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May 01, 2017
For millions of children across the world, basic access to books and literacy programs is hardly a given. The Harry Potter Alliance is engaged in a permanent campaign to balance the scales. Our ultimate goal is to raise 1 million books for schools, community centers, and literacy programs across the world. We also endeavor to build 25 permanent libraries in places that need them. Last year, we had our most successful Accio Books yet, with over 100,000 books raised for 50 literacy programs across the world and a new library established at an elementary school in Masaka, Uganda!
This year, we are partnering with Words Alive, an organization that provides literacy and education services to over 5,000 children and families in Southern California. HPA chapters and members will raise thousands of books for Words Alive, allowing the organization to provide quality books to students of all ages for many years to come. Many chapters outside the western United States will choose to donate books to schools and programs in their local communities. Overall, we expect to match last year's incredible effort, with dozens of communities across the world transformed by the generosity of our members.
Donations to this campaign will help us coordinate this global campaign in support of education and literacy!
Update - May 1, 2017: Our signed Deathly Hallows book contest and House Cup competition are now closed for entry and participation. Donations received beyond this point will help fund our global book drive but will not be eligible for rewards and prizes.
Every person who donates $10 or more to this campaign by April 30 will receive two awesome rewards:
- A contest entry form to win a copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, signed by JK Rowling!
- A digital download of a new, exclusive song by Draco and the Malfoys!
- We will select one runner-up, who will receive a Gold Pass, Marauders Pass, or Valyrian Pass to an upcoming Mischief Management conference of their choice!
- We will also select 15 honorable mentions, who will receive a book signed by John Green, Robin Wasserman, or Mercedes Lackey!
Donate $35 or more: Receive a lifetime membership to the Apparating Library Book Club, plus a digital download of an exclusive Draco and the Malfoys song, and entry to our signed Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows contest.
Donate or raise $150 or more: Receive an exclusive Prefect Badge, plus a digital download of an exclusive Draco and the Malfoys song, a lifetime membership to the Apparating Library Book Club, and entry to our signed Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows contest.
Donate or raise $365 or more: Receive an exclusive Harry Potter Alliance merch bundle (includes Accio Books tote bag, Prefect Badge, When In Doubt Go to the Library poster, and an HPA logo patch), plus a digital download of an exclusive Draco and the Malfoys song, a lifetime membership to the Apparating Library Book Club, and entry to our signed Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows contest.
Donate or raise $1,000 or more: Receive an invite to join the HPA's Board of Advisors, plus the $365-level merch bundle, a digital download of an exclusive Draco and the Malfoys song, a lifetime membership to the Apparating Library Book Club, and entry to our signed Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows contest.
You must donate to the campaign by 11:59pm PST on Tuesday, April 30 to receive the above perks and entry into the contest. Shortly after that deadline, we will distribute a contest entry form to everyone who has donated. Each donor must complete a fun, Harry Potter-themed creative writing activity and submit it to the HPA by May 15, 2017. The grand prize winner and runners up will be selected by an impartial jury and prizes will be distributed shortly thereafter.
Help your Hogwarts House win our Accio Books House Cup! Make your donation through one of the four official Hogwarts House fundraiser pages and recruit other members of your House to do the same. Everyone who donates through the winning Hogwarts House will receive an invite to an exclusive livestream show featuring Lauren Fairweather and The Whomping Willows! If you're fundraising for the campaign, you'll be able to credit your funds raised to your prefered house via a separate form we'll distribute before the end of the campaign.
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A. It's super easy! Your donation of $10 or more entitles you to a contest entry form, which will be sent to you via email during the first week of May 2017. Your task will be to complete a fun and simple Harry Potter-themed creative activity as described in that email. An impartial jury of HPA staffers will review each submission and select a grand prize winner, who will win a Deluxe Edition of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows signed by JK Rowling. We will also select a runner-up, who will receive a VIP pass to a Mischief Management con of their choosing, as well as several honorable mentions, who'll receive a signed book by John Green, Robin Wasserman, or Mercedes Lackey. If you require further clarification, please feel free to email email@example.com with your questions.
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Bob Loggans is pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in Watertown, Wisconsin.
In his message, Pastor Loggans reminds us of our nation's serious moral decline in recent years, and presents God's prescription for turning that slide around. Using 2 Chronicles 7:14 as his guide, he shows that the answer is not political or economic, but spiritual. And the beginning must be with God's people, who need to be in a right relationship with Him through salvation, a resurgence of humility, a revival of prayer, a return to the Scriptures, and a repentance of sin.
He also urges us to pray for our leaders--if they are believers that they will act in accordance with God's Word, and if they are not believers, that they will come to a saving faith in Jesus Christ.
Also included is music by Ben Everson of Bible Revival Ministries, and a special presentation remembering the events of 9-11.


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Under-18's defeat AccringtonLatics under-18's defeated Accrington Stanley 2-1 in their opening pre-season friendly.
It was a good workout for the youngsters, especially as they had only been back in training for one week.
The match was played over three 30-minute periods due to the hot weather.
Latics fell behind in the opening third to a headed goal from a corner.
The equaliser came in the second period when Kyle Hardman released Ben Grant whose cross was headed home by Danny Byrnes.
Grant hit the bar and Hardman had a shot saved as Latics were unlucky not to move ahead.
The winner came in the third quarter when the Accrington keeper pushed a John Pritchard corner into his own net.
The only dampener for Latics was an injury to keeper Paul Tyson who pulled a thigh muscle.


