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Kirchenbuch, 1676-1932
Katholische Kirche Sankt Marien Beuthen (StKr. Beuthen) (Main Author)
Archiwum Diecezjalne w Gliwicach (Repository)
Salt Lake City, Utah : Gefilmt durch The Genealogical Society of Utah, 1999
auf 33 Mikrofilmrollen ; 35 mm.
(Digital Collection) Poland, Gliwice Roman Catholic Church books : COLLECTION RECORD, 1599-1976
Poland, Gliwice Roman Catholic Church Books are available online, click here.
Mikrofilme aufgenommen von Manuskripten im Archiwum Diecezjalne Gliwice.
Roman Catholic parish registers of christenings, marriages, and deaths for the Sankt Marien Kirche in the city of Beuthen, Silesia, Germany; later Bytom, Katowice, Poland. Sometimes the surrounding towns and villages are listed by name in separate records. In these cases, the names of the towns are listed in parentheses after the record type and years. Where the records are for parishioners in the city of Beuthen, the city is not listed. Where there might be confusion, records for parishioners in the city of Beuthen are listed simply as Beuthen. Where the surrounding towns are listed together, they are called Beuthen Land. The Wählerliste, created between 1937 and 1943, is an alphabetical list; however, the films contain only letters A through L. The Wählerliste contains names of parishioners whose birth years lie between 1848 and 1919, their occupations, and their addresses in the parish.
Germany, Preußen, Schlesien, Beuthen (StKr. Beuthen) - Church records
Poland, Katowice, Bytom (Bytom) - Church records
Germany, Preußen, Schlesien, Roßberg - Church records
Germany, Preußen, Schlesien, Schwientochlowitz - Church records
Germany, Preußen, Schlesien, Chropaczow - Church records
Poland, Katowice, Chropaczów (Święchłowice) - Church records
Germany, Preußen, Schlesien, Schomberg - Church records
Germany, Preußen, Schlesien, Orzegow (LKr. Beuthen) - Church records


Currently undergoing a multi-million dollar expansion, it's set to change the face of travel to Zimbabwe and further afield to Botswana and Zambia.
A welcome expansion for the safari industry. Enabling international carriers to offer direct flights into and out of Victoria Falls by facilitating the handling and landing of wide body long haul jets. The airport is 22 km south of Victoria Falls town.
The $150 million face lift – completion end of September '15.
Ronnie Masawi, Victoria Falls international airport manager confirms that the airport's expansion will see the number of passengers triple as a result.
"The airport will be capable of handling 1.2 million international travellers and 500 000 domestic passengers annually. The developments include the construction of a new international terminal building, the rehabilitation of the existing one into a domestic terminal. A new 4km runway capable of landing the biggest passenger planes, including the A380, would be built, while the existing runway was set to become a taxiway." Masawi comments.
The airport will host a new state of the art control tower and the upgrade includes the expansion of aircraft parking area, a new 400 vehicle, long stay car park and the construction of a new fire station.
The Victoria Falls airport expansion is being funded by a China Exim Bank loan to The Zimbabwean Government with construction by China Jiangsu International Group.
It will enable Victoria Falls to become a new regional hub for tourism and provide the potential to become a major commercial centre.
The airport is currently used by Air Zimbabwe, South African Airways, BA Comair, Air Namibia, Fly Africa and charter flights. A CAAZ spokesman revealed that they're anticipating Qatar Airways, British Airways, Air Botswana and Fast Jet will include the Victoria Falls route to their flight itineraries.
construction of a new control tower and fire station.
first class, business-class and smoking lounges.
landside restaurants and coffee shops.
banking facilities with Visa and MasterCard transactions.
The Zimbabwean CAA confirm plans are also afoot to build an airport hotel in the future.
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Every day, swap one unhealthy snack or side dish for a good one. You may give up your chocolate bar, or that mochaccino. Instead, try a portion of dried fruits and nuts, and a cup of green tea. One swap can go much further than you think. You can even swap the little things. Swap white bread for wholemeal, or your breakfast croissant for cereal. You may find these little swaps lead to bigger things.
It's hard to give things up that we enjoy. It's even harder to give up things that have become routine. Giving up bad habits is a must, but there's no need to do it all at once. Working towards giving up things like drinking and smoking can be an excellent step to better health. Set yourself a goal that identifies your stop date. Little by little, you can make those small changes that mean you achieve your goal on time.
Cutting down on your portion sizes can also go a long way toward improving your health. Most of us wish we could lose a little weight from time to time, and this is a great way to achieve it. Buy new plates if you struggle to identify good portion sizes. Choose a smaller sized dinner plate to help you reduce the food that fits on it. Most food labels will tell you how much a portion is. Take the time to weigh out those amounts to help you keep track of what you need.
Long term illnesses can affect far more than our health. Living with a difficult condition can depress the mood, and limit our enjoyment of life. Clinical trials are one way you could be more proactive in finding a treatment to reduce your symptoms. Participating means you can help identify if a new medication is effective. Your support helps others suffering from your condition too.
Choose one day of the week when you can commit to leaving the car on the driveway. You can then choose how to get to work, the shops, or the kids to school. Bicycles, buses, and even walking are great alternatives. All of them will increase your activity level far above what you may have achieved taking the car. Have some good all-weather wear available so you can do this week after week, whatever the weather.
Sometimes, the little things can be very effective. And sometimes they can lead to even bigger changes in your life. Together they add up to benefit your health and general well-being. See what you can do today for better health tomorrow.


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Today's common platforms have both electrical and optical components and the signal has to be converted from electrical domain to optical domain and from optical domain to electrical domain at every stage of the link. Furthermore, the electrical wires at their physical limit. Due to these two factors, the new generation systems will include all-optical components as much as it is practical.
In this project, optical modulators and switches will be designed and fabricated. The innovative devices will have a larger spectral width advantage in addition to being all optical. Designed structures will be able to be fabricated in the large foundries that are manufacturing electronic chips. Therefore, there is no additional infrastructure is urgently necessary and this makes the whole process cost efficient.


