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Reporter shares account of bomb blasts at marathon
This year's Boston Marathon had seemed so normal.
The winners were a man from Ethiopia and a woman from Kenya, and even runners two hours behind raised their arms as they finished, ecstatic just to have made it to the end of one of the most grueling 26.2-mile marathon courses.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Boston sports writer Jimmy Golen was covering his 18th Boston Marathon when he heard the bombs go off at the finish line. This is his account of how it unfolded.
Volunteers were on hand to catch those who collapsed as they crossed the blue and yellow finish line. Spectators cheered not just for family members but for every "Dan" or "Alan" smart enough to write his name on his shirt.
Then I heard the first blast. I turned to see gray smoke billowing from the north side of Boylston Street and rising over the photo bridge at the finish line. A few seconds later came another blast.
I did what I was trained to do: I called the office and told them what little I knew: "There were two explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon." I wouldn't be able to get through on my cellphone again for hours. I texted my wife to tell her I was safe, though she didn't know what had happened yet.
No one did, really. It could have been a gas explosion, but even without an explanation it was clear that people were hurt. The second blast made it likely they were intentional, and it made me worry that there could be more. I walked toward the damage, more than anything else because I felt it was no more dangerous there than anyplace else in the area.
Race workers in yellow volunteer jackets and police in yellow safety vests were running past me. EMTs carried their gear or pushed empty wheelchairs, followed soon by doctors in their white volunteer jackets. Runners continued to run, stopping their watches as they crossed the finish line, now confused as well as tired.
I saw people crying. Runners and volunteers and family members. Police began clearing the area. I saw people turned away, pleading with officials to get through so they could see their family members.
I saw two people in civilian clothes carrying a woman, who was not wearing running gear, with one arm over each shoulder and one leg in each arm. Blood was gushing from her leg. A Boston police officer went by, pushed in a wheelchair. His pants had a small tear near the ankle, and blood was dripping from his heel. Ambulances and police vehicles sped down Boylston into the foot traffic. It seemed obvious that the worst injuries were still to come.
Unable to get through on my cellphone, I went back to the media workroom so I could communicate with my editors on my laptop. The building would soon be sealed. I was stuck there for the next five hours, unable to report on the scene of the disaster, unable to leave.
Reporters covering the marathon generally work from race headquarters in the Fairmont Copley hotel. It is a lush ballroom with a fresco ceiling and plaster frieze and large arched and curtained windows that, on Patriots Day, are blocked by a 6-foot high, 30-foot long tracking board that updates the media on the progress of the race. It can be a sterile way to experience what is often an exciting occasion.
I had grown familiar with the pace of the day: a slow buildup to the finish, then a flurry of activity as a series of winners - first the wheelchairs, then the women and men - arrived in Copley Square. I could usually count on things to settle down by midafternoon. After my stories are edited and sent on The Associated Press wire, I like to head out to the course get a feel for how the day went.
I remember last year the smell of sunscreen and the steady parade of competitors being ushered or wheeled to the medical tent to be treated for dehydration. This year's race didn't seem to offer any of the usual sidelights: neither unusual weather nor a surprising American contender nor even the question of trying to figure out whether the Robert Kiprono Cheruiyot of Kenya who won in 2010 was related to the Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot of Kenya who had won four times before.
I went looking for a friend who was expected to come in around that time. I walked through the VIP stands, trying to keep one eye on the course and one on the stands, where her family would be waiting. As I reached the end of the bleachers, I saw her run past.
"Go, Laura!" I shouted, and wove my way back toward the finish line, flashing my media pass to get onto the course.
I caught up with her and walked with her while she picked up a bottle of water. We had barely crossed Dartmouth Street, less than a block from the finish, when we were shaken by the first explosion.
I had been through bomb scares before; I remember that my venue was evacuated during the Salt Lake City Olympics, five months after Sept. 11, 2001, because someone left a backpack behind. There's a twinge of fear, but it's more of an inconvenience for a reporter on deadline because they've all been false alarms until now.
Nothing was like hearing rumors that another bomb had been found "in a nearby hotel" while I was holed up in a nearby hotel. I paced around the lobby looking for someone in authority to talk to and bumped into Greg Meyer, the 1983 champion and the last American man to win. He said he ran the race with his sons and had finished a few minutes before the blasts.
People outside Boston, people who aren't runners, are likely to think of the Boston Marathon as a sporting event, but it is really at least four different events at once.
There is the elite athlete race, the one shown on television that usually ends with a Kenyan handed a silver trophy and crowned by an olive wreath. There are the recreational runners who train for years to make the qualifying time, then spend another year preparing for the hilly trip from Hopkinton to Boston's Back Bay. There are the runners who get into the race by promising to raise money for charity - a tradition that has collected more than $128 million over the past 25 years.
And then there is the 26.2-mile parade in which hundreds of thousands line the course on Patriots Day, when schools and many businesses are closed for the day.
"This is an event that brings people together. Not this kind of stuff," Meyer said. "I don't get it."
Maybe it's the day off from work, or maybe it's the fact that everyone knows someone who is running, but the people of Boston - not necessarily the sports fans, but the people who live here - take pride in the marathon. First run in 1897, when about 15 local runners drew a line in the dirt at Metcalf's Mill out in Ashland, it is the longest-running annual race at the distance and, most agree, the world's most prestigious.
The field has grown to include women and wheelchairs and thousands of runners who struggle to qualify for it - just once.
In 2011, registration closed in a record eight hours. The fastest before that had been 65 days.
I don't know what will happen next year. I don't know if runners will avoid the race, uncomfortable to be celebrating at the site of so many injuries. I don't know if fans will stay away out of fear.
As I finished my stories, TV reported that an 8-year-old child was one of those killed. I thought of the people from Newtown, Conn., running in memory of the 26 killed there in December. Organizers scheduled a 26-second silence at the start and dedicated the 26th mile to the victims at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
I got up to walk it off. In the bathroom, a Boston police officer was at the mirror, wiping the tears from his reddened eyes. I patted him on the back but said nothing.
I got back to my laptop and kept working.
At 8 p.m., someone came over and clicked off the race clock.
The 2013 Boston Marathon was over. And something else - I'm not sure what, but something that certainly seems bigger than sports - was about to begin.


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Lupita Nyong'o takes newfound fame in stride
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. –
Lupita Nyong'o is preparing herself for normalcy. After the frenzy that's followed her gripping performance in "12 Years a Slave," she wants to be ready for life back home in New York.
"I try to keep my regimen – rest, water, eat well, workout – so that when this is all over, I don't experience a total hangover," she says, taking a bite of scrambled eggs in a recent interview at a Beverly Hills cafe.
She hasn't yet accepted that her life might never be the same. "I have a very ostrich mentality," she says. "I feel like I have my head in the sand so no one can see me."
Before playing slave Patsey in Steve McQueen's brutal tale of a free black man kidnapped into slavery in the 19th-century South, Nyong'o was virtually unknown. Now, as a supporting actress Oscar nominee, she's become a breakout star.
When she received the call from McQueen saying she had landed the role, "I was so elated," she recalls. "But then I immediately panicked. I was so scared."
No wonder; this would be her first major role after attending the Yale School of Drama. Yet shooting the film gave her the confidence she needed coming out of school. "It was an amazing feeling," she says.
Now, with all eyes on what she'll do next, the actress refuses to stress about securing another role that's equally as celebrated.
"The bar has been set very high externally and internally," she says. "But I don't want to feed into that pressure of expectation. This film was so fulfilling and artistic. I've tasted that and I obviously want to experience that kind of creative fulfillment again, but I also know that I can't replicate that. I want a varied acting experience and that may include some failure and that's healthy."
