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A Viewer's Guide to Iowa Caucus Coverage
"The Iowa Caucuses are presented as a news event, a mini-election with an informational outcome, a winner. But what they really are is a ritual, the gathering of a tribe, which affirms itself and its place in our political system by staging this thing every four years."
3 Jan 2012 6:53 pm 10 Comments →
I have been observing and commenting on campaign coverage for 24 years, ever since I read Joan Didion's world-beating essay, Insider Baseball, which I recommend to you as preparation for tonight's coverage of the Iowa Caucuses.
Here I want to offer you two different ways of thinking about what campaign coverage is. The distinction I unfold in this post will, I hope, prove useful as you take in the Caucus chatter tonight. And do keep in mind that no delegates for the Republican nomination are at stake. That's right! The correct number is zero: "The Iowa caucuses will award no delegates to any candidate."
So here is my distinction: The Iowa Caucuses are presented as a news event, a mini-election with an informational outcome, a winner. But what they really are is a ritual, the gathering of a professional tribe, which affirms itself and its place in our political system by staging this thing every four years. The tribe I have in mind is this one:
At the zoo that is the Iowa Caucus, the lobby bar in the downtown Des Moines Marriott is like a communal watering hole where roving packs of reporters, political hacks, and even candidates assemble nightly to drain drinks and exchange political gossip. New arrivals can cause heads to turn, like when Jill Abramson and Maureen Dowd entered the bar around 7:30 p.m. on New Year's Eve before hosting a dinner for New York Times staffers. A few moments later, Mitt Romney sparked chatter when he hustled by the front desk pulling his own roller bag, looking like the Bain consultant road warrior he once was.
Last night, it was Buzzfeed's new editor-in-chief Ben Smith who occupied the room's attention as he mingled through the lobby, talking with Esquire writer Charlie Pierce and Drudge's deputy Charlie Hurt, among others…
The Caucuses are primarily about that. But they're presented as opening day in a season that belongs to the voters.
Let's get right to my distinction. It is between a "transmission" and a "ritual" model of news and communication. My guide in these matters is the media scholar James W. Carey, who died in 2006. He was our greatest journalism professor ever, though few of his countrymen know anything about him.
In his most famous essay, "A Cultural Approach to Communication," Carey identifies "two alternative conceptions of communication" that have influenced American thought since the term entered our discourse in the nineteenth century. One he calls a "transmission view," so common as to almost be common sense. Here, communication means the delivery of "messages" or "news" across distance. Typically, the messages are of an informational sort, and they are assumed to be important for making decisions (like whom to vote for) or controlling action. At the "deepest roots of our thinking," Carey observes, "we picture the act of communication as the transmittal of information across space." Like, say… from Iowa to your living room.
In contrast to the transmission metaphor stands the "ritual" view.
Here, communication is linked to terms such as "sharing,""participation," "association," "fellowship," and the "possession of a common faith." This definition exploits the ancient identity and common roots of the terms "commonness," "communion,""community," and "communication."
A ritual view directs our attention not to the movement of messages in space but to the "maintenance of society in time;" not to "the act of imparting information but the representation of shared beliefs." Perhaps the simplest example of a ritual act of communication is a church sermon, which typically serves not to "send a message" or convey fresh facts, but to draw the congregation together in the celebration and contemplation of a shared faith, which is meant to endure.
My suggestion is that it would be more profitable to treat the Iowa Caucuses as a "ritual," rather than an informational or news event. There may be a modicum of information emerging from the caucuses themselves; they may tell us something–a little bit–about the relative standing of Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry, and Michelle Bachmann. But caucus coverage is more profitably viewed as a campaign ritual, in which the tribe of political reporters (like Chuck Todd or Mark Halperin) and pundits (an E.J. Dionne or a David Brooks) and pollsters (like, say, Frank Luntz) and operatives (or former operatives like James Carville or Donna Brazille) claim interpretive rights over the election of 2012.
Every four years they gather in Iowa to affirm that their way of seeing is the way to see a presidential campaign. They say they are bringing you news of what happened in Iowa. But what they're really doing is maintaining their little society of insiders across yet another election cycle. That is what rituals do. They preserve community over time. About these insiders Joan Didion observed…
They tend to speak a language common in Washington but not specifically shared by the rest of us. They talk about "programs," and "policy," and how to "implement" them or it, about "trade-offs" and constituencies and positioning the candidate and distancing the candidate, about the "story," and how it will "play." They speak of a candidate's performance, by which they usually mean his skill at circumventing questions, not as citizens but as professional insiders, attuned to signals pitched beyond the range of normal hearing: "I hear he did all right this afternoon," they were saying to one another in the press section of the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans on the evening Dan Quayle was or was not to be nominated for the vice-presidency. "I hear he did OK with Brinkley." By the time the balloons fell that night the narrative had changed: "Quayle, zip," the professionals were saying as they brushed the confetti off their laptops. These are people who speak of the process as an end in itself, connected only nominally, and vestigially, to the electorate and its possible concerns.
Didion continues:
When we talk about the process, then, we are talking, increasingly, not about "the democratic process," or the general mechanism affording the citizens of a state a voice in its affairs, but the reverse: a mechanism seen as so specialized that access to it is correctly limited to its own professionals, to those who manage policy and those who report on it, to those who run the polls and those who quote them, to those who ask and those who answer the questions on the Sunday shows, to the media consultants, to the columnists, to the issues advisers, to those who give the off-the-record breakfasts and to those who attend them; to that handful of insiders who invent, year in and year out, the narrative of public life. "I didn't realize you were a political junkie," Marty Kaplan, the former Washington Post reporter and Mondale speechwriter who is now married to Susan Estrich, the manager of the Dukakis campaign, said when I mentioned that I planned to write about the campaign; the assumption here, that the narrative should be not just written only by its own specialists but also legible only to its own specialists, is why, finally, an American presidential campaign raises questions that go so vertiginously to the heart of the structure.
Then she goes in for the kill. "What strikes one most vividly about such a campaign is precisely its remoteness from the actual life of the country." Yes! That is something else I want you to watch for tonight. That remoteness.
Important for my purposes is James Carey's description of the news media in a transmission view, as compared to what it looks like under a ritual understanding. A transmission perspective sees the media as a vehicle for disseminating news and knowledge. It also leads us to ask about the "effects" of this act on audiences. We see news "as enlightening or obscuring reality, as changing or hardening attitudes, as breeding credibility or doubt."
A ritual view treats news reading as a different sort of act, concerned not with the conveyance of facts but with our placement in an imaginative space– one that is interesting, dramatic, satisfying to the imagination. And so Carey writes:
What is arrayed before the reader is not pure information but a portrayal of contending forces in the world. Moreover, as readers make their way through the paper, they engage in a continual shift of roles or of dramatic focus. A story on the monetary crisis salutes them as American patriots fighting those ancient enemies Germany and Japan; a story on the meeting of the women's political caucus casts them into the liberation movement as supporter or opponent; a tale of violence on the campus evokes their class antagonisms and resentments. The model here is not that of information acquisition, though such acquisition occurs, but of dramatic action in which the reader joins a world of contending forces as an observer at a play.
Carey's point in "A Cultural Approach to Communication" is not that the transmission view is "wrong," but that it cannot illuminate much of what is happening when we encounter the news. A feature on the candidate's media adviser invites us behind the scenes, where appearances are contrived for an unwitting audience from whom we are now separated by our superior knowledge of the mechanics of manipulation. A television report puts us inside the cockpit of a fighter jet, zeroing in on an enemy target with high-tech precision. We might call this the "positioning effect." It occurs regardless of whether the journalist-as-author takes a position or produces a neutral, "objective" account. Something else I want you to watch for tonight. How are we–the users, the viewers–being positioned by the reporting and commentary we are given?
If positioning is part of what journalists do, then it is reasonable to ask how they should do it. But this is only one in a class of novel questions illuminated by Carey's ritual view. As soon as journalists are no longer seen as information providers, they emerge in a variety of more interesting and ambiguous guises: as dramatists, model makers, timekeepers, scene-setters, script-writers. They build public stages, people them with actors, and frame the action in a certain way. But none of these acts appear in their job description.
Finally, there is the weird fact that journalists are reporting on an event they have largely created, but the rules they operate under prevent them from fully acknowledging this fact. As Brendan Nyhan observes in CJR:
The "meaning" of the caucus results is not always clear. These rough edges are typically sanded away in post-Iowa reporting and commentary, however, which tends to emphasize the order of the finish (even when the margins between candidates are small) as well as unexpectedly weak or strong results. Media outlets then shift energy and resources toward candidates who performed well under the prevailing interpretation, while ignoring or providing negative coverage of those who were believed to have done poorly. These shifts in coverage, which themselves become part of the information party leaders are responding to, can help create massive post-Iowa swings in a candidate's chances.
The result is a refraction effect in which journalists help make Iowa influential and then report on its "effects" without acknowledging their role in the process or the often arbitrary nature of the distinctions that are made among the candidates.
But that's part of the ritual: Yeah, we created this thing but we bring it to you as if it would happen without us.
gregorylent says:
4 Jan 2012 at 7:49 am
amazing there remains even a shred of respect for journalism.
Matt Welch says:
4 Jan 2012 at 10:17 am
But it's also a ritual for the political party, one that has newsworthy ramifications. For example, because of the results, Michele Bachmann is likely quitting her campaign as I type this. Rick Perry is reportedly out the door, too. People who participated in the voting had interesting things to say about why they voted the way they did — for instance, of the 13 percent of voters for whom abortion was their number-one issue, 58 percent voted for Rick Santorum. This is newsworthy information that has impact on the upcoming race (i.e., by telling us that social conservatives are coalescing around this particular guy instead of that.)
Not disagreeing with your overall take, just pointing out that it is not *only* an empty insiders' ritual. Now major-party political conventions, on the other hand….
I tried to allow for this, Matt, by saying that a modicum of real information comes forward because the Caucuses are held. That's as far as I will go. But I don't disagree with your observation.
I think Matt makes an important point. The candidates, their PACS and the political parties spend tens of millions of dollars on Iowa. This is part of what makes the Iowa caucus so "real" and, in the minds of the journalists who show up there, worthy of coverage.
Perhaps it's a chicken-and-egg problem — who makes Iowa "real" — the journalists or the political actors? I think Jay probably gives too much credit and power to the "little society" of political reporters.
The candidates and political parties must also find this Iowa / New Hampshire arrangement beneficial for their own reasons and purposes. I can think of lots of reasons why they like it this way, not the least of which is simply inertia. It's the way we've been doing it for a long time.
One of the things that struck me as most remarkable about last night's caucus was just how few people participated in it. All of these tens of millions of dollars, months of campaigning and immeasurable quantities of media attention were lavished upon a political ritual participated in by a mere 120,000 extraordinarily homogenous and non-representative members of the greater American population (Iowa Republican caucuas participants are 99% white according to exit polls).
To get some perspective on just how tiny these Iowa caucuses are — the 30,000 votes that Mitt Romney received would probably be just enough for him to win a hotly contested Democratic primary election for Manhattan Civil Court judge.
Certainly there is an interplay between political actors and journalists that has become normalized, so that it doesn't seem like a press creation any longer but just "the way American politics works."
But would those tens of millions of dollars and thousands of staffers be there if the press scrum wasn't? I doubt it.
The Iowa caucus ritual is 40 years old, or 10 presidential election cycles, or two generations of politicians, pundits, and press. Most importantly, it started in the age of modern mass media.
History of the Iowa Caucus
The 1972 decision by the Iowa Democratic Party to move its caucus date forward had an immediate, albeit modest impact on the presidential nominating process. Iowa's new first-in-the-nation status gained the attention of presidential candidates and reporters. Further changes in state caucus procedures by the Democrats in 1972 and 1976 — and by the Republicans in 1976 and 1980 — made possible the creation of a national event by instituting a common date for the meetings and providing "results" from the process. This process centers around precinct caucuses, which select delegates to the county conventions. Before 1972, neither party's procedures were designed to determine winners and losers at the first stage of the multistage Iowa caucus and convention system. The procedural changes created a formal system to determine and report the presidential preferences of caucus participants.
Andrew Klimas says:
4 Jan 2012 at 4:13 pm
Didion's essay is entitled "Insider Baseball" not "Inside Baseball," according to the link provided.
Fixed. Thanks.
Watching a rebroadcast of PBS newshour compelled me to visit this site -I couldn't take the interminable horse race minutae on offer. Grateful to read about this ritual thing -helps me to understand this outlandish corporate media puppet theatre.
Jim Boylan says:
Thanks, Jay, for invoking our dear old friend Jim Carey, still missed.


