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She was in the sixth grade. Holding the pillow up to her face, wrapping it around her head, all she had to do was stop breathing. And so, sitting on the top of the bunk bed she shared with her little brother, in her oversized t-shirt and baggy shorts, she tried to suffocate herself. Life sucks and there is no reason to keep breathing, she thought as she used her pillow and positioned her body in every possible way to help her die. She tried all night long.
"I just couldn't do it…it just wouldn't work," Semy Lee recalls as she sits in a tile-covered coffee shop in Seoul.
She picks up the string to her tea bag, pulls it to the rim of the cup, pinches it, lowers it back down to the steaming water, and repeats the process.
"After that moment, I just lived kind of like a robot."
Easy-going, free-spirited on the outside, Semy played her part well. A tomboy to the core—wishing to wear nothing but sweatpants and t-shirts, yet cringing when forced to wear floral dresses—she didn't leave home without her Game Boy. Thought of by everyone as the "innocent girl", Semy never lacked friends, and pretty much everyone liked her. No one saw the girl on the inside; the one that had to grow up too soon, too fast.
Born in Queens, New York, Semy lived like a "latchkey kid". Along with her younger brother, Mike, she came home from school to an empty home every day. Both parents always gone, working multiple jobs, left Semy and Mike to fend for themselves. By the time she was seven years old, she made her parents' coffee and cooked dinner. On the rare days when she would lose the key to the apartment, Semy and Mike would steal snacks from the grocery store for dinner and hang out at the park down the street until their parents came home at 9 p.m.
Living with parents who constantly fought and loved to throw parties, it was common to step on empty bottles of alcohol, porn magazines, and cockroaches.
was common to step on empty bottles of alcohol, porn magazines, and cockroaches. Her family lived as nomads. The longest she ever stayed in an apartment or the room of someone else's house was two years, the shortest being six months. They moved down the street, across the neighborhood, and then back to the apartment they started in.
"My life was very unstable," Semy admits. "Even now, I get antsy when I have lived in the same place longer than two years."
Growing up in a Korean household, it was always about grades. Semy would come home with her report card, hands shaking while she handed the paper to her dad, knowing if she didn't have all A's her dad would hit her. The ever lingering threat of being beaten pushed Semy to excel in school.
Then, after her eighth grade year, her nomadic parents moved the family to Virginia, where Semy's mother's family lived. The same family who hated her father for eloping with their daughter. Her dad didn't want to move. But after his wife threatened to leave with or without him, he went.
Her father abused Semy and Mike from the time they started grade school until her sophomore year of high school, when he eventually walked out. After watching him beat their mother in front of them, Mike, now strong enough to interfere, grabbed his father and forced him into a headlock. A short time after that, knowing that his kids were always going to be on their mother's side because they didn't understand him, his life choices, or the sacrifices he made to raise them, he left. He took their only car and all of their money. After he gambled away his family's savings, he left the country and moved back to Korea.
"Talk to your father." Semy stared at the message written inside the cap of her Jones Cream Soda, disbelief covering her face. She flipped it over and looked at it again. It was the confirmation that she needed.
Semy attended church as a child, but she despised churchgoers. Even at a young age, she witnessed hypocrisy and observed a culture interlaced with two-faced people. She decided to stop going altogether when they wouldn't let her see the movie Titanic.
"It seems really childish now that I think about it," Semy laughs. She clears her throat, sipping on her tea, and continues, "I had my ticket and everything, and they literally wouldn't let me go."
Even though her parents didn't go to church, her mom forced Semy to attend, so that she could bring her tithe. After the movie experience, Semy took the money from her mom every Sunday, headed to church, and then turned around to sneak into an arcade or buy magazines that featured Leonardo Di-Caprio and N*Sync.
But that all changed a month into her freshman year at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, better known as Virgina Tech. Semy and her high school best friend, Sky, who were both uninterested in religion, found themselves following friends to Cornerstone Christian Fellowship (CCF). They simply went to make more friends. But instead, they discovered a group of people with a genuine type of faith and a different attitude about life. One of those people was fifth-year senior John-Michael, or "JM" as Semy calls him. He mentored freshmen through weekly Bible studies known as "home group." For the first time in her life, Semy had a male figure actually looking out for her. Up until this point, she thought her relationship with her dad growing up was normal.
"JM was so fatherly, so kind, and so different from everyone else I had ever met," she says.
Semy experienced a feeling she never knew. She felt taken care of. She could finally be the child she never got to be growing up. Her love for God grew deeper and deeper. On October 30, 2004 at 10:30 a.m., Pastor Sang baptized Semy in the chilly waters of New River. For two weeks, Semy did not take a shower, even refusing to wash the clothes she was baptized in. She felt so clean. Her childlike faith marked a new zeal for God.
But a year later, she felt a block. She wanted more out of her relationship with God, to delve deeper into her faith, to love more furiously than before...but something stopped her. She desired to share everything with God yet it was always met by an inherent need to protect herself, her thoughts, her dreams. Semy longed to please God but feared she would disappoint Him like all the times she disappointed her dad. For every step she took forward, she feared being pulled three steps back. Frustrated, she asked God, why?
He told her simply, "It's because you need to forgive your father."
But Semy refused. She remembers actually saying, "Hell, no." Yet, she heard the same thing, again and again.
She gave the same response. No. That's impossible.
Semy stopped at a convenience store on her way to a CCF retreat in March 2005 and reached for her favorite drink, a Jones Cream Soda.
2005 and reached for her favorite drink, a Jones Cream Soda. "Talk to your father." Semy stared at the message written inside the cap, disbelief covering her face. She flipped it over and looked at it again. She realized that after ignoring God's advice to forgive her father, He found a more creative way to speak to her. To Semy, the cap to that Jones Cream Soda proved that God was more real than she ever imagined.
During that retreat, God reminded her of the sins she had been forgiven of, the hatred she felt towards church people growing up, the lies she told, the things she stole. Regardless of those wrongs, Semy couldn't justify the way her dad treated her. Then, she experienced the tangible presence of God for the first time. After two days at the retreat, her heart began softening towards her dad. For the first time, she allowed God to help her utter words of forgiveness.
