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The method: Everts's interpretation of Eastern healing rituals, including basalt stones glided along your back, warm herbal compresses applied to the neck, and an Ayurveda-inspired scalp massage.
Don't miss: A cup of calming Blue Buddha tea.
Bottom line: Everts's exotic techniques and scented oils soothed the senses but did nothing for the nagging pain in our shoulders.
Gemma DeMasi: DeMasi dries each section as she works in order to minimize stickiness. Over the next five days, her even tan lightens without looking mottled, albeit with a few underarm patches. Spray tan, $60 and up.
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I love the Xubuntu 10.04 theme and I want to install it on my Ubuntu 11.04. It's possible to install only the theme?
Yes. If you want all the xubuntu themes and branding, install the
Be aware that the Xubuntu themes are tested primarily in the XFCE environment: there may be gaps in the coverage when used in a GNOME environment, although it may also be that it works perfectly.
If you are especially attached to the Xubuntu 10.04 theme, and the theme in 11.04 is unsuitable for you, you could potentially forward-port the xubuntu-artwork (and dependency packages) in some private repository (e.g. a PPA). Note that there may be changes in the theming engines or similar that may affect the work of forward-porting these packages.
The specific theme you are looking for is called Albatross it was designed for Xubuntu 9.10 Karmic if you would like a copy of the gtk theme you can download it at the xubuntu-artwork launchpad site here The tar.gz file contains alot of things as well as the them which is located in
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As Emmet has already explained it was designed to be used with Xubuntu so there is no guarantee it will work with ubuntu but you can try if it doesn't work you can switch back to another theme

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WHEELING - Madonna figured it wouldn't be able to do enough to catch Charleston Catholic - and it didn't - but the Blue Dons did hold off third-place Buffalo to repeat as Class A runner-ups Wednesday at the West Virginia Class A State Golf Tournament at Oglebay Park.
The Irish won at 481, followed by 502 for Madonna and 503 for Buffalo, home of medalist Cory Hoshor (154).
The Blue Dons' Alex Colantonio shot 78 on Wednesday and finished fourth at 158, two strokes better than teammate Michael Rogers, who shaved four shots off his Tuesday score and finished fifth at 160.
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STATE TOURNEY — The Madonna golf team finished second at the West Virginia State Golf Tournament Wednesday at Oglebay Park. From left, head coach T.J. Brancazio, Alex Colantonio, Matthew Lyons, Michael Rogers, Nick Mazur, Thomas Gianni and Sam Licata. Colantonio and Rogers finished in the top eight to earn all-state honors.
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First-day leader Christian Casingal shot 81 and finished as the runner-up in the class at 156.
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For University's Eric Wirth, it's going to take a while for this one to sink in.
Not only did the Hawks capture their first West Virginia Class AAA state golf championship, but they did so on their biggest rival's home course - Oglebay's Jones layout.
''I don't know how it happened,'' Wirth said.
Wheeling Park coach Don Headley certainly did.
''They played better than we did (Tuesday),'' Headley said, ''and they played better than we did (Wednesday). That's just it. My hat's off to them.''
Wirth shot a two-day total of 148, which tied him with Wheeling Park's Thadd Obecny II for runner-up medalist, and teammates Cale Wheeler (152) and Trent McPherson (153) also turned in all-state performances in lifting University to a six-stroke victory on the two-time defending champion Patriots.
Wheeling Park did have the Class AAA medalist for a third straight year (Obecny won it in 2010 and 2011), as Cole Hand, the only player in the field to play even par the first day, shot a second-day 74 and topped Obecny and Wirth by two strokes.
It likely would have been more, were it not for some tough pin placements on the last four holes, where Hand had three bogeys and a birdie.
''All four of those pins were just stupid hard,'' he said.
Like Tuesday, Hand got off to a hot start, as he was two under-par for his first five holes only to be had by another three-putt on No. 8, just as he did in the first round.
''It was pretty much the same thing,'' he said.
He wound up with three birdies, five bogeys, and 10 pars on the day.
''There's a lot of great players up here this year,'' Hand said.''To be able to win feels great.''
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In winning its first team title in any sport, Roane County was also the only squad to be trailing after Day 1 to rally and win a championship.
The Raiders were behind Poca by three heading into Wednesday's action but made up nine strokes and won with a 489. Leading the way was Alston Spears, who shot 156 and was the Class AA medalist. Cam Moore helped with a 163 as he, too, wound up a member of the all-state team.
First-day leader Travis Covert, of the Dots, slipped to third with an 80, while Bluefield's Evan Smith sneaked into the runner-up position with a 79 on Wednesday and a two-day total of 157.
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I do have a query related to automated software testing.We all know that these days many new test automation tools are being launched. Does this tool still require any coding or scripting knowledge to operate these tools? Or even a novice user can give same accuracy as the experienced one with such automation tools? The question is can we completely rely on any tool?
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It isn't necessary to have strong - or any - coding skill to perform software testing or to be a highly skilled tester. No tool will ever replace the ability of a skilled manual tester to observe something that is not quite right in some way and trace the problem.
When it comes to automation, things get interesting. There are numerous tools that claim to eliminate the need for coding, but these do not (in my opinion) scale terribly well and they don't handle complex systems at all well (again, my opinion only). All of them have limits in what they can do and their ability to pass information from one test to another, as well as limits to their ability to recognize parts of the application under test.
The tools that do not claim to eliminate coding require strong coding skills to build robust automation.
In short, coding skills are not needed to test, but they are needed to build good, robust automated regression and to build other automated test utilities.
There are tools that can be used without any scripting or coding knowledge, but not so efficient as with even little and not fully relevant scripting or coding knowlege. Many tools work with script languages (like Python, Ruby, etc) and you don't need much time to learn basics of any of these languages. Some time ago I started test automation with a very little Python knowledge (about two weeks of learning). Not that it was easy, but after several tests done, it became easier and easier.
No, it is not necessary to have strong programming skills to perform software testing. There is still a need for manual testing. There are also industry-specific testing tools that do not rely on programming. For example, there is a commercial package for testing whether your set-top box handles network protocols correctly.
Nonetheless, the overlap between testing and development continues to grow. Developers are expected to assume more of the "obvious" kinds of testing, and the good test jobs -- the ones that pay well and have the most potential for growth -- involve non-trivial amounts of programming. For those jobs, there are no tools that take care of the programming for you.


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In 1987 Roggenkamp and Scott published a solution of the integral isomorphism problem for $p$-groups, i.e. if $G,H$ are $p$-groups and $\mathbb{Z}[G] \cong \mathbb{Z}[H]$ as rings then $G \cong H$.
However, in practice I guess it is at least as hard to show that two group rings aren't isomorphic than to show that the groups itself aren't isomorphic. Therefore I wonder if this theorem (or one of its variants or generalizations) have found applications in group theory. Any idea ?


