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September's slight year-over-year traffic increase was a bit unexpected, said ShopperTrak, as retailers have seen slower levels throughout 2010. Previous to last month, total U.S. foot traffic was flat in August and posted year-over-year declines in July, June and May.
ShopperTrak reported that although traffic numbers were up, results throughout the country were mixed. Regionally, traffic was down in the Northeast due to wet weather from various tropical storms and also slipped in the West most likely due to warmer weather slowing fall seasonal sales. Throughout the month, SRTI traffic data showed the Midwest and South experienced stronger year-over-year gains behind some cooler weather, which boosted fall merchandise sales and positively impacted the comprehensive monthly traffic figure.
Looking at September sales performance, ShopperTrak's data showed a minimal 2.4% increase as retailers reported the expected rather slower levels following the August back-to-school spending rush, which generated a slightly higher 3.7% retail sales increase for the month. Sales will most likely show a bit of an uptick in October behind Columbus Day and some Halloween spending, said ShopperTrak, followed by a larger rise in November behind Black Friday weekend, the official starting point of the holiday shopping season.
On a month-over-month comparison, total U.S. foot traffic and retail sales decreased a significant -- but expected -- 13.9% and 9.4% respectively as the August comparison month contained back-to-school levels.
"The slight traffic increase last month was a bit of a surprise as September is annually a slower month between back-to-school and various holidays, and because our data has shown a pattern throughout 2010 of slower traffic levels with a bigger spend as consumers shop more economically," said Bill Martin, founder of ShopperTrak. "Smart retailers will most likely push holiday promotions throughout October in an effort to maintain these slightly higher levels and possibly drive sales as the critical November/December holiday shopping period approaches."
ShopperTrak also reported that foot traffic in the apparel & accessories store segment was flat compared with last year, followed by the wireless & electronics segment which fell 1.0%.


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Biological control of exotic plant populations with native organisms appears to be increasing, even though its success to date has been limited. Although many researchers and managers feel that native organisms are easier to use and present less risk to the environment this may not be true. Developing a successful management program with a native insect is dependent on a number of critical factors that need to be considered. Information is needed on the feeding preference of the agent, agent effectiveness, environmental regulation of the agent, unique requirements of the agent, population maintenance of the agent, and time to desired impact. By understanding these factors, researchers and managers can develop a detailed protocol for using the native biological control agent for a specific target plant. . We found E. lecontei in 14 waterbodies, most of which were in eastern Washington. Only one lake with weevils was located in western Washington. Weevils were associated with both Eurasian ( Myriophyllum spicatum L.) and northern watermilfoil ( M. sibiricum K.). Waterbodies with E. lecontei had significantly higher ( P < 0.05) pH (8.7 ± 0.2) (mean ± 2SE), specific conductance (0.3 ± 0.08 mS cm -1 ) and total alkalinity (132.4 ± 30.8 mg CaCO 3 L -1 ). We also found that weevil presence was related to surface water temperature and waterbody location ( = 24.3, P ≤ 0.001) and of all the models tested, this model provided the best fit (Hosmer- Lemeshow goodness-of-fit = 4.0, P = 0.9). Our results suggest that in Washington State E. lecontei occurs primarily in eastern Washington in waterbodies with pH ≥ 8.2 and specific conductance ≥ 0.2 mS cm -1 . Furthermore, weevil distribution appears to be correlated with waterbody location (eastern versus western Washington) and surface water temperature.
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Title: Fire marshal closes S. Indiana festival
Author: CAMILLE DIANA BARBEE
Date: June 11, 1999
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CAMILLE DIANA BARBEE, The Courier-Journal
A four-day punk music festival planned at a Jeffersonville, Ind., club was shut down yesterday after the city's fire marshal deemed the building unsafe and found organizers hadn't obtained permits for the event.
