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It's late at night and you're finishing a truly golden date. You drank Manhattans and discovered that you both geek out about B-horror films and the collected works of Philip K. Dick. To top it off, you can't stop staring into each other's eyes. When you finally lean in for a kiss you feel a shock of gooey warmth and your heart pumps molasses.
The moment is terribly romantic. Too bad the same can't be said of the kiss itself. In her new book, "The Science of Kissing," Sheril Kirshenbaum dissects the kiss with a scalpel, peeling back its glamorized skin to reveal its sociopathic nature.
And we learn, that despite its exalted status as one of the world's most passionate activities, the kiss has evolved for a single blind purpose: to get you into bed so you can propagate the species.
Throughout the book, Kirshenbaum asserts that the best science experiment is the kind that defies your expectations. And so it is with the kiss itself. To best illustrate this point the book is divided into three parts. The first explores the origin of kissing, the second digs into how it affects you physiologically and the third finds the writer in an NYU laboratory trying to make new discoveries about kissing.
Kirshenbaum is a research scientist at the University of Texas at Austin and her writing is best when she's discussing the empirical. So although the information in part one about the kissing, sniffing and licking practices of our ancestors is interesting, it falls flat compared with part two.
It's when Kirshenbaum slogs through saliva, looking for clues to human attraction in tastes, hormones and smells, that she gets to third base.
In a particularly fascinating passage she describes how humans smell each other in intimate proximity in part to detect a group of genes called the major histocompatibility complex (MHC). MHC genes basically control the effectiveness of our immune systems. The more diverse our MHC is, the more likely our offspring are to have healthy immune systems.
In 1995 a researcher named Claus Wedekind conducted an experiment that became known as the "sweaty T-shirt experiment."
By getting 44 men to wear T-shirts without deodorant for two nights and then having women sniff them, Wedekind discovered that "women nearly always preferred the scents of T-shirts worn by men with MHC genes different from their own — suggesting that we can determine our genetic compatibility with potential partners simply by following our noses."
There is one curious exception to our attraction to different immune systems: women on the birth control pill tend to favor men whose MHC closely resembles their own. The science on why this occurs is sketchy but there's likely a fitting parable about why it's wise to not mess around too much with nature.
After all nature has evolved the kiss over millions of years so that humans can collect an overwhelming amount of complicated information that helps them determine the suitability of a mate to procreate with. We even taste each other's hormones. Men's saliva, for example is loaded with testosterone, which raises a woman's libido, "priming her for sex."
That's why researchers have found that men favor deep, sloppy kisses more than women do. Touching tongues "is a way to legally slip her a natural sex stimulant," writes Kirshenbaum in one of her wittier passages.
When Kirshenbaum embraces the titillating subject matter with an earthy Henry Miller sense of sexual joie de vivre, "The Science of Kissing" shows flashes of greatness, but all too often she veers back into family friendly territory. And sadly, for such wet subject matter, the book reads a bit dry.
Still, if you've ever wondered why you can't stop obsessing over a person after you first fall hard (it's the dopamine); or why certain couples manage to maintain stable, loving relationships for decades (thank you, oxytocin); or if you've worried about catching a lover's cold (humans are arguably "99 percent bacteria") you're sure to glean some remarkable and enlightening factoids from this book.
And don't worry — your newfound knowledge won't ruin the joy of kissing if you don't let it. Just close your eyes, open your mouth and try not to think about your date's genes. The kiss will do that for you.


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Violent Oakland Rioters Don't Represent the Protesters
While there was senseless destruction of property in Oakland, NBC Bay Area notes that the leaders of Occupy Oakland say that "anarchists" not associated with the group are responsible for last night's violence.
The New York Times reports:
A belligerent fringe group that seemed intent on clashing with law enforcement and destroying property.
[They were] part of an Occupy Oakland subgroup that the city's interim police chief, Howard A. Jordan, described as "generally anarchists and provocateurs."
Some members of the group that had closed the port reprimanded those who smashed windows, threw rocks, ignited a 15-foot-high bonfire of garbage and covered downtown storefronts with graffiti.
When a man wearing a bandana broke a window with an empty beer bottle, another protester yelled, "Who are you? That isn't what this is about!"
Indeed, as the following two videos show, the overwhelming majority of protesters were peaceful and tried to stop the provocateurs:
Provocateurs Used By Governments All Over the World to Discredit Peaceful protests
Wikipedia notes:
An agent provocateur may be a police officer or a secret agent of police who encourages suspects to carry out a crime ….
A political organization or government may use agents provocateurs against political opponents. The provocateurs try to incite the opponent to do counter-productive or ineffective acts to foster public disdain—or provide a pretext for aggression against the opponent (see Red-baiting).
Historically, labor spies, hired to infiltrate, monitor, disrupt, or subvert union activities, have used agent provocateur tactics.
There are numerous, documented cases from around the world of government provocateurs acting violently at peaceful protests in order to discredit the peaceful movements.
For example – during the Egyptian "Arab Spring" protests – Mubarak's security force thugs dressed as protesters and committed violence … in order to discredit the protests.
An Indonesian fact-finding team investigated violent riots which occurred in 1998, and determined that "elements of the military had been involved in the riots, some of which were deliberately provoked".
In Burma:
"They've ordered some soldiers in the military to shave their heads, so that they could pose as monks, and then those fake monks would attack soldiers to incite a military crackdown. The regime has done this before in Burma, and we believe they would do so again."
Quebec police admitted that, in 2007, thugs carrying rocks to a peaceful protest were actually undercover Quebec police officers:
At the G20 protests in London in 2009, a British member of parliament saw plain clothes police officers attempting to incite the crowd to violence. (And here is a video possibly showing a provocateur being let through the police line.)
In 2003, FAIR reported:
According to reports from the BBC and the German wire service Deutsche Presse-Agentur (1/7/03, 1/8/03), a senior Genoa police officer, Pietro Troiani, has admitted that police planted two Molotov cocktails in a school that was serving as a dormitory for activists from the Genoa Social Forum. The bombs were apparently planted in order to justify the police force's brutal July 22 raid on the school. According to the BBC, the bombs had in fact been found elsewhere in the city, and Troijani now says planting them at the school was a "silly" thing to do.
The BBC and DPA also report that another senior officer has admitted to faking the stabbing of a police officer in order to frame protesters. These revelations have emerged over the course of a parliamentary inquiry into police conduct that was initiated by the Italian government under pressure from "domestic and international outrage over the blood-soaked G8 summit in Genoa" (London Guardian, 7/31/01). Three police chiefs have been transferred and at least 77 officers have been investigated on brutality charges.
The U.S. is not exempt from such shenanigans.
Denver police officers were found to have used undercover detectives to instigate violence against police during the 2008 Democratic National Convention (this ultimately resulted in the use of pepper spray against their own infiltrating agents).
The New York Times pointed out in 2005:
At the vigil for the cyclist, an officer in biking gear wore a button that said, "I am a shameless agitator." She also carried a camera and videotaped the roughly 15 people present.
Beyond collecting information, some of the undercover officers or their associates are seen on the tape having influence on events. At a demonstration last year during the Republican National Convention, the sham arrest of a man secretly working with the police led to a bruising confrontation between officers in riot gear and bystanders.
Activists ….say that police officers masquerading as protesters and bicycle riders distort their messages and provoke trouble.
At one point, the [apparent officer] seemed to try to rile bystanders.
Indeed, obvious provocateurs were filmed at the G20 in Pittsburgh:
As I noted in 2008:
When agents provocateur commit violence or destroy property at peaceful protests, they are carrying out false flag terrorism.
Wikipedia defines false flag terror as follows:
False flag operations are covert operations conducted by governments, corporations, or other organizations, which are designed to appear as if they are being carried out by other entities. The name is derived from the military concept of flying false colors; that is, flying the flag of a country other than one's own. False flag operations are not limited to war and counter-insurgency operations, and have been used in peace-time; for example, during Italy's strategy of tension.
If intelligence agencies or federal, state or local police themselves commit acts of violence against people or property, and then blame it on peaceful protesters, that is – by definition – false flag terror.
Indeed, governments from around the world admit that they carry out false flag terror to discredit their enemies.
Oakland Rioters: Provocateurs?
Oakland police have previously been identified as infiltrators in the Oakland protests:
While we are not yet sure whether the tiny group Oakland group of rioters (among tens of thousands of peaceful protesters) are police provocateurs, it is clear that they don't represent the Occupy protests in any way, shape or form.
The direct democracy practiced by the protesters is nothing at all like the violent rioting by the thugs.
Anyone who focuses on the handful of provocateurs – as opposed to the hundreds of millions of peaceful protesters and their supporters – is uninformed or dishonest.


