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Grand Theft Auto Online Heists Available Now
Today we are happy to announce that Heists are now available to play in GTA Online. The Heist update will arrive as a free download for all players on the Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation3, and the PlayStation 4. Heists will arrive for PC when the version launches on April 14.
What are Heists?
Heists are a new type of gameplay experience inside GTA Online – they are massive, multi-layered, 4-player co-operative missions that encourage players to work together and make the most of their individual strengths, and a team's level of communication and coordination can make or break each mission.
Rather than existing inside the current forms of GTA Online, they are now essentially a game within a game, designed to add another major option to the experience of GTA Online alongside Free Mode, traditional co-op jobs, competitive modes, and races. Each Heist has its own story and set of missions that have you interacting with new and returning characters from the story of GTAV.
Sometimes you will be working alone or in pairs, and sometimes as one tight unit in order to execute your objectives, and each player will have a completely different experience depending on their role in each mission. Communication is key. You'll need to be in close contact with your team and sometimes synchronize your action in order to succeed.
There are five total Heists with the first serving as a tutorial for two players.
Hosting and Joining Heists
To host a Heist in GTA Online, your character must be Rank 12 and own a high-end apartment. If you are under rank 12 or do not own a high end apartment, you can still join a Heist another player invites you to.
To join a Heist as a crew member without an invite, go to the Quick Job menu on the phone. Select "Play Heist" to quickly jump into the action.
Once you complete the prerequisites above, Lester will give you a call to set up your first Heist. Once you complete your first Setup Mission, there is a brief delay before Lester calls you for the next part of the Heist. There is a small delay between completing your first Heist and Lester's call for the next Heist as well.
To replay a Heist, simply call Lester using your in-game phone and select the "Request a Heist" option when he answers. From there, you'll be able to play any of the Heists you've previously completed. There is a cool down period after the completion of each Heist before that Heist can be replayed
Triggering a Heist
Players who are rank 12 or above and own a high-end apartment will receive a phone call from Lester.
When a player accepts Lester's call and begins the Heist they become the Heist leader and can choose to invite other players from the lobby, their friend's list, or players from the previous Heist. Players of any rank that have already completed the GTA Online tutorial up to and including Gerald's first LTS job can play Heists.
The heist leader has the responsibility of fronting the setup costs to acquire whatever equipment and additional NPC personnel needed to pull off the job – which amounts to a percentage of the final payout.
Setup Missions
Members earn money for completing each setup mission.
Heist leaders do not earn any money for completing a setup mission, though they do earn 10% more RP than other members. Leaders can assign themselves a larger portion of the take once the entire Heist is complete.
Successfully completing a setup missions drops players back into Freemode. The Heist leader can then use their phone to return to the Heist planning board and start the next job in the strand.
Adversary Modes
Heists are available for replay after completing each full strand as Heist leader. Players can do this by calling Lester and requesting a Heist. There is a short delay before you can replay the same Heist again as Leader. Heists are available for players to join as crew members without delay as long as there is a Leader with an active lobby to join. The Heist replay board becomes available at your high-end apartment once you have completed all 5 Heist finales as Leader or crew member (but you must also have reached rank 12 and visited Lester to access it).
There is also a cool-down period between the completion of each Heist and when the next one becomes available. At the same time, new Adversary modes will progressively unlock as you complete each Heist. Adversary modes are fun new asymmetrical gameplay types within GTA Online.
There are 16 new missions spread across 3 new modes:
Come Out To Play
A team of three Runners just trying to make it home, and a team of Hunters are out for blood. Runners are well-armed but limited to movement by foot, while the opposition wield free-aim shotguns and ride motorbikes or ATVs. Hunters must stay on their bikes and have access to unlimited lives, while the Runners have just one life but all their weapons available to pick off the Hunters at will.
Siege Mentality
Up to four players stand their ground, outnumbered but not outgunned as they fight to survive against up to 6 determined attackers in a location defense mode, GTA style. Attackers have unlimited lives but fight only with sawn-off shotguns. Defenders have full use of all their weapons.
The chase is on as Truckers in big rig cabs hunt down a team of Cyclists. The Cyclists' goal is simple: reach the final checkpoint without getting crushed under the wheels of the pursuing trucks. Without traditional weapons the Truckers must rely solely on their vehicles to crush the Cyclists. Meanwhile, the Cyclists must harness the maneuverability and acceleration of their bikes to evade the trucks, while keeping an eye over their shoulder. If one of the Cyclists reaches the checkpoint, the Cyclists win. If all Cyclists are terminated, the Truckers prevail.
New Daily Objectives will give you a rotating series of challenges to take on for GTA$ rewards (unlocks at rank 15). Players also earn RP for completing their daily objectives. There are three new objectives per day – complete them all to earn a cash reward. Players can stack up challenges over consecutive days and weeks to earn bonuses of up to $500,000.
Elite challenges – Each Heist Finale has its own set of Elite Challenges. These consist of multiple target criteria and can be completed multiple times.
There are also Special Heist Completion bonuses that can only be achieved once per person. For example, completing objectives under a specific time or sustaining minimal vehicle damage. Successfully completing all these targets net players additional cash at the end of the heist and can be repeated on subsequent play-throughs. (These challenges cannot be completed on easy difficulty and become void if trip-skips are used.)
Additional Challenges
Each Heist has its own Elite Challenge. Here are some examples:
First Time – Completing each Heist Finale for the first time, will net you a bonus cash reward
All In Order Challenge – Complete all Heists in order, including Setups, to receive a $1,000,000 cash bonus
Loyalty Challenge – Complete all Heists, including Setups, with the same team of players to receive an additional $1,000,000 bonus
Criminal Mastermind Challenges – rewards players $10,000,000 one-time bonus for completing all 5 Heists in order, including all setups, with the same group of players, without anyone losing a single life on hard difficulty. The one-off bonus challenges are linked to in game awards. You can monitor your award progress via the Stats > Awards tab in the Pause Menu.
As players progress through Heists, new vehicles will become available for players including the Mammoth Hydra Jet, Valkyrie Attack Helicopter, Insurgent with .50 cal mounted machine gun, and more
Additional new equipment and items will include
New outfits, masks, t-shirt, helmets
Alongside the launch of Heists come a range of changes and additions to GTA Online including:
New point animation
Ability to email other players
New Free Mode Activities
Players also have new opportunities for cash and RP rewards with new activities added to the world in Free Mode. Be on the lookout for calls from Lester, who may need help to distract the cops in a specific area while Lester's accomplices finish their criminal business. Lamar may call looking for help destroying a vehicle or two, while Trevor and Ron need occasional help picking their business rival's planes out of the sky. Along with GTA$ and RP bonuses, there are all-new Awards available for completing these challenges with style.


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Q: Type '(state: Post | undefined, action: ALL) => any' is not assignable to type 'ActionReducer' Its my first project attempt with NgRx and I am trying to get the up voting and down voting along with the language changes working.
I am getting the following error on my code:
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App.module.ts
import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';

import { AppRoutingModule } from './app-routing.module';
import { AppComponent } from './app.component';

import { StoreModule, MetaReducer } from '@ngrx/store';
import { simpleReducer } from './reducers/simple.reducer';
import { FormsModule } from '@angular/forms';

import { postReducer } from './reducers/post.reducer';

import { StoreDevtoolsModule } from '@ngrx/store-devtools';

@NgModule({
  declarations: [AppComponent],
  imports: [
    BrowserModule,
    AppRoutingModule,
    FormsModule,
    StoreModule.forRoot({
      post: postReducer,
    }),
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  providers: [],
  bootstrap: [AppComponent],
})
export class AppModule {}

post.actions.ts
import { Action } from '@ngrx/store';

export const EDIT_TEXT = '[Post] Edit';
export const UPVOTE = '[Post] Upvote';
export const DOWNVOTE = '[Post] Downvote';
export const RESET = '[Post] Reset';

export class EditText implements Action {
  readonly type = EDIT_TEXT;

  constructor(public payload: string) {}
}

export class Upvote implements Action {
  readonly type = UPVOTE;
}

export class Downvote implements Action {
  readonly type = DOWNVOTE;
}

export class Reset implements Action {
  readonly type = RESET;
}

export type ALL = Upvote | Downvote | Reset | EditText;

I tried to change the way I coded the action, rather than implementing it, but I got more errors.

