Good news for some, and maybe others . . . .

well, looks as if this guy didn’t play by the rules

https://www.chess.com/news/view/igors-rausis-58-under-investigation-of-cheating

A good series is Marshall Cavendish W.W.I series. This 12 volume set, is usually found in libraries, encyclopedia articles of the war, some written or based on people who lived during the war.

Rich in pictures, graphs, charts, illustrations, side stories of the Great War. If you cannot find what you want to read here, then it probably be a hard search for that particular subject.

Some libraries hace a duplicate set of books, letting you take a volume home. You can try the net, used book stores, good luck in getting a set, enjoy the read, thanks, Pellulo

The Money Survey

Question 1:  Would it be valuable to you if your employer offered a low cost ($5 per use), automated program that gave you instant access to earned wages before payday?

[  ] Yes [  ] No

Question 2:  Would you consider using such a program?

[  ] Yes [  ] No

Question 3:  Would you be more likely to stay with or join a company that offered such a program?

[  ] Yes [  ] No

Question 4:  How often do you have trouble paying your weekly expenses?

[  ] Never [  ] Every week [  ] About once per month [  ] Several times per year [  ] Once per year

Question 5:  Not counting your mortgage and car loan, how much debt do you have?

[  ] None [  ] Less than $1,000 [  ] $1000 - $2,500 [  ] More than $2,500 [  ] Not sure

Question 6:  Do you use your credit card to pay bills?

[  ] Yes (skip to question 8) [  ] No

Question 7:  Why have you not used your credit card to pay bills?

[  ] Don’t own a credit card
[  ] Credit card is maxed out
[  ] Credit limit is too small
[  ] Paying with a credit card is not an option
[  ] Other

Question 8:  Have you ever borrowed from the following?  Mark all that apply.

[  ] Payday lender
[  ] Auto title lender
[  ] Pawn shop
[  ] Loan shark
[  ] None
[  ] Other, please specify  ________________________________________________________________

Question 9:  If so, how many times in the past year?

[  ] 1-3 times [  ] 4-8 times [  ] 9-12 times [  ] More than 12 times

Question 10:  On average, how much do you borrow?

[  ] Less than $100 [  ] $101 - $200 [  ] $201 - $500 [  ] $501 - $1,000 [  ] More than $1,000

Question 11:  How much is too much interest on a loan?

[  ] 15% - 20% [  ] 20% - 30% [  ] 30% - 40% [  ] More than 40%

Question 12:  What would prevent you from asking your employer for access to money?  Mark all that apply.

[  ] Embarrassment.  I don’t want my boss to know I don’t have enough.
[  ] Privacy.  My finances aren’t my boss’s business.
[  ] Ethics.  Asking my employer for money is wrong.
[  ] Fear.  I don’t want to get fired.
[  ] Other, please specify.  ____________________________________________________________________________

Question 13: What is your yearly income?

[  ] $0 - $20,000 [  ] $21,000 - $35,000 [  ] $36,000 - $50,000 [  ] $50,000+

Question 14:  Are you currently employed?

[  ] No [  ] Yes If yes, please list employer name _______________________________________

Question 15:  What is your yearly household income?

[  ]$0 - $20,000 [  ]$21,000 - $35,000 [  ] $36,000 - $50,000 [  ] $51,000 - $75,000 [  ] $75,000+

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on another site people found that moving left to right designating the answers A,B,C,D etc works.  same thing for top to bottom answers, A being the top  and working your way down.

thanks a ton guys.  this history aficionado appreciates it.

ps.  if you don’t want to post the email you can pm me with it.

Cops is also hilarious, my uncle, brother and I all love it. So is Southern Fried Stings but it is obviously fake.

Hard to say. A large part was that I identified so much with one of the main characters, Larry. Not so much in his appearance, personality, or relationships with people (though one relationship he had in particular I saw as very similar to one of mine), but more in his character, his interests, his motivations, and his mannerisms. I saw a lot of myself in that (and I make that evaluation without considering it either inherently good or bad), so a lot of his experiences and choices in the book resonated with me, and made me consider my own. Additionally, the manner in which much that happened in the book was regarded by the author (who is, incidentally, the narrator), I found very appealing, and agreed with it to a substantial degree. It wasnt even that this led to an outright challenge to my previously held beliefs, just that they offered such a fresh new way of looking at things (from my perspective anyway), that I was struck with how simple and reasonable these opposing ideas seemed.

I watch Fox, CNN, BBC and ABC when I can. I figure between the four of them, I get the vast majority of the actual facts and they’ll contradict each other on their spin. Kinda like white noise filtering out the spin while the facts slip through.

Agencies I avoid like the plague:

CBS (can we say Dan Rather? Can we say 3 instances of falsified reports either purposly or because of ineptitude in their reporting ability during the elections? Can we say spin???)

I also tend to avoid NBC/MSNBC mainly because it’s owned by Microsoft and I don’t trust corporations that sell products or services to protray the news correctly.

While I have tons of reasons to distrust Spanish, French, German and Canadian news agencies, from their actual papers, I’ll refrain from specifics because I don’t have enough time to sit around scanning articles into PDF form and posting them right now. Suffice it to say, the fiction they print in their daily periodicals is humorous at best, evil at worst.

Hahaha… so true. :lol:

DUDE!

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