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LONGMONT — It is going to be months before the infrastructure in the town of Lyons is ready to support residents, town and county administrators announced to a packed room during a town meeting Thursday night in Longmont.
Hundreds crammed into the Longmont City Council Chambers where they learned that the state of the town's water, sewerage, power, roads and bridges likely will keep residents from moving back in for two to six months.
Testing revealed that the town's drinking water is contaminated with E. coli and is unsafe to drink, town administrator Victoria Simonsen told the crowd.
Water lines have been compromised in several places, and it would take at least $1 million to get the wastewater plant working temporarily, she said.
Crews cannot begin repairs to the water lines and the sewage plant until officials determine if they will work around the river. A meeting is planned for Friday afternoon to discuss the options, Simonsen said.
Access to the town and homes became the dominant topic of discussion toward the end of the meeting as many residents questioned officials about the evacuation and restrictive passes.
Boulder County Sheriff's deputy Nick Goldberger and Simonsen clarified that the evacuation is not mandatory and that residents can choose to stay in their homes if they feel comfortable and are self-sustained.
"This is not a mandatory evacuation, but it is a health concern if you stay there and we wish you would leave," Goldberger said. "You're all adults, and you'll make your own decisions."
Some residents said the restricted access passes being handed out by the town are keeping them from coming and going from their homes as they please, but administrators said they would work to create a process for residents who are staying in Lyons.
This week, restricted passes were issued to residents to access their home Thursday, Friday or Saturday based on where they live. Officials said they are hoping to continue issuing passes on a weekly basis and to streamline the process.
Officials encouraged all residents to register with FEMA, even those who do not have flood damage to their homes.
One resident said he already had contacted FEMA, had an official assessment and received $1,500 for being displaced.
FEMA registration will be available at the Disaster Assistance Center at Twin Peaks Mall in Longmont, which also will have information specific for Lyons residents, officials said.
Despite frustration from residents, mostly about restricted access and conflicting information about FEMA and insurance claims, the crowd seemed grateful to hard-working and displaced town administrators.
Lyons Mayor Julie VanDomelen described residents as "homeless in a way," and told the crowd she understood what they were going through since she also was displaced and staying in an RV.
Residents Cheryl and Dale Foland said even though it's not ideal, they were grateful for some access to their home and the efforts that town officials have accomplished.
"I think it makes everyone feel better to know that they're considering a lot of options and trying to make it work, even though it's not a perfect situation," Cheryl Foland said.
Simonsen said officials are hoping to hold town meetings regularly to keep residents informed about the status of the town and their homes.


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Within the Chapter House at Salisbury Cathedral you'll find the best preserved of the four original Magna Carta manuscripts dating from 1215AD, celebrated within an exhibition which opened in early 2015 within the Cathedral's Chapter House.
What makes Salisbury special?
With timbered buildings, an Early English Gothic Cathedral home to the famous Magna Carta, a thriving market, a buzzing arts scene, museums and some of England's finest historic houses there are many things for you waiting to be explored…
Within the Cathedral Close you'll find Arundells, Mompesson House, The Rifles Military Museum and the award-winning Salisbury Museum with its Wessex Gallery.
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ECAI 92: 10th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, August 3-7, 1992, Vienna, Austria : proceedings
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ECAI 92 August 3-7, 1992, Vienna, Austria Proceedings Edited by Bernd Neumann University of Hamburg, Germany The 10th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, held in Austria, August 1992, attracted an unusually large number of contributed papers, reflecting the scope and strength of current Al research. Almost 200 selected papers, covering essential areas of Al, are presented in this volume. Such core subjects as Automated Reasoning and Knowledge Representation are given extensive treatment. Attention is also focused on important application issues and real-world problems.
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Demi Lovato Throws Shade At Ex Wilmer Over NEW Girlfriend
Earlier this year, we were quite surprised at how the six-year romance between Demi Lovato and Wilmer Valderrama could come to such a happy, drama-free split?
Are break-ups that are 6-years long really ever that mutual? Well, as it turns out - maybe not - especially when one of the party moves on with someone else.
Demi Lovato showed us this, by posting a subtle swipe at her ex after news he was dating the beautiful Minka Kelly, his former flame, broke out.
You have to be capable of being honest with yourself before you can get honest with other people— Demi Lovato (@ddlovato) September 2, 2016
The pair were spotted out on a date in Hollywood on August 31 and Demi took to Twitter just after. "You have to be capable of being honest with yourself before you can get honest with other people," the 24-year-old singer tweeted.
Though there is no direct reference to Valderrama, 36, fans were quick to respond to Lovato's message with words of support.
On Wednesday, August 31, Valderrama and his former flame, 36-year-old Kelly, were spotted on a dinner date at Palms Thai restaurant in Hollywood. A source tells Us that the pair rekindled their romance about a month ago, and an eyewitness said it "looked like a date."
Minka Kelly and Wilmer Valderrama are heating up! https://t.co/CM4ZL5BRsS pic.twitter.com/8g2rVdgnh2— E! News Video (@ENewsVideo) September 2, 2016
The pair previously dated in 2012, when Kelly and her then-beau Derek Jeter's relationship was on the rocks.
They look kind of cosy!
Minka Kelly and Wilmer Valderrama seemingly confirm their romance with a trip to Mexico: https://t.co/BgWlVbt8HK pic.twitter.com/r1Sg6QQ3xu— POPSUGAR (@POPSUGAR) September 4, 2016
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You tuned in on television for five days of the combine and three days of the draft. You've studied months of coverage about offseason practices, transactions and now training camp. Your quench to see game action is about to be fulfilled.
Pitchers and catchers (and blockers, tacklers, runners, kickers) report to work Thursday at M&T Bank Stadium for the exhibition openers against the Ravens (4:30 p.m. PT, Ch. 5 and NFL Network).
Here are five things to watch:
1. No Bo: Michael Wilhoite is expected to get first crack at subbing for NaVorro Bowman, last season's defensive star who'll rehab his knee into November. Rookie Chris Borland should push Wilhoite, as might Nick Moody and Shayne Skov. Patrick Willis shouldn't play much and that will allow the unheralded others to cash in on their opportunities.
2. Offensive line shuffle: The once-stable line has a different look, at least for the opener, with center Daniel Kilgore, right guard Joe Looney and right tackle Jonathan Martin. Kilgore is competing with rookie Marcus Martin. Looney is benefitting from Alex Boone's holdout. Martin, the former Stanford and Dolphins tackle, is filling in for Anthony Davis (shoulder). Martin has struggled at times in camp so keep an eye Carter Bykowski, Joe Staley's backup at left tackle and perhaps a possible swing tackle.
3. Happy returns: LaMichael James (elbow) is likely sidelined all exhibition season, leading to auditions on punt and kickoff returns for Perrish Cox, Bruce Ellington, Devon Wylie, Quinton Patton and Carlos Hyde, the later of whom would do kickoff returns and not punts.
4. Corner the market: Starter Tramaine Brock likely is out, and so might be Chris Culliver, but the 49ers need to know which reserves to keep and what top-pick Jimmie Ward looks like at nickel back. Making their 49ers debuts will be Chris Cook and rookies Dontae Johnson and Kenneth Acker. Culliver hasn't seen game action since the Super Bowl against the Ravens, and although he told me Tuesday he's playing, he's missed practice time the past week and that may prompt the 49ers to keep him out as a precaution.
5. Nosing around: Mike Purcell, Tony Jerod-Eddie and Quinton Dial will get cracks at nose tackle. Dial (6-5, 318) has been a physical dynamo in camp. This job opened when Glenn Dorsey tore his left biceps Friday.
Note: I would have put the wide-receiver unit in here too but we'll save that for another exhibition. Michael Crabtree and Brandon Lloyd won't play since they haven't practiced in a week, nor would they have played much anyhow, if at all for Crabtree. Three wideouts I'm most intrigued to see are Ellington, David Reed (strong camp of late) and Chuck Jacobs (had winning TD last exhibition season at KC, mimicked top wideout on scout team last season).
Bonus note: OK, more I think about it, tight end Vance McDonald needs to see a lot of passes come his way. He's been more cold than hot in camp regarding his hands. Derek Carrier is making a strong push for more time.