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The stories of eleven Japanese Canadian teachers :...
The stories of eleven Japanese Canadian teachers : colouring racial barriers into teacher training, certification, and hiring processes in British Columbia, 1916-1942 Kubota, Haruho
This master's thesis is a historical research study that examines critical gaps in two areas of historical scholarship: the history of education and the history of Japanese Canadians. While rich histories about Japanese Canadians and of education in British Columbia exist, this thesis revisits told and retold histories to bring the stories of eleven Japanese Canadian teachers to light. In doing so, I argue that while an explicit policy preventing aspiring Japanese Canadian teachers from obtaining teaching certificates did not exist, the normalization of anti-Asian attitudes and franchise laws, ultimately led to their exclusion from the teaching profession. The widely shared historiography of Japanese Canadians suggests that an explicit ban was placed on Japanese Canadians from obtaining teaching certificates after Hide Hyodo, the only Japanese Canadian to become a teacher in British Columbia, was hired by the Richmond School Board in 1926. However, there appears to be no such explicit policy. Using historical sources such as yearbooks, newspaper articles, governmental documents, and archival materials, I located ten other Japanese Canadian women who sought the teaching profession between 1916 and 1942. Hyodo's story and the stories of ten other Japanese Canadian women who aspired to become public school teachers in British Columbia show how they navigated and responded to an education system that presented itself as colour-blind but was coloured with racial barriers. This thesis also adds to the existing history of education by bringing forward their absences as evidence of how subtle and overt racism lived in and informed the teacher training, certification, and hiring of teachers in the first half of the twentieth century. By piecing together eleven individual experiences of young Japanese Canadian women, this thesis offers new ways of understanding how racism worked and enriches our knowledge about Japanese Canadians in the pre-war years.
The stories of eleven Japanese Canadian teachers : colouring racial barriers into teacher training, certification, and hiring processes in British Columbia, 1916-1942
Kubota, Haruho
Educational Studies
Education, Faculty of; Educational Studies (EDST), Department of
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WE have a new prime minister. The vacuum left by the guillotining of Yousuf Raza Gilani will now be filled till the judicial blade comes swishing down again to decapitate his replacement.
There is consensus among the powers that matter that the country's economic and security mess needs to be sorted out and a democratic set-up, in particular one headed by an 'inept/corrupt' PPP, isn't best placed to deliver it.
So, a caretaker set-up comprising 'competent technocrats of integrity' be brought in and given time and space to tackle issues a political administration can't or won't. But even if the current parliament ceases to be, isn't it the president's prerogative to name the caretakers?
Well, recent constitutional amendments, they maintain, stipulate that the president is bound to decide in consultation with the leader of the opposition. In case of disagreement, the burden of naming the caretakers falls on the chief election commissioner.
The chief election commissioner's office itself can only be filled by the president after the prime minister's consultation with the leader of the opposition. If there is a deadlock, the current acting arrangement could continue, which means the chief justice's nominee may well hold the key to who forms the caretakers.
Even this scenario can be faulted on the ground that for it to be realised opposition PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif has to be on board. However, given his experience with the president and the PPP, wouldn't he have more faith if he feels the judiciary is calling the shots?
Yes. But will he not be worried about not being in control? After all, despite all his reservations about the PPP-led government, his party found it impossible to ask its legislators to resign in order to mount the pressure for fresh elections. They attach a certain premium to power.
So, he'd have to weigh one factor very carefully. If the deadlock on the appointment of the CEC continues, the PML-N may not only have to live with the acting CEC's set-up, it may have to address another possible scenario.
What happens if someone, perhaps the caretaker set-up itself, approaches the apex court and seeks a polls postponement on the grounds of an emergency-like situation in the country for up to a year, even more? An uncomfortable, unsavoury prospect for all major parties.
Now only constitutional experts can say whether this scenario, including all its assumption, is legally tenable even if it passes the plausibility test. One feels handicapped being unable to make sense of a murky political scene, leading to a murkier scenario.
But let me list what I can see with clarity. These are mostly issues that have fallen out of the headlines or haven't received the attention they merited. Where does one start?
What's the point of delving into issues from the past year into the security failures which allowed the US SEALs to strike deep into the heart of Pakistan with impunity, eliminate their target and also make a clean getaway?
We still don't seem to have an idea whether it was complicity at any level or merely intelligence lapses that the world's most wanted man was able to occupy a comfortable home under our very nose and live undetected for several years.
When we have most needed honest introspection and analysis of our mostly self-defeating policy of relying on zealots as a second line of defence and as a tool of attaining our national security objectives, we have silently led society slide deeper into the extremist abyss.
And I wouldn't even mention the fiasco our relations with the United States are beginning to represent because I might have to point the finger of blame at the 'senior' partner in the decision-making process. Of course, the civilian government ought to be ashamed for conceding ground.
Have we paused to consider why there is discomfort even if expressed with dignity over the recent court ruling among such champions of constitutional rule as Tariq Mahmood and Athar Minallah? Have we lent an ear to the staunch defenders of the judiciary like Munir Malik and Ali Ahmad Kurd?
When the so-called Familygate scandal broke, there was speculation that it could be the handiwork of either the military agencies angered at the vigour with which the chief justice has pursued the cases of 'missing' or a government harried by a relentless barrage of corruption cases.
But with the warrants of arrest popping up as if by magic for the PPP's favourite nominee for the prime minister's office issued by the army-staffed and dominated Anti-Narcotics Force, what should we think is happening?
And then you hear that the ANF operation is being run by a commando-brigadier who is taking extra-keen interest in pursuing elected representatives amid reports witnesses are being pursued with enthusiasm to give 'evidence'.
Finally, was the damning leaked video of those telltale breaks in that famous Dunya News interview aimed at cutting to size an aggressive media alone or was it to serve a greater purpose: remember the phone call received by Arsalan Iftikhar's accuser from one Bunny (Gilani)?
As for me, I am certain the court ruled solely on points of law. Even then all these issues bundled together will make one buy the wildest of conspiracy theories. It would be so much simpler to let the electorate vote out the PPP as it has failed to deliver on many of its promises, people's aspirations.
Unfortunately PPP is a religious cult they will win again. I am not a Jiala or supporter. I hope this is not the case and normal politics evolve based on performance etc. Look at he history, Shaheed ibne Shaheed will be campaigning for the poor.


