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Some key projects home sellers can do to make their house for sale more attractive to prospective home buyers include caulking small cracks and holes in walls, trimming bushes and trees, adding a coat of paint to the home's exterior or interior, and pressure washing the driveway. None of these projects are too labor intensive, Business Insider reports, but could be the difference in selling a home.
U.S. News and World Report states larger-scale projects could help substantially as well, but home sellers without significant cash on hand for these projects may want to focus solely on smaller plans around the home.
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Home sellers who have had their homes for sale on the market for a considerable length of time might want to consult with their real estate agents to help them figure out ways they can get home buyers to make offers, Business Insider reports.
While home sellers shouldn't give in to every request a home buyer makes just so they can sell their home quicker, home sellers should be willing to negotiate various terms to move the sale along.
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"drop everything and give me ten...books"
Well not exactly, but it looks like that to them. They must produce a brilliant narrative of 500 words in less that a day or risk forever being branded a nitwit. They all puzzle over how to incorporate bunion, galleycat, terrapin and snark in a coherent narrative. "Wait a minute, isn't there some connection between the mythical snark and a terrapin somewhere?" they wonder.
Those that received their charge late last night already dreamt of promenading poodles led by killer yap that turn on them and devour their substandard work. In the early morning hours of half consciousness they think "how in the world am I supposed to use "your mother wears Army boots" or "roar of the greasepaint, smell of the crowd" in any kind story with all those other words. As they awake they realize their real nightmare has just begun. There are only sixteen more hours to finish. Forget the work they brought home that's due Monday morning. Forget the kid's breakfast. Their ego is at stake. They must" rise to the occasion" (oops one cliché to many?).
Now they're all off to do research. "Who the hell is "Bat Segundo"? What's a "will of the wisp"?" They dare not risk being impaled by Miss Snark's stiletto heels for their ignorance. Well, even if they are shot by the Clue Gun for their total lack of ability, they'll have learned something. Miss Snark will have achieved one of her goals.
Snarklings stare at their clocks. How typical they think. "She chooses a day with only twenty three hours. Just like an agent. They're never fair!" Will they be able to muddle through and create a winner before 12:01? We'll all find out tomorrow.
Oh that IS hilarious!! I didn't realize the day had only 23 hours! This is pretty funny.
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Smacks head with self inflicted dope slap--aaarrrghhh--23 hours. I'll never be the same.
I swear, one March when I traveled to England, I lost an hour of my life permanently as they move their clocks a week before we do.
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- Sam said...
LOL - funny!
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Unless you were in the Southern Hemisphere.
WE had 25 hours. It didn't help.
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- JLB said...
WELL DONE! This author did a great job with all the required words and phrases, and spoke to all us entrants to boot. :)
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Many Thanks for the comments and many many thanks to Miss Snark for wading through all this. With this contest she illustrates just how hard her job is. It's the perfect example of show rather than tell.
Not only did you have 25 hours but it was probably warm and sunny too. Did you arrange to change when the switch occurred just so that it would match this contest?
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IEPA says plant went over in 2007, 2008
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The state Capitol's steam plant exceeded limits on some pollutants in 2007 from its coal-burning boilers, and it may still be polluting too much.
Located on Klein Street north of the Capitol, the Capitol Complex Power Plant burns coal, oil and natural gas to heat and cool the Capitol complex. Despite its name, it does not supply the Capitol with electricity. IT first wrote about the plant in September. (See "The state's dirty little secret," by R.L. Nave, Sept. 3, 2009.)
Like all coal plants, the Capitol plant must operate under a "fee limit," which dictates how much they pay for the pollution they create. Jim Ross, manager of the EPA's division of air pollution control, said the plant violated its fee limits, not the actual pollution limits set by law.
In 2007, the plant belched more than three times its allowance for PM2.5 (particulate pollution smaller than 2.5 microns). The plant's limit on PM2.5 was 4.86 tons in 2007, but it reportedly emitted 15.23 tons that year.
Particulate pollutants have been linked to health problems like asthma, chronic bronchitis and lung cancer, as well as damage to waterways, soil and crops, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
An April 2008 inspection report says the plant also emitted too much volatile organic matter, nitrogen oxide and other pollutants in 2007.
In a compliance report from December 2008, former plant manager Bret Stone indicated the facility was in continuous compliance, except for the failure of a machine that monitors emissions opacity. The report does not mention the plant's emissions in excess of the fee limits.
IEPA had not provided IT with the plant's 2008 emissions data, more than two months after IT filed a Freedom of Information Act request for the numbers.
During its annual inspection in January 2009, the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency found the plant to be in violation of fee limits again.
The plant's management has requested a 15 percent increase in fee limits, according to the report. The state would pay more for its pollution privileges, though the increased limits would not be enough to cover the type of overage that occurred with particulate pollution in 2007.
The Capitol coal facility has also operated for more than two years with no license from IEPA. The facility's previous permit expired April 22, 2008, and a new permit still has not been issued. An application for a renewed permit was received by IEPA in September of 2007.
Meanwhile, the plant renewal application serves as its permit, according to Ross.
"The Illinois EPA has a pending renewal application in house for this facility that is being processed," Ross said via e-mail."The company is required to operate pursuant to the terms and conditions of their previous permit until final action is taken on the pending renewal application. Due to limited resources, the processing of permit applications can take time before final action is taken."
Ross also said the plant management likely calculates the facility's emissions incorrectly, resulting in discrepancies between IEPA's estimates and the emissions reported by plant management.
"We believe our emissions estimates are accurate," Ross said.
And while the data show the plant exceeded its allowance of microscopic particulate pollution, it also operates without devices that reduce noxious gases like sulfur dioxide, a contributor to acid rain.
Ross says the plant's gas emissions even without scrubbers are less than larger facilities like CWLP's power plants, which do have scrubbers.
Verena Owen, chair of the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campaign, says that's beside the point. The Capitol plant, Owen says, is just one of many small coal plants around the state that are not required to have scrubbers – and the pollution adds up.
"I think any additional pollution is harmful," she said. "You have to look at the cumulative effect of these plants."
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About PAWS
PAWS stands for the Progressive Animal Welfare Society. We are located in Lynnwood, Washington, with a cat only adoption center called PAWS Cat City in Seattle. PAWS shelters homeless animals, cares for sick, injured and orphaned wildlife until they ready to be returned to the wild, and educates people to be compassionate and respectful of all animals.
PAWS is a non-profit organization. This means that PAWS relies almost entirely on donations of money from people to pay for the food, medicines, electricity and everything else that is needed to take care of the animals.
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The wildlife center includes a veterinary examination room, surgery room, X-ray room, a ward, a nursery for baby birds, and a nursery for baby mammals. There are outdoor cages for large animals like bears, deer, coyotes, hawks and owls, and cages for small animals like squirrels, chipmunks and robins. There are also pools for animals who live in the water, like seals, otters and seabirds.
The PAWS Wildlife Center is staffed by wildlife rehabilitation experts. Some of these people are:
- Rehabilitator - perform exams and coordinate the care and feeding of the animals during their stay.
- Veterinarian - performs surgeries, X-rays, examinations and gives medical instructions to the rehabilitators.
- Naturalist - plans the release of animals when they are healed and helps educate people on how to live peacefully with wildlife.
Each year PAWS also helps thousands of people learn to live peacefully with their wild neighbors, which helps reduce the number of injured and orphaned animals needing care.
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- Helped pass a law in Washington State that bans people from keeping dangerous exotic animals, such as tigers, lions and monkeys, as pets.