Actually, Nyong'o's next film is already in the can and ready for release on Feb. 28: She plays a flight attendant opposite Liam Neeson in the action-thriller "Non-Stop." "It was what I needed to do," she says. "It was the perfect antidote to '12 Years a Slave.' It was a different genre with different demands. It was very technical and fun."
Growing up in Kenya, Nyong'o says her parents encouraged her and her five siblings to "find out what we were called on this earth to do and then do it to excellence."
Before former Kenya president Daniel Arap Moi allowed multi-party politics in 1991, Nyong'o' father, Peter Anyang' Nyong'o, was an advocate for democratic reform, opposing Kenya's autocratic regime. Then a political science teacher, Nyong'o's father relocated his family to Mexico City for their safety. It was there that Nyong'o was born, yet her family returned to Kenya before she was a year old.
Nyong'o says her parents have been supportive of her Hollywood success but have also taken the excitement in stride. "It's nice to have parents like that because they're thrilled," she says. "But they're not shaken by it."
(Nyong'o's father is now a Kisumu County senator and her mother, Dorothy Nyong'o, is the managing director of the Africa Cancer Foundation.)
With the Academy Awards less than two weeks away, the 30-year-old actress says she wants to continue to savor every moment, even the overwhelming ones.
"The Hollywood Film Awards were really stressful," she remembers of the October ceremony, where she shared the spotlight with the likes of Julia Roberts and Matthew McConaughey. "It was the biggest press line I'd ever seen. It was difficult to orient myself, but there are familiar faces now, so it becomes less daunting."
Not only blessed with significant acting ability, Nyong'o's striking beauty and bold fashion choices have made her one of the most talked-about celebs on the red carpet.
From the turquoise Gucci column gown she wore to the Screen Actors Guild Awards to the emerald green Christian Dior dress she chose for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards last weekend, she's what "12 Years a Slave" screenwriter John Ridley calls "undeniably poised and graceful."
Never the girl who thumbed through Vogue (now she appears in the magazine as the face of fashion house Miu Miu), Nyong'o began buying fashion magazines in preparation for all of the formal events she expected to attend following the success of "12 Years."
"I was like, 'OK, I have to research,' " she recalls with a giggle. But letting herself "dress large" has been scary, she admits. Referencing the scarlet Ralph Lauren dress she wore to the Golden Globes, she adds, "It had a cape! That was exhilarating."
Despite her tendency to make fashion statements in stunning ensembles, she doesn't feel pressure to always deliver a talked-about look. And the same goes for her feelings about Oscar night.
"I feel privileged that people are looking up to me and perhaps a dream will be born because of my presence," she says. "But my responsibility is to just keep on pursuing my dreams and goals and the admiration will take care of itself."
Notes Whoopi Goldberg, who Nyong'o cites as an inspiration after watching her in "The Color Purple" as a child: "Hollywood is a very strange place. Lupita has to be really glad people want her autograph and know that she has the right to say 'Not right now.' But no one can limit her conversation to race because she's better than that. She's a great visual for why dreaming is OK."

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From EurekaAlert:
First impressions do matter when it comes to communicating personality through appearance, according to new research by psychologists Laura Naumann of Sonoma State University and Sam Gosling of The University of Texas at Austin.
Despite the crucial role of physical appearance in creating first impressions, until now little research has examined the accuracy of personality impressions based on appearance alone. . . .
"In an age dominated by social media where personal photographs are ubiquitous, it becomes important to understand the ways personality is communicated via our appearance," says Naumann. "The appearance one portrays in his or her photographs has important implications for their professional and social life."
In the study, observers viewed full-body photographs of 123 people they had never met before. The targets were viewed either in a controlled pose with a neutral facial expression or in a naturally expressed pose. The accuracy of the judgments was gauged by comparing them to the aggregate of self-ratings and that of three informants who knew the targets well, a criterion now widely regarded as the gold standard in personality research.
Even when viewing the targets in the controlled pose, the observers could accurately judge some major personality traits, including extraversion and self-esteem. But most traits were hard to detect under these conditions. When observers saw naturally expressive behavior (such as a smiling expression or energetic stance), their judgments were accurate for nine of the 10 personality traits. The 10 traits were extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, openness, likability, self-esteem, loneliness, religiosity and political orientation.
"We have long known that people jump to conclusions about others on the basis of very little information," says Gosling, "but what's striking about these findings is how many of the impressions have a kernel of truth to them, even on the basis of something as simple a single photograph."
Gosling cautioned that observers still make plenty of mistakes, but noted that this latest work is important because it sheds new light on the sources of accuracy and inaccuracy of judgments.
With this kind of knowledge, individuals can choose to alter their appearance in specific ways, either to make identity claims or shape others impressions of them, Naumann says.
"If you want potential employers or romantic suitors to see you as a warm and friendly individual, you should post pictures where you smile or are standing in a relaxed pose," suggests Naumann.
For example, whether you smile and how you stand (tense vs. relaxed, energetic vs. tired) are important cues to judge a variety of traits. Extraverts smile more, stand in energetic and less tense ways, and look healthy, neat and stylish. People who are more open to experience are less likely to have a healthy, neat appearance, but are more likely to have a distinctive style of dress.
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From EurekaAlert:
Sitting up straight in your chair isn't just good for your posture – it also gives you more confidence in your own thoughts, according to a new study.
Researchers found that people who were told to sit up straight were more likely to believe thoughts they wrote down while in that posture concerning whether they were qualified for a job.
On the other hand, those who were slumped over their desks were less likely to accept these written-down feelings about their own qualifications.
The results show how our body posture can affect not only what others think about us, but also how we think about ourselves, said Richard Petty, co-author of the study and professor of psychology at Ohio State University.
"Most of us were taught that sitting up straight gives a good impression to other people," Petty said. "But it turns out that our posture can also affect how we think about ourselves. If you sit up straight, you end up convincing yourself by the posture you're in."
Petty conducted the study with Pablo Briñol, a former postdoctoral fellow at Ohio State now at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in Spain, and Benjamin Wagner, a current graduate student at Ohio State. The research appears in the October 2009 issue of the European Journal of Social Psychology.
The study included 71 students at Ohio State. When they entered the lab for the experiment, the participants were told they would be taking part in two separate studies at the same time, one organized by the business school and one by the arts school.
They were told the arts study was examining factors contributing to people's acting abilities, in this case, the ability to maintain a specific posture while engaging in other activities. They were seated at a computer terminal and instructed to either "sit up straight" and "push out [their] chest]" or "sit slouched forward" with their "face looking at [their] knees."
While in one of these positions, students participated in the business study, which supposedly investigated factors contributing to job satisfaction and professional performance.
While holding their posture, students listed either three positive or three negative personal traits relating to future professional performance on the job.
After completing this task, the students took a survey in which they rated themselves on how well they would do as a future professional employee.
The results were striking.
How the students rated themselves as future professionals depended on which posture they held as they wrote the positive or negative traits.
Students who held the upright, confident posture were much more likely to rate themselves in line with the positive or negative traits they wrote down.
In other words, if they wrote positive traits about themselves, they rated themselves more highly, and if they wrote negative traits about themselves, they rated themselves lower.
"Their confident, upright posture gave them more confidence in their own thoughts, whether they were positive or negative," Petty said.
However, students who assumed the slumped over, less confident posture, didn't seem convinced by their own thoughts – their ratings didn't differ much regardless of whether they wrote positive or negative things about themselves.
The end result of this was that when students wrote positive thoughts about themselves, they rated themselves more highly when in the upright than the slouched posture because the upright posture led to confidence in the positive thoughts.
However, when students wrote negative thoughts about themselves, they rated themselves more negatively in the upright than the slouched posture because the upright posture led to more confidence in their negative thoughts.
Petty emphasized that while students were told to sit up straight or to slump down, the researchers did not use the words "confident" or "doubt" in the instructions or gave any indication about how the posture was supposed to make them feel.
