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FOX Business: Capitalism Lives Here
A selloff that started in Asia, and then bled into Europe, was poised to cascade into U.S. markets as worries swirl over how long central bank easing can continue.
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Today's Markets
As of 8:05 a.m. ET, Dow Jones Industrial Average futures tumbled 114 points to 15113, S&P 500 futures skidded 14.8 points to 1627 and Nasdaq 100 futures retreated 26 points to 2961.
For Wall Street, central bank news often trumps all other headlines. Such was the case on the day as traders received concerning signals from the Bank of Japan and the European Central Bank.
The BOJ has pledged to push hard to push inflation up to 2%. Thus far, the policy has sent the country's benchmark stock-market index surging close to 30% for the year, and sparked a collapse in the yen that could help the struggling economy. However, shares there sold off sharply after the BOJ said it would hold policy steady for the moment despite recent volatility in long-term Japanese government bonds.
Meanwhile, the German Constitutional Court begins its two-day hearing on whether the European Central Bank's purchasing of sovereign bonds during the eurozone debt crisis is legal. ECB President Mario Draghi's pledge to do whatever it takes to keep borrowing costs from spiking has been a method the central bank has used to get the crisis under control.
"While no ruling is expected this week, the Constitutional Court hearing over the next couple of days is another reminder that the ECB continues to tread a fine line between signaling to markets that its firepower is unlimited (hence the backstop credible), while being required to work within the constraints of the legal/institutional framework," economists at Nomura wrote to clients.
Still, Jan Hatzius, Goldman Sachs' (NYSE:GS) chief U.S. economist told the investment bank's clients Monday that the Federal Reserve, seen as the world's most powerful central bank, is likely to continue its bond-buying operation through December. He also noted that the recent "good news is bad news" theme on Wall Street is overdone, and that the U.S. economy "isn't doing that well" yet.
Also on the economic front, there is a report due at 10:00 a.m. ET on wholesale inventories. The gauge is forecast to have ticked up 0.2% in April from February.
Elsewhere, commodities were sharply lower. The benchmark U.S. crude oil contract tumbled $1.21, or 1.3%, to $94.56 a barrel. Wholesale New York Harbor gasoline dropped 1.3% to $2.81 a gallon. In metals, gold dipped $11.20, or 0.81%, to $1,374 a troy ounce.
In corporate news, Dole (NYSE:DOLE) CEO David Murdock offered to buy the rest of the company he doesn't already own for $12 a share in cash. Shares surged on the news.
Foreign Markets
The Euro Stoxx 50 sold off by 2.1% o 2664, the English FTSE 100 dropped 1.7% to 6292 and the German DAX tumbled 1.7% to 8165.
In Asia, the Japanese Nikkei 225 sunk 1.5% to 13318 and the Chinese Hang Seng skidded 1.2% to 21355.


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Activities: Tuesday 5-7pm Elsdale Hall E9 6PW fix & ride Thursday 6-8pm - cycle maintenance, Fawcett Estate E5 9DG. Saturday (1) 9.30am-12 - cycle rides out from the Concorde Centre, Homerton E9 5PP. Membership/consent forms are available at all of our sites. To enable more quality cycling for all, these projects are fully funded and free of charge.
2017 is Interlinkx CiC & CC Hackney's tenth year.
Interlinx CiC, is also responsible for CC Hackney's HQ/house and home as well as leading on fund raising & community outreach. It's been ten years since founding in 2007. Our partner organisation (CC Hackney) came into being later in the same year.
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text: Hi, all. It's that time again, the time I find my self working around the clock (on weekend) moving sites away from bad hardware to new hardware. (Server that all ready has a working ISPC3 cluster.) It struck me (again) how long this current ISPC3 configuration takes to move. Primarily the reason for this is that the Databases and sites have cNumber prefix. This prevents me from simply copying them all from the old server to the new server. (That would take only a couple of minutes instead of hours that it takes now.) I understand the reason to have a prefix that defines the Database and the site uniquely. Couldn't that prefix be a date though? I would give my left arm for that now. Then I could move all the sites with just a few commands. COMMAND "Hear my rant and obey!"


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Factory Five XCR Custom Touring Bike
Damn, would you look at this thing? Talk about a beautiful bicycle that's as functional as it is eye-catching. This custom built touring bike was just finished for a F5 customer who plans to spend the next few years trekking the globe; and what a fine machine to do so on. The frame is a custom-built Factory Five Columbus XCR stainless steel touring frame and topped with a lovely mix of brushed and clear-coat finish. As you'll see in the photos below, each and every cable is internally routed, which could be an advantage or drawback…depending on your preferences.
As far as components go, it's no holds barred; the bling level here is real. You've got a Dura Ace 9000 11 speed grouppo, H Plus Son Archetypes to a Supernova up front and Chris King in the rear, ENVE cockpit and saddle, Brooks C17 saddle, and an E3 Pro 2 headlamp & tail light. Oh, and don't forget The Plug III.
This is easily one of the raddest touring bikes I've seen in a while. While the STI shifters and 11-speed drivetrain would make me nervous while touring, they don't detract from drool factor…this thing is supreme! Check out a few more shots below.


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That up there isn't some joke image someone tossed up on Tumblr. It's a real photo, taken from the Library of Congress' video game collection, and it features vintage strategy guides, rebound and preserved for the ages.
The image was taken from a recent in-house interview held on the Library's site, which goes into detail on how old games are actually being stored, including the tricky solution to breaking down bulky old PC boxes so that every last piece of cardboard can be saved.
An example shown is Fallout 2, and how the box, warranty, inserts and marketing all have to be isolated and re-packaged to fit with the library's catalogue standards.
According to David Gibson, a Moving Image Technician, there are now over 3000 games packaged like this, and over 1500 strategy guides. You can check out the full interview, including shots of Day of the Tentacle boxes, below.
Yes, The Library of Congress Has Video Games: An Interview with David Gibson [Library of Congress]


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THURSDAY, Aug. 13, 2009 (HealthDay News) -- Exercise helps improve symptoms of fatigue and depression experienced by leukemia patients who are undergoing treatment, a new study shows.
It included 10 people who did individualized exercise sessions while in the hospital for the three to five weeks of the induction phase of leukemia treatment. The sessions included aerobic and resistance exercises, core exercises and light stretches that were tailored to each person's fitness level and leukemia symptoms.
When they were discharged from the hospital, the participants were given an aerobic-based exercise program to use during their two-week home recovery period.
They were assessed at the start of the study and after they'd completed the exercise program.
"We found that the patients experienced significant reduction in total fatigue and depression scores, as well as improved cardiorespiratory endurance and maintenance of muscular endurance," Claudio Battaglini, an assistant professor of exercise and sport science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a member of the university's Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, said in a university news release.
"This is important because of the numerous side effects related to cancer treatment, and particularly leukemia treatment, which requires confinement to a hospital room for four to six weeks to avoid the risk of infection," Battaglini said. "We have demonstrated that these patients not only can complete an exercise program in the hospital, but that they may receive both physiological and psychological benefits that could assist in their recovery."
The study was published in the current issue of Integrative Cancer Therapies.
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The U.S. National Cancer Institute has more about leukemia.


text: June 24, 2014 at 6:42 AM Thief steals Model A from churchgoer, crashes it Posted by Nick Provenza PRINEVILLE, Ore. (AP) — Central Oregon authorities say a 79-year-old man took his 1930 Ford Model A coupe to church on Sunday to show it off. But when he left it so he could get a bite of lunch, sheriff's deputies say it was stolen and crashed into the Crooked River south of Prineville. Photos show the… More Comments | More in General news, The Blotter | Topics: Model A, Ore., Prineville


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FDA safety policy targets painkiller prescriptions
A new safety plan from the FDA is an attempt to cut down on the abuse of painkillers, something the Colorado health community has been working on for years.
Deaths from prescription painkiller use have doubled in a decade in Colorado.
Under the new federal safety plan, drugmakers must fund training programs to help health professionals safely prescribe painkillers, including morphine, methadone and oxycodone. Thousands of Americans die from overdoses of the drugs each year.
Inappropriate use of the drugs was linked to 425,000 emergency department visits and 15,600 deaths in 2009, the AP reported.
Drug companies will have to offer training for doctors who prescribe the drugs, and the training will be designed by professional health educators – not the drug companies.


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Every socialite want to be seen on the club scene. In order to avoid standing in line or paying for anything, I recommend always going with a promoter. New York's hot clubs such as 1OAK, Griffin, and SL all offer the Aspiring Socialite an elegant decor that serves as a backdrop for pictures along with a great place to potentially rub elbows with the rich and famous. Though everyone seems to think that you need to be wearing the latest Dior and Chanel to go clubbing in New York, that's simply not true. Just combine basics with a few eye-catching accessories and a smokey eye and you're ready to go.
Based on my experience, here are the top 3 things you need to be a mogul on the club scene:
1. The 3 basic dress designs you need to have on hand for your frequent trips to the club are: a little black dress (obviously,) a little red dress, and a sequin dress.
2. Mix and match them with sequin heels, red heels, and black heels.
3. No socialite wants to be lugging around or overshadowed by a huge bag while out on the town. Therefore, a good collection of tiny purses and clutches are essential. I prefer clutches with a handle. The ones without handles or straps are cute, but I'm always afraid I'm going to lose them so you'll rarely see me with one.
Nightclub etiquette tips:
- Have fun, but always be on high alert. For every fabulous person at the club, there is an equally unfabulous unsavory character. Always keep an eye on your belongings and stay far away from creepy guys. An Aspiring Socialite always needs to watch out for both scary people and celebrities.
- Do not wear jeans. When I'm at a club and they start letting in people wearing jeans, I leave.
- Bouncers may be a pain and often give you attitude from no reason, but it doesn't work to your advantage to give them attitude back. After all, they're probably just sad that they have to work outside in the cold while everyone else has fun. Be nice and introduce yourself in spite of the attitude. Once you're on a first named basis, you'll never have a problem skipping the line.


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Exploring The Factories Where All Our Gadgets Are Made
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While I won't go into all of the details of the story, there were two separate points that I found especially interesting. The first was what maybe seemed like a minor aside in Daisey's monologue: that almost all the work done in these factories is done by hand. He noted that, in his imagination, if he ever really thought about these plants, he imagined them being like the robotic Japanese auto plants he'd seen videos about years ago -- only the robots would be smaller, since the gadgets are smaller than cars. But, the truth is that everything is done by hand -- and that's, in part, because labor is so ridiculously cheap in China. And then he notes that we always hear people who decry the fact that everything is mass produced by these machines, and clamor for handmade products. And he notes that, perhaps, we don't really want handmade products -- because all these gadgets really are handmade, and it's not a pleasant experience.
The second point, however, goes in a different direction. It comes during the "fact check" portion of the show, in which multiple observers -- including Paul Krugman and Nicholas Kristof -- note that, for as bad as the factories may seem relative to what we have today in the US, the conditions and opportunities are significantly better than where those workers came from. Furthermore, another commentator notes, over the last few years, conditions at these plants has been improving -- and it isn't necessarily because of pressure from companies or the government instituting any kind of labor reforms. It is, instead, because competition for workers has increased -- and turnover is massive: in some cases upwards of 20% per month. That's an insane level of turnover -- and a costly one. Even in a "sweatshop" type setting, the costs of replacing a worker can be high, and the end result is that these companies do have incentives to improve, and to offer a better deal and better conditions in factories. None of this is to excuse the dangerous working conditions (in some cases easily avoidable), the physical neglect of employees, or the occasional employment of under-age workers. But it does make you wonder what the "solution" to all of this would be. Daisey says the answer is labor standards -- and that may very well be a workable solution. But it might also mean that some of the workers, who start from the same place as those who were able to build themselves up from incredibly poor to a form of middle class, might never get that chance.
It's a situation where there certainly aren't easy answers. Personally, I think that if there were more transparency (and perhaps shows like this one can help), that could drive social pressure to improve the worst of the worst working conditions, as companies should be reasonably ashamed for abusing their employees'. And that level of transparency itself can come from social pressure. Indeed, while Apple and Foxconn refused to take part in the show, Apple (at least) has been continuously pressured to be more transparent about these things, and (as the episode notes) in some ways it does do a lot more than other companies -- though many would argue not nearly enough. In the end, hopefully pressure both from competitive forces for workers along with public pressure to stop horrible treatment can lead to a situation where the conditions in these factories really do significantly improve. And maybe, in the end, that actually does lead to more automation, and the miniaturized robotic automobile factories Daisey imagined. And then people can really complain about a lack of handmade goods. But, it might just be better for the employees themselves in the long run.


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Early in 1978 an advertisement seeking "only the best writers in the world" ran in major newspapers throughout the country. It promised that those hired could set their own hours, design their own offices, and name their own salaries. The ad was obviously tempting. But even without that challenge to arrogance and those flowery promises, I still had good reason to apply.
For 1978 was a time of hyperinflation, the energy crisis, oil-spill-soaked and DDT-destroyed bird life, proliferating nuclear power plants, an exploding world population, and rising crime and pollution in big cities like Paris, New York, and San Francisco, where this small-town, Southern girl had spent most of her adult life. Then, too, in my years as a travel writer, I'd seen firsthand the ecological rape, poisoning, pollution, and thoughtless development of many of the world's loveliest places. To say I was appalled is an understatement.
Moreover, in this environmental wasteland, one of the strongest voices for the planet and all its life-forms was MOTHER EARTH NEWS, the magazine that placed the ad.
MOTHER's Early Years
Approaching environmental problems from a down-to-earth, practical, how-to standpoint, MOTHER was a pioneer in providing solutions to the energy crunch and promoting recycling, family farms, saner agricultural practices, better eating habits, medical self-care, more meaningful education, affordable housing, and, in the process, offered a platform for some of the most far-thinking minds of the day.
One of the most persuasive voices in those days was that of John Shuttleworth, who, with his wife, Jane, had started the magazine "on a shoestring" in 1970. In March 1975 he wrote: "For at least 20 years now, I've been getting an increasingly uncomfortable suspicion that all the major nations of the world—capitalist and communist—suffer from the narrow delusion that only people, and people alone, have any rights on this planet. Further, that human wants, needs, and desires—seemingly the more capricious the better—should be instantly gratified. And further still, that this can always be done in a strictly economic frame of reference.
"In short, I think that we live in an unbelievably marvelous Garden of Eden. Surrounded by miraculous life-forms almost without number. Kept alive by a mysteriously interwoven, self-replenishing support system that, with all our scientific 'breakthroughs,' we still do not understand.
"And yet, as favored as we are by all this real wealth, we somehow perversely prefer to spend almost all waking hours interpreting the sum total of this reality in terms of the narrow and distorted, strictly human-centered concept of money.
"Civilization, it seems, is just another word for 'lunatic asylum.'
"You've got to be collectively crazy when you belong to a species that can casually assemble enough nuclear weapons to totally destroy all the life on earth a hundred times over. Or breed and stockpile more than enough special strains of anthrax and God knows what other super-diseases to do the same thing. Or completely—and, again, casually—exterminate other whole species for the manufacture of lipsticks and rectal suppositories. Or ransom the lives of the next 20,000 generations with atomic waste just so this generation can continue doubling its consumption of electricity every 10 years.
"'I am something special,' man tells himself. 'I will prove it by conquering nature.' But as one of his number is later to observe, 'Nature is always passive. It, therefore, can never be defeated. It can only be destroyed.'"
(Two years later, in the May/June 1977 issue, guru Stephen Gaskin refused to let the world get by on a "lunatic" theory or the insanity plea. "There's no such thing as crazy," he remarked, "because we all have free will, and we're doing what we want to do. That's how you can tell what somebody wants to do, because that's what they're doing.")
Joining MOTHER's Staff
One Sunday, less than a week after answering MOTHER's ad, I received a phone call from John Shuttleworth. It was not my writing background but rather my travel background that interested him, because he was thinking about setting up world tours so readers could see for themselves that the planet was worth saving. Six weeks later, I was in the USSR, scouting out health spas in the Soviet Union for a tour that would concentrate on natural cures (still used there today). The following July, with all the worldly possessions I thought I couldn't live without in five boxes and two suitcases in the back of a nine-year-old pickup, I arrived in the western North Carolina mountains (surely one of the world's loveliest areas) to become a full-time member of MOTHER's staff.
Initially, I found the ad had lied. The magazine was housed in a huge, mazelike former dress factory. There was no central heat or air-conditioning, and the people-packed building mostly windowless. In order to put out a publication that carried an average of more than 80 articles and columns an issue, the work demands often stretched into the wee hours of the mornings and through the weekends. And, at the time, there were only two editor/writers, recently arrived Bruce Woods and Richard Freudenberger, who had answered the same ad I had. Any fears of a writer's block quickly melted under the necessity of single-handedly researching, writing, or extensively editing some 20 or more articles and columns an issue, while at the same time planning, putting together, and escorting tours.
The bit about "naming your own salary" also turned into an office joke, but the pay has been good enough for staff members to realize their particular version of a "home in the country," with everyone putting to good use those wonderful gardening, crafts, food, livestock, pet, building, and energy tips that have become staples in the magazine over the years.
There were other compensations, however, more unbelievable than the ad ever promised. First and foremost were the memorable, intelligent, dedicated, loyal, hardworking, life-loving characters who have graced the magazine's masthead—some briefly, some for years, some still here. They weren't the types to just preach about saving Earth and all its life-forms. MOTHER's old motto, More than a magazine…a way of life, applied most of all to its staff members and their support of each other. In joys and sorrows, through marriages, divorces, deaths, family losses, accidents, sickness, and the births of boodles of babies, the love and understanding of this extended family has been there for every one of us.
Then, of course, there was the work itself. You might interview a famous person one day and study the subtleties of birthing piglets, making compost, or sharpening chain saws the next. And no matter how much you learned, there was not an interview conducted, a trip taken, an article written that wasn't on some level an education in itself. As a result, there hasn't been a morning in the past 12 years when I've thought. Do I have to go to work today? It's always been a pleasure.
And, finally, there were the readers—hundreds of thousands strong and loyal to a fault. Over the years, you've been as responsive to our needs as we've tried to be to yours. But, oh, how quick you've been to let us know when we didn't live up to your, or our own, expectations! You've always been our best source of information and inspiration.
The Golden Age of MOTHER EARTH NEWS
On October 31, 1978, four months after I arrived at MOTHER, John Shuttleworth, an overworked genius suffering a well-earned burnout, turned the editorial leadership of the magazine over to Bruce Woods. It was an excellent choice, because, during 12 strenuous years, Bruce never wavered from his deep and protective respect for the publication's principles, as well as for its staff. Always accessible to help solve the slightest problem, he gave us complete trust and creative freedom. In fact, one often hesitated to express an innovative idea, because the answer was likely to be, "Great! Go do it!" and you'd realize you'd added to your already heavy work load.
A little over a year later, John made it possible for Bruce and two other employees to buy the publication. For me, that signaled the arrival of the "Golden Age of MOTHER."
Subscriptions soared from around 600,000 to over a million, and we began to exert real influence on environmental legislation. The Eco-Village, a 600-acre research center, was in full swing with vast experimental gardens, houses, and energy projects. Twenty thousand people each summer took our seminars on everything from beekeeping to cordwood construction. MOTHER's radio show blanketed the air-ways, and our alternative-fuel vehicles crisscrossed the nation and became regular items on local and national television news shows.
Best of all, talented, innovative editors were hired to ease the work load, leaving me time for my particular interest, MOTHER's "Tours That Teach." These trips offered opportunities to explore solar energy in Israel and alcohol-fuel production in Brazil; to the South Pacific as well as Tanzania's wildlife and Rwanda's mountain gorillas, with ecologists and MOTHER'scolumnists Anne and Paul Ehrlich. Readers rafted with us on wild Alaskan rivers; hiked the Alps; trekked in Nepal and Lahdak; biked Southern China, Inner Mongolia, and Sri Lanka; met the top crafts people in Scandinavia and Kathmandu; and much more.
Then in 1982 I bought a personal computer and started to do most of my writing at home. Other editors soon followed suit, and the original promise of "working your own hours, designing your own office" finally came true. Instead of having to leave my house overlooking a small lake for a 45-minute, gas-consuming, air-polluting commute to the office, I can simply throw open the double-glass doors leading from my study to a deck and get to work. From my keyboard I'm able to watch the birds flit through the treetops and can listen to the sound of a rhododendron-surrounded waterfall down below.
MOTHER EARTH NEWS in the Reagan Era
Less than four years after President Ronald Reagan was elected, the magazine began to feel the effect of his policies. Simple-living back-to-the-landers were evolving into the "me generation," and the importance of that "narrow and distorted, strictly human concept of money" became even more exaggerated as individuals and governments alike began to borrow heavily to instantly gratify capricious human wants, needs, and desires. Gas lines and inflation were (temporarily, at least) things of the past and quickly forgotten, as were disasters like Three Mile Island and Love Canal. (With 30,000 hazardous-waste sites identified as dangerous around the country, any additional toxic spills and contamination caused little more than local outrage. We're also just now learning that Three Mile Island was a much closer call than we thought in 1979.)
The Reagan Era was assessed in our March/April 1983 issue by Russell Peterson, former Delaware governor and head of the National Audubon Society, who during the Nixon-Ford administrations chaired the President's Council on Environmental Quality and who served under Jimmy Carter as director of the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment:
"I think we were moving ahead nicely until Ronald Reagan became president. In the late '60s and early '70s, young people began to protest en masse what we were doing to pollute our air, water, and land, and soon their parents came to agree with them. The net result of such widespread concern was a remarkable set of environmental laws passed during a 10-year period: the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Endangered Species Act, the Toxic Substance Control Act, the Surface Mining and Reclamation Act, the Wilderness Act, and others. Most of this legislation was accomplished because it had bipartisan support. Some of it even passed unanimously, simply because the people demanded it.
"Then along came Ronald Reagan, and all this progress got seriously threatened by his attempt to carry out an anticonservation coup in the country. During his campaign, he said that environmental regulations were detrimental to the economy, so we should free up the exploiters of our natural resources, and the country would prosper by the upsurge in business activity. Of course, he didn't use those exact words, but that was his real intent.…Even Reagan's infamous statement about trees polluting more than smokestacks provoked little more than a temporary flurry of editorial cartoons.
"I supported Carter for reelection in 1980 because I knew he understood environmental issues in depth. Reagan, on the other hand, is an ecological illiterate. I knew he was an anticonservationist. When we were both governors, he liked to belittle conservationists; he would come right out and refer to environmentalists as 'those kooks.' Still, I had no idea that—once in office—he would carry out such a sweeping attack on the environment. The foxes now run the henhouse."
We soon felt the fallout of those policies and the changed attitudes. By 1984, subscriptions had dropped. Paper, printing, and postage costs continued their upward spiral. Many advertisers mistakenly began to view us as a backward-looking, hippie publication. Revenues shrank, and the Eco-Village had to be closed. A painful staff layoff followed, though our gardeners, Susan and Franklin Sides, kept a small but equally valid research garden near their home. MOTHER's tours became another victim, partly because the editorial staff needed to be cut, too, and I was needed full-time as a writer and an editor, but partly because the "me generation" had also become the "stay home generation"—a xenophobia fueled by Reagan's Evil Empire mentality and his chest-pounding Ramboesque chauvinism.
By late 1985, the magazine faced very tough going. Then, young and energetic Owen Lipstein came to the rescue. Five years earlier, he had, like John Shuttleworth, started a magazine, American Health, on a shoestring, riding the crest of the 1980s' concern with personal health and fitness to remarkable success. Bruce Woods stayed on as editor of MOTHER, and computer technology, express mail, and fax machines allowed the editorial staff to remain in the North Carolina mountains, though this meant additional trimming of other types of staff. "Lean and mean," it's called in the corporate world.
But, again, there were compensations. Wrapped in a new package and graced with the talent of top photographers. MOTHER EARTH NEWS' sane, planet-saving, lifesaving, cost-saving, how-to themes attracted both old and new readers and advertisers alike. By 1988 it had the fastest-growing advertising revenues of any magazine in the country, even while, editorially, it was still keeping the faith and showing the way.
The Environmental Era
Like all vital, living things, the magazine will continue to evolve. As this is being written, Bruce Woods has just "retired" to help raise his long-awaited firstborn, Ethan, and will finally get to spend more time enjoying the outdoor sports he loves and has written about so well in MOTHER's pages.
Alfred Meyer, who joined us in North Carolina a couple of years ago to put out our American Country specials and who stayed on staff to write our "Open Road" column, has stepped in as the new editor-in-chief with his own special vision, one that will unfold in the issues ahead.
And the climate is changing too: both literally, as in the greenhouse effect and the thinning ozone layer, and figuratively, as disasters—such as Chernobyl, syringe-polluted beaches, the Exxon Valdez oil spill, and the Alar/apple scare—have put the environment on media front pages and made it the number-one priority of people worldwide. Suddenly at MOTHER we are no longer "those kooks," and the children of the '60s generation are, once more, putting quality ahead of quantity.
But whether, in the future, we're considered a magazine of either the fringe or the mainstream, MOTHER EARTH NEWS will remain dedicated to two main tasks John Shuttleworth defined in the early years: "Help people take back control of their lives, and ease us all into placing the interest of the planet over and above the personal greed that contemporary society rewards so lavishly."
Finally, there is every reason to take heart, for the environmental movement, lately reenergized, is here to stay. So, for that matter, is MOTHER EARTH NEWS.


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BOSTON, Mass. - MIT men's cross country, who has been ranked as high as fourth in the nation in the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) poll, claimed its 16th consecutive New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) title on a rainy Saturday afternoon at Franklin Park. Tech has claimed the NEWMAC trophy every year since the inception of the conference in 1998.
The Engineers wrapped up the Championships with 18 points, improving significantly on last year's performance, where they finished with 33 points. Coast Guard came in second place with 44 points and WPI was third with 96. MIT took eight of the top 12 positions, with all of those runners earning All-Conference accolades. Senior Roy Wedge (Lawrence, Kan.), who came in third place last year, finished first in the 8k with his time of 25:07.19 and was named NEWMAC Runner of the Year for his performance. Sophomore Matthew Deyo (Manlius, N.Y.) came in directly behind Wedge with a 25:30.94.
Following close behind in fourth place was freshman Rory Beyer (San Mateo, Calif.) in his first conference championship appearance, finishing with a time of 25:38.96, coming in just three seconds behind Gary Ezzo of Coast Guard and earning NEWMAC Rookie of the Year honors. Juniors Allen Leung (Arcadia, Calif.) and Benji Xie (El Dorado Hills, Calif.) came in fifth and sixth place with their times of 25:40.18 and 25:51.47 respectively.
Closing out the top 14 performers were sophomore Ian Tolan (Binghamton, N.Y.) in 10th with a 26:07.94, freshman Matt McEachern (San Diego, Calif.) in 11th in 26:12.03 and junior Matt Jordan (Matthews, N.C.) in 12th with a time of 26:16.72.
Tech will return to the cross country trail in just under two weeks when it travels to the University of Southern Maine for the second time this season for the New England Division III Regional Championships, which will take place on Saturday, Nov. 16.
To watch an interview with Roy Wedge, click here
To watch an interview with Coach Taylor, click here
To watch the 2013 NEWMAC Men's Cross Country Highlight Video, click here


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Designer Spotlight: Jeremiah Brent
If you've been watching this season of The Rachel Zoe Project, then you know Jeremiah as the adorable new stylist trying his hand in the fashion world. As we watched him flounder and bumble through his first few episodes, we discovered that his true talents lie in the interior design world.
As a self-taught artist, Jeremiah's passion for designing and building furniture catapulted him into a successful career. Founding his own design firm and building a celebrity clientele, he says he became a little burnt out and had always wanted to try his hand in the fashion world. While styling may not be his calling, he was able to flex his design muscles decorating Zoe's new Hollywood home. The finished product (revealed here) proves that he's definitely the one to watch.
Images 1-3 above are from Jeremiah's portfolio; images 4 & 5 are of Rachel Zoe's home, decorated by Brent. Here's hoping that Jeremiah finds that interior design passion again... quickly!
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RENTON, Wash. – Packers-Bears. Steelers-Browns. Cowboys vs. anybody in the NFC East.
Those are long-standing NFL rivalries.
Add to them 49ers-Seahawks, with a history of nastiness emanating from the college ranks for their coaches, and a hefty animosity built up in annual doubleheaders in their division. Now, they meet for a spot in the Super Bowl.
Are those hard feelings for real?
"I think so, but it'll always be that way when you have two good teams in the same division," 49ers receiver Anquan Boldin said. "You play each other a couple times a year, and if you're good enough, possibly three times a year. It was the same way when I was in Baltimore playing against Pittsburgh. You respect each other as foes, but there is really a dislike."
It's a healthy thing, really, because it makes for even more uncompromising action – on the field and on the sideline.
One of these teams will emerge Sunday from ear-splitting CenturyLink Field headed for New Jersey to play for the sport's biggest prize. The other will carry into the offseason even more loathing for this opponent.
"There is no love lost; there is no love found," said Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman, who will find himself lined up often against Boldin in the NFC championship game. "It's going to be intense. It's going to be physical. I don't know if there are going to be handshakes after this one."
That almost goes without saying with the coaches.
When 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh was at Stanford – where, incidentally, Sherman played after being recruited by current Seahawks coach Pete Carroll when he was at Southern California – he ran up the score in a 2009 win at Los Angeles that prompted Carroll to ask him at game's end: "What's your deal."
Harbaugh's deal has always revolved around being a hard-edged player and coach. His teams embody that attitude, and it certainly has worked in San Francisco. The 49ers are 41-13-1 in his three seasons in charge, are in their third straight conference title game, and back down from no one.
That can make for some uncomfortable moments, whether it's Harbaugh's overzealous handshakes and back slaps after wins, or his team playing up to (and sometimes beyond) the whistle.
Carroll claims the acrimony between them is overblown.
"For whatever reasons, you guys have had a field day with this," Carroll told reporters Thursday. "We have not been friends over the years, we just know each other through the games. We have a very confined relationship.
"I have great respect for Jim. That's it – you guys have had a blast with it."
Carroll's Seahawks aren't exactly wallflowers, either. Defensively, at least, these are the NFL's two most physical and intimidating units.
That, in turn, can lead to ill will.
"I don't hate anybody," All-Pro cornerback Sherman said. "So I don't think [there's] hate. But passion, definitely. There will be some passion, some dislike – some strong dislike. But there will be some intensity. It's playoff football.
"So even if we weren't two teams that are familiar with each other ... there's going to be a lot of intensity, a lot of chippiness, and a hard-fought game."
Where might this antipathy show most?
Try whenever Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch – his nickname, "Beast Mode," says it all about his style of play – meets up with All-Pro NaVorro Bowman and his fellow linebackers, the best group in the NFL.
Or when Boldin, among the best clutch receivers in football, uses his physicality against Sherman, safety Earl Thomas, a fellow All-Pro, and the rest of the game's top secondary.
All of the matchups for Sunday are familiar to both sides, of course. And when division foes meet for the conference title – each team won at home this season – the results hardly are predictable.
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Since the 1970 merger, there have been 15 third meetings in conference championship games, 10 of them in the AFC. In 10 of the games, the host team won. Seattle lost to Oakland in 1983 in the AFC championship; the 49ers beat the Rams in the 1983 NFC championship.


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Yes to Measure 27
In a month, Oregon voters will have the chance to vote for Measure 27, requiring labelling of genetically engineered foods. Whatever one's position on the use of genetic engineering, the idea that the public has the right to know what they are buying has a long tradition in the U.S. and is the bedrock upon which capitalism rests. The Tractor Coalition, begun by local orchardists, demanded the same right when pushing for national origin stickers on produce.
The European Union, Japan and many other countries require genetically engineered food to be labelled. Although some huge corporations here have been threatening a cost increase to add the information to the label, that increase never materialised in other countries. Currently we label food going to those other countries with labelling requirements, yet American consumers remain in the dark and unable to make informed choices. Oregon voters can set another national precedent by voting for labelling of GE foods. Vote yes on Measure 27!
Theresa North
Hood River
Tax me when ...
Yes, I will happily vote for a state income tax increase when:
1. The state makes PERS realistic by making the maximum retirement pay no more than 75 percent of working income averaged over the best three years and then only if the retiree has 30 years' service and is age 60. Also, like the military, retiree must have at least 20 years of service for any benefits.
2. Corporate income tax is the same rate as for individuals.
3. There is an across-the-board reduction in all state bureaucracies until the ratio of employees to population is at the national average or below.
4. Taxes on wine and beer are increased.
5. "Historic Properties" tax breaks are eliminated if the property is used for business (McMenamin's operated over 40 such properties with reduced taxes which is unfair to competing businesses).
6. Snow tire sales are taxed at a rate commensurate with the damage they do to highways.
But, come to think about it, if the legislature had the guts to do these things we probably wouldn't need to increase individual (family) income taxes.
Bill Jones
The Dalles
Vote Montgomery
Over the past few years, I have watched many men and women come and go in Oregon politics. I have had the pleasure to meet many of whom I am very proud to endorse. One such man who has always been a steadfast public servant is Bob Montgomery. His 30 years as a public servant have taught him the value of keeping in touch with his constituents, and in his latest bid for the Oregon State Senate, nothing has changed.
Bob understands that we are facing tough economic times. He understands that heavy tax burdens and excessive government regulations are threatening to keep our state locked in recession. We need to elect a senator who will fight for the interests of family farmers, businesses, families and residents of Hood River County. We need Bob Montgomery in Salem fighting for all of us. Please join me in voting for Bob Montgomery this Nov. 5.
Ken Jernstedt
Hood River
Cease all smoking
As I read Maria Czarnecki's letter (Sept. 14) I appreciated her sincerity. She wrote with hope that passing Measure 20 will make cigarette smoking less feasible. I don't carry that same hope. Measure 20 will definitely raise revenue for medical expenses and help fund the cost of prescriptions.
If that is the major concern, then perhaps it is worth it. But we need to make sure our objectives are clear and we are not just salving our consciences.
Shouldn't our objective be to stop people from ever smoking in the first place and end the power of the enslaver to enslave? The truth of the matter is that few, if any, people begin smoking when they are adults. No, it is as vulnerable, struggling teens that people begin smoking. I'm not saying that there shouldn't be consequences for choices made at that age, but to punish people for decisions made during their teens when we as a nation are still allowing the tobacco industry to operate legally is unconscionable. Yes, I am aware that smoking is illegal for those under the age of 18 — that was another conscience salve — but if the tobacco industry is targeting teens they know teens can easily get cigarettes.
We have slapped the tobacco industry's hands and now we are going to slap the cigarette smokers' hands. Of course, the addicted will suffer more than the addicter, but that is life. We will have made little if any impression on the rebellious, and, often, poverty stricken youth that is trying to make sense in a very confusing world. It will be another case of them and us.
So legislate and litigate, and casually throw your magazines laden with cigarette advertising on the coffee table, and watch your movies and TV shows where smoking is glamorized and rest in the assurance that you voted your conscience. Or we could take responsibility as a nation for allowing big business, including tobacco, to seduce our youth.
Oh, and by the way, what about those Budweiser billboards in the middle of our town?
Patsy McNulty
Hood River
War is wrong
Our dear president has three excellent reason for commencing a war with Iraq at this time:
1. To redeem the tarnished reputation of his father, who otherwise would go down in history as a man who lacked the will to achieve his goals;
2. To gain control of Iraq's oil deposits — second largest in the Gulf region — so they can be divvied up among Bush's oil cronies, who supported him for years in high style while they waited for him to gain political office and be in position to pay him back a thousand fold;
3. To rally America behind the President just before elections, and thus improve the election chances of Republicans running at all levels.
Then there is also the never-justified national yearning for revenge. Some foreigners killed thousands of our people, therefore we have the unchallengeable right to kill thousands of foreigners ... doesn't make any difference what nationality, or whether they had any direct connection to our loss (as the Afghan wedding party attacked by our planes could testify, were they not now mostly dead).
War is just a euphemism for mass slaughter of human beings. However, the Biblical injunction "Thou shalt not kill" was almost certainly never intended to apply to killing foreigners.
Dave Fowler
Hood River
Another Wal-Mart
I have been reading many letters in your paper both pro and con about the proposed Wal-Mart. Most contain only opinions and few facts either for or against this proposal by the world's largest corporation.
While on a recent trip through Washington state I stopped in the small community of Othello, Wash., and noticed the headlines of the local paper regarding the adverse effect a new Wal-Mart "super-center" has had on their town's small business community. It is very clear what will happen here in Hood River if this retail monster is allowed to grow larger than it already is.
Thank you for your attention to this.
Eric Skemp
Hood River
Tell the truth
With regard to your article "Cooper Spur Coalition Spars With Mt. Hood Meadows," it appears that Dave Riley targets his remarks to the Hood River Valley Residents Committee (HRVRC). Mr. Riley knows that HRVRC is only part of the Cooper Spur Wild and Free Coalition. Mr. Riley's public relations representative came to Portland to meet with leaders of the Oregon Chapter and Columbia Group of the Sierra Club and attempted the exact same maneuver. First, the representative tried to marginalize the HRVRC; then, quite contradictorily, he talked in broad terms about a "collaborative effort." We patiently sat through the presentation but when we requested specifics on Meadows' plans for the mountain, the representative, Stu Watson, stated that the Sierra Club would need to agree to a blanket confidentiality provision before details could be provided. We pointed out that this kind of request is simply contrary to the goals and mission of our organization, not to mention to any real "collaborative" effort.
The Sierra Club has over 24,000 members in Oregon. Similarly, the Coalition's member groups have far reaching membership and cannot agree to participate in closed-door confidential mediation. The Coalition is an affiliation of groups that advocates for the historic backcountry recreation area. It has taken the difficult and time-consuming step of putting together a position statement and now is eagerly awaiting Meadows' position statement on what it intends to do.
About a year ago, Meadows began circulating its plans for the Cooper Spur Area to certain members of the public in an attempt to secure early buy-in. Those massive and out-of-touch plans seriously threaten the north side of Mt. Hood. Recently Meadows has retrenched from this position in its public statements. The Coalition awaits the truth from Mt. Hood Meadows. Without the truth, how can the Coalition or any of its member groups be expected to mediate in good faith with Meadows?
Carol Porto
Sierra Club
Loss of signal
I find the article on the "new" radio station KMSW 92.7 FM very interesting. General manager of Columbia Gorge Broadcasting Gary Grossman (KMSW, KIHR, KCGB, and KACI AM and KACI FM) states, "We are looking forward to having fun and continuing our tradition of serving the community."
I'm sure Mr. Grossman along with Greg Walden, who owns Columbia Gorge Broadcasting, are very aware of the radio station that they are replacing on 92.7, KBOO, a non-profit community station out of Portland. KBOO had been on the air at the 92.7 frequency for 5 or so years. Talk about community radio — KBOO aired shows for everyone: reggae, rock, jazz, blues, veterans, Indians, gay/trans-gender, Latino, salsa, folk, cajun, hip-hop and the list goes on and on. It's so sad that this true community radio station gets bumped for another "classic rock" station; we need another classic rock station like we need a bigger better Wal-Mart — thanks but no thanks — we already have one! It's interesting how the folks on the right constantly point the finger at the "liberal media" when in fact five or six corporations own 90 percent of the media (TV and radio). We get Rush Limbaugh and Dr. Laura jammed down our throats everywhere we go, whether we want 'em or not. Heck, that left-winger Greg Walden owns five stations himself — oh, yeah, he happens to be our Republican U.S. Congressman.
You can still catch KBOO on 91.9 FM although the signal is not nearly as strong as it was on 92.7 — rock on — play "Freebird," dude!
Stephen J. Curley
Hood River
Abortion and life
When the Pharisees asked Jesus, "Which is the greatest commandment of the Law?" Jesus said, "You must love your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and first commandment, and the second is like unto the first. You must love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments hang the whole law."
Do we love our tiny neighbors who live in their mother's womb?
Abortion — Man's law. Life —- God's law.
Vote —- Life.
Margaret Gehrig
Left in disgust
I was shocked but not surprised after reading your article on the Hood River School District. I worked for the high school for two years before being transferred to Parkdale and saw the waste of tax payers' dollars there at the high school and at Parkdale before leaving with disgust. I entered the County school district with great respect for the school administrators but left with not wanting to be a part of a dysfunctional system.
Monica E. Halici
Hood River
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We can all agree that there are things in life that are necessities. We must have food, we must have air, and we must have shelter. In other words, these are things we simply cannot do without. Whenever things start becoming tight the first thing to go is the cable TV or going out to eat.
We can all agree that there are things in life that are necessities. We must have food, we must have air, and we must have shelter. In other words, these are things we simply cannot do without. Whenever things start becoming tight the first thing to go is the cable TV or going out to eat.
But there is one thing that will always be at the top of the list of necessities, and that is our health. And don't the insurance and medical companies know it.
We all must go to the doctor at some point in our lives, and for those fortunate enough to have good insurance, especially if it is paid by your employer, it is no big deal. But what about those who are underinsured or simply cannot afford to have insurance? These are the people who wait until the last minute and have to go to the emergency room for things that are treatable and then dump their unpaid bills on the rest of us.
This is one of the reasons that medical bills are so high, but it's not the only reason. It seems to me that the insurance companies and medical services are in cahoots with each other to make as much money as they possibly can. The patient isn't even really a factor; they are merely the vehicle to issue these bloated charges to be paid by the insurance companies. The insurance companies pass on these excessive charges to their clients by raising their monthly premium on any whim, which in turn makes health insurance unaffordable to the average man.
For example, my mother-in-law recently had to have a colonoscopy due to some issues she was having. Since she is self-employed, she can't afford the whopping premiums that insurance companies charge. So she opted for a cheaper, less-known insurance agency. She still paid her premium each month, and she went to doctors within the system, yet they didn't even pay for 1 percent of the charges.
And what charges they were! Ten dollars for a blanket, $5 for the little paper cup that they bring the medication in, and she was even charged $150 for a "self-medication fee" because she brought her own blood pressure medication with her to the hospital. But these were just the nickel and dime charges; what about the doctors' and lab fees?
The anesthesiologist alone was well over $3,000 and, of course, was not in the system and therefore not covered by insurance. As matter of fact, I have never seen an anesthesiologist who has ever been covered by insurance. They know that you can't possibly have a colonoscopy without anesthesia, and they know they don't have to participate in an insurance group. The result is more money for them and more financial stress for the patient. Obviously the part of the Hippocratic Oath about practicing medicine ethically and honestly has nothing to do with making money of the backs of their patients.
So why are these charges so high? Why the insurance companies, of course. The hospitals know that they can issue these absurdly overinflated bills, and the insurance company will pay it. The hospital receives its big fat payoff, the insurance company receives its ever-growing deductibles, and the patient goes into a deep depression cursing the day he or she ever became sick.
But if you are one of the growing numbers who do not have insurance or as in my mother-in-law's case a poor insurance company, you can be held responsible for thousands and thousands of dollars in medical bills that you can't possibly ever pay.
I know people in the medical profession work very hard and have extremely stressful lives. That is why they are paid so much. But there has to be way to balance it out. Most doctors would prefer for people to be able to afford preventative care before they have to be rushed to the hospital. But if you can't afford it because the insurance is too high or the doctor charges too much, what other option do you have?
Medical expenses are one of the biggest issues in this country right now. When you have to mortgage your house to pay your medical bills, something is definitely wrong. There is a growing faction of people who are drowning in debt simply because they had to go to the doctor, and it's not right. It is time to control these insurance and medical companies and tell them that their greedy monopoly of people's lives is over.
Sharon Myers is a married mother of two. She is a graduate of Lexington Senior High and received her bachelor's degree in journalism from East Carolina University.


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Rosenberg & Parker
Rosenberg & Parker is a surety bonds company located in King of Prussia, PA. We have an annual golf outing that is by invitation only and takes place this Feburary in Orlando Florida. Both clients and constituants are invited, and there are only 24 spots to fill (this is a very exclusive trip), and one of 2 official company events. This year is the 12th annual event.
We are looking for a logo to put on baseball caps that will be given out (for the first time) to participants at the event. Each participant is assigned to one of two teams, The Orange Team or The Blue Team (these are the colors of UVA, where all of our principals graduated). The hats will be colored accordingly (navy blue and orange).
We are looking for a logo that incorporates the golf theme, as well as the letters RRC (which stand for Rosenberg Ryder Cup), and the year 1998 (the first year of the tournament). The logo should have some color (preferably blue and/or orange), but the design must look good on both blue and orange hats. We intend to have the logo embroidered onto the front part of the baseball caps.
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Raymond J. Tatlow, Jr., on March 13, 2013, age 92, of Gwynedd Estates, formerly of Lafayette Hill. Husband of the late Helen (nee McCall), devoted father of Mary Jane Walker (Mike), Raymond J. III (Claire), James M. (Terry) and Paul V. Tatlow (Jackie), grandfather of Kevin (Kaleen), Conner, Jimmy, Leslie, Brian, Nick, Greg, Jack, Brendan, Audrey and the late Andrew Walker, great grandfather of Maeve. Funeral Mass was held Monday, March 18, 2013, at St. Philip Neri Church, 437 Ridge Pk., Lafayette Hill, PA 19444. Interment Holy Sepulchre Cementery. In lieu of flowers memorials to the above church.
Lownes FH, Lafayette Hill • www.lownes.com


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76 Angus #undefined, Collingwood, ON is located in Collingwood's L9Y neighborhood.L9Y Real Estate is made up of primarily residential properties, with the majority of homes in the neighbourhood being Detached Homes, Condominium Units and some Townhome Condominiums. The majority of homes found in the L9Y neighbourhood have 1 Parking spaces. It is typical to find homes in L9Y that were built recently. Neighborhoods found close by include N0H, L9Z and N4L. With no shortage of conveniences, L9Y offers a variety of amenities and activities for residents to enjoy.
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Welcome to
the East of England Showground
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The regions most versatile venue...
The East of England Showground is the regions most versatile venue and hosts a massive variety of events. This website includes all the Showgrounds public event, which feature everything from Shire horses to model railways, motorbikes to lorries and mice to pedigree beef cattle. There really is something for every one in our action packed programme of events.
The East of England Showground features:
- 4,675m² clear span exhibition hall, plus additional inside event space, including the 937.5m² Atrium
- Easy access to visitors, being ideally located just off the A1 (Peterborough), only 50 minutes by train from Kings Cross. To view a map of our location, please click here
- A safe and secure environment, set in grounds of over 250 serviced acres
- All weather parking for 2,000 cars with additional parking for up to 20,000 cars. There is also a 22 space coach park.
- In-house catering provides a comprehensive selection of menus, using the very best of British produce. A wide range of food is available at all our shows, and all the food sold on the Showground is sourced under our Food Direct from the Farm scheme. To find out more about catering on the Showground, please click here
Our facilities are available for hire, and we can cater for all events, from a small meeting for 15 people to an indoor trade exhibition for 5,000 people or a large scale outside show. To discover more about exec Peterborough the exhibition and events centre visit www.exec.org.uk


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Short theorem prover
From HaskellWiki
Theorem prover in 625 characters of Haskell
import Monad;import Maybe;import List infixr 9 ? (?)=(:>);z=Just;y=True data P=A Integer|P:>P deriving(Read,Show,Eq) [a,b,c,d,e,f]=map A[1,3..11] g=h(?).(A.) h f z(A x)=z x h f z(x:>y)=h f z x`f`h f z y i p(A i)j=p&&i==j i p(a:>b)j=i y a j||i y b j j(A l)s(A k)|i False s l=Nothing|l==k=z s|y=z$A k j f@(A i)s(a:>b)=liftM2(?)(j f s a)(j f s b) j f s@(A i)p=j s f p j(a:>b)(c:>d)p=let u=j a c in join$liftM3 j(u b)(u d)(u p) l x=g(toInteger.fromJust.flip elemIndex (h union (:[]) x))x m=(a?a:)$map l$catMaybes$liftM2(uncurry.j.g(*2))m[((((a?b?c) ?(a?b)?a?c)?(d?e?d)?f),f),((a?b),(c?a)?c?b)] main=readLn>>=print.(`elem`m)
You are not expected to understand that, so here is the explanation:First, we need a type of prepositions. Each A constructor represents a prepositional variable (a, b, c, etc), and
type U = Integer data P = A U | P:>P deriving(Read,Show,Eq) infixr 9 :>
To prove theorems, we need axioms and deduction rules. This theorem prover is based on the Curry-Howard-Lambek correspondence applied to the programming language Jot (http://ling.ucsd.edu/~barker/Iota/#Goedel). Thus, we have a single basic combinator and two deduction rules, corresponding to partial application of the base case and two combinators of Jot.
axiom = A 0:>A 0 rules = let[a,b,c,d,e,f]=map A[1,3..11]in[ (((a:>b:>c):>(a:>b):>a:>c):>(d:>e:>d):>f):>f, (a:>b):>(c:>a):>c:>b]
We will also define foogomorphisms on the data structure:
pmap :: (U -> U) -> P -> P pmap f = pfold (:>) (A .f) pfold :: (a -> a -> a) -> (U -> a) -> P -> a pfold f z (A x) = z x pfold f z (x:>y) = pfold f z x`f`pfold f z y
cnt p(A i) j = p && i == j cnt p(a:>b) j = cnt True a j || cnt True b j
The deduction steps are performed by a standard unification routine:
unify :: P -> P -> P -> Maybe P unify (A i) s (A j) | cnt False s i = Nothing | i == j = Just $ s | otherwise = Just $ A j unify f@(A i) s (a:>b) = liftM2 (:>) (unify f s a) (unify f s b) unify f s@(A i) pl = unify s f pl unify (a:>b) (c:>d) pl = let u = unify a c in join $ liftM3 unify (u b) (u d) (u pl)
We need to renumber terms to prevent name conflicts.
fan (A x) = A (x*2) fan (x:>y)= fan x:> fan y
Make a deduction given a rule, by setting the LHS of the rule equal to the state and taking the RHS of the rule.
deduce t r = let (a:>b)=r in unify (fan t) a b
Canonicalize the numbers in the rule, thus allowing matching.
canon :: P -> P canon x = pmap (toInteger . fromJust . flip elemIndex ( allvars x )) x allvars :: P -> [U] allvars = pfold union (:[])
Given this, we can lazily construct the list of all true statements:
facts = nub $ (axiom:) $ map canon $ catMaybes $ liftM2 deduce facts rules main=readLn>>=print.(`elem`facts)


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Vince Carter knew right away the exact date of the last time he had a buzzer-beating try in a playoff game — 13 years ago.
It's seared in the memory of the 16-year veteran because he missed that one. He was on target Saturday.
Carter hit a double-pump 3-pointer at the buzzer to give the Dallas Mavericks a 109-108 victory in Game 3 and a first-round series lead over the top-seeded San Antonio Spurs.
With 1.7 seconds left, Carter took an inbound pass from Jose Calderon in the left corner. After a quick pump fake got Manu Ginobili in the air — moments after the Argentine guard had given the Spurs the lead — Carter released the ball just in time.
He strutted stone-faced toward Dirk Nowitzki, who was waving his arms wildly as he jumped on Carter. Mavericks owner Mark Cuban joined the celebration on the court before the automatic review confirmed the obvious: The shot was good.
And it's one Carter said he practiced.
"May 20th, Game 7," said Carter, referring to an 88-87 loss to Philadelphia in the 2001 Eastern Conference finals when he was he was the dunking sensation known as "Vinsanity" with Toronto. Carter had graduated from North Carolina earlier that day before flying on a private plane to Philadelphia.
"I don't mind taking the game-winning shot," said Carter, who otherwise had a rough day before finishing with 11 points. "I don't mind missing them, and dealing with it. So I think having that mentality helps me."
Monta Ellis kept the eighth-seeded Mavericks close in the fourth quarter and finished with 29 points.
Tim Duncan led the Spurs with 22 points.
Game 4 is Monday night in Dallas.
PACERS 91, HAWKS 88 >> Paul George and David West hit key 3-pointers down the stretch, and the top-seeded Indiana evened the opening-round series at two wins apiece.
In a game they had to have, the Pacers finally showed some grit. George put the Pacers ahead 86-85 with a jumper beyond the arc, and West hit another trey with 1:33 remaining.
Atlanta had a chance after Kyle Korver was fouled in the corner and knocked down three free throws. But George pulled down an offensive rebound to set up George Hill's driving shot with 56 seconds left.
Pero Antic missed a 3-pointer at the buzzer that would've forced overtime.
Game 5 is Monday in Indianapolis.
George scored 24 points. Paul Millsap led the Hawks with 29.
HEAT 98, BOBCATS 85 >> LeBron James had 30 points and 10 rebounds, and Miami defeated Charlotte to take a 3-0 lead in the series.
Dwyane Wade added 17 points for the Heat, who can close out the best-of-7 Monday night.
James, who was an efficient 10 of 18 from the field, pushed his record to 18-0 against the Bobcats since joining the Heat in 2010. Miami has won 19 straight overall against Charlotte.
Al Jefferson had 20 points for the Bobcats, who are still searching for the first postseason win in franchise history.
After trailing most of the first half, the Heat took a 42-40 lead on a 3-pointer by Mario Chalmers. Miami closed the half on a 16-4 run.
Thunder 92, GRIZZLIES 89 (OT) >> Reserve Reggie Jackson scored a playoff-best 32 points, and Oklahoma City beat Memphis, tying up the first-round Western Conference series at two apiece.
Jackson had only scored 15 points combined in this series, but the guard shook off his shooting woes by hitting 11 of 16. He outscored Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook, who struggled through their worst scoring game of the series. Durant was 5 of 21 for 15 points, while Westbrook was 6 of 24 for 15 points.
The Thunder blew a 14-point lead with Memphis, and the Grizzlies blew a third straight fourth-quarter lead themselves. Jackson tied up Memphis with five straight points in the final minute of regulation.
Game 5 is Tuesday night back in Oklahoma City.


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ShytKicka necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 378 diseños de 90 diseñadores freelance.
We are Bodis.com a domain parking company specializing in monetizing parked domain names.
Everyone that uses the internet (Children, Teens, Adults, etc)
We are a parking company. Our goal is to make our clients the most money out of their parked domains. What we do is display relevant landing pages with advertisements for every domain parked.
The project requires designing a single page that we'd use for our parked domains.
First, I'd like to show a few designs of what competitors use:
1. See attached (Example1.gif)
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3. See attached (Example3.gif)
4. See attached (Example4.gif)
Now that you have a sense of what competitors are using, let's talk about what I want for this project. ;)
Take a look at the attached wireframe. The designer should generally design according to the wireframe. The only thing not accurate in wireframe is the dimensions. That can be completely different. Wireframe only provides the placement of elements. Also, the dimensions of design should be no wider than 1024px.
The advertisements should be big and clickable. The search box accessible. The related photo on the right can be any dimension designer sees fit. The design should NOT use bright colors as it should appeal to many different types of domains.
I'd like to see WHO is the most talented designer on 99Designs! The person that designs the CLEANEST and most EFFECTIVE design will WIN! Good luck! ;)


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It's Trashgiving Day on Sesame Street, the grouchiest holiday of the year. Oscar is in charge of running the parade this year and it needs to be grouchy enough to please his boss Mr. Disgracey. The parade begins with the marching band, but the music they are playing sounds too good. D
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India profile - Timeline
A chronology of key events:
India has been home to several ancient civilisations and empires, some dating back to more than 2,000 BC. Culture and religions have flourished over the millennia, and foreign influence has ebbed and flowed.
1858 - India comes under direct rule of the British crown after failed Indian mutiny.
1885 - Indian National Congress founded as forum for emerging nationalist feeling.
1920-22 - Nationalist figurehead Mahatma Gandhi launches anti-British civil disobedience campaign.
1942-43 - Congress launches "Quit India" movement.
1947 - End of British rule and partition of sub-continent into mainly Hindu India and Muslim-majority state of Pakistan.
Newly independent
1947-48 - Hundreds of thousands die in widespread communal bloodshed after partition.
1948 - Mahatma Gandhi assassinated by Hindu extremist.
1948 - War with Pakistan over disputed territory of Kashmir.
1951-52 - Congress Party wins first general elections under leadership of Jawaharlal Nehru.
Regional tensions
1962 - India loses brief border war with China.
1964 - Death of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.
1965 - Second war with Pakistan over Kashmir.
1966 - Nehru's daughter Indira Gandhi becomes prime minister.
1971 - Third war with Pakistan over creation of Bangladesh, formerly East Pakistan.
1971 - Twenty-year treaty of friendship signed with Soviet Union.
1974 - India explodes first nuclear device in underground test.
Democratic strains
1975 - Indira Gandhi declares state of emergency after being found guilty of electoral malpractice.
1975-1977 - Nearly 1,000 political opponents imprisoned and programme of compulsory birth control introduced.
1977 - Indira Gandhi's Congress Party loses general elections.
1980 - Indira Gandhi returns to power heading Congress party splinter group, Congress (Indira).
1984 - Troops storm Golden Temple - Sikhs' most holy shrine - to flush out Sikh militants pressing for self-rule.
1984 - Indira Gandhi assassinated by Sikh bodyguards, following which her son, Rajiv, takes over.
1984 December - Gas leak at Union Carbide pesticides plant in Bhopal. Thousands are killed immediately, many more subsequently die or are left disabled.
1987 - India deploys troops for peacekeeping operation in Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict.
1989 - Falling public support leads to Congress defeat in general election.
1990 - Indian troops withdrawn from Sri Lanka.
1990 - Muslim separatist groups begin campaign of violence in Kashmir.
1991 - Rajiv Gandhi assassinated by suicide bomber sympathetic to Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers.
1991 - Economic reform programme begun by Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao.
1992 - Hindu extremists demolish mosque in Ayodhya, triggering widespread Hindu-Muslim violence.
BJP to the fore
1996 - Congress suffers worst ever electoral defeat as Hindu nationalist BJP emerges as largest single party.
1998 - BJP forms coalition government under Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee.
1998 - India carries out nuclear tests, leading to widespread international condemnation.
1999 February - Vajpayee makes historic bus trip to Pakistan to meet Premier Nawaz Sharif and to sign bilateral Lahore peace declaration.
1999 May - Tension in Kashmir leads to brief war with Pakistan-backed forces in the icy heights around Kargil in Indian-held Kashmir.
1999 October - Cyclone devastates eastern state of Orissa, leaving at least 10,000 dead.
Population: 1 billion
2000 May - India marks the birth of its billionth citizen.
2000 - US President Bill Clinton makes a groundbreaking visit to improve ties.
2001 January - Massive earthquakes hit the western state of Gujarat, leaving at least 30,000 dead.
2001 April - 16 Indian and three Bangladeshi soldiers are killed in border clashes.
A high-powered rocket is launched, propelling India into the club of countries able to fire big satellites deep into space.
2001 July - Vajpayee meets Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf in the first summit between the two neighbours in more than two years. It ends without a breakthrough because of differences over Kashmir.
2001 September - US lifts sanctions which it imposed against India and Pakistan after they staged nuclear tests in 1998. The move is seen as a reward for their support for the US-led anti-terror campaign.
Kashmir tensions rise
2001 October - India fires on Pakistani military posts in the heaviest firing along the dividing line of control in Kashmir for almost a year.
2001 December - Suicide squad attacks parliament in New Delhi, killing several police. The five gunmen die in the assault.
2001 December - India imposes sanctions against Pakistan, to force it to take action against two Kashmir militant groups blamed for the suicide attack on parliament. Pakistan retaliates with similar sanctions, and bans the groups in January.
2001 December - India, Pakistan mass troops on common border amid mounting fears of a looming war.
2002 January - India successfully test-fires a nuclear-capable ballistic missile - the Agni - off its eastern coast.
2002 February - Inter-religious bloodshed breaks out after 59 Hindu pilgrims returning from Ayodhya are killed in a train fire in Godhra, Gujarat. More than 1,000 people, mainly Muslims, die in subsequent violence. Police and officials blamed the fire on a Muslim mob, but a 2005 government investigation said it was an accident. In 2012 a court convicts 32 people over the Naroda Patiya riots in Ahmedabad.
2002 May - Pakistan test-fires three medium-range surface-to-surface Ghauri missiles, which are capable of carrying nuclear warheads. War of words between Indian and Pakistani leaders intensifies. Actual war seems imminent.
2002 June - UK, US urge their citizens to leave India and Pakistan, while maintaining diplomatic offensive to avert war.
2002 July - Retired scientist and architect of India's missile programme APJ Abdul Kalam is elected president.
2003 August - At least 50 people are killed in two simultaneous bomb blasts in Bombay.
Kashmir ceasefire, Congress in power
2003 November - India matches Pakistan's declaration of a Kashmir ceasefire.
2003 December - India, Pakistan agree to resume direct air links and to allow overflights.
2004 January - Groundbreaking meeting held between government and moderate Kashmir separatists.
2004 May - Surprise victory for Congress Party in general elections. Manmohan Singh is sworn in as prime minister.
2004 September - India, along with Brazil, Germany and Japan, launches an application for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council.
2004 November - India begins to withdraw some of its troops from Kashmir.
Asian tsunami
2004 December - Thousands are killed when waves of the Asian Tsunami devastates coastal communities in the south and in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
2005 7 April - Bus services, the first in 60 years, operate between Srinagar in Indian-administered Kashmir and Muzaffarabad in Pakistani-administered Kashmir.
2005 July - More than 1,000 people are killed in floods and landslides caused by monsoon rains in Mumbai (Bombay) and Maharashtra region.
2005 October - Bombs kill 62 people in Delhi. A little-known Kashmiri group says it is behind the attacks.
2006 February - India's largest-ever rural jobs scheme is launched, aimed at lifting around 60 million families out of poverty.
Nuclear deal
2006 March - US and India sign a nuclear agreement during a visit by US President George W Bush. The US gives India access to civilian nuclear technology while India agrees to greater scrutiny for its nuclear programme.
2006 11 July - More than 180 people are killed in bomb attacks on rush-hour trains in Mumbai. Investigators blame Islamic militants based in Pakistan.
2006 8 September - Explosions outside a mosque in the western town of Malegaon kill at least 31 people.
2006 November - Hu Jintao makes the first visit to India by a Chinese president in a decade.
2006 December - US President George W Bush approves a controversial law allowing India to buy US nuclear reactors and fuel for the first time in 30 years.
Train attack
2007 18 February - 68 passengers, most of them Pakistanis, are killed by bomb blasts and a blaze on a train travelling from New Delhi to the Pakistani city of Lahore.
2007 February - India and Pakistan sign an agreement aimed at reducing the risk of accidental nuclear war.
2007 March - Maoist rebels in Chhattisgarh state kill more than 50 policemen in a dawn attack.
2007 April - India's first commercial space rocket is launched, carrying an Italian satellite.
2007 May - At least nine people are killed in a bomb explosion at the main mosque in Hyderabad. Several others are killed in subsequent rioting.
2007 May - Government announces its strongest economic growth figures for 20 years - 9.4% in the year to March.
First woman president
2007 July - Pratibha Patil becomes first woman to be elected president of India.
2008 July - Congress-led coalition survives vote of confidence brought after left-wing parties withdraw their support over controversial nuclear cooperation deal with US.
2008 July - Series of explosions kills 49 in Ahmedabad, in Gujarat state. The little-known militant Islamist group Indian Mujahideen claims responsibility.
2008 October - Following approval by the US Congress, President George W Bush signs into law a nuclear deal with India, which ends a three-decade ban on US nuclear trade with Delhi.
India successfully launches its first mission to the moon, the unmanned lunar probe Chandrayaan-1.
Mumbai attacks
2008 November - Nearly 200 people are killed and hundreds injured in a series of co-ordinated attacks by gunmen on the main tourist and business area of India's financial capital Mumbai. India blames militants from Pakistan for the attacks and demands that Islamabad act against those responsible.
2008 December - India announces "pause" in peace process with Pakistan. Indian cricket team cancels planned tour of Pakistan.
2009 February - India and Russia sign deals worth $700m, according to which Moscow will supply uranium to Delhi.
2009 May - Resounding general election victory gives governing Congress-led alliance of PM Manmohan Singh an enhanced position in parliament, only 11 seats short of an absolute majority.
2009 July - Pakistani, Indian premiers pledge to work together to fight terror irrespective of progress on improving broader ties.
A Dehli court rules that homosexual intercourse between consenting adults is not criminal, overturning a 148-year-old colonial law.
2009 December - The government says it will allow a new state, Telangana, to be carved out of part of the southern state of Andhra Pradesh. Violent protests for and against break out.
2010 February - Bomb explosion in a restaurant popular with tourists in Pune, in the western state of Maharashtra, kills 16 people.
2010 May - The solve surviving gunman of the 2008 Mumbai attacks, Ajmal Amir Qasab, is convicted of murder, waging war on India and possessing explosives.
2010 June - A court in Bhopal sentences eight Indians to two years each in jail for "death by negligence" over the 1984 Union Carbide gas plant leak. Thousands died in this, the world's worst industrial accident.
Ayodhya ruling
2010 September - Allahabad High Court rules that the disputed holy site of Ayodhya should be divided between Hindus and Muslims; the destruction of a mosque on the site by Hindu extremists in 1992 led to rioting in which about 2,000 people died.
2011 March - Results of 2011 census put India's population at 1.21 billion, an increase of 181 million over ten years.
2011 August - Prominent social activist Anna Hazare stages 12-day hunger strike in Delhi in protest at state corruption.
2011 November - Fourteen people, including a government minister, go on trial on charges for under-selling mobile phone licenses in return for bribes, in one of India's biggest ever corruption scandals.
2012 January - British author Sir Salman Rushdie cancels an appearance at a literary festival in India in response to threats from Islamic extremists who object to his book The Satanic Verses.
2012 June - Police in Delhi arrest Abu Hamza, also known as Syed Zabiuddin - allegedly a key figure in planning the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
2012 July - Pranab Mukherjee from the ruling Congress party is elected president, comfortably beating his rival P.A. Sangma.
2012 August - Court convicts 32 people over the 2002 religious riots in Gujarat, including former state minister Maya Kodnani.
2012 November - Mohammad Ajmal Amir Qasab, the sole surviving gunman of the 2008 attacks in Mumbai, is executed in Pune prison. The Supreme Court upheld his death sentence in August.
2013 February - Two explosions in crowded Dilsukhnagar area of central Hyderabad kill 16 people. Police suspect the Indian Mujahideen Islamist armed group.
2013 September - A court sentences four men to death for the gang rape and murder of a student in Delhi the previous December - a case that led to violent protests across India and new laws against rape.
2013 December - The Supreme Court reverses a 2009 Delhi High Court order decriminalising homosexual acts, saying parliament, not the courts, must resolve the issue.
BJP back in power
2014 May - The Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party and its candidate for prime minister, Narendra Modi, win parliamentary elections by a landslide.
2014 September - Visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Modi unveil landmark economic deals. China says it plans to build two industrial parks in India, as part of overall investment of twenty billion dollars in the next five years.
2014 December - India's governing BJP emerges for the first time as a major political player in the disputed Kashmir region after local elections, doubling its seats in the state assembly.
2015 February - The anti-corruption Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), headed by Arvind Kejriwal, wins a stunning victory in Delhi state elections, marking the BJP's first big setback since it triumphed in the 2014 general election.
2015 June - India arrests Naga separatist leader Khumlo Abi Anal over killing of 20 soldiers in ambush on Burmese border.
2015 June - India and Bangladesh sign a historic deal allowing more than 50,000 people living in border enclaves to choose which of the countries they live in.
2015 September - India launches its first space laboratory Astrosat in its biggest project since its Mars orbiter mission in 2014.
2016 September - Tens of millions of workers take part in a 24-hour strike to demand higher wages and to protest against the government's economic reforms.
2016 September - India signs a billion-dollar defence deal with France to buy 36 Rafale fighter jets.
2016 November - In a surprise announcement, the government withdraws high denomination notes from circulation causing chaotic scenes at banks across the country as customers try to exchange old notes.
2017 January - The government reaches a wide-ranging cooperation agreement with the United Arab Emirates, with a series of deals on energy, defence, trade and maritime affairs.
2017 May - Launches its so-called "South Asia satellite" from the country's space centre in Andhra Pradesh state. The satellite is designed to improve disaster relief and telecommunication links in the region.
2017 June - Along with Pakistan, India becomes a full member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, an inter-governmental security grouping. India's membership sees the grouping's membership expand into South Asia.
2017 July-August - Row with China over disputed area of Himalayas, where China says Indian troops have been trespassing.