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For nine months I've been posting a weekly Monday Morning Offering, a feature on my blog which draws many readers. So, with the hope that those who have come here for the daily Lenten prayer series might continue to return on Mondays after Easter, the regular Monday Morning Offering stands today as the Daily Lenten Prayer for Monday of the Second Week of Lent.
Good morning, good God!
Every Sunday, Lord, my parish prays this intercession
in the Prayers of the Faithful:
For a spirit of generosity in the hearts of us
who have more than we need...
I have so much more than I need, Lord!
I have too much stuff...
I have too many things...
I collect things I don't need...
I have too many clothes
(too many that fit and too many that don't fit)...
I have too much money...
Well, the money thing helps me define this, Lord:
it's not so much that I have a lot of money -
I don't -
but when I look around the world, I know
I have more than I need...
That's the hard question, Lord:
how much of anything do I really need...?
When I think about that
I realize I have more than I need...
I'm not going to offer you all my stuff, Lord -
you don't need it or want it!
But I want to offer you
my desire for having more...
my desire for having more than I need...
my desire for collecting things
for the sake collecting them...
my desire to have more for more's sake...
my desire to have more than others have...
my desire to buy, to have, to own
the fastest, the newest, the sleekest -
I offer you my need to have
full shelves, full closets, full bank accounts,
full boxes of whatever I want a lot of...
I offer you my tendency
to stuff the empty places in my heart
with junk, with filler, with so much less
than those places deserve...
I offer you my complacency
in filling my heart with anything other
than the lasting treasures my heart longs for...
Help me to simplify my life this Lent, Lord...
Help me to give up, give away,
clean out, to cast off, to go without,
to do without, strip away,
to lighten the load,
to empty my heart of anything
that does not truly fill it...
And make me generous, Lord, in giving to others
whatever I have for which they have
a greater need...
For a spirit of generosity in my life
in which I have more than I need,
I pray to the Lord...
One day at a time this Lent, Lord:
you and me, with the Church,
in the grace of your Holy Spirit...
- Heart image by Gwen Mehorg
- Coffee image by George Mendoza
Posted by Concord Pastor at 5:00 AM
2 comments:
- AnonymousMarch 9, 2009 at 7:31 AM
One of the best Mon Morning oferrings. hits home. Too much stuff...thanks.ReplyDelete
Sorry, but I cannot relate to most of this at all this morning. However, I will still be taking some time to reflect on it. What fills my heart, I am sure is an area I can work on.ReplyDelete
And as always, I will give what I have to someone else if their need is greater than mine.
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SOURCE: FluoroPharma Medical, Inc.
November 20, 2012 10:13 ET
MONTCLAIR, NJ--(Marketwire - Nov 20, 2012) - FluoroPharma Medical, Inc. (OTCQB: FPMI), a company specializing in the development of novel diagnostic imaging products that utilize positron emission tomography (PET) technology for the detection and assessment of disease before clinical manifestation, today announced that it completed a private placement on November 19, 2012 of its shares of common stock and warrants in the aggregate amount of $1,546,250. The private placement consisted of the issuance of 1,819,118 shares of the company's common stock and 1,819,118 common stock purchase warrants with an exercise price of $0.90 per share and a term of one year. The company plans to use the net proceeds from the private placement for working capital.
"We are pleased that the additional funding will enable us to further advance our most promising portfolio of diagnostic imaging products, providing healthcare professionals with new products that will expand and improve their diagnostic capabilities and contribute to earlier, more accurate diagnosis of disease," said Thijs Spoor, Chairman, CEO and President of FluoroPharma Medical. "FluoroPharma's goal is to enable personalized medicine by enabling the physician to prescribe the right medicine, for the right person, at the right time, for the right outcome. This is only possible with the right diagnostics."
This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any of the securities referenced herein in any jurisdiction to any person.
The shares of common stock issued in connection with the transactions have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration under the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws or an applicable exemption from those registration requirements. The company has agreed to file a registration statement providing for the resale of the shares of common stock and the shares underlying the warrants issued in the private placement following the closing. The company will file a Form 8-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission describing in more detail the terms of the private placement.
About FluoroPharma Medical
FluoroPharma is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the discovery and development of proprietary PET imaging products to evaluate cardiac disease at the cellular and molecular levels. The company has licensed technology from the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
The company's goal is to enable personalized medicine through advanced imaging products that will help the medical community diagnose disease more accurately at the earliest stages, leading to more effective treatment, management and better patient outcomes.
The company's initial focus is the development of breakthrough positron emission tomography (PET) imaging agents for the efficient detection and assessment of acute and chronic forms of coronary artery disease (CAD). FluoroPharma is advancing two products in clinical trials for assessment of acute and chronic forms of coronary disease. These first in class agents have been designed to rapidly target myocardial cells. Other products in development include agents for detection of inflamed atherosclerotic plaque in peripheral arteries, agents with the potential to image Alzheimer's disease and agents that could potentially be used for imaging specific cancers.
For more information on the company, please visit: www.fluoropharma.com.
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- 3 lbs. potatoes peeled & quartered about 8
- 8 oz shredded cheddar cheese 2 cups
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp pepper
- 6 cups sliced onions (Vidalia if you can get them)
- Butter to taste
- 1 box jumbo shells cooked until tender-firm, cooled under cold water
- Boil potatoes until soft, drain.
- Add cheese, salt
- Melt butter in large skillet.
- Add onions and cook 10 to 15 minutes until tender but NOT browned.
- Spread half the onions over the bottom of a 13x9 baking dish.
- Stuff each shell with a heaping Tblsp. of the potato mixture, pull edges closed a bit.
- Arrange in single layer over onions, spread remaining onions on top.
- Bake at 350 degrees uncovered for15 to 20 minutes or until heated through.
Terri's Notes
- Do add a salad, fresh brightly colored veggies, or fruit to this one!
- Great use for leftover mashed potatoes.
- Sliced mushrooms add a really nice touch to this dish, especially portabellas! Just mix and saute with the onions.
- You can divide it into two pans to save or share, or freeze the pierogies for later use.
- If it doesn't have to be a meatless dish - some crisp, crumbled bacon sprinkled on top is awesome.
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While engineers and designers feverishly worked overtime on the development of a four-passenger cars they code-named the F-car, the Chevy public relations, advertising and marketing group prepared the world for the intro of a vehicle they called the Panther.
All through the summer of 1965 essentially every aspect of the vehicle's design and advancement, from initial design sketches to clay models, was photographed and carefully recorded. Chevy utilized the assets to create a 30 -minute film The Camaro for sale in Buffalo Mills PA , which was later revealed on TELEVISION and in cinema. They also presented females's clothing called the Camaro Collection and even a Camaro roadway race game.
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In November, Chevy sales executives and innovative individuals previewed prototype models at the GM Tech Center. Campbell-Ewald, Chevy's age-old ad agency, right away began work on brochures, direct mail and sales promo products, together with print, outdoor and TV/radio advertising. In April 1966, at the New York Automobile Program Interview, Chevrolet sales executives admitted no name had been chosen for the brand-new car, however did announce that pricing of 1967 Chevy Camaro for sale in Buffalo Mills PA design will be in the Corvair-Chevy II variety.
Throughout early 1966 Chevy struggled over a name for its Mustang-killer. GM's upper management was nervous about the aggressive undertones of the Panther name. A similar bout of cold feet would later cause the Pontiac variation, code word the Banshee, to be relabelled Firebird. Over its short lifetime, the F-car had actually been called by many names consisting of Wildcat, Chaparral, Commander and Nova. It's also rumored that Chevy considered utilizing the letters "GM" in the name, and created G-Mini, which progressed into GeMini and lastly Gemini. However, GM's upper management banned the idea, fearing the automobile might be a failure.