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MELISSA RICO, Civil Litigator, Partner, at Carbert Waite LLP "Toward a Fair and Reasonable
MELISSA RICO
What do you call a litigator who knows when a case must go to court and when it can be settled? A litigator who knows how to reach a fair and reasonable settlement. Melissa Rico's practice of employment law is centered in that knowledge.
"Carbert Waite is a boutique litigation firm and we only go to court when it is necessary," Melissa says. "Most of the time we can settle long before our files reach the courts due to the fact that we are able to negotiate successfully. While there is a time and place to be aggressive, there is often no reason to do so."
As a litigator, Melissa represents both employers and employees on cases concerned with wrongful termination of employment, violation of employment contracts, human rights violations, privacy violations and disability issues.
"We have a unique advantage at our firm in that we represent both employers and employees. As a result of that, I have a really good sense of what drives each side and what the issues are," Melissa says. "It brings a unique perspective and allows us to understand what motivates each person and how we can bring each side around to a resolution."
The mix of experience is sought after. Each year Melissa speaks at conferences concerning employment law for human resources professionals as well as other lawyers.
Litigators are a separate category of lawyers who have special training and aptitude that enables them to file lawsuits, prepare for trial and argue in front of Courts. In most employment law cases, even if they will be settled, the review of documents, the assessment of the laws to be considered and applied, and the preparation of files are conducted as if the lawsuit will be brought to trial.
Melissa's preparation for a career as a litigator was surprising. She has a musical background, having been trained as a classical pianist since she was just three years old. She then went on to earn two undergraduate degrees in music and zoology at the same time.
"I saw university as a way to train my brain without having a specific career in mind. And then, I just fell in love with the LSAT," Melissa says. "I love puzzles and I love logic, reading and literacy. I never envisioned myself as a litigator, but since I love reading and writing, paying attention to details and working with people, I found the perfect career fit."
The path to a fair and reasonable settlement, however, begins long before documents are reviewed and the applicable laws are assessed by a litigator.
"You have to listen to your client's story. You have to pay attention to where they want to go. Ultimately, it is all about what a client needs to move forward," Melissa explains. "Being a good is paramount. It's the only way to ensure that the client and I can articulate the end-goal and work together to achieve it."
Melissa has seen trends emerging in employment and dismissal issues being raised by clients in her office. "When most companies terminate employees, it is not out of maliciousness," Melissa explains. "It is because of the downturn, but also because of the downturn, they have less money for severance packages. So we are seeing more 'termination with cause' cases. In those cases, if there is reason to push back then I advise clients they should definitely push back."
Those are the cases in which Melissa listens even more carefully to her clients. It enables her to tell their story and communicate their perspective to the other parties at the negotiation table.
"Cause terminations, if the employee feels especially wronged, can become emotionally charged very quickly," Melissa says. "We need to be calm and we need to analyze the situation to figure out how to best deal with the specific issues it raises. From there we need to act quickly and discuss what this employee is entitled to now that they have been severed."
Economic downturns also create new situations for employers. Company re-organization after a senior management change, as well as changes in ownership, can lead to profound cultural shifts in how companies operate. It also changes how they appreciate, or approach, the roles or work styles of individual employees.
"We have seen people who are success stories within their former organizations being let go," Melissa says. "I had a client who started out in an entry level position in his mid-teens and eventually became the general manager of a division at a big box retailer. Suddenly, after a higher-level management change, he was being micro managed to the point he was forced to go on short term disability due to work stress before he was fired."
"That's the kind of 'bully the employee until they go away' techniques we are seeing," Melissa explains. "Higher level managers and general managers are expected to meet very stringent targets on everything from safety, to customer support, to employee training and benefits. These may be targets that are impossible to meet. The employees are then subjected to progressive discipline or let go."
As a result of these trends, lawyers like Melissa who focus on employment law are seeing more stress-related cases on the disability side of their practices.
"Telling their story to a third party seems to help alleviate stress for most people," Melissa says. "At least you get the satisfaction of pushing back and knowing you tried to right a wrong. At the same time, the pressure of litigation itself can be stressful and it is important to keep the focus on the end goal ."
Melissa works to ensure her clients never feel they are being left out of the loop. As a matter of practice management, she tries to respond to client emails and voicemails within half a business day.
While it is taking longer for employers to respond with a settlement offer than it did in the past, Melissa says that issues of employment law are generally over faster than many other kinds of legal issues. She has personally turned around hundreds of cases over the 12 years she has been with the firm.
"Without cause termination issues are not as slow or as onerous as other legal issues, Melissa says. "While negotiating a severance package or a settlement proposal might feel like it takes forever, long protracted litigation is typically unusual in our field. As long as everyone is reasonable and does not prolong the situation, then these can be settled fairly quickly so long as everyone is willing to compromise.
Satisfied clients, whether they are employees or employers, is what gives Melissa Rico the satisfaction of a job well done.
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A snippet of my life.
My oldest granddaughter Amy bought me a handsome leather bond journal to write my memoirs in. After a few months of writing I had a better idea and that was to to create a blog. That is how Patricia's snippet of life started. Being a newbie on the computer still scares the heck out of me . I am fortunate to have a great friend that is computer savvy and is willing to help me.
The journey of my blog starts with being born in Vermont during the great depression. I was blessed not remembering the hardest of times. At four years old I remember hearing the air raid sirens, everyone had to turn their lights outs and pull down the shades. When I was in kindergarten the kids were instructed to hide under your desk when you heard the siren blast. I guess they must of built desks sturdier back than to with stand a bomb!
When I was 18 teen my Mother and I drove cross country to California. I celebrated my 18th birthday some where along route 66. The circle of my life after 15 teen years of living in California has landed me back in Vermont where I Am writing my memoirs in my blog post.
The blogging community is a new adventure for me. I am excited to meet other bloggers and to share blog post with them.
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Q: Can't get Carrierwave to work with Amazon S3 I am trying to use Amazon S3 with Carrierwave. This is the first time I use S3 so I am not sure what I am doing most of the time. I am using Carrierwave with Fog, and uploading the files (just images) through ActiveAdmin, but I get a 'broken pipe' error when I try to upload anything
This is the full trace of the error.
I set up Carrierwave with this configuration in the initializer:
CarrierWave.configure do |config|
  config.fog_credentials = {
    :provider                         => 'AWS',
    :aws_access_key_id                => 'myid',
    :aws_secret_access_key            => 'mysecretkey',
  }
  config.fog_directory = 'bucketname'
  config.s3_region = 'EU'
end

And I changed this in my uploader class:
#storage :file
storage :fog

I am using Rails 3.1
Can anyone give me a clue about what's wrong? I've been searching through open issues of Carrierwave and Fog and cant find anything.
IMPORTANT EDIT: I just tried to upload a very small image and it worked, but for some reason >100 KB are giving me the "broken pipe" error.

A: The s3_region should be 'eu-west-1'.

A: In my case the 'Broken pipe' was being caused by a RequestTimeTooSkewed error.  Here it is explained by the AWS site: http://www.bucketexplorer.com/documentation/amazon-s3--difference-between-requesttime-currenttime-too-large.html.
So because the default S3 bucket location is the us-east-1 and I'm located in the West I had to change my bucket's "Region" to Oregon or us-west and it worked!

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By Meagan Simpson Canadian Startup News March 28, 2020
Communitech CEO Iain Klugman delays planned departure amid COVID-19
Iain Klugman, the longtime president and CEO of Communitech, who had announced he would be stepping down in 2021, will be staying on in his role to help the Kitchener-based innovation hub through COVID-19.
"I am committed to steering Communitech through this turbulence."
At the request of Communitech's board of directors, the CEO is now set to stay on until January 22, or as long as required to facilitate a successful transition to his successor.
In light of the current businesses and economic implications brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic Communitech's board of directors asked Klugman on March 26 to delay his departure.
"I am committed to steering Communitech through this turbulence, and also to supporting our members, partners, and friends in the Toronto-Waterloo corridor through the current uncertainty back towards certain success," Klugman said. "It is clear that 'tech for good' is needed now, more than ever, and that will always be core to our mission at Communitech."
Klugman had announced in October that he would step down in early 2021, after spending 15 years leading Communitech. He was set to leave the position of CEO and president on January 31, 2021, which would have marked the official end of his current term.
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The hope is that keeping Klugman on for an extra year (at least) will help Communitech move through the current economic crisis and also allow the board and management team an opportunity to handle COVID-19 and the search for a new CEO sequentially, rather than concurrently.
The search for Klugman's replacement had been slated to begin in early 2020, led by Communitech's board of directors. The search was set to take around 12 months to complete.
Like many other Canadian companies and organizations, Communitech has felt the effects of COVID-19. In early March, following in the footsteps of many organizations, Communitech made the decision to cancel its annual tech event True North. The following week Communitech closed its facilities to the general public and instructed staff to work from home – like many other innovation hubs, incubators, and accelerators across Canada.
Since then, Communitech, which has a community of 1,400 technology companies, has made attempts to continue to offer programming, making many sessions and services available virtually.
"Iain's been an exceptional leader for the organization, and this is yet another sign of his commitment to Communitech and the Waterloo region community," said Dave Caputo, chair of Communitech's board of directors. "We're grateful that he's prepared to continue leading the team through the COVID-19 crisis and into calmer waters."
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If you're travelling on the Athens metro line 3 between the centre and Eleftheros Venizelos airport as of today you will have to change trains at Doukissis Plakentias station to the north of the city where it connnects with the Proastiako suburban railway.
Utter madness. Only the Greeks would make pax change trains and wait with luggage. Quite apart from the bag snatching on the airport line. Wouldn't be surprised if it was changed.


