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Dale Earnhardt Jr. cleared for Martinsville race
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Dale Earnhardt Jr. has been cleared to race Sunday at Martinsville Speedway.
Earnhardt missed two races because of two concussions suffered in a six-week span. He was cleared Tuesday to resume racing by neurosurgeon Dr. Jerry Petty.
The visit to Petty came a day after Earnhardt tested a car at Gresham Speedway in Georgia to see how he felt behind the wheel.
Petty sidelined NASCAR's most popular driver when Earnhardt went to see the doctor complaining of a lingering headache following a 25-car accident on the last lap of the Oct. 7 race at Talladega.
Petty diagnosed Earnhardt with a concussion, and said Earnhardt also suffered one in an Aug. 29 crash during a tire test at Kansas that went untreated.
Credit: The Associated Press.

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|Chrysler Building through a tree with sparrow. 3:20 PM. Photo: JH.
|Wednesday, January 26, 2011. A no-snow day except for a rush of flurries in the morning that ended as quickly as it started.
I went down to the Plaza to lunch with Susan Magrino at the Palm Court. Susan is a highly successful public relations executive who is one of those people in the city who has her finger on the pulse. I don't doubt that she works very hard because the public relations business is always demanding and challenging. But Susan is one of those people with a cool but sunny disposish, as if there is time for everything and everybody.
|The Palm Court in the Plaza.
|I've known her and worked with her for years although only yesterday I learned that she started out professionally after college working in publishing for Crown. She had wanted to be an editor but somehow (how, I do not know) migrated into publicity and public relations where she has made a name for herself.
Somewhere along the line she worked closely with Martha Stewart as Martha was developing and growing her media empire. I don't know if Martha is still a client but I am certain that Susan remains a trusted and loyal colleague.
Much of the hotel's interior as well as exterior is landmarked and so, with refurbishment, restoration or no, much couldn't be changed. The Palm Court is one of those places and it's stately and elegant in its Edwardian atmosphere. In the latter years before the change, the area – which is just inside the entrance lobby – was practically abandoned. Not anymore.
Shane Krige, the hotel's General Manager, told me yesterday that during the holiday season, the Palm Court had a waiting list throughout the days. It's a perfect stopping off place not only for hotel visitors but for the shopping (Bergdorf's is right across the street, not to mention the boutiques in the hotel – including Douglas Hannant's and the very successful food hall which is modeled on the one in Harrods).
|DPC at the Palm Court.
|Recently, the King of Saudi Arabia, Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz moved in briefly with his entourage while recovering from surgery at New York Presbyterian Hospital. The king and his party occupied several dozen rooms and suites. The Saudis travel in large groups and besides King Abdullah's immediate entourage there were dozens of others occupying scores of suites and hotel rooms throughout the city. While the king was staying at the Plaza, many heads of state paid courtesy calls. President Obama, I was told, was expected but his visit was suddenly canceled because of the shootings in Tucson.
The Saudis are not the only VIPs who have taken up temporary residence at the Plaza. Movie stars such as John Travolta and rock stars, as well as many prominent national and international business people have once again taken to calling the Plaza their home away from home.
|Douglas Hannant and Fred Anderson's new fragrance.
|Among those lunching at the Palm Court yesterday were designer Douglas Hannant and his partner Fred Anderson who were hosting a lunch for several women including Pamela Gross, Muffie Potter Aston, Alexandra Lebenthal, Jill Fairchild and Valesca Guerrand-Hermes. The girls were invited for a "fragrance-testing" of Doug's new (and first) fragrance, developed in association with Robert Piguet (of Fracas fame). It's a gorgeous fragrance with the hint of the classic about it.
Doug and Fred are heading down to Palm Beach at the end of the week to launch the perfume at Neiman's. It will be sold throughout the Neiman's chain and here in New York at Saks.
After lunch, on my way over to Madison Avenue to catch a cab, I passed the General Sherman statue on 60th and Fifth where a small crowd was watching this ...
|The man was holding two long sticks which he would dip into a red pail and then, holding them apart and straight up, a large bubble would develop. Like the kind you blew through a ring when you were a kid. And, like when you were a kid, it was fascinating ... except ... as you can see, he produced VERY large bubbles. Usually it would be one giant egg-shaped bubble although at one point he created three in a row floating south towards 59th Street.
|Meanwhile, on the sidewalk right by the roadside, there was an incredibly talented percussionist creating rhythms with two sticks, some pails, and pans that was supplying the atmosphere with an excitement that had passers-by suddenly marching in step as they crossed the road.
It was a grey, damp and slushy day, as you can see but the square around the Sherman statue was rife with the curious, delighted and fascinated.
These two short blocks – the Sherman statue and the Pulitzer Fountain across the way from the Plaza are often venues for very talented dancers, musicians and artists who are literally working for pass-the-hat. It was a very cold afternoon and uncomfortable in that way, but these artists were lifting everyone's spirits and picking up a buck or a piece of change here and there, earning a little (too little) keep for their efforts.
|A street percussionist creating rhythms with two sticks, some pails, and pans.
|Then last night I went down to Kenny Lane's beautiful duplex apartment on Park Avenue South (see NYSD House) where he was hosting a small birthday dinner for Barbie Bancroft. Kenny, Barbie, Tommy Bancroft, Wendy Vanderbilt, Katherine Bryan and Carolina and Reinaldo Herrera.
Cozy and elegant, with an excellent menu served with wine and champagne and conversation, including talk about the very popular PBS series of Julian Fellowes's "Downton Abbey" which runs on Sunday nights at 9 pm on WNET here in New York. The last of the first series of four airs next Sunday.
|Kenny Lane and Barbara Bancroft with and without flash, but always flashy ...
|Although, as it was pointed out to me in an email yesterday from my friend Barry Parnell in Palm Springs, there was a scene in this past Sunday's about a flower show in which a prize is awarded for the best roses.