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PARIS � Twenty-three years ago, Bradley Wiggins marveled as Greg LeMond blazed a trail as America�s first Tour de France winner. Now, he has blazed his own.
The 32-year-old from gritty northwest London became Britain�s first winner of cycling�s greatest race Sunday, ending a 75-year drought for his country with an imperial conquest of the roads in cross-Channel neighbor France.
Wiggins had locked up the yellow jersey a day earlier by winning the final time-trial and Sunday�s ride onto the Champs-�lys�es largely was ceremonial for him.
But putting the coveted shirt to work one last time, he added a touch of class by providing a leadout to Sky teammate and fellow Briton Mark Cavendish to get his third Tour stage victory � the 23rd of his career � in a sprint.
The Isle of Man native is a main contender to win road race gold at the Olympics in London, which has been a hovering presence over the peloton in this Tour.
Wiggins congratulated his teammates after crossing the line, hugged his wife and clutched the hands of their two children. A soprano sang �God Save The Queen,� and Wiggins thanked the crowd with a touch of British humor.
�Cheers, have a safe journey home � don�t get too drunk,� he said after hoisting the winner�s bouquet with the Arc de Triomphe behind him.
�It�s been a magical couple of weeks for the team and for British cycling,� Wiggins said.
�Some dreams come true. My mother over there, she�s now � her son has won the Tour de France.�
Then, with a Union Jack around his neck like a scarf, Wiggins sipped Champagne for the processional lap on the famed Paris avenue, trailed by his son with �Allez Wiggo� � Go Wiggo � written on his cheeks.
This 99th Tour will be remembered for successes of other Britons, too, such as all-rounder Christopher Froome, who was second overall, Cavendish and Scottish veteran David Millar � who won seven stages between them, a Tour record for Britain.
Italy�s Vincenzo Nibali rounded out the podium in third.
France�s Thomas Voeckler won the polka-dot jersey for best climber, Peter Sagan of Slovakia takes home the green jersey for best sprinter, and Tejay van Garderen, a 23-year-old American who lives in Boulder, won the white jersey given to the best young rider.
It was a race of disappointment for Cadel Evans of Australia, who struggled in the climbs and failed to repeat his 2011 Tour victory. And it was a swan song for George Hincapie of the United States, who set the record of 17th Tour participations.
Wiggins came into the race as the favorite, but he knew all too well how anything can happen over more than 2,100 miles of racing over three weeks.
Crashes, sickness and doping scandals all thinned the pack. Questions were rife about the unity of his powerful Sky team � he put those to rest.
His victory was all the more remarkable because it culminated the transformation of Wiggins from three-time Olympic champion on the track to road-race star.
His early years had given him the sustained power for the Tour time-trial � which he dominated twice this year � but his ability to scale Alps and Pyrenees ascents was in question.
There, too, Wiggins came through.
His victory for Britain was no tiny feat. It�s not just the first British victory but the first podium finish � and this year, Britain has two � since Britons began riding in the race in 1937. A total of 59 have competed since then.
Wiggins, who was fourth in 2009 and 24th in 2010, came in with a thirst for victory after crashing out last year. He showed superb form, with three stage-race victories this season. And this layout was about as favorable as it could come for him: Heavy on time-trials, lighter � relatively � on climbs.
Sky was methodical in its march to victory � evoking at times some uncomfortable comparisons with the dominant teams of Lance Armstrong. The seven-time Tour champion was at times a presence in the background at this race, with news of his battle against U.S. doping charges that threaten his legacy. Four of his former teammates who were riding the Tour came under a media spotlight amid a news report they had struck deals with the USADA.
This Tour, as in many in recent years, took its licks from doping.
On the first rest day, Remy Di Gregorio of Cofidis was arrested and ousted from the race in a French anti-doping probe, accused of possessing doping products or equipment prohibited without medical justification.
The bigger bombshell came on the second rest day: Frank Schleck, the RadioShack Nissan Trek leader from Luxembourg who placed third last year, was ousted after he tested positive for the banned diuretic Xipamide on July 14. He has denied any wrongdoing.
The impact of doping was felt even before the first starter�s gun in Liege, Belgium: Two-time Tour champion Alberto Contador was sitting out to complete a two-year doping ban linked to the 2010 Tour. The Spaniard is by far the sport�s biggest star.
Wiggins, too, has borne the impact of doping�s ravages on the sport. In 2007, one of the most scandal-ridden Tours in recent memory, his Cofidis team pulled out after rider Cristian Moreni tested positive for testosterone � incensing Wiggins so much that he swore he�d never wear its jersey again.
If this year�s Tour was boring compared to others in recent years � when use of performance enhancers juiced up many riders � Wiggins said it may be because the sport is changing amid the fight against doping, and fans perhaps should not expect as many incredible performances as in years past. He has been a vocal critic of doping in cycling.
Some fretted the lack of panache � flair � on the mountain climbs.
�Unfortunately, we didn�t have either Andy Schleck or Alberto Contador here this year, but next year, they�ll both be back � hopefully � and that will give it the panache,� UCI chief Pat McQuaid told The Associated Press. Andy Schleck, Frank�s brother and runner-up last year, was out with an injury.
With �conservative� riders such as Wiggins, �you weren�t going to see that panache. But he�s a deserving winner, as every winner of the Tour de France deserves to win the Tour de France,� he said.
While he made his name as a track star � Britain�s forte in cycling � Wiggins is a student of the road race. As a kid, he lined his bedroom walls with posters of cycling greats such as five-time Tour winner Miguel Indurain.
�My first Tour de France memory was obviously watching LeMond win in �89, and then after that I was hooked on cycling,� said Wiggins. �All through my early teens I was watching Indurain win the Tour. That was my reason to not go to school in the morning, to watch the cycling.�
�I never imagined then that I, in the center of London in a � well, I can say dangerous � neighborhood with a lot of crime, that one day I could one day maybe win the Tour,� he told France-2 TV before the Tour. �It�s a little bit of a dream.�
Wiggins said he straddled the Armstrong era: By the time the Texan started his run of Tour victories, �I was already into cycling ... so I sort of stopped watching in those years.�
But they were similar: They love their music; (Wiggins is a fan of The Jam, and his trademark sideburns have drawn comparisons to those of Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher.) Both were raised by their mothers � with fathers absent. Armstrong once reportedly advised Wiggins about how to handle the media � counsel that he�s appeared to keep to himself.
Wiggins had a hot-and-cold relationship with the media during this Tour, notably when asked about comparisons to Sky and the Armstrong teams, he laced into anonymous critics on Twitter with an expletive-laden tirade.
After his final press conference, Wiggins acknowledged that he had �never trained to do well in the media� and thanked reporters for �putting up with me� and �my mood swings at times.�
On Sunday, though, he was back at it � swatting at photographers hoping to get a quick shot of the victor on the Champs-�lys�es.
The bigger Armstrong influence appears to have been on his coach.
Journalist Richard Moore, in his book, Sky�s The Limit, wrote of the apparent fascination that team manager Dave Brailsford � a guru of British cycling � had for the Armstrong approach to the Tour de France.
Sky studied the race, and noted Armstrong formulas like keeping the leader in the front to avoid crashes or tweaking at the margins on training or effort management to get an edge that would add up against rivals.
Wiggins� father, Gary, was an Australian cyclist who mostly was absent from Bradley�s life. He was a �boozer and brawler� who died in 2008 � and had been beaten and dumped in a street in New South Wales, Moore wrote.
Wiggins, asked Tuesday about what his father might have made of his Tour success, said: �It�s difficult to say. That depends on whether he was sober or,� Wiggins� thought trailed off.
Was his father in the back of his mind, just a little?
�Not really. I�ve put that one to bed,� Wiggins said.
Wiggins, too, had his run-ins with drink. After winning gold at the 2004 Olympics, he signed with a French team, moved to western Nantes, and lived day-to-day, at times with debt, over a Chinese restaurant.
�I was drunk all the time between races because I was alone in France, 21, 22 years old,� Wiggins said. �The only thing to do at night was to buy a six-pack of beer bottles.�
His life started to change when he became a father.
�I have to try something to make a little money,� he said. �I had two young children at the time, and I said, �I can�t live like this; I have one euro in my pocket,� ... and it started there.�
He lost weight. At the Beijing Games, he weighed 181 pounds; at the Tour, he was down to 157. He drinks almost nothing now, he said.
He also could contend for gold in the Olympic time trial. So as he returned to the Sky bus, he jumped up on a team car, bowed and took a swig from a bottle ... of yellow rehydration drink � not Champagne.
But he could be forgiven for sipping a bit on the Champs-�lys�es.
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1 Aug 2012 12:37 PM #1
Info is not being displayed correctly in IE
If you ran this example in IE and change value of combo box it show Info on right hand side of corner but it's not readable.
How can i make it readable?
2 Aug 2012 1:26 AM #2
I will move this thread to the bugs forum so that we can take a look at it, however i cannot reproduce this currently. Can you provide some more informations, like a screenshot?
Thanks for reporting.
3 Aug 2012 4:38 PM #3
amit, you might want to post some details on the browser version and GXT version you are using. (see their bug reporting template)
I am using MSIE 9 with the latest security patches and I am not seeing the issue with the link you provided.Stamp Image Bursting Application
see http://code.google.com/p/stamp-imagebursting/
17 Aug 2012 11:30 AM #4
I am using IE8 with gxt 3.0.0
11 Oct 2012 9:52 AM #5
I can't reproduce this in IE8 or IE9 on http://sencha.com/examples running 3.0.1, or http://staging.sencha.com:8080/examples-dev/, running 3.0.2 - can you confirm that updating to a recent version fixes this?
19 Nov 2012 3:54 PM #6
Closing this until we have a case where it can be reproduced.
20 Nov 2012 6:37 AM #7
I can reproduced this will examples-dev using IE8. Open Message Box and click on confirm.
Please see attached snapshot. which shows that I am running latest Nightly build and issue with Info.
20 Nov 2012 7:06 AM #8
Thanks for the info - our QA team could also not reproduce it in any browser tried, so while something may be amiss, it appears to be specific to your machine so far.
What windows version, service pack are you running? In a VM? What version of IE8, exactly? What plugins/add-ons do you have installed?
And are you only able to reproduce on staging, or can you also see it on http://sencha.com/examples ?
20 Nov 2012 7:09 AM #9
It's a standard windows 7 installation not VM. IE version 8.0.7601.17514. I dont have any other plugin installed except gwt since I dont use IE but we do support IE. Let me know is there any way I can share my screen with you so you can do some more debugging if needed.
20 Nov 2012 7:56 AM #10
Thanks - I'll try to collect more data on our end, see if we can reproduce your conditions and results.
One last thing to check - is IE8 the only instance of IE installed? And have you been able to reproduce this issue on other machines? Likewise, do you see that this issue *doesn't* happen on any other machines? Any help you can provide to narrow down the conditions will help us to reproduce it and come up with a fix.


