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While Jack White is one of the best guitarists and musicians to come along in a long time (at least in my opinion), not everyone has the same opinion. Yes, there are Jack White haters out there, but I think it's simply because they don't understand much of his music. At first glance, some of it may sound weird or strange, but once you understand Jack White and the way his mind works, his music blossoms right before your eyes. The same songs now make sense and you can definitely hear the mastery in his work. He's recently released his latest album called Lazaretto and for us fans, it's nothing but heaven. Below are some cool Jack White pictures and the video for High Ball Stepper which was the first song released off his new CD.
(VIDEO) Jack White – High Ball Stepper

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Life Coaching is quickly becoming one of the most in-demand professional services. Life Coaches work with clients to help them establish and achieve their professional goals, as well as personal aspirations. This course will provide you with the skills you need to become a successful life coach. Through theoretical and practical applications, you will learn how to work with clients in every aspect of life. You will learn coaching fundamentals, including listening skills and the language of coaching. From there, you will go beyond the basics to learn how to work with individual clients to help them establish their personal and professional goals. When a student completes this course, they will be fully prepared to help individuals through one-on-one and group coaching.
ProTrain is committed to offering world class interactive online courses that provide training and learning support for the student in a number of ways during their experience. The ProTrain course structure has been developed to provide activities to guide students throughout the entire process of learning. Learning activities include hands-on assignments that allow students to use what they are learning to allow better transferable skills within their work environments; and collaborative assignments, like wikis and discussion groups that allow them to share what they have learned with others in the same course.
While a student learns, they are not alone. Each student will receive guidance and support from his or her assigned Training Assessment Manager (TAM) and Student Services Specialist (SSS) representative. In addition, we will offer live monthly webinars and feedback sessions for various subject categories. Throughout the entire course, students are monitored by the SSS representative using progress reporting from the ProTrain Registration System (PRS).
ProTrain will provide Students who successfully complete their online certification programs and pass their industry level certification exams the access to the new ProTrain Education-2-Employment Career Tracker system. The Career Tracker will allow our students who pass exams to load their own resumes at no additional cost, and letting industry employers find their talent through the same database.
Willow Nolland is an expert in education and eLearning, with more than ten years of experience in curriculum development and instructional design. She has worked in higher education for over twelve years, and has developed numerous courses and has been involved in curriculum development across disciplines. She has experience with academic program development and coordination, curriculum development, student learning outcomes, educational partnerships, and student development. In addition, she has developed and administered professional development programs for various groups, including teachers, counselors, healthcare workers and members of private industry. She is a certified Quality Matters Reviewer and has taken graduate courses in online course development. She designs and teaches online courses at the college level and is proficient in a variety of course management systems. She has helped educators redesign their courses to transition them from a face-to-face format to an online format, and has provided course editing assistance to others. As a freelance instructional designer and curriculum developer, her projects have included course editing and redesign of online continuing education courses for nurses, CEU curriculum development for healthcare workers and teachers, and course review and editing for various colleges and universities.
In this lesson, you will learn the foundational elements of life skills coaching. First, you will learn about the listening skills that are essential in life skills coaching. From there, you will learn about the language of coaching and the role of coaching in the developmental change process. Finally, you will learn about communication skills. Upon completion of this lesson, you will have a thorough understanding of the basic elements of life skills coaching and will be fully prepared to expand your knowledge beyond the basics.
In this lesson, you will learn the basics of the coaching process. You will identify the key strategies that are used in the coaching process and you will develop your own processes for coaching clients. You will learn about the basic asking skills that make up the framework of a coaching conversation: setting an agenda, defining the problem, creating goal statements, exploration, developing options, addressing obstacles, and taking action. You will use these skills with all clients that you work with, regardless of their needs.
In this lesson, you will go beyond coaching basics. You will learn how to empower the client during the decision-making process. You will learn how to "stretch the client" by asking probing questions that challenge the client. Finally, you will learn how to create momentum with your clients through the use of six strategies and common practices. This lesson will expand the foundation of coaching skills that were provided in lesson one to provide a platform for the coach to work from.
In this lesson, you will learn about life coaching and destiny discovery. You will learn a variety of strategies that you will use to help your clients determine their life purpose and identify what they find fulfilling. Through the use of interactive applications and theoretical readings, you will develop the tools necessary to work with clients to help them design their own future. You will learn how to ask questions that will require them to truly identify their wants and desires, while focusing on the realistic, attainable goals. Upon completion of this lesson, you will be fully prepared to apply these skills in your life coaching practice.
This lesson will focus on the skills and strategies needed to help clients identify challenges they are experiencing, or might experience, as they work toward their goals. You will learn how to use a variety of tools and coaching activities that will encourage clients to truly think about what is holding them back from pursuing their passion. You will have to help clients work through their fears and insecurities as they begin to consider what it is that will make them truly happy, and you will learn the strategies that will help them work through the various emotions they will experience as part of the process. Upon completion of this lesson, you will be fully prepared to help clients identify the challenges that are preventing, or may prevent, them from accomplishing their goals.
This lesson will move beyond the basics of life coaching to more advanced strategies and tools that help clients actually create the life they have been designing. In this lesson, you will learn how to help clients apply actions to their plans and move forward with their goals. While the beginning stages of coaching are crucial for helping clients identify their passions and design their lives, they cannot be the final component of life skills coaching. The action stage of personal and professional development is necessary, or clients will be left with little other than a dream and a plan. Upon completion of this lesson, you will have a toolkit of strategies that will help encourage clients to take action.
In this lesson, you will learn about the different coaching niches. While some life skills coaches will provide general life coaching, others will tailor their coaching to meet the needs of a specific type of client. As a life coach, you will have to determine the type of clients you want to work with. The first section of this lesson will discuss Career and Professional coaching niches. The second section of this lesson will cover Health, Wellness, and Personal coaching niches. Upon completion of this lesson, you will have a thorough understanding of the different coaching niches and you will be prepared to identify the niche you would like to work in.


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White Tiger History - Page 1&2:
The First Known White Tigers | 3:
White Tigers In The U.S.A. |
4: Chronology Of The White Bengal Tiger
The first captive-bred white tigers:
In adulthood, Mohan was bred to a wild-caught orange tigress named Begum, but her three litters contained only cubs of normal colouration (we now know that the combination probably did not have the genetic code to produce white tigers). She was then sold to the Ahmedabad Zoo and the Maharajah looked for an alternative partnership which might bring the desired white cubs.
Mohan was then bred to Radha, one of his daughters from the second litter, and this resulted in four white cubs: Raja, Rani, Sukeshi and Mohini. Subsequently, using this method, white specimens were able to be produced at the rate of one for every three orange tigers.
Breeding father to daughter set in place a future for the white tiger which was to involve numerous cases of inbreeding, and which still continues even to this very day.
Raja and Rani:
Two of the cubs, Raja and Rani were gifted to the National Zoological Gardens in New Delhi where they became the zoo's most famed exhibit.
The partnership was bred and Rani eventually went on to produce 20 cubs, all of which were white. The only other captive tigress to equal this number was Chandani of Alipore Zoological Gardens in Calcutta.
Rani and Raja's mother (Radha) also produced a large number of cubs, giving birth to 13 whites and 9 orange tigers. She died on the 2nd May 1974 and is still considered the First Lady of white tigers.
Mohan's death:
The great Mohan died aged 19 years and 7 months.
Plans had been made for a large celebration of his 20th birthday, but instead he was laid to rest in a palace courtyard with full Hindu rites and staff observing official mourning.
The last known wild white tigers:
Mohan was the last recorded capture of a white tiger and the last wild white to be known was shot at Bihar in 1958.
In the past century, there have only been a dozen or so reports of white tigers being seen in the wilds of India, and some of these may be considered inaccurate. It is extremely unlikely any wild whites still exist due to the rare genetic combination required to produce them and the overall rarity of all tigers.
On top of this, any white cub starts at an enormous disadvantage in that it does not have natural camouflage and would attract predators. Any white tiger which did survive to adulthood would experience great difficulty hunting.
White tigers are considered extinct in the wild.
On the 29th August 1979 white tiger Seema was sent to Kanpur Zoo as a potential mate for normal coloured Badal (from the 4th generation of Mohan-Begum mates). This project did not succeed and the aim then became to mate Seema with either Sheru or Titu, both captured notorious man-eaters from the Corbett National Park area. Eventually the mating with Sheru was successful.
Seema delivered a litter of three cubs: Sajeev, Uttam and Johar, out of which one, Johar, was white.
This was considered surprising because, as per the commonly accepted hereditary principles of Mendelian genetics, white offspring should not have been produced if the father, in this case Sheru, was normally-coloured homozygous.
This event
has given rise to a school of thought that there could perhaps
be some white gene pool in the habitat of Corbett Park from
where Sheru was captured.
White Tiger
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The First Known White Tigers
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White Tigers In The U.S.A.
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I Hate Fake People
This isnt a hollywood movie… This is life
We have to stop hiding
This isnt a hollywood movie… This is life
Reflections in the mirror
Welcome to the Group where you can expose the lies… No more Hiding behind a Mask!
Self Love Means More Than Anything
Its time to take off the Mask and Embrace who you are!
Only when you let go, that is when you will gain everything