This particular scene was completely lifted by Fellowes from the 1942 William Wyler-directed MGM classic Mrs. Miniver starring Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon, moment-by-moment if not quite line-for-line with only the names of the characters (and the actors playing them) changed.


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Vestry minutes
The vestry is the room in a church where the vestments and parish records are kept. The word has been used for a gathering of parish representatives who met in the vestry to carry out parish business, consisting of two types: the Open Vestry – that which all ratepayers might attend – and Select Vestry – that which only the 'close' governing body may attend (i.e. those members with a property qualification, having been recruited by co-option).
Select vestries were also sometimes elected by an Open Vestry to carry out their responsibilities under the poor law. From 1894 the secular business was transferred to the newly-created Parish Councils, or Parish Meetings, and from 1920 most of their church responsibilities were transferred to the Parochial Church Councils.
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WASHINGTON, March 20--Detecting HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other deadly infectious diseases as early as possible helps to prevent their rapid spread and allows for more effective treatments. But current detection methods are cost-prohibitive in most areas of the world. Now a new nanotechnology method--employing common, everyday shrink wrap--may make highly sensitive, extremely low-cost diagnosis of infectious disease agents possible.
The new technique, described in a paper published today in The Optical Society's (OSA) journal Optical Materials Express, offers a way to significantly boost the signal of fluorescent markers used in biosensing, by depositing a combination of metals onto shrink wrap.
"Using commodity shrink wrap and bulk manufacturing processes, we can make low-cost nanostructures to enable fluorescence enhancements greater than a thousand-fold, allowing for significantly lower limits of detection," said co-author Michelle Khine, a biomedical engineering professor at the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine). "If you have a solution with very few molecules that you are trying to detect--as in the case of infectious diseases--this platform will help amplify the signal so that a single molecule can be detected."
In the new method -- developed by Khine and her graduate student Himanshu Sharma, along with their collaborators, Professors Enrico Gratton and Michelle Digman, also at UC Irvine -- thin layers of gold and nickel are first deposited onto a thermoplastic polymer(a shrink wrap film). When heated, the shrink wrap contracts, causing the stiffer metal layers to buckle and wrinkle into beautiful flower-like structures that are significantly smaller than previously demonstrated. To the top of the wrinkled metal layer, the researchers add samples of biomarkers, antibodies generated by the immune system in response to infection with a certain pathogen. These biomarkers are tagged with fluorescent probes to allow their detection under near-infrared light.
The team found that the shrink wrap's wrinkles significantly enhanced the intensity of the signals emitted by the biomarkers. The enhanced emission, Khine says, is due to the excitation of localized surface plasmons--coherent oscillations of the free electrons in the metal. When researchers shined a light on their wrinkled creation, the electromagnetic field was amplified within the nanoscale gaps between the shrink wrap's folds, Khine said. This produced "hotspots"--areas characterized by sudden bursts of intense fluorescence signals from the biomarkers.
In their study, the researchers used an immune system molecule known as immunoglobin G, or IgG, as the biomarker. "IgG is one of the most common circulating antibodies in the immune system, making up about 80 percent of the all antibodies in the body, and is found in most bodily fluids," Sharma said. In particular, IgG is a good biomarker for the detection of rotavirus, the virus that is the leading cause of severe diarrheal infection in infants and young children worldwide. IgG is also a biomarker for infection with the Epstein-Barr virus and Herpes simplex virus.
In the future, he says, additional antibodies, such as immunoglobulin A (IgA) and immunoglobulin M (IgM), might be used to detect other agents including cytomegalovirus and the pathogen that causes typhoid fever.
"The technique should work with measuring fluorescent markers in biological samples, but we have not yet tested bodily fluids," said Khine, who cautions that the technique is far from ready for clinical use. For example, she notes, "We are currently working on trying to detect rotavirus, but one of the main challenges is that our surface is hydrophobic"--that is, water-repelling--"so diffusion of the biomarker onto our composite structures is limited."
Though their current setup requires the use of expensive equipment, the researchers say, they believe their work will pave the way to creating an integrated, low-cost device to trap and identify biomarkers.
Paper: "Enhanced Emission of Fluorophores on Shrink-Induced Wrinkled Composite Structures," H. Sharma et al., Optical Materials Express, Vol. 4, Issue 4, pp. 753-763 (2014). http://www.
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About Optical Materials Express
Optical Materials Express is OSA's peer-reviewed, open-access journal focusing on the synthesis, processing and characterization of materials for applications in optics and photonics. Optical Materials Express primarily emphasizes advances in novel optical materials, their properties, modeling, synthesis and fabrication techniques; how such materials contribute to novel optical behavior; and how they enable new or improved optical devices. It is published by The Optical Society and edited by David J. Hagan of the University of Central Florida. For more information, visit http://www.
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Founded in 1916, The Optical Society (OSA) is the leading professional society for scientists, engineers, students and business leaders who fuel discoveries, shape real-world applications and accelerate achievements in the science of light. Through world-renowned publications, meetings and membership programs, OSA provides quality research, inspired interactions and dedicated resources for its extensive global network of professionals in optics and photonics. For more information, visit http://www.


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The Washington Post reports that Marco Rubio is "making a push this week to burnish his foreign policy credentials and establish gravitas on the world stage ahead of a possible 2016 presidential run." To this end, he traveled to London to deliver an address on foreign policy and meet British leaders.
In sophisticated circles, it is assumed that one can "establish gravitas" by going to a foreign capital and reading a sober speech about foreign policy. Those of us who are less sophisticated might wonder how a Senator who was so badly rolled by Chuck Schumer on immigration reform can be thought to possess gravitas.
