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This is a minimalistic Galaxy Nexus kernel. My philosophy is to keep the kernel as lean and stable as possible, at the same time to keep the kernel as modern and close to latest mainstream linux as possible. You will see that my kernels will lack some of the bells and whistles from other kernels.
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- JB 4.3: [ stable builds | exp builds ] [ change log | exp changes ]
- JB 4.2.x: [ stable builds | exp builds ] [ change log ]
- Terminal Emulator not finding my scripts? Read this post.
- Patched to latest in Linux 3.0.x branch.
- All unnecessary kernel components removed to make kernel lean and fast!
- OC to 1.65ghz. Boot speed is maxed at 1.2ghz within kernel (in addition to ramdisk) for stability.
- User voltage control
- InteractiveX V2 (screen-off hotplug of cpu1) added. Select it using setcpu if you want to use it.
- Ramdisk tweaks (sysctl, vm, filesystem speed, etc.)
- SWAP & zram (next generation compcache) support. Run "zram enable" in terminal.
- init.d support in ramdisk.
- lk.conf for basic kernel configuration.
- HotplugX governor (Hotplug optimized and modified for screen-off suspend).
- wakelock tweaks for wlan and lte modem
- lkflash - script to flash latest versions of leanKernel from Terminal (type "su" without quotes, hit enter, then type "lkflash" without quotes and then hit enter)
- checkv - voltage checking script (for custom undervolting) - detailed at bottom of this post.
- checkt - script that displays 1) your current temp, 2) # of times you were throttled due to temp "recently", 3) CPU trim type, and 4) CPU silicon type, etc. (sample output)
- Fast USB charge (by chad0982) and "ffc" toggle script by me. (Open terminal, and type "ffc" without quotes then enter)
- ColorControl from both CM9 and Ezekeel (compatible with all ROMs). Helpful posts: 1and 2.
- TempControl - sysfs interface to control the CPU temp threshold. Read these two posts: 1 and 2.
- Variable GPU OC - sysfs interface to select GPU max speed between 307MHz (stock), 384MHz and 512Mhz. The changes take effect immediately. Check FAQ for more info and how to use it.
- Custom SR Tuning - override kernel default minimum voltage for SR calibration. More info here and here. V2
- SoundControl
- Gamma Control
- ROW scheduler v4
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The Year In Pop Charts: Return Of The Monoculture
To capture the year in pop, let's think back to some of its most memorable songs:
- A left-field hit sung almost entirely in a foreign language, whose throbbing dance beat masked lyrics that were more political than one might suspect.
- A rock-pop crossover smash about holding onto youth into your thirties, even when your head is throbbing from self-reflection and encroaching decrepitude.
- A fluttery, buttery pop classic about a girl fretting over — yet exulting in — not knowing where that boy's head is at or where he thinks he's going.
- And the No. 1 record of the year — a rocker–ballad hybrid with egocentric yet self-lacerating lyrics, and an improbably catchy, minimal, skeletal sound.
Quick, what year am I talking about?
Why, 1984, of course — the year of Nena's "99 Luftballons (Red Balloons)," Bruce Springsteen's "Dancing in the Dark," Madonna's "Borderline" and Prince's "When Doves Cry." Widely agreed to be the greatest year for pop a generation ago, 1984 offered amazing variety on vinyl and represented a cultural peak for Top 40 radio.
But of course, I'm also talking about 2012, the year of Psy's "Gangnam Style," fun.'s "We Are Young," Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" and Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to Know." The last three of these songs were, according to Billboard magazine, the top three songs of the year. All four songs (especially Psy's) commanded our conversation largely via YouTube and iTunes, more than the radio, which caught onto them late.
At the risk of offending pop classicists, I'd call 2012, if not quite the equal of 1984, a year in pop that aspired to that classic year's level of monocultural pleasure.
The word monoculture is thrown around by culture critics nearly as much as by botanists. For us in the pop world, it means the idea of a shared cultural experience — The Beatles-and-Motown AM radio of the mid-'60s, or Michael Jackson's cross-cultural peak in 1983–84 — and for years, many of us have been mourning its passing. Dean of American Rock Critics Robert Christgau has been particularly vocal on the matter, decrying the loss of the monoculture as recently as a half-decade ago.
Well, the monoculture is back — as impossible as that is to fathom, in an era of isolating earbuds and a myriad of entertainment channels. Two things, I'd argue, produce good years for pop music: variety and shared pleasure. That's what made 1984 great, and it's what made 2012, however imperfect, so pleasurable so much of the time.
First, variety: 2012 finally saw the Gaga-era, all-dance-all-the-time fever that's commanded pop radio since the start of the Obama Administration start to break. You saw it atop Billboard's iconic, half-century-old Hot 100, a chart that combines song sales, radio airplay and, as of this year, online streaming data like Spotify.
Just look at Billboard's aforementioned Top Three of 2012. It ranges from Gotye's Sting- and Peter Gabriel–inspired, remarkably quiet lament, sporting a prominent xylophone hook; to Jepsen's smash, whose beat was certainly danceable but on the whole was sonically closer to the pure pop of the late '90s; to fun.'s soaring pop-rock, which creatively reimagined the delirious sonic fantasias of Queen.
As good as this trio is, it's too soon to declare victory over the pop radio's historic tendency toward monotony. The rest of Billboard's Top 10 songs of 2012 include such oontz-oontz anthems as "Lights" by Ellie Goulding (No. 5 for the year), "We Found Love" by Rihanna (No. 8) and "Starships" by Nicki Minaj (No. 9). (All three, I'd argue, are better than the average dance jam — in Goulding's case, way better — but still.) And while it was heartwarming to see boy-band pop make a comeback in 2012 via U.K. imports One Direction and The Wanted, neither band has yet recorded anything as culturally resonant as Backstreet Boys' "I Want It That Way" or as sharp as *N Sync's "Girlfriend." Though it must be said that 1D's "What Makes You Beautiful" (No. 10) was one of the year's better-crafted pop commodities and remarkably good for a debut single.
The point is, in 2012, you began to see the dam breaking: While 2011 could fairly be described as "dance divas plus Adele," in 2012 the British siren wasn't alone in providing a richer stew of pop sounds. And when we, the lowly pop fans, found a song we liked, we championed it before the industry gatekeepers were ready for it. On YouTube, Spotify, Twitter, amongst ourselves, we shared, and shared, and shared.
Talk about shared hits — Billboard's Top Three songs of the year commanded the Hot 100, not just for a week or two, but for at least a couple of months each. Gotye's hit was No. 1 for eight weeks, Jepsen's for nine and fun.'s for a comparatively modest six. These snowball smashes didn't just control the radio airwaves the way most pop hits do. At their respective peaks, each seemed to own U.S. culture.
The fun. single broke wide thanks to a Superbowl ad by Chevrolet last February that directly followed a performance on Glee. By the time "We Are Young" topped the Hot 100, it was selling a staggering 300,000 downloads a week (huge in the dead of winter), was the first No. 1 single boosted by Spotify streaming, and was also the first rock-crossover No. 1 hit since Coldplay four years earlier (really, arguably, since Nickelback a decade earlier).
The Gotye single was also an unlikely crossover from rock radio. But even before "Somebody" materialized on the charts in the spring, its simple, arresting video had already been viewed on YouTube more than 100 million times (it's now above 350 million). The week it topped the Hot 100, Gotye's song sold a mind-blowing half-million downloads, was on Saturday Night Live as well as Glee (yes, them again) and began spawning a raft of inspired YouTube covers.
Two months later, when Gotye succumbed to Jepsen's 2012 Song of Summer "Call Me Maybe," we were in a full-on Carly Rae national moment. Everyone from pop demigods to Olympians to veteran Muppets uploaded a lip-dub or a cover of the genius pop trifle to YouTube.
Speaking of YouTube, I would be remiss if I did not address the global phenomenon that was "Gangnam Style," which just surpassed a record one billion video views worldwide. In America, Psy became an accidental ambassador to K-Pop, the candy-colored regional music long predicted to break here. His subtly subversive ditty ultimately peaked at No. 2 on the Hot 100, selling more than three million downloads. According to Billboard, "Gangnam" only ranks No. 47 for the year — but with all of America watching his video and imitating his horsey-dance, Psy is likely shrugging off that detail.
(To get technical a moment, for chart nerds and Psy fans wondering why he didn't do better in the year-end tally: "Gangnam" was hurt by two things, timing and radio. Billboard's formula necessarily favors early-in-the-year hits, and "Gangnam" only broke into the Top 40 in late September, leaving it little time to amass year-end chart points. And while U.S. radio did, shockingly, embrace a song that was 98% in Korean, it never got higher on Billboard's all-radio chart than No. 12 — unprecedented for a K-Pop song, but modest for a U.S. pop hit. During many weeks this fall, "Gangnam" was the best-selling song in America, but it was never among the 10 most-played. Finally, for all sorts of technical reasons, YouTube is still not a factor on the Hot 100.)
The result of all these viral smashes is a shared pool of hit songs that's bigger, more omnipresent, more culturally dominant than we've seen since the '80s. Remember the radio station that was only targeting 25-to-35-year-old guys, or 12-to-29-year-old females? At radio, after a two-decade plunge into "narrowcasting," scores of stations have switched back to the Top 40 format in the last couple of years. As of the end of 2012, some 300 stations in the United States — the largest number in a generation — report to Billboard magazine as some form of Top 40 music. (Some lean "rhythmic" or "adult," but 157 of them — more than half — play what the magazine terms "mainstream" Top 40.) Sure, they still want young listeners, as all advertisers do; but their idea of broadcasting is broader than we've seen in a long while.
Radio is still a powerful medium, capable of making hits. Witness the big single of the fall, Maroon 5's faux-reggae Ace of Base homage "One More Night" (No. 18 for the year). A dream hit for radio, its midtempo beat suitable for midday drive-time airplay and nighttime dance-mix shows, "Night" never ranked as the best-selling song in the country. But wall-to-wall radio airplay kept it atop the Hot 100 for nine weeks.
But the Maroon 5 hit was the exception, not the rule, for hit records in 2012. For much of the year, radio found itself following, not leading, the pop parade. Since 2005, when iTunes and other digital song sales were added to the Hot 100 formula and began to change the sound of pop, radio program directors have been playing closer attention to digital phenomena. They're keeping an eye on, and playing catchup with, fast-moving consumers. Now, with streaming audio like Spotify also baked into the charts, listeners have even easier ways to infect friends with their favorite songs. Programmers are being pulled toward left-of-center records like "Somebody That I Used to Know" and "Gangnam Style" by rank-and-file listeners — instead of radio pushing listeners, as it did for decades.
We'll know the move toward all-encompassing pop has succeeded if, by 2013 or 2014, R&B and hip-hop are in the mix, too. Unfortunately, after dominating the charts a decade ago, black music in all its forms has been a casualty of the 2010s' return to pop centrism. Within Billboard's year-end Top 10, black artists either have supporting roles on hits by pop/rock acts (Janelle Monáe on fun.'s "We Are Young," Wiz Khalifa on Maroon 5's "Payphone") or are scoring dance-pop crossover hits that received little urban radio airplay (neither Rihanna's "We Found Love" nor Minaj's "Starships" — pop smashes, both — even made the R&B/Hip-Hop chart's Top 40). You have to go down to No. 20 on Billboard's year-end tally to find a genuine black-radio hit: Drake's "The Motto," featuring Lil Wayne, a No. 1 R&B/Hip-Hop hit that also reached No. 14 on the Hot 100.
This is a shame, because artistically, R&B and hip-hop had a stellar year, as shown by the dominance by Frank Ocean, Miguel and Kendrick Lamar on critics' year-end lists. It's hard to call 2012 a true equal to 1984 when we don't have a Michael Jackson or a Prince — or even a Chaka Khan or a Billy Ocean — going toe-to-toe with pure pop on the charts. If you're an omnivorous pop fan, millennial pop still has a ways to go to satisfy you.
There are signs that our expanding definition of pop will persist into 2013. As we head toward New Year's Eve, the Hot 100 is topped by Bruno Mars's genre-blind "Locked Out of Heaven" — like Gotye's smash, it's a pop-rock song indebted to the sound of vintage Sting. (What was it with that guy this year?) Mars sits on top of a Top 40 containing The Lumineers' stompy-Americana hit "Ho Hey"; the Grammy-nominated acoustic ballad "The A Team" by Ed Sheeran; Kendrick Lamar's pleasantly loopy hip-hop hit "Swimming Pools (Drank)"; and Miguel's magnificent reimagining of vintage Marvin Gaye with "Adorn."
Whether we're still talking about any of these records 12 months from now, or a hit even more left-field than Psy's, will determine whether our just-completed Year of the Adventurous Pop Debutante was a fluke. Maybe 2012 will turn out to be the warm up to an even more adventurous 2013. Or maybe we'll keep veering back to four-on-the-floor club hits again. Either way, at least we, the members of the reinvigorated monoculture, will be listening to and YouTubing them together.