Immediately afterwards, Semy called her dad for the first time in three years to tell him she forgave him for everything. His response surprised her.
"No, I should be the one asking you for forgiveness," he said. "I treated you so wrong all these years, and I should be the one saying 'I am sorry.'"
"I am sorry I couldn't do anything for you."
Semy cradled her phone and broke down in tears. For the first time, her dad shared his side of the story. The side she would have never heard if she didn't take that first step of forgiveness. Her dad opened up and let Semy into the hurt he experienced from her mother's family, who never wanted him to marry the girl he barely knew to begin with. He opened up about the trials they faced raising two children in a country they had not yet fully made their home. Reminding Semy of having to live with family in Korea while her mom and dad worked to the bone, saving enough money for them to be a family together in America.
together in America. This conversation became the first of many that Semy cherished as she got to know her dad...as if for the first time.
The rest of her college experience proved to be a sweet time in her faith. JM describes her walk with God with that same word, "sweet."
"I have been blessed every time I have witnessed Semy tap into His sweetness and light up with joy and love from His presence," he says.
Semy, the child who grew up too soon, too fast, finally allowed herself to be taken care of by her church family, knowing that she could rebuild her relationship with her dad because of her relationship with God, the Father.
The summer before her senior year, Semy traveled to Korea to visit JM, who had built up an orphanage ministry in Seoul for the past several years. She stayed for a month, volunteering at orphanages and falling in love with the children.
While in Korea, she saw her dad for the first time since that first phone call two years prior, thus, establishing a face-to-face relationship.
Semy returned to Virginia to finish school. When God told her to move to Korea after she graduated, she didn't hesitate. She came to teach English for one year.
Four years later, Semy relaxes in the booth—still sipping on her tea—ticking off her three C's.
"Commitment, confidence, and my calling…that is what God has shown me here in Korea," she says. Semy smiles as she realizes they all start with C's, the teacher in her strikes again. "I had no idea I wanted to be a teacher."
Semy graduated from Virginia Tech with a degree in Human Nutrition, Food, and Exercise. She never gave a thought to becoming a teacher, until she moved to Korea. Getting her Master in Education through Simpson University while living in Seoul opened her eyes to the different education systems in the world and made her realize that Korea needs to change.
while living in Seoul opened her eyes to the different education systems in the world and made her realize that Korea needs to change.
Throughout her childhood, Semy feared education the most. Now, God has turned that fear into her passion. Semy wakes up thinking, "Yes! I am going to work," arriving up to two hours early many mornings. Prepping for her classes brings her joy. By lunchtime, when her co-workers are wiped out, Semy bounces around the cafeteria. Students beg to be in her after-school classes. They are drawn to her fun, genuine spirit.
"I love kids," Semy states simply. "Seeing a child smile will brighten up my day, period."
Growing up with her brother, Semy never did anything for Mike; she made him do everything with her.
"If we were stealing food, we did it together," she says. "If we were cooking dinner, we did it together."
Without realizing it, she has mirrored this in her classroom. Instead of telling her students what to do, she does it with them. Working alongside each child, Semy emphasizes that making mistakes is okay, that not knowing everything is okay.
When Sky first met Semy back in high school, she thought she acted too much like an adult. That she was too mature for her age. Sky remembers constantly thinking, "What is wrong with her?" Talking about Semy now, though, she feels a deep connection towards the friend she grew alongside with in her faith.
"I admire that Semy knows how to do things her way, she knows how to be herself with God…how to have fun," Sky says.
"She doesn't put God in a box."
The little girl forced to grow up too fast, who thought "life sucked" and lived like a robot, she's gone. In her place is a grown woman with a childlike spirit who never wants to stop breathing and now only uses her pillow for a good night's rest...that, and pillow fights.
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In covering nerd news, we get a lot of information about our favorite upcoming films and TV shows from new trailers, interviews, and behind the scenes photos and videos, but that's not the only way we get our insights. Sometimes, we get the most spoilery material from the oddest places, like toys. Sometimes, you're at a show, you're looking at a line-up of toys and collectibles, and you see something unexpected. For the upcoming line of Suicide Squad collectibles from Sideshow's Knightmare line, a particular figure was added that maybe a *SPOILER* for the upcoming DC Comics super-villain team-up movie.
Now you might recall from Batman V. Superman: Dawn of Justice the scene with Bruce Wayne's nightmare about a dystopian future where the world is a desert, he and Superman have deadly armies, and parademons descend from the sky at the whim of their unseen master, Darkseid. For Batman though, the below image may represent a nightmare more terrible than anything cooked from the depths of Apokolips.
Yup. that is a Joker-ized Batman costume, but more than that, if you take off the cowl that's Jared Leto's Joker underneath. Note that this is more than a matter of turning the Batman costume purple, the detail reflects the tattoos worn by the Joker in the David Ayer movie including the word "Damaged" on the forehead, and the Twizzler's logo on the right arm. That's also a lot of ceramic blood on the gloves and boots, which suggests that Joker is going to do some very bad things as the Bat.
Still, the question must be asked: What is the story behind this figure? Is it a dream sequence? Has the Joker gone to the trouble of making his own Batman variant? Did he actually get his hands on a Batman costume? Or maybe this is just Sideshow Collectibles having some fun with us? I guess we'll find out.
Suicide Squad is in theaters everywhere August 5.
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And I have a FO for you! Tonight I finished my Medusa Cascade socks, and I'm very glad to get them off my needles.
The pattern was pretty mindless, so I've made most of them at work during my breaks. And the yarn in itself is very nice, but as I've told you I found the colours dull and boring. I'm very glad that my mother-in-law seemed to really like them, so I'm going to give them to her when I see her next. I need to wash them first though, to make certain that the colours won't bleed. I don't think that will be a problem, as my Panda Feet yarn (which is also from Sheepy Time Knits) didn't shed any dye at all.
I also got my March shipment in the Knitting Goddess yarn club (The 7 Degrees of Kevin Bacon club), and I really really LOVE it!
It's a really pretty purple, and the inspiration this time comes from the film Dark Shadows (where Johnny Depp plays a vampire). The pattern, Collinwood, is really pretty too, although you'll have to do without a photo as there isn't one yet on the pattern page. I might try these out some time in the future, but for now I'll finish my Gördes socks first. And then I think I want to knit a pair of Cookie A socks, or possibly a pair of Claire Ellen.