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Pokemon GO Plus Delayed Until September
Well, it was meant to come out in July. But now, the Pokemon GO plus accessory was delayed til September. Here's the announcement:
The #PokemonGO Plus accessory will now be released Sept 2016 instead of the originally expected end of July launch. https://t.co/QgjZf1aAV6
— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) July 27, 2016
So why was it delayed? Well, no idea really. Nintendo haven't said anything here, and nor have Niantic.
Still, it's got to suck none the less. After all, Pokemon GO is best played in the summer months, since the kids are out of school. Delay it to September and…
Yeah, it's not gonna be as popular. But hey, better late than never I suppose!
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Printing from computers goes through waves of being difficult to being easy, then back to difficult again. This is likely due to the cycles of technology, complexity and user demand flow in and out of sync. I think we're at peak annoyance right now.
It's even harder with Raspberry Pis, as when printer drivers support Linux, 90% of them are for x86 or x86_64 computers only (Canon: ಠ_ಠ). ARM doesn't get a look in. But one technology does actually seem to help: network printers that support IPP — Internet Printing Protocol.
We had an old Brother laser printer that just got slower and crankier and less useful as a printer, so yesterday I got a new Brother DCP-L2550DW to replace it. It says it supports Linux in the spec, but I knew not to be too optimistic with my Raspberry Pis. And indeed, it was seen on the network but no driver was found. I had a sad.
What turned my frown upside down was finding out about Raspbian's cups-ipp-utils package. For desktop use, install it this way:
sudo apt install cups cups-ipp-utils system-config-printer
(leave off system-config-printer if you're running from the terminal.)
On the desktop, open up Preferences → Print Settings and add a new printer. Yes, it prompts for your user password which you may have forgotten. I'll wait while you try to remember it …
Now under Network Printers, you should see a device you recognize. Pick the one that says IPP network printer somewhere:
Here's where the magic happens: you actually want to pick the generic driver for once:
And again, the IPP utilities package will have picked the right driver for you:
Changing the name and location is optional:
Hit Apply, and you should be printing!
(Hey, printer manufacturers have been known to be evil and make good, working stuff suddenly not work. IPP is supposed to make everything sparkly again, but I can't guarantee that something wicked won't come this way.)
Update: After a few months of using the Brother DCP-L2550DW, I don't recommend you buy it. It's a perfectly capable printer, but it takes 'chipped' toner cartridges that:
- stop dead when you hit their page count limit, wasting toner and preventing you from finishing the print job;
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Christopher Walken
Most of us here on planet Earth are simple humans. Easily, killed, and more easily forgotten. But, there is one amongst us who walks this planet and laughs in the face of his own mortality, daring anything and everything to try and kill him. On a lighter side however, this individual has won over the hearts of people everywhere with his charming and sometimes explosive talent. This person is Christopher Walken, and today we're celebrating his birthday!
If you concentrate real hard you can feel him in your brain.
Walken is fascinating mostly for his ability to appear as the hunky man of your dreams…
Or the terrifying man of your nightmares…
His teeth are sharpened for your pleasure.
He's a man of many faces. Some of those faces suffer from a fever…
We all know the cure.
Some of those faces helped the Penguin get elected Mayor of Gotham, then tried to stab said Mayor in the back, then had his son kidnapped by said Mayor, then had both himself and his son saved by Batman.
Yeah, you forgot he was in Batman, I know.
Aside from being in some of the greatest movies of our time, (The Deer Hunter, Pulp Fiction, Catch Me if You Can, True Romance, Annie Hall, Mouse Hunt, and Joe Dirt.) He has also worn this wig…
And THAT makes him my hero.
So here's to you Christopher Walken! For making us laugh, for making us cry, for really weirding us out, Happy Birthday!


text: The Concur connector is powered by the Nuvola Networks Integration Platform. Concur Expense is designed so your organization can easily enforce spending policies, capture receipts, process expense reports and make better business decisions based on timely, accurate data. Employees can capture transaction data, snap a photo of receipts and submit expense reports, while your managers can quickly review and approve expense reports. Automatically populate expense reports using electronic receipts from airlines, hotels, restaurants and ground transportation services. Manage and reconcile business expenditures made through a wide range of company card types. Easily take action and control spending with detailed reporting, dashboards and analytics at your fingertips.


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RESTON, Va. — 01/04/2006
Gary D. Forsee, president and chief executive officer for Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S), will speak at Citigroup's 16th Annual Global Entertainment, Media and Telecommunications Conference on Jan. 9, 2006. Mr. Forsee's keynote will be at 5:50 p.m. EST/3:50 p.m. MST.
The invitation-only conference takes place in Phoenix. A live audio Web cast of the session may be accessed via Sprint's Web site on Jan. 9 at www.sprint.com/investors. A replay of the Web cast will be available on demand beginning about 24 hours later, and will be accessible for 90 days.
About Sprint Nextel
Sprint Nextel offers a comprehensive range of communications services bringing mobility to consumer, business and government customers. Sprint Nextel is widely recognized for developing, engineering and deploying innovative technologies, including two robust wireless networks offering industry leading mobile data services; instant national and international walkie-talkie capabilities; and an award-winning and global Tier 1 Internet backbone. For more information, visit www.sprint.com.


text: London - West Bromwich Albion manager Tony Pulis has refused to respond to reports that he has not paid any of the £3.7 million he owes Crystal Palace.The Baggies boss will be up against his former club in the Premier League on Saturday amid press reports that the London club could employ bailiffs to recover the debt.Last year, Pulis was ordered to pay Palace £3.7 million by a Premier League Managers' Arbitration Tribunal which found he had "deliberately misled" the Eagles and described his conduct as "disgraceful".Pulis challenged that decision in the High Court but judge Michael Burton found against him at a London hearing in November. "The situation is the lawyers have told me not to say anything and when the situation is concluded then I will have my say on it," Pulis said on Friday."I'll let the lawyers do their work. I'm not so sure the Palace fans will be (different towards me). They can make their own mind up. They were fantastic to me and what has happened off the pitch has been really disappointing, but I can't go into it."This business has been going on for two-and-a-half years and it's something that is not for me to talk about at the moment. And if I said anything I could get myself in trouble, and I don't want to do that."All I can say is I had a great time at Palace and the supporters were fantastic to me, especially towards the back end of the season when we got enough points to stay up," he added.Burton said Pulis had a contract which would see him get a £2 million bonus if he kept Palace in the Premier League in 2013/14 and stayed in the manager's job until August 31, 2014.Pulis oversaw the Eagles' campaign to avoid relegation but did not stay with Palace until August 31.Palace officials said Pulis had deceived them into an early payment of the bonus by saying he was "committed" to the club and "urgently needed the money early" so he could buy a plot of land for his daughter.Burton said Palace had agreed to Pulis's request for early payment and handed over £2 million on August 12, 2014, only to be told a day later by the manager that he wanted to leave. Pulis quit Palace on August 14.