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A good talk on the tools from the guy that's responsible for SSMS,
Configuration Manager, Maintenance plans, Surface Area Configuration
Wizard, and a few more.
Initially I thought this might be a dud, with him showing some of the
basic features of Configuration Manager and Surface Area tools,but then
he showed some interesting tricks. Like how to connect to different
version or filter the types of connections in the registered servers
pane (hint, check the icon buttons). He also looked at filtering and
some of the scripting options available. Changing defaults is nice
because I've been frustrated by them in the past, with my scripts
requiring lots of search and replace.
He covered maintenance plans as well, showing some of the new options
in SP2. Sub plans, target servers, etc. No mention of the bugs that SP2
introduced, but it wasn't mentioned at all. Another great place for an
apology for the hassles, but it wasn't shown.
The summary page (RTM, SP1), became the Object Explorer Details. Paul
detailed a few other changes, which I'm not sure why they were made as
they confuse people, but it was good to see them listed.
One of the things I've worried about is configuration changes over
time. Since this has required lots of work to track, it was great to
see the standard report of "Configuration Changes History" report. Now
it's coming from the default trace that is very lightweight, but it
only keeps 5 files, each 20MB, so you could lose a bunch of information.
These reports show up in Object Explorer with SP2, Before that, you'd
have to dig through the tool. You can make your own reports in BIDS
with a Report Project. Create a query and then format the report.
Ignore the report server and deployment folder. Load these into SSMS
and you have lots of data available. There are tons of reports, so
search around for the dashboard performance reports.
Lots of work went into the Database Turning Advisor, making it its own product.
Profiler allows SSAS traces in SS2K5. One of the cool things is integrating the System Monitor with a trace to correlate events.
The Best Practices Analyzer, gives a good check on your instances. It's
come out about 18 months after RTM, which is better than SS2K, when it
took 4 years before it was released. Look for this to be updated with
the Katmai RTM. Results are linked to BOL, so this is a nice
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It is admitted on all hands by this time, I suppose, that the best way of learning is by eye, not by ear. Therefore the authorities that prescribe for us our education among all classes have decided that we shall learn by ear, not by eye. Which is just what one might expect from a vested interest.
Of course this superiority of sight over hearing is pre-eminently true of natural science—that is to say, of nine-tenths among the subjects worth learning by humanity. The only real way to learn geology, for example, is not to mug it up in a printed text-book, but to go into the field with a geologist's hammer. The only real way to learn zoology and botany is not by reading a volume of natural history, but by collecting, dissecting, observing, preserving, and comparing specimens. Therefore, of course, natural science has never been a favourite study in the eyes of school-masters, who prefer those subjects which can be taught in a room to a row of boys on a bench, and who care a great deal less than nothing for any subject which isn't "good to examine in." Educational value and importance in after life have been sacrificed to the teacher's ease and convenience, or to the readiness with which the pupil's progress can be tested on paper. Not what is best to learn, but what is least trouble to teach in great squads to boys, forms the staple of our modern English education. They call it "education," I observe in the papers, and I suppose we must fall in with that whim of the profession.
But even the subjects which belong by rights to the ear can nevertheless be taught by the eye more readily. Everybody knows how much easier it is to get up the history and geography of a country when you are actually in it than when you are merely reading about it. It lives and moves before you. The places, the persons, the monuments, the events, all become real to you. Each illustrates each, and each tends to impress the other on the memory. Sight burns them into the brain without conscious effort. You can learn more of Egypt and of Egyptian history, culture, hieroglyphics, and language in a few short weeks at Luxor or Sakkarah than in a year at the Louvre and the British Museum. The Tombs of the Kings are worth many papyri. The mere sight of the temples and obelisks and monuments and inscriptions, in the places where their makers originally erected them, gives a sense of reality and interest to them all that no amount of study under alien conditions can possibly equal. We have all of us felt that the only place to observe Flemish art to the greatest advantage is at Ghent and Bruges and Brussels and Antwerp; just as the only place to learn Florentine art as it really was is at the Uffizi and the Bargello.
These things being so, the authorities who have charge of our public education, primary, secondary, and tertiary, have decided in their wisdom—to do and compel the exact contrary. Object-lessons and the visible being admittedly preferable to rote-lessons and the audible, they have prescribed that our education, so called, shall be mainly an education not in things and properties, but in books and reading. They have settled that it shall deal almost entirely and exclusively with language and with languages; that words, not objects, shall be the facts it impresses on the minds of the pupils. In our primary schools they have insisted upon nothing but reading and writing, with just a smattering of arithmetic by way of science. In our secondary schools they have insisted upon nothing but Greek and Latin, with about an equal leaven of algebra and geometry. This mediæval fare (I am delighted that I can thus agree for once with Professor Ray Lankester) they have thrust down the throats of all the world indiscriminately; so much so that nowadays people seem hardly able at last to conceive of any other than a linguistic education as possible. You will hear many good folk who talk with contempt of Greek and Latin; but when you come to inquire what new mental pabulum they would substitute for those quaint and grotesque survivals of the Dark Ages, you find what they want instead is—modern languages. The idea that language of any sort forms no necessary element in a liberal education has never even occurred to them. They take it for granted that when you leave off feeding boys on straw and oats you must supply them instead with hay and sawdust.
Not that I rage against Greek and Latin as such. It is well we should have many specialists among us who understand them, just as it is well we should have specialists in Anglo-Saxon and Sanskrit. I merely mean that they are not the sum and substance of educational method. They are at best but two languages of considerable importance to the student of purely human evolution.
Furthermore, even these comparatively useless linguistic subjects could themselves be taught far better by sight than by hearing. A week at Rome would give your average boy a much clearer idea of the relations of the Capitol with the Palatine than all the pretty maps in Dr. William Smith's Smaller Classical Dictionary. It would give him also a sense of the reality of the Latin language and the Latin literature, which he could never pick up out of a dog-eared Livy or a thumb-marked Æneid. You have only to look across from the top of the Janiculum, towards the white houses of Frascati, to learn a vast deal more about the Alban hills and the site of Tusculum than ever you could mug up from all the geography books in the British Museum. The way to learn every subject on earth, even book-lore included, is not out of books alone, but by actual observation.
And yet it is impossible for any one among us to do otherwise than acquiesce in this vicious circle. Why? Just because no man can dissociate himself outright from the social organism of which he forms a component member. He can no more do so than the eye can dissociate itself from the heart and lungs, or than the legs can shake themselves free from the head and stomach. We have all to learn, and to let our boys learn, what authority decides for us. We can't give them a better education than the average, even if we know what it is and desire to impart it, because the better education, though abstractly more valuable, is now and here the inlet to nothing. Every door is barred with examinations, and opens but to the golden key of the crammer. Not what is of most real use and importance in life, but what "pays best" in examination, is the test of desirability. We are the victims of a system; and our only hope of redress is not by sporadic individual action but by concerted rebellion. We must cry out against the abuse till at last we are heard by dint of our much speaking. In a world so complex and so highly organised as ours, the individual can only do anything in the long run by influencing the mass—by securing the co-operation of many among his fellows.
Meanwhile, I believe it is gradually becoming the fact that our girls, who till lately were so very ill-taught, are beginning to know more of what is really worth knowing than their public-school-bred brothers. For the public school still goes on with the system of teaching it has derived direct from the thirteenth century; while the girls' schools, having started fair and fresh, are beginning to assimilate certain newer ideas belonging to the seventeenth and even the eighteenth. In time they may conceivably come down to the more elementary notions of the present generation. Less hampered by professions and examinations than the boys, the girls are beginning to know something now, not indeed of the universe in which they live, its laws and its properties, but of literature and history, and the principal facts about human development. Yet all the time, the boys go on as ever with Musa, Musæ, like so many parrots, and are turned out at last, in nine cases out of ten, with just enough smattering of Greek and Latin grammar to have acquired a life-long distaste for Horace and an inconquerable incapacity for understanding Æschylus. One year in Italy with their eyes open would be worth more than three at Oxford; and six months in the fields with a platyscopic lens would teach them strange things about the world around them that all the long terms at Harrow and Winchester have failed to discover to them. But that would involve some trouble to the teacher.
What a misfortune it is that we should thus be compelled to let our boys' schooling interfere with their education!


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Long Distance
Here it comes. Another story about me walking uphill in the snow to school as a child. Well, maybe not that dramatic, but close enough.
When we left Portales for the first time – in our early twenties, off on a Caribbean adventure – we landed on that island and started trying to figure things out. No internet, no cell phones, and no possibility of getting a landline. We made copies of letters on an old mimeograph machine, and mailed home faint purplish letters once a month.
A decade later, off to the Pacific, things had improved. We bought an expensive fax machine to send instant letters, avoiding the $1.60 per minute phone costs.
Ever thankful for the technology and mail service we had, we marveled at those brave souls who came to America on sailing vessels, or who left the original colonies and headed west on this continent, never sure if they'd be able to communicate with loved ones again.
Our niece and nephew are off to Japan with new military orders. We'll all e-mail, text, Facetime, Facebook… you name it. We can watch their baby boy grow through daily pictures. This technology is absolutely amazing. I'm mighty thankful for smart people who make smart phones!
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It all changed so fast……My daddy rolled out to this area in a covered wagon…he was just a small child. Not much communication back then. Good luck to the family members headed to Japan!


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The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1)
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1)
THE LIGHTNING THIEF begins with a warning (shades of Lemony Snicket) --- that everything in this Book Ones purely fictional unless the reader starts to experience stirrings and have feelings like those of the hero. Then the reader is advised to close the book and stop reading immediately. The hero, 12-year-old Percy Jackson, is far from your ordinary, everyday high school student. In fact, he is about to be kicked out of his third high school.
Try as he may, Percy just cannot behave himself and settle down to study. His mother understands, for reasons unbeknownst to Percy. After beating up a bully who is attacking his best friend, Grover, strange things start happening to Percy.
In fact, after only one or two chapters, Percy's math teacher turns into a horrible, terrifying monster who tries to kill Percy. Then a gigantic Minotour (yes, a Minotour from Greek mythology) chases Percy until Percy tears off one of his horns and he dissolves into sand. Then, a few seconds later, Percy's own mother disappears before his very eyes in a cloud of golden haze.
What is going on? Grover leads Percy into Camp Half-Blood, which, as it turns out, is inhabited by creatures straight out of ancient Greek mythology --- only all this is happening right now, in the 21st century! And Camp Half-Blood is where students like Percy, who discover they are really demigods, are trained in the ways of the Greek gods (shades of Hogwarts School).
Because of Percy's outstanding clever behavior at the camp/school, he is awarded a quest. Someone has stolen the god Zeus's most precious symbol of power: his lightning bolt. Percy's mission, should he decide to accept it, is to find the thief and return the powerful lightning bolt to Zeus before a war breaks out between Olympus and the Underworld.
As you might imagine, horrible things happen to Percy and his two friends, with monsters and disaster at every turn. (Good thing this is all fiction!). If you can suspend disbelief, you will find this book similar to the old-time movie serials, except that the villains and heroes are Greek mythological figures, right here in present-day America. Uh, oh. Better stop reading this review.
Reviewed by Robert Oksner on March 21, 2006
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1)
- Publication Date: April 1, 2016
- Genres: Adventure, Children's, Children's 10-14, Fantasy, Fiction, Magic, Mythology, Youth Fiction
- Paperback: 416 pages
- Publisher: Disney-Hyperion