In a separate experiment, the researchers repeated the same scenario with a different group of students, but asked them a series of questions afterwards about how they felt during the course of the study.
"These participants didn't report feeling more confident in the upright position than they did in the slouched position, even though those in the upright position did report more confidence in the thoughts they generated," Petty said.
That suggests people's thoughts are influenced by their posture, even though they don't realize that is what's happening.
"People assume their confidence is coming from their own thoughts. They don't realize their posture is affecting how much they believe in what they're thinking," he said.
"If they did realize that, posture wouldn't have such an effect."
This research extends a 2003 study by Petty and Briñol which found similar results for head nodding. In that case, people had more confidence in thoughts they generated when they nodded their head up and down compared to when they shook their head from side to side.
However, Petty noted that body posture is a static pose compared to head nodding, and probably more natural and easy to use in day-to-day life.
"Sitting up straight is something you can train yourself to do, and it has psychological benefits – as long as you generally have positive thoughts," he said.
For example, students are often told when taking a multiple-choice test that if they're not absolutely sure of the answer, their first best guess is more often correct.
"If a student is sitting up straight, he may be more likely to believe his first answer. But if he is slumped down, he may change it and end up not performing as well on the test," he said.
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For a sample of related Situationist posts, see "The Situation of Imitation and Mimickry," "The Situation of Trust," "The Situation of Body Image," "The Magnetism of Beautiful People," and "The Situation of Hair Color."


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SAN FRANCISCO — Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy on Sunday denied a last-ditch request from the sponsors of California's now-overturned gay marriage ban to halt the issuance of same-sex marriage licenses in the nation's most populous state. Kennedy turned away the appeal with no additional comment just as San Francisco's gay pride parade was getting underway in San Francisco, where dozens of couples have gotten married since Friday and where the clerk's office was expected to issue more licenses on Sunday. Same-sex marriage opponents asked Kennedy to step in on Saturday, a day after the federal appeals court in San Francisco allowed same-sex marriages to go forward. The opponents said the appeals court had acted about three weeks too soon when it cleared the way Friday for same-sex marriages to be legal in California for the first time in 4 1/2 years by lifting a hold it had imposed on such unions while a lawsuit challenging Proposition 8 made its way to and through the high court. Under Supreme Court rules, the losing side in a legal dispute has 25 days to request a rehearing. While such requests are almost never granted, the high court said that it wouldn't finalize its judgment in the case at least until after that waiting period elapsed. Proposition 8 supporters could continue their efforts to halt gay marriage by filing their request with another Supreme Court justice. They also have another 21 days to seek a rehearing before the high court. The Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that Proposition 8's backers lacked standing to defend the 2008 law because California's governor and attorney general have declined to defend the ban. Then on Friday, the 9th Circuit appeared to have removed the last obstacle to making same sex matrimony legal again in California when it removed its hold on a lower court's 2010 order directing state officials to stop enforcing the ban. Within hours, same sex couples were seeking marriage licenses. The two couples who sued to overturn Proposition 8 were wed in San Francisco and Los Angeles Friday. Organizers of the gay pride parade have invited newly married couples to a VIP reception at San Francisco City Hall on Sunday afternoon.
Kennedy refuses to halt gay marriages in Calif.
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Margaret, I am beginning to wonder if there are any grown ups left in the Republican party .
I 've been asking myself that question since 2004 when George Bush got 35 more electoral votes and 4.1 million more popular votes than John Kerry. The next day he announced that he had political capital and he "intended to spend it 'cause that's the kind a guy I am." I swear that man was the biggest jackass ever to live in the White House.
It was so good to see an adult take office in 2008 when Barack Obama won 192 more electoral votes and almost 10 million more popular votes than John McCain. But then the Republicans obstructionism in the Senate started and eventually, thanks to the dumb asses in the Tea Party, the complete collapse of any type of governing ramped up 2 years later in the House. They vowed Obama would be a one term President, and everything we learned in kindergarten went right out the window.
This year, Obama won by 126 electoral votes and more than 4 million popular votes. Always changing the rules of the game, the Republicans are demanding that Democrats need to compromise. I hear that McConnell and Boehner actually bragged to the press that they laughed at the President's plan. Just who the hell are these guys? Even Fox News eventually had to call the election for Obama. You know what, Margaret? If Obama were to leave a flaming bag of shit outside Boehner and McConnell's office doors, I'd cheer him on. Higher taxes for the wealthy was pretty much the central theme of the election. Mitt was against it. Obama was for it. Mitt lost. End of story.
How about the Republicans finally tell Grover Norquist and the other wackos in their party to sit down and shut the hell up? I know if we leave it up to those Tea Party nut jobs, they'll be digging up Ronald Reagan's dead body and running him in 2016.
The Republicans want compromise? How's this:
- In exchange for Republicans agreeing to once and for all get out of our vaginas and our bedrooms, we Democrats will let you start another war just as soon as you get another Bush in the White House.
- In exchange for Republicans agreeing to fully fund the social safety net for this nation's poor and elderly, we Democrats will do everything in our power to starve camels and make the eye of the needle wider.
- And here's the really big one – If Republicans will agree to take Rush Limbaugh and Karl Rove and make them simply "disappear", we Democrats will not let Bill Clinton speak at the 2016 Democratic Convention.
In truth, I am pretty disgusted with all politicians right now. They've all gotten a little too predictable for my taste. Republicans want more money for the wealthy and more war. Democrats want to take care of the poor, the elderly and want more money for education programs… On second thought, I'm really just disgusted with Republican politicians.
If this is the best we can expect from Republican leadership, we have a bigger problem than going over some cliff. How about we just pass the President's plan? If it fails, the Republicans might actually stand a chance in the next election. If it succeeds, the Republicans might finally have to move into the 21st Century.
Show me a fiscal cliff and I will gladly push McConnell and Boehner over the edge. Maybe then the grown ups can roll up their sleeves and get something done. Because how the hell is any deep thinking going to happen if those two insist on spending the whole day pissing in the baby pool? I mean it. Really.


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New Orleans librarian wins $3,000 prize
NEW YORK (AP) — A New Orleans-based librarian known as "the book lady" for her dedication to her community has won the inaugural Lemony Snicket Prize for Noble Librarians Faced With Adversity.
Laurence Copel will receive $3,000 in prize money for her efforts, which include setting up a library in her own home and riding her bicycle to reach families in need of books. The award, announced Monday, is co-sponsored by the American Library Association and Lemony Snicket author Daniel Handler. The ALA and Handler cited Copel as a librarian who managed difficult times with "integrity and dignity intact."
Her dignity will be tested June 29 at the ALA's annual conference in Las Vegas. Along with a certificate, she is set to receive "an odd object from Handler's private collection."


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- активно разрабатывается (разработка u-boot на GTA02 прекращена)
- Простота в настройке и использовании
- Поддержка карт SD и SDHC любого размера
- размер ядра считывается из начала образа, т.е. поддерживаются ядра >2 mb
- Быстрая и простая загрузка Linux
Информация о Qi
There is a GTA01 build of Qi, but using it without a debug board is not recommended because Qi itself does not support DFU, so updating or going back to U-Boot is a difficult process.
GTA02 Hardware has NOR U-Boot always available, so updating to Qi is safe to try it out.
- GTA01 -> qi-s3c2410
- GTA02 -> qi-s3c2442
Новые версии
Версии готовые для использования
Скачивать для Neo1973 или NeoFreerunner в соответствующих папках.
Нестабильные и экспериментальные версии
These are the lastest versions from svn.
Download from either the Neo1973 or NeoFreerunner directory.