- Helped to pass laws that require shelter animals to be spayed and neutered in King County, the City of Edmonds and the City of Everett.
- Helped move Ivan, the gorilla to a gorilla colony at Zoo Atlanta. Before he was moved to the zoo, Ivan had spent almost 30 sad years living in a cage by himself in a shopping mall.
- Halted a bow-and-arrow hunt of tame captive deer.
- Helped created and coordinate a program to keep Canada Geese safe in Seattle's parks.
PAWS reaches out to and teaches all members of the community, youth to adults, how to be responsible caregivers to companion animals, and how to respect our wild neighbors and the earth that we share.
PAWS works to educate people about animals in many ways:
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- Our magazine, newsletters and website keep people informed about animal issues and PAWS events.
- We work with television, newspapers, magazines and radio to share messages about animals.
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- We speak at meetings, gatherings, workshops and other places to teach about PAWS and animal issues.
- We work with the government to help create laws that protect animals.
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PAWS is a charity or non-profit organization. This means PAWS depends on the support of the community. People donate their time and money to help the animals at PAWS.
PAWS hosts fundraisers, which are events that raise money. We have two big events each year. One is a fancy party called PAWS Wild Night, where people attend a dinner and participate in an auction. The other event is PAWSwalk, a dog walk-a-thon and fun festival.
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England's Matt Banahan is shackled by the Ireland defence during Saturday's showdown un Dublin © Getty Images
Chris Ashton Mirco Bergamasco Martin Castrogiovanni Jonathan Davies Thomas Domingo Toby Flood Richie Gray Dylan Hartley Sean O'Brien Brian O'Driscoll Tom Palmer Sergio Parisse Morgan Parra Chris Paterson Sam Warburton
On the final day of reckoning, just one of the six sides on show displayed the true courage to match its necessary conviction.
The biggest day of the Championship saw the tournament's 'nearly team' show the way with a bold performance that shredded England's Grand Slam aspirations.
Ireland's statement was made in the second minute. England's maul was turned over, their juggernaut scrum shunted and Jonathan Sexton's quick tap from the ensuing penalty finished deep in the shellshocked visitors' quarter.
A controversial selection at fly-half ahead of veteran Ronan O'Gara, Sexton quickly silenced the doubters. His attacking mindset set the tone for Ireland's finest performance in recent memory. Some suggested Ireland did not have the necessary ensemble skills to execute a high-paced southern hemisphere approach. Hogwash!
With Keith Earls switched to fullback and Andrew Trimble re-instated on the wing, Ireland paraded their most potent backline of the tournament. In a record equalling 46th Test together, Brian O'Driscoll and Gordon D'Arcy oozed class in attack and defence. Halves Eoin Reddan and Sexton relished the quick front-foot ball from their inspired pack ensuring little respite for England.
D'Arcy's superb performance underlined the difference in coaching philosophies of Declan Kidney and French mentor Marc Lievremont who has adopted a revolving door policy with his swag of centre combinations. The Irish veteran had a handling shocker against Italy and his missed tackle on Aurelien Rougerie in round two at Lansdowne Road was a match turner. Yet Kidney, no doubt with the urging of assistant Alan Gaffney, kept the faith.
To a man, the entire Irish forward pack was on a higher mental and physical level. The workrate of the tight forwards was insatiable while the back-row was simply sensational. Jamie Heaslip outpaced and outplayed Nick Easter. Sean O'Brien's all-action display confirmed his standing as one of the players of the tournament while David Wallace was at the heart of everything Ireland attempted across the field.
The spectre of this perilous final showdown in Dublin was impregnated in England's subconscious before the tournament began. They played and labored on the weekend like a team distracted. O'Driscoll pointed to England's nerves in the build-up. That seed germinated from the opening whistle.
But England deserved their Championship. By overturning recent history in the opener at Millennium Stadium, they took advantage of a favourable draw and importantly pulverized Italy by 46 points at Twickenham. This latest knock-out loss should serve them well as they reassess their shortcomings. On that score, a more creative, attacking centre-pairing must be top of the list.
France adopted a win-at-all-costs approach against Wales, grinding out their most disciplined performance of the tournament. However, the scars of recent upheavals surely remain.
The Welsh were a huge disappointment. Badly exposed at the breakdown when Sam Warburton departed with injury, Wales adopted a no-frills approach but lacked urgency. Their one dimensional game plan seemed pre-determined, regardless of the result from Dublin in the preceding game.
A shot at the Championship with a 27 point margin against an out-of-sorts French team was not entirely out of the question. But it needed a high energy Irish mindset. Something Wales seem incapable of at present.
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1. A sentence for felony driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs (DUI) is imposed under K.S.A. 8-1567(f) and, thus, such a sentence is not imposed under the Kansas Sentencing Guidelines Act.
2. The restrictions upon the district court's jurisdiction to modify a guidelines sentence, contained in K.S.A. 21-4721(i), do not apply to nongrid felony DUI sentences.
3. K.S.A. 8-1567(f) contemplates that a district court retains jurisdiction to modify a sentence imposed under that statute. A district court may modify a previously imposed felony DUI sentence to grant probation after the defendant has served a minimum of 90 days in the county jail.
Appeal from Sedgwick District Court; GREGORY L. WALLER, judge. Opinion filed March 15, 2002. Reversed and remanded with directions.
Sarah Ellen Johnson, assistant appellate defender, and Steven R. Zinn, deputy appellate defender, for appellant.
Richard A. Olmstead, assistant district attorney, Nola Foulston, district attorney, and Carla J. Stovall, attorney general, for appellee.
Before PIERRON, P.J., JOHNSON, J., and BUCHELE, S.J.
JOHNSON, J: Michael J. Anthony pled guilty to a third offense of driving under the influence of alcohol (DUI), in violation of what is now K.S.A. 8-1567 (defendant was charged under K.S.A. 2000 Supp. 8-1567; substantive amendments by the legislature in 2001 to the DUI statutes are not relevant to the issues in this appeal). The district court imposed the maximum imprisonment sentence of 12 months. After serving the mandatory minimum of 90 days in jail, Anthony filed a motion to modify his sentence by granting him probation. Following a hearing, the district court found it lacked jurisdiction to modify Anthony's sentence and denied his motion. We reverse and remand for a determination upon the merits of Anthony's motion.
The sole issue on appeal is whether a district court had jurisdiction to modify a sentence imposed under K.S.A. 8-1567(f). The district court, apparently relying on State v. Smith, 26 Kan. App. 2d 272, 981 P.2d 1182, rev. denied 268 Kan. 854 (1999), determined it had no jurisdiction to consider Anthony's motion. The issue before the court is purely legal in nature. We are not bound by the decision of the district court on questions of law. State v. Donlay, 253 Kan. 132, 133-34, 853 P.2d 680 (1993).
Anthony contends the plain language of the statute necessarily allows the district court to modify his sentence. Anthony was sentenced under K.S.A. 8-1567(f), which provided in relevant part:
"On the third conviction of a violation of this section, a person shall be guilty of a nonperson felony and sentenced to not less than 90 days nor more than one year's imprisonment . . . . The person convicted shall not be eligible for release on probation, suspension or reduction of sentence or parole until the person has served at least 90 days' imprisonment." (Emphasis added.)
