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I recently had a negative experience talking to a relative-by-marriage. I was called paranoid for my beliefs. Here’s a good comment on dealing with the non-fakeologists.
“It’s a fact, that it’s usually a miserable experience when talking to a member of 95% club and it sucks that I need a differnt set of friends to talk about manufactured reality. So I feel comforted by reading that someone else alike has similar issues and can then relate to this and such reality with more optimism. Something that is rarely seen in these days as much as the balls needed to say it out loud.” But that is the whole problem? Why is it so “miserable” to talk to the 95%? Do you have any illusion
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We do agree on many issues, but not all. I should have better explained my opinion in the first place.
The miserable part would be talking about fake events or faked reality with 95ers. I do socialize with such people and do manage to find pleasure in it and I sincerely like many of them, so don’t get me wrong there. It’s just that I lately don’t spend my precious time on chit-chat, I find it boring and it frustrates me. Why, you may ask? When I began realizing what the hell is going on around me, it was overwhelming. And it still is, I could be talking about it almost all the time, but there is only one friend I can relate to about the fakery. Realizing that makes my contact with 95ers miserable, I just can’t stomach small talk for more than 15m while so much more relevant stuff is going on. And I have little patience left for their lack of desire – to use their own heads properly. That is, to follow the logic and reason, which some refer to as “critical thinking” (I find that as exaggeration, just what is critical in thinking about the right questions? ). I know, I tried approaching many of them with discouraging results. So I don’t do it anymore unless they would bring it up themselves, which is something I’m yet awaiting to happen. Knowing them, it won’t change any time soon unless I switch my company and/or friends first, which is even less likely to happen. At the end of the day, I do care for my friends, the 95ers, and it makes me sad and miserable when I see that they can’t be a part of my hopes for a change. If and when such change for better happens, they will be lead and not leading it. There is actually nothing optimistic in that fact, but I still hope for the better to follow. For the sake of our children, I’d agree.
You then took my partial statement and asked if “that” is the whole problem. The issue is, I suppose, the miserable feeling that I described above. I don’t have any problem with it, actually, nor with anything else I wrote about. I just chimed in to confirm that the emperor is really naked. We’re discussing the apparent division, 95% vs 5%, and all related stuff, which seem to have upset you in the way Mark has put it. I don’t see it in the way you do, but I don’t have an issue with it. We perceive the essence of his post differently, which seems as the only problem of the moment ? My optimism has absolutely nothing to do it, but since you’ve brought it to this debate, I read his post as positive and I understand your stance about it as less positive than my own. But let’s not make a drama out of it, please, as anyone’s optimism is actually irrelevant to the essence.
False flag vs hoax debate is fueled with cognitive dissonance, in my opinion. It’s really hard to understand and to accept, that the PTB go that far to fake it all, full 100%. The bigger the lie gets, it becomes less and less likely the people will doubt it. I’m lately convinced it’s always about the hoax (with major wars as exceptions), why would they bother with pleasing us, the 5%? So why kill real people, when few badly done Iphone videos of vicsims can do perfectly well for 95% ? Who cares about it, actually, if we managed to deconstruct any such event as hoax, we’re already tagged as “cranks” by most of our own friends. And whom could we tell the real story, if we got it right, anyway? Not to our friends nor TV, that’s for sure, so they already have us contained. The elephant is already in the room, it just depends whether you are ready to see it.
We are pushing the truth, while the PTB are pushing exclusively lies. The method may seem the same, but it isn’t. Lies have to be continuously spread, if they’re not, the world as we know would collapse. The need to push the truth is only instant. Yes, we have been formatted and programmed for decades, so I believe that stopping the propaganda machinery is crucial. But that also means that the set of authorities and rulers is replaced. Replaced with what exactly? Can you imagine the world, where no lies are told? Hardly, but when it eventually happens, there will be no need to push anything as the people will evolve from mental slaves into something much more lovable.

