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Welcome to the FIFTH Annual NYC Yarn Crawl!
Welcome to the Fifth Year of the NYC Yarn Crawl. We can't believe it's been 5 years, but there's a lot about time that is hard to believe. What we do know is that we are glad that there's excitement about this event, and we are happy to be doing it again.
In seeking a theme for this year's scavenger hunt, we looked at the symbols associated with a 5 year Anniversary and discovered that the symbol for 5 years of commitment is "Wood". Somehow, it seemed appropriate. Many of us love knitting with wooden needles and I know that I respond to the yarns that capture the power of color inspired by nature. Also, there's something warm and nourishing in the concept of wood Since we feel the same way about our knitting projects, we thought we'd run with it.
We have asked our sponsors to keep this in mind as they send us samples for the raffle baskets. There will be more details on the Scavenger Hunt page, which is still being worked on, but for the time being, we ask you to consider the beauty of nature and natural materials as we enter one of the most knit-friendly (and lovliest) seasons of the year: Autumn in NY!
New to the yarn crawl?...
Well, now, here are the basics:
A "yarn crawl" is a multiple day event for yarn and fiber loving people that connects them to local independent yarn (and related craft) stores within a specific area or city. Yarn crawls are sponsored by local retailers and by yarn companies that want you to know about their terrific products. By identifying the whereabouts of every participating store, the producer of the yarn crawl provides participants (and their fellow enthusiasts and friends) with the means to develop a self guided itinerary for a weekend of excitement and exploration. Every participating store on the crawl is provided with a large raffle basket that is filled with full sized products from the sponsor companies. Everyone is eligible to enter the Raffle. There is never a charge to go on a crawl, and you go on your own time frame and at your own speed. Every participant on a yarn crawl is entitled to one FREE RAFFLE ticket from each store they visit - one raffle ticket per store over the course of the entire weekend. During the course of the weekend, each store offers customers their own enticing promotions and/or special offerings unique to the event. In addition, our yarn crawls organize a scavenger hunt in which all the stores participate. We always have a neat prize (or prizes) for the winner of the scavenger hunt and you can read about them on our NYC Yarn Crawl Diary.


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greystoke wrote:I saw Star Trek: Into Darkness at the cinema yesterday -- J.J. Abrams second Star Trek picture, and a hugely exciting adventure that should further appeal to fans new, and old, alike. Here, with the stakes raised as Benedict Cumberbatch's John Harrison enters to wreak havoc at Starfleet in the form of a terrorist thought-to-be from within.
With the crew of the Enterprise having been (re)established in Abrams' first film, relationships are built upon as the passion and emotion of Kirk is at loggerheads with the logic and reasoning of Spock -- played superbly by Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto. But it's Cumberbatch who continues to impress with a dark, menacing and hugely assertive turn. And amidst the action, of which there is tons, it's both his physicality and oral delivery that revertebrates. Especially when there's little time for pause, with an unrelenting pace and a knowing tone that allows for hammy nods and winks without ever resorting to camp. The special effects and set design are quite stunning throughout, with some serious lens flare into the bargain. I wasn't entirely enamoured with the 3D, however, and despite the entertainment value, a little more depth wouldn't have gone amiss. Still, it's a terrific ride and great sci-fi, with a few surprises that are unlikely to be avoided within broader discussion. So beware. Recommended.
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rocknroller wrote:Went to the cinema this week to see Evil Dead first half hour was good then turned in to a "gorefest" not for me.Oblivion was ok thought it would be better found it slow.Olympus Has Fallen loved it ,die hard in the white house !!!
Mon May 13, 2013 12:34 pm
luckyjackson1 wrote:rocknroller wrote:Went to the cinema this week to see Evil Dead first half hour was good then turned in to a "gorefest" not for me.Oblivion was ok thought it would be better found it slow.Olympus Has Fallen loved it ,die hard in the white house !!!
Yeah, after half an hour I started to enjoy it - well, finally after all I AM a gore-hound!
Although it'll never come close to the original (there was no tension or atmosphere, only some jumpscares and gore).
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rocknroller wrote:Went to the cinema this week to see Evil Dead first half hour was good then turned in to a "gorefest" not for me.Oblivion was ok thought it would be better found it slow.Olympus Has Fallen loved it ,die hard in the white house !!!
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greystoke wrote:I mentioned this on the thread that had been started regarding the recent Evil Dead film, which I was very disappointed in, but found the final ten minutes (or so) to be worth the rest of the entire movie. Here, there was some real inspiration and influence from Raimi, with a manic turn and good camera work. Too little, too late, of course. But I just have to wonder where this was during the previous hour, with dull performances and no thrills or excitement.
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Julian Grant wrote:Watched 4 yesterday...
Jim Carrey & Steve Carell in The Incredible Burt Wonderlust: Really it was pretty dire and in fact I fell asleep.
Bradley Cooper, Eva Mendes in The Place Beyond The Pines:I didn't particularly care for the photography of this film but its an excellent crime drama, some excellent acting I thought and a really enjoyable storyline. Would recommend it.
Jason Statham & Jennifer Lopez in Parker: If you like the sort movies that Statham stars in then you will probably like this, it was very predictable and the highlight of the film was J-Lo in her underwear.
Maggie Smith, Billy Connolly plus more in Quartet Dustin Hoffman's directorial debut. This is a very charming movie, beautiful scenery throughout and about former musicians in a retirement home, recommended.
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greystoke wrote:I saw Byzantium at the cinema on friday. Neil Jordan's latest film, starring the very talented Gemma Arterton and Saorise Ronan, as two-hundred year-old vampire mother and daughter who are trying to survive in a coastal town. They're on the lam after the mother, Clara, played by Arterton, falls foul of her strip club employees and kills a mysterious man whom she is pursued by in a thrilling chase near the start of the film. On the coastal town, a series of flashbacks offer insight into the story of these two girls, telling how they became undead and revealing the source of Clara's fears and paranoia. Eleanor, her daughter, wants to tell their story and cannot contain her thoughts, so endeavours to write her experiences down on paper. When her sanity and safety is questioned by a college lecturer, danger and panic ensues along with their past catching up.
This is a vampire film that establishes some of its own rules and avoids many of the known tropes of the genre. Daylight isn't a problem for these creatures, whilst, in place of fangs, a talon-like thumbnail is used to pierce the wrists of willing participants or be throttled into the necks of victims and foes. A novel approach, although the film is too self-aware on occasions, but is played entirely straight and with much style and atmosphere. Arterton is terrific here, impressing once again with an assertive, sexy performance, which plays in contrast to the soft-spoken Ronan, whose Eleanor is gentle and introspective. The primary cast is small, but also includes Jonny Lee Miller, seen in flashback as syphilitic creep, whose actions are pivotal to the story. Daniel Mays, as a grief-stricken sap, whom Clara plays on for her and Eleanor's benefit. And Caleb Landry Jones, as a young waiter whom Eleanor befriends.
At times, this is an invigorating and exciting film, although it's free of genuine scares. The blood does flow thick and occasionally fast, with the emphasis on mood and the telling of an intriguing story emphasised over creating scares. Unfortunately, this is dashed by a slightly contrived and obvious climax that works, if only just. Byzantium does some new things for the vampire film, but won't be considered revolutionary or pivotal in doing so. Whilst it's unlikely to find the audience numbers of the Twilight films or more generic crowd-pleasers. But this is a worthwhile and involving film that suffers a few plot holes too many, but is largely satisfying. Especially with such fine performances by the two splendid female leads.
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Eddie wrote:Man of Steel, I'd rate 4 out of 5, a bit of an overload in action in the last half hour but by far the best Superman film Ive seen.
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Senior executives come to us for help improving the logistics and distribution performance of their companies. We have the second largest Strategy & Operations practice in the U.S. and deliver a broad range of supply chain services across Plan, Source, Make and Deliver. Our global network provides reach on complex issues. We can assist clients on developing a supply chain distribution strategy including current and future state scenarios; determine the voice of the customer; model distribution network and product flows; define the corresponding business case, financial and operational requirements, and put forward an implementation road map. Improving performance in supply chain logistics and distribution requires a combination of innovative thinking, and realistic and precise execution.
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Bone Thugs-n-Harmony is a Grammy award winning American hip hop group from Cleveland, Ohio. It consists of rappers Layzie Bone, Flesh-n-Bone, Bizzy Bone, Krayzie Bone, and Wish Bone. Rapper Eazy-E, former member of rap group N.W.A, signed Bone Thugs-n-Harmony to Ruthless Records in late 1993, when Bone Thugs debuted with EP Creepin on ah Come Up. The EP included the hit single "Thuggish Ruggish Bone". In 1995, the group released its second album, E. 1999 Eternal, which included hits "1st of tha Month" and "East 1999." A tribute to the recently deceased Eazy-E, "Tha Crossroads", won a Grammy award in 1997. The Art of War, the group's third album, was also released in 1997. Bone Thugs is also the only group that has worked with deceased artists 2Pac, The Notorious B.I.G., Eazy-E & Big Pun while they were still alive. The editors of About.com ranked them #12 on their list of the "25 Best Rap Groups of All Time", and MTV called them "the most melodic hip-hop group of all time". In 20 ... Read More
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See our list of related Resources for environmentally sustainable communities.
The campaign: "A Light Among the Nations" aka "How Many Jews Does It Take to Change a Light Bulb?" will engage the Jewish community in education, advocacy, and concrete action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This modern day commemoration of Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, will most importantly bring the issue of global climate change front and center in Jewish public life.
A significant part of the campaign will include helping congregations, Jewish institutions, and individuals purchase and install 'energy-efficient', 'cost-effective' compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulbs during the week of Hanukkah 2006, as part of moving the Jewish community and the country forward in its understanding and support of energy conservation. Our message is as easy as changing a light bulb: If you could conserve energy and help stop global warming in one simple step, wouldn't you? CFLs use 75% less energy than incandescent light bulbs. This means less production of greenhouse gas emissions, air pollution, and toxic waste. If every U.S. household replaced one bulb with a CFL, it would have the same impact as removing one million cars from the road.
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Hackers targeting sensitive information or stealing from retailers work at such speed that customers often notice data breaches first – and for the first time, cybercriminals are 'teaming up' with spies, according to a new report.
Hackers are using a notorious banking Trojan horse to display a bogus message from Facebook, in an aggressive attempt to infect Android smartphones.
iBanking is a malicious Android application that when installed on a mobile phone is able to spy on its user's communications. This bot has many interesting phone-specific capabilities, including capturing incoming and outgoing SMS messages, redirecting incoming voice calls, and even capturing audio using the device's microphone.
Scans of a huge botnet have revealed that it has harvested at least 16 million usernames and passwords for email sites and other online services, according to a report released by German security agency, the Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI).
There have been some interesting new developments since we published our report on Operation Windigo. In this blog post you will read about a Linux/Ebury update, and the reaction of the criminal gang to our post.
The malware problem on Mac OS X is nothing like as bad as it is on Windows, but that doesn't mean it can be ignored.
A new technique for spotting cyber attacks has been designed by a young American student – and could prevent attacks against planes and power plants, by looking for abnormal communications within computers, rather than sifting for malicious software.
DNS hijacking is still going strong and the Win32/Sality operators have added this technique to their long-lasting botnet. This blog post describes how the malware guesses router passwords as part of its campaign to misdirect users, send spam and infect new victims.
Spyware which stealthily takes photographs using Google Glass's built-in camera and uploads them to a remote server without the user being aware has been demonstrated successfully on the eyepiece – despite Google's policies explicitly forbidding such programs.
Malware researchers at ESET have uncovered a widespread cybercriminal operation that has seized control of tens of thousands of Unix servers. Learn more about how to check your systems for compromise, and prevent innocent computer users from being attacked.
Our report titled "Operation Windigo – the vivisection of a large Linux server-side credential-stealing malware campaign" details our analysis of a set of malicious programs that infect servers and desktop PCs, and send nearly 500,000 web users to malicious content daily."
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A virus designed to infect Wi-Fi networks can spread through cities "as efficiently as the common cold spreads between humans", researchers at the University of Liverpool have found.
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If you have received an unexpected email, claiming to come from British Airways, about an upcoming flight that you haven't booked – please be on your guard.
Online criminals are attempting to infect innocent users' computers, by disguising their attack as an e-ticket from the airline.
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After spending the previous season as the No. 3 player in the singles lineup, the sophomore moved up to the top spot in 2013.
"We had challenge matches and they played the person ahead of them," Donoho coach Farley Fink said. "Last year, she was No. 3, and this year, she beat the No. 2 player and No. 1 player so she became No. 1."
Earning the top spot on the team was just the beginning for Bidikov, who helped lead Donoho to sixth place in the Class 1A-3A state tournament.
She wound up with a 10-1 singles record in the regular season. She finished second in singles and No. 1 doubles at the Class 1A-3A, Section 4 tournament. At the state tournament, she reached the quarterfinals in singles.
"She has a variety of shots. She can hit it deep and hard or a deep lob," Fink said. "She's a consistent player that can use powerful shots to finish the point off. She's a versatile player that's aggressive and determined."
The trip to state wasn't Bidikov's first. She won the No. 4 singles division at the high school state tournament while still in middle school.
As for playing No. 1, Bidikov said, "It was pretty exciting, but until I started playing I didn't realize how challenging it was. I was kind of nervous at first, but I guess I got over it."
Fink said that what helped Bidikov accomplish what she did this season is that she plays up to her opponents.
"I've got some goals so I'm going to work very hard to reach them," Bidikov said. "Now that the season is over I'm going to play year-around tennis like I used to. I just want to set myself up to do really well."
Bidikov added she prefers singles over doubles because "it's all on you and it's your own game."
"But doubles are sometimes a lot of fun because you have someone to play with," she said. "There's also help if you're not doing well that day."
Already working toward her junior season, Bidikov said the biggest thing she's looking to improve is her backhand shot. However, Fink doesn't think it's improvement that needs to happen as much as it is playing with a different mindset.
"I'm confident in her backhand,"Fink said. "It's not that she doesn't have a good backhand, it's that she has to get game confidence in it. I think her net game could improve. Consistency is always going to vary. At a small school, you play the sport in season (and not at other times). In the past, we'll have girls walk onto the court in February not having picked up a racket since May of the year before. She just needs to be more consistent and get confidence."
Brandon Miller covers prep sports for The Star. He can be reached at 256-235-3575 or follow him on Twitter @bmiller_star


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Alec S. Anderson
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Professional Background
I am a fifth generation Funeral Director, and I would have to say my career in funeral service started very early in my life. I began pulling weeds, graduated to vacuuming and cleaning, moved on to washing cars and finally advanced to a flower car driver. I attended Utah Valley University and later San Francisco college of Mortuary Science. I have been working in the family firm since I can remember, however; as a licensed funeral director since graduation. I am a co-owner in our firm and have been the manager since 1999. I have served on the Utah State Funeral Directors Board for the last 8 years and on the NFDA Policy Board for the past 5 years.
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The reason I became involved in UFDA and NFDA was to have a voice in how our business is governed. After having spent years on the Utah Funeral Directors Disaster, Medical Examiner and Donor Committees, I know how important it is for us to be a part of the conversation with local and national government. The Advocacy Summit has provided a way to take a unified message to legislators on a national level. Also, NFDA has created a dialogue with the FTC, OSHA, EPA and others so that the Policy Board members are able to be involved in the conversation and take the results home to their respective states for local input.
I served on the NFDA Professional Development Committee where, with other funeral directors, we have chosen who and what would be presented at the national conventions. I have had the opportunity to sit on the Federated Insurance Work Group and see how NFDA involves itself by using other businesses to benefit the members of the association. My firm and our state association have benefitted from the NFDA provided resources such as the legal forms and specialized counsel that are available.
My goal in running for NFDA at-large representative is to bridge ideas from the Policy Board to the Executive Board, and if the ideas are found useful, follow through with them to implementation. I believe that my experience on the Utah Board for 8 years and the Policy Board for 5 years gives me the experience to serve you in this position. Once again, thank you for your consideration.
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Mitchell-Wiedefeld Funeral Home, Inc.
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Baltimore, MD 21212
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Theater is open and has been doing punk rock concerts on the expanded stage. The area newspaper, The Chronicle (Centralia, Wash.) just did a great story on this theater in their Saturday June 4, 2005 edition. The newspaper site is www.chrononline.com
This photo from the 1990's shows the Roxy theater in Morton.
The Roxy Theater has a new website! www.roxyplayhouse.com They also are showing movies, holding concerts, and starting June 7th, 2006 will do professional, live summer stock theater.
For more info like showtimes and ticket prices visit their website, www.roxyplayhouse.com The theater is located close to Mt. St. Helens and Mt. Rainier, so its a great thing to do after a day of sightseeing and touring.
Here is a close-up view of the Roxy Theater.
Lost Memory: Your photo is recent enough that "Fracture" is playing. LOVE that this theater is back in business for both films and plays.
The theater was completely gutted and expanded. The interior was completely changed. What was a movie theater only (had no real stage or dressing rooms) now has a full stage and primarily serves as a playhouse with movies taking a backseat.
www.roxyplayhouse.com no longer works.
Seems you have to use www.firemac.org again for their website
Officially open again for movies and stage plays.
New website:
That link to the black & white photo is now bad.
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Important update.
The Intel Matrix Storage Manager 8.9 has been replaced by:
Intel Rapid Storage Technology and the current version is 9.6.
64-bit Intel® RST Driver Files
The other thread "Random drive fails with new Rapid Storage Technology 9.6?" that was started after Rapid Storage Technology fixed the problem for most of us here for anyone still have the same problem with Rapid Storage Technology but are not having any problems with Matrix Storage Manager 8.8.
Matrix Storage Manager 8.8 should you need it.
64-bit Floppy
32-bit Floppy
XP Professional SP3
Dual Intel ICH8R RAID 5
3 x ST380811AS 160GB RAID 5 OS
3 x ST3320620AS 640GB RAID 5 Storage
Problem happened on the OS array so far when using Matrix Storage Manager 18.104.22.1683.
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&ProductID=2101&DwnldID=17882&strOSs=44&OSFullName=Windows* XP Professional&lang=eng
Here's what happened I downloaded, installed and rebooted to the newest Matrix Storage Manager 126.96.36.1993 then Winkey + L to lock computer over night. The next day a drive failed listed as port 1 in the console I know I should of replaced the drive but I did a rebuild and run a Volume Verification and Repair and got no errors.
Thinking it was fine I Winkey + L to lock computer over night again but the next day a drive failed BUT this time on port 2 in the console!
I have now reinstalled back to Matrix Storage Manager 188.8.131.529 and rebuilt the array and run a Volume Verification and Repair with no errors and see if a drive fails to night.
So could their be a problem with the new Matrix Storage Manager RAID driver or could my OS array be about to fail?
The only way this will get resolved/looked at is if anyone here that went from Matrix Storage Manager 8.8 to 8.9 with a random drive failure when the drive is fine after going back to 8.8 for a week or more please do report this to Intel here:
Line: Chipset Software
Product: Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager
So far no drive failed when I went back to 22.214.171.1249.
I will give it some days then reinstall 184.108.40.2062 and see if a drive fails again.
Odd I'm sure it said 126.96.36.1992 when a downloaded it? Either way a did a hash check its the same as 188.8.131.523 so same problem.
Just a note about error recovery in hard drives. A regular desktop-class drive is configured to be very persistent when it comes to data errors; this can cause problems in a RAID configuration. There's a good article about it on Wikipedia:
Time-Limited Error Recovery
Modern hard drives feature an ability to recover from some read/write errors by internally remapping sectors and other forms of self test and recovery. The process for this can sometimes take several seconds or (under heavy usage) minutes, during which time the drive is unresponsive. RAID controllers are designed to recognize a drive which does not respond within a few seconds, and mark it as unreliable, indicating that it should be withdrawn from use and the array rebuilt from parity data. This is a long process, degrades performance, and if a second drive should fail under the resulting additional workload, it can be catastrophic.
If the drive itself is inherently reliable but has some bad sectors, then TLER and similar features prevent a disk from being unnecessarily marked as "failed" by limiting the time spent on correcting detected errors before advising the array controller of a failed operation. The array controller can then handle the data recovery for the limited amount involved, rather than marking the entire drive as faulty.
The article primarily addresses Western Digital's implementation of this feature, but it also mentions Seagate (Error Recovery Control [ERC]) and Samsung & Hitachi (Command Completion Time Limit [CCTL]). Here's another short article that specifically addresses Seagate:
What is Error Recovery Control?
Western Digital has a utility to enable/disable TLER in their drives' firmware. However, it doesn't look like Seagate is so accomodating; their solution is to buy enterprise-class drives.
It could be that recent releases of the Intel Matrix Storage Manager software are less tolerant of these error-recovery delays. Some people have reported problems with 8.8 and 8.9 that were solved by dropping back to 8.7.
Thanks for the reply
I'm not having any problems with 18.104.22.1689 so far if that means anything.
What I don't get is a drive would fail over night (with 126.96.36.1993) when the system is idle...I could try an experiment where I give the drives something to do over night or do you think its a coincidence that two random drives failed over night?
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I have been using the above system now 8 months, updating to the latest version of IMSM each time a new version was released, The last update was April 2009 when 188.8.131.52 was released. All versions of IMSM worked fine until I updated to 126.96.36.1993 on the 18 July 2009 and within 4 hours I had two major system lockups where I had to use the reset button and go through the volume rebuild process each time. Since nothing else had changed on the system I quickly decided to go back to 126.96.36.1999, and since then I have had no problems - the system is as it was before I updated to 18.104.22.1683. I wasted a whole day on this problem.
I complained to Intel and got a quick reply, but unfortunately it was not much use. In summary they said that 8.9 had been fully tested, and had passed those tests, that they had no other reports of problems, and therefore there was nothing wrong with it! They told me to update the HDD firmware, the Intel Option ROM and the MB BIOS!
Because I downloaded 8.9 as soon as it appeared on the Intel website I checked again to see if it had been withdrawn or changed. I noticed that some of the download documentation referred to 126.96.36.1992 and other in places it referred to 22.214.171.1243. There was obviously some confusion inside Intel. I contacted customer support again and asked whether 18.104.22.1683 was the correct version. They replied that 18.104.22.1683 was the correct version, and that was the version that downloaded, and that the mention of 22.214.171.1242 was simply a mistake on the website. They also reiterated that there is nothing wrong with 220.127.116.113.
Over the years I have probably used all versions of IMSM and IAA and have only had a problem with one other version which they acknowledged. With other users now having the same problem Intel have obviously dropped the ball again - they need to recognize it! Everyone who has the problem should complain to Intel and perhaps they will the acknowledge the problem and do something about it. Otherwise we may find the same issue being rolled over into 8.10
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I built the above system 8 months ago and have used each IMSM as soon as it was posted on the Intel website. Version 22.214.171.1249 was installed in April and worked flawlessly until I updated to 18.104.22.1683. Within 4 hours of installing 8.9 I had two major system freezes which I could only get out of by using Reset and waiting for the volume to rebuild. Each time IMSM reported different drives had failed, either port 2 or 3. Nothing else had changed on the system and I was not doing anything different or difficult on the system when it froze. I quickly decided that I had had enough of 8.9 and went back to 22.214.171.1249. Since then (several days) I have had no problems at all - the system is behaving as it did before I put on 8.9.
Annoyed about the whole day I lost recovering from these problems I complained to Intel. In summary, Intel replied that 8.9 had been fully tested, they had no other reports of problems and that there was nothing wrong with it! They then went on to advise me to update the HDD firmware, the Intel Option ROM and MB BIOS! Their reply was arrogant, some would say rude.
Needless to say I have not done any of their suggested updates and the system is now working just fine on 220.127.116.119. Also as far as I know I have the latest firmwares and BIOS anyway.
With others reporting exactly the same problems there is obviously bug in 8.9 which Intel need to acknowledge and fix. Everyone who has experienced this problem should complain to Intel, otherwise it wont get fixed, and may even get carried over into 8.10.
PeterUK wrote:
What I don't get is a drive would fail over night (with 220.127.116.113) when the system is idle...I could try an experiment where I give the drives something to do over night or do you think its a coincidence that two random drives failed over night?
Is your computer set to do a virus scan or a disk defrag in the middle of the night? Perhaps the drives in question have some marginal sectors. When the drives tried to read/write data at those locations, they had trouble and went into error-recovery mode. This took longer than IMSM 8.9 was willing to wait, so the software flagged them as failed and took them out of the RAID. That does seem to be a bit much for mere coincidence, but it's still a possibility.
As a test, you could tell Windows to perform an error-check on the drives, selecting "Automatically fix file system errors" and "Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors". This will take a while to complete, especially with large RAID arrays. If your drives have bad sectors that aren't locked out, this should find them and fix the problem. I recommend that you back up your critical data beforehand, just to be safe.
Nope just nothing at night... I don't know maybe if it happen in the day then I would think its this Time-Limited Error Recovery thing but I'm sure its more then just that in this version.
I took the drives out of RAID to run them as SATA mode so I can see the S.M.A.R.T and all 6 drives seem fine no Reallocated Sectors for the 3 x ST380811AS and only one of the three ST3320620AS had 169 Reallocated Sectors but that's part of the storage array not the OS array where the problem happened.
I did a "Automatically fix file system errors" and "Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors" on both arrays some months back but could run just to be sure anyway.
In the system log when it happened both times I got lots of this:
The device, \Device\Ide\iaStor0, did not respond within the timeout period.
PeterUK wrote:
In the system log when it happened both times I got lots of this:
The device, \Device\Ide\iaStor0, did not respond within the timeout period.
One of the drives in your RAID array is busy doing something; it would be nice if the log recorded more detail....
Check the data cables on the drives and make sure they're fully seated. You could also try replacing the cables with known good ones to see if that helps things.
Since the arrays have been running fine for four days when going back to 8.8. its not a cable problem just like JefUK did.
I'm going to reinstall 8.9.and run some tests to me its like the driver for the RAID has nothing to do when the drives are idle and it randomly fails a drive.
But if you think about it could the problem be with the manager (IAANTmon.exe) so what I might do is have the 8.9. driver and manager 8.8. I can't see any risk in doing this.
The problem I had was not a timeout error, there were no timeout error messages. I have had timeout errors on other systems, sometimes they have been caused by drive problems, but I have also have had them due to a faulty PSU (which took a long time to find). It does not necessarily follow that time out errors are caused by faulty HDD's.
The only messages I got were warnings about the volume being rebuilt. The fact that my system has worked perfectly on 8.6, 8.7 and 8.8, failed with 8.9, and now works perfectly with 8.8 again I believe is proof, as conclusive as it can be, that the problem lies with 8.9. For the short time I was using 8.9 I had a feeling that the system was not as responsive as it was with 8.8 - but that may be imagination. 8.9 appeared to install correctly and IMSM reported all the various modules as 184.108.40.2063.
in the week that passed since i installed v8.9 (as an upgrade over v8.8) i had about 6 system freezes and today 1 hdd volume marked as degraded (and its hdd labelled as with errors) for no apparent reason, except for the fact that the windows system event log contains a few events of type event id 9: "The device, \Device\Ide\iaStor0, did not respond within the timeout period."
the freezes: when they happen, the mouse remains responsive, but the OS refuses to do any action, not even alt+tab has any effect (but is recognized and the task switcher overlay appears), during this time the hdd light flashes very lightly, about every 2 seconds, staying lit for only a few milliseconds
today i had another of these freezes, but after waiting a while and then pressing the reset button, i was met by the message that the drive is being marked as with errors. now i'm in the middle of rebuilding a mirror volume on it.
After it finishes rebuilding i'll install v8.8 back.
Quotes from the report created by the manager console:
Kit Installed: 184.108.40.2063
Kit Install History: 184.108.40.2063, Uninstall
Shell Version: 18.104.22.1683
OS Name: Microsoft Windows XP Professional
OS Version: 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 Build 2600
System Manufacturer: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
System Model: P5B-Premium
Processor: Intel Pentium III Xeon processor ~2507 MHz
BIOS Version/Date: American Megatrends Inc. 1102 , 07/14/2008
Language: ENU
btw the CPU is an intel E5200, s-spec: SLAY7, it is wrongly detected as a Xeon by the Matrix Storage Console in that system report. WinXPSP3 has all the updates available from Microsoft Update applied.
Status: Rebuilding
Hard Drive Data Cache Enabled: Yes
Size: 1192.3 GB
Free Space: 0 GB
Number of Hard Drives: 2
Hard Drive Member 1: WDC WD6401AALS-00L3B2
Hard Drive Member 2: WDC WD6401AALS-00L3B2
Number of Volumes: 2
Volume Member 1: stripe
Volume Member 2: mirror
Status: Normal
System Volume: Yes
Volume Write-Back Cache Enabled: No
RAID Level: RAID 0 (striping)
Strip Size: 64 KB
Size: 600 GB
Physical Sector Size: 512 Bytes
Logical Sector Size: 512 Bytes
Number of Hard Drives: 2
Hard Drive Member 1: WDC WD6401AALS-00L3B2
Hard Drive Member 2: WDC WD6401AALS-00L3B2
Parent Array: Array_0000
Status: Rebuilding: 52% complete
System Volume: No
Volume Write-Back Cache Enabled: No
RAID Level: RAID 1 (mirroring)
Size: 296.1 GB
Physical Sector Size: 512 Bytes
Logical Sector Size: 512 Bytes
Number of Hard Drives: 2
Hard Drive Member 1: WDC WD6401AALS-00L3B2
Hard Drive Member 2: WDC WD6401AALS-00L3B2
Parent Array: Array_0000
Hard Drive 0
Usage: Array member
Status: Normal
Device Port: 0
Device Port Location: Internal
Current Serial ATA Transfer Mode: Generation 2
Model: WDC WD6401AALS-00L3B2
Serial Number: --------------not posted here-------------------
Firmware: 01.03B01
Native Command Queuing Support: Yes
Hard Drive Data Cache Enabled: Yes
Size: 596.1 GB
Physical Sector Size: 512 Bytes
Logical Sector Size: 512 Bytes
Number of Volumes: 2
Volume Member 1: stripe
Volume Member 2: mirror
Parent Array: Array_0000
Hard Drive 1
Usage: Array member
Status: Normal
Device Port: 1
Device Port Location: Internal
Current Serial ATA Transfer Mode: Generation 2
Model: WDC WD6401AALS-00L3B2
Serial Number: --------------not posted here-------------------
Firmware: 01.03B01
Native Command Queuing Support: Yes
Hard Drive Data Cache Enabled: Yes
Size: 596.1 GB
Physical Sector Size: 512 Bytes
Logical Sector Size: 512 Bytes
Number of Volumes: 2
Volume Member 1: stripe
Volume Member 2: mirror
Parent Array: Array_0000
Hi aditza welcome to the problem.
I've done a test with 8.9. driver and manager 8.8 problem happened again so I'm now trying 8.8. driver and manager 8.9 just to see if its just driver. If it runs fine for a week with this setup then I report my finding to Intel to pull the driver off the site before many people replace good drives.
You would think they have someone over looking these posts from time to time just to see how real a problem this is?
follow-up: i installed v126.96.36.1999 again and did a full verification of both volumes (stripe and mirror), the verification took about three hours but it seems i got away clean, no errors whatsoever, ZERO!
i'll have to wait and see if it freezes again, but since i've been running the v8.8 for more than a month on this machine and didn't have any problem before deciding to try v8.9, i think that they won't happen again and that 8.9 was the source of the freezes. i'll post back in a week or two if i had any more freezes or not.


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Permanent mobile Internet access might sound like a nightmare for some, but for others it is a dream come true. All you need is Linux and a fairly recent mobile phone.
General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) is a communication standard for mobile phone networks that is designed for efficient data transfer. GPRS, which is typically faster than older, circuit-switched services, is not intended for voice communication but is, instead, tailored for activities such as email and web browsing over the mobile network. One important quality of GPRS is that it has the effect of being "always on." You do not have to dial a number in order to access GPRS services. Many mobile phone networks now offer GPR Service to their users. A tool for called GPRS Easy Connect brings GPR Service to the Linux world. With Linux and GPRS Easy Connect, you are just one click away from mobile Internet access. The current version of this Perl program supports about 300 mobile phones and around 200 providers. You'll find a detailed list of supported devices and providers on the project homepage at [1].
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Los Angeles County fire fighters Pat Dunham (L) and Steve Bermau look on as the out of control Station Fire threatens a home on near Ocean View Drive in the La Canada Flintridge foothills above Los Angeles on August 29, 2009 in Los Angeles, California.
The federal government will investigate last year's deadly Station Fire. The audit comes at the urging of Southern California lawmakers.
The Government Accountability Office has agreed to a full investigation of the Station Fire, from its start on August 26 until fire crews contained it in mid-October of last year.
The Station Fire killed two firefighters and destroyed dozens of homes. The U.S. Forest Service has attracted criticism for not providing enough personnel or air support during the first critical hours of the fire.
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Luke Fickell now very confident at the mic
At today's presser, Ohio State head coach Luke Fickell appeared very relaxed and confident.
Ohio State isn't playing as well as they'd like; but considering the extremely challenging circumstances, we feel Fickell is doing a pretty good job.
If you know Fick, jump forward in this video to the 1:45 mark and listen to the [ridiculous] question from a reporter and then enjoy his response. Classic.
Spurrier shuts down a reporter
1pm Update> South Carolina has just released that they have dismissed quarterback Stephen Garcia from the team.
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Coaches, this video is worth 2 minutes of your time.
Steve Spurrier "disassociating" himself from a local reporter. "I don't have to talk while he's in the room and I don't have to talk to him. It's my right."
Spurrier says that this is only the 2nd time he's had to do this in 26 years and he's doing it because Spurrier says the guy is not truthful about the program.
Texas Tech and A&M officially no longer friends
Tech and A&M won't be "hangin' out at the mall together" anymore. On and off the field issues arose this weekend and they don't seem to have dissipated just yet.
First, off the field...
It was widely reported before their game on Saturday that A&M's team busses had been vandalized. There were rumors that the buses had been painted and that an odorous brown substance had been thrown on and inside the buses.
Most presumed that while some portion of that might be true, some of that has to have been blown out of proportion by the media.
Then Texas A&M athletic director took to twitter to (ahem) clear the air:
Someone vandalized our buses in Lubbock. Excrement inside and outside of buses plus spray painted vulgarities on outside. Classy.
Texas Tech responded with a press release:
Many of you are aware of a tweet from a Texas A&M official that their team buses were spray painted and animal feces were spread inside of the buses early Saturday morning. The clear implication of the tweet was that this was the responsibility of Texas Tech fans or students. Texas Tech has conducted an investigation regarding this allegation, and has discovered the following:
- The buses were not spray painted. Instead, washable shoe polish was used on the windows of one of the buses.
- No feces were found either in or on the buses. Fish bait was dropped onto the floor of one of the buses.
- The alleged "vandalism" was cleaned by the bus drivers and Holiday Inn staff before it was seen by the A&M official who tweeted the information.
While incidents such as the ones alleged are inappropriate and strongly condemned by Texas Tech, it is no less wrong to condemn the entirety of our university, students and supporters by posting inaccurate information on the internet for the purpose of sensationalizing the actions of one or a very few. We are disturbed by the careless use of social media to share these inaccuracies.
So, shoe polish, not spray paint and fish bait, not excrement. Much better. Thanks for clearing that up Tech.
Now, on the field...
After their 45-40 loss to A&M Saturday, head coach Tommy Tuberville seemed to insinuate that A&M defenders were taking dives to slow down Tech's offense, "That was kind of interesting. They'd go down and come back the next play. But I guess that's football."
Tech's offensive coordinator, Neal Brown, added, "It was kind of ironic how they would have these bad injuries and then they would be back two plays later."
Yesterday, A&M defensive coordinator Tim DeRuyter responded, "I take offense. We never teach that."
He added that if Tech wanted to "use that as an excuse then go ahead."
Ought to be fun on the recruiting trails in Texas over the next few months.
Auctioning off the Tunnel Walk
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Northern Iowa is auctioning off the opportunity to join the team during the tunnel walk.
"Experience what it feels like prior to running out on the field on game day. Bid today for your chance to be in the garage with the UNI Football team prior to the Southern Illinios game on October 22nd. Package includes four tickets to the game and four autographed game programs...A maximum of 2 people in the garage only - no children allowed under the age of 18.
The auction ends in about 3 days. They are currently looking for their first bid at $250.
Interesting idea.
Mack Brown has never lost the week following OU game
Hard to imagine; but it's true...Mack Brown is 13-0 in games immediately following their match-up with Oklahoma.
Mike Gundy thinks that record is about to be broken.
Saturday at 3:30, Oklahoma State plays at Texas in a game that if Oklahoma State can win will put the Cowboys at 6-0, 3-0 in conference. A lot of chatter out there about "what if" both Oklahoma State and Oklahoma make it to the final week of the season for an undefeated showdown.
As Gundy would quickly tell you, the Cowboys have a long way to go between here and there with games at Missouri, Baylor and Kansas State at home, then at Texas Tech, at Iowa State and finally the big one with OU at home. Tough schedule; but...
Gundy knows this is a big one; but he's not crazy enough to make any outlandish predictions ahead of this game. He's grown up. He's a man. Seriously, watch a few seconds below after they nearly hung 100 on Kansas he didn't even make any jokes (and thankfully he didn't dance either).
No TV Tuesday; but next week...
No live games on TV tonight; but thanks to the fine folks of the Sun Belt conference (well actually thanks to the TV money from ESPN...well actually from the viewers) beginning next Tuesday we will have live action!
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Arizona has decided to make a change. Mike Stoops, head coach since November 2004, has been relieved of his responsibilities and defensive coordinator Tim Kish has been named interim head coach.
Stoops will be paid a $1.4 million payout. In eight seasons, Stoops went 41-50, 27-38 in the Pac-12. 7-6 in 2010, 8-5 in both 2009 and 2008.
This season the Wildcats were 1-5 and 0-4 in conference. They have lost ten consecutive games against FBS opponents. Arizona is currently 117th in scoring defense and has shown virtually no pass rush.
Athletic director Greg Byrne said he decided to make the change now because, "We want them to have some fun playing football. We wanted our coaches to have fun coaching." Byrne added that he and a few others within his staff will "take care of the search." He added, "After today, I won't speak any more about our search until we have our coach."
Kish is a member of Stoops original staff and was made co-defensive coordinator two seasons ago and then was promoted to defensive coordinator after last season. He spent most of the decade before he came to Arizona in the Big Ten with stints at Indiana, Illinois and Northwestern. Prior to that he spent a good amount of time at Army and a few seasons at Ball State and Purdue.
Don't expect this search to get deep into December; and depending on the route they go could be filled well before that.
10:30pm Update> If you want to watch the presser that AD Greg Byrne held this evening about this you can do so at this link. Byrne did state at the presser that none of the assistants have multi-year contracts...all are under contract through June 2012.
10:45pm Update> Mike Stoops has just released the following statement:
I am very proud of the Wildcat football program and the many accomplishments we have enjoyed. Topping that list is our qualifying for consecutive bowl games the past three seasons for only the second time in school history.
I am also proud of the success our players demonstrated off the field. Not only has our team Academic Progress Rate (APR) improved significantly each of the past five years, but also our players have made great strides in conducting themselves in a manner that reflects the ideals of this University.
When I took this job, I was hoping to be the first coach to lead this program to a Rose Bowl. Although we fell short of that goal, we made significant progress, and our organization continues to strive for excellence.
I wish the entire Wildcat football program the best of luck going forward, and I thank the University of Arizona for the opportunity to be a part of the successes we have achieved over the past eight seasons.
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The first minute is all you need to see. This was this morning.
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Paris Fashion Week ended Wednesday, after a whirlwind of shows chronicled by Times fashion critic Booth Moore, with reports on Balenciaga, Chanel, Louis Vuitton and more. But celebrity sightings seem to capture the fancy of photographers as well. Academy Award winners Lupita Nyong'o and Jared Leto appeared at Miu Miu along with Elle Fanning, Elizabeth Olsen, Bella Heathcote and Rihanna -- who was all over the place during the week. Kanye West popped up at Balenciaga, where supermodel Gisele Bundchen made a rare appearance on the runway. Thom Yorke of Radiohead seemed to be the guest of honor at Dries van Noten, and Catherine Deneuve was photographed at Etam, among other places. Celebrity sightings at H&M pulled in Solange Knowles, Jessica Alba and Miranda Kerr.


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I was going to write about how Ovechkin has fared since his suspension, but apparently I've been living in a protective plastic dome (please don't call it a bubble, it opens the door for those mean bubble boy jokes) for the last little while because apparently that topic has already been covered by Sports Illustrated and Yahoo! Sports.
Instead, I will talk about something near and dear to my heart, defensemen. There are some interesting situations playing out or about to play out in a few Eastern Conference cities.
One that comes quickly to mind is the Islanders 24-year-old Andrew MacDonald. He had five points in the five games immediately preceding the December 28 trade of James Wisniewski to Montreal. MacDonald was the Isles sixth round pick, 160 overall in 2006.
In his major junior career, MacDonald scored 46 points in 68 games in his second last season and 58 points in 65 games in his final go-round in the QMJHL. His first professional season was rough as he split time between the AHL (five points in 21 games) and ECHL (12 points in 37 games). The following season was his best as a pro, scoring 32 points in 69 AHL games. MacDonald split last season between the AHL, where he recorded eight points in 21 games, and the NHL, scoring seven points in 46 matches.
That brings us to this season. He started the year with a grand total of zero points in his first 11 games. He did break his hand during that period, but in his last 11 games, he has 10 points including seven via the power play. MacDonald has played less than 20 minutes in only six of his 22 games this season and one of those was the game his hand was broken in. He was wearing an A on his jersey tonight.
So is MacDonald for real you ask? The jury is still out, but if you are in a salary cap league that requires a number of defensemen, then why not ride the wave for now and see where it takes him? I am.
Sticking with the 2006 draft. This guy was taken by the Sabres in the second round, 57 overall. You'll never confuse Buffalo's Mike Weber with the Preds Shea "Butter" Weber.
The 6'2" 211 pound 23-year-old averages over 15 minutes of ice time, but does not receive any appreciable power play time.
In his final season of junior hockey, Weber had 34 points and 172 penalty minutes in 60 games. Last year, Weber recorded 21 points and 153 penalty minutes in 80 AHL games. This season, he started with no points in his first 15 contests and then rattled off five points in three consecutive games.
My take on Weber is that those three games are an anomaly and he'll be lucky to finish the season with more than 10 points. He only holds value in leagues where you can carry a one dimensional player, in this case, penalty minutes.
The real under the radar guy on Buffalo we should be talking about is Andrej Sekera. He started this campaign with five points in 27 games, but may have turned the corner by following that up with seven points in his next 10 games ending New Year's Day. Three of those seven points were collected on the power play.
Sekera played two seasons in the OHL and recorded 55 points in 51 games in his final year. I love it when CHL defensemen score more than a point-per-game, it is an obvious indication of their offensive ability. It's out of the ordinary for a defenseman who don't display offensive ability in junior to just turn it on in the NHL. Yes, there are such things as late bloomers, but they are very rare birds indeed.
After junior, Sekera split the next three seasons shuttling back and forth between the AHL and NHL never once hitting the 20 point mark in either league. The 24-year-old Slovak defender plays over 21 minutes a game, behind only Jordan Leopold and Tyler Myers, and gets second unit power play opportunities.
I'm on the fence with this guy. Both Myers and Leopold are ahead of Sekera in the Sabres pecking order. I'd be a little more stoked if he received top power play minutes and the Sabres top offensive player, Derek Roy, wasn't out for the season. Still, the talent is there, so if you are in a deep league and in need of a defenseman, he's likely worth a flyer.
Adding 30-year-old Marc-Andre Bergeron to the Tampa Bay power play will have a negative trickle down effect on Brett Clark, Pavel Kubina and Victor Hedman. Once Bergeron returns from a conditioning stint, all three of them will eventually see a decrease in their man advantage minutes. Tampa often fields four forwards with the extra man. Bergeron is a pure power play specialist.
Last season, Bergeron scored at a 46 point pace, recording 34 points in 60 games for Montreal. His best season in the NHL was in 2006-07 where he split the year between Edmonton and Long Island. After being dealt to the Islanders, Bergeron scorched the final 23 games to the tune of 21 points on his way to a 46 point finish.
I've don't ever remember seeing a defenseman put up a season like Bergeron had in his final QMJHL year. He scored 42 goals (still a QMJHL record) and 101 points in 69 games. Not bad numbers, you know, for a defenseman.
The conditioning stint may last longer than the standard two weeks, but I can't see it taking much more than three weeks. Bergeron had off-season knee surgery, but has passed a physical and has been cleared to return to action. This is a gamble that could pay off handsomely.


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A judge says Texas Gov. Rick Perry and three other presidential candidates are likely to prevail on a key issue in their lawsuit seeking inclusion on Virginia's Republican primary ballot.
U.S. District Judge John Gibney said in court papers Tuesday that a provision that allows only Virginia residents to circulate petitions to get candidates on the ballot is probably unconstitutional. Gibney was explaining his order barring distribution of absentee ballots until after a Friday hearing.
Perry sued after failing to collect the 10,000 voter signatures required to qualify for the state's March 6 primary. Newt Gingrich, Jon Huntsman and Rick Santorum also failed to qualify and later joined Perry's lawsuit.
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