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HomeuniversitiesUK: Government should make it easier for foreign students to remain in UK after university, concludes review
UK: Government should make it easier for foreign students to remain in UK after university, concludes review
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Ministers should relax rules on foreign students remaining in the UK, a review has recommended ( Alamy )
Ministers should relax rules on foreign students staying in the UK after they graduate from university, a government-commissioned review has recommended.
Leave to remain in the country should be extended for all overseas Masters and PhD students, who bring "clear benefits" to Britain, the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) concluded.
It also said those who come to the country to study should continue to be included in net migration figures, a recommendation that will be seen by some as vindication for Theresa May.
The prime minister has long rejected demands from university groups and some within her own party to remove overseas students from the Conservatives' net migration target of 100,000.
The MAC concluded that excluding international students from overall migration statistics, which reflect the difference between the numbers of people arriving and leaving for at least 12 months, would be "difficult technically" and would make "almost no difference" to the figures.
Education and business leaders expressed dismay about the report's recommendation.
Jane Gratton, head of business environment and skills at the British Chambers of Commerce, said firms would be "bitterly disappointed not to see support for the removal of overseas students from the immigration statistics."
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She added: "It's one thing to control migration, but quite another to use arbitrary mechanisms that deny businesses, universities and public sector employers the people they need to address immediate skills gaps."
Professor Dame Janet Beer, president of Universities UK, said: "While the report recognises the enormous contribution international students make to life in the UK, we are disappointed with its main recommendations.
"We agree that the government and the sector should continue to work together to grow the number of international students, but growth will only be possible if we have an immigration system that encourages talented international students to choose the UK."
About 750,000 foreign students come to Britain to study each year, most for short stays, according to the MAC report.
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The committee's chairman, Professor Alan Manning, said international students brought "clear benefits" to the UK.
"They support the education of domestic students, research and local economies," he said. "Graduates are an important source of skilled workers for the UK economy and boost the UK's soft power."
While the UK has a "strong position" in the market for international students, there are no grounds for complacency as competition is "intense," he warned.
Prof Manning added: "Our proposals are designed to make it easier for the sector and the government to work together to grow the number of students, and for those students to move into skilled work."
Students from the European Economic Area are subject to "light-touch" requirements, while those from the rest of the world require a visa.
In August last year the MAC was asked by the government to carry out analysis of the impact of international students on the UK's education system, economy and society.
After changes to post-study visa rules in 2012, the numbers applying for work extensions have dropped sharply from over 45,000 to around 6,000, the committee's 117-page report said.
It noted that while many international students who remain for work report similar pay levels to UK graduates, a "sizeable" group of non-EU students seem to have "surprisingly low" earnings.
The MAC said many responses to a call for evidence wanted a more generous post-study work regime.
Currently, PhD visas allow students to remain in the UK for four months after expected course completion, although they can apply to an extension scheme that permits a year of work.
Masters students also have up to four months, except those in a pilot programme allowing six months.
The MAC recommended that PhD students automatically get one year's leave to remain after finishing their courses.
It proposed an extension to six months for all Masters students, but called for a "more thorough" review of whether this is appropriate.
In a finding the committee acknowledged would disappoint the higher education sector, it did not recommend a separate post-study work visa scheme.
On the government's net migration target, which has never been met, the report said removing students "would be difficult technically and, if done correctly, would make almost no difference to the net migration figures."
May must scrap goal to reduce net migration below 100,000 a year
However, it suggested there may be an "image problem" fuelled by "repeated discussions" of students in the net migration target.
"If there is a problem with students in the net migration target, it is with the target itself rather than the inclusion of students in that target," Prof Manning said.
The committee also concluded international student numbers should remain uncapped.
Lord Green of Deddington, chairman of campaign group Migration Watch UK, suggested the report's "endorsement of the inclusion of students in the migration statistics should put this issue to bed."
"It is also right that the post-study work regime should remain carefully policed," he added.
A Home Office spokesman said: "As this report makes clear, international students play an important and positive role in our education system, economy and society.
"We are committed to ensuring we continue to attract the best international students.
"We will carefully consider the recommendations that the Migration Advisory Committee has raised in this report and will respond in due course."
The Independent's Drop the Target campaign has called for the government to scrap its 100,000 net migration target entirely.
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Beatrice Fox Auerbach: Retail Pioneer Led Iconic Family Department Store
November 25, 2020 • Great Depression and World War II 1929-1945, Beatrice Fox Auerbach, Business and Industry, Hartford, Popular Culture, Women
In a circa 1950 photograph Beatrice Fox Auerbach meets with the department heads of her store, G. Fox & Company - Connecticut Historical Society
By Amanda P. Roy
Beatrice Fox Auerbach holds an iconic position in Connecticut's history as a retailing pioneer, community activist, and lifelong philanthropist. The granddaughter of Gerson Fox, co-founder of G. Fox & Co., she made a name for herself as president of the largest privately held department store in the country—a role she held from 1938 until 1967, ending shortly after the store's sale to the May Department Store Company in 1965.
Exterior Views of G. Fox & Co., Main Street, Hartford, ca. 1880-1917 – Connecticut Historical Society
G. Fox Department Store, Main Street, Hartford, 1918. The store was designed by renowned American architect Cass Gilbert, who also designed the Woolworth Building in New York and the US Supreme Court Building in Washington, DC – Connecticut Historical Society and Connecticut History Illustrated
Her innovative approach to leadership included a willingness to provide promotions for minorities—a move that was rare in the retail world of her time and earned her recognition from the National Urban League and a certificate of lifetime membership in the NAACP in 1957. Auerbach also provided at-cost meals in the store's employee cafeteria, a forty-hour work week with two consecutive days off, sick pay, retirement packages, and private funding for employee illnesses or emergencies. Additionally, under Auerbach's instruction, the company set up a special account for employees with debts, enabling them to borrow company funds without paying interest.
The Store's Early History
Gerson Fox and his brother, Isaac, established what became G. Fox & Co. as a dry goods store in 1847. Gerson took it over the following year when his brother moved to New York. Following the original store's destruction by fire, Gerson's son Moses, then president, chose to rebuild the company's flagship store at 960 Main Street in Hartford. Construction on the new store finished in 1918 and encouraged the return of Beatrice and her husband George S. Auerbach to Connecticut from Salt Lake City, Utah.
Mrs. Auerbach began working at the department store part-time, eventually rising to full-time employment at the side of her father Moses. Moses Fox left all his shares in G. Fox to his daughter, who became president after his death in 1938.
The Auerbach Years
Beatrice Fox Auerbach with Moses Fox Club cake and chefs, 1958 – Connecticut Historical Society
Auerbach's passion for service and love for the city of Hartford made G. Fox into the primary draw for the city's downtown retail shoppers. A popular story around the capital city is that Auerbach arranged for the exits of Interstate 84 in Hartford to lead all drivers in the direction of G. Fox.
In 1939, she established the Moses Fox Club to honor employees who dedicated 25 years of service to G. Fox. This, and her general concern for workers, resulted in a loyalty for "Mrs. A." from her staff of 3,000 to 4,000. She invited employees to dine with her in the store's cafeteria on their birthdays, and during holidays Mrs. Auerbach walked the sales floor shaking hands with each member of her staff, addressing them by name.
Philanthropic Efforts
Beatrice Fox Auerbach's contributions to the growth of the retail industry in the United States came with a tireless dedication to philanthropy. A world traveler with no formal education, Auerbach devoted much of her life to the betterment of her community and the world. She made contributions to civilian relief efforts during World War II by establishing a unit of the Red Cross in the G. Fox store tasked with providing wound dressings. She also fostered competition among the sales staff by sponsoring war bond drives. Auerbach established the Service Bureau for Women's Organizations and founded the Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation, which continued her philanthropic efforts decades after her death. This philanthropy resulted in monetary contributions made to St. Francis, Mt. Sinai, and Hartford hospitals, and to subsidized programs for the Hartford Symphony and Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art.
In addition, Auerbach established a scholarship fund to encourage students to pursue degrees in business and to provide greater educational opportunities for women. She served on the Board of Trustees at the Hartford College for Women, the American School for the Deaf in West Hartford, and at Hebrew Union College, in addition to being a delegate at the White House Conference on Education in 1955.
Beatrice Fox Auerbach – Connecticut Historical Society
A decorated civic leader in Hartford, she received the Tobé Award, given to a retailer who benefits their community and retailing nationwide (1947); "Boss of the Year" from the Greater Hartford Jaycees (1952); the Distinguished Public Service Award from the State Bar Association (1962); and the Human Relations Award of the Connecticut-Western Massachusetts Region of the National Conference of Christians and Jews (1964). She also received posthumous induction into the Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame.
Recognition in other forms included honorary degrees at Trinity College, Saint Joseph College, and Wesleyan University. The School of Business Administration at the University of Hartford named "Auerbach Hall" after her, the library at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art became the Auerbach Art Library, and St. Francis Hospital even dedicated a new hospital unit in her name.
An Enduring Legacy
Following her death in 1968, one-third of her estate (totaling several million dollars) fell to the Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation for the continuation of its philanthropic work. Auerbach also left a portion of her financial resources to friends, employees, and the Koopman and Schiro Funds, which, established by her daughters, supported charitable, educational, and cultural philanthropic efforts.
In an era when many of the traditional big-city department stores struggle to remain viable or have already passed into history, Beatrice Fox Auerbach's accomplishments appear all the more remarkable. As a prominent female retail executive her model for success is still held in high regard, as is her profoundly personal style of management.
Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame. "Beatrice Fox Auerbach," 2012. Link.
Connecticut Historical Society. "Remembering G. Fox & Company," 2017. Link.
Connecticut Digital Archive. "Beatrice Fox Auerbach Collection," n.d. Link.
Connecticut Historical Society. "Finding Aid to G. Fox & Co. Employee and Other Business Records," 2017.
Connecticut Historical Society. "G. Fox & Company and the Fox Family - Collections," 2017. Link.
Connecticut Historical Society. "Guide to the Koopman Family Papers - Beatrice Fox Auerbach (1887-1968)," 2012. Link.
Hale, Virginia. A Woman in Business: The Life of Beatrice Fox Auerbach. Philadelphia, PA: XLibris Corporation, 2008.
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Olympus was the first to make a waterproof Digital Camera. I was amazed when I first went into a store to check one out and the sales associate picked it up and threw it on the floor to show me that the Waterproof Digital Camera was also Shock Proof.
The base model of Olympus Waterproof Digital Cameras. Comes in various Colors.
2nd Step in Olympus Waterproof Digital Cameras. Along with being shock proof and water proof the camera touts being freeze proof where you can use it in fourteen degree weather. Comes in various colors.
Perhaps the best looking Olympus Waterproof Camera. The camera extends the waterproof capabilities to 33 ft. Comes in various Colors.
The new line of cameras for Olympus called "Tough". They tout being crush proof up to 220 pounds. In reality, they aren't crush proof at all because you can crush them with 220 pounds which could come from someone stepping on it or it getting run over or crushed in a door, the same things that would typically crush any other camera. They have good intentions, and you can't afford to make cameras with tungsten cases so what Olympus has got is impressive for now. Another great breakthrough is the the ability to tap different sides of the camera to make it function, allowing you to keep on your gloves while operating it.
Canon's contribution to the Waterproof digital camera market is sad in terms of looks, being a bit bulky but offers close to the same specs of the Olympus Tough series.
Panasonic, maker of the tough book, brings the Lumix TS1 to the Waterproof and Shockproof Digital Camera Market. It is competitive with a 4.6x zoom, large LCD and decent durability ratings.
Pentax is offering good competition to the Waterproof Camera market with the W80. It offers high megapixels, a nice 5x zoom and also comes in lots of colors.