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Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Bangladeshi aviation employees protest
Biman Bangladesh Airlines workers rallied at the national carrier's headquarters in Dhaka on August 31 to oppose new pay scales which exclude pension entitlements. The protesting employees also complained that while Biman workers were offered a 25-30 percent pay rise, government employees' pay has been doubled.
After occupying the offices for six hours, a spokesman for the airline's society of engineers said that the new Biman pay scale would be cancelled and the issue discussed at the company's board meeting on September 2.
Biman Bangladesh Airlines was government-owned until 2007 when it was transformed into the country's largest public limited company. Management immediately retrenched over 2,000 employees. The airline has a poor safety record and is banned from flying into several countries.
Bangladeshi garment workers protest for Eid bonus
At least 2,500 garment workers in Ashulia, Dhaka walked off the job on Wednesday for four hours to demand full payment of the Eid religious festival allowance. In Savar last Sunday over 1,000 garment workers demonstrated for payment of the festival allowance and dues. Anxious to avoid mass industrial unrest during Ramadan, Bangladesh's labour and employment minister has called on garment factory owners and managers to pay dues and festival allowances before the holiday.
Last year thousands of garment workers across Bangladesh walked off the job and protested when employers failed to pay the Eid bonuses. Demonstrations blocked streets in Dhaka and other cities as thousands of homebound people tried to leave for the Eid holiday.
India: Power-loom weavers on strike
At least 32,000 power-loom weavers in Sircilla, Andhra Pradesh are maintaining a strike begun on August 27 to demand a wage increase and an eight-hour working day. The strike closed related industries in the town, such as warping, dyeing and sizing. Several hundred weavers from the Centre of Indian Trade Unions and the Powerloom Workers' Union protested at the Collectorate in Karimnagar.
The power-loom weavers' pay is minimal and less than the government-stipulated minimum wage. Paid according to the amount of cloth they produce, the weavers usually work 12-hour days for an average daily wage of 80 rupees ($US1.80). Their income is often supplemented by other family members who roll beedies (local cigarettes).
Karnataka nurses protest sackings
Over 300 nurses from the Mysore Medical College and Research Institute marched to the District Commissioner's office in Mysore on Tuesday to protest an order cancelling the appointment of 380 nurses following allegations of irregularities in the recruitment process. Many of the nurses have been on a hunger strike since August 26 and five have been admitted to hospital as a consequence.
The district commissioner told the Karnataka State Government Nurses Association that he would forward their concerns to the state government.
Thousands of Tamil Nadu noon-meal workers arrested
On August 30, Tamil Nadu's Dravida Munnettra Kazhagam government ordered the arrest of almost 10,000 protesting noon-meal workers, most of them women, as they travelled to the state capital Chennai to demonstrate for a series of long-standing demands. This includes regularisation of service, wage increases, and a pension and general provident fund.
Public transport vehicles on major roads to Chennai were intercepted by police and the protesters detained. Almost 2,000 demonstrators at 18 separate locations in Chennai were also arrested and held in community halls.
In March, daily-rated and part-time noon-meal workers walked off the job at nine central kitchens supplying noon meals to government schools in Puducherry. In April 2007, Tamil Nadu Nutritious Noon Meal Employees Association members held sit-down protests in several cities over the current demands.
Punjab computer teachers protest
Nearly 2,000 government contractual computer teachers from across the state blocked the busy National Highway-21 on Sunday in a mass rally to demand regularisation of employment. The Government Contractual Teachers' Union state president Jaswinder Singh Bhullar said the state government had failed to honour a promise in their 2007 election manifesto to regularise their services. Bhullar said they were hired on contract in 2005.
Indonesian workers strike for holiday bonus
On August 30, 13,000 PT Panarub Industry workers in Tangerang walked off the job and rallied outside the factory in protest against an 18 percent cut to their Idul Fitri holiday bonus. The company manufactures shoes for Adidas.
By law workers who have been employed for one year are entitled to a holiday bonus, the equivalent of their respective monthly wage. Panarub workers claim that their bonus of 1.1 million rupiah has been cut by 200,000 rupiah ($US22).
Over 1,400 workers from PT Woneel Midas Leathers in Tangerang are still on strike after walking off the job on August 27 because they have not been paid their Idul Fitri bonus for two years. The strikers also demanded that the company, which produces golf and baseball gloves, reemploy four workers who had been dismissed recently for allegedly encouraging others to demand the bonus payment.
Australia and the Pacific
Victorian steel workers continue strike
Silcar employees at the Bluescope Western Port in Melbourne voted on August 26 to continue strike action after management failed to address key concerns in a new work agreement. The 86 fitters and boilermakers walked off the job on August 5, after extended negotiations between Silcar and the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) reached deadlock. Thirty meetings have been held with the company over the work agreement since February.
AMWU Victorian organiser Greg Warren said outstanding issues included better job security, maintenance of health and safety rights, protection from unfair dismissal, attacks on penalty rates and the right of day workers to be consulted on shift work schedules.
Silcar is attempting to break the strike using contract labour from body hire firm Adecco. The steel manufacturing plant employs around 1,400 people full-time and produces over a million tonnes of steel products annually. The strikers are maintaining a 24-hour picket at the plant.
Victorian plastics manufacturing workers on strike
About 30 Corex Plastics workers in Dandenong walked off the job on August 25 and began picketing the factory in protest over a new work agreement. The National Union of Workers members are fighting to maintain their current conditions. Corex has offered a 3 percent pay rise with existing employees keeping their redundancy entitlements but wants to reduce redundancy provisions for new employees and change entitlements for sick leave.
A picketing worker explained, "Our current EBA [Enterprise Bargaining Agreement] is our protection against unfair treatment and we want it to cover all employees working at Corex." The company has called for negotiations to resume.
South Australian nurses escalate industrial action
Nurses and midwives at South Australia's public hospitals have escalated industrial action begun on August 17 over a new work agreement. As well as maintaining an existing ban on the computer system used to calculate staffing levels, the nurses and midwives have begun hand-writing patients' notes rather than using computers, banned all non-essential and non-clinical work, and plan to hold stop-work meetings.
Nursing and Midwifery Federation state secretary Elizabeth Dabars told the media that a pay rise offer of up to 15 percent over three years had been accepted but a dispute over staffing was unresolved. Dabars said that the state government's proposed enterprise agreement failed to address staffing levels, skills mix and professional development.
New Zealand: Auckland radiographers to resume strike action
The Association of Professional and Executive Employees (Apex) entered urgent negotiations on Thursday with District Health Boards (DHBs) in Auckland ahead of a three-day strike by medical radiation technologists (MRTs) due to begin yesterday. All elective surgery at hospitals in Auckland has been cancelled.
About 1,000 MRTs from DHBs across the country have been involved in rolling industrial action since February over a lack of progress in pay talks. Last week 65 MRTs at Auckland's Middlemore Hospital walked off the job after radiographers employed at Counties Manukau DHB and Auckland DHB were suspended for taking industrial action.
Radiographers have agreed on two pay increases of 1 percent by October, but other issues were still on the table. Apex has called a nationwide strike for September 7.
Mana Coach drivers strike
On August 31, 20 Wellington Tramways Union (WTU) members at Mana Coach Services walked off the job and picketed their depot at Paraparaumu Station, north of Wellington, over a new collective agreement. The company has refused to budge on wage rates, despite the union reaching a settlement of 11.5 percent over two years with two other Wellington companies. Drivers are also complaining that the company refuses to pay overtime and is trying to force them to work 14-hour shifts for 13 days in a row.
Union members at the Paraparaumu depot are in the minority so the company was able to maintain services during the strike.
Public post-primary school teachers vote to strike
Up to 18,000 teachers at secondary schools throughout New Zealand voted overwhelmingly at Post Primary Teachers Association (PPTA) meetings last week for a national stoppage on September 15 to push for a better pay offer. Plans are also in place for a series of rolling strikes later in the year, while teachers could boycott after-school meetings if they run too late.
The action follows teachers' rejection of the ministry of education's latest collective agreement offer that includes a pay rise of 1.5 percent this year, and 1 percent next year in return for removing restrictions on class sizes. PPTA wants a 4 percent pay increase, an additional 1 percent employer contribution to KiwiSaver retirement funds, a laptop for every secondary teacher and health and safety issues resolved. Teachers also voted at last weeks' meetings to support an addition to the collective agreement preventing employers utilising the 90-day law where workers can be fired within a 90-day trial period.
Papua New Guinea bank workers end strike
Bank South Pacific (BSP) employees returned to work on August 31 ending a six-day strike over a new work agreement. BSP had earlier agreed in principle to demands by the PNG Banks and Financial Institution Workers Union (PNGB&FIW) that included a higher-duty allowance, improved leave entitlements and union involvement in the redundancy-monitoring committee, but rejected union demands for a housing allowance increase.
Workers decided to end the strike after BSP agreed to lift the housing allowance by 10 percent while the issue was considered by the industrial arbitration tribunal. The PNGB&FIW represents around 1,600 BSP workers. BSP is PNG's largest bank, with a 60 percent market share in the country.
PNG construction workers remain on strike
A strike at the Hides Gas Conditioning Plant and nearby construction sites for Papua New Guinea's massive liquefied natural gas project is entering its third week. Up to 100 construction workers walked off the job over poor working conditions and to support local land owners who want increased shareholdings and benefits from the project. Workers said they will remain on strike until ExxonMobil addresses their concerns.
Australian High Court citizenship ruling disqualifies five more MPs
Australian government promotes racist diversion over so-called "African gangs"
Australia continues punitive treatment of refugees on Manus Island
New Zealand pseudo-lefts embrace new right-wing government
Australian rail union suspends industrial action in Pacific National dispute
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna calls for removal of Sri Lankan government
China's growth slows to lowest level since 1992
Sri Lankan prime minister promotes US defence agreement
Hong Kong protesters appeal to mainland Chinese for support
National strike against Ecuadorian government demands Assange's freedom
Wall Street Journal warns job threats might not prevent rebellion by autoworkers
British Columbia forestry workers strike enters third week
Walmart workers and teachers on strike in Chile speak out against unions, police-state repression
Workers Struggles: the Americas


