virgin Mary Immaculate Conception," we conducted a special program: "kilogram for the poor". A group of twenty young people went to different places in the city to meet the homeless and poor people and to give them some food. While sharing their food from our youth, these people began sharing their current life situation. This made our youth to think differently and made them stronger to face the challenges in life and never give up when difficult situations arise. They boldly say, "I Have a hope for the better future, I won't give up!"
During the winter season, we also get many people, who are homeless. Many of them suffer from cold and hunger in these cold months. The sisters continue to support them and we help them through our charitable work. The winter here lasts from September to May. We provide clothes and hot meals to about thirty of these people. As we serve them hot soup and we also take the opportunity to have a conversation with them. Often these conversations lead into their daily lives and their current living situation. They share their experiences with homelessness, especially their fear of death in the cold winter nights. They are very grateful for our support, especially the hot meals and the warm clothes provided by the sisters. Often we end up praying together with them before we depart on our separate ways.
In our service to others, we see God. We encourage and provide opportunities to our parishioners, especially the young ones to join us in these charitable works. We often ask our congregation, especially the youth, to give assistance to the poor. This assistance is called as "Kilogram for the poor." The parishioners work with passion and enthusiasm to bring clothes and other things that are needed for these people in the winter. During Advent and Lent, they offer food for the poor and the youth engage actively in this good work.
It is a great message for us that assisting a poor person is a privilege and we must take up this good work. Poverty makes us understand that our life is a gift from God; it is like the wheel of a car, which spins constantly, despite the condition of the road. The "Kilogram for the poor" programme gives the parishioners, and the young people, an opportunity to understand their own life. Life is beautiful, but sometimes anything can go wrong. Therefore, we, together with the laity, the young people and the sisters continue to help the people who are poor. At the same time, we learn a lot from them, especially how to survive in the challenging situations of life. This work of charity makes us strong spiritually and gives us hope in the darkest times of our life. Let us face our future, aim for a happier life and do not deviate from the dreams.
By: Fr. Adrianus Jehadun SVD.
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This is Nike's N98 Track Jacket for the South Korean National team, released in time for the World Cup.
There are three colours used by Nike in the Jacket- red, blue and white. The words "KOREA" are written in blue on the back of the jacket, as you can see in the picture below.
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trying to order this product and it only has 2 sizes.
Only 2 sizes available? or the other sizes are sold out?
For the other N98 jackets, like the Portugal one, they have M and L available too.


With more than 50.000 m2 (some 10 km tunnnel length) one of the biggest german underground installations that reached production status in early 1945. Constructed within 13 months by prisoners of the KL Gusen II concentration camp within the Mauthausen-Gusen complex due to its high mortality (up to 98%), it became one of the most horrible concentration camp sites in European history (average survival period 4 months). Main deportations came form KL Auschwitz B and western Europe (France, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg) when Nazi-troops had to move out this countries due to military pressure of the Allied Forces. (Sketch of B 8 in the area Gusen 1 & 2). A vast number of the Jewish man were exterminated by hardest labor at the tunnel construction site. With winter 1944/45 more deportations came in than lives were consumed, by construction and production. So, many died in unopend railway cars at local station, froze to death or were killed by the many other cruelties of the KL Gusen II "extermination" camp. One of the many unknown victims of the KL Gusen II - BERGKRISTALL plant had been the young french youth activist Marcel Callo. He became beatified by Pope John Paul II. in 1987.
According to Allied intelligence, some 987 jet propelled planes left serial production lines. Construction of tunnel-system (Photographs) was nearly finished and installations operational for some 85%. Production started in parallel to construction of the tunnel-system in summer 1944 and reached maximum in April 1945 (some 90 jet-plane fuselages, fully equipped a month). A trend diagram demonstrates the development of construction/production and the increase of KL Gusen inmates in regard to BERGKRISTALL..Original planned capacity should have been 1.250 jet-planes a month until the year 1955.
Fuselages and wings were brought by railway cars during the night from BERGKRISTALL to several air-bases in southern Germany where the turbines had been fixed and the jets became operational. Secrecy was extremely high: The test-pilots didn't know where the planes came from. German civilians being employed at BERGKRISTALL were not allowed to give the name of town where they did work to any third persons. With the end of the war plans and preparations were made to blast-off this top secret installation along with the slave-workers, the local population and the other eye-witnesses to prevent knowhow-transfer to allied forces and to kill potential prosecutors for later Mauthausen-Gusen trials.
This plan was not carried out due to the unclear situation in early May 1945. Vice-major Aschenbrenner of St. Georgen and the Swiss Red-Cross delegate Louis Haefliger played key roles in an attempt to prevent this tragedy. The installations of strategic importance were later on investigated and partly dismantled by US troops. With August 1945 BERGKRISTALL was handed over to the Soviets. The Soviets dismantled all of the residual installations and finally destroyed the key-parts of this strategic tunnel-systems in November 1947. After this, BERGKRISTALL and KL Gusen complex became totally forgotten and never appeared in any scientific- or research thesis.
In the vicinity of BERGKRISTALL there still exist the ruins of a further, but smaller underground installation with the code-name KELLERBAU (just 12.000 m2). KELLERBAU was used to house some key production facilities for the production of machine guns.
That means; in addition to the 16.000 prisoners of BERGKRISTALL, some further 8.500 prisoners and some 4.000 prisoners had to work and die in Gusen for this small-arms plant and the stone-quarries owned by the "Deutsche Erd- und Steinwerke GmbH", a company of the SS.
The knowledge you have read here was researched by the direct cooperation of former inmates of the KL Gusen complex and people from the local population within the local-international "Plattform 75 JAHRE REPUBLIK - From a Horrible Past to a Prosperous Future".
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Q: Meaning of the convenience keyword in Swift When I go back to look at some of Apple's Sprite Kit documentation I see a lot of occasions where a keyword called convenience comes up. For Example
convenience init(texture texture: SKTexture?, size size: CGSize)

What does it mean?

A: That is a convenience initializer.
From the docs:

Convenience initializers are secondary, supporting initializers for a class. You can define a convenience initializer to call a designated initializer from the same class as the convenience initializer with some of the designated initializer's parameters set to default values. You can also define a convenience initializer to create an instance of that class for a specific use case or input value type.

An initializer that is not marked convenience is a designated initializer:

Designated initializers are the primary initializers for a class. A designated initializer fully initializes all properties introduced by that class and calls an appropriate superclass initializer to continue the initialization process up the superclass chain.

The docs I linked above are very detailed, because there is a lot to initialization. You'll need to read them to really understand what's going on. But to give an example, let's say you create a car class:
class Car {

    let numberOfWheels: Int

    init(numberOfWheels: Int) {
        self.numberOfWheels = numberOfWheels
    }

    convenience init() {
        self.init(numberOfWheels: 4)
    }

}

The car class contains two initializers - a designated initializer and a convenience initializer.
The designated initializer is simply marked init. Inside a designated initializer, you are required to set all class properties so that the class is ready to go once initialization finishes. We set numberOfWheels inside our initializer.
The convenience initializer is marked convenience init. A convenience initializer may do whatever, but it must call one of the designated initializers before it finishes. In our example, it calls self.init(numberOfWheels: Int) and supplies a default number of wheels (4).
Convenience initializers are there exactly for their namesake: convenience. They allow you to set up initializers to classes that deal with common initialization cases. In our Car class, it is typical for a car to have four wheels, so our convenience initializer makes that common case easier.
To create a car, we can use either the designated initializer or the convenience initializer:
let carA = Car(numberOfWheels: 3)  // makes a car with 3 wheels
let carB = Car()                   // makes a car with 4 wheels

There are a lot more rules around initialization, especially in class hierarchies where super.init and initializer inheritance must be considered as well. I cannot describe them all any better or more succinctly than the official documentation, so again, I suggest you check there.