Prior to July 1, 1993, the district court had considerable discretion in sentencing a convicted felon. Within the parameters set for each class of felony, the sentencing judge selected the minimum and maximum terms of an indeterminate sentence and decided, inter alia, whether to imprison the felon or release him or her on probation. K.S.A. 1992 Supp. 21-4603(2). Further, the district court retained jurisdiction for 120 days following sentencing to impose a less severe sentence. K.S.A. 1992 Supp. 21-4603(4). With the passage of the Kansas Sentencing Guidelines Act (KSGA), K.S.A. 21-4701 et seq., the district court's discretion as to the duration and disposition of a sentence is severely restricted by the legislative designation of a presumptive sentence. After imposing a guidelines sentence, the district court's power to modify it is restricted to correcting arithmetic or clerical errors. K.S.A. 21-4721(i). If the presumptive sentence is imprisonment, the felon is transferred to the custody of the Secretary of Corrections, K.S.A. 21-4621, and good time credits are earned or forfeited pursuant to rules promulgated by the Secretary. K.S.A. 2001 Supp. 21-4722(c).
The State argues that Smith is controlling. In that case, the defendants were convicted of criminal deprivation of property in violation of K.S.A. 21-3705. At the time of their offenses, criminal deprivation of a motor vehicle was a nongrid felony that carried a prison term of no less than 30 days for a first offense to a maximum of 1 year. The statute was quite similar to 8-1567 in that it required the person convicted to serve the mandatory minimum sentence before he or she would be eligible for release on probation or suspension or reduction of sentence or parole. K.S.A. 21-3705(b). The defendants filed motions to modify their sentences which the district court denied for lack of jurisdiction. The Smith panel found that the Kansas Sentencing Guidelines Act (KSGA) eliminated the district court's authority to modify a sentence, citing State v. Miller, 260 Kan. 892, 896-97, 926 P.2d 652 (1996), and K.S.A. 21-4721(i). 26 Kan. App. 2d at 273. The panel also held that
"[t]he plain language of K.S.A. 21-3705 does not authorize the district court to modify a sentence but merely states a defendant who is convicted of criminal deprivation of a motor vehicle must serve the mandatory jail time before he or she is eligible for probation, suspension or reduction of his sentence, or parole." 26 Kan. App. 2d 272, Syl. ¶ 2.
Anthony argues Smith is inapplicable because his sentence was imposed under 8- 1567 and this court has previously determined that the sentencing guidelines do not apply to felony DUI sentences. See State v. Webb, 20 Kan. App. 2d 873, 876, 893 P.2d 255 (1995); State v. Binkley, 20 Kan. App. 2d 999, 1001, 894 P.2d 907 (1995). However, this ignores the fact that under the version of K.S.A. 21-4704(i) in effect at the time of the crime for which Smith was convicted, felony criminal deprivation of property was exempted from the sentencing grid in the same manner as felony DUI. (In 2001, the legislature amended 21-4707[i], deleting 21-3705 as an exemption and adding 21- 3412a[b][3][domestic battery].) K.S.A. 21-4704(i) provided:
"The sentence for the violation of the felony provision of K.S.A. 8-1567 [DUI] and subsection (b) of K.S.A. 21-3705 [criminal deprivation of property], and amendments thereto shall be as provided by the specific mandatory sentencing requirements of that section and shall not be subject to the provisions of this section or K.S.A. 21-4707 and amendments thereto. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other section, the term of imprisonment imposed for the violation of the felony provision of K.S.A. 8-1567 and subsection (b) of K.S.A. 21-3705, and amendments thereto shall not be served in a state facility in the custody of the secretary of corrections."
Therefore, if the modification restrictions of 21-4721(i) applied to 21-3705(b), they must also apply to the other nongrid felony, DUI.
Smith intimates that a nongrid felony sentence is imposed under the KSGA, despite the language of 21-4704(i) excluding such a sentence from the KSGA grid. It is conceded that 21-4704(i) specifically refers to only two exempted sections, 21-4704 and 21-4707. However, applying only a portion of the KSGA provisions to nongrid felonies distorts the overall purpose and scheme of the KSGA. Nongrid felony sentences are simply different from grid sentences. Here, the sentencing judge had broad discretion on the term of incarceration and the manner of serving the sentence. Anthony was never transferred to the custody of the Secretary of the Corrections. There is apparently no mechanism whereby Anthony may earn good time credits. If Anthony "flattens" the maximum 12-month term of incarceration, there would be no post-release supervision or any means to coerce payment of a fine and costs. Cf. K.S.A. 8-1567(g) (the legislature amended this subsection in 2001 to provide for transfer of custody to the Secretary of Corrections following the term of imprisonment and post-release supervision for a fourth or subsequent conviction). The rationale for divesting the district court of jurisdiction to modify a grid sentence is not applicable to a nongrid felony sentence.
The legislature left nongrid felons in local custody. If the district court does not retain jurisdiction, there is no entity in control of the sentence or the release therefrom. If the legislature had intended this result, it is difficult to understand why the DUI statute provides that a person is not eligible for a reduction of sentence or parole from sentence prior to serving 90 days. The statute could simply state that the district court must impose a minimum sentence of 90 days. The question then is, how does a reduction of sentence occur without anyone having jurisdiction to modify the sentence or who is empowered to parole a nongrid felon? If reasonably possible, this court is to avoid construing a statute in a manner which would render part of that statute surplusage. State v. Rush, 255 Kan. 672, 677, 877 P.2d 386 (1994). We find that the district court retains jurisdiction to modify a nongrid felony DUI sentence.
Reversed and remanded for a determination on the merits of the motion to modify sentence.


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A video that was purportedly taken at yesterday's Occupy Los Angeles rally shows one protester taking a cheap shot at a female cop and immediately fleeing the scene.
In the video, which has been all over Reddit today, several cops are trying to prevent protesters from crossing a street. One young man with a drum in his hand walks by a female cop, and when she turns her attention elsewhere, the man takes a swing at the cop; hitting her in the back of the head with his drum.
The officer, who was wearing a helmet, took the hit and stood her ground as the protester ran away like a coward.
Violence from both police and protestors have marred what was supposed to be a day of peaceful demonstrations. The NYPD beat a protester who was on the ground and helpless during last night's Occupy demonstrations at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial park, and another Occupier ended up with a badly bloodied face after police threw him onto the ground.
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Here are the remaining prints by Helmut Clausen. This has produced a genealogical mystery. My cousin in Germany told me that Helmut was not the son of Fritz Claassen and Lily Schridde Claassen. She has talked to her mother, Gerda who is 84 years of age.
My cousin also said that Fritz and Lily name was spelled Claassen as opposed to Clausen. Mystery number one and mystery number two is who was Helmut and why did my grandmother have his prints? Mystery number three and four is Helmut the son of a brother of Fritz Claassen and why did my mother say he was a cousin?
The last mystery is why I do not get any information when I do a Google search for his name. I even did a search on Google.de.
Helmut does a good job with the painting of water and the reflections. That is difficult to do in water colors. The reflections of light are good too.


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What Israel wants from Iran talks: No easing of sanctions unless nuclear program is dismantled
Israeli officials are warily watching the resumption of talks between Western powers and Iran to resolve the dispute over its nuclear program, concerned that the negotiations will produce an easing of economic sanctions without a halt to what Israel says is Tehran's march toward an atomic bomb.
As part of a diplomatic offensive to head off what Israel fears will be Western concessions with only cosmetic changes in return, Israeli government leaders are outlining conditions they say must be met to make any agreement stick.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that it would be a "historic mistake" if sanctions on Iran were eased just when they were about to achieve their goals. But the definition of those goals is in deep dispute, with wide gaps between the parties on what would be a satisfactory outcome of negotiations.