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“The Turnout is a deliciously uncomfortable story, from the brutality imposed on dancers’ bodies to the uneasy dynamics of sisterly relationships and the tension when someone new intrudes on their domain.”
— Lexi Beach, The Astoria Bookshop, Astoria, NY
An Instant New York Times Bestseller
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New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Megan Abbott's exquisite and disquieting new novel, “dark and juicy and tinged with horror” (The New York Times Books Review), set against the hothouse of a family-run ballet studio.
With their long necks and matching buns and pink tights, Dara and Marie Durant have been dancers since they can remember. Growing up, they were homeschooled and trained by their glamorous mother, founder of the Durant School of Dance. After their parents' death in a tragic accident nearly a dozen years ago, the sisters began running the school together, along with Charlie, Dara's husband and once their mother's prized student.
Marie, warm and soft, teaches the younger students; Dara, with her precision, trains the older ones; and Charlie, sidelined from dancing after years of injuries, rules over the back office. Circling around one another, the three have perfected a dance, six days a week, that keeps the studio thriving. But when a suspicious accident occurs, just at the onset of the school's annual performance of The Nutcracker—a season of competition, anxiety, and exhilaration—an interloper arrives and threatens the sisters' delicate balance.
Taut and unnerving, The Turnout is Megan Abbott at the height of her game. With uncanny insight and hypnotic writing, it is a sharp and strange dissection of family ties and sexuality, femininity and power, and a tale that is both alarming and irresistible.
About the Author
Megan Abbott is the award-winning author of ten novels, including Give Me Your Hand, You Will Know Me, The Fever, Dare Me, and The End of Everything. She received her PhD in literature from New York University. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, TheWall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, The Guardian, and The Believer. She is the co-creator and executive producer of USA's adaptation of Dare Me and was a staff writer on HBO's David Simon show The Deuce. Abbott lives in New York City.
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"Pulsing with suspense." –People, "Book of the Week"
"Abbott's novels are often described as crime fiction, and, while indeed she works with mystery and suspense and draws on noir and Gothic tropes, her goal seems less to construct intricate, double-crossing plot problems than to explore the dark side of femininity....In other words, Megan Abbott is a mood." –The New York Times Book Review
“Abbott is a legend for good reason. No one combines the style of classic noir with the psyches of sophisticated men and women who are willing to do anything—anything—to succeed better than Abbott. Her latest is a dizzyingly fascinating story of a family-owned dance studio and the weight of unrequited ambition. An instant classic.” –Washington Post
“Ms. Abbott’s prose has never been more impressive than in this whirlpool of psychological suspense, shocking images, well-wrought metaphors—and one final twist that rattles like a serpent’s tail in Eden.” –Wall Street Journal
“Abbott is a master of atmosphere, and in the blood, sweat, tears, bruises, ripped toenails, broken bones, rivalries, desires, and tutu-pink dreams that fill the studio during its annual production of The Nutcracker, she creates a world of almost unbearable tension, pirouetting ever further into darkness.” –Entertainment Weekly
“[A] beautifully accomplished thriller…From the first page to the reveal at the end, a palpable sense of menace and the sympathy we feel for Dara as her world unravels make it impossible to look away.” –Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Abbott—so good at plucking the dark and twisted strands of female friendships and rivalries in books like You Will Know Me and Give Me Your Hand—fashions her unsettling new novel around a ballet academy run by three high-strung former dancers, two of them sisters." –The New York Times
“While undoubtedly one of our best crime novelists, Abbott has also always struck me as akin to an anthropologist….In The Turnout, Abbott delves into the rarified world of ballerinas, astutely noting the symbols and signals underlying the romantic image.” –The Paris Review
“Abbott casts her disquieting fictional magic as the obsessive dynamics of a self-contained family—sisters Dara and Marie, and Dara’s husband, Charlie—running a small-town, run-down ballet school, collide with the presence of a sinister newcomer.” –The Boston Globe
"Mines the creepy underside of ballet...Abbott takes her breathless reader to some very dark places, but also to beauty." –Seattle Times
“The Turnout is a page-turner, suffused with dread even when the scene being described involves doing paperwork with a contractor….If you enjoy twisty crime novels with unmistakably dark subject matter, you’ll do well to put yourself in Abbott’s capable hands for a few hundred pages. You’ll never look at a pointe shoe the same way again.” –Chicago Review of Books
"[A] taut, suspenseful novel that's anxiety provoking in the best way." –Vogue
“An excavation of the dark sides of family and femininity.” –Elle
“This is a deliciously creepy thriller about competition and family ties.” –Real Simple
“[The Turnout] is as tightly wound as a dancer’s bun.” –Good Housekeeping
“There’s no one better than Abbott at exploring issues of femininity and power struggles, and getting at the visceral heart of both. Fans of Black Swan and The Red Shoes are bound to be obsessed.” –Refinery29
“Come for the ballet references, stay for the family secrets and wild ending.” –theSkimm
“The Turnout is an intriguing crime novel about family, power, and sexuality.” –The A.V. Club
“Abbott’s prose is dazzlingly precise and her portrayal of student rivalries razor-sharp in this taut and psychologically gripping novel.” –The Guardian
“Excellent…Abbott continues her high standards in the enthralling The Turnout.” –South Florida Sun Sentinel
“With clever storytelling that slowly and deliberately unspools, Abbott tells a tale about an unconventional family that holds on to generational trauma....Like any good firework show, Abbott creates a number of small explosions until the grand finale—and you’ll never see if coming.” –Apartment Therapy
“[The Turnout] uses the world of ballet as the setting for a story of fraught familial connections and ominous acts.” –Inside Hook
“[The Turnout] will delight readers who crave her combination of psychological insight and deep engagement with discipline—here, in a family-owned ballet studio.” –Virtuoso Life
“Abbott is back full force with a story that takes place in a family-run ballet studio. If Showtime dramas have taught us anything, it’s that ballet is full of unexpected thrills and chills.” –Glitter Guide
“The Turnout unfolds like a dark fairy tale, unpacking the rigid demands of femininity. Abbott fans and suspense lovers alike won’t be disappointed with this exploration of human frailty and twisted love.” –LitHub
“At once engaging and unnerving.” –Reader’s Digest
“The Turnout is one of those slow-burning thrillers where every word and gesture carries immense weight….As both Dara and Marie make key choices, the sisters’ relationship tears apart, exposing each person for who they truly are, leaving deadly, sinister destruction in its wake.” –BookTrib
“[The Turnout] is atmospheric, suspenseful, and full of marvelously juicy behind-the-scenes details.” –BookReporter
“Gut-punching noir…Abbott is pitch-perfect at making the sisters’ complex dynamic and mix of emotions plausible and painful, while capturing the competitiveness and cruelty of children’s ballet, where every young girl wishes to be the center of attention. This look at the darker side of the dance world demonstrates why Abbott has few peers at crafting moving stories of secrets and broken lives.” –Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Abbott has a top-notch ability to reveal the dark undercurrents of women’s relationships and sexuality. Her taut, unsettling writing creates tension through the slightest actions and phrases, and keeps the pages turning. This is clever, chilling psychological suspense at its best.” –Library Journal (starred review)
“Abbott brilliantly explores the psychosexual undercurrents throbbing throughout this haunting novel, from the dancers’ pointe shoes…through even the Nutcracker itself.” –Booklist (starred review)
“The mesmerizing prose will keep you turning the pages. Abbott is a master of thinly veiled secrets often kept by women who rage underneath their delicate exteriors.” –Kirkus Reviews
"One of the most well-known and acclaimed thriller writers working today is back with a twisted tale of fraying ties at a family-run ballet studio." –BookPage
“There’s no one who captures the atmosphere of a tight-knit hothouse world, in all its feverish beauty and brutality, quite like Megan Abbott.” –Tana French, author of The Searcher
"All one needs to know about a Megan Abbott book is that it's a Megan Abbott book -- dreamy, sexy, a deep dive into a subculture that has been exhaustively researched. The Turnout is all those things and more, taking you so far into the world of a small ballet school that you feel the characters' aches and pains in your joints, your feet, and, most dangerous of all, your heart." –Laura Lippman, author of Lady in the Lake
“There is not a writer alive who is better at investigating the tension and threat of violence at the center of women’s lives than Megan Abbott. Megan goes into the heart of female spaces and finds the ugly in all that pretty, the dark in all that light, with breath-taking suspense. The Turnout has notes of James M. Cain and Alfred Hitchcock, but it’s better because it’s so fresh and unexpected, so wholly revelatory. I turned page after page, holding my breath in fear, and also excitement, about what might happen in this run-down ballet school, what blood red might be lurking behind all that pink. This is Megan Abbott working at the absolute height of her talent.” –Attica Locke, author of Bluebird, Bluebird and Heaven, My Home
“Megan Abbott is a master of atmosphere, and she captures the Durant School of Ballet—a tinderbox of promise and perfectionism, innuendo and fierce desire, of tension twisted to a breaking point—in all its merciless extravagance. The Turnout is a bewitching climb up a spiral staircase into the inner sanctum of the Durant family, a house of mirrors in which nothing is exactly what it seems. This novel pounds with blood and grips you in its teeth: Megan Abbott is unafraid as ever of the darkness that makes us human.” –Chloe Benjamin, author of The Immortalists
“Abbott creates a dark and mesmerizing world and, as always, is so brilliant at portraying women and girls and their competition and complexities....It makes Black Swan look like a children’s story.” –Harriet Tyce, author of Blood Orange

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By John Packard
Have flat rolled steel prices reached their peak? We captured mixed results in this week’s analysis of the indices followed by Steel Market Update. Platts Midwest hot rolled and cold rolled coils both shot up $12.50 per ton compared to where we had them one week ago. Steel Orbis numbers did not move. SteelBenchmarker did not provide new pricing and CRU, like SMU showed both slightly higher as well as slightly lower pricing on individual indices. All of the indices except Platts had hot rolled at $645 or $647 per ton.
FOB Points for each index:
SMU: Domestic Mill, East of the Rockies.
CRU: Midwest Mill, East of the Rockies.
SteelBenchmarker: Domestic Mill, East of the Mississippi.
SteelOrbis: Midwest Domestic Mill.
Platts: Northern Indiana Domestic Mill.
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Are you traveling a lot? Yoga is an ideal exercise for travel. You can practice it anywhere - in a hotel room, on the beach, in the woods. Do you want to maintain your yoga practice and take care of yourself even when you are not at home? Choose a yoga mat for travel and let the adventure begin. Lightweight, practical, multi-purpose, for all conditions and durable. Also for a picnic or a holiday in the park. It bends slightly like a towel. It is also useful as an extra mat over the lower mat - for greater comfort or hygiene.
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The last four games we’ve come around more to the way we want to play. It’s a long season. We have to keep working hard.
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Spiculated deeply sited right upper lobe mass
No straightforward short route for biopsy.
Prone approach traversing nearly 5cm of lung and avoiding posteriorly sited vessels.
No immediate post procedural pneumothorax or pulmonary hemorrhage.
This is an example of a deep sited CT guided lung biopsy. A large amount of lung required to be traversed to access the lesion with the additional risk of biopsy that this presents.
A good example of where time dedicated to planning approach worth the investment prior to the procedure.
1. What is the best/easiest/safest route?
Anterior approach not appealing - especially in a female with breast tissue.
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Deep route to the lesion and also the difficulties of the ribs to avoid. Positioning the patient in the lateral position also can be harder to maintain a still and stable position.
An appealing unobstructed route, but a lot of lung to traverse en route. Also some prominent vessels posteriorly close to the mass to avoid on the medial aspect.
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Curious, this looks like a really cool project, but what is the point of ROM dumping game carts? Is it simply to back-up games in case they get lost or can you use the data to port the games to other consoles (i.e. PC)?
How could I connect a MicroSD adapter?The pins don't line up right: https://imgur.com/gallery/CBlmTKX
Anyone know a good place to buy a 62 pin connector aside from ebay & aliexpress? Being in Canada Ebay is minimum $30 shipping and aliexpress takes 2 months+.I salvaged mine from another project but lost a couple pins on mine, and a few got bent out of shape.