Dirty Dancing is hitting Facebook, and it's more exciting than just hitting "Like" on a fan page.
Lionsgate is bringing the film to the social networking platform in the form of a game based on the classic film. The Dirty Dancing fan page has surprised the studio with its popularity, boasting over 10.9 million fans, standing as the ninth most popular movie fan page on Facebook.
The game, created by Social Game Universe, sends players off to build up Kellerman's resort—tennis courts, activities and dance shows. Players of the game act as caretakers of the resort and play Cupid by launching "romance waves" to get their guests to fall in love, while the soundtrack of the seminal dance film sets the mood.
"By enabling players to partner with their Facebook friends to generate love and romance at Kellerman's, they can add their own unique spin to the game, creating a different social experience for each player," said Nathon Gunn, CEO of Social Game Universe.
Lionsgate announced last month that it will be remaking Dirty Dancing, slated for a 2013 release. The film will be directed by Kenny Ortega, who choreographed the original film, as well as the High School Musical franchise.


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Q: GLM: Get rotational axis from the matrix I have a glm::mat4 matrix  and I have performed several rotations and translations on that matrix. How can I get the rotational axis of that matrix in Normalized form?
It should be Unity3D equivalent of gameObject.transform.forward or gameObject.transform.right


It is a competition born to play at the end of the season a match between the winners of university and empresarial championships.
Since 1998 more teams were added but, in 2017, as the differences between professional and amateur teams were growing more and more, it was merged with Top-League final phase.
jrfu.org - Japanese union official site.
www.top-league.jp - Top League official site.
www.japonrugby.net - Site about japanese rugby.
ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/日本のラグビーユニオン - Wikipedia pages about rugby in Japan.


DC Entertainment announced today the inaugural artist lineup for the publisher's upcoming young reader imprints, DC Zoom and DC Ink. The artists will join the previously announced roster of bestselling young adult and middle grade authors to create diverse, relatable stories starring DC's most iconic characters such as Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman and many more. Both original graphic novel lines are set to launch in spring 2019.


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The Metropolis Project is an international network of researchers, policy-makers, international organizations and civil society organizations for the development of comparative research and policy-relevant knowledge on migration, diversity, and immigrant integration in cities in Canada and around the world.

The Metropolis Project's principal decision-making body is an International Steering Committee of representatives from over 40 countries. The Project is managed by a Secretariat with offices in Ottawa, Amsterdam and in Asia with functions distributed across organizations in Seoul, Manila and Beijing. The Ottawa Secretariat is responsible for establishing the Project's strategic directions.  Howard Duncan is the Project's Executive Head.

Metropolis Professional Development

The Metropolis Project launched in April 2014 a new training program for senior policy-makers, senior managers of settlement agencies, officials of international organizations and the private sector. The programme is intended to provide participants with information, analysis and tools on the management of migration and integration. A pilot training will be offered in June 2014. Metropolis Professional Development has been developed in collaboration with worldwide renowned experts such as Graeme Hugo (University of Adelaide), Jan Niessen (Migration Policy Group), Imelda Nicolas (Commission on Filipinos Overseas) and Peter Schatzer (IOM) among many others.

Publications

The Metropolis Project partners with Springer in the publication of an academic journal, the Journal of International Migration and Integration (Revue de l'intégration et de la migration internationale). It is published quarterly, in both English and French; its first issue was in Winter, 2000. The managing editor for the 2013-2014 issue is Lori Wilkinson of the University of Manitoba.

Annual Conference
The project has hosted an international conference concerning research and policy on human migration annually since 1996. The 2015 meeting will be held in Mexico City, Mexico in September 2015 (Metropolis 2015 site) with the slogan "Migrants: Key Players in the 21st Century".