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Son of John and Abigail Adams, diplomat, senator, sixth President, congressman; 1767—1848.
Richard Henry Lee
Virginia revolutionary, signer of the Declaration of Independence, senator; 1732—94.
Soldier, lawyer, Virginia governor, diplomat, Secretary of State, Secretary of War, fifth President; 1758—1831.
Charles Pinckney
Soldier, delegate to the Constitutional Convention, congressman, South Carolina governor, senator; 1757—1824.
George Read
Lawyer, signer of the Declaration of Independence, senator for Delaware; 1733—98.
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Continental Army general, senator for New York; 1733—1804.
Lawyer and politician from Connecticut; signer of the Declaration of Independence; 1721—93.
Property in land and property in slaves were the engines that drove Virginia society from its earliest days, giving Jefferson and those in his class wealth, independence, and liberty — their sense of identity. It was the dividing line between those who could participate in republican society by voting and those who could not, between those who were respectable and those who were not.
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The Earl of Onslow: My Lords, that is an interesting development. Is the Minister saying that no Bills will be supported in another place until the noble Lord, Lord Burns, has reported? If he reports that a ban will cause economic distress to the countryside, is the Minister saying that the Government will pay immense attention and listen? I thought she went rather a nice long way down that line. I liked it.
Baroness Hayman: My Lords, that makes me extremely nervous. The promise that has been given of government time and assistance for the legislation does not in any way pre-judge the outcome of the inquiry. The inquiry will look into the practical aspects of different types of hunting with dogs and the impact on the rural economy, agriculture and pest control; on
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the social and cultural life of the countryside; on the management and conservation of wildlife and on animal welfare in particular areas of England and Wales. The inquiry will also consider the consequences of any ban on hunting with dogs and how any ban might be implemented. It will take evidence from all interested parties. The noble Earl, like me, will have to await the inquiry's findings before deciding what any response will be. The inquiry is independent of government, and the promise of a Bill bears no relation to the work of the inquiry. It is for Parliament to decide whether hunting is right or wrong, but I am sure that the work done by the noble Lord's committee will help every Member of Parliament to make up their minds on this important issue.
Lord Beaumont of Whitley: My Lords, it is not for Parliament to decide whether hunting is right or wrong. It is for Parliament to decide whether hunting should be made illegal. That is very different.
Baroness Hayman: My Lords, that is what Members of Parliament will do in their function as legislators. I am happy to illustrate that. How we legislate, in the best of all possible worlds, reflects how we feel on issues with regard to whether certain things are right or wrong. That applies particularly to matters on which we have a free vote, like hunting. Perhaps the dichotomy is not as great as the noble Lord suggests, but he is right to be pedantic about the language. It is for Members of Parliament to legislate, not to go into areas of personal morality. I have spoken at some length and beyond my time.
Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer: My Lords, perhaps I pre-empt the Minister, but I raised specific questions on the hill farming allowance. I should be happy if the Minister could write to me with a reply.
Baroness Hayman: Yes, my Lords. The proposed hill farming allowance scheme will be operated on data we collect now, so it should not involve any additional bureaucracy. However, I shall write to the noble Baroness on the other point.
Earl Peel: My Lords, inevitably in a debate such as this, which has been wide ranging, the number of questions posed to the noble Baroness is great. She has done a remarkable job in attempting to answer them. However, inevitably she will not be able to answer them all, and some relate to other departments. I always thought it was a tradition of this House that where questions put specifically to the Minister were not answered at the Dispatch Box, she would arrange for letters to be written to the noble Lords concerned. Can she confirm that she will do that?
We had a wide-ranging debate when we discussed the gracious Speech but, unfortunately, environment and agriculture were rolled up with education. The noble Baroness, Lady Blackstone, was answering questions on matters with which she was unable to deal. However, none of us has ever had a response to the questions we posed in that debate. Perhaps the
Government will keep to this tradition and ensure that we receive proper written responses to questions not answered at the Dispatch Box.
Baroness Hayman: My Lords, the noble Earl has saved me a minute of my speech. I was going to say that I would write to noble Lords whose points I have not been able to cover in my reply. I am sure that my noble friend Lady Blackstone equally intended to do the same. It sometimes takes rather longer than one would wish for the workings of government to grind on, particularly when it involves different departments. I am sure that points raised both in the debate on the gracious Speech and today, which neither my noble friend nor I have been able to cover, will be specifically dealt with by letter.
I am grossly out of time and I shall, therefore, end by thanking the noble Earl, Lord Ferrers, for giving me such a challenging task in winding up.
Earl Ferrers: My Lords, as the noble Baroness discovered from the noise around the Chamber as she sat down, she has done a remarkably good job with great style, understanding and charm. It has not been an easy subject to cover; it has been wide and it is impossible to try to brief oneself for every eventuality. I add my thanks and congratulations to the noble Baroness on what she has done.
I also thank all noble Lords who have taken part in the debate. One point which came out clearly is that agriculture and the countryside are in a bad state, a state of depression and anxiety. It must be addressed. The noble Baroness understands the problem and I hope that she can get her colleagues in government to present themselves in such a manner that people in the countryside believe the Government do care. I do not like to say so, but at the moment people in the countryside do not believe that the Government understand or care. I hope that they will do their best to make their understanding come over better.
I was glad that the two right reverend Prelates took part in the debate. The right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Lichfield made a sensitive and human speech, saying that he had seen the anxieties of people faced with having to get rid of their homes and businesses and sometimes not being able to provide money for their pensions. The right reverend Prelate might meet those problems more than other people.
I am also grateful to the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Durham for participating in the debate. I was sorry that he was bullied by the noble Lord, Lord Mackie of Benshie, who accused him of trying to leave early. It is true that there is a convention that one stays to the end. Equally, the noble Baroness, quite rightly, said she understood if, for various reasons, people had to leave. However, the poor right reverend Prelate is sitting here having missed his train with a task to undertake early tomorrow. It is all the fault of the Liberal Democrats.
I was glad to have the opportunity to hear three government Back-Benchers, the noble Lords, Lord Haskel, Lord Harrison and Lord Davies of
Coity. They said that they had come from the towns. That is good because the countryside encompasses not just the countryside. People in the towns participate in the countryside and it is of importance to them. It is also important that we have a contribution from them. The only point I sought to make was that, since the Government intend to undertake some substantial measures in the country, whether it be fox-hunting, fur-farming or access to the countryside, I would have thought that we would have had contributions from some noble Lords on the government Back-Benches who live in the countryside, know about these matters and would back up the noble Baroness. As it was, she was left rather bereft of such assistance, albeit supported vigorously by her urban counterparts.
I am grateful to noble Lords for having taken part in the debate. It has given us the opportunity to discuss a wide section of an important part of the countryside, and I hope that the Government will take note of what has happened. I beg leave to withdraw my Motion.
Motion for Papers, by leave, withdrawn.
Baroness Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde rose to ask Her Majesty's Government when they will take steps to end the present mandatory requirement on personal pension fund holders to purchase an annuity at the age of 75.
The noble Baroness said: My Lords, first I thank the small band of noble Lords who are to take part in this short debate tonight, particularly my noble friend the Minister. I am sure that at the end of the proceedings on the Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill my noble friend believed that he had seen the back of the issue of annuities for some time to come. I note that the noble Lord, Lord Higgins, has escaped tonight and that his place is taken by his noble friend Lord Astor of Hever. On 11th October the noble Lord, Lord Higgins, tabled an amendment to that part of the Bill concerned with stakeholder pensions. It called for the removal from the Bill of the requirement to buy an annuity related to a stakeholder pension. If noble Lords look at col. 65 of Hansard for that day, they will see that I went into the Division Lobby in opposition to that amendment.
It may assist if I make clear at the outset what my Question does not seek to do. I do not favour the abolition of the mandatory requirement to buy an annuity related to a pension; nor do I seek to increase the age at which a person is required to start taking income from a pension fund, which is 75. In the context of my Question I propose that the age be increased from 75. I did not specify an upper age, but I propose that it be 80. Therefore, at the age of 75 a person holding a pension fund would be required to start drawing down taxed income from the fund but would not be required to convert the fund into an annuity until the age of 80.
I believe that it was in the 1950s that the age was increased to 75. In those days there were far fewer people covered by pension schemes. Certainly, no one was covered by some of the schemes that we have today. Most were covered by occupational schemes, although it was a smaller number than today. Most of those pensions would have been defined benefit schemes which, by and large, would not be caught by this provision.
The Association of Insurance Brokers tells us that this year about £10 billion will mature for draw-down or conversion to annuities. There is a view in the industry that in 10 years' time that figure will have risen to £50 billion. We are talking about the investment of a substantial amount of money in a way that does not deny to the Chancellor the right to income tax from the benefits but also allows for the investment for which the person has saved all his life to give a decent return. Herein lies the core of my concerns. Interest earned from annuities has halved in the past decade and that accounts for a considerable amount of money. That is because the returns from gilts have been reduced.
I do not believe that my Question this evening in any way runs counter to or dilutes the national policy of this Government, and previous ones, to try to encourage people to save for their retirement. Having benefited from tax allowances, at the time of their retirement they should not try to manipulate the money that is available in a way that takes unfair advantage of the tax breaks that they have received.
I have looked at the situation today. I do not know what the Minister will say this evening. It may be said that there are a variety of methods and that people do not have to choose simply a fixed term annuity. For example, there is the draw-down option introduced in 1995. There is also the possibility of going for a fixed annuity whereby there is a guarantee of up to 10 years from the date of purchase. There is a joint annuity for couples. Having taken out the annuity, it ceases only at the point when both partners pass on.
It may be argued that there is flexibility. However, I suggest that there is a big price to pay for that small degree of flexibility. In the case of a variable annuity, in every case the costs are higher and the returns lower and the people whom they hit are not the wealthy. People have said that this is about helping the wealthy; it is not. The people most affected by the current situation are those on low incomes who find it difficult to accumulate pension funds of any substantial size. Of the various options to try to protect pension funds, they are the people who pay the highest charges in proportion to their schemes.
It may be argued that to take an annuity is almost like trying to win the lottery. It depends on the day when one assesses the fund that is to give a return for the rest of one's life irrespective of the health of the market. The events of the past decade in relation to gilts are not new. Those of us who have been involved in occupational pension schemes over the years have seen schemes in which the majority of funds have moved from gilts to equities. That has been a painful
process but as a result there are much healthier occupational pension schemes. However, this provision relating to annuities lags behind. Because those variable options cost more, the majority of people go for annuities only for themselves because they give the biggest return. If the individual passes on within a very short time of taking out the annuity, the consequence is that the whole fund reverts to the life company.
Pensions are complex and there are lots of anomalies, many of which cannot be resolved. Some argue that someone who smokes heavily and does not look after himself, and therefore has a shorter anticipated lifespan, under the current arrangements could take out an annuity and receive a better return than an individual who does not smoke and has looked after himself because he is assessed actuarially as having a longer life expectation. That seems crackers in anyone's book. Such anomalies are almost exaggerated by the straitjacket with regard to annuities.
I was shocked to learn that if, in a contractual annuity, the return exceeds the permitted maximum by more than 3 per cent, the Inland Revenue requires that the balance between the 3 per cent and whatever was achieved is reverted into the reserved with-profits funds of the life company. It is there to provide for under-performance. If there is no under-performance in the lifetime of the pension holder, the sum being held reverts to the life company as a windfall profit. I find that difficult to accept. That anomaly may be part of the fall-out from the requirements of the pensions legislation.
I tabled the Unstarred Question out of concern for low income people, and the increasing number who have personal pensions, as we have all been encouraged to do. The debate is not about the large funds of the wealthy. A large fund is not affected in the same way as is the present annuity system.
I support the principle of encouraging people to save for retirement. It is not a new interest; I have done so all my working life. There was a provision that if your company had an occupational scheme you were required under your contract of employment to join that scheme. I believe that the removal of that requirement was a retrograde step.
The Government have made progress in introducing stakeholder pensions. The concept is good. I am sure many people will join stakeholder pensions. However, there is a view--I support it--that without changes in the present annuity provision which allow greater flexibility, and allow the pension fundholder to be a customer in the truest sense of having choice, the take-up will not be as great as one might have expected.
I know enough about pensions to realise that every proposal for change presents a problem. There is perhaps difficulty about the funding. Nevertheless, a range of ideas should be considered. A range of ideas has been tried elsewhere. Some may choose Ireland as an example. I do not. It is too soon to use the scheme in Northern Ireland as an example. However, there are
schemes in the United States. A scheme in South Africa has been running for some years and has proved effective.