Старые версии
С названием qi-s3cXXXX-andy_somenumber.udfu файлы по адресу http://people.openmoko.org/andy/ . Используйте по вашему усмотрению:
The installation should be flashing like (do it in DFU mode of NOR u-boot):
# dfu-util -a u-boot -R -D qi-s3<version>.udfu
depending on the file you downloaded. The file you use for flashing is depending on the hardware (see section 'Download'). In detail you have to go through the following procedures:
- Connect Freerunner (e.g GTA02 Hardware) with USB-cable
- download dfu-util via package manager (e.g. YAST with OpenSuse)
- start uBoot by pressing AUX and Power-On at the same time.
- download Qi image (e.g. for GTA02 which is 'qi-s3c2442-master-hist_3b8513d8b3d9615e.udfu')
and start
# dfu-util -a u-boot -R -D qi-s3c2442-master-hist_3b8513d8b3d9615e.udfu
See Flashing the Neo FreeRunner for more details on flashing your phone.
- booting from primary SD partitions (1st, 2nd or 3rd) in /boot directory
- booting from NAND (compatible with U-Boot's dynparts scheme)
- configuration per rootfs, by files in /boot in the rootfs
- automatically choose correct kernel for device hardware so rootfs can be used on multiple device types
- automatically tell kernel correct root= for rootfs kernel image came from, simplifying update
- ext2/3 are supported
- symlinks are supported
- parses identity partition and appends kernel commandline with device identity information
- zero "environment" or private persistent state - operation is completely deterministic
- You can always boot from NOR menu
Use Case
If you want to install Android on you OpenMoko you can use Qi. The Android on Freerunner kernel image can be more than 2MB in size. The UBoot environment that comes with your FreeRunner is only able to boot a kernel 2MB in size or less. Qi support kernel images greater than 2MB out of the box.
- no DFU-Mode - USB is not initialized at all (but you can always boot from NOR)
- no boot menu (but you can always boot from NOR)
- FAT разделы игноригуются
Both the lack of DFU and the boot menu are planned to be addressed by the backup / recovery rootfs.
FAT is not supported because it can't provide a rootfs, and Qi wants the kernel to come from the rootfs.
По умолчанию
If the kernel is found on uSD, Qi assumes the rootfs to be on the same partition as the kernel. In case of boot from NAND, it assumes that rootfs is also on NAND (just as u-boot does). See below for help with an extra /boot-partition. The default rootdelay is 1 second.
- /boot/uImage-GTA0[123].bin
- Kernel images, Qi will look for (can be in either uImage (u-boot image) or zImage format, file name should still be uImage-GTA0[123].bin)
- /boot/append-GTA0[123]
- Additional kernel arguments. All arguments should be on the first and the only line separated by spaces, for example: "loglevel=8 rootdelay=5 " . Make sure you have an extra space after the last argument (space is no longer needed if the version is from 31 Jan or older)!
- /boot/noboot-GTA0[123]
- make Qi skip this partition
Speed up kernel resume for SHR
Since SHR (and perhaps other distributions as well) ouput log messages during resume which slow down the resume process by ca. 3 seconds it make sense there to append the following settings to /boot/append-GTA0[123]:
- loglevel=1 quiet
The disadvantage of this speedup is that you won't see any lifesign of your phone until it starts the graphical user interface after adding these files, though.
Порядок загрузки
- SD Partition 1
- SD Partition 2
- SD Partition 3
- Memory Test
Qi will try to mount each SD partition as ext2 / 3, if that succeeds it will look for the kernel as /boot/uImage-GTA02.bin. If that is found, it'll be fetched, its CRC is checked and then it's booted into with a generated kernel commandline.
Kernel Commandline Generation
One of its tasks is to scan NAND memory using the U-Boot dynparts rules to determine the start offset of the NAND partitions on this device, from that it forms the mtdparts kernel parameter that sets Linux's view of NAND partitioning.
The other thing it does is mount the "identity" partition and get from there the globally unique MAC address for the USB over Ethernet function instead of the random one that is otherwise used (If this doesn't work (like with a GTA01) you may use kernel-commandline parameters g_ether.dev_addr= and g_ether.host_addr= for the mac in device and host mode of the usb-ether module).
LED and Vibrator Signals
- AUX LED is turned on either on:
- Successful partition mount
- Successful kernel pull
- Successful initramfs pull
- AUX LED is turned off and vibrator runs briefly either on:
- Fail of kernel pull
- Fail of initramfs pull
- Fail of mount partition
- Skipping of current boot possibility
- AUX LED is turned off either on:
- Start of the kernel
- Start of the mem test
- Start of the kernel pull
- Start of the initramfs pull
- One Blue shine every ~10 second: did not find any valid kernel to boot
- About four RED shines per second: kernel panic.
A short press on the power button is enough to make Qi start booting. In a few seconds the backlight will be lit, but the kernel will not spew any console messages unless something is wrong. It may take up to 2 minutes (depends on distribution) until X is started during which there will be no visual feedback. Please be patient.
You can force debug messages on the LCM console by holding in the power button before Linux starts.
Выбор ядра
If a user presses the AUX button after successful partition mount and before start of the kernel pull (that is, while the red LED is on), this boot possibility is skipped (and GTA02 owners can feel vibration).
On versions newer than Jan 18 if a user holds the POWER button just before start of the kernel, debugging parameters are added to the kernel command line and a lot of information is output to the screen.
Boot меню
Qi's concept is to leave everything possible to Linux, that includes even the video init. Therefore Qi does NOT provide a boot menu. This should rather be implemented by a minimal Kernel, initramfs and menu system. It may be more comfortable for some users and may get them to switch from uboot to Qi. This does not exist yet (it's already implemented for some Angstrom-supported devices and for Zaurus, so porting should be relatively easy).
Source code
git://git.openmoko.org/git/qi.git , http://git.openmoko.org/?p=qi.git;a=summary . One can also just use strings(1) on the .udfu file to get an idea of where Qi currently looks for files.
The latest README file can be found in the git as well:http://git.openmoko.org/?p=qi.git;a=blob;f=README;hb=HEAD
Tips, Tricks, Tweaks
Основные проблемы
Qi does not bring up the LCD backlight. If the backlight is lit, it means you have succeeded to boot into Linux.
If nothing else is happening or there is a panic, enable debugging messages as described below.
Включить сообщения в консоли
You can just hold in the power button, this automatically appends verbose debugging to the kernel commandline (loglevel=8).
If you always want verbose "dmesg" type debugging messages, you can do it like this:
[1] If it's SD Card boot, just create a text file, e.g., for a GTA02 use
on the rootfs in question, put in there
and you'll see the messages on boot. If it's NAND right now you need to edit the default commandline in Qi for gta02.
If you have a separate partition for /boot, so that your kernel and rootfs are not in fact on the same partition, you will need to append a root= entry on the kernel commandline to override the default action of trying to use the partition where the kernel came from as the rootfs.
Add this in /boot/append-GTA0[123]:
for a rootfs on the second partition.
Note that a default Debian installation puts the kernel straight in the root of /dev/mmcblk0p1, not in a boot subdirectory, expecting u-boot to mount it as /boot. In order for Qi to recognise this, create a boot subdirectory with a symlink to the kernel.
SD Initialisation
If you don't specify loglevel=8 in append-GTAXX, and booting fails with a "VFS: Cannot open root device "mmcblk0p1" or unknown-block(2,0)", the SD card needs a little bit more time to initialise.