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Allagash Wildlife Sporting Camps is the ultimate Maine outdoor experience. Their riverside cabins offer spectacular views for the perfect getaway. Activities include hunting trips for bear, moose, deer and partridge, ATV riding, canoe trips, fishing, and a whole lot more.
Mix Maine Media worked with Allagash Wildlife Sporting Camps to strengthen their brand by creating a new, responsive website and a Facebook business page.


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Rotarians Make A Difference.
Rotarians Make A Difference.
Rotary International (also known as the Rotary Club) is an international service organisation. Our purpose is to bring together individuals with different skill sets in order to provide humanitarian services to help build goodwill and peace around the world and in our local communities through local projects and events.
Our club welcomes new members aged 18+ yrs.
We are a voluntary organisation open to all persons regardless of their background.
There are 34,282 clubs in over 200 countries and over 1.2 million members worldwide. We also have an office at the United Nations.
We meet on the second and forth Monday of each month from 7 - 8:30 pm at The White Swan, Chichester Road, Arundel which is a gateway to the beautiful South Downs National Park.


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Performance Enablement
Spring Meeting 2018
The Innovation Radar Network—Performance Enablement (IRN-PE) meeting hosted by BlackRock in New York, NY, focused on finding effective strategies for managing employee performance, rewards, and engagement. As Talent Management becomes more company-specific and personalized, manager enablement and development become central to the overall people strategy in every organization.
Our goal was to shift the discussion to how we use Performance Enablement to achieve better talent outcomes and where Performance fits in with the rest of the Talent Management lifecycle. As always, our time together was spent in deep-dive conversations bringing our most current challenges, issues, and needs to the table in an open, trusted, intimate environment. We greatly appreciate the BlackRock Team for hosting and providing a welcoming environment for our meeting.


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Experience our Waterfront Extended-Stay Wilmington HotelSurrounded by the scenic beauty and history of the riverfront, our hotel features ultra-spacious suites with private balconies overlooking the Cape Fear River. You'll also enjoy unlimited access to the facilities and amenities of our sister property across the street. Work up a sweat in the state-of-the-art fitness center, with LCD televisions and Precor equipment, or prepare for your meeting in the fully-equipped business center. Lounge by the sparkling outdoor pool while admiring scenic riverfront views, then indulge in prime cuts at Ruth's Chris Steak House or modern American cuisine at Innovations.
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- Files of the Bet Din
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- Letters
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"Choose Jewish" Jewish Education in France Gets a Boost
By: Dave Gordon
Donald Trump's presidential campaign, focused on making America great again, promised economic recovery, and a boost in employment. Analysts are saying these promises have begun to bear fruit.
President Donald Trump has been in office for nine months, and by all accounts the country's overall financial condition has markedly improved on Trump's watch.
As validated by Fortunemagazine on Aug. 10, 2017, President Trump has exceeded his goal of adding a million jobs since taking the oath of office. In fact,as CNBC reports, the unemployment rate fell to 4.3 percent in July, the lowest rate since March of 2001. (From the time Obama was elected until 2011 the unemployment rate was about double what it is today.)
The number of employed Americans has reached a new high, and the employment-to-population percentage reached over 60 percent, the highest level since February 2009!
It did not take long for improvements to be seen. Just a few months into the Trump administration, swift and impressive changes occurred: The Bureau of Labor reported that in May there were 145,000 more jobs, in June 210,000 more, in July 189,000 more, and in August nearly 160,000 more jobs. The Washington Postreported that the July numbers were "surpassing economists' expectations"by about fifteen percent.
Furthermore, CNBC noted that President Obama's average monthly gains in the job market were about 120,000, while President Trump's are about 170,000, since taking office. These uncharacteristically large numbers have not been seen with such steadiness or reliability for nearly a dozen years.
A Washington Postarticle from July 7thexplained that this prosperous climate "promises to boost economic growth and bring back jobs that had moved offshore."
Stock markets and Dow Jones saw record highs in 2017, while the U-6 rate, which is more indicative of the health of the whole job market – as it counts people who have stopped looking for work – is also on the decline. In other words, more people are entering or reentering the job market.
Reports say that Michael Feroli, chief U.S. economist for JP Morgan, explained that these numbers are "pretty solid across the board," suggesting "there is really no slowing the momentum of the labor market."
The Federal Reserve sees the economic boom as justification to raise interest rates to more normal levels. Despite this, lending for businesses has not slowed significantly.
The New York Times– no fan of Trump's – even conceded in an article in August of this year "Jobs, Factories, and Stocks Provide Economic Lift for Trump." The Timesnoted that the unemployment was at its lowest in 16 years! Of particular note was that the Grey Lady explained how even business owners who have openly opposed the president find the employment numbers promising.
The New York Times – no fan of Trump's – even conceded in August that "Jobs, Factories, and Stocks Provide Economic Lift for Trump," noting that the unemployment was at its lowest in 16 years!
Big auto manufacturers like Toyota and Mazda have responded to the uptick in employment demand, and plan to open new manufacturing plants in the US. This will create at least 4,000 more jobs.
Toyota currently owns ten U.S. plants, which employ more than 136,000 Americans. Toyota reportedly plans to invest $10 billion in the United States over the next five years. Also, Taiwanese electronics supplier Foxconn announced plans to open a new plant in Wisconsin, which will add 3,000 new jobs.
There is no question that the jobs statistics look remarkable. However, many are still concerned that pay scales are not where they should be.
CNN reports there is still a "problem of stagnant wages." Average hourly earnings have increased by only 2.5 percent over the past fourteen months. The Federal Reserve notes it would rather see a 3 to 3.5 percent increase.
Are all of these successes – the jobs, financial boom, stock market, and so on – merely coincidence, or feature of a natural pendulum swinging favorably after so manyyears of dips?
To be fair, critics will say that most economic or job reforms do not have the anticipated effect for some time, so Trump's impact on the market may
be minimal.
Still, The New York Timescited the significance of President Trump's proposed tax reform, domestic infrastructure spending, and "curbing our outsourcing" that would have a "logical impact on American business and foreign investment." Companies have been emboldened to expand or invest, as a result of these promises and legislations, said the Times.
A case can be made that the country's economic growth may very well be because the president has shown in good faith that he is steering the ship in the right direction.
President Trump's supporters and detractors alike have taken note ofthe country's economic gains, although they may not agree on how much Trump can take credit. According to Tom Gimbel, chief executive of LaSalle Network, a Chicago staffing company, "Trump hasn't done anything tangible yet, but he has injected hope for corporate growth, tax reform, and deregulation among business leaders, and that's driving hiring," Ideally, the current positive business environment will lead to more business growth and more prosperity in our country.