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The west coast and in particular, Botanical Beach and the adjoining Botany Bay are quite beautiful. It is part of a much larger park. The two beaches are incredible.
The San Juan Park covers a large portion of southwest Vancouver Island. The area became a provincial park in 1989. Juan de Fuca Provincial Park on the west coast of Vancouver Island is a wonderful park, it offers some incredible hiking along the 47 km trail that runs between Botanical Beach and China Beach. You can hike into some of the beaches that have day trails to them where you can view the roaring surf and just possible, see whales just offshore. Juan de Fuca Provincial Park gives an opportunity to view these large marine mammals. The best time to see Grey whales is during their migration along our coast in March and April. Seals and sea lions can also often be seen playing offshore.
There are four main areas to the park: the China Beach Campground, the Juan de Fuca Marine Trail, the China Beach day-use area and Botanical Beach. All these beaches are just incredible.
The beaches at both botany bay and botanical beach are full of a wide variety of sea life. Both plant and animal life is in abundance, and each has adapted to contend with the variable conditions found here. Please just look, do not disturb the sea life or take any from the beach.
Black bears and cougars can also be present at any time. Black bears can become used to feeding on garbage, so to avoid teaching bears about trash, please pack out what you pack in. Cougars normally avoid people and are rarely seen, but please leave pets at home if possible and watch over young children. Do not feed the bears, remember, a fed bear quite often becomes a dead bear when they learn that humans mean food. A bear becomes a problem when they get accustomed to human food and garbage and problem bears are quite often put down to avoid problems.
The trail between Botany Bay and Botanical beach is an incredible walk through a forest of windswept and twisted trees, its a beautiful place, a place of wonder. This trail is typical of most west coast beach locations, the trees are formed into contorted shapes by the winds. Every time l walk through this trail, l am amazed at its beauty, it is a fascinating hike. A hike that all should do at least once in a lifetime.
Visit here in the winter for some incredible winter storm vistas but dress warm and wear rain gear as this is a rain forest. The winter storms on the west coast are something to see, winds can blow so hard that you can barely stand up and this is when you see the most daring of the surfers, out in the huge waves, grinning like cats chewing bumble bees, having the time of their lives.


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Spring Springs on Westport Island
Say goodbye to snow…and hello to awakenings…
The osprey are back, turkeys are strutting — and the woodlands and wetlands are stirring. The scents of spring beckon. More than one Westport cat has pursued curiosity too far from home and found itself at the Lincoln County Animal Shelter in the last three weeks — five to be exact — at least two (a spayed female and a neutered mail) remain there awaiting calls from their families.
Birds are building nests and starting families — none more notable in my neighborhood than "Peepers." Peepers, so named by the Abbott family, is a ruffed grouse — or partridge — that has claimed McCarty Cove Road as home territory. Neighbors of McCarty Cove have likely had their cars chased, examined or accosted by Peepers. Jason Abbott feeds Peepers apples and can walk up to her and pick her up for a visit. It's the mating season, and she may be protecting territory, defending a nest or looking for love. Whatever… she is the talk of the neighborhood.
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Remember, there are no right or wrong answers on this test as it aims to measure your abilities and how you use what you know, rather than to measure what your level of knowledge is.Any practice test should simulate the real thing. Additionally to the questions, a practice should simulate the 12 minute time limit in which to answer 50 questions. If the test does not do this, then it is a poor replica of a Wonderlic test. It will have little value unless you practice taking Wonderlic tests that are true to form.
With 50 questions spanning subjects that include spatial, mathematics, and comprehension, it aims to measure your aptitude in different areas, for instance:
Language Comprehension: Language comprehension questions will have you compare two words and you will need to identify whether they are related to each other, are polar opposites of each other, or whether there is no relationship to each other.
Mathematical Comprehension: Mathematical questions have you solve simple mathematical calculations or finding patterns in a series of numbers to identify the next logical numeral in the series. Other mathematical questions will have you reading a short text paragraph and solving a problem posed within the text.
Spatial Comprehension: Spatial comprehension questions measure your ability to see similarities between shapes and objects, as well as being able to see them from all angles in your mind in order to problem-solve.
Another way to judge whether the Wonderlic practice test you are taking is real or not is that the questions should not be categorized in any way. Wonderlic practice test questions should be presented in a random order that has to switching between spatial, language and mathematical comprehension questions. The questions start off easy and get harder as you progress through the test.
If your practice test does not follow this type of format it is probably waisting your time if you are seriously looking to practice for a real Wonderlic test.
Wonderlic tests are popular and test people based on their actual ability and reactions to certain situation and problems. The Wonderlic test is not an intelligence test and makes no pretence to measure your IQ. It measures how you deal with different situations and solve problems.
It is worth taking a Wonderlic test just to see what new things you can find out about yourself. If you are ever job hunting the odds are high you will need to sit one of these as part of the interview process. Regardless, it does give you an interesting insight and interpretation of who you are.
Once you know this, you can work on improving your weaknesses if they are holding you back from success in any area of your life. Get out there and take a good Wonderlic practice test to see how well you will do if you take the real thing.
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Nickelodeon Star Victoria Justice: I've Tried Smoking & Drinking…But It's Not For Me!
In a candid interview in April's Seventeen, Victoria Justice opens up about partying and why she never wants to disappoint her fans by turning into a bad girl!
Pull out your Victoria Justice check list and mark off yet another reason why she should be one of your favorite teen queens. The 18-year-old Victorious starlet opened up in the April edition of Seventeen and admitted she's not flawless — but assured us she won't be going bad girl crazy on us any time soon. We love her honesty!
"I'm not going to lie to you: I've tried things. I'm not some robot who's programmed to be perfect," she said. "I've been to high school parties. And even if I've had a drink, it's always in a responsible way. I did go through a phase when I wanted to try smoking, and for a minute I did. But shortly after, I just kind of realized it was gross, and I didn't like anything about it."
Unlike many of her fellow teen stars, Victoria doesn't shy away from tough questions about underage drinking and partying — but that doesn't mean she encourages it.
"If I'm at a party, I'm going to dance, not huddle in some corner and smoke or sneak a drink. I feel that smoking, drinking, and doing drugs are kind of selfish because you end up isolating yourself from everyone else," she explained. "And I've had to make certain choices and be a lot more responsible with my life. I've been given a huge opportunity, and I don't want to let my fans and family down."
We wish Miley Cyrus and Taylor Momsen would take a few notes from Victoria. It's refreshing to see a young actress with such a good head on her shoulders, that's why you should be sure to vote for her in the race for "Best TV Actress" at the Kids' Choice Awards!


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I did some contract landscape work for a client who will not pay me the final invoice on the work that I did, which consisted of creating and planting several flower beds around a newly constructed home, in which they don't live are trying to sell. When there was misunderstanding about the final cost of the whole project, and miscommunication between husband and wife, the final decision was they would pay me the difference owed after they sold the house. Weeks have gone by, and when I began calling them to find out what was going on and they weren't returning my calls, I emailed and said I wanted payment. They returned with a very nasty email threatening to sue me for every penny they paid me and more. They have paid me $4,100 approx. for the job thus far, and owe me a final payment of $538. There were no complaints about my work prior to my push for payment and I see no grounds for their suit. I want to place a lien on the property but want to ensure that I'm doing the right thing. Things I do know, I am not required to have a license b/c I make less than $15K per year doing this work. I work as a contractor doing completely different work (writing/editing) the rest of the year. Is there something I need to know that I don't know to ask about? I am new to the business and have not had to deal with this type of issue before.


