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Ramona Quimby, one of the most loved characters in children's fiction, has now reached third grade. At school, she acquires a new teacher, Mrs. Whaley, who addresses the class as "you guys." At home, she helps the family "squeak by" as her father returns to college to become an art teacher.
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Officers said Piner is alleged to have entered a farm building on Napa Street in rural Ewing on June 3, using a pry bar. Piner's 1995 Chevrolet S-10 pickup truck was spotted near the property.
Piner admitted entering two vehicles at another location in rural Ewing and stealing compact discs, officers reported.
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Alice questions her sanity as Finch's investigation continues in a new arc of Joshua Williamson & Mike Henderson's Image Comics thriller.
Green Goblin wielding an Infinity Gauntlet? Marvel's latest return to "What If?" takes an alternate look at 2013's "Infinity" event.
Joshua Williamson & Mike Henderson set a Doctor Strange-possessed Punisher on the hunt for the new FF in Marvel's "Secret Wars: Battleworld" #1.
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Joshua Williamson and Mike Henderson spoke with ROBOT 6 about their digital series "Masks and Mobsters," the special Christmas issue and their gift to the Red Cross this season.
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Ayisha Stewart (US Bankruptcy Court) & Nubian Gamble ( Suffolk University Law School) check out the program books.
Summer Jobs students Stephane Alexandre (Prince Lobel Tye), Vicky Liao (Cooley), Rixy Fernandez (Holland & Knight), Nubian Gamble (Suffolk University Law School) post on Holland & Knight's outdoor patio.
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Stephane Alexandre (Prince Lobel Tye) starts off the graduation by sharing some of her experiences this summer.
A great turnout in a beautiful conference space. Many thanks to Holland & Knight for holding the event.
Outgoing BBA President Lisa Goodheart discusses the importance of the summer jobs program and how important it is to have young people interested in a legal career.
Raymond Cen talks about his life changing summer as an intern for Nixon Peabody.
Students were encourages to bring their families and friends.
Steven Wright, Executive Partner at Holland & Knight's Boston office, was the events keynote speaker.
"Find your own voice, work hard, pursue your dreams and have some fun along the way," said keynote speaker Steven Wright (Holland & Knight)
Summer Jobs students are now part of the family of the law profession
BBA Public Service Manager Sonia Shah and BBA Public Service Programs Coordinator Stephanie Lee had the students come up one by one to receive their diploma from Holland & Knight's Steven Wright. The 2012 Summer Jobs Graduates are:
Stephane Alexandre (Prince Lobel Tye)
Sara Piralta (Volunteer Lawyers Project)
Brian Averill (Ferriter Scobbo & Rodophele)
Amanda Banks (MA Executive Office of Health and Human Services)
Raymond Cen (Nixon Peabody)
Ashley Dixon ( Donnelly, Conroy & Gelhaar)
The students wait patiently for their name to be called.
Wousthanya Dumornay (Edwards Wildman Palmer)
Gael Eliacin (Shaevel & Krems)
Sam Faisal (Boston Bar Association)
Oloruntobi Fashemi (Morrison & Mahoney)
Rixy Fernandez (Holland & Knight)
Nubian Gamble (Suffolk University Law School)
Aubrey Griffin (Foley Hoag)
Renecia Gunter (Committee for Public Counsel Services)
Alexandra Kennelly (Hemenway & Barnes)
Kyle Kumasaka (Boston Bar Association)
Vicky Liao (Cooley)
Derek Lindesay (Ropes & Gray)
Brandon Mendez (Todd & Weld)
Carolina Mendez (Collora)
Myntah Morris, (Burns & Levinson)
Tatenda Mudeke (Proskauer Rose)
Venise Murphy (Sunstein Kann Murphy & Timbers)
Lisa Nguyen (Hinckley, Allen & Snyder)
Seth Philistin (Shilepsky Hartley Robb Casey Michon)
Allysha Pierre ( Massachusetts Law Reform Insitute)
Gassendy Pierre (Suffolk Country District Attorney's Office)
Stephan Pierre (Committee for Public Counsel Services)
Avery Riggs (Edwards Wildman Palmer)
Ayisha Stewart (US Bankruptcy Court)
Medhanit Tadesse (DLA Piper)
Kharlita Walker (Anderson & Kreiger)
Cindy Yu (Choate Hall & Stewart)
Kevin Zhu (Sherin & Lodgen)
Incoming BBA President J.D. Smeallie closes the event by saying: "I hope the next time I see some of you, you walk in this door as attorneys"
A great spread (thanks to Holland & Knight) was waiting for the students and their parents.
Guests had a chance to mingle and share summer experiences.
Students like Aubrey Griffin (Foley Hoag) and her mother had a chance to chat with Steven Wright after the event.
Lisa Goodheart shares so positive congratulates Aubrey Griffin (Foley Hoag) on her success this summer.
Gael Eliacin (Shaevel & Krems) shows off his diploma to Shavel & Krems employees.
Wousthanya Dumornay and Avery Riggs, (Edwards Wildman Palmer) with Managing Partner of Edward's Boston office, Gerald Hendrick.
BBA Summer Jobs Intern Kyle Kumasaka with Steven Wright (Holland & Knight), Sonia Shah and Stephanie Lee (BBA)
Matthew Collery and Stephanie Lee of with BBA with BBA intern Sam Faisal.
Public Service Program Coordinator Stephanie Lee with students Raymond Cen (Nixon Peabody) and Brian Averill (Ferriter Scobbo & Rodophele)
Brian Averill (Ferriter Scobbo & Rodophele), Roseyls Esteves (Boston PIC), Kyle Kumasaka (Boston Bar Association)
Allysha Pierre (MLRI) takes a photo with her family.
BBA Executive Director Richard Page, BBA Public Service Manager Sonia Shar and BBA Public Service Programs Coordinator Stephanie Lee with BBA interns Sam Faisal and Kyle Kumasaka
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sto znaci kod proizvoda "isporucivo u roku 24h"?
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While it is true that all lobbyists contain dangerous amounts of lead and mercury, the modern lobbyist is encased with a thick, nearly impenetrable insectoid carapace designed to last at least 10,000 years without exposing their deadly contents to the outside world, as well as ensuring that no human or other organic influence can touch the delicate interrior structures that make possible the amazing things lobbyists can do.
No technology can make a 100% safe lobbyist, of course, so children and pets must never be allowed to physically touch them. But the environmental concerns we once had for the safe disposal of unwanted or obsolete lobbyists are a thing of the past.
Damn, I used to have an RV just like that one in the background. She was black with a shag carpet interior and she ended up breaking my heart. Damn you Renault motor company!!!
Is that legal in WA? Back home you can't put campaign signs on medians or other public strips of land. Not that I give a rat's ass, I'm just curious.
LOL. Clearly someone on the Pedersen campaign has a good sense of humor. I like it.
I think it was the Pedersen campaign who hauled the old monitors to the proper recycling depot - then in the spirit of earned media - posted the sign.
Jamie has my vote, will win by 250 - 350 votes.
PI story on Sherman was banal and boring. If we must send an attorney at least not an asshole prosecuter.
I have watched friends railroaded by these animals - don't like their mindset at all. Very little connection to justice and big time resume building in their private system of careerism.
Go Jamie. Win, win, win.