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Break da Bank is a classic-style slots game with modern sensibilities, a fruit machine without the fruit symbols – in short, a great game for slot machine aficionados looking for the sort of solid play that Microgaming always delivers.
To start with, Break da Bank is a 3-reel slot machine game with five paylines. Among the symbol set are those standard icons from fruit machine-style games, namely the single, double and triple BARs. Beyond these symbols are other s more in line with the theme, but hardly seeming out of place in a 3-reel slot: Stuff like dollar signs, coins and a vault (unexciting, sure, but think of cash behind it) help make up the symbol set.
Yes, and this is what separates Break da Bank from the standard 3-reelers. The game logo is a wild which, when forming part of a winning combination, slaps on a bonus multiplier of 2x; with two wilds in the combo, it's a 4x bonus multiplier reward.
But what you'll really want to see is three Break da Bank symbols somewhere on a payline. Such three-of-a-kind hits all pay in the thousands of coins and depends on the payline in which the threesome hits. Three Break da Bank symbols on payline 1 are worth 1,000 coins; on payline 2, it's 1,200 coins; on payline 3 for 1,500 coins; the big hit on payline 4 bags 2,000 coins; and that tiptop jackpot payout when hitting three wilds on payline 5, is worth 2,400 coins (up to $60,000!).
Like many Microgaming 3-reel slots games, Break da Bank expects players to pony up a few bucks per spin. It's $1 per payline and, for reasons stated directly above, you'll want to play all paylines. Wagers run from $5 to $125 per spin.
It does. Within a year of the original Break da Bank slot's release, the folks at Microgaming chased it with the sequel, Break da Bank Again. (Aw, come on, after they fixed up from last time and everything? That's just mean-spirited…) Break da Bank Again is a 5-reel slots game along the same lines as its classic-style predecessor.
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Has anyone been able to get the Fiery Command Workstation working in a XenApp environment (Server 2012 R2)? Specifically the calibration function?
90% of the Fiery CW works fine as a published application, but when trying to launch the calibration, when clicking measure, the child window doesn't appear. We are using Generic USB redirection, which presents the x-rite device to the server and this works well and is detected within the session.
I realise this isn't technically supported in a XenApp environment. Is this due to a lack of knowledge on Citrix within EFI, or is there known technical limitation? I'd really like to know which, as we have been using Fiery CW in a XenApp environment for some time without any problems, asides calibration.


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Bruce and Daisy received some new toys on Valentine's Day!
I couldn't resist! Bruce is pretty smitten with his new frog.
Here he is with his new toy.
"Check it out.
This is my new frog. We have a lot in common.
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"I'll probably shred this frog into a million tiny pieces by Wednesday."
"I can't help it! I love to shred my toys!
I hope you bought me a backup."
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While one could accuse me of having any number of deficiencies, a lack of organizational skills isn't one of them. I've always been pretty good at getting all my ducks in a row and keeping track of things pretty efficiently. In fact, in some respects I feel like I'm borderline obsessive-compulsive. At my former company, […]Continue reading
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BP boss warns of 'uncertainties' due to Scottish vote
Oil giant BP boss Bob Dudley has warned there are "big uncertainties" for the company over the possibility of Scotland becoming independent.
Mr Dudley told the BBC the "question mark" over which currency Scotland might adopt if there was a 'yes' vote in September's referendum was "a concern".
However, Mr Dudley emphasised the firm was continuing to invest in Scotland.
Separately, BP reported a fall in profit for 2013.
BP plans to invest £10bn in the North Sea between 2011 and 2016, its highest ever investment in the region.
"We have a lot of people in Scotland. We have a lot of investments in Scotland. My personal view is that Great Britain is great and it ought to stay together," added Mr Dudley.
Alistair Darling, head of the Better Together campaign, said Mr Dudley's comments marked the biggest intervention by a major business so far in the referendum debate.
"I hope that more companies and business leaders speak out over the coming weeks and months. This debate is far too important to be left to politicians alone," he added.
However, the pro-independence Yes Scotland campaign dismissed Bob Dudley's remarks.
"With independence, the continued use of sterling has the overwhelming support of the people of Scotland and the public in the rest of the UK," a spokesman said.
Scotland's first minister, Alex Salmond, said that Mr Dudley was "entitled to his personal opinion" but added that many other chief executives were firmly in favour of independence. He said he would "continue to co-operate" with BP.
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Meanwhile, the firm said that underlying replacement cost profit - which strips out one-off gains and the effect of oil price movements - was $13.4bn (£8.2bn) last year, down from $17.1bn in 2012.
BP said lost income from asset sales, weaker margins on refining and higher exploration write-offs were to blame.
For the final three months of last year, BP said underlying replacement cost profit fell to $2.8bn from $3.9bn.
The result for the third quarter was just above average analyst forecasts for $2.7bn.
Including the impact of the asset sales and one-off gains, BP said replacement cost profit for the year more than doubled to $23.7bn compared with $11.4bn in 2012.
This was largely thanks to the one-off gain from BP's $17bn sale of its interest in the joint venture TNK-BP, which it sold to Russia's Rosneft.
'Transformation under way'
BP has sold off $38bn worth of assets since the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, helping it to fund compensation payouts.
However, this sell-off has hit production. BP said it expected reported production to be lower in 2014 due to the sales.
The oil firm said in October it still plans to sell off a further $10bn worth of assets by the end of next year.
Richard Hunter, head of equities at Hargreaves Lansdown Stockbrokers, said BP's results were in line with expectations and its transformation into "a more lean and focused business is well under way".


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Indian in Alabama
Iam trying to find out if Indians were located in the lower area of Alabama and what tribe they were. I've been told that my great great grand mother or great great grand father was an indian. I have a picture of my great grand father and he has the Indian features.
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Marc Faber : well, I think the next danger level would be an outright default by Greece and may be by some other countries that would be a danger level . But as I said, it may be be better to take the loss now , it would have been better to take the losses three years ago and the longer you postpone it, the more likely you will eventually have a gigantic systemic failure.
I think the market will be relieved if finally Greece exited the euro and there would be some clarity. it wouldn't be good for bank shares and insurance company shares but in general I think the markets in Europe are now very oversold and on an exit of Greece, I think the markets would rally because that would be some solution, maybe not the best solution, the best solution would have been never to accept Greece into the eurozone to start with , but it would be some solution and I think the markets would actually rally - in CNBC 25 May 2012


