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|Author / [Publication date]
|International Arms Control Symposium, Philadelphia, 1971. / [1973]
|SALT: implications for arms control in the 1970s
|Hunt, Percival, 1878-1968 / [1958]
|Samuel Pepys in the diary
|Nutini, Hugo G. / [1968]
|San Bernardino Contla: marriage and family structure in a Tlaxcalan municipio
|Melosi, Martin V., 1947- / [c2008]
|The sanitary city: environmental services in urban America from colonial times to the present,
|Gauri, Varun, 1966- / [c1998]
|School choice in Chile: two decades of educational reform
|Morgan, Joy Elmer, 1889-1986 / [1954]
|The school that built a nation
|Carrier, Martin. / [c2000]
|Science at century's end: philosophical questions on the progress and limits of science
|Douglas, Heather E. / [c2009]
|Science, policy, and the value-free ideal,
|Krips, Henry. / [c1995]
|Science, reason, and rhetoric
|Machamer, Peter K. / [2004]
|Science, values, and objectivity
|Bailer-Jones, Daniela. / [c2009]
|Scientific models in philosophy of science,
|Cummings, Hubertis M. (Hubertis Maurice), 1884-1963 / [c1964]
|Scots breed and Susquehanna
|Osborne, G. S. (Gerald Stanley), 1926- / [1967, c1966]
|Scottish and English schools: a comparative survey of the past fifty years
|Garry, Patrick M. / [c1994]
|Scrambling for protection: the new media and the First Amendment
|Khademian, Anne M., 1961- / [c1992]
|The SEC and capital market regulation: the politics of expertise
|Serbin, Ken. / [c2000]
|Secret dialogues: church-state relations, torture, and social justice in authoritarian Brazil
|Fifield, Barringer. / [c1996]
|Seeing Pittsburgh
|McCormick, Charles H. (Charles Howard), 1932- / [c1997]
|Seeing Reds: federal surveillance of radicals in the Pittsburgh mill district, 1917-1921
|Stevens, Thaddeus, 1792-1868 / [c1997-]
|The selected papers of Thaddeus Stevens, v.1
|Stevens, Thaddeus, 1792-1868 / [c1997-]
|The selected papers of Thaddeus Stevens, v.2
|Franklin, Allan, 1938- / [c2002]
|Selectivity and discord: two problems of experiment,
|Carleton, Gregory. / [c2005]
|Sexual revolution in Bolshevik Russia
|Kleinberg, S. J. / [c1989]
|The shadow of the mills: working-class families in Pittsburgh, 1870-1907
|Masters, Hilary. / [c2005]
|Shadows on a wall: Juan O'Gorman and the mural in Pátzcuaro,
|Mooney, Harry John / [1968]
|The Shapeless God: essays on modern fiction
|Alberts, Robert C. / [c1980]
|The shaping of the Point: Pittsburgh's Renaissance Park
|Lewis, Paul G. / [c1996]
|Shaping suburbia: how political institutions organize urban development
|Fārābī. / [1963]
|Short commentary on Aristotle's Prior analytics
|Woodruff, Stuart C. / [c1964]
|The short stories of Ambrose Bierce: a study in polarity
|Graham, Laurie. / [c1998]
|Singing the city: the bonds of home in an industrial landscape,
|Jacob, Gerald, 1952- / [c1990]
|Site unseen: the politics of siting a nuclear waste repository
|Harris, Dianne Suzette. / [c2007]
|Sites unseen: landscape and vision,
|Scott, Rebecca J. (Rebecca Jarvis), 1950- / [c1985, 2000]
|Slave emancipation in Cuba: the transition to free labor, 1860-1899
|Tang, Wenfang, 1955- / [c2007]
|Social change in contemporary China: C.K. Yang and the concept of institutional diffusion,
|Savage, Gail, 1947- / [c1996]
|The social construction of expertise: the English civil service and its influence, 1919-1939
|Rothstein, Bo, 1954- / [c1996]
|The social democratic state: the Swedish model and the bureaucratic problem of social reforms
|Burton, Julianne. / [c1990]
|The Social documentary in Latin America
|Willis, Benjamin C. / [1967]
|Social problems in public school administration
|Mesa-Lago, Carmelo, 1934- / [c1978]
|Social security in Latin America: pressure groups, stratification, and inequality
|Lubove, Roy. / [c1966]
|Social welfare in transition: selected English documents, 1834-1909
|Societies after slavery: a select annotated bibliography of printed sources on Cuba, Brazil, British colonial Africa, South Africa, and the British West Indies
|Havighurst, Robert J. (Robert James), 1900-1991 / [1965]
|Society and education in Brazil
|Albrecht, Gary L. / [c1976]
|The Sociology of physical disability and rehabilitation
|Wennerstrom, Jack, 1948- / [c1995]
|Soldiers Delight journal: exploring a globally rare ecosystem
|Buzaglo, Meir, 1959- / [c2002]
|Solomon Maimon: monism, skepticism, and mathematics
|Chaquèri, Cosroe. / [c1995]
|The Soviet Socialist Republic of Iran, 1920-1921: birth of the trauma
|Lorandi, Ana María. / [c2005]
|Spanish king of the Incas: the epic life of Pedro Bohorques,
|Palazzolo, Daniel J., 1961- / [c1992]
|The Speaker and the budget: leadership in the post-reform House of Representatives
|Jones, Mother, 1837-1930 / [c1988]
|The speeches and writings of Mother Jones
|Spencer, Ethel. / [c1983]
|The Spencers of Amberson Avenue: a turn-of-the century memoir
|Pettavino, Paula J. / [c1994]
|Sport in Cuba: the diamond in the rough
|Payne, Matthew J. / [c2001]
|Stalin's railroad: Turksib and the building of socialism
|Holmes, Larry E. (Larry Eugene), 1942- / [c1999]
|Stalin's school: Moscow's model School No. 25, 1931-1937
|Drake, Paul W., 1944- / [c2006]
|State and society in conflict: comparative perspectives on Andean crises,
|Berkman, Michael B., 1960- / [1993]
|The state roots of national politics: Congress and the tax agenda, 1978-1986
|Buchanan, Paul G., 1954- / [c1995]
|State, labor, capital: democratizing class relations in the Southern Cone
|Salmon, Wesley C. / [1971]
|Statistical explanation & statistical relevance
|Hessen, Robert, 1936- / [1975]
|Steel titan: the life of Charles M. Schwab
|Fitch, John A. (John Andrews), 1881-1959 / [c1989]
|The steel workers
|Daley, Anthony. / [c1996]
|Steel, state, and labor: mobilization and adjustment in France
|Eggert, Gerald G. / [c1981]
|Steelmasters and labor reform, 1886-1923
|Bodnar, John E., 1944- / [1990]
|Steelton: immigration and industrialization, 1870-1940
|Nelson, Steve, 1903- / [c1981]
|Steve Nelson, American radical
|Isbester, Katherine. / [c2001]
|Still fighting: the Nicaraguan women's movement, 1977-2000