Automotive legend has it that somebody at Chevrolet lastly proposed the name Camaro and upper management rapidly concurred. Although the name has no genuine significance, GM scientists reportedly discovered the word in a French dictionary as a slang term for "buddy" or "buddy." It's rumored that Ford Motor Company researchers also discovered other definitions, including "a shrimp-like animal" and an arcane term for "loose bowels."
Because a number or pre-launch materials had currently been released utilizing the Panther name, Chevy's most pushing challenge was to now rename their new Mustang killer, the Camaro. Camaros are found in Buffalo Mills PA by looking for classic car dealers.
Finally, on June 28, 1966, General Motors held a live press conference in Detroit's Statler-Hilton Hotel. It was the very first time in history that 14 cities were attached in real time for an interview through telephone lines. Elliot M. "Pete" Estes, who changed "Bunkie" Knudsen as Chevrolet General Manager in July 1965, started the press conference by declaring all participants were now charter members of the Society for the Removal of Panthers from the Automotive World (SEPAW.) Estes confidently revealed that Camaro was picked as the name for Chevy's brand-new four-passenger sports car to honor the tradition of starting Chevy design names with the letter C such as the Corvette, Corvair, Chevelle, and Chevy II.


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The tiny box designed to help anyone make a call or get on the net from anywhere on the planet.
"I'm five years too early with everything. I don't know if that's a bug, or a feature, but it is what it is," says Aaron Huslage with a laugh. He's explaining to me how, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, he came up with the idea for tethr, a shoebox-sized set of hardware designed to help anyone get internet and phone connections from any spot on the planet.
At the time of the disaster, Huslage helped a group of volunteers build a working wireless network from Gulfport, Mississippi, to the Louisiana border. Using donated equipment, expertise and time, the group managed to create a network that provided free internet and phone service to between 70,000 and 80,000 people for half a year following the hurricane. Huslage did most of his work on the project remotely as he was living at the other end of the country in Portland, Oregon at the time. "I was mostly just wrangling things," he says. "Making sure people were going where they were supposed to go and that things were delivered to the right place at the right time." But he did eventually go down to the Gulf Coast for a week to work the project.
"The whole thing was crazy," he remembers. "We were building infrastructure, and I remember thinking, 'This is really, really hard stuff.'" Networks could include servers, multiples routers and various layers of software to configure. He started considering ways he might be able to miniaturize the hardware needed to make such connectivity possible. But the hardware, he discovered, really didn't exist, or at least not in forms small enough to work together efficiently, and affordably, in one small package."So, I shelved the idea," he tells me.
From 2005 to 2010, Huslage spent a lot of volunteer time working with, and helping develop, some of the incredibly powerful software that is now available to people working in crisis and post-crisis situations. For example, there's Ushahidi, a crowd-sourced reporting platform which has provided real-time data on everything from elections in Nigeria to "Snowmageddon" in New York City. Then there is Open Street Map, an open-source mapping project which provided some of the first truly accurate maps of Port-au-Prince, Haiti after the devastating 2010 earthquake.
It was in the aftermath of that quake, when Huslage was doing some volunteer work helping to build wireless mesh networks with a group called Inveneo, that he was once again struck by how far the hardware lagged behind the software when it came to assisting in post-crisis situations."It's great to have great software," Huslage says. "Ushahidi and Open Street Map, all that stuff can change the world," he tells me. "But it is all useless if the hardware can't get the users connected." Aid groups need to share information quickly in a crisis to ensure aid and assistance is distributed as effectively as possible. But too many times, he says, he saw humanitarian groups take nothing but a PC and a satellite modem into a crisis area, only to be hampered by poor connections and a lack of knowledge about how the technology works. "Aid workers and first responders, they're being asked to do IT," he says. "But they don't want to have to worry about that stuff."
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There are organisations dedicated to helping out in these situations, such as Telecoms sans Frontieres, but limited resources means they cannot go to every crisis and help out every aid group that has communication problems. So, Huslage started looking around, pricing different pieces of gear, and found that hardware had shrunk, both in size and price, and the tools he needed were available off the shelf.
And so, after getting laid off from his day job last January ("Actually, I laid myself off," Huslage jokes), he decided to work full-time on the development of tethr. What he and his team have come up with is a package of hardware that fits into a case about 6in-long, 4in-wide and 3-in tall (15cmx10cmx7.5cm). It contains the hardware necessary to connect to the net via satellite modem, wi-fi, 3G, ethernet and even dial-up. It also comes with OpenBTS, an open-source GSM messaging box and platform. This prototype runs with a version of the open-source operating system Ubuntu Linux. The software could be tailored to any situation, but right now, Huslage has it loaded up with a database, VOIP software similar to Skype, Ushahidi, and Open Street Map. The user interface, Huslage says, is like a webpage, and is designed to allow the user maximum control over what type of connections to use for certain tasks, and also giving simple instructions on how to, say, point the satellite modem in the right direction.
Huslage says the idea is that people could eventually develop their own software for tethr, and add it to their boxes themselves. Ease of use is what Huslage calls tethr's "secret sauce"."You want to think really hard about how your users would want to use something like this. You don't want to make them do a bunch of technical things they don't want to do, just because you're too lazy to write some code."
When it comes to powering tethr, Huslage says they are "agnostic about [it] in a religious way". What he means is that he doesn't want to dictate to users how to power tethr. After all, he says, people will find themselves in wildly different situations when it comes to available power sources. Currently, it has no built-in battery. The unit runs off of a 12-volt DC connection. "You can plug it into a car battery and it works fine," Huslage says. "And you can almost always find a car battery somewhere." But, Huslage notes, there's also an AC adapter, and there's no reason it couldn't be modified to run off of a solar battery. He's leaving it up to the users. "If we have a bunch of people asking for a battery, we'll put one in."
I ask him about price. The answer's a bit tricky, because the project is in such early stages. Right now, the unit would cost around $2,000. But if production got going, Huslage thinks the price a year from now would be more like $500, and maybe even as low as $100 by year three. The sticking point, though, is getting the same foundations, organizations and investors that rave about crisis software to take a chance on hardware. In a recent blog post on tethr, Erik Hersman, who is one of the people behind the Ushahidi crowd-sourcing software, wrote: "Software products are easier to get going, there are lower barriers to entry and people can see and play with them quite quickly. Funding of hardware projects like tethr is a little more challenging."
But Hersman also says that he feels tethr fills a real need in post-disaster scenarios, and can find a "ready market" for its product. When it comes to hardware, Hersman wrote, "the disaster and crisis response space is ripe for upheaval in this as well. We've had some major changes, that many are still getting used to, just based on mobile phones and the internet – but that's only the beginning. We started to see what can happen when geeks and rebels get into hardware and communications in places like Libya and Brazil. This can only continue to accelerate."
It helps, of course, that the price and size of the connection hardware is coming down, and that it's easier and cheaper than ever to prototype something. Aaron Huslage says tethr is currently looking for around $750,000 in funding. He has also entered tethr in a competition called the Knight News Challenge, as a potential tool for journalists to collect information in the field, and file stories effectively.
Ultimately, Huslage says he can see many different uses for tethr. At a recent social business summit in Vienna, Huslage says people from a host of different backgrounds, from running yogurt factories, to managing Ugandan farms, to doing mobile banking, told him they could see uses for tethr. With all that demand, I ask, why isn't this product already in people's hands?