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First Look: Gypsy Kitchen
See and be seen at Buckhead Atlanta's new tapas joint
Inside, a life-sized metal bull looms over the bar and a sweeping portrait reminiscent of National Geographic's iconic Afghan girl stares hauntingly into your soul, beckoning guests to quench their sense for adventure and tapas within (or maybe she's giving the side-eye to being called "gypsy" in 2014). A mere six weeks in, Gypsy Kitchen is a glitzy, boisterous ode to the Iberian Peninsula. Exotic Indian spices, seafood, and Moroccan-inspired cooking techniques reflect the beating heart of Spain, and Gypsy Kitchen's mission is to try to transport you there.
From Southern Proper Hospitality, the group that gave us the Big Ketch, Smokebelly BBQ, and Milton's in Alpharetta, Gypsy Kitchen is located in the new Buckhead Atlanta shopping and dining district on Peachtree Road. Easy valet parking and an elevator lift to the second floor lead to wraparound patios with sweeping views up and down Peachtree Road. The patio closer to Peachtree is spacious and open-aired; the other is enclosed, cozy, and heated. For now, reservations are recommended, even on weekdays — a recent Wednesday evening produced a two-hour wait.
Stepping inside Gypsy Kitchen feels like being dropped into a genie bottle decorated by one of the Desperate Housewives, or at least by a person one of the Desperate Housewives paid to decorate. Trendy geometric patterns and mosaic tiles adorn the bright turquoise walls. Hints of copper and deep-red leather accent the wooden tables. Stacks of vintage suitcases above the bar evoke the nomadic traveller theme Gypsy Kitchen is apparently going for. Intricate Moorish lanterns and heavy, medieval-looking iron chandeliers dangle from high ceilings, giving the room a moody, ambient glow.
Gypsy Kitchen's lighting and decor may look romantic, but the atmosphere that comes along with? Not so much. Hustling servers in heavy-duty canvas aprons look like they're about to go weld things. Beautiful people out to be seen are everywhere. Large groups of wine-swilling women are responsible for a cacophony of sorority squeals and spontaneous woohoos heard throughout the dining room. There are young, couture-clad couples on double or triple dates alongside members of the older Buckhead set craning their necks to see who's there and who's not. This is not a casual tapas house in Spain, and it is not trying to be.
Chef Randy Lewis presides over a kitchen, which shares a prep area with adjacent sibling restaurant the Southern Gentleman, which is slated to open in early December. The menu is divided among small plates, sharing plates, and plates for the whole table. "Snacks & Things on Toast" is a section of nibbles to munch on while having a drink at the expansive bar. The sweet and savory Marcona almond "Nutella" and shaved chorizo toast ($5) should hit the spot.
"Cheese and Cured Meats" ($5-$16 per selection) lists four Spanish cheeses and four cured meats to mix and match. We went with a generous portion of bold and spicy Valdeon blue and classic jamón Iberico. Both were served on a rustic wooden slab with quince paste and Marcona almonds. The shaved ham, which is made from prized heritage-breed pigs, is pricey at $16 a pop, but nothing else in this restaurant tastes more like Spain.
"Platos Pequeños" come out very soon after ordering, even on a busy night with a wait. Confit Spanish octopus ($15), cooked for hours in a lard-based consommé, is super tender and smoky by way of the grill and smoked paprika. Crowd-pleasing shrimp ($12) are stuffed with chorizo, wrapped in crispy, shredded pastry dough called kaitafi, and served with a saffron aioli. Littleneck clams ($13) look gorgeous piled in a cast-iron dish with white beans, but the bland Manzanilla sherry broth failed to deliver any flavor at all, let alone the saffron its description promised.
"Sharing Plates" turn out to be only slightly larger than the small plates. Lewis wraps North Carolina trout ($24) in salty Serrano ham and finishes it with a simple fennel and Spanish olive salad and good olive oil. Paella-fried calasparra rice ($20) with shrimp, spicy chorizo, peas, and a chorizo-fried egg sounds great in theory, but without the soccarat — that caramelized crusty layer under most paellas — it's mostly just a lackluster pile of fried rice.
"Platos a la Planxa" choices are meant to feed a table of 2-4 people in one fell swoop. There is a whole Branzino ($55) or a 20-ounce barrel cut beef tenderloin ($95), but most tables seem to order tapas style, sharing mostly small plates.
The beverage program led by bar manager Michael Searles stands out, and not just because of that gigantic bull. Wines are mostly Old World varietals picked to complement bold Spanish flavors. For example, the fruit-forward Rotllan Torra Priorat pairs nicely with tasty "Spanish Cigars" ($8), aka Medjool dates stuffed with Cabrales blue cheese and jamón Serrano. Gypsy Kitchen's cocktails are interesting and balanced ("Slammin,'" according to a table of dude bros nearby). The Around the Fire ($11) is a moody blend of smoky mezcal, Cherry Heering, sherry, citrus, and bitters. The Spice Trader cocktail ($10) with bourbon, honey, cayenne, apricot liqueur, lime, and ginger beer delivers multiple layers of flavor. Gypsy Kitchen also has a small but carefully chosen beer list.
A dessert like the chocolate pistachio cake ($8) with luscious white wine caramel, crunchy candied pistachios, and perfumed rosewater Chantilly cream is a dreamy end to a night full of eating. After dinner drinks include a varied selection of Sherries and amaro. At the end of the night, the check comes in an adorable little saffron tin (maybe there was saffron in the clams after all ...).
Gypsy Kitchen glimmers in its newness. Its best features are great cocktails and speedy service, but mostly it's a loud, see-and-be-seen trip best taken with friends, a few cast-iron plates at a time. If the stereotype for a "Buckhead tapas restaurant" exists, Gypsy Kitchen is definitely it.


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Hi, everyone! To get straight to the point, I found this fantastic essay excerpt from Kiara of Bateszi Anime Blog today, and it got me thinking so many exciting things that I wanted to share it with all of you! One argument it makes in particular about how the anime adaptation of Atsuko Asano's No. 6 functions as a queer text really struck me, so I want to dissect that here and offer my own alternative perspective regarding No. 6's relationship to both BL and its queer potential. If my comment on the post itself makes it out of moderation (as the blog hasn't been updated since last August, I'm not sure anyone's still paying attention!) you may see a few points recycled from there, but I'll try not to make this post too repetitive.
To briefly summarize the post, Kiara begins by describing the 'paranoid fan,' an audience that is suspicious, actively looking for hidden meanings in the media they consume in order to fit these texts within their own expectations and desires. The post then links the paranoid fan to BL via engagement with the construct of the seme and uke pair, arguing that the paranoid fan (usually, but not necessarily, straight women consuming and creating fandom content), so badly want texts to conform to their pleasure that they flatten all interactions between male characters in media into homosexual romantic-sexual couplings, regardless of whether this interpretation is supported by the text. Kiara argues that No. 6 rejects and disrupts this mentality by having no clearly defined seme or uke, and through the ambiguous nature of Rat and Sion's relationship–the portrayal of their feelings for one another as irreducable, impossible to categorize, and, contrary to the genre conventions of BL, non-sexual.
Our current society believes that "if you don't love someone romantically, you love them "platonically," which means that you want to be friends and not a "couple," because only romantic-sexual pairs can be couples with a primary relationship" and this is very problematic.[4] This is the very reason why No. 6 is not labeled as BL, because even in softer BL, actions are laced with sexual tension and there is no such thing happening in No.6. It is because of this habit to expect sexuality that Asano took it upon herself to do make a queer series that breaks the romantic-sexual/platonic dichotomy.
This is a SUPER interesting reading of the anime (Asano's original novels more heavily suggest that Sion's feelings for Rat include sexual attraction); I'm especially intrigued by the post's analysis of how Sion's socialization to interpret his own emotions through a medicalized lens defuses situations which might otherwise suggest sexual desire. Kiara cites the scene where Rat pushes Sion down onto the bed during their first meeting as an example of this, and although, if I remember correctly, this specific form of defusion doesn't appear after Sion and Rat escape No. 6 in the first episode, the anime still resists clear confirmation of whether or not their relationship includes sexual desire. For example, after Rat and Sion dance in episode 5, Sion reaches out and touches Rat's neck, expressing how much he cares for Rat and causing Rat to swallow. In another series, this might have been a tender, romantic moment, with the gulp indicating strain from suppressing sexual desire; here, it is ominous. The music, camera angles, and Rat's expression all create a sense of unease rather than one of sexual intimacy.
However, I'm not sure I agree with Kiara that this absence of sexuality represents a queer refusal of the overly strict, normative sexual models inscribed in fandom engagement by the 'paranoid fan.' For one, on a more nitpicky note, I lean more toward characterizing fans who "[constantly] search for the homosexual" as playful rather than paranoid–Patrick Galbraith has done some great ethnographic work in this vein with fujoshi in Japan, and his essays "Fujoshi" and "Moe Talk" are great reads if you can get access to 'em.
I also believe that in addition to the hypersexualization of gay identity in society (e.g. gay people being characterized as inherently sexual and predatory; Tatsumi Kanji's Persona in the Persona 4 visual novel is a good example of this what this stereotype looks like in Japanese media) gay relationships are often desexualized in order to portray same-gender desire as 'safe' and 'normal,' or in order to erase its significance altogether. We can see examples of this in the treatment of gay & bisexual women in Japan, where romantic affection between young women is viewed as a non-sexual, non-threatening, natural phase which will inevitably give way to properly heterosexual performance in adulthood, as well as that of gay & bisexual men in a Western context. I'm definitely not an expert on how, or to what extent, this issue manifests in Japan, and would welcome any insight from commentors more knowledgable about this issue than I am, but I just don't quite buy that the absence of sexual attraction in the No. 6 anime is subverting an influential media paradigm regarding gay relationships, even specifically in contrast to BL–that it is necessarily or inherently queer.
In my opinion, where No. 6 truly shines as a queer text is in its critique of the state and the connections it draws between freedom of desire and freedom from state repression. It does not deal overtly with homophobia, the structural, systemic marginalization of people based on their sexual expression, but in specifically positioning the love between Rat and Sion as the keystone of a narrative about revolution and freedom from an oppressive state (one that attempts to sanitize and control human emotion, no less), it pursues a queer thematic project. In No. 6, the narrative gives credence to Rat's insistence that boundaries between people matter, exposing Sion's naivete and privilege when he proposes attempting to use the city's own oppressive institutions to save the lives of its citizens, but ultimately validates his commitment to a destruction of No. 6 which acknowledges that "we're all human beings." Social differences imposed and encouraged by the state do have significance, but they are also arbitrary and can be broken down. What's left in the world without a wall is not perfect, but it is potential. The potential for a society which can allow the freedom to feel. And to love whoever you choose.