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LAFAYETTE, La. – It's time to unleash the 52nd episode of the pretty-good-but-not-quite-award-winning Inside the SPHL Podcast!
On this edition of the podcast, aired live on The Sin Bin app & Facebook on Monday, May 7, 2018, Harding & Campos are joined by their special co-host for the playoffs, Ben Garrod, and Sy Nutkevitch of the SPHL Champion Huntsville Havoc.
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Our friends Jessica, Jackii, Stef, and her boyfriend Justin came to stay with us over Memorial Day weekend. We had a blast Saturday, and things were just as busy on Sunday. We started off by going to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
We had a picnic in the Sculpture Park in the shadow of the Shuttlecocks by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. We had homemade potato salad, bitty sandwiches, brie and crackers, and the mixed berries with lime juice and honey that I'm currently obsessed with.
This little dude kept trying to steal our food. He's a brave city chipmunk, I guess.
The sculpture park is amazing. The museum is surrounded by brick trails taking you over hills and on twists: you can't see all of the sculptures from one spot. There are parts in the bare sun, and parts that are tree-lined and shaded. (The above picture is from Jackii's phone.)
The temporary installation of the Sun Pavilion was pretty darn cool: it was all solar panels and shipping containers and recycled materials.
It made me want to go to the thrift store to buy some cheap furniture to chop up.
There may have been some rolling down some hills. Just in case you thought we were pretentious and sophisticated.
My favorite sculpture in the park is Ferment by Roxy Paine. It looks like something straight out of Wonderland; like the moment a tree is struck by lightening, captured.
My favorite work inside is Tracer by Robert Rauschenberg. I looked at it for a long time while our friends were checking out things Jake and I have already seen. I like to think about the layers and the process. What section did he work on first? The work is saturated with symbolism, so I wonder if the overlapping of certain parts over others have metaphorical significance as well as visual appeal. I could sit in front of Tracer all day.
Jessica and I took a portrait with Buddha. Hah! A video camera was focused on a Buddha sculpture and the output of the video camera, which captured the sculpture and what was behind it, was displayed onto an old television. The work is Watching Buddha by Nam June Paik. I wish our camera battery hadn't have ran out right before we got to this piece (the extra we packed was dead too-woops). But camera phone pictures are better than nothing.
I really like the patterns (and nerd appeal) in Research into a Growth Hormone by Alfred Jensen.
The displays advertising the World's Fairs exhibit make me really want to buy tickets. Jake and I will have to do a budget check and decide. We probably won't go, because our June entertainment budget will go towards the Maker Fair, but I hope we can squeeze it in.
We spent a long time thinking about Baccarat by Max Beckmann because it's kind of scary (and we were tired by this point). We had fun guessing the meaning before reading the placard to see who's interpretation was closest to the artist's. (This one's Jackii's photo too.)
Jake loves Olive Orchard by Vincent Van Gogh. The brushwork keeps your eyes moving around the painting, making it hard to pull away. And the colors are very calming.
We were all excited that we could touch part of the Lola Project. It's not often you're encouraged to touch things in a museum! This wire car frame has plastic wrap over it– there's a whole working car made from this model! With plastic wrap! Weird.
We left the museum as it was closing at 5:00, sad that we ran out of time and couldn't fit in Giant Rooftop Chess. The girls wanted to stop at It's a Beautiful Day, which is not my favorite local shop. I can't stand patchouli, so I can only spend a few minutes at a time in here. That said, the record shop in there is AWESOME. And so reasonably priced. We may have come home with a few keepers (and we intend to go back for a few more expensive records later).
We came back, grilled dinner, and Jake then rode his scooter to scout out the free symphony concert at Union Station for us. It was way too busy to try to drive down there and park, so he enjoyed the symphony solo for a bit before coming back home. He maaaay have snuck into the VIP section. Naughty boy.
We chilled at Holly House for a bit, and more friends stopped by to hang out. Jake decided to work a bit while Jessica, Jackii, Harvey, Lisa, and I walked down to the Riot Room to see The Good Foot, an awesome local soul group.
It sounded amazing, but it was super crowded. And everyone there seemed to be freakishly tall. I kept getting accidentally elbowed in the face.
All of our Denver friends left Monday morning. We were sad to see them go, but at least Jessica will be back in Kansas City in August for our friend Steve's wedding. And we're glad to have things back to a normal pace around here. And we're very glad to have Eliza and Jonas back.
What do you do when you have friends come to town?


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Nickname: None
Position: Defender (Centre Back)
Date of Birth: September 14th 1995
Birth Place: Rutherglen, Scotland
Height: 1.91m
Previous Clubs: Celtic Youth, Greenock Morton (loan), Dumbarton (loan)
Killie Contract 1st spell: July 7th 2015 (season long loan)
Left Killie 1st spell: May 23rd 2016 (End of Loan) (Stuart, made 27 appearances first time around for Killie during the 2015/16 season).
Rejoined Killie: Aug 25th 2017 from Newcastle Utd. (thru Jan 2018).
Signed Permanent Deal: July 2018 for 3 seasons..
First Killie Goal: At St Johstone in the Premiership on Dec 2nd 2017.
International: 2 Appearances for Scotland U16's, 10 Appearances for Scotland U17's, 7 Appearances for Scotland U19's, 11 Appearances for Scotland U21's. Full Scotland debut Oct 13th 2019.
Twitter: @stuartfindlay95
July 8th 2015: "Killie have given me this opportunity and I want to do well for them. I felt I played well in the Championship last season and now I am ready to make the step up and show what I can do at the top level."
After the conclusion of the 2015/16 season, Findlay joined Newcastle United, following his release from Celtic. The six-foot-three defender made his first team debut for The Magpies in January this year, in a FA Cup tie against Birmingham City.
May 24th 2018: Stuart became a free agent, with his parent club Newcasle Utd not offering him a new deal.
July 4th 2018: Re-signs for Killie on a three 3 year deal: "When the new manager came in we went on an incredible run and there was an amazing feeling around the place, it's something I really wanted to be a part of. It's been brilliant working under the manager. It's an experience I've not had before with any other manager so it's one of the main reasons I wanted to sign here. I've worked so well with him the last six months and I feel I can learn so much from him. You listen to every word he says, we cherish having him here. The manager has put his faith in me and I want to repay that."
Oct 13th 2019: Stuart makes his full Scotland Debut, for Steve Clarke at Hampden, Vs San Marino.


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Programmed by Laura Guarnera
Inspired by the work of Vanda Scaravelli, this method focuses on the ground, the breath, and the spine.
Movement is created from your core - naturally unfolding outward. At times taught to fresh soundtracks, with a focus on creating longer sequences, more like a spontaneous dance, using the essential skills of choreography, intension, clarity, motivation, space, timing, energy, phrasing, silence and sounds.
Scaravelli inspired Flow Yoga, is a movement based yoga practice which asks you to feel into your vinyasa, to embody movement through your senses.
This is less about holding poses and more about exploring the spaces in between them. There is a focus on how the human body moves as a whole, inviting the ground, spine and breath into this experience.In each practice students work towards moving through a creative sequence with optimised strength and grace. Practice builds from the ground up exploring somatic themes and motifs which build, repeat and allow for personal expression.
Scaravelli inspired Flow Yoga is about bringing wholeness to life! Laura`s teaching method is centred around following the intelligent flow of life through movement and somatic guidance to nurture oneself and develop greater awareness of individual well-being.
This energetic and grounding practice invites you to move more freely in your own body by building energy and creating space in your body, visualising, moving from within, using a deeper knowledge of ideokinesis, somatic and experimental anatomy.
Laura's classes explore the interrelations between the inner anatomical landscape and the outer realm of perception. Combining improvised exploration and set material, the classes are a journey through sensation and alertness, gravity and orientation, fluidity and clarity. Classes are designed to work with the natural movement of one's body in relation to gravity.
Using her choreographic skills to create fluid combinations, in order to integrate the often fragmentised transition between elements of yoga.
To book your place contact teacher Laura
Image by Dan Alexander Photography
Choreographer, performer, teacher and video director Laura Guarnera trained at the Laban Centre, London in 1989.
She is a qualified Garuda apparatus and Mat teacher, studying directly with the inspiring teacher and friend James D'Silva, developer of the Garuda Method. She is a versatile and knowledgeable teacher with over 30 years of experience in movement, and a diverse background in Dance, Pilates, Gyrotonic, Yoga, Franklin method, Body Mind Centering and Contact Improvisation.
Her companies Trinacria Teatro Danza and Compagnia Guarnera Guy have won many awards, including the "International Choreographic Award" Groninghen , The Netherlands and "Leaders for London Millennium Award", UK.
Laura has been Head of the Contemporary Dance Department at Performers Colleges since 1997 and since 2012 has been working as a freelance artist.
Laura's love for movement brought her to approach Pilates and Yoga with an artistic visualization of movement, space-ground orientation and exploration of the relationship between movement and experimental anatomy.
She travelled to India, and in Rajasthan gained a Diploma in Yoga and Meditation at the Saraswati Academy. Recently she opened a new venue in Goa with Sandeep Meheta, named Club Meditation Yoga Retreats.
Laura is also a Pilates Foundation UK Teacher/member, and her interest in modern Pilates has led her to study with teachers such as James De Silva, Anouska Bourne, Susanne Lahusen, and Gary Carter. Her interest in ideokinesis has also led her to study with Eric Franklin, the former member of the Franklin Method, to expand her visual approach to functional bodies.
She teaches group yoga, Pilates and fusion classes in London and also teaches one to one, private sessions and remedial work.
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Just a ride
All this talk about amphetamines has me wanting some. I've been sluggish since the time change. Coffee just isn't getting the job done.
Lately I more and more find there's no coffee in the coffee.
How true. I plow through it and it is definitely a coffee area, but there's no coffee in it.
Right, and you always think there'll be a little at the bottom of the cup, but there nevah is.
The fact is, coffee isn't just a substance — it's an event, and it's manifestation depends on countless subtle conditions, most of which are not speakable.
If it's missing at all, it's all missing.
Yeah, like a major league ballclub without a GM.
If you say "G-M G-M G-M" real fast it sounds like Jem. And thinking of Jem is a pleasant distraction.
Ah, I'm not too fond of the little Welsh rarebit, too scrawny.
Dude, are you for real? You need to get finally woken to her squeamish hottiness, her barbaric coquettishness … I mean c'mon.
Author's Notes
Much of the back and forth coffee discussion is from the October 29, 1996 entry in Letters to Wendy's. Today's title is a reference to a song by Jem.