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using FluentAssertions;
using NesZord.Core;
using Xunit;

namespace NesZord.Tests.OpCodes.BEQ
{
	public class When_process_BEQ_should : When_process_opcode_should
	{
		[Fact]
		public void Y_register_value_be_equal_0x07()
		{
			// Act
			this.RunProgram();

			// Assert
			this.Cpu.Y.Value.Should().Equals(0x07);
		}

		[Fact]
		public void Set_carry_flag()
		{
			// Act
			this.RunProgram();

			// Assert
			this.Cpu.Carry.Should().BeTrue();
		}

		[Fact]
		public void Set_zero_flag()
		{
			// Act
			this.RunProgram();

			// Assert
			this.Cpu.Zero.Should().BeTrue();
		}

		protected override void RunProgram()
		{
			this.Cpu.RunProgram(new byte[]
			{
				(byte) OpCode.LDY_Immediate, 0x08,
				(byte) OpCode.DEY_Implied,
				(byte) OpCode.CPY_Immediate, 0x07,
				(byte) OpCode.BEQ_Relative, 0x03,
				(byte) OpCode.LDY_Immediate, 0xff,
				(byte) OpCode.BRK_Implied
			});
		}
	}
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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Hi Brenda: This is such a helpful Post. While I'm not fortunate to be at the stage to participate in a Critique Group, I will use these guidelines to assess my own writing. I'm looking forward to reading the others you will share!
There are online critique groups you can be a part of. ACFW has one, I know. Look for part 2 of the checklist this coming Sunday–and, absolutely use this to assess your own writing.