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School of Nursing > Neuberger honored in retirement reception, luncheon
Retirement reception honors Neuberger's 40 years at KU Medical Center
May 15, 2015
University of Kansas School of Nursing faculty, staff and students came together a couple times this week to formally recognize the career accomplishments of Professor R. Geraldine "Geri" Neuberger, Ed.D., APRN, who is retiring after 40 years at KU Medical Center.
At a retirement reception held in her honor Monday, Neuberger received praise and gifts from her colleagues, and Karen Miller, dean of the School of Nursing and senior vice chancellor for academic and student affairs at KU Medical Center. Also in attendance were members of Neuberger's family, including her husband, John S. Neuberger, Dr.PH, a professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health at KU Medical Center. (View a photo gallery from the event.)
Miller acknowledged Neuberger for her faculty and leadership contributions since joining KU Medical Center in 1975 as a nursing instructor in maternity and med-surgery. Through the years, she noted, Neuberger has taught adult-gerontology, nursing and health care research, and professionalism courses at the School of Nursing, and has supervised master's theses, doctoral dissertations and comprehensive exams.
The dean also cited Neuberger's extensive research in the area of arthritis and her service as a leader in the School of Nursing, as well as in the nursing and Rheumatoid Arthritis fields. Miller specifically noted her role in the School of Nursing's Bachelor of Science Honors Program, now in its 13th year.
"Geri has served as coordinator of the successful BSN Honors Program since it began," Miller said. "During that time, 102 students have graduated from the program (including 2015 graduates) and 29 of those students also garnered University honors."
Neuberger was honored again for that role on Wednesday when Nelda Godfrey, associate dean of undergraduate programs at the School of Nursing, presented her with a plaque and flowers during the 2015 BSN Honors Program Student Luncheon. Godfrey praised Neuberger's contributions to the highly selective program, which also relies on faculty mentors.
"Geri's knowledge and guidance have been tremendous," she added. "The students who have worked with her understand that very well." As principal investigator of "Symptom Responses to Exercise in Rheumatoid Arthritis," a $1.5 million grant from the National Institute of Nursing Research, Neuberger tested an exercise intervention for adults with rheumatoid arthritis. She has written numerous articles for a wide variety of health publications, in addition to her many presentations throughout the country.
Neuberger received her doctoral and master's degrees from KU, a bachelor's degree in English from Georgetown College and her nursing diploma from Kentucky Baptist Hospital.


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Good sign.. I had some visitors the last few days to my traps here in St. Charles County!!
Good sign.. I had some visitors the last few days to my traps here in St. Charles County!!
2 swarm calls today.
#1 Ozark Mo. they took off just as my son got there and he followed them to a large tree with a 2" x 20" crack. I am going there tomorrow with a frame of brood.
#2 Forsyth Mo. 65653 large swarm about 14" up in a cedar tree. They filled the nuc.
Zone 6b 1400'
Just picked up a swarm that was on a bush in someones front yard. They said it had arrived roughly 2 days ago (4/13/16). Belton, MO 64012 (Kansas City area)
Lawrence County April 16. Largest swarm I've ever seen. I should have taken pics.
Ozark Mo. April 17 Swarm on the side of a tree. Did not see the Queen so I grabbed a couple of handfuls and dropped them in and they started fanning. I held the the nuc against the tree and they started marching in. Picked them up 3 hrs later and brought them home (they covered all 5 frames in the nuc) and moved them into a 10 frame box.
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Zone 6b 1400'
Wife was able to nab a medium/small swarm from a tree branch in Poplar Bluff today.
Hindsight is 20/10, not 20/20...
After the fact, I always know what didn't work.
Picked-up a nice size swarm this morning, been in the tree since last night. Didn't fit in my 5 frame deep so had to move them into 8 frame medium.
Dardenne Prairie MO. 63368
They were on Pierside Dr in Dardenne Prairie. I was 15 minutes late... A lot going on in Dardenne Prairie.IMG_0645.jpg
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That would of been a nice one to snag!!!
Swarm call in Hannibal today 4/24. They left before my arrival. Had them text pic to verify.
Something must be going on in Dardenne Prairie 63368. Second call in two days. This time I arrived in time. Small swarm about a softball and a half in size. Had been in the tree since last night.IMG_0650.jpg
It's just that time of the year, plus that area has lots of older trees which make great homes for the bees. If you get tired of catching them let me know I can take maybe two more. :-)
I am running out of equipment! Looks like I will be busting out a bunch this weekend... Still have 4 packages coming in May.
Checked my swarm traps last nite/today. 3 out of 6 caught this week
Hindsight is 20/10, not 20/20...
After the fact, I always know what didn't work.
4/27/16 Another swarm call in Hannibal today. About 3 lbs around 4pm just after thunderstorms passed. I haven't gotten my swarm traps up yet, need to quick! I bought some Swarm Commander, gonna see if it's as magical as some say...
Final got some takers to my trap at my house, small swarm but did find the queen, added a comb of stores and a frame for them to build on. Gonna let them get comfy for a few days then take them to my out yard. O'Fallon MO. 63366 (4/27/16)
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Swarm caught in St. Joseph, MO today.