The projects that will get most love this long weekend (we get Friday and Monday off for Easter) will probably be the Glacier gloves and the Gördes socks. I've knit a bit on the Mandala II shawl this past week, but it is very scrunched up on a short needle right now so it doesn't show it. As I have a lot of the yarn (Madelinetosh Tosh Lace), I'm making it a little bit bigger, so I'm adding a second repeat of chart 2. It's looking good so far! I've really enjoyed working some lace again, so maybe this will get a bit of love too.
I also really, really want to work on my Parcel sweater, but that will probably be the project that gets the least amount of progress. I need to finish the gloves for the MarigoldJen KAL first, and I really want to wear the Gördes socks as they are really pretty!
Tomorrow me and Thomas are going to visit our friends Klara and Micke, and see their new house. They are having a baby in April, so I think Klara will be pretty big right now! And other than that we have absolutely no plans for the entire weekend, and it feels really good to just get to be home and relax. I'm hoping for some sunny weather so we can maybe get some sun on our wintry pale faces too :)
Happy Easter!
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You know that so called "iPad killer"? Well, it isn't doing well at all after all. Today, research firm IDC has released its data on worldwide tablet shipments for the first quarter of 2012. It reveals that even thought there was a quarterly drop in iPad shipments of over 20%, Apple's share of the tablet market soared from last quarter's 54.7%.
The significant increase came from the expense of Android tablets. This expense came from Amazon's Kindle Fire which has seen its shipments collapse from 4.8 million units in the fourth quarter of 2011 to less than 750,000 units last quarter. Ouch! "iPad killer" indeed. It should also be noted that Amazon has never revealed the exact number sold during Amazon's conference calls.
However, Amazon has taken second place in the tablet market during the fourth quarter with a 16.8% share of the market as the Kindle Fire debuted in the United States. Even though IDC did not report a number for Amazon's first quarter shipments in its press release, it did say that Amazon's share dropped to "just over 4%" in the total tablet market of 17.4 million units, yielding shipment volume of roughly 700,000-750,000 units for Amazon.


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[dressed as Charlie Chaplin] So apparently no one dresses up for Halloween here. I wish I had known that before I used grease paint for my mustache. And I can't even take off my hat… because then I'm Hitler.-Pam, The Office
The second night we were in Oregon was also the weekend before Halloween. Match and I decided to go down to the local bars and do a little people watching. I scrounged up a weak attempt at a costume: some mouse ears and a tail my mom had in the attic. Match wore his plaid shirt and was going to carry around paper towels and be the Brawny man. At the last minute he chickened out and just went as himself. Turd!
I thought we'd see more crazy costumes but we really didn't. There were a few slutty girls, and a few funny costumes, but overall pretty typical stuff. It was still fun to get out of the house and people watch for a few hours.
Next year we're going to kick Halloween butt and host a big ol' party at our new house. How was your Halloween? Did you do anything fun?


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DreadNaught wrote:Do we have a 'Doomsday scenario thread' where those 3 are off the board and the Bucs can't trade back? I'd be interested to see a poll on who the board favors in that scenario.
We do now.
Basically, the worst case scenario has happened...only 3 QBs went in the top 6 picks. Nelson, Chubb, and Barkley are gone. Licht tried to trade back...but ultimately, with less than a minute on the clock, it's obvious that one won't happen. Who would you pick?
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text: The Dixie Chicks have apparently said all they have to say about a controversy that began at a March 10 concert in London. During the show, lead vocalist Natalie Maines told the crowd that the group is ashamed that President Bush is from their home state of Texas. Many country radio stations responded by dropping the Chicks from their playlists. And although Maines later issued a written statement apologizing for her remark, some radio programmers have demanded a public apology. Noting that Maines has already issued "two strongly worded statements," Dixie Chicks' manager Simon Renshaw told Radio & Records, "Right now, I don't think Natalie can win. If she goes on microphone [and apologizes], they'll say she doesn't sound contrite enough. I really apologize for having to use publicists. The next time, we'll use pigeon post or some other medium people find acceptable." 03/25/03


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A Swede with a passion for offensive number plates has failed in his cause yet again, after transport authorities denied two of his latest attempts to create 'offensive' personalised plate combinations.
The man, from Varberg in southern Sweden, gained some media attention last year when he attempted to register a personal licence plate reading "3JOH22A".
The Swedish Transport Agency (Transportstyrelsen) rejected the licence plate request on the grounds of it being offensive, the reason for which is made clear when the combination is reflected in a mirror.
The same man has now made two further attempts to change his plate to "8UTT5EX" and "X32TTU8" respectively, but they were also denied, as they too could be considered offensive.
If not immediately obvious, the explanation for rejecting the latter combination is once again made clear when a mirror is introduced to the equation.
"We get a lot of requests and some of them are very subtle. Many see it as a sport to try and get a word through. This one was quite easy to reject," Eva Isaksen from the Swedish Transport Agency told public broadcaster SVT.
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A number plate owner has had their number plate withdrawn by the DVLA after a member of the public complained to police that it spelt 'jihad'.
The Ford Fiesta was driven around with the personalised plate for six months before it was reported to officials.
Licence bosses have now banned the plate which was written JH11 HAD and sent the owner a replacement.
The car was reported after it was spotted driving around Newport, Gwent.
One woman who reported it to police after she saw it being driven in her home city said: "How can this be allowed with everything that is going on in the world at the moment?
"I have told the police about it and they said they would make a note of it.
"Surely this plate cannot be legal?"
A DVLA spokesman said the personalised plate had been bought in October last year and had "slipped through the net" of offensive registrations.
The spokesman said: "We try to identify all combinations that may cause offence, and on the rare occasion where potentially offensive numbers slip through the net, steps are taken to withdraw the number.
"As soon as we became aware of this last week we withdrew it and would have then sent a replacement plate."
Plates resembling the word 'jihad', which literally means striving or struggling in Arabic, and is associated with the concept of 'holy war', are unavailable, for example plates starting with JE and ending HAD.
Others which are banned include HO57 AGE, a close match to "hostage", and the chain of characters O54 MA because of its resemblance to the name Osama.
As popularity grows, the prices reached for the most expensive plates are always increasing. As of 2008, the record price for a number plate is £397,500 paid at auction in September by an anonymous buyer for the plate S 1. This was originally owned by Sir John H A MacDonald, the Lord Kingsburgh and was Edinburgh's first ever number plate. Car design entrepreneur Afzal Kahn paid £375,000 on 25 January 2008 for F 1 previously owned and sold by Essex County Council and affixed originally in 1904 to the Panhard et Levassor of the then County Surveyor. £330,000 was spent on M 1, sold at auction in Goodwood on 7 June 2006.
So why do so many Territorians choose to pimp their plates?
To date, there are more than 20,000 personalised plates registered in the NT, making up 11 per cent of registered vehicles.
Part of the reason there are so many could be because of the price — $185 for a variety of designs and up to seven characters.
In Queensland a seven-character personalised number plate will set you back more than $3,000.
But according to Eduardo de la Fuente, a lecturer in creativity and innovation at James Cook University, the fact personalised plates were relatively inexpensive in the NT was not the only reason they were so popular.
"Through popular culture and culture more generally we invest a lot in motor vehicles [because] they're fetishistic objects," he said.
"They become vehicles, if you pardon the pun, for communicating something about ourselves.
"One way of differentiating yourself from the pack via the purchase of a motor vehicle is to buy something extremely exclusive.
"Most of us however are not in a position to buy a Lamborghini, so we may use other means to customise or personalise a car [and] a number plate is a relatively cheap way of doing that."
When Vivien Joseph moved to Darwin in 2011 she was immediately struck by the number of quirky personalised plates.
"It was the very first thing I noticed; it was like a signature for all of Darwin, a free comedy show on the road," she said.
Over the next four years she collected more than 10,000 number plate images, eventually compiling them into a book.
Ms Joseph's explanation of why more Territorian drivers choose to personalise their plates lies in the surrounding landscape and the identity of those living within it.
"It's so different to everywhere else and there's a freedom of spirit, maybe a greater sense of fun and a greater sense of getting away from the norm," she said.
"I guess they [Australian states and territories] all have their own spirits but the Northern Territory seems to have a sort of special quirky one."
As well as collating pictures, Ms Joseph asked some people to tell her the story behind their number plates.
One of the first stories she was told was of a number plate that read CARPDM.
"It was somebody who'd been unwell and depressed and sad but picked their life up again and chose a starting point by buying a new car and a new number plate," she said.
Other number plates that were among Ms Joseph's favourites were POOGURU — a man who wanted to illustrate he was often in trouble with his wife — and FUNSIZ — a young woman with a sense of humour about her height.
Personalised number plates in the NT, and the reasons people choose the combinations they do, is a fascinating topic for Simon Moss, an associate professor of psychology at Charles Darwin University.
He said while no formal studies had been conducted it was clear that Territorians liked to be unique.
"The [Northern] Territory is about expressing yourself, much more so than other states and territories," he said.
"I think a lot of people move to the NT because they don't want to conform and in some ways the amount of personalised plates here reflects that.
"It's a phenomena I'd like to look into a bit further."
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IGN Launches N-Gage Channel/
BRISBANE, Calif. - September 24, 2003 - IGN Entertainment -- home to IGN.com®, the web's largest information and entertainment destination for gamers -- today announced that it has launched IGN N-Gage, a new editorial channel covering everything N-Gage. IGN N-Gage (http://ngage.ign.com) will focus on the new handheld device from Nokia with the latest news on games, accessories, and unique features. The new channel will provide IGN's 8.7 million unique monthly visitors with indepth reviews and previews of the N-Gage platform and games.
"Ever since Nokia announced its foray into the handheld gaming business, many IGN readers have written in asking for information and honest opinions on the N-Gage," said Peer Schneider, IGN's Network Director. "Building on our extensive experience of covering Game Boy Advance and wireless games, IGN N-Gage is designed to be every potential N-Gage owner's one-stop site for previews, reviews, and the latest news on the new platform."
The N-Gage will be available for purchase October 7, 2003.
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What Makes A Good BBQ Joint?
I was reading an article by Remus Powers, Ph. B. in the Bullsheet (The Kansas City Barbeque Society's monthly newsletter) last night and it mentioned that there are rules to determine if a barbecue restaurant or joint is worth a visit. These rules were originally published in the book Real Barbecue - The Only Book You'll Ever Need by Vince Staten and Greg Johnson.
From what I can tell, these rules were written for the barbecue places in the country. I'm wondering if the rules need some revisions as barbeque enters the metropolitan areas like New York, Chicago and Boston.
Rule One: The place should bear the name of the owner. The theory is that if the owner has his or her name on the place, he/she has a personal stake in serving good Que.
Rule Two: The parking lot of the joint should be crowded and have both expensive and cheap cars and trucks. A mix of vehicles shows that the food appeals to all income levels.
Rule Three: There should be a woodpile visible. If it's neat and tidy, it's a warning sign that it's simply there for show. If it's messy, you can bet it's a working woodpile which means that the wood is actually bing used. No woodpile - don't even bother going in.
Rule Four: Barbecue should be the specialty of the house. If the place claims that another dish is - keep going.
Rule Five: Dust and flies. Contrary to what the NYC DOH preaches, a good barbecue joint needs some dust and flies. If the place is too clean - who's paying attention to the pit. No flies? What do they know that you don't?
That's a lot of rules and this post is getting too long. In a future post, I'll apply these rules to the New York barbecue scene and see how we compare. I'm wondering if my friend Gary over at PigTrip would like to chime in?
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Please allow me to contain my ecstatic cries (and by that, I mean not at all), because THOMAS VANEK PICKED GINGER, TOO!!! Danny, I'm disappointed in you… But you do redeem yourself by saying you like chocolate. AND OH MY GOODNESS!! NEXT WEEK WE'RE TAKING A PEEK INTO YOUR LIFE FOR A DAY? Am I finally going to meet Mr. Snuffles???? Oh, Danny, I'm so excited!!
So by now I'm sure you probably have heard about the press conference being held at HSBC Arena Monday at 2 pm in regards to the 2011 WORLD JUNIORS!!!!
(1) Because I adore hockey.
(2) Because I adore foreigners.
(3) Because by 2011, I'll be 21, and then I can watch all those youngins play hockey, realize that I'm a pedophile for thinking they're gorgeous, and then drink away those thoughts with a nice, cold Blue Light, and then start all over again.
AHHHHHH Love.
Oh, and when you're lacking Sabres news, and you want something interesting to hear about/listen to, I dare say you should check out the podcasts on the Sabres' site. Yes, they're old (from two seasons ago), but they're entertaining as hell. You've got Derek talking about his house, Drew talking about limo rides and spaghetti parm, and Marty talking about his little boy.
But more about me, since I cannot find anything else to write about, at least anything I find amusing.
(34) I'd be the first person in line to buy tickets to the *N Sync reunion tour. In fact, I'd probably camp out for them.
(35) I have this theory about the number of kids I'd like to have. Ideally, in a perfect world (where I'd marry a Sabre and have a ridiculous amount of money), I'd want to have two boys and two girls. I really wouldn't want four boys (too much testosterone) and I wouldn't want four girls (too much estrogen). So I came up with this idea that I'd have three and evaluate my situation. If I have three boys or three girls, that's it, I'm done. But two boys and a girl, or two girls and a boy? Go for the fourth. BUT, since that will probably never happen, I'll probably stick with two.
(36) I cannot remember lock combinations for the life of me. However, to this day, I can remember the combo to the pink Master lock that I bought in third grade for my gym locker: 36-18-4. And I remembered it by saying Barnaby-Grosek-Wilson.
(37) When I was in fourth grade, I made in my mission in life to read all the Nancy Drew books. I got about halfway through before the library ran out them.
And right now I can't think of anything else because Kim and I are about to go through 5 or 6 ridiculously scary haunted houses with a few guys I used to work with. So yeah. I just might die, because I get really scared at things like these. Yikes.
Tim Connolly is on the mend!! Still not 100%, but he's getting there. But, hey, he's not dead yet!!
Paul Gaustad and Jochen Hecht participated in practice. Paul did a little bit with the stick, while Jochen merely skated. At least it's something.
I found a new Sabres news outlet. And no, I won't share it! =] It's not the most obvious for sports news, but it does give an interesting view into Sabres matters. I'll be posting with things from this source in the very near future.
DON'T FORGET TONIGHT'S GAME IS ON VERSUS. Yuck.
And because Kim started a 50 things about herself, I guess I'll do it, too, but I'm actually going to do 100, because I have ample amount of time to come up with 100. Here's the first 33:
(1) Like I've mentioned, I have red hair. Not bright, fire engine, Carrot Top-esque red, but more of an auburn-ish chestnut red. And I'm covered in freckles, and my skin is fair with a rosy undertone. But guess what? I'm not Irish. Well, okay, one person in my very distant lineage is Irish, but that's it. Otherwise, I'm mostly German, British, and Canadian.
(2) If I could be in any profession, regardless of job availability/security, income, or my ability, I'd either be a wedding planner or an interior designer/house flipper. What fun would those jobs be?!
(3) I insist on taking funny/ridiculous pictures when I go out, no matter where I may be. Don't believe me? Just look at my facebook.
(4) I can be an extreme neat-freak, but also the messiest person ever. I insist that the entire house be clean, but my bedroom looks like the scene of World War III.
(5) No one can spell my name right. Not even a single part of it. It is in actuality spelled Carianne Kathryn Misener, but it usually ends up written like this: Carrie Anne Catherine Meisner. My own grandmother didn't get it right until I hit high school.
(6) I have a very fat cat named Delilah, and I love her to death. She chases squirrels, fights dogs, and terrifies every other cat in the neighborhood. She's a beast in the likes of Danny Paille.
(7) When deciding where to go to college, all but three of my choices (those being Albany, Brown, and Bowling Green) were in cities or very close to where I have friends or family (i.e. Michigan State, Georgia State, Northeastern (I know, MIKE RYAN!!) and Boston College, to name a few).
(8) I went to Germany on a school trip in high school. It was the most amazing two weeks of my life.
(9) I have genetically terrible teeth. I've had countless fillings, five caps when I was little, braces twice, and I was, at one point, a candidate for jaw surgery. I still have braces at almost 20 years of age, and the only thing that's gone right with my teeth is the fact that my wisdom teeth grew in straight.
(10) I drink way too much Dr. Pepper, apple cider, and Starbucks. I'm probably an addict.
(11) I'm an advocate for the cause of bringing an H&M to the Buffalo area. I'm tired of driving to Rochester every time I want to shop there.
(12) Despite having the capability of remembering the singer/band, song title, and lyrics to most songs, and knowing directions around the greater Buffalo area at will, I have a hard time remembering very simple things, or comprehending chemisty.
(13) TV on DVD is quite possibly–in my opinion–the worst thing ever invented. I can't get enough of my shows, especially Entourage, The Tudors, Gossip Girl, and Sex and the City. My guilty pleasures. =]
(14) I love picking out shirt and tie combos. When my brother got his new job I went shopping with him, as his fashion consultant. Too bad we have different taste in clothing. (Oh, and I hate, hate, hate short-sleeved dress shirts, and shirts with French collars.)
(15) If I couldn't text or go online on my phone, I'd die.
(16) I sing along to the jingles on commercials, all the time. It drives my family crazy.
(17) Certain members of my family also thought I was crazy when I decided to paint my bedroom silver. It turned out really cool, actually, and yes, I tend to be a bit flashy. I live it up.
(18) Law and Order, House, or NCIS marathons ruin my plans. If I see a marathon, I get nothing done–nothing at all–the entire day. Good thing I didn't notice the one I'm watching now until after school.
(19) I love to bake. I've been told my cookies are quite possibly the world's greatest.
(20) I'm afraid of heights, but I'll sit front-seat on roller-coasters in a heart beat.
(21) I have this (sorta) thing for cowboys… Enough said.
(22) Gay guys like to play with my hair, more than usual. When I was a secretary at the nursing home I work at, every gay guy who ever worked on my unit (4 of them, actually) played with my hair every time I was there.
(23) Scary movies (legit scary ones; not the ones with the Wayans brothers) scare the living daylights out of me, yet I have this sick compulsion to watch them, either (a) in theaters, or (b) at home, alone, in the middle of the night, with all the lights off. Me = Stupid.
(24) I get gipped on birthday and Christmas presents every year. It's because my birthday is December 22nd.
(25) I like all kinds of music, so I can never pick a favorite band, singer, or song if asked. So don't ask me.
(26) I've never ridden a city bus in my life. Well, not in North America, at least. Taxis, subways, trains, and planes, yes, but no busses that weren't yellow.
(27) I'd love to get a tattoo, but three things prevent me from doing so: (1) I'm petrified of needles, (2) I'm afraid I'd hate it down the road, and (3) working in a nursing home has exposed me to the effects of aging on skin, so no. (Although, I'd probably get my favorite song lyric inked on my right foot.)
(28) I love cold weather because of the wonderful fashion accessories: coats, scarves, beanies, mittens, fingerless gloves, and let's not forget Uggs! (I have four pairs; excessive, I know.)
(29) I know the songs from all of the classic Disney movies by heart.
(30) I can pretty much quote the entire film of both Mean Girls and Napoleon Dynamite.
(31) Earlier I said I was addicted to Starbucks. That being said, I don't like coffee. I love their tea and their hot chocolate, though.
(32) I love nothing more that curling up on the coach under my down blanket and watching movies all day in the dead of winter.
(33) I'm obsessed with all things black, silver, charcoal grey, hot pink, royal blue, mustard yellow, and zebra print. Love.
Enjoy the game in a few hours, and I'll either post later tonight (if I get my anatomy work done), or tomorrow morning.


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One of the earliest virtual geocaches and perhaps the first on the equator. Certainly the first confluence on the equator, but this geocache already existed before the word confluence became common.
Located on a large plantation, it is relatively easy to reach with an off-road-capable car when it is dry, but plan at least 1½ hours altogether from the main road.
Due to the people who live and work in the area it is not possible to actually stash away anything. So this became the first virtual geocache.
Because Africa can be tricky and because the place is somewhat remote I will describe the access here in more detail than I would normally provide for a geocache. The idea is that, if somebody has flown thousands of kilometers to reach Kenya and then driven for a day to get close, it would be needlessly frustrating to miss the cache or even to get stuck with the car.
The place is on a large plantation that grows sisal or other crops. The N 0° E 36° spot is exactly on the eastern side of a canal that runs through the plantation in a roughly SE-NW direction. The canal is just a tad too wide to jump over (unless you are a well-trained jumper), so to reach the place from the main Nakuru-Baringo road you have to cross the canal, which is possible by car over a little bridge NNW of the cache.
At the small bridge over the canal there is a guard post, but when you are friendly or explain what you are up to, the guard will let you in.
Looking from the cache position southeast along the canal (2015)
Map of the the probably easiest approach | GPX waypoint and track | KML waypoint and track
Whoever sends me an email to hans-georg©michna.com (retype, don't copy!) with a well-recognizable photo of the place will get entered into the virtual logbook for that stash and published on my Web site http://michna.com/gps/#Virtual_Geocache_on_the_Equator and on anybody else's Web site who wants it.
Please send a few extra photos. The place can change rapidly and we want to know what it looks like now.
Warning: The geocache may become difficult to reach by car when it has rained a lot. You may have to walk the last, possibly muddy bit of the way in suitable boots. Consider skipping this cache during the height of the rainy season, usually around April (the long rains) and, to a lesser degree, around October (the short rains).
There are already quite a few log entries, but not all of the people have found the actual cache. Some only drove by on the main Nakuru-Baringo road. This is still nice, but does not count as a find. Finding the cache is a little more involved.
More photos:
Reaching the cache by car (2015)
Looking across the canal (2015)
In a few years this could become the next marker tree, an acacia right across the canal (2015)
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Wilton is a rural New England country town that is located 50 miles northeast of New York City. Wilton's diverse architecture creates an interesting setting of historic buildings, wooded terrain, open land, and cooperate headquarters.
Wilton feels like a true country town with most residences situated on two-acres parcels.


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Holy Father: Pope Francis I;
Local Ordinary: Archbishop John Baptist Odama
Welcome to the Archdiocese of Gulu. Welcome to the Website of the Archdiocese of Gulu - Uganda. The Archdiocese of Gulu is located in Northern Uganda, and covers the three civil administrative districts of Gulu, Kitgum and Pader. It spans an area of about 27,946 sq km with a population of about 1,400,000 people.
The Archdiocese of Gulu has twenty three parishes in two Vicariates, with each vicariate comprising of two deaneries. For the list of parishes and parish priest, click on the link below
Justice and Peace
The quest for peace has a prominent place in the ministry of the Archdiocese of Gulu, given that peace has eluded the people in Northern Uganda for more than two decades. The humanitarian crisis that has resulted continues to challenge the pastoral ministry of the Archdiocese. In a special way, the Justice and Peace Commission of the Archdiocese, together with CARITAS Gulu coordinate the efforts of the Archdiocese in search for peace. The Monthly Justice and Peace Newsletters provide a constant update on peace in the region.
The generous response of young men and women to service of God and His people is the foundation of the Church Ministry. The Archdiocese of Gulu is blessed with Vocations to the priesthood, religious life and lay ministry of the Catechists.
Religious Communities
The Archdiocese of Gulu is served by both the Diocesan Clergy and Religious communities in meeting the pastoral needs of the people in northern Uganda. For more information on the religious communities Religious
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Blessed Daudi Okelo and Jildo Irwa
The Archdiocese of Gulu has been blessed with many witnesses to the faith. In a special way, it has been honored by the Beatification of two of our Martyrs: Daudi Okelo and Jildo Irwa. These two natives of the Archdiocese of Gulu add the number of the martyrs of Uganda to twenty four. More
Cause for Beatification of Bishop Angelo Negri
The Archdiocese of Gulu, on February 25th, 2007, opened the cause for the Beatification of Bishop Angelo Negri, founder of the Religious Congregation of the Little Sisters of Mary Immaculate of Gulu (LSMIG)
News Updates
An imposter has created a facebook account in the name of Archbishop-Odama John Baptist. His Grace has no facebook account and has no intention of creating one in his name
Msgr. Vincent Ojok - New Parish Priest, Christ the King Parish, Kitgum
Venansio Okidi - Parish Priest of Namukora Parish
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...Kalamazoo Soap Factory, that is. (go here and see for yourselves. ) I stumbled upon their Etsy shop through another blogger's review... I think it was Kas of Pretty Addictions, but I'm not 100% sure on that. ( Even if I'm wrong, her blog is WELL worth the read. I'm borderline addicted to it. )
Anyways, I emailed Tracy from The Kalamazoo Soap Co ( KSC) and asked if she was in need of any reviews written. Tracy responded a couple days after I sent it, and ended up sending me sample of two soaps and a lip balm.
You can see from their Etsy, these are some good-sized soaps. Imagine my surprise when I opened my mailbox and found a manilla envelope stuffed inside it. The soaps she sent were full-sized, which I was not expecting.
Check them out:
The bars were individually bubble wrapped. Under the bubble wrap, they had two pieces of cardstock (with the soap name) over the soap and a raffia bow wrapped around the whole thing to hold it in place.
If any of you out there read my 13Gypsie review, you know that I love cherry scented/ flavored anything. So the idea of smelling like a jar of the radioactive-red beauties was appealing, not appalling.
It smells awesome. Plain and simple. It's not overly sweet, but more than once I would swear I had a handful of cherries in the shower. (I'm weird, I know.) I love it.
The Badass soap isn't quite as strong smelling as the cherry one, but I still love it. I feel like it really lathers well, and left my skin feeling really smooth.
Ingredients on back of Badass Soap: Beer, distilled water, coconut oil, olive oil, palm oil, palm kernel oil, sodium hydroxide, castor oil, shea butter.
The blue raspberry lipbalm I could not get a clear shot of to save my life. It's an awesome little thing though. Tracy formulates them with scent only, no flavor, to avoid licking your lips and drying them out. It smells just like a blue rasperry slushie/ snowcone, I love it. It's also available in strawberry, macintosh apple, and vanilla shake.
I'd like to thank Tracy for giving me the opportunity to try out her wonderful products. I strongly suggest each of you head over to her Etsy and check out what items she has to offer. I'm definitely interested in trying other soaps, like Dreamsicle, Hazlenut Cappuccino, Fruit Loop, and Raspberry Lemonade. The soaps are $6 a bar, with $3 shipping for the first bar and $1.50 shipping each additional bar. Lip balms are $3 each, $2 shipping and .50 with another item (US prices only. KSC offers Canadian and International shipping, but the shipping prices are higher.)
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Audiolense 4.2 is here with the same incredible frequency correction as before. This alone is enough to improve the sound quality in the finest audio systems.
We are confident that Audiolense is at the forefront of audio correction. The verdict from those who have moved from competing solutions have been positive - and the verdict from those who didn't have prior experience with advanced sound correction have been overwhelming since the early days. That includes Audiolense XO - our high end offering with True Time Domain correction as well as our entry level offerings Audiolense 2.0 and Audiolense Surround - that both utilizes a very good frequency correction.
Audiolense has been a pioneer in combining frequency correction with time domain correction since it was launched in 2007, and time domain correction has been a central part of our high end offering - Audiolense XO ever since. Most solution providers offer frequency correction only, perhaps with a delay function / phase rotation function to get different speakers and drivers roughly in sync. Some say that they do time domain correction, or at least they do nothing to clear up the misconception, while it is clear to the trained eye that the filters only do frequency correction.
Getting the frequency response right is the most significant upside of using digital sound correction, but Audiolense nevertheless belongs to a small and exclusive group of solutions that do time domain correction. We're proud to say that Audiolense XO users typically enjoy more time domain correction than users of other solutions. The scope of the time domain correction can be chosen by the user, and they tend to prefer a lot more of it than the "norm". And they seem to enjoy it more too. The feedback we have received from users of the Audiolense XO with True Time Domain correction is simply more positive and more far reaching than we have seen anywhere else.
But we are not at the end of the road yet. There is still room for improvement in the Audiolense True Time Domain correction, and Audiolense 4.2 is the next step up in the sound quality ladder.
"Hearing is believing" is more true in audio than anywhere else. If you have a decent measurement microphone and a PC hooked up to your hifi system you can create as many 90 seconds of corrected music with the Audiolense demo as you wish (more below about the demo) So you don't need to take our word for it. You can have a listen and make your own judgment.


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Thai Green Curry Paste
· 4 Green Bird Eye chillies (seeds removed)
· 2 Lemongrass stalks (peeled and roughly chopped)
· 2 Garlic cloves (peeled)
· 3cm cube Ginger (peeled and roughly chopped)
· 1 lime (zest and juice)
· 10g Lime leaves (fresh or frozen NOT DRIED)
· 2 Tbsp Fish Sauce
· 2 Tbsp Sesame oil to combine into paste
· 30g Coriander
· 200g Raw King Prawns
· 400ml coconut milk
· 2 limes (Juice and Zest)
· 1 Tbsp Fish Sauce
· 100g Spinach
· 20g Coriander
· 240g Thai Sticky Rice
1. Place all paste ingredients in food processor and blitz to paste.
2. Place curry paste in pan and cook on medium heat for 2-3 minutes, until smells aromatic.
3. Add the prawns to the pan and stir until all are covered in the paste and begin to turn pink.
4. Add the coconut milk, lime zest and juice and leave to simmer for 20 minutes.
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TUT: Apache SSL + reverse proxy for sickbeard, couchpotato etc.
10th Jan, 2014, 11:03 PM
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TUT: Apache SSL + reverse proxy for sickbeard, couchpotato etc.
If you don't want to open up sickbeard transmission etc. ports to the open world but you DO want to access it from anywhere, you might want to consider the following
Use Apache as a reverse proxy!
1. install webserver package of xbian, login to ssh -> Packages -> Web -> webserver
2. Exit the xbian installer and enable some mods for apache:
sudo a2enmod proxy
sudo a2enmod proxy_http
sudo a2enmod rewrite
sudo a2enmod ssl
3. Create a SSL certificate(this will make a certificate for 1 year, after that redo this, i guess):
sudo openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 365 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout /etc/ssl/private/apache.key -out /etc/ssl/certs/apache.crt
It will ask you for some info, it doesn't realy matter what you will fill in
Country Name (2 letter code) [AU]:NL
State or Province Name (full name) [Some-State]:Groningen
Locality Name (eg, city) []:Groningen
Organization Name (eg, company) [Internet Widgits Pty Ltd]: PI
Organizational Unit Name (eg, section) []: PI
Common Name (e.g. server FQDN or YOUR name) []: PI
Email Address []:
4. Edit the default apache site:
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/default
Remove everything (hold CTRL+K), then paste the following:
<VirtualHost *:80>
RewriteEngine on
ReWriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^443$
RewriteRule ^/(.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [NC,R,L]
<VirtualHost *:443>
ServerAdmin firstname.lastname@example.com
ServerName localhost
ProxyRequests Off
ProxyPreserveHost On
<Proxy *>
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
<Location />
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
SSLEngine On
SSLProxyEngine On
SSLCertificateFile /etc/ssl/certs/apache.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl/private/apache.key
ProxyPass /nzbget http://localhost:9092/nzbget
ProxyPassReverse /nzbget http://localhost:9092/nzbget
ProxyPass /sickbeard http://localhost:9094/sickbeard
ProxyPassReverse /sickbeard http://localhost:9094/sickbeard
ProxyPass /transmission http://localhost:9091/transmission
ProxyPassReverse /transmission http://localhost:9091/transmission
ProxyPass /headphones http://localhost:9093/headphones
ProxyPassReverse /headphones http://localhost:9093/headphones
ProxyPass /couchpotato http://localhost:9095/couchpotato
ProxyPassReverse /couchpotato http://localhost:9095/couchpotato
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/xbmc$ /xbmc/ [R]
ProxyPass /xbmc http://localhost:8080
ProxyPassReverse /xbmc http://localhost:8080
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log
LogLevel warn
5. Now stop service sickbeard, and edit the config file:
sudo service sickbeard stop
[ ok ] Stopping Sickbeard:.
sudo nano /etc/sickbeard/sickbeard.ini
change webroot = "" to webroot = /sickbeard
Also for Couchpotato:
sudo service couchpotato stop
[ ok ] Couchpotato not running.
sudo nano /etc/couchpotato/settings.conf
change url_base = to url_base = /couchpotato
And Headphones:
sudo service headphones stop
[ ok ] Headphones: not running.
sudo nano /etc/headphones/config.ini
change http_root = / to http_root = /headphones
6. Now (re)start apache, sickbeard, couchpotato and headphones:
xbian@xbian ~ $ sudo service apache2 restart
[ ok ] Restarting web server: apache2 ... waiting .
xbian@xbian ~ $ sudo service sickbeard start
[ ok ] Starting Sickbeard:.
xbian@xbian ~ $ sudo service headphones start
[ ok ] Starting Headphones:.
xbian@xbian ~ $ sudo service couchpotato start
[ ok ] Starting Couchpotato:.
7. Let sickbeard en couchpotato have some time to boot up, now from localhost you can already acces your brand new proxy. In your browser type:
for sickbeard: IP-OF-PI/sickbeard (eg 192.168.0.105/sickbeard)
for headphones: IP-OF-PI/headphones
for couchpotato: IP-OF-PI/couchpotato
for nzbget: IP-OF-PI/nzbget
for transmission: IP-OF-PI/transmission
for xbmc: IP-OF-PI/xbmc
You will get a certificate warning, just click continue..
8. For non-local access, open up port 80 and 443 for you PI.
9. Now browse to your external IP like: 22.214.171.124/sickbeard
10. Enjoy
* Offcourse change username and password of all services
* Adding torrent through link was tested successful
* Adding NZB through link was tested successful
* This is an 'vanille' alternative for the maraschino package
- When saving a setting, it appears that Sickbeard takes infinite to save. When a popup appears in the right corner, the setting is saved. Even thou the Sickbeard 'saving' animation keeps spinning. IMAGE, just ignore the never ending save animation!
- When updating sickbeard, it will refresh to IP:9094/sickbeard, resulting in a website not found error. Remove the ':9094'
- DO NOT enable sickbeard and/or couchpotato's HTTPS settings. There is no need for a secure 'local' connection. It will probably result into an error
Edit: added XBMC website
Edit: added some warnings/solutions
6th Feb, 2014, 08:56 AM
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RE: TUT: Apache SSL + reverse proxy for sickbeard, couchpotato etc.
Thanks for this useful thread.
In my side, this does not work for both sickbeard and couchpotato even though I enabled https specifying certificqte qnd key. NZBGet and transmission are working as expected.
I get the following error message:
Quote:Service Temporarily Unavailable
Any idea what could go wrong
13th Feb, 2014, 07:10 PM
Post: #3
RE: TUT: Apache SSL + reverse proxy for sickbeard, couchpotato etc.
Sorry for the late response You might want to try to access sickbeard and/or couchpotato again now..
In step 6 you restart sickbeard and it takes some time to start sickbeard on a Pi, which results in the "Temporarily Unavailable" warning. Just wait a minute(or two) and you're good to go
- When saving a setting, it appears that Sickbeard takes infinite to save. When a popup appears in the right corner, the setting is saved. Even thou the Sickbeard 'saving' animation keeps spinning IMAGE, just ignore the never ending save animation!
- When updating sickbeard, it will refresh to IP:9094/sickbeard, resulting in a website not found error. Remove the ':9094'
updated in first post**
17th Feb, 2014, 09:34 PM
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RE: TUT: Apache SSL + reverse proxy for sickbeard, couchpotato etc.
I didn't enable HTTPS settings in sickbeard.. There's no need for a double secure connection.. anywehere->proxy = https, proxy -> sickbeard = local.. So please disable sickbeard HTTPS settings.
second, the certificate is self-signed so the proxy won't accept the sickbeard certificate, probably resulting in an error.
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