"It astounds me every day that no one else is doing this. Then again, it's taken us a year to get where we are. It's easy to conceive of things. The reality is much more complicated."
But he concludes: "I feel lucky to be able to work on this. It's potentially transformative, but it's also a heck of a lot of fun."
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Olive Kopelman, daughter of Drew Barrymore and Will Kopelman, was born on September 26, 2012. I was born on September 26, 1973. We're birthday twins!
Drew talked to US Weekly recently about Olive's first birthday:
"We have a little party going on for her, a little first birthday that my sister-in-law is throwing. I'm like Jill [Kopelman], take over!"
Olive's a Chanel child, proper. Like, not just bought, but BELONGING to. Can you imagine what that party will look like? And the gift bags the guests will walk away with?
Here's Drew with Olive in New York today. Is this the first time we've seen her face? At least it's the first time I've seen her face.
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Recently I came across this series of illustrations Robert Heindel painted for Reader's Digest Condensed Books in 1970. I've modified the layout of the first spread because I really wanted to include that fantastic title typeface, so typical of typography of the early '70s.
This group of illustrations really knocked me out. Heindel's technique on this series leaves an impression of both old and new styles of picture making.
The juxtaposition is quite remarkable. I don't think I've ever seen anything quite like it.
I only wish we could see this magnificent series under better printing circumstances. I'll bet the originals would be beyond belief.
Robert Heindel has previously been the subject of a week of posts on the TI blog. If you'd like to see more of his work and read about his career, just click on these links:
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Last weekend, you undoubtedly caught at least a glimpse of the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Summer Olympics. Just as in the past, the media hoopla and never-ending commercials featuring our favorite USA athletes make sure the event is seared in your brain and your television is tuned into the 24/7 coverage.
Unlike past Olympics, though, this year's games have arrived in tow with a worldwide protest against the widely-known and wide-spread human rights abuses, aggression with Tibet, and environmental hazards that China is notorious for.
As the Olympic torch, traditionally known as a symbol of peace and international unity, made it's way around the globe last spring, thousands of protesters hit the streets in Paris, London and San Francisco (among other cities) aiming to raise awareness amongst the mainstream media about these pressing issues, in particular China's take-over and occupation of Tibet and their role in the Darfur conflict. To refresh your memory, check out our past blog post on the topic.
Shortly after that, the Play Fair campaign issued a press release announcing the findings of a new investigative report shaming Olympic sponsors and suppliers Nike and Adidas. Based on over 300 interviews with garment workers in China, India, Thailand and Indonesia, the report (titled Clearing the Hurdles) shows that violations of workers rights, excessive overtime hours, and poverty wages are still the norm of the sportswear industry. "While the profits of major brands like Nike and Adidas are soaring through the roof, the workers sewing their garments continue to make poverty wages and work under indecent conditions," says Liana Foxvog, the national organizer of SweatFree Communities, one of the organizations that is supporting the Play Fair 2008 campaign. "Behind the rhetoric of corporate responsibility, very little has changed."
According to the International Olympic Committee (or IOC), the Beijing Olympic Games are set to be the most profitable in the games' history, with almost $100 million dollars alone coming from the garment sponsors. And yet the workers at the bottom of the chain are still being squeezed. A worker at a New Balance factory in Dongguan, China explained to the report interviewers: "I am exhausted to death now…none of us have time to go to toilet or drink water…we are working without rest and are always afraid of not working fast enough to supply soles to the next production line."
The Play Fair Campaign has put together a "campaign statement" which outlines steps that sportswear companies, the International Olympic Committee, and national governments should and can take to follow up on their responsibilities to improve conditions for the working people of China. You can help out by sending a protest letter to the IOC and the guilty sportswear companies and continue to shop with companies legitimately working in the realm of Fair Trade. After all, what's more in the spirit of the Olympics than encouraging and engaging its hosts to clean up their act and truly play a fair game.


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The East Hampton High School boys soccer team played to a hard-fought 3-3 double-overtime tie with Elwood-John Glenn here Monday to win its second league championship in the past three years.
In two 10-minute "sudden death" OTs, the relentless Bonackers, as they had throughout the game, pounded Glenn's goal, though somehow the visitors, who with the setting sun in their eyes packed the goal mouth, managed to avert a loss.
It wasn't entirely one-sided, however, as Esteban Aguilar, East Hampton's goalie, was called upon to make a beautiful save of a hard-hit direct kick by Glenn's Greg Orkiszewski taken midway through the first OT. But, by and large, it was Glenn's goalie who came under fire as bids by Mario Olaya, Esteban Valverde, and Milton Farez, among others, went awry.
Had Glenn won the game and had it gone on to win its one remaining regular-season game, as expected, "they would have won the championship," Rich King, East Hampton's head coach, explained later. "So, obviously, today's game was huge. We couldn't be prouder of the kids. They've worked so hard all year and have done everything we've asked of them. We couldn't be happier for them."
When King and his assistant, Don McGovern, congratulated their players after the second overtime period — and thus the game — had ended, they circled together, whooped it up, and jumped up and down.
They'll learn tomorrow where they'll be seeded in the county tournament. King said Sayville, which has an undefeated record in League V and is the defending state champion, will obviously be up for the top seed. "We're hoping for the number-one seed too," said East Hampton's coach, noting that Sayville had "a bad nonleague loss, but we'd be happy to be number-two. It will give us a home field advantage." Two playoff wins here would enable East Hampton to go to the finals, as it did in 2009, the last year it won the league title. Glenn won it last year.
The Bonackers thus finished the regular season at 12-1-2 over all and 9-1-2 in league play.
The sole loss came at the hands, as it were, of Westhampton Beach, though East Hampton avenged that with a 2-1 win here on Oct. 19, a win that eliminated the Hurricanes from league championship contention.
Afterward, King told his charges that they could savor the victory "from here to the locker room," alluding to the fact that games with Mount Sinai (which the Bonackers bested 4-1) and Glenn remained.
"We had the ball in their end of the field 90 percent of the time," King said following the Westhampton win, in which Olaya scored both goals, converting a free kick from about 10 yards out and a penalty kick after having been taken down — for the second time in the game — in the penalty box.
Glenn, which East Hampton had defeated 3-1 earlier in the season, proved to be a formidable foe. Orkiszewski, a senior midfielder and one of the Knights' captains, lofted free kicks into the goal mouth time and again, from midfield or beyond, and Glenn's corner kicks were also nerve-racking.
The visitors, though they had two dangerous forwards in the long-legged Francis Dela Agbotse and Adan Cruz-Velasquez, did not quite have the weapons East Hampton had.
Farez broke the ice, sliding in to convert a pass from Valverde, who had been at the left edge of the box, 10 minutes and 23 seconds into the fray.
About 10 minutes later, Orkiszewski beat Angel Garces to tie the score.
With 5:26 left until the half, Esteban Vargas played the ball up to Olaya, who, despite being closely marked by Anthony Santagata, whipped the ball up high into the left corner of the nets for a 2-1 East Hampton lead.
But one minute later it was 2-2 as Santagata successfully deflected past Aguilar an Orkiszewski free kick from midfield into the goal mouth.
An East Hampton corner kick header bounced off the lower left goalpost with 3:35 to go, and just before the buzzer signaling the half Olaya and Glenn's goalie came together in a jarring, leaping collision in the box.