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This week we will feature pictures of dolls from the Barbie and the Diamond Castle collection. The Diamond Castle DVD feature Barbie and Teresa telling the fairy tale story of Liana and Alexa, best friends who shared everything including their love of music. One day their simple lives change when they are given an enchanted mirror and befriend the girl trapped inside! To save their new friend, Liana and Alexa embark on a dangerous journey to the hidden Diamond Castle that will put their friendship to the test. But through the power of song and with the companionship of two adorable puppies, the girls face their challenges together and learn that friendship is the true treasure.
I had the opportunity to take a few pictures of these dolls on my last visit to TRU. Today we feature the Kelly muse dolls. These Beautiful Kelly dolls, as mini muses, or muses in training, from the Diamond Castle, sit nobly atop matching glitter horses and sparkle in their shimmering gowns, with tiaras adorned in flowers. They are named Melody (blond), Dori (titian) and Phedra (brunette). They retail about 9.99.
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Ed Petruska-Pinal Central Contributing Writer
SIGNAL PEAK — It was a long, dispiriting Wednesday night for the Central Arizona College women's basketball team.
The Vaqueras suffered their most lopsided loss of the season, falling 77-57 to Cochise at the George Young Activity Center.
"We played terrible," CAC coach Denise Cardenas said. "I didn't even recognize my team. Cochise did exactly what we knew they were going to do. We just weren't ready."
The Apaches, ranked No. 21 in the NJCAA poll, now have a three-game lead over the Vaqueras in the Arizona Community College Athletic Conference standings. Cochise (19-3, 13-1 ACCAC) has won 10 straight and 13 of its last 14.
A 21-2 burst helped the Apaches build a 14-point lead in the first half, and they led by 19 following a 17-3 surge in the third quarter. The Vaqueras (14-7, 10-4 ACCAC) reduced the margin to eight points at 61-53 with 8:36 to play, only to be outscored 16-4 the rest of the way.
The Apaches "hit a big shot every time they needed it," Cardenas said.
Central came in with a seven-game winning streak. But the Vaqueras were held to 38 percent shooting while committing 15 turnovers that led to 18 points for the Apaches. They were 4 for 16 on 3-pointers and went 5 for 14 from the free-throw line.
Cochise led 20-15 after one quarter, 36-28 at halftime and 58-47 going into the final period.
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Raena Suggs made five 3-pointers and scored 28 points — her season high — for the Apaches, who also got 18 points from Awa Keita and 12 from LaPraisjah Johnson. Cochise shot 48 percent, going 8 for 13 from the field in the fourth quarter and 8 for 16 in the first. The Apaches made 9 of 18 3-pointers.
CAC had just two players in double figures — Ayanna Clark with 21 and Makayla Pippin with 10.
The Vaqueras outscored the Apaches 15-10 to begin the first quarter, then went scoreless on their final five possessions as Cochise closed with a 10-0 run.
Following a second-chance basket by Clark in the opening minute of the second quarter, Cochise tallied 11 unanswered points to take a 31-17 lead with 5:41 left.
Down 36-22 with 1:41 remaining, the Vaqueras ended the half with a 6-0 run on two baskets by Pippin and one by Morticia McCall in the final 48 seconds.
Megan Guadian's 3-pointer reduced Cochise's lead to 36-31 with 9:38 left in the third quarter. But Central scored just once on its next 11 possessions, getting another 3-pointer from Guadian.
The Apaches, meanwhile, scored on eight of 10 possessions, going up 53-34 on a basket by Isabel Rodriguez midway through the third.
After Alexia Marsh's basket pulled the Vaqueras within 61-53, Cochise scored the next seven points to extend its lead to 68-53 with 6:25 remaining.
Cochise had held its previous eight opponents to under 50 points and were allowing an average of 46.3 coming in. The Apaches, who lost 62-58 to Central on Dec. 1, raised their road record to 7-0.


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In an attempt to stop the illegal use of vital records, and as part of statewide efforts to reduce identity theft, a California law (effective January 1, 2010) changed the way certified copies of marriage certificates are issued.
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The Retro Drift Challenge is the UK's premier driver-focused drift series. RDC places the focus on retro vehicles (pre-1989) but also features an 'All-comers' class so that drivers of modern machinery can join in.
Two Roads Motorworks is a proud sponsor of this series and provides support though our website as well as providing items for sale in our on-line shop and at events.
Fancy a go? Join us at one of our drift practice days held regularly at Pembrey Circuit in Wales where the atmosphere is relaxing and the smoke is plentiful. Leave your ego at home and join in with drifters of all skill levels, with loads of seat time and chances to practice your twining and entries all day long. With free tire-changing on-site all you need to bring are all the tires you can and a willingness to chuck it in on the lock-stops. Weekenders are a great way to spend two full days on track, and you can camp for free in the pits.
We're always building and looking for commission work, and would love to talk to you about anything from a complete bespoke restoration to maintenance work on your pride and joy. In addition to the cars we prepare for sale, we can offer clients a comprehensive package no matter how mild or wild you want to go.
Two Roads Motorworks is based in South West Wales near Carmarthen, and will happily travel to meet even if it's just to have a conversation over coffee.
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You know those mornings where nothing looks good so you end up trying on pretty much your whole closet before you find something you feel good in? And then you're left with a pile of clothes that you need to rehang?
Well I used to have mornings like that. But then I found this amazing app called Stylebook that let's me catalog all the clothing in my closet and then put together outfits using pieces from my own closet (Is it just me or is this reading a lot like an infomercial? I promise it's all true!). All you have to do is take pictures of your clothing, or you can even pull the images off the store's websites, and then Stylebook helps you strip out the background so you can use your own clothing to assemble outfits.
I wanted to show you how easy it was to put together outfits using Stylebook, so I took the 39 pieces from my Building a Wardrobe Series : Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4; and put together a month's worth of outfits. That's another great feature of Stylebook, you can put your outfits into a calendar so you can avoid wearing the same outfit twice in a week, or you can plan out your outfits in advance.
Ok so I've talked enough about the app, how about I give you a chance to try it yourself? Today, I've partnered with Stylebook to give away 5 copies of the Stylebook App to my followers (that means you!), and you can enter right here! The giveaway will run from today to next Friday November 15th at 12:00AM PST.
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U.S. naval reactors are pressurized water reactors, which differ from commercial reactors producing electricity in that:
* they have a high power density in a small volume and run either on low-enriched uranium (as do some French and Chinese submarines) or on highly enriched uranium (>20% U-235, current U.S. submarines use fuel enriched to at least 93%, compared to between 21–45% in current Russian models, although Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker reactors are enriched up to 90%),
* the fuel is not UO2 but a metal-zirconium alloy (c.15% U with 93% enrichment, or more U with lower enrichment),[citation needed]
* they have long core lives, so that refueling is needed only after 10 or more years, and new cores are designed to last 25 years in carriers and 10–33 years in submarines,
* the design enables a compact pressure vessel while maintaining safety.
Terrestrial Energy (of Canada) is trying to develop integral molten salt nuclear fission reactors. These nuclear reactors would have about 20-200 times less volume than conventional nuclear fission reactors.
The US, Europe and China are trying to develop supercritical carbon dioxide turbines that would have 100 times less volume than regular steam turbines. The Hammer's Slammers Science fiction nuclear hovertank would be enabled with the two technologies that are under development (molten salt reactors and supercritical CO2 turbines.
By shrinking the nuclear reactor and the turbine by 100 times, plenty of other vehicles are made possible. Various nuclear ships and submarines can be revamped. Also, space bases with nuclear become more possible with one launch.
The 650 MWth IMSR (Integrated Molten Salt) reactor is about the same size as the smAHTR (125 MWth) reactor.
The smAHTR reactor is 9 meters tall (30 feet) by 3.5 meters (12 feet) in diameter.
The 220 MWth S8G reactor for the Ohio submarines is 42 feet in diameter, 55 feet long; 2,750 tons
So the IMSR with supercritical CO2 turbines would have almost 3 times as much power in an area about 16 times less area. In the range of 150-200 cubic meters and about 200-400 tons.