Israeli officials are urging Western negotiators to secure a dismantling of Iran's nuclear program, which Israel says is for military purposes and Iran asserts is for civilian use.
At a meeting with reporters this week, Intelligence and Strategic Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz said Israel wanted to see an agreement along the lines reached a decade ago with Libya, under which materials from its nuclear and chemical weapons programs were removed or destroyed. He said Israel feared that agreements with Iran could end up like those reached with North Korea, which has continued its nuclear weapons program, including nuclear missile tests, despite several accords.
"We want the Geneva talks to succeed, and we don't close the door for a diplomatic solution," Steinitz said, but he cautioned that the accord had to be "sufficient and satisfactory."
What that means for Israel was spelled out in a lengthy Israeli security Cabinet statement issued Tuesday as the talks got underway.
The statement said Iran should comply with several U.N. Security Council resolutions and other steps including ceasing enrichment of uranium, removing stockpiles of enriched uranium from its territory, dismantling underground facilities near Qom and Natanz, including the centrifuges they contain, and halting work on the plutonium-producing heavy water reactor in Arak. The statement also referred to a U.N. resolution requiring Iran to halt developing ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons.
A top Iranian negotiator, Abbas Araqchi, on Sunday ruled out any removal of enriched nuclear material from Iran or any concessions on its right to enrichment, though statements by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani have hinted at readiness for concessions on these issues.
Steinitz said Israel wanted a "serious and satisfactory solution that can be trusted for years" so that "Munich 1938 will not repeat itself," a reference to a pact reached with Nazi Germany before World War II. Steinitz said Iran had no need to keep enriched nuclear material but could obtain nuclear fuel for peaceful purposes from Canada, Sweden and other nations.
In a nod to Israeli concerns, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told a gathering of the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC this week that Washington would not seek a deal at any price.
"Right now, the window for diplomacy is cracking open. But I want you to know that our eyes are open, too," Kerry said. "While we seek a peaceful resolution to Iran's nuclear program, words must be matched with actions. In any engagement with Iran, we are mindful of Israel's security needs. We are mindful of the need for certainty, transparency, and accountability in the process. And I believe firmly that no deal is better than a bad deal."
In their remarks on the newly resumed talks, Israeli officials have played down earlier threats of military action should diplomacy fail. But in a special parliamentary session Tuesday marking 40 years since the Yom Kippur War, Netanyahu alluded to such an option.
A lesson of the 1973 war, in which the Egyptian and Syrian armies surprised Israeli forces, is that "pre-emptive strikes must not be ruled out," Netanyahu said. "There are situations in which thinking about the international response to such a step is not equal to the bloody price we would pay in absorbing the strategic blow we would be compelled to respond to later, perhaps too late."


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After a 27-win season, the Lakers are not a favorite to win the NBA title this coming year.
According to gambling website Bovada, the Lakers have just 66-1 odds of winning the championship in 2015.
While the Lakers should certainly be better than they were a year ago with the return of Kobe Bryant, who played in just six games with knee and Achilles injuries, Bovada lists 15 teams with greater odds to win it all.
The Cleveland Cavaliers are tops with 5-2 odds, followed by the reigning champion San Antonio Spurs at 4-1.
With a healthy Derrick Rose, and former Lakers center/forward Pau Gasol, the Chicago Bulls are third with 11-2 odds. The Oklahoma City Thunder (6-1) are favored over the Clippers (12-1).
Also ahead of the Lakers are the Houston Rockets (16-1), Dallas Mavericks (18-1), Golden State Warriors (22-1), Washington Wizards (33-1), Indiana Pacers (40-1), Miami Heat (40-1), Portland Trail Blazers (40-1), Memphis Grizzlies (50-1), New York Knicks (50-1) and Toronto Raptors (50-1).
The Lakers are given equal 66-1 odds to win as the Charlotte Hornets and Brooklyn Nets.
Behind the Lakers are the Atlanta Hawks, Boston Celtics, Denver Nuggets, New Orleans Pelicans and Phoenix Suns, each with 100-1 odds.
The Minnesota Timberwolves, who just traded Kevin Love to the Cavaliers, have 150-1 odds, followed by the Detroit Pistons and Orlando Magic at 200-1 each.
Bovada gives the Sacramento Kings and Utah Jazz just 250-1 odds while the Milwaukee Bucks and Philadelphia 76ers sit together at the bottom of the list at 300-1.
Lakers rookie power forward Julius Randle is given 7-1 odds to win rookie of the year, behind Milwaukee's Jabari Parker (3-1), Minnesota's Andrew Wiggins (4-1) and Philadelphia's Nerlens Noel (6-1).
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03/19/2009 (09:31PM - 10:00PM) (Thursday) : LIZ (TINA FEY) LEARNS THAT DREW'S (GUEST STAR JON HAMM) GOOD LOOKS AND CHARM HAVE BROUGHT HIM SPECIAL TREATMENT. TRACY'S (TRACY MORGAN) CONTRACT IS UP FOR RENEGOTIATION AND JACK (ALEC BALDWIN) MUST FIND A WAY TO KEEP HIM AT "TGS." MEREDITH VIEIRA ALSO GUEST STARS
As Liz (Fey) spends more time with her boyfriend Drew (Hamm), she finds that his handsomeness has allowed him to bypass many of the usual frustrations of daily life. While Liz deals with her new relationship, Jack (Baldwin) must find a way to convince Tracy (Morgan) to stay on at "TGS" after his contract expires. Jenna (Jane Krakowski) considers a new hairstyle to attract public attention. Jack McBrayer, Scott Adsit, Judah Friedlander and Katrina Bowden also star.


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Not only will the app produce a list of ingredients that you'll need to complete the recipe, it will generate a grocery list, too. Big Oven also features a menu planner that arranges your recipes days in advance, which will help you save money, as well as extra trips to the grocery store.
When it comes to food that's been sitting in your fridge for a long time, the Is My Food Safe? app will be your go-to resource. Simply select the "Time To Toss" tab and scroll down until you find your leftover of choice. The app will then tell you how long that food will stay good for in the fridge or freezer.
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Invisible Sun
Do you dream of escape, but you don't know from what, or to where? Looking for a chance to escape the insanity of the world, and immerse yourself into something rich, deep, and fantastical? Something that challenges the limits of your creativity and your intellect?
- Lorcan made a gun out of demon which fires bullets that only harm possessed people. On his quest to discover the long-forgotten (and perhaps forbidden) number between 12 and 13, the weapon is proving useful as the Enemies of Sleep appear determined to stop him.
- Duri's face is normally a blur of swirling spiritforms, but occasionally she can make one of them manifest, and she gains its appearance and memories. If she risks keeping the new face too long, however, she can lose her identity.
- Thom is dead, but he doesn't let that deter him. While he knows how to restore his life, he chooses not to, because the advantages of being a wraith are many. Of course, he occasionally has issues with not existing.
- Rodir has connections all over the city, and she holds a collection of wicked keys that allow her to solve (unlock) any problem (lock) by just creating a keyhole to insert a key, turn it, and see what happens. People don't appreciate it when she does this to them, but that's what they get for being in her way.
