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About the CYA Conference Day:
Q: Are the Master-classes only for published writers or is it for all conference participants?
A: This is for all participants. Published and aspiring. But book early, places are limited and on a first in first served basis.
Q: Are lunch and morning tea included in the price?
A: At this price it had better be!!! Yes, it is fully catered.
Q: Are my email questions going to be answered on the FAQ page?
A: We do try answer all questions personally, but we will take your questions and put them on the FAQ's too, to help anyone else who's too shy to email in.
Q: Can I pitch to an editor /agent and not attend CYA Conference?
A: Yes. But preference is given to those actually attending first. It is done on a first come first serve basis. (First in Best Dressed basis.)
Q: I am gluten intolerant - will you cater for me?
A: Yes. Please tell us on your booking sheet of any allergies/intolerance's and we will endeavour to do our best to cater for you.However if you have multiple needs, then we recommend you bring your own food and we will pop it in the fridge for you.
Q: I am a student via correspondent study. Does this qualify for the Student Discount?...I have a Student Card.
A:You get a concession price - remember to put your student number on the booking sheet.
Q: Paying off Conference - Am I allowed to make a few successive payments over a few months for the sum total amount?
A: You can make the progressive payment/payment plan this year with pleasure - but it all needs to be settled before 30th June.
Q: The Editor/Agent pitch Fee - is that for one assessment only?
A: Yes. One 15 minute pitch, and they pre-read your work and give you feedback.
Q: Must we nominate a preferred Editor /Agent to pitch to prior to the day ie: at the time of submitting Bio and manuscripts?
A: Nominate when you book ASAP - the good/well known editors fill up fast, don't leave it till later.
Q: Do we nominate now at time of registration the masterclasses or sessions we wish to attend or simply decide on the day? If the former, how does this fit in with the Pitch sessions?
A: You nominate you class on registration - and then you are given a time slot for your pitch. You just miss that 20 minutes of that class - nothing we can do to make that not happen sorry. People just use their time given.
Q:Where exactly is the conference?
A: Southbank Institute of Technology (TAFE), 66 Ernest Street, South Brisbane.
Q: Do you want to be a CYA Conference Volunteer for 2017?
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Creating Track List
Posted Jul 08 2017 - 06:20 PM
I am hoping to learn how to create a track list so that when I'm in the 55 mod (or other era) I can have more selection of tracks, and such as that. I have some of the 1955-type tracks downloaded, but I have yet to figure out how to get them into/onto the list so that they appear in the track selection menu. Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks for any input!
Now, I think I'm going to head off to hurl around a Ferrari 555 at Silverstone!
Old Simmer
Posted Jul 09 2017 - 12:15 AM
To remove a track, click on the + of a season, select the track you want to remove and than click on the <- arrow in the middle.
You can also make your own season, but if you do so the name of your season has to be exactly 8 characters long. (That's what I remember at least)
Edited by Millennium, Jul 09 2017 - 12:18 AM.
Posted Jul 09 2017 - 02:38 AM
You will also find arrows to move the selected track up or down the list you are creating.
some pics:
pic001.jpg 121.66K 40 downloads pic002.jpg 117.65K 58 downloads
pic003.jpg 27.59K 62 downloads pic004.jpg 23.46K 53 downloads
pic005.jpg 121.04K 54 downloads pic006.jpg 119.92K 51 downloads
pic007.jpg 120.83K 47 downloads pic008.jpg 128.57K 40 downloads
When you are done, click OK to go back to the main GEM+ window
then you can select your list or any other in GEM+
Posted Jul 09 2017 - 03:44 AM
I hope you can get your list of favourite tracks set up easily! Good luck!
Edited by Saiph, Jul 09 2017 - 03:45 AM.
Posted Jul 09 2017 - 07:19 AM
Has anyone researched/created a table/list of all the tracks the 1955 cars raced at, GP and otherwise? I would like to add as many of the tracks as possible to my upcoming 1955 "Season" I intend to create with both GP and non-GP tracks therein.
Also, do I have this right:
Once a track is downloaded, unzip it, and place the track folder within GPL's "Tracks" folder... then go to GEM and add it to the appropriate season?
Old Simmer
Posted Jul 09 2017 - 08:30 AM
This will put it by default into the 67season.ini.
Afaik the 05season.ini has all the tracks of the real season
Posted Jul 09 2017 - 12:46 PM
I thought I read "somewhere" that in addition to the 1955 GP championship races, there were non-championship races as well, such as at Brands Hatch or Goodwood or wherever?
I need to go look and see what tracks appear in GPL for the 55 GP season, and see what ones remain to be added to complete the GP season. I know I need to install some still, just can't remember off hand what track(s).
All fer now!
Old Simmer
aka Andre Ming
Edited by Old Simmer, Jul 09 2017 - 12:47 PM.
Posted Jul 09 2017 - 12:55 PM
Ah, the joys of simming!
Old Simmer
aka Andre Ming
Posted Jul 09 2017 - 01:21 PM
If I remember from my memory in gem and the season section on the right you will have the the track ini's.
There are usually two for each mod or original 67.
The track ini for general track running is I think season.ini. So for 55 it is 55seasonini.
The other which I think is 55ini is for your championship.
I think I am right in this unless I have them the wrong way round and stand corrected.
Posted Jul 15 2017 - 11:14 AM
I'm pretty sure I'm not installing the tracks correctly, but I'm trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong.
I have downloaded Bremgarten and Reims, unzipped, looked within the folders for each and did not see installer programs for same. So, I placed the folders within my GPL "Tracks" folder. FWIW: I took screen pictures of my current GPL "Tracks" folder as well as the track list within GEM, but I have yet to figure out how to upload photos here for sharing. (More stuff to learn.)
Anyway, the track folders for Bremgarten and Reims appear within the GPL "Tracks" folder, but do NOT appear in the GEM list (along with several other track folders I've placed inside GPL's "Tracks" folder using the same approach). So obviously, I'm not doing something right.
Once more, any input would be appreciated.
Old Simmer
Posted Jul 15 2017 - 04:59 PM
When you unzip it it should have a file with an .EXE extension; double click on that one to run the installer.
To post pictures here, just click on the button More Reply Options you see on the bottom left while you are typing the message.
A bigger window will appear for your message and at the bottom of it you will find Attach Files.
Choose the file you want
Posted Jul 15 2017 - 06:51 PM
Thank you very much for your input.
I went back to the original folders for both the Bremgarten and Reims folders and looked within all folders that extracted. I found an INSTALL.exe program for Bremgarten and indeed, it is now installed.
I have examined each extracted folder (reims_horizon, reims_v1, reims_v2, reims_v2alternative) and I do not find an install application file for Reims.
Posted Jul 15 2017 - 08:52 PM
A full track should have at least 9 files in its folder:
record & track.ini
maxrace, minrace, pass1&2, pit and race.lp
and a dat file named the same as the folder.
If these are present GEM should be able to find the track and you can add it to your season.ini using GEM.
Otherwise find the readme, in it you should find similar lines to these:
Next open GPL\seasons\67season.ini
Increment the number at the end of the line starting with numEvents by 1. SHould be line 4
Add the lines from the readme to the end of the file and change # to whatever the new number at the end of line 4 is.
Save and the track should show up ingame.
Posted Jul 15 2017 - 09:30 PM
I downloaded Reims from this site:
Reading the Reims information at the above site carefully, it appears I only have the needed update files to the original track. So, I need to find the original track before Reims can be successfully installed.
Posted Jul 16 2017 - 12:10 AM
But before you have to install the Reims 1967 track from here:
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Spartacus: Vengeance kicks off in just a few short days in both the US and UK. To celebrate the Thracian warrior's return, we brought you an interview with Lucy Lawless - the scheming, sultry Lucretia - earlier this week.
But now it's time to bring out the big guns - series creator and showrunner Steven S DeKnight, and the man tasked with replacing the late Andy Whitfield, new show lead Liam McIntyre. Read on for a few insights into the new season...