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Times Square Eyewitness: Bomb Scare Looked Like Drill
A You Tube clip shot by an eyewitness near the Times Square car bomb incident on Saturday night highlights why many people who were caught up in the bomb scare thought that the police were running a drill at the time of the botched attack.
Eyewitnesses, including those who comment on the video on the You Tube page, are baffled as to why police chose to evacuate some locations and not others, as if certain buildings had been chosen to be evacuated beforehand while others were left alone.
Despite the fact that people were being told to leave McDonalds, police did not stop anyone from entering the theatre next door. In addition, the staff at McDonalds were not told to leave and remained in the restaurant.
"None of this made sense when the audience was let in to see West Side Story," states the text in the video.
"I was actually at a concert in nokia theatre while this was happening. I'm surprised the place didn't get evacuated too," writes a respondent to the clip.
"The employees looking out at us all looked confused," states the eyewitness, suggesting they were not informed about what was going on by police nor were they told to leave.
"Either the terrorists were running a drill, or the cops were…it sure seemed like it could have been a drill," states the description to the eyewitness video.
An additional detail that suggests police bomb drills may have been taking place in and around the incident is the fact that Lee County Sheriff Michael Scott told WINK News that he was in New York during the weekend training with the New York bomb squad. While it's unclear whether or not the drills were related to the bomb scare, Scott said that he was at the scene of the incident working with New York police.
"Somebody asked me why I didn't start taking pictures of the car, I was not in tourist mode at that time I was in cop mode, and you just sort of sense the danger," said Scott.
According to the news anchor, Scott had been training with the bomb squad before he was called to work the car bomb case just hours later.
Why are drills and exercises surrounding real attacks important? While it remains to be seen whether potential drills surrounding the Times Square incident were of any significance, false flag terror attacks are habitually accompanied by almost identical exercises which provide plausible deniability if any evidence comes to light of inside involvement.
Both 9/11 and the 7/7 London bombings were accompanied by drills, which in the case of 7/7 were virtually identical to the times and locations at which the real bombings took place, a statistically impossible coincidence.
The Joe Stack kamikaze attack also took place at the precise moment a Hazmat team was stationed next to the IRS building in Austin Texas conducting an exercise.
The fact that authorities in New York have almost instantly exploited the incident to push for an expansion of invasive surveillance cameras across the city provokes questions as to how much police knew about the vehicle before they commenced with a baffling evacuation process which seemed to focus around certain buildings and not the area as a whole, as would be expected if authorities really feared that a car bomb was about to go off.
Watch the You Tube clip shot by the Times Square eyewitness below.


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Stephen Wade
Stephen Wade, the writer and narrator of Catching the Music, was born in Chicago in 1953, where, growing up, he observed first-hand some of the wonderful traditional musicians who had migrated to the city from both the Mississippi Delta and the Southern Appalachians. As an eleven-year-old student of Jim Schwall of the Siegel-Schwall Band, Stephen began playing the guitar. By his teens he acquired a banjo and encountered, as he had with the guitar and the blues, a continuing legacy of players devoted to the instrument and its rural history. One of those players was Fleming Brown, a teacher at the Old Town School of Folk Music. In 1971 Stephen began an apprenticeship with this masterful player and singer, and within a few years, inherited teaching his class at the School. During this period, he also began working as accompanist to Fleming Brown\'s teacher, Doc Hopkins, the great old-time radio singer from Harlan, Kentucky who came to Chicago in 1930 to perform on the WLS National Barn Dance, an occupation which lasted 22 years. Under the loving and watchful care of these musicians, Stephen studied the five-string banjo.
Both Doc Hopkins and Fleming Brown encouraged Stephen to travel beyond Chicago to find other players and settings where the music had developed. This led him to record in the field a number of gifted regional musicians. One by-product of this work led to his 1997 collection A Treasury of Library of Congress Field Recordings (Rounder CD 1500), for which he is now completing a book for the Music in American Life series, University of Illinois Press. In 1994, The Newberry Library recognized his research by making him their second Arthur Weinberg Fellow. In addition to recording and producing (his own recordings include Dancing Home and Dancing in the Parlor), his writings have appeared in publications that include American Music, ARSC Journal, Encyclopedia of Appalachia, Studies in Popular Culture, Encyclopedia of Chicago, Musical Quarterly,American Archivist, Southern Quarterly, Journal of Country Music, Chicago Tribune, and TheWashington Post. Since 1996, his song studies have appeared on National Public Radio\'s Morning Edition and All Things Considered.
Stephen's theater pieces showcase another direction of his research in narrative, music, and dance. His first one-man show, Banjo Dancing, opened in Chicago in 1979, and on Labor Day of that year, Stephen performed at the White House. Following its initial thirteen-month run, the show went on tour, eventually coming to Washington, D.C. in January 1981. Scheduled for a three-week engagement, Stephen's performances at Washington's Arena Stage ran for over a decade, making Banjo Dancing one of the five longest-running, off-Broadway shows in the United States. In 1989 he opened his second show, On the Way Home, in Washington, and in 1991, he began a national tour of both works. In 1993, after a six-month run of On the Way Home in Chicago, he became recipient of that city's Joseph Jefferson Award (Best Actor). Stephen has also been a five-time Helen Hayes Award nominee and in spring 2003, received the Helen Hayes/Charles MacArthur Award for his work as composer, adaptor, and musical director of the world premiere of Zora Neale Hurston\'s Polk County.
Most recently, Stephen's In Sacred Trust: Remembering the Music of Hobart Smith extends the story told in Catching the Music. This four-man, narrated, multi-media concert piece had its first performance in spring 2006, appropriately enough at Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music. In the fall of 1963 Virginia traditional musician Hobart Smith (1897-1965) came to Chicago where he not only performed at the Old Town School, but stayed with its banjo teacher Fleming Brown. As the two players faced one another in Brown's wood-paneled rec room, with Brown's tape recorder set on a coffee table between them, Smith made the most extensive recordings of his career. Smith died soon after these sessions, and for years the musical past he had shared on those tapes found expression through Fleming Brown's banjo classes at the Old Town School. Shortly before his own death, Brown passed these tapes on to Stephen Wade for safekeeping, and possibly, future publication. In August 2005, the highlights were finally issued on the Smithsonian Folkways label as In Sacred Trust: The 1963 Fleming Brown Tapes. Since then, the In Sacred Trust concerts have celebrated their release. Like the album, the stage piece, which features Mike Craver, James Leva, and Zan McLeod, along with Stephen Wade, focuses on the learning and energies that have sustained this music.
For more on Hobart Smith and Stephen Wade go to this website at National Public Radio:


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The Asus Eee PC will boast Intel's Atom processor by the end of June. That's according to an Asus representative who visited the TechRadar.com offices this lunchtime. Asus was in town to drop off the new Eee PC 900 which we've already reviewed.
Before we were briefed about the 900, TechRadar asked Helen Ling from the company's UK office about the arrival of Atom inside the Eee PC. She said that the new machine will arrive by the "end of June in [the] UK, I would have thought." Later in the session Ling added: "I think it should be after Computex".
Atom will get its proper debut at Taipei's Computex at the beginning of June, but we'd question whether we'll actually get it in the UK so soon.
Atom on the way
Colleague Iain Bristow spoke directly afterwards and was distinctly more reserved. "We all know that Atom is on its way, and obviously all our competitors are saying 'we're going to have an Atom machine'. While there hasn't been anything directly confirmed - I couldn't possibly say 'yes there's going to be one' - I'd be very surprised if there wasn't."
Hmm. We all know there's going to be one - prototypes were even shown at the recent Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai.
Can the Eee PC keep its strong position in the market? "We know there's a lot of competition coming through," added Ling. "This one is the same chassis, we've increased the screen from 7-inch to 8.9-inch and the camera to 1.3megapixels."
And what will Atom bring to the party? Well, Bristow said he expected "a significant power saving... you'd get a lot more battery life". Asus is already quoting a 1.5hour better battery life on the 900 model, though our colleague Paul Hudson over at Linux Format expressed amazement at this figure due to the bigger screen size.
We'd have to say we concur, and we've explored the issue in our full review.