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The deal with the Russian government was signed yesterday by Icelandic Minister for Foreign Affairs, Össur Skarphéðinsson.
According to the contract the Icelandic Food and Veterinary Authority will guarantee that Icelandic dairy producers adhere to Russian government standards. The contract means Icelandic producers will be able to export their goods to Russia, and also to Belarus and Kazakhstan; because the three countries recently entered into a free trade agreement with each other.
Össur Skarðhéðinsson said after signing the deal that the contract is similar to one made for the export of meat and fish last year, RÚV reports.
The meat and fish deal has apparently been useful and it is expected that the export of milk powder to Russia can begin soon. Össur said that the Russians' nearest neigbours, the Finns, have fallen in love with Icelandic skyr and he hopes the important trade contract will cause Russians to get a taste for it as well.


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Uszty-Uda () városi jellegű település Kelet-Szibériában, Oroszország Irkutszki területén, az Uszty-udai járás székhelye.

Lakossága:  fő (a 2010. évi népszámláláskor).

Fekvése
Az Irkutszki terület déli részén, Irkutszk területi székhelytől 320 km-re, az Angarán kialakított Bratszki-víztározó jobb partján helyezkedik el. A fő közlekedési útvonalak elkerülik. A legközelebbi vasútállomás Zalari (103 km), a transzszibériai vasútvonal Tajset–Irkutszki szakaszán.

Története
Eredetileg az Uda (az Angara mellékfolyója) torkolatánál alapították, mint azt neve is jelzi (az orosz usztyje jelentése 'torkolat'). Írott forrás 1690-ben említi először. 1723-ban 8 udvara, 1911-ben 97 udvara és 566 lakosa volt, akik főként gabonát termesztettek, földműveléssel foglalkoztak.

Lakói 1957-ben értesültek arról, hogy a víztározó építése miatt a területet el kell hagyniuk. Az 1950-es és 1960-as évek fordulóján a falu délebbre, az Angara völgyébe költözött. 1962 májusban városi jellegű település státust kapott és járási székhely lett. Eredeti helye a víztározó feltöltésekor víz alá került.

A 21. században
A tározó vizének higannyal szennyezettsége ezen a részen többszöröse a megengedett értéknek, ezért az 1990-es évek végén megtiltották az ipari méretű halászatot. A szennyezés okozója az Uszolje-Szibirszkojeben működő vegyipari gyár (Uszoljehimprom).