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Located in Washington, DC, The United States National Arboretum is a garden wedding venue in the Nation's Capital. Spanning approximately 500 acres of greenspace, this destination is home to some of the country's most diverse plant species. As a research facility for the US Department of Agriculture, many types of flora are meticulously cared for and looked after on these grounds. There are several points of interest that call these sprawling acres home. The National Grove of State Trees invites couples and other visitors to be awed as they stand in the presence of the distinct varieties of trees that span America. Also on the land is the National Herb Garden, home to numerous fragrant plants. Situated amongst it all are the original columns of the United States capital, the National Columns. Couples interested in holding their wedding occasion at The United States National Arboretum can make use of specially selected event areas. These include the North Terrace, Water Garden, Meadow, and Herb Garden. Since The United States National Arboretum is partnered with MTG Hospitality, through their Foundation - Friends of the National Arboretum, events receive ample support from experts and seasoned professionals. Whatever draws couples to The United States National Arboretum, they can be sure that their special occasion will be both memorable and full of life.


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Bryan Forbes CBE (; born John Theobald Clarke; 22 July 1926 – 8 May 2013) was an English film director, screenwriter, film producer, actor and novelist, described as a "Renaissance man" and "one of the most important figures in the British film industry".
He directed the film The Stepford Wives (1975) and wrote and directed several other critically acclaimed films, including Whistle Down the Wind (1961), Séance on a Wet Afternoon (1964), and King Rat (1965). He also scripted several films directed by others, such as The League of Gentlemen (1960), The Angry Silence (1960) and Only Two Can Play (1962).Read more...
Constance Smith (7 February 1929 – 30 June 2003) was an Irish film actress, and contract player of 20th Century Fox in the 1950s.Read more...
Nanette Newman (born 29 May 1934) is an English actress and author. She appeared in nine films directed by her husband Bryan Forbes, including Séance on a Wet Afternoon (1964), The Whisperers (1967), Deadfall (1968), The Stepford Wives (1975) and International Velvet (1978) for which she won the Evening Standard Film Award for Best Actress. She was also nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for another Forbes directed film, The Raging Moon (1971).Read more...

