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I love books. I have a master's degree in library science, spent eight years at the New York Public Library before joining Design*Sponge and have a relatively large collection of books at home. So each fall, I anxiously await the moment I can begin work on this guide. This year while traveling around the country, Grace would catch me sneaking off in bookstores, writing down titles to share, and I spent many a late night online looking at publisher's catalogs. The great thing about books as gifts is that they ship quickly (making them the perfect last-minute gift), are easy to wrap and when you find the perfect title for the perfect person, there is nothing more personal. The downside is that it can be difficult to pick a book for someone else, and finding that perfect title can be a challenge. I've tried to help matters by only picking books that came out this year (most this fall), so there is a good chance your recipient doesn't have these titles yet. There are 42 books on this list, so you should be able to match at least one title to a person. And if you can't, there are now lots of options for your own wish list. Happy reading! — Amy Azzarito
Image above: 1. Nomad: A Global Approach to Interior Style by Sibella Court — One of the treats of this summer was tagging along on a walking tour of SoHo with Sibella Court. She is such a huge talent. 2. Design*Sponge at Home — OK. I have to admit momentary hesitation when it came to including the Design*Sponge book on the list. I didn't want to play favorites, but then I had an internal discussion and realized that there is no book that I believe in more, and I'm proud to have been a tiny part of it. It is by far my favorite book of the year. 3. Gertrude Jekyll and the Country House Garden — I wrote earlier this year about this book, and it is definitely one of my top picks for any garden enthusiast on your list. 4. Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel — Diana Vreeland shaped American fashion and American taste; this book chronicles that journey. There were a couple fashion-magazine books this year: 5. Vogue: The Covers, perfect for studying the evolution of American fashion, and 6. Bazaar: Greatest Hits, perfect for a fashion or photography enthusiast. This book provides an insider look at some of the most memorable Bazaar photoshoots from the past 10 years. 7. Exotic Taste: Orientalist Interiors — Every year I keep my eye open for books that I think are must-haves for my design history library. This is one of my favorites this year.
Image above: 1. Cyclepedia: A Century of Iconic Bicycle Design — A sure-win for any cyclist on your gift list. This book is basically a tour through bike collector Michael Embacher's 100 favorite bicycles. 2. The Pirate Handbook: A Rogue's Guide to Pillage, Plunder, Chaos & Conquest — 'Nuff said. 3. Pantone: The 20th Century in Color — From Harvest Gold and Avocado in the 1970s to colors inspired by Martha Stewart and Kurt Cobain, this book is a fascinating look at 20th-century color. 4. Farm Anatomy — I'm pretty much sold on anything to do with animals. A book that lets me fantasize about having a farm from the comfort of my urban sofa has my name all over it. 5. The World of Department Stores traces the history of department store shopping, beginning with 19th-century Paris shopping. 6. Money: Everything You Never Knew about Your Favorite Thing to Find, Save, Spend & Covet; 7. The Ceramics Bible; 8. Walls: The Best of Decorative Treatments — Learn how decorative wall treatment evolved from murals to wood paneling and stencils.
Image above: 1. The Toaster Project or a Heroic Attempt to Build a Simple Electric Appliance from Scratch — Thomas Thwaites sets out to build this kitchen staple by hand. 2. Wildwood by Colin Meloy (author) and Carson Ellis (illustrator) — This was Grace's favorite fall read, sustaining her through many plane rides. 3. The Wilder Life — For all those Little House on the Prairie fans. Wendy McClure sets out to discover the real world of Laura Ingalls Wilder. 4. Mycophilia: Revelations from the Weird World of Mushrooms; 5. The Swerve: How the World Became Modern — How the discovery of one ancient manuscript changed the course of the world. 6. Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman — Last year, my favorite book was Cleopatra. This year, I'm completely engrossed by Catherine the Great, and realizing that I knew so little about her. 7. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On — I LOVE Marcel. It might not take as long to get through as some others on the list, but I was so excited to discover Marcel in this book by Jenny Slate and Dean Fleischer-Camp.
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Image above: Bought, Borrowed, & Stolen by Allegra McEvedy — Recipes from around the world. 2. The Cheesemonger's Kitchen — Pair with a gift of cheese or, if you really want to splurge, a membership to a cheese CSA. 3. Pasta — A book of amazing pasta recipes, including soups, classics and quick meals. Awesome. 4. Illustrated Guide to Cocktails; 5. A New Turn in the South: Southern Flavor Reinvented for Your Kitchen — Hugh Achson's restaurants are a must when Grace and I visit Atlanta or Athens, Georgia. I'm so excited to try some of my faves at home. 6. Campfire Cookery by Sarah Huck & Jaimee Young — I love this book. In addition to recipes, there's everything from what to bring with you to what types of wood are best for cooking particular kinds of food and how to forage for herbs. Gift this book with a cast-iron skillet, and your gift recipient can spend the winter practicing indoors. 7. Handheld Pies: Dozens of Pint-Size Sweets and Savories — Some say pies are the new cupcakes . . . 8. The Meatball Shop Cookbook — I have an unhealthy relationship with their vegetarian meatballs with pesto. At least now I can keep my love a little more private.
Image above: 1. Little Book of Screen Printing — Catalogs the best from more than 100 screenprinting artists. 2. Pulled: A Catalog of Screen Printing — A collection of more than 40 of today's top screenprinting designers. 3. Maps by Paula Scher — Maps as art. Need I say more? 4. Alexander Girard — Grace and I got a sneak peek of this and were totally blown away. Not only did it give us a new appreciation for Girard, but it also really helped us understand Girard's influence on modern designers (watch the book trailer here). 5. Pilgrimage by Annie Leibovitz — This book has been making the rounds as one of the top photography books of 2011. It's filled with photographs of places that were personally meaningful to Leibovitz: Thoreau's cabin at Walden, Ralph Waldo Emerson's home and Orchard House, where Louisa May Alcott lived. 6. The Art of Instruction — An amazing collection of vintage educational charts. 7. Drawn In by Julia Rothman — A peek into the sketchbooks of artists, illustrators, graphic designers and cartoonists.
Image above: 1. Vintage Craft Workshop: Fresh Takes on Twenty-Four Classic Projects from the '60s and '70s; 2. The Beekeeper's Bible — I have a least five beekeeping books. This is one of the most beautiful I've seen. 3. The Liberty Book of Home Sewing — We love Liberty fabrics. This book is filled with sewing projects that highlight Liberty's well-known fabrics. (My favorite is the round pillow.) 4. Sewing Basics — This book is inspiring me to finally learn how to sew. 5. Weekend Handmade — I'm a huge fan of Kelly Wilkinson's blog, Make, Grow, Gather, and her first book is filled with the same inspired, pretty and modern projects. 6. The Bust DIY Guide to Life — Everything from gardening to making cheese to weddings. The last DIY guide you'll need.
I know which one I m going to buy:) Design Sponge at home! So happy you have your own book amazing!
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Wowooww! Awesome list! I want them all for myself. Is that bad? About a dozen of these are already on my wish list and of course I have the DS book. But I am soo thrilled to learn of the others!
thank you thank you thank you for this gift guide!! It was wonderful :D
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Great list!
Just got "Wildwood" as a gift for my 9-year-old cousin for Christmas. Meanwhile, I'm reading the copy I gave my best friend for his birthday, and my other good friend keeps hers with her. Yeah… that's three copies of "Wildwood." I'm pretty sure I'll need one, too. What a great book for everyone! -
So many of these are already on reserve for me at my library! Thanks for adding a whole bunch more. I can't wait to catch up.
I have so many tabs open right now. Such beautiful books! Your choices are impeccable!
Wow. What an extensive list! Thank you for the recommendations since I am always out to look for new books to add to my collection. Thanks!
Thank you for the great list Amy.
Here is one that I would add for all the textile junkies out there.
Sheila Hicks: 50 Years (Addison Gallery of American Art) by Susan C. Faxon, Joan Simon and Whitney Chadwick-
Oh thanks for the tip, Patricia! I'll check it out!
for laura ingalls wilder fans, kelly kathleen ferguson wrote an amazing memoir of dressing up in a prairie dress and road tripping to laura ingalls sites throughout the midwest that is hilarious and insightful and an amazing gift for readers. you can get it on amazon and i loved it much more than the wilder life.
and, i am dying for pilgrimage. great list! thanks.
Very cool! I love this list!
SUCH a great list! I've just discovered a few more books that I'd love to add to my collection! Thanks so so much x
Amy, that's a fantastic list! I have some of them, but you've introduced me to heaps of new ones! I'm going to pick up a couple for a certain someone. Merci!
Oh dear! What am I going to do now…I want so many of them! I really do love Sibella's books…pure inspiration! So many! I'm asking for a few…and giving a few…and coveting a few….!Thanks for such a great list!
I just received the Design Sponge and Modern Vintage Style by Emily Chalmers from Amazon. (shhh…I bought them for myself). I love these books so much, I'm going to order them for gifts.
Amy – thank you so much for including my book in your guide! What an honor to be in such good company. Xo and happy holidays!
my favorite gift guide so far. i love nothing more that giving/receiving books at holidays – such a meaningful gift! it's startling how many of these books i own already. i guess i treat myself pretty well the rest of the year ;)
A well curated list Amy!
I love the Wildwood book. It's so creative and the illustrations are absolutely lovely! I did a little post about it too!
Thank you for sharing this awesome list! I always love book recommendations!
Excellent post. Makes me wish I had someone to buy me a gift or two. Looks like I'll be doing my own Hanukkah shopping this year.
Thanks for including links to indie bookstores! I love receiving recommendations from fellow bibliophiles, and the roundup of books you've selected is so diverse and the books so quirky/interesting (the mycophilia book looks perfectly tailored for me – I'm obsessed with mushrooms! – and the illustrated guide to cocktails, with a fox holding a cocktail? Amazing.). I've already jotted down several that I need to read in the new year. It's always a happy moment for me contemplating which book to read next!
P.S. I'm seriously impressed by your library experience. I've worked in book publishing for a few years now, but I've always contemplated shifting laterally to a career in library science. Despite the tumultuous book landscape at the moment, it's something I'm considering.
Hi Joanna!
Glad you liked the book links! I seriously LOVE creating this gift guide every year. Feel free to email me about library science stuff – amy a at designsponge dot com :)
Best of luck,
Awesome book list! So many inspirational reads. Really enjoyed this post! Thanks!
My love for book will never end! Loved seeing your suggestions!
Amy, what a thrill to see my cover up there and read your kind words. Thank you so, so much for including me. I always knew you had excellent taste! :) xoKelly
So proud of Sibella Court! What a GREAT book NOMAD is.
Cannot stop looking at how beautiful Wildwood & Mycophilia look side by side. Might need to get those just so I can display them as art in my home. Just kidding, I also would love to read them! Thanks for this wonderful list!
I love your gift guides! Love that you did one with books, I love both giving and getting books as presents and found several I'd like to both give and get myself!
AMAZING list!! I love that you love books so much :) Thank you so much, these are great finds that I can't wait to explore. I've always been in love with maps, and so the Maps book is one I'll have to get, can't wait!
I'm giving two of these! The Vogue book and of course, Design*Sponge.
Great round-up. I'd be thrilled to receive any of them.
AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME collection of books! I have way too many tabs open to all the books I just have to devour now. If only I could disappear for a length of time to devote myself to such a pleasure :)
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What an awesome list! I love collecting, and eventually using craft and DIY books!
so many of these would make a great addition to my coffee table! thanks for the suggestions!
I love books and a great book list. I think I have about 1/2 of these already and all them are great! Excited to check out some new ones!
One really awesome gardening book to check out is "One Writer's Garden". It is about the Jackson, MS writer Eudora Welty. Welty and her mother worked on these great gardens at her home. The gardens are highlighted as well as the history behind gardening in the South. The authors are Susan Haltom and Jane Roy Brown with photographs by Langdon Clay. It is truly a delight to read and browse through!
Awesome list, I want to get everyone a book for Christmas:) take some, give some- a couple of my favorite books I highly recommend checking out are below:
Eleanor Lambert; Still Here- a biography on an iconic figure who pioneered the way for public relations and branding of self, not to mention one fashionable lady. Written by her former assistant John Tiffany who has a New York based business of his own now.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0983388911/ref=aw_d_detail?pd=1Tossed and Found- you may have already featured some of the designs from this book but regardless, it's one of my favorite books because it uses found objects otherwise discarded or kicked to the curb until design couple Linda and John Meyers( Wary Meyers Decorative Arts, get their hands on it and turn it i into some crazy awesome design. The best part is, there's instructions of how to create these madterpieces for yourself.
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Listening in Paris: A Cultural History
Listening in Paris is an original book filled with good things. It takes up the way people listened to music in Paris, starting with the operas of Rameau in the mid-eighteenth century and ending with the chapters "Beethoven Triumphant" and "The Musical Experience of Romanticism." Johnson traces the development of attentiveness, the change from an audience that chattered sociably during fashionable operas to a public that listened in religious silence. His book is an essay in the history of aesthetic "reception," that is, it deals with the public response to the revolutionary transformations in the nature of Western art music that took place during the life of Beethoven.
Johnson makes an observation about the concert programs in Paris in the early nineteenth century which reveals the strengths and the limitations of the history of reception:
There was also the dogged presence of Mozart, whose symphonies and operas were roundly denounced in the first decade of the century yet remained just as surely on programs. Already in the 1810s some of the initial bemusement was giving way to interest, and by the 1820s Stendhal could claim that the true dilettante was as enamored with Mozart as with Rossini.
If Mozart was disliked by the public and roundly denounced by critics, how can we explain his "dogged presence" on musical programs? The answer is that the music which is performed is not so much the works that the public wants to hear as those that musicians insist on playing. Public demand counts for something, of course, but a musician's life is often enough hard, disagreeable, and monotonous, and it would be intolerable unless he could play the music he loved.
This is not a question of elite preference, but of professional ideals, a subject that the history of reception deals with very badly. That is because practitioners of this important discipline generally refuse to admit anything like an intrinsic interest to music. Johnson writes:
Musical meaning does not exist objectively in the work—or even in its composer's intentions. It resides in the particular moment of reception, one shaped by dominant aesthetic and social expectations that are themselves historically structured.
This may be true on a high epistemological level, but it is a vacuous and uninteresting truth when it comes to explaining something like the eventual triumph of Mozart. No doubt, the admiration of professional musicians for the works of Mozart was shaped by "dominant aesthetic and social expectations," but the musicians were also reacting to specific qualities and characteristics in Mozart's music that they found nowhere else. Some works have demonstrably a capacity for generating and sustaining interest, and that is why we can often learn more about the history of reception by looking at the music itself than by studying the specific interpretations it has inspired. Interpretations change, of course, but not nearly as radically as some historians think, if one considers specifically the reactions of professionals, and if one also considers not only the…
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29th November 2011
Not had chance to blog for a few days. I had a good day Thursday climbing at Wintours Leap but ended up a bit knackered at the end of the day. Friday I worked for the Leadership Trust and that was fun as usual. The weekend was spent running a Climbing Wall Award training course for UCR in...
23rd November 2011
An interesting few days. Sunday at Wintours Leap and climbed 3 routes on the right side of GO wall. Monday a very constructive chat with website John re a new page for website on first ascents. This will link to Marcus at realadventurefilm.com to report on the new Alpine route/peak we hope to...
19th November 2011
A Fun day working for the Leadership Trust. Delegates and instructors on good form. This amazing thing (according to expert on all forest stuff Michael Downey) is the edible, quick growing (it grew that day !) Shaggy Parasol. Nature keeps surprising me.
15th November 2011
A good day working at the Leadership Trust near Ross. It was good to meet up with the other instructors and have a chin wag. Marcus brought his big camera along and filmed me talking about the Alps and the new route we hope to film next year. It looks like this film could happen.
10th November 2011
A dramatic backdrop for Neil yesterday as he sets up a releaseable abseil at Wintours Leap during his Single Pitch Award refresher day. The evening was entertaining as well with 3 people turning up for the improvised rescue session.
7th November 2011
A very successful Climbing Wall Lead Award at Boulders for Bristol UCR. All 3 candidates through with flying colours. Thanks again Boulders for your hospitality and Tim you were a star.
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Death Stalked The Grand Reconnaissance
Our half-known new western empire was mapped, in a great mass exploration, by the Army's Pacific Railroad Surveys of 1853
October 1972 | Volume 23, Issue 6
The rest of the story belongs to the attackers, young braves from Chief Kenosh's band of Sevier River Paiutes. On the afternoon of the twenty-fifth several young Paiute Indians were out hunting ducks when they heard the firing of the soldiers in the marshes along the river. Incensed at all white men for the recent murder of one of their chiefs, they followed the hunters back to camp, observed it, and then hurried to their own village, where, in a wild dance, they whipped up a war party to ambush the soldiers. About midnight they departed. There were about a score in all—Mishoquop, Sam, Pants, Tomwants, Jimmy Knights, Toady, Doctor Jacob, Nunkiboolits, Shipoke—their names absurdly incongruous with the mission they were set on performing.
When they reached the campsite, Mishoquop deployed his forces professionally. One group hid in the willows along the river to the south of the camp, others to the east. The rest stationed themselves behind a ridge to the north and somewhat back from the river. All three sides were covered in crossfire, and the river itself on the west offered little chance for escape. Then they waited.
At dawn the cook arose, raked up the fire, and began his breakfast chores. Professor Creuzfeldt stood, hands outstretched, warming himself by the fire. One by one the men began to stir. It was rapidly getting light. Captain Gunnison, who had left his tent to go to wash, had just moved past the door of his tent into the center of the camp when Mishoquop gave the signal to fire. At the first barrage the soldiers panicked. They ran in all directions, some without trousers, some without tunics, most without any thought of guns or resistance. The coolest ran for the horses, the rest just anywhere away from the enemy. One dragoon managed to mount his horse and start out of camp. At the flash of a gun his horse reared, and at the same instant the dragoon fell pierced with arrows. Another soldier vaulted onto the horse from a dead run and dashed away to safety. Whooping and howling as loudly in fright as the Indians did in triumph, the soldiers were shot down as thev ran or rode away from camp right into the Indians concealed behind the ridge to the north. Creuzfeldt and Kern fell by the fire. With the first barrage Gunnison rushed forward to rally his command. He too went down, riddled with arrows. In all, three men died at the riverside and six on the plains beside the willow grove. Four managed to escape: two on horseback, one by hiding in the bushes after his horse threw him, and the fourth by swimming the river. In a few minutes it was all over, and the savages, full of triumphant revenge, swarmed onto the field to mutilate the dead explorers.
It was the only great disaster of the Pacific Railroad Surveys and would have a strong impact upon the people of the day. The leadership of the exploring party devolved upon Lieutenant Beckwith, who led what was left of the command on a sad march north to Salt Lake City and comparative civilization.
After a winter of recuperation at Salt Lake City, Beckwith's partytook to the field again in an effort to complete the task assigned to their thirty-eighth-parallel survey. In the early spring, even before the snows had melted, they explored eastward, searching for suitable railroad passes across the Wasatch Mountains and into the valley of the Green River, where Beckwith hoped to link up with Stansbury's route of 1850. ByApril 22 he and his men had completed their task, and a practicable central railroad route had been located from the Platte River as far west as the Mormon capital.
Upon receiving authorization from Washington, Beckwith determined to finish the central survey all the way across the Great Basin to California. On May 5, 1854, he led his surveyors out across the Basin, where for days they threaded their waythrough mountain passes and over the arid and dustv vallevs of what had once been a primeval lake bed, seeing no one except a few wretched Digger Indians who lived on rats and crickets and slept in crude stick huts called wickiups. When at last the surveyors reached the Sierra Nevada, on the far side of the Basin, they searched out a new railroad pass (Madelin Pass) and crossed over into California, linking the valley of the Mississippi with the Sacramento Valley on a great central route that ran north of the one that Senator Benton had proposed. In the light of their own hard-won experience, however, it was one that appeared to be far more useful. It offered few mountain obstacles. And it could take advantage of the already existing Mormon settlements for labor in constructing the road as well as for a ready-made market for some of the products that the road would carry.
The results of all the Pacific Survey expeditions had indeed been startling. Every commander of a field party—Stevens, Parke, Pope, Whippie, and Beckwith—reported the discovery of "the most practicable and economical railroad route to the Pacific Ocean." The tired Congress was right back where it had started. But for Davis there was no doubt: the southern route along the thirtysecond parallel was the best. It mattered little that Beckwith and the weary men of the Gunnison expedition had discovered what was perhaps a superior line or that the equally intrepid Whipple had led his expedition upon what was plainly another practical line along the thirty-fifth parallel. Davis was sure he saw things more clearly than most people, and his subordinates in the topographical bureau backed him up. It was the southern course or none.


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Following this video was the game-changer for me. I love the idea of ignoring the Chaos Bolts ( this guy has one cast on him ) as opposed to LoSing them
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anyone see the new model for the emta form wings and dreadstead? I think they are remodeling the whole meta form ;D
Is this topic still a place for rages of pleasure and happiness after the success?
If yes just killed it 5 minutes ago (yeah im so lucky on drops) too much epicness in one encounter, I almost cried on some <10% wipes! <3
I finally kicked his teeth in! Was trying to do it as Demonology for a while and got him to like 3-4% twice but something would always go wrong in the end as soon as I got him below 10%. I was totally hellbent on NOT using Destruction for this fight just because damn near everyone I talked to said it was all but mandatory (I'm stubborn I know lol). I said screw it and went back to Affliction again to give it a try (my main spec actually), which is what I started out with when I first began my attempts a few weeks ago, and wiped him out on the first try with hardly any effort.
Honestly the thing that helped me was using the Pit Lord's charge/FelFlame Breath everytime right as Kan would finish summoning the demons. Charge/fire imps = gg. Charge/fire felhunters (naturally after you face them away first) then pop cds on them = gg. Charge Kan after you reenslave pit during doomlord summons = extra damage.
I know it's green "fire" and all, but I seriously wish all the warlock spells were affected by the fel infusion you siphon from Kan. I can't even show off in the spec I whooped his ass in! lol
I've been at this the past few days. Recently picked up my warlock again and got the quest. Only 482 iLv but damn is this hard. After all the bugs with my encounter attempts, I've lost count of the deaths, I finally got him to 20%... and the Pit Lord died so I ended up dead. Don't know what it is. If I just can't pump out the damage or what... but I've all but given up. I don't raid either other then the occasional LFR atm. Raid team broke up last tier. So guess I'm gonna be stuck with red fire. ~sigh~
It's totally a mechanics thing. Between LFR and Heroic Scenarios, you can get upgrades w/o normal raiding. I'm saying this as a 492 lock who's spent 2k? in gold for repairs and hasn't beaten it yet. But each day I give it a few tries and notice that I am improving my mechanics. I still have stupid mistake deaths or deaths from my gateway not porting me when I click it, but I know it will come since I'm getting better and so is my gear. I'd also suggest, if you have FRAPS, using it and reviewing your attempts to see your mistakes. Doing that has caused the most improvement in my attempts. I also switch it up between destro and demo for a change of pace. Both seem viable for attempts in my experience. And I'm not even that great of a warlock.
I've mastered the imp phase, but felhounds just ruin everything. If I LoS the pit lord behind a wall so they can't devour it, then I can't health siphon when I've got three felhounds on me. If I don't, they just eat him. Meanwhile Kanrethad just keeps launching soul fires at me and I can't handle that much damage. What do I do?
I;ve had the same trouble with the first pack of felhunters, then i changed the way I los pit lord. I stayed in the left side of the portal(the portal kan comes from), sent pit to the right side of portal, RoFd puppies when they were summoning and when all 3 came to me charged pit lord on them + breath, it pretty much kills 2 of them if you use 1 conflag on each and RoF + dark soul and the third one is easy kill considering its stunned, you have 6 backdraft and chaos bolt will hit like a truck. The moment I started to use this i passed not just the first wave of felhunters but the second one. And went all the way throw sub 20% era. which is where the fight gets a little fuzzy but epic.
I did it as Destro, and so it went something like this: Right when Kanrethad moves to summon the Felhounds I move the Pitlord out of LoS, then I immediately Soulshatter (which will keep Kanrethad on the Pitlord), I then drop a RoF on the portal, (I am a Tailor so I net the first Felhound, but it's not necessary by any means, and you should Conflag the first two Felhounds BEFORE you Havoc), Conflag & Havoc the second Felhound, Chaos Bolt (which should bring them into Shadowburn range), SB the first, SB the second, and then Chaos Bolt + Shadowburn the third.
Doing it this way keeps Kanrethad on the Pitlord, and burns down the 3 Felhounds before you really take any damage. Once you get used to it, it will make this phase fairly trivial, IMO.
I will burn your soul.
Not even sure if I should post this but here we go. When this thread started I looked forward to do the green fire questline, too bad I stopped playing and ilvl was bad 476 but it seemed to be more than enough. Killed him with 2-3? minutes left on doom debuff.
-Macro the pitlord breath to all my spells. Stood in front of Karenthed (Pitlord behind him) and got cleansed instantly from the debuffs;
-Macro the healing spell to all my spells. The pitlord isn't going to die even if you spam this;
-Move away from rain of fire. Stay in 15yd away from boss then run into melee and swap between those 2 position;
-Used the charge twice per cataclysm, one at 40-50% energy just for the DPS increase and the other for the interrupt;
-Used personal portal (not gateway) to avoid chaos bolt using LoS;
-Save big CDs for felhunter phase (got it only once as far I remember?) - Demon Soul, Abyssal, etc.
-Ignored the doomguard, let it attacked anything. Usually the pitlord with aggro it with its breath/healing aggro.
And, sadly enough, it worked well. For me the best way to kill Karenthed was simply macro all the available abilities to all my spells and ignore the timing. Just stay in front of him and there you go.
Seemed pretty simple fight, didn't want to post it because it looked like it'd ruin other people fun while doing him but there is the [spoiler] tag for a reason.
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I got the book in the first day or two it was available, spent an hour or two trying it until it was clear that Affliction sucked for beating Kanrethad, and decided not to bother with it since I'm always Aff and it barely affected me anyway.
Now that they're making it change our class mounts, I figured I'd like to have the option, so I went back in today, about 30 ilvls higher than before. I barely needed to mind the mechanics, I was sloppy as hell, and I one-shot it as Affliction. He was dead shortly after the first Felhunter stage began, I didn't even bother attacking the Felhunters or trying to maintain control of the Pit Lord (once the Felhunters cleansed my enslave). I just popped defensive CDs and burned down Kanrethad.
So if you're having trouble or have had trouble with this, it should be pretty easy for you with some 5.4 gear in the near future.
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I'm sorry, but I'm gonna have to call bullshit on this.
- ilvl 476 and 2-3 mins left on doom?
- only one felhunter phase (needs at least 520 and full out nukage, abusing the imps for embers)
Either you misspelled ur ilvl or ur playing a different game then the rest of us...
Read the signature rules
+1 I want to see that ALMIGHTY UBER 476 MEGA DPS that is going to kill with 2-3 minutes left.
I did macro everything with 520 + ilvl and i was doing 120k dps the entire fight and there were like 2 minutes and a half maybe left till he was dead.
The tactics are correct but stop trolling
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Getting The Lead Out
Defenders calls for changes in condor country
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They ride the wind's updrafts along the Vermillion Cliffs in northern Arizona, gliding through the air on wings that stretch more than nine feet—the longest wingspan of any North American land birds.
But this ease in the air doesn't translate into other areas of the California condor's life. Poaching, lead poisoning and habitat destruction sent the species on a drastic decline during the last century. Once found throughout the mountainous regions of the Pacific Northwest, the species reached a record low of 22 birds in the wild by the 1980s. To save the condor, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service captured the remaining free-flying birds and successfully bred them in captivity. Releases back into the wild began in 1991, and at last count in April, 226 condors flew free in California, Arizona and Baja, Mexico.
They are far from home free, however. Lead poisoning is now the leading cause of death for these slow-to-reproduce scavengers. Condors eat dead animals, including those that have been shot with lead ammunition. Sometimes carcasses or entrails are left behind by hunters who clean their kills in the field, or an animal is shot and gets away but later dies. Lead can quickly accumulate in the big birds causing lead poisoning leading to anemia, blindness, seizures and death.
"It's time for ammunition manufacturers to step up and do what was done for waterfowl decades ago," says Defenders' President Jamie Rappaport Clark, who recently traveled to Arizona to discuss the lead situation with state wildlife officials—and to get up close and personal with a species she worked to protect while heading the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in the late 1990s. "The California condor won't be able to recover until manufacturers and hunters step up and move away from lead ammunition. Only with significant human support will we make any more headway toward keeping these incredible flying creatures in their rightful place in the wild."
To this end, Defenders led the charge to encourage California officials to pass legislation that in 2008 banned the use of lead ammunition when hunting big game in condor habitat, and is working to ensure similar protection is enacted for condors in neighboring states. In Arizona, free vouchers for nonlead ammunition have swayed some hunters to switch their shot. California's lead ammunition ban has effectively reduced lead exposure in scavenger birds, according to a University of California-Davis study published last year in PLoS One, a peer-reviewed scientific journal. Researchers compared lead levels in the blood of golden eagles and turkey vultures within California condor range when lead was legal and one year after it was banned. They found that lead exposure in golden eagles and turkey vultures declined significantly post-ban and may benefit the conservation of species.
"Conversion to lead-free ammunition should not affect hunter success, but it will do a world of good for condors and other critters," says Clark. "If we are seeing consistently high lead levels in condors, just imagine how many other animals are at risk. Clearly, lead and wildlife do not mix."


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Migliaccio allegedly broke into an unoccupied single home at 4716 Howell St. on Saturday morning and disconnected a gas line while attempting to steal the pipes. The resulting gas leak caused an explosion about 12:20 p.m. that leveled the three-story residence and forced the evacuation of the surrounding city block for more than two hours.
No serious injuries were reported, but multiple homes nearby sustained damage. Firefighters were first on the scene and initially sprayed the pile of rubble with water, although no flames were reported.
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There's an App for LA Coffee: LA's Best Coffee
Coffee in LA has exploded over the past five years. You used to have to go out of your way to get a decent cup. Now, a new third wave espresso bar with a 45 minute pour over seems to open every week.
The good news is there's now an iphone app that helps you find the best third wave coffee near where you are in LA. The mapping function works well, and the best thing about it is it's all wheat and no chaff. The people who made this app clearly have high standards for coffee as all of the places listed are great third wave coffee bars, so if you're a fan of this style of coffee, there's little risk of disappointment or need to sort through reviews.
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After reading, doing, reading some more, doing some more, I realised that I should start a build thread.
Basics - I scored a white, late '88 T16 via Atlanta craigslist for $1600.00. It is in decent shape, but of course, needs plenty.... Done so far: Replaced all the underhood vacuum lines with silicon. I'm not ready to pull the dash just yet. Replaced the alternator mount and alternator bushings. Stuck with rubber after hearing about early poly failures. Replaced 2.5 FPR with 3.0 FPR. Replaced humming fuel pump and pre fuel pump. New primary fuel pump is Swedish Dynamics 65gph unit. After learning more about the fuel system, I'm going to go ahead an drop the gas tank and install proper submersible fuel hose for the return line. I don't want to go back in there anytime in the foreseeable future. Replaced BPV with higher pressure Bosch unit. Have a set of Kilen Springs waiting to go on. Have a set of KYB Gas-A-Just's to go on with the springs. Wasn't ready to commit to the Bilstein HD's just yet. Have all new suspension bushings front and rear to go on while doing springs/shocks. Have new tie-rod ends and upper and lower ball joints to go on with springs/shocks. Have a set of super aero's on the back porch. Will be refinishing and fitting with 205/50/16 Nitto NeoGen's. (Living in Alabama is nice...no need for winter tire/wheel setup) It's an auto tranny. Yeah, yeah, I know. Flame on. But it was to good of a deal to pass up. I can always swap over if I decide I want to change. Currently running on spare distributor - needs new internal oil seal. I ham fisted the HES on original distributor while changing BPV. Will be rebuilding original dist. Need to install new valve cover gasket. Hate seeing fresh clean oil going to waste... Will be hunting down various clicks, clacks and ticks under the hood as I move from one repair to next. Considering various upgrade options: Upgraded APC - Somewhere between 16 & 20psi Higher flow rate injectors - nothing crazy, something in the 24-27lb range Full stainless exhaust Maybe custom exhaust manifold..... not sure Definitely heat coating on all exhaust piping Considering various bracing/strengthening projects - my wire welder hasn't seen much use yet. It looks lonely. Still researching.... More to come. I tend to become attached to cars. This one will be in the family for a looooong time...... I'll get pics up as progress starts. Should have some up this weekend. |
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Took Advantage of the warm weather today....
I dropped the gas tank on the SLAAB and cleaned out 22 years worth of sediment build up.
Tomorrow, I'm gonna pick up a couple of feet of H209 from NAPA. It's fuel hose designed to be submersed in gas.... That combined with the new prepump and 65gph primary should keep me out of the tank for quite a while. Before reinstalling the tank, I'll go ahead and install the new fuel filter as well. |
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Went to Mathew's Car Parts today.....
When I walk in I feel like a kid in a candy store. I picked up some small parts and then asked about rear seat headrests. Richard took me to a room full of seats and said "see what you can find". It was like pull-a-part, but inside.... Love it. Found two gray leather headrests on a rear seatback tucked away in corner.....
Let me know how you manage to replace that fuel filter. I tried this week but couldn't get any clearance. Also I had no chance of untorquing the banjo fittings.
What blithering idiot put the fuel filter there? |
You would think that since they ran the entire fuel system in-body theyd put the fuel filter in there too...but noooo. Mine is just a football shaped ball of rust. God I hope I don't have to change it anytime soon. If I do, Ill probably just cut it out and splice in a lawnmower filter or something...
24hrs of LeMons SAAB 900 project: To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. Updated 12/7/14 The Q took a hard hit last race but managed to still finish well, a triumph to the spirit of this old bbq'ing jalopy. Will it be able to recover from the frame bending accident? Will it ever manifold BBQ again?? |
It actually won't be bad for me. Since I have the tank out, I have room to put a breaker bar on the thing if need be.
It only took fifteen minutes to drop the tank.....and it's my first time.... Took longer to pump the tank out. Once I replace it and have confirmed no leaking, I think I'll wrap it in rubber. Cut a MTB tube and split it open length-wise. That should give me plenty of rubber to skin the fuel filter and connections. That will keep it nice and clean for the next time I have to change it.. Last edited by Eddy_AL; 17th December 2010 at 11:57 AM. |
But how do you maneuver your body in there? You probably need a jack and jackstands to give you safe clearance. Mine is rusty too tailspin! |
I'm a believer that every C900 owner should have a floor jack and 4 jackstands. They aren't that expensive but will make work go so much faster!
24hrs of LeMons SAAB 900 project: To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. Updated 12/7/14 The Q took a hard hit last race but managed to still finish well, a triumph to the spirit of this old bbq'ing jalopy. Will it be able to recover from the frame bending accident? Will it ever manifold BBQ again?? |
That's a nice looking car. If you're bent on using the old SLAAB pun, you could find something that better matches the term here in Ohio.
Definitely jacking it up and using stands.... * Picked up 4 small 2 ton jackstands (perfect for the 900) today at Biglots. My others were sized for jeeps with lift kits. They have them for $16 a pair.... Go get some Last edited by Eddy_AL; 18th December 2010 at 09:49 PM. Reason: added info |
Using the pun......Tongue in cheek. It's a southern car..no rust issues, at all. Somebody loved this car for it to be in this good of shape after 22 years. Living far below the Mason-Dixon line didn't hurt either...
While the tank is out.....
It took all of about 5 seconds to realize that leaving the tank out while redoing the rear suspension loads easier.....
I grabbed a pic of the underside in hopes of showing you just how much room is open under there as well as how much easier it is to get to the fuel filter. The beast is up on jackstand..... |
Sprayed down the rear underside with degreaser and took the pressure washer to it while the gas tank is out. I'm gonna hit any places with cracked/chipped paint or rust with some.... an ounce of prevention, yada-yada-yada....
Tomorrow, I'm taking a vacation day. Gonna take avantage of a sunny 55 degree day. Plan for tomorrow - Drop the rear end, replace all bushings, replace coil springs & shocks, put a fresh coat of paint on the rear axle and reassemble.... We'll see how it goes. |
Rear end is done...for now.
Pulled the rear end yesterday.
I knocked the rust of the rear axle, put on a couple of coats or primer and then put on three coats of "tractor implement" paint. That stuff is as tough as nails. Rear Kilen springs are installed. Rear KYB's are installed. Nice clean gas tank is reinstalled. New fuel filter installed. New intank fuel return line installed. It is engineered to be submersible in gas. Available at NAPA, part number: H209 I'll be putting the fuel pumps back in tonight. Need to bleed the rear brakes. Definitely going to order a set of speed bleeders for the SAAB. Been using them on my Jeeps for a while. They make bleeding a simple, one man, 15 minute job. Anyways, the beast is sitting on it's tires again. Now I have to do the front...... Last edited by Eddy_AL; 21st December 2010 at 11:05 AM. Reason: pics |
What a night....
Fuel pumps are in...
Brakes are bled.... I did not realize just how much air I let back into the system when I dropped the rear end. It took FOREVER to get the air out of passenger side brake line. When I disconnected the hard brake lines on the axle from the soft lines at the body, I used some large vacuum plugs to stop the bleeding. On one I left the nut off the fitting and plug slipped all the way on with a nice tidy seal. The other, I put both nuts on and then put the plug on..... Well, it leaked slowly the entire day. At first I though I was going to have to pull the master brake cylinder and prime it, but eventually I got all the air out. My daughter will have a sore leg today from pushing the brake pedal so much, but hey, what are teenagers for? |
Not exactly a performance mod....
But I ordered a Clarion CZ500 this week plus a set of Boston Acoustics to replace my tired speakers.
Should increase the driving pleasure.... PS. Found the CZ500 on Amazon for $88.00 ipod connection bluetooth cd player etc, etc good price for the specs....... |
Wow... Been a while...
Between work and the weather, my car was feeling a bit neglected...
Valve cover gasket has been replaced. I finally got the front suspension finished up. Killen Springs all around KYB Gas A Just all around New ball joints - upper and lower. Both uppers were TOAST... New Tie-rod ends New tie-rod boots Remove, clean and repack CV's + new boots - saw some pitting - put on the replace list New upper and lower control arm bushings - The passenger side upper control arm was garbage.Over time the heat from the exhaust cooked the bushings. On top of that, the metal tube inside of one of the bushing had welded to the control arm. I took a dremel tool to it. I took a propane torch to it. I to a BFH to it... nothing worked. I ended up replacing the entire control arm. Once I had the old one out, I cut a little deeper with the dremel. I couldn't tell where bushing tube stopped and control arm began. New upper control arm outer bushings - couldn't find oem rubber ones, installed a set of powerflex polys. I think that about covers this weekend..... I dropped the car off for an alignment about 30 minutes ago.... I can't wait to get her back. Now I just need to get the rear bushings done. When I put the springs and shocks on the back I didn't have all the bushings yet... That has been remedied. Now I just need time... Also, I ordered the Abbott Racing exhaust and a equal length header. I 'm thinking about doing my own thermal barrier coating.. Time to get out the welder and start building an oven.... Last edited by Eddy_AL; 14th March 2011 at 12:14 PM. |
Holy Guano, Batman.... Alignment is done... Had to go for a spin becoming back to the office.
I'm in Heaven.... Once the back bushings are done......... Scotty!! I need more power!!!! |
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Paessler Adds VoIP Modules to Network Monitor
New IP SLA and QoS sensors take the pulse of voice and video related network elements.
Nuremberg, Germany-based Paessler AG, which has had a sizable customer base in North America for its PRTG Network Monitor software, has gotten with the times and added to its latest version (version 7.2) new modules for monitoring the health and performance of IP voice and video connectionsfor both Cisco-based networks and those running other brands of networking gear.
Enterprise VoIPplanet spoke with Ken Sanofsky, Paessler's general manager for North America, who filled us in on the basic product architecture:
"We have two elements," Sanofsky said: "We have the core engine, where our code runs on a server, and then we have a local probe attached to that server for monitoring the network that that server's attached to."
Remote probes (standalone PCs running a small piece of additional code) do the actual monitoring, using what Paessler calls 'sensors.' The probes collect data from the various network devices and forward it to the core engine, via secure SSL.
Paessler offers some 50 different sensor types: SNMP sensors for switches, routers, and other networking infrastructure, sensors for monitoring serversincluding POP, IMAP, and Exchange mail serverseven sensors that function in virtual environments, such as VMWare.
Probes can be installed in every location where they are needed. "It could be for a single company or for multiple companiesso it's perfect for an MSP who needs to monitor multiple customer networks," Sanofsky said.
"We have a credential-based login system, so that the remote probes are all set up with user accounts, with logins and passwords for each. So that an MSP customer would log in and only see their information."
The new sensors for monitoring voice and/or video over IP performance are an IP SLA [service-level agreement] sensor, for use with Cisco hardware, and a QoS [quality of service] sensor, for use with other brands of networking gear.
Sanofsky explained that while, typically, collecting IP SLA data from a Cisco routerthe boxes with the feature that generates such data generally are the more expensive routers that run near the core of the networkrequires a powerful dedicated PC. With PRTG Network Monitor, the PC in question doesn't necessarily have to be powerful, and can serve other applications simultaneously.
Moreover, the IP SLA sensor and QoS sensors are an integral part of the product, not extra cost add-ons. In general, Paessler prides itself on great value for the price, delivering a complete software package, and not nickel-and-diming for extra features. In response to a direct query from Enterprise VoIPplanet, Sanofsky estimated that deployment of many competing products to cover the network of a distributed company with five locations would run to "tens of thousands of dollars." A comparable Paessler deploymentcovering five disparate locationswould probably be "under two thousand," according to Sanofsky.


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Really great executives care about what they are trying to accomplish, and Shurts is no exception.
Why Aren't CIOs Participating in Social Channels?
Being aware of the gap is the first step. But CIOs also seem to decide and act on the basis of misdirecting and wrongful notions of social media. False understanding and fear of the possible seem to rule in most organizations.
For those worried about these issues, Shurts CIO of SuperValu, has some advice: "Our CEO put together a single sentence policy: 'Don't post on Yammer something that, if posted on NYT tomorrow, would embarrass you or the company.' It's served us very well."
I asked Cora Carmody (#8), CIO of Jacobs Engineering why her peers aren't participating, she gave me a revealing answer: "A lot of CIOs still think in a transactional world. Transactional systems are still the top priority, keeping the lights on, keeping the networks going, keeping the ERP and HR systems are still top priorities for them. But the world is changing and my peers need to recognize that."
Recognition is the second step, and most CIOs are just getting there.
The Steps Forward
A recent study by PulsePoint Group in collaboration with The Economist Intelligence Unit titled, "The Economics of A Fully Engaged Enterprise" found that in the most companies where social business is a priority, the CEO and other executives are the vital advocates for cultural change that drives deeper levels of engagement within the organization.
Carmody's advice seems to back that up, "CIOs need to realize that we're not working in a command and control world anymore, we must take a more collaborative, social approach. At Jacobs, we reach out as professional services and what we sell is brainpower. You cannot manage brainpower transactionally." I could not have said it better myself.
Even in banking, the CIO transformation is moving forward. Speaking on his own behalf, Ian Alderton, CIO of Royal Bank of Scotland warns, "the role of the CIO is changing, and I believe it's a missed opportunity for CIOs if they choose not engage in social channels with their customers and employees."
I asked David Sacks, the CEO of Yammer to provide some advice for CIOs, he adds, "Social software is different. CIOs and IT can't require employees to use it -- they have to want to use it. User adoption is the biggest requirement and that's changing the way IT organizations select and adopt software." In other words, choose your social business platform wisely.
And to answer those critics that will condemn the need for CIOs to be social, we only need to thank the top 25 for affording us the opportunity to prove otherwise. As they've shown, it's important to understand how customers, suppliers and partners are communicating and collaborating. And it's the CIO who can have the most impact.
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The Flatwing style
The flatwing streamer style has been a consistant producer for me over the years, particularly in the smaller casting sizes for brook trout.
The flatwing streamer style has been a consistant producer for me over the years, particularly in the smaller casting sizes for brook trout. This by no means precludes this style from being used on the larger, trolling patterns however, as is shown by the widespread popularity of Joe's Smelt, which sports a flatwing made from a pintail flank feather. The main difficulty in tying this style on the longer hooks is the availability of appropriate, long flank feathers for the wing in this size.
In this feature, I'll describe the steps to tie the Woods Special, one of the older flatwing patterns, and a great spring streamer for brook trout ponds. The technique can easily be applied to other patterns as well.
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STEP 1: Start your black thread near mid shank, and wind back toward the hook bend, stopping at approximately the hook point. Tie in flat silver tinsel, and wind this back slightly down the bend, and back to the tie in point to create the tag. Select a clump of Golden Pheasant Tippet fibers and tie these in on top of the hook shank for the tailing. The length of the tail should be approximately equal to the gap of the hook.
STEP 2: Tie in the flat silver tinsel ribbing and orange chenille at the point where the tag and tail meet. Be sure to tie in the chenille by the thread core of the material. You'll likely need to strip out a section of the chenille "fluff' to get access to the core. Wind this forward to where the back of the head of the finished streamer will be, and tie off with a couple of wraps. Snip excess. Wind the flat silver tinsel ribbing forward, about 4 turns on a 6X or 4X casting-sized hook, tie off, and snip excess. Be sure to leave enough room to apply the wing, hackle collar, and to finish the head.
STEP 3: Select a lemon wood duck flank that has center fibers just slightly shorter than the hook shank. Fold back the "extra" fibers carefully to the correct wing length, which should be approximately from the back of the head to the tip of the tail. Your selected feather should look approximately like this:
Strip these "extra" fibers from the stem, and place the remaining portion flat on top of the hook. Tie in with a couple loose wraps, double-check the positioning of the wing to make sure it's perpendicular to the hook bend, and secure with a few tight wraps. By selecting a flank feather with longish barbules, you can now wet your fingers, and slick the rear of the wing into shape.
STEP 4: If you decide to apply the Jungle Cock Cheeks, then do so now. For this example, they've been left off, because frankly, this pattern is just as effective without them. Select a grizzly hen neck hackle that has barbules just a bit longer than the hook gap, tie in at the rear of the head tip first, and the "shiny" side towards you. Wind this hackle on for 2 or 3 turns, stroking the barbules back towards the rear of the hook, or fold the hackle before tying in. After the wraps are complete, tie off the remaining hackle, snip excess, and tie the barbules back as a collar. Build a nicely-tapered head, whip finish, and apply head cement. There you have it! A killer flatwing pattern!
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Using the WHM plugin, I recently installed LSWS using a VPS Enterprise license. Everything appeared to have installed correctly. So, then I clicked on "Build Matching PHP Binary". Again, no apparent errors. I then clicked on "Restart LiteSpeed". I then clicked on "Admin Web Console" and Firefox would not load the page. Firefox gave the following message, "The connection has timed out". I then uninstalled LSWS and re-installed it to see if that would help, but it did not help. Some options I used are as follows: LiteSpeed Port Offset is 2000 I enabled PHP suEXEC The only thing that looked suspicious during the LSWS installation was this message: Generating key pair for web console login page, please wait ... Generating RSA private key, 512 bit long modulus .........................++++++++++++ ...........++++++++++++ unable to write 'random state' I have no clue what that message is about and I don't know if that has anything to do with why I can't load the Admin Web Console (or any other web page on my site) using LiteSpeed on port 2080 (which I thought I would be able to with a port offset of 2000). Any ideas on what might be going on here?
are you running CSF firewall? If so try opening the port.... http://stackoverflow.com/questions/94445/using-openssl-what-does-unable-to-write-random-state-mean
Thanks for the tips. Port 7080 was indeed being blocked by my firewall. So, I opened up port 7080. However, I'm still not able to view the web console when I click on it. Any ideas on where to go from here?
check if port 7080 is listening. For CentOS, try below from command line: if no result, try start LSWS from command line:
Having same problem. When I do the netstat, it says tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:7080 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 8893/litespeed (lsh Any ideas or help? Thanks!
First one yielded: ** are of course substitute Trying 50.28.**.***... Connected to 50.28.**.***. Escape character is '^]'. Second: HTTP/1.1 302 Found Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2011 03:39:20 GMT Server: LiteSpeed Connection: Keep-Alive Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=100 Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0 Pragma: no-cache Set-Cookie: LSWSWEBUI=2eb2187cedda2aaf9d07c87491bc1944; path=/ Set-Cookie: lsws_uid=a; expires=Tue, 07 Jun 2011 03:39:20 GMT; path=/ Set-Cookie: lsws_pass=b; expires=Tue, 07 Jun 2011 03:39:20 GMT; path=/ Set-Cookie: LSWSWEBUI=b; expires=Tue, 07 Jun 2011 03:39:20 GMT; path=/ location: /login.php Content-Type: text/html
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Crownwall had heard about creatures that slavered, but he had never before seen it done.
They ran about in the sun, and slavered at the mouth till they died.
The flaring torch he dashed full at a grisly muzzle that snapped and slavered at his legs.
Tom's pow simmered—it seethed—it foamed yeastily, and slavered like a mad dog!
Farther up is a livery stable, a mere hole in a pile of bricks, once red now slavered over with white-wash once white.
Vice mopped and mowed and slavered, obscene and hideous, within those gaudy covers.
He saw the flashing forms of gray, the gleaming eyes, the lolling tongues, the slavered fangs.
Meanwhile, the infant ruffian continued sucking; and glowered up at me defyingly, as he slavered into the jug.
The beast has slavered over much that will be sold for human food afterwards.
When this fellow knelt before the picture and slavered it with his ugly mouth, a dizzy sensation of disgust came over me.


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Clerksâ offices in Riverside and San Bernardino counties are preparing for a wave of same-sex weddings in anticipation of the U.S. Supreme Courtâs decision this month on Californiaâs gay-marriage ban.
The court is expected to rule as early as this week whether Prop. 8, the 2008 voter initiative prohibiting marriage between people of the same gender, violates the U.S. Constitution.
Remarks from justices during March oral arguments in the case indicate that a majority was considering either striking down Prop. 8 or dismissing the case, which would mean a federal appellate court ruling that found Prop. 8 unconstitutional would stand. The high court appeared unlikely to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide.
Officials in Riverside and San Bernardino counties said they have been planning for the possible resumption of same-sex marriages.
âWe have discussed it and we are prepared,â said Michele Martinez-Barrera, of the Riverside County assessor-county clerk-recorderâs office.
If there is a surge of marriage applications and requests for county-performed weddings, the county will shift employees to accommodate the need, she said.
San Bernardino County would do the same, said Dan Harp, the countyâs assistant assessor-recorder.
âWe would expect a small spike in marriage-license applications and marriages performed in our offices,â he said.
Both counties faced an increase in marriage-license applications and ceremonies on June 17, 2008, after the California Supreme Court ruled that the stateâs eight-year-old ban on gay marriage violated the California Constitution.
After that ruling, the state Office of Vital Records had to scramble to alter marriage-license forms to use gender-neutral language. That wonât be necessary this year: The applications still read âfirst personâ and âsecond personâ instead of âbrideâ and âgroom.â
About 18,000 same-sex marriages were performed statewide in 2008 during the 20 weeks between June 17 and the Nov. 4 passage of Prop. 8, which added a gay-marriage ban into the stateâs constitution and nullified the state Supreme Courtâs decision.
If the U.S. Supreme Court invalidates Prop. 8, itâs unclear how soon after the ruling that same-sex marriages would begin. Riverside and San Bernardino counties said they would ask the state for advice.
State officials are planning to meet on the day of the court decision to decide how to implement its ruling, said Matt Conens, a spokesman with the California Department of Public Health, which oversees the vital-records office.
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