A lakóházak 14%-a komfortos (vezetékes vízzel és központi fűtéssel), 7%-a csatornázott, 1%-a meleg vízzel ellátott. 80 ágyas kórháza rozoga állapotban van, a két általános iskolai épület balesetveszélyes, újak építésére lenne szükség. Az új templomot 2006-ban nyitották meg.

 Uszty-Uda nevezetes szülötte Valentyin Raszputyin (1937–2015) orosz író. Egyik leghíresebb műve éppen az elárasztásra ítélt falu emberi tragédiáiról szól: Isten veled, Matyora (Прощание с Матёрой, Proscsanyije sz Matyoroj, 1976). Magyarra fordította Harsányi Éva, Európa Kiadó, 1980.

Jegyzetek

Források

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Q: How to resolve kafka multiple broker edge case? I have a Java project which reads particular messages from AWS SQS, parses the message and publishes it to Kafka. I have made the project self healing. If a Kafka connection is lost, I log the following message:
{"timestamp":"2021-03-01T16:31:30.306Z","logger":"org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient","level":"WARN","class":"org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient","method":"processDisconnection","file":"NetworkClient.java","line":671,"thread":"kafka-producer-network-thread | producer-1","message":"[Producer clientId=producer-1] Connection to node 1 could not be established. Broker may not be available."}

If I re-establish the Kafka connection, the project is able to reconnect to Kafka and continue to consume from SQS and publish to Kafka as required. That is when I only have 1 Kafka broker. I've identified an edge case, I'm trying to figure out how to manage. Suppose I have Kafka brokers A and B. Suppose A is the leader. The edge case is the following: If a Kafka connection is lost and then recovered by recovering Kafka broker B and but not A, the project is not able to connect and publish to Kafka as required. It keeps searching for broker A. Once the Kafka broker A is brought back, where Kafka broker B is already connected, the Kafka connection cannot be established properly and publishing to Kafka does not work as expected.
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Q: Promises with lodash I am trying to generate a list of users with _.times but I get an array of Promised objects. How do I output an array of plain objects?
const createUser = async () => ({

});

const users = [];

_.times(5, () => users.push(createUser()));

Promise.all(users);

Output
[ Promise { { username: 'Armando', password: '8cw0W7Jpm0LSSS9' } },
  Promise { { username: 'Lauren', password: '9oFCK4rqLj_DGol' } },
  Promise { { username: 'Frederique', password: 'JXGOsjCCOMFBYFd' } },
  Promise { { username: 'Otilia', password: 'DnxArNIsjaVoMB2' } },
  Promise { { username: 'Elisabeth', password: 'kZbSlg7bVWiagFT' } } ]

Expected
[
  { username: 'Armando', password: '8cw0W7Jpm0LSSS9' },
  { username: 'Lauren', password: '9oFCK4rqLj_DGol' },
  { username: 'Frederique', password: 'JXGOsjCCOMFBYFd' },
  { username: 'Otilia', password: 'DnxArNIsjaVoMB2' },
  { username: 'Elisabeth', password: 'kZbSlg7bVWiagFT' }
]

A: You can get it in the then callback of Promise.all:
Promise.all(users).then(result => {
  console.log(result);
});

A: Just await the result of Promise.all:
const users = await Promise.all(userPromises)

EDIT
Using await will of course only work inside an async function -- thx for pointing that out in the comments Olian02.