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There's no blood relation, but, the talented running ability of Benjamin Cardozo High School's Chamique Francis and Claudia Francis are as similar as their shared surname.
Together, the sophomores led Benjamin Cardozo's impressive showing at the 55th Annual Bishop Loughlin Games at The Armory Track & Field Center in New York, NY on Saturday.
Chamique Francis posted the fastest time in the nation in the early track season by winning the finals of the 300-meter dash in just 38.88 seconds (in just her second time running the event), and was part of a team that won the 4 x 400 relay with the country's fastest time of 3:56.73, well ahead of second-place Pennwood's 4:02.78.
Claudio Francis meanwhile, won the 1,000-meter run in a national-best time of 2:53:16, rallying late in the race to barely edge out Garden City's Emily Menges by just 0.26 seconds.
In the professional ranks of team sports, the best players on a team are often called "franchise players." Well, with performances such as those witnessed this year's Bishop Loughlin Games, Cardozo is very happy to have not only one, but two fast, young runners who are just one letter short of "franchise" athletes in its two Francises.


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Evidence in the police-involved shooting of a Black teen is leaving many in the community with questions about the Nov. 11, 2012 traffic stop of Leon Ford Jr., a 19-year-old who was shot multiple times after he allegedly dragged a Pittsburgh police officer during the stop in Highland Park.
While the police footage of the stop, which was shown during a hearing in January, shows what happened, it was missing one crucial piece—the audio.
According to reports, audio during the stop was not taken. It can be heard prior to Kosko approaching the vehicle and after he returned to his police car to enter information into the computer. It also picks up the gunshots, but nothing during the exchange between he and Ford.
Pittsburgh Police policy, which was confirmed in an email by Lt. Kevin Kraus, of the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police, states that officers are required to wear the microphone when conducting a traffic stop. "Yes we do have policy that states that traffic stops must be recorded," he said.
It is unknown as to why there was no audio. While there is a possibility that the microphone may have malfunctioned, there is also speculation that officer Kosko may have left the microphone in the vehicle.
When asked if disciplinary actions will be taken against officers Kosko and Derbish if found to have broke protocol, Kraus said, "This case is still under review by the District Attorney's Office, as well as the police bureau's Critical Incident Review Board. I am not able to release any information other than that we are internally investigating those issues…"
As for what this means to Ford's case, attorney Fred Rabner, Ford's counsel, was contacted several times, but failed to respond.
Ford still faces charges of aggravated assault, three counts of reckless endangerment and several driving offenses. A preliminary hearing is scheduled in March.
On the evening of Nov. 11, 2012, according to authorities, Ford, who is now paralyzed, was pulled over for a traffic violation at the intersection of Stanton Avenue and Farragut Street in Highland Park by Pittsburgh police officer Michael Kosko and another officer. After verifying Ford's information, officers began to question him and asked him to step out of the vehicle, but he refused and began moving his hand as if he was reaching for something. That's when officer David Derbish, an officer called for back up, opened the passenger door of the vehicle and reached in to grab Ford's hand, which is reportedly against police procedure. They say Ford then began to drive off and to avoid being dragged the officer jumped in the passenger's side demanding for Ford to stop and Ford began to try and push him out of the vehicle. The officer then fired several shots, hitting Ford in the chest. Ford's vehicle then crashed into a cement retaining wall and he was taken to a local hospital.


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National Football League Foundation Names Jason Taylor to Board of Directors
Taylor Selected to Serve for Two Years
The National Football League Foundation announced today that former NFL Man of the Year JASON TAYLOR has been chosen to serve on the organization's board of directors. Taylor enjoyed a 15-year NFL playing career with the Dolphins, Redskins and Jets, including being selected to six Pro Bowls, and retired in 2011.
Taylor joins the NFL Foundation board in a newly formed post for retired Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year winners who will serve two-year terms. The Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year award has been presented annually since 1970 to an outstanding player who also makes significant contributions to society. Taylor received the prestigious award in 2007.
"I am honored to join the NFL Foundation," said TAYLOR. "I look forward to working with my fellow board members and the 32 NFL teams to advance the Foundation's mission."
"We appreciate Jason's commitment to the NFL Foundation," said NFL COMMISSIONER ROGER GOODELL. "As a former NFL player and a dedicated philanthropist, Jason brings a unique and valuable perspective to the organization."
Taylor currently serves as an NFL analyst for ESPN. He devotes much of his time to leading the Jason Taylor Foundation, which he founded in 2004 along with his wife, Katina. The organization supports and creates programs that facilitate the growth and empowerment of South Florida children in need by focusing on improved health care, education and quality of life.
"During his NFL career Jason was a leader on the field and in his community," said CHARLOTTE JONES ANDERSON, chairman of the NFL Foundation and executive vice president of the Dallas Cowboys. "We are excited to have Jason join the board and assist in guiding the foundation's efforts to support our communities."
Taylor joins fellow board members: MICHAEL BIDWILL, President, Arizona Cardinals; SHAHID KHAN, Owner, Jacksonville Jaguars; MARY OWEN, Executive Vice President of Strategic Planning, Buffalo Bills; ARTHUR J. ROONEY II, President, Pittsburgh Steelers; and LEONARD WILF, Owner/Vice Chairman, Minnesota Vikings.
About the NFL Foundation:
The National Football League Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of those touched by the game of football – from players at all levels to communities across the country. The NFL Foundation represents the 32 NFL clubs and supports the health and safety of athletes, youth football, and the communities which support our game. For more information on The NFL Foundation, visit: www.NFLFoundation.org.


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Words by Sean Moeller, Illustration by Johnnie Cluney, Recording engineered by Mike Gentry
Englishman's Andrew English finds that there are easy worries that can roll in on a body even when everything is seemingly comforting, even when there are few elements of jaggedness or concern. English lives in Lexington, Kentucky, and the songwriter who writes in a style that reminds of old Grandaddy and All-Time Quarterback material, with a steady steam of gorgeous melody and layers of detailed sounds and beats, is able to feel safe and conflicted at the same time. It might just be a feeling that's as naturally responsible for anxiety as any other in history: the thought of premature loss of one's self or of loved ones and friends, not to mention the accompanying and less significant, but equally terrifying feeling that we're older and we're never getting that old, youthful life back.
Many of his songs feature a general sensation that a life, or a few lives, are being chewed through and lord knows where the years have gone, how so many nights and moons have come and gone without recognition. There are the scenes of a man looking hard onto a porch, looking hard into a pair of eyes on, warming up the truck on a cold morning, nursing a bit of a hangover as the sun's just coming up over the horizon. It's a calm and cooled piece of agitated nostalgia that continues with a thought of the bones that the man had found under the stairs long ago, wondering if there's a chance that they could come back to life.
Then there's a determination that he doesn't care and that life has to be forward-looking, even with the sadness of losing so much to the past - the color of paint and the posters on your walls, the people whom you now miss uncontrollably and the scenery that's running other errands. It takes a good and strong hug or steeling to keep on persisting and English sings, "I will carry myself well, with my arms around my friends" - and it sounds as if it might be enough, in the end. It might be enough to be just as strong as you think you can be. It will have to suffice. He tends to take a survivalist mentality toward memories too, whose disappearance is always another slice of obituary. He sings, "What won't burn will only fade," and we're sort of reeling with that small truth. We eventually forget everything and then holding your friends in your arms is close to nothing, because we stop remembering who we're supposed to be holding. In some ways, the music on Englishman's album is a love letter to impermanence, even if it's love that's not necessarily welcoming. It's an ode to the swiftness of being a child to being a wreck of an elderly person, hanging on to fewer and fewer threads as the world closes in around. English sings, "God, raise up old men in taxidermy," on the song "Ugly Rainbow" and it's what we're left to admire, a thought that we could all live as forever visibly as a brown bear stopped in mid-attack or a raccoon, stunned on a spruce branch.
*Essay originally published May, 2010


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U.S. Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission
Broccoli Packer to Pay $48,000 and Make Changes to Prevent Future Harassment
SAN FRANCISCO — Hilltown Packing Company, a broccoli packer based in Salinas, Calif., will pay $48,000 and furnish other relief to settle a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.
The EEOC's suit asserted that Filomena Ruelas, who was also represented in the matter by California Rural Legal Assistance, and other women were sexually harassed by their supervisor and then retaliated against when they opposed the harassment. The suit was filed after a neutral investigation by EEOC investigators Yasmin Macariola-Wolohan and Juan Vaca and after first attempting to reach voluntary settlement out of court. Hilltown denied the allegations but agreed to resolve the case through a consent decree.
The decree, approved by the Honorable Judge Patricia V. Trumbull of U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California in San Jose (Civ. No. C-09-4647 PVT ), provides for $48,000 in damages, and requires that the company reissue its policy against sexual harassment in English and Spanish, provide training to all its employees, and submit regular reports to the EEOC if it receives any complaints of harassment or retaliation. Hilltown also agreed to include in its supervisor evaluations an assessment of their effectiveness in preventing sexual harassment and retaliation. The company has informed the EEOC that the supervisor accused of harassment is no longer employed with the company.
"Women in the agricultural industry are particularly vulnerable to sexual harassment, especially immigrant women who may not be proficient in English and are unaware of their employment rights," said EEOC Regional Attorney William R. Tamayo. "The EEOC appreciates Hilltown's cooperation in reaching a settlement and agreeing to consent decree provisions which will help prevent harassment in the future."
EEOC San Francisco District Director Michael Baldonado added, " The EEOC continues to receive charges of harassment and retaliation from agricultural workers. Through a program of outreach, education and litigation, the EEOC is committed to remedying that situation. The policy changes brought about by the consent decree settling this case further that goal."
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the EEOC is available on its web site at www.eeoc.gov.


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Lisa Perkovic packs all the highlights of Canada's buzzing capital city into one action-filled weekend.
Canada's capital city is home to plenty of pollies but there's more to see in Ottawa than government monuments. Heritage markets, world heritage ice rinks, boutique microbreweries and popular contemporary art make for an activity-packed weekend.
Friday 5pm drinks
Work's done for the week so join the locals for a drink. Pollies, lobbyists and the media walk across the road from Parliament Hill to the Parliament Pub. Caricatures of Canadian cabinet ministers line the walls, while the real ones like to sit at the bar. The pub's entrance on Wellington Street is virtually in the shadow of the Peace Tower and Parliament Hill - keep an eye out for sound and light shows projected on to the buildings during summer. If that's not your scene, walk east to Elgin Street, where underground The Manx pub has an extensive Scotch selection and several Canadian microbrews on tap.
Late-night dinner
Downtown Ottawa sits at the confluence of the Gatineau, Rideau and Ottawa rivers. Cross over the Ottawa River on the Alexandra Bridge into Gatineau and you're in Quebec. French is the official language of this former French colony. In Gatineau's old town of Hull you'll find plenty of Ottawa's young population taking advantage of the lower drinking age (Ontario's legal drinking age is 19, Quebec's is 18) but you'll also find restaurants serving traditional French and French Canadian food.
Morning market
Start the day early and beat the crowds at the ByWard Market. Established in 1826, the market comprises more than 200 stalls sprawled along the streets behind the Westfield-like Rideau Centre. Everything from farmhouse cheeses and fresh produce to hand-knitted beanies and moose-patterned mittens are sold from 6am to 6pm. Duck into fair trade coffee house Bridgehead for a cappuccino but save morning tea until you reach the BeaverTail shop on George Street. The flat pastry rolled into the shape of Canada's national critter is fried and covered in brown sugar and cinnamon. Just as patriotic is a visit to Smoke's Poutinerie on Dalhousie Street. Poutine is a Quebec specialty but here the soggy cheese curd and gravy-topped French fries are given a few more calories, with extra toppings such as pulled pork, sour cream and Montreal smoked meat.
For a souvenir you can take home, visit the Roots store in the Rideau Centre. Ontario's home-grown label is stocked around the country; its maple leaf and beaver logo is worn by all the cool outdoor kids.
Outdoor adventures
Get some use out of your new outdoor gear. This isn't the Canadian wilderness but there are more than 180 kilometres of cycle paths between Ottawa and Gatineau. The Capital Pathway system marks out paths through the city and along both banks of the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Rideau Canal. Bike rentals are available just east of the canal swing bridge. During winter, trade your wheels for skates when the canal freezes over to become one of the world's longest ice rinks. From downtown to Dow's Lake, the 7.8-kilometre stretch of ice is a rink like no other. Pick up a BeaverTail and hot chocolate for afternoon tea.
Saturday night sport
To see some serious ice skating, head to Scotiabank Place to watch National Hockey League side the Ottawa Senators carve up the ice. Or head to one of the ByWard Market pubs to watch a game live. The Aulde Dubliner & Pour House and The Highlander Pub are two popular watering holes.
A cultural Sunday
The National Gallery of Canada's towering glass-and-stone home is the pride of Ottawa's modern architecture. Its glass-walled Great Hall has a stunning view of Parliament Hill and the Gatineau Hills. Inside, a cutting-edge contemporary collection is worth a look, too. The impressive Inuit wing is home to some of the most intriguing items from Canada's indigenous people, including antlers carved into artworks and bears chiselled from rock.
Afternoon tea and a place to sleep
Ten minutes' walk west of the gallery is Ottawa's luxurious Fairmont Chateau Laurier hotel. Celebrating its centenary this year, the hotel is an ode to old world glamour. Find the time to take afternoon tea in the opulent Zoe's Lounge, where waiters in white gloves serve tea and scones under the crystal chandeliers. The guest rooms are also an elegant affair, graced by kings, queens, presidents, artists and enough politicians for the site to be dubbed "the third chamber of parliament". Check in before heading down the street to see the official home of parliament.
The striking green turrets of Parliament Hill's buildings stand high above Ottawa River. There are free guided tours of the chambers and you can ride the lift right to the top of the 90m-high Peace Tower. The lift stops en route so you'll catch a glimpse of the giant 10,000-kilogram bells, which are said to have been made from melted World War I cannons. The 360-degree panorama from the peak is well worth the ride.
Trip notes
Getting there
Qantas flies from Sydney to Ottawa through Los Angeles and Chicago from $2258. 131 313, qantas.com.au.
Virgin flies to Ottawa through Los Angeles and JFK from $1998.98. 136 789, virginaustralia.com.
Air Canada flies from Sydney through Vancouver from $2635. 1300 655 767, aircanada.com.
Staying there
The Fairmont Chateau Laurier is Canada's very own castle, right next to the Rideau Canal. Guest rooms start at $C239 ($231) a night. fairmont.com/laurier-ottawa.
Swiss Hotel is just south of downtown Ottawa on historic Daly Avenue. Rooms from $C128 a night. swisshotel.ca.
See + do
Parliament Pub, parliamentpub.com.
Smoke's Poutinerie, smokespoutinerie.com.
BeaverTails, beavertailsinc.com.
Roots, canada.roots.com.
Rideau Centre, rideaucentre.com.
Canada Cycling, canadascapital.gc.ca/things-to-do/cycling.
The Highlander Pub, thehighlanderpub.com.
National Gallery of Canada, gallery.ca/en.
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There are a few different programs out there to assist in calibrating a display, but CalMAN from SpectraCal is currently the most prevalent. CalMAN is used for ISF Level I and II training, and is available in a variety of different configurations ranging from the DIY user to the full time calibration professional. CalMAN has been at work on Version 5 for two years now, extensively testing it and making changes and improvements in response to the feedback received.
With so much that has changed from the previous version (Version 4) to the new version (Version 5), I will focus on an overview of the changes, then do an in-depth exploration of the changes and interface, and finally focus on what these new features mean for reviews that will use CalMAN in the future. Refer to the CalMAN Version 4.1 Review for comparison purposes, published in 2011.
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New Features Overview
Many years in the making, there is a lot that has changed in CalMAN 5, so let's look at some of the new or updated features and what they bring to the calibration world.
With all these changes, and I've only touched on a few of them, it will take a while to go into depth on them but I will give it a shot.
USER Interface
The immediately apparent change is a total overhaul of the user interface that is in CalMAN. In my option, the re-organization has made it a more intuitive interface that works better in daily use. Controls for your meter, pattern source, and display control are now at the top of the screen instead of being buried in the Options menu. As you work with these choices for every single calibration, moving them out to a more visible location makes more sense.
This change, along with the switch to a menu system that is more like a Windows application, really improves the ease-of-use of CalMAN. Adjusting to the new layout only took a couple of tries. The location of items is now more intuitive for new users, and for first time users the process of getting started has been made much easier than before. The new UI is a much better experience, and a large improvement to the software.
Pictured: Pre and Post Calibration Result Workflow Screens
AutoCal has been thoroughly revamped in CalMAN 5 compared to previous versions. In prior versions you could usually calibrate the gamma and grayscale automatically, but adjusting the gamut was still done manually through the CalMAN interface, or through your CMS device. Now in supported devices, this can all be done automatically from CalMAN. Additionally you no longer need a dedicated workflow for easy device that can be calibrated automatically. Once you have selected your appropriate Target Display from the tabs at the top, screens that are designed for grayscale, gamma, or gamut will have an AutoCal button associated with them. For devices that support this functionality, a list that grows all the time, it allows you to quickly get results that are very good to fantastic, and still allows you to dial it in more if you wish to do so.
Pictured: Grayscale/Gamma and CMS workflow screens.
Along with this, Lumagen has updated their Radiance processors (reviewed previously at Secrets of Home Theater) to support a 5x5x5 color matrix for precise gamut control. Most CMS systems, including the Radiance previously, have you setup the 100% saturation and luminance value for the primary, and often secondary, colors and then try to calculate the other values correctly. This lets you instead make a full series of measures at different intensities and saturations, calibrate each of those correctly, and then it will calculate the intermediate points.
The common method works perfectly in any display that has perfectly linear response from 0-100% for all saturations and intensities, but really no displays have that. This allows you to have a far larger set of data to work from, and to get all of those other values dialed in much better. As CalMAN can do this automatically in around an hour, it's likely the quickest, most beneficial upgrade you can do for an existing home theater setup that I'm aware of.
Updated and New Features – Test Pattern, Color Check, Reporting
My favorite improvement to CalMAN is the addition of new test patterns and charts. Included now are luminance and saturation sweeps. These have been available previously in ChromaPure, but now are available in CalMAN as well, and with finer resolution (any increment for luminance and 20% or 25% in saturation, as opposed to 25% for each in ChromaPure). One of my main complaints about display reviews is the reliance on how well a display calibrates to the primary and secondary color points, when really those just tell you how well a display does at 6 color points. Using multiple saturations and intensities lets you see how well a display performs across more points and provides a better representation of how well it performs.
Additionally a Gretag Macbeth color checker test chart has been added for those with supported signal generators. Gretag Macbeth consists of 24 color and grayscale samples, meant to represent common color elements like green leaves, blue sky, skin tones, and so forth. Since none of these are point that you calibrate to, performance against this chart gives you a better idea of how well a display will perform with general content. I'll be trying to include this in as many reviews as possible going forward, as I think it provides a much more accurate picture of how well your display will look with real content.
The reporting engine in CalMAN has had a complete makeover compared to prior versions. Previously you could spend a lot of time making a report, but that report was tied to a single workflow, even though you often report the same information from many workflows. Since displays with a full CMS and those with only minimal controls have different workflows, this meant creating the same report twice to get the same information out. With CalMAN 5, this has been entirely changed.
Now your reports are free to move between different workflows, letting you design and maintain a single report or two, and continually reuse them between different workflows. For professionals that want to provide the best information to their clients, and for users that want to adjust what they see in their own reports, this really improves upon what was available. Combined with more data being available from the updated charts and patterns, this means we may see more in depth, through reports about displays and projectors being available in the near future.
There are countless more updates and features in CalMAN than I can hope to address. There are gamma target editors, allowing you to create your own targets if you need a special solution that isn't among the presets. There are alternative color matching functions that help to account for how the human eye will perceive different light sources (CFL, LED, Xenon) differently, even if the standard CIE chart says they are the same. You can better match two displays to be identical if you have a video wall, determine the maximum dynamic range of your display, have a full, 3D view of your colorspace instead of only the traditional 2D charts, and far more. CalMAN 5 is a massive upgrade from the previous versions, with far more features and usability than before.
In the end, the most important thing about calibration software is the results that you can get from it. I'm fairly certain that there isn't anything as flexible as CalMAN out there right now and it can get you to what you are after. Of course, more options often means more complexity, and some first time users will still be intimidated by CalMAN. I think it is easier to use than before, but I've also gone through ISF Level II training with it, as well as been using the beta version for months now, getting used to how it performs. For the first time user, it can still be a bit daunting.
One concern for DIY users is that with all the power and flexibility, it can be expensive to use compared to having a calibrator come to your house. Many of the options require more powerful, and so the cost of doing everything yourself can rise quickly. For the part-time or hobbyist calibrator, this might cause them to think twice about doing it themselves instead of hiring a professional.
My other main concern is with the AutoCal integration with devices. While ChromaPure and CalMAN both interact with the DVDO Duo and the Lumagen Radiance series, CalMAN has a much larger selection of displays it can control, including JVC, Panasonic, Elite, Runco, and more. I'm hopeful this is just due to CalMAN being able to devote more resources to this issue and not to having an exclusive license to work on them, as I feel that is a bad direction to go. However, if these devices remain open for anyone to control and calibrate automatically, then having this feature is very nice for getting great results in a hurry.
For professionals, there is a lot to like in CalMAN 5 and it might be an easy upgrade for most users. I know the additional patterns and reporting are very useful for me, and will be showing up in a lot of my reviews going forward. The improved interface and workflow makes it easier for everyone to use, and then get good results from. I'm highly looking forward to the PC monitor control that is coming soon as well, so everything I work on will be perfectly dialed in. Overall a powerful, customizable program that does everything you need and will continue to be a staple for many professionals and hobbyists.
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Columnist Marvin Sparks responds to Richard Clark's Sept. 30 column on U.S. embassy deaths in Benghazi, Libya.
On Sunday, Sept. 30, The Free Press printed a column by Richard Clark entitled, �It�s ridiculous to blame embassy deaths on Obama.� The first thing a liberal does when faced with a view that does not fit his ideology is to attack his opponent�s credibility.
Mr. Clark set the tone of his article by calling me �a fool.� Perhaps he is right. I have never claimed that I was smart, so I am willing to let Mr. Clark educate me. So explain to me why President Obama and Hilary Clinton are not culpable in the deaths of Ambassador Chris Stevens and others in Benghazi?
It is obvious you do not like the military prison at Guantanamo Bay (Gitmo), and you compare it to the Japanese-Americans during World War II who were placed in internment camps. Perhaps viewed through revisionist history, they might seem the same, but they are not the same at all.
Looking back through time, we were wrong to place Japanese-Americans in internment camps, but in 1942 it made perfect sense. We were at war with Japan and we were afraid the Japanese living in the U.S. would attack vital targets.
They were not called Japanese-Americans then; they were Japanese. The Japanese were also placed in camps to protect them from mobs who were taking out their revenge for Pearl Harbor against the local Japanese living in California and along the West Coast. Most of the Japanese-Americans turned out to be loyal Americans, and thousands joined the army and fought bravely in the European theater.
The detainees in Gitmo are entirely different. They were captured on the battlefield trying to kill our soldiers. What would you have us do? Catch and release, so they can go right back on the battlefield? From a military perspective that would make no sense; the prisoners were placed in one of the most modern prisons in the world and provided with better food and other creature comforts than they had ever had in their lives. When a Gitmo detainee was released, one out of three went right back to the killing fields.
How does al Qaeda treat their prisoners? They take very few prisoners, and the few they take are ransomed or beheaded on camera for the world to see. Traditionally, male prisoners may be executed or sold as slaves, while women and children become slaves � usually sex slaves. When you compare the two, is Gitmo really that bad?
Yes, my drowned-in-tea, right-winged hero was Ronald Reagan, and he did bomb Libya, but he had provocation. Libyan terrorists had set off a series of bombs in European cities that were targeting U.S. service personnel. And there were also skirmishes over disputed territorial claims.
Reagan didn�t conduct a sneak attack like Obama. Congress was notified, and Reagan told them, �If any one of you objects to this punitive raid, I will call it off.� No one at the congressional meeting objected.
Kaddafi was advised the raid was on the way. It is possible that raid led to the bombing of PAA 103, but it also forced Kaddafi to give up his nuclear ambitions.
Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. President to give aid to the Afghanistan rebels fighting the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. It was July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed an agreement to secretly provide arms and aid to the rebels. I think Carter was a Democrat. When Reagan became president, he merely continued with Carter�s agreement.
And don�t forget the country of Sudan offered Osama bin Laden to President Bill Clinton on a silver platter in April 1996, but he refused to take him. I know we can�t change the past, but if we could, can you imagine what our world would be like today? For one thing, the World Trade Towers would still be standing.
I seem to recall that Bill Clinton wasn�t brought up on charges (impeached) for having sex with a woman � it was for lying to a federal court. He lost his license to practice law for five years and was fined $25,000. His settlement with Monica Lewinsky amounted to $840,000, and the U.S. taxpayers paid the bill for the millions spent investigating the scandal.
Now let�s get to the heart of the article that you find ludicrous. Convince me and the readers of The Free Press that President Obama should not be accountable for Ambassador Chris Steven�s death and the deaths of all the others who died in Libya as a result of his misadventures.
I thought it was a pretty callous statement when you wrote, �I have no issue with Obama killing Kaddafi.� Every death has unforeseen consequences. Many of us were happy to learn Bin Laden was dead, but there were millions more who mourned his passing and plotted revenge against the Americans who killed him.
Kaddafi was different in that he killed and terrorized his own people, so he will not be missed. However, with him gone, the country has sunk into a quagmire of chaos.
Al Qaeda is running amok raping, torturing, and executing black Libyans. Before the overthrow of Kaddafi�s government, there were 1.5 million workers from sub-Saharan Africa, as well as black Libyans who had lived peacefully in Libya for generations.
Towns, like Tawcrgha, were ransacked and burned. Under the guise of ethnic cleansing, black Libyans were forced into zoos like caged animals and were forced to eat the flags of Kaddafi�s former government.
Not the media, the United Nations, the Obama administration or the Congressional Black Caucus has raised an outcry. The one exception has been Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. D-Ill. He has called for an investigation by the International Criminal Court, but they, too, are silent.
An unclassified report published in August highlights al Qaeda�s strategy for building a fully operational network in Libya. The report was prepared by the federal research division of the Library of Congress under an agreement with the Defense Department�s Combating Terrorism Support Office.
Al Qaeda�s senior leadership in Pakistan has overseen the effort and has issued strategic guidance to followers in Libya to take advantage of the Libyan rebellion, to gather weapons, establish training camps, build a network in secret, establish an Islamic state and institute sharia law in Libya.
In June 2012, Ansar al Sharia staged a large-scale rally and military show of force involving military vehicles. The rally included a parade of 30 battalions in Benghazi. There is graphic evidence that al Qaeda-affiliated battalions have already acquired heavy armaments, including mobile rocket launchers and self-propelled antiaircraft guns. As al Qaeda�s network acquires more firepower, it can target any dissenters. Libya is now a safe haven for jihadists on the way to fight in Syria and Mali.
Sufyan ben Qumu is a former Gitmo detainee who is now training militia fighters. He leads a brigade that has conducted a campaign of targeted assassinations against all who are opposed to al Qaeda. He is known for his social media propaganda and his hatred of the West, especially the United States. It is well known he was the leader of the attack on the Benghazi Embassy where Chris Stevens was killed.
There were as many as 50 incidents leading up to the murder of Ambassador Stevens, including an attack on the British ambassador, which led to repeated requests for increased security at the embassy in Benghazi, but all requests were denied. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton denied the request and stated their security was provided by the local militias and that was enough. That would be tantamount to Gen. Custer telling his troops the Indians were there to protect them.
Clinton and Obama are ensnared in a terrible mess of their own making in Libya, and they should be held accountable for all the deaths in Libya.
For days, the White House and the State Department refused to describe the attack on our embassy as terror-related, and in refusing to be honest with the American people, they covered it up. In other words, they lied.
The Senate and the House have called for hearings to uncover the truth.
What say you, sir? What is the truth?
Marvin Sparks has been in the airline industry for 41 years. He and his wife currently live in GreeneCounty, and they are both active with the Republican and Tea Parties. Marvin can be reached at 252-747-7016 or by e-mail at email@example.com. The opinions of the guest columnist are not necessarily those of The Free Press.


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|Book One
|Book Two
|Book Three
|Book Four
|Chapter 1 The hypotheses concerning the lunar circles, according to the belief of the ancients
|Chapter 2 The defect in those assumptions
|Chapter 3 A different opinion about the Moon's motion
|Chapter 4 The Moon's revolutions, and the details of its motions
|Chapter 5 Exposition of the first lunar inequality , which occurs at new and full Moon
|Chapter 6 Verification of the statements about the Moon's uniform motions in longitude and anomaly
|Chapter 7 The epochs of the lunar longitude and anomaly
|Chapter 8 The Moon's second inequality, and the ratio of the first epicycle to the second
|Chapter 9 The remaining variation, in which the Moon is seen moving nonuniformly away from the [first] epicycle's higher apse
|Chapter 10 How the Moon's apparent motion is derived from the given uniform motions
|Chapter 11 Tabular presentation of the lunar prosthaphaereses or normalizations
|Chapter 12 Computing the Moon's motion
|Chapter 13 How the Moon's motion in latitudeis analyzed and demonstrated
|Chapter 14 The places of the Moon's anomaly in latitude
|Chapter 15 The construction of the parallactic instrument
|Chapter 16 How the lunar parallaxes are obtained
|Chapter 17 A demonstration of the Moon's distances from the Earth, and of their ratio in units of which the Earth's radius equals 1
|Chapter 18 The diameter of the Moon and of the Earth's shadow at the place where the Moon passes through it
|Chapter 19 How to demonstrate at the same time the distances of the Sun and Moon from the Earth , their diameters, the diameter of the shadow where the Moon passes through. it and the axis of the shadow
|Chapter 20 The size of these three heavenly bodies, Sun, Moon, and Earth, and a comparison of their sizes
|Chapter 21 The apparent diameter and parallaxes of the Sun
|Chapter 22 The Moon's varying apparent diameter and its parallaxes
|Chapter 23 To what extent does the Earth's shadow vary?
|Chapter 24 Tabular presentation of the individual solar and lunar parallaxes in the circle which passes through the poles of the horizon
|Chapter 25 Computing the solar and lunar parallax
|Chapter 26 How the parallaxes in longitude and latitude are separated from each other
|Chapter 27 Confirmation of the assertions about the lunar parallaxes
|Chapter 28 The mean conjunctions and oppositions of the Sun and Moon
|Chapter 29 Investigating the true conjunctions and oppositions of the Sun and Moon
|Chapter 30 How conjunctions and oppositions of the Sun and Moon at which eclipses occur may be distinguished from others
|Chapter 31 The size of a solar and lunar eclipse
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|Chapter 32 Predicting how long an eclipse will last
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The global slump may have taken a toll on Audi's sales and profits, but the automaker insists the downturn could play to its advantage, longer-term.
The German maker, a semi-autonomous arm of giant Volkswagen AG, reported that it was able to stay in the black, during the first half of 2009, unlike many of its competitors, though profits still slipped by 25%. Sales slipped 9.7% from January through June, noted Chief Financial Officer Axel Strotbek, but that was also a fair bit better than the overall, 18% industry downturn, he stressed, during a conference call with American journalists.
"We want to use this opportunity to emerge from the current crisis considerably stronger," the executive said, "a winner in the long-term."
At the current exchange rate, Audi AG posted a net first-half profit of $979.5 million, or €697 million. During the same six-month period last year, Audi's net was €903 million.
Meanwhile, unit sales fell from 516,219 to 466,000, a nearly 10% dip. The decline varied sharply from country to country, Strotbek noted. In fact, volume increased in China by 10.5%, where Audi now holds a 42% share of the premium car market. Early in the year, the Chinese government took aggressive steps to revive faltering momentum in the country's automotive market – now the single largest national market in the world. It is now Audi's second-largest market, after Germany.


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Pacers seek stranglehold of series with Knicks
The New York Knicks will try to even their Eastern Conference semifinal series Tuesday night in Game 4 against the Indiana Pacers.
When the series shifted to Indianapolis on Saturday, the Pacers responded with an 82-71 victory. The Pacers, one of the NBA's elite defensive teams, have won 16-of-17 this season when holding opponents under 80 points.
The Knicks' offense struggled badly on Saturday. They shot 35 percent from the floor and only 27 percent from beyond the 3-point line. New York averaged almost 11 made 3-pointers a game during the regular season, but has converted on less than seven against the Pacers.
And on Sunday, Knicks center Tyson Chandler blamed the offensive woes on ball movement. Without naming names, Chandler seemed to be calling out his teammate, and the NBA's leading scorer this season, Carmelo Anthony.
"You have to sacrifice yourself sometimes for the betterment of the team, for the betterment of your teammates," Chandler said. "So when you drive in the paint, you draw, you kick it. We need to do a better job of allowing the game to dictate who takes the shots and not the individuals."
Anthony responded on Monday.
"I really don't want to go back and forth about that because I really don't know exactly what he was talking about," Anthony said after practice. "We'll discuss that amongst ourselves and figure that out."
Anthony was the only Knicks player in double figures in Game 3 with 21 and he attempted a series-low 16 shots.
Chandler, who was named to the All-Defensive first team on Monday, didn't play his best game in the postseason. Indiana's Roy Hibbert recorded a game-high 24 points and grabbed 12 rebounds.
"He's just oozing with confidence," Pacers coach Frank Vogel said Saturday night of his center. "He's playing extremely well on both ends of the court. We know he's going to dominate on the defensive end. When he has offensive production like he did tonight, then we're pretty good."
Hibbert shot 50 percent from the field for Indiana, but the rest of the Pacers didn't shoot lights out. The remaining Indiana players shot 30 percent from the field, although George Hill, David West and Paul George, who was named to the All-Defensive second team, each cracked the 10-point mark.
The Knicks know a setback on Tuesday spells trouble. They'd take a 3-1 deficit back to Madison Square Garden where the Pacers won Game 1 of this series. So far in the postseason, Indiana is a perfect 4-0 at home.
"This is a gut-check game for us," Anthony said after practice on Monday. "This is a big game for us. Tomorrow will tell us a lot about our team. We're not going to fold."
The Pacers will be ready.
"We have to come out and expect their best effort," said George. "We got Game 1 and they came out with great effort in Game 2. We got Game 3 and we should expect them to come out with the same great effort in Game 4 as they had in Game 2."
On the injury front, Knicks wing Iman Shumpert has a sore knee and was restricted in practice on Monday. He is listed as questionable.
Game 5 will be Thursday night in New York City.


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Structured cabling doubles Cat. 6 performance
The GigaBand system of structured cabling products doubles the bandwidth of the proposed Cat. 6 standard. Tested to perform with positive Power Sum ACR up to 400 MHz, GigaBand consists of jacks, patch panels and patch cords. The system offers backward compatibility and can be used with Cat. 5 and Cat. 5e systems. Part of the system's performance is due to the implementation of an innovative, crosstalk cancellation technology. The jacks also feature a unique design offering strain relief for the cable. Hellermann Tyton
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Lightweight steel MC cable is light but strong
The McTuff cable features strong steel armor with the light weight of aluminum. The cable's high-strength structural steel armor provides protection against mechanical damage and superior EMI shielding. Part of a family of color-coded products, the cable features an outer armor with a blue stripe for easy identification. The conductors are pre-wired at the factory creating a single cable assembly that simplifies installation and provides up to 50% in installed cost savings. AFC Cable Systems
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Multi-channel raceway features sleek, rounded profile
The InfoStream multi-channel raceway features an elliptically-shaped profile that offers both a sleek appearance and helps absorb shock if it is inadvertently struck. The raceway speeds installation because its hinged cover can be partially mounted prior to laying cables. It also doubles as a ledge, preventing wire and cable from falling out during installation.
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Low-cab trucks are roomier
The N-Series (Isuzu) and W-Series (GMC/Chevrolet) Crew Cab Trucks now include seven-person cab room. The low cab forward crew cab has 14,500-pound GVWR. The truck is available in two wheelbases: 150 inch and 176 inch. General Motors
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Outdoor lighting offers interchangeable components
The Criterion series of outdoor lighting includes floodlights for parking lots, building facades, signs, monuments. Wallpacks are available for lighting building perimeters and parking lots. The lights feature interchangeable parts. GE Lighting
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Cleaner/degreaser leaves a less-hazardous ring
This cleaner/degreaser Type GP is a less hazardous alternative to 1,1,1 trichloroethane and is an enhanced terpene-based cleaner engineered specifically for electrical cable cleaning. It dries fast and leaves no residue. American Polywater
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Generator switchgear products are feature-rich
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Electronic phototimer saves energy
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Voice/data/video database does estimating
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Surface raceway meets full range of power and data cabling needs
These easy-to-install systems of metallic, nonmetallic and aluminum surface raceway meet the full range of power and data cabling needs. Best for wiring new office layouts or modifying network configurations, the surface raceway accommodates upgrades and adjustments quickly, while providing the flexibility and functionality required for virtually every connectivity application. Thomas & Betts
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Software is for electrical and datacom contractors
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Wiring system employs "lazy Susan" approach to save money
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Non-metallic outlet boxes feature large capacities
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Telecommunications ground bars meet TIA/EIA 607-A
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Thursday, October 26, 2017
As airlines continue to hike fees for checked bags and overweight suitcases, fitting everything into one compact bag — whether it is a carry-on or a lightweight suitcase — is more important than ever. Spotting an opportunity, luggage and accessory makers have introduced a host of new packing products, from collapsible lunchboxes to suitcases with built-in scales to help fit everything into that overhead bin or at least lighten a traveler's load. Here are 12 gift ideas for practical travelers on the go.
* The products included in The New York Times Holiday Gift Guides are selected solely at the discretion of New York Times editors and writers. Links to retailer sites are provided as a convenience for readers of NYTimes.com and do not represent an endorsement of any store or brand.


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Dr. Mark McConnell, Program Coordinator
Master of Environmental Studies Program, College of Charleston
1) What kind of students major in Environmental Studies?
We find that students with an amazing variety of interests, from Art to Zoology, major in Environmental Studies. The ability to focus on those interests while maintainaing a view of the big picture and of the connections between disciplines seems to be one of the primary draws for our students.
2) Is the broad and interdisciplinary nature of an Environmental Studies degree too generalized to have useful applications in jobs out in the field? Why or why not?
That always seems to be a concern that people have, but we're seeing that employers are interested in hiring people who can understand multiple perspecitves, who are able to bridge the gap that exist between scientists and policy makers, and who bring a wide vareity of problem solving skills to any situation. In addition, Environmental Studies students are able to demonstrate their ability to focus on specific issues througth their internship or thesis work while in school. As a rule, the interdisciplinary nature of the Environmental Studies degree is what makes it useful out in the field.
3) What kinds of jobs are available to ES graduates? What kinds of companies are specifically looking for ES graduates?
Our graduates are working in private industry, especially with environmental consulting firms, in government, through agencies as varied as NASA and the USDA Forest Service, and in non-profit organizations, such as the Lowcountry Open Land Trust here in Chalseton and the South Carolina Marine Association. Even in a less economically robust time, many companies are looking for Enviornmental Studies majors.
4) How can Environmental Studies students gain an edge in the post-graduation job market? What's the best way to land a job with an ES degree?
Through Environmental Studies, students are able not only to learn about the science behind why things work, but also, with classes in Public Policy, Environmental Law, etc., to learn how to make the system work. We are seeing that employers are excited to find that combination of Science and Policy knowledge in the Environmental Studies students they hire. When employers see that academic background coupled with practical experience gained through an internship experience, for instance, it really gives the Environmental Studies gradautes an edge.
5) Do you have any advice for prospective students entering an Environmental Studies program?
Perhaps the most important thing is to have a good sense of what you hope to get out of the program. Is it to work with birds of prey? To work on greenbuilding and sustainability? Knowing what you want to do will help you find the right program for your interests, and the right career when you graduate.


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Former First Lady Nancy Reagan was reunited with old friends on Tuesday when she was guest of honor at the annual spring gathering of the Colleagues, a volunteer group that supports the Children's Institute in its work to help youngsters affected by violence, abuse or neglect.
First, Oscar de la Renta stopped by the pre-lunch VIP reception before escorting Reagan into the ballroom at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel.
"He's my old dear friend," said the former first lady. "He's very special."
Reagan settled in at her table between De la Renta and Emanuele Aliotti Visdomini, vice president of jeweler Vhernier. A steady stream of friends and admirers greeted Reagan, among them honorary chair Betsy Bloomingdale, Colleagues President Patricia Brown and fashion designer James Galanos.
"She's always delightful," said Galanos, the couturier who created Reagan's first inaugural gown.
De la Renta said he first met Reagan during her husband's time as California governor. "What is so extraordinary is that they were a true couple," he said. "They gave a lot to each other, and she was so much a part of her husband's success. No question. Yet he was the star. She never took center stage. He was president, and she was always there behind him."
More than 800 guests paid a minimum $150 for the luncheon, co-sponsored by Vhernier and De la Renta, who showed his fall 2011 collection before presenting the award to Reagan.
A 49-year member of the group, Reagan rose from her table to accept. "Thank you so much. Thank you, everybody," she said. "I'm very appreciative, and I'm happy to be here."
Anne Johnson served as executive chair with co-chairs Jane Ackerman, Topsy Doheny, Jenny Jones, Debbie Lanni, Mary Martin, Mary Milner, Wendy Stark Morrissey, Tawny Sanders, Ginny Sydorick and Chardee Trainer.
Early Earth Day
Party-goers piled into Kiehl's in Santa Monica on April 7 for an early celebration of Earth Day with Michael C. Hall of "Dexter" and Chloë Sevigny of "Big Love" at a benefit for the Waterkeeper Alliance, a global coalition of nearly 200 organizations that work to protect local waterways from pollution.
In honor of the occasion, which falls each year on April 22, Kiehl's USA President Chris Salgardo handed over a check for $100,000 to Liz Crosson of Santa Monica Baykeeper, the alliance's Los Angeles affiliate. Organizers said the check represented 100% of net proceeds from a new limited-edition version of Kiehl's cleansing face mask, labeled for Hall and Sevigny.
"Growing up on Long Island Sound, I saw first-hand the garbage rolling up on the beach," Sevigny said. "Now when I'm in Connecticut, I still go with my mother to pick up trash from the beach."
Hall, a North Carolina native, said he spent time on the beaches too. "It instilled in me an appreciation of the environment," he said. "When Kiehl's approached me about the Waterkeeper Alliance, it was a no-brainer for me to join in."
"We're very fortunate at Kiehl's," Salgardo said. "We've always had a lot of good friends who have been very generous to us."
With DJ Paul Sevigny — Chloë's brother — providing the tunes, guests perused the boutique's skin and hair-care products and mingled.
Among attendees were Sam Trammell of "True Blood," with his wife Missy Yager, Mario Lopez of "Saved by the Bell," Stephanie Pratt and Kristin Cavallari of "The Hills," Tricia Helfer of "Battlestar Galactica," Giuliana Rancic of "Fashion Police," Robert Buckley of "Flirting With Forty," Matthew Rhys of "Brothers & Sisters" and Gilles Marini of "Brothers & Sisters" and Season 8 runner-up on "Dancing With the Stars."


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