As for the London speech itself, the Post reports that Rubio "articulat[ed] a worldview that places him neatly between the GOP's tea-party-led isolationist wing and its more established interventionist wing." The key word here is "neatly."
Asked where he falls between the isolationist views espoused by Rand Paul and the interventionist approach of John McCain, Rubio replied:
I actually reject those two spectrums. That talk of hawks and doves is 20th century Cold War language that no longer applies. I believe in a strategic foreign policy. A strategic foreign policy has a toolbox that has at your disposal diplomacy, foreign aid, soft power, military power, all sorts of things.
Rubio thus rejects, Obama-style, a false choice and comes out squarely in favor of "all sorts of things."
Most of us fall somewhere between Rand Paul and John McCain when it comes to foreign policy. Doing so does not demonstrate gravitas.
But the problem with Rubio is always whether he believes what he is saying. Given his flip-flop-flip on immigration, it seems impossible to know.


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Paris must be the city du jour for musicals. Earlier this year on Broadway there was "An American in Paris" (a hit) and "Gigi" (a flop).
Now there's "My Paris," a workshop production at Goodspeed Musicals' Norma Terris Theatre in Chester that boasts some major Broadway and international names.
Tony Award-nominated Bobby Steggart (Broadway's "Ragtime," "Big Fish," "Mothers and Sons") will star as Toulouse-Lautrec in the Paris-set show July 23 through Aug. 16.
But there's more: music and lyrics by French singer-composer Charles Aznavour; book by Oscar, Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winner Alfred Uhry...


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The Artist Toolbox "David Garrett" "One, two, three, four." In this premiere episode of The Artist Toolbox, come and listen to the gypsy strings of the dazzling David Garrett, whose violin can conquer the classical work of composers such as Bach and Chopin as effortlessly, as gracefully, as old-world Russian folk music, as well as the more contemporary sounds of Metallica and Led Zeppelin. Sit in on a private rehearsal with the virtuoso violinist, known in Britain as "the David Beckham of classical music. D
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With a new of series of Heroes about to begin, the unfortunate death of Yves Saint Laurent and the number of Clark Kent-y characters about in the most recent blockbusters, my style radar is tuned to the male who's more gauche, awkward and geeky in the best way possible. Think of 1970s art students carrying open sketchbooks around Paris, Isaac Mendez of Heroes lounging around his studio in over-sized chinos and Marc Jacobs around his grunge era (which means big glasses, baggy jumpers and lots of corduroy.) I took a risk with mixing the denim shirt with dark jeans but the two items together are a wearable look that anyone can pull off.
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I read quite a bit of news and came across the recent controversy involving Michael Phelps. I'm not in much of a position to judge him (or really anyone for that matter), but as he struggles through this situation that may lead to sponsors dropping him, problems with competing in the 2012 London Games and more, I think about how someone who was once a saint but a few months ago can easily become a sinner in a matter of hours.
Americans too often want their celebrities and their politicians to be saints and not what I call "real people." We expect them to be perfect at all times with no lapses of judgment, no blemishes. Perhaps this stems from our Puritan ancestors and their ability to cast people out based on their behavior. Perhaps it is just people who have nothing better to do than think they can point the finger of judgment. Either way I think Phelps still has a right to privacy and the right to be judged on his accomplishments and not only on his mishaps.
As I work through my genealogy research, I've come across the same situation: people who I thought were absolute saints suddenly become sinners due to the discovery of a family secret or a mishap or lapse of judgment. But should they? Perhaps it is only my judgment of them and their actions that makes this so. As a researcher do I have the right to do this?
Last week during Scanfest we discussed via instant messenger what to do when you stumble upon some family secret when transcribing letters. Many of us perhaps have had this situation with letters that are 50, 75 or even 100 years old. After weeks or months of finding out information about a person did you ever suddently get that "Oh my" or "Oh no" moment? Have you built that ancestor a very high pedestal, so much so that after discovering something such as an arrest, a case of abandonment, or even instances of theft or rape, that you immediately discount that ancestor's entire life based on one action?
I'm not advocating leniency for what are certainly heinous crimes such as rape or incest, but when it comes to crimes or unseemly behavior, do I have all the facts to be able to pass judgment? Do I necessarily have to agree with the newspaper accounts of what took place, or even the account found in an ancestor's letter? Did they in fact know everything about the issues involved or were they merely passing along gossip?
As a researcher and historian I realize I must rely upon the accounts of that time period as to what happened. And I may not be lucky enough to discover evidence to counter what was at that time the prevailing opinion of the occurrence. My role should be to present the evidence without expunging or purging any of the sordid details, and without adding my perspective or opinion. Let others form their own opinions based on the facts as I have gathered and presented them.
But being human, I often take these facts and form an opinion of that person despite my best attempts not to. It is only natural to try and put the information about an incident in historical perspective. What may have been shocking behavior 100 years ago might barely raise an eyebrow today. And vice versa. Newspaper accounts are often in a writing style markedly more judgmental than what might be seen in the media today. For my ancestors, life in a small town must not have been easy with everyone knowing your comings and goings. As well, the weekly newspapers often had a column for each town where some reporter (others would call him or her a "busybody") would write who had visited who, who was sick, who was unemployed etc.
I imagine that being larger than life, like Michael Phelps, must feel be like living in a fish bowl and not unlike living in those small towns of my ancestors. Have we as a society really progressed that far in terms of "getting up in someone's business" since then? It is one thing to have all the facts (if you truly can ever convince yourself that you have all of them) and then form an opinion. It is another thing to not weigh one incident against a person's entire life experience.