Liam, the obvious question - how does it feel to replace Andy Whitfield?
Liam: "It's a challenge, but a challenge that I like to honour with a lot of hard work. I was a fan before all this happened, and the best thing I can do is honour how much the fans love the show by working as hard as I possibly can. Spartacus is on a new journey now, so if anything it's lucky that I have a fresh start, in a way. I want to keep the soul of that character alive, while doing it as I can.
"By necessity, 'cause I'm a new actor, it'll be [my interpretation] and that's the most important thing I can do - own that character, respect that character and make sure that Spartacus is just as exciting to watch now.
"That is a big mantle, but, y'know, what else could you do? Just work as hard as you can and do the best job. Hopefully everyone will understand the situation and enjoy an exciting show anyway. Cos it is amazing!"
Steven, does having a new lead actor affect how you write the character?
Steven: "There was some discussion early on - should I write the character differently? I said 'Absolutely not' - it should be Spartacus and whatever actor we cast will bring his own thing to it.
"We weren't looking for an Andy clone, we were looking for somebody that really embodied that strength, that presence - a real soulfulness and compassion - that was the main thing we were looking for. It didn't matter if he looked like Andy or not - we were just looking for that kind of 'feel' for the character. Liam came in and had that kind of feel!"
Liam: "The luckiest thing that I've had has been the real support from Starz, from the start. They've just said, 'Look, do it your way'. I mean, I've watched the first season and gone to the arena a hundred times, because it's a great show.
"And the best part about having good writing is that you have a great character to work with. That hasn't changed, so it's still written fantastically. It's still the same guy and so my challenge is not to be like Andy, because he was classic - his Spartacus was incredible. My challenge is to make my Spartacus incredible.
"As we go through the season, it just gets better and better. The stories get more and more exciting - bigger and bigger - and it's a great opportunity to explore a fantastic, bedevilled but heroic character. I'm the luckiest man in the world, by a mile."
The first season was all about escaping the Ludus. What is the theme of season two?
Steven: "The subtitle Vengeance, I think, pretty much sums that up! And it's not just Spartacus looking for vengeance - every character has an axe to grind. Everybody's got an enemy they're gunning for!
"We had a lot of conversations with Starz about what to call this season. I started with Vengeance and then we kicked around a bunch of other stuff.
"Some people felt that it was like Return of the Jedi - when George Lucas originally wanted to call it 'Revenge of the Jedi' - is revenge really a heroic thing? But I kept coming back to it, because it really describes what everybody's after in this season."
Liam: "And that's the cool thing about Spartacus - it doesn't have to be pretty. It is a messy, gritty, exciting action show and Vengeance sums that up perfectly - it's driven, it's forceful, it's angry!"
Steven: "Next season, it'll be puppies and ponies!"
Liam, how much physical training is required for a role like this?
Liam: "A lot - more than I could have possibly imagined! I did something prior to this where I had to lose 20 kilos and I was rake thin, so when they said 'Audition for Spartacus', I was like, 'Ha - good one!'
"So I worked hard at doing that right, as best I could. Apparently I did well. But then they got me back and said, 'You have to be massive, so keep training for the next nine or ten months', so it's been a journey!
"I never thought I'd be an expert at sword fighting, I never thought I'd be an expert in protein powders - I'm close to being an expert in both. It's great!"
How do you respond to criticisms of the 'over the top' violence?
Steven: "Whenever anybody says 'over the top', my first reaction is, 'My roof is just a lot higher than yours!' I'm very much interested by the pulps of yesteryear - [Conan creator] Robert E Howard, Sax Rohmer with the Fu Manchu novels, Doc Savage, of course. That and Shakespeare are my two big influences, so you can see where those two mash together.
"We never approach it as, 'What crazy thing can we do now?' - I always approach it first from the Shakespearean side of the characters. Two of my biggest influences on this show are Othello and Titus Andronicus - the character of Ashur (Nick Tarabay), I based on 'honest' Iago and Aaron the Moor.
"So that's where I'm coming from, and then we build on it. With the violence, we don't so much try to top ourselves, as try desperately not to repeat ourselves."
Liam: "And from the character's point of view, it never seems ridiculous. Spartacus kills someone in a mind-blowing way? Of course he does, because it's awesome! It just feels right. It's cool, it's visceral."
Have there been any moments you haven't been able to achieve on screen, or that Starz has said no to?
Liam: "I'm amazed at how much stuff they can achieve!"
Steven: "There's been some things on the visual effects level that we had to scale back, financially."
Liam: "That said, I read the script and the amazing scale that they're written in, and I just go, 'You are kidding me - there's no way' - and they find a way every time!"
Steven: "Starz have never told us, 'This is too gory'. They've said to us once or twice, 'Can we cut one of the shots of the giant penis?" but it's never too gory!"
Spartacus: Vengeance begins on Friday, January 27 at 10/9c on Starz in the US. The series airs in the UK from Monday, January 30 at 10pm on Sky1.


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Cleaning the New Slate
What's better than a brand new year to play with?
Well, maybe kittens. Or a box of new crayons.
But having a fresh new year ahead definitely ranks.
Which is why it's worth making the most of that clean slate.
That means we conscious creators want to be very deliberate about leaving our sad old stories in the past where they belong.
I'm intending to keep 2014 fresh and sparkly by not bringing in tales of what went wrong, of what I didn't like, or of who didn't do me right. Those get retired tonight.
Because even though it's an old story, if I keep telling it – or even thinking it – it's a current vibration. And I know too much to play that way.
2014 deserves to be met with good vibrations, and I milked enough contrast from those old stories to last through a whole new year anyway.
So tonight I kiss my moldy oldies goodbye and give the new year a chance to be that – new. Something different and better than before.
Yes, I've got some epic tales that served so well they'll get carried over to a seat of honor, but anything I didn't love or don't want more of gets left at the midnight threshold.
Because a new year of magic and miracles isn't filled with memories of what went wrong.
It's a new day, a new moon, and a new year. No better time to let go of the stories keeping your big dream from coming to full fruition.
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Understood. I often feel a little trapped when I SHOULD buy the most ethical, least harmful thing, but don't really like or want that thing.ReplyDeleteReplies
Well, also when you buy that thing that's at least marginally better and it doesn't work out for you. I feel like I've tried to go back to US-made American Apparel jeans and the finish on them was like fuzzy cotton that picked up every piece of lint in the world so I had to get rid of them and went back to the BDGs anyway. I try to only buy jeans I can try on so that's a little limiting as well, and makes me much less likely to drop bucks on an online purchase. At some point it's like okay one new pair of BDGs every year/year and a half that get constant usage is maybe better than 3-4 new pairs of other jeans I will try to wear but won't work and I'll go back to BDG anyway.Delete
I've tried resale jeans but that's a lesson in both patience and humor.
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Oh goodness. These seem pretty good to me for the reason that you love them and plan to wear them to death. I have a stack of things I bought that are good on paper but had issues in real life - sustainably-made things that fell apart in the wash or shrunk radically, ethically-produced things that are so friggin' unflattering as to be useless in real life for me. I have things from Target and Old Navy and Forever 21 (yikes) I've purchased because they work well for me that have held up shockingly well (my favorite example was a pretty little white linen jacket that I bought from a clearance rack and wore for 3-4 years for work until it yellowed beyond repair). I love my $30 Icebreaker undies the most, but their thongs are terrible -- Victoria's Secret has served me much better in that department.ReplyDelete
Better is better. Sometime slowing fast-fashion down has value, too. And having something like your shoes/jeans that still works and hasn't changed so much that it stopped working? That's wonderful. I used to buy only J Crew suiting because it fit like a dream and held up really well. Now? The fit is atrocious and finding a pair of suiting pants with lining has become a nightmare. I haven't found a replacement I'm fully happy with and dread wearing a suit for work (and avoid it as much as possible) since.Replies
"I have a stack of things I bought that are good on paper but had issues in real life - sustainably-made things that fell apart in the wash or shrunk radically, ethically-produced things that are so friggin' unflattering as to be useless in real life for me."Delete
Yes to both! I ordered a pair of ethically produced vegan shoes recently... but they were uncomfortable and a much different color than I expected, so I had to send them back.


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I haven't really been around much in the last week or so. Last Monday I was in the capital for an Emergency Coordinator meeting. I'm the backup emergency coordinator for Ha'apai now seeing as I'm the only volunteer from group 76 in Ha'apai now. I stayed there until Wednesday morning. It was great being able to see some of the other volunteers which I haven't seen since swearing in, in December. We went out to an actual bar and had a pretty good time.
By the time I got back on Wednesday it was around lunch time and it was too late for me to teach. I taught Thursday and then it was Friday. I don't teach on Friday. Friday's consist of a radio broadcast played over the radio from 9-10 for every primary school in Tonga to listen to. I usually either do some other work while this is going on or use my time more wisely. It's a waste of time for me to listen to it since it is in Tongan so I did some much needed laundry instead during that hour. Then after the radio broadcast, we have a teacher's meeting. That lasts about another hour or so. During this whole time all the students are in one classroom where usually someone talks to them. The last two weeks were covered by two of the ministers from a couple of the churches here in Faleloa. After the meeting my day is done. The other teachers do some kind of teaching for about an hour and half, until lunch time. Then at lunch time everyone goes home for the day.
Last Friday Todd, Juleigh, and I went to visit Blair on the next island over for the weekend. Blair lives in a village called Ha'ano. I've heard that the island is called Kaovai (I think) but my map says it's called Ha'ano too so I'm not really sure which one it is. Blair only has electricity in the evenings and I think she has the most remote Peace Corps site in Tonga. It was really fun and relaxing. We watched movies on our laptops until the batteries died and on Saturday Todd and I went fishing with Sela, a really cool Tongan guy in Blair's village. We also did a lot of reading.
We had planned on getting a boat ride back with the Wesleyan boat on Sunday but we found out that it wasn't leaving until Monday morning. We really didn't want to have to get a ride back this morning and then go straight to school to teach. ; Especially Todd and Juleigh because they would have had to get from Faleloa to Pangai as well. We were able to get a really nice guy in the village named Sione to give us a ride yesterday evening. The only problem was that he only had enough gas in the boat to get from Ha'ano to the tip of my island, Foa and back again. This only meant that we had to get a little wet because there was no wharf for us to step on to. It is about a 45 minute boat ride. I wish it wasn't overcast and raining a bit because I would have loved to take some pictures and a video of the ride. The seas were pretty rough and the tiny boat got moved around quite a bit by some of the waves. Todd struggled a bit with the waves and almost got sea sick. We got soaked getting off the boat because the waves were pretty big on shore and we had to jump off. We were able to get all our bags off without getting wet so nobody lost any electronics or anything.
Today I was back teaching again. I taught for about 3 ½ hours. I was pretty tired after teaching so I ended up taking a nap for a couple of hours in my new armchair which finally arrived a couple weeks back. It arrived 6 weeks after it was suppose to get here. I awoke to the sound of the school push lawn mower and went outside to see what was going on. Saia and Sivi were cutting the end of a running track in the grass in front of the school. Sivi told me that it was for sports day which was on Friday. I had one of those "Ohhh! That's what they were talking about" moments thinking back to last Fridays staff meeting. I couldn't really figure out why they were asking me to be in charge of cleaning up the school grounds on Thursday this week. They were working on the round side of the end of the track. It actually didn't look so bad except for the outside lane which goes through the base of the flag pole. Also the inside lane ended kind of abruptly at a hedge. When I noticed this, the thought also occurred to me, "I don't remember there being this much space in the hedge so that a running track could fit through it." There hadn't been. They had cut down to beautiful shrubs for this track (I'm picturing the gasps of my Dad upon reading that sentence lol)! They also told me that they were going to take out a third one where the inside track was running into it.
They will probably run maybe a few long distance races on Friday. Anything longer than a lap will most likely see most of the runners collapse from exhaustion because they will of course sprint the first part like they would every other race. These shrubs must have been growing for years but I guess that's the price you have to pay to host a 5-11 year old sports day lol…
Here are the boys sitting together on Friday morning before the radio broadcast for the teachers.
Here are the girls.
Heres everyone. I don't know if you can make him out but if you look at the third boy in from the left in the first row, he is a 5-year old fakalaite-the 3rd gender class in Tonga. His parents didn't have any daughters so he is being raised as a girl to help around the house with cleaning and cooking. He has long hair braided into pigtails.
The new track
Here's a better picture of the new gap in the hedge. You can also notice what the meticulous planning led the the inside lane into.
Here are some pigs getting roasted for a kaipolo. This is a big feast which costs way more than most families can afford. This one was for a 1st birthday which is a big deal in Tonga. this was taken after Cyclone Wilma hit. Notice the windows of the house in the back which are covered with sheet metal to keep the wind and rain out. Most houses do this when cyclones hit.
Roasting Pigs again.
A couple of Sundays ago my neighbors brought this over for lunch. Lobsters here don't have claws but they are covered with pretty spiky shells which making eating a little difficult. It tasted exactly the same though!


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In the course of a well-deserved denunciation of our unlamented former governor Jesse Ventura, our friends at Fraters Libertas (the Elder, specifically) have regrettably gone off on an anti-lawyer tangent. The take-off point was Jesse's complaint that every time he had to enlist legal assistance in defending himself against some defamatory claim, it cost him $750 or $800. The Elder says:
"Without even getting a discussion on exactly how this whole thing about 'paying your attorney fees' would be enforced, doesn't it sound like Jesse's really getting off pretty cheap here? $750-$800 in legal fees? I gotta think that as soon as you pick up the phone to call one of the gents from Powerline, you're already talking close to grand. Heck, if you're in the urinal next to Hindrocket and you talk about anything other than the weather you're walking out of the bathroom with a billing statement. Jesse's talking about hiring a lawyer to march down to the Strib offices to pound their fist on some editor's desk until they agree to a correction (what a scene that must be). $750-$800? Who does he have on retainer? 'I Can't Believe It's A Law Firm!'? For someone who makes their living in the public eye as Jesse does, it doesn't seem like that high a price to pay to clear up your good name."
Exactly right: legal fees–cheap at the price! It's true that if I were hired to pound my fist on a Strib editor's desk (which I can't be, since they're a client of my firm, which might account in part for why the Trunk takes the lead in dissecting their polls), it would cost a good bit more than $750. But I will say, in my own defense, that urinal-related consultation is free. So, Elder, if you're ever in dire need of legal help, I can direct you to someone real cheap. For a price.
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No. 2002-457
Mark Grenier d/b/a Royalty Automotive Services
ASSOCIATION & a.
Argued: June 11, 2003
Opinion Issued: October 10, 2003
Robert E. Ducharme, of Stratham, by brief and orally, for the plaintiff.
Sanford Roberts, PA, of Portsmouth (Sanford Roberts on the brief and orally), for the defendants.
BRODERICK, J. The defendants, Barclay Square Condominium Owners Association and New Hampshire Real Estate Management and Brokerage, Incorporated, appeal an order of the Superior Court (Houran, J.) finding that they were not authorized to: (1) promulgate a rule to regulate the use of parking spaces; and (2) tow vehicles that are in violation of that rule. The defendants also argue that the court erred by failing to award them attorneys fees. The plaintiff, Mark Grenier d/b/a Royalty Automotive Services, cross-appeals, arguing that the trial court erred by failing to award him attorneys fees and costs, and by ordering him to pay storage costs associated with the towing of his vehicles. We affirm in part, reverse in part, vacate in part and remand.
The trial court found the following relevant facts. The plaintiff owns two units in the Barclay Square condominium complex (Barclay Square) located in Somersworth. Barclay Square is a twenty-four-unit business and commercial complex established in 1987 and is a registered condominium association. It is governed by a board of directors (board) and managed by defendant New Hampshire Real Estate Management and Brokerage, Inc. (New Hampshire Real Estate).
From his two units, the plaintiff operates Royalty Automotive Services, an automobile repair and sales business. In connection with his business, the plaintiff needs parking spaces for a number of vehicles, both during the day and overnight. The plaintiff regularly uses a portion of the common area to the rear of the units for parking.
At the annual meeting of the Barclay Square Condominium Association (association) in September 1998, the association adopted a temporary amendment requiring all business owners in Barclay Square wishing to use parking spaces in the rear of the units to request permission from the board. This amendment was effective until the next annual meeting in September 1999. At the September 1999 meeting, twenty-two unit owners voted sixteen to six to discontinue the temporary amendment. The association, however, voted twenty to two to direct the board to promulgate, within sixty days, "a new parking/general usage policy for the rear land" and to bring the proposal to a vote.
In 1999, the board developed a proposed ordinance (parking rule) regarding overnight parking in the rear common area. The owners of twenty-one of twenty-four units voted to approve the ordinance, which provides as follows:
Effective November 1, 1999 all unit owners and lessees wanting to use the rear common land to park registered and inspected (excluding dealer plates) motor vehicles or trailers overnight must first request permission in writing from the BSCCA Board of Directors. Under no circumstances shall the Board grant an individual business owner permission to park more than four (4) vehicles overnight at one time. Permission granted will be on a "space available" basis and will be for a specified area of land in the rear. . . . Non-compliance with the terms and conditions of said parking permission will be grounds for immediate revocation of this permission.
By letter dated December 14, 1999, the plaintiff requested permission to park "the maximum amount of vehicles allowed overnight" in the rear common area. On March 26, 2001, G. Brandt Atkins, president of New Hampshire Real Estate, wrote to the plaintiff, informing him that he had been and continued to be in violation of the parking rule and asking that he conform by 5:00 p.m. on April 3, 2001. Atkins included a copy of the parking rule with the letter and stated that "non-compliance will be grounds for the Board of Directors to immediately revoke the permission you requested in your December 14, 1999 letter to the Board."
Atkins notified all unit owners and tenants on April 5, 2001, that he intended to tow any vehicle in violation of the overnight parking rule that same evening. Atkins had received approval from the board to tow offending vehicles prior to issuing notices to unit owners and tenants. On the evening of April 5, 2001, Atkins discovered seven vehicles belonging to the plaintiffs business parked in the rear common area. He had three vehicles that were unregistered and/or uninspected towed.
The plaintiff did not pay the $300 necessary to recover his vehicles from the towing company and the vehicles were subsequently moved into storage at Superior Towing Company, Inc. By court order incorporating the parties stipulation, two parties originally named in this case, Superior Towing Company, Inc. and Automation Towing/Recovery, were dismissed, the plaintiff paid $4,350 to Superior Towing Company, and Superior Towing was ordered to hold the vehicles without additional charge pending the courts decision on the merits. The court stated that "[t]he ultimate responsibility for the towing and storage charges of $4,350 will be determined by the court in its final decision."
Following a non-jury trial, the trial court found that the board did not have the authority to amend its rules to limit overnight parking in the rear common area to four vehicles per business owner. Further, it found that the board was not authorized to tow vehicles in violation of the parking rule because the rule itself limits the sanction available, at least as to the first violation, to revocation of parking permission. Moreover, the court found that the plaintiff did not receive sufficient notice of the associations intent to tow vehicles parked in violation of the parking rule.
The court stated, however, that the plaintiff was responsible for any storage costs in excess of $300 because he failed to reclaim his vehicles on April 6, 2001, and, therefore, did not mitigate his damages. The court also denied the plaintiffs request for attorneys fees and costs. The plaintiff filed a motion to reconsider, which was also denied. This appeal followed.
In their brief, the defendants concede that they did not have the authority to limit the available parking per business owner as found by the trial court. They argue alternatively, however, that they had the authority to tow offending vehicles from the property because the parking rule also prohibits keeping uninspected and/or unregistered vehicles overnight in the rear common land. We need not decide this issue because even if we assume that the defendants could penalize the plaintiff for parking unregistered and/or uninspected vehicles in the rear common area, they were not authorized to tow his vehicles. The parking rule, in pertinent part, provides that "[n]on-compliance with the terms and conditions of said parking permission will be grounds for immediate revocation of this permission." In finding that the defendants did not have the authority to implement the towing rule, the trial court stated that the penalty provision could reasonably be interpreted as limiting the sanction to be imposed in the event of a parking violation. We agree. While a condominium association may be permitted to promulgate reasonable rules to address day-to-day concerns, the rule cannot contravene or otherwise conflict with the express language of the condominium documents. Here, the parking rule provides expressly that the unit owner will lose permission to use parking spaces if he or she fails to comply with the parking rule. Moreover, at the time of the events in question, the condominium by-laws provided that the board shall have the power to levy fines, which were not to exceed $10 for one violation, against a unit owner for violations of the provisions of the declaration, by-laws or condominium rules. We conclude, therefore, that the defendants implementation of the towing penalty was not authorized in light of these other penalty provisions.
The defendants next argue that the trial court erred by failing to award it attorneys fees pursuant to RSA 356-B:15, II (Supp. 2002). "We will not overturn the trial courts decision concerning attorneys fees absent an [unsustainable exercise] of discretion." Business Publications v. Stephen, 140 N.H. 145, 147 (1995) (quotation omitted); see also State v. Lambert, 147 N.H. 295, 296 (2001) (explaining unsustainable exercise of discretion standard). In evaluating the trial courts ruling on this issue, we must first keep in mind the tremendous deference given to a trial courts decision on attorneys fees. Daigle v. City of Portsmouth, 137 N.H. 572, 574 (1993).
Our analysis begins with the statutory language itself; when that language is plain and unambiguous, we need not look beyond the statute for further indications of legislative intent. Johnson v. City of Laconia, 141 N.H. 379, 380 (1996). We ascribe to statutory words and phrases their usual and common meaning, unless the statute itself suggests otherwise. Id. Nevertheless, we do not assume that the legislature would enact statutory language that would lead to an absurd result. Atwood v. Owens, 142 N.H. 396, 398 (1997).
RSA 356-B:15 provides:
I. The declarant, every unit owner, and all those entitled to occupy a unit shall comply with all lawful provisions of this chapter and all provisions of the condominium instruments. Any lack of such compliance shall be grounds for an action or suit to recover sums due, for damages or injunctive relief, or for any other remedy available at law or in equity, maintainable by the unit owners association, or by its board of directors or any managing agent on behalf of such association, or, in any proper case, by one or more aggrieved unit owners on their own behalf or as a class action.
II. The unit owners association shall be entitled to all costs and attorneys fees incurred in any proceeding under RSA 356-B:15, I.
The defendants argue that they are entitled to attorneys fees under the plain language of RSA 356-B:15, II. Contrary to the defendants argument, it is not the question of who initiates the underlying action that controls the award of attorneys fees, but rather whether the party claiming those fees was successful. To construe RSA 356-B:15, II as allowing the defendants to recover attorneys fees in this case would discourage condominium unit owners such as the plaintiff from bringing claims to protect their rights since they would be responsible for the associations attorneys fees regardless of whether they win or lose. Such an absurd result could not have been intended by the legislature. Rather, we interpret RSA 356-B:15, II as providing for an award of attorneys fees to a condominium unit association for litigation in which it prevails.
The legislative history of RSA 356-B:15, II supports this interpretation. RSA 356-B:15, II was proposed along with RSA 356-B:46-a (Supp. 2002) in Senate Bill 105, entitled, "An act relative to rent collection upon delinquency in payment of common expenses by condominium unit owners." The description of this bill provides that it:
I. Allows a condominium unit owners association to collect rents from the tenant of a unit to offset common expenses assessed to the unit in the event that the unit owner fails to pay the common expenses assessed to the unit.
II. Holds harmless any tenant who pays rent or a portion of rent to the unit owners association, rather than to the unit owner, in compliance with the provisions of the bill.
III. Provides for the associations recovery of attorneys fees and costs incurred in enforcing RSA 356-B:15, I.
N.H.H.R. Jour. 766 (1997) (emphasis added). As is evident from this history, the purpose of RSA 356-B:15, II is to allow the recovery of attorneys fees and costs associated with actions in which the association successfully enforces the lawful provisions of RSA chapter 356-B and all provisions of the condominium instruments. Thus, we hold that the defendants are not entitled to attorneys fees and costs in this case under RSA 356-B:15, II.
On cross-appeal, the plaintiff argues that the trial court erred by failing to grant him costs and attorneys fees. "A prevailing party may be awarded attorneys fees when that recovery is authorized by statute, an agreement between the parties, or an established judicial exception to the general rule that precludes recovery of such fees." Town of Nottingham v. Newman, 147 N.H. 131, 137 (2001) (quotation omitted). Although parties generally are responsible for their own attorneys fees,
we have recognized exceptions where an individual is forced to seek judicial assistance to secure a clearly defined and established right if bad faith can be established; where litigation is instituted or unnecessarily prolonged through a partys oppressive, vexatious, arbitrary, capricious or bad faith conduct; as compensation for those who are forced to litigate in order to enjoy what a court has already decreed; and for those who are forced to litigate against an opponent whose position is patently unreasonable.
Business Publications, 140 N.H. at 147 (quotations omitted). The plaintiff argues that he is deserving of attorneys fees because the association, in enacting the parking rule and towing sanction, acted in bad faith and maintained a position that was patently unreasonable. As explained above, the trial court has authority to award fees as compensation for those who "are forced to litigate against an opponent whose position is patently unreasonable." Daigle, 137 N.H. at 574. The focus in such cases is on a litigants unjustifiable belligerence or obstinacy where an action is commenced, prolonged, required or defended without any reasonable basis in the facts provable by evidence. Id.
After reviewing the record, we find that the trial courts discretion in denying the plaintiff attorneys fees is sustainable. We find no support in the record that the defendants either acted in bad faith by implementing the new parking rule and towing sanction or that its position in this case was patently unreasonable. While the defendants actions may have been wrong, the record reflects that the actions were taken to remedy a legitimate parking concern. The issue was the subject at two annual meetings, with the owners of twenty-one of twenty-four units eventually voting to approve the final rule in 1999. Moreover, all unit owners, including the plaintiff, were notified on April 5, 2001, that vehicles in violation of the overnight parking rule would be towed that evening. Atkins also received approval from the board to tow offending vehicles prior to issuing notices to unit owners and tenants. While the trial court found that the plaintiff did not receive sufficient notice of the impending towing, this does not mean that the defendants overall position is patently unreasonable. The fact that its position was unsuccessful does not alone warrant an award of fees. Id. at 575.
The plaintiff next argues that even if the defendants did not act in bad faith, he is entitled to attorneys fees based upon equitable principles. Essentially, he contends that it is fundamentally unfair to allow an association to recover attorneys fees under RSA 356-B:15, II if it prevails, but deny the same benefit to the unit owner who successfully litigates his or her claim. We find this argument unpersuasive. First, while RSA 356-B:15, II may not be evenhanded in its award of attorneys fees, it is for the legislature, not this court, to determine whether such legislation should be amended, since we will not add words to a statute that the legislature did not see fit to include. See Appeal of Pritchard, 137 N.H. 291, 293 (1993). Second, because we conclude that the defendants did not act with bad faith or maintain a position that was patently unreasonable, the plaintiff is not entitled to attorneys fees.
The plaintiff may, however, be entitled to costs. As a general rule, costs are "allowable only when authorized by statute or court rule." Claremont School Dist. v. Governor (Costs and Attorneys Fees), 144 N.H. 590, 593 (1999) (quotation omitted). Superior Court Rule 87, entitled "Taxation of Costs in Civil Proceedings," provides that "[c]osts shall be allowed as of course to the prevailing party as provided by these rules, unless the Court otherwise directs." Super. Ct. R. 87(a). Superior Court Rule 87(b) delineates the procedures for claiming costs and objecting to claimed costs. Superior Court Rule 87(c) details which costs shall be allowed to the prevailing party and which costs may be allowed within the discretion of the trial court. From the record before us, it is unclear if the parties or the trial court followed the procedures of Rule 87, or if the trial court made its finding regarding plaintiffs request for costs pursuant to Rule 87. Consequently, we vacate the trial courts denial of the plaintiffs request for costs. On remand, the plaintiffs request for costs shall be considered within the framework of Superior Court Rule 87. See Gammans v. FHP Constructors, 146 N.H. 702, 704-05 (2001).
Finally, the plaintiff asserts that the trial court erred by ordering him to pay $4,350 in storage costs associated with the wrongful towing of his vehicles. The trial court reasoned that the plaintiff was responsible for these storage costs because, by failing to recover his vehicles the day after they were towed, he failed to mitigate his damages. This reasoning is flawed.
It is well established that a party seeking damages occasioned by the fault of another must take all reasonable steps to lessen his or her resultant loss. See Flanagan v. Prudhomme, 138 N.H. 561, 575 (1994). The defendants bear the burden of proving that the plaintiff failed to mitigate damages. Id. at 575-76. For the mitigation doctrine to apply, however, the party against whom the doctrine is asserted must be seeking damages. In this case, the plaintiff did not claim storage costs as damages. In addition to seeking recovery of towing fees, the plaintiffs lawsuit asked for the costs associated with the litigation, his attorneys fees, and the release of his cars "without the payment of any costs or fees." In other words, he merely sought the return of his wrongfully towed and stored vehicles. At no time did the plaintiff request, or present any evidence of, consequential damages associated with the wrongful towing and storage of his vehicles. Had he done so, we would find the trial courts mitigation analysis persuasive.
Because the vehicles were illegally towed and stored, the plaintiff had no express or implied contractual obligation to pay Superior Towing to store his wrongfully towed vehicles that obligation belonged to the defendants. To rule, as the trial court implicitly did, that the plaintiff should have mitigated the defendants obligation to pay Superior Towing turns the mitigation doctrine on its head. The defendants cannot use mitigation as a sword to protect themselves from obligations they incurred to Superior Towing through their unlawful conduct. The plaintiff did not seek the storage costs as damages when he initially filed his petition for declaratory judgment. Accordingly, the defendants cannot assert a failure to mitigate against damages the plaintiff did not originally claim and for which he is not legally liable.
That the parties stipulated, at the urging of the court, that the plaintiff would pay the storage costs pending the courts ultimate resolution of liability does not mandate a different result. Having found that the defendants acted illegally in taking the plaintiffs vehicles, the trial court should have ruled that they, not the plaintiff, were responsible for the $4,350 in storage costs. The plaintiff could not be held responsible to mitigate damages he was not legally obligated to pay.
Affirmed in part; reversed in part; vacated in part; remanded.
BROCK, C.J., and NADEAU, J., concurred; DALIANIS and DUGGAN, JJ., concurred in part and dissented in part.
DALIANIS and DUGGAN, JJ., concurring in part and dissenting in part. While we agree with the majority opinion in most respects, we respectfully dissent from the majoritys conclusion that the plaintiff had no duty to mitigate damages in this case. "As a general rule, plaintiffs may not recover damages for harm that could have been avoided through reasonable efforts or expenditures." Flanagan v. Prudhomme, 138 N.H. 561, 575 (1994). "An exception may be allowed when the party causing harm acted intentionally or with reckless disregard for the plaintiffs interests." Id. "Even in that circumstance, however, the plaintiff cannot intentionally or heedlessly fail to protect his or her own interests." Id.
The majority reasons that the doctrine does not apply to the plaintiff because: (1) he did not seek storage fees as damages; and (2) the defendants, not he, were contractually liable for the fees. We believe that both of these premises are mistaken.
As a factual matter, we believe that the plaintiff sought the storage fees as damages. While he did not claim them in his initial petition for declaratory judgment, temporary and permanent injunction and damages, the record shows that he sought reimbursement of these fees later in the litigation. Although the majority may conclude that the plaintiff sought reimbursement of the fees later in the litigation because the trial court ordered him to pay them, this is pure speculation. Indeed, the plaintiff himself, at trial and on appeal, implicitly conceded that the storage fees were his to mitigate. In both forums, he argued only that requiring him to mitigate damages by removing his vehicles the day after they were towed was unreasonable.
No matter how it is framed, the issue before us is which party owes money to the towing company, an innocent third party, for storing the plaintiffs vehicles. From the towing companys perspective, it is logical that the plaintiff should pay the charges because the vehicles are his and, presumably, he is the only one who can reclaim them from storage. Thus, the towing and storage costs are technically the plaintiffs damages resulting from the defendants illegal act, thereby obligating him to mitigate those damages, if possible. While it may seem unfair that the plaintiff should have to do anything as he was the one who suffered the wrong, this is no different from other tort or contract claims to which the mitigation doctrine applies. See Restatement (Second) of Torts § 918 (1979); Lane v. Camire, 126 N.H. 344, 344-45 (1984) (affirming directed verdict for defendant on plaintiffs claim of damages totaling $80,000 from loss of or damage to stored property where plaintiff made no attempt to mitigate damages by retrieving property from storage, four days after its removal).
We believe that the trial court correctly found that the plaintiff failed to mitigate his damages by paying the $300 towing fee to retrieve his vehicles the day after they were towed. We agree with the trial court that requiring the plaintiff to pay the $300 towing fee to secure his vehicles was reasonable. See Flanagan, 138 N.H. at 575.
We disagree with the trial court that the plaintiffs failure to pay the $300 towing fee precluded him from recovering any portion of the storage fees, however. The record shows that had the plaintiff paid the $300 towing fee, he would have had to either park his retrieved vehicles in the common area of the complex or find an alternative place to store them. Either option would have required him to incur additional damages. As the evidence demonstrates, had he parked his retrieved vehicles in the common area of the complex, they would likely have been towed again. The notice the plaintiff received on April 5, 2001, from the board indicated that it intended to enforce the overnight parking ordinance "strictly" and would have any vehicle that did not comply with the ordinance towed.
The evidence further shows that had the plaintiff found an alternative place to store his vehicles, he would have had to pay storage costs. For instance, from May to December 2001, the plaintiff paid Rescue Leasing $200 per month to store vehicles to avoid having more than four vehicles in the common area overnight. Therefore, we would hold that the trial court erroneously ruled that the plaintiff was not entitled to recover any portion of the costs for storing his wrongfully towed vehicles, and we would remand to the trial court to determine the portion of these costs he was entitled to recover.


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More information can be found on the Journeys in the Spirit webpage.
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This is a guide about being ready for children in Quaker meetings where there is not a children's meeting for worship. It has been developed with meetings in mind where children and families are not regular or occasional visitors.
The message of this guide is simple – it is important to be ready for children. It answers four key questions:
Download Being ready for children (PDF)
This engaging and inventive resource takes the form of the popular 'chatterbox' or 'fortune teller' children's game. Children can use it to think about their own Quaker faith and, more importantly, they can do with others to share about Quakers. It is also ideal for anyone visiting schools or meeting with groups of children. Developed by Quaker Life Outreach and the Children and Young People's team, this resource contains text written by Quaker children expressing what is most central and important for them.
To request the Chatterbox resource contact the CYP administrator email@example.com or 020 7663 1013.
This resource has been created to support Friends and Quaker meetings working with schools and other groups of children and young people visiting the meeting house. It also contains ideas for talks, discussions and sessions for anyone visiting a school or other group.
Download Engaging with Schools (PDF)
This new book, written and illustrated by Rebecca Price, creator of the children's booklet Quaker meeting and me, explores the Quaker values of truth, peace, simplicity and equality. Set in a delightful garden, three children explore how important these values are. Aimed at 3 to 8 year olds, though appealing to all ages, it is hoped this will be the starting point for many conversations and the first steps in learning to live well in a challenging world.
Download Let's explore the Quaker way (PDF)
This booklet is intended to help children find a way into Quaker meeting for worship. As we can't see what goes on in other people's minds during meeting, images from a garden are used to illustrate its different aspects.
This book can be used as a starting point for conversation between children and adults, and also as a focus to help children settle and centre during meeting for worship.
To request a booklet contact the CYP administrator firstname.lastname@example.com or 020 7663 1013.
This leaflet aims to help a meeting review, reconsider and set realistic plans for its work with children. It is short, simply written and practical to use.
You can download this leaflet in its pdf format so that you can save a copy to print for your own. Paper copies are available from the children and young people's work staff team, using the contact details. The main document is accompanied by two worksheets which can be used together as a complete package.
Document and worksheets
This is an exploration of the elements of children's meeting for worship. It has lots of suggestions of things to do and approaches to plan a meeting for worship for children that is as enriching as meeting for worship can be for older Friends.
Download Building our children's meeting, how to do it (PDF)
Here we offer ways to think about, design and produce a leaflet to give to families, parents and carers when they first arrive at your local meeting.
We have provided examples of leaflets produced by a variety of local meetings in a variety of formats and content. Read these through and think about what you might need a leaflet to include. It should reflect what happens in your meeting, what is offered and what is promised.
Download: Example Leaflet Harrogate Meeting.pdf
Download: Example Leaflet Lancaster Meeting.pdf
Download: Example Leaflet Abingdon Meeting.pdf
Here are some links for three simple blank template ideas that you can work on yourself:
Download: A5 Fold Children's Leaflet Template.doc
Download: A4 Fold Children's Leaflet Template.doc
Download: A4 Children's Leaflet Template with boxes.doc
What should it look like:
Friendly, colourful and simple. Include a picture of the meeting house and children's meeting if possible. Easy for children to hold.
What to include:
A simple outline of what happens in your children's meeting – what is done, who are the helpers or leaders and how people behave and look after each other. You might include a picture of an activity. Include some detail about what a child might expect to do at different times of a session.
Reassurance for parents and carers about things that might initially worry them about their child or children being in a Quaker meeting. This could include something about children or babies burbling, crying, whispering, moving between parents, picking up a book and so on.
Discuss and include something about your meetings view of when parents should stay in children's meeting and when children should be left so that parents and carers can go to their meeting for worship.
Discuss and include something about when children come into and leave the main meeting.
Include a very brief outline of your safeguarding policy and who is responsible.
Please go to resources for children to help you in your thinking, preparation and planning for children's meeting.
The children and young people's work staff team in Quaker Life produces a catalogue of ideas, activities and resources. It is available to meetings and gives details of:
We hope that this is helpful to you.
CYP Administrator
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I finally managed a step-by-step post for making yogurt at home. Yogurt (or yoghurt or curd or dahi in hindi) is one of the essential ingredients of Indian cuisine and I've been making it almost every day for the last 8 years but was never able to click photos at the right moment and sometimes thought it to be too trivial. Be it as is for breakfast, as a simple raita, kadhi, lassi, as a marinade, or in a gravy. While yogurt is now readily available in shops,in India since ages our mothers and grandmothers have been setting yogurt at home. Every night mom would set a covered pot on kitchen counter and remind the whole house not to disturb it. In the morning sweet home-made yogurt will be ready. I used to feel like it's magic!
Even now after so many years of making yogurt myself, every time that I put the spoon into a fresh bowl of set yogurt, it fills me with excitement. I understand the science behind but it still is magical. We have chosen a life where we move countries every two years or so and no matter where we are, I tell Sikander "as long as the yogurt is setting fine and the chapattis are puffing up like balloons; every place is great."
For some of my expat neighbours, yogurt has always been bought from stores or if made at home it needs a special yogurt maker. But making yogurt at home is very easy and needs no special equipment. All that is needed is milk, a little starter yogurt and patience. I hope this step-by-step process with pictures for homemade yogurt is clear. I keep making some in small jars for my neighbours and when I show them how simple it is, they are always amazed.
Wait… a couple of points before we start with the steps of homemade yogurt. There are only two ingredients so the final output entirely depends on those two.
How to make yogurt at home without a yogurt maker
By Ashima Goyal Siraj
Preparation time: |Cooking Time: |Makes: 2 cups
500 ml full fat milk
2 tbsp plain yogurt
- In a sauce pan, bring milk to a boil and then keep it aside for 10-15 mins until it is lukewarm. You may choose not to boil the milk but just warm it till it is lukewarm. My test for temperature is to put my finger in milk and if I can keep it in the milk for 10 seconds it is good.
- Take 2 tbsp of starter yogurt and spread on the inside of a bowl. I use a ceramic bowl for setting yogurt but you can use a glass or steel pot as well. If the weather is very cold, warm your pot by keeping it in microwave for 30 seconds at medium power.
- Pour in the lukewarm milk. Mix well so that the yogurt is mixed in evenly.
- Cover with a lid and then enclose in a tea towel and leave the pot undisturbed in a warm place. The time taken for yogurt to set will depend on the ambient room temperature. In temperatures around 30ºC, it takes about 4 hours for yogurt to set. Start checking the pot after 4 hours, every half hour to see if it has set. If you keep it outside for long, the yogurt will start to become sour.
- In Abu Dhabi, where the temperatures are very high, it used to take just about 3 hours for the yogurt to set.
- In Scotland on the other hand where it used to be cold most year round, I used to preheat the oven to about 50ºC and then switch it off before putting in the yogurt inside the warm oven overnight.
- When the yogurt is set, remove the tea towel and keep the bowl in fridge. It stays good for upto 2 days and after which it will start to become sour which is perfect if you want to make some delicious kadhi!
- You can also make flavoured yogurt by adding sugar, vanilla or fruit extract of your choice to the lukewarm milk.
- For breakfast, I set low fat milk yogurt in individual pots. In the morning add some honey, mixed seeds (sunflower, melon and pumpkin), rolled oats and dried fruits of your choice to make a quick and healthy breakfast. When pressed for time, simply close and carry it to work.
- I feel food is the best gift. Quite often I set yogurt in small glass bottles (recycled from jam/ mayonnaise etc) and leave it at my neighbours' doorsteps as a little delight :).


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NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A Cyprus police official says authorities briefly evacuated the departure lounge of the eastern Mediterranean island's main Larnaca airport over a 'suspicious' black box that was found to contain a pillow.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he's not authorized to speak to the media, said the 90-minute evacuation Saturday ended after a police bomb disposal unit using specially trained dogs and equipment found that the box was harmless.
The police official said someone at the airport alerted authorities after deeming the box suspicious as it rested on top of a garbage receptacle in the departures lounge.
The official said airport operations were now returning back to normal.


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Claudia Lee Jets Off To Dallas, 'Surviving Jack' Premieres Thursday!
Claudia Lee flashes a smile as she makes her way through LAX Airport to catch a departing flight out of town on Sunday (March 23) in Los Angeles.
"Dallas are you ready? I'm coming for you #SurvivingJack 5 days!!," the 17-year-old actress wrote on her Twitter account.
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Claudia Lee
Earlier in the week, Claudia was spotted treating herself to some pampering at the Golden Nail Salon in Beverly Hills.
Don't forget to catch Claudia in her new show Surviving Jack, which premieres this Thursday (March 27) @ 9:30PM on Fox!
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The underlying reason why Outlook displays this "data file" check is very simple. There is a single flag in the header of the data file that is a Boolean value (True or False). While you use Outlook the value of this flag is constantly changing as the data file
is updated. When the update begins the value is changed to False and
then when the update completes the value is changed back to True
(implying the update is finished and successful).
the key to the problem is the shut down process because once the
Outlook.exe process is exited this flag value cannot be changed. If the
Outlook.exe process was terminated prematurely or a 3rd party add-in did
not properly set the flag value to True then the flag value can be left
at False. If you start Outlook with a data file where the value of the
flag is False you are guaranteed to see the "data file" check. If the
value of the flag is True then you will not see the "data file" check.
Right now, there are a few known common causes for this issue:
- Shutting down Windows before the Outlook.exe process has exited
- 3rd party add-ins improperly "closing" the data file
- Outlook crashing
- Non-Outlook process accessing the data file
Regarding the post advised by Rod, I would like to explain more detailed:
you shut down Outlook, the Outlook window goes away, but the
Outlook.exe process can continue to run for some time. That's why you
can see Outlook.exe sitting in Task Manager for a few minutes after
closing the Outlook window. If you shut down Windows while the
Outlook.exe process is still running Windows will not wait for the
Outlook.exe process to exit. So, you increase the likelihood of
encountering the "data file check" issue the next time you start Outlook
(because the Outlook.exe process was not able to "close" your data
file(s) completely before Windows was shut down).
On the other hand, if you leave Outlook running when you shut down Windows the Outlook.exe process will continue to run and exit on its own. When Windows is shut down, it sends messages to all visible window frames telling them to quit, and will wait for those programs to quit before shutting down. Not until all processes with open windows have exited will Windows finally shut down. This is somewhat counter-intuitive to most people as traditional training has always advised manually closing applications before shutting down Windows.
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Take to the skies as an ace delivery pilot and race against rivals to deliver the most cargo across the globe. But beware, competition in this business is fierce.
Tap hundreds of exotic destinations to pickup and deliver packages. Longer routes can earn more cash but burn more fuel, so plan wisely and double up on deliveries when you can! Touch and drag to explore and reveal locations on the beautifully rendered 3D globe.
Running an airline delivery service is expensive, so keep an eye on your bank account. With the cost of fuel ever increasing as you play, its only a matter of time until either you or your opponents go bankrupt. Outlast the competition and achieve global delivery dominance!
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FLASHBACK: FBI Insider Says Clinton Foundation Involves Entire US Government
The FBI is facing the entire federal government in this case. It is why we are so quiet.
The problem is with the entire government. HRC is one component of that government. A Special Access Program (SAP) is an intelligence program classified above top-secret. They are held on closed servers at secret locations. The only way to get one is if you are specifically read on to a program, have a need to know, then you must physically go to a location and pass through several layers of security to even look at the program. A good example in non-classified terms would be the locations and operations of our intelligence operatives around the globe, or our missile silo locations.


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Learn How Our Travel Incentives Can Help You Close More Sales.
It's pretty simple! All businesses are looking for new ways to bring in more customers, reward loyal ones, and incentivize people to keep coming back. Some people use coupons, some use discounts, some give away pens or try to raffle off a prize.
You want to stand out from the crowd, and have a reward that is exciting. Travel incentives are certificates for cruise, hotel, airfare, and all-inclusive resort vacations! You pay pennies on the dollar for certificates in bulk, and then you're able to give them away as a prize, reward, incentive, or even as a thank you to your employees for a job well done!
Studies have proven that customers will continue giving their business when they believe they are receiving valuable goods and services, and when they feel appreciated and rewarded.
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There are a lot of books and articles out there about habit building. They describe the mechanics behind habits and explain why habits are so important and helpful. They also propose ideas for building new habits. And yet I still get a lot of questions about habits. I also quite often hear popular myths about habits that have already been busted but are still being repeated. This article was created to battle those myths and tell you how I work with habits. I hope you find it useful in your quest to build strong habits!
Many people ask me if I have any time that is not planned. Beneath that question is another one—do I have spare time when I do nothing? I find that question intriguing. It shows me that many people don't know why it's worth planning ahead and work on specific tasks at specific times. Today, I am writing about why it is worth being productive.
One of the best ways to become productive is to invest your time in building habits. I've written about this a number of times. Today, I'll show you (or, for some of you, give a reminder about) the four stages of competence. This model clearly describes how one can build a habit. Read on to learn more about this model.
You have a great chance to suffer from FOMO even if you don't know what it is. I know that I have it. How can you fight FOMO? I'm writing this post also, or maybe even especially, for myself— to remind myself how to fight it. Read on!
Do you read some books more than once? I do. Why? I find that I miss a lot with the first read. Maybe you do the same? You may remember the main ideas and basic concepts. But the details are important too! And you may slip past them during the first read. When you read a book for the second time, you have a greater chance of catching those details. I reread some books recently and the same pattern repeats every time—I'm surprised with the number of additional details I catch.
How much do you remember from the books you read? I bet you remember some, but would like to remember more. Every time I read a book for the second time I'm surprised how little stayed in my memory. That's why I created my own reading approach to remember more from the books I read. It consists of 4 simple steps.
How do you start your day? Do you have a plan for your mornings? I used to just go with the flow, but some time ago I created startup procedures for my mornings at home and at work. Why did I do this? Why is it worth having startup procedures? Read on!


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Welcome to Laibaz Indian Restaurant
LAIBAZ INDIAN RESTAURANT and BAR is situated in the heart of Bolton on Bradshawgate.
Did you know that we are open for lunch from Monday to Friday 12:00-2:00pm? So, rather than a sandwic for lunch, why not treat your self to a Business Lunch?
At Laibaz we serve only the finest tasting Indian cuisine made fresh for you using the freshest of ingredients.
We are sure that is this high quality and reasonably price curries that will keep you coming back to Laibaz Indian Restaurant again and again and again ….
Have you tried our Sizzling Chicken Nadroki Yakhni yet? "Diced marinated chicken barbecued cooked with cheese in a spicy yoghurt sauce." Delicious – and spicy!
Or if you prefer your curry hotter, how about Lamb Tikka Mon Pasand? "Chunks of lamb enlivened with fresh herbs and spicy hot sauce". Mmmmore please! – Also available with chicken instead of lamb.
What about a takeaway?
Why not ORDER ONLINE. Whether from your office or home, ONLINE ORDERING is fast and convenient.
Why not give it a try??
Online Ordering
The fastest and most convenient way to order is to order online. No engaged phone calls and you can even order when we're closed – but we have to be open when you want to pick it up or have it delivered !!
Laibaz brings you a wide rnage of delicious appetisers and starters to whet your appetite. There's more to starters than onion bhajis!!
Tandoori Dishes
Meat cooked in Tandoor oven gets cooked at a higher temperature and seals the juices inside – the result? Succulent chicken and lamb.
Signature Dishes
Our Signature Dishes can be made to suit all tastes and palates. We can make any dish hotter or milder – whatever the customer requires.


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Some of California's postal ZIP codes include 90011 for Los Angeles, 90650 for Norwalk, 90201 for Bell Gardens, and 92335 for Fontana. These four ZIP codes belong to the most densely populated areas in California.
California is one of the most densely populated states, with over 6,000 distinct ZIP codes. All ZIP codes in the state of California begin with the number nine, as that is the common designator for California, Oregon, Washington, Hawaii and Alaska. The second and third numbers of the ZIP code indicate the service center responsible for the handling of mail in that area. California's ZIP codes are contained within the 900-961 range.
By knowing a particular ZIP code, you are able to search for important data within that area. For example, the ZIP codes with the largest income per household include 94027, Atherton, with an average income of $200,001; 94028, Portola Valley, with an average income of $164,479; and 94022, Los Altos, with an average income of $145,245, as of 2015. For these ZIP codes, the average resident's age is 48.3, 50, and 48.2 respectively. On the other hand, ZIP codes such as 90014 and 90013, both codes for Los Angeles, have an average household income of $8,633 and $8,855 respectively.


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In an Event-Driven OS, the occurrence of an event is usually signaled by an interrupt from either the hardware or software. Hardware may trigger an interrupt at any time by sending a signal to the CPU, usually by way of the system bus. Software may trigger an interrupt by executing a special operation called a system call (ex: in I/O operation). System call is also called monitor call.
When the CPU is interrupted, it stops what it is doing and immediately transfer execution to a fixed location. The fixed location usually contains the starting address where the service routine for the interrupt is located. The interrupt service routine executes; on completion, the CPU resumes the interrupted computation.
As you see above, interrupt cause a Context switch. It's always cost resource for saving and restore CPU's state, thus make an si
- Hardware interrupts are issued by hardware devices like disks, network cards, keyboards, clocks, etc. Each device or set of devices will have its IRQ (Interrupt ReQuest) line. Based on the IRQ the CPU will dispatch the request to the appropriate hardware driver. (Hardware drivers are usually subroutines within the kernel rather than a separate process.)If hardware needs to get the CPU to do something, it causes the CPU to interrupt its attention to the code it is running. The CPU will push its current state on a stack so that it can later return to what it was doing. The interrupt could stop: a running program; the kernel code handling another interrupt; or the idle process
- Typically software interrupts are requests for I/O (Input or Output). These will call kernel routines which will schedule the I/O to occur. For some devices the I/O will be done immediately, but disk I/O is usually queued and done at a later time. Depending on the I/O being done, the process may be suspended until the I/O completes, causing the kernel scheduler to select another process to run. I/O may occur between processes, and the processing is usually scheduled in the same manner as disk I/O. This is why buffered I/O is preferred than byte stream I/O in programming: It require much fewer system calls.
You may imagine interrupt's demonstration somewhat like Exception in programming. Indeed, Interrupts and Exceptions both alter program flow and thus cause context switch. I wrote an article about this in Java. But there are three significant differences between them:
- Exception is synchronous while interrupt is asynchronous
- Interrupt has more priority than exception. And because interrupt usually executes with the highest priority, it makes a significant overhead. Again: Think twice before write an exception handler in programming.
- Exception is software generated while interrupt is mostly hardware generated.


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thanks to the beauty of the US Constitution
We're sure you heard what the media was saying about the Fundamentalist Mormon group in Texas, USA for the last 2 months. The bigger news recently arrived, though.
An appeal court has ruled that US officials had no right to seize the 463 children from this polygamist group in western Texas last month. The appeal court ruled that that the reasons given for the children's removal were "legally and factually insufficient". Moreover, the panel said "The existence of the FLDS belief system as described by the department's witnesses, by itself, does not put children of FLDS parents in physical danger."
The fact that this could have even happened in the US, whose Constitution guarantees religious freedom, shows that religious freedom is continuously under attack everywhere. The US Courts are in place to uphold those freedoms but the governments of many other countries do not – even many of those countries who loudly profess freedom.
When this news item hit a few days ago, Rael pointed out:
"This is wonderful. The beauty of the US Constitution is once more seen. Unfortunately, I am quite sure that in countries like France, Belgium, Quebec and Switzerland where religious minorities are persecuted, this great legal victory for religious freedom will not be reported as big front page news by the same media that reported the terrible lies to begin with – lies about this religious minority which caused the illegal removal of children simply by calling it a dangerous cult and other defamatory rumors and articles. These media were happy to print the lies and will be much quieter about the truth. I also hope this LDS organization will be able to sue all these media for libeling their group."


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Man of Steel
But there are so many complications to adoption. In "Man of Steel," young Clark yearns to know where he came from and what he was sent here to do. The hero in him must emerge if he is to save the world and become a symbol of hope for all mankind.