|Plotnicov, Leonard. / [1967]
|Strangers to the city: urban man in Jos, Nigeria
|Gilmour, John B. / [c1995]
|Strategic disagreement: stalemate in American politics
|Coffey, Joseph I. / [1971]
|Strategic power and national security
|Rescher, Nicholas. / [c1985]
|The strife of systems: an essay on the grounds and implications of philosophical diversity
|Bidwell, Charles Everett, 1923- / [c1969]
|The structure of Russian in outline
|Lubove, Roy. / [c1986]
|The struggle for social security, 1900-1935
|Lucero, Jose Antonio, 1972- / [c2008]
|Struggles of voice: the politics of indigenous representation in the Andes,
|Rescher, Nicholas. / [1967 or 8]
|Studies in Arabic philosophy
|Bass, Lee W., 1921- / [c1977]
|The style and management of a pediatric practice
|Lyu, Claire Chi-ah. / [c2006]
|A sun within a sun: the power and elegance of poetry,


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You use yum rather than up2date to manage packages with Oracle Linux 6. Using up2date is not supported.
You can download a full Oracle Linux installation media image from the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud at http://edelivery.oracle.com/linux. You can also obtain Oracle Linux packages from the Unbreakable Linux Network (ULN) and the Oracle Public Yum server.

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|Olympic Schools / Community Arts Project
Kevin Whitney
became the Great Britain official Olympic Artist in 1982-commissioned by the Princess
Royal and is the only Official Olympic Artist in the history of the Modern Olympic
Movement. He has been to several Olympic Games and has painted many Olympic Sports men and
1982-commissioned by the Princess Royal and is the only Official Olympic Artist in the history of the Modern Olympic Movement. He has been to several Olympic Games and has painted many Olympic Sports men and women.
In 2004/05 a schools and community Arts project was created by Loraine Morgan-Brinkhurst MBE and Kevin (to read more about Loraine, please click here). Art workshops were delivered with an Olympic theme in various schools and community groups (including working with children from disadvantaged backgrounds and with learning difficulties) across the South West. This project was very successful and proved to be a great platform for the promotion of both sport and art within the young community. Kevin inspired the children who took part and some of the artwork produced was of exceptional standard. In 2005 the project was recognised by the 2012 Olympic bid committee who then invited us to exhibit the children's and Kevin's Art work in London. While we were exhibiting at the conference Sir Steve Redgrave said The project was amazing and we should take it across the regions.
In 2006 the project took on board Sir Steves comments and we launched with Jason Gardener MBE the Regional/National project. This will enable us to take the Olympic Arts Project on the road throughout the country leading up to and beyond the 2012 Olympics. The project educates children of all ages about the history of these ancient games and enthuses them to take an interest in sport through creative art. The artists give art lessons with an Olympic theme; the children are given the opportunity to produce their own work based around Greek mythology, sport or abstract. The art produced is exhibited in the schools/community centres that have taken part, culminating in exhibitions of all the art produced within the participating regions/areas.
Olympic Gold medallist Jason Gardener MBE,
Olympic swimmer and 6 times World Champion Mark Foster and Olympian Robin Francis have
taken on the roles of official ambassadors, helping to promote initiatives for this unique
project, We are very fortunate to have the support of these great athletes who make
appearances for project events, diaries permitting.
For information on how you can help please contact Loraine, details on the Contact Us page.
You can read more about Loraine by clicking here to visit her profile page.
Please click here to visit the Gallery pages. This will open in a new window so will show larger pictures than the Gallery button above.


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Chris Kamen of the Los Angeles Clippers Out For Three More Weeks At Least
Chris Kamen of the Los Angeles Clippers is going to be out of the game with an ankle injury for at least three more weeks, which means that we will be seeing more of DeAndre Jordan. It appears that Kamen's injury is more serious than everyone though and the center will miss another three weeks of play time which he originally sustained on November 9th. The team had hoped that he would be fully recovered in time for their three game trip that they leave on next week, but that is not to be the case for the Clippers.
The twenty eight year old apparently has a bone bruise on his ankle as well as a sprained ligament according to a statement by the Clippers on Friday. Chris Kamen said that he was disappointed as well as frustrated that he would have to wait longer than previously thought, but he conceded that injuries are part of being involved in the game of basketball. According to coach Vinny Del Negro, Kaman has to stay off of his ankle for a couple of weeks and then spend a week training afterward to determine if he will be able to play.
The Clippers have struggled this year, right now 5 to 18 for their record, and have been plagued by injuries to several different players this season. However, according to coach Del Negro, they must manage with the healthy players that they have. One of those is backup center DeAndre Jordan, who is averaging 5.1 points per game, 5.4 rebounds and 20.2 minutes. The coach commented that they would need Jordan to play at a higher level now that he was taking over for Kaman. Kaman averaged 10.5 points per game and 7.1 rebounds the last 10 games.
Tags: Los Angeles Clippers, DeAndre Jordan, Chris Kamen, Vinny Del Negro
Posted: 13th December 2010
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Which stocks have gained the most so far this year?