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Our Team
A team of hard working staff and other leaders work together to see God's mission fulfilled at Wellspring. You can find out more about them here.
Rob Imberger
Senior Pastor
Rob was saved by grace as a little one and grew up in south-eastern Melbourne. From teenager years, Rob knew God wanted him to be a pastor. Soon after finishing secondary school, Rob undertook a BTh and AdvDipMin at Ridley College, Melbourne, where he was blessed to meet and marry his beautiful wife Camille, the year before ordination and graduation in 2007.
For a few years, Rob then served as Assistant Curate at St. John's Diamond Creek, before moving to join the team at South East Bendigo Anglican Parish until 2014. Whilst in Bendigo, Rob and Camille thanked God for the arrival of their three awesome children (and now a fourth, their own little Tasmanian!). The Imbergers are loving their new adventure, and they feel confident of the Lord's sovereign leading to Wellspring Church and community. Rob commenced his role as Senior Pastor in late 2014, and continues to enjoy leading Jesus' church here.
For fun, the Imbergers variously enjoy singing, dancing, coffee, reading and the Collingwood Football Club.
Michael Chau
Chinese Pastor
Michael is the Chinese Pastor of Wellspring. He is married to Linda with three children: Georgia, Gina and Jack. The family migrated to Melbourne from Hong Kong in 2003. Michael completed his undergraduate degree with the China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing and later a Master's degree in Chinese Law from the City University in Hong Kong. He also recently completed the Australian College of Theology's Bachelor of Ministry through the Melbourne School of Theology's Chinese Department. Michael was elected Chairman of the Board of Chinese Ministries at Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Doncaster, Melbourne.
After graduation from MST he worked for 18 months as an Assistant Pastor at Melbourne Chinese Bible Church. Michasel is passionate to study God's Word and to reach out to unreached people with the Gospel of Jesus Christ; he is especially burdened to evangelise those from different Chinese backgrounds. In his spare time, Michael enjoys family life, fishing, camping, sightseeing, photography and exploring the natural wonders of God's creation.
Mary Holland
Children's Pastor
Mary moved to Tasmania in 2006 and loves Hobart madly. She loves the beaches and the coffee and her beloved West Hobart neighbourhood. She especially loves going on drives with her family, playing board games, watching old movies, and sharing life with friends. She was married in 2000 to Mark, the junior school chaplain at The Hutchins School.
God has blessed them with four gorgeous active children, Patrick (2004), Amelia (2006), Harriet (2008) and Eloisa (2011). Mary has been involved in Christian children's ministry since she was a teenager, albeit with a long break during the years when the Holland kids were smallish. She became a Christian as a child and enjoys helping kids to understand, express, and live out their faith in Christ and helping them to know and understand God's word better.
Mary is studying for her Master of Teaching degree at UTAS part-time, loves leading with her family on Anglican summer camps and being respite foster carers. She loves Wellspring Anglican and is thrilled to be the children's minister here.
Sam Gough
University Pastor
University was an influential and exciting time of growth in Sam's Christian life. He is keen for other students to experience the same thing.
Sam made a career switch from medicine to ministry. He has done many years of ministry on university campuses around Australia. He is passionate about helping people understand the Bible and connect their faith to their everyday lives.
Sam is married to Beck and they have two kids. He loves eating junk food, watching sport on tv, and wearing comfortable trackies."
Kwan Tzu Nin
Chinese Assistant Pastor
Church is the reason Kwan calls Tasmania home. Kwan came for the university in 2006 and later got married with Joanne in 2012. They were blessed with Bruno (2014) and Gwyneth (2016).
Wellspring is a church of diversity and this has helped him experience Jesus richly. Kwan is passionate about seeing people of various ethnicities gather together as families under the name of Jesus. Kwan works with the university in aquaculture research, and enjoys fishing and keeping aquarium.
Lara Nairn
Lara has grown up in Hobart and feels grateful to God to not remember a time when she didn't believe in Him. She met her husband Andy in Launceston and they were married in 2010. In 2016, they welcomed their firstborn son, David, into their lives. In the past, Lara has studied Science at UTAS and worked for a Tasmanian fruit export company. She enjoys cups of tea, playing music with her community band and cooking for friends.
Lara can help you with any questions you might have around the day to day activities of the church and its various ministries.
Noel Bowditch
Honorary Assistant
Noel is honorary Assistant Minister with responsibility for the 8am congregation. He brings to this role a breadth of ministry experience in both rural and urban contexts, school chaplaincy, church consultancy and assisting parishes in times of review and transition. Outside the parish he serves as a ministry coach and facilitates the cohort of honorary clergy in the Diocese. He enjoys reading, exercising, spending time with family and in the garden.
He is married to Lynne. They have two adult sons (Matt and Chris) and three young grandchildren.
Amy Maskell
Finance Officer
Amy grew up in Tasmania and has recently returned here after living in Sydney. Amy struggled to find a place to fit in growing up until she realised that security was found in a person, Jesus, rather than a place or organisation.
Amy is a wife to Andrew and mum to Harriet (4) and Henry (2). Andrew works with the University Fellowship of Christians at the Hobart campus and they are both passionate about endeavoring to serving Christ with all of their life.
After 9 years at a high paced accounting firm, Amy has joined our team for a change of pace and priorities and a chance to get amongst a ministry workplace.
Amy handles our finances and can help with any finance questions you might have in conjunction with our treasurer.
Charlotte Jones
Youth Ministry Intern
Charlotte has grown up knowing Jesus name and began to comprehend the magnitude of His grace in her teenage years. She is passionate about helping youth develop their faith, engage with God's word, have fellowship together and learn about Jesus. Charlotte attended St Marks Bellerive in her childhood before coming to Wellspring 3 years ago and has thoroughly enjoyed her time here. She is looking forward to the next chapter at Wellspring and continuing to engage in fellowship.
Charlotte is studying a Bachelor of Social Science at UTAS majoring in Sociology and Geography as well as undertaking a unit at Ridley Bible College. She enjoys being outdoors, reading, spending time with her family and friends and going to the beach.
Sarah Pilgrim
Children's Ministry Trainee
Sarah has had the joy of growing up in a Christian family in which she was given the opportunity to confirm her faith eagerly in her teens. She has been a member of the Wellspring community for a
number of years after making the move from Holy Trinity with her family and enjoys engaging with a broad range of people in the church but most especially children.
She loves working with kids and is excited for the opportunity to engage in spiritual growth with the children she leads. She is currently studying a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery at UTAS as well as completing a Certificate of Theology through the Timothy Partnership. When she's not working or studying (which is not often!), Sarah enjoys reading, watching classic films and going for walks on the


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TARRYTOWN, N.Y. -- A cat went missing in Tarrytown this morning.
Huck Finn ran out the front door this morning of his Kaldenberg Place home, which he shares with his family and seven other cats. He was seen running across the street and into the neighborhood.
Finn is fixed, not chipped and doesn't have a collar. He is reportedly "super nice," "eats everything" and can be captured with food.
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Viral photos: We've all seen them, and they can be supremely entertaining. Don't be so quick to believe them, though. The world is a twisted place filled with lies, including photos that come with so-called "true stories." How do you decide which ones to believe?
For starters, check out this list of the most famous viral pics on the internet. We're doing a deep investigation to uncover the frauds and give credit to those that are the real deal.
10. Brush Up On Your Amputation Skills
This "Gentlemen's Guide to Amputation" hit the web and hit it hard. The image depicts an instructional pamphlet from the 1800's dictating the necessary amputation skills you need to survive—brandy included.
Is it real, though? It's not too difficult to see this is fake, but whoever produced it certainly fooled a large portion of the internet.
9. Grin And Bear It
Yes, this is a bear falling from a tree. Actually, it's a bear falling from a tree onto a trampoline. When this was first released, everyone thought it was fake and for good reason.
Surprise, surprise: this photo is real. A bear wandered into a quaint suburban neighborhood and got stuck in a tree. Apparently, this was the only way to get the beast down safely.
8. The Saddest Picture You'll See Today
Get some tissues. Now get some more, because you might need them. Unfortunately, this heartbreaking photo of a kid locked out of a zoo because of a government shutdown is real. You can almost feel the sadness radiating from the poor kid's soul and see their tear drops. Thanks a lot, government.
Pick yourself up and get ready for something better, now…
7. The Face Of Pure Happiness
If this dog's face doesn't show pure happiness, then what the heck does? Many skeptics out there thought this photo was fraudulent but those people are wrong. The happiness here is completely real. Let's give some props to the photographer here also because this is an instant classic.
6. You Will Hope This One Is Fake
This picture symbolizes everything wrong with America, right? Don't get too worked up just yet. This picture is just a clever Photoshop job.
In reality, the shirts were supposed to read "make America great again." You can figure out which word somebody mischievously edited for yourself. Thank you so much for not being real.