A: Convenience initialisers allow you to initialise a class without all the required parameters the designated initialiser needs.
For example, in a very basic example you may have a designated initialiser for a class that requires a String:
init someName(value: String) {

You could also create a convenience initialiser to go along side this that takes an int and converts it to a String and then calls the designated initialiser and passes it that String. This way if your class is initialised and passed an int instead or by mistake, it won't error and will handle it.
convenience init someName2(value: Int) {
    let someString = String(value)
    someName(value: someString)
}

Another use for them is that the designated initialiser may take multiple parameters. You could create a convenience initialiser to go along side this that takes only one of those parameters, creates the others and sets them to some default values and then calls the designated initialiser, passing them all in. This way you do not need to specify all required parameters of the designated initialiser since if you don't, your convenience initialiser will fill in missing ones with default values.
convenience init someName(value: String) {
    someName(value: someString, value2: "DefaultValue")
}

init someName(value: String, value2: String) {

A: Default init:
Designated initializers are the primary initializers for a class. A designated initializer fully initializes all properties introduced by that class and calls an appropriate superclass initializer to continue the initialization process up the superclass chain.
convenience init:
Convenience initializers are secondary, supporting initializers for a class. You can define a convenience initializer to call a designated initializer from the same class as the convenience initializer with some of the designated initializer's parameters set to default values. You can also define a convenience initializer to create an instance of that class for a specific use case or input value type.
as per the Swift Documentation
Actually - Swift defines two kinds of initializers.

*

*Designated initializers

*Convenience initializers

Designated initializers are the primary initializers for a class. Every class should have at least one designated initializer.
init(parameters if any) {
}

Convenience initializers are secondary, supporting initializers for a class. Convenience initializers are written in the same style, but with the convenience modifier placed before the init keyword, separated by a space:
convenience init(parameters if any) {
}

Convenience init initializes the designated init method by calling self.init.
Example:
class HumanBeing {
var name: String
init(name: String) {
self.name = name
}

convenience init() {
self.init(name: "not set")
// Convenience init call the designated init method
}
}
let humanBeingObj1 = HumanBeing() // calls convenience init
let humanBeingObj2 = HumanBeing(name: "abhilash") // calls designated init

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You know what's it's almost time for? Basketball -- and lots of it! March is a fun time to get together with family, watch the season come to a full swing, and bake up lots of yummy goodies. I was so excited to part of the REESE'S Baking Bracket Challenge, along with other Walmart Moms, where I could enter my own REESE'S recipe for a chance to face off against others!
My recipe: Nuttin' but Net Chocolate Cupcakes, takes a classic chocolate cake mix and tops it with coffee-flavored whipped topping, nuts, and lots of REESE'S goodness! The best part is that all of the ingredients can be found at your local Walmart!
1. Stir together dry ingredients in a bowl.
2. Add wet ingredients, except for boiling water, and stir for 2 minutes until smooth.
3. Add boiling water and mix.
4. Pour into greased cupcake pan and bake in a 350 oven for 20-22 minutes, or until baked through.
1. Mix one 8-oz. tub of frozen whipped topping (thawed) with 2 tsp instant coffee crystals. Let set in fridge for 10 minutes, then remix until uniform in color.
1. Melt 10 REESE'S Minis Peanut Butter Cups and 1 tablespoon vegetable shortening in a glass bowl over boiling water. Mix thoroughly.
2. Drizzle the melted mixture over the cupcakes with a fork.
3. Garnish with chopped peanuts.
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To vote, simply register at the site and you'll be ready to begin! Several of my fellow Walmart Moms have recipes entered, and I'm hoping you'll vote for my Nuttin' But Net Cupcakes in their own bracket!
Good luck with the votes, and enjoy your delicious REESE'S treats!


Enterprising Worcestershire is an exciting ERDF funded programme offering support to new and early stage businesses in the region. Starting up and developing a business can be challenging, especially during the first couple of years. If you know your business has potential, or you anticipate high rate growth, our fully funded business assistance could make all the difference to your success.
Through the Enterprising Worcestershire programme, your start-up or early stage business can access funding of up to £2500. You could use this to invest in new equipment, have a website built or purchase software, whatever will help to develop your business in the early years. To be eligible for the grant, your business will need to be located in Worcestershire and have been trading for less than three years, mostly business to business (B2B).
Dedicated and experienced business advisors offering free support workshops and one-to-one support to help you get to grips with the requirements of starting and running your own business.
The Prince's Trust Enterprise Programme – supporting unemployed young people aged between 18-30 to work out if self employment is right for them, help them test their ideas, write plans and start a business.
Summer Start-Up Bootcamp – The University of Worcester summer business start-up programme is aimed at people within Worcestershire who are in the process of, or are interested in, setting up a business. The event is running between 18th July and 21st August 2018.
If you believe your business has the capacity to grow rapidly and you are pre-start or less than 12 months old, Enterprising Worcestershire can provide up to 24 hours of mainly one-to-one support to help you to identify and overcome any potential barriers to rapid growth and future success.
Whether it is strategic business planning, access to finance or managing rapid growth that you need advice on, our experienced High Growth Business Support Team will work with you to help your business develop. To be eligible for this high growth start up support you will need to be pre-start up, or trading for less then 12 months and be based in Worcestershire.
Post start businesses looking for ways to grow can take advantage of the support offered by Enterprising Worcestershire. Eligible B2B businesses in the region can access a package of support workshops, designed specifically to help early stage businesses progress.
Topics include financial planning, sales and marketing with follow up support also provided on a one-to-one basis. To be eligible for this post start-up support your business will need to be based in Worcestershire, operating on a B2B basis and have been trading for less than 36 months.
Enterprising Worcestershire's dedicated and experienced business advisors from Blue Orchid will deliver a minimum of 12 hrs free support workshops and 1-2-1 to help you get to grips with the requirements of starting and running your own business.
Mentoring to help them develop their business or access other opportunities in education, training, work or volunteering.
Places must be booked in advance. Please contact the Worcestershire Business Central team today to book your place on 01905 677 888.
The Enterprising Worcestershire Summer Startup Bootcamp is a FREE business startup course organised and delivered by the University of Worcester and is part funded by the European Union Regional Development Fund.
2019 will be the 3rd year that the Summer Startup Bootcamp has run and has to date supported over 60 individuals to start their own business.
Visit the Summer Bootcamp page to find out more.
The aim of this grant is to provide support to SMEs covering start-up, high growth start-up and post start, early development situations, which are focused on individual business growth potential.
Enterprises must have been trading for less than 36 months.
Located in Worcestershire and trading a minimum of 70% business to business.
Enterprises must be an SME (have fewer than 250 employees.
Turnover less than the equivalent of 50 million euros, a balance sheet of less than 43 million euros.
This project is receiving up to £1,076,648 of funding from the England European Regional Development Fund as part of the European Structural and Investment Funds Growth Programme 2014-2020. The Department for Communities and Local Government (and in London the intermediate body Greater London Authority) is the Managing Authority for European Regional Development Fund.


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Death Bubba, bred by Vancouver BC's Sea to Sky, is a beautiful, purple-hued strain with trichromes and terpenes abound. Created by crossing Death Star and Bubba Kush, this pungent pairing reeks of grass and skunk while the smoke is sweet, earthy, and clean on the palate. Its semi-sedative effects lock the consumer to the couch, unknotting tension and soothing minor physical discomfort with ease. This stinky BC native has been serving cannabis enthusiasts since 2012 and was most recently smelled off Fraser St. the Vancouver metro area.
HTFSE stands for High Terpene Full Spectrum Extract.


The pictures are of the second creek on the northern third of the property that flows west into Courthouse Creek. It is located on the 35.1 acre property in Goochland County, Virginia that is for sale.
This small creek may not have flowing water during the dry season.