Q: Which stock has gained the most in value this year so far?
A: Investors are still writing me with their amazement at how much profit a lucky stock picker can make.
A recent Ask Matt column showed how an investor fortunate enough to buy the best stock currently in the Standard & Poor's 1500 index each of the past five years, would have made a bundle.
Specifically, any investors with that kind of luck could have turned a $10,000 investment into one worth $178 million in just five years
COLUMN: Five stocks that could have made you $178M in 5 years
COLUMN: 11 stocks turned $10,000 into $100,000 in just two years
COLUMN: Is buying last year's stock winners a good strategy?
But many readers, yourself included, want to know about what stocks are doing now, not five years ago. And below, you'll find the list that answers that question.
Here are the top-performing stocks this year (through the end of July) that are in the S&P 1500 index (according to Standard & Poor's Capital IQ, USA TODAY research):
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• Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (GMCR): 212%
• Questcor Pharmaceuticals (QCOR): 111%
• Cabot Oil & Gas (COG): 100%
• Basic Energy Services (BAS): 99%
• Pioneer Drilling (PDC): 88%
• MicroStrategy (MSTR): 87%
• Blyth (BTH): 85%
• Sturm, Ruger (RGR): 82%
• Crocs (CROX): 81%
• Fossil (FOSL): 80%
Just one thing bears mentioning with this kind of list. Just because these stocks have done well this year so far, doesn't mean they will continue to do so.
In fact, sometimes high-flying stocks like these can sell off viciously if there's even a slight bump in any aspect of the companies' operations.
Matt Krantz is a financial markets reporter at USA TODAY and author of Investing Online for Dummies and Fundamental Analysis for Dummies. He answers a different reader question every weekday in his Ask Matt column at money.usatoday.com. To submit a question, e-mail Matt at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow Matt on Twitter at: twitter.com/mattkrantz
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While the rage about dropped calls involving the iPhone 3G on AT&T's network (and others) has subsided since the phone's semi-disastrous rollout, there is still an undercurrent of dissatisfaction with the phone's service. Generally, the attitude is "love the device, hate using the phone service." Perhaps the highest-profile example came this week when tech blogger Om Malik publicly dropped his iPhone, putting the blame squarely on AT&T's poor network quality.
I should say that I personally do not have many iPhone complaints. Sound quality is generally good, and I've had fewer than five dropped calls in the five months since I've been using it. This is of course more than the zero dropped calls I had in my five years with T-Mobile, but then again, I use my iPhone as my only phone, whereas my old Nokia was just for when I left the house (and I work at home, so that wasn't all that often). But perhaps one of the reasons for this anecdotal difference is that I live in Baltimore, and Malik lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. More anecdotal evidence (just check out the comments on Malik's blog post) points to the Bay Area having particularly poor AT&T service -- which is kind of insane, as it's ground zero for the US tech industry, and full of people who can and will complain loudly about it on the Internet. The problem may be exacerbated by the fact tech-savvy and relatively affluent Bay Area types are much more likely to actually use iPhones than your average person, and thus put more of a strain at AT&T's network infrastructure.
Whatever the case, AT&T is working diligently to improve service quality -- oh, wait, I mean they're trying to figure out how to extract more revenue from customers. Rumor has it that the company is planning tiered Internet service plans for future iterations of the iPhone. This is presented as creating opportunities for lower-cost plans for those who balk at the current $30/month all-you-can-eat service; but of course, if you go over your allotted bandwidth, that's when the big nasty charges kick in, and you may find yourself upgrading anyway. (This is all coming from the same analysts who are insisting that some kind of stripped-down iPhone is coming any day now, so take it with as much salt as you think that merits.)


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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
|Look up Gaian in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Gaian may refer to:
- Gaian, Gaiist, Gaia-som (male), Gaia-sa (female), or Gaia-se (two-or-neutral-gendered), an adherent of Gaianism
- Gaian Greens, a branch of the Green movement whose tenets move them to austere environmentalism
- a person who adopts Technogaianism, a slant on Gaianism that embraces a symbiosis between the emergence of modern technology and ancient terrestrial evolutionary biology
- A follower of Gaia philosophy
- A follower of New Age Gaian, an inclusive philosophy with various religious expressions
- Gaian (demonym), demonyn commonly associated in science fiction with humans
- a faction the player can choose to control in the computer game Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
- a user of the popular forum Gaia Online or the Avatar character used to represent the user
- House of Gaian, from the Anne Bishop Tir Alainn Trilogy
See also[edit]
|This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Gaian.
If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.


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WashPost Rewards Gov. O'Malley's 'Personal Push' for Gun Ban, Licensing Law with Puffy 62-Paragraph Article
As if it weren't enough for the Washington Post to cheerlead for Maryland's new stringent gun control law in the editorial pages and in biased news accounts, staff writers Aaron Davis and Paul Schwartzman today rewarded liberal governor and potential 2016 presidential contender Martin O'Malley with a 62-paragraph front-page victory lap headlined "Behind Md.'s tough gun law, a personal push."
"Md. governor driven by one fear: Could Newtown happen here?" insisted the headline on the the jump page. Left virtually unexamined, of course, would be how O'Malley's push for stringent gun control would help him campaign among liberal base voters in the 2016 primaries. No, Davis and Schwartzman painted O'Malley as driven by a purely altruistic desire to spare Maryland parents the pain of burying their children thanks to a mad gunman's rage:
On the day after a gunman killed 20 children in Newtown, Conn., Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley wrote a text message to his chief legislative lobbyist.
"Do we or do we not have an assault-weapons ban?" the governor asked that Saturday, 10 days before Christmas.
No, Stacy Mayer wrote back.
Really? the governor responded. I thought we did.
A variety of pistols, such as mini-Uzis , were illegal. But the weapon that Adam Lanza had fired in Newtown — the semiautomatic Bushmaster rifle?
Legal in Maryland.
