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Thank you for choosing CAPA The Global Education Network. We hope you enjoyed your program abroad and have returned home excited about the skills and knowledge you have gained while away. Studying abroad is a life changing experience, and some of the learning you've had will not be evident right away. Over time you will realize that your overseas experience not only enhanced your academic learning, but also your personal development. And, if you did an internship, the career enhancement potential is even more significant.
We have put together a number of resources below that we hope will help you with your future endeavors. Some are geared towards career development, while others will allow you to stay connected to CAPA and your fellow alums. Send us your feedback if there is something you would like to see us do for you now that you are a part of the global CAPA community! And consider joining our CAPA Alumni LinkedIn page to keep in touch.
John J. Christian, President
CAPA The Global Education Network
Career Resources for Leveraging Your Study Abroad Experience
There are a vast number of electronic resources devoted to leveraging your study abroad experience to help find an internship or a job after returning home. Below are just a few to get started, including articles, web resources and suggestions on ways to translate the skills and knowledge you've acquired from your soujourn abroad.
Translating Your Experience into a Useful Professional Tool
Articles, Papers and Blogs on Leveraging Your Study Abroad Experience
Work, Volunteer and Internship Resources
Translating Your Experience into a Useful Professional Tool
(Some of this information is reprinted from the Metro Boston Study Abroad Re-Entry Conference, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, 2003. Presentation of Susan Ingleby, Office of Career Services, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. Information also complied from Jean-March Hachey, The Big Guide to Living and Working Abroad.
Now that you have a fabulous international experience under your belt, how can you translate this into a useful professional tool? Below are some ways to help articulate how the skills and qualities that you have acquired will be useful in a professional setting. Using the list below, pick out 5 – 7 items that will be useful to an employer. Recall and discuss a specific situation that demonstrates the skill or quality. There are a few examples below.
- Time management
- Identify problems and utilize available resources to solve problems
- Accept responsibility
- Communicate despite barriers
- Learn quickly.
- Take initiative and take risks
- Establish rapport quickly
- Function with a high level of ambiguity
- Achieve goals despite obstacles
- Handle difficult situations
- Handle stress
- Manage/Organize
- Lead others in informal or formal groups
- Conduct research despite language and cultural differences
- Cope with rejection
- Adapt to new environments
- Understand an organization's culture
- Learn through listening and observing
- Learn through mistakes
- Perform in an environment with adverse conditions
- Leadership
- Self-reliance
- High energy level/enthusiasm
- Appreciation of diversity
- Perseverance
- Flexibility & Adaptability
- Tolerance/open-mindedness
- Assertiveness
- Inquisitiveness
- Self-confidence
- Self-knowledge
- Independence
- Openness to relocation
- Diplomatic
Develop three to four stories that you can share with employers. Everyone who has studied abroad has their own list of "wild and shocking" stories to share with friends. These edgy cross-cultural experiences are fun to share, but not with potential employers. You need to modify them or devise a new set of cross-cultural career related stories about your study abroad experience. Craft these stories ahead of time, and build them to reinforce professional skill sets. Here are a few examples:
- Describe your role when working with student teams while abroad.
- Describe your encounters when meeting professionals working in your field.
- Speak about personal encounters that gave you insight into the local culture.
- Speak about the link between your country and the host country, especially in terms of the workplace.
You only need three or four of these pre-scripted career stories when job searching. One story alone is often enough to demonstrate a whole grouping of your professional skills, maturity, insightfulness, sound judgment, cross-cultural knowledge, etc.
Before your interview, consider whether your potential employer values your experience abroad or does not yet understand the value. This will help shape what you share and how much you speak about study abroad.
If you think your employer already wants to see some abroad experience on your resume, then jump right in with your stories and be ready to tell how you excelled. How did you go above and beyond while abroad? How did you lead cross-cultural teams, informally or in class? Remember that your interviewer may want to share some of his/her experiences abroad – ask them (briefly)!
If you think your employer is uninterested in your time abroad, you are going to need to take a few steps back. Remember two things:
- They almost certainly have some preconceived notions of what you did – have a good time and backpack around – while abroad. You are going to have to be that much savvier about how to talk about your experience.
- Most new graduates will be "domestic internationals" – employees whose international work is based in their home country. Most people continue to live and work at their home base, but with links to the world.
Be prepared to answer questions about your time abroad: "Why did you decide to study abroad?", "How did the experience live up to your expectations?". Remember to use specific examples when you can- this will always be viewed better than general answers such as- "because it sounded like fun", "so I could get away from mom and dad for a while", etc. You might find it helpful to think back to what you wrote in your essays to be accepted into the program, and why you chose to travel to your host country. If you can convey your passion for where you went, and why, your answer will stand out from others who stick to generalities. Also, you may want to think of things that surprised you about your host country while you were over there, however, remember to stick to the positive. You may find it helpful to keep some sort of journal where you can list the things that stood out to you while you were overseas. This will provide something for you to refer back to prior to your interview.
Interviewers may also ask you what accomplishments you were most proud of from your experience abroad. Again, activities outside of class will help you stand out. You can discuss the pride that came from learning how to not only adapt to college life in a foreign country, but also how to adapt to a work culture abroad. Discuss how this has made you a more well-rounded individual and worker. Also discuss how this experience would tie into your abilities at the specific job you are interviewing for. This piece of advice leads into other questions you may be asked- "What did you learn overseas that will help you do this job successfully?", or "What have you accomplished during your time abroad that you are most proud of?" Again, providing specifics is the key to these questions. Discuss the goals you laid out for yourself prior to going abroad, and how you were successfully in achieving those goals.
Here are some questions to get you started, no matter how long you were abroad:
- Were you creative in solving problems by applying familiar concepts to unfamiliar situations? How could that help in the job you are applying for?
- Did you have to be flexible and adaptable? Able to work in ambiguous circumstances? Almost all employers like to see "self-starters" – does this experience abroad prove that you are?
- Describe your encounters when meeting professionals working in your field.
- Speak about personal encounters that gave you insight into the local culture.
- Speak about the link between your country and the host country, especially in terms of the work place. Describe your professional skills through a story about a cross-cultural encounter that went wrong.
Articles, Papers and Blogs on Leveraging Your Study Abroad Experience
Study Abroad's New Focus Is Job Skills in The Chronicle for Higher Education
Marketing Study Abroad: How to Sell Your Overseas Experience to Employers in Transitions Abroad
Apply International Experience to Post Graduation Plans, University of Tulsa
Impact of Education Abroad on Career Development, American Institute of Foreign Studies
Education Abroad and Its Value in the Job Market, An Annotated Bibliography
Global Career Compass, blogs focused on global workforce trends and the impact of education abroad experiences on student career development
Work, Volunteer and Internship Resources
Now that you have returned from your study abroad experience, you might be thinking, "what's next for me?" Many students want to go back overseas before or after they graduate, and there are literally hundreds of resources to find graduate, work, volunteer and internship programs. One of the best repository for work, volunteer and internship resources is NAFSA: The Assocation of International Educators. They have a resource library with dozens of links to pertinent information. Check it out!
Alumni Update and Newsletter Sign Up
CAPA The Global Education Network would like to hear from you and keep you involved in CAPA activities.
Please send us news about yourself, internship or job opportunities with your current company, or send us a suggestion. If you sign up for our newsletter, you'll begin receiving the news from around the world approximately twice per year.
Alumni Newsletter coming soon!
We plan to launch the first Alumni Newsletter soon. We need your help to make it possible. Please consider sending in information about yourself and what you've been up to since finishing your CAPA program. Are you working? Attending graduate school? We'd love to hear about what you have been doing post-CAPA and all the exciting things going on in your life.
Apply here now to be an Ambassador! The Spring 2017 application deadline has been extended to Dec 6.
The CAPA Ambassador Program is a semester-long leadership and professional development program. This is an opportunity to share your study abroad experience with others and stay involved with CAPA The Global Education Network.
You will play a critical role in building support and advocacy for study abroad and CAPA programs on your campus through your outreach efforts. It is also a career-building opportunity that will help you expand your on-campus network, improve your time management, interpersonal and communication skills, and it will give you tangible work experience for your burgeoning resume at a critical point in your post-university job search. You'll also have fun and be compensated for your time and efforts!
See why this student, Paul, recommends being an ambassador - check out his blog post!