These are all player characters in the Invisible Sun tabletop RPG. They are no longer trapped in Shadow—where you are right now—but inhabit the Actuality, a world that seems like a surreal dream to those of us toiling aimlessly in the boring, grey realm that we falsely believe is the real world. These characters face incredible challenges, visit breathtaking places, and discover secrets so astonishing that the only ones who can cope with them are those that understand the truth of the real power in the universe:
But nothing like what you've seen before. Invisible Sun makes magic magical again. Magic's not just a series of mechanics. It's weird, wonderful, unpredictable, and dangerous. With spells and incantations like The Flock Scatters at the Sound of Teeth, Sharp Edges in the First Frost, and The Punishment of Change Comes to the Wary, magic is what the game is all about.
Add-ons are rewards that you add to your existing reward level. Simply increase your pledge by the appropriate amount. Check out our pledge calculator; it'll help you figure out exactly how much to pledge based on the backer level and add-ons you desire. Many of the prices are not even numbers--do the numbers have significance? Secrets?
We at Monte Cook Games have done a number of Kickstarter campaigns in the past, and we are proud of our track record of delivering high-quality, on-time products. This Kickstarter campaign is a bit different. Befitting the nature of this game, each of the backer levels is a spell that summons an extradimensional box of secrets called (in the setting) the Black Cube. In this case, the Black Cube you'll be summoning is filled with wonders. You can get the game, which itself is a deluxe product and a thing of beauty (Call the Black Cube) or you can get the game with the Directed Campaign and all the stretch goals (Control the Black Cube). There's also a special level for our awesome retailers (Entreat With the Black Cube) and two for a few of you to get the really deluxe treatment (Master the Black Cube and Merge with the Black Cube). Like all spells in Invisible Sun, the backer levels are written in first person. Throughout the campaign, we'll refer to the act of backing at one of these levels as casting that particular spell.
Invisible Sun is a very special product, with a lot of high-quality components but quality like this comes at a premium. Some people will want to consider buying the Black Cube as a group. And you'll want to know about our shipping policies.
Last, note that when you back helps determine the nature of your rewards. Every backer will receive a sealed envelope with the game that holds a secret about the game or setting. The envelope that you get is based on the sun that is active on the day you back (see the top of the page for today's active sun). No one secret is better than any of the others, but only those who cast Master the Black Cube or Merge the Black Cube will see them all. You can read this for more information about the Active Sun and how it affects your rewards.
Invisible Sun is a tabletop roleplaying game of surreal fantasy. It's dark. It's moody. It's adult. It's also perhaps the most deluxe and amazing roleplaying game product ever produced. Inside the specially designed cube you will find four books, a folding game board, a resin monolith, a metal medallion, four special dice, player handouts, tokens, and hundreds of cards to enhance your gameplay.
Invisible Sun is a game of secrets. And that is true of both the physical product and the in-world game as it is played. Hidden within the pages of the books, within the components of the game, and perhaps even within the box itself, lie clues to discover—clues that can unlock new secrets. Invisible Sun is as much about interacting with the physical game itself as it is about interacting with the other players. This is a game of deep immersion. Of escape.
Players create in-depth and intricate characters where the house in which they live is as important as their stats and skills. Character choices drive everything, with game rewards based on personalized story arcs, and emergent mechanics arising from not just from character creation, but from ongoing character development. However, in the end, it's not game mechanics that dominate gameplay, but roleplaying.
Player characters in Invisible Sun discover and utilize secrets. These secrets often involve the very nature of the universe, and those who master such secrets can change that nature. In common parlance, this is magic, and thus player characters are magicians and sorcerers called vislae. How they utilize their magic—casting spells, creating objects of great power, entreating with otherworldly spirits, or improvising effects by weaving together threads of power—is up to them. Character creation and customization are paramount, and no character concept is refused. In a game where everything is possible, it's never a matter of "You can't do that," but "How do you go about discovering the secret to do that?"
Let's be upfront, though. Invisible Sun is not a game for everyone. Not because it's difficult, but because it's involved. It's not really designed for casual, fire-and-forget sorts of play. It is character-focused the way a good novel or television series is character-focused, with individual story arcs, deep development, complex motivations, nonlinear narratives, and asymmetrical play. If you're the kind of player who enjoys musing over your character between sessions, thinking deeply about the setting and events in the game, and making interesting choices, then Invisible Sun is the game you've been waiting for all this time.
We live in the modern world. We know what it's like to try to get a group together on a regular basis—work, family, schedules, and other aspects of that nasty thing we call real life always get in the way. Invisible Sun, at its very core, is designed around overcoming that with gameplay options that deal with missing players, solo play integrated with group play, playing online, and more.
Invisible Sun is a game that encourages players to think about the game away from the table—and rewards them for doing so. Not just on game night. This is a game for people who enjoy real investment in character and story. It's not just a hack-and-slash, bash the bad guy sort of thing. Those kinds of games are fun, but this is something different.
Players (individually or in groups) can devise and stage side scenes or even flashback scenes to accomplish their goals. The rules of the game address these in a way that is separate from but compatible with the main narrative. In addition to the flexibility this gives in group storytelling, it means that there are many opportunities to play the game and advance the characters and the narrative even when the whole group can't meet.
The game even recognizes the difference between player types. It accommodates people who want simpler characters, non-magical characters, or even multiple characters. It even has different ways for introverts and extroverts to interact with the game and the group if they desire.
You can read more on these unique aspects of the game here.
The place where you sit, reading this right now, is a place called Shadow. Despite what you may think, this is not the real world, but a shadow of it.
The real world is a place called the Actuality. This is a strange, surreal setting where magic is real and the impossible is entirely possible. It's a dark place of demons, ghosts, and far stranger things, but it's also a place of wonder and light—angels of the Legacy and continually shapeshifting elderbrin—where magic can do astonishing things.
In the Actuality, the player characters are important people who, should they discover the right secrets and find the right spells, can make a difference in the world.
And what a world. This is a place where tight-lipped veterans of the War won't speak of their experiences, but it's well known that the central city of Satyrine still bears wounds where undetonated weapons of pure hatred keep it from healing. Soulless devils scheme in darkness, bartering for bits of soul, because without one, magic is impossible. Spiders crawl into bedrooms to sip at the fluids in a sleeper's eyes, carrying a magical virus that can cause anyone or anything to sprout spidery legs and scuttle about. Vislae visit changeries to alter their appearance to suit their mood—sometimes into striking, inhuman, and not even entirely Euclidean forms. They attend intrigue-filled parties held within the consciousness of the hosts, or search through the ruins of ancient libraries to find the ghosts of books they need to read.
The Actuality and the magical systems in Invisible Sun were designed from scratch. Don't know anything about historical or modern magical traditions or occult beliefs? That's okay. In fact it's great. Because the magic and the occult in Invisible Sun has no ties to any real world beliefs. Monte took literally decades of study in such things—tarot, Kabbalah, Vodun, astrology, numerology, mythology, religion, the Tree of Life, and so on—and built an entirely original occult system for the setting. With Invisible Sun, we avoid any baggage from our world and our lives so we can dive into this purely escapist fantasy. (If you do have some knowledge of this sort of thing, well, you'll likely really appreciate what he's done.)
One of the most important parts of the magical systems in the world of Invisible Sun is a divinatory set of cards called the Sooth Deck. These 60 lavishly illustrated, uniquely round cards and the Path of Suns board serve the game in many ways. Turning a new Sooth card from the deck and playing it on one of the suns of the path affects gameplay in simple but significant mechanical ways that are sometimes beneficial, sometimes not, helping to represent the volatility of magic. The interpretive meanings of each card also serve as creative prompts for the GM to use (or ignore) as they see fit. A GM who has the deck at hand throughout a game session is never caught without an idea of what can or should happen next. It is the Invisible Sun GM's best friend.