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Q: automating the linking of library to the llc exe Hi Linux noob here,
I wanted to link the LLC.exe with one of the shared libraries , the thing what I do is in order to make the llc -c to work I have to link them like these

PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/noob/bin"
LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/opt/noob/lib"
export PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH

If I give these commands it works , Now I want to automate this so I wrote a this in a .sh (bash script ) file and called it in rc.local file but it does-not work, also I tried to put the above lines in the rc.local still it "llc" doesnt work. Please tell me what I am doing wrong.
I tried giving

echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/noob/bin

is the output
But when I give

echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH

It gives me nothing. I just want to execute this lines on startup. The huddle is I dont want to edit anything  in /etc/ directory. PLEASE HELP ME !!

A: The first snippet shows that you setting the PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variables.  PATH is used by the shell to binaries, and LD_LIBRARY_PATH to find libraries when you execute a program.  None of those commands are linking anything.
$echo PATH will try to deference the echo variable.  If that $ is your prompt then it will print "PATH" not the value of the PATH variable.
This is how you echo variables:
echo $PATH
echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH


This is your chance to show off your puzzle solving skills! Shape Solve 2 is the perfect game to keep you occupied. See if you can put the puzzle pieces together in this game by folding colorful pieces into simple shapes. It's a real brain-bender! The quicker you can do it, the more points you will earn.
You must stop a mad man from capturing the Golden Cog, which can fuel any machine powered by steam!


The video for Kubona is a world within a world, created by Chris Saunders and Cool Your Jets. It's a representation of timelessness and the perpetual imagination. Okzharp and Manthe are digitised into 80's style block graphics and digital Manthe sings and dances, the world around her reacting to the lyrics.


Three co-creators of the MIT-incubated Julia programming language are the recipients of the 2019 James H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software.
With origins in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and the Department of Mathematics, Julia is a programming language created in 2009 by Jeff Bezanson PhD '15, former MIT Julia Lab researchers Stefan Karpinski, and Viral B. Shah, and professor of mathematics Alan Edelman.
The prize returns to MIT since 1999, when Matteo Frigo PhD '99 and now-professor of mathematics Steven Johnson '95, PhD '01 received the award for the Fastest Fourier Transform in the West. The Wilkinson Prize is awarded every four years to the authors of an outstanding piece of numerical software, and is intended to recognize innovative software in scientific computing and to encourage researchers in the earlier stages of their career.
The award will be presented at the 2019 Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Computational Science and Engineering conference (CSE19) in Spokane, Washington. Feb. 25-Mar 1, 2019.


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Rabskatran starts to look a little dopey.
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Rabskatran says "So, you will never say greetings to me! ;-)"
GreenGoblin springs into being and rushes at Myrielle.
A glimmering shield appears in front of Rabskatran.
Myrielle says "Not if you go on like this, no. :)"
Myrielle's Paralysis spell takes hold of RedGoblin.
Myrielle's Paralysis spell takes hold of Rabskatran.
Myrielle's attempts to be charming.
RedGoblin looks in scorn at Myrielle trying to take charge.
Rabskatran's Left Hand is paralyzed!
Luckily, Rabskatran intended to repeat the gesture anyhow!
A Magic Missile zaps across the circle towards Myrielle!
A Magic Missile thunks into the glimmering shield protecting Myrielle.
RedGoblin is deflected by Myrielle's glimmering shield.
Rabskatran says "a paralyze S becomes D"
you for a rematch, you have an interesting style. :)"
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Myrielle starts to look a little dopey.
Suddenly Myrielle seems back to normal again!
paralysis), and have no access to a webbrowser currently."
RedGoblin starts to look a bit better!
A Magic Missile zaps across the circle towards RedGoblin!
There is a thunk as a Magic Missile hits RedGoblin.
Rabskatran says "With paralyze, C->F, S->D, W->P other rest inchanged.
I never use paralyze either..."
Myrielle says "You are most unfair in your ways."
A Fireball leaps across the circle towards PinkGoblin!
PinkGoblin is deflected by Myrielle's glimmering shield.
RedGoblin is deflected by Myrielle's hazy glow.
Rabskatran starts to look blurry around the edges!
Rabskatran says "No problem about that!"
Rabskatran gets a gesture all mixed up!
BlueGoblin springs into being and rushes at Rabskatran.
Myrielle sets BlueGoblin onto RedGoblin.
Rabskatran says "See you! :-)"
Myrielle says "Ach, I should stop submitting turns when dead tired.
Rabskatran calls forth an Ice Storm!
Rabskatran freezes in the howling Ice Storm.
Myrielle freezes in the howling Ice Storm.
BlueGoblin wanders around looking for someone called RedGoblin.
Myrielle holds up both hands in surrender!