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The patent pending, proprietary strain is being marketed as Lynside Pro GI+ and joins its Lynside range of yeast products that includes the other non-proprietary, probiotic yeast strain – Boulardii.
Lesaffre Human Care commercial and marketing director Benoît Laplaize told NutraIngredients that while the strain was from the same Saccharomyces cerevisiae family as Boulardii, it differed due its ability to reduce pain in the estimated 10 per cent of people that suffer from IBS.
Boulardii has been on-market for more than 20 years as an anti-diarrhoea aid and has been the subject of more than 40 clinical trials in this area.
Lesaffre sourced the new strain after scouring its yeast varietal bank of more than 6000 strains. Functional bakery applications and supplements are the initial point of focus.
Benoît Laplaize said the strain – registered with the French National Collection of Microorganism Cultures as CNCM-3856 – had demonstrated gut health and IBS benefits in an intervention trial of 179 people conducted in 2008.
Ingredient without science is useless
“We have worked on this product for six years,” Laplaize said. “It is difficult and complex to perform these kinds of trials because you are putting a living thing (the probiotic strain) into a living thing (the human or animal). But we are confident about this study and know that an ingredient without science is useless.”
That trial, in addition to published pre-clinical trials, forms the lynchpin of an article 13.5 proprietary and emerging science application submitted to the European Union health claims regime. The dossier proposes the claim that CNCM-3856, “Noticeably reduces digestive discomfort after four weeks of consumption”.
Two further clinical trials are expected to be completed by the end of next year.
The placebo-controlled, double-blind, randomised trial was led by Professor Pierre Desreumaux at the University of Lille in France. Along with Lesaffre, Desreumaux is also the co-founder of DigestScience (www.digestscience.com), which specialises in digestive tract research.
The trial is yet to be published but will be presented at the 18th United European Gastroenterology Week beginning October in Barcelona, Spain.
It found that among 179 volunteers with symptoms of IBS who took 500mg/day of Lynside Pro GI+ per day for eight weeks:
- Intestinal pain and discomfort were greatly relieved after four weeks (significant difference between placebo and active product)
- Favourable effects on the bowel disorders caused by IBS such as abdominal/intestinal pain and discomfort, bloating, flatulence and constipation
Laplaize noted these discomfort measures were the gold standard as approved at the Third Congress of Gastroenterologists in Rome.
He said the article 13.5 health claim had been designed to strictly represent the findings of the trial.
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|The return of Mike "Hercules" Weaver
By John J. Raspanti, Doghouse Boxing (June 21, 2013)
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“When I got serious, I won the heavyweight title”
Mike Weaver scored one of the most dramatic knockouts in heavyweight history 33-years ago. Weaver’s rise to the top of the heavyweight mountain was a difficult one, beset by hometown decisions, deception and corruption.
Born in Gatesville, TX in 1951, Weaver and his family moved to Compton, CA in the 1960s. Weaver enlisted in the U.S Marine Corps at seventeen. His duty included a stint in Vietnam.
It was during his service while in the Marines Weaver discovered boxing.
“I was in the Marine Corps in North Carolina,” said Weaver during a telephone interview a few weeks ago. “I went to a club one night. I walked over to the jukebox to play a song. This guy shoved me out of the way. I pushed him back – he swung at me and missed.
“I swung back and knocked him out. A couple days later, they came and asked me if I would be interested in joining the boxing team. They told me the guy I knocked out was the heavyweight champion of the Marine Corps.”
Deciding to give boxing a try, Weaver won titles in both the All-Marine and All-Services competitions before going on to the National Golden Gloves and AAU tournaments. He also boxed at the Pan Am Trials.
Weaver turned professional in 1972. After eight fights, his record stood at a mediocre 4-4.
Was there a reason for his slow start?
“I loved boxing, but I didn’t like to train,” Weaver said. “I didn’t take fighting seriously. I’d take fights on short and notice. I thought I could knock everybody out. As an amateur, I knocked out a lot of people. It was different in the pros.”
A year later, Weaver worked out with Muhammad Ali.
“I sparred with Ali when he was getting ready to fight Ken Norton,” Weaver recalled. “It’s something I’ll never forget. We went four rounds. I had prayed about sparring with him for years.
“He hit me and I hit him, but he was talking like crazy,” said Weaver, laughing.
Weaver’s career took off in 1975 when he reeled off eight straight victories over an assortment of undefeated prospects and established professionals.
But, in 1978, Weaver lost back-to-back to decisions to Stan Ward and Leroy Jones. The loss to Jones was for the NABF heavyweight title, vacated a few months before by George Foreman. The consensus at the time was that Weaver had been robbed.
“I won those fights,” said Weaver. “I fought Stan Ward in his hometown of Sacramento, California. The fight went 12-rounds and they gave it to him. I fought Leroy Jones in Las Vegas. He was the more known fighter. Those things happen in boxing.”
Undeterred, Weaver started another winning streak, which led to a rematch with Ward. This time he took the scoring out of the judges’ hands by starching Ward in the ninth round. The victory put him in line for a shot at the heavyweight championship.
Two factors had changed Weaver. Don Manuel was now his manger. Manuel believed in Weaver, as did former heavyweight champion Ken Norton.
“Ken Norton told me after sparring one day, “recalled Weaver. ‘He said, ‘Man, Mike, if you took fighting seriously you could really do something, but you don’t train.’
“I listened to what he said,” added Weaver.
Weaver fought Larry Holmes for the world heavyweight championship on June 6, 1979 at legendary Madison Square Garden. Promoter Don King told Weaver boxing fans didn’t know him.
“He offered me seventy five thousand dollars,” Weaver said. “A few days later he changed it to fifty thousand.
“I told him I’d take fifty dollars for the opportunity to fight Larry Holmes,” Weaver added.
Unappreciated, but filled with the desire to prove his worth, Weaver gave Holmes fits before running out of gas and being stopped in round twelve. His performance drew raves.
“I told everyone going into the fight that I might not beat Larry Holmes, but he’ll know he was in a fight,” said Weaver.
Holmes gave Weaver his due.
“Mike Weaver proved a lot of you wrong like I did two years ago,” said Holmes to the media. “He knocked the hell out of me in the first round and I still hear bells ringing. I couldn't see for the next two rounds.”
Weaver earned a second shot at the heavyweight crown nine months later. He traveled to Nashville, Tennessee to face defending champion John Tate. Through 14 rounds, Tate controlled the fight. Weaver recognized what he needed to do.
“I knew I was behind in the fight,” said Weaver. “My manager also told me I was way behind and the only way I was going to win was to knock him out.
“I told him, “Ok, I’m gonna do it.”
Weaver delivered by knocking Tate cold with 45 seconds left in the bout.
The victory stunned the vast majority of Tate fans. Weaver had entered the bout a prohibitive 2-1 underdog.
Later in 1980, Weaver ventured to North-West, South Africa, to face number one contender Gerrie Coetzee. In some respects the matchup was reminiscent of the 1938 rematch between African American heavyweight champion Joe Louis, and German born challenger Max Schmeling.
Apartheid ruled in South Africa at that time. Coetzee was called the “Great White Hope” (a title he loathed) by many South Africans.
“A lot of people, like Jessie Jackson, told me not to go over there,” said Weaver.
“I told him that there’s racism over here too. ‘I’m not a politician, I’m an athlete.
“I told him I was going to knock Coetzee out,” he added.
In a brutal fight, Weaver, behind on the scorecards after eight rounds, stopped Coetzee in the 13th round.
As gratifying as the Coetzee victory was, Weaver will always consider his victory over Tate the highlight of his career.
“Defeating Tate to win the heavyweight championship was my greatest victory,” said Weaver. “I was considered a stepping stone for Tate. He had signed a contract to fight Ali.
“Tate looked past me.”
Weaver held the heavyweight title for two years. His boxing career was a successful one, but, as in most cases, there are regrets.
“I didn’t take fighting seriously like most fighters do,” Weaver said. “I loved the ladies. “
Weaver engaged in a total of 60 fights. He doesn’t hesitate in naming the most talented fighter he ever fought.
“Oh, Larry Holmes, easily” Weaver said. “I rank him in the top five as one of the best fighters ever. He was truly great.”
Today, Mike Weaver is a happy and soulful man.
“I have a very good life,” said Weaver.
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BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 15
By Tamilla Mammadova – Trend:
Bread price may increase by 10 tetri (3.22 cents) from October in Georgia, said Malkhaz Dolidze, head of the Georgian Bread Bakers Association, Trend reports via Georgian media.
He said unfavorable forecasts regarding the supply of wheat in the rural market and the reduction of stocks in Georgia may be reflected on the bread prices in a few months.
"The price of bread consists of many components, including the cost of flour, yeast, transportation and labor costs. We do our best so that the price is not too much of a burden for the population. Currently, it's hard to say for how much the price will increase, or if it increases at all," Dolidze said.
According to him, bread price will not increase if state engages in the bead subsidy program.
"Flour produced by our mills has become more expensive, and the difference compared to the price of flour imported from Russia is 5 lari-6 lari ($1.61-1.93)," Dolidze said.
Levan Silagava, head of Georgian Wheat and Flour Production Association explained that the trends on the local market are directly related to the world market.
"According to the analysis published by the US Department of Agriculture, forecasts on crop volume are reduced in eight wheat-producing countries, including Russia. The decline amounts to 10 million tons, while we make most of wheat imports from Russia. Russia has imposed new floating tax on wheat in July and now the tax amounts to $49 per ton instead of $25. We work with suppliers, but for some time the change.
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Everything (1) has its opposite (2). So things come in pairs. But there’s a third variable. Let’s count:
1 = The thing itself
2 = Its complement
3 = Their relationship
For instance, white (1) is contrasted by black (2) and relate along a grayscale (3) gradient. Or, you as a WingChun trainee (1) have a training partner (2) with whom you share an interaction (3), perhaps in Lat Sao (Casting Arms). Also, you (the student) and your Sihing (the teacher) receive and transmit, respectively (and respectfully), WingChun (the teaching). We can call this a “qualitative” triad, the pieces of which exist simultaneously. In other words, it’s three in one, all at once.
In Self-Defense, you aren’t not alone. You need to be aware of yourself (1), your alignment, balance and coordination. But that’s not enough. Success is sporadic without reading your opponent’s (2) direction and distance (3). Actually, these factors arise only with two engaged counterparts. Direction is definable only if you know where your opponent is; distance, if you see how far.
When learning, it’s a useful strategy to flip ideas around. To understand why something is true, you can examine why its opposite is false. This dual, U-turn thinking allows you to play thoughts off each other. Watch carefully and you will catch a third product emerge. Call it reaching a higher level of insight.
Try this whenever you’re struggling with a new technique or theory. Why should you straighten your arm? Why should you keep it bent? When should you slow down? When should you speed up? What should you relax? What should you tense? Consider what makes one side unique in comparison to the other extreme, then find a balance between.
Doing this sort of independent reasoning increases your confidence and improves your creativity as applied to WingChun and otherwise.
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As the number of laid-off workers seeking unemployment benefits continues to rise during the coronavirus pandemic, many people are looking for work. WGN News has started a series called “Back to Work” in an effort to help with those looking for jobs.
Heather Livingston is a career coach with Univ. of Phoenix.
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According to Newsday, some economic stimulus rebate checks are appearing in the wrong bank accounts. Americans receiving their checks through direct deposit are getting them before those who will be receiving paper checks. And while paper checks run the risk of ending up in your neighbor's mailbox, it seems that some direct deposit payments have landed in the bank accounts of strangers.
Kevin McKeon, a spokesman for the IRS said, "We do know of instances of problems; we've heard of situations where stimulus checks have gone to the wrong people's bank accounts. We're getting a lot of calls to the toll-free number." If you've already used the Where's My Stimulus Payment tool on the IRS website and are searching for your rebate, or if you're looking for your tax refund for that matter, McKeon recommends calling the toll-free service Refund Hotline at 800-829-1954.