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A woman fell overboard from a Princess cruise ship and spent almost an hour in the Pacific before being rescued.
The cruise passenger fell off the ship between Brisbane and New Caledonia on Friday, February 17.
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Cosmos » Social Sciences » Football violence driven by tribal loyalties
Andrew Patterson
Football violence driven by tribal loyalties
Soccer is known almost as much for its off-field fights as its on-field skills. New research probes the link. Andrew Patterson reports.
The group stage of the 2018 FIFA World Cup is drawing to a close and thus far, reports suggest the atmosphere in and around match venues has been largely peaceful. However, with many of the relative minnows of world football cast aside, high-stakes grudge matches beckon in the forthcoming knock-out rounds, all to be played out on a politically volatile stage.
As a result, concerns remain over the looming threat of hooliganism, a topic which has been widely discussed since Russia's contentious bid for World Cup hosting duties was made. These fears may be compounded by a recent study which connects the tribal origins of football violence with religious and political extremism.
Football violence has a long, dark history, predating even the inaugural FIFA World Cup in 1930. The phenomenon is thought to have its origins in thirteenth century England, when civil wars between neighbouring settlements were disguised as leisure activities involving an object in the shape of a ball. As early as 1314, the Mayor of London proclaimed thus:
"And whereas there is a great uproar in the City through certain tumults arising from the striking of great footballs in the field of the public – from which many evils perchance may arise – which may God forbid – we do command and do forbid, on the King's behalf, upon pain of imprisonment, that such games shall not be practised henceforth within this city."
Unfortunately, this and other similar appeals that followed over the centuries couldn't loosen the grip of violence on a chaotic pastime. While regulation of the sport in the nineteenth century ultimately brought about a semblance of order on the pitch – first, by helpfully defining the pitch itself – disorder off it has continued to make headlines, reaching a peak in the 1970s and 1980s, and re-emerging in recent years.
Now, research from the University of Oxford may shed new light on what motivates supporter scraps. Earlier studies have considered hooliganism "an expression of social maladjustment", stemming from exposure to domestic violence or dysfunctional behaviour in childhood.
However, the new study, led by anthropologist Martha Newson, suggests off-field flare-ups are more socially driven, citing the desire to reinforce bonds with, and defend or protect, allied fans, adding that these factors may also drive other forms of extremist behaviour.
The research, published in the journal Evolution & Human Behaviour, canvassed 465 fans, among them known hooligans, from the football hotbed of Brazil. The findings show that members of super-fan groups – the most extreme of which are often known and feared as 'ultras' – tend to exhibit their capacity for violence only within the supporter community, and do not carry this trait into their day-to-day lives.
"Our study shows that hooliganism is not a random behaviour," explains Newson.
"Members of hooligan groups are not necessarily dysfunctional people outside of the football community; violent behaviour is almost entirely focused on those regarded as a threat – usually rival fans or sometimes the police."
Newson says passion for football within a group of fans "instantly ups the ante", because violence can result from the commitment fans have to their respective cliques. This is identified in the study as an example of a psychological construct known as "identity fusion", which in extreme cases has been found to inspire acts of self-sacrifice for the sake of a group.
Another factor is the range of environments supporter factions find themselves in, such as situations where they can be subject to abuse from rival fans. As a result, superfan groups are considered by Newson to be "even more likely to be 'on guard' and battle-ready".
While the study surveyed only Brazilian football fans, the authors believe the findings can be applied not only to supporters elsewhere and to other strains of sports-related violence, but also to religious and political extremists.
"The psychology underlying the fighting groups [is] essential for groups to succeed against each other for resources like food, territory and mates, and we see a legacy of this tribal psychology in modern fandom," Newson adds.
The research does not suggest that cracking down on extreme supporter factions will necessarily be effective in curbing violence. It also indicates the use of hard-line policing, such as the use of tear gas or military force, is likely to be counterproductive, potentially sparking further violence by driving the most committed fans to intervene physically in defence of their fellow supporters. {%recommended 7154%}
The findings reinforce the research team's previous work, which aimed to understand the role of identity fusion in extreme behaviour through football violence. The authors believe that there is potential for clubs to take the intense social cohesion that drives off-field violence and channel it in more positive directions.
"As with all identify fusion driven behaviours, the violence comes from a positive desire to 'protect' the group," says co-author Harvey Whitehouse.
"Understanding this might help us to tap in to this social bonding and use it for good. For example, we already see groups of fans setting up food banks or crowd-funding pages for chronically ill fans they don't even know.
"We hope this study spurs an interest in reducing inter-group conflict through a deeper understanding of both the psychological and situational factors that drive it."
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Airlines frequently lease-in aircraft when they don't have sufficient capacity to operate all the services they would like to with their own aircraft. This might be very short-term, e.g. to operate one or two flights when aircraft are unserviceable or are delayed down route, or longer term e.g. to introduce new routes or to meet seasonal demand. EU regulations require such arrangements to be approved by the 'Competent Authority' (e.g. the CAA) and place obligations and restrictions on how and when the Competent Authority can issue such approvals. The intention of these regulations is to ensure that EU airlines operate to EU safety standards, even when the aircraft they operate belong to someone else; also to provide some protection to EU operators against foreign (i.e. non-EU) competition.
Types of lease
When only an aircraft is leased and the company receiving the aircraft provides crew then this is known as a dry lease. In this case the lessee (receiving the aircraft) is the aircraft operator and the aircraft operates in accordance with the lessee's Air Operators Certificate (AOC). When the aircraft is leased with crew then this is known as a wet lease. The operator is the 'lessor' (providing the aircraft and crew) and the aircraft operates in accordance with the lessor's Air Operators Certificate (AOC).
Authority requirements
Before leasing an aircraft, a commercial air transport operator must provide their Competent Authority (i.e. the 'CAA') with all the details of the proposed lease (except the financial arrangements). The action that the Competent authority has to take then depends on the type of lease proposed.
Wet Lease
If an operator proposes to wet lease-in an aircraft from a 'third country operator' (that is an operator from a non-EASA State) then the lessee needs to demonstrate to the Authority that the lessor will operate to EU safety standards. This means that the lessee needs to arrange for an audit of the lessor and provide the Authority with the results of that audit. The Authority will also verify that the lessor has a valid AOC and does not appear on the EU 'safety list' (the list of airlines banned from operating into the EU).
If the wet lease is from another EASA State then the regulations do not explicitly require the lessor to conduct an audit, nevertheless the Authority must issue an approval so some Authorities require operators to follow specific procedures. The UK CAA, for example, requires operators to audit all potential lessor's. The 'Basic Regulation' requires that certificates issued by any Member State should be recognised by all States so an Authority must apply the same requirements regardless of which state issued the potential lessor's AOC (no 'discrimination on the basis of nationality').
Dry Lease
In the case of a dry lease-in the aircraft will be operated under the lessee's AOC so the operational standards will be the same as for any other EU operation. The priority for dry-leasing is to ensure that the aircraft meets the same airworthiness requirements as EU-registered aircraft and carries all necessary equipment. For dry lease-in and dry lease-out the Authority will need to ensure that it is clear which Competent Authority is responsible for the oversight of those airworthiness standards.
If an aircraft being leased-in is registered in a 'third country' (i.e. a non-EASA State) then Authority will again check that the aircraft is not on the EU safety list. The lessee will need to demonstrate that the EU airworthiness standards will be applied and also that the aircraft is fitted with the instruments and equipment required by EU operational rules. In order for a dry-lease to be approved the lessee will also need to demonstrate that there were no suitable EU-registered aircraft available and the lease can only be approved for a limited period of time (no more than seven months in a any 12 month period).
When searching for aircraft to lease-in an airline will look for operators that have suitable aircraft available and will then negotiate details such as the price. A broker may be involved. If this process is concluded before the audit has been conducted and before the Authority looks at the application for approval, then there will be problems if the result of the audit is negative or if the Authority doesn't issue approval. In order to avoid these problems operator can develop a 'white list' of potential suppliers (lessors). These potential lessors are audited on a periodic basis and, provided that they meet the required standards, enter into a 'framework contract' with the airline seeking capacity (lessee). The framework contract can be approved in advance by the Competent Authority leaving the lessee free to 'shop around' among the 'whitelisted' operators when a need for extra capacity arises.
If an operator needs to lease in capacity at short notice and does not have a 'whitelist' in place, then it may be difficult or impossible to arrange for the necessary audits before the lease starts.
What's in it for the operator
All of this can seem like 'red tape' especially if you are an operator with an urgent need for extra capacity but it all makes good business sense. You spend a lot of time and effort making sure that your aircraft and crew meet the standards that your customers expect. If you're going to put your customers on someone else's aircraft, then you will want to be satisfied that that aircraft and its crew will meet at least the same standard.
But who has the time?
If you need to lease-in aircraft, then it's probably because you have a lot on. It can be difficult to find the extra time to follow a 'white-list' process. You could end up missing out on valuable business opportunities.
If you need to develop a 'white-list' and be ready to make the best leasing deal when the need arises then McKechnie Aviation can work with you to do this. We can develop a process in accordance with the regulations, any additional requirements imposed by your Competent Authority and your own business needs. We then can conduct audits on your behalf and provide an objective, independent report. Based on this report you might be able to show the Authority that the potential lessor meets the necessary requirements, you might ask the lessor to correct some issues or you might decide to walk away.
If you have a short-term need and you don't have a white list in place then we can usually arrange an audit at short notice.
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According to a recent interview, trial lawyer Kyle Roche from the legal firm Roche Freedman LLP has started a tech startup called Ryval that aims to be "the stock market of litigation financing." The firm plans to launch during the first quarter and allow people to leverage tokens in order to wager on civil lawsuits.
Ryval's Initial Litigation Offering Concept
The trial lawyer Kyle Roche was recently interviewed by the Vice author Maxwell Strachan as Roche's new tech startup Ryval was showcased for its litigation tokenization concept. Ryval co-founder Roche told Strachan that "Ryval's goal is to make access to justice more affordable." Essentially, the Vice editorial discusses how Ryval will gamify the court system by decentralizing the barrier to access shares in multi-billion dollar court cases.
"What we do is: tell the story, vet the legal claim, and then allow the public to invest and give you the funds to go and litigate your case," Roche told Strachan. "And what does the public get in return? The public gets an interest in the outcome of your suit."
Kyle Roche is well known for the myriad of crypto lawsuits his law firm Roche Freedman has been involved in during the last few years including the multi-billion dollar lawsuit against Craig Wright, a lawsuit against Tether, and a case against multiple digital currency exchanges and the issuers of certain initial coin offering (ICO) tokens. The law firm Roche Freedman managed to win $100 million against the self-described Bitcoin inventor Craig Wright.
Apothio, LLC v. Kern County
Roche revealed some of what Ryval is doing in October last year when he explained that Roche Freedman and Republic were involved with an "initial litigation offering (ILO)." Very excited to announce that Roche Freedman and Republic have launched the world's first ILO today by leveraging the power of the AVAX ecosystem," Roche tweeted at the time. According to the details, the offering is aimed at raising funds for the company Apothio's litigation proceeds.
Hemp producer Apothio is involved with a lawsuit against Kern County California after its been alleged that state officials were involved in "one of the largest alleged wholesale destruction of crops by a state official in the history of the United States." According to Republic's report in 2019, Apothio anticipated a significant hemp harvest cultivated from 450 acres of land.
However, the Kern County Sheriff's Office and California's Department of Fish and Wildlife allegedly destroyed Apothio's harvest "estimated to be worth between $500M and $1B at the time, without prior warning, justification, or opportunity for Apothio to be heard." Republic's report notes that litigation is costly and the firm has to pay "attorney and expert witness fees, discovery costs, and trial expenses." Roche explained to Strachan that for the first few years Ryval will be picky on which cases it chooses.
"[Ryval will be] focused on access to justice and taking on claims that we believe are good claims," Roche said. "But at the end of the day, I don't think anybody should be the gatekeeper to who has access to the courts. I think access to the court system, access to the legal justice system should be something that is given to as many people as the justice system can handle."
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Is the Cold War restarting in SPACE? Russia declares it will publish data about secret US military spy satellites
Russia wants all nations to contribute to UN database on satellites in orbit
It says it will make its own database of spacecraft it is tracking public
This will include information on military satellites used by US and its allies
These are currently not included in satellite databases published by the US
By Richard Gray for MailOnline
Published: 06:41 EST, 23 June 2016 | Updated: 12:29 EST, 23 June 2016
For decades they have been the secretive eyes in the sky for the military and intelligence agencies, but details of many of the world's spy satellites are about to become public knowledge.
Russia has said that is planning to make public a comprehensive database of all the satellites, spacecraft and debris it has been tracking in orbit around the planet.
But unlike official lists published by the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), it has promised to include military satellites used by the United States and its allies.
The Russian Federation has said it is preparing to publish data on the locations of all operating satellites in orbit around the Earth including secret military satellties operated by the US and its allies (illustrated). These are currently not included in public databases released by the North American Aerospace Defense Command
While it might seem like an unlikely move for a country not known for its openness, details of Russia's military satellites are already public knowledge under information published by the US.
NEWEST US SPYSAT SPOTTED
Just over a week ago, the world's largest rocket launched from Cape Canaveral, carrying a secret spy satellite.
A live feed of the launch was cut after roughly six minutes to maintain the payload's secrecy – but it has now been spotted by amateur satellite trackers.
Only three days after the launch, an Australian observer located the payload through a 'dedicated photographic survey.'
The find is detailed on the blog of Marco Langbroek, a satellite tracker who helped guide Paul Camilleri toward the discovery, along with fellow skygazer Ted Molczan.
By their calculations, the satellite was found near longitude 104E, over the Strait of Malacca, a stretch between the Malaysian Peninsula and the Indonesian Island of Sumatra.
They say it appears to be drifting westward.
The satellite is one of the National Reconnaissance Office's SIGINT satellites, which are used to 'listen' for radio signals.
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According to the Russian newspaper Izvestia, the Russian proposals, which they outlined at a meeting of the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space in Vienna, are aimed at levelling the playfield.
Russia said it wanted details of all satellites to be held in a UN-run database designed for 'collecting, systemising, sharing and analysing information on objects and events in outer space'.
Their submission to the meeting is a sign of the growing tensions over exploration of outer space.
It also raises concerns at the US governments 'unilateral decision' to give its 'own companies carte blanche to exploit space mineral resources'.
Russia insisted its information sharing proposals would help to ensure the safety of the growing amount of traffic in space.
There are an estimated 1,380 operating satellites currently in orbit around the Earth, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists, which has been collating its own database.
It estimates that 149 of these are operated by the US military or have joint use.
Allies of the US are also not included in the NORAD databases but it is thought that Israel has nine military satellites in orbit, the UK has seven, France has eight and Germany has seven.
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Together with the large amount of spacecraft debris and other junk orbiting the planet, the space around the Earth is becoming increasingly crowded.
The Russian proposal said that despite objections from the US that seemed to be aimed at blocking a UN-run list of satellites, the Russian government would change its policy and publish its own data.
Russia claims its telescopes and tracking systems, such as those at the Altai Optical Laser Centre in Zmeinogorsky, Siberia, (pictured), are capable to spotting far more objects orbiting the planet than are made public in databases published by the US authorities
Recently Russia's Altai Optical Laser Centre spotted the US spy satellite Lacrosse Radar Reconnaissance Satellites, imaging them in detail for the first time (pictured)
It claims that its telescopes and tracking systems are able to spot around 40 per cent more space objects than those seen in databases made public by the Americans.
IS SPACE JUNK HIDING SPYSATS?
Last year a senior Russian aerospace commander sensationally claimed that some spy satellites are masquerading as space junk in Earth orbit.
The official refused to comment on how many such satellites there were, and which countries were operating them.
It suggests there could be more satellites than thought monitoring different countries on Earth.
The claims were made by the commander of Russian Space Command, Oleg Maidanovich.
He was speaking on a film called 'Space Special Forces' during a tour of Russia's main centre for aerospace intelligence in Krasnoznamensk, near Moscow.
'Very recently, specialists of the department of space intelligence centre uncovered a newly created group of space satellites... made for radio-technical reconnaissance of equipment on Russian territory,' he said.
The Russian proposal said: 'The Russian Federation proceeds to establish a national information service, whose function shall be to provide open access to the results of monitoring objects and events in outer space.'
Russia is thought to have the second highest number of military satellites in orbit around the Earth, with around 75 being used for military or joint use. China is thought to have 35.
Most military satellites are used for communication, early warning systems to look for missile launches, intelligence gathering and navigation.
Russian diplomats are said to be frustrated by the US's attempts to regulate space traffic while refusing to disclose information on many of their own satellites.
Many space agencies are now involved in tracking the location of man-made objects in space including Nasa, the Russian space agency Roscosmos, the European Space Agency and China.
However, Igor Molotov, a research fellow at the Russian Academy of Sciences, told Izvestia: 'Our network spots approximately 40 per cent more objects than you can find in open American databases.
'We have several times more telescopes… than NORAD.'
There are an estimated 500,000 pieces of space junk and satellites being tracked in orbit around the Earth (illustrated) with most concentrated around the Low Earth Orbits used by military satellites. Scientists warn this could lead to collisions with operational satellites
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Born: December 29, 1808, in Raleigh, North Carolina
Died: July 31, 1875, in Carter's Station, Tennessee
Career/Occupation: Tailor, Public Official
Religion: No Formal Affiliation
Education: No Formal Education
Political Party: Democratic
Served as Alderman of Greeneville, Tennessee, 1830-33
Elected Mayor of Greeneville, Tennessee, 1834
Member of Tennessee State Legislature, 1835-43
Member of U.S. House of Representatives, 1843-53
Governor of Tennessee, 1853-57
United States Senator, 1857-62
Military Governor of Tennessee, 1862-65
Vice President, 1865 (under Lincoln)
United States Senator, 1875
The first president to ascend to the presidency by the assassination of his predecessor.
The first president to be impeached by the House of Representatives.
The first president to serve in the United States Senate after being president.
The first president to have been mayor of a town, having been mayor of Greeneville, Tennessee.
The first president to issue more than twenty vetoes.
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Book 4 of The Bloodmoon Wars (A Paranormal Shifter Series Prequel to Luna Rising)
By: Sara Snow
Narrated by: Meg Price
Series: The Bloodmoon Wars, Book 4
Categories: Teen & Young Adult, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
The Bloodmoon Wars, Book 3 (A Paranormal Shifter Romance Series)
Vampires and werewolves do not mix, at all. But Will and I can't stay away from each other. How could I have fallen for a man I'll never get to be with? To make matters worse, supernaturals and humans are vanishing...and the number of disappearances are growing. How did I get dragged into that, you might be wondering? My best friend was taken, and even her scent vanished from the world. The only question now is...will I find her...before she turns up dead?
The Bloodmoon Wars, Book 5
The world is being laid to waste. Vampires and the supernatural creatures they resurrected are slaughtering everything in their path. Now we must come together for everyone to survive. But Cain has taken Will, and with all the lives already lost...Am I a bad person for worrying about him the way I do? We needed Will's help to defeat the Queen, but more than that, I'm lost without him. All I can think about is what the Queen might be doing to him now that she knows he betrayed her. How can I fight to win this war if I might lose the only man I've ever loved in the process?
The Bloodmoon Wars, Book 2 (A Paranormal Shifter Series Prequel to Luna Rising)
Pissed and on the verge of ripping someone to shreds, I didn't think before I ran off into the forest during a full moon. Not the smartest move.... I know. So of course, I was attacked by a thirsty vampire only to be saved by another.
The Awakening: Book 1 of The Bloodmoon Wars
A Paranormal Shifter Series
I don't want to settle down with some Alpha-born pup my father chooses. As the firstborn daughter to an Alpha, I know my life goal should be becoming a Luna and birthing new Alphas, but all I want is to join the Werewolf Guard. I want to kick some evil supernatural ass and protect the people I love, not create the next generation of entitled little Alpha pups.
Should be listed as YA, fantasy
By KHave on 01-10-22
Luna Rising
Luna Rising Series, Book 1
Xavier Blackwood is the man every girl at my college dream about at night, myself included, but I'd never let anyone know that. Standing at 6'8" with steel grey eyes, he's a walking dream, but he's also a world-renowned a-hole. Who would have thought that one night, after dragging myself home after doing double shifts at the diner, I'd be jumped by three men...only to have Xavier come to my rescue.
Just a prologue
By JenMo on 11-17-20
Luna Chosen
Nineteen years ago...a mother and her baby died during childbirth. But two minutes later, that baby came back to life. A miracle, according to everyone involved. However, that child grew up to hate her life because it's been nothing but a trip through hell. Yes, you guessed it. I'm that child, Ruby Saunders. The truth is, at birth my fate was sealed. I was saved by a God, chosen to be a vessel used to save a dying world. I didn't ask for any of this. Now, after meeting my father, the truth about my birth and my power is finally revealed.
Not an average PR
Luna Darkness
The Luna Rising Series, Book Four
With a war raging between vampires, humans, and werewolves...the world has been thrown into a state of chaos. Humans are selfish creatures that believe the world belongs to them and only them. Despite the fact that werewolves hate vampires and want them gone as much as the humans do, they are being hunted along with the vampires. I didn't know what was happening when I single-handedly killed two vampires when they attacked me. It released something hidden deep within me, and now I'm wanted by vampires, werewolves, and humans. I'm a freak among freaks.
By JackJ on 12-19-20
Luna Conflicted
The Luna Rising Series, Book 3
At first, Axel, Xavier, and I were divided, but now we are on the run together from the Council to save our lives. Unfortunately, we collided with something so much worse in the process. Werewolves thought that vampires no longer existed after they wiped them off the face of the planet.... But it turns out that information was bullsh*t.
Now the Vampires show up
By (sat) on 11-17-20
Luna Captured
I must have been cursed from birth...and that is becoming clearer with every passing day. My ankles are swollen from the chains around them, my tongue feels like sandpaper, and the dripping water in the jail cell beside mine is so close, yet so far away. For the first time in werewolf history, two wolves have the same mate. The same woman was blessed by their goddess to be their partner for eternity, and I'm that woman.
I love this story
By Gayla on 03-13-21
By: E. L. Todd
Narrated by: Michael Ferraiuolo, Ramona Master
Cora's visit with the elves proves to be more than she bargained for. She learns her parentage, but it's the last thing she ever expected to hear. She came to the elves for help to defeat King Lux, to free the dragons still trapped in captivity, but she discovers a timeless place, where outside matters mean nothing. There's little chance to convince them of anything, especially when her human heritage has permanently marked her as an outsider.
Absolutely love this series….
By Sharii on 07-08-21
A Court of Honey and Ash
By: Shannon Mayer, Kelly St. Clare
Narrated by: Elizabeth Evans
Orphaned. Trained to fight. Raised to fear the power of Underhill. Secretly in love with a man who doesn't want me. I'm still just Alli, a.k.a. the half-human orphan fae, but my life is looking up for the first time. It only took me my whole 24 years. But when Underhill - the ancestral home of the fae - shatters, making it impossible for any fae to enter, I'm the only one who knows who did it. A secret that will be the death of me if I do nothing.
Main character is frustrating
By: Shannon Mayer, and others
Emperor's Throne
Desert Cursed Series, Book 6
Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang
There might be no rest for the wicked, but there's no rest for the exhausted, either. We've barely survived one fight, and we have another blade at our throats. Strike that. Three blades. I can see only one possible chance at surviving the three evils we face, no matter how much I might hate it. I have to make my peace with one of them and pray that they will help me take down the other two, before we turn on each other.
So the vampire Queen was behind all the disappearances after all.
Will swears to me he had no idea what his mother was doing?
But how can I trust him?
How am I to believe anything he says after being confronted by...his fiancé?
Apparently, just because he loves me doesn't mean he feels the need to tell me the truth.
His endless secrets have my head spinning.
The only question is: when I kill the Queen with my newfound powers, will he be my side?
...Or hers?
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by Edward Hugh
I found this article in this morning's FT about Atlanta's plans to respond to the coming retirement of the baby-boomers interesting. Demographic issues in the United States have a much milder edge to those which are in evidence in many other parts of the globe, so it is revealing of something to see just how aware they are about the existence of the problem:
Atlanta leads fight to lure young and restless
A study published on Monday by the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce showed that the city increased its share of the group – defined as university graduates aged 25-34 – faster than any other of the 50 largest metropolitan areas during the 1990s.
The study, conducted by a demographic research firm, was commissioned as part of efforts by Atlanta's business community and civic leadership to develop a strategy for attracting young talent.
Sam Williams, president of the chamber, launched the initiative after noticing how availability of educated labour was becoming a bigger concern for businesses.
He recalls one company that was considering an investment in Atlanta asking: "We need 300 people with master's degrees within three months. Are they there?"
Competition for talent is becoming increasingly fierce throughout the developed world as "baby-boomers" retire and birth rates decline. For decades, growth in higher education and increased labour participation by women provided rich seams of fresh talent. But those trends are starting to slow.
As supplies of the "young and restless" tighten, Atlanta's study exposes disparities between cities that are successfully meeting the demographic challenge and others that are losing out.
Between 1990 and 2000, the period covered by the research, Atlanta increased its number of university-educated 25 to 34 year olds by 46 per cent, while its share of the nationwide group rose faster than any other city's.
San Francisco and Denver registered the next biggest share gains, while Los Angeles and New York, which have the largest numbers of "young and restless", suffered the biggest drops.
The Raleigh-Durham area of North Carolina had the highest percentage of the group among its population, reflecting the strength of its universities, followed by the cities of Boston and San Francisco.
In absolute terms, the "young and restless" followed broader shifts in the US population, with the biggest growth in numbers found in southern and western cities, and the biggest losses in north-eastern cities.
"As cities move increasingly into a knowledge-based economy, the kind of talented people each area attracts will determine whether it wins or loses in the campaign for future prosperity," says a report issued with the study.
Attracting 25 to 34 year olds is "critical" because it is between those ages that people have the greatest flexibility to relocate.
Factors behind Atlanta's success in wooing the "young and restless" include its relatively low cost of living, plentiful jobs in growing industries, popular universities, large airport, warm climate and diverse culture, says Mr Williams. In addition to deepening the talent pool available to businesses, he says the influx has made Atlanta more attractive to high-tech and creative enterprises and spurred entrepreneurial growth.
As I keep saying, whether we are talking about cities or about countries, there will be winners and losers here.
Posted by Admin at 12:47 PM
Then US may look good from a demograghic perspective but what about its debt levels, it inability to regulate immigration, its mediocre productivity, its lack of savings, not to mention its lack of preparation for peak oil.
The US can only improve its medical system if it cracks down on illegal immigration. Then it might be able to persuit the population to go for a more straightforward, socialised medical system for lower and middle income citizens.
However,if taxpayers perceive that increasing numbers of immigrants are taking advantage of subsidised health care they will simply pull the funding plug.
I think there is a lot to said for public health systems with judicious use of part-charging.
One thing I can't undertand about Britain is why the NHS doesn't go for part-charging.
Many people have to wait weeks to see a doctor in the UK since medical centres are clogged with people coming in with minor complaints.