Previous conference locations have been:
2014 - Milan, Italy
2013 - Tampere, Finland
2012 - Auckland, New Zealand
2011 - Ponte Delgada, Azores, Portugal
2009 – Copenhagen, Denmark
2008 – Bonn, Germany
2007 – Melbourne, Australia
2006 – Lisbon, Portugal
2005 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2004 – Geneva, Switzerland
2003 – Vienna, Austria
2002 – Oslo, Norway
2001 – Rotterdam, Netherlands
2000 – Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
1999 – Washington D.C., United States
1998 – Zikhron Ya'akov, Israel
1997 – Copenhagen, Denmark
1996 – Milan, Italy

References

External links
Metropolis Project Website
Journal of International Migration and Integration

Human migration
Social sciences organizations

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July 19, 2012 January 10, 2017 by dietrichknauth
Navy's 'Green Fleet' Could Make Congress Believe In Biofuel
Energy, Government Contracts, Professional
Law360, New York (July 19, 2012, 9:48 PM EDT) — The U.S. Navy's "Great Green Fleet," a biofuel-powered aircraft carrier group that conducted training missions in the Pacific on Wednesday and Thursday, could help the Navy overcome congressional obstacles to its biofuel investments by showcasing the new fuels' reliability, experts say.
Republican lawmakers have criticized the Navy for investing in expensive biofuels at a time of declining defense budgets, and both the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate Armed Services Committee have passed proposals that would stop future purchases of alternative fuels if they carry a higher price tag than oil or gasoline. But several senators are pushing to reverse those restrictions before they become law, and the successful demonstration could help them make their case.
Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo., said Thursday that he supports the Navy's "smart investments in homegrown green technology" as a way to reduce the military's reliance on foreign oil. Udall believes the Senate will eventually remove anti-biofuel provisions in its version of the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act, and a successful green fleet demonstration in the Pacific Rim can help convince opponents of biofuel investment.
"I have every confidence that the tests will show that domestically produced, renewable fuels have the capability to power our ships, aircraft and vehicles," Udall said. "This is an exciting time, and this exercise will be remembered as a great step forward for our military and for American energy security."
To fuel the green fleet demonstration, the Navy paid about $26 a gallon in December for 450,000 gallons of biofuel created from a blend of used cooking oil and algae, in the largest advanced biofuel purchase in U.S. history. Congressional critics of the Navy's biofuel spending, including Rep. Randy Forbes, R-Va., and Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., who wrote the Senate amendment that would block biofuel buys, have focused on that $26 per gallon price tag, and Inhofe has criticized the military's energy strategy as an excuse to support "liberal energy projects" at the expense of traditional firepower and combat readiness.
But Udall is not alone in seeking to roll back Inhofe's amendment. He's joined by fellow Armed Services Committee members Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., who wrote in an op-ed that the Navy's biofuels could shield the U.S. Department of Defense from swings in oil prices, which is more efficient in the long run than investing all its funds into building more ships, planes and tanks.
"Every time a barrel of oil goes up $10, the Defense Department pays $1.3 billion more in fuel costs," the senators said. "That's roughly the equivalent of building a new destroyer — then sinking it in the middle of the ocean."
The Pentagon said that price hikes for oil caused it to spend $3 billion more on energy costs than it had planned last year, money that will have to be diverted away from other priorities. Supporters of military biofuel say that its benefits are plain — alternative fuels could shield the Pentagon from energy price hikes, reduce dependence on foreign oil and support a new domestic energy industry.
The Truman National Security Project, which advocates for national security from a progressive political viewpoint, has lobbied members of Congress through ads featuring retired military leaders and through face-to-face meetings to support alternative fuels, including biofuel. Michael Wu, the group's advocacy policy director, said Thursday that those meetings have left him encouraged that the Republican opposition to biofuels isn't as solid as it is often portrayed.
"I think that more Republicans are likely to be supportive when the bill comes to the floor," Wu said. "In reality, we're much closer to ensuring that the military's investments are maintained than maybe some of the coverage has indicated lately."
The current fight over biofuels includes many more national security voices than previous congressional battles over alternative energy, including former military leaders who have firsthand experience grappling with the kind of budget tradeoffs necessary to pay for higher-than-expected fuel costs, Wu said. The green fleet's fuel, while expensive, will come down in price once industry partners are able to establish economies of scale, and as an investment, it took up only 0.03 percent of the Navy's budget, he added.
"The good news is that these fuels are becoming cost competitive incredibly quickly," Wu said. "Advanced biofuels are getting cheaper more quickly than any other renewable source of power."
Biofuel producers have said that the Pentagon's planned purchases could help kick-start their industry by providing upfront investment and a long-term customer that will incentivize the building of larger refineries that can drive down costs through economies of scale.
"I think we need the jump start, but I think we can quickly get to a cost-effective price point," said Riggs Eckelberry, CEO of OriginOil, which extracts gasoline from algae.
Eckelberry said that the Navy's price tag for its the Great Green Fleet fuel contracts was not representative of biofuel's already-declining cost because the Navy had chosen to buy a more expensive, high-quality fuel that has already been proven reliable. But OriginOil believes that it can sell biofuel at $2.28 per gallon, using existing technology, as long as it can leverage the economies of scale that would come with a 250-acre algae plantation.
Congress is right to push for lower prices, Eckelberry said, as long as there is a reasonable time frame for bringing costs down.
"[Congressional pressure] is good in its own way because it's going to force the biofuel industry to stop making boutique fuels and start making mass biofuels that are cheaper," Eckelberry said. Still, he added, "It's unrealistic to say that it has to be done today, that's just being obstructionist."
While Navy leadership, including Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, has staunchly supported biofuels as a way to combat the military's energy vulnerability, the demonstration also allowed sailors and pilots to experience the new fuel's reliability for themselves.
Lt. Karen Smith, fuels officer for the guided-missile destroyer USS Chafee, said Thursday that the use of biofuels on Navy ships further enhances the overall readiness of the fleet by reducing the military's dependence on foreign fossil fuels. The Chafee took on 250,000 gallons of the biofuel mix while participating in the Great Green Fleet demonstration.
"It gives the Navy a little bit more flexibility, and they know where it's coming from," Smith said. "Thinking about it economically, yes, it's a little bit pricier on the front end, but everything new is. I think that, as time goes on, that cost will drive down. The added benefit of having that operational capability is a plus, and now it's not left in foreign hands to decide what our fuel costs are."
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Q: Is there a way to check the MS Security Center for virus protection status? We are in a Windows environment and looking to automate this process for non-company machines.  If a vendor comes on site, we'd like to be able to have him/her hit a website that can perform a quick scan of the workstation to determine if they have the proper MS KB patches and if their virus scanner dats are up to date.
I can scan for the KB updates relatively easy, what I'm having a hard time finding is a way to check the virus dat status and since there are so many different engines out there, it seemed to make sense to use the (built into XP at least) proprietary MS security center stuff.
Eventually we'd like to have our routers redirect non-company machines to a website that will force validation, but until that point it will be a manual process.
Any thoughts?

A: In Windows Vista there are some new APIs to interface with the Security Center component status: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb963845(VS.85).aspx
Through WMI, here's a VBS code snippet I checked out on http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/windowssecurity/thread/bd97d9e6-75c1-4f58-9573-9009df5de19b/ to dump Antivirus product information:
    Set oWMI = GetObject
("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\.\root\SecurityCenter")
    Set colItems = oWMI.ExecQuery("Select * from AntiVirusProduct")

    For Each objAntiVirusProduct In colItems
    msg = msg & "companyName: " & objAntiVirusProduct.companyName & vbCrLf
    msg = msg & "displayName: " & objAntiVirusProduct.displayName & vbCrLf
    msg = msg & "instanceGuid: " & objAntiVirusProduct.instanceGuid & vbCrLf
    msg = msg & "onAccessScanningEnabled: "
 & objAntiVirusProduct.onAccessScanningEnabled & vbCrLf
    msg = msg & "productUptoDate: " & objAntiVirusProduct.productUptoDate & vbCrLf
    msg = msg & "versionNumber: " & objAntiVirusProduct.versionNumber & vbCrLf
    msg = msg & vbCrLf

    Next

    WScript.Echo msg

A: For AVs that don't report to WMI or for AVs which WMI retains state info after the AV is uninstalled (there are instances of both cases) you may wish to consider the OPSWAT library.
You will need to write and deploy a light client from your website to utilize the library to machines to be interrogated.
The library utilizes WMI for security apps that correctly support WMI and proprietary methods to detect AVs and their dat status for those that don't.