The platform shifted from the Missouri Valley Conference Individual Championship to the ITA Midwest Regional, but the success of Valparaiso University women’s tennis sophomore Jelena Vujanic (Elk Grove Village, Ill. / Elk Grove) remained constant on Thursday. She followed her MVC Individual Title with a pair of qualifying draw wins on the first day of competition in Ann Arbor, Mich.
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Vujanic will continue the qualifying draw by facing off with Bowling Green’s Marharita Tavpash on Friday. Singles matches will begin at 8 a.m. CT. In addition, Czerwonka and Vujanic will partake in the doubles main draw, which starts at 1 p.m. CT on Thursday. The Valpo duo’s first match will be against Thielman/Galloway of Oakland.


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2006 PS1 ‘Warm Up’ Schedule posted
“Warm Up 2006 opens with the ten-year reunion of Body & SOUL with Danny Krivit, François K. and Joe Claussell. The legendary New York-based group is known for putting on spirited – and spiritual – daytime dance parties. Other highlights from the 2006 series include The Idjut Boys, Rub-n-Tug, The Glimmers, Kudu, The Juan Maclean, DJ Loda, Carl Craig, and A Guy Called Gerald. On August 5, Warm Up will be organized by the designer agnès b. The lineup for this special program will be available on www.ps1.org….”
Full Lineup below and on their website. Tickets will be sold on ticketweb for the first time this year too….


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One of our biggest criticisms of the Google Play Store looks like being rectified in the coming weeks as Google have announced they'll be bringing Google Play credit to retail stores.
Details are sketchy as of yet about exactly what denominations the cards will be available in, but images of a $25 and $10 card have leaked, meaning the cards will definitely be coming to North America. There has been no official word thus far on a European release, but we'd imagine it's only a matter of time.
iOS App Store credit has long been available at retail stores in various amounts and it's a feature long requested by Android owners. With the portfolio of available content continuing to increase exponentially on the Google Play Store now seems like the perfect time to introduce pre-purchased credit to retail stores.

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The inspection was prompted by a high number of never events reported by the provider, the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, in the past year. Never events are serious and largely preventable incidents impacting people’s safety.
Inspectors looked only at the key questions safe and well-led. As this was a focused inspection in response to specific concerns, surgical services were not re-rated and remain requires improvement overall. Safe and responsive remain requires improvement while effective, caring and well-led remain good.
The Royal Free Hospital and Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust both remain rated requires improvement.
Jane Ray, CQC deputy director of operations in London, said:
“Following our inspection of surgical services at the Royal Free Hospital, we found people’s safety had been improved by action plans following never events but needed to go further in embedding some changes.
“For example, people’s risk of receiving surgery at the wrong site on their body had been reduced by new processes requiring an increased number of checks by staff. However, though the trust implemented many improvements following incidents, it didn’t always sustain them all.
“People were also placed at preventable risk because leaders didn’t always conduct risk assessments for never events promptly, and leaders didn’t always ensure learning from incidents was shared with all staff.
“We have shared our findings with the trust so they know where improvements must be made and where there is good practice to build on. We’ll continue to monitor the service to ensure people’s safety.”
Inspectors also found:
- The service had enough staff to keep people safe.
- Staff were highly focused on people’s individual needs. Most staff felt respected, supported, and valued, and the trust had effectively responded to incidents of poor culture where they had occurred.
- Leaders understood and ran the service well. They were approachable for staff and people using the service.
- Medical staff had not always completed mandatory training required to ensure people’s safety. This included training on supporting people with mental health needs, learning disabilities, or autism, which could reduce their quality of care.
- Staff knew how to recognise and respond to people facing risks of sepsis, but leaders did not ensure results were audited to ensure compliance and identify learning.


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In a five-page article published in 1969 in the Science journal, physicist Herch Moysés Nussenzveig denounced, before the international scientific community, the political persecution suffered by researchers in Brazil, in addition to the precarious conditions under which science was conducted in Latin America. The country was experiencing one of the darkest periods of the military dictatorship, and its scientific institutions, many of which were still incipient, suffered from a lack of funding and neglect by government officials, which led some of their best scholars to migrate abroad. At the time a professor at the University of Rochester, in the United States, Nussenzveig welcomed many of those who had to leave Brazil and organized protests that reached then President Artur da Costa e Silva. This was just one of the times the physicist publicly spoke out in defense of science.
Studying the rainbow and the “glory,” two optical phenomena he considered nature’s most beautiful, Nussenzveig was also a researcher passionate about teaching physics: he organized courses, created physics departments and laboratories at Brazilian universities, and handwrote a respected collection of textbooks still used in undergraduate courses today. He was also a member of groups that helped organize the current funding structure for national research. Nussenzveig died on Saturday, November 5th, in Rio de Janeiro, his permanent home since the early 1980s. Professor Moysés, as his pupils called him, was 90 years old and in poor health since a kidney surgery in 2020. He left behind his wife, Micheline, a chemist, whom he married during the 1962 World Cup final, as well as three children—mathematician Helena, biochemist Roberto, and physicist Paulo—and six grandchildren.
“We lost an intense light, a beacon,” wrote physicist Luiz Davidovich, an emeritus professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and former president of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (ABC), in an article published on November 6th on the ABC’s website. After being deemed subversive and expelled from the physics course at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-RJ) in 1969, Davidovich was received in Rochester by Nussenzveig, who mentored him during his doctorate. “A renowned scientist, the author of internationally acclaimed articles and books, a scholar committed to teaching science, a fearless defender of persecuted scientists, and a supporter of science, Moysés will be greatly missed in these challenging times,” added Davidovich in the article.
Nussenzveig was born in São Paulo on August 23, 1932. He was the third child of parents who arrived in Brazil in 1925, fleeing poverty and anti-Semitism in Poland. He grew up in Bom Retiro, a neighborhood in the central region of São Paulo, and received a public school education. Upon completing high school, he won a literary competition at the French Institute Alliance Française and enrolled in a year of mathematics at Sorbonne University, in Paris.
Influenced by a classmate, physicist Ernst Hamburger (1933–2016), upon his return to Brazil in 1951, he went on to study physics at the University of São Paulo (USP). “I spent a good part of my baccalaureate as an experimental physicist apprentice,” explained Nussenzveig in an interview from years ago (see Pesquisa FAPESP issue no. 173). Near the end of his program, he became interested in theoretical physics and completed his doctorate, at USP, under the mentorship of physicist Guido Beck (1903–1988), born in Reichenberg (now Liberec, in the Czech Republic), and who had collaborated with the creators of quantum mechanics.
Nussenzveig completed postdoctoral internships in the Netherlands, England, and Switzerland. In 1960, upon returning to Brazil, he settled at the Brazilian Center for Research in Physics (CBPF), in Rio de Janeiro. With the country in economic crisis, he followed Beck’s advice and went to the United States. He did a stint at New York University and another at Princeton, before being hired by Rochester. “What was supposed to be a yearlong internship extended to nearly 13 years,” recalls his son Paulo, professor at the University of São Paulo’s Institute of Physics (IFUSP) and dean of research and innovation at the university, in an article published on November 5th in the USP journal (Jornal da USP). In the United States, Nussenzveig denounced the military regime’s persecution of Brazilian researchers and helped professors who had been expelled from office.
At the invitation of physicist José Goldemberg, he returned to USP in 1975, where he created the Mathematical Physics Department within the Institute of Physics. Reluctantly, he directed the institute for four years, before being transferred to PUC-RJ, then to UFRJ, where he created and coordinated the Optical Tweezers Laboratory before retiring. Since his return to Brazil, Nussenzveig participated in important committees, such as the one that structured the Scientific and Technological Development Support Program (PADCT), led by the then Ministry of Science and Technology. He also conceived of the Associated Laboratories Program, which serves as inspiration for the Ministry’s Excellence Centers Program (Pronex), which supported the work of already consolidated groups for longer periods. He founded and coordinated an interdisciplinary program at UFRJ, which hosted lectures for the public, given by experts from Brazil and abroad. He was also dedicated to scientific dissemination.Republish