Put a "rootdelay=5" in append-GTAXX like so:
Testing speed improvements
Stopwatch results on Qi (error is approx 1/2 second):
Booting SHR image with uBoot:
- 0:00 power button held down
- 0:07 splash screen appears
- 0:15 drops to console showing kernel messages scrolling by for ~1 minute
- 1:18 Openmoko 'please wait' splash
- 1:31 desktop animated splash
- 2:38 finished booting
Booting identical setup with Qi flashed over uBoot:
- 0:00 power button held down
- 0:06 backlit black
- 0:13 please wait booting... (only this text on console for next 38 seconds)
- 0:51 Angstrom console message (at the end of kernel output with uBoot, but ONLY text display to appear throughout this stage with Qi)
- 0:54 Openmoko 'please wait' splash
- 1:05 desktop animated splash
- 1:54 finished booting
So for this particular configuration, it reduced time-to-desktop by about 28%, about 44 seconds. Surprisingly, the later segments of booting (desktop) were also noticeably faster than with uBoot - One would have expected just the first stages up until init (kernel finished establishing itself) to be faster.


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Welcome to Ars Gear, where we highlight our favorite hardware, whether it's what we use professionally on a daily basis or on our own time. This week, I explain why I haven't bought a new desktop for over four years.
A big part of the reason I work at Ars is that I love technology. I tend to be an early adopter, and when I can afford to, I upgrade (hopefully not before I really need to). In the old days of the megahertz race, that meant buying a new desktop as speeds shot ever upwards. (As a Mac user, it also meant being stuck at 400MHz for what seemed an eternity.) But when it comes to my desktop—the machine where I do 95 percent of my work for Ars—I'm really happy with my four-year-old machine. In fact, I'm so content with it that I have no plans to upgrade in the foreseeable future. There are three reasons for my reluctance to drop some cold, hard cash on a new tower, but before I go into those, here's the hardware I'm working with.
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|2 x 3.0GHz quad-core Xeon
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|12MB L2 per CPU
|2GB DDR2 FB-DIMM (800MHz)
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|ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT
|ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT, ATI Radeon HD 5770
|Hard drive
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|480GB OWC Mercury Extreme Pro SSD, 2x2TB Western Digital Black 7200rpm
|2PCIe, 2 PCIe 2.0 slots
|2 PCIe, 2 PCIe 2.0 slots
|5 USB 2.0, 2 Firewire 400, 2 Firewire 800
|Optical drive
|8x SuperDrive (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW, double layer)
I've got an Apple Extended Keyboard and a Magic Trackpad because I absolutely hate mice. (I used to be a big trackball fan.) In addition to the internal hard drives, I've got a Newer Technology Voyager USB 3.0/FireWire 800 docking station plunked on top of my Mac Pro. I use that to backup my boot drive and media files every month on another 2TB HDD that is then placed in a safe. I've got an infrequently used Radio Shark still hooked up as well as a pair of Harmon Kardon Soundsticks.
When I purchased the machine in February 2008, I wanted the most bang for my buck. I could have had more performance with the dual quad-core 3.2GHz option, but I didn't want to spend $800 more to get it. As it was, I dropped $3,599 to replace my then 18-month-old dual-2.6GHz Mac Pro. (Yes, I may have been able to get more bang for my buck going with a Windows desktop, but I wanted to run Mac OS X.)
Ever since I purchased my first Power Mac (a clone, actually), I have valued the desktop and tower form factors for the amount of expandability they offer. I like being able to throw in an extra hard drive or two (or in the case of my old PowerMac G3/266, an extra Zip Drive), and like being able to swap out graphics cards or add additional PCIe cards as needed. That expandability has served me extremely well with my current setup.
As you can see from the table above, I've made a number of changes to my stock Mac Pro. Let's start with the video cards. When I ordered the machine, I bought a second Radeon HD because I run a triple-head setup. I've long been a fan of multi-monitor setups, and given the amount of multitasking I do on a daily basis, having three monitors is a must. (I run a 30" Apple Cinema Display off one card and a pair of 23" Apple LCDs off the other). In 2008, the only way to get a multihead setup on a Mac was with a Mac Pro; today I could buy a 27" iMac and daisy chain it via Thunderbolt to a pair of 27" Apple Displays. Having a machine with 2 PCIe 2.0 slots (the original Mac Pro had none) has helped extend the life of the machine by enabling an upgrade to an AMD Radeon 5770 HD—and giving me a better Civilization V experience.
The Mac Pro also comes with eight FB-DIMM slots. 2GB chips are commonplace and relatively inexpensive these days (my MacBook Air has 4GB of RAM), but in 2008 they were expensive. Having eight slots has allowed me to add extra memory as I could afford it. I can also run a number of apps at a given time without having to worry about constant pageouts (admittedly less of a problem as OS X has gotten progressively better at managing memory). As you can see in the image above, I'm up to 10GB—and still have a pair of slots open.
The Mac Pro has four hard drive bays, and three of them are filled. My machine originally came with a 320GB hard drive, and last year I upgraded that to an OWC Mercury Extreme Pro solid state drive. It is one of the more expensive upgrades I have made, but the increase in performance combined with decrease in noise has been more than worth it. Startup and application launches are far quicker and the only noise the machine makes is when a backup is running. Speaking of backups, those are handled on a 2.0TB Western Digital Caviar Black HDD in one of the drive bays. Media files of all sorts are stored on a second 2.0TB HDD. Those extra drive bays originally held 500GB drives purchased shortly after the Mac Pro. I upgraded to 2.0TB as the price of storage decreased (and before Thailand flooded).
Performance-wise, this Mac Pro still feels snappy. The amount of RAM, the eight cores, and presence of a solid-state boot drive go a long way towards keeping things moving quickly. Apple has been extremely slow about upgrading its top-end machines (the current Westmere machines were last updated 19 months ago), which has made the case for upgrading less than compelling. That said, even if Apple were to unleash an all-new Sandy Bridge Mac Pro lineup, I'd gladly pass. With Mountain Lion being supported on my machine and a bit of headroom left for upgrades, I believe my Mac Pro has a lot of life left in it.
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Mayan archaeologists met in Guatemala and confirmed the end date for the Mayan Prophecy is December 21, 2012. That's when the world will end.
Archaeologists reportedly reviewed a newly discovered 1,300 year-old Maya text that provides only the second reference to the "end date" of the Maya calendar on December 21, 2012. The discovery, one of the most significant hieroglyphic find in decades, was announced at the National Palace in Guatemala. Al Gore was in attendance, representing the United States.
Archaelogists from Rutgers University in New Jersey and the University of Rome went on to say that the end date for the world is clearly stated in the hieroglyphics.
"They knew how long the world would last and they were extremely confident about the apocalypse. They were much more advanced they we are today," said Professor Katya Malley of Rutgers. "I wouldn't make any long-term plans. There's no need to buy Christmas presents."
The archaeologists gathered at "Site QQ" in Guatemala. Site QQ is the source of many looted sculptures whose whereabouts had remained a mystery until its rediscovery only fifteen years ago.
In 2012, archaeologists excavated in front of a building that had been heavily damaged nearly 40 years ago by looters looking for carved stones and tombs. "Last year, we realized that looters of a particular building had discarded some carved stones because they were too eroded to sell on the antiquities black market," said archaeologist Tomas Barbarinto, "so we knew they found something important, but we also thought they might have missed something."
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The researchers at Oregon Health & Sciences University said they are not using the embryos to produce children, and it is not clear when or even if this technique will be put to use. But it has already stirred a debate over its risks and ethics in Britain, where scientists did similar work a few years ago.
The British experiments, reported in 2008, led to headlines about the possibility someday of babies with three parents. But that's an overstatement. The DNA from the second woman amounts to less than 1 percent of the embryo's genes, and it isn't the sort that makes a child look like Mom or Dad. The procedure is simply a way of replacing some defective genes that sabotage the normal workings of cells.
The British government is asking for public comment on the technology before it decides whether to allow its use in the future. One concern it cites is whether such DNA alteration could be an early step down a slippery slope toward "designer babies" — ordering up, say, a petite, blue-eyed girl or tall, dark-haired boy.
Questions have also arisen about the safety of the technique, not only for the baby who results from the egg, but also for the child's descendants.