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C&W marketing Piscataway office campus
Keystone Property Group has retained Cushman & Wakefield to oversee leasing at a newly renovated office park in Piscataway, the real estate services firm announced.
In a news release, Cushman & Wakefield said it was named exclusive leasing agent for 30 Knightsbridge Road, a 680,000-square-foot campus off Exit 8 of Interstate 287. William O'Keefe, Charlie Parmelli and Brandon DeGraff, based in C&W's Morristown office, are heading the assignment at the four-building campus.
Since acquiring the property in 2014, Keystone has invested several million dollars to enhance the amenity package, which now includes a newly renovated cafeteria, several conference and training rooms, a 200-seat auditorium and a state-of-the-art fitness center, the news release said. C&W also touted robust infrastructure for tenants that includes redundant power with an onsite substation, high-end fiber optic infrastructure, an advanced security system with 24/7 card access and a three-bay covered loading dock with a separate freight elevator.
"With proximity to several major roadways, 30 Knightsbridge provides easy access to employees commuting from across northern and central New Jersey," Tom Sklow, Keystone's vice president of development and leasing, said in a prepared statement. "With its superior amenities and cutting-edge technological capabilities, the property provides leading firms with an ideal office environment engineered to foster their continued corporate growth."
Keystone Property Group, which is based in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, acquired the property from Mack-Cali Realty Corp. It was among a dozen New Jersey and New York properties that Mack-Cali sold in the $230.8 million deal, part of an effort to pare down its suburban portfolio.
The Cushman & Wakefield team is marketing 50,000 square feet of available office space and a 115,000-square-foot data center at 30 Knightsbridge Road.
"The sophistication of this property's systems sets it apart; however, the quality of its tenant amenities position it as best-in-class for the Piscataway marketplace," O'Keefe said. "Keystone, which is a well-capitalized, responsive owner, has invested significantly in providing an attractive quality of life for its tenants."
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Original Sinsuality Tour: The set list and reviews for Tori's June 13, 2005 concert in Paris, France
Updated Mon, Jun 13, 2005 - 8:59pm ET
You can now see the set list and reviews for the Paris, France concert at The Zenith. Tori set list included Snow Cherries From France, Cars And Guitars, Crucify and the covers Lovesong (Cure) and Purple Rain (Prince) during Tori's Piano Bar segment of the show. If you were at this concert and want to send The Dent a review, please email Mikewhy at mikewhy@iglou.com with your review or comments. You can also post your review of the show on The Dent's Original Sinsuality Tour Forum. Thanks for sharing your reviews with The Dent.
Tori performed in Paris, France on Monday, June 13, 2005 at The Zenith. Tori's special guest was Tom McRae and the show started at 8:00PM.
Special thanks to Matt Page and Richard G. for calling me with the set list after the show!
Yes, Anastasia
Snow Cherries From France
Marys Of The Sea
Bells For Her
Lovesong (Cure cover)
Purple Rain (Prince cover)
The Beekeeper
1st Encore
Liquid Diamonds
Ribbons Undone
2nd Encore
From Matt Page and Richard G.:
Tonight's show seemed extra special and was a real highlight for Matt. (It will also be his last European show of this tour.) Tori's voice was in fantastic shape tonight. She was nailing the notes on Yes, Anastasia and Crucify, sometimes in ways Matt has not heard in a long time!
Before her piano bar section, Tori said she has gotten a lot of requests, but was going to sing two songs that she loves, and that they will be her love letters to France. Then she did Lovesong and Purple Rain, both debuts for this tour.
She also did an amazing Pretty Good Year. Tori said the to the French crowd about the U.S., "Pretty she is, pretty she could be..." which also got quite a reaction.
Richard, who will continue to phone in set lists to the Dent for many future shows, thought the sound tonight was excellent. Tori debuted Crucify for this tour and she added some new lyrics with words like, "I'm not going to crucify myself for my president" whch the crowd really liked.
From Stéphane Jouffroy:
Tori seemed very happy to be in Paris. She said "you delicious people" and later, during the Piano Bar" part, she said the song she had chosen among the numerous requests were "love letters" to us. Beside, she played "Snow Cherries From France"!
The acoustics were incredibly good in the hall, which is quite a large one (up to 5000 people). We could feel the bass from her piano and organs very well, and her voice sounded crystal clear too. Therefore, we could fully enjoy all she can do with her voice, from whisper to shout.
Her performance of The Cure's Love Song was just wonderful and received quite a reaction from the audience. I was very pleased to hear "Liquid Diamonds" which she doesn't play very often
I noticed that during The Beekeeper, after the second chorus, if I remember well, she made a moving reference to her brother, she sang "take this message to Michael".
From Pierre Fageolle:
Last night's show... The Voice was there, no doubt. Still, I felt like Tori was not really into it at the beginning. As if "Yes Anastasia" didn't want to be chosen that night, and tried to escape her. Tori was literally running after the song, to me. This nasty Anastasia behaved like a George Bush pom-pom girl, she didn't want to discuss with a french audience. May be Tori thought she had to force her, to show her old Europe... In that case, I hope it's been effective:-)
She had easier time with "Mother Revolution", because it was the first of a series of songs that can relate to the land... After all, we're still famous for that 1789 revolution of ours, and its symbol is a girl named Marianne. After centuries spent with kings, chosing a girl to represent french republic was not innocent. It's another side of this revolution.
Then you had "Winter", slowed down as usual. Then a brilliant performance of "Snow Cherries From France", that made me rediscover and reconsider the song. Very charming version.
"Marys Of The Sea" was another good choice for France. By the Mediterranean sea, near Marseille, there is a wild and beautiful area called "Camargue", where waters and land seem to melt. In this watercolour kingdom live wild white horses and gypsies, playing guitar at night, by the fire... Well, this is a "postcard" vision, obviously! Anyhow, the "capital" of Camargue is "Les Saintes Maries de la Mer". You see my point. Tori has a funny way to sing the words "Marie" et "mer"... It sounds more like "Mairie" (city hall) and "Mir" (the russian space station). But it's OK, cute accent.
Passed the nice stereo delay effect on "Bells For Her", we stumbled upon the Piano Bar section. Her renditions of "Lovesong" and "Purple Rain" really impressed everyone. They seemed very heart-felt. I won't be surprised if, in the future, Tori comes and spend time somewhere in France. There must be a place waiting for her here. By the sea. Brittany... could be. "Some day, some life..." as she said...
"Cars And guitars" went OK. It was more interesting than on the album, but I hardly connect to this one. "Marianne" was just great - it sounded like she really enjoyed being played that night. I'm always bedazzled how powerful its first bars are. "Marianne" enters the room, and nothing's the same anymore. She knows how to make a good first impression.
"Barons of Suburbia" went as OK as "Cars And Guitars". Good rendition, great voice... and then came a very inspired "Crucify". That song, as you may have read it on The Dent, was lately covered by a french real-tv winner called Nolwenn (who was in the audience and probably got to meet Tori after the show). Her love of Tori's work appears to be genuine, that's the more important.
The two encores were probably the best bit of the concert. Tori was at her top level and the songs she picked up were happily floating on our minds. What can you add about that?
There's only one thing that's very disturbing about Tori's concerts: the way they end. They always switch the lights on as soon as she has left the stage. Is it meant to make us feel like we suddenly wake up after a beautiful dream? I don't think it's appropriate. It's a bit like "Go home now, comply!" (to be said with Seven Of Nine voice) I'd rather have a little time to land after the flight...
From Frank:
After seeing the Brussels and the Rotterdam show from quite good seats it was time for me to sit in the back at this concert. Which was not that bad at all. Sitting in the back made me more aware of the beautiful lights and all the things besides Tori herself which makes the show the show! So my compliments to all of them who made the show look the way it looks!!!!
When it comes down to the setlist I think this one was better than the one she played in Brussels. The opening with beautiful songs as Yes, Anastacia, Mother Revolution, Winter and a beautiful SnowCherries from Francegot the French people in a good mood. They were more enthousiastic then the Dutch and the Belgian crowds. I think that is what Tori made saying the things she said about George Bush and America. The French people (me included as being a Dutch guy) loved it! So I must say it was worth traveling to Paris to see this show! Too bad that the meet and greet was delayed a bit untill 5pm so she was in quite a rush. But by playing this setlist (Liquid Diamonds!!!!!) she really made up with me!
From Melanie:
I wanted to add a few things about Paris... I think people have already told most of what happened in Paris. Yet I want to precise what she said in Crucify... She sang never going back again to crucify myself.. for any man... then she changed it to .. for ANY president... Then she changed it again to ... to crucify my land..... which had a nice echo in her Pretty good Year version of pretty it could be...
The crowd was really warm and I agree that Tori seems to like it and to like Paris.. just like she likes Italian audiences... Or is it just the clothes and shoes reputation? :)
Anyway it was really a nice emotional energetic show with a great setlist...
From Alessandro:
I've just come back from france and I want to mark this page too, only with a few personal notes. It was a really highlight show last night in paris, high power and high intensity, I've hardly ever heard and seen something like that in about 20 years of concerts.. So intense and so emotional, she sang really passionately last night, I guess ther's something magical when she performs on stage! A great setlist, she did some of my preferred, like winter, bells for her.. magical.., liquid diamonds and pretty good year. The top for me it was when she introduced her piano bar session and said something like that "...these are two of my favourites.. I've got a request, some people have asked me to do this..and this is my love letter for you guys.." ..and started with love song (thanks tori! I've made my personal request and It was a great surprise, really amazing..you caught my heart two times tonight!), beautiful the prince cover too!
I guess that the zenith is a very special place for this kind of shows, very excellent and clear sound, good organization.
The crowd was really warm and I agree that Tori seems to like it and to like Paris.. just like she likes Italian audiences... Or is it just the clothes and shoes reputation?? :)
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Q: Unrecognized font family Material Icons? Iam new to React-Native, I have added react-native-vector-icons library manually to Xcode and Android studio. if run the code with Xcode its executing successfully without any issue. but if i trying to run the code from Terminal (react-native run-ios) its showing 'Unrecognized font family Material' in simulator. but the same this working if i runs the command (react-native run-android).
please help me.
this is the error showing in terminal Error Screen shot
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The following build commands failed:

    CompileC /Users/user/Documents/Test/JobsNProfiles/ios/build/Build/Intermediates.noindex/RNVectorIcons.build/Debug-iphonesimulator/RNVectorIcons.build/Objects-normal/x86_64/RCTFont+FA5.o /Users/user/Documents/Test/JobsNProfiles/node_modules/react-native-vector-icons/RNVectorIconsManager/RCTFont+FA5.m normal x86_64 objective-c com.apple.compilers.llvm.clang.1_0.compiler
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A: I am not sure what exactly you are missing in your configuration, so I am gonna state all what I believe is the case:

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*Delete ios/build folder, then try automatic linking: react-native link react-native-vector-icons.

*Make sure you have checked that the font is copied in the Copy Bundle Resources in Build Phases. If not, re-check the manual configuration steps.

*Make sure you kill the packager and re-run for changes to take effect.

A: The solution I found is to check if the fonts are added to the UIAppFonts array in the Info.plist file:
<key>UIAppFonts</key>
<array>
 <string>AntDesign.ttf</string>
 <string>Entypo.ttf</string>
 <string>EvilIcons.ttf</string>
 <string>Feather.ttf</string>
 <string>FontAwesome.ttf</string>
 <string>FontAwesome5_Brands.ttf</string>
 <string>FontAwesome5_Regular.ttf</string>
 <string>FontAwesome5_Solid.ttf</string>
 <string>Foundation.ttf</string>
 <string>Ionicons.ttf</string>
 <string>MaterialIcons.ttf</string>
 <string>MaterialCommunityIcons.ttf</string>
 <string>SimpleLineIcons.ttf</string>
 <string>Octicons.ttf</string>
 <string>Zocial.ttf</string>
</array>

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A: Simplest of all
You can simply add the following to your Podfile

# Normal
pod 'RNVectorIcons', :path => '../node_modules/react-native-vector-icons'

# If you are using monorepo
# pod 'RNVectorIcons', :path => '../../../node_modules/react-native-vector-icons'

and run
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The influence of the English language on the world stage is such that it now constitutes a kind of global Lingua Franca. As such, English has supplanted French as the language of diplomacy, of culture, and of social prestige. This role reversal entails some residual opposition in France, and in consequence, the use of English expressions and vocabulary by French continues to be a controversial subject in France, as it has been for decades. Regulations are still being implemented to control the French language. Nowadays, social media has been an important tool in our society. Twitter has become a popular means of communication used in a variety of fields, such as politics, journalism, and academia. This widely used online platform has an impact on the way people express themselves and is changing language usage worldwide at an unprecedented pace. The language used online reflects the linguistic battle that has been going on for several decades in French society today. In my dissertation, I investigate the factors prompting the use of English and French language mixing on Twitter in France. The use of acronyms, hashtags as well as another language may be used as strategies to reach a wider audience. The need for visibility and audience maximization seem to be important factors for linguistic choice on Twitter. This study enables a deeper understanding of users' linguistic behavior online. The implications are important and allow for a rise in awareness of intercultural and cross-language exchanges.