As a CAPA Ambassador, you will promote study abroad through a variety of campus and social media activities, including:
- Your campus study abroad fair and/or activity fair
- Information sessions with student groups or residence halls
- Classroom presentations
- Reviews on study abroad websites and search engines
- Guest posts for the CAPA World Blog
- Tabling in your student union
- Producing YouTube videos
- Interacting with CAPA's LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter accounts
- Contributing photos for our Marketing team to use on the website or in publications
- Writing about your experience in the school newspaper
- AND MORE!! - we encourage creativity in seeking out new opportunities to reach interested students!!
During training, you'll recieve the full list of required Ambassador activities. Of course, each college and university has their own set of policies. CAPA is willing to work with you to create substitute tasks that adapt to your campus culture.
CAPA provides a "toolkit" of materials, including a CAPA Ambassador T-shirt, brochures and fliers, and give-aways. We also reimburse up to $25 per semester if you wish to purchase food for an event or materials for a display.
All Ambassadors should be able to devote 3-6 hours per week during the first half of the semester, and 1-2 hours per week thereafter. Please be very realistic in deciding whether you have time in your busy schedule next semester to be effective and fulfill this commitment.
You must be a current undergraduate student enrolled in the semester after you return from your CAPA program. We are looking for people who are enthusiastic, creative, and passionate about their experience abroad. You need to be responsible, possess good time management skills, and be willing to do some of your tasks in the evenings when students are more readily available. Good communication skills are valued, and we prefer people who are well-versed and active in social media. We request a one-semester commitment from all Ambassadors, and by mutual agreement you can continue until you graduate. To help prepare you, there will be a mandatory on-line training session with CAPA staff.
Please note: Students from the following schools are not allowed to participate in the ambassador program by their home institutions: University of Pittsburgh, University of Minnesota, Northeastern University, and Saint Mary's College of Indiana.
You will be compensated with a modest stipend of $400 for completing all your assigned activities by the end of the semester. There is an added incentive for recruiting students who enroll and travel abroad with CAPA in upcoming terms.
In addition, prizes are awarding to the most active Ambassadors, including gift cards, a $500 travel voucher or a trip to a CAPA Global City!
Apply here now to be an Ambassador! The Spring 2017 application deadline has been extended to Dec 6.
Your application will be reviewed by Nicole Couturiuax, who manages the CAPA Ambassador Program. You will also need to be approved by the study abroad office at your home university. Some institutions limit the number of ambassadors we can have during any given term, so if we are unable to offer you a position for your chosen semester, we can explore other ways you can contribute informally to CAPA and perhaps offer you a position the following semester.
If you would like to see who is in the program already, please visit the Meet the Ambassadors section of the website.
Why not go again?
If you are itching to go abroad again and experience another country, think about another CAPA program. Regardless of whether you were on a regular or customized CAPA program, you will automatically receive a $600 scholarship to study abroad again on a regular CAPA semester program, or a $300 scholarship toward a regular CAPA summer program. Students studying on another custom program are not eligible for the discount. In addition to the Study Again with CAPA Scholarships, you can also apply for need and merit-based scholarships for any term. CAPA awards scholarships from $500-$5,000. Find out more here.
Students who have finished their study abroad program
If you studied abroad on your institution's sponsored program through CAPA, please check with your study abroad advisor and/or the Registrar's Office to see whether or not your grades have been received and posted to your transcript. CAPA sends grade reports approximately two weeks after the end of your program, so it may take a number of weeks for your institution to transfer them to your transcript.
If you are receiving transfer credit through one of CAPA's School of Record agreements, and you are not sure whether your home institution has received the official transcript, please first contact your Registrar's Office. It generally takes 6-8 weeks for your grades to be processed by our Schools of Record. If your institution has not received it after 8 weeks, please contact CAPA by phone (800-793-8334) or email.
Alumni needing a transcript for graduate school or work-related reasons
If you studied abroad on your institution's sponsored program through CAPA, please check with your institution's Registrar's Office to see how you can request a transcript.
If you received transfer credit through The University of Minnesota for the London or Sydney Program (additional to those mailed directly to your sending institution upon completion of your program), please contact The University of Minnesota's Registrar's Office. If you did the Florence Program prior to Spring 2012, the University of Minnesota would also issue your transcript. As you do not have a University of Minnesota internet ID number, you will have to make your request by fax or letter. Go to the link provided to obtain contact information.
If you received transfer credit through Northeastern University for the Buenos Aires or Florence Program ( additional to those mailed directly to your sending institution upon completion of your program), please contact Northeastern University's Registrar's Office. Contact information can be found in the link provided.
Future CAPA students need your help!
Every year CAPA gives away thousands of dollars in scholarships and financial aid to deserving students, allowing them to make their dream of studying abroad possible. You can help by giving generously to the CAPA Alumni Fund. Any money you donate goes directly to funding scholarships for future students. You can make a general donation or designate your money to go to a specific program.
If you'd like to make a donation to the CAPA Alumni Fund, please contact CAPA or call us at 1-800-793-0334.


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Triangle United and Hillandale Sports Association (HSA) have partnered up to work together to bring more soccer opportunities in the North Durham area.
Camps, coaching clinics, player clinics, and other soccer opportunities will take place in the North Durham area, in hopes of developing the over 600+ players involved in the program.
Here is a link to the Hillandale Soccer Program website

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Major international markets were up in the week from July, 30 to August 3, 2012 (Milan +3.9%, +2.6% Frankfurt, Paris +2.9%, +2.8% in London, Madrid +2.1%). After an initial negative reaction to the words of the ECB Governor, Draghi, (economic interventions subject to a request for aid from Countries) markets recovered at the end being positively impacted by U.S. employment data and the Spanish Prime Minister Rajoy willing to ask the 'EFSF intervention in case of need.
Similar trends for the European Auto&Parts (+2.6% Stoxx the car).
Pirelli ended the week at € 8.58 outperforming the sector with a +6.5% performance. Daily average traded volume was just over 5 million pieces.
UBS has initiated coverage of the stock with a "BUY" rating and a target price of 10 €. The broker has a positive view on Pirelli Premium strategy and consider the stock "highly attractive". The consensus target price now stands at 10.5 € with 90% of coverage with a Buy rating.
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Thread: Bowel problem
9th September 2012 06:17 PM #1
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Bowel problem
It is my first time being pregnant and I just want to ask if it would be bad to the baby if I am having a constipation? What I mean is that whenever I am doing my business in the toilet, I sometimes overstrain myself just to let out what I am supposed to let out.
10th September 2012 10:15 AM #2
Hi megken22,
Constipation during pregnancy is common due to high levels of progesterone which is necessary to sustain pregnancy.
Progesterone has a relaxing effect on muscles, and this includes the muscles of the intestines which move food out of the body.
You are wise to be concerned about how constipation affects your baby, but it's not so much in the "straining" during bowel movements, as it is the fact that you're not moving toxins out of your body fast enough.
You need to be having 2 to 3 really good bowel movements a day (not just a few pellets). When you become constipated, the toxins in your feces are reabsorbed back into your blood stream, exposing baby to more toxins.
You can do the following to help soften the stool:
- Drink plenty of water, aim for half of your body weight in ounces (i.e. if you are 100 lbs., drink 50 oz. of water each day). This is the easiest, least expensive way to soften your stools.
- Eat at least one very large green salad with lots of vegetables each day.
- Add dark greens into your diet. Chlorophyll (which makes the greens "green" helps to soften the stool).
- Drink a green smoothie each day
- If you're taking any iron pills, these are constipating, so you should talk to your doctor about an alternative.
I also wanted to mention that the more you strain while going to the lu, the larger your chances of getting hemhorroids either during pregnancy or when you are pushing during birth. I would encourage you to work really hard to resolve the constipation now so you don't have bigger problems later.
Warm Regards,
Please post back and let me know if you found any of this helpful.
11th September 2012 01:31 PM #3
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Thanks for the advice. I already talked to my doctor about this problem and she said the I could take a medicine with a laxative effect. I did but still, I only defecate twice or thrice a week.
16th September 2012 04:03 AM #4
Hi MegKen22,
Have you been able to add any more fruits and/or vegetables into your diet since I made some suggestions? Is it helping? Have you been able to drink more water? How are you feeling?
Warm Regards,
17th September 2012 01:52 PM #5
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Yes I have been drinking and eating lots of fruits lately especially pineapple and it helped my condition. I have been defecating daily now without any problems and constipation. I also asked my physician for an advised and she told me to take senokot twice a day at night.