In recent home games, the Bonackers have used to their advantage the wind (though there was none on Monday) and the lowering sun, but Glenn continued to play toe-to-toe in the second frame. In fact, it took a 3-2 lead early on, in the 43rd minute, as Cruz-Velasquez, who had received a long cross from Dela Agbotse, beat Alex Serna and rocketed a shot high into the nets. Serna was soon to atone, however, as he headed out what would have been a certain goal headed for the left corner.
In the 48th minute King replaced Vargas with Donte Donegal, a sophomore forward who recently returned to action following an early-season injury, and, in the 56th minute, moments after Serna's heroics, Donegal came up big, blasting in from short range the goal that was to guarantee East Hampton the title.
In the 65th minute, Jerjes Albin, a staunch Bonac defender who constantly repelled Glenn's attacks, played the ball up onto the feet of Farez, and the tough senior forward broke in on the goal one-on-one. It was the best chance of the day for either team, but somehow Farez was foiled, prompting moans from Bonac's fans, who, 35 minutes later, were to walk off the field cheering.


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I recently bought an Acer Aspire 722 laptop, but have had some issues with sound through the headphones. Although sound mainly works straight away, the headphone jack does not work by default, if headphones are plugged in sound continues to play through the speakers, and no sound plays through the headphones. However, it is possible to get sound to play though the headphones (and not through the speakers) by tweaking some settings using hda_analyzer. However, I have not found any tweaks that actually make the headphone sensing work - just that allow you to manually switch between speakers and headphones.
Firstly, some extracts from lspci -k in case they are helpful:
$ lspci -k
00:01.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc Device 1314
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 0598
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) (rev 40)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 0598
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel
The first device seems to be the audio output for an HDMI port, the second seems to be the main sound card. As mentioned, by performing some tweaks in hda analyzer I can switch sound to being just through headphones (temporarily). The diff of which is shown below:
Diff for codec 1/0 (0x14f1506c):
@@ -102,16 +102,17 @@
Power: setting=D0, actual=D0
Connection: 4
0x1a* 0x1b 0x1d 0x1e
Node 0x19 [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x400581: Stereo
Pincap 0x0000001c: OUT HP Detect
Pin Default 0x03211040: [Jack] HP Out at Ext Left
Conn = 1/8, Color = Black
DefAssociation = 0x4, Sequence = 0x0
+ Pin-ctls: 0xc0: OUT HP
Unsolicited: tag=0x00, enabled=0
Power: setting=D0, actual=D0
Connection: 2
0x10* 0x11
Node 0x1a [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x400481: Stereo
Pincap 0x00001324: IN Detect
Vref caps: HIZ 50 80
Pin Default 0x03a1103e: [Jack] Mic at Ext Left
@@ -164,17 +165,16 @@
Unsolicited: tag=0x00, enabled=0
Power: setting=D0, actual=D0
Node 0x1f [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x400501: Stereo
Pincap 0x00000010: OUT
Pin Default 0x92170110: [Fixed] Speaker at Int Front
Conn = Analog, Color = Unknown
DefAssociation = 0x1, Sequence = 0x0
Misc = NO_PRESENCE
- Pin-ctls: 0x40: OUT
Power: setting=D0, actual=D0
Connection: 2
0x10* 0x11
Node 0x20 [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x400781: Stereo Digital
Pincap 0x00000010: OUT
Pin Default 0x400001f0: [N/A] Line Out at Ext N/A
Conn = Unknown, Color = Unknown
DefAssociation = 0xf, Sequence = 0x
I would greatly appreciate any help on how to either get headphone jack sensing working, or to disable speakers and use headphones by default (to save me having to switch it after ever boot. If there is any other information needed (I am afraid I am not much of a linux expert and even less of a sound and/or ALSA expert) please let me know.
See http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1811178 and https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour … omments/91
You should Google for "ALSA" with the hardware model, to see how other people are doing with the same hardware.
Thank you very much for the help, I had already read the first thread, but the fix offered there was only in the form of a .deb package, and I am unaware how to install these on Arch Linux (or if it is even possible, sorry, Arch newbie). The thread linked to from there suggested tweaking an EAPD flag in hda-analyzer (which is why I had been messing around with it to start with), but the flag mentioned in the thread was actually already set on my machine when I looked.
I have also tried the same fix as mentioned in the second thread of compiling the latest alsa modules snapshot (with the enable dynamic minors option, whatever that means) and this did not work either (I don't know why), although I had found those instructions somewhere else originally (fedora forums iirc). The sound still works exactly as before, with no headphone sensing (but the ability to switch manually with hda-analyzer).
I shall try further googling concentrating on the hardware model, I had been mainly googling for sound problems specific to the aspire 722 before. So far my searches by hardware model have not turned up much apart from turning on model=laptop in the options for the snd-hda-intel module, which I had already tried (as well as the auto, acer, and acer-aspire models) and did not fix the problem.
Thanks for your reply, if you have any other hints of where to look or what might fix the problem they would be greatly appreciated.
I have a reasonable workaround for the time being using the hda-verb utility from ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/tiwai/misc/. I just wrote a small bash script to allow me to easily switch between headphones and speakers (shown below). I have found some mention of there being flags available through hda verb that may get the sensing working properly, I will experiment further with hda analyzer to see what I can find.
The script if anyone wants it, 0x19 is the node/pin/whatever ID of the headphone jack (found using hda analyzer) and 0x1f that of the speakers.
if [[ "${UID}" -ne "0" ]]; then
echo "!! Must be root"
exit 1
# Change hda_verb to the path of hda-verb on your system
# Change these to the pins of the headphones and speakers, can be found using hda analyzer
case "$1" in
${hda_verb} /dev/snd/hwC1D0 "${pin_headphones}" \
set_pin_wid 0xc0
${hda_verb} /dev/snd/hwC1D0 "${pin_speakers}" \
set_pin_wid 0x00
${hda_verb} /dev/snd/hwC1D0 "${pin_headphones}" \
set_pin_wid 0x00
${hda_verb} /dev/snd/hwC1D0 "${pin_speakers}" \
set_pin_wid 0x40
ALSA "verbs" aren't distro-specific. It would be better to put such stuff on ALSA's own bugzilla, so that support in ALSA can be added for your card eventually.
DarkOtter, can you explain how to use the bash script. I have the exact same laptop as you and using that script would make my life easier instead of manually checking/unchecking things in hda_analyzer. Thanks,.
Sure, I'm afraid I haven't had a chance to report the bug at ALSA yet (impending deadlines at Uni, urgh), so there won't be a proper solution for us yet I imagine, but here's as best I can explain how to use the work around.
The first thing you'll need to do is to get the 'hda-verb' utility program. Head on over to ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/tiwai/misc/ and download a tarball of it from there, I went for the 0.4 version because it was the newest (and still is as of this writing). Download it to somewhere (I made a directory ${HOME}/Tmp/alsa to put all this stuff in, but the choice is up to you).
Then you need to untar it and compile it, I don't know exactly which packages you will need for this (I am a total newbie at Arch still, I used to use Ubuntu), but I'm pretty sure you'll need at least base-devel. Having compiled it with make, you should get a little hda-verb binary somewhere, which is what you need to put in the path of hda-verb in the script.
Then you should be able to simply run the script as root (you can do this using sudo bash {script path} if you have sudo installed) and give it either h or s as an argument, to switch to headphones or speakers.