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Home Affairs Uganda – The quest for Dialogue as a tool for peaceful upcoming...
Uganda – The quest for Dialogue as a tool for peaceful upcoming elections
A citizen casting her vote in the 2011 election. Image via Electoral Commission of Uganda.
By Gloria Laker Aciro Adiiiki, KAMPALA –UGANDA
Ugandan politicians are looking into early round table dialogues among different political parties, leaders and its citizen as a means to achieving peaceful general elections.
The country goes into polls to elect its leaders in February 2021. In recent past, Ugandan elections have been associated with violence during campaign periods escalating into unrest and this is one of the issues Ugandans are hoping that the Interparty Organisation Dialogue (IPOD) will help to prevent through pushing its mandate of round table discussions.
Verifying a voter on the register. Image via Electoral Commission of Uganda.
"Despite the differences, IPOD should put Uganda first and unite party leaders and sensitize voters on the need for peaceful elections come 2021. The leaders should be examples and say no to violence and to a great extent, we will achieve peace in the coming election"
Vincent Maganjo a voter in Kampala explained.
However, there has been controversies in IPOD with the largest opposition party, Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), who are refusing to sit in on any discussions with president Yoweri Museveni of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM).
According to Lydia Wanyoto, a former Member of Parliament and an NRM supporter, she says the FDC feel their rights are abused during elections and they do not want to share a table with president Museveni.
A party member from the Ugandan People's Congress (UPC) shares his views with attendees during an IPOD symposium held on September 10 in Uganda. Image via nimd.org
Democratic Party (DP) president Norbert Mao is currently chairing IPOD which is managed on a rotation basis. The next party to take over and chair IPOD is the FDC which is against sitting on the same table with President Museveni.
IPOD has two forums, one under the secretary general which is attended by elected members of parliament, meaning if a political party does not have an MP in parliament it is not represented in this first IPOD forum. The second IPOD forum is for presidential candidates of all political parties and that is where the controversy is centred – with a section of the FDC leaders saying no, "we cannot dialogue with president Museveni on same table"
Wanyoto is now appealing to locals leaders to look into dialogue for a peaceful election.
Abdul Katuntu, a member of parliament on the FDC ticket is encouraging fellow FDC leaders to meet and talk with president Museveni under the IPOD forum, saying " It's normal to meet Museveni and talk. Having self-conversation is not dialogue, so it is important for FDC to meet and dialogue with president Museveni."
Angelo Izama is a media analyst in Uganda. He says, "Every time power is concentrated on one region, there is a looming crisis."
This therefore calls for African leaders to avert such violence by holding transparent elections, not clinging on to power for a long time, equal distribution of resources, respecting human rights and holding free and fair elections.
Gloria Laker Aciro Adiiki is a Ugandan Peace journalist and an expert on Peace Journalism based in Kamapa. For two decades Gloria covered the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) conflict in northern Uganda for local and International Media.
Gloria now heads up the Peace Journalism Foundation of East Africa and runs the Uganda Refugees and Migration Media Network, all of which are aimed at preventing media-induced violence in Africa and encouraging journalists to voice the vulnerable by offering counter-narrative reports to debunk negative portrayal of refugees and other groups.
In 2016, Gloria was acknowledged and honoured as a journalist by the BBC 'Outlook Inspirational project' for her courageous and peaceful coverage of the LRA war. She was acclaimed again in 2008 as a BBC award winner for communicating justice in northern Uganda and in 2019 was awarded as a Golden Jubilee Medalist by Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni for her courage, contribution and positive coverage of the LRA conflict in her birthplace. Gloria holds a BA degree in Journalism and Mass Communication.
Email: glorialaker@gmail.com
Twitter: @GloriaLaker
Skype: gloria.laker
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One of the largest mutual life insurers in the U.S. has shown its interest in the UK pension risk transfer and de-risking market by investing in one of the leading players in that sector in the last week. Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, or MassMutual for short, has made an investment in leading UK pension risk transfer specialist life insurer, and wholly owned subsidiary of Goldman Sachs, Rothesay Life.
The investment has been made through a subordinated debt offering, which saw Rothesay Life issue £100m of perpetual subordinated notes which MassMutual duly purchased. The debt issued in the deal replaces existing debt that Rothesay Life had and pays a regular coupon to the holder until the issuer chooses to repay it or the holder chooses to arrange to mature the notes or sell them. In this way it acts like a shareholding paying a regular dividend, but for Rothesay Life owner Goldman Sachs, it means they remain Rothesay Lifes sole shareholder.
It's an interesting deal as it sees MassMutual take an interest in the returns which are possible from pension risk transfer and annuity deals, while for Rothesay Life it secures a £100m injection of capital which it can be put to work in upcoming transactions allowing it to assume more pension and longevity risks. It shows the attraction that the sector and its potential return has, enough to encourage a U.S. mutual insurer to get involved in the UK market.
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Guided Path 2-3 Spousal Strategies
Benefits can be confusing when it comes to knowing what's available and how to get them. For spouses, there are benefits and strategies that not everyone knows about, and once you know them, it's crucial to understand their details to maximize them. In this episode, Michael Littledike, Founder and CEO of Capita Financial Network, talks with Zacc Call and Laura Hadley to help people understand the Social Security spousal benefits and clarify the most common mistakes they see regarding this topic. Zacc, Laura, and Michael discuss: - How a spouse is entitled to get half of the other spouse's Primary Insurance Amount (PIA) at full retirement - What happens to the PIA if the primary worker or the spouse takes their benefits before or after their full retirement age - How a divorced spouse can receive benefits out of that marriage if it lasted for at least ten years - The importance of knowing your personal benefits before applying for others - The cost of living adjustment on spousal benefits to keep up with inflation - And more
[00:00:00] Welcome to the Financial Call. We are financial advisors on a mission to guide you through the financial planning everyone should have, whether you're doing it yourself or working with a financial advisor, these episodes will help you break down complicated financial topics into practical, actionable steps. Our mission is to guide motivated people to become financially successful. Welcome back to the Financial Call. We are in episode three of season two. This. Social Security all about it. We were just talking. We have Mike here on the podcast today. Capita really got its start from explaining Social Security, becoming the experts in Social Security and presenting on it. So we have Mike here with us today. We're excited to have him. We'll talk a little bit more about that, but really Social Security is very complicated. There's lots to it. So we wanted to break it down. We've already gone through the refresher of the basics with Tyler. Last time, Zacc and I talked about how your personal benefit is calculated today. We're talking about
[00:01:00] spousal strategies. So if you are entitled to a benefit from your spouse, how that works, if you should take that over your personal, we'll go through that today. Next time we'll be talking about divorce. Remarriage and death, how those benefits work, which that one I'm, I'm excited about that we have examples of when we've literally given people advice to get divorced and then get remarried. Mm-hmm so if that's not a teaser, that's as exciting as it gets in our world. Join us next time. And we'll explain more about that. Jason and Tyler have both had that scenario. Yeah, we'll go through those. Think about in spousal benefits by themselves are one of the more foundational parts to Social Security. And like Laura mentioned, when I founded Capita, we went out and we were doing these presentations to the public. I remember we'd have eight people show up to a Marriott conference room and we'd present on Social Security, but this is really where we got our start by helping people better understand how Social Security works. And really when we talk about spousal benefits, this is where. People can really maximize their benefits. And so we're gonna go through a lot of information, but
[00:02:00] even probably more important than that, it's been fun over the years to not only educate people around this, but we've got, we could write books on the case studies of ways. We've been able to help people, ways people have missed out on benefits so we can share a lot of that information with you. So I think this is a really good topic. If we wrote books though, we wouldn't be able to talk to people. And I think we all prefer to talk to people, right? Yeah. I can't write so. And anyway, keep going, Laura, we interrupted you. She's given us the outline of, of the path. So next time we'll talk about divorce, remarriage and death. After that, we are talking about Social Security penalties. A lot of people don't know about these penalties, but they can be a big deal. That's called the WEP penalty and the GPO penalty will go through that. And then the last episode will be, when should you file? Like Mike said, we have a lot of fun case studies of personal situations. Social Security is very unique per person, so we can help give some examples of different scenarios that we have. And when is a good time to file for benefits. Love it. All right. Well, let's dive into
[00:03:00] it and see if we can help people understand spousal strategies. In particular, we may dip our toes in the water of survivor benefits a little bit today because it's part of the spousal consideration for sure. Okay. So the basics of the spousal benefit, you are entitled to half of your, the primary workers. PIA. We talked about this last time, the primary insurance amount, that's the amount that that person is entitled to at their full retirement age. And so if you were a spouse, maybe you were the homemaker, you stayed home to take care of the kids. You didn't work as many hours as the primary worker. You still are entitled to a benefit based off of that spouse. And you can choose, you can take your personal benefit if that's larger. Or you can take half of your spouse's benefit at full retirement age at full retirement age. Yeah, exactly. And so we have an example just to make this very clear. We have John, his PIA is $2,000. That's the amount that he's entitled to