17th September 2012 02:40 PM #6
So glad things have improved for you and your baby. Thanks for the update!


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Savane - News: Release 1.0.4: new features, bugfixes, cosmetics
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Release 1.0.4: new features, bugfixes, cosmetics
Item posted by Mathieu Roy <yeupou> on Fri Sep 24 09:49:40 2004.
I'm glad to announce 1.0.4 release. Thanks a lot to everybody involved in this release, in particular Alberto Aimar from CERN LCG/SPI.
The release tracking has been made with the task #736
Obtaining it:
- GPG-signed tarball is available at <http://download.gna.org/savane/>
- It is downloadable via CVS, with the tag REL_1-0-4-1
Installing it:
If you are running Savane < 1.0.4, you should run sql scripts included in savane/update/1.0.4, as described in savane/update/README.
These scripts will handle the trivial changes on the database needed.
WARNING: do not run savane/update/1.0.4/clean-usertable.sql
Also, take care to the section [SITE SPECIFIC CONTENT] of the
ChangeLog below, it will tells you which files should be added in your site specific content directory.
Otherwise, just follow INSTALL, or INSTALL.verbose if it not enough.
Reporting bugs:
Same place as usual, go at <http://gna.org/bugs/?group=savane>
- Valid HTML link is now part of the site specific content
- people/editprofile removed h2 section, useless, design-breaker.
* SV_LOCAL_INC_PREFIX is replaced by SAVANE_CONF. This is the value you should put in Apache conf. Exporting SAVANE_CONF in a terminal will also make backend script taking it into account.
- Cosmetics (closes: bug #661, bug #684, task #123)
- Remove useless functions: html_a_group(), html_blankimage(),
- Fix html_image() so it can really guess images width and
height, if not passed as argument.
- Fix to the Submit a task link on project homepage (closes: #663).
- Fix attached file url in email notification (closes: bug #662).
- Show "Originator Email" field only if an item was posted anonymously (closes: bug #666).
- Fix extra "," added in the To: field when sending a request for inclusing (closes: bug #660).
- Feedback the exact size of an attachment in case of failure, mentionning the use of addslashes() (closes: bug #678).
- Do a first check with filesize() before strlen() when
attaching file, working better with big files (closes: bug #678).
- Fix sql for category specific notification (closes: bug #668)
- Fix notification not sent on new submissions if
'send on updates' not checked (closes: bug #673)
- Fix notifications after posting followup comments
(closes: bug #679).
- Bugs related to notifications no longer reproducible, probably due to others Yves Perrin's bugfixes on the same code part (closes: bug #273, bug #354, bug #399).
- During the installation process, give some advices when starting the frontend (tell to register a project, etc), autodefine the unix group name of the registered project (according to the configuration), deactivate tests on the group name (that would lead to a refusal of "admin" for instance).
- Implement a Posting Restriction model, following the
permission model. Projects admins can forbid posting item to users depending on their authentication level (member, logged in, anonymous). It works exactly like others permissions (configuration at the same places, possibility to rely on group type setting...) -- as a matter of fact, in does not really work like the current implementation running at CERN, but the spirit is the same and it offers the same possibilities, and even more. It applies to the usual trackers (task, support...) and news tracker (closes: bug #664, bug #665).
- Links to unavailable action are now printed, but in a specific manner. utils_link() has been added for that purpose (closes: bug #685).
- Inform user when he's using a theme non-compliant to latest Savane CSS Guidelines. If the theme is the default theme, even tell user to submit a support request for the installation he's using.
- Switch to XHTML, use CSS more extensively. Some pages may be non-compliant, feel free to submit bug reports. Some <tables> should still be replaced by <div> and most forms are not XHTML standard valid. Apart from the "cleaning" side of the task, it gives themes more freedom (closes: bug #683).
- New theme added, called "right", that specifically print the main menu on the right of the page
- Savane CSS Guidelines 1.10 comes with a base.css.in, special CSS file that have no purpose apart being imported by others themes, providing the basic needed classes required for minimal layout lisibility.
- Now superuser are considered as normal users as long as they do not click on the menu link "Become superuser". This is like "su" principle on unix systems: no need to be root everytime, it can lead to mistakes and misunderstandings; you just become root when you need to (closes: task #347).
- After login, always get back we're you were. Do the same in case of su logout.
- Feedback now pop-up in fixed-position boxes. As result, their visibility should be greatly improved.
- Session management: users can see remaining open sessions and trash them if obsolete (closes: task #112).
- Incorporate CERN field values transitions: projects admins can determine whether it is possible to change a specific field from a value to another. For instance, you can force technician to pass a specific "status" stage wheee the item got reassigned to someone else (closes: bug #677).
- Add the possibility to set multiple transition "from value any to this value" (closes: task #749).
- Allow site admin to allow project admin to define their filelist directory, specifically the field groups.dir_download (closes: bug #669, bug #670, bug #671).
- Update French i18n.
* Change wording in "My" area, using more frequently "I", since the area is called "My" -- we'll have to study the impact of this change on users.
- Now locale textdomain is "savane", no longer "savannah".
- "Secure" groups set active feature page. It avoids project admin to play will post variables to eventually activate tools the local admin did not activate. This change was made necessary by the addition of the possibility for project to configure dir_download,
if the local admin allowed it.
- Allow users to get a daily/weekly/monthly reminder of item assigned to them of priority > 5. Allow admin to send a daily/weekly/monthly reminder of item assigned to project members of priority > 5 (closes: task #209, task #750).
- Headers automatically added in sent mails changed a little bit. Now, they are X-Savane-Server, X-Savane-Project, X-Savane-Tracker, X-Savane-Item-ID.
- Add a test on items commenters and do not try to send notification if the post was anonymous (closes: bug #696).
- Users can configure the subject line of messages sent by trackers (closes: task #751).
* Cc notification list now not accept ; as separator (closes: support #111).
- Make sure news summaries can be viewed in any cases (bug #703).
- On news item site administration, highlight items posted by the administration group, also provide groups name in any news item lists (closes: bug #222).
- On news item site administration, allows to edit content of posted items (closes: bug #223).
- Projects can now configure a notification list for approved news items (closes: bug #234).
- Distinguish status with a different set of colors (closes: bug #535).
- Limit item history size by printing at maximum the 15 latest changes (closes: bug #688)
- Clean date related functions, avoiding some bugs due to unix timestamp and date translations (closes: bug #694).
Note: this bug caused "planned close date" and "planned starting date" to be stored with a timestamp -1 day.
- Add direct pointer to the currently shown item in the headers where item #nnnn is printed. Sometimes, you may want to refresh the page, for whatever reason, without doing reload.
- In select boxes, when using trackers, field value are sorted by label, if the rank is not enough. This is interesting if you have several values with the same rank (closes: bug #526).
- Ignore incomplete registration when testing if a sys group name already exists in the database, during project registration. Risks of a name clash seems near 0, while not doing that require maintainance, since some people interrupt registration and try to redoit later with the same name. And even if a name clash happens, admins should notice it during approval (closes: bug #332).
- Give some tips after login failure.
- Filelist allow subdirectories listing.
- Cookies always include the full sysdomain; this make possible concurrent sessions on different servers that got the same main domain. However, it makes impossible to share cookie between http://www.domain and domain.
- Number of latest group approved by per group type now depends on how many groups type you have. If you have more than 25 group types, no more than 2 groups per type will be showned on the front page. If you have less than 3 group types, 25 groups will be shown per group type.
- Print 9 latest news on front page instead of 7.
- Remove logo size (height, width) configuration options
(close: bug #680)
- Remove useless configuration settings: sys_nglists_domain, sys_default_dir, sys_shell_host, sys_users_host, sys_docs_host, sys_dns1_host, sys_dns2_host, sys_lists_host, sys_server, sys_themeroot.
- Configuration tool: ignore by default questions related to webalizer and mrtg integration. These are nowadays useless, since apache is no longer supposed to be able to this kind of data, for security reasons, on most installations.
* Add cron mailman parameter in conffile.
- Install default crontab and logrotate file during install process.
- Add Mail.pm, similar to sendmail.php. Now sv_mailman rely on it.
- sv_mailman now understand --cron option.
- Add sv_reminder, a script that send reminders to users about open items (closes: task #209, task #750).
- sv_cleaner now deletes user account unconfirmed after two days (closes: bug #318).
- Add Operating Sytem initvalues, activate the field Platform Version by default for support trackers.