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How do I link to Bb Collaborate recordings?
There are several ways that you can share Bb Collaborate recordings.
Option 1:
You can direct users to the Recordings tab in the Bb Learn, Bb Collaborate List page. By using the search parameters in the top left of the page, students can select the date the recording was made. They should see the recording in the list below and select the link to view it.
Note: If the recording was scheduled in a Bb Learn course but not marked as public, the user will need to first log into the course to view the recording.
Option 2:
If you would prefer to link directly to a recording rather than direct users to a specific date in the Recordings tab, you can right click on the recording link and copy it for use in any document where people would access the recording.
By right clicking, you should see a pop up menu that gives an option similar to "copy link location." Once copied, paste the link where you would like to use it such as an email, html page, word document, etc.


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The 5 Strangest Things Evolution Left In Your Body
#2. Auriculares Muscles (aka the Reason Some People Can Wiggle Their Ears)
Can you wiggle your ears? If you can, you have an ability that about 85 percent of the population doesn't. The muscles that control ear wiggling are the Auriculares muscles that surround the outer ear (the part we can see). Aside from once being able to impress your friends on the schoolyard, they've never been much use to you.
But that wasn't always the case. Thanks our auriculares muscles, our ears were able to do some pretty incredible things once upon a time.
Certain show-offs notwithstanding.
But Why?
Some mammals can move their ears in different directions to pinpoint the locations of sounds. This is especially important to small animals that don't have a great view of their surroundings because they're so close to the ground. They also come in handy when someone's trying to mount your skull above their fireplace.
Millions of years of evolution still won't protect you from a redneck with coffee and a rifle.
Our primate ancestors used to have directional control over their ears too but lost the need for this ability because of our tendency to live in groups. This made the collective vision of the group our main line of defense. Remember what we said earlier about how high-pitched shrieks were probably some kind of vocal alarm to alert the rest of the tribe? Directional hearing would have helped with that sort of thing.
Over time, we've gotten to the point where most of us can't even wiggle our ears, let alone point them at different angles.
We can totally do this, though.
#1. Wisdom Teeth and the Appendix
If you still have your appendix and all of your wisdom teeth in your body, consider yourself lucky. You have a seven percent chance of developing an appendicitis in your lifetime and a whopping 85 percent chance of having at least one impacted wisdom tooth. Both of these things require surgery.
Not only can you live without these features, but you live better without them. All they do is get in the way and/or get infected. They're just pointless extra bullshit.
But Why?
In both cases it appears to be leftover equipment from an era when we used to eat a lot more leaves, before we converted to our modern burrito-based diet.
Although some of us prefer enchiritos.
Your wisdom teeth get impacted and infected because you don't have room for them, and you don't have room for them because they came about when earlier versions of humans had larger jaws, which were more suited to chewing up plant matter. Grinding up leaves as opposed to soft meat and/or pizza is hard work and it requires more teeth to spread out the load. Especially because you have to eat so much of it.
Salad isn't generally considered "filling."
As for the appendix, the most popular theory is that it once helped in digesting all these greens. It's an extension of the cecum, an organ that is much larger in herbivores than carnivores because it's used to break down the tremendous amount cellulose they take in. Since we no longer have a need for this extension of the cecum, it has shrunk into a vestigial organ that looks like a worm. That's just one theory. There actually hasn't been all that much study into the appendix because, you know, who gives a shit what it does.
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Give an example satisfying the following conditions: give out a sequence of random variables defined on a probability space, and a sub sigma algebra: the sequence converges almost surely to a limit and it is also uniformly integrable, but the sequence of the conditional expectation of the random variable sequence on the sub sigma algebra does not converges almost surely to the limit, which is the conditional expectation of the limit of the random variable sequence on the sub sigma algebra.
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Consider independent random variables $X_n, Y_n, n\in\mathbb N$, such that $\mathbb P(X_n = 1) = 1-\mathbb P(X_n = 0) = 1/n$, $\mathbb P(Y_n = n) = 1-\mathbb P(Y_n = 0) = 1/n$. Set $Z_n = X_nY_n$. Then, $Z_n$ is uniformly integrable and $Z_n\to 0$ as $n\to\infty$ almost surely, by Borel-Cantelli Lemma. However, set ${\cal A} = \sigma(X_n:n\in\mathbb N)$. Then $\mathbb E(Z_n\mid{\cal A}) = X_n\mathbb E(Y_n\mid {\cal A}) = X_n$, which converges to 0 in $L^1$ but not almost surely.


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MARICOPA, Ariz. — A Maricopa man is in custody in a road-rage incident.
Maricopa police say Joseph Anthony Lee is being held on suspicion of two counts of aggravated assault and three counts of endangerment.
Police say officers responded to a report of shots fired just before midnight Saturday.
Witnesses say Yee was tailgating a car that was driven by a woman.
Her husband cut off Yee and a verbal altercation ensued.
Police say Yee reportedly pulled out a .38-caliber revolver and a passenger in the woman's car was shot in the right leg.
The victim was taken to a Phoenix hospital with a non-life threatening wound and Yee was arrested.
Police say alcohol use is considered a factor in the incident.
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What is your preferred / best approach to using IQueryFilter.WhereClause statements in ArcObjects (e.g. when selecting features by attributes)?
You need to check the source type (shapefile / personal / file geodatabase etc.), then, check field types and so on, before you can actually construct the WhereClause statement and find the proper SQL syntax. I find it rather easy to get lost in all those apostrophes, quotation marks etc, especially if multiple fields are used in the query.
What is your best way to easily construct the WhereClause statement that would follow the valid SQL syntax..?