[00:04:00] at his full retirement age. And then we have Jane, she worked a little bit. And so her primary insurance amount, her PIA is $800. Well, if Jane applies at her full retirement age for Social Security, Her benefit will be a thousand dollars. That's because that's half of the $2,000 and that's more than her personal of $800. And a lot of times people will say, I guess I will ask this question. So in this specific situation, Jane, as we've noted, she's worked at least the 10 years of the 40 quarters to get a PIA. But in this specific situation, what good did it really do her? And the answer is she didn't even need it. She didn't need a PIA. She was still getting a thousand dollars a month, regardless of what her benefit was. So whether it was $400 a month or $800 a month, it really doesn't matter because she's entitled to the thousand dollars a month from the spousal benefit. And I always tell the story. I actually had a client once where. He had worked his entire career. She had mostly been a homemaker, but had worked about seven or eight
[00:05:00] years. So as we were doing their financial planning and prepping for their Social Security income, it was kind of his idea based on his knowledge to have her go back to work, to get the PIA. So 10 years that she could get her own benefit. So he said, I need you. They didn't need the money. By the way, it was more of a principle thing of, Hey, you're, you know, eight tenths of the way there. Let's have you go back to work just so you can get that benefit. It's a good thing that no marriage battles are based on principles alone, right? yes. So I was able to kind of jump in and say, well, that's great. If you wanna go to work, that's fine, but you actually don't need a benefit because it would actually take her. If, if we ran the math on, it would take her almost 15 years to have her benefit surpass half of his. So that was quickly unwound and she didn't have to go back to work based on the PIA. So she got that thousand bucks regardless. So it's an interesting story. So you saved her a few years of work. I'm sure she liked you from that point. Those are always fun conversations, right? When you're like, I'm not taking a side but I'm on her side. That's correct. I think
[00:06:00] that's an important idea though, to understand you get the greater of the two, you don't get to take both at the same time. And also if you're 62, Laura, so if she were 62 and he had a $2,000 benefit, just to be clear, she doesn't get the full 50%. She gets 30%. Yeah. Mm. Yep. So just like your personal Social Security, if you were to take it before your full retirement age, your benefits are reduced. So the same thing for the spousal benefit, rather than getting 50% at your full retirement age, if you take it at age 62, it's about 32%, depending on your full retirement age, that does increase a little bit each year up to full retirement age. Here's the thing. If you wait past. Full retirement age. It does not continue to grow with your personal benefit. You can delay it after full retirement age and it will continue. It's not the case with the spousal benefit. My parents were in this situation where like the situation you've described, where my mom she's worked a lot over her life, but she's never made a lot of money. And so that's made
[00:07:00] it so that her benefit is really not that big, it's less than half of my dad's benefit. And we were doing their retirement planning, trying to decide what she should do now. They're almost the same age. And when she hit full retirement, we had delayed both of their benefits up until this point. And we had a really tough decision to make, right, because Mike, you mentioned it earlier where the worker, the primary worker, has to file for the spouse to pick up that benefit. But we were not necessarily. Like super excited about filing for my dad's benefit because his could keep growing. So what Laura's talking about when they hit full retirement age, my dad had four more years of potential growth, or they call them delayed credits on his Social Security benefit. But my mom stopped. There's no more delayed credits on hers. And so it was basically giving up money if she did not pick up that spousal. And, you know, back when Mike started doing this, and even back when I joined here at Capita and back in my
[00:08:00] time at their previous employer, you used to be able to file and then suspend. And so you could file my dad's and suspend immediately. My mom could pick up the spousal. My dad could let his grow. And then at 70 you could hop over on, on my dad's, but that got taken away in 2015, I believe. So we had to make that, that tough choice and in their situation, they felt like it was best to take it. And go ahead and have my dad file. At full retirement age, we ran the math. And all of those benefits that surprise, surprise. I know. Right, right. He pulled on a spreadsheet. Mike, Mike makes fun of me for that. It's good to have you by the way, because, because no one calls me out on stuff quite like you do. I love it. And it's great. But yeah, we ran the math and that's what I geek out on the weekends, by the way. But the bottom line is we figured it was going. Be a little bit too long of a break, even that's in our last episode, by the way, in this season, we're going to show you how this math should be run and how to choose when to file. Well, and the interesting thing, just to kind of cut to the chase, the break, even analysis, most likely for your
[00:09:00] dad would've been he or she would've had to live past about, let's say 80 years old to keep it easy. But what happens is that's. In a vacuum only on his benefit. But if we also add in the fact that if he delays and gets the 8% delayed credit, let's pretend his PIA is 3000, she's missing out on $1,500 per month for those four years. So that's $18,000 per year. So it changes the break even point to like in their nineties. And so, although we do like one spouse to either take on time or maybe a little bit later to have that survivor benefit be as large as possible in that situation. Very rarely. Does it make sense for them to delay? And the other thing that you could think about is even if there was a two year age gap, sometimes we'll delay for maybe two years, but once the lower earning spouse hits full retirement age, we really want to be on those spousal benefits. Even if that means the primary worker needs to file. Of course, I don't like to, you know, make a blanket statement. We should really look at your individual situations, but if there's a two year age gap, in other words, maybe he could wait till 68 and she
[00:10:00] could file at 66 at full retirement age. That mathematically actually might make sense and is a nice middle ground. That's why spousal benefits can be really complicated, but also very rewarding when it comes to building your overall financial plan. Yeah. If you do it right, that's funny. I was trying to simplify it, but technically they are 11 months apart. So my mom is basically a year younger than my dad. They did exactly that; they waited until she hit full retirement. So he was actually a year beyond full retirement. So he got one 8% pop. At least you got it. Exactly. And Mike, you brought up the survivor benefit just to explain. So when a couple is receiving benefits, when one of them passes away, the smaller of the two benefits will go away and the larger benefit will stay in place. So when Mike was talking about, we wanna make that survivor benefit as big as possible. We're trying to make the bigger of the two benefits larger, because that's gonna be the benefit that sticks around. Yeah. It, and this gets complicated. I remember sitting in the office with a woman who had been married three
[00:11:00] times and she had, let's see, I'm trying to keep the story straight. She had been married three times, two of those. Ex-spouses. Had passed away and one of them was still alive and she herself had a record. She herself had her own, not like a, record. She had a medical record. She's a criminal record. No, but, uh, she had, she had qualified for her own PIA on her own earnings record. Let's just be clear on all of that. Okay. So she actually had four choices to choose among. Maybe a survivor benefit on one of the two spouses that had passed an ex spouse, cause she had been married long enough. So we'll talk a little bit about this, but a divorced spouse. We have divorce and death next time, but we just want to hint at a few things. A divorced spouse can pick up a benefit on an ex if they've been married for at least 10 years, or if the marriage lasted, sorry for at least 10 years. So we're sitting there thinking like, oh my gosh, we could do one benefit. And survivor
[00:12:00] benefits could start at 60. So let's pick between the two of those and take one of those for a few years. And then maybe this is back when you could choose between a spousal and your own, depending on which one was higher. And so then we'd hop on a spousal benefit at full retirement age and then her own benefit at 70. And I think this is something a lot of people don't realize Social Security is not. Which benefits should I take? Sometimes it's in what order should you proceed through these benefits? If you've had a decent number of, and I would say, this is the biggest problem with folks as they go and they say, okay, I'm gonna file for Social Security. I'm gonna go to the Social Security office and go through this. Most of our mistakes that we've seen at the Social Security office. And it's not that they don't personally care about you. It's just that they're not really equipped. To go through your life history. Like maybe we would, when we sit down with someone, but they're not going to strategize that they usually just throw you on the biggest benefit at that specific time and you're done. And then sometimes we meet you a year or two later, and the pie is baked. There's nothing we can do to go back. And so it's really important that we
[00:13:00] do it right the first time. Right. And you can take your personal benefit and once your spouse files for their benefit, you still are entitled to that spousal, they call your spousal add on. So they'll basically give you the extra to get you to the amount that you are entitled to from your spouse. So that's very common and you don't have to go in and file for it when you're. Spouse files for their benefit. You should automatically get that add on added onto your benefit. This is good to hear Laura, because I'm so nervous about things not going through that. I always have people go in and submit online or make a phone call. Yeah. That's interesting. Yeah, I've done it for, you know, I feel like hundreds of people in the past and it just goes through year two and it goes through. Yeah. Fantastic. I just learned something wonderful. I'll have to apologize to my mom. And about the other clients, you had to wait on hold with the Social Security administration. Sorry, mom. I'll tell people if you're not, if you don't get the spousal automatically, then you can call
[00:14:00] in, but I haven't heard anybody not get. That's why it's important to know what your own benefit is because sometimes let's pretend that you're in your mom's situation. Maybe her personal benefit was 1300, but the spousal benefit was 1500. That's a $200. Add-on, that's the number we're using for our break, even on whether or not your father should file, cause she could easily file for her own benefit. At full retirement age and allow him to grow his and then jump over to a spousal later. So there is a little bit more in depth math we can do on your specific situation, but we're just talking kind of in generalities today. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. So. Mike, you also to give a little bit of flavor on survivor benefits, I'm somewhat familiar with, I think it's your grandparents situation. Yeah. This is something that happens to a lot of people to help us understand, again, we'll talk about survivor benefits, but you need to understand spousal strategies. Have to be made with the, what ifs involved, right? Yeah. And this was kind of a unique, what if, and you think about the general planning we do with folks it's oftentimes sitting