The 540 Fest, which was to showcase about three dozen independent, underground bands and about a dozen local artists, was in its first day at the 540 Club in the Quadrangle on 10th Street when it was stopped about 6:30 p.m. Organizers moved the festival to Pandamonium in Louisville last night and are working to relocate the rest of the weekend events.
The festival was previewed on the front page of the Features section in yesterday's Courier-Journal.
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``We didn't have a chance to prepare, and we were blindsided, Miles said. ``We don't want to deny kids from doing stuff in a positive fashion, but there are some safety issues.
Miles said that when he got to the 540 Club, which is an all-ages club, about 100 people were there. He said the club usually has no more than 40 teens there at any given time.
``The structure wasn't safe enough for the number of people they were trying to have, Miles said.
Mike Harpring, 18, who organized the event, said bands had come from as far as Ontario, New Jersey and Missouri to play, and it was a disappointment for all involved. He said some of the bands played at Pandamonium.
``It was one of the most disappointing feelings, there was so much time and money invested, Harpring said. ``The atmosphere at the club was people getting angry and people getting sad - mostly getting sad.
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SANTA FE – Dear readers, you may recall that on Tuesday — the first day of the rollout of the new health care law — I posted a story on my attempt to get information on what individual health care coverage I was eligible for here in New Mexico.
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After my story Tuesday, a couple of New Mexico Watchdog readers relayed similar stories. Bob in Santa Fe wrote to tell me his son thought he had created an account but:
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Another reader, John, left me this comment: "I have been able to at least to get log-in information but so far have not been able to connect — the system says wait as we have heavy traffic, guess everyone else is attempting to check out health insurance at 4 and 5 AM. Looks they got the slowest dial up speed they could!!"
We're not alone, but that's little consolation.
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Kids often experience some of their most memorable moments of summer on the Fourth of July holiday. They become immersed in outdoor activities involving water, sun and heat. To be sure that the memories created are happy ones, it's a good idea for parents to reacquaint themselves with some of the hazards we might overlook as we, too, become engrossed in the celebrations. Here are five safety tips to keep in mind.
The state of Illinois has very specific laws on which non-professional grade fireworks can be used legally. According to keepcool.illinois.gov, firecrackers, bottle rockets and Roman candles are not permitted in the state. Novelty fireworks, such as sparklers, are permitted, yet they still present danger. They burn at temperatures of up to 1,200 degree Fahrenheit and their wires remain extremely hot long after sparks have stopped. I advise parents not to permit their children to use novelty fireworks, which also include snakes and party-poppers. If they do permit it, they must, at a minimum, supervise their children closely to reduce the chance for injury.
There are many pleasures our kids derive from being in the water, not to mention it cools them down and provides great exercise. While your child may be a great swimmer, they may not be capable of saving themselves if they get in harm's way. There is a common misperception that drowning is easily heard, through cries for help, or spotted, when a child's head bobs, their arms flail in the air and there is splashing. The truth is, drowning is silent and can happen right in front of you. I instruct parents that they should be the ones who should watch, not just listen for, their children when they are on or near water. Lifeguards are not a substitute for parental vigilance.
I also suggest parents establish family rules when it comes to being around water:
Never swim alone.
When a child goes missing, check the water first.
Designate an adult to be within arm's-length of any child in the water under the age of four.
On the flipside of your child's safety in the water, it is important to stay safe in terms of water in your child. Stay hydrated! If you're thirsty, there's a good chance that your child is, too. Take extra water when you're out and about.
At times, I see burns on children who have been placed in seats heated by the sun. When preparing to enter a hot vehicle with your child, first open the windows and doors, turn on the air-conditioning and let the car cool down for two to three minutes. If your car seat is in the car, keep a light colored towel or blanket over it throughout the summer to reflect the sun and keep it cooler. The buckles, in particular, can get very hot. Outside of your vehicle, check the temperature of swings, slides, outdoor furniture and park benches before placing your child on them.
The sun is sneaky. Don't be fooled into thinking that cooler temperatures mean the sun is not as strong. As a pediatrician, I see many serious sunburns in the spring and early summer when the weather is relatively cool. Despite the temperatures, begin with at least a SPF 30 sunscreen. Apply it 15 to 20 minutes before sun exposure and reapply if the exposure lasts more than two to three hours. Lastly, children's chubby cheeks can catch an abundance of sun, so have them wear a hat and sunglasses, too.
There are two insects in particular to prepare to combat – mosquitoes and ticks. While there is debate on the right age to use mosquito repellant, I recommend that children aged two and older apply spray that contains 20 percent DEET, which also repels ticks. It's important to be aware that mosquitoes tend to be most active at dusk and that mosquito repellent should be washed off each night before bed. If your child spends a good amount of time playing outside, make it a point to do daily tick checks. If you find one, it should be removed with tweezers and antibiotic ointment should be applied to the wound site.
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Interview With Russell Davies, Ex Of Nike
Looking back on your time with Nike – what did you take away from your time there?
I've learned more in the last year than the previous 20. Nike is full of incredibly interesting people. And being that side of the fence teaches shows you all the dumb things you've been doing all your career. You learn that outside agencies, however close they 'partner', can never know as much as the people inside the business. And pretending otherwise is pointless. I've realised that the really important skills are not to do with brands or marketing or whatever; they're to do with people. If you're good with people you can learn the rest, if you're not good with people you're screwed.
So, what did you think Nike learned from you?
I'm not sure what Nike learned from me. Probably not a ton. Maybe the chief thing was the value of internal blogging. We built a couple of blogs inside the network and they seem to be working really well.
Has working within a huge international brand changed your philosophy about brands and marketing?
I've learned that most of the elegant, refined brand theories I've been positing for the past hundred years just evaporate when exposed to the real world of getting things done in organizations. So I think it's helped me come up with more robust thoughts about getting ideas into the world. And it's become very clear to me that using words like 'positing' and 'robust' just annoys people.
I've discovered tons more respect for the people who have to corral, inspire, manage and create international marketing campaigns. It's way, way harder than the people on the outside think.
I've learned that an ounce of clarity and direction is worth a ton of insight and cleverness.
I should probably have known these things anyway, but it's hard to really understand this stuff until you're inside.
We seem to be going through a huge cultural shift driven primarily by technology. How does an international brand keep up with these changes? What crucial challenges do brands face in the next year or so.
Technology is helping to weed out the weak brands. And by weak I mean uninteresting, unhelpful, disrespectful or irrelevant. Technology means we can just weave our way past them. I like that technology can help small brands compete with big ones – they're all international now and that makes everyone better. And the crucial challenge for brands is working out how to be less controlling and more influential.
With your work at Nike and your view on the consumer environment – do you think the services that marketing agencies need to deliver has changed? Are agencies rising to the challenge?
I'm not sure Nike is a typical example so these thoughts aren't necessarily based on that, but more on the world we've all been watching the last few years.
But yes, agencies have to change and no, they're mostly not rising to the challenge.
Look at the way that 'design' is being seen as the king of corporate innovation. There's no intrinsic reason why this should be so; their creative people aren't necessarily more creative than the ones in ad agencies, their strategists aren't smarter, their billing systems aren't more efficient. But they've spent the last 30 years being Not Madison Avenue, just like Honda, Toyota and Nissan were Not Detroit. Design businesses have been diligent, interesting and helpful whereas Big Advertising has been greedy, slothful and complacent. And now everyone with anything to do with advertising is paying a kind of Madison Avenue Penalty. Even the good, interesting, innovative agencies.
We may be just starting to edge into the land of Agency 2.0, but we all know things don't start working properly until you get to version 3.1. I think that'll take a while.
Talking about agencies, gossip has it that they might have a spare desk for you to work from at your old haunt, W+K London… will it be just a desk?
Yup. It's just a desk. Actually I suspect it's just a chair. And access to the photocopier. In return for the odd bit of work on stuff. It's a barter thing, it's the future. They're very kind.
How will your other projects fair in this time – the online planning school, the books, the blogs?
I feel like I've just been playing at all that so far, so I want to try and do them properly. Before you know it the Account Planning School of the Web will have a massive bureaucracy and a graduation ceremony with speeches and the throwing of hats.
Finally, do you think we're spotting a trend here: the rise of a mercenary army of rogue marketing professionals – sometimes working independently at times, other times teaming up for larger projects? Doesn't anyone want a proper job anymore?? ;)
Yes. I think marketing Ronin are the future. They're a big part of how Agency 3.1 will probably work. Come join our merry quest. Who needs a regular income, free pencils and healthcare? Hmm…
Thank you.
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What we've got here is failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach, so you get what we had here last week which is the way he wants it. Well, he gets it. And I don't like it any more than you men.
— Captain, Road Prison 36
Everyone knows the famous line, "What we have here is failure to communicate." (You can listen to it here.) Men quote it all the time. Most know it appears in Cool Hand Luke, the 1967 movie starring Paul Newman as a man sent to a work farm for cutting the heads off parking meters, even though they may have not seen the movie. Some know the actor delivering the line is Strother Martin. But just about everyone who uses it, however, misquotes it by saying "...a failure to..." or elides the remainder after "failure to communicate." It likely ranks up there with "You talking to me?" from Taxi Driver and "Funny How?" from Goodfellas in terms of being butchered by the masses. Yeah, I heard it totally knackered the other day and was inspired to write it up.
And the title line? It's from "Communication Breakdown" by Led Zeppelin:
Communication breakdown,
It's always the same,
I'm having a nervous breakdown,
Drive me insane!
"Communication Breakdown" by Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin, 1969
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Andrew Martin John Thompson, 21, was arrested on Wednesday evening at the Surbiton store and taken away in a police van.
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Category A - Students with disabilities and registered with the Student Disability Resource Center (SDRC) who would not otherwise achieve their academic goals within a reasonable period of time due to an on-going disability.
Category B - Students who participate in intercollegiate sports governed by the NCAA.
Category C - Students who would not otherwise achieve their academic goals within a reasonable period of time because they participate in an ongoing, university-sanctioned activity that significantly benefits the university. (See Procedures, Section A.3. for general eligibility criteria.) The coordinator of the activity must apply to the Priority Registration Committee (PRC) on behalf of the students, for possible inclusion in Category C.
Category D: Rare and extraordinary circumstance - The Provost or Vice President for Student Affairs may grant to an individual student access to priority registration for a rare and extraordinary circumstance on a one-time basis.
Students in Group 1 will be allowed to priority register for a maximum of sixteen (16) semester credits during priority registration. Any additional desired credits may be acquired during non-priority times.
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There are three criteria that must be met in order to be granted priority registration under Category C:
First, the student must participate in a university-sanctioned activity that significantly benefits the university. This means that the benefits of the activity for the university as a whole are a consideration. However, participation in such an activity is a necessary but not sufficient condition for the privilege of priority registration.
Second, priority registration must be necessary for the student to successfully participate in the activity. If the student can successfully participate in the program without priority registration, then priority registration will not be granted.
Third, priority registration must be necessary to allow a sufficient number of students to participate in the activity to ensure its success.
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A bit back, Sean Michael Robinson talked about a production of the Diary of Anne Frank that interpolated the music of the Carpenters. Sean noted that the production was wonderful, moving, inventive…and also illegal.
Anne Frank's words, however, and the translation of her words on which we were relying for much of our text, were a different matter, as was the authorized play (Diary of Anne Frank), which provided much of the rest of the text. All of these elements are still under copyright, and will continue to be so for several years. (In fact, copyright in the theater is more restrictive than in almost any other field. You can, after all, read a book or listen to an album any way that you wish once you've purchased a copy–but to publicly perform a play one must conform to a dizzying array of limitations set out by the author or the author's agents–usually, that every word of the play will be performed, i.e. no cuts or insertions without permission, and that the appearance, gender and even staging etc will honor the stated intentions of the author regarding the script and contract.)
Sean's prescription — with which I agree, is that we need to rethink our insanely restrictive copyright laws in order to make it possible for people to reimagine older works, and create new ones, without having their asses sued off.
This does bring up a rather uncomfortable issue for me, though. Mainly…if I think that art is built out of other art, and that the copyright laws should reflect that, then what exactly is the deal with my recent article on Slate, where I discuss my deep disgust with DC's Before Watchmen? After all, as Jones pointed out with his usual logician's obsessiveness, Alan Moore has ripped off everybody from C.C. Beck to H.G. Wells, and probably other people whose names begin with A, X, Y, and Z as well. If I think high school kids should be able to mash up Anne Frank and the Carpenters, and I think that Alan Moore should be able to mash up Dorothy and Wendy and Alice (which is probably not the best word choice there, but onward), then what exactly is the problem with having DC put out a new! Watchmen! prequel! — or for that matter, a Watchmen toaster? Isn't there some moral inconsistency here?
Possibly. But let me try to think through the differences.
— First, it's useful to remember the purpose of copyright. According to our Constitution, the purpose is not to protect creators. The purpose is to encourage art. Copyright is supposed to give creators a monopoly on their own works so that they will have a financial incentive to create those works in the first place. If as soon as you write something, everybody else can publish it under their name, then you're going to limit the people who will write to hobbyists who don't need the money. (Not that there's anything wrong with hobbyists, he says as he writes for free on his blog. The point is just that ideally you want to encourage other kinds of writing as well.)
However. Giving someone an infinite monopoly on their work also limits creation. It makes it hard to comment on older works, or to remix them, or to use them as inspiration for newer works. That's why copyright is limited; so that works will eventually enter the public domain where they can be used by other artists with no strings attached to make things like League of Extraordinary Gentleman…or what have you.
The point is that there's no particular contradiction between arguing that, on the one hand, Alan Moore is being screwed, or that, on the other hand, basing a work on Bram Stoker — or even on C.C. Beck — is okay. I'm personally in favor of a copyright of about 50 years from date of publication — which would mean Watchmen would still be under copyright, but that a lot of works Moore has lifted from would not be. A fifty year copyright would also put Anne Frank out of copyright…though not the Carpenters.
— Second, even when works are under copyright, I think there needs to be a vigorous fair use provision. Such provisions can include, for example, flat fees for using music (like the Carpenters) without giving the creator veto power over how or where that music is used (which, yes, would mean that idiotic republican presidential candidates could use Bruce Springsteen's songs if they wanted even if the Boss objected. I think that's a reasonable price to pay for a vigorous public domain, personally.) I also think that in situations where there is no profit, as in Harry Potter fan fiction, for example, most bets should be off.
Soooo…again, how is all of this different than DC publishing Before Watchmen…or than Marvel using Jack Kirby's characters (which are certainly on the verge of my 50 year timetable) without paying him?
Which brings us to my last point.
—The issue with DC and Marvel is not that they are creating new work using somebody else's characters. As I've suggested, artists do such things all the time; it's a big part of how art is made. Without it, we wouldn't have Shakespeare, much less Alan Moore.
So the issue with DC and Marvel isn't use of the characters. The issue is, specifically, lousy business practices. Moore and Kirby never got to exploit the copyright for the characters they created; instead, Marvel and DC used crappy contacts, evil industry practices, and disproportions of power to gain the benefits of the law for themselves. So it's not that Marvel and DC shouldn't use those characters. It's that they shouldn't be able to reap a monopoly windfall for using those characters based on dubious business practices.
And, in a bitter but by no means isolated irony, the excessively insane draconian provisions of our copyright law mean that the creators are actually much more extensively screwed than they would be if copyright were reasonable. If copyright were only 50 years, Marvel would be in the process of losing its rights to its properties one by one — which would mean that anybody could make a Spider-Man movie or an Iron Man movie, which would make Marvel essentially worthless, which would mean it would go out of business — which wouldn't benefit the Kirby family financially, of course. Still, you'd think his ghost would at least get a kick out of it.
In any case, the point is: the creators working on Before Watchmen are not despicable because they are using someone else's art to make art, because that's what all artists do. They're despicable because they are knowingly helping DC exploit a monopoly that was obtained by fucking over the people who created it — and because one of those fucked over creators has verbally erected the equivalent of a picket line. Hughes, Straczynski, Cooke, et. al. are not thieves. They're scabs. I hope that's a comfort to them.


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Time marches on! The goats of the "Blackberry Brigade" are fat and sassy. Thanks to them, the back of the farm needs little attention. Sad to say, we lost our three bee hives last winter to the cold and wet. We decided to take a break from the hives this summer, but hope to get more "dancing ladies" in the spring of 2017.
Tool restoration and selling has become the main emphasis around here over the last year. Originally and order would come in every three to six months. It was sort of a easy going fun past time. This all changed about six months ago when Shannon Rogers of the The Hand Tool School contacted me for some auger bits. He was very happy with them and recommended me to his students/apprentices. Things went crazy from there! I'm in the shop every day trying to catch up on the back orders.
Karin (AKA: Grandma) has also been plugging along with a little project of her own. She makes frig magnets and holiday ornaments. I'm trying to get her to start posting them on this site. Maybe we can start by showing a few of them in the gallery.
I'm also still attending Theology by Extension (INSTI) classes, going into my third year. Its getting hectic!
There has been a lot of updating to the site as well. More and more people are checking us out, so a bit of tidying up seemed in order. Look it over and let us know know what you think.
Take care, Grandpa (Ernie)
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First the court, then the club! Lindsay Lohan is no stranger to the courtroom, but she isn't letting her legal troubles keep her down.Although LiLo's trouble with the law began back in 2007, it seems the starlet has become more brazen in recent years, celebrating her legal triumphs (and failures) by partying it up on the same day as her court hearings! We're beginning to see a trend here…
PHOTO: Lindsay Shows Up Two-Toned For CourtJuly 2011: Lindsay headed to court for a progress report hearing regarding her 480 hours of community service and psychiatric treatment. The Liz & Dick star had only completed 33 hours of the allotted sentence and stopped counseling due to financial reasons. Just hours after her troublesome meeting with the judge, Lindsay was spotted the 'Oakley Learn to Ride Surf Fuelled By Muscle Milk' event at the beach.Feb 2012: During a probation progress hearing, it was reported that Lindsay had been in full compliance with the terms of her probation. After receiving positive remarks from the judge, Lindsay wasted no time celebrating the good news! That night, the former Mean Girls leading lady headed to the Domingo Zapata's Oscar Art Show presented by Mr. C in Beverly Hills.
GALLERY: LiLo's Many Courthouse FashionsMarch 2013: Just yesterday, on March 18, Lindsay narrowly avoided jail time instead opting for a plea deal. Although her lawyer claims, "I am very confident that you won't be seeing Lindsay Lohan in any criminal courts any time in the future," Lindsay may have other plans. After the star was ordered to 90 days in a lockdown drug rehab facility, she was seen partying at AV nightclub in Hollywood later that night.Hopefully Lindsay's lawyer is right! It's about time this 26-year-old star gets her act together!


text: Hi. We have Bladecenter H with HS22 servers inside. All servers have 0b:00.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic SAS1064ET PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS (rev 10) with two possible external SAS connections which we use to connect them with DS3512 (IBM datastorage) using two SAS cables and thus multipath configuration is in place. We use ubuntu 10.04 here and since in-stock scsi_dh_rdac kernel module does not support IBM 1746 devices I've patched it and rebuild kernel. Now, as I modproble module I see the following in dmesg: [ 27.861388] sd 0:0:2:1: rdac: LUN 1 (owned) [ 27.861836] sd 0:0:3:1: rdac: LUN 1 (unowned) [ 27.861840] rdac: device handler registered That's Ok, but multipath output does not have rdac: root btv1:~# multipath -l vod (360080e50001baa46000025834d501798) dm-0 IBM ,1746 FASt [size=13T][features=0][hwhandler=0] \_ round-robin 0 [prio=0][active] \_ 0:0:2:1 sdc 8:32 [active][undef] \_ round-robin 0 [prio=0][enabled] \_ 0:0:3:1 sdd 8:48 [active][undef] Is this normal? On Gentoo system connected to the same DS I see: mon1 ~ # multipath -l vod (360080e50001baa46000025834d501798) dm-0 IBM,1746 FAStT size=13T features='3 queue_if_no_path pg_init_retries 50' hwhandler='1 rdac' wp=rw |-+- policy='round-robin 0' prio=-1 status=active | `- 0:0:2:1 sdc 8:32 active undef running `-+- policy='round-robin 0' prio=-1 status=enabled `- 0:0:3:1 sdd 8:48 active undef running Could you tell me what's hwhandler and why it's 0 in one case and 1 in another. Many thanks for any explanations in advance, -- Peter.


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Diving was the sole reason for me to come to the Philippines. I managed to squeeze in a pit stop in Cebu on our business trip to Asia in June/July. You can read my impressions of the island in my last post: Diving Paradise. I … Read More
Dive In The BluePosted on August 19, 2011 by Jorn Werdelin
Diving ParadisePosted on July 28, 2011 by Jorn Werdelin
Moalboal in Cebu is famous for being the gateway to some of the best diving spots in the Philippines, due to its unspoiled fine white sand beaches and diverse marine life. We decided to hop on a plane after our visit in Singapore to experience diving in this part of … Read More
Explorers of the Deep SeasPosted on April 20, 2011 by Morten Linde
Science and people's ingenuity and determination to explore what is out there never seizes to fascinate me. One of many examples of this is Virgin and the brilliance of Sir Richard Branson and his team. I was intrigued when Virgin announced their first commercial flight to the moon and … Read More
The Blue LagoonPosted on May 30, 2010 by Jorn Werdelin
Bali may have become a popular romantic wedding destination – thanks to Mick Jagger – it is also famous for world-class surfing and diving. I piggybacked my first dive of the year at this only Hindu island in Indonesia, on my recent business trip to Asia. (and yes, this is … Read More
The Reef Goes Cave Diving in MexicoPosted on April 28, 2010 by Morten Linde
We are currently in the final stages of testing our diver's instrument – The Reef. Professional and leisure divers all over the world are testing the instrument and we are receiving a lot of positive feedback on the functionality, usability and design. Besides testing our instruments – both … Read More


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In Reply to: RE: that's interesting... posted by kuma on March 23, 2016 at 17:04:34
"Old SteveA" thinks that the ring radiator used to enhance the "soundstage" feel of that particular headphone is the primary culprit. Remove that ring radiator and the brightness disappears (taking with it a certain amount of that illusionary soundstaging?), according to him.
I'm hoping that the new HD-800S represents a better and more comprehensive *fix* than this surgical alternative.
Interesting too is the recent release of Beyerdynamic's new flagship headphone, the T1 V2. The V2 is said to be a warmer, more mellow sounding headphone than the original T1.
So it almost seems like at least two German manufacturers are turning away from the analytical presentation in favor of a warmer and more forgiving one. Will Austrian AKG follow suit and revise their latest "bright sounding" flagship?
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and found T1 rather dull comparatively.
I suspect that the HD800's latest revisions might be two folds. One: any hardware companies need a *new* model every so often to stimulate the sales, two: they realised bulk of 'phone users typically use a crap source. As I walked around with my amps and cables in tow at the show, HD800 sounded horrendous on digital files on a laptop tethered to an external DAC or low end DVD players.
Only when I've encountered a 10k+ source ( Meridian 800 series DVD/CD player ) I realised how capable the HD800 was. Incidentally this was the Sennheiser USA booth who had a sense to bring a decent source to show case their ware.
IME, nothing was wrong with the original HD800 even with a bog standard kettle leads. ( with my amps )
With the help of the slightly distant sonic perspective provided by the excellent DNA Sonett (now discontinued), the HD-800s sounded smooth and well balanced through the lower treble.
The HD-800s are definitely not the most forgiving of headphones and perhaps they are a little too unforgiving in light of the fact that most of us who assemble headphone systems are doing so with certain budget constraints in mind.
Sennheiser could have put a warning sticker on every box that reads "Spend at least as much on amplification and source component(s) as you did on these headphones", but they probably would not sell as many pairs of flagship headphones that way...
Then there is that other insidious problem to consider, and that is that some of us really and truly don't hear the same way that some (or even most) other people do. If one man's treat is another man's poison, what can you say?
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Walk Beside Me LDS Preschool: T is for Tithing
Edit 2: I'm still baffled as to why this won't upload correctly. To get the T is for Tithing printables, please click here to download from Dropbox. Sorry for the inconvenience!
Edit: I temporarily removed the letter T packet due to some corruption issues. For some reason, my personal computer still won't download the new file. I'm hoping this works for you, but I will keep working on it. I am happy to email you this packet, please email me at firstname.lastname@example.com and I will get it to you as soon as possible! Thanks for your understanding while I work out these bugs!
I've been a bad blogger.
{Bad blogger! Bad!}
I've been hyperfocusing this week on my daughter's Kindergarten curriculum for next fall. Like, hyperhyperfocusing. Blogging has kind of been… meh. I'll do better. Heck, I could even share my mixed up wild and crazy hunt for the Perfect Curriculum. I'm not making it any easier on myself by wanting to create half of it.
I'm not good at making things easy.
Complicated I do well.
But that's not this post. This post is long overdue.
(If it's always overdue, does that mean I'm really doing it on schedule? Let's say yes.)
Mental note: no drinking Diet Coke while blogging.
This week is on T is for Tithing.
Even though this is an LDS Preschool curriculum, this is a great lesson to share with older children too. So don't let the "preschool" stop you from making it work for your family!
Dude, I can't keep focused on this for the life of me. Just download it, okay? If you are lost and confused, check this post on starting, or this FAQ page, and of course, check the Walk Beside Me Store. If it's your first time here, then click here to see all my preschool printables. You can also check out the preschool schedule to make these printables into a full preschool for your child!
PS – I know making an entire preschool curriculum isn't really slacker mom, but guess what my kids are doing while I make these printables? Watching Dora. That's what.
PPS – Tithing makes for great count-to-ten lessons. A smarter version of me would have had this lesson include number ten. But it includes number six. Should've thought of that… nine lessons ago.


text: Guy called me up and wanted me to roll his lawn because its really bumpy. I don't usually do it but said I could come take a look. He called around I guess while I was on my way over there, and ended up wanting me to dethatch the lawn then aerate it. The problem he wants fixed is that it looks and feels like someone has golf balls buried 1" under the soil every 4-6" or so. Its bumpy as heck! He push mowes his entire lawn and he said its so bumpy it gives him blisters if he doesn't use thick gloves. He wants the lumps gone, but the problem is they come back.... I was thinking I could use a powered dethatcher with the metal "teeth" that heavily comb the surface and maybe take them down? Anyone run into this before? I havn't... How did you deal with it?