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Legal minds across the south are invited to attend a seminar aimed at enabling them to tackle challenges facing their sector, while also finding new business opportunities. The event, jointly hosted by CW Fellowes and Lloyds Banking Group, will take place on Wednesday October 9 at the Solent Hotel in Whiteley.
David Gilroy, sales and marketing director and co-founder of Conscious Solutions, a company that specialises in providing marketing solutions for legal firms, will provide the attendees with simple and effective lead generation ideas in his talk: ’10 practical marketing ideas your firm can be doing by 5pm on a Friday’.
Gilroy has a strong understanding of what is required to hit new business sales targets. Having worked with over 400 law firms in the past, he is also well-versed in the requirements and constraints that face the profession. He is a renowned speaker at legal marketing events, and often writes for PM Forum and The Internet Newsletter for Lawyers.
The second guest speaker is David Page, a senior macroeconomist from Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking (LBCM), who will be giving a talk on ‘UK Economic Update – Recovery starts to beat expectations’.
Page, who was ranked ‘Number One UK Forecaster’ in 2011 by Bloomberg, provides UK macroeconomic advice to the bank’s commercial clients, as well as those in financial institutions and major corporations.
Speaking of the event, managing director at CW Fellowes Adam Wilson said: “We have aimed the seminar at supporting the legal profession through a period of unprecedented change, by introducing it to businesses that could assist with whatever issues it is facing.”
Jennie Cartwright, professional practices relationship manager at Lloyds Banking Group, added: “We are delighted to have David Page speaking for us. He is very much in demand and manages to make economics easy to understand by relating it to things that affect us all in our day-to-day lives – be it business or home.”


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Loaded with crispy bacon and a flavoursome beef pattie, this is a quick and delicious weeknight crowd pleaser.
1 sprig rosemary, finely chopped
750g premium beef mince
1 bulb of garlic
8 rashers of streaky bacon
4 slices tasty cheddar cheese
4 sesame burger buns
1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celcius.
2. Chop the head off a garlic bulb, coat in olive oil and roast for 30 minutes. Allow to cool.
3. Using a food processor place roasted garlic and chopped rosemary and blitz into a paste. 4. In a large mixing bowl, add beef mince, paste mixture and salt and pepper, incorporating well with hands.
5. Once well combined, form the mixture into large balls packing with hands and forming patties so they don’t fall apart on the grill. 6. On a well-oiled grill, cook 4-6 minutes per side or until it reaches 71 degrees Celsius. When there are 2 minutes left to cook, place a slice of cheese on top of the pattie.
7. Grill bacon until crispy.
8. Grill bun lightly and spread aioli and ketchup on the grilled top and bottom.
9. Build burger by placing pickles on first, then pattie, add bacon then top with tomato and lettuce and bun.
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Every once in a while I am prompted by Twitter to read a book. Obviously there is an endless stream of books recommended by publishers, bloggers and readers, but sometimes a book catches my eye and the discussion on Twitter prompts me to check it out.
This is how I stumbled on the work of Gary D. Schmidt. Everyone was talking about his new book Okay for Now and when I went to check it out it seemed very much in my wheelhouse. But I thought it would be worth it to check out the prior book of which OFN is sort of a spin off. So I grabbed The Wednesday Wars from the library and started reading.
It turned out to be a great book. Just a wonderful story full of great characters, powerful emotions and quite a bit of wisdom. This is an example of what young adult writing can be – literature to my mind.
It offers a great coming of age story but also explores growing up on Long Island in the late sixties and what that era – the time, place and events that made it up – might have meant to junior high students and the adults around them.
Publishers blurb? Publishers blurb:
Meet Holling Hoodhood, a seventh-grader at Camillo Junior High, who must spend Wednesday afternoons with his teacher, Mrs. Baker, while the rest of the class has religious instruction. Mrs. Baker doesn’t like Holling—he’s sure of it. Why else would she make him read the plays of William Shakespeare outside class? But everyone has bigger things to worry about, like Vietnam. His father wants Holling and his sister to be on their best behavior: the success of his business depends on it. But how can Holling stay out of trouble when he has so much to contend with? A bully demanding cream puffs; angry rats; and a baseball hero signing autographs the very same night Holling has to appear in a play in yellow tights! As fate sneaks up on him again and again, Holling finds Motivation—the Big M—in the most unexpected places and musters up the courage to embrace his destiny, in spite of himself.
There are a number of ways this book could have gone wrong: too cheesy; the “serious” elements could have felt tacked on or interrupted the story; it could have felt like a poor attempt at returning to Leave It To Beaver; etc.
But amazingly the book avoids these pitfalls – or at least did for me – and instead comes across as a heartfelt, touching and quite funny story. For me it got two things right: the perspective of lead character and the portrayal of the times.
In many ways it is a universal story – classic coming of age – set in midst of school, town and family. Who can’t relate to this setting? But the book is about a lot more that putting up with bullies and finding your way in junior high.
Holling came across as just right: smart but not too smart for his age; awkward but with the ability to break through that awkwardness; growing up in fits and starts; very much self focused as kids that age are but with a good heart that leads him occasionally to see more. This is a character that felt authentic and made you care about him and his decisions.
Schimdt also manages to use the historical time period – Vietnam, Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr. etc. – to bring in a serious side but also to give the non-junior high characters some depth. It also reminds the reader that there are lots of serious things going on in the world and they impact even those seemingly innocent junior high kids.
Schmidt brings the times and the setting to life. The school, the town, the region and the historical period all come off as real and holistic (tied together in the way they are in “real” life).
This is a depth that isn’t always there for this age group. The adults are not just stock characters and, like Holling, are complex and layered. The book brings you back to the perspective of junior high while at the same time offering insights into relationships and community, education and literature – not to be to grandiose but what it means to be human.
Is there some nostalgia involved? Yes, perhaps, but it is the right kind of nostalgia the kind seeking after the true and beautiful; after important things that we risk losing if we don’t recognize them and hold on to them.
The Wednesday Wars is a wholesome – and I mean that as a compliment – insightful story that uses the lens of the past as a way to think about the present and future.

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Phil Tom (above) is not your typical WSOP bracelet winner.
And that’s not just because he’s a newly elected
Or that he denied Greg "FBT" Mueller his second bracelet in two years.
No, Phil Tom is one of the dad’s who bankrolled the launch of Absolute Poker back in 2003.
According to Absolute Detectives:
"AP was started by Scott Tom and a few Ivy league friends back in 2003. Phil Tom and the other fathers of these kids bankrolled the venture, and Absolute Poker was born. Phil Tom is Scott Tom’s FATHER, not his brother. The IP address that this ‘other’ account was logged in from was traced to the home cable modem of Scott Tom, CEO of Absolute poker.
scott@RivieraLtd.comis apparently the CEO, and is also the owner of account POTRIPPER. Scott Tom is also apparently the owner of the STEAMROLLER account."
Read the full Absolute Detectives "who’s who" report on Scott Tom here.
While none of this at all implicates Phil Tom in any of the
For the win, Tom banks $477,990, or just a few mil shy of what Potripper stole from people in high-stakes games.
Get full payout and results here.