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Kernel support for the 3c509 family is 21provided by the module 3c509.c, which has code to support all of the following 22models: 23 24 3c509 (original ISA card) 25 3c509B (later revision of the ISA card; supports full-duplex) 26 3c589 (PCMCIA) 27 3c589B (later revision of the 3c589; supports full-duplex) 28 3c579 (EISA) 29 30Large portions of this documentation were heavily borrowed from the guide 31written the original author of the 3c509 driver, Donald Becker. The master 32copy of that document, which contains notes on older versions of the driver, 33currently resides on Scyld web server: http://www.scyld.com/. 34 35 36(1) Special Driver Features 37 38Overriding card settings 39 40The driver allows boot- or load-time overriding of the card's detected IOADDR, 41IRQ, and transceiver settings, although this capability shouldn't generally be 42needed except to enable full-duplex mode (see below). An example of the syntax 43for LILO parameters for doing this: 44 45 ether=10,0x310,3,0x3c509,eth0 46 47This configures the first found 3c509 card for IRQ 10, base I/O 0x310, and 48transceiver type 3 (10base2). The flag "0x3c509" must be set to avoid conflicts 49with other card types when overriding the I/O address. When the driver is 50loaded as a module, only the IRQ may be overridden. For example, 51setting two cards to IRQ10 and IRQ11 is done by using the irq module 52option: 53 54 options 3c509 irq=10,11 55 56 57(2) Full-duplex mode 58 59The v1.18c driver added support for the 3c509B's full-duplex capabilities. 60In order to enable and successfully use full-duplex mode, three conditions 61must be met: 62 63(a) You must have a Etherlink III card model whose hardware supports full- 64duplex operations. Currently, the only members of the 3c509 family that are 65positively known to support full-duplex are the 3c509B (ISA bus) and 3c589B 66(PCMCIA) cards. Cards without the "B" model designation do *not* support 67full-duplex mode; these include the original 3c509 (no "B"), the original 683c589, the 3c529 (MCA bus), and the 3c579 (EISA bus). 69 70(b) You must be using your card's 10baseT transceiver (i.e., the RJ-45 71connector), not its AUI (thick-net) or 10base2 (thin-net/coax) interfaces. 72AUI and 10base2 network cabling is physically incapable of full-duplex 73operation. 74 75(c) Most importantly, your 3c509B must be connected to a link partner that is 76itself full-duplex capable. This is almost certainly one of two things: a full- 77duplex-capable Ethernet switch (*not* a hub), or a full-duplex-capable NIC on 78another system that's connected directly to the 3c509B via a crossover cable. 79 80Full-duplex mode can be enabled using 'ethtool'. 81 82/////Extremely important caution concerning full-duplex mode///// 83Understand that the 3c509B's hardware's full-duplex support is much more 84limited than that provide by more modern network interface cards. Although 85at the physical layer of the network it fully supports full-duplex operation, 86the card was designed before the current Ethernet auto-negotiation (N-way) 87spec was written. This means that the 3c509B family ***cannot and will not 88auto-negotiate a full-duplex connection with its link partner under any 89circumstances, no matter how it is initialized***. If the full-duplex mode 90of the 3c509B is enabled, its link partner will very likely need to be 91independently _forced_ into full-duplex mode as well; otherwise various nasty 92failures will occur - at the very least, you'll see massive numbers of packet 93collisions. This is one of very rare circumstances where disabling auto- 94negotiation and forcing the duplex mode of a network interface card or switch 95would ever be necessary or desirable. 96 97 98(3) Available Transceiver Types 99 100For versions of the driver v1.18c and above, the available transceiver types are: 101 1020 transceiver type from EEPROM config (normally 10baseT); force half-duplex 1031 AUI (thick-net / DB15 connector) 1042 (undefined) 1053 10base2 (thin-net == coax / BNC connector) 1064 10baseT (RJ-45 connector); force half-duplex mode 1078 transceiver type and duplex mode taken from card's EEPROM config settings 10812 10baseT (RJ-45 connector); force full-duplex mode 109 110Prior to driver version 1.18c, only transceiver codes 0-4 were supported. Note 111that the new transceiver codes 8 and 12 are the *only* ones that will enable 112full-duplex mode, no matter what the card's detected EEPROM settings might be. 113This insured that merely upgrading the driver from an earlier version would 114never automatically enable full-duplex mode in an existing installation; 115it must always be explicitly enabled via one of these code in order to be 116activated. 117 118The transceiver type can be changed using 'ethtool'. 119 120 121(4a) Interpretation of error messages and common problems 122 123Error Messages 124 125eth0: Infinite loop in interrupt, status 2011. 126These are "mostly harmless" message indicating that the driver had too much 127work during that interrupt cycle. With a status of 0x2011 you are receiving 128packets faster than they can be removed from the card. This should be rare 129or impossible in normal operation. Possible causes of this error report are: 130 131 - a "green" mode enabled that slows the processor down when there is no 132 keyboard activity. 133 134 - some other device or device driver hogging the bus or disabling interrupts. 135 Check /proc/interrupts for excessive interrupt counts. The timer tick 136 interrupt should always be incrementing faster than the others. 137 138No received packets 139If a 3c509, 3c562 or 3c589 can successfully transmit packets, but never 140receives packets (as reported by /proc/net/dev or 'ifconfig') you likely 141have an interrupt line problem. Check /proc/interrupts to verify that the 142card is actually generating interrupts. If the interrupt count is not 143increasing you likely have a physical conflict with two devices trying to 144use the same ISA IRQ line. The common conflict is with a sound card on IRQ10 145or IRQ5, and the easiest solution is to move the 3c509 to a different 146interrupt line. If the device is receiving packets but 'ping' doesn't work, 147you have a routing problem. 148 149Tx Carrier Errors Reported in /proc/net/dev 150If an EtherLink III appears to transmit packets, but the "Tx carrier errors" 151field in /proc/net/dev increments as quickly as the Tx packet count, you 152likely have an unterminated network or the incorrect media transceiver selected. 153 1543c509B card is not detected on machines with an ISA PnP BIOS. 155While the updated driver works with most PnP BIOS programs, it does not work 156with all. This can be fixed by disabling PnP support using the 3Com-supplied 157setup program. 158 1593c509 card is not detected on overclocked machines 160Increase the delay time in id_read_eeprom() from the current value, 500, 161to an absurdly high value, such as 5000. 