Life income funds (LIF) are locked-in registered retirement income funds that are offered by financial institutions such as banks, credit unions, and insurance companies. Life income funds provide an alternative to purchasing an annuity. You can continue to control the investment of your locked-in pension funds and also control, to a certain extent, the amount of income you receive each year. You are no longer required to purchase a life annuity with the funds in your life income fund at age 80.
Your spouse or partner is required to consent to the purchase of a life income fund. This is because the life income fund is a substitution for a life annuity which must provide for payment of reduced benefits to your spouse or partner if you die.
Once a life income fund is established and funds are transferred into it from a locked-in retirement account or pension plan, your income must commence before the end of the second fiscal year. For example, if you have established a life income fund on May 23, 2014, then you are required to take your first payment no later than December 31, 2015. In addition, the first payment cannot be made from your life income fund until the earlier of age 55 or the early retirement date under the pension plan from which the funds originated.
The Income Tax Act defines a minimum annual payment that must be taken from a life income fund once it is established. This minimum is based upon the life income fund holder's age, or the spouse's age, and the balance in the life income fund. The Pension Benefits Act defines the maximum annual payment that may be taken from the life income fund each year. The maximum withdrawal is based on your age, the balance in the life income fund, and the reference rate set for life income funds. The reference rate is determined in the Regulations under the Pension Benefits Act, and is based on the November long-term bond rate.
The balance of the life income fund at the end of the previous fiscal year is multiplied by a factor, which is provided in Schedule V of the Regulations.
If you require more income from your life income fund than the maximum described above, you may be eligible to take Temporary Income.
Your financial institution is required to provide you with a financial statement at the beginning of each year. That statement must show you the minimum amount that must be withdrawn, the maximum amount that may be withdrawn, and whether you are eligible for temporary income.
If you are age 65 or older, you can unlock your funds if they are below a certain threshold. Further details are contained in the locking-in section.
When you die, the value of your life income fund is paid out as a death benefit. Your spouse or common-law partner receives the payment. If you don't have a spouse or common-law partner when you die, payment is made to your beneficiary or estate. The death benefit is not locked-in.
You can transfer out of a life income fund with restrictions. You may transfer the funds to another life income fund, to a locked-in retirement account, or use the funds to purchase a life annuity. Transfers to locked-in retirement accounts cannot be made after the end of the year you reach age 71.
Your funds are protected against seizure by creditors. They cannot be assigned to anyone else, and they can't be used as collateral for a loan.
Your spouse or common-law partner may apply to receive a share of your life income fund.
A life income fund may be purchased from a financial institution that has been approved by the Superintendent of Pensions to offer life income funds. View the Superintendent's List of Approved Life Income Funds.
If you are between the ages of 55 and 64, you may use your life income fund as a source of temporary income. The maximum life income paid from the life income fund is adjusted when temporary income is received. Not all financial institutions offer temporary income. If you think you may want this option, check with your financial institution before you transfer your locked-in pension funds into their life income fund.
Persons age 65 and older are not entitled to receive temporary income under the life income fund since most persons are receiving Canada Pension and Old Age Security benefits at that age.
To receive temporary income, you must complete Form 10 (PDF: 178k) and submit it to your financial institution. You must do this for each year that you wish to receive temporary income. A sample temporary income calculation is provided below.
If the lesser amount above is less than 50% of YMPE, then temporary income is lesser of (50% of YMPE – T) or (LIF balance minus LIF transfers).
Therefore, Joe's maximum temporary income for 2015 is $26,800. For a subsequent calculation, we will call this amount "A".
After temporary income is calculated, there is a further step to determine if any additional life income is payable. This calculation uses all of the same amounts used in the above calculation. The letter E will represent the result. "E" also cannot be less than zero.
E = ($75,000 x .069) - ($26,800 ÷ 4.09) = $5,175 - $6,552 = - $1,377 = $0 (for this step as E cannot be less than zero).
After prorating for the remaining months of the year (May-Dec),Joe can therefore take a total amount of ($26,800 + $0)/12 * 8 months = $17,866 from his life income fund in 2015.
* .069 is the factor provided in Schedule V for a person who is 62 years old at the end of the previous fiscal year and assumes a reference rate of 6 per cent.
** Temporary income from another source is defined in the Regulations as temporary income from another life income fund. If Joe had other temporary income from other LIF's in 2015, we would deduct the annual amount from $26,800 to find the correct amount of temporary income to which he would be entitled.