Sometimes, a card's effects are short lived, but sometimes they remain in play for a while. Those that remain are held by an eerie monolith on the table called the Testament of Suns so that the card is dramatically presented to everyone and no one will forget its effect.
In addition to these components, you get four books that describe the game and the setting, over a thousand spell cards and item cards, hundreds of gameplay tokens, dice, a cloth map, a poster map, handouts, character booklets, grimoires, and more. For a complete list of the box's contents, look here.
Those backing at the Control the Black Cube, Master the Black Cube, and Merge with the Black Cube levels gain access to the Invisible Sun Directed Campaign. For twelve months (starting when you tell us you are beginning your campaign, within one year of delivery of the game), Monte sends you new material, sometimes in electronic form and sometimes as a physical package. This includes adventure material, campaign advice, handouts, props, and special physical items. It's like Monte himself is your GM coach, providing step-by-step advice and aids for your campaign as you run it. We'll even send your players intriguing mystery packages tied to the campaign that are keyed to their character. And there's more.
Helping to guide the unique gameplay aspects, the Invisible Sun app allows GMs to have a (virtual) Sooth Deck wherever they go. Meeting with a player for a half hour in the coffee shop or the park? You can play through a side scene using just the app. Use the app at the table for a quick reference regarding the possible meanings of each Sooth card. Players and GMs can even interact through the app when not sitting at the table together, allowing for many levels of play.
The app will be web based, and will run on any modern web browser, making it usable on your phone, tablet, or your PC.
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The Invisible Sun Kickstarter Is Different
Changing the Way RPGs Are Played
Risks and challenges
Invisible Sun is the 7th game-related Kickstarter that Monte Cook Games has launched. All our previous campaigns have been successful and jam-packed with rewards, and 4 of those 6 campaigns are completely fulfilled, while the other two continue to deliver their rewards on schedule. That means we've delivered nearly 200,000 rewards. These include such varied items as corebooks for Numenera and The Strange, leather-bound deluxe corebooks, boxed sets, more than a dozen hardcover supplements, signed bookplates, playtest access, special-access seminars, meetings and dinners with the creative team, online and in-person games, and so much more.
Thus, while there are always challenges that can arise, we've probably already faced them. The Invisible Sun game is intricate and involved, but this campaign is not, compared to those we've already fulfilled. We've intentionally reduced the number of reward levels and add-ons that we've offered in previous campaigns.
We are extremely proud of our track record. Unless Monte himself is drawn permanently back into Shadow, we are confident that the project will meet all its promises.Learn about accountability on Kickstarter
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Drama. It's what makes hearts pound, tears flow, pulse race and sometimes startle theatergoers right out of their seats.
"There's a challenge to drama," said Randall Arney, artistic director for the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles. "You must be clear in your storytelling, allowing the audience some anticipation of what's happening next. Sometimes the anticipation makes things even more scary. Dramas also bind audiences together. There's just something about going through harrowing experiences that connects you."
Oct. 8 through Nov. 17 the Geffen will stage "Wait Until Dark," a dramatic thriller about a blind woman who defends herself from a home invasion.
"This is a wonderful ride for the audience," said Arney, a 30-year theater veteran. "It sucks the responses right out of you."
Arney saw the show early in his career and it left a lasting impression. He'd always wanted to bring it to the Geffen. When brainstorming with director Matt Shakman on what drama to choose for the season, "Wait Until Dark" was on Shakman's short list and now the two are making it happen.
As an added bonus, the estate of Frederick Knott, the play's writer who also wrote "Dial M for Murder," has allowed the creative team to hire accomplished playwright Jeffrey Hatcher to refine parts of the original play and introduce a world premiere of a new script.
"There are parts of the play that don't work for contemporary society," Arney said. "But we're not updating it; we're keeping it in the period. We're just blowing the dust off. It's a great opportunity to take a fresh look at a wonderful story."
Focusing in on the intimate side of drama, the California Theatre of the Performing Arts in San Bernadino is staging two very different stories with a common theme.
Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" runs Feb. 14 through Feb. 16, and "Of Mice and Men" will follow May 31.
"These are two wonderful examples of humanity," said Ashley Evenson, associate producer for the California Theatre. "Both shows have characters who need to be looked after, who can't take care of themselves. I think both shows are really reflective of the times we live in right now with so many people falling through the cracks."
Mary Shelly's "Frankenstein" explores childlike innocence in a grotesque form. Frankenstein's bewildered creature is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-struck maker. Meeting with cruelty wherever he goes, the friendless creature, increasingly desperate and vengeful, determines to track down his creator and strike a terrifying deal.
"(Frankenstein) is such a poignant story of humanity and what makes us human," Evenson said. "It helps us to understand what it means to love, to listen and to lie. We wanted to explore the relationship between creator and creation and ask the question: 'Just because you create something does it mean you're responsible for it?'"
Winner of the Nobel and Pulitzer Prizes, John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men" seems to have ongoing relevance. The story is of two migrant field workers, George and Lennie, traveling through California during the Great Depression. George is intelligent but uneducated; Lennie is a large man of simple mind and depends on George for care. The two lean on their friendship to keep hope and battle loneliness.
"This is a story of what's going on right now in so many places. It's what San Bernardino is going through; it's what the country is going through," Evenson said. "I think of it as a reflection of our times. Most art is a reflection of what's going on in society and what people are really going through."
Dramas also help educate the public on the triumphs and tragedies of the past.
Chino Community Theatre has chosen to produce, "Terra Nova," Sept. 6 through Sept. 28, the tragic, true story of Captain Robert Falcon Scott and the 1911 expedition he led in the attempt to be the first person to reach the South Pole. Their story was taken from actual journals and letters.
"It's a beautiful tragic play, sort of a 1911 Apollo 13 but without a happy splashdown at the end," said Bruce Hutchins, the play's director. "I believe that if we do it right, the audience will feel like they were there along with Captain Scott and his crew, and they saw into a piece of history."
Hutchins, a veteran actor/director, explained some of the differences between comedies and dramas.
"With comedies, each actor is really talking to the audience. And things like timing or waiting for laughs are for, and controlled by, the audience," he said. "With dramas, however, the communication is between the actors alone, the moments are real, and the audience doesn't exist. Comedies, especially farces, are often fast-paced. I believe that's to let the audience know there's a script somewhere, and everything's under control, so if someone trips on a banana peel, it's OK to laugh."
Producing a live theater drama allows audience members to do more than watch, but be in the moment, simulating participation in the event.
"Dramas, good ones anyway, have a moment where the audience gets the sense there is no script and the characters are on their own," Hutchins said. "Dramas need to breathe, and because of the moments, each performance can be different, depending on where the actors are that night. Dramas can be effective, and strikingly different night to night."
Possibly the most philological thriller of the season comes from the Long Beach Playhouse. From Sept. 7 through Oct. 5 its Studio Theatre will stage "Equus." The play is based on a true story about a psychiatrist confronted with a boy who has blinded six horses in a violent fit of passion.
"It is a fascinating play," said Andrew Vonderschmitt, the Playhouse's producing artistic director. "The dialogue is nearly poetic, yet real with an incredible economy that reveals only what we, the audience, need to see; to understand. The play questions our strict ethical codes and moral lines, asking which of these ethical arguments can be right and just. Questioning ethical boundaries can never be a bad thing. I hope that an observer might walk away with a lot to say on the subject. This play forces you to think and I hope that we do our job right so that our audience will do just that."
San Pedro's Little Fish Theater offers theatergoers a "supernatural" option with "The Weir" on stage Sept. 20 through Oct. 19. According to its website, the story is set on a cold and stormy night in an isolated Irish country pub where four local men meet to drink their daily pints. Then in walks Valerie, a pretty young woman, who turns the evening on its ear. Doing their best to win her affections, the men begin to spin tales full of bluster and blarney that turn dark and sinister as the evening progresses.


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Sunday, 17 July 2011
Trip to the hospital #1
Actually I woke up yesterday feeling fairly normal, despite not having slept well, for uncertain reasons. I went to spinning, yoga and then on a run with SR. I had contractions on the run, as usual, but this time, over the course of the afternoon, they just didn't go away. They weren't really regular, though, or painful, but they seemed to also come on at rest, which was completely new. When they occurred more regularly: 10-12 minutes apart, SR called his mom saying what was going on. She decided to drive to Næstved from Copenhagen, thinking someone may need to watch The Lorax overnight. In the meantime, I fell asleep with The Lorax at 11pm, only to wake up one our later with more painful contractions every 7-8 minutes. I woke SR up and we sat out on the couch, timing the contractions, which suddenly came every 3 minutes on the button. I was not in any pain to speak of, but my midwife had said I shouldn't wait until I had contractions every 4 minutes, because things could happen really fast in second birth and she might not have time to get there. So I called. The 1:30 am call no midwife is extremely excited about, I imagine. She asked me "kan du godt snakke imens?" "can you talk through them [the contractions]?", I said, oh, yes, so she said I should call when they got more painful. This was okay, but I didn't really think I could sleep at this point. I sat there on the sofa with SR, his mom and The Lorax (The Lorax was now beside himself with fear of what was going on and cried if I stopped touching him). 10 minutes later, the midwife called back and told me she was scared I would surprise her and deliver quickly and that we should meet her at the hospital in a half an hour. After we made this decision, my contractions got stronger, but further apart.
We met at the hospital at 1:50. She was super nice and chipper. She did an exam and said I was only 1cm dilated and that we should go back home and try to sleep and call if/when things progressed and I couldn't stand the pain. We walked home, feeling uncertain of what was going on, and then I fell asleep for 4 hours without contractions. And now, I basically feel fine, other than the fact that I am tired. Oh, and every time I move, I get a contraction, but not a rest.
This is proof that, at least for me, a birth can be very different the second time. With The Lorax, there was simply no doubt. Now I'm sitting here wondering: will it be today or a week from now? When in doubt, go for a run. A tired run in the rain. Exactly what the midwife told me not to do: just don't go run a marathon, now, SLG. But can you blame me for feeling I want to get this over with?
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- Diana said...
I've been wondering about you this week. Sounds like your body is gearing up to have a baby.
Did your midwife tell you not to go for a run or not to run a marathon? Good for you for running in the rain. I didn't want to have anything to do with the crappy, rainy weather we've been having.
Hope you're able to get some rest!
- 17 July 2011 at 09:21
All the best of luck from me. I will be looking forward to the next blogpost.
Hugs Helle
- 17 July 2011 at 10:35
- heather said...
Wow! This is exciting :) I'll keep my fingers crossed that you don't have to wait too much longer, and that everything goes well!
- 17 July 2011 at 11:27
- sea legs girl said...
Oh, thanks so much for the comments, Diana, Helle & Heather! Just thought I'd make the update that once I started having contractions again I made the easy decision to nap rather than run.
- 17 July 2011 at 11:40
- sea legs girl said...
Though the nap didn't last long... (I'm between contractions now, as you can see)
- 17 July 2011 at 11:41
- cherelli said...
Hey SLG, I'm excited for you - best wishes for a continuing relatively painless birth :) But I hope you get a littttle bit of sleep beforehand!
- 17 July 2011 at 13:50
- Olga said...
Hope it all goes well, and we hear from you soon!
- 17 July 2011 at 14:43
- Carrie said...
Ugh - this is what happened to me with my 2nd child. I think he was born on hospital trip #8. No joke. It was just really different the 2nd time.
Good luck!
- 17 July 2011 at 22:04
Hope things move along nicely and quickly.
- 18 July 2011 at 03:13
- mmmonyka said...
Wow, this is exciting! Good luck.
- 18 July 2011 at 04:26
- Jacqueline said...
Good things could be happening! With my son, even though I ended up with an induction, I did have contractions like you describe for a few weeks, they would get bad, then peter out, but they were causing change. So, hopefully things will move along for you!
And I'm very interested in how your second labor goes. Mine (and most of my friend's) the second time around was like half the time of the first! It was CRAZY fast.
Good luck, and take care of yourself!
- 18 July 2011 at 16:14
- Jrahn said...
With my second baby, the same thing happened to me that happened to Jacqueline. After weeks of these types of contractions, I was induced, only to have my son deliver himself as I was taking a catnap. No lie.
- 18 July 2011 at 20:20


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Minou was designed by Frederic Gooris, it's an accessory for the person: A delicate innovation made of one piece. The cat stands besides you on the edge of the table and your bag or purse hangs from it's tail.
Frédéric Gooris, Belgian industrial designer, born at Leuven in 1974, graduated from the Hogeschool Antwerpen in 1998. In 1999 he moves to Milan, where he obtains his Master in Design at Domus Academy. After gaining experience working for Philippe Starck and Stefano Giovannoni for 5 years, he founds Studio Gooris in Milan doing product and concept design for companies all over the globe, including Alessi, Ferrero, Target, Levis, JCPenny, Foreverlamp, Oras, EQ3, among others. In 2009 he cofounds Bombol, a company for design oriented baby furniture. In 2010 he moves to Hong Kong to open the second office of Studio gooris where he is working up to today. www.studiogooris.com


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Monday, 23 March 2015
May mini cat pattern now ready!
May mini Cat pattern available now........
Hi everyone, I was in the mood for designing May mini cat and got it finished sooner than I first thought, click on this link which will take you to the page.
You can see this design finished into a mini pillow here
Posted by Lynn B at 09:00 14 comments
Sunday, 22 March 2015
Tea for Two blog hop and new mini cat cross stitch
It is such a lovely day outside today, the sun is shining and the weather is just perfect to go for a walk in the hills close to our home, but before I do I thought I would show you a sneak preview of the blog hop I have signed up for.
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Friday, 20 March 2015
Meet and Greet...........
Hello everyone, today is Meet and Greet day!
This idea was from Mdm Samm at Sew we Stitch blog here, where you can see a list of bloggers that are involved in the Meet and Greet.
What is it about?
Well, we introduce ourselves to new readers, talk a bit about ourselves and show at least three photographs of our favourite finishes.
I have been cross stitching for 28 years, I also design cross stitch patterns, in particular my free mini cat designs, that are available on my blog and in my Craftsy store here I also love dressmaking, crochet and polymer clay modelling. I frequently finish my cross stitches into boxes and show my tutorials on my cross stitch finishing blog.
This is my handmade box and toblerone needlecase with accessories, they were made from a flat piece of card and finished into these stitching items.
I hope you enjoy these photographs!
This little pink set is another of my favourite boxes.
I really enjoyed making this little selection.
One of my favourite mini quilts, I stitched this using a pattern from Bronwyn at the Red Brolly Blog. I made matching tags and sent this to a partner in a gift exchange.
Until next time, happy stitching!