Beside them being ugly, I believe that it is illegal in the state of Washington (campaign signs public spaces):
The law prohibits placement of campaign signs on all public property, including but not limited to: medians, boulevards, parks or public golf courses, greenbelts, rights of way to arterials or freeways, bridges or overpasses or planting strips that abut public property, such as schools, public buildings, parks or public golf courses.
This from the Voter's Pamphlet that came last week with the sad little eagle on the cover.
To me those god damn signes are more toxic than a hundred monitors!
I saw about 112,000 violations of that this weekend.
That's pretty typical. Back here in CO the son of one candidate was caught red-handed taking down an opponent's signs at midnight the Saturday before the primary. His defence? The signs were on a public right-of-way in violation of the law!
My understanding is that the law is different from city to city. I do know that it is illegal in Seattle - but no one ever gets in trouble - the DOT just takes your sign down, and you have to replace them. There are other cities (even in King County) that legally allow sign placement almost anywhere.
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Mine came in last week, Ive got 200 rounds of target ammo threw it without a hiccup, So far so good. Now if I could only find a holster ?
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john and mike haydock lancashire stayed 5 nights september 2014
good food and drink reasonably priced.
staff and managment where friendly and amiable. breakest was superb and presented to please .only downside tv in bar only has music channel playing all night
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Been taken well care off
comforts of home
Both me and my husband had a lovely stay at the station hotel.
Everyone was friendly and welcoming. We enjoyed our stay and will return.
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Graet day, Great stay
Had to make an unexpected trip to the Borders, so mad ethe most of it by stopping in Melrose for the night.
Chose the Station Hotel because of the location, price and availability. The staff were very helpful in pointing out a place to park nearby (the hotel itself does not have a car park). Our room was very comfortable with a decent sized bathroom (just a shower though, but very nice!)
We made the most of the day and night in Melrose eating at Marmions Brasserie for lunch and Monte Cassino for dinner both excellent places to eat. Finished of the evening in the bar at the hotel the atmosphere was relaxed and entertaining. The following morning we had the continental breakfast, so can't comment on the cooked breakfast. All in all a very nice stay.
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Rank's Pactiv Buyout May Use Up to $5 Billion of Debt
Rank Group Ltd., owned by New Zealand's richest man, Graeme Hart, may borrow as much as $5 billion to help pay for its acquisition of Pactiv Corp., the maker of Hefty trash bags.
Credit Suisse Group AG, HSBC Holdings Plc and Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. agreed to provide the debt, Lake Forest, Illinois-based Pactiv said today in a regulatory filing. If the banks provide the full amount, Rank Group would finance 83 percent of the $6 billion takeover with borrowed money.
The buyout is the biggest for Hart, who amassed a fortune investing in businesses from lumber to dairy and built a global packaging empire through takeovers. The transaction will fold Pactiv into Rank Group's Chicago-based unit Reynolds Group Holdings Ltd., which has "considerably weaker credit metrics" and is rated "significantly" lower, Moody's Investors Service said today in a report.
Petra Beck, a spokeswoman for Reynolds in Switzerland, couldn't be reached for comment after regular business hours. Pactiv spokesman Matthew Gonring couldn't immediately comment.
Reynolds will raise the money for the purchase through new term loans under its existing credit agreement, by selling senior notes or through other means, according to today's filing. Moody's rates the company B2, five levels below investment grade. Reynolds has a leverage ratio of about 6 times, according to the Moody's report.
Possible Downgrade
Pactiv's senior unsecured debt is rated Baa2, the second lowest investment quality, New York-based analysts Glenn Eckert and Edward Schmidt said in their report. They said the rating is under review for a possible downgrade, citing the acquisition. Pactiv's debt to earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization is 3.4 times, according to the report.
Rank's Reynolds agreed to buy Pactiv for $33.25 a share, 39 percent more than the $23.97 close on May 14, before talks were disclosed. Rank Group will assume about $1.5 billion in debt as part of the transaction.
-- With assistance from Carol Wolf in Washington. Editors: Faris Khan, Chuck Stevens


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As his first solo album, "WANDERlust," takes flight thanks to the hit singles "Love Remains the Same" and "Forever You May Run," Gavin Rossdale is already plotting his next recording project.
"I'm sort of halfway through writing a bunch of new songs," Rossdale tells Billboard.com. "If it's a Bush record, that's great, and if it's a Gavin Rossdale record, that's great. We'll have to see what happens."
Rossdale says that he's got "about six or seven new songs" ready, and they hew closer to Bush's brand of hard rock than the more melodic and pop-flavored fare of "WANDERlust." "They're focused on...what I'm needing to do and what would add to where I'm at now. It's pretty driving as opposed to mid-tempoey and that type of stuff. I'm excited about doing a record that challenges me like that."
Rossdale says the new material could turn into the first Bush album since 2001's "Garden State" -- "I'm naturally a band person, so that would always be my choice," he notes -- but that depends on guitarist Nigel Pulsford, who Rossdale says backed out of an band album that was planned after the frontman launched another group, Institute, in 2005. "(Pulsford) just decided he didn't want to leave his family," Rossdale recalls. "He wanted to make the record, but he didn't want to leave his family. So the solo record was by default." Rossdale says he and Pulsford are "super-friendly" and that he's still open to the idea of a new Bush album.
"I suppose, potentially, yeah, it could happen," Rossdale says. "But if [Pulsford]'s not going to tour it, I don't know. We'll see. It's all up in the air."
Rossdale says that in either event he plans to again work with "WANDERlust" producer Bob Rock, who he says "understands me. He understands what I do." Meanwhile, there's still life left in WANDERlust;" Rossdale is on the road in North America until June 7 and hopes to return to Europe to continue promoting the album. He's also anticipating picking up some child care duties while wife Gwen Stefani rolls out on the No Doubt reunion tour.
"I think they'll have a great time," Rossdale notes. "Those guys have been super-patient while (Stefani)'s been doing her solo thing, so they're just going to really enjoy it, I think. It takes a lot of pressure off, and it gets them all inspired if they want to make another record."
Rossdale's reps have also denied, again, that he had an affair with British pop star Marilyn during the early '80s. Marilyn told In Touch magazine that Rossdale was "the love of my life" and that he had long lied about the relationship, which was first exposed in Boy George's 1995 memoir "Take It Like a Man." A spokesman said Rossdale stood by a denial he made years ago and did not make any new statements about Marilyn.
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x360a Review: WWE Legends of Wrestlemania
Written Sunday, March 22, 2009 By Dan WebbView author's profile
The debate when I was a kid knocking around the school yard, was whether or not wrestling could be defined as a sport. I mean, I was truly under the impression that everything they did wasn't an act and it was in fact real. What a truly impressionable and idiotic kid I was back then.
The main thing to take out of that experience was not that I believed everything I saw on tv; it was that the Ultimate Warrior was a complete legend and one that should (in my opinion) have had his own spin off tv show ... seriously, how cool would a cop show be with the Ultimate Warrior as the main character inflicting his own special brand of pain and justice on the unsuspecting criminals of the world. Speaking of the Ultimate Warrior (what a lame lead-in! Ha!) the legend himsef makes an appearance in the latest wrestling game from THQ & Yukes. Does the WWE Legends title live up to the nostalgia of wrestling from years gone by? Or is it going to be as lame as the Repo Man was?
Read the definitive WWE Legends of Wrestlemania review here.