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Jeeves and Wooster – such fun and frivolity!
Genuine cheers of joyous appreciation show just how much the audience enjoy this evening of warm smiles, loud laughs, frivolity and fun.
Winner of the Olivier Award for best comedy in 2013, Perfect Nonsense is Robert and David Goodale's superb adaptation of PG Wodehouse's work, reworked from their 1993 Edinburgh Fringe contribution.
Based mainly on Wodehouse's 1938 novel The Code of the Woosters, the piece drafts in characters and escapades, all delightfully bonkers, from other works.
The Goodales come up trumps, too, in incorporating swathes of the original, sparkling narrative that was Wodehouse's inimitable forte, while the tour de force (or indeed, tour de farce!) is in presenting the piece as a play within a play.
This framework, in which Bertie Wooster illustrates the events he relates by staging them in an amateur production, allows the three original characters – Wooster, butler Seppings and gentleman's gentleman Jeeves – to people the stage with a host of other eccentrics.
Into the bargain, opportunities abound for physical farce as humour is created all along the way from mishaps and antics (apparently amateurish but actually professionally polished) with props and scenery and in the sound and visual effects departments.
As Wooster, Robert Webb seems less dim, dippy and dependent than some previous Woosters but his performance, professional through and through, is thoroughly enjoyable and brings intimate rapport with the audience.
Moreover, his newt impression is exquisite. But though it's Webb who carries the fabulous narrative and who is pivotal to the many crises and escapades, it's Jason Thorpe (starting out as Jeeves) and Christopher Ryan (starting out as Seppings) who work up all the sweat.
Webb plays Wooster – full stop. Making it look almost effortless, the other two work flat out, multi-tasking with lightning precision as they grab up frocks, wigs, pipes, whiskers, hats and coats to reinvent themselves.
Cool, unflappable Jeeves transforms into goggle-eyed, newt-mad Gussie Fink-Nottle, into pipe-smoking, moustache-wearing Watkyn Bassett and into his niece Stiffy (sometimes both at the same time) and (sort of) into daughter Madeleine. It's not for nothing that Jason Thorpe's versatility earns loud applause.
Seppings, played by diminutive Christopher Ryan, is a wonderful hat-clad Aunt Dahlia, a pot-bellied police constable and, most incredibly, the surreal, gigantic Hitler look-alike that is Reggie Spode.
Surprisingly, there's enough skill and credibility in the transformations that, when one character enters a door, it's easy to forget that the other can't possibly still be under the bed!
Headlong, barmy plots involving daffy friends and relations, an antique cow cream-dispenser, complicated love affairs and light-hearted blackmail gel interest throughout while knockabout farce and the highly crafted lunacy of stage effects bring one comic bonus after another.
From water-pistol rain, an aggressive Aberdeen terrier on a stick, a bicycle-powered revolving stage, and a level crossing routine that almost beings the house down, calculated silliness wins the day.
With the outstanding talents of writers and actors combined in unstinting dedication to the craft of comedy, laughter is guaranteed.
The show tours the country until June. (Those in front stalls may have a slightly restricted view because of the stage within a stage set-up).


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BMW to shut Mini factory for a month after Brexit day – UK
Car giant BMW will shut its main British manufacturing factory immediately after Brexit day next year for several weeks, because of the rising risk of a "no-deal" divorce, according to Sky sources.
The famous Mini plant in Oxford will not produce cars for at least a month from 29 March 2019, as the German giant activates the next stage of its no-deal contingency plans.
During the referendum campaign a number of high profile Leave campaigners claimed that a great deal was inevitable because BMW would lobby German Chancellor Angela Merkel for one.
David Davis, who later went on to become Brexit secretary, claimed in Febraury 2016 that: "Within minutes of a vote for Brexit CEO's would be knocking down Chancellor Merkel's door demanding access to the British market."
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The development shows one of Europe's most successful and influential companies revealing how disruptive it expects no deal to be, and its lack of faith in a deal being reached.
Workers have been told that the annual summer maintenance shutdown will have to be moved to April, as the company is obliged to take action against its fears of a shutdown of the cross-channel supplies required to make its cars.
The Oxford Mini factory will be closed for a month
BMW and the rest of the car industry have long warned the government, both privately and in public, of the Brexit threat, and in particular the no deal threat to its "just in time" supply chains.
Sky News visited the Oxford factory last year, revealing the shock at government not knowing what the terms of a future relationship with the EU27 would be.
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The move will cost millions, and will have a knock-on effect for thousands of workers across the BMW supply chain.
Six weeks is also the length of time's worth of drugs that the government has ordered pharmaceutical companies to stockpile medicines.
Industry sources say that they anticipate a Channel Tunnel so congested as to effectively be blocked for two weeks, following a no deal Brexit.
A further two weeks of emergency diplomacy between the UK government and the EU to re-establish the rules for some form of free flowing trade are also expected.
A BMW spokesperson told Sky News: "Planned annual maintenance periods at BMW Group production sites allow essential updating and equipment replacement to be completed over several weeks, while there is no production taking place.
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"As a responsible organisation, we have scheduled next year's annual maintenance period at MINI Plant Oxford to start on 1 April, when the UK exits the EU, to minimise the risk of any possible short-term parts-supply disruption in the event of a no-deal Brexit.
"While we believe this worst case scenario is an unlikely outcome, we have to plan for it.
"We remain committed to our operations in Britain, which is the only country in the world where we manufacture for all three of our automotive brands."
It comes after the chief executive of Jaguar Land Rover warned that supply bottlenecks resulting from a "no-deal" Brexit could bring a halt to production at the company's UK car plants.
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package io.turtle.pubsub.impl.local;