Three days later, O'Malley summoned Mayer and several advisers to the governor's mansion. Until then, his team had mostly been recovering from the exhaustion of campaigning for three statewide referendums and President Obama's reelection. They had no grand plan to take on guns as the state legislature was about to convene in Annapolis.
Now they would go after assault weapons. They would seek limits on how many bullets a gun could hold. They would regulate access to firearms for the mentally ill.
But a key piece of their agenda, as itemized in a memo that the advisers gave O'Malley, was something no state had attempted to enact in nearly two decades, and never south of the Mason-Dixon line: a new way of licensing firearms that would require fingerprinting, more-rigorous background checks and safety training.
The governor drew a star next to the licensing provision as he read the memo. He knew what he wanted.
But could he get it?
O'Malley had watched Connecticut Gov. Dan Malloy (D) face tough questioning and realized that he could easily find himself in the same predicament.
In messages to his advisers, O'Malley kept driving at the same point: Could Newtown happen in Maryland?
Taking on gun control presented political risks, not the least of which was that his opponents could portray him as an opportunist, using a national tragedy to generate headlines. A greater risk was the possibility of failure.
On Jan. 14, a month to the day after the Newtown shootings, the governor stood at a microphone at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, the city where many of the more than 2,700 homicides had occurred in the state since he became governor — most of them with handguns. "There is a sickness in this country, and that sickness is gun violence," he said.
O'Malley had been preoccupied with gun violence since his days as a Baltimore assistant state's attorney. As the city's mayor and as governor, he had insisted on starting each morning with a police memo listing the number of overnight homicides. Now he had national stature, a Democrat frequently mentioned as a potential contender in the 2016 presidential sweepstakes.
As Davis and Schwartzman's feature unfolds, O'Malley is cast as the hero who overcomes opposition from supposedly conservative Democrats in his party's leadership in the state legislature, particularly the decades-long presiding officer of the State Senate:
In the Senate, President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr. (D-Calvert) was sympathetic to his constituents who enjoyed hunting and target practice. Guns were an important part of their lives and culture. His district was home to Beretta, the gun manufacturer he had helped lure to Prince George's County.
For Miller, guns were personal. At his Calvert County estate, he had a large collection of historic pistols and rifles dating to the Civil War, several of which he displayed in an antique baby crib near the front door.
He was a veteran of Maryland's legislative wars, an imposing, white-haired presence in the chamber he had ruled since 1987. Perhaps more than anyone in the assembly, Miller knew how to get what he wanted.
On the day after O'Malley's announcement, Miller told reporters that he was unhappy with aspects of the governor's bill. The fingerprinting requirement, Miller said, would have "a difficult time on the floor of the Senate."
"Licensing begins to trample on Second Amendment rights," he said.
O'Malley's key ally in the Senate was Sen. Brian E. Frosh (D-Montgomery), a bookish, bespectacled lawyer who represents Bethesda and Chevy Chase. Frosh had been lobbying for gun control since his first campaign in the 1980s, when he handed out "Ban Snubbies" fliers aimed at the short revolvers that were then legal. Now Frosh was chairman of the Judicial Proceedings Committee, the Senate panel through which O'Malley's bill had to pass.
On Feb. 6, the day Frosh scheduled his committee's hearing, thousands of citizens descended on Annapolis, amassing into one of the largest crowds in recent memory.
"GUNS = FREEDOM" read a banner outside the State House, where protesters assembled, many of them wearing National Rifle Association hats and carrying signs such as, "Why do you want to fingerprint me? I am not a criminal."
Frosh, however, was more focused on his committee than on the crowd. He knew he had five votes, but he needed a sixth. He courted Sen. C. Anthony Muse (D-Prince George's), who committed his support when the governor agreed to cut the price of a license in half, to $50, a change Muse sought to help the blue-
collar families in his district.
But Miller was still unpersuaded.
A week later, as the bill was being debated on the Senate floor, Frosh stood up and addressed Miller's main concern, the fingerprinting requirement.
"Listen to the people who have to be fingerprinted," Frosh said, reading to the senators a page-long list that included substitute teachers, social workers, jockeys, locksmiths, fortunetellers.
From his perch, Miller was moved by what he heard.
Even soothsayers, he would say at the end of the debate. He still didn't like fingerprinting, but it was becoming a harder point to argue.
Then he thought about his 14 grandchildren.
"Do I want to let guns proliferate in my grandchildren's world?" he would say later. "Absolutely not. Except for legitimate hunters, I'd like it to be a gun-free environment."
Miller had turned.
So Miller has an antique gun collection, which, we may safely assume, he doesn't take to target practice or use for home defense. That doesn't, however, make him a longtime champion of gun rights or a conservative Democrat.
What's more, the fingerprinting requirements for varying occupations makes sense in most cases, like locksmiths and substitute teachers -- you don't want either of them to have criminal records -- while nonsensical for others such as jockeys and fortunetellers. A wise, principled legislator may take away that maybe the state needs to reform its economic regulation laws by repealing nonsensical and onerous licensing requirements for certain occupations.
At any rate, no one has a right to be hired to be a substitute teacher, whereas Americans, including Marylanders, have constitutional rights under the Second Amendment to keep and bear arms.
To require fingerprinting and a 10-year, $50 license just to buy a handgun seems rather onerous to the rights of Marylanders, particularly poor and elderly Marylanders, to defend themselves. While it's a hassle for a 34-year-old Marylander who lives in the suburbs and has the time and money -- like yours truly -- to go through all those additional hoops, it would be near impossible for an 84-year-old woman with a fixed income to do so.
I use the granny example because it makes little sense to expect that a frail, elderly woman should be considered able to capably defend herself with a shotgun or hunting rifle, given how much heavier and how much stronger recoil they have than handguns. Those weapons, unlike handguns, will not face the stringent licensing requirements. Because the requirement is not applied to all firearms, liberal legislators insist they are in no way depriving Marylanders of the right to self defense. This may be true in abstract theory, but in practice it is not.
Of course, Davis and Schwartzman are not out to consider that the new legislation can create unintended consequences that include a fresh set of victims, they're out to put a feather in a liberal governor's cap, to reward him for accomplishing a major victory for a pet issue of the Washington Post's.