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I want to hire someone to set up a website. What do I ask to determine competence and integrity of the individual? Is there a chart of reasonable charges/costs? How do I know if I am being over-charged?
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What do I ask to determine competence and integrity of the individual?
You should ask for past work experience, examples of his/her work, and maybe education. Don't be too intrusive, or he may raise his prices.
Is there a chart of reasonable costs?
This depends entirely what is being done. Just some examples:
You could spend anywhere from $250 for a few static pages, to $800 for a decent-sized site, up to $2k+ for custom CMS and applications.
How do I know if I'm being overcharged?
You can consult other web developers for an appraisal: ask "what's the value of my [new site]?" But your gut will tell you. If you think you're getting scammed, you probably are. Individuals who do web development tend to charge more than companies, because the companies have many employees and can do a "cookie-cutter" type of thing -- take previous designs and adapt them to your site. You'll want to pay for a domain and hosting yourself because it will ALWAYS be cheaper. (One link above was $120/y for a domain and hosting. In real life, it's perhaps $50.)
I tried to make the below as general as possible for the individual looking for a small website or someone looking to undertake a large web project. It is meant for someone who knows little to nothing about web development.
Questions to ask and think about
Rates and Costs
The easiest is to find locally owned web firms in your town or close to where you live. Just look in the phone book or yellowpages. Pick a few places and walk in or call them up asking for a price break down. Sometimes it's good to have a face to face chat to get a feel for things. Since you are new to this, take a note how helpful they are with you and if they take the time to explain things in ways you can understand them if need be.
As for charts, checking salary.com you can find various professions and how much the salaries are for certain titles. Here are two:
"Web Software Developer", U.S. National Median Salary: $73,054
"Webmaster", U.S. National Median Salary: $67,144
So lets do a little math. If I hired someone to work for me full time 40 hours a week and I gave them 4 weeks off (unpaid for this example). So a 40 hour work week multiplied by (52 weeks in a year minus 4 weeks for misc whatever) = 1920 hours
A good decent pay range according to this data point then would be from $20/hr to $60/hr. Rates vary so the upper level of this would probably be in the range of $75/hr to $150/hr.
Then if you're a freelancer it is not uncommon to charge even more then that based on amount of experience like if they are a well known web ninja and this rate climbs fast. For example someone high profile like Thomas Fuchs charges $800 an hour. The best freelancers have the luxury of picking and choosing their clients so don't be offended if you get turned down if your web project doesn't interest them for whatever reason.
You may not know Thomas, but a quick Google search on his name will reveal that he's been involved in some big projects and can be trusted to get a job done. Do the same with the freelancers you find or the companies you talk to. Search Google for any bad signs or complaints from previous clients. You basically do not want to search for them and find some horror story.
Of course you could also go to your local schools or university and see if you can get an eager student that needs work experience doing their first project. They might even do it for free. Some schools even have programs where the students are required to go work at a company to complete their degree. These kids usually want to impress you and do a good job since it effects their education.
If all else fails and you still feel incapable of handling the tech side of things yourself, hire a consultant that will get these things done right for you and concentrate on other parts of your business.
Being overcharged for a website is very dependent on the work that was done and who was doing the work. It's hard to tell if you don't know anything about web sites. Also if you demand a certain deadline you might be expected to pay a higher rate if it requires the allocation of more resources (humans, machines, etc).
You may not get the quality of work you anticipated from someone charging the lowest rate versus someone charging more.
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I was reading that the designers of UNIX password algorithm used a 12 bit salt to modify the E-table of the unix hashing function (the DES). Supposing i have a system with 2^(24) users?
Is that ever possible to user dictionary attack? and if so how long would it take? years??
I am really new on computer security
Edit: I am not sure what unit time i guess i have to assuming bytes per minute depending on my code?
The reason I am asking is for a project where one of the questions states: "Consider a system with 2^24 users. Assume that each user is assigned a salt from a uniform random distribution and that anyone can read the password hashes and salt for users." What is expected time to find all users' passwords using dictionary attack?"


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WEIRTON - Property and liability coverage will cost the City of Weirton more in 2013.
The Weirton Finance Committee on Thursday recommended approval of the contract with Traveler's, which will cost the city $685,966.
While the premium is higher than the roughly $612,000 the city paid last year, Assure America representative John Frankovitch told the committee the board of risk management's proposal was around $877,000 and carried lesser limits.
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FINANCE TALK — Finance Director Tom Maher, from left, Ward 5 Councilman George Gaughenbach and Ward 3 Councilman Fred Marsh reviewed paperwork at Thursday's Weirton Finance Committee meeting. -- Linda Harris
Frankovitch said Traveler's "still likes Weirton," and pointed out the company had denied coverage to other communities and actually dropped a few as well.
Committee members also recommended council approve resolutions authorizing the city to provide the local match for transportation enhancement program funding for the 2012 Panhandle Rail Trail Extension project.
Members also recommended council approve resolutions to use funding from the Governor's Community Participation Program to purchase tasers for the police department as well as for various projects sponsored by the Weirton Area Chamber of Commerce; Weirton Area Museum & Cultural Center; Weirton Baseball Association; and Weirton Elks Lodge 1801.
Members also approved resolutions to purchase duty holsters, triple magazine cases and mounted tactical lights for the Weirton Police Department and portable radios for the Weirton Fire Department.
Council's monthly meeting is set for 7:30 p.m. Monday in the City Building.
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How Rude! An Age-by-Age Guide to Teaching Kids Manners
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Ages 3-6: Playing Well With Others
Preschool and the early grades will help your child socialize with his teacher and other kids and practice good manners. Toys and games can help him pick up the skills of sharing and taking turns. Work on these manners with your younger child:
- Sharing his toys, taking turns, and playing fair with other children.
- Keeping his hands to himself and never hitting or name-calling.
- Picking up toys, books, and dirty clothes. Use this printable on clean-up time to help him learn.
- Helping set and clear the table (of anything child-friendly) at mealtimes.
- Saying good-bye and thank-you when leaving a friend's house or party.


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Given a smooth manifold U, we have a map $\wedge^2\Gamma(U,TU)\to \Gamma(U,TU)$ given by $X\wedge Y\mapsto [X,Y]$, where $TU$ denotes the tangent bundle. Is it possible to describe the map $\Gamma(U,T^*U)\to \Gamma(U,\wedge^2 T^*U)$ corresponding to this map.
To expand on Leonid's comment, if $\omega$ is a 1-form and $X,Y$ are vector fields, then $$ d\omega(X \wedge Y) = X \omega(Y) - Y \omega(X) - \omega([X,Y]). $$ If the first two terms were not there, then one could say, as in Victor's answer, that the exterior derivative is (minus) the transpose of the Lie bracket of vector fields. The fact that the first two terms are there is symptomatic of Leonid's observation that the Lie bracket is not really a tensorial map.
The dual of a Lie bracket is the differential in the corresponding Chevalley-Eilenberg algebra.
Background, formulas, details and examples are at
nLab: Chevalley-Eilenberg algebra.
This makes sense for "Lie bracket" understood in the general sense of Lie algebroids and $L_\infty$-algebras and fully generally for $\infty$-Lie algebroids.
In the case at hand, when regarding $T X$ as a Lie algebroid (instead of regarding $\Gamma(T X)$ as just a Lie algebra) the corresponding CE-algebra is the de Rham complex
$$ CE(T X) = (\Omega^\bullet(X), d_{dR}) $$
and the general formula for the dual of a Lie bracket on a Lie algebroid reproduces the familiar formula for the de Rham differential.
Yes. The dual of the Lie bracket is the exterior differential that maps 1-forms into 2-forms. See any good textbook on differential geometry.


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I have used the Zxing app here but I cannot read large QRs with it, how can I do that? By Large, I mean that I want read a content with a lot of text (I am able to make them as large as possible by dimension but not in content).
Now I am not meaning the technical specs as given by one answer (certainly they reveal somethnig), I am looking for ways to read large-amount of content in QRs without too much lag. Is this a pipe dream, just better device or better software?


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24 Aug 2012 4:11 AM #1
Unanswered: Sencha app for Dektop
I am creating a app presently for the desktop/Pc.
As of now i need to put the url in browser(web app) to run it.
Is there any way by which i can zip it to .exe or something.
Whenever i click on .exe a popup should come displaying the app in that box.
I just want to secure my code and make a stand alone app
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You will need an application able to embed a browser activex (webkit aware) and declare all html and js as resources. At run time you will need to make the embed browser to load the resources from streams... probably register your own protocol, to keep the sources "secure".
Maybe Adobe AIR might be a solution.... but so far I remember with them the sources are exposed or easily accessible.


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Time for state to get smart about health care
It now seems that the Florida legislature (i.e. the Florida House) is turning down the federal dollars that would greatly expand Medicaid in Florida. While I strongly disagree with turning away any money to expand medical coverage to Floridians, I do agree that their fear of expanding the Florida state budget is legitimate. The underlying problem (and point of complicity of the Florida legislature) is that the Florida Medicaid program is a mess.
The way that the system operates is cumbersome and expensive and often does not provide good care to the people that are covered. The Medically Needy Program ("Share of Cost") is totally broken. These legislators that are turning down federal money have obviously never lacked access to healthcare.
They have never been turned away from an emergency room with a broken limb because it is not life threatening. They have never had to be treated in a free clinic where care while better than nothing is limited and sporadic. They have never been disabled and unable to get a doctor two years (waiting for their Medicare to begin) because most doctors in the State of Florida refuse to treat any patient on the Medically Needy Program. Otherwise they would not turn down a single dollar to increase access to healthcare for Floridians.
The only solution that this Florida Legislature has been able to come up with to fix Medicaid is to totally turn it over to private HMOs which would be another nightmare. A large percentage of Medicaid patients are already under these private HMOs. Many of these private companies are incompetent and the worst ones are totally fraudulent.
The medical providers in the state that actually accept Medicaid patients are providing the care and then having to beg and fight for their small Medicaid payments from these companies – often receiving nothing even though they are providing the care. Meanwhile, these companies are reaping profits from tax payer dollars designated to treat the sick of our state. And lest we forget, our Governor Scott presided over the largest federal Medicare fraud case to date.
Having him preside over this process is akin to putting the fox in charge of the hen house and at this point I am on his side as he is championing taking the money. Now that our legislators have turned down this money I would like to see them push to address the underlying problems with Medicaid program in Florida and to develop a system that provides quality, effective care and is cost effective. And ironically these two qualities (quality care and cost effective) are actually interdependent.
There needs to be an emphasis on primary care and outpatient treatment instead hospital emergency room care (which is expensive and for the most part ineffective). The Medically Needy Program needs to be totally scrapped and reworked. Then we as a state would be a much better position to accept federal dollars for Medicaid without fear of setting off an out of control expansion of our State budget.
As more and more Floridians are being locked out of even basic healthcare services there is a strong moral, ethical and economical imperative to address the underlying problems that are crippling our healthcare delivery system.
Catherine Price is a registered nurse who has worked as the clinical director at Parkview Medical Clinic in Haines City. She is also the former chair of the Polk County Health Care Alliance.


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Set Up Your Team for Successful CollaborationCurt Moreno takes an in-depth look at collaboration among AutoCAD users.
Reduce the Complexity in Controlled Surface DesgnJohn Evans demonstrates a workflow and the factors that made surfaces successful in a real-world project.
Project CollaborationBryan Tanner explains why collaboration for AutoCAD Civil 3D users goes far beyond file conversion and compatibility.
Organize with the Project NavigatorMelinda Heavrin guides you through the Project Navigator in AutoCAD Architecture.
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Detroit BOXX CityJohn Vondrak and James Cronin discuss VRED, software applications that streamline the car manufacturing process.
All Together NowAuthor Bill Campbell offers thoughts on true collaboration in a BIM environment.
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Focus on Monitors: The BenQ BL3200PTCurt Moreno finds plenty to praise about the BL3200PT monitor from BenQ, which has been designed specifically for the CAD/CAM industry.
Small Business Design Data ManagementJohn Evans heads to the cloud to find collaborative design data management tools for small to medium-sized businesses.


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Why does the "monospace" font look great in Terminal and gedit, and terrible in IntelliJ IDEA? IDEA uses Java's Swing library, and I understand it might be an issue with this. Is there a known fix?
I have the same problem. Apparently its a problem with the "hinting" level of the font, which IntelliJ forces to "full" no matter what the OS selects. This makes the fonts look jagged and thin rather than how its supposed to. There was a workaround I saw on a website, but it didn't work for me.
Generally, all Java software has poor font rendering under Linux. You'll see this also under Windows, the fonts look different. It's not a IntelliJ IDEA problem, but Java's.
Hi I wrote a little manual howto fix this
Script to start Intellij Idea
only note that need to change IDEA_HOME location for your path of idea
more info and screenshots of better fonts: http://urshulyak.com/?p=478


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I built an entire website from scratch in 10 days which looks and feels professional with the site being unique. The site has features like logging in, sending activation emails, tag/content search (lucence.net), syntax highlighting (prettify) and a diff (one of the js diffs), markup for comments all on this site and autocomplete in a textbox (remember, 10 days). I wrote that I have 5+ years of C# experience (I could lie and say more, but smart employers will know it's only 8 years old and 1.1 is very different from what we use now).
I had employers REPEATEDLY say they are looking for someone who has more C# experience... wtf.
Maybe they don't read my CV, maybe they don't believe it or ignore me because I am not yet a graduate. I laughed when I first read Steve Yegge The Five Essential Phone Screen Questions as I knew all of that (although i still never used graph datastruct nor know much about it).
I'm pretty sure, competency-wise, I can do the job. I am also positive that no one noticed I have markup, a diff, auto-complete nor email activation/forget password (I offer a test user account). So maybe my site/example work isn't impressive because you don't realize what is in it.
In short, I don't think they read my CV or notice my site. How do I impress employers?
PS: The problem is that I don't get to the interview. I had one and ruined it by speaking too technical to the PM because I was nervous. The other 25+ jobs either didn't contact me or were kind enough to send a rejection email.


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I live in the middle of an ideological war zone. Wake County Public School System is the eighth largest school district in the United States, and one of the mostly highly regarded. But lately it's not been our graduation rate or test scores that make the headlines. It's the school board's decision... Read more


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So I just installed QGIS 1.5 using the windows installer not the osgeo4w one and now any plugins that need access to PostgreSQL databases don't seem to work, they all throw a:
"Couldn't import Python module 'psycopg2' for communication with PostgreSQL database. Without it you won't be able to run xxxxx. Please install it."
My current environment variables look like:
C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin;C:\Program Files\Mercurial\;
C:\Program Files\Console2;
C:\Program Files\Git\bin;
C:\Program Files\Git\cmd;
C:\Program Files\Quantum GIS Tethys\apps\qgis\bin;
C:\Program Files\IronRuby 1.1\bin;
C:\Program Files\Quantum GIS Tethys\bin;
and PYTHONPATH is set to:
PYTHONPATH=C:\Program Files\Quantum GIS Tethys\apps\qgis\python
I used to have version 1.4 installed and I noticed that in the python folder for 1.4 there was a folder and file called psycopg2_psycopg.pyd, but if I take that file and put it in the python path for 1.5 it still doesn't work (didn't think it would but was worth a try)
I downloaded and tried to install psycopg2-2.2.2.win32-py2.4-pg8.4.4-release.exe which is the latest verstion of psycopg2 but because have the python that is installed with QGIS it throws a "Python 2.4 not in registry error".
Anyone know how I can get this version of QGIS running with psycopg2?


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Knitter's Spotlight: Overstuffed Seat Cushions by Ellen Gormley
If you love to crochet, you've probably seen, and maybe made, one of Ellen Gormley's patterns. She has more than 200 designs listed under her Ravelry profile, GoCrochet, and she's always coming up with new designs for her beloved crochet motifs. "I've recently been enamored with oval motifs, which continue to pop-up sporadically in my work." Read more


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Lord Mayor's Parlour
Mayors and Lord Mayors
Birmingham has had a Mayor (and elected council) since 1838. One of the most famous was Joseph Chamberlain (1873-76) who brought water from the Elan Valley and redeveloped the town centre. In 1889, along with city status, Birmingham had its first Lord Mayor.
Each Lord Mayor stands for a year, and is installed into office at the Annual Meeting of the City Council. Lord Mayors are non-political and non-executive during their term of office and act as Chair of the Council. As the First Citizen of Birmingham, the Lord Mayor represents not only the City but also the people of Birmingham.
The honour of being Lord Mayor is now usually alternated between the Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat Groups. In normal circumstances the Lord Mayor becomes Deputy Lord Mayor for the following year.
Along the corridor outside the Lord Mayor's Parlour there is a photograph of every Lord Mayor of Birmingham. the wall mounted boards in the Names Room adjacent to the Chamber show the names of all those who have held the office of Mayor or Lord Mayor of Birmingham.
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The Carmel Art and Film Festival featured the film "The Square" at the Sunset Center…with the screening of a documentary that's garnering high praise around the world for its depiction of the Egyptian uprising.Video Transcript
TONIGHT. WE BEGIN TONIGHT WITH THE CARMEL ART AND FILM FESTIVAL... THE FOUR DAY EVENT BEGAN THIS EVENING AT THE SUNSET CENTER... WITH THE SCREENING OF A DOCUMENTARY THAT'S GARNERING HIGH PRAISE AROUND THE WORLD FOR IT'S DEPICTION OF THE EGYPTIAN UPRISING. ACTION NEWS REPORTER BRITTANY NIELSEN IS LIVE IN OUR SALINAS NEWSROOM WITH MORE. ### THE FILM, THE SQUARE HAS ALREADY WON TWO AUDIENCE AWARDS AT MAJOR EVENTS... TALK HAS ALREADY BEGUN FOR IT'S HOPES OF AN ACADEMY AWARD... THIS IS THE COMPILATION OF TWO AND A HALF YEARS FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM IN TAHRIR SQUARE. It's a very personal account of what it takes to stand up and fight for what you believe in. 15:59 MOVIE NATS 15:59 the way we've captured the characters and their universl struggle is very appealing to audiences 16:08 IT'S ALREADY WON AUDIENCE AWARDS IN SUNDANCE AND TORONTO ... THE FIRST FILM TO EVER WIN BOTH. 16:59 we had an obligation to show what was happening in this hisptric moment and share that with the world 17:02 FILMMAKER KARIM AMER WAS ON HAND FOR THE SCREENING OF HIS FILM THURSDAY NIGHT AT THE CARMEL ART AND FILM FESTIVAL. HE SAYS HE HOPES AUDIENCES WALK OUT OF THE THEATER WITH AN UNDERSTANDING OF HOW HARD IT IS TO FIGHT FOR CHANGE. 17:38 you don't get to see MLK and Ghandi on the days they were depressed and sad and didn't have any hope to keep going forward, we only see in history the triumphs, OR THE MOST VIOLENCE ... OFTEN HEADLINING .... BUT CREATORS OF THE SQUARE WANTED TO CAPTURE PERSONAL STORIES OF YOUNG PEOPLE. I think its important for young audiences to connect with others around the world standing and fighting for their freedom 17:57 THAT CONNECTION IS TAKING THE DOCUMENTARY TO ANOTHER LEVEL... AND TALK OF AN ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATION. 19:30 we would be honored to be even short listed for the academy, / / / the power of the academy to bring attn. to global issues is incredible 19:47 AMER ALSO SAYS IT WOULD BE AN EXTRA SPECIAL HONOR, BECAUSE AN EGYPTIAN FILM HAS NEVER WON AN ACADEMY AWARD. THE CARMEL ART AND FILM FESTIVAL RUNS THROUGH SUNDAY... YOU CAN CHECK OUT THE FULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS AND FILMS AT CARMEL-ART-AND-FILM- DO T-COM. ###
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Don't miss this dynamic interview with Nickolas Landry, Practice Manager for Infusion. Rob Cameron, Senior Architect Evangelist for Microsoft, has great dialog with Nick around enterprise mobility, location intelligence applications and Windows Phone 7. Nick's team builds cool applications using Bing maps and is now bringing those apps to Windows Phone 7. And what does Nick do in his spare time? He's also developing games for Windows Phone 7 and uploading them to Marketplace. Whether it's locator, mobile or gaming applications you're interested in, this is a good discussion to listen in on.
|Nickolas Landry is a Principal Architect and Practice Manager in New York for Infusion Development, a Microsoft Gold Partner which offers quality software development services, developer training and consulting services for large corporations and agencies in the North America, the UK and Dubai (www.infusion.com). Known for his dynamic and engaging style, he is a frequent speaker at major software development conferences worldwide, a member of both the INETA and the MSDN Canada Speakers Bureaus, a Microsoft MVP on Device Application Development, and a former Microsoft Regional Director in Montreal. He is the Vice-President of IASA New York (www.iasahome.org), and is a Founding Member of WWISA (www.wwisa.org). His primary goal is to help businesses connect their information, systems, and people together in a seamless integration to achieve complete enterprise agility. Aside from his work in designing business solution architectures using .NET technologies, Nick provides mentoring services in architecture, design and .NET development, authors and teaches .NET classes, performs system audits, and profiles technologies for various enterprise scenarios. With over 17 years of professional experience – starting with Visual Basic 1.0 – and a career almost entirely dedicated to Microsoft technologies, Nick specializes in .NET mobility, Bing Maps, SOA, architecture & design patterns, High-Performance Computing (HPC), game development with XNA, and smart clients. He wrote multiple articles for CODE Magazine and several .NET mobility courses for Microsoft, has been a technical editor for many books, and holds several professional certifications from Microsoft and IBM. Contact and blog: http://home.infusionblogs.com/nlandry.
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The Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education: Reflections and Colloquy
Edited by Jack Greenberg and Kendall Thomas
{Twelve Tables Press: 2009}
Among the notable figures present during this 50th anniversary dissection of Brown were President Bill Clinton and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg '59, as well as several of the lawyers who argued the case in the 1950s, including Constance Motley Baker '46, Jack Weinstein '48, and Robert L. Carter '41 LL.M. Throughout the series of discussions, attendees analyzed the case's impact on education, criminal law, women's rights, Hispanics, and the gay and lesbian community.
"The Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education is a valuable exploration of the most famous ruling of the United States Supreme Court in the 20th century," said Randall Kennedy, a professor at Harvard University School of Law. "It is also a historical landmark in its own right, offering to readers a glimpse, sometimes for the last time, of extraordinary attorneys who speak of their memories about and reflections upon the Brown litigation."


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WLP023 Burton Ale Yeast
From the famous brewing town of Burton upon Trent, England, this yeast is packed with character. It provides delicious subtle fruity flavors like apple, clover honey and pear. Great for all English styles, IPA's, bitters, and pales. Excellent in porters and stouts.
Style Performance Listing
A listing of how this style ranks amongst different brew styles, on a scale from 0 to 4.
|American Style Cream Ale
|American Style Wheat Ale
|Fruit Beer
|Herbs & Spice Beer
|Specialty Beers
|Specialty Honey Ales
|Smoke Flavored Beer
|Golden Ale Canadian Style Ale
|German Style Kolsch
|Classic English Style Pale Ale
|English Style India Pale Ale
|American Style Pale Ale
|American Style India Pale Ale
|American Style Amber
|English Style Bitter
|English Style ESB
|Scottish Style Ale
|Irish Style Red Ale
|English Style Brown Ale
|American Style Brown Ale
|German Style Brown and Dusseldorf Altbier
|Robust Porter
|Brown Porter
|Classic Irish Style Dry Stout
|Foreign Style Stout
|Sweet Stout
|Oatmeal Stout
|English Old Ale English & American Strong Ale
|Barley Wine Strong Ale
|Strong Scotch Ale
|Imperial Stout
|Imperial IPA
Feedback and experiences from previous customers. Want to leave a review of your own?
"Confirming sulfur notes early on in fermentation"
First time using this yeast with a Speckled Hen Clone recipe. Two vials used, one two months old, the other 3 months old. 1 liter starter. Pitched, and had kreusen form in four hours; fermentation started in 8 hours. I did notice a strong sulfur/rotten egg odor coming from the fermenter about 24 hours into fermentation, but it disappeared shortly, then proceeded to gush out of fermenter. So far so good. Fermentation at 71F.
"4 batches Made In A Week"
I wanted to do a little experiment using one vial for 4 batches. I made an English Bitter, an English Apple Ale (50% Apple juice 50% bitter), a stout and a highly hopped pale. The yeast ferments well and is indeed top cropping. Flavor profile is excellent and very English. I had the same issue as the person in the FAQ, where I actually transferred the Pale to a secondary to dry hop, and Krausen formed and would not go away for 2 weeks, even after shaking it down daily. I plan on bottling it tomorrow even though the krausen is still present. I took a sample and it tastes great, just hoping the fact it still has krausen won't cause an issue. I was initially worried that it was infected but I do not think that is the case based on the tasted. This only occurred in this batch out of 4. It was racked on the yeast cake of the Apple Ale, so maybe there was just a lot more yeast than needed.
"Made all the difference in the world"
I have been brewing the same Brown Porter recipe for years using WLP001. After stopping by the White Labs tasting room and sampling several porters fermented with different yeasts, I really liked the Burton Ale yeast. So, I decided to give a try in my Brown Porter. Nothing changed in the recipe except the yeast. I brewed an Ordinary Bitter first, then re-pitched the yeast into my Brown Porter. It turned out great. Fermented at 68F for 10 days then crashed down to 35F. Beer cleared well and attenuation was about 77%. Took first runner up best of show at one competition and best of show at another. I am sold on this yeast for my porters and English style ales.
"I thought that was it ... "
This yeast is my new best friend. I had an older vial, and I was a little concerned about viability, so I did a step-up starter to shore it up. After 24 hours I got nice steady fermentation - nothing crazy, but the yeast was clearly working. I thought that was it, and decided to top crop some for future bathes. Little did I know the yeast was just getting warmed up. After another 12-15 hours the lid blew off my fermentor! The yeast was so powerful that it had filled the 5L head space, and geysered down the sides. It was incredible. I cropped to my heart's content and let the yeast do its magic. Total fermentation was just over five days. With the beer going from 1.052 to 1.012 (77% attenuation, better than the site claims) Bottom line: Great top cropper, fast, fairly well attenuated but leaves some residuals. Great Yeast.
"Classic Burton ale character"
Classic Burton ale character. Loads of typical sulphur aroma produced during fermentation. My brew had high attenuation dropping from 1.048 to 1.006 in just four days. Dropped temperature to 15 deg C to help yeast fallout but made no difference, still very 'milky' when bottling. Very good for top cropping. Produced an amazingly authentic Pedigree Bitter clone.
"Makes a great ..."
A fantastic yeast that's great for top cropping and open fermentation. Attenuation varies between 70-90% depending on mash and adjunct usage. The temperature schedule that works for me is to pitch at 60 and allow it to warm up to about 68-72 over the course of 4-5 days. Crop ever 12 hours after 36-48 hours and the beer will drop bright in about 4-5 days. Stop cropping when the subsequently formed head barely covers the surface. I rack from under the head and condition in a keg before transferring to a serving keg. I also aerate 18-24 hours AFTER pitching by racking using a bottling bucket and gravity. Timing is based on the yeast head. Wait until it's full of WHITE meringue looking foam and drop. Makes a great Porter, Pale Ale, Golden Ale, or Mild Ale.
"I have kegged the ipa ..."
This strain can be explosive. Two weeks ago I made a starter and and pitched it in a 1.060 IPA in which I oxygenated the wort. This was a 5 gallon batch in an 8 gallon fermenter. In 48 hours it puked out the fermenter at 70 degrees! I reharvested and rinsed the yeast and pitched it in a 1.70 west coast stout. I oxygenated the wort and fermented at 65 degrees. Same thing, it puked out an 8 gallon fermenter! I have kegged the ipa and I did not get the feared "over fruitiness." The ipa is pretty clean but with some tasty citrus and mineral yeast character. Can't wait to try the stout with this top cropper!
"I was very happy with the results ..."
Bitter turned out better than I expected. This was the first time I used this yeast. I was a bit worried after day 2 in the fermenter because there was an over powering sulfur/rotten egg smell emitting from the brew. I did a little research and discovered that sulfur can be present when using this strain. After racking to a secondary on day 6 and allowing to finish in the secondary the sulfur had disappeared. I was very happy with the results as I usually am with White Labs Yeast and will be using this yeast again. I fermented this beer @ 68degF for 6days and then raised the temp to 70 for the remainder.
"Started within hours"
I just love this yeast. Especially for beers that have somewhat of a "red" type base malt bill. Thought I'd try it for my pumpkin ale. Just love those plummy notes. Made a 1 liter starter. Came out the airlock. :) Pitched into 1.064 wort. Started within hours. Gotta love it.
"... fantastically flexible ..."
This is the first time I've used this yeast and what a great surprise! My IPA didn't turn out to be the big hoppy Lagunitas style like I usually brew. The yeast added a great flavor and actually added some flower and spice to the flavor profile that did not get completely over-powered by the hops. I will use this again for my IPA for sure!
"... best beer I have made ..."
This yeast is fantastically flexible in my homebrewing. Not only does it make a terrific sweet stout, but the American wheat I have been making all summer could not be any better with another strain of yeast. Re-using this yeast has been an added advantage, as I have brewed 6 batches from the original vial of Burton Ale yeast with stellar results. The best beer I have made has been made with this yeast.
"Gives a wonderful and complex character ..."
Is fast becoming my house yeast. Gives a wonderful and complex character the ales it ferments. Ester notes compliment the aroma/flavor hops of an IPA wonderfully and it certainly adds a little complexity to the bitters. A sure fire winner for English ales, and I'll be certain to experiment with it for American styles and a stout.
"... Each batch has been excellent"
I have brewed 10 5 gallon batches of ale with this yeast over the past 10 months and each batch has been excellent. After initial vigorous fermentation is over I store the beer in a 5 gallon poly cube container under airlock until a barrel becomes available sometimes up to 4 weeks. On mash day I make the wort and whilst the fermentor is in the cooling pool I siphon the beer from the poly cube into the barrel, swill what is left in there around to pick up the flocculated yeast, pour about 100ml into a sterilized jar with lid and leave it until the wort is cooled which takes about 3 hours and then re-pitch the collected yeast. In about 6 hours I have a rapid fermentation started. As I say I have been doing this for 10 months and could carry on I'm sure. The only reason I am buying a new strain is to try something different. The yeast itself produces a thick creamy lasting head on the beer. It has a slight pear aroma which when mixed with the hop aroma produces a lovely ale.
Frequently Asked Questions
I have used Burton Ale yeast in the past with excellent results. I currently have a 1.078 OG beer in the primary now on the 9th day using this yeast. The first 7 days with a blow off tube. There is still some krausen and minimal airlock activity. My 5 gal recipe is 16.5 lbs of grain mostly highly modified with less than 3% adjuncts and about 10% dextrin malts single infusion mashed at 154 Deg. Aeration was good, 3 pint starter and about 2 hrs lag time. Based on past experience it should be finished but attenuation is at only 63%. Assuming there are fermentables present how can I get fermentation to resume or should I just wait it out, or call it good? I'd like to finish less than 1.020, beer's a little sweet yet. Any advice?
Did beer/yeast come out of the blow off tube? Burton Ale yeast is so top cropping that a good portion of the yeast could have been lost that way. Even so, the best way to speed it up now would be to transfer it into another container. That helps mix it around and break out CO2 that could be repressing the yeast. But make sure you transfer over the yeast cake as well, it is easy to leave behind and this transfer is to spurn the yeast forward, not to separate it out. If you can't transfer, at least shake the carboy for 2 minutes to rouse the yeast and break out gas
Optimum Ferment Temp.68-73°F (20-22°C)
Alcohol ToleranceMedium
MiniFerment Data ?
As-is Diacetyl21.92ppb
Total Diacetyl48.83ppb
As-is 2,3-Pentanedione5.53ppb
Total 2,3-Pentanedione16.75ppb
Ethyl Acetate31.96ppm
Isoamyl Acetate6.25ppm
Isoamyl Alcohol193.06ppm


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Malaysian Christians fight for Allah
Today an appeals court in Malaysia delivered a major setback to the religious freedom of Christians. A Catholic newspaper, the Herald, may not use the word "Allah" to refer to God.
Christians in the Western hemisphere might be confused by the headlines. The ruling is not about Christians' referring to the God worshipped by Muslims, but rather about what Christians may call the God they themselves worship. Catholics in Malaysia, as in many other countries, call God by the word "Allah."
Arabic-speaking Christians do so, as do Arabic-speaking Jews. The word sounds almost exactly like the way Aramaic-speaking Jesus would have pronounced it.
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The unanimous decision by three Muslim judges in Malaysia's appeals court overturned a 2009 ruling by a lower court that allowed the Malay-language version of the newspaper, The Herald, to use the word Allah -- as many Christians in Malaysia say has been the case for centuries.
"The usage of the word Allah is not an integral part of the faith in Christianity," chief judge Mohamed Apandi Ali said in the ruling. "The usage of the word will cause confusion in the community." ...
Lawyers for the Catholic paper had argued that the word Allah predated Islam and had been used extensively by Malay-speaking Christians in Malaysia's part of Borneo island for centuries.
They say they will appeal against Monday's decision to Malaysia's highest court.
"The nation must protect and support the rights of the minority," said Father Lawrence Andrew, the founding editor of the Herald. "God is an integral part of every religion."
Christians in Indonesia and much of the Arab world continue to use the word without opposition from Islamic authorities. Churches in the Borneo states of Sabah and Sarawak have said they will continue to use the word regardless of the ruling.
The defendants fear that the decision will also apply to other Christian publications in Bahasa Malaysia. This could end up being the most important religious liberty story of the year, with wide-ranging implications for religious pluralism in southeast Asia. At issue are three of the minority rights at the very core of modern rights-based polities: freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom of the press.
We ought to keep watch on the situation in Malaysia and other regions where Christians' religious liberty is seriously threatened. Indeed, one salutary effect of the United States' public discourse about religious freedom in the past few years has been to attune American Christians to actual religious persecution around the world. John Allen's new book, The Global War on Christians, narrates a contrast between our metaphorical "wars" on religion and the real "front lines" around the world.
Here in the United States, we are tinkering with a well-functioning system of religious liberty. It works overall, and when new situations arise, such as the "HHS mandate" or proposed laws criminalizing charity toward immigrants, we have processes in place to negotiate the terms of ordered liberty in a pluralistic democracy.
Christians in many other countries, however, face the foundational questions of religious liberty. Can Christians in upper Egypt continue to celebrate the sacraments in their own churches, on private property? Can Christians in rural Syria even remain in their homes and towns at all, or must they flee? Can Christians in Malaysia address God with the word they have always used?
These are the most basic of religious rights, and they are currently in doubt in very populous countries around the world.
To be sure, Americans should have our arguments and fine-tune our instrument of religious liberty. But its fundamentals remain strong. And let's remember why it occasionally needs tuning -- because it gets so much beneficial use, by so many different people.
About the Author
Michael Peppard is associate professor of theology at Fordham University, author of The World's Oldest Church and The Son of God in the Roman World, and on Twitter @MichaelPeppard.
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"Might cause confusion" is pretty vague. Is that meant to express anxiety over Christian efforts to proselytize Mulsims?
Ah yes, Islam: The religion of peace and brotherhood...
Why do people think that their own tribe's meaning of a word is *the* real meaning? Sometimes I think that we must have a gene or set of genes which determine us to think that way. Wittgenstein said that language betwitches our intellects. I think he's right. It leads us down some strange paths.
Please see some further intelligent observations on this issue from Prof Clooney, who especially notes some tendencies to lay claim to certain terminology (albeit in a process outside of the law) within the Church and Christian culture.
You do not have to search around much in the Catholic blogosphere to uncover anxiety over whether the Allah of Islam is even the same thing as the Church's God (a different sort of issue, but not wholly unrelated).
Agree that it doesn't take much research to find the different origins of Yahweh and Allah. Are we supposed to pretend to be unaware of their backgrounds?
Agree with whom?
I am not sure how the results of Google searches presented in the raw are supposed to contribute much to the discussion. The origin (where the definiteness of the definite article is pretty indefinite!) of names of the god of Islam, Judaism, and Christianity can only be one element in understanding these religions understanding of that god; it's hardly as if the meaning or usage of whatever term is used to denote the god is static.
What discussion?
I provided the "raw" stuff because I'm afraid to get more specific.
What if I mentioned the specific articles or books that I think provide the best introduction to the differences between the thunder god and the moon gooddess? Since, like Clooney, I'm unable to read the languages in which the revelations were originally transmitted/transcribed, it would be fatuous. Maybe even blasphemous.
You may provide such references, but that will not deal with the fact that the etymological and even conceptual origins of "the thunder god and the moon gooddess" are note the end-all/be-all of what words like "Yahweh" and "Allah" signify today. You cannot fully encompass the significance of a word or idea today simply by zoning in on that word or idea's origin.
Actually, I do not even understand how what you've brought up is relevant to anything in the story, Clooney's entry, or anything that we've been discussing. What's your point?
"Arabic-speaking Christians do so, as do Arabic-speaking Jews. The word sounds almost exactly like the way Aramaic-speaking Jesus would have pronounced it."
When did Jesus say Allah (in Aramaic)? (I thought only the High Priest ever said God's name, and then only once a year when entering the Holy of Holies.)
Agree again, Abe. A Goddess cannot be fully encompassed by noting Her origins or knowing Her Name.
The names of deities, demi-gods, trolls (like Rumplestiltskin) are SECRET and are not to be bruited about by mere mortals.
To do so is to risk inflaming the easily inflamed.
In your penultimate post, Gerelyn, I think we see illustrated part of the complexity of the terminological situation; Allah is a member of a cluster of semitic words that refer to god(s). Yahweh (the name spoken by the High Priest) is not one of those words, but the various El names in the Bible are. These "el" names can be generic (like, "god") or may be treated as proper (like "God").
In your last post--I don't know. I think you are deliberately misreading me, but hey--we all gotta make our own fun somehow.
Sorry for misreading you, Abe.