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Q: Log in to a windows network share (SMB) for this process only It's easy to log into a Windows network share (SMB) for the whole user session (e.g. net use, WNetAddConnection2() etc).
Is there any similar way that will only impact my current process?
Some kind of token system, maybe?
Whole session auth is okay if there's really no alternative, but I would rather avoid a "global solution to a local problem".

A: Network sessions are handled by the windows kernel as part of the smb client driver, as such they are managed per windows workstation (not the user actually), meaning that you can't access the same share with two different credentials, and you can't actually create a new network connection per process as per the limitation imposed by the windows smb client. the reason for the limitation is that Microsoft implemented share access as a filter driver, each UNC path (\share\test) to share access is stored as a shared resource to make your live as a developer and user easier. (makes share access seamless)
a quick example of it is running net use in an elevated (run as administrator) command prompt and trying to access it in an unelevated context.
you can go either way:

*

*use samba/another userland smb implementation (there are some python based) in your software

*create a new winstation for each of your processes (this has a big overhead)

A: Network sessions (and assigned drive letters) are handled per-user, not per-process.  So no, you cannot create an SMB session just for your process, unless it runs with a dedicated user account.  Otherwise, you would just have to add a global connection (including the CONNECT_TEMPORARY flag, for instance) and then remove the connection (WNetCancelConnection2()) when you are finished using it.


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MoD issued guide to spotting right-wing extremism in army
Lucy Fisher, Defence Correspondent
May 30 2019, 12:01am, The Times
Mikko Vehvilainen was jailed for eight years for belonging to National Action, the proscribed right-wing groupPA
Soldiers who brand themselves "patriots" and dismiss opponents as "traitors" display some of the warning signs of right-wing extremism, according to a leaked guide for the British Army.
The internal Ministry of Defence guide, entitled Extreme Right Wing (XRW) Indicators & Warnings, was produced in 2017 after the arrest of four personnel accused of links to National Action, a proscribed far-right group. It was leaked online.
It is understood that only when personnel demonstrated a significant number of the 20 warning signs were concerns to be aroused. "Exhibiting one or two of these in no way suggests someone is an extremist, and the card does not suggest that all patriots are extremists," the MoD said.
Obvious indicators were tattoos, stickers and badges with overt and…


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NOS SGPS est une entreprise de télécommunications portugaise. Opérateur de téléphonie mobile et fournisseur d'accès à internet, de chaînes de télévison ainsi que de la distribution et de la présentation cinématographique, le groupe emploie près de 1 900 salariés pour un chiffre d'affaires de près de 3 milliards d'euros.

L'entreprise fait partie des indices PSI-20 et du Next 150.

Historique
Elle était auparavant intégrée au groupe Portugal Telecom sous le nom de PT Multimédia. Créée en 1996, PT Multimédia était la branche des services interactifs et Internet de Portugal Telecom. Elle détenait en outre l'exploitation du service de télévision par abonnement par câble et par satellite TV Cabo, service créé en 1994.

En 1999, PT Multimédia entre en bourse avec 58 % du capital encore détenu par Portugal Telecom. En septembre/, la scission Portugal Telecom/PT Multimédia est actée. Les entreprises sont désormais concurrentes.

En 2008, le changement de nom de PT Multimédia en ZON Multimédia a été voté par les actionnaires, dans une optique de différenciation vis-à-vis de Portugal Telecom.

Depuis le , l'entreprise change nouvellement son nom en NOS, après la fusion de ZON et Optimus.

En avril 2020, Cellnex annonce l'acquisition des activités de tours de télécommunications portugaises de NOS, comprenant près de 2 000 tours, pour 375 millions d'euros.

Actionnaires
Mis à jour au .

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Entreprise de télécommunications ayant son siège au Portugal
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Q: Bus error (Core Dumped) I am trying to run a ROS node which subscribes data from a node and then calculates the PID controller output and publishes it on another topic.But I get a Bus, core dumped error after every 10 cycles...I am not sure why...Here is the code for reference:
namespace youbot {

PidController::PidController(double P, double I, double D, double I1, double I2) :
p_gain_(P), i_gain_(I), d_gain_(D), i_max_(I1), i_min_(I2)
{

   p_error_last_ = 0.0;
   p_error_ = 0.0;
   d_error_ = 0.0;

   i_error_ = 0.0;
   cmd_ = 0.0;
   last_i_error = 0.0;
}

double PidController::updatePid(double error, boost::posix_time::time_duration dt)
{
    double p_term, d_term, i_term;
    p_error_ = error; //this is pError = pState-pTarget
    double deltatime = (double)dt.total_microseconds()/1000.0; //in milli seconds

   if (deltatime == 0.0 || isnan(error) || isinf(error))
      return 0.0;
   p_term = p_gain_ * p_error_;
   i_error_ = last_i_error + deltatime * p_error_;
   last_i_error = deltatime * p_error_;
   i_term = i_gain_ * i_error_;
   if (i_term > i_max_)
   {
     i_term = i_max_;
     i_error_=i_term/i_gain_;
   }
   else if (i_term < i_min_)
   {
     i_term = i_min_;
     i_error_=i_term/i_gain_;
   }

  if (deltatime != 0)
  {
     d_error_ = (p_error_ - p_error_last_) / deltatime;
     p_error_last_ = p_error_;
  }
  d_term = d_gain_ * d_error_;
  cmd_ = -p_term - i_term - d_term;

  p_error_, i_error_, p_term, i_term, deltatime, cmd_);

  return cmd_;
}
}

using namespace std;
using namespace youbot;

double currentPos[3];
void arrayCallback(const geometry_msgs::Point::ConstPtr& cord);
double calculateControllerOutput(double pos, double targetPos);

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{

ros::init(argc, argv, "coordinateSubscriber");
ros::NodeHandle n;
ros::Subscriber sub3 = n.subscribe("position", 100, arrayCallback);
ros::spin();

return 0;
}

I'm not able to guess which part is causing the error.Any help will be appreciated..Thanks !