In June, an influential British bioethics group concluded that the technology would be ethical to use if proven safe and effective. An expert panel in Britain said in 2011 that there was no evidence the technology was unsafe but urged further study.
Laurie Zoloth, a bioethicist at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., said in an interview that safety problems might not show up for several generations. She said she hopes the United States will follow Britain's lead in having a wide-ranging discussion of the technology.
While the kind of diseases it seeks to fight can be terrible, "this might not be the best way to address it," Zoloth said.
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Mitalipov said in an interview that the researchers hope to get federal approval to test the procedure in women, but that current restrictions on using federal money on human embryo research stand in the way of such studies.
The research was funded by the university and the Leducq Foundation in Paris.
Dr. Douglass Turnbull of Newcastle University in Britain, whose team has transplanted DNA between eggs using a different technique, called the new research "very important and encouraging" in showing that such transplants could work.
But "clearly, safety is an issue" with either technique if it is applied to humans, he said.
Journal Nature: http://www.nature.com/nature
Mitochondrial diseases: http://www.umdf.org
British ethics group: http://www.nuffieldbioethics.org/mitochondrial-dna-disorders
British government project: http://mitochondria.hfea.gov.uk/mitochondria/


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The Comics Journal features an interview of Benjamin Marra, conducted by Matt Seneca. You go and you read that here.
Okay great. Thanks for coming back, that was a long one.
I like Benjamin, he's a friendly, personable guy with a deep knowledge and love of comic books. He'a a few years older than I am so his tastes are an earlier equivalent to what my tastes in mainstream comic books were. His influences are easy to trace and he wears them on his sleeve.
I've talked with him. Here we all are:
Matt Seneca, Darryl Ayo (that's me), Jonny Negron, Michael DeForge, Frank Santoro, Benjamin Marra, Lala Albert, Aiden Koch.
Very important to convey the precarious nature of who I am and where I stand in reality. I have written this several times. And deleted it most of those times. I shouldn't have to do this. But I've waited patiently an nobody else will step up to the plate.
So once again it's on me to explain to y'all white folks what it is
Benjamin Marra is a satirical cartoonist, an ironic cartoonist. Not in a specific sense but in how he appropriates a certain period of Americana in his work. Appropriates and ramps it up. His drawings, subject matter and writing style are products of a certain kind of 1980s American comic book. His subject matter also reaches out into the 1970s pop culture and subcultures. Two that he mines frequently are sexploitation and blaxploitation. I have feelings about the sexploitation aspect of this kind of work (and I intend to speak at length about sex in comics one day) but what rarely gets talked about is racism and racial fetishism and exploitation.
It is very self-serving and I'll go as far to say callous about playing in the sandbox of people whose degradation and oppression you do not share. Not writing about black characters or exploring the pain of black people but rather exoticizing the struggle, the pain, the humiliations, the inhumanity of the road to freedom.
Marra works in the domain of 1970s blaxploitation films but he lacks something: black people. When you watch a blaxploitation film, even if the filmmaker is white, you are seeing black people. Black performers whose frustrations are laid bare on the screen, even though the plots and dialogue were themselves exploitative. The presence of black actors made it real. "Actors," meaning "independent agents," not the profession. There are no black actors in a book such as "Lincoln Washington."
I knew what I was setting myself up for when I bought and read "Lincoln Washington." But somehow I didn't believe. I didn't want to think about how savage and brutal and soul destroying it would be. I didn't expect to like it but I wanted to learn about what this Ben Marra fellow was about. Well now I know.
I could be way off base, but the emotion that I feel about "Lincoln Washington" might be similar to how many (not "all") women feel about rape-revenge stories: this isn't your story to tell.
It's the way I feel. Spotlight on, all eyes looking, my cultural history paraded around to make an "awesome comic," insults, rapes, whipping, murder, all for the vicarious benefit of destroying the "bad white people" so that the audience ("good white people") can have a cathartic release and feel good about themselves. I'm not like those people. I'm on the side of the superhuman negro who punched those white folks' heads clean off. Those were bad white people. Not like me. I rooted for the good guy.
When I finished reading "Lincoln Washington," I was physically shaking, gritting my teeth trying to calm my nausea. This isn't fun. This isn't "radical," this isn't "awesome," this isn't a game. This is a brutal reality that a lot of you couldn't possibly relate to or understand, emotionally.
This isn't a black person's fantasy, it is a white person's fantasy. The ability to get on the correct side of history. The ability to both taste the lurid pleasure of breaking a human down and then switch sides and share in the vicarious thrill of revenge. Lincoln Washington doesn't exist. He is Benjamin Marra's own id. He isn't real in any sense of the word.
Better to talk to would be my mother, an enthusiastic reader of the post-slavery period called "Reconstruction." The heroism of the era wasn't vigilante, beastlike super-blacks. The heroism was in the the way blacks rushed to assume political offices, attend law schools, work on a systemic level to bring America from a barbaric state into the beginnings of a humane state. This was before blacks lost many of their public rights such as voting.
There isn't much to say. People are going to do what they're going to do. Benjamin Marra is going to make whatever comics he feels like making and I'm not trying to stop him. You are going to read whatever comic books you want to read and I won't try to convince you otherwise. I really believe that: "you should read whatever you want to."
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Dozens of waterfalls dot Michigan's Upper Peninsula, offering scenic rewards for hikers and walkers— especially in autumn.
UP's natural treasures
Michigan's Upper Peninsula is home to almost 200 major named falls, plus countless smaller, anonymous ones. With its concentration of tumbling rivers that flow into Lake Superior, the western corner of the UP offers the most waterfalls in the most compact area. Sixty-five significant falls punctuate Ontonagon and Gogebic counties alone. Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park claims dozens of waterfalls, including a spectacular series easily accessible along the half-mile boardwalk of the Presque Isle River Scenic Area.
While spring brings the most abundant water, autumn can be the most scenic season to explore, as cooler temperatures invite you to hike through rainbow-colored forests. Tap ahead for some photo inspirations for your visit. Pictured: Waterfall along the Presque Isle River in Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park.
Bond Falls
Bond Falls on the middle branch of the Ontonagon River ranks with the most photogenic attractions of the UP.
Bond Falls closeup
Fall colors reflect in a closeup of Bond Falls.
Black River Falls
A few miles west of Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park, the Black River National Forest Scenic Byway runs almost parallel to the Presque Isle River, with five major falls each a short hike from a roadside parking lot.
Black River hiking
Along the Black River near Gorge Falls, the water rushes through woods colored by autumn hues.
Cascade Falls reflections
Golden light reflects off the water at Cascade Falls.
Hike to Cascade Falls
Two trails lead to Cascade Falls on the west branch of the Ontonagon River. The Valley Trail is shorter and more convenient, while the Bluff Trail demands a more exhilarating climb for the serious hiker. A panorama of the wooded valley below justifies the exertion, allowing you to see for miles.
Close-up beauty
Fall leaves catch the sunlight on a log in the Ontanagon River.
Autumn path
Red leaves and yellow scatter along a hiking trail in Gogebic County, Michigan.
Mandido Falls
The rapids of Mandido Falls curve along the Presque Isle River in Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park.
Pebbles and leaves
A red leaf floats above a bed of pebbles near Bonanza Falls on the Big Iron River.


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New 2023 LincolnAviator Black Label SUV 6
- Exterior Color
- Dark Gray
- Interior Color
- Flight
- Body/Seating
- SUV/6 seats
- Fuel Economy
- 17/24 MPG City/Hwy
- Transmission
- Automatic
- Engine
- 6
- Stock Number
Lincoln Aviator
Highlighted Features
- Navigation system
- Lane departure
- Leather upholstery
- Automatic temperature control
- Emergency communication system
- Power moonroof
- Wireless phone connectivity
- Parking sensors
Detailed Specifications
- 1-touch down
- 1-touch up
- Adaptive Cruise Control: Adaptive Cruise Control w/Stop-and-Go
- Air conditioning
- Audio memory
- Auto-dimming rearview mirror
- Automatic temperature control
- Driver door bin
- Driver vanity mirror
- Emergency communication system
- Front beverage holders
- Front dual zone A/C
- Garage door transmitter
- HVAC memory
- Head restraints memory
- Heated steering wheel
- Illuminated entry
- Memory seat
- Moonroof sunshade: power
- Navigation system
- Overhead console
- Passenger door bin
- Passenger vanity mirror
- Power moonroof: Panoramic Vista Roof
- Power windows
- Proximity key: doors and push button start
- Rear air conditioning
- Rear beverage holders
- Rear door bins
- Rear dual zone A/C
- Remote engine start: keyfob and smart device (subscription required)
- Remote keyless entry
- Speed control
- Steering wheel memory
- Steering wheel mounted A/C controls
- Telescoping steering wheel
- Tilt steering wheel
- Trunk/hatch auto-latch
- Adaptive suspension
- Alloy wheels
- Four wheel independent suspension
- Front anti-roll bar
- Front tires: 275/40WR22.0
- Power steering
- Rear anti-roll bar
- Rear tires: 275/40WR22.0
- Wheel size: 22"
- 1st row LCD monitors: 2
- 2nd row LCD monitors: 1
- AM/FM radio: SiriusXM
- Diversity antenna
- Primary LCD size: 10.1"
- Radio data system
- Rear audio controls
- Satellite radio trial duration with new vehicle purchase (months): 3
- Smart device integration: SYNC AppLink/Apple CarPlay and Android Auto
- Speaker type: Revel Ultima
- Speakers: 28
- Steering wheel mounted audio controls
- Wireless phone connectivity: Bluetooth
- Basic warranty: 48 months/50,000miles
- Corrosion perforation warranty: 60 months/ unlimited distance
- Maintenance warranty: 48 months/50,000miles
- Powertrain warranty: 72 months/70,000miles
- Roadside assistance coverage: unlimited months/ unlimited distance
- 3rd row seats: split-bench
- Front center armrest
- Front seats: bucket
- Heated front seats
- Heated rear seats
- Leather steering wheel
- Leather upholstery
- Massaging driver lumbar support
- Massaging passenger lumbar support
- Max seating capacity: 6
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- Rear seats: bucket
- Rear seats Folding position: tumble forward
- Seat Upholstery: leather Savannah
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- Ventilated front seats
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- Compressor: twin turbo
- Cylinder configuration: V-6
- Drive type: all-wheel
- Engine liters: 3.0L
- Engine location: front
- Fuel economy city: 17mpg
- Fuel economy combined: 20mpg
- Fuel economy highway: 24mpg
- Fuel tank capacity: 20.2gal.
- Horsepower: 400hp @ 5,500RPM
- Hybrid traction battery type: none
- Manual-shift auto: SelectShift
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- Number of valves: 24
- Recommended fuel: Premium Unleaded
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- Torque: 415 lb.-ft. @ 2,750RPM
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- Engine bore x stroke: 85.4mm x 86.0mm (3.36" x 3.39")
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- Interior cargo volume: 518 L (18 cu.ft.)
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- Rear headroom: 975mm (38.4")
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2023 Lincoln Aviator Black Label AWD 10-Speed Automatic 3.0L V6 Dark Gray
KBB.com Consumer Reviews
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Home Run for Lincoln
By JRBoca on Friday, August 16, 2019I was lucky enough to get one of the first Aviators in South Florida a few weeks ago and love the car. I had been following development for some time, but wanted to see the finished product before moving forward. I was not disappointed as the car lived up to it's hype in every aspect. First off, the fit and finish is as good or better than any of the more expensive European SUVs. The interior leather and detail are worth every penny spent for the Black Label edition. Although, I only have a few weeks with the car I have done a couple of 400+ mile trips and the performance and ride are exceptional. I'll update this review after I've had six months behind the wheel.
- 5.0
As good as any luxury SUV on the market.
By John on Sunday, July 26, 2020I watched all the YouTube reviews, including KBB.com, Doug DeMuro and Redline. They were all unanimous in their high praise of the quality, luxury, comfort and performance of this very competitive SUV. I got the black label aviator blue with ivory interior, similar to the Matthew McConaughey version. Driving around in New York City, I can see plenty of heads turn as I drive slowly around town. The only downside is the 16 to 17 miles per gallon average that I am getting, but it uses regular fuel which is a huge savings. ($2 vs. $3/gallon in NJ). This vehicle sticker price is $81,000. If I were to do it again, I would get the plug-in hybrid black label version. Nonetheless, I love this car all around. The perks with a black label Lincoln are huge including home pick up, loaners, maintenance, car washes and detailing all included with the purchase of the vehicle. This was especially helpful while buying the car in April 2020, the height of the Covid pandemic in the New York area.
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Lots of power. Handles well in snow.
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Supreme Court Will Not Hear Campaign Finance Case On Corporate Donations
The Supreme Court says it won't hear a case that would have let candidates solicit money from corporations. By doing so, the court is reaffirming one strict ban on corporate political money, three years ago after easing other limits in its controversial Citizens United ruling.
Congress outlawed corporate contributions to candidates back in 1907. Now, two businessmen say that Citizens United makes that law unconstitutional – and they claim a First Amendment right to give corporate funds directly to candidates.
The Justice Department is prosecuting investment bankers William Danielczyk and Eugene Biagi for allegedly funneling corporate money into the old Senate and presidential campaigns of Hillary Clinton. Prosecutors say the two reimbursed employees for contributions that arrived at the campaigns as small, personal — and legal — donations.
Danielczyk and Biagi challenged the corporate donation ban before the trial began. Monday, the Supreme Court rejected their petition without explanation.
But this refusal is something of an anomaly. Federal courts have dramatically loosened the rules in recent years, most notably with two cases in 2010:
- In Citizens United, the Supreme Court said that corporations can spend freely to support or attack candidates, and that independent spending cannot be considered a factor of corruption to the candidates who benefit from it.
- A few weeks after that, a Washington, D.C., appellate court ruled in a case known as SpeechNow that wealthy donors can join together to raise and spend unlimited amounts on independent ads – essentially, the description of a Super PAC.
Last week, the Supreme Court said it will take up a challenge to the overall limit a donor can give during a two-year election cycle. Eliminating that umbrella limit would allow a donor to give the maximum to any and all federal candidates and party committees.
The plaintiff in that case, Shaun McCutcheon of Alabama, along with the Republican National Committee, argues that because the amount of each contribution would still be capped, a guard against corruption would remain in place.


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In the first 2 parts of this series we wrote about seforim, kisvey yad (manuscripts) and letters. Here I'll mention some of the ceremonial and fine arts that were also auctioned off.
The items commanding the highest prices in the Ceremonial Art category were:
Finished maquette. Height 7.5″
Accompanied by: Sketched design, drawn and signed by Wolpert, dated 2/5/73.
Ludwig Wolpert (1900-81) was a Bauhaus trained craftsman and designer who later founded and directed the Toby Pascher Workshop at the Jewish Museum, New York.
It sold for $2,750.00.
At center:
Of classic form, marked on bottom. 19.5 by 14.5 inches
It went for $8,000.00
On the right:
Of ovalform, engraved with name of God on each side, set within shield of leafy clusters. Marked with town "Alessandria." 4×3 inches
It sold for $5,000.00
The two highest selling items in the Fine Arts category were:
Printed Kethubah, surrounded by gouache borders. Signed "Ze'ev Raban, Jerusalem" in English and Hebrew. 20.5 by 13 inches.