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188.8.131.52 released (posted by yeupou, Wed Sep 29 13:42:48 2004)
Savane subrelease 18.104.22.168 is out: it fixes one bug that block password update during lost password procedure, if update/1.0.4/clean-usertable.sql was run (no effect on fresh install).
|184.108.40.206 released
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Charming apartment centrally in Gothenburg
Size60 m²
Floor No.3(with elevator)
- Kitchen
- Elevator in building
- Balcony/terrace
- Towels
Accommodation summary
|Redbergsvägen, 41665 Göteborg, Sweden
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|Acceptance rate
|Response time
|Within a week
|Calendar updated
|3 weeks ago
House rulesNo smoking and no pets.
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|2 weeks
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|On arrangement
|Check-in before
|On arrangement
|Check-out before
|On arrangement
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Reviews of this property
A very comfortable and personal apartment which had excellent transport links to the City centre. The only problem was no wifi connection available.
Eva's house was one of the most beautifully decorated homes I have seen.....so tastefully done....Eva is very organised as she explained all that was needed fo us to know about the house....enough of towels, pillows, blankets for three of us....Thank you Eva!
A very nice apartment - clean and cozy. By tram you can get quickly into downtown or Liseberg/ Congress Center. Eva is a perfect host providing you with everything you need. Thank you, Eva!
The apartment is located close to the center, exactly in only three tram stops from the central station, and about 20 minutes walk. It is suitable for two, maximum three persons, so long as one is willing to sleep on an inflatable mattress. The bathroom and 'small and clean but without a window. The kitchen seems well stocked with dishes, but it is not 'was used by us. Eva and 'owns a discreet and friendly.
L'appartamento si trova vicino al centro, precisamente a sole tre fermate di tram dalla stazione centrale, ed a circa 20 minuti a piedi. È adatto a due, massimo tre persone; purché una sia disposta a dormire su un materasso gonfiabile. Il bagno e' piccolo e pulito, privo però di finestra. La cucina sembra ben fornita di stoviglie, ma non è' stata da noi utilizzata. Eva e' una proprietaria discreta e cordiale.
super nice apartment - centrally located - shopping right outside the door - tram right outside the door - Playground nearby (perfect for children at all, the city is very child friendly) - parking is very expensive, as in the ENTIRE city are parking machines ( the best is the car at the airport) - love again! : O)
super schöne Wohnung - sehr zentral gelegen - Einkaufsmöglichkeiten direkt vor der Tür - Strassenbahn direkt vor der Tür - Spielplatz in unmittelbarer Nähe (perfekt für Kinder, überhaupt ist die Stadt sehr kinderfreundlich) - Parkplätze sind sehr teuer, da in der GESAMTEN Stadt Parkautomaten stehen (am günstigsten steht der PKW am Flughafen !) - gerne wieder ! :o)
an apartment very welcoming and well placed, we enjoyed a warm welcome from Eva and we immediately felt good.
un appartement très accueillant et très bien placé, nous avons profité d'un accueil chaleureux de la part d' Eva et nous nous sommes tout de suite sentis bien .
Very nice apartment, very clean and comfortable, good location (near the center and very well connected by bus and tram stop at 2 steps from the apartment). The host Eva is both discreet and friendly. Recommend
Très joli appartement, très propre et confortable, bien situé (près du centre et très bien desservi par bus et tram, arrêt à 2 pas de l'appartement).
L'accueil d'Eva est à la fois discret et chaleureux. A recommander
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Anyone get this? I would like know how it is. Not sure if I can trust the critics reviews.
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Anyone get this? I would like know how it is. Not sure if I can trust the critics reviews.
Forgive my spelling. This was sent from my phone.
The best Call Of Duty game ever made PERIOD. Story is great and the graphics are awesome. Zombies has taking it to a whole new level and it's bigger than anything before. It's a mix of Left 4 Dead and Nazi Zombies. Multi-player is an improvement 4 sure. Making classes is better with the 10 slot system. Gives you the ability to actually make unique classes. And finally the prestige mode has been revamped and totally different than beofre. All and all a great game by treyarch.
"Politics is the Art of Looking for Trouble, Finding it Everywhere, Diagnosing it Incorrectly, and Applying the Wrong Remedies".
http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/11/...k-ops-2-reviewWhile I appreciate the rush that leveling up and unlocking items provides, it always felt strange to reward you with a stat reset after hitting the cap and Prestiging. Apparently some wise people at Treyarch agreed. Unlike previous games, after each of the 10 levels of Prestige you wont have your stats reset, but instead continue your weapon experience and challenge progress and earn even more rewards. For starters you now get a token that allows you to unlock any item regardless of its level requirement, forever. In addition you also get a Prestige Token that nets you either an additional Create a Class slot, a refund on all unlock tokens youve spent during your progress to date, or the more traditional character wipe that resets all your stats. This completely changes my attitude towards Prestiging, and makes it something I actually want to do.
My main negative with all the COD games was the prestige crap. I never understood why I should give up all my good guns and perks for some stupid emblem. Now they changed it up and give you rewards for doing it. For the 360 achievements are linked to it.
See. That makes way more sense. When my friends first told me about prestiging I asked what it did. When they told me all it it was give you a new emblem and reset everything I instantly disliked it. As stated about, why should I have to earn back all the weapons in just go done unlocking. It never made sense to me. Good to know they changed things up.
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Leader SS is by far my favorite toy from this new line. I love that figure. Straight up bad-a.
Drift comes a close second. I had to order him off of TRU.com, and it was definately worth the wait. He's not perfect by any means, but he is an awesome toy. He looks great fighting against Bludgeon.
I like the PCC 2 packs more than I thought I would. Huffer is my favorite of the 3 sets.
I have all the new stuff I want for now, except Legends Ravage. That mean little kitty has been tough to find here in the early going.
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Anyways just thought I would say hello. I just found this site and joined it and made a few posts already before this one.
Anyways I am about 2.5 yrs into my BS in Computer Forensics. I am also going for a degree in Network Security and deciding if I want to do a third degree in either just Network management or a business degree.
I am former Navy. I was a welder and got out in 06'. YAY!!!
Anyways I am so stoked to be close to graduating Jun 2011...not really close but closer than 2 yrs ago.
I was fortunate enough to find a local company that I had emailed a few months ago and they are willing to do an internship to hire with me. I have not started yet but should be soon. I know for sure he works with Helix, FTK, Sleuth kit. I asked about EnCase but he does not. So I was thinking after being hired by him I will pay for the EnCase training out of pocket and make myself more marketable.
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The certs that CF should get, do they require a clean background? Mine has a few smudge marks but nothing serious. I was able to get a Secret Security clearance in the Navy.


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Macworld has the tech tools you'll need when you're lost in the wild
Feb 01, 2013 (San Jose Mercury News - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- SAN FRANCISCO -- Chuck La Tournous was about two minutes into his presentation this week at Macworld 2013, "Tech vs. Wild," when a pimpled Boy Scoutish-looking kid in the audience shot up his hand.
"I go camping a lot," he said, "but they won't let us take our tech into the woods." That sort of anti-geek outdoorsman mentality may soon be going the way of analog television. Here at the 29th annual Macworld, the message is that when the going gets tough, the tough get even techier.
"The idea is that tech can be useful in the great outdoors," said La Tournous, a 50-year-old blogger from western New Jersey and founder of TrailCamper. com. "As a kid, you maybe could have taken your Walkman on a campout, but today there's a lot of good reasons to take tech with you. It doesn't distract from the outdoors experience, it enhances it." La Tournous' talk, subtitled "Surviving Your Next Campout (and Other Natural Disasters) with High-Tech Gear," was just one of dozens of presentations at this year's Apple (AAPL)-centric fanfest at Moscone Center.
With a speakers lineup full of tantalizing titles like "The Studio in your Pocket," which explores movies created entirely by using an iPhone, and "Appalooza: Mobile Applications for the Musician," the expo promises to set any fanboy's heart aflutter. As Macworld's general manager Paul Kent put it, "while the real stars of this show are the products on the exhibition floor, we've got a whole range of speakers who are true leaders in their fields. And the workshops really offer something for everyone." We decided to take a hike with La Tournous, along with some of the survival products he's reviewed on his website. But instead of heading for the Pacific Crest Trail, we joined him on a walk through the urban wilderness just a few blocks from Moscone Center.