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Apple Innovation in Education Seminars at COEHS Summer 2010
by: Dawn Sweet, Instructional Development Services Manager – College of Education and Human Services
Yesterday, many of your colleagues attended a three-hour session on Apple Innovation in Education provided by Jason Beckham, Mollie Sterling, Mike Bombich from Apple. Apple provided inspiration to our COEHS administrators and faculty on the use of mobility in education. Participants were given the hands-on opportunity to explore a variety of mobile application, and to produce multimedia content using Apple's Podcast Capture and iMovie applications. Learn about some of the elements demonstrated at yesterday's seminar.
Applications for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad
Dragon Dictation – an easy to use voice recognition application that allows you to easily speak and instantly see your text or email messages. Additionally, it allows you to update Facebook status, send notes and reminders, or Tweet on Twitter using their voice instead of having to type when you are on the go!
This application is Free for download on the iTunes App Store, and it is available for newer iPhones, iPod Touch, and the iPad running iOS 3.1 or later.
Modality Apps – Modality is a group of educators, technologists, and designers who partner with many of the world's leading publishers and content experts to provide digital learning, assessment, training and reference applications for Apple handheld devices. Some of these include:
Netter's Anatomy Flash Cards which is an application comprised of over 300 flash cards have been transformed into a truly customizable, interactive, mobile learning experience. Modality's Netter's Anatomy Flash Cards application is designed exclusively for Apple handheld devices to deliver an exceptional user experience to health care students and professionals. Learn more online at: http://modality.com/apps/Netters-Anatomy-Flash-Cards_p_93.html
Law in a Flash: Evidence is an application comprised of more than 500 cards to help students efficiently review for course exams and/or the Multistate Bar Exams. This set of cards includes both the FRE and common law. Questions in this set generally ask what the result would be under the FRE; then, if the common law differs, that difference is noted in the answer. The cards focus on the FRE because the Multistate Bar Exam addresses the FRE exclusively, and because many professors use the FRE as the basis for their lectures in class. Learn more online at: http://modality.com/apps/Law-in-a-Flash-Evidence_p_67.html
Learn more about Modality Apps at: http://modality.com/about/company-overview.aspx
Algebra Prep Factoring by Pearson – even if you are not into Algebra, check out this app to see how you could deliver your content in a new way that provides your students the ability to take tests, get answer feedback, and watch instructional videos from an instructor. This app is available for $3.99 on the iTunes app store.
Mental Case and Mental Case Classroom – allows you and your students to create flash cards on any subject that include text, sound, and/or images. The Classroom edition if free on the iTunes App Store, and the full personal edition is available on the App Store for $3.99.
Apple Accessibility Features (Macintosh Computers, iPod Touch 2009 and later, and iPad)
VoiceOver, Apple's screen reader is the world's first gesture based
screen reader for mobile devices. It allows users to interact directly with the screen. Learn more about how to use VoiceOver on the iPod Touch, iPhone, or iPad online at: http://www.apple.com/accessibility/iphone/vision.html
Zoom, lets you magnify the entire screen of any application. Zoom up to five times the normal size and move left, right, up, and down to view any portion of the screen close up. Zoom works everywhere, including the Home, Unlock, and Spotlight screens—even with applications you purchase from the App store. Learn more online at: http://www.apple.com/accessibility/iphone/vision.html
White on Black, For those who need or prefer higher contrast, iPhone 3GS
provides an option to change the display to White On Black. This reverse video affect works in all applications including the Home, Unlock, and Spotlight screens and can be used with Zoom and VoiceOver. Learn more at:
Get an overview of all of Apple's accessibility features at: http://www.apple.com/accessibility/
Content Creation
During the seminar your colleagues had the chance to create content hands-on using Apple's Podcast Capture and Podcast Producer. Podcast capture is an application that comes installed with the Macintosh OSX operating system. It works in conjunction with Podcast Producer, which resides on a server in University Technology to allow you to capture high quality audio and video from local and remote cameras and automatically upload content to the server. This tools allows you to create, video recordings with an iSight camera, screen recordings, audio recordings, and split screen recordings that show video and screen at the same time.
If you are interested in utilizing Podcast Capture to create content for your department or classroom please contact Dawn Sweet firstname.lastname@example.com to begin the quick and easy process of requesting, an account and a container set up on iTunes U.
Watch for upcoming workshops on this innovative technology in Fall 2010!


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pallu's spot on the carpet by klarWatch
©2005-2016 klar
yes, his name is written on it, in bic pen. i like the looseness of this despite it's inaccuracy, it just kinda popped out right after i said "i can't draw anything after that huge floofy wuffs pic"... but i declare that it is complete, and every little smudge in it's proper place. i felt really bad after putting the poor little guy in pants, so here he is, taking a nap in the sun, in his comfiest outfit. 2h and hb mech pencils.
awww I love this, so cute <3
This drawing is so tender. xx
this is one of my all-time favorite pictures.
no that person didn't ask. noone's allowed to colour any of my lineart plz.
I hope U don't mind if I watch U... I think U'r artwork it's quite awesome and original!
May I?
May I?
I think I'm in love...
nwehehe ;w; suu cute x D<3 i try to resist squeeing like the many other fans but ..<3 the floofyness cannot be avoided x D its so incredibly awwing : 3
amazing skill!!<3 it
they are all so cute!
you're really talented.. i really love this pic.
Awww, that's so soft and precious.
Oh my god! This is so beautiful...i love it...your w, ork is truly awesome and emotive. I'd be satified if i could draw half as well as you! This is gorgeous.
Too cute!!
*glomp* so cute.
*glomp* so cute.
Oh I'm so glad to see him outa pants > . <
He looked so unhappy
OMG, Klar, this pic absolutely precious...it's just so.........sweet and innocent and peaceful. I love it
He looked so unhappy
OMG, Klar, this pic absolutely precious...it's just so.........sweet and innocent and peaceful. I love it
really nice pic.. i like the soft n looseness of it.. definitely works here.. great job.. +fav
that is so gorgeous.. i love the shading, and as usual the anatomy is awesome beyond all reason. <3 i like the colours esp. in this one though.. just cause it looks kind of like watercolour mixed with pencil, and looks like an old sketch -you know, like 1800's type. very nice. and cute pose.
Ok, Pallu is a boy, and a cute boy to bute. And yet, whenever you draw him in skirts and little panties show, he always seems to be without a package. It's fantasy and all, and you can draw whatever you see fit. It doesn't make the drawing inaccurate, incorrect or anything. By not adding a package to his panties actually adds a lot of innocence to him. Which adds to fantasy and unicorn magicalness.
i think drawing it would make it a little too kinky.. i don't think di would be very pleased if that were showing
haha cute
they're all so cute!
Awww sleep sleep! I find him so peaceful! ^_^ that's so nice!!
The softness of the rendering is just mouthwatering. I could look at this all day. ^_^ Therefore... +Fave!
awwwwwwww, way too cute :awww:
This piece is just so awesome. He's so cute and innocent! More and more so with each picture.
I love how you drew his lower body. From his waist down... Just looks really good.
I love how you drew his lower body. From his waist down... Just looks really good.
*types quietly so as not to wake him*
wow, beautiful, so soft
wow, beautiful, so soft
Great! <--- Goes for all your work too, I like your style and color. Excellent work!