import io.turtle.core.handlers.MessagesHandler;
import io.turtle.core.tag.Tags;
import io.turtle.core.tag.impl.LocalTags;
import io.turtle.pubsub.Subscriber;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.UUID;

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    private  String subscriberID = UUID.randomUUID().toString();

    @Override
    public String getSubscribeId() {
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    Tags tags = new LocalTags();
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Top Beauty Influencers on YouTube
Beauty YouTubers are mostly known and often referred to as "Beauty Gurus", "Beauty Vloggers", and/or "Beauty Influencers." They are typically young women and men who create posts and videos all about cosmetics, fashion, make-ups and other beauty related topics on YouTube.
There are more than 45,000 YouTube channels that specialize in fashion and beauty-related content, videos about makeup tutorials, cosmetic/skin care hauls, beauty recommendations and other more topics only on YouTube Community. Each month, there are over 50 million people who watch over 1.6 million minutes of consumer-created fashion and beauty videos on YouTube.
Some Beauty Influencers expand their career in the online industry and earn huge sums just by utilizing their channels as a way to branch out and utilize it for business purposes which are also executed through collaborations with some cosmetic or clothing brands. They generally fall into their designated categories like a product review, makeup tutorials, hauls and personality clips. Other YouTubers choose to abide by the simple uploading of videos as a hobby and did not after how much money they could make with their videos.
Here's a list of most powerful influencers or let us say Beauty Goddess in the world of YouTube
Born Brit which is also known as Zoella on YouTube. She started broadcasting from her childhood bedroom, her "hauls" or the web parlance showing off cosmetics purchases. Now, she has over 11.6 million YouTube subscribers and has a bestselling line of beauty products at U.K high street chain Superdrug at the age of 27. Her first novel, "Girl Online" broke first-week sales records according to Nielsen BookScan.
Phan's name is a byword for influencer-turned-entrepreneur a decade after posting her first YouTube Video. She is now the co-founder of subscription cosmetics box Ipsy, which was valued at upwards of $500 million in 2015. She has stopped posting sponsored content as her business has grown, she quickly learned that it would not be sustainable for long since viewers prefer authenticity over ads.
While working in a finance job, the Dubai-based entrepreneur started blogging in 2010. Seven years later, she and her two sisters oversee a beauty empire that includes false lashes favored by Kim Kardashian and also sold in vending machines with Kattan's face splashed on the side. Her makeup line is sold in Sephora.
Since she uploaded her first video in 2008, the Dutch makeup artist has accrued an enviable following which had reached over 7.2 million on Instagram. In March 2017, she debuted a collaboration with professional line Ofra, including liquid lipsticks which she had designed and a highlighter palette.
Shannon Harris
Known online as "Shaaanxo" started vlogging in 2009 to fill what she saw as a void. "I was obsessed with watching YouTubers from the USA and could never find anyone from New Zealand or Australia," said by the Kiwi digital star. Eight years later she has now a beauty brand, xoBeauty which sells lashes and brushes.
Jeffree has been building online following since the days of MySpace. Today, his YouTube channel boasts over 4 million subscribers and a recent video announced a collaboration with fellow Top Influencers list member Manny Gutierrez.
She started blogging in 2008 and then uploaded her first vlog the following year using her grandparents' ancient video camera. Soon, she was hosting 'glaminars' or beauty and business seminars from her YouTube channel.
Manny Gutierrez
The digital star who is known online as MannyMUA was considering medical school when he started focusing his attention on social media. Now, he is on of a rising crop of top male makeup aficionados. He first gained a following on Instagram, then took to YouTube at his followers' request. Now, he is an ambassador for Maybelline with a total audience upwards of 7 million among his many partnerships.
Busy mom and a full-time student with a full-time job, that is how Christen started posting to YouTube in 2009. Now, with an audience upwards of 4 million across all platforms, she is now partnered with the likes of L'Oreal, Sephora, and Urban Decay.
Wayne Gross
The British-born makeup artist has been growing his YouTube channel since 2009. At the year 2012, a tutorial on how to highlight and contour like Kim Kardashian has accrued over 11 million views to date and helped propel him to the big-time among beauty influencers.
From professional makeup artists to amateurs reviewing drugstore buys on camera. Today, these influencers had reached 135,000,000 followers, likes and subscribers online.
Source by Chen Wang
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