Assuming you have sudo installed, and you're happy to use the same as me, you should be able to do all of this in a terminal like so:
mkdir -p "${HOME}/Tmp/alsa" # Make a neat directory for all these things
cd "${HOME}/Tmp/alsa"
wget --trust-server-names 'ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/tiwai/misc/hda-verb-0.4.tar.gz' # This should download to 'hda-verb-0.4.tar.gz'
tar xf hda-verb-0.4.tar.gz
cd hda-verb-0.4/ # Change into the source directory
sudo pacman -S base-devel # This should install everything you need to build I hope, you may already have it (may prompt for password)
make # This should then do the compilation and create 'hda-verb'
cd .. # Change back up to the parent dir
ln -s "${HOME}/Tmp/alsa/hda-verb-0.4/hda-verb" hda-verb # I chose to make a symlink outside of the source dir
This should do most of the installation process. The next thing is to save the script in a text file (may I suggest "${HOME}/Tmp/alsa/change.sh" ?).
Then, to change to headphones:
sudo bash "${HOME}/Tmp/alsa/change.sh" h
Or to speakers:
sudo bash "${HOME}/Tmp/alsa/change.sh" s
I have noticed recently that occassionally I have to run the command again if I start a new audio program, otherwise sound starts on the speakers again. Further investigation is needed on my part. My apologies for any typos etc.
Thank you so much for the post and instructions. Everything worked perfectly. I really appreciate all your help and time.
No problem, I shall be posting here once I get a chance to familiarise myself with everything enough to get things rolling over at the ALSA bug tracker, so hopefully there will be a fix sooner or later. Glad the workaround is working for the time being
DarkOtter, thanks a lot for your article. With it managing headphones on this netbook was like a walk in a park. I'd like to suggest putting a script into /etc/rc.local which detects whether headphones are in. It automatically adjusts output pins.
Here is my script, but please correct the paths yourselves:
while [[ 1 ]]; do
v=`/d/instal/hda-verb-0.4/hda-verb /dev/snd/hwC1D0 0x19 get_pin_sen 0 2>&1|grep value`
if [[ X$v == X"value = 0xffffffff" ]]; then
echo headphones
/d/instal/hda-verb-0.4/hda-verb /dev/snd/hwC1D0 0x19 set_pin_wid 0xc0
/d/instal/hda-verb-0.4/hda-verb /dev/snd/hwC1D0 0x1f set_pin_wid 0x00
echo speaker
/d/instal/hda-verb-0.4/hda-verb /dev/snd/hwC1D0 0x19 set_pin_wid 0x00
/d/instal/hda-verb-0.4/hda-verb /dev/snd/hwC1D0 0x1f set_pin_wid 0xc0
sleep 1
And 1 line of my rc.local:
/d/jarek/sluchawki.sh &
I have the same laptop. I had the same problem with sound on the 3.0 kernel but the 3.1 kernel fixes the problem. So with that upgrade are you still having the issue?
Actually I'm not using Arch Linux at all. But since DarkOtters's solution worked on my Ubuntu 11.04 (N), I posted an enhancement to it. A week ago they released a new version (O), but I haven't upgraded yet.
If you upgrade you probably won't need the solution. I had issues with this laptop as soon as I got it with 3.0. I then compiled 3.1 rc myself using the linux-mainline package from the aur. But since 3.1 hit the repos that hasn't been necessary anymore. Good to know it's working though.


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CRESTVIEW � Crestview High School's boys basketball team jumped to a quick 13-0 lead over Milton on Friday and never looked back. When the final horn sounded, the Bulldogs walked off the court with a 67-52 win over the Panthers.
CRESTVIEW � Crestview High School's boys basketball team jumped to a quick 13-0 lead over Milton on Friday and never looked back.
When the final horn sounded, the Bulldogs walked off the court with a 67-52 win over the Panthers.
Crestview (12-2) could do nothing wrong in an impressive opening run.
Josh Hinton scored the game's first basket with just 10 seconds off the clock, giving the Bulldogs a lead they wouldn't relinquish the rest of the game.
A pair of Ronnie Baylark 3-point baskets pushed the lead to 8-0. Denzel Ware finished off the run, scoring five points on a basket and a 3-point play with 3:30 left in the quarter.
The game seemed to be out of reach when Andre Flakes scored the first Panther basket of the game with 2:59 left in the first quarter.
Crestview led 23-6 at the end of the first quarter as Baylark had 10 of his game-high 22 points and Ware had nine of his 15 points.
With the Bulldogs up by 17 points, it seemed as if it was just a matter of time before they pushed the lead to 35 points to force the running clock in the second half.
That wasn't to be the case, as the Panthers refused to go quietly into the early-January night.
Crestview Coach Greg Watson was pleased with the win, but disappointed that the Bulldogs didn't put the Panthers away quickly.
"We got complacent in the second quarter and ... in the fourth quarter," he said. "We play well in stretches, but we have to develop that killer instinct, and that's what I keep preaching to the guys. Until we do that, anything can happen.
"They cut it to (11) there at the end, when it should have been 15 or 16 points. That's three possessions from losing. It's just one of those things of learning how to close a game out."
Bobby Green caught fire for Milton in the second quarter, scoring eight of his team-leading 14 points. But even with Green leading the charge and Milton scoring 18 second-quarter points, the Panthers were only able to trim two points off the Bulldog lead.
The one glitch at the scoring table in the second quarter came when three points were taken from the Bulldogs. Officials and scorekeepers conferred at halftime and Crestview was awarded one more point.
The problem seemed to arise when the official scorer's view was blocked on a second quarter basket by Ware. The scoring error was corrected after the game.
Crestview led 39-24 at the half and maintained a double-digit lead throughout the final two quarters.
Milton did go on a 6-0 run with less than two minutes left in the game, cutting Crestview's lead to 11 points with 51 seconds left in the game.
Baylark closed out the Bulldog win with four free throws in the fourth quarter's final 33 seconds.
Part of the Bulldog letdown in the third quarter might have been related to Ware being in foul trouble, but Watson didn't see that as an excuse for Crestview's inability to put the game away.
Bulldog Coach Greg Watson agreed that his team showed signs of complacency when playing with a big lead.
"That (Ware's foul trouble) probably hurt us because he was playing well and getting a lot of rebounds," Watson said. "But our other guys have got to step up.
"That was a chance for some other guys to step up and, it's not that they did a poor job, but we lost a lot defensively late and that hurt us. We've got to do better than that."
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I've written before, about American Fast Food in Taiwan. But there's something else that I haven't written about and that's Taiwanese restaurants that serve American Style food. This is different than American food being served in an American restaurant in Taiwan.
In the US beef is by far the most popular meat that we eat. But in Taiwan, Pork seems to be the most popular. Why you may ask? Almost all the beef that's sold in stores here is imported from the US, New Zealand or Australia. There are some dairy farms here, and I would suppose that they have some beef steers, although, I have to admit that I've never seen one in Taiwan.
So the reason it is difficult to find an American style steak in Taiwan is that people just don't eat it all that much. You can find a steak in American restaurants like TGI Fridays or Outback but rarely will you find steak like that in a Taiwanese restaurant.
My wife grew up on a farm in Ohio and they raised their own steers for food. In fact, my wife would raise a steer for the county fair and she could be seen taking her steer for a walk through downtown Ridgeville Corners. I don't know how much weight they gained or if they won prizes at the fair, but they were happy steers, treated like the family pet. Well, except we don't usually eat the family pet. But that's another story.
There are a number of restaurants that serve steak in Taiwan. But it is prepared differently and isn't what we Americans are really referring to when we talk about steak. As an American the definition of steak is a flat cut of beef. New York, Sirloin, Tenderloin, Rib eye, Filet Mignon, you get the drift. If you're in the US you can ask your butcher, he knows all about steak and the different cuts. But if you go to the butcher here and ask for a Ribeye, with the exception of Costco, or Carrefour they will have no idea what you're talking about. Because in Taiwan they just don't cut meat like that.