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Luc Besson is best known for his testosterone-fueled action thrillers, so the dark comedy "The Family" represents a major departure for the French-born multi-hyphenate. It's also his first English-language film in over a decade, not counting the numerous action franchises (like "The Transporter" and "Taken") that he helped shepherd as a writer/producer. Though many of Besson's past movies have had shades of humor, this is the first one he's helmed that could be described as a comedy. Adapted from Tonino Benacquista's novel "Malavita" (renamed "Badfellas" for the English translation), "The Family" is a surprisingly funny fish-out-of-water tale that succeeds thanks to its excellent cast.
Robert De Niro stars as Giovanni Manzoni, a respected member of the New York mob who's been in witness protection for the better part of the last decade after snitching on his mafia family. Unable to stay out of trouble wherever he goes, Giovanni is relocated to a small, quiet town in Normandy, France with his wife Maggie (Michelle Pfeiffer) and their two kids, Belle (Diane Agron) and Warren (John D'Leo). But before they've even unpacked, the incognito Blake family doesn't waste any time in reverting to their old ways. Maggie blows up the local supermarket after being treated poorly by the staff; Belle teaches some horny teenagers a lesson in how to treat a woman; and Warren sets up several rackets at school. When Giovanni's old mafia don is tipped off to their location by pure chance, however, a team of hitmen is sent to Normandy to exact revenge on him and his family mob-style.
If Tony Soprano had turned rat and been whisked away to Europe with Carmela and the kids, it would probably look a lot like "The Family," a farcical homage to the mobster genre that's played for darkly comical laughs, including a very meta moment involving a Martin Scorsese classic. The irony is also not lost on seeing De Niro and Pfeiffer return to their gangster roots after all these years, and though it isn't the first time they've appeared in a movie together, it's nice to see the veteran actors finally share the screen after failing to cross paths previously in "Stardust" or "New Year's Eve." With the exception of "Silver Linings Playbook," this is the best that De Niro has been in a long time, and he really seems to be relishing his role. In fact, the only cast member who doesn't appear to be enjoying himself is Tommy Lee Jones as the family's FBI handler, with the actor practically sleepwalking through the film.
The movie is a tad ridiculous at times – especially the contrived manner in which the mafia learns of Giovanni's whereabouts – but that's to be expected from Besson, who excels at the absurd. (After all, this is the same guy that has managed to squeeze not one, but two sequels from "Taken," and convinced Liam Neeson it was a good idea.) That absurdity is also where a lot of the script's pitch-black humor is born, and it works for the most part thanks to the chemistry between the four leads. Though "The Family" isn't as memorable as Besson's 90s action films, it's an enjoyable guilty pleasure that serves as a decent distraction ahead of the season's more award-friendly fare.
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By Rose Hoare, CNN
(CNN) - From Warhol's silkscreens of Marilyn Monroe to Picasso's nudes, it has generally been easier for women to be the subject of paintings than to have their own work exhibited.
In 1989, when New York feminist collective Guerrilla Girls began counting how many works in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art were by women, less than 5% of the artists in its Modern section were female.
But the art world looks set to change its stubbly face, and shows increasing signs of recognition for the value and stature of leading female artists.
Half of the nominees for Britain's Turner Prize are women this year, as are three of the four photographers shortlisted for Canada's $50,000 Grange Prize, and at this month's Frieze Art Fair, two of the five artists commissioned to make site-specific works were women.
The chief curators of MoMA, the Whitney, the Met, the Guggenheim and the Centre Pompidou are all female, as are the directors of Tate Britain and the Uffizi Gallery. The world's biggest buyer of contemporary art, according to Art Newspaperis the Qatari royal family, whose purchases are directed by Sheikha Mayassa Al Thani.
"It is better than it has ever been for women at the emerging level," says one of the founders of Guerrilla Girls, Frida Kahlo. But, she warns, "when one travels up the art world ladder of success, there is a crushing glass ceiling. Women only get so far, especially at the level of economics."


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SEATTLE — Tom Brady and the best offense in the NFL got upstaged by an undersized rookie.
In the final minutes, it was Russell Wilson and the Seattle Seahawks making all the big plays.
Wilson found Sidney Rice behind the secondary for a 46-yard touchdown with 1:18 remaining, and the Seahawks rallied for 14 points in the final 7:31 to stun the New England Patriots 24-23 Sunday.
The matchup between the Patriots' No. 1 ranked offense and Seattle's No. 1 defense instead turned in to a starring performance for Wilson, and a shocking rally.
Wilson hit Braylon Edwards on fourth down for a 10-yard TD to get the Seahawks within 23-17. After a pair of holds by Seattle's defense, Wilson found Rice streaking open on a double move for his third touchdown pass of the game. Steven Hauschka's extra point gave Seattle (4-2) the lead with 78 seconds remaining.
Brady had a final chance to make up for all the opportunities the Patriots (3-3) squandered. Starting at his 20 with 1:14 left, Brady missed Brandon Lloyd, then was sacked by Jason Jones, the first sack all day by Seattle. His pass for Aaron Hernandez, back after being out since Week 2 with an ankle injury, was incomplete, and Wes Welker was stopped short on fourth down.
That gave former Patriots coach Pete Carroll one of his biggest pro victories.
Wilson finished 16 of 27 for 293 yards, the best day of his young career. He added Brady to an impressive list of quarterbacks he's topped this year: Tony Romo, Aaron Rodgers and Cam Newton.
Brady finished 36 of 58 for 395 yards and touchdown passes of 1 yard to Hernandez and 46 yards to Welker in the first half. Welker had 10 catches for 138 yards, his fourth straight game over 100. Brady topped 300 yards passing for the 49th time, but was intercepted in the second half by Richard Sherman and Earl Thomas after going 179 attempts without being picked off. One of Brady's interceptions came in the end zone, yet another squandered chance by the Patriots.
Seattle gained 158 yards in the first quarter then just 70 in the second and third quarters combined. But Wilson had a big rally left.
Stephen Gostkowski's third field goal, a 35-yarder, with 9:21 remaining gave the Patriots' a 23-10 lead, the third time New England settled for field goals. There was also a Patriots drive at the end of the first half when coach Bill Belichick opted to throw with 6 seconds remaining instead of kicking the field goal from the Seattle 3. Brady was flagged for intentional grounding and the ensuing time runoff ended the half.
Following Gostkowski's third kick, Seattle surpassed its entire second half offensive output when Wilson hit Tate for 51 yards and a roughing penalty on Brandon Spikes moved the ball to the Patriots 17. Facing fourth-and-3 at the 10, Wilson found Edwards, who entered the day with one catch since Week 1, in the end zone.
It was Edwards' first touchdown since the 2010 season with the Jets.
Seattle forced New England into its fifth three-and-out of the season and Leon Washington's 25-yard punt return gave the Seahawks possession at their 43 with 2:38 left. Marshawn Lynch, held to 41 yards on 15 carries, converted a third-and-1 and then Wilson hit Rice to give Seattle the huge win.