Nope, the only thing that Davis and Schwartzman seem to be itching for is how future sessions of the Maryland General Assembly that can chip away further at gun rights, judging by the conclusion of their April 8 story (emphasis mine):
Four days later, Republicans rose on the House floor to mount one last stand. Licensing, fingerprinting, assault weapons — they challenged it all.
"Shame on you," Del. Michael D. Smigiel Sr. (R-Cecil) told the Democrats.
Busch called for the vote, and soon it was over: 78 to 61.
"Well done," the governor told Dumais in her office, where bottles of wine were waiting. "Not an easy thing."
After O'Malley departed, Dumais sat at her desk, exhausted. In the future, she wondered, would there be more to do?
Perhaps there were other guns that needed to be included in the assault-weapons ban and others that should have fingerprinting requirements.
"Who knows?" the delegate said. "Maybe that will be next year's bill."


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Wink Bingo Fathers Day
You may remember that back in March Wink Bingo ran a Mothers Day promotion that totally excluded their male bingo players. At the time we contacted Wink Bingo on behalf of male player's everywhere and were told that Mothers Day was nothing to do with men and was only a time for mothers and daughters. We were told by the support staff that we were over reacting and that when Fathers Day came around they would be running a similar promotion exclusively for Fathers and Sons. We took them on their word and held off to see what happened but now Fathers Day is here and yes you guessed it, the Wink Bingo Fathers Day promos are available to all players both male and female.
At the time of the Mothers Day promotion we contacted the Equality and Human Rights Commission and they agreed with us that Wink Bingo's promotion was in fact in breach of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975. They advised us that we had six months in which to contact Wink Bingo asking them to clarify why they were running a sexist promotion and informed us we could actually take the bingo site to court. We wrote to Wink Bingo and gave them fourteen days in which to reply but they could not even be bothered to contact us.
The new Fathers Day promotions are good in that they are no longer sexist or in breach of any regulations but they do go to show just how sexist the majority of the online bingo industry really is. If Wink Bingo had run Fathers Day special stating no women allowed there would have being absolute uproar and we would have seen a lot more negative publicity. This just goes to show what we have known for a long time and that is that male bingo players are still considered to be second class by some of the biggest names in the industry.
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Almost every country [2]has now done its own version of Pharrell Williams's chart-topping hit "Happy" video.
But now Gaza has joined the "Happy craze" and posted a video [3] dancing and clapping along to the upbeat song!
The video features Gazans from all walks of life, including the participation of many of its children as well.
The Gaza Style crew, who produced the video, filmed it in the streets of Gaza, its shops, supermarkets, parks, fields, residential compounds and restaurants.
It's a very nice change to see the people of Gaza taking part in something "happy," despite all the hardships they have to go through on a daily basis in their occupied city.
The video received over 177 thousand views since it's been posted on YouTube.
We're happy that you're happy Gaza!
[1] http://www.syndigate.info
[2] http://www.albawaba.com/entertainment/pharrell-williams-amman-556844
[3] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4gu27QVzOc
[4] http://www.albawaba.com


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The initiative to create the Bank of the South as a "financial alternative for the economic recovery and integration of South American countries", was originally fuelled by president Hugo Chávez, of Venezuela, and Néstor Kirchner, of Argentina. The presidents of Ecuador, Bolivia, Paraguay and Brazil eventually added their support, although they have different ideas about what should be done by this Bank. Would Latin America have found an alternative to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)?
The expectations brought about by the creation of this new entity, both inside and outside the region, can be summed up in the following question: would Latin America have found an alternative to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)? Since the Bank of the Souths creation process is still in its first steps, such question cannot be answered yet. However, it is possible to analyse the context in which the proposal was brought forward and its potentialities.
The relationship between Latin America and the IMF-World Bank has changed substantially in recent years. Most presidents currently in power declare themselves although with considerable differences in terms of tone and style to be against the policies promoted by both institutions through their conditionalities. And in order to break free from IMF tutelage, Argentina and Brazil, followed later on by Uruguay and more recently by Ecuador, pay-off their debts to this institution ahead of schedule. This was made possible thanks to the economic growth registered by Latin American countries following the rise in export prices at international level and the availability of alternative sources of credit.
In this new setting, the IMF has lost relevance as guiding institution in terms of economics and policies. Since the 1997-1999 financial crisis in Southeast Asia, the IMFs policy guidelines the liberalisation of financial systems, among them are undergoing a deep legitimacy crisis owing to their responsibility in aggravating the Asian crisis and in the Argentine collapse of 2001. Against all evidence, IMF board members have refused to accept any responsibility of the institution whatsoever in both situations.
The proposal of the Bank of the South comes at a moment in which a reform of the global financial architecture is being demanded by different sectors although it still remains unclear whether it will be a development institution like the World Bank or Brazils National Economic and Social Development Bank (BNDES in Spanish), or a fund aimed at facing future payment crisis, like the IMF. Latin American economies need both. There is a need to promote investment and there is also a need for a last resort tool in case of financial crises.
Furthermore, the creation of the Bank of the South requires founder members to negotiate its structure, form of governance and authorities, operations (loan framework and criteria for admission) and the relationship of the new institution with already existing regional entities: the Latin American Reserve Fund (FLAR), the Andean Development Corporation (CAF) and the Financial Fund for the Rio de la Plata Basin (Fonplata).
In order to influence the process it is necessary to take part in it and maybe that is the reason why Brazil fully joined it as founder member at the meeting held in Quito on May 3. Brazil already has its own development bank, the National Economic and Social Development Bank (BNDES), so its objectives and needs may be different from those of Argentina and Venezuela. The Lula administration has expressed interest in devoting the Bank of the South to cover the infrastructure investment needs of an expanded Mercosur and seems less interested in protecting its reserves. On the other hand, according to statements made by Chávez and his Finance Minister, Rodrigo Cabezas, the idea of Venezuela is to turn the Southern Bank into the IMF of South America, a project which is backed by Argentina. "We cannot go on placing 200 billion dollars of our reserves in the First World and then be forced to accept their conditions to obtain a few dollars", said Ecuadorian President, Rafael Correa. And the Argentine Minister Felisa Miceli considers that the Bank of the South should allow "to improve the financial autonomy" of countries taking part in it. However, according to Brazilian Guido Mantega "the contribution of international reserves (by member countries) is not the best way to capitalise the Bank".
