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Hey dear folk!
I need your help.
A bit of background info, I'm a complete noob when it comes to holding a wrench and doing anything more than filling up the bike. I have however had an interest for as long as I've had a bike to make it mine, and that's why I'm writing to you now. I just bought a donor bike, a Honda NX650 which a friend of mine is helping me fix up and then modify to my liking (I'm hoping to end up with a gorgeous scrambler in about 9 months).
We found a hairline scratch in the cylinder and need to bore it. This leads me to my question.
Should I get a 1st overbore performance piston or keep the compression ratio as is? If so is there anything in particular I will need to modify to tolerate the high compression piston?
If I do get the performance piston, should I also get a new carburetor, hot cam, and new exhausts? I am planning on new exhausts anyway (2-1 from an XRL) and I'm planning on removing the airbox and getting a K/N pod air filter.
Again, keep in mind I know nothing, my friend has however fixed up a bunch of XRLs and cars but never really used performance parts. Help me out with the decision please, I would also like to keep the whole build to a reasonable cost (I know this is a very relative number).
I should also add that I want to keep the DNA of the bike, for example keeping the fuel tank instead of switching to a smaller rounder one as one usually sees in most custom builds. The aim of the whole build is to have an insanely fun bike to ride, both in the city and off-road, as well as giving it a bunch of my personality 😊
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By MrCitizen
I've been rebuilding/restoring an XR650R for some years now (after toasting the motor in 2013). Sent the motor off to be rebuilt, had a local shop rebuild my forks and shock, and took care of most everything else myself.
As of a couple months ago I had almost everything assembled and ready to run.
As a final check before adding fluids to the bike, I decided to stick my boroscope into cylinder and take a look. The results were concerning.
These boroscope pics looked so gnarly that I pulled the head off the motor to get a more thorough look.
To say that I'm concerned is an understatement. I have pics of the motor internals pre-rebuild, and can confirm that this is definitely a new piston and replated cylinder. I also have all the old parts from the motor, so it does have a new cam, connecting rod, valves, and basically everything else I expected to have replaced.
The builder "ran the motor briefly to confirm everything ran alright" and then shipped it back to me. I reached out to him with these pics and he said,
The piston looks like this because he had it machined from 12:1 to 11:1 compression. The streaks on the cylinder wall are normal for one that isn't broken in yet. Regarding the valve impacts in the piston head: "My concern is that something may have passed through the cylinder. How does it run?" I've never run this motor. I can feel these streaks in the cylinder wall with my fingernail. Did he re-use a piston from some other motor?
Is this dude jerking my chain or is this motor fine to run?
He's a fairly well-known builder in the XR community and was recommended to me by guys in the (now-gone) XR650R forum.
By Jonas Reppe
I got my XR600r dirt bike giving me a carb issue that I just can not get worked out. It starts first kick and idles well, throttle cracks off nice and crisp when you whack it, but if you ease into the throttle to just above idle it's a spit and sputter pile of shit! Lol. I can turn the idle speed adjustment up to a fast idle and it starts spitting and studdering just the same. Done a lot of research and it points to the pilot circuit. I put a rebuild kit in it and have taken it apart and cleaned it seriously 12 times now. I'm at the point of looking for a different carb body to try. They're about $100 though. A new keihn carb is $250 on eBay. Any thoughts? That pilot adjust screw doesn't seem to adjust anything until it's fully seated or falling out. It has ran ok in that idle to 1/4 throttle circuit before but it don't now. The last 6 removal/cleanings haven't made any changes, previous ones did improve the throttle snap when you whack it.
The main needle clip is on the middle groove.
I checked for air leak with some starting fluid when it was idling and seen no change to the way it ran, indicating no leaks.
Bike has stock jet sizes, foam filter, stock exhaust. 1,830' elevation here in South Dakota.
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Hi! My Allure gown has a narrow sash stitched just above the waist but it seems to pucker at the point of those stitches. It's held on the side and either twice or three times across the front. The imperfection is driving me nuts. It won't lay flat.
What does anyone think about cutting the stitches free across the front? Will the sash droop? the consultant insisted the sample dress sash looked funny because it was clipped snug, but now I'm not so sure…like maybe some double sided tape would do a better job since there's no tightness at this part of the dress.
While I'm at it, the illusion back is snug but there is definitely extra space in the cups. I'm wondering if releasing the lace overlay in front and under the arms will give it some room to move or just hope it stretches…? Style is 9166. I can't imagine losing weight…in my rib cage or back…?? My extra weight is in my thighs, and at 5'6″ 120lbs, exercise is more likely to broaden my back and shoulders…I think. I would be mortified if one of the button elastics let go and POP!
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January 22, 2013 09:30 ET
MONTREAL, QUEBEC--(Marketwire - Jan. 22, 2013) - SEMAFO Inc. (TSX:SMF)(OMX:SMF) announced today that the Corporation has met its annual production guidance for a fifth consecutive year. Production totalled 236,100 ounces of gold for the year ended December 31, 2012.
2012 Highlights
Gold sales for the year totalled 231,500 ounces and resulted in annual revenues of $388.5 million. The Corporation had approximately $140 million in cash and cash equivalents at year-end 2012. SEMAFO is debt-free, unhedged and fully leveraged to the price of gold.
2013 Outlook
2013 Guidance
The 2013 production guidance has been established at between 215,000 and 240,000 ounces of gold. At Mana, ore grade is expected to be slightly lower than the average grade of the deposit during the year due to scheduled pre-stripping activities at the Wona-Kona super pit. The ore grade for Mana in 2013 is estimated at 2.13 g/t with a daily processing rate of approximately 8,500 tonnes. However, the ore grade should improve in 2014 and 2015 as a result of accessing higher grade zones in the super pit. In 2014 and 2015, the head grade should be in line with the average grade of the deposit, which is 2.31 g/t. Furthermore the Corporation anticipates adding the newly discovered high-grade Siou zone to reserves in 2013 and being in a position to begin processing ore from this zone at the Mana mill at the end of 2014 or beginning of 2015.
The increase in the 2013 cash cost guidance is due to lower grade ore expected to be processed at Mana during the year and to industry-wide inflationary pressures on costs including labour and consumables.
2013 Capital Expenditures
Capital expenditures for 2013 are estimated at $114.6 million and are itemized in the following table.
Capital Expenditures (in Millions of Dollars)
The consolidated corporate general and administrative expense is estimated at $23.0 million, comparable to our 2012 expenses.
Capitalized stripping costs of $49.5 million represent the stripping of 23 million tonnes in the Wona-Kona super pit. With the 13.5 million tonnes of waste accounted for in the production cost, the total strip ratio is expected to be 12:1 in 2013, in line with the average stripping ratio of the super pit. In 2014, the total strip ratio is anticipated to remain at 12:1.
Sustaining capital expenditures are estimated at $20.4 million, primarily for mining equipment and overhauls ($8.5 million) as well as to raise the tailings dam ($2.5 million).
Growth capital expenditures are expected to be $13.3 million, which includes various infrastructures to accommodate the augmented throughput at the plant following the last three expansions as well as increased activities at the super pit.
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Sustaining capital expenditures are forecasted at $10.1 million, mainly to raise the tailings dam ($2.5 million) and for mining equipments and overhauls ($2.5 million).
Capitalized stripping costs of $1.0 million represent the stripping of 480,000 tonnes of ore from the Gobele A pit. Sustaining capital expenditures are forecasted at $2.9 million.
A number of assumptions were made in preparing the 2013 guidance, including:
2013 Exploration
Successful drilling resulted in the discovery of the high-grade Siou zone in 2012, located approximately 15 kilometers east of the Mana processing plant. The Corporation continues to focus exploration on organic growth at Mana in the vicinity of the mill as well as on strategic investment opportunities.
The 2013 initial exploration budget has been established at $22.0 million, of which $20.0 million has been allocated to Mana. More than 107,000 meters of combined air core, reverse circulation and diamond drilling, metallurgical tests, and geochemistry and geophysics works will be carried out in 2013. The Corporation's 2013 priorities are to expand the geological potential at Yaho and to convert the high-grade Siou zone to reserves during the year.
Results of preliminary metallurgical tests conducted on the sulfides at Yaho and Fofina in the south sector should be available at the same time as the Corporation's reserves and resources estimate update scheduled for mid-March 2013. Preliminary results from the heap-leach metallurgical tests initiated on the oxides at Yaho and Fofina are expected at the beginning of the third quarter 2013. Metallurgical test results from the Siou zone are expected by the end of January 2013.
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I tried to capture his look and intensity with his all-knowing-glasses-lowered stare. I also exaggerated his love of the brown paper bags, choosing to sit him amongst a sea of brown paper bag renderings.
Friday, February 20, 2009
Caricatures Attack!!!
Here is a piece I did for Survival Illustration. We had to do a caricature of one of the illustration teachers, and they were assigned at random. I got a painting and drawing teacher named Mark Eanes who is infamous for his intensity, and his propensity for loving brown paper bags. He requires 6 hours of out of class work, and, as I mentioned, tons and tons of bags. I've never had him myself, but have heard that he produces great results from his students.
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Character Design 101
So this ugly heap is full of character designs I had to do for my Illustration Tools classed dubbed, Survival. We had 5 short fairy tales that we had to create character designs for. It was a long and grueling process to get to finish, including multiple revisions and an all nighter to make sure I completed these on time.
The tan booger looking thing was from a tale about a dumpling who falls on the kitchen floor, contemplating his insignificance in life and his sure death. The frog goes with the couple at the very bottom. It's a story about a plumber, his princess, and an advice giving frog. The girl and guy with their own respective pages is from a story about a couple sitting on a bench, dissatisfied with their looks, their lives, and their relationship. The victorian looking homeless woman is from a story about a woman who will not leave the shoe she lives in, in my case, the boot on her foot.
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Florrie Young Seabury, a longtime Broward County teacher whose son broke the color barrier in the public schools before court-ordered desegregation, died Friday. She was 93.
Mrs. Seabury was well known in northwest Fort Lauderdale, where she taught elementary school for more than 30 years. She was a founding member of the local chapters of the Links and Jack and Jill civic and cultural organizations, and sang in the Mount Hermon African Methodist Episcopal Church choir.
She raised three children as a single mother after moving to Fort Lauderdale in 1953 from West Palm Beach, where she taught high school home economics. While all of her children became achievers, her only son, Chester, was the first black student at Stranahan High School in 1963, years before mandatory integration.
"My mother was a brave woman," said her daughter Dr. LaCuyetuna S. Todd of Fort Lauderdale. "She was a teacher in 1963 who petitioned the school board for my brother to go to Stranahan High School."
Chester Seabury was a very bright student who hoped to earn a scholarship to an Ivy League school but needed a third year of Spanish, which was not offered at all-black Dillard High School.
Friends, neighbors and colleagues warned her that she might lose her job by trying to enroll her son at the school, recalled Todd.
"But she never wavered and was granted the request," her daughter said.
After graduating from Stranahan, Chester Seabury won a scholarship to Princeton and went on to earn master's and doctorate degrees, as well as a law degree. He is now retired in Phoenix.
A kind woman who loved teaching children, Mrs. Seabury also gathered and distributed food to the poor and remained active in the community well into her eighties, her daughter said.


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During the business trip the collaboration possibilities with Novgorod State University, Novosibirsk Akademgorodok (the Academic City) institutes and IT virtual museums in Moscow, Kazan and California were discussed; the paper "The Institute and Three Socio-technological Transformations of IT" prepared by Rihards Balodis-Bolužs and Ināra Opmane was read in the plenary session; also, the incorporation of the IMSC UL's IT museum in the Russia's IT virtual museum network was achieved as well as a number of materials, about the IT development, for the IMSC UL's IT museum were received.
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The First Draft of the Autobiography of Baal Uras, Soon to be 28th King of the True Land
Running Title: Earning the Throne: The Acts of a King
Composed Dumuzu 24th In the 59th Year of Baal Shamas
Chapter 18: The Isle of Ogdash
In order to secure my fifth agreement, I had to go on a quest. While it has been true that this whole endeavor could be termed a quest, there were a number of components to this particular leg of the journey which made that term seem particularly appropriate. First off, I traveled alone for this section of the journey. While my increasing trust and respect for my companions and those around me had been a theme of my journey thus far, so too had my own increasing feeling of inadequacy. I felt a need to prove myself on my own, so when my Scholar told me that the first Baal had made the trek on this island by himself, I decided that I would follow in his footsteps. It was true that I had been instrumental in securing the agreement on Adroth, and even got a chance to save my Protector from a terrible fate, but I had also had to be saved by her first, and likely would have been executed if both of my companions had not had my back. This of course seemed like a very compelling argument to not leave them both behind, and yet I did so anyways. The need to rely only upon myself, to have no backup or safety net should I fail was strong. Could I do what needed doing by myself? That question is of course what this chapter shall answer for you gentle reader.
Before I describe my quest, first let me describe to you my initial impressions of Ogdash. The word that perhaps best suits it is stark. The people are tall, thin, and grey, with dark clothing and few words. Even their hair and eyes seem to reject the idea of bright colors, for they are pale and dark respectively. In contrast to the isle of Adroth, only a few days travel by boat away, this island had few resources. Its people were hungry, and possessed few things. The island is largely flat, with grasslands covering all but a few small forested areas. Water is scarce. My initial impressions of the people's general disposition was not favorable. I thought them fatalistic and a bit depressed. My opinion would change as I worked my way through my quest, but in general I felt a very gloomy vibe from the whole place at the start.
I did not spend much time at all in the initial port town. We said goodbye to the pirate captain who had helped us so much these last weeks. I had had some apprehension that my Scholar might try and go with her, but it seemed that he had made his decision before we landed, and while sad to see her go, was committed to finishing our journey together, or at least seeing the furthest lands, the places beyond the journals. I was not happy to see the captain herself go, though no longer being surrounded by pirates day and night was something of a positive. Of course I gave myself little time to enjoy my time with my companions again, for it was less than two hours after we said goodbye to the captain that I said goodbye to my companions for a time, loaded up a leather backpack and headed out into the plains, searching for the leader of Ogdash.
Why did I have to search? Well, it turned out that permanent residences were rare on this island, for most places did not have enough resources to support human life. As such, much of the population wandered from place to place, and this included the leader, who's job it was to look after the small communities that did not move, ensuring that they were able to get the resources they needed to survive. The exact journey of the leader was not known however, for they had to adjust their path with the turning of the seasons and the needs of the communities they ruled. And so, I searched. I had no idea at all where the leader might be, or even much idea of where the next community might be. I knew only that this was how the first Baal had traversed this land, and trusted that I too would be able to survive the wasteland somehow. It would perhaps have been wise to put a bit more thought into the journey ahead of time. Packing some food and getting something of a map would have been really good choices that would have saved me a lot of time and effort. But alas, that is not what I did. Instead I set out with not much more then some money, some trading goods, and some supplies for camping and hunting. In the end it was enough, but only by the slimmest of margins.
With the exception of a rather exciting episode near the midpoint of my quest, it was those first days that came the closest to killing me. I had hunted a little in the true land, but always in large parties and always with the tracking part done by others. I had never had to search for water before. We had been careful to carry a lot of it in the desert at the beginning of this journey, but other than that, it had never really been an issue. Food and water both became an issue very quickly. I had brought one canteen of water, which I carefully rationed out for the first day. Then however, I was out. I had not thought to take any food at all, having trusted that I would find something out in the wastes. I saw a few small animals, but was unable to catch them in any way. As such, while I was not exactly thirsty at the end of my first day, I was quite hungry, and had no water for the next day.
I was lucky, in that I had the presence of mind to collect some of the morning dew that next morning, managing to fill my canteen about a quarter. This lasted me maybe two or three hours, but it was something at least, and I might very well have not made it at all if I had not done that. I tried again that day to hunt, but I found nothing at all. So mostly I just walked. I had no idea where I was going. I had gotten one of the people in the first town to point me in the direction of the closest village, but I was pretty certain I had gotten turned around, and there were basically no landmarks out in the endless waste. That second day was extremely hot, and I became incredibly thirsty very quickly after I had exhausted my supply of dew. I tried eating some of the grass, hoping it would have some wetness in it, but it tasted vile, and I was unable to finish it. I had though I might be able to eat anything after having had to deal with the worm ridden bread in my period of captivity, but it turned out that I had gained no such power. So, when at last it turned dark, and the sun dropped below the horizon, I was barely able to get out my blankets before dropping to the ground to rest. I was more thirsty than I had ever been before, and the hunger of two days without food gnawed at me. I thought perhaps I should try and walk during the night instead of the day, but the thought of walking another step was too much for me, and instead I curled up and slept, my throat parched and my dreams ragged.
Had it continued like that for my third day, I might very well have died. Instead I was saved by the fall of rain in the night. This woke me up from my sleep. At first thoughts were of only how to protect myself from its cold touch, but then, as my throat again interjected its own thoughts on the discussion, I realized that I needed to act now, to collect what water I could. I only had the one canteen to store water for travel, but I was able to set up some of my gear as little pools, so that I could at least drink deeply in the morning. I drank my fill in the night, set up what I could to catch more, then huddled under my blankets, shivering. I managed again to sleep, lulled by the sound of the rain. In the morning I drank all of what I had captured, then secured my canteen tightly, vowing to preserve the water better than I had before. Then I once again set off with no direction in mind. It was cooler that day, with the dark clouds still covering the sky, and occasional sprinkles of water throughout the day. The ground became muddy, which made the travel slower, but it was still better than the day before. Still, when I stopped at last, I still had no food at all. It was hard to quiet my stomach and ignore its cries. Had I been less exhausted by the endless walking, I might not have been able to sleep from the pain in my gut.
On the forth day I met another person. It was not until after a great deal more walking, but around noon I spotted a shape in the distance, and all but ran. I greeted them, and while they were as short on words as the others I had met, when I explained I had not eaten in days, they were quick to give me supplies from their own pack. Then they simply watched me while I munched away on the dried meat and tuber things they had given me. After I was satisfied, or rather after I forced myself to stop eating lest I consume all of my savior's food, I asked them about the leader, and explained my quest to find them. They offered to travel with me on my search, but, still hoping to accomplish this task with no guide or companions, I turned down their generous offer, instead asking for only directions, and perhaps some tips on how to acquire food and water in the wasteland. They did not seem to understand why I was turning down their offer of accompaniment, which was probably because it was completely irrational, but they were happy enough to help with what they could. They showed me how to find the tuber things that I had eaten, what to look for, as well as a few other edible plants, including one that was quite juicy, and hence could be seen as a water replacement if the rain did not come or the dew did not suffice. The practice of hunting was too much for them to really explain in such a short time, but they gave me a few things to look for if I wanted to try and track down some of the small animals or even some larger ones. Then, they gave me some directions to a town they knew had been visited by the leader not too long ago. From there I might be able to find their next destination and catch up with them. I thanked the wanderer profusely, tried to give them some money to no avail, then continued on my way, feeling better then I had since arriving, finally not dying of hunger.
There is not too much to say about the next several days. I was able to keep myself fed and watered enough to survive in the waste now, perhaps not comfortably, but well enough. I was greeted with suspicion by the residents of the small village where the leader had visited. I managed to convince them my motives were pure however, and was soon on way with information about the next village the leader had been headed to. I was able to purchase a second canteen as well in the village, which made my water supply issue a bit easier. Then I continued on my way. It was about a day to the next village, whose residents confirmed I was catching up with the leader, but had not yet caught him, and the next day I was on my way again, towards the village they had told me the leader was visiting next. A day or two of travel later I was at my third village, then a bit later, my fourth.
It was in this final village that I learned I had caught up. The leader was not in town, but was returning. They had trekked out to hunt a dangerous beast who had been terrorizing the locals and their livestock. My body wanted me to rest, to simply wait for the leader in the village. I had been walking almost constantly the whole time, only stopping to eat, drink, talk, and sleep. All of me was exhausted. But, this was a quest, and waiting was not what I had set out to do. I was going to meet with the leader, and hopefully, could even help with the dangerous beast killing.
So, I ate some food I was able to buy in this latest village, drank deeply of their water supply, then took my hunting supplies in hand and set out. Once again, I really had no idea what I was doing, having still not ever actually successfully tracked or hunted anything without help, but that did not stop me. I simply started walking in the direction the villagers had pointed me. In the end it was pure luck, or perhaps lack of luck, which resulted in me finding the creature. It was much more that the creature found me than anything that I did. One could perhaps say that it was me who was the hunted, and not perhaps the hunter.
I was walking through a particularly dense area of grass, when I heard rustling to the side, and turned in that direction. I saw fur and claws, and I barely managed to get my arm up to protect my neck. The creature was on me, having leaped from somewhere, its force knocking me to the ground. Its teeth were in my arm, and it was biting again and again, while its claws clung to my chest, and its back ones rakes across my legs. I did my best to keep its gnashing teeth away from my face and neck, defending myself with one arm, while trying to push it back with the other. I flailed about, feeling incredible pain in my arm and my chest and legs as I was being cut and bit. I was not really able to think in all of this, simply pushing away, but some part of me understood that if this continued, then I would lose blood, and I would die. So, instead of just trying to keep the mad beast away from me, I struggled to turn over, to get the beast underneath me instead of the other way around. And so, using my somewhat free arm as a brace, I pushed against the ground, rolling over on top of the creature.
I had been carrying a bow with me as I walked, intending originally to try and shoot the creature from afar if I saw it. The bow itself was somewhere behind me, but the arrow I had held was on the ground next to me. I snatched it off the ground, and stabbed randomly. I tried to keep its head back, and get inside the range of its claws. I wrestled and stabbed and pushed back the head and stabbed and felt new gashes torn in my body and stabbed and wrestled and eventually, I realized I was wrestling nothing. The creature had stopped struggling. I slowly pulled myself out of its grasp, and looked at its body. It seemed that one of my blind stabs had gotten the creature in the neck, and that had likely been the fatal strike. I knew I needed to bandage my wounds, to stop the bleeding. I tried to get up, to get my backpack off so that I could wrap something around me. But, I was so tired. I was exhausted and tired and then I was asleep.
I awoke not feeling any pain at all, which was not at all what I was expecting, and was in fact, a little alarming. I had a hard time sitting up, and everything felt weird. It was dark wherever I was, but I was able to make out the shape of my own body. I was naked, except for an apparent mile or two of bandages wrapped around me in a number of places, including some places that I think were perhaps bandaged less for medical reasons and more for reasons of propriety. I thought perhaps to shout for someone, but I figured it had to be late, and I was healing, so I decided to wait till morning, letting myself fall back into sleep, something that was very very easy.
The next time I awoke, I saw a face staring down at me, a complex expression etched into it. In many ways I will continue to argue, until my dying day, that the face of the leader of the isle of Ogdash is the most beautiful face that there is. The leader was a woman, something that had never been implied by anyone I had talked to, and something I had not been expecting. She was not old, but she was no youth either. Her skin was the same grey shade as the rest of her people, and her hair white, pure as snow, with a soft look to it. Her eyes were intense, dark on dark, and large. All of this was attractive, but it was the lines in her face, and the complexity of her expression that made her truly beautiful.
Her face was like a map, with thin lines intersecting and splitting apart all over it. But while normally one's face wrinkles and the lines of a hard and difficult life set in with age, you could see that these lines were not those of an acceptance of fate. These etches in her face were each a symbol, a representation of a person or group for whom she was responsible. A hundred times and a hundred times again her face screamed out that this was a person who cared. She ruled this whole island, and she did not just think of the good of the island, or the good of each town. Once could see, if they can read faces like I can, that she cared about each individual, every life on this island was her charge, her responsibility, and her pride. This was a woman who cared in a way that I have never seen another living being care. And now, looking down at me, I could see that this care extended to me. Though I was but a visitor, I was on her island, and as such, under her care. Every wound I had suffered at the hands of the beast was one she wished she could take upon herself instead. And now, looking down at me, she was trying to think of how best she could help me, what would be her best course of action so that I would be best helped. I did not really understand how to react to this expression.
She helped me sit up, and then we spoke, softly and gently. She had found me and the dead beast less than an hour after our battle. She had been tracking it, and had finally caught up. She had found me, and thought that I was dead, but she bound my wounds all the same and carried me back to the village upon her back. There I was given an herb which numbs pain, and my wounds were cleaned by local elders. She learned of my quest to find her from the locals, and decided to wait for me to awake before continuing her journey, since I had come so far. Now I had awoken, and she would hear my story. She thanked me for killing the beast, but expressed sadness that I had been so hurt, feeling that it would have been better for her to have caught the beast, and that what I did, while brave, was foolish, not only as an individual, but as a leader. She explained that I had a responsibility to my followers, and getting myself mauled was not living up to that expectation. Then she apologized for yelling at me. I confirmed that I understood why she was saying what she was saying, and that I understood that I had not done the most rational thing.
We talked for a long time. About leadership and responsibility. About my quest, both my long term journey one, and the one specific to this island. When I explained that I was putting myself in danger in an attempt to improve myself so that I might be a better leader she seemed to soften a little on my decision, but she still generally thought I was being a bit of an idiot about the whole thing. Her point was that going and doing things on your own does not mean going and doing things without a plan or without asking questions and figuring stuff out. I agreed. Most of what I had done on this island had been very impulsive and not really the right choice. In the end, I think we were friends. She agreed to sign an agreement between our nations, but only if I traveled with her for a few days. She said I had the potential to be a great leader, but that she thought that perhaps I could be improved if I saw some of her work. I agreed, and the next day we traveled together.
I think some day I will have to write a book about those few short days I spent with the leader of Ogdash. It felt very deep and important, like I learned something essential in those days. But to try and express it all in a short paragraph within this story here seems somewhat disingenuous. Still it is an important part of my journey, perhaps the most important part so I will see what I can do.
In terms of actual things done, there was a lot. We traveled to different towns, and each one had different needs, different ways it needed help. But it also had different ways it could help. In one village we brought food for the two dozen residents, helping prepare a big soup for everyone that night. Then, we went around to each of the citizens, and collected from them spare clothes that they had, for they were a village of clothing makers. Then, we went to the next village and helped them set up a system for collecting water, for they were having a hard time getting enough, using an idea someone had created in a village weeks before. We took from those people a few spare tools for digging, which were needed in another town, which also had need of the clothes from the first. It was a network of interconnected needs, and somehow the leader kept it all straight in her head. She seemed to know every name, to know what each person was good at, what each person had and could spare, even if they did not think they could spare it. We traveled quickly, on great birds that ran as fast as horses. From village to village, being the messenger and the mailman and the leader all at once. It seemed too much for one person, this job that the leader had, and perhaps it would have been, for anyone less than her. But it was done, and she did it, and I watched and learned.
I learned many things in those days. If I were to pick only a few, only the most important out of all the essential things she taught me, it would have to be the importance of responsibility and of caring. As a leader, you need to be willing to take all of the weight upon yourself, to be the one to whom all can look, and all can rely upon. And in order that you do so as best as you can, in order that you really do what is right for all of the people, you need to care, not just abstractly, but individually, and specifically. For the leader, the only true way to lead was to know and believe in every single member of her people. It was an incredible way to be, and something I will always strive for, even if, in the end, the true land is too big for such an approach. On the last day, when she signed my agreement and lent me one of her great birds to return me back to my people, she spoke with me again, and taught me another lesson.
She explained that she had one great failing as a leader, and that she saw in me that same failing, though perhaps more extreme, but perhaps more fixable. She explains that while it is your responsibility as a leader to take all of the responsibility upon yourself, it is also your responsibility to make sure that those things which need doing are done, and this almost always means relying on others. The villages rely on each other she explained. None could live without the others to help supply what it lacked. Each has a specialty and focus and is valuable in its own way, but each has needs as well, and ways in which it must be supported. So to are people. Including oneself. She says that for her, though she knows this, she has a hard time letting others help her. She cannot seem to let go of any of the problems which she takes for herself, accomplishing them herself, even if it might be faster and better for her people if she were to share the problems. And so, in my quest to prove myself alone, she saw the thread of that same problem.
She had listened to my story, and knew how I felt myself to be the least useful member of the party. What she said then is something I will never forget. She explained that pride is the most dangerous weakness of a leader. She herself has too much, which is why she believes her successor will be better than her. And for me, she says, accepting that I might not be the most useful could be a step I need to take. You can't always be the best, and sometimes people are better than you at one thing, or many things, and accepting that is also an important part of leadership. If you refuse to admit others are more skilled, or stronger, or smarter, then you are limiting yourself as a leader. Only by understanding the true capabilities of everyone, including yourself, can you make the best decisions. And with that thought, she left me. I road the bird through the wasteland towards the small town I had left my companions. I was lost in thought for the whole journey, glad the bird knew the way, for I still couldn't navigate well in the emptiness of the grasslands.
My companions were happy indeed to see me upon my return. It had been a long and boring time for them, protecting our stuff being a task that both took time and was not interesting at all. I apologized to them for making them do this, and said I would not be going off on my own again, but that it had, I think, worked out for the best this time. My Protector was a bit annoyed at this, and I explained further that, while it had indeed worked out, it was only through a lot of luck that it had, and that it would have been the wiser choice to have not gone alone. I did not bring up the fact that someone still would have still had to watch our stuff, and leaving only one person to do that would not have been kind. Once I told the basics of my story, and showed them the agreement I had made with the leader, we moved on to the next subject, which was finding a new boat to continue on our way.
In terms of islands to be dropped off on with no transportation, this was not a particularly great one. The locals did not make boats for traveling long distances, and their were few traders in other boats that came this far. In the end we were able to find one local boat that was supposedly large enough and secure enough it could make it to the closest island to this one, where the locals said there were many more ships. We purchased the boat, and prepared to set out in the morning. I gave my two companions a chance to go out in the town together, and stayed to guard our stuff alone. I took the time to reflect, to think on the wisdom of the leader of this strange island, and to think about the future. For now, there was but one more destination. In myth alone was our next destination recorded. We would be traveling beyond the border of knowledge.


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Mootools vs. jQuery: Speed, Smoothness, Friendliest
By trent on 05 Nov in Javascript
Being the curious mind, have you ever been bouncing around to different javascript frameworks searching for your happy medium? Well I have for the past few years, and I'm still no where near settling with just one. As of late I've been in a jQuery groove, but who knows what next week will bring, especially after this startling test by Mootools.
Mootools has previously been known for its silky smooth effects and great dom utilities, but they also have performance on their side as well. jQuery on the other had has to have the friendliest syntax ever with chaining and selectors, with just enough effects to make you hungry for more. I really have to say this makes me frustrated. Just as you get comfortable with a framework something as disturbing as this test comes about.
Well its not at all bad news. I am always looking for something better, but I'm not convinced that mootools is any better at this point. Sure speed is a plus, but whats a millisecond compared to usability? I do like jQuery's documentation better, as well as the infinite plugins available. For the sake of quality and flexibility though, even if you are situated with one framework, it always pays off to have another framework under your belt. While I don't foresee this test making many jQuery users abandon their beloved framework, but there will be some splitting time with Mootools…
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I'm an avid jQuery user too, switched over from mootools last year (not by choice, I had to be dragged kicking and screaming!).
jQuery's lovely, the coding's amazing and you can easily write plugins, at the same time it seriously sucks for animation. It really lacks the smoothness mootools offers, you can always tell when a website is using mootools purely from how smooth the effects are.
I agree completely. I love mootools smoothness, but jQuery makes it so much easier to code. Guess its all according what you're doing and to what extent animation is important. This is probably one of the very few areas I would like to see jQuery improve(I'm sure they will)..
You have to test in multiple browsers to be fair. Make sure you've hit FF2 FF3 IE6 IE7.
Its definitely amazing the difference between browsers. It really shows just how slow IE is and how fast Opera and Safari are.. Firefox has nothing to brag about either by my tests. Goes to show that even the less popular browsers aren't necessarily the weaker browsers.
David - Sep 14, 2008
I just thought I would throw in my 2 cents. Generally speaking it seems like people use 1 library or another, and that's it.
jQuery's coding structure is nice, chaining and stuff, as is the AJAX etc. I find no single library makes me 100% happy as is the way with most people.
I have a nice thirdparty folder, and in there sits:
1. extjs (extjs.com) for sweet interface tools (grids etc).
2. jsTween (all variations from http://jstween.blogspot.com/) for simple, smooth and fast tweens.
3. jQuery for speed of coding and major library stuff like AJAX and general page manipulation (always using #id-selectors for improved speed).
4. ajax tool box (http://www.ajaxtoolbox.com/) for simple AJAX calls when I don't want to use jQuery and have the overheads.
Unfortunately I don't need mootools now because the jsTween is a fraction the size and is so smooth. I just import the files I need from the folder based on a given problem.
Seriously folks, it pays to use a variation, and if you've never tried jsTween, go check it out, I'm sold on it.
kbo206 - Feb 02, 2009
I tried the test in Firefox 3.0.5 and Dojo was considerably faster than Mootools. And jQuery was just slightly slower than Mootools.
Choose your framework | Miles Per Hour - Feb 09, 2009
[…] another blog by Trent Richardson (trents blog) he compares jQuery and MooTools ; Mootools has previously been known for its silky smooth effects and great dom utilities, but they […]
Bimakov - May 12, 2009
perhaps jQuery is best framework if we look for easy js, it's support many major browser, but if we're looking for a good animating js i think mootools is great choices, just consider what u need. if we looking for a productivity i suggest u to choose the easiest way….
I completely agree. You definitely have to examine what you need for each project before committing to a framework.
Here is other test page, better:
dan - May 29, 2009
http://owljs.org/speed/ is kinda broken – stopped after 6 tests
As a technical recruiter in a very niche space, that being web development in Orange County, I do my best to learn technologies and the differences between them. I really appreciate this blog because currently I am working with the largest employer in Orange County on a very high-end Web 2.0 UI position where Mootools is a MUST.
Many of the front-end Asp.Net developers I've spoken to have had exposure to JQUERY, but not Mootools. Do you guys have any suggestions as to where I can find a 6-figure front-end developer with Mootools experience tied to an Asp.Net application?
I really appreciate the thoughts, and think I might start teaching myself light code as a side project!
I have a bit of experience with all of the above
IE8: 281;140;793;578;All the tests return errors
FF3.5: 78;76;180;190;37 (with 3 errors)
Chrome: 47;32;267;174;47 (No one returns an error)
but it takes a time to code in jquery.
jgarcias - Jan 19, 2011
I agree with Kamlesh. It took me a while to get used to jQuery syntax and its documentation was not so clear to me.
On the other hand, mooTools is a Framework created for Web Developers and Programmers in general. It is compact and can reuse code easily by creating classes, it is Object Oriented and its syntax is clear and very specific. If your website requires speed and smoothness without sacrificing performance then definitely the answer is mooTools.
I use Joomla and therefore I am stuck with MooTools but I find that a lot of plugins now use jQuery in noConflict mode. without noConflict mode for jQuery I think Joomla would just die off because MooTools is just a a leftover from the past that is still being dragged around by the Joomla core files.
I believe in recent time Mootools has hurt itself in a way while trying to innovate. Its difficult for large projects to commit to a framework which has been changing so drastically over the past few releases. While Mootools has been doing some really nice work, especially in terms of inheritance and object orientation, they make it difficult to just drop in the new version and feel confident it will work (without some type of backwards compatibility addition). That being said it may be that Mootools has a completely different objective than jquery, and constant change and innovation is their goal.
I believe it is almost to the point where they need to stop in their tracks and examine where they are. Take all the good stuff, trim the fat, and create a new library. Looking through the documentation there are a lot of similar functions, at some point there has to be overhead and redundancy.
For example the Element object has methods erase, eliminate, empty, dispose, and destroy. While yes, they do different things, to me it ads confusion and 5 different functions with very similar names doing very similar things. Also with: inject, grab, adopt, etc.
I would do a good cleanup of all the methods. Move any core object extensions from More into Core. And leave More with UI type modules. Just my 2 cents…


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Tess Vigeland: It's Wednesday, so let's have a look at the inbox.
Our segment that seemed to get the most responses this past week sought to answer the question: is college worth it? Tech reporter Steve Henn and education correspondent Amy Scott squared off on venture capitalist Peter Thiel's $100,000 scholarships for high school entrepreneurs; that was so they don't have to spend their time getting bachelor's degrees.
Here are just a handful of your thoughts on the question.
Robin Richesson: I have to say that students by and large come a long way during their college education. I have seen people who would have otherwise not been able to have an education, be able to come and really be transformed, and have experienced people from other demographics in a learning environment.
Carson Sprock: College is simply a degree factory, a high-priced stay-away camp for four or more years in which the vast majority of people learn nothing, and don't want to either. Classes are dumbed down to try to keep the GPA of the school up. And most people don't work hard because they have the impression that a college degree is a golden ticket, and it's not.
Shondra Summers: Any family would be proud to say their student attended Stanford, Wellesley or Harvard. However, if parents are borrowing money against their homes, emptying retirement accounts or the student is taking out $100,000 in loans for an undergraduate degree, you have to decide whether or not that makes good financial sense.
Those voices came from Robin Richesson, an artist and college professor at Cal State Long Beach; Carson Sprock, an economics and math major at University of California, Santa Cruz; and Shondra Summers of Las Vegas, a mother of three sons -- two of whom are in college now.
Before we wrap up, one small correction: in yesterday's story about John Bryson, the new nominee to head the Commerce Department, we mentioned he was the founder of the Natural Resources Defense Council. That's what it said on the page in front of me. But the words out of my mouth were National Resources Defense Council. It's "Natural."
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The Bot:
NihongoBot is an instant-messenger robot that can perform lookups from the
Japanese-English/English-Japanese dictionary. It uses the
IM protocol, which is also compatible with Google Talk. I made this out of frustration with having to keep desktop translation software on every computer I used. While the EDICT web interface is very useful and complete, this is a bit faster and more interactive. And in contrast to desktop translation software, it works the same on every platform.
To use it, just add "firstname.lastname@example.com" to your contact list and send it a message. To translate a word just issue the command "search <a word>", or just type a word you want to translate. Japanese must be input either in Kanji or Kana. Romaji is not supported.
The software:
Nihongobot is written in
and based on the
library. Much of the code is from the xmpppy's bot.py. Source code is available
The FAQ:
"Why isn't [my favorite IM protocol] supported?"
XMPP, while far from perfect, was chosen because of its status as an open, freely-available standard. There are many free Jabber services one can use, and a wealth of available
, notably
(Unix and Windows) and
(MacOS X). While other protocols have better market penetration, Yahoo and AOL have a long history of changing protocol details without notifying anyone, which would cause a bot written to use them to break periodically. Besides, while I could pick AIM over Yahoo and annoy all the Yahoo users, this way I get to annoy almost everyone.
"The answers back from Nihongobot are all garbled!"
If you're getting back
, then it's likely that your IM client or operating system doesn't support UTF-8. Sadly, I cannot help you configure this, but you may find some pointers
"Nihongobot can't find
word I put in!"
See 2 - it's probably the same problem. On the other hand, if you're getting an error message like Unknown command "?otr:aaicaaaaxk8uogggtxdu9djfdv/omgdb+vj0", then this is probably an Adium problem. Click the lock icon, then go to "Encryption Settings" and "Disable Chat Encryption". You'll need to do similarly in Pidgin if you're set to auto-initiate OTR chats.
"How do I input in Japanese?"
I can't help you with this - I have enough trouble getting my own computer to behave how I want, so it's very unlikely I can fix yours. Please see 2.
"Will you support romaji?"
Probably not. I dislike romaji, and think that learning kana is a better idea. That said, I may end up doing it at some point, but it's not a priority.
"Any plans to support other languages?"
Not really, as English and Japanese are the only things I speak. However, given a flat file dictionary, it'd be pretty trivial to modify Nihongobot to work with other languages.
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Please do not abuse this service. I'm hosting it so that people unable to run it themselves can still use the software. It hasn't been thoroughly optimized for performance and probably has bugs and is easily DoSable. Any obnoxiousness or spamming will at least be blocked, and will most likely result in switching to manual registration, which will suck for everyone. That said, feel free to contact me at lx [a@t] redundancy.redundancy.org via e-mail Jabber with any feedback or bug reports.
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The Division has a broad remit to support JCU's scholarly research activities. It provides a wide range of research administration services to academic and research staff, including:
JCU is committed to providing shape and direction to our research by aligning to four major themes:
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Award-winning singer Alicia Keys might want to clear off some space on her mantel: She was nominated Tuesday morning for five American Music Awards, the most for any artist this year.
Coming in second to Keys are the British quartet Coldplay and veteran rockers the Eagles, with four apiece. Next in line, with three nods each, are rap superstar Lil Wayne and R&B hit-maker Chris Brown. All five acts are competing for the highest honor: Artist of the Year.
The show will air live on Nov. 23 from the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles, with Jimmy Kimmel once more emceeing.
"I haven't prepared anything yet," the nighttime talk show host tells PEOPLE. "I never have anything planned or in store, but we will! I still have a month to go."
Kimmel announced the lucky crop of contenders alongside dancer-chanteuse Julianne Hough and pop star Jesse McCartney.
The show will also feature a star-studded list of performers including the Jonas Brothers, Rihanna, Taylor Swift, Ne-Yo, Pink, the Pussycat Dolls and the reunited New Kids on the Block.
Kimmel, however, said unscripted moments are often the most entertaining, like last year when Joe Jonas slipped during his group s performance.
"You know what, it always makes it more interesting if somebody trips and falls," says the comic. "So I don't know, maybe it will be me. Who knows? We're going to push somebody off the stage this year."
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Relationship Revamp: 4 Ways to Lighten Up
When was the last time you came home and complained to your partner that your relationship needs more pressure? I'd bet the answer is "Never", and for good reason. I've studied the topic for 25 years and can confidently report these two facts:
- Pressure adversely impacts all relationships.
- Couples that have learned to handle pressure are far better off than their counterparts who can't.
Relationship pressure occurs when either or both partners feel forced to act/think/feel/ in a particular way to please the other. When we are forced to act in a particular way to gain acceptance, resentment, anger, and insecurity in our partner builds. When he or she succumbs to the pressure put upon them, the decision made is usually regretted.
Regardless of the source of stress, it almost always creates havoc and can sabotage three successful relationship essentials:
Anger often colors communication. Critical and blame-centered comments, interrupting each other, and refusal to compromise are typical communication patterns that occur when one or both partners feel pressured. None help a relationship thrive and all prompt couples to make decisions they later regret.
How You Treat Each Other
Relationship pressure creates anxiety and tension between partners. Because most couples perceive issues that create pressure as threatening, they cope by withdrawing and avoiding the other person involved. In the process, this will decrease affection, support, and statements of reassurance. Each blames the other for their feelings of pressure and resentment and anger are the result.
If there is one room from which couples need to lock out pressure, it's the bedroom. Pressure affects a couple's sex life in two ways. First, daily feelings of pressure —whether it stems from work or the relationship — decrease romantic feelings and sexual desire. If this is true for only one partner, the other is apt to become angry and often ends up demanding more sexual activity that intensifies relationship pressure. When it's true for both partners, the abrupt decrease in sexual desire makes it obvious that there is a "problem," but because discussion of the topic is perceived as threatening and scary, the conversation is avoided. In essence, pressure creates sexual distance.
What about couples who feel no relationship pressure and desire sexual intimacy? Pressure gets them, too, in the form of "spectating." The person, usually male, becomes self -conscious and worried about how he is "performing." The excessive worry about his sexual performance and whether he is pleasing his partner results in blocking his natural sexual response — he fails to perform. In turn, he feels more pressure to perform the next time he is "at bat."
You and your partner can make your relationship more stress-less by following these steps, designed to keep you and your partner focused in a positive direction, and increase positive emotions that are natural pressure reducers:
1. Share your feelings without blame.
When feeling pressured, tell your partner, "I am feeling pressured," rather than, "Stop pressuring me," or, "You always pressure me to do things." Sharing feelings without blame promotes understanding, positive communication and intimacy, all of which decrease feelings of pressure.
5 Ways to Control Relationship Stress
2. Slow down communication.
Before those "pressure conversations," remind yourself your goal is resolution, not escalation. Remain calm, speak slowly, and breathe normally –it keeps you in control of yourself so you can stay focused on the issues.
3. Keep your bedroom as a stress-free zone.
Reduce pressure in the bedroom by remembering sex is for enjoyment and communicating positive feelings. Focus on pleasure, not performance. Music in the background will also distract you from worrying, about anything.
Top Relationship Tips From A Therapist Who Has Heard It All
4. Remember why you love each other.
Spend time appreciating your relationship and celebrate often. Get into the habit of reflecting on past positive times and expressing positive feelings to each other. Doing so increases relationship enthusiasm and optimism. Pressure is inherent in every relationship but those who make their relationships pressure-less have a much better chance to live happily ever after.
More GalTime:
- Top Things Women Do To Push Men Away
- 3 Biggest Mistakes Women Make in Bed
- Why Date Night Is So Important
- 5 Signs He Doesn't Love You
Hendrie Weisinger, Ph.D. is a world-renowned psychologist, in the field of pressure management, the originator of criticism-training and the author of two New York Times bestselling books. He has consulted with and developed programs for dozens of Fortune 500 Companies and government agencies and has taught in Executive Education and Executive MBA programs at Wharton, UCLA, NYU, Cornell, Penn State, and MIT. His work has been featured several times in national media including The New York Times Sunday Business Section, and numerous publications. His new book and recent NY Times Bestseller is Performing Under Pressure: The Science Of Doing Your Best When It Matters Most. For more information visit www.drhendrieweisinger.com. Read more of his work here.


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The MMP graduate focal area engages past, present, and emerging media, exploring how scholarly paradigms designed for print, performance, and digital cultures can inform the study of both new and old media. Faculty and graduate students in MMP work on a broad range of periods and genres, from medieval performance and illuminated manuscripts to contemporary children's popular music and digital technologies.
Graduate students in the area benefit from
- Rich resources for digital production and multimodal composition
- Excellent rare book collections, including a collection about the History of the Book and Printing
- Opportunities to develop substantial expertise in supporting fields and disciplines through the departments of Communication, History of Art and Architecture, and Theatre Arts and the School of Information Sciences
- Digital Humanities at Pitt (DHRX), a cross-campus research network fostering scholarship in the digital humanities.
To learn more about which members of the graduate faculty work in MMP and related areas, see the Graduate Faculty Areas page.
Upcoming and Ongoing Programming
- Digital Media Reading group.
- Media and Material Practices Round Table discussions. Questions? Suggestions for future round tables? Please email MMP coordinator Jen Waldron (email@example.com).
- Materialities of Writing Works-in-Progress Symposium (December 6, 2017, 2:00-4:30 PM - 501G CL): Please join us for a lively, transhistorical symposium focused on different materialities of writing: manuscripts, video, and print. Associated with Annette Vee's Materialities of Writing graduate course (EngLit 2570), and the English Literature Media and Material Practices Focal Area. For more information, please visit here.
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- English Graduate Mini-Conference Night: "The Body Now + Gender, Technics and Media" (December 2016). Sponsored by Prof. Julian Gill-Peterson and Prof. Jen Waldron, students from two fall graduate courses and seven different departments presented on four panels: "Non/Inhuman Bodies and Parts," "Publics," "Global Circuits in Queer Studies," and "Racialization, Women's Bodies and the State."
- Round table discussion on SOUND. This round table invited participants to come and listen to colleagues from across the department and an informal discussion on their work on sound! Featured were:
Tyler Bickford on children's mp3 players as material culture
Laura Feibush on listening, gesture, and pedagogy
Neepa Majumdar on 1930s audio technologies and sound cinema in India
Imani Owens on music and poetics in black interwar literature
- Digital Reading group meetings, such as February's discussion of "The Rhetoric of Error in Digital Media," by Matt Bellinger (Computational Culture, 2016), and "WR1T1NG (D1RT?) NEW MED1? / GL1TCH C0MP0S1TI0N," by Steven Hammer, as well as April's gathering that featured discussions on selections from Nicole Starosielski's The Undersea Network.
- Media & Material Practices Focal Area Event, an MLA Lightning Round Table (January 2016), with:
Jean Ferguson Carr,* on the question of the monograph, from the panel "The Future of Publishing in Composition"
Jinying Li,* on walls, from the panel on "Objects of Global Media"
Annette Vee,* on writing, from "What We Talk About When We Talk About DH"
Jen Waldron,* on technical temporal objects in Shakespeare, from the panel "Matters of Renaissance Fiction"
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For the past five years or so, I have been buying passes to Blue Mountain Resort. This "mountain" (hill), is located north-west of Barrie, Ontario and is extremely popular as it is the best ski/snowboarding option in a fairly large geographical radius here in Southern Ontario. However, popular means busy and busy means line-ups. The drive from Toronto can take up to three hours with traffic. Despite all of this I have gone half a dozen times or so each year because buying a season pass early is a good value and I enjoy most of the runs.
This year will be different. My friend has convinced me to try out a season's pass to Glen Eden which is located near Milton, Ontario. The cost is roughly the same and the drive is significantly shorter. My hope is that the crowds are much smaller and that the runs don't get too old, too fast.
So far, there are no DC events trips booked for the season so I don't yet know where I am going to get my real mountain fix. I am hoping to organize trips to Vermont and Ellicottville in New York, but time will tell if that actually happens.
Does anyone have any opinions on Glen Eden? I'm eager to try it out and post about the experience.
Happy Holidays!
My 10th trip to Whistler approaches! I'm definitely psyched.
Getting There
This time Sunday morning, I should hopefully be airborne, flying an Air Canada 777 en route to Hong Kong by way of Vancouver. (I chose that flight because as an Air Canada Elite member, I had a decent shot at upgrading to one of their Executive suites. Alas, I have been waitlisted.) In Vancouver, I'll hook up with my brother, who is arriving an hour earlier via WestJet.
We'll have a couple of hours to kill before the next Perimeter Bus to Whistler, so it's likely we'll have a beer or three. My cousin, who operates the best burger restaurant in Vancouver, is going to pop by to say hello.
Staying There
Despite now having visited 10 times, I've only stayed in a hotel twice: once at the Listel hotel and once at the Mountainside Lodge. The rest of the time I have rented condos or houses. This time, however, I'm staying at the Hilton Whistler, and I'm definitely excited to check it out. We've got a suite, so we should have plenty of room to spread out and relax.
Riding There
As I've mentioned, conditions look off the hook for early season! They've had more than eight feet of snow this season already, with more than 4,300 acres already opened. Most of my favourite non-bowl areas (Garbonzo area on Whistler, Crystal Chair on Blackcomb) are now open. Another 50-80 cm are expected tomorrow and Sunday. So this has the potential to turn into an epic couple of days of riding. (There's also the risk that conditions will be crazy and zero visibility. I'm praying that's not the case.)
You can be sure that once the trip has concluded, there will be a full report! I'll also update my Guide to Whistler, which I've maintained since 2006.
As I mentioned in yesterday's return to blogging about snowboarding, I am heading to Whistler for a few days next week. With a baby due in January, I knew my annual week-long trip to Whistler to ride was not going to happen. I had resigned myself to skipping this year entirely, but some vacation days to burn and a fair bit of snow recently have changed my mind. As a result, I'm heading up Sunday (the 27th). The plan is to ride two days, and come back Wednesday.
I know conditions can't possibly be like what I experienced in 2010, but with up to 80 centimetres scheduled to arrive by Tuesday, I'm hoping to encounter some pretty good early season conditions. Whistler only has a couple of chairs operating right now (green chair, red chair), but with Blackcomb opening on the 24th and a big dump of snow on the way, I'm hoping available terrain will expand greatly by the time I get on the hill on the 28th.
Regardless, it will be fun.
Damn you, blog.
It's been more than a year since anything has been posted at Highly Obsessed. And even when we did post some stuff last year, it didn't last long. It's been a struggle the past couple of years.
So, what happened? It's not like we enjoy snowboarding less than we used to. Personally, I found myself riding fewer total days; instead of heading to Blue Mountain or Mt. St. Louis Moonstone for a few day trips, I was saving it for trips to real mountains like Whistler or Jay Peak or Tremblant. So I was only riding maybe a dozen days a year. I guess this made me feel like I wasn't much of an authority on snowboarding anymore.
And in a way, I don't think it's going to get any easier. We are going to have a baby just as snowboarding season gets into full swing. My job is never slow, and I do a fair bit of travel is involved. I also like to spend time working out, playing video games, and reading. I also play hockey and ultimate frisbee. So there never seems to be enough time in the day already.
But with all that said, a funny thing has been happening. This blog refuses to die, and I find it both interesting and inspiring. It gets all sorts of traffic, regardless of season. People still email me constantly with questions, contests and news. I still get the occasional ACL tear inquiry (and I've had laser eye surgery, another topic which seems to garner tons of questions, so I'm happy to answer those, too).
So I started to think: do I really need to be on the mountain 100 days a year to maintain an interesting snowboarding blog? I don't think so. And do I still love to snowboard? Hell yes. So I've decided to fire up the blog again, and I'm really looking forward to it.
The timing is right, too. A week today, I will leave for a quick, four-day, pre-baby trip to Whistler. I didn't want to miss out on Whistler this year, and they're getting dumps of snow regularly right now. But all that is for my next post.
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Separation and connection. All my work, whether inward-looking as in 'reflection-perception' or extroverted as in 'political-personal', have roots in this central theme. My work is an act of figurative narration, with overtones of politics and socio-cultural issues and undertones of the personal. I exist between two countries, moving between political and environmental tensions and striving for balance in an uneven world. Inspiration comes from juxtapositions of the incongruous, myths and media and my life. Perspective comes from being the continuous visitor.
I hope that art, with its ability to mirror, breach boundaries and reveal the unseen, may yet be the way to make a difference. As the Native Americans have said: 'We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children'. It is with this consciousness that I try to create, communicate, have a voice.
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We represent the majority of Psychotherapists in the Republic of Ireland. We have a mandate to do so from our members. They come from five different traditions of psychotherapy, or different disciplines, but come together in the Council to advocate, educate and to promote psychotherapy.
We are a unique voice for the profession, democratically elected and internationally affiliated to the Euro-wide group charged with maintaining and improving standards, the European Association of Psychotherapy.
Psychotherapy training is intensely academic and experiential and this is reflected in many aspects of the practice. Read the ICP Position Paper 2015.
Find out why ICP Therapists are Different.
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Anne Colgan
Anne has a private practice in Gorey , Co. Wexford. She works in the areas os sexual abuse, bereavement, depression, anxiety/panic attacks, bullying, suicide ideation, separation, stress, post-traumatic stress disorder and anger management.
Anne also works with companies and organisations providing HR expertise specialising in Personality Profiling, Recruitment, Change Management, Conflict Resolution and Outplacement.
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Aileen worked as a Social Worker for 18 years with children and families before training as a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist.
Having completed this training in 1998, Aileen pursued a training in Jungian psychoanalysis and was admitted to membership of the International Association of Analytical Psychology in 2007. She works in private practice in North County Dublin.
Valerie O'Brien
Dr Valerie O'Brien is a full time lecturer in the School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice, University College Dublin.
In addition to holding a professional social work qualification; she is also a registered systemic psychotherapist and supervisor and is involved in training and clinical practice in this field.
Kay Noonan
Kay is a psychotherapist and works in private practice in central Dublin. She is fully qualified and is an accredited member of the Irish Association of Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy (IAHIP). Before becoming a psychotherapist Kay worked in the financial sector and has more than 30 years' experience in this area.
Kay recently graduated with a Masters in Bereavement Studies from the Royal College of Surgeons in conjunction with the Irish Hospice Foundation.
Currently she is a member of the governing body of IAHIP. She was also conference co-ordinator for the 2013 and 2016 IAHIP conferences.
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For more than 20 years Shenaz has worked as a Psychotherapist and Occupational Psychologist in partnership with her clients in various settings to enable her clients to develop to their full potential. Shenaz is a Co-founder and Director ofThe Learning Partnership, (TLP).
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A graduate of University College Dublin, Trinity College Dublin and National University of Ireland Galway, Jean has worked at senior management level in the voluntary /not for profit sector for 25 years most recently as Head of Development with Third Age, as Programme Executive with Atlantic Philanthropies' Ageing Programme until 2008 and CEO with the Irish Hospice Foundation until 2004.
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Tania graduated from The Queens University of Belfast with a B.A in German & Sociology and more recently completed an M.A in Psychotherapy at Dublin Business School.
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There is a new version of this tutorial available for Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver).
This tutorial exists for these OS versions
- Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver)
- Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark)
- Ubuntu 17.04 (Zesty Zapus)
- Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak)
- Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)
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The Perfect Server - Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Apache2, BIND, Dovecot, ISPConfig 3)
Version 1.0
Author: Falko Timme
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This tutorial shows how to prepare an Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) server (with Apache2, BIND, Dovecot) for the installation of ISPConfig 3, and how to install ISPConfig 3. ISPConfig 3 is a webhosting control panel that allows you to configure the following services through a web browser: Apache or nginx web server, Postfix mail server, Courier or Dovecot IMAP/POP3 server, MySQL, BIND or MyDNS nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and many more. This setup covers Apache (instead of nginx), BIND (instead of MyDNS), and Dovecot (instead of Courier).
Please note that this setup does not work for ISPConfig 2! It is valid for ISPConfig 3 only!
I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!
ISPConfig 3 Manual
In order to learn how to use ISPConfig 3, I strongly recommend to download the ISPConfig 3 Manual.
On more than 300 pages, it covers the concept behind ISPConfig (admin, resellers, clients), explains how to install and update ISPConfig 3, includes a reference for all forms and form fields in ISPConfig together with examples of valid inputs, and provides tutorials for the most common tasks in ISPConfig 3. It also lines out how to make your server more secure and comes with a troubleshooting section at the end.
ISPConfig Monitor App For Android
With the ISPConfig Monitor App, you can check your server status and find out if all services are running as expected. You can check TCP and UDP ports and ping your servers. In addition to that you can use this app to request details from servers that have ISPConfig installed (please note that the minimum installed ISPConfig 3 version with support for the ISPConfig Monitor App is 126.96.36.199!); these details include everything you know from the Monitor module in the ISPConfig Control Panel (e.g. services, mail and system logs, mail queue, CPU and memory info, disk usage, quota, OS details, RKHunter log, etc.), and of course, as ISPConfig is multiserver-capable, you can check all servers that are controlled from your ISPConfig master server.
For download and usage instructions, please visit http://www.ispconfig.org/ispconfig-3/ispconfig-monitor-app-for-android/.
1 Requirements
To install such a system you will need the following:
- the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS server CD, available here: http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/12.04/ubuntu-12.04-server-i386.iso (i386) or http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/12.04/ubuntu-12.04-server-amd64.iso (x86_64)
- a fast Internet connection.
2 Preliminary Note
In this tutorial I use the hostname server1.example.com with the IP address 192.168.0.100 and the gateway 192.168.0.1. These settings might differ for you, so you have to replace them where appropriate.
3 The Base System
Insert your Ubuntu install CD into your system and boot from it. Select your language:
Then select Install Ubuntu Server:
Choose your language again (?):
Then select your location:
If you've selected an uncommon combination of language and location (like English as the language and Germany as the location, as in my case), the installer might tell you that there is no locale defined for this combination; in this case you have to select the locale manually. I select en_US.UTF-8 here:
Choose a keyboard layout (you will be asked to press a few keys, and the installer will try to detect your keyboard layout based on the keys you pressed):
The installer checks the installation CD, your hardware, and configures the network with DHCP if there is a DHCP server in the network:
Enter the hostname. In this example, my system is called server1.example.com, so I enter server1:
Create a user, for example the user Administrator with the user name administrator (don't use the user name admin as it is a reserved name on Ubuntu 12.04):
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Falko these tutorials are freaking awesome! I want to personally thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedule to write them. People like you make it easier to learn this stuff. Thanks!
i agree with mike. these tutorials helped alot.. cant find any better... falko's the best.. i appreciate the hard work. thanks
This is great is there anyway you can load balance this as well so like if one of my servers fail it will go over to the other and also is there a want to integrate this into WHMCS for auto setup of services would really like to try to set this up
Many Thanks
J'installe régulièrement des serveurs et cette mine d'infos est indispensable pour moi :-)
Merci Falko et longue vie à Howtoforge !
Many many thanks to you for sharing your knowledge from your busy schedule. For years i was trying to set up a virtual postfix server, but always failed. With your guide and steps, it is working finally on my ubuntu 12.04 server. I hope that in future you will keep up your spirit and try to improve our knowledge.
Thanks a lots.
Could I get a list of Ports that need to be opened for all the functions too work properly after installing everything from this tutorial?
This is my most trusted how-to and have it bookmarked in my browser. Thanks for putting this up. It works all the time.
This tutorial is great. I use it for every version of lts out there. Thank you for taking the time to write it.
AFTER 14 step:
E: Package 'apache2.2-common' has no installation candidate
E: Unable to locate package libapache2-mod-ruby
Please help