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Generic name: insulin aspart [ IN-su-lin-AS-part ]
Brand names: NovoLOG, NovoLOG FlexPen, NovoLOG PenFill
Drug class: Insulin
What is NovoLog?
NovoLog is a fast-acting insulin that starts to work about 15 minutes after injection, peaks in about 1 hour, and keeps working for 2 to 4 hours. Insulin is a hormone that works by lowering levels of glucose (sugar) in the blood.
NovoLog is used to improve blood sugar control in adults and children with diabetes mellitus .
This medicine is sometimes used together with a long-acting or intermediate-acting insulin.
NovoLog is used to treat type 2 diabetes in adults.
NovoLog is also used to treat type 1 diabetes in adults and children who are at least 2 years old.
NovoLog is a fast-acting insulin that begins to work very quickly. After using it, you should eat a meal within 5 to 10 minutes.
Never share an injection pen or cartridge with another person. Sharing injection pens or cartridges can allow disease such as hepatitis or HIV to pass from one person to another.
You should not use NovoLog if you are having an episode of hypoglycemia (low blood sugar).
NovoLog side effects
Get emergency medical help if you have signs of an allergic reaction to NovoLog: redness or swelling where an injection was given, itchy skin rash over the entire body, trouble breathing, fast heartbeats, feeling like you might pass out, or swelling in your tongue or throat.
Call your doctor at once if you have:
- heart problems – swelling, rapid weight gain, feeling short of breath; or
- low potassium – leg cramps, constipation, irregular heartbeats, fluttering in your chest, increased thirst or urination, numbness or tingling, muscle weakness or limp feeling.
Common NovoLog side effects may include:
- low blood sugar;
- weight gain;
- low potassium;
- swelling in your hands and feet;
- skin rash, itching, redness, or swelling; or
- thickening or hollowing of the skin where you injected the medicine.
This is not a complete list of side effects and others may occur. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.
Novolog side effects (more detail)
Before taking this medicine
You should not use NovoLog if you are allergic to insulin aspart, or if you are having an episode of hypoglycemia (low blood sugar).
NovoLog is not approved for use by anyone younger than 2 years old. This medicine should not be used to treat type 2 diabetes in a child of any age.
To make sure NovoLog is safe for you, tell your doctor if you have:
- liver or kidney disease; or
- low levels of potassium in your blood (hypokalemia).
Tell your doctor if you also take pioglitazone or rosiglitazone (sometimes contained in combinations with glimepiride or metformin). Taking certain oral diabetes medicines while you are using insulin may increase your risk of serious heart problems.
Tell your doctor if you are pregnant or breastfeeding.
Follow your doctor's instructions about using insulin if you are pregnant or you become pregnant.
How should I use NovoLog?
Use NovoLog exactly as it was prescribed for you. Follow all directions on your prescription label. Do not use this medicine in larger or smaller amounts or for longer than recommended.
NovoLog is injected under the skin, or into a vein through an IV. You will be shown how to use injections at home. Do not give yourself this medicine if you do not understand how to use the injection and properly dispose of needles, IV tubing, and other items used.
Your care provider will show you the best places on your body to inject NovoLog. Use a different place each time you give an injection. Do not inject into the same place two times in a row.
Do not inject this medicine into skin that is damaged, tender, bruised, pitted, thickened, scaly, or has a scar or hard lump.
After using NovoLog, you should eat a meal within 5 to 10 minutes.
If you use an injection pen, use only the injection pen that comes with NovoLog. Attach a new needle before each use. Do not transfer the insulin from the pen into a syringe or infusion pump.
If you use this medicine with an insulin pump, do not mix or dilute NovoLog with any other insulin. Infusion pump tubing, catheters, and the needle location on your skin should be changed every 3 days. Change the medicine in the reservoir every 6 days.
Prepare an injection only when you are ready to give it. This medicine should be clear and colorless. Do not use the medicine if it has changed colors or has particles in it. Call your pharmacist for new medicine.
Never share an injection pen, cartridge, or syringe with another person, even if the needle has been changed. Sharing these devices can allow infections or disease to pass from one person to another.
Use a disposable needle or syringe only once. Follow any state or local laws about throwing away used needles and syringes. Use a puncture-proof "sharps" disposal container (ask your pharmacist where to get one and how to throw it away). Keep this container out of the reach of children and pets.
Low blood sugar (hypoglycemia) can happen to anyone who has diabetes. Symptoms include headache, hunger, sweating, irritability, dizziness, nausea, and feeling anxious or shaky. To quickly treat low blood sugar, always keep a fast-acting source of sugar with you such as fruit juice, hard candy, crackers, raisins, or non-diet soda.
Your doctor can prescribe a glucagon emergency injection kit to use in case you have severe hypoglycemia and cannot eat or drink. Be sure your family and close friends know how to give you this injection in an emergency.
Also watch for signs of high blood sugar (hyperglycemia) such as increased thirst or urination, blurred vision, headache, and tiredness.
Blood sugar levels can be affected by stress, illness, surgery, exercise, alcohol use, medications, or skipping meals. Ask your doctor before changing your insulin dose or medication schedule.
NovoLog is only part of a treatment program that may also include diet, exercise, weight control, blood sugar testing, and special medical care. Follow your doctor's instructions very closely.
Keep this medicine in its original container protected from heat and light. Do not draw insulin from a vial into a syringe until you are ready to give an injection. Do not freeze insulin or store it near the cooling element in a refrigerator. Throw away any insulin that has been frozen.
Storing unopened (not in use) NovoLog:
- Refrigerate and use until expiration date; or
- Store at room temperature and use within 28 days.
Storing opened (in use) NovoLog:
- Store the vial in a refrigerator or at room temperature and use within 28 days.
- Store the cartridge or injection pen at room temperature (do not refrigerate) and use within 28 days. Do not store the injection pen with a needle attached.
Use a needle and syringe only once and then place them in a puncture-proof "sharps" container. Follow state or local laws about how to dispose of this container. Keep it out of the reach of children and pets.
Read all patient information, medication guides, and instruction sheets provided to you. Ask your doctor or pharmacist if you have any questions.
Wear a diabetes medical alert tag in case of emergency. Any medical care provider who treats you should know that you have diabetes.
Detailed Novolog dosage information
What happens if I miss a dose?
Since NovoLog is used before meals, you may not be on a timed dosing schedule. Whenever you use NovoLog, be sure to eat a meal within 5 to 10 minutes. Do not use extra insulin to make up a missed dose.
Keep insulin on hand at all times. Get your prescription refilled before you run out of medicine completely.
What happens if I overdose?
Seek emergency medical attention or call the Poison Help line at 1-800-222-1222. Insulin overdose can cause life-threatening hypoglycemia. Symptoms include drowsiness, confusion, blurred vision, numbness or tingling in your mouth, trouble speaking, muscle weakness, clumsy or jerky movements, seizure (convulsions), or loss of consciousness.
What should I avoid while using NovoLog?
Insulin can cause low blood sugar. Avoid driving or operating machinery until you know how this medicine will affect you.
Avoid medication errors by always checking the medicine label before injecting your insulin.
Avoid drinking alcohol or using medicines that contain alcohol. Alcohol can cause low blood sugar and may interfere with your diabetes treatment.
What other drugs will affect NovoLog?
Many other medicines can affect your blood sugar, and some medicines can increase or decrease the effects of insulin. Some drugs can also cause you to have fewer symptoms of hypoglycemia, making it harder to tell when your blood sugar is low. Tell each of your health care providers about all medicines you use now and any medicine you start or stop using. This includes prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, and herbal products.
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Design submitted by Peter (UK) & Sam (Germany)
Peter & Sam say: The initial idea for Camalien was a watch that changes its colour with the mood of the wearer. But mood is an abstract thing that could be dozens of measurable things in reality. We kept the colour changing aspect and gave the watch a camera.
The display of Camalien reacts to the environment like a chameleon.
The base technology for this concept consists of multicolour LEDs. They are arranged in a honeycomb-like array creating this cool hexagon pattern similar to reptilian skin. With such an array many things are possible:
Time telling: Time can be told with the press of a button. Four numbers in HH/MM mode tell the time. Another press reveals the date in MM/DD mode.
Assimilation mode: This mode lets the display pulse in the colour of the environment, looking like an adapting chameleon. The camera delivers the necessary data and a software translates reality into hexagon matrix colour information.
Time pulse: The could be an automatic animation mode that lets the display pulse up in current environment colours with an overlay of the current time.
Wordstream mode: The array also allows to post messages. It's nothing for emergencies, but fun! We suggest an interactivity with a smartphone (Bluetooth) or the computer (USB) to be able to edit text. Just tell everyone what you think!
Response mode: With this mode, the watch displays words, that are normally associated to colours and patterns. Imagine, you are in a blank white room. Camalien would show "boring" to you. If you are in a room with red flashing lights, Camalien would show for example "ouch, my eye!" This behaviour lets the watch seem to have a consciousness.
Capture mode: This would allow you to capture an environment and save it, by holding the button for two seconds. So parallel to the automatic Assimilation mode, this gives you a chance to control the display. If you like the colours of a painting, you can save them.
Composition mode: This mode offers a range of display patterns (stripes, dots, circles etc.). You can capture some colours nearby and then compose them into a geometrical pattern of your choice. Adapt the display to the situation you are in, be it a game of your favourite team or being in the cinema or a club or even a museum!
Swarm mode: Since we suggest Bluetooth connectivity, Camalien should also react to other watches of it's kind in range. Every watch in range could suddenly show up the same display or share previously programmed information… the possibilities are endless.
Camalien is a fashion accessory with quite some options to customise. Adapt to your environment, show your mood, display your team colours, make your outfit complete!