162 163 164(4b) Decoding Status and Error Messages 165 166The bits in the main status register are: 167 168value description 1690x01 Interrupt latch 1700x02 Tx overrun, or Rx underrun 1710x04 Tx complete 1720x08 Tx FIFO room available 1730x10 A complete Rx packet has arrived 1740x20 A Rx packet has started to arrive 1750x40 The driver has requested an interrupt 1760x80 Statistics counter nearly full 177 178The bits in the transmit (Tx) status word are: 179 180value description 1810x02 Out-of-window collision. 1820x04 Status stack overflow (normally impossible). 1830x08 16 collisions. 1840x10 Tx underrun (not enough PCI bus bandwidth). 1850x20 Tx jabber. 1860x40 Tx interrupt requested. 1870x80 Status is valid (this should always be set). 188 189 190When a transmit error occurs the driver produces a status message such as 191 192 eth0: Transmit error, Tx status register 82 193 194The two values typically seen here are: 195 1960x82 197Out of window collision. This typically occurs when some other Ethernet 198host is incorrectly set to full duplex on a half duplex network. 199 2000x88 20116 collisions. This typically occurs when the network is exceptionally busy 202or when another host doesn't correctly back off after a collision. If this 203error is mixed with 0x82 errors it is the result of a host incorrectly set 204to full duplex (see above). 205 206Both of these errors are the result of network problems that should be 207corrected. They do not represent driver malfunction. 208 209 210(5) Revision history (this file) 211 21228Feb02 v1.0 DR New; major portions based on Becker original 3c509 docs 213 214


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Simply change the index type state of an IBO right inbetween the calls of glDrawIndices. I am sure all of the model primitives will share the same type of indices, and even different models will have the same index type in most cases, so the reconfiguration of IBO' index type state will not be frequent. Besides, the same mess was happening with the primitive restart index until the fixed restart index value feature was introduced recently - the PRI had to be respecified according to the index type as it was always intentional to use the maximum possible value, but it required a function call separate from drawing call.
But yeah, the "GLint indexFirst" argument is better to be changed to something able to specify an offset which may not be aligned to the index type:
The respecification of the IBO states (index type, PRI, PSIes) inbetween model drawing calls is kind of senseful: different models may have a different set of primitive type used for their construction; they may come from different vendors which use different PSI-bindings conventions; as with the PSI help the whole model is drawn using the single draw call, the setup of an IBO states according to specifications of the model's data conventions seem to be logical way of drawing.Code :glDrawIndices(GLsizei indexCount, const GLvoid* indices) glDrawIndicesInstanced(GLsizei indexCount, const GLvoid* indices, GLsizei instanceCount) ...
Howether, the lack of "mode" argument assumes that the primitive type becomes somewhat like an internal state and it is undefined until the first PSI encountered. Probably, it preserves the status since the last PSI encountering, so either the IBO shall start from one of the PSI or the default primitive type state must be set using some function just before calling the glDrawIndices (f.e. model's convention is to use GL_TRIANGLES by default unless the IBO starts from the explicit PSI). The normal drawing functions set the mode explicitly, but a proposed set of glDrawIndices functions avoid the disturbance of a primitive rasterization mode state as well as index type respecification (as I am just an OpenGL user I may predict any advantage here only intuitively).
The way I see the implementation of PSI is more like an exception handling, so respecifying it for every new primitive is not a desired way of using this feature - if two consecutive primitives have the same type, usage of the restart index between them should be preferred over the switching index. But the PSI usage, even if implemented as exception for every switching index encountered, should obviously work faster then calling a glDrawElements* function, right?


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Why you're probably dating your lookalike
A few years ago, one of my best friends and I were discussing the topic of relationships over a bottle of wine. I've never really thought I had a set "type." I've dated men from a variety of different ethnicities and professions, however, when I dug out an old album to show my friend photos of some of my long-ago exes, her reaction was immediate.
"These guys all look the same," she told me. "They all have similar shaped heads and large eyes – not unlike yourself." Upon careful examination, I couldn't help but agree with her.
Recent research has revealed that most of us do have "a type" and more often than not, we're attracted to people with a similar face shape, and in some instances partners with similar DNA.
When it comes to love, we've all heard the idea that "like attracts like." It's also recently garnered attention on the Internet thanks to a super-surreal and vaguely unsettling trend called "boyfriend twins" that has made the rounds on the blogosphere. The term refers to some gay men who tend to date their lookalikes. There's now a Tumblr devoted to photos of these uncannily doppelganger couples with the tagline, "Because what's sexier than dating yourself?"
Although it's easy to write off the "boyfriend twin" phenomena as yet another symptom of our narcissistic-driven culture, a new study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences revealed that it's not only a select group of gay men who date their "twin."
Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder looked at DNA data for 825 white, heterosexual couples, and found that many of us might subconsciously choose mates with DNA profiles similar to our own. This could explain the "boyfriend twins" and why people often joke that the longer a couple is together, the more they look alike.
Popular dating site Match.com has built upon the concept that we all have a "type" and partnered with Los Angeles-based matchmaking service Three Day Rule that uses facial-recognition technology to find dates for users. With Three Day Rule's premium service, a user can upload photos of their exes, which will then be analyzed to determine the type of face they're attracted to.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Attorneys for the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis were seeking to put out a fire, not start a new one, when they asked a judge this month to keep private a list of Roman Catholic clergy believed to have molested children.
The court proceeding produced no definitive ruling on whether that document would be released, as victims are seeking, but it did reveal new details that intensified the crisis.