We left Macworld and headed toward Market and Sixth streets, where the drug-dealing, Dumpster-diving, panhandling denizens can make an out-of-towner feel like a babe in the woods.
While some of La Tournous' tech tools, like stargazing apps and waterproof smartphone cases, are clearly more suited for the wilderness, he said others would come in handy in an urban environment gone bad. That would include terrorist attacks, civil unrest, earthquakes or other natural disasters. He got to personally test this theory recently after Hurricane Sandy knocked out power in his hometown for more than a week.
Walking up Market, La Tournous pulled out one of the survival tools he's presenting at Macworld. It's a portable solar battery charger the size of a large napkin (Goal Zero, $80 plus a $30 rechargeable battery) that can charge your iPhone with just three to four hours of sunlight. If power goes out, as it did after Sandy, you can still keep your phone juiced up.
And if cell coverage dies, as it did after the storm, La Tournous recommends SPOT Connect ($170, with yearly $99 subscription). If you're bumped off the grid, either in the woods or in a postdisaster urban environment, this small device sends a message via satellite to send in the cavalry.
Walking down Sixth, through a phalanx of the shifty-eyed and sinister, La Tournous showed off more tools for times when things go bad. There's the PowerPot from Practical Power ($149), a thermoelectric generator that transforms the heat of a fire into electricity for charging devices just by boiling a pot a water -- "All you need is fire," he said, "so this will get you power even if the sun's not out." Then there's the water purifier that uses ultraviolet light (SteriPEN, $99) to clean a liter of drinking water in 48 seconds. "After Sandy, a lot of towns had boil advisories," Tournous said, "so this would have taken care of the problem of getting drinking water." After showing off several seemingly indestructible smartphone cases, which would be nice to have if you're caught up in a riot and your phone goes flying, La Tournous pulled out the piece de resistance: The Opena iPhone Bottle Opener ($40), which in a way could be considered the ultimate survival tool.
Why Incorporated into a sturdy protective smartphone cover is an opener to crack that bottle of beer you'll need after leaving the relative safety of Macworld to spend time on the mean streets of San Francisco.
Contact Patrick May at 408-920-5689; follow him at Twitter.com/patmaymerc.
Macworld Described as the "the world's ultimate fan event for those who use, create and love Apple products," Macworld attracts Apple fans with all levels of skill and provides them their fill of speakers, workshops and hands-on demos of products and new mobile apps.
Where: Moscone Center -- West Hall, San Francisco When: Saturday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Ticket costs vary by package. For more details, go to macworldiworld.com/register.
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Kenny Jackett has revealed that Dave Edwards is in contention for a potential new Wolves deal after his successful recent return to the team.
Edwards is closing in on recovering from a recent foot injury after a run in the side which included scoring three goals in nine appearances.
Jackett has been impressed with both his performances and his professionalism on and opff the pitch which has put him in contention for a potential new deal when his current contract expires at the end of the season.
"Edwards is a good player who has played very well for us," said Jackett.
"He's a consistent player and a very good personality who has been a loss for us and, whenever he does come back, he'll be an addition.
"It won't be too long in the future and hopefully then he can see it right through to the end of the season.
"Do I think he'll be here next year? Yes.
"He is out of contract and no decision has been made yet but I wouldn't say he needs to play a certain amount of games this year to earn one.
"It just really is where we are at the time and where we would assess him going forward - not necessarily on what he's done because we know he's a good player.
"It's just our assessment of where he is going forward and what he can do for us during the course of whatever term contract a player should sign.
"If we're looking to the end of the season we don't know what division we are going to be in yet and so in terms of our planning we have to wait and see.
"But obviously Dave is someone I've got some time for."
Edwards is closing in a potential return but is unlikely to be fit for Saturday's trip to Stevenage (3pm).
Carl Ikeme meanwhile is also not too far away after suffering a broken bone in his hand at Tranmere on New Year's Day.
"Carl is outside doing some training and will begin full training on Monday," said Jackett.
"He's on schedule. He's doing handling work with the goalkeeping coach (Pat Mountain) and it will be a big boost to have him back.
"He's been a key player for us and he'll be a welcome addition.
"It's been a good department for us so far this season with both Aaron and Carl doing very well.
"Two goals against in five games – one of them a last-minute goal from a corner at Gillingham – shows Aaron can't really have done any better."
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If you are going to watch this because you like gender bender anime then go right ahead, this is exactly that. But for anybody who is thinking about watching this for any other reason take my advice and DON'T. There are only two episodes in the entire 12 episode series that are made up of less than 99% filler. There is no character development, the last episode does not conclude anything, in fact it's entirely filler too! There is no plot progression AT ALL. Outside of Maria every other character is dreadful and cliche. I am sure most people who see this will think I'm just exaggerating and go ahead and... See full review
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Well this anime does a very fine job of exploring the fine line between humans and robots. It explores the idea that eventually robots and computers in general could develop very human like emotions and even freewill. It shows that as our technology progresses the line will become more and more blurred.
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The animation was about what you would expect from a high end production nothing to complain about here. The everything from character movement to lighting was done excellently.
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The voice acting was spot on. I think that some of the background music could... See full review
If this series stopped at the first season I would give it a nearly perfect score, sadly this is not the case and during the second season they fuck everything up completely as far as the story goes, as well as any speck of physics. Everything gets really fucking stupid... They even breath in space.... If you really like this series during the first half but don't like anime that take things way too far and get WAY too far fetched. Like... WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY over the top, then stop at the first season before the time leap otherwise the second season will ruin your good memories of this anime because it takes... See full review
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1st litter Pal was down south when my girl was in heat, so I bred to a ME chessie from the Treasure Lake line of Ohio.
I kept a female from that litter that has remarkable marking/memory...been doing triples well since Spring. Still too puppy-like to focus well for blinds, but I will try her in Senior this month. Anyway, she must get her playful attitude from her mother, as Jane loves nothing better that to be 1st to get to a thrown bumper (she is fast & driven) & have all the other dogs chase her trying to get the bumper. That's w/ fun bumpers. When we are working, of course she waits her turn.
You are in a tough spot w/ your boy. 7 & 8 are hard yrs for most working dogs. The mind says "go" but the body is starting to say "not so fast". Add in his injuries, & oh man, it must suck to be him. Are joint supplements of any help? I have an older male w/ poor hips that I put of Cosequin & it gave him another yr or 2 of activity that I don't think he would have had otherwise.
Hi Beamer, Sorry I didn't think to look for a reply from you here. As a Jr member I guess I can't reply to private messages until I make a certain # of posts. Anyway, you are mistaken. I have only advertised my girl's 1st litter on this site....never posted any stories. I'm not much of a forum user. My 1st breeding female drown in a stupid accident horseplaying w/ my other dogs 4 yrs ago. I had, in fact, lined up a breeding w/ Pal for her, but lost her before she came in heat. I wanted another female, so had my current girl, Jane, flown in from Washington state. She is currently running Finished in the HRC, & needs 2 more passes for her Senior Hunter title, but after having her 1st litter 18 months ago she had her head on backward for the entire hunt test season last yr. Thank God she got it together for January, when she took her 3rd 2 week long duck hunting trip to Okeechobee in FLA (I have a buddy down there).
Great price on the pups......Man I really want a Pal pup......Your dam looks good too! I'm in a bad situation with my boy Deuce. He is almost seven and has 3 deformed vertebrae in his neck with degenerative disks. Scared if i get a pup right now he would try be really active with the pup. Very little exercise gives him lots of problems and he still thinks he can go wide open and suffers later.
Tell me a little more your your chessie.......I remember when you first got this dog. I believe you posted your story on RTF if I remember correctly??
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Ring of Honor made its debut in Asheville, NC on Saturday, March 30th featuring Kevin Steen defending the ROH World Title against Mark Briscoe. Other bouts saw The American Wolves vs. Caprice Coleman & Cedric Alexander, a Proving Ground Match with Roderick Strong vs. Jay Lethal vs. Matt Taven vs. ACH, BJ Whitmer vs. Rhett Titus, and more!
1. "Unbreakable" Michael Elgin vs. Adam Page
2. QT Marshall vs. Darren Dean
3. Mike Mondo & Grizzly Redwood vs. Jimmy Jacobs & Jimm Rave
4. Grudge Match: BJ Whitmer vs. Rhett Titus
5. The American Wolves (Davey Richards & Eddie Edwards) vs. Caprice Coleman & Cedric Alenxander
6. World Tag Team Title Match: reDRagon (Kyle O'Reilly & Bobby Fish) vs. Alabama Attitude
7. Proving Ground Match: Matt Taven with Truth Martini vs. Roderick Strong vs. Jay Lethal vs. ACH
8. ROH World Title Match: Kevin Steen vs. Mark Briscoe
DVD Bonus:
- Briscoe family wants Steen
- Kevin Kelly show recap
- Steen post match promo
- Supercard of Honor hype video


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"We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives."
– John F. Kennedy
Last Sunday afternoon about 1:30, I had my television debut. Being in front of a TV camera is not something that's been on this shy girl's bucket list.
But I was asked to speak about a place I believe is a Tupelo treasure. So, how could I say no?
However, I must confess to more than a few butterflies doing loop-the-loops in my belly. I was nervous. And I was ready to get my TV time done and vacate the mall's food court.
Finally, a few of my friends from Regional Rehabilitation Center pushed me through a pair of dark blue curtains and seated me next to WTVA's Sunya Walls, who had only seconds to get me up to speed before the cameras rolled.
Before I realized what she'd asked or what I'd answered, it was finished, and I breathed a significant sigh of relief.
Then I thought about what I'd said in my 30 seconds or so of air time in which I was to offer my testimonial of how Regional Rehab has helped me after having my knee scoped over a year ago.
I was introduced as Leslie Criss.
"How'd you hurt your knee?" I heard Sunya ask me.
All manner of thoughts were swirling: You don't have time to think. Don't stumble and stammer over your words. Be succinct. Be clear.
Then I heard myself say aloud, "Well, I fell several times and hurt my knee."
Really? Really? What a dumb answer. I wanted to say, "Could we try that again? May I make clear I was not inebriated and that the two falls occurred within a two-year period and that I'm not yet a tottering old woman? But a second take was not an option.
Another question and answer followed before the camera folks began their hand signals to wrap it up.
My interviewer said she wanted to "thank Leslie Cross for her testimonial," and that was that.
I was honored to have been asked to tell others about one of my favorite subjects – Regional Rehab. But there's a reason I write. It's always been my chosen method of communication, probably because I'm a better writer than I am speaker.
If someone from WTVA would click a clapper board in front of my face and yell, "Take two," this is the testimonial I'd offer.
I thought Regional Rehab was an amazing organization long before I needed its services. You don't have to live in Tupelo long before you begin to hear miraculous success stories from folks who've been helped by Regional Rehab.
Then, I needed help myself and requested Regional Rehab.
I painfully limped in one morning many months ago and found my own miracle.
It's not the place, but the people who work there who help us create our stories to share with others.
They make us work hard, and sometimes it hurts. But they gently push, always with encouragement. And they make us laugh in the process of making us better.
Thanks Kari and Brandy and Hannah – and all the rest who make Regional Rehab the phenomenal place it is.
That's a wrap.


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Focus on Funds
VIX Bets Looking Cheap? Not By This Measure
By its own history, the most closely watched measure of market volatility looks downright placid. Investors who worry about the fiscal cliff in the U.S. or a replay of Europe's debt woes may be tempted to buy some volatility-themed portfolio insurance in the market for exchange-traded notes, thinking that right now, those notes are cheap.
Besides the imperfections we've already documented for these products' use as a stock-market hedge, there's another measure suggesting there's a particularly slim chance of success.
Investors who fixate on the CBOE Volatility Index should be comparing this index to the stock market's actual volatility, in addition to its own history. The same is true for users of the complicated VIX-based exchange-traded funds and notes built to reflect VIX derivatives. The intuition is that investors need to look carefully at the premium they're paying for volatility insurance versus what is actually happening day-to-day in the stock market.
Bill Luby, author of the indispensable VIX and More blog, ran the numbers recently. He found that the gap between the price of insurance as measured by VIX versus the market's actual swings is at its widest since 1996. During 2012, the VIX has overestimated 10-day historical volatility in the SPX by 47%, Luby writes.
That's like Geico charging you an auto premium as if you were half again as likely to crash your car this year than the historical numbers suggest.
For traders of VIX ETNs and ETFs, this issue compounds the products' existing imperfections when used as a hedge. (On the latter point: Particularly at times when the curve of the VIX futures market is steeply upward sloping, it can be costly to own these products.)
You might object that history is just that -- history. Market volatility has been known to make sudden and dramatic appearances in recent years, so history may not be a guide. But it turns out to be a pretty decent guide versus any other metric you could identify. "[I]t is more difficult than one might imagine to incorporate information about the future to come up with a better estimate of future volatility than what can be gleaned just by extrapolating from recent realized volatility," writes Luby.
The upshot is a theme we cover on this blog regularly: VIX ETNs are a bazaar of arbitrage and fast-trading activity. More power to the quants and day traders who've done their homework. But the odds are long for investors who use these products as a buy-and-hold hedge.
The VIX finished Wednesday at 15.07. The Barclays iPath S&P 500 VIX Short-Term Futures ETN (VXX), the most widely used exchange-traded note tracking volatility futures, ended at $33.20. The leveraged VelocityShares Daily 2x VIX Short Term ETN (TVIX) is at $1.30 and the ProShares Ultra VIX Short-Term Futures ETF (UVXY) at $25.80.


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|Lines, Loops and Leaders Line / Leader Recipes, Loops, Splices, etc.
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For the neophyte, a shop should bend over backwards to accommodate you and have you walking out just short of catching a fish. If you desire to do these kinds of things yourself, there are plenty of combined years experience here to guide and assist you. Hope you have a good rest of the season.
p.s. - Just in case you bought this as a kit from someplace like Wallyworld, you shouldn't expect the abovementioned service unless the person working the sporting goods counter is overly helpful.
I hope that you recieved the outfit as a gift, otherwise I would be a little disapointed that a flyshop would let a novice walk out of the shop with out offering to do the rigging. I think it could be a good idea to go back and ask them to show you how to do it. Nothing like personal instruction. If they are not capable(ie. not a flyshop) go to the best one close by and make friends. Important Tip: When seeking the best customer service (like help with rigging and advice) pick a time when the shop folks aren't too busy.
This isn't a bad spot for help either, Eddie
Guys, thanks for the incredible amount of information on this, going to have to digest it tonite.
One quick one: when going for bonito, I picked up one of those Gary's Flies pretied knotted flouro deals (10ft I think). Do you just tie the fly onto the end of that or do you add additional tippet? Seems like 10feet is pretty long already so I assumed that last piece is tippet.
60/20/20 designs & more
Good points Juro...
Leader design and tying is an art itself...
Look at some of the designs and uses in the free tool called LeaderCalc from: http://globalflyfisher.com/fishbetter/leadercalc/download.html
If you dont have Excel then use PDF's:
In general terms, the butt is the 'heavy mono' that transitions the diameter and energy of the fly line into the leader, through the mid section referred to as the taper, then into the tippet.
The size of the butt depends on what's on either end... the fly line style and the tippet/fly. Generally, the bigger the fly line, the higher the grains and energy coming down the shock wave. Diameter is also a concern, they say if you step down too radically in diameter is affects the loop's energy transfer. Makes sense.
Lines come with a 1 foot straight extension on the fly end past the front taper. Many cut this off or shorten it for sinking lines to reduce the belly when sinking a fly. For int/floating lines if it doesn't bother you, just leave it I guess. If you did chop the tag end you could add a foot of leader to the usual length for additional stealth(?)
Anyway, the point is you want the forward end of the line to be graduating down in diameter and grains to roll the loop over at the end of the cast. Too radical of a step downward and the energy won't transfer well, and not enough will not provide a graceful landing for the fly.
Specific fisheries have different criteria. Saltwater coastal guys are not very concerned with finesse, more with heavy flies and strength for big fish. I've been known to fish a three part leader - 40# butt, 30# taper, 20# tippet (if you can call it that) for very short sinking head leaders when I need to get a big fly deep quickly. If I split the taper into two parts I end up with a 15# tippet but the most common leader I tie is the 5 part tapering down to 15# (40/30/25/20/15) at 60%/20%/20% ratios.
When Spey casting the leader design plays a big part, you want the leader to act like a true extension of the 'contrived roll cast' that Spey casting is. You get used to anchoring the fly a certain way and the wrong leader configuration can really mess you up sometimes. I usually tie a 6 part leader for Spey casting, 2 part 60/40% butt, 3 part taper, and tippet. Essentially a very long trout taper in bigger diameters. I usually start with a 30# butt section and taper down to 8# or 10#.