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Alpine Lodge Guest House is situated in the heart of Victorian Buxton and offers light, airy rooms furnished to a very high standard with luxurious, crisp cotton bed linen and extremely comfortable beds.
All rooms have :
- Complimentary 'Life's Little Luxury' Duck Island toiletries
- Free wifi
- Colour TV with remote control
- Easy chair
- Radio alarm clock
- Hairdryer
Hospitality tray with cordless kettle and Fairtrade/ethically sourced products, including speciality teas, coffee, hot chocolate and biscuits. Fresh milk and filtered, bottled water are also provided
- Thermostatic radiators
- Double glazed sash windows
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If you are celebrating a special event then why not book my "romantic bedroom" situated on the second floor which has an en-suite, luxurious bathroom with a large deep bath and separate double size shower
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- 1 double with king sized bed and en-suite shower room
- 1 super-king double or twin with large bay window and en-suite shower room
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- 1 super-king double or twin, with en-suite luxurious bathroom having a large bath and separate double shower
- 1 family suite – private sitting room with sofa bed, leading through connecting door to bedroom and en-suite shower room. Please call for more information and to book.
Check out is 10:30 am Monday to Friday and 11:00 am at the weekend. Late check-out may be possible on request.


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Community volunteers are leading an initiative to tackle paan spitting – a habit which costs their council around £30,000 a year to clean up.
The Brent Paan Action Network, supported by Brent Council, wants to stamp out the "disgusting" practice, which can leave dark red stains on the borough's streets.
Paan is a tobacco leaf-based mixture, popular in parts of Asia, which is customarily chewed and spat out.
When it dries, the tobacco leaves a blood-like stain on pavements which is difficult and costly to remove.
Cllr Krupa Sheth, who is responsible for the environment at Brent Council, said: "Paan spitting is disgusting and a stain on our community.
"We need a shift in behaviour. It is heartening to see members of the community taking positive actions, supported by the council, to help put an end to this anti-social act."
Volunteers visited Wembley at the weekend to talk with local businesses and residents about the environmental, health and hygiene implications of public paan spitting.
Several organisations in the borough support the campaign, including the Shri Sanatan Hindu Mandir – a Wembley temple blighted by paan stains.
According to the council, enforcement patrol has been stepped up across Brent, with officers handing out £100 on-the-spot fines to those caught spitting out paan.
The pavements along Wembley High Road and Ealing Road were also recently jet washed to remove existing stains.


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As I am off to see Roddy Woomble and Co. support the Burns Unit tonight, I thought it might be an idea to check out some of their material. Originally brought together as part of the Burnsong collective, which saw various musicians holed up in a cottage for a week to see what they came up with.
The Burns Unit are Emma Pollock (vocals, acoustic & electric guitar, piano), Future Pilot AKA (bass, electronics), Karine Polwart (vocals, acoustic guitar, percussion, shruti box), Kim Edgar (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, piano, accordion, organ), King Creosote (vocals, acoustic guitar, accordion, keyboards), Mattie Foulds (drums, percussion), MC Soom T (vocals) & Michael Johnston (vocals, piano, accordion, percussion).
They are currently unsigned, but we should expect an album to come out at some point this year, until then you can download some live versions of their songs below.
1. Holy City
2. Helpless to Turn
3. Sinful
4. Future Pilot AKC
The Burns Unit play the ABC tonight (Friday)
Doors 7pm.
Drever McCusker and Woomble 7.30pm
The Burns Unit 8.30pm
See a video of the Burns Unit in rehearsals here


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Name:Deyna Wildrudder
Age: 24
Species:River Otter
Occupation: Captain of The Sea Lilly
Physical Appearance:
Deyna is about medium height. He has dark brown fur and patches of black fur on him. His chest is a dirty white. He has bright blue eyes, that often have a mischievous glint in them. He is very nimble and active he cant sit still for very long hes always moving around.He can just as easily climb a tree. Almost as well as squirrels them selves! He wears a smart Green Ilse uniform with several medals on it. And he wears a saber at his side.
He has a saber. Which he can use very well. He is the best young sword beast on the Green Isle Regiment . He has a short ash bow with a quiver of green feathered arrows. And if you want to call them possessions
then he also has several medals given to him by the High Rhulain.
Deyna is very smart. You might even call him clever. He can think his way out of just about any situation.And in any hopeless cases can come up with a brilliant plan.Sometimes he can get into some trouble,especially when he was little, he used to play jokes on other beasts, though they usually turn out funny for both beasts they can sometimes go the wrong way. He loves to play and can think up a game easily. He loves making new friends and playmates. Deyna is the fastest swimmer anyone has met yet. And he has raced a good many otters in his time too! He is often known as Deyna the Quick. Or sometimes Deyna the Dangerous so called because he sometimes gets spasms of the bloodwrath. He is very affected with the death of his best friend and never quite got over it. He even had to leave Green Isle for a time. After he gets over the blood wrath it leaves him very drained of energy and sometimes irritated.
Deyna loves to explore and sail into uncharted lands. He also likes to explore under the sea. When his ship gets into shallow water he often leaves command of his ship to the First mate then dives over board into the water. He is what you might call….. brave and courageous
-- Sword fighting- He had an interest in sword fighting when he was little. One of his friends who was in the long patrol was a very good fighter. So he taught Deyna. And after seasons of training Deyna became very good and was better than his master, who was very pleased.
--swimming- Deyna is the fastest swimmer anyone has met yet. And he has raced a good many otters in his time too! He is often known as Deyna the Quick. He often has contests with his friends and wins whereupon they usually call him a fish he is so adept to it.
-- cooking- Deyna likes to cook. He even appointed himself cook aboard his own ship! He often cooks shrimp 'n hotroot soup and skilly 'n duff. Or when the crew catches it fish.
--Sleeping- Deyna is a very rough sleeper, partly due to his having nightmares of his friends death. He sleeps as little as possible because he knows he will have nightmares of that. But when he does sleep it is very little and seldom. He is not a deep sleeper at all.
-- Heights- Though he loves to climb. He is kind of afraid of heights. He climbs anyway though. He just doesn't look down.
He and Brogan (His friend) had spent a lot of time together. They had grown very close. He always went on patrol with him and they thought he would make a good soldier. Brogan had taught him all he needed to know but he wasn't old enough. It was Brogan who taught him to use a saber. He had also recommended Deyna to the HQR so he could join the GIR. Brogan was Deyna's closest friend, Deyna even taught Brogan how to make a bow and use one. They were close in age also. Though Brogan was older by a season he was like an older brother to Deyna. Without his family Deyna lived with Brogans family, he considered them his own family since he didn't remember his own family.
Deyna had several friends on Green Isle, and a few of them were in the Green Isle Regiment. Deyna highly admired them and always wanted to join the Green Isle Regiment but he just wasn't old enough. He finally got his chance, as young as he was. He was with his friends when they were patrolling the Isle. They were nearing the place where the High Queen Rhulain was living, when they came upon a small band of vermin who seemed to be scouring the Isle looking for plunder when they came upon The HQRs Holt. When Deyna and his friends arrived there they found her in a corner with a vermin standing around her, and the other vermin going through her things. Deyna drew his sword with the others and got ready to rush in. Deyna gave a wild war cry and charged in with the others at his heels. One of the vermin was raising a dagger over the HQR when Deyna charged. He threw himself at the rat with all his might thrusting his sword through the rat. Another rat was sneaking behind him when one of the otters threw himself between them and took the blow that was meant for Deyna. He turned around and saw Brogan fall, throwing his sword right at the rat he fell down on his knees beside his dying friend tears streaming down his face.
After that scene he went out of the Holt and gathering a troupe of soldiers he went down to the sea and spotting the vermin ship he swam out to it. Most of the crew was still on it because they all didn't need to go on land. They scaled the side and were on the ship in seconds. Deyna felt the blood rising his eyes were red and the blood wrath was coming over him. He whipped out his saber and started toward the vermin. His blade was like a windmill when he met them. He was upon then in seconds and was causing havoc among them. The other otters were sure to stay out of his way knowing how dangerous a beast can be when the blood wrath is upon him.
Dawn broke to reveal a bloody site. The ship was strewn with dead rats and stoats, and other beasts his friend was avenged.
Deyna was slumped on the rail to all who saw him he would appear to be dead. But when they found him they found out he was not dead yet.
He recovered months later and finding that staying on Green Isle held to many sad memories for him. So asking for a commission on the ship he had captured he went out to sea. After spending several seasons on the ship Sea Lily (which is what it had been named) he was called by the HQR when he arrived at her Holt to see her he was surprised when she gave him command of The ship Sea Lily. He had been very good on a ship and she was very pleased with his success she gave him the ship. For she was right, when ever they were attacked Deyna was the first out to fight. He was very good at sailing and navigating, which is a skill that not very many beasts were good at. He was glad that the High Queen Rhulain was pleased with his deeds. And surely after he had received his promotion not a single vermin ship landed at Green Isle. The HQR was very proud and glad that she had given him his promotion. She then had an idea that might help the Isle. She had Deyna sail back and forth between Mossflower, Salamandastron and Green Isle trading.
:Mother: Starbud
:Father: Ragnar
:Sister: Sereld