One restaurant that is famous for serving steak is called Tasty. Tasty has a reputation for fantastic customer service, and the reputation is well deserved. The service is impeccable, polite, responsive, attentive (without being obnoxiously attentive), and the prices are reasonable. We had a 7 course set meal for $450.00 NTD (about $15.00 USD). Salad, appetizers, antipasto, dessert, it was wonderful but the Steak just didn't look or feel like a steak. It was cooked in what is called a speed cooker. A speed cooker is basically a steamer. So the steak was steamed. It was also a different cut than the steaks we are used to in the US. But it was delicious served with a nice pepper sauce. There is a Tasty restaurant in Taoyuan City near the corner of Junghua Rd and Nanhua St, on Nanhua. (No.66 Nanhua Street, Taoyuan City) It is well worth trying, but not if you're looking for a good ol' American Steak.
There is a Taiwanese restaurant called My Home Steak at Chunri Rd near Chengong Rd.that serves steaks in cuts that Americans are used to, sort of. The restaurant has an all you can eat Salad bar that comes with the meal. And the meat is served with pasta and two eggs Sunny Side Up. The salad bar serves a nice green salad, with Thousand Islands dressing or you can load up on Taiwanese foods like shrimp, fish balls, and other things like that. A Sirloin Steak at this restaurant sells for about $280.00 NTD ($10.00 USD) which isn't a bad price. After your meal you can get a dish of frozen yogurt or ice cream.
That same pepper sauce is available to put on your steak if you want. All in all it's a decent meal and it looks familiar. But if you're a real steak person, like you grew up on a farm and had a pet steer, that you eventually had to eat, you probably won't be entirely satisfied.
|Steak and other courses at Tasty
|Sirloin Steak at My Home Steak
|My Home Steak Chunri Road, Taoyuan City
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Photo credits: www.tasty.com.tw (For Tasty sign and Steak and other Courses)
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The Kennedy family's journey from penniless Irish emigrants in Boston to JFK becoming the leader of the Free World is the definitive story of the American Dream.
The Kennedy Tour of Boston is a historical journey of one of America's most intriguing families.
As with last week's Boston Irish Heritage Tour, the tour leaves from the Boston Common. The tour's first stop is a short walk to the Statehouse where the tour guide begins with a little history on John F. Kennedy. This history is designed to remind the audience of the political prowess eventually gained by the Kennedy's before getting deeper into the history of the Kennedy and on John's mother's side, the Fitzgerald families.
Throughout the tour, the group is able to really see the transformation of the Kennedy's from a second-class Irish-Catholic family to the family we know of today. Pat Kennedy, a first-generation Irish emigrant from Duganstown, Co Wexford, worked on the docks where the work was tough and diseases were prevalent.
Pat fathered five children with his wife Bridget Murphy, the last of which was born just months before he died. Pat Kennedy died of cholera on November 22, 1858, exactly 105 years to the day before his great-grandson, President John F. Kennedy, was assassinated. Pat's youngest son P.J. became the first Kennedy elected to public office.
The tour passes the Kennedy's residence at Bellevue Hotel and then the Old Statehouse, where participants learn about JFK's maternal grandfather, John "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald, a second generation Irish emigrant. Fitzgerald was a successful politician in Boston and Washington D.C. where he was the only Catholic member of Congress.
Fitzgerald was well known throughout the Irish community and even served as president of the Irish social club the Neptune Association. Although Fitzgerald was known for being corrupt, he was also known for getting things done. Honey Fitz is responsible for the Red Line to Harvard and the Franklin Park Zoo.
The tour group learns that although it only took one generation for both the Fitzgerald's and the Kennedy's to achieve nominal success in the public sector, JFK's father was not enamored with Irish's treatment in Boston.
Joe moved the Kennedy's to New York City for a time because he believed Boston limited what Irish-Catholics could achieve. The tour does an excellent job of illustrating the divide between the new generation of Irish emigrant families in Boston and the Boston Brahmins or Yankees who wanted to maintain the status quo. At the time, an Irish-Catholic could serve the Massachusetts senate or maybe even be mayor, but there was almost no chance one could win a state-wide election.
At Faneuil Hall, John F. Kennedy gave the last speech of his 1960 presidential campaign, where he eventually proved his father wrong by winning not only the state, but national election on his way to the presidency.
The tour also stops by the Omni Parker House Hotel, the oldest hotel in America, where JFK proposed to Jackie Bouvier and even had his bachelor party. For more fascinating anecdotes, you will have to take the tour yourself!
With nine stops in total, the Kennedy Tour of Boston gives great insight into the evolution of the most revered Irish-American family in Boston. This tour not only serves as a great history lesson on the Kennedy's, but expounds on much of the Irish-American history in Boston itself. Overall, this tour is extremely informative and entertaining; great for locals and tourists alike.
The Kennedy Tour of Boston costs $12 for adults, $10 for seniors/students, and $6 for military personnel (children 12 and under are free). The tour leaves from the Boston Common every Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 11:30 AM. Participants also get $2 off admission to the JFK library with a Kennedy Tour of Boston ticket stub. For more information please visit kennedytour.com or contact David at email@example.com.


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It is possible that the main title of the report Dermatomyositis is not the name you expected. Please check the synonyms listing to find the alternate name(s) and disorder subdivision(s) covered by this report.
Dermatomyositis is a progressive connective tissue disorder characterized by inflammatory and degenerative changes of the muscles and skin. Associated symptoms and physical findings may vary widely from case to case. Muscle abnormalities may begin with aches and weakness of the muscles of the trunk, upper arms, hips, and thighs (proximal muscles). Muscles may be stiff, sore, and tender and, eventually, show signs of degeneration (atrophy). Affected individuals may experience difficulty in performing certain functions, such as raising their arms and/or climbing stairs. In addition, affected individuals may experience speech and swallowing difficulties.
Skin abnormalities associated with dermatomyositis often include a distinctive reddish-purple rash (heliotrope rash) on the upper eyelids, across the cheeks and bridge of the nose in a "butterfly" distribution, the forehead, or additional skin regions; scaling and degenerative (atrophic) changes of affected skin on the extending surfaces of the knuckles, elbows, knees, and/or other regions (Gottron's sign); an abnormal accumulation of fluid (edema) in body tissues surrounding the eyes; and/or other features.
The symptoms of childhood dermatomyositis are similar to those associated with the adult form of the disorder. However, onset is usually more sudden. In addition, abnormal accumulations of calcium deposits (calcifications) in muscle and skin tissues as well as involvement of the digestive (gastrointestinal [GI]) tract are more common in the childhood form of dermatomyositis.
Although the exact cause of dermatomyositis is not known, it is thought to be an autoimmune disorder.
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Legends of the Star – Daryl Johnston
Daryl Johnston gained national attention while playing for Syracuse University. He rushed for 1,830 yards and caught 46 passes during his collegiate career and once gained 138 yards rushing, the most by a Syracuse running back since Larry Csonka rushed for 154 yards in 1967. He was an All-American and All-East pick in 1988.
Johnston was drafted by the Cowboys in the second round of the 1989 NFL Draft.
On the day he arrived for his first mini camp, he was nicknamed "Moose" by former teammate Babe Laufenberg. Babe remarked, who's that big ol' moose over there during his first team meeting and the name stuck.
Johnston started out as a reserve, but became a full-time starter in 1991 and was a key member of the Cowboys' three Super Bowl winning teams in 1993, 1994 and 1996. He played 12 seasons for the Cowboys before retiring in 2000. He was a fierce ball carrier but was best known for being the lead blocker for all-time leading rusher Emmitt Smith.
He was also a true iron man, having never missed a game in his NFL career, playing in 143 straight games. Every time Johnston touched the ball, "Moose" chants can be heard resonating at Texas Stadium.
He finished his career catching 294 passes for 2,227 yards and 14 touchdowns, as well as 232 rushes for 753 yards and eight touchdowns. He had a career-high, 50 receptions in 1993.


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CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — The MIT students were stumped, or as stumped as a group of young adults with SAT scores dwarfing the average mortgage payment could be when faced with the question: Is it ever acceptable to dunk?
Quiet settled over the roomful of round tables, where not a backward cap, gum-chomping jaw nor buzzing, bleeping or chirping cellphone was to be seen. A young woman's voice emerged from the back with the answer that etiquette expert Dawn Bryan was hoping to hear:
"Basically, you don't dunk unless it's biscotti."
If you read this while dunking a jelly doughnut into your coffee during breakfast with the boss, well, Charm School is for you, assuming you're enough of a brainiac to get into the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to take part in its annual paean to politesse.
Now in its 20th year, the event is voluntary, but to its students and instructors, Charm School may be as beneficial to their future as an A in astrodynamics.


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"Our nursing staff is outstanding!" said Dennis Koza, president and CEO of Cathedral Village, the retirement community in the Andorra section of Philadelphia.
He had just been notified that Bishop White Lodge, the Village's skilled nursing facility center, has achieved a Five-Star Overall Quality Rating from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
This is the highest overall rating awarded and is based on four major components: registered nursing staffing, quality measures, overall staffing and health inspections.
"Quality care is what our residents expect and deserve – we have always set our sights on excellence," said Koza. "As we enter 2013 that excellence will be extended to include substantial renovations to the Bishop White Lodge infrastructure as well."
Koza explained that spa rooms, nursing stations, hallways and elevators will undergo major enhancements, with the goal of making the environment even more homelike and comfortable for the residents.
Cathedral Village also plans to open a new 24-bed short-term rehabilitation unit that will be made available to patients from the greater Philadelphia area who are seeking such services. This wing is expected to be open for operation in a few months.
Koza added that "Cathedral Village is excited about its plans for 2013 and welcomes the opportunity to provide first quality health services not only to our residents, but also to the greater community."
Cathedral Village is a nonprofit, non-denominational continuing care retirement community committed to quality and excellence in care and services. Located in the Andorra section of Philadelphia, it has been home to senior citizens since 1979.


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This Fall, we're back in the Cross scene. We'll cover it more with racing and new gear. Also working on our Baryshnikov over the Barriers technique, knowing where the saddle is, and more style.
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Secrets of the New York Public Library
If you think of libraries as boring, dusty affairs, you're not thinking of New York's most famous library, a place with more than a few hidden treasures behind its doors
Strolling up the grand steps of the New York Public Library's Main Branch on bustling Fifth Avenue is a quintessential New York experience. The noble lion statues, Patience and Fortitude, and the massive Roman-style columns provide a dramatic entrance into the palatial lobby that millions of visitors have experienced since the doors opened in 1911. Most take a quick look around or poke their heads into the stunning Rose Main Reading Room before making their way back down the steps. But dig a little deeper, and you realize that there's a lot more to this magnificent public treasure — secrets that will amaze and surprise even the most well-read bibliophile. From a spectacular open-to-the-public map room to hidden stacks of books under Bryant Park, we've compiled a long list of little-known gems that will give visitors a whole new perspective on this must-see New York City attraction.
Before housing a library, the site was home a potter's field and a reservoir
From 1823 to 1840, before it became one of the most popular public buildings in the city, the land that the Main Branch sits on, as well as adjacent Bryant Park, served as a graveyard for the poor, known as a potter's field. In 1842 a working reservoir for the city's drinking water, part of the engineering feat the Croton Aqueduct, opened in the space along with a park, Reservoir Square, which held an exhibition space and a 315-foot-tall observatory (both burned down in fires in the late 1850s). Some of the stones from the reservoir were used for the building's cornerstone.
As this monument to knowledge was intended to be on par with the grand libraries of Europe, its site of was chosen for its central, prominent position in New York's geography. Before building could begin, more than 500 workers spent two years dismantling the reservoir and preparing the land for the new structure. Construction on Carrère and Hastings's Beaux-Arts, marble-clad beauty began in 1902 and was opened with much fanfare and a visit from President William Howard Taft on May 23, 1911. The architects behind the main branch of NYPL are also known for their work on other New York landmarks including the Frick mansion (now a museum) and Manhattan's Grand Army Plaza just up Fifth Avenue.
Some of its rich research holdings are thanks to Washington Irving
The story of how NYPL's main branch became the one of the most important research libraries in the world for literature, art and history is a long one that continues today. When the library opened in 1911, it didn't start with a brand new collection. The tomes of the Astor and Lenox libraries formed the base on which the library would build its famous holdings, which today span 15 million items from novels to ancient Japanese scrolls. Washington Irving, the author of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, was one of the original library advocates who played a big part in choosing books that formed the collection when he served as the first president of the Astor Library from 1849 to 1859. Years later on opening day, the initial book requested, Philosophy of the Plays of Shakespeare Unfolded, was not found in the catalog. Two days later a staff member donated a copy of the book. Too bad they didn't ask for The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
The library's underground storage snakes beneath Bryant Park
The next time you relax at Bryant Park, think about this: Directly beneath you, just six feet below, lies 40 miles of library stacks shelving 1.5 million books and 500,000 reels of microfilm. Opened in 1991 this massive storage project cost $24 million, including a 120-foot tunnel that connects it to the main library. But that's just part of the library's underground storage. Lying underneath the Main Branch is an original storage space comprising seven tiers of underground shelving made of Carnegie steel. If laid out end-to-end the space would stretch to more than 80 miles! With its collections continuing to grow, the library has recently outgrown its underground storage and has moved over three million items to an off-site storage facility in Princeton, N.J. A to-be-completed second level will bring the total number of books shelved to 3.2 million.
Despite Britain's annoyance, the library has the original Winnie-the-Pooh dolls
The stuffed animals that belonged to the son of the Winnie-the-Pooh author, A.A. Milne, and served as the inspiration for the beloved children's books were originally on view in an out-of-the-way floor in the now closed Donnell Branch of NYPL. Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, Tigger and Kanga now live at the Children's Center at 42nd Street for all to visit for free, where they've been since 2008. Pooh and friends travelled a lot before they settled into their Main Branch home. Between 1947 and 1998, they toured the United States, made multiple trips back to England, and were caught up in an international incident when a British parliamentarian fought to have them returned to England. Note that the stuffed animals are in the library's The ABC of It: Why Children's Books Matter exhibition until March 23, 2014.
The elegant, impressive Map Room is open to the public
Down the marbled hallways of the first floor's north end lies the impressive wood-paneled Map Room (Room 117), officially called the Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division. Here map lovers will find one of the most impressive collections in the world with more than 433,000 sheet maps and 20,000 books and atlases dating from the 15th century to today. Unlike the other rooms in the Main Branch that house the library's special collections, anyone can visit the Map Room and browse the open shelf reference collection. If you want to continue exploring the library's amazing map collection, there's an online digital map gallery as well as the NYPL Map Warper, a tool that allows you to digitally align historical maps from the collection to compare today's city cityscape to the streets of the past.
Exhibits are free and often just as impressive as that of the big museums
With such a diverse collection of treasures buried deep inside the building, the NYPL has the advantage of being able to dip into its resources when it wants to show them off. But unlike The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art or the Guggenheim, NYPL won't charge you $20 to see these gems. Exhibitions here are always free, and since they are a bit more under-the-radar, they can be less crowded some of the city's other big blockbuster museum events. Recent programs include "Lunch Hour NYC," which explored 150 years of the city's historic lunch spots, an exhibit that looked at memorable Charles Dickens characters and how they inspired other artists and a showing of rare Japanese manuscripts. You still might encounter some crowds for showstoppers like the three-day exhibition of the Declaration of Independence and an original Bill of Rights, which drew 20,000 visitors.
Things heat up after dark
The main branch has a long history of hosting free events and after-hours celebrations. In 2011, to celebrate the building's 100th anniversary, the Main Branch opened its doors to more than 500 contestants for an all-night scavenger hunt. That night, teams of eight wielded smart phones and laptops and searched the building for treasures of the library including Jack Kerouac's glasses, a copy of the Declaration of Independence handwritten by Thomas Jefferson, and Charles Dickens' letter opener made from his dead cat's amputated arm. For its 40th anniversary, librarians dressed up in period costumes from the early 1900s and performed theatrical revues depicting the history of the library. The night concluded with dancing in the grand main lobby. Keep on the lookout for other "after hours" events at NYPL, including private events such as the springtime Manhattan Cocktail Classic Gala party which costs a pretty penny, but allows you to drink in the hallowed halls of NYPL.
Lions of many names
New York's favorite lions, Patience and Fortitude, were originally named Leo Astor and Leo Lenox for NYPL's philanthropic founders, John Jacob Astor and James Lenox. Later the two male lions (as their manes make obvious) were called Lord Astor and Lady Lenox. Then along came New York's feistiest mayor, Fiorello La Guardia, who gave the two felines the nicknames of Patience and Fortitude, evoking traits he believed New Yorkers needed to forge through the Great Depression. The names stuck. As for their origin, the lounging lions were designed by American sculptor Edward Clark Potter, whose work can be found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in the Rotunda Reading Room of the Library of Congress, and on the streets and plazas in Paris, Chicago and Boston. The duo was carved by the famed Italian-born marble sculptors, the Piccirilli Brothers, who immigrated to the Bronx with their family in 1888. You may have seen at least one of their many works before — Abraham Lincoln seated at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Some of the rarest gems are hidden off the hallways
When you walk through the grand hallways of the library, it's hard not to peer into one of the small wood-paneled rooms. Many of these intimate spaces house the NYPL's special collections. The label on the window will give you an idea of what lies behind the door. You need an appointment to enter and peruse the collections, but if you keep a sharp eye out you might just see a Gutenberg Bible, the first printing of the Declaration of Independence, or Walt Whitman's personal copy of the first edition of his own book, Leaves of Grass, on your way by. These are just a few of the historic items held at the Main Branch.
Get a taste of what restaurant life was like in the 1850s
In recent years with the explosion of foodie culture across New York, a younger generation of researchers has newly discovered the impressive historical menu collection in the archives of NYPL. The library holds more 45,000 menus dating from the 1840s to the present where menus from hotels, restaurants and groups holding gourmet luncheons and dinners are preserved forever. You can help make these menus available online, or just peruse them, via the transcription project, by which menus are digitized and transcribed by staff and volunteers so that anyone can search the 1914 menu at the Hotel Astor or find out what dishes were served for lunch in the 1850s. Broiled mutton chops, fried goose livers, or calf's head with vinaigrette sauce anyone?
It's not just books, movies come alive here too
It's hard to forget Bill Murray's first encounter with a spook in the movie Ghostbusters when his wacky crew is called after a librarian stumbles across a ghost in the basement. But many other famous screen scenes have taken place here. There's the big wedding scene between Mr. Big & Carrie in the 2008 film Sex & the City, and in the 1978 classic The Wiz with Michael Jackson, one of the guarding lions springs to life to accompany the characters on their journey. As well, the apocalyptic cult flick Escape from New York includes a memorable scene when Snake is dropped off at the Main Branch by Ernest Borgnine.
Some truly great writers have written some truly great works in its reading room
The public Rose Main Reading Room is breathtaking. Almost two city blocks long with a brilliant mural of blue skies and puffy clouds framing the 50-foot high ceiling, the room could not be more dramatic. A 40,000-volume reference collection lines its walls, and light floods in from the large-paned UV-filtering windows above. This incredible space has been inspirational for many New Yorkers both famous and not, who have spent time reading, researching and reflecting at the room's 42 oak tables, which can hold 636 readers. It even inspired E.B. White to write a poem entitled, "The Great Reading Room." Other literary greats like Norman Mailer, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Elizabeth Bishop, E. L. Doctorow, Henry Miller and Alfred Kazin have cited the Rose Reading Room as a key resource for their work, and many remembrances are collected in the anthology Reading Rooms from 1991. If you want to snap a souvenir, the North Hall is the quiet room where photography is permitted.
Just what did Stephen A. Schwarzman do to get his name engraved in the Beaux-Arts landmark?
Look up when you enter the library and you'll see the name "Stephen A. Schwarzman" in towering letters engraved in stone. Is this some famous political figure from the annals of NYC history or devoted librarian who dedicated his life to the NYPL? Nope, it's Stephen A. Schwarzman, library trustee and multi-millionaire Wall Street tycoon. In 2008 he donated $100 million to kick off a $1 billion initiative to transform the library into a 21st-century book-borrowing branch. As a reward for getting the campaign off the ground, NYPL renamed the branch after him and carved his name on the entrances to the Beaux-Arts landmark.
The future is hazy but bright for the storied library
With great fanfare, NYPL recently released grandiose plans for a complete overhaul to the Main Branch building, and starchitect Norman Foster, chairman and founder of Foster + Partners, was hired to redesign the branch into the 21st century. Plans call for the system's circulating library to be brought into the building, which will include expanding the children's area and adding a teen center. Although some welcome the direction, not everyone is excited about the plans to remove some of the research stacks to make it happen, and some opponents have filed a lawsuit to stop the demolition of the stacks. It's still playing out, but the new space is currently scheduled to open in 2018 … of course, as we know in New York, sometimes things take a little longer than planned.
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Facebook is rumored to be releasing an app that will help you keep an eye on where your Facebook friends are at any given time. The app which is being compared to Apple's "Find My Friends" is said to be able to run in the background and can automatically update with a user's location so friends can easily find them. The news comes from Bloomberg who had been speaking with two anonymous people with knowledge of the matter.
The app, scheduled for release by mid-March, is designed to help users find nearby friends and would run even when the program isn't open on a handset, said one of the people, who asked not to be identified because the plans aren't public.
The team developing Facebook's location software is being led by Peter Deng, a product director who joined from Google in 2007, one person said. The group also includes engineers from Glancee, a location-tracking startup Facebook acquired in May, and Gowalla, a location-based social network whose assets were purchased in December 2011, the person said.
It is thought that the new app will help Facebook to sell more ads based on a user's location and daily routines. While it is not uncommon for current Facebook users to check in and tell the world where they are at any chosen time, the thought of the app automatically updating that information for you and reporting your whereabouts to your friends at all times is something quite different. Of course if true, this will be an optional service and will only be activated if you choose to do so.
Would you be happy to allow Facebook to know where you are at all times?
Source: Bloomberg