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Wednesday, 18 March 2015
A box for my sister
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Sunday, 8 March 2015
It's a giveaway!
Hi everyone, I thought it was about time I put together a small giveaway, included is this little pillow hand made by me together with some cute matching gift tags designed by me in Photoshop Elements. Now closed!
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Sunday, 1 March 2015
Free April Mini Cat pattern now available
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IMF Survey vol. 28, No. 6, January 1999
- $4.9 billion installment: Camdessus recommends Executive Board approval of Brazil's revised economic program
- International Financial Statistics to publish data for euro area
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- IDB address: Camdessus highlights benefits of regional integration for Latin America
- Clinton proposes strengthening of HIPC Initiative
- IMF staff study: New framework is appropriate for credible U.K. monetary policy
- Eichengreen calls for strengthening foundations of international monetary system
- Asian crisis and tax policy: Tax reforms could foster recovery by facilitating corporate restructuring
- Bretton Woods delegate: IMF Executive Board pays tribute to Abol Hassan Ebtehaj
- Data release: IMF joins with other organizations to publish joint statistics on external debt
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- Unctad update: FDI flows to Asian crisis countries prove resilient
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COLUMBIA - A key permit for the replacement of the Back River Bridge is expected to move forward this week, but the $16.5 million construction project still faces an uncertain time frame.
Construction bidding was expected to start in June. On Friday a spokesperson for the Georgia Department of Transportation said the project was not ready to enter the bidding process and didn't provide a new estimated date. The Georgia agency is pursuing federal approval of the new bridge in partnership with the South Carolina Department of Transportation.
"We are in the final stages of our review," said Travis Hughes, deputy division chief of the Charleston District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, during a conference call with other corps officials and a reporter.
"I believe it's just South Carolina at this point," he said, referring to permitting materials he had yet to receive.
The two states are working together on the reconstruction of the nearly 60-year-old structure linking Savannah and Jasper County. on U.S. 17. Georgia will pay 90 percent, and South Carolina will pay 10 percent. Federal dollars for the project will total an estimated $9 million.
Regarding the Palmetto State's share of the regulatory process, Hughes said it wasn't clear who would be sending the corps the permit material for them to review and approve - the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control or a separate South Carolina agency created in 2007, the Savannah River Maritime Commission. The two agencies have been locked in a legal battle over which has authority to issue permits on the Savannah River, a controversy that arose in November when DHEC gave its blessing to Georgia's $653 million harbor deepening.
On Friday Maritime Commission chairman Dean Moss said the bridge project falls outside the panel's
"DHEC conferred with us on it, and we made the determination that it does not affect ocean going navigation, so we are not responsible," he said. "Our charge is to deal with things in the river that have a particular impact on navigation, sledge disposal, dredging. And the bridge did not fall into that."
Dan Burger, of DHEC's Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management, said the agency expects to send in its coastal zone consistency determination to the corps next week. Burger said a related piece to be sent to the corps, the 401 Water Quality Certification, is being reviewed by DHEC's Bureau of Water.
Georgia submitted its 401 Water Quality Certification to the corps at the end of March.
This spring the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Georgia Environmental Protection Division and the S.C. Department of Natural Resources recommended the project lock in tidal marsh mitigation credits, intended to offset environmental damage from the work, at the beginning of the job.
On Friday Catherine Samay, a Georgia EPD official, said the Salt Creek Saltmarsh Mitigation Bank in Chatham County had been approved, and those pursuing the new bridge intended to purchase credits from it.
The construction will require officials to place fill material in 1.65 acres of tidal wetlands.
The new bridge is expected to take two to two-and-a-half years to build, but the 19,000 daily motorists who use the current bridge may keep driving on it until it is taken down at the completion of the new one.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has asked for six protective measures to make way for the federally-protected manatees from May 15 - Oct. 15. Among the recommendations was for workers to cut off all machinery if the 1,000-pound mammal floated within 50 feet. The wildlife agency also called for the use of siltation barriers that would not ensnare the seal-shaped "sea cows."
As for whether those measures would be incorporated, Elizabeth Williams, project manager in the corps' Charleston District, said the federal agency had yet to grant a final permit to build the bridge, so she could not commit to the manatee
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MacMahon in the paper Divisors of Numbers and their Continuations in the Theory of Partitions defines several generalized notions of the sum-of-divisors function; for example, if we write $a_{n,k}$ for the sum $$ \sum s_1 \cdots s_k $$ where this sum is taken over all ways of writing $n = s_1m_1 + \cdots s_km_k$ with $m_1 < \cdots < m_k$ (note the asymmetry in $s_k, m_k$), he then studies the generating functions $$ A_k(q) = \sum_{n=1}^\infty a_{n,k}q^n $$ for fixed $k$, as well as a number of other variants. Note that for $k=1$, this is nothing but the generating function for the ordinary sum-of-divisors function.
These functions (Specifically, from his paper, the functions $A_k$ and $C_k$) have arisen in my research and I would like to know what literature there is on them. In particular, I would like to know if there are any well-known identities that hold between them. MacMahon himself lists the identity $$ A_2(q) = \tfrac{1}{8}\sum_{n=1}^\infty\big(\sigma_3(n) - (2n-1)\sigma_1(n)\big)q^n $$ as well as similar ones for $A_3$ and $A_4$, but the identities that I am looking for are more in line with an attempt to write these as quasi-modular forms, if possible. For example, it turns out that the following is true: $$ A_2(q) = \tfrac{1}{10}\Big(3A_1(q)^2 + A_1(q) - q\frac{d}{dq}A_1(q)\Big) $$ and I conjecture that you can always write $A_k(q)$ (and similarly $C_k(q)$) recursively in terms of previous such functions.
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Four Central Australians, organising a charity camel trek from Alice Springs to Adelaide, have been invited to spend Christmas at a camel festival in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
They're special guests of Mohammed Khalaf Al Mazrouei, the Chariman of the High Organising Committee Advisor for Culture and Heritage in the Court of His Highness the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi.
Each year he organises the Al Dhafra heritage festival, which features daily camel beauty contests, falconry and racing.
Hannah Purss says it's clear how highly camels are valued in the Middle East compared to Australia.
"Everybody just loves camels here," she said.
"Camels are worth millions and millions of dollars and they all compete for the most beautiful camel.
"When the winner is announced everyone goes nuts.
"They get hundreds of dollars worth of saffron and pour it all over the winning camel.
"All these four-wheel-drives do burnouts, beep their horns and chase this camel around.
"It's funny to talk to these millionaires that have camels and love them; they're just completely blown away by the fact that we shoot them in Australian and see them as a pest."
Ms Purss says it's been a great opportunity to raise the profile of the charity trek, that they've called the Compassion Camel Caravan.
Next July, Ms Purss will join Evan Casey, Kamahl Druesne and Marie Claude to trek more than 1800 kilometres from Alice Springs to Adelaide with a custom-built camel wagon.
"We've been building the wagon; the whole top of it has been built out of recycled materials," she said.
"We have 19 camels all together. We probably don't need that many but we like camels!
"We're going to be following one of the original Afghan cameleer routes down the Oodnadatta."
The trek will raise money for an Australian charity called 'Swags for Homeless'.
"The swag has been designed specifically to provide dignity and shelter for homeless people," Ms Purss said.
"We're going to be in swags for the entire trek so we thought it was a great cause.
"There's quite a lot of interest in supporting homeless people in the UAE.
"Our visit has generated lots of interest in our trek which we're very grateful for."


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