In this sense, the Ecuadorian initiative to create the Southern Fund could represent an alternative to the original project. Thus, a bank as an institution for the promotion of public investment, separated from a fund as an instrument of intervention in case of national economic emergency, appears as a more appealing proposal for Brazil, which rejected the option of a sole institution to serve both purposes.
Nevertheless, not all countries in the region have been seduced by the project. The governments of Chile, Colombia and Peru have expressed their total disagreement with the Bank of the South, by stating that "they are very pleased with the CAF, the IDB and the World Bank, since they are being taken care of".
Uruguay, the only Mercosur country member that has not yet backed the initiative, maintains a skeptical position. According to Economy Minister, Danilo Astori, the project leaves him "with many doubts", since "the region has solid financial institutions which have been fulfilling a very good role".
From Mexico, the former minister of foreign affairs, Luis Ernesto Derbez, states that "it is not possible to talk about integration" with regards to the Bank of the South, since we are dealing with "the political project" of a government leader, in direct allusion to Chávez and his increasingly influential position in the region.
Until now, some advocates for this initiative maintain that the main reason for the Bank of the South is of a financial and economic nature the total amount of international reserves of the six countries involved stands at 164 billion dollars while others consider that preeminence should be given to the political nature of the project, thus impliying the reformulation of development finance contents and the search for a feasible alternative that may allow countries in the region to decisively get rid of international financial institutions. Those who are most optimistic believe that in less than two months we will be witnessing the birth of the new entity.
Related Information:
* Bank of the South: A reflection of declining IFIs relevance in Latin America, by Vince McElhinny (Bank Information Center)
* Bank of the South: A road towards a new financial architecture, by Pablo Dávalos (ALAI)
This article was first published at the Uruguayan newspaper La Diaria, May 10th, 2007


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Farewell, then, Andrew Flintoff. England's greatest cricketer who people actually liked (even in other countries: an astonishing, almost baffling feat for an England cricketer) has now retired from "all forms of cricket". This will hopefully include not just batting, bowling and catching with brilliance, but also Flintoff's most recent form of cricket, which has amounted to not actually playing any cricket at all but instead appearing on game shows where people shout angrily with laughter and a boisterous host intones scurrilities to choreographed jeers while an ineffable nimbus of futility descends across your living room like Lancashire drizzle.
His retirement is a great shame. Along with everyone else, I loved Flintoff's carelessly chucked about moments of greatness: the era-kickstarting 95 at The Oval against South Africa in 2003, after which he romped off waving his bat and forgetting to look haggard and tortured at missing a hundred, instead appearing genuinely wowed by the first visible spike of his own periodically outsized Flintoff greatness. I also enjoyed, perhaps even a little bit more, his ridiculously studious and pronounced forward defensive shot, a shot that could almost be described as sarcastic, the bat a neurotically tiny balsa-wood plank in his vast grip.
Flintoff's retirement was also a source of more widespread unease this week, dovetailing as it did with talk of some kind of fundamental problem with our other great stubbled, rambunctious English colossus, Wayne Rooney. Rooney, it has been suggested, may have entered a chronic cycle of decline. He may be growing truncated before our eyes, his career already fading, thickening and beginning to stop. This is an extremely upsetting idea and one we should resist. All sports people have a tipping point after which they begin, tangibly, to end, but I believe Rooney is still some way short of this.
For a start, Flintoff has been hobbling his way round a valedictory farewell lap for some time now, his career ensconced in what we might call the Roadrunner Years, a modern sporting phenomenon where from a distance it is quite clear you've already gone skittering out over the edge of the cliff, legs pumping, held up by nothing more than fame-momentum and celebrity ballast. This is the main reason sports people don't go away as much as they used to. Even with their powers in decline, they linger and pad and fill, their floppy-limbed, cadaverous bodies still powered relentlessly forward into battle by their own highly motivated PR machinery. This is not necessarily a good thing. Assailed on all sides by spin and vested interest it is more important than ever to make a clear distinction between things that are actually, properly over – albeit still hanging about the place making comebacks and doing interviews – and those that are simply in recess, but still worthy of our urgent interest.
David Beckham, for example, is over. Famous but over. Talented but over. Over with an agent. Andy Murray is not over but perhaps repeatedly attempting to bully him into winning a grand slam is over. The Lampard-Gerrard "conundrum" is over. The England football team are over. England, generally, is over. Cars are over. Small, very expensive organic chickens with pretend-homemade plastic packaging are over. The phrase "properties of this quality very rarely come on to the market" is over. Twenty20 cricket is over. Opening up a pretentious high end coffee cart in the East End of London, growing a straggly beard and talking in a sniffy voice about the quality of your roast is over. Telephones with wires are over. In fact, pretty much everything is over apart from China, pornography and multiplying legions of sub-KFC fried chicken outlets called Chicken Shed and Chicken Bungalow and Chicken Loft.
Plus of course Rooney: Rooney is not over. Flintoff's retirement may have come with an earned sense of relief from his creaking knees, those unreliable hinges and cranks. But Rooney still pulses with angry vitality, still carrying with him the imprint of his career high with England at Euro 2004, the Croatia defence scattered like late-night kebab salad brushed angrily to the pavement, tongue lolling like a length of prime luncheon meat, seeing in front of him only the engorged and pulsing flower of the goal between its vulvic posts and demonstrating, in effect, tremendous quality from the young lad.
For Rooney, the enemies of promise are more diffuse, and not solely confined to tabloid entities known as Rooney Hooker and Rooney Threesome Girl and even Rooney Hooker Dad. There is also expectation: the fact that we now look for, and expect to find inveterate decline beneath the star-burnish.