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Railway Provident Fund – Rate of interest from 1st July 2020 to 30th September 2020
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA (BHARAT SARKAR)
MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS (RAIL MANTRALAYA)
No. F(E)III/2003/PF-1/1 pt. New Delhi, Dated: 29.07.2020
The General Managers/Principal Financial Advisers,
All Zonal Railways/Production Units etc.,
(As per mailing list)
State Railway Provident Fund — Rate of interest during the year 2020-21 (1st July, 2020 — 30th September, 2020).
A copy of Government of India’s Resolution No. 5(2)-B(PD)/2020 dated 13th July, 2020 issued by the Ministry of Finance (Department of Economic Affairs) prescribing interest at the rate of 7.1% (Seven point one percent) w.e.f. 18 July, 2020 to 30 September, 2020 on accumulations at the credit of the subscribers to State Railway Provident Fund, is enclosed, for information and necessary action.
(G. Priya Sudarsani)
Director, Finance (Estt.),
D.A.: as above
No. F(E)I/2003/PF-1/1pt. New Delhi, Dated: 29.07.2020
Copy to Deputy Comptroller and Auditor General of India (Railways), Room No.222, Rail Bhawan, New Delhi.
For Financial Commissioner/Railways.
(TO BE PUBLISHED IN PART I SECTION 1 OF GAZETTE OF INDIA)
Government of India
Ministry of Finance
Department of Economic Affairs
New Delhi, the 13th July, 2020
It is announced for general information that during the year 2020-2021, accumulations at the rcredit of subscribers to the General Provident Fund and other similar funds shall Carry interest at the rate of 7.1% (Seven point one percent) w.e.f. 1st July, 2020 to 30th September, 2020. This rate will be in force w.e.f. 1st July, 2020. The funds concerned are:
The General Provident Fund (Central Services).
The Contributory Provident Fund (India).
The All India Services Provident Fund.
The State Railway Provident Fund.
The General Provident Fund (Defence Services).
The Indian Ordnance Department Provident Fund.
The Indian Ordnance Factories Workmen’s Provident Fund.
The Indian Naval Dockyard Workmen’s Provident Fund.
The Defence Services Officers Provident Fund.
The Armed Forces Personnel Provident Fund.
2. Ordered that the Resolution be published in Gazette of India.
The Manager, (Technical Branch)
Government of India Press, Mayapuri, Delhi.
Copy forwarded to all Ministries/Departments of Government of India, President’s Secretariat, Vice-President’s Secretariat, Prime Minister’s Office, Lok Sabha Secretariat, Rajya Sabha Secretariat, Cabinet Secretariat, Union Public Service Commission, Supreme Court, Election Commission and NITI
Copy also forwarded to :—
Comptroller & Auditor General of India and all offices under his control.
Chairman, Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority.
Controller General of Accounts (10 copies).
Ministry of Personnel Public Grievances and Pension (Pension Unit/All India Services Division).
Financial Adviser of Ministries/Departments (6 copies).
Chief Controller of Accounts/Controller of Accounts of Ministries/Departments.
Controller General of Defence Accounts.
Finance Secretary of all State Governments and Union Territories.
Secretary to Governors/Lt. Governors of all States/Union Territories.
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A few nearby public transportation options.
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Explore how far you can travel by car, bus, bike and foot from Cottonwood at Park Central Apartments.
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The Pantone Color Institute announced that blue iris (pictured above) is their color of the year for 2008. Last year, it was chili pepper red. So get ready to get creative this year with deep calming blues. Decorate with willow ware, which is expensive if you buy it as an antique, but look around for modern reproductions. Deep beautiful blues can be found in enamel and porcelain cookware and in Asian inspired patterns. Or look ahead to the summer and think nautical.
TJ Maxâ€™s home store often has affordable willow ware plates for $4.99 or less (individual stores vary. Or check out ebay. Bidding on this willow ware vase begins at $19.99. Also look for items in colbalt blue, like this vase from Target for $9.99. The color is similar to Pantoneâ€™s blue iris. Or thispantry collection (pieces start at $12.99) from Target.


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Raymond James is looking to attract RIAs from all over the country and has established four regional director positions based on that goal.
But the two areas where Raymond James sees the biggest opportunity are the Northeast and West, Bill Van Law, president of Raymond James’ Investment Advisors Division says.
“We have the lowest concentration of advisors in those areas, but we see plenty of opportunity in the whole country,” he adds.
The St. Petersburg, Fla.-based firm now has 100 RIA firms with total assets under management of about $8 billion, Van Law said.
“The company wants to more than double the number of its affiliated RIAs over the two or three years. The company has been restructuring its advisor division over the last year, and has also been filling in gaps so that its RIA platform offers all of the same technology, trust, lending and other services that an advisor at a wirehouse would have at his or her fingertips.”


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Webster County unemployment jumps | Business
Unemployment in Webster County jumped from 6.5% in April to 8.8% in May according to the Kentucky Office of Employment and Training. That's even a half percent higher than it was in May of 2011.
Overall, unemployment rates fell in 107 Kentucky counties between May 2011 and May 2012, while 12 county rates increased and one stayed the same. Union County had one of the lowest jobless rates in the Commonwealth in May.
Woodford County recorded the lowest jobless rate in the Commonwealth at 5.3 percent. It was followed by Hancock County, 5.5 percent; Shelby County, 6.1 percent; Fayette County, 6.2 percent; Union County, 6.3 percent; Daviess and Oldham counties, 6.5 percent each; Calloway and Franklin counties, 6.6 percent each; and Ohio County, 6.7 percent.
Fulton County recorded the state’s highest unemployment rate — 19.9 percent.
Unemployment statistics are based on estimates and are compiled to measure trends rather than actually to count people working. Civilian labor force statistics include non-military workers and unemployed Kentuckians who are actively seeking work. They do not include unemployed Kentuckians who have not looked for employment within the past four weeks. The statistics in this news release are not seasonally adjusted to allow for comparisons between United States, state and county figures.
Learn more about the Office of Employment and Training at www.workforce.ky.gov.


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Style at Home with Margie 10" Sweeping Peacock Candle Holder -
Sweeping Peacock Candle Holder
This candle holder and sculpture is a modern interpretation of the peacock featuring great curves, colors and detail. This hand painted, pillar style piece showcases tones of green, blue, purple, gold, pink and bronze. Buy two of these for a paired look. This glorious peacock will be the perfect gift, or you can treat yourself and use on your dining table, buffet or coffee table. This piece will look beautiful in your bathroom. The options are endless!
From the Style at Home with Margie Collection.
Made from resin, this candle holder measures 10"H x 6"L x 5"W. Clean with a damp, clean cloth. Dry with soft, clean cloth. No assembly required. For indoor use only.
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Bell Moves From Poland to Czech Republic, Earns Eurobasket Award
Lauren Bell's first game with Lokomotiva Karlovy Vary was a 19-point, 16-rebound, six-assist effort.
Dec. 30, 2012
MALIBU, Calif. -- Recent Pepperdine alum Lauren Bell is excelling professionally in Europe, as she recently moved from Poland to the Czech Republic and earned a Eurobasket.com Player of the Week award after her first game with her new team.
Bell's first game with Lokomotiva Karlovy Vary was a 19-point, 16-rebound, six-assist effort as she led her new team to a 75-59 win over SDK Karlin in mid-December, earnng her the Player of the Week award for round 15. In her second game, she scored 12 points against VSE Praha.
She had been playing for Energa Torun in Poland, and in 10 games there she averaged 3.8 points.
Bell had an outstanding four-year career for the Waves (2009-12). She earned All-West Coast Conference honorable mention honors as a 2012 senior, and made the WCC's All-Tournament team as she helped the Waves reach the championship game in 2010. She finished 18th on Pepperdine's all-time scoring list (1,095) and was third in steals (235), seventh in games played (118), eighth in three-pointers (121) and 10th in assists (323).