A judge entered into the public record a police report church attorneys had cited about a priest's cache of porn kept in church archives for eight years, unleashing a cascade of new revelations about how the archdiocese responded when confronted with allegations of sexual misconduct.
In the days leading up to the Oct. 3 hearing, church officials already were fending off a canon lawyer who quit the archdiocese and was now accusing administrators of ignoring warnings in the last several years about at least two priests.
But with the latest disclosure, local police are investigating, prosecutors are getting involved, the top aide to Archbishop John Nienstedt has resigned from his leadership post, and the actions of a longtime high-ranking church administrator and a former archbishop are being called into question. Nienstedt set up a committee to conduct a review he hopes will restore trust that the archdiocese is following the U.S. bishops' 2002 toughened policy on abuse.
"I think what it shows is how structural the problem is — that the problem does really go beyond something that is easily fixed simply by resolutions and handling things in a different way," said David Finkelhor, director of the Crimes Against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire, who has advised church officials in Boston and elsewhere on stopping clergy abuse.
The Minneapolis archdiocese insists it has a strong record of preventing sexual misconduct.
"The information in the media is incomplete because it has been presented without context," Jim Accurso, the archbishop's spokesman, wrote in an email, declining to comment on specifics amid the committee's review.
The police report made public in the court hearing detailed investigators' attempts, starting last March, to obtain computer discs of porn held in the archdiocese's records. The investigators' report, combined with information in internal church memos obtained by Minnesota Public Radio News, draw a picture of administrators debating the technicalities about whether any of the hundreds of lewd images belonging to the priest, the Rev. Jonathan Shelley, meet the legal definition for child porn.
The photos were discovered in 2004 on Shelley's laptop by a man who bought the computer at a rummage sale. An investigator hired by the archdiocese at the time had said some of the images were "borderline" illegal, according to church memos. But the archdiocese, led then by Archbishop Harry Flynn, didn't bring the images to police.
Shelley remained in ministry until he was put on leave last year. Images from his computer had been stored on discs in the archive where the archdiocese kept its records. The canon lawyer who quit in protest, Jennifer Haselberger, found the discs last year and eventually alerted authorities.
In the documents obtained by MPR, the Rev. Kevin McDonough, who had spent 17 years as the vicar general, or top aide, in the archdiocese, wrote that he had reviewed many of the images and found most were of adults. He concluded four likely were of minors and not pornographic but pop-up ads to view child pornography.
McDonough said he assumed Shelley hadn't clicked on the ads, because doing so would have surely drawn the attention of police, who scoured the Web for offenders. McDonough served as the archdiocese child safety officer until he left the post this summer. Accurso says McDonough's departure had long been planned and was not related to the Shelley case.
Nienstedt drafted a letter to the Vatican in May saying: "My staff has expressed concern that the fact that CD-ROMs containing the images remain in the cleric's personnel file could expose the archdiocese, as well as myself, to criminal prosecution." Haselberger said church officials told her the letter, obtained by MPR, was never sent.
Police wrote in their report that they eventually obtained discs of Shelley's porn from lawyers for the archdiocese and found no child pornography. But police reopened the investigation this week, after receiving new information.
Attorney Thomas Wieser, who represented the archdiocese in the Oct. 3 court hearing, did not respond to a request for comment about why he cited the police report. Paul Engh, a lawyer for Shelley, said the archdiocese hadn't intended the document to become part of the record. Engh, who participated in the hearing, said the aim was to show the judge that the list of accused clergy could include priests who are innocent.
Thomas Plante, a psychologist who counsels sex offender priests and has served on the bishops' National Review Board, an advisory panel on child safety, said discipline is clearly required for priests who view lewd images of children. Many clergy administrators are "naive" about how easily porn can be accessed online and he has urged them, when in doubt, to go to law enforcement.
The Shelley case has resonated beyond Minneapolis in part because of the similarities with recent problems in other dioceses.
In the Missouri Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph, Bishop Robert Finn was convicted of misdemeanor failure to report because he waited several months before notifying police about hundreds of images of small children, some pornographic, found on a priest's laptop.
The bishop also acknowledged that a parish principal raised concerns about the Rev. Shawn Ratigan's behavior around children in May 2010, half a year before the photos were found. Ratigan was convicted and is in federal prison. Finn remains head of the diocese.
"There are very strong structural forces to protect the reputation of the church, to protect priests from exposure to civil and criminal authorities because of the kind of identification one feels with them, and to handle things in a kind of legalistic way. Those are problems that have cropped up again and again in different places," Finkelhor said.
Zoll reported from New York.
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On the motion of Anderson Linkous, Overseer of the Poor for High Wassie Township for an order to bind James Ross aged 3 years son of Nancy Ross who has become a county charge and it appearing to the Court that said James Ross is now a county charge. It is ordered that said Overseer of the Poor bind out according to Law to James Meredith the said James Ross son of Nancy Ross aged 3 years until he attains the age of 21 years and besides teaching him reading, writing and arithmetic said Meredith shall be required to pay the said James Ross upon his attaining the age of 21 years the sum of 100 dollars.
The little boy is my great great grandfather. My great great great grandmother was literally in the poorhouse.


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"Completely agree with you here. Win7 is a golden opportunity to see that Windows isn't impressive when placed against a mature distro like Mint or openSUSE. I went to a Win7 party, but the host agreed to install copies of Win7, Fedora, openSUSE, and OSX, and then compare them.
"And yes, they were more impressed by how fast and how many programs that were ready to run after spending 15-22 minutes installing Mint and openSUSE. They even liked KDE better than Win7's UI. However, because it didn't run Photoshop -- which only one person used -- they were willing to pay the $320 to stick with Windows.
"Quite telling."
Thanks for the comment, Zaine.