If Flintoff's retirement is a reminder of anything, however, it is of the sadness that comes at the end of a career fraught with terribly addictive headline highs and lows. Maybe it might act as a reminder too. Just give us five great years, and then a few more of stately decline. After which he can simply give up and spend the rest of his days wrestling pleasurably with his appetites.


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Down 1-0 at the break, the Wright State women's soccer team exploded for four goals in a five-minute span, two by Ashley Miltko, to defeat IUPUI 4-1 Sunday afternoon in Indianapolis.
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Memorial to the women of WW2 at last
The final arrangements are being made for the first British memorial to the women who served in World War Two. All our allies have them, but we will get one more than fifty years after the war ended.
The Culture Secretary, Chris Smith, has negotiated with Westminster Borough Council for the statue of Sir Walter Raleigh on Whitehall to be moved to the naval museum in Greenwich.
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To begin addressing Cabots traffic problems, Mayor Eddie Joe Williams has asked traffic experts to come up with four or five projects that would help the most, cost the least and be completed the fastest. To pay for the work, Williams proposes using $2 million in bond money for streets that voters approved in Sept. 2005 as part of a $30 million bond issue funded by extending a 1-cent sales tax. But with smart planning, he thinks he can turn $2 million into $10 million with federal matching funds. Initially, the plan for about $250,000 of the citys $2 million in street money was to extend Elm Street, which is now only a right-of-way. Proponents said it would keep traffic off Highway 89, making it possible to drive from 10th Street to Freds on Second Street without getting into heavy traffic.
The city had already declared eminent domain and taken the right-of- way at a cost of about $90,000. The project was engineered and ready to start in November when the city council simply said no, letting the new council decide if the street was needed. The ordinance to start the street that was tabled in November and again in December was sent to the public works committee for review when the new council met earlier this week. But Williams says he has no intention of extending Elm Street at this time.
He would rather use the available $2 million as the 20 percent match needed for 80 percent federally funded projects. In short, he wants to leverage the citys $2 million into $10 million. Its seed money, he said. The experts working on the plan he has requested are with Metroplan, which distributes federal highway funds. Metroplan recently gave the mayor a draft of a study identifying street improvements totaling $208 million in construction costs alone, not counting engineering fees.
Williams says somewhere in that multitude of projects costing so much that they are completely out of reach must be a few that will give what he is looking for: the biggest bang for the buck. If there is a drawback to the plan, it is the time limit for using the $2 million. Dale Walker, budget manager for the clerk-treasurer, said as he understands it, the work needs to begin within three years of the time the bonds were sold. Its already been more than a year, which gives the new mayor only two years to come up with his list of projects and get the work started. He says he is up to the challenge. The city also has about $1 million in bond money to use as a match for a railroad overpass beginning at the north edge of the industrial park on Highway 367 and ending at the northeast corner of Shiloh subdivision on Highway 38.
That project is the first phase of a proposed three-phase project approved by the Highway Department in December 2002. The second phase is an interchange onto U.S. 67-167 and the third would link the interchange to Highway 5. The new mayor was one of the council members who worked on a committee to get approval for a railroad overpass. Officials with the Highway Department said they would not even consider the overpass without including a third interchange to help with the traffic load, he said.
About 20,000 cars pass through downtown Cabot every day. The recently released study says the proposed interchange would take 4,000 to 5,000 vehicles out of downtown. The value of the overpass and interchange is questioned by some, especially members of a county level committee, who developed their own plan to control traffic in Cabot. Williams has planned a traffic summit for Feb. 23. Expected to attend are U.S. Rep. Marion Berry, state Rep. Susan Schulte, state Sen. Bobby Glover, Dan Flowers, who runs the Highway Department, and Jim McKenzie of Metroplan.
One of the activities planned for the day is the groundbreaking for the railroad overpass which is now estimated to cost about $7 million. But what Williams says he hopes will come out of the day is commitment from those in attendance to help the city pay for some of the work that needs to be done. He needs the state government to help improve existing roads and he needs the federal government to help with new construction, he said.


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It is well known that the human heart has a limited capacity for regeneration after myocardial infarction. Although heart transplantation is a therapeutic option, it is restricted due to a lack of suitable donor organs. Even in the case of a successful transplantation, the resultant lifelong immune suppression causes a number of serious side effects. Therefore, myocardium tissues artificially reconstructed using tissue engineering techniques provide a new muscle material for tissue replacement therapy [
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Primary neonatal rat cardiomyocytes were isolated using a neonatal cardiomyocyte isolation kit (Worthington Biochemical, Lakewood, NJ, USA) according to the published procedure [
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Magnetite (Fe3O4; average particle size, 10 nm) used as the core of MCLs was obtained from Toda Kogyo (Hiroshima, Japan). Cationic liposomes of MCLs were composed of
Isolated cardiomyocytes were suspended in medium containing the MCLs (0, 25, 50, 100 and 200 μg/mL) at a cell density of 1 × 106 cells/mL and incubated for 1 h at 4 °C. To determine the amount of MCLs captured by the cells, MCL-labeled cells were collected by centrifugation, and the iron concentration within the cell pellets was measured using the potassium thiocyanate method [
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After seven days of culture, the cardiac tissue rings were washed three times with phosphatebuffered saline (PBS) and fixed in 4% paraformaldehyde (PFA). For scanning electron microscopy (SEM), the tissue was imaged using a microscope (VE-9800; Keyence, Osaka, Japan). For histological analysis, the cardiac rings were embedded in paraffin. Thin sections (4 μm) were stained with hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) [