He looks so downright comfy, much more so than in pants. Good work, hun.
so cuteee
Pallu is just too darn adorable. Seriously. It's like, painfully adorable. And I love it. <3
that pose is so adorable. and the soft touch.. it's so.. peaceful <3
So beautiful.
pallu is darling. he loooks so content and peaceful here.
Nice Job
adorable. you really drew him well, all strunched up and sleeping. i love his floofyness and he looks so angelic asleep!
Positively adorable :3
ummm *blink* awwww @.@!! how cute is he great pic,love it very much!
Absoloutly Adorable! I know I'm crule but...I feel like sneeking up behind him and tossing a jug of Blue Cool-Aid on him.
I have a spot on the carpet just like that. I didn't write my name on it, though. I wish I could have.
pretty picture, but its name involves a carpet yet you said hes napping in the sun...I'm under the impression that to really get a good spot of light you need outdoors...unless you have astroturf carpet outside on a patio or something...(thats what my dad did). Bu ti really like the sketch. (drawing?)
there's this occasional phenomena found in walls called a "window" which allows sunlight to reach inthedoors
it's a doodle!
Ooh, I like the texture...you know your good when you can make the viewer feels the softness of the fabric, even with virtually no shading...good work, bro! ^^b


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Astronaut John Glenn's historic flight plan sold for $67K
July 22, 2016
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — In-flight instructions used by astronaut John Glenn during his historic 1962 Mercury spaceflight have been sold at auction.
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The Latest: 2,800 out-of-town officers part of RNC security
July 22, 2016
CLEVELAND (AP) — The Latest on protests, marches and security in Cleveland during the Republican National Convention (all times local):
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Clinton looks to steal Trump thunder with VP pick
July 22, 2016
CLEVELAND (AP) — Hillary Clinton moved closer to introducing her running mate Friday, snatching attention from newly crowned Republican nominee Donald Trump just hours after he closed out his... more »»
Ohio to get nearly $1M in federal Zika virus funding
July 22, 2016
WASHINGTON (AP) — The state will receive nearly $1 million in federal funds to help protect Ohioans from the mosquito-borne Zika virus. more »»
Police: Glass in Ohio officer's sandwich wasn't intentional
July 22, 2016
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Police in Ohio's capital city say glass shards in a sandwich served to a Columbus policeman weren't put there intentionally.
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Ohio's unemployment rate down in June from previous month
July 22, 2016
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — State officials say Ohio's unemployment rate was down in June compared with the previous month, while up from a year ag. more »»
Ohio Republicans head home with mixed feelings on Trump
July 22, 2016
CINCINNATI (AP) — Ohio Republicans leave the Cleveland convention with mixed feelings among them about their party's presidential nominee, while saying they will take him over his Democratic foe. more »»
Cop post: White police look for reason to 'kill a black man'
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Trump's closer is over, Clinton set to snag attention
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Trump says US will be safer, richer if he is president
July 22, 2016
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MIDDLETOWN, Ohio (AP) — A 2-year-old boy has been hospitalized after authorities say he was found unresponsive in a bathtub in southwest Ohio.
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Daughter Ivanka Trump raises issues father rarely mentions
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Pro-Trump super PACs leave Cleveland with fatter wallets
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**FILE**In this Oct. 22, 2008 file photo, research associate Crystal Pacutin pulls a frozen vial of human embryonic stem cells at the University of Michigan Center for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research Laboratory in Ann Arbor, Mich. For all the headlines about the medical promise of embryonic stem cells, there is a sobering reality. The science to prove that promise will take years, and the people who ultimately might benefit most are those who aren't yet sick. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)
NEW YORK (AP) - Scientists are reporting new progress in a method of creating stem cells without using embryos.
Experts say it's a more efficient way of reprogramming skin cells so they can turn into stem cells.
Embryonic stem cells, which have the ability to morph into any type of cell, continue to be controversial because embryos are destroyed.
One expert says the new approach in cell reprogramming might be
the first practical way to make stem cells to create new tissue for
conditions like diabetes and Parkinson's disease.
The reprogramming technique was first reported in 2007, and scientists have been working to fine-tune it. The new work was published online today by the journal Cell Stem Cell.
(Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)


text: @node Beyond The ANSI Standard, The Foreign Function Interface, Efficiency, Top @comment node-name, next, previous, up @chapter Beyond The ANSI Standard SBCL is mostly an implementation of the ANSI standard for Common Lisp. However, there's some important behavior which extends or clarifies the standard, and various behavior which outright violates the standard. @menu * Non-Conformance With The ANSI Standard:: * Idiosyncrasies:: * Extensions:: @end menu @node Non-Conformance With The ANSI Standard, Idiosyncrasies, Beyond The ANSI Standard, Beyond The ANSI Standard @comment node-name, next, previous, up @section Non-Conformance With The ANSI Standard Essentially every type of non-conformance is considered a bug. (The exceptions involve internal inconsistencies in the standard.) In SBCL 0.7.6, the master record of known bugs is in the @file{BUGS} file in the distribution. Some highlight information about bugs may also be found in the manual page. The recommended way to report bugs is through the sbcl-help or sbcl-devel mailings lists. For mailing list addresses, @ref{More SBCL Information}. @node Idiosyncrasies, Extensions, Non-Conformance With The ANSI Standard, Beyond The ANSI Standard @comment node-name, next, previous, up @section Idiosyncrasies The information in this section describes some of the ways that SBCL deals with choices that the ANSI standard leaves to the implementation. Declarations are generally treated as assertions. This general principle, and its implications, and the bugs which still keep the compiler from quite satisfying this principle, are discussed in the chapter on the compiler, @ref{The Compiler}. SBCL is essentially a compiler-only implementation of Common Lisp. That is, for all but a few special cases, @code{eval} creates a lambda expression, calls @code{compile} on the lambda expression to create a compiled function, and then calls @code{funcall} on the resulting function object. This is explicitly allowed by the ANSI standard, but leads to some oddities, e.g. collapsing @code{functionp} and @code{compiled-function-p} into the same predicate. SBCL is quite strict about ANSI's definition of @code{defconstant}. ANSI says that doing @code{defconstant} of the same symbol more than once is undefined unless the new value is @code{eql} to the old value. Conforming to this specification is a nuisance when the ``constant'' value is only constant under some weaker test like @code{string=} or @code{equal}. It's especially annoying because, in SBCL, @code{defconstant} takes effect not only at load time but also at compile time, so that just compiling and loading reasonable code like @lisp (defconstant +foobyte+ '(1 4)) @end lisp runs into this undefined behavior. Many implementations of Common Lisp try to help the programmer around this annoyance by silently accepting the undefined code and trying to do what the programmer probably meant. SBCL instead treats the undefined behavior as an error. Often such code can be rewritten in portable ANSI Common Lisp which has the desired behavior. E.g., the code above can be given an exactly defined meaning by replacing @code{defconstant} either with @code{defparameter} or with a customized macro which does the right thing, possibly along the lines of the @code{defconstant-eqx} macro used internally in the implementation of SBCL itself. In circumstances where this is not appropriate, the programmer can handle the condition type @code{sb-ext:defconstant-uneql}, and choose either the @command{continue} or @command{abort} restart as appropriate. SBCL gives style warnings about various kinds of perfectly legal code, e.g. @itemize @item @code{defmethod} without @code{defgeneric} @item multiple @code{defun}s of the same symbol @item special variables not named in the conventional @code{*foo*} style, and lexical variables unconventionally named in the @code{*foo*} style @end itemize This causes friction with people who point out that other ways of organizing code (especially avoiding the use of @code{defgeneric}) are just as aesthetically stylish. However, these warnings should be read not as ``warning, bad aesthetics detected, you have no style'' but ``warning, this style keeps the compiler from understanding the code as well as you might like.'' That is, unless the compiler warns about such conditions, there's no way for the compiler to warn about some programming errors which would otherwise be easy to overlook. (Related bug: The warning about multiple @code{defun}s is pointlessly annoying when you compile and then load a function containing @code{defun} wrapped in @code{eval-when}, and ideally should be suppressed in that case, but still isn't as of SBCL 0.7.6.) @node Extensions, , Idiosyncrasies, Beyond The ANSI Standard @comment node-name, next, previous, up @section Extensions SBCL is derived from CMUCL, which implements many extensions to the ANSI standard. SBCL doesn't support as many extensions as CMUCL, but it still has quite a few. @menu * Things Which Might Be In The Next ANSI Standard:: * Threading:: * Support For Unix:: * Customization Hooks for Users:: * Tools To Help Developers:: * Interface To Low-Level SBCL Implementation:: * Efficiency Hacks:: @end menu @node Things Which Might Be In The Next ANSI Standard, Threading, Extensions, Extensions @comment node-name, next, previous, up @subsection Things Which Might Be In The Next ANSI Standard SBCL provides extensive support for calling external C code, @ref{The Foreign Function Interface}. SBCL provides additional garbage collection functionality not specified by ANSI. Weak pointers allow references to objects to be maintained without keeping them from being GCed (garbage collected). And ``finalization'' hooks are available to cause code to be executed when an object has been GCed. @c <!-- FIXME: Actually documenting these would be good.:-| --> SBCL supports @dfn{Gray streams}, user-overloadable CLOS classes whose instances can be used as Lisp streams (e.g. passed as the first argument to @code{format}). Additionally, the bundled contrib module @dfn{sb-simple-streams} implements a subset of the Franz Allegro simple-streams proposal. SBCL supports a MetaObject Protocol which is intended to be compatible with AMOP; present exceptions to this (as distinct from current bugs) are: @itemize @item the abstract @code{metaobject} class is not present in the class hierarchy; @item the @code{standard-object} and @code{funcallable-standard-object} classes are disjoint; @item @code{compute-effective-method} only returns one value, not two; @item the system-supplied @code{:around} method for @code{compute-slots} specialized on @code{funcallable-standard-class} does not respect the requested order from a user-supplied primary method. @end itemize @node Threading, Support For Unix, Things Which Might Be In The Next ANSI Standard, Extensions @comment node-name, next, previous, up @subsection Threading (a.k.a Multiprocessing) SBCL (as of version 0.8.3, on Linux x86 only) supports a fairly low-level threading interface that maps onto the host operating system's concept of threads or lightweight processes. @subsubsection Lisp-level view A rudimentary interface to creating and managing multiple threads can be found in the @dfn{sb-thread} package. This is intended for public consumption, so look at the exported symbols and their documentation strings. Dynamic bindings to symbols are per-thread. Signal handlers are per-thread. Mutexes and condition variables are available for managing access to shared data: see @itemize @item @code{(apropos "mutex" :sb-thread)} @item @code{(apropos "condition" :sb-thread)} @item and the @code{waitqueue} structure @end itemize and poke around in their documentation strings. @subsubsection Sessions If the user has multiple views onto the same Lisp image (for example, using multiple terminals, or a windowing system, or network access) they are typically set up as multiple @dfn{sessions} such that each view has its own collection of foreground/background/stopped threads. A thread which wishes to create a new session can use @code{sb-thread:with-new-session} to remove itself from the current session (which it shares with its parent and siblings) and create a fresh one. See also @code{sb-thread:make-listener-thread}. Within a single session, threads arbitrate between themselves for the user's attention. A thread may be in one of three notional states: foreground, background, or stopped. When a background process attempts to print a repl prompt or to enter the debugger, it will stop and print a message saying that it has stopped. The user at his leisure may switch to that thread to find out what it needs. If a background thread enters the debugger, selecting any restart will put it back into the background before it resumes. Arbitration for the input stream is managed by calls to @code{sb-thread:get-foreground} (which may block) and @code{sb-thread:release-foreground}. @code{sb-ext:quit} terminates all threads in the current session, but leaves other sessions running. @subsubsection Implementation (Linux x86) On Linux x86, threading is implemented using @code{clone()} and does not involve pthreads. This is not because there is anything wrong with pthreads @emph{per se}, but there is plenty wrong (from our perspective) with LinuxThreads. SBCL threads are mapped 1:1 onto Linux tasks which share a VM but nothing else - each has its own process id and can be seen in e.g. @command{ps} output. Per-thread local bindings for special variables is achieved using the %fs segment register to point to a per-thread storage area. This may cause interesting results if you link to foreign code that expects threading or creates new threads, and the thread library in question uses %fs in an incompatible way. There are two implementation mechanisms for queueing. If SBCL was built on an NPTL-capable Linux system (2.6 or some vendor 2.4 ports) with the @code{:SB-FUTEX} feature, queuing will be done using the @code{sys_futex()} system call if it's available at runtime. Otherwise it will fall back to using @code{sigtimedwait()} to sleep and a signal (@code{SIG_DEQUEUE}, one of the POSIX RT signals) to wake. Garbage collection is done with the existing Conservative Generational GC. Allocation is done in small (typically 8k) regions: each thread has its own region so this involves no stopping. However, when a region fills, a lock must be obtained while another is allocated, and when a collection is required, all processes are stopped. This is achieved by sending them signals, which may make for interesting behaviour if they are interrupted in system calls. The streams interface is believed to handle the required system call restarting correctly, but this may be a consideration when making other blocking calls e.g. from foreign library code. Large amounts of the SBCL library have not been inspected for thread-safety. Some of the obviously unsafe areas have large locks around them, so compilation and fasl loading, for example, cannot be parallelized. Work is ongoing in this area. A new thread by default is created in the same POSIX process group and session as the thread it was created by. This has an impact on keyboard interrupt handling: pressing your terminal's intr key (typically @kbd{Control-C}) will interrupt all processes in the foreground process group, including Lisp threads that SBCL considers to be notionally `background'. This is undesirable, so background threads are set to ignore the SIGINT signal. @code{sb-thread:make-listener-thread} in addition to creating a new Lisp session makes a new POSIX session, so that pressing @kbd{Control-C} in one window will not interrupt another listener - this has been found to be embarrassing. @node Support For Unix, Customization Hooks for Users, Threading, Extensions @comment node-name, next, previous, up @subsection Support For Unix The UNIX command line can be read from the variable @code{sb-ext:*posix-argv*}. The UNIX environment can be queried with the @code{sb-ext:posix-getenv} function. @include fun-sb-ext-posix-getenv.texinfo The SBCL system can be terminated with @code{sb-ext:quit}, (but see notes in @ref{Threading} about the interaction between this feature and sessions) optionally returning a specified numeric value to the calling Unix process. The normal Unix idiom of terminating on end of file on input is also supported. @include fun-sb-ext-quit.texinfo @node Customization Hooks for Users, Tools To Help Developers, Support For Unix, Extensions @comment node-name, next, previous, up @subsection Customization Hooks for Users The behaviour of @code{require} when called with only one argument is implementation-defined. In SBCL it calls functions on the user-settable list @code{sb-ext:*module-provider-functions*} - see the @code{require} documentation string for details. The toplevel repl prompt may be customized, and the function that reads user input may be replaced completely. @c <!