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Life Princibles
Dr. Gilbert Parker
25 November 2012
Life Principles to live by from the book of Romans
In the book of Romans Paul gives us some really helpful tips on how we should live our Christian life. Our relationship with Him and how we treat others. Here are some of the life principles that I would like to follow in my life. The first one and perhaps the most important is I want to live a life that is in obedience to the Lord. I want to have the power and privilege that obedience to the Lord offers. Paul wrote in Romans 8:7-9 "for the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot. Those who are in the flesh cannot please God. You however are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if in fact the spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the spirit of Christ does not belong to him." In our culture we are very big in having control over everything. I want to be in control of my life, the master of my fate, and the captain of my ship. But the true power comes when I can hand over that power to God. In order for me to be truly obedient I need to first be able to submit my will to God's will, having the ability to admit when I do not know what is best for myself. Once I have admitted that I do not know what is best for me I then need to trust God because he does know what is best. Through that trust in Him I then should be obedient to what he tells me to do. If I am obedient to God then my mind will not be on the things of the flesh and I can have the "spirit of Christ" and belong to him. Another principle that I find important is not to pass judgment on someone else, especially when concerning the grey areas of life. Romans 14:4 "who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord will be able to make him stand." I need to be careful not to condemn my brothers and sisters in Christ...
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Releases this week are: LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham for PS3,PS4, X360, Xbox One, 3DS, WiiU, Vita, Halo: The Master Chief Collection for Xbox One, Pro Evolution Soccer 2015 for PS3, PS4, X360, Xbox One, Assassin's Creed Unity for PS4, Xbox One, How to Train Your Dragon 2 for DVD/Blu-Ray, Dumb and Dumber To for Theaters.
LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham
Release Date: November 11, 2014 | Warner Bros. | ESRB: E10+ for Everyone 10+ | PS3, PS4, X360, Xbox One, 3DS, WiiU, Vita
In LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham, the Caped Crusader joins forces with the super heroes of the DC Comics Universe and blasts off to outer space to stop the evil Brainiac from destroying Earth. Using the power of the Lantern Rings, Brainiac shrinks worlds to add to his twisted collection of miniature cities from across the universe. Now the greatest super heroes and the most cunning villains must unite and journey to different Lantern Worlds to collect the Lantern Rings and stop Brainiac before it's too late.
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Release Date: November 11, 2014 | Microsoft | ESRB: M for Mature | Xbox One
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Assassin's Creed Unity
Release Date: November 11, 2014 | Ubisoft | ESRB: M for Mature | PS4, Xbox One
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How to Train Your Dragon 2
Release Date: November 11, 2014 | 20th Century Fox | Rating: PG | DVD/Blu-Ray
The thrilling second chapter of the epic "How to Train Your Dragon" trilogy returns to the fantastical world of the heroic Viking Hiccup and his faithful dragon Toothless. The inseparable duo must protect the peace – and save the future of men and dragons from the power-hungry Drago.
Dumb and Dumber To
Release Date: November 14, 2014 | Universal Pictures | Rating: PG-13 | Theatres
Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels reprise their signature roles as Lloyd and Harry in the sequel to the smash hit that took the physical comedy and kicked it in the nuts: "Dumb and Dumber To." The original film's directors, Peter and Bobby Farrelly, take Lloyd and Harry on a road trip to find a child Harry never knew he had and the responsibility neither should ever, ever be given.
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Pole beans can be easily trained to grow on a trellis. Each plant has tendrils that will grab the trellis and hold on, keeping the plant growing upright. If it pulls away from the trellis, it only needs to be returned to a proper position. Pole beans take longer to ready for harvest, but produce more beans over a longer time. Plant in succession over a period of four to six weeks to further extend the harvest. In warm southern climates, plant a second crop in the late summer for a fall harvest.
Choose a well-drained site with full sun or partial shade. Pole beans do best with full sun. Wait until after the last frost date for planting. Construct a trellis on the site if needed.
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The Alnwick Spring Show Committee would like to thank the many individuals and organisations who contributed financially, in kind, and with their time, to help make our 10th anniversary show such a success.
Alnwick is the host of one of the few spring shows to be held in the North East of England, and as such, puts on a floral spectacle that you would have to travel many miles to see elsewhere.
The town can be proud that it attracts participants from as far away as York and Scotland, and that whilst here, most enjoy visiting some of the other delights of our beautiful area.
To all who entered, winner or not, your efforts go together to make a colourful, creative whole that is worth a few hours of anyone's time.
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Looking On The Bright Side of Health
What You Need To Know About Vitamins It is when you will take in vitamins that you will be able to achieve a healthier and disease free life. It is these vitamins that will be taken by an individual before they will be starting their day. When it is vitamins that you will also take that you will also get a quick and easy remedy. No matter how complex the vitamins that we have today that it is still important to have a well-balanced diet. Its believed n the pats wherein vitamins are the ones that will be able to provide a link between the vitamins that have been lost in your diet. With the vitamins that you will see in the past, they are not that complex as what you will see today. In order to complete and compliment what your body needs, it is the vitamins of today that is very sophisticated that it is able to do that. You have to know that getting all the necessary vitamins and minerals from the food that you eat is an impossible thing. It is your body that has optimal needs and it will be impossible to get it just from the food that you eat regardless of how balanced it is. It will never be enough no matter how much you will spend on buying the healthiest food that you can get. To be able to function well, it is your body that needs all the essential nutrients and you will not be able to get it from the food that you want.
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And it is also true that some people have restrictions in their diet making it harder for them to get the needed vitamins and minerals that they need. It is the food that they eat that will not be able to supply the right amount of vitamins especially for those that have food allergies for example. You will also be able to see some people that are easily satisfied as they have a small diet. For their body's to perform well that it is these individuals that will have a hard time on it since they will not be able to get the needed vitamins from the food that they eat.
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Based on the campaign rhetoric, voters might think Justice Louis Butler and Judge Michael Gableman were running for sheriff instead of the state Supreme Court.
Crime has been a dominant theme in the race even though the court handles far more civil than criminal cases. Both campaigns and outside groups have played up the issue.
Business groups have spent big money in television ads portraying Gableman, a former prosecutor, as tough on crime and Butler, a former defense lawyer, as favoring criminals over law enforcement. The ads are expected to intensify in the final days before the April 1 election.
Butler's campaign has responded by playing up his crime-fighting credentials and touting endorsements from law enforcement groups. "I've put criminals behind bars," he brags in one of his ads.
Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle appointed Butler to the high court in 2004. He is now running for a 10-year seat against Gableman, a Burnett County judge appointed by a Republican. The election outcome could tilt the court from a 4-3 liberal majority to a 4-3 conservative majority.
Tough-on-crime messages have worked in previous Wisconsin elections. Justice Annette Ziegler won a seat on the court last year with that theme, and J.B. Van Hollen focused on the issue during his successful 2006 campaign for attorney general.
Groups that typically aren't involved in criminal justice are hammering the issue in television ads.
They include Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce, the state's big business lobby, and Wisconsin Club for Growth, which describes itself as anti-tax and a champion of the free market. Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce calls Gableman "an ally in the war on crime," while a pro-Gableman ad from the anti-tax Wisconsin Club for Growth warns: "Criminals threaten our communities. Oddly enough, so do some judges who return them to the street."
Most legal issues involving business are too complicated for voters, and crime is a better way to mobilize them, University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Barry Burden said.
"This is a strategy they know works," he said. "That does not mean it's an accurate reflection of these groups' actual concerns."
The independent groups' ads mislead the public about the court's role in criminal cases, said Janine Geske, a Marquette University law professor who was a justice from 1993 to 1998.
The court generally has to decide whether judges made errors, whether defendants' constitutional rights were violated and what kind of evidence can be admitted, Geske said. Justices look for unique cases with statewide impact, she said.
The court does not take routine criminal cases and rarely reviews sentencing decisions. That means whether a judge is "tough on crime" matters much less in a Supreme Court campaign than it would during a circuit court race, she said.
"I think these outside groups are giving the public the impression that justices decide whether to side with the police or criminals," said Geske, who is neutral in the race. "That's not what the court is looking at at all."
The court reviews about 1,000 cases every year and takes up 100 of them. About two-thirds of the cases it reviews are civil.
Business groups are being disingenuous in focusing on crime when their real agenda is limiting civil liability, Butler's campaign adviser Sachin Chheda said.
"They don't like the results in cases where big corporations have been found guilty under the law of fraud and negligence and have harmed people," he said. "The fact they've got to talk about crime in order to try to scare voters just shows how weak their business arguments are."
Business groups have been angered by recent rulings that overturned the state's cap on medical malpractice damages, opened up paint companies to liability for lead poisoning and made it easier for plaintiffs to receive punitive damages. Butler joined all three.
Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce spokesman Jim Pugh said the group is focusing on crime in its ads because "businesses can't operate in neighborhoods that aren't safe." Butler has been part of an activist court that has both given criminals more rights and expanded business liability, he said.
Geske said a legitimate debate for the campaign is over whether criminal defendants have rights under the Wisconsin Constitution that have not been recognized under the U.S. Constitution. Butler has joined several decisions during his tenure saying they do.
The high court in 2005 adopted a new rule that police generally cannot use identification obtained through a "show-up," when police show a single suspect to a witness and ask for identification.
Butler wrote that the goal was to prevent innocent people from being wrongly identified, which he said occurs often in the procedure.
In a second case, the court ruled the state's Constitution requires courts to suppress evidence obtained when suspects' Miranda rights are intentionally violated.
The ruling barred prosecutors from using a sweat shirt that contained the victim's blood in the trial of a man accused of a 1987 murder. The man was convicted anyway.
Gableman's adviser Darrin Schmitz said such decisions have "tied the hands of law enforcement in this state."
But Chheda said Butler was protecting "fundamental rights" and trying to make sure innocent people are not convicted.


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text: Having read some exposes on the olive oil industry, I'm looking for opinions on what types of oils you use. For those who haven't read up lately, apparently the supermarket extra virgin olive oils are basically a scam. Unless it's from California or super-high-end, your average EVOO is a blend of various crap with additives and flavor enhancements and maybe some coloring. So, we have switched to buying a small bottle of CA EVOO for salads and raw uses. But what am I supposed to cook with? I can't afford to use larger quantities of the good stuff, nor does it make sense due to the lower smoking point. Do people just use canola oil? Sometimes that seems fine, but as example what about for brushing on veggies to grill? What would you use for that? Have company coming over and will probably use 1/2 cup on the grill. Canola seems kind of boring. What about plain "olive oil" (as opposed to EVOO). I put it in quotes because who knows what's really in it- the exposes I read didn't cover that! Thanks.


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Each one of these truths sounds fairly obvious and straightforward, but each was the product of tremendous thought. Take the Second Splendid Truth—it's hard to exaggerate the clarity I gained when I finally managed to put it into words. Here they are:
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At first coordinating a Club trip may seem a daunting task. However there are just a few simple things that need to be done to ensure everything runs smoothly.This Hint and Tips for Trip Coordinators document (PDF) has lots of good information about how a trip should be run.
If you're an experienced coordinator, you might just need the spreadsheet template for the treasurer.
It is important to ensure that accommodation is booked before the trip. If we have been to the locale before then the Club probably knows of a place to stay. Give the place a call a few weeks beforehand (longer on popular public holidays) to let them know we are coming and give an estimate of the numbers. It is usually better to book under the name ANU SCUBA Club rather than your own name.
Closer to the weekend you may want to give the accommodation another call to update them on the final numbers.
It is a good idea to get in touch with the local dive shop to let them know we will be around. Find out their opening hours and how much they charge for an air fill. Try to negotiate a discount on the air fills based on the large number of tanks that the Club will be getting filled. Often we can get $6 or even $5 fills if we ask nicely.
The dive shop can also give you some sort of indication on what dives are in the area if you are not sure.
This is simply a matter of deciding on a spot where people should meet for the first dive. Usually the nearest boat ramp or sometimes at the accommodation site.
Once the accommodation and the first-dive meeting place have been arranged, get in touch with the Secretary and let him/her know the details. The Secretary will publish these on the web.
The website contains the gear issue roster. Contact the Gear Issue Officer who is rostered for the gear issue before the trip and let them know they will be required to attend. Also be prepared to estimate how much gear will be required for the weekend. This allows the officer to make arrangements for extra gear if required.
The Club has an emaling list (email@example.com) that reaches the majority of its members. Around one week beforehand send a message to this list to remind people of the upcoming trip. In the email you should ask people:
If you are unable to access email, ask the Secretary to do it for you.
We are obliged by the ANU SRA to ensure that all those using Club infrastructure/equipment are both current ANU SRA and Club members. As people can not be a Club member without being an SRA member, this is easily done by checking our current members list If there is any dispute, contact the Secretary to sort it out. Direct lapsed or non-members to the SRA to join before the trip.
This is probably the most important part of coordinating the trip.
You will need to match up people who need lifts with people who can offer lifts. Usually this balances out, but if you can't find a lift for someone (even after applying pressure to the other members), then someone will have to miss out on going.
Where possible try to get new members to travel with the regulars.
You will need to let people know where we are staying and where the first dive will be.
You will also need to arrange for the boats to be towed down. Pick the people with the most suitable cars and those that are most willing to tow. Also check when the tower intends to come back to Canberra. The people towing will need keys to the shed. Spare keys should be available from the beside the gear cage, or check with the Gear Officer.
It is fairly important for the trip coordinator to turn up at gear issue. This gives you the chance to sort out any last minute arrangements.
If gear sharing is needed, make sure that gear goes down with the earliest arrivers.
Try to get a spare regulator and BC down to the coast. This makes it easier to cope with malfunctioning gear.
At gear issue, you will also need to get the boats prepared for towing. There is an instruction sheet on the web and a copy of it on the gear shed wall.
From time to time, people don't pay for their dives despite the coordinator's best efforts. We keep a list of these people in the gear shed, so at gear issue you can check whether there's anyone on your trip who still owes money. If so, try to make sure they pay their old debt before getting any gear or going on a dive.
Once at the coast your main goal is to have fun! Aside from that you need to coordinate people on boat loads. This tends to organise itself, but keep track of who went on what boat trips and where the dive was.
However, you want to ensure that the qualified divers you have on your trip actually run the trip and their diving themselves! Don't make promises that involve an obligation or reasonable expectation unless you wish to invoke your 'duty of care'. Encourage the divers on the weekend to take responsibility for themselves and use the judgement and the experience that their certifications state they have.
This said, it is important that you only permit Club boats to be used under the control of persons with current waterways boat licenses. Any such person is to be compensated by a reduction of $1 per boat ride.
The Club has a document on handling money on behalf of the Club which you should be familiar with.
At the end of the weekend you will be required to collect monies from people. If unsure, ask a committee member what you should charge for each dive (recent dives have charged $7-$12/dive for students, $12-$17/dive for others). Dont forget to charge a show-up fee for all divers (currently $8) to cover the towing subsidy. The committee has set towing reimbursement rates as a guide.
It is sometimes appropriate for the coordinator to collect the accommodation money as well, especially in places like national parks. Keep the receipts for such expenses and include with your trip sheet. (If a receipt is lost somewhere along the way, you can use an expenses form, but receipts are preferred.)
The cost for each person will be the total of their dives, minus towing reimbursement, minus costs such as buying fuel for the boats (make sure you get a receipt, even if you have to write one on a scrap of paper). Remember that licensed boat drivers qualify for discount of $1 per ride, and if you're a student member organising the trip, you get one free dive.
Do not let people use other non-trip Club expenses to cancel out their trip expense (eg. if someone has paid a Club trailer registration before the weekend); this just confuses the accounts. Instead ask them to deal with the Club Treasurer.
In the rare case that you aren't able to retreive the money, even though you have tried several times to contact the debtor, put the person on the black list in the shed and deposit the rest. Likewise check the black list before any trip. Nobody is allowed to go on any further trip or hire any gear before all debts are paid.
While you are collecting monies from people, ask them if they have had any troubles with their gear. Note which piece of gear and what the problem was.
The boats require cleaning by trip attendees relatively soon the return to Canberra. Pick a time that ensures a good turnout (evenings are good in summer, lunchtime during the winter) - usually the day following the trip - and announce it both at the coast and by email on the morning of the cleaning. Make sure you also arrange a shed key so you can get access.
Instructions for cleaning the boats are on the web and a copy should be on the shed wall. It is important that the boat motors be flushed with fresh water as soon as possible, and the boats and their trailers rinsed after the trip.
While there are water restrictions in Canberra and not at the coast, it's a good idea to take a hose and tap adapters to flush motors and wash boats while at the coast. If this doesn't happen they will need to be done in Canberra - we can flush motors, but other washing needs to happen at (eg) CarLovers.
It is important the hydraulic rams of the trim 'n' tilt and the steering mechanisms are wiped free of any road grime and then sprayed with a water displacing lubricant (eg Inox).
If there is any residual accounting from the weekend, arrange with people to make any outstanding payments and finalise the trip accounts.
Send a summary of all payments and expenses to the trip participants - this ensures accountability and transparency, and also serves as a receipt for their payment. A copy of the trip accounts sheet minus any members personal details (phone numbers email addresses etc) is a good solution here.
Deposit the weekend's surplus into the Club bank account. The Club has a bank account at the Commonwealth Bank on campus. You should deposit the trip takings directly into this account (manually or electronically), and place the following paper into the Scuba Club pigeon hole at the SRA, where it will be collected by the treasurer:
Account details are:
Name: The ANU SCUBA Diving Club
Statement account
BSB number: 062903
Account number: 00900324
Description: Your name (most important information!), trip date, location (if enough space left)
Finally, please send the committee the following:
The trip organiser who's the fastest to hand in everything perfectly completed will be promoted to treasurer.


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It's always when you least expect something to happen, that it usually does, happen. Basically, you get yourself out of the ghetto for an afternoon, take yourself off to Islington, go on a relaxing, mind your own business stroll, and then suddenly, the heavens open up, and down floats Gabriel. I was actually thinking, prior to his unexpected appearance about heaven, well, not actually in the form of ... you know - angels, golden harps, Jesus sandals, Angels of Enoch goblets and cheeky chubby cherubs, whimsical fairies (hang on a minute, what have the fairies got to do with it? I don't know they like to turn up from time to time) and Divine angels with intuitive noses, heavenly hippy groupies, Ice fairies sitting on Unicorns (hang on a minute, what have the unicorns got to do with it?) no, you see, what I was considering was my leannan. I was thinking about my leannan, and thinking this is definitely DRAÍOCHT, something which is probably beyond even Sealbhtha.
Plucking me out of my heavenly pursuits and removing me from a pleasurable ride on the back of a unicorn, with a cute little ice-fairy, came this rough (we're talking 80 fags a day) Scouser's voice, really working class kind of accent. Not might kind, I prefer the toffs myself, especially the newly established doctor Finlay.
Angel Gabriel: Oi, you!! Kenzie!!! Look, I don't have all frigging day mate. Coz, like, I've got another three hundred and forty million other losers to visit. It's about your Kanga - Mooh, love. I've got a potential victim. I mean owner darling. He's an old bloke that plays the banjo, off Upper Street, down one of those pretentious little cobbled stoned side streets, you know with all those over prized fucking antique shops. Crooks the lot of them, might wear Armani, but they're a bunch of toffee nosed tossers. You really can't differentiate between them and the cheesy used car salesmen. They're ALL the fucking same in my book, all from the book of fucking crooks, except, when they smile, it's all porcelain implants. Good job Jesus isn't alive coz he would be having a fucking fit right now. He doesn't like greedy tossers like that. Goes back to his days in the temple, it's scarred him, poor lad. And, he's got too many fucking scars, let me tell you.
Me: What temple?
Angel Gabriel: As I said you stupid tart, I don't have all day. After this I've got to go up to Enfield for a guinea pig's funeral. Some sentimental gay, Tory bloke, from Tottenham, has just buried his guinea pig. Wants some holy water to help alleviate the pain. Anyway, go forth and don't multiply, you're already too fat ... and sweet Jesus be with you.
Me: Do you think he'll look after my Kanga - Mooh properly?
Angel Gabriel: Fuck knows! He says he would. He said a little prayer earlier. He looked honest enough, and he plays his instrument well.
Me: You mean his banjo?
Angel Gabriel: Fuck off, you know exactly what I meant, when I said his 'instrument'. Tart! The big fella likes it. He says his music is heavenly. So, fuck it! Give him your Kanga, lass.


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Credit card processing fees are a necessary cost of doing business. With each swipe of a card, a fee is charged, which doesn't break your profits on each individual transaction. However, the fees can mount up over the course of month and become a significant business expense. For a fledgling business, every cent counts towards profitability, so it is important to reduce your processing costs.
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The card processing industry contains complicated fee structures that can put small businesses at the mercy of their merchant services providers. It is important to understand the fee structure and how all of the parties share in it to create your end cost.
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Card network providers such as Visa and MasterCard charge assessment fees which comprise about 3 to 5% of the processing expense. They are also not negotiable.
The card processor makes its money primarily on the markup over and above the interchange and assessment fees. This is where you may have some negotiating room, depending on your sales volume and your willingness to push the issue. The markup of the more competitive processors is somewhere between 15 and 20% of the total processing costs. The markup becomes your true basis for comparing card processors. However, it is also important to know how the processor charges a markup fee. Often, they bundle their fee with the interchange and assessment fee, which can result in a higher overall fee expense to you.
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Jack of all trades, master of none.
Not me. I'm definitely the master of procrastination. Not entirely sure what I've been doing but almost 6 months has flew past and I'm nowhere near my goals or saving the world (HAHA). Been procrastinating for the longest time simply because I can't be bothered to edit my photos. And so, I've decided to simply abandon all attempts to edit (except the occasional auto enhance/crop). Whatever that gets the ball rolling right.
So Marmaris. Why Marmaris? Why not? I was searching on day trips out of Rhodes and Marmaris popped up, being just an hour ride out from Rhodes by ferry. Decided to spend a couple of nights there instead of just a day in hope of checking out the Turkish culture.
When in Marmaris, I absolutely had to… eat at McDonald's. Part of my grand plan to eat at McDonald's in every country that has McDonald's. Speaking of which, I am extremely disappointed to find out that Vatican city does not have one. Back to Marmaris, how does one know if one has arrived at the city centre (with vague directions)? When you see a McDonald's! Hahahaha.
The Turkish (healthy) breakfast special!
Marmaris is a port town located in Mugla Province where supposedly yachts worth more than 10 million can be found docked at the port. We couldn't identify which but we did notice that 7 out of 10 traffic lights were not in service (due to repainting of crossing lines) though the drivers there were mostly really nice and would stop for us to cross most of the time.
A different kind of sea view. One where the sea doesn't meet the sky.
After wading in the sea for like forever, I finally got my ass up, bought a towel & a float (WHAT) at the nearest store and braved the icy waters. I now understand why people there are such huge fans of the swimming in sea. The water is incredibly clear with super soft sand! It doesn't look blue due to the black sand beach and while the sand is pretty coarse near the shore, it is SUPER soft as I wade further down. PLUS, the water is super calm and shallow for quite a distance with the orange balloons indicating deeper waters. Despite the cold, it was really pretty awesome.
No better way to warm up than having a cup of turkish tea, turkish pastry, which tastes awesome dipped in tea, and colorful flowers. 🙂
Our first cup didn't come in the traditional turkish tea cup and saucer so off we went in search for more tea. I really did enjoy sitting down in the evening with a hot cup of tea BUT there were just too many chain smokers who go on stick after stick making it pretty unbearable for us.
And of course, turkish coffee from Panorama (recommended by lonely planet which I can't figure out why) located at the old town! Was tempted to get this pretty little cup back for when we have guests over, which is never. So…
Another view of the port from the restaurant.
Had fun wandering around the gorgeous sloped alleys of the old town with absolutely no fear of getting lost. Because it was a really small town.
Was tempted to try getting a turkish bath but didn't feel quite comfortable with the dim interiors.
There is definitely a lot more to Marmaris. Day trips to be taken, water sports and such but LF and I were actually pretty tired from moving around so we decided to take a break and simply do nothing.
Ending of with my one and only shot of Icmeler, which in my opinion, is pretty much the same as Marmaris but more costly.


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Despondent and shocked viewers are saying the 7th season finale of Tropika Island of Treasure broadcast Monday night on SABC3 is "rigged" after the team of Anga Makubalo (NaakMusiQ) and Bonginkosi Ndima unexpectedly won out over team Siv Ngesi and Khabonina Shabangu in an ugly-looking 12th episode that didn't deliver a pay-off on the narrative that was set out in the preceding 11 episodes.
While team Siv Ngesi and Khabonina Shabangu consistently showed the better team spirit, determination and bigger muscle and strategising brain power in the preceding 11 episodes, the finale of Clover's Tropika Island of Treasure turned the expected narrative on its head in the 12th episode on Monday night.
Team Siv suddenly floundered, looked defeatist and unsure and uncertain, while Team Anga cruise to a victory that from a viewer perspective just didn't feel right.
Team Anga never won a single challenge during the duration of the season, yet emerged as the winner in the final challenge.
Although the finale of Tropika Island of Treasure fell flat - spectacularly so - the latest 7th season of the series was dramatically better and better produced as a reality show that what's it ever looked before on e.tv and SABC1.
On social media viewers slammed the show after they didn't get the outcome they wanted and that they feel they - and Siv Ngesi and Khabonina Shabangu - deserved, saying the show "showed us that while some work so bloody hard to succeed others easily get it off the plate".
"What nonsense bull just happened in the finale with that puzzle ... Team Siv deserved to win", "#TIOT7 looks rigged to me! Typical reality show ... has to end with an underdog victory" are just some of the comments people made on social media who were not impressed with the Tropika Island of Treasure finale.
Even comedian Donovan Goliath weighed in saying "Hmmmm something feels off. Rigged perhaps."
"#TIOT7 was rigged," said I Am Jeffrey. "Wow. 'Reality' TV. That seemed authentic. TV makers love to stage an underdog story," said Angel Campey.
"Hello SABC3, how do I delete a rigged episode of your kak show #TIOT7? You wasted my damn time," asked Ayesha.
Miantha Padayachee, Tropika brand manager told TVwithThinus in response to a media enquiry that "there are hundreds of thousands of viewers all of which are entitled to their own opinions".
"We have built a loyal and passionate following during the 7th season. Favourite teams were selected by viewers and that was incredible to watch on social media every week. We are proud of season 7 and are looking forward to planning season 8."
There will be a Tropika Island of Treasure Reunion Special episode on Monday 19 June at 19:30 on SABC3.
The 7th season of Tropika Island of Treasure, although it had a very small audience following its flip from SABC1 to SABC3, was a ratings hit given the SABC3 demo, with episodes managing to rate high enough to secure spots on SABC3's most watched list in April and May.
This, together with the metric of strong social media engagement from viewers, makes an 8th season of Tropika Island of Treasure very likely.


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Obamacare also says insurers can only use four basic factors, such asage and geographical location, to determine rates for premiums and deductibles. AHCA specifically addresses states abilities to get a waiver so that health status is no longer protected from underwriting, according to a House Energy and Commerce aide. But other protections remain in place including for mental conditions and conditions relating to acts of domestic violence and are still protected from being incorporated into insurance underwriting, according to the aide. States and the Secretary of Health and Human Services woulddecide how to interpret health status. State waivers must be approved by the federal government. Opponents of AHCA say that because health status is up for interpretation, there is no control in the bill to prevent rising costs for survivors of rape and sexual assault. But there is another wrinkle which makes this scenario highly unlikely: Virtually every state already has a law prohibiting insurance discrimination based on sexual assault and/or domestic violence. At least 45 states have laws prohibiting health insurance companies from using a womans status as a domestic violence survivor to deny coverage, according to the National Womens Law Center. Domestic violence is not always interchangeable with sexual assault, including rape. All but two states (Idaho and Vermont) enacted key provisions of a 1999 model legislation by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners to ban insurers from discriminating against sexual abuse survivors, according to Americas Health Insurance Plans, a trade association for1,300 health insurance companies.The organization, which said AHCA needs important improvements, said: Our perspective is that of course survivors of domestic abuse and rape should be covered. Bottom line: Almost all states (at least 45 to48) have their own laws protecting survivors of domestic violence and sexual abuse.
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ALBERT TWP. — In response to community complaints and to help the Albert Township zoning office run more smoothly, the township board has adopted two new policies: one concerning writing municipal civil infraction tickets on behalf of Albert Township; and a second governing the Albert Township zoning administrator's office.
The policies come on the heels of an hour-long closed session meeting in January where township officials voted unanimously to require all zoning complaints, violations, civil infractions and correspondence with the township attorney to go through the township supervisor's office.
That closed session was at the request of zoning administrator Kathy Podzikowski, about whom some residents had complained.
After a lengthy discussion at the February meeting concerning language, the board voted 3-1 to accept the policies. Treasurer John Righi opposed the policies because he wanted the order of the steps changed.
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When it comes to your money habits, have you been naughty or nice this year? Blogger Stephanie Taylor Christensen outlines smart money behaviors for the year to come.
Have your money decisions this year secured your spot on Santa's nice list—or do they justify a visit from his polar opposite, Krampus?
Santa's Nice List:
You Track Your Money
Knowing where your money goes—and whether every dollar you spend, save, or invest is aligned with your financial reality and future goals—scores you a spot on the Nice list. Whether you track your cash with an app, budgeting software, a spreadsheet, or pen and paper isn't nearly as important as doing so consistently. Eventually, you'll spot which financial choices work for you—and which need fine-tuning.
You Seek Answers to Financial Questions
Just 37 percent of respondents on the National Financial Capability Study (NFCS) received scores indicating a high level of financial literacy. Further, experts at FINRA explain that, based on their quiz responses, most people self-report a greater understanding of financial concepts (like inflation and the impact interest rates have on savings and the cost of loans) than they actually know.
Not knowing how to manage your money isn't something to be embarrassed about! One report estimates just 10 states spend more than 15 hours of classroom time teaching personal finance concepts to high school students.
Financially responsible Grownups acknowledge what they don't know about money and look for the financial answers needed to succeed. "Those with higher financial literacy are more likely to plan for retirement and to have an emergency fund, and less likely to engage in expensive credit card behaviors," explain the FINRA experts.
If you choose to remain financially unaware, you're sure to be on the Naughty list this year.
You Avoid or Eliminate Credit Card Debt
The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston reports just 35 percent of people who use credit cards pay the balance in full each month. If you currently carry a credit card balance, you need a plan to manage your spending so the debt doesn't continue to climb. Eventually, you want to get rid of the debt entirely. Whether you tackle the smallest credit card balance first or focus on the one with the highest interest rate first, there's a spot on the Nice list for those committed to making their debt part of holidays past.
Krampus' Naughty List:
You Accumulate More Stuff than Savings
Grownups know how to edit their list of everything the heart desires down to just a few items. Your personal definition of a want versus a need should reflect a similar approach, so you're able to make consistent contributions to an emergency savings account. (Ideally, you should save enough to fund at least six months of your monthly living expenses.)
Despite that no one knows when a financial emergency like illness or job loss could strike, a Federal Reserve study reveals 46 percent of Americans could not pay for an unplanned expense of just $400 without having to borrow money, use a credit card, or sell an item of value. Setting aside even small amounts of money for emergency savings (like $20 from each paycheck) requires you say no to some purchases—but it can make a major difference in how vulnerable you are to the unexpected. If you aren't even trying to save, be ready to plead your case to Krampus!
You Let Emotions Drive Financial Choices
If you don't have a financial plan, emotions will steer you toward Naughty List decisions: You buy what you can't afford as a reward for a stressful workday. You invest in a home you're not sure you're ready to buy because your ego tells you to keep up with your friends. You see a panic-inducing headline about the stock market, and sell everything in your portfolio.
If you don't have a few well-defined goals to keep you working toward the financial life you want, emotions will cloud your financial judgment. It's never too late to change course, but you have to be willing to make a plan to eliminate the impact that envy, desire, and even boredom have on your financial choices and habits.
You Tap Into Your Retirement Funds
Your retirement accounts should be the last place you go to fund any non-essential purchase (until you're at least 59 ½ years old). In the eyes of the Internal Revenue Service, tapping your retirement funds to pay for things other than expenses related to medical bills, disability, higher education costs, taxes, or a first-time home purchase (among a few other specific reasons) justifies a 10 percent early withdrawal penalty. On top of that, you could you get hit with a significant tax bill based on how much cash you withdraw—and how it impacts your tax bracket. A shiny new car or luxury getaway is tempting when you have money sitting in a retirement account, but part of keeping Krampus at bay is walking away from short-term pleasure that will hinder your financial future.
Stephanie Taylor Christensen is a former financial services marketer turned freelance writer who covers personal finance, career, health, and small business news. She is the owner of Om for Mom prenatal yoga in Columbus, Ohio. Connect with her on Twitter.
Any third-party resources or websites referenced above are not under Society of Grownups control. Society of Grownups cannot guarantee and are not responsible for the accuracy of the resources, websites, or any products or services available through such resources or websites.
While Society of Grownups hopes the information is useful, it's only intended to provide general education. It's not legal, tax, or investment advice, and may not apply or be useful to your specific financial situation. If you need recommendations geared to your personal financial situation, schedule time with a financial planner.


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I don't know if I am anymore interesting but I am feeling happier...
The show opened. Done.
I am officially unemployed for the first time in over a year. Very unusual for me. I need the rest. So far in the two days I've been home I have had 3 naps a day. This is partially due to my back though.
I had a stiff back friday and woke up with it still there saturday. I thought i was getting a flu it was so achy. But I did some stretched and popped a few things back there only to discover the biggest knot I have ever had. By the time I had done my stretches I couldn't even bend over to put my pants on, forget picking up my car keys off the floor. The dictator had a good laugh or two at my expense. I had a lunch date with all my olympic buddies (it was so good to see them again) minus the boys and managed to sit through that. But by the time I got home I could barely get out of Cathy's car. AHHH! Lot's of heat and ice and the dictator beating me up - I mean - massaging me and it loosened up a little. I can get to the floor today SLOWLY. It really hurts though, just touching it feels like a huge bruise on my back. Tomorrow I will go find some professional help. Chiropractor or something.
I've been doing a bit of beading on my wearable art but not much else due to the lack of movement. The puppies are always happy to have a family nap though....
Not much else is new. Planning the wedding - found a new planner who is great. Had a sit down with the dictator to go over a few things he's all over it and as excited as me. Things are starting to come together..... Now I'm trying to get some people together to go fake wedding dress shopping. I wanna be a tacky bride!
anyways. happy. Tired and happy. But I have time to sleep now.
Where are we heading
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To end the week I am taking my cue from CTV Winnipeg and doing the cheap, old lady-friendly cute animal story.
I've seen the news about UVic's campus being overrun by once-domestic bunnies so I thought I would check it out. Oh my, they certainly did have bunnies. Hundreds upon hundreds of them. You can see in the pics that they are everywhere !!
It's a cute but sad story as they started out as unwanted pets that people chose to dump rather than take responsibility for.
UVic has been working on a rabbit management plan but the problem is breeding like rabbits and creating dangers on playing fields so a capture and adoption program is likely next on the management plan.
If UVic gets the bunny issue under control, there is another one that has been brewing: urban deer. On my visit I saw five in one hour !
I think they should just toss in a few pot-bellied pigs, call it UVic Petting Zoo and charge toursits to come see them ! After all, it could be worse....
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Gospel: Luke 2:1-20
1st Reading: Isaiah 9:2-7
2nd Reading: Titus 2:11-14
I met Mary and Joseph and the baby Jesus this week. It isn't as glamourous as it sounds for me or them. It was the icy Thursday morning. I finally had a block of time I could work on my sermon. Susan got the phone. A young woman was crying. It was Mary. They have been staying at Budget Inn. The are on the waiting list for the SON program. They have no car. They have a 10 month old baby. She was terrified that they'd have to stay outdoors in these freezing temperatures. The owner of the hotel let them stay last night out of pity. They owed last night and hoped to also get tonight's room paid for. $154.90 total. She said, "You couldn't possibly help with that much, could you?" She'd been on the phone constantly the past few days trying to figure out what they were going to do. She told me she and her husband had been two years clean and sober, from meth addiction. "That's something, isn't it!" She was ashamed and proud at the same time. But she said they both have a criminal record, which makes it hard for them to find work. Here they were doing what was right and it wasn't enough. I really knew they were desperate when she asked if we had any food. They have a microwave and can opener and a few bowls at the hotel.
I really didn't want to write my sermon, so don't think I'm trying to make myself the hero of this story. It is thanks to you and the Boy Scouts and Maritime Café, the marijuana dispensary that collects and donates food for the pantry every year, it is thanks to this community, both the church and the neighborhood, that we had food downstairs that came after we were completely wiped out by our December distribution. It is thanks to Barb who makes the time to get a check done and mailed from her office even in a busy holiday season. I put together a box of food that could be cooked in a microwave and even a few little squeeze packets of baby food and drove it over to them along with a letter stating that we would pay the hotel costs.
I talked to the owner to make sure they were legit, they really did have a baby and they were good customers. I don't want to become known as the gullible pastor who doesn't check things out. And then I went back to the car to get the boxe of food. Mary came down the stairs and she was so grateful and worried all at the same time. Would her little family have a place to lay their heads? She wore a sweatshirt with holes in the sleeves. She had nothing but her family and her sobriety and some small bit of hope. Joseph came down to the car to get the box of food. He was grateful and worried, too. I gave Mary a card with all the warming centers and their telephone numbers on it. She asked if she could give me a hug and I said "Of course." That hug was for all of you. I told her to call me and give me an update. She said she would.
On the drive back to church, I missed my turn onto Jennings because I was pondering all these things. I thought of the money in my wallet. I should have given it to her. I wouldn't miss it. To her it might mean another night of warmth. One more day she wouldn't worry. I thought of my family, my warm, growing boy who had never known a day of want, who had so many toys he couldn't possibly play with them all. I thought of my community, people who love me and help me and look after me and I take it for granted. I thought of my problems—how will I fit in all my meetings and get my son from school and volunteer with the PTA and find time for relational meetings and reach out to people who aren't very happy with how I am serving them or this church.
Here is Mary, far from home, beginning a new journey as a mother. What are her hopes for her child? Here is Joseph, ready to work and support his family, but all the odds are against him. Here are all these houses sitting empty from foreclosure, two on my block—the third one was finally torn down, and here are families lacking housing. Can no one do anything about it? How many derelict houses did Mary and Joseph pass and stare at longingly as was starting to go into labor? Here are the arbitrary temperatures that we say are inhumane to keep people indoors that we use to determine when warming centers are open. When is it ever humane to let a baby sleep outside? Yet here we have a story of Jesus, baby Jesus, sleeping outside as so many homeless and refugees do every single night.
It is not very glamourous to see the world the way it is, with government used to count people in the census, not so they count, but so they can be abused and discounted. It is not very glamourous to sit among the houseless at the warming center and see the toll of living on the streets. It is not very glamourous to give birth in a cattle shed. It is not very glamourous for your job to be watching over sheep. I decided the modern-day equivalent would be gas-station attendant. Lo, they were watching over their pumps by night, when behold an angel of the Lord stood before them and the glory of the Lord shone around them." They wipe off their hands and straighten their vests and walk into town to see for themselves.
It isn't very glamourous for your baby's first visitors to be a bunch of gas station attendants or smelly, dirty sheep herders, yet there they are The shepherds are a very special kind of leader, who care for the sheep, bind up their wounds, know them by name, protect them from wolves. These shepherds come to a cattle stall, a place they knew well. This was their turf. There they find the one who would become the good shepherd. Finally a King who cares about everyone from the least to the greatest. Here the baby Jesus was met by what he would become. And the shepherds become more than shepherds, they become the ones entrusted with more than sheep, they are entrusted with the good news of great joy, and they tend it well. I wonder about the shepherds after that. They must have wondered what became of that baby, that Messiah, that promise. Did they see in each child they met after that the potential Messiah? Did they look for him among the children they encountered?
We read the story and we might feel tempted to get sentimental. But there are real-life holy families all around us. Mary and Joseph still wander the city looking for a place to bring the Christ child into this world. If we search our hearts, and ask ourselves whether we have room for a little one like this, most of us hesitate. Is it safe? Is it convenient? Is it glamourous? Is it fun? The answer to all of these is no. When I ask myself, do I love the Christ Child or my security and comfort more, I'm afraid of my answer.
It is true that we have rejected the Prince of Peace, Mighty God, Wonderful Counselor. We crucify him every day by leaving him in the cold, executing him in our prisons, taking away his access to health care, etc. But the amazing thing is that this shepherd king, who sees us for who we are and knows us entirely, makes his home with us, gathers us at his table, gives us his very body, gives us his life. We constantly reject him, yet the light is shining. There is hope because that hope doesn't depend on us. It comes from God who is love and who we can count on. Because of that love and hope our hearts begin to long for a different world than we participate in and support. Because of love and hope, we might open our eyes to see Mary and Joseph and baby Jesus in the poor and hungry. Because of that love and hope and grace, we let go of those things that distract us from God's vision of peace and justice and make life harder for people already having a hard time, and take on the new life that God is leading us toward.
I met Mary today. She's a mother with two teenagers, fleeing domestic violence. She needs food for her family. Her eyeliner was thick and there were bags under her eyes. She talked too much. But she is the one God has chosen to bear the good news, the Christ Child, and when Mary calls for help, I don't want to be the innkeeper who turns her away.


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Blake Lively Becomes One with Italian Food, Gets Very Messy!
Blake Lively wears a cute floral dress while filming scenes for her upcoming movie All I See Is You on Friday (July 31) in Barcelona, Spain.
The 27-year-old actress recently got down and dirty during an event where everyone stomped tomatoes on the ground and got covered in mush.
Blake documented the fun in three Instagram photos and first showed off a "before" look in which she was still clean and looking a bit frightened for what was to come.
In her usual fashion, Blake wrote some awesome hashtags to go along with the following photos. See below!
FYI: Blake is wearing the Amour Vert Misa dress, a Preserve exclusive.
Click inside to see Blake Lively's after photos covered in tomatoes…


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We all got together at Derrick's house on Christmas day and it was fun to put the three newest Ellis boys together. Lance is on the left, Jared is in the middle, and Tristan is on the right. While we were there, Mark made a comment that with so many babies around it was hard to tell which one was which. Without thinking about it I said, "Mine is the white one." After looking at this picture, I also noticed that mine is the tallest one as well.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Three little boys
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Happy Birthday Larry and Joshua
Joshua's birthday was January 23. We had a party in Boise at Grandma C's house. All the Boise cousins came and we went to PoJo's to play. The boys loved the bumper cars. The attendent was very nice and even let Joseph drive one by himself. Joshua loves superheros and he asked if he could have a Spiderman party. I got up early so that I could make cupcakes and cake and decorate them for the party. Larry's birthday is January 22 so we celebrated them together. Larry didn't request a specific kind of party so he got Spiderman as well.
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Thursday, August 6, 2009
Show Me the Money!!
My sisters Janet and Mollie, and me and Larry got together one day and took our kids to the zoo in Boise. They all loved it. In this picture they are waiting their turn to ride on the Merry Go Round which cost $1. They are all proud to show off their dollars. Little Whitney is in front, then from left to right there is Preston, Joshua, and Joseph.
The boys loved the zoo. It has been a couple of months and Joseph still talks about the lions, he makes sure to get a roar in every time that he says "lion". Joshua's favorite was the monkeys.
The boys loved the zoo. It has been a couple of months and Joseph still talks about the lions, he makes sure to get a roar in every time that he says "lion". Joshua's favorite was the monkeys.
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As I have said before, my boys love their super heros. For Halloween last year, Joshua really wanted to be Batman, but we couldn't find a Batman costume that fit him. So instead he go a Power Ranger costume and I made a black cape so that he could pretend that he was Batman. Since that time the Power Ranger costume has become a generic super hero costume. Basically, Joshua decides which super hero he wants to be and then he puts on the costume. Joseph on the other hand was a monkey for Halloween. At the time he was too little to really understand what was going on. However, now he wants to be a super hero too, so he puts on his monkey costume and he is SUPER MONKEY. So in this picture we have SUPER JOSH AND SUPER MONKEY JOS.
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A few months ago we decided that we needed to get bunk beds for our boys. Mostly because I was tired of Joseph falling out of his toddler bed because it was too small. On the first day that Larry got the bed set up, both boys and their cousin Whitney had to get on top and play. Since then, Joseph has figured out how to climb up so that he can wake up his older brother in the mornings. Neither one of them can wait for the other one to wake up so they wake each other up. Then they hug and are so happy to see each other. Then, after about 20-30 minutes they are fighting, and so goes the the rest of the day. They are either loving each other or fighting.
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Bucket Boy Josey
I don't know what is so fun about sitting in a bucket, but my boys love to play "Bucket Boy". One of them just sits in the bucket and laughs while the other one dances around and sings "Bucket Boy, Bucket Boy!"
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Detailed below are the Roy Morgan Readership estimates for New Zealand for the 12 months to June 2018.
Cross-Platform Audience is the number of New Zealanders who have read or accessed individual newspaper content via print or online.
Print is net readership in an average 7 days. Online is net readership online in an average 7 days.


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Charlie Teagarden
Charlie Teagarden (July 19, 1913, Vernon, Texas – December 10, 1984, Las Vegas, Nevada), known as 'Smokey Joe', was an American jazz trumpeter. He was the younger brother of Jack Teagarden. His nickname was Little T.[1]
Teagarden worked locally in Oklahoma before he and Jack joined Ben Pollack's Orchestra in 1929. Pollack's recordings were Teagarden's first. He then worked with Red Nichols (1931) and Roger Wolfe Kahn (1932) before doing an extended run in Paul Whiteman's orchestra (1933–40). In 1936 he, Jack, and Frankie Trumbauer played together in the ensemble The Three T's.
Teagarden played in his brother's big band in 1940, but soon branched off to lead his own ensembles. He played with Jimmy Dorsey in 1948-50 and Bob Crosby from 1954–58, as well as working with Pete Fountain in the 1960s. He worked steadily in Las Vegas after 1959. His only release as a leader was issued in 1962 on Coral Records. At the 1963 Monterey Jazz Festival, he performed with Jack, sister Norma, and mother Helen. Teagarden went into semi-retirement in the 1970s.
- ^ Alyn Shipton. "Teagarden(4): Charlie Teagarden". In Deane L. Root. Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. Oxford University Press. (subscription required)


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More often than not, cold sores will naturally heal, but they usually take a long time and you just want to know how to eliminate cold sores quickly. There are many medications that can speed up the healing process of these sores as well as home based remedies.
You can find how to eliminate cold sores even at in the comfort of your own home. You could use ice cubes to reduce the swelling – just rub a cube gently on the sores for a few minutes. You can do this every 10 minutes for around one hour.
Maybe there are herbal plants in your backyard like Aloe Vera or sage (or if not then you can get them). Get some extract from sage then apply a few drops on the sores. Use the flesh of Aloe Vera to get fast relief. Lysine is also effective in inhibiting the virus. 2000mb to 3000 mg of lysine supplements a day is suggested for people who experience sore outbreaks 2 or 3 times per year. These supplements are available at any heath foods store.
Moreover, there are drugs and creams for these sores that you can purchase in any drug store. You can buy Zovirax, Famvir, or Valtrex to shorten the duration of the virus infection resulting in quick relief from the sores. Creams like Abreva are able to block the sore outbreak and help in making the sores heal swiftly. There are also gels which are good in soothing the pain and itch, such as Zilactin, Herpetrol and Aloe gel.
These methods for how to eliminate cold sores are undoubtedly effective. Yet, you must be aware that these do not prevent you from having a sore outbreak again, because these are not capable of eliminating the virus infection. Once the sores are healed, the virus remains in the ganglia (the end part of our nerves) waiting for any factors that can trigger its action again.


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GREENCASTLE, Pa. — As part of the commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, the Allison-Antrim Museum in Greencastle hosted five nationally recognized Civil War speakers on Saturday.
Ted Alexander, chief historian at Antietam National Battlefield, presented "Military Units of Franklin County in the Civil War."
Diseases such as measles and chickenpox could kill you back then, Alexander told those who assembled in the barn behind the museum to listen to his talk.
"Diseases quickly whittled down a regiment," he said.
A typical Civil War regiment was typically 900 to 1,000 men, but because of disease, desertion and other factors, was down to 500 to 600 men by the time the regiment hit the field, Alexander said.
Bonnie Shockey, president of the board of directors of the Allison-Antrim Museum, said this year is the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Campaign.
Civil War veterans didn't meet every five or 10 years after the war, she said.
"They had a reunion every single year from the close of the Civil War until the last Civil War veteran died," Shockey said. "They wanted the nation to remember what they fought for, what their comrades gave their lives for, to preserve the union."
Washington Township historian John Miller shared his knowledge of the Civil War with visitors.
"The Civil War is what defined America as we see it today," Miller said.
He gave one of the lectures, "Fire on the Mountain: The Battle of Monterey Pass."
"I've heard several Gettysburg park rangers say that in order to understand the whole Pennsylvania campaign and the retreat from Gettysburg, one has to go to Monterey Pass in order to get the complete story, and I completely agree with them," Miller said.
Rex Henry of Greencastle listened to the Civil War speakers on Saturday.
"It's a nice way to spend a day in town," Henry said while carrying away a Civil War book and a CD.
"I'm not obsessed yet," he joked.
Bringing this into town is a great thing, he said.
"You'd have to travel to Fredericksburg (Va.) or (Washington) D.C. to see this many speakers brought into one location for such a short period of time," Henry said.
Loueda Aiken of Florida was in town visiting family. She heard about the Civil War lectures and stopped to listen.
"I like history, especially Civil War history, and I'm a teacher," Aiken said. "I wanted to see if I could learn anything new."
She walked away with quite a bit of new information from Alexander's talk.


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NetKernel News Volume 6 Issue 4
March 27th 2015
Repository Updates
NOTE: As announced previously, Java 6 is now end-of-life and since January 2015 all modules are built and target Java 7. Do not attempt to install updates if you are still running Java 6.
The following updates are available in the NKSE and NKEE repositories...
- database-relational-1.18.1
- Ehnancement to the configuration of the ConnectionPoolAspect - now supports
which, in the event that the pool is fully consumed will wait a designated time in order to try to provide a connection. Default behaviour is unchanged where an exception is thrown if no connections are free. Thanks to Dave McCormack at Boston College for suggesting and testing this.
- Ehnancement to the configuration of the ConnectionPoolAspect - now supports
- http-client-2.22.1
- Security enhancement - SSLSocketFactory now defaults to use TLS v1.2 even on Java 7 (see below).
The following update is available in the NKEE repositories...
- encrypted-module-factory-1.15.1
- We managed to find a way to get the more tolerant licensed module factory to update via Apposite (so just accept this update - no need to do clean install to get this enhancement as we suggested previously )
HTTP Client TLS v1.2
By default Java 7 still uses TLS v1.0 for secure sockets. TLS v1.0 is known to be vulnerable to the BEAST attack potentialy exploitable with javascript.
Java 8 now defaults to TLS v1.2 and, in fact, Java 7 supports TLS v1.2 - however, for reasons of being "compatible with historical servers", it is not used as the default!
Given that we have now made Java 7 the minimal Java target platform, we've taken the opportunity to improve TLS capability of the http-client library.
With today's update, when no user-specified connection manager is provided, active:httpGet (Post, Put etc etc) now defaults to TLS v1.2 on both Java 8 and Java 7.
TLS supports negotiating the protocol version, so if you do talk to an old server still running TLS (or even SSL!) then there should be no issues.
TLS/SSL is a moving target, so you might like to save a copy of this Groovy script in the Scripting Playpen...
//Test TLS client capabilities s="https://www.howsmyssl.com/a/check" rep=context.source(s, String.class) context.createResponseFrom(rep).setMimeType("text/plain")
This will provide a JSON report for the TLS capability of the Java stack you are currently running on.
For the record, on the server-side, the recent Jetty 9 update to the http-server module defaults to TLS v1.2 even on Java 7. To check any server-side TLS version you can use Chrome or Firefox by visiting the site and examining the padlock connection status.
Tony's Blog: Gödel Alone Knows
In a dramatic move that risks damaging his reputation as the "practical one in the 1060 Research team who actually makes stuff", Tony has started a series of articles that explains how ROC traces its history back to the fundamental mathematics of Gödel numbering...
History of Gödel Numbering - Part 1
History of Gödel Numbering - Part 2
I know for a fact that there's a third part in draft since he's determined to shame me by actually completing a series of articles once he's started it!
Tony is able to risk this flirtation with academia, since he knows full well that he can restore his reputation any time by publicly unveiling another killer bit of IoT electronic device engineering he's put together. Watch this space...
On Software Fortresses
A month or so back, I was in a conversation introducing ROC to Paul Worrall founder of Interition. Paul has a deep background in enterprise architecture in the financial sector - he's got some very cool ideas/solutions on how to solve a critical banking problem: how to know who actually wrote your software (the problem of software provenance) and what it is doing - questions that are increasingly becoming a regulatory compliance requirement.
We rapidly dug into some of the standard ROC patterns and how they relate to security (for example the Trusted Notary demo).
Next day Paul explained that, after seeing the ROC patterns, his head had been full of ideas - he told me I needed to read a book called Software Fortresses and explained that the Software Fortress pattern is regarded as the ideal by a number of banks.
The problem, as he explained, is that it is very hard to actually get right when your building blocks are objects and low-level Java code. In fact, in his experience, even with all the resources that a Bank can apply to the problem, the ideal never makes it to reality.
When I got hold of my copy of the book, I quickly understood why Paul was excited.
The software fortress pattern is very simple. It consists of a walled fortification within which a given business function resides. Access to the business function is only possible by sending a message to a Guard acting as the Fortress gatekeeper. The Guard accepts (or rejects) the message and, crucially, translates the message into an approved, validated trusted inner message.
The business function within the Fortress is not interacting with an untrusted external party - it is simply satisfying an approved trusted request from the Guard. The Guard acts as a trust broker.
Here's what it look like pictorially, the book takes its time to justify this, but the diagram is really all you need to understand the pattern...
Anything look familiar? What about this...
The Software Fortress is a specific instance of the general ROC/NetKernel Overlay pattern. In fact we call the Software Fortress pattern the GateKeeper Pattern (discussed in our overlay patterns book, with a worked example in the wiki tutorial - Ironically you were permitted to view this page by that very same GateKeeper since this wiki is contained within its own Software Fortress!).
NetKernel comes with literally dozens of embodiments of Overlay. The mapper, the throttle, the pluggable overlay, the HTTPBridge, etc etc. There is even a standard base class StandardOverlayImpl in NKF to easily create your own.
And since Overlays are just ROC spacial patterns, we can compose them and evolve them with no brittleness and without any side-effects on the encapsulated business functions.
So now I see why Paul couldn't sleep that night. ROC makes turning the Software Fortress ideal into a practical and easily accomplished reality.
DrawBridge / Reliable Messaging Prelude
I didn't elaborate on the role of the drawbridge in the discussion above. In the book, the drawbridge is assumed to be a reliable messaging infrastructure such as MQSeries and the like.
This got me thinking, if we know that the ROC abstraction dramatically simplifies complex N-Party interactions - such as we show in the Trusted Notary demo - what would a full ROC Reliable Messaging solution look like???
So I've set myself a challenge to build it. I may crash and burn, but in the style of the TicTacToe series, next time I'll try to explain how to think about and build a solution to this problem the ROC way...
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text: Posted: 17 April 2018 When you think about weddings, you think about having a photographer. There are many other occasions when you wouldn't immediately think of hiring a photographer but it's such a good idea if you do. Special birthdays and anniversaries are all times when family and friends get together to celebrate. Why not take advantage and update the family photos? Below is some of my special occasion photography. A wedding anniversary meal is often a good excuse to dress up and it's great to get photos of the outfits as well as the people who were celebrating with you. The top set of photos was a 40th wedding anniversary where I took group photos and some mingling shots. The next set was also a wedding anniversary and each of the three children of the couple made a speech which I captured.Another wedding anniversary next. A Golden wedding celebrated with a meal at The George Hotel in Chollerford. The "bride's" sister couldn't think of what present to buy the couple so she hired me and only told her sister when they were driving over to the hotel that evening. She had an album in mind for her sister, and she was thrilled with it when she collected it.This last set was a 70th birthday meal. I took various family groups before everyone enjoyed a pub meal.More memories to look back on for years to come...until the next special occasion when the grandchildren have grown up.For more information about my special occasions photography please visit the Occasions page.occasions photographyFamilyAdd new comment Your name Comment *SavePreview Leave this field blank