I want to address the one person you mentioned who required Photoshop. Photoshop is certainly an amazing program. One reason (but not the only one) why some folks need PhotoShop is due to CMYK color separation when creating images for print (magazines, newspapers, etc.). Well, the majority of us don't need to use CMYK at the commercial level. Which is why most of us don't plop down $600.00 plus for the commercial version of Photoshop. Most Windows users will purchase Photoshop Elements (or similar) for about $100.00.
Now, I just wanted to make two points to first time readers of this blog and others exploring Linux.
1.) If you really want to run Photoshop, all you need do is purchase and install Crossover or install Wine for free. I've blogged about running Photoshop on Linux before. It works seamlessly and runs quite well.
2.) If you don't need CMYK, The Gimp does everything Photoshop Elements and other non-commercial graphics apps do. And Gimp is FREE! I use The Gimp when creating all my cartoon features with no problems whatsoever. Like the above drawing (taken with a digital camera), I draw my stuff with good old fashioned pen to paper, scan, and then do all my digital editing in Gimp. I don't need CMYK at the moment. If/when I do, I'll use the option as described above.
So, if you really need PhotoShop, you can use it in Linux. I you don't need Photoshop, you can run Gimp for free! It works just like Photoshop and is every bit as powerful.
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RICHMOND, Ky. (Jan. 14, 2010) - After multiple weeks of grueling practice the ETSU women's tennis team's 2010 season finally gets underway this weekend as head coach Steve Brooks' Lady Bucs swing into action with an 11:00 a.m., contest Saturday inside the Greg Adams Indoor Tennis Center in Richmond, Ky.
The Lady Bucs (0-0) open play after being picked second in the Atlantic Sun Conference Coaches Preseason Poll two weeks ago. Individually, senior Yevgenyia Stupak (Kyiv, Ukraine), enters the match after the league honored her as the Preseason Player of the Year. Stupak - who is currently ranked 10th regionally by the ITA - had a strong fall after posting a 13-4 record with wins over players from six nationally ranked teams.
In addition to the singles ranking, the reigning A-Sun Player of the Year was also tabbed in doubles with junior teammate Kelly Holtzhausen (Johannesburg, South Africa). The ETSU duo is currently ranked ninth in the Ohio Valley Region, after posting an 8-5 record back in the fall.
EKU (0-0) begins the season on Friday with their first dual match against in-state rival Louisville. After their quick one-match road swing the Colonels - who are the defending Ohio Valley Conference Champions - welcome the Lady Bucs.
Saturday's contest should be a familiar one for ETSU after both the Lady Bucs and EKU competed at the ITA Regional and Kentucky Invitational together last fall. Last season ETSU dropped its only contest to the Colonels 5-2.
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Would-Be Buyers of Organix Naturally Hesitant on Name
Organix has a problem. It's not organic.
That status has put a snag in the hair-care company's efforts to sell itself.
Organix's owner, Vogue International of Oldsmar, Fla., put itself on the block last year, hiring Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to seek buyers, with a price tag of as much as $1 billion. Private-equity firms have been interested....


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Congressman Brian Higgins released the following statement Friday:
"Today the Federal Aviation Administration announced tower closings at 149 airports across the United States. Thankfully the Niagara Falls International Airport, which was previously on the list, is not among them. While the tower has been spared from closure, our community is still suffering the impacts of sequestration, and threats to flight safety still exist. Earlier this week Ispoke on the Floor of the House of Representatives concerned that the sequester could further delay long overdue pilot training and aviation safety rules we've been working to put in place since the crash of Flight 3407.
"These drastic, automatic and untargeted cuts reach into critical areas including but not limited to our borders - the people who defend them and commerce and tourists that rely on border efficiency - as well as medical research, including the scientist and doctors working along the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus and beyond as well as the patients who don't have the luxury of time when it comes to finding better treatments and cures.
"While I am thankful that towers in Western New York won't close, I am concerned of the impact this large number of closings may have on the general flying public. The National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA) has previously raised thered flag on what they are calling "a nation-wide staffing crisis. According to the NATCA, "As of 2009, there were 11,219 controllers, 27 percent below staffing standards jointly authorized by the FAA and NATCA, and a 16-year low."
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•Higgins previously urged sufficient air traffic control tower staffing after an incident at the Washington National Airport, in which the only air traffic controller on duty fell asleep:
•FAA news release announcing tower closings:http://www.faa.gov/news/press_releases/news_story.cfm?newsId=14414
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Portland pitcher Brian Johnson overcoming adversity
July 20. 2014 12:43AM
BRIAN JOHNSON's first trip to Fenway Park was not an enjoyable experience.
Johnson was pitching for the New York-Penn League's Lowell Spinners in 2012 when they took part in the Futures at Fenway Showcase, an annual event where two of Boston's minor league affiliates play at Fenway.Joey Rickard, the Hudson Valley Renegades' leadoff hitter, lined Johnson's second pitch up the middle and the ball struck the left side of Johnson's face. He suffered 16 orbital bone fractures, a ruptured retina, a broken nose and nerve damage.
"I didn't get knocked out," Johnson recalled. "I remember everything. I even remember getting up and trying to walk off. I think it was just adrenaline."
Johnson, who is scheduled to start for the Portland Sea Dogs when they face the New Hampshire Fisher Cats in Manchester today, was done for the rest of the 2012 season. The injuries had a lingering effect as well.
He went 2-6 with 35 walks in 85 innings during the 2013 season, when he pitched for three teams: Boston's Rookie League team in the Gulf Coast League; Class A Greenville and High-A Salem. He also missed five weeks during the 2013 season because of shoulder tendinitis.
"The biggest thing was not working out," he said. "I didn't get to work out basically the whole offseason because they didn't want my heart rate to get too high. It was more mental after that.
"The injuries still played a factor (in 2013). Maybe not my face, but mentally. My first couple games it was go out there and don't get hit again - that was my mindset. It wasn't go out there and try to get a 'W' for my team. It was go out there and just don't get hit by a ball."
"That experience was humbling. Just like that everything can be taken away from you."
Johnson's first appearance during spring training last season was an interesting one. The hitter he faced? Rickard.
"I think he got a hit, to be honest," Johnson said. "I didn't even realize it was him. I just remember flinching really bad. At that point in time, if I didn't know where the ball went, I put my head down and my glove up. I'm pretty sure it was a single between short and third, because I remember (shortstop) Deven Marrero bringing the ball in and talking to me.''
Johnson said the conversation went something like this:
Marrero: "It's over with."
Johnson: "What do you mean?"
Marrero: "That was the same kid."
Johnson, who throws left-handed, said it was several starts with Greenville last season before he felt comfortable on the mound again.
"The best thing for it is to get out there and keep pitching," he said. "I pitched one inning in my first appearance (in spring training last year), but it felt like a complete game. I didn't sleep much the night before. It was a huge weight off my shoulders."
The Red Sox selected Johnson out of the University of Florida with the 31st pick (the team's second first-round pick that year) of the 2012 draft. He was obtained with the selection the Red Sox received when Philadelphia signed free agent closer Jonathan Paplebon.
Johnson, 23, went 22-12 with a 3.85 ERA at Florida, where he also played first base. He won the John Olerud Award as the nation's top two-way player in 2012.
According to soxprospects. com, Johnson is Boston's ninth-best minor league prospect. He enters today's game with an 8-2 record and a 2.54 ERA in 13 starts since being called up to Portland.Johnson held the Fisher Cats to three hits in a seven-inning complete game when Portland posted a 5-2 triumph last weekend. He has surrendered two earned runs or fewer in all but one of his starts with the Sea Dogs. "In college I was never a full-time pitcher," Johnson said. "I'd pitch and then the next day go to first. I feel like I'm settling in and becoming who I want to be. It's all a learning process."
Johnson said he's eager to make his next appearance at Fenway.
"I can't wait for that day to come," he said.
Kevin McGowan, a right-handed pitcher from Nashua, is 2-1 with a 2.16 ERA since he was promoted from Class-A Savannah, the New York Mets' affiliate in the South Atlantic League, to High-A St. Lucie of the Florida State League on June 19.
McGowan, who attended Nashua North before moving on to Franklin Pierce University, is 6-3 with a 2.14 ERA in 13 games (12 starts) this season. The Mets selected McGowan, 22, in the 13th round of the 2013 draft (pick 386 overall).
Mike Yastrzemski went 4 for 5 with a triple and scored twice in his Double-A debut with the Bowie Baysox on Thursday night. Bowie, Baltimore's affiliate in the Eastern League, is not scheduled to play the Fisher Cats again during the regular season.
Yastrzemski, 23, is primarily a center fielder. His grandfather, Carl Yastrzemski, spent his 23-year major league career with the Boston Red Sox and was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1989.
Franklin's Derrick Sylvester is 0-1 with a 2.00 ERA in five games with the Arizona (Rookie) League Dodgers. Sylvester, who played for Southern New Hampshire University, has pitched nine innings, all in relief.
Sylvester went 9-2 with a 2.59 ERA in his senior season at SNHU. The Dodgers picked him in the 31st round (939 overall) of this year's draft.
Roger Brown covers baseball for the Sunday News and Union Leader. Email him at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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The University of Rochester has partnered with nine peer institutions to establish a consortium to explore a new, for-credit, online course program called Semester Online. The consortium is working with the company 2U (formerly known as 2tor), which was created in 2008 to develop for-credit online courses.
"As a leading research university, Rochester has a responsibility to shape and define the use of technology to enrich the academic experience for our students," said Robert Clark, dean of the Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and interim senior vice president for research. "This partnership allows us to explore the creation of online learning initiatives with peer institutions that share our mission of delivering education of the highest quality."
The other consortium members are Brandeis University, Duke University, Emory University, Northwestern University, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Notre Dame, Vanderbilt University, Wake Forest University, and Washington University in St. Louis.
The program is intended to offer academically qualified students an expanded selection of course offerings from some of the country's most prestigious institutions while giving them the freedom to work, travel, participate in off-campus research programs, or manage personal commitments as they pursue their academic goals. More information about Semester Online courses and the application process will likely be available in early 2013.
Semester Online is one of many approaches Rochester is considering in terms of online education. For the last several months, a University-wide taskforce led by Clark has been assessing the current and future use of technology and digital media in the classroom from traditional, to web-facilitated, to blended courses, to full online.
"Rochester's interest in online education rests in how it can leverage technology to build connectivity between students and faculty, and how it can develop and enhance the educational experience broadly," Clark said.
About Semester Online
Semester Online is the first-of-its-kind program to offer for-credit undergraduate courses through a consortium of top-tier universities that includes Brandeis University, Duke University, Emory University, Northwestern University, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Notre Dame, University of Rochester, Vanderbilt University, Wake Forest University, and Washington University in St. Louis. In partnership with 2U, formerly known as 2tor, Semester Online offers rigorous, online, for-credit courses to college students from anywhere in the world. For more information, please visit semesteronline.org.
About 2U, Inc.
2U, Inc., formerly known as 2tor, Inc., partners with top-tier colleges and universities to deliver rigorous, selective graduate degree and undergraduate for-credit programs online. Founded in 2008 by John Katzman and a team of education veterans, the company provides universities with the technologies, infrastructural support and capital they need to transform their on-campus programs into high-quality, web-based programs. 2U is one of the highest-funded education technology start-ups in the United States. 2U has partnered with prestigious colleges and research universities to deliver the following groundbreaking online programs: