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Many men would jump at the chance to date country cutie Taylor Swift – and Olympic alpine skier Will Brandenburg is one of them.
"Taylor Swift, will you be my Valentine?" the first-time Olympian asked on MTV News' cameras this week while in Whistler to compete at the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Access Hollywood caught up with Brandenburg, who told Access he was still waiting to hear from the singer, who's currently on a world tour.
"I've heard nothing about it," he laughed. "No response yet. I don't know if I'll get one, either."
But the 23-year-old athlete added that he's not giving up hope just yet.
"I think a lot of people have seen it… she's a nice a girl so if she wants to go on a date, we'll go on a date," he said.
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text: Finally took a crack at rehandling my Tojiro ITK bread knife and I'm pretty happy with the results. Dave, Stefan, Marko and Mike etc... you guys need to charge more. :laugh: Maybe it's just because it was my first one and I wanted to take special care not to ruin anything but I suspect you guys take the same precautions. Anyway I didn't take pics all the way through but I can explain my process. 1: Drill off old scales. 2: Grind the tang clean and leave it rough. 3: Drill tang holes 1/4" 4: Trace scales on new wood then rough shape them on belt grinder. 5: Sand scales flat on diamond plate wrapped with sandpaper. 6: Rough cut liner material. 7: Prep liner material and scales by roughing up then cleaning with alcohol. 8: Prepare devcon 2 ton 30 min epoxy and spread on inside of scales then apply to liner material and clamp. 9: Wait 10: Shape, round and polish the front of the scale since this would be much harder once attached. 11: Prepare the tand and scale with roughing and cleaning with alcohol. 12: Prepare epoxy and apply to tang and scale then fit up the scale and clamp. 13: Wait. 14: Drill from the tang side through the scale completely. 15: Prepare other scale, epoxy, clamp. 16: Wait. 17: Drill back from the first scale through the second. 18: Cut mosaic bar into three appropriately sized pieces with a hack saw. 19: Rough up the pins, chamfer the edges and clean with alcohol. 20: Clean the inside of the scale/tang holes with alcohol until cotton swab comes out clean. 21: Prepare epoxy and line the holes with it and coat the pins as well then tap pins through the holes. 22: With a plier, twist pins until they are all facing straight up. 23: Wait. 24: Final rough shaping on belt sander until scales meet the tang smoothly, including grinding off excess pin material until flush. 25: Grind in rough angles all around edges on both sides. 26: Hand shaping and sanding from 100 grit up to 12,000 grit. 27: Mineral oil hand buffing. 28: Pics....... 29: Forget what wood it is.. There's some checks that appeared after sanding so I'm thinking ca glue then re sand a bit. But in any case, I'm happy with it for my first try. What do you guys think?

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Update #2 on "FOSS multimedia authoring doesn't quite cut it"Friday, March 5th, 2010
This post is the reply from Shri Anindya Banerji, multimedia developer to the clarifications sought by Dr Mandar Mitra. I'm posting the Shri Banerji's clarifications verbatim.
Legend : [MM] = Mandar Mitra; [AB] = Anindya Banerji. AB's clarifications are italicized. The text in bold-italics are from the original mail from Mr. Banerji.
Audacity (as a substitute of Audition)
> Codecs are very poor
[MM] Poor in terms of supported formats? What format were you decoding from / encoding to?
[AB] formats and standards including ASIO, VST, DirectX, and ReWire.
> MP3 cannot be edited properly
[MM] What problem did you face? Again, I have used Audacity to edit mp3 files without issues.
> Cannot be converted into MP3 properly
[MM] I usually do my editing on wav files, and use lame separately to encode to mp3. I know audacity can be set up to use lame directly.
[AB] problem regarding transparent sample rate conversions of files from a wide array of sources and deliver them in the audio format including Windows PCM (WAV), OGG, AIFF, MP3, and WMA with customizable dither settings whether converting material to 44.1kHz, 48kHz, or 96kHz for CD, video, or DVD to get great-sounding results
> Conforming process frequently crashes
[MM] What is a conforming process? I have been using Audacity for several years now, and cannot recall a crash.
> Unsafe rendering
[MM] What does unsafe rendering mean?
[AB] no convenient batch processing feature to convert large numbers of files that have different formats, sample rates, and bit depths to one common format, or to apply scripts to multiple files
crashed many times while problems regarding rendering realtime, while overlaid ( not punched ) numerous sub-takes and saving multiple audio files faster with simply specifying the file format, location, filename template, and more, and these parameters to be applied to each file in the batch synchronization between audio and video playback over projects of any length
> Too few tools to operate
[MM] What tools were you looking for that you did not find?
[AB] looking for :
- quick mix files together by dragging clips and controlling automatic crossfades with on-clip handles
- effects including Convolution Reverb, Analog Delay, Mastering tool and Tube-modeled Compressor
- looping tools
- phase analysis tools
- effects Paintbrush tool
- spot Healing Brush tool
- phase Correction tool
- adaptive Noise Reduction tool
- spectral Frequency Display tool
- lasso tool in Spectral Frequency
- delete Silence feature
> Recording in full duplex cannot done properly
[MM] What is recording in full duplex? Playback during recording? What "improper" behaviour did you observe? In any case, for archival quality recording, you want to leave the processor as lightly loaded as possible. When I feel really uptight about this, I switch to single user mode (telinit 1) and do my recording using arecord, and edit later using Audacity.
> Dubbing facility is not available
[MM] Did you mean adding an audio track to a video recording? AFAIK, Audacity does not have a video component, so yes, I agree that's not available. But why would you use an audio editor to do dubbing? Or maybe I am misunderstanding the problem.
[AB] problems regarding,
- display video while scrub, keyframe view, and edit sound automation in it, match up audio with the action onscreen.
- editing the soundtracks for videos
- Stretch effects or dialog to fit a video clip by simply dragging the edge of the clip in Multitrack View
- synchronization between your audio and video playback over projects of any length
- editing soundtracks for video and then export the enhanced video in AVI, MPEG, DV, or WMV format
- digitally extract tracks from audio CDs to hard drive for project use
- Seeing level meters that are in use for the master track as well as for multiple input devices, and for multiple output devices
- listening audio inputs through the software, including effects applied to the input track, then modify parameters after recording, if desired
- quickly fixing recording errors by punching in corrections on-the-fly as you rerecord, Toggle the record button to punch in new take only where to replace the old one. Punch in and out as many times as you want
- altering tempo without changing pitch, or change pitch without tempo distortion


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Seattleites, tune in to 1150AM KKNW this Wednesday from 8am-9am when Bob Betz of Betz Family Winery and I will be talking about Washington wine on TableTalk.
Today, just a few pictures from a trip last week to the Willamette Valley. Click on the pictures for larger images.
Looking out over the Willamette Valley.
Soil types at Lange Winery in Dundee.
Willakenzie soils at Willakenzie Estate Winery
Jory soils near Willamette Valley Vineyards.
Willamette Valley soil.
Spring in the vineyard
Not so Spring in the vineyard
Moss on the vines
Wine Country Porn from Oregon
Seattleites, tune in to 1150AM KKNW this Wednesday from 8am-9am when Bob Betz of Betz Family Winery and I will be talking about Washington wine on TableTalk.
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Roger Says:
Mmmm...Willamette Valley Porn...
It's so beautiful down there especially during the fall around sunset when the hills have a golden glow. Strangely, I never traveled there until two years ago, and it was one of those, "Where have you been all my life?" moments.
I love the small wineries tucked all over the place, and if you're into Oregon wine, driving down certain roads (like 99W) is like a going to Disneyland as a kid.
Anonymous Says:
Sean - I love all of your great photos - fun day in the field together!
Sean P. Sullivan Says:
Scott, thanks for a great tour! Very much appreciated.
Clive Pursehouse Says:
I love Eastern Washington but it's desert climate doesn't quite capture the imagination the way Willamette Valley wine country does. Beautiful year round.
Sean P. Sullivan Says:
Clive, very distinct areas. The lush greenness of the Willamette Valley stands in stark contrast to the desert of eastern Washington. Moss on the vines? Who'd have thunk?


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Five teen personalities, one afternoon in detention. What film is this?
"The Breakfast Club" is a very definitive 1980s film for sure, perhaps John Hughes' signature work as a writer-director. These personalities were played very well by Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, Anthony Michael Hall and '80s film teen princess Molly Ringwald.


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Tackling gender based violence in Zambia by expanding access to quality comprehensive services and promoting gender equality
Call for Investment in Women and Girls at CARE's National Conference
More Than 250 Advocates Call for Investment in Women and Girls at CARE's National Conference & International Women's Day Celebration
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Advocates voice the need for a robust U.S. foreign assistance budget and attention to gender-based violence.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 4, 2013) - From across the country, more than 250 advocates from the poverty-fighting organization CARE will convene at the organization's annual conference and International Women's Day Celebration to voice their support for critical funding and programs to improve the lives of marginalized women and girls around the globe.
Key speakers include former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson, CNN's Senior Congressional Correspondent Dana Bash and former U.S. Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey.
This year marks CARE's 11th annual conference, which draws in advocates from nearly every state, partner organizations, corporations and leaders in global development, media and politics to advocate for the crucial need for continued foreign assistance funding. This year's conference also highlights the issue of gender-based violence. It is estimated that at least one out of three women globally will be beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused in her lifetime. Gender-based violence can often thwart or hinder development efforts.
"It is truly amazing that so many passionate advocates have come to Washington to speak out for marginalized girls and women around the world," said Helene D. Gayle, president and CEO of CARE.
"With one voice, they are standing up for vital, effective U.S. foreign assistance that changes millions of lives for the better. They're also asking our leaders to do more to address critical issues such as gender-based violence. Smart investments in foreign aid do not weaken us; in fact, they strengthen our nation's image abroad and enhance our national security. Even in this tough economy, we simply cannot afford any more cuts."
With the issue of gender-based violence highlighted at this year's conference, the event will also be an opportunity to celebrate the passage of the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act (VAWA), a law which is significant for women and girls in the US. The law also includes provisions to prioritize the reduction of child marriage internationally. Specifically, it requires the U.S. Secretary of State to "establish and implement a multi-year, multi-sectoral strategy to prevent child marriage."
The celebration kicks off tonight with a diplomatic reception at the French Embassy. CARE will screen a portion of the documentary film Girl Rising, which is set for release later this week. Girl Rising showcases the stories of nine girls in countries from Peru to Nepal who have fought to attend school despite the extreme poverty they faced. After the screening, Dr. Gayle will host a discussion with film's producer Martha Adams.
On Wednesday, advocates will participate in a trainings sessions and workshops on topics such as media outreach and international development. The training will equip advocates as they head to Capitol Hill on Thursday for more than 175 meetings with members of Congress. They will be taking an active role in influencing U.S. policies that affect the world's most vulnerable populations.
"Giving money or holding personal convictions is not sufficient to bring about sustainable change in people's lives," said CARE advocate Henry A. Bromelkamp of Minnesota, who is attending the conference. "The real solution is to change the policies and practices that bring about and promote poverty and inequality, and that requires us to work to change the system. For Americans, the best way to do that is to talk to Congress."
Many partners helped make CARE's Conference and International Women's Day celebration possible including, The UPS Foundation, Gap, The Walmart Foundation, Pfizer Global Health Fellows, Cargill Inc., Colgate-Palmolive Company, Delta Air Lines and General Mills.
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EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Aug. 19, 2012 -- Intelsat 21, the second Boeing [NYSE: BA] 702 Medium Power (MP) satellite, has begun sending signals from its preliminary transfer orbit in space.
Approximately 55 minutes following liftoff at 11:55 p.m. Pacific time on Aug. 18, Boeing's Mission Control Center in El Segundo received initial data from the satellite and confirmed that it was functioning normally. The satellite, launched aboard a Sea Launch Zenit-3SL rocket from the Pacific Ocean, is the second of four 702MP satellites Boeing is building for satellite services provider Intelsat.
"Intelsat 21 will continue to serve our customers in the thriving media programming sector in Latin America," said Thierry Guillemin, Intelsat senior vice president and chief technical officer. "And with C- and Ku-band services designed to span four continents, it will enhance Intelsat's global mobility network by supporting the connectivity requirements of our maritime and aeronautical customers across the South Atlantic."
Replacing Intelsat 9 at 302 degrees east longitude, the high-powered Intelsat 21 satellite will complete checkout and testing before entering service later this year.
"Boeing drew on the proven heritage of the Boeing 702 product line and a modular-design approach for the 702MP to enable faster delivery at a lower cost," said Craig Cooning, chief executive officer of Boeing Satellite Systems International and vice president and general manager of Boeing Space & Intelligence Systems. "As we fulfill the four-satellite order Intelsat placed with us in 2009, we will continue to deliver a quality product."
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Storyteller Master shares Stories of Christmas Memories
Master Stroyteller Nanette Watts comes to share her Christmas Memories with St. George Audiences on Dec 13 and 14, 2013 7:PM at the St. George Opera House. The Historic Opera House is located only two blocks away from the Best Western Coral Hills.
Come enjoy a heartwarming evening of Christmas memories and stories with Master Storyteller, Nannette Watts. Energetic, high-strung, full of life, funny, graceful, animated, spunky, … are words people are using to describe Nannette Watts' storytelling.
Nannette masterfully blends movement and voice to create animated characters in her storytelling. You may have seen her as a featured teller at the Timpanogos Storytelling Festival, Weber State Festival, Blanding Winter, Vernal, Zion, and Snake River Storytelling Festivals, or in Libraries and schools. She has been billed as very energetic and fun to watch!
Nannette has been a professional storyteller for over a decade. Growing up, her family life was immersed in stories and storytelling. She holds a BFA in Music Dance Theatre. Nannette is a member of the Utah Storytelling Guild, Timp Tellers Chapter. She has presented workshops on storytelling from local to national venues. Nannette is a co-founder and the artistic director for Resonance Story Theatre. She is a Stories Unlimited instructor focused on teaching the art of storytelling to all ages.
Admission is $5 Adult – $4 Sr./Children/Military and seating is limited. Tickets can be obtained at the St. George Art Museum located at 47 E 200 N. Seats not claimed by 6:55 pm will be released to waiting patrons.
Season of Stories 2013-14 is a series of presentations at the St. George Opera House. Presented in conjunction with the Dixie Tellers – a chapter of the Utah Storytelling Guild. For additional information call 435-627-4510 or E-mail email@example.com
Read more: KCSG Television – Christmas Memories with Master Storyteller Nanette Watts Dec 13 14 7 00 PM


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Sesame Street for Kids
The Muppets of Sesame Street are some of the most popular characters of all time. This website includes links to a few of the books, movies, and toys devoted to the lovable gang of Sesame Street!
Here are some of the products available. This is not yet a complete list, but I'm adding items to the list daily. If you wish to purchase any of these products, click on either the title or the picture or the product name to be directed to
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Fire Protection Sprinkler Systems
From ConsumerWiki
The California Department of the State Fire Marshal approves the types of fire protection sprinkler systems that manufacturers sell in California.
Department of Forestry
Office of the State Fire Marshal
2251 Harvard Street, Suite 400
Sacramento, CA 95815
(916) 445-8200
Fire sprinkler systems:
(916) 445-8376
An individual who installs a water sprinkler system must be licensed by the Contractors State License Board (CSLB).
Department of Consumer Affairs
Contractors State License Board (CSLB)
9821 Business Park Drive
Sacramento, CA 95827
(800) 321-2752
(916) 255-3900 (Outside of CA)
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Orchard mason bees are indigenous to North America, and their role as pollinators is crucial to our indigenous plant life. Keeping mason bees is a low cost way to improve our natural environment. They are easy to maintain, and delightful to watch.
While the importance of honeybees to our food supply has been well publicized by the media, the role of native pollinators such as the orchard mason bee and the bumble bee to our ecology is less widely recognized. We are dedicated to increasing the cultural and environmental awareness of orchard mason bees (Osmia lignaria), bumble bees (Bombus), and our many other native bee pollinators. We offer both a Western Orchard Mason Bee (Osmia Lignaria Propinqua) and an Eastern Orchard Mason Bee (Osmia Lignaria Lignaria).
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Have fun in this flirty tulle skirt dress! Covered in gold and silver sequins to the hip and a sweetheart neckline make this the perfect party dress.
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A Bohemian Restaurant Wedding at Front and Palmer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Marisa Sacks (27 and a law student) and Morgan Sokol (31 and a director of government affairs) found inspiration in art. Specifically, the over-ripened fruit popular in the paintings of the Dutch masters. With that in mind, the pair planned a romantic, gothic gathering. Marisa and Morgan sourced their wedding invitations from Marisa's grandmother's stationery store and made sure to give them extra thought. "In order to make sure the invitations reflected our belief in partnership and equality, we had our names placed side by side instead of one above the other," Marisa says of the floral suite. Instead of a single officiant, the couple's parents came together to marry Marisa and Morgan. Side by side, Marisa's blush ball gown popped next to Morgan's chic trumpet-style sheath. Edison bulbs illuminated the restaurant, where guests sat down to tables topped with gold flatware and taper candles. Rather than sending partygoers off with individual favors, the newlyweds treated guests to Philadelphia-style pretzels and artisan ice cream sandwiches to enjoy on their way home.


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Two arrested for possession in Orange
Two people were arrested after police discovered methamphetamine and marijuana while investigating a report of an intoxicated female at HEB on 16th Street in Orange, Orange Police Department reports.
According to a report from OPD, officers were dispatched to the store at about 8:16 p.m. on Sunday, April 27. Upon arrival, they made contact with a female in a silver car on the south side of the parking lot matching the description of the intoxicated person as reported by the caller. She identified herself as 30-year-old Sabrina Adele Smith of Orange. According to police, Smith was "talking rapidly" and appeared "jittery" as though she was "tweaking," defined by The Urban Dictionary as a "frantic and compulsive behavior often associated with methamphetamine abuse."
Smith reportedly gave police consent to search the vehicle, a 2007 Pontiac 4-door. Upon searching the car, police say they discovered a small, clear plastic container holding three small baggies. One of the baggies allegedly contained an off-white, crystal-like substance believed by police to be methamphetamine. They also reportedly found a baggie containing a hand-rolled cigarette and green leafy substance identified by officers as marijuana. While searching the truck of the car, officers found several bags of clothing and multliple syringes. One of three syringes discovered inside a jewelry box in one of the bags contained a brown, liquid substance, like meth, police report. All in all, in addition to the filled syringe, officers reportedly recovered 21 empty syringes from the car's trunk.
Smith was arrested for possession of a controlled substance and for possession of marijuana, and her passenger, 29-year-old Cody Breaux of Orange, was arrested for possession of a controlled substance.


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And Baby Makes 300?
Prolific fathers provide new twist to "all in the family"
by David Johnson
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Hey dads, the next time you feel frustrated keeping up with your typical American brood of one, two, or maybe three children, just remember the name Ancentus Akuku.
In 2000, the BBC News reported that Akuku, his wives, and children have solved a rather uncommon family problem: they couldn't all fit into their church so they built a new one just for themselves.
An ethnic Luo from western Kenya, Akuku has been married more than 100 times. He has been divorced roughly 30 times, and he thinks he has more than 160 children, but has apparently lost track. Now 84, Akuku married Josephine, his newest wife, seven years ago and they have a son.
If You Can Afford It
According to the BBC, polygamy is a tradition among the Luo, who permit a man more than one wife, as long as he can provide for her and their children.
Not surprisingly, Akuku is quite well off for that part of the world. He owns a fleet of taxis, (driven by his sons), a general store (run by another son), and a tailor's shop (run by a daughter). In fact, Akuku appears to be connected, either by blood or marriage, to all the businesses in the area.
Correct Definitions
While polygamy has come to mean having more than one wife, it actually means having more than one spouse, and therefore could apply to women with more than one husband.
The correct term for having more than wife, polygyny, is not widely used. Polyandry means having more than one husband.
A Dying Tradition in Africa?
Some observers believe polygamy is no longer as widespread in Africa as it once was. Many women have been influenced by western values and do not want to be a second, third, or tenth wife.
In addition, Christian missionaries frown on the practice, although often, as in Akuku's case, religious leaders ignore the practice in favor of establishing congregations in an area.
Lively Debates
However, Islam permits its followers to marry up to four wives, and the debate over polygamy has cropped up around the world.
In Uganda, for instance, where traditional practices do not limit the number of wives a man may have, a proposal to limit the number of wives to two was opposed by both Muslims and Christians. Muslims wanted to be allowed four wives, while Christians favored only one.
Against the Law in Trinidad
Meanwhile, the Black World Today reports that while polygamy is illegal in the West Indian nation of Trinidad and Tobago, it is widespread among the island's substantial Muslim population, whose ancestors were brought from India by the British as indentured servants.
The Trinidad Muslim League has urged the law be changed to allow four wives.
Russia Says No
In July 1999, the Russian justice department dismissed a request by Ingushetia, a predominantly Muslim region in the Caucuses, to allow a man to marry up to four wives provided the first wife agrees. The issue has been discussed in several newly independent Central Asian nations as well.
A number of other Islamic states do permit polygamy, however.
Royal Dads
In some cases, men may have many more than four wives, particularly in Saudi Arabia and certain oil-rich Persian Gulf kingdoms. For instance some members of the Saudi Arabian royal family have received considerable publicity for their numerous wives and children.
While exact numbers are often hard to determine because of a strong tradition of family privacy, the founder of modern Saudi Arabia, King Saud is believed to have had some 80 children by 20 wives. His son, the late King Fahd, had three wives and 13 children, making them both prolific dads.
Utah Tops the List
In the United States polygamy has traditionally been practiced only by members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, better known as Mormons. In order for Utah to become a state in 1896, Mormon Church leadership officially ended their support of polygamy. However, an estimated 50,000 Mormon fundamentalists, many of whom have been excommunicated by their church, still practice polygamy.
However, non-polygamous Mormons still have higher birthrates than the United States as a whole. Hispanics also tend to have higher than average birthrates, so states with sizable Mormon or Hispanic populations lead the list of US state birthrates.
| Did you know? For more than a billion Muslims around the world, Ramadan is a "month of blessing" marked by prayer, fasting, and charity.


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Bcache allows one to use an SSD as a read/write cache (in writeback mode) or read cache (writethrough or writearound) for another blockdevice (generally a rotating HDD or array. This article will show how to install arch using Bcache as the root partition. For an intro to bcache itself, see the bcache homepage. Be sure to read and reference the bcache manual. Bcache is currently in the process of getting merged into the kernel.
Temporary install to SSD
The ArchLinux install disk does not include bcache in its kernel. You could either re-master to the install disk to include this kernel, or do the install twice. The example below is for installing twice.
- Install archlinux as normal to the SSD. Don't go crazy with partitions, just a / and an EFI system partition if you're not booting bios mode. This is just the temporary system we'll use to install the final system.
- Reboot to verify the install in step 1 worked.
- Build and install the bcache enabled kernel and tools (see below). Be sure you install both the kernel and the kernel headers packages that are created.
- Reboot to the bcache enabled kernel
Final install to the HDD
1. Partition your hdd
grub can't handle bcache, so you'll need at least 2 partitions (boot and one for the bcache backing device). If you're doing UEFI, you'll need an EFI System Partition (ESP) as well.
ex: 1 2048 22527 10.0 MiB EF00 EFI System 2 22528 432127 200.0 MiB 8300 arch_boot 3 432128 625142414 297.9 GiB 8300 bcache_backing
2. Configure your HDD as a bcache backing device.
# make-bcache -B /dev/sda3
3. Register any bcache devices with the kernel (this needs to done every bootup)
for i in /dev/sd*; do echo $i; echo $i > /sys/fs/bcache/register_quiet; done
You now have a /dev/bcache0 device
7. Format the bcache device. Use LLVM or btrfs subvolumes if you want to divide up the /dev/bcache0 device how you like (ex for seperate /, /home, /var, etc).
# mkfs.btrfs /dev/bcache0 # mount /dev/bcache0 /mnt/ # btrfs subvolume create /mnt/root # btrfs subvolume create /mnt/home # umount /mnt
8. Reinstall to the bcache volume (alternatively you can rsync the install you made on the SSD)
# mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda2 # mkfs.msdos /dev/sda1 (if your ESP is at least 500MB, use mkfs.vfat to make a FAT32 partition instead) # pacman -S arch-install-scripts # mount /dev/bcache0 -o subvol=root,compress=lzo /mnt/ # mkdir /mnt/boot # mkdir /mnt/home # mount /dev/bcache0 -o subvol=home,compress=lzo /mnt/home # mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/boot # mkdir /boot/efi # mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot/efi/
do the rest of the installation as normal
9. Build and install the bcache enabled kernel and tools (see below). Feel free to rsync the packages you already built on the SSD to avoid compiling again.
10. Edit the initramfs to register bcache devices on bootup (or it won't find root)
TODO: I'm not sure how. Currently it'll drop to a busybox shell. Type: # echo /dev/sdb > /sys/fs/bcache/register # echo /dev/sda3 > /sys/fs/bcache/register # exit and it will resume booting.
11. Reboot and make sure it works from the /dev/bcache0 device
12. delete the partitions from /dev/sdb, format it as a caching device, and link it to the backing device
# parted /dev/sdb mklabel msdos; dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=512 count=1 # make-bcache -C /dev/sdb # echo <Set UUID from previous command> > /sys/block/bcache0/bcache/attach # echo /dev/sdb > /sys/fs/bcache/register
Kernel Building
Create the patch file
The code we're interested in is stored in the bcache_for_mainline branch of the bcache git repository.
1. Clone the bcache repo and checkout the bcache-for-upstream branch:
$ git clone http://evilpiepirate.org/git/linux-bcache.git $ cd linux-bcache $ git checkout bcache-for-upstream
2. Use "git log" to find the last time bcache was merged with Linus's tree
$ git log
You should see a bunch of commits by Kent Overstreet. Scroll down an eventually you'll find one by Linus Torvalds. Copy the commit hash number for Linus's commit. Ex:
commit 6e0298acc81e98cf1516358f62d6f43187b0bfa3 Author: Kent Overstreet <firstname.lastname@example.com> Date: Wed Sep 21 21:43:05 2011 -0700 Revert "rw_semaphore: remove up/down_read_non_owner" This reverts commit 11b80f459adaf91a712f95e7734a17655a36bf30. Bcache needs rw semaphores for cache coherency in writeback mode - writes have to take a read lock on a per cache device rw sem, and release it when the bio completes. But since this is for bios it's naturally not in the context of the process that originally took the lock. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <firstname.lastname@example.com> CC: Christoph Hellwig <firstname.lastname@example.com> CC: David Howells <firstname.lastname@example.com> commit 9931faca02c604c22335f5a935a501bb2ace6e20 Author: Linus Torvalds <firstname.lastname@example.com> Date: Wed Jan 9 18:59:55 2013 -0800 Linux 3.8-rc3
3. Create a patch for all the stuff since the last merge with Linus.
$ git format-patch 9931faca02c --stdout > bcache-patch-3.8-rc3.patch
Build the kernel
The patch made above should apply to a recent kernel. Thankfully, ArchLinux uses a very up to date kernel. It's possible you might have issues with the patch not applying cleanly. That's beyond the scope of this documentation.
Follow the instructions on Kernels/Compilation/Arch_Build_System to build a kernel with the patch applied. Below are the changes I had to make
1. Copy the bcache-patch-3.8-rc3.patch we made earlier into the kernel folder you created in "Getting the Ingredients".
2. Generate an md5sum for the patch using "md5sum bcache-patch-3.8-rc3.patch"
2. Edit the PKGBUILD file and
a. change pkgbase to "linux-bcache". b. add "bcache-patch-3.8-rc3.patch" to the end of the source list. c. add the md5sum from the previous step to the to the md5sums list d. uncomment "Enable make menuconfig" near the end of the build() function e Near the top of the build() function, add the lines to apply the patch # bcache patch against 3.8-rc3 # http://atlas.evilpiepirate.org/git/linux-bcache.git/log/?h=bcache-for-upstream patch -Np1 -i "${srcdir}/bcache-patch-3.8-rc3.patch"
3. Run makepkg. When the kernel config pops up, be sure to enable bcache. Unless you plan to debug, there's no need for the bcache debugging options.
4. Install the kernel packages. makepkg will have made a kernel package, docs package, and a headers package.


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"Stick Faith: Intentionally Raising Teens in the Ways of Jesus"
Vintage Faith is hosting a 6-week Parents of Teen Class - "Sticky Faith: Intentionally Raising Teens in the Ways of Jesus." We are going through the book The Sticky Faith Guide for Your Family by Dr. Kara E. Powell.
- Sunday, January 17th - Sunday, February 21st, 4-5 PM
- Vintage Faith Church, Fireside Room (downstairs office building, enter through main office)
- Parents are welcome to join the class at any time during the 6-weeks but are encouraged to come to as many classes as possible
- To RSVP, email email@example.com
Why you should go:
- you'll receive insight on understanding the faith journey of teenagers
- you will learn from trusted research what causes teens to stick with their faith in the post-high school years
- you will get to know other parents of teens - and will find you are not alone with your joys and struggles! A major part of this class is for you to get to know other parents going through the same things you are.


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Reading 1: The Red Brick School
Just west of Homestead National Monument of America's visitor center, a red brick school stands in the Nebraska prairie. This is the Freeman School, constructed in 1872 to replace a log structure built the year before. The land it stands on measured 18 rods by 13 rods (approximately 1.47 acres). John Scheve either donated or sold the parcel of land to School District 21 to build a school. His adjacent neighbor was Daniel Freeman, the first homesteader in Blakely Township, and perhaps the nation, and upon whose land Homestead National Monument of America is located. Daniel Freeman and his neighbors helped to build the school.
Originally called the "Red Brick School House of School District 21," the school came to be known as the Freeman School. It is unclear if the school is named for homesteader Daniel Freeman or the brick maker, Thomas Freeman. Both men served on the school board of School District 21 and were highly regarded in the local area. The new school building was made of red-orange bricks from the kiln of Thomas Freeman whose land was in the southwest corner of Section 22 and who subsequently served as president of the school board. The overall size of the school is 26 feet by 20 feet. Its 12-inch thick solid brick walls rise from a fieldstone foundation to the height of 12 feet. There is one wood-floored classroom with an adjacent cloakroom inside. The interior brick walls were plastered and whitewashed.
In spite of its remote location, the Freeman School was furnished not only with locally crafted objects, but also desks manufactured in Indiana. The school provided textbooks for its students beginning in 1881, a decade before the state of Nebraska required schools to do so.
Many teachers lived with their students' families to get room and board. Students could be older than the teacher hired by the school board. In the one-room schoolhouse, students' ages did not predict their proficiency level. Some older students were just learning to read while some younger students who had more regular instruction were farther advanced in their studies.
The Freeman School operated from 1872 to 1967, and at the time of its closing was the oldest operating school in Nebraska. Many of the students who attended the Old Red Brick School were proud to have attended it. When students graduated, they carved their graduation date and initials in the bricks on the outside wall of the school. Some dates go back to 1875, while others are as recent as 1948.
The school became the focus of an important court case beginning in 1899. Daniel Freeman, the first homesteader in the township, asked teacher Edith Beecher to stop using the Bible as a textbook. She refused, pointing out that the school board had given her permission to conduct Biblereading, prayer, and hymns at the school. Freeman appealed to the school board to stop the ten-minute exercises, but the school board denied his request. Freeman then sued the school district in Gage County District Court. Defeated in that court he appealed to the Nebraska Supreme Court. The case of Daniel Freeman v. John Scheve, et. al. (John Scheve was officer of the school board at the time) was decided in 1902. The court ruled in favor of Daniel Freeman, agreeing that the religious instruction violated the separation of church and state provided for by Nebraska's state constitution. This suit set a precedent for later court cases involving the separation of church and state.
The Freeman School survives as the best example of a one-room school in Nebraska, in part because of restoration and rehabilitation. The National Park Service decided to save the school for future generations because of its important role in the development of this country. Between 1973 and 1975, the National Park Service restored the school to its pre1900 appearance. Restoration means returning a building to its form at a particular date as nearly as possible; authenticity often requires the removal of "non-period" elements. Some of the work done on the school included repointing the bricks (fixing and repairing the outer, visible finish of mortar between the bricks and stones of a masonry wall), rebuilding the chimney, bracing the foundation, pulling up the later floor to get to the original wooden floor, white washing the walls, and rebuilding the teacher's platform. Many people worked to restore the school. Some of these people were historians, architects, painters, masons, carpenters, and contractors. On the grounds of the school today are a one-story shed, separate privies or outhouses for girls and boys, and a water pump. Next to the school on the northern and western sides, is one acre of native tallgrass prairie.
Rehabilitation, the restoration of a building to a use that is similar to its historic use or does not conflict with the historic appearance of that building, has been accomplished in several ways at the Freeman School. Local school children visit the school and imagine the frontier past. They learn about frontier education and the importance of oneroom schools. School groups can also arrange to hold classes for a day in the historic Freeman School classroom.
Questions for Reading 1
1. How long did the Freeman School operate as a school?
2. There are many dates and initials carved into the brick of the school. Why would students carve their initials and graduation year in the bricks? Why would it be harmful for people today to carve or mark on these bricks? What is the difference between historic carvings and graffiti?
3. Quite a bit of restoration work was done on the Freeman School. What types of job skills did the people have who assisted in restoring the Freeman School?
4. Why would the National Park Service spend money to restore the Old Brick School to the way it looked before 1900? What is the school's function now?
Reading 1 was adapted from David Arbogast, Thomas Busch, and Richard Ortega, "Freeman Homestead and Freeman School" (Gage County, Nebraska), National Register of Historic Places Registration Form, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1975; the National Park Service's visitor's guide and Web site for Homestead National Monument of America, and other historical documents in the collection of Homestead National Monument of America.


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Shark vs Human. That's how I would like to outline The Shallows movie. For a survival tale it isn't exactly great, but it is still somewhere. There is gore entailed, which is perfectly normal given the theme it packs in, and carries forever a thrilling element to see if the human, Nancy played by Blake Lively, makes it, beating a rampaging monstrous shark that has her tagged for kill.
As you might have already guessed, there isn't much to the plot of the movie. Basically the following gif is it:
Even though Jaume Collet-Serra tries to show little inconsequential backdrop on Nancy's life via social apps, we learn nothing new. Except for the fact that her mother was pregnant with her when she had visited an unheard of, unfrequented paradise. A beach so gorgeous that it is hard to believe, few knew about it.
When Nancy looks at the mountains yonder, she points out how the beach is of colossal importance to her. She compares it to an image of her mother when she had once carried her in her womb.
"Doesn't it look like a pregnant woman? To me it does."
Surfing and searching for bigger waves she leaves the shallows venturing further in, only to find a decimated whale carcass afloat. Out of sheer curiosity she moves toward it, and ends up with a gargantuan great white shark on her tail. The shark rips her leg in one violent rush.
Shark 1 – Human 0
She finds herself a good spot on a small rock but is left to the mercy of tides. She staples her spine-chilling wound up like a pro. One point to human.
Stranded she then calls for help when she finds a drunk man sleeping on the beach. The man wakes up to her call.
One more point to Human.
He looks at her and waves back. Okay don't scratch that point just yet. She points him towards her stuff. He moves towards it. Things look promising. But then he steals everything she had in her bag, and begins to abscond. In the backdrop, the Shark with folded fins can't suppress its laughter. The man finds her surfboard, tries to steal that too. She tries to warn him about the shark. But he was taught by only the best badass generation of thieves.
"Don't leave anything!"
So he swims towards to take it, and pow the shark prances. The man disappears only to return to the beach again, to sleep again. But this time only half of his body makes it.
Shark 2 – Human 2
The new dawn arrives bringing two fellow surfers she had come across the previous day. She tries to warn them, but they are unable to understand or hear her for that to matter. One of the most thrilling scenes of the movie occur when the shark pounces on one of them mid-air making him disappear in a single munch.
Shark 3 – Human 2
The other guy looks as if he could make it, then he disappears too, only to be savagely mutilated by jaws. Blood paints the water.
Shark 4 – Human 2
Being a movie that is solely forsaken to the mercy of the Sea, there isn't much to the screenplay. Except for crazy jabber that Nancy makes with herself. She finds a certain injured gull that keeps her constant company when she finds herself surrounded by deadly jaws. Making the most out of her stranded situation she calls it "Steven Seagal".
Human 1 – Seagull 0
Being a medical student she saves Mr. Seagal from its misery eventually.
Human 2 – Seagull 0
Pathetic dumb seagull! Totally worthless it stood there. Just watching crime in 3D!
Nancy finds a camera. Yay! Now she can have all the selfies in the world with her new friend. But it's more of a recorder. So, she records her sobs, more like a message to her parents, and in a vain attempt throws it into the water again. Shark doesn't understand the gizmo world. So. Human 3.
In comes the partial referee, nature. Tide bothers Nancy, and she prepares to set up for a nearby buoy. She times the white death well enough, as it makes a run to and fro – from the whale carcass to her, just to check on how she's doing. Then when she finds a window of opportunity she makes a run for it reaching the buoy safely after battling a hoard of jellyfish. What was the score again? Oh, right!
Shark 4 – Human 4
She finds a flare gun. Yay again! She has limited bullets though. Boo!
She shoots one for help but unfortunately it was a dud bullet. Shoots one at the whale carcass oil, and we see the great white on fire. Sheer badass scene! Die you monster, die!
Shark 4 – Human 5
But the smart shark was well aware of the fact that water was its abode. So it dives to put it out at once. Score levels again.
Shark 5 – Human 5
Nothing happens. Furious and mad the shark destroys the buoy. All those iron rods chomped off to pieces as if they were nothing. It is like the Godzilla of water.
Shark 6 – Human 5
Nancy finds a rod and attacks the poor fish by it. One more point to Human.
Then she looks at a chain that bound the buoy, and that little bulb above her head glows. She catches hold of it, in a rebound that pulls her into the ocean with the shark still in pursuit. Just when she was about to hit, she moves away forcing the dumb blind shark to hit some pointy rods in the seabed. That scene by the way looked really animated.
So finally, she slays the beast, and gets away with murder. Human 7. She makes it out alive. One more point there!
Shark 6 – Human 8
The undefeated champ sets out for sea again. Now that's messed up lady! The shark Union is complaining already.
When the director is more concerned about showing close up shots of Blake Lively's perfect ass, you wonder if he really bothers to care about the actual mishap. He lingers his camera so much there that you actually begin to wonder, with all that screen time maybe her bum might get a solo gig of its own. Maybe become a star and leave Blake Lively forever.
Then again when you try to see Jaume Collet-Serra's subtlety, there is plenty there. Like when the camera goes underwater the music stops, just how it stays in reality. Glimpses, hints and hazy contours of the shark are spread throughout the flick, that never properly shows us the full-blown version. It is a subtle way of depiction like from a human perception, that Jaume aces.
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The Shallows literally breathes on terror. You can't help but place yourself in Nancy's shoes and wonder what if that happened to you. Terrifying!
In the end however, The Shallows ends up becoming nothing but an oddly visible contrivance. To depict dope theatrics, Jaume sips out naturalism too much. Despite Blake Lively's outstanding performance, The Shallows movie fails to reach the levels of awesomeness.
Whatever the case might be, let's not forget the latest shark movie is to put our forgotten fear back in place. It is at least better than all those cheesy stupid shark movies that we have been served so far.
Here you can check the movie trailer here:


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So the tough thing about buying a bookshelf, or any piece of furniture really, is that if you ever decide to move it to another room (or another house), there's no guarantee it will fit in its rightful place. But what if you could change the dimensions of that shelf entirely. Marica Vizzuso's B-OK takes its inspiration from a room divider, able to fold up into a compact tower or fan out into a wider looking shelf. It's not only simple, but more importantly, versatile. [Design Milk]
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I take books along with me everywhere I go; in fact, on a recent visit to the dentist, I took a book along for company, because "I've been to the dentist before, so I know the drill."
It seems like there is less and less time between dental visits, and I think that's probably because "time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like bananas." I came really close to not showing up for my dental visit because I nearly forgot about it. It's funny, "I once heard a joke about amnesia, but I forgot how it goes!" I do know from experience, however, that forgetting while cooking can be hazardous to your health, because "if you leave alphabet soup on the stove too long, it could spell disaster!"
Have you enjoyed these puns? If you got a kick out of them, you'll enjoy Michael Malone's "Four Corners of the Sky." In this novel, you'll meet a wonderful cast of characters, one of who stole my heart by using puns to get his point across. The story features Annie Peregrine-Goode, a Navy pilot with abandonment issues after being left by her con-artist father to be raised by his sister, Sam, and her room-mate, Clark Goode. Even though the pair are not romantically involved, and even though they are not Annie's biological parents, no one could love her more, and as you delve deeper into the story, you'll discover a love of old movies as Sam uses famous lines of old to get her point across and, like me, you'll find the puns used by Clark to be truly endearing.
So, on with the story, and I'm typing it because "to write with a broken pencil is pointless." Read on for more, great, new fiction at JCPL!
Em Moore is partnering with Teddy in writing celebrity biographies. Shy beyond the realm of normal, Em depends on Teddy to do the interviewing and public schmoozing that it takes to get the job done. When Teddy dies in a tragic accident, Em is left not only bereaved by the loss of her friend and co-worker, but is also adrift in the intimidating world of celebrity. Slowly building the courage it takes to continue the interview that Teddy started with renowned film director, Garrett Malcolm, Em starts hearing whispers of skeletons in the Malcolm family closet, and finds her very existence further threatened by a police investigation into Teddy's "accident" in "The Perfect Ghost" by Linda Barnes.
If you like a page-turner with one twist and turn after another, David Carnoy delivers just that in "The Big Exit," in which you'll meet ex-con Richie Forman. Fresh out of prison, Richie works nightly as a Frank Sinatra impersonator. Playing in San Francisco's lounges and corporate parties, it's a living. Richie's life takes a surprisingly downward turn when his ex-best friend is found hacked to death in his garage. After stealing Richie's fiance' while Richie was in prison, did the man deserve to die, and is it only fair to assume that Richie is responsible for the grisly crime?
It is the year 1921. Julie Vernet, a young French woman, has just gotten a job on a ship leaving Paris on a journey to New York. Enraptured with the idea of the freedom and adventure of the high seas, Julie meets two other women, Constance Stone, a young American sent to Paris to retrieve her wild and carefree sister, Faith, and Vera, a rich, ex-patriate American leaving France after a 31 year stay to return to America. The trans-Atlantic voyage of these three women, all from very different walks of life, brings them together in such unexpected ways that the impact of their chance encounters makes for an unforgettable read in "Crossing on the Paris" by Dana Gynther.
Right now, I would like to settle in with a good book, because 'it's raining cats and dogs," but I guess that's okay as long as it "doesn't reindeer." I should get something done around the house, and I hear there's a "new type of broom just out that's sweeping the nation." But seriously, the book I'm currently reading is about "anti-gravity; it's just impossible to put down." Probably that's because it's a book from my local branch of the Jasper County Public Library, where, I promise not to "overdue it." (puns provided by "puns of the day.")


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Interview with Javier Olmeda Raya : Frank Scott: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?. Javier Olmeda Raya : Dendrone is a table inspired by the structure of a neuron. Dendrites, terminal receptors found in nerve cells, try to reach out and connect with other cells. The table's shape resemble those terminals. .Frank Scott: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?. Javier Olmeda Raya : My main focus is always trying to create parametric objects which can yield families or similar items with relative ease. Based on geometrical parameters, I can manipulate the final shape according to specific needs. .Frank Scott: What are your future plans for this award winning design?. Javier Olmeda Raya : I plan to reproduce it as much as I can. .Frank Scott: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?. Javier Olmeda Raya : About a month or so. .Frank Scott: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?. Javier Olmeda Raya : It was partly a commission by a private client, and partly my own research on natural formations and structures. .Frank Scott: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?. Javier Olmeda Raya : It is being produced by my company in association with other manufacturers. But if the opportunity comes, and under favorable conditions, I would lease the production rights to other companies. .Frank Scott: What made you design this particular type of work?. Javier Olmeda Raya : It's part of my own process as a designer to keep exploring and describing new ways for designing objects with the available tools I have at hand. I've always been interested in the human brain and how it works, so one thing leads to another and all of a sudden we come up with beautiful designs. .Frank Scott: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?. Javier Olmeda Raya : Yes, I don't work alone, I have a team of designers and fabricators which help and contribute to the overall design. .Frank Scott: Who is the target customer for his design?. Javier Olmeda Raya : It's not intended to a particular target customer. .Frank Scott: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?. Javier Olmeda Raya : Sometimes the name surfaces during research or initial design phases, but this one came after the design was completed. I saw an article on the human brain in a National Geographic Magazine and came across with a neuron's diagram. I was struck with my design's resemblance with a neuron and found the name dendrites. I further looked its etymology and it comes form the greek language. It means a short branching structure. .Frank Scott: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?. Javier Olmeda Raya : I usually work in a parametric environment called Grasshopper for Rhinoceros. There I establish a set of geometrical associations to have control over different aspects of design, such as shape, width, height, and extension of the various components. .Frank Scott: What is the most unique aspect of your design?. Javier Olmeda Raya : The ability to adapt its shape to any condition without having to re-design everything. A simple tweak here or there and a new design emerges, similar to the one before, but with slight changes. .Frank Scott: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?. Javier Olmeda Raya : My partners in the studio. There are some architects, sculptors, artists and designers within our team. .Frank Scott: What is the role of technology in this particular design?. Javier Olmeda Raya : Digital technology allows us to come up with multiple solutions before entering into production phase. It also enables us to see how is it going to look like before actually building it. .Frank Scott: Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?. Javier Olmeda Raya : Research was done primarily on Voronoi diagrams and how we can divide space in a way similar to how Nature has done for millions of years. After that, the striking resemblance with neurons added another layer of data. Working in a parametric environment allows us to design with mathematical operations that are turned into geometrical descriptions. .Frank Scott: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?. Javier Olmeda Raya : The main challenge was achieving a light, fluid piece made of a fully functional parametric 3D model, and then taking it into production phase, even though its shape looks difficult to achieve, it's rather simple to build. .Frank Scott: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?. Javier Olmeda Raya : A friend of mine, who also is a designer and won an award last year encouraged me to submit my design. .Frank Scott: What did you learn or how did you improve yourself during the designing of this work?. Javier Olmeda Raya : There's always room for learning from every design we make. In terms of geometry, we're more close to designing things that can be easily produced within the industrial realm. In terms of production, maximizing the use of materials and minimizing production costs makes us better designers. .Frank Scott: Any other things you would like to cover that have not been covered in these questions?. Javier Olmeda Raya : No. .
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Agenda (Revised): August 20, 2012 Education and Youth Success PEG Meeting
August 20, 2012 from 4:00 to 6:00 PM
1900 SW 4th Avenue,Portland, Conference Room 7A
Welcome and Reflections from Last Meeting (10 minutes)
Description: Quick round-table introductions and opportunity for PEG members to share impressions and/or follow-up thoughts from the July 16 meeting
Overview of Today's Meeting (5 minutes)
Presenter: Deborah Stein, Bureau of Planning and Sustainability
Description: Using two current examples as case studies (Parkrose School District, in moving forward on its adopted capital bond measure, and PPS, in planning for its proposed capital bond measure), the PEG will explore how City policy can advance the ability of school districts to most effectively upgrade and build facilities that meet the needs of current and future students and community members.
Presentations by Parkrose, PPS and Portland Parks and Recreation will touch on:
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- How City policy could help advance (or inadvertently hinder) school district objectives
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Parkrose School District's Facilities Planning (20 minutes)
Presenter: Karen Fischer Gray, Parkrose Superintendent
- Description: Presentation on Parkrose School District's capital bond measure plans for system and technology upgrades, middle school replacement, and other improvements.
Portland Public Schools' Facilities Planning (20 minutes)
Presenter: Paul Cathcart, Portland Public Schools Office of School Modernization
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Presenter: Brett Horner, Portland Parks and Recreation (PPR)
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PEG Discussion (35 minutes)
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- What should City policies take into account to address/preempt neighborhood concerns about community use of school facilities and grounds?
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PEG Check-in (5 minutes)
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Carol Bartz, the new CEO of Yahoo, spoke at D7 about how she viewed Yahoo as an integrated experience, and how the site is still the most visited site on the Internet (with 76 percent of people in the U.S. using it), and one that gets the most amount of time from users, accounting for about 12 percent of Internet time. She said the company was open to a search deal, though she said it would require "boatloads of money."
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Over time, she said, the company had grown quickly, with things such as developing different code bases for different parts of the same properties, and that it needed to be cleaned up a bit. But she said Yahoo drives more traffic to more sites than anyone on the Internet. She said people trust Yahoo, its integration and timeliness, and Yahoo just needs to do better on all of that.
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Dalton, Ga Jany 26th 1864"
My sweet darling,
I am glad that I never allowed myself to
think that you had neglected writing me regularly, for
if I had, I should have wronged you. Today when I
came into dinner, the Major told me to look on my desk
where I discovered [three] letters all in your hand writing.
One of teh 4th one of the 11th and one of the 17th – How
joy full it made me feel and when I read them and
found you were all well and that they expressed so much
love and devotion I would have given almost anything
if I could have thrown my arms around you and
given you a thousand Kisses – I have read and reread
them and have come to the conclusion that I have a very
dear and devoted wife and have made fresh resolutions
to do everything in my power to make your life pleasant
and happy when I am permitted again to be at home."
I am perfectly satisfied with your Memphis trip, with the
explanation of the manner in which you went, although
I never received the letter you refer to. I hope you got
all you needed whilst you were in Memphis – In regard
to the boots I have already written that I want you to keep
them until you have a safe opportunity of sending them
or until I visit home. If they do not suit me I can
sell them for over a hundred dollars."


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Thanks again for the recommendations - I will, in any case, create a full image of my HDD and I also have backups of my important data. Nevertheless if I can avoid crashing my system and then restoring it I would like to do that and I really think Lenovo should react to this matter.
After not getting any update from Lenovo I tried to tackle the problem yesterday.
I made a complete image and started to have a look at my Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributables.
The following were installed:
2005 (8.0.50727.42)
2005 x64 (8.0.56336)
2008 x46 (9.0.30729)
In the event viewer I could find additional information:
Produkt: ThinkPad Bluetooth with Enhanced Data Rate Software -- Fehler 1935. Während der Installation der Assembly "policy.8.0.Microsoft.VC80.CRT,type="win32-policy",version="8.0.50727.42",publicKeyToken="1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b",processorArchitecture="x86"" ist ein Fehler aufgetreten. Weitere Informationen finden Sie unter Hilfe und Support. HRESULT: 0x800736FD, Assemblyschnittstelle: IAssemblyCacheItem, Funktion: Commit, Komponente: {63E949F6-03BC-5C40-A01F-C8B3B9A1E18E}
Interesting from here should be:
- Error 1935
- 8.0.50727.42 (which is Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable)
- HRESULT: 0x800736FD
- Component {63E949F6-03BC-5C40-A01F-C8B3B9A1E18E}
I started as Gan recommended with these C++ redistributables and also uninstalled all of them and reinstalled. I took kind of a brute-force attack, searched the unique things about the error messages and tried the recommendations people tried (uninstall/reinstall the C++ Redistributables, .NET Frameworks, run sfc /scannow (did not find any problems), I even tried to mess around with the manifest-files in the Data1.cab of the driver installation, but I couldn't put it together again in a way that the setup would take it again).
I would like to tackle the problem now in a more strategic approach, but I think I am lacking some programming knowledge for this. What I learned is that there are different, for example, DLL-files and that in order to have programs run which need different version of the same file the folder WinSxS is there to provide different versions and policies which file to use when a certain version is requested and so on. Somewhere here the manifest-files come into play and I suppose that the problem is laying here. In the installation of the driver there is a DATA1.cab which is containing a manifest file which is related to the above error - also in the WinSxS-folder there are two files closely related to the error. I tried to just take them out of WinSxS\manifest but that did not solve the problem.
I also found people on this forum having the same problem with this driver (error 1935) but most people didn't have to deal with it too much, since the next step for them was uninstalling the old bluetooth driver which completely deleted the C:-drive anyway...by the way: I tried that too and yes it really deletes the whole C:!
Has anybody dealt in detail with such a problem or does anybody have more hints for me in which direction I should go?
Considering the time I spent with the brute-force strategy it would be best to just reinstall - but then I didn't learn anything...
Thanks a lot for your help!
A similar thing happened to me. An enhanced data rate Bluetooth driver update I got from a driver update service I subscribed to killed my windows. I could not use any of the windows recovery tools. I forgot to try an in-place upgrade run though. Ended up putting a new SSD drive in and re-installing. Pulled my old files off a backup. Lost a couple days on that little project.
Later the Windows Update loaded an updated driver with no problems.
Same is happening on T400 units. The issue seem to relate not to uninstall of 1400 series driver, but the upgrade and uninstall during the upgrade. Here is the steps that resolved this issue for me.
Conduct complete HDD backup
Uninstall all of the C++ redistrib updates and SP1. Leave only original 2005 C++ redistrib (dated 2006) both x64 and x86
Enable Bluetooth on the Thinkpad
Go to device manager and remove Thinpad Device (2.1 by Broadcom) while checking remove the drivers and software
Once removed disable (Fn-F5) bluetooth device and restart your computer
Uninstall .1400 Thinkpad driver using Control Panel Uninstall
Remove 2005 C++ original and install 2005 C++ SP1 redistrib and secuirity update
Install .2900 driver
the same happend to my Thinkpad L412 with Windows 7 64 Pro.
I observed randomly disconnects of the Bletooth Laser Mouse.
Therefore I tried to update the Bluetooth SW and got the error 1935.
Then started the uninstall from control panel which wiped my disk.
Before the update I even read the description on the Lenovo Download page, but no warning at all!
The very serious bug is known for at least 3 month and there still no solution howto update or remove the buggy driver!
Or does somebody have a solution ?
Here too, installed the Bluetooth update on my T510 Windows 7 Pro 64 bit, and the hard drive was wiped. Did a full virus scan and nothing. System restore failed several times. I called Lenovo and they denied ever hearing about this very serious problem - claimed I got a virus. Guess there is nothing left but reinstall - **bleep**. It would be really nice if at least Lenovo would issue a warning.
10-26-2010 07:05 AM - edited 10-26-2010 07:06 AM
I'm sorry to hear this happened to you. Can you share a bit more information? What version of the bluetooth drivers did you previously have? And I assume you downloaded the latest from Lenovo's support site and installed them?
Anything more you can tell us? We've updated the revision several times since this problem was first reported and yet it seems to be random and infrquent occurance such that we have not been able to reproduce it.
We did post a warning on the site advising customers to back up their data - it's on the download page. What would you suggest to better advise customers? Perhaps if the update was applied through TVSU the customer was not advised and given the opportunity to defer the update and back up first? Did you install manually or through TVSU?
Best regards,
If I saw that message, I would assume it was just the usual warning and thus wouldn't heed the warning much. If you could at least note that customers have actually experienced data loss, that may help. Maybe change the color to bright red too... You could add a disclaimer that clearly explains the issue during the install process that users must acknowledge that they read...that would allow people who use the TVSU to know of the issue. It's a pretty tough situation...it's unfortunate to hear that people are continuing to experience the issue.
Hi Mark_Lenovo,
here are some details of my experience.
The preinstalled Bluetotth SW version was 188.8.131.520.
I'm not sure whether the Bluetotth SW was included when I ran an ThinkVantage System Update.
First I tried to update the Bluetotth SW installing the latest package from the web http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-70042 manually. The version was 18.104.22.16800.
This ended with an error message box 1935 and a long cryptic truncated error message:
Then I googled a bit and found the tip to uninstall first. During deinstallation of the Bluetotth SW the system was nearly completeley cleared. All erasable file were deleted.
Now I saw the warning you mentioned. This is no warning this is a hint which you can find in nearly every readme file and every SW packing. A real warning should be in 7zbv18ww.txt too.
What about a callback of all undeliverd Thinkpads with the buggy Bluetooth SW 18.104.22.1680.
Additionaly a fix for the Bluetotth SW which can be installed without uninstalling first is required.
For me I could remove the SW 22.214.171.1240 after a full sytem restore. My BT mouse runs without it.
Best regards
I had pretty much exactly the same issue but luckily found this forum post before I tried to uninstall - after making a backup and trying to uninstall it also wiped my system partition.
I was so far not able to fix the "policy.8.0.Microsoft..."-error and gave up on it sinceit already had cost me a lot of time (as I documented in this thread).
I would be happy if Lenovo would at least come up with a way that the driver could be uninstalled without deleting the whole system partition - I mean it is fixed in the new version (the change log says that the uninstall process has been "improved") but still people are stuck with this buggy version.
Nevertheless I did not try vitlam's way so far - I will give that a try when I find some time - but in any case an official working way would be good (I messed around with the VC++ redistributables a lot and didn't get anywhere).
And I agree with gs10 that the hint for doing a backup is not enough - people always say one should drive carefully but when you actually know that your breaks are not working I think you should mention that and not just say: "drive safe..."!