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We offer bounce house rentals in Tulsa, as well as other services. We can rent a bounce house in Tulsa. Bounce Pro Inflatables can hand large corporate event parties, Church events, school events & small private birthday parties. Bounce Pro Inflatables is the best place to call if you need to rent a bouncehouse in Tulsa. Add a concession rental or generator rental, or maybe an outdoor movie screen rental. Call us today!
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Bixby is a city in Tulsa and Wagoner counties in the U.S. state of Oklahoma, and is a suburb of Tulsa. The population was 28,609 at the 2020 census and 20,884 in the 2010 census, an increase of 13.70 percent In 2010, Bixby became the 19th largest city in Oklahoma. It is nicknamed "The Garden Spot of Oklahoma" for its rich agrarian heritage. Though one of the fastest-growing communities in Oklahoma, it remains a sod-growing center and a popular location for purchasing fresh vegetables. The per capita income of $36,257 is the highest in the Tulsa Metropolitan area and is more than 50 percent higher than the state average.
Neighborhoods in Bixby, Oklahoma
Bixby Landing, Bixhoma Lake, Bristol Park, Brookwood, Brookwood II, Cedarcrest II, Chisholm Ranch, Darlington South, Forest Creek, Forest Oaks, Forest Park South, Forest Trails, Heatherridge, Hunter's Pointe, Longview Lake
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Avid has announced new versions of Media Composer and Symphony, professional video editing programs targeted to independent video professionals, post-production houses, broadcasters, and media companies. These new versions are designed to increase performance, collaboration, and productivity.
Media Composer 6 and Symphony 6 have been rebuilt on a new 64-bit architecture that promises to boost performance and flexibility. These applications feature a sleek, new interface and include support for third-party hardware, AVCHD and RED Epic with Avid Media Access (AMA), Avid DNxHD 444 codec, and Avid Artist Color.
The new software is compatible with existing hardware and lets users add Avid editing systems to current workflow configurations with the new Avid Open I/O. This supports video and audio cards from AJA Video Systems, Blackmagic Design, Bluefish444, Matrox, and MOTU.
With Symphony, which is now available as a software-only product—users get greater flexibility for on-set and mobile editorial and color work, the company says.
Post production enhancements
In addition, Avid has enhanced Pro Tools integration and 5.1/7.1 surround, and extensive metadata management. Users can transfer more session data from Media Composer to Pro Tools. Additional metadata is available in the AAF interchange format.
Users can preserve full color information from HD RGB 4:4:4 sources without compromising system performance or storage via the new Avid DNxHD 444, a high-quality HD codec. Avid DNxHD 444 can enhance real-time HD production productivity with the highest color detail. It's suitable for demanding productions, and is also an ideal archiving format, the company says.
In addition, users will get more power and flexibility in color correction with support for the Avid Artist Color control surface within Avid editing systems. The new versions speed time to editing by eliminating transcode, re-wrap, and log and transfer processes through expanded AMA, which offers native support for AVCHD and RED Epic as well as the ability to encode Apple ProRes (Mac OS-based systems only).
Additionally, users can expedite workflows and tools with the new Avid Marketplace, which offers in-system access to stock footage from Thought Equity Motion. The Avid Marketplace also enables customers to browse available video and audio plug-ins. Plus, users can get their questions answered with a new Customer Assist Tool, which offers direct, in-app access to guides, help, and configuration information. Sorenson Squeeze 8 is included with Media Composer and Symphony.
Avid Vantage
Avid is also introducing the Avid Vantage Program, an annual membership for Media Composer and Symphony customers, which is also available to Pro Tools customers.
It provides subscribers with unlimited online technical support, and discounted expert phone support. Subscribers also gain access to a collection of NewBlueFX effects (for Media Composer or Symphony subscribers) or audio plug-ins (for Pro Tools subscribers). An Avid Store coupon, available for a limited time, can be applied to new software purchases or upgrades.
Pricing and availability
New versions of Media Composer and Symphony software will be available on November 15.
Pricing for Media Composer 6 starts at $2499, with upgrade pricing from $299. Pricing for Symphony 6 starts at $5,999, with upgrade pricing from $499. An academic version of Media Composer 6 starts at $295 for educational institutions and students. Final Cut Pro (excluding Final Cut Pro X) users can purchase Media Composer with free online training for $1499.
The new Avid Vantage Program will be available during the fourth quarter of 2011 to Media Composer, Symphony, and Pro Tools users for $149 per year.
Media Composer works on Macs with an Intel Dual Core 2.66GHz Xeon processor or faster, or an Intel Core 2 Duo 2.33GHz processor or faster (for laptops). It is compatible with Lion.
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Giving new meaning to the term year-round family resort, Great Wolf Lodge defies the weather outside with an indoor waterpark experience that has young and old soaking in the fun.
Whether its 10 degrees below or raining cats and dogs, it is always a balmy 84 degrees inside the resort's mammoth 58,000-square-foot indoor waterpark. Bear Track Landing puts the emphasis on fun with six waterslides, four pools, and a four-story treehouse waterfort.
The state-of-the-art facility utilizes nearly 380,000 gallons of water that is splashed, sprayed, waved and played in by both kids and parents alike. Bear Track Landing is Great Wolf's signature interactive play structure with a tipping bucket, and is an ideal escape for both parents and kids offering an environment that allows for time to bond together as well as safe and supervised — yet independent — kid-friendly fun that gives parents time to relax with children in sight.
Immersive branded elements combine rustic charm with world-class amenities and permeate all public spaces of the hotel resorts and guest rooms. These include a huge, 4-story grand lobby with massive stone fireplace and overstuffed furniture and wood tables; the Great Clock Tower, which comes to life three times daily entertaining guests with animation and song; Northern Lights Arcade with ticket redemption center; and the Iron Horse Fitness Center. Buckhorn Exchange Gift Emporium provides unique gifts. The north wood's themed experience is extended in Grand Mound to include images from its Pacific Northwest location, such as the incorporation of native salmon into themed décor elements.
Other amenities of the resort include the Elements Spa, featuring a full menu of Aveda treatments including facials, massages and wraps. For the 12-and-under set, it features a spa designed just for kids. Called Scoops Kid Spa, it offers ice cream-themed manicures and pedicures. Cub Club is a children's craft and activity center featuring hands-on activities and ideas for being green at home through a unique partnership with National Geographic Explorer. A new attraction, Gr8t Space, is a tech center with Internet stations, movies and musical entertainment aimed at the tween and teen crowds. Plus, there is MagiQuest, a live-action and fantasy adventure game that's appropriate for all skill levels and takes guests on a quest throughout the resort.
The lodge includes nearly 400 north wood's themed suites, many offering forts or caves for the kids (complete with bunk beds). The largest sleeps up to eight people, with several suites featuring fireplaces, lofts, balconies and whirlpool tubs. All suites feature in-room microwaves and refrigerators. These rooms are magical to children, giving them the feeling they are in a tree house, or "tent roughing it in the woods."
Great Wolf Lodge is the first and only U.S. hotel chain to be Silver Certified in Project Green Seal. Green Seal is a 20-year-old, independent, non-profit organization dedicated to creating a more sustainable world. Green Seal created rigorous, science-based criteria for the lodging industry, which includes nearly 30 environmentally responsible components required for a hotel — recycling, energy conservation, water conservation, and socially responsible purchasing, to name a few. Meeting these requirements means the resorts are substantially reducing their environmental impact.
As a customer focused company, Great Wolf's management team listened to guests desires for its buildings and practices to be green. Launching Project Green Wolf in 2007 to play a leading role in conserving the planet for future generations by educating and establishing green traditions for both guests and employees. Areas of emphasis include conservation of fresh water resources by installing low flow showerheads and using local plants in landscape beds that require less water. The laundry facility recycles 70 percent of the water it consumes. Co-mingled recycle bins are placed in all public spaces and guest rooms in the hotel.
The waterpark filtration systems use 80 to 90 percent less water than traditional filters and Great Wolf mechanically controls the humidity and temperatures in the park so there's very little water loss from evaporation. The resort recovers most of its water, filters it, treats it, and returns it to the waterpark, making the systems the most effective and complete in the world. This allows the facilities to use the lowest amount of chlorine possible, while staying within the recommended local and state guidelines. Less chlorine in the pools means less chlorine released into the environment.
Aquatic space: 60,000 square feet
Year opened: 2008
Cost: N/A
Dream feature: The 60,000-square-foot Bear Track Landing indoor waterpark.
- Dream Designer: Weber Group Inc.
- Aquatic Design Build Contractor: Water Technology
- Architect: GSBS
- Filters:Neptune-Benson Inc.
- Pumps: Aurora
- Water Play Structures: SCS Interactive
- Waterslides: ProSlide Technology Inc.
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8 Great Afternoon Hikes and Rides
← The Urban Trek: 4T Trail
This city-meets-wilderness circuit got its name from the modes of travel you'll use: MAX trains, hiking trails, trollies (a.k.a. the Portland Streetcar), and the Portland Aerial Tram. Start downtown by boarding the westbound MAX to Washington Park. Trail signs lead hikers over Highway 26 to a switchbacking climb up the rugged West Hills to Council Crest, the city's mightiest summit at 1,073 feet. The five-volcano panorama is worth the trip alone. Next, descend through a thickly wooded ravine to Marquam Nature Park, and begin the climb to Oregon Health & Science University. Your reward? A scenic glide down the Portland Aerial Tram. Return via the Portland Streetcar. Access: Washington Park MAX station
Tryon Creek State Park
July temps inside Tryon Creek's shade-drenched ravines seldom crack 80 degrees, making its 660 acres a go-to summer oasis. The showiest hike follows the Maple Ridge Trail down a gentle decline toward Middle Creek Trail and photo-ready High Bridge. Along the way enormous toadstools, old-growth cedar stumps, and late-blooming woodland flowers like clematis and false Solomon's seal vie for attention. Don't forget to scan tree trunks for owl nests and bat boxes—numerous barred owls and little brown bats inhabit the park. Access: 11321 SW Terwilliger Blvd
Firelane 15 Loop
Perched at Forest Park's northern tip, Firelane 15 borders a power-line corridor that surveys Sauvie Island farmland and St. Helens's snowy dome. To the west, a blanket of rugged blue hills unfurls to the Coast Range. Such remote topography is a solid bet for wildlife encounters. Park workers routinely spot coyote and black-tailed deer darting into the brush. And don't miss the side trail from Firelane 15 to Keilhorn Meadow, a secluded, hemlock- and maple-fringed field—as pretty a place as any to listen for great horned owls. Directions: From NW Skyline Blvd, follow Firelane 15, cross over the Wildwood Trail, and turn right on Firelane 12 to BPA Road. Go right on BPA Road and turn right on Wildwood Trail. Return via Firelane 15.
Cooper Mountain Nature Park
Distinctive trailside features like a bird's nest–themed iron sculpture, swiveling "listening posts" that zero in on melodic chatter, and a nature-scape playground make this Metro's most engaging natural area. The hiking's not bad, either. A web of gravel-strewn trails (all of which can be explored in a morning or afternoon) tours restored woodland habitats and oak savannas, delivering vistas of distant, vineyard-dotted hillsides. Keep an eye peeled for the resident bobcat, who's routinely spotted prowling the open meadows for stray bird eggs and unwary gray squirrels. Access: 18892 SW Kemmer Rd, Beaverton
Lacamas Lake Park
The 312 acres here pack in conifer groves, fetching waterfalls, fir-ringed Round Lake, and, in spring, tiers of rocky meadows electrified by scores of camas lilies. Mountain bikers fawn over challenging patches of rooty singletrack and lung-burning chugs up dirt roads. Birders favor the adjoining Washougal River Greenway for a 2.6-mile tour of avian-rich wetlands. Need a skinny-tire cruise? The paved Lacamas Heritage Trail stretches 3.5 miles alongside Lacamas Lake, offering chance encounters with herons, double-crested cormorants, and bald eagles. Access: 3344 NE Everett St, Camas
Tualatin Valley Scenic Bikeway →
One of the state's newest scenic bikeways charts 50 miles of Willamette Valley splendor, linking Hillsboro's Rood Bridge Park to rustic Vernonia. In between, a cinematic landscape unfolds: low-traffic blacktop roads wind among oak-dotted horse pastures, a pioneer cemetery, barns, and grain silos before joining the Banks-Vernonia State Trail, a 21-mile, car-free bikeway that bisects L. L. "Stub" Stewart State Park. Not up for the century-distance round trip? The bite-size (and relatively flat) 24-mile out-and-back tour between Hillsboro and Forest Grove comes loaded with excellent birding at Fernhill Wetlands and enticing pit stops like Unger's Farm Store and Oak Knoll Winery. Access: 4000 SE Rood Bridge Rd, Hillsboro
EasyClimb Trail
Constructed by the Northwest Trail Alliance to build momentum for the larger, 25-mile CLIMB (Cascade Locks International Mountain Biking) trail network, EasyClimb is a forgiving beginner's route. The trail provides stunning views of the Columbia River and the breathtaking walls of the river gorge. Though it climbs only 200 feet, the trail is relatively narrow, with twists and turns aplenty, making it a great spot for the novice mountain biker to build confidence. Access: Cramblett Way, Cascade Locks
Sandy Ridge Trail System
Designed by the International Mountain Biking Association (IMBA), the Sandy Ridge Trail System delivers 15 miles of world-class singletrack riding options just 40 minutes from Portland. Silky-smooth bermed corners and expertly contoured paths drop bikers past a menagerie of western red cedars, hemlocks, mossy Douglas firs, and rushing stream crossings. The trail flows so well that the state's premier mountain biking competition, the Oregon Super D Series, selected Sandy Ridge for its summer circuit in 2010. Meanwhile, Laura's Loop, a three-quarter-mile nontechnical ride, provides a ready training ground for newbies. Access: E Barlow Trail Road


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Information and discussion on all aspects of British photographic history
August 19, 2011 to December 29, 2013 – Las Palmas Building, Nederlands Fotomuseum In The Netherlands there isn't a permanent place where photo history is shown. The Fotomuseum fills this void with a new exhibition where aspects of the Dutch photography history is shown by the coll… Organized by Nederlands Fotomuseum | Type: exhibition
January 8, 2012 to September 30, 2012 – Eretz Israel Museum At the end of the 19th and beginning f the 20th century the American Colony photographers of Jerusalem commemorated the lives, people, and sites of Palestine. In thousands of high-quality photographs… Organized by Eretz Israel Museum | Type: exhibition
January 8, 2012 to September 30, 2012 – Eretz Israel Museum At the end of the 19th and beginning f the 20th century the American Colony photographers of Jerusalem commemorated the lives, people, and sites of Palestine. In thousands of high-quality photographs… Organized by Eretz Israel Museum | Type: exhibition
January 8, 2012 to September 30, 2012 – Eretz Israel Museum At the end of the 19th and beginning f the 20th century the American Colony photographers of Jerusalem commemorated the lives, people, and sites of Palestine. In thousands of high-quality photographs… Organized by Eretz Israel Museum | Type: exhibition
February 4, 2012 to October 28, 2012 – Windsor Castle Sixty photographs of The Queen, including the work of leading press photographers of the past six decades, are brought together for a display at Windsor Castle to celebrate Her Majesty's Diamond Jubi… Organized by The Boss herself | Type: exhibition
April 25, 2012 to April 28, 2013 – Swiss Camera Museum In 1871, Richard Leach Maddox revolutionised photography when he discovered a way of producing sensitive plates which conserved their light sensitivity durably. This made them much easier to use, fo… Organized by Swiss Camera Museum | Type: exhibition
May 17, 2012 to October 21, 2012 – National Portrait Gallery To mark Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee in 2012 this landmark exhibition brings together over sixty of the most remarkable and resonant portraits of the Queen made during her sixty-year reign. Featuri… Organized by National Portrait Gallery | Type: exhibition
June 29, 2012 to September 30, 2012 – Musée gruérien Hans Steiner (1907–1968) as a photographer is very representative of the golden age of Swiss photography. During this time, from the 1930s to the 1950s, there emerged a generation of photographers wh… Organized by MUSÉE GRUÉRIEN | Type: exhibition
July 9, 2012 to January 4, 2013 – Dimbola Museum & Galleries An exhibition of 20 portraits of children by Julia Margaret Cameron from the V&A's collection, which were on show earlier this year at the V&A Museum of Childhood. Cameron made over 200 photo… Organized by The Julia Margaret Cameron Trust | Type: exhibition
July 14, 2012 to October 28, 2012 – American Museum Photographs from the renowned Christopher Hyland Collection, which juxtaposes iconic Stateside images from the early 1900s with vibrant photographs of 21st century America. Among the artists represen… Organized by American Museum | Type: exhibition
July 20, 2012 to October 21, 2012 – Museum für Fotografie (Museum of Photography) The Museum für Fotografie is exhibiting a collection of around 280 portraits taken in India and Sri Lanka during the second half of the 19th century, at the height of Britain's imperial might. The co… Organized by Museum für Fotografie | Type: exhibition
July 24, 2012 to May 31, 2013 – Facebook Take a glimpse through a Canon's camera at rural life in Northumberland at the turn of the 20th Century by visiting Woodhorn Museum & Northumberland Archives page about Canon Roderick Charles Mac… Organized by Woodhorn | Type: facebook, exhibition
July 28, 2012 to October 20, 2012 – Kingston Museum The human body in motion is timeless, but the ways trying to depict this have changed and evolved over time. Coinciding with the 2012 London Olympics, this exhibition brings together old and new tech… Organized by Kingston Museum | Type: exhibition
August 4, 2012 to September 30, 2012 – Colne Valley Museum An interesting exhibition depicting the history of photography by well-known local photographer Ian Baxter. Organized by Colne Valley Museum | Type: exhibition
August 24, 2012 to November 4, 2012 – Art Gallery of New South Wales Lose yourself in the beauty of Old Paris with over 200 rare and original prints from the founder of documentary photography. His bellows camera, glass plates and printing technique may link him to ea… Organized by Art Gallery of New South Wales | Type: exhibition
September 6, 2012 to October 27, 2012 – Leslie Tonkonow Artworks & Projects An art exhibit. It includes eight major photographic works of archival digital prints. Organized by leslie tonkonow | Type: art, exhibit
September 6, 2012 to January 1, 2013 – IWM London Cecil Beaton: Theatre of War follows Beaton on his travels during the Second World War as he documented the impact of war on people and places in his own unique style. He was one of the most prolific… Organized by Imperial War Museum | Type: exhibition
September 9, 2012 to February 24, 2013 – International Forum for Photography Armoury Museum C5 With the special "The birth of photography.Milestones of the Gernsheim Collection presents "theInternational Forum Photography (FIP) of the Reiss-Engelhorn Museums in Mannheim Highlights of two centu… Organized by Reiss-Engelhorn-Museums | Type: exhibition
September 13, 2012 to January 13, 2013 – Barbican Art Gallery, Barbican Centre This major photography exhibition surveys the medium from an international perspective, and includes renowned photographers from across the globe, all working during two of the most memorable decades… Organized by Barbican Centre | Type: exhibition
September 15, 2012 to January 6, 2013 – Palmas Building, Nederlands Fotomuseum A detailed overview of the work of the famous American photographer Lewis Hine (1874 - 1940)from the collection of the George Eastman House. Including his famous photographs of the construction of th… Organized by Nederlands Fotomuseum | Type: exhibition
September 19, 2012 to September 30, 2012 – Galerie Romain Rolland, Alliance Francaise de Delhi This exhibition is an attempt to trace the development of photography and the other allied arts in Pondicherry spanning the late 19th and early 20th Century. Drawn exclusively from the Alkazi Collect… Organized by Alliance Francaise de Delhi and Alkazi Foundation for the arts | Type: exhibition
September 22, 2012 to February 3, 2013 – Hagley Museum and Library Some 100 photographs selected from the 25,000 photographs in Hagley's United States Chamber of Commerce collection will be exhibited in the Visitor Center gallery starting September 8, 2012. The cham… Organized by Hagley Museum and Library/Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America | Type: exhibition
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Toronto International Film Festival: 10 things we're looking forward at TIFF
The Toronto International Film Festival, which has long introduced the top Oscar contenders to North American audiences, kicks off Sept. 6 and features one of the most interesting, buzzy matchups of recent years: Damien Chazelle's "First Man" and Barry Jenkins' "If Beale Street Could Talk."
Fresh from the Venice Film Festival, "First Man" will have a gala presentation in Toronto on Sept. 9, with Canada's Ryan Gosling starring as Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, back in the summer of 1969. "First Man" will be eligible for the People's Choice Award, which is voted on by the festival's audience, just like Chazelle's previous film, "La La Land." In case you forgot, that unconventional musical went on to win that award in 2016 and was one of the leading Oscar contenders in 2017.
"If Beale Street Could Talk," meanwhile, is also getting a special presentation in Toronto. Based on an adaptation of the James Baldwin novel, it stars KiKi Layne, Stephan James and Regina King in a drama about a pregnant woman's quest to prove the innocence of her fiancé in a crime. It will also be eligible for the People's Choice Award, unlike Jenkins' 2016 film, "Moonlight," which also played in Toronto but got much less buzz. And just in case you forgot, "Moonlight" became the biggest rival of "La La Land" in the 2017 Oscar race, eventually winning three awards, including best picture.
The Chazelle/Jenkins competition is just one of many big storylines coming up in Toronto. Here are 10 of the most interesting films/trends, based on buzz and artistic interest.
1. "A Star Is Born." Some are saying this looks great, with Bradley Cooper directing and starring as an alcoholic musician who helps a younger singer, played by Lady Gaga, on her rise to the top. It's intriguing because Cooper is showing his singing chops. But let's face it: Everyone who's a Gaga fan won't pay much attention to Cooper's croons. A big question looms among some moviegoers, and it goes something like this: Why are we getting yet another remake of this film, which is scheduled for release Oct. 5, in obvious hopes of staking an early claim for a place in year-end awards? Back in 1976, we had Kris Kristofferson and Barbra Streisand giving their interpretation. In 1954, it was Judy Garland and James Mason, and their version, directed by George Cukor, earned six Oscar nominations. And in 1937, Janet Gaynor and Fredric March originated the roles on the big screen. The answer to why we're getting this remake might be relatively simple: Lady Gaga is seeing whether she can make the move to the movies. Stay tuned.
2. "Old Man & the Gun." David Lowery, a Dallasite and regular on the Texas film scene, directs Robert Redford and Texas native Sissy Spacek in the tale of a 70-year-old who escapes San Quentin and starts a string of bank robberies that some people think are downright polite. Casey Affleck, who won the 2017 best actor Oscar for "Manchester by the Sea," plays the detective in pursuit. Spacek plays Jewel, who becomes enchanted with Redford's Forest Tucker, despite his dangerous profession. Expect a late September or early October release. Notable subplot: This film marks Redford's retirement from acting, or so the actor has said.
3. Timothee Chalamet was one of the more interesting storylines of 2017, starring in Greta Gerwig's "Lady Bird" as well as in Luca Guadagnino's "Call Me by Your Name," for which he was nominated for a best actor Oscar. He lost to Gary Oldman, who played Winston Churchill in "Darkest Hour." This year, Chalamet returns as Nic Sheff in "Beautiful Boy," based on the memoirs of a family that struggles through years of meth addiction. That doesn't sound like a thrilling viewing experience, but this is one of those "Acting" vehicles that could turn out to be great or head-scratching. Steve Carell stars as the father, under the direction of Felix Van Groeningen of Belgium.
4. "Widows," from British director Steve McQueen, has one of this year's most crazy-talented casts: Viola Davis, Robert Duvall, Colin Farrell, Michelle Rodriguez, Daniel Kaluuya and Liam Neeson. It centers on a group of women in contemporary Chicago whose dead husbands have left them in big-time debt, so they decide to take matters into their own hands. The screenplay is written by Gillian Flynn and McQueen, adapted from "Widows" by Lynda La Plante. McQueen's "12 Years a Slave" rocked Toronto in 2013. Can he do it again?
5. Director Nicole Holofcener has been making solid independent films for years – "Enough Said," "Please Give" — but she hasn't had a breakout hit. This year, she has a chance with "The Land of Steady Habits." It stars one of America's most underappreciated actors, Ben Mendelsohn, as Anders Hill, who feels trapped in his wealthy Connecticut home and leaves his wife (Edie Falco) and son (Thomas Mann) and starts living recklessly by befriending a teen druggie (Charlie Tahan). It might capture that "American Beauty" feeling and be one of the festival's pleasant surprises.
6. When Melissa McCarthy gets the right vehicle, she can be great. In "Can You Ever Forgive Me?" she plays biographer Lee Israel, who discovers that folks no longer want to read what she writes. So she takes a different tack: She starts selling letters that she has forged to look like they were written by famous actors, playwrights and others. But when questions are raised about the letters' authenticity, she moves on to another scheme: Stealing real letters from libraries. It's directed by Marielle Heller ("The Diary of a Teenage Girl") and based on a screenplay by Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty.
7. The creator of the TV hit "This Is Us," Dan Fogelman, brings his savvy to the big screen with "Life Itself," starring Oscar Isaac and Olivia Wilde as a couple who go through all the permutations of romance, marriage and the building of a family. It's an ensemble piece, like "This Is Us," and also stars Annette Bening, Antonio Banderas, Mandy Patinkin and Jean Smart.
8. Lucas Hedges is one of our most talented young actors, and that is why "Ben Is Back" makes this list. He plays a troubled son who returns home to his mother (Julia Roberts), who loves him but worries about what's ahead for her family. Hedges is best known for "Manchester by the Sea," which earned him a supporting actor Oscar nomination. But he was great as the boyfriend in "Lady Bird" and as the bemused son of Frances McDormand in "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri." He also stars in the upcoming "Boy Erased." Peter Hedges, who is Lucas' father, directs "Ben Is Back." He also directed "What's Eating Gilbert Grape."
9. Keira Knightley takes on one of her biggest acting challenges: Playing a French novelist in "Colette." Many literary fans know the story. Colette ghostwrites a racy novel about an adventurous young woman named Claudine, but under the name of her husband, played by Dominic West. When the novel becomes a huge success, she begins to wonder why she isn't getting more credit. Trouble ensues. Wash Westmoreland, who got a brilliant performance from Julianne Moore in "Still Alice," directs.
10. One of the biggest stories in international film has been the rise of Mexican directors, or what could arguably be called the Mexican Renaissance. Just look at the recent Oscar-winning directors: Guillermo del Toro for "The Shape of Water," Alfonso Cuarón for "Gravity," and Alejandro G. Iñárittu, for his back-to-back wins for "The Revenant" and "Birdman." This year, Cuarón is bringing his latest to Toronto. It's called "Roma," and the black-and-white cinematography looks Fellini-esque and gorgeous. It deals with a year in the life of a middle-class family in 1970s Mexico City — a politically explosive period. Mexican director Carlos Reygadas will be screening "Our Time," or "Nuestro Tiempo," about a couple who raise fighting bulls and face marriage problems when one of them strays. Reygadas' previous films include the high-art "Post Tenebras Lux" and "Silent Light." Three other Mexican films look especially interesting. They are "The Good Girls," which deals with a socialite coping with the 1982 Mexican economic crisis, directed by Alejandra Márquez Abella; "Museo," about a group of art thieves, starring Gael García Bernal and directed by Alonso Ruizpalacios; and "The Chambermaid," a drama about a woman who cleans a glass high-rise tower and discovers she is its invisible prisoner, directed by buzzy newcomer Lila Aviles.