After 7-day culture, the cardiac tissue ring was hooked around two stainless steel pins (0.3 mm diameter; Shiga). Here, one of the pins was attached to a force transducer (AE-801; SonorOne, Sausalito, CA, USA), and the other was connected to a micro-manipulator. During testing, the medium was maintained at 30–32 °C using a heated aluminum platform (HI-1000; AsOne, Osaka, Japan). Electric pulses were controlled by a personal computer with specially designed LabView software (National instruments, Austin, TX, USA), and the applied electric pulse and measured force were recorded to the same computer. The tissues were electrically stimulated at a voltage of 1 V/mm with a pulse duration of 10 ms. For the investigation of the effect of tissue stretch on contractile force, the tissues were strained from 0 to 20% of original length (12 mm). To determine the effect of calcium concentration on contractile force, media containing various calcium concentrations (0–15 mM) were prepared from calcium-free medium containing 5 mM
All data are expressed as means ± SD. Statistical comparisons were evaluated using one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA). A difference was considered to be significant when the calculated
In our previous study, in order to magnetically label cells, MCLs were added to cells that had adhered onto the culture surfaces. In the present study, cardiomyocytes were labeled with MCLs by incubating the cells with MCLs in suspension to avoid cell damage at the cell harvest using a digestive enzyme (
Because tissues that are designed to have a cylindrical geometry facilitate the evaluation of muscle tissues, ring-shaped cardiac tissues were constructed by combining Mag-TE and ECM-based techniques according to a procedure illustrated in
The dynamic strength of tissues is an important consideration for a wide-range of applications. In our preliminary experiment, the cardiac tissue fabricated by the Mag-TE technique without ECM addition was easily broken by minute physical damage, which may be a major issue of scaffold-free tissue engineering approaches [
In order to assess the contractile properties of the cardiac tissue rings, the rings were removed from the incubator and hooked onto a device where one of the pins was attached to a force transducer, and the other was connected to a micro-manipulator. The tissues were able to generate contractile forces in response to electrical pulses (
For the application of cardiac tissues to versatile purposes, it is necessary to enhance contractile properties by mimicking the structure of natural cardiac muscle. In the present study, the functional cell-dense tissues were successfully constructed by the present procedure. However, the unidirectional cardiomyocyte alignment, which is important for muscular tissue to generate contractile forces, might be limited at the outer surface of the ring tissues. Zimmermann and co-workers demonstrated that cyclic stretching of cardiac tissues promoted longitudinal cell orientation, leading to the induction of tissues with greater contractile forces [
We developed a 3D cardiac tissue model by combining Mag-TE with ECM-based procedures. The cardiac tissue rings fabricated by this method exhibited several advantages: (1) the cardiomyocytes within the tissues were densely packed and distributed homogeneously, and partially showed unidirectional alignment; (2) the cardiac tissues had sufficient strength for manipulation, and (3) the cardiac tissues showed spontaneous contraction and were also electrically excitable. Thus, we believe that the cardiac tissue model established in this study may be a promising platform applicable for various purposes.
One of the authors (H.A.) is a research fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). This work was supported in part by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (nos. 09J02784 and 21686079) from JSPS.
A procedure for fabrication of a cardiac tissue ring by combining Mag-TE and ECM-based techniques. A mixture of diluted ECM precursor and MCL-labeled cardiomyocytes was cast into a well of a 24-well ultra-low attachment plate containing a polycarbonate cylinder fixed in the center of each well. Immediately thereafter, a magnet was placed underneath the wells to attract the MCL-labeled cardiomyocytes to the culture bottom, enabling the removal of excess amounts of ECM precursor from the upper side of the formed cell layer. The remaining ECM within the cell layer was then hardened, and the medium was added. During the culture, the cell layer gradually shrank towards the cylinder, resulting in the formation of ring-shaped cardiac tissue.
MCL-labeling of cardiomyocytes. (
Cardiac tissue rings fabricated by combining Mag-TE and ECM-based procedures. (
Contractile behavior of cardiac tissue rings. Electrical stimuli (10 ms, 1 V/mm) were applied at frequencies of 1 (
Functional analyses of cardiac tissue rings. (


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For all of you Quote Collectors
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- We have another Quote Collector among us - Katherine
Douglas on Art Educators' list...If anyone wants to
jump over to get her posts first hand let me know.
I do pass on many of her "gems" to all lists.
From Katherine:
I am a collector of great quotes, or 'nuggets" as I
call them. Here are a few that I had posted to our
web log ("blog") whose web address follows my
signature. Hope these can help in some way.
"What does one want to `say' about what one has
experienced? What is the point from which the work
builds? Attention to such matters in classrooms is
often neglected. One of the most important pedagogical
tasks is to help students formulate something to say
that matters to them."
by Elliot W. Eisner
New Haven: Yale University Press 2002
Many random quotes from George Szekely in his 1988
book ENCOURAGING CREATIVITY IN ART LESSONS (Teachers
College Press)
" Professional artists take pride in discovering their
own ideas for art, regarding innovation as essential
and imitation as deadly."
"The essential goal of art teaching is to inspire
children to behave like artists--to try on the
artist's role--to feel what it is to gather an art
idea on one's own and act on it. The goal is to reveal
to children that art comes from within themselves--not
from the teacher. The goal is to demystify art, and
assure children, through the teacher's deeds and
words, that art is found in familiar places and
ordinary environments, accessible
to everyone. It is to bring children closer to
art--nearer to themselves, to their own views and
"...art is not like most other school subjects. Most
subjects are primarily concerned with traditional
knowledge; art making is concerned with making an
original response to immediate experience."
"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing
its best, night and day, to make you like everybody
else, is to fight the hardest battle any human being
can fight, and never stop fighting." e.e. cummings
(source unknown; I have had this quote forever)
In (NAEA Fellow) Peter London's new book DRAWING
CLOSER TO NATURE he states that "Art is a holistic
language that is uttered from the mind, body and
spirit. In this way, art is a perfect form of
_expression with which to imagine, investigate,
propose, and engage in a new word view...art and the
creative process are seen as an entirely natural and
universal method of forming meaning..." (p. 2)
Kathy Douglas
Judith - Who is now, thanks to Widow "Red" Bryant the
Dollmaker - proud to be "Somebody's Weirdo". Here is
my Widow "Red" Bryant quote.
"Everybody is somebody else's weirdo."
Don't know if all of the symbols will translate - but
it is a wavey line.
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