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Review: The Bible in Spain
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The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula by George Borrow
Those who wish to make themselves understood by a foreigner in his own language, should speak with much noise and vociferation, opening their mouths wide.
In the year 1835, George Henry Borrow, British traveler and noted eccentric, embarked upon a voyage to Spain with the purpose of making the Holy Bible available to the populace of that hoary nation, and in their native language; freeing that sacred volume from the clutches of friars and priests, who, being papists, jealously guard and keep the scriptures in a language unintelligible to the majority of men and women,—or so opined the author, a proud and uncompromising Protestant.
Mr. Borrow undertook this journey under the direction of the Bible Society, and was chosen for this work due to his previous success, persistence, and tenacity, in propagating the Bible in the vast plains of Russia, where he laboured many long years among poor peasants; and this previous experience was bolstered by Borrow's prodigious facility in acquiring languages, being possessed, if we are to believe his report of himself, of the Latin, French, Italian, Gaelic, Russian, Arabic, Romani, German, and both the modern and ancient Greek languages,—this list may not be complete,—in addition to his fluency in Portuguese and Spanish, the two dialects on which he was to rely during his time in the Iberian Peninsula.
This book, the record of this noble errand, was pieced together from journal entries, letters, and Mr. Borrow's apparently remarkable faculty of memory; and narrates his misadventures suffered, voyages undertaken, obstacles overcome, and successes gained, in a style verbose and tending towards the periodic sentence, with hypotaxis being his most habitual mode of expression; a style, nonetheless, of vigour and charm; its only fault, being a tendency to unfurl itself in a monotonous, seemingly endless, series, built of commas and semicolons, that, if imbibed to excess, can have the same soporific effects of opium upon the senses of the reader.
Being a book of travels, much of Mr. Borrow's narrative, if not the majority, consists of descriptions of noble edifices, foreign cities, strange landscapes, and other vistas of entrancing beauty; as well as many stories of incompetent footmen, derelict guides, incommodious accommodations, unscrupulous innkeepers, and all of the diverse and profuse inconveniences suffered by any traveler in a foreign land; these being supplemented by several vignettes, or sketches, of striking personalities encountered by Mr. Borrow, these personages being from many different classes, creeds, and nations; all of this detail and description serving as the backdrop to Mr. Borrow's laborious task, selling the Bible in a land generally hostile and suspicious of the Protestant religion, the opposition of the authorities more than once thwarting Mr. Borrow in his noble errand; and this is not to mention the continual fighting, and concomitant destruction of land and property, and the resultant poverty experienced by the people, putting aside the brigandage and banditry rampant across the land, occasioned by the Carlist Civil War.
For all of its merits, and these are many and conspicuous, this book, however, cannot be recommended as providing any significant insight into the culture and history of the Spanish nation, being too absorbed in Mr. Borrow's own private worries and concerns, and too involved in the slight and superficial impressions gained by the traveler; and seeing as this, namely, gaining knowledge of the Spanish nation, was my primary object in picking up the book, I must admit that I was somewhat disappointed; this disappointment being, I should hastily add, partly counterweighted by the eccentricity and peculiarity of this book, whose style, and whose narrator, while perhaps not brilliant, nor profound, nor even greatly compelling, are, at least, so distinct, that they are impressed upon the soul of the reader, not to be erased by any subsequent experience.
(The above picture is the commemorative plaque, which is posted on Calle de Santiago, 14, in Madrid, where George Borrow stayed.)
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Jeopardy Champ Amy Schneider Faces Big Taxes On 40 Wins
It can be mesmerizing to watch Jeopardy! especially when someone you are rooting for is doing well, is super smart, and makes you think. That was so with Amy Schneider, but her 40-game streak has come to an end. She is a fan favorite but has lost to a Chicago librarian. Even so, she still can say she is the second all-time winner. Ken Jennings remains the all-time winner, with a whopping 74 wins under his belt. Amy Schneider boosted viewership and maybe even popularized the donning of pearls too. And her wins mean that she will resurface on the next Tournament of Champions. How much did she win in all? Her $1,382,800 total puts her in fourth place for regular season play, not far behind a win of $1,518,601. James Holzhauer's $2,462,216 was second behind Ken Jennings' $2,520,700 total. But before you start spending money you might win, does Amy Schneider have taxes to pay? Of course she does. And it's a lot too, eating up about half the money if you do the math. All winnings on game shows are ordinary income, taxed up to 37% by the IRS. Most states have state income tax too, and since Ms. Schneider lives in California, she will pay up to 13.3% to the Golden State too. Even worse, since the federal tax law put a $10,000 cap on deducting state and local taxes starting in 2018—it used to be unlimited—paying tax in high-tax states even worse now, a kind of double whammy.
This isn't exactly gambling, but even gambling winnings are taxed. You must report game show winnings, and you will receive an IRS Form 1099—just in case you forget to put your win on your tax return. Winnings are generally just "other income" or miscellaneous income. Many shows wisely warn you about taxes and Forms 1099 in advance, just so contestants don't go in with the wrong impression. Legal disclaimers make you sit up and take notice. If you go on a show that awards prizes, even if you don't win cash, the goods that you receive are taxable too. You'll have to pay tax on their fair market value, including goods, services or trips. Yes, winning a car means taxes too. A famous example was Oprah Winfrey's car giveaway of 2004? The big tax principle is that all income is taxable, with only rare exceptions. Tax time and April 15 are right around the corner, and that is no fun, any year. But starting in 2018, there are a number of tax rules that got worse, courtesy of the so-called Tax Cuts and Jobs Act passed in the waning days of 2017. For example, how about writing off expenses?
Suppose that our Jeopardy! winner wants to claim her hotel, air, and other expenses on her taxes, to offset some of that income. It sounds logical enough, and up until 2018, you could deduct expenses as miscellaneous itemized deductions. But for 2018 and beyond, that deduction is gone. So even though a Jeopardy! or other game show winner might well have real expenses, there's no easy way to claim them. Perhaps Amy Schneider might argue that she's in business, and file a schedule C with her 1040? That could mean she's taxed only on her net. But she might trigger self-employment tax, on top of income tax. That can add more, roughly 3% on these figures. In contrast, if she stayed off of Schedule C, game show winnings she should steer clear of self-employment. Can a winner who doesn't need the money avoid taxes via gifts to charity, family, and friends? Only gifts to charity qualify for a tax deduction, and the deduction math favors the government.
As for gifts to family and friends, you can't generate an income tax deduction by those transfers. In fact, you could double up on taxes, even triggering gift tax too. People who win lawsuits and get a legal settlement also face even bigger taxes. Many plaintiffs used to deduct their legal fees as miscellaneous itemized deductions. So if they won $1M, and $400K went to their lawyer, they would report $1M, and deduct the $400K. But amazingly, many legal fees now simply can't be deducted. There are a number of exceptions from this strange tax rule for certain types of cases, where legal fees are still fully deductible. But unless you meet one of them, some plaintiffs are actually paying tax on their gross recovery, not their net recovery after legal fees.
It hurts even worse with high state taxes. And speaking of that, last year California proposed hiking its 13.3% tax rate to 16.8% but so far that hasn't happened. But hey, since tax time for 2022 earnings are down the road, couldn't Ms. Schneider move quickly, so to Nevada? Nope, it's too late. You need to do it before you earn the income, or before you sell your stock, or whatever. For some people, even moving doesn't avoid California tax, you could leave California, and keep paying California taxes. Remember that old line about death and taxes?
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SUMMARY OF PROVISION FOR MATERIALS RESEARCH STUDENTS
(as per Appendix VII of the Department of Materials Graduate Course Handbook)
SUMMARY OF PROVISION
The purpose of this statement is to indicate what a graduate research student might expect to be offered in the Department of Materials. It is expected that during a graduate's first term at Oxford, each graduate student and their supervisor will discuss the statement of provision, and, by means of the six-monthly Project Management Forms and the quarterly Graduate Supervision Reports, the student and supervisor will confirm any individualised provision as it applies to that student. The provision should be reviewed by the supervisor with the student at least once a year.
As a Materials research student you are also a member of the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division's Graduate School (https://www.mpls.ox.ac.uk/graduate-school) with access to its resources and support.
1. What arrangements will be put in place for supervising the graduate's work?
You will have a named supervisor or supervisors, normally as indicated in your offer letter, who will have overall responsibility for the direction of your work on behalf of the Department. Typically, you should expect to have meetings with your supervisor or a member of the supervisory team with a frequency of at least once a fortnight averaged across the year. The regularity of these meetings may be subject to variations according to the time of the year, and the stage you are at in your research programme. Please note that this is a minimum and your supervisors may require more frequent meetings. The MPLS Division publishes a Code of Practice for Research Supervision (https://www.mpls.ox.ac.uk/graduate-school/information-for-postgraduate-research-students/supervision). If you are co-supervised one of your Oxford supervisors will be designated by the Department as your Responsible Supervisor, this reflects certain responsibilities they have to you and the Department and not necessarily the proportion of time they devote to your supervision compared to your other supervisor(s).