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TECH SNACK IFA 2017 /w Sabrina Mockenhaupt - presented by Jaybird
Former Olympic athlete and passionate runner Sabrina Mockenhaupt, is hosting for Jaybird. Tune in for Jaybirds Hoby Darling and Garmins Carly Hysell, when it's about #poweryourpassion.
The Host: Sabrina Mockenhaupt (@runningmocki)
Sabrina Mockenhaupt is a long distance runner from Germany.
She participated in the Olympic games three times, is German master of the 5000m run for eight times and of the 10000m run for nine times. Her parents talked her into sports and running since her motivation wasn't that big. Since the first training success appeared by good rankings in competitions thereby she developed more ambition and remained till this day loyal to the sport and became one of the most successful female German runners.
Sabrina Mockenhaupt: https://www.facebook.com/RunningMocki/
beat Yesterday: https://beatyesterday.org/de/
Jaybird: https://jaybirdsport.com
Production: Maria Lorenz & Nilz Bokelberg – www.poolartists.de


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Luxury and premium products have an incredibly important role to play in our rapidly changing world. A startling amount of innovation occurs when price is no object and there is total independence to dream big.
Today, the technical approaches proven by boat builders in the marine industry are finding their way into how our homes are wired, how we control our infrastructure, and how the next evolution of the energy grid should be deployed. As has always been true, boat builders are navigating us into the future.
Read more: https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/the-smart-home-of-the-future-has-been-built-into-boats-for-50-years


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Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA) are waiting on a decision from Morocco on whether the country will step in to host the 2019 African Games, insidethegames understands.
ANOCA officials visited Morocco earlier this month to hold talks with officials about the possibility.
A meeting took place between Morocco's Minister of Youth and Sport, Rachid Talbi Alami, and ANOCA vice-presidents Mustapha Barraf and Joao Costa Alegre.
Ahmed Nasser, President of Association of African Sports Confederations (AASC), was also present.
ANOCA Zone V President William Blick was among those attending the visit.
Prior to the visit, Blick told The New Times that the organisation were "doing all possible to ensure the Games take place" and claimed it would be a "credibility issue" for Africa if they did not.
insidethegames understands official confirmation of whether Morocco would want to host the Games could be given to ANOCA in the next week.
A replacement host has been sought by ANOCA after Equatorial Guinea announced in November that they would no longer be able to organise the event.
Equatorial Guinea was named as host in 2016 in what would have marked the first time the west African country had formed the location for the event.
Falling oil prices and economic problems were cited as one reason for the withdrawal.
Consultative Meeting on Hosting of the 12 Edition of the African Games 2019 with H.E Rashid Talbi Alami, Minister of Youth and Sport, Kingdom of Morocco— H.E. Amira Elfadil Mohammed Elfadil (@Elfadil_DSA) July 10, 2018
In attendance Mr. Mustafa Barraf, 1st President of ANOCA, Mr. JAOU ALEGRE, 2nd VP ANOCA & GEN. Ahmed Nasser, President of AASC pic.twitter.com/lCP09mGzpe
Should Morocco opt to step into the breach, it would also mark their first participation at the continental event since the 1978 Games in Algiers.
It followed Morocco leaving the African Union in 1984, after the continental body recognised the independence of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic, also known as Western Sahara.
The dispute over Western Sahara, which Morocco claim is part of its territory historically, led to Morocco being outside the African Union for three decades.
They were readmitted to the body last year.
Should Morocco step in, it would come as a major relief to ANOCA with one year to go.
There were reports in recent months that Lusaka in Zambia may host the Games, but no confirmation ultimately emerged.
The Games are due to act as a qualifying event for several sports for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.
The event has been held on 12 occasions since an inaugural edition in Brazzaville in 1965 - with the Republic of Congo's capital also hosting the most recent edition in 2015.
In February, ANOCA signed an agreement with the African Union to take control of the organisation and management of the African Games.
The multi-sport event has previously been organised by the Sports Council of the African Union - an umbrella group of continental Governments - rather than ANOCA.
Under the terms of the agreement, the African Union would keep ownership of the Games, but ANOCA would organise, manage and run them.
The AASC would be placed in charge of the technical components of the Games.
It is possible news about the 2019 Games could emerge when the ANOCA Extraordinary General Assembly takes place tomorrow, prior to the African Youth Games in Algiers.
The meeting is aimed at deciding a date for the organisation's Presidential election, following a spell of turmoil.
In May, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruled a new election must be held after it upheld an appeal by Cameroon's Hamad Kalkaba Malboum.
Kalkaba was controversially disqualified from standing in last year's election by the ANOCA Executive Committee after being accused of bribery and illegally using the Government in Cameroon to campaign on his behalf.
Ivorian Lassana Palenfo was consequently re-elected by acclamation for a fourth term in office at the ANOCA General Assembly held in Djibouti on May 10 last year.
A complaint was lodged by Djibouti National Olympic Committee President and International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Aicha Garad Ali over the decision to exclude Kalkaba.
This eventually resulted in a special meeting held after the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) General Assembly in Prague in November, attended by Kuwait's ANOC President Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah and Spain's IOC deputy director general Pere Miró.
It was decided there that Palenfo will remain as President of ANOCA but would relinquish all operational functions and office duties to the Executive Committee.
Ultimately CAS ruled a new election must been held.


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The US and UK Banks have been illegally foreclosing / repossessing property, by not even checking paperwork and worse still, by forging it – whilst being bailed out by the Government with your future as collateral. Is that right or fair?
How come the overpaid Bankers and their pretentious solicitors fail to provide any copies of certified contracts or documents when requested? Maybe it's to hide fraud! And don't expect your MP or elected representatives to help – as the Government is busy enough trying to get money out of you for it's past mistakes and new ones as they work with the banks.
Watch this video for what's happening in the US – and then read on.
First it was sub-prime, now it's moving to the average/middle-class home owners! The Bankers will do whatever it takes to screw the money out of you.
They have gone to existing businesses in the UK and told them to make up the 75% Loan To Value difference, on demand, even if their properties are cash-flowing. Else they will be taken off them and sold at auction – most likely for a loss. How does that work or help anyone?
Only got a small mortgage? Did you know that if you lose your job, you won't be able to re-finance the equity! Fail to meet your mortgage payments and they'll still repossess you. Aren't you glad you did business with that lovely mortgage broker!
It's not all depressing. You can contact your mortgage company and ask for a payment holiday, they shouldn't refuse. Or don't pay them for a month or even two, then start your repayments and ask them to add the missed amount to your loan. Handy for Christmas hey 😉
It appears that common sense says if you can't afford to pay your mortgage and are in huge negative equity then the real option seems obvious!
How much financial pain can people take before they say, "Screw It" and stop paying the crooked Bankers?
It appears that the Government might actually want the repossessions and foreclosures to carry on as it provides an 'economical stimulus' as detailed below:
- Estate agents get paid (as they're not selling any houses on the open market in this economy)
- Estate Agent employees get paid
- Buying broker gets paid
- Selling Agent gets paid
- Selling Broker gets paid
- Brokers' employees get paid
- Old lender gets paid off
- Old lender employees get paid
- New lender gets new loan
- New lender employees get paid
- New lender sells to another new lender and is paid
- Solicitors get paid
- Solicitors office gets paid
- Loans get sliced and diced into credit default swaps and mortgage backed securities
- Slicer and dicers get paid
- Salesmen now sell this sliced and diced mortgage all over the world
- Government gets paid off taxes and get money on every ounce of profit that is made in this never ending chain
- New homeowner buys stuff at home depot / B&Q
- Home Depot / B&Q now have to hire more employees to deal with the homeowner demand
- And on and on….
So it's good for the economy if you look at it. After all, someone has to pay the Estate Agents, Solicitors, Mortgage Brokers, Bankers and Government employees, else they'd have to go and do something productive for the world instead.
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If you're anything like us, then you know what it's like to spend Halloween trying your hardest not to consume the entire candy stash before the first kid knocks on your door.
But if you can't trust yourself sitting beside that Costco-size box of chocolate bars all night (who can?!), consider stocking up on these 13 healthier Halloween snacks. They offer kiddos more balanced options but also won't make you feel like crap if you can't stop at just one.
This list is 100-percent dietitian-approved: Some are allergen-friendly, vegan, or gluten-free; others are organic, non-GMO, and void of artificial colors or flavors. And a bunch of them pack a wide range of lower-sugar, antioxidant-rich ingredients. So whatever your Halloween vice, whether it's sweet, salty, or something in-between, we've got a healthier Halloween treat for you. Oh, and the kids.
1. YumEarth Organic Pomegranate Licorice
A common source of food sensitivities, red food coloring isn't usually a fan favorite among parents of candy-loving kids. Thankfully, these little licorice nibs are flavored with organic pomegranate and cherry juice and colored naturally with organic fruit concentrates, yielding a gluten-free, vegan, and nut-free treat. ($19 for 6 bags; amazon.com)
2. MadeGood Halloween Chocolate Granola Minis
Halloween can be a nightmare for a kid with severe food allergies, so we love these limited-edition chocolate chip granola minis from MadeGood. Free of the top eight allergens, organic, gluten-free, and non-GMO project verified, these bars are a breath of fresh air for concerned parents. They're also a charitable choice this Halloween since 2 percent of all proceeds from the bars goes directly to Children's Miracle Network Hospitals.($19 for 36 minis; amazon.com)
3. Veggie Go's Organic Fruit and Veggie Strips
Packed with a half-cup of organic fruit and veggies per strip, plus fiber-rich flaxseeds and a touch of cinnamon, these no-sugar-added snacks are a smart way to get your sweet fix on October 31. They're also gluten-free, vegan, non-GMO, and have less than 20 calories per bar (not that we are counting, but that's pretty good).($23 for 20 strips; amazon.com)
4. Free2b Dark Chocolate Mint Cups
Ready to trade that classic (massive) Peppermint Patty for something a little lighter? We love these vegan dark chocolate mint cups because they're free of the top 12 allergens (nuts, dairy, gluten, oh my!) and are made with fair-trade unsweetened dark chocolate so we can feel good about where they came from.($32 for 24; amazon.com)
5. Annie's Organic Orchard Cherry Apple Fruit Bites
With organic fruit pureé as the first ingredient and no artificial flavors, colors, or preservatives, moms and dads won't mind popping these fruity bites into kiddo's lunch for a healthier post-Halloween snack. ($5 for 5 packs; walmart.com)
6. KIND Minis
With just 2 grams of added sugars per 100-calorie bar, along with 3 grams each of fiber and protein, you can feel good about these KIND minis making an appearance in your kids' stash. Sweet, salty, chocolaty, and crunchy, they check all the boxes for a healthier Halloween treat.($22 for 20 bars; amazon.com)
7. The Good Bean Sea Salt Crunchy Chickpeas
Need a savory option for the chip fans in your life? We got you. These single-serve bags of addictive crispy chickpeas pack 4 grams of protein and fiber into every 90-calorie pack, making them an awesome choice for your kids (and you, of course).($30 for 50 packs; amazon.com)
8. Unreal Dark Chocolate Crispy Quinoa Gems
Getting your chocolate fix doesn't have to mean tossing junk food into your grocery cart just before checkout. These tasty chocolate rounds are made with organic, non-GMO, fair-trade dark chocolate and are vegan and gluten-free.They're also colored naturally with fruit and veggie extract instead of the standard food dyes and offer a delicate crunch from protein-rich quinoa.($26 for 6 bags; shop.getunreal.com)
9. Justin's Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups
Neighborhood mamas and dads are going to be pumped when they find these in their kids' candy bag. The better-for-you cups are made with organic dark chocolate and organic peanuts and offer 4 grams of protein per two-cup package. Sorry, kids, we might have to confiscate your bag for these.($25 for 12 packs; amazon.com)
12. Skinny Dipped Almonds
Finally, a Halloween option that could make its way into the holiday season too (seriously, these are great stocking stuffers). The dark chocolate-dipped almonds have just 60 calories per pack and only 2 grams of sugar. The almonds are coated in an antioxidant-rich dark chocolate for a healthy treat that will give Almond Joys a run for their money. ($35 for 24 packs; skinnydipped.com)
13. Fruits in Chocolate Dark Chocolate Covered Coconut
Each individually wrapped truffle features a whole dried fruit coated in rich dark chocolate with just 50 to 70 calories per piece. They're available as a mixed box with prunes, cranberries, and apricots, so you can give 'em to the kids who could use a more natural chocolate fix this fall (so, all of them). ($23 for 46 pieces; fruitsinchocolate.com)
Every editorial product is independently selected by our editors. If you buy something through one of our links, we may earn a commission. But don't worry, it doesn't cost you anything extra, and we wouldn't recommend a product if we didn't love it as much as we love puppies.


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AfterEllen.com's managing editor Malinda Lo guest-stars on this episode of She Made Me Watch This!, which is dedicated to answering the TV and movie questions you left in the comments last week. Questions like:
We also discuss our favorite L Word storylines from this season, and which shows we're most excited about returning in April.
Plus Malinda and I get into a lively punctuation argument (I blame the British!), and the bunny injured in last week's episode makes her first on-camera appearance since the accident.
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Expansion Planning For Systems Growth
Something scary is happening in the world of computing. Even though everything is getting smaller and more powerful, we're faced with increasing demand for power to run systems, keep them cool and house them. Although disk drive capacity requirements double every year, if companies require more drives, the issues become how to deal with the increased expense to run systems and keep servers cool -- and where they will house everything.
"Server consolidation and virtual servers are a major step toward improving capacity utilization of servers," says Arun Taneja, founder and consulting analyst at Taneja Group, a storage and server analyst consultancy in Hopkinton, Mass. "Every data center person should be looking at both. Companies are also turning to blade servers as another strategic way of consolidating space."
Restricted Space
Companies in cities such as Manhattan and London are facing serious storage issues because there physically isn't room for them to increase the size of their data centers. Many organizations are being forced to move their operations to locations with more open space.
Yet moving a data center is among the hardest processes from a planning and execution perspective. The volume of data that companies possess is daunting, and they don't have the luxury of simply turning systems off and putting them onto a truck. (article continues)
"It's a very expensive proposition, even in a best case scenario," says Steve Duplessie, founder and senior analyst at The Enterprise Strategy Group, Inc., an IT consultancy based in Milford, Mass. "All of a company's applications can be dynamically migrated online to a new site, but IT must make sure everything is synched and online before doing a hard cut over and decommissioning the old site."
But Duplessie cautions that such moves never go perfectly smoothly and it takes an enormous amount of time -- at least a year -- and bandwidth on top of the cost to complete a move and upgrade.
Starting Over
On the plus side, moving a data center enables a company to start with a clean slate. It can be an opportunity to recognize the past infrastructure mistakes and to architect and configure for the new millennium going forward.
Duplessie suggests that if an old data center site isn't going to go away, it can then be used as a disaster recovery backup site. He believes companies are starting to recognize that assets that have depreciated are ideal for housing second tier applications, or for disaster recovery.
"Many companies prefer to get rid of their old assets and tend to buy infrastructure for infrastructure sake," says Duplessie, "which solves one problem and creates another -- that's the nature of computing."
Another way to conserve data center space and plan for future growth, says Duplessie, is to evaluate data and determine what is mission critical and what isn't. "People are starting to realize that not all data should be treated exactly the same and not all data needs to be on the highest tech, most expensive gizmos." (article continues)
"I would be willing to bet there is huge amount of data that doesn't need to be spinning around twenty-four hours a day,'' he adds. "Data's value and access patterns change over time, and because we architected it and stored it there on day one doesn't meant that's where it should be on day two-hundred."
If companies took 75 percent of their data off their primary production storage area and moved it to a lower cost, lower power, lower performing storage area, the savings garnered could be doubled, according to experts.
"If it's not possible to grow physically we have to take a data-centric view,'' says Duplessie. "If we place everything around the life cycle and value and importance of the data, which is variable over time, and don't treat it the same, we have the opportunity to make decisions based on whatever criteria we have. It's treating everything the same that gets us in this power, cooling and space problem because it's easier to make the decision to buy more of what we have -- but it's usually strategically worse for that operation."
Over the long term, companies need to recognize that data has a life cycle and it can be staged on different servers that have different attributes around performance. That will let IT devise plans that capitalize on existing data center usage and minimize the need to add real estate to duplicate what is already in place.


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Name: Northern Plains Dance
Grade Level Preference: K- 5
Geographic Availability: Located in Bismarck, ND. We are willing to travel statewide.
Fee per-day: $150-$350 per day (fee structure may vary depending on time and location)
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Phone Number: (701) 530-0986
Web site: http://northernplainsdance.org/
Turn your lessons into movement, your classroom into a stage, and your students into active and creative thinkers. NPD in the Classroom is a school residency program that creates movement-based lessons for academic subjects, develops exciting and powerful learning opportunities, and allows students to engage in a kinesthetic approach through hands-on and active participation. Adding movement to education engages diverse types of learners and allows your students to experience academics from a different perspective. Our dance instructors have years of teaching experience and hold Bachelor's degrees in dance. Working with you and your lesson plan to create a movement experience filled with age-appropriate dances, our instructors will customize the residency to fit your needs. Afterwards, we will provide resources to assist you with future application of skills and specific tools needed to turn lessons into active learning opportunities.
The combination of education and dance provides students with the opportunity to learn creatively and encourages a healthy lifestyle. By creating a safe environment for kinesthetic learning, Northern Plains Dance allows students to explore new ways of learning, developing confidence, creativity and self-discipline. Incorporating movement into traditional classroom settings promotes cognitive development and academic achievement. It is our goal for students to become critical thinkers and problem solvers, applying the skills they learn in dance based classes to their everyday lives.
For Grades K-1
Four 45-Minute Sessions
Explore the physical world as learning takes shape. Creatively examine geometric ideas and orientation using your body to create triangles, circles and squares. Concepts of teamwork and choreography are used to create more complex three dimensional shapes as spatial relationships come into play. Led by Katherine Adams, Northern Plains Dance instructor and choreographer, this residency brings geometry to life.
For Grades 1-2
Five 50- Minute Sessions
Stories leap off the page as we use choreographic concepts to enhance students' understanding of both the central message and key details of reading material. Retention skills are developed and broadened through the physical embodiment of literature. In this residency, students will create movement phrases as a way to illustrate and deepen understanding of story themes. This residency is led by Katherine Adams, instructor and choreographer at Northern Plains Dance.
For Grades 2- 3
Five 50-minute Sessions
Focusing on the similarity between two disciplines, exploring the relationship between science and dance deepens students' understanding of force and motion. Observe and analyze patterns as they come to life through choreography. Teamwork is used to demonstrate force and motion in this interactive lesson. Northern Plains Dance's Education Coordinator, Katherine Adams, leads this kinesthetic approach to science.
Video example of NPD's residency: http://youtu.be/rCQtylBq-As.
Professional Development:
Defining Arts Integration, Reading Portraits as Biographies, Reading Art Across the Curriculum: Observe-Infer-Inquire, Documenting the Power of Learning Through the Arts - Presented by Melanie Layne, course leader and program consultant for the Kennedy Center's Changing Education Through the Arts (CETA) program, Washington, DC. July, 2013.
We strengthen the creative capacity of North Dakota for all who live or visit here: honoring our cultural traditions, empowering excellence and innovation, inspiring arts and culture opportunities for all.
1600 East Century Avenue, Suite 6
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(701) 328-7590
(701) 328-7595 (Fax)
Email: email@example.com
Hours of business are:
Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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Public hearing: Witnesses questioned use of force by Victoria police
Jun 27 2012
An image from a film uploaded to YouTube shows two officers standing over a person during the incident.Photograph by: Screenshot , YouTube
Two more people who witnessed Victoria police constables Chris Bowser and Brendan Robinson forcibly arrest Tyler Archer on March 21, 2010, after a nightclub brawl testified at a public hearing Tuesday morning.
Joel Hibbard, 27, placed a 911 call after he saw Bowser and Robinson using force as they arrested Archer. Hibbard was drinking with friends at Swans brew pub, sitting in the glassed in atrium at the corner of Pandora and Store streets, and watched the brawl break out outside Social Club. Then he watched Archer's arrest which has become the subject of much controversy.
The public hearing has been ordered by the Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner because the YouTube video that captured the incident sparked outrage and debate over whether the level of force was acceptable.
OPCC lawyer Mike Tammen asked Hibbard why he called 911 on the officers.
"I thought the individual on the ground was going to wind up getting hurt. He was definitely being treated in a way that could cause some serious harm to him and I didn't think it was appropriate and I decided to step in, I guess," Hibbard said.
Robinson's lawyer, David Butcher, referred to Hibbard's statement to Vancouver police when he said he thought the officer's actions were inappropriate because it looked as if Archer was not being combative and that his hands were already cuffed.
Butcher pointed out that Archer's hands were not yet cuffed.
"I don't feel like that level of force is ever really acceptable on a person lying on the ground," Hibbard said. "He didn't, from my vantage point, didn't look to be fighting back."
The adjudicator Ben Casson heard the 911 call Hibbard placed. He's audibly intoxicated, saying he needs "fresh" cops to come down to the Social Club. The call taker says there are already police officers there.
"The police right now are doing a terrible f---ing job," Hibbard said.
Casson also heard from Grace, a woman who was driving over the Johnson Street bridge and stopped her car on Store Street when she witnessed officers running to break up the brawl.
"I saw officer Chris Bowser... just kind of bashing and kicking and I was going 'is that the way you treat the people?' I didn't like that ... and I stayed to witness the rest," she said.
McCrimmon, 62, said she heard Bowser tell Archer to get down on the ground with a very authoritative voice.
"And the young man sat down, and an officer with dark hair pushed him on his side. And I thought 'wow, that was a heavy push.' And the fellow, Tyler, I would say was being very cooperative and he didn't fight, he wasn't combating the police or anything like that."
McCrimmon said she honked her horn over and over to try and distract Bowser.
"The young man was going 'ow' and I was feeling the pain for him. I feel the need for the knee on the back and the kicks, it was not necessary."
McCrimmon shook her head and cringed when the YouTube video was played.
McCrimmon said she was so angry she got out of her car and tried to get another officer to help Archer, pointing out that his nose was bleeding.
"My heart was bleeding for the kicks that Tyler got," she said.
She went home so upset, she called Victoria police and asked to speak to a supervisor, who told her the officer was just doing what's he's trained to do. McCrimmon wrote a letter to police chief Jamie Graham expressing her frustration.
The afternoon session will hear from the man who filmed the YouTube video, which has been viewed over 270,000 times.
Two investigations cleared the officers of wrong doing but Police complaint commissioner disagreed with that finding and has the power to order a public hearing.
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Contract standardization has a history that is almost as long as contracts themselves. Due to the complexity of contracts as well as to the legal aspects of contracts, businesses and individuals have long used standardization practices in conjunction with all phases of the contract practice, from what contracts say to how they are presented and approved.
What aspects of a contract and the contract management process can be standardized?
- Contract language. Since many contracts share at least a few similar goals, and since many contracts are serving as the same legal protections, it follows logically that many contracts can safely share language, from phrases and sentences to entire paragraphs or sections. Having a bank of common templates can save an enormous amount of time and provide the most legally sound draft possible if they are used consciously and correctly.
- Contract design. The design of the contract itself can and should be standardized, from the way it is organized on the page to issues like font style and size. While the design and layout of the contract may not at first seem pertinent, a consistent and user-friendly design can help make the document more accessible, easier to understand, and more efficient to work with.
- Contract assembly. The standardized assembly of contracts can also save businesses considerable time, money, and effort. Standardization can be achieved in this area through identifying standardization opportunities, creating an assembly system, training your team, and automating steps where possible - for assembly, workflows, approvals, etc. (The new method for document assembly - a modular approach)
- Best practices analysis. Having standard practices for the analysis of your content management strategies is just as key as having standard practices for writing and reviewing your contracts. Examining the process as well as the result in a consistent and uniform manner can help you identify best practices and standardize other areas within the contract lifecycle management sphere.
The Benefits of Standardization Of Contracts
Some parties may at first wonder if contract standardization has any payoff – that is, if the time and effort that goes into identifying and creating standardization practices is worth the benefits of implementing them. The answer is a resounding yes – standardizing your contracts and contract lifecycle management best practices has a number of benefits that continue to pay off for years after you have created your systems:
- Standardization improves clarity.
- Standardization increases efficiency and productivity.
- Standardization sets a bar for quality.
- Standardization prevents errors.
- Standardization makes analysis easier.
- Standardization offers more legal protections.
- Standardization saves money.
Contract Standardization Risks And Caveats
While contract standardization is efficient (and even necessary), there is certainly a such thing as too much of a good thing as well as a such thing as poor standardization practices. While some language – and even entire sections – of contracts can be based off of templates or extracted from master documents, it is vital to remember that all contracts are different and that similar contracts serve could different purposes. A clause that is appropriate and needed in one contract could complicate, clutter, or even endanger your deal in another contract. At the same time, the standardization of contracting processes may stifle creativity and innovation. However, these issues can be mitigated simply through proper planning, awareness and education.
Share your experiences with standardization... What changes have you made to your content and/or process? What's worked? What hasn't?
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Rabbit Hole
Becca and Howie Corbett are a happily married couple whose perfect world is forever changed when their young son, Danny, is killed by a car. Becca, an executive-turned-stay-at-home mother, tries to redefine her existence in a surreal landscape of well-meaning family and friends. Painful, poignant, and often funny, Becca's experiences lead her to find solace in a mysterious relationship with a troubled young comic-book artist, Jason - the teenage driver of the car that killed Danny. Becca's fixation with Jason pulls her away from memories of Danny, while Howie immerses himself in the past, seeking refuge in outsiders who offer him something Becca is unable to give. The Corbetts, both adrift, make surprising and dangerous choices as they choose a path that will determine their fate.
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