Trout require a lot of finesse as you know and leaders are a critical part of dry fly presentations. I usually just buy trout leaders but have tied my own. One nice thing is to know exactly what I need to replace if anything goes wrong when I tie them myself. With knotless I never know how much to replace, etc. The butt diameters are significantly lower than the above two to match the lighter lines and transition to the tippet over the length of the leader.
I am sure someone who knows more about leaders than I will help you more. I am a meat and potatoes kind of leader tyer... A.J. McClane's 60/20/20 rule.
The 'butt' is correct....
Any leader with 60% of the length (tapered, knotted, braided) that has a 'thicker' diameter than the 'body' or length of the leader is considered the butt.
Some guidelinescomments)
Start with the Ritz 60/20/20 rule and modify from there
Butt diameters should be roughly between 60% and 75% of the diameter of the fly line ( .017" - .022" ). 2/3rds is a good rule. The butt stiffness should approximate the stiffness of your fly line.
For complex Leader layout and construction, sections, lengths and such is all WELL documented. See link
http://globalflyfisher.com/fishbetter/leadercalc/#Types of Leaders
|What is the proper term for the heavy piece of mono(?) that is attached between the leader and the fly line? I've heard "butt" mentioned? Anyway, is this "optional"? I have to admit I've bought all my stuff preconfigured and attach the leader to the fly line (or butt) via perfection loop (which is what the butt has on the end of it.
Hey Cowhide,
Welcome to the world of flyfishing. Be careful you could easily become obsessed like many on this board.
Before I answer your question you should know that you will get answers quicker and more reliably if you post on the appropriate message board. For example your question would be excellent for the "Lines, Loops, and Leaders" board or the "Gear Talk" board.
Your backing goes on first with a slip knot and a couple of overhand knots on the tag end to prevent slipping. The fly line comes next and is attached with a nail knot (I use nailless nail knots and they have served me well for years) or I think most people use an albright knot. The leader comes next and is attached using a nail knot (again nailless for me). And finally the tippet - I usually tie a loop in the end of the leader and tie the tippet on with a clinch knot and tie the fly on with a clinch as well.
All these knots should be diagramed in the packaging for your kit.
Good luck, and I look forward to your first report!
How to load your fly line on the reel
I am brand new to fly fishing and purchased a Courtland flyrod in a package. It comes with two lines, yellow fly line of about 30 yards and a white line, called "flyline backing" of about 50 yards. I have never taken a flyfishing class and thought I could teach myself. However, I don't know what line would go first on the reel and what line second. Any help out there.
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Revert to Standard Ubuntu Kernel on OVH or Kimsufi Servers
I have a cheap dedicated server running Ubuntu Linux — the 8.04 LTS "Hardy Heron" release — with Kimsufi, the budget arm of French hosting company OVH. All their Linux servers (and FreeBSD servers too, I think) are provisioned with their own custom, static kernel. This, they say, makes it "secure". It also makes it a pain in the ass to use, since you lose kernel module functionality. So I went through this scary, but straightforward process to put the standard Ubuntu kernel back. Note that I did this procedure on their entry level C-05G server, and your mileage may vary dependent on which server you lease from them, and what hardware specification you have (and ergo what kernel drivers you'll need). Stuff you should type below is in bold type.
Update 2011-07-28: I just rented one of Kimsufi's new 16G servers running Ubuntu 10.04
First, let's check what kernel we're running:
neuro@hera:~$ uname -a
Linux hera 220.127.116.11-grsec-xxxx-grs-ipv4-64 #6 SMP Fri Aug 14 10:29:05 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Yup, some scary, weird kernel that OVH have compiled and installed themselves — although to be fair, they do provide kernel configs to compile a different variant yourself, but I wanted to use the stock Ubuntu 64-bit kernel.
So after doing sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade to make sure everything else is up to date, let's install the GRUB boot loader, and the stock Ubuntu Server kernel image.
neuro@hera:~$ sudo apt-get install linux-server grub
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
linux-image-2.6.24-24-server linux-image-server
Suggested packages:
grub-doc mdadm linux-doc-2.6.24 linux-source-2.6.24
The following NEW packages will be installed
grub linux-image-2.6.24-24-server linux-image-server linux-server
0 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 24.4MB of archives.
After this operation, 111MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Get: 1 ftp://mir1.ovh.net hardy-updates/main grub 0.97-29ubuntu21.1 [871kB]
Get: 2 http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/main linux-image-2.6.24-24-server 2.6.24-24.59 [17.8MB]
Get: 3 http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/main linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-24-server 2.6.24-24.39 [5671kB]
Get: 4 http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/main linux-image-server 188.8.131.52.26 [26.6kB]
Get: 5 http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/restricted linux-server 220.127.116.11.26 [26.6kB]
Fetched 24.4MB in 2s (9414kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package linux-image-2.6.24-24-server.
(Reading database ... 38251 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking linux-image-2.6.24-24-server (from .../linux-image-2.6.24-24-server_2.6.24-24.59_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-24-server.
Unpacking linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-24-server (from .../linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-24-server_2.6.24-24.39_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package grub.
Unpacking grub (from .../grub_0.97-29ubuntu21.1_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package linux-image-server.
Unpacking linux-image-server (from .../linux-image-server_220.127.116.11.26_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package linux-server.
Unpacking linux-server (from .../linux-server_126.96.36.199.26_amd64.deb) ...
Setting up linux-image-2.6.24-24-server (2.6.24-24.59) ...
Running depmod.
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-24-server
Running postinst hook script /sbin/update-grub.
Searching for GRUB installation directory ...
No GRUB directory found. To create a template run 'mkdir /boot/grub' first. To install grub, install it manually or try the 'grub-install' command. ### Warning, grub-install is used to change your MBR. ###
User postinst hook script [/sbin/update-grub] exited with value 1
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.24-24-server (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-24-server:
linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-24-server depends on linux-image-2.6.24-24-server; however:
Package linux-image-2.6.24-24-server is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-24-server (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up grub (0.97-29ubuntu21.1) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-image-server:
linux-image-server depends on linux-image-2.6.24-24-server; however:
Package linux-image-2.6.24-24-server is not configured yet.
linux-image-server depends on linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-24-server; however:
Package linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-24-server is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-server (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-server:
linux-server depends on linux-image-server (= 18.104.22.168.26); however:
Package linux-image-server is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing linux-server (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
OK, that didn't look so good, but it's all right. Now, we'll fix the problem that GRUB was complaining about, then complete the install.
neuro@hera:~$ sudo mkdir /boot/grub
neuro@hera:~$ sudo apt-get install grub
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
grub is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
4 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up linux-image-2.6.24-24-server (2.6.24-24.59) ...
Running depmod.
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-24-server
Running postinst hook script /sbin/update-grub.
Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
Searching for default file ... Generating /boot/grub/default file and setting the default boot entry to 0
Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
Testing for an existing GRUB menu.lst file ...
Could not find /boot/grub/menu.lst file. Would you like /boot/grub/menu.lst generated for you? (y/N) y
Searching for splash image ... none found, skipping ...
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-24-server
Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done
Setting up linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-24-server (2.6.24-24.39) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-24-server
Setting up linux-image-server (126.96.36.199.26) ...
Setting up linux-server (220.127.116.11.26) ...
And that's that part fixed! Now we just need to configure GRUB to point in the right direction, and install it to the MBR (Master Boot Record).
neuro@hera:~$ sudo grub-install --recheck --root-directory=/ /dev/sda
Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.
Installing GRUB to /dev/sda as (hd0)...
Installation finished. No error reported.
This is the contents of the device map //boot/grub/device.map.
Check if this is correct or not. If any of the lines is incorrect,
fix it and re-run the script `grub-install'.
(fd0) /dev/fd0
(hd0) /dev/sda
neuro@hera:~$ sudo grub
Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.
[ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For
the first word, TAB lists possible command
completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible
completions of a device/filename. ]
grub> root (hd0,0)
root (hd0,0)
grub> find /boot/grub/stage2
find /boot/grub/stage2
grub> setup (hd0)
setup (hd0)
Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes
Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes
Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes
Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)"... 16 sectors are embedded.
Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+16 p (hd0,0)/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/menu.lst"... succeeded
grub> quit
… and now both kernel and bootloader are installed. Time for the scary part. From another machine, ping the server (if you're running Windows, and pinging from the command prompt, use ping -t instead of just ping to continuously ping rather than just try 5 times; press Ctrl+C to cancel the ping at any time). Now that we're monitoring whether the server is up or not, we can reboot it to use the new kernel …
neuro@hera:~$ sudo shutdown -r -f now
Broadcast message from neuro@hera
(/dev/pts/1) at 10:14 ...
The system is going down for reboot NOW!
neuro@hera:~$ logout
Connection to hera closed.
You should see the server stop responding to pings, then a minute or so later, start responding again.
If it doesn't respond after a few minutes, don't panic, use the Netboot mode to reboot your server, using a network-boot kernel. Once there, you can simply do sudo lilo -v which will re-install the original LILO bootloader, using the OVH-installed kernel, or stick with the netboot kernel if you like.
However, if the server does start responding to pings again (and it should), you can now ssh back in and check things out …
$ ssh hera
Linux hera 2.6.24-24-server #1 SMP Tue Aug 18 16:51:43 UTC 2009 x86_64
The programs included with the Ubuntu system are free software;
the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the
individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.
Ubuntu comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by
applicable law.
To access official Ubuntu documentation, please visit:
Last login: Sun Sep 20 06:43:01 2009
neuro@hera:~$ uname -a
Linux hera 2.6.24-24-server #1 SMP Tue Aug 18 16:51:43 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Woo hoo. A standard Ubuntu kernel, that can take kernel modules, and be updated regularly using apt-get, aptitude, etc. Of course, you can mix this up using other packaged kernels, such as the -rt real time kernel, or the -xen kernel to use Xen virtual machines. Go nuts, because at least now you can use your server as Shuttleworth and co intended!
Note: this procedure worked perfectly for me, but as mentioned at the start, YMMV: I can't be held responsible if it all goes tango uniform, and Bad Things Happen. Proceed at your own risk, and good luck!
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Can this be???? Here we are at the end of "Earth Week" and not one of the various famous bigots that have espoused global warming have shown up to give us a chest-pounding rant. I suspect it is hard to be in the same camp as some of the government mental midgets, like the dude that feared too many people populating one of the islands in the ocean, will cause it to "capsize". To be part of a crowd of like-minded, (I use the term hesitantly) "thinkers"...becoming a 'groupie' of global warming advocates, can be burdonsome. Especially if you don't wish to be considered as having a double digit IQ.
Denial Is Not Just a Polluted River in Egypt
Dear Laissez Faire Today Reader,
Doug French
Here we go again with the Earth Day/global warming nonsense. Monday was Earth Day, and this week is Earth Week, so a politically correct network like the NBC family, including CNBC, has turned its peacock green with the tagline "Green Is Universal."
Tell the folks in the upper Midwest that global warming will destroy the planet. They had a foot of snow last week in mid-April! Tax Day and snow, that's cruel and unusual.
But the environmental lobbying machine has everyone thinking that global warming is a fact. The science is settled.
Heck, according to The New York Times, even bird-watchers know, because our feathered friends are migrating farther north. Of course, every pop star has gone green, as well as Mayor Bloomberg. What caused Hurricane Sandy? Well, "It's Global Warming, Stupid," blared the mayor's magazine, Bloomberg Businessweek, after the storm.
How can they be so sure? Science. The greens are blinding us with science. The only people that don't believe in global warming or climate change are crackpots that still believe the world is flat, Sept. 11 "truthers," those against fiat money, and other reactionary numbskulls.
But it turns out there are scientists on the side of denial. So before you get in a fight with your brother-in-law or the pickled greenie doing shots at the other end of the bar, first read through The Deniers: The World-Renowned Scientists Who Stood up Against Global Warming Hysteria, Political Persecution, and Fraud* (*And Those Who Are Too Fearful to Do So).
This is a book that could help you realize something very important. If you doubt the green mania, you are not alone. Great minds stand with you. It is rational, and, indeed, scientific, to question the conventions. The global warming mania might not be anything but pseudoscience.
"Deniers" is a loaded word, as author Lawrence Solomon tells the reader right off the bat. Those that don't believe in man's degradation of the atmosphere are lumped in with those who claim the Holocaust didn't happen. Any scientists that do come down on the denial side are assumed to be bought and paid for by the oil companies.
Mr. Solomon went looking for deniers and found plenty. Not all of them would talk to him. Some did so grudgingly. Others still hate him for outing them. It's not easy not being green.
A picture's worth a thousand words, and many folks remember Michael Mann's visual (known as the "hockey stick" graph) that supposedly plots average temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere over the last millennium. The graph reflects temperatures slowly declining until 1900, when temperatures rise dramatically with the modern industrial revolution.
Of course, there weren't statistics way back in 1400, so many of the average temperatures plotted were just wild-assed guesses. But Dr. Edward Wegman found that, more importantly, Mann had erred in his methodology. Mann was looking for a hockey stick and created an algorithm to magnify the data.
As important as statistics are in ecological research, Mann's team had made basic mistakes. This has convinced Wegman, an honored Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Iowa, as Solomon explains, "that much of climate science should be taken with a grain of salt, since so many studies have been peer reviewed by reviewers unqualified in statistics."
When he was British prime minister, Tony Blair urged immediate action on global warming. Blair was prompted by the work of Sir Nicholas Stern, former chief economist for the World Bank. Of course, with those credentials, anything Stern would write or say should have been called into question. However, Stern combined climate models with economic models that predicted disaster, and gullible politicians gobbled it up.
Stern's report claimed things like "the overall costs and risks of climate change will be equivalent to losing at least 5% of global GDP each year, now and forever." Dr. Richard Tol checked Stern's numbers and said they were nonsense. Tol found that Stern counted risks not once, but three times, to skew the data and results.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says it's "a scientific body under the auspices of the United Nations (U.N.)." According to its website, "It reviews and assesses the most recent scientific, technical, and socioeconomic information produced worldwide relevant to the understanding of climate change."
The IPCC uses 2,500 scientists around the world to review its work. One of those scientists is Dr. Vincent Gray, who has been an active reviewer for many years. However, Dr. Gray's experience makes him "an angry man," writes Solomon, "aghast at what he sees as an appalling absence of scientific rigor in the IPCC's review process."
Dr. Gray says he is "convinced... that normal scientific procedures are not only rejected by the IPCC, but that this practice is endemic and was part of the organization from the very beginning."
So to ask a basic question: Is global temperature rising or falling? Dr. Bob Carter, scientific award winner and author of over 100 papers in international science journals, says it "depends entirely on the chosen endpoints of the data being considered." But the salient point is that the last few years of zero warming and 100 years of slight warming before are "too short to carry statistical significance regarding long-term climate change."
Dr. Habibullo Abdussamatov, head of the space research laboratory of the Russian Academy of Sciences' Pulkovo Observatory, claims it is the rise of ocean temperatures that causes the increase in CO2. "So the common view that man's industrial activities are a deciding factor in global warming has emerged from a misinterpretation of cause-and-effect relations."
Abdussamatov actually thinks we're on the verge of global cooling. "Global cooling will come relatively soon as the planet, having received increased solar energy over almost all of the 20th century, now gradually gives it back," says Abdussamatov.
These are just a few of the deniers Solomon documents. The author has cobbled together the views of dozens of brilliant scientists to make for a very readable book questioning environmental hysteria. Solomon's project started as a newspaper feature, and he was hoping to maybe stretch the material into six segments. By the time The Deniers was finished, he had over 100 deniers backlogged to write about and was adding more every day.
If you're concerned that the author falls into the same trap of bias as the global warming crowd, you should know that the global warming debate is an open question for Solomon at the book's beginning and remains that way at the end.
What he thinks for sure is that global warming is "not a certain problem, and it's certainly not one of epic proportions..."
With environmental political correctness all around, it's easy to be misled if you're unsure and discouraged if you believe it's all hokum. Either way, Earth Week is the perfect time to order The Deniers as an antidote for the hysteria and a fair reading of the issues and the science.
Doug French


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I have a good friend living just southwest of Denver Colorado, in Lakewood whose dog just had TPLO surgery. Having been through this fun myself with my lab, I stressed the importance of pool therapy after the surgery. I paid close attention to my girls rehab and while she had the surgery on one leg 5 years ago, she did not tear the other and is still going fairly strong in the field at age 12.
However, I live in New England so my dogs therapist is of no help to my friend. I would appreciate any advice anyone can offer on where she might bring her dog for therapy.
Thanks in advance,