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Dr. Marcus was a panelist for the Forum's discussions on The Boston Marathon Bombings and Building Resiliency in an Age of Terrorism.
Leonard Marcus is founding Director of the Program for Health Care Negotiation and Conflict Resolution at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Marcus is also founding Co-Director of the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative, a collaborative effort of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Kennedy School of Government, developed in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the White House, and the Department of Homeland Security, and the Department of Defense.
In recent years, Dr. Marcus has played a leading national and international role in terrorism preparedness and emergency response, developing the conceptual and pragmatic basis for "connectivity" — the coordination of "people, organizations, resources, and information to best catch, contain, and control a terrorist or other public health threat," and "meta-leadership"- "overarching leadership that strategically links the work of different agencies and levels of government."
Dr. Marcus is lead author of the primary text in the field, Renegotiating Health Care: Resolving Conflict to Build Collaboration. The book was selected as co-recipient of the Center for Public Resources Institute for Dispute Resolution 1995 "Book Prize Award for Excellence in Alternative Dispute Resolution". In 1994, he co-authored Mediating Bioethical Disputes: A Practical Guide. He has written for Newsweek, The Boston Globe, the AMNews as well as a number of scholarly journals.
Dr. Marcus has directed numerous projects intended to advance development of the negotiation, collaborative problem solving, and conflict resolution field applied to health related issues. At the School of Public Health, he has received funding support from, among others, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the National Institute for Dispute Resolution, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to develop a curriculum, research agenda, and conceptual and applied framework for the field.
Other current and recent projects include collaboration with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation on facilitating national efforts to improve the quality of health care, the American Association of Retired Persons on health care alternative dispute resolution, the New England Healthcare Institute on innovations in health care research, and the Markle Foundation on development of the electronic medical record.
Dr. Marcus teaches HSPH courses on negotiation and conflict resolution and leadership.
His research interests include: factors associated with the coordination of effort for national and international terrorism response strategies; implications of conflict in health care services; the uses of mediation for resolving health disputes; the contributions of conflict resolution to error prevention in health care; as well as on the role health can play in resolving larger social conflict.
Dr. Marcus has developed a number of practical applications of mediation and conflict resolution. He has consulted to, trained, or provided executive coaching to leading health care organizations, including Kaiser-Permanente Health Plan, the Beth Israel-Deaconness Medical Center, Clarion Health Systems, the board and executive leadership of the American Medical Association, the American Hospital Association, the American Association of Blood Banks, and the National Practitioners Data Bank among many others. In the 1990s, he collaborated with the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine to develop the Voluntary Mediation Program, the first initiative of its kind to mediate medical practice disputes directly between patients and physicians under the auspices of a state agency. His international work includes assignments in the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean. His work has been profiled on National Public Radio, in the Washington Post, AMA News, Health Forum, Hippocrates, CNN, Modern Healthcare, CNBC, Hospitals, and the Boston Globe.
Dr. Marcus completed his doctoral studies at The Heller School of Brandeis University. He was selected as a Fellow for the Kellogg National Leadership Program from 1986-1989.


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This is strange I am having an issue with plClient.exe
I was using Windows 7 Pro and I have had to upgrade to Windows 10 on my main PC because of some unrelated software needs.
So, I have the upgrade DVD I made when it was a free upgrade and I reluctantly moved to Windows 10.
I do have another desktop that's still running Windows 7 Home and I can log into my Home LAN based dirtsand from that so I know that end is OK.
Initially the Upgraded Windows 10 was fine and I was able to use the dirtsand without issue in some ways it was slightly better in that appeared to load marginally quicker.
Then I had a flock of Windows 10 updates and ever since the plClient.exe fails at password it just switches off. No messages or anything. Actually, that's wrong the first time I run it hangs at the little Getting Uru box and crashes if you do anything else and any subsequent attempts it does not even show that small crumb, it bombs out before I can even type in the password.
I can log into my dirtsand shard with Putty and CoreFTP.
I can use the same windows 10 to access MOULa which kind of proves that the DirectX and PhysX are fine. This fails for both Destiny and my own dirtsand installation.
Plus before I am asked yes I made the shortcut and set the -LocalData switch.
I have a second PC that was also fine but this one after its update decided that it was going to be a pain and stop all access until I reinstalled Windows 10, and that was the point at which plClient.exe stopped working.
The second PC was more catastrophic because it decided that in order to solve the issues it was having it would stop links to any installed software. It did not remove the software it just stopped them all working no uninstall and most have come back to life with a reinstall but it has been a pain.
I just hate being shafted by Microsoft.
I suspect it may be related to either Windows Firewall or Defender


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Founder & CEO of OpenCollective and Co-Founder of Storify and 2017 European Young Leader (EYL40)
Xavier is an engineer in computer science who is passionate about the digital renaissance. In 1999, while still at secondary school, he founded Tribal, a site that gathered student content from around Belgium for publication in a magazine that was distributed to 30,000 students nationwide. Ten years later, he co-founded Storify, a social media curation platform that enables users to create stories or timelines using content from social media such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Storify is now used by top brands, organisations and publishers around the world, including CNN, the New York Times, the United Nations and the White House. More recently, he co-founded OpenCollective, a company that enables groups to collect and spend money transparently without having to create a new bank account.


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Berkeley, California
When I heard that Gather's menu had vegan selections and the restaurant's seat cushions were made of cast-off leather belts, I clenched my teeth for an evening of groaning rhetoric and floppy-headed waitresses with Vedic tattoos. The bar is even stocked with biodynamic wines and spirits distilled from organic grains. Brother. I put on the thickest leather belt I could find and trucked over. Well, surprise! Half of chef Sean Baker's menu listed tantalizing dishes like whole roasted petrale sole (a rich-tasting bottom-dweller), a burger with local Sierra Nevada cheese and fries, and one of the best pizzas I've had in ages — guanciale, roasted corn, jalapeño, ricotta, and mozzarella — dishes to send vegans into a rage. But best of all, I swear, was the vegan "charcuterie" — a lavish platter of baby Yukon golds with celery and beans, a tomato sandwich with smoked garlic "mayo," Tuscan Rose eggplant with cashew "ricotta" and spicy puttanesca sauce with fennel pesto, and roasted corn on the cob with leek "butter" and chili — all of it beautiful and delicious. I devoured it as if it were baby back ribs. I then asked the six-foot-four chef how he rendered such a delicate balance.
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ESQUIRE: You don't push the vegan thing hard. Why separate it on the menu?
SEAN BAKER: We don't want to push anything. While all of our food is sustainable, we don't use the word organic on the menu. We try to educate people who ask about our food and farmers but never want to come across as preachy. Most of all we want people to have a great time eating.
ESQ: Do vegans get angry that you serve meat and dairy next to their foods?
SB: The vast majority actually say the opposite. One person can order a dish made with meat from a whole animal butchered in-house and another can eat vegetables, from root to shoot.
ESQ: Do you fear a state food police that tells people what they can and can't eat?
SB: Quite the opposite, actually. I envision a future where more and more small-scale sustainable farms pop up around the country, young people venture into farming, and local food systems are rebuilt. There will be even more access to local, creative food.