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Binance US, the crypto exchange in the country, recently informed the customers that it had resolved its withdrawal issues with the US dollar after working with the banking partners. But the company still warned the customers that the relief might not last for long.
The subsidiary that claims to be independent of crypto exchange Binance informed its customers in an update on the 22nd of June that its system would be remaining fully operational, and that the withdrawal requests of the US dollar are expected to go back to their normal turnaround of five business days. On the 9th of June, the exchange went on to suspend some of the dollar deposits and then notified its customers of an incoming pause to the fiat withdrawal channels- which came in amidst its ongoing battle with the SEC.
Binance US Is Fully Operational Now
During that period, Binance US had also warned its customers that the banking partners were already preparing to pause the fiat withdrawal channels as early as the 13th of June. However, this didn’t come to pass. In a recent statement, the company did encourage its customers- any that had a failed withdrawal attempt- to resubmit their requests as the systems were completely operational now. But it went on to caution that the relief might not be permanent. The company has also encouraged its users to withdraw, use, or convert their USD to a stablecoin in order to continue crypto-to-crypto trading.
Binance US, in other news, also has had problems with its banking partners in Australia. Back in May, the prices of Bitcoin went down by 20% on the Australian branch of Binance when the local banking and payment partners completely suspended their services- which caused a rush to cash out and sell.


text: This was one of those projects that half way through I really wish I hadn’t started. After painstakingly making sure this old wooden standard lamp was painted without drips then came the task of trying to find the right sort of lampshade. I’ve never realised how limited the choice on the high street is for lampshades, and I can’t be the only one who thinks this? At one point I thought about just making my own – anyone who has any tips on this please let me know! I needed it to be big, and I didn’t realise just how big till I started trying some out. I wanted something a bit different, with a print or pattern, not too quirky but not a boring one colour shade that would blend into the background. This was to be a statement lamp, and on the practical side offer a different level of lighting in our newly decorated living room. In the end all was not lost and I found a rather fabulous drum shade by Voyage in John Lewis which compliments the Charleston Grey (Farrow & Ball) that I’ve painted the base (which I acquired for free, even better!).


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THE plight of older women in search of available, interested men became a cultural cliche of the 1980's. Now it seems that the lament of the 90's might come from younger men. Demography dictates that they will have to fight over a smaller pool of potential mates.
According to the Census Bureau, for every six single men in their 20's there are only five women in the same age group. Altogether, this leaves 2.3 million young men without a match. Actually, there might be even more of a discrepancy since some sociologists believe that the Census Bureau misses many young men, who tend to move more frequently than women.
To make matters worse, young men often find themselves competing with older men for the same women.
Though this has always been true, the deceleration of the baby boom is making the rivalry more intense. From 1957 to 1975 the number of births in the United States fell by an average of 1.7 percent a year. For men in their 20's this means fewer and fewer younger women to meet.
''Men in their 20's simply may not have many women available who are younger,'' said William Beer, deputy chairman of the sociology department at Brooklyn College. ''Older men are poaching.'' The ideal solution would be for more men to marry older women. While this is becoming more common, a 1985 survey by the National Center for Health Statistics found that the man was older than the woman in two-thirds of all marriages, with an average age difference of 5.3 years.Continue reading the main story


Vagabond elephants put spotlight on underlying issues
- The wandering herd has provided a much-needed distraction from Covid-19 restrictions, but the animals have also highlighted the squeeze being put on habitats by human activity such as the rubber industry
Elephants, like people, value their families. There is understandable curiosity about the herd of the giant animals wandering the roads of southern China’s Yunnan province, hundreds of kilometres from their nature reserve home.
The normal behaviour of lying on the ground to rest, adults encircling their young for protection when sleeping, walking in a line tail-to-trunk and entering farms to search for food are fascinating to onlookers.
In the midst of Covid-19 restrictions, the seemingly aimless trek is much-needed relief, but there are important issues that have been highlighted; the squeezing of habitats by humans, what happens when conservation efforts are too successful and that ultimately, food and a safe place in which to live trump all else.
Migration is typical behaviour for elephants, but the 15-strong herd believed to have left its forest home in Xishuangbanna prefecture in the province’s southwest in April has ventured north far beyond the usual range.
Where it is headed is a mystery and for many on social media, a matter of speculation. Efforts to turn the animals back have so far failed. Their scrawny appearance and search for food says much; they are hungry.
The encroachment of human activity on habitats, usually to grow rubber, means less of the 130 or so kilograms of roots, grass, bark and fruit that a grown adult requires each day.
Protection efforts in the region have been remarkably successful, with the endangered elephant population believed to have almost doubled to at least 300 in recent decades. Conservation of rainforests has led to taller, broad-leafed, trees and fewer shrubs and grass, reducing food sources.
All creatures need nourishment to survive, so leaving reserves and habitats for nearby corn and sugar farms and villages is inevitable. So, too, are the resulting close encounters with people that can lead to deaths of both and property and crop damage.
Balancing human activity and protection of animals has always been challenging. Control zones to limit elephant movement, regenerate vegetation in forests and capping development of the rubber industry are ideas with supporters and detractors. The vagabond herd is a distraction from the coronavirus, but has also brought to the fore underlying issues.


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Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Yuma) finally reported his Q4 2019 fundraising numbers this afternoon. They are positively shocking.
Gardner raised just more than $2 million in Q4 — or about 40% less than Democratic challenger John Hickenlooper ($2.8 million raised in Q4). Gardner’s $2,030,797 end-of-year filing includes $334,000 in committee transfers, meaning that his campaign only actually raised about $1.63 from actual contributors.
The obvious takeaway here is bad news for Gardner. In Arizona, incumbent Sen. Martha McSally DOUBLED Gardner’s Q4 fundraising. Like Gardner, McSally is running for re-election in one of the most competitive Senate races in the country in 2020. Unlike Gardner, Republican donors appear to be interested in helping McSally get re-elected. Gardner has $7.7 million cash on hand after five years in the U.S. Senate; McSally has $7.6 million in the bank and has only been in office for one year (she was selected to fill the end of John McCain’s term).
We’ll leave the last word for Gardner’s own campaign, which must be getting dizzy from so much ridiculous spin. Gardner Campaign Manager Casey Contres is calling his boss’s Q4 fundraising “historic,” which is certainly true — just not in a good way.


text: I have been watching You Tube videos for quite some time and LOVE looking at all the videos on tag swaps. I finally got up the courage to join one. This is the tag that I made for a tag swap hosted by Marie from The Pretty Paper Boutique (theprettypaperboutique.blogspot.com). The theme was "Vintage Lady" with the option of adding lace. I chose to make mine of Lena Horne who passed away not too long ago. She was an amazing actress and singer. I used the paper pack "Paris Nights" from Hobby Lobby, the Tim Holtz film strip, some lace/trim from Joann's, fibers from Creative Fiber Arts, the music clip is from Staples, I made the charm and the flower myself. It was so much fun that I did a Beach tag swap hosted by Joyce (1fotojoy on you tube). I've also signed on to do another tag swap with Marie and a mini album page swap hosted by Bona (lovelovescrap on you tube).


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My Beginner Photoshop version of the truck
Nice Photos work. Could be very cool.
I can`t wait to see it When its finished
I love that look
I’m diggin’ it!!!!
This looks super, I built a cheap version from a Chevy a year or two ago.
Can’t wait to see it when it’s done. Cool Picture.
I like it. Sits real nice. Ill be looking for up dates. You did a real nice job.Ronnie.
wow thats going to be one cool ride mate .
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