Jerusalem, circa 1940's
This marriage contract, written in English and Hebrew is set in traditional architectural inspired border. Raban's kethubah design is comprided of a range oof biblical motifs. At the base is a Jerusalem cityscape, flanked by columns set on resting lions and a biblical passage. The text is bordered on each side by twelve cells depicting the twelve tribes (right) and similarly, the twelve months and corresponding zodiacal signs of the Jewish year (left).
A grapevine and pomegranate design surround a central Boblical medallion appropriately depicting Eliezer – the Bible's first "matchmaker" alongside the young Rebbeca.
It commanded $6,000.00
A photograph by Roman Vishniac, The Scholar, sold for $3,750.00. As a child of Poilishe Holocaust survivors, as someone who met and spoke with Mr. Vishniac a"h at length, as a photographer myself, this gelatin print – signed by the artist – in a 12 by 10'5 inch format – as well as many of his other shots of a tragically wiped out world, brings me closer to my parents' roots. The facial expressions of Vishniac's subjects, the city or village foreground and background bring those moments, those subjects back to life, even if only for a fleeting moment… One can almost hear the street noise, see the movement, hear the subjects' conversations, read their thoughts….
Among the many items in this auction, we found the well known classic texts and the not so so well known, controversial ones like Azariah de Rossi's Me'or Eynaim, lexicons, grammars and more. Alongside them you could find the first Yiddish translations of such works as Onkel Tom's Kebin (Uncle Tom's Cabin), Karl Marx' Dos Kapital – Kritik fun der Politischer Ekonomye (Das Kapital), Charles Darwin's Di Opshtamung fun Mentshen un der Oysklaib Beshayces tzu Geshlect (On The Origin of Species), or Baruch Spinoza's Di Etik (Ethics, the main work that caused Spinoza's excommunication by the Rabbis of his community).
Not only works that had been considered infamous or quasi-infamous, in its day, were among the auctioned lots, but emotional, heart breaking, memoirs were represented as well… Mendel Beilis' (the real life subject of Bernard Malamud's The Fixer) first edition of his Di Geschichte fun Meyne Leyden (The Story of My Sufferings), printed in 1925 with a portrait and autograph by the author. Beilis was the victim of a vicious blood libel charge that brought world condemnation of Czarist Russia's justice system. He was acquitted on October 28th, 1913.
This auction was, for me, truly a journey into history! It afforded me a glimpse into what had been our religious, cultural and artistic life of the past, while helping me understand why in spite of all, in spite of every foe – past or present – our future as Jews is well assured!


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Ala. hostage victim taken to hospital; suspect dead
A 5-year-old Alabama boy was rescued Monday afternoon when FBI agents stormed an underground bunker where a 65-year-old retired trucker had held him hostage since gunning down a school bus driver six days ago.
The kidnapper, Jimmy Lee Dykes, was killed, though the FBI did not say how he died.
FBI agents entered Dykes' homemade bunker in Midland City, Ala., at 3:12 p.m. CT (4:12 p.m. ET) after deciding the autistic boy was in imminent danger, FBI Special Agent in Charge Steve Richardson said at a news conference.
"Over the past 24 hours, negotiations deteriorated and Mr. Dykes was observed holding a gun," Richardson said.
The boy, identified so far only as Ethan, was "physically unharmed" and taken to a hospital in nearby Dothan. He reportedly suffers from Asperger's syndrome and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
"The child is doing good,'' Sheriff Wally Olson said at a news conference Monday night.
"He's been through a lot,'' Olson said. "He's receiving medical treatment and everything is OK.''
Olson and Richardson declined to give details of the operation that led to the boy's rescue and left Dykes dead. But Olson said law enforcement officers made their move after "it just got really tough to communicate with him (Dykes) and negotiate with him.''
Richardson said the child had been reunited with his mother. "He's very brave. He's very lucky,'' Richardson said.
Monday evening, his uncle, Thomas Mabe, told dozens of well-wishers gather in the town square that although his nephew was not hurt, "he has a long way to go," The Dothan Eaglesaid.
CBS News reported that Wednesday will be the boy's sixth birthday.
The FBI said in a statement that bomb technicians "are in the process of clearing the property for improvised explosive devices. When it is safe to do so, our evidence response teams, paired with state and local crime scene technicians, will process the scene."
Dykes, a Vietnam-era Navy veteran whom neighbors described as an anti-social loner, had held the boy six days in his homemade bunker since abducting him from the bus after gunning down the 66-year-old driver, Charles Poland Jr.
There were reports of one or two loud bangs on the property, and a neighbor who lives about a quarter-mile from where Dykes was holed up told the Associated Press that he heard a boom followed by a gunshot.
Another neighbor, 16-year-old Micah Senn, 16, who lives a few hundred yards away, told AL.com that he heard an explosion followed by four to five rounds of gunfire.
Sources reported the FBI had inserted a camera into the bunker and created two distractions before entering.
A federal law enforcement official told USA TODAY that authorities took action after growing increasingly concerned about Dykes' deteriorating mental state during the past 24 hours.
"They were not going to risk anything, but it was becoming clear that things were not going in the right direction,'' said the official, who was briefed on the matter but was not authorized to comment publicly.
"During the first few days he was agreeable and was taking care of the kid," the official said. "Maybe it was just the increasing realization that this was not going to end well for him."
Authorities had continued to communicate with Dykes through a 4-inch-diameter ventilation pipe and to supply the boy with medicine and treats, including coloring books, crayons, potato chips, cheese crackers and a toy car. The 8-foot-by-6-foot bunker was four feet underground and apparently had running water, heat and cable television but no toilet.
Dykes told neighbors it was a storm shelter, but he had been linked to anti-government survivalists.
At a brief news conference earlier Monday afternoon, Dale County Sheriff Wally Olson said authorities had been "engaged" with Dykes "around the clock."
Olson said Dykes wanted to share "a story that's important to him, although it's very complex. We're trying to make a safe environment."
In an interview with ABC News, 14-year-old Tarrica Singletary, one of 21 students aboard the bus, described what happened last Tuesday afternoon aboard the bus in Midland City, a rural enclave of 2,400 people tucked in the red-dirt hills of southeastern Alabama near the Florida Panhandle.
"He said he was going to kill us, going to kill us all," she said. "The bus driver kept saying, 'Just please get off the bus,' and (Dykes) said, 'Ah, all right, I'll get off the bus.'"
She said the driver "tried to back up and reverse and (Dykes) pulled out the gun and he just shot him, and he just took Ethan."
Surveillance drones had been flown over Dykes' property, officials said.
"It gives them more time to study this bunker," said former FBI profiler Brad Garrett, who is an ABC News consultant. "Does Mr. Dykes have any explosives? Has he booby trapped the doors if ever they tried to get in?"
Before the rescue, AL.com reported there had been "less visible activity" around the command center along Highway 231 than in previous days. The FBI also restricted what images photographers could take Monday before the bunker was stormed.
Ronda Wilbur, a neighbor of Dykes who said he beat her dog to death with a pipe last year, told the Associated Press that she was relieved to be done with the "nightmare" of Dykes' patrolling his yard and threatening to shoot anyone or anything that trespassed.
"It's been a long couple of years of having constant stress," she said.
State Rep. Steve Clouse, who was in contact with the boy's family and had provided updates, also declared the "nightmare is finally over."
"We're very thankful Ethan is safe and back in the arms of his family," he toldThe Dothan Eagle." We must still remember the family of Charles Poland. Because of his actions, more than 20 people on that bus are still alive."
Poland, who had driven a school bus since 2009, was buried Sunday.
In a statement, Gov. Robert Bentley called Poland "a true hero who was willing to give up his life so others might live. We are all inspired by his courage and bravery.
"I ask everyone across the state – and the nation – to continue to lift up these families and the entire Midland City community in your prayers."