2. What induction arrangements will be made?
You will have Departmental Induction at the beginning of your first term. The main induction to the Department is provided at the start of Michaelmas Term. Other arrangements will be made for students starting at other times of the year. Your supervisor(s) will arrange more specialised induction subsequently. The main set of slides from the most recent Departmental Induction event can be found at http://www.materials.ox.ac.uk/teaching/pg/pginduction.
3. What workspace will be provided?
Workspace will be related to individual circumstances. If undertaking experimental work, you will be provided with bench space, or its equivalent, in a laboratory and, where possible, with shared office space. If undertaking theory or computational modelling research, you will have shared office space.
4. What IT support/ library facilities/ experimental facilities will be available?
You will have access to the Department of Materials IT Support Team, the Joint Materials and Engineering Student Workshop (after completing workshop induction), the Department of Materials Library (in addition to the University Science Library (RSL) and other University libraries, and centrally provided electronic resources). Experimental and materials modelling facilities are available as appropriate to your research topic. The provision of other resources specific to your project should be agreed with your supervisor as a part of the planning stages of the agreed project. Details of the facilities mentioned above and others are given in the Department Handbook (http://www.materials.ox.ac.uk/local/DH.html) and at http://www-omcs.materials.ox.ac.uk. Library resources for Materials Science are outlined at https://libguides.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/materials. Your college has a library too.
5. Which research seminars will be available?
You will have access to Departmental Seminars and Colloquia in the Department of Materials, and many of those offered by other departments too. You will also have access to the additional seminars that individual research groups or groups with common areas of interest organise for their own members and others. See http://www.materials.ox.ac.uk/news/colloquia.html.
6. What access to research funds will be available?
You will find that limited Department funds are available to assist with attendance at conferences, in addition to any allocated funds via individual research groups/supervisors.
In the Department of Materials it is the responsibility of individual research groups to provide appropriate desktop or laptop computing facilities. They are allocated a budget for this purpose. Your supervisor will have a small budget to cover both day-to-day consumables used in your project and other minor costs.
7. What formal graduate skills training will be provided?
As appropriate to the different stages of your graduate career, you will have the opportunity to attend a variety of skills training sessions and specific research training offered by the Department, as described in the Department's 'Graduate Course Handbook' and 'Postgraduate Lecture & Training Course Synopses and Research Colloquia Details' booklet (https://www.materials.ox.ac.uk/teaching/pg/pghandbooks.html). The slides from many of the generic skills training workshops are available at http://www.materials.ox.ac.uk/teaching/pg/pgskills, although these cannot fully substitute for engaging in discussion & group exercises at the live workshops.
The MPLS Division also organises courses and career planning events. Information about Divisional training and other courses offered across the University is available at https://www.mpls.ox.ac.uk/training. This site provides information about academic courses, research-specific skills training, and transferable careers skills development for research students and research staff at Oxford University, and includes a searchable database of all courses, links to articles on subjects such as project management, teaching and career planning, and a skills blog.
8. What opportunities will be available for developing and practising teaching skills?
The Materials Department, the MPLS Division and the Oxford Centre for Teaching and Learning provide resources to support the development of research students and post-docs who aspire to follow an academic career, including training in teaching skills. Information about teaching skills training and teaching opportunities provided by the Department of Materials, including opportunities to contribute to our Outreach to Schools programme, can be found in the three sources given in (7) above and in the General Scheme of Lectures and the Termly Lecture Lists found at http://www.materials.ox.ac.uk/teaching/lecturelists.html. These teaching opportunities are NOT restricted to those who declare a wish to follow an academic career. See also https://www.mpls.ox.ac.uk/training/pgr.
9. What arrangements for accommodation, meals and social facilities, will be made, on a year round basis?
Research students can use the Parks View Cafeteria in the Holder Building and the Café at the Begbroke Science Park. The former facility is shared by all staff and students of the Departments of Materials and of Engineering Science and facilitates interaction between different research groups and with support staff. Departmental seminars, colloquia, training workshops and the annual DPhil Poster Competition bring research students together with academic and other research staff in the Department to hear about on-going research and to develop new skills and provide an opportunity for networking and socialising. In addition to many ad hoc social events that take place, the Department's graduate student-staff liaison committee (the JCCG) organises a number of social events including free coffee once a week for all graduate students and final year undergraduates, a subsidised evening social event in Michaelmas Term and a subsidised summer barbeque.
Many colleges will be able to provide you with at least one year's accommodation. Generally speaking your college will provide meals throughout the year, but provision will vary from college to college, especially during vacations, and you will need to familiarise yourself with your college's detailed arrangements. In addition there are usually self-catering facilities available in graduate accommodation. You will be a member of the Middle Common Room, or equivalent, of your college, which is the main social centre for graduates. The MCR provides a common room and usually organises a programme of social events throughout the year. The college will also provide a bar, some computing facilities and a library, and often may have dedicated funds for research (conference and field grants). It also represents the interests of its members to the college through an elected Committee or through elected representatives to College Committees. Again, details will vary from college to college. Graduates are also welcome to participate in all other social and sporting activities of the college. Please see individual college websites for further details about all aspects of college provision.
Graduate Research Students may become members of the University Club in Mansfield Road, and participate in the range of sporting activities provided by the University.
10. What arrangements are in place for pastoral and welfare support?
Within the Department, your Supervisor(s), Director of Graduate Studies, Staff of the Materials Graduate Studies Office and your Departmental Advisor are all available to offer support. Through its weekly coffee event the Joint Consultative Committee for Graduates (JCCG) provides an informal forum for discussion and guidance. The JCCG also provides a channel through which graduate students' views and concerns can be brought to the attention of the Department of Materials Academic Committee.
There is an extensive framework of support for graduates within each college. Your college will allocate to you a College Advisor from among its Senior Members, usually in a cognate subject, who normally will arrange to see you from time to time and whom you may contact for additional advice and support on academic and other matters. In college you may also approach the Tutor for Graduates and/or the Senior Tutor for advice. The Tutor for Graduates is a fellow of the college with particular responsibility for the interests and welfare of graduate students. In some colleges, the Senior Tutor will also have the role of Tutor for Graduates. Each college will also have other named individuals who can offer individual advice.
The University provides:
A professionally staffed confidential Student Counselling Service which offers assistance with personal, emotional, social and academic problems (http://www.ox.ac.uk/students/welfare/counselling)
A Careers Service (http://www.careers.ox.ac.uk/)
A Disability Advisory Service (http://www.ox.ac.uk/students/welfare/disability)
A Student Visa & Immigration Office (http://www.ox.ac.uk/students/visa)
Student-led peer support (together with the Oxford University Students Union) (http://www.ox.ac.uk/students/welfare/peer).


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Sorry you need a 1967-'70 Impala frame (your series of cars that shares parts were made from 1965-'70). 1970-'76 was the next series of cars, then the car you have (talking about the Buick) belongs to the last production run of B-body cars made from 1977 through 1999.
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A BBC is considerably bigger and is 140 pounds heavier than the small block; but it is considerably stronger than any of the other BOP engines. But because it was designed with racing in mind, or as a medium duty truck or buss engine, it was designed to run at wide open throttle all day long. This is why it doesn't doesn't make for the best fuel economy even when compared to a larger displacement Cadillac 472.
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Welcome to the site! Frames in our neck of the woods tend to be an issue. Depending on your intention for the car you may want to look into a custom frame if your looking to make major performance handling modifications. Also depends on how bad your frame is, if you want to go low budget some shops can do some custom work on your existing frame to make it solid again.