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Seasons 1935 to 1939
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West again struggled during the 1935 season. In First Grade West won 9 games and had 1 draw to again miss out on the semi finals. Reserve Grade had 6 wins and a draw to finish in the lower half of the competition. In First Grade Minor Premiers Central were defeated 14 - 4 by North in the Grand Final. But 1935 was an interesting year for West. The New Lambton Oval grandstand was opened in May 1935, grand old player "Nugget" Nash passed away, No 1 supporter "Ubber" Johnson was at his vocal best, West defeated the previously undefeated Muswellbrook 13 - 12 in an end of year game and legend, Tommy Grahame, played his first game for West on 1 June 1935. West enjoyed success in the Suburban League competition to win the Les Higgs Cup, and West Under 20's and Under 16's won their competitions. What would 1936 bring? Semi Finals - well, no, but a Challis Cup win. However, that's next week's story
1 - 25 April
7 all draw
Won 29 - 14
Lost 16 - 9
4 - 11 May
Kurri
Lost 17 - 16
7 - 1 June
Won 13 - 6
Won 18 -11
16 - 10 August
Won 41 -8
Grand Final - 5 October
North 11 defeated Central 4
Sorry that the point scores for the 1936 season are not available, but the 1936 season saw West miss out on the semi finals in both First Grade and Reserve Grade. However, West were successful in the 1937 Challis Cup Knockout competition when the defeated South Newcastle 10 - 7 in the final. The West team was C Hincks, C Kentish, A Middlemas, J Whiley, R Welshman, E Clarke (2 tries), B Mood (2 goals), M Bailey, G Hughes, A price, L Owens, G Dean and R Johnson. West again had success in the Juniors. In the Under 18's Minor Premiers West were defeated by Central 8 - 0 in the Final, but in the Grand Final they had a convincing win against the same team. The Under 20's won the Presidents Cup. West Juniors at this time nurtured some great future West names like Ossie Screen, Jack Bell, Arthur Kentish and Keith Froome. What would the 1937 season bring? - well a grade finalist for sure.....but which grade?
In 1937 West made the semi finals in Reserve Grade, but were defeated in the Preliminary Final 10 - 7 by North Newcastle. In First Grade West finished 5th on 16 points, but 8 points adrift of the 4th semi finalist Kurri. Cessnock were Minor Premiers, but were beaten in the Grand Final by 3rd placed Central 22 - 7. Major Premiers Central won and kept the Mullalley Shield, because they were the first club to win the shield on 3 occasions (1928, 1930 and 1937). The West Reserve Grade team that was beaten in the final was E Clarke, G Young, W Hawke, J Bell, C Kentish, A Hall, G Watt, W Harding, G McIntosh, E Ashcroft, B Austin, A Kentish and R Johnson with the reserves being A Payne, M Peattie and B Blunden. Special mention must be made of West First Grade half back, Tom Grahame. Although he missed out on the touring Kangaroos squad, Tom was sought by the Huddersfield Club in England, and he left for England on the "Moldavia" on 13 November 1937. At Huddersfield he teamed up with Stan Pepperall and provided the best halves combination in England before war service ended their partnership. Graham was simply a brilliant footballer - many argue that he one of the best players not to represent Australia, but certainly he was the best half back in England during his time at Huddersfield. (Pictured above is the 1938 Huddersfield 7 a side team, with Tom Grahame 2nd from the left in the bottom row - click on the photo to enlarge) What would the 1938 season bring? - well West finished equal 4th in First Grade, but did they win the play off? Well that's next week's story.
Lost 17 -11
10 - 5 June
Won 8 - 7
18 - 7 August
Grand Final - 11 September
Central 22 def Cessnock 7
West finished equal 4th in the First Grade competition in 1938, but were beaten 11 - 8 by Cessnock in the play off for 4th. The West team on the day was O Screen (1 try, 1 goal), C Hincks, R Prigg, J Bell, R Welshman, E Clarke, J Whiley (1 try), G Hughes, J Rodgers, G McNamara, A Ravelli, A Kentish and B Austin. Some interesting facts from the 1938 season - On 13 August Cessnock defeated Maitland by a record score of 103 - 11, North were Club Champions and North won the Grand Final with a 20 - 4 win over Waratah. West made the final of the 7 a side competition only to be defeated 23 - 12 by Central. In Reserve Grade West finished 3rd but were eliminated 3 - 2 in the semi final by East. The West team was A Price, J Ernst, R Prigg, W Harding, A Hall ( 1 goal), T Adams, A Payne, T Richardson, G McIntosh, L England, E Ashcroft, F England and N Spruce. West Under 18's won the competition, and the Under 20's took the Patrons Cup for the third time. 1938 was the year in which Lambton Council and New Lambton Council ceased, and Newcastle Council came into being. The thought was that the Newcastle Council would not look after the grounds - however this was not the case, and New Lambton Oval (now Harker Oval) flourished. What would the 1939 season bring? - Well West got into the First Grade decider - how good was that. How did it happen? Well that's next week's story.
North 20 def Waratah 4
Point Score
Waratah 27 North 27 Central 26 West 25 Cessnock 25
East 20 Morpeth 11 Kurri 8 South 7 Maitland 0
A drawn game against North in Round 17 enabled West to finish 3rd in the 1939 competition. West then defeated North 13 - 5 in the semi final and thus progressed to the Grand Final. Alas, West's first Grand Final win since 1922 was not to be, with Central running out winners 34 - 5. The West team on Grand Final Day was O Screen (goal), C Hincks, V Crombie, R Prigg, W Ilies, C Maxwell, K Froome, R Welsman, G McNamara (try), W Harding, E Pratt, A Kentish and C Morgan. In Reserve Grade West had just the 5 wins to finish 3rd from the bottom in the competition. However the First Grade Grand Final was not all "roses" for the West team. Central were a powerful team containing stars like Wally Prigg, Ernie Dunlop, Toby Kerr, Robbie Firth, Merv Denton, Hugh Marjoribanks and Harry Gibb. To put it simply they were too physical for West - others would say they were over physical. West finished the game with 10 men with Bill Iles, Vic Crombie and Ron Prigg all taken from the field. Left with 10 men against 13, West "hung on" but they were outscored heavily on the day. There were some good performances for West during the year - none better than Ossie Screen and George McNamara who were selected to play for Country Firsts against City Firsts.West schoolboys Don Hardy and Bertie Mood were selected to play for NSW against Queensland. Others to shine in Grade were Keith Froome and Dick Welshman. West lost a great servant in 1939 when timekeeper Mr E Clarke Snr passed away after serving many years as the official timekeeper.What would the 1940 season bring? - could West go one better? Well that's next week's story.
Lost 39 -7
17 all draw
Semi Final 26 August
West 13 def North 5
Grand Final - 2 September
Central 34 def West 5
Central 32 Kurri 23 West 23 North 22
Cessnock 22 East 22 South 14 Maitland 14
Waratah 8 Morpeth 0


Bethany & Tim were married in downtown Portland, Oregon a little over a year ago. As Bethany (or Bethy, as I call her) is my best friend...I will confess that we spent many wine filled nights watching bizarre alien movies and showing each other our wedding color schemes and desired dress silouettes. This, of course, all before either of us had anyone to marry! That's just a girl night for ya!
My ideas changed and changed...and then changed again. Bethany however, always knew exactly what she wanted. A warm tone wedding full of golden hues and honey coated colors that would make any evening extra lovely.
Each bridesmaid had a unique color of dress made from a vintage flavored fabric in an equally flattering "pencil" cut. The way the colors came together were beautiful. Every last detail was beautifully captured by Lavenda Memory. That's me (right) trying to secure Bethany into her dress...I had to recruit help from Becca (the bride's sister, left)...lacing up a wedding gown is hard work!
This is one of my favorite pictures from the entire evening...Elsie the ever charming flower girl! Elsie's mother, Shari Rainka of Tilia Design is responsible for the beautiful bridal bouquet above.
Getting married in the heart of the Pearl District (a hip, industrial portion of Portland) was a little different then Bethany had originally imagined. "I always thought I'd get married in a barn!" she said. However, the sophisticated back drop of the city made for the perfect addition to the warm colors.
Invitations were a bit of a team effort, as I designed a Save the Date and Beth arranged for it to be printed. She and Tim wanted to give their guests a "park" like feeling by adding trees, twinkle lights and street lamps to the ceremony. Naturally, for the Save the Dates we wanted to create that look.
I also had the honor to design a simple birch tree drawing to appear on the actual invitations. Bethany added the text herself, then sent my drawing along to another talented designer to construck a beautiful envelope and assembly suite.
Again touching on the "park mood" I described above, Bethany and Tim's ceremony was perfectly illuminated by the street lamps and lanterns that lined the aisle. It really did feel like a warm walk in the park, which was nice considering we were smack dab in the middle of a chilly February evening!
One of the highlights of the reception was the super fun photobooth set up by Lavenda Weddings (the amazing photographer for the evening). Guests had a great time hamming it up for the camera...especially the kiddos!
One of the funnier moments of the evening...the barbie doll couples challenge game!


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Тибетская коммунистическая партия (, ) — коммунистическая партия, существовавшая нелегально в Тибете в 1940-е годы.

История
Партия основана Пхунцоком Вангьялом и Нгаваном Кесаном в 1940-е годы в Каме на базе Тибетской демократической лиги молодёжи, созданной тибетскими студентами в Нанкине.
Одной из своих задач партия видела в объединении всех тибетцев У-Цанга, Кама, Амдо. Попытки Вангьяла заинтересовать кабинет министров Тибета в содействии вооружённой борьбе в Каме окончились провалом. Стратегия партии в течение 1940-х годов была двоякой: привлечение прогрессивных элементов среди студентов и аристократии Тибета к программе модернизации и демократических реформ, а также поддержка партизанской борьбы за свержение правительства Лю Вэньхуэя в Каме.