[00:15:00] down with a husband and a wife and, you know, projecting out income into the future, projecting tax rates, things like that. When it comes to Social Security, I think you've said it best where it's a team sport. When you think about your Social Security and a lot of times we'll have. A spouse. Let's say it's the breadwinner. Say I'm retiring at 62. I want to get it while the getting's good. This is my benefit. I've worked really hard for it, I want it now. And then sometimes that's fine, but we have to look at the spouse and say, well, your spouse is significantly younger. Let's think through the holistic, you know, let's look through how this is gonna end up. If one of you were to pass away. And the best way I can explain the strategy would be through my grandfather where. He filed for Social Security. As soon as he could at 62, he took a 25% reduction by doing so. So he took that penalty for filing early. He then passed away about 10 months later. So my dad was only 17 when this happened, but I've of course, you know, heard the story. So my grandfather passed away 10 months later. And. If we were to step back and ask most people, Hey, when do you wanna file for Social Security? They say, I want to get it while the
[00:16:00] getting's good. And so based on that logic, most people would say, well, at least your grandfather got 10 months worth of benefit versus the government. Just keeping it all. But to understand how this all works together is not only was of course there was a spousal benefit involved. But planning for the survivor benefit, knowing that if my grandfather filed early and then were to pass away, my grandma would inherit his benefit and the penalty. And so my grandma today, she's a hundred years old. She just hit a hundred in December of last year. And this entire time that she's been alive, she's had to pay for that penalty. And so his 10 months worth of getting benefits really did cost her long term. So as you think about. Whether or not, you file for your own benefit for a spousal benefit. We always want to think with the end in mind of, Hey, there's a really good chance that one of us will outlive the other by a significant period of time. And you start thinking about long term care planning and all of these end of stage expenses that could come about. It's really important to think about that primary breadwinners benefit. And then secondarily, we think about the
[00:17:00] spousal then the survivor benefit. So it's just important to think these things through, because if my grandfather wouldn't have filed at all, she would've got the full benefit with no penalty, even though he only lived, you know, to almost 63 years old, she would still get the entire. She could have had choices at that point, too, right? Yeah. She would've taken her own benefit till full retirement age, then switched over. And then that would've been an extra what? $700 a month for what? 40, 30 years. So 40 years. So it's big. Yeah. And something that people don't realize about spousal strategies. Like let's say that you're sitting there with a pension from work, oftentimes pensions from work will take into account the age of both spouses and the non-work spouse they'll figure out. Oh, he's only, let's say that the wife works for an institution and has a benefit. And she's older than her husband by five years. They may look at his age and say, oh, he's only 60. Even though she's 65, we're gonna base this joint life payment on the fact that
[00:18:00] he's 60. And they will look at that as a lower payment, or they will offer a lower payment because of age in Social Security, survivor benefits and, and strategies like this. They're not looking at you and saying, oh, you're this much younger. Therefore you get penalized in your monthly payment based on that. They're not running the actuarial table that way. And I think that's a really fascinating way to look. Spousal strategies. So when we think about spousal strategies in general, let's do somewhat of a recap. Understand that you have choices, you can file for a normal spousal benefit. Let's say you're married to the individual, not divorced, and they are alive. You have the options of taking Social Security as a spouse between age 62 and 70, they need to have filed first. Your spouse needs to have filed for their own benefit. Between 62 and I'm moving my hands around and you can't see it, but I'm here. I am moving my hands around thinking I'm smart between 62 and their full retirement age, which could be 66
[00:19:00] or 67 or something in between for most people. So between 62 and that full retirement age, you're going to get a little bit of an increase on your benefit all the way up until you get 50% of your spouse's benefit. At full retirement age, and then that locks it in from there, you get no growth from full retirement, up to 70. Here's something else. I run into this question all the time, and it's not really a question. It's more like when people run their own analysis, what they miss. And so this is a common error. They will say, well, I waited until 70 to get my benefit. My PIA at full retirement was 2000, but I'm waiting until 70. So maybe I'm gonna get Mike do some quick math. 2800 2000. Yeah. Okay. So by the way, Mike is the fastest mental math person in our office and it's fantastic. My only skill so sure. Sure. And I'm still punching numbers in my calculator. Okay. So 2,800. At 70. So then that spouse will oftentimes say, great. My
[00:20:00] wife is going to pick up $1,400 at their full retirement age. That's not how it works. They are eligible for half of your PIA. And your PIA is that benefit, like Laura said at full retirement age. So they are eligible to pick. What you would have gotten at 66, not what you will get for having delayed until 70, so that that can run the math a little bit differently for you and help you understand it works in the opposite too. If they're less than their full retirement age, say their benefits, 1800, you don't get half of the 1800. You still get half of the 2000. Right. So sometimes if you have a primary worker who's younger by five or six or seven years or something like that. In fact, I had this situation. Oh my gosh. I'm just remembering. Okay. This couple I could not convince them to retire. Could not convince them to retire and. They were just very, very nervous. And the best thing about this whole situation is that they had a couple million dollars in assets and didn't need a dime of it. Their fixed
[00:21:00] income was gonna cover everything, but they still couldn't figure out how they were going to retire besides the point. But going back to the math on Social Security. So he was three years younger than her. And she was over full retirement age and he was younger and they had such fixed income elsewhere that they were comfortable taking Social Security a little bit earlier. And by the way, we're gonna talk about this later super high risk tolerance for these people. So they felt like they could do better with their portfolio than. Then having to withdraw from the portfolio. We're gonna talk about that later. So that leans towards taking Social Security early, by the way, I'm throwing this out there as well. A lot of people will say financial advisors always recommend that you take Social Security late, and that's just not the case. If you're doing it right, sometimes it's early. Sometimes it's late. It depends on so many factors, including what you think you can earn in your investments. Okay. So going back to this, if he files. Early, he could pick up all of his benefit. And this is exactly what you were talking about. Well, sorry, not all he could pick up. It
[00:22:00] was like two or three years early. So it wasn't quite a 25% reduction. It was closer to like an 18% reduction in his benefit, but she got the full 50% of his PIA. So this is the exact same scenario that you just laid out. Laura. And these guys went from, he was making about $70,000 a year And between, I think she had a pension and this Social Security, they were going to have about $70,000 a year of income. And I was just like, why are you still working? Because he hated his job. But he was just so nervous. And this is a story for another day too, but they were really, really nervous about healthcare. And so we laid out the healthcare options because he wasn't 65. Right. And Medicare starts at 65. We laid out the healthcare options. They realized that they were gonna even get a subsidy. And it was like a done deal at that point. But that's a really good point, Laura, that if the primary worker files early, the spousal benefit can still be 50% of their PIA and it works out great. And one other
[00:23:00] thing is you were talking that I was thinking about all these decisions. When we talk about cost of living adjustments, cost of living adjustments, work off of what you're getting, not what you would've received based on your PIA. If you're getting a $1,500 benefit versus a $2,000 benefit, if you would've waited and there's a significant cost of living adjustment, it's a big deal. It's a compounding effect. And so like last year, the cost of living adjustment was like seven, 5.95 points. Okay. 5.9. So 5.9. Percent's a pretty big cost of living adjustment. If you delayed Social Security and got a $3,000 benefit versus that you filed early and got a $1,500 benefit. 5.9% is a different number from 3000 versus 1500. And so there's a compounding effect of delaying. So something else for you to think about, and that's why when we project out numbers, we always kind of project out what the cost of living adjustments might do. They've averaged about two and a half percent. So something for us to think about as well. And that's how you can go from, like, we mentioned that $2,000 benefit up to 20 hundred dollars, pretty easy because of those small cost
[00:24:00] of living adjustments. One other thing that I was thinking about a lot of times is that we'll have spouses think that they can file for their own benefit early and then switch to a spousal benefit later with no penalty. I just wanna be really clear about something. So let's do an example. Let's say a wife has a thousand dollars benefit. The husband has $3,000. If she files at 62, that's fine. She'll get $750 a month on her own benefit. So she files for her own benefit. Early 25% reduction. That's seven 50. When she waits till full retirement agent, maybe he waits till then as well. They both, you know, he files and then she files for that spousal benefit. She's not getting $1,500 or half of 3000. She's gonna get that minus the penalty. So she'll really get about the math. It's about 1250 a month. So there's never. You can't do that and then switch over with no penalty. I see that as a big mistake, when people go to the Social Security office, a lot of times they'll push them into filing without fully disclosing what those penalties will be down the road. And so of course, when Zacc does his break, even analysis, he's using
[00:25:00] all of that data to, to provide the proper break even, and it still may make sense. Yeah, sure. But they don't realize the consequences of it, right? It's a $3,000 per year consequence that you weren't dealing with or taking into account. Yeah, that's a good point. Just to provide some background for the cost of living adjustment, that's sometimes referred to as the COLA, once you file for Social Security, that does increase a little bit each year to help keep up with inflation. That's something not a lot of people know about. Like Mike said, last year was 5.9%. I think the last 20 year average is like one and a half or 2%. Yeah. We use it in our tool. So I have to look this up and it's worked out to be about 1.8 for the last decade. And then as you stretch it out longer, it gets closer to the two and a half that Mike has been talking about there. And then. There have been years in the double digits back in the eighties when inflation was really high. So, and then this last year was one of the biggest ones we've had in I think, multi decades. Right. We'll probably see another big one announced here in October, most likely having another really large cost of living adjustments.
[00:26:00] So those people that have delayed, I mean, that's gonna be a pretty big pop on their Social Security, even though it's just. Trying to keep up with inflation, but see, we have folks that get pensions from large companies out there where let's say they get a $2,000 a month pension over the last three or four years. That $2,000 is buying less and less and less every year. Whereas with Social Security, these cost of living adjustments, although they're not perfect, we love them cause they do help keep up with that inflation. So to summarize spousal strategies today, I already went through some of the details around what's available. And so we won't go over that again. But the overall theme is it is a team sport. Try not to file for one of the two benefits in a vacuum, ignoring the other. That's probably the biggest mistake we see. We do recognize that some households manage their finances separately and don't like to coordinate. I mean, it can be really hard for people who manage finances separately to say, look well, sure. I'll delay my benefits so my spouse can get a bunch more money. What about me? I have to live poor in the meantime. I mean, those types of
[00:27:00] dynamics work out like that, but bottom line, it's a team sport. Look at the benefits as a whole, and then. We're gonna get into, so today's not the date, but later in the season, we're gonna bring all of this together and really give you the, what do you call it? Like the meat and the potatoes of the full meal, here's how it all comes together. Here are all the factors that we see people miss. And here's how you make the final decision. Obviously it's personalized. So we can't say everybody should do it. But at least we can give you a bunch of examples and show you ways that we recommend going one way or the other, anything else to add Laura. Awesome. No, I think that's great. We're super excited to have Mike on here and go through everything. You'll yeah, we'll bring it back. He'll be back. He's the expert. I'm still here. awesome. Thanks everybody. Thanks guys. This podcast is intended for informational purposes only, and is not a substitute for personal advice from Capita. This is not a
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Protesters rally against new ICE office in Portland's Monument Square
News of a new U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in downtown Portland sparked protests on Monday
Author: Beth Brogan
Published: 2:49 PM EDT October 14, 2019
PORTLAND, Maine — Chanting "Shut it down" and "Abolish ICE," protesters gathered in Monument Square Monday to speak out against a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office under construction on the fourth floor of One City Center.
The office will include one holding cell, but ICE spokesman John Mohan told the Portland Press Herald that Homeland Security Investigations said the office will specialize in transnational criminal investigations and will not focus on undocumented immigrants.
But those gathered outside One City Center midday Monday held signs reading, "ICE tactics equal Gestapo tactics" and "Portland Maine is cold enough. We don't need ICE."
They said ICE has no place in Portland, or in Maine.
Lily Fernald of Falmouth said she was "furious" when she learned the office would open, and had just signed a petition calling for Dirigo Management, owners of One City Center, to revoke the organization's lease.
A lifelong resident of Maine with indigenous and immigrant ancestry, Fernald said, "It's important to show that we are welcoming to everyone and that we are a sanctuary city, and to have ICE here would just directly contradict that."
"Being that we are white and have some level of privilege, it's important for us to stand up and speak out against an organization that tends to kidnap, prosecute and deport our Maine people," Diane Russell, a former Portland legislator, told NEWS CENTER Maine.
Russell said she's heard that the border patrol has boarded buses and visited Goodwill to "racially profile families," and conducted raids from the Aroostook County town of Sherman to Brunswick.
"Immigrants are welcome here, and it's important for ICE to understand that they're not," she said.
Calls and emails on Monday, a federal holiday, to the ICE regional office in Boston and to Dirigo Management were not immediately returned.
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Hopkins '03
Apr 24, 2001 4 min
Unless one advocates the revocation of freedom of the press and free speech, we must extend these rights to everyone and accept that, even in a politically correct environments such as Amherst, people sometimes have views that make others uncomfortable.
In the case of The Spectator, the difference consists of simply the line between what some view as funny and what others may see as offensive. However, offensiveness alone is not a qualification for the Student Finance Committee (SFC) to revoke The Spectator's funding, thus cancelling the magazine.
There is, however, a soundly based argument as to why The Spectator should lose funding. When the SFC allocates funds to a publication, they do so based on the magazine's purported "genre." In the case of The Spectator, the SFC allocated money to an organization whose mission specified a conservative political publication. At first glance, the most recent issue of The Spectator did not seem to fall under its charter-thus voiding its contract with the SFC and unambiguously begging for a revocation of funding. Upon closer inspection, however, the situation is much more complicated.
The Spectator has been gradually drifting away from its charter for several semesters. It began as a conservative magazine, turned libertarian/conservative, became libertarian, then, last semester, was libertarian with some humor. So, really, the "conservative" Spectator was actually a libertarian/humor magazine. Although their political slant differed from the one in their charter, no one tried to revoke their funding last semester.
If you are going to argue that The Spectator should lose its funding, you must make sure to pursue the issue for the correct reasons. The precedent set by the SFC over the last few semesters was to allow the gradual shift of The Spectator away from its charter. All the new leadership of The Spectator did was to take one more step in that already established-and tacitly condoned-chain. They went from libertarian/
humor to just humor, just as they had gone from conservative/libertarian to just libertarian.
If the SFC wants to reclaim The Spectator's funding, that is their business. I simply urge them to make sure that they are not limiting free speech or going against their own precedents in doing so. If our governing body refuses to accept its own precedents because it did not like what was said in the magazine's most recent issue, they are committing a far worse offense than anything The Spectator could ever print.
Ben Hopkins '03
The (new and better) Spectator
I am happy that The Amherst Spectator is no longer a "journal of conservative and libertarian thought." However, it is still staunchly ideological, despite its editorial statement to the contrary. The first issue not only excluded a large group of students on campus-it shoved them out. You cannot put Yoda's face on an image of the Savior and claim it to be purely "humorous." It is a powerful political and social statement, and was taken as such by some devout Christians on campus.
As I wrote in a letter to The Spectator during its dark conservative days, "not caring who you offend" is not something to be proud about. If The Spectator's mission is indeed as inclusive as its editors now claim, the feelings of their friends and neighbors must be brought into account. If the mission is to stand for the cause of breaking down everything sacred-as I hope it will be-then this should be made entirely explicit. Claims to "humor" fall on deaf ears of those who feel persecuted, ridiculed and hated. Not everybody can afford the luxury of irony.
I hope the next issue will not claim to be universally funny but will allow the reader to understand why the editors found that material funny and why they think it should be shared with the rest of campus. The offended parties deserve this gesture, and I think they would respect it. If you want to be iconoclasts, then you should also break down the moral high ground taken by those who hurt others and then claim that it was "only a joke."
Today, April 19, is Holocaust Memorial Day in Israel: a cold reminder that disrespect for your neighbors can take you all the way to disrespect for their life and even the memory of their life. Be funny, but take full responsibility for your jokes.
The Spectator's new voice is otherwise a breath of fresh air in Amherst's much-too-predictable publication circuit. Expect my contributions.
Tal Liron '03
Coeducation's economic roots
Last week's article, "Faculty size has grown little since College went coed," addressed the issue of faculty size subsequent to the time the College went coed. The author seems to be unaware of the economic reason for going coed, specifically to increase the student/faculty ratio and then raise faculty salaries.
This rationale was explained to me and several other alums by Bill Ward at a dinner at the Century Club, which did not admit women at the time. It seems that the faculty saw an increase in the student/faculty ratio as a method for increasing salaries. The faculty did not want to "dilute" the quality of the students while it attained its economic goal, and the admission of women followed.
Now there are those with a selective memory that do not want to admit to any economic motivation; however, the evidence speaks loudly. Faculty salaries have increased much faster than the rate of inflation, and the student/faculty ratio has increased. Whatever the motivation of the faculty, the consequences are clear.
Michael Petrino '68
Standing Against AAPI Erasure
Contributing writers Karen Lee '25 and Eleanor Lee '25 call for solidarity in the fight for A/P/A studies and against the erasure of the work of AAPI student activists.
Karen Lee '25, Eleanor Lee '25 May 4, 2022
In Students We Trust
The Editorial Board questions the Board of Trustees' authority in the recent campus safety decision, calling for the prioritization of student experience and a more collaborative process for making decisions regarding campus life.
The Editorial Board Apr 27, 2022
Coping With Campus: I Rave About Val
Managing Opinion Editor Dustin Copeland '25 raves about Val in this crossover column, a miniature ode to the ideal of a single unifying dining hall — especially a particular corner table in it.
Dustin Copeland '25 Apr 27, 2022


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