-- FIXME but I don't currently remember how --> @node Tools To Help Developers, Interface To Low-Level SBCL Implementation, Customization Hooks for Users, Extensions @comment node-name, next, previous, up @subsection Tools To Help Developers SBCL provides a profiler and other extensions to the ANSI @code{trace} facility. See the online function documentation for @code{trace} for more information. The debugger supports a number of options. Its documentation is accessed by typing @kbd{help} at the debugger prompt. @c <!-- FIXME: @c A true debugger section in the manual would be good. Start @c with CMU CL's debugger section, but remember: @c * no QUIT command (TOPLEVEL restart instead) @c * no GO command (CONTINUE restart instead) @c * Limitations of the x86 port of the debugger should be @c documented or fixed where possible. @c * Discuss TRACE and its unification with PROFILE. --> Documentation for @code{inspect} is accessed by typing @kbd{help} at the @code{inspect} prompt. @node Interface To Low-Level SBCL Implementation, Efficiency Hacks, Tools To Help Developers, Extensions @comment node-name, next, previous, up @subsection Interface To Low-Level SBCL Implementation SBCL has the ability to save its state as a file for later execution. This functionality is important for its bootstrapping process, and is also provided as an extension to the user. See the documentation string for @code{sb-ext:save-lisp-and-die} for more information. @quotation Note: SBCL has inherited from CMUCL various hooks to allow the user to tweak and monitor the garbage collection process. These are somewhat stale code, and their interface might need to be cleaned up. If you have urgent need of them, look at the code in @file{src/code/gc.lisp} and bring it up on the developers' mailing list. @end quotation @quotation Note: SBCL has various hooks inherited from CMUCL, like @code{sb-ext:float-denormalized-p}, to allow a program to take advantage of IEEE floating point arithmetic properties which aren't conveniently or efficiently expressible using the ANSI standard. These look good, and their interface looks good, but IEEE support is slightly broken due to a stupid decision to remove some support for infinities (because it wasn't in the ANSI spec and it didn't occur to me that it was in the IEEE spec). If you need this stuff, take a look at the code and bring it up on the developers' mailing list. @end quotation @node Efficiency Hacks, , Interface To Low-Level SBCL Implementation, Extensions @comment node-name, next, previous, up @subsection Efficiency Hacks The @code{sb-ext:purify} function causes SBCL first to collect all garbage, then to mark all uncollected objects as permanent, never again attempting to collect them as garbage. This can cause a large increase in efficiency when using a primitive garbage collector, or a more moderate increase in efficiency when using a more sophisticated garbage collector which is well suited to the program's memory usage pattern. It also allows permanent code to be frozen at fixed addresses, a precondition for using copy-on-write to share code between multiple Lisp processes. it is less important with modern generational garbage collectors. @include fun-sb-ext-purify.texinfo @code{sb-ext:truly-the} special form declares the type of the result of the operations, producing its argument; the declaration is not checked. In short: don't use it. @include special-operator-sb-ext-truly-the.texinfo The @code{sb-ext:freeze-type} declaration declares that a type will never change, which can make type testing (@code{typep}, etc.) more efficient for structure types. The @code{sb-ext:constant-function} declaration specifies that a function will always return the same value for the same arguments, which may allow the compiler to optimize calls to it. 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Work will start next week on stage 1 of the Northbourne Avenue verge refurbishment project.
The paths on a 1.5 kilometre section of Northbourne Avenue between Haig Park and Barry Drive/Cooyong Street will be widened from 1.2 metres to 2.5 metres.
Works will commence in Northbourne Avenue's eastern verge adjacent to Haig Park.
The project, to be carried [...]
The suburb of Braddon in Canberra's inner north is one that is growing in popularity each day with every addition of a new restaurant, apartment block, or bar. I'm not sure why it's taken me to long to do a write-up on Braddon, especially because it's the suburb in which I currently live for another [...]
A proposed plaza between the Sydney and Melbourne Buildings in Civic would help Canberrans reclaim the iconic art deco landmarks and revitalise the precinct, according to ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr.
Mr Barr has today invited Canberrans to have a say on a Government strategy to create a series of "urban villages" at key points on [...]
ACT Policing is seeking witnesses to an aggravated robbery at Haig Park in Braddon on Friday (4 September).
About 8.00am, the victim was walking through the park when he was grabbed from behind, pushed into a tree and threatened with an electric pulse device. The offender then frisked the man and left on foot with a [...]
Braddon is getting busier. Well duh, I hear you say. Of course it is. With a new cafe popping up what seems like every second week, new apartment complexes filling up with residents and another huge complex to be built where Lonsdale Street Traders once stood, the suburb is bustling more than ever. Not to [...]
A little while ago, I wrote a few pieces about Braddon. In amongst the many different aspects of the suburb, I brought up the concept of significant changes to Haig Park. The reason for this park, being a windbreak, has now become a thing of the past and the city needs to reconsider how this [...]
ACT Policing is investigating two separate incidents of assault in Braddon last night where a man produced a box cutter knife (Tuesday, August 6).
About 9:30pm police were called to Northbourne Flats where a 54-year-old man had received a stab wound to his leg from an unknown man.
The victim was walking home from Block 20 to [...]
I was out and about with my glass sphere (or oculus) and my camera yesterday and was cycling home when I came upon this scene in Haig Park … thought you might like it.
I don't think I've ever seen it look quite as grand either
[ED - Got an image of Canberra you [...]
Haig Park these days is home to rabbits and possums, but yesterday the Kelpie of Few Accomplishments and I encountered a baby kookaburra.
Despite being very fluffy it was still more than capable of flying when I tried to get closer for a better pic. No laugh however.
Got an image of Canberra you want to share [...]
They say you can't polish a turd, but you can roll it in glitter.
Quite why someone is spray painting the dog droppings in Haig Park however is a bit of a mystery.
I had gleeful visions of Territory and Municipal Services paying someone to mark them and someone else to remove them (rather than give one [...]
Walking the Kelpie of Few Accomplishments in Haig Park this morning we came across this oddity.
The thing about art is it really needs a plaque.
Got an image of Canberra you want to share with the world? Email it in to firstname.lastname@example.com .
This afternoon the Kelpie of Few Accomplishments and I managed to capture on camera the vast pollen output of the pines of Haig Park.
Got an image of Canberra you want to share with the world? Email it to firstname.lastname@example.com .
Andrew Barr has announced the recommendations of a draft master plan for Haig Park:
– reinforcing tree plantings throughout the park to ensure its heritage significance is retained;
– the creation of a vibrant central community space just to the north of the Braddon commercial area;
– upgrading frequently used walking paths to a higher quality surface;
– retaining [...]
ACT Policing has arrested a 32-year-old Queanbeyan man following an aggravated robbery on a taxi driver in Turner last night (22 January).
Around 6.40pm a man approached the window of a taxi and enquired about a fare. He then leaned into the taxi, pointed a syringe at the driver and demanded money.
The alleged offender and taxi [...]
YouTube shows us what the nerds of the Canberra & Southern NSW Dart Tag group have been up to with their Summer Skirmish Series in Haig Park.
Just in case you were wondering why funny range darts are slowly decomposing amongst the pine needles.
Have you lost a bunch of keys around Masson St/Haig Park in Turner recently?
My friend found a bunch of keys there on Friday afternoon & was going drop them off at the city police station.
Every time I walk through Haig Park, I am left with a sense of wonder that could characterize most urban parks.
But I also get a sort 0f sense of neglect (all parks are not equal in Canberra!), and feelings of what could be.
To me, something is wrong when parks are not used as [...]
The kids love them, my brother loves them and so does my grand-pa(kinda). With Christmas being just being 25 days away it may be time to start thinking about presents, if you already haven't. The perfect gift for all boys(and girls) are nerf guns! Every boy wants to be in the army and love guns, [...]
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Haig Park, for those who don't know it, is the belt of trees just to the North of Civic. It spans the distance between the feet of Black Mountain and Mount Ainslie.
Some people don't think much of it, but I think their problem is approaching it in the wrong [...]
[ 11 April 2008 to 13 April 2008. 11 April 2008 at 10:00 am; ] In 2008 a new generation of Special Olympics stars will enjoy the thrill of sports competition when over 400 athletes meet in Canberra for the second Junior National Games from 11-13 April.
In preparation for that there is a Special Olymics torch run through Haig Park this morning
Start time: 1040hrs
Finish time: 1300hrs
Meeting place: Haig Park [...]


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16 August 2011
Hello and a little giveaway!
So what about a little giveaway?! A couple of weeks ago I dyed some seam binding ribbon and I love it!! and I want to share some of these with you.
Just leave a comment here telling me which of these is your favorite color and I will send it to you, about 5 yards! Easy peasy! I will announce the winner this Friday!!
Thanks so much!!
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Hmmmm I don't know which one is my favorite. I love them all! I think I love the light pink one the most though!ReplyDelete
How generous of you! I love the light blue one best, brown second, but I would make good use of any of them.ReplyDelete
Giovana, these are gorgeous!! I love the soft blue ones the most. But that soft brown one looks pretty, too. :)ReplyDelete
I need to get myself out of neutral so I love the yellow!ReplyDelete
We dont get seam binding ribbon here but I really want to use it after seeing so many gorgeous creations with it. I like all the colors but brown will be neutral and will go with most of the Vintage creations. Thanks for a chance to win.ReplyDelete
These are so beautiful. Have never used them yet. I love all the colors but I think my favorite is the taupe in the lower left corner. Thanks for the chance to receive some.ReplyDelete
You always have such creative ideas!!! How wonderful! Love all of the colors-the middle pink pile looks like a peony or a rose! Thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
These bindings came out so well at first sight I thought they were flowers. I love the soft pink in the middle. Totally understand the craziness. Think it happens to all of us at one time or another. Thanks for chance at the win.ReplyDelete
Very pretty colors to choose from. I can't tell what color is between the yellow and the blue (which is a beautiful shade of blue by the way) but I like that color very much. Is it peach?ReplyDelete
They're all so gorgeous, it's so hard to choose just one, but I think it would have to be that pale pink one between the yellow & the blue one. Also where do you buy your seam binding ribbon? I have looked at my local JoAnn's Fabrics and I think they think I am crazy, no one seems to know this item.ReplyDelete
I love the darker pink/melon color (to the left of the yellow). All the colors are beautiful and I too thought they were flowers at first!!ReplyDelete
I have to pick one??!!! LOL! They are all gorgeous!! But I do love that yellow the best!!! Great for a fun sunny card :)ReplyDelete
Thanks for the chance to win!!!!
How could I choose just one? Love them all! If I had to, maybe the pinks. They're beautiful.ReplyDelete
Well, like everyone else, I think they are all very beautiful colors, but if I had to pick a favorite it would have to be one in the pink family. My grandaughter is all about pink, and every time we doing our crafting, we MUST always use pink! Thanks for the chance to win such a fun thing!ReplyDelete
They are all lovely, but my most favorite is the yellow. It reminds me of the sun... always bright and shining, giving warmth to us all! Love that one the most!ReplyDelete
Oh, my! I like all of the colors, but I think my favorite is the yellow. Really nice work, Giovana.ReplyDelete
I love the yellow and pale blue. I have seen this type of ribbon on cards lately and was wondering what kind if ribbon it was, well thanks to you now I know! It isn't ribbon at all it is seam binding.. Thanks for sharing..DianeReplyDelete
All are beautiful colors!! It is very hard to pick a favorite, but i will go with any of the pink. Secondly the brown in the lower left hand corneReplyDelete
Thanks for the chance to win.
Love them all, but the blush is really yummy, thanks for the opertunity to win.ReplyDelete
It's hard to choose! But I think the light pink one is beautiful....thanks for sharingReplyDelete
Oh that red is die for!! Thanks for the opportunity!ReplyDelete
Thank U $ this opportunity. Great giveaway.ReplyDelete
My color, I would have to say would be that light blue
Thank U
gonna have to go with the pink!!! but they are all gorgeousReplyDelete
You are so amazingly talented. I enjoy your blog so much. Especially the music. Thank you for putting your faith out there. Not too many people are willing to proclaim their love for a Saviour. On that note, i Love the brown. I love neutral tattered looking cards. Keep the faith. Your sister in Christ Lori KOmpaReplyDelete
You are so amazingly talented. I enjoy your blog so much. Especially the music. Thank you for putting your faith out there. Not too many people are willing to proclaim their love for a Saviour. On that note, i Love the brown. I love neutral tattered looking cards. Keep the faith. Your sister in Christ Lori KOmpaReplyDelete
Love them all. You did an awesome job dying the ribbon. How did you do it? Love your daily blog and always look forward to seeing your new creations. In Him.ReplyDelete
Love them all - but the peachy color on top right cornerReplyDelete
'calls" my name... I have attemped to dye my own seam binding but all I got was some sort of variegated binding. Your looks so soft and even colored - I AM envious!!
So glad that you said to choose "colors" Giovanna. I'm quite fond of pink/brown combinations as well as blue/brown! Would love to be the name chosen to win this wonderful gift! Hope you are feeling better!!ReplyDelete
Thanks for the opportunity to take in one of your creations, Gio!!! Any pink would suit me if I were lucky enough to win. *laughing* I would probably hoarde it considering it came from YOUR craft room! : ) There isn't even one of the colors that isn't gorgeous!ReplyDelete
Very well done I love the yellow blue& of coarse the beigeish one. You are one talented ladyReplyDelete
These are gorgeous Giovanna! I love the sky blue or any of the pinks. Thanks for your generosity in having this giveaway.ReplyDelete
How nice of you to share, Pink, Pink, anything pink, but the others are pretty as well.ReplyDelete
Hard to pick. My favorite would be the bright pink. I also love your music on your blog.ReplyDelete
Love the pumkins and ebossing . I have to tell you I had my head phones on and when your beautiful song played I liked to have jump out of my chair. lol. Love the song .ReplyDelete
They are all so pretty! I think maybe I like the yellow best - it is so cheery!ReplyDelete
WOW now this is a challenge. all the colors are awesome I am drawn toward the pink in the middle.ReplyDelete
Definitely the light pink though all are lovely.ReplyDelete
Giovana, you did a wonderful job dying them! I love the one closest to fuschia, or the brown.ReplyDelete
They are all beautiful, but my absolute favorite is the cheerful yellow! Yellow is my new fave color and I'm just starting to use it on some of my projects.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the chance to win and I LOVE your cards!!!
You did a great job coloring them! I really like the blue one.ReplyDelete
Fantastic dye work...I think my favorite is the yellow.ReplyDelete
I thought these were flowers when I first looked! They are all so lovely, but I think I like the brown one the best! Thanks, Giovana, for the chance to win!ReplyDelete
Love the pumpkins and all of the layers on your double take cards!!! The bows are so vintage and awesome!!!!ReplyDelete
Giovana, your cards are awesome, that goes without saying, love the many layers that you used, and your stitching is wonderful, and love the use of the Fleur DE lis die, one of my favorites, and your pumpkins are so wonderfully colored, so talented you are, and the coloring of the fence, for some reason, the wood grain look has been my hardest to accomplish with the copics, you make it look so easy!ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing and the chance at the your lovely Ribbon, have not had the luck of getting any of this type of ribbon yet, no one around here sells it, and I have not tried ordering it on line yet, but it looks so great on all the cards I see.
Thanks again,
Love how you used the ribbon. Looks fabulos. Great giveaway love how you colored it. Thanks.ReplyDelete


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She's soaring, flying! Saudi's first female pilot takes to the skies
A Saudi woman has become the first licensed female pilot in the Kingdom.
Thirty-five-year-old Hanadi Al-Hindi, who had battled kidney problems, acquired licensing from the Jeddah-based General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) to fly planes in Saudi Arabia.
Al-Hindi, who wears a headscarf, has begun flying small and wide-bodied luxury planes belonging to a fleet from the Kingdom Holding Company (KHC).
Khaled Al-Khaibary, a GACA spokesman, neither confirmed nor denied awarding the license to Al-Hindi, saying he would verify the information on Monday.
Al-Hindi, however, confirmed receipt of the license via telephone from the United States.
"Saudi women are capable of taking on any job previously held exclusively by men in Saudi Arabia," she said.
Al-Hindi refused to divulge anymore information owing to contractual obligations and sensitivity surrounding the topic.
"I have, however, taken on a private initiative to counsel Saudi students in the US who are willing to pursue a career in aviation," said Al-Hindi, who acquired a "Commercial Pilot's License" (CPL) and an "Instrument Rating" (IR) from the Amman-based Mideast Aviation Academy in 2002. "Exciting opportunities await candidates in this field."
Al-Hindi became the Kingdom's first woman pilot after being hired by Kingdom Holding Company Chairman Prince Alwaleed bin Talal. She became something of a celebrity after gaining her commercial pilot's license way back in 2006.
Al-Hindi said that she was proud of herself and her family for supporting her in choosing this career.
Born and raised in Makkah, Al-Hindi faced opposition from her relatives after she decided to become a pilot.
Al-Hindi described her first solo flight in 2004 as the beginning of her dream career. "Two days after my solo flight, I discovered that my name was being mentioned all over the world and that I had become a celebrity," she said in an earlier interview with Arab News.
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- Two Saudi Arabian pilots barred from flying in the United States
- Flight of fancy: Female Saudi pilot hopes to soar with Saudi's women's rights record
- Muslim female pilot creates major "turbulence"
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Metro, that's a big help. Sorry, I was off on the 357/125 gr. velocity. But you understood what I was considering.
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to the safety of road users."
Areas at risk from flooding included the causeway on the
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Aliases for H2AFB2 Gene
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- Entrez Gene: 474381
- Ensembl: ENSG00000277858
- UniProtKB: P0C5Z0
Previous GeneCards Identifiers for H2AFB2 Gene
Summaries for H2AFB2 Gene
Histones are basic nuclear proteins that are responsible for the nucleosome structure of the chromosomal fiber in eukaryotes. Nucleosomes consist of approximately 146 bp of DNA wrapped around a histone octamer composed of pairs of each of the four core histones (H2A, H2B, H3, and H4). The chromatin fiber is further compacted through the interaction of a linker histone, H1, with the DNA between the nucleosomes to form higher order chromatin structures. This gene encodes a replication-independent histone that is a member of the histone H2A family. This gene is part of a region that is repeated three times on chromosome X, once in intron 22 of the F8 gene and twice closer to the Xq telomere. This record represents the middle copy. [provided by RefSeq, Oct 2015]
GeneCards Summary for H2AFB2 Gene
H2AFB2 (H2A Histone Family Member B2) is a Protein Coding gene. Among its related pathways are Activated PKN1 stimulates transcription of AR (androgen receptor) regulated genes KLK2 and KLK3. GO annotations related to this gene include protein heterodimerization activity. An important paralog of this gene is H2AFB1.
UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot for H2AFB2 Gene
Atypical histone H2A which can replace conventional H2A in some nucleosomes and is associated with active transcription and mRNA processing. Nucleosomes wrap and compact DNA into chromatin, limiting DNA accessibility to the cellular machineries which require DNA as a template. Histones thereby play a central role in transcription regulation, DNA repair, DNA replication and chromosomal stability. Nucleosomes containing this histone are less rigid and organize less DNA than canonical nucleosomes in vivo. They are enriched in actively transcribed genes and associate with the elongating form of RNA polymerase. They associate with spliceosome components and are required for mRNA splicing. May participate in spermatogenesis.


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C'est très jolie!
This is great!!!
Black pepper!
The design is amazing. I love the textures of her clothes.
Jamaic music is not good for your ears lol
So bad ass! Great job!
reggae style :>
Wow, awesome idea, nice work!
Love it. Absolutely love it. There is a whole story in this piece. Amazing work
lovely peace of work simply amazing
Holy it's like she did some sort of sonic quake?
FML! Shoulda know this would be for GS -.-. *sigh* well at least you get paid, and we get art. Thank you :3.
I love the design and the technical execution, but I think the composition could use some work to make the effect of the soundwaves more obvious. Now it took me a while to realize what was happening since I was just admiring her design instead of feeling the explosions and the chaos.
very cool not a big fan of the pants though
This is so cool
This is all kinds of awesome, but she looks kind of like a female Woolie.
Very cool!
this is incredible! amazing work
Very beautiful. The details are extensive and well done. The choice of colors is simple yet wonderfully executed, the environment is well-structured to help frame the scene, and the scene itself is full of power and beauty. Spectacular job!
j'aime le bien le style SF/fashion de sa tenue...
Absolutely beautifully painted and the character design is stunning. I hate to make any critique at all because I know I'd never be able to be this good in my LIFE, however, all I'd say is that anyone screaming like that would have more contraction of the procerus and orbicularis occuli muscles between the eyes. As I said, I actually feel bad saying this because you're an amazing artist and your skill FAR surpasses mine, but as a biologist (and a woman who has screamed like this on more than one occasion!) I think the eyebrows might be more pulled together. Other than this one (tiny) thing, everything else is stunning.
Boom badaboom!!! Amazing artwork!
Truly amazing! You can almost hear her
rasta power
She looks amazing!!
She's make a pretty rad videogame character!!
So cool!
this is astounding
I love this, especially how you did the shockwave distortion
Supersonic Screaming? Must be a banshee
great man, looks fantastic.