Партия обращалась в посольство Советского Союза с просьбой поддержки в предстоящем социалистическом восстании в У-Цанге и Каме. Позднее Вангьял выходил на связь с представителями Коммунистической партии Китая и Коммунистической партии Индии. Коммунисты Тибета готовились вести партизанскую войну против армии Гоминьдана.

Весной 1949 года тибетские коммунисты, ободрённые активизацией деятельности китайских и бирманских коммунистов в прилегающих районах, также активизировали свою деятельность. В ответ на это Вангьял и его товарищи были изгнаны из Лхасы по требованию тибетского правительства. Через Индию тибетские коммунисты добрались в августе 1949 года до Западной Юньнани. Однако местный красный командир, Цюй Гэнь из народности бай,  потребовал, чтобы тибетцы влили свою партию в КПК в качестве условия для совместной партизанской деятельности.

В 1949 Тибетская коммунистическая партия вошла в состав Коммунистической партии Китая.

Примечания

Политические партии по алфавиту
Тибет
История Тибета
Политика в Тибете

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As the Windows 7 End-of-cycle nears Microsoft are thinking about launching a campaign that gives paid extended support to users. Microsoft will stop supporting Windows from January 14th 2020 with the company planning to provide paid plans for extended support.
Microsoft's Windows 7 still has a considerable share in the Operating System market. There are still a large amount of business customers who are using the older version of the operating system. Migrating from older versions of the Windows Operating System is a slow process for large companies to implement.
Windows 7 Extended Security Updates will be sold on per-license basis with the price of support increasing each year. The ESUs will be available to all the customers who are using Windows 7 Professional or Enterprise subscriptions. Microsoft are also planning to start volume-licensing agreements with Windows Software Assurance. Windows 7 ESU will be supported till 2023.
How is Microsoft planning to support Windows 7 customers?
Users of Windows 7 will need to accept Custom Support Agreements which are only enabled for Enterprise Customers whom will continue to receive security updates when the product is no longer officially supported.
The extended upgrades will only be available to customers with deep pockets and who also participate in active premier support agreements. There is also a specific engineering team allocated for these customers that FastTrack the ticket process and have a Microsoft engineer ready to fix any individual issues.
Microsoft are also planning to extend the Windows Analytics Service and integrate with the ConfigMgr to create a new service called Desktop Analytics which will help customers to check the readiness of the Windows Office clients.


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A Temporada da Euroliga de 2020–21 foi a 21ª temporada da era moderna da Euroliga e 11ª com patrocínio da empresa aérea Turkish Airlines. A competição sucedeu a Copa dos Campeões Europeus da FIBA , perfazendo desta forma a 64ª edição continental. O Final Four da temporada será disputado na Lanxess Arena em Colônia, Alemanha, que já deveria ter sido a sede do Final Four em 2020. A temporada anterior foi interrompida e desta forma o torneio foi cancelado em virtude da Pandemia Global de COVID-19.

Equipes participantes

Temporada Regular

Classificação Fase Regular

Playoffs

Quartas de final

Semifinal

Decisão de terceiro colocado

Final

Premiação

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MVP por mês

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Thomas F. Madden,
St. Louis University,
St. Louis, MODavid Raybin,
Eastern Illinois University,
Charleston, IL Adam Potkay,
College of William & Mary,
Williamsburg, VA Donald Sutherland,
College Park, MDMichael C. Drout,
Wheaton, MA
David Drummond,
Royal College of Music,
Herbert Hoffman,
Doemens Academy
Timothy B. Shutt,
Gambier, OH
Paul Remfry,
Author & Historian
Nefyn, Wales
R. Cater Hailey,
Ronnie Berri,
Edinburgh, Scotland Aurzelle da Silva,
Donald M.G. Sutherland
Professor of History
Donald M.G. Sutherland received his PhD in French History from the University of London in 1974. He has made his professional life's work the study of the French Revolution. His first monograph, The Chouans: The Social Origins of Popular Counterrevolution in Upper Brittany, 1770-96 (1982), earned Honorable Mention in the Wallace K. Ferguson Prize competition of 1981-82 awarded by the Canadian Historical Association. It has been translated into French. His second monograph, France, 1789-1815: Revolution and Counterrevolution, vol. 1 of Douglas Johnson (ed.) The Fontana History of Modern France (1985) has been translated into French, Dutch, and Italian. A new version appeared in 2003. Professor Sutherland has also published twenty-seven articles, two of which won the Koren prize (1975, 1985), awarded by the Society for French Historical Studies for the best article in French history by an American or Canadian. He has given papers to scholarly conferences around the world, has been an editor of French Historical Studies, reviews manuscripts and books for leading journals and scholarly presses, and has made a number of TV and radio appearances where he was interviewed about his work. Sutherland has also published two audio courses in the Modern Scholar Series for Recorded Books, Liberty and Its Price: Understanding the French Revolution and Napoleon and the French Empire. In 2002, the French government made him a Chevalier des palmes académiques for his contributions to French culture. He has also received awards from the National Council of Jewish Women, the Canada Council, the SSHRC, and the General Research Board, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He has just completed a manuscript entitled Lynching, Law, and Justice: Murder in Aubagne. Finally,Historical Refelctions/Réflexions historiques (2003) published the papers of a major conference he organized on violence and the French Revolution at College Park in October 2001
Donald Sutherland leads the following sojourns:
Napoleon and the Battle of Waterloo


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Twilight Needs A Reboot On One Condition, According To Kellan Lutz
By Sarah El-Mahmoud
(Image credit: (Summit Entertainment))
Hold on tight, spider monkey, because we are soon approaching the ten-year anniversary since the first Twilight movie premiered in theaters. The adaptation of the first entry in the best-selling YA series took teenagers of the time by storm as it followed the forbidden romance between an awkward high-schooler Bella and a sparkly over-100-year-old vampire, played by Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson. In a nostalgia-hungry film industry, remakes and reboots are being greenlit right and left and rumors of one for Twilight certainly hasn't been left out of the conversation. I spoke with Kellan Lutz, who played Emmett, about his thoughts on the possibility. Here's what he said to CinemaBlend:
Definitely for the first movie, I think Twilight has the lowest budget out of all of them from New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn, and I can only imagine what Catherine [Hardwicke] would do if she had a $59 million budget compared to ($37 million budget of the first.) So, I think they could remake the first one, but I don't think they could remake or should remake the franchise until there is some new technological advancement. I think the CGI was already top notch in the movies.
Twilight was an explosive success when it opened a decade ago, biting its teeth into $400 million worth of worldwide box office earnings. The film set off an entire franchise of five movies starring a young cast of breakout stars. Kellan Lutz played Edward Cullen's brawny and goofy "brother," Emmett, who just had a few lines in the first Twilight before his part grew as the franchise did.
Per Kellan Lutz's comments, going on another five-year journey with Bella and the Cullen clan so soon does seem a bit... soon. While he doesn't think a whole new Twilight movie series should happen, he wouldn't mind seeing the first one remade with the same budget the rest of the films had to work with where audiences were able to see the vampires really show off their powers, and give way to the campy and cheesy feel the first one had to it.
Before the franchise found its success, the first Twilight was a risk for Summit Entertainment, which saw a string of flops before the movie put the company on the map. Director Catherine Hardwicke recently told CinemaBlend that the original script strayed quite far from the source material. Today if she was to make the film, she echoed Kellan Lutz's opinion of adding more cool CGI effects and stunts that wasn't possible on the lower budget she had.
The only other reason for Twilight to see a reboot would be if it was reimagined for today's audience that is witnessing more strong female leads and diverse casting choices. That would, however, deviate from the source material, which could alienate its huge fanbase and author Stephanie Meyer.
The Twilight franchise was truly a pop culture phenomenon of the time that can still comfortably in the last decade as a success without Hollywood bloodsucking it too thin. The first Twilight is now available on 4K Ultra HD.
Sarah El-Mahmoud
YA genre tribute. Horror May Queen. Word webslinger. All her writing should be read in Sarah Connor's Terminator 2 voice over.
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