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RockShox's Pike RCT3 Solo Air is the ultimate fork for all-mountain and enduro riding. Burly 35mm stanchions, magnesium lowers, and a lightweight hollow forged aluminum crown deliver supreme stiffness to rip down the toughest enduro courses. When the bumps come hard and fast, RockShox's Charger damper keeps the fork high in the travel to maintain proper bike geometry, all while soaking up everything from flowy dirt ribbons to crazy rock-strewn goat paths. The RCT3 three-position switch changes between full travel, lockout and threshold modes so you can save your legs on a transition stage and open it up to pin the next timed downhill. And with SRAM's extra-wide Boost dropout spacing, the Pike is compatible with a 29er tire or a 27.5+.
For the ultimate in trail riding characteristics and performance, RockShox's RCT3 has open (full-travel) and lockout settings, plus a threshold mode. This is a platform setting that stiffens the initial part of the stroke, helping increase pedaling efficiency. When you hit a bump, the damper opens and allows full travel, then returns to threshold mode once the trail smooths out.
RockShox's Charger damper features a sealed rubber bladder that expands when the fork is compressed, so oil and air stay separate, virtually eliminating any chance of foaming or bubbles in the system. What does this mean? It means the fork rides higher in the travel, in the plushest part of the stroke, preserves the bike's geometry, and recovers from hits quickly, all while maintaining incredibly consistent damping, no matter how long the downhill.
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This week's theme over at the Gluten Free Menu Swap is strawberries!! And I love strawberries! When I was small, my grandparents grew strawberries and every spring we would get our fill. And to help preserve some of the harvest for later, my mom and grandma would make strawberry freezer jam, which I loved to eat over ice cream. Yum! This week I am going to try a couple of new strawberry recipes.
For dinner this week, we will be enjoying:
Pasta with Asiago Cheese and Spinach with Salad – we didn't get to this last week.
Homemade Pizza and salad – I had a request for pizza AND bread, so I will use the HBin5 Gluten Free Crusty Boule recipe for the crust and make a loaf of bread or maybe some naan.
Gingered Skirt Steak with Snow Peas and Rice – we will be making it with tofu and using all the snow peas from the garden.
Veggie Burgers and Strawberry Spinach Salad with Avocado and Champagne Vinaigrette – I haven't decided yet whether I will make my own veggie burgers or if we will just eat some out of the freezer.
In keeping with the theme of strawberries, I might also try my hand at making some of Amy's Strawberry Orange Cornmeal Cakes.
What are you eating this week?
This week's Meal Plan is also linked up to Org Junkie's Meal Plan Monday where you will find a TON of other menus for inspiration. Be sure to check it out!


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Even with quick medical attention, healthy Hingham student succumbed to flu
Beth Healey said her 18-year-old son, Matt, was "perfectly healthy" when he packed for his freshman year of college in Ohio. Being a mother who paid attention to the news about swine flu, Healey made sure her son had flu-treatment medicine – just in case.
Matthew Healey first felt sick on Monday, Aug. 31, and started taking the prescription drug Tamiflu the next day, his mother said. On Wednesday, Sept. 2, a doctor told him he was likely infected with the H1N1 virus and prescribed an antibiotic. Three days later, weak and dehydrated, the Hingham teenager was taken by ambulance to University Hospital in Cincinnati and admitted to intensive care.
Healey died three weeks later. His case is a reminder that young people appear to be at higher risk when it comes to H1N1. And that death is a possibility, even when swift treatment is sought.
"This does tell us that despite our best interventions people can succumb to this," said Dr. Todd Ellerin, director of infectious diseases at South Shore Hospital in Weymouth.
Still, deaths from H1N1 and related complications have remained relatively few even as the country has been hit with a new wave of the disease.
But the death of an apparently healthy 18-year-old punctuates the need, Ellerin said, for people to get vaccinated when inoculations are made available, likely as early as next month, and to follow common-sense practices such as frequent hand washing and avoiding the workplace or the classroom while sick.
Though no unusual side effects have emerged during clinical trials, he said, people continue to say they'd prefer to "take their chances" rather than trust a new vaccine.
"Every year 36,000 Americans die of influenza," he said. "I certainly don't hear of 36,000 people dying of flu vaccine."
After Healey was admitted to the hospital, Beth Healey said she and her husband, Bob, immediately flew to Ohio to be with their son. For 36 hours he was "awake and alert," Healey said, but his condition worsened, and he was put on a ventilator and kept sedated.
For friends and family, Healey's struggle challenged their belief that swine flu's seriousness was "over hyped" by the media, Beth Healey said.
"Do I want to cause drama or fear among people? I most certainly do not," she said Monday. "But if this happened to our family, it could happen to any family."
Matthew Healey had been on campus less than two weeks when he got sick. His three roommates soon fell ill, too, but they recovered quickly and without hospitalization, his mother said.
Dr. Ellerin said the onset of H1N1 is similar to other influenzas. It can cause fevers and muscle aches and weakens the immune system.
"In most people it stays in check and doesn't get in the lungs," he said.
When it does, the virus can bring on viral pneumonia and leave patients susceptible to bacterial infection. There also have been cases where a patient has died because of irregular clotting in the lungs, Ellerin said.
Matthew Healey was a wrestler and a lacrosse player at Thayer Academy, where he also took part in student theater. The community voted him "Mr. Thayer" before he graduated this past spring, according to an obituary. In May, he traveled to Peru on a volunteer humanitarian trip, working in an orphanage and on local farms.
"He made such an impression on people. That was his gift," Healey said. "You don't hear about the all-American boy anymore. He was an all-American boy."
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Be sanitary: Cover your nose and mouth with a tissue or your elbow when you cough or sneeze. Wash your hands often, especially after you cough or sneeze. Try not to touch your eyes, nose or mouth.
Stay home: If you're feeling sick, stay home. Going out may not only make you worse off, but you're more likely to get others ill. And if you're healthy, try to steer clear of cramped quarters, large crowds and others who appear sick.
Knowledge is power: Check with health authorities, read reputable press reports and generally keep on top of developments related to the H1N1 virus. The more you know, the better off you'll be.
Sources: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; South Shore Hospital


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Graf Puts HPD On Pole At Mosport
Klaus Graf and Muscle Milk Pickett Racing were fastest in American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patrón qualifying for the Mobil 1 SportsCar Grand Prix at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, but a pair of first-time polesitters were the story.
Graf earned his first pole of the season – and the second consecutive for the team – driving the No. 6 Muscle Milk HPD ARX-03c to a lap of 1:05.871 (134.390 mph). He was 3.693 seconds ahead of Tony Burgess, 1:09.564, in the No. 16 Mazda/Thetford/Norcold Lola B12/60 for Dyson Racing. Andy Meyrick qualified third in P1 in the No. 0 DeltaWing LM12 he co-drives with Katherine Legge with a lap of 1:10.521.
"You want to stay sharp, especially at this track," said Graf, who acknowledges his team is the favorite this weekend. "We just want to make sure we do what we always do."
SRT Motorsports got an impressive qualifying effort from Jonathan Bomarito who scored his first career GT pole in the No. 93 Pennzoil Ultra SRT Viper GTS-R. Bomarito's lap of 1:15.462 (117.309 mph) was 0.139 seconds ahead of Corvette Racing's Jan Magnussen. Magnussen qualified second in the No. 3 Compuware Corvette C6 ZR1 he shares with Antonio Garcia with a lap of 1:15.601, while Marc Goossens rounded out the top three in the No. 91 SRT Viper GTS-R at 1:15.635.
"The track is WOW… you know it just takes your breath away in numerous corners," said Bomarito, who made his first appearance at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park this weekend. "I don't know that I took more than one or two breaths that whole lap. From turn 2 to turn 3 to turn 4, it has awesome flow. It's just a really, really knife edge of a track. You have to be spot on, really work on balancing the car and just trusting the grip levels because it's really, really fast."
Mike Conway wasted no time getting up to speed this weekend, leading all but one practice session and earning the P2 pole in his first career attempt driving the No. 552 Siemens/Alpina Watches/Ohiya Casino Resort HPD ARX-03b for Level 5 Motorsports.
Conway is subbing for the injured Ryan Briscoe who fractured his wrist in the IndyCar race at Detroit. His lap of 1:08.785 (128.697 mph) was 0.246 seconds ahead of teammate Marino Franchitti, 1:09.031, in the No. 551 Level 5 entry. Johannes van Overbeek qualified third in the No. 02 Tequila Patrón HPD ARX-03b entry for Extreme Speed Motorsports at 1:09.740.
"I wanted to do more laps to be honest," said Conway. "I thought we could have been ever quicker to be honest."
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Prototype Challenge presented by Continental Tire (PC) qualifying was cut short after an incident involving points leader Mike Guasch in the No. 52 Molecule ORECA FLM09 for PR1 Mathiasen Motorsports. Although Colin Braun posted the quickest time in the session, Guasch will start from the top spot in class based off of points as the session did not meet the minimum 10-minute requirement. The No. 05 Composite Resources ORECA team of Colin Braun and Jonathan Bennett will start second, while the No. 9 RSR Racing ORECA driven by Bruno Junqueira and Duncan Ende will start third.
Jeroen Bleekemolen earned his third pole of the season in the GTC class with a lap of 1:21.310 (108.872 mph) in the No. 22 WeatherTech Porsche 911 GT3 Cup. Sean Edwards qualified second in the No. 30 MOMO Porsche 911 GT3 Cup with a lap of 1:21.540, with Spencer Pumpelly posting the third quickest time in the No. 45 Venezuela/eSilicon Porsche 911 GT3 Cup for Flying Lizard Motorsports at 1:21.924.No Comment


text: This course is the third course in the specialization exploring both computational thinking and beginning C programming. Rather than trying to define computational thinking, we'll just say it's a problem-solving process that includes lots of different components. Most people have a better understanding of what beginning C programming means! This course assumes you have the prerequisite knowledge from the previous two courses in the specialization. You should make sure you have that knowledge, either by taking those previous courses or from personal experience, before tackling this course. The required prerequisite knowledge is listed below. Prerequisite computational thinking knowledge: Algorithms and procedures and data collection, analysis, and representation Prerequisite C knowledge: Data types, variables, constants; STEM computations; selection; and iteration (looping) Throughout this course the computational thinking topics you'll explore are abstraction, which is deciding which details matter for the problem you're trying to solve, and problem decomposition, which is about breaking large problems into smaller sub-problems to handle complexity. For the programming topics, you'll continue building on your C knowledge by practicing using arrays, which let you store multiple values in a single variable, and strings, which are arrays of characters. You'll also learn how to implement functions, which are the mechanism we use for problem decomposition in our C programs. Module 1: Learn about arrays as a way to store multiple values in a single variable Module 2: Discover how we store and process strings (arrays of characters) Module 3: Explore abstraction and problem